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21 T1TE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 7, 1020 BIG SUM AVAILABLE j FOR MARKET ROADS: Highway Commission Policy Definitely Formulated. WORK BEGINS THIS YEAR Ten Per Cent Limitation in Law Heslrictjj Multnomah County to Less Than $100,000 Under the market road act there will he available about $2,000,000 dur ing this and succeeding years for the development of strictly market roads in the various counties. Through the action of this law the state will even tually be webbed to the most remote sections by feeder roads. The law . was enacted in 1919. with some amendments at the special session in 19-D, and it will be placed in opera tion til is year. Because of the importance of lay ing a suitable grroundwork for future development of the market road sys tem, .the state highway commission . has for months been working out a policy for applying the enactment. The result of this exhaustive research and investigation has been embodied in a set of regulations which has just been issued by the commission. The market-road fund is raised by a 1-mill levy on all taxable property in the state. For l!'2t the amount so raised will be $990,435.47. This sum will be matched by the collective counties, so there will be, in round figures, about $2,000,0.00. The state market-road fund is controlled by the highway commission and apportioned to the various counties upon the basis of assessed valuations. No one county, liowever. shall in any year receive more than 10 per cent of the total amount of the fund, nor shall any county receive a sum in excess of what is raised by itself for the same purpose. Other Counties Get Surplus. Funds which a county is unable to take up, either by reason of the 10 per cent limitation or by failure to qualify for its full pro rata, shall be come available for apportionment to those counties which qualify under the limitations stated. It will be im possible for a county to take up dur ing the second year any of its pro rata share of the state funds for which it fails to qualify during the first year unless there remains in the fund a balance for which no county is able to qualify, in which event such balance shall be carried over and be come part of the state fund for the next year. Based upon assessed valuation alone, Multnomah county would be entitled to $335,754.94 from the state market road fund, but on account of the 10 percent limitation on the funds available to any one county, only $99,043.55 can be apportioned to that county. This leaves $237,711.39 of Multnomah county's pro rata share to he pro rated among the other counties This will insure that the amount available to each of the counties out side of Multnomah county will be in excess of 1.2 mills on the dollar of assessed valuation. Work Will Be Concentrated. The state highway commission de sires that in so far as possible work to be done under the market road act be concentrated in large units, and that the improvements be continuous and uniform. The market road act does not contemplate the expenditure of market road funds for maintenance work or for haphazard and disconnect ed improvement. It is expected that sections selected for market road con struction will be graded to uniform standards over their entire lengths, properly drained, and provided with such surfacing as traffic conditions may warrant. No definite standards will be estab lished for market road construction. The width of roadbed, maximum gradient and minimum radius of curv ature will be varied to suit the con ditions met with on different projects, and the determination of these stand ards will be made in conference with the county courts concerned. Before proceeding with the survey for any market road project, a repre sentative of the state highway com mission will meet with the county court for the purpose of taking up matters in regard to the general lo cation of the road and the genera! standards of construction to be fol lowed, as regards grades, curvature, roadbed widths, etc. The proposed project will be gone over on the ground and agreements reached as to all general features involved, with a view to having a full understanding between the county court and the highway commission before any work in connection with the surveys is started. For purposes of determining ap proximately the cost of a market road project or the amount of work which can be expected to be done with mar ket road funds available, the engineer will prepare cost estimates for work involved. These cost estimates will be based upon unit prices for which similar, work is being contracted by the Ftate highway commission, but the commission assumes no responsi bility if the actual cost of the work overruns these estimates. Plans Mut Be Approved. Surveys, plans, specifications and estimates made by engineers outside of the State highway department must be approved and accepted by the highway commission before state market road funds will be allowed to be expended upon the project con cerned. In conclusion, the highway com mission announces that all work on market roads must be performed in a manner satisfactory to the commis sion and until such time as such work is so completed and accepted by the commission, approval of plans for ad ditional market road construction may be withheld. up. - And there is a faint hope that the government itself might share part of the expense in view of being relieved of its present expense. The interior mail service has always oeen both slow and irregular, and it is unjust to lay the blame exclusively upon Mr. Burleson. At all events it has not been much worse under his administration until the past few months. When all Alaska mail was removed from mail status and re classified as common freight on Au gust 1 a year ago there was naturally a great incidental delay and much loss of mail matter everywhere throughout the territory, but the interior was less affected than the coaBt country the interior was used to that sort of thing but when all interior mail was recently rerouted by way of Fair banks, thus adding a further delay of from two to six weeks, the patience of the Interior people snapped right in two, and the movement for a pri vate mail service is the result. CONTRACTOR HAS WRECK PROFITEERING PEST PAINS LOS ANGELES City Sadly Sees Tourist Cash Going Elsewhere. PREMATURE EXODUS IS ON Landlords and Apartment House Keepers Have Worked Havoc, Says G. L. Hutchins. DRIVING WHILE DKCXK. Bakery Wagon Tipped Over and Another Auto Careened Into. Auto Ends on Sidewalk. "Lse a little common sense, judge. Lemme go home. I wiwina go home, judge," pleaded M. J. Ileisner, con tractor and 'bthilder with offices at 1ST AVe.st Park street, as he was brought before District .Jidge Hawkins yes terday morning after the automobile M. J. KEISXER ACCUSED OF Profiteering by landlords and apart ment housekeepers 'n Los Angeles is driving thousands of tourists east fully six weeks prion, to the usual tourist exodus, according to George L. Hutchins, former manager of the Portland Rose Festival, who is in Portland on business. Mr. Hutchins considers Portland his home, although he now lives in Los Angeles, where he is interested in the motion-picture industry. "The railroads have been forced to add extra sections to the eastbound trains to handle the rush of tourists out of Los Angeles," said Mr. Hutch ins. "In former years the tourists came west during February and did lie had been driving had ti;.ped over a f not begin to scatter to the north and bakery truck and crashed into an an- east until late in March. The profi- toniobile standing at the curbing at teering landlords and apartment Fifth and Salmon streets. ! house keepers have done an incalcu "I plead guilty to having had a ! able injurs to the reputation of Los coupla drinks of moonshine, judge. I Angles as a w inter resort, but as to the collision, there's nothing j shortage Hakes OpportnniV. to it. judge, that bakerv wagon was . , , , 4.. m le l,r be insisted ' "1 hOUSands Of tOUHStS Who have 7.. .1, i.... ( . 1 heen coming to Los Angeles every J?"i;.'- L" I winter for many years will never re escorted him into the courtroom. "I'm not your lawyer, I'm a deputy sheriff," protested Beckman. "You tol' me you were my lawyer," accused the man under arrest. "I will ask the court not to con sider the plea of this man at this time," interrupted Thomas Maguire. deputy district attorney. "He may not wish to plead guilty on second, sober, thought." Reisner was taken up to the county jail in lieu of bail. He is charged with driving an automobile while in toxicated. . According to witnesses, Reisner drove into the truck of the Barker bakery, driven by G. Troutman. tipped it over, crashed into the machine of j Charles Doty, deputy sheriff, and ended up on the sidewalk in front of I the jail entrance to the courthouse. 1 Deputy Sheriffs Beckman and Kendall j took him in custody. ! the great majority of landlords, but by a minority who are taking ad vantage of an acute shortage of homes in Los Angeles." Mr. Hutchins said that the eastern tourists' attention should be cabled to the Columbia river highway while thev are on the Pacific coast. "The work of Frank Branch Kile in thn east is bearing fruit. said the former Rose Festival official,' 'hut much remains to be done. I talk with many tourists and they all want to see the famous highway. It is Portland and Oregon's greatest as set. But there are many who do not i-eaiizA that when thev reach Los Angeles it is a comparatively short trip to Portland. Ocgjon Interests Kast. "Oregon is fast attracting the at tention of eastern people. The fact that the most wonderful timber in the world stands in the great north west is attracting attention, and so are the lands in the northwest avail able for agriculture. "Although I am living and working in Los Angeles, Portland is my home, and some day I will return here to live. It is the best city on the Pacific coast today, and I say this in all seri ousness, because Portland has greater prosperity than any. other city on the coast, and has finally awakened to Its opportunity." NEW SCHOOL IS WANTED Hood River to Vote on $41,000 Bond Issue March 19, HOOD RIVER. Or., March 6. (Spe cial.) Petitions to the school board, asking for a bond issue and a special tax for construction of a new grade school to replace the old Park-street school, declared totally Inadequate, have been presented. Tax payers signing the petition number 107. An election of the tax payers to vote on a $41,000 bond issue and a special tax of $20,000 has been called for Satur day, March 19. Members of the Hood River woman's club, who circulated the petitions, de clare that they met with encourage ment and that signatures were easily obtained. WOMEN'S TEAM CHOSEN Interior Alaska Towns Get Christmas Mail. Bnrleson Service Roundly Scored by Northern Residents. Debaters of Pacific University Are Selected Arter Tryouts. PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Forest Grove. Or.. March 6. (Special.) The women's debate tryout for the Will amette Pacific women's debate in April was held last night. Those chosen for the team are Miss Lyla Short of Gales Creek, Miss Ellen An derson of Cherry Grove, Miss Mar garet Martin and Miss Nellie Walker of Forest Grove and Miss Maud Bar rett of Bridgeport. Neb., alternate. The judges were faculty members. Miss Alice Willard, Miss Anna E. Bag stad and Professor F. E. Taylor. The question iB "Resolved, That the principal cause for America's present wave of anarchy lies in unjut labor conditions in this country." Miss Martin and Miss Barrett, representing the .Kappa Delta society, were vic torious over the Alpha Zeta men's team on the same question last week. This is the first year that Pacific has had a special team of women de baters and interest in the new de parture is keen. turn. The profiteering is not done by Read The Oregonian classified ads. II PERFECT ff PLAYER ROLL I J L SERVICE J Hood Kiver Girl Wins First Prize. HOOD RIVER, Or., March 8. (Spe cial.) Upper valley friends of Miss Irma Coulter, who is now attending school in Tacoma, have just learned that the young student has won the second prize for Tacoma in the nation-wide essay contest on, "Advant ages of Enlistment in the United States army." In 1917 Miss Coulter won a Shetland pony on an essay written in a contest with the fol lowing for a subject: "What We Can Do to Win the War." In line with our policy to give the very best Player Roll Serv ice in this city, we carry all t Q. R. S. ROLLS We cordially invite you to come hear any Player Rolls without g-ationto purchase. Shennan.Pay& Sixth and Morrison Street Portland. (Opposite Postoffice.) Seattle Tacoma Spokane. in and any obh- II III I Co. 'SEMK'K SO.G AND GIFT SHOP SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 27. (Spe cial) They are just about getting the papers now, or will get them in a week or so. telling about so many more shopping days before Christmas or other interesting news items of November and early December vint age. That is why the people up at Ruby and Ophir and Flat and Tacotna and roundabout are saying so many unkind things about Mr. Burleson and j talking arjout organizing a private mail service of their very own. As the report comes, the idea is an organization extending to and includ ing Fairbanks, if that interior me tropolis will affiliate, and the employ ment of private carriers who will take the mail off the government's hands at Cordova. A system of contribu tions based on the service received would provide the money to keep it Columbia Records Are Here! The March list is especially good, as it includes the favorites that we have been waiting for. Al Jolson, Nora Bayes and other popular artists contribute to this list. We in vite you to step in and get the new Columbia Record Catalogue. DOUBLE 85c RECORDS. AL JOLSON'S BIG HIT, Tou Ain't Heard Nothing Tel. Come On, Play With Me. Campbell and Horr Vocal Duets. Hand in Hand Again. My Love Song. Lullaby Time. Out of a Clear Sky. Let Rest of World Go By. Rings. When You're Alone. Wait. You'll See,. All I Have Are Sunny Weather Friends. Now I Know. Bve-Lo. I'll Always Be Waiting for You. I Want a Daddy. I Might Be Your Once in A While. I Am Climbing Mountains. Golden Gate. Not in a Thousand Years. Smile, Dear. DOUBLE 8Se RECORDS. ART HICKMAN'S DANCE ORCHESTRA. Tell Me Why. Peggy. Patches. Sweet and Low. Rainbow of My Dreams. Burmese Blues. My Baby's Arms. On Streets of Cairo. . Wonderful Pal. Nobody Knows. . NEW DANCE RECORDS. "O" (Oh) Fox Trot. Barkln' Dog. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave. India Oriental Fox Trot. Ben Hur Chariot Race March. Under Orders Band March. Whistling Rufus. Nightingale and the Frog. Ask I's for the New 1930 Colombia Record Catalogue. MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS 10-Inch, Double, f.1.00 Lonesome. That's AH. Little Bit of Honey. 12-Inch. Double, J1.25 Dreamy Alabama Waltz. Pretty Little Rainbow Waltz. Nobody Ever Fox Trot. N. Y. Hippodrome Medley. Oh What a Pal Was Mary Waltz Carolina Sunshine Waltz. Nora Bayes' Latest, $1.23 In Your Arms. Just Like a Gypsy. Vocal Favorites, 1.00 The Rosary, sung by Manuel. At Dawning, sung by Manuel. Sacred Quartet, 85c Hark! Herald Angels Sing. Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful. How About That Grafonola Now? We are showing all the different models in the Standard Columbia Grafonola Prices $25 and Up Buy a Grafonola on Terms Here ' Open Evenings Headquarters for Q. R. S. Player Piano Rolls Here Are Some of the Favorites Venetian Moon Fox Trot. Dardanella. Mammie o' Mine. Hawaiian Nights Waltz. I've Got My Captain Now. Vamp. Hand in Hand Again Waltz. Boley Fox Trot. Let Rest of World Go By. Oh, What a Pal Was Mary. You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet. I Know What It Is to Be Lone some. - I'm Climbing Mountains. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles. My Isle of Golden Dreams. Your Eyes Have Told Me So. Roses of Picardy. You're Still an Old Sweetheart. Main 2269 324 Wash. 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