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TIIE SUXDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. ' OCTOBER to. 1922 8 GUT-OFF HIGHWAY IGI Boise to Winnemucca, Nev., Road Proposed. 4 CONFERENCE IS CLOSED Oregon Would Build 1 08, Nevada 30 and Idaho 26 Miles Un der Tentative Plan. JORDAN VALLEY, Or., Oct. 14. iSprciaJ.) More than 400 delegates from many sections ot Oregon, Ne vada, Idaho and northern California, who have been in conference here since Thursday morning -with rela tion to the construction of the so called Idaho-Oregon-Nevada cutoff higiway, tonight announced that they had outlined a tentative pro gramme, -which if favored by the highway departments of the four western states proDaDjy win result in actual work on the project within the next year. The proposed highway, as finally agreed upon at the conference, win extend from Boise, Idaho, to winne mucca, Nev., where it will connect with the Victory highway, which nas its western terminus at San Francisco. The distance of the pro posed route between Boise and Win nemucca aggregates 267 miles, and will reduce the present mileage be tween Boise and San Francisco ap proximately 525 miles. Oregon Mileage Greatest. Reports prepared, by officials of the Idaho-Oregon-Nevada - Highway association indicated that of the en tire distance between Boise and Winnemucca the state of Idaho will be asked to give financial aid in the construction of 26 miles of the road. Nevada highway officials will be re quested to lend their assistance in the construction of approximately 30 miles of the road, while the -Ore-son highway department will be asked to assist in building 108 miles uf the road. - It was decided at the closing ses sion of the conference to gather a large amount of data dealing with the benefits that would be derived through the construction of the road, compile the estimated costs of con struction, and assemble such other information as m a y be needed by the highway departments in de termining the feasibility of the proj ect. This data will be submitted to the highway departments of the foui states, it was said, by committees to be selected by the highway associa tion. The Oregon committee prob ably will be headed by Fred Palmer, a prominent banker and capitalist 'f - Jordan Valley. Jordan Valley, which is rapidly in creasing its population and produc tion, is now practically isolated, and can be reached only by an inferior road extending south from Ontario. This road has a number of danger ous grades and has been the scene of many serious accidents during the last few years. The new high way, if constructed, would provide an outlet for the Jordan Valley sec tion and probably would be the means of stimulating the livestock and farming industries of that dis trict. The mute for the new high way abuts Succor Creek i'or many miles, and would have a water i grade. Opiioxitinn Slay Develop. The most discouraging feature in ! connection with the conference was the statement that the Oregon high way commission may oppose the construction of the proposed high way for the . reason that it would divert a large number of eastern motorists en route tor San Fran cisco, who in the absence of the proposed road would go to Califor nia by way of Portland. Speakers at the conference declared that the highway commission would not be warranted in taking this view of the project, in that it cwould be self. ish and d'scrlminatory against the taxpayers and property owners liv ing in the extreme eastern part of Malheur county. The - conference, which was fea tured by a celebration in which sev eral thousands of persons partici pated, closed this afternoon follow ing a banquet. The banquet was prepared by the Rebekah lodge and Women's Aid society of Jordan Val ley. Governor Olcott and a dozen or more delegates from the various states interested in the project gave addresses. Caldwell Entertains Party. Governor Olcott and the Idaho delegates left immediately follow ing the close of the conference for Caldwell, where they were enter tained at a banquet. This banquet was given by the Kiwanis club of Caldwell and was featured by ad dresses by Governor Olcott of Ore gon ana w. A. Hall, member of the Idaho highway commission. At the close of the banquet Governor Olcott left for Boise, where he will be the guest of Governor Davis over the week end. Governor Olcott will go to Ontario Monday, where he will give his opening address in the guberna tonal campaign. An address also will bo given at this meeting by T. B. Kay of Salem, ex-state treas uer and member of the lower house of the legislature. Governor Olcott O ; , ' ' DeLAY gives the answer TODAY on page 3 of the Auto Section. and at Broadway and Buraside. 111 FIXED if will continue his eastern Oregon campaign until tiext Saturday night when he will go to Portland. . Later Governor Olcott intends to visit southern 'Oregon and a number of the coast counties. In connection with his visit in Jordan Valley Governor Olcott in spected the Jordan Valley irrigation district, which was reorganized re cently. This is one of the largest irrigation projects in Oregon, and already a diversion dam and other improvements have been made. Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state, who accompanied the governor to Jordan Valley, was among those who attended the banquet at Cald well tonight. After a brief visit at Boise Mr. . Kozer will return to Salem. 30-10 ARGUMENTS FILED SCHOOL FACILITIES FOR ALL CHILDREN AIM. M e asu re Proposes I ncrease 1 n State Levy of $3 for Each Pupil. ! PUGET SOUND BUREAU. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 14. To put adequate educational facilities within . the reach, of every child and young per son within the e-tate of Washington is the whole purpose of initiative No. 46, the so-called 30-10 plan, ac cording to the arguments, official and otherwise, advanced by the pro ponents of this measure. - The official argument cites the case of one country school 'district wherein, because of its considerable assessed valuation, the people sup port a school for 11 children on a -mill tax. This is contrasted with another district, having much less in the way of ' taxable resources, which has to levy a tax of 20 mills to maintain a six-months school for its eig-ht children. - " The measure proposes that the state shall increase its school tax levy so as to raise $30, instead of the present $20, for every child of school age, from 4 to 21 years, in the state. The last census shows 375, 000 such "children," and the imme diate increase in state school taxes would therefore amount to $3,750, 000. The promoters of initiative No. 46 say there are 149 school districts in the state that have six and a half months or less of school each year for lack of sufficient funds. Oppo nents of the measure dispute this statement, insisting that of the 2600 school districts in the state less than 3 per cent, or less than 78 dis tricts, are in any need of relief. Mrs. . Josephine Corliss Preston, state superintendent of public in struction, is opposed to -the 30-10 plan, not because of desire to with hold educational -opportunities from any child in the state, but because of her fixed belief that such, oppor-. tunitles can be given at far less cost and without material change In the present processes of school administration. ' . ' DOCTORS! DENTISTS Three complete offices of medical equipment to be closed out ata sac rifice. Open today. Come to 641 Morgan Bldg. after 10 A. M. Adv. Threshing Outfit Burned. CENTRAL IA. Wash.. Oct. 14. (Special.) A threshing machine, tractor and other farm equpiment were consumed when fire destroyed the . barn of Henry Korevaar on Cowlitz prairie near Toledo. The loss was about $4000, of which $1800 was covered by insurance. Wednes day night the highway garage on Jackson prairie, owned by Edward Mo?, was destroyed by fire. Two automobiles and all the garag equipment were lost I , "Coradllor" J J !;! Cherry Red vN. ' jl u :! aa Calf; rubber v i!l WJ jj hee L Similar ' ' J . lU i! sfyZe in black .iv M ;j made by E. T. ' " & . jjfj j Wright, a "con- i .' H I tentative brogue" Same in ' m 85 I . 'ocsiyR. nga suae. j I f In great hotels, on ballroom ! W ! 'floors, in clubs and famous thor- m oughfares, you will always find II 0 p. Baker's "Shoes of Merit" The . I I Baker idea is borne out yfherever h m H ,- J ,' lL 1 K ri I I L Angela San Franciaco Porflwrtri Detroit J I WHIRLWiiyD DRIVE OPEHED BY BORAH Senator Appeals for Direct Primary Law. CHALLENGE' IS ISSUED Democratic Chairman Asks Sen ator Gooding to Explain Votes on Several . Measures. BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 14. (Special.) The political whirlpool of Idaho is drawing into its vortex political parties and political factions within the parties with such swiftness that the average Idaho voter finds it con fusing to keep up with the march of events. The plunge made by United States Senator Borah when he issued an open defi to the re publican party platform adopted at Wallace, declaring it to be nothing more or less than a blank piece of paper, and the launching of his open fight to write into the statutes of this state a direct primary law ap plying to the. nomination of all party candidates from. United States sen ator down to constable, is so far the sensation of the campa'gn. Campaign Begrun lit Meridian. For 25 years Senator Borah has opened his campaigns in the little town of Meridian, nine miles from Boise. Senator Borah fired his first gun there this week and the echo of the report from it is still ringing over the state.. He said: . . "I 'have bten a republican in the republican senate for, 16 yeacs. My critics in this state say I am inter ested in this primary because that is the only way I can, get re-elected. I consider that a very great compli ment. If, after 1 years of service, I want to report back to the people, T consider that a great compliment. But I realize the course that I am pursuing in this . state 'is just as hazardous to me as to anyone, else. I . realize perfectly that it is incur ring a position which will be ar rayed against me for all . time to come. , Challenge la Inslied. "I don't care two cents about it. If they will lift the burden off the people of this state, if they will re form the fiscal policy of this state. if they will, give the people of this state what they want, they can take the senatorship of the United States, if they can get it, and give it to anybody on earth they want to, but so far as I am concerned the next two years belong to me. Nobody but God Almighty can take them away from me, and during that period I am going to say precisely what ! think and advocate the pol icies in which I believe, regardless of the political consequences to me or to the republican party, either." Greater Interest Urged. Senator Borah has been speaking in southwestern Idaho all week. His addresses and his argument for the direct primary are to the effect that the only way that the people of the nation and of the states can hope for. relief from high taxes and over burdening expense is to take a greater interest in the selection and election of their officers. Two per cent of the wealth of the country control 85 per cent of the politics and the people sit idly by and per mit this condition to exist, when they could take the situation over Into their own hands.- The direct primary, he says, is one of the in struments for accomplishing this. Senator Gooding- Inactive. United States Senator Gooding has not taken an active part in. the cam paign bo faV. Because of that fact. Will H. Hornibrook, democratic state chairman,- has Issued a letter to Mr. Gooding asking him to take the stump and explain some of his votes in the .senate. The charge is openly made that the republican state committee has deelined to per mit Senator Gooding to take the stump. Mr. Hornibrook asks Mr. Gooding why It was that after voting for house bill No. 77 he went to Presi dent Harding and asked him to veto It, and if it was not a fact that this lieu land bill gave special privileges to a few. He is further asked to define his attitude on the direct pri- ( mary and state whether or not he is in accord with the platform dec laration for the convention. Third, is he for a bank deposit guarantee law. or does he stand with the plat form against it? Fourth, if ha feels he was justified in voting for the seating of Senator Newberry? Fifth, If he favors the ship subsidy bill, and. sixth, why he supported the Esoh-Cummins bill? Senator Gooding has not as yet answered the letter. DAHLIAS. Visit Our Dahlia Gardens Sow. Auto take East Glisan to Craig road, then north to Barr road and tw blocks west. 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