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"You ! Offer Me Something Anything WlsbonOArgus Hillsboro, Oregon, Thursday, August 21, 1941 Volume 48, No. 22 — Two Sections, 16 Pages County Fair to Open Gates Wednesday Night Bidding < amo tim i prompting in this community Relay Auction Attracts Crowd Rargains Had Mutt Dogs to Strut In Fair Competition County Sees Army Units 'Moving Up' Through Hillsboro Enroute to War Games On ils Way—Annual Argus "Fair Edition' Next iwqir of To Entertain Fair-Goers the Hillsboro < dition." containing a special li blind section devoted to the Hect ve interest to Washington <ounK r« Meats ami a wealth of information on all phases of the four day county fair «ill be found in the special edition. Newcomers Invited to Jamboree Portland Officials May Join 'Homecoming "Harvest Queen" Court Selected By Elimination Washington county highway ' Gates of the 1941 Washington Tuesday and Wednesday took a ! county fair will officially swing open Wednesday night, August 27. flic Hillsboro Rotary club again will sponsor a mutt wartime pounding as shock troop' Barga ns. bargains ami m of an army of 10,000 mi n ; with an elaborate program honor dog show as a laugh-feature of the Washington county convoys rumbled through Forest Grove and : ing county newcomers. bid-buyers who tollowe! fair, it was announced (his John R Cox, Cox chair. this week bv by .John chair Hillsboro en route to northwest war tioM i Hank K Highlighted by an address from man of a Rotary committee in charge. The show is sched games in the state of Washington. Five finalists in the annua] Wash- round of Hillsboro Governor Charles A Sprague, who ingt'ui C'lunty fair "Harvest Queen" uled tor 1 :30 p. m. Saturday, August 30. Other convoy contingents of the! the second mimi <1 himself will open the fairground * mass troop movement, which in race were named here Saturday Another headline attraction just billed for the all-star vaudeville gates, the program will include eludes 2000 vehicle: routed across night in a vote counting elimina King under show to be presented in Shute park pavilion as a feature of the band music, a welcoming number /inner Washington county are due to pass! tion and from now on the pace will Washington county fair on Friday night. August 29. is the acrobatic by a county-wide chorus represent other mg i f a month through today (Thursday) and be "hot and heavy." act of Fred and Marjie Zobedie. The young lady, who does all the ative of every community, introduc again Saturday The men are being Girls remaining in the last lap "heavy" work, has been featured by Bob Ripley as the only girl tion of officials and distinguished ‘‘moved up" from Camp San Luis competition are Dorothy Seus of in the world to walk on crutches upside down. guests, a short talk on county re i hundí.<• ranging Obispo and Fort Ord, Cal., to aid sources by County Agent William the Ninth Corps Army in repell F Cyrus and a “pre-view" tour of Candidates' Standings ing invasion of an "enemy" force all fair exhibits. 475.000 votes represented by the 17th Infantry “Homecoming" Added 456 000 regiment in the “vicinity cf” Long Marjorie Will Invitations have been extended Gerry Raines 275 000 votes to hundreds of newcomers in Wash 260.000 ’enemy” had been ington county to attend the jam K eligible in the dlvis- 254 000 boree and plans have been launch st "mutts area previously from Fi rt Ord. ed. meanwhile, to inject a Portland Eight I nits Routed He. leading with 475.000 and Multnomah county "home- eligible to Eight troop units have Marjorie Will of Laurel. coming" theme into the opening Dr. George W. Peavy, ex-president of Oregon State col been routed through this county, night program. member' all touching Forest Grove on their Angela DiLoreto of Dixie Mountain lege and member of the state forestry board for 30 years, "inmute ■ m ch Heading a group of Washington and Lois York of Aloha. way north. From Forest Grove, presented a six-point program for the protection of Ore county y. W c Christe city officials. Mayor J. E. two r utes are scheduli d. The first Beatrice Hite < f Aloha, who had gon’s forest resources in a talk in behalf of the “Keep Morback of Sherwood met with continues to Banks. Buxton the low total of votes in the Sat- ; Oregon Green" program before the Hillsboro Rotary club Portland's mayor and city officials Imqmst. assisted by and Manning, thin on througl urday count, will be included in the , •- --------------- -------------- _--------- Tuesday, extending them special in o Rotary eommit’ee. Vernonia to Clatskanie and the court but will not continue in the . vitations to attend the "hemecom measuring sticks and Dr. Peavy suggested the follow- Columbia competition for the queen title, it ing" here as the fair opens on Wed li Education of the public. t entries Hillsboro river highway The lisi route was announced this week by Leon ng: nesday night. Mayor Morback justi !'2 i land classification for best use. keep f Hows the Tualatin Valley high , Davis, fair manager. fied the "homecoming” theme with 1'3» development of playground way from Forest Grove to Hills a reminder that "Portland and The five girls embraced by the areas for stimulating the tourist boro. turns north on First avenue Multnomah county once were part to North Plains, thence to the Co royal court, meanwhile, were fit- bus.ness. <4> revision of tax laws of Washington county." in the lumbia Rivi r highway via West t<d Monday for street costumes , to give relief tor timber owners and To Serve Refreshments Union and the Cornelius pass road ¡which they will wear from now elimination of the present tax sys- , until the time of the fair opening, I tern which forces him to put his shiny new dime, Cox announced Slats, county and city poliif At the close of the fair's opening on Wednesday evening. August 27. , timber on the market ahead of time. ficers. aided by Boy Scouts are night program, committees of Hlltx- Foreclosure proceedings have Green dresses and green wide- John It Cox. who heads a Ro '5' additional laws to promote sus- acting as patrol units to guide the boro businessmen and ladies of the tary club committee in charge of sterner been instituted against some 100 Business and Professional Women's convoys on scheduled route. Lo- brimmed bonnets will make up the tained-yield logging. <6> tax-delinquent Washington county ensembles, all of which will be the mutt show which will be fea and better enforced forest fire laws, s under direction of Police club of Hillsboro will serve sand tured again this year on t h e so effective that our forest proper properties in a complaint filed by wiches and coffee to the guests. The Chief W w Weaver assigned to alike. District Attorney G. Russell Mor patrol du ty are Scoutmaster Mike The 1941 "Harvest Queen" will ties would be insurable risks. gan and Sheriff John W. Connell. businessmen's committee, headed by Payntcr. Wayne Faber. Jack Doyle, b? selected with a final tabulation "Put yourselves behind a pro The parcels threatened with fore John Wismer. will have charge of 1941 of votes on next Thursday night. gram to make Oregon's forests per Elroy Schindler and Jim Dawson, closure are lands on which tax the coffee making while Mrs. Gor- wee k all of Troop nN 226. and Joe San- August 28 I For detailed plans. see petually green." urged Dr. Peavy. payments have been delinquent for ' ^on sahnow. president of the B. & the I tilli. Dale Bergreen and Bob Coy- The nation that conserves its more than three years from the ' P, .Y°men ’ club- wlH bave charge make ner. all of Troop No. 261. In ad- natural resources is destined to re earliest da’e of such delinquency | ■ ma^ln8 and serving of sand- all dition. Elmer main strong, according to the edu and on properties with delinquent ■ Wlches- and J i A Jones have been appointed as cator He said wasting of the na taxes from 1934 and before. *n general charge of the program pecial local officers to assist > tion's heritage of natural resources Foreclosure machinery will al- *s a committee composed of Finis nmplaints from $11 to $11.20 the troop-guiding service. has included reduction of our total low one year from the date cf Brown of Hillsboro, chairman. Mrs. vorc ' complaint • from $10 f forest land from 850.000.000 acres judgment for property owners to I Grace Bates of Gaston, and P. E. "Lost Battalions" to less than 100.000.000 acres. redeem their lands by payment of I Lewis of Tigard. Reception and Intentional or otherwise as the d cuiiunl, including demur- Oregon. Dr. Peavy said, has 20 delinquent taxes plus interest ' registration will be under the direc in egon will have two vacancies in case may be the army troop move in 1 from $.> 50 per cent of the nation s remaining charges. The complete list is being 1 Lon of Walter Upshaw of Tigard, $5 till 1942 at both the It. S. naval acad- ments seen thus far have not been timber stands, and every effort while invitations are in charge of strictly according to schedule, published in the Argus. The fc • represents Mayor L. B. Drake of Forest Grove. guide units discovered Tuesday as Hillsboro's airport during the next should be made to safeguard this additional 15 pt r cent of the industry with a valume of $180,000,- | All new residents of Washington । they endeavored to trace the cir- tw«> weeks may figure in seme way initial til.ng fee in < .ich case and 000 yearly. I cuitous. unscheduled rcutes taken county, with or without official in mgs a T<> determine the eligible candi in army maneuvers now under way funds assessed Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Rehse left vitations. will be made welcome. John R. Cox. chairman, announc by a few “lost battalions." i iqm d date residing in the first Oregon tile law library. The first convoy, scheduled to at Firt Lewis. Wash., according to ed plans for the "mutt dog" show Sunday for Hereford, where he has Mayor Drake has declared. Every the principalship of the Hereford department of the fair will be open roll through Hillsboro cn route to Ed Bail, local airport manager, who and prize money was collected. quested the civil service commis T G. Bronleewe was program high school. Mrs. Rehse's sister Wednesday evening so that all at North Plains at 8 a. m. Tuesday, was visited last week by two army sion to hold a preliminary qualify- chairman. and brcther-in-law. Mr and Mrs. tending may see the exhibits. failed to show Subsequent investi men from California. Ing examination Vincent Sharp, accompanied them gation revealed that the first sec Thursday morning the gates will Captain R Burrows of the Paso tober 4. 1941. for a week's vacation in eastern open to the general public at 9 a. nt tion of this 320-truck unit got off Candidates for admission to the the track this side of McMinnville R bles fly ng field south of Salinas. Oregon. (Continued on page 2) naval must be no less and continued on 99W. finally Cal . one cf the two men who talk- than >f age nor more winding up at Six Corners, where id to Ball, indicated that a detach April 1. ] they stopped and reported they ment of some 150 soldiers coming Increased tax levies in the non-union high school dis- than 1942. Candidates for tile military were "lost." Army orders then sent from a camp in California might rict of Washington county have been tine to increases in academy arc eligible for admis- this section-—believed to be about bivouac at the airport. A dozen or more planes would accompany the tuition costs over which the non-high hoard had no con sion from the day they 100 vehicles—directly Preliminary planning of Hills into troeps, it was ddded. boro's 1942 budget will call the trol and are not due to any decrease in district valuation until the day they are 21 years laud. In compliance with the request. city council in special session at age, on which latter day they it was pointed out this week by A. M. Jannsen of Reed of the army men written 8 o'clock tonight (Thursday», it are not eligible. Candidates for Ville. chairm;«n <»f the non-high* Some 100 troop-laden vehicles in permission to use the field, but was announced Wednesday by May Two women were killed and five other persons suffered butt) academies must never have in an open letter to the Ai - ro sect ions, said to be other parts there no definite understand- - charges marie by the union high or ....... Hugh S. Rogers. injuries Thursday evening when a pickup truck in which the first convoy unit . rolled in- mg as to when the army boys might In order to make the requited in compLance with a new state they were riding overturned on the North Plains-West stati m- nt. designed tell Hillsboro and were guided north be expected nor how long they It hardly sci m« fair then to blame the fol- munki^fbudgUs'^Z ^uTbal8 Union hi*hway some eight miles northeast of Hillsboro, (Continued on page 71 might stay. notify Congressman lows action of the county boundary the non-union high school board for applicants instant ance sheet or estimated receipts *a , ac^‘^nt bfinght mst.. ”. board last week in setting August the increase in millage, yet we are .Inities W. Mott, Salem, not later death to Betty Betty Jane Jane Shellhamm... Shellhammer, and expenditures will be drawn 01_ « 194!. of their drawn fl below the majority of the un than September 23. when she was thrown from the up in September this year instead itigli school districts in mill- deslre to participate in the exam decide upon proposed consolidation back seat of the car into a rural of in January, 1942. the mayor ination. of four non-high area schoi I dis age. mail post, and Nacie Morgan. 23, said. The council probably will 0 1 11 11 J tricts in the northeast part of the It hiis also come to olir attention I Hillsbcro route 1. died shortly after p.es upon a rough budget at its Angrp A1101160 county with union high school dis that .1 story h.is hi en cireiiluti d that arriving at the Jones hospital in next regular session on September w trict No. 3. the non-high board contemplate« 2. he stated. | The fall flower shew, which is be- Hillsboro. Miss Shellhammer had sending students from affected dis Letter Quoted The budget committee, composed ing revived this year as a feature been staying with friends on Hills The open letter is quoted in full: tricts near Hillsboro to Beaverton. of citizens selected bv individual J cf the Washington county fair after boro route 1. The only place that any such move । To the Editor council members, will not meet several years of being conspicuous , Injuries Serious The non-high sc board of was contemplated and which would with the council in its special ses- ' for its absence, has been allott?d a Edna Fessler. 19. Portland route the I Washington county Mrs Sarah Emrick. 92. pioneer : Hint it sion tonight. generous share of the grange build 2. most seriously injured of the oth should in all fairness to the patrons Heedville district where wc ing facing the Argus booth er five, sustained a possible skull of the district answer the article bad students walking from near j ter of the late Judge Hyer Jack- Washington county garden clubs fracture, fractured jaw and multiple Aloha to the Hillsboro bus near j appearing in the Hillsboro Argus s n. died at Medicine Hat. Alta . ■ - - are co-operating in sponsorship of lacerations. Dorothy — Riddle. 17. under date of August 7th Said ar Heedville, while havin', bus service Can., Sunday Funeral services the colorful exhibit with the Hills who also had been staying with ticle states that our annual millage to Bi averti n at their doors Aside will be held Friday at 1:30 p. m. boro Garden club in active charge. friends on Hillsboro route 1, suf- levy has shown an annual increase from that, it has not been (he in in Young's Home Chapel with Mrs. Paul L. Patterscn. general fered a possible skull fracture and tention of the bi aid (o interfere in commitment in the Hillsboro ceme- j chairman, is calling for individual head lacerations. logging opi i and fires in any way with the present set-up. Head lacerations and bruises were Forty burglaries and eight cascs । exhibits as well as club displays. It has always been our intention She is survived by one datigli - limber lands Mrs. Ber’ Yates will be in charge sustained by David Morgan, 29, of larceny frem automobiles in r. Mrs. Estella Bonner, Everyone knows that Washington to work for the lies' interests ef the Hillsboro route 1, driver of the car. of judging. Mrs. L. L. MacIntyre Washington and Yamhill counties Alta . Can. L. E. Wilkes of this during recent weeks have been will supervise entrees and Hills David Fessler, 25. and Robert Fess fires within the last few years, all is a nephew of deceased. cleared off the sheriffs records boro Garden club members under ler. 20. both of Portland route 2. Mrs Emrick Ihe largo fires having occurred in sible cost. beri) in In with confessions of William Smith Mrs. George Laver, president, will suffered a severe forehead lacer Columbia and Tillamook counties; diana. May 7. 1849. and crossed die (Signed) A M. Jännien, ation and bruises, respectively. 24. and Charl?.« Smith. 20. arrested act as hostesses. and to offset any decrease in valu plains in a covered wagon in 185fl, Chairman Non-Union Crowded on Curve last week at Newberg. ation. we have had an increase in settling with her parents in Wash High School Board. Morgan told Deputy Sheriffs R. The pair, both parolees from the valuation in the east end of the H Busch. Newt Griffin and Haihe < Ed Note: Following are official ington county. She resid'd in this state reformatory at Monroe. county, more than < nough to offset Ireland that he was forced to drive figures on per-studi nt tuition costs ...... nty until 1918. when she went Wash., have pursued their illegal logging operatien losses Our in to Brooks, Can., to make her home. Fourteenth annual Baptist pio- the pickup into a soft shoulder paid by the non-high board to For- activities in Hillsboro. Beaverton. crease in costs are primarily due to est Grove. Beaverton and Hillsboro Tigard. Carlton and McMinnville, neer day will be held at the old when crowded on a curve by an the increase of tuition costs, over unien high districts for the past officers here said. Nineteen busi- West Union church August 31. Ser other car. After overturning, the which we have had no control, our three school years » The rather ponderous t; ness establishments in downtown vices for the day begin at Ila. m., truck skidded about 80 feet down tuition costs having been raised [ moving Hie present Donclson A: Hillsboro 1939 were entered in one fcllcwed by dinner and the after the highway. All four women rid steadily, and just this last year we ing in the back seat, were thrown noon program with speakers. night. $8 3 II j Sewell mortuary to adjoining prop-1 Palmer Hoyt have had an increase in tuition Ted Gamble clear of the machine. erty in preparation for construction | Beaverton (17 fl I costs ranging from in to 25 per cent The accident victims were brought started this A campaign u> stimulate purchase Mrs Paul Patterson, chairman of Hillsboro While our tuition ci sts have shown to the Jones hospital by a Hillsboro of men under of national defense bonds in Wash the c unty committee on sale of 1910 a decided increase, our Herb Staples, who has been in ambulance and a passing motorist. ion of F Hewitt. ington county was rumbling on the defense bonds All members ef the $111 3« transportation which than the collection business here for Funeral services for Nacie Helen Adolph Mohr, who has the con- committee arc being asked to B avorton one-half the amount of The Red Cross sewing room is several years, has taken a position Morgan, resident of Hillsbi.ro route a nd tend. Hillsboro calling for more help at their as bookkeeper with Lester Ireland 1 for 2'i years, were held Monday has shown very little officials in the Palmer Our board has had tin voice in quarters in the city hall. They re & Co Lloyd Ramp, a member of in Portland with cremation in the Itili for building yet this week or the drive, the bond s il ■ drive, and other state port that Mrs. Henrietta Morgan the mailer of tuition costs, and as • IM 20 first of next week. Construction is The meeting will he held at 8 p officials including Ted Gamble. Hay has knit 10 sweaters, and that the the firm and who has been in Riverview Abbey Mt. Scott Funer above slated the increase in our Beaverton charge of this department, will de al home. Portland, was in charg« 104 67 i xpected to take about three tn. Tuesday in the chamber of com- < onway. George Godfrey and Rob Hill and Dale club has donated vote most of his time to outside of arrangements for Betty Jane millage is due principally to the Hillsboro 94.03 months. . merce hall here, it is announced by ert Farrell are slated as speakers. squares for an afghan. work for the company. Shellhammer. , Show Chairman "Keep Oregon Green Program Is Outlined Tax Foreclosure Complaint Filed Against Lands Schools Here To Open Doors September 2 1942 Candidates For West Point Annapolis Sought Airport May Figure in Army Maneuvers Melvin Rehse Principal Non-High Levy Increases Due to Rise in Tuitions, Jannsen Says Special Council Session Set for Budget Planning Pioneer Resident Of County Dies Two Killed, Five Hurt When Car Upsets on West Union Highway Flower Show Defense Bond Sale Campaign in Offing Pair Confess To 48 Thefts Baptist Pioneer Day Set at West Union Mortuary "On Move More Help Wanted At Red Cross Room Staples at Ireland's fl I
