"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 ,
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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