FmESEnT A5T0 ASS CAS FEES WILL FAY
INTEREST AX9 FR1XCIPAL OF $40,000,000 ROAD BHDS
Approximately 0,000,000 of state road bonds can be itsueJ under a
4 limitation on the present assessed valuation of the state, including
bonda already issued. The constitutional amendment to be voted upon
at the May si election provide for thii 4 limitation.
Interest and principal of the entire 40,000,000 of bondi can be paid
from revenues from auto licente feet and gasoline tax, based on conservative
estimate of that income.
Following is an official estimate of the income to the State Highway
Fund from auto license fees and gasoline tax, compared with interest and
principal requirements for the entire 0,000,000 of state road bonds.
This table has been audited and certified by Whitfield, hitcomb & to.,
certified public accountants, whose attestation is subscribed below.
It verifies the claim made that voting for the 4 state road bond limitation
will not involve any tax on property, as principal and interest will be raid
from the auto license fees and the gas tax, leaving an actual surplus above
the amount required.
. orricuL TAIL!
Statement of Estimated Income to State Highway Fund Compared With Inlertei
end Principal KeqnUessents to Can? (10.000,000 Bonds.
a
Estimated
dumber
Year of Motor
Vehicle
1H0
121
1921
1924
192$
192,
1927.
1921,
1929.
1910.
-1931.
1932.
1951.
19J4.
1935.
1936.
1917.
1931.
1919.
1940.
1941.
1942.
1941.
1944.
1945.
194.
1947.
1941.
1949.
.105,000
.125,000
.141,000
.151,000
.170,000
.1S0.0O0
.1S5.000
. 190,000
.195,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
,200,000
,200,000
200,000
200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
.200,000
Motor Vehicle
License Fm
Net income to
Suit Hihwr
Font
$1,575,000.00
1,175,000.00
2,145,000.00
2,570,000.00
2,550,000.00
2,700,000.00
2,775,000.00
2,150,000.00
2,925,000.00
5,000,000.01
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
3,000,000.0c
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00 .
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
5,000,000.00
Gasoline Ta
Net Income to
Sum High
Fund
$ 525,000.00
(25,000.00
71S.OOQ.00
790,000.00
150,000.00
900,000.00
925,000.00
950,000.00
75,000.00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000 00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
1.000,000.00
1,000,00000
1,000,000 00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000 00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000 00
"1,000.000.00
1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
Total Amount
tsttmated
Income to
Suit lliliy
Fund
$2,100,000.00
2,500,000.00
2,160,000.00
3,160,000.00
3,400,000.00
5,600,000.00
5,700,000.00
5,100,000.00
5,900,000.00
4,000,000.00
4,000,000.0c
4,000,000.00
4,000,000.00
4,000,000.00
4,000,000.00
4,000,000.00
4.000,000.00
4.000,000.00
4,000,000.00
4,000,000.00
4,000,O0O.OC
4,000.000.00
4,000,000.00
4,000,000.00
4,000,OOO.U
4,000,000.00
4,000,000.00
4,000.000.00
4,000,000.00
4,000,000.00
Inter) end
rftncifwl
Reaiiitnneon tor
S40.000.00e
Beads
$ 494,150.00
1,045,250.00
1,393,250.00
1.679,750.00
2,007,340.00
2,677.617.50
2,957,367.50
5,149,150.00
5,329,742.50
S,429,05;.00
5,596,142.50
S.J0S.392.5C
3,219,942.50
3,151,492.50
5,045,042.50
2,954,592.50
2.S66.H2.50
2,777,692.50
2,659,242.50
2,600,792.50
2.412,542.50
2,527.192.50
2,215,442.50
2,065,492.50
1,845,952.50
1,161,475.00
793,275.00
513,012.50
244,000.00
5637.50
Surplus Re
asalntng After
I'avmefil of
Intern! and
Principal
$1,(05,150.00
1,456,750.00
1,446,750.00
1,450.250.00
1,592,660.00
922,3 12-50
742,632.50
(50,320.00
570,257,50
570,945.00
(03.157.50
(91,607 JO
70,057.50
565,507.50
956.957.50
1,045,407.50
1,151.557.50
1,222,307.50
1,510,757.51
1,599,207.50
1,557,(57.50
1,(72,107.50
1.75 1,557 JO
1,951,507.50
2.154,047.50
2,513,525.00
SO(,725 O0
3,456,937.50
3,756,000.00
5.943,762.50
OmCUL IXMjkKATIOS Of TA11I
Column S represents the net income to the State Highway Fund from motor vehicle
license feet (Chap. 599, Laws 1919). The 1920 rrgiitration figures to date obtained from
the Secretary of State'a office indicate an average license fee of twenty dollars ($20.00)
per vehicle. The law provide that twenty-five per cent be returned to the county from
which the vehicle is registered, therefore the net income per vehicle to the State Highway
Fund is approximately fifteen dollars ($15.00) per car which is the figure used in com
puting Column 3. The administration expenses of the motor vehicle law will be met from
the receipts from motorcycle licenses, chauffers' badges, transfers, etc
Column 4 represents the income from the Gasoline Tax (Chap. 159, Laws 1919) to the
State Highway Fund. Figures obtained from the Secretary of State's office indicate the
average tax per vehicle in 1919, was approximately five dollars ($5.00) and this figure
baa been used in computing Column 4.
Column 5 is the total amount of the motor vehicle license fees and the gasoline tax
based on the estimated number of vehicles as shown in Column 2.
Column ( is the amount required each year to pay off the interest and principal at ma
turity of State Highway bonds up to an estimated amount of $40,000,000 (the approxi
mate amount which could be issued with a 4 per cent limit oa the present assessed valua
tion of the state. These figure are based on these premises: That the balance of the Six
Million Dollars Bonds (Chap. 425, Laws 1917), the State Co-operative Bonds $1400,000
(Bean-Barrett, Chap. 175, Laws 1917), and the Ten Million Dollar Bonds (Chap. 175,
law 1919), now unsold will be sold during the year 1920. Also that further bonds will
be sold as follows: 1920, $5,000,000; 192!, $5,000,000; 1922, $5,000,000; 1921, $5,000,000;
1924; $2,200,000; a total of $40,000,000.
All of the bonds thus far authorized are serial bonds and, except the Bean-Barrett
issue, mature one-twentieth each year after the fifth year. The Bean-Barrett issue mature
$100,000 each year beginning with 1922. The Six Million and Bean-Barrett issues draw
4 per cent Interest All other issues 4'j per cent.
Column 7 shows the surplus estimated to be available each year after meeting obliga
tions for principal and interest
The One-Quarter Mill Tax (Chap. 257, Laws 1917) on the total assessed valuation
of the state is not shown in this table as an asset of the State Highway Fund as this fund
is used principally to meet administrative expenses, surveys in the various counties, en
gineering supervision of county construction, and design and inspection of county bridge
and structures.
WE HEREBY CERTIFY that we have examined the official records of the State of Oregon
s regards Income from Motor Vehicle licenses and Gasoline taxes and believe the
estimates above set forth in columns I to f, both inclusive, to be conservative. We
further Certify that based upon these estimates the tabulations set forth above in
columns 6 and j are true ana correct,
Portlaadj Ore eon. April ia 1020.
WHITFIELD; WHJTCOMB CO.
Ctrtifui Public Jtnuntsnu.
SUMMONS.
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for the County of Uma
tilla.
fore existing between plaintiff and
defendant and for the care and cux
tody of Marjorie Montague, the min
or chikl or plaintiff ami delenuam,
tuia. . . and for other equitable relief.
Ethel M. Montague Plaintiff, vs. Tnis gumrnon is pubiishcd
John I. Montague, Defendant.
To John I. Montague, defendant
herein:
In the Name of the State of Ore
gon, You are hereby required to ap
pear and answer the complaint filed
against you in the above-entitled
suit within six weeks of the date of
- . ... .1 , l i i.t iaob 1 1 u mi 1 1 4i 1 1 y 1 i win i": ma
ine nrw puQiicauon 01 uus sumrau, j, y tn mh d f j 192fJ
to-wit: on or before Friday, the 11th ; th'We8ton uJer a new'Spapcr'
day of June. 1920; and you will Uke pubIlshcU at We6ton Umat;na Coun
notice that if vou fail to appear and .. -1
.in.i.rnr aaiH (.nmnloinr r,T fit hnrarico - .
published pursu
ant to an order of Hon. Gilbert W.
Phelps, Judge of the Sixth Judicial
District of the State of Oregon,
duly made and filed herein on thj
22d day of April, 1920; and the first
publication hereof is made on Fri
day, the 30th day of April, 1920, and
the last nublication will be made on
Ten miles used
to be a long waij
WHAT a difference in
these motor-car days,
whjn every point in the
county is hardly more than
"just around the comer."
People's ideas arc chang
ing, too.
They're beginning to fig
ure out how much it is cost
ing them to keep a car. And
the man who is doing the
greatest amount of figuring is
the man with the moderate'
price car.
17
There still seems to be a
notion in some quarters that
any tire is good enough for
a small car.
That's not what the man
who owns it thinks.
In recommending and sell
ing U. S. Tires we arc trying
to see his side of the propo
sition finding out what he
wants in a tire and giving
him that.
Ill
Large or small, U. S. Tiret
arc built to only one stand'
ard of quality the standard
that produced the first
straight side automobile tire,
the first pneumatic truck
tire.
Every tire that bears the
name "U. S." is built the
best way its makers know
how. It isn't the car, but
the man who owns the car,
that counts with the oldest
and largest rubber concern
in the world.
IV
As representatives of U. S.
Tires in this town, wc offer
you the benefit of our experi
ence and advice in settling
your tire problem.
Safer f your tin ao
enrdint to th toad
tty harm to frara
la sandy or hilly court
try, wherever the going
la apt to b heavy Too
V. A. Nobby.
For ordinary country
rosxls The U. 8. Chain
or Usee.
For front wheela Too
V. & Plata.
For bast results'
vtwht U. t.
Royal Cords.
.United States Tires
For Sale by
Liberty Auto Co.
plead thereto, within said time the
plaintiff, for want thereof, will apply
to the Court for the relief prayed
for and demanded in her said com
plaint, namely for a decree of the
said Court forever, dissolving the
bonds of matrimony now and hereto-
Pated this 22d day of April. 1920.
HOMER I. WATTS.
Athena, Oregon.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Wall telephone
at this office.
for sale. Inquire
D
odme Cars
and Dodge Extras
AJAX and DIAMOND TIRES
Gasoline, Oils and
Accessories
WESTON GARAGE
(J. F. SNIDER)
CENERHL BLHCKSmiTHING at Snider Shop
1
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I
S
I
OREGON IS BACKWARD
IN STATE SCHOOLS
Wasirngton Pays $30 a Year
For Education of Each
Child; Oregon $11.85.
as
"It is the question of inn undermost
against the uppermost, property
values ever human valuna," said M.
H. Marvin, a member of the Washing
ton State Industrial Welfare Coin mis
s'on, who made a plea at the Portland
hotel recently before the Portland
Ministerial association for the state
two-mill elementary school measure,
which la to be voted upon May 21 at
the primary. He continued:
"The church baa made mistakes, but
thla la one place where the church
must not err. You must get bclilnl
this measure so that the child of the
poor man can have bla or ber deserved
opportunity In life. Oregon la face to
face with a crisis la Ita educational
system, that, If not met, will put it
back toward the dark ages Instead
of In the light of the twentieth century
which It should hold. It Is one of
seven states which still holds to the
antiquated Idea of district acbool tax
ation plan. . It must get out of the
rut In which It finds Itself today and
plaoe herself alongside the other 39
or forty states and make the tax for
lta schools equal throughout the state.
"Wnshlnton today psys per year
"A for the education of earh ililld
within Ita boundaries. I am tr.ld ycu
In Oregon pay toward this great work'
for the voter of the future only 111. 85.
It la time for a change and I, from
your alitor state, urge you to announce
from your pulpits, from the housetops
if you please, the benefits of this
measure, and I hope It will bo voted
In by a big 'majority."
Rev. W. T. McElveen of the First
Congregational church of Portland,
also made a strong plea for the meas
ure and declared that it was not only
a problem for Oregon to solve, but
"a national one, to handle thla equa
tion which Oregon now faces, namely
the education of the Illiterate, of
which there are today in the United
States, 5 V millions,'' said Dr. Mc
Elveen. ' "Labor counts on the church in this
crisis," said the speaker, "Oregon la
behind the times In her educational
system and every 'tightwad' citizen In
Oregon ia to blame for this situation
which we now must face at the pel's
on May 21.
"Do you know how Boston Tech
bundles ber atnder.tsT They have one
teacher to every six students, Oregon
has one teacher to every 64. How's
that for a contrast? Isn't it about
time you and I went to the polls and
voted for something new In this state? '
I think so."
Mrs. Alexander Thompson and Mrs.
S. M. Blumauer also mado striking
addresses to - the ministers on this
measure, being followed by President
Campbell of the University of Oregon,
who pointed out the necessity of aid
ing the elementary schools, that the
higher educational Institutions would
have a basis on which to work, a
groundwork on which to build the cltl
sen of the future.
The ministers endorsed the messure
unanimously.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
Sugar will go up to 40 cents a pound
in the next threo or tour months, Is
the prediction of K. U Knapp, vice
president of the Alsea Lumber com
pany of Euvcne and owner of a sugar
plantation In Cuba.
More than 300,000 drivers of motor
vehicles are expected to register on or
before July 1 under the act passed at
the last scshIou of the legliilature pro
viding for the licensing of operator!
or drivers of these conveyances.
On the strength of a confession made
by Jesse Mulllnlx, Mra. Theodore Btel
gcr, wife of a prominent rancher of
north of Salem, was arrested by Sher
iff Ncedham charged with complicity
In ah assault on Stclger with Intent
to kill.
Two men are dead and one Injured,'
perhaps fatally, aa the result of a log
rebounding when It became anagged
In the woods above the Ilaskell-Carpen
ter company lumber mill at Cherry
Grove, a few miles west of Oaaton. The
dead men are: Lester Ridge of Beaver
ton and William Lane.
REBELS CAPTURE
MEXICAN. TOWNS
American Destroyers Move to
Southern Waters to
Await Events.
Washington. With Mexloo City.
Vera Crua and Tamplco in the hands
of the revolutionists, American de
stroyers were sent to Mexican waters
to await eventualities and to afford
protection to the American Uvea in
the Mexican gulf porta. Thla gives
the revolutionists control of practi
cally all of the important cities.
Official confirmation of the fall of
the Mexican capital waa received by
the state department from the Amer
ican embassy which ranortad there
was no disorder in the capital.
The revolutionary government la
Mexico will ask for Immediate recog
nition by the American government.
El Paso, Tex. Mexico's newest rev
olution ia In ita final stage. The old
regime has been overthrown.
With the exception of Yucatan, Cam
peehe, Chiapas and northern Lowe
California, all of the country la de
clared by revolutionist leaders to' be
under control of the new regime.