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About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1927)
BYRD FORCED DOWN ON FRENCH COAST PRO F. C. F. SHAW GREATEST TREASURY SURFLUS IN HISTORY C O M M ANDER BYRD Much of E xcess W ill be S pent B efore N ext C ongress C onvenes. Blinding Fog P rev e n ts L a n d ing the 'A m e ric a ” in P a ris . OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST B rie f Resum e of H appenings of the W eek C ollected fo r O ur R ead ers. T he L ost lake highw ay Is open to traffic and cam ping places around the scenic spot w ere crow ded over th e holidays. A c a r of blng ch erries sen t to New York from Milton last week, brought th e highest price on record. F ifteen- pound lugs brought »5.25 each, and th e c ar was w orth about »6000. Grow e rs a re expected to n et 25 cents a pound. O nly five c a rs of ch erries w ere grow n In th a t d istric t this year. Pari».— B attered by storm and en W ashington, D. C. — The treasu ry Indications point to erection of a veloped in endless, blinding fog, with Bond Issues aggregating approxi i surplus for the fiscal y ear which end federal building in Oregon City w ithin compass oat of order and out of gaso ed Ju n e 30, was »635.809,921 70, the th e next two years, according to R ep m ately »900,000 w ere approved by sub line. the giant trans-A tlantic mono sta n tia l m ajo rities by th e voters of g reatest in history. resen tativ e Hawley. plane of Commander Richard E. Byrd T otal ord in ary receip ts for the year An im proved m ail service betw een Salem In th e re cen t election. T he dropped like a wounded gull into the were »4.129,394.441.10, and the cost of A shland and K lam ath Falls w ill be bond issues passed Include one for sea at Ver-Snr-Mer on the coast of j o perating th e governm ent chargeable sta rte d A ugust 1, according to the A sh »500,000 for a new sew er sy stem ; Norn ndy 175 miles west of Its tra n s »350,000 fo r construction of new ag ain st such receip ts was »3,493,584,- land postm aster. oceanic goal. 519.40. bridges, and $40,000 for th e purchase The P ortland d istric t U nited S tates N< ’ until virtually the last drop of T his p articu lar surplus will have of an in cin erato r to replace th e city land office, w hich w as established at dump. gasoline was gone did th e A m erican been d issipated, how ever, before con- Oregon City 72 years ago, passed out argosy give up Its determ ined grop gress m eets to d raft a new tax bill, A delegation of U m atilla Indians o f existence last week. ing In the im penetrable fog for the and any reduction m ust be based on called on G overnor P a tte rso n to pro landing field at Le Bourget. A fter The Santiam P a ss highw ay betw een estim ates of th e surplus for the cur te s t ag ain st th e tak in g of additional more than 40 hours In the air, the end th e C ascadia ra n g e r sta tio n and Fish re n t year. land from th e U m atilla reserv atio n for of the h eart breaking suspense came. lake has been ordered closed by the Of the to tal excess, »611,000,000 a l th e purpose of w idening the Old Ore The g reat plane which had leaped Linn county court and th e forestry ready has been applied to retire m en t gon T rail. T he delegations was head Prof. C. F. Shaw of the University with such power from the runw ay at service. of th e public debt, th e tre a su ry an ed by G ilbert M inthorn. The Indians Roosevelt field, struck violently in of California, who was appointed to nounced. P a rt of the rem aining »24,- L. M. Baldwin, Hood R iver co n trac a re dissatisfied w ith the price se t upon shallow w ater, tore the wheels from represent the United States at the 000,800 has been carried over as an tor, w as aw arded a co n tract for con th e land through condem nation pro the fuselage, plunged out 200 yards First International Congress of Soil increase in th e net balance in the gen stru ctio n o t a cleaning and packing ceedings. off th e beach and then sank to the top Science in Washington. eral fund, and will be used for debt p lant for the Hood R iver A pple Grow Commander Richard E. Byrd, who E very county in Oregon except of Its wings in the booming surf. reirem en t purposes. ers' association. was forced to land the airship "Amer th ree, 21 o th er sta te s and four foreign It was then th a t Comm ander B yrd’s ••More th an one-half of the surplus W, H. F itzgerald of P ortland w as ica” on the coast of France In the painstaking foresight came into play, countries a re rep resen ted am ong th e of »635,000,000 is due to receipts on appointed by G overnor P a tte rso n as trans-Aatlantic flight to Paris. and the rubber Ute raft th at he had j 602 adult stu d en ts reg istered in th e account of disposal of capital assets, a m em ber of the sta te in d u strial acci been so careful to te s t before hopping sum m er session of th e Oregon A gricul back tax collections in excess of tax d en t com m ission to succeed W illiam off proved Its service. tu ra l college, a rep o rt from E. B, Le refunds and o th er item s of a .fa s t dis- A. M arshall, who resigned recently. Clinging to th eir now helpless ship, mon, reg istrar, showed. W ith th e Jun ' appearing o r non-recurring ch aracter,” F ire destroyed th e O’Neil sto re at io r sum m er session stu d en ts th e to ta l th e four American airm en succeeded O ttaw a, Canada. — The Diamond j A cting S ecretary Mills said. “It will Tum alo, eight m iles w est of Bend, is 1117 as com pared w ith 1008 a t th e In launching th eir raft, and, m anning Jubilee of the C onfederation of Can be app aren t, th erefore, th a t w ithout T uesday night. F lam es reduced the corresponding tim e last year. It, rowed quickly to shore. ada was ap p ro p riately celebrated th ese special and non-recurring item s building to w reckage w ithin 30 m in throughout th e Dominion from Ju ly 1 which ag g reg ate »370,000,000, th e su r All fishw heel o p erato rs on th e up Geneva. — T he tim e for abolishing u tes a fte r the fire w as discovered. to 3. It is sixty y ears since Canada plus would have been about »265,000,- p e r Colum bia w ere ordered to sh u t R ejection a t the re c e n t election in down as a re su lt of the dissolving of becam e a united self-governing coun 000, of which a considerable part is subm arines as engines of naval w ar try. P rio r to July 1, 1867, Canada was to be attrib u ted to decrease in expendi fare apparently has not yet arrived, Jack so n county qf the one-mill tax th e tem porary injunction re stra in in g a num ber of sp arsely settled prov tu res, some of which rep resen t a post for the naval ex p erts of the tri p artite levy to ere c t new fair buildings and th e sta te from enforcing the legisla naval conference failed to follow th e com plete several old ones m ay prevent tive act banning fish wheels from th a t inces with scarcely any knowledge of ponem ent ra th e r than actu al savings. or com m unication w ith one another. Total o rd in ary receip ts showed an American suggestion, m ade on the holding of a fair th is y ear a t Medford. section of th e stream . M. T. Hoy, a c t P aris.—Commander Richard E. Byrd At the Diamond Jubilee celebrations Increase over the preceding y ear of opening day of the conference, th at Two persons are dead and a th ird is ing m a ste r fish w arden, called on all and his three companions on th e trans- which were held in every city, town, »167,000,000. The principal item s of the United S tates would be willing to suffering seriously from burns as a th e o p erato rs. T here are about 3» A tlantic flight of the giant monoplane ham let and village, speakers em pha increase w ere custom s receipts, »26,- consider abolishing the subm arine if re su lt of an explosion of a five-gallon w heels belonging to d ifferen t firms. America, when they arrived In Paris, sized th at for much longer than sixty 000,000 in tern al revenue receipts, »32,- such action w ere made universal. can of kerosene In the hands of Oscar Jo h n Tapp, v eteran h u ck leb e rry received a trem endous ovation from a years th e bond of friendship betw een 000,000; foreign repaym ents, »11.000,- It is understood, how ever, th a t the Johnsrud, 27, of McCoy m ill, 25 m iles p ick er of Hood River, a fte r a survey huge crowd th a t filled the St. L azare Canada and h er n earest and larg est 000; on account of railroads, $53,000,- experts agreed upon th e five-inch gun e a st of Eugene. of th e berry tra c ts in the G reen P o in t railroad station. neighbor, th e U nited S tates, has 000; from federal farm loan bonds and as the largest cannon for subm arines. Betw een 200 and 250 soil scien tists and M ount D efiance sections, rep o rted The great crowd filled th e station grown stro n g er w ith the passage of o th er securities. »29,000,000 and m is The B ritish delegates proposed from all over the world will m ake th a t Indications point to a negligible alm ost to the bursting point and over time. The rem arkable developm ent cellaneous receipts. creating two categories of subm arines, th e ir only stop In O regon a t C orvallis yield th is y ear on the low er a ltitu d e s. flowed into every nearby street. th at has taken place in Canada since Incom e tax receip ts ag g regate »2,- one with a m aximum size of 600 tons, So dense was the throng th a t Com 1867 was also a featu re of the public 225,000,000, com pared with $1,982,000,- and the other w ith a m axim um of 1600 Ju ly 9 when they are scheduled to a r "T h e sh o rt crop is largely due.” said riv e on a special tra in now on a tra n s Mr. Tapp, "to the ravages of sheep m ander Byrd and his companions, af addresses. 000 in 1926 and as ag ain st treasu ry tons, with an age lim it of 15 years. co ntinental tour. th a t have been grazed for th e p a st te r a short reception upon th eir a r The A m ericans a re reported to favor estim ate of »2,190,000,000. S h atterin g all previous records, the several years in the huckleberry fields, rival on the station platform , had to a higher maximum size than 1600 tons, C O M B IN E LAND O F F IC E S fight th eir way to waiting autom obiles on account of the paucity of A m erican Libby, McNeil & L ibby can n ery at and to fro st.” while the crowd cheered wildly and Roseburg Has 2,250,000 Acres Under The 1926 fru it pack In Oregon ex naval bases. It also is said th a t the T he D alles processed 14 >4 to n s ol threw flowers In th eir path. Japanese suggested m aking the age straw b erries in four and a half hours ceeded 3,000,000 cases and w as th e New Arrangement. in one afternoon last week. T he daily la rg e st In history, according to a re The trem endous enthusiasm was not lim it for subm arines 12 years. Roseburg, Or.—C onsolidation of the average was 29*4 tons. confined to Paris, and every station p o rt released in Salem recently. The Roseburg and P ortland d istrict United along the line from Caen, w here the C en tral Oregon fa rm ers predict a 1926 pack exceeded the 1925 pack by S tates land offices has been com plet S HO RT N E W S NUGGETS American aviators went from Ver-Sur- ed here. All governm ent land In O re bum per w heat crop th is year. The 1.124,283 cases. The loganberry pack W alla W alla, W ash. — T he largest Mer, was Jammed with people when grain around M adras and C ulver is for 1926 aggregated 694,767 cases, w heat crop In muny y ears is predicted W allace O. W oods of K ansas has gon w est of the C ascade m ountains Is th e train passed. now handled through the Roseburg of by grain men here. C arl Roe, district been appointed re g iste r of the tre a s expected to average 30 bushels an ch erries 389,335 cases, pears 540,993 acre. R ecent rain s m ade a record cases, prunes 373,038 cases and apples fice. which Is the th ird largest In the m anager of th e K err, Gifford Grain ury by P resid en t Coolidge. 420,357 cases. In every line but plum s Spokane citizens have raised »60,- yield alm ost a certain ty . AVIATIO N MAKING GOOD U nited S tates from th e standpoint of company, estim ates th a t 5,000,000 C ollections of the O regon custom s th e re w as an Increase in the pack fo r revenue, being exceeded only by of bushels will be h arv ested In this 000 to finance th e big air derby plan Oakland-to-Honolulu Flight Climax of fices located In oil-hearing districts. county, 6.000,000 In U m atilla. 2,000,000 ned for th a t city for S eptem ber 14-20. d istrict for th e y ear ending last T h u rs 1926. Year's Developments. W ith a total volume of constru ction Mickey W alker knocked out Tomm y day topped an o th e r new high m ark, The local office now has julrsdictlon each In G arfield and Colum bia, and 1,- Yonkers, N. Y. Describing the Call over more th an 1,000,000 acres of 000,000 in F ranklin. Milligan, pride of Scotland, in the am ounting to »1,613,515, while for the valued a t »2,316,145 recorded for the fornia Hawaii flight as a fitting climax hom estead land and more than 1,250,- T urnover In farm m achinery indi ten th round of th eir 20-round bout for y ear ending June 30, 1926, they were first 29 days of June. P ortland h a a of the first year's progress. A ssistant 000 acres of Oregon and California cates exceptional activ ity not dupli th e m iddlew eight cham pionship of the »1,258,161, and th a t w as a record. m aintained a substantial Increase fo r Secretary of W ar Davison, In charge tim ber land. cated since th e w ar buying. Sales run world in London. A storia held a loggers' Jubilee July the first half of this year com pared of aeronautics, outlined the arm y's pro A m erican m arines a re being sen t to 2 to 4. Log-bucking, rolling, cable w ith the sam e period of last year. F o r As the tim ber Is rem oved the tra c ts uniform ly through W alla W alla. Day gram for the second 12 month period will be throw n open to entry. ton and C olum bia counties, Poniroy recap tu re the San Aldino gold m ines splicing, tra c k laying, line pulling, the six m onths period ju st past. P o rt of its five-year aviation developm ent An increase In th e office force has d ealers rep o rtin g 35 com bine har- in N icaragua, owned by an A merican, calk-shoe races and Intercam p boxing land has achieved a total of »20.073,- plan In an address before th e R otary been requested by H. A. Canaday, reg v esters and 25 binding m achines apld. C harles Butler, following bandit seiz w ere featured. H undreds of loggers 020 w orth of new construction, au club here. with harrow s and plows. Sale price of ure of th e property, according to state particip ated in th e various stunts. against »1 ,,257,075 for th e first six ister and receiver. Praising the flight of L ieutenants com bines av erag es »3000. d ep artm en t N icaraguan advices. W hen th e election board of W est m onths of 1926, a gain of nearly »3,- Maitland and H egenberger, Mr. Davl S tarbuck and Fields, n o rth east, In In d u strial E ngland heaved a vast precinct of Hood R iver opened the 000,000. Apple Crops to Bring Good Price, son said: "T he courage and skill Hood River, Or.—W ith apple yields dicate from 40 to 50 bushels to the sight of relief recen tly when it was polls a t the F ran k to n school th ey dis F ire originating in th e H otel Oregon shown by the two pilots typify the in all com m ercial sections of th e n a acre In m any places. announced th a t th e num ber of unem covered th a t vandals had entered the last week, destroyed that place. P o la r spirit of the arm y air corps, while tion showing a heavy falling off this This to tal of 16,000,000 bushels for j ployed had dropped below th e million building and had stolen th e telephone B ear pool hail, Redmond Cleaning the efficient perform ance of the plane season, indications point to profitable this section will be g re a te r th an any m ark for the first tim e since th e be in stru m en t and electric lighting fix W orks and across the stre e t destroyed points to the high standard set for prices for the Pacific N orthw est's ap in 10 years, say grain men. ginning of the general strik e early tures. the Hotel Redmond, Hotel Redmond army aircraft." last year. ple crop. The opening price of Grav- Grill, Redmond Land and Loan com The first of a series of d istrict m eet With the new fiscal year startin g , enstelns has already been set at »2 to Crop rep o rts from m ost of the w heat pany, th e county ag en t's office. Mag U. S. R E L IN Q U IS H E S AIR M AIL grow »21,891,000 will be available, he de »2.25 per box. ing sections are optim istic and it ings, called for discussion of plans for nolia shop, Ben’s confectiorery, H iw ay com m unity packing houses and the clared, for continuation of the avia Western Route Passes to Boeing Air is possible the Pacific northw est will th eater, H otel Annex and D eschutes tion development. th is y ear have its g reatest yield. Grain rem oval of spray residue, was held in Pow er and L ight com pany's office. plane Company, Industrial Survey W ork to be Begun. Hood R iver last week by the Apple In reviewing the progress of the W ashington, D. C.—T he postoffice men art1 talking of a 100.000,000-bushel Most of the buildings w ere coverefi b y Seattle, W ash. — P relim in ary work past year, the assistan t secretary suld on an Industrial survey of th e states d ep artm en t’s notable contribution to w heat crop for Oregon, W ashington G row ers' association a t the Oak Grove insurance. school house. the war-lime wooden training planes of W ashington, Oregon, Idaho and flying, th e w estern half of the tra n s and n o rth ern Idaho. O nly four m easures on th e s ta te The Sycan w hite wolf, w hich has for reserve and national guard flying Montana will be starteil at once by continental a ir mall from C hicago to ballot in the special election w ere ap ranged for 12 years In L ake county would be com pletely replaced with the United S tates bureau of foreign San Francisco, over which pilots daily Judge Lindsey Put off Famous Bench. proved, and these were the m ost in modem equipm ent by September 1. Denver, Colo. — Ben B. L indsey's and has killed »15,000 w orth of horses, and dom estic com m erce, according to fly over the Rocky m ountains, has consequential of the lot. E very m eas sheep and o th er livestock In his ca been turned over to p rivate operation long career as Judge of the D enver Shlrl H. Blalock, d istrict m anager. ure dealing with taxes or expenditure reer. was trapped la st M onday by El Nanking Prepared to Make Amende. a fte r nearly seven y ears of govern- [ juvenile court, which he founded a of money was voted down. The net m er W illiam s, of th e U nited S tates Shanghai. The Nanking, or m oder m ent service. q u arter of a century ago and made T H E M ARKETS. resu lt of th e election has been closing ate nationalist regim e in China Is will The relin q u ish m en t of th e servtce to fam ous throughout the world, w as in- biological survey. Portland. the N estucca river to com m ercial fish th e Boetng A irplane com pany of Se- | terru p te d when a court order official- Ing to accept responsibility and m ake S tanford W arren, infant son of Mr. W heat - Big Bend bluestem and hard ing; adopting a m easure to p rev en t reparations for dam ages suffered by white, »1.39; federation, soft white and : attle. W ash , Ju n e 30. m arked the first ly ousted him. in line with the Colo and Mrs. H. W. Frink, N eskowin, was votes being sworn in on election day; Americana during the Nanking dis w estern w hite, »137; h ard w inter, 1 step in the consum m ation of th e de- rado suprem e co u rt's decision last win sm othered to death last week when a perm itting persons charged w ith crim e orders ot March 24. C. C. Wu. m inister »134; no rth ern spring. »1.36; w estern , p artm en t's plan to place Its transcon- te r th a t he w as illegally elected In rubber bib he was w earing w as draw s to plead guilty w ithout w aiting to be of foreign atfuirs for (he N anking gov over his face. He had been left alon« ! tln en tal a ir mail In the hands of pri 1924. red. »1.33. indicted, and expunging from the con for a few m inutes by th e m other. Thi em inen t fold Burton K. W heeler, Uni Hay — Alfalfa, »20.50021; valley vate com m ercial aviation com panies, stitution a dead-letter section which Bill Tilden Loses to Frenchman. ted S ta te , senator from Montana, who tim othy, »20020.50; eastern Oregon j The e a stern division of th e a ir mail baby sucked the thin ru b b er tissu« prohibits negroes from voting. M ost into its m outh and nostrils. la studying conditions in China. W im bledon, England. — Snatching from Chicago to New York will be tim othy, »220 22.50. im portant of all the m easures on th e . turned over to th e N ational Air Trans- victory out ot th e very Jaws of defeat, Ilu tterfat 39t4r. W heat exports from P ortland dur ballot was the proposed sta te Income Fokke- Plant Plane to Fly 72 Hours. H enri Cochet, one ot F rance's "T hree ing th e cereal year ending Thursday | port, Inc., of Chicago on July 31. Eggs Ranch, 19022c. tax. which was defeated by over 19,- New York An airplane capable of The Boeing com pany is operating a M usketeers” of tennis, w rote ten n is totaled 26,711.217 bushels valued at C attle S teers, good. »9 25 0 1 ". 000 Eighteen counties out of the 36 flying 72 houra and which he Intima! Hogs Medium to choice. »8,50® fleet of 21 planes of its own m ake, suf h isto ry when he defeated W illiam T. »36.210.937, according to figures tabu | in the state voted for the tax. T hey ed will be used In the proposed Seattle- 10 35. fleient to tran sp o rt tw o passengers T ilden, the A m erican ace, a fte r one of lated from M erchants' Exchange rec Toklo flight, la being built by Anth th e g re a te st uphill b attles ev er stag ords. T his is far above the total of I were Benton, Clackam as, Crook, Gil Lam bs medium to choice. »10.600 and the mail cargo. liam. Hood River. Lane. Lincoln. L inn, ony F ”kker, he announced F okker 13 ed on the W im bledon cham pionship 17.269.538 bushels valued at »25,691,- Malheur. Polk. Sherm an, U m atilla, built both the "B ird of P arad ise," ten n is courts. Day Cities Welcome Aviators. »54 for th e cereal year ending June Union. Wallowa, W asco, W ashington, Seattle. flown to Honolulu by M aitland and 30. 1926. San F rancisco.—San F rancisco and W heat Soft w hite or w estern white, W heeler and Yamhill. H egenberger. and the "A m erica" in »1.44; hard w inter, »1 43; w estern red , O akland are prep arin g an elaborate Hawaii Needs Famous Plane. Mrs. Ruby H agman was proclaim ed Mrs J. H. Myers of Lakeside, n e a r W ashington. D. C. — L ieutenants which llyrd and his com panions flew and no rth ern spring. »1 42; Btg Bend ' welcome for L ieu ten an ts M aitland and th e m odern "Mrs. Jiggs" recently at N orth Bend, was injured fatally when to Europe. bluestem , »153, Btg Bend dark n o rth H egenberger, pilots of the btg arm y M aitland and H egenberger will not the annual central Oregon trl-county . - i * large tree fell on her. A fter watch- ern spring (1 52; Big Bend d ark hard I Fokker m onoplane on th e virgin voy fly back to th e U nited S tates, and the picnic when she won the rolling pin ing the cutting and wedging o f Th e Byrd Allowed 3477 Miles. age to Hawaii. The filers will retu rn plane with which they reach H awaii contest by hurling the household wea w inter. »1 49 S‘DK of th e tree she started for safety. W ithout W ashington. I). C. Com m ander will be left th e re for inter-island fly Hay Alfalfa, »25; tim othy, P. 8 , I to San Francisco hay July 12. pon 120 feet. She claimed fhe central w arning the tre e toppled over th e Richard E Byrd was credited In fig ing. the w ar dep artm en t decided. »21 Oregon championship. wedges and crashed upon her. urea compiled by th e geological aurvey Saplro Suit Retrial Set for September Ilu tterfat 4»«. The G reat Southern R ailroad com- In one of the lightest voles in th e with covering a distance of 3177 miles, Detroit Mich F ederal Judge Fred Pacific Coaat Ale T raffic Increases. | pany operating between The Dalles Eggs Ranch, 17H 021>4c San F rancisco.—Pacific coast pas the a ir line distance betw een Roose M Raymond set S eptem ber 12 as a C a ttle S te e rs , choice, »9 0 9.76. j and Friend, has notified the public history of W asco county a local m eas velt field. N p w York, and Ver-Sur Mer. ten tativ e d ate for the re tria l of Aaron senger a ir line traffic haa increased I service commission that It will reissue ure calling for th e voting of »32.000 Ilo g s P rim e. »10 5 0 0 10 60. Franca. L indbergh covered 3610 m iles Sapiro's »1.000,000 libel su it against m ore than 60O0 per cent since Jan u a ry the sam e reduced rates on grain ship 1 year for two years, the money to be Spokana. and Cham berlin and Levine 3906 H enry Ford and the D earborn Inde 1, A. K. H um phries, an official of the m ents for the season 1927-1928 that used In the erection of a p erm an en t C attle Steera. good. »8 5009. j county fair ground In The Dullee, w as miles. Pacific Air T ransport, declared here. pendent, H ugs Good, (9 6 0 0 9.75. ware effective last season. 'varw helm ingly defeated, 1269 to 483, CANADIANS OBSERVE DIAMOND JUBILEE SUBMARINE SEEMS DESTINED TO STAY AIRMEN RECEIVE GREAT OVATION EXPERTS PREDICT HUGE WHEAT CROP