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T he B eaverton R evie
The Only Newspaper Devoted Exclusively to the Interests of Eastern Washington County.
VOLUME
xn,
No. 9
THIRTY COUNTIES
NOW HAVE AGENTS
Mors countiss In Oregon than ew­
er before will have the services
of county saints
thia year, re-
rta K L. Ballard, county agent
fcler, following completion of coun­
ty budgets throughout the state.
Thirty of the 86 counties have dTe-
finitely arranged for agents, with
Columbia county still endeavoring
to raisa the necessary match mon-
•y by private subscription. Gilliam
and Sherman counties hava added
agents, while Jefferson has johsad
with Crook in engaging one.
Because of the vital connection
between the extension agents and
tha work of the Agricultural Ad­
justment administration, one or two
other counties are contemplating
engaging agents, following decis­
ion of ths AAA not to continue
the practice of supplying emergen­
cy agents as was dons during the
wheat campaign.
Partly because of the responsi­
bility placed
on the agricultural
staff of ttha Oregon State college
in bringing to Oregon the bene­
fits under the various federal ef­
forts in behalf of agriculture, ths
complete staff of the extension ser­
vice, experiment stations and in­
structional division
held s state
wide conference at Corvallis last
week.
Fears that the program of the
AAA would bring an "army of
federal agents'* to put the piane
Into effect and enforce their pro­
visions have not been borno out.
largely because the national admin­
istration turned to the existing fo r­
ces connected with the land grant
colleges to meet the emergency.
Meanwhile the college force« have
been called upon to direct three
projects under bh# CWA, one con­
cerned with surveying rural home
building conditions; one with a sur­
vey of delin<fi>ent tax and mortgage
foreclosure conditions, and a third
with tha past experience with sub­
sistence homesteads In this state.
Taxes Are Discussed C
Suiufenta School Taxes Be
Paid Before Other«, if
Money 1« Scarce
SCHOOLS IMPORTANT
Kvlaliua Between t rim* and Lack
uf Education la Mhowa
C. E. Mason
Tuesday of thia weak an Ore-
gonian headline and front page ar­
ticle stated that the teachera of
Portland had a "pay less summer"
faring them. We see such state­
ments coining from cities all ovsr
Oregon. 'Teachers for the past two
years have been paid not in cash­
able warrants as heretofore, but
in warrants that either cannot be
«ashed for want of funds, or may
be cashed at a liberal discount of
5% or more. Schools in the state
of Grown are really facing a f i ­
nancial crisis because taxes are not
being paid. This should not be al­
lowed to go on, and the people of
every community should make t
supreme effort to pay school taxes
at least, though other taxes arc
left unpaid.
In our own Beaverton commun­
ity at present we have approxi­
mately $18,000 Hi outstanding war­
rants which
cannot
be paid for
"want of funds". Unless there is s
very marked improvement hi the
tax situation our warrant indebt­
edness does not standT much chance
of being reduced below that fi­
gure. but may advance to a still
greater amount. This presents ra­
ther a discern raging outlook
for
those in our own community who
are vitally interested in education.
We cannot view thf situation with
complacency for many reasons. If
for no other reason, the relation-
riiip between education and crime
would lead us to do our utmost
for our schools. Crime costa Amer­
ica 116.000,000 yearly in the main­
tenance of prisons, officers, ate. Of
the vast army of crooks and in­
mates of our prisons only 8.191 of
all attended college, 11% attended'
hiinh school, 74.3% attended grade
school in whole or in part, and*
'11.6% attended no school at all.
These figures from a report of the
U. S. Dept, of Justice would teach
us that there must be a direct re­
lationship between
illiteracy and
crime. The surest way to help
check crime, am) the growth of
criminal instincts in our youth, is
to give them a chance to become
educated
le t us maintain our schools at
all costa in our Beaverton com­
munity. A number of tax payers
recently have paid school taxes and
have not paid other taxes. There
may be many In our district who,
like these few, can pay a part of
their taxes, and who do not at
present know that they can pay
school taxes only. In such cases
It is legitimate to psy your school
tax alone, and allow other taxes
to wait. This should be done.
There is no other department of
our local government so vital or
important as our school system.
Will interested Ux payers please
give this mature consideration, and
make every effort, even at a sac­
rifice, to pay your school tax?
There is no wish to imply that
other taxes should not be paid;
but our schools are of far great­
er importance than good roads, for
example. Select the most important
thing first snd use your money
for that purpose. The less Impor­
tant matters can be paid later. We
need money for our schools right
now and every patriot should res­
pond.
N E W MEMBER CHO­
SEN FOR FAIR BOARD
R. M Banks of Banks and H.
T Hesse of Scholls were appoint­
ed members
of the
Washington
county fair hoard by the county
court Monday of this week. Mr.
Panka is to serve for three years,
and Mr. Hess# for one. C. D. ^Mil-
ton of Forest Grove,
and Fid L.
Moora, secretary, of Hillsboro, are
the other members of the board.
CARNATION CONDEN-
SERY IS RE-OPENED
$1.50 Per Year
Beaverton, Washington County, Oregon, Friday, January 26, 1934
C. W . A. FUNDS PRO­
VIDE CITY SERVICE
Material for a completa refer­
ence bureau and library on muni­
cipal government will be compiled
and made readily available by the
Bureau of Municipal Research o ’
the University of Oregon, It was
announced by Herman Kehrli, di­
rector of the bureau and execu­
tive secetary of the League of Ore­
gon Cities. Funds to provide for
sbe assistants to complete the work
have been obtained from the $ivil
Works Administration.
All cities in Oregon are request­
ed to cooperate with the bureau so
that the compilation
may be as
domplets as possible.
Copies of
budgets, methods of raising! reven­
ue. especially other than taxation
and other information will 'be sought
from all municipalities.
The bureau will analyia all city
budgets anrf compile comparative
H*ta. In this way each city will
be able to compare Its expendi­
tures, income, snd other items with
other municipalities and the infor­
mation is expected to be of great
value.
Statements will be obtained from
all county assessors on the delin­
quent taxes of the cities, and tax
Indebtedness will also be included
in thfe studies Records for the past
10 years will be used.
/Hie project is bailed by officials
as one of the most valuable ever
made, and many cities are expect­
ed to reap substantial benefit from
It.
NEWS-TIMES WINS
NEWSPAPER TROPHY
The Washington County News-
Times, of Forest Grove, published
by Hugh McGilvra, was awarded
the Sigma Delta Chi
fraternity
trophy at the 'ibest weekly news­
paper in Oregon" at bhe annual
Oregon Press conference held at
the University of Oregon thia week.
Honorable mention was awarded
the Newberg Scribe, published by
Don Woodman; the Hillsboro Ar­
gus, published by Verne C- Me
Khiney; the Redmond Spokesman,
published V Joe C. Brown, and the
Myrtle Point Herald, publiahad by
R. L. Tucker. A certificate of mer­
it was presented' to bhe Hood Riv­
er News and its publisher, Hugfi
G. Ball, last year’s winner of the
trophy.
(Editor's note: Hurrah for Wash­
ington County! With the first prise
and an honorable mention, It i# the
only county with more khan one
paper mentioned, and, lest we for­
get Don Woodman of the Nevnberg
Scribe received hie early training
in the office of the Beaverton Re­
view )
After being closed two and one-
half months, the Carnation milk
«•ondenserv at Hillsboro resumed op­
erations Wednesday wPh C. T. Ri­
chardson manager. Machinery In the
plant than been repaired, and two
Mr. and Mr*. A. M Jannsen
new machines have been Installed
during the period It was closed «(ere dinner guest* of Mr. and
Mrs. James Welch at the Masonic
A large crowd attended the (fence and FJastem Star home Sunday, In
honor of Mr*. Waich'e birthday.
at Aloha Saturday night
R. Frank Peters To
Run For Circuit Judge
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GIVE SCHOOL RELIEF
In order that tha taxpayars and
WILLIAM HENRY ME1ERJIRGEN
votsrs of Washington County might
After 30 years’ residence on Hills­ have more detailed information as
boro, route 1, William Henry Mieir- to the workings of tha proposed
jurgen, 68, died 8unday. He was aalea tax for school relief, the
born February 92, 1870, in O r many following explanations are given:
Wishes to Succeed Judge and came to the United States in 1. Three-fourths of the net re­
1888.
venue, estimated at three million
Bagley, Who Wishes to
Surviving are his widow, Anna; dollar« for bne entire state, and
two sons and two daughters, Wil­ ty, about $101,000 fo r Washington
be Supreme court Judge
liam Kennetih, Hillsboro,
Patience County, will be apportioned to the
May and Wilma, at home, and various districts on the estimated
W ELL KNOWN
HERE Herman Roscoe at John Day, Or. basis o f $400 per class-room unit;
Funeral services were held at 1:30 that is, in most districts it will be
p.m. Wednesday in Hillsboro.
$400 per teacher actually employed.
He la A Nativa o f
Washington
This income to the districts would
County, Boro on a Dairy farm
FERDINAND POSE
be a direct off-set on the special
Ferdinand Pose, 90, cut kindling district sc boo)-tax. Since the anti­
Word has Just been received from wood Sunday night for exercise, cipated revenue is given as $101,000
the County
Seat
that R. Frank as was his custom. Monday morn­ for the county, and since the as­
Patere of the firm of Hare, Me ing he was 'found dead in bed. He sessed valuation is about $24,000,000
Alear A Peters will he a candidate had been living for /ou r years with the average reduction per district
for circuit Judge to succeed Judge
ts daughter, Mrs. Louise Brunner, would be about 4.5 mills. Natur­
Geo. Bagley, who has announced
ally, the millage reauction will vary
ear Orsgon City.
his intention of becoming a candi­
He was born in Germany and from district to district. This ran­
date for a judge of the Supreme dame to tha United States in 1899. ges from a fraction of a mill to
Court.
Funeral aervicea were held at 1 as much as seven or eight milk-
Mr. Patera la well and favora­ p.m. 'Thursday at the Beaver Creek in others.
bly known in thii vicinity. He it Congregational church near Oregon
2. One-fourth of the net revenue
a nativa eon of Washington coun­ City
estimated at one million dollars for
ty, a graduate of Hillsboro high
the state and about $22,000 for
school, Pacific University of Forest
Washington Counby, will be deduct­
WILLIS G. CLARK
Grove, and the University of Ore­
ed from the county sobool fund
Willis G. Clark, aged 83, of A - levy. This means about one mill
gon law echool. He was a mem­
ber of the
Oregon
Legislature loha died of heart disease at 3 UK) reduction
in the
county
school
morning
at his fund levy.
from Washington county from 1929 a m Wednesday
In other words.
the
to 1938, and is now a trustee and home.
county school levy will be reduced
the treasurer o f Pacific University,
Mr. Clark was born at Hebron, from 4 mills to 3 mills. This also
bhe chairman of the Hillsboro school Pennsylvania, where he gyew to will be an off-set on property tax.
hoard, and also chairman for the manhood, receiving a good education
3. In addition to the above re­
Boy Scout Court of Honor for his in the common sohools. For a time ductions. there will be a reduction
district.
he taught school, but later went of an average of slightly over one
Born on a Washington county into the business of stock buying. mill in Vie tax levy of the union
In July, 1884, he married Lizzie high schools of the county, due to
dairy farm, he knows what it is
to milk cows, drive horses, and Haskins. After about twenty-two the $400 per teacher received t>y
do other of tha various farm ac­ years of married life he came to the union high schools.
tivities. Since 1910 he has been en- Oregon for a year,
stopping in
4. In the Non-High school dis­
rpged in the practice of law and Portland. On his way back to Penn­ trict there will be a reduction of
is recognised as one of the beat sylvania, be worked for a time on .9 mill, due to an off-set of about
if not the beet, counsel
in this an irrigation project in Montana-
$8500 on the levy of said district.
section. Hie genial smile, his hear­
In 1907 the family came to Ore­
To determine the total tax levy
ty hand clasp, his readiness to gon to make their home and a f­ redurtion on any given piece of
render service
where
ever
and ter a stop of two years in Port­ property, add the local district re­
whenever It I* required, have wo* land, they moved to Aloha where duction in mills to the one-mill
him manv friends both within and they have continued to live ever county school reduction. T o that
without hie profession.
since. He, following the contract­ add the reduction of one mill if
ing and building trades most of the property is in a union high
LADIES’ STUDY CLASS the time for the past few years. school district, or .9 mill if the
On* son has passed to the Great property is in the non-high school
IS W ELL ATTENDED 'eyond. Two daughters, Maxi« Hays district For example, a piece of
and Hazel Gee, and the widow sur­ property ia in the Orenco Dist. No.
The Congregational ladies mis­ vive with six grand children and 38, local district reduction is 3.2
mills. Add to that 1 mill for coun­
sionary study class was well at­ one great grand child.
tended Thursday morning; twenty-
Funeral services will be held at ty school fund reduction and >1.1
five were present. Mr«. J. F. Fel- two o ’clock today, Friday, January mills for union thigh school reduc­
shar had charge of the devotional 26, at Pegg’s chapel, with inter-1 tion (U.H.S. No. 3). Total tax re­
service, and
gave an interesting ment at the
Hillsboro cemetery. duction ia 5.3 mills. Another ex­
resume o f T h e Woman of India" Rev. Redmond will conduct the ter-1 ample: North Plains Dist No. 70
by G. S. Dutt. Mrs. Myrtle Haines vices, and W. E. Pegg will have has a reduction of 6.7 mills in lo­
cal school levy phis 1 mill for
had a paper on ‘’Turkish Girls at charge of the arrangements.
county school levy, plus .9 mill for
Work and at Play” . Mrs. W. J.
non-high school levy, a total re­
Crane's talk on "In and Out of
COUNTY HEALTH AS­ duction of 8 6 mills, all as an o ff­
Turkey* was well given.
set on the property tax in that
A pot-luck lunch was served at
SOCIATION TO MEET district.
.
noon. The afternoon
was
spent
This
information
was tabulated
sewing for the needy. One box
Mrs. Saidie Orr Dunbar, execu­
wae filled and delivered.
tive secretary of the Oregon ‘T u­ from tihe records of the county
berculosis Association, will talk on school superintendent's office and
"Public Health and How to Get is given for study to the voters
WHITFORD W OMAN’S
it Across," at the meeting of the of the county.
CLUB HAS MEETING Washington County Health Asso­ This tabulation does not include
ciation to be held January 29th so-called joint districts, which are
The Wihitford Woman’* Club met at 8 p.m. at the city hall in Cor- partially in Washington County and
at the home of Mr*. B. F. Tem­ neliur. Mrs. Lutie Behrman. health partially in an adjoining county.
O. B. Kraus.
pleton on the Progress Road, last dhairman for Cornelius, and Mrs-
Wednesday. All members but two Alice Brock will be hostesses.
Co. School iSwpt
were present. Each responded to
A short executive board meeting
roll call on various subjects which will be held at 7:30. Mrs. Dun­
SERVICES ARE HELD
brought forth friendly discussion. bar will give the work of the
AT MASONIC HOME
The hostess served a delicious lunah County health association and what
during which much visiting was in­ local health committees can accom­
The religious services sponsored
dulged in. Mrs. W . F. Sprigge! plish for their communities.
presented an interesting stunt with
The remainder of the program at the Masonic and Eastern Star
Mrs. J. Johnson as winner in the will he given over to reports of home at Forest Grove Sunday iby
contest.
the Tuberculosis Seal sale by Mke. Beaverton Lodge No. 100 A. F
George Bauman, County chairman, and A. M., and Beaver Chapter
Card of Thanks
tuberculosis cases in
Washington No. 106 O.E.S., consisted of the
numbers
county by Miss Dixon, county nurse, following program*: two
We wish to make known to our adoption of the constituion, and re­ by the men’s trio. R. C. Doty.
many friends our appreciation of ports on immunization by localities W. H. Boswell, and E. G- Webb;
their kindness in our recent sorrow in answer to roll call. A short solo by little 4-year-old Janet Niel
sen; solo by Dr. J. R. Talbert.
Mr*. Mabel Harrison ! meeting of local chairmen will fol-
Mrs- R. C. Doty served as accom­
| low.
and family
panist for tiSe singers. Rev. Chas
Clarke gave the sermon.
The members of the home fam­
ily were treated with little favors
of candy, which were placed at
their places in the dining room
as a remembrance from the two
[w e ll U lA Y tttN «cTOi/Nó
organisations.
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Local Kiwanis Club
Celebrates Anniversary
Initiation Ceremonies Are
Held for Dr. Mason,
New Member
ANGELL
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SPEAKER
Next Meeting Will Be a Joint On«,
Held At the County Seat
The nineteenth
anniversary
of
the founding of Kiwanis Interna­
tional was celebrated by the Bea­
verton club at the Beaverton com­
munity building Wednesday evening
January 24 with more Beaverton
people present than have before ev­
er atterded a meeting o f thia sort
here. Nearly 50 plates were laid
and with the exception of the speak­
er and his wife, everyone was from
this town.
The program was in charge of L.
R. Richey, chairman of the Ki-
wania
education committee. The
principal address was delivered by
George Angell, past president of
the Portland Kiwanis club-
Before the principal address in­
itiatory ceremonies were held for
Dr. C. E. Mason who was duly
obligated into the club. The firat
part of the initiation was conduct­
ed by L. R. Richey who reminded
Doctor of his surgical ability and
that lack of suitable instruments kept
hiai from carrying on his work.
Mr. Richey then presented the Doc
tor with a 30-inch meat saw, a
big butchers carving knife, and *
10-inch cleaver- The club responded
with roars of merriment. Charlie
Clark, pastor of the Congrefptional
church here, administered the obli­
gation, and placed the decoration
on tihe new member.
Not the least o f the success of
the evening was due to the ex­
hibition of a Beaverton industry
Just getting under way. Mrs. V.
L. Conklin and Mr. and Mrs. V.
C. Davis who live in what is known
as the Hocken house displayed a
fine exhibition
of articles
made
from the wool of Angora rabbits.
Mrs. Davis explained tihe interest­
ing features of the exhibit to all
nterested, while Mr*. Conklin bus­
ied herself spinning the wool in­
to yarn on an old fashioned spin­
ning wheel— not the b ig spinning
wheel that in our grandmothers
day was used to make yarn from
bhe carded wool, but the smaller
size, the so-called flax wheel, run
with a treadle by foot, but whose
spindle revolved
fast
enough to
make the fingers fly.
Next week
Beaverton
Kiwanis
joins writh Tigard Lions Club, For­
est Grove Rotary Club, and Hills­
boro Rotary in a joint meeting at
the countty seat Thursday at 6:30
p.m. A special and interesting pro­
gram has been prepared.
At the close of bhe meeting, an
announcement was made about a
card party to 'be given in the Fea-
verton Community building for the
benefit of he building fund. This is
the building occupied by the Ki­
wanis club.
MISS WEST LEADS
BIBLE STUDY CLASS
■Thirty young people were in at­
tendance at the Bible Study class
at the R. B. McMinn home, Satur­
day evening. Miss Ruth West had
charge of the program, and took
her Scripture reading from the 11th
chapter of Genesis. W. E. Gannett
was in charge of the lesson study.
An added* feature of the meet­
ing was the organizing of an or­
chestra with Mrs. W. E. Garnett
as leader. The orchestra will be
composed as follows: violins, lone
Widing and Charles West; guitars,
Miriam Doby and R- B. McMinn;
saxaphone. Curtis Gumm; baritone
HILLSBORO TO HAVE
sax, Melvin Gumm; Mandolin, A r­
A N E W POSTOFFICE nold Garnett; trombone. Bob Den­
ney; and piano, Lois West.
The new postoffice at Hillsboro
Ensemble singing concluded the
«rill be erected at Fourth and Main meeting.
streets. F. C. Hohnagel, postmaster,
indicated when he announced the
government had accepted the bid CO. I.O.O.F. CONVEN­
of the owners o f the site. The lot
TION TO MEET HERE
has 99 feet on Main street, and
160 feet on Fourbb.
At the
meeting
of Beaverton
Original nlana called for 27,000
square feet of land, but at that Lodge of Oddfellows, Monday eve­
time $80.000 had been allotted for ning. March 29 was set as the date
site and building. Since then the «»hen the Washington County Con­
allotment has been ent to $56,700. vention of Oddfellows will meet at
It
is expected
that
Mrs. Martha Collins was the own­ Beaverton.
er o f the principal block of prop­ Grand Master of Oregon, Geo. P.
erty involved, but the bid was sub­ Winslow «rill be present.
mitted bv Mrs. Ruth Pressev Long­
This convention will be made up
fellow. No date for starting con­ of delegates from all the lodgea
struction of tihe building has been in this county and rather a large
gathering ia expected.
eet.