THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON OCTOBER 23, 1931
NOTICE OF CITY BUDGET FOR 1932 AND HEARING THEREON,
CITY OF ATHENA, OREGON
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the following is a true and cor
rect copy of the budget for the fiscal year beginning January 1st, 1932,
and ending December 31st, 1932, as prepared and adopted for the city
of Athena, Umatilla County Oregon, by the Budget Committee of said
city at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 14th day of October, 1931,
and . that the original estimate sheets are on file at the office of the City
Recorder of said city, where the same may be inspected:
ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES FOR 1932:
WATER DEPARTMENT:
Water Bond Sinking Fund $ 1,500.00
Interest on Water Bonds 270.00
Salary of Water Superintendent 900.00
Materials, Supplies, Maintenance and Repairs.... 200.00
Power for Pumping., 400.00
Total'
$ 3,270.00
STREET DEPARTMENT:
Installments on Improvement Bonds $ 1,848.26
Interest on Improvement Bonds 75.00
Maintenance and Repairs 500.00
Materials and Supplies 200.00
Street Lighting .-. 888.00
Total
$3,511.26
GENERAL:
Police Department, Salary and Supplies $ 450.00
City Treasurer, Salary and Supplies 344.00
City Recorder, Salary and Supplies 565.00
City Library, Salary and Maintenance 476.00
Interest on General Obligation Bonds 1,200.00
City Elections 20.00
Emergency Fund 600.00
Purchase of Legion Swimming Pool 750.00
Total
$ 4,305.00
Total Estimated Expenditures for 1932 $11,086.26
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS FOR 1932:
Water Rents : 3,500.00
Miscellaneous Fines, Licenses, Etc..'.....". 50.00
Street Improvement Installments 1,000.00
General Taxes 6,536.26 .
Total $11,086.26
DETAILED STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES . FOR FIRST SIX
MONTHS OF CURRENT FISCAL YEAR TOGETHER WITH
THE ESTIMATES THEREFOR:
WATER DEPARTMENT: Estimated
Interest on Water Bonds ... $ . 360.00
Water Superintendent's Salary 450.00
Materials, Supplies, Maintenance and Repairs...... 1,750.00
Power for Pumping 200.00
Miscellaneous .'. 62.50
Paid
360.00
450.00
1,201.41
271.90
32.00
Totals ...........$ 2,822.50 $ 2,315.31
STREET DEPARTMENT:
Installments on Bonds , $ 3,250.00
Interest on Bonds... 278.55
Maintenance and Repairs 250.00
Materials and Supplies ........ .. 100.00
Street Lighting. 444.00
Miscellaneous . 60.00
678.99
317.60
12.00
59.65
444.70
Totals ................. ... ...$ 4,372.55 $ 1,612.94
GENERAL:
Police Department, Salaries...:......: ; $ 300.00
City Treasurer, Salary and Supplies..., 185.00
City Recorder, Salary and Supplies 312.50
Library, Salary and Maintenance 250.00
Interest on General Obligation Bonds .., .... 600.00
City Elections.. 10.00
Emergency Fund . 250.00
Miscellaneous ..........
360.00
180.00
300.00
250.00
600.00
64.55
..Totals
..$ 1,907.50 $ 1,754.55
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES FOR FISCAL YEAR OF 1930:
WATER DEPARTMENT:
Interest on Water Bonds ,..$ 720.00
Salary of Water Superintendent . 900.00
Maintenance and Repairs 654.40
Materials and Supplies 2,087.54
Power for Pumping 443.00
Miscellaneous 34.55
Total
$ 4,839.49
STREET DEPARTMENT:
Improvement Bonds, Installments $ 4,119.32
Improvement Bonds, Interest 1,176.89
Street Lighting . 888.00
Materials and Supplies 104.42
Maintenance and Repairs 401.59
Total
$ 6,690.22
GENERAL:
Interest on General Obligation Bonds $ 1,200.00
Police Department, salary ...... ..... . 600.00
Treasurer's Salary 360.00
Recorder's Salary 600.00
Library, salary and maintenance 600.00
Miscellaneous 921.48
STATE POLICEMAN
SOI
BANDITS
State Patrolman Target of
Fusilade in La Grande
Main Street.
Total
$4,181.48
Total Expenditures for 1930 . .$15,711.19
TOTAL EXPENDITURES FOR SECOND AND THIRD PRECEDING
YEARS:
Total Expenditures for the year of 1929 $12,978.79
Total Expenditures for the year 1928 :. ........ $24,084.68
STATE OF OUTSTANDING INDEBTEDNESS OF THE CITY OF
ATHENA, OREGON, ON THE 30th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1931
OUTSTANDING BONDS: -(All
at 6 per cent per annum, payable semi-annually)
General Obligation Bonds, Due 1946, Payable $2,000.00 per
1937..
annum beginning Oct.
Water Bonds, (Due Jan. 1, 1935)
Street Improvement Bonds:
Fourth Street (Due Mar. 1, 1932).
, Hunt Avenue (Due Jan. 1, 1933).
$20,000.00
12,000.00
848.26
1,000.00
Total
..$33,848.26
OUTSTANDING WARRANTS:
Warrants outstanding Sept. 30, 1931..
33.20
Total Outstanding Bonds and Warrants . $33,881.46
SINKING FUNDS AND CASH ON HAND SEPTEMBER 30th, 1931:
fiprwrnl Fnnrl . $ 305.74
Water Bond Sinking Fund.... '.b"-f?
Cash in Bond Redemption Fund (Street Improvement)
Bond Interest Fund .
43.00
173.54
Total
..$ 8,154.56
Net Outstanding Indebtedness, September 30th, 1931. $25,726.90
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that the Common Council of
the City of Athena, Oregon, meeting as the levying board for said City, will
meet on the 16th day of November, 1931, at the hour of 8:00 o'clock p. m.,
at the office of the City Recorder of said City, at which time and place any
iwrsnn wKn shall tu auH-iMt fn atirfi tar Wv will be heard in favor of, or
against, any such tax levy or any part thereof, and that after such hear
ing the Common Council of said City of Athena, Oregon, will proceed to
make, determine and declare the amount to be levied on the current assess
ment and tax roll to meet the fiscal needs of the said City of Athena, Ore
gon, for the fiscal year beginning January 1st, 1932, an4 ending on -Decern
kur ai.t taw : . 9-. .
This notice and budget is published pursuant to the provisions of Chapter
XI of Title 69, Oregon Code 1930, and acts amendatory thereof, and under
the direction of the Budst Committee of the (Jltv OI Ainena, umuu
County, Oregon. V
Dated this 14th day of October. 1931
023-30 B. B. RICHARDS, Citf Recorder.
Attempting to stop a large sedan
carrying two men and a girl wanted
at Idaho Falls Idaho, on a holdup
charge, State Patrolman Amos Helms
was perhaps fatally wounded Sunday
afternoon when the men opened fire
on him as the car sped through Main
street, at La Grande. Helms was
struck in the breast and abdomen by
four bullets. He was removed to a
local hospital and was operated upon
immediately, but the surgeons held
little hope of saving his life.
Immediately after the shooting, the
bandits abandoned their sedan, which
bore Colorado license plates, and
stole a red Ford coupe displaying
Oregon dealer's license No. A-175.
The car was last reported traveling
fast about 15 miles west of LaGrande
as state policemen, deputy sheriffs
and town policemen were closing in
on it. i
The shooting, witnessed by many
citizens, was called one of the most
heartless and brutal attacks ever oc
curring in this part of the country.
Helms had been furnished with a de
scription of the car and its occupants
by the Idaho Falls police. Observing
a large car coming rapidly down the
street, he signaled the driver to halt.
A fusillade of revolver shots was the
only answer, and as Helms fell to the
pavement, the driver speeded the car
and drove it around a corner where
the transfer to the coupe was made.
In searching the abandoned sedan,
police learned that the men are
known as Keith Crosswyth, 19, and
John Ownes, 25. The girl was identi
fied as Orlean Woodhouse of Idaho
Falls from letters and personal arti
cles found in her handbag which she
had forgotten to take with her in the
excitement.
The police officers first were of the
opinion the girl had been kidnaped
as her companions fled through Idaho,
but the interior of the sedan yielded
evidence that she had joined the
bandits voluntarily, several letters
indicating that she had been corres
ponding with one or both men.
Several boxes of large calibre re
volver cartridges were found in the
abondoned car, but no weapons. It
is not known whether the bandits
took any of their extra ammunition
with them in their hurried exchange
of conveyances.
Bandits Captured
Keith Crosswyth and John Owens
were captured near Duncan Tuesday,
after an intensive man hunt by sher
iff forces of Union and Umatilla
counties, state police, legionnaires
and airplane assistance given by the
Rankins. The bandits are now in
jail at La Grande. State Policeman
Amos Helms, whom the bandits shot
in La Grande, is dangerously wound
ed and since an operation, he has im
proved but slightly. The girl, Orlean
Woodhouse of Idaho Falls, who was
with the bandits, left them when they
changed cars in La Grande, was ap
prehended near there while hitch
hiking back to her home, and is be
ing held. Crosswyth and Owens ditch
ed their red coupe along the high-
i way near Meacham and took to the
1 , , if ,i
brusn. xney were seen luunuay uii
the railroad track in Meacham can
yon by state officers, when they
scrambled into the timDer wnen ine
plane approached them. Helms, a
former ball player lived at Condon
and is well known by Frank Little,
proprietor of the Quality Grocery
Grocery here.
Family Puts Up 1100 Jars
Fruit, Vegetables, Meat
Oreeron State College. Eleven hun
dred jars of home canned foods in the
cellar store closet for a cash invest
ment of $25 is the achievement of
Mrs. J. B. Ohler and her daughter,
Mrs. H. M. Egen of Kist. . Some 01
these 1100 containers are pint jars,
others are quart sizes and still others
half gallon ones. The large quanti
ties, Mrs. Ohler explains, are for the
company dinners of 15 to 25 persons
she serves frequently throughout the
year.
The canned iooas inciuae many veg
etables such as peas, beans, veget
able stew, tomatoes, baby carrots
baby beets, greens; small fruits in
cluding berries, cherries, apricots,
peaches and apple sauce; and such
meats as beef, veal and chicken. Ap
ple juice for apple jelly making was
put up in sterilized bottles of various
shapes.
In the Ohler-Egen root cellar are
stored quantities of squash, potatoes,
turning, carrots, parsnips and cab
bage. This food preservation inter
est grew out of the year round gar
den project undertaken by a num
ber of Columbia county women and
i-nrried on under the direction of Mrs.
Sarah Case, home demonstration
agent. The $25 outlay for the 1100
cans of food covered all costs except
those for labor and fuel.
CORN CRIBS FOUND
OREGON FARM NEED
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Methods of Drying Crop of
Corn Described by OSC
Agricultural Men.
Oregon State College. A larger
number of Oregon farmers than ever
before have grown corn for grain this
year and are now facing the problem
of curing and storing or marketing
the crop. While acclimated varieties
and strains have ripened up well,
past experience shows that even at
best care must be taken in storing
the corn to prevent spoilage, while if
it is to be marketed as grain this fall
or winter, artificial drying will be es
sential. Willamette valley corn when har
vested ordinarily contains at least 30
per cent excess moisture, according
to Earl N. Bressman, corn specialist
in the farm crops department of the
experiment station. Eastern Oregon
grown corn will contain less moisture
and be correspondingly less difficult
to store. t
A well constructed corn crib will
carry corn that has ripened to the
hard dough stage through the winter
in good condition for further drying
and shelling in the spring. Such a
crib will not have more than four
feet of corn between air passages,
says F .E. Price, agricultural engin
eer at the college. This can be accom
plished by making the crib eight or
nine feet wide with a ventilating par
tition lengthwise through the middle.
" The crib is best built two or three
feet off the ground with tin pans or
some other sort of rat guards on sup
porting posts. A roof with wide
eaves protects the sides from rain. A
blue print of such a crib may be ob
tained free from the farm crops de
partment of the college or from any
county agent.
'" Two corn growers in western Ore
gon this year are using artificial dry
ers by which the corn is dried as soon
as brought from the field, and within
24 hours-the grain is shelled, sacked
and ready for market. Possibility of
using the corn cobs as fuel in such a
drier has led to a test made by Sam
Graf of the engineering experiment
station at O. S. C. which shows corn
cobs to have about seven-eights the
heating value of dry wood.
Baker Is in Race
For the Grid Title
Baker remained in the race for
the Eastern Oregon football cham
pionship Monday after defeating the
hitherto undefeated Ontario high
team, 12 to 0, at Ontario Saturday.
Baker has tied Enterprise, 0-0, and
La Grande has tied Enterprise, 6 to 6,
While Baker has beaten Pendleton
and La Grande has beaten Milton
Freewater. The winner of the Baker-La Grande
game at La Grande, October 31, may
become the champion as it will have
only one tie in the record.
Baker must play Mac Hi of Milton
Freewater Thanksgiving day, how
ever. Baker, coached by George Scott
of Oregon State, has not yet been
scored on.
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The list has been selected by a group
of people who like good literature and
it has a book that will suit every one
in the class. Book reports were de
vised for the benefit of the students.
By reading worth while books a stu
dent may develop an appreciation of
literature which will. benefit him all
through life and give him both pleas
ure and knowledge. Therefore, if the
students would quit grumbling and
spend that time in reading books
which they are to report on they
would perhaps find that the books are
not so bad after all.
Play Rehearsals Encouraging
Rehearsals of the high school play,
"Second Childhood," have been held
each night this week. The play, un
der the direction of Mr. Bloom, is tak
ing form rapidly as the participants
are learning their lines. It will prob
ably be presented November 12th and
13th.
Two changes have been made in
the play cast; it now reads as follows
Professor Relyea.... Ralph Moore
Sylvia Relyea Mildred Hansell
"Auntie" Marjorie Douglas
Philip Stanton ; Fred Singer
General Burbeck ...Wayne Banister
Marcella Burbeck Helen Barrett
Sheriff Johnson... Leland Jenkins
Mrs. Vivert.. Velma Ross
Mrs Henderson Goldie Miller
Judge Sanderson Lowell Jenkins
First Reckoning Period Over
The last week's work has been in
the most part tests on the first six
week's work. All pupils who have
studied and worked are now the
proud owners of l's and 2's. The less
energetic type, are owners of 3's and
4's. The boy or girl who gets a five
is now wondering why he is ineligible
for sports, and is going to the teach
ers, on his hands and knees, for help.
All are trying to get highest of
honors in the next six-weeks' work.
The honor roll for the first six-weeks'
period of the first semester is as fol
lows: Freshmen, Buddy Weber, Arleen
Foster: sophomore, None; junior,
Helen Barrett; senior, Marjorie Doug
las, Betty Eager and Mildred Hansell
Assemblies Held
The students of Athena high school
held a yell practice at 3:30 Friday af
ternoon under the direction of the
new yell leader, Maxine Moore.
Mr. Bloom gave a short talk about
the football game with Heppner at
an assembly, held at 1 o'clock Wednes
day, several songs were sung, led
by Mrs, Bloom.
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Thai Stays up in the Motor and Never Drains Away
Signals
A new dashboard signal for auto
mobiles flashes a red light when the
srasoline supply of a car is nearly ex
hausted and a blue light when the
oil supply need replenishing.
Valley Woman Badly Injured
Mrs. John Myers, who lives three
miles east of Umapine, is in St.
Mary's hospital at Walla Walla, with
both bones in both legs broken as the
result of an accident at Umapine,
says the Milton Eagle. Mrs. Myers
had accompanied her husband to the
field to assist in hauling hay. One
stack had been loaded and Mr. Myers
was leading the team around another
stack to the road when the load over
turned. Mrs. Myers, who was on the
load, struck the ground standing
erect, and with such force that both
legs were broken, fane was complete
ly covered with the hay.
Draws $500 Fine
Harry Issel. convicted October 11
on a charsre of assault with a danger
ous weapon following the shooting
of Levi Van Pelt, 19-year-old Umatil
la Indian fisherman, was fined $500
in circuit court at The Dalles, Mon
day. The maximum sentence that
could have been given is 10 years in
prison and a ?iuuu nne.
High School Notes
Team to Play Touchet
The football team will go to Touchet
this Friday to play. The Touchet boys
beat the Walla Walla second team,
and the boys are going to have to
fight to win this game. Possibly there
will be one or two ineligible to play
this game. This will make it all the
more difficult for Athena. They will
be supported strongly by all who at
tend the game. Some of the boys
are not entirely over with their in
juries from the last game which was
with Heppner. They will probably be
all right by Friday.
Book Reports Beneficial
A few days ago the list 6f books
for book reports was put up in the
English room and how many of the
students are grumbling because a
certain number of books must be read
and reported on. This grumbling is
very unfair. Of course it does take
some time to read a few books but
most of the books are interesting and
are worth spending a little, time mi.
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