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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1926)
PAGE rF.NTRAL POINT TWO CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN A a In d e p e n d e n t W eekly P a p e r P u b lith e d a t C e n tra l P o in t, O re g o n , an d C a te r e d T h u rs d a y of each w eek in the P o ito f f ic e th e re o f ae S e co n d Claea M a tte r JOHN 3. SHELEY and NETTIE B. SHELEY, Editors CLARENCE SHELEY, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months .............- ................................................................................................. $1.00 One Year ................................................................................................................ .... $2.00 All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance A d v ertisin g R a te s G iven on A p p lica tio n “ THURSDAY, JU N E 10, 1926 Oregon News Items of Special Interest B rio f R esum e of H a p p e n g in s of th e R e ad ers W eek C o llec te d for Our Permits are now necessary to build Estim ates now placed on the Hood camp fires In the Crater Lake national River valley apple tonnage for 1926 by County Fruit Inspector Kocken forest. It Is announced. a crop of 3000 to 3200 cars The 1927 budfet for the Marshfield forecasts indicates a yield considerably school district provides for expendi and less than in 1924. tures totaling $141,830.77. Construction has started on a new A total of 272 Salem high school power from the California-Oregon graduates received their diplomas at company line giant power plant on Klam exercises held in the state armory. ath river to Klamath Falls. The pro Postoffice receipts in May this year ject, which will cos! $250,000, will in at Eugene show a substantial Increase crease the power service capacity in over those of the same month last Klamath Falls from 15,000 to 25,000 year. kilowatts. Claus C. Jesse. 89. of Roy, was in W. H. Ferguson, machine shop fore stantly killed when his auto was man of the Coos Bay Lumber com struck by a train of the United Rail pany, Marshfield, has been awarded ways. the second prize of $500 in the Na Governor Pierce suffered a fractur tional Lumber Manufacturers' associa ed rib when he fell while inspecting tion's waste prevention contest. Fer the state flax plant at the Oregon peni guaon's Invention was a "line and tentiary. delay graphic recording device for Andrew Johnson, of Portland, was sawmill carriages." Sixteen thousand yards of rock w >re drowned while bathing in the Wiliam ette river a mile and a half above shattered near Lava )>utte- 10 miles south of Bend on The Dalles- Cali Oswego. Tho bridge over the W illamette at fornia highway, when six tons of pow Harrisburg was dedicated in honor of der were discharged. The blast was Joha B. Yeon at an all-day celebration heard at a distance of approximately 15 miles. Saturday. The house located on Dr. M. M. Approximately 80 of the 575 men Bull's fish farm near Leaburg in Lane now in the state penitentiary are serv County burned to the ground with ing terms fqr various 'orrns of moon- shining. according to a report by J. most of its contents. Building permits were issued In La W. Lillie, warden of the Institution. Grande curing May for new construc The ages bf most of the moonshiners tion valued at $34,030. Nine permits range from 45 to 55 years of age. R. R. Turner of Dallas, who was ap were for new residences. C. C. Sturtovant's store and home pointed state superintendent of public and the United States postoffice at instruction to succeed J. A. Churchill, Crow. 15 miles southwest of Eugene, resigned, has assumed the duties of his office. Mr. Turner announced that were destroyed by fire. would be no changes in the Tourist travel to the Oregon Caves there working staff of the department. Is Increasing and already more than J. C. Blarkington. 70. of Imbler, is 700 people have registered at Grauts held in the county jail on an open Pass for a trop through while officers are investigating Alfred Miller of Gold Reach, one of charge, a fire which his warehouse at | the best known pioneers of Curry Imbler. Estim burned ates of loss incurred in county, died suddenly while on a visit the burning of two warehouses, a grain to his farm on Rogue river. elevator and its contents run as high The annual convention of the Ore as $100,000. gon State Fire Chiefs' association will The Oregon state penitentiary May be held at Corvallis June 21 to 24. 1 had the largest population in its according to announcement. history, according to a report filed W heat shipments from the Wiliam by J. W. Lillie, warden of the insti ette and Columbia river district in tution. There were 573 Inmates of the May to foreign and domestic markets prison on the night of May 1. It | has become necessary to put two amounted to 3.026,227 bushels. Major-General Hugh L. Scott. U. S men in many cells. A., retired, will represent the war de A total of 156 cttles and towns in partm ent at the dedication of the As Oregon were listed June 1 by the state toria column at Astoria on July 22. indust-lal accident commission as be About 50 automobiles made the trip ing protected by the workmen's com- Sunday from Klamath Falls to Crater | pcnsatlon law as to a portion of iheir Lake lodge. The road to the rim is | employes. On the same date 32 out passable, but not in good condition. I of the 36 counties of the slate had ap- T. W. Morgan, prominent Douglas 1 plied for protection for some of their county farmer, was fined $200 at Rose- employes. burg for moving a fence from a pio Production of 106 sawmills reporting neer graveyard and occupying the to the West Coast Lumbermens asso ciation (luring the week ended May land. 29 totaled 114.141.620 feet, which was One third of Klamath's output of only 870.659 feet less than 109 mills j wool. 225,000 pounds, has been pur produced during the week ended May j chased for approximately $67,000 by 32 During the week the 106 mills the J. Keshlan company of Boston. sold 103.498.870 feet and shipped 112,- Mass The body of Scott Goodall, 50 years 745.377 feet. old. was found In his home 15 miles The U. 8. supreme court has re from Telocaset The condition of the fused to Interfere for the present in 1 body Indicated that he had been dead the motor transportation controversy in Oregon, but agreed to hear argu about a month. on the subject on October 4. Fred Reunion. Umatilla county ment* Pending the arguments. Morris A agent, has refused appointment aa Lowther other companies carrying ; Montana state leader of county agents freight by and motor denied a court Mr. Reunion decided to remain In his order suspending were a ruling by the Ore present position. state highway commission fix The O.-W. R A N . coal chutes at gon the maximum weight of loads. Messner. 2>•» miles west of Roardman. ing Sweeping toward the tim ber line were burned to the ground The the Oregon line In the Poke chutes, pump house and ail machinery across gams country, a huge brush fire with were a total loss. a 16-mile front was burning fiercely Clifford Klfordl. 21. la being held la Siskiyou county. Cal., near the a u te at Coquill» in connection with the Una. The conflagration was nearly 45 death of his uncle. William Whobrvy. miles southeast of Klamath Falls on 40. found beaten to death on the high the north side of Klamath river. Three way near Power». hundred men from Hilt. Hombronk Receipts of the water and electrical and from the California Oregon Pow departm ents of the city of Eugene In er company headquarters as Copco 1*25 reached a total of $224.1*1*5 over were trying to check the onsweeptng all eipenaea. the biggest year in the bias?. hletory of the city. Purchase by the Southern Pacific AMERICAN THU RSD AY , JU N E 10, 1926 Railroad company of 81 acraa of prop- ORECON CLUB MEMBERS FILING recom m endation in the Columbia •rty adjoining Its term inal site and basin. F I N A L REPORTS paralleling Its main line within the city limits of Klamath Falls, from the Club m embers from tw enty O re T he Am erican does all kinds of Klamath Development company, was gon counties have filed fir.al reports announced. Acquiring of the land in the club office for 1925,’26, and printing. If it can be printed—we which Increased its holdings within are entitled to achievem ent pins an- can do it. the city limits to over 80 acres is a nouncel| H c Seym our, state club unit of the construction program which leader. The list includes m-'re than the Southern Pacific has started with three hundred club members, most the building of an $800,000 terminal of whom are enrolledin sewing and in Klamath Falls i cooking project*. M arion county The contract for the 1927 motor ve- headg the Hgt with one hundred forty hide license plates was awarded by seven m em bers in fourteen clubs Sam A. Kozer. secretary of state, to complete to date. Portland has the the Irwin-Hodson company of Port second num ber of completed land on the basis of 12.81 cents a pair. projects, greatest and Clackam The contract calls for 238,000 pairs of side of Portland third. as county out plates for passenger cars and other Counties included in the list, the motor vehicles of less than one-ton project, RAY M ILLARD and the num ber of m embers capacity and 19,000 pairs of plates for to receive achievem ent pins in sew trucks and trailers. The colors for — T e a m W o r k o f AH K in d s — the 1927 plates are the same as those ing a r e : Benton,2; Clackam as,64; Clatsop, 3; Crook, 1; Columbia, 7; used in 1926. The back ground is PR O M PT S E R V IC E black with white letters and figures. Coos, 16, Curry, 2; K lam ath, 14; 22; M ultnomah, 18; Portland, Major Lee Moorhouse, one of Pen Lane, P h o n e 541 Sherm ana, 15; Wasco, 15; W ash dleton’s earliest residents, died in Pen 68 ington, 15; Marion, 87; and Yamhill, Central Point dleton following a four weeks’ illness at his home. He had been one of the 7. In cooking project Marion county outstanding citizen] of Pendleton since had 60 club members end M ultnomah coming there in 1861, and probably 19. was better acquainted with the his “ We m embers of the club staff tory and development of Umatilla consider the aw arding of achieve CLINE’S county and eastern Oregon than any m ent pins as a very im portant duty, other person. Major Moorhouse was since it gives us a fairly good idea regarded as an authority on Indian of who the successful club members history and possessed a collection of of the state are,” said Mr. Seymour. Indian relics regarded as the most "Every actjve club m em ber should TRAN SFER w ear his achievem ent pin. He has complete in this part of the state. The enactm ent of a state Income som ething to be proud of.” tax, a more equal assessm ent of prop N earness to m arket is one of the erty, federal legislation to provide a factors encouraging the flax seed in Crating, Packing, Ship better price for farm products, enact dustry in Oregon. An established ment of a constitutional amendment mill in Portland producing linseed for state and municipal development oil operates new largely on flax seed ping. All kinds of haul of water power and electric energy, im ported from the Orient. This ing—day or night. readjustm ent of the state automobile mill offers good prices with a m ar license fees so that old machines will ket practically assured. It is one of pay less than new ones, the Improve the few mills on the Pacific co ast ment of- highways to serve rural dis The m anagem ent has agreed to sup tricts Instead of large expenditures for ply flax seed meal a t substantially rebuilding main highways, form the reduced rates to those farm ers who Phone 461 pri gram for grange activity outlined actually produce the crop under con in the annual report of George A. tr a c t The experim ent station is Paimiter, state m aster, at the 53d an now recom m ending flax production nual session of the state grange at in northeastern and w estern Oregon. Baker. Approximately 500 delegates Results a t the Moro station are not Central Point - Oregon were in attendance. yet satisfactory enough to w arrant Announcement Effective July 1st, the banks of M edford and C entral Point will unanimously adopt the policy of m aking a m onthly charge of fifty cents on all checking accounts of depositors where the balance is under $50.00 at any time during the month. This rule will affect only those accounts which are subject to check, and will not apply to Savings Accounts and Tim e C ertificates of De posit. In adopting a monthly service charge, the banks of M edford and Central Point are only following the policy of banks in ail larger cities and most of the sm aller towns of the country. Increased cost of clerical help, supplies and other items that are necessary in conducting a banking institution m ake the small accounts a source of loss. Those of our depositors who carry only a small balance may find it mre con venient to place their accounts in the Savings departm ent where no charge will be m ade. FIRST NATIONAL BANK FARM ERS & FRU ITG ROW ERS BANK JA CKSON ¿O U N T Y BANK M EDFORD NATIONAL BANK CENTRAL POINT STATE BANK