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About The American. (Central Point, Or.) 1928-1936 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1933)
1 NOT TOO I.A TE . Thf tiii'Ticmi Ita* deriilvd to ur Subscription t'a io - tt»ntii'u'' > oil ra n » ti l get it f o r pailt" j'éar tor $■ -OO. Ihxter Hurr>. v o u mk THE AMERICAN v BENEFIT SALE TAX Crater Lake in W .nter New Revenue to Bring Assistance PLANS APPEAL Ï0 ii to School Districts M C E S tT R A L P O IN T . O R E G O N , T H i K S ItA Y . M A Y ¿A , I K H Twice m a While “ If, to pleu** t k f p e o p le . ir e o f fe r w h a t irt nelvtn d isapprove. h o w ra n ic e a f t e r w a r d s ftmd w >rk^ L e t » r a i s e a s t a n d a r d to our u htck the w ise an d j u s t c a n r e p a ir . The e itn t in the kin d * •> ’ G > 1 ." G e o r g e W a s h in g t o n . II) ¡1 IS WEEK itt We ar. n vnr too old to learn have learned a sad This week lad lesson that som e m»n in high ¡places. ( however they not them I i an be just as bad when it com es \ M E D FO R D , May 20 .— ( S p e c i a l ) - -IMans are rapidly nearing comple |to keeping their word and paying Itkeir honest debts as sm aller (oik lion for the establishment o f two Vhlch may bn a Rood thing f o r us Civilian C onservation cuinpj tn ■ C’ rater I»ake National Park, with i o learn, at that. | 200 men authorized for each camp, We enjoyed a very pleasant hour a c cordin g to o ffic ia l an n oun cem en t! I he other day visiting a broth er edit I this week.. Approxim ately l u o men or in Gold Hill- And w e d o n ’t b ■ o f the entire total will be enrolled f r o " ‘ ,he several counties o f sou th ern O regon by the park superintend ent. H eadquarters are maintained in R oom No. 238, Federal building. We want to say a word in passing M edford, Ore. Ln regard to the Banks’ trial, and No restriction as to age or m a i - j ¡verdict. In our opin ion the verdict to Mrs Ranks was em m in ently tied statu.’ will exist in the selection Ifair. We "have met Mrs. Ranks and oi the lot) experienced men, but ibave a strong recollection o f her | Preference will be given to form, r gracious bearing toward the old em l*ai k em ployes and also to expel i - ' ployes of the Daily News. W e liavi en ced w oodsm en. This grou p o f men (never, and do not now, th ou gh t her will he given medical exam nations' b> a l ulted States amy physician in guilty m |' any nine We feel it wa Btitord and those accepted will be I an awful wrong to put her in sucii la position at all. Rut as to her hue sent directly to the camps. e he belongs to the ¡press," either. • • • t Ài jeu r«* Y * , > \ . WSÉr ♦«?**** r I VI MHEIt S3 Llewellyn A Ranks, form er local agitator, orchardist. and publisher, convic ted of secon d deg ree murdef FI NDS. W IL L FN Xltl.K M A N ) SCHOOLS T o Iti N F I L L ) I Alt. for the slaying o f Constable George « I I I . MEAN M ORE C A S H ; LESS DK1.IN(JIKNCY. J. Prescott, March 16. by a Lane county jury last Sunday, will appeal Revenues reaching t h e local' tricts. the ports, etc., is to he paid to the state supreme court. This announcement was made , school districts throughout Oregon its proportionate share o f the money I during 1934 will be materially in- received hv the county, based on the Tuesday in Salem, by Frank J. Lon- | ere s -d if the sales tax is sustained ratio its tax levy bears to the total ergan, chief counsel for Ranks. Ranks is under guard in a Eugene in com pa iison with what they will! tax levied on property in the entire be if the sales tax fails. I 11 Portland| county. Each o f these local bodies hospital, where he went Monday on school d<s,rict. it is probable that may apply these sales tax receipts an examination by a doctor, who de »2 5 0 ,0 0 0 more cash will reach thei to its budget, the same as It would scribed his condition as "gen era lly A daily report, or dered treasury o f School IV.stiict No. 1 in apply receipts from the property tax. ru n dow n .” 1934 if the sales lax fails. The Port Not so with the county gove.n- by the court, declared Ranks was no A deputy sheriff guarding land sch ools probably will be kept nient itself, h ow ev er; the county worse. open anyway, so the $250.000 will government share may not he appli- Ranks' bed, reported he "s p en t a merely provide that much more to ed by the county to its county ex sleepless Monday nig ht.” The length be applied In paying teacher salaries, pens« budget— not a cent may be s o ' o f Ranks' stay in the hospital de- so to that district It will mean less applied but the entire county go- pends on his health, based on re- than to oth er districts where the big vernment share must be paid intr 1 ports made by a physician named by problem is to try to open the schools the county general school fund, for the court. at all. | the benefit o f the local school d i s - 1 The next legal move in the case In cities like Salem. Eugene, Med- tricts. That means that the county W'R be the argum ents on the defense ford. Klamath Falls. La Grande and school tund can be distributed in motion for a new trial. They have Baker, where condition s are fairly j its full amount in Multnom ah county 2u days in which to do this, and the good in school finances, the sales tax and s few o f the counties where pu state has several days in which to will merely have an effect similar to bile finance is in better shape, and answer. Attorneys estim ate that a that in Portland, o f pumping som e that much more cash will he avail final decision on this phase will not moep ea^h Into the school monetary able for county school fund el 1striDu- be made until the middle o f June, circulation so the teachers will col- Hon in counties which are less for In the event the new trial plea if lect m ore in 1934 salaries than oth lunate. denied. Banks will be sentenced to LA R G E S H A R K O F T A X MONK) subsidised ■ am ps at t ruler i.ake have b»*ei ' land -th a t’s another story. * * • • authorized as fo llo w s : Camp No. 1 Lajwellyn A Ranks came to South- is located a ! G overnm ent Camp, eh (cm Oregon with a bitter hatred ot vation 6476 feet, near an ..pproach! mankind in general and an exalted highway, and below the park utility ego. lie always reminded us o f a area. It is three miles from th- spoiled tntby, who. when c rossed, rim area. Snow is now nearly l o , threw hiiti-'lf on the floor and howl- feet deep at this location and it wil led bloody murder. W e have fell be necessary to remove the snow to ¡sometimes that if he could have had establish camp. It is expected to the old treatment for such actions be com pleted about June it), v.hen he first began t h e m — that s Cam p No. 2 will be located at a vigorous application of a hair fbe W in eg lass" elevation 65011 brush where it would do the most feet, near the rim road in the north good h, mighr have c o m e out o t , east rim area o f Crater Luke, about I [hi* tantrum and been a g o o d little id miles from the r.m c on c en tra tion ' area. Snow must be removed from 1 jbov. For The American Telephone 601 b i l l . IIK UMNMtTION KI» TO st II« M >1 erwise they could get during the ¿.'or Portland school district, this '*le term made m andatory by year. In cities like Astoria and 1 on e factor alone will mean from Oregon law. ant* rem oved to the i L Marshfield, where warrant debt has $140,000 to $300,0 00 more cash for s ,a ,e prison, unless a stay o f execu- boa ced the school district finances Portland school district from (h i, , *on *8 f r a m e d on a defense motion the sales tax may mean en ough ad one fund than oth erwis e it would to ,hat en<*’ ditional cash revenue to the districts receive. For some time, M u l;nom ili 1 Assistant Attorney-General Moody to becom e the deciding factor in county b,.- I.... ■ a n a ..... to o pay Port who Pro"«*uted the Ranks case, and w hether school can be kepi open foi land school diztrlet its full per cap Deputy District Attorney G eorge W • • • anything like a full school year. lta from the county general stlioo Nelson returned this m orn ing from but his history through the ye rs T h e cam p is expected to be estab- In a nnaabi r$pf raral dl trteta th« levy; if ..ultnomah coun ty has t<. Salem, where they conferred with shows him to be a man entirely lislied about June 30. additional cash revenue from the pay state tax out o f its general levy state offic ia ls on the Ranks trial and The enrolled men will be qu ar wrapped up iu self. From a boy h snles tax may be the deridin g factoi in 1934 it will be still less able to kindred cases soon to be brought tc I has follow ed an independent career tered in cam ps o f approxim ately 21 5, in whether school can he held at all pay on the county school levy; i trial. as a fruit “ m iddlem an .” Any each under the supervision o f army du ring 1934. Children in those dis the sales tax carries, relieving Mult ¡thought of restraint on his o w n seif-1 o fflc io r s w ho will have charge ot tricts w-ili som ehow have to b.> trails iioniah county o f having to pay state ish Interests for tlie sake o f the tna f< . •» ng. clothin g, medical attention ported to the centers or wMIl lose a tax out of its general levy, not only ■ a *' !_ ■ jority. has always irked him. Nev- and recreation. T h e work in the year's schooling, perhaps a serious will the county be in better shape i'er has lie taken th ought as to what park will be under the direction ot matter if education is wortli while to make a larger payment to the was best for ail— it w as all for j the park s u p e r te n d e n t.» A supervi- perhaps not so serious if education Portland school district out o f lte r i l ' d " » Cilindro Oil Coiniuiny Banks. and Ranks alone. 1 sorv sta% will be as Igned to each is not worth while. Each readei receipts from property tax levies C ravans from V e d fo r d and Klamath Falls recently found Crater lake • • • I crimp. The men will work eight can make up his mind. Our notion D 11 1 also it will have to turn into cloaked in twenty feet o f m o w when park roads were opened to the public. is that deprivation o f school for one that fund its entire c ou n ty govern ( T o p ) Part of the caravan crowd atop the deep snow at the Rim. (Center) We know he represented him self [ h ou r * “ in cluding traveling tim n 1 to and from scene* o f labor and the The lake through a frame of snow-laden trees. (IP Mom) The Gilmore pilot year is quite a serious matter as ment ap portionmen t from the sales mm p e eople; he c c o o m m o o n n p o p le , .. , . n r of t caravan waits to lend the proceaaion to tl Walter G. Nelson, 23. Portland affecting the future o f the child. lax. thus assuring restoration of pay th" laboring man, the produi 1 park superintendent, n Ico ea W. 8. B I or, r< ident i f th t M edford One reason why the sales tax ment In full o f the per capita levy. truck driver, em ployed on road c o n Well th 1 k it over Do you h o c !l totaI o f 4n hotii per week. chamber o f commerce, while XV. G. Steele, F s commissioner of parka. will mean more than 1934 cash for Mtly’ bl ■ a man who will spend " *• «11 worthy men, n o p n n * to lo w e r th o bnrrlsr TO*» Without cash from the sales tax d u c t io n work, near this city, is held school districts than will reliance it is dou btful whether Multnomah on an open charge, f ollow in g his a r |7 in . Xing np a fancy front of W "> ed p ;"X “Y solely on the property tax is an oh county would be able to pay more rest last night as a hit-run driver. Bat with mahogany doors, maho- * » « *l>- PMt m r 1 y n n and now 8. W. Baize, 49, watchman on the vious reason. It is that the sales tax than fit) % to Portland district on gany counters ,nd desks and such unem ployed, will be given consid- is collected In cash while a largf this $700,000 levy, or m ore than new Central Point Pacific hlghwa) ' attnn. Each a<*c pted mail mu t and at the same time c o m p e lls thr was assertedl) part o f property taxes are not c o l Site? ui the outside. laboring men in his em p loy in t h e * - " ™ 1» a period o f six months In If the county road constr uction. Mr». Margaret Showalter o f 5l£ -! lected. The sales tax replaces levies struck by Nelson while driving al a conservation work govei ament would pay only 6 0 % to walk about their em ergency same building dina, Washington, a form er resi on property, regardless o f when, it Each man will receive $30 per mo the Portlahd district would be $280,- high speed, when Baize attempted work wearing rubber boots to keep dent of Central Point passed away, ever, those levies are collected It 00 ') short; if only 8 0 % , t would be to “ fla g him d o w n " Tuesday night ¡cash allo w ance, food, clothin g, shel F o r a decade the John Cupp Furn- | their feet dr\ on account o f the poor at her h om e on May 11. She wa.»! reduces the amount o f the tax levied $140.000 sh ort: if cash -comes from about nine o ’clock. Baize sustained rvice. , over tne w tture store has served a host o f sal-| 'h e ___ rooT » o eek r a - . I ler, • and medical condition f , ,. Actu al work at Crater Lake will infled customers in Southern Orc- re. pected and loved by all who! on property, even if that levy is not sales tax and the county also ts re- internal in juries, and a fractured ht[ chop, is much of a friend o f la b or ? her kre in clude the eradic ation o f pine beet gon_ pald for many years or may never he ,pred o f haVing to pay state ta x in and pelvic bones. He was to umlergi And what of a man w ho wears fancy Nevlta Chapter No 93. O. E. S.i paid. In all public treasuries, cash full out o f what it receives from its an operation today. Nelson is alleg les, la ndscapin g trail, m otorw ay and C om in g to M edford about ter 1 clothes, lives in a mansion, and ad opted the fo.low in g resolution at' from the sales tax will replace n o t' ow n levy (less de lin q u e n cy ), this ed to have failed to atop and rendei te lephon e line construction, road- years igo John Cu pp established 1 I drives a $ lion car, white p o o r work- their la. t meeting: o n ly cash which oth erw ise would $ “ 00.1100 could lie paid in full to the aid. and no charge will be filed untU s d e cleanup, removal o f dead and in* peopl in his em plo y are com furniiure store in his present l»ca-1 R e -a iu liilio n o f l(es|H St the ou tcom e of the operation it have c o m e from property, hut also Portland district. unsightly U m b e r and co n s tr u c tio n , , „ K a_, M-|> , , reM Her« k aid from the county pelled to known. Whereas, Our Suprem e Ruler has[ Will replace taxes which otherwise ,f shelter cabins. The men will also Similar favor is shown to tin can't collect their will always be found the best foi because t c\ removed from our membership, oui j would have been levied on property j schools, in that excess receipts fio m Nelson was arrested shortly after tie subject to any emergency calls just wage the least money ■ -! ¡star Margaret Showalter.j he accident In the west end o f the but which would not have been paid.; sup sr h as In conn ection with the sales tax, ou t of the state's half i'lie policy o f the store has always w ho departed this life on May 12 ( The sales tax is a substitute o f cash city. His car was found ditched, and ..re« inn o f fotest fires. must be a p p r e d to the 2-mill elemen ar a lot of his buying F orm er Crater Lake National hp« n “ > « ¡ » e ' h e public a aqua.. 1933. therefore, for IOU's that may not be collected " school fund, thus pumping sale, had a fender and light removed, the cash Do you believe state police say. He It K f nlved. That Nevlta Chap-, for years. If at all, as well as a Park w orkm en and oth er experienc- " " a ' • « » P « » c y h a , built up fo tax cash into that fund tn re-t irt if he c o u ld n ’t mak e r Cu pp a larg- and grow n t b " I- ter No. 93. O. E S. regrets thi.-i substitute for cash which o ' h e w i s e : Accordin g to the authorities. Nel ould 1**1 w oodsm en are advised to write it from impairment such as c o n k those pears he w ness. He carries a fin e line o f good s j)reaj[ ju ¡ 1 » mystic circle, and ex- would be received f i o m those pro-* son was (Living on the wrong sidt to Supertendent E. C. Solin«ky. 4 r-» 'a k e place In countie s which, with Rah! Don't mak a ul his prices are as low a.» possiot • |<rw,saa *|ncere symapthy to the grief perty ow ners who som ehow manage ter Lake National Park, if thev w i. h out the sales lax, could not recovei o f the road, and nearly struck two stricken fam ily in their h our o f be to p i y their taxes In cash The sales su ffic ient revenue from property ti> oth er autos, compla in ts filed with to be consid ered for enrollment In considerin g quality A visit to the John Cupp Furn- leavem ent. and desires to place on tax replaces the customer who can't | ]pvjeg to pay the 2-mill elementary the state police claim. either o f the tw o camp» to be estab bness and egotism has .ore will be a revelation to »pi, record, a tribute o f high respect pay for year«, by a caeh cuatomei Jrhoo| ta„ in lished in the park. In the letter o ' Car full to the local iia- >wu rewaid. A ju r y of who pay* right now. | j r ;Pti application, the fo llow in g In form a anvone looking for g o o d fnrnitur* for ip., many excellent tiaits of cha men and w om en have reasonable prices. racter which endeared our si"ter to Aside from this obv ion s reason discrimination* in favor o ’ tion should he supplied: nam». eg*, we are content. The not only her ow n fam ily and the why the sales tax will snpply more M.|)ool ftnanr„ ref)Tvmetu lhp ronTir trade o r occu pation , when la d e m , r. the court was fail members o f the Order o f the Eas ash money for the schools than the |!on of ,e g to U lo r , that spM,ia | (avoI W m H. Harrison W o m a n ’s Relief ployed and education of the d a m n a b le lying Star, but to all w ho knew her property tax levies could yield, ther must be shown the schools in th< C o ip s met Saturday with a good at f some o f his misguid ed R esolv ed; That as a. further to is another special reason why the sales tax so a* to Insure that schools tendance Two applications foi »M ch . by the way, we j nearly T0«> miles which took him ll m o f re-pect and esteem, our Chap sales tax will help the sch ools lo keep open if any sohatantial addi mem bership received and read, o th 1 all ov e r the county. He was getting t g " u npunished) L. A It 1» that In tw o wavs- tlon to cash revenue« can suffic e tc er business o f the order discussed iey recently received ter altar, be appropiately draped; m ore cash ’ • just what was com in g j first-hand Inform ation in regard to >ld hometow n paper ■ nd that a copy of the-e Resolution* the public school* are favored more keep school open. The members o. and reports o f relief work heard 1 lie dam age being done to our I l a d .) Herald, in h. spread upon the minute« of Ne- in the sales tax levy than are auy the legislature were keenly a v t r i Arrangem ents ; 1 ■ ■ Medaryi for Memorial Day Ine tim ber by the beetle pest which he fou nd a letter from an old vita Chapter and a ropv be forward- oth er local taxing bodies All corps m em o ' the d ifficu lt'es in their home service« completed. Mr Coleman says It is awful ed today that out One way is that the entire county counties as to keeping school open ber* are urged to attend friend. C. W. Far!«, now o f Caldw ell ed to the family o f our late sister The W It seems to us that th e new med coun ty judg> share o f the proceeds o f the s.iler in numerous districts, and they m o d R. C. hall will be open at 16 o'clock Idah., but form erly o f Medaryvllle Margaret Showalter. st a r m y " might better be em le «"ran gem rl" Hattie B H itfleld tax must be paid into the county ified th» sales tux bill to help thy Sunday m ornin g and all mem ber! told many «tories o f thf d in fightin g this pest and in iranch o f a larc Mabel A. Bennett school fund That mean» thxt al' •chool finances. A«<de from the fore may meet there to march. In a body, old tii a tending to le?«=en the f ir « h r iy to print hi: oth er county funds w'll be denied goin g factor*, (here are oth er helps to the First « hri*Man church, where H T Pankey McJtmsey, as he k l ter#*t tnan in but [Id! ng m ore road. Hope they ilon Com mittee help from the sales tax. n a young man In In th#m t o school finance». One is th a '. It Rev D. E Millard, pastor o f that f h«3■ w oods to in- trails into any o f his It)»" When sale« tax money reach s we have sales tax. the 1931 properly church, ha* acrepted an Invitatioa diana. the making It da ngorou s to pi*’ M Churchill and danchtei each coun ty from the «tale, t h " tax rate will be lowered in nrartv to deliver the sermon at 11 o 'clo c k ■en a re»l McJitnsey has Mr «nd tourists tc east«» 101 • ve tried It left last Si r d a y for a visit money mu«t he apportioned by the every achool district in Oru»ou— the regular morning hour dt>nt < f tais town *inc< 1 « 9 *. bn «1 0 Better spend get Into Churchill's daughter and county a c cordin g to the «ales ta in Indian« On Tuesday. May 36, the Junior low ered bt 2 ) ' - ‘ n m i n t school «iia- out the dead stili n callr the old dayi iff (1 Cou nty Assess«' the money l« w Each local taxing body, in triels f could re metime* wishes Club girls o f the W K C will as with the reeul’ that tax de- and * < wltiich is so d a l - - >r day we learno tim ber and eluding th e cities, I he school di ■ sist in the services at the cemetary visit b is old h om e there. (Conttnued on p a g e F ou r th# ned from a trip ol gerou* in dr ÏM% mam Furniture Store Serves M an y Feople Truck Man Held For Hit - run Former Resident Dies at Her Home O ver Long Period belov Relief Corps Holds Interesting Meeting L oca 1 P 'an Gets tern News of Old Home V