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BENEFIT
SALE TAX
Crater Lake in W .nter
New Revenue to
Bring Assistance PLANS APPEAL Ï0
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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.
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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 $300,0 00 more cash for s ,a ,e prison, unless a stay o f execu-
boa ced the school district finances Portland school district from (h i, , *on *8 f r a m e d on a defense motion
the sales tax may mean en ough ad­ one fund than oth erwis e it would to ,hat en<*’
ditional cash revenue to the districts receive.
For some time, M u l;nom ili 1 Assistant Attorney-General Moody
to becom e the deciding
factor in county b,.- I.... ■ a n a ..... to
o pay Port who Pro"«*uted the Ranks case, and
w hether school can be kepi open foi land school diztrlet its full per cap Deputy District Attorney G eorge W
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anything like a full school year.
lta from the county general stlioo Nelson returned this m orn ing from
but his history through the ye rs T h e cam p is expected to be estab-
In a nnaabi r$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