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About The American. (Central Point, Or.) 1928-1936 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1933)
THE AMERICAN [»ID VI «•ESTHAL POINT. OREGON. rill R>|i VV. SEPTEMBER ‘J * . I93S N l ' I I IKK I COUNTY W ILL GET 0-C CASH Musings— By an Innocent Bystander Knock ' Knock'! ! Knock! ! One-halt Sum Due CHEESE FACTORY To Be Paid Within MAY OPEN SOON Very Short Time -Louie’ ’ seem to have started some- ♦king Bro. Hal1 oI Jacksonville ¡»hom a certain lady tried to horse- fbjpi gays we are all wet about that j,bilee drunk. Mebbe so. but we I Kill contend no town with even a Uladow of self-respect, will stage PAYMENT It) (¿OX ER\MENT WILL All» |\ EARING KIN ANI’ |celebrations when open drunken- WOltlt Es o i m i : t o t \ t i — s e n a t o r M<\\m h e l p s in i ten is allowed. (à T IM ; ACTION HY I VI d il u ì: DEPARTMENT. • • • A Serious Situation AN EDITORIAL The Central Point schools are facing a very serious situation to day. The fact that non-payment of taxes in this district has reached alarmingly proportions is being forcibly brought to the front. And unless something can be done and done soon this town will have to do without a public school system In the writer's opinion the most important things in this city are our schools. We believe that nothing -hould stand ahead of them Prospects are that the local cheese in the affairs of our city. Without them our community would booh factory will be re-opened In the near dwindle into nothingness. One of the most important things -per future A Mr. Hair ot Tillamook has, haps THE MOST IMPORTANT— which attract people to come to this been in Central Point for the past city to live, and to hold them here, is our schools. Once let our few days Interviewing patrons of the schools close and the last bulwark is gone. The town and alt its The “wild jackass of the pee factory and others to see just what business will fade as a fog before the sun. v e s " (or plains of Texas.) says he The welcome news comes from few days a payment of SO per cent can he done to get the factory going 1 worked hard all that day and nearly again. Everett Faber accompanied of their claims, according to a tele- We, as sensible beings, should face the issue, squarely and decide Washington that our-half of the O. Mr. Hair about the county and re-, ifroae at night without one drink be- “ WHAT ARE WE GONG TO DO WITH Ol'R 8CHOOL8?" Are we C. land grant claims of Jackson I *ram r« '« lv*’d by Victor P. Moses. ports the sentiment as generally fa ,n| offered him. Well, we will have going to see all the work of years iu building up these schools to will be paid within the next I " ‘*n,on COUM,y judge' from Senator vorable. i to take off our hat to the old town County their present state of perfection wasted? Shall we Just sit by and , , | Charles L. McNary, now in Washing- Mr. Hair has had many years' ex-1 Down after all. It apparently retains ftw days. This news is doubly wel-|(on p let the young people of the town lose the precious years when youth ¡atleast a bit of the old-time chivalry conte at this time on account of the Judge Moses Is chatTman of the perienee In cheese manufacturing and : should be receiving Its education? It Is up to you. He is confident the lo- ■which refused to contribute to the depleted condition of the county | organization of counties seeking full marketing cal factory can be made to pay. The school board is ready and willing to do its best for the school delinquency of children or the feeble treasury. payment of land grant fund claims. system Hut without money they are helpless. Taxes Ml'ST be paid A meeting of the board of direct | minded. The total amount of the claim is The message received from Sena- • • • if our schools are to continue Our teachers are doing their best $69,218,8 4, and (he department of tor McNary said, "Have received in- ors of the company will be held to for your children. You must do your part If the system is to be But he says he “ worked.1’ Since the interior has announced it has on formation from assistant stc. of night and a meeting of producers carried on. jihen. pray tell? An editor work— hand sufficient funds for payment interior that interior department j is being arranged for next Tuesday j ha-ha! 1( is to laugh! If our es ot half of the claims of 18 westernjhas nearly completed work in con-, night. At this meeting the committee Last year only 65% of the school taxes were paid. That would teemed contemporary had told us of Oregon counties. Half of Jackson j neotion with payment to counties recently appointed by the clients, pa not be serious if the budget had not been cut to the bone. Then the trons and creditors of the concern ¡tramping the streets, searching for county’s share will be »34,6(19 12. wherein O. k C. I^nds are located present year’s budget was cut still more and we must get a larger will make its report. The committee ; the elusive dollar— If he had said The county budget committees That of 18 counties submitting percentage or go so far in debt as to be handicapped for years. consists of Robert Kincaid, Central ■he spent the day in trying to dodge estimated the O. C. receipts would claims of O. & C. payment 15 deci Point: C. A. DeVne, Jacksonville: Now we have made large cuts in operating coats and still the : his creditors or something, we could be 4 0,000. These claims formerly sions have been sent secretary of Warren Patterson, Central Point; cry Is "cut down expenses"! Where to cut and still keep up our stan have swallowed it. Uut “ work'’— averaged »125.000 a year but reduc- tieasury. We expect that by Thurs- Marvin Abbott, Central Point, ami dard Is beyond us. Shall we cut on fuel- and let the children wear | forsooth! tion of the millage tax since 1923 day all decisions will he made s c David Wilson, Willow Springs. overcoats In school? Shall we cut oat our janitor and ask the big • • • out heavily isto gdderal receipts. cording to agreement of decision of girls to clean up the buildings? Or shall we go out in the woods About $12,000 of the $34,609.42 | comptrolled of currency." Now let us forget the most recent and pick up inexperienced teachers for a mere pittance? The an The comptroller of currency has Counties Are Doing member of the Tribune family will he divided among the different swer depends on you. Mr Taxpayer. (Bro. Hall recently married the city school districts as required by law. ruled that O k (’ . payments must be Final Work on leaving about $22,000 for the coun- made from receipts of the sale of We have been told we should cut down the salary of the Superin editor's daughter) and get back to ¡timber on such grant lands. Judge tendent. We are at present paying »2100 a year for a man whose our muttons. The text of our ser ty. Wheat Contracts .--------- Moses said. Officials in Washington, capabilities are unquestioned; who acts as superintendent of both mon was the unseemly drinking at CORVALLIS. Ore . Sept. 27.— D. C., have said there is only enough schools; as supervision of the entire teaching staff and who teaches | the Jubilee. Now our historic vil- With the September 25 deadline several subjects himself as well Anyone who knows anything at all j lage has again shown herself un- Oregon counties in which Oregon money on hand at Washington to for filing wheat contract applications about educational matters knows we are getting off cheap. J worthy of her proud history. Not and California grant lauds are lo- pay 50 per cent of the counties past, the big job of county wheat ! satisfied with staging rotten rodeos, eated will receive within the next claims. And as for out janitor we pa^ Mr. March $1050 a year, for 12 allotment ommittees is getting under | jubilee*, old-fashioned drunks, or months service and we defy anyone to beat him for honest, faithful, way, as approved applications come Idle drivers do, and keep to 1 what have you, they now openly and conscientious service, regardless of wage. in from community committees. Ohio Newspaper ¡right when riding city streets braienly offer "free beer, all you can Between now and December 1. all Now, friends, think this matter over seriously and if you possibly (country roads. Warns All to drink.' at their dances. We are The annual toll of child lives by I work of correcting the applications, can do so PAY YOUR TAXES this fall. Again we repeat It Is up ashamed of them. each grower's acreage aud Watch Children ¡automobiles is being reduced slowly. publishing • • • ^ to you! 'hut onlv communities where the |.w production figures, making the ne- Has the time come when the de The following item from "The I, supplemented with fundamental h « « ' * adjustments so that county cent people of that glorious old town P. T . A . Prepares Spirit of Democracy." a weekly lessons in safety through co-opera- allotments w 1 agree with official Up-state Paper Tells , must supinely submit to such insult? wheat production statistics, publish - 1 Is the growing generation to be de newspaper published at Woodsville, live effort of parents and teachers ing the growers allotments and max- Faults Home Owning To Greet Council bauched and degraded without pro- Ohio is so pertinent to the present “ School days will be safe days,” ¡mum acreage figures, preparing the O f Public Utilities The executive committee of the lo j test. We sincerely hope not. This situation regarding til safety of concludes the author, "when effec contracts and getting them signed. | writer admits he has in times agoue school children, we reprint If in full: tive safety education becomes uni and properly preparinf all of them ! cal P. T. A. met at the home of the Eugene would extend its munici president, Mrs. Iluby Leever, Friday versal." ________________ taken of the product .of the brew. for sending in to the Agricultural MAKE SCHOOL DAYS SAKE I he know its effects by personal ex _ - ... . , I Adjustment Administration must be pal light to take In Corvallis Of all eve. This meeting was to make fur By this time next week hundreds igence. And we can planly say we Crater I ark V lsitecl (¡one. December 1 is the deadline the nerve! A municipal light plant ther plana for entertaining the Jack- selling power outside of it’s own son County I*. T. A. Council, which ] know of no good it has done ns or of thousands of Ohio children will be By Noted Botanist 11 " hl h 1 community should not be tolerated meets at the Central Point High anyone else. That beng true, why entered on the work, problems and 3 calved at Washington pleasures of the school year. A very and would no* f people had not School for an all day seasion Satur urge it upon others? Not until after the contracts from large proportion of them will be Crater Lake National I ark. Ore.» ¡a county have all been sent to the gone completely red in their antipa day. Oct. 14. All Intereated are In whom the perils of ¡^pt. 27.— The Crater Lake area is thy toward private industry. Eugene vited to attend this meeting. The Let us hope that what remains of little children, to geologic I Wheat Adjustment Administration (be daily journeys to and from not only a rare field for the first white selllement in South and checked over there, can any promoters tell us they can sell elec local P. T. A. will serve luncheon at grave study, but is particularly important ern Oregon will not allow Itself to school will constitute a very grower in a county receive his bene- tricity here cheaper than can the noon at 35c a plate. The following In the botanical world, in the opin- l»*eome ii i nrse and a hyword In the haza rd. of Dr. Elmer Applegate, curator «« payments. The wheat growers Mountain Slates Bower Company ladies were appointed by the presi They are part of the great army ion of Oregon will be entitled to approx Well, why shouldn’t they. They are dent to have charge. General lunch toN. by encouraging such carryings of children. H.OOO.OOO strong which of the Dudley Herbarium at Stan imately three million dollars on the using taxpayers’ money, paying no eon chairman — Mrs. Della Tea; j on. in tin' United States will either re ford University. Palo Alto, Calif., a 1933 crop, two-thirds of it this fall. t a x e s to support the university and Menu— Mrs. Lorena Leach; Decora • * • turn to or enter school in Sep visitor In the park recently. Naturally they are anxious to get college, and citizens of the rest of tion— Miss Arlene Hay; Soliciting— We ate told by those who should tember. Dr. Applegate made his first visit The country Is proud of their payments, but a great deal of the state have to pay higher taxes Mrs Clara Vincent; Program— Mrs [ know that [dans are being made to this procession; hut before the first | j0 (he lake In 1877 as a young boy work must first be done by the because this socialistic experiment Lois Young. reonrect our defunct cheese factory. is allowed. The Mountain States day of October no fewer than 53." ¡when modes of transportation were Good, more power to them. It 1* «00 children will have been more or s|ow and roads were poor, He made county allotment committees. , • . n* V I « ;* , One cause of delay in some coun pays high taxes In Corvallis, gives 'he hop., of a|i that ¡some way may less seriously injured In accidents, several visits before the end d of of the the excellent service, pays both state O a k l a n d M a P V lS lt» ties is that many applications have ** found to keep this industry going and by June the number thus h u rt,i9th century and in 1899 with Dr and county taxes and Is entitled to Lake After 28 Years not been made out correctly. Some • • a It has paid no dividends will have reached the staggering to- F c CoveII discovered a rare fern growers did not understand that support Doer hunters are beginning to u , o, half a million. unique to the pumice slopes of Cra- they are entitled to include as land for a year, which should give Joy | Crater Lake National Park, Ore., wra*g|p baek from the far places. These figures are not guesses ac- ler Lake Dr. Applegate has b en seeded to wheat, wheat acreage to the reds and other municipal ow Sept. 27.— It took I. K. Charry of Reports (minus any portion of the cording to an article on "Making lntimately associated with many <11*- which could not be re-seeded be nership advocates. — Corvallis Gaz Oakland, Calif., four weeks to drive corpus delicti as proof) have it that School Da vs Safe Days," in the cur-, ooverles and classifications of rare to Crater I^ake with horaea in 1905 cause of weather conditions, or ette Time. doer hui- been killed. All we have of llygla. The author. Mr. IlUntg and flowers In the vicinity of which was prepared In the manner nnd when he made hia flrat trip to rent issue •o say k we could do with an infI- explains that they the parlt. An Indian paint brush, ________ ___________ ^ patk since that time this week, customary but could not be seeded Bankers Curtis Billings Seeking reful computations in | found ln the park. Is called Apple- «osinal chunk for a sample. o i l I , waa made In leaa than two because of unfavorable weather con are based on ca aud many gate's Paint Brush since he was the . Gold Law Changes he trip from |h# hay reKlon At 1he many past Septembers ditions. e ’ '■ have driven along the hlgh- first to describe It. „ „ . •time of hia vlalt 28 year, ago, roada Other growers failed to under past years. GRANTS PASS. Ore SepC 27 - ^ ^ ^ ^ Mt ^ d„ ploppd deaths (and1 o r. Applegate in company with w*ys lately we have noted tons of stand that volunteer wheat harvest Nearly half of the To make the increased world price ^ ^ | n K tf phppp k*ars rotting on the ground in some f thp iniuries) Will be due to Park Naturalist D S. Llbbey follow gp#c|f|c. ^ fh# oW P(on„ r tr l„ , rom the rim ed for grain, wheat cut ripe and fed orchards Many of these pears are niany of the inju ries^ nPar th<> rlm The park had without threshing, and wheat allow for gold available to thousand, " f ■ •orni infested. Would it not save HHngTparents can do and must do if down the southwest slope of old M. ed to ripen and bogged or paatured miners and prospectors In ~>t"h*trn established three years be- Mr Libbev plans in — Oregon Senator Charles L. McNary | 1 lot of trouble next year with the ,heir children are to be safe include: Maz.ma . .he old Pioneer off, should be counted, as well as and the Southern Oregon Hankera’ | ______________ _ “ *it if these wormy pears were Parents ran teach their children ho other season o naturalist I wheat cm when ripe and threshed association today Joined in a drive lathered as soon as the picking se*- to walk safely to and from school; trail hike «• * * fo „.¡Som e growers put In only the acre* Regional Forester *°n 1* over, before the live worms n help provide them with saf galded trip« 'actually harvested and threshed in to request modification of the 1 . S. treasury's gold decree. the fruit, and either fed to ,a a t i o n „ transportation „„ .^ n «Hey ran Instruct ■ (Tater Lake National Park j „ g Ur,ng thrfr acreage and prodne- Tells of CCC Work The bankers' association, meeting or destroyed? We told .w.ia-ee In s a f e driving t ---------- T i n :i» (Tuesday night at Ashland, adopted a A summary of the work accom °I one orchard where the 'resolution asking that shipments of plish up to Sept I, by the 12,- 'trned his calves into the ° r<har;' dangerous practi."* as r .in* T S u m m i t M t . S c o t t Included wheat planted and cut for *nd they greedily ----------- cleaned up ■ " h k of a vehicle, on the running _____ hav of „.„to re Such wheat cannot I gold may be made to the mint, ac «0 « civtltan conservation corps boys * fru,t In an adjoining orchard „ fhe handle bars- , r Lake National Park, Ota. I be Included However, acre, of companied only by affidavits of the working ln 63 camps in Oregon'» - purchasers. forests has Just been released by re C. H. flemaray, president of the gional forester C. J. Buck. Portland I »found The firs, man sprayed his tholls .nd* of achool ‘ h ild r e r ^ p t * , f| , feH. «he highest with the Intention of cutting for ¡local chamber of commerce, today Oregon. W i three time, and the second ^ , h# s(rPe, a„d P>»»ln* {he park, more .cceaa-1 grain but which through necessity received a telegram from Senator This shows a marked production "*n four times Both did thorough 0 « a state trunk highway publlc . trail has or «»me unforeseen situation were McNary , . that had called — P he — ----------- ^ the W atten- Increase over the previous work re- ‘ »raying, hut the first man s fruit dangerous. no mesns worth romp|eted to the top of «he ¡cut for b .y or pastured off. may be In the average acreage tlon of the treasury department t*> port- duP to the fact that the boys much less worm y. We would risk Involved. Running sudd n y P „ wlde and Included the requests had become aenstomed to the use of 1'*“ to hear from others about thi.i Me, .ire. « X «• ■«*» • * • “ 1~l ! * --------------------------------------------- -— ' : tools, necessary equipment for road County allo!meni committeea are or . 0 escape being ^ , mll„ Krom this eminence, (n<nts. adjusting their figures to a- building snd other work had been costs hundred* of young rpmoVe ‘ where a fire lookout station » also i xpected to bave to work several gree with official county acreage installed, and the camp buildings have just been Interrupted by weeka straightening out individuai A child should thfi lorltfd , complete panorama of the trance of our understudy In sa applicai tona, preparlng the data for (and production statistic*, getting completed, releasing the men to la- roller skates before neiore crossing ,akp lake reglon region i, Is possible, as well who brought in three fine i (Continued on Page Four) publiratlon. figurina Individuai slot- jcootrscts signed, and other details street The bicyclist shou d miles distant, • da.* Guess we ll have to go inkin' New Trail Built ,b‘frui’ •,,ofwpd - - ourselves. « S iS T L ii ....- tra HR —- *- -7 7", -~r °"f