THE AMERICAN
[»ID VI
«•ESTHAL POINT. OREGON. rill R>|i
VV. SEPTEMBER ‘J * . I93S
N l ' I I IKK
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COUNTY W ILL GET 0-C CASH
Musings—
By an Innocent Bystander
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One-halt Sum Due CHEESE FACTORY
To Be Paid Within MAY OPEN SOON
Very Short Time
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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,
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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’ |
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“ *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
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(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
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hav of „.„to re
Such wheat cannot I gold may be made to the mint, ac «0 « civtltan conservation corps boys
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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
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^ 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
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wlde and Included
the requests
had become aenstomed to the use of
1'*“ to hear from others about thi.i
Me,
.ire.
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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
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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.
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