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ff . o !- - r l.#M* I -- , * * m ¡m & LARGEST C IR CU LATIO N IN EASTERN W A SH IN G T O N C O U N T Y \ ( >L. 9, NO. 50 Beaverton, Oregon. Trida). February 14. 1936 — [Babson Marking Project for 150 Towns and Cities Begins A W P A project to m ark 150 cities ami towns in Oregon its under w ay as letteis have been i ssued to cities and towns throughout the state ask . ’ * ' * . ing cooperation in the ven tu ie by the state board o f aeronautics, spon sor. In essence, the plan is to paint the names of tow ns on the roofs of a large building in or near the tow ns IN V E STIN G IN 1936 selected. The p roject is nntion-Avide jn scope and cooperation has prom ised Ilahsou Advises l “ v. stors T o T ake assisting com m un ities the .advertis O ut “ liiflatiion Insurance” ing advantage^ to be a fforded by forth com in g air m aps which wilt bear the names o f those w hich are B abson Park, Florida, Feb. 14 properly air-m arked accord in g to ^uuent interest in security m arkets Allan D. G reenw ood, state aeronaut- b n n g s back m em ories o f 1928. Vol- [ ¡C3 inspector, unit- o f trading is highest in several t years. S tock prices have advanced ---------------------------- to a new peak sin ce 1931. B ond Hugh Lewis to Open prices are at record highs. Interest 3 r in “ cats and d og s" is p ick in g up. Implement House Here T ips are being freely passed around. f In fact, the w hole situation resent- F ront bles the “ good old d ays” even though E rickson building on basic conditions are far sceunder to street is Using rem odeled having re- I cen tly been leased to Hugh Lewis, day than they were then. j who will open an International Har- TW O FACTORS ; vester com pany agency. He will W hat Is behind all this m arket ac- deal in trucks .tractors and farm im- tivity. Basically, o f course, the rea- plements. son is the sharp rise in b u s i n e s s . ___________________ Activity, accord in g to the B D airv D ealer« M eet chart, is up 5ti per cen t over the 1933 U d , r y U e a l e r * 1V leet depths and 15 per cent above the jn Portland Feb. 17-18 low level o f 1935. N early every in- dustry is en joyin g better sales; pro- The annual convention o f the Pa- Í“ * c iflc States Butter. E gg, Cheese and ing resumed. R etu rning Industrial P oultry association, con sistin g of prosperity is a ttractin g funds into wholesale dealeis and distributors the m arket from every source. o f these com m odities, will be held S tock s are goin g into stron g hands. ■ ’ in Portland M onday and Tuesday, especially in view o f the investm ent Feb. 17 and 18. The association cov- m on ey available due to the „ num er- . er# the seven western states, and ows called bond tesue. Specula- dele t are expected from each o f tion is increasing, but this is not a the principle cities o f the west, as "sh oe-strin g” m arket, b rok ers’ loans well as representatives from New are only one-ninth the 1929 level. Y ork, C hicago and other points o f A nother im portant influence on the m iddle went. fe e e n t market activity has been the renewal o f Inflation fear. F or the Water Rates Requested past year we have heard little about this subject, but with the A A A de- j by Research Bureau cisión and the passage o f the Bonus, unsound m oney talk plopped right und back into the headlines. The cha- In form ation on water rates otic e ffe cts o f cu rren cy inflation w ater departm ent operation o f the have been given great publicity in tow n have been requested by the bu- the United States. T he m a jority o f rtau I,lunic*Pal leseareh o f the thinking p e o p l»-tiro co m in g to reaSi UmwviiBly o f O n gop, a ccord in g to ize that they must protect them selves woA ^ X bulletin containing in form ation against It H ence, on every occa sion that an inflation scare develops from cities all over the state wiil be under the direction o f the there is a lot o f sh iftin g from one prepared bureau as an NY A project. Two class o f securities to another students, Oscar W illiam s and F ran B ASIC P R O G R A M cis B eck, have tjeen assigned tne B ecause o f the above, reader» may task o f com pilin g the data. f(e interested in m y thoughts on a In form ation sought includes the sound investm ent policy tod ay I am ount o f water distributed annu would base such a program on my ally, num ber o f reservoirs, am ount of B absonchart o f physical volum e o f pipe, num ber o f custom ers, num ber business T his chart show s graphi o f m eters, m unicipal service and oth cally the lon g cylinder areas o f de- er details. The bulletin will be press ion and prosperity w hich pro- a v a l,able lo any interested when the vide the op p ortu n ity to buy and to w ol.k . com pleted. sell secu rities successtully D uring __________ tim es o f depression and recovery, se- j Beaverton History cu rltles o f all kinds m ay be a ce u m u -; lated p rofitably D uring periods o f \ prosperity, profits should be taken * B a ck in the early eighties hungry in meet com m on stock s and som e cou g a rs and other wild animals ju n ior bonds. The proceeds should | roam ed the w oods o f this Tua.atin tne invested in short term bonds or • V alley. C. W . Alien relates a thrill- held in cash to await the next fa - 1 ing experience o f one winter night vorable buying opportunity. Usu- H e had been to see his father, the ally high-grade bonds can be retained ia te Oi in S. Allen at the oal hom e on as a protective backlog. Allen avenue. It was a very dark T he above outline, b rief as It is. j night so C. W. hurried alon g the contains the prim ary elem ents o f a dark trail past where the old brick Hucoesrtul Investm ent program yard was established in later years, R igh ! now business is in a recovery to w a id s his home on the old B etts period Hut It Is still below normal place, now known as the K in g Den- (10 per cent below a ccord in g to the ney ranch. About the tim e he B abson ch art). T herefore, I feel that reached the swale in the lonesom e we ure In a period when m any se w oods, he was startled by a terrible cu ritles can still be purchased ad- scream ! It sounded like a wom an's vantageously. W ith the outlook fo r voice. Then he thought o f his w ife better business during the next year and child over in the w ilderness or tw o, every Indication points to along F anno creek , d r o p in g around higher stock prices There will be. |n the d a ik he found a big club, o f course. Intermediate periods o f re- R u n n in g through the w oods on the a ction ; but the m arket is still in a old road, arriving at the big gate at fundam ental upward sw ing Care- edge o f the m eadow , over the top he full> Ivcti-d stock s (and I can not went past the oak trees, through the o\nr-em phasize the im portance o f clearin g up to the house, rushing iu selection ) should sol! m uch higher the front door, out o f I « path, asking liefore the m ovem ent culm inates. hR w ife if she was hurt, did you G O O D BONDS a t CEIR1NG scream . R ock in g hei little child to H igh-grade bonds, on the other sleep, she looked up in am azem ent, hand, m ay l>e at the peak o f their “ N o I didn't scream . W hat's the upward swing. Many classes o f , m atter." W hile both o f them were gilt-edged securities ace selling high- sitting in front o f the fireplace, er and yielding less today than ever som ething jum ped upon the porch, before. A s Industrial activity con - then ran off. Allen grabbed his tlnues to im prove, opportunitites fo r rifle, rushed outside, but saw noth- earn in g a sa tisfa ctory return on ing . m oney in business channels will be A few days latei he heard that Mr. better than in the oond and m ort- N ichols, who resided about 1 Is miles gage m arkets. Furtherm ore, as di- Southeast o f the Betts place and vidends increase, poasibilites fo r bet- close to Garden Hom e, had shot a ter yield and appreciation in stock s cou gar in his ch ick en yard the fol- will attract m oney away from bonds, low in g night which m easured eleven Hence, it now looka nw though high- feet tip to tip. S a ys--- grad'.' bon d s a r c a p p ro a ch in g a c c il- Ing. N evertheless in the th irty -fiv e years in which T have been stu d y ing Investments I have becom e more and more im pressed with the fact that you can never be sure you are right. Hence, I believe that every p ortfolo should still continue a (su-k- iug o f b o n d s an security against the unexpected. T here are possibilities, for instance, that tro*uhle abroad or a trem endous tax program at home m ight bring on a period o f business hesitancy. B onds are the cyclon e cellars o f a deflation ary period E x perience proves con clu sively that any balanced investm ent list must c o n tain a portion o f good bonds as we.l as com m on stocks. Itundliulders' D anger Signals The im portant jo b tor today's in vestor Is to p io te ct him self against either inflation or deflation. At th>- Continued on Page 3 P rescriptions Brow ns D rug Store. NOW Is The TIME TO SUBSCRIBE FOR THIS NEWSPAPER Would like to have every taxpayer on our subscrip tion list. $1 PER YEAR P U B L IM IK D W E E k L Ÿ Keynote of New School Described at County Council Meeting Feb. 11 1 It'll Freezes Over at Last County Agent Gives Tips on C o-operation and tolerance is the keynote o f the new sch ool described by M is Em ily R oberts Martin, Km-1 dergarten-P riniary Supervisor of the Portland P ublic Schools. M is. Mar tin spoke to the m em bers of the W ashington County C ou n cil o f Par-1 -v r . C om m ercial fertilisers have an im ants and Teachers at their meet ing at the Aloha Grange hall, F ebru portant place in grow in g crops. Just ary 11. on "E d u catin g for the Art of how m uch m oney is wacted annually HR Riving.” She »aid m any teachers oil com m ercial fertilizers, im properly h iv e given of their ability to make used, can not be estim ated, q u a n ti the young child's sch ool home a ties o f them are bought each yeur place o f joy and grow th. The child and used on soil type« and on par L a S' ren show Im provem ent in em otional ticular land where increased crop / stability, in acctepting ropponsihjty, returns could not he expected, in the ana in mental and manual skills. opinion o f the W ashington cou nty ’Hie Hist grade children of the farm ers w ho prepared the soils re Aloha Huber school, under the d ir e o . port fo r the recent econ om ic c o n fe r | lion o f Mrs. Rulu B arker, their ence and w h ich was approved by the | teacher, gave rythm band num bers I farm ers present. dem onstrating school w ork in the The use o f com m ercial fertilizers art o f music. Mrs. B a ik er »poke on crop s planted un land that has ! briefly on the help that m others may give to the very young children in l>een crop p ed to g ia in foi u good the enjoym ent o f music and rythm. m any years w ithout the audition of The fourth grade gave a health pla> barnyard m anure, stiuw or has hud 1 mi cried by Miss Mary Grand, then a co v e r cto p plow ed under, is not practice. lle a ch e i. which showed how child likely lo bfc a profitable These farm ers from their experience Y ou've ol'ien heard the expression “ when hell freezes over,” hut tills time i ion m ay be given an interest in health habits. and observations con clu ded 1 hut the it's literally true. Buried under six in d ies o f snow Is the little settlement o f Mrs. F. W. Blum, state corresp on d use o f these kind o f fertilizin g m a H ell, M idi., a name given by one o f the early settlers who was arrested for not ing secretary, gave the third lesson terial» is a sp ecific crop and indi paying Ids taxes on whisky he was distilling there. He christened the town on the use o f the manual. She em- vidual farm problem s. Any purchase H ell, atiil Hell it lias been ever since. The photograph shows a dam at Hell meetings a ccord in g to correct parll- o f com m ercial fertilizer should be frozen over. Although the little river is not named, it presumably is the phasized the value o f con ductin g based on the percentage o f available IU rer Styx. am entary procedure, and pointed out plant food it contains. that the ideul Parent T eacher asso G tow ers o f bet lies, pai tioulariy, ciation is a parent-education group rather than a m oney-m aking group. • and farm ers wlio were also g lo w in g Mrs. Blum explained the value o f ' various oth er crops, discussed their Local Fire Department Legion Auxiliary to tiie P arent-T eacher M agazine in all expci lenccs in muking up thi» report and their opinions, w iden are bosne Host to County Group to be Installed P. T. A. activities. The founders o f the National C on out by other data also, indicates that gress o f Parents and Teacher# w ere where the soil is in a good physical The newly organised Am erican Re honored at a luncheon served at con dition d u e to a good supply o f T he B eaverton Fire Departm ent Aloha G range H om e organ ic material and w nere tile fe r laddies were hosts Tuesday evening, gion Auxiliary Unit o f the Tualatin noon by the F ebruary 11, to firem en from H ills Valley Pont will be installed next E conom ic club, with Mrs. E. Culberf tility is com p aratively good then the T he P. T. A. use ot these fertilizer^ will be m ore boro, F orest G rove, Cornelius and Thursday, F ebruary 20th, accordin g son as chairm an. to the announcem ent oy Mrs. Claude colors o f blue and gold were carried profitable than w here the soil is in m em bers o f the loral group. Nelson, President o f the Unit. Miss out in the d ecoration » and cundles a con d ition opposite to that ju st in C harles Douglas, president o f the W ashington County F irem en's asso May W aters o f Salem, will be the used in the can dle lighting cerem ony dicated. installing o ffice r and will bring with and in a beautiful birthday c a k e ciation. was elected a delegate to a G round lim estone is the on ly form her the initiation degree team o f the bilked by Mrs, A1 Jannsen, president con vention being held at Salem to o f lime this soils grou p cured to Salem Unit. Departm ent o ffice rs o f •f the R eedville association Mrs. m ake arrangem ents fo r a program both tile Am erican le g io n A uxiliary L aw rence RaDue, president, and the recom m end for use in preparin g o f education foi firem en under the and the Am erican Region, a# well as m em bers o f the A loha-H uber associa land fo r alfalfa. At any price at state departm ent. many Unit o ffice rs throughout the tion had charge o f tin. entertainm ent w hich hydrated lime has been o ffe r Speakers o f the evening included state are expected to be present next arrangem ents. ed, the com m ittee believes ground Mr. Holden, w ho talked on fire fight Thtirsduy evening. Mi s. Allen Knight, cou nty cou ncil i lim estone that is available would ing, Jack Hayes, deputy state fire president, conducted the business still be a cheaper aeid correctin g m arshall and Ed Surfas, state fire t meeting. C om m ltt -e and P resident's m aterial. G round lim estone should chief, were present, the latter speak i «ports were given. Mrs. Knight generally be applied on land where ing on m ethods o f preventing fire Dog Control Board urged thal local .^residents he nom P referably dam ages. inated soon so that they m ay attend a lfa lfa la to bfc; grow n. Meets at Hillsboro the | I hi» should be put on in the fall, but school o f instruction to be given ! I by Mrs. C. E. Roe, national field I m ay be applied even up to shortly Hoover’s Salary Not Used Whan M em bers o f the county dog co n secretary, the last week o f March, before the alfalfa is seeded. it Is put on in the spring, however, for Personal Purposes trol board met T hu rsday in the cou n in Portland. not be any Mrs. R. p. Rasm ussen, o f H illsboro | there will naturally ty court house at which time eon- "M r. H oov er throughout his public traels were signed with cltlu» m ak Mrs A1 Modin o f Forest G rove, and benefit from its action until the fo l Mia. /Garfield Hite, o f Sherw ood, low in g year. T here is not any career never used any o f the salary ing . o.U etions o f dog licences. C'Die-, t)'.iking collections include were elected a nom inating commit-j eviden ce to Indicate that the use o f paid him as a public o fficia l for his H illsboro and (Forest tee to present names in the electiqn any form o f lime In con ju n ction personal purposes, but alw ays ap-1 B eaverton. for the j with the Dog licenses will b^ delin o f o ffice rs for the cou ncil com m ercial fertilizer on plied such m oney to publio service i G rove They will report a t ' beaverdam soil w here an onion crop o r to ch arity." F io m “ T he H oover! quent aftei March 1 at which time com ing year. the Council meeting in A pril at G ur-! A dm in istration : A Docum ented the lie uses will double. Collections is to hie grow n, will be o f any bene den Home, N arrative,” by W . S. M yers and W .! m tde by m unicipaltles are divided, These beaverdam soils are The luncheon was served lift' Mrs, fit. H. N ew ton, published by Charles | 80 per cent to the cities and 20 per usually sour and to com pletely cure Etta C ulbertson and co m m itte e ,: cent to the county. S cribner's Sons. Gladys Sobers, Mrs. A. M. Jan n sen ,' that acid con d ition would require a ___________________ I Mrs Ed Johnson. Mis. B arbara Tol- quantity o f lim e the cu»t o f w hich A Nuo°et Find lefson, Mrs. O scar Hagg. and Mrs. would be prohibitive. Big Load Ties O nions are Ted Em erson. ------------- I not a ffected by a sour soil and from R oy Stewart, forem an with Martin D iscovery o f a 30-pound nugget data available there is no in dica D oeschei and llienry R it ten t haler not long ago near the village o f Pol- Playin« Guitar evskt in the Ural gold fields o f So have been busy unloading 752 R. R. tion that the use o f the lim estone viet Russia has draw n attention to ties from a box ta r near the O. E. Ihutsduy D ario Casale was going wiil increase the effectiven ess o f oth the fact that 100,000 p rospectors or R y. depot last few days. down West St. with a gu itar under er fertilizers used. ganized into brigades are now scou r his arm. H e is learning to piay this ing Russia for gold. E S T E R G. CORBINS I wind plaster is quite generally used instrument and takes quite un in T he nugget was the third largest E sther G. Collins, aged 51 years, on red clov er und alfa lfa in this ever dw covered in the Soviet Union, died Saturday, February 8. She is terest in music. county. T here are som e cases exceeded only by a 52-pounder found survived by her m other, Mrs. C. B. in the South Ural Mountains inl842 where it Is used on veten and peas. New R. R. 1 restle-Elmonica and a 35 pounder discovered in the Coliins and one sister, Mrs. Vallie Ils use on these tw o latter crop s Is R obin on, o f McMlnnvlile, Or.,; C. same region In 1882. A bridge gang have been busy C ontinued on I’age 4 Soviet prospectors w otk for the Earl Collins o f P ortland and Russell erecting a new It. R. F un past month Soviet gold trust on a “ grubstake" E. Collins, Bos Angeles, Cal plus a percentage basis. R eliable eral services were held Tuesday, trestle one ball mile W est o f El- inter- m onlca on the O. E. R y. em ploying estim ates by foreign observers place F ebruary 11, M cM innville nine men located at O ren co siding the gold found by this prosp ector»’ mer.t E vergreen Memorial Park. Rooks like the S. E sther Collin» when a little girl in station cars. arm y at $1 Oil000.000 last year, oi an average o f about $1,000 per p rospec attended the Beaverton school. H er P. & S. anticipate m ore freigh t tr a f father the late Charles Collins was fic to be touted over their lines in tor. in partnership with R. A. W right the neat future. the firm o f W right Ar Collins suc- Ex-Sailors m ----- Invited to Meet plo- oeeded the J. Hamilton. ------------------- i G x ru u u m e I late d le / A. » . »#. Don’t Push the Cattle There will be an open m eeting for ^ neer store keeper at Beaverton, The E. Mrs. C. enee ot all ex-sailors on the Battleship Ore present residence It's easy to spend the oth er fel gon Tuesday evening, at 8 p. m . Feb Hedge was erected by Charles Col low 's money. W hy all this ha#te in j ruary 18, a ccord in g to w ord sent out iins about 1891. friends organizing a m onster u tility d istrict! Such yarns as the lum E sther Collin» had many 8lv Battleship O regon Naval Post No Esther in IhR com m unity. iH»ui' over one million dollar bonds 1478. berjacks, the cowboys, for the poor tax payers to pay. Just i because P eter Z m m etm an says so. I the railroad men, the He is the sam e fellow w ho is in fa -j vor o f »ellin g bonds for the p oor tax | o il-f ie ld d r ille rs , the payers to pay during tne next fifty i years. A lthough P eter Zim m erm an 1 sailors— yes, even those and others may talk in fa v or o f i more bonds, m ore taxe» He also in- 1 Americans who go fish troduced Senate Bill N o 1 in 1935 to repeal the “ Syndicalism R aw " but ing I — all are included 1 it was overw helm ingly defeated It lH a bad policy to rush the cattle ! in the new series I wait a while. Uncle Sam is spending m illions o f dollars building the B onneville Dam to supply the Northwest with ch eap er power. I*eave it to the Federal governm ent to dlslrlbAite ch eap power. Do we have to send to W ash in gton D. C , fo r postage stam p» Uncle Sam seems to have su fficien t supply In ‘ all the 48 states with the price O K 1 and the service is fine by the same token. When Bonneville Dam is com p let ed Uncle Sam will give the N orth- we»t a square deal on th e pow er question. A i to Id to T axp ayer'» we Irecommend ev ery body "V ote N o" on all these wild cat schem es and keep W ashington cou n ty In the Hall o f F am e as one and o f the few counties o f O regon with no bonded indebtedness W ashington County T axpayers League, In c Starting thi# w eek on P age 2 Use Fertilizer r- \ f J AMERICAN FOLKLORE a Lion or Lamb? ]D TALL TALES Frank E. Hagan Elmo Scott Watson