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BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE— Friday, Ju ly 8, 1949 \ \.V vili#/,// . / BUSINESS O FFICE AND P L A N T Plant lornted in Beaverton—Tualatin Valley Highway and Short St Published Friday of each week by The Pioneer Publishing Co., at Beaverton. Oregon Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office Beaverton, Oregon. Luelling Family Had Role Of Importance In Wash. Co. ther made some remarks, though There was quite a long bank o( was I do not remember what he said, it in th e hollow but It coarse and not very slipper/ but he was always very apt in Hector and John Steward an<j his talks. We did not drink any Lavollette GUken were with us wine as we were principled and we sang and talked and had against it but we laughed and a good time. joked and had a good time. A f "T h * next day we came down ter dinner we went up to the to Bear river." snow and tried to slide on it. j • Continued next week) cutting down trees and making stakes and cross pieces and lay- ing wagon boards on them. We had a regular feast, baked beans and biscuit o f course, roast ante- i lope, dried fruit, ice cream and FOUNDERS OF REGION FRUIT INDUSTRY PASSED the big plum pudding and cake FOURTH OF JULY WITH CELEBRATION ON TRA IL from home. “There were speeches, too. Fa- By Hervey S. R obinson were all glad and thankful to get (Continued From Last W eek) a drlnk again We camped there The Luelling name is so inti- ^ d>gthe <Uy W* nt ° n t0 the mately associated with th» pio- S n* ‘ STANLEY W NETH ERTO N ............ ................Editor and Publisher At Green river there were MRS EDNA BLACK ................. ............. Associate Editor-Office Mgr neer fruit industry at Milwaukie W ALLY K A IN -------- --------- ------------------------------------ News Editor that the members of this family Mormons with canoes, taking peo- are seldom remembered in any p*e and ° * ,‘n across. Tw o men LEE W ESTERM AN .............. ........... ... .......... Advertising Mgr other connection. So it happens w°uld be in » canoe, one to pad- SUBSCRIPTION RATEA— P A Y A B L E IN ADVANCE that the career of Alfred Luelling dl* a" d one to hold a rope tied Washington A Multnomah counties in Washington county is unknown the oxen s nose and horns, Member: Oregon Newspaper Pub- One Year ..... . to most present day residents al- *°°P®d Hite a halter, but not Ushers’ Association Two Y ear* ___ ________ 3 75 though he took an active part In aroubd his neck; the knot would E D I T O R I A L county affairs for a period of six- Three Years ___ ________ 5.00 N A T I O N A L under his chin. I think they Six months ____ ________ 1.60 I A S T O O í V T Í 3 N teen years between 1862 and 1878. cHarged 32 a head for taking Outside Territories 1 Alfred Luelling was born in In- them ov* r One Year ............................. 12 50 | _ _ diana in 1831. At the age of six ! " W e crossed the river rather years, he went with his parents *n the afternoon in steel wa- to Iowa, where he attended pub- l ^on boxes shaped something like lie school. His father, Henderson f_lyla*1 *cows. painted a deep blue. Luelling, was a farmer and nur W e went across very safely. Vacation time is travel time and tends to center attention on “ When we came to Ham’s Fork seryman and Alfred assisted him hangover from war-time regulation that has carried over to the pres in this work. In 1847, the family we saw a very large Indian vll- ent. That situation is the transportation tax, first imposed on the c&me to Oregon. Alfred, then 16 j 'age o f tents. The Indian women grounds that it would tend to eliminate unnecessary travel on heav years old, drove an ox team, were tanning buffalo hides and ily wartime-patronized facilities. This amounts to 15% on all rail drawing a wagon containing the an Indian man stood near them. bus and airline tickets. famous Traveling Nursery, most W e thought he waa supervising Apparently the return from this taxation is a sizeable chunk. At of the way across the plains, ar the work. The tents were very were painted j any rate, although it can’t have escaped the attention of Congress riving just six months from the white and some day of their starting, at a point with various figures. W e thought this considerable tithe on travel continues. on the Columbia river opposite those were the chiefs’ tents. The Canadian travel offices, this season, are undergoing quite a rush Indians were very friendly. Vancouver. of business from the United States. Their government has cancelled "As we went on we came to Alfred and his father were the out taxes on travel and, as a result, railroad, bus, airline and mari founders of the fruit industry in |« beautiful pine grove and there time travel costa are reduced in proportion. In addition to saving the this region. The traveling nursery we overtook the Louisville corn- 16% tax. a favorable monetary exchange adds from 5% to 7% more. consisted of about 700 grafts o f pany. It had passed us the eve- Canadian transportation, by such a setup, is also reported as bene- various kinds of fruit trees, ning before and was camped for I fittlng. Even though tickets on Americn trains, planes and ships shrubs, vines, etc, planted in box a half holiday. It was the Fourth may be obtained, through Canada, miijus the tax, prospective trav es in a wagon. His father settled of July, and they were preparing elers, too often find it convenient to make use of Canadian travel near Milwaukie in 1848 and A l a fine dinner. One of their par fred attended school there for ty had shot an antelope and they services. had brought some material es about two years. Regardless of the money this tax might bring into the bottomless At the age of 20, he was mar pecially for this dinner all the pocket of Uncle Sam, it hangs like a millstone around the neck of way from home. the railroads, helping them build up a case for permission to raise ried to Mias Mary E. Campbell, They asked us to have dinner daughter of Hector Campbell, their rates and effectively discouraging passenger trade. county judge of Clackamas coun with them. We did and stayed A breakdown of transportation tendencies, as published by the ty and first school teacher at there the rest of the day. W e had •Transportation Association of America, points out the struggle that Milwaukie. The Campbell family some milk cows with us and envelops them, for existence. Aside from private transportation, had crossed the plain in 1849, one found some snow in a hollow» back of the grove. They had airlines are credited with carrying some 8% of total passengers and hundred years ago this year. In 1862, Alfred Luelling moved used it to cool their wine, and are doing so at a loss. Busses, carrying 30%, are considered as oper ating at a profit. Railroads which haul nearly 60% o f the passen his family to Greenville, Washing we made ice cream with some gers are credited with having lost some $560 million last year in the ton county, a crossroads commun of It. The men had made a table by ity about two miles south of doing of it. Banks. Of all three travel means, the railroads sing the loudest chorus of In 1866, he was elected county blues With an average jump of freight rates during the last three commissioner of Washington years of some 44%, plus the latest temporary 5% boost pending ac county and in 1874 he was chosen tion of the ICC on a railroad request of 13%, the rails are losing vol county clerk and held the office ume to waterway and highway flrma. Which only goes to illustrate a for two terms. In politics he was trend toward patronage o f Canadian travel means. a reformer tn the strictest sense That portion of the population which enjoys the recognizable ad and somewhat in advance of his vantages of railroad travel react the same as shippers. I f the tariff times. He took a prominent part political conventions and in proves too high, the railroad Is in effect pricing itself out of extra in the affairs of the local and state business. " And the present inequitable transportation tax on travel services grange. He was a staunch sup proves of no substantial help In encouraging any but the most pri porter of public schools and an earnest and conscientious advo vate means of transportation. cate o f the temperance cause. He returned to Clackamas coun ty in 1878 and lived at Milwaukie »»ntll he was elected county re corder of Clackamas county In It is an alarming thing, te any city, when it 1^ faced with the 1896 While at Milwaukie he was prospect of bavtng to run its essentia] services on a drastically cur active in the movement for the tailed budget. And eo, among the other municipal headaches visited initiative and referendum and upon the city fathers of Beaverton is that of trying to amend the ac participated in the organization tion of a small percentage of the voting population. July 27, in de of the Direct Legislative League and the Populist party. He was feating the city budget by a 3 to 2 margin. This situation, of course, has a lesson in it for any city, water appointed deputy county treasur district or other branch o f the government, for it might be heralded er in 1898 and In 1900 was elected as the revolt of downtrodden taxpayers who strike back at a levy be treasurer. He died in Oregon City Novem yond the six percent limitation. Whether this is a supposition or a ber 11. 1904. His wife survived fact depends upon who’« telling the story. him and lived at Milwaukie for a One of the stories offered as justification for defeating the budget, number of years. She died at the readily told in many conversations about town, relates an Impatience home of her daughter, Mrs. Giv at certain city employees. Petitions had been presented, with the us ens at Oroftno, Idaho, August 23. ual handful of names, and a seething nucleus of "aroused taxpayers’* 1919. reportedly laid plans and made big talk that they were “ out to get" In the latter part of her life. Mrs. Luelling dictated to her the jobs of the Individuals concerned. Certainly those who pay taxes are justified in protesting the ser daughter a detailed account of her vices o f any city employee. And. in this case, 77 citizens presented the journey across the plains, includ majority opinion and knocked the prop« out o f all efforts of the ing the story of a Fourth of July celebration on the trail just 100 city council to put the city on its feet and meet the future with a years ago. better ordered conduct of its business Like most of the ox-team emi Now when it comes to putting over an opinion that certain city em grants. the Campbell party ar ployees are inefficient and a detriment to the welfare of the city rived at South Pass on the Con as Is volubly declaimed smashing the city’s budget is an expensive tinental Divide about the first of way of accomplishment. July. When they came to the Big Economy has been the continuous cry, among taxpayers. It was, Sandy river they stopped at noon in fact, upon the premise the city wanted a bualness-like administra and spent the afternoon prepar tion that Mayor H. H. Jeffries campaigned and was elected to his ing for the dry drive of 35 miles over the Sublett cut-off to the office. Green river. Food wns cooked Those uninformed of the legul side of running a city say. "Pooh1 and casks filled with water for All they have to do is fir# the men In question and call another the Journey. election. And the public will approve the budget 100%." Mrs. Luelling related "W e cook To put over another budget election necessitates, first, the payment ed beans, bread and dried apple of budget preparation. Time must be taken In hearing, publication pies. We were pretty well along and adoption. Election date must be advertised and the Judges and with our cooking when a large clerk paid. It will be a matter of more bills and needless disburse party of men came up and want ed us to cook some ptes for ment, before ivnother budget can be brought to vote. When there Ls a concerted demand for economy, it hardly seems de them, which we did It was n tedious process, as the pies hud fensible to go all out in a campaign to discharge certain employ to be baked one at a time tn the see by disrupting the city government and causing needless expense Dutch oven . in the process. Hot tempers and radical action to put over the op "A fter aupper we drove until inion of a numerically small percentage of the taxpayers (as rrpre two o’clock at night, when the rented by some 77 "N o" votes) seems short-alghted to put it mildly moon set and It got so dark that And Uir ieaaun in the situation is that other taxpayets who become we stopped until about three. disgruntled over some conduct of a government agency may deter Then we got up. ate our break mine upon radical means to express themselves. In so doing, it must fast. We had a keg of water with us and made coffee and went on. be remembered, the costs come home to roost In oar place, only "The oxen had no water that the taxes that are assessed. night at ail and when we stopped It is sometimes much more satisfactory to go about a proposition at noon poor old Berry was sick open and publicly, without resorting to thoughtless action It is every We thought he had eaten some citizen's right to vote ae he sees fit, but in all case«, the costs come poison grass We expected to get home to rooat! to Green river about three or fou- o’clock so we gave all the water we had left to Berry. That afternoon was very hot and we kept going and going up one hill and down another, think- j ing every time we got to the top j of a hill v/e would surely see > Green river. "It was dark before we got to the river, going down a long hill ( F U N E R A L S E R V I C E S FOR ^ and then through a hollow be- j M O RE THAN 50 YEAR J HAVE A YEAR'S INCOME ween two hllla. The oxen were much excited a» they neared the water and father and Heetor had all they could do to drive the | cow* and went on ahead We YOU ARE C O R D IA LLY INVITED $ to see our complete collection of suits. I ' coats, dresses and millinery in w Of No Substantial Help BINDING'S DREAM HOUSE Now FASHION HOUSE 1 Thursday, Friday, Saturday (ANY OTHER DAY BY APPOINTMENT) (O W N E D AND MANAGED : EVENING I 1 PEGGY SPARKS BY APPOINTMENTS J 1 FORMERLY OF NEWBERG, OREGON WELCOMED FASHION HOUSE 575 M ayfield Riod (Blanding's Dream House) Near Cedar H ills CApitol 3118 JULY Costs Come Home To Roost ONLY THREE DAYS * to open your account at the Washington Federal Savings and earn a full six months return on our next dividend »late. January 1st. 195«. WE HAVE JUST PAID OUR 48TH CONSECUTIVE SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND W HICH WAS FIGURED AT PER ANNUM Make Y our Savings Bring You the Best Iteturn Consistent With Safety Y O U R ACCOUNTS F E D E R A LLY IN SU R E D T O $5.000.00 FINLEYS J.P. Finley & Son • S.W .4,h at Montgomery • ATwater 2181 Washington Federal Savings Loan Association HILLSBORO, OREGON IN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT' ACCOUNTS INSURED TO $5,000 Ul
