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BFAVFBTON ENTERPRISE Friday, Mo-/ 5, Î950 / Joe Meek, Of Many Led Second Oregon Census „ QUALITY CONCRETE PIPE fo r CORPS OF TEN SPECIAL U.S. MARSHALS COUNTED B U SIN ESS O F F IC K A N D P L A N T PH O N E B E A V E R T O N 2321 Plant located In B eaverton—Tualatin Valley H ighw ay and Short St. PIONEER NOSES; WASH. COUN TY TOTALED 1142 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Published Friday o f earn week by The Pioneer Publishing Co., at Beaverton, Oregon. Entered a# second-claes m atter at the Post O ffice B eaverton, Oregon _________ E ditor and Publisher Asocíate E d itor-O ffice Mgr M m Editor S T A N L E Y W. N E T H E R T O N M RS E D N A B L A C K ------------ W A L L Y K A I N ___ - ------------- N i WSPA PER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL S EDITORIAL 5 5£1 \AiP cb ' & A VOICE IN TAXATION By H erw ) S. Robinson Payable In Advance W ash A M ultnom ah One Year ............ T w o Years ---- — ______ T h ic e Y ears ---------------- Six m o n t h s ----------------- Counties ___ $ 2.00 ___ $3 75 ___ 5.00 ___ 1.30 IN OREGON One Y ear. . . . ------------------ O TH ER STATES One Year .....— ........ . . $2 50 $3 00 Any render w h o hne addition al Information on name«, pia re» or event» covered by Mr. Kobinaoii are Invited to write the newspaper. In this way, a more complete historical se ries will be possible. Addre»a letters to H ervey S. Robinson, % Beaverton Enter prise, Beaverton. Oregon. (Continued from last week! LIVES ARE AT STAKE Joseph L Meek, first Sheriff, under the P rovisional Governm ent, took a census o f Oregon residents in the sprin g o f 1S45. P ractically it was o f the population o f the W illam ette V alley at the end of 1844. H e w as not required to go north o f the C olum bia or east o f the C ascades. era] letters to his friend D. J. Schnebly, publisher o f the O regon S pectator, g iv in g am using ac cou nts o f his experiences and of the progress o f the w ork, which were published in that paper. F ifty years later, in June 1900. O’Neill, then an old man, w rote to j the P ortlan d O regonian. "W h en I read o f the sm all arm y o f enum er ators, and th e m u ltiplicity o f sta tistics to be gathered in the forth com in g (T w e lfth ) census, it brings in vivid con trast the free-and-easy, go-as-you-please ta k in g o f the cen sus o f O regon and W ashington T erritories in the year 1851, when the well k n ow n old mountaineer, Joe M eek and m yself constituted the entire fo rce o f enum erators. (N ot quite accu rate, see above- H .S .R .). CULVERT DRAIN SEWER IRRIGATION See Your Building M ate rial Dealer I I Portland Concrete P ip e ,A Products Co. Phone: A Tw ater 8384 5819 S W . M acadam AUTO LOANS The CONTRACTS REFINANCED There is a pull and a tug in the state, Whenever Death lurks at a crossroad and PAYMENTS REDUCED this year, dealing with a problem of political lives are jeopardized or snuffed out, there power. In the general election, there will is a natural tendency to romanticize on what be a confusing choice facing voters as to caused it or didn’t cause it. Many will say, whether they desire “ balanced” ^apportion “ If this hadn’t been, the accident wouldn’t ment or “constitutional” reapportionment. have hapi>ened.” Political values may be factors of selfish “ My portion o f the w ork took So happens in the recent death at Fanno interest or of public interest. And when the T he secon d census, that o f 1849. in W ash in gton , Benton. Polk, Linn, Crossing, near Progress, in the collision of subject of reapportionment comes to the was by a corp s o f ten "S p ecia l” and Y am hill counties, while Meek front, both factors in politics finds its an auto with a locomotive. U.S. M arshals, under the able di took the w ork in g o f C lackam as. Some say that the driver was exceeding rection o f U.S. Marshal Joseph L. "Seated in the stern o f a Chinook supporters. I left O regon City one The basis of apportionment of senators sane limits of speed. Others point out that M eek; and the Oregon phase o f a canoe, ftern oon and paddled down to an alleged race between this driver and a the Seventh u.s. Census (take and representatives in the state legislature truckload of youngsters was the keystone every tenth year since 1790) was P ortland, m ak in g m y canoe fast is contained in constitutional provisions.Ore- circumstance which caused the tragedy. con d u cted by MarsTw.1 Joe Meek at a lan din g som ew here near the gon provides that the number of senators What cannot lie denied or escaped is the and ABS,»,ant Marshal Dan O ’Neill. foot o f A lder Street, taking in first and representatives shall be fixed by law stores and residences, few in fact that this crossing, at all times, is a ! N<‘ , °*her Person for *h‘* j°b the at the session next following an enumera rla num ber, alon g F ront and First n triT tn t r a f f i c r e g a r d l e s s o f s n e e d a n d would have been as satl8fact°r y 1032 S. W Canyon Road tion of inhabitants by the United States or danger to irallic, regaiaiess OI speed and to O regonians generally as "O ld streets. Then clam borin g around j oe \jeejj k wn8 the general opin- am on g the fallen trees and brush, HASKELL SHOPPING CENTER this state, according to the number of white allegations of reckless driting. If there is ever a burden of responsibility ion that "W h en a better census is follow in g the sound o f axes and population. PH. Beaverton 4665 ham m ers, gathered in the suburb- | on safety standards at this crossing, it taken, Joe Meek will take It.” The ratio is set by dividing the whole License M -383 an population, finish in g m y w ork number of white population of each county would seem to rest on whatever forces deny Joe'» o fficia l duties as sh eriff, on the second day. and la,ei a» marshal had taken or district by the number of senators and adequate warning at this rail crossing. “ L eavin g P ortlan d m y next tie- It is impossible, of course, to argue that hlnl “ n °ver ‘ he territory covered representatives. The number of senators and r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s , i n e u u u i o c i u i b c u a w i o a im ** j , J T and he knew alm ost every man, up was in the W illam ette Slough, r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s , o f c o u r s e , may be increased t h e driver o f the death car is altogther woman and chjld in it yUnlike on the right bank o f Sauvies Is to keep abreast of growth in population, blameless if, as official reports indicate, he many prom inent men o f that day. land, m aking m y w ay on foot to something which the state has rather neg was burning up the road. Certainly every i he had m any friends and few the house o f M cIntyre, where I law of traffic and common sense would - enemies, rem ained over night. There were lected to do in the past. The census got o f f to a late but tw o or three fam ilies on the One of the conflicts that arise in a re point an accusing finger at him under such start in Septem ber. 1850, and was island. From there I went to St. apportionment is the matter of just where a set of circumstances. H elen ’s and a few other points to draw the fines of senatorial districts and, What is blameworthy, not only in this i ?°‘ co“ f,!rt*d u n t i l the first ,,f dow 6801 S. W . Garden Home Road n the river. in case of more than one county in a dis instance but on every dark, rainy, visibility- hT,CeH V sometime! "R etu rn in g to Portland by the ( 2 M iles W est of M ultn o m ah ) trict. obscured hour of the day, is the absolute 118M The data however was of little steam er C olum bia, and start The phrase "gerrymander” always enters lack of any signal to warn motorists of th ei18 5 o with a proviso that an im- ing on h orseback , I com m enced into deliberations of reapportionment. To coming of a freight train at this crossing. , m igrants arriving during the fall tak in g the census through the val put this phrase to work is to divide a How many of the Tualatin valley have and w inter o f that year should be ley and settlem ents o f the W illam voting district so as to give an unfair ad been aware of the lurking shadow of Death incit>ded in the count, ette, the settlers being found gen- vantage to a particular political party or at this railroad crossing? Certainly the M eek assigned five o f the m ost I erally on the river Sides and at the interest. In other words, it is a procedure number must be great. Under some condi-, r°P“!^usI1°f ° r<>KOn's ‘t" cou" t,*s foothilU” Will Have Grade " A " Asparagus, Etc. of misrepresentation and one of the trends tions, it is difficult if not downright impos- "' P,Y v,P\e M'n": ° ° n ^!a',cb 13, 1851’ The sPe<’tator Benton. Yam hill, and Meek » own had the follow in g item. "W ash in g- that must lie vigorously turned back, in the - { h i p t o l>p w a r n e d o f d a n r e r h e r e Si Die to De warned OI danger, nere. [T u alatin (recen tly renam ed wash- ton C ounty con tain s a population PHONE CHerry 8603 FOR INFORMATION interest of good government. When a speeding freight train, pulling a ington, in h onor o f M eek’s native o f 2,650. O f this num ber P ortland One of the early compelling drives in the mile-long string of flat-cars blocked the county in V irgin ia). has alm ost one third. 857 persons, O PEN D A IL Y - A LL DAY establishment of the United States was the road, more than one car has nearly run J o« took the rem aining five, but all told. F ou r hundred and fifty o f deep, commanding anger at taxation with into trouble. And the growth of trees and j deputized Samuel Culver to do ! this num ber were im m igrants o f out representation. The founding fathers bushes lining the track on both sides of the ,he w ork in c ,a t s °p . and W illard last season.” determined that the nation they were estab highway obscures visibility from a motorist. H Raes, ln * arl0" Hve re’ ° n a p h i 10- 18M we « n d : "T h e i \— au -i----- 1 . - ^ --------- 1 ------ : — i : - a : — seised for him self O Neill n hom e census o f Oregon, just com pleted, lishing would, if nothing more, give its citi Death shocks a populace into ----- realization zens a voice in all matters of major govern of values. Surely this tragedy j>oints up the county, Clackam as, and Lew is and am ounts to 13.323 persons. It is C lark counties, north o f the Co- estim ated that th ere are about mental decision. necessity of an adequate warning signal at lumbia in what is now W ashington 2,000 o f the last im m igrants not The audacity of a comparable band of the Fanno Crossing. s i» !* ' included ln the a bove.” untried emigrants rising up in arms to chal Lives are at stake. Joe had found ln W ash in gton W h at im pressed Mr. O’Neill lenge the mother country, England, with a j ( Tualatin) cou nty in 1849, a total j m ost p rofou n d ly was the num ber j defiant Declaration of Independence, occa o f 1142 people, m ost o f them in 0f children in the pion eer fam ilies PEACE PERFECTIONISTS the vlclnlty of present For„ t “ T he population o f Linn cou n ty ” , sioned sneers and ridicule in many of the There is a great cry for peace across Grove, H illsboro and N orth P lains: he wrote, "averages about seven councils of power in Europe. What was not measured in the American Revolution was the land. But the subject is one which de a few lit the bu ddin g village o f to each fam ily, and strange to »ay. Portland, who had to go over the there are quite a num ber o f bach the complete disavowal of political tribute mands a variation of terms. Believers in peace, up to a certain i>oint, hills and through the w oods to elors in the cou n ty.” without a reciprocal representative. reach their cou n ty seat at Hills- I H He e found one fam ily with 12 j Guarantees, after the long, hard war of do a lot of talking but when it gets down to boro. The 1850 census revealed children, hearty and well, the pro- j Freedom was won and the colonies had come cases the most influential veer off in con m ore than double that num ber. duct o f 18 years. A nother had 9 every around to uniting, were written into the tradictory ., , directions. . , And , - . new „ , W hile he was engaged In count- children in 11 years H e visited a Constitution of both the new nation and thumping Of war drums throws peace-talk- ing noses, Dan O ’Neill wrote s e v - | nvimber o f fam ilies where the I by Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation, its states. And, providing for future growth, ers into a dither, giving them new alarms, m other was but 14 years old, sev- an instrum entality of the United States Government reapportionment is allowed on the basis of new excuses and renewed ¡iessimism that j eral w ere only 13 years old. In j population increase as proved by official their wishful thinking will fail of success. K ing's V alley in P olk cou n ty was A safe, profitable and convenient way to a m other who had born triplets i census counts. So it has l>een in the matter of the na about five m onths previous, tw o o f i save or invest money. Oregon has lieen remiss in keeping its tional decision to manufacture the hydrogen w hom were still living. T he third ! apportionment of senators and represent l>oml). had only recently died. atives to the state legislature abreast of its There has been, so far, no announce 2 2 T hree fam ilies by the name o f : population. Now, with a new government ment that a hydrogen bomb has been accom Applegate, in the Um pqua Valley Current Dividend conducted census soon to l>e completed, an plished. There has lieen, likewise, no fac contained 39 children, the distribu effort is to be made to reshuffle voting tual b a sis of its destructive |H>wer. Only tion being about equal betw een the M EM B ER F E D E R A L HO M E LO A N B A N K lines and increase the personnel at the the scientific prophecy that its manufacture three. state legislature’s “ big talk house.” would signal a world-wide reaction of radio At one place the father gave Here there arises two directions to take active destruction which would scorch the him the names o f nine children, —a “ balanced reapportionment” or a “ con earth and lay desolate both the washed and and said that there were fou r or [ five m ore but he cou ld not rem em stitutional reapportionment.” the unwashed, the active and the inactive ber their names and called in the The sometimes dormant antagonisms I k *- participants in the next carnage of war. H ILLS B O R O , OREGON m other to finish the list. tween rural and urban interests are coaxed Immediately, Man’s thinking turns to HAVE A YEAR'S INCOME IN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT' At another place the head o f the to life by this issue. The playing o f city the dejected depths of utter futility in house was absent and his colored Accounts Insured to $ 5 ,0 0 0 folk against country folk is an instrument |H*ace. The ideal of outlawing war and ex housekeeper was asked in what \ 7 «. . . ‘ V j Ai* »V that reflects the alleged difference in basic- tending Brotherhood totters and threatens state he was horn A ssum ing a thinking of the two segments. to crumble at the concept of a scientific kn ow in g look, she answ ered. "A h Country folks, farmers particularly, arc monster which will lay us all in our tracks, don 't now just zactlly what state, deemed more conservative than those with a, at the first outbreak of hostilities. hut Ah think he was born in the business and particularly an industrial state o f B ellem ony. Ah d on ’t know The Northwest Institute of Interna-j 5 » '* * J A • ’ * t V if it joins K aintuck or not. A h've background. By jockeying state senatorial tional Relations, which will convene at' Light beer is the beverage often heard him talk about It.” He districts, it is possible to include part of an Reed College June 18-24, recognizes the hy M O W MAKE YOUR PRIVATE was a native o f Ireland. A nother agricultural area with a predominantly city drogen bomb threat to international peace of qitftration. Enjoy - man stated that his father had | S E W E R A G E S Y S T E M segment, leaving the balance of jRiwer with and asks whether its authorized manufac m oved around so m uch that he :\} . . . * the city section. Even among farm repre ture excludes “ a continuing search for other A W ELL B A LA N C ED UNIT was unable t o answ er the question sentatives, there is dissention. approaches to problems of world peace” . correctly For instance, the Farm Bureau, which W hat did the census man find The question istelf, no matter how sirT- operates as some sort of counsel for a tn the area now occu pied by B ea cerely and honestly asked, indicates the con part of the agriculture industry, proposes • S ta r ts Septic Action verton. M ultnomah, T igard and that each county shall have at least one fusion in the minds of those who believe in Aloha W ell not m uch lo c a t in g l y m p i c representative. On the face of it, this seems |>eace. Should there ever lie a time when settlers there In the hills and fo r • S t i m u l a t e s B a c t e r ia ests was like look in g for the pro to be more representative of the interests fielievers in an ideal can doubt the very foundations of their faith? verbial needle in a haystack. • Elim inates Odors of all. • 7 / i the Water' H e visited a house on F anno Peace is indivisible. It is not i>eace However, in counties of Oregon where Creek and found Augustus F anno population has been shrinking representa for “ me" and not for *Vou” nor peace for sharing his hom e with E lias S till “ us" and not for “ them” . There can In? no tion in the state legislature, under such a well, age 28, his w ife Isabel. 20. a proposal, would weigh more heavily than peace as long as there is dissention andi daughter Mary R. age 1, and a Camp Cvttpool and SeptK Tank Con- teria and they work and reproduce in counties where {iopulation pressures are strife l>etween nations and people. little boy E ugene Beanhaus. p rob by the millions to convert sludge into ditioncr works on a new and proven increasing. In effect, it would discount the The problems for those wno would out ably an orphan o f the trail Nathan | hqutd If your cesspool or septic tank principle. It starts septic action im value of a populous county’s representative law war is to so implement their thinking R obinson was livin g with his fa m is too small for your requirements, use mediately. It corrects the chemical to have him offset by a legislator whose th; t there can lie no war. Positions must ily where R eedvllle is now. T h o m Conditioner and see results. structure of the material in the cess constituency is projiortionately less. as D enney was on his claim just l*e yielded and concessions made for an in pool or septic tank. It feeds the bac- 3, 6. 12, AND 30 LB. CONTAINERS north o f Fan no's. The Constitutional Reapportionment Com ternational charter of nations to enforce the The H ickllns. R ich ard son s and * i,, o» • •* U S P«f. O # . p * * d in f mittee, carrying its message to the Farmers ideals of pence on the strength of the fact G raham s w ere located down T i Union, says that 87 percent of the popu that peace cannot I k * denied if civilization is gard w ay but W ison T igard had lation and 80 per cent o f the rural farm to continue. not yet arrived population live in the 18 most populous The experience of the United States of List o f settlers k n ow n to be in counties. It urges the basis of reapportion America, in it formative stages, offers a the vicin ity o f B eaverton incltide ment on the level of population alone. blueprint of organization for world jteace. Fanno. w h o m arried R ebecca D en R etail Dealers in Feeds, Seeds, H o rticultural and Since the leveling of taxes hits everyone There must be an executive |*>wer. however ney in 1850; T hom as Denny, m »*- A g ricu ltu ra l Supplies representation in state government should »rived at. which will force the jteople of the rted R obert and A rron Dennev single- Felix. John and Jame« likewise involve the full population on a fair world to keep peace, even against their will. 16 S W Farm ington Rood, Beaverton H icklin R obin son. W illiam G ra apportionment. There must I k * a practical formula for ham and John and Allen R ich a rd In these days, a voice in taxation seems advancing the desperate longings of ¡teuce son. an escapable necessity. perfectionists. Paxson F mance Co. Whitney's Custom Cannery Will Open May 8th OPEN A Savings Account Your Savings Are Insured for Safety Up to $5,000.00 The attributes '/ % of good fellowship Washington Federal Savings and Loan Association are Tolerance,, Courtesy, Moderation and Respect. FOR SEPTIC TANKS l CESSPOOLS! IIUVV O v BEER * FINDLEY MILLING CO. Phone 3851 (Continued next week)
