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About The Beaverton enterprise. (Beaverton, Or.) 1927-1951 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1950)
BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE— Friday, August 11, 1950 ! Perkins Realized Fortune Awaiting In Cattle IPRISE EARLY SETTLER AT B U SIN E SS O F F IC E AN D. P L A N T P H O N E B E A V E R T O N 2321 Plant located In Beaverton— Tualatin Valley Highway and Short St. --------- --- Publisher .....— _______ Manager ......... __ Editor late Editor-Office Mgr. ----------------Advertising S T A N L E Y W. N E T H E R T O N L. E. T U R C K ----- --- --- - ........ W A L L Y K A IN ....................... MRS E D N A BLACK ------------ W M . (Bill) M O O R E --------------- NE E W SP A PER N A TIONAL ERS € ^ f ^ ^ ASSO ;vBusH CIATIO N C IAI EDITORIAL as ^ c 5 a ,® n S A FE G U A R D OF CONTROL The upward spiral of inflationary prices, let the public be damned while “ they” fret theirs, is speeding up. All levels and most all industries are affected by the mad rush to pump a little leavening into the purchas ing dollar. Printing and publishing now feel this trend, by notification that all paper prices tire advancing by an immediate 10%. Every line, it seems, is under the influence that now is the time to grab a little extra and set up a little higher ceiling when comes an expected freeze o f prices. It matters little, apparently, that price controls will lie accompanied by a roll-back in prices to a certain definite date. The pro cedure must have seeds o f hope that by raising the prices of evep ’thing, some things might not get caught in the eventual roll back. Price controls are cumbersome and re strictive. They are theoretically imjiosed as a protection for consumers who are not well able to protect themselves in the purchase of necessities. Rut the strange goings-on in Washington D. C. point up the gruesome probability that little bleeds the heart o f the federal government at the nation’s con sumers now pressed by an ever-increasing upturn o f prices. True, there are some legislators who have made a bold, grandstand play of advocating price-wage and other controls. Rut though these characters fly the standards o f a pop ular cause, some of the suggestions made are somewhat suspect. And stepping up with a measure which purports to do a public service, yet is doom ed to a quick casting-off, is no substitute for statesmanship which honestly meets a need and sees it through to acceptance. Maybe we are becoming alarmed too easily and too early. Perhaps the prices raises that will come before a curb is made will so far outstrip present expectations that today’s fudging by 5 and 10 percent will seem as the dearest of normalcy. We are not gifted with second sight or clairvoyance. It is impossible for us*to tell what passes in the minds of our national leaders. It is not impossible, however, to know what will happen to the wage dollar we grub out i f this fantastic inflation o f rices for things we need in the conduct o f usiness or supply o f the dinner table con tinues much more. Whether or not there is hard justification for general price raises before the threat o f a war-time economy might be debatable. The matter o f business profit, as reported time after time by company after company in in dustry after industry, repeats a common pattern o f greater and greater volume. Far do these profits outstrip any estimate o f in creased wages, no matter how generously such figures might be padded. The low man on the economic totem pole has little hope o f getting by without the safeguard of price controls. K TH E D EFENSE D O LLA R S It is somewhat startling to regard the rising demands for more taxes with which to prosecute the action in Korea, after con sidering how much money has been osten sibly spent on defense since the day o f A r mistice in August o f 1945. New military funds are l)eing requested, to pile upon the already dispersed fift y bil lion dollars that marked the last four years of uneasy peace. More taxation is being pressed upon us all, even though there has been practically no letup in the federal take since the last war ended. The appetite of the lederal government seems to have been whetted and stimulated by the last abnormal decade. Events have conspired to encroach more and more deeply upon the national income. Sometimes it seems as though the end will never come to the growing burden o f federal taxation. The country is well united behind Pres ident Truman in the action he moved to ac celerate, in seeking an end o f aggression in Korea. There isn’t even an excess of protest at the bland call for more taxation— with never a possible thought at repeal o f war time excise taxes that never have l>ecn re pealed or lessened. It might l>e an extravagant gesture, at a time like this, to just wonder what might have happened to the four year accumula tion o f taxpayers’ money which was allo cated to national defense. In terms of na tional defense which this money was sup posed to provide, it took only the require ments o f the Korea expedition to bring pain fully home the realization that huge gaps re mained in our means o f national security. Could fifty billion have been spent wisely and still not prepare us to a state o f readi ness for "police duty” that the international unrest might have well prophesied? Somewhere, in the complex jigsaw o f na tional affairs, there must exist a relation ship between taxation and high national in come. Whether 6r not the numerical ascend ency of wealth produced is part and parcel of the current, easy-s|)ending philosophy of PROSPERED IN FAR SUBSCRIPTION RATES Published Friday of each week by The Pioneer Publishing Co., Inc., at | Beaverton. Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office j Beaverton, Oregon old cattle days with the landlord, and began harassing the clerk. I d Perkins never failed to point with inquiries^ Where was lh, out to them the statue of the gild- steer which had adorned the tower former years ed steer .n the tower, high above1* in - ....... ...........k ' ~ 7 Some how the place didn't seem the same without the busy street. him. At length, during the severe So A. Everett Meyers, who leased Mr Perkins be- panic of 1803-4 the hotel for ten years, in 1924, HUBER AND BEAVERTON in financial dif- came involved m ***‘~ " brought the steer back from hi. ■ and re FLUNG MEAT INDUSTRY re- stored him to his place of honor the lofty niche. And there he the Willamette valley, driving them modeled the building in 1906 and ^ '“ ^en "today ^ h e ' hotel ^ | to the mines in Eastern Oregon ..legated the steer to ” ow J S l o T l i . d Payable In Advance Hy Hervi-j g. Rubiiuaun Wash A Multnomah Counties One Y e a r _____ _____________(2.00 Two Y e a r s ------------------------ $3.78 ihree Y e a r s _________________ 8.00 si* m o n th s__________________L80 Any reader who has addition al Information on names, pla ces or event« covered by Mr. Robinsou are Invited to write the newspaper. In this way, a more complete historical se ries will be possible. Address letters to Herv-ey 8. Robinson, % Beaverton Enter prise, Beaverton. Oregon. IN O R E G O N One Year . $2.80 O T H E R STATES One Year ..... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $SD0 By Herv«y g. Kobinwon government might lie subject for a good (Continued from last week) argument. Basic mathematics bring the fact home to When Joseph Gaston brought his a wage-earner that the money withheld from Oregon Central (West side) Raii- his weekly paycheck means a curtailment of road to Hillsboro, in the fail of his spending and enough o f that m ight even 1872, Richard Perkins had a farm start him to thinking. And at the rate o f on the present site of Huber, and taxation in the last four years o f perilous f\he„ k.no" " a" Per* T peace, certainly the prospect o f more deduc- school ' 38 ng' er ns c ren went to at Beaverton, about a mile tions is increasingly alarming. further east. I t ’s easy to couch an appeal for more, The annuaI school mee ln taxes on a matter o f m ilitary needs. Rut 1871> had been the occa8ion *of a certainly a little closer bookkeeping or budg- relocation fight. Mike Kennedy eting would be commendable, to bring us a and some of the other patrons, dollar’s worth o f defense for a dollar’s worth who lived east of Beaverton want o f military allocation. ed to move the schoolhouse, which * * * DON’T DLSTURB A D R E AM O f all the fancy provisions put forward, to the loud laments of real estate interests, is the idea o f licensing all transactions, as a W a r m easu re. stood beside Johnson (or Ash) Creek, Just west of the town, to their own locality. Perkins led the fi» ht to keeP *<■ where it was. ' The meeting was held on the porch of Jesse Griffith's store, and drew a large crowd. The arguments S buying cattle ! “ ssr,*■ -• - - - a "handsome'profit.h* ^ ** TeUrementVr 18 years, until 1924 m etT^poUs^th He continued in this bus.ness for But cattlemen^ ,tll‘ ^ ‘‘“ '" b b y nearly 400.000 people, while I^ng- | about two years, then went to the hotel, lounging In the lobt > ,,,, Hnwn frnw, J . Montana, where he followed about and swapping tales of the rango .. 1, , " per ch to watch its growth, the same line of work. H U new day., realized that •omethlni; * • * (ContjnUed next week) venture took him to Idaho, Mon- j missing about the familiar place^ tana and Washington, and south into Texas and California. Often he spent weeks at a time out on the open range. Frequently he drove his herds to grasslands in neighboring states and, months later, brought them back again to the booming mar kets of the Northwest. Once he started for California with 4400 sheep but sold them on the way at a good profit; then continued on to Texas, where he bought 4000 head of cattle and drove them back to Oregon. In 1871, he came back to Port land, bringing a herd of cattle with him. It was at this time that he bought the farm west of Bea by Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation, verton. The next year he bought a herd of 800 cattle and drove them an instrumentality of the United States Government to Umatilla county, where he pur- chased 80 acres for a corral; then A tafe, profitable and convenient way to turned his cattle loose and engaged •ove or invest money. in the stock business. He continued to develope the Beaverton farm, increasing his herd to 5000 cattle and adding a Current Dividend herd of 500 horses. He became one ° f the most extensive stock raisers MEMBER FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK j OPEN A Savings Account Your Savings Are Insured for Safety Up to $5,000.00 2Vi% By the bald statement and sketchy de- continued nearly all day and endod and d“ J*™ ° n ‘ he Pacifi,c <roaat .. scrintion a s carried bv the w ir e se rv ic e s in a comPromls‘*. Whereby the He enjoyed the life of the trail -- - - k * school was placed just west of tht* and the roundup, and established this seems to have a side that is not being Beaverton ditch where it. remain many life-long friendships with protested. Yet, if indications are what th ey*cd for many years, members of the cattle raising fra- seem, this idea would hit a prospective home P, Perkins was an Englishman, who ' ernily- But the years began to buyer right between the eyes and, at the bad COme to America in 1851, when tell upon him, and, in 1886, at the Same time, put a heavy arm on his pocket- he was 28 years old He had learn- age of 63' he sold out and moved book. ed the butcher’s trade from his back to Portland. There he rented Wartime revenue needs o f the govern- father in England, and was very a hotel, the Holton House and di rected it for five years. ment, all can but heartily recognize, call for good at it. In 1890 he began the construc- extra effo rt and added donation by the tax- After coming to this country, he i tlon of the Perkins Hotel at Fifth n n v p r W i t h t h is th p rp sh o u ld hr» littlp rlis- went to Ohio and worked at his I l,u" u* and Washington n u « i street. ai r u m payen W ltn in is mere snouia De little (IIS- traiie fop some Ume But e Avenue It agreement for any adventure in war-making where he went he heard people was ° P ened February 4, 1891 and is an expensive matter calling fo r all out talking about the wonderful op- was one of the most imposing support. portunities in t he “golden west" buildings and one of the best ho- Rut when it comes to putting blocks and and "he decided to go there to tels in the etty, handsomely fur nished and provided w’ith all mod- obstacles in the matter o f home-buying— if make his start, such is the intent o f the proposal— the ac He realized that those who ! ern tmProve*T>ents He wanted it to serve as the sought fortunes in the mines were tion might well lie a little far-fetched. rendezvous for his friends, the not always successful and believed One o f the traditional dreams o f any cattle. ™en' and he ° rdered * Sild' American citizen is to eventually own a he would be more certain of sue- ed statue of a longhorn steer, home. Trading on this tradition, there was cess 11 he stuck t0 hls trade. Hav- carved from native cedar placed sprung up a veritable forest of houses, fi- ‘n* hea,d ma" y 'av° rAbl* * 7 or‘ s in a nich in a corner of the tower nanced by F H A or other means, which has “ K',n e 1 " l<,‘ to near the hotel roof. Range acquaintances came from fulfilled that dream to varying degrees. Early ,n Aprll 1M2> he set out OlK? who is consigned to eternfllly paying across the plains, driving four yoke near and far to stop at the Per rent is hampered from realization o f home- of oxen for Robert Perry, to pay kins and spend an evening rem ownership, ending up with bundles and for his board and transportation, iniscencing the experiences of the bundles o f worthless rental receipts. And SO, The long and dangerous Journey by whatever means, the urge is somehow to was accomplished without unusual incident or hardship and the party get a house to call your own. arrived at The Dalles in early N o Supj)ose the pattern o f war-earnings com vember. pares to the past. Say it. Most people are With $16 in hls pocket, Perkins thinking it, anyway. proceeded to the Cascades, where To the appeals fo r war savings bonds, he worked for a while in a board- which right-thinking citizens will gladly ing house; but, before the end of purchase to aid the war effort, there should the month, he w u in Portland not be tied a restriction that home purchases working for Albright and white, are out. It is too undisguised a denial o f a ] butchers. After a few weeks, he gave up that Job and. ln partner most worthy urge. There m ight be people who would plough ship with A H. Johnson, started ill-gotten gains into real estate, rather than the Empire Market, under the firm name of Johnson and Perkins. following the more decent pattern o f buying For about ten years the business | war-bonds (whose dollars will go to back up prospered, while a great tide of the country’s figh tin g men). Let the restric immigration swelled the population tions be made on them, rather than the of the city.* small home seeker. Watching with keen interest the The American economy is largely based growth of the town and the de upon a free nation at whose core is the small velopment of its markets, Mr. and large property owners. Real estate tax Perkins began to realize the grent ation is the backbone o f government rev possibilities in the cattle business and decided to turn drover and enue. : cattle buyer. Let’s not disturb the one American dream In 1862 the firm of Johnson and so significant beyond others. 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It can be no more than just to admit that, with all his hullabaloo and despite the pow erful enemies he made, that Bridges brought to the once-lowly "dock walloper” , a dignity and a social identity totally lacking before. Because o f this, attempts to carry through on de-naturalizing and deporting Bridges will meet powerful opposition. W H E R E DOES IT GO? A hospital o f the area is in the throes o f labor trouble with statements put forth claiming and denying that service and main tenance employees are underpaid. W ith the high level o f hospital rates, it seems unbelievable that any employee re ceives less than $1 per hour. Where does it all go? • • * F A C IN G U P DECISION The Billy Graham phenomenon continues unabated. In Portland, no doubt attracted by revival ballyhoo and mob psychology, attendance might indicate a soul-searching out o f pro portion to the comparatively few converts to faith. 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