TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1921
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
PAGE FIVE
LOCAL BALL PLAYERS
DEFEAT "EIGHT M1LERS"
The Eight Mile aggregation went
-down to defeat before the onslaught
of the local ball tossers Sunday af
ternoon. J. Pluvius tried to damp
n the enthusiasm, hu? the boys
played ball just te same over In the
aifalfa field adjacent to the school
house.
The visitors "eight-miled" back
home with a total score of eight, and
the local talent tallied just twice
ight..
For the home team Doc. Farrior
undertook to guide the elusive ball
across the home plate to the catch
er's mitt, but the "eightmilers" took
kindly to his assortment of curves
and chalked up two runs in the first
and three in the second.
However the locals found the
groove the little Eightmiler was
laying 'em down in, ana as there
were no holes in their bats, they tal
lied pretty regularly the first few in
nings. Doc retired In the fourth in favor
of Elmer Peterson.. Pete had pitched
full nine innings for the high school
the day before, but finished the
game in fairly good form.
Anderson in center field make
some spectacular catches, and Aiken
behind the bat for the town boys,
played a steady, consistent game.
P. A. Anderson officiated as um
pire. The gate receipts amounted to
quite a tidy sum and ill be used to
fix up the ball grounds.
AMERICA BEHIND IRISH
RELIEF MOVEMENT
Local Irishmen prominent in the
Ir;sh relief movnunt have received
assurance from. Oivmu congressman
tiiat they are behind the work of
providing for the needs of the starv
ing people of that unhappy country.
N'ot only congressmen but prominent
people in every walk if life are giv
ing their endorsement as well a
their substantial assistance. Te
Uickard, famous sporting promoter
slipped a C-,eck for over $60,000 to
the committee the other day and
movie actors and other celebrities
are doing their bit in fine style.
The money contributed will be
used every dollar of it, to provide
fcod and clothing and shelter for
thousands of Irish kiddies who art
now in dire dis:ress. Have a heart
and give a dolalr ot more.
History.
History Is the first distinct product
of man's spiritual nature, his earliest
expression of what can be called
'bought. Cnrlyle
VULCANIZING
We have established a first class
Tire Repairing Plant
and are prepared to give you the
BEST OF SERVICE
One block east of Hotel Patrick
CHASE & WILLOW STS. HEPPNER
j C. V. HOPPER
RANGERS LEARX ABOCT
FOREST FIRE LAWS
There has just been held in Port
land a three-day conference of men
from each of the N.-.tional forests in
Western Oregon tp learn more
about forest fire laws of the Feder
al Government and the stale and
how to enforce these laws in order
to put a stop to needless forest de
struction. This conference was for
the purpose of acquainting the field
men of these forests with a know
ledge of what the tresspass taws are
regarding fires left burning in the
woods, how the rangers should se
cure evidence about the guilty
parties who purposely start forest
fires, those who leave unextinguish
ed camp fires and unpermitted
hsush fires, and how ana wnen they
should report all such cases to the
Justices of the Peace or lother state
or Federal officer. It was bropght
out at the meeting mat the Justices
of the Peace and other state peace
officers are on the whole helping in
a splendid manner the forest rangers
in this work.looking towards the
full protection of the timber re
sources of the northwest.
The meetings were conducted by
T. M. Talbot.t, who is in charge or
the fire law enforcement work for
the U. S. Forest Service in Oregon
and Washington. TVie Portland
meeting was addressed by Assistant
j U. S. Attaorney Hall M. t,usk and
I Deputy County Attorney Morey, of
Multnomah County. The conrer
i ence was attended by forest officers
from the eight National Forests ly
nig west of the Cascades. The men
in attendance were: Deputy Super
visor C. B. Neal and Forest Examin
er A. G. Jackson, Oregon Forest,
PoTtland; Forest Examiner, H. M.
White, Columbia Forest, Portland;
Ranger H. G. White, Santiam Forest,
Detroit; Ranger H. E. Vincent Cas
cade Forest, Eugenje; Forest Exinn
iner A. R. Wilcox, Sluslaw Forest,
Eugene; Ranger u. C. Hauser,
Umpqua Forest, Rosetierg; Ranger
J. P. Dewitt, Siskiyou Forest, Grants
Pass; and Ranger E. C. Peachey,
Crater Forest, Butte rails.
A similar meeting was held In
March in Seattle for the rcugers of
the Washington National Forests In
which county officers of King coun
ty joined. Future meetings if this
kind are scheduled for eastern Ore
gon forests at Baker on April 14-16,
for officers, from the Whitman, Mal
heur, Umatilla and Wallowa forests,
and atBend on April 18 and 19 for
rangers from the Deschutes, Fre
mont and Ochoco nationel forests.
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AUTO LICENSE FEES
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MXETY-SIX PER ( EXT GOES I.
TO HIGHWAY KIM)
Growth of Motor Car Industry Re
flected in Money Fxpemted "on
Bettering Travel Routes
you should sep this comedy. It is
given by the Lexington high school
and will be- given at tne school's au
ditorium. A nice game of ball was played by
the grammar grades of Lexington vs.
Heppner on last Saturday. The out
come of the game was a score of 18
to 6 in favor of Lexington.
On Saturday the 16th the Lexing
ton high school ball team will play
Condon on Lexington's field. Come
and see a lively game.
Dedicatory services were held at
the Church of Christ last Sunday.
Improvements have been made on
the church recently and the dedica
tion of the church was most fitting
at this time. Mr. Sawyer from Port
land was the speaker of the day.
Lexington is glad she is a terminal
for the road work. .
Some of the students of L. H. S.
are letting their education interfere
with their studies.
A Soap Unequaled for the Laundry
IS d3TS 0
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rocery Co.
(Telegram Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, April 7. Of the
$102,034,106.26 collected in the for
ty-eight states and the District of
Columbia last year for automobile
motorcycle and registered ehaur
feurs' licenses, 96 per cent or $97,
997,160.60 was applied to road
maintenance or construction. In
1906, just fourteen years ago, prar
ticaly none of the automobile reve
uue was applied to road construc
tion or maintenance. There has
been a tremendous change in the
last fourten years.
In, 1906 the total registration or
cars was 48.000, the total gross rev
enue was $193,000, or just about
what Arizona paid in 1920. j ast
year 9, 211.295 motor cars, includ
ing commercial vehicles, were regis
tered. In addition to this number
there were 248,146 motorcycles.
The amount received from regis
tration revenue last year was equal
to approxfmately 2 5 per cent of the
total rural road and bridge expen
ditures for the calendar year 1913.
In 1906 the gross income from
registration was only equal to three
tenths of 1 per cent for expenditures
on account of total rural road and
bridge construction.
Expense Too Small
The most significant, feature of
the report, which has been compiled
by the bureau of public roads of the
cultre, is that only 4 per cent of the
entire amount collected was applied
to the administration expenses and
purchase of metal number plates.
All of the rest of the amount, almost
$100,000,000 went for road work,
and of this sum 79 per cent, or $77,
531,582.57, was expended, under the
control or supervision of the several
state highway departments.
For a number of years the general
tendency toward devoting an ever
increasing portion of the motor ve
hicle revenues to road work under
the control and direct supervision of
the stale highway department has
been very noticeable. Prior to 1912
only a very small portion of the mot
or vehicle registration was devoted
to this purpose.
In 1920, 76 per cent of the reve
nue, or $77,531,582.57, was applied
to road work under the direct super
vision of the state highway depart
ments, and in addition $20, 465,57s.
04 was applied to road work by
counties or other local supervision,
but with little or no direct supej.
vision from the state highway de
partments. States Vse Funds
In most states the motor vehicle
revenues are devoted to maintenance
and repair of the state roads or oth
er improved highways. These states
seemed to have solved fairly well (he
difficult problem of securing funds
for the maintenance of the more im
portant roads under (he ever-increas
ing traffic requirements. As both
the traffic and the revenues increase
'with the number of cars, (here ap
jparently exists a possibility of so ad
justing the registration rates as to
keep pace with the ever growing
I maintenance changes.
I A number of stales having in gen
eral but a small mileage .-r improved
'roads have recently adopted the plan
of capitalizing the motor vehicle
revenues and devoting thess funds
'to road construction. The states
doing this are Illinois, Maine, Min
'nesota, Missouri, Nevada, Utah and
I Wyoming. In them bonds have
! been voted or Issued for road con
struction, and the principal, In anme
Instances also the Inter., i o he
I paid entirely from the motor vehicle
revenue.
At the beginning of 1921 there
were still seven states in which tho
motor trucks were registered at the
same rate as passenger cars, but in
recent years there has been a ten
dency in most states to increase the
lees required for molor trucks over
and above thhse required for pas
tenger cars. This iiirrew is hkii.iI-
il- based on the weight of the tni -k
a,nd Its carrying capacity, Its horse
;ov er or a combination oT Dies'!
f.ict.irL,
i Loads Limited
The most general practice seems
, to be toward definitely limiting the
.maximum total road weight of the
vehicle and basing the registration
fee on the capacity of the trm-.
Some few states have adopted a
scale of fees which in Hie actual
practice serves to make the operat
ing of very heavy trucks Impractic
able. In Colorado, New Mexico and Ore
gon, In addition to the registration
fee, a slate tax on gasoline or other
products used fOf the propulsion of
motor vehicles Is also' levied. In
HO'ne states motor vehicles are taxed
as personal property in addition to
therequired registration fee. In Ala
bama, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Mich
igan, New Hampshire, New York,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon,
South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ten
nessee and Vermont the regisira
fees are In lieu of an personal property.
STAR THEATRE
Friday, APRIL 15th
MABLE NORMAND
IN
JINX
A classic of the big top a story of the pathet
ic little slavey of the circus whose one ambi
tion was to emulate the dance of "Rory-Bory
Alice, the astounding agile 'exponent of the
famous Fiji Fling".
The Liveliest of Mabel Normand Comedies,
which is going some, you know.
NEWS .NOTES FROM
LEXI.(TO
Mrs. Jack Llltell and little son
Dean, from Portland, are vtnltors at
the home of Mrs. Litters sister, Mth
W. O. Hill. Mrs. Littl is also vis
iting many of her Heppner friends.
The baseball boys ol the L. H. S.
have received their unilortris and arc
very much pleased with them. In
many ways the uniforms are better
than wa expected. It was through
the financial support mine of the
business men that the suitti were ob
tained. The nchool certainly appre
ciates this fact.
The three act comedy of "Safety
First" -will be presented to the public
Saturday, April 16th
HARRY CAREY
IN
SUNDOWN SLIM
The finest and most human western drama in
which he has appeared.
lie was the ramblin' son with nervous feet,
That never was made for a steady beat,
He'd been on the bum and he'd lived in style,
But there was the road windin' mile after mile,
And nothin' to do but go!
Sunday, April 17th
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
IN
MID CHANNEL
F.lhel Barrymore's great stage success, writ
ten by Sir Arthur Pincro.
It is the big picture of the season, for every
married couple, every engaged couple ;and
all swethearts. It is de luxe in investiture,
scnes, acting and production.
20 cents and 30 cents each night
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