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IF YOU HAVE A GOOD BUSINESS, ADVERTISE AND KEEP IT; IF YOU WANT A GOOD BUSINESS, ADVERTISE AND GET IT
VOLUME VIII
HEPPNER, OREGON, MAY 3, 1921
NUMBER 1
OIC OIDMIT ID
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TEACHERS' PAY PARED
LIVELY MEETING OP DIRECTORS
HELD HERE SATURDAY
Oiini(n General That Salaries
Rural Teachers Should Take
1 Downward) fc'rend
of
MORROW COUNTY FARES 1VF.I.1
WITH HIGHWAY COMMISSION
It was a lively meeting of school
directors at the court house last Sat
urday when representatives of some
twenty or more rural school dist
ricts discussed the question of teach
ers' salaries for the coming school
year.
Mrs. Lena Snell Shurte, county
school superintendent, presided at
the meeting at which there was not
one dull moment and the general
opinion expressed by the numerous
speakers was that, in view of the
terriffic clump in the price of wheat
wool and livestock, accompanied by
steadily climbing taxes, that teach
ers in the rural districts with only a
small number of children to instruct
should be satisfied with less pay
than has been received during the
past year. Instances were cited where
districts have been forced to pay as
high as $133.33 per month for inex
perienced high school girls to teach
a half a dozen pupils and the point
was strongly brought out that, as
compared with the present prices of
farm products, such compensation is
more than the service is worth.
Joe Devine, who farms extensively
north of lone, stated that up until
the past year nis district paid $75 to
$80 but last fall they were obliged
to pay $133.33 per month for an in
After all the criticism regarding
road work in this county th-,t has
been directed against the county
and the state highway commission
court and state hignway
commission it is of some
interest to compare the
expenditures already made and con
templated by the state and county in
highway construction work already
done and ordered to be done in this
county. It should be remembered
that the original program contem
plated that the state highways
should be built on a 50-50 basis be
tween the ptate and the counties.
The highway commission was given
a wide latitude in this matter, how
ever, in cases where a county went
limit but was financially unable
to complete its share being permitt
ed to put in more than 50 per cent
of the cost in, order to complete the
more important highways.
Morrow county bonded herself to
the limit, $290,000 for good roads,
and so far she has expended, and will
expend on roads already ordered
built, the following amounts:
On Oregon-Washington highway,
Gilliam, county line to Hepner, $149
000. On Jones Hill grading, $26,000.
On grading and macadam three
miles west of Heppner, $19,000
On Columbia River Highway,
$22,000.
To be expended on Hinton creek
section of Oregon-Washington high-
iway, work already ordered, $40,000,
a total of 256,000
The amount already expended bv
the state in thin county together
with the estimnUd cos of hhe work
already ordered to be done are:
On first unit of Columbia River
highway, $131,590
On second unit of Columbia River
REFfltll
STATE
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MEASURES HEAR
YOTERS TO PASS UPON
MEASURES JUXE 7
Other Propositions Include Change
In Session Periods And Pay
And Extension of Veto Right
experienced teacher. Mr. Devine
said that he sold his last year's crop (highway $106,376
of wheat for 96 cents a bushel and
that the indications now are that the
coming crop will go around six-bits.
Farm wages, he said, have come
down and other commodities are
dropping right along and he thought,
as a matter of equity to the taxpayer,
the compensation of teachers should
come down to a more reasnoable fig
ure. Mr. Misener, who is also an exten
sile farnmier - and taxpayer
expressed the belief that
with everythni.; else
the drop and the farmer with a
heavy investment in land and equip
ment unable to pay his taxes or
even to buy himself a suit of clothes,
that teachers pay should be reason
ably reduced.
Mr Barlow pointed out that the
wages of farm hands have dropped
from $75 to $100 a month to $40 to
$60, that the cost of general living
is falling right along and that the
teachers should also accept a reason
able reduction.
Mr. Witzel, of the Morgan dist
rict, also favored a reasonable reduc
tion. He said that the taxes on his
property has increased lately from
$100 a year to $400 a year and that
about one-half of the increase has
been for school purposes of one kind
and another.
Al Henricksen. of Cecil, stated
that his district paid $90 the past
winter to a young lady who in addi- j
tion, to her duties as teacher took i
over the janitor work at $10 a j
month and gave good satisfaction. i
Charlie Doherty Mso endorsed tue
idea of a reasonable reduction for
the present when the farmers and
Hockmen are so hard put to mane
ends meet believing that under
changed conditions and with a mea
sure of prosperity again established
that the patrons of the rural schools
will gladly advance salaries to cor
respond with other things.
Mr. Palmateer, also or ju.h--.hii
Estimated cost of completing
grade from Gilliam county line to
Jones Hill, $400,000, a total of
$637,966 showing that thhe state
has expended or will expend on work
already ordered some $380,000 more and license bill.
SALEM, Or., April 28. (Special.)
Five state-wide measures, three of
.them proposed amendements to the
state constitution and four munici
pal measures, will go before the vo
ters of Oregon for their approval or
rejection of the special election of
Tuesday, June 7. All were referred
by the 1921 legislature.
The legislative act fixing the date
for the election provided that only
these measures should be voted on at
that time. For any county or other
municipality to submit any othe.
measure on the same date an addi
tional special election would have to
be called.
The state wide measures to be
voted on are:
Constitutional amendment iength
ening the duration of the state leg-
islaiire and increasing the pay of
members.
Constitutional amendment creat
ing a world war veterans' state aid
fund.
Constitutional amendment . enab
ling the governor to veto the emerg
ency clause on legislative measures.
Hygienic marriage emiuiuauwi
UMATILLA MAX PRAISES
ROW'S ROAD CREW
MOR-
than the county has or will expend.
Really it looks as if Morrow coun
ty hasn't much of a Kirk coming at
the highway commission.
Measure qualifying women to sit
as jurors.
The measure lengthening the dur
ation of the state legislature amends
section 29 of article 4 of the consti-
Leo Nickolson, well known Hepp
nei oo.y, wnu 13 a MUUt'Ill al tile ,itinn
on i University of Washington, came in a I t, M tha ,,,, , thp KPS.
tew day ago and will take some ex- ""' " "
ercise and replenish his hank ac- sion from forty to sixty days-; in
eount with a shearing crew. Leo ' creases the pay of members from $3
made the U. of W. basketball team I tn jr ri.,v f,. hnth reeular and
last year and is accounted a real
athlete at Washington. He also
nlays a whizzing game of baseball
mid helped lone lake Condon down
the line last Sunday.
should have more pay than the poor
special sessions; places a limit on
the period within which bills may be
introduced, with the exception of
appropriation and defense measures;
places the president, of the senate
and the speaker of the house on the
one. t-ne also Drought out the fact j RamP pay a8 olhrr members, eliniin
that the rural teacher pan i.nt l.rv.wi ....
1 I. .'In.- 1 Vi.i nv.Lcint r. revt i: i .ill 1 li (1 flwv
c-hall receive au additional com pen
cited a case he said he was familiar
with in Lane county where an of lie- ;
ient lady teacher taught a rural
school hist winter. with 2 5 pupils and
also took care of the building for j
$75 a month and compared it to a :
Morrow couiny district that paid
$125 to a girl it aching eight pupils.
Mrs. Devine. who is clerk in her
district, fa'vond a sliding seal'- of
pay lor country teaclii rs based on
efficiency. Shi? believed that v.age.
shou'id lie ger. Telly reduce 1 at ties
time but lhcu,ih; the good teacher
GENUINE
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and room for $25 a month while th
town teacher has to pay an average
of $47.50. She also ursred move and
bettor snnervision by the (school sup
intnd"nt and the directors charging
'hat the average school director
fakes little or no Kterest jn school
or teacher after hiring thhe teacher.
Vawter Crawford, clerk of the
Heppner school district, was called
upon for remarks and made a stroni;
plea against the reduction of sal
aries. He referred to his long ex
perience in school affairs and said
that, the efficiency of the school
must be built up and that great care
should be taken in contemplating
any reduction. He told the farmers
and stockmen present that they
thought moie of ilioir hnr'-e.-t art
cattle than they do for their child
ren which brought a storm of pro
test from those present. Or'es of
.no nnrl "hit down" erected the i
speaker who explained that he only i
meant, tint they should work for '
better efficiency in the school. Mr.
Crawford probably used the evpres- :
slon as a mere figure of speech." j
'"Irs. Charles Ila ri holomev.', of!
ill" t.i.y liivori-f! e.ne.) pay for off.,.
lern ruisii loaders with trade teach-'
' rs of city schools. She said that
while the town tepeber has but. one
or i wo i'i .- to handle, the rural
'ea'-b.-r, in re-nv rasi s. has eicht
f ' " " " i'1 -ivin t iiii. u,t i,
sll"U;d 1. id accoriliiu-H- if .r.:.
i nt. " ' '
Mr. Smith, of the st'ite ' s'r-ierjii-'-leii
tits oi'fi -e, in charro of h Her
(fiiency in the high schools of the
: was pri'M-iit and made a short
t !"iij r. .sy. Up uM) , f..(.0 jn r(1.
(''Ution of i;lnries poiniins ort that
la Ki-(-i:t lioitate ft .-n-hers -xists
,and that any material reduction in
salaries will tend to drive si'iil more
teachers away from the profession.
Mr. .Smith also gave some pointers to
the directors about hiring teachers
He advised that a fnorough under,
standing and agreement should be
ihad with the teacher as to Just what
would be expected of her at the time
;sne signs the contract
sation equal to two thirds of their
pi r diem allowance as members."
Xo change is proposed in the limit
of duration placed on special ses
sions or on the mileage allowance of
m embers.
Thepurpose of the World War
Veterans' state aid fund amendment j
is. to quote the title, "To issue bonds
not to exceed "per cent of assessed
valuation of all property in the state
to raise money to be loaned in I
amounts of not more than $4000 or j
paid as a bonus of $15 for each I
month of active service, hut not ex
ceeding $500, to each honorably dis- .
charged resident of Oregon who s-er- '
ved in the United States army, or 1
navy, or murine corps between April
6, 1917, and November, 1918; to f
levy an additional annual tax of 2;
i-eiis to pay priiii'ii.-il and int'-ri st 1
lot Mich In nils; and ratifying corn lu
i Live legislative enact men Is."
I The "correlative enactments"
! mentioned refers to an act passed by
the legislature providing t!i:- i
each qualified veteran of the world
war may i.o row lp.ni the Mate n;i lo
.tr.o'in or may receive a ;. Ji !!..
'of a mom!! !'r Hie tin." lie v-a.
in si rvic", hut i;(,t to exceed ;,co.
This act would be iief.ect.v" I.o
lack of funds should tie- propo.
coins', tutional amendment fail to
'pass. While the constitutional am
endment authorizes loans in amount
up til 1 4 j u i, the act pasni'il by ll.e
legislature fixes the maximum loan
at. $3000, therefore $3000 would li
the largest amount a veteran could
borrow.
Veterans takitifc loans pay the
terest entirely in twenty-eight years,
although the veteran may pay up his
Relative to the bonus the argu
ment says:
Application for bonus must be
made within one year from the date
the act became effective. The first
sixty days of service are excluded
from the time for which a bonus may
be paid, as it is considered that the
government bonus of $60 paid at
the time of discharge covers the first
60 days of service."
Relative to the bonus, the argu
ment explains that the bonus period
is extended to November 11, 1919,
one year after signing the armistice,
because it was many months after
the ending of actual hostillities be
fore the men overseas could be re
turned to theUnited States, and it
was considered to be fair to include
the time served by each man up to
the date of his actual discharge, in
the period for which he received the
bonus payment."
This measure applies either to
males or females who served at
least sixty days. Conscientious ob
jectors and those who served only as
students in training camps are bar
red. Third of the trio of proposed con
stitutional amendments is that em
powering the governor to veto the
emergency clause.
When the emergency clause is at
tached to a legislative act two pur
poses are served. First, the bill be
comes effective as a law as soon as
it is signed by the governor, while
acts not . having the emergency
clause are not effective for ninety
days. Second, the use of the emer
gency clause prevents the invoking
oi' the referendum against the mea
sure. Charges have often been made
that the privelege of using the
emergency clause has been used to
forestall the referendum. As (he
emergency clause now serves a
double purpose, it will prevnl
cause being used merely to halt the
referendum, and it vill prevent, tin
governor from using thhe clause as
a pretext for vetoing an entire bill.
The object of them, fringe exami
nation and license is to Mop I lie
1 ropagation of feeble minded persons
r ttiose otherwise likely to inll'ei
by inliereltance. It provides that
both male and i'einH.e applicants fm
marriage lien shall r.uhiiiil to
i nomination by c.ompeiatU physic
inns to ascertain if they ire ai'liK'lid
with contagious or comunicahle
venereal diseases or whether they
are normal mentally. If both oi
either fail to pass the examina
tion the law will prohibit their marr
iage unless one or both wire steril
ized. If either should feel the judg
ment unjust, provision is made lot
appeal from the county clerk's refus
al to issue license to lie
county court, which would cause an
examination of the complaining per
son to be made by three compcicni
physicians selected by the court.
Their judgment would be final.
The women jurors Mil is a f" vis
George Moore, who has charge of
the county road niaintainenee crew,
has been working over in the Pine
City country this spring and after
finishing the work on this side of the
county line the Umatilla county
court made arrangemeonts with the
Morrow county court to have Mr.
Moore's crew do some work on the
Umatilla county side of the line.
Umatilla sent out a man as time
keeper on the wort and he is; quoted
by a Pine City man the other day, as
saying he had never swo so much
dirt moved for the money in Uma
tilla county as Moore and his outfit
are doing It must sound good to a
Morrow county road man, in these
dr.ys of high cost and high kicking
to hear a word or two of praise for
his work even if he has to jo into an
adjoining county to hear It.
OREGON 10 GETiFOREST
E
ELECTED
JUDGE PHELPS DISPOSES OF DE
MURRER LAST FRIDAY
Old
Hoard Given Five Days
Induct Successors fnto
Office
to
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DISTRIRUTIO.V RY STATES RATH
ER THAN' COUNTIES PLAN
Twelve Other Public Land Slates to
Renefit Under Townsend
Rill
WASHINGTON, April 27. Ore
gon and twelve other public land
states will have the public land for
mulae for federal aid appropriations
continued under the terms of a new
highway bill which Senator Town
send, chairman of the senate post
office and post roads committee, will
introduce this week after a confer
ence today with highway and high
way transport officials.
H Is proposed to continue federal
aid appropriations of $100,000,000
annually for a two year period, but
with drastic changes in, the method
of distribution lo that there wil b
primary and interstate highways.
Because of the great forest lands
in Oregon it is interesting to note
that provision has been made to ap-I-riate
$5,0110,0011 f.ir use in con
structing forest leads during the
tl"xt fiscal year and $10,000,001) tin
foll( wing year.
The plan which represetitai ivi
automobile and farmers organiza
tions indorsed, provi le for a. federal
highway com in ission to .supervise dis
tribution of funds and niainl aiuanci
of roads.
One of the changes in the bill calls
lor matching federal funds by siai
iiu lead of counties as in the paid
This policy has, as 'resident Hard
Dig pointed out in his message lo
i engross been responsible for made
quale highway systems an out stand
ing feature of the new bill will hi
the definition as to distribution
which is expected to correct the abu
ses growing out. of the indiscrimin
ale use of federal funds.
The chief complaint of highway
transportat ion officials was I lie wid
gap between good roads. In certain
counties the toads are unimproved
and the laid; of road eonlinuily pil
ot' heavy motor traffic,
Judgement was entered in tho
famous John Day election ca'so at
dleton Friday when Judge Phelp3
filially disposed of the matter by de
claring C. A. Minor and Arthur
Wheelhouse duly elected directors of
the district, and ordered the pre
sent board to induct them into office
within five days.
Tho case was started several
months ago and grew out of the elec
tion of directors in the John Day
Irigation district.
C. C. Clark and Edward Reitman,
incumbents, were nominated by peti
tion to succeed themselves in office
and on the day of the election vot
ers of the district wrote In (he names
of C. A. Minor and Arthur Wheel
house who had not been regularly
nominated. They received an over
whelming majority of the votes cast
but the old board, acting on the ad
vice of their attorneys held that tho
men were not legally elected be
cause they had not been regularly
nominated and refused to seat the- -as
directors, declaring Clark and
Reitman elected.
Property owners In the district re
tained Sam E. Van, Vactor to bring
contest proceedings against tho seat
ing of Clark and Reitman in the cir
cuit court. Later F. A. McMennmin.
as attorney for the directors, tilled a
demurrer to the complaint, the de
murrer being argued before Judge
Phelps here on April 1st. Tho
court took the case under advise
ment and later overruled the demur
rer, giving the dependents ten days
in which to file and answer. No np1
pearance having been made judge.
nient was taken, as above stated and
Hie present board was ordered lo in
stall their -successors into offico
within ten days.
LADIES EX 'I
ERTAIX
LI It
AT ELKS'
A delihlful afternoon, was spent at
the Klks' club rooms last Wednes
day afternoon when Mesdames Dean
Goodman, It. J. Vaughan, P. A. An-dei-son
mid 10. E. Clark were hos
tesses at a bridge putty. More than
fifty guests were present, fourteen
tables being occupied during tho
afternoon. At the close of the play
ing prizes were awarded as follows:
Miss lll.icl; 1st, prize; Mis. Clvdn
VVells, 2nd prize; Mrs. Cliff Sims,
lird; Miss Nora hughes, consolation.
Dainty refreshments were served be
fore the parly broke up.
WOOL MARKET LOOKING I I'
evnt
'hey
d use
said.
There Is some reason for optimism
ill the latest report from the lioston
Wool Markets.. Last week Eastern
Oregon No 1 staple sold for 85c,
scoured basis r.o.b. lioston, while
Kaidern Oregon Clothing nohl for
70c: same Ijji.hIh. Figuring tho
shrinkage between greased and
scoured wool was 68 per cent, which,
is a little bit high, (hlK would mean
2'c greased basis for the first, and
23c greased basis In the second, f.o.h.
Hosion. This is considerably better
"'' we have bee,, ,,u0., anywhoro
Wil hill recent dm,,.
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the Wo, nan.
:'i-s the word "male" in
wiierevi r the met hod of
ors is hi lorih. Il is provided that
in criminal action., in which a minor
under IS yi aii old is involved,
whoilnras ilei'cndoni or ccunplainiru'
witness, at least haif the juiors shall
be women.
j The municipal measures referred
by the legislature are a salary bill
in Wallowa county, a salary bill in
I'rniililla coMntv. Ruhirv bill affect-
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NO STAIRS TO CLIMB
i loans'.
DURHAM
tobacco makes 50
flood cigarettes for
lUc
jtu ,Viij ly c4
state 4 ner cent interest. The aft
H mm eio .1 . , . i,. .
should be given to understand that ' 6 ttr,,""!nl m lne V0"'rB ing the justice of the peace in i he j
these conditions must be kept or her P'let offer this information ab'jut jjan,.B dhdrict of Wasco county, and
the Port of Portland 01 gaiiizution i
billl.
CIVIC ( LI H UU- Ml I T
A social meeting of the civic club '
resignation would be exnecieH
it was finally acreed that the rrin- I "The loan must be made upon r'-al
irr;i,co6ganrcVL$i5b!s,rn.,nh and 8han not rr"
teachers for the coming vear not as , 75 f" r r, nl of lh" appraised va"a
a hard and fast rule but'slmplv as a "f U,H r"al ''-''',l1"- Th" r' al ;,'lle
teneral basis from which to work need not necessarily belong to t o
rouowins tne meeting another : soldier, but may Dc owned t.y i" y Ml at ,,. of Mr
I..-. ,..,, r,jnsiner the wife, father or mother, child, urotn- KTnl.n (jochran, on Court street next
7hrwi ., iiT.Ti ,- " rJI ,nlEn er or sister. The borrower mu l rc - i Friday afternoon at 2 : 30. All mem
school tuition law on the grounds of , ,,1U u,,.,,,.,. , 6 r,,.r i , ur ,.,,e,ted.
ui e.iicii, j com-' . . .
mltte composed of Al HeMicltsen, of ,c' nl Pfcr am""- Of this 4 pe t
Cecil, Man T. Hughes, of Heppner, ', cent on the unpaid principal applies
and A. . Keene, of Rhea creek, wan in H tho l.nlftnce ariDlie
appointed to take the matter up with
I local attorneys with the view of try
ling It oit tn the circuit court.
In payment of the principal. This
method will repay princlpa4 mJ in-
J. L. Jonknin, who looks after
county road work in the lioardman
riiitrirt u i court house visitor
Friday morning.
This is to advise the public that I have mo;
eil lny offices from the second floor of the
Roberts building to the rooms reccrtly
occupied by the Tri-State Terminal Co. on
the ground floor of the Fanners Union
building, east side of Main street where 1
will be pleased to meet all my patrons and
friends and the public generally.
REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE & GRAIN
Will continue to be my specialties.
F. R. BROWN
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