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HEPPNER, OREGON, MAY 24, 1921
NUMBER 4
VOLUME VIII
STANFIELD HAS BILL
FOR FOREST HIGHWAYS
OREGON JiEED TOLD TO SENATE
COMMITTEE YESTERDAY
HEPPXER OOXDOX GAMES
HERE SUNDAY, MONDAY
Forest Roiuls Subject of Lengthy
Statement Made Committee Con ..
' sideling Townsend Bill
(Telegram Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON. May 23. (Spe
cial to Herald.) Senator Stanfleld
today before the committee on post
officea and post roads, considering
the Townsend highway bill, submit
ted the following statement in re
gard to forest highways:
One hundred and fiftey six millioa
thirty- two thousand and fifty three
acres of public land, for the most
part heavily timbered, has been with
drawn from entry and placed in
national forest reserves to be conser
ved by the government for the use
and benefit of all the people of the
states.
This was done after the Eastern
and Middle Western states had pas
Bed practically all of their public
lands to private ownership, improved
and developed them, and these lands,
together with their improvements,
ar found upon the tax rolls of these
states, helping to bear their part
f the public burden of government
and development.
The forest reserves are largely
confined to eleven of the Western
states and Alaska.
All the people of all the states are
the owners of the reserve lands, and
their children born and unborn, are
the beneficiaries of this vast con
served wealth.
These conserved lands like all oth
ers are not taxable and the entire
burden of maintaining law nd or
der through the state and county
government rest entirely on thhe tax
payers owning the taxable property
within the state.
Within the last decade the need for
building modern roads to carry mod
ern traffic has come suddenly upon
our people everywhere with irresist
ible demand.
In th western states the popula
tion Is small and the road mileage
very large in proportion to popula
tion and taxable property.
In seven eastern states the road
4. Condon ball team will play
4 here next Sunday and Monday
.J. (Decoration Day) and the con-
J. tests promise to be real sport.
J. Condon is known to have a
strong team and the Heppner
J players are unanimous in the
losing germs worked out of
J opinion that they have all the
J. their systems and from now on j
things will come their way in
$ car load lots. J
, . , ,
American Farm Bureau
Opposes Townsend
Bill
building these roads in keeping only
with the demand of the traffic is
1112,525,800.
In addition to these roads there
are also 22,511 miles of trails within
the forest reserves necessary for the
protection of the forests that will
cost $6,297,000 (as estimated), for
wnicn we asK no appropriation in
this bill, but leave them entirely to
the forest service to be built out of
the "ten per cent fund," which
amounts to about $400,000 a year.
One hundred million dollars a
year is requested by this bill and
should be granted by congress for
the purpose of extending federal aid
to the several states in the construc
tion of these most important state
roads which are also necessary roads
to carry interstate traffic.
The mileage of this class of roads
is estimated at one per cent of the
total road mileage of the country, or
approximaely 25,000 miles. The es
timated cost of construction of the in
terstate highways is approximately
$1,000,000,000 to $1,250,000,000, of
which amount the states are expec
ted to furnish half. If this program
is carried out the interstate roads
will be constructed in six years
It ia also desired and
that the states and counties will carry
on their road construction with
equal speed, and at the end of six
years, the system of interstate
state and county roads will be fairly
completed, as now outlined.
. Unless ample provision is made for
the construction of state and county
roads through the forest reserves
and this should be done wholly at the
expense of the federal government
(the owner of these lands) we will
(Special to Herald From Telegram 1
Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, May 20. Gray
Silver, Washington representative of
the American Farm Bureau opposed
-.emphatically the Townsend highway
bill at the hearing on that measure
this morning before the senate com
mittee on post offices and post roaas.
He quotes thhe following resolu
tion recently adopted as represent
ing the attitude of the federation.
We earnestly protest the local
building of farm to market highways
by the use of federal, state and local
funds. Until such roads are built we
emphatically oppose the construc
tion by the federal govern
ment o a few hard sur
face trans - continental roads re
gardless of the character of the
roads which are built. An adequate
amount of such funds should be pro
vided for their maintainence and re
pair. We urge the administration
of federal road funds to be in the
hands of the United States depart
ment of agriculture."
"It is difficult to understand why
anybody should advocate that federal
agencies -should have all of the au
thority in determining the type,
specifications ana locations or our
roads and highways to the exclusion
of the states when the. federal gov
eminent contributes no more than
one-half the cost of building and
nothing toward their maintainenoe
We believe there should be a joint
supervision of the expenditures of
both state and federal funds where
roads are constructed from funds
contributed federally, by the state or
locally.
"The resolution passed by the
American Farm Bureau Federation
makes it quite plain that the farm
ers are insisting that the roads from
farm to market be given proper con
! sideration in any road building pro
gram which may be adopted. They
also insist that the administration
of the federal road funds be by the
department of agriculture. Farmer
are more interested in good road
expected i than any othor 6''0UP of citizens.
vvny duuu a highway tor the
idle rich and leave our food and raw
material for clothing at the far end
of a mud road. 8
"It is our belief mat the Town
send bill does just this. In section
6 of the Townsend bill it is provided
that the project shall be approved by
the commission in, any slate until
MEMORIAL SERVICES SUN
DAY AND MONDAY
that state has made adequae provis
ion for the maintainance of all high
way selected by the commssion. Un
der this paragraph the commission
could lay out a system of highways
in a state and that state would be
compelled to make provision for
maintenance of the whole system, be-
fore any project would be approved.
"It is inconceivable that any one
should seriously advocate the build
ing of a great interstate highway sys
tem connecting our cities in this way
as well as by rail at a time when one
third of our farmers live on back
roads over which it is exceedingly
difficult to market their products.
where mail is not delivered and
where children do not have a fair op
portunity to attend school.
'I wish to call your atenion to
some of the objections of the Town-
send bill.
"First it creates a special commis
sion at a large expense to administer
federal funds which we believe both
unnecessary and extravagant.
'Second, it gives exclusive poower
to the federal highway commission
to designate the roads to be Improv
ed. It also determines the type,
specifications, and locations of these
roads, although the states contribute
at least one half of the money.
Third in providing for a sixty-six
foot right of way and a twenty foot
wearing surface the bill limits the
construction of roads to highways
where there Is a great amount of
travel and does not provide for local
construction or maintenance..
"Fourth, the necessary costly con
struction required in this bill absorbs
the state funds and thereby prevents
construction and maintenance or con
necting roads.
"Some of the road requirements of
the farmer which we do not think
the Townsend bill provides are as
follows:
"1 Some authorization where the
same engineer ing skill will be avail
able lor the local roads as for the
thoroughfares.
"2 That the the roads from, the
farm to the railroad stations, posi
' offices and county seats should bo
built first, or certainly provided for
concurrently.
"3 That the type and specifica
tions, proper location, grade and
drainage secured be such that a
nine foot hard surface may be, laid
with stone or gravel shoulders, and
thereafter widened as travel needs
and available funds may permit.''
Memorial services at Feder-
ated church, Sunday at 11:00
! A. M. Rev. Moore will deliver
address. J
J On Monday, May 30 a par- J.
. ade will form at 10:00 A. M. j.
J and march to the cemetary .J.
J where the graves will be decor- J
J. ated with appropriate services.
4. At 2:00 P. M. Hon. J. D. Stev
J. ens, of Portland, will deliver an
address at the pavilion and
there will be other exercises.
STATE GETS BIG
FROM AUTO LICENSES
INCOME $708 IN 1007. $2,000,000
LAST YEAR
Ik-sii
e for Good Roiuls Responsibly
FOR RIG INCREASE
Since 1018
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H-H-M-HM-KI-HM-H
DEBATING TEAM RETURNS FROM
EUGENE
The team of high school debaters
who went to Eugene last weelt to
compete in the state debating contest
returned Sunday evening well pleas
ed with tho trip.
While the yoimg debaters failed
to bring home the cup they rendered
a good acount of themselves, Hum-
phrews and Peterson winning over
Coquille, a team from a town of the
same class as Heppner. Misses
Grogan and Woodson drew the Cor
vallis team as their competitors, a
team from, a school having had years
of experience in public debating and
while they! failed to win, each of the
young ladies did honor to themselves
and their school.
Superintendent James accompan
ied the party and they all had a de
lightful riPu spending a couple of
days at Portland and a day at Salem
where they visited the state school
superintendent's office and other
points of in! rest.
Salem team won the cup for th
third time making the trophy theirs
for keeps.
Dr. It. J. Vaughn returned Sun
day evening from a. business trip to
Baker.
find .the system disconnected bv bro-
mileage is in proportion of one mile j ken link"? within the - federal re-'
to 128 people and one mile to$3 4t,--j serves unless the owners of property
398 of taxable property, while in'
;Oregon we have one mile of road to
every nineteen people and one mile
to every $23,310 of.taxabble prop
erty. The conditions prevailing in Ore
gOB are duplicated in each of the
other states having large areas of
federal reserves and unappropriated
pafelic lands.
These reserve lands do not He in
solid bodies but are scattered
throughout the states, often, between
the Improved and developed portions
of the state requiring important
state and county roads through the
reserves to connect the settled por
tions on either side and permit so
cial and commercial Intercourse be
tween the people.
Within the boundaries of these
forest reserves there are 24,565 miles
of important state and county road
already located that should be built
as rapidly as the same class of roads
outside the reserves and connecting
therewith. The estimated co.ct of
WOOL MARKET OPENS
HERE AT LOW PRICE
. GENUINE
"BUST
outside of the reserves, in addition
to paying the cost of the roads along
and through their property, also
bear the burden in whole or in part
of building the roads through thhe
property of the government, which I
submit is an unjust and unfair thing
to ask.
Even with $10,000,000 per annum
appropriated for the construction of
forest roads it will take twelve
years to build the present road pro
gram within the forest reserves.
This situation was presented to
the Republican national convention
at Chicago last June for an expres
sion of purpose and intent by the
republican party, and this is the
solemn promise then and there made
to the people of the country:
j We favor liberal appropriations in
co-operation wiih thhe stales for the
construction of highways, which will:
; bring about a leduclinn in transpor
tation costs, better marketing of
farm "products, improvements in
rural post di livery, as well as meet
.the nerds of military defense.
In determining the proportion of
federal aid for road construction
among the stater the sums lost in
taxa'ion to the respective states 1
i the setting apart of larire portions
of tln-ir area as forest reservations
should be considered as a controlling
; factor.
by
INACTION W PAST
l'JNAIXY BROKEN
YEA It
W. W. Sinead Authorized lo Huy
Ay ynaiiiity at 14 (o 17 Cents
For llostdii l'iiin
HEPPNER WINS IN FAST
l-OCAL TEAM TAKES
5- SCORE
HEAT IN
Big
After 12 months of total paralysis
of the wool market here, W. W.
Smead, representing the Boston firm
of Hallowell, Jones & Donald
made the announcement Monday that
he la in the market for an unlimited
quantity of One wool at prices rang
ing from 14 to around 17 cents ac
cording to quality. No course wool
is wanted just now by this firm at
any price.
While sheepmen are somewhat dis
appointed that tho market should
open tat such a low- figure tliey are 1
disposed to regard the break In Hie
inertia of the last year as a good
omen on the theory that kind
of a maikt is better than no mar
ket at nil.
The jirices Mr. Smead is authoriz
ed to offer is for Heppner delivery,
cash in hand.
Mr. Smead examined some flips in
the warehouse here yesterday but tip
until 9:00 A. M. today no sales v. . re
reported. Hoixpecis to vij.it the
different shearing camps (luting the
week and give the growers an oppor
tunity to sell if the prices h" is au'h-
Crowd of Funs Enjoy
Clean Game on Ideal
Day
Good
Nearly 500 fans decorated the nat
ural grandstand overlooking the new
athletic field last Sunday while wat
ching as fine a game f,t ball as, has
been played in Heppner for many
years. The weather was just, right
warm enough for the players, cool
enough for tho spectators, clear and
origin with the usual eastern Ore,
zephyr a minus quantity.
Arlington fans turned
masse and the visiting t,
nothing to eo.nplaiii of in
suppoit from the crowd.
For a time it looked iki
be a. te ar repetition of th,.
tranie- played at Arlington
where he wanted 'er most of the
time. Monte has a trick of putting
straight ones over at critical times
but he can also drop or curve 'em
at will.
Humpke, Arlington's new catcher
is a crackerjack and no mistake.
If is not too much to say that he has
as pretty a wing to second as any of
them. .The best of them need to
hump themselves to steal second with
Humpke on the job. Solvesler at
short is also a nifty player and, as
a ater of fact none of the visiting
team is to be sneezed at.
The game was clean and free
from' hut chewing and what the um
pire tsald went In every case which
means satisfaction to everybody.
The lineup:
on
out en
111 had I
lack of !
Arlington Position Heppner
Montague p Solyan
Humpke c Orirtln
Cohen 1st Aiken
Snell 2nd Hargott
Archibald 3rd Elliott
Solvesler rs Iloardtnan
Robinson if Beckett
Josephson cf Greenwood
Montague, I!. If Anderson
Umpire P. A. Anderson. Score
(Telegram Salem Bureau)
....SAEEX Or., May 20. (Specialty
The use of motor vehicles in Oregon
jumped from 218 in 1905, when the
state automobile department was in
augurated, to 103,790 in 1920, a
period of fifteen years.
From 1915 to 1920 the increase
was from23,585 to 163,790, an in
crease of 29 per cent. In this sama
period the fee receipts increased
from $108,881.50 to $2,085,168.50
an Increase of $1,976,287, or mora,
than 55 per cent.
The state did not begin to collect!
fees on automobile registrations un
til 1907 and in that year the total re
ceipts were $708. Until 1914 motor
cycles were included with motor ve
hicles in registration ad licensing.
Chauffeurs were not licensed un
til 1911 and dealers not until 1914,
In that year, the first when motor
vehicles, motorcycles, chauffers and
dealers were all registered and 11-
ensed the fees jumped to $77,592
from $56,873 the previous year.
Annual registration was not re
quired of motor vehicles prior to
1911, and in that year fees jumped
to $27,316 from $7,479 the year be
fore. The total has been collected in
fees in the period of fifteen years,
since the first fees were received in
1907, is$5, 8.13, 178.
Ilogiwlration and receipts of feen
for each year from 190 5 to the pre
sent, time follow:
1905 Motor vehicles including;
cycles 218; chauffers, nonoe; dealers
none; fees, nothing.
1906 Motor vehicles,
cycles, 142; chauffers none
none; fees, nothing.
1907 Motor vehicles,
cycles, 23S; chauffers none
none: fees $708.
1 908 Motor vehicles,
cycles 701; chauffers noni
none; fees $2103.
1909 Motor vehicles
cycles 1271; chauffers none; di
none; fees $38 13.
1910 Motor vehicles, Including
cycles 2-193: chamfers none, dealers
none; fees $7479.
1911 -Motor vehicle. Including)
cycles 6428; chauffers 1671; dealeM
none: fees, $27,316.
1912 Motor vehicles, Including
cycles, 10,165; chauffers 1762; deal
ers, none fees, $42,994.
1913 Motor vehicles, including
cycles 13,957; chauffers, 1472; deal
ers none; fees, $56,873.
1914 (From this year motor
cycles are registered separately) ,
Motor vehicles, 16347; motorcycles,
2898; chauffeurs, 1 838 dealers,
110; fees, $77,592.
1915 .Motor vehicles 23,585; mo-
including
dealers,
inc Imllm;
; dealers,
including;
; dealers
Including
ilerrt
li 'out linicil i,u J'.,k;i, Four)
orized to offer are satisfactory.
In the annual appropriation
congress to be measured by the
amount these reserved lands (held j :
in their present raw state, undPvel- j as near as you can of state and coun
oped, unimproved, unsettled, not ; ty taxes forest reserve lands In your
subject to homestead entry), would ; state would pay annually if they
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tobacco makes 50
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pay if privately owned and taxable,
what should the annual appropria
tion be?
There is no appraisement of these
lands available beyond estimates by
those public officials la the best
position to pass judgement the tax
commissioners of the several states.
To get this information from these
officials for the use of this com
mitee, Senator Stanfleld sent the fol
lowing telegram to the tax commis
sioners ia thoBe states having the lar
gest area of national forest reserves:
"Pleate wire me the gross amount
were privately owned and taxable."
Replies to this inquiry show that
in the states interested there is a
total acreage in forest reserves of
156,032,053 acres on which there
should be an aggregate of $14,516,
842 in state and county taxes, but
from which the state and county gov
ernments derive no revenue
Oregon has 13,1 11,928 acres In
forest reserves with a total taxable
value of $100,000,000 which, at a
twenty mill rate, should give the
state and counties a revenue of V-r
000,000 annually.
it niilit
I 3 score
the pre-
hiil about midway in
I' II tile K"Ole Hopped
the visitors,, Ar
erroi s, and Jlepp
tliat changed the
iiiiiazincly. From
ppner'rt game and
throw it away by
vious Sunday
the content win n
at. l a in favor o
lingio!) made a I' v
rier got. a few hit
order of thiiu-s
then on it was (
the boys did not
a long shot.
Solyan in the l,(,x for Heppner,
showed a fine arm and a good bead
and Griflin held him In good shape
Aiken on first played the game like
a veteran, getting a couple of fine
hits, one a three bagger. Hargott,
playing Heppner's second base, also
showed good form and scored the
only home run of thhe day. Board
man at short also showed good tal
ent and Elliott, who played third for
the home team, proved himself a re.
liable batter. Beckef, Greenwood
Anderson, who chased flb-g in the
field and caught them also show
ed their metal. Anderson got two
pretty hits and Greenwood lammed
one out that was keen.
Arlington has a fine team and no
mistake. Montague, the old reliable
Pitcher, was In good form and that
means be was able to put 'er just
NO STAIRS TO CLIMB
This is to arlvisc the public that I have mov
ed my offices from the second floor of the
Roberts building to the rooms recently
occupied by the Tri-Statc Terminal Co. on
the ground floor of the Farmers Union
building, east side of Main street where 1
will be pleased to meet all my patrons ad
friends and the public generally.
REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE & GRAIN
Will continue to be my specialties.
F. R. BROWN
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