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He ftoofc litter VOL. XXXIII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1922 No. 45 htzt m MORE THAN A NEW BANKING CONNECTION YYHE.N you become a depositor of the First National we would like you to feel that you have established more than a new banking connection that you have started a financial relationship which will grow increasingly useful and profitable. Your Checking Account Is invited. The First National Bank HOOD RIVER, OREGON Use ALL of Our Service Dependable Quality IN every community there is one store which, by the 1 the high and unchanging character of its merchandise comes to be regarded as a store of dependable quality. That is the aim and achievement of this store. Our only quest is quality and no house can bribe us to forget it and the only reason we present Ruppenheimer good clothes is because we can find none better. The new ones are here. J. G Well tailored ANNOUNCEMENT Our Cement Products Factory at Cascade and Fifth Streets is now in charge of MR. C. M. FLETT, who arrived in Hood River, this week from Santa Rita, New Mexico. Mr. Flett is a graduate engineer who has had extensive experience in the manufac ture of cement products end comes to us very highly recommended. Our aim of pro ducing brick, blocks, drain tile and sewer pipe of the highest quality prompted us to secure for this plant at the start the ser vices of a trained man. Emry Lumber Phone 2181 BUSINESS IS GOOD Good weather has returned and with it good business. Now is the time to prepare for your sum mer's travel. I an doing good work at Fair Prices. 1 am content Are you ? "Satisfactory Service Always" Shay's SERVICE Shop AT THF. FASHION STABLES Shop ll ' - VOGT Perfect fitting & Fuel Co. Fourth and Cascade Special Purola After Shave Luxury 50c A delightful Antiseptic Lotion which promotes the Shaving Habit. Purola Shaving Cream 35c Lathers quickly and profusely. Does Not Bite. For a limited time only we will give with each 50c bottle of Purola After Shave Luxury a 35c tube of Purola Shaving Cream FREE. KRESSE DRUG CO The I&XcJULkSAuic Come in and hear the new Victorola Records. The following amounts have been placed with us by our customers to be invested in First Mortgage Loans on improved Hood River property at eight per cent: $ 350.00 600.00 1000.00 1500.00 BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System These have no equal for general farm and ranch work. Domestic Electrical and Water Systems. Give the rural home every city convenience. UNGER & LENZ Successor to Slutz Bros. Tel. 3173 Garg'oyle Mobiloils for your Tractor, TrucR and Car Differential and Transmissson Greases GOODYEAR TIRES for your automobile The Pine Grove Store A. F. BICKFORD, Prop. Phone 468ft $1800.00 2000.00 2500.00 3000.00 the famous Fairbanks-Morse Z type Engines J DISCUSSIONS GROW WARM APPLE GROWERS HAVE LITTLE TILTS Meeting, However, Passes Without De velopment of Disruptions Pears And Cherries Recommended While heated moments filled the an nual meeting of the Apple Growers Association Saturday with senations as growers passed charges of political chicanery or waxed warm on other topics that divided individual opinion, the meeting ended without the indica tion of the least disruption. Expres sions were frank and apparently made for the good of the cause. While they may have been temporarily caustic, no lasting ill-humor was developed. The sessions were characterized by discussion showing a new trend in the Hood River valley fruit industry, which has become world-famed for its npples. Speakers cited the development of new competing areas of apples. Leroy Cbilds, who urged growers to pay a more earnest attention to the recon struction of orchards injured by the heavy freeze of December, 1919, urged that future plantings be directed large ly to winter pears and cherries. Sir. Childs cited that the heavier new plantings of apples now being made in the United States are in eastern com mercial districts. He continued : "We have seen how western men, men trained in our scientific principles of apple culture, are going east and taking hold of the big commercial propositions there. One of the latest o leave for the east is C. I. Lewis, one of the most, influential figures in northwestern horticulture. We will best serve ourselves by the production of thoee fruits that are excellently adapted to our soil and climate, winter pears and sweet cherries. 1 advise that growers, however small their new acreage, set some of these fruits. The diseases and pests met with elsewhere limit commercial pear growing, of winter varieties, largely to our dis trict. Our sweet cherries of Oregon, especially of the Columbia river dis trict, have no equal." Mr. Childs stated that cane fruits have been suggested for diversifying Hood River valley fruit interests. He. however, advised against any exten sive plantings of raspberries and black; berries until further experiments are conducted. A. D. Moe, who has just returned from an extensive motor tour of Cal ifornia, told growers that new orchards in San Bernardino county, where 1,000 new acres are being set this year and where 1,000 carloadB were shipped last fall, are developing a new and formid able competition in southern California markets. He declared that the south ern California growers, who are utliz ing highland lands there in raising va rieties specialized in largely by Wash ington apple sections, will be able to place their fruit on the southern Cali fornia markets for 75 cents per box cheaper than the northwestern grow ers. One of the most tempetuous episodes of the meeting arose over charges that August Guignard, chairmun of the co operative body's by-products commit tee, made at the March primary against the Hood River Apple Vinegar Co. He alleged then that the manage ment of the vinegar concern, which has sold large blocks of its stock to growers, had stacked the cards against participation by growers in conducting affairs of the concern. He also stated that the vinegar company's manager and president, C. J. Calkins, had re ceived a salary of $1,000 per month last year, while a dividend to stock holders had been passed. A. J. Graff, former director and now on the board of the vinegar concern, read a letter from the directorate of the vinegar company, declaring that Mr. Guig narri'e statements had been unfair to the company through mis-statements. He declared that the election of direc tors had been entirely regular without any intention or act of curtailing rights of growers interested through stock purchases in the organization. He also denied that Mr. Calkins had received the high salary alleged. Mr. Graff stated that Mr. Calkins last ear had received a salary of $0,200. The manager's salary for the coming sea son, Mr. Graff said, will be $300 per month. This, he said, will be in creased to $000 in case profits over and above returns on stock will permit. Mr. Guignard made chmges that heavy bonuses had been paid employee of the vinegar company. This Mr. Graff also denied, stating that the only bonuses given were paid during a war year, when the concern's expert help remained loyal, althoughh other indus tries were offering a higher temporary wage. No executives of the concern, he declared, had ever participated in a bonus. Mr. Guignard a idressed flu growers and maintained that his charges had been substantially correct. He declared that he had been told by a close per-onal friend of Mr. Calkins in Portland that the vinegar company manager had received a salary of $12, 000 last year. Mr. Guignard declared that the growers of the valley had been hoodwinked in financing another man's proposition, and urged growers to consider plans of an association owned by-products plant. J. "We have bean told," said President E. W. Birge, in disposing of the dis cussion, "by salesmen of stock in the vinegajr company what high dividends it will pay. We will watch them and if we do not get good prices for our apples or the returns promised, then it will be time to talk about owning our own plant." IfwA feature of the meeting was the i discussion over use of cardboard lavers at the top and bottom of apple boxet. i O. B. Nye offered a resolution in , structing the directorate of the associ j ation to discontinue cardboard. It was earned unanimously. Mr. Ne pre ! sented returns on questionnaires that . be had forwarded to various repre sentative shipping interests and federal experts. In every instance the replies characterised the cardboard as unnec essary expense unless it possibly elim inates) damage from careless nailing of lids. Mr. Nye declared that the prec S tice entails an annual useless expense in the neighborhood of $12,000. Despite the Unanimous vote of the morning, the question arose again at the afternoon seat ion of the members, many of whom voiced the opinion that the cardboanfa acted as an insurance against damaged applet. The value of printed wrappers on apples also was discussed slightly, R. E. Miller and others declaring printing a needless expense. Women this year for the first time participated in the discus sions of the organization. Remarks were made by Mrs. E. J. Nicholson and Mrs. E. Flinius, who recently ar rived from the east. The latter de clared that she had found housewives complaining that apples, where pur chased by the box, shrivled before be ing consumed. She recommended that the association issue educational slips to be placed in each box, informing consumers of proper methods of stor ing apples after their purchase. A bit of levity was introduced by Joseph Frazier, who suggested that it be rec ommended to every household to have a half-dozen children, in which case the apples would not keep long enough to shrivel. Leroy Childs stated that shriveled apples often resulted from too early picking. He stated that tests of him self and Gordon G. Brown, showed that growers here were ruining their reputation for the quality of d'Anjou pears by picking them in instances three weeks before full maturity. While growers sometimes begin pick ing peBrs in August, he said, he and Mr. Brown have determined that Octo ber 1 is the more suitable time. Not only is the quality better but the fruit attains a much larger size giving the grower the benefit of the added ton nage. Mr. Childs touched on spraying, tell ing growers that application of oil sprays for pear trees should be made at once, and that the first oil solution should be applied to apples by April 15. J. H. Mohr and other growers brought out that rejections from an thracnose damage had been made neg ligible the past season" by application of Bordeaux mixture during summer. Toward the cloi-e of the meeting Mr. Mohr urged that growers, who had been so eager in suggesting general plans of efficiency for the sales organ ization, return to their homes deter in in d to apply the practice on their ranches, and that all would end well. Directors named Saturday were: C. K. Benton, E. W. Birge, E C. Brown lee, J. D. Guttery, J. H. Jeffrey. G. B. Marsh, K. J. Mclsaac. J. H. Mohr, J. K. Nunamaker, Frank C. Dcthman and W. C. Keck. The members also voted a change in the by laws that will enable the computation of membership votes as tonnage votes by a ratio mul tiplication, in order to eliminate ties. One of the most tempestuous inci dents of the meeting uoae when Roy 1). Smith charged that K. J. Mclsaac and M. O. Boe, directorate candidates were In a conspiracy to oust from man agement A. W. Stone. Mr. Smith warned that his remarks would grow personal, but that he made them with out any rancor. When he reached the actual point of his charges, however, M. Dragseth arose to a point of order and asked that he desist. Mr. Smith's appeal to the house was sustained by vote, and he proceeded. He eulogized Mr. Stone, declaring that his efforts needed no encomiums. Mr. Boo and Mr. Mclsaac both re sponded to the charges. Mr. Boe de claring that anyone who knew him knew that he was never run by any body. He declared that he was not opposed to Mr Stone as manager but that he would disagree with certuin of his methods of nut giving sufficient authority to heads of deparmtents. Mr. Mclsaac in a bricf'talk stated that he was not for Mr. Stone nor against him. He de. dared that his actions, ir respective of the general manager, would always be from motives that he considered for the good of the Apple Growers Association. KEAL ESTATE ACTIVE ON EAST SIDE Heal estate activity ir. the Hood Kiver valley the past week has cen tered on the East Sid.'. Ninety-four acres have changed hands. A. L. Page has sold to R. Starkell, of Walla Walla, his 10-scre tract of 111-year old. commercial trees; consider ation $9,000. Mr. Page in turn has bought from Russell A. McCully the lattor's 10-acre adult orchard, paying $10,500. The latter place is well equipped with residence and outbuild ings. F. M. Peugh, owner of a West Side tract, has purchased from L. E. Ire land a 27-acre place, the consideration reaching $17,000. Mr. Ireland, who was formerly engaged in apple mar keting here, and family now reside in Pasadena, Calif. Mr Ireland is entail lishing a chain of restaurants in Los Angeles. F. H. Kingdon, who ha been in charge of the IreUnd place, has pur chased from A. E. Digman a 10 acre orchard tract on Neal creek. Geo. T. Galligan, who several weeks ago purchased 22 acres of pioneer Fa-t Side orchard from J. C. Porter, has just purchased an additional 27 acres of the Porter tract. Mr. Porter and wife will spend this year in San Diego. Calif., for Mr'. Porter's health. Albert and Herbert Krussow have purchased frcm W. F. Lsraway a 10 acre orchard place adjoining their home tract. AUTO PARK WAS OPENED SATURDAY The Hood Kiver public automobile camping nark was officially opened Saturday with Glen Sloat as custodian The camp grounds opened two ye-irs ago have become very papular and at times during the heavy tourist traffic season, aeveral h indred motor visitors spend the night there. It is equipped with ovens and tables, toilets and lavatories ard wash rooms. The Woman's cub has discussed plans of providing laundry equipment. For merly the camu grounerhss been free. This year, each automobile will be assessed a daily fee of 50 cents for privilege of the camping place. Each car ia checked. Custodain Sloat keep ing a duplicate, which gives the name of the owner, his state and the make of the ear. Kegistration of all visitors will be kwpt this year. t. Ldaitiaf Inf. The only other eennty office to us) j elected this yesa exsjpt county com missions, is county assessor. The Republican n cumber t, Jasper Wick ham, is undertermined whether haj will be a candidate. Fritrtds are endeasprJ ing to secare the fiend idejry of W. L. ', Clark. PLAN PLEASES A NEW APPLE ERA IS PREDICTED Inter-district System of Coordinate Pur chasing is Launched Stone Named Organization's President Local orchardists who have followed plans as launched at a conference of growers and shippers of apples in Fori -land last week declare that a new era in the northwestern fruit industry has been set in motion. The plais call for an inter-district cooperation in the purchase of supplies, the fostering of cold storage terminals in the north west, coordinate action in securing dockage facilities at eastern seaports and other activities in waging cam paigns for more equitable freight rates and in eliminating evils in transporta tion that are paid to exist at present. Twenty apple growers and shipper from Oregon, Washington and Idaho attended the session A. W. Stjoe, manager of the Apple Groweis A elation, was elected president and Dr. H. L. Geary, of the Under wood Grow ers Warehouse Association, secretary. Others present included: E. S. Mor gan, of Portland; E M Gellette. of Wenatchee; A. F. Wooloert, A (!. Lewis and P. F. Clark, of Hood Kiver; L. J. Sellers, of Wenatchee; (' 1. Lewis, of Salem; B. W. Johnsu el Monroe, Dr. C. A. Macium, of Mo ei ; C. M.Carroll, of Portland; C. A Me, Cargiir, of M octet ; Edward Pierce, of Opportunity, and Charles H. Su I .i , of Yakima. Unanimity of opinion prevailed that giowers who are able to ship thin apples to market by water tfnould make use of role storage facilities established on municipal terminals in Portland. It was declared that such cold storage facilities are necessary, if the apples arrive at destination in good condition. Such facilities, too, it was declared, are needed in regulating a steady How of shipments. The ncv organizat on immediately held a meet ing with the Portland public di ek com mission requesting that refrigeration be provided on the public docks. There was some difference of opinion among growers on the merits of co opt ratiVS buying of orchard supplies in large quantities. C. 1. Lewis, of the Oregon Growers' Cooperative Associ ation, said his organization attempts to purchase many of its supples in communities in which it operates, but that cooperative buying could be done economically for at least a portion of the supplies. These include boxes, paper, nails and spraying materials. It was the general opinion that a trial will be made in purchasing paper on this plan. Many growers complained of laxity of transportation companies, especially the railroads, in keeping proper tem jierature in fruit cars. Sudden changes in temperature damaged fruit, it was said, and several fhippers said they had lost heavily during the past season from this cause. It. was the opinion of several that a messenger system should be worked out through which each shipment of fruit by rail should be accompanied by a BICSSeagSf who would see to it that proper temperature is maintained in fruit cars. RHOADES CASE IS HEARD IN WASCO The first testimony in the case of Hood River County vs. O. H. and Alice Khoades, in which the condemnation of land owned by the defendants is sought for use in the Mount Hood Loop 1 right of-way, was taken in ciri .it court at The Dalles Thursday morning before Judge Wilson. The jury spent all of Wednesday afternoon in Rood Kiver valley, examining the property under litigation in person. The de fendants asked a t. ta! of $11,500 for the land in question, claiming that the right-of-way will cut it up in such a, manner as to render portions of it practically valueless. Of this total, fl.U4.81 was arked for a soring on one part of the property ; $2,5:11 76 for the destruction of ttock passages over and under the road; $2,5(10 for ware house sites rendered practically ti less; $2,500 for land rendered val by the passage of the road ; $:WV. 8 for fencing and a number of other items. Hood River county is offering S3. 000 for the land. Judge Derby repre sented the defendants, and District Attorney Baker the county. Hood Kiver county will reimburse Wa.-eo county f6r court expenses. A jury Friday, after- being out 45 minutes, returned a verdict in favor of Mr. Khoades for $7 000. Mr. Rhoade originally offered the county a free right of way a ro.-s r.n place if the survey would call for the highway below his spring. SCHOOL OPERETTA PRESENTED ERIDAY The high school operetta, presented under direction of Mrs. C II. Hennev in former years at the high school aud itorium, have always been crowded. It was thought that the audience might be accommodated this year by giving the peformance at the btialto theatre. All of the tickets to the evening per formance were suld oi-.t, and it was necessary to put on a matinee tomor row afternoon. "The Gypsy Rover" is the vehicle chosen this year by Mrs. Henaey. It is in three acts with 21 big numbers. Chief characters will be : Opal Walk er, Betty Stalen, Morris Kinsey, John Carson, Prudence Spight, Harold Dix on. James Johnson. Marion Butler, Will Chapman. Clifton Emmel, Jim) tpr.-on and Paja PemrVrton. Many boys and girls will participate, in mi ISO parts cf g psies, datnes, aquis ee sag fairies. The high school orchestra in, eludes the following: rtogef Vced yer. Boyd Cudf fued Carl t'tant Russell Scoloea. Lauraea Toia Wendell King. Hal WitUnijei, Xfutt9 Patenpuff. fis Ssva flua ajr compsr.Kt ae tf. feaJaJaa Jrw A -afj dancing 4 imu. Bernard Paget V has been attend ing business college in Portia arn.ed r.me to aid his flfrtbe rage, Hi orchard work. 2 i o O