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000 VOL. XXXIV HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922 No. 21 Co. ! 1 1 i L23E . EFFICIENCY f i '. (The business man, elf iclent himself, qulck- ly reconl2es efficiency In others. i He expects efficiency from those In his employ i and c from all who serve him In business capacities. Naturally, then, an institution favored ex tensively by business interests as this institution' is must be efficient In the broadest interpretation of the word. The First National Bank HOOD RIVER, OREGON Use ALL of Our Service FALL RAINS ARE COMING! WILL YOUR ROOFS LEAK ? You will save time and money by fixing them now. Tell us your difficulty and we will supply materials for repair; we carry everything in materials for arty kind of roof. We have a complete stock In various weights and qualities of "DURABLE ROOFING" made right here In Oregon. This very excellent roofing has been sold in this Valley for ten years and its quality Is as standard as the gold dollar. If your present roof needs painting, we highly re commend "Black Cat" i Fire-Resisting Roof Paint for composition or shingled roots and for holes and patching we have elastic cement In bulk. It's easier to fix them now than in the rain. Emry Lumber & Fuel Co. Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade Exclusive Representative of National Builder Bureau Eastman Kodaks and Films Our Stock is Always Complete Kodak Developing and Printing 24-Hour Service The quality of our developing the tone and finish of our prints the success we have in bringing out unfavorable exposures prove that Experts Do Our Kodak Work KRESSE DRUG CO. Come in and hear the new Victorola Records. fe2 E1 n.,irimri,in.ni,iii,n,.iiiii.utlllniilliniiniininnillimiinlIllNIHillMiiiirri EVERY MAN MW TO HIS TRADE When a member of our staff attends a fruit growers' meeting in which technical matters are considered, the discussion doesn't get far until our representative is lost in a maze of codling moth, woolly aphis, leaf roller, fungus and whatnot. V It has occurred to us that possibly the aver age citizen has something of the same feeling when he reads in financial circulars of liquid and non-liquid assets, municipal bonds, industrial bonds, general and refunding debentures, preferred and special preferred stocks, Federal Reserve Redis counts and other financial subjects. If we want to know just how woolly an aphis can get and just how much "codling" a moth requires, we go' to our well informed friends for information. . r , . . -.... . Our long experience in banking has given us technical knowledge that is valuable to the investor, and furnishing our friends with information of this kind is just one branch of present day bank service. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System NOW BUYING NEWTOWNS Ortleys, Spitz, Arkansas Blacks Red Cheeks, Stay. Wine saps Phone Hood River or Odell Warehouse Sole Agents EDEN Brand pulverized sheep manure, sold in car lots or single bags. Try a fall application on your home lawns and gardens. This is not a stimulant, but a natural fertilizer of unusual quality, uniformly ground and concentrated in small bulk. No rocks or dirt so common in fertilizers. ONE BAG equals a WHOLE WAGON LOAD of barnyard manure. Give us your esti mate for Spring use on orchards and gardens now. Sup ply will be limited. DUCKWALL BROS. CASH BUYERS Hood River Warehouse Phone 4532-4702 Odell Warehouse Odell 232-229 MR. AUTO OWNER Did you ever figure the cost per month of general service on your car? For $8 per month we will make all small adjustments, including grinding valves, adjusting carbura tors, contact points, greasing, oiling, aligning wheels, adjusting light focus, etc. Drop in and see us about this service. Service Day or Night Tires, Gas and Oil Yours for Service, W MT. HOOD GARAGE JOHNSON BROS. TEL. 282 PARKDALE I am jealous '' of the good will of my patron age, and propose to keep it by giving GOOD SERVICE. "Satisfactory Service All-ways" 24-UOUR SERVICE Shay's SERVICE Shop AT THE FASHION STABLES Shop 1261 R. 3721 The Hood River Machine Works announces the in stallation of a Marvel Cylin der Re-boring Machine. Let us figure with you on your cylinder re-boring. Free inspedtion-satisfadtion guaranteed. HOOD RIVER MACHINE WKS. UNGER & LENZ, Props. Tel. 3173 ROAD BONDS SELL WELL FIFTEEN BOND HOUSES MAKE OFFER County Court on Saturday Sells $100,000 Of Loop Highway Bonds to Lum bermen's Trust Co. With representatives of 15 bond buy ing houses present from Portland, the county court Saturday awarded to the Lumbermen's Trust Co. $100,000 of a $.550,000 bond issue voted by Hood River county in June, 1921, for joining me state Highway department on a 50-50 basis in constructing the Mount Hood Loop Highway. The Portland concern's offer was 4J per cent and a premium of $1,150. The next highest bid was by Blyth-Witter & Co., for 4J per cent and a premium of $050. The issue is for five per cent, par bonds, The sale was the best that Hood River county has ever mad, and county court officials were jubilant The county court sold $150,000 of the issue last year at six per cent and with a premium oi $1,560. ine Highway work, as a result or a drop in construction costs, will not re quire as heavy appropriations as were anticipated when the issue was voted in 1921, and it is expected that more than S)0,ouo or the authorized sum will be left over. This money cannot be expended for any other purposes, except those outlined in the call for the bond election. Many citizens, however, fa vor an election, in order that the peo ple may vote the remainder of the is sue to further road work in the county. APPLES MOVE OUT BY THE TRAINLOAD With the applo harvest reaching its height last week end, and fruit rolling in substantial quantities to storage and receiving plants, shippers began rout ing to the maximum number of car loads daily. The shortage of refriger ator cars caused the Apple Growers Association to resort to box cars for handling quantities of fruit to be rushed to eastern storage. A solid train of 26 box cars was rolled by the Association Thursday night. Saturday night 35 cars were rolled in one train. Total shipments for the season up to Saturday night reached 240 carloads. "The existing shortage of refriger ator cars," says J. II. Fredricy, "should not be taken as a criterion of what is going to be the condition troughout the season. The present shortage is with us every year at this time. California's huge amount of perishable freight taxes the three rail road lines entering that state to their capacity. Thcy,dmnd the most of the refrigerator cars available, and be' fore we can get them back to the Northwest, our apples are ready 1 to move, cut as the season advances we are going to have more cars and we will be in position to better handle apple shipments. "One of the reasons for a refriger ator car shortage is because shipper? utilize the cars for storage at destina tion. Frequently they deliver the ap pies directly to the trade from the cars, lhis year oragnizations or apple shippers are using stronir influences to discontinue this custom. Every refrig erator car, too, will be placarded with an appeal to release the cur as soon as possible. Some shippers, although we have none in the Hood River Valley. pursue the custom of sending out 'roll ers, carloads of apples that have no destination and that mav be diverted and rediverted several times before finally reaching a point of unloading. 1 his practice is criminal and ties up cars sometimes lor months. vided theu'with sufficient food to keep body and soul together during the three days and nights they were lost in the wilderness. Then Mr. Graham set to work overhauling his plane. He discovered a leaky gasket as the cause of the trouble, and by improvisations succeeded in getting the machine to work all right Monday. The cold of the uii'a altitude the two men de clared, was very penetrating at night. Ihe temperature was freezing. Their worst experience, however, came when they had to make seven trips down into a canyon, declared more than 1,000 feet deep for water to fill their radiator. The water had to be carried in their helmets. "We were certainly glad," said Mr. Graham, "when we were all ready to take, on. it was growing very'monot onous there on that bald butte. But we made our getaway without the least trouble and here we are healthy and extremely hungry." The men, who left Tuesday to com plete their photography, declared that the meals of civilization and a real bed never appealed to them more than it did last night. They were greeted throughout the evening at the Hotel Oregon by an eager crowd, ready to heBr told and retold their experiences m me mountains. Graham and Woodruff expected to reach Portland some time Tuesday af ternoon. The photographer declares pictures taking conditions Friday were ideal, and that he secured some won derful views of the Oregon and Wash ington snow peaks and cloud forma tions. "We'll have to lay it to Friday, 13," said Woodruff. "Indeed, just as we started, at 12.50 p. m. from Vancou ver, I remarked to Graham that it would be 13 o'clock in Canada the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the month. We thought of this re mark when we alighted from our plane on me high butte. MR. BAKER FILES i VERY PITHY REPORT MISSING AVIATORS CAUSE OF ALARM Pesistent Investigation in all sections around the base of Mount Hood Mon day raised no trace of W. R. Graham, aviator, and Photographer C. S. Wood ruff, supposed to have left Portland Friday to make pictures of the Oregon National Forest anH Mount Hood Loop Highway. Although numerous local folk remember having seen a plane here last rriday, no Upper Valley reBi dent noted any machine soaring over that district that day. The Dalles re ported having seen an airplane Fridav. and it is thought here that the machine may have met with an accident return ing to the east base of the mountain over the Wapanitia country. "1 was in the open all of last Fri day," said Mark Weygandt, whose place is at a high altitude in the Un per Valley, "and 1 would certainly have observed a plane riving around the mountain that day. I do not be lieve the plane ever reached this sec tion." When Mr. Graham and Mr. Wood ruff, arrived here by air route Monday night, the local population supposed them to have just returned from a search over the forested mountain ex panses around Mount Hood, where the two missing men were scheduled to spend Friday afternoon taking photo- grapes, eager crowds watched the returning plane circle over the city and come to a landing on the sandbar north of town, and then the visitors were met by an excited crowd. "Did you find 'em?" somebody asked as the two helmeted air men came from the lowland jungles on their way up town just after the early autumn darkness had settled over the mid-Columbia. I "Find whom?" asked Mr. Graham, I and then everboydy talked at ence for I a while, but gradually Graham and Woodruff comprehendtsl that the hub I bub was all about them. They in J formed the crowd as to their identity i and copies of afternoon papers were thrust into their hands. The crowd pressed close to get details. They were few. The two men at 2.15 Fridav after- I noon, when their motor became over heated were forced to setk a landing atop a bald butte about 5.E00 feet high and at an estimated 15 miles southeast of the mountain. The location they declare was ideal and they landed safe ly. A theepherder. whote name the men did not remember but w ho swore t with vehemence for the fright they gave him and bis sheep, finally pro- District Attorney Baker, who in his annual report to (secretary of State Kozer. reports the collection of $1,978 for tines of men convicted of prohibi tion laws, declares that minor details of his office consume a great deal of his time. His report ia concluded at follows : "Hardly a day passes but I am called upon by someone in trouble for advice. Laborers who quit their iobs or are discharged seem to think it my duty to compel their former employer to cough up all wages due immediately. Abused wives and sometimes abused husbands appeal to me for instant relief. They are sometimes peeved because 1 am unable to prescribe an instant panacea for all their ills. 1 specialize in quel ling riots caused by dog fights, tres passes of neighbor's chickens, horses, sheep or goatand such like epl'odes mat are the only means of keepir.g a rural community from growing tuated. I might Continue at length, Sam, in elucidating my very pleasant sub ject, but 1 am;beginning to fear that you will not read what I have already written, although, like the queen of Sheba, the half has not been told, am a good mind to quit right now. "1 fear I am not earning my salary or one nunored iron men a month." Mr. Baker's report shows seven con victions for game law violations. The fines for traffic violations aggregated $924. Nine cases were carried to the circuit court with two convictions. Mr. tfaker participated in 17 civil cases, most of them condemnation proceed ings in the acauisition of rights of way on the Mount Hood Loop Highway. NEW ROAD IS PLACED COUNTRY CLUB DRIVE IS Li OUT .J ! New Highway Will Open Beautify ction of Valley and Result in Ma Improvements .- ! GOV. OLCOTT HERE SATURDAY NIGHT Although the population hern is row engaged in the year a busiest season. expressions from nrchardists as well as business men indicate that Governor Olcott, who will be accompanied by ibomas IS. Kay, will be greeted Sat urday night, when he delivers an ad dress'here, by a large crowd. Mosier supporters of the governor have an nouned that they will motor down in force. Motor delegations will be pres ent rrom every part or the valley, Hood River was one of Olcott's strongest counties in the primaries. and observers here predict that his op position will be negligible in Novem ber. A committee of prominent Re publicans met at the court boose Mon day evening and arranged for the meeting. The meeting will be held at Pythian Temple. the ONE ORCHARD SENDS OUT 33 CARS PEARS One of the busiest packing houses in the mid-Columbia district may be found on the Gilmer, Wash., place of the Mount Adam Farm Co., which has the largest tract of d'Anjoa pears in the United States. This company. which also owns a heavy acreage of nple trees, has shipped 33 carloads of d Anjous from r hite Salmon, arid eight cars of BartletU were dis patched. The d Anjous, one of the best selling of winter pears, were of high quality, and it is expected that they will bring the top of the market. Manager H. W. Hamlin, who was here Saturday, says his crews have now be gun the harvest of apples. The orch ard's yield fur the season is placed at 40 carloads. The big Klickitat county orchard place employs bO harvest bands throughout the fall months. The place is weil equipped with dormitories and commissary. TWO COUNTY ROADS HAVE BEEN CLOSED County Roadmaster W. L. Nichols announces that the Kirer road hat been clewed to motor truck traffic The highway is not hard surfaced, and im mediately following fall rains, trucks operated over the route leave it in an almost impassable condition. Mr. Nichols stateJ that the Neal Creek road was closed to through traf fic because of ieratkn of motor track hauling rock, from crusher in the can yon, for surfacing the Mount Hood Loop Highway. Plans have been launched for1 . 2 king of a combination of -West Sidenigh waya and country lanes one of the most beautiful drives in Hood River county. It is proposed to improve the road connecting the Columbia River Highway, just east of the Ruthton Hill , grade, with the Belmont district, and extensions of the route on through to the new golf course of the Hood River Country Club in the Oak Grove district. The county court has already officially named the route The Coun try Club Drive. The new road, which utilizes some of the earlier day public roads of the Bel mont district, is on an easy grade for the most part It will be necessary to reconstruct the grade where the road climbs from the level of the Columbia River Highway to the top of the can yon at the Gus Miller place, Clifton. Where the highway leads up from the west edge of the Frankton district into the Belmont section, it will again be neceBS'it to improve the grade. But the entire improvement can be accom plished at a minimum of cost. Be cause of the beauty ofrthejeountryside in this section of the vallev. the new drive, it is expected, will enhance the pleasures or a trip up from Portland to the country club. The road passes at the edge of the big West Side orch ard district. The foothills off to the west are covered with oaks and shrubs. In the spring months the golden blooms of Oregon crane and the nink of the wild currant add color to the landscape. When the first frosts of fall prevail, thejvine maple leaves and the trees of larger species of maple present a glory of silvers and colds. The countryside is pastoral. Much of the land is in pasture, and cows may be seen grazing at frequent intervals. It is also a favorite haunt of China pheasants, and, except in the open sea son, when the gay-decked cocks have fled to highland copses, the birds may be seen strutting over the fields in numbers. The intersection of the Country Club Drive and the Columbia River High way is just west of the Columbia Gorge Hotel. With the new road opened and improved, the hostelry will oe Drougnt closer to the golf links than the city. Indeed, it ia expected that the new road and Highway west of the city will become a favorite route of travel between town and the golf and country club. lbe west rrankton and west Bel mont districts have many delightful , hornetiitee, and it ia expected that the development of the golf club and 'the new road will result in development of the section. UNION HIGH SCHOOL PROPOSED AT CLUB A movement that may ultimately result in the organization of a union high school district of all of the Hood River Valley- north of Odell was launched at the Tuesday Lunch Club meeting at The Pheasant which 'was addressed by 1. R. Acheson, member of the city school board. Mr. Aclieson cited that the point had been reached where the city high school for lack of space was unable to take care of the students from outlying districts, which, under law, merely pay a tuition fee covering operating expenses but contribute nothing toward any build ing fund. "Thirty-five students will leave the city high school at the end of the cur rent year," said Mr. Acheson, "and we will have an estimated 105 new students next fall. We must erect ad ditional room or discontinue allowing out of town children to attend our school. We do not wish to do this, and it has appeared to the board that the problem may be solved by organizing a union high school district, which un der tentative plans would include our own district, that of Pine Grove. Bar rett, Frankton, Oak Grove, Wyeth, Viento and possibly Cascade Locks. "At present 40 per cent of the stu- dens of the high school are coming from outside districts. They are get ting more than they pay for." Mr. Acheson stated that the city school board had already negotiated for the purchase of a four-acre site on the Heights, an ideal location of a high school building. ' We are seriously handicapped as a school district now," said Dr. V. It. Abraham, chairman of the city school board, who cited that the district was heavily bonded and that the a.inual interest reached $7.0X. "The pro posed union plan would equally dis tribute the burden over all the dis tricts. While some of the districts would have to pay more than they are at present called on for. I think they ill seithe"justice of the proposition. If the proposed union ia carried through it wiil eliminate the necessity of new buildirgs on the part of the city district building any new struc tures for 15 or 20 years." Dr. Abraham cited methods of ejacu lating petitions and holding an election for the organization of a union dis trict. He urged citizens to give the matter thought and get back of the school board in plana. The plans wilt be taken up by various ichuoi boards st the annual county institute n Nov ember, when, according to plar" State Superintendent Churchill will come here to discuss the move. On the motion of City Attorney Smith, the club will devote its meeting next we It to the union high school plan, and County Schd Superinten dent Gibson will be chief spaktr of the day. Chairmen of tbe club at early meet pgs were announced as follows: W. H. U d.iy. A. W. Stone. R. 15. Perigo, Dr. Pineo and J. M. Cu!bert- son. CasskJj-Sloce The wediing of Frret CasiJv ard Mrs. Ad lie Stone w as aoiemniied Sat- orday at the tars-jr-aee rf tb First O.rw-t'sn chorrh. Per. J. C. Hrra. Sciat;rg. Mr. and Mrs. Caiy Hi.l make thtir borne in Hood Kiver. o