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HOOD RIVER, OREGON, .'THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1922
No. 26
VOL. xxxiv
"Budget"
Household Management
Many households are now operating the "Bud
get" system of finances, allowing so much for
the Grocer, so much for the Butcher, etc.
, By depositing the household allowance in this
Bank and making all disbursements by check,
the housewife maintains a record of each Item
of expense and is enabled to religiously keep
wllhin her "budget."
Your Household Account Is Solicited
The First National Bank
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Whipcords
TTVVLL'S
H AVORITE
A1SK1L.
in Young' Men's
Suits
The steadily increasing popularity of whipcords
demands your attention.
They combine style and utility-a sturdy, hard
weave, yet nifty.
NOW IN THE WINDOW
J. G. VOGT
COVER YOUR CAR
Exposure and neglect reduces the value
of an automobile 25 per cent or more
the first year.
Protection and care will materially lessen this de
preciation and double the life of your car.
PROTECTION SAVES
EXPENSES
Use the money you are paying for storage space
together with the money lost from neglect and build
a well designed and convenient
GARAGE OF YOUR
OWN
EHRY LUMBER & FUEL CO.
"EVERYTHING TO BUILD ANYTHING"
Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade
MAN appearing at a formal dinner wear
ing kid gloves and no socks would
appear to me as using better judg
ment than the man who keeps his
motor In good condition to the ne
glect of his brakes.
Yesterday on a trip to Portland, I passed
four cars In the ditch. Poor brakes put them
there.
Think It Over !
24-HOUR SERVICE
Shay's SERVICE Shop
AT THE
FASHION STABLES
Shop 12(1
Re. 3721
THE GREAT
Rexall 1 Cent Sale
IS NOW ON
Today, Friday and Saturday
November 23, 24 and 25
This is the biggest sale we have ever put on,
as the sale , includes such items as Rexall Orderlies,
Klenzo Tooth Paste, Cascade Pound Paper and Envel
opes, Hair Nets, Syrup White Pine and Tar, Cream of
Almonds, and Hundreds of Wonderful Bargains.
KRESSE DRUG CO.
Come in and hear the new Vlctorola Records.
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CAESAR'S GHOST
If Caesar's Ghost is hovering around
these parts he cannot take the slightest
exception to the use of his name by our
publicity department, for Julius Caesar was
r,f th first reat advertisers when he
wrote on the walls of Rome for the people to read
just what the senators were doing In the senate
chamber.
So we would use this space to tell you that 11
you are not entirely familiar with everything we
are doing we would like for you to talk with
any of our staff, for there are a lot of things a
good bank can do for a good customer. One of
these things Is to help a good little accoun! grow
Into a good big account
BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
Member Federal Reserve System
WRAP YOUR
NEWTOWNS
In our oiled wrap containing over 20
per cent oil. This is more than amount
necessary to keep Newtowns from
scalding.
Apple Storage at Hood River and Odell.
Store your Apples with us for sale
later on in the season.
We would like to have list of all
apple holdings as wo will be buying
till the close of the season.
DUCKWALL BROS.
CASH BUYERS
Hood River Warehouse Odell Warehouse
Phone 4702 Odell 232-229
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 inspedlion-satisfadlion
guaranteed.
HOOD RIVER MACHINE WKS.
UNGER & LENZ, Props.
Tel. 317J
VALLEY TRUNK
IS UTILITARIAN
HIGHWAY UNIT TO SERVE GROWERS
New Valley Market Route Will Be Entirely
Surfaced With Crashed Rock
Next Year
For the Hood Kiver Valley the 23.48
miles of the Mount Hoop Loop High
way, extending from its intersection
with the Columbia Kiver Highway just
east of the city to the bounds of the
Oregon National Forest, is primarily
utiltarian instead of aesthetic. It has
become familiarly known through the
orchard communities as the Valley
trunk, for it will serve as the district's
main market route. Laterals will
bring traffic to it from every East
Side, Middle Valley and Upper Valley
district, and eventually a lateral will
be constructed up through the Summit
district into the Dee neighborhood.
And because the new trunk route
will be entirely surfaced with rock and
gravel before next summer ends apple
growers of the valley rejoice. The
new highway will eliminate the old
main thoroughfare over Booth Hill, a
steep and tortuous way, which in win
ter months becomes impassable for
motor vehicles. Another road between
the two districts, the Neal Creek
Highway, penetrates a deep canyon,
which in the winter becomes filled
with snow. The cnyon is narrow and
shaded by dense forests. It thaws out
slowly. The new highway, except in
unusual eaten such as that following
the record snow and sleet storm of
November a year ago, will be con
stantly passable. Formerly the Upper
and Lower Hood River Valleys have
been two distinct communities. The
new road will remove the old barriers
and it is anticipated that the valley
hereafter will work more solidly for
all activities concerning the district
The Mount Hood Loop Highway was
made possible by vote of the county
electorate in June 1921, when a bond
issue of $350,000 was authorized, the
citizens accepted an offer of the State
Highway Department to join on a ou
50 basis in the grading and rock sur
facing of the 23.48-mile etretch.
Formalities were hastened and it
was decided to rush construction of the
Booth Hill unit of the new road, a
stretch of five miles, and in the fall of
1921 a contract was awarded to the
Joplin & Eldon Construction Co. foi
$54,546.50. The contractors began
work at once, and it was anticipated
that they would complete the grading
by May of this year. Repeated unfor
tunate circumstances intervened, and
the Booth Hill section of the road will
not be completed until this month. In
stead of being able to woik throughout
last winter, the crews and equipment
of the road builders were tied up, at a
heavy expense by the deep blanket of
Bleet and snow. When chinooks had
finally cleared the frozen precipitation,
an unexpected formation of huge
boulders was encounteied, and progress
on the Booth Hill section of the trunk
line has been slower this summer than
on the other two unitJ.
Early last spring contracts on the
other two units, one beginning at the
Columbia River Highway just east of
the city and ending in the Odell dis
trict, a distance of 6.08 miles, and the
Booth Hill-National Forest unit, a
etretch of 12.4 miles, were let E. A.
Webster & Co., were awarded the
stretch closest to the city for $114,
392.50. The unit next to the bounds of
the Oregon National Forest was
awarded to the Johnson Construction
Co. for $74,121. Both contractors have
made fine headway. F. E. Peterson,
of Spokane, partner of E. A. Webster,
the latter naving Been cuiiBiauujr in
charge of the road grading, was here
last week inspecting the unit The
men stated that their contract would
be completed this week, except for
some short links in the Fine Grove dis
trict where slight grading of existing
highways will be necessitated. Be
cause of the interruption to apple haul
ing it was decided to postpone the
grading until next spring. The John
son Construction Co. will complete the
Upper Valley unit this month provided
bad weather does not prevail.
The new highway will not be with
out its scenic appeals. The fir?t unit,
although but a little over half as long
as that between Booth Hill and the
National Forest bounds, was expensive
because of the heavy rock excavations
and numerous long deep fills. For a
half mile from its intersection with
the Columbia River Higwhay the mad
extends along an almost solid rock
cliff on the east side of the Hood river
canyon. Cutting the huge notch in the
solid rock was facilitated by J. W.
Rumsey. an experienced steam shovel
man, who built a railroad line all the
way from the O.-W. K. & N. tracks.
By the use of a huge steam shovel, he
cut his way to the open levels of the
orchard district with a speed that sur
prised local observers. The rail track
was extended for three miles np the
valley, where the new highway leaves
the river canyon and cuts through .the
district's mott prolific apple orchards.
The new highway, where it rounds a
graceful curve, leaving the canyonside
of Hood liver for a short cut out over
an orchard promontory, offers the mo
torist the first sensational view of
Mount Hood, the snow peak lifting
itelf majestically at the end of a long
vista made by the gorge of the river.
On a summer day the cascades of the
rushing stream may be seen for miles
sparkling in the sunlight The road
again skirts the top of the river bank
until Whifkey creek, which received
its name from a frontier day prune
brand distillery, is reached. After
crossing the gorge of this small stream
over a culvert the highway penetrates
the orchards and these are not left
until the remote Upper Valley is
reached. For 17 miles the motorist
will behold the pastoral scenes of the
; highly deveolped nortieutural section.
After the lat highland orchard is
i parsed just north of Mount Hood
Lodge in the Upper Valley, the road-
i way penetrates a willow brush land
section along the east fork cf Hood
river and its tributaries. Here several
thou and acres cf fertie soli, covered
chiefly with a dene growth of high
land willows and other small shrubs
' and easy to clear, await development
It is anticipated thst the new trunk
highway w iil result in more activity in
this section than elsewhere. The land
: is already held by homesteaders. It is
at too great an altitude for fruit but
is tine for hy. It formerly did not
pay to develop it for hay production
because of the impossibility of trans
porting heavy tonnage over the precar
ious "tote roads." The homesteaders
are already returning to their aban
doned farms, and this year consider
able improvement. has been noted along
the right of way or the new highway
Contracts have already been awarded
for the rock surfacing of the valley
trunk of the Mount Hood Loop High
way, and sections that will be put to a
maximum use throughout the winter
have already been surfaced. Ire en
tire work will be completed early next
summer. The two upper sections were
awarded to A. Anderson for $98,113.25.
Root & Joslin secured the lower sec
tion next to the Columbia Kiver High
way for $36,931.
The county sold a $150,000 block of
the bonds, delivered November l last
year, for Bix per cent and at a premium
of $1,5G0. Six weeks ago a second
apportionment of $100,000 was sold
at 4 per cent, and a premium of
$1,111.60. This set a record for county
highway bonds. It will not be neces
sary to sell all of the remainder of the
authorized issue. It is estimated that
more than $50,000 will not be needed
for the trunk road work. As this
money can only be used on the specific
highway it will be necessary to sell
only sufficient bonds to cover the bal
ance of the cost of the road.
The culverts and bridges of the val
ley trunk road are of permanent con
crete construction. The longest span
is that over the east fork of Hood river
in the Upper Velley.
While the sentiment of the electors
of the county was overwhelmingly for
the road, an element of citizens op
posed it on the ground that more of
existing county roads should have been
utilized. The sentiment, now that the
highway has been graded, is swinging
unanimously ; and enthusiastically for
the the new road, and it bids fair to
become as popular as the Columbia
River Highway, of which it will be a
main feeder. Already visitors to the
district are being piloted over open
stretches of the new scenic and market
road, and Hood Kiver folk are pointing
to it with a pardonable pride.
WINTER HALTS WORK
ON LOOP HIGHWAY
Work on the Mount Hood Loop High
way has ceased for the winter, and a
foot of snow covers the highland area
in the Oregon National Forest, where
crews of men this summer cut about
eight miles of new grade along the
east fork of Hood river and into Horse
thief meadows. Crews of J. E. Clark
son, contractor, who will complete the
remaining eight miles of road next
summer, and Resident Engineer W. G.
Peters, of the Bureau of Public Roads,
came out of the forests last week.
Crews of surfacing contractors, who
have placed four miles of crushed rock,
have alio ceased operations.
Mr. Vetera, whose men have been
engaged the past several months on a
survey of the lateral to connect the
main Loop highway with Cloud Cap Inn
and Coopers Spur, says this work has
been completed and that the hew rve
will be graded next year, according to
plans. The lateral will be 16 miles
long. It will extend up on the side of
Coopers Spur for six miles above Cloud
Cap Inn. The road will carry the mo
torist directly to the ice fields of Eliot
Glacier, and will make Mount Hood
the most accessible peak in the nation.
The spur road will be on a grade of six
per cent, its construction being iden
tical with that of the road in Rainier
National Paik.
WORK IS RESUMED
ON NORTH BANK
Work on the Underwood-Lyle unit of
the North Bank Highway, interrupted
about a year ago when the new grade
had been cut about 600 feet along the
precipitous cliffs of the Columbia gorge
under the Eyrie on the promontory
formed by the White Salmon river's
confluence with the Columbia, has been
resumed. Operations of the crews is
in plain view of Hood River folk, who
have noted a clearing gang at work,
and a steam shovel is busy extending
the grade. Much of the excavation at
this point is solid rock.
Four construction camps will be es
tablished along the unit. Work, it is
said, will be rushed on the new road,
and it is anticpated that the new grade
between Bingen and Underwood will
be open to traffic in two months. The
announcement of early completion of
the road has resulted in expressions of
pleasure from local folk who are accus
tomed to make trips to the Underwood
lection. Formerly it has been neces
sary to negotiate the steep grade lead
ing to the eact up the Columbia gorge
side to White Salmon and to travel
thence several miles up the White
Salmon canyon and double back down
this stream to Underwood. The new
grade will facilitate travel of Under
wood orchardists to this city.
RED CROSS SEAL
CAMPAIGN IS NEAR
Elaborate preparations are being
made for a countv-wide campaign for
the sale of Red Crocs Christmas Seals
by the Hood River County Health As
sociation. Mrs. R. B. Ferigo. county
chairman, states thst all district chair
men are in readings for the opening
campaign December 1. Of the pro
ceeds to be collected 45 per cent will
remain here for local charity work.
The following are some of.the things
the seals help to pay for:
Special rchool nursing, county public
health nursing, school inspection, pre
natal nursing, child welfare, industrial
nursirg. tuberculosis nursing, supplies
for modern health crusade, nutrition
work in public schools, milk for mal
nourished children, equipment for open
air cafes, matron, nurse and food at
open air school, height and weight
charts for schnos. hot school lunches,
scsles for public schools, health sur
veys and health exhibits, tuberculosis
clinics, relief for tuberculosis families,
equipment for home treatment health
motion pictures, lectures and litera
ture, and personal service staff for
county work.
Leslie Putler last week celebrated
bis 75th birtbdsy. Mr. Butler is one
of the most active men of the North
west for his age.
COMMUNITY!
SPIRIE
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1 10TED
UPPER VALLEY PLANS TERIALIZE
Plans Announced at Mi g Satnrday
When Speakers Com ;nt Sec
tion on Cooperatii f rend:
In no district of Oregon, - perhaps,
has community spirit been developed
to the point noted in the Upper Hood
River Valley. Several years ago the
folk of this district decided to better
highway conditions. The general road
funds were insufficient to develop the
roads desired. They worked out a sys
tem, whereby annually they raised a
special tax and by supplementing this
with donation of woik secured high
ways that attracted motorists to their
district. The Upper Valley United
church has become recognized as a
standard institution of its kind in Ore
gon. Several denominations have al
lied themselves in developing a church
that really functions. As result of co
operative community spirit the Upper
Valley has a union high school and a
grade school that are cited with pride
by the entire valley.
The district has launched plans for
building a community center house,
and Saturday, at a meeting held at
Mclsaac hail, it was announced by W.
L. Mason, chairman of a committee
that has been considering the move
ment for some weeks, that success of
the venture was assured. Other
members of the coramitee are : Rev.
R. A. Hutchinson, pastor ., of the
United church, Will Smullio and Frank
Keating.
The community meeting was well at
tended. Stoies of the i'arkdale were
closed for the event, and the hall was
crowded by folk from all sections. At
noon the people assembled at the grade
school for a sumptuous basket lunch.
At this gathering Albert T. Case, Bel
mont orcbardist, who was accompanied
on the piano by his mother-in-law,
Mrs. J. K. Doan, recently arrived from
Cleveland, O.. for a visit Little Miss
Frances Smullin with a group of boys
andfgirls, Mrs. George Axtelle accom
panying on the piano, sang a song that
dealt in a facetious manner with vari
ous prominent citizens. The song was
written by Mr. Mason.
The session at Mclsaac's ball was
opened with a moving picture show.
Mrs. Axtelle gave piano numbers. Mr.
Case rendered a vocal solo. Addresses
were delivered by E. E. Faville, editor
of the Western Farmer; J. H. De
Young, Portland architect; Truman
Butler, and W. L. Van Nuys, . former
pastor of the Upper Valley who is now
in charge of educational work of the
Oregon synod of the Presbyterian
church.
Features to be cared for in the new
enterprise include a gymnasium, li
brary, men's club room, women's rest
room, large auditorium and several
small rooms on the main floor. In the
ra?eraent there will be a large social
hall, bowling alley, shower baths, kit
chen and other features. The men's
club room will be designated as a
memorial to the men who served in
the world war from Upper Valley.
Mrs. J. B. Manson participated in the
musical program.
TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION
MADE PERMANENT
The Hood River Traffic Assoc ation,
which has been functioning as a tem
porary organization, was permanently
effected Monday night, when officers
were elected as follows: P. F. Clark,
president; Walter K. Woolpert, vice
president; It W. Kee. treasurer, and
C. 11. Castner and A. W. Peters, other
members of the directorate. C. ' Le
land Smith, traffic manager of the Ap
ple Growers Association, was named
seretary-manager.
The first official action of the associ
ation was to petition the Pacific Fruit
Express Co. to make apportionment of
refrigerator cars received here, on a
tonnage basis, instead of local rail
agents.
BISHOP REMINGTON
INSTALLED SUNDAY
The Rt. Rev. William Remington,
formerly suffragan bishop of South Da
kota, was installed at Pendleton Sun
day morning as bishop of the eastern
Oregon diocese of the Episcopal church.
Many clergymen from all over the in
land empire were in the city for the
installation. Bishop Remington . has
not yet announced where he will estab
lish his residence, but he stated that it
lay between Baker, La Grande, Pendle
ton, The Dalles and Hood River.
Mrs. Remington did not accompany
the bifhop at the time, remaining in
South Dakota. A conference of bishops
and clergymen was held Monday, at
which time the most.important subjects
before the church in this section were
discussed.
W. T. PRICE SUB
M1TS RESIGNATION
The city council Monday night ac
cepted the resignation of City Water
Superintendent W. T. Price, who will
retire after six years of service. No
successor to Mr. Price, wboe resigna
tion will be effective on the second
Tuesday in January, has been sug
gested. The council canvassed the votes of
the recent muncipal election and de
clared the following citiiens officially
elected to office for the term to begin
in January: R. B. Perigo, mayer; t
M. Holman. C. O. Iluelat and James
Strsnahan. city council; J. W. Crites,
treasurer, and H. L. Howe, recorder.
BUDGET COMMITTEE
WILL MEET TODAY
Tha annual budget committee cf the
fraintv court wiil meet with the court
today, when a tentative draft of appro
priations lor toe coming year wui.oe
made. Men bers of the committee
are: S. J. Moore. Truman Butler, A.
W. Peters and C Ciwn.a W.
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