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•fl- * HT* i • - ’ I A ♦ •1 I J T T VOL. XXXV HOOD RIVER; OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1924 J » 4 Wr ÎBM flou A Make 1924 Your Year SUPREME COURT DECIDED FRIDÁY Sappy Jit in ÿear! The New Year belongs to everyone —no single man can claim it now. But its promises are for you —if you achieve. Will every day pay a dividend to you in some thing worth while accomplished? New chances to serve and to succeed are offered each one of us. Money in the First National will help you win your goal in 1924. Save something each week, and bank it where interest works for you. It may open the path to greater comfort and happiness, to busi- ness success and riches. The Happiest and Most Prosperous New Year » ever id our wish to you. 4 TAX STATUTE IS INVALID Error ii Title of Tax and CoaserVattoa C nummm Law Declared to ,z KRESSE DRUG COMPANY r The First National Bank * » HOOD RIVER, OREGON i5 I The Christmas Spirit still clings to our office and, not to hurry it away, we will use this space for Watson Shepard’s poem. I RESOLVE ■■ 1 w “If 1 have planted hope today In any hopeless heart; If someone’s load has lighter grown, Because I did my part; If happily I have caused a laugh Which chased some tears away; And if tonight my name be named When someone kneels to pray — I’ll claim my day has been well spent, Not lived in vain; I am content because we know it’s the best policy. 1 —. =•[. . / Nationally Known Merchandise ■ . 4 4 AT NIGHTFALL to serve you better b y continuing our well known policy of selling you I— . —---- -- ---------------------------- jx— 0 I • 4 I "If cup, or crust, or covering. Has been dispensed by me; ’ IL1 have helped the weak to stand. Or warmly clasped some timid hand frvfrtendshtp,-tt may be; Or if some lonely little child Has known my comradeship and smiled— Though humble 1 may be, I know I have been helping God, and so. Serene I claim my nightly rest. Just glad that I have done my best.” J. G. VOGT •L 5 Miller Rubber Goods J % Miller has built Quality Into Rubber Goods for Twenty-S^Ven Years. Prices on HERBERT HOOVER . HOT WATER BOTTLES from Secretary of Commerce 75c to $3.50 HOOD RIVER DRUG CO Phone 1551 0 “A family that owns its home, takes a pride in it, maintains it 1 better, gets more pleasure out of it, and has a more wholesome, health ful and happy atmosphere in which to bring up children. The home owner has a constructive aim in life. He works harder outside his home; he spends his leisure more profitably; he and his family lead a finer life and enjoy more of the comforts and cultivating influences of our modern civilization. ‘‘A husband and wife who own their home are more apt to save. They have an interest in the ad vancement of a social system that permits the individual to store up the fruits of his labor. As direct taxpayers they take a more active part in local government "Above all, the love of home is one of the finest instincts and the greatest of inspirations of our peo ple.” Ladies’Rest Room “We «re as near to you as your telephone” ft n 1 Squibb Products THE WAY OF PEACE” Will be the subject for an address by CAPTAIN CHARLES S. TATOR SUNDAY EYKG, JAN. 6tE AT RIVERSIDE CHURCH In the morning at 11 o’clock DR. BODDY WILL PREACH ON “PROBLEMS OF PRAYER ...... ■— * .»-t • ■ The Anthem sung by the Choir will be “More Love To Thee, O Christ” the New year bring all of you the attainment of your desires! EMRY LUMBER & FUEL CO. < = HECK UNGER GARAGE Succeaoor to TUCKER'S GARAGE ‘ Phone 3743 c Iu the Klamath county ease, owner* of land within what is known aa the Klamath irrigation ‘district charged that the tax mipervtoing commission had wiped from the 1U24 budget a pro- posed Ury to reimburse the United States government for construction work. Thto obligation becomes due an nually, it was set oat in the complaint. John 8. Coke, United States district attorney, intervened iu thto cure to protect tho government's interests. Tillamook and Polk counties charged irregularities in the levying of taxes for 1924, due to the eUminatiou of tax items by the supervising commission, and attneked both the title and the con stitutionality of the act. Oscar Bteelbaiuuier, Marion county assessor, announced today that he would not insist on ail tax levies being tiled in his office Thursday, but would grant a reasonable time for this action because of tlie supreme court opinion declaring the law void. The total tax levy. Including the state tax, as shown by the tentative liudget of the county court, reached $240,025.50. Tho tax commission or dered a levy of $218,545.50. The final levy of the county court was $230- 74i>.10. The tax commission gave the library $2,130, while the num of $2,800 was asked. The final levy givi« the Insti tution $2,500. The salary of the dep uty county clerk was cut from $1,500 to $1,080 by the commission. The court restored this. The commission cut the salary of the county road master from $2.200 to $1,300. The court restored this to $180 per month. An etfiergency bridge fund of $1,500, disallowed by tlie commission, was re stored by the court, which also mater ially incroaiied the road fund. NEW V TEMPERATURE DOWN ,.w ■ i Word came last Friday to Iitotrict Although the temperature stood four degrees belovTwro a” Attorney John Baker, that the au- preme wurt had declared the 1923 leg New Year's day was one of the «■ islative law, establishing the county gloriously brilliant ever seen hv Columbia foIk. From .T’uuX^ tax and eonaervation commissions null and void because of an error in the sky the firs* rays of the sun p**"*-! title. The county court had met here the snow covered forests of the Wash, fogtoh bill« of toe CmLrXod dtoSft Thursday morning, as Decemlier 28 Is the last day on which the levies for a rosy tint. The Columbia r|v« the coming year can be made out, and flowed like a bnge amethestine ribboa was ready to proceed with the levy. through its white gorge. It was decided to await newt from the The snowfall was not suffictoat to supreme court, known to be tn session ha,ni>er traffic over toe Columbia and considering the law. Mr. Baker Highway °r valley roads. A number received the news shortly after lunch of local folk with closed cars mototed and the court met at 2.30 and adopted up the Mount Hood Loop Highway a budget, which showed a reduction of The view from Booth HUI, where a approximately $10,000 under the ten birdseye view of the Lower Valley tative budget furnished the tax and orchard section, with . Mount Adams conservation commission. The com looming up uk u background was never mission had cut an approximate grander, so clear was the atmosphero $18,000 from the tentative budget. Outdoor recreation charactertoed cele^ The city tiled an amended budget to bratiun of the day. Skaters sought take care of the library. The munici the ( ohinibia sloughs and made merry pality and the county have entered u until late Tuesday night contract to join in a 50-50 basis in sup Wliile ice Idockuded the Cascade port of the library. Locks-Stevenson ferry, shore Ice was The opinion handed down by the broken here and White Halmon ferries supreme court in no* way affects the tax were in commission, taking care of a supervising.and consevation commis considerable traffic of automobile«. sion now in operation * in Multnomah Alsiut 9 i. m. i pei'uMar phsnoiaenoa ' county. The Multnomah county com was observed. A light fog was blown mission was created by the legislature across the lower levels, freezing, de in 1010. The legislature in 1023 at spite the bright sun, and falling like tempted to amend the 1010 law to ex miniature snowflakes. tend the tax supervising and conserva The minimum temperature of the tion commissions to all counties in the Upper Valley wax reported at six Of. state but failed properly to amend the green below zero Tuesday. title. Although the temperature here evi The annual meeting of the Oregon Because the time for levying taxes expired Friday night, the supreme State Chandler of Commerce will be denced a rise of about 10 degrees yes court made no attempt to Investigate held in Portland January 4, according terday, a chin east wind, driving the the comttitutionality of the law, .hut to announcements sent to all commer worst snow storm of the winter, began, and yesterday was one of the most this question probably will he covered cial organizations of the state. The outstanding feature of the an disagreeable days of the season. fully In tlie supplemental opinion which likely will be handed down nual session will be the consideration of u state-wide program in which each within the next three weeks. "The <-ourt is unanimously of the community of the state will have a opinion that the act of itfei creating part. Executive Manager Dudley will tax supervising and conservation com present tills program for the approval missions is void," said the memoran of the delegates. placing particular dum findings, "because of defective emphasis u¡>on the importan<-e of the title. There is nothing in the title, of tourist trafile and an early-solution of The following was clipped from the the act indicating that it extends to the the marketing problem. department of the Oregon State Rd- Niue directors are to be elected to whole state. This, of course does not replace the following, whose terms of iturial Association in Oregon Ex affect Muitnomali county. changes. a publication issued by the "Such belug our eoncluslons, the office have expired: Ralph A. Holte. University <it Oregon journaltom stu- county courts of the various counties Vale; J. T- Rorick, The Italics; Frank d<«to for newspaper folk of the state. in the state are free to make levies in Sloan, Staufield; Roy T. Bishop. Port The depa rtmen t to conducted by Hal accordant« with their own judgment, land; W. O. Munseli, Portland; Ar E. Hoes, présidant of the Oregon State without reference to' the recommenda thur Clarke, Corvallis; B. B. Hall, Editorial Asoodntlon. tions of the tax conservation commis Klamath Falls: L. I. Ray, Eugene, That the Oregon State Editorial sions, but subject to the provisions and niMl L. D. Drake. Astoria. The meeting will be called to order Association wields considerable inse limitations of the constitution and the at 10 a. in. und un address of welcome cure when they take concerted set ion statutes. a proposition to attested in enthu "The levy already having been made will I m - delivered by Frank E. An on siastic terms by those who are inter drews. president of the Portland by the court of Umatilla county, the in the development of the Mount defendant a—Bsawr in «Mrected to up Chamber of Commerce. , Responses ested Hood region. A resolution was passed will be made by R. 8. Hamilton, of tend the same upon the tax rolls in by this OMtoctoiion st their meetlag on accordance with the findings of the Bend. Irving E. Vining, of Ashland, the mountain tost summer, endoralqg .and J. W. Brewer, of Portland. Fol couuty court. the plau of the Foreet Service to com "In the case of Klamath county, lowing appointment of committees A. plété lateral road from the Mount while briefs have been filed amicus 8. Dudley, executive manager of the Hood a Loop up to Coopers Spur. In curiae, no petition has been filed, hut State Chamlx-r, will outline the 1024 addition to the resolution, a grant it is clearly the duty of that county progra in. and all other counties to make provi At the afternoon session W. D. B. many, of the editors wrote splendid sion by suitable act to provide funds Dodson, general manager of the Port urUeles for their papers when they to carry out all contracts lawfully en land Chamber, will speak on the state returned home, and all M all, the development program; Paul B. McKee, newspaper men are given a great deal tered into. "An opinion M-tting forth the views general manager of the California A of credit for the decision of ths gov ernment to proceed with the work of of the court will be hereafter handed Oregon Power <Jb„ will speak on "The construction. down. The time being limited to State Attitude;'* Win. McMurray/ gen Thursday precluded the prejmratlon of eral passenger agent of tlie Union Pa A few of the comments from inter cific, and J. A. Ormundy, general pas ested iM THons, showing their apprecia an extended opinion at this time." tion of the work of the association, Suits to break down the o|>eratlon senger agent for the Boutliern Pacific, follow : of the county tax supervising snd con will Mfs-ak on "The Value of Tourist Kent Shoemaker, chairman of 1083 servation commissions were filed by Business;*' R. 11. Kipp, manager of the five counties. These included Uma marketing department of the Portland Ix-gion Climb: “We are in receipt of tilla and Yamhill counties, which were Chandler, will speak on "The Market a telegram from Senator McNary with represent«! by attorneys at the hear- Problem." and J. W. Brewer will the assurance from Colonel Greeley that work on the Coopers Spur road ing.and Tillamook, Polk and Klamath speak on “Land Settlement.’’ President Chihla and Secretary Al will commence next spring, and there . counties, which filed briefs amicus curiae. Another brief attacking the lyn and members of the directorate of Is great rejoicing in Hood River. I law was filed by Jolin 8. Coke, United the ChainlM-r of Commerce, accompan- am well enough acquainted with the States dlstrii't attorney, with head lol l>y almut 15 citizens, will attend sentiment here to say to you that we give you and your association dae quarters In Portland. Briefs upholding the state'chainbcr uweting. credit in helping us put this across. the constitutionality of the act wen- I have kept in touch with the articles filed by the attorney-general, J. II. Car appearing in the state papers since nahan of Klamath Falls and J. B. Kerr dhr climb, and I assure you we feel of Portland. well repaid in our judgment that, if In the Yamhill county case which we could once get the editors on the was started by practically all of the mountain, they would be sold to the bankers there, it was allegixl Hint the law creating the tax supervising com Orey Cameron, aged 24 and son of future possibilities ax a scenic attrac missions was unconstitutional in that Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Cameron of Duke« tion for the benefit of the entire state. under the constitution of the state the valley, died nt the Cottage hospital I hope, after the completion of the road, we will again be able to enter county courts sre charged with the Thnrsday following complications tain you at our mile-blgh camp, which management of the affairs of the coun from a mastoid operation. Mr. Camer we will now attempt to permanently ty, including the duty to levy taxes. wan a former ntudent of the Oregon improve for the betterment of our It was set out that the county court on of Yamhill county prepared Its budget Agricultural college, where he was a climbs.’* William P. Allyn, secretary of Hood of expenditures for the year 1V2I, that member of the Gamma Sigma Kappa Specializing in photog River Chamber of Commerce : “We the same was a I »proved by the budget fraternity. raphy lie had imide a reputation at the certainly want to thank the State Ed committee, tmt that subsequently‘ the itorial Associât Ion for their wonder tax supervising commission eliminated college for Ills work. Two brothers ami four slaters sur ful support in securing thto road, for certain tax items necessary for the vive. They arc: Mm. R. E._Creson, it is largely through their efforts that proper conduct of the corporation's af fairs. The items elimlimted from the Mm. Chas. W. Allen, Mrs. Felix Kyle, this was accomplished.** Ix-roy Childs, president of Hood Yamhill budget involved amsroximately Mixa Marino, Lloyd and Cecil, all of River Chamber of Commerce : “We $75,1X10, including highwn.v Isirid prin Hood River valley. Funeral services were held Saturday certainly appri-ciate your interest and cipal and interest due during the year afternoon at the First Christian cooperation which have been a great 1024. Further charge was mpde'tliat the church. Rev. W. 8. Glelser, pastor of help In securing thto project, _______ _ M.-ttcwttst chWTctor o a iniata d,' ■ giw'15f"TnOfiMSBli, editor of Hood Ywmhttf county tax supcrrttlUB errar- I be Interment followed at Idlewilde ceme mission reduced materially the allow River Glacier : "Hood Itiver folk cer ances ot a number of county offices, tery. The funeral was directed by tainly appreciate the aid they received C. C. Anderson. ” while the budgets of other offices were from the Editorial Asawdation and increased. Attack also was made by you personally in the msf**-nf secur Ysmhill county bankers on the title of ing the Loop Highway Coopers Spur the act, and they questioned the au lateral. The aid of the association. I thority placed in the hands of the gov feel, did more toward hastening the ernor, who has the appointing of the road than any other thing." tax supervising commissions. Harry N. Nelson, adjutant of the Th« Umatilla county case, which was American Ix-gtoo, Department of Ore directed at the county assessor there, Report of City Fire Marshal Morgan gon : “Am elated over the suececa ef alleged that the tax supervising com shows Hood River to have sustained a the Hood River Legion post and or mission had eliminated from the 1024 tiro loss of only $375 the past year, ganizations of that city relative to the budget a levy for market roads. Tlie the smallest loss since the city Was exploitation of Mt. Hood. Oregon’s supreme court was requested in thia incorporated. ' Mr. Morgan for the grand old mountain will then become case to compel the couuty assessor to past several year# lias cooperated with tlie mecca for tourists from all parts moke the market road levy. » the state fire marshal's office in con of America. I feel confident of that. "7, In connection with the Umatilla ducting educational campaigns liere. You can rest assured that not only county case, the question was raised uh Merchants and Iionscholders have fol the Hood River .legionnaires, hut the ito the constitutionality of the county lowed the instructions of the officials department legion and the posts feature of the market road law. Al tliroiighont the state appreciated the I though not contained in the memoran and have eliminated tire hazards. The longest period without a fire puldicity given by your association da opinion, the court held tliat tlie alarm was 35 days, according to Mr. which was worth thousands of dollars market road law is constitutional, as Morgan. The deiiertment was called to the state of Oregon.’ It to the state it affects county levies, but the act. is out Saturday night when soot of a and its people that will benefit from subject to the 6 per cent limitation j flue in tlie Eliot building became ig advertising the scenic beauties of Mt. statute. In the original market road nited. No dnmngo resulted. Hood, and not particularly the com law county market road levies were munity of Hood River." I specifically exempted from the 0 per Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Franz left yes- <i*nt limitation act. Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Smith, accom For the const ruction of market roads terda.v by automobile for southern the state has a fixed annual levy of California. They will Stop en route panied by Mrs. M. C. Marshall, mo 1 mill. To obtain cooperative assis at Grants Pass for n visit with Mr. tored to Portland Monday to attsad tance from these funds counties must and Mm. George Eaton, who formerly the fnneral of Mrs. Wilkinson, Who levy an equal or larger tax for market/ resided on the East Hide. They will IMissed away there Saturday. Itos, roads. The supreme court has not yt-t visit Mm. Franz's brother. Sanies Wilkinson and her daughter, the totter a teacher, formerly resided here. passed upon the constitutionality of Pickcrt, of Alhambra, while away. -ça ■ ' fl /J® i- ** ——rr* ’■'■ObPw LOCAL MEN WILL BE AT PORTLAND MEET - 5^ >‘vS*r'*■/ ■ W "'O * ;; » è.. Í . a % FIRE LOSS OF. 1923 RECORD LOW POINT J i A «**• ’’O,.: .‘Z *• .<4 OREY CAMERON SUC CUMBS TO OPERATION SAYS: 5 the market road tax aa levied by the etate. BODY OF EDITORS WIELDS INFLUENCE ____ X- — T ’àrse . 'tf/j s ■ 1 J ■ J I ■Í. ■vá ■ ì,