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HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, JANUARY I, 1925 IN DETAIL pproved by C. B. University, prior Franz’s January Sale Starts Friday Morning, January 2nd Embracing practically every line of Home Furnishings Furniture, Rugs, Linoleum, Shades, Draperies, Wall Paper (By Leslie Butler, chairman pf the lioard of directors of the company). October 13, 1922, three engineers crossed the Hood River ferry on a pleasure jaunt, being Hllmar I'apst, manager of the Fortland Gas Com- pauy; Henry L. Gray, consulting en gineer of Heattie, and Elbert M. a statement after my term of office Chandler, who had just returned to has expired than to attempt, before it bls home at Olympia after serving as to say what I ahall or shall acting secretary of the American So begins, ciety of Civil Engineers in New York not do as mayor of the city of Hood efty. Mr. Papst, who had crossed the River. If I do not make any ad river frequently, said to the other vance promises I shall have nothing to retract when my term la over and two: “Here is a good place to build at that time no statement will be a bridge.” From this casual remark needed me, as my administra grew the present structure that was tion will from speak for Itself, fqy good or completed less thah 2tt months after for bad. the idea first germinated. The honor to which I have been The Act of Congress was signed by ‘selling” the val- President Harding February IS, 1923, elected Is sincerely appreciated by i the information granting the right to the Oregon- me. It la also, Indeed, very satis ’ of Second and Washington Bridge Company to con factory to be able to enter upon my s many of the struct and operate this bridge. Actual duties at a time when the general I not otherwise was started September 18, 1923. outlook la as promising for the «entire 1 once they have work Before starting, Messrs. Gray and Hood River valley as It la at the Chandler raised the total sum of present time, Conditions are rapidly $475,000 in the remarkably short time improving for the entire coqptry. In of leas than six mqnths. months, Of this sum, my opinion,* the entire Pacific coast is the principal partutroae front the sale ■boot tn experience an unusual devel of >300,000 in bonds aecurel by the opment and perhaps the Pacific North bridge snd its earnings to Wm. P. west will enjoy a greater prosperity Harper A Son, of Seattle. Paul C. during the next 10 years than in any length of time in - Its history. Harper, president of this banking like We, however, must not be carried house, deserves great credit for his away our enthusiasm or a belief vision and courage in underwriting an in thia by seemingly safe prophecy and issue of securities entirely indulge In projects for expansion be investor. yond our needs and deserts. Neither It is now an old story how Hood we do anything to binder our Hiver and White Salmon finally got should participation in the many good things behind the bridge 100 per rent strong that are due ua If we help ourselves. ■nd aubacrlbed to $00,000 of the pre- However, there will come with this ferred stock of the bridge company, Increasing prosperity many demands how Meier A Frank took $25,099 to for more public service. With each help the good work along, ■nd finally demand we must remember that no the contractor and the engineers, enterprise of a public nature, however Gray and Chandler, closed the gap by beneficent, can be carried on without taking the balance themselves. the expenditure of n^mey, and that The bridge consists of 11 reinforced all debts of the present and promises concrete piers, 10 steel spans aggre to pay in the future must sometime gating 2,134 feet In length, one wood be met, and the day of reckoning is en span 112.fi feet in length, and tim usually close at our het4a There ber approaches. Two of the concrete will lie many times, therefore, when piers are over 140 feet in height, It will lie necessary to decide between three of them rest on solid rock and doing those things that are absolutely the balance rest on piles going to essential to prosperity and progress solid rock. In one case the piles are and undertaking those things which 70 feet long and the tope are 59 feat we can, for the time being, get along lielow the low water surfai-e of the without. river. It'is planned to replace the There is one subject to which I wooden approaches with steel spans like to have our citisena give ultimately, probably in IS years* time, should thoughtful consideration. We and substitute a permanent d«*ck or their have now been working under the roadway over the present steel spsos present city charter for about 24 when the present deck becomes worn. years and many of its provisions for The bridge is designed to carry un procedure have been long since obso restricted traffic and the trusses were lete. Compliance with them has proportioned on the basis of tWo 29- caused much Inconvenience and often- ton n myucks passing over the bridge tlines unnecessary expense. Is it not ala ireast. The opening set at rest ail time that we should consider the doubt as to the strength of the struc adoption of a mew charter? I find ture when people were massed on the that over 290 cities of thia size and channel span as thick ■■ they could larger have adopted the city manager stand and afterwards a large truck plan of executive procedure. Greater loaded with green tigs followed by a efficiency and economy result from prtweaalon of cars ¡»seed over the that plan. Ncarcely a city that has bridge without inducing the slightest once adopted thia form of business vibration. It is believed to lie the administration haa ever gone back to first bridge built with piers having, the older system. the cylinders ttp|>ed or battered for administration of the afTalrs additional stability, a design that is of The city and the carrying on very effective and economical and of a ita modern work have become so compli likely to tie largely adopted In gen cated that it has become ne<<esxary to eral bridge practice in the future. employ men who are especially trained The steel was fabricated by the ■nd familiar with the duties which American Bridge Company. are called upon to perform. Gray * Chandler had* the contract they Buch an official 'can give us better to furnish the necessary engineering service more economical adminis services. C. M. Hurlburt represented tration, and although, as 1 have suggested them as resident engineer on the alsive, does not mean that we may ground. The Pittsburgh Testing Lab enlarge It the wope of service given to oratory represented them at the steel onr citizens and to think we can do mill inxiss'tlona and the Northwest so without expense or additional rev Testing laboratory tested all the ce enue. ment, sand, gravel and other materi The proper policy for a city ad als entering into the bridge. The bridge was designed by Mr. Chandler, ministration la to give the liext pox-1 the steel work was detailed by C. II. slide service to its .citizens, each and all alike, and service, whether in public or private business, coats money. The coat of additional ser vice In private business can lie cov ered by an increase In the sales price, ■ nd few of those whd buy know when this additional service is given or appreciate how much of an indirect tax has been added to the coat of the merchandise which they have pur chased. They, however, are educated to enjoy the additional service, and they are willing to pay for Ita con tinuance. In the case of a city's affairs the extra service results in additional taxation, and everyone, sooner or later knows when his taxes are increased and he seldom stops to reason the why or the wherefor. If we are to keep Hood River on the map after the manner of al) pro gressive communities, there Is no bet-1 ter way to advertise the community spirit of Hood River than by an efficiently administered tourist camp. The city now has the land and a suffi cient Investment in tourist camp equipment and conveniences to be a credit to a community of thia size. WITH NEW BEAUTY ANO But. as our location is so near to a coast terminal point and within an I PERMANENT PERFORMANCE easy Tide of several large metropoll-1 tan centers, we cannot expect to have the patronage nor operate our camp as profitably ax our more fortunate competitors. We should, however, do I what we can do right and adopt n I liberal policy toward onr tourist vis-1 Itors ax it Is wise. Bitt while we I must give some service free we must not let ourselves lie carried away by PREPARE FOR PROGRESS too great an enthusiasm for this sort FEAR NO FOLLIES of thing. We can be guided by the policy that the worthy tourist will willingly pay for what he gets If we I give him the full measure of what he pays for. My fellow members of the city council want the* citizens to under HOOD RIVER, OREGON stand the fact that we have the In terest of the community In onr hearts. We are most anxious to do onr beat In the discharge of the necessary dn- II ties of onr positions and to lead whenever the cltizeqg express their'I J. C. DEVIN & SON A careful analysis of all. the big city ads discloses no “bargains”—no values better thah you can get at Franz s every day in the year. Now, during the pre-inventory clean-up, the opportunity for saving cannot be equalled anywhere (and we don’t mean maybe). Look around in Hood River, Portland, or anywhere, then come and com pare quality and prices and let your goodjudgment decide. Space will not permit enumerating the scores and hun dreds of articles included in -this event. No matter what you may need, come and see if it is marked with one of the big Special January Sale Tags—that all may enjoy Is the Wish of each Member and Employee of the E. A. FRANZ CO desire that we shall move forward. We invite the. cooperation of all citi zens. We shall respect all construc tive criticisms. In any event, we would rather have such complaints as ■nay be made of our service, face to face and man to man, than to have any portion of the community main tain an attitude of grumbling dixeon- tent and of saying nothing. We would like to be accepted on the liasia of tiearlng a spirit of good will and an honest intention to serve the com munity and to meet the demands that ■re made upon us to the best of our ability. ________________ (By A. F. 8. Bteele, general manager) The Apple Growers Association Is going into the New Year leaving be hind it an enviable record of achieve ment in so fnr ■■ the 1924 crop Is concerned. It has just made the largest single distribution ever made In its history, totaling approximately $400.900. It does not owe the banks anything. All the money borrowed for harvesting this crop has Is-en re turned. All of its supply bills are ¡slid, totaling aliout $750.000. It has bnt recently closed the largest boxed apple deal ever made. The IsMird and oflk-erx of the Association feel that this is but the tieginning of plac ing the apple indnatry of the Hood River valley on a real business basis. They hope another year to lie able to dispose of the export apples of the Association on an f. o. b. basis in stead of sending them abroad on a consignment Isisix. They feel that this will go a long way toward es tablishing that market on an f. o. b. Imais also. Most of the Association's apples were on that Itasis thia year on the domestic market. The three active and live salesmen the Association had in the field this year not only sold a|iples in new markets but laid the foundation for more business in the years to come in those same markets. They made sales which could not have been made by letter or telegram. There were fewer Isixed apples this year than usual, but still there was an adequate sup ply for those who wanted them, and were willing to pay for them, aud they won't sell themselVe*» The Association has received up to date 1,959,099 isixea of apples on the 1924 crop, which is nearly 500.090 boxes more than the 1923 crop. This fruit was haudled " ‘ at a less cost per unit, that Is, per box, this year than ever liefore. There should lie a good sized refund coining back to the growers at the end of the year on thia year's operations, despite the fact that our budget was 1c less than last year and 3c less than the 1922 crop. This year the budget lielng 19c; 1923. 29c. and 1922. 22c. liespite the fart that this was a very clean crop the growers produced it more economlc- ally than any other crop they have ever grown. Nothing worth while achieved pdthout effort, The mem tiers of the Apple Growers . Association should realise and Is* proud of the fact, khat they have produced the largest crop ever harvested in this valley at a less’ coat per unit. They should <<ontinne to strive to produce ax nearly a perfect crop of ai>plex ax lx humanly ¡xMudlile at the lowest pos sible cost consistent with the quality of the Blue Diamond apple. The members of the Association should be proud of the fact that fin-gon is ls*st known throughout the world by the Blue Diamond trademark. Their ap ples go to all copiera of the glolie,— to the British Isles, Scandinavia, to the continent of Enrols-, to Egypt. India, China and the islands of the sea. They should be proud of the fat-t that it was possible for a manu facturer of ls>x shooks to tell a con vention of luinls-rmen In Seattle re cently that the largest single con sumer of box shooks ou the Pacifie coast, where domestic corporations are taken into consideration, wax the Apple Growers Association of H o < m 1 River. They should be proud of the fact that it takes nearly 40 carloads of paper, ax it did this past year, to properly protect their apples. Port land business men to whom this in formation comes from time to tihie are astonished at the size and solidity of this organization. The memls-rx have a right to is* proud of it. And no one, least of all the memliers of the organization, should do anything to sully its fair nans-. Tlie New Year will bring its prob lems. The writer h<qies it will Is* a happy one to the growers of this val ley and that tlîeir ranches again will have a solid, sulmtantial basis of val uation, and that raising and market ing appli h will lie a business and not just a gamble. Gifts were given to children whose Christmas was to be very limited. Also tWo baskets were supplied to other families in need. Christmas eve the girls gave each patient of the Hood River hospital a small tree, This year each girl sacrificed 00 cents from other activities as a Christmas charitable fnnd. STANDARD OIL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Edwards mo tored to Portland Wednesday after noon. Mrs. Edwards boarded the train for Vancouver, B. C., where she expected to spend Christmas and the holidays. Mr. Edwards spent Christ mas with friends and relatives in Portland. On account of snow and ice, it haa lieen a tank to make deliveries the last few days. L. W. Burnworth and family have moved to 793 Sherman avenue. Mr. Woody lx trying to Induce the Standard Oil (Company to equip his track with skiix. All Standard Oil men and their families report having had a good Christ maa. Lew Foote motored up from Stan ford university to spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Nlckelsen. Wait and Bee the Bull Fight Hood River will have a real bull fight Thursday evening, January 8. Manager Kolstad has not yet an- noiimed who will be the bull. Punch Isenlierg will be the matador, and Curly Thornton will play the part of the picador. The show will be one of the series of advertising entertainments staged by Isenberg A Thornton. It will be entitled. “In Old Mexico.” THE DEATH A ray HAPPY NEW YEAR! Ghe LAURNELL ACTUAL - AWFUL AUTHENTIC MARKET We resolve to give the people of the mid Columbia during 1925 the best possible Boo* and Art Store »399$ «CW ses» THE BOOK & ART STORE DETHMAN A DONNERBERG TONGUES OF FLAME” Meighan in a dramatic masterpiece 5S Jan- 5,6 and 7
