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I We are Selling the BEST Dr». Abraham & Sifton Physicians A Surgeons Butler Bank Building Phones: Office 4151 pr. Abraham 4152. Dr. Sifton 8618. RUBBERS Dr. W. Donald Nickelsen Cancer, Plastic Surgery and Radium Therapy Stevens Building, Portland, Ore. Consultation Hood River by appoint ment. Phone 5959 SHOES Dr». Thrane & Rogers Physicians & Surgeons Mt. Hood Hotel Bldg., main entrance Office Phone 2172 Residence Phones: Dr. Thrane 2174. Dr. Rogers 2001. DR. MEARLE C. FOX 815 Stevens Bldg. that can be gotten at a reasonable price. Portland, Ore. Office 4, S and 6 Smith Building Office Phone 2021 Res. Phone 8144 Hood River, Oregon J. C. JOHNSEN Broslus Building HOOD RIVER C. H. JENKINS, D. M. D. DENTIST Phones: Office 1081; Residence 8831 Office over Butler Bank DR. S. L. PETERSON j Eliot Building, Hood River, Oregon ) Phones: Res. 2743; Office 8812 L. L. MURPHY DENTIST Complete X-Ray Examination Suite 5. Broslus Building A. J., DERBY . LAWYER .. .First National Bank Building Hood Hirer, Oregon___ M. E. WELCH Licensed Veterinary la prepared to do any veterinary line. He can calling at or phoning to Stables. Surgeon work in the be found by the Fashion MID-WINTER FOODS The housewife will not have to worry about'a choice if she will only tele phone us. We have fresh vegetables, the best canned, stocks available, and our refrigerated rooms are always full of the finest meats. SUPPLY YOUR TABLE WITH THE BEST HE HAVE IT! HOLMAN & SAMUEL SANITARY MARKET & GROCERY Phone 8811 Old City HaU Plumbing Shop has moved — the new location is 908 12 Street where there will be a large display of Plumbing and Heating Goods at reasonable prices. The new location Will be known as— TOM FISHER’S Plumbing & Heating 908 12th St. Hood River Abstract Co. Real Estate and Insurance Accurate Abstracting of Land Titles Telephone 1381 Painting and Paper Hanging Interior decorating, matching tinting and painting with draperies, etc. D. F. TAYLOR Tel. 5411. Hood River, Or. R. F. D. 4. READ’S RADIO SHOP The Radio Shop of Hood River H. B. READ, Proprietor Hupcrhetrodyues and Neutrodynea (Jreebe, Atwkter Kent and Radiola Representative 808 Cascade Ave. ' Tel. 1234 SPRING’S COMING N the meantime the housewife ponders over what to provide at the family meal. It is the season when a choice is most difficult. Our shelves laden with the best of the world’s gardens and orchards will solve the problem. ;■ B. B. POWELL PLUMBING, HEATING AND SHEET METAL WORK 810 Cascade Ave. Hood River, Ore. «21 FRASIER GROCERY CO J. D. McLUCAS CONTRACTOR Practical Worker in Stone. Con crete, Brick and Plaster Telephone 5934 | We will be glad to see I you and your friends at I any time at I The Apple Blossom Cafe Fuel - Fuel - Fuel Call u» for wood or coal. We al»o do heavy freighting, a» well a» light hauling. Sand, gravel and builder»’ material». (From Standard Oil Bulletin) From Oregon comes the astounding suggestion that the state gasoline tax of three cents a gallon be doubled— Increased to six cents a gillon. Ore- gon, it appears, wants more funds for highway construction, and, as in tbs past, those desiring such funds look to the motorist and bls gasoline as a convenient source of revenue. The gasoline tax was originated in II Oreg.m in 1919, at one cent a gallon. I The next biennial session of the legia- I lature—in 1921—doubled It, making I two cesrts, and the next legislature— I that of 1928—added another cent, for l a total of three. The legislature soon I meets again, and onee again will con- I sider more taxation. What has happened in Oregon has I happened elsewhere on the Pacific I coast. California adopted a gasoline I tax two years ago. The California I legislature is again In session, and it I is proposed that the tax be increased. I In 1921 the state of Washington adopted a one-cent tax, and made It two cents two years later. Nevada adopted a twxent tax In 1923, and is now considering an increase. Arl- sona decided on a one-cent tax in 1921, and made It three cents In 1923. No opportunity has been loot In any of these states to Increase gasoline taxes. The two-year Intervals bptween revisions upward presumably exist only because the various legislatures meet every two years. It is interest ing to contempalte how high taxes might be if legislatures should meet To tax the motorists for permanent annually. public improvements is economically I The trend of events clearly Indi unsound, as well as a radical de cates the dangerous lengths to which parture from California's highway this business of gasoline taxation may building policy. To saddle hnge taxes be carried, and the great . burdens on a single commodity is grossly un which may be loaded u|x>n the al fair to one of the greatest Industries ready heavily taxed motorist and up of California. on the marketer of gasoline. The original discussion of a Cali Apple Demand Romains Good fornia gasoline tax two years ago con The export movement of apples this cerned one cent a gallon, but when the law wus adopt cd the bill1 read season shows a marked contrast with two cents. Now three cents Is pro- last season. Shipments in boxes have much heavier, while movement liesed. There can be no guarantee been that a future legislature will not In barrels has been considerably light make it four cents, or five or six— er. During the first two weeks of the exporta from both coasts, that is, no guarantee except the fact January Including Canadian ports, were 275,- that the motoring public Is no longer 000 boxes and 70,575 barrels, as com apathetic about Its taxes and that with 201,000 boxes and 250,300 henceforth it will register its objec pared l>arrels a year ago. tions, not only against an increase of Total American exports from the two or three cents per gallon, but beginning of the season to the end against any increase whatever. The true measure of the advisabil of the second week in January this and the two preceding years ity of any tax, aside from the justice year have been as follows: 1925, 8,055.500 <>f its Imposition, is the necessity boxes, 1,895,000 barrels; 1924, 3,005,- thereof. Which brings up the point 000 boxes, 2,000,000 barrels; 1928, of whether the existing law in Cali 2,077,500 boxes, 1,188,000 barrels. fornia will not produce the revenues In the European continental mar necessary for highway construction. kets the demand seems to be increas It has ix-en estimated that some 8300,- ing and prices are firm. At Liverpool 000.000 is needed for all purposes— Oregon Newtowns were selling around roughly, onef-thlrd to the counties, one- 83.60 to 84-10 a box. Spitsenburgs at third for maintenance of old roads by 83.10 to 83.00 and Washington Rome the state, and one-third to the state Beauties at 83.10 to 83.35. Prices at for new roads—for a period of ten Ixindon were somewhat below these years. This Is an average of 830,- levels, and Delicious apples brought 000,000 anlnially. Present revenues only 82.25 to 82.05 a box. In barreled are about 821,000,000., It has been apples at Liverpool, Maine Baldwins stated that there must be new taxa ranged from 87.20 to 88, Virginia Ben tion for new money, and It is suggest Davis from 87.70 to 88 and York Im ed that by adding a cent to the gaso perials from 88 to 88.40. line tax, 82 to the registration fee, and increasing the truck surcharges Mail Route Dented ■ . by 60 ix-r cent, eqpugh money can be Although Hood River and White yilsed. ■*"’.> • * It would Indeed seem apparent that Salmon are within hailing distance by to bring 821.000,000 up to 830.000,000 signal flag, formerly used by the would demand increased taxation; but ferry service across the Columbia this actually does not follow. An river. United States mall from White important factor has been left out of 8almon to Hood River is routed via consideration. It is the great In- Portland. With the opening of the Hood River- cream-s in revenue which will come from the norma! increase in registra White Salmon Interstate bridge, the tion of automobiles and the consump question of direct service was brought up, resulting In a petition to the post- tion of gasoline. This comixiny has been engaged in office department at Washington urg the oil business many years, and from ing that a route be established. An its inception the most vital thing answer has been received stating that aix»ut the business has been an nu the new route could not be estab t-easing study of the future, of the lished at this time on account of high new and growing markets, of the prob cost of operation. able demand for petroleum products. Future businasa is calculated with great care and upon conclusions reached the company has spent mill ions to find new supplies of crude oil, to build and expand refineries to man ufacture prislticta for a greater mar ket, to construct new distributing sta tions and new service stations, to keep apace, or even, ahead, of the growing demand. From what the company believes of the future, based materially upon the l*"t, a great growth in the number of motor cars and the consumption of gasoline- and hence tax revenues—Is Inevitable. The Increase in motor registrations during the last five years has averaged more than 25 per cent a year. It is believed that 1925 will see a gasoline consumption in Calif- fornls 20 per cent greater than In 1924, due not only to more cars, but also to an Increase In trsvel, which was curtailed by the foot and mouth disease restrictions during 1924. The next year (1926) should show a fur ther Increase of 15 per cent, and the two following years 10 per cent esch. POWER PLANT Then the future becomes more haxy; but it would mvm conservative to say ENGINEERING CO that for the remainder of a 10-year Portia; l>eriod—such as is being laid down 443 Stark Street for road building—the increase will average five percent annually. The past justifies these ext I mates and the - future protulHe8 them hi various ways. If the pcrientagea recited above are applied to existing revenues under existing laws, with no new taxes, ths totsl sum of money paid by the mo torists of the state between now and 1935—the end of the proposed 10-year period—will be more than 8400.000,- 600. which la considerably in excess of the sum said to lx- needed. If the new taxes are adopted—one cent more on gasoline. 82 more on registration ond two-thirds more on weight fees -the total, applying the same percents gee of increases. will be between 86(10.000.000 and 8650.000.000. These are huge sums, all coming from the motorist, and they come on top of previous great Increases. Prior to. the present law motorists paid state taxes of between S9.000.000 and 810.000.000 a year; In 1924 they paid TRY OUR 821.000.000; thia year the hill will be 825,000,000 or more; next year, if the new taxes Hre Imposed, the sum will be around 835,000,000. It is true, as proponents of new taxation point out, that the state It self gets but half the revenues under the present law, the other half going WE KEEP IT to the conntie«, and that, under the law, the state’s revenue may be spent RIGHT only for re|>alrs and maintenance. A 4 simple remedy of this situation would seem to be to change the Jaw (which might prove a far easier thing than the passage of «.new law) making it possible to spend portions of the enor mous revenue« which are to come for new construction. In truth, it seems that very soon the present law will I m > producing far more than can ba spout merely for maintenance. I X. I I I I I I I I I I A. S. KEIR WHOLESALE AND RETAIL LUMBER DEE, OREGON Phone: Odell 406 S7>e LAURNELL MARKET To serve our patrons better we are now making two deliveries a day — leaving the market at 9:30 a m. and 2:30 p. m. U. 8. INSPECTED ME¿T LAURNELL PURE PORK SAUSAGE AGENT WANTED RAY-FUEL OIL BURNERS OIL-O-MATIC OIL BURNERS F. A MASSEE IS ANNOUNCEMENT December 1st we moved to our New Terminal—E. Water, E. Yamhill and E. Taylor Sts. This building being con structed solely for the handling of Freight via Motor Truck will «ready improve the’ service and create an efficient method of transportation. Cigars Tobacco Soft Drinks GREENWOOD TRANSPORTATION CO., Inc Sil Telephone 2782 The Transfer & Livery and I'll come at once. No garage yon save the coat of the overhead. Tel. 4111 J. P. POMEROY \ THE FASHION STABLES’ Parkdale Auto Stage ALL KINDS OF Phon® 1201 Motor Trouble Shooting Leaves Hood River daily at 4.30 p. m. Electrical Work a Specialty Leaves Parkdale daily at 8 a. m. (except Sunday). Every Saturday it leaves Parkdale at 6 p. m. HECK UNGER GARAGE Successor to TUCKER’S GARAGE ._______ _ Phone 2133 EHEMSSaaES^SBSESBES We Want Selling Apples Jonathans, Ortley», Spitzenburg», Spitzenburgs, Winter Banana» and Delicious. AU grades from Extra Fancy to Faced and Filled. Cookers, large or small. We sell them for what they are. Draught Luxo C. A. RICHARDS to WARREN A GREENWOOD TRUCK LINES Hood River The Dalles Mt Hood Confectionery AUTO WORK DONE AT YOUR OWN HOME Reliable Druggist quick A ction , prompt returns . SHERIDAN FRUIT COMPANY GET FREE STENCILS AT THIS OFFICE » HOME MORTUARY S. E. BARTMESS, Mortician BUILDING BUNGALOW TYPE, STRICTLY MODERN IN RESIDENCE DISTRICT PtiMtea 3821 nasi 3822