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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1924)
lAy, MAY iS, IM« TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT 3 and political happiness here below, what is goin< to happen to Oregon’s Portland— Dormitory and garage Oregon wool being marketed rapid as wsil as reduce taxation to the nun biggest industry of this freak mea- TO THÉ VOTEBS OF TILLAMOOK keeping disease when once it gets a COUNTY foothold. Disinfection is highly ad- for Frazer detention home to be built. ly at 38 cents. imum. Alas, exactly the opposite s«e becomw law, for it will not be Indepen^eBt Weekly Paper visaBle for all barns, poultry houses, have taken place. Prineville— Oregon Western com Florence—Construction os Umpqua 'JhshHi Every Friday by the the timber owners who will pay the I take this means of expressing my hog houses, pens and so on, regard pany to erect new sawmill. jetties begun on large scale. This is where Oregon's troubles severance tax, for they will pass it appreciation for the ballots cast for less cf whether they qualify as clean "•hl Publishing Company The Dalles— Building permits for * Tillamook, Oregon________ first commenced, with politicians and on to the logger and then to the mill me at the Primaries, May 16th. Albany—Telephone company ex within ths ordinary meaning of that office seekers riding into office on some men and in the natural course of busi 1923 to date total $250,000. pending $20,000 on local plant. Contrary to some of the campaign word. freak measure that was made a polit ness those who purchase timber will rumors, my interests and my home Though no epidemic be recorded, f^d'titeeo^d ctass mail mtter ical issue at ooe election, and then have to pay the tax. This is as plain are in Tillamook county, and I shall the annual losses htrough unsanitary entirely ignored after the election. as the nose on a man ’ s face. But why t * V. S. P'*‘otfi<->' TUtamook. continue to boost Tillamook’s wond conditions surrounding our live stock Any old thing to befog the voters is stop with a severance tax on timber? erful, natural resources and its lum arc enormous.—Oregon Farmer. the adage of those who have brought There is just as much logic in con egon__________ bering and dairying interests. I am the state into bad reoute by freak tending that the dairyman, the grain still unable to reconcile the difference ”"GUBaLlii*‘TlQ’» ïfcrtiM Pendleton—County ettablishes road legislation. Yet no one pretends to _ Year, By "ail •—’" ' " ’11 82.00 forecast the time or how Oregon will and fruit grower, the stock raiser, between a farmer and a lumberman camp on Weston mountain where work , jloaths. By Mail, ........ •• r- $1.00 be able to rid itself of freak legisla etc. should pay a severance tax as as I feel they are both manufacturers, will be done on market road. the timber owners and then pass the one manufacturing the timber into a Months By Mail ..... -r $ .75 Crater Lake park to get $293,800 tors as long as Oregon’s political sys buch on to the consumers. Well, finished product thru the medium of W Pavable in advance for roads in next three years. tem is decidedly out of joint, making why not? Most of us who pay taxes logging camps and sawmills, while Astoria to get commodious new Telephone it easy for freak legislators to pester are wanting our taxes reduced, and in the other takes grass as a raw passenger station. and retard the industrial development striving to obtain this have no ob material and manufactures it into pacific States, Main »8 Portland—Park Rose bank to erect of Oregon. jection to piling additional taxation on cheese thru the medium of the cow new home. One of the burning questions at the the other fellow, and the freak Ore and cheese factories. New S. P. Line, Eugene to Klamath present time is the Oregon income tax gon system makes it possible to do I again wish to thank my many Falls, requires 18 tunnels. OUR EDITORIAL POLICY ♦ law, which is one of the freak mea so. Both the income tax and the pro friends for their interest and support. Corvallis—O. A. C. to have new 3 -♦ sures enacted into law by the people. posed severance tax are measures to RUSSELL HAWKINS story pharmacy building. ♦ ! To advocate, aid and sup- Quite a number of our progressive raise more tax money. This is a P. S. I never have been a resident Gold Hill bank reopens. Xt any measures that will ♦ citizens predicted that the law would fair illustration of how some per of the state of Michigan, and I hope Pilot Rock gives Pacific Power & ¿ring the most good to the ♦ prove a boomerang. That appears sons propose reducing taxes. Most that Oregon will always be my place Light company 50-year franchise. ♦ to have become quite true, for C. C. of us remember at the last general of residence, and Tillamook county is A STRONG BANK WILLING TO SERVE most people 2. To encourage industries ♦ Chapman, editor of the Oregon Voter, election great big promises were the best place in Oregon to live. u establish in Tillamook ♦ makes the statement that he has on made that taxes would be reduced 50 R. H. ♦ record 100 cases of individual and per cent if some of the freak politi county. 3. To urge the improvement * firms that had canceled their plans cians were elected. Instead of doing KEEP THE PREMISES CLEAN of « port for Tillamook City. ♦ for investments and expansions be so they introduce new measures to 4. To insist on an American * cause of the state income tax law and drag more money out of th^. tax • The outbreak of foot and mouth dis- i ease in California and the possibility I ♦ that these 100 cases involved about payers pockets. Closing out my entire standard of labor. that the trouble will cross state lines 1 5. To be politically indepen ♦ $10,000,000 of investments and pay stock of groceries at To get down to brass tacks there should result in a widespread cleanup. dent, but to support the can ♦ rolls of about $1,000,000 a year. is only one sensible and practical way Wholesale cost or less. The Safe Deposit Vault at the didates for public office who ♦ But that is not the only bad feature to reduce taxation, and that is to re movement, on the farms of this state. | Disease, whether it be foot and will bring the most good to ♦ about this freak income tax law. The duce expenditures in state, county, First National Bank is designed the people of Tillamook * most remarkable and peculiar thing city, and school districts, cut ou$ the mouth, cholera or what not, usually ' to give to people in and near Til county and of the State of ♦ about the law is that corporations are frills and get rid of a whole lot of results from lack of proper sanitation. The housing and penning of hogs on | ♦ exempt from taxation but individuals tax eaters who can be dispensed with. Corner First St., First Ave. East Oregon. lamook a degree of protection for the same ground year after year is! ♦ are not. This is a decision of the cir Tillamook, Oregon conducive to the contracting of dis-| their valuables which they could ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ > * cuit court of Marion county, making Wallowa—Minam river is scene of that part of the law unconstitutional. great logging drive about 5 million eases. The same is true of poultry. 1 not easily provide at home. Likewise, the unclean barn or barn- j FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1924 This is only another illustration of feet timber being moved. yard menaces the health of the dairy Are you enjoying your share of freak laws. That freak politicians Clackamas county buys 700 tons herd or the horses and sheep. CIRCUMSTANCES the air is clear again have induced the people to vote for, asphalt for summer road work. this protection? If not, select Cleanliness is a first essential in i ALTER RISKS giving no consideration whatever as An insurance policy isn ’ t» your Safe Deposit Box now. The One of the most peculiar and hotly to the harmful effect this class of something that you buy, put intested elections in the county was legislation have in retarding the away in your safe deposit cost is only $2.00 a year. •ought to a close Friday night, when growth and development of Oregon. box and forget, except when premiums are payable. ie polls of the 1924 primary nomi- There may be some merit in a state Not property insurance, at income tax law If it was properly iting election closed. any rate. Fire, theft and drawn and all. The western states Quite a number of sore spots are accident hazards change with changing conditions, property ft, which might be expected, but on had similar law», but Oregon was the values increase, new hazards ie whole everybody seems to be first western state to try the experi ari a*.....______ . itisfied. The voters have indicated ment, only to be ridiculed, for Calif Let an Insurance Man go ornia and Washington are now giv leir choice. over your property and poli cies at regular intervals. We Member Federal Reserve System As is generally the case the prim- ing Oregon the horse laugh because make no charge for such ser- those states are reaping the benefit rj election determines the results of vice. * ie general election in November, for of new industrial and home seekers GILHAM-WHITE getting out of Oregon on account of >ere is only one political party of Insurance Agency ay rize in the county -and hotly con- freak legislation. 209 Second Ave. E. isted campaigns between candidates ' No wonder that people' are asking ! different political faith are seldom “What’s the matter with Oregon?” Quite »number of commercial organ :en here. izations in Oregon and especially the Portland Chamber of Commerce, are “WRATS THE MATTER WITH putting for the great efforts and ex OREGON?” pending large sums of money trying to induce new industries and home mach Freak Legislation and Too seekers to locate in Oregon. Their Many Freak Laws. efforts to a large extent are frustrat ed by freak politicians who care noth (By Fred C. Baker.) ing for the industrial growth and “What’s the matter with Oregon?” prosperity of the state if they can a question quite frequently asked succeed in inducing the people to vote it few delvt into the matter and as- for their freak measures. irtais what is the trouble that con- Another freak measure that is on mts the state. the table is a severance tax on timber. There is nothing the matter with If this measure becomes a law it will le rate of Oregon but there is con- give the lumbre industry of Oregon a Herable the matter with some of our black eye and be of considerable ad ’e»k citizens who are making Ore- vantage to Washington and British on appear ridiculous by continually Columbia. Why so? Because Ore producing freak legislation, some of gon inillmen will be handicapped with hich become law. 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