< w. íilkimno VOLUME 37; NUMBER 1,902 TILLAMOOK, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1924 PRICE $2.00 THE YEAR PAY OLD WARRANTS, COUNTY SCHOOLS HIGHWAY TO SOUTH THEY’RE OFF IN RACE IS RECOMMENDED HAVE MANY ENROLLED FOR THE BUICK SIX IN EXCELLENT SHAPE City to be Relieved From Cost, According to Plan OBJECTIONS ARE MADE Armory Protection Taken Up. With View of Help from City on Project tentative Program of $188,000 is Forty-seven Schools of County Have Divided Up for Inspection 2471 Pupils, With 117 of Commissioners Teachers ♦--------- Great Enthusiasm Prevalent Throughout Entire County Goodly Number of Tillamook Coaaty People Make Trip Over New Roadbed By People Subscribing for the Tillamook Headlight The Roosevelt highway south from Public Debt Would Increase this city is in surprisingly good shape Under Ownership Plan, considering that it is a new piece of ♦---------- work. Says Adams This being the nomination vote each contestant starts in the race for Last Sunday quite a number of Til- the Buick six on equal terms. Next weeks issue of the Headlight will Jamookers went over the road to Dev­ give a tabulated vote as compiled by the contest editor. 5000 il’s lake a.’.d enjoyed a trip full of ------ MISS RUTH LEWALLEN .................. Hebo 5000 excellent scenery and fine driving. MISS ROSE PELZ .................... ......... Tillamook 5000 With the exception of a few miles Tillamook ...................... MISS MADGE DE FORD 5000 near the southern Tillamook county Third Party Proposes to Take Away Tillamook MISS EUNICE SWENSON 5000 line the road bed is dry and smooth. MISS ELLEN NORBERG .................. Tillamook Power of Courts and Elect 5000 These few miles run through heavy . Tillamook ..................... MRS. H. J. NELSON 5000 timber and the recent rains have soft­ MRS. CHARLES HICKEY ................ R. F. D................. . ........ President in Congress 5000 ened the roadbed to such an extent MRS. EARL CLARINE ......... ............R. F. I>.......................... that the track is sloppy, though firm 5000 MISS VELMA WATSON .................. Tillamook ...................... At the republican rally here Satur­ 5000 enough to hold up a heavy car. MRS. CLAUDE STOTT day night in the city hall and at The road is extended to Taft, but 5000 MRS. CHARLIE STEVENS ............. Mohler ...................... ............... Garibaldi Monday night, the main 5000 following i he recent rain it has been Tillamook ................. MISS HELEN LEONARD speaker of both the events was E. J. impossible for automobiles to go far 5000 Reaver MRS. JESSIE KELLOW Adams, secretary to Robert N. Stan­ beyond the Charland & Deuel store 5000 MISS HILDRETH HOLM ................ Garibaldi . at Devil’s lai.e. This firm is well field. A summary of Mr. Adam's speech­ Enthusiasm is the key not to suc­ known to Tillamook county people, especially those who live in the south es both here and at Garibaldi was as cess if you are to win the Buick Six, part of the county, for the partners follows: or one of the other handsome prizes formerly owned a store at Woods. to be awarded on the coming Decem­ The government ownership and op­ Mr. Deuel is a great booster for his eration of railroads involves first of ber 6th, when the Tillamook Head- light will give away free over $2300 The local high school football team adopted community and thinks that all the purchase. An appraisal made in prizes. had the pleasure of whipping the As in a few years one may see a great by the Interstate Commerce Com­ mission shows an actual value of At this time the entire coun ryside toria high school team last Satur­ many homes about the lake. Practically the whole length of the $22,350,000,000. is agog with enthusiasm for the rea­ day by a score of 26-6. Much jubilation was shown by the load is bordered with homes and To secure the money to make this son that it will afford the people the opportunity to vote for their favorite Tillamook students heie after the small .raets where farmers have purchase the government must issue cleared themselves plots of ground, bonds and the lowest ra.e of interest contestant that will seat her in the game over the results. A good sized crowd attended the and the trip is a revelation to those would probably be 4 per cent, and $1425 Buick Six and at the same time who have never made it. this means an annual interest charge bring the first grand prize into their game at the fair grounds. of $894,000,000 that must be met by town. I the government. Out of every dollar Nearly every town of any import- collected for governmental purposes ance is represented with the best 20 cen's would be taken to pay inter­ worker to be had with the prime ob­ est on the purchase price of the rail­ ject in view, that of adding civic pride E. J. Schelling and “Bud” Black- roads. The store room in the Beal’s build­ to the old home town. • The present public debt is approxi­ Cloverdale, Hebo, Beaver, Garibaldi. ing occupied by the Conover store be­ well were injured last Thursday mately 21 billon dollars and the in­ morning when the cab of one of the fore the fire last July has been reno- Mohler and Tillamook are the live wire towns that have their best rep- vated and Conover brothers have count trucks in which they were rid­ terest rate is about 4 1-2 percent. On resentive primed to carry off high moved their stock in preparatory to ing wan torn off while attempting to the whole it would then mean that 42 pass under the railroad trestle on cents out of every dollar collected for opening for business Saturday. honors and the Buick Six. Wilson river. At this point there are governmental purposes must be used Since July this firm has been doing While the nominations are stiU to pay interest. open its reasonable to presume that business in a small room next to the two roads passing under the trestle Government property pays no taxes one of which is considerably higher American cafe, which has been far other communities will be presented, than the other. Schelling, who was and immediately upon the govern­ but they will have to hurry as the too small for their needs. The floor plan of the store in the driving the car failed to consider the ment ownership of the railroads they contestants now entered are not loa­ Beals building has been altered some­ height of the cab, and took the upper would be removed from the tax rolls, ing any time gathering in all the what to give more room than before, road which does not give sufficient and cease to pay taxes. This means votes they can. that about $600,000,000 now paid by From reports received from the with the office downstairs and a larg­ clearance for a vehicle of this sort. The top of the cab was torn off the railroads in the United States on the balcony. different communities the very best er rest room ■ ■■■ ■ ■» and the windshield smashed. Schell- would be added to the tax burden of feeling is prevalent among the town Dr. David Robinson reports the Ing escaped with a badly cut hand the remaining taxpayers. people, each feel that they have the following births: October 14 a daugh­ and minor bruises, while Blackwell, In Oregon alone the rairoads pay best representative to be had so that ter to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Curl, who one of the eounty prisoners, is in $3,265,802.33, which is 7.9 percent of all the contestants from one end of lives near the Kilchis river; October the hospital with a sprained ankle. the total taxes paid. If the railroads the county to the other have many 16 a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. are removed from the tax rolls in loyal booster worker*. Tharp of Beaver; October 19 a daugh­ Oregon, as they would be, the average Since the contestants as a whole are ter to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mayer of tax of the remaining taxpayers would none to familiar with this sort of Long Prairie; October 20 a son to be Increased 7.9 percent. This differs campaigning it might be well to in­ Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Vinson of Clover- in the counties—in Tillamook it is 6 form each and every contestant that dale. per cent; Jefferson, 23 per cent; Mor­ enthusiasm will play a great part in Mias Dolores Green waa hostess to -------- » row, 21 per cent; Douglas, 17.3 per a securing votes. large number of her friends at a Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Coates return- cent. Your enthusiasm will in turn en- od from a short trip to Portland and Hallawe’en party Saturday afternoon. In the operation of the railroads The occasion was the little maid’s (Continued on poge 4) Hillsboro Sunday. eleventh birthday anniversary. Games the employes, which number about occupied 'he guests the greater part two million, would, undoubtedly, be of the afternoon and refreshments covered under the civil service and suggestive of the season were served. this means promotion by seniority in­ Those present were Kathryn Ijimb, stead of efficiency. The "red tape’’ Marion Coates, Genevieve Gillam, form and general inefficiency of gov­ Helen Hadley, Betty Baker, Pauline ernmental departments would apply Winslow, Alice Mellinger, Marguerite to the railroad service, and the effi­ Burdick, Jean Clough, Lois Allred, ciency of the railroads would be re­ Delphia Bestul, Claudine Gupton, duced from 16 per cent to 26 per cent. Goveinment employes are granted Cliphane Dawson, Mildred Ringo, vacations for recreation with full pay, Pauline Schilling and Betty Greene. usually 30 days each year. They are also allowed 30 days sick leave with full pay. In addition to this the gov- .•nment provides old age and dr­ ability retirement pensions, the maxi­ mum limit of which now is $720 a Driving a car without a proper year. Bills are pending in both Sen­ license brought two into the justice ate and House to increase this maxi­ court this week. Floyd R. Colwell mum sum to $1200 a year. and C. E. Chapman were the offend- The two million railroad workers ers and each waa fined $6 and costs would be entitled to all privilegaa now Erwin Harrison was fined $2..M accorded government employes, but it and costs Tuesday for driving a cs would means a very material ineroas» without a tail light. in the coat of operating the railroad- Fred Burnett waa charged wi I With the decreased efficiency that unlawful parking on the highway an would follow government ownership, pleading guilty waa assessed $2.50 the increased benefits and privileges and costs. l unted government employes over vilians, would destroy sll hope of re- ic ions in freight rates and lower l ight rates are essential to agricol­ ite and industry, particularly la the V.’est. The market for our products Mail lag« licenses war« isuued to i r laigely in the east and middle the following persona laat WttL «•»st. The haul is long and the fa M •' best must form a large part of Norman W. WyMump, 24, and Go prices at which our produc's are A. ChatAeid, 17, of Garibaldi, on *' lol I in the consumers’ market 16th; Wilbur Harper, 2S, and Just new when our railroad trans- G. I^vich. 26. of Garibaldi, on (Continued on page 6) ltth i That Their Favorite May Win the Buick The committee which was appoint­ ed to meet with the county court some time ago and investigate means to retire some of the county indebted­ ness has made its final report, which has been accepted by two members of the court, Judge Homer Mason and Commissioner R. O. Richards. The report is signed by Jim Will­ iams, Carl Haberlach, H. T. Botts, C. J. Edwards, F. A. Beltz, H. E. Morgan and William Maxwell. After some dicussion the following resolution was adopted at the Sep­ tember 23 meeting: “That it is the consensus of opinion of the meeting that the county court budget for 1925 $128.000 for general road and bridge purposes and an item of at least $30,000 for market roads and that there also be budgeted $40,- 000 for the retirement of outstanding warrants; the items for general road and bridge purposes and for market roads be expended in accordance with the tentative program of $188,000 heretofore submitted and that the court submit at the next general elec­ tion a two-mill levy for retiring war­ rants; it being understood that should the electors ac favorably on the two mill levy the court will retire $100,- 000 in outstanding warrants and will also retire warrants with the increase in taxes over the 1924 budget levy. “The above is recommended pro­ vided the county court and com­ missioners give the citizens of Tilla­ mook county a signed statement that it will faithfully adhere to the above program and provided also that no warrants will be issued in excess of budget items. “Now, therefore, we, the said com­ mittee, respectfully appeal' before your honorable body in conformity to the resolution adopted by said tax pay­ ers’ meeting, to ascertain whether or not you would be willing to make such a statement to the tax payers of Tillamook county. We think that such a statement would materially as­ sist in carrying a favorable vote for the purpose of levying a two mill tax to retire outstanding county war­ rants.” The amounts apportioned by the committee for the various r oad dis tricts and projects about the county are given below: District No. 1 $10,000 Market roads 15,000 Maintenance 3,000 God’s Valley road State co-operation, Roosevelt 25,000 highway Objections were raised to the pro- posed improvment of 1st avenue east at the regular meeting of the ci'y council Monday evening. H. T. Botts presented a petition signed by a number of the property owners effected aslyng for the open­ ing of the avenue from 4th to 7th sheets, which would make a thorough fare from Hoquarton slough connect­ ing with the county road on the south. It is generally felt that this improvement should have been made some time ago as it will be necssary to remove some houses in order to accomplish the improvement now. A proposed ordinance which had been prepared by Mr. Botts for the property owners along the street was read to the council, after Mr. Bott« had stated that the expense of the transaction would be borne entirely by the owners benefited. Considerable discussion took place regarding the merits of the ordinance. Rollie Watson made an objection to it because, he said, the property own­ ers who were the most effected were not on ‘he petition. Mr. Watson stated that the petition was being presented at a poor time on account of many of the owners of property along the street were not present to give their views, also that there were but a small representation of coun- I oilmen present. He suggested that if the owners of property along the way want the street through they could have the property condemned j and buy it. 1 Attorney Botts answered that Mr. Batson’s suggestion is what they wore trying to carry out in their I action. City Attorney Hall gave as his opin­ ion that as a result of a recent rul- in the circuit court here that it would be best to wait until it can be •rided what constitutes property ’*i«e and who shall determine the Yriue. Mr. Hall referred to the natin versus Tillamook city case. Mr. Botts’ answer to this was that «53,000 1 P«ople benefitted would pay all 1 coats of opening the street; that District No. 2 $30,000 1 damages could be assessed by Market roads 20,000 *ors and that those benefitted pay Maintenance 2,000 Proportion. He also stated that Bay City cutoff, damages 15,000 •¡ng would be done until all money Bay Ocean 15,000 ' paid in and damages all satisfied. Netarts '■ property owners have recourse »82,000 city council and also to the District No. 3 sit court, stated Mr, Botts, in «20,000 ’ they are not satisfied. Market roads 20,000 "• Hall ventured another opinion Maintenance 5,000 no more liens should be made Little Nestucca 8.000 present case involving the city Miscellaneous is now before the supreme $53,000 i* decided. This tentative road program calls "•T°r Smith gave__ opinion his the improvement should have for a tax levy of $153,000 for ro«d purposes and state cooperation to the •undertaken long ago. * ordinance was passed to the amount of $30,000 on market road«. reading, and the street com- Ou’ of the $158,000 levy $30.000 * was ordered to investigate and would be placed in the market road next week. fund. matter of finishing the out- the armory by a applying a 1,’f Poster to protect th« build- ■" the winter rain« was presented * council by J. H. Rosenberg and Miller, a committee from the The caucus held at the city hall club. Mr. Rosenberg stated Adjutant General George A. last Friday evening to nominate can­ ’ had promised that the state didates for the coming city election half of the expense which November 4 resulted in the following: For mayor. J Merrel Smith; treas­ '’•mated at $2700 provided the ure, W. Thomas Coates; w. er com­ county pay the balance. He Phi that he county court has missioner. Albert Plank; cmmctlmen. “ • willingness to assist and Charles F. Pankow. Emtl Heusser, F that the city might issue W. Merrick. Clark Hadley and F. r. *• For the proposed work which Conover. ___ •ure would be readily taken Miss Lula Thurman went to Dallas *•* business men of the town. Saturday, returning next day- ^Continued on page 5) CAUCUS LAST FRIDAY NAMES CANDIDATES Advices from the office of the county school superintendent state that there are now 2,371 pupils en­ rolled in the schools of the county. There are at this time forty seven schools here. The three largest schools outside of Tillamook city have the following en­ rollments: Wheeler, Brighton and Cochran, 182; Nehalem and Rector, 93; and the union high school of Ne­ halem, 39. There are 117 teachers employed by the schools of the county. AIRSHIP’S JOURNEY HEARD; NOT SEEN The passage of the U. S. navy dir­ igible Shenandoah over this vicinity last Sunday evening was heard by several people who happened to be in the region of Tillamook river. A sight of the big airship was not poss­ ible on account of the dense fog which blew in from the ocean during the afternoon but the roar of the engines was plainly heard. On the trip up the coast to Camp Lewis earlier in the week the ship was also heard by several people here. ----------- ♦----------- JOSEPHINE JOHNSON DEAD Josephine, 17 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Johnson, died at the Tillamook General hospital Mon­ day evening at ten o’clock following an attack of acute nephritis. She had been ill for the past two months and her death was not unexpected. Funeral services have been delay- ed until the arrival of relatives from the east, and will probably be held Saturday from the Christian church. --------- MRS. ILLINGSWORTH Mrs. Daisy Illingsworth died at her home in the city Saturday after­ noon. The cause of the death was given as apoplexy. Mrs. Illingsworth was the daughter of Frank Trout, and was well known here having lived here the greater part of her life. She was 47 years of age. She leaves a son, Leon, be­ sides her father, and three sisters and two brothers. ----------- ♦----------- Last Monday Clinton Buttz, who is employed at the Coats camp, had the misfortune to smash his finger while working. While he was in town getting it dressed Mrs. Buttz was trying to split some wood and cut her finger. ____ RAILROADS ARE CITED H. S. FOOTBALL TEAM SCORES ON ASTORIA BURNEDOUTSTORE BACK IN LOCATION two men I njured IN COUNTY TRUCK HALLOWE’EN PARTY GIVEN FOR BIRTHDAY TRAFFICVIOLATORS HAILED TO COURT MARRIAGE LICENSES ARE ISSUED TO FOUR