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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1930, Capitol News Leiter (Continued from Fuse 4) THE VERNONIA EAGLE applications must be in writing and attorneys will not be al lowed to speak before the board on behalf of applicants. Th applicants shall speak for the m- selves. Each case will be decided on '* o' n merits. Recommenda tions of the trihl jud.-s, district turn-j, jaioi:, i i..n be im portant factors in the decisions, ’Ogether with the conduct of the prisoner after his sentence. month making an inspection of proposed airports. The officials will give advice to city authori ties, civic organizations and others who wish to establish mu nicipal airports. They will also explain requirements of airports that aspire to department of commerce ratings. Cities desiring Because there are 30 per cent the advice of the experts were asked to communicate with the more felons in the state prison than the 1929 legislature antici department of commerce. pated there would be at this The most effective punishment time, $30,000 more than the or for careless or reckless driving iginal appropriation will be ne- is revocation of opeartors’ licens ec isary to support them, prison es, according to Hal E. Hoss, sec- authorities reported to the state letary ol state. A law should emergency board, asking for ad be enacted automatically revok ditional money. The prison now ing the driver’s license of any has 882 inmates. person convicted of driving while intoxicated, Hess said. The state engineer’s office is also running short of money with A generally excellent potato which to maintain the depart- crop is expected this year and metn. It was expected a defi- potato shipments from Oregon to neighboring states were be ing made this week in the more important production centers of Oregon, according to Seymour Jones, state marketing agent. —o— The state of Oregon has paid $25,880,492.22 as interest on the many bonds it has is sued during the past 13 years, according to records of Thomas B. Kay, state treasurer. Interest on highway bonds alone amounted to $16,478,435.11 during that period. Highway bonds aggregating $28,966,750 are now outstanding. Interest paid on Oregon veterans’ state aid bonds amounts to $8,470,- 442.25. The sum of $113,000 in interest has been paid on farm credit bonds. A total of $718,611.86 has been disbursed by the state as interest on Oregon district irri gation bonds, of which there are yet $2,172,760 outstanding, with no assets whatever. There is a net loss to the state amounting to $458,313.98. ciency appropriation of $3500 to I finish out the biennium will be I asked of the emergency board. —O- — Douglas county will give the I state its I.O.U. for $75,000 and the state will advance funds for completion of the famed Roose O.S.C., CORVALLIS, — (UP) velt highway. The remainder of $300,000. necessary to com —With the increasing popularity plete the highway will be paid of parental education, Oregon by state and federal-aiu funds. mothers and even grandmothers Contracts will be awarded this can now sit quietly at home and take the same courses in fall. scientific home management as Salem voters will next month the young lady of the house who decide whether they want a mu has gone gaily off to college, nicipal power plant. If voters 'that is, if they are in reach decide to allow the city to file either of Uncle Sam’s mail or applications for waters of Mar the state college radio station, ion Lake and North Santiam riv KOAC. For some of these courses, er they will automatically ap prove a $5,000,000 bond issue which are being offered under for development of municipal treasurer a check for $2400 tn power. settlement of interest given him His last debt to the state on state funds on deposit. Luper was written off last week by already had returned $1800.20 to Rhea Luper, former state engi the state as part of the ques neer, when he handed the state tioned funds. What’s Doing On Oregon Farms . . PAGE FIVE an expanded plan of home study courses cond ucted by the school of home economics under the auspices of the extension service, actual college credit is offered. Others are available for those who desire the information but are not interested in the credit. Those living in Portland may at tend actual classes, but for oth ers these courses come by mail. Radio clubs are also being form ed which meet on alternate Tues days and listen to lectures, fol lowing a prepared outline for club study. The courses offered include such subjects as clothing selec tion, child developmetn, child be havior problems, personal and family finances, and others. Com plete information is contained in a new catalog of extension courses available at the college.1 HILLSBORO—Acreage of Aus trian Winter Field peas in Wash ington county will be increased i this year from 150 acres to ap proximately 1000 acres. Prac- tically all of this will be grown for seed on a controct basis. Arrangements have also been made by County Agent W. F. Cyrus to try out these peas as a silage crop on the farm of J. A. Lindow. CORVALLIS—Proprietors Hout and Bryant “securely hid” $300 cash in a cigar box. Thieves found it. Leave Your Kodak work at Have your ignition test ed by the Bauman Ig LINCOLN’S CANDY KITCHEN We give you a 40 cent en largement free with each 50 cent order of Kodak work. nition Tester. Vernonia Service Garage L. E. Fredrickson AGAINST % Power Districts Amendment Education of the children of migratory workers is a perplex ing problem in many states, but not in Oregon where the school year is arranged to give the mi nimum interference with the various harvests, according to C. A. Howard, state superintendent of public instruction. “Provinding sufficient educa tion for children of migratory laborers in Oregon has never been a serious problem for us,” have provided sufficiently strict and adequate. School periods are arranged to allow no inter ference from harvesting when students might seek employment.” Attorney General Van Winkle was delving into Oregon laws this week seeking to discover some law under which the state might compel 72 legislators of 1927 to return the “expense money” they voted themselves in lieu of a salary incerase. The Morningstar Grange of Linn county was instrumental in demanding the investigation by Hal E. Hoss, secretary of state. The legislators accepted $16,- 920, in state funds. The newly created state board of pardons will meet again Oc tober 16 to consider 15 applica tions for pardon referred to the board by Governor A. W. Nor- bland. Henry L. Meyers, superinten dent of the prison, was selected chairman of the new board. All can’t get something for nothing” around and the sad results are apparent both in the evidences of waste and mismanagement, and still more palpably in the recurrent upward leaps and bounds of the general tax rate. "A n Impossible Prom ise ” Says a leading Seattle newspaper in referring to current propaganda for so-called “public ownership” and to the promise of many a candidate now seeking political office. It gives this warning to the people of Oregon: T])IS program restates the promise that has M been made in many other campaigns and in many parts of the country. He promises a vast public power and electrical development ‘without cost to the taxpayers.’ “This is a promise that has never yet been ful- filled. Wherever the people have been beguiled into permitting the experiment it has proved a failure and a disappointment, and has imposed heavy additional burdens upon the taxpayers. It is a promise that only the fanatical few nowadays venture to voice anywhere within hailing distance of a city or a section wherein the experiment has been tried. “Nothing of the kind can be done without cost to the taxpayers. Bonds may be sold and debt incurred to get such a development under way, and for a time evei-ything may seem to be mov ing serenely. .But the day of reckoning comes VOTE 325 X NO “The people of Oregon have only to cast their eyes in the direction of Seattle and Tacoma to learn much on this score; they have only to cock their ears to catch the loud complaint that rises against these two cities from all the rest of the state of Washington. Seattle and Tacoma launch ed heavily upon power development schemes to be perfected ‘without cost to the taxpayers.’ The tax rate in Tacoma has gone up to 81 mil’s, the highest in the whole Northwest, and the Seattle rate of 76.85 mills claims second place. Tax Rates 1929 Tacoma, 81.89 mills. Seattle, 76.85 mills. Portland, 48.60 Mills. Whole State Suffers Tax Losse “Existing publicly owned utilities of King and Pierce counties have increased taxes in every other city and community in the State of Washington.”— Tax payers’ Economy League of Spokane. Sweetest Day— Make Somebody Happy: Give something Somebody wants: Everybody likes CANDY O CTOBER 10th is Sweetest Day— PEOPLE OF OK EGO' the great American (estival of joy bringing to others. You’ll observe it by giving an unexpected treat to some body. What could be more appropri ate than candy? It’s the gift universal, Heed this Warning Against Confiscate that everybody likes. And remember there’s more than sweetness in candy. There’s health and energy, too. Mac’s Pharmacy by Voting 325 X N< We Feature WHITMAN’S CHOCOLATES Against Power Districts Constitute Paid Advertisement—UTILITY TAXPAYERS COMMITTEE, H. L. WALTHER, Man “Both Seattle and Tacoma have stripped the tax rolls of millions of dollars’ worth of taxable property for their power projects. They have taken this property not only within their own cor porate limits and the limits of the counties in which they are located, but they have invaded numerous other counties and helped themselves freely. All this has added immeasurably to the property remaining on is why the rest of this state so bitterly complains and so earnestly demands that these city utility projects be compelled to resume a share of the tax load. Should that be done, the city taxpayers again must suffer, by increase in the direct tax 1 by in**''"”' in utih’tv nr.hv h<