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.
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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.
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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
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