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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1931. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON PAGE FOUR mission undertook to solve the doubt very much if the “Ridge Road’’ will receive much consid problem. —Clark County Sun. eration. No short-cut that does not TAX REDUCTION serve Seaside will meet the re It should be remembered that quirement laid down by the high Pacific Coast Representative Arthur W. Stypes, Inc. tax reduction, in the last analy way commission that the high San Francisco sis, is a matter that can be de way shall serve the greatest pos cided only by the public. The sible number of people and the people elect the officials and largest area. The Ridge route does not serve Seaside nor can it Member of National Editorial vote for or against the bond is sues. If government is waste be made to do so. It would Association and Oregon State ful, inefficient and extravagant, serve only a small area sparsely Editorial Association. populated at the mouth of the the responsibility is theirs. —St. Helens Sentinel. Nehalem. It would give no ad vantage to Tillamook City or Issued Every Friday $2.00, Per Year in Advance Over in this part of the state to beaches in the vicinity of that Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922. at the post there is no objection to building city, as it would not shorten It office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. what is known as the proposed distances to any extent. Portland-Tualatin automobile tun would be of little advantage to Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; nel under Council Crest, provided Seaside as the reduction in mile legal notices, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding it is carried out as a private age from Portland would be insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c first insertion, business enterprise. But that is slight. Under no consideration 15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line. not the idea of the promoters. does it meet with the require They want the state highway ments of wide service. The people of Seaside do not RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher commission to construct it as a The automobile hastened the toll road. The cost will run up expect the construction of a coming of hard-surfaced and bet to $3,000,000, and it is proposed highway for their own private ter roads and their development that the highwiay commission benefit. We are more than will THE SHORT CUT TO THE SEA into arterial lanes for commer be repaid by toll. It is a wrong ing to share that benefit with cial traffic and pleasure. Now and dangerous precedent, and others. We have no objection The fact that the Vernonia-Hamlet route was listed the state faces the troublesome the state legislature should not to such a highway built with as third choice in the engineer’s report to the state high problem of maintaining unimpair enter into any such agreement, its terminus at Wheeler provided way commission is no basis for assuming that its construc ed the beauty of the landscape for, in all probability, the cost only it lies far enough north as viewed from these highways, so that it can be tapped by a tion is unlikely. The recommendation dealt with engineer and of keeping the highways safe will come out of the highway road leading through Hamlet to funds and as sion as the tunnel ing problems only, and admittedly left out of account oth for the traveler. The most ag is built a demand will be made Seaside. Such a road would er important factors which the highway commission will gressive enemy of beauty along to make it a free road. At the j save at least 25 miles in dis take into consideration, such as coast outlet and economic the roads is the very industry present time there are plenty tance as compared with a route advantages, From a wider standpoint, the Vernonia-Ham that played the greater role in of state highways leading into into Wheeler and north on the promoting the era of better high and out of Portland without Roosevelt highway. It would let route leads the rest. ways—the automobile industry. building more at a time when the save about 50 miles as compared By engineer Hackett’s computations it is the shortest Signs along the highways, the rural sections of Oregon should with the present route. It would route to the most popular of the beaches, Seaside. If the greater percentage of them, are be receiving more consideration. be impossible to tap the Ridge object were to reach Tillamook primarily, either the Wil for advertising makes of cars, It is reported that Governor route, lying as it does south of tires and accessories, Meier is wanting the tunnel con the Salmonberry and the Ne son river road or the ridge route would be preferable be gasoline, hotels, camping resorts, etc. The structed, but if the state legisla cause of the distance saved. A short cut, however, should bill introduced in the Oregon ture should pass the bill and it serve the greatest number—and unquestionably most of legislature is a step forward comes to a vote of the people against the persistent inroads of it will be snowed under. the excursionists choose to go to Seaside. the advertising business along —Wheeler Reporter. Year-round availability also favors the Vernonia- Ham our highways and would prohibit let route. In winter the ridge route is likely to be ob the placing of advertising signs The eleven members of the Optometrist and Optician structed by snow and the Wilson river route by slides. at curves and intersections. The Wickersham commission, after I Of Portland The good old summer time is not the only occasion for bill has for its principal aim nearly two years of study of to make the roads safer for WILL BE IN travel to the beaches. driving in that the attention of prohibition, have eleven differ-1 Another distinct advantage is that of alignment, in the driver would not be diverted ent opinions as the result of, their labor. This is possibly the which Engineer Hackett ranked the Vernonia-Hamlet from the road by a mass of ad'- longest prohibition argument on route first of all the &ix considered. Having the least vertising signs placel at strategic record but it finishes just where EVERY 2nd AND 4th points along the highways. curvature it is the fastest—and speed is one of the most MONDAY OF EACH —McMinnville News-Reporter. all of them do. —St. Helens Mist. important of all the requisites. Brrnnitia Sagle attacked in the Washington co unty circuit court in a suit brought by E. W. Dethlefs and F. Shields who had signed peti tions for the school and later changed their minds and was heard before Judge Arlie Walk er of McMinnville who handed down a decision supporting the district. The decision does not question the right of a voter to sign petitions for and against a pro posal, but only before the pet titions are posted. —Hillsboro Independent. What Other Editors • • • Think • • • • Dr. Brower | Mr. halem. Lynch. Consequently we We are confident that the do not fear that Seaside, the state highway commission will. largest and most popular beach make good on its promises to resort in the Northwest, with build a road to serve the great-1 a permanent anl summer popu- est number of people. We have lation equal to all of the rest faith in the integrity of men like put together will not receive a H. B. Van Duser, Mr. Gates and fair deal. —Seaside Signal. Freight . Delivered To and Called for at Your Door TRUCKS LEAVE VERNONIA 9 A. M. DAILY Long Distance Furniture Hauling Between Vernonia and Portland Portland-Vernonia Truck Line W. A. Davis, Local Manager. RES. PHONE 443 ‘ OFFICE PHONE 1041 Oregon-American Lumber Co. Vernonia THE TUNNEL BILL The effort to protect the taxpayer by making the bonded indebtedness of the proposed Tualatin tunnel a lien on receipts from tolls only, and1 not on the general high way funds of the state, is praiseworthy, but otherwise it is bad ethics and bad business. The ethics of the proposition are decidely shady be cause the bonds would bear the seal of the state of Ore gon and the signature of its governor, without one pen ny’s worth of responsibility to back the preteftse at guar antee. The endorsement of the state would man absolutely nothing, a species of the political craftiness that tucks jokers into desirable legislation, and chortles when the in nocent and the uninformed are deluded into the belief that the thing is what it pretends to be. Bad businss it would be, too, for the tremendous in vestment is doomed to be unprofitable. Some one made a survey of traffic flowing into the Tualatin valley and “es timated” 60 per cent of it would use the tunnel. But would 60 per cent of the truck and automobile owners pay a necessarily heavy toll and pass through a fairly long tun nel in order to save three miles, when close at hand in the open air is the free Canyon road, perhaps the finest stretch of highway in the whole state? Sixty per cent? About ten per cent would be a safer guess. The Longview bridge, unable to meet the interest on its obligations, stands as an example of how the traveling public takes to the pay ment of tolls when a means of free passage is not far distant. The Tualatin tunnel if built according to the proposed plan of finance is bound to become a white (or more ex actly, perhaps, a dark) elephant on somebody’s hands. GOVERNMENT BY COM MISSIONS A FAILURE NO CAUSE FOR ALARM After nearly two years of ef The people of this district are fort, the famous Wickersham much disappointed at the report commission appointed by Presi made by highway engineers con dent Hoover to find a solution cerning the location of the short for the prohibition problem, has, cut highway, but in view of the turned in a report that is such a fact that the report took into puzzle that the United States consideration only the cost and senate now wants another com feasibility of the road, and that mission named to find out what it made no effort to outline a policy in regard to economic it all means. The commissioners drew fancy value or necessity or the proper salaries for the time they put in location from the standpoint of and the only thing accomplish centers of population, we should ed in our opinion is that govern not be alarmed. These larger ment by presidential commission questions will be passed upon by ers is a lot of piffle. * * * * the highway commission, and we Eleven of the 12 members of1 the Wickersham commission turn.' ed in their opinions for the re- ! port and no two reached the And Return Via same conclusion. The report is STAGE filled with confusion and incon-1 sistencies. The boys back in WEEK ENDS Go Friday, Saturday or Sun Washington are having a lot of fun badgering the commissioners, j days; return limit Monday. good also on S. P. and the president over their i Tickets and S. Trains. shoulders, with embarrassing and Other Round Trips pertinent questions as to the why St. Helens .............. $2.00 for it all. Rainier ...................... $2.75 Clatskanie ................. $3.50 No prohibitionist has changed ..................... $5.20 his views because of what the' Astoria Seaside .................. $6.10 commissioners reported and the' Tickets, further information, wets are just as insistent that etc. from everything is wrong with the R. M. ALDRICH, Agent J. C. Wright, Gen. Agt. 18th amendment. The president Trav. wants more money for more en-| G. C. Pendergast, Psgr. Agt. forcement and there you are1 S. P. & s. with the situation just where it TRANSPORATION CO. was before the Wickersham com- $2.75-Por tland supreme court handed down Tues UNION HIGH SCHOOL AT FOREST GROVE UPHELD' day which held that a petitioner MONTH All day and Evening at the Hotel Hy-Van See Him About Your Eyes. Professional and Business Directory For your convenience the following business and professional people are listed on this page alphabetically. These men and women are known in Vernonia as reliable business and professional people. WESTINGHOUSE AND SILVER-MARSHALL RADIOS SALES and SERVICE J. A. OWEN BOX 311 VERNONIA Electrotherapy, Physiotherapy DR. R. A. OLSON Chiropractor Tel. 671 1117 Stat- r Vernonia, Ore CONTRACTORS JOHN A. MILLER General Contractor Mason Work, Building DENTISTS M. D. COLE Dentist Vernonia, Oregon A Check Book HOTEL IS A LITTLE BOOK-KEEPING SYSTEM IN ITSELF— True, it weighs but a few ounces and is absurdedly simple. Yet it pro vides an accurate record of receipts and disbursements, checked monthly by the bank. Keeping an expense bud get is easy (and profitable) with a check book to record your every ex penditure. For economy’s sake open a checking account here. Bank of Vernonia HOTEL GORDON Newly Furnished Room« Hot and Cold Water Next to Post Office Very Reasonable Rates Quality Stock and Poultry Feeds Vernonia Trading Co. Ed Tapp Cass Bergerson The best for those who appreciate the best. Cason Transfer Local & long distance HAULING Phone 923 Office in Workingmen’s Store On improved real estate; long time and reasonable terms. See Attorney John L. Storla, St. Helens, Ore. PASTIME CARDS AND LIGHT LUNCHES Lloyd Baker, Prop. Dad9« SANDWICH SHOP Delicious Chile and Sand wiches—Also Roasts and Short Orders M c D onald II | -1/ ’Monnt at f € ost \ BROWN MORTUARY Phone 593 ■ barber shop Haircutting for Men Women and Children Expert Work Guaranteed Jty Bafford Brothers Vernonia ANNOUNCEMENTS ANNOUNCEMENT I have leased and am now operating the Sessman Blacksmith Shop. Repairing of All Kind. W. M. Faulkner CURLY’S TRANSFER Phone Business 221 Residence 653 Local and Long Dis tance Hauling PHYSICIANS Marvin R. Eby, M. D. Terminal Cafe Physician and Surgeon The Right Place to Eat Excellent Cooking Phone Hospital 931 Town Office 891 Mary Kato hotel COMPLETE« ^«FUNERALS General Plumbing Money to Loan C. BRUCE Wholesale and Retail LUMBER Vernonia, Oregon cannot change his mind after Organization of the Forest notices of elections are posted. The proceedings leading up to Grove union high school district was upheld in a decision by the organization of the district were Hotel HyVan STEAM HEAT Chop Suey Restaurant You’ll enjoy a bowl of delicious Chop Suey after the show. DR. J. A. HUGHES Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 663 Res. Phone 664 Vernonia Oregon OPTOMETRIST Eye« Tested Glasses Fitted Dr. C. O. Anderson Ey. Specialist—Optom.triat let Monday in Each Month. At Knlland.r'. Jewelry Store
