FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1931.
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VERNONIA EAGLE.
VERNONIA, I OREGON
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Pacific Coaat Representative
Arthur W. Stypei, Inc.
San Francisco
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RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher
THE NEED FOR A CITY ATTORNEY
The need for a city attorney was forceably illustrated
Friday night, when legal objections to the budget as it
stood were voiced by Judge W. A. Harris. For such a
situation, necessitating a rearrangement of dates and more
or less confusion in bringing the issue to a head, neither
the mayor, the council, the recorder nor the budget com­
mittee, are to blame. They are not attorneys, and cannot
be expected to know, as a competent lawyer would, the
precise legal requirements in budget making, particularly
when the circumstances this year are different from those
of any preceding year.
The affair of the budget is only one item. Again and
again there is urgent need of the advice of an attorney.
Failure to have one might involve the city in an expensive
law-suit that would cost infinitely more than the amount
of salary involved.
The city council, in its decision to engage the services
of an attorney for the coming year, are acting prudently
and for the best interests of the taxpayers.
of the Pomona grange, to add in
getting through a resolution dir­
ected to the county court to ask
that provision be made for re­
taining those engaged in exten­
sion work in Columbia county.”
Mr. Young, who presided at
the meeting, states that the col­ Columbia post 42, American
lege representatives present drid Legion at St. Helens will be host
not know of the local fight and to a conference of district 1 to
that one of them brought a state be held some time in January.
grange speaker to the meeting, The district includes Columbia
that they took no part in the and Clatsop counties, the posts
debate and did not even speak represented being St. Helens, Rai­
until after it was settled and' nier, Clatskanie, Vernonia, As­
then at his request. He states toria and Seaside. About 80 del­
that they did not want to take egates are expected.
any part in the controversy.
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It was also stated in the un­ The topic of discussion at the
signed letter that the vote was a St. Helens chamber of commerce
tie and then barely passed. Mr. last week was that unemployment
Young says the tie vote was on may be caused by failure to pat­
whether or not the resolution was ronize home industries.
to be sent back to the committee
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for rewording and that only." The
A
general
relief committee with
final vote was 32-13 in favor of
representation from each lodge
the extension work.
—Clatskanie Chief. and civic organization is being
formed in St. Helens.
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This same letter was received
Permission to exceed the six
by the Eagle but was not printed
because it was unsigned. It is per cent limitation in the St. Hel­
characteristic of some of the ens school district passed 6 to 1
baseless attacks made on the last week, with only about 75
votes cast. The budget called for
county agent’s office.
a substantial reduction.
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MILLS COMMENDED
The Columbia County Medical
I appears that Commissioner T. association met in Rainier Nov.
B. Mills finally appointed Judd 13, with all the members in at­
Greenman of Vernonia on the tendance. The guest speaker was
budget committee, to take the Dr. L. Howard Smith of Port­
place of Leo Gallagher of Rain­ land, who talked on diseases pre­
ier, who declined to accept the valent among children at this
time of year.
appointment.
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The Review desires to commend
Rainier high school lost its
Mr. Mills for the selection of Mr.
Greenman. It will be remembered first game of the season Nov. 18
that Mr. Greenman was recom­ when it was defeated by Long­
mended by the Columbia County view 26 to 6.
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Taxpayers league as one of the
men they desired appointed on
Livestock thieves are raiding
this committee.
Columbia county farmers again,
It goes without saying that Mr. according to Sheriff Oscar G.
Greenman will be able to take Weed.
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care of himself as a member of
PUNISHING THE DRUNKEN DRIVER
the budget committee and that
The Yamhill County Tax Con­
may expect a budget that Will servation and Equalization league
The campaign now being waged by Portland news­ we
be satisfactory to a large por­ passed a resolution Nov. 14 com­
papers and the Portland police against drunken driving tion of the taxpayers of the mending Charles K. Spaulding of
deserves the support of all careful motorists. The drunken county, notwithstanding the num­ the state highway commission for
driver is a serious menace, and he simply should not be erous requests from various and his efforts towards reduction of
sundry organizations, each request expenses in the engineering de­
tolerated.
There has been altogether too much laxity in punishing calculated to keep up rather than part.
reduce taxes.
intoxicated drivers. Lawyers more interested in secur­ With Mr. Greenman, Clarence
State Tax To Be Lower
ing fees or winning their cases have interposed technicali­ Evenson of Clatskanie and Mar­
ties that have meant delay and inaction. Friends with tin White, together with some aid The Oregon 1932 state tax will
some sort of pull have interceded. The public has been the taxpayers may get from some not exceed three mills according
apathetic. Perhaps therein lies the chief trouble: few­ members of the county court, to State Tax Commissioner Earl
county expenses may be expected Fisher. Last year’s levy was ap­
care—very much.
to take a tumble. In making proximately six mills. Other re­
Police, prosecuting attorneys, judges, juries — and this prediction we are assuming duction was effected through le­
above all, the public, should be aroused and kept aroused that Clarence Evenson is a “chip gislation doing away with the
to the grave danger of allowing fuddled drivers at large off the old block,” the son of O. market road tax, waiver of the
to wreck, maim and kill whatever and whoever is luckless J. Evenson, a consistent tax re­ veterans’ state aid tax this year,
ductionist, and The Review trusts cuts in appropriations to higher
enough to be in their way.
that it will not be disappointed educational institutions and vari­
in the young man.
ous savings in conduct of state
However, we shall see what we institutions and departments.
THANKSGIVING
—Clatskanie Chief.
shall see.
—Rainier Review.
What is there to be thankful for, in spite of depres­
sion? A great deal, right here in the Nehalem valley.
For one thing, crops have been excellent, and there is no
lack of food, nor any reason why a Columbia county resi­
dent, however hard-pressed financially, should go hungry.
Again, good wood is plentiful and cheap, and no one
need suffer the chills of winter.
Besides, those who have enough are showing a gener­
ous disposition to share with those who lack. Economic
depression engenders a sympathy that is neglected some­
times in more prosperous days.
Finally, there is the hope of spring, of increasing
warmth and light, of greater employment and swelling
payrolls. One can be thankful for the hope for the future
as well as for the attainments of the past.
Correction is Asked
Warren Young, master of the
county Pomona grange, asks us
to correct an impression that was
made in one of the county papers
last week.
Relative to the vote of the
county grange at its meeting at
St. Helens concerning the in­
for hospitality
fo«ufoods
After the completion of the Pan­
ama canal General Gorgas went to
South Africa to fight pneumonia In
the gold and diamond mining fields.
Due to his efforts, the death rate
dropped from 350 per 1,000 to 3
per 1,000, and the death rale from
all diseases to 6 per 1,000. Oxford
university bestowed upon him the
degree of doctor of science.
A Fable
M ultnomah
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City of Detroit purchases 137 new Ford cars
Hundreds now in use prove low cost of operation
THESE 137 new Ford cars represent one
of the largest deliveries ever made to a
municipality at one time.
21 radio-equipped Ford scout cars were
traded in on this purchase. They had been
operated day and night for two years in
heavy traffic and all kinds of weather.
TTteir individual records ranged from
78,434 miles to 143,723 miles with a grand
total of 2,283,097 miles. The operating
cost of the 21 cars was 2.284 cents a mile
— less than 2 1/3 cents. This cost included
all fuel, oil, tires, repairs and every other
item except depreciation and insurance.
Of 577 Ford cars in Detroit City service,
the 300 in the Police Department traveled
a total of 6,591,937 miles during the past
fiscal year, at an average cost of 2.9 cents
a mile.
Many claims have been made on operat­
ing costs, but here in the carefully kept
motor car records of the City of Detroit is
positive proof of Ford economy.
In the paragraphs above, it is seen that
21 Ford scout cars averaged less than 2 1/3
cents a mile and 300 Ford cars in all
branches of Detroit police work averaged
2.9 cents a mile!
Day and night, twenty-four hours a day,
these Ford cars are in operation. Few
branches of transportation demand such
grueling service. The records show that
low fuel and oil consumption is but one of
the Ford’s many economies. Ford ma­
terials, simplicity of design and accuracy
in manufacturing provide unusual strength,
stamina and freedom from replacements
and repairs.
The individual car buyer as well as tLj
purchasing department of a city or a busi­
ness cannot afford to ignore the proved
economy of the Ford car.
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(F. O. B. Detroit, plug freight and delivery.
Bumperg and »pare tire extra at low co»t. Ea»y
time payment» can be arranged through your
Ford dealer.)
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WITH
RATH
Willamette valley dairymen
were favored, however, by the
larger outlet for fluid milk which
was sold at prices generally high­
er than that obtained for butter­
fat. The investigation is a joint
project of the farm management
and dairy husbandry departments
carried on by H. E. Selby, A. S.
Burner and G. W. Kuhlman of
the former department, and P.
M. Brandt, I. R. Jones and R. W.
Morse of the latter.
Positive Proof
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RATES $Q
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the survey. The work is being
Oregon dairymen may not be continued another year to get
getting rich these days, but neith­ data on the present situation.
Average cost of production of
er are they as bad off as those
in some other farm enterprises, butterfat for the year ending
judging from figures just com­ last April was 40 cents per pound
piled by the farm management as compared with 50 cents the
department at the Oregon State year previous. The reductions of
college experiment station on the 20 per cent is attributed to lower
results of the second year’s sur­ wages and feed prices. The av­
vey of 514 dairy farms in 22 erage price received for JT.j year
was 41 cents expressed as butter­
Oregon counties.
Dairying paid these farmers, on fat prices, or just a cent above
an average five per cent on their production costs, which, however,
investment in addition to pre­ included interest, depreciation and
vailing wages for the dairyman wages for the family.
Irrigated sections of eastern
and his family in caring for the
cows, during the year between Oregon again led in low cost of
April 1, 1930, and April 1, 1931. production, the irrigated pastures
The fact that feed prices dropped and cheap alfalfa giving farmers
even before the big slump in dairy 1 there a seven cent advantage ov­
prices, which did not hit hardest er the Willmette valley and five
FOR
PORTLAND, OREGON
NEW LOW RATES.
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until early in 1931, is responsible cents over the famous coast dairy
OREGON DAIRYMEN
for the comparatively favorable sections where year around pas­
GET FAIR RETURNS showing, say those in charge of ture is a great asset.
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Gorga»' Good Work
This fable Is credited to Jona­
than Swift: "An old miser kept
a tame Jackdaw that used to steal
pieces of money and hide them in a
hole, which, the cat observing,
asked, ‘Why would he hoard up
those round, shining things that he
dorsement of the extension work could make no use of?’ ‘Why,’ said
in the county, an unsigned let­ the Jackdaw, ‘my master has a
whole chest full and makes no
ter was received by the Chief more use of them than L' ”
and evidently by other county pa­
pers.
Reference was made to the let­
ter editorially by the Rainier Re­
view, quoting that “Oregon State
College sent out its high powered
speakers to attend the meeting
AMOUS
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