PAGE SIX
VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1936.
making the proposed measure of land over the week end to visit year (third Monday in June) for which this budget is
genuine benefit to those who relatives.
made ....................................................................................... $ 5,500.00
have to pay for it.
To be received from the County School Fund ................ 10,000.00
To Be received from the Elementary School Fund .......
4,000.00
Entered as second class matter
Some of the local merchants
To be received from the State Irreducible School Fund
1,000.00
August 4, 1922, at the post office have from time to time appeared
To be received from Delinquent Taxes ............ !...............
3,134.49
at Vernonia, Oregon, under the before the council and asked for
act of March 3, 1879.
an occupation license that will
TOTAL ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
$23,634.49
afford protection against unli­
ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES
censed competition. Not all, by
MEMBER
1. General Control
any means, aie in this category,
Personal
service:
sometimes because they are al­ Vernonia Eagle, May 28, 1926
Superintendent ......................................... $ 1,050.00
Clerk ...........................................................
240.00
ready subject to so much com­
Miss Mildred Bergerson and
Compulsory education and census ............
110.00
petition that protection is im­ I Dane Brady were married Sat-
Supplies .................................................'..........
50.00
i
RAY D. FISHER,
possible, and sometimes because
Elections and publicity ................................
75.00
iocal
"competition""
is
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Bergerson
gradual-
Editor and Publisher
Legal service (clerk’s bond, audit, etc.) ....
200.00
ide from these two classes, how-jedJ,r“m h,!ghJscho1 the
before
Other expense of general control:
Telephone ...........
125.00
ever, there are those who would and has llved near Vernonia a11
Misc. expense
50.00
•*
eagerly welcome an opportunity | er 1 e'
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to regularly call at the city hall
TOTAL EXPENSE—GENERAL CONTROL
$ 1,900.00
Sunday the fire whistle sound­
and put their money on the re­
ed
and
the
fire
department
res
­
11.
Instruction
—
Supervision
ANOTHER OCCUPATION
corder’s counter—if the schedules
Personal service:
LICENSE
affecting them are high enough1 ponded immediately when the S.
Superintendent ............................
$ 1,050.00
|
P.
and
S.
box
car
occupied
by
to keep out the possible compet- ■
Principal .......................................
135.00
I
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Schwab
was
afire.
Stenographers and other office
A new ordinance establishing itor who would take away with
| Te fire was extinguished without
assistants ..................................
228.00
occupation licenses is fairly on him far more than the amount of I turning on the big hose. For the
Supplies, principals and supervisors
50.00
the
license
represented,
This
its way through the city council,
(quick response of the firemen
would
be
a
lucrative
source
of
TOTAL EXPENSE—SUPERVISION
$ 1,463.00
and will likely become law. It >s
I Mr. Schwab supplied the boys
the successor of a number of revenue, and there would be no with a box of splendid smokes. III. Instruction—Teaching
similar ordinances that have been trouble about collection.
XXX
Personal service:
What the council should do
1 @ $1,175.00
tried a while, found unworkable,
O. T. Bateman and Mr. Lind­
-------
1 @ 1,125.00
is
to
call
a
meeting
of
those
in- burg are
and tossed by the wayside.
. _ spending
____ _____
their vacation
2 @ 1,080.00
Whether the new measure will terested in a protective occupa­ in southern Oregon.
2 @ 1,035.00
prove any more successful than tion license, ascertain their wil-
XXX
1 @ 1,017.00
1 @
990.00
its predecessors remains to be ingness to pay an adequate am­
Mrs. Allen of the Annette
1 to
960.00
seen. If the experience of the ount, and throw to the winds the Beauty shop spent the week in
1 «,
954.00
past is a criterion, the reception idea of a general occupation li­ Falls City visiting relatives. Her
1 0
945.00
cense.
The
city
would
then
get
two sons who have been attend­
1 f«
to be accorded it will not be'
891.00
the money, and the merchants ing school there will return with
2 to
873.00
any too enthusiastic.
1 @
855.00
would be satisfied.
her to spend the summer in Ver­
To condemn the measure
1 @
843.75
nonia.
3 @
810.00
$18,156.75
wholly would be unfair, for much
Mrs. Albert Jensen returned to
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Supplies .
350.00
indeed may be said in its favor. Walla Walla Tuesday taking her
Forty five high school seniors,
Textbooks
1,000.00
The city needs the money, and sister,. Marian Houghtaling, who
there has been an obvious effort is to make her home there since the largest class to graduate in
TOTAL EXPENSE OF TEACHING
$19,506.75
the history of the school, received
to determine the schedules ac­ graduating from high school.
their
diplomas
at
the
commence
­
IV.
Operation
of
Plant
cording to ability to pay. To the
Personal service:
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Houghtaling ment exercises in the Evangeli­
merchant, however, it is just
Janitors and other employees
2,800.00
cal
church
Friday
night.
and
son
Aichard
motored
to
Port-
another tax, and Vernonia mer­
Janitors’ supplies ....................... .
300.00
chants are already badly over­
Fuel ...............................................
796.00
Light and power .........................
350.00
burdened with city taxes, to say
Water ............................................
300.00
nothing of school district taxes,
road district taxes, county taxes
$ 4,546.00
TOTAL EXPENSE OF OPERATION
and state taxes. An effort a
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the legal voters of School
while back to collect what was District No. 47, of Columbia County, State of Oregon, that a school V. Maintenance and Repairs
Repair and maintenance of furniture
termed an occupation tax was meeting of the said district will be held at the Washington School
and equipment ....................................
200.00
abandoned in the face of the on the 15th day of June, 1936, at eight o’clock p. m., for the pur­
Repair and maintenance of buildings
pose of discussing the budget for the fiscal school year, beginning
and
grounds
.......................................
2,500.00
threat to appeal to the courts June 16, 1936, and ending June 14, 1937, hereinafter set forth,
on the basis of the illegality of and to vote on the proposition of levying a district tax.
2,700.00
TOTAL MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS
double taxation. Calling the crit­
Vernonia Eagle
Ten Years
Ago « < « <
Editorial . . . .
Notice of School Meeting
BUDGET
ter by another name hasn't made
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
the odor any sweeter.
Balance on hand at the beginning of the fiscal school
The trouble with the occupat­
ion licenses has been that their
only real purpose is that of
helping out the city’s finan­
ces. They give the merchant noth­
The Independent Line
ing that he feels that he has not
Leaves from Vernonia Hotel for Portland via Buxton
already paid for. He gets no
and Banks.
protection against competition
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from without or within, or any­
7:55 a. m. and 4:55 p. m.
2 trips daily ............
thing else that he might regard
a. m. and 7 p. m.
......... 10 . ____
Arrives _______________________
in Portland
as an advantage not freely ac­
Leaves Portland from Central Stage Depot, (Park
corded everybody in town. And
and Taylor) Daily except Sundays and Holidays.
because he pays reluctantly if at
8 a. m. and 5 p. m.
all, enforcement has been very
Arrives in Vernonia ........................ 10 a. m. and 7 p. m.
difficult and sometimes even im-
Sundays and Holidays only—
Leaves Portland 10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m.
possible.
Call
Service
between Keasey and Vernonia.
When one ordinance of the
ASK FOR PORTLAND-BANKS STAGE LINE
kind fails, it is natural that the
council should try another, re-
r r
adjusting some of the schedules
and perhaps putting more “teeth”
into the enforcing clauses. What
is overlooked is the necessity of
VI. Auxiliary Agencies
Library:
Library books ............................
Supplies, repairs, etc................ .
Health Service:
Personal service (nurse, etc.)
Supplies and other expenses ...
Transportation of pupils .............
Portland—Banks Stage Line
FARE: $1.30 °NAEY
Vernonia Bakery
BREAD
We Clean Twice a Day Except Saturday
Men’s Suits, Men’s Overcoats, Ladies’ Sum­
mer Coats
QKp
Union
Made
A large variety of Hostess
Cakes and Cookies
Also Home-Made Cakes and
Cookies
Vernonia
■Bakery
Servicing guaranteed ....................
$ 3,810.00
Insurance .................
Other fixed charges:
Tuition ..................
800.00
135.00
TOTAL FIXED CHARGES
$
935.00
VIII. Capital Outlay*
New furniture, equipment and re­
placements .............................................
$ 1,350.00
TOTAL CAPITAL OUTLAYS
$ 1,350.00
IX. Debt Service
Principal on bonds (include negotiable
interest-bearing warrants issued under
section 35-1104) ....................................
Interest on bonds .......................................
$ 6,500.00
3,077.50
TOTAL DEBT SERVICE
$ 9,577.50
4
Emergency
1,000.00
RECAPITULATION
OeJU
LAUNDRY
We give a discount on all call laundry
Vernonia Laundry
and
Cleaners
Phone 711
TOTAL AUXILIARY AGENCIES
X.
CLEANING PRICES
45.00
20.00
3,420.00
VII. Fixed Charges
$2.10 t ° T
Ask your Grocer for . . .
275.00
50.00
Total estimated expenses for the year ............................... $46,788.25
Total estimated receipts, not including proposed tax .... 23,634.49
AMOUNT TO BE RAISED BY DISTRICT TAX ...... $23,153.76
INDEBTEDNESS
Amount of bonded indebtedness (include
all negotiable interest-bearing warrants
issued under section 35-1104) ........................ $67,000.00
TOTAL INDEBTEDNESS
$67,000.00
Dated this 23rd day of May, 1936.
Signed: THOMAS C. GRAVES,
RAY D. FISHER
District Clerk
Chairman, Board of Directors
Approved by Budget Committee May 23, 1936.
Signed: THOMAS C. GRAVES
RAY D. FISHER
Sg££gl£IX^Budget Committee
Chairman, Budget Committee