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GATE CITY JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21,1932 THE GATE CITY JOURNAL W. P. AND ALMA McLINO, Publishers W. 8. Brown. Owner Subscription, Y ea r.......................... $1.50 Subscrpitlon, 8 Months ................. 75c sons Cleston in Eugene, Lloyd in Salem, Herbert in Dallas and daughter Mrs. Helen Wilson in Pondosa. Renewals and new subscriptions are valued by The Journal. We appreciate the friendly support of the grow ing Journal family. THE UNION HIGH SCHOOL Voice of the Press This Is national Thrift Week and the virtue of thrift was never more widely recognized. Thrift means wise use of one’s re sources. It means wise spending of the major part of ones' Income but wise saving of what can be spared after rea sonable living requirements are met. It means a constructive plan in matters of personal finance. It Is opposed to aim less squandering for that always leads to disaster, but It is also opposed to ttghtwadism to selfishness, to hoarding. Thrift means some life insurance, especially for those with others de pendent upon them. It means a savings account In the bank to many. It means a building and loan policy for others. It means good bonds for those whose savings amount to enough to make this possible. It means the purchase of a home for those who are reasonably sure to remain where they are. Thrift is a wonderful thing. It show ers blessings upon those who have Dr- J. W. GAILEY FARMERS ! NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN Why not have the harness oiled and repaired before the spring rush? Come in today! Graduated Electro-Therapist Over Postoffice Ontario. Oregon NYSSA SHOE SHOP Ross Parkinson, Prop. i: in in in m m hi in m in in hi in m r i m w u mm m » > EXPERT Greasing We use a rotary lilt. Get your greasing done before the mud is here. You will like our service. POWELL’S SERVICE STATION Atwater-Kent Radio Auto Service Eastern-Oregon Electric Co. WATCH Ontario-Nyssa Appliances and Fixtures CONTRACT WIRING Bonded and State Licensed We Guarantee Our Work Meridian Produce Co. Ontario Shop Across from Postoffice Nyssa Telephone 60 HARRY SALES JOHN ANDERSON 0 vs ONE SCIENTISTS SAY . . Phor^es: Of lice 171—Re«*, —u THRIFT WEEK For many years, the union high school plan has been discussed in Malheur county, but it was not until recently that it was given serious consideration in the Vale vicinity. Quite a thorough study has been made by a committee, THE JOURNAL FAMILY GROWS composed town people and farmers from Vale, Brogan, Subscriptions, required by the postal laws to be paid in Harper and of other Vale communities, with Attorney advance, play an important part in newspaper publication. Robert D. Lytle an near advisor. When a statement of circulation is requested by a foreign According to Mr. Lytle the committee has taken the first advertising agency, by the county court and other agen forward step by recommending the formation of the dis cies, only paid subscriptions are rated bona fide. trict. The is very interesting and for the information it is the hope of The Journal to make its circulation of readers report of The Journal is reprinted in part as follows: representative of the splendid field it serves and Malheur “It is proposed that we bond the district for $55,000 to county. be expended as follows, to-wit: There is encouragement in January sunshine. The year Cost of school building (with basement, 8 study rooms, was very young when A. H. Wilson joined the list with the honor of being the first new subscriber to The Journal in teachers’ r ooms, library, auditorium and gym, showers, lockers, toilets, vocational rooms and space in basement 1932. Still another is Ralph Fifer of Nyssa. for and heating system. Would accomodate Believe it or not, but Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Lowe of Mitch 280 cafeteria students....................................................$30,000.00 ell Butte buy five subscriptions to The Journal. The first is I Cost of operating school first year: their own. The others go to many parts of the west, Bert Interest and Bond Paym ent............. $3,750. City Transfer Sturm in Toppenish, Wash.; Mrs. Chas. Colesworthy inj Teachers ............................................. 8,000 Los Angeles; Mrs. Quackenbush in Spokane; and the John Ja n ito r................................................. 1,000 TRUCKING Wall family on the Owyhee. The Journal is an annual Fuel .................• ................ ................ 400 Christmas gift. Supplies.....................................................................1,500 $18.150.00 and W. B. Hoxie doesn’t like to write letters and he finds Equipment and reserve...................................... 6,850.00 TRANSFERRING The Journal a good substitute. He sends the paper to his Phone 15 and Phone 28 $55,000.00 C. KL1NKENBERG “This district will have no obligations other than the proposed bond issue and there will be no difficulty in dis posing of this issue at not to exceed 5 per cent interest. TURKEY PRODUCERS • “Based on the preesnt valuation a high school levy of 9 The Meridian Produce Company has in the mills would produce $18,074.33. Settlement of the Vale past eight years been one of the main factors bench unit of the Vale, Oregon Irrigation district in 1932 in securing firm prices for your turkeys, and es will produce a sufficient increased valuation to reduce the pecially around Nyssa, Ontario and Payette, assessment to less than 9 mills at the time the first Union througn dealing with the Farmers’ Cooperative high school tax is levied. Creamery. After the Creamery decided not to “In 1930 the county high school tax rate was 3.9 mills handle turkeys this year, we took up our new REPAIRS or $3.90 per each $1000 of assessed v alue. In 1931 the rate plan of dealing direct with the producer. was 6.53 mills or $6.53 per each $1000 of assessed value THAT GIVE SATISFACTION Full market value paid at time of delivery— Prior to 1931 the county court budgeted the county high No waiting or consignment deals with part pay BRING YOURS IN school tax on the experience of the previous year. The in ment down. OR MAIL TO crease of student population in unorganized territory, plus delinquencies left the fund owing the several high school districts the sum of $18,000. The county school superin tendent had apportioned to the high school districts and ROBINSON issued warrants only for the amount of money in that fund One of Idaho’s Oldest and Largest The Jeweler actually in the hands of the county treasurer because she Poultry and Egg Companies believed that when the statute said to apportion “the high PAYETTE, IDAHO Phone 787 Nampa, Ida. school tuition in the county treasury” it meant what it said. The attorney general, in an opinion to the district attor ney, said it meant she must apportion the entire cost of educating non-resident high school students whether the money was in the treasury or not. As a result thereof the county superintendent was compelled to and did issue war rants to the districts in the sum of $18,000 in excess of money in the treasury. Additional taxes must be levied in 1932 to pay those warrants. In 1931 the sum of $24,425.95 was collected and credited to the county high school fund. The cost of non-resident students being educated in the —THAT— Nyssa, Ontario and Vale high schools was $28,776.26 leaving an additional deficit of $4,350.31 for which war “More food value is supplied by milk than by rants will be issued. This makes a total deficit of $18,000 any other form of food.” plus $4,350 or $22,550. The county high school tax in 1932 must be increased from 6.53 mills to enough to pay cur “There Is No Substitute for Shelton Milk— Use rent tuitions in full and it must be further increased to take More of it. care of the $22,350 in warrants outstanding together with interest at 6 per cent per annum until paid. “It is probable that the county high school tax next year NYSSA, OREGON will exceed 10 mills or $10.00 on each $1000. If the union high school district is organized your property will avoid that higher millage. “The statement of costs of operation of the proposed un ion high school is predicated on actual experience of high r i school operations and is very close to the cost as we will L _ find it in actual operation. Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa. O regon. as Second Class Matter learned Its lesson which Is to steer ft straight course between the rocks of reckless squandering on the one side and skin-flint penuriousness on the other.—Baker Herald MORE TH REE WEEK TWO SHELTON’S DA I R Y DRY CLEANING ork Over Yeiir Coin mu riti) “This cost is $18,150; the present assessed value of the proposed district is $2,000,259, making the rate 9 mills, or $9.00 on each $1000 of assessed value. The development of the Vale, O regon Irrigation District with the addition of assessed values to the assessment roll should within the next three years reduce the union high school tax to a rate much less than the rate of the county high school tax. Property within a high school district does not pay the county nigh school tax.” WHEN IN SPECIAL January 1 to January 30 BOISE You will enjoy your visit more if you stop at V IEW your own property, judge its value, consider its relation to adjacent properties. Think how quickly a disaster may cause you financial loss. . Let us tell you about complete stock fire insurance protection Y ou r property deserves it. Don M. Graham THE INSURANCE MAN The Owyhee RATES $1.50 up; with bath $2.50 up Our spacious lobby . . . and /nezzanine . . . the attractive bed rooms . . . and the expectionally good food served in our restaurants . . . will please you. Come and make yourself at home. 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