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G ATE C IT Y JO U RNAL, tk U R S ., bKCEMBER, 20, 1934 OREGON T R A IL SCHOOL PRESENTS X M A S PRO G RAM Houston Keck, Bonna Rea Franklin, Toe Stam, Dwight and Mrs. Lucille Henry Gamboa, Mary Lou Thomason, Johnston, Mrs •William DeGrofft, Mis. I Jimmie Reid,’ Donald Whitman. ^has. Thomason, Charlie and Hubert c “ Christmas at Happy Valley" a thir Jones and Dorothy Lowe. Aftre the arrival of Santa presents ty minute play in two acts was given by pupils of the upper room. Several parts and treats were distributed. The Ore By A L F R E D B I Q G S of this play was played exceedingly wel. gon Trail P.-T. A. sponsored distribu tion of treats. Characters were Juanita Franklin. Analyse before you accept Leonard Lowe, Mildred Sager, Ileta • • • CHRISTM AS BASKETS Franklin, Hollis DeGroft, lone Benson, Genius Invariably triumphs. Dewey Thomason, Raymond Morfitt, • • • The Fraternal orders of Nyssa spon Fred Lowe, Howard Wicklander, Junior Reason Is safer than emotion. sored the giving of Christmas baskets DeGroft and Gilbert Holmes. • • » to the needy folk this year. On Christ Our thoughts govern our destiny. Other pupils who took part in the mas night all those receiving baskets • • • program were Frankie Wilson, Max were guests o f N. E. Leigh at the Lib Never lose faith in your own con Wicklander, Elsie Keck, Willard W hit erty theatre. science. man and Johnnie Hearron. The FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHER“ A large crowd attended the Christmas piogram at the Oregon Trail school Friday, December 21. The program was directed by the teachers Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Hopkins. ■ A Christmas Calamity” by the pri mary room was the outstanding per formance of the evening The children dressed in appropriate costumes played their parts well. Characters included: Peggy Langton, Junior Holmes, Harold Wilson, Charles Landreth, Mildred “The Star of the East” and "Silent Adams, Dorothy Totten, Calvin Morfitt, Robert Bowen, Nadine Relnke, Bernice Night" were sung by a chorus of Ore Bowen, Marjorie Sager, Cecil Whitman, gon Trail folk including Mr. and Mrs. EDITORIALS Articles under this heading do not necessarily express the ed 23890201010101010002010102020202010002020001020102000002010001 itorial policy of this paper but are other editor's opinions on current topics. GREETINGS To You . . . . P A IN T, OR A S TATIO N A DELEGATION of citizens from the Owyhee project. In Eastern Oregon, went over to Salt Lake City the other day, partly to attend the National Reclamation conference, and partly to call upon the manager of the Oregon Short Line, a unit of the Union Pacific system. V ’ e express our appreciation of your patronage in the past year and wish you much prosperity and happiness during 1935. i Nordale Furniture Store m OREGON ËÊ = NYSSA W e Can Save You Money Get A Ton O f Our $ Aberdeen Coal And Laugh at the Cold Weather See Us Before You Build Lumber and Builder Supplies JACKSON LUMBER COMPANY = NYSSA, ORE. PHONE 47 They wanted to tell the Short Line manager that whereas they had asked for a new station at Nyssa, headquart ers office of the Owyhee project, and whereas he had promised a new coat of paint for the present station, they hadn’t yet seen the paint and still want the new station. Then they gave the railroad execu tive some figures that have a lot mean ing to all Oregon. From Nyssa this fall there were shipped 244 cars of pota toes, 154 cars of lettuce, 46 cars of of onions, 10 cars of carrots and 23 cars of mixed vegetables— at total of 477 cars. This was from an Oregon ir rigated project still in the making. Incident to the construction of the Owyhee project, the delegation said the railroad had collected $55,000 for the freight on one shipment of steel and $455,000 on the cement used in the Owyhee dam. Frank T. Morgan, sec retary of the project, added that the total for freight used in construction in t h e Owyhee project would reach 1 , 000 , 000 . A railroad receiving this amount of benefit probably should not feel that a new; station in the place of one now obsolete in unreasonable. But the story is not finished. E. C. Van Petten of Ontario says that nearly every acre of 15,000 to be watered next year in the Owyhee project has been taken by new settlers. Every available acre in the Vale project is taken. The larger area to be ready on the Owyhee project in 1936 will be settled without difficulty. The settlement of the whole of the unoccupied portions of the Vale and Owyhee projects was once consid ered prinipally with the careful selec tion of the best settlers from the many who come seeking.—Oregon Journal. ID AH O ’S LIQ U O R C O NTRO VERSY Active Youngsters Need Plenty of Good Pure M ilk Everyone enjoys good milk from Shelton’s Dairy — Produced in Oregon for Oregon Folks. W e Are Always Glad to Supply You With Extra Deliveries Shelton D a iry OREGON N YSSA You’ve Been GOOD TO US! It would take a lot of space and ink to The state! of Idaho Is in the throes o f a controversy over what to do about liquor. The voters authorized the leg islature to repeal the state enforcement act and it Is taken for granted that they will do so at the January session. This of course precipitated the ques tion of how to sell the stuff after re peal. The governor appointed a repre sentative commission to study the prob lem and make recommendations to the legislature. Both wets and drys, in cluding a clergyman, were placed on the commission which seems to be gen erally accepted over there as a com petent, fair-minded group. T h e commission recommended a three person liquor control body to be appointed by the governor for nine years terms. They did not recommend state sale, but private sale by author ized dealers in original packages only, except that drinks could be bought with meals in eating places. They made no distinction between hard liquor and beer. Comment following release of the report indicates a wide variety of opin ion throughout the state. Many believe beer sale should be handled about as It is in Oregon, through licensed places, with the brew available on draught with or without nfeals. The idea of having to buy a meal to get a glass of beer is objected to. So is the proposal for private sale of hard liquors. A sup- preme court justice who has always opposed prohibition is quoted as saying that no one but the state should be allowed to make a profit from this trade. The question is expected to occupy much of the legislature's time. The commission report is likely to be a basis for the state liquor policy but from comment since it was released a number of changes appear probable. Sale of hard liquor by dealers or by state dispensaries is likely to be the most Important issue.—Baker Herald. tell you just how we feel about the good fellowship that exists between our cus P A Y E T T E A U C TIO N EXCHANGE tomers and us. "Where Bayer and Seller Meet" W e express the seasons Livestock and Merchandise greetings to all our friends. POWELL’S SERVICE STATION Open Day and Night Phone 1 NYSSA Sales Every Saturday PAYETTE . IDA. PHONE 104J A. C. FEN9KE. Prop. Evil deeds contain Inescapable pen alties. e e • Neither adversity nor prosperity af fect great minds. • • • Things often are "no good" because they’re too good. C O U N T Y W . C. T. U. MEET IN O N T A R IO A county meeting of the W. C. T. U. was held at the home of Mrs. Mortons In Ontario last Wednesday. The Christ mas scriptures was read and Christmas hymns sung. It was voted to send $15 from local and county treasurers to take care of their deficit on state officers salaries. They also voted to refund the re maining cost of the car fare of the county delegate sent to the state con vention. Mrs. A. V. Pruyn reported on the executive meeting for Mrs. Everett whose place she filled. Hazel D. Gildea county delegate, read a report from notes taken at tli? convention. Refreshments were served. L o c a l delegates were Mesdames Fauchier, Toombs, Hawkins, Austin, Pruyn, Bertscb and Gildea. U. O. STUDENTS AIDED B Y U. S. W O R K FUNDS University of Oregon, Eugene, De cember 27— Some 275 students at the University of Oregon, in comomn with thousands in other Institutions throughout the United States, will be back in school January 2 as a result of the grant of federal funds which will give them part time employment, it was announced here by Dr. Earl M. Paleltt, executive secretary. This number is approximately the same as were assigned federal aid work during the term just ended. The monthly allotment to the university of $3,525 per month is expected to re main the same also. Schools Take 40 Per Cent Of Tax Fund than the levy for 1934 indicates. J • Cities, labor ng under a tr£,i '.’ vies for county purpose ; ¡ , i w burden of debt service, wer- ,-se o f more than 27 per r*=rv make muh of an inroad on ' .31 when the aggregate lev;, fo levies. Levies for city purpo**« aw uouatiM were $4,241,24?.. 0 n e gating $10.909.894 in 1931 were reduced 1934 levy fo r county purposes aggre- to $9,501,961 in 1934, a cut of 13 per -rated $5.408,388.35. Salem— Support of Oregon public tions of higher learning, took 40.69 per cent of the taxes paid by property school system, other than the institu- owners this year, according to a study CAN IT EE Di NE? — By Ray Cross just completed by the state tax com mission. Taxes for cities absorbed 22.8 per cent of the property owners’ tax dollar, county governments absorbed 13.1 per) cent, road budgets account for 10,05 per cent of the levy against prop erty and the state took 7 Vs cents out of every property tax dollar. At that Oregon property owners con tributed $9,000,000 less toward support of government this year than they did in 1931, the study shows. Property taxes for all purposes which totaled $50,282,- 605.86 in 1931 were down to $41,572,394.- 21 for the :urrent year. Except fo r the counties and taxes for fire patrol and reforestation purposes all government agencies Contributed to the reduction of the tax burden borne by property. Port districts led the way in tax re duction by cutting their aggregate levies from $1,671,548.05 for 1931 to $887,045.73 in 1934, a reduction of 47 per cent. Road Levies Reduced Levies for roads dropped from $6,- 847,582.30 in 1931 to $4,179,958.45 in 1934, a cut of 39 per cent. Much of this reduction of $2,667,623 in the road tax levied against property is accounted for by the repeal of the market road levy in 1931, which was followed by reduc tion of county levies for market road purposes when the burden of this ex pense was shifted to the automobile registration and gasoline tax revenues of the highway department. The state’s contribution to the re lief of propery taxes during the four year period amounts to $1,453,205, the state levy dropping from $4, 592,627.91 in 1931 to $3.139,422.68 in 1934, a drop of nearly 32 per cent, due laregly to salary cuts, low.er cost of commodities used by state institutions and elimina tion of capital outlays for new build ings. Levies for support of the common schools of the state show a drop of 16 per cent since 1931, from $20,120,644.37 to $16,913,692.47. Heavy tax delinquency in local districts, it is explained, pre vented a better showing on the part of the schools, since actual expenditures for school purposes were much lower Czp/ess T ooth P aste T ube W ith ons motion and one hand A TURN O f TMS THUMB-SCRIW AT SIDE AND TUBE IS OPENED; TURN BACK AND IT IE CLOSED. C A N r r B E D O N S '? SER V IC E FIRESTONE B ATTERIES— $4.75 and Up FIRESTONE TIRES— $5.50 and up Electric Frost Shields— Batteries Recharged A LC O H O L PRESTONE N O R C O TT SERVICE Nyssa, Oregon V, 1 == HAPPY Y U L E -T ID E . . . The Board of Directors of Farmers Co-operative Creamery extends to the members of this oganization the greetings o f the season, with a sincere wish that the coming year will bring to you a full measure of health and prosperity. Your loyalty and co operation has been the means o f steering your organization through the depression with flying colors, and enabling us to stand today financially sound and strong for your future service. Coop eration has held the price level from seven to twelve cents above non-cooperative territories as revealed by recent check ups made. Its the greatest hope of the dairyman. 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