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
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“ 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
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CHRISTM AS BASKETS
Franklin, Hollis DeGroft, lone Benson,
Genius Invariably triumphs.
Dewey Thomason, Raymond Morfitt,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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W e express the seasons
Livestock and
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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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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