The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-10-25
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opinion, wherein he points out that
the law requires school districts to
publish budget and have 1t voted on
at the annual meeting.
New postmasters have been appoint
ed In Oregon as follows Fox, Grant
county, Augustus Behme; Kohler
Douglas county, George A. Hum
phreys; Ten Mile, Douglas county
Bessie L. Newland; Barlow, Clackamas
county, Mary E. Tull; Cherry Grove
Washington county, August Frid.
Approval has been given by State
Engineer John H. Lewis to an appli.
cation of James H. Sturgis for the ap.
preparation of so second-feet of water
from the Umatilla river to develop 2S4
horsepower for commercial purposes.
The proposed project is near Barnhart
and the approximate cost is $4,000.
At conference with the war indus.
tries board Senator McNary was in
formed that the board would endeavor
to encourage the production Of chrom-
| ite In Oregon and to that end would
seek to discourage importations and to
fix price for the domestic product
that will yield the producer a profit.
Questionnaires for men of the 37-to-
46 and 1Syear age classes under the
draft were ordered released by Pro-
vost Marshal-General Crowder in all
local board districts where the classi-
fication of other groups has been COM
pleted. Local boards sending out
questionnaires must release 10 per
cent day.
"Other things being equal, the de-
partment of agriculture, in granting
privileges on the national forests, will
give preference to persons who have
subscribed for liberty bonds to an
amount considered reasonable" says a
message from Washington received by
W. w. Cryder, supervisor of the UNA
tilla national forest.
At last there are signs that Oregon
prunes commandeered for use Of the
United States and allied armies are to
move. Messages received by F. w.
Ariss, of Portland, assistant commits
sioner of the bureau Of coordination
Of purchases, and food administration
officials, brought promise of early re-
lief for growers and packers.
That the government has not aban-
doned Camp. Mills, L. T., where Third
Oregon boys had their lives endan-
gered In slush, mud and storms last
winter, is indicated through the re-
ceipt of orders for 100000 feet of
lumber to be moved there. The order
is now being allocated by the fir pro-
duction board to the mills of Oregon
and Washington.
Plans to erect Il monument in AL
bany in "dishonor" of the liberty bond
slackers of the community have been
launched by officers of the liberty
loan committee. The plan is to erect
concrete monument and place there
on the names of well-to-do citizens who
have refused to buy bonds. The space
on the monument not occupied by
names will be painted yellow,
Miss Cornelia Marvin, state librar-
ian, has been appointed by the state
council of defense to serve as state
historian for the purpose of compiling
a permanent official record of Ore
CONS participation in the war, includ-
ing the military and naval career of
all Oregonians. To facilitate the work
Miss Marvin will appoint county his
torian for each county in the state.
The state board of control is con-
fronted with the peculiar fact that it
costs more to accept fuel for nothing
than to buy it. An offer has been
made of some slabwood near Albany,
which the board may have gratis pro-
viding the hauling is done by the state.
1t was determined that it might. cost
more to deliver 1t to the institutions
than II 1t were purchased at a point
nearer.
Resuming custom followed in years
past for the development Of newly re-
claimed lands along the gradually re-
ceding Tule Lake shore in southern
klamath county, the department of
the interior will lease to settlers ap-
proximately 1000 acres of land early
in November. Bids for these parcels
of land, ranging in size from Az to 100
acres. will be received at the United
States reclamation office in Klamath
Falls until November 6.
When voters write on the ballot at
the general election next month the
name of their choice for justice of the
supreme court to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Justice Moore
they should also make a cross in the
little square at the left of the name
This Will insure the validity of the
vote cast, although the law does not
require the making of the cross. At
torney General Brown has passed on
this point in an opinion to Gilbert
| Hedges district attornav Of nraoor