The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-09-01
CONFERENCE TO Be HELD

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position will be given its statewide
significance, when a conference Of rep
resentatiyes Of every county in the
state will be held in the Multnomsh
hotel in Portland on September 8. Gov
ernor Olcott has reverted back to the
war days in the selection of the COM
mittee, believing that those leaders In
each county who so successfully served
to place Oregon to the forefront In all
Liberty Loan and other war works,
would be best adapted TO devise ways
and means for financing the great Ore
gon exposition. In addition to calling
for the cooperation Of the war leaders
in each county, the Government has in
creased the number Of counsellors at
the meeting by requesting several
statewide organizations to send three
delegates each.
All Of the preliminary work in build
ing up the foundation for the exposi-
tion organization was done by the peo-
pie Of Portland, but as soon as congress
passed the bill authorizing the expo
sition and it was signed by President
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governmental recognition which insur-
ed it's success, Governor Olcott acted
upon predetermined plan to have
some of the best brains In the state to
get together and put in effect an effic-
lent cooperative plan which would pro-
vide the finances necessary for the sue
cessful building up Of the exposition.
Tho rnaaffnp Of ruiI IA
termine the financial scope Of the ex-
position and the best means for raising
the money; it doubtless will endeavor
to provide means by which every
hamlet, village. town and city In the
state will have its part in the exposi-
ton, that every section of the state
may be represented in the undertaking,
the greatest movement in the history Of
Oregon for the cementing of interests
of the state in a grand plan for its
exposition.
The representatives OF the various
counties as appointed by the governor.
follows:
T. G. Montgomery, Baker; A. ]. John
son, Benton; D. C. Latourette. Clack-
amas; G. W. Sanborn, Clatsop; s. C.
Morton, Columbia; Dorsey Kreitzer
Coos; Harold Baldwin. Crook; W. A
Wood, Curry; C. S. Hudson. Deschutes;
Mark Tisdale, Douglas; Judge Parker.
Gillian; Henry Kuhl, Grant; James
Donegan, Harney; Thurman Butler,
Hood River; C. E. Gates, Jackson; How
ard w. Turner, jefferson; George c.
Sabin, Josephine; Bert Hail. Klamath;
F. NJ. Miller, Lake; L. L. Goodrich.
Lone; Edward Abbey. Lincoln; Edward
Cusick, Linn; P. Blackaby, Malheur;
Frank Deckebach. Marion; W. P. Ma
honey, Morrow; E. c. Kirkpatrick.
Polk; W. H. Ragsdale Sherman; Frank
Rowe, Tillamook; G. A. Hartman. Una
tilla; A. T, Hill, Union; George Hyatt.
Wallowa; j. C. Hostetler. wasco; A. C,
Shute, Washington; l. L Steiwer.
Wheeler and E. c. Apperson, Yamhill.
The appointees, during the recent
war were chairmen of the Liberty Loan
committees of their respective counties.
In addition to the above list of del
egates will be three representatives
of the oregon State Chamber Of Com
merce, the Farmers Union. the State
Grange, the Taxpayers League and the
County Judges Association.
julius L. Meier, general chairman of
the exposition and the acting Board
Of Directors has requested Governor
Olcott to preside at the sessions Of the
tate-wide committee. Mr. Meier and
his associates will entertain the dele
rates at a luncheon for which over
two hundred covers will be la.1.