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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1926
Page
2
Citizens face higher taxes and living costs as public expenditures surge. An exchange notes that debt and tax burdens harm governments and households, urging a check on debt during prosperity and warning against over spending.
Motor vehicle registrations and highway traffic have increased greatly in recent years and will likely continue. Officials say road construction is capable of handling future traffic with durable pavements. Twenty foot highway widths are standard. eighteen feet suffices outside major urban areas as per the Bureau of Public Roads.
Portland meeting with shipping board officials united Port land Astoria Marshfield North Bend Vancouver and Oregon City to demand enduring policy. They seek federal aid and a ship subsidy wedge to sustain the domestic merchant fleet amid ongoing debates over subsidies and national finance.
The question asks whether gasoline price advances stem from restraints of trade or ownership structures that limit effective competition. It weighs how market power, supplier control, and distribution arrangements influence pricing dynamics.
Eugene Guard quotes labor leaders declaring commitment to American institutions. The piece contrasts a Bolshvist tyranny spectacle with American federation of labor, then comments highways are for transport and safety. Berkeley aims to a record pointing to Oregon Agricultural College this year.
The Church reports a Sunday morning sermon by E J Giltrap of Eugene Bible University and notes good Sunday school attendance despite illness. It invites all to attend next Sunday and join the Endeavor Society at its usual hour as training for future church workers. Comet
The church outlines its weekly program with Sunday school for Primary Junior and Senior departments at 9:46 A M and 1 A M respectively. Morning worship at 11 A M with a sermon on Spiritual Blessings Tapic. Evening service at 7 30 P M. midweek meetings Tuesday 7 50 P M and Thursday 7 30 P M. All invited.
The morning Union reports Jack Harder was jailed in Walla Walla County awaiting trial on operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He failed to post bond at arraignment before Judge Fred Hedger.
Roy W. Ritner served as Acting Governor of Oregon for 35 days in late 1922 and into early 1928. He extended clemency to 74 inmates at the Oregon penitentiary, including 28 paroles, 27 pardons, 12 sentence commutations, and restorations to citizenship. Among released were 10 murder defendants with varied sentences, amid controversy over pardons for three Chinese gunmen linked to rival tongs.
Rose Etta Main as administratrix seeks final account and report for Levi M Main deceased. The County Court of Oregon in Unicity County will hear objections November 17, 1026 at 10:00 A.M. in the county courthouse Pendleton. Attorneys Raley Steiner and H J Warner represent the administratrix.
The notice notes four men released after serving portions of rape sentences with revolting crimes. It mentions a local case of a man pardoned after stealing over $8000 from Umatilla County on forged road warrants, after 13 months of a five year term. Governor Olcott’s office declined review in June 1922. Signed by Joseph N. Scott as a political paid notice from Pendleton.
Henry J. Taylor seeks re election to the Oregon Senate representing Umatilla Union and Mor row Counties. A Pendleton resident and farmer with long civic service including Pendleton city council and Inland Empire Bank directorship, he pledges honest duty with low taxes, a state income tax, eastern Normal School, highway completion, bond retirement, Pendleton Round Up preservation, labor protection, auto license relief, and abolishing useless commissions. Paid Ad.
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