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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1917
Page
3
State legislators push Crandall’s bill authorizing high school military courses with statewide authority. The plan requires three hours weekly, credits, and governor leads the training department. Schools must apply for authority to form rifle corps or equipment units.
The Ways and Means Committee cut or adjusted multiple fair requests, removing $181,300 from the budget. They added funds to two items, removed a water burn disallowance, and increased the irrigation and toilet facilities allocations. A $8000 grant was set aside for an agricultural initiative and for a children's industrial program overseen by the Public Instruction superintendent.
The measure, led by Senator Moser and supported by Representative Mann, would let Multnomah County authorize a tax on festival proceeds. Revenues, set at 15 to 100 percent, would create a fund dedicated to festival purposes and extend only for revival events. At the proposed rate, about $40,000 could be available for future Rose Festivals, potentially making them free for county residents.
The House passed a new cigarette bill described as safe and sane, likely to advance to the Senate for approval. The measure bans tobacco use by anyone under 21 and sets penalties for minors who smoke, with a redraft of prior proposed bills included in the action.
A bill approved Tuesday doubles license taxes on autos and trucks. Proceeds would fund state highway distribution across counties, replacing missing funds. The measure, drafted by the House and Senate highways committees, taps the general road code, with expected cash for next year and growth thereafter.
The joint ways and means committee trims state agency budgets with changes to State Labor, Industrial Welfare, and Board of Child Labor funding. The State Tax Commission is reduced from 30 000 to 16 000, while unfinished business crowds the coming session with mass and urgency.
The House passed Representative Stott’s bill to ban cigarette sales to youths under 21 with stiff penalties, then advanced the Sweeney bill creating an outright ban on the cigarette trade. The Sweeney measure, backed by the W T U, is described as one of the strictest anti cigarette statutes yet.
Representative Callan's bond bill requires district school boards to advertise bond sales. Speaker Stanfield proposes a seven member governor appointed committee to study consolidation within two years. Senate passes State Land Board grain inspection bills amid rural credit debate. University of Oregon reports lower state valuation reducing income. Auto transport bills trigger jitney controversy with road committee opposition and tied roll call.
Police estimate at least 13 people died in the Kenwood hotel fire on Twelfth Street and Hennepin Avenue shortly after midnight Monday. Officials believe many occupants fell into the basement as floors collapsed and were buried in debris. 76 may have been in the hotel, with 11 or more unaccounted for. Mrs. Lucille Squire died after leaping from a third story window.
Several injured remain in serious condition at city hospital but most are expected to recover. A hysterical woman fled screaming after rescue, while others in night clothes endured brutal exposure in 10 below zero temperatures.
Thousands of telegrams from across the nation urge steps to maintain peace with Germany and reach the White House. Representatives of the Emergency Peace Federation, formed in New York, visited the White House seeking a meeting with President Wilson next week. A mass meeting is planned in the near future.
Thirteen hundred acres in the second unit of the West Umatilla irrigation project will open to homestead entry March 6 in Washington. Applicants must file teit applications at The Dalles or La Grande offices between March 1 and 6. A building charge of 96 dollars per acre, with 5 percent deposited before entry applications are accepted, is required.
The Chinese cabinet endorses the American move against Germany over submarine warfare and assures Ambassador Reinsch of support.
Miss Maury Lord Andrews of Washington and Virginia is named chairman of the colonial hunters division for the Inaugural parade. The section includes Virginia society horsemen and horsewomen in colonial dress with red white and blue costumes.
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