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Moro, Oregon, May 29,
Forty Third Ye^r
MEMORIAL PROGRAM
HF LEGION PREPARED
WEATHER REPORT FOR
CID COUNCIL PLANS
WEEK EHDIN6 MAY 27
Mar
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All Amerien Legion -Posts oí the
Conty To Cooperate
; GUTES WILL BE DECORATED
MAX.
DATS
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10 REFUND DEBT
MIN. PgECRP.
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Election Will Be Held Soon Tojote
on New Bonds
PIPE FOR NEW WELL ARRIVES
Mrs. J. M. Wilson Wrecks
Carat Cow Canyon
C. W. Templeton Arrive« and Assumes
Reverend F. A. Gin Will DeHves Ad­
dress of the Day
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Representative« from three of the
four American Legion posts in the
county met Wednesday night at the
• Legion hall in Moro and made up the
program for the patriotic observances
* for Memorial Day. Frank Brown post
of Wasco was not represented but
word was received from them that
• they would abide by any program that
was agreeable tothe other posts and
would be glad to cooperate in the
patriotic ceremony.
The program will be in charge of
Lawerence W. Rakes as commander
of the firing squad and marshall of
the day, and will be county wieje in
that ex-service men from all parts of
the county will be in the various units
that go to make up a Memorial Day
program by the American Legion,;^,
Legionnaires of Moro will meet at
their hall* in Moro at 8:45 on the
morning of the 30th and will be ac­
companied by members of the Auxil­
iary.- They will arrive at the Legion
hall in Kent at 9:30 where after a
short practice they will convene at
the cemetery north of town and begin
the services there.
This will consist of a march from
the gate of the cemetery led by. the
color guard and color bearers. These
wilT’be followed by the firing squad
the Auxiliary and|the Boy Scotit troop
of Moro under the leadership of. scout
master Melvin Schadewitz.
At the grave of some war veteran
. the cavalcade will halt. While the
firing squad stands at parade rest the
chapljn will offer prayer followed by
the salute to the dead and the im-
pressive notesof “Tape,” • -
Ai^oon as the legionnaires can get
\ to Grass Valley this ceremony will be
repeated there. It is expected ’ that
the hour will be 10:45. • . • - *
- The Moro Legion hall will be reach­
ed by 11:15 and the main part of the
program will be given. Legionnaires
will march into the hall in, a body
followed by members of tjie „Auxil­
iary and the Boy Scouts the fol­
lowing program will be given:
Commander
Opening words .t .
Prayer . . . Chaplain W. W. Knighten
Quartette
Bong
“In Flanders Fields” . . . G. L. French
Rev. F. A. Ginn
Address . ..
by the Audience
America ..
Rev. F. A* Ginn
Benediction
Afterthe services the Legionnaires
will march out of the hall in the same
. order as they entered and will go to
the ccnfetery where the ceremony of
firing a salute over the grave of a
veteran will be repeated1
According to plans made Wednes­
day night the Wasco post will hold
services at the cemetery there by ten
o'clock or in time to arrive at Moro
’ ~ for the program in the hall. After
that time they will join with the other
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post members to form one united
body of ex-service men honoring their
departed comrades.
The hall will be decorated by the
members of the Auxiliary before the
program and the graves of all war
veterans in the county will be cleaned
< of weeds and decorated^ by the Legion­
naires before Memorial day.
Mid-Cojurtibia Association
- To Meet at White Salmon
’ .. The White Salmon meeting of the
‘ Mid-Columbia River Association has
. been scheduled for June 3rd accord-
' Ing to announcement received from
R. H. Kipp, assistant secretary,
•y «This is the meeting that was announc­
ed at the time the organization met
in Arlington.
There will be a dinner meeting in
the evening at 6:30 for those who.
.’ ma '' -rrsirvntions, but the principal
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'' ;ll be held in the White
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TRgh School building at 8.00
ópo&k - f>r ti c occasion will be
ocíate editor of
Marshal'.
the Oreg-n Joiurui and a member of
the Inland Waterways Committee of
the United Stales Chamber of Corn-
me. ee, R. H? K»l-P» executive of the
Columbia Valley Association, and
P. S. Nelson, secretary of the Cham­
ber of Commerce, The Dalles.
A number of persons from Sher-
Ai man county are expected to attend as
the development of the river is one of
ihe things most before the people of
•» th1' county.
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Charge of Hotel
While taking the Camp Fire girls
of Kent to their summer vacation at
Camp Sherman Urs. J. M. Wilson suf­
fered an accident that wrecked her
car very badly but fortunately did not
spjiously injure any of her charges.
Just before starting down Cow
canyon hill she looked back at some
of the girls and lost control of the
car. After crossing the road a few
times she drove off the grade and
tipped over.
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None .of the girls were hurt but
*one of them fell head first into a
basket containing sixteen dozen eggs
which gave her the appearence of
having-been in a very bad wreck.
Frank Haynes took the girls on their
vacation after their wrecked car had
been brought backup Kent. *
MOISTURE CONTENT OF
50IL SUB-NORMAL
Root Syriern of Wheal Plants Is We 1
Develop el
The following table shows the per
cent moisture in the early spring in
soil cropped tp Turkey winter wheat
for the past seven years, 1925 to
1931, 'inclusive;., also the percent
moisture in the soil on May 25 or a-
bout the normal heading time for
winter wheat. The table also shows
the rainfall from May 25 until the
crop was harvested and the average
yield in bushels obtained from - the
plots on which the soil moisture was
taken.
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/Soil moisture and yields on certain
plots on the Experiment Station at
Moro for the years 1925 to 1931, in-
elusive.
Per
Rairi Yield
Per
Year
Bü.
fall
cent
cent
moisture moisture from per
in soil May 25 May acre
25 to
in early
harvest
spring
3.28 25.8
9.5
12.3
1925
.06 21.9
7.2
12.8
1925
.94 42.1
11.2
14.3
1927
-8.0 A .60 37.4
14.6
1928
.62 1Û.7
7.1
9-9
1929
.22 12.5
12.2
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7-5
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6.2
11.9
1931
Jt will be noted from the table that
the soil moisture content in the early
spring varied from 9.9 per cent in
1929 to 14.6 per cent in 1928. It
will also be noted that there is a wide
variation in the yields obtained and
that these yields do not always cor­
respond with the per cent moisture
in the soil in early spring or on May
25. In general, however, in years
with the lowest soil moisture content
in the early sping and with a low soil
moisture content on May 25, low
yields „have been obtained, unless
there was considerable rainfall in
June. It will also be noted that there
was on May 25 of this year only 6.2
per cent of moisture in the soil, the
lowest of any year reported.
The
winter wheat' plant is unable to ex­
haust the soil moisture lower than 5
per c#Slt in our. soil type. On$ per
cent of moisture in six feet is equiva­
lent to approximately .9 inch of rain­
fall.
Telephone Service
- Increased in Grass Valley
Additional telephone service has
been given to the patrons of the Grass
Valley lines by the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Co., for since the mid­
dle of this month day and night serv­
ice has been inaugrated in that town.
Additional operators have been
hired by Mrs. Verna Burns, local
nnager and twenty fo'ur hour serv­
ice is maintaied. At this time of year
this is especially bclpful for fires are
more prevalent during the dry
months. The service will be continu­
ed all the year.
Viffy Z
If n man v. r
ir, there
are plenty'of s'tuntfir s to make him
cynical. If n -i an iTants t<» be un
ti» trmt In the
optimist, and
there- fire ptenty
world and bun
of Situations 1
•’.nd tnmtlm’; ’Jbl^ojd world Is ac*
íímt way. — Atchison
The city council at their meeting
Tuesday night discussed several prob­
lem« that have been before it for
some time. A committee consisting
of Mayor Freeman, City Recorder,
Mrs. Elva Bryant, City Treasurer
Belknap and Attorney G. C. Upde­
graff was appointed to do the neces­
sary work toward preparing for a city
election to refinance some of the city
bonds that will mature in a short
time.
As the pipe has arrived for connect­
ing the Coulee* well with the city
storage system and the ditch for it
has been dug men were put to work
Wednesday morning laying the pipe.
In a few days citizens of town will be
using water from the new well and
it is thought by a majority of the
members of the council that the city
will be weil supplied after that date.
Some minor improvements were
ordered for the hotel in order to put
it in proper shape for the new lessee,
C7 W. Templeton who arrived Satur­
day an took charge Sunday morning.
Some discussion was held as to the
proper way to dividp the tax money
between the different funds which the
city charter require^ the officers to
kec’p distinct from teach other.
Permission' was given Mr. Temple­
ton to cut a doorway in the east wall
of the 4Jotel building in order that
he may rent the room on that side to
the Farmer’s Elevator and Supply
Company who are contemplating re­
moving their office there close to the
Cascade Tractor company which is
under the management of J. C. Mc­
Kean also.
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Tygh Valley Ball Team
Gets Grass Valley Goat
It begins t?&.look as though the ball
playing boys from Tygh Valley are
just a littFe belter than the Sherman
county players around Grass Valley
for in two games played this season
they have succeeded in winning. Last
Sunday behind the southpawing of
Barzee the Grass Valley contingent
held the visitors scoreless for six in­
nings only to have their old ball gamp
filched from them in the last three
frames. On what is Jocally referred
to as an error on th« umpire Tygh
‘Valley scored three times to elevate
the Grass Valleyites so far in the air
they could not comp to earth again
until the game was gone.
Barzee pitched until the blow-up
when he was relieved by Jacob Young
who was up in the air also. Zumalt
pitched for Tygh and won his game
by staying reasonably steady under
bombardment.
Next Sunday'the Grass Valley team
will engage the Harland view grange
team in combat on the Harlandview
diamond.
Sheriff Finds Moonshine
and Makes' Arrest
Sheriff Chrtaman, accompanied by
Deputies Leattr Nahouse and Tom
Garett arre«ta<| Dick Huhman, owner
of the Valley Inn of Grass Valley,
last Monday evening and confiscated
two and one lulf gallons of moon­
shine and thirty one pints of home
brew.
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The warrant ^pon which the sheriff
acted was sign»«! by Justice of the
Peace Stow ofklrass Valley. When
the officers arrived at the hotel they
found several W1 who had apparent­
ly been drinking about the place but
none of them was arrested.
Mr. Huhman pleaded guilty to
possession of Ifficit liquor and was
fined $200.00 and costs of $5.00 by
Justice of Peace R. A. Stow. He will
be allowed to pay his fine in monthly
installments of $20.00.
CROP CONDITIONS
REPORTED AS FAIR
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In Memoriam
Fire Destroys Farm
Home Near Kent
WHEAT HANDLING
METHODS CHANGING
Fire destroyed the country home of
J. C. Wilson a short distance west of
Kent last Thursday night and only the
Usual Discouraging Period About quick work of friends save^ the house­ Contract Between Regitaal and Far­
hold furniture from the same fate.
(her io North End
mer’s National Signed
While the commencement exercises
were being held in the auditorium of
the school building someone observed
flames coming from the kitchen part
of the house and called the assembed
crowd. The roof was in flames while
the work of saving the furniture was
Dead aid Brown Will Soon Be Hidden in progress but nearly all of it was Reduction in Storage and Other Sav­
brought to safety. Some insurance
By Green Heads
ings Contemplated
was in effect on the property at the
time of the fire.
WHEAT HEADING FAST NOW
Some apprehension has been voiced
during the past week about the con­
dition of the winter wheat in this
county. It is feared that the east
wind of some weeks ago dried out the
ground to such an extent that the
wheat will not mature unless good
Grass Valley High School rains are forthcoming in the near fu­
ture.
Plans Commencement This fear of crop conditions is very
। common at this time of year. It be­
gins in the north end of the county
Editor—Marietta Perry
just as the wheat is ready to head out
The final bxarfiinations will be tak­ and works gradually south as the
en Wednesday ahd Thursday of this wheat is in the same condition. There
week.
is a period in the growth of wheat
Senior Class Night was held Friday when the foliage dies unless very well
night, May 22. The Class Mill was supplied with moisture. This time is
read by Margar t Schilling. The just before the main stalk shoots up
Class prohecy was given by Bernard to produce the seed and at that time
Martin. The Clas> History was read wheat looks as if it were in the last
by Olga Koepke. Poems were given stages of an entirely useless lifetime.
about each Senior and the one about
Usually, however, this condition is
Bernard Martin received the prize. A of short duration for in a few weeks
skit “Fal-de ral-de-ral” was put on by the green head arises above the brown,
the faculty in which the men took the foliage and the fields look better. In
part of women and the women took the north end of the county this phe­
the part of men. Refreshments were nomena has occurred and there are
served by the Women’s Community several fields that look fine.
Club.
There is cause to fear that there
Baccalaurate was held Sunday will not be a norfhal crop unless there
morning, 'May 24 at the Baptist is additional rainfall for the ground
church at 11 o’clock. Reverend Ginn was not wet during the winter and the
preached the sermon. The altar was spring rains are about used up by this
decorated-tn various kinds of flowers time of the year. With cool weather
and plants.
a fair crop will probably be harvested
The student bo^v is giving a picnic in spite of the fears of those who are
Friday, May 29 at Borstel’s grove. most interested in the condition of
This will be the last gathering of this the wheat.
school term.
Statements that farmers will not
Commencement exercises will be harvest some fields at all can be at­
held Friday night, at the city audi­ tributed to «orne one'« sense of humor
torium. Dr. F. A. MacGruder, the and not to actual conditions for there
professor of Political Science from have been very few times in the his­
O. S. C. will be the speaker.
tory of this county that wheat was
A student body meeting was held not cut and threshed for grain in
Thursday in which the new student every Çeld in the county.
body officers took over their offices.
Orville Ruggles was elected Sargent-
at-arms. A new amendment was add­ Wasco Hears Pupils of
ed to our constitution.
Miss Trounce in Recital
Miss Stickle gave her music students
a party in The Dalles Friday night *
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May 22. Those going from here were
Wasco was treated to some very
Norma Garrett, Helten. Engstrom,
Pearl and Cinthy Bell, Dale Baker, good music Thursday evening when
the pupils of Miss Vivian Trounce
Neva Gervais and Marietta Perry.
The students of the Grass Valley appeared in recital at the close of
High School wish to thank the Wo­ their years study of that art. Eighteen
men’s Community Club for helping us numbers were given by the children
who ranged in size from very young
during this past school term.
A Spanish play was given by the to high school age and in experience
from one year students up to those
Spanish II class Tuesday afternoon.
who
"have become accomplished in
GRADE SCHOOL NOTES
music.
The pupils of the seventh and
eighth grade room will go on their
EIGHTH GRADE EXAMINATIONS
annual picnic Wednesday.
The fifth and sixth grade students
The Uniform 8th-grade Exami­
are making little mechanical toys in nations will be held June 4th and
art.
Sth in th« school houses where their
The sewing class held a meeting were failure« or conditions as a re­
Tuesday afternoon in Miss Bryant’s sult of the examinations in May. „
room and Dorothy Olds told of her
Lawrence W. Rakes,
trip to Copyallis a few weeks ago.
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County Superintendent.
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No. 29
1931
GRASS VALLEY ELEVATOR SELLS
Dr. J. H. Gilbert To
"Address 1931 Seniors
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Graduation exercises will be held in
the school auditorium Friday evening
at eight o’clock. Dr. James W. Gilbert
of the University of Oregon' will be
the commencement speaker. Kenneth
Fridley is validictorian and John
Hawk is salutatorian.
Dr. Gilbert is dean of the college
of literature, arts and science at the
University of Oregon and is a distin-
gushed speaker. In addition to the ad­
dress the following entertainment
numbers under the direction of G. H.
Endicott of The Dalles will be given.
Processional Marche Portificale
Romaine By Gourod.
^Overture, ‘Majestic” Lourence.
Classic, * “Prelude” Anton Voder-
ivski.
Recessinal - “Marche Oux Flam
beaux” Scotsen Clarke.
The baccalaureate services of the
senior class were held at the Metho­
dist Episcopal church Sunday evening
at eight o’clock. Reverend Sherman
N. Hawk officiated. The-program was
as follows.
Processional, Ancient of Days, Miss
Vivian Trounce. -
Invocation, Reverand O. P. Purcell.
Vocal solo, “Life” Mrs. Lloyd Hen-
negan.
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Piano solo, Miss Vivian Trounce.
Sermon, Reverend Sherman Hawk.
Solo “My Task” Harland Tolinson.
Prayer; Reverend Hurcell.
OREGON NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST
Robert Edward Hall, 88, one of the
two remaining veterans of the civil
war living at Union, died recently at
Hot Lake.
For the third successive season deer
are making nightly raids on the young
cherry tfees in the W.' A." McNeil or­
chard near Cove.
Army worms have appeared in the
Rogue valley again. Inzone locality
the worms are stripping all vegetation
clean in their march! ,
Work on an airplane landing field
near OlaUie mountain in the Cascade
national forest is expected to be start­
ed soon, according to forest officials.
The complete enrollment of students
at the University of Oregon for the
year 1930 31 has reached the high fig­
ure of 3609, according to Earl M. Pal-
lett, registrar.
Representatives from three counties
gathered at Grants Pass May 23 and
dedicated Caveman’« bridge over the
Rogue river. The span was construct­
ed at a cost of $125,000.
The Eugene school district will be
able to furnish free textbooks for all
the eight grades in the elementary
schools next year, it has been an­
nounced by H. R. Ooold, city superin­
tendent
Ellery Townsend, Sheridan’s city
marshal, chopped off the thumb of his
left hand with an ax when he was
splitting and sharpening stakes to be
used in closing leaks on Sheridan’s
pipe line.
Field crews of the Deschutes na­
tional forest face the task of repairing
hundreds of mile« of telephone lines
that were broken by winds recently.
The damage was the most extensive in
recent years. ,
The city council of Lakeview has
granted the California Public Service
company a 20-year franchise for the
operation of a utility within the city.
The company is to pay the city 2 per
cent of it« gross sales.
Every indication points to an etfrly
turkey market this year with good
prices for Thanksgiving birds, accord­
ing to Herbert Byers of Roseburg, as­
sistant manager of the Northwestern
Turkey Growers' association.
Wasco county is postponing the
greatest part of it« road improvement
until fall, when unemployment condi­
tion« will again be below normal. The
county will have available between
$50,000 and 955,000 to spend.
Announcement was made at Grass
Valley Monday that the deal which
has been pending for several weeks
between the Grass Valley Elevator
Company and the Farmer’s National
Grain Corporation had been consuma-
ted. The national accepted the price
and and terms of the local company
and will pay $38,000.00 for the eleva­
tor and two warehouses« at Grass
Valley and the two warehouses and
land at Bourbon station. The terms
will be cash on July 1st.
The meeting of the directors .of
the Northwest Regional Grain Grow­
ers and the Farmer’s National Grain
Corporation at Spokane last Friday
was one of considerable importance
to wheat growers of the northwest.
At that time a contract was entered
into between the two organizations
whereby the Farmer’s National is to
sell the grain of the members of the
unite of the Regional and to ware­
house that grain in points where they
have facilities which will include
nearly all of Sherman county.
The stabilized price for wheat will
be taken off June 1st for those who
are not members of the cooperative
organizations, but will be continued
until the 15th of June for those who
are members. „ After these dates
wheat growers will have their price
established by world conditions with- *
out the aid or interference of the
stabilization corporation.
Present prices of grain in Portland
are 67 and a half for the pegged price
of the cooperatives and 66 cents on ■
the merchants exchan^p which is.ak__
most exactly whaF ’tKey have been
fall. It may be eoimid«r^i
likely that there will be more change
in wheat prices during the next year
when the government is out of the
business of stabilizing wheat.
The present plan of the cooperative
movement of the Farm Board has to
do with warehousing and marketing
instead of stabilization. The farmers
who have edntended that savings
could be made by cooperative ware­
housing of wheat have had their views
accepted and that will be the plan for
the coming year. One example of
how this will work is in reduction of
storage charges and another the co­
operative distribution of overweight
gained in stoCing wXeat during the
winter. On wheat stored in this
county the overweight amounts to
2% or over and when taken through­
out the county makes no inconsider­
able amount of money *even with
wheat at 40 or 50 cents a bushel.
Wasco Has Program
For Eighth Graders
Eighth grade graduation and senior
class night were held together last
Friday evening in the school auditor­
ium. Those who gained diplomas
from the eighth grade were: Cleone
Walsh, Dana Jean McMillin, Norine ■
Patterson, Robert Ferrell, Leon
Smith, Frances Watkins, Eugene
Spencer, Marvin Thomas, Norman
Fields, Howard Nunn, Leonard Fields,
Donald McDermid, Arthur Van Gil­
der. Leon Smith and Eugene Spen­
cer tied for place of validictorian.
Before the diplomas were given out
by Mr. McCulluck a short program
was given. Leon Smith gave the vali­
dictorian address. Frances Watkins
played a violin solo, Marvin Thomas
a violin solo, Eugene Spencer played
a piano solo. American Legion medals
were presented by Dr. Butler to Mar­
vin Thomas and Dona Jean McMillin
as the most outstanding boy and girl
of the class. These awards were
made on the basis of the vote of the
7th and 8th grades on the points of
leadership, courage, honor, scholar­
ship and service. The class prophecy
was read by Robert Ferrell and the
class history by Howard Nunn.
At the close of the eighth program
senior class night was held. Elda
Ferrell, class president, rqad the class
will; Mildred Butler,, class grouch,
gave the class’ reasons for discontent;
Evelyn Ferrell, historian, read the
history of the class ¡Georgia Bell Mc­
Pherson gave the class poem and
Robert Scott told of the achievements
of the class.
Damatie awards were presented by
Miss Proffit to Belle Clothier, Ruth
Sevendal, Norman Woodward and
Malcolm Guy. Basketball letter« were
presented by Coach Manning to Mel- x
vin Walsh, Max Williams, Henr^Rich-
elderfer, Kenneth Fridley, Ira Fridley,
Cheater Watkin« and Arthur Spencer,