THE SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL,
^I|eriuan Qlountg journal
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Grass Valley
SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. 2, 1888
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Eatablished Oct. 14, 1897
CONSOLIDATED. MARCH 6, 1931
WASCO NEWs-ENTEKPitl8E, Established 1891
CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4, 1932.
Vern McGowan and wife are here
after epending the time since the ctee-
ing of school at Independence. They
have moved into the Baker «pertinents
Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By
for the winter
Mrs. S. L Boicu entertained the B.
GILES L FRENCH
Managing Editor
Y.P.U young people wit h a party oa
bar lawn Wednesday evening.
Alice Wilcox returned to Grace Val
ley last Saluidsy evening.
R J. Baker was a business visitor
Entered as wond-clas* matter at the . ’«Mtoilir«, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of
in Portland the first of the week re
Congreaa of March 8, 1879.
turning Tuesday night.
P# N Lemon,-of Albany, was in
SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
Sherman county looking after bls
OneYear...............................................
8160 farming interests Ipst week He re
Six Months ......................................................... . .....................................................100 turned by the way of the McKenzie
highway.
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Loren
Beardsley
was
working
for
the
FRIDAY, AUGUST
1982.
state highway crew during oiling oper-
atioas
between Wasco
and Moro iMt
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SHERMAN COUNTY.
Consolidation of big business has added its shafe to tye econ
Quite a number of Grasa Valiev resi
omic turmoil in which the world finds Itself and now here comes kine last Saturday evening
The Dalles Chronicle advocating that the same movement be
John Block ia visiting here from Tigh
In a lengthy editorial that paper Valley where ha has been working for
started in county management
statesan opinion that Sherman, Wasco and Hood River counties
Hasel Boyes has gone to Prineville
should be consolidated into one. The editor states that he has and her sister J «units, has returned
made no examination of the records to find the indebtedness of from that city d irteg the past week
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Balzer were in
the counties but presumes that whatever debt there is could be
Portland the last of the week returns
separately budgeted and paid,
.
iog home Sunday.
Here are a few figures on the condition of Sherman and Was
Mrs. Leona Rooney spent Sunday
co counties taken from the last biennial-report to the state treas here with her parents, vr. and Mrs. I.,
P. Pike.
urer
Genevieve and Charlotte Peardsley
Wasco county owes a net sum of $614,476.00 on a property val sre visiting in The Dalles with friends
uation of $22,067,423 which gives them a debt ratio of 2.78. They this week.
are in debt for that percent of their valuation. Sherman county Haya Eoyce is home again after a
owes a net debt of $240,766.87 on a valuation of $14,257,130 for a summer spent in the hayfields of cen
tral Oregon.
ratio of 1.69 We are in debt for that percentage of our valuation.
Guy Hoskinson returned to Sher
Of course these valuations have been lowered since the report man county Sunday to do a little
was made and some debts have been paid as well, but presumably work in the harvest-fields.
_ the • ratios have not changed
very much v .
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STATION WHEAT
For strictly county purposes Sherman county budgeted $26,-
•»no alvd uioxj panupuoa
562.55 on their valuation of $14,257,130 and Wasco county appro
variety'
but did not do so this year. ,
priated $90,039.32 for county purposes on their valuation of $22,-
Among the barleys Peruvian, a
067,423. Hood River county budgeted $44,563.87 for county pur bearded barley, made the most grain
poses on a valuation of $7,386,620 according to the treasurer’s this year which is not surprising as
report These figures show t>at the total valuation of the com it normally ranks among the first
in yield. Meloy barley, the common
bined counties would be 343,711,173 of which Sherman county beardless Sherman county strain did
not do as well as normal this year
yould be approximately one third.
but is favored by farmers because of
If county government of the three counties put into one was its lack of beards
carried on for the identical sum that is expended for Wasco
Oro wheat that has been grown by
co mty alone it would c -st Sherman county taxpayers $30,000 for farmers in the fields this year did not
do so well at the station as some
county government instead of the $26,562 they did expend in the other
wheats although the difference
year for which the figures are given. That is four thousand dol between it and the leaders was slight
lars worth of. reason for not being in favor of such a consolidation- Its average yield on several stations
throughout the northwest compares
Furthermore, it is most improbable to assume that the three favorably with any other wheat and
counties thro vn into one could be governed for the same sum as
Wasco county is now governed. Any increase in costs would ier than almost any other variety-
It is also very resistant to smut.
make that much greater reason for opposing the consolidation.
Sherman county separated from Wasco county forty five Breast Fed Babies
years ago because its citizens felt that they could be better gov
Have Best Chance
erned as a county by themselves Their judgment has been jus
tified.
We are a wheat growing county very rich in per capita
Breast fed babies have the best
chance to survive- The first year of
have a county that h strictly a wheat county. When it becomes
life is the most critical one and for
necessary, though we think it never will, for us to join another every breast fed baby that dies in,
c mnty in government it will be wiser for us to consolidate with the first year, three or four bottle
fed ones die. The beat life insurance
some of M m counties on the east where we will be more likely to
wealth.
A large percent of our land is tillable and tilled
We
find the same economic conditions and wh^re people are engaged care of a competent b*hi,- doctor.
in more similar occupations than in Wasco county.
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months and later once a month it
much lees than is spent at one time
LET’S GET IT STRAIGHT.
if baby becomes ill. Mnxaover. tooi
We fear that the reader who is not informed about farmers often the baby that is si^ when the
will derive the wrong impression from the article that appeared
in the Oregonian last Sunday
Nowadays, times being what they
Ripley says that kissing was one of the athletic events of the
old Olympic gdmes, what fin athletic generation this present
one tries to be.
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A Few Timely Specials
75c pr
25c pr.
05c ea.
10c yd
18c yd
yd
H. Ziegler’s %torey
Mid = Summer Specials
Mens Work Shoes
If you are up and going in matters
of fashion, you will be wsnting a dress
of some one or other of the new bor
dered chiffons which sre the last word
in sheer fabrics. You will appreciate
the uousualnesg of these bordered
sheer weaves which qgny out their
major theme In it penciled outline pat-
teriMng done' delicately in white on
either a navy, 'brown, rust, or black
ground, their borders being In startling
contrast such a* orange with the
brown or bright green enlivening navy
and. SO on. In the picture the border
la used for the yoke with its cowl neck
and to top the sleeves. This model
obqervqs style points such as the slen
derized gored skirt, also a snug-fitting
waistline.
Mens Blue Denim Bib Overalls, pr
A new Notion Item of Exceptional Vai
ue in Dias
Bias Ta
1 ape, 8-yd pack, with 50
yd Spool of Thread to Match, per pg.
Best Grade Table Oil Cloth, per yd'
AMBULANCE SERVICE
New Fall Paterns Indian Head Prints
36-inches wide, Guaranteed Fast
colors, per yd.
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1 Phone 345 The Daljei, Ore.
GRASS VALLEY PHARMACY
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Phone 222
When Your Shoes need
Repair, send them to
The Famous Nation Tailoring Co’s
line of Mens Clothing for Fall, at
Lower and Values Better than ever
Before Offered
WERNMARK’S
GOOD SHOE REPAIRING
204 Second St
THE DALLES
$ 17.50, $21 .OO, $25.00
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Dr. J. A. BUTLERÌ
DENTIST
HOME OFFICE, WA SCO
The Fearfal Uneertainty .
“There Is one thing that Invariably
crosses my mind as the train bears
me out of the station towards the
sea," says a writer.. “Did 1 turn off
the bathroom tap, or didn’t IF—Lon
don Humorist.'
.75.
Mens Blue Cambra Work Shirts, large
and Roomy, each
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. .50
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Vics Admiral Frank H. Clark. u.
8. N, who has assumed com nyt nd of
the scouting force of the United
States fleet His flagship k the U. 8.
& Augusta. Admiral Clark, who Is a
graduate ol ths United States Naval
academy, was promoted through
grades to tbs rank of mr admiral In
February, 192J.
$1.50 and 1.65
Mens Horsehide light weight Gloves, pr. .50
FUNERAL HOME
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«truci ion of our present Institutions ' pay Slocum 1500 a month for his
vitality that it succumbs to some be divided in separate bottles, stop and educational system.
services and provided thnnfnd« of
alight ailment which a well-fed atur- pered and put on ice till needed It
The almost unbelievable statement dollars, which were admittedly paid
dy one does not contract at all.
may be heated just bfore use. No made under oath by proponents of
obtain the signatures necessary
The boot gnides to baby’s well be milk should be kept over till the next the bill at the Brownell hearing have to put this destructive measure on
ing are weight and its own actions. day. Dry whole milk may be used not as yet been fully published in the the ballot-
A baby should double its weight in in emergencies, 1. e-, when traveling press; briefly summarized they in
6- That Zorn has been paid out of
six months and triple it in a year- If -
the secret funds handled by the rep
dicate:
. it gall» steadily, looks happy and
1. That a group of prominent resentative of this committee ap-
1 acta it there is no need to worry.
personally for so-
business
men, real estate owners, and 1 proximately
. |300
.
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“What are you making. Mother?”
If it is
for a baby to be
and that John
professional men in Corvallis secretly called “expenses'
should undoubtedly asked little Walter.
gathered funds and made the first Ramage has been paid approximately
“Lemon meringue pie, dear,’’ his
by « pediatrician,
draft of the so-called Zom-Macpher- | $B00 for his personal service and
mother
answered.
that
in diseases of
son educational bill, independent of “expenses’’ from similar sources,
Half an hiur later he reentered the
children,
milk has to be
। $500 of which he testified vas handed
either Zorn or Macpherson.
modified to
orm to various for- kitchen and inquired: “What did you
2. That Henry Zorn, president of to him by a mysterious chauffeur.
to change the say the pie's middle name was. the Marion County Taxpayers Equal who refused to give his name when
Boston Transcript.
constituents of. a eow's milk approxi Mother
ization league, was invited by this he delivered the currency to Ramage
mately to the same strength as
group to sponsor the bill under in advance of the time that such
mother's milk. Omy a doctor can do
promises that funds to “put it over” substantia] “expenses’* had been in
Economy
this accurately, ,giid judge when the
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would be provided from sources that curred.
“We go away for our holidays have not, officially been revealed to
baby’s stomach is ready to be given
7- That the Marion County Tax
every third year.”
heavier food- ;
payers league at no time paid Slo
date.
“What do you do the other years?”
One ' other fact regarding cow’s
3. That the members of the Marion cum or his Portland firm of attorneys
“The first one we talk of last County Taxpayers Equalization but that the attorneys and Slocum
milk: not only must it be clean when
it comes into the house but it must year’s holiday, and the next year we league, did not hold any public meet were the sources of the funds that
bo kept so until iiaed • Even pasteur discuss plans for the following year.” ings to consider the billj nor to spon were paid to Zorn and Ramage, the
ised milk need« care in this respect. —Karikaturen.
sor it; not to provide funds for it; petition circulators, and^ for other
ftteteur|aatipni;pn)y guarantees the
expenses including misleading and
nor did they originate it.
purity pt milk up to the time It
4- That the league’s executive extravagant claims made over Zorn's
SCHOOL BILL
leaves the pasteurization plant. It
committee consists of ten friends, or signature in the press and in cam-
mutt bo kept cool before delivery to
acquaintances of Henry Zorn. John paign literature-
Continued from page one.
In view of such evidence it is man
the homt and in the home must
Ramage and Willard Stevens and this
of
this
mysterious league; Sam Slo- committee at some unrevealed star ifest that the welfare of the state
It should be kept in the coolest place
receive the same care and attention, cum, professional * petition pusher; chamber session gave them power to requires prompt measures to expose .
in. the house, preferably in an ice-box Hector Macpherson, alleged co-auth- accept the proffer from the so-called the motive back of the bill and your
or of the bin, and E L Getz of Corvallis committee, whose personnel co-opration, if given, should prove
and covered-
Zorn himself under oath testified he of great value in thisi regard. We
The best way is to mix all the milk Corvallis.
If the activities of these few in- does not know.
trust that we shall be favored by an
for the day in the morning according
dividuals does not have the sanction
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5. That this secret committee re early response.
of your Chamber of Commerce, we tained a prominent law firm in Port
Truly yours,
BORDERED CHIFFON
are inviting you to call a meeting of land. Ore-, and through it introduced SCHOOL TAX-SAVING- ASSOCIA-
■ÿ rHBKIK VICHOLAS
the chamber and ascertain whether Sam Slocum, a professional petition TION.
Amedee Smith,
it will join with us and other repre pusher to Henry Zorn and agreed to
Chairman-
sentative bodies to defeat this vicious .
measure, which the governor of our
state has publicly stated will result
in the large losses to the state and its
people, 'greatly increased taxes and
decreased efficiency* In the functions
of the state college at Corvallis it-
slf, no less than those of the univer
sity and the normal schools, if the
Pillow Cases, Plain
bill passée and,becomes law-
In case this suggestion finds favor
Wash Clothes
with your chamber, might it not be
a good plan to inform the people at
Unbleached Muslin..,.. . . .............-___
large that the bill in effect would
start four new weak and costly in
Priljls, Fast Colors, New Stock, 15c to
stitutions of higher learning in place
of the established ones we now have ?
There is no doubt but that a great,
Colored Ouling Flannel for winter wear 20c
many of our citizens have been
deliberately misled ‘into believing
that the actual effect of the measure
would be consolidation of our insti
tutions and economy instead of the
GRASS VALLEY, OREGON
creation of new institutions and dç-
ZELL’S
gayety even in the winter time when they afe proverbially per.
Certainly, wheat fanners do not work as hard in the winter
time as at other times of the year. It is physically impossible. A
man who rises at five and foils till nine for eight or nine months
must have some period in which he is allowed to catch up on his
sleeping. They have a spying in this part of the wheat country
that expresses it, ‘A good farmer does his sleeping in the winter
- time.”
We think it might easily be proven that the average wheat
farmer puts in as many hours per year as men engaged in any
other work. If they find ti at their type of work makes it impera-
' tive for them to work sixteen hours per day during the summer
and only four or five hours when nature is resting in the winter it
seems to be a sensible way of arranging the schedule And then
regardless of the hour s they work, th-y a e doing their job; they
make each acre yield its very lest crop of wheat each year ac
cording to the season, and that’s something
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So far it appears that there will be only one fatality over the
consolidation bill The editor of the Corvallis Gazette Times
seems on the verge of rupturing a blood vessel.
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OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1982.
VICE ADMIRAL CLARK
are, there are few wheat growers who have tim^ for unrestricted
mitted to slacken their labors
MORO,
In Moro the Firat Wook
in Each Month
V
J. C. Freeman & Co
Moro, Oregon.