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■ Herman dmmty ^owntal Sher nan County Observer Kat., UM Gram Valley Journal, 1W7,. ConaoUdated Mtrdi ì, 1931. Warna Newa-EaterprÍM. Conaolidated March 4. 1932 18H, SHERMAN COUNTY CUFFICIAL PAPER !==SS==^^ Moro, Oregon Forty Fifth Year HEEiNKi Of «5 SCHEDULED MOWN ™p WGS™ । a reading ox >1 linquent water users sufficient impetus to . ' council determine that hard for ths city as • within the \ part of the entire ■ from water to stil ♦ The Daita tricts «*W nit Council Sees » Prompt eskom 1 i ; Huron ems NSMif TALKS IIDE IN COUNIY worthy, Master At the close of the evening refreshments were served Advice Ab>t F. «diM Br«rkt T. ditions. They were disappointed with the slowness of legislatures and con gress to bring relief and were ready for more direct action. He finished bis remarks by a pointed allusion to a national congress that in the midst of hunger and starvation concerned itself with a 130.000 swimming pool in the White House. ' ment coming duo tn solu tel y necessary that era collect some hard This being the cided to instruct the Farmer J , No. 14 uary 10, 1933 lections of the de- MEEIS; PROIESIS EXPENSE the city any person No small of the city in deltn- With it is tb- city fath- it was de Manhall the current ° of water months bill from all of at and to also delinquent least 10 per such pay account, being ment will result in the the water shut off. During ,ot large fund collections 4 WdN expenses enough to pay the rf that department. other prob- Street lighting was j further lem before the council tered before bei formation will be the question is settled. We! Attended Meeting in Wasco Is In fmt Sdàry Cuts • ’ ,, . . «F” I STATION BUDGET EXPLAINED Recaption of Normal Schools; Passage of Sales Tax if Needed Advocated Moro Woman’s Club Study Indians The Moro Woman's Club mec Fri day afternoon February 3 at the home of Mrs- Ragsdale for a most en joyable program on “The Indian from Hunting Ground to Reservation.”. Mrs. O- L. Belshe as director, de- par.ed from the u^uai custom of reading a poem for the first part of her program. Instead she asked twenty questions on “Are You Really Honest’ ? These were taken from the February issue of the American Magazine, and proved to be very in teresting to the club members. Mrs. L. V- Moore then read a pap er on the work being done by mis sionaries on the Indian reservations ■of Oregon. This paper was prepared by Mrs. Moore ten years ago for a club meeting, but was so interesting sha was asked to read it again- Mrs. C. P. Moore then discussed the causes of Indian wars- Little Miss Mary Lou Sajirs enter tained the club with a pianologuc “The Movie.” Marjorie Byers followed in a pleas ing manner with two songs “Smilin’ Through” and “Trees ” The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. John J’oss. ASI WIND, COLO HORIS SICK WHEAT Twelve Below Zero Recorded Here Wednesday Night WHEAT RECOVERY DOUBTFUL Second Freeze of Winter Wo se Than First One A piercing east wind accompanied ' by a light .snowfall swept over this section of eastern Oregon Wednesday and lowered the mercury to the twelfth mark below trie zero point on the official thermometer at the ex-, pertment station. Not noly did it chill the mercury tp a greater extent than any -cold spell thik winter, but it also chilled the hearts of the optimists who thot their winter wheat was alive. There will be no doubt now in many minds at least about the condition of the wheat. It is as dead as the dodo- The wind that struck this country was apparently the tail end Of the disastrous storm that struck the , eastern states causing the death of 28 persons. It blew ’fiercely here for about twelve hours Wednesday dur ing which pipes were frozen, houses were chilled and life was miserable to all humanM and stock. Wednes day evening the wind died down and the, thermometer droppad to* 12 de grees below mark. It is fortunate that the wind did not continue or the wreckage of broken pipes would have been much greater. Only nine hundreths of an inch of moisture fell and the wind whipped that from the grain fields as fast as it fell Had the grain not been fro zen by the earlier storm it would probably have been killed by this one for it was colder and there was in sufficient moisture In the ground to keep the soil temperature from drop ping below the danger point. After the cold night Thursday dawned wiht bright sunshine and warmer atmosphere as If nature was attempting to make up for the misery meted out the day before. That farmers are interested in tax Every resident of the county had an reduction was conclusively proved last A meeting called to appoint a excellent opportunity to hear the Saturday when nearly a hundred of group of representative citizens from latest information about the reseed the wheat growers from the Wasco which a state committee could, pick ing of farm crops on land that’ has vicinity met at the school house in ’ five men to act as a mortgage ad been frosen out this winter. when tha« town at the behest of the local justment board in this county re I Prof- George R. Hyslop, of Oregon branch of the Sherman County Tax solved itself into a pep assembly for The Robinson bill, the Frazier bill, State College made a series of talks Reduction League- the organization of the county farm farm interest rates were debated. to farmers in this county last week Mrs. Marie Barnet .Cooper, actual ers into a militant groqp for protec Roy Baker, and farmer, predicted a end. * farmer of many acres in the Klondike tion against foreclosures, high in return to the sort of ife led by our Mr- Hyslop talked in Wakco Friday section, opened the meeting and act terest rates and high taxes here grandfathers. T- M Rolfe, W. H. afternoon, in Moro Friday night and ed as chairman. W. F. Jackson pres Monday night. . „ ii o i j Farmers Hauling Gas Ragsdale and others spoke advocat in Grass Valley Saturday afternoon. B w ident of the league apoke briefly on * The meeting was called by Harry ing an organization of farmers to do Th each case his talk was heard by From Portland the need of tax reduction and W. H Rufus Boy Scouts Pinkerton at the request of the state for themselves what they have failed an interested body of grain growers Ragsdale, secretary, seconded him mortgage adjustment board- Ite ori- ; Organizing to get from their government. who came to learn about their prob with a like expression. ginal purpose was to nominate twelve George Wilcox then proposed a lems both economic and productive. Almost every farmer who owns a The repeal of the deficiency judge men from which five could be picked. general county wide meeting some I From- knowledge gained through truck and has a few dollars in pocket ment law followed in which it was Even before the nominations were “Two Days to Marry.” a comedy what like the one recently held in years of working with farmers in is making trips to Portland after explained that the present law was made there were speeches, short and play, will be featured by the Letter Wasco county when farmers there or the field of crops and economics the gasoline to use this spring in reseed- unfair in that it often led to fore- impassioned, about the injustice of men ’ s Club at Rufus February 11, in ganized a protective association. His speaker reviewed the history of ing and plowing. Gas, the first neces- •. ^ures against those financially the conditions in which the farmer suggestion^ was enthusiastically sec farm relief legislation from the in sity for a tractor farmer, can be able when those with no other assets the high school gymnasium at eight find? himself. When representatives onded and the following committee ception of the McNary-Haugen bill bought in Portland at 7 to 9 cents. •han the property involved were al o’clock. The admission will be twen of the different towns adjourned to ty five cents for adults and ten cents appointed to handle the arrange One little station is selling the fluid lowed longer time to pay. cauwvs they talked about tax reduc ments: George Wilcox, J- M. Wilson, down 'o the present session of con- for children. *. \ ^ress and their discussions of the for 7 cents. The cost of the extension work' in tion instead of nominating- It was A boy scout club of ten members The farmer receiOte -^a rebate on proposed domestic allotment plan. He the state followed. The budget for that sort of a meeting. has been organised with L-,W. Rakes his gas used in farming operations of er and Leonard Mauras. stated that the farm board had been the Moro station was read showing Finally the following twelve men The meeting will be held in the of material assistance to wAeat grow, 4 cento. If he can haul it from the that of a total estimated cost of ap as scout master. Mr. Simmons has were named as candidates for the po court house Monday February 13 at cjty for a cent a gallon he can buy proximately >13.600 per year, the been chosen assistant scout master. sitions on the county adjustment 1.30 in the afternoon. The officers of em of the Pacific northwest. All boys are working for the Tender In explaining the new plan Mr. fuel for what is really a very nominal state of Oregon will contribute $6000 foot and Second Class ranking. W- A. board: From Kent. J. ' M- Wilson. the Wasco association will be present and receive nearly a third of it back Hyslop said that it was designed to figure- And does that help? Corliss Andrews; Grass Valley: Geo. Morris, R .N- Guilford and M. L. to tell of their conclusions. Every- ! unspent. The remainder of the ex make the tariff effective on products Wilcox, Roy J. Baker; Moro: W -S. Burnett have been recommended as one is invited and urged to come, and pense is borne by the United States used domestically. At present it is Powell, W. F. Jackson; Wasco. E. D. committeemen for the boy scout to express their ideas of what should government as the station was estab Income Tax Deputy » thought that the processors tax on McKee, L. J. Lucas; Rufus: C. A- be done to bring about better condi as a federal station and is un troop . wheat would be 42 cents or the equiv Tom, Chas. Kuypers; At large: Fred Thirteen girls with Miss Duvall as To Be Here lished tions for agriculture. Affiliation with der the jurisdiction of the department alent of the tariff and that the plan Krusow, A- H. Barnum- their leader are organising a girl the farmers protective groups of the of agriculture. would raise the price of wheat by Following this , brief attention to scout troop. No committee has been east is a probability. . Employees of the station are un that amount less costs of opera ion the business at hand several men appointed for this ,club. For those who have worries about In any event the meeting next Mon less losses entailed through shipment der the civil service act and their re claimed the floor to express them Jean Morris, Sec- of Rufus School day is going to be one that may of the surplus to other lands. Just the payment of their income tax this muneration is based on the regula selves on the problems of the day as year the internal revenue department they affect farmers. George JL Wil- make history in farm circles in this how much would be, gained through has made the services of a deputy tions if that act. These salaries have It costs twenty dollars per capita As one enthusiast re his scheme is problematical until been reduced by congressional action cox, druggist and farmer, of Grass country- collector available- to have disease and only a few cents marked ‘ ‘ No one wro is tired of tak- and may be further reduced. Any Valley r said contacted tried. saiu that farmers he — ------------- ... . . . A man from the Portland branch changes that are made will be by the to prevent it. becoming dUcouraged »nd di^ mg it on th. chin ia going to be «b- Making the allotment for the na ■ were of the department will be in Moro federal government instead of the tion and state would be comparatively February 21, and he will bo in Wasco heartened over the injustice of con- sent- easy he stated, because the produc February 22 to assist those who have state-. The budget for the Moro tion of these units is known for long problems regarding the payment of station shows a directors salary of |4500 per year and traveling expen periods past. Hdwever, making the internal revenue- ses of $600 only a part of which has allotments for counties and individ been used this year. ual fartris will cause considerable Elmer Nelson who finished Mmo Ex-judge E. D. McKee moved tho I work and can best be done through High School the first semester of this adoptoin of two resolutions that met I authorities. From the Observer February 13, 1914 year has joined the navy and will be- with the approval of all those pre Allotments should be made oh a While painting in the Moro meat The discussion of the county unit sity of Oregon after an analysis of bushelage basis is the opinion of Mr, rin his enlistment in a week or so. sent. In one motion Mr. McKee ad He wits here last week end disposing market Roy Axtell fell from the country schools in Klamath and Lane school system is more purtinent than I Hyslop because production of acres 1 of his property. Lloyd Johnsonand vocated the closing of two normal counties states that while Klamath scaffold catching the palm of his hand was at first thought for if a bill now varies greatly over small areas. ’ Richard Barne accompanied him to schools because there is no demand county, managed under the unit plan, on a meat hook resulting in an ugly before the Oregon legislature passes, The allotment should be made to the ’ his home at Carson, Wash., returning for the teachers graduating from has a cost $5 29 lower than Lane wound and a sore hand. each county in the state not now sub them and the expense was unneces- land instead of to the farmer so that ject to the provisions of that act will county it has better schools, more ad-1 there could be no switching of allotr- ’ Tuesday night- _ sary D- E- Stephens and family returned vote on Tt the day of the annual equate equipment, better transporta ments from good land to poor to use Another resolution advocated by Tuesday from Washington D. C. tion and had better teachers with the ex-county judge asked that the Where Mr. Stephens has been con- • school election in 1934. among those engaged in them. the entire crop produced. training. The average pupil in legislature be implored to remove the suiting with the department of agri on, While the college has advocated the The bill that they will vote In case this plan is put into ef Klamath county was more than half direct property tax, cut all state ex- culture regarding the work at the dif- seeding of barley for several years however, will create a slightly fect by the govemmerit it is prob- a year ahead of the average pupil in ’enditures to the lowest point possi Federal experiment station at Moro. one they do not favor it for this spring able that some changes will have to they ferent county unit plan than the Lane county. ble with out impairing efficiency and be made in production methods in^for there is a production of 80 million known to the state heretofore- A letter received from George De on pass a sales tax or some other mendments have been provided in the ‘ School districts are not divided to the wheat country, in the opinion of tushels more of this crop than in pre- Moss who is touring Iowa and Mis pending bilf that will require any give equal opportunity to all children the speaker. If, under the plan, it prohibition days. Not much of the form of taxation to make up the souri with the DeMoss Lyric Bards district heavily indebted to pay its for often the smallest and poorest is necessary to abandon some land, barley grown in this country is val- deficit. said that the company was entertain Those present were asked to write bills and bonds by a special tax on districts have the most children with- temporarily at least, some other Uable for malting purposes. For use ing good sized crowds each evening. the property in that district in addi units will make j changes of local crops may be grown on it to keep it in this country beardless Meloy bar- letters to their legislators asking the school population less important, in cultivation so that it may be used ley and Markton o«ft were advocated repeal of the deficiency judgement From the Observer February 12, 1904 tion to the costs of school. law, the reduction of state salaries portunity as well as taxes. Larger later if conditions justify. Some sort as feed grains. Mrs. N. W. Thompson has three * This provision removes one of the It is the purpose of the county unit and the elemination of two normal stands of Italian honey bees which Due to the fact that the freeze has of forage crop may settle this prob greatest objections formerly held EXt the adoption of the county. .ytem to equalize educat.onal op- lem in semi-arid .districts such as already reduced the amount of smut schools. she wishes to sell. J. E. McClure acted as secretary in the ground‘If it hasn’t killed it all ___ _____ Sherman county. unit plan- Districts that are out * of * ( in them. A- Nish met with a smash up Sat It is possible that diversion of land this spring the farmers have a better of the meeting and forwarded the res debt will not have to pay the debts ; One large family can under the urday en route to Moro from his olutions to the representatives of this present system materially change the to other uses may seriously affect chance to raise a smutless crop than of other districts. farm. The team ran away and into district. A county wide meeting of As in i he present law the local necessary millage in some districts, other industries and cause suffering for several years. Mr- Hyslop stated a barb wire fence with disastrous re that extra care should ba taken to the tax reduction league will be held ^school board will be retained with fn our own county problems of trans treat seed this spring. Son»/» of the some time early is March for the sults to the rig. only a change in name. They will be portation of one or two children in Wm. Wallan has been appointed standard varieties of wheat should be election of officers.* called school committees. They will a district are often a source of ill deputy sheriff to fill the vacancy oc sown instead of some new and untried hnvo th*» power to object to any finan- feeling and unnecessary expense I The Grass Valley high school bas casioned by the death of C. N. Mc kinds of wheat. . . rinl adjustment that in their estima Such questions can be better settled ketball teams wore defelted by the Caleb. Mr- Wallan has been the local Flax has not been a successful crop tion is unfair to their district. They by some unprejudiced board. MIN 1PRECI MAX. F DAI ■ in the dry land areas of the north Moro teams by a narrow margin irf agent for BalfouY* Guthrie A Co. in may refuse to hire any teacher ap (Editor’s note: This is the third .... 40 . . 28 .. . .00 west and field peas ard the most the games last Friday February 3. thia county -for four years. FEB. pointed to Iheir school by the county and last of the articles about the .00 24 3 ......... ......... 44 successful of the - alternate crops at Moro- The final score in the boys Charles Nelson has taken the 20 county unit school system. An at hoard. 4./.. .00 26 88 adaptable to this country. *It was game was 17 to 18 and that of the acre tract east of town owned by Mrs- Taxpayers Equalization tempt has been made*to appraise the 5............ . . 41 . 28.r. , 00 urged that copper carbonate be used girls was 8 to 11. Anderson and will establish an incu* . snd Conservatkm League has made system without prejudice either for CO 28 . *10 6 Both teams showed a great fighting for wheat treatment and that formal bator hennery there. i .,f «Ms school nlan and has or against. We welcome le ters or .00 4i ’ 19 7 spirit throughout the games and dehyde be used for barley. Marquis 00 ' 8 . .......... ■* «he hill that is before the questions regarding it from interest 04 34 is better adapted to seeding with L groat excitement prevailed from the Quoted from a Pendleton pgper in .09 • . . a . . a Total for week ... the Observer. Grass Valley is to ed persons) turkey than any other spring wheat, beginning to the final whistle. A report prepared by the Univer- Items That Were News In County Unit Amendments Remove Cleveland's Administration Objections of Many Opponents WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING FEB. 8 have a large mercantile and general supply establishment the magnitude of which will surpass anything of its kind in the county- The enterprise is being promoted by 17 wealthy stockmen and farmers of the com munity. The company is capitalized at $150,000. The new building has an 80 foot front and is two stories high built of brick- From the Observer February 8, 1894 Mr. J. K Craig will start for Port land in a few days to purchase the rails and rolling stock of the narrow gauge road that was changed freiu~ a narrow to a standard guage by the Southern Pacific last season if he makes the _ trade that he expects to. Work will commence about March 1st • on the grade. Parties wishing to buy may write to the secretary of the Kent A Daljes Co., at Kent- A special committee consisting of J. A. Forbis, Sheriff E- M. Leslie and Jos. Marsh made a thorough inspec tion last Thursday of the books, se curities and general financial condi tions of the Sherman County Bank. We learn that the result of the ex amination was most satisfactiry and that the affairs of the bank are in a healthy condition. A dividend of 5 percent wm declared at the last an nual meeting. Perry Watkins announces that in order to oblige thoee coming to More for the St- Valentine’ll Ball, February 14, he will feed and house a team for only 25 cents.
