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Sherman County Observer Bst.. ISM. Graaa Valley Journal, Eat„ 1897,. Consolidated Journal 6, IMI. Vate» N«*a-Enterpri.e, Eat, 18M. Consolidated March 4. 1932 SHERMAN COUNTY Moro, Oregon, Forty Fifth Year WASCO CELEBRATION PROMISES EXCITEMENT Returns On School Election Completed „ IfflEAI CONDITION FAIR THROUGHOUT COUNTY PAPER June 30, 1933 Held Wednesday No. 34 SCHOOL COSTS VARY “w™ p L u ...! INDIAN TEAM SCALPED IN COUNTY’S SCHOOLS BY HARDHITTING ENEMY The fiuieral of Will iam Herald < Todd was held in Gnus Valley Wed nesday afternoon from the Methodist church with the Rev. Walter R. War «Í 2,000,000 bu Indicated If ner. of Wasco officiating Interment Moro Lowest With $96.31 Cost per Rodeo, Smoker, Basebai, Dances was made in the Moro Minetery. - Weather FaveraHe High School Pupil and Barbecue Ou Progran Mr.. Todd was drown in Johns Creek, a tributary of the Qlearwater river, in Idaho on Sunday Jhne 4. His bddy was found early this week about twenty miles belpv where he PDCTC lOCI niAICD TUAU IlCim i flipped from a log whil* crossing tho buul U Ant LUntn I HAN UuUAL! । swollen stream. It was lodged in a । tree. The remains were brought G. Futter by a wote of 140 to 68. home to Sherman county , by an army F tr eme a Arrange Series of Eveats For Karl Eaton received 116 votes to win flick WUe uJWUat 0. TkbjUid ambulance arriving Wednesday short Silt of School Larger! .Factor Io Det ly before the funeral. L m I u M . Two Day Celebration SALUUNAT TO BE THE SPUKE» From the time the umpire throws out the new ball and calls for action on Monday afternoon there will be cornething going on in Wasco until the Fourth of July celebration is at an end the following night if the group of firemen handling the show ; have made accurate calculations. Monday, the third, is given over to baseball and a dance in the evening. Tuesday, the day pf* the glorious fourth, there will be enough going on Final results in the election of non-high school directors show that Frank von Borstel. Kent, received 192 votes to become the five year mem ber of the board, Harry Proudfoot, Wasco, received 190 votes to be the four y«ar member. The other con testants had competition and smaller votes. Tom Fraser is the three year mem ber of the board having received a" total of 167 votes to 44 for Homer Belshee. Harry Pinkerton will be the the board will ’ The first June 80 at the court be held Fri house when organization of thé board will be the order of business. A chairman and vice-chairman will be elected. The law states that tracts between the high schools and the non- board must be effected b; and a second meeting with board members will be that time- - . Those who do not sleep too soundly, after the dance will hear the anvils in the morning announcingth e arriv- । al of dawn,children will be out with their firecrackers, and by the way, the grass has been burned to make fire works safe. At 9:30 the parade will start at the ’ south end of town and will end at the ball field where Wasco and Grass Valley will play their second game at 10:00. football field. Two chutes have been built to hold the buekers and the com mittee promise that there will be no dull moments from the time the first horse is saddled until the very last one has been topped and the rider either hailed as a worthy cow . hand or humbled in the dust. The smoker will be an event of the evening and will be held in the opera house. Headliners on the bill are Harry McDonald of- Moro , and Darrel McQuillan of Wasco, both of " crowd will adjourn to the camp ground where a barbecued steer will1 be ready for carving. Buns and coffee are to be furnished by the committee . to feed the visitors. When the dinner is over the cele brants may he. seated beneath the trees to listen to the patriotic pro gram which will have for its major evc”t an oration by Francis V. Galo- way, attorney of The Dalles. At 2.30 the rodeo will start at the perience in the ring and a strong following of partisans. Young Flmo, one of Moro’s young men and Wild Man Randall of The Dalles will tan gle in another six round bout and there will be two four round bouts as curtain raisers. Another dance will finish off the celebration. Both of these dances will be held on the Legion platform in the open air where dancers may keep cool and comfortable. New Farm Bill Regulations Gradually Becoming Known •- » Actual cash benefits to Oregon visions of the contract, it is entirely farmers who contract with the gov up to him where or when he sells his ernment to cooperate in a national wheat, or whether he sells it at all or plan of agricultural adjustment will not. be paid early this fall, probably by Acreage control is the fundamental September 15, according to details of feature of the new plan, and every the wheat adjustment policy received farmer must sign a contract to re by the Oregon State college extension duce his acreage, if called upon, by a service. Wheat has been selected as specified amount not to exceed 20 per one of the two first of the basic sur cent. The exact amount may not be plus commodities to which .acreage determined until after it is seen if control will be applied, cotton now an international agreement among the being included under a ¡and rental wheat exporting countries for acre plan. age reduction can be reached. The domestic allotment plan has Application of the organisation been definitely decided upon as the - - - most practical fw immediate use and P1»“ ln countries may be started in Will be be applied applied as will as a three year pro-/“ly- Wheat «Towers in each coun- . gram, according to word from Wash- f°rm their own association for ington. Decentralized administration administering the plan and will elect has also been worked out, intended to their own officers. Each wheat farmer will be assigned make the plan practically self-exe 1 his share of the “benefit wheat” for cuting within each county. In putting the plan into effect, the his county, the proportion being de- farm act administration Will first de termined on the basis of his average ermine the average amount of wheat production for the last Three Years. consumed as food in this country in To join the plan, which is entirely the five year period 1928-32.. Every voluntary, he contracts to reduce his wheat producing state will then be acreage for 1934 by the amount balloted” a share of this domestic specified, and sow his quota to wheat production on the basis of the pro in a workman like manner. On com portion bf the total United States pletion of the contract he will be eli crop it produced during the same five gible to receive two thirds of his al , years. Next, every wheat producing lotment benefits. thes remaining third county within the state will be alloted to be paid when he gives proof next j spring that the reduction has actual- a share on the same basis- This amount of wheat will be that ly been made. on which benefit payments will be1 Just how much these benefits will made. It is pointed out, that these be is yet to be finally determined, proportions are worked out on a but the plan is to make them enough national basis and allotments will be so that added to the actual market made without regard to the ultimate price of wheat they will bring the disposition of any particular block of total return per bushel on this do mestic proportion of the nation’s wheat. Disposition of wheat by the grower, wheat crop up to the pre-war parity is a matter of fact, Is no concety of with prices of things the farmer » the agricultural adjustment adminis buys. The cost is to be paid from a tration under this plan. Once the processing tax of about 80 cents a farmer complies with the other pro- Continued on t*age Two. E*5T 9K DFGWWn BEHEB The deceased was bom in Philo math, November 14, 1906, a son of who »pends any consider- Mr. and 'Mrs. W. C. Todd who were then, as since, residents o^ this coun- iv qi ume MXNong az uie M . .. .. . . • . ly. The> family lived for, some years Sherman county must be near Moro later moving to a farm with the variation in the south west of Grass Valley where of differm# fields where Herald attended school at Michigan apparent reason existe for a wide gch<X)1 house and lat®r ,n Grass Val- To make a general etate- ley High School where he graduated > ’ • all conditions is rafher In 1926. He studied' electriciedl engineering view of the many factors in in Chicago for a year and while tak volved affecting the wheat. However, wheat that is on poor ing lessons in a flying school he mar land or land that not n wp II ried Miss Mouma Mobley, of Corval farmed, of' on land that is . steep lis, August 15, 1930. enough to cause much runoff of last Surviving him are bis widow, two winter’* moisture, on wheat that is <hildren Ethel Mae and Herschel too thick is generally in poor condi- Herald/ one sister Mrs. Margaret tion while the majority of the wheat Schilling, three brothers- Kenneth, in tha county is in position to make Lawrence and Billie and his parents, a fair cron if weather conditions re- 1 A - ----------------- L ' • ’ : main favorable. Postage To Be Reduced Practically every field has some spots in it where the grain has be From Local Offices gun to wither and turn brown, prob ably due to lack of moisture although farmers in some sections believe that After the first of Juf^h, wij. be frost has caused damage afso It is possible to send letters to anyone probable that some of the spots aro living in the same town for two cents. caused by the snow blowing off last This will permit merchants to mail winter and the ground becoming froz bills destined for customers living on en so that it could not take water. * the rural routes at a smaller charge Wheat on the east side of the and in th$ cities having deliveries county appears to be in better con onsiderable saving. dition han t|iat on the west side. I Generally it is headed out more fully and is farthet along. This is not true Wheat Men In Spokane of the Wasco country where the bet To Discuss Quota ter land is on the west side of town. Winter wheat in practically every instance will make a crop although D. E. Stephens. J. W. Shepard and some fields are very weedy. In the Harry Proudfoot left Thursday night north end of the county the turkey is for Spokane to attend a meeting at beginning to turn with a favorable | which the new director of the wheat coloT that means a good yield. । bill will be present. He is M. W. Spring wheat in the south end of j Wilson, formerly of Montana. the county is almost as far along as * It was understood that the purpose is wheat in the north end of the coun- ol the meeting will be to determine ty a condition that is very unusual. the quotas of some of the western Fully h^sdeà fields may be found ( e^a^cs unjer the new agricultural dear to tho .outh border of the coun-1 Uw pre|iminary flKUtw indicate ty and the kerhels are forming rapid that the average for the last three ly although not quite so far advanced years will be taken as a basis for de as in fields closer to the Columbia. termining the quota of each county. In case the county should, be visi-1 If so Sherman county will be allowed ted by other rains it is poarible that but 1,443,600 bushels per year or a crop of average size would be har- about 11 bushels per acre on the to vested. With cool weather the coun tal acreage ty may harvest 2,000,000 bushels The ten year average would permit which is better than has been thresh this county to raise and sell approxi ed for tour years. A few days of un mately 2 000,000 bushelsr per year favorable weather would reduce this while the law is in effect. The men estiihate greatly for there is little were represent the county and en- mointure in the soil to revive wheat ¿eavor |jave established a more after hot winds. equtable basis for the quotas. It is The rain of Saturday night gave not felt that this county would be .33 of an inch to Wasco. .32 to Moro, able to cooperate if the three year .44 to Grass Valley and .41 to Kent average were used as the crops for and while it aided the wheat to some that period have been much below extent it is not thought that it was normal. --------- sufficient to insure a crop In any part of the county. Mrs. Peart Williams and children are visiting here this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Henna gin. She came from Seattle. Thompson Family Holds Annual ReunionSunday Through the courtesy of Harland- view grange the use of their hall was Let the Journal do your printing secured by the Thompson family in - tf »rwuwa which to hold their Twalth Annual Round Up. The rainfall that morn- uirrif CliniMC IIIIIC 9Q ’ made necessary a change in their W l L r tnUlnb JU HL ZO plans for gathering at DoMoss Mem- orial Paik. Fifty eight members of MIN , PRECIP MAX. DATS the family were present. Recent bir JUNE 22,.... .........76.. 49 7 .oo ths are Caroline Easter Elliott, born •4 23 «... .....74*. .54 .. , .00 on Easter Sunday April 16th, to Mr. It 52... . .co 21....... ....... 76 and Mrs. Wilbur Elliott and Ramona 55 .82 ’ Maxine Thompson, bdm to Mr. and 25....... ........ 74 «• .00 45 26 .... ... 77 Mrs. Orval A. Thompson on Juns 6th, • 4 77... .52... : .00 27.. ¿i that date being the birthday anniver • • 46 .. .00 72 28 .... sary of her grandfather, Claude J. Total for week... •••••• .82 i , Continued to page two. WEATHER REPORT FOR The sudden increase in the mice of wheot caused by the reports tha. ' several states would* not bo able toj harvest their usual bushelage this! Warn Spring Indians Win 24 ■ 11 \* bt caused a flurry of rolling among r Y • , Ihose in this county who still held Over Toppenish Rivals wheat and many thousand bushels of whc»*t were sold at a price of sixty eentft or better. Even before thA of r‘rst of ,ho week some wheat u*s Md at It price of fifty cent» and those who were holding the wheat were not the most cheerful persons while the1 sixty cent price held. Close Game Played By Preliminaries It GRASS IALIEÏ BEATS JUNIORS Saviour For Day»’ Sport Warehouses May Be The new non-high school board will have before them when thj?y mco next Friday afternoon a chart show ing the cost of each high school in the county and a list of the items that make up those costs. Costs of high school education in this county have materially lessened since last year in face of the fact that high school average daily attendance has dropped from 177 4 last year to 168.4 for the year ending tn May 1933. Grass Valley had the honor of edu cating high school pupils the cheapest in ths 1931-32 term but Moro has won the honor for the year just end ed with a per pupil cost of $96.31. Moro had a larger school this year vhan last while Grass Valley's regis tration dropped by nearly eight pupils. According to the chart which was prepared by superintendent Knighten from the reports of school clerks Wasco in the school year ending in 1932 had an average daily attendance of 48.4 in high school and educated them at a cost of $152.90- This year with 42.6 their cost was $115.21 per pupil in high school. Moro last year had 44.4 pupils in average attendance and the cost was $¡38.11 per pupil. This year with 46.5 pupils the cost was $96.31. Grass Valley educated their 43.2 pupils last year at a cost of $101.19 but this year with only 35.6 pupils their cost was $112-94. Kent in the year ending 1932 had a per pupil cost of $180.66 with 19.2 pupils. This year with 23.6 pupils their cost was $132.78. Rufus last year had 22-2 pupils in high school and the cost was $143.40 for each one. This year their cost was $164.45 on 21.1 pupils. The total high school cost may be figured by multiplying the cost per pupil by the average daily atten-. dance. According to the figures Wasco is entitled to $2182 29 of high school tuition money, Moro to $2501. 82, Grass Valley to $2005.71, Kent to $737.44 and Rufus to $606.32. The method of computing high school pupil costs is by the cost per pupil per day. This shows that Was co high school cost 6619 per day, Moro .5475, Grass Valley .6442, Kent .7583 and Rufus 9609. This com- pares with .68 in The Dalles, .72 in Dufur and .51 in Multnomah county and shows that Sherman county schools are in the main cheeper than are those of Wasco county and not a great deal higher than «those in the heaviest populated district in the state. The quality of the education received in the schools is the remain ing question. Wasco and Grass Valley each had 21 pupils from outside districts, Moro had 26 and Kent and Rufus had 6 each. Transportation costs on the Rufus high school pupils was $595 which materially raised the cost per pupil in that district CALL FOR WARRANTS All Sherman County Road war rants registered “Not paid for the want of funds,” Regeater Noe. 227 to 267 inc. or serial Nos. 194 to 234 ine. will be paid by thp County Tre- asurer. Dated this 30th day of June. 1933. Interest stops on this date. M. Young, County Treasurer. i Sold Tí' Farmers Somewhere it js written that tho first shall be last and the last first. . Thera is a possibility that the stor The ball game beween Grass Vslley age facilities now belonging to the and the R. A. C. Juniors was listed as Farmers National Warehousing Cor a preliminary to the big game be poration will -be bought by the locals tween the Warm Spring Indians and under a new financing plan now be th< R. A. C. Chiefs of Toppenish, but ing worked out. x At preseht it is pro the first game supposed to be be posed that the warehouses be sold at presept valuation which is consider tween inferior teams was a rattling ably below the price pai^, due to the good one while the major event was ' in.^valuations of nearly all prop a flop from every point of view ex cept that of the scorekeeper' who erty. Aound it plenty exciting. • The new farm bill may make Grass Valley tooi the jump on the several changes in the activities of Indian lads in the first two innings tho co-operative grain comnanies for u and scored three times before Man it may be one of tfieir duties to en ning the husky pitcher for the R. A. force the allotment of acreage for C. lads settled down to work. It was those who accept the government’s lucky they did for they were only crop reduction plan. able to make one run after that and.. that on an error. Bailey, who pitch ed for Grass Valley had lots of luck Highway Sign for t he stuff he had and held the visi- Torn Down toi» to 6. hits well scattered. His support was the best that has been given to any local pitcher this season.. Fred Pickett, secretary of the Four errors „were made by the locals Moro- Commercial Club, drove to the but none of them were at critical intersection of the Sherman Highway times. Vintin in center field made a branch of Federal Highway 97 and one handed catch that sated a cer The Dalles California Highway Wed tain score and Crow, dusky center nesday to see for himself if the re fielder for the Indians took one off his ported destruction of the • Sherman shoe strings. The score was 4 to 3 county sign was correct. Ho found, for Grass Valley with the winners that the five 4x6 supporting posts making 9 hits to the losers 6 and had all been chopped off at the top four errors to 2 for the Indians. of the ground and that the sign was' - The second game was a farce. The toppled over lying on the ground. Two first inning was good and after that holes had also been popped in the scores were as frequent as beans the face of the sign.- in a boarding house. The game The sign board was erected last ended with the stands depopulated, August with funds contributed by the players tired the managers rag- business men of Sherman county. It ged and the score 24 to 11 for the was on land that was leased until Warm Spring Indians. The R. A. C. this fall with a right of renewal, ac- Chiefs suffered from a lack of pitch ing ability. Teucumseh, who started, cording to Mr- Pickett. was fired after he allowed 8 runs in Patronize Journal Advertisers. Continued to page four. Items That Were News Nineteen, Twenty nine & Thirtynine Years Ago From the Observei* July 5 1894. with the people than to direct most The DeMoes Family returned from of its efforts the next couple of years an eastern trip on the 26th in time to to improve the public roads. appear at the convention of the Sher Hon B. F. Pike is still very affable man County Association. notwithstanding his promotion, hav . Dr. Rollins of Grass Valley was in ing been chosen department* com Moro on the 29th accompanied by his mander at the G. A. R. encampment. beat girl. Miss Rollins. From the Observer July 3, 1914. It is estimated that 600 people Attorney Grover J. Duffy has re were seated in the pavilion at the ceived a largo library of reference law last night x>f the musical convention books as a part of his law library. in Moro. Notwithstanding the rain Moro played ball with Fossil at every one present seemed to be in the Fossil two days this week. The first highest delight. game was lost to Fossil by a 5 to 2 Rev. Henton preached in the Blue core and the second game went the School House yesterday. He talks of same way by a 4 to 2 score. The making regulaV talks there in the team made the trip by auto, using ; future. five hours each way for. the trip.’ From the Observer July 1, 1904. • Probably for the first time in the Unless we getj„ some rain pretty history .of Sherman county threshing soon crops in good old Sherman coun in June with a stationary steam out ty wHl fall phort of estimates this fit was a fact this year. Saturday June 27, T. E. Sink was running his year. >. thresher on the old Booth quarter Hon, R. J. Ginn mounted «the boot near Wasco working on a fled of bar- and took the reins of a six mule out- ey that went 16 sacks on 30 acres and fit Tuesday for the harvest fields on 20 sacks to the acre on 40 acres. Sherman county farms. • L. M. Brown has opened a cleaning L. L. Peetz doesn't-say much but establishment in Moro in the brick he gets in and drills. He has 1000 adjoining hotel Moro. This is a acres to harvest with hh new Holt branch of the B. and B. shop in Was combine thia year. co. They advertise to dean and ns* The new county court could do pair any garment brought to thorn nothing to make Itself more popular and to do it in a satisfactory manner« .
