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!
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swollen stream. It was lodged in a
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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DATS
the family were present. Recent bir
JUNE 22,.... .........76.. 49 7 .oo
ths are Caroline Easter Elliott, born
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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
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45
26 .... ... 77
Mrs. Orval A. Thompson on Juns 6th,
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77... .52... : .00
27.. ¿i
that
date being the birthday anniver
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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
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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.
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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
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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«
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