Image provided by: Sherman County Historical Museum; Moro, OR
About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1935)
^ermatt County inumai Forty Seventh Year No. 12 Contract Plan Will Be Shade In 9SS*\ Johneton Continued Seya Devia State House Gossip A column of chatter about Legislation and Legislators 1 e~ ’By Ernest L. Gray The State Legislature, now in its second week, got off to one of the most hectic start* known in Oregon history, and several times there was enough of an undercurrent of uneasiness to cause a complete blow-up, which would have resulted E. Cooter, and his entire organ ization. The reason—too much Multno mah county and a certain group in Portland who were doing the dictating, blinding Cooter with their demands and ending up with so much power in committees that they “hanged” themselves. And as a result the rift was narrowly a- verted through the timely inter vention of the ndqunistration and up-state republicans. While Cooter received a vote of confidence on the floor after sever al days of unreSt, there will be a lot more dissention, -and even among tihe IMultnomah delegation rifts are being noted- Cooter, it is plainly seen, is not the leader Earl Snell was last season. The job appears a bit too large for the congenial Lincoln County 'Repre sentative. In the meantime the demands of Governor Charles H. Martin for immediate action on his four ma jor proposals—general fund’s scope increase, planning commission, bud get control, and county unit sys tem of education—met with oppo sition and all four measures are foundering around in committees and sub-conunittes. All of the unusual conditions of the 38th assembly so far have arisen in the house only. Senator Harry Corbett as President of the upper bo<fy, has kept that branch of the Legislature in smooth run ning order. But this week is was expected that both houses will be well under way on the major measures of the session. The people of "Oregon have among their lawmakers this year six members of the Legislature who Wave been on relief rolls. Five of them are in the House and the other in the Senate. The report has been confirmed from the recorub available to any citizen desiring to learn who these Legislators are. But to offset this phase, the House has a group of young mem bers. both Democratic and Repub lican, who are taking the issues seriously and who are well capable of doing so. Most of them are lawyers and all are under thirty years of age. They have formed a group which has been labeled by some as tihie “Holy Jos.” This group includes Harry Boi- van of Klamath Fills, Walter Fuh rer of Salem, Moore Hamilton of Medford, William Knight of Rose burg, Roscoe Krier of The Dalles, Walter Norblad of Astoria. Millard Rodman of Culver and Lyle D. Thomas of West Salem. They meet regularly and are a popular oc tette. The Legislature this year is be ing covered by twenty press repre sentatives, including the press as sociations, daily papers and trade journals and weekly s. Of that group only seven are regular state house correspondents. And tihie House and the Governor’s office so far have been the most closely - watched. One feature of the inaugural ■.'ceremony at the opening of the session has been generally over looked. That was the presence of The Reverend Father Joseph Lon ergan who gave the invocation.. He was sent as a representative of the Governor of Illinois to greet the Incoming Governor since Mar tin was born in Illinois. Lonergan was chaplain under Martin during tihe World War and is a brother of Frank Lonergan of Portland. One newspaper man is having a lot of fun in the House as a mem ber and at the same time injects . some humor, much £0 the disgust (Continued on page four) Official County Paper Moro, Or Few orders for trees have been received so far for this county and those who wish to beautify their farms with trees should make their wints known before it is to late and while the supply is complete- They can be gotten by merely tell ing the county agent how many and what kind are wanted and pay wh ist acreage control will in all probability be continued after Itte New Branding Method (WM» ■ Tried Here Successfully DROPS ««SI ÏHB Not so many year* ago owners of stock used to have no compunc tion against throwing them down in the barn yard or corral and hold ing a hot iron against their hides until they were marked once and Stock In for all. While this method was effective the scar on the hide lasted >: even after the animal had been skinned and in many eases it made the hide useless. Nowadays a new Any of the trees that do well fa method has been tried and in some this county are available, although incidea with the opinion expressed oases found better. It is a brand* the Black Locust, Ponderosa Pine by George E. Farrell chief of the ing liquid that can be used to mark and Russian Olive are the recom wheat section, when he spoke to animals. It is a permanent mark mended trees for this county. but does not spoil the hide for leather. Clarence Morrison has jfr, Davis said that while there Learn To Decorate or are some disadvantages in the pres Nearly AH AoÛBab Becoming Mor« tried it on some of Ms stock and expects to try more of it fa the type of program. It will not be Landscape Under SERA ent spring. It may be obtained thru dropped until something better is the county agent’s office. .‘the ^oftnie There is a probability that »a presented. 1 SERA project for an adult class contract idea to cover several com in Moro may become a reality' modities. he said a practical pl$n The summary of the assessment within the next few days. Wily of that sort-would be w el comed« roll as equalized by Ute board of but up-to-date no improvement Knighten, who is sponsoring the - program idea, would like to know what sub over the present type involvings processing taxes and ben ject or subjects would attract suffi efit payments to growers has been cient interest to insure an atten nation of $47,060 as compared to offered. ** dance of ten or more persons to the 1933 roU. The decrease has More Persons Killed Per Wreck such a class. Suggested topics to been due to a loss in the value of ' As Well As More Wrecks be studied are interior decorating, laud of about $20.000, a reduction Office and Vault Goiog^ landscape gardening and a study in valuation of improvments on of rural social problems. In CourHouae Bsaement deeded lands, city lots, machinery, Death claimed a history making farm implements and hotel and number of lives on the streets and Woman's Club Hears Work on the basement of the office furniture- Increases have highways of Oregon last year, 802 art house is iwt about finished been made in valuation of horses and aheep in lio« With the higher peraon. having been killed in traffic Talk By Portlander cerned and the sewer diteh ha*1 prices being paid for this class of' accidents, according to the Secre- ■tock. tary of State’s official figure« re- The local Woman’s Club met January 18th at the Presbyterian The unit valuation of all lands ^B8ed *>y the Oregon State Moter -------- to $13.27 ----- and ^'Association, sponsor of the “Lets churdl After the opening song building. has risen from $13.23 a short business meeting was held. The baamaant will be smaller the value of tillable land has been Quit Killing” program. Injured during th« year in the The club voted to send its usual than the court'house as several increased 12 cents per acre to $21. contribution of $5.00 to the Scholar feet of earth wgs lift inside the 34. Non-tillable land is now val- state were 6046 persons, some of Ship Loan Fund. A new member, foundation walls on each side of ued at an even $1 AO per acre. The whom were maimed for life. Fatalities and injuries resulted Mrs. VanGilder, was taken into the the house.central heating plant state ha* obtained . possession of from a total of 21,386 traffic acci club. The meeting was then turn- be installed soon using one of 5000 acres of land lately and this ed over to the Director M rs. C. L ehimneys now in the building has been removed from the tax dents. While some of them were Poley. 'and the front entrance will be rolls to lessen the total value of trivial, comparative figures show Mra. Poley read an interesting «hanged ao that a stairway to the laiyL 1%® state has added 1899 tihat there was a larger percentage poem and then introduced the biUMSBent can be put in. It is prob. ' acres of tillable ayd 3161 of non- of serious accidents in 1934 than in speaker .Mrs. Harry Johtason of abje tbat „><>01 will be put tillable land to Its holdings in 1933. Secretary of State Earl Snell’s Portland. Mrs. Johnson is Educa- ¡w and perhaps an- report for December completed the tional Secretary of the League of oth«r will be made in the hall Nations Association. The theme of ^Meh now leads to the back en- risen from J2S^5 to »24,74 . and year’. »taU.H«. It show, ttat 2« her talk was “The Possibility of the number of horses in the coun persons were killed and 623 injur- Ending Wars for all Time ” Her • •’_______ _ ty has increased from 3458 to 3852 ed out of 2361 accidents in ttecenf- talk was indeed splendid and gave! or almost 12 per cent within the ber 1934, while 29 were killed and considerable food for thought. vIHC TrRCtOT School year. Cattle have been reduced 544 injured out of 2676 accidents in Due to the severe cold weather, in value from $16.55 to $12.95 and December 1933. Officials have ex rather small crowd attended. Next Farm Event sheep have been raised from $1.81 pressed some satisfaction in the The next meeting will be held to $2.28. The number of hogs has fact that at least December. 1934, considered a bad month for acci Friday afternoon, February 1st, at A tractor school will bo held here increased despite the reduction pro dents. Showed a reduction over the the home of Mrs. J. J. Schaeffer. February 5th by the International gram and now there are 2409 a*? same month a year ago. Harvester Company and McKean compared to 2197 on the last roll. There was one fatality and four Tractor School Attracts In fact all kinds of stock have been injuries out of 2 traffic accidents increased during the year, there in Sherman county last month, ac InUr»»ted Meehanüu r type of motor will be given and a being nearly a thousand more cat cording to tihie official report. tle and over 2000 more sheep than In all of Oregon during the year About . hundred farmer, wro. a year ago. 1933 there were only 247 fatalities in attendance at the tractor achool wil|' ,wak on The state tax commission con- held in the Urion ¡tall in Moro, ducted a survey of the towns in and 4315 injuries out of 20,248 ac Wednesday, by the Lo««« and the county with the result that cidents. An analysis of figures r rank ann waae Contractors Machinery Company. many of the valuations on town for 1933 and the year just conclud man will also speak. Other repre- buildings and residences have been ed shows that, while the increase proF.Ä SST cut below their former figure. This in fatalities was 22 per cent, the -jmpil.” in the newest frota«, of W has resulted in a reduction from increase in number of accidents the company’, product. Monne y W. L. Cook. G. Cifro .nd H. W. $301.430 to $289.010 on improve was less than six percent. Ttys appalling rise in traffic ments on city lots. pictures of the plant and of ma fatalities was made in spite of eff chines in operation were shown orts on tihe part of city, county GRAMBS TO HEAR TEUTSCH during the day. and state officials to bring about a Legislative Bills On A meeting of the grange agricul general reduction for 1934. The tural committees of the county will CLUB LEADERS MEETING File At Journal Office increase has spurred sponsors of Saturday, February 2, the 4-H be held Saturday at the Harlaad- the “Let’s Quit Killing” program Club leaders will meet at the vkw grange hall for the purpose House and Senate bills are be on to even more vigorous efforts to court house. Work in how to con- of organizing for completion of the ing sent to this office by Senator create a spirit of safety in motor duct the club meetings and how to 1935 program William Steiwer and Representative Fat ists and bring about more effective obtain the cooperation of the chil- of Oregon State college ^rwiU be land, of this district. Any who are law enforcement. dren will be given and Miss Hei- present to talk to the committees interested in legislation before the Although popular belief is that en Cowgill, assistant club leader, and to give suggestions /and help house or senate may come in and most fatal accidents occur in the will be on hand to give whatever in with any of * the projects to be peruse them to his hearts content. large cities, the figures show tihat struction is asked her. tried. Also a copy of the much discussed this is untrue. While 21 per cent of Hanzen budget has been received the states population Is in Portland from Secretary of State Earl that city recorded only 28 per cent Snell and in case anyone is curious of Oregon’s fatalities during tihe as to how the state spends its past year. Portland’s traffic deaths, how money that question can be an ever, broke an all time record with swered from < its pages. You’re a total of '88 for the calendar From the Observer Jan. 30, 1896. chased 32 head of Moro farmers welcome. year. ~ The handsome residence of A. paying an average price of $150 Scott at Grass Valley was burned per head. FESTIVAL PLANS UP PEACE ADVOCATE SPEAKS to the ground Tuesday morning The snow and rain that has fall The principals of the county en this winter has been all for the with nearly all its contents. Mrs. Harry Johnson, represent The report of the Monkland farmers, none for navigation pur schools will meet Monday night, ing the League of Nations club for January 28 .to discuss plans for the school gives the grades and dep poses. spring music festival which will Oregon, spoke to groups at Wasco ortment of many of the present From the Observer Jan. 28. 1916. and Moro last week using for her A mad coyote rushed into the probably be held in Moro. Others topic “International Relations.” citizens of the county, the Belshees the and Allens, the Frasers, the Hulses, home of Howard Spencer living interested in the success of She is one of a group of persons Elliotts and Thompsons-’ syc miles west of Waseo Tuesday affair will join in the meeting. in each state who is working to Hie ' ' Monkland * correspondent after it has bitten three dogs. Mr. ward the entrance of the United Call For Warrants says .that during the run off of Spencer followed it into the houie States into the League or at least District No. 24 warrants no. 5 wish this country to accept the snow recently Grass Valley cah- and clubbed it to death. yon had water in It deep enough Miss Lottie Vintfn and William and 10. world.court. Rer talk had to do Harold D- Eakin, clerk. with tihe costs and uselessness of to swim a horse. | Walker both of Gras* Vi G. C. Vintin is feeding a band of married in Portlafid T^ui r J*n- wars. The conference table is the brides cattle this stormy winter near Rut- uary 20th at the home of place where the difficulties are set parents. * ledge. tled after all, sho contended, and The storm hit the Shaniko From the 0beerver. Jan. 26, 1906. nations should be sufficiently civil Chas. Powell has purchased the branch a wallop last week whpn ized to use the conference table R. T. Morgan farm west of town, all train service was stopped /fam MIN. PRKCIP before the battle field. MAX. . DATS Mr. Morgan sold his farm to buy Friday morning to Sunday ....33 . .21.. . .03 larger acreage east of town, the noon. Friday morn 17. ERRATA !-•• xX!! ger train was. Taylor Bergin farm. 18 .... 28 . .11. . .06 It was the acceptance notices on H. S. McDanel and E. A.'Cush- tween Sh 00.. . .02 ........ 11 the hog checks that were received man left Monday for Oakland, Cal., could mov ........ 02 . -13.. . .00 last week instead of the checks where Mr. McDanels’ mother and work train ...46 . 01 .00 81 themselves, as was announced in sister fives. They will probably re- out 48 38 . .00 this paper. Wbsn the checks will turn by the Lone Star state. I I. N* Le 36., , .06 23 . .. 60 arrive is still unknown although to be de- Horse buyers from Yakima have stallion from . .16 I they are expected almost any day. • Total for week been here after horses. They pur-1 livered in February. JaoeaiM VÄe Wbik HMSES INCREASE BE 4M ACCIDENT DEATHS LARGE« IN 1934 THAN IN 1933 Items That Were News 39, 29 and 19 Years In The Past WEAKER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JAN. 23 When the mercury crawled down to the minus 13 mark on the ther mometer Saturday night, it definite ly put this winter entirely out of the class of the winter of 1933-34 when 20 above was the coldest point reached. Thirteen below if even for one night, makes a winter of ordinary proportions. Several inches of snow fell over the county last week but was piled up in the roads and drifted back and forth three or four times until it was pretty well worn out. Some remained on the ground, however It was the belief of many that the frost in the ground would keep tihie snow water from going into the earth but after a few hours of chi- nook the snow was gone without run off proving that the land was able to absorb it. There wasn’t much moisture in the snow though. The wind of Mon'i^v end ]> on- day night removed all the snow except the drifts and scattered rains aided tihie operation. Roads were dry again Tuesday except in the north end of the county where the chinook did not blow Monday night. MORO ® mm RUFUS BY1 POINT r n j . ■ M. , NiSniC UCCICCO In Last nlinUtC 01 Play CHIPPIE!! ÄÄSMIIES WIN Ke t Beaten By Decisive* Score 0a. Wasco Floor With a driving finish the (Moro boys surprised themselves and their followers Friday night by winning from the Rufus basketball team, the score being 23 to 22. The first quarter was slcAv end ing 3 to 3. ' Rufus did not play speed boys Williams and Eakin in that period at all keeping them for the later part of the game. At tihie half Rufus was ahead by a Growing Crop Now I small margin and were able to re Market Factor tain their lead until the last min- utes of the game when Axtell and Thompson diropped shots to put Prospects for wheat in 1935 are tihieir team ahead. now coming into prominence as a The Rufus boys couldn’t seem market factor. Acreage estimates are still lacking for many impor to get going whether because of small ------- floor -- or the tant winter wheat areas, but such the ------------ — checking --------- « of - as are available indicate an acreage tihe Moro guards. Squires, of equal to or in excess of tihat of Grass Valley refereed and called — -*• *’ them close stopping the charges of last year. The condition of * the crop as a whole is average or bet the Rufus forwards many times on ter and considerably above a year too many steps. The Moro boys showed consider ago- Winter wheat seedings in the United States were increased able improvement in speed since nearly 6 percent last fall and the their earlier games. Barnes was condition of the crop at the first high point man and was active in of December indicated a harvest the game at all times. Morris of^ about 70.000.000 bushels larger Rufus was effective with his long than in 1934. For Europe no im- shots as usual. portant changes are in prospect al- Wasco defeated Kent the same though a. slight increase over last. night by a decisive score. The -* year in total acreage is suggested. Wasco has been and is handicapped by early estimates. The French by injuries and sickness which will acreage of 13,007,000 acres is 1.9 keep it from reaching tihe top of percent larger than that of 1934, the ladder unless their luck chan and 4 percent above tihie average ges Kent is not considered a pos of the past five years. German sibility this year. Grass Valley seedings are approximately the and Rufus were thought to be the same as last year and favorable teams with the best chance to seeding conditions in Italy suggest emerge victorious but the defeat of the maintenance of the large acre the latter team is somewhat of a age of recent years. The United blow to its chances as Moro and Grass Valley have both won. (Continued on Page two) . Representative Haight Rises To Remark On Legislative Topics And so this is the legislature, the House, one of the three legs upon which the grand old state of Ore gon stands, like a tripod—the ex ecutive, judicial and legislative— and under our form of government, it is with the legislative leg that government limps. It is the pari 1 a mentary branch of government that ihas been found wanting. Not only in this country, but through out the world, the function of leg islative authority have been merg ed with imperial rule, taking the form of a Hitler, a Mussolini or a Bureau in America. Running the . current of the stream, the first three bills to ap pear in tihe House were to crown ;he governor with the jeweled dia dem of authority, whidh history teaches has been sought alike by both saint and sinner, for. a sinister or a scan titled sentiment. But let us bounce about. This - historic room, where the House meets is not on the square. It is a beautiful room, ornate, pretentious, gilded aqd with the great windows embellished with »the stained art glass of the cathedral of medieval mystery. The room looks much larger than it is, with the speaker, John Coot er, standing up behind an elevated bar, like a saloon. Down in front of him 18 another bar where a cow puncher from Eastern Oregon, might be tempted to step and buy a drink. Behind this bar are four or five bar tenders and a member can step up to tihe bar and order a resolution, memorial or a bill or you can find out anything that has happened here for twenty five years, from Fred Drager, the chief clerk who knows what’s what, who’s who and why. And to the left is the press with their noiseless typewriters grind ing Out the dope tihat you folks back home get in your daily news papers. There is Larry Smyth of the Oregon Journal; Duane Henne- **y, Oregonian; C. C. Chapman, with a bale of date on legislation, from the time of the great law giver Mooses down to four minutes past four, Saturday; and C. K. Logan, Associated Press and Sal em Capital Journal; Wilfred C. Hagedorn, Albany Democrat-Her ald; and the rest of the quill push ers, who have eyes like blue eag- , lés. noses like hounds and ears like wild gazells. They know all, see all and feel bored. Bat they aré the boys tihat give you the dope. And; then there are the sixty desks and each member or debater sits in a swivel cihair with his char ming and beautiful stenog. sitting on his right, with a face dimpled in a wreath of smiles, and with his wife on this left, scowling and bored- It looks like a school room, and were it not for the expense to the taxpayers, we would insist that every member be supplied with an old-time school room slate, slate pencil and sponge, for he has everything else on his desk even down to a silver mounted dagger to open his mail from his infuria ted constituency. Upon each dest are law books enough to open a supreme court. ’In tihie back part of the room are the bleachers, and bobbing about, are the bell hops or pages, attaches, helpers, or wfhat we migfyt call the hay hands, and there is Wyatt Williams, blacker than Egyptian night, master of the cloak room, and by the way, he is a graduate attorney. We started out to toll you t^at this room, known as the House» was not on the square, for we have just stepped it off- and it is 75 by — 90 feet. • And again we might tell you abotft the coronation of the govsr- . nor, with its pageantry, Ito magni-. ficance, dignity and splendor, with the flare of trumpets amid official ostentitation, and the members of the supreme court wearing black Mother Hubbards like grapdma used to wear, looking.down uppn 4 this vast throng of dignitaries and ofíl en. past, present and future were the life-sised portraits of 18, governors from their gilded frintkès. It was grand and great and dull« (Continued on Page twe)
