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Gossip
By Eruaat L. Gray.
The Oregon State Police, an or
ganisation which hae been built up
quietly after a hard legislative
fi^it in 1931 to create it haa
more than come into the limelight
the past few weeks and has like
wise come in for considerable
praisq. Former Governor Meier
must be given credit for battling
the entire legislature for the estab
lishment of the constabulary.
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Just a few weeks ago the or
ganisation was calldd upon in the
strike situation in Washington
county and came off with a cred
itable showing. Then the quick
work in getting the Redmond bank
robbers, and at the present writing
cooperating fully with the Federal
G-Men in the search for the kid
napers of young George Weyer
haeuser. .
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While much of the credit for the
fine organisation goes to the cali
bre of the men themselves, it must
be remembered they were selected
by their (superintendent Charlee
Pray, drilled and trained by him
and working under his fine direct
tion. Much credit also goes to
George Alexander, deputy super
intendent, and to the first work
done by Harry Niles, now chief of
police of Portland. Oregon has
reason to be proud of its state
police.
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Salem units of the Oregon Na
tional Guard and the local veterans
of the World War were reviewed
on {Memorial Day by three gener
als, an unusual event. The gen
erals were Major General (Charles
H. Martin. Major General George
~A. White and Brigadier General
Thomas E. Rilea. the latter four
years ago when promoted being the
youngest brigadier general in the
United Staten It is claimed there
are five major generals and two
brigadier generals in Oregon, the
largest any state has within its
bou nd ri es. This will be checked
and their names announced later.
Consolidation of Four
Districts Proposed
Indebtedness Will Be Kept By
Seine Districts
Voters in school districts 23,
Grass Valley; 24, Rutledge; 82.
Rosebush; and 38 Buckley, will de
cide June 17 whether or not they
will consolidate or not.
In case the vote is favorable to
consolidation each of the districts
will have to pay its present in
debtedness on its own property and
indebtedness will not be transfer
red to taxpayers in other districts.
Any two adjoining districts that
vote for consolidation will be joined
together. In case all districts
agree to the move the total valua
tion will be 81.891,768 making this
largest district in the county.
Present rural districts that join
with a district in which there is a
high school will cease to pay the
non-Hgh school district tax which
is now 2.7 mills. Present state
and county school funds would be
divided as in 1935 for five yean
after consolidation.
Insurance Rates Cut
By Improvements
Refunds
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Official County Paper
Moro, Oregon, Friday, June 7, 1935
Forty Seventh Year No. 31
State House
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May Be Had On
surance Premium
In
The effects of the survey made
this spring by a representative of
the insurance rating bureau are
being announced as lower rates and
new classifications come into force.
The lower rates are caused by bet
ter water service and a fire depart
ment'and equipment.
For years Moro has been a class
ten town, meaning that there were
no general rates for insurance. The
new ruling makes it a number
eight town. ' Insurance rates for
the ordinary dwelling house will
be twenty to twenty five cents
lower than formerly and probably
will average .60 per hundred. Busi
ness properties have been reduced
as well.
Those having insurance may get
a part of their premiums back up
on application to their insurance
company.
CHECK YOUR MONEY T
Grange Planning
Public Picnic At
De Moss Park
Wheat Contracts
Expected In July
A. A. Daalap New Taking Com
pliance Records
Farmers can materially aid the
work of the allotment committee
by having their 1934 production
figures ready when A. A. Dunlap,
Court Session
Ends; Plaintiff
Gets Damages
supervisor of compliance work, Judge King Given $1000 In Suit
Special Invitation GneaTePioaeer calk
upon them. He is now work
ing in the Locust Grove territory
Against Clarence Morrison
Residents of Sherman and
says Perry Johnston, county agent,
», Over Accident
Nearby Comities
i Time saved for Mr. Dunlap is mon
Will Address Crowd
Basket Dieter Will Be Spread Under
Trees Ie Greve; Program
Being Prepared
The Pomona grange of Sherman
county is sponsoring a picnic which
will be held at DeMoss park June
22, Saturday the longest day of
the year. The grangers of Wasco,
Gilliam and Wheeler counties will
be invited guests and all are in
vited to attend.
The grange will provide coffee
for all; each family is expected to
bring a basket lunch with which to
fill in the vacant spaces about noon.
Henry DeMoss, pioneer of Sher
man county, and one of the foun
ders of DeMoss park, will come up
from Lake County to attend. He
longs to see at least one more big
picnic in the park tHat bears his
name. Many other members of the
family are also expected.
Committees Working
Committees were appointed at
the meeting of the Pomona grange
at Hariandview last Saturday.
They include Wilford Belshe, who
is arranging for speakers and the
band, Corliss Andrews who is
handling the publicity, Ross Guil
ford. plays, and Mrs. Mae John
son, program.
Mr. Belshe has secured Ray W>
Gill, master of the Oregon state
grange to be the principal speaker
of the day. and the Moro school
band will provide the music for the
occasion.
A program that will interest all
who attend has been promised and
the social pleasures attendant on
large gatherings of folks engaged
in a common industry will make
the day enjoyable.
Since the receipt of a list of the
Federal Reserve notes paid in the
recent kidnapping case there has
been a good deal of interest in
cheeking bills by local citizens.
None have been found to date that
were in the $200.000 reported paid
as ransom for the boy. The list is Worthy Matron Phillips
at the Journal office where any one
may check bills they may have rea Visits Sherman County
son to believe might be of the want
ed currency. All are notes on the State Officers Of O. E. S. Visit
In County
Federal Reserve Bank in San Fran
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We have frequently heard of po cisco.
Eastern Star lodge« of Moro.
litical crucifixions where officials
Wasco. Grass Valley and Antelope
have “hanged"’ themselves by their
were hosts last Saturday night to
own ill -advised actions. but not
the state grand officers of that or
until last Saturday did we ¡hear of
der in Wasca Present from out
a human requesting he be nailed
of the district were: Mrs: Edith I.
to the cross to win anything. Nails
Phillips, grand matron; Mise Nellie
must hurt terrifically in hands and
McKinley, grand secretary; Mrs.
heels. Surely a religious fanatic,
Isabelle Lowe, grand treasurer;
but what nerve!
He gave his
Wheat Farmers Revised Vote Mrs. Reba Byers, grand Ruth: Milo
name as R. J. 'Riggs, 35. of High
Mack, grand sentinel; Mrs. Emma
Shows Large Percentage In
' Point, North Carolina.
Schultz, and Mrs. Helen Priday.
Favor
of
AAA
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State officers of Sherman county
The situation may be apropos
Wheat
growers
of
the
nation
who
assisted in making the prepa
to that of John Beckman, Portland
voted
85
per
cent
or
approximately
rations
for the event were IM)n»
Democratic Attorney. He had been
promised a long time back the at 6 to 1 in favor of the continuance H. U Proudfoot and Mrs. W. C.
torneyship of the state liquor con of the AAA wheat control pro Harper of Wasco and Mrs. W. W.
gram. according to official tabula KnigWten of Moro. Many guests
trol commission, but in the mean
time he had solicited funds from tions released from Washington. came to attend the meeting from
restaurant and otlhers for his serv This is almost exaction the majority nearby lodges. A program of many
ices as lobbyists for the cocktail by which the plan carried in Ore numbers was given with M. L.
Burnett of Biggs acting as toast
bill during the recent legislature gon in the recent referendum.
With this overwhelming mandate mastery Refreshments were serv
The liquor commission the past
week named an attorney, but it from the growers the administra ed after the meeting.
was not Beckman. How could they tion will offer new contracts in the
near future, probably by July 1, College Men Wanted
name him after his actions.
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George E. Farrell, Chief of the
By U.S. Government
Wlhfile an appointment of an at wheat section announced. There
contracts
are
understood
to
run
for
torney for the commission, reliev
ing the attorney general’s office ot four yean with provisions for with Soil Conservation Service Can
Use Specialists
those duties has not been question drawal earlier if desired.
The
official
tabulation
of
Ore
ed. the reasons given for the ac
A number of college graduates
tion has resulted in one of the gon’s vote made by the state col
major controversies the past week. lege extension service shows that with training in agronomy, soils,
The attorney general was held to 5271 contract signers voted to con forestry, range management, and
be derelict in his operations for the tinue the plan while 840 voted agricultural engineering will prob
liquor control commission, which against it. Among wheat growers ably be employed during the next
chargee the attorney, general re not holding contracts 76 voted yeS few weeks by the Soil Conservation
Service, according to recent in
futed in no uncertain terms last and 14 no.
Overwhelming approval of the structions from W. O Lowdermilk,
Saturday. The criticism by the
liquor commissions seems to have wheat plan was voted in the nine Associate Chief.
The applicants selected will work
been one indiscretion which may be Columbia basin wheat counties.
on
an hourly basis until they have
There the count stood 3395 yes to
hard to overlook.
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only 210 no. making a 94 per cent received sufficient training in the
The other major controversy of favorable vote Wheeler county Soil Conservation Service to adapt
the week has been the University had a unanimously favorable vote, their technical college training to
professors’ report on W. J. Kerr. and Gilliam and Morrow had only specialized erosion control and soil
The more one reads about it and six and eight negative ballots com conservation work. Time spent on
.knows about the picture the more pared with 287 and 385 favorable the special course of training which
the report appeared uncalled for. respectively. The Umatilla vote candidates will receive will not be
included in hours of pay.
It is the result of petty jealousies was 956 to 39.
The candidates for employment
on the part of certain members of
The 10 Willamette valley coun
will
be selected largely from col
the staff at the University of Ore ties, despite the fact that wheat
gon. The uncalled for report gives growing is more or less of a side leges in the Pacific Northwest for
’ Oregon’s education another black issue, voted 74 per cent favorable. work in this region, and will be
rated according to their training
mark just at a time when it ap- Irrigated counties cast an 80 per
and
ability.
cent favorable vote. '
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This nept week the Oregon Na
tional Guard will join with troops
from the other northwest states in
the greatest peacetime maneuvers
the West has ever seen and the
greatest concentration of men un
der arms in the northwest since
the World War, at Fort Lewis. A-
bout 7.000 men and 600 officers
will be in intensive training for 15
days beginning June 11.
1934 Compliance
Being Examined
ey saved for the allotment group
of the county and speeds the date
when compliance'can be completed
in this county.
Word has been received by the
local office that the new contracts
will be ready some time in July. Four Jurors Serve.Ou Every Catt
George E. Ferrell head of the wheat
Aad Miss None of Eleven
section, sent out the word. As far
Day Se«sioa
as the local office knows, according
to Mr. Johnston, there is no basis
for the radio accounts reporting
The longest session of circuit
that there will bo no new contracts
court held in this county ended
because of the unconstitutionality
Saturday night about nine o’clock
of the NRA.
when a jury empaneled for the
King vs Morrison case brought in
a
verdict awarding damages of
Children Leaving Soon 81000
to the judge of Jefferson
For Suofemer School county who sued Clarence Morri
son for over 810,000 and property
damage
as a result of an accident
Summer School' Attracts Club
on
the
Sherman
highway last Dec
Children Of County
ember.
This last case required two days
4-H Club children who will at
tend the summer school at Oorval- of court time including the selec
Hs from this county are: From tion of a jury which was composed
Moro. Reatha Sayrs, Frank Sayn, of Vernon Van Gilder, L. L. Peetz.
Dorothy Fraser, Gordon Fraser O. K. Eaton, S. P. Boice, C. W
Mary Pinkerton, Cari Peetz, Dale Johnson, foreman, Chas. Engel,
Johnston. Betty, Powell, Ronald George Hennagin, H. B. Belshee,
Powell, Doris Thompson and Imo W. H. Andrews, R. A McPherson.
gene Johnson. From Kent:Frank R. Abell and Dan McDermid. At
von Borsteh Maxine Pluemke and torney for Mr. -Morrison was
Anita Dunlap. From Grass Valley: Frank Senn, of Portland and Mr.
Ramona Spoor, Wanda Tiller, Ra King was represented by Bernard
chael Poley, Isabelle Fortner, Bob Ramsey of Madras.
Traffic Case Tried
by King. Billy Ball, Bobby Eaton
Billy Eaton and Kelly Tiller. From
It was alleged by the plaintiff
Rufus: Catherine Tom and possi that while traveling south on the
bly Lila Morris and Ina Jones. highway on a night when the road
They will leave Sunday night at was slippery his car was struck
6.40 from The Dalles and will re by one driven by the defendant and
turn after twelve days of intensive that he, the plaintiff, was on the
instruction and some fun.,
proper side of the road. Mr.
Mbrrison testified that his car skid
ded and that he drove to the wrong
side of the road in an attempt to
get entirely off the traveled portion
of the road and clear the way for
Mr. King’s car.
At the time of the accident Mr.
King was accompanied by the dep
uty sheriff of Jefferson county.
James Maddox Buys Interest In
Howard Turner, Madras banker,
Grocery Store
and by the station agent at Mad
ras all of whom testified regarding
The Atwood store at Wasco is the accident. Local witnesses were
building a refrigeration plant in Mr. and Mrs. Morrison, and tlhieir
the rear of the store building for daughter Doris, who was with her
the storage of products by farmers father the night of the accident.
who rent space. This is the first Collis Moore, Melvin Schadewitz
commercial refrigeration plant in and Sheriff Chrisman.
the county although some Sherman
Counter Suit Filed
county men have used such space
Two
full
weeks were required to
before.
try the one criminal case, State of
The first unit is composed of
Oregon vs Urban Jensen, which
sixty individual boxes of an aver
resulted in aquittal. and the two
age size of 10 cubic feet. Users
civil cases, Eldridge Illingsworth
may store meat or other products
vs Union Pacific Stages and King
in need of refrigeration with cer
vs Morrison. No damages were as
tainty that it wii!
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sessed in the first case and in the
The plant will be ready for use
second the plaintiff received but a
next week.
small portion of the amount
James Maddox, who Inks been an asked. A counter suit Ihas been
employee of the Atwood ktore for instituted by Clarence Morrison
the post six years has purchased against King.
an interest in the store and will
One pecularity of the recent jury
continue as manage
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The name
panel was that four men were on
will remain the same in memory of
every case, whidh meant that they
R. C. Atwood, pioneer business
warmed a chair for eleven days
man who established the store.
listening to evidence and the im
passioned .pleas of fervid or fever
McKEE EXAMINING
ed attorneys while the farm work
Marion McKee and wife left went undone and the wives grew
Sunday for Portland where Marion lonesome. The hard worked four
will assist other members of the were O. K Eaton, S. P. Boice. L. L.
druggist’s board in giving the ex Peetz and C. W. Johnson. Others
aminations to students in phar on the panel did not hear their
macy. A. W. Schlador, of Port name« called at all. They missed
land, is in charge of the drug the grand jury and all three of tlhie
store.
court juries.
Long Session Unusual Here
Cold Room Made
In Wasco Store
MORE CHECKS COME
A few more wheat checks were Instuction In Various
received by the allotment commit
Household Arts Given
tee this week, some 81800 being on
hand now for those farmers whose
Many Prizes Awarded At Cooking
money has been delayed..
School
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ROSE ON VACATION
The cooking school sponsored by
A. Rose and wife left Saturday
the
Pacific Power and Light Com
night for Sacramento, California,
pany
held here Friday and Satur
to visit with their daughter, Mrs.
day was attended by fair crowds
J. C. Harper and family. A. M.
despite the unpleasant wind and
Nelson is in charge of the Union
the counter attraction of an inter
Pacific depot in their absence.
esting court session. Instruction
WEATHER FOR THE WEEK" was given in cooking and other
DATI
MAX.
MIN. PRCCfP (household tasks and information
regarding home lighting was an
MAY.30 ........... 65 ...49 ... .00
added
feature of the show. Winners
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of
the
prizes given during the show
JUNE 1............... 67.,..46......... 00
were Mrs. Wiley McDonald. Mrs.
2................ 70... 36 .......... 00
R. W. Pinkerton, Imogene Johnson.
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Mrs. Jack Eva, Mrs. Orval Thomp
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son. Laura Ruggles. Mrs. Oscar
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Frendh and Mra Charles Huis.
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Historical Contest Won
By Rufus Boy
Four
Prizes
Given For
Children
Grade
Earl Williams of Rufus, who
wrote the history of Cooler’s Mill,
won the high school division of the
Sherman county historical con
test this year according to a deci
sion reached this week. He was a
senior in the Rufus High School
and resides near the old mill that
made his subject. Anna Altruda
Beletski, of Wasco, was named as
second place winner with an in
terview with Frank Fulton, and Ida
Coats of Rufus was third with a
story of the flood at Granta in
1894. Winners will receive prizes
of $5.00 for first. $3 for second
and $2 for third place.
In the grade school division Don
ald von Borstel was 1st with a story
of Shearer’s grade and toll road
and bridge. Virginia Murray of
Fairview school was second, writ
ing about the Hay Canyon flood of
1916, Wyman Frendh was third
with a story about the DeMoss
family and the projected townsite
and Grace May Zevely was fourth
with a story of the early Grass
Valley school. Winners of this di
vision received prizes as follows:
first $3.50, second, $2.50. third
$2.00 and fourth $1.00
Court Listens To
Furnace Talks;
Asks . For Bids
Fairview School Petition Refused
By Boundary Board; Too
Few Pupils Attend
DeMoss Is Being Improved
Fair Bond Expects To Ask For Loan
From Government Agencies
For Improvements
The forenoon of the county
court jk day of supervising the af
fairs of the county was taken up
with discussions of different makes
of furnaces by four different sales
men representing companies in the
(heating plant business. No de
cision was made due to the unavoid
able absence of Perry Axtell, com
missioner, but bids will be sent in
during the month of June and ac
tion will be taken at the July
meeting. Either slack coal or oil
will be used to heat the building
News Writing Contest when tihe new furnace is installed.
The court decided to move the
Decided By L. Spraker rocks
piled back of the court house
when the basement was dug. on
Moro Girl Wins Scholarship In petition of city officials of Moro,
News Writing
which will make a requested im
provement in the appearance and
Imogene Johnson was adjudged usability of the land in question.
to be the victor in the news story
Park To Be Improved
contest undertaken by the 4-H club
The
court visited tihie DeMoss
boys and girls of this county., Don
park
where
some betterments are
ald von Borstel was second and
Anita Dunlap third. The basis of projected before the grange picnic
judging was on the quantity writ scheduled for that place the 22nd
ten, the quality of it and the neat of this month. It is the desire of
ness of the note book which was the court that the park be used
handed in to the judge. Lawrence by people whenever such a place
E. Spraker, publisher of the Con can be used and constant improve
don Globe-Times was the judge of ment will be undertaken if there
is a demand for its use.
the contest.
A long list of bills caused by the
recent meeting of the Circuit court
was presented. It included - "pay
for jurors and for witnesses in the
criminal case. The civil case wit
nesses are paid by the parties con
testing.
$21,000 On Hand
Thompson Clan
Holds Picnic
The sheriff’s report showed that
Annual Family Picnic Held Sun $21,051.92 in taxes is on hand rea
dy to be turned over shortly after
day Brings Clan Together
the next payment date which is
The 14th Annual Thompson June 15«. This sum represents the
Round-Up was held at DeMoss amount collected since the last
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Park on June 2nd with fifty of the turnover.
The fair board was present and
clan present and three guests. A
bountiful picnic dinner was spread debated tihe possibility of getting
at one o’clock which all enjoyed. a SERA or other relief project for
An interesting program consisting improvement of the fair grounds
of reading of the last years min and buildings but nothing definite
utes, reading by Mac Hall, read was done.
The petition of the Fairview
ing Lois Melzer, recitation Priscila
Melzer ‘'That Fool Boy,’’ a poem school was disallowed. This dis
composed by I. Owen Thompson trict had asked that it be permit-,
and of himself was read by C. A. ted to continue receiving its state
Nish, Facts of Boyhood Pranks, and county school fund for anotihier
was told by A. C. Thompson, jokes year. The law states that in case
and storys of early days were a district has less than six pupils
brought to light by N. W. Thomp in average daily attendance it
son, J. O. Thompson told a “Be shall not receive such school funds
lieve It or Not” story of early day and the letter of the law was ad
deer hunting with the hounds. Mrs. hered to in this case. The county
A. Nish told of the many homes boundary board is given the dis
she has lived back as1 far as she cretion in the matter.
could remember and spoke of some
CATTLEMEN SATISFIED
special interesting things about
each of them. Myra Bullard told
Any general stimulation of catr-
of how her father and mother with tle production will bring disastrous
Owen and slhe came here in a cov price reaction by 1937 predicted
ered wagon and of making their Harry Petrie, chief of the AAA
home in this same wagon for six cattle and sheep section in an ad
months. Claude Thompson spoke dress to the annual Oregon Cattle
of the lives of Grandfather and and Horse Raisers association in
Grandmother Thompson and of in Enterprise. Thj^ cattle business
teresting early dates in the family is in a healthy condition now and
history of wOvich he had composed can continue so if growers will
some verses. Songs were sung by avoid over expansion, he said. Meat
everybody. A few piece« of instru prices are not high compared with
mental music by the younger the 1929 level, but the industry
generation.
must take cognizance of consumer
Births, Deaths .Recorded
reactions to price advances, he
Since our meeting in 1934 there added.
has been two marriages. Corienne
Thompson Bishop, Eugene. Ore
DRY AND WARMER
gon, daughter of Jesse Thompson
Further deteroriation in the
Willis Henry Elliott of Sheridan,
wheat crop has been evident this
son of Milo H. Eliott Two births: week as the weather man dished
Eugene Stephan born on June 29. out cold and drying winds or sun
1934 to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ell ny days that brought the tempera
iott of Sheridan, and Curtis Leslie ture up to 96 on Wednesday.
was born on September 21. 1934 to Thursday was cooler with an east
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thompson wind. The hoped for clouds are
in Pasadena, California. One death still beyond the horizon or around
Lulu Meloy Johnson of Pocatello. the corner with prosperity.
Idaho, daughter of IMr. and Mrs.
Geo. A. Meloy. Those coming from
P. C. AXTELL IN EUGENE
out of the county were Jesse
P. C. Axtell was called to Eugene
Thompson of Portland. Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Dill and family of Clem, by the death of his mother. Mr»
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Nish of Mikkalo. O. W. Axtell, Monday morning.
J. O. Thompson of Tygh Valley, The deceased was for many yean
and Mr. and Mra. A. NiHW of The a resident of Sherman county but
Dalles. The guests were Mrs. Peak has lived in Eugene for several
Ray Hafferty and Russel Belshee. years.