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i german (County journal Forty Seventh Year No. 36 Camp On Hill Being Rabidly Constructed ■a=amp^= 1 1 if ■ , r ■ ■ ■ Moro, Oregon, Friday, July 12, 1935 Fair Books Available Wes Wilde's Home At Co-op Offices Destroyed By Fire County Agent Mailing Liat Will Nothing Saved From Building Receive Books After Fire Discovered Within a few days fair books will bo available at the offices of the cooperative grain growers in the towns of the county and those who wish to know what premiums the fair board is offering for exhib it this year will have an opportun ity to see. Books are being sent out to nearly every farmer in the county by the fair board this week and it is expected that everyone will be informed about the fair in a short time. The race program will be published later in the sum mer. Larger Payment Means $47,000 Official County Paper 4-H Club Trip Program Wallace Says. Export Market Is Necessary Announced By Johnson Adjustment Program Held Im Trip To portant Until Adjustment Include' Three And Farms Counties Harvest Begins; Yields Run From To This County 6 To 30 Bushel Local Cost To Be Deducted Crop Short In South End ,Tha home of Wes Wilde was The program for the 4-H Club The fundamental problem facing completely destroyed by fire early wheat growers is whether they can trip of live stock members in Ba Monday morning. The loss includ find an export market at a fair ker, Union and Wallowa counties ed nearly all the furniture and pos price for wheat grown in excess of will '-start Monday morning at sessions of Mn Wilde and his sons Fear Cent* Added To Benefit Pay domestic requirements, Secretary Baker when the group will begin Very Good Crop Being Cnt Over Six hrgtr Buildings Now On Wiy as nothing was saved but some of Agriculture Wallace told wheat a tour of successful live stock North and West Part Of And Smaller Buildings Are ments For Next Contract bedding. Mr. Wilde was sleeping farmers of principal grain states farms in that county. That night in the house and was awakened by called to Washington to consider the boys will stay at the experi Sherman County Being Started - Period the explosion of some gun shells details of the new wlheat control ment station near Union. Tuesday they will visit farms in Union coun in the kitchen. The fire vis break contracts. ing Into his bed room at the time “The leadership exerted in the ty and drive to Wallowa Lake to and he had to make his exit thru wheat regions by farmers them spend the night there. Wednesday the window. His son was sleeping selves has been of such a quality there will be visits to stock farms in the yard. x that truly remarkable progress has in Wallowa county to end the tour. The fire department was called been made in learning tlhe funda nginal Mower Attachment Used but the fire had gained too much Na Provision Hada For Export Of mentals of the wheat problem.” Grange Offen Cooperation Toward Crop Specialist headway to be stopped and it was said the secretary, adding that un By Owners of Short Grain Er oho a Work In Hay Canyon Wheat From Northwest Fewer Pigs Saved This found impossible to enter the house til export outlets are found he be To Save Feed Watershed SurphsMa Visits County to. save any furniture. No wind lieves farmers will hesitate to give Spring Than Last was blowing and the trees about up their adjustment programs. the house are apparently but little Harvesting has begun in Sher Oregon was represented at this D. D. Hill Inspects Land And Crops It was announced this week that With hammers and saws wield Oregon Has l%e Best Percentage damaged by the fire. Some insur growers ’ conference by William While Here man county with results that are the payment made to cooperating ed by thirty or forty carpenters the Among Western States. ance was carried. Steen, chairman of the Umatilla very spotted, for yields vary from farmers under the Agricultural Ad work at the CCC camp goes on D D. Hill, professor of farm two or three sacks to the acre to County Wheat Control association. justment Administration will be rapidly these days. The sixth and The department of agriculture crops at Oregon State college, was ten or twelve. This is as was ex 34 cents for the next contract per last of the large buildings is under estimates the number of pigs saved in the county last week to look over pected several weeks ago. iod instead of 30 The Pro" construction and the smaller build in the spring farrowing to be 96% the lands under cultivation and to In the territory west and north cessing tax levied against the ings are being begun as the grad of the number saved last spring hold a meeting with representa of Wasco tlhe wheat is making wheat will remain at 30 cents as it ing and leveling is finished-. The when 134.000 pigs started to pork tive farmers to determine what from ten to twelve sacks where has since the beginning of the do mess hall, first of the buildings hood on Oregon farms. Oregon is farm practices are being followed it is being cut although the cool mestic allotment plan. started, ¡has .received its coat of doing better by the hog according In general throughout the county. and damp weather has delayed the paper and has a finished look. to the report than other states for Counay Te Profit A similar survey was made in other start of many machines as the Paper of a different sort is being the average of pigs saved is only To Sherman county this means eastern Oregon counties. draws still have green wheat in put on the inside of the buildings. 75.5% in the west, only 73.4% in Teachers Studying Many Phases an increase in revenue of approx Interest in grasses and in other them. East of Wasco the yields„ Regardless of the number of the real com and hog belt and Of Instruction imately $47,500 for the production This Month To See Payments crops that might be used to take are much smaller and the crop- trucks hauling lumber to the camp 80.4% for the nation as a whole. the place of wheat on low produc much shorter in (height of the base period 1« given as 2,- Started For Hogs the pile never gets very large for There has been a very serious de Wily W. Knighten, county school 207,303 bushels forthis county by ing or marginal land was evidenced ..JJ ------- There was considerable activity trucks steadily haul it to the build cline in the number of hogs for in superintendent of Sherman county, the officials of the state college. An Distribution of 1935 com-hog by Mr. Hill. The procedure of put in wheat selling this week due to ings as it is sawed. 1932 200,000 pigs were saved in is chairman of a committee of su allotment is paid on 54 percent of rental and benefit payments is ex ting some lands in grass is still The offices and other buildings of Oregon or about 40% more than perintendents on “County Super this figure or 1,191.873 bushels pected to begin at Washington by a question that has not been solved another rust scare in the mid west. Wheat was sold here for 63 cents the Soil Conservation Service will this year. vision and Testing.” which will re The new payment is four cents the third week in July, it has been and some government plan may be during the week and some of the be placed to the east of the army port at the three-day annual con over that pai$ before. It is thought announced. Auditing the contracts necessary before it is accomplished. old lots were moved to market camp along the fence, according to ference of Oregon county school that the cost of administering the the final step before actual disburse Mr. Hill visited farms where the Harvesting will not begin in the officers in charge of the work. superintendents meeting* in Salem act will not be greater than it has ment of funds, started the first new harvesting machine, was being middle and southern sections of These structures will be erected July 18, 19. and 20. been which assures that practical week in July. Less than 1 per cent operated and some pictures were the county for a few days yet be-'* later from specifications furnished This committee is making a ly 33 cents per bushel will be given of second payments under the 1934 taken of the mowing machines with cause of the rains and later sea by the SCS. thorough study of oounty super the farmers in compensation for programs remain unpaid, the an bunchers and reels. son. Some is being cut for hay visory and testing programs in the their reduction of wheat acreage. nouncement stated. Engineer Here with mowing machines and other various counties and will formu- A part of the allotment money Processors of basic products un hay tools and on some ranches - Karl Eaton, superintendent of ¡ate recommendations for improv was taken out of the 30 cents pay der the AAA safeguard no legal there will be no harvest at all oth the camp, returned from Pullman ing the program for the next few ment to aid the exportation of right by-filing suit for refund of. er than this. Sunday and has been here tfhis Prices Paid By Farmers Re years. In this work Mr. Knighten wheat from the northwest and it processing taxes before the pas Spring grain will make a fair week getting ready for the start main High has solicited information from all is not stated in the new report as sage of pending amendments to crop in some parts and in others of the work which will begin when of the other county superintendents to whether or not this will be con the adjustment act, according to will be almost as much of a dis the contingent of 200 men arrive. Farm prices took a drop of four and has been in touch with several tinued. Farmers of Jhe northwest an official legal opinion circulated appointment as the fall wheat The engineer for the local project points from mid-May to mid-June authorities in the field of supervi have contended that the cent used by Chester C. Davis, administrator crop. is Olaf Anderson, a graduate of on the national price level index sion and testing in other states. Stubble On Surface Held Good for exporting grain was of almost of the act. Oregon State college in agricul just received by the Oregon State as much benefit to them as the en Practice Committees Working Gdwaad McMillan Dies Suits Held Illegal tural engineering. He is here work college extension service from tire remainder of the allotment. ing with Superintendent Eaton on Washington D. C. This official da Other committee reports to be “With respect to suits to restrain U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AG Suddenly In California plans for the work project. the collection of processing taxes RICULTURE. SOIL CONSERVA ta. showing a drpp fsbm 108 to presented at tbe^uperintendents The Harlandview Grange has vot 104 confirms the recent estimate conference this year and ones on which have become due and pay TION SERVICE. ATHENA, ORE-j Former Resident To Be Buried ed cooperation with the erosion made by the extension economist “Rural School Music Festivals” able, section 3224 of the Revised GON. July 11, 1935—Asserting that Today service and a map of the Hay Can Statutes provides that ‘no suit for the length of straw distributed by Total farm income in June 1935, “Programs for Teachers’ Institute yon watershed has been prepared however, is expected to exceed Jun Study Clubs and Conferences,” and the purpose of restraining the as straw spreaders is not as impor The funerrfl of Edward McMil by Dewey Thompson Showing the last year as the general farm price the “Selection and Placement of sessment or collection of any .tax tant as the necessity of spreading lan, former resident of Wasco, will location of the farms in that ter index in June 1934 was 85 against Teachers.” Each committee pre shall be maintained in any court,’ ” the straw, Soil Conservation Ser ritory and the number of acres in 104 this year, and AAA rental and sents its recommendation at the the opinion sets out . “The law vice experts urged farmers to help be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon, Friday, from the Wasco Metho each. It is probable that an or benefit payments are expected to conference for discussion and final Smoker Bouts End In Draws was very clearly stated by Mr. nature to recondition tlhe soil dur dist church with Rev. iR. T. Cook ganization will be formed to in be somewhat greater for June 1935 adoption. Justice Reeves. United State« Dis ing the coming harvest season. And Decisions ingham officiating. Mr. McMillan clude the entire area in which work than in June 1934. This conference is held under the trict Judge for the western division The induction of moisture into died at his home in Riverside. Cal. is to be done as a means of aiding joint auspices of the Superintend The index of piC-pes paid by The celebration of the Fourth at of tlhe district of Missouri, in the the soil through tillage methods Sunday night after a short illness the cooperation between the farm farmers stood at 127 at'mid-June ent of Public Instruction and the Wasco resulted in bringing in sev case of the l^arabee Flour Mills was said to be vital to the future Mr. McMillan was a well known ers and the Soil Conservation the same as in March, making the County Superintendents’ Associa eral dollars to the treasury of the Co., vs Nee, collector, on June 24, of agriculture, since its alterna farmer west of Wasco until his de Service. tion whose officers this year are: index of the purchasing power of fire department which sponsored 1935 where, relying on the provi tive, burning the straw, destroys parture for California in the early farm products 82 per cent of pre president, Lucy EX Rodgers of Mor the affair. A ball game and dance sions of this law he refused to en the humus in the soil and causes twenties. He came to Sherman war parity compared witlh 85 at row county; vice president Laur were the only events of note dur join the collection of the processing soil loss through erosion. county in 1888 with his parents mid-May and 70 in June a year ence C. Moffit of Lane county; and ing the first day but the Fourth, taxes on wheat” Opinions regarding whether the and was married to Mary E. Hines secretary, Anne Lewis of Clatsop ago. itself, was filled with amusement straw should be chopped into four in 1894 at Wasco. He is survived county. features. A ball game in the morn or six inches in length were regard by one son, Chester, of Portland Truck Crops Weak ing was followed by a rodeo in the Local Rebekah Lodge ed as non-essentials. and four brothers. Steve, of Was The principal weakness in farrri afternoon which was attended by The straw should be worked in co, Jackr of Post. Eugene, of Port Installs New Officers to the soil during tillage, according land and I^ee of Stevenson, Wash prices developed in truck crops, Equity Cases Heaid the largest crowd that gathered with that index down 31 points the day: to the Soil Conservation Service ington and a sister, Mrs. Emma . By Judge IL ndricks during Leonard Fields was adjudged to Florence Martin To Heed Order officials, so that part of it remains Hines of California. Mrs. W. M. Barnett Gives Story during the month. The grain group index went down 10 points, For Next Term be the best of the bronc riders on unburied. Moisture is then direct Of Life and dairy products down 7. Other One Case Settled Out Of Court exhibition and was given the prize ed into the soil around and through Land Bank Makes By Litigants group indexes were not materially as the champion rider, Curly ¡Milli Lupine 'Rebekah Lodge No. 116 the straw. Decomposition of the The following story was written changed, although some individual kin was given second place and of Moro held installation on July straw is retarded if the straw is Mtuiy Farm Sales Carl Hendricks of the circuit Curtis Tom was named third by about Mrs. W. M. Barnett by Rob items moved up and some down. completely buried by plowing, since 9th. The following officers were ert Ballou for the Goldendale Wheat prices, moving toward a bench was here Monday and Tues judges. moisture and air are equally im installed: A graphic picture of improving Sentinel. new crop basis, lost over 10 cents day to hear two cases argued by The smoker in the evening con Florence Martin, Noble Grand; portant to the decomposition of the agricultural conditions in the Pa One of my greatest handicaps in a bushel during the month, reach attorneys. No jury was called. The sisted of sixteen rounds of boxing crop residue which adds the car writing stories about pioneer days ing a level nearly 2 cents under two cases heard Monday were both by local men and opponents from Essie McKean, Right Supporter of bonaceous materia], or humus, to cific Northwest is shown by the in-' crease in sales of acquired farm is the fact that I can no longei June 1984, while butterfat prices concerning the Thornberry ranch, outside the county in most cases- the Noble Grand; Hazel Woods. the soil. property by the Federal Land ramble and greet the old timers declined nearly 4 cents to a level one having to do with the land it* The smoker was under the direc Left Supporter of the Nobel Grand; Spreaders Recommended Bank of Spokane for the six mon self and the other the crops grown tion of Bill McDonald who also ref Elsie Stephens, Vice Grand; Leona with a pencil and notebook. This about 1.5 cents over June 1934. Douma, Right Supporter of the Information on straw spreaders ths’ period ending June 30. was overcome during a recent vis “The farm price situation in the or growing thereon. Several wit ereed the bouts. Three of the bouts The number of farms disposed it. paid me at my home in Oregon country as a whole suggests a June nesses from Wasco were called by resulted in draws and in one a de Vice Grand; Lenora Schadewitz, is a part of the program of the Left Supporter of the Vice Grand; Soil Conservation Service to pre of the first six months of 1935. coih City by Mrs. Sarah Emily (Golden) farm price level for Oregon of the two attorneys, Frank Dick, of cision was rendtered. Bessie Thompson. Warden; Naomi serve the productivity of the soil pared with a similar period last Barnett, of Wasco, Sherman county about 65 per cent of the 1926-1980 The Dalles, defense attorney and Van Gilder, Conductor; Belle Con- and make agriculture permanently year, shows a decided increase in n-p-age. compared with 58 in June C. B. McConnell, of Burns, attorney Oregon. --------- —---- x- lee, Chaplain; Alice Conlee, Musi practical. The regional office of the number of units sold. Sale vol for the plaintiff, the DeTweedie- 1934 and 96 as the ‘ parity ’ level, ” There is some confusion as to Paul Lynch Receives cian; Eliza Martin. Inside Guard the SCS for the Northwest is in ume in 1935 totalled $1,438,252.75 just what constitutes a genuine says L. R. Breithaupt. college ex Hypotheek Bank, of Spokane. A Hazel Truitt, Outside Guard Pullman. Washington, at the edge an increase of $371.430.38 over pioneer» It is generally conceded tension economist. “On this basis, decision will be rendered later Government Job ian; ian; Gladdis Bucholtz, Treasurer; of the 100,000 acre demonstration 1934. however, that anyone, either as a the average purchasing power of Tuesday’s case was settled out “The number of units sold and child or an adult, who journeyed f^rm products in Oregon appears of court by attorneys and parties Successor To Be Chosen Soon Viola Hansen, Past Nobel Grand. al project in southeastern Wash Lila Bull. Secretary., and serves for ington and western Idaho. This the percentage of cash received on across the plains during the great to be scarcely 70 per cent of ‘pari to the suit. P. N. Lemon was rep By Courts a year term. regional office also directs a 30,000 sales of farms through the Land est parade in history should be ac ty’. compared with 82 for the na resented by Mark Weatherford of Mrs. Mary E. Schaeffer, M*rs. acre demonstrations! sub-project Department during the first six tion as a whole. Albany and both were here for a corded the distinction of being a Paul Lynch, representative in Edna Freeman and Mrs. Havie Bris in the Wildhorse creek watershed months of 1935 reflect improved “On the other hand Oregon farm couple of days real pioneer. Mrs. Barnett tells the state legislature from the dis agricultural conditions and the de me that she has no recollection of ers have had a more nearly norma) trict composed of Sherman, Gill bine were appointed to serve as near Athena, Oregon. the finance Committee and Naomi sirability of real estate as an in Current usage has been to dis volume of* produce to market dur <Mr. and Mrs. iRoy Smith of Lem iam, Morrow aad Wheeler coun ever being seated in a covered wagon, despite tlhe fact that she ing the past year than farmers had on Cove, Cal., are here to visit ties resigned his position Friday of Van Gilder, Florence Johnston and pose of the straw by burning it in vestment.” says Ward A. Newcomb claims the distinction of being a in many states. Owing to more with Mrs. Smith’s sister and moth last week after having received an Ora Peetz were appointed as mem the rows formed as it falls form vice-president in charge of the first arrival in the Klickitat Val favorable growing conditions over er, Mrs. W. H. Ragsdale and appointment to the internal reve bers of the Good of the Order the combine. Attachments to Land Department. “The percent Committee, Viola Hansen was ap spread the straw equally over the age of cash received as initial pay ley. Her claim is based on a visit the country, farm production and Grandma Belshee. nue department to be stationed at pointed as press agent. stubble are relatively inexpensive ments was nearly three times the paid by the stork on December 8, income is expecte^'to approach nor Salem, where he has made his Approximately thirty-five mem WEATHER 7 when the value to the soil is con amount paid in a similar period in FOR THE WEEK home since leaving Mitchell. 1860. The visit was made to a log mal more generally than last year, bers were present and after the sidered. 1934. “ If growing conditons are about cabin, which was the home of John MIM. PRKCIP MAX. A law passed by the legislature date meeting refreshments were served. “With the revised rulings mak If a crop >« to be grown tlhe fol J. Golden and his wife Sarrh Jane normal dumg the remainder of the JULY 4 last winter gives the appointing 74 42 .00 ... ing Commissioner loans available lowing year, fall disking or chis (Parrott) Golden. Mrs. Barhett season, and allowing for a normal power to the county courts of the 67 * 5 47 .00 PAST NOBLE GRAND PARTY elling of the straw is advised so for financing real estate purchases says that she was the first baby carryover of certain products at “ counties in the district and on a 73 44 6......... .00 The P N. G. Club of the Rebekah that maximum decomposition may up to three-fourtlhs of appraised girl bom in the Klickitat county. the end of the season, the total call by Secretary of State Earl 70 47. . .00 • 7.......... Lodge will meet at the home of be begun while the earth is still value, and with the new low inter She does not recall the exact lo supply of food for domestic use Snell the judges and commission 67 40 .00 . “ 8 ; cation of the log cabin, but says in 1985 is expected to be approxi ers will meet in Arlington July 15 Mrs. Theo. Johnston on Friday. warm and wet. This fall precau est rates granted for long-term 46 ... .00 79 “ 9 ......... mately one per cent greater than it was in the lower valley, the lo- for the purpose of naming a man to July 12th. A dessert luncheon is tion will greatly facilitate the pre loans, the Land Department looks .no F5 . ... 80 “ 10 callity wiiich afterwards became <the 1929-1934 average, compared fill Lynch’s position until the next being planned and the afternoon paration of the seed bed in the forward to continued activity in the soiling of bank-owned farms.” spring. will be spent in playing “500.” Total for week . ... .oo general election. (Continued on page four) ‘ (Continued on Page two) Superinter dent Eaton Here Knighten Heads Com-Hog Checks School Group Expected Soon Farm Prices Take Sudden Decline Straw Needed For Soil Food Leonard Fields Rides Brones Best Story Of Pioneer Told To Writer
