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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1935)
■M ................ ■ • ' ' ' ................................................. ; .....................................................................................................................................................................................' I T* ~ .... --- . ' , it'' german Cmmtu u Í Forty Seventh Year No. 45 News About State Affairs By A. L. Lindbeck It may now be predicted, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, that the state legislature will be called into special session some time be fore he middle of October. Just how much before will depend upon developments connected with the capliol construction program. Federal authorities at the na tional capital are pounding state officials on the back and demand ing action under threat that the PWA grant for the new building will be disapproved unless the state gets busy without unnecessary delay. An amendment application, cor rected to meet flaws discovered in the original document, is even now on its way to the PWA at Wash ington. As soon as word is re ceived that the grant is available Governor Martin will issue his call for the gathering of the lawmakers. Already preliminary arrangements for the session are well under way. Plans have been completed for the use of the Marion hotel and the Salem armory as legisla tive halls, with the senate meeting in the hotel dining room and the House iq the armory. Purchase orders have gone in for desks and chairs and the necessary supplies. Grass Valley Pharmacy Sold To Bruce Alley George Wilcox sold Ws Grass Valley Pharmacy last Friday to Bruce Alley, son of Mr. and Mn. E M. Alley of Grass Valley who will take charge of the business as sobn as he returns from Van couver, Wash., where he is in CCC worta-‘ At present Mr. Alley and wife are serving patrons of the store. The new manger is a home town product who was born in Grass Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Alley have been Sherman county farmers for twenty years and have only recent ly ceased that business. Mr. Wilcox has been owner of the drug store in Grass Valley since 1919 when he returned from Portland after graduating in phar macy. He and his family expect to retain Grass Valley astheir home until after school is out next May although iMr. Wilcox will probably be gone a part of that time. Library Festival Program Made The" Annual Library Festival at Wasco September 21, will start with an Old Fashioned Parade at 2:00 p. |n. followed by the crown ing . of the sQueen at the intersec tion of TueJ’s corner. Ball game The Dalles ind team vs. Wasco a. 2:30. । The utual concessions, games of chance will be on the main street. The dinner by the various organ izations will be served cafateria at 6:00 p.' m. Masonic and K. of P. lodges will sponsor a dance at night. Flexible Payment Plan Approved y . * • Moro, Oregon, Friday, September .13, 1935 In the meantime negotiations are proceeding on a larger site for the new capitol. While Governor has declared, and most emphatically that the Willamette campus is “out” of the picture, a group of Salem business men. interested in keeping thé capitol near the cen ter of the city, are continuing their efforts to secure the campus for state house purposes. The gover nor has declared his preference for a hill site and has at least two lofty locations in South Salem in mind as ideal sites, either or both of which he may commend to the legislature for their consideration unless legal obstacles arise which Jackman Says Growers May might prevent. In all of the developments in con Without Signing nection with the proposed new Actual contract signing for the building the governor has taken new four wheat production con pains to make it clear that the fi trol program will probably not take nal decision rests with the legis lature. While he expects to have place until about the middle of a number of recommendations to October, according to E. R. Jack make, it will be up to the lawmak- . man, O. S. C. extension agronomist ers to accept or reject these as who . is . heading , - the educational T they see fit. This applies not only campaign in Oregon. IMr Jackman to the proposed larger site for the «"d other extension officials at^nd- „ew capitol „»„Uni but h.,t to the cost cost ot of the the , 6«! » regional conference at Boise new to the structure, style of architecture and । where they learned details of the new contracts and laid plans for other details. getting the information to the In at least 20 Oregon cities. i growers in advance of the sjgnup. In general these committees have been appointed to - , . Oregon . repre- raise funds to purchase a first aid «ntatives were favorably .mpress- car ami equipment according to by the terms of the new plan reports received by Governor Mar- they report, pie growers will be _ . oriik rail J K tin. Interest in this project was «fe IM in row ahaaJ »head withjtall phnt- stimulated by the tour of the; ">* on the but. ot’the ¿form»tmn state by the Portland first aid car, available, they bebeve. The which visited 32 cities and commun- Percentage of reduction to be left ¡ties in a tour covering 7000 jn contracted Or what are now .. known ts adjusted acres has , i been definitely fixed at 5 percent Considerable difficulty is being Plan Like OH experienced in securing competent The new plan follows the old in instructors in vocational agricul all fundamentals, although many ture to meet the demand from minor changes designed to simplify Oregon high schools, according to operation and make it a more prac O. D. Adams, state director for tical as a semi-permanent program vocational education. Higher sal-^ are included. One of these Changes aries paid by other states is at-, permits the taking out of a larger tfacting many of Oregon’s best number of poorer acres, rather teachers, Adams points out. eight ^an a fixed percentage of average vocational agriculture teadhers re-' acres. signing this year to accept better A flexible payment plan is in jobs. cluded by which the second pay * * ♦ ment will be held up until the aver Tourist travel in Oregon contin-^ age farm price for most of the year intial gains -3 determined.. The amount of the ues to record substantial over the 1934 season. , August _ reg-1 gecond payment will then be set at istrations of foreign cars were al- the point which will insure parity most 2700 above those of August prices on the amount of each grow a year ago. For the first eight er’s domestic allotment. Less need months this year a total of 75.513 for haste in getting the contracts out-of-state cars visited Oregon signed is seen this year than was compared to 68,749 for the same । the case previously when first pay period a year ago. ment checks hridto await the ac- ceptance of the coptracts. The first Schools all over the state will payment under the new plan cam go into the new year in much bet-1 not be made anyway until compli ter condition financially than for ance for 1936 is. shown. several years, according to reports j In summarizing the results of reaching C. A. Howard, state BU-^ years of wheat ad- perintendent of public instruction justment control the federal lead- Many districts have taken advan- era BojRQ conference listed tage pf the new law to reduce their, ^ree main benefits. First it warrant debt by the issue of one- farmers together. Next it year general obligation notes bear t farm income, and finally ing a very low rate of interest. waR »tart of an important Other districts have been able to land conservation program. Not retire large blocks of outstanding all credit for the better price can bonds as well as reduce their out be given to the wheat plan, th« standing warrants. men admitted, althoogh it has been an important factor in increasing Reports that truck Operators are the cash income of the American (Continued on Page two) | wheat grower. ___ — xf_______ 1 w uvi CCCamp Now Getting Final Touches Buildings Sealed; Agronomist Arrives To Aid In Planning Work To Be Done When Quota of Men Arrive Ben BosWell Dies New Contract From Exposure Will Be Ready Near Kent Ben Boswell, thought to be about Next Month 55 years old» died Hst week at the old Archie Chisholm homestead cabin east of Keat from exposure probably caused by a disabling stroke of paralysis or sunstroke. Mr. Boswell had been in the Kent neighborhood for1 a little over a year coming fro^k Portland where some of his relative« reside. He homesteaded land ahst of the Mac- Innes ranch after working for some time for Mr. Machines • He attended fair in Moro Friday and Saturday was in Kent and was taken nearly home by Mr. Maclnnes at whose place he ob tained some food. , He was to re turn the first of tha week but when he did not Maclnsee searched for him and found his-body Wednesday morning. He had apparently pan dered aimlessly for several hours as his food was scattered. His hands were torn and bruised as if from scrambling in rocks Coroner Wilcox was notified and the body was taken to Grass Val ley Wednesday. Burial was made in the Kent cemetery Thursday af- ternoon. Official County Paper MAYOR REGISTERS School Children Decrease Since Last Year Several Changes Made To High Schools Increase Over Simplify Contract and 1934 While Grade Schools Show Administration of Act; Work Large Reduction; Moro Has Begins October 17 Unbalanced Condition Enrollment of pupils in the The carpenter crew that has Details of the new wheat con schools of the county was an ac been building the CCC camp here tract will soon be told to the farm tivity of the first two days of this are beginning to feel like natives ers of Oregon through the exten week with the beginning of all of since they have had to return so sion service if present plans of the the schools, on the same day for often to do more work on the job. men in charge of the control pro flornn.-il I I ’ ii kmniin tnayoi of the first time in recent years» gram are carried out. For the last week they have been st Louis iH'fpy on ex sergviint of The number of pupils attending A meeting will be held in Arling sealing the buildings with the in ton October 17 for the purpose of in:iriiii*M und n ioynl l.egionnnlre the county’s schools has suffered sulating material which was order the tirsi Io reglstoi for the another drop this fall as compared acquainting the county agents and wits ed soon after the first visit of the \ merlon n I .(¿on N'nllomii eoiiven to last year. In the fall of 1934 allotment committee members with inspecting general. The work was 532 children entered school here of the new contract and the job of finished Wednesday evening and which 342 were in the grades and getting it signed, Perry Johnston the camp quarters are now sealed 190 in the high school. This year and the allotment committee, Cor- in either insulating board or ply- 199 have registered in the high and L. Belahe liss Andrews. O. board making them much warmer schools and 304 in the grade schools G. H. Root, will attend. and more comfortable. for a drop of 38 in the grades and “Adjusted” Acres Now Camp Nearly Done an increase of 9 in the high schools One minor change in the new con and a total reduction in numbers of The camp is at last truly ap tract that will cause no little trou twenty nine. proaching completion. The water ble is the change that makes the Variation Great heating plants are in, stoves are former contracted acres known as put in place, the kitchen is finished The variation in the enrollmenf adjusted acres. The land left idle and except for the grounds and the Directors Discuss at the several schools is more mark for the 1936 crop will be adjusted dirt that has blown into the houses ed this year than before. Moro acres. The new contract gives the the camp is ready for the men who , Tuition Problem has the largest number of pupils secretary of agriculture power ta Wheat has continued to come in will occupy it this winter The meeting scheduled for direct reduce the wheat acreage by 25 per to the warehouses in the Wasco with 116, divided 57 in the grades Men Leaving ors of the five high school districts cent, although the reduction asked territory and it now seems likely and 59 in the high scool. Wasco that the estimate of 850,000 bush is second with 41 in the high school the countjr was held Tuesday for 1936 is but 5 percent. The remaining men who have of els will be realized before hauling and 71 in the grades. Grass Vah afternoon at the superintendents Erosion Recognized been in the camp since , it was office in Moro. Evtry one of the For 1936 winter wheat may be is completed. Last Friday, night ley, which was the largest school started will move Saturday, They districts were represented except sown in the spring to be used for 831,000 bushels were housed and in 1934 is third with 110, 40 being will return ta their original com Kent. A discussion of the charges pasture or for erosion control. It it was definitely known that 12,819 in the high school and 70 in the panies until further orders. ^Lieu made to rural districts for tuition may not be harvested for hay or bushels are in the warehouses at grade school. tenant Price is already gone, hav was held and the costs of the grade any other purpose. Totals Given Thornberry and Sandon. ing been transferred to the McKen instruction were compiled. Several large crops have been The compilation of the enroll- There is no change in the allot-1 zie territory where he is aiding in hauled ta points outside the county ment follows ed bushels given each farm. fighting the forest fires in that dis-; It was found that costs ranged making an estimate of 870.000 School Grades H. S. Total Farmers may change their crops from $65 at Wasco to $108 at trict. 70 ‘ 48 22 to some extent but may not plam bushels for the Wasco district a Kent Rufus. It was considered too late The eastern contingent that was reasonable one. . 70 40 110 Grass Valley more than twice their four year here has been gone for several in the year to make any change average of wheat acres. 116 59 57 Moro weeks when it was recalled ta in the tuition charge this year but 41 112 Wasco 71 it was agreed tha^gpother meeting Farmers Protected • * * Idaho. J 85 48 Rufus 37 Lieutenant Richardson has not been would be held nexb apring to fur The new contract permits a farm 10 10 Harmony er to designate some one as his ordered away to date but will ther debate the matter. 503 199 304 TOTAL I heir or executor so that in case of probably not remain long after the Schools to Decrease death the business with the gov men are sent to other camps. ernment may be caried on without Nearly every one of the schools SCS Men Arrive i the trouble that has been caused must expect a decided drop in high ' in some cases. The SCS will have charge of the school attendance within a few The same rules apply regarding camp until other men are ordered year as fewer children are enter New Law Makes Tax of 45 I the transfer of the money to be to Moro or the old ones return. ing the grades. Moro is in a pe received by the farmer. No assign- cents per Hundred Quarters of the SCS force have culiar position having fewer chil , ment may be made of the money been completed and finished in in dren in the eight grades than in i for adjusted acres. sulating material. Superintendent the four grades of high school. Un As the work of signing contracts Eaton and Engineer Anderson will. Contract For Furnace Let To Immediate organization of the less more population comes to the । for the 1936 to 1939 period can not new potato production control plan county the average high school en live there permanently. be finished until after the land is adopted by Congress has been de rollment from 1940 to 1948 will be A new addition has beCh made to j Milne; Coach House Bought seeded this fall ind as the allot- cided upon by the AAA. even tho under 150 for the county or about the SCS headquarters company in committee can not measure the appropriation for its administra three quarters of the present num the past week. Orva E. Dyer.1 agronimist, graduate of Oregon ' County Court Proceedings for land the farmers will be given the tion was held up in the failure of ber. privilege of leaving out of crop the the filibustered deficiency bill, ac State college and of the erosion i September Term, 1935. The resignation of W. A. Mc- required number of acres for 1936. cording to word received from school at Pullman, is here to aid in organizing the work of the ero- j Donald as a member of the 1935 Adjustment, if necessary, will be Washington by the Oregon State Moro Fire Alarms sion service in this company. His Sherman County Fair Board was made later. college extension service John B. assistant is George Richards who received and accepted. No appoint Administration Changed Hutson, director of the division of For Short Time will probably remain until the work ment was made. A change is being made in the tobacco, sugar, rice and peanuts, of outlining the job for this coun Application of Chas. B Hamil administration of the wheat allot- will have charge of administration The fire siren brought everyone ty is finished. ton, of Grass Valley, for old age ment association in Oregon with of the new act. to life in Moro Monday afternoon pension received and held for in the advent of the new contracts The purpose of the new act, when it was discovered that a gras« vestigation. Instead of having one man with which passed Congress by a narrow fire had started near the elevator. Flail Found Contract and agreement between an assistant cover the entire state margin, is to remove surplus and It didn’t take long ta put it out Sherman County, Oregon and J. as was done under the first federal adjust acreage sd as to increase after the firemen reached the scene Argument Started Milne received and. filed. Said con contract the state has been divided income of potato producers, says of the fire, A few anxious minutes tract to cover purchasing of “Iron into four groups with a manager Mr. Hutson. Instead of being were spent however, before it was It was a flail. based on benefit payments and con determined that nothing but grass Sunday J. Q Freeman was help Fireman Furnace ’ for County over each group. For the Mid-Columbia area E. R. tracted acreage, the potato act had caused the excitement. Delay ing Ralph Brisbine tear down the Courthouse and the price to be in- Jackman. who was head of the en proposes the levying of a heavy tax was caused by lack of information $4700.00 for said furnace and Sheil house and discovered a cou tire state previously, will be the upon all tonnage sold in excess of regarding the location of the fire ple of joined sticks tied together stallation completed. A with a leather thong. It might Treasurer’s trial balance for director. C. W. Smith, secretary the national sales allotment for and it is thought that a telephone will be installed in the fire house of the Eastern Oregon Wheat potatoes. have belonged to the late Mr. month ending August 31st, filed. ta enable the telephone operator League, will direct the work of the Sheil or perhaps ta some earlier County Clerk instructed to make Parity Price Set who gets the call from the fire to resident. General Fund Warrant in the sum eastern and southern counties and instruct firemen where to go. N. A Donaldson, former assistant Tuesday morning Mr. Freeman of $25.00 payable to Mrs. George The federal men figure that the director, will work with the north- brought the contraption, machine DeMoss and Mrs. Henry DeMoss present parity price on potatoes or what have you down to the to cover entire cost of purchasing western counties and those in the would be approximately 90 cents a Football Schedule Douma shop where it became the “Coach House” on DeMoss Park western part of the valley. bushel, while the actual prevailing center of interest. Younger mem site. Said “Coach House” having market prices are only about 45 per For Wasco Announced bers of the group called it anything been built by the DeMoss family cent of this level. The allotment Schoolma’ams Are but a flail. It looked like something year for potatoes begins Decem *The football schedule for th« boastful salmon fishers might use ber 1, so that the plan will take Wasco Warriors who will represent Claima Presented and Allowed to brain their catch. effect December 1 of this year, al that school in the football games Against the General Fund at the Short Crop This Year Finally William Cauthers. who September Term of County Court. The crop of schoolma’ams seems though it is understood that all this fall calls for a game in Sep claimed to have seen his father use Otto Bengal. T ra ns porta - to be as short as the wheat crop in potatoes produced prior to that are tember 21 at Wasco with The Dal Ies Reserves furnishing the oppo such an implement, and J. M. Axtell tion for county poor to the southern part of the county exempt from the control plan. who had used a flail himself, con- 13.69 this year. Resignations from Sher The act was proposed by congress sition. Coach Ray Critchfield has Salem curred in the opinion that the im- Mrs. S. L. Coats, County man county schools at the last men from commercial potato pro a small turnout this year having plement was really and truly a $15.00 moment caused considerable activ ducing centers and was included in lost a large part of the successful Charge flail—and flail it is. Take a look Mrs. Peter Fleck. County . ity on the part of school authori the amendments to the Agricul 1934 team from graduation. This at it if you want to know what your 20.00 ties last week and this, and not all tural Adjustment act asked for by is the day on which Wasco holds its Charge grandfather used to beat the wheat Mrs. Margaret E. dark searchers for teachers have been the Administration. Under the annual Library Festival and a good plan states will be given allotments crowd is expected to attend. out of his crop. 8.00 County Charge I rewarded. on the basis of past production and On Friday September 27 the War Mrs Charles Golliher, A new teacher was obtained for acreage. In turn such tax-free al riors will play Arlington at the Wasco last week to complete their Continued on Lag*' Four Teachers Will Be auota of instructors. A resigna lotments will be given counties and river town. October 11 they play Maupin at Wasco. October T8 they HENKLES LEAVE FOR tion from the Grass Valley schools individual potato farms. On all potatoes sold in excess of will go to The Dalles for a return Welcomed Wednesday PORTLAND HOME was filled three times before one allotments a tax of one-half to game with the Reserves and to she A teachers reception will be Friends bid Mr. and Mrs. Tom could be found to remain, and three-fourths cent a pound will be finish the October games they will had to be persuaded to teach in given under the direction ot the Henkle goodby Wednesday night levied as a means of practically re play Condon at Wasco on the 26th. Moto Womhnib /club Wednesday at the Harlandview grange hall. stead of attend school. stricting sales to the pre-arranged November 1 the team will go to The Moro school started with night September 18, at the school Games were played and stories of ’ quota. Potatoes sold for export Dufur where they will play against Mrs. Orville Hockman acting as houM^. A program has been ar the early days of the county were are to be exempt from the tax. as the high school and they will prob ranged by the 'participating wo retold. A bridge lamp was presen substitute teacher in place of Miss are potatoes used under certain ably end their season with a game men Patrons of the school and all ted to the couple by the Sunday Eleanor Biggness who recently ac conditions for manufacturing into against the Moro team on Wasco cepted a position in Portland. Mrs. parents of pupils are asked to school and the H. E. O sewing club. livestock feed- by-products or for ____________ on November 9, although, this data I * - come and meet the teaching force, Lunch was served at the close of i Hockman will teach until another i is still tentative. on page three) ( Continued instructor is found. the evening. both old and new. / \ Wasco Wheat Crop Estimated 870,000 Bushels Potato Men To McDonald Qnits Fair Board Post Get Cash
