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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Wasco Wheat
Crop Estimated
870,000 Bushels
Potato Men To
McDonald Qnits
Fair Board Post
Get Cash