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Official County Paper
Moro, Oregon, Friday» December 13» 1935
Forty Eighth Year No. 6
V
State Affairs
By
Three potential Congressional
candidates eliminated themselves
from further consideration during
the peft week;. They were Peter
Zimmerman, state senator from
Yamhill county; G. Wallace, state
senator from Deschutes and other
counties of the wide open spaces
of central Qregon, and J. P. Stadel
man. The DeUe», former secretary
of state. All . three were Salem
visitors during the week and each
denied that there was any ground
for rumors thst they might seek
the Congressional nomination of
Fenders Bent.
In Collision At
Intersection
A minor accident entailing cars
driven by Wendell Balsiger of
Moro and J. H Hoskins of Stan­
field occurred Wednesday morning
at the intersection of Main and
First streets in Moro. Mr. Hos­
kins, with his wife and brother-in-
law and his wife were traveling
south to California and Mr. Bal-
siger was attempting to cross the
street when the cars m^f.
The Balsiger car had the right
fender and running board bent and
the Hoskins car had the left fen­
der, bumper and left light smashed.
No one was injured and the travel­
ers went on their way ’after an
hour or so spent in reporting and
in temporary repairs. Each agreed
to repair his own car.
Speakers of Many D. E. Stephens
Injured In bar
Views Appear
Accident
Before Wheatmen
J
Tax Millages
V
Shumway Pleads For AAA
Continuance and Asks Active
Fanner Support; Conser Wants
New Farm Opinion
ns suffered a slight
D. E. St
concussion
the brain Wednes-
day afternoon in *O»rvallis when
the car he was driving was hit
broadside by another car. Mr.
Stephens was in the college city to
attend a conference of county
agents and experiment station
men.
'
Mrs. Stephens and Tom left that
afternoon for Corvallis to be with
the injured man who was in the
Corvallis hospital, still unconscious
but word was received from there
Wednesday night that there was
Rttle danger of seriov* consequen-
wg from
accident •
Announced By
Assessor Peetz
General Fund Levy Will Be
12.1 Miils; City Levies
*
Generally High; Seven School
Districts Levy Nothing A
School Dads
Wheat League
Feeling Oats;
Endorses AAA
Issue Challenge
and Sales Tax
Members of the faculties of
Sherman county schools are mak­
ing up a basketball team to play
the team from the CCC camp and
win later challenge county facul­
ties of other counties. Money
raised through the team will be
Used to pay the dues of teachers
in the teacher’s association so that
all will attend the national conven­
tion in* Portland next summer.
Potential members who will try
to make basketball history in the
future as they have in the past wilt
include: Kerry Tetz. of Rufus, a
former star of the Grass Valley
Zebras; Ray Critchfield of Wasco,
Pacific University star; Homer'
Dixon of Wasco, with weight and
football experience; John Walker
of Moro, who also played at Paci­
fic; Paul Goddard of Moro, who
played for the SONS; Harold
Hughes, of Grass Valley, from
Pacific; and Arden Squire of
Grass Valley who played for Mon­
mouth normal. And perhaps some
of the younger * members of the
faculties will display greater abil­
ity and supercede their elders.
Resolutions Regarding Weeds;
Soil Erosion, Transportation,
River Development; and
Grain Grading Passed
With an attendance of three t.
The tax levy for Sherman coun­
The talks before the wheat
four hundred farmers the ninth
ty has just been compiled by the
league assembly this year in the
session of the Eastern "Oregon
main upheld the reputation of that
county assessor, Mrs. Margaret
Wheat
League convened at Pendle­
organization for informative ad-
Peetz and the millages for each
ton
Friday
morning after many of
dresses at its meetings.
|
however, did not entirely close the
taxing district have been given out
the
committeemen
had spent a day
gate to the possibility of his entry
A. R. Shumway, who spoke Sat-
from her office.
and night in making up the reso­
into the republican race for the
urday. is a member of the wheat
The county levy will be 3 3036
lutions to be presented.
. treasuryship against Rufus C
advisory board, president of the
mills and the state levy * 3.8443
These resolutions and. the talks
Holesan. Friends of Stadelman de­
North-Pacific Grain Growers. He Mra Finn
mills
which
includes
the
elemen
­
given
on the public program com­
had just returned from Chicago
*101» origin
clare that his taste of public life
tary
school
levy,
The
sinking
fund
prise
the
work of the league for a
as secretary of state following the
where he came to fear that the
|M
year with the exception of the
for
road
bond
will
be
2.6174.
With
death of Hal Hoss had. been thor­
AAA will be declared unconstita DUneQ 111 VV ilSCU
. A
labor on the part of the officials to
other smaller items the general
oughly enjoyed and declare they
tional in January and ho warned ।
put
them into effect.
levy
will
be
somewhat
lower
for
irised
at
his
en-
■“would not bo
the farmers that some action would
Mrs. Flora B- Wright, wife of 1936. Wasco will collect 35 1 mills,
The
resolutions of the committee
«oming primary
be necessary to maintain a farm Leston Wright, and daughter of
on
legislation,
taxation, finance
Moro 19.2 mills and Grass Valley,
bottle.
aid law. In the east meetings are
and AAA attracted the most inter­
13.5 mills on property within those
-now being held and the same ac­
est during the meeting for this
The basketball team from the tion was suggested for this coun­ hospital in The Dalles Sunday towns.
. Governor Martin, thoroughly
committee
and its sub-committees
morning
after
an
illness
that
re
­
CCC
camp
were
in
Kent
Wednes
­
disgusted with what he terms “lack
try.
upheld
the
allotment
program with
No Tax For Some
sulted from an attack of quinsy.
of cooperation” on the part of tht day night and won a game from
out
question.
In
a
strongly
word­
AAA
Farmert*
Law
Mrs.
Wright
has
been
a
resident
legislature is going to carry his the Kent team by a score of 27 to
Seven schoof districts will have
ed statement it criticised the crit­
program for the development of 24., . It was reported as a close
He told of the formulation of
Sherman county r»ctically all
no special tax at all. These arc
ics of the farm plan on four counts,
Oregon to'"the people. His first game. Kendrick Dunlap was-re­ the present law, saying it was the °f ^er
having «jt«ided schoo
vis;
it is not partisan Qr political
districts
4,
5,
10.
11,
and
19
and
30
move was a double barrelled blast feree. . ..;
. t ..
combined
effort
of
the
leaders
otthere
when a girt»,. —
She was
36 Ownership of land or lowered ex-
legislation
as is charged by some
comomea
enon;
oi
one
leaaers
oi|*
—
—
-
_ _ — associations
— —.9 — X? —
-■
A. the
- - A year, of
A A age
M ♦ at th»
♦imo time
nF of her,
at ths .tats senate for its defeat
A group of the camp entertain­ farm
throughout
je
of . few puplls and
politicians
for both parties have
of his eapitol construction program. ers , attended 4 Kiwanis luncheon nation was not a party lew in death.
contributed to farm legislation in
tram
His next was another blast at the in The Dalles Thursday noon and any sense. He reviewed the con-! The funeral was fiFl<i foon* tbo * nnmtnal
,
-
P°.
the past four years; politicians are
same group of lawmakers forAheii put on the program for the mem­
Tues-
this possible for these dis-
ditiong that brought about the loss Christian church m Wasco
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.
attempting to stir up the consum­
defeat of2his mining board bill bers of that service organization..
of foreign markets and the decline day afternoon at 2 o’clock with, the
ers
against it for political advan­
and his third move was a criticism
Of the
several
Seventy five, of them made a of the wheat price.
I Rev R A Hutchinson giving the .?*
- other
----- - districts
------
tage; the mills and processors who
of the legislature as a whole for trip to Sherar's bridge Sunday to
He said that the farmers re-____ r»_n
are paying the tax have the most
Pall bearer, were selected
?ax.. deTtl°P™ent program for fcunt arrow heads. They enjoyed duced production 6% and their sermon.
from the membership of the Har-
These wHi 1^13 with 4
sordid
opposition of all, and, last
the falls and the rugged scenery price was reduced 60% whereas landview grange of which the de- ™’ Feieral Government Owns
the
easterners
who hate to see
flax development
program for on the trip and are anxious to go the farm machinery companies re­
money
being
paid
to the west al­
ceased
was
a
member.
They
were;
and
26
which
will
levy
.4
mill.
>f $1000
,
More Than Half of Oregon
which an appropriation of
duced
80%
in
volume
and
6%
in
though
the
west
has
paid money
fight.-.
*^
,n
-
was approved afier a hard 1 _
S. A. Hall, Wilfred Behhe, C. P. High Scho<>| Taxes
Camp night Tuesday was more price. The Motor manufacturers
to the east for many years and has
reduced 80% in production and Adams. A. G. Putter, George Me
Diecussing the senate's defeat of largely attended than any of the 16% in price. Nothing was said Donald and D. L. Reynolds. Inter-
As usual the districts with high - The abridged report of the state helped develop the east through a
protective tariff.
previous
ones,
about
fifty
women
ms mining board bill
win with
wim ncwo-
his
news- -
ment was made in the Wasco ceme- school will have a larger millage planning comision on land uses in
about
the
reduction
in
the
volume
. pap« correspondent. at the Wi- *nd •
tery. The Neighbors of Wood- than other districts. . Rufus will the state of Oregon has been pub­ Industry Also Reduces
tel the governor pointed out that
Walker and George of manufactured products while
craft
assisted.
*
' have a 9.6 millage. Wasco one of lished. A. S. Burner is author of
. • . . .
. _ ■ __ _______ I TnrkxrrwflF «nnkc. tn
hoVB. ReV. criticism was meted out to the
The act has given the farmer a
Oregon is rich in mineral resources Updegraff spoke to the boys. Rev. farmer.
She
is
survived
by
jier
widower
11.3, Kent 8.3, Moro 9.6 and Grass the report.
drearer!
the' investing
A* Hutchinson comes to the
chance to restrict production in
It
gives
the
total
acreage
of
and two small ehlMreh onetelng Valley 10.1. Practically all of the
public knsw nothing about these «^P «very Thursday night to Two River Talks Made
much the same manner as indue- -
but
three months old; her parents, other districts will collect less than privately owned land in Oregon try has done. There is no fear of
resources and nothing was being speak to the boys.
as
26,431.023
or
43.2
percent
of
Two talks were made regarding Mr. and Mrs. W. A. May; five six mills Un property in their the total. This leaves 56.8 percent regimentation on the part of the ,
done to inform possible investors.
Clifford, and boundaries.
river transportation, that of Calvin brothers, Louis,
Scouts for eastern industrialists
of the land owned by the federal farmers and the loss of the for­
Frank
of
Moro,
William
of Hood: The non-high levies are collected government with 53.2 and the eign market is being bewailed most
Sweek,
pesident
of
the
Inland
Em
­
seeking investments in Oregon, ho
pire Waterways association and of River and Roy of California.
on rural school districts exclusive- state, counties and cities the rc- ly by those who profit from the
pointed out, were unable to secure
Lt. Col. Williams, of the army en­
existence of that market. It was
any authentic information regard-1
; ly and the 3 mills for non-high maining difference.
gineers. Mr. Sweek told of the i----- s—
stated that the farmers could “get
ing the state's mineral resources'
school and non-high school deficit
value river transportation would Swelling Buds Caused* wid not be added to the levies for Oregon 8.2 Tillable
along” alright without government
simply because there was no such
help or the use of governmental
prove to the wiheat growers in re­
information available. The gover- ■
city schools although it will be
Farms in Oregon contain 16, agencies and can produce to capa­
ducing . freight rates saying that By Eaiiy Freeze
nor sponsored a bill at the special C
<
added to rural school levies making 317,605 acres, privately owned tim
city and sell wheat in competition
rates could not be cut except by
session;- creating a state mining 1 UI IzvvvlllUvl
a somewhat more equal charge ber land 8,675,940 acres more and with Argentine and Russia, if land
competition. The association fav­
board and providing a small ap-
Many persons who have observ- throughout the county. The cost other land privately owned acc­ taxes will be abolished, monoplies
ors dams on the Snake river, build­
propriation to finance research . ■ ————
ed
the swelling of the buds on M- of transportation is returned to the ounts for 1.437,478 acres more. Of banished, protectiffs abandoned,
ing of Umatilla rapids dam and the
and surveys but the bill was killed
~
in the senate by a vote of 20 to 7 Road Work And Corstructicn
use of the Snake river for trans­ lacs, wild flowering currents, syca- rural districts by the board and arable land there is but 4,989,322 labor unions smashed, restrictive
cost of* tuition is given to the acres or 8.2 percent of the total immigration laws repealed and- in­
____
portations in addition to the results mores, and many other bushes, the
after passing the House with only
Increases Expenditures
that have already been obtained: shrubs and trees during the latter city schools where the pupils are area of the state. The federal cen- terest rates reduced to 2% or so.”
three votes opposed.
sea locks at Bonneville and dredg­ part of November this year are educated,
sus of 1930 gave this same figure Critics To Be Answered
ing of the Columbia river to Uma­ asking how this happened and
Sponsors for the proposed North-
The state tax. the county tax and while the 1935 report gave 4,921.
WMt Orer>n Bonneville Peoples Sherman County Court Proceed- tilla.
what the result will be.‘
.
the road bond and interest tax are 039 as the total for arable land.
It was also suggested that mem­
- cost of
ings for the term of Decem-
Dr. S. W. Brown, chief of the 1 almost equal this year and the Sherman couitfy has 5.7 percent of bers of the league should answer
Lt. Col. Williams spoke of the
Utility district estimate the
ber 4th, 1935.;
Columbia as the only river that department of ' hortimi^wro
the project at $5,750,000. Electri-
all criticism of the AAA that
three of them make up about 80% this arable total.
has
crossed two mountain ranges
eal energy will be purchased from
comes to their notice.
12.1
In* the matter of the Sheriff’s
in its course to the sea. Hesaid
the
Bonneville
power plant,
12 bu. Land Minimum
This committee went on record
.
. ...
. accord-
»Xi. .t Turnover Report covering cur­
tflions filed with t the e rent an^ delinquent taxes collected that the report as to the feasibi “false spring,” and is a premature m»Hs.
ing to the petitions
without opposition in favor of the
The
land
of
the
state
is
divided
>taU hydro-elwtnc commission and
November 8th. 1935. Both lity of the Umatilla rapids dam awakening of life due to “breaking'
enactment of the sales tax for old
into several classifications which age pensions which will be voted
distnbuted to consumers over 250
file<J was not proven at present but was the rest period” of plants. Nor*
Tax
Paying
Easier
are designated as problem areas.' on in January. It said that the re­
being reviewed. He said that a mally this occurs in spring after
miles .of transmission lines to be
c
,,
constructed throughout the prop«.-
In ‘he mattcr °ft,the
» new boat line had applied for a the cold winter weather is follow­
No. 1-a involves the dry farming lief load should not be put on prop­
ed district. The proposed project,
n? right to use the river. Dredging ed by warmer, sunnier days.
For Delinquents
areas. Recommendations made are erty and expressed approval of the
by far the most ambitious devel- ; death of Clyde Chandler of Bon of the upper river was estimated
Property owners in Sherman co­ that land that produces less than new tax collection bill recently en­
opment of its kind ever launched , nir 8 Fe"y, Idaho on November at $400,000 but would cost $600,000 November Freeze Damaging
12 bushels per acre should be re­
in Oregon, would cover 2447 square. 12th, 1935. Report accepted and under present conditions. In an-, “This year the unseasonable unty may now pay their delinquent tired from wheat production al­ acted.
taxes without penalty and interest
miles and embrace most of the ter- ordered filed.
swer to a question he stated that cold near
ftrgt of November,
though it is stated that some effi­ New Law Liked
ritory embraced in seven north-
In the Matter of the application two holes below Bonneville were followed by a couple of weeks of if the current taxes are paid ac­ cient farmers seem to be able to
A Suggestion was made that the
west Oregon counties—Clackamas of George W. Ferrell of Wasco. 80 feet below sea level and that soft, mild weather, stimulated • cording to the new law which went live on land that produces less
tax collection laws of the state be
Washington, Yamhill, Polk, Lin-' Oregon, for Cbunty Aid. Applica- one point above The Dalles .the some plants at least to break their into effect last month. This con-
than 12 bushels.
rewritten to make a more compra
coln, Clatsop and Columbia. For- tion held for further investigation, bottom of th6 river was 180 feet rest period and to start the growth forms with the action taken by
In the dry’ farming area, com­ hensive law and that thereafter
and
other
counties
in
the
state
In the Matter of the Treasurer’s below sea level.
tyfive municipalities are included
cycle of spring," Professor Brown
the prising Jefferson, Wasco. Sherman, these laws be left alone for as long
in the proposed district which has report for the month ending No-
says. “Rest in plants should not was made at the request of
Gilliam Morrow and Umatilla co­ a peri6d as possible. The commit­
Export
Needs
Told
• total population of approximate­ i vember 30th, 1935. Report accept-
। be confused with the so-called dor­ state tax commission.
unties, the major production is tee was in favor of tax exempt
! ed and filled.
ly 150.000.
Hugh Martin of Kerr-Gifford mant period. ■» Plants go into rest
made
on land that produces be­ bonds and tax exempt holdings of
In the Matter of Purchasing spoke on the prospects for wheat when they have set their terminal
tween
10 and 20 bushels and 231, any kind. It requested a study of
The Oregon state library has Volume Five of Oregon Code. The in the northwest and the market buds and are no longer making .06 Inch Wednesday
557 acres of wheat land that pro­ the county unit plan and asked for
come in for national recognition. A County Clerk was instructed to available in the east and southeast length growth. They become dor-
duced between 10 and 15 bushels labor laws that would make strikes
recent bulletin, issued by the United purchase Volume Five of the Ore­ for northwest wheat. He favored mant later, after they, have shed Helps Situation
were sown It made 2.914,600 bu­ possible of arbitration.
States office of education at Wash­ gon Code and to issue a warrant white wheat saying that it was the their leaves.
Rainfall of over half an inch shels while the 84,008 acres that Railroads Opposed
ington D. C., devotes much space in the sum of $20.00 against the only wheat that could be shipped
“What can we do for plants
to the work which has been done Law Library Fund, said sum rep­ out in competition with other lured into new growth ^y this fell in Sherman county during the produces be tween 20 and 25 bu­
The Transportation and Rural
by the Oregon library for the un­ resenting full' payment.
wheats. He could not sell any false promise of spring? We can past week according to records shels produced 1,899,500 bushels
electrification
committee reporter
kept
at
the
experiment
station.
and
29.852
acres
of
good
land
made
employed, out-of-school young peo­
By reason of the completion of malting barley in the east as malt­ hope of course, that the balance of
in favor of the continuance of the
This
makes
the ’ years
’ total better
ple ofthe state. Special mention the negotiation set forth in the sters do not like it. He spoke of me
1,115,733 bushels of wheat.
the winter
W1I1VCI
may
ina J be
LTC mild
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and
..V. that
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long and short haul clause after a
is made of the individual reading Resolution dated January 5, 1933, the labor troubles that kept this this tender growth may be spared, than five inches which was tne Farmers Might Be Moved
debate that lasted far into Friday
course service which during the and recorded in Commissioners’ section from shipping wheat for If the weather turns cold, how- lowest on record but still the year
At least 20 percent of the land night. It asked for a lower rate
past two years has helped more ■ Journal “C”. page 13, the County the past two’years and recommend ever, the practical thing to do is of 1935 is shorter in moisture than
in the six counties is believed to from Umatilla points above Pen­
u™ 3900
ed that an export bounty of ten to cover shrubs which show these any other year. The lowest cal­ be marginal at normal prices but
dleton, improvement bn the Col­
out the ,state
credit and charge the proper ac- cents be placed on wheat to facil­ breaking buds with sacks, straw, endar year rainfall is above six the exact area cannot be deter­ umbia to Umatilla rapids, a better
study.
or any other material which will inches unless this year beats that. mined until a survey is made. It
itate exports.
• •
:*
count.
.
Indications are that it may rain is estimated at 30 percent of the truck and bus bill with liberation
protect them.”
Pension
Costs
Estimated
Motor vehicle registrations bi. • claims Presented and Allowed A-
more yet before the present spell acreage would reduce • production of farmer hauling. It suggested
Oregon reached a new alM^e gainst the Road Fund at the De-
of weather ends, but indications 16 percent, or. stated in figures, study of rural electrification in this
Charles V. Galloway, chairman NOTICE TO VOTERS
sparsely settled section before any
high this year with a total of more cfelWber Term of County Court,
are oft times wrong, as almost any 220,000 acres out would reduce
of the state tax commission, spoke
large program was started as dis­
than 300,000 N«ar«»t prmnoua ap December 4th> 1935.
Sherman County
_______
_ _ poll books old timer can attest.
production 2,200.000 bushels.
tances between farms was in many
preach to th« record waa m AMO-
Gen r0B<, work |88 M in explanation of the old age pen- - The
■ion legislation just passed. While will be closed for a period of thir-
About 1000 farmers would be cases too great for cheap service
31 when repatrationa totalled 283.- Ken(lrick p,lnIap Gen road
he did not plead for the enactment ty days prior to the special election WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
involved and perhaps half of them considering the cost of the lines
MO Secretary of state Shell stys
76.20 of the sales or gross income tax of January 31st, 1936. Any vot-!
work
The Production and Handling
would be moved to new locations.
that an unusually large proportion
PRKCIP
MIN.
MAX.
OATK
8.10
Gen. road work
committee
recommended the prop- ‘'
A
continuation
of
the
process
of
of the cars registered thit year Jack Noonan,
T
. 38.10 law he said that there was no oth- ing citizen desiring to vote who
.00
were new ones. .The new 1986
McLeod, Gen. road work
er feasible way of raising the huge has not voted at one of the last Dec. 5 ... ../..a.2^.-..21
er
varieties
of wheats for the coun­
making
larger
farms
is
to
expec
­
.(6
Î8.
52.85
6 .............. 41
ties
in
the
wheat league, better .
plates will be available December
Lv on
sn sums needed for the pension pro-¡three elections; has moved from
ted, according to the report for
7 ... ............ 43* 81 . .10
15 with 20,000 numbers already E. L* Weld, No. 2. Road work 20.40 gram unless property was levied one voting place to another; has
treatment for smut control, more
farms
are
abandoned
instead
of
.05
8 .... <........ -47.. 35
again to pay it. A six mill tax changed political parties or any
assigned and ready for mailing.
J* R* Yocum, No. 2, Road
livestock on wheat forme and ob­
the land being abandoned.
23.60
.00
woman
who
has
changed
her
name,
82
would be needed, he said. There
• work
9 ... .. ' 40
jected
to the influx of Canadian
tands in the Willamette valley
are now 7487 pensioners in the must re-register to be eligible to
.09
35
Governor .Martin spent his boy- C A. Bargen olt. Gen. and
grains during the pest year.
10 . ............ 60
and
in
other
parts
of
the
state
are
26.20 state and this number will be in­ vote at any future election.
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36
hood in Illinois where the fisher-
No. 2, Road work
11 ... ....... ‘44
treated in the report and sugges-. The Weed and Erosion control
C. G. Vintin,
creased when the age reduction to
..^46
men sit on the bank and watch the H. M. Richelderfer, No. 2,
(Continued on page four)
tions made as to their use.
Total for week...
County Clerk.
(Continued on page four)
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Wriaht
Note From CCC-
Camp No. 2114
Planning Board
Recomends
Use of Land
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County Court
Conducts Business
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