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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1936)
I ■H i -SIl—.' Electors Vote No O b AB Kh On Ballot Of Being Besten Least In Fiffy-O»e Percent Here Grass Valley Debaters Get Experience Rabbit CCCs Doing Many Kinds of Erosion Jobs ** • ■ • e • W . and, 1 ' . 1 ■ U I ■ squad was composée! of Wileox. Marjorie Blak», Simon, Thebni * Fortner, Work being done this week by Keith Rhtedwrt and Robert Solfe. the OOO boys who are combating erosion in this county it varied to tive and negative. Defeat* were a marked degree.. One crew under registered against Beaverton, last Olaf Anderson is building a combi year’s winner, and Gresham and nation dam and bridge on the Art the squad was defeated on four Barnum ranch at the .* mouth of Bull canyon. A new stretch ot occasions. The team will debate with Red- road is being dug out of the hill mond soon, as* a start for the side to furnish the rock for the dam. It will be low enough in the championship of the district. middle to allow water to run over it and remain in the channel and Moliture In Ground high enough to allow any sort of vehicle to pass over it safely. W. held rasi',A » ~ ■ i-------- D. R. McDole New Fair Board Legionaires Apply For Bona, Talks To Appointed At Payments Conservationists Court Meeting we * ' Debaters from the Grata Valley high school returned Sunday after noon from McMinnville where they had spent the week end debating with representatives of other schools throughout the state on the question of public control and ad* ministration of medical service, During Calé Weather; Large the state debate’s subject for the Official County Paper ¡day, February 7, 1936 More, Oregon, Forty Eighth Year No. 14 eo ♦ • * • » •’* a / • f • • • a * * \ Wednesday. Qodfeher ranch where the rabbHb Were said to be as thick as HNo* votes in a- spec Road Construction on 17 Miles ial election. i The ooml of uncontrolled of Dirt Road; Historical Essay rabbits and undbntroll0Je young- netta retailted The Janet Veters in Sherman county ■aid “No” 2101 times last Friday while saying “Yea” a mere 404 times thus following the remaihder of the state in giving adverse majorities to aH four of the meas ures on the special ballot Least favorably received in this county was the bill allowing the legislators of the state to change the law now in effect which gives them $3 per day for their labor. Thia bit found but 84 voters who favored it while 587 felt that it was notia good bill. Student Fees Disliked The student fee bill, although it had a big play in the papers before election and was discussed to great lengths in private arguments was the next poorest bill in the minds of Sherman county voters. Ninety two Sherman countians put their X marks along side the yes column while 533 voted otherwise. The bill which would have chan ged the primary date from May to September was defeated by a score of 521 to 107 in thii county. It was, however, the one that received the largest favorable vote in the state If You Go Deep Enough “Believe it or not” there is mois ture in the ground, .if you dig deep enough for it Excavators for the Sherman Co operative Grain Growers who are digging a 14-foot hole for the in stallation of gasoline tanks have found plenty off moteture at a depth of six or seven feet. The first three feet were wet from the recent rains; the next two or three feet were dry and made up a layei of hardpan. Below that there is moisture that makes good digging and looks like it would raise a crop of Wheat if the roots could get through the hardpan. Ditch Banks Sloped On the E. E. Barnum ranch Overturf’s crew is sloping down some steep banks bordering the creek and are putting in low dam* to halt the water and cause sub irrigation on the meadow. Work being done by the Mitchell crew now on the Jim Brown place is that of picking up rocks from the fields with teams furnished by the farmer and building low dams with them. Already two dams have been put across the canyon on the Schenck place farmed by T. M. <Rolfe and others will be built from the same material. Sales Tax Beaten 4 to 1 Sixty Per Cent Of State Lands No bill carried in any precinct. Are Not Taxed The sales tax bill made the best showing in Sherman county as 121 voters voted for it while 510 voted against it In the state at large it was defeated by a greater mar- A side ditch that is encroaching on the Finnegan meadow is being dammed by the Roy Tiller crew with rocks found in adjoining side hills. The two latter crews have lunch in Grass Valley and return the rabbits in a The sight of caused a flurry at sticks and stones and other missies from the beat- era during* which the fleetest of the bunnies escaped 'through «he lines. Reports from that section late Wednesday gftamoon were that rabbits were swimming the Dee- Chutes river In* droves and that Wasco county dtizens were pro testing against the sudden influx of coyote ntettt. R. W. Prentice, federal rabbit erad ieator. has asked for a half mile of wire and if the request is granted another drive may be (held later. Fatal Injuries were sus tained by about a score of rabbits violent ehocks to during the d ms of other the nervous rabbits, a bruise on Charles Mont gomery’s knee and other minoi bumps to beaters is the total re ported results Of the day; Omer Sayrs of Moro, was ap pointed to the fair board for the three year term. T. M. Rolfe of Grass Valley, for the two yeai term and Ormand Hilderbrand of. Waeco, for the one year term by «* decision of the county court Wednesday. Instead of having five members on the board three will hereafter conduct the affairs of the fair,, that, being the number set by law. However. A. Hi Barnum, re tiring fair president, and Fred Cox will act as advisory members for the first year of the new board's life. A bunch of Legionnaires gath ered at the office of George Upde graff Wednesday night to make out applications for their adjusted service payments. Duly sworn to and marked with fingerprints were the official papers that will bring cash payments to the hands of the veterans wlhen and if the money is provided by the government. The veteran's loan commission of Oregon has announced that it will demand that borrowers make payments oh their loans in Oregon witlh the bonus money or bring about foreclosure of their loans. Over $1.000,000 in loans are delin quent it was stated. Application blanks are available at Mr. Updegraff’s office or may bt had from the adjutant, Marvin Miller, by those who have so far not filled out one of the sheets. Accident On Highway Results In Death Heavy Grading Favored A delegation from the Erskine district met with the county court Wednesday and asked that some road work*be done in that part of the county this spring if it was possible to expend money for road grading in the county. With O. G. Sayrs as spokesman the group put forth* the argument that total roan taxes paid in their district was around $3500 per year, that the district was next in line for a market road when road work stop ped several years ago _ and that there was a need for better roads. The matter was staken under ad- visecnent by the court. Vincent Gregg of Spokane was killed and C.‘ C. Soderberg of Spokane and Mrs. J. H. Potts oi Portland were injured when two cars collided on the Columbia river highway about three miles east of Rufus Sunday evening about seven o’clock. Gregg was a passenger in the Soderberg car which was a heavy sedan. They were traveling east after making a trip to Portland from their home in Spokane where they were partners in a lumber business. Potto report was to the effect that just before he met the Soderberg car it swerved to the Road Work To Continue left of the highway and then Produce Nearly Discing, straightened up almost crosswise Work on roads will be continued of the road as he hit it with his Equal Yeikb Fer 20 Years in the north end of the county as light sedan. soon as the ground thaws out so that dirt can be moved with a Head Concussion Killa Moro périment Station Reports On the Morrison place south of cerned, it appears to make no remain favorable it is expected Nearest to this was-the 46 to 76 town the Barr craw is preparing difference whether an eastern Ore that maintenance of roade will con. According to a map sent out by vote on the sales tax in the Moro precinct In the Rutledge precinct the county judges association to put in two or three concrete gon wheat grower disks or plows tinue after that job is finished. there were only 3 favorable votes ’ there ia now about 60% of the land dams next spring when the weath his stubble for summer fallow, ae-j. The county court, upon request two being cast for the September of this state in the hands of diff er moderates to allow such work. cording to a compilation of tests of county ’school superintendent primary and one for the legislators erent governmental agencies and This job is being done to recover running from five to ten years an- Knighten, agreed to underwrite pay bill. The sales tax and the that is not taxed. The public do* the low land below the Erskine nounced by D. E. Stephens, super- the payment of prizes for the coun- student fee bill were beaten there main comprisse 16,545,522 acres of place and make it more productive. intendent of the Sherman county ty historical contest which has been held annually for the past this area and the forest lands cov- Some dams will be put on the branch experiment station without one favorable vote. The Soil Conservation has been two yean. The major part of thi Omer Sayrs place also. Total votes cast in the county er 15,580.934 acres more. The en Spring dwalopment development ' and was 634 or a little better than 51 tire acreage of publically owned and range range placing much emphasis lately on prize money comes from the re- percent of tbe total voters in the land is 36,802,621 and none of it terracing on the Dewey Thompson leaving as much wheat stubble on ceipts of the declamatory contest j is taxed says the report. I p>*» of town is being done .the surface as possible. It is accom held each spring. (Continued on page four) Clatsop county has the distinc- by Farr’s crew. plished when either the one-way Auditor Hired disk or the double disk is used for tion of »ving the .mrtlert peroen- Ground Logan of The Dalles was su mmerf allowing. The one-way , Charles __ tage of untaxed land with .02 to check the ___ Columbia has 4.1 percent and Unfavorable weather conditions disk is favored by formers in reg- chosen as i ; auditor Washington has 8.8. These are are hampering the crews this week ions where soil blowing is preva- books of tHe school districts of the timbered counties where the thn as the ground is frosen and slop lent. Unless stubble is present, county this year. By The report of the treasurer and ber was owned by logging com ing terraces and picking rocks is however, use of disk aggravates the clerk were accepted by. the soil blowing. done under a handicap. * More ex panies. A. L. Undbeck 1 court and provision was made to Sherman county is one of the tensive work will probably be ini comply with the state and federal counties with a small percentage tiated with the advent of spring Disking Equals Plowing ,An even two dozen acts of the of untaxed lands, the percentage but the leaders are in doubt as FoHowing »re th. »Ter^e yield Predatory animal control work, recent special legislative session here being 9.7. Gilliam has 12.1, to the advisability of starting some records at Moro with double disk-1 , The report of the road master on become effective Saturday with Mbrtow 15.« and Wheeler 41.7 The thing on a large scale at this time ing for fallow and- plowing, with the closing of the throe roads the elapse of the requisite 90 days southeastern counties of the state of the year when it might be im- both winter and . ^ring wheat P<>»ted tart month was Mceptad , and the hearing on this closing wild of grace following adjournment of are the ones having a large area possible to finish it from 1926 to 1985 inctaaive: the session. Seventy four meas of untaxed land. Malheur has 82.5! Evidence that the interest in the Spring be held March 9 at the court house, Winter ures were enacted into law by the percent off its land in the hands of work is strong in. the Wasco and wheat No action was taken on .old age wheat session. Forty nine carried the the government and Klamath has Kent neighborhoods may lead to Disked fallow 17.5 bu. 17. bu pension Applications received and emergency clause and became effec 83.6 percent. This is range and the establishment of “spike” camps Plowed fallow 17.2 bu. 17.« bu. the court may wait for further in- tive immediately upon being filed timber lands in the reserve. near thé work there later in the . ^.t the Pendleton Field station formation on the law before tak with the secretary of etate. One ; . year. In that ease the meawwld ftvC-year figures are available for ing action. other,the sales tax act, was refer likely remain there for several all three types of preparation with red to the people who turned it Planning Board Power Study days at a time. winter wheat. They follow for down under an avalanche of “no Will Continue of Former 9901-35 inclusive: votes in Friday’s election. 42.6 bu. ¡MoMHoard plowing .... The Oregon State Planning Inform.- tiat 0 b M»ro AiW Of the 24 now laws only a few 41.8 bu. Deputy Sheriff Ong-way disking ......... are of major importance, most of board will continue its studies of For By W P A Double disking ......— ........ 42.1, b<k Bonneville power, it was decided at the measures involving only minor These differences are all so Mts. Katherine Hickson, widow Information on Water rates and amendmehto to existing Statutes. the January meeting of the organi slight as bo indicate no appreciable of E. R. Hickson, former deputy zation held In Portland recently. A water department operation si Outstanding among tbe acta to be ’difference in yield attributahle tO( sheriff of Sherman county, died at report covering potential indus Moro hav« been , come effective Saturday is one the various methods^ apyw Steph- waiving penalty and interest on de trial markets, collected informa bureau of municipal rte^afch of Uie ens. In all these experiments the Portland Sunday night after an operation for the removal of a leg tion on the project from othei University of Oregon, according to linquent taxes of 1934 and prior follow was kept freq from weeds. caused by an infection. The funer sources, consumption as a function word received hère today. years under certain conditions. >WMn the ordinary double disk al was held Tuesday and interment A bulletin contaHihig These conditions include prompt of cost and other factors, will be used one disking was given made in Riverview cemetery. Two issued in the early summer. tion from cities all otor the at< payment of current levies ano an in the spring, and another, gons survive and four grand chil- The board recently issued a re will be prepared under the ’ direc nual payment of at least one fourth about a month later after weeds dren. Mrs. Hickson was a resident port, compiled by its advisory pow tion of the bureau as an NYA of the oldest year’s delinquency. had’ started. ‘of Moro for a number of years Another of the new laws abolishes er committee, which included facts ' Harrowing during the fallow while her husband was a deputy and figures on the cost of produc liams and Francis Bieck, have been tbe office of bufiget director ano season was impos^He on .disked her creates the new post of executive tion of power and cost to substa assigned the task of compiling the fallow at tbe Pendleton station be county sheriff and she and family are well known here. tions in various parts of the state. data. secretary to the governor. Information . sought includes cause of the heavy stubble and com The amended old age pension act Although the figures were assump tive. the work attracted wide at amount of water distributed an bine straw, so a rod weeder was reducing the age of beneficiaries tention as the first definite infor nually, number * of raaonroirs, used. In such eaaoe It is usually Auxiliara« Meet To Work to 65 years and ito companion . mation in this field. amount of pipe, number of custom impossible to use hoe drill* at seed _ measure providing financial assis ing time, though «Mier single or For Disabled Veterans The coming report will be pre ers, number of meters, municipal tance to needy blind become effec double disk drills ata used with- Twenty members ar tive Saturday but will not beco<ne pared under the direction of J. G. service and other details. The bulr out difficulty. Stevens, chairman of the board ’ s tlte members of the American letin will ba available to any in “operative” until federal funds be power committee. An allotment of Legion Auxiliary met Wednesday terested when the work is com come available for the needy aged $1,000 to pay for cost of the pro pleted. W .E. WHITE DIES In NEWBERG afternoon with Mrs. Theodore » and blind residents of this state. W. E. White died at Newberg Johnston. After a brief business Three measures of special inter ject was allotted by the board.. NEW SECRETARY CHOSEN last Saturday after a brief illness. meeting the time was spent in est to central Oregon are included cutting of REVENUE MAN COMING Mr. Wihite was a pioneer of Sher sewing, knitting and Miss Bauline Davis has been in the new grist. One of these re quires the payment off taxes on A man from the internal reve- selected as the new executive man county having settled on land a continued story from a maga transciept livestock, before stock nue of the treasury secretary for the county relief com east of Grass Valley In the early zine to be made up in scrap book can be taken from the grazing will be In Moro February 19 and in mittee in place of Mrs. Don Smith days when Callahan and Searcy form for the Portland Veteran’s were living in that section. Later Hospital. Refreshments were ser county, another forbids wading in WascO February*'20 to aid those of Grass ------- Valley . who has resigned. - Lhe lived and farmed land south- ved. consisting of ice cream, made irrigation ditches and canal« and who will have to make out an in- Details of handling th« work of ' . —A. Ikai la I m ika the third appropriates $3000 for come tax return this year. Final the committee will be done in the west of Moro that is now in the in the most approved farm fashion, the establishment and maintenance date for filing a return this year office in «he court house occupied l . V. Moore farm. Ha has lived in which means lots of whipped eream, and cake. Newberg for many yuan. ‘ to (Mtoch 1«. j by Miss Davis. * ' (Continué on Page two) State Affairs Widow Dies ,Gregg received a blow behind his ear that is thought to have caused his death. Soderberg had is left ear nearly severed and Mrs. Potts was cut and bruised about the face and head. A hitch hiker was with in a few yards of the accident and was a witness. New Streamliner Service Starts Today Damage Done By Washing and Blowing Shown By Pictures; Erosion Pace Speeds Up As Land Becomes More Worn The erosion meetings being held this week for completion of the organization begun a few days ago have been attended by D. R. Mc Dole, assistant to W. A. Rockie, who is chief of the soil conserva tion service in the northwest. Mr. McDole speaks on erosion matters at each meeting. With slides that »how the dam age being done by washing and blowing of the soil he shows how this may be prevented by a con sistent policy of land conservation. A method of testing the amount of soil that has been lost through erosion is to take a section of na tive soil from a road way and mark the strata showing the changes in soil structure. Anoth er block of similar soil taken from a tilled field will often’ show the sub-soil layer to be several inches nearer the surface than in the • native soil, indicating that several inches of good land has been wash».’ ed or blown away. Sub-soil Unpdoductive This type of soil is less produc tive "as the sub-soil has a small • amount of humus. Also the remov al of the roots and other vegetable matter from thex soil makes it harder to work and more inclined to bake and run together. The greatest erosion occurs on summerfaillow land that has been seeded to winter wheat, said Mr. McDole. Stubble is fairly good cover for land and much less wash ing is found on stubble land than on adjoining summerfallow. Streams Erode Soil Rapidly Doubling the size of a stream of water gives it the power to move particles 64 times as large accord ing to experiments of the erosion service. As soil fertility is lost, washing and blowing goes, on at a much ac celerated rate, said the speaker and mentioned that the soil in this county was probably from twenty five to seventy five percent lost al ready. “ Dams Are Temporary Dams in land are of temporary use, similar in nature to crutches for one who has broken a leg. Af National leadership in fast trans ter proper farming conditions have continental passenger service will been developed the dams will not again be assumed by the Pacific be necessary in many cases. A Northwest with the first sailing of proper use of the land is the aim the Union Pacific streamliner from of the erosion service and this de Portland to Chicago, Thursday. pends on the farmers themselves. February 6, cutting a business day Grazing land that has grown up from the travel time between Port to cheat is a problem that is ser land and the east. The schedule oi ious for cheat grass has only about thirty nine and three fourth« a fifth the carrying capacity as hours. Portland to Chicago, will the old bunch grass. Usually there effect second morning arrival in is some of the native grass left Chicago instead of arrival the , that can be developed. It is prac third morning as on the convention tically impossible to reseed ranges 'al trains, it was pointed out by Un in this part of the country. De ion Pacific officials. layed grazing and proper use of The railroad makes reservations grass will make It possible to re for coach passage on the stream tain and build up ranges in the liner with each seat numbered, just opinion of Mr. McDole. as it makes Pullman space reser- vationsl The streamliner is not Disc Plows Recommended an e^tifa fare train, both coach and The use of the disk tiller or one Pulhnah «lass tickets being hon- way plow was recommended and ^e d. , the speaker advised that the rot ary rod weeder was the proper tool Portland Now Terminal to remove weeds from fallow. Bum Portland will precede San Fran ing of straw is dangerous to land. cisco in transcontinental stream Directors elected at the Kent liner service by at least two meeting were: Frank vonBoratel. months, as the Union Pacific president; J. H. Wilson, vice-pres streamlined trains for operation be ident; W. C. Helyer, elected for tween those cities and Chicago, two years and Wm. Harder and now under construction, are ex Art Justesen elected for one year. pected to be completed in April. Denver* Chicago streamliners Officers Elected should be ready in June. Elected at Moro for the Grass The windows of the streamliner Valley-Hay Canyon water shed are of shatter proof glass, perma were: O. G. Sayrs. president, slee nently sealed to exclude dust and ted for one year; V. B. Eakin, vice outside noises. The cars are air- persident, T. M. Rolfe and J. R conditioned and steam heated. Low Adams elected for two years and cost m«als will be available in the Mrs. Marie B. Cooper elected for coach-buffet car Of the streamliner. one year. Officers elected for the water WËATilfeR FOiPniE ^ÊK shed for the north end of the coun PBBCIP ty were: * MIN DATI John T. Johnson, president; . .00 21 Herbert Root, vice-president; A. 8. . .00 .19 .10... ” 81 Johnson, Chester Medlar and W. H. . .00 .17... .19. Feb. 1 Burras. . .00 11... 26 2 32. 04^, r. .00 8 The first meeting of tbe Sher 17... . .07 29 man County Fair Board will be 19... .00 .40 5 held next Monday at the court .07
