eAO* two -- 1-*» r IBE SHERMAN UHJNTV JU UHNAL, MOHU. OREGON ’■ CIpimtg Journal SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER. Established Nov. 2, GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, Established Oct. 14. 1897 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6, 1931 WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891 CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4. ^932 Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon, By GILES L. FRENCH Managing Editor • ------------------- -a »III» STATEHOUSE GOSSIP * (Continued fiom pug« one) official voters*' pamphlet but with­ out hia trusty old Ford. Election officials in the state department ruled against inclusion of pictures | of Brown’s car in the pamphlet holding that the law only author­ izes the inclusion of "portraits.” Three thousand officers and men of the Oregon National Guard will go into training at Camp Clatsop June 15 for the annual two weeks’ encampment, according to an­ nouncement by Major General Geo. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice, at Moro, Oregon, A. White. The camp will end June 30. under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879- SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Ability of the board of control One Year .................... 50 members to maintain a poker face APRIL 24, 19d6 in their negotiations with Portlanc General Electric company officials was worth $6000 a year to Oregon MANNA taxpayers. Concessions madq by The new soil conservation program, while loostly con- the power utility representatives, in the face of threats of a state stm. ted, may eventually result in some benefit to farmers owned and operated plant, will re­ of this semi-arid country if it materializes in the same form duce the state’s light and power bill by that amount, it is said. as it has been explained here. FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936 ----------- 1 11 ver Cornet Band. Dalles City is to have a new bank. Hon. W. H. Moore, formerly of this city, will be its president,1 and Sam H. Baker of Grass Vai-1 ley, one of its directors. BEN RRIS! I From the Observer April 27, 1917 Ralph Brighine has been ap- pointed City Marshal to succeed F. L. Bogart, who has resigned to accept a situation with the railroad company at Shaniko. Seven pupils of the Boardman school are enrolled upon the Roll of Honor for April a larger num­ ber than last month. Those earn ing this special honor were: Fran­ ces and Lloyd Hennggin, Earnest Bloomer, Vernon and Ione Miller, Ruby and Pearl Bradley. Replies to the letter sent by the Moro school board to the voters of the district as to improvrr:, ent school facilities in this district were an average of 7 to 1 in favor. Cards have been , received, an­ nouncing the wedding of Miss Beulah Hayes and Malcolm R. Mc-^ Ewan on Tuesday, April 17, at the home of the bride’s parent«, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Hayes in Portland. The young people will make their future home at Eugene. The development of an effective A deal was made Wednesday be­ Republican party In the state of tween Roy Benson and F. R. Fort­ >regon and the development of an ner by which Mr. Fortner traded iffective representation of Oregon his residence on Scott street for Republicans in the national organ- aatlon are the two policies to Mr. Benson’s interest in Foss & ivhich Ben Dorrle, Lane county Co. garage and business. his new car. ng them on principles consistent as large a sum of government money as it did under the of their experts in making the sur­ Boyle—Don’t say “gets”; say rvlth American traditiona and the American constitution.* AAA if all farmers took full advantage of the plan as out- vey. “got.” His funeral is tomorrow. ' lined in the preliminary meeting. This would mean that The controversy over release of fifteen percent of the tillable land be put into some soil Earl IL Fehl, former Jackson coun ty judge, from the state prison has building crop for 1936 and 1937. brought a rather absurd In fact it is possible for farmers to reap a double advan­ situation. to For light years prisoners have tage if they are in position to get the 1936 allotment pay­ been automatically released from ment under the AAA. The soil conservation payment will the penitentiary here upon expira­ All paid advertising. bj given to farmers who qualify this year and if a farmer tion of their maximum sentence minus “good time” credits. The CLERK qua ified and made proper compliance under both plans he practice was never questioned un­ FOR To the voters of Sherman Coun- FOR CLERK: To the Republican voters of would be paid under each plan. til Fehl’s case came up for consider ty: Sherman County. atioh. Appealed to for advice At ­ There is no contract; the farmer either plants soil con- 1 I hereby announce my candidacy I wish to announce myself as » torney General Van Winkle held for the office of County Clerk of serving crops and gets the payment or he does not. candidate for the office of County that the automatic release provi­ CANDIDATES (Continued from page on«) in 1883 and came to what is now Sherman county with his parent* March 1, 1886. Since then he has lived here continuously. He atten ded schools in SKerihan county during his youth. He is married. Mr. Everett has been a peace officer for twenty years, seventeen of which have been spent as mar­ shal and water master of the city of Wasco. He has also been deputy sheriff for the north end of the north end of the county for many years. He is a Mason and belongs to the Wasco Townsend club. T. Mi Garrett, who is running for the Democratic nomination for sheriff, is a native Oregonian hav­ ing b.en born in 1885 near Halsey. After spending his boyhood there he lived in Portland, and Burns be­ fore moving to Grass Valley in 1917. He attended school at Hal­ sey and at St. Mary’s college in Corvallis when a youth. He was married in 1906 in Albany and has one daughter who is a student in a Portland business college. For aevefileen years Mr. Garrett has been marshal and water mas­ ter in Grass Valley. He is an Odd Fellow, a member of the state po­ lice association and is school direc­ tor of the local school. For the past two years he has been chair­ man of the Democratic central committee of the county. She attended school in Moro finishing high school. While at 1 school «he was active in 4-H club 1 work an4 won th« Patterson cup given by the governor for excel­ lence in club work. She made a trip to, Chicago as representative of Oregon. She has been deputy clerk for six years having served under three clerks and has managed the office and done the work there for the past three months. She is a Rebekah and a Granger. George A. Potter, Democratic candidate for county judge, is a native son of Sherman county hav­ ing been born here in 1891 of par­ ents who came here in the early eighties. He attended school iu Wasco and The Dalles finishing Wasco High School He was married to Jessie Norcross at Moro in 1914 and has lived at Klondike since, managing the Potter store and aiding his father in looking aftei his farming interests. Mr. Potter was elected county judge in 1930 and this is hi# last year of that term. He is a mem­ ber of the Masonic and Elks lodges. The Pacific Northwest Foijesrt Experiment Station recently found that of the forest land in 18 west­ ern Oregon and Washington coun­ ttie«, more than 3,200,000 «eres were tax delinquent and almost Lester H. Nahouse; deputy sher­ 479,000 acres had been acquired by iff, and member of the Republican the counties for unpaid taxes. party is a candidate for the nomi­ According to the Washington nation for the office and tax col­ State Commissioner of public lands, lector from that party. He was counties of the state in 1934 own­ born in 1887 ’in Horseheads, New ed ^250,000 acres of forest land York and attended school there un­ obtained through delinquent tax til he moved to Kansas City, Mo., foreclosures. where h? finished his high school Traffic studies made in 1929 foi education. He later attended busi­ Oregon and Washington show that ness college in Elmira, New York. 65 percent of all freight car load­ He came to Sherman county in ings consisted of forest products— the spring of 1910 and jjved at logs, lumber, wood and other for­ Grass Valley. In 1914 he married est materials. Iva Olds. To them have been born three children one of whom is OP ANNUAL STATEMENT OF married and two »re still in Moro TNOPSIB THZ RQCHZBTER AMERICAN INSUH- ANCZ COMPANY OF NZW YOR? tn High School. He has lived in Ore­ th« «late of New York, on the t' ir y- ftr»t day of December. 1935. made to gon 18 years 17 of which have been the Insurance CommiMtoner of the «tat« of Oregon, purguant to law: spent in this county. When in New York he was pay­ Amount of capital stock paid up ................ 11.000 000 00 roll and supply clerk for the New mcoMi Net premium* received dur­ York Transit Co. While at Grass ine the rear .... •07.777 43 Interest dividends and rent« Valley he managed a warehouse received durine the rear 173.544 M Income from other source« and bought wheat, worked in a 43.330 0» received during th« year bank and a store, He has been Total income . . I ll.W4.r73» sheriff for the past seven DD3HURSKM ENTS Clerk at the primary election May deputy Mat loose« paid during th« Moro where he ytars and lives in y«ar including adjustment 15th. expenses ................ 3 315.S78 35 owns a home. Dividends paid on capital J. T. Johnson stock during the year 100.000 M Commissions and «aiaries FOR ASSESSOR?- paid during the year 373.000 89 Mrs. Margaret W. Peetz, candi­ Taxee. license« and fees paid during the year 35.988 78 I hereby announce my candidacy date for the Republican nomina­ Amount of all other ex­ to succeed myself as Assessor of tion for assessor, has filled that 114.343 13 penditure« Sherman County, subject to the office since the fall of 1924 when Total expenditures 3 811.413 03 AB8KTH her husband, Otto Peetz died while will of the Republican voters. Values of stocks and bonds owned (convention value) _____________ Margaret W. Peetz. in office. She was elected that fall MM» MMffti»M . 33.328 *54 M Cash in banks and on hand 344.530 73 and has been re-elected since. FOR SHERIFF: Premiums in course of col­ She was born in l^awrence, Mass, lection written since Sep­ Subject to the will of the Re­ tember 30. 1335 M.571 S3 where her father was attending Interest and rents due and publican voters of Sherman county accrued ...................... I will be a candidate for Sheriff. school. When she was four years Total admitted assets . 33.844 73» 34 AB IITTIKÖ If elected I will carry on the duties old her parents returned to Ore­ Orou claims LI for toases on- gon and this state has be^fi her 86 33» M PsM ..... ... 1 of the office fairly and impartially, home since that time. She receiv­ Amount of unearned prem­ iums on all outstanding with equal treatment to all. I have ed her education in Portland public risks . .. .................... 811.31».07 lived in Sherman county for 41 schools, Portland Academy, Pacific Due for commission and 3,000 00 6rok»ras» ........................ years and have been a taxpayer University and the University of AU other liabHitlos .............. 57.500.00 for 18 years, am a Granger and Total liabilities. except Oregon, where she graduated in capital....................................3 »40.037.07 World War Veteran. Capital paid up .............. 31.000 coo 00 Surplus over all liabUltlea 1.704.713.37 C. H. Lindeman 1915. Surplus as recards poller- She came to Sherman county to holders ................................ 3.704.713 27 teach school in 1915 and was mar- FOR SHERIFF. Total . 33.SS4.73» 34 To the members of the Republi­ ried in 1916 to Otto Peetz. She BusnoEse in orbgon for thz ykar has one child, a boy of fifteen, who Met premiums received dur- can party. ins th« y«ar .......................3 10.113 33 This notice is to Publicly An­ lives with her in her home in paid during th« year 4.444.73 Losses incurred during th« nounce my candidacy for the office Moro. She is a member of the ........................................ 4.423 73 of Sheriff and Tax Collector for Eastern Star, Rebekahs and Moro Woman’s Club. Sherman County. Mame of praaldent. W. H. Koop. Mam« of «ecretary, D. R. Ackerman, After serving as Deputy Sheriff •tatutorr resident attorney for serv- Miss Viola M. Hansen, who is for seven years, I feel that I am ice. insurance conunlnloner th« basis of Dm. 31. 1535 market fully qualified to competently ful- asking for the Republican nomi­ •On quotations for all t>ond« and slocks owned, this Company's total admit­ fill the duties of this office to the nation for county clerk, was born ted assets would be increased to 83.774.541 34 and Policy-holder, sur? best interests of the peope of this in Minnesota an undetermined Plus To p 814.514JH: number of years ago and came to RODGER-HART-BANKS CO. county. 311 Pittock Block Lester H. Nahouse. Sherman county with h?r aunt and ATwater 5494. Portland. Or« uncle, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. I^arsen ______________ Since 1804 in 1924. FOR COMMISSIONER: Subject tb the will of the Repub­ lican voters of Sherman county at the May primary election, I will be a candidate for the office of county commissioner at the next election. David Reid. Statements of Candidates For Sherman County Offices GARDENS AND THINGS Some folks gardens are filled with radishes and lettuce and greens and for perrennials they have asparagus; other folks have gardens filled with delphiniums, asters, and rose bushes. Some gardens are full of weeds and others are free of extra growth. The rows in some gardens are straight and true while rows in other gardens are crooked and carelessly laid out. _ The practical soul with the material mind may be found hoeing and digging among the radishes and the potatoes; the idealist potters around the rosebushes and frets about the gladidlas. And some pull and cut weeds because they take moisture and sun from the wanted plants and some cut weeds because it is the proper thing to do when grow­ ing a garden. The meticulous gardener may insist on having straight rows because the neighbors may see them or because straight rows fit the plat better and the hearty, careless gardener may let them go any which way because it is easier or because he just doesn’t care as long as the results are reasonably good. And it’s all very complex trying to tell why people do this and do that, and also rather hard to *fortell what the results might be. Perhaps it is true that, “there is 80 much good in the worst of us, so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to speak ill of the rest of us.” sion does not apply to prisoners serving indeterminate sentences, as was Fehl, but only to those un­ der definite sentence. This latter sentence, under the Oregon law, is applied only to prisoners convicted of homicide, treason, rape, robbery armed with a dangerous weapon, or assault with intent to kill. In other words if Fehl had been con­ victed of any crime of violence and sentenced to a definite term of four years he would now be at liberty as having completed his term, with good time credits. Inasmuch as he committed a lesser crime punish­ able only by an “■indeterminate sentence” of “not to exceed four years” he can not be released until the expiration of the four year period, except on a parole from the governor—unless the courts to which he has appealed for a writ of habeas corpus, let him out. Oregon’s bonded debt has been reduced by approximately $15,000,- 000 during the past ten years ac­ cording to State Treasurer Hol­ man. Outstanding state bonds now total $50,586,810 and include $24,- 416.750 in highway bonds; $23,875,- 000 in veterans’ bonus bonds; $2,- 170,000 indistrict interest bonds and $125,000 in farm credit bonds. In Other Days The white race is bothered with a superiority complex. It is in evidence in the proposal to make the Indians at Celilo live in houses whether they like it or not. During the same season white men are going to the mountains and to fishing streams so they can live out of doors for a while. Such reasoning. A watch pot never boils, they say and it also appears that a watched cloud never rains for everyone has been grazing at the rain clouds for a week now with no results whatsoever, except stiff necks. A head over an item from Gilliam county refers to Morrow county. What a fine asset is a little geography. From the Observer April 26, 1907 A ruling now proclaims that one may not take his name off a petition. Too bad. If that ruling had not been made one might eventually have been able to take his name off a note. However we may pray for rain our anxiety is nothing compared to that of the Ethiopians who need it to bog down the lalian advance. . To the radical new dealer every cent that has been spent has gone to feed some starving citizen whose ribs looked like a washboard and whose shoes were merely a memory and everyone who decries the expenditures is try- i ng to starve some helpless babe. Mr. and Mr?. Levi Clark, parents of Mrs. W. O. Hadley, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last Sunday. The day was most pleasantly spent, one of the pleas­ ant features being the presentation of a gold headed cane to father and a diamond ring to mother. Messrs Parr and Simmons have sold their LaGrande fruit and com­ mission business. Play ball Sunday 28th Moro diamond. Now if you think “our boys“ can’t play ball your time to be convinced will have come next Sunday at the 2nd game between Grass Valley and Moro. Messrs Myers and Miller, recent acquisitions to the business popu­ lation of Moro, are both band men, which encourages the hope of re­ vival of the once famous Moro 8U- Sherman County. I was born in Sherman County and have lived here all my life. Have been a tax payer for 25 years. Your support will be appre- dated. Walter Ruggles ---------------- > FOR SHERIFF. u I will be a Candidate for the office of sheriff of Sherman county at the primaries May 15 subject to ;he will of the Republican voters. [ have been a resident of Sherman county for fifty years and have teen a peace officer of the City of Wasco for the past seventeen years. Charles Everett. FOR SHERIFF: I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Sheriff and Tax Collector for Sherman County, subject to the will of the Democratic voters of the County. I have had 17 years experience as City Marshal of Grass Valley and 12 years as a Deputy Sheriff. My motto will be * Economy and efficiency’’ and I promise that no mileage will be charged to exceed 5 cents per mile which will make a probable saving to the County of about $300.00 per year. T. M. Garrett. FOR ASSESSOR: To the Repubican voters of Sherman County: I have been asked by a number of Republican voters to be a can- didate for the office of County Assessor and after due considera- tion have decided to do so. I have been a resident taxpayer of the County for 27 years and if nomi­ nated and elected promise econ­ omy with efficiency during my FOR CLERK term of office. Mr. G. C. Vintin has announced Carl P. Adams. that he will not run for the office of Clerk; therefore I announce my FOR SHERIFF: self as a candidate to said office To the people of Sherman Coun­ subject to the will of the Repub­ ty. I hereby announce my candi­ lican voters. dacy for the office of Sheriff and I believe that with my six years Tax collector, on the -Republican experience as Deputy I will be able .party ticket. to handle the work in the office I have been a resident and a i with only part time help and will Taxpayer in Sherman County for thereby save the taxpayers at twelve years and, have always least eight hundred dollars a year. stood for Law Enforcement. I Viola M. Hansen. have had considerable experience with Tax Rolls as deputy Assessor for Jefferson County and, feel that FOR CLERI^: I can handle the office in an effi­ I hereby announce to the iRer- cient manner. If nominated and publican voters of Sherman Coun­ elected will serve the people faith­ ty that I am a candidate for the fully and honorably. ‘My travel nomination for county clerk at th