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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
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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
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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
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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.
<armer, I» pledged aa a candidate
First information was that the payments would be so Telephone
officials refused to be
small that they would not interest the growers of wheat on bluffed into a rate reduction by
large acreages. With the base pay of ten dollars per acre threats of a duplicate system to
and a possibility of a larger sum being given this county serve the needs of the state, prob
because the telephone experts
through its comparatively high production it may pay the ably
knew that the program was not
farmers very well to engage in the soil conserving activities practical and could not be put over
without a tie-in with the private
recommended by the new government agency.
utility
It is true that a majority of the crops listed as soil sider. which they refused to con
tor Republican national oommlttee-
building crops cannot be grown to any degree of success in
His Honor—This speeding ha^ nan. For many years a leader In
reteran organization«, Mr. Dorrle
this county. We may have some luck with a few of the Governor .Martin has directec got to stop. Have you ever been e known nationally aa well aa at
me before?
tome aa an aggrecsive and progrea-
grasses or peas. However, the success of the crop is not Wallace S. Wharton, hie executive before
Culprit—No Sir. I tried to get ilve speaker with a talent for
secretary to make an “efficiency
necessary for the payment if the information given here is survey” of telephone needs oi before you on the road this morn irganlzation. The Republican party
ri Oregon must be vitalized, aaya
correct, One may plant the crop and get the payment if state departments and institutions ing but my car won’t do more than Porri»,
If It I» to perform Ita proper
50
miles
per
hour.
workmanlike practices are followed regardless of the suc with a view to a material reduction
tonctiona. He contenda that the
in the state’s $85,000-a-year tele
Gumm—They say Johnny Speed- nation Ie waiting for "enlightened
cess of the crop itself.
phone bill. The tiephone company more gets 70 miles an hour out of (nd progressive leadership facing
It is possible that the county as a whole might receive has promised the assistance of one
ill the Issues of the day but f«>
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
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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<f
expense will not exceed’1 five cents May primary. If elected I will
Joe Truitt. give courteous service to all who
per mile.
have business with the office.
Collis P. Moore.
FOR CLERK:
To the Republican voters of
Sherman County:
• FOR SHERIFF:
I, Joseph A. Mee, announce my
I hereby announce my candidacy
self as a Republican candidate for for nomination for the office, of
the office of county clerk. I am a f sheriff of Sherman county, subject
native son, a taxpayer and have to the action of the voters of tht
been concerned with county and Democratic party af the Primary
state affairs for the past six years. election to be held on the 15th day
I will appreciate your support at of May, 1936.
the primly election.
Charles C. Wilson.
Joseph A. Mee.
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Á Big Bank and
a Serviceable One
*lways anticipate that this bank can serve him
(100 Millions m resources, you know) and that means a
good deal to the farsighted man. You will find too that
our services are keyed directly to your need and leave
nothing to be desired.
( ompíete facilities— Constructive services
C, R. Harding
L. A. Littleton
... MaTM^C?
— Ass^t Managt,
The Dalles Branch
of the
Ignited States National Bank