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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1936)
Gherman Cnunty journal Official County Paper Moro. Oregon, Friday, August 7, 1936 Forty Eighth Year No, 40 —r State Affairs A. L Lindbeck Changes Made Station Yields Fair Botird Will Court Closes In Personnel Of Show Best Make Race Unused Roads Camp Officers Program Monday The Sherman County Fair Board Near Bourbon ‘ O. E. Dyer has been sent to Wheat Varieties Last Rural Perry Johnston School To Vote Resigns County M On Transporting School district 20, Harmony, will Agent Position vete August 15th oh the matter of ¡ ‘ As a precaution against the ma has announced that it will meet City,,.South Dakota, to aid! • ' : ’ licious incendiarists and the carb- holding school for the coming year in the erosion work in the drouth M Monday night, August 10 at the less camper and smoker Governed and transporting the pupils to other jurea. He was instructed to report Discing Net Equal Te Plowing ! office of the secretary for the pur Relief Matters Occupy win be made New Man Ha, Had l ong Martin this week placed practical w wl . tl - v pose of making up the race and ly all of the timbered areas of the for his new job August 4 and left _ immediately leaving hi« family Winter Wheat This Year; at this time because the Rader EXpenence in County Agent i entertainment program for the an Committee During Forenoon; state under “regulated use.” This family is moving out of the district here for the time being. \ — Shallow Plowing Brings Better nual fair which will be held Sep- means that the campers that go in Highway Matters Will Be with four chldren which will leavq and 4-H Hub Work; Will . ' tember 3-5 thia year, ! to the woods must obtain permits '** - . .A I Lt. Samuel L. ■ Bernstein, who If by the above date enough if they intend to build fires in any has been the camp doctor her* Crop Than Deep Plowing but two pupils in the school. Taken Care Of By Court Arrive Monday To Begin Duties ; Sherman county horse owners place other than designated camp since the camp was established has 1 The Harmony district was the । have signified a desire to have the ing spots and must also carry reg resigned and left for Los Angele». only rural district in the county races closed to outside horses and ulation fire fighting equipment in The appointment of Dr. C. L. Poley i that held school during te 1935-36 The county court members spent A . The varietal trials at the exper ¡hove entered enough horses to fill Perry N. Johnston, who has been cluding a shovel, axe and water iment station have been threshed the races, the race program will be the morning of the Wednesday school year and if the electors of bucket. Smoking also will be for to takedn« pace has been that district vote to transport to county agent for Sherman county <^0^^ Four a local affair. If not horses and bidden by the travelers (if forested by Col. McDermid and will be t *' and the session as a part of the relief com another school all the pupils in the since the inceptjon of the federal . ~ , pjota wara used for each variety, other entertainment feature« will areas except along hard surfaced c^ved soon.^_ o appoin men has yot een re- which suffered to some ex- ¡ be brought in ftrom outside the mittee and business of the county county will receive their education program for direct farm relief, roads. in the five town schools where high ceived for a Suce«.or to Charles Unt from thi frfex| ' county. . ---------- --- ----------- has resigned his position to take Already «me horse own- waited until the afternoon. The goverir’s action was tak Auberg wbowa« the camp educa^ (thinned school courses are available. « Retief committee business in up other work in the agricultural ers have promised to bring horses en on the recommendation of J. W. tional advuflkunt.1 h.. ree.gnat.on end e|iminati<(n and -others are expected. 1 department of the state. volved around the report of tFrank Ferguson, state' forester, who a few weeks ago, before he left on, of c <j points out that 70 percent of all his vacation. Collins, case worker, who has been Eulton Canyon > New Man Qualified some extent but all four plots have Colts Being Trained man caused forest fires are due in Gilliam and Wheeler counties Several of the Owners of Peter been used to determine the results Mr. Johnston left Wednesday either to maliciousness or careless given below. However yields would Quick colts that are entered in the night after he had informed the ness. Worst of the careless group be considerably higher if only three Granada Theatre futurity are county court of his action and ob are the smoker and vacationist who Jacob Although work is still being done tained their approval of hi« suc were used. are responsible for 41 percent of training their colts for the race Relief Man Reports on the Fulton canyon road wheat cessor. The new man will be Le- all man caused fires. Thoughless- and some very fine looking horses White Wheats High trucks are using it to move the Roy Wright who was assistant He made a report on several ness is their big fault, Ferguson are being made out of the 2-year ca»?s with recommendations and crop in the county west of Wasco county agent in Clackamas county Jacob Wassenmiller can thank । Highest yielding winter wheat olds. declares. ■ - Contrasted to the havoc wrought a native hardiness for his ability was Tripkt with 23.7 bushels, The Moro band has been engaged explained the aims of the social to market at Millers. The section until his appointment to thia post. to the forests by the incendiarist, to get around at all these days closely followed by a cross between to play for the fair and will be on security law in some aspects to the of road now under state supervis Mr. Wright has been in^Clackamas ion has been graveled with mater , county for over eight years, is smoker and recreationist, is the rec even though he is sore ______ i ‘. bruised .„I.J Hybrid 128 and White Odessa. Of hand to send the tnusic round and members of the committee. and ial hauled from Biggs and is now married and has one child. He was ord of the industrial /wtivities in to some fextent. He__ parked his the Turkey wheats Cneyenn? was ’round when the ctowds gather for Two Roads Closed being wet down and a binder is be borriiMi Klamath county and is ac forests of the state, which, altho car at th^ gate and went ............... high with with 23.3 23.3 bushels. bushels. A A Turkey Turkey the programs. to talk : high ing put on. The part of the road quainted with eastern Oregon con- on Court members agreed to act employing thousands of men are to the ____________ _ selection was second with a yield mail carrier. ____ While leaning bed that was made with dirt was ' ditions according to Charlea Smith, a petition signed by residents of responsible for less than four pet on the side of the mail car his own of 22.8 bushels and Kharkoff, a tbft and the wetting was necessary who expressed confidence in the the Bourbon district who had askeo cent of the forest fires. Incendiar- vehicle rolled down on him knock-' winter hardy wheat, was third with | Valley that two roads be closed as there to make it pack. It is expectea ability to the new appointee. ists, Ferguson declares, are . the ing his legs against the door so 22.3 bushels. • was no further use for them. The that the lower section of the road worst menace to the timber indus hard that it was permanently dent- Hybrid 128 made 20.5 bushels, prnm CCC« roads in question are the two miles will be one,of hhe best market Johnston To Inspect Grain try and tJhe biggest problem of the ed. The bumper of the moving Rex 19.6, Oro 20.5 and Rio 20.7 /wgdlll 1 I vlU W that run from the old Jones place roads in the county when it is forestry department. car was high enough that it caught bushels to name the leading varie- appears to be definitely After a short vacation which completed. The ‘‘regulated use’’ restrictions him above the knees. i ties, ¡ Mr. Johnston will spend in the cided that the Grass Valley base a mile north of the Bourbon turn will continue in effect until October Not being used to being slammed aw Wallowa lake district the retiring ball team can defeat the COC team off on the Sherman highway to th< 15 unless previously revoked, Fer around in tis manner Mir. Wassen Early Plowing Best county agent will take up his new in a nine inning game. It is also Finnegan market road- It lies be guson said. An increase in the miller straightened out and shoved r The tillage experiment for 1936 pretty well proven that the camp tween land farmed by Henry Peters duties in the grain inspection office forest fire hazard may result in his car back.* 4 Aside from some again demonstrated the value of boys can win from Grass Valley George Wilcox and 'Roy Tiller. The ; in Portland. more drastic precautionary meas long skinned places on his shins early plowing for plots plowed ear anytime the game is restricted to other road closed in the approxi Mr. Johnston was almost a native ma tel y three-quarters of a mile ures including absolute closure of and the aforementioned soreness ly brought an average yield of 20.4 seven innings.' ; of this county having come to the forested areas to entry. » he is able to get around as good as bushels. Medium early plowea Telephone linemen are here to paternal farm near Moro when a Four games have all shown that that runs north from the Jones He was farming near ever. The mail carrier’s cgr went 20.2 bushels while late the boys are ahead at the end place to the south east corner of repair the company’s lines that child. I p|pwc^plots avera^e^ Three hundred and seventy one to the body shop for repairs. ' of last winter. ’Since the- wire« pointment as county agent here inmates of 4fea Oregon state prison ’went down in February telephone At that time men available for have taken advantage of the free '«a • rT BA al average for the past seven years Grass Valley the locals won by 12 Sign To Be Re-Set 1 user« have been talking on tempo- county agent work who could car- to 11, after trailing for a large Men which were 15.1 for early plowing reading courses prepared by the The usual grist of bills and rary jinea laid along the ground or ry the added burden of managing 1 15.2 for medium early plowing and part, of the game. state library during the last two - claims were on hand to greet the tie<i lightly on pole« or fence posts the intricate "problems of AAA crop 12.5 for late plowing. „Yields in Line-ups for the game were: years, Miss Harriett Long, state I production contracts were scarce. court but no part of it was out of this experiment are approximately Grass Valley librarian reports. Many of these 'or CCC The first major program has the ordinary run of monthly busi men nave taken two or more cour Range livestock men of Oregon a third better than the average for Rumley, c < been nearly completed and the sec Roth, 2 nes«. ses. One prisoner, a farmer with will have an opportunity August the past seven years on good plow-1 Pfifer, s ond, or soil conservation program Downing, 3 ! Court members expressed them- only an eighth grade education has 13 at Pendleton to consider propos ing. Rivet, I well started here during his Rolfe, I selves as faovrable to having coun- if I Inward The depth of plowing experiment had courses on si^ subjects includ als and present t’heir- own ideas term as county agent. He has also Willett. 2 ! ty road men repair the sign at tho WlOVC UpWal U Fritts, 1 ing phychology, economics., archa regarding a suitable plan by which this year resulted in a yield of 21.9 been secretary of the fair asso- Donovan, i s Schumerlich-, m eology, trapping wild animals, they can cooperate in the agricul bushels for the shallow or five inch aided' materially in Davon, 1 Peters, r tool steel and tempering and Inca- tural conservation program. On plowing and a yield of 21.3 for the .» b™ Mown a.™- Th.« -h.rP d.™. (h. w«k .nd..! the fair again after a Healy,r Rice, c and pre-Inca history. Most of the that date federal officials from the deep or nine inch plowing. Morehouse,m will also be a formal request that July 31,' influenced principally by lapse of five years, Coon, 3 prisoners applying for these cour AAA will be in Pendleton to di«- Zell, p Miller, p the new junction at the intersection continued and rapid deterioration Worker Plowing Beats Discing ses have had only a grammer sjoiuaodo aUuiu uo3uo ssno of Highway 97 and the Columbia of the com crop and progressively. school education. A few have had and State college officials tentative yh€ experiment to indicate the new agent, Mr. Wright, has River be changed to remove some less favorable prospects for wheat,! the advantage of a high school provisions for such a program. differ?nces between the discing and I both in North America and Europe, teen accustomed to managing the of the danger to car drivers. education and a very few indicate The meeting will be held in the plowing gave a return of 20.6 bush • according to the Weekly * Grain c^efcamas county fair and has al- that they have gone to college. court house starting at 10 o’clock,for the disced land and 25.6 i Market Review of the United go i>een ¡n charge of the 4-H club Among the more popular subjects And h k general — invitation has been the plowed land. This was foi j States Bureau of Agricultural Eco»! work of COunty where 1500 * with the boys at Warden Lewis issued for all interested ’ to attend winter wheat. Spring wheat yields nomics. With present prospects an j girls are enrolled. He of The Wheat in the south end “big house” are electricity, Diesel T*e purpose of the meeting will for this experiment are usually but little better then at the dost wiu arrjve about August 10 to be- th > county is doing better than was engines, radio, English and gram not be to announce a definite range closer. Bank - i- J of July in 1934, and with further new ¿uties. expected of it before harvest and Issued mer courses. A number of the program, explains F. L. Ballard, The results of the years’ work ; damage threatened by continued - What points should be looked for 'dryness, com advanced 12c to 15c prisoners display an interest in vice-director of extesion at Ore at the station are being tabulated many fields are making ten sacks or more per acre. The spring sown in examining a farm that is offerea 'per bushel to the highest price I navigation while several have ask gon State college, in calling the as fast as the yields are determined Injured Wildl I since 1929. Current marketings L*« lUJUItU UCII ed for courses on sculptoring and meeting, but will be to discuss with more information will be given as Federation is doing better than for sale? that in some places. ___ I and — — were J «MAMA I To help prospective purchasers werft m(x}arate in urgent stockmen practices which might be it is known. wood carving. The Grass Valley district that applicable yet this year or in con । warehoused a little over 71,00 “check over” the most important ¿eman<jt Wheat gained 8c to 10c points which by experience have bughelt influenced by poor I • Oregon’s industrial payrolls are nection with a program in 1937. Roger Justesen, twelve year olo wheat and up 75 percent over two years ago. Safety ability put around 600,000 bushels been found to have an important prOgpect« for spring fareiom markets i aon Mr. and Mrs. Tate Justes^ Range Men Want Aid advances in f___’ • - . e________ 1____ I and the composite daily wage paid in the houses before wheat hauling bearing on the successful operation abarp and b.r>.y were were higher with! w«injured S*tur^ shows an increase of 30 percent an<j barley is over. Yields of ten sacks are of a farm, the Farm Credit ministration has recently published u _ over wages paid in 1932-33 accord- common and some will make eleven a little booklet entitled ‘‘Selecting were readily taken, • ing to figures compiled by the ast winter, Oregon range men <*stop! Look! Listen!” is the cap or twelve sacks. • • I I p w^t^J Industrial Accident Commission. joined with others in the west urg- tion over another circular issued " x — “XUt Pd.y to taT ninTa^ea » The Turkey R-d is of fair qual and Financing a Farm.” Ninety-five percent of the indus ing that some program be ^«visea^. In it are discussed such pertinent ,7c per bushel. F'ax wa. somewhat Roger had ridden the w M Jeffers, executive vice ity with some protein but the Fed tries in the state are now under which would include encouragement!----- TTninn of Pacific Rail Pacific Rail eration is nearly all shriveled to factors as climate, soil, producing president the Union the protection of the Workmen s to conservation of the privately road, in the effort to reduce high to some extent. Yet good yields ability, nearness to markets, per bushel, with crushers slow buy Compensation act, the commission owned range in order both to,In way accidents, especially tr.os. «„¡ng. him to Mart schools and good roads, home ad era becauae of the dull demand for obtained, reports. clude that large area in the «cope which occur on grade crossings. Federation in the Wasco district vantages, efficient size, buildings oil. and throw the boy off. In the mix a • ♦ fo the soil conservation plan ary Several hundred miles of trans- making as high as fourteen to etc. up the boys arm was stepped on by Wheat Market Stronger ’ More than 43,000 requests for bo balance what it was fearedwould continental highways border Union The booklet was prepared as a sacks, which is a real Wheat ! the horse. He was taken to Port- information on the scenic and rec be an undue expansion of the live Pacific line« and these are a favor- crop <n any tody’« wheat belt, te w-th hig mother. guidance to young farmers -who The general wheat situationj reational attractions of Oregon stock industry. While AAA offic ite place for autoists to “race the orrnon/Hilderbrand sold a lot contemplate the purchase of a strengthened materially with the have been received by the Travel ials said it was impossible to in train” endangering not only their of wheatwith 12.8 percent of pro farm of their own on which they Canadian crop further damaged Department of the state highway clude those features at first, they own lives but passengers on tha uin thig week ft>r a ptfee of $1.05 want to make a success, and tenant from drouth and European coun Drouth commission. Scores of inquiries have since been studying the j>os- trains and other drivers on the wh-ch indicates the value of the farmers who wish to get into farm tries suffering from wet harvest«. - have been received during the P**t sibilities and are now ready to con- roads. . - j . I protein content. Large percentages ing for themselves while land prices Foreign markets advanced sharply . few weeks for information regard siderdtfinite detailed methods. llldUStfy LCSS , During the summer there has gluten are not expected, how- are reasonable and interest rates with buyers more irwlined to antic ing fishing in Oregon streams. Most ipate requirements. While official! t been a number of accidents where ever _ are low. of these requests have come by air estimates are lacking, trade agen- While the midwestem drouth drivers have tried to “beat tM(------------------------ mail with stamps enclosed for air Financing Explained cies forecast a spring wheat crop situation had reached a stage of train”'over the crossings with un-, mail reply, explaining that they fortunate results for the drivers Board of Equalization Meeting in the Canadian Prairie Provinces severity by mid-July equal tp that Full explanation is given about were coming at once and wanting ------ » ------- NOTICE. There will be a and many narrow escape« from the favorable financing terms a- around 200,000,000 to 250,000,- of 1934, the conditions this year to know where the fi.^h could be meeting of the County Board of serious injury or death. t vailable through the Land Bank of 000 bushels which would be thv are not complicated by heavy sur- smalle«t harvest since 1919. Trade pluses of livestock such as wa» tbt Equalization of Sherman County, found. Thousands of the new circulai Rental and benefit payment un- have been issued by the railroad Oregon, at the Court House, Moro, Spokane whereby firrft mortgage estimates place the European CMe two years ago, according to loans are now offered at 4 per cent Thirty-three drunken automobile der the AAA program in Sherman and sent to its agents in every Oregon, on the second Monday in wop including Russia, at about 1, officials of the AAA who have drivers who fell afoul the state County, during the three jrear per city for distribution to public of-, August, that being the 10th day interest a year on a cooperative 480.000,000 bushels, or approxi- surveyed the situation. police during July contributed $3,- iod ending May 31, 1936, amount fleers, to churches, to civic clubs of August. 1936, to publicly ex In 1984 there were more cattle on ^«7 75.000.000 b«ilWl, below th. 062.15 in fines to the public purse ed to $941,451.B0. according to in and for posting in railroad sta- amine tha Assessment Rolls, cor the farms than at any other per- 1» m^k.U nation', hbto^ and in addition were the recipients formation received by State Direc 1 tions, hotels or wherever they may rect all errors in valuation, de at. 5 per cent rate. Th. set up for repayment over a long tor Edgar Fr?ed of the National of jail sentence« aggregating 1945 J de be seen by the public. Several scriptions of lands or other prop term of years, "amortiied" ♦‘amortized” »0 advanced with future. d«pite fair- the prevalence of days, more than one third of which Emergency Council. b. automatically ly heavy marketing« of new crop in 30. yearn. When the erty assessed by me, and it shall months ago a similar circular was the principle can end 1 Under the wheat program pay ,tt by the of the mmS- ¿.me. Receipt, of winter wheat veloped, 8 mdbo. *7?^ was suspended, however. Arrests issued and read in practically every be the duty of persons interested paid off by the end of the mort- ^»ins menta in Sherman County were by state police for violations of contract if •eml-an- however, .howed further falling off removed M heavy «P«»« '^ th' . period _ A ml la ____ to appear at this time and place and under com-hogs school room in the west. The rail- appointed (appearance is by peti traffic laws during June totalled $919,185.52 conwaev pe . _a .c. ’ ncipal tor government to save the industry. ¿265 98 ^road company seeks to enhst all nual installments, including both an(j arrivals at the 675 while 7918 warning slips were $22,265.98, that h.. »«n Pro- The present drouth is more wide In th' tion.) All petitions must be made principal and interest, are faithful- minalc dropped to 6,5 {«■uerf to motoriats detected in mi-^ The to tai umi n»» --------- - nuou man — r inspec spread than that of two ywra ।ago in writing and verified by Uie ly kept up. ! tain continued high nor violations of the rules of th« Oregon as a result of the rental number euch • . Kansas City averaging but it may not be of as long dura oath of the applicant and filed at A copy of the booklet may be tione road. ' . I of such payments throughout tM, — . “ _ Heneen and with the board within fifteen days 13^ Demand w« artiv. both tion. With Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hansen and • • • * and benefit payments over three Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hansen had without cost by writing the feed years is $8,870,417.52. The total daughter were here Sunday from from the time it is by law re- information agent of the Farm from mill, and .l.vator taterwU *8™**^' ' The riot at the penitentiary here wheat and $441,279,459.75 for com- Goldenale. Elmer reports a heavy quired to meet. and market «tocks increased rap- established a federal livestock feed ***** ------------------ 1 — KF AA ■'tvuv Margaret W. Peetz, Credit administration of Spokane Friday afternoon which rsulted in agency in Kansas City. idly. County Assessor at Spokano, Washington. the killing of one convict and the United States is $289,938,861.54 for shower of rain in his home town 87-88^39-40 Sunday morning. hogs. (Continued on Pago two) Road **** u Now Being Used Wassenmiller Hit, Hurt By Gar Grass Wins Telephone Lines To Repaired Soon Rance io Meet Discussion Grain Markets Wheat Better Than Expected Last Week Farm Sale Bulletin By m 1 V W Thrown From Horse Bulletin Issued .X"«» ™ is1“« By v™» Pacificl 1936 Hurts (JattlC Benefit Payments Large In County a aoaa
