Gherman Cnunty journal
Official County Paper
Moro. Oregon, Friday, August 7, 1936
Forty Eighth Year No, 40
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. ■
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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
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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
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_ 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
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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
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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.
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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___’
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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»»
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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, —
.
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Heneen and with the board within fifteen days
13^ Demand w« artiv. both tion. With
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Elmer
Hansen
and
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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
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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
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Thrown From Horse
Bulletin Issued
.X"«»
™ is1“« By v™» Pacificl
1936
Hurts
(JattlC
Benefit Payments
Large In County
a
aoaa