Sherman County journal., August 14, 1936, Image 1

Herman bounty Umtrnal
Forty Eighth Year No. 41
State Affairs
By
A. L Lindbeck
Official County Paper
Moro, Oregon, Friday, August 14, 1936
New County-
Agent Begins
Duties Here
Spring Wheat On Well-Bred Horse
'
Bursting Water Main Floods Station
À
Bought By
Fraser & Sons
¡Station Beats
Fall Sown Grain
Fair Race
Program Made
By Board Monday
Leroy C. Wright, who is taking '
the place as county agent left
vacant by the resignation of Perry
N. Johnston lant week arrived
Monday morning to begin his new Discing For Spring Wheat
duties. He has since rented the
Floyd Flatt house recently vacat- Gives ¿etter Returns Than
ed by the O. E. Dyer family who D.
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are moving to Rapid City, South "««wing, Reversing Results
Dakota and expects to move his p
« r
family Jiere next week.
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WlBttT Gram
Tom Fraser •nd Sons received
a new stallion Friday from Ogden,
Iowa. The horse is a two year old
sorrel roan Belgian, with heavy
Races To Be Closed To
bone and the conformation of his
prize winning ancestors. He was
All Put Sherman County
sired by Oakdale Farceur, cham­
pion at Chicago and his dam was
Harses If Enough
sired by Echodale Farceur, cham-
pion at the Chicago stock show in
Enter To Fill Events
1926.
Mr. Wright was bom in Lake
T us he has the blood lines on
county, lived in Klamath eoufity,} The yields of the spring wheats both sides of Champion Fraceur,
A sense of compromise prevail-
where his parents still reside, for at the experiment station this year ohampion of all breeds at the Paris
I id Friday night at the fair board
several years, graduated from O. has been determined and the Re- exposition, who was never defeat-
meeting. Therefore in spite of
S. C. in 1927 and spent a year as liable Hard Federation has been cd in hia life in the show ring
I the fact that too few Sherman
herd tester in Baker county. Since found to have done the best of any G. C. Good, from whom the Fra­
county horse owners offered their
then he has been aastatant county of them. Hard Federation, selec- ser colt waa bought, paid $42,0001
j steeds for the purpose of filling
agent in Clackamas county and 4-H tion 71, made a yield of 27.0 bush- for Champion 'Farceur.
Photo shows workmen trying to clear tracks at the Union station in । the races at the fair, they stih
nk 1 leader
zLif there.
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club
els per acre to top the list of
The. colt was shipped from Iowa Chicago ot a Hood estimated at three to ten feet deep A 36 inch water have the opportunity to enter their
spring wheats, and of wintei I in a box car and is still a little main burst putting 14 railroad tracks out of commission, The water ; horses in closed races if enough
Passengers from sub are available to fill the events.
wheat too, for that matter.
1 »tiff from his journey which re- also Hooded portions of the new postoftlce
urban trains were forced to alight from Inbound trains about five blocks
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Second
in
the
list
is
Hard
Fed-lquired
eight
clays
during
the
heat
The races in question are the
Foister
frdTn the station.
Damage was estimated at $200,000.
eration, 31, which is the commer-^of the summer.
quarter mile saddle horse race,
cial variety. It made 26.6 bushels. |
the half mile saddle horse race and
Laid To
Rest
I Federation. which is the most
the half mile pony race. All other
popular of all apring whoaU jn
lo
'! events will be closed to all but
Mrs. _ Frances
__ . . Foister,
tn, wife Ot i the western part of the
the Sherman county horses.
wh
,
Robert P. Foister of Rufus, sue- Sutes
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o'?
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1
thi
,
8Uti
w
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B
thir<]
cumbed
Locaf Horses Given Chance
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with a Wasco
bon in The Dalles Saturday eve- yje|d of 23 0 bushels
In these three races if enough
ning. She was a daughter of Mr, , Baart, a bearded wheat and one । T. Lester Johnson has located in I
locab horses are entered to make
and Mrs. W. E. Tate, long time that usually brings a high price " asco for the practice of
He
up the race others will be barred.
resident of Wasco. She was born to the grower, made a yield of 17.6 '8 a graduate of the University
, The SCS has a “Show Boat’’’ in­ If there are too few local entrants
in Wasco November 10, 1897 ano bushds per acre. The old and:of Oregon law school of the class
dicating how far a popular name the horses of Duffy Knorr, who had
had spent her life in this county. well known Bluestem yielded 19.4
1931, a native of Portland and
may be carried in this day and a string of horse« here last year,
She attended the Wasco schools bushels and Marquis, another com- has formerly been associattd with
age.
But the important thing is will be allowed to enter in suffic­
and the University of Oregon and mon variety made a yield of 17.8.1
firm of Teal, Winifree,
McCul- Local Group Visited By
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that
this.boat,
which is in reality ient numbers to fill the races. By
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later married Mr. Foister and has
Spring barley, as usual, gave the
and S^taler. He has his
।
a
truck
is
going
to be here Friday filling the board means that five
since lived at Rufus where she highest return in pounds per acre office in the Sherm.n Hotel build- Official» From Portland Office
;
night
and
the
show
will be put on horses must be entered in order to
Every county in the state got was the postmistress for many of any cereal crop on the station. inK-
at the Legion hall. It consist« of make a race.
1478.48 for its fair when the state years.
Flynn, a smooth awn barley, made
six reels of moving pictures all
A contract was signed with Mr.
racing commission turned over 117,
She is survived by her widower, 45.3 bushels, of 48 pounds each,
Officers of the Republican concerned with erosion matters.
Knorr whereby he agrees to bring
115.28 to Secretary of State Snell a daughter. Joan, her parents or 2174 pounds per acre. The high!
State Central Committee met with
Grange
The _ show
will lie free and the eight bucking horses to the fail
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tor distribution. The sum'was 25 and five sisters, Mrs. L. J. Murdock est yielding wheat made 1620 per
members of the Sherman county public, especially those interested an{j handle them during the two
per cent of the commission’s re­ of Eugene, Mrs. R. S. Wittenberg’ acre indicating the value of barley
committee, candidates of that par­ in erosion from either a practical
days of program. Ixical bucking
ceipts from the dog and horse rac­ and Mrs. Floyd Ford of Los An-1 as a feed crop.
poues Meeting
ty and officers of the Young or theoretical standpoint are asked riders may compete. Mount mon try
ing. The state fair and Pacific In­ geles and Mrs. G. S. Brown and
Republican club here Thursday to come and see it. It will begin will be $2.50 per horse and a prize
On account of the lateness of
ternational Lievestock Exposition Mrs. C. F. Barbour of Portland. Brrley Best Yielder
noon in an informal discussion of
of $5.00 for the best ride and $5.00
in Portland each received $21,875.- The funeral was held from the
Peruvian barley ^brought the harvest the fall meeting of the the organization of the party for at eight o’clock.
for the most spectacular ride will
Pomona
grange
has
been
postponed
75; the Pendleton Round-Up and Methodist church in Wasco Tues­ highest yield pfw the group for an
-
-
-
the campaign.
be given each day.
the Eastern Oregon Livestock day afternoon and interment was average on tbe‘Three plots of 47.5
Coming from Portland were^/^
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bushels per acre, r Marious barley to the third Saturday which Is the Walter A. Tooze, assistant chair-
show in Union each was sent a made in the Wasco cemetery.
iFOClllCCS Profra m ( om pleted
yielded 43.4 bushels and the beard­ 19th. The Rufus grange will be man of the state organization^ IArs
check for $3446; and the Northwest
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hosts
to
the
Sherman
county
The race program, as finally
less Meloy barky, which is most
Turkey Show in Oakland, Douglas
Bladine,
secretary,
and
David
Hoss,
finished
by the board will be as
popular here because of the fact grange at that time.
county, got $1033.50.
president of the Manon county ,
Principal Elected made 42.4 bushels to the acre.
follows: Boys and girls pony race,
club.
Roy
Rit-i
r.
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Young 'Republican
for horses under 14 hand«, and
In contrast to the finding 5^ith
Goevmor Martin might turn
ner, candidate for congress, came
children
under 14 years, closed to
winter wheat in the discing and
Cupid for a man in West Los An­ At Grass
from Pendleton to be at the. mect-
all but Sherman couniy horses
plowing experiment, spring wheat
geles, California, The executive
ing.
and riders, purse, $30.
received this letter recently:
The Gfass Valley school board made more on disced ground than
A round table discussion, led
Oregon is one of 20 states which
“No doubt you are called upon in ‘a meeting held Tuesday night it did on plowed land. On disced
One quarter mile saddle horse
by Mr. Tooze, made up the only produces'« surplus of beef, with
land the yield was 18.7 bushels
e
for many things so I am going to
race,
for Sherman county horses
political
aspect
of
the
meeting.
voted favorably on the application and on plowed land it was 17.7 (j(JCT
. AmCTICQ Plans of county organization were approximately 40 percent of the it enough are on hand to race, if
ask you to help me iwth my prob­
production here being sold outside
4
lem. I have been a resident of of Marvin Schepman who will bushels.
explained and all were invited to the borders, points out H. A. Lind- not to be filled, purse $30.
therefore
fill
the
position
as
prin
­
The
reason
given
for
this
by
D
The Sherman county derby, a
your state for some time in the
attend a congressional meeting to gren^ extension animal busband-
past and that is why I am asking cipal left vacant by the resigning E. Stephens, the director, is that
half
mile race, for any Sherman
Poor spring wheat prospects in ! be held in Bend August 22. The man at. Oregon State college, in county horse. Purse $50.
for your assistance. I do not seem of Harold Hughes, who will teach weeds often lower til'? yield of
officers are on a trip around the
wheat on disced land whereas it is North America and unfavorable J eastern part of the state in the in­ connection with the observance of
to have much luck in finding the in California this year.
A half mile saddle horse race,
August as National Beef Month.
harvest
weather
in
parts
of
Europe
possible to kill them when spring
right sort of woman that would
for Sherman county horses it
terest
of
the
party.
They
left
im
­
Mr. Schepman is a graduate ol
continued to be the outstanding
Through ^the cooperation of enough are ready to run. Purse
wheat is sown.
make a good mate. Either they
mediately after the luncheon for
the University of Oregon, is 29
features
of
the
wheat
situation.
livestock!
associations, niarketing $30.
The
station
crew
has
"threshed
like their liquor too well and ca­ and has been principal at Mitchell
Condon and Fossil where similar
agencies, the packing industry and
nearly a ton of Crested Wheat Private agencies forecast a domes-; meetings were to be held.
rouse or they want a lot of swell
A half mile pony race under the
for the past three years. With grass seed. This is the yield on tic spring wheat crop from August
various retail organizations, special same regulations. Purse $30.
clothes and chase to dances and
Mr. Tooze spoke for the candi-
the selection of Maxine Vogt as
leave their house in disorder. I another high school teacher the 5 acres. When is it recleaned it 1, conditions, at only about 20, dacy of Roy Ritner, candidate a- attention of consumers will be call­
000,000
bushels
over
the
1934
ed during August to the biagni- Peter Quick Futurity On
am looking for a girl that is fre., high school staff will be two-thirds is expected that there will be about
gainst Walter Pierce, saying that ।
harvest.
Prospects
in
Canada
are
tude
of the beef industry in the
1500
pound's.
At
35
cents
per
wthite and over 21, not over 130 new, Clifford Rowe being the only
The Peter Quick Futurity, for
it was high time eastern Oreogn
pounds, with a sweet disposition, one remaining of the last year s pound this will he worth $525 for the smallest harevst since 1919 was represented by" a man of vigor. United States and the importance two year old Peter Quick colts.
of beef In the national diet.
which is a satisfactory return on . with the trade agencies placing the
affectionate, a good cook and will
[ Entry fee of fifteen dollars will be
faculty.
a five acre plot._________ ________ outturn of slightly over 200,000,000
¿(tick with you at all times and doe?
paid by Guy Matthews of the Gra­
Good
Beef
Favored
bushels. The drouth and heat has Forms Must
not care to be dancing and drink­
nada Theatre. Purse will be $100.
i caused premature ripening and re­
A significant change in the pro­
ing all the time.
The chariot race for Sherman
duced both the quantity and the
‘‘I am 40 years old, not bad t<
duction and marketing of beef in county entrants. Purse $50.
Immediately
grade. Considerable threshing has
Oregon has taken place within the
look at, do not drink, do not dance,
The second day the races will be
already been done in the dryest
but I do love the great outdoors.
Notices have been sent, out to last decade. Lindgren points out. the same with the exception that
sections.
According
to
the
Mani-
I have been a steady worker evei
those having wheat contracts un­ State and national livestock organ- there will be a Peter Quick conso­
since I was 14 years old, so I am
Tbe history of locating the Rattle told me as a child I had a mind of toba Free Press, the poorest dis- der the AAA to the ; effect that izatiions in cotynecltion, wi/i the lation instead of the futurity. This
not a loafer looking for a meai snake road is little known to pres­ my own. At any rate I was not tricts lie in southwestern Mani­ their compliance sheets must be extension service have carried on will be for horses that do not place
ticket. I am just a working man ent day residents of Sherman coun­ discouraged by his advise as I had toba, southern and western Sas­ signed and in the hands of the a consistant campaign of educa­ the first day.
,
katchewan, and southern and cast-, committee by the 20th of August. tion on the difference between good
but due to the depression have nc ty. When Sherman separated from
All prize money is to be divided
known
him
from
th?
days
I
carried
ern
Alberta,
with
the
best
crops
large bank account but am willing Wasco county, as a county it was
These papers will have to be in quality and poor quality beef, un­
to work at allti mes. Thught without milling, banking or fuel the mail from Grants station to reported in central and northern Corvallis by the first of September til there is not only greater de­ 50-30-20.
possibly you might know of such a and lumber facilities within its his country store post office, and districts of Manitoba, east and east and some work will have to be mand and appreciation for quality Calf Riding Scheduled
girl for me.”
borders. Its mercantile facilities during these years I ¡had mixed c.ntral Saskatchewan, north cen­ done on them at the local office meats, but it is now possible to
During the afternoon and be­
were also meager. The great bene­ with him on other occasions. When tral and northern Alberta. Between before they can be sent in to the get excellent quality meat in mar- tween the races there will be buck­
ly all towns of the state, says
The state unemployment compen fits that came to the settlers of the Commissioners leased this road these areas the crop^is extremely state board.
ing horse« turned into the arena
sation commission will probably those days were duly appreciated bed to a private toll company, and variable, Abandoned acreage is
While it is still harvest time on Lindgren.
in front of the grandstand and
in
southern
and
eastern
heaviest
collect $1,500,000 in payroll taxes but few understood just why this since I was never disposed to favor
many farms this matter is held Americans Are Beef Eaters
there will also be calves for the
in its first year, D. A. Bulmore, road building so much affected monopolies, I decided to act, know­ Alberta.
of enough importance that an es-
small boys to ride.
ing I had the favor of The Dalles Europe’s Weather Wet
administrator said. The commis Sherman county.
Beef has always been in high
pecial request is made to have the
The rules of the fair call for
«ion was just organized this year
papers signed and returned im- favor with American consumers,
There had been before th« sepa­ business men who had been cheated
entries
of live stack to be made
Nearly 145.000 employees are un­ ration of the counties a road built by this leasing of the road built out
European crop conditions show mediately.
he adds. Since 1900 people of the
by
the
25th
of August which is not
der the provisions of the joblesi town a canyon on th? Moro side of of Wasco county invested money little change although further rains
United States have eaten an aver
far
distant
and it is time thait
insurance taw, and approximately Gordon Ridge to The Dalles via in the Free bridge building. Hav­ delayed harvesting in western Eu­
age of 139 pounds of meat per
ATTENDING
CONVENTION
some
live
stock
owners of the coun­
ing
Hred
a
man
and
family
to
help
rope
and
lowered
the
quality
of
tihe
4800 employers have
person annually. Of this amount
the Free bridge for the special ac-
Bulmore said he expected 200,000 •omodation of Wasco county sev- me operate the farm, because we grain. In southern Europe, harvest
Wily Knighten and family left approximately half was beef, in­ ty put their name on the line te
workers to be benefited by the law ^lers in ‘«that district. A small wished better school facilities for ing is nearing completion, but in Tuesday for Portland where Mrs cluding veal. In recent years the show that their stock is coming
before long.
wat.rspout had emptied its waters our school children I had moved northern parts of France and in Knighten will go on to Roseburg use of beef has been on the in­ to the fair.
nto this canyon and out went a my family to The Dalles. I was Germany, harvesting has been in­ to attend the American Legion crease, reaching 62.7 pounds 1^’
Governor Martin’s 40 years in large part of the road bed. The free to give some time to this terrupted by wet weather. High convention. Wily and the chil­ capita in 1934, which was the larg­
From
the army stood him in good stead damage was considered too much general community good cause. On temperatures have reduced » corn dren will visit at Castle Rock with est since 1926.
my
week
end
visits
to
my
family
his
mother.
Mrs.
A.
A.
Dunlap
andj
prospects
in
Russia
and
trade
ad
­
when prisoners in the state peni­ for county reconstruction, Sher­
tentiary rebelled recently. An ad­ man county at about that time, in The Dalles I rode on horseback vices indicate little or no wheat for Mrs. Frank Haynes also will at­ No Beef Shortage
vocate of preparedness, the gover­ having its share of Wasco county s and crossed the Free bridge lx»at- export this season. Russia plana tend the convention representing
There is no shortage of beef in
nor had virtual “war plans” ready indebtedness to meet. That there ing the toll by going over a dirt to Row 36,790,000 acres to winter the Kent Auxiliary and Mrs. prospect, and the slaughter foi^the, Philip Henn, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Moro
the
for use at the prison. The dispatch was a demand for the road was ad­ road made by Walkers’ for getting wheat this fall. This compares; Knighten will represent
month of June of ¿this year shows Charles Henn, of Blanchard. Iowa
with which state police mobilized mitted, so application was made driftwood from the river. This with 34,721,00(1 acres for harvest unit.
the largest of any June in history. was here this week to look ove«
and penitentiary guards went t6 by private parties to lease the road steep dirt road led down off the this season and 32,506,000 acres!
This
has not only brought an abun­ the maternal farm white visiting
their poses was the result of many bed and place a tqjl on the travel west end of Gordon Ridge. So in 1935. The outturn in the lower BOXING COM MISSION SOUGHT dance of good quality beef, but in the west with friends from bis
conferences between the governor, for their rebursement. Whether steep was a short section of this Danubian countries, according to
native state. Mr. Henn has not
An attempt is being made to at retail prices 7 to 32 per cent
Warden James Lewis and Supt. this toll road proposition was or wood road that it required six or the United States Agricultural At­
been here since he was six years
lower
than
those
of
a
year
ago.
Charles P. Pray of the state troup- was not influenced by local mer­ eight good horses to draw a small tache, is placed at 353,000.000 ( organize a boxing commission for
As a result of modern cutting old. He states that the drouth in
the city of Moro and petitins art
chants I leave for the reader to amount of driftwood up it. When bushels against 302,000,000 bushels
era.
methods, there has liaen consider his section of Iowa has been severe
The riot brought into the open decide. One thing I do know is, past this steep* place a fair load in 1935. Th« quality of the wheat out requesting the city officials to able increase in the variety of bwi this year and that the com crop
is generally good. The surplus for appoint the members. Fifty sign­
s^ain the ofV-debated question of that W. M. Barnett told me when could be drawn to their homes.
cuts available from which the is going to be very light in con­
Upon
further
inquiry
I
learned
export
and carryover is estimated! atures of citizens are required.
establishing a reformatory for first I had progressed so far with the
housewives may make their se­ sequence. It is his observation
offenders to segregate youthful locntion aR to obtain the altitude from James Walker that another a» 83,000,000 bushels, which if ex- 1 It is undtrstood that if the pro­ lection. This in turn makes possi- that the farmers of his district
penitentiary inmates from harden-
t>p Rurmounted by the proposed canyon leading down from his ported would be the second largest; posal meets with city approval a ble a greater variety of meat are turning away from the present
ed criminals. Paul iForeman. state roa(j,
pooh-hoohed the idea of rd nA. call'd Rattlesnake, an even, export movement of post-war । Ixjxing contest will be held some dishes in the daily menu.
administration.
time during fair week.
years.
(Continued on page four)
succeeding. My mother had always
(CenUaued on Page two)
The state capitol reconstruction
commission is going to use Oregon
stone and wood *n ^he new stacte-
.nouse if at all poaible.
Basic bid for the building will
be for complete facing with Ore
gon granite, according to J. A. Mc-
Lean, Eugene, chairman - of the
commission. Alternate bids will
call for granite bases with marble
or light-colored eastern atone for
the superstructure.
Bids will be sought immediately
and opened September 2 for pre­
liminary construction work on the
capital, McLean said. First work
will comprise clearing the site, tenc
ing the building zone, excavation
of the basement and erection of
field houses for the supervising
architects and PWA engineers.
Contracts for actual construction
of the building will be drawn in
November, and work should be
started in December.
Oregon woods will be used to
finish the interior of the capital.
Black walnut will be specified foi
doors, casings and woodwork,
pecially in ‘the chambers of the
house of representatives and the
senate. Myrtle, maple, fir ano
other softwoods will also be ustd.
Only catch to their use will be
that Oregon stones be quarried in
time and at a cost which can be
competitive with materials from
other parts of the country.
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Mrs. R.P.
Final
AttOHiey Comes
To Practice
Republicans Meet
Showboat
rx,
r»|
'Due Here
1 o Discuss r Ians
Friday
For Campaign
Pomona
Po:
More Meat Than
Its i COplC ÍLOl
New
Valley
Spring Wheat
Prospects Poor
Be
How Rattlesnake Grade Was
Built Told By Mr. Barzee
Signed
Visitor Comes
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