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STATEHOUSE GOSSIP
Si|mnait (Hmtniy journal
GHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER Established Nov. 2, 188f
GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL, ErtabHshtd Oct U. 1897
CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6. 1931
WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891
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CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4. 1932
Published Every Friday at Moro. Oregon, By
GILES L. FRENCH______________________________ Managing Editor
Enteral as necond-ciass matter at the Poscortice, at Moro, Oregon,
under Act of Congress of Marci» 3. 1879
SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
One Year ................
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AUGUST 21, 1936
FIRM LEGISLATION
i know who won the ball game,
O«> cannot help but wonder | what Andy Gump and Litte Orphan
about the thoughu of tne hard Annie are domg. what the editor
working, non-partisan farm leaders say» »bout the political
when they read that the credit for1, who committed the latest and moat
¿'cn^tt’ng ^IpTwiS
i
Uk. in bathing ^s-
been actZly going on with ever ( ^«on. and slowed somewhak tba
increasing success since the decline, tempo of thought
ir farm prices of 1920. Farms and “
farmers at that time were heavily WATCH IT GROW
overcapitalized; land nad sold for, There is an article In the maga-
fabulous sums per acre and mort-| sine Fortune for August that tells
gages had been placed on such vai-' of the so called Kelly-Nash politi
uations, all of which put agricul- ' cal machine in Chicago. It has al­
ture in general in the hole and ways been a question to rural
caused the formation of a legisla- western:« how a group of men,,
tive block and a large body of state adnuttedly venal, could control the
and local leaders w*ho have persia- Poll«-»! »nd economic dwtinie..of
tently fought for better conditions. “
.nty> ind the ,rtlde
It was in 1921 that bills were swers it
passed to begin the control of trad- ‘ Patronage is the key to it all.
In Chicago there are many races
ing on the future market and in
of people represented and the lead­
the cattle markets. The Capper-
ers of each group in each ward are
Volstead bill that gave an impetus
recognized and given jobs, money
to co-operative marketing was pass
or fruitful contracts. As these
ed in 1922.^
smaller fry obtain small payments
Probably no ^bill has done as fiom the tax mone^the men high'-
much good for the farmers of the( er up accumulate millions.
United States as this one act. Its
The machine takes care of its
effects are far reaching. Under
own. No dutiful campaign work-
it the co-operatives now function­
ei is without fuel or food through­
ing in Sherman county were organ out the year. No member of the
ized. Becaus? they are in exist- machine is bothered by arrest fo>
ance, farmers of the county will anything short of murder and that
receive probably five cents per only causes temporary inprison-
bushel more than they would have ment. There used to be. and per­
under the old system. This means haps still is, a tax assessment that
>100,000 more on this one crop for gav? those in the inside a decided
this one county.
preference. Gangsters operated
The domestic allotment plan was often with the actual support of
designed by members of the the city government and public
group of farm leaders. It was dis­ officials were in on the pay off.
cussed several years ago at a meet­
All this in a great republic
ing of the Eastern Oregon Wheat where opportunity was supposed
League and was favorably receiv­ to be equal for all.
t
ed by a majority of the farmers
Any government that distributes
of the nation who became alarmed money or favors-to its citizens for
at the constantly increasing sur­ any other reason than actual serv­
plus of wheat that piled up because ice to the' government is in danger
of the good crops of the late twen­ of falling into the same system.
ties and early thirties.
The average citizen will be forced
Fanners are a minority in the to pay higher prices for poor and
United States and cannot carry an dishonest government than he
election by weight of numbers. would have to pay for good govern­
They cannot afford to allow their ment. Large and lucrative con­
problems to become a political foot tracts for non-essentials raise the
ball for it can mean nothing but taxes without giving adequate re­
defeat for their future plans, what turn and the few are helped at the
expense of the many. It will wreck
ever they may be.
Practically every one of the a democracy or any other form 01
major farm plans has been made government for that matter.
to fit a certain condition. Unfor­
Over in Seattle and old an well-
tunately the conditions change
rapidly and the plans prove un­ known newspaper, the P-I. has
workable after a few years. The failed to publish for several day*
farm board plan of holding wheat because of a strike. The strike
was defeated by huge crops 01 was caused by the firing of two
wheat here and abroad and the men. Strikers claim on account of
AAA was made to look ridiculous their union activities and the man­
by drouth that reduced the supply agement says they were inefficient.
of food stuffs so low that crop It looks like we are coming to a
curtailment was dangerous policy condition wherein it would be more
for any government A farm pro valuable for a worker to stand in
gram must be flexible enough to good with the union than to be
be adjusted to any national change efficient at his job; and it doesn’t
and must aid the entire nation as take much imagination to figure
where we would go from there.
well as or through the farmer.
in two short poragraphs or be un­
read. Our present day over-aim*
pliAcation was not yet in evidence.
was thought to be a person of time
and leisure who could and would
and buggy days.
Now, ha
tais
Of trees is part of every construe- aot jump to the conclusion that the said administratrix of the said
' tion job, and every tree tihat dies general 4 economic condition
is estate to bo discharged and her
Final Account and Report bo ap­
or becomes ripe and is cut for lum- good I the contrary is the fact,
proved and allowed:
ber or firewood has to be immed-
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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED.
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE
That a notice of the said time and
ent from travel at home—at least
On the 14th day of September place as set forth above, be pub­
from the viewpoint of one who has 19 ?6, at the hour of 2 o’clock, p. m. lished in the - Sherman County
By Eric W. Allen
Dean of the University of Oregon just driven from Eugene to New at the front door of the Court Journal, a newspaper of general
York and thence across Europe House at Moro, Sherman County,1 circulation in Moro, Sherman Coun­
Munich, Germany,—If this home through France, Belgium, Ger­ Oregon, I will sell at auction to, ty, State of Oregon, as often as
letter develops irito a aeries, they many, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria the highest bidden for cash the once a week for four successive
will not become political until and the Austrian Alps, and Ger­ following described real property weeks prior to the said day of
the end. After all, there is much many again. Here I sit in my pri­ in Sherman County, Oregon, to-' hearing and settlement of said
Final Account and Report and
in any country besides politics ano vate sitting room faring a row oi wit:
petition for discharge and that
windows
from
which
I
can
see
East
Half
of
Northeast
Quar­
Munich is the heart of the Hitlei
notice of the same be mailed to the
ter and East Half of West
region where political and social nothing except the five or six acre
heirs-at-law of- the said estate,
Half of Northeast Quarter of
questions are to be handled (if at palace garden of the former kings
and that any and all objections
Section 11, Township 1 South,
all) with some degree of discretion of Bavaria and the spires of a
the
elms,
cathedral
rising
above
which may be made to said Final
Range
17
EWM.
for very good arid ouAcient rea­
oaks and lilacs.
sons. '
,,
Said sale is made under execu Account and Report to be filed at
It is raining cats and dogs and tion issued out of the Circuit Court or before the said time of hearing.
Hitler was bom on the Austrian
is
what we would call a December of the State of Oregon for the
Done in Open Court this 4th day
border, which we have crossed
day
in Oregon and that why this County of Sherman, to me directed of Aug™*, 1^36.
twice in the last few days. His
Geo. A. Potter, Judge.
father was one of those comfor­ tetter is being written. Within in the case of Pacific Coast Joint
table, easygoing Austrian fron­ there is comfortable st:am heat Stock Land Bank of Portland, a
tier guards who stamp your pass­ in our throe very large rooms, corporation, vs. Estella M. Dillin­ NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE
port, take a look at your baggage, with, altogether, fourteen electric ger Quist and F. J. Quist, wife OF REAL PROPERTY
decide Mt to examine it too close­ lights that can be turned on if the and husband, P. J. Dillinger and
On Saturday, the 29th day of
ly, and send you comfortably on day becomes darker. In the sit­ “Jane Doe” Dillinger, husband and .August, 1936, at the hour of ten
your way with a "gruss gott” ting room are a big club-style wife, D. J. McLachlan ahd Mollie o’clcok a. m. at the front door of
salutation. Hitler himself wo tew leather couch, another couch cover­ McLachlan, husband and wife, the Courthouse in Moro. Sherman
some weeks ago in Bertin. But no ed with a fur robs and an aggre­ Bessie Axtell, H. M. Stephens, as County, Oregon, I will sell at public
gation of sofa pillows, this well
more of this until later.
receiver and in charge of the
appointed
polished desk two larga liquidation of the Moro State Bank, auction to the highest bidder foi
Yesterday was our second en­
cash, the following described real
try into Germany. We first cross­ rugs on the polished oak floor, a banking corporation, Walter A property located in Sherman Coun­
two
very
large
and
comfortable
ed the entire country from Bel­
May and Paul May, a copartner­ ty, Oregon to-wit:
f
gium to Czecho-Slovakia by the easychairs, three tables, a book­ ship doing business under the name
The North Half, and the North
case
and
set
of
drawers
besides
the
admirably paved, somewhat nar­
and style of Walter A. May & Son,
Half of the Southeast Quarter
row and crooked ancient roads, desk, flower pots wdth flowers in State Industrial Accident Commis­
of Section Twenty-three, the »
them,
and,
outside,
a
thirty-three
that wind their tortuous way thru
sion, “John Doe’’, tenant.
Northwest Quarter, the North
another village about every foui foot balcony (exclusively ours)
HUGH CHRISMAN
Half of the Southwest Quarter,
which
cannot
be
seen
into
and
miles. Pedestrians and bicyclist
Sheriff of Sherman County, Oregon
the
Southwest Quarter of the
(and there are unnumbered thou­ from which nothing unlovely can 40- 41- 42-43
Southwest Quarter and the
be seen—an immense awning is
sands of bicycles), school children
Northwest Quarter of the
ready to be lowered if the sun
and geese, ex-teams and small
IN
THE
COUNTY
COURT
OF
Northeast
Quarter of Section
comes out and gets too bright—
carts drawn by human hands or
THE COUNTY ^OF SHERMAN
Twetityfour, the
Southeast
and
all
this,
together
with
our
by dogs hitched between the
Quarter of Section Thirteen, all
, ’
nine excellent meals, costs t'e STATE OF OREGON.
wheels, pay not the sHghest at­
in
Tawnship
1
North
of
Range
ORDER
APPOINTING
DAY
three of us just two dollars a day
tention to the autist..
—-
Eighteen, East of the Willam­
FOR HEARING OF FINAL AC­
This1, time we entered by one oi apiece—just about what the meals
ette Meridian and m Sherman
alone would cost in large American COUNT ETC.
the new Reichsautobahn to be cor-
County. State of Oregon,
IN THE MATTER OF THE
pkted. These extremely modem cities.
The
European
ideal of housing, ESTATE OF CLYDE J. DAVIS. ». Together with the tenements,
roads are largely the work of an or­
d hereditaments and appurte­
Deceased.
ganization that corresponds to our both as we experience it, and as
nances thereunto belonging or
This
matter
coming
on
for
hear
­
we observe tne vast amount of new
CCQ. They are planned to cross
in anywise appertaining/
er rehousing and resettlement ing on the 4th day of August,
Germany wiVn a network like the
Said sale is made under execu- *
work carried out in tne seventeen 1936, upon tbs Final Report and
wires of a flyscreen, and they are
tion
issued out of the Circuit
years since the war, largely by Account of Neoma E. Smith, ad­
coming into use very rapidly.
govemtmental initiative, appears ministratrix of the above ,entitles Court of the State of . Oregon for
The new highways are very
to us to, be high. A vast amount estate, which has been filed herein, the County of Sherman to me di­
wide—they might be called eight­
of rehousing both urban and rural, and upon application of ths said rected in the case of .The Federal
lane roads but at the high speeds
was carried out by the democratic administratrix for an order fìxing Land Bank of Spokane, a corpora­
used they operate more as six-
and socialist governments after the time and place for hearing tion, plaintiff, vs. Henry H. White
lane—three lanes going and three
the war, and now under the dic­ and representing the said Final and Cora H. White, husband and
lanes coming with Un -or twelve
tatorships in the various countries Account and Report, and for hear- wife; Wasco Investment Com­
feet of grass and landscaped shrub the subject is still a matter of wide Tng any objections filed thereto:
pany, a corporation; Bank of Com-
bery in between. There are no
public interest.
^4 Now upon motion of Oren R. merce, a corporation; Maîk Sfcin-
grade crossings from end to end,, ,
The social democrats built large Richards, Attorney for said admin- ner as Superintendent of Banks of
no servie« stations, no sighs, Aoth- ’
the State of Oregon; State Indus
community dwellings; the present istratrix:
ing to distract and there is no idea makes for the decentralize-1 IT IS ORDERED, that on the trial Accident Commission: Lestei
speed limit. They avoid all towns
Alluisi, Receiver for The Dalles^
and villages. Every scar made by tion of industry—spreading fac­ 8th day of Sept., 1936. at 10 o’clock, Garage Company, a corporation,
tories into the courttry—and erect­ at' the Court rooms of the said
cuts «or fills has beeq carefully ing separate cottages for workers County Court of Sherman County, The Dalles Garage Company, a
grassed and landscaped prijth trees where each can have a garden. State of Oregon, in the City of corporation; Sherman County, a r
and shrubbery. The latter applies
Tney all seem very clean and neat Moro in said County and State, municipal corporation; Wasco Na­
to all European roads. By ancient
and well kept. We have seen be and the same is hereby fixed tional Farm Loan Association, a
habit the planting of a double row
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hundreds of developments of both as the time and place for the hear­ corporation, defendants.
HUGH CHRISMAN
kinds. But of this, more later. It ing of the said Final Report and
is a complicated story; one should Account and the petition of the Sheriff of Sherman County, Oregon
Dean Allen <
Find» Living
Cheap in Munich
irhON-
EDI VO
THEN AND NOW
'Recently we had the opportunity
of looking over some old newspa­
pers, of the vintage of 1395. The
thought occurred and still persists
that newspapers in those days were
printed to be read, while nowadays
newspapers are published to be
looked at.
Headlines in 1895 were short and
in a light and modest face whereas
the modern headline is neither
light or modest but inclined to be
black and blatant. One may read
the days news by walking slowly
past the news stand.
Forty years ago there were no
pictures of beauteous maidens
dressed smoothly in two ounces of
bathing suit. Such things would
have outraged* the readers of both
•exes who were wont to go about
in heavy red woolens and flowing
petticoat« both winter and sum­
mer, Their only chance to get t
glimpse of pictured human flesh
was from the family doctor book
and then it was a section aA a time.
Editorials were long and were
written about rather difficult sub­
jects. Dissertations about economic
problems were common and the
editor might take a column or more
to express his ideas on the sub-
(Continued from page one)
of the state g-range; George W.
Potts, preside r- of the Oregon
Farmers Union; F. L. Ballard,
Oregon State college; Mabel Irwin,
secretary of the Farm Rate coun-
sil; W. L. Gosslin, the governor’s
private secretary; Senators Chas-
L. McNary and Frederick Steiwer
and Rep. James Mott were all rain­
ing telegrams on the railroad
presidents before they gave in.
nm ÀUOTM11. i«H
The legislature^ interim commis­
sion on governmental and admin­
istrative reorganization is keeping
busy studying a plan nearly is
long aa its name.
Creation of a state department
of business regulation by consoli­
dating the banking* Insurance and
corporation departments is being
considered for recommendation to
the January, 1937, legislature.
Some other changes under consid­
eration are: transfer from the state
treasurer to the tax commission
of responsibility for collection of
the inheritance and gift taxes
transfer from the land board to
the tax commission of the handling
of escheated estates, placing of all
purchasing under the budget direc­
tor instead of the secretary of the
board of control. *
' t
. The state penitentiary is crowd­
ed to capacity with 1000 prisoners.
Not all are in the main cell blocks,
of course, but never before in his­
tory have »0 many convicts been
in confinement.
An even 14,000 persons have
‘‘done time” in the penitentiary
since is was established by ’ the
territory of Oregon in 1851. Ths
prison was built in (Portland,
but moved to Salem in 1866. By a
strange coincidence, both convicts
Mo. 1 and No. 14,000 were from
Marion county and committed the
same crime, larceny, First inmate
was Indian Charley. No. 14,000 is
Joseph Gigger.
Four new railroad constructions
projects are being considered in
Oregon, Public Utilities Commis­
sioner McColloch and Governor
Martin revealed.
The city of Grants Pass, whose
unique charter permits it to own
and operate a railroad, and Cres­
cent City, Calif., harbor district
have already applied to the inter­
state commerce commission for
permission to extend the California
Oregon Coast railroad from its
present terminus at Water Creek,
Oregon, to Crescent City, Calif.
The 81 i miles of construction
would cost >7380,711, with nearly
half the money coming as a grant
from the federal works progress
administration and >3,750.000 as a
loan from the reconstruction fin­
ance corporation.
The I. C. C. has already approved
construction of the 90-mile Gold
Coast railroad from Port Orford
to Leland, 20 miles north of Granta
Pass. Talk of a cross state line
from Bums to the coast via Klam­
ath Falls has been revived. The
war department too, is talking of
completing M link between Humbolt
Bay, Calif., and Coos Bay to give
complete railroad connection from
San Francisco to the mouthof the
Columbia river. The Hne would
allow the rapid movement of rail­
road artillery in coast defense.
The state highway department
and A. R. Holllngshed, of Harper,
tiny Malheur county town, are at
Hollingshed notified the depart­
ment he was going to put a toll
gate across a section of the Cen­
tral Oregon highway because he
was not paid for the right-of-way
taken by the road across his prop
erty. The state said the county
would have to pay. But if the toll
gate goes up, the state will have
My Gosh! If they keep bringing to go to court to tear it down.
these diaries into court every
young man will exact a promise
The state insurance department’s
from hie intended to not keep one business is better than ever, ac­
of the tattle tale things.
cording to Commisaioner Hugh H.
Earle. Collections of the company
Governor Martin says there will and agents’ license fees and taxes
be no “convict-kissing” in his ad­ on net premiums will be nearly
ministration. Well, General, then: >750,000 this year,—440,000 more
is nothing in the oath of office that than came in last year—Earle
make osculation mandatory, so it said.
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will be perfectly all right.
Governor Martin declined to aid
Maybe one of the reasons Lan­ a man in West Los Angeles in find­
don is loath to state a deflnite ing a wife. But Private Secretary
platform at this stage of the game W. L. Gosslin would. He sent the
is that voters have good reason Romeo two letters from women in
to be doubtful of the value of plat­ Salem and Baker who seemed in­
form pledges during the past terested in the mail-order proposal.
three years.
Watch Axle
A lawyer has been named ai
Any sudden or unusual noise
Oregon’s best car driver. Perhaps, from the vicinity of an automo-
being a lawyer, he was able to bile wheel should be investigated
talk himself out of whatever diffi­ without delay, according to the
culties he might have gotten into Oregon Motor association. Occas­
ion! y an axle nut may coma loose
in the past thirty years.
or the nuts that hold the wheel
Sharkey wasn’t such a shark at in place may work loose. In either
he thought he would be unless his case serious damage may result
ability at taking a dive could be if the condition is not corrected.
counted.
Oil Filter Teat
If the oil filter feels cold to the
The Mad Hatter put butter in
his watch and found that it didn’t touch after your car has been
aid its time keeping quality, but warmed up by running, it is a
sign that the filter should be chaa
at least he did something.
ged. When a filter is functioning
No wonder boys no longer aspire properly it will feel warm after
to be president. This very week the motor has been running, due
a dusky skinned person of very to the temperature of the oil cir­
moderate intelligence made a bit culating through it
“Rastus, I’m sorry to hear that
over >40,000 in seven minutes of
physical effort and it takes a presi­ you’ve buried your wife."
“Yessuh, boss, ah just had to;
dent nearly six months of worry
she was daid!”
In Other Days j
From the Observer Aug. 13, 1907.
Mr. Buxton left the J. 'W. Mes­
singer stere Monday morning and
temporarily joined in the 'rush to
save the crops.
4
Miss Mabel E. Lucas and Robert
B. McArthur were united in mat­
rimony by Judge Rudolf in this
city on the 19th.
A. C. Thompson has found out
that with a good crew he can
thresh 35 acres per day, from the
header box direct, with bis little
thresher, at an expense of >130
per acre.
Mrs. Berrian returned from New­
port on the 17th. She happened to
be in the railway accident coming
up from Yakima. It was fortunate
indeed, that nobody was even in­
jured.
James Mitchell is out and around
again since he broke his ankle.
He can hobble around by the use
of a cane and crutch.
Robert Belshee broke the axle of
his combine Wednesday, and ca Tne
to Moro with it, arriving soon af­
ter dinner. The break was mended
by Mitchell A Foss and he was on
his way home bj.3 o’clock.
From the Observer Aug. 24, 1917.
C. K. Cochran has stld his
Washougal orchard prop?
iê in
is temporarily making his
town.
Mrs. Julia Hansen returned
Wednesday from a visit with her
brothers at Weston and ‘ Walla
Walla.
R. A. Twiss has been busy this
week placing the plumbing fixtures
in the new home of F. E. Fortner.
Mrs. Blanche Landingham is
visiting in Moro from Sheridan, at
the homes of her brothers,,. Irvin
and Harry Kunsman, and sister,
Mrs. May Barnum.
Mrs. Jennie Bates is vwting at
the home of her father. R. J. Ginn
and family, from southern Califor­
nia. The stay of Mrs. Bates is in­
definite, pending the assignment
of Lieut Bates to a permanent
command by the war department
The stork presented Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Sobrey with a very pretty
baby girl on Aug. ,18th at the home;
of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. McDanel in
Portland. Mrs. Sibney is better
known to a large circle of Sherman
county friends as Leah Cushman.
Miss Helen Whalley of Portland,
who has been a very popular mem­
ber of the younger set of Moro
for several months past White visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Otto Peetz, left
this week for San Francisco, where
shs will take a 3-year course in
professional nursing.
SEPTEMBER 3-4-5
Sherman County Fair
BUCKING
RACING
PULING COMEW
There will be as fine exhibit of farm Draft
Horses as can be seen at any fair in the
State..
SHERMAN COUNTY HAS THE BEST
Bring Your Livestock and
Show Their Quality
STOCK ENTRIES Gose August 25>
Farm Produce & Grange Exhibit
Needlework, Handiwork, Culinary Arts
4-H Club Demonstrations
CGNCESSIGNS
s
your fair .
AND
Every Day is Sherman County Day
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