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American Legion Registration of » ' Non-Higfy School
State Affairs
By
A. LLindUck
Official County Paper
' Moro, Oregon, Friday, October 16, 1936
Forty Eighth Year No. 50
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A t.The Pacific International
C<”-"'^/ VotersShowsGain L* V
To Give
On Hallowe'en
c-
o .
oince Primary
T° Be Less
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Wheat League
Plans Annual Meet
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•e
For December 4-5
With the national election less
than three weeka in the future
Hallowe’en night, when witches ’ ---------- .... . .
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A m eeting of the Ludg.it com
Oregon voter® are expected to cast Rnd
are supposed to return
m
m ittee of the Non-high school
Committees Appointed To
partisanship to the winds as they, t0 earth and do strange things to Democrats Gain Some Strength
board of Sherman county met
go to the polls on November 3 to m an’s possessions is to be cele-
,
Monday night and? made the levy
Handle Discussions of Various
give a substantial vote of confi biated this year in this county with During Summer Months;
for th a t organization for the com
dence for Franklin Delano Roose a carnival. It will be given by
.
ing year. V. B. Rakin, Henry
Subjects Pertinent To Wheat
velt, democratic candidate for the
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American ......
Legion and the A u x - 'Hmor, r artics Make Large
Peters, Carl Melser and Roy
president, and (Charles L. McNary, j $]ary at their hall,
Powell were present to make up
Growers and Their Problems
Percentage Gain; Number Small
republican candidate for United
the budget committee as were Tom
There will be a program of local
S û te s senator.
Fraser. H arry Plngfrton, Grover
numbers to sta rt the evening and
Discounting claims of the pro then there will he the carnival, •
Young and Dean BeynobL,, mem
fessional ballyhooers who continue
iAn organization m eeting of the
The registration for the Nov bers of the hoard.
Now a carnival means, ham hnr-
to rant and rave in behalf of their ire’s. confetti, barking vendors, ember election has been concluded
.
directors
of the Eastern Oregon
The levy th's year will he $3352.-
respective candidates it can now be h^rns, sVrprrtetine and games of and the names of those who will 48 le«A than the one massed last
j W heat League was held in Arling-
pretty safely predicted that Oregon al!" sorts. Hallowe’en means cider be perm itted to vote are duly on year.- This decrease is due to the
1 ton Sunday for the purpose of a r
will line up in the Democratic and doughnuts, arpples, fun and file with the county clerk. An in small?- num ber of rural children
ranging for the annual meeting
„column in the national contest foi hilarity.- Therefore a carnival on crease since the May prim ary is attending high schools in the coun
1 which will be held in Heppner. The
the presidency while at the samel HaUf>we en means a combination shown by the final figures. At that ty and to the fast that the w arrant
! dates set for the meeting were
! December 4 and 5.
time, inconsistent as it may ap of these things and it promises to time 1376 were eligible tb vote indebtedness of the board has been
pear, tihe state will return its he inclusive enough to give eniov- whexeas 1442 are now elijri bV*. reduced to some e%|frnt by tax re
For several years the meetings
senior senator-—a republican to mernt to everyone, the old and the an increase of about 5%.
have been conducted with four
turns. It is thoughf$hat the board
• committees doing the work. How
another term in the national law young, those young enough to get
Of this number 887 are Repub will soon be on a cash basis.
ever, this year a fifth committee
making body.
a kick out of throwing an apple licans. a decline of that party 01 j -
was named to study and report
Conservative republicans w na8e, peeling over their shoulder to see five as 892 were registered fro m r-
cn
possible agricultural programs
survey of the situation leads them
i0Ve r’s initial, to those old th a t party in May.
Democrats
that might be developed during the
to consede Roosevelt’s victory over enoUfl,|1 to merely w ant to eat the number 538, which is an increase
year. +
Landon in Oregon still contend apple.
j of 66, as 472 were registered in
the race will be a close one and by
May.
For the prim ary election
1 Weed Control Sought
no means the landslide by which
I there were twelve of other parties
Carl Lyons, who was LEbS eptem-
the sta te went Democratic in 1932
There will be a Weed Control
registered and now there are ber 15th of this year, died in'a*hos-
when it gave Roosevelt a plurality
and
Soil Conservation committee-
seventeen.
pitalrin The D alle^Tuesday morn
of more than 77,000 over H erbert
which
will be chairmanned by O. M.
Dorothy
Fraser
and
Bobby
King.
M010,
are
photographed
at
the
ing a fte r several days of illness
Comparison Given
li cover. Democrats, on the other
Babcock of Pendleton, who held
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due to a self inflicted gun shot Pacific International Livestock £ x position.
hand, insist th a t tfoe RJLosevelt
this position last year. „
The following chart show’s the wound.
Despite the fact th at over forty
The bullet, from a 22,
m ajority th is year will be a s la r g e ,
Finance * and State legislation
majority un»
* 7 7 2 7 7 7 7 n n r G G C boys are Stationed in Coos registration as compared to that passed through the young m an’s
■ will be handled by -a commit Tee
: . L l O t. ! y ger.
view! county in the fire fiKhtin|? zone the of May. by precincts:
body a short distance below the
years ago. A conservative view
ltd by E,. M. Hulden of Arlington,
work at the camp is going on to Precinct
M a y ----- Nov
heart and above the spleen.
of the situation would seem t o .
!
who was chairman last“ year.
I
Rep Dem
Rep Dem
He was ¿not thought to ba ser
point to Democratic m ajorities in some extent.
Production, M arketing and W are
72
61
92
On the Douma place east of Rufus
85
iously Injured when taken to the
a large m ajority of Oregon’s 36
housing
will be discussed by a
58
55 hospital Sunday night but. compli
town several dams have been built L. Grbve
52
59
counties with Roosevelt probatdy
I
group
headed
by H arry PYoudfoot
62 cations began and an operation
'4 9
or. are being built to check the Klondike
55
52
trailing Landon in Benton, Marion,
1
of
Wasco.
Charles
H arth will he
31
flow of w ater in Grass Valley can- Monkland 90
26
79
was performed Monday morning,
Douglas, Lane and one or two oth
'
vice
chairman.
4
10 but his life could not be saved.
It is expected th a t the dams Rutledge
46
45 ’ 9
ers. Wm. Lemke, the Union party von.
. 47
raise the w ater level by five Kent
104
43
106
will
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He was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
•^Dorothy F raser and Robert King Transportation Live Topic
candidate, is said to be showing
125 , 84 Alfred Lyons of Kent. The family
78
or six feet and thereby bring it G. Valley 129
W o , returned tost week end from . Transportation and Rural Elec-
unusual strength in Tillamook,
100 have lived there for eight or ten Small Percentage of Total
191
91
192
Mero
P°.r t ‘t nd„whc2e ff°r three days / u¿-! trification will be another commit-
71 years having come from Tennesee.
134 '
59
Wasco '*■ ‘141
ing the Pacific international Live-i
his partisans claiming those sec- a ‘
p ro v e n » m e
te which will be led by Bert John
Payments
Riquested
for
W
ork
The
The division between the two He was working on a ranch at
tlons « "to the W ’ a lth o u g h !
the graze roota.
stock Exposition, they were the son of Ione who was chairman for
w’ork will be finished as soon as ( parties for this election accord'rfg the time of his death.
J
u m
' K? " t a ,? i ‘he
N4ti0" a' ? » n k i the 1936 meeting of the loarue.
this claim is disputed by both Re men can be spared for it.
to the registration is one and two
T
h
.
budget
fo
r
the
Sherm
an
of
Portland.
They
won the Port-
The new committee on ne«r agri-
p u b lic s» and Democrats.
I thirds Republican to one Democrat.
Ccuntv Soil .Conservation A ssona- land trips by being selected as the I cllitlirai Uff.iai.tkin will he in
McNary is not expected to ex Dirt Dam Made
There has been little change in
tion has been prepared by county outstanding 4-H club members of i ch
Ma<, Hoke of p endietnn
perience any difficulty in defeating
Several small dams have b een 1 the party adherance of voters in
sgent
W
right
and
transm
itted
to
Sherman
County
and
as
such
were
Willis Mahony the Democratic can-
Mr. Hoke was president of the
d i d i t e t o r ^ U t o t ^ S U t « senator'buiIt this summer by Roy T iller’s ttiis county but it so happens that
(he state college where it will be honored • during their Portland rieague last year and was recently
------ on the E. E. Barnum place th e increase in the number of vot
I nnpiove l or disapproved by tile visit.
ship. Thousands of conservative! cryw
elected to head the new Farm Bu
in
the
canyon
th
at
feeds
the
main
ers
is
ju
st
exactly
the
same
in
¡tnte office of conservation.
| In Portland they joined the reau Federation in Oregon.
Democrats are refusing to support
Rosebush. One large draw th a t is number as is the increase of Dem
This budget calls for an expen- party of 40 other winners from 20
their p a rty ’s nominee on the
Several topics were chosen as
not very steep has been dammed ocrats.
>
I diture of $1870 for the'-year Ariff other counties, occupying two discussion subjects for the m eet
ground th e he forfeited all right I
by a d irt dam fourteen feet high.
based on the expected return from flbors of a down town hoteL As ing and the officers will later ob
to iparty support when he bolted
A channel for the w ater has been
soil conserving practices it will be. guests of the bankr they attended tain speakers who are qualified and
the party two years ago after his
constructed through the rock. The
The county budget meeting will 34% cf the total.. There are 552 the Pacific International Livestock
defeat fo r the gubernatorial nomi draw is wide enough th a t a good
able to talk on them. Among these
bp
hold Mondav, October 19, at the work sheets signed in this county. Exposition, the horseshow, *tlfe subjects will be river development,
nation and took the stump for thfc sized lake will he formed if the
«•mint house. Besides the members
It Is reported th a t in Yarnivill , theatre,
the , annual
Republican nominee.
While tht dam is filled. It is the sort of dam
.
Al
_. 4-H club
. . . ban- wheat varieties and tillage meth-
of the court. Judge Potter and A. ccunty where there are 720 work quel toured the First National od , oi| con.,ervation and crop.
Klam ath Falls mayor is said to be th at m ight be built by farm ers
and werp
honored at
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, . A Bank
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ai a dm
w n- - a , h . st , ___
may be
grown'on
Not only will Pacific coast ship A. Dunlan and P. C. Axtell com sheets the budget c»Us for 119,
showing strength in a few c o u n tits,- at comparatively small cost for
missioners,
will
he
ranged
G.
W.
of
the
total
for
operating
expenses
ner
party
on
Tuesday
even,ng
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t-
>fr0TO
prod
^ .t ion and live-
ping
be
paralysed
by
a
strike
w
ith
including Klamaith, Union, W al
water retaining purpose® .and in less than 60 days, but Oregon Johnson, O. L. Belshe-and Aman- and in Clackamas county where tended by county agents and F irst ♦ u / /T
lowa and Coos McNary is e x - ,
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J National Bank, officers
1 StiX>k Tec(linff-
erosion prevention.
there are ------------------
1310 work sheets
signed
agriculture fa^ns the prospect of dus von Borstel who will make up au---------
pected to pile up a big lead in a
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E. Harvey Miller, president of
tlie
budget
calls
for
21%
of
the
dealing with radical labor agitators the budget committee.- —
m ajority of the counties.
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the league and Charles W. Smith,
For the tax payers this is one total expected. Both budgets have The districts are Wasco, Locust secietarv, conducted the meeting.
in every p a rt of the state.
In the Congressional race it is
of
the im portant meetings of the been proposed and have not yet Grove, Moro, Gi-ass Valley and Present from Sherman county
Such is the prediction of W. H.
p retty .generally conceded th at
Kent.
vear
for the levies are made«jan been accepted.
_T were Leroy W right and Giles
Perkins, m anager of the Oregon
Jam es W. M att, republican, will
“The budget is made for Mu-
which
taxes
are
collected.
Monday
“ We. want tp keep the coat down French.
"
Producers
and
Shippers
Associa
show * clean pair of heels to his
purpose of making a Survey of as much as possible and do the sur- '
tion, who has ju st returned from the a* iropriations will be set for
Democratic opponent, E. W. K irk
those farm s where farm ers are com veytng a.< cheaply as possible ’’ County Committees Named
patrick in the first Oregon d s - , Next week or as soon as the California where he was sent by each ‘of the manv items on the
plying with the regulation for a said Mr. Wright. “All those who
. , 4.
six
weeks
exams
are
over
in
the
-'cunty
budget.
Those
interested
his
organization
to
investigate
the
tric t while W alter M. Pierce., Dem
T ? year cnunty co/ " m it^ s
in any of the activities of the coun g ran t,” said county agent Wright., are not intending to comply for th e 1
schools
4-H
clubs
will
be
organized
present
w
aterfront
situation.
ocrat, is expected to be returned
ID the budget is approved super- grant should notify the coun tvi Wl11 .hol(,r
and obtain the
ty
may
attend
and
express
an
for
next
year’s
activities,
reports
for another term in W ashington;
“There can never be any hope of
visors
will
he
appointed
for
each
of
agent
immediately.”
1
^he
local
ffti’mcrs on
over Roy W. Ritner, republican., Leroy W right. The goal set for lasting peace—»-or peace of any kind opinion as to the cost thereof.
the five districts. One man will - A meeting will probably be held L * questlons 3° come before the
club
work
next
year
in
the
beef
At some later time a public
—so long as H arry Bridges, the
In the third picking Ore winner is
work in the field and another will next week to plan the work out K™6™’ a? senJbly or to P™P°"e
a little more complicated with the classes is a full string of 20 calves radical alien' from A ustralia, is hearing will be held which will compile the figures in the office, lined.
! 8Ul)Jec^8 l ° r discussion a t the an-
presence of John A. Jeffrey, inde-J represented a t the Pacific In te r the leader of the m aritim e unions give taxpayers another ( opportu ____ __________________ ___...
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| nual meeting.
national.
This
will
require
a
great
pendent Townsendite, <ukriittediy
on this coast,” Perkins reported to nity to be heard on the budget.
Dewey Thompson will he chair
er amount of interest than lias
his members locally and through .1 After publication, however, a
man and Omer Sayrs, vice chair
detracting from the strength of
budget may be changed but ten
Nanny Wood Honeyman, democrat,^ been common in this county but out the state.
man of the committee on weed
other
counties
have
as
many
calves
percent,
which makes it im portant
and, by the same token, .aiding j
control and soil conservation. J. B.
,
“
Bridges
and
other
paid
leaders
that those interested come to the
Adams and Roy J. Baker will be
the cause of William A. Ekwall, as a regular thing.
of these m aritim e unions have
fiist meeting.
the
chairman and vice chairman of
republican incumbent. But even,
plainly indicated they have no de
the committee on finance taxation
a* th a t the contest in the third
sire to subm it their differences
George R. Gordon, son of the
and state legislation. H. D. Proud-
district is admittedly a horse race
with employers to an im partial
threatening to close the road for foot will lead the discussions in the
man
who
Gordon
outte
and
Gordon
-w ith the result pretty much jn
board of arbitration. Right now
ridge was named, has been in the some time. An attorney had in county for the production, handling
doubt.
they are stalling for time but every
county for the past few days v isit-, structed “ him
’“ ‘‘i to fence his property ftnd m arketing committee
Rufus JC. Holman, republican, is
{Continued
on
page
four)
with
friends
among
the
very
P
aa’
H- Another lawyer had
Tu„ transportation and
..
The
rural
ing
conseded to have a walk-a-way in 1 T. M. Rolfe came home from the
advised Gordons th at the road was electrification committee will be
old
timers.
Bible school leadeis from Kent,
his race against U. S. Burt, demo- stock show Sunday bringing a new
m t t o « ’election as stole treSs- Percheron stallion «nth him. The
Mr. Gordon left Sherman coun ' a m ilitary road and could not be beaded by A. C. Kaseherg and J. L.
Valley, and Wasco churches
> fenced.
Davis will be the chairman of the
joined with .local friends, Sunday, ty in 1896 and has lived a large
urer but the contest between I. H. ! " « '» '• hor^ , 13 a black ’rear,ln.g
When the homesteaders had re- new committee to propose and dis
part
of
the
intervening
timp
in
October 10, a t the Community
VanWinkle, republican, and Alfred Senator Diplomat Brown. He is
church / o r the Fall meeting of the Argentina where he works with ¡turned to the Gordon place because cus a Federal Agricultural Pro
P. Dodson, democrat, for attorney « Diplomat stock being out
to
Shernfart ’ County -Sunday school Swift & Co. in raising c a ttl? . o n ' of the fenced road the elder Gor- gram.
general is expected to develop into >
”e
.
A
city
nominating
caucus
was
don sons, Tom and George, wept
association. A basket dinner wab the P la tte river.
a real race with Dobson, encourag- P'“n al tbe stock 8how and w*
The old Gordon place was on the up the grade to open the fence.
victory of four ™ly beaten by his full b o th e r for held in Wasco Monday night the reived at noon in the church base
ed by his near
result
th
a
t
most
of
the
present
1 grand champion honors. Mr. Rolfe
ment. Rev. Willis Douglas of the Deschutes, river where the Dalles According to Gordon’s story Tom
years ago, making an aggressive
officers
were
renominated
for
their
Wasco Methodist church preached Military road crossed th at stream . Gordon asked that the fence be
campaign and counting on the su b and those who have seen the horse offices. ,
The family, raised fru it to sell to taken down so th a t the men a l
pronounce
him
to
be
one
of
the
on
“ Power.”
stan tial increase in Democratic
Wm.
Nisbit
was
named
aa
may-
“The* National Preaching Mis the early settlers and also ran a ready in the place coujd be let
registrations to put him over this best horses of his breed.
orial nominee. E. D. McKee, J. O. sion” to be held in Portland, Nov. band of horses from the Columbia out. This Walker refused.
time. •
Tom Gordon started to file the
Yocum, R. O. Scott, W. R? Reid. 5 to 8, led by Dr. E. Stanley Jones river to Prineville. When the elder
W. G. Arm sworthy and M. J. of India and a team of nationally Gordon brought the . horses from wire, meanwhile pushing W alker
In 'a n effort to secure a court
hack from the fence. Walker had
Schwendel were named as council- and internationally famous relig- W . yoming„he
thought
„
»
. iAn . Indian
.
interpretation of lotteries as con-,
At a special election held T hurs
men, E. F. Feldman was named for ious leaders, was anounced by Rev.! boy, Pierre Cutcherrie, with him his gun in one hand while pushing
day morning, Qotober 15, a t the
tem plated by the Oregon coiwtitu-l | a v « S D i s t r i b u t e d
recorder and Mrs. B. Estrelle^ H ail Cillzort Carey of Waaco. Each He paid the chief $3000 extra Jo Gordon hack from the fence.
tion both the defence and prosecu-,
3 . _
_
When all the wires but one was Moro school house for the purpose
ey as treasurer. All are incumbents church is invited to send five of allow the boy to corthe along. When
tion in the Marshfield dart gam e' Distribution of $45,305.94 in with the exception'of J. O. Yocum
cut
Walker fired h itting Gordon of electing a director to fill out the
its leading m em bers.> Some d is-( the Gor Ions left their ranch Pierre
case have asked the state suprem e liquor .revenues was compdeted this and M. J. Schwendel.
cussion of how the 4-H clubs and ¡left the country also and is said on top of the head. They both term of H. C. Thompson, resigned,
court for a rehearing of the ap- week by Secretary of State Snell
the Sun lay schools may cooperate ! to have gone back to the reserva- fired, W alker’s bullet killing Gor Carroll Sayrs was named for the
peal. In its recent opinion, the The distribution represented the
arose during the afternoon busi-^ tion wi Wyoming. Mr. Gordon is don and Gordon’s bullet hitting position without opposition.
court merely held d a rt games t o ‘quarterly taxes imposed on manu-
The budget as posted was adop
ness session directed by R. C. Byers' looking for P ierre’s son, now sev- W alker in the shoulder inflicting
be lotteries and a violation to the facturers and im porting distribu-
ted
a fte r it had been amended to
a
woun
I
from
which
he
later
diea.
Kent was -------------
named as _ the enteen.
If.he
m e boaid
uvmv. ut
v«.» Moro
x.xsz.w --------j
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- f finds him he will w take
The
of the
Library . president. ............—
conform to thé six percent limita-
state constitution without a tte m p t tors of m alt and alcoholic beyer-
Mr.
Gordon
has
a
home
in
Yuma,
ting to define lotteries although two a(?es a n d was made upon a papula m et Monday night and decided to; next meeting place. DeMoss park h/m to Argentina with him.
Arizona. He takes cattle to that! tion law as the posted budget was
The
members of the court, in a special- ijon basis. Each of the 36 coun-
V concurring opinion defined lot ties and 192 incorporated cities and night of November 7. It was deem meeting next June.
^ .rrie es s as
as any
any game to
« „ s ^ t participated
l e t o s t e . ! in
to Ike
in which . t0Wns
the distribu- ed necessary th a t some money W p Musical numbers d M
rbanee was the predom inating, tion. Sherman county’s share in raised for operating expenses and Frank- Sayrs, Rev.
_
f Ptnr9 regardless of the fact t h a t , the distrUiutiqp amounted to $95.86. for the purchase of rt6w books and Williams, Rev, and MV®. Mitchel- newly y bujlt a u owned’ the land on frame and distinctly a man of th e ( high school students attending
H m iih t also involve an elem entjM oro received $16.72; Waaco, $19.- the coming party will be th e,first more, Mr, aed. Mrs. ■
<
school.
(C ontinW ”n Page two)
00 and Grass Valley. $9.88.
of a series to talse the money.
son and Mrs. Adah Nelson.
^ h j s i d a j f j the road had been ¡open places p f the earth.
Kent Boy Dies From
Bullet Wound
Dams Being Built
,
Despite Forest Fires
S.C.S.C. Ass'n
Sherman County
Makes Up Budget! ^ou"e s‘ers See
:
{Stock Show
For Survey Work
County Budget
Committee To
Meet Monday
Skipping Strike May
Paralyze The State
4H Clubs To Be
Organized Next Week
Early Sherman County Resident
Visits Again After Many Years
Topnotcher” Says
Bible School Leaders
Rolfe of New Horse
Meet Sunday
Officers Named At
Wasco Caucus
Carroll Sayrs Is
New Director for
Moro District
Quarterly Liquor
Card Party For Library
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