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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1937)
F o rty N in th Y ear N o ■■ ' lijSe t The stage is all set for the bien nial session of the legislature which is scheduled to get under way next Monday for a run of 40 days or longer. The same arrangement will prevail as for the special ses sion of 1886 with the House meet ing in the Salem armory and the Senate W the dining room of the liarioto hotel just across the al ley. An enoloeed passageway will connect the two buildings to per m it the member» «nd em ployees to go back and forth without danger of drowning in one of the frequent downpours that visit the Willam ette Valldy at this time of year, or of freezing. .* Organization of the two branches will probably be agreed upon at pre-session conferences to be held * here some tim e Sunday. Already the choicest plums of the two or ganizations' are definitely “in the bag” with Frank Franciscovich ot Astoria slated to preside over the Senate Mftd Harry Boivin of K la m ath Falls the majority choice as gavel wielder in the House. Fred Drager, Veteran chief clerk of the U / H E N Paul d . Hunt, president of the Alumni Association of the i ° i Or*fl° " ’ • " * m ,m R«th Covington, member of t h e . House, hr understood to be assur association • board, visited Japan last summer they were presented ed of a return to his old post in' with a beautiful Japanese doll enclosed in a glass case as - of good w ill from the Japanese peo p ir to 'th e citizen»*“ Oregon’ <The prMentatlo,,' « « . rn.de by Jo.uk. Metauoka. J .p e n .e . etudent who graduated from the University of Oregon. __________ \ ■. $59.000 Will Court Meets IO COUflty Late For First Conservation 1937 Sessicn ed his successor a f c the oath ot office he made one final visit abound town and presented Ckrl McKeai with his official star. It was one that had been given to McKear when he was sheriff beck in the ' pre-war days. He left it for Bux- } ton who succeeded jrtm and Buxton passed it on t o ‘CHrism*n at his | death. Hugh carried it all the years of his sherUhdiip and trough it back to its original wearer. It is a good star, b rig h t w ith use but still without warn placer in it, Carl says he is going to have thi names Of the successive wearers engraved upon it and keep it foi his grandchildren. , Danger Of Heart Disease Steadily Increasing W ith all his ingenuity, man has never produced a iqafhine so won derful as the hutaan heart, yet few of us tre a t this life sustain ing mechanism with due considera tion a t all time». Almost one- fourth of Oregon’s ¿1,429 deaths recorded in ' 1986 were due to heart ailm ents. For the most part the victims were elderly persons, and in th a t we m ust all die, we accept the inevitable fact th at th( ■ heart is the first organ to falter among so many men and women of ! advanced age. But at least one- i fourth of the 8,761 deaths from heart disease were of persons less than 60 .years of age, and herein lies a challenge to the ypung and middle aged group of our popula tion. Harry Boivin came up from The soil conservation paym ents Klamath Falls Saturday and has •hat w I' come into the county been spending the entire week in Salem and Portland putting the Some time this month will be sent Two Days May Be Needed For finishing tonches to the House or he county agent’s office for , . . ganization, preliminary to an distribution to the farmers and AppointfllCUt ot (iuiccr^ nouncement of his committee as range men cooperating. .|.______ signments promptly after the ses- it is expected th at this project aion gets under way. F-ancisco- will bring about $59,000 into the The January meeting of the vich has also been devoting much vn ch will be divided into county court was delayed because Moderation Required time the past week to getting his the. following classes. Class one Moderation -in all things anrl senate organization rounded out w.il account for the la rg e st sum of the absence of Judge P otter who common sense in daily habits are _______ ____ ____wiiti tit was snow bound in Klondike. It although his problem is much simp or $46.000. Class two will b rin g in which heart ailments ler than th a t confronting Boivin another $11,250 and the r a n g e le - bf-gan Thursday just before' noon the nicans inasmuch as m ost of the senate velopment program will bring in as th a t was the earliest hour the ands more of our people to reach members are veterans who will, $2000 to those who have fenced oi ju.-ge could be present. old age in health and comfort. fo r the m art part, fit right back developed springs to aid their Paym ent of the accumulation ot H eart disease ia a constitutional into their old committee jobs while ranges. bills , for . December was the ®r8t first disease and depends upon the in- . . W M,S the the Housd organization m ust be ! ---------- wor< undertaken and the appoint- dividual', own habit» of eating, rebuilt from the ground up- ments were taken up a fte r that sleeping, and more or less upon Governor Mlartin has his o p en in g :! i- job. The details of the first meet inherited constitutional weakness ...essage aR ready for d e l i v e r y . ’ J ing are expected to require mo.e of tissues present in the disease. Advance information is th a t i t | M n i i r . J T _ i than one day of the court’s time Everyone beyond middle age should will be brief and deal p rin c ip a lly |D ÏO V Ô G I O 1 a-v COS J) «¿1*1 and a hold over meeting Friday is give his fieart special considera with the improved condition of the word exPected. tion. . a. •U te ’s financial condition w th nlea , , . a r R , to the legislators to keep the state ' ast ^ k of his transfer from the Road viewers, election officials, keel and not unset the ,ocal CCC camP to a sim ilar posi- a fair board member, county health Long Exertion Dangerous 4 » near w* «« w. ^ M --X He ¥ ith ‘xi his v • ! ° nfT.PP1* /»/■>!1 wf w physician, v\ tv® Y nicelv balancedTbudget e i nJw.a* d s p o rt. ^ e r . county Preparedness is of two main of wild spending. * 7 * ! wife and dau^ h te r left # n d a jf fo r new spaper all m ust be ac acted upon form s. the first is personal and the Predictions are th a t the «session I ^heir new home. He has been a: tbe court a t the first m eeting second professional. Prim arily, in will run well over 40 days for which , thls camP since March when h e 0*.™ 6 year and discussion of ap- dividuals of m ature age m ust real- the lawmakers are allowed to draw canie to relieve Lt. O’Malley. The i P°in ments usually requires some jze t h a t high-speed living excessive pay and that it will rank well up new_ o ^ c er in charge of the camp ................................ I use of stim ulants, and unnatural the list in the point of legislative ,is Edward vonSlceth wh0 I ^ Appointments made before the drain upon yiuH ty »„«h as consis ” spent i few hours here a few weeks eariy adjournm ent were those of tent iack of proper re s t and over- volume if not in legislative ouslitv ’ Outstanding among the proib|gms ago before his orders were chang- Jam es Stew art as stock inspector exertion are likely eventually to ! and Charles Logan as auditor for backfire in the form of a weaken- to come before the session 'w illo e ed- •’ —— —— — —— — — ,'lbe year 1937- The other work of Cfj heart, The human mechanism proposals to amend the Knox li ¡th e court will be. done next Mbn-1 apparently takes a lot if punish- quor control act and the milk con Tuesday, 7.30 p. n t. Boy Scout ; day „ h e n an adjourned m eeting a ^ im it'îo = ' trol act, demands on the part of Ttoop 360 meets at Masonic hall. will be held. endurance. Secondly, no m atter counties and cities for a realloca how good one’s conduct toward his tion of highway revenues, labor body may have been, once yearly a legislation looking to compulsory complete physical examination arbitration of disputes between should be made by. a competent dhnplyers and employees when the physician. (A scientific investi public interest becomes involved, gation thus applied will nip incip amendments to the several social security acts including an attem pt The lack of proper indoor humi-1 combined with high humidity is ient heart disease condition« in the ¡burt-condltions bud—conditions, by to Increase old age pensions and d.ty during the winter months hkely to cause discomfort because ??.e ipy the ’ way, extend the pension act to include j causes much discomfort, and is re- the accumulation of moist«™ in t h J blissfully unausPecb*d by ,the in needy persons 65 years of age and i sponsible for many cases of colds clothing lessens its efficiency as a dividual. . ... . The . . sensible ,, ... person ,, will over, a proposal to repeal" the cer- ( and more serious ailments, non-conductor of heat. Moistening : himself with available tificate of necessity clause in the j The so-called “comfort zone”, in of air. however, in connection with charts showing normal w eight on truck and bus act, and an attem pt doors, has a maximum tem perature heating, is advantageous, as it pre basis of height, age, and family to reorganize certain departm ents of 79 degrees F., a minimum hu- vents too rapid evapo ation from charasteristics. The importance of of the state government along the m»d:ty nf .?€ /<, a minimum tem per the skin and thereby allows some m aintaining normal weight as » game lines as those proposed and ature of from 50 degreeA F to 60 what lower tem peratures with means of postponing h e a rt trouble is well illustrated by the estim ate defeated in the 1935 session ancL a degrees F. and s maximum h u -! comfort. program of state b u ild in g includ m iditv of 557<. This is the range j D rafts or currents of cold ail th at when an adult is five pounds ing a new library and office build whinh cinc,t people in te m p e ra te , on the face or sudden tempe ature overweight it means th a t no less ing with purchase of additional ’ - f 8 VZ-N agreeable. j changes cause contraction of the than three miles of blood vessels have had to be added to th a t per land on which to locate the new The tem -cratu re and hum ,d.ty Mood vesse]s w;(h resultin buildings. o. th e a.r, affect health m .m ly by | P rp m ,B. This Io»« of blood supply sons circulatory system. On th at ♦ * * influencing the h ea t re g u la tin g allows an increase of bacteria and basis, a person who in middle age has been th irty pounds overweight From an original investm ent of m eehan’am of the bodv. More hei^t may result in the development of has added some eighteen miles of $107.000. the state liquor commis is produced in the body than is’re- co’ds or other respiratory infec- sion in less than two ■ years has nui h c r.t» heat must by lost, t ions. Continual exposure to over) bloody vessels to his system, plac- an abnormal burden on hie built up a business grosrinpfm ore else heat stagnafion or h eat strdke heated a ir increases the liability heart a t a time when he should be A than $7,000,000 annually and re - "il -esult. to tho abnormal conditions men protect’ng it from over-exertion. turning a profit in excess o£«a$?,- Excessive m oisture m akes hot tioned above. High tem peratures 260.000 a year. The $107.000 bor- <nd coH n;r colder - the combined with high humidify may rowed from the general fund i n ^ - H i ,. h nde-ing evaporation and 1934, was repaid this week toereth-j gtym d by favoring conduction, result in chronic respiratory dis WEATHER FOR THE WEEK eases. Thus, lim iting the tem per- O*TF MAX MIN PKKC1 er with $14.710 interest. . State If th e air is nt or higher th a n atu c will simplify the problem of ,. 29 . 16.. .06 T reasurer Holman has seized upon body tombera tire , perspiration is Dec. 31 m aintaining .(the proper moisture 21 ; 4 ' the sta te ’s experience in financing secreted by the skin and its evapo . T Jan. content in the air because cxneri- this venture as an example of w hat ration lowers the body tempera-•. mcnjÄ have shown .00 ...31 . < -1 . th at excessive could be done By way of saving ture. W h’ii h ig h 'a ir tem perature 3 .. 30 .00 interest paym ents to the taxuay- j Pnj high humidity occur together heat jequires excessive humidify •29 .14 ...40 >, 4 ers if a l l ’nphlic fund snwlih’cs—- j ♦•bp w 'lfn e oppressive. Con ing. 13 ...30 .21 Evaporation of at least two state, city, county and school dis- p;rip ft;r movement aids evan- 14 , . 00 •4 quarts of w ater daily in each com- tricts—were pooled under a plan o~Prion and results in cqoling of RBOk .40 (Continued on page four) ’ ^ (CbntlnuW K g e two| I the body. Low air temperature t t _ ___ im ia » Official County Paper roRwor.KEtis’SEcuRrrY Weather Becomes Officers rom Sworn In By smart Clerk After Hugh ChrUman had watch A .L t h A e c k | -----------------------------______ — will again be at the chief clerk’s desk with Mrs. Elizabeth Glatt of WnnrSinrn >s aa fila Assistant. Jo t ' ~ ' Woodburn. his assistant. TT* Z^* - Singer, for many years—u n til1 r » rms in the C o m 2 1986—sergeant at arms House, is underway to be slated for ■ «imiUr post in the Sen»te a t ' JS qj . the forthcoming seaion. < » 4 ctevs? ‘ «pit« of the fact th a t he is a Re- pubhean and the House 1» over- w helm ingly dem ocratic again. In the Seiupe John Hunt of Woodburn anuarys.8, 1937 t G O O D -W IL L G IF T S ta teA ff& rs By M oro. jQfeirtm , q q j Proper Humidity Valuable In Healing House ,f. Rough With Wind and Snow Vpdegraff Gives Oath To New Roads Blocked Temporarily Clerk Who Iir mediately Takes When Snow Drifts Into Cats; Over Deties; New and Old Cars Stalled In Solid Banks of Offict rs Sworn In Snow Until Rotary Clears Road I Real w inter came to Sherman ‘‘I, Joe T ruitt, do solemnly swea1 county Tuesday morning when res that I will support the constitution idents awoke to find the wind whis tling around the com ers and a fine of the United States of America dry snow following from the east. nd the constitution of the State ot It resembled The blizzards th a t the Oregon and the laws thereof, an; old folks tell about. will faithfully and honorably de The highway crew had been suc mean myself in the office of county cessful in keeping the highway F o rm s fo r the g ig a n tic sotraT se opened up till th at time bu t the clerk to which I have been elected, to the best of my ability, so helj. c u rity law set-up have been p rinted wind and new snow were too much at he rate of a m i’lion a day by an for their equipment and although me t God.” eastern p rin tin g concern. Thelm a the road was kept open to the Col Thus, with letiring district a t Mae M yers is shown holding up a umbia river travel south was halt- torney George Updegraff, admin ¡if!? the b,anks ,a#, they cam « i <*d by huge drifts south of Nigger istering the oath of office the new from the presses It is estim ated ____ ____... ridge th at kept growing in spite county clerk assumed his duties' that 26,000,000 forms will be needed of all day and all night work. to keep thi: records of the workers. Monday morning at nine o’clock. County Reads Blocked Officers Take Oath Country roads have been travel- F irst duty was to swear in the e i at considerable risk for several other elected officers. Margaret days and with the new snow and W. Peetz, Wily W, « lig h t e n , T. high wind they were blocked en Lester Johnson, C. 1C. Wilson, tirely in most cases. D rifts of five Clarice Sacre. sheriff s deputy, and or six feet were reported on many Marie Hoskinson, clerk’s deputy, roads and the d rifts are said to be appeared in th at order before the _____________ __ as solid as if made of sand so tight- neW clerk and holding their right In the «223.431,25 collected b y ' ly 1» th« «now packed. hands aloft spoke the wo:Js that the sheriff last year there was a ' ■™.<i wln<1J ’ t0™ of. *?°r t made them legally constituted offic- ii bate g ven of »3,108.52 to those d u r it'o n , 4n<i Tuesday night it als of the county. who paid their taxes In March. w ,s qu'e t over rn0',t a t th* Mrs. Effie Campbell, form er as Interest collected on taxes for the county' A roU ry gnow plow WM sessor of Gilliam county is aiding sent up from Cascade Locks Wed in the sheriff's office for a few year was $1.348.90. The total roll nesday morning to open the road for 1936 was $204,239.25 and the weeks until the new officer learns sheriff collected $174,641.24 plus south to Shaniko. the.details of his office. the ehate for a percentage of over King Has Guests 85. W itnesses Present The highway crew and several Total collections of $228,674.26 • On hand to witness the ceremony were 112% of the roll for the year travelers were forced to stay at were Mt. and Mrs. W. L. Wilson, which is about equal to the good the Glen King farm home Tuesday pa ents of the new sheriff, Mrs. tax collection year of 1936. night as the road was blocked on C. C. Wilson and Atlee Wilson and The final turnover is spotted m both sides of them and some of Glen Applegate an uncle. places for the south end of the the equipment was frozen because Retiring sheriff Hugh Chrisman, county received a benefit larger in of the cold. who has held th at office since back proportion to the total than usual. The night of the second saw the in the very early twenties, had his The Keht school district received first sub-zero w eather when the 'ersonal belongings packed and well over $2.000 while that of Moro m ercury dropped to one below. left soon for The Dalles where his received $391.46 in delinquent taxes Tuesday night it dropped to four wife is ill. The Kent district also got three below and Wednesday night a low County Judge George 'Potter times as much money as did Moro of nine degrees below was recorded came to the court house in the af- from current taxes indicating that a t the station. Lower tem per rnoon and took ’»ns oath of office; the south end of the county was atures were reported from points farther south. David Reid, commissioner elect, in a tax paying mood. Despite the fact that most of the., was sworn in when the county Wasco and the Wasco school snow blew off of the fields much cours was called. district also obtained large pay- ments from both the delinquent K°od »» expected to come from it Young Men In The stubble held a large p art of and current tax turnover. the fall and summerfallow fields New faces in the court house retained some of it. There is no since the sw’earing in ceremony are frost in the ground except in spots those of Joe T ru itt who will be the blown bare and the snow w ater voungest county clerk for a num will penetrate the ground where it ber of years and C. C. Wilson who will aid springs and walls even if is startin g his .duties as sheriff it does not feed the wheat crop." comparatively young. Mrs. Clarice Stage Held Up Sacre, sheriff’s deputy, is also new to the county’s officialdom. For _ > . „ , « ,i Several cars and trucks and the the first time in years an entirely Improvement of the Rock Creek | down , t a i e were stock in .now new group are manning the sher county line .ection of the W»»co- drift|| , outh of Mor0 Tuesd>y m ak. iff’s office. Heppner highway will have to wait ing it difficult for power machinery Elder officers M aragret Peetz and on the allocation of additional fed to clear the road. Few accidents Wily Knighten found the swearing eral funds for PWA highway work, were reported although several in process a minor incident in the accoiding to R. H. Baldock, state cars and trucks slid off the road. days work for neither their offices highway engineer. This project is Slow speed was necessary and the or duties were changed. one of 15 PWA highway jobs in banked snow cushioned the slide. Oregon which have 'been approved About five inches of snow has by the federal adm inistrator but fallen this week according to best which are held up for lack of fed- estimatM it ¡, probable th a t era! funds. Estim ated cost of the between fourteen and eighteen in 3.9 miles of grading and surfacing ches is laying in the stubble. A on this project, all within Gilliam smaller amount is on the sown county is estimated a t $63,434.60. fields but so far It has been enough The Moro Woman’s Club are Another nroject included in the to prevent freezing to any extent. givings a silver tea for benefit of list of 15 held up pending C o n ces Doembecker hospital, a t Odd Fel sional action extending the life of Predictions are fo r a slight let up lows hall on Friday afternoon, Jan the Public Works adm inistration in the cold with a possibility th a t fall. uary 15th. Bilkiness meeting .will is th e Sand Hollow-lcounty line more 3 snow will t be a t 2 o’clock. P rogram will section of the Lexington-Echo high s ta rt a t 3. Every body is asked to way. involving 10 miles of grading, come. We are anxious to have surfacing and oiling, all in Morrow Erosion Meeting To this meeting a big success, so do county, a t an estim ated cost of your p a rt by telling everyone $27.765. Be Held A t Lexington about this Tea. In a letter received by Baldock Morrow county farmers have this week Horatio B. Hackett, as sistant adm inistrator of the PW!A called a meeting for the discussion M ore Money Comes promises th at “applications for al of erosin matters for January 29, lotment ,of funds will be kept in and are arranging to have repre mind an will receive prom pt a t sentatives of all the mid-Columbia For 1936 Contracts! tention should circumstances allow wheats counties present to give their ideas of the proper method Another $8.146.38 arrived Tues further consideration.” day for distribution to the farm ers Hackett however, points out that of controlling wind and water ---------- ..., of the county Who cooperated with “ since authority of the adm inistra erosion. Joe Balenger. county agent of the government in reducing acre tion expires June 30, 1937, it is not age of wheat in 1936. They were probable th at allotm ents will be Morrow county, and LeRoy Wright 30 checks in the bundle. Of the recommended for any appreciable of Sherman county were interview total payment for 1936 compliance number of. projects until there is ing farmers this week while mak nil has been paid but $9,000 and «orne indication of what attitude ing up the program. A. C. Kate congress will U ke toward a con berg, of Wasco, has agreed to talk this is expected at any time. Several of the boys and girls tinuation of ' the adm inistration’s about his experience with the KiU- ifer deep tillage implement and who are feeding.beef calves for ex^ work program .” ,___ D . E. Stephens of the experiment hibition next fall at the state fair Tom F raser came Up from Cor station will give the results of hi» and tbe Pacific International have their calves on full feed already. vallis nnd Portland Tuesday after experiments in soil eroion. The meeting will he held at the Frank Sayre has two taking full taking the youngsters down to rations and Bobbie King has two school. He remained in town Wed Lexington Grange hall under the Herefords n n f two Angus steers n e sd ay until a horse was brought auspices of the Lexington erosion control aaeociatin. in for him. * on full feed. More Taxes Collected Than Levied Rock Creek Road Being Built By WPA Woman’s Club Plan Silver Tea • ■* •*>1 ’
