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5
4~
M o ro , O re g o n ,
Sheep Show
Arranged By
Committees
4-HClub Awards Fifty Student*
Made Sunday
Finish Sherman
A t Grass Valley
County Schools
F r id a y .
Official Coonty
M fcy 21. 1937
CAarge.'Çf
Cause „f
Circuit Court
tfecM etoprwing
Session Starts
To Be Tried
By D. E. Stephens To-day
Paper
First National
Opens Sherman
County Brandi
The achievement day held by
Automobile act identd
caused.
The May term of the circuit
4-H club workers of this County
sral peí
court was called into session Thurs
Rafas Has tar<est Class This
Prix«» Por Brat ItHkkk
tough bo one was Lack Of Nitrates h Upper
week end although
day morning by Judge Carl Hen Dinner Given By Local Chib
was held last Sunday at Grass Val
seriously
injured
in
the
reported
dricks. A postponement of three
ley with H. C. Seymour and wife Year; School Out Over County
Aad Beat Fkecm Offered
wrecks. Most damage was suffer Three Feet of Soil Cause
days was made to prevent delay In Honor Of Bank Officers And
and Eugene Courtney and wife in
ed when Kenneth father of Kent,
in a possible ease.
By B w -O » Meo «f
attendance from qut side of the After Successful 9 Months Term accompanied by Miss Thelma Far of Light Cobred Pkmts;
Those chosen on the grand jury New Managers; McNanghten
County. Mr. Seymour, state club
rar, was hit at the lower turn in
were John T. Johnson, foremhn
Mora To Sfceep Grower»
leader, gave a talk on the impor
Wasco by a car driven by A. A.
A ., • Condition Not
Theo, von Borstel, E. R. Barxee, Main Speaker
tance and aims of chjb work and
Dalles. Abe,
Graduation of pupils from the Tramontis of
S. P. Boice, Fbana Medler, Dewey
Mr. Courtney presented the »wards five high schools of Sherman coun W estland and Rosie H atley o f ;
Thompson and J. E. McClure.
The program for the Sherman. won by the clubbers during the ty started last week when Wasco Wasco were also occupants of the, A good many theories have been
Only case known to be bdfore
Saturday, May 15, the Shermsn
County Lamb Show which will be previous year. A crowd of over and Rufus sent their seniors into car. The light coupe of Sather’s expounded to explain the cause of them is the one involving T. A County B-anch Of the First 'Na
held next Thursday, May 27th, a hundred was out for the day and the world with the community was pushed -from the road and the yellow spots in the wheat Applegate who was charged In tional Bank opened with flower»
has been made up by the county a picnic lunch was enjoyed at noon. blessing, continued this week as badly damaged and Miss Farrar | fields this year. It is not uncom- justice court with larceny. The re banked in the lobby in mute ap
agent and the committees appoint
Those winning awards for 4-H 1 Moro graduated its class and will suffered a fractured knee cap nion for some yellow spots to sp- mainder of the jury were dismiss preciation of the citizens for the
ed to look after the work of put club work m excess of five years go on into next week when Grass ne^essitating a cast.
pear but that they should remain ed until 9:30 Friday morning when new financial arrangement.
ting on the event.
were Norma Melxer for 10 years Valley and Kent will end school
A charge of reckless driving was I until thia time of year is peculiar court will convene again to tr>
The Moro Commercial Club and
The general committee is cod»-'work; Doris Thompson, Dorothy for the term.
y cases that might be ready.
the Moro Woman’s Club were re
placed against Tramontis and the to thia section of the wheat belt«r^
posed o f Ofaer Sayre, J. N. Lah- Eraser andLuther Davis for eight
sponsible for the floral tribute as
trial will be held next Tuesday be
k . series of testa made on thF| —
dry, aad Elmer JR Barxee. The years; Frank Sayrs, Lloyd Hen- Rufus Has Large Clam
fore Justice 'Mee of Waaco.
soil by the experiment station men
both had cooperated with business
dafite committee that will handle ricks and Anita Dunlap for seven
men to make the display. With few
this week shows that there is mosh
In all fifty youngsters finish high
the details of the Sheep Herder’s : years; Rcatha Sayrs, Vivian Ful- school in this county this year Two Others Tip Over
exceptions local flowers were ob
less nitrogen in the three top feet
Ball in the evening is made up of ler, Jane French, Frank von Bor»- and odd as iv may seem, Rufus, one
tained.
L. R. French overturned his c a r M **1 where the yellow spots oc-
Art Bucholts, Keck McKean and A. tel, Donald von Borstel, Bobbie of the smaller schools has the Saturday less than a mile south of i cur ttian in the earth under the
During the day residents of the
Douma. The committee that will King and Billy Alsup for six largest graduating class with four Dinty’s damaging the car in sev-1 greener wheat.
A more complete program ol county drifted in to look over the
be responsible for the premiums years; Kelly Tiller, Wanda Tiller, teen. In this class were Georgiana eral places. He received several! D. E. Stephens says that the market reports and information is new quarters and to depoait their
is M. E. McKee, W. A. May and, Robert Helyer, Beth Mersinger, and Norma JBladkbume, Lawrence bruises in the crash but was not heavy snows and drifts caused a broadcast over the state owned money in the new institution on
and Betty Jeanne Vint in for five Henderson. Anina Coats, Harold seriously injured.
M. M. Oveson.
lot of moisture to go into the radio station KOAC by the Ore the initial day. It was reported
years work.
ground
and aided by the spring gon State college extension serv that approximately >200,000 was
Dingle, Lynden Guilford, Marie
S. L. Stark was looking at the
Fair Grounds To Be Used
Scholarships were given to the Mathicson, Dora Millard, Joe Mor wheat while on his way to town rains the moisture leached the ni ice than is provided over any other taken in in deposits before the
The show will be held at the summer school at Corvallis to five ris, Robert Macnab, Arden Sim Saturday and nearly missed a trates down into the ground where' station In the United States, it h doors closed late in the afternoon.
The Moro school band serenaded
fair grounds where a larger area clubbers: Bobby King, Lowell Til- mons, Catherine Tom,
Elbert bridge. His swing back into the it is at present unavailable for the revealed in a summary of market
can be had for the pens of sheep ler, Ivan Blagg, Audrey Searcy and Thctnpson and Florence Thompson. road caused hjs car to upset doing growing wheat plants.
news rudio broadcast for 1937 just the new bank in the afternoon with
an hour of music to which many
and crowding cun be prevented. Donald von Borstel. „
issued at Washington, D. C.
At Waaco where the graduating slight damage to it, but none to
Small
Amounts
Useless
of
the visitors in town listened with
I
The first event which will be judg-
ceremonies were held May lS^nine Sam who walked "Back to his house.
Most of the material used in the
ing will begin at nine o’clock m
Yellow spot soil showed 5.3 parts1 KOAC market broadcasts is re interest.
finished the prescribed course.
In the evening a dinner was ten
per million of nitrates in the top ceived direct from the govern
Thev were Walter Grant Boice,
dered
to the bank officials present
will give a lamb grading demon-
foot, 2.1 parts in the second foot ment market news teased wire ser
Dessie Maie Hearing, Charles Gor
stration. It is expected that the _
_
— . ...
.
i and 1.6 parts per million in the vice operated by the bureau of and brief talks were made indicat- -
don Johnson. James Yates O’Meara
1 third foot. Green spot soil showed agricultural economics. Corvallis ing the pleasure of the various
high school band will play between '
WCCK Phillip . G. O’Meara, Catherine L.
rl4.8 parts per million of nitrates is one of 48 receiving stations communities of the county at the
eleven o'clock and noon.
Richeldeffer, David R. Richelder-
- In the afternoon there will be
State game officials are planting fCr, Mary A. Thomas and Glenn
in the top foot, 17.0 in the secono scatteted throughout the United advent of a new bank in the coun
Judgir< of the wool exhibits be- trout in the Deschutes river this Van Gilder.
Graduation exercises for the foot and 14.1 in the third foot. This States connected by 10,600 miles ty. Eugene Courtney, manager of
ginning at 1:30. At two there week with the aid of local sports-
senior class of the Moro High is certainly sufficient difference t o l of 4eaaed wire. Reports are pre- The Dalles branch, spoke of hit
will be » demonstration of the men, Collis Moore, Elmer Barzee Moro Ends Thia‘Week
school were held Wednesday night account for the lack of color In parad for broadcasting immediate long interest in Sherman county
proper manner in which to tie a snd Jay Freeman. Fifty thousand
at
the school auditorium with Rev. the wheat plants as nitrogen causes ly in the office of L. "R. Breitkaupt. people, and their difficultiea with
The Moro graduating exercises
fleece and filter in the day a meet- were dumped Tuesday, a like num- were held Wednesday night of O. E. Foster of The Dalles aaj the dark green appearance of extension economist, which enables out- banking facilities and ended
by introducing the bank officers
ing will be held at the court house ber Wednesday and forty thousand this week and nine from this com speaker of the evening Hit theme wheat.
spot news of trading in the prin-
per cipal mwrketa to reach Oregon present. These were Lawrence
for the organisation of a livestock were put in the stream Thursday munity ended their local school “Press On” ma» ¿Muatrated by[^ When less than three parts
Mann. John Ebinger, Oscar Keller,
association for the county. The to complete the job.
existence when they
received numerous instances of the value million of nitrates are fa the soil I farm listeners within a few hours Pete Larsen and Charles Newlands
day will end with the before men-, . The state trucks were driven their diplomas. Louise Barxee, of persistence and the lack
of the wheat plant eannot get any of the, time the trading actually of the Portland branch and Lloyd
tioned sheep herder’« ball.
up the old railroad grade and the Helen: Strong, Howard Conlee, wisdom shown by those who en-; use from it what ever. When the takes place in the leading cities Hnnagin and W. Ray Blake of the
Prises will be given as follows: fish were liberated from the Har- Ronald Powell, Marjory Blake, Ra- deavor to be too smart.
wheat grows and sends its roots of the United States and foreign local branch.
Pen of three market lambs. flO., ris place to up river points. There! chd Poiey> Erma Mae Morgan,
The valedictory address was giv- down into the nitrogen filled soil countries.
E. B. McNaughton, president of
>7.60, >5., >2.60, >1. For sihgle is a movement afcot to close the Vern Futter and Harold Belshee en by Helen Strong and the Saluta- of the lower feet there should be a
“Oregon farmers sell an average the bank, was introduced to make
market lambs >5., >3., >2., >1., >1. stream for the remainder of the,
tjje rra<juates.
tory by Louise Barxee.
’ greening up process noticable in of approximately >300,000 worth the major talk of ^he evening. He
For medium wool >$., >2., >1. For year to give the small fish a chance
R. G. Culiff presented the class the wheat.
1 cf produce every business day,” explained the position of his bank
Grasa Valley Hsp Nine
to grow a bit.
Fine wool >3., >2.. >1.
in a few words of appreciation for - Also a warm rain that would Mayg g reVthaupt. “In an effort to and gave the reasons for its en
available for this farm trance into Sherman county field.
At Grass Valley Vere Pike, Clar their friendship and hard work cause nitrification fa the top three
ence Young, Bill Roth, John Roth, and presented the numerous a- f eet would cause the wheat to marketing task the most prompt The training of the personnel of
accurate service possible the branch banks was an important
Edwin Peters, Emma Ellen Fort wards for various activities of change color from the sickly yellow
__ , _______
. „r students. The M. E. McKee award t° • more healthful green, says market news broadeasting has feature, he said, that had kept bis
ner,
Frances ________,
Fairchild, _____
Guy Vin-
tin and Ivan Blagg are through1 for highest grader for the year Mi. Stephens.
been developed at Oregon State bank from expanding to thia coun
with school work and will receive went to Wyman French, the Mas-
The land is not permanently in-I college. That it is of real benefit ty before.
ter Engraver award for second jured by the condition and the ni»
producers is Indicated by the
He stated that the First Nation
Governor Martin will not an their diplomas next week.
„ Entirely dpart from Governor
highest
grades
was
presented
to
trates
will
be
available
when
th
e,
lettera
received
from
practically
al
Bonk is an Oregon institution
The
Kent
exercises
will
be
held
Martin’s declaration that the state nounce his choice of a successor
Strong, the Probable Sue-'foots reach them. It is possible every county in the state as a and that it is managed in this state
May
25
when
seven
boys
and
girls
Helen
to
C.
A.
Howard
as
state
superin
could not and would not recognize
award to Harold Belshee. ! »n some instances that the nitrates
of the market news broarf- by Oregon men. He pointed to its
a labor union in dealing with its tendent of public instruction until from that district will be ready for
Three
senior
medals
were
given
have
been
leached
down
to
a
depth
J
eaat.*»
continuous dividend record as an
other
activities.
The
seven
are
employees, there does not appear after his return from San Fran
to Louise Barzee for scholarship, beyond which wheat roots will go
evidence of its conservative bank
Myrtle
Helyer,
Melvin
-
Barnett,
cisco,
about
June
1.
The
Governor
to be any considerable enthusiasm
to Howard Conlee for activities, out it is not probable in many MORO LOCALS
ing tendency.
among state employees over the said that he had received more Dean Guyton, Allen Kramer, Rob
and
to
Irma
Morgan
for
citixen-
cases.
The branch here is for the pur
ert
Mitchell.
Cecil
Nortop
an
J
Paul
Judge Carl Hendricks has pur
proposal to unionixe their ranks than 18 applications for Howard’s
ship.
Robert
Gillmor
was
given
the
Nitrification
is
a
t
process
that
pose
of making loans as well as
Schilling.
Two
of
these
come
from
chased the residence property
Casual conversations with repre job and desired to personally in
accomplishment «ward and the'<oe» on when there is moisture
Shaniko.
owned by Hugh Chrisman and has providing a place for local men to
sentative employees in various de view several of the Candida
Moro Firemen girls athletic award fa the soil and in an ordinary grow-
moved over here to remain a part keep their accounts’ and savings.
partments flailed to disclose any Speculation around the state house
was
given
to
Betty
Powell
anfl
th
e:
fag
season
in
this
county
few
ni-
The bank .will make money and
real demand for organisation. A centers on three candidates, name
A. J. Bucholtf boy» athletic award trates are produced because the of the summer.
prosper as it makes good loans and
few employees admitted that a ly Rex Putnam of Albany; A. M.
J. Shelton Fritts and family lèft aid« in the development of the
top of the soil is dry. This con
went
to
Harold
Belshee.
qnion “might be a good thing” in Cannon of Toledo and Paul Jack-
dition does not prevail in the mid Tuesday night for Mountain City, county.
£----------------------
negotiating grievan ces With de son of Chemasfa.
west where summer rains are de Tennessee where they will visit
Ninety three were seated in the
• a •
partment heads or in pressing de
with his father and sister. Shel dining room of the Moro Hotel for
pended on to produce the crop.
mands for better pay before th<
The new milk, cream and butter Do you knew—
It is probable that there will be ton has been m Oregon for IB the dinner.
That the memorial poppies are
legislature. For the most part,- grading law passed by the last
I a reduced yield on the yellow spots years and wishes to see his father
however, state employees recog legislature became operative last made; of red crepe paper, by hand,
I unlets the nitrates are reached again.
nise the fact that so far as wages Sunday (April 1«) according to by disabled vetrans in more than
Bob Poley was here Thursday
i soon by the wheat plants and in
hours and working conditions go Announcement by Sokn ^T. White, fifty hospital and poppy work
from The Dalles , to visit with his .
it is likely
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University of Oregon,
„ . Eugene, any
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— , that
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their lot is far better than thaï state director of agriculture. Un rooms in forty states, and that the May 21,—Bicycle control was a produced will be of poorer quality parents and see his sister, Rachel
of the average person in private der the new laW all milk ahd cream workers receive pay for each poppy major problem for many cities in on those spots.
(graduate
employment.
Wages of clerks sold
I
made the material being furnished 1897, and the many and varied
About ninety mothers and daugh
and stenographers in state eirtploy ice cream plants and condensaries free by the Department in whose ways in which city councils met
ter« gathered at the Community
for instance, are much higher than m Oregon hereafter will be graded territory the hospital Is located?
this problem are still the effective
church last Wednesday evening for
those paid to similar employees in and paid for on a grade baois. That
That the more than 10,000.000 ¡ bicycle laws of many municipali
the banquet held annually by the
offices, stores and industries in is first grade milk or “A*” grade poppies made by disabled veterans ties, it was found by the bureau
Mero Woman’s Club. A “ftngers-
Salem and (Portland. State em cream will cornnfahd a bdttfer price are sold on the streets unde the of municipal research of the Uni
before-forks” dinner, which was
ployees, as a rule, work less than 'han will second grade ntilk o r supervision of American Legion versity of Oregon in a survey en
1
. ■
’
*•*
eight hours a day With Saturday “B* grade cream.
Auxiliary, on the Saturday pre titled “Bicycle Control in Oregon.”
Oregon farmers who particip<t- -on unirrigated land and 2070 on planned, prepared and served by
Mrs. Poley, Mrs. Clarence Merri-
lri»gated land.
afternoon off, not to mention the
ceding Memorial Day, by approxi
a a •
Back in the “gay nineties,” mud- ed in the 1936 agricultural con-
New seedings o f irrigated Ladi- aon, Mrs. Knighten, Mrs. Walter
mately
100,000
volunteer
workers
numerous holidays.
The state parole board has an
dy, chuckholed^treets that enticed I servwtion program made a total no clover fa western Oregon were Ruggles and Mrs. Irvin Morris
State law limits the employaient
nounced its intention of asking the who receive no compensation ?
riders to use the sidewalks th a tiof more
150,000 acres of new made en llf il acres by tfame co- was thoroughly enjoyed by
of workers—as distinguished from
That through the Ame ican Le
’ecrislative emergency board for an
made
the
“bike”
traffic
a
problem,
seedings
of
soil
conserving crops, operatiag fa -»he. «arogram, while present. . Mrs. Merle Miller gave
employees—on state jobs for more Additional
appropriation ; r with gion Auxiliary poppy program the bulletin points out. The ad-| acoairding to a, summary of the other kinds of clovers, meetly »1- the address of welcome and Helen
than eight hours a day or 48 hours which to finance the employment more than >100,000 is paid annual
a- week except in emergencies -of a drputv parole officer to assist ly to needy and disabled ser/ice vent of the automobile, with the j r^C0|.dg of performance in the etate sike and sweet clover, were planted Strong responded for the daugh
resultant ^improvement in roads,!
office at Oregon State ool- on 19.786 acres by cooperators fa ters. Coffee was served in the
When these hours are exceede
in the work
supervising paroled men and women for making pop made the bicycle problem less 4m . leg^;
church auditorium aJter which
the state « s * 'whole. .
the overtime is paid for a double prisoners. Several measures spon pies?
portant. Now, with a revival of
varied program was presented.
Approximately
14,000
applica
Trashy
summer
fallowing
wee
the regular hourly wage. In the sored by the parole board and de
That a poppy <J»nce will be giv the vehicle in full away, the regu-
rne ven.cie
tion» for benefit payments are ex. earried oat in eastern Oregon on - A Chinese danoe by Janet Behade
highway department, largest em
en
at
the
Legion
hall
in
Kent
on
signed to broaden the aeone of the
inaP°r pccted when totals for all counties 94,019 acres as a means of -nose wifa and a eelenial girl dance by
ployer of common labor, a mini nro^e nrogra.m in this state were Saturday night May 29, to dispose lation «for sa^ety 41
tant, it 1» declared.
.complete, «cording to N. C. trolling wind and water erosion. Annajean Knighten were enthue-
mum wage of 50 cents an hour is ’efeated by the last legislature.
of the poppies?
Cities
should
recognize
the
ex
Donaldson, secretary of the state Green manure crops on 66,381 iasticaUy received by the audience.
maintained with mechanics and
. That the Ladies of G^or^e Bell
cellent
opportunity
for
juvèhile
committee.
Summary of 11,206 of acres were tamed under by co An action song led by Rachel Poley,
skilled labor receiving a propor
Oregon’s 1938 automobile license Unit No. 49 expect you to be safety education offered by bicycle ¡ ^heae rece¡ved to date shows 142. operating
farmers.
Perennial Jane French .and Beatha fiepea wl-
tionstely higher wa*ge.
plates will present an aluminum present? *
control, the report points out.
194 acres of soil conserving crops, weed oontrol was carried out on so met with enthusiastic response
While some employees a t e k i
background with black letters arid
and the cencfadfag number
dined
favor an organisation
sucl^ as perennial glasses, clovers 4764 acres.
figures,
according to Secretary ^ ¡B U S IN E S S SECTION TH REAt
“ Meeting to Muaic”- - a nmefanl
Much
wider
participation
fa
4ha
and
alfalfa,
planted
on
the
farms
that will insure the permanence of
WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
State Snefl. Cost of the plates
represented by these applications. program is expected this , year than burlesque en a w omen ’s dab maetr
their employment, together with
Your life is mo^ in danger when DATF
will be slightly under 10 bents a
r a n c ir
MIN.
MAX.
t^Caatern Oregon farmers co last, according to Dees 1 risen, a»K fag—which was presented by 11
lick benefits and retirement pay,
pair, the low bid being presented you are driving or walking through
.00
72.. 52
13 ...
. :
these also expressed skepticism as
operating
in tha program seeded protxfasatriy 93 p e r c e n t o f the club members.
by the Irwin-Hodeon company of your community s well pave'd and
48 ., .00
The next and final m eetfag-of
14 “ T"-7.;-. 64
crop land fa the state U repreaeat-
to the ability of thy ordinary labor
39,1*6
acres
of
perennial
gramas
Portland which has made the- Ore ma’ked business section in Ore
.00
66- 33
15 ...
union to provide thèse benefits.
most of which was crested wheat ed on werk sheets that have been the club year will be the annual
gon Ildehse plates for many years. gon, according to the Oregon Mot
dub picnic which will be heW Fri
42 ■y. .00
....... 67
Most of the employees interviewed
giass planted on land taken out of signed by farmers. IA marked
...
or association.
Despite, equally
crease ip the soil depleting acre day. May 21et fa the city park wfah
38
were inclined to agree with Gov
.
.
.
7
0
.00
wheat.
New
seedings
of
alfalfa
17
.-.
Rumors that W. L. Gosslin will smooth pavement and safety gui
ernor Mhrttn that about the only
.0«
in eastern Oregon totalled 35,516 age in the state has already taken all members* families cordially fa'
«6 . . 47
: r .
soon
he replaced as secretary to des, residential districts are not
through
xerqp.
Red" clover and alfalfa in place and this* is .expected te con vited. Members are asked te bring
39
f-0
62
benefit to he
- "
-• Governor Martin are again qurrent far behind in killings. The state’s
19
unionization would consist of the
western
Oregon were reported to tinue to the benefit of Oregon's plates, cups and si
.00
worst roa.ls—ru-nl “cowpaths” and
fötal for week . .
flor their 0*4 group.
gether,
with
a total of 48,463 acre» agriculture, he says^
privilege a t payln« « • »
bumpy link roads—are the safest.
ifìeeMÙuàÀ «m » » fa i' tws»
» , »•
e .» *»; •
•r
KOAC Broadcasts
Complete Market News
Fish Being Planted h
¡JeSChuteb IBIS
Moro High School
Holds Exercises
State Employees Not Over
Enthusiastic About Joining Union
Veterans Supported
By ¡Poppy Sales
Control Of Bicycles
Important To Children
Women’s Chib Gres
Banquet At Church
150,000 Acres OF Soil
Conserving Crops In Oregon
ah
of
a
wee
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