Sherman County journal., August 06, 1937, Image 1

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Forty Ninth Year N o. 40
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Goldendale Sends Committee Clears DREAM AIRPORT-RAISED FROM BOTTOM OF SEA
Harvest Yields v
Boosters For , Trouble Between
State of Oregon Big Jamboree
Higher Than
Homer Beale, W. A. Chapman Labor, Farmers
from Salem
Expected Earlier
and Joe Fry were here Wednesday
News o f the
Kent Man Aids Conciliation
afternoon advertising the Golden*
Federation Making As Much '
>iiale Jamboree which will be held
Move Started By State
in the Washington city August 13-
As 17 Sacks, Winter Wheat
14-15. All were dressed m shirts
Grange and A . F. of L.;
From *9 to l i ; South End of
Proponents - for a state office that disturbed the peace and calm
of
the
mid-harvest
day,
their
hats
Unionization
Not
Forced
building for Portland believe they
County Not Yet R eady; - r *
have found a way around the con­ would have been appropriate cov­
The
complete
ers
for
alfalfa
shocks
and
their
report
of
th
e
stitutional debt inhibition which i
r.^Yields of wheat from Stu*nttan
and a
A. . F.
ba« been threatening to w raek'fte) eniiiU9‘M9Tn ior their show was grange ano
r . of L. committee
county farms are batter thas was.
program. Their answer to this louder and bigger than either, appointed to conciliate differences
anticipated, before harvest started.
problem is found in a - supreme’ Beale’ wbo 8611,1 shocks for a living, between labor and the farmers in-
This is especially true of the 4b-.
court opinion handed down more »¡>oclced the nattves by telling of <*icatae that no trouble will be en­
tfict
north of Nigger ridge, ftar-
tile
high
professional
standing
of
countered
by
farmers'
in
hauling
than nine years ago in connection
vesthUf
not general south of that
performers
at
Goldendale
who
will
their
own
products
or
that
tempo-
J
with the construction of a dormi­
all
be
members
of
the
national
rarily
hired
wheat
bucks
will
be
early reports am chat,
tory at the university of Oregon
yields there will be smaller ‘ than
rodeo
association.
All
visitors
who
unionised.
through a bond issue to be retired
hoped for a week or sp ago.
L«ther Davis of Kent is a mem-
from rentals. In that case the su­ attend the Jamboree, which is a
Winter wheat in the center and
community
enterprise,
were
prom-
her
of
the
committee
which
met
in
preme court ruled that inasmuch
•north end of the eoupty are from
ised
a
good
time
with
all
of
the
Portland
Tuesday
of
this
week,
as the proposed bond issue did not
ten sacks to fourteen sacks and the
( Complete accord was reaehed at
involve any debt against the state trimmings.
yield of spring grain has been re­
—
----------------------
a
meeting
held
today
by
the
Farm-
but was to be paid entirely out of
ported to be frpm twelve sacks ,$o'
H
7L
T*
V
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Labor
Relations
Committee
on
th
e
,
a special fund to be raised from
seventeen sacks. (Many o f the
matter of hauling farmers’ crops
rentals it did not run counter to W h ltC lO p lO DC
higher
yields-are well sUbstantiat
This committee is composed of
the constitutional inhibition. The
ed by.., accurate acreages and
members
representing
the
State
same plan has since been used in
weights. Sacks are weighing hea­
Grange and the State Federation of * ■,
financing other buildings at insti-
f i r s t offici
vy
in the north end of the county
Labor.
after the eloa.
‘ utjon. of higher learning.
, The white top at the city park !
end 145 pounds is a usual weight *\
The subject had been brought to* ‘tn the geogra
per sack.
the WorM’s “
end the attention of the committee by
t o i h. t ‘
z „ x m th\r
«*•
major
air“C
lAround
the wheat is about
projected office building there is by the county agent who has the the action of a mass meeting of
Golden
Cate
as
high
yielding
as farther north *;i
one important difference which carbon bi-sulphide for this pur-; farmers held at'T h e Dalles late
Sawyer.
for
ten
sacks
of
winter
wheat and
last
week.
might upset the whole program if
First 5t wil1 ** nec«8*ary
up to sixteen and seventeen sacks
to
thoroughly
wet
the
ground
in
it should be taken to court. That
Misinformation Charged»
of Federation are often reported.
difference is to be found in the fact order to try to save the trees un­
The only field of winter wheat
der
which
the
weed
is
growing.
The Grange -Labor committee
that whereas the university dormi­
that has been harvested south o f .
Marshall
Williams
is
getting
the
found that The Dalles incident had!
tory was a “utility” and the bonds
Nigger ridge is reported to be
were to be retired* through rentals * r®und ln sbape and the treatment grown out of misinformation of the
making
about eight sacks. Spring
paid by the students the proposed ■
be applied as soon thereafter farmers. The committee heard
graih is said to be seriously daifi- ‘
as
possible.
representative of the Teamster
office building will be state owned
aged in places and owners have
warehousemen's union, who stated
find the rentals which are to pay
despaired of getting much from 4
that the right of farmers to handle
for it must come either out of the
Thieves broke into the service
it. ! Five or six sacks will bo d ' ‘
their own crops was not questioned,
legislative appropriations or out of
rood yield in fields that made their ‘
station
at
Kent
Bunday
night
by
but that commercial haulers who
revenues which would otherwise go
The thirty one calves being fed growth after the June rain ’where
Relief Committee Talks of
into the state treasury.
masquerade as farmers would be breaking out a panel of the back i *
by
4-H club children m Sherman the hot weather interfered with' .
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asked to unionize their operations, door and unlatching the lock.
Community Troubles
proper ripening.
,
county
made a gain of approxi­
In the case of warehousemen Stolen were slot machine
Completion of a 91 mile project
The ability of trashy fallow to
.
Because
of
the
higher
than an­
1 which
mately 100 pounds each during the
on thè Coaat highway between prevent water erosion, even under operatin* continuously the team- was later dropped o» the highway
County court meeting of Wed­
ticipated
yeild
e<
grain
ia
the
lea*-
Manzanita, south exceptional conditions, was demon- >Ur* wHl proceed with* qrganfea- *«d broken, and Wtoeti was a pffi: nesday was a quiet affair with lit­ past mmrth according to Le^oy er part o f the county i t b profanble
W rig h t, county agent, who has just
o f Cannon Beach, will shorten the gtrated this summer in an area in tkm work Tt was 6Xplamed that ball machine. Loot consisted of
that the county will produce more
distance between Tillamook and Umatilla county where a near the teamster8 do not consider it de- the nickels in them.
Cigarettes tle on the docket to excite the most finished the monthly weighing.
Highest gain for July was made bushels of Wheat* than last year. *
Seaside by 14 miles according to couldburst struck A field with sirable to organize the men em- and beer were also taTcen. Sheriff nervous citizen.
Yields are spotted but the general
R. H. Paldock, state hgihway en- trashy fallow held the downpour pIoyed for only a week or two or Wilson examined the place Monday
In the forenoon a meeting of the by the Short horn calf being fed tendency is as indicated above. ‘
by
Jack
von
Borstel
with
a
gain
of
gineer. The project which includ- with no perceptible
______ erosion,
_ while * montb in the small co-operative but no clues leading immediately relief committee was held with a
es a 1278-foot tunnel under arch a neighboring Bald which had been coantry warehouses which operate! to the capture of the culprits W ere^iscussion of the many details of 3.51 pounds per day. Second was
fa llo w e d th
a v was , Only
giving or withholding relief or pen­ David Richelderfer’s Hereford that
cape, now under way, as well as summer fallowed
the e old
old w
way
y for that Period
per,od of time.
tlme- There- found.
found,
grading and surfacing the entire washed out to plow depth. In five
farmers may be assured
sions from applicants and the rea- gained 3.36 pounds. Bobby King’s
section, will not be completed for years of testing oh the Pendleton 1 , . y Wlll encounter no diffi-
| sons therefor. Rules and regula- Angus gained 3.33 pounds and his
a t least three years.
Total cost branch experiment station there *ulty ,n handling their own
pro-
j tions prevent the giving of money Hereford 3.27 pounds. Clyde Frid­
ley’s Angus gained 3.2 pounds per
of the improvement will be $620,- has been only one year in which ?ucts ,n tr“cks recognized by state
| to many who apply.
day and Leland Barnet’s Hereford
The petition for the formation
‘ This is the last link in the the yield on disked trashy fallow law as such.
Payment Made
put on 3.1.
of a weed control district tq con­
oast highway stretching from was significantly lower than on the Members .Pleased
A prize of $5 will be given by trol morning glory and eradicate
stona to the southern border of old clean cultivated type.
. ,
Hopeful of winning the trip to , Payment of current bills ano the county agent at the fair for Russian knap weed and white top
the state on which $27,000,000 has
AH members of the committee ex
approval of the reports of county
been spent in the past 20 years.
press themselves as gratified by the Pacific International Livestock officials made up the larger part the person, not acquainted with is being signed by farmers as their
the outcome of the conference and Exposition this fall sponsored by of the program. Brief discussion the calves, who guesses the closest attention is called to it. Citizens
Secretary of State Snell is not
as convinced that there will not The First National Bank of Port­ of shed room for county machin­ on the , weights of the calves of town are also signing as the
shown.
proposed district includes the city
going to take any chance on the
be serious conflict between farm land, 4-H Club members in Sher­ ery, payment of $150 to the biologi­
of Moro.
White top is making
urge to “step on the gas.’’ He has
and labor groups when the facts! man county are completing spec­ cal survey and of $260 to the In­
headway
in
town and nearby farm­
ial
projects
and
preparing
entries
had a governor installed on his
.
are known in any p artic u la r case.
land Waterways association were
ers are anxious to have it stopped
car set at 60 miles an hour. 1 Snell
The publicity given the safety The committee deplores the sp-ead- for county and 4-H fair competi­ the most important items under
before it spreads to their fields and
also plans to install governors on work promoted by my department ¡ng of false statements which are tion. Choice of a boy and girl discussion.
becomes as unmanageable as morn­
all cars used by employees of his and the general use of the mater- at times credited to labor officials from evçry county in Oregon will
L. L. Peetz, county roadmaster,
ing glory.
jal sent out on this important; and at other times to represents- 1)6 based on outstanding leader- reported the progress he was mak­
department.
matter, is most encouraging and tiVea of farm organizations.
. . ship and achievement in club work, ing in removing the weeds from
Seventy one % of Oregon’s total
The committee declares that su g -f Judges will be the county agent, the roads.- This Is being done to crop acreage was represented in
Leo Spitzbart, manager of the gives ’Cause for hope that definite
state fair, reports an unprecedent­ results will be attained. The news gestions of violence by either side county superintendent of schools prevent conditions such as pre­ work sheets under the 1936 agri­
First National Bank vailed last year.
ed demand for space from exhibit­ papers in every section of the are without justification and r e - 'and
cultural conservation
program,
state
have
shown
their
desire
to
sent
the
implication
that
farmers
branch
manager.
In counties not
ors in many departments. Eight
while 93 per cent is represented in
assist in this work, and many may resort to the use of pitch-! served by the Portland bank’s
counties have already indicated
-
,
. , . .
work sheets this year, according to
their intention of diaplaying their Ool“n?n5 of sp,ce ,r e devoted “ lt forks. Every member of the com-j branch system, other local banka
a statistical summary issued by
Major H. D. Bagnall, the Army
jnittee is convinced that a common ' wil1 cooperate in selecting a third
products- this year although the weekly.
N. C. Donaldson, secretary of the Recruiting Officer, announced to­
There
are
almost
as
many
ideas
understanding of each others prob- m em ber of the ju d g in g com m ittee. | | .i
pi . . -
opening date of the fair is still
state committee. Nationally there day that the past month was the
of
w how to
w meet this problem as jems
L
u»y visa m
lems ano
and a desire to co-operate
more than a month away.
was 67 per cent of the total crop biggest July on record as far as
. . .
j there are people. Ask any group w jn maintain harmonious relations durinsr the October livestock ex
land in the United States actually enlistments were concerned, a total
Mr. Jenkins and Tom Caldwell, as
The rising cost schedule is hit-
^tw een the two groups, rttherj
wilJ in' l“de_ ^ ily
covered
by application for grants of 114 young men being successful
.
you will get a variety of answers than to resort to pitchforks a n d 'tbe sbow Krounfls a”d eptertain- sistant county agents at large
under the 1936 program, the an-, in gaining admittance to the ranks
mg t e state in more than one that w jn not only show an amaz- brick bats.
i ment by the host bank, which will were here Tuesday to look over nual report of R. H. Tolley, ad­
of the Regular Army.
v- v ” * Pevers’ attorney for jng. divergence of opinion, but also
The committee was created on pay transportation and all other the weed plots being tested in this ministrator, shows.
For the second consecutive
e lg way department, reported a most interesting variety of plans the initiative of the State Grange exPenses of the 4-H Club members,
county. A new weed, recently im­
Oregon hsd 14,209 actual appli­ month, Hawaiian Service was the
this week that increasing prices ol for improving driving conditions on
which named three members, the
ported from California, named cations for grants among approxi most popular with the new Army
farm lands is being reflected in Wr street3 and highways,
Blue Flowering Lettuce was found mately. three million such applica men, 62 or almost 66 percent elec­
higher costs for rights of way.
Those wiho have made a study of State Federation of Labor comply-, m
on the Charles Bullard ranch. It tions in the country as a whole. ted to serve in Hawaii, Major Bag­
ing with the request of the Grange 1 OIHätO uTOW erS
this problem appear to be agreed
is a perennial and so-far very diffi The national report shows that soil nall said.
^ jat€AOflî i ,a 3 are g ’Vini? cons.id- on only one thing—that something to name three members. The com-i
mittee consists of Morton ' Tomp­
cult to kill according to Mr. building practices were carried out
The Major pointed out that
erat on to the matter of improving must be done. The large amount
Jenkins.
on approximately 58 million acres young men selecting Hawaiian
or removing the heating plant that
favorable comment is greatly kins, Dayton: Senator W. A. John­
of land during 1936, exclusive of Service are sent without delay to
serves the capitol group of b&ild- appreciated— and criticism is son, Grants Pass; and J. L. Davis,
M edford,
O re., Aug. 5— Oregon Growth made
Kent,
representing
the
Grange,
western
range practices.
this beautiful little group of is­
mgs. Originally located in the base j ^ t as -Welcome. The motor ve­
tomato growers today joined other j-
The program is described ln lands in the mid-Pactfic and re­
-
, •
, • i It has been reported that some
ndent of the old capitol -the heating hicle operator who goes to the and Phil Brady, Paul E. Gurske western farmers
seeking chain varieties
m<>rni
}
Administrator Tolley’s report as turned to the mainland after two
plant is now some distance east of trouble of writing to tell us where and Kelly Loe, all of Portland, rep­ .to re a.d m meeting . surplus crop
chemlca] treatm ei t ‘ in
resenting labor.
“designed
to conserve and improve years and reassigned on the West
t«®, new state house. Its appear- we are wrong and the editor who
crisis.
, county. Where some plants , are the productivity of the nations Coast for the third and final year
ance, with a ragged chimney ris- devotes his space to suggesting
Earl T. Newbry, Medford, was
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farm land by encouraging shifts of service before discharge.
m g above the surface of the ground things that should be done and are BOARD IOF EQUlALIZATIOiN named to head a seven-man grow
(MEETING
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from
soil depleting to soil conserv­
it
is
said.
It is considered likely
for 50 or 60 feet into the air de- being neglected, are equally con-
Notice: There will be a meeting ci' s stabilization committee organi­
racts greatly from the attractive- scious of the traffic safety problem, of the County Board of Equalize-1 zed in the famous Rogue River that the plants build up an im­ ing crops,” and iby the use of sound
munity to the chemical after it has soil building practices. The ex­
ness of the capitol grounds. One and doing something toward its
tion of Sherman County, Oregon, tomato growing district.
tent to which such changes were
proposal involves sinking the plant solution. Regardless of his own
“The growers of canning toma­ been applied a few times and it is effected in Oregon is shown in the
at the Court House, Moro, Ore­
therefore
no
longer
effective.
deeper under the ground and cov- belief, the fact of his interest is
gon, on’the second Monday in Aug­ toes in the extreme west are faced
statistical summary issued by
ering it with a lawn. This would proof conclusive that results are be
ust ,that • being the 9th day of with a serious situation since there
Donaldson.
Most people are disturbed to fine
also necessitate stream-lining the ¡ng attained
is at present about twice the nor­
In Oregon, for example, more grass creeping into their alfalfa
smoke stack to harmonize with the| Educatiop ’ and enforcement are August, 1937, to publicly examine mal carry-over of canned tomatoes
the Assessment 'Rolls, correct all
than 40,000 acres of new seedings fields, but on the Union branch ex­
design of the capitol. Another pro- the two necessities at the present errors in valuation, descriptions in the hands of canners and dis­
of perenrfial nonirrigated grasses periment station they are going ss
posai involves moving the plant to time. Theycan be brought about
of lands or other property asses­ tributers,” said Newbry.
were
made, of which 23,000 were far as to deliberately seed some
a new location some distance from in the fullest degree only by an sed by me, and it shall be the
Newbry pointed out that the
in eastern Oregon and 17,000 in grasses with alfalfa. The reason
e capitol site but convenient tq awakened public conscience, an ar­
duty of persons interested to ap­ surplus of Oregon tomatoes was
At least 4000 acres of the new western Oregon. In western Ore­ is that when bare spots appear in
ts droad trackage in- order .to save Oused and militant demand for pear at the time and place ap­ not acute in itself, but
hut th a t' the Rex wheat, bred and distributed gon alone more than 51,000 acres
ordinary alfalfa fields the tendency
money on fuel oil.- In either event safety. Discuss the problem with
tdmatoes was from the Moro branch experiment were
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pointed (appearance is by peti­ market for Oregon tomài
seeded
to non-irrigated al- is for cheat grass, which is worse
another boiler must be added to your neighbors and friends, your tion)). All petitions must.be made affected by conditions in the indus- station, were grown in Oregon last falfa
a n ? rid plover". East of the^ than notheing, to creep in, lowering
the plant to accomodate additional officers and your coarts.
IN WRITING and verified by the trin,aa a W
n
i v
year‘ Farmers are clamoring for mountains trashy summer fallow the value of the hay. By seeding a
T i d ings now he’11?’ Panned for ! Suggestions >re welcomed. Many oath qf the applicant and filed
ie s iz e o f t in
regon pack has more seed than is available. It is methods were carried out on ap-1 certain amount of good grass with
immediate construction.
j valuable ideas have been received with tMq board WITHIN FIF­
n ^ ro ^ lnK !rtea^1Jy 8,"ce
®xpe^ed to replace all of the For, proximately 111,000 acres. In the the alfalfa, it is believed that weed
‘
from people reading these weekly TEEN DAYS from the time it is when 47,837 cases of tomatoes and ty-fold acreage in Sherman county, state as a whole the shift from soil 'grasses will be kept out. The fair*
v Clarence D, Wagoner, Portland articles. If you have a remedy to by law required to meet.
juice were «packed, to 1936, when It has proved itself fully winter depleting crops amounted to 13.5 way type of created wheat grass
real estate dealer, is being en- present, it will be appreciated and
Margaret W. Peetz,
the combined pack reached an es- hardy, a high yielder, and with per cent among those participating is proving best for this purpose so
i Cop tinned or Pare two)
receive careful consideration.
timated 150,000 cases.
County Assessor.
strong resistance to amnt.
in the program.
far.
By A. L Lindbeck
Treated At Park
p X£ v ;
Kent Service
Station Robbed
Of Machines
et .Calves Grow
August Business
Trashy Fallow Holds
Rapidly For
4-H Clubbers
More Moisture
Petition For Weed
District Signed
Clubbers To Again
Go To Portland
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Earl Snell Hopes
Fcr Safer Drivers
Most Land Now
Under Contract
Recruits Prefer
Hawaiin Service
Morning Glory MayJ
The three day visit in PoTtland UKC VDCIlllCHlS
Fear Surplus
Grass Sown With
Alfalfa Now
Rex Wheat Does
Well In State