M t t ie t h
M oro, O reg o n ,
Y ear N o . z /
T fid a y ,
Official County Paper
M a y 13, 1 7 3 8
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Of Orcgon-
Its Government
and People
Closing Date for Lonnie Belshe .
Filing Work
Dies Suddenly
Sheets May 14
The closing date for Oregon for of Heart Attack
Flying for Fair
flHng work sheets under the new
1938 farm act has been set for
May 14 by the state committee
Tax payments by Oregon proper- of the AAA. Following the passage
□ i
mo-? totalled
4.
- ap-
- • of the new farm .. ae-. the whole
ty owners during
1937
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• program was thrown open To:-
proximately $41,776,500 according new participa’/ ón and many far in
to statistics compiled by the State ers who had not taken part in
Tax Commission. That was $2,- former programs have since turn-
281,000 in excess of the current ed work sheets. As was the case
tax levy, the excess being applied with previous plans, the filing of
to a reduction of the outstanding a work sheet qualifies a fanner to
tax delinquency which at the end receive benefits after complying
of 1987 had been whittled down to with the program features, but
$40.776,000, a reduction of nearly dCeenot bind him to take part if
$6,000,000 below the peak of $46,- he later decides not to.
510,000 to which tax delinquen- ------------------------
cíes in this state had grown by the
Picnic Scheduled Parallel Parking
A t Pine Hollow Voted for Moro
Sunday
Sunday is to be a sort of gala By City Council
1 < ay around Kent for a number of'
1 eusons. A general community!
Popular and Prof perçus
5 icnic is scheduled for the John! Stage Stop on Side
Pay river at the mouth of Pine,
Street Favored By
Parmer Succumbs
Hollow in celebration of the spring;
< penir.g of the newly graded road
, Saturday Night
City Fathers
ip Kent east to that struam.
W. C. Helycr will drive a bunch
Moro council in regular meet
Orville Lonnie Belshe, 58, well
of
cattle down for their spring ing Tuesday night unanimously
known and respected farmer of
•winding and will also drive an old! voted to change the parking regu-
Moro died suddenly Saturday night
ik pv off the bluff at Eskin oan-'iations on the main street of the
from a heart attack. Ho had been
yon for the amusement of the!city by enforcing parallel parking
in town that afternoon after drums
gathered multitude. He announces1 between Second and Fourth streets
of fuel oil and r.fter unloading
•h-t a photographer from t h e |on Main. This ruling will go into
some of ¿hem, turned the job over
Oregonian will be on hand to pic effect as soon as strips .can be
to a hired man and sat down for
ture the sport and that a news painted and signs posted.
a rest. He went to the house and
reel man may come. “Slim” has
The decision was made after
had supper and read and listened
a bunoh of young and well bred long discussion that covered th e ,
to the radio until abo-ut nine when
toddle horses he likes to break pros and cons of the subject. A
he retired. About eleven o’clock
H. The Legion posts of the coun number of near accidents and
In 23 of the state’s 36 counties
he had an attack and was dead
the outstanding tax delinquency A n n n i i n r p f l
ty are planning a get-together on complaints on the part of drivers
before the doctor arrived.
that day as well and it looks as if who find that with cars and tracks
still amounts to more than’ the cur-
there will be a goodly delegation parked at an angle along the
rent annual levy. This situation
Announcement of the engage- Here 45 Tears
of folks from these parts down main street they cannot see ap-
is especially had in Qateop, Col- ment of Mi3s Mary Jeannette Sar-:
Mr. Belshe came to Sherman
Pine Hollow come next Sunday.
umbia, Coos, Douglas, Jefferson, gent and Charles Neville was told
proaehing cars until in the center
counhv when a young boy and has
Lincoln and Tillamook counties recently at the annual dinner dance
of- the highway, was the major;,
lived heçe since. He started farm
where tax delinquencies in some given by members of Kappa Gam-
cause of the vote. Many trucks
ing when young^and hod succeeded
instances amount to as much as mE Rho. June 12 has been set as
long enough to reach to the center
at that vocation being the ownnr
three times the current levy. Only the wedding date. Both are sen-
of the highway are parked on the
oft several thousand acres at the
three counties, however, fail to ¡org at Willamette university,
street and this endangers other
time of his death. He returned
show some progress in the effort
Miss Sargent is the daughter of to the'ranch about e :ght years ago
drivers. This will be eliminated
to reduce tax delinquencies. Doug- Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Sargent of
May 4, being the regular time under the ner- «; <tem. This de
after living in Moro for several
U s, Malheur and Tillamook coun- Wasco and is a member of Delta
for
the County Court of Sherman sire to make traffic safer on the
years.
ties show tax delinquencies at the phi an(, Mu Phi Epsilon. Mr.
County
in the State of Oregon the part of the council is expected to
Lonnie Belshe had the ham y
end of 1937 greater than they Neville is the son of Mrs. A. D. faculty of making friends as was
llonoiable Court did meet on said receive, the co-operation of local
were at the close of 1935.
Neville of Portland and is a raem- attested bv the overflow crowd at
date in the court house at Moro at drivers who have an interest in
public safety.
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bor of Kappa Gamma Rho.
the hour of 10:00 a. m.
’he church for his fnneral. Rev.
Another action taken was to
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The following * members . being
Hansen of Independence, form er^
change the stage stop from the
gon railroads shows a steady in-
MI
f
present:
local pastor and friend of the
main street to First street near
crease since 1932 freight revenuer ^ D f a g U C N O W 111
Geo. A. Potter, County Judge '
familv, gave the funeral «sermon.
Bucholtz confectionery. A bus
Collected by Oregon roads in 1936 '
Frank
W.
Fuller
Jr.,
air
speed
king,
watches
while
pretty
Zee
A.
A.
Dunlap,
County
Comm.
H e e h e s e fo u r c h a r a c te r istic s
of
D ell Lantia, the “ moat photographed girl In the world” pots finish David Reid, County Commissioner zone will be set off and parking
were still 9.4 per cent below the
O rP O T flll
th
e
d
°
c
e
s
s
e
d
f
o
v
'n
is
t
e
x
t
:
eoura»»c,
ing touches to a Golden Gate Exposition
m Fnllar's
1930 figure according ta a statis- Q O U H i e r n U r e g O H
perseverance, generousity and in plane in which h e will attem pt new Inter-city records this year. V. Lester Johnson, Dist. Attorney restricted in it so that there Will
always be a place for the bus to
tical report compiled by M. G-
ChTikr A. Sprague, republican tegrity,
___________________ Fuller, B endiz trophy race winner, has been appointed “ Chief Joe Truitt, County Clerk
park. This will eliminate the dan
The
following
proceedings
were
Wallace, public utilttiea commit- cnn<f d ate for governor, just home
Pilot”
for
the
1939
World’«
F
l
i
r
t
f
the
West,
on
Treasure
Island
Mr. Belshe had been ^¡rector of . -
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ger of having the highway block- •
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7.
in San Francisco Bay.
sioner. Passenger revenues, too, f rom a trip through the far reach- manor civic
had at the said term of court:
cooperative or'ran- _ .______ ____________________
ed when the bus Is in town. This
In
the
matter
of
the
payment
show a steady gain since 1933 but p , Qf easte-n Oregon is spending ¡rations being on the first AlAA
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of claims listed in the claim docket step has been contemplated for
for 1936 were still 37.87 per cent
current week with citizens in
board and director of the local
S tCD/lCFlS
against the general fund. Claims some time.
below the figures for 1980. At
j,outhern sector of western grain growers.. He was precinct •
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Payment of the first of the city’s
that, however, railroad business in Oregon.
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allowed as presented and ordered
committeeman for tjieRepubljcân^
new bonds was ordered and while
paid
Oregon during the past six years,
Sprague reports wide interest in party. Dependable in whatever he
has been better than that for the
move to “rebuild and revita- mdertook he attracted/ men ’"Id
In the matter of the payment of they are not yet due It was thought
that the owners would accept pay
United States as a whole, Wal- j.;ze» tj,e republican party and also iim.
claims listed in the claim docket
m ent Thia will cut the city’s in
lace’s report shows. 4
- a considerable interest in his own
against the road fund. Claims al
Pall bearers were L. L. Peetz,
debtedness to $30,600.
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1 candidacy.
lowed and ordered paid.
W. Alley, Clarence Sparling,
Action was delayed on the re
I).
E.
Stephens,
who
has
been
On May 1, after four months of
Jncre^úng demand for Sprague Rov Rowell. Frank Burnet and
Re:
To the application of newal of the contract with the
superintendent
of
the
Moro
ex-
expedience in benefit payments, literature and numerous offers to Wm. Ragsdale. Tom Fraser sang
The county declamatory contest Wallace May, sheep killed by dogs. CCC camp for water from the
the fund of the Oregon Unemploy- assist in the campaign are pouring wo solos St the funeral. Su-vivinir Pcrlmcnt »‘at.on for over twenty
Claim allowed.
city. The camp has been paying
m int Compensation commission into Portland headquarters from ore his widow. Mrs. May Belshe, five years, will leave this summer was held at Kent last Friday night
Re: To the resolution of the $25 per month and council men felt
with
Moro
and
Kent
winning
the
was only $655,554 below the level all parts of the state, according to
1 son, Dsrold. a daughter, Mrs. for Washington D. C. where he major share of the honors. Wasco State Highway Commission lift that water there had not been uti
at which it stood on January 2, R«be-;t O. Boyd, campaign man-
T mnie H r-t and a grand son, wju become coordinator between did not compete in any of the ing load limits on State highways. lized to the best advantage and de
the commission reported
this ager. '
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vponeth Hart, and two sisters,
Resolution filed.
sired different arrangements or
the Bureau of Plant Industry and divisions.
week. In view of the fact that the
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lx* ’ Kennv and Nellie and a
an increased payment.
Re:
To
Oregon
State
Highway
For the first time in the history
past four months were probably
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the Soil Conservation Service. Mrs.
brother, Wilford.
Commission
letter
of
April
28,
of
the
contest
two
children
were
the most strenuous the fund will | ( g | ) e K d h s M C C t ID
Stephens has been ill for three
1938. No action taken.
place
ever be called upon to face the
months and she will remain here given
«... first
_
„ . . in a , division.
In the matter of the Treasurer’s
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1
L’ttle
Gene
Hoskinson,
who
com-
commission is highly elated over
until next fall With the family. . . .
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, .
,
report
for month ending April 30,
plained
realistically
over
his
ard
the manner in which the fund
No appointment to the vacancy
uous jobs, and Sharon Hennagin, 1938. Report accepted and order
has been made and it will probably
withstood the severe strain^ put
Rfr)d<„bs cr Antelope, Kent,
who imitated a mechanical doll, ed filed.
upon it bv the huge accumulation Grasg Va,,ey and Wasco Wprp
be some weeks before the posi
Court adjourned, subject to call
were each placed first in the pri-
The American Legion comman
tion has been filled.
of benefit claims.
| puegts of tbe Moro lódge here on
ma’y division. LeRoy Spoor was of County Judge.
The publication Who’s Who in
der’s, tour party stopped in Moro
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Monday afternoon and evening for American colleges has chosen two
The work Mr. Stephans is under-' p]nCP(j third
Mrs. R.
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_ C. Chisorn
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CLAIMS PRESENTED
AND Sunday afternoon for a counle of
Records of the State Police Bu-¡
anr cal convention.
Honor students from Sherman county, taking will be to draw together the Q{
Dalles who did the judging.
hours and its members spora to
ALLOWED
AGAINST
THE
GEN
reau show that 29 labor terrorists
fnr the affsi’r was Mrs. Mav They are Nval Gradv, senior at work being done by the two divi-
In th? intermediate division
Legionnaires from Waaco, Moro,
are now serving prison terms j onas of Prineville, State presi Whitman college, Walla Walla and sions of the department.
Annajcan Knightcn placed first ERAL FUND, MAY TERM, 1938 Kent and Antelope posts on mat
ranging from a minimum of 90 dent o f the assembly. Work of Winnifred Fortner, of Pacific ---------------------
Account
Amount ters concerning the Legion pro
with a piece which gave her an Claimant
days in the Washington county the order was demonstrated by University. Both are graduates of
.
opportunity to imitate five charac- C. L. Bensel, Law Library $165.00 gram for the year. George Rauch,
jail in the, case of Jack Lyons to officers and teams and during the the Wasco, high school. Grady is Lzt OD lQ S lir H D C C
71.26 head of the Boy Scouts camp which
ters. Second position went to Chas. R. Logan, Audit
12 years in the state penitentiary evening session five candidates taking
First
National
Bank
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and
Mery
Lou
von
Borstel
with
a
dia
a commercial course
was attended by three Sherman
in the case of Albert N. Banks, were initiated into the order. The
lect piece that gave the troubles Sherman County Branch
county boys last year, told of the
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former head of tne Salem teams-j ay,nna| banquet was served at the
Aid to Dependent Children 11.91 beneficial results of that camp. A1
of a German woman waiting for
ter union, convicted on an arson Presbyterian church at 6:30 in thf of the Whitman student body and
Blind Assistance
5.78 Greenwalt talked in behalf of the
a meeting of all farmers initerr- a ttain.
charge in connection with the burn evenjng Next year the convention is working his way through school. ested in crop insurance will be
Old Age Assistance
206.54 trip to Los Angeles for the nation
Eileen Lemley won third with a
ing of a West Salem box factory, wjh ,be held in Wasco with Lena Miss Fortner Is president of the held in Pendleton May 17, Tuee- reading about a young lady day Art Bucholtz, Board of
al convention and told of the work
last November, five other “goons” p rock as chairman, Mildren Nor- Woman’s Athletic association at j ay jn the senior high school dreaming in church.
1.55 being done to get eastern Legion
prisoners
convicted on terrorist charges a re: fon as vjce chairman and Mae Pacific and expects to become a auditorium. All questions con-
The upper grade division contest City of Moro, Water at Court
naire« to come through Oregon on
at lfcerty either under suspended Yocum as secretary-treasurer.
house
11.85 their trip west and State Comman
physical education
teacher on Cerning crop insurance will be was won by Jimmy Coats of Rufus,
sentences or paroles from the ----------------------
der Mose Palmiter diacusaed dif
graduation.
answered including, how much who has often appeared in former Pacific Power & Light Com
bench while 53 other alleged ter-1
pany, Courthouse lights
can be insured, how much it will contests. He capably acted the
ferent phases of the Legion pro
w rists, all under indictment, are Q ™
In su ran ce S et
$41.97; Lamps .75c
42.72 gram. Adjutant Oarl Moser spoke
cost, what it covers, how to ap part of a youthful swain hampered
awaiting trial.
Ralph Moody,
of the work the Legion has dane
ply, when premiums are due and by family. Florence Hoskinson of Department of Agriculture
special prosecutor under appoint-! The Fede al Crop Insurance Cor
Sealer of Weights A Meas
Kent won second because of her
since its organisation for the aid
payable
and
who
operates
it
and
ment by Governor M a r t in - a s s is t poration announced average coun
ures
3.76 of the veterans. The party le f t
ability to reform her penchant
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pays
the
premiums.
George
E,
district attorneys with thg'eTgoon'ty loss figures for determining
about six o’clock for Arlington
• Farrell, western director of AAA, for slang phrases and Emma Jean D. J. Butcher, Employment
' the,w
trials,” has announced t h a a t t ' ‘-the;wheat
crop insurance premiums
service
15.00 where they continued . the t<Mir
Eakin
was
placed
third.
War
mothers
of
the
Christ
will
speak
on
the
adjustment
act
fi Ohio, Indiana, Texas and Ok
trial, of Jack W. Estabrook ; Port-‘ for
A very good crowd was out for Pacific Tel. A Tel. Company
which reached all over eastern
______ j lahoma. Insurance policies will be Schultz post were guests of honor of 1938 and the world wheat sit-
land warehouse union secretary,
Courthouse telephones
18.45 Oregon in the week.
the event indicating that perhaps
of
the
post
last
Sunday
morning
uation.
The
meeting
will
begin
will open in Washington county o n ! offered shortly to farmers on their
in interest in speaking may be. In American Brush Co., Janitor’s
Mky 16, to be followed immend*- .1939 wheat crop. Farmers may as a Mother’s Day program of the* at 10:15.
supplies
6-75
creased in the county and the dec
ately by the trial of Albert E. ’ insure their crops at either 75 per post. Attending were Mrs. R. C . -------- -------------- -
lamatory contest may again achieve Thomas R. Hudson, Assessor’s
Byers,
Mrs.
G.
A.
Williams,
Mrs.
Rosser, Portland teamsters’ secre-; cent of the average yield for their
1.00
expense
its former high state of public in
tary. . Both are undfer indictment farms. The crop insurance pren- J. C. Freeman, Mrs. W. J. Martin,
Mid-Columbia
Typewriter
shop
terest.
of charges of malicious destruc-1 iums are payable in wheat or the Mrs. Emma Sayrs, and Mrs. N. W.
Assessor’s expenses
2.60
Kent high pupils entertained
tion of property with dynamite.
cash equivalent of the wheat at Thompson. About twenty were! A. M. Zevely, Sherman county
D.
C.
Wax
Equipment
House
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! ’ ho tim e th e p rem iu m 1« paid seated around the table at the trapper reports that sihee March with songs during the intermis
Next Friday voters of the two
Courthouse expense $29.10;
T h ese’ p rem iu m s a r e p a y a b le in hotel for breakfast. Brief talks 20 when he started to work he has sions between divisions.
main
parties will go to the poles
Sheriff’s
expense
$1.75:
30.85
Whoever the Democrats may
advance. Any losses which may be were made exp’essing the ser.ti- caught 52 coyotes including adult,
to
decide
who shall be the men
¿laminate as their candidate for
Victor Ireland, 21, was returned West Coast Print. A Binding
raid to farmers will also be paid ments of the day and the work be- pup and unborn. Eighteen of these
and
women
to vie for office this
Ballots $123.40; Election
governor It is a pretty safe bet fr. wheat or the cash equivalent at ing done by American mothers were caught in March and 34 in to California last week by a depu
fall.
While
this is an off X®**
supplies
$21.15;
Courthouse
that his name will be “Henry.” the time the loss is paid. The nnd the Legion against war. Mrs. April. For the first week in May ty sheriff to Butte county on a
election in that no president b to
expense $6.86; Clerk’s ex
Their three candidates include average county premium rate to in Martin read a poem. Coming from he accounted for three coyotes and charge of contributing to the de
pense $12.70;.
164*10 be named there is
Charles , Henry, Martin, Henry sure 75 percent or the average Drnald attending the meeting were one bob cat, a large one. .
linquency of a minor. Mary Keyes,
interest in the gubernatorial
Joe
Truitt,
Clerk
9tamps
for
H ess and O. Henry Oleen. The yields ranges from .6 bushels to Mr. and • Mrs. Harvey T h o m p s o n -------------- :-------
15, was arrested with him and held
race.
A large number, of electo«
election $2.00; Stamps for
Republicans have only one “Hen 2.2 bushels per acre in Ohio, .6 to who made the drive ‘in time for
as a witness until returned with
are registered to vote <4 Jh is pH-
Cleric’s
office
$8.00;
10.00
ry" among their eight candidates. 1.6 in Indiana. 7 to 2.6 buriiels in breakfast.
Ireland. Extradition was waived.
mary but it is not expected that
Burroughs Adding Machine
He is Henry Hanzen, former bud Texas and from .3 to 2.6 bushels
a record vote will the cast. Local
(Assessor’s expense $4.45;
get
director
under Governor in Oklahoma. The rates to insure
! The tulip beds at the Truman WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
offices to be filled are few as there
Treasurer’s
expense
$2.50;
6.95
* MAX. MIN.
Meier.
Strong place are now in full bloom DKTF
50 percent of the average yields
is but one candidate for county
Dewey
Thompson,
Field
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May 5 .. ............57.. . 3 6 . . . . .00
are from one third to two thirds
commissioner and one for f 0™ *
200.00
Deputy
<« 6 . ........... 63.. . 33.. . . .00
So much Stress has been placed as large as the rates to Insure thé ” ChA-les Everett and Tom Gar- attract man}
treasurer the republicans J“ ™ *
Sherman County Journal
Those who
upon’the hotly contested guberna 75 percent covérage. On any poiK rett have been given a «upply of the highway
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the first and the democrats t e
County
printing
$11.30;
as
torial race that candidates for cy, the regulations provide for a
8 .. .............65. . 45 .. . .00
18.80 second. No one has H ed for
Election
notices
$7.50
other important posts for which minimum rate of one half bushe
9 .............62 * 9 3 . . . .00
justice of peace and ha all the coon
State Indus. Accident Comm
nominations are to be made at the per acre for an Insured percentage VFX
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65 .4 2 . . .00
5A5 ty not one person filed for pre
Peace
officer«
protection
forth coming primary election are of 75 percent and a minimum ol Requests for this service caused road. In well protected
$4 11 *
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. . . 67
cinct committeeman or
Gus Peterson, Carpenter at
experiencing difficulty in arousing .3 bushels per acre for an insured
woman.
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Total
for
the
week
Continued
en
page
feur.
nearly three feet.
of the tags to other towns.
(C on tin u ed on P a g e tw n i
percentage of 50 percent.
A
By A. L. Lindbtck
end of 1935.
Engagement
Court Proceedings
May Term
Declamatory
Washington
Moro Monday
Large Crowd
Legion Commander
College Who’s Who
Lists Local Pair
S
Contest Draws 7
Stops in Moro
Meeting in Pendleton
War Mothers
Guests of Honor
Trapper Reports
Tulips Now in Bloom
Veal Tags Available
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Primary Election
Coming Next Friday