Official County Paper
Of Oregon-
Its Government
and People
Stream lined Boat for M ’'
Organization Of Harvest Nears
Republic
With Crops Up
Made For\County
Republicans of -the county per To Expectations
Democrats Elect Grasses, Grains,
H H. White os T a ,age M e , h()(j s
Chairman
O; ganization of the Sherman* □hown held Day
fected their organisation Satur
county Democrats was done Mon
day night in Moro and the follow
day night at Wasco with H. H.
Whiter
Wheat
Yields
Results of Nearly 30
ing were chosen to lead in
White named as county chairman,,
One building of the state capi
watching for the wetyftre of the
Velma McKean, vice chairman,
W ill Be High With
tol group was completed and an-
Years of Experimentation
party here: M. E .' McKee, chair
Wm.
McKean, secretary-treasurer.;
5r formally started this week.
man; Mrs. Anabel Portner, vice
W. F. Jackson, state committee-1 Brcvght To Farnx r i
Spring Grain Promising
The $2,500,000 modernistic cap
chairman; Giles French, state
man and Tom Garrett, congres
itol was accepted for the state
committeeman; H. J), ftaeudfoot,
Harvest time is here for some sional committeeman. The en
The annual field day at the ex
from the contractors by the capitol
congressional committeeman. Pre- fields. Hugh Shull started
cut- tire list of precinct committeemen periment station brought out a
reconstruction commission after a
7 “ ?.
M.1’ ting " "*ld
Tolunteer * * • • » ! • » announced »re: A. T. Striker' kot(|iy number of
thorough inspection. The building
farmers who
.
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u
n
C'
ij
t
a M
Wednesday
with
Worth
Evans m » .' and Mrs. Pearl Brackett, Rufus; were interested in
will be open for public inspection
the develop
Adeline McDonald; ttc u tt Grove: I chine. Around Wasco many ma-¡Carl Anderson, Mr,. Nina Henna-
on the afternoon of July 2 and all
ments m-ade at t h e ' station in
5’ J
^
iphines will be running right after!
Locust Grove; H. BUJKhite J grasses and grains and tillage
day July 8. State departments
Richelderfer; Wasco: W. E. Tate the Fourth with some probably and Mrs. Sybil McMillan, Wasco:
are expected to mive into the new
and Mrs. Anabel Fortner; Klon starting before that time. By the W. B. Rice and Marie Barnett method*. There were also a num
structure shortly after July 1.
dike: H. A. Walker and Mrs. Ove middle of the month harvest in the Cooper, Klondike: George Mc ber of extension service workers
Form el dedication has been post
anxious to obtain the latest infor-
Hansen; Monkland :t Wilford Bel- north end of the county will be Donald and Mrs. Cla'a Houston,| mution
from a reliable source to
poned until the opening day of the
she and Mrs. Tom Frnzer; Moro: general. The south end of the Monkland; »John Buether and take back to those who rely on
1939 legislature.
M. E. McKee and Mrs. Dorotha county will be much later with Mrs. Cecil Eakin, Rutledge: Art! them for advice.
Shortly before the commission
This streamlined river boat now under construction m the St. Louis Moore: Grass Valley: J. B. Coon the first of August being the date Justesen and Mrs. Tate Justesen
started on its inspection tour, levee is beginning to assume the graceful lines w hhh w ill mahe it the and Mrs. T. M. Itplfe; Rutledge:
The small grass nursery near
Governor Martin laid the corner most (»eautiful craft on the Mississippi. It will be used as a pleasure D. L. Reynolds anflxllr». V. B. when gene.al harvesting is ex- Kent; T. M. Garrett and Mrs. the station buildings was first vis
pected.
i »Arch Cantrall,
Grass Valley;
stope for the nest $1,000,000 state steamer plying north and south from St. Louis.
Fitkin: Kent: J.^H kfW ibon and - For two weeks, or since the W. F. Jackson and Mrs. Velma ited and the variations in Crested
library now under construction.
W’heat Grass shown. The trees
Mrs. Corliss Andrqwq,
rain, there has been optimism , McKean, Moro.
The structure, across the street
that have been grown in recent
about the prospective yield, T u r - ---------------------
from the new capitol, will be com
years were also cause for com
key Red wheat, which comprises y _•
-•
yx
pleted January 1.
ment
by Mr. Stephens who led
about a half of the acreage of I f T l g a t l O I l U â l ï l S
At the cornerstone ceremony the
the party and who has done much
the county, has assumed that
_
governor told the crowd of about
to encourage windbreaks of trees
golden
glow
of
color
near
the
!
100 to ‘‘move in closer. I want
around farm buildings.
The proposed consolidation be- head that, to the initiated obser
you to hear this speech. I won’t
Next to the “tin can farm”
A preliminary program for six
tween school district 32 and the ver, means a good harevst. Esti
be making them muah longer.”
where
Merril Oveson, new station
Grass Valley district « failed to m*tes run up to forty bushels per irrigation dams in eastern Ore-
Then he praised the state’s pro
Roy Dugger who works on the
head,
explained
the methods used
, pass Monday when the vote was af le and ,om « farmers insist that iren, all urgently needed by the
gressiveness in library planning Glen King ranch, was taken to
to determine the moisture needs
their
fields
will
make
that
much,
region
they
can
serve,
has
just
and building during the past 50 The Dalles hospital
Saturday
Final details have .been arrang- 1 tuken because residents of the
Spring wheat over the county been prepared in the form of ai of the wheat planty and the ef
years.
night with spotted fever. Prob- ed for a historic parade of water Rosebush district voted against
fect of fertilizer. Virgin soil, he
It was agreed, is looking fine at present and report by the Oregon State plan- said, absorbs water in 161 min
Hardly had his words faded able cause was being bitten by a craft, wh hicwill break marine it unanimously.
away than the official inspection tick while on a trip to Shaniko precedents, national and intema- however, that that district would there is still a chance that in the ring board, it was announced by utes, that virgin soil that has
of the new capitol started. Fran as no infected ticks have been tional, on July 9. On the night vote for consolidation as soon as ' south end of the countyit will Ormand R. Bean, board chairman. been cropped every year absorbs
cis Really, New York architect, found in Sherman county and no before all but one of the vessels any one of the other districts beat the winter wheat. It has ai The six are Rock Creek -and the given amount of water in 33
to Grass
Valley long way to go, however, and a Clear I»nke in Wasco county, minutes and old soil require^ 4
who designed the building, ushered local resident has suffered f.om of the procession will ibe passed transporting
the
reconstruction
commission the disease heretofore. Dugger through the ship lock of Bon would agree to do so. Other dis week of hot weather might reduce Beaver Creek in Crook county, hours and 15 minutes to absorb
from the dome to the basement. , is feeling much better since re- neville and moor in the lower end tricts are Buckley and Rutledge. i it to the shriveled stage that was West Eagle Creek in Baker the moisture indicating a physical
found last year, even after heavy county, Fox Valley Reservoir on
The building is completely bare ceiving treatment and is expected of the lake-like «tilled pool, 47
rains in June.
Cottonwood Creek, G rant. coun- change in the soil from cropping.
of furniture with' the exception of to recover.
miles in length, which will be
Spring grain requires 1700
l Sprln,
Qnrinv r Grain
—»« Still
am i Green
n
ty» and Tumalo Creek in Des-
the house and senate chambrs. The
formed aobve.
chut„
grams o f ’ water' to one gram of
two big aseemply rooms are now
The S. S. Charles L. Wheeler
Moat of the ^ r in r rrain u »till
The Rock Creek project haa grain and winter wheat takes
carpeted and equipped with oak
of the McCormick Steamship Co.,
The past
nast few hot davs have Tery rreen
•» » « « •> in _ drier' •»«" thoroughly aurveyed. plana 1280 grams of water to one of
desks for each member, as well as
few hot d y
which will be the first ocean mer ; The P
.
i
spots
it
has
begun
to turn to th e 1 prepared and the improvement grain.
theatre-style seats in the specta
chant craft to enter this marine reduced the water level in the *' russet color of well ripened Fed-, district organised under state law.
Grass Valuable
tors’ balconies. The seats for the
portal of the Inland Empire, will tern and caution is»urged on wat-l «ration- - '.
* . ‘
! The other six are in various stag-
senators an* re’i^sejrtattres have
The provision in the Farm lock in at Bonneville late on the er users that wastes be eliminated I
At the first stop in the field Mr.
There is talk of a bumper crop ** of organisation.
not yet arrived. Furniture from Credit Act of 1935 granting Fed- night of July 8 and will be in in the use of water. Peculiar is
Stephens
stated that land that
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»
exceeding
previous
highs,
b
u
t1
'Costs
of
the
various
dams
are
the present offices will be used un eral land bank borrowers the priv- readiness for the first program, the fact that more water is
.. drawn
jg
f ° m' estimated a , follow ,. Rock Creek. produces ten (or fifteen) bushels
till next fall when the new furni ilege of deferring payments on scheduled for dedication of the from the cistern at night when
, .
„ .
., .
present indications by most nrae- WL00O; Beaver Creek, $40,000; of wheat or less should be put in
shings arrive.
the principal of loans outstanding ship lock and seaway at 9:30 a. m. peaceful small town retudenU are tjcfd ob, erverJ ,
Clear Lakc, jso.OOO; Fox Valley,
The contract for completion of on June 3, 1935, expires July 10, July 9th. At that time a thirty •opposed to be safe m bed instead crop around 2 600 tt00 buahe|f „ j «0.000; T„™ .t. r . - . t Mnnnn to Crested Wheat Grass according
Tumalo Creek, $50,000. to trials made. The oldest stand
the structure is not comt>fete de
1938, E. M. Ehrhardt, President minute CBS coast-to-coast broad- of using water. A drop of over
The
cost
of
the West Eagle Creek of this grass in the northwest was
quality
may
be
spite the acceptance. . There are of the Federal Land Bank of cast, originated by KOIN, will 50,000 gallons in a night indicates
*n
6
project
has
not
as yet been com shown. It was first established
still two stone statue groups to be Spokane, said today.
that some one is sleeping in th e i*
.
a.
carry to the nation a description shower
here on a patch of scab land near
puted.
bath.
The
pur/p
L
a
been
.
D'®c,
u
l.
‘
y
of
e
,t
~
\
ln«
the
installed in front of the building
the field shed and will produce a
After July all Federal land ° the ceremonies
.
. in unsurpassed
9
4
X
v
j.,,,
al
y,eld
18
encountered
because
of
flanking the broad steps, and a
th(, |ack of jnforn)ation
the
bank borrowers will be required 8Cen,c setting within the heart of ,n operation 24 hour, per day.
good crop of seed this year.
gigantic statue of an early pioneer
^".urm ount the tower on ton of to make regular payments on the
m")° r '”?unta,n range where
In connection with the rows of
total
acreage.
Government
regu
to surmount the tower on w p o i
• ,, or,a
oa , the Columbia gorge cuts through,
alfalfa E. R. Jackman explained
lations are that 14% be taken
the building. Mu.'al work, painting principal of their loans on each
;i;„~ ,r
Following the unveiling of a
that all long time successful ag
from this years grain acreage, but
and other details will be finished i interest payment date.
commemorative plaque, the pa
ricultural countries had at some
another
provision
permits
the
later*
Many Have Paid
To extend Columbia river's low
rade will form with the S. S.
m
m «.k 11
v
/
f
to Put *n hj® entire p lic e ^ o a t power to residents through- time to depend on legumes to
Cha: les L. Wheeler, in the lead.
Mr,. Maybelle Jocum w.fe of his year and comply m 1939 and, out thPe Northweat, j . D. Ro„ haa bring back the productivity of the
With 31 juror, impaneled fori President Ehrha.dt said that
Arthur H Riggs veteran
J. R. Yocum, died in The Dalles m some cases this has been d o n e .___,
:_j to Public w
—u- Admin soil or to retain It. He presumed
the
July
session
of
circuit
court
despite
the
fact
that
many
farm-
„
p
,
.
’
,
»
applied
Works
hereJX 7 i , e x i t e d soon in ¡era were not required to make
SeH*
th lt such a time would come to
about four o’clock Thursday morn- The normal seeded acreage of
istrator Harold L. Ickes for an
the state’e condemnation proceed-j pnnc.pal payments, over »5,400,-
K
,
• ing after a prolonged illness. She 135,000 may be exceeded this allotment of $21,375,725 for trans this country.
was 29 years of age.
1 year and if it is the crop may be
Along the spring wheats and
ing, against three property own- 000 m punerpal payment, was
nm| rpar_ai|mir*, for the
mission lines and substations.
Surviving
her
are
her
widower,
larger than expected.
the
more luxuriant winter wheats
ers who have refused to relinquish paidI the Federal Land Bank of wjl, be Captain g v . Winslow.
This application was made pub
their property north of the ne* Spokane m 1®®7’ Tpls lnclu,le 1 another veteran steamboat man two small children, her parents,! ------------------
lic today by the chief of the past the wheat nursery, the rota
‘
oq.it.1 building for the appra.aed J ,381,000 m payments on exten- and menibpr of the C<)Iumbia Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Brock, a sis-1
Bonneville Project, who disclosed tion methods, the tillage methods,
ter Mrs. Donald Banta and two (jF & S S V a l l C Y
value «et by the state capitol re- s>ons and »2,212,000 in loans paid R.ycr
Association,
his plan for a super- power net the crowd walked to stop and lis
brothers, Sam an<$ Virgil of Twin
w
ex
conotruction commission.
•
im full and special payments on
work to connect tjie hydro-electric ten to brief talks about
• « •
I principal, the balance of $1,819,-
The day will be climaxed, when Falls, Idaho.
periments
and
the
result
ob
projects of the Columbia Basin.
Funeral services will be held
rvtxmsxwa
thi. nlH Flk« TVmnlp! 000 being regular principal pay-
marhie parade arrives at The
The Bonneville (Administrator tained in the twenty six years Mr.
Owners of the old Elks lem piel
h
h j
will
Dalles, where .the Wheeler will from the Christian Church in
Grass Valley’s urge for revenge revealed that he had recommend Stephens has been in charge of
in Portland this week offered the j ni8,
d: ^charge first cargo ever to ar
building to the state as a state
However, the temporarily re- rive 200 miles inland on a river Wasco Saturday 1at 2 p. m., with was not equaled by their ability ed construction of Umatilla dam the station.
Trashy fallow was shown and
office (building for »690,000. The duced interest rates on all loans
an the Rev. Carey officiating. The as baseballista Sunday and they and the Snake river project in
•Rebekahs,
of
which
the
deceased!
lost
to
The
Dalles
by
the
identi-
it
was explained that it sometimes
order to hasten the day when a
owners slid they would donate a w.ll eont.nue unt.1 June 30 1940.
„
50 by 100 foot lot for parking'On most Federal land bank loans
jn wo
mar.ne
whgn was a member, will be in charge, cal score of the previous week 11 coordinated navugation-power-tec- give equal yields to plowed fal
The funeral will be conducted by t.e If) although the second kame irrnation development would meet low but that weeds are a bad fea
»pace and remodel the building to i through n.t.onal farm loan asso- #n
craft has passe<J
Zells.
required but the usual nine inn- the needs of an expanding North- ture of it until some new method
suit the needs of the state. N o , per .cen. a
an
oana the heart o f a great productive
of cultivation is found. Joe Bal-
ln|r’ -
west.
action was taken by the .board of j made directly from the banks, 4 hinter|and back behind a major
enger,
county agent of Morrow
It
was
really
errors
that
defeat
“Power
and
water—that
is
the
control as b^arl Snell, a member,' P®1* ccn •
~
mountain range. lAt 4:30 p. m.
county,
and Ruseel McKinnon,
ed
Grass
Valley
tor
they
made
vital combination for the people
was absent.
I
KOIN will originate anothe_r CBS
more earned runs than did the vis of Oregon and Washington and county agent of Gilliam county,
braodcast of 30 minutes .built
itors. The outfield missed flies Idaho,” he said. “Bonneville is the told of the result of trashy fal
Drunken driving was responsi
around a colorful program at The
and the infield let a few ground first completed step in our Col low methods in their counties
ble for the revocation of 64 oper-1 j
l
Dalles.
Reduction in rates chargee for ers through to account for enough umbia Basin program. It must be saying that it was a check on wind
ator’s permits during May. There ¡IllG C X D O W D
On July 9, many children of the electricity for domestic use have runs to lose the game. Millar used unselfishly to help solve the erosion, a partial check on water
were 94 licenses revoked during
twt - xv .i
rx
,
• - Inland Empire, grown
children,
With the Oregon farm pr.ee ,n- wi„ hear for the first tjme the been made :by 137 of 172 Oregon pitched for the first six innings navigation, power and land prob erosion but that is was not en
the month, Secretary of State
cities included in survey for the and McKay took up the burden lems of the entire Northwest.” tirely satisfactory from the culti
dex down two point, to 62 per whist,e
steamboati and many
Snell announced.
two years ending January 1, 1937, until the eighth when John Rolfe
The Ross proposal calls for an vation and yield standpoint.
’
’
. 1 ??nt of V16 , 1926' \ 9,3°, averatf€’ adults will view for the first ,time it was announced in a bulletin
relieved him.
William
Teutsch,
assistant
aTterial
system that will carry
Employment in<. Oregon during, th e . report shows __ihat potatoes an pceail ship .being mocr^o. Pio- ‘'Domestic And ’Residential Elec
Old Ed Woolsey pitched the Bonneville power in every direc county leader, talked briefly of
the past few months has been on apples,
butterfat, wool, .eggs, neers wfll recal, the cornmonplace>
tric Rates in Effect January 1,
t unfai„ n , thrilling sight 1937 in Oregon,” just published game for The Dalles and although tion. It will be the foundation for the work done by D. E. Stephens
the upswing, two state official re d ied prune, and wheat are m the and
transmission and regretted his departure foi
unable to run he could still fool a pUblicly-owned
.worst relat.ve pnee position, in
sternwheelers> ,yi
in former
ported this week.
here by the Bureau of Municipal
.link up all of the future other work in Washington. Mr.
GuyV. Lintner, director of th e. that order The pr.ee mdex as of timcs both the Columbia and the Research of the Unievrsity of Ore the boys at bat sdfficiehtTy lo wfrf syitejn
Northwest, Stephens, whose last field tour it
a game. In the ninth Grass Val hydro-ßlknw of the
Oregon State Employment ser-j mid-May declined two points from Snake
gon and the League of Oregon ley made two runs and had the and connect with our major net was, paid his respects to the farm
vice, said the number employed1 the month previous and was 31
cities.
tieing run on base when the bat works for economictl interchange ers With whom he has worked and
during June would show an in-! points below the peak of April,
The bulletin includes figures ter went out.
of energy. A major circuit will expressed his reluctance to leave
' 7
' • Ellis McFarland/ s-$ etary cd
crease over the previous months 1937.
obtained in a survey made by the
be
a 230,000 volt line frqm Bonne the field he chose twenty six years
Overflowing graneries of Amer- the Percheron Horse association,
of 1933. He credited the upswing
Wasco went to White Salmon
federal power commiasion for the
ville
to Grand Coulee dam, with ago.
i
of jobs to resumed sawmill opera- ican wheat are still indicated by
be here July 9th at the T. M.
two year period. It further points and up to the sixth inning had a an additional circuit returning by
tions in Marshfield and Klamath j every advance estimate. The lat- R°He ranch to look over the
lead
of
10
to
2
only
to
get
care
oyt that in 1937, reductions in
Falls, the pea harvest in Pendle- • est forecast on winter wheat is horses. He will be prepared to
less and lose out 11 to 10 after a way of Pasco.
rates affording a saving to people
To serve Portland, the Willam
hectic last part of the game. Too
ton, the seasonal work in other, for 760 million bushels, which is t*ke pictures of livestock for any
of more than $500,000 were made.
ette
Valley and the Oregon Coast,
much
confidence
and
taking
it
214
million
bushels
more
than
the
w^°
"
^
h
to
avail
themselves
of
parts of the state.
Amount of savings for other years
Mr.
Ross
asked for a PWÎA allot
easy when ahead lost the game
J. C, Joy, chairman of the state 10-year average of 1937 to 1936. ¡^ ie °PP°rtunity.
was not totalled.
ment
that
will enable him to
for the Sherman countians ac-
industrial accident commission, r e -! In addition, spring wheat . condi-!
By far the greater number of
build a 110,000 volt line from
A call to drive carefully over
cording
to
their
own
report.
ported that the number of men*tions<«on June J indicated a crop; WEATHER FOR THE WEEK
electricity users in Oregon now
Vancouver across the Columbia the Fourth of July holiday has
working in May in Oregon indus-J jp excess of 260 million bushels, i d a t k
MAX. MIV.
have a five cent top step per kilo
river, with a donole circuit south been issued by Secretary of State
.tries under the workmen’s compen-.j Thus the total wheat crop in th e ! J
23
8 5 ... 59. .
watt hour, it is pointed out. The
ward to Eugene. Bonneville pow Earl Snell, who points to five
sation law had increased since 'United States will probably be in •
24 - . .
82
.00
59
tables also show an excellent rec
er would reach Eastern Oregon traffic deaths which occurred in
February. The total April payroll excess of a billion bushels, or a
ord for -municipal plants, with
25
82
51
00
and Washington by a line of the this state' during the dbuble holi
Sealed
(bids
for
painting
the
was larger than thfr payroll dur-ysurpltfs p oduction over domestic j
Eugene low in the state as well Fair (Association buildings and for sume voltage
?6 _ . . . ....... 79 .. 55
.00
extending from day last year.
Observance pf
Ing the same period last year. How needh of around-300 million bush-1
as in the 10,000 to 26,000 popula the paint for same will be received Pendleton to Umatilla and Pasco. moderate speeds, planning of trips
27 ...: . .
81
51
.00
ever, the number employed is b e-' els, without counting at least that [
tion claas.
by the Fair Board up to Tuesday, Included in the application to Ad which ceh be made comfortably
28 . . . . ......... 91 . 54
.00
low the number of last October much carry-over.
:
Rates in detail for the 172 cities July 5. The boat'd reserves the ministrator Ickes is the proposal during the two-day period, and
29
60
85
00
when the high mark since 1929
Tjye complete report may be ob-'
as well as comment and observa right to reject any or all bids.
to connect the dam with Hood1 avoidance of late night
1 for the week
.00
t Continued «»n Page twnl
tained at county extension offices. *T
tions, are included in the report.
are urged by Snell.
LaRoy Wright, secretary. River and The Dalles.
By A. L. Lindbeck
Roy Dugger
Parade Will Be School District
/„ Hospital With Fea{ure of por[ Consolidation Loses
Spotted Fever
Celebration July 9
Extended Payments
Planned By Board
City Cistern Water
Level Dropping
Now Coming Due
Power Lines To
Wasco Matron Dies
After Long Illness
Be Extended
Defeat; No Revenge
Electric Rates
.¡'Oregon Farm Price
Reduced This Year
Snell Urges
Careful Driving
Bids Asked
i