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•* • ÌW tt PA G I THE SHEHMAN COtìKTI J ö tf f l.- M k M ü h o . a gJZ. sobbing parents for a condemned man, nor fail to listen .to the plead ings of attorneys and friends. It Sherman County Observer is a period of strain for a gover Established Nov. 2, |888 nor and Sprague is to be compli Grass Valley Journal mented for : efusing to interfere. Established Oct. 14, 1897 C onsolidated March 6, 1931 It will be easier for all concerned that the law was. allowed to take Wasco News-Enterprise its course. Established Nov. 1891 CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 An interim legislative committee Slirrma» <««»1^ 2b«*«*! Published Evpry Friday at • Moro, Oregon Giles L. French Editor Enter$8 a* second-class matter at the Postoffice at Moro, Oregon under Act of Congress of March >, 1879. M em ber^ Dregon"Newspaper PublisKers OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance ONE YEAR ..................... $15C J A N U A R Y 27, 1939 INCOME TAX Introduction of a new income tax bill into the legislature has caused some adverse comment in the newspapers of the state and this ia natural and to be expected. The tax will not be popular. No tax is ever popular. All that those who make tax laws can hope is to make them fair and even that is difficult when dealing with all kinds of people who get their liv ing from all k.r.ds o f businesses, industries and agricultural pur suits. The intangibles tax in Oregon brought in a little over $1,300,000 in 1937 and less is expected in 1938. This tax is levied on income from notes, bonds or other intan gible property. The rate is eight percent. Objection to it is that it was difficult for an aged person to reri’e on a small income from securities without toeing tuuced more heavily than was juat. It is expected that it will be repealed and the income tax raked to make up a large part of the loss. It is entirely possible that the rates specified in the new income tax bill will be changed to make payments as high under the income tax and under the old intangible tax law but there will be exemp tions in the new law that will keep it from being so much of a burden, on owners of small blocks of bonds. It ia urged also in some quar ters that the exemptions be made smaller than at present. . Under the present law married couples with an income of $1500 and sin gle persons with an income of $800 must pay a state tax. This could probably be lowered to $1200 and $700 not causing nearly so much hardship as does the real proper ty tax that must be met whether or not the e is income. Whether this is done or - not, cannot be known at this time as the bill has juat gone to committee, but it is certain that an attempt will be made to have these changes incorporated in the law. The bill provides for an ex emption from paying on so much income. The tax is figured on the income and tax exemption of $36 taken off for married couples and $16 for single persons. An additional tax exemption ia al lowable for each dependent child. Despite the inoreased income tax and other comparatively small increases planned for other taxes, it is expected that there will be a state property tax for 1940. Demands for pensions and relief are too large to be met from pres ent incomes and voters over the state are much the same as those of Marion county who voted to build a new court house and at the same election refused to vote bonds for its construction. Oregon voters give an OK to new expen ditures and turn down new taxes EXECUTION The execution of Hershel Mc Carthy last Friday gave evidence to the people of the state that the newly installed governor will have the nerve to follow the law. It is probabe that in other matters hav ing to do with law enforcement he will be as strong in holding that the law be obeyed. It is no pink tea for a governor for a cpuple of days before an execution. It is impressed on his mind very forcibly that he is the one man who can save a life and that the responsibility is his and his alone. Parents of McCar thy, well appearing folks, too, pled with Sprague for the life of their son and asked for commutation to life invpt isonment. Senators introduced a resolution asking for a 90 day reprieve so that a bill outlawing lethal gas could be passed. Newspaper men and others followed him about to lea*n the latest trend of his mind I t is impossible to evade any of it. No one could sit in the gover nor’s chair and refuse to see the z i j , ià to ■ w Statehouse Gossip ( Italian O ld M aster F or S. F. F air h Continued from n*ije ^ne» taining an agricultural exhibit at the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco. Because the fair is scheduled to open in a- few weeks and prompt action was necessary if Oregon’s exhibit is to be com pleted on time the appropriation measure was rushed through un to study taxation was named af der suspension of the rules and ter the 1937 session and reports with but slight opposition. » * a arc that it has done considerable work du.ing the two years it has The barbers .want a _ control been meeting. The report has board of their own with authority been delayed for two or three to regulate prices, hours and work months after it was first reported ing conditions similar to that t<> be ready and is at least six vested in the milk control board. months later than it should have- A bill covering ' this subject is been if adequate study and com said to strike at cut-rate competi ment was to have been made on tion. If the barbers are success it. Criticism of the legislature ful in their program other pro Tor not reading the report is "hot* fessions are expected to aak for based on full knowledge of the similar regulations. • # * situation. i Five issues of major importance now loom up on the legislative horizon as the lawmakers enter upon the third week of the session. Briefly these issues may be clas sified as power, compensation, tax From the Observer Jan. 26, 1900 es. milk and relief. W. H. Bishop, well known in' Of these five issues, power as Moro has been promoted in the represented by the proposed re Indian bureau to a clerkship a t] vision of the Peoples Utility Dis Warm Springs agency, with ad trict act, gives promise of provid ing more material for legislative ditional pay. argument than all the other four Hon. W. H. Moore, Milt Damon, combined. Dictated by ¡Bonne and J. B. Hosford are to represent ville Administrator J. D. Ross and Moro in the state republican his staff of public ownership pro league. moters the measure is designed to A delegation of »Moro people lend every encouragement to the attended Rev. Drake’s services at organisation and development of the new U. B. church at Webbs, power districts. Among other Sunday. The party consisted of things it provides for the issuance Rev. and Mrs. Hoskins, J. M. Dun- of revenue bonds as well as gener ahoo and family, Misses Rose al obligation bonds. As a conces Stanley, Edna Strahl and Jennie sion to Governo" Sprague who ob Kay. jected to the original draft a pro Mrs. Collins presented her hus viso has been inserted in the bill band with a bouncing boy on the requiring that the first issue of 24th. , t©venue bonds issued by any dis trict must receive the approval of F ro m the O bserver Jan. 28, 1910 a majority of the voters of the Emmitt Sells is up on a vacation district. AfteT that the directos from North Bend while the mill would have a free hand in spend in which he is employed is under ing, limited only by their own judgment and the willingness of going repairs. _ , Mrs. Eva Rudolf is on the sick the bond brokers to take the pape list, and Charley 'Bartlett has off the»- hands. While these rev enue bonds BTe supposed to be re taken her place in the store. tired only from profits of the pow Mr. and Mrs. N.- P. Hansen, Q. er utility directors of the district E. Lewellen and N. W. Thompson would be authorized to levy taxes succeeded in reaching Moro Sun against property in the district day night by Wasco team from to .help meet this obligation. Biggs. i Revision of the unemployment Miss Vivian Strong has been compensation act to satisfy the laid up two weeks from an acci Social Security Commission has dent while coasting, but will soon developed into a wrangle between be in school again. attorneys representing the unem From the Observer Jan. 30, 1920 ployment compensation commis sion and attorneys representing Four new phones have been add organized labor. While all . con- ed recently to the Moro exchange cened insist that they are striv as follows: 'Residence phones at ing toward the same end they dis L. W. Ross, L. V. »Moore, F. .E. agree violently on the road to take Fortner, and also a t ' the Moro in reaching the desired goal. At school building. Applications have torneys for the UCC have prepar been made by Rev. E. E. McVick- ed an amendment which they con er, C. S. Roys© and J. C. Harper.. tend will satisfy the federal board This is indicative, of appreciation in whose hands rest the fate of of the local public for the excel the Oregon fund created for the lent phone service now maintained benefit of jobless workers. Attar.-, by the company and their agent, ncys for the labor groups contend just as emphatically that the p o- Mrs. Kessinger. A number of Kent people are posed amendment will not answer visiting in Portland this week. the purpose—that the Oregon fund Mr. A. A. Dunlap, Art Justesen and can only be saved through repeal Vic Hawford left Saturday; Fred of the recently enacted “picket Haynes, Tom Bayliss, W. S. Hall ing” act. Majority opinion among left Monday and Mr. and Mrs. the lawmakers of both houses ap Carsten von Borstel left Tuesday. pears to favor the proposed amend The last named wiH visit at Cor ment w ith. a very wefll defined vallis and Roseburg before return sentiment among the lawmakers to throw the entire unemployment ing. » «. - compensation program overboard In the recent mid-year exami :atber than submit to any dicta nations for the, 8th grade Kath tion at the hands of the New Deal erine von Borstel, Qtillo Wassen- bureau? __ miller and Lillian Schaesen, «11 The tax controversy is wrapped of the German school district, pass up in Governor Sprague’s propos ed with high honors. al foT a revision of the income tax program. This program is con Grass Valley Journal: tained in three separate bills. One Sheriff P. H. Buxton died at his provides for repeal of the intan home in Moro, Sunday morning gibles tax, throwing intangibles January 25, of pneumonia, aged 38. incomes into the personal income On account of the flu at Wasco classification. A second measure and Moro, the schools have been provides for a sharp increase in dismissed and all public meetings income tax levies and the third have been called off, pool hall and measure is designed to squeeze movie shows have been paced un more revenue out of corporation der the ban. For the past three profits^ Enactment of all three weeks Dr. Taylor has been vary measu'es ’‘as is” would increase busy going night and day. revenues from income taxes ap Pore part of the week Fred proximately $500,000 a year. Re- Cox sold sixteen head of horses p e a T o fth e intangibles tax "act without enactment of the other to a Portland buyer; two wee ago he sold another bunch of ten two measures would result in a head, and Sam Davis sold twelve loss'of between $300,000 and $400,- head. Fred says he only has 40 000 a year from income taxes. "A" measure to repeal the milk horses left. control act, introduced the first week of the session, does not ap to be attracting much suppo t ■SAFCTy SONNET5 pear Many of the legislators believe the act needs a lot of revising but do not want to abandon the control principle entirely. Representa tive F ’ench of Sherman county is working on a proposed amendment which would confine the jurisdic tion of the milk control board to the more congested sections of the state. O M IN K IN # , T H I N O M I V I N # , The relief problem is la’egly one HCfT © H W KECKS C A < > . of finances. In spite of the fact that the budget recommended by Governor Martin is some $4,000,- 000 short of the estimate submit ted by the State Relief Committee there is a feeling among many membe a that this budget can stand even greater pruning. In fact it would not he at all surpris- »V T O * V « N PUTS D fttV « R .S B v u n d o i e r a f t « H T « A t t a ;ng if the ways and means com mittee should take this means of balancing the budget which ia now In Other Days > - j * ^RWB^tiirTiTP'TbM Wright Family Has Place In Loal History A m i $1900.00, together with the addi tional sum of $190.00 as reasonable • attorney fees, and for it« costs i and disbursements in the above ' entitled cause, together with inter- ' A. M; Wright, who in his time est v seven per cefit (7%) per filled most of the public offices to annum on said sum of $1900.00 be given by the voters of Sherman from the 6th day of December county people, came to the county 1938, the date of the filing of the in 1884 with his father, John A. I complaint herein, until paid. ! This summons is served upon Wright and immediately started into the sheep business with D. • you by publication under and by virtue of an order of publication Harvey Leech, a brother in law. Mr. Wright was born in Zanes duly made and entered by the Hon- ville, Ohio, in 1860 and after re erable Carl Hendricks, Judge of ceiving a business education went the Circuit Court of the State of into stone cutting work with his Oregon for the County of Sher father, who was a contractor and man, on the 22nd day of Decem builder. He was married in March ber, 1938, requiring this summons to be published in th? Sherman 1883, to Mliss Jessie Adams. County Journal not Uss »hanonce The families of the elder and a week for four consecutive weeks. younger Wright came to Oregon The date o f the first publication in the fall of 1884 and stopped in of this summons J s -December 30, Umatilla county for the winder, which is still remembered as being 1938, and the date of the last One of the most severe of any publication is January 27, 1939. SHEPPARD A PHILLIPS since the country was settled. In 1 ( L. J. BALBACH, February, when the snow was still Attorneys for Plaintiff, deeD they came to this country 1208 Public Service Bldg., 'aking up land east of what ia Portland, Oregon. r.^w Grass Valley. Their home place is now occupied by Mrs. NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT Jennie Martin and sons. Notice is hereby given that the After some veers in the sheep undersigned has filed in the Coun business A, M. Wright bought ty Court of the State of Oregon land near the p esent Harmony for Sherman County her Final school where he lived until he Account and Report as adminis moved to Moro, about 1914. He tratrix of the'estate of J. A. Bar rften served as school clerk and Raphael’s “ Madonna della Sedia” or Madonna of the Chair, nett, deceased, and that Monday, 'chool director and was county one of the m ost widely reproduced paintings the world ever has the 13th day of February, 1939, known, is one of 40 world renowned old m asters from Italy which ''' mm.issioner in the early years at 10.00 o’clock a. m., of said arrived in New York on January 12. Valued at $15,000,090 the ship- or the century, being elected on day, at the court room, in the laent from Euruhh i s part of $25.000,000 art to be displayed at the ‘he orohibition ticket. He served luy» California World s Fair oarifreasuic Island. courthouse, in Moro, Sherman '»-•» the city council of Moro until County, Oregon, have been fixed M t '■»‘¡rement in. 1933. During by the Court as the time and •ml r.fter the wa- years he was place for hearing of objections to —'’'••«"erbetive in the Oregon leg- vr" for two terms going from said Final Aocount and ■ Report and for the settlement of said i 1h ce county district. - i estate. A* nrnsent Mr. Wright is a part Mary F. Smith, '' firm Ginn Coleman, engag- Administratrix. ’ in the hardware -business in T. Lester Johnson, ’’ ’■'— a He has long been an in Attorney for administratrix. 10-14 i'» p««‘(d nr»d active worker in the M '-h^dist church. Notice of Final Settlement Two dau<*htrs were born to Mr. Notice is hereby given -that M-s. Wright. Ethel, now Mrs. Curtis A. Tom, administrator of d Rrish°p and ‘ E va/ now the estate" of George E.” Wilkerson, Charles Rp’shee. both living deceased, has filed in the Countv iii or ne?r Moro. Ray Havenar, Cou»“ of Sherman County, Ore en edopt°d son Olives a t Klicitat, gon. his duly ve ifted final account: Y/ashington. r~d fia t Monday, the 30th day of Janu' ry, 1989 at 10:00 A. M. in the County Court Room in the LEGISLATIVE HIGH LIGHTS C-junty Court House in Moro, Sherman County, Oregon, has been 'Continued from r»nge o»»* » bo illegal had s hearing Wednes- fixed as the time and place for the d-v night. The results on this hearing of objections to said ac bill may he a bit surprising to count and the settlement thereof. CURTIS A. TOM many for it does not have the sup . Administrator port of some who would normally be considered to be for it. Em GALLOWAY A KRIER ployers who have contracts with The Dalles. Oregon 8-12 unions will be doubtful about en Attorneys for said Estate dorsing the legislation and then the usual labor g-oup will violent NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, ly oppose. Anything may happen that Alice Belshe Lavender, Ad to it end the public hearing so in ministratrix of the Ertate of Clay dicated. BeJsbe, deceased, has filed in the Weathet in Salem has been cold County Court of Sherman County, er than usual end fog hangs over ’h» tree tops and beclouds the land Oregon, her Final Account, and and the Court has set the 8th scape this week wnereas sunshine day of February, 1939, at the hour and spring like calm was the rule of 10:00 a. m., in the County Motorists driving to Treasure Island, site of the 1939 Golden la»i week. It maxes the boys from Os te International Exposition which opens F eb ru ary 18. all reeeh e Judge’s office in the County Court the open spaces feel a bit more at one of these windshield slickers at the gateway to the ¡¿’anti. “ " \ a House a t Moro, Sherman County, h »me, but no more comfortable. West Invites You to the 1939 W orld’s F a ir on San Francisco Oregon, as the time and place for •ays the sticker. and p rs llv Pfr.rMyu Gordon echoes the invifr.tion. The matter of which attorney the settlement of said accounting, the house was going to hire was and for hearing objections to the approximately $1,000,000 out of As She Understood I t definitely decided Monday morning same, if any. balance on the “red” side of the after a brief debate. Ralph E. Then there was the little Hawai Moody was retained after two at ALICE BELSHE LAVENDER, ledger. Administratrix ian boy who, on a day when they tempts to prevent it on the part J. TRACY BARTON, were selling small red flowers on of some one who voted from var THE DALLES, OREGON Lodge Man the streets of Honolulu for the ious motives. The prejudice that Attorney for the Estate. 9-12 benefit of disabled veterans, asked exists against him was the major Student—A full grown man has his mother for money to buy a eason, but some held that he Notice of Final Settlement 33 teeth. ' 4 ‘ * poppy. She looked up from her would be more «^pensive than Notice is given that Saturday, Teacher—Wrong. ¿JiThe answer wash tub. men from the attorney general’s , the 21st day of January, 1939, at office. Moody’s ability to work is 32 teeth. ' J “Why should I buy you poppy? twelve to sixteen hours per day the hour of 10 o’clock a .m., and ¡Student—Ah! but this man be So you could tich heem treeks?” drafting bills was held by the the courtroom in the courthouse she asked. longs to the Elks! majority to make up for his cost, at Moro, Oregon, has been fixed inasmuch as the session costs as the t«me and place for the over $1000.00 per day and his pay hearing on the final ' report and account of C. L. Pepj^r as ad can be saved in three quarters of ministrator of the estate of the a day. partne’ship of Bryant & Pepper, and the settlement thereof. Proof C. L. Pepper, Administrator. 7-10 “Do you think they approved of my sermon?” asked the newly ap pointed rector, hopeful that he had Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-M made a good impression. Meets on the 1st and 1 “Yes, I think so,” replied his 3rd Thursday eve wife. “They were all nodding.” nings of each month. Visiting members cor Lamin’ • dislly invited to meet Ê— ---- Eastern Visitor-r-Has the advent — ---------with US; of the radio helped ranch life?” A. B. Christianson W. M. Pinto Pete—I'll say it has. Why, C. V. Belknap, Secy. we learn a new cowboy song every night, and, say, we’ve found out Moro Lodge No. 113, I. O. O. F. that the dialect us Tellers have Moro, Oregon '4_ used fer years is all wrong.” Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in the I.O..O.F. hall Tran IN THE CTRCUrT COURT OF sient and visiting THE STATE OF OREGON FOR brothers are cordi THE COUNTY OF SHERMAN ally invited to meet UNITED STATES FIDELITY with us. AND GUARANTY COMPANY, Ve-non Miller, N. G. ' ' . a corporation, Plaintiff,'vs. WARD Joe Truitt, Secretary. EEAUCHAMP, MYRTLE BEAU CHAMP, and ANAH V. BEAU- Bethlehem Chapter, No« M.O.E.S Defendants. Moro, Oregon No. 2ffl2 Meets Every Second and SU M M O N S Fourth Thursdays in each L o n g D ista n c e is a service •which To Anah V. Beauchamp, defendant: Month. Visiting members „ IN _TH E NAME OF THE V Invited everyone should use n a tu ra lly a n d STATE OF OREGON, You “ are Rose Amidon, W,M. ' , frequently to make life easier and more hereby required io appear and Ruth Sparling, Secretary. answer the complaint filed against pleasant. you in the above entitled action Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116 within four (4) weeks from the Moro, Oregon date of the first publication of this Meets 2d A 4th Tues THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE summons, and if you fail so to day of each month. AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY appea- and answer, for want Visiting members wel thereof the plaintiff will take judg come. ment against you as prayed for Thelma Miller, N.G. in its complaint, in the sum of Florence Johnston,See You’re Invited T o S. F. Fair f he quickest way to other . cities • • ri i T ry Long Distance it will serve you at little cost
