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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
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Moro, Oregon
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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expected that it will be repealed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
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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.
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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.
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situation.
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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.
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,
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.
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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.
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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
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^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-
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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. -
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estate.
A* nrnsent Mr. Wright is a part
Mary F. Smith,
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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.
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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 ‘
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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.
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“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