Sherman County journal., April 07, 1939, Image 1

’ Fifty- first Year Mo. 2 /
O f Oregon-
Its Government'
and People
Moro, Oragon. fridAj,
A pril 7 . 1W9
Official County Papr
Church Group
Elects Officers
For
Year
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Breakfast C lub. Moro State Bank Wheat Condition | Bob King Wins Court’s Road
Second, _ - Fourth
Members Increase Declares Eighth Varies Widely
Troubles Ironed
i
• 1
A t San Francisco
1 - j Dividend
meeting of At Rapid Rate
The eighth dividend to be paid Over County
Word was received here this Out Peaceably
church was j
The congregational
the Moro Community
1 <• <»m the asset» of the Moro State
week that Bob King, who left
By A. L. Lindbtck
Bank will be math 'April 14th,
held in the basement of the Pres- j Second Meeting Brings Out
Anticipated Arguments Fail
here last week with three entries
Much Dry Dirt Reported In
; according to janF announcement
to
the
stock
show
at
the
San
Fran-
Concensus of - opinion* among byterian churah Wednesday eve­
Nearly Fifty; Much Raillery
, made in another column of this
To Materialize At April
i cisco exposition had won second
Fields Although Average
cap i to I observer« is that there will ning with 75 persons present at
issue.
!
and
fourth
prizes
there
on
two
be no ohange in the personnel of the pot-Juck dinner and for the
Enlivens Session
Meeting; Crowd Present
Is Nearly Normal
i Five dividends of ten per cent
! Hereford calves fed out by him.
the »Ute tax commission, for the I
aftM.
The calf winning second place
Members of th2 Moro Breakfast ; have been made, a sixth dividend
time being at least.
John C ar-{
g
The troubles of many county
Street corner talk about the con­
kin, who was supplanted on the
Election of officers resulted in club know the first lines of the of twenty per e-rit and this is the dition of the wheat in the county was bought from the Stearns herd citizens over the road situation or
at
Prineville
and
the
fourth
place
second
five
pef
cent
dividend
or­
commission iby Wallace S. Whar­ Harry Pinkerton being chosen for famous Harry Lauder song, “It’s
at this stage of development varies winning calf came from the situations for the past month ap­
ton, in an eleventh hour coup by another term as trustee. S. A. nice to get up in the morning, dered which all brings the total
pear to have been quieted to some
as widely as does, the appeal anee
Governor Martin and State Treas­ 114)1 and De^ey Thompaon are the ' w,htn tl’e, sun b‘ « in‘
? r receipts of depositors up to eigh­ of the crop on different fields of Herbert Chandler herd at Baker, extent for the meeting of the
ty
percent
of
their
claims.
said
the
message.
urer HoLman, will probably be otflar trustees. € . W. Smith was ttbout
««*
Wednesday
county court Wednesday instead
the county. In the north end of
“taekn care” of in some other de­ chdscn Sunday school superinten-
The test case now being heard the county optimism generally
Calves in this show came from of being a wildly controveraal af­
1 K'
th,‘ !>u'‘ aiu
partment if capitol rumors are to dent, S. A. Hall, assistant; M la a 'fel,‘ w members-
in Portland as to whether the Bank
uli over the western part of the fair with accusations and finger
prevails as the graia i t covering
United States as it was an open shaking turned out to be as quiet
of
Commerce
at
Wasco
will
have
be credited.
Vivian Trounce church pianist, ■
many, in fact, were out and
the ground and gives a healthy
Just what berth has been -picked Mrs. M. G. Melser, assistant; A.-- ! 80 many indicated an intention to to pay income tax may also have
4-H club and Future Fanner show. an affair as possible.
outlook for the coming crop. There
out for tCerkin is a matter of dis; Truitt, Sunday school pianist. ■become active memdbrs that the an effect on the Moro State Bank
It is- another triumph for the
There was a goodly delegation
speculation. There is some talk Usjier.3 will be Martin Melzer and by-iaws had to be changed to per­ am! in case dipositors were paid is probably an insufficient amount Sherman county lad who has won
of moisture even there to insure
of men to wait upon the court and
prizes in the Pacific International talk over road problems but in the
to the effect that he might be C. W. Smith. Dewey Thompson mit a larger roll. The originators in full it is likely that interest
more than an average crop, how­
fiamed corporation commissioner if wai elected Sunday school treas­ felt that a maximum of foity would be forthcoming according ever.
on many previous occasions. He end it seemed to he working out
is expected home with his parents,
Governor Sprague should decide urer.
would be all that could be inter­ to the decision made in the case
The south end of the county is who w-ent down Friday, after the to the satisfaction of all concern­
to make a change there which he ,
ested and already that mark has of the Wasco bank.
0.
H.
Wilbur
of
Portland
was
much
leas optimistic and with sale of the stock, which will be ed.«
is understood to Ibe reluctant to
Whether further• payments are
been raised to fifty with a possi­
Alfred Kock asked for a road
prebent
to
complete
the
call
where
good
cause
for fields there are
do inasmuch as the incumbent,
bility of more.
anticipated or not has not been much more backward and many the last of this week.
to be built down Grass VaHey
by
Rev.
H.
G.
Hanson
came
to
James Haslett, although a demo­
announced by the liquidator.
canyon toward his place Instead
MoVo from Independence. The Nicknames Given
haVe been reseeded because of poor
crat was an active Sprague sup-
of
over the hill and Lester Bar­
porter in the recent e .m p .iin . «"«"'¡«I reports W re satisfectory
stand« or sickly- looking wheat.
num
wanted a bridge built on the
The
program
committee
of
Bob
Some
fields
are
»till
practically
Carkin’» name ha. »iso been link-
the church to be m rood
road to his place and the Erskine-
condition.
. -
Henderson, Serai Searcy and Ed-
bare
of
growing
wheat
and
in
oth­
fed with the post of utilities com­
j ville farmers were anxious to talk
win Peters initiated a roll call,
ers the weeds have aready out­
missioner now held by N. G. W a l-<
c-bout having ten miles of road
giving amusing, scurrilous or de­
stripped
the
grain.
lace, another Sprague democrat.
Failure of the House of Repre­ buil* from Carroll Sayrs place to
scriptive names to sach memibei
This
condition
especially
pre­
While Sprague is said to have no j
Even though it’s too late to do vails between Bourbon and Kent sentatives at Washington to pass We? Fullers and to the highway
and asked a series of questions
desire to oust Wallace the health.,
about Sherman county. A group much about the rùn-off and soil on the east side of the cdunty. all of the proposed appropriations from Joe Peters. Some were pres­
of the utilities commissioner may
. sang an appropriate song and losses this spring fyom fields plan­ South of Kent there are some ftr farm parity payments will ent to speak about the much dis­
compel his retirement from office
have no effect on wheat parity puted Rattlesnake road but no
ted to winter wheat, preventive
in which event an opening would,} Prank Morrow, Wasco machine krouP singing was led by a mem- action taken now -fan go a long very fine looking stands of wheat payments for 1939, N. E. Dodd, voices were raised in angry pro­
committee.
that seem to be growing normal- director of the western division
he made for some deserving r e -, shop owner and resident of that | ^>er
way towird reducing wasteful j jVt
test over any of it.
j
toWr
for
35
years,
died
at
his
:
Business
of
the
meeting
consist-
publican.
of the AAA, has assured state
loss
of
soil
and
tarature
next
The court agreed to view the
r tb/re Wednesday night after cd oi adopting a new set of by-
While republican members of;hcm
(
official» at Corvallis.
Moisture Deficient
spring.
Keck and Barnum proposals, and
lOr?
nines«.
I
laws
which
made
several
amend-
the Board of Control are known
The appropriation passed by the the matter of hiring a rock crush­
Such is the timely reminder
to resent the ‘‘sharp practice’’ re- ' He was born in Hlinois in 1870 ments in those adopted at the first
Moisture conditions are a source House the last week in Msrch pro­ er to be located in the E. H. Moore
which
ccmes
from
G.
'R.
McDole,
sorted to by Martin and Holman ' arid tame with his parents, John j nwir.ng, in voting to sponsor the
of worry for while the station re­ vides $500,000,000 for conservation field for the purpose of crushing
in “packing” the tax commission Mon >w and wife, to Sherman j dec »amatory contest at the local tillage specialist for the soil con­ ports nearly normal moisture oth-
with a Democrat appointee just eoupHy in 1887, settling on the !
*, in deciding to favor the servation service, who reports that , ei part» of the county -claim to be payments in 1939, as authorized rock for the Erskine road was de­
fortunate end thia may well by the act. The additional $212, layed in the morning because the
before the new administration ¿ a ç e now farmed by A. G. Futter. • f P’-ceding of gravel on the Erskine if plowing thl. apring is done m
took over it is said that they heA-1 Two .year» later Frank demon- : : o;.-‘ and v o tin g to have an exhib-
.*'***. mulrh on | ,,e considering the almost snowies, 000.000 to 'be used in making crusher owners failed to make
parity payments on wheat and then appearance and state a price
itate to remove either Wallace or gyrated his life long interest ini i. l enresentative of the products the surface, not turned under in winter and the lack of heavy similar surplus crops in 1939 was for their product.
the
usual
manner,
it
will
put
on
of
th?
county
placed
in
the
window
ruins in March. The p»»t month
Chas. V. Galloway at this time maohinery by firing the first steam
An Attempt is being made to
tht brakes against excessive rurw war wet enough for March dur­ definitely appropriated last year,
in order to* make a place for C tr- ( engin? that threshed the Sherman of the Odd-Fellows building.
ence,
the
recent
action
has
no
ef­
enlarge
the contract by selling
The next meeting will be held off from the planted field a year ing the first half but failed to fect on the current program,
kin lest they lay themselves °pcn ' COUÜ-y crop. From that time on
rock to farmers, cities and others
from
now.
By.
.slowing
down
the
make up.th» deficiency o f the Dodd jurplains.
to the same criticism that has :
waa identified with farm mach- the morning of Wednesday, Aprii
who wish to surface a road or
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been directed at Martin and -Hoi-;
either from repairing and 19th at the Hotel Moro and a pro­ run-off next spring . this trashy winter.
Dodd,
formerly
chairman
of
the
build something. Farmers along
man for ousting Carkin to ptake a * building them in his blacksmith gram committee for that event surface will also help soil lò ab­
It is probably too late to ex­ Oregon State AAIA committee, the projected road expect to put
sorb
more
moisture
and
'
at
the
place for Wharton.
¡«ho» at Monkdand and Wasco, will be appointed -by tL le presi-
pect enough rainfall to wet the and since January 1, assistant di­ rock on their private roads it was
came time retard soil erosion.
¡ selling ther.. as he did later, or dent.
' soil down in the fifth and sixth rector of the western division, has learned. ' -
“In othen words,” McDole ex- feet where it is needed and if the recently been appointed director
The State Board of Control at , oprrating a modern machine shop,
, plains, ‘Iby laying down a trashy crop is heavy ,it will have to be replacing the late C. C. Conter, Rattlesnake Petition Filed
a meeting this w j k, .he first since as he did in recent years.
The Rattlesnake problem is still
! mulch on top of the ground at on account af big rains at fortu­ who died suddenly of a heart at­
the legislature adjourned, decided ’ - He married Carrie Hull and
unsolved,
but a petition bearing a
,
spring
plowing
time,
in
advance
to adhere to the policy of award­ t twj; children were bom to them,
nate intervals throughout the re­ tack.
multitude of . names was filed with
o( the time when fields are plant­ mainder of the growing season.
ing contracts for supplies and R os| now living in Wasco, and Mrs
the court and plans were made for
ed to fall grain, we are protecting
equipment for state departments < G M \ 3 Laidlaw of Salem. Three
Worthy of mention is the deep
the court to go down the road at
i
ourselves
against
the
most
criti­
Gambling one’s life and proper­
furew- seeding on the Ted Ball
and institutions. This policy was ’ bro(h?rs, Hel E. of Kent, John of
some future time to look over the
cal
run-off
and
erosion
period
ty
on
the
right-of-way
at
an
in-
adopted by the previous board [.Portland
and
L.
M.
of
The
Dalles
place southwest of Grass Valley
p j - ij i
h i m L t. m . u i
i lie u a u w ;
" -
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ground
and see where—or if— a
which
comes
the
following
spring
after it had burned its fingers a ‘ or. j f oyr sinters, Mrs. Gollihcr of - terr.ection is like gambling against
wh ch looks as far advanced as
road
could
be built without inter­
when
planted
fields
are
ordinarily
crooked roulette wheel—one
few times by aitenrnting to p iss Salem, Mrs. E. fe. Kaseberg oi
gra.n in the northern part of the
fering with present land owners.
judgment on the merits of the Portland, Mrs. Annie McCoy of may win a few seconds now and in « barren condition and expos­ county. Wheat around ft is gen
The extent of commercial wheat
Agreement between the court
various offerings presented by Petaluma, California ancf Mrs. then, but the losses, when they ed to washing. And if all tillage erally good also.
growing
in the United States is and the Rogers Construction com­
j
operations
are
done
on
the
contour
occur,
will
be
extoi
tionately
heavy
aggressive salesmen.
Liilif M. Webber of Portland al­
indicated by the fact that 942 pany to hire the company to
Secretary of State Earl Snell said or level it is so much the better.
so survive.
counties in 36 states have 1939 crush 500 yards of gravel or more
Contour
cultivation
and
contour
Oregon’s new $700,000 library
wheat acreage allotments of ten from the pit located in the Moore
The funeral will be held at two this week.
Failure to give right of way ! seeding will reinforce the protec­
building was dedicated Monday j o’clock Saturday from the Meth-
thousand acres or more. This in field was reached at the afternoon
tion against soil wash afforded by
night in a ceremony arranged in ; odist church, Rev. Cannell officiai- contributed to more traffic crashes , straw mulching.”
formation was obtained by the meeting..
than any other improper driving
connection with the annual con- j ¡ng
j
Eastern Oregon Wheat league in
The price to the county will be
Implements to accomplish such
ference of Oregon librarians. G p v -,__
.
.
action in this riate last year, fig­
Business students, after they connection with its recent an $1 per yard in the bunkers and
a
job
of
“mulching’’
are
the
one­
uring in 9113 cases. Fifteen of
graduate this spring from the Uni­ nouncement of a nation-wide con the price for hauling, if the coun­
error Sprague presided at the
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•
ieation ceremony at which the W e a t h e r R e m a i D S
these accidents resulted fatally, way disc, modified moldboard plow versity of Oregon, will have firi^ test to encourage compliance with
ty hires the company to haul, will
and more than one thousand of } and lister, rather than the stan­ hand information on just what to the 1939 wheat acreage allot­
principal adresss was delivered by
he 8 cents per mile per yard. It
dard
moldboard
plow
which
turns
them produced injuries.
Dr. Evelyn Steel L ittle/ librarian
say to prospective ‘^bosses’* when ments.
was
estimated that the average
the stubble too deeply under the they go joib seeking, as a result
of Mills college, Oakland, Califor­
huul for the projected Erskine
Not
Safety
Measure
1
g/ound.
Even
though
the
mulch
Wheat
Count1
««
Found
nia i A paper on “The Beginnings
of a series of conferences held re­
While the weeks weather has
read will be 21 miles making the
plowing method may require a cently on the campus. Prominent
rf State Library Service in Ore­ 1 not teen so balmy a9 that of the
Designed largely to determine
Contrary to much popular be­ cost around $7000 for the road.
i
little
extra
patience,
particularly
gon,’’ prepared by Mrs. Cornelia j middle of March it is »till fine in which party was in the right fol­
business men from Portland and lief as to the location of principal
The company agreed to give 1000
Marvin Pierce, first state librarian, j the daytime although the ther- lowing collisions at intersections.! i in. running one-way discs slower Eugene and other parts of the wheat growing areas, the greatest yards of gravel to the county in
was read byx Miss Mirpah G. 'raomleter drops to well below* the right-of-way law itself is of so as to keep more trash on the state were present for serious dis- number of counties with ten thou­ exchange for the old crusher that
surface, the result in soil and
Blair, assistant state librarian.
i freezing nearly every night. Fruit little benefit in preventing acci- ' moisture conservation will amply cufsions, not only on employment sand acres or more are located in has been on the road east of Kent
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problems, but other phases of bus­ the North Central region, consist­ since that road was built. Price
! trees that have blossomed out boo denis when drivers insist on tak- I
Plans are already being formu­ 1 early have dropped their blooms ing rdvantage cf their right-of-, I reward such added time and effort, iness as well.
ing of the states Illinois, Indiana, to farmers or others who may
lated Iby te Board of Control for i indicating that the owners will buy way privilege at every opportu- | Mr. McDole affirms. Rod weeding
At the first annual business con­ Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Miss­ want some of the graved will be
and
seeding
can
'be
carried
on
af-
construction of the -«new dormi­ ' their fruit this year. The days nity in Snell’? opinion.
i
tact banquet, more than 400 stu­ ouri, Ohio, Nebraska, and South the same as to the county.
tory at the state prison annex for ; have» been bright with sunshine
Briefly stated, the car ap­ ' terward without difficulty if care dents heard a warning from C. C. Dakota. These states together
The Rattlesnake road matter
;
is
used
in
initial
plowing.
which the recent legislature arp- i tout rather chilly. It is not a proaching from the right ha? the ;
Chapman, editor of the Oregon have 439 counties on the list.
was deferred again or until fur­
propriated $50,000. The new 'build­ dearth, o f growing weather that righ-of-way at an ordinary inter- | Fields covered with straw mujeh Voter, that jobs in the near future
Tekas and Oklahoma, in the ther information of a legal nature
ing will \be used to house first worries the wheat producers section, while a car stopped at a j 1 on the surface show a tendency would be none too plentiful, and southfem region, have 93 -counties was received by the court although
offenders, preferably short term­ nearly so much as it is the lack through street must yeild the ! i toward slightly higher yields and that hard work, patience, and oth­ that classify a» commercial wheat an inspection trip will be made
ers, who will be employed In work of rainfall that ordinarily may be right-of-way at an ordinary inter- following crops are less inclined er homely virtues were more than producers, while the western reg­ soon.
on the prison farm.
apprcaching so closely as to con- to “/burn.” Use of crop residue even esential to success.
It now appears likedy that the
expected at this time of year.
ion, consisting of 12 states, ha?
4 • *
stitut<* an immediate hazard. Cars in this manner is not a substitute
318 oounties.
much discussed $10,000 of state
Three new livestock barns La
traveling at unlawful speed for­ ! for replenishment of humus thru
Kansas, with 104, has mors and federal money will be »pent
house exhibits in the junior divi­
feit whatever right-of-way they i grass and legume rotations, how-
counties with large wheat acreage on an extension of the Moro-Monk
i ever, but the practice will go far
sion are now under construction
might otherwise have had.
allotments
than any other state. land road east of Hay Canyon. It
>tmei
, in the conservation of soil and
This week an additional $4435.15
at the state fair grounds, accord-
Oregòn
gòn and Washington each was not known just where the
moisture, he points out.
ing to Leo Spitrbart, manager of .was Received in allotments at the
h a v e'17 counties on the list, Ida­ money would be placed but R
One of the main things to over­
the fair. It is also plann d to county agent’s office for the bene­
ho 24, and California 22.
probably will not build a roa«*
Tuesday
afternoon,
April
11,
at
come is the feeling among farm-
install 600 additional seats in the fit of Sherman county fanmers.
east of the Hans Thompson four
2 o’clock Mra. Alfred Danielson
, era that smooth-tilled, clean fields
stadium before next fair time, This js the third payment that has
corners.
of
Bend
will
be
the
speaker
at
a
| indicate a good job of farming.
come Tor this county and it brine.*-
Spitzbart said.'
Regulations! that
accompany
meeting
of
the
Grass
Valley
Wom­
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ih ' total to above $60,000.
A meeting of the public affairs I “Such fine worked smoothness is an’s .(Missionary Society. Mrs.
such ' grants are so stringent,
Oregon motorists will not be
committee of the breakfast club 1 benut.ful to behold,” McDole ex­ Danielson is the district president
court members state, that no*
required to submit their cars and
was called Wednesday night by plains, “but the rough trashy for the societies of the Deechutes
over two miles of road can be
trucks to a periodical inspection
Chaiiman McKee for the purpose method of grain fanning puts Association. This is the second
built with it under favorable con­
The
new
city
submersible
pump
after all. Governor Sbrague has
of di cussing some of the matters money in our pockets by saving apqxwrance of Mr». Danielson be- is expected any day and it will be ditions. i.
our most precious asset, >he soil.”
vetoed the bill establishing this
n f t r ’od to that committee by the
Bills were paid, reports accepted
fort the local group, «he having installed as soon as it arrives. The
additional regulation. His reason?, r
pre-ride nt.
spoken at the Christmas meeting pipe is here and the poles have and the usual run of county busi­
for disapproving the measure were
Vr,usual promptness in learn­
■A clean-up day for the city was
in December of 1937.
been set between the pump house ness conducted in the morning.
two-fold. In the fir?t place, he ing the necessity of economy is advocated and a committee of W.
A matter of locgl interest at and the cistern to make ready fot-
said, the motorists of Oregon are jpnovS by the members of the pro­ A. May, Lloyd Her.nagin and J*e
this meeting will be the matter the wiring of the automatic de­
not yet ready to submit willingly spective graduating clasd at OSC Ritn» r was appointed to ob'ai?«
of solving of the “mystery of the vice that will keep the reservoir
to comnulsory inspection of thrir this spring. For the first time support of the city 'council and
year!” IA year ago setret “Pol- at an even level at all time«.
cars. A campaign of education the senior class*has arranged for the entire clrio. The first Wed-
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Christensen lyanoas” were chosen to remember
The new pump will be of a tyipe
should precede any attempt to en- a special postage-saving envelope nesday in May was tent a lively pre leaving this week for Prairie one another with gifts oA special little used in this county until
force such a requirement. In the f or u&)^ jn sending out the gradua- choren as the day for the clean-up C.ty where he has taken over the days throughout the year. The recency, it having been developed
All those wishing permits or
«econd place authority for en- tipn announcements. An end flap which will be restricted to city mechanical part of a gasoline dis- names of the “Pollyannas” will 'be in Austria. The entire motor and licenses to drive car» are asked
forcement of the act was misplac-
,'oe opened for postal inspectio* property.
tiib.ution .plant and •'service sta­ revealed at this meeting and new rotor pump is installed in the bot­ to get in touch with C. M. Bent­
cd in the highway department. In Lwi)) let the hard pressed seniors
The possibility of starting a tion. They have been hare a little one? will be chosen.
tom of the well and the water ley, who will make hi» regular
the governor’» opinion law enforce mail the announcements at half pictu-e show w « v al?o discussed over two years during which time
A large attendance is expected 'pushed to the surface through 2i visit to Moro on 'Monday, April
ment .functions should be en- the usual cost. -The seventieth an- but with no final determination he has operated a garage and for this occasion. The meeting inch pipe. From there a booster 10, and will be at the Court House
trusted to the police department. n jai commencement will be Mon- made except for obtaining more machine shop in the Flatt aqd will be held at the home of Mrs ipump will take the water to the between the hours of 1 p. m. to-
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Continued on Page Two
day, May 29.
later the Conlee building.
informal ton.
Glen Karnes.
cistern.
4 p. m.
1939 Parity
Trashy Fallow
Payments Safe
Conserves Soil
Wasco Machinist
Passes On
Causes of Motor
Accidents Given
Wheat Acreage
j
Figures Given
Discuss Employment
At Banquet
Fair for the Week
District Officer To
Allotment Checks Here
Speak Tuesday
Public Affairs
Committee Meets
New Pump Will
Be Here Soon
OSp Graduates
Practise Economy
Christensens Leave
For Prairie City
License Examine/ To
Be Here Monday
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