TRE SHB1LMAW COUNT* JOURNAL, MOMO, OREGON P A G I TWO ■' £ lirrz n a » <£a«ml$ 3<>urs»«l Sherman Cooaty Observer Established Nov. 2, 1888. Grass Valley Journal Established Oct. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 Wasco News-Enterprise Established Nov. 1891 IONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon Giles L. French Editor Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Moro, Oregon nnder Act of Congress of March 5. 1879. ER AJ s YP ia t i OR ’OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER * SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance ONE YEAR ............................ $1.50 A P R IL 21, 1939 CLEAN-UP Cities, large and small, are giv­ en to holding clean-up days on which bankers and (boosters, gro- ce~a and garageraen, lawyers and laymen are supposed to turn out and labor in the interest of com­ munity pride and municipal neat­ ness. These affairs are seldom annual events and are conducted somewhat sporadically. This is not because of lack of need for the ministra­ tions of the ertizen-s toward keep­ ing the streets and vacant lots trim and inviting. It is because, someone always does too much work and someone does too lit­ tle and someone thinks this should he done and someone thinks that should be done and the disagree­ ment leads to a bit o f hard feel­ ing that stops the holiday for a time. The newly formed Breakfast club, anxious to demonstrate its interest in the community, has or­ dained that there -shall be a clean­ up day in Moro and the city coun­ cil will undoubtedly agree. (And it is expected tha-t all citizens will say, ‘‘So Be It” or if they prefer. “Amen.” Among the things that may be done are the removal of the foun­ dation of the burned harness shop, the cleaning of the front of the Legion hall, the painting of the tree trunks, the removal of dead or unwanted trees from the park, the burning of accumulated weeds, the repainting of street signs and such other acts of good municipal housekeeping that appeals to the minds and muscle« of the hard working citizenry. May it be done so thoroughly that when those who tour the highway pass thru they will remark on the neatnear. of the town and the apparent en­ terprise of its residents. WAR Perhaps the question most gen­ erally asked when a group come together is the prospect for war. It is probably true that those who are the parents of sons evidence the greatest interest for, if there is war, they will be the ones for w’hom the sacrifice will be the greatest. The last time this nation enter­ ed a foreign war it was at the be­ hest of one who proclaimed him­ self an idealist, who wanted to go down in history as one who had u.-ed his power to settle the affairs of a quarrelling world. Such men are dangerous to the peace of p nation. The record of this nation in foreign wars is nothing «(bout which we mav boast. The settle­ ment made with our aid has last­ ed a bare twenty years and gave little or no satisfaction during its existence. The money we loaned has brought us nothing, neither interest, repayment nor friend­ ships. We are reduced to the boasting that we won the war although ever that is disclaimed by those we a Wed. There is even grave doubt as to whether the war was won by the aid we helped or not when everything is considered. “ Yet, i f There is a war in "Europe between the major nations there sesm* to be every rasson to believe that we will be in it financially, economically and physically. For as soon as American money is loaned—and it will be in one way or another—there will be an urge through propaganda to send troops over to make it a better risk. i There will be stories of atrocities, of threats against the United States, of coming invasion after European opponents are subdued. And we will be persuaded to fight again and spend the remainder of our life regretting it. Right now might be a good time for some realism about war, for a factual survey, of what happened f e last time and for a curbing of hose who, want this country to assume the' role of dictating what is right or wrong in Europe. NEW REPORT CARDS lAn experiment, admitted and avowed, is being tried by teachers of Sherman county schools. For ‘h e quarter year juat ended they have sent along with the regula re port cards a new type of car.- d signed to give the parent a mor c( mprehen.-iive idea of \vhnt h ; ci. ill is doing in school work ant in some other thing« the teachc fte k competent to judge. The high school chart and that for the grade school are different The former will be discussed first It gives the teacher’s rating or eight characteristics: courtesy industry, perseverence, obedience «•operation, self control, sports­ manship and general attitude and rntts them as either plue, meaning that improvement is being made, or minus, meaning that improve­ ment is needed. Grading on sub-,- jtets taken is done by the use ex' three symbols, E, for above aver­ age: S for satisfactory and U for failing. The mothod of grading by mak­ ing but few classifications is used ill larger schools with good results it is said. It is doubtful if it wil* 1 be satisfactory in small schools, especially in schools as small as the ones in this county. There i? no incentive for children to at­ tempt to excel to any greater ex­ tent than to be above average. Te that exent it removes the stimu­ lus that may be derived from com­ petition. At least five classifica­ tions of grading would be better in the belief of the writer. As for the eight characteristics the teachers are asked to pa»« judgment upon not all of them can »be changed at the will of eith­ er the parent or the teacher, ir fac , it may be doubted if eithei or both can do mucit about many of them. The matter of courtes- may probably be heh>ed. Industry may be encouraged, presuming that hcal‘.h and incentive are available. Perseverance may in­ terfere with obdience or co-opera­ tion. Self control can the apprais­ ed but sportsmanship is one of the characteristics that can hardly be judged without the gift of inter­ preting motives, which few, very few posess. The chart for the grade school pupils is long and tie- tailed and a real eoffrt has appar­ ently been made to make the re­ marks specific enough to have value. If it is to be complete it can hardly be shortened to any g n a t extent and if left as is it will be a task for teachers that may become a burden at times. I or years and generations the schools have been taking ovei more of the functions of parent* and this is another example o-i thr. t type of aggression. It is doubtful if it is a good tendenc; for already the schools have too little time for the subjects the\ should teach and parents have tor much time that is spent somt other way than in training theii own offspring. The home shoulc not turn Loo much of the work of child training over to the school. This report is the offer of the school to aid further in the work of social education of the child. L it is to be continued perhaps par­ ents should make a similar report to the teacher after deciding, of course, what characteristics each want to develop. On the whole the new reports are a worthy experiment that will be successful to the extent that teachers make accurate findings about their charges and parents give their cooperation to improve after the diagnosis is made—and agreed upon by both parent and teacher. PAROLE BOARD The names of three good have (been mentioned as mem of , the new state parole board, the fact that they are good doe« no make it evident that ■( would make a good parole bo Because of their training they certainly unfamiliar with the p hme that beset the paroled yit. although each one would ini erected in the social condit which would influence him. There is certainly a place any parole board for a phychiai and for someone who has had perience with criminals in s form of law enforcement and hone that when the board ncmed it will contain one of e Indians at Celilo held their nual feast of the salmon Sur and the two following days, stead of ponies and travois a means of reaching the scene flat around Celilo w^s filled ’ cars indicative of the fact Indians as well as white barn mechanical progress readily than they advance in i itual matters. , o A F C T y 5 O N N £ TS H «s»noa **• U M u a iw , l t f M t U S I S M A M N C e w r w e e t» . Statehouse Gossip ----- (Continued from page one* . , tor held th a t the employment cf the lawyei-lcljbyisits w w without authority. While he admits that the attorneys should be paid for their service« he insists that they be paid by* those who retained their services and not by the state nor the bakers. Tv ft m il 0>er3 of the state den­ tal board have also had their per diem claims turned back by the bpdfet director as unreasonable. Eocles has also found it neces­ sary to warn the state system of higher education /fia t future vk>- kuions o f the requirement that all purchases be approved by the budget and purchasing depart­ ments will result in Serious •'em­ barrassment” for somebody. The institutions of higher education, particularly the university, accord­ ing to Eccles, have repeatedly gone over the head» of tfie budget di­ rector and state purchasing agent in the past. » •' * * r ; - Employment in Oregon S jT W- A total of $6255,181 was paid out in unemployment compensa­ tion to jobless men and women in Oregon during March. This rep­ resent« an increase ' of approxi­ mately 20 percent over the pay­ ments for February, a report by the commission ehowa • e — e—. —— r ' t - - Thirty seven drhnken drivers arrested by state police during March weTe sentenced to an ag­ gregate of 1346 days in jail and to pay fines totalling $2561. In Other Days j From the Observer, April 20, 1900 A representative of the long distance telephone company vis­ ited Monkland yesterday. It is expected that the line will (be ex­ tended to that place soon.. Jas. A. Hand and Miss Jennie Turnbull of Clarke county were married in Vancouver on the 7th J. M. Parry, who was kicked bf a horsd recently was aible to walk about this week. Gen. Manager Mohler of the CSRy has handed us a new time table which will go info effect next Sunday. Trains leave Grass Valley at 8:30 and -return to that tnwr. at 4 :45 p. qn- From the Observer April 22, 1910 J. B. Morrison is in on a new autq this spring. He visited (Moro with the machine on the 16th with his family. The dynamiters wrecked Coop er Bros, office as well as the safe which they robbed of about $80 at Grass Valley on the morning of the 15th. Officers gave chase and found where the rolbbers had pre­ pared the dope 'but no mor«, -—Gel. C. A. Buckley and Sam Baker are interested in a ¡bank at Grants Pass and Mr. Baker will be one of the officers there. J. B. Mowry has purchased a cream separator and will hereaf­ ter ship the product o f his cow herd to a Portland creamery. Auto owners will tell you that there is nothing like it for mak­ ing good roads. The teamster?, says there’s nothing but a badge/ as bad to dig holes. From the Observer April 23, 1920 Graes Valley Journal: A condi­ tion exists in Sherman county that is causing yellow spotB ' in thi kernels of hard winter wheat. The 'cause is thought to be lack of nitrdgen in the eoil during. the growing season. Otto Bucholtz ¡is frying a change of climate hoping to get rid of his rhumatism, leaving Sunday morning for the v«Iley. J E. Fold« has resigned his po­ sition er to the confirmation of the above I.O.JO.F. hall Trai of cases in that district. enlitled^CottrL________ _ ____ O lA X iif un.l vriaifim BXVIIV BLXlvK v IS 1O111J The Opera hnusg watf nearly de­ Date of first publication, April brothers are cordi stroyed by fire Saturday by an oil stove that was left -burning. ally invited to mee 14, 1939. Date of last publication, May with us. The damage was slight although 12. 1939. som e su p p lie s w ere b u rn e d . Ve non Miller, N. G. Jo e T r u itt, S e c re ta ry Virgil B. Davis, Executor of the Estate of ‘Mary E. Davis, Deceased. Sound, Sightiy Teeth Important To Success Grass Valley Students Plan Annual Play Quick Wr(t« or call for the Special Bank-by-Mail Envelop« and explanatory Folder show ing the con ven ieao« of this plea. T h e D a lle s B r a n c h o/ the U n ite d S ta te s N a t io n a l B a n k Wend O ffice, ‘Port/nnd; Oregon rtP E W A I B IP O S Il I HSU R I N C I C O R P U R ir iO N NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SA1LE OF REAL PROPERTR On Saturday, the 6th day of May, 1939, at the hour o f ten o’­ clock a. m., at the front door of the court house in Moro in Sher­ man Coúuty, Oregon, I will sell at public auction to the highest ¡bid­ der for cash, the following describ­ ed real property located in Sher- n»an County, Oregon, to-wit: The Northwest Quarter and the Southwest Quarter of sec­ tion Eight, in Township Three, •South ocf Range Seventeen, East of the Willamette Meri­ dian, containing ,320 acres, Together with the tenements, hereditaments and appurte- ’mnres thereunto belonging or in anywise -appertaining. *Said sale is made under exe­ cution issued out of the Circuit Court of the State o f Oregon for Sherman County to ma directed in the case of The Federal Land Bank of Spokane, a corporation, plaintiff/ vs. George Thomas Bar­ nett and Anna M. Barnett, hus­ band and wife; Moro State Bank, a corporation; Mark Skinner as Superintendent of (Banks; Sher­ man County, a municipality cor­ poration; and Sherman County National Farm Lo*n Association, a corporation, defendants. C. C. WILSON Sheriff of Sherman (County, Oregon NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE OF REAL iFROPEkTY On Saturday, the -6th day of May, 1939, a t the ’ hour of ten ¿o'clock a. m. at the front door of the courthouse in ’Moro in Sherman County, Oregon, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the following de­ scribed real; property located in* Sherman County, Oregon, to-wit; All of Lot Six and the West Half of Lpt Seven In Block “C,” Barndm’s Addition to the City of Moro in Sherman County, Oregon. Said sale is made under exe­ cution issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Sherman, to me di­ rected in the case of Fred Krusow, plaintiff, vs. J. Kenneth McKean, Administrator of the estate of J. C. McKean, deceased: J. Ken­ neth McKean and Yelma McKean, husband and wife; Georgia Kins- ’ey and Byron Kinsley, wife and husband; Muriel Jean McKean, a single person; Mark Skinner as Superintendent of Banks of the State of Oregon; Sherman Coun­ ty, a municipal corporation; the. mknown heirs of J. C. McKean, leceased, and al?o all other per­ sons or parties unknown having or claiming to have any . right, .title,- estate, lien or intei est in and to the real property as ,n the he complaint described. Defen­ dants. C. C. WILSON Sheriff of Sherman County, Oregon X THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF SHER- MAN GEORGE B. GUTHRIE, as Re­ ceiver of - the Oregon-Washington Joint Stock Land Bank of Port- and (Oregon,) a corporation, Plaintiff, vs. LYDE E. SMITH, MARY FRAN CIS SMITH, THE CITIZENS SANK, of Grass Valley, Oregon, 10Y J. ¡BAKER, as Liquidator of The Citizens Bank of Grass Val- ey, Oregon, MORO STATE BANK, MARK SKINNER Superintendent if Banks of the State of Oregon and County of Sherman, Oregon, . i Municipal Corporation, Defendants, NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE No. 2622 By virtue of the writ of execu- :on, and order of sale duly issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Sherman, on the 29th day of March 1939, pursuant to a decree enter- id in said Court March 28th, 1939, in a suit wherein George B. Guth­ rie, as Receiver of the Oregon- «Vashington Joint Stock Land 3ank of Portland, (Oregon), a orporation, is plaintiff, and Clyde E. Smith, Mary Francis Smith, The Citizens Bank, of Gras? Val­ ley, Oregon, Roy J. 'Baker, as Li­ quidator of The Citizens Bank of Grass Valley, Oregon, Moro State Bank, Mark Skinner Su-perinten- lent of Banks of the State of Oregon and County of Sherman, Oregon a Municipal Corporation, ire defendants, said writ being di- ected to me commanding me to make sale of the real «property hereinafter described, I will on Monday, the 8th day of May, 1939, at 10.00 o’clock a. m., at the front door of the 'Court House of Sher­ man County, in the City cf Moro, State of Oregon, offer for sale and proceed to sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand the fol­ lowing described real property, situate in Sherman County, State of Oregon, to-wit: The Southwest Quarter (SW- i) of Section Eleven (11), and the West Half (W i) of Section Fourteen (14) in in Township Three (3) South, Range Seventeen (17) East of the Willamette Meridian, cor.- . taining 480 acres, more or less, according to government survey thereof; together with all rights, however evidenced, to the use of water, ditches and canals for the irrigation of said premises, to which the said premises were entitled at the date of said mortgage, April 4, 1923, or at any time since said date to satisfy the sum of Six Thou- >and Three Hunderd ’¡Riirty-five And 82-100 Dollars ($6,335.82), with interest thereon from March 28, 1939 at the rate of six per cent (6%) per annum; and the further sum of Three Thousand Thirty- six and 64-100 Dollars ($3,036.64) with interest thereon from March 28, 1939, at the rate of eight per cent (8%^ yer annum, and the sum of $400.00, as attorney’s fee, to­ gether with costs of said suit tax­ ed Mt Fourteen and 20-100 Do liars (14.20), and the Costs of.and up­ on. said writ. . C. C. WILSON Sheriff of Sherman oCunty State of Oregoq