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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1939)
<. / .... > rr * Fifty- first Year no. : 7 Moro, Oregon. Friday,¿-—Ju ly 21, 1939 Poleys Honored County Yields By Old Time Continue To Neighbors Friends of Dr. and Mrs. *C. L. ' Poley honored them Sunday after- ' noon at the school house on the 26th anniversary of their coming to Sherman county. Mrs. Carrol) S«yrs was in charge of Vhe pro gram. The girls orchestra played sev eral opening numbers. Patricia sang “Wedding of the Washington D. C. July 20 - Write Pinkerton Painted Dolls” smaller chil it in the books that President Roose dren presented while it in pantomime, veit will have the kind of neutral LaVelle Schilling, Connie Ruggles, ity bfil he is asking from congress. Joan Oveson, Jean Englebrri.son, Basis for this prediction is the fac. that Mr. Roosevelt ip mages, Priscilla Melzer, Dickie Oveson somehow, to get what ht wants, i and David Moore appeared in col Owce he has an objective he can orful costume. A short skit by high school and not be prevented from achieving it. The man persists un.il he j college boys and girls had to do wins. Defeated in his supreme with a scene in the office of Dr. court bill he has since attained C. L. P. Oley and was acted by Carl part of his plan through death and Peetz, Jane French, Gene Bris- resigni^ions and hrs staffed the bine, Carrol Bennet and Lois court with new deal liberals. De Melzer. Dr. «Coberth of The Dalles paid feated in his effort for reorganiza tion of government bejuaus, he tribute to Dr. Poley as an excel has won out and grouped in three lent diagnostician and capable new agencies an assortm? of bu doctor and Harry Pinkerton pre reaus which were over-lapping served a lawn chair*to the Poleys Defeated in his monetary author on behalf of their friends in this ity, he has recaptured control over community. the dollar. Defeated in his desire Dr. Poky replied with some rem for a ................ nt* rality law „ — - which he be inisccnces of early days in this litres will restrain dictators from county and Mrs. (Poley recalled a starting war in August or Septenv pOem that fittingly gave thanks ber, the best guess is*.hat h<* wT i friends. force congress to come through. j _ -------• _ ----- The reason Mr. Roosev It is successful in dealing with hostile Miners May Do in congress where his predecessors failed, is that he is a b<ter poli Work Later tician. If he encounters a r.verse he does not’ retreat. Instead he Special to the Sherman County bides his time unkil the stage is Jturnal from* our Washington Set and then goes smashing D. 'C. correspondent.—A last min through. ute effort by congress has extend- Being ,---------- president ---------------- is a man-killirg ed the time for making assessment -----„ job and eight years saps the vital- | W(?rk on minin/ claims. For sev- itv of env incu.mbe.d, serving that erai a moratorium has been grant- grant long, yet Mrs. Sarah Delano ed on assessment work, amou:*. ing R'X/’evel mo»h?r of th° president, to not less than $100 a year, until declares he is physically fit for a habit. Thia year, however, con- another four years. Whit? Hou«e gr ..aa decided to eliminate the mor- physician Ross -Mcli*yre (Oregon alorium and took the position that Boy), attests that Mr. Roosevelt , jf „ claim holder wanted to rt» ain is in th: pink, nevertheless Roose- his claim he must do the assess- vt<. children said they hope i mept work. their father will no* rerVn r th’tM , sQ jgte wj,en congress term as they are solicitous of his j d f rfown th « little time re- health. Then along come bhe p s- muftied before the July 1 dëàdline. simists and point to the record: I.Thif situation was so precarious every president rlected in a v"'r.r I fcr-thousands of claims that con- ending with ”0” dies in office. Thus gress rushed through an ret ex- 1940 should b” " hcodoo v^nr A' 1 nding the time for making the whoever is elected u-.'•'i ssment work until Sentemuer t; at noon. That is now the dead They call •. the “big bill” the line *for performing the woik that 3.6 billion dollar self liquidating "bould have been ■ aken care of be lean proposal of Mr. Roosevelt. fore noon July 1. There is plenty of opposition to it, but the president waA? it enacted before adjournment. In it is sug Frosts May Kill gested $460,000,000 for the rural electrification program. For fiscal Mormon Crickets year 1940 congress, appropriated $40,000,000 for this purpose: there Late spring frosts which dam are applications for $60,000,000 aged grain in some sections of more than the appropriation. A- cen.ral and eastern Oregon had mong the applications are marfy some beneficial resul.s, according Oregon and Washington com- to William Marshall, county agent of Gilliam county. Threatened munities. Farmers availing themselvc grasshopper invasions in the Trail REA spends approximately $100- fork «ection of the county were for wiring and $200 for appliances ' efl'i 4 ively checked by the cold during the first six months h? re-' weather. Poison bait materials ceives electric service. Additional i which were on hand to fight the expenditures come later as She hoppers have been stored for use farmer learns how convenient the next year if necessary. Mormon power is. Farm plumbing instal cricket cor* rol operations in north lation is about $200. A survey ern Gilliam county will result in ,A 86 ' the saving of at least $500 for land shows that on REA projects percent of the consumers have 1 owners, Marshall estimates, purchased radios, 81 percent have I . ---- ----- --------- bought electric irons, 47 perceiA i i 111 i ■ purchased washing machines, 25 j g g D6Hl AllOtlllCDtS . percent bought refrigerators, 17 I percent installed w ater pum ps. Sec j p y rtppf p/1 SoOIl re.ary Wallace points out that | farmers, through 'REA. are aid-j “Wheat acreage allotments for ing business of the mznfacturers i each farm have i been made and of appliances. • j sent in to Oregfrn Stcd.e college by * * * { the local board. When they are Next year there will he 13,000.- leturned they will be sent oil to 000 or 10.04 percent of the popu farmers with the yields for each lation ag?d 60 vp /’ ts over: farm. Each farmer will have 15 »here will be 8.311.000 aged 63 days in which to protest or apply years and over, or 6.30 percent. In for a change if any errors are conference now is an amendment | found,” says LeRoy WrigH., coun- to the social security act to in- > ty agent. It is expected that this creas? old-age benefits. Rolls of i will de done within a short time the aged receiving federal-sl ate I So that farmers will know how aid last month, June, were l,818.-> much wheat they can sow this fall 700. Average amount beintr paid and what other crops may be sown at the present in Oregon is $21 30; .o make compliance with the 1940 in Washington, $22.10; California. control methods. $32.50; Idaho, $21.75; t lowest. Arkansas, $6.15. Proposed amend- me:1 ? aim to increase these a- NEW TEACHER HIRED mounts. The revised Townsend Alex McDonald of* Banks has (bill defeated a few months ago been given a contract to teach in was calculated ** to. give approii- . the ui;r high Illg11 suiuui vaucj school at Grass Valley mutely $40 monthly. Important-) for coming year. With Miss par*, of the proposed social seeur- patficia Cyphers of The Dalles ity amendment is to start making ancj Ray j eweit principal, this payments under th ir act next Jan- i ccrnpletes the high school facutly , Continued on Page Two there, Official County P ape I u. s. lorers Seek Headhunters si '' *4? Exceed Estimates Center of County Has Good The July weighing of club calves was completed this week by th* county agent and the resul.s indi cate that good growths are being made by the stock under .he hand ling of the 4-H club boys and girle. Highest gain was made by the Senior Hereford of Frank von Borstel’s which gained 3.6 pounds since the last weighing in June. Elton Medler’s Sr. Angus gained 3 1 pc-unds and Bob King, John ll:'drr.brend and Cars.on von Bor- ste| made their calves gain 3.03 pounds in the same period. There are 38 steers being fed and 3 heifers and the average gain was over 24 pounds. Best gain on sheep was mad»1 on lambs being fed by Dickie Oveson, Bobbie Hoskinson and Gaylord Guy who put an average of three fourths of a pound on .heir lambs per day.. Ä t Crop Although Yields Not Equal To Nortn End’s Whjat yields continue to be surprising. Although grain in the central part of the countywhere harvest started generally this week is not making as many bush el per acre as farther north, crops are very good indeed. It is reliably reported that How ard Spencer threshed a field ol Rex wheat that made better than 20 sacks to the acre. Other wheat in his vicinity, the northwest 6or- ner of the county, obtained 15 sacks to the acre. Truman Strong finished harvesting Tuesday with 29j bushels from his farm adjoin ing Moro. Cool Weather ConL’nues East of town the wheat is mak ing 8 to 9 sacks according to re ports but in the Erskine district yields of 30 bushels are common. Ohly on? or two are cutting at Grass Valley ar.d early reports in dicate yields of 20 bushels or •better. - The cool days and almost cold nights have permitted the late grain in the south end of the coun ty to rip'm normelly and good crops are expected there. Esti mates are 7 to 8 sacks over most of that district although this esti mate may b? as low as wire those made for the north end of the county. M r. and Mrs. Carveth Wells, famed as explorers sad authors, as they left by steamer fo rth e Orient, heading an expedition to Formosa to take movies of head hunters for a U. S. geographic society. Accompanying them (center) is Lawrence Mills. Princeton ornithology student. Breakfast Club Debate Fishing R ig h t. The Breakfast club meeting of Wednesday morning had for its program the initiation of three new members who were inducled into the club with a ceremony ♦mere amusing than serious. Dis cussion in the business meeting w » l mainly about the desirabil.Ly j of sending a group to Madras to | join with the club there -,o ask for Bear-Miller , laws or rulings permitting fisher- ! men to go along any stream. The Wedding Observed closing of a part of the Deachutes the An impressive church wedding river was the occasion’ was solemnized Sunday, July 16 argument. General sentiment of at the Community church when the club was that fishing streams Miss Eva Miller, daughter of Mr. should be kept open but there was and Mrs. W. C. Miller, became the no agreement on the nid.hod that H ide of Willard Bear, son of Mr should be used to obtain this re and Mrs. C. A. Bear of Turner, sult. Oregon. Rev. Ormond Whiteside, The report of .he Public Affa irs of Morton, Washington read the committee regarding pennants was Episcopal double ring ceremony. accepted and some will be purchas The bride, wearing white satin, ed to decorate .he streets at fair with full length tulle veil, and time. The matter of rebuilding carrying th? bride’s bouquet of the Conine building into a p:4.ure pale yellow roses and bouvardia, house was discussed Monday night Ciime in on the arm of her brother, at a meetiog of that comm).tee Vernon, preceded by Roger Miller anc it was decided to obtain more as ring bearer and Connie Ruggles informaion on costs before coming a? flower girl, who wore a replica .o a decision. f th? brides dress. Matron of ---....-j«;---- honor was Mrs. Dorothy Marcy, New Road Opened sister of the groom, attired in a rust colored gown and brides maids were Signs Woods and Mrs. Near DeMoss Springs Ione McKinney in gowns of peach The county road crew this week net 'over peach taffeta with floor removed .he pld bridge on the road length rust ribbons and carrying leading up DeMoss canyon and art bouquets of Ta lisrosin rosebuds,. buil<lirig a road south’ of the ditch, Earl Bear, brother of the groom’ Hereafter traffic will not have to acted as best man. Ben Marcy of cross the ditch when coming to the Oregon City and William McKin- warehouses and the county will nty of Arlington were ushers. not be obliged to rebuild a bridge Marjory Byers sang “Because” that was becoming unsafe for and ‘‘I Love You Truly.” trucks loaded w< h wheat. John After the ceremony a reception DeMoss, owner of the property, was held for the guests with Mrs. sold the new roadway to the Raymond Stewart and Mrs. T. H. county. Fiaser pouring and Mrs. A. H. Barnum, Mrs. Martha Cope and Mrs. Hazel Woods serving. Adlard’s Mother After a trip to the San Fran cisco fair th? couple will live at Is Queen Mother Morton, Washington where Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Adlard at Bear is a teacher in the schools. tended the EaJ.ern Oregon Pioneer encampment Sunday at the Julia Henderson picnic grounds on Ser New Laws Make vice Creek in Wheeler county. Mr. Adlard’s mother, Ms. Catherine Changes In Lights Ariiard of Condon was chosen as State laws regulating the use Mother Queen .o rule over the 1939 of spotlights and auxiliary lamps encampment. The Mother Queen on automobiles in Oregon were was crowned at 10:30 Sunday, then amended at the last session of the followed a program put on in legislature and are now effective, charge of the family, including the EarH Snell, secretary of state, life history of bhe Mother Queen, said today in reminding motorists who is now 80 years of age. She that in the interest of safety and was attended by five grand daugh courtesy full compliance with these ters and the crown was placed by regulations should be forthcoming. little Joyce Hout of Corvallis, a grand niece. Under the amended act motor The Mother Queen woie a sheer vehicles may carry only spot black dd ted dimity, trimmed in light while under the old law two white. ' Her wrap was a cream such lamps were allowed, said colored silk shawl with . fringe, Snell. The spotlight must be so which had belonged to her mother. adjusted that, upon approaching She also wpre a brooch of her another vehicle, no part of the high mothers, which had been made intensity portion of the beam will from a gdld nugget found on a be directed to the left of the left civil war field. side of the car upon which it is Grandma Adlard is the mother mounted at a point 100 foet ahead of eleven children, of which six of the car. are living, three boys and Lhree Three auxiliary driving lamps girls. Also twenty three grand arc now permitted whereas only children and five great grand (Continued on Page two) children, Club Calves Make Good Gains In June Thompson Put On Public Welfare Board Dewey Thompson, Moro, was appointed by Governor Sprague to be the new member of the local public welfare committee and his acceptance was mailed .his week. Roy Powell, who was named chair man did not accept his appoint ment making the vacancy. The chuirman was named later. Mr. Thompson’s appointment makes the committee consist of The »tart of wheat harvest this five farmers, including Mrs. Rich- year finds more and more com-' bines going into the grain field elderfer who is a farmers wife, equipped with straw scatterers. 1 one minister, Rev. H. G. Hanson Soil Conservation Service men and one. merchant, Judge Pother. int.rpret this advance in harvest Other members are Dean Reynolds ing method as one of the most and the two county commissioners. promising trends toward good land use and erosion control. The more Government Approves struw s c a tte re d that are in the field during July and August, Ron ald B. Elmes, damp Conservation Most Warehouses ist of the Moro Camp, pointed out, The warehouses and elevators the less occasion there will be for- of the Grass Valley Grain Grow stubble fires next spring. Tho ers and the warehouses of the fewer stubble fires, he added, the Sherman Grain Growers have been less soil washing (and - or blow ing) there will be through the long approved to receive wheat on a loan is to be Laken. The 1940 fallow period when the clean- which banks have also been approved tilled land needs protection against and fanners may obtain loans on excessive rain or wind. wheat at any time. It is expected Scattering the straw instead of tha» the Moro elevators and ware letting it feed out of the combine houses will be qualified this week. in thick straw rows, Mr. Elmes ex plained, leaves the straw spread uniformily oVer the stubble, so that the field can he “plowed’’ without particular difficulty. Farm ers who are following soil and -moisture conservation practices, he. said, go one important step fur By A. L. Lindbeck ther in their crop residue utiliza Senate (President Robert M tion—substituting implements such Duncan eliminated himself as a as the mold-hoardless plow and possible future contender for the disk tiller for the regular mold- board. In this way, they leave the governorship of Oregon this week straw on the surface as a good when, after four days devoted to ffor Governor protective covering when crops pinch-bitting Sprague ha told Cipttol news men are not growing. that he ‘wouldn’t have the office as (Continued on page four) as a regular job if it was present ed to me on a silver platter.” Brand Inspectors The central Oregon legislator found the office beset by too many petty annoyances to suit him, peo Named For County ple looking for jobs, relatives of Brand inspectors may collect prisoners pleading for pardons and 10 cents per head up to 25 head paroles. and 3 cert.s per head for those in Duncan has been prominently excess, and 10 cents per mile one mentioned as the Republican can way for travel. Four copies of didate for Congress against Wal brand certificate must be made, ter M. Pierce, Democratic incum the first to go to .he sheriff week bent. So far, however, he has ly, the second for the bill of lad himself refused to discuss the pro ing, the third for the files of Lhe posal. ♦ * * common carrier or hauler and the fourth for the brand inspector’s Sometime within the next two reference file. weeks the Oregon Hydroelectric Inspection is to be made only commission is expected to decide as oi<lined in the law, and not in whether or not the rural area of trucks, and failure Lo personally in Hood River county can proceed sped subjects the offender to a with the organization of a peoples’ utility district. At the election $190 fine. Any carrier or person who vio last month the city of Hood River lates the provisions of the ad. is rejected the proposal to organize subject to a minimum fine of $250 a PUD, thus eliminating iuself from the project. The rural and a maximum fine of $2,500. areas, however, voted in favor of Brand inspection blanks must district and its sponsors are •be marked “paid” across the face, the now urging Hie Hydroelectric com otherwise the carrier is responsi to give the necesaary ap ble for the collection of the in mission proval. At a hearing before the spection fees and failure to do so, commission in Salem Friday pro subjects him to a $200 fine." ponents and opponents of the pro Complying wilh a new law, J. D. posed district were aborf. evenly Mickle, director of the sta’.s de divided, with representative« of partment of agriculture, recently the Grange supporting the project has appointed county aftd deputy and represeiljatives of the Farm brand inspectors for every county Bureau and Taxpayers League in the state. All eastern Oregon, opposed. and three western Oregon coun4 Fewer transients sought jobs in ties, Douglas, Josephine and Jack- Oregon this year than usual, ac son, must have out—of-county cording to John Cooter, farm place brand inspection, as well as the ment director. During '.'he first out-of-state brand inspection six months this year, Cooter points which is necessary in all counties. out, there ware only 17,565 o u .-o f Continued on page four. lata worker« regiatarad with the Spreading Of Stubble Held Good Practice Accidents Mar First Week of Harvest Work J Dropped Gun Causes Brbkeu Leg For Earl Belskee; Over turned Combine Injures Man A series of accidents marred*«^ Ihe start of harvest in this sec tion of the county this week. Prob ably the most serious ‘was the ac cidental shooting of Earl iBelshee, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Belshee, who was hu< while working o i his father’s combine. , He was repairing the machine "'•’ing aided by Lyle Nahouse who v’s? carrying a gun in a holster. As N p house stooped over the gun dropped and was discharged, the bullet entering Belshee’s right leg »bo< three inches above the knee. The bone was broken but not bad ly splintered, according to doctors who took care of the wound. The bullet spread, apparently being sef no<5ed. and the parts of it were left in the leg. No part of the bullet damaged the artery, the main vein or the sciV.ic nerve, which waR most fortunate. Belshee was taken to The Dalles hospital by Dr. Poley where he will remain for several days. Combine Tipped Over The Roy Barnett combine '.urn- • ed over Monday evening while cutting on the Robert Rohde farm east of Moro. The hillside was so steep that no “ attempt wna made to turn up hill. The machine was leveled toward the hill as ^t a»q roach* d the corner and could not be straightened up fast enough when the swing was made down the hill. George Barnett, separa tor tender, was thrown from the machine and received a cii. over his right eye and the tool box fell on him, injuring his back. Earl Barnett was driving the tractor. Rattlesnake Shot Kicks Back An accident not associated with harvest befell Bob LeBleu Tuesday morning i when he attempted to kill a rattlesnake thsf. was sunning himself on a rock. The bullet ricocheted and a part of the jacket struck UlBleu above Ihe eye and had to be removed by a doctor. Senator Does Not Like Being Governor; License Payment New ■ A, slate employment service compar ed to 32,563 registrations during the first half of 1938. More than 55 per cent of Jho farms in Oregon now enjoy elec tric service, according to a survey just completed by O. R. Bean, pub lic utilities commissioner. Bean’s figures show tha. 33,770 Oregon farms are now being served by private electric utilities. This is an increase of 4559 farms during the past year. It is estim>.ed that another 200 farms are served by the three municipally operated electric plants while no figures are available on the number of farms being served by the Rural Electri fication administration. • • • After a visit jo Sacramento and a conference with budget officials of that etate Devid Eccles, Ore gon’s budget mas.er, is convinced that Oregon has much to be thank ful for. After the last legislature go: through financing state activi ties, Eccles points out, the state budget was $40,000,000 out of balance. This deficit which does no. appear to worry California officials at all, is three times as great as the total of appropria tions approved by the Oregon legis lrf ure. With 35,000 people on the state’s payroll California has a personnel department which does nothing but hire and fire employ ees of the numerous state depart ments and institutions. This de partment opertf.es on a biennial budget of $500,000, an ammount sufficient to operate almost any of Oregon’s stA.e institutions. • • ♦ Multnomah county stands to lose more than $115,000 a year in high way revenues through the opera tion of amendme.4.s written into the law .by the last legislautre. Ap portionment of highway revenues for the first six m<w hs of 1939 just completed by Secretary of State Snell shows that Mul.nomah county thia year will receive only “ Caatiaaad ea Page Two -
