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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1939)
i F ifty - fir s t Y ear No. Moro, Oregon. Friday, S b Water Use School Costs . Restricted Until Vary Greatly In Cooler Weather Ju ly 28, 1939 Roman Fire Laddies Practice Rescues County Disticts The automatic switch that gov erns the deep well motor of the city well threw out Tuesday after Incidental Costa, Supplies, noon from the heat in the building and the upper part of the city was Library Show Greatest out of water that night. The switch is designed to throw out Differences Here and protect the motor and wa« set too low for the more than one tA comparison between th: costs hundred degree temperature. of the five schools of the county No sprinkling was allowed Wed- is difficult to make because of the Washington, D. C. July 2? -Un der the so-called Hatch bill, passed nes aud ThiMsday but because of different methods of bookkeeping by Congress all of the several the extremely hot weather little used by th. five clerks involved. hundred postmasters of Oregon was gained in the cistern and cur Rufus, for instance, shows a cost the forbidden to b: active in poli tailment of sprinkling will be con of $215.72 for miscellaneous ex tics. The prohibition applies to tinue«'. until further notice. It pense of superintendence whereas all federal appointive occies, but it not likely that the cistern can nc oiher .-chool indicates that any th<ne are more postmasters fclt*n be filled again until the weather thing wis spent for this item. It becomes cooler and citizens arc may be listed under another head any other class. Just to keep the record straight, j asked to be very careful in the usp ing. the action of congress is the cul- of water, Instruction costs vary somewhat mination of efforts started by the ' because of uages paid teachers late Frederick Steiwer, republican j y and because of varying amounts A second N<ro »old have little chance to fiddle while Rome burned. senator from Oregon. It was Stei- , I»OFIT1H v j3 .F F e il W CQS given the principal for superinten These meh, Jhembers of the Roman fire department, are shown ienal wer who introduced the original dence. Under instruction Rufus at their young training camp as they practice rescues with scaling bill to divorce politics from public.: » G o ld c n d a le ’ / listed costs of $5072.50; Wasco, ladders. Italian The fire-flghters carry out their criHs as If they were engaged office, to forbid federal office hold- ; $7815.00; Kent. $4005.00; Moro. ers from attending conventions U The marriage of Miss Norma $6579.00; and Grass Valley $5940 - in military operation. nominate senators, representatives Garrett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 00. Supplies for instruction show presidet or vice president. The fact Thomas' M. Garrett of Grass Val- ed a wide variation with Rufus that the federal political machine1 ley to John R. Roth, son of Mr. soending $978.35 Wasco. $808.07; made the second nominations of and Mrs. Henry Roth Sr., also of Kent, nothing, Moro $379 80 and Taft and Hoover possible w«s ad- Glass Valley, was solemnized Sun- Grass Valley $419.40. mitted by Steiwer and he proposed ' day, July 23, in Goldendale, Wash •Janitors received $1249.50 at putting a stop to such practio-s, jngton. The service was read by Rev. Fuel Costs Differ whether the machine was controll Hanes at high noon at the beauti ed by republicans or democrats. Horace Roe Clin-., alias Carl For several years thè Oregon fully decorated alter of the First Rufus, $840 at Wasco; $740 at Kent; $1072 50 at Moro and $1202 Williams, was sentenced to a year senator fought to get his bill out Baptist church of committee and on the floor. He ! (Attendants ts o of the young couple at Grass Valley.'’ Sunplies for the in the pententiary last Friday by • Weather that went out after new IVorbl made no progress until New M x- were Miss DftfBthy Olds, a close janitor, which probably vary with Circuit Judge Carl Hendricks, on records, heat that made undress ico’s Hatch, democrat, joined him. 'friend of the bride, and William the years, w re $438.61 at Rufus; a charge of resisting arrest. Cline ing a pleasure, a brilliant sun With the passing of Steiwer, Hatch Roth, brother of the groom, both $14-1.50 at Wasco; $84.99 at Kent; pled guilty. He was paroled to that burned bald heads while the brow was wiped, temperatures that carried on and after a bitFer battle j of Grfss Valley. Only members of 0425.45 at Moro and XI23.82 at Sheriff C. C. Wilson. Grass Valley. caused the rail birds along the in which 100 percent nsw dealers the immediate families were pres- The fuel bill also may vary on IVck-Up Taken main street side walk to experi were defeated by a combination of ent at the ceremony. After returning to The Dalles account of wood or coal on hand at, republicans and conservative dem Wilson and Deputy Tom Garrett ment. with frying an egg on said the beginning of the y.ar but is the party partook of a wedding ocrats, congress enacted one of the oi Grass Valley dfpve to Seattle sidewr.lk came to Sherman county most sweeping reforms that has dinner, which was climaxed by the fairly indicative of the fuel used Tuesday to return Glenn Wirtha to this week. It was so hot, that— th rourhout the year. Rufus spent ever been undertaken in national cutting of a wedding cake. J Sherman county to face a charge but why go on, the last story is $447 55; Wasco, $312.50. Kent, The bride has attended the politics. Incidentally, Oregon’s del ( of taking a pick-up without first always best anyway. There was not a cloud in the egation with the exception of O'.gecn Colleg? of Education at $481.15; Moro $518 50 and Grass ■ obtaining permission of the own- •Pierce supported th: reform hill i Monmouth and the Northwestern Valley $447.55. Grass Valley and I er. It-w as chargfeftlhat Wirtha sky and what vagrant breezes that and all six house members of] Busin ss College in Portland. Mr. Moro have long had automatic I took the pick-up from the farm of came through the streets was from Washington state opposed it. I Rcth has also attended the Orc- stokers and Wasco is installing Dick Rsckman near Kent where the torrid east and the thermom- Interpretation given the measure gon College of Education at Mon on Ihis summer, after burning ’ hr h:id been working, while Reck- etci a; the experimen station regis wood for manv years. tered 103 aFnoon Wednesday and is that it blocks control of the dem- : mouth. Library books bought were a I man was in Portland for medical Wa sco the government thermom ocratic convention next year by! Mr. and Mrs. Roth will be at I attention, Wirths is said to have Mr. Roosevelt and strengthens the ; home to their friends in the Com cori of varying proportions and 'decided to leave for his home in eter showld 106. Along in the af- 1 the figures are interesting bscause ternoo 1 the Moro mercury was at position of Cactus Jack Gainer. ' modoie Apartments in The Dalles. I of the value books have in the Seattle. John Reckman accompa almost 108 and at Wasco 111. The » • * ¿ „ q w h fr. the groom is employed. educational process. Rufus sp nt nied th: officers to drive the truck east v/ind that came up seemed Those thousands of women who j ---------------------- $65.21. Wasco. $31.33; Kent, $141.- home. comparatively cool, j Mrs. Dorn work in packing plants during . H U 62: Moro, $132.86; and Grass Moore the official weather taker season, the men and women whe ^ j UCKCIIS lsO H t V âF C $172.85, It is possible that text at Wa;co reported that it was still pick apples and pack them, the books bought were included by Heat Brings Good 100 at 7 in the evening which is workers in th dairy industry, " A b o u t W h e a t H a r C ln e S S seme of the school clerks. hot enough for anyone not prac employees in small sawmills, ai. Threshing Days ticing for the ultimate end of an those who constitué a Formidable | Whether hard or soft wheat is iniquitous life. army in the Pacific Northwest are l thç hvSt for chicken feed is a L After a spring of cold weather subject of a controversy, which qn.gtion frequently addressed to Stephens Goes Into Swimming holes were sought out land a month of cool weather since been raging bet weeh the White poultry specialists at Oregon State i summer started in June, the weath- in the evenings and cool drinks House and congress for months. college. H. E. Cosby, head of the Automobile Agency : er man turned on the heat early were in demand throughout the National grange and others want department, says that either k'nd by those who suffered in the Announc ment was made last | this week to show Sherman coun- day thtm exempt from the wage-hour may bs used interchangeably in towns. Out in the country where 1 ty residents that hot weather was law, but poultry ovicsvs.*» scratch grain, — and iaW9 DUI Mr. ivaa. Roosevelt ---- protests « j/viuuj -- that ---- a week that H. M. Stephens, former ( not an impossibility here. harvesters found the threshing ex- declaring that protection of this ¡ g00(i quaijty of wheat is more im ly liquidator of Sherman county Temperatures of around a hun ctllent work went on unabated and banks and more recently assistant i 1 I_ ! __ li... law is needed by the lntinocf lowest nAlfl paid pertant a than its texture. dred were common all week with excellent, work went on unabated it The principal difference between nnnager. of the U. S. National th; high point for the year* being is likely that the sacksewer stitch- class of labor in the nation. Ap plication of the wage-hour law, as soft and hard wheats is in their bank at Ontario, had resigned his reached Wednesday \vhen the ther- seventy bags per minute felt the Interpreted by administrttof- El- respect iv.t protein eontent, he -ex position and bought the Ford gar ftiometeT reached 107i at the ex heat dess - than oth e rs wKo—hid. mer Andrews, would cause many plained, with hard wheat running age at Ontario in company with periment station. Last year’s high more time to contemplate on the canneries and small sawmills to higher in protein that soft. Since V. B. Staples, state representative was 107. excesses of nature. shut down, depriving , uric the cftK egg * mash to carry firm Malheur county and others., R TlUT GOW II, depriving r >*<*^»* is designed v The nights wire not so bad, and Threshers made good use of the Mr. Stephens was in this county fruit prodqpcrs of a market and bulk of nutritional load and when judged by the standards set hot days as long hours were possi depriving mill workers of employ- j sjnce the composition of scratch for about tw o, years during the by those who come from the mid ment, according to arguments for feefi varies according to the price liquidation period, and made many ble and the grain threshed out j dle west, were practically frigid. easily. Harvest will be nearly 'exemption. * ' of the different grains, it is really friends here who will wish him over in the Wasco section of the At Wasco the hottest pight was Negotiations for a compromise important which kind of wheat success in his new business ven . » held i l » this • ...x x-wlr- K uh thorp i t . believes. ___ ture. Mr. Staples was one time county this week and many of the 64, at Moro 66. are - being week, but there • is used, » he -distributor for the same automo big outfits have already pulled In is little prospect of legislation be after cutting the entire crop. The biles company in Ontario. ing enacted before the session Moro district had its biggest week Rolfe Horses Win Federal Employees closes. and cutting will bi gin to drop off next week as some of the crews At San Francisco Fair Steen Says AAA Republicans and democrats alike j vpzl N p x t YcH F © finish. At Grass Valley harvest from the western states are united . 1 dXCU 1 COI T. M. Rolfe reports from San ing is just getting a good start oil1 one phase of the president’s! The Oregon statu tax coirtmis- Pays Most and at Kent few farmers wero Franc sco, where he is showing lending program. This is earmaik- , gjon w : jj not attempt to go back Pacific northwest wheat growers threshing this week. A greater his P?rcheron stallion, Senator ing 90 million dollars for réclama- : 1939 jn collecting taxes on Diplomat, at the National Perch- tion projects now under construe- salarjcs of federal employees re- could not stay in business and sell variation in time has been observ eren how at the fair, that his ed this year than normally. tion or which have been authorised. _ sjjjng jn this state. This decision wheat on the basis of present world hoise took second in his class of The westerners are pushing thru arnounce<j this week, was prompted prices, Will Steen of Milton, chair open competition being beaten only legislation which will enable set- j |argj y by enactment of the “pub- man of the Oregon AAA commit by an imported horse. Senator » tlers on projects to resume pay- ! lic sa;aries act” by Congress pro- tee, told a national audience re Mrs. Alton Olds Diplomat was made reserve cham ments to the government and en- ; viding that both the national gov- cently. Farm prices last year for pion < f American bred horses. In able them to save their holdings. , einm€rtt at’d the several states wheat would have averaged around Dies In Hospital additi« n to this the Rolfe horse The plan involves, among other j sj1Hy COnfine their new found tax- 30c a bushel on th: basis of the was placed first in action, third for Mrs. Alton ’ Olds, nee Olga m-tans to aid the settlers, a reduc- j jng authority to public salaries of export market, Steen pointed out. back and middle and fifth in Wheat growers. taking part in Koepke, died at a hospital in The best tion in interest rate. I 1939 with a threat of retaliation a- bor.e, lags and pasterns. Dalles Weednesday afternoon af { gainst state employees in any state the farm program in 1940 are go The Rolfe string also won first Junk dealers can continue bar- which attempts to make its tax ing to he sure of about 86c a bush ter an illness of ten days. The gaining for old rusty iron and a- claims against federal employees el, said the Oregon chairman. The funeral will be held Friday eve in the best get of sire and in pro •bandoned farm machinery aroun retractive beyond 1939. wheat loans will average around ning at six o’clock from the Grass duce cf dam. The Percheron Horse Association the -barn for the adm inistration_____________ _ 58c on the farm. Parity payments Valley Auditorium with Zells in charge. Reverend Walter Eck has thrown cold water op the pro-1 reports that there were 132 horses ai 2 11c and conservation pay will give the sermon. in the show and that it was the posai of Senator Schwellenbach,, SCDOOl 1 0 — ments 17 cents. Washington, to place an embargo ¡. Mrs. Olds was born August 10, larges', class in the fair show. • This still isn’t parity income 1912, being one of twin girls boin on shipping scrap iron to Japan,, n U g lJ N py I W ppL for wheat but it is better than we which is regarded as a munition I DC IlCIU 11CAI JJCCK had last year,” Steen said. 4T‘hose to Mr. and Mrs. Hans Koepke. WEATHER FOR THE WEEK of war. Secretary of State Hull school for AAA supervisors outside the program won’t have ar. She was educated in Sherman coun DATS MAX. MIN. objected to the senate taking up held Thursday, August 3, good an income from wheat as ty schools and married Alton Olds, 83 . . 49 .. . .00 20 . July this matter until it comes to a de- at court house beginning at those in the program, although March 26, 1937. She has lived at << 21.... ........ 90 . . 47... .00 Grass Valley since her marriage' cision on the president’s neutrality 9;gp In the morning. A man from they will benefit from the efforts « 22.... ........ 96 . .5 4 ..; . .00 program. This means scrap can state AAA office, N. C. Donald- of others.” Mrs. Olds is survived by her « . 65 .. . .00 be exported to Japan for another gcn of Willis Boegli, is expected He added that Oregon farmers widower, her twin sister, Mrs. << 23...... 24.... ........ 92 six or seven months, at least. Jap- 1 gjVe jngtructions on how to pro- to date have seeded more than Frank Pike of Grass Valley, her 60 .00 an continues to be the u ceed with the work. Gordon Har 100,000 acres of wheat land tc father, Hans Koepke and a broth << 25 .. .. 102 . . 66... . .(X) buyer of Northwest lumber and per, Roscoe Moore and Willard crested wheat grass «in doing their er John at Grass r. Valley and a 44 26....... ....108 . ..66 .. . .00 food stuffs. ,_________J Barnett will check compliance in part toward reducing the large number of cousins and uncles who Total for the week .00 will mourn her loss. Continued on Page Two this county. surplus wheat acreage. Cline Given One Weather Man Year For Turns On Heat; Resisting Arrest 111 Recorded _ a . Official County Paper Fishermen Decry Wheat Fires Stream Closing Cause Loss of A t Madras Twelve resolutions expressing the opinions of the several groups interested in game and fish that, met at Madras last week have been received by the local sports men who attended. The meeting w’as called as a protest against thp-closing of the Deschutes river By a fisherman’s association from a spot above Maupin. Discussion of ways and means of keeping fi'h ng streams opeh to all license holders war held and the resolu tions were passed. They ask that the game comm;-- “^ron be given power to close aiy sueam at any time, that the de partment of Interior set aside all government lands along the Des chutes river for recreational use, that the highway commission in vestigate the possibility of mak ing a secondary road along the old lailroad right of way, that the gam? commission investigate il legal road closing, that the high way commission buy lands along fishing streams * for recreation, that the Taylor Grazing lands be kept open for fishermen, that the lend board and county courts re serve fishing rights when selling land, that the right of eminent domain be given to the game com mission, that the state engineer be requested to meander the Des chutes, that railroad right of way in Wasco county be declared a pub lic highway, that funds be raised to publicize these resolutions. Roadside Shrubs Now Protected Special to the Sherman Coutny Journal. Washington D. C.—Tour ists who dig up shrubs from gov ernment-owned land are headed for trouble under a bill which has passed the senate and is now in the house. The bill places the shrub stealers in the same class with ‘‘any person, firm or corporation” who without lawful authority shall damage, sever or remove any timber, tree, shrub or other for est poduct upon any government lands, included ceded Indian lands, and lands within the O. & C. grant o; the Coos Bay Wagon road grant. The act does not prevent a miner or farmer of clearing his own land. 365 Acres of Grain Hot Dry Weather Makes Fire Danger Great; Insurance Carried Loss of 365 acres of standing .grain through fifes occurred this week near Moro when dry weather and a blistering sun made fires asy to start and hard to ex tinguish. First loss was on the Peters & Ginn ranch north of town on land owned by L. Barnum where a fire started as the crews were quitting at noon. It rapidly spread onto 11. D. Proudfoot’s wheat on E. O. McCoy land. Although neighbors rushed to aid in putting out the fire and a plow was used to hold it in bonds, it burned 66 acres for Peters & Ginn and 166 acres of P'oudfoot’s wheat. Two Fires Same Day That same afternoon fire was discovered along the highway in two or three places beside the M oore land south of Moro. Be fore this fire was put out, C. R. Morrison, on Leon Moore land, had lost 122 acres of standing wheat and about 35 acres of stubble on 'the Ernie Moore place had been burned besides some pasture land. Tuesday afternoon fire was started by a truck on the Barzee farm north of Moro and 21 acres of standing grain waa destroyed and a small amount on the Carroll Sayrs place, who lost no wheat, but some stubble. Sacked Grain Burned In addition to the standing grain lest a number of sacks of thresh ed wheat was burned the largest amount being lost by Proudfoot where 391 sacks were destroyed. As the grain burned was all on good land with a good crop it is likely that 11,000 bushels of wheat .went up in flames. Insurance was carried by all farmers, but some loss will accru nevertheless. Also the loss in productivity of the land for a few years must be taken in to consideration and the possibility of blowing until a crop can be grown on it. Public Bond Sales Must . - -- -, Be Advertised Says Supreme Court By A. L. Lind beck The experience of the city of Cascade Locks in its sale of bonds with which to finance construc tion of electric transmission lines is regarded by Governor Sprague as complete vindication of his stand before the last legislature ïh în8itîng (üpdn ' competitive bid ding fo>r PUD bonds. Several months ago Cascade Locks negotiated a private sale of a $79,000 block of 41 per cent bends at a bid of .95. The supreme C9urt, however, upset the deal in a recent opinion which held that the bond issue must be advertised and thrown open to competition. Under competitive bidding the city has just sold the same issue to yield 41 per cent at a bid of .98 to the same firm. The bonds are to mature serially over a per iod of 20 years, but are callable after three years. If allowed to run their entire course the city will realize a saving of approximately $2000 in interest payments alone by reason of the better bid receiv ed when the bonos were thrown open to competition. While the Cascode Locks bond issue* was not subject the new PUD law the same principle ap plies, according to Governor Sprague. Grange leaders and representa tives of the Bonneville administra tion contended vigorously for pri vate sale of PUD bonds on the gTound that such a procedure would make for more advantageous sale of (PUD securities. Commenting on- the Cascade Locks sale the governor pointed out that the city not only got a better bid for its bonds through competition but also saved any brokers commission that would have been necessary under a pri vât« saile. • • » Discovery of a deed issued in 1870 has saved the old depot at Gervais. Under terms of the deed the * Southern Pacific railroad in return for right-of-way and sev eral blocks of land in the city of Gervais agreed to maintain a depot there “permanently.” The company this week notified the Public Util ities commissioner that it had with drawn its application for permis sion to abandon the agency at that point and to dose the depot. » • • _ Personnel of the field staff of the new parole set-up was an nounced this week by Fred S. Finsley, state parole director. It includes Kenneth W. Dalton, 32, Salem*. Joseph R. Silver, 30, Newberg; Hey C. Korgan, 47, Portland; and Perry H. Price, 33, Eugene. « O • * A total of 659 motorists were arrested by state police during June for violation of traffic laws. Warnings were issued to 7616 other motorists for minor infrac tions of the rules of the road. Fail ure to secure an operators license resulted in the arrests of 121 motorists. ♦ * • Governor Sprague established some kind of a new record when in opening the big trap shoot at Sal em last week he missed only two targets which is exactly the same number missed by Frank Troeh of Portland in winning the world’s championship two days latef. Of course it should be explained that the governor shot at only two targets while Troeh shot at 200, breaking 198 of them. • • ♦ J. D. Mickle, director of the state department of agriculture has an nounced the appointment of Tom Garrett of Grass Valley as brand inspector for Sherman county. The appointment was made in com pliance with an act of the last leg islature requiring the inspection of aJl livestock intended for ship ment out df the state. . Brand in- , spection is also required for live stock destined for shipment out of the county in all eastern Ore gon counties and in Douglas, Josephine and Jaekson epunties west of the Cascades._________ T Continued on Page Twe
