Sherman County journal., January 26, 1940, Image 1

F ifty-S econ d Y ear N o . I?
Moro, Oregon.
January 26,'1940
Offlei&l County
Woman’s Club Tax Notices Will
of Lincoln - - Call For Slightly
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Selection of Road Hears
From Member
Smallest Republic Observes 200th Anájversary Court Debates
To Be Built
W ashington D. C., Ja n . 25.—They
a re attem pting to keep it a secret,
but inside fact is th a t so m any in­
dustries are nibbling for Bonne­
ville power th a t Dr. Paul J. Raver
adm inistrator for the project, is
afraid the industrial development
of the Pacific N orthw est will be
obstructed unless Congress votes
money for more generators a t the
plant and sufficient funds to ex­
pedíate Grand Coulee to the point
of power production.
N egotiations in' every instance
are being oonduoted in secret. Eas-
1 tern firms, have suddenly become
aware of cheap power in the Col­
umbia basin and are anxious to
“ beat the * other fellow«’’ (their
com petitors) to it. Only point
a th a t is causing delay
in signing
tentative contracts is the local
m arkets. The eastern concerns are
in the heart of the heavily popu-.
lated area of America, which
means large and immediate m ar­
kets.
No less than seven factories, all
in the same line, are displaying
keen interest in the possibilities
of the fa r w est,, and at least one
of these will sign for power. Im­
portant mid-west newspapers are
denouncing Bonneville, accusing
it of taking industries, such as
Aluminum (Company of America,
when the concerns ‘‘m ight have”
located in. . the Chicago area
(where there is no such cheap
power, by the way.)
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Because of the disagreem ent be­
tween W ashington senators, Bone
and Schwellenbach, chairm an of
the s.n ate committee on appropri­
ations has requested Oregon’s Mc­
N ary to appear before the commit
tec and brake whatever argum ent
is neccessary for an appropriation
for Grand Coulee for the fisca.
y ta r 1941. The senior senator for
W ashington, Homer T. Bone, has
been unable to retu rn to Congress
siftce the session opened and the
junior senator, Lewis B. Schwel­
lenbach, on the verge of -being
named to the federal bench, doesn’t
expect to be in the national Capi­
tol when the Grand Coulee item
is reached by the committee.
Senator McNary will ask that
funds be made available to install
three generators at Grand Coulee
(105,000 k. m. each) as the plan
has been to Advance Coulee that
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San M arino, oldest and smallest republic in Europe, celebrates the 200th anniversary of its Inde­
pendence in February. Perched on a rock in the heart of Ita ly , (see map and picture at lower left) San M a­
rino is governed by a great council of 69 members, two of whom exercise executive powers for a term of
six months. Free of debt, the country has postage stamps and coinage of its own. It maintains a m ilitary
force of 39 officers and 900 men (upper le ft). Abraham Lincoln was an honorary citizen of 8aa M arino.
Dial System
Wasco Civic Club Public Welfare
In a u g u ra ted In
County Easily
J.
Hears Head of
•
A t a few m inutes before nine
o’clock S atu rd ay n ig h t the old
sw itch boards of S herm an county
were quickly put out of commis-
sion, an act th a t im m ediately put
the new dial telephones into o p era­
tion.
' O perators s ittin g at th eir boards
were startled as the drops fell all
a t once. and from habit tried to
put them up again.
C ity officials had been invited in
to watoh the perform ance and to
h e a r an explanation of th e w ork­
ing of the new system a t ‘the new
buildings. L ittle difficulty has been
encountered in th e operation of
the dial phones here although
there have been some in terru p tio n s
because of the changeover. The
crew has been ta k in g th e old
phones put of the hom es and
offices and d ism an tlin g the old
office.
Woman’s Club
To Give Silver Tea
The D oernbecher
silver tea
given annually by th e Moro Wom-
a n ’s club w rit b held in th e audi-
to pvm p w a te r on th e first section
torium *of the school house T h u rs­
to be irrig ated .
day afternoon F e b ru a ry first at
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two o’clock.
Even though Secretary Hull may
The dress re h earsa l o f th e one
persist in his refusal to open nego­
act play, “ His F ir s t D ress S u it”
tia tio n s wjth Japan for renewal
of the trade, agreémeriPdénounced
by him, it is not believed com­
merce between the two countries
will be halted on January 26.
Secretary of the Treasury Mongen-
thau, with presidential approval,
can withhold the imposing of pen­
alties pending a rearrangem ent of
relations between the two nations.
This would not disturb existing
tariff schedules but would perm it
continuance of normal trade free
from the higher duties, such as
are now levied on German goods.
Japan is and now fo r some time
has been Am erica’s third best
customer and in 1938 brought $2
here for every American dollar
spent in Japan.
The raw silk which is imported
from Japan to the value of $80,-
000,000 to $1000,000,000 annually
is processed here into a value or
more than $500.000,000 'te ta il. It
furnishes direct and indirect em­
ployment to a t least 400,000 peo­
ple and utilizes some $200,000,000
of. machinery. Japan consumes
yearly 40 ^percent more cotton
than is produced in the state of
Oklahoma, giving work to several
additional
hundred -- thoushand
W ith tíhe unemployment rolls still
high—w ith
shipping
adversely
affected by the neutrality law—the
administration*-can hardly afford
to tos« away this trade.
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New York interests are consid-
erlngthe purchase of mineral prop­
erties in Oregon and W ashington;
gypsum in the form er and tung­
sten in the latter. A representa­
tive of the owners has -been in the
national capital consulting war de-
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wfeiefe- -will- -fee presented krtee b
Waterways Group
Cost of public assistance and
relief to the people of Sherman
The Wasco Civic club heard a
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-'talk by Charles "Baker, president tt ufiiy n ss oeen onoeatnea iro m Xne
of th e Inland W aterw ay s asso cia­ office of the county clerk fo r 1939.
tion, who told his listen ers of the It shows th a t of the total appro­
work done by th a t o rg anization priation of $9520 for the year
and prophesied th a t w ithin a few
$4392.10 was actually spent. Thia
y ea rs the Columbia valley would
be populated w ith m any, thousands is ju st under 80% of the amount
levied, by the cooit an the fall of
m ore residents.
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T onnage hauled by b arg e th ru 1938.
the Celilo canal in 1939. w as g re a t­
Of the appropriation o f ' $2000
er than th a t p u t thro u g h in the levied for public assistance, $1736.
tw en ty years prior to th a t year 33 was spent. An appropriation
said Mr. B aker, whose o rg an iza­ of $3000 was levied for old age
tion has been in the fo re fro n t in assistance. Of thia sum $2364.76
w orking for added Colum bia river was actually spent. For the blind
tonnage.
$120 was appropriated and $56.49
The recent action of the a tto r ­ was spent. For dependent chil­
ney general of Oregon in d eclar­ dren $400 was levied and $244.52
in g it illegal for Oregon counties
tO jm ake ap p ro p riatio n s fo r the
Inland E m pire group has made it
neeessary, he said, for th a t o rg a n i­
zation to rely on contrib u tio n s
from interested citizens and those
who will benefit from riv er t r a n s ­
portation.
In consideration of the infantile
paraly sis dance to be given S a tu r­
day nig h t a t G rass Valley the
p re s id .n t appointed W. A. Spen­
cer, Lewis H a stin g s and , Floyd
R cct as a commit$fce to sell the
club’s- quota of tickets.
The club voted to p u t on the
annual lamb shbw eith er the first
or second week end of May. A
speaker from the extension ser-
VT ch T W
(he Moro school as an en try in the com pany will appear a t the next
Mid-Columibia play co n test will be m eeting, it was announced.
given. Miss B arb ara Leisz is d i­
rector. O ther en tertain m e n t will
be provided.
Power Company
Peter Peters Dies at
Home Near G. V.
(Peter J. P eters, a re sid e n t of*
this county since J a n u a ry 1, 1889,
died suddenly of a h e a rt a ttac k
a t his home so u th o f G rass Valley
F riday. He had been to the Bibby
ranch w h r e was doing chores
during th e ir absence and had re ­
turned heme when death o v er­
took him.
His body w as found
S atu rd ay m orning by Bill B uethcr,
a neighbor, who became w orried
when Mr. P eters failed to come by
a fte r bis mail.
The deceased w as born in H an-
over, G erm any, N ovem ber 23,
18S2 and came to this country
w kh his paren ts, a rriv in g a t The
Dalles the first day of 1889. The
fam ily settled near w hat became
B( urbon and Mr. P eters obtained
his education hero and began, fa rm ­
ing, an occupation he followed
nr,til his death.
He is survived by his fa th r,
Ilenrich P eters, a siste r, Mrs. W.
I). B arnet, four b ro th e rs, John,
Henry, H erm an and F red, all of
G rass Valley.
The funeral was held T uesday
afternoon a t two o’clock from the
G rass Valley auditorium w ith Rev.
Gerald C. Dryden giving the se r­
mon and with Zells in charge. In ­
to rm .n t w as made in the O dd-Fel­
lows cem etery a t G rass Valley.
Cost Is 8Qpercent
of Appropriation
Working on Lines
W ork of re co n stru ctin g many
of the d istrib u tin g lin ts of the
lig h t com pany has been going on
fo r several weeks and is now in
fuil sw ing. In the three tow ns of
this county ten new tran sfo rm ers
have been or will be installed to
bring b e tte r service to custom ers
served by them , according to R. V.
L ockhart, local m anager.
This work is being done to in­
sure adequate service fo r the
steady grow th of the area. A new
bank of tran sfo rm ers has been p u t
in near the experim ent statio n for
th a t p a rt of town. NeW d istribu-
tion lines a n d larg er capacity tran s-
fo rm e r has been installed on Scott
s tre e t in Moro and work on Mc­
Coy and C ourt s tre e t will include
new lines and tra n sfo rm e rs.
In Wasco and G rass Valley new
tra n sfo rm e rs are also being in­
stalled and fo u r blocks of new
d istribution circuit will ibe built
in W as eh- and three blocks of sim ­
ilar construction in G rass Valley.
This work is being done in places
w here trouble has been e x p e rie n c ­
ed heretofore.
was
»pent.
The _ ap p ro p riatio n
for 1939 was raised to $5820, an
increase of $300.
Sherman County
Pioneer Passes
Ralph C. Bennett, one of the
few rem aining pioneers who set­
tled in this county in the eighties,
died a t his home in Portland
Thursday, and was buried in
Portland.
•Mr. Bennett was born in Iowa,
and moved to Kansas with his
parents when young. L ater the
fam ily cam e w rst and many of
them settled in Sherman county.
Milton, W alter, Frank and Ralph
of the brothers were homesteaders
here in 1886 and a sister, Mrs.
Belle Hogue still resides a t Kent.
Ralph Bennett’s homestead was
southw est of Grass Valley and is
now owned by Fred Stradley, who
bought it when the Bennetts re­
tired some twenty years ago. By
careful m anagement he accumu­
lated enough of the world’s goods
to move to Portland where he end­
ed his days.
Crested Wheat To Be
Featured on Broadcast
'e
The story o f how Gilliam coun­
ty, Oregon, carried out a land
planning program resulting in 12
percept of its crop land being
seeded to created wheat grass in­
stead of the usual wheat, will be
told to the nation F ebruary 6 in
a broad cast over the National
Farm and Home hour heard in the
west a t 9.30 o’clock.
Taking p art in this program orig
¡mating in the KEX studios in
Portland will be C. K. B arker and
f*. R. Fatland, Gondon, and C. A.
Nish, Mikkalo. Barker and Nish
are farm er members of the county
agricultural conservation commit­
tee, and the former is president
Of th e E astern Oregon W heat
league. Fatland, Condon business
MORE M ONEY H E R E
man, is speaker of the House of
W ith the arriv al of an additional Representatives and served as
JS7512.39 for fourteen farm ers on chairman of the Gilliam county
th eir allotm ent the total of funds agricultural
outlook conference
received for th a t purpose in this sponsored by the extension se r­
county was raised to $302,109.75. vice.
Less Money
An interesting m eeting was held
Friday, Ja n u ary 19 iby the Moro
W om ans d u b . (During the busi­
Division of Federal Funds
Nine Rural Districts Make
ness session it was voted to pur­
chase
tw
elve‘folding
chairs.
Mrs.
Between Counties Makes
No Levy; Town Districts
P o k y was director of the program
Ckance for County Rood Job vbich consisted of a number of
Pay Mack Higher Rate
songs from the club song books
A specially called m eeting of w ritten during the Lincoln period.
The assessor has turned the
A review o f the book, “Lincoln 1939 rolls over to the clerk and
the county court was held Tues­
day afternoon a t the co u rt house in Illinois” by Octavia Roberts the clerk in turn, given them to
with all the memfcets present. was given Iby Mrs. Theodore John­ the sheriff, who will shortly send
Purpose of the meeting was a con­ ston Who also gave a vivid de­ out notices to each and every prop­
ference with Cscar. Cutler, state scription of the Lincoln Memorial erty owner telling him of his debt
highway engineer, over road and which she, with her husband, had to the county and state for schools,
visited on two trips east. A piece roads, cities and ot^ier m atters.
highway m atters.
While the contract fo r the im­ of wood and an oak leaf as aou-
In general the taxes will be a
provement of the so-called Monk- venveflirs from the memorial bit leas for 1940 than for 1939 as
land H ay Canyon road has been were sboarti.
the total levy is down soma $6,000
Two vocal ducts, “ Uncle Ned”
let it has not 'been fully approved
but
there will be variations over
by the commissioners because o f and ” Believe me if all those en­ the county.
young charm s’’ were
«* luck of right of way officially dearing
For those living in the country
designated. Howard Conlee, Dew­ ♦pleasingly rendered by Mrs. Hol-
where
thereris no school tax to
linshaad
and
Mrs.
Hennagin.
ChXr-*
ey Thompson, J. B. Davis and
pay
the
levy will be 11.2 mills
ades
were
acted
and
correctly
H arvey Thompson appeared before
made
-
up
of 7.1 mills for county,
the court and veifcally gave their guessed by the audience.
state
elem
entary school, market
The
Doernbecher
tea
will
be
held
support to the road extension and
road,
bridges,
and per capita
in
the
school
auditorium
Thurs­
promised th a t they would do noth­
school.
2.6
mills
for general road
ing to prevent or delay the court day, February first.
and
1.5
for
non-high
schools.
in declaring a full sixty foot
right of way for the road. A legal
School Districts Vary
WEATHER COLDER
technicality had made this neces­
For those living in a school dis­
sary.
Wednesday night the thermom­
trict
in tthe country the special
Mr. Cutler explained th a t under eter at the experiment station
the H ayden-Cartw right bill, under dropped to 14 degrees which is the tax for th a t district m ust be add­
(w hich federal appropriations were ooluest, so far, of the present spell ed. Rural districts are all under
made in 1937, it was possible for of chilly weather. - The night of two mills except Diat. 32 which is
the state highway commission to January 10, it dropped to 13 de­ levying 5.9 mills this year. N ias
do work on county roads and sec­ gress for the lowest m ark of the rural districts levied no tax a t
ondary highways with federal w inter to date.
funds, matched by the state.
Town school districts vary from
Four or five inches of snow has
In 1938 and 1939 work was done fallen during the past few days, a very low of 3.9 a t Wasco, a 6.V at
in 27 x>f the counties. Money w as most of it coining Wednesday and Kent to 12.3 a t Rufus and Grass
Wednesday n ig h t As the ground Valley and 12.6 at Msro. D istricts
state foods between the five dis­ is frozen to A depth of six inefcea having high schools do not pay
tricts into which tfie state ft' di­ over m ost of the county the snow the non-high school tax.
Residents o f the towns have the
vided by Xhe highway commission. has little chance of being of much
city tax to pay and this is the
The Monkland-Hay Canyon road value far the crop.
is to be this county’s share of the
The
ither data for the week: largest of all being 14.9 in Moro,
fund? alloted for 1938-39.
Date
Max
Min
Prcc 16.2 a t G rass Valley and 24.2 at
Wasco.
The commission has proposed Jan. 18
21
.00
38
th at masmoeh as it is necessary
19
26
-.00
21
The law perm itting a three per
for them to do an equal amount of
20
28
21
.00
cent discount on taxes paid on or
work in each district on county
27
22
.00
21
before March 16 is still in effect
roads and on secondary roads
22
26
20
00
which gives the taxpayer who is
the> can allot a fu rth e r $15,000
23
77
22
T
flush a chance to cut his levy
to this county for work on county
somewhat.
24
26 y
15
15
roads this year. Review of the
different projects th at had been
presented
to them
previously
caused them to favor the Fulton
Canyon road. This project has re-,
ceived the approval of the Bureau
of Public Roads.
Pray declared th at his investiga­
Therefore the court was consid­ By A. L. Lindbeck
tions
had failed to substantiate
ering giving the state permission
Elim ination of 480 of the 1934
to widen, surface and oil another school districts in Oregon is pro­ the charges.
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two miles of the Fulton Canyon vided for in preliminary reports
road which will construct it to already filed with the state board
The State Liand Board has de­
about half a mile west of the Vic­ of education by county school dis cided to boost interest ratio on
tor Anderson place. The job W trict reorganiration committees loans of $1000 or less from the
estim ated at the $15,000.
acting under authority of an act state school fund from five to six
Commissioner Wilson objected passed by- the last legislature.
percent. Rotes on larger loans
to this allotm ent saying th at the
will
remain a t five percent. The
The state board took its first
improvement of Shearers grade action on the recommendations of increased rate, according to Lewis
was of ten times the importance county com m ittees this week when Griffith, secretary of the board,
to the county and if it was thought it approved plans for the reorgani­ was necessitated because o f the
necessary to build another road zation of the school d istric ts' in high coat of collecting the smaller
from Wasco to .th e river it should Josephine and C urry counties. In loans.
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be into Rufus instead of parallel­ Josephine county the reorganiza­
ing the highway.
O. Henry Oleen of St. Helens,
tion plans provide for consolida­
No definite decision was made tion of the present 42 districts in who eliminated him self from the
as to the acceptance or rejection to 21 districts. In one instance 12 legislative race two years ago In
of the project by tlhe county as it districts are being combined into order to make the race for the
will be necessary to obtain the one. A number of districts are Democratic nomination for gover­
rights of way before it can be fin­ not (being disturbed in the proposed nor, wants to represent Columbia
ally approved by the state.
reorganization plan. In Curry county in the House of Represen-
county it is proposed to eliminate tives again. Oleen filed his for-
rruil declaration of candidacy with
five of the existing 18 districts.
Opponents of the proposed re­ the state departm ent this week.
organization plan in any of the His was the fourth declaration
districts affected have 60 days in filed in the 1940 prim ary cam­
which to reject the plan if a m a­ paign. Oleen has seen service in
Mrs. P erry Strong, known to jority of the voters In the district three previous legislative sessions.
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many Sherman countians, was kill­ so elect.
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ed near Tualatin last Friday when
Oregon’s industrial payrolls hit
the car in which she was riding
Published reports to the effect a new all-time high in 1939 at
with her husband was struck from th a t the three D’Autreiment broth­ $158,294,120, according to records
behind by another. Mrs. Strong ers—Hugh, Ray and Roy—had ap­ of the State Industrial Aocldent
was an aunt of Truman Strong. peared (before the state parole commission. Thia figure exceeds
Perry Strong is the owner of the board brought a prom pt explana­ the 1938 record by more than $11,-
Wilcox ranch fanned by Luther tion from the board th at the ap­ 000,000. The average num ber of
Davis, and he and his wife lived pearance was purely routine and pier, employed by Oregon Indus­
there for many years. The funeral had no particular significance. The tries duririg the year was 177,100,
was held in Portland.
three brothers who are serving life compared to 109,245 in 1938,
term s for the brutal slaying of records of the commission show.
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four trainm en in the Siskiyou
tunnel tra in robbery in October,
The encroachment of federal
1923, are not eligible to parole» the agencies upon state activities this
board explained. Their only chance week brought a vigorous protest
for release, the ¡board’s statem ent from Governor Sprague who ad­
A m eeting will be Held a t the pointed out, lay through a pardon dressed letters to Oregon’s delega­
court house February second, F ri­ or comm utation of santence a t the tion in Congress calling attention
to w hat he termed an “acute sit­
day, for county committeemen hands of the governor.
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uation.”
and community committeemen of
While the governor’s letter had
G rant county has been getting
the AAA organisation ‘of this
county for the purpose of explain^ more and b a tte r game law enforce.' special reference to the demand
ing the program for 1940. ‘Earl ment than some of its residents th at the Oregon Relief committee
Thompson is expected to be here wont, b u t not as much or as good put into operation a so-called m erit
for the meeting.
as some of them deserve. This is system in the selection of fta em­
This will be a county m eeting the conclusion voiced by Chas. P. ployed personnel h e expressed
as the gathering at Arlington was Pray, superintendent of state po­ concern “because of the threat to
a regional meeting. Time will be lice, in a report to Governor extend this federal authority over
given to the discussion of the Sprague following an investiga­ other departm ents of state govern­
main program of agricultural con­ tion into complaints filed by Grant ment- to which the federal govern­
st rvation and crop restriction and county cltisens against treatm ent ment makes any contribution.”
Insistence by the federal boagd
to the loan and insurance previ­ meted out by sta te police to door
sions.
hunters in th a t p art of the state.
Continued ea page two
School Districts Will Be Eliminated
Under Operation of New Law
Former Resident Dies
Is Auto Accident
AAA Explanation
Due February 2
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