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THE SHERMAN. COUNTY JOU H N A I, MORO, OREGON '
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'Y +R T D A Y . FEBRUARY 2, 1940
cases in due course. The establiah-
I ed courts do well enough for most
' of us and there is little complaint
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Shermaa County Observer
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about the justice dispensed. It fa r received no intim ation as
Established Nov. 2, 1888 *
seem'1 th at we are getting into a w hat the Borad intend* to
Grass Valley Journal
bad sta te when we find it necessary to do about his job.
Established Oct. 14, 1897
CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 for political or other reasons, to
v i private courts for any on?
The State Land Board has de- r
Wasco News«Enterpriso
ir ai y group.
cidcd to accept an offer from the
Established Nov. 1891
I U. S. Biological Survey of $2 an '
CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932
GROUND HOG DAY
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1 d<re for school lands located with
Now again conies th? day for ! in the H art Mountain antelope
PER
O re
the ground-hog, an animal that is I refuge in Lake county. The 14,166 .
IAT1OR always the fore runner of spring, acres involved in the deal will yield ~
P r iu s
never,'so it is said,-by more th a n , the school fund $28,330 which the
ix weeks.
[beard expeels to invest*'in bond i
Published Every Friday at
In-som e ways spring really be-j or first m ortgage, loans a t a sub- ,
Moro, Oregon
— fluth ground-'tmg day for * stantial increase in yield over the *
Editor then we—unw itting followers of three cents per acre now received
Giles L. French
Entered a i second-class m atter at uperstlt.on all-co n m d er th,- win- for the use of this land for graz-
the Poatofflce at Moro, Oregon 1 .er nearly passed when the Aard- ing purposes.
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under Act of Congress of March ' vark s presence indicates that
An emergency appropriation to
p rirg has arrived or his absence
3. 1879.
hows that w inter will remain but finance Oregon’s participation in !
the San Francisco fair this year is I
O FFICIA L COUNTY PAPER
. short period longer.
entirely up to the State 'Em ergen- j
On
ground-hog
day
wc
n
atu
ral
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
ly »tview in our mtnds the job we cy Board according to A ttorney
Payable in Advance
.nter.ded to get done during the Generaf Van W inkle. The attorney
ONE YEAR .................. ........ *L6U
:nowy months, and, no doubt, find general in an opinion to Governor
many
of them still undone/ N at Sprague’ this week ruled th at it
FEBRUARY 2, 1940
urally then, if we have machinery was entirely withift the authority
to overhaul, feed to grind, build of the Emergency Board to deter-5
EX PERIM EN T STATION VALUE ings to repair or other winter mine whether the situation repre*
The president's budget, it has time chore's 16 do we must be sented an emergency justifying the
belatedly been announced, calls about it soon a fte r the marmot expenditure of state funds.
for a reduction in the appropria give.; his warning. For .in the short
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tion for experiment stations in
of a
and a half, if in
Residents of Oregop spent a
Oregon so large as to seriously fact,
T«« z-.4 there ibe any time at all, we total of $8,380,515.93. foT alcoholic
Phil-Brady, president of the T eam sters Joint Council of Oregon, i >• shown signing the check to pay
handicap the work, if passed. The must 'be up and doing the spring liquors -during the year ending
for the purchas**ef a car load of Hood River Apples purchased by the T eam sters. Unions and distri
local station would lose $2600 and time tasks.
June 30, last, according to the an
buted to charitable institutions and schools.' O thers in the picture a?e from left to right:
the Pendleton station $4700. This
In this climate we can expect nua1 report of the Oregon Lisuor
Jack Schlaht, A. 0 . Garrison, J. G. Page, Jam es Klahre, M. E. S t.tie and William Ritchey. Klahre is
cut hits the Oregon stations work fil.t days in February almost every Control Confmission. That amount
m anager of the hood River A pples Growers Association, the others are num bers of the Team sters.
ing with dry land agriculture most year despite the warnings of the represented an increase of $303,-
588.83
over
the
business
e>f
the
Joint, Council Executive Board.
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severely.
ground-hog and while the weather
There has been a call for econo may 'be generally rough and -un sta te ’s, liquor njopopoly during1 "the
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my in federal government eiçpen- pleasant we constantly expect previous year.. The increase is
ditures and the call m ust be heed- sunny days and thawing tem pera- accounted for .by higher liquor
*4*unless we are to go on to im- ture<. an(j p]an on them. Spring, prices rather than a larger ve>lume
possible financing schemes. The we reason, is nearly here and in of business. N et revenues of the
objection to this cut is not th a t it a f w days some one is going to Liouor commission for the year
saves money but that it curtails bring in the first buttercup of the amounted to $2,564,861.03.
the expenditure for something
.. that . year and w inter will definitely b
has already proved its worth and
,
Oregon utilities including ra il
A visitor to the experim ent sta-.
haves in the budget many things
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roads, trucks and busses paid fees
th at are experim ental. That atti-
totalling $1,336,576 into the coffers tion a t Corvallis 12 y years ago
tuae has been too co-rtunon in the
While it is still winter and work o f the state during 1939, it was would have found less than an
past few years.
| is not pressing the force of this reported this week by O. R. Bean,
The federal appropriation for newspaper would like to have sub- public utilities commissioner. The acre of irrigated pasture on the
experim ental work on dry land scrip ?fs and others come in some growth of this departm ent as a statipn farm s. Today there are
agriculture and cental crops and Thursday and watch the process revenue producing agency is shown approxim ately 75 acres of such
diseases—the budget items th a t of putting out the Sherman Coun- m a comparison with fees ccfllect- pastures,¿used by three different
affect the Moro and Pendleton j y Journal. Many have done so ed ' during 1933 totalling only departm ents - of ,.the experiment
station both for e perim ental pur-
stations—is $777,949, according t o , 8( one time and another and most ?3J 3,080,
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p6ses and for low^co.st production
the inform ation we have... This is ' h a r; found it interesting. The
of
feed for station livestock.
a sum th at wguld hardly build a machinery even interests those
/T h is expansion ip irrigated pas
wing on a bombing plane or put whe ordinarily do not care to GRAIN MARKET
tu re acreage at the experim ent
walnut furniture in the captain’s watch it. We would like to have
DECLINES
STEADILY
station
has been closely paralleled
cabin of a first class battleship. you come in.
on faqpuu throughout the state, as
Surely the preservation of experi- ;
Domestic grain m arkets declin word of the success of this venture
mental work to insure production ,
ed during the week ending Ja n has been carried far and wide by
S
.?retary
Wallace
chides
Demof
Usually c2St in the role of aide to Santa Claus, the reindeer has
on this nation’s dry land is of
uary 26, influenced .principally by
value to the national defence cratic congressmen about the pro a dull domestic and export demand ihe extension service and by the proved hisjfrortli in the Finnish-Soviet war. Here a fam ily of Finnish
refugees uses a sk d and the fam ily reindeer to transport its belonging*
program — and th a t w hether we are pose.1 cuts in the agricultural fod current m arket offerings, states farm ers themselves.
budget
saying
th
a
t
they
will
be
to
a place of safety during one of the air raids staged by the invaders
Financial
gain
through
the
de-
to go to w ar or to remain a t
defeated if there is a cu t. I t would the A gricultural M arketing Ser veloixment <^f irrigated pastures is on Finnish towns and villages.
peace.
vice in the Weekly Grain Market
There can be no doubt th a t the sound better if the appropriation Review. r Lower foreign market«, em phasi^d jn a recent bulletin
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production of wheat, which is was urged -because of the need of especially a t Buenos Aires, esti called “The Value of Irrigated
probably the most im portant food it and the economic justice of it males of an increased world sup Pastures for Dairy C attle,” which
gives the detailed results with the
cix»p of the United States, has
ply of w heat in July and small us? of irrigated pastures on the
been most m aterially increased in
N orth American exports, were ad station’ farm . The five ’year aver
the Columbia basin because of the
ditional weakening influences. Feed
age yield from fertilized, irrigated
experim ent stations here and at
grains also were barely steady to pasture was equivalent to 6.4 tons
Pendleton. New wheats have been
slightly lower in the principal of alfalfa hay, or 284 bushels of
developed and there is no need to
m arkets.
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oats per acre.
even mention them for all farm ers Front the Observer Feb. 4, 1921
Stocks of wheat in interior mils,
Use of fertilizer on irrigated
know then» aad are growing them.
The Oregon Cooperative Grain elevators and warehouses January pasture has been foupd to be ab
W hat, for instance, would have
Growers association was incorpor j, were somewhat smaller than, solutely essential for most profit
been the income of this county in
ated here last Saturday. Phases last year and' totaled 128,846,000 able returns. The"1 yields on areas
several of the past fifteen years
o f the contract were explained bushels compared With 137,097,000' fertilized with 30d fiounds of 16
tnout Federation
fed eratio n wne«v;
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w ithout
w heat?
ut an a 1 day meeting. Meetings hushefc in^these positions January. pci; cefit1 'Supbrpftbsfifmte per acre
The cost of producing wheat
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. . . have been held all over the county 1. 1939. iW ith the exception of is .75 per cent g rea ter _ than on
ha? been reduced through the sta- ,
January 1, 1939, the present stocks areas not fertilized. The fertilizer
tion’s experim ents. We used to ,n IXJ 0?? '
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W . N. Jones was up from Rufus and the largest for any January 1, experiments were carried out on
p!«w ten inches deop, used to diet ,
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before plowing, used to harrow
week* He *ay®
?s in the six years for which records a pasture of a little less than nine
nr; available. In Minnesota, the acres. Even with two acres left
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now
gravel
on
the
Co
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high-
w heat in the spring, used to have (
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from
Rufus
to
the
Deschutes
more sm ut—and wheat more sus-
Texas, where considerable amounts per cent of the nutrient require
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th
at
the
contractor
expects
to
c e p tjb e to »mut—and, because of
P
of wheat under Government loans ments of more than 12 cows daily,
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ca refully earned out « p e n m e n * the time
the bwo tunnels are are stored in these positions, J a n which had an average production
we now us? different tillage meth
uary 1, stocks were highest on of 40 pounds of milk figured at 4
ods and produce wheat cheaper. finished.
A m eeting to discuss plans for ilecord for this date.
per cent butterfat. •
And, with the government taking
financing the hotel property was
Combining stocks of w heat ttf
responsibility for the income of
the farm er, this has been of direct tailed by secretary W. C. Bryant interior mills, elevators and wana«- RUSSIAN VERSION — .
houses w ith,those on farm s and in
for Feb. 5th.
benefit to the government.
An open house reception was term inal m arkets on. the first of (Richmond T<mdà-Dispatch)
There will be a protest go to
In thé picturesque Russian ver-
held a t the newly completed L. L. January, 1940, gives a to ta l siipplyr
W ashington from alt over the Col
outside pf m erchant mills, of 500,- sicn of this Finnish-trouble, it is
Peetz
cabin
on
the
Metolius.
umbia basin, from Oregon, W ash
073,000 ‘{bushels compared with the innocent wolf who cries, “ Why
Gccrgc Young, arc marathon sw im m er of years ago, waited 12 years
ington and Idaho, over this antici From the Observer Feb. 3, 1911
Red Riding Hood, w hat long teeth
545,933,000
bushels
in
these
posi
to
get
the $25,003 cash prize he ca. .’.ed by winning the 36-mile Catalina
pated cut. And it will be possible
yru have!”
tions
a
year
ago.
Of
the
nearly
Isla n d swim in 1525. He w as a lad of 17 at the tim e, and was given the
Max
Bull
has
bought
the
con
for everyone to have a share in it.
m oney when he readied 30. George a id his wife, residents of Canada, turn
fectionery store from Wm. Rudolf 368,000,000 bushels rem aining on
“ thumbs down” on a sw im m ing career for George Jr., who practices his
faim
s
and
in
country
mills
and
Eureka
Lodge
No.
121
A-F
&
A-M
although Mr. Rudolf keeps the
NO PRIVATE COURTS
elevators a t the first of January,
Meets on the 1st and strokes on the piano stool. The 525,0C3 is all he and his wife have left from
w
jj
at
skating
rink
and
opera
house.
The E astern Oregon
3rd Thursday eve su mm ing careers which wen them 3x25,000.
G?orge Miller and Miss Jennie about 129,000,000 bushels are Hard
League, pursuant to a resolution
Red
W
inter;
65,000,000
bushels
of
nings
of each month.
passed at its recent -meeting, has Wat kins w tre m arried in Moro Soft Red W inter; 98,000,000 bush
Visiting members cor Her P rivilege!
Sur.Jay
evening,
Rev.
A.
J.
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If your w ife laughs at your
asked Wayne Morae to permiVJhe
els Hard Red Spring: 28,000,000
dially mvited to meet
jokes, you may be sure you have
•A
little
girl
was
sitting
in
church
league to be heard in labor dispute officiating.
’ with us.
G?orge Berrian and Cap Rut- bushels durum ; i. and 48,000,000
watching a wedding, suddenly ex som e good ones— oj- else you have
hearings th a t have to do with the
Amidon, W.M.
huge
have erected a hot house on bushels W hite Wheat.
claimed: “Mummy, has the lady a m ighty good w ife.
shipping problem inasmuch as the
- ' ’ ’C. V .1 flelk'nnp, Secy.
changed her m ind?”
members of the league are forced the tpact below town and are pre-.,
puring to raise vegetables this
The Russians stick to their story
“Why, what do you m ean?’’ the
to pay the bills for shipping.
Moro Lodge No. ,113, I. O. O. F. mother asked.
timt tfrey are not at w ar with
In his talk before the assembled spring.
. Moro, Oregon
Hugh Shull of Kent is now the
" “ Why,” replied the child, ‘‘she Finland.” M ay/^ the good little
editors of the state at Eugene last
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Meets
1st and 3rd went up the aisle with one man neighbor is ju st helping. Stalin
owner
of
the
Hal
Morrow
place
Friday night Mr. Morse stated
Tuesdays
in the and came back with another.”
nurge his army.
th at it was inrxpossible for him to in the-G orm an district and Mr.
I.O..O.F.
hall
Trai
Morrow
has
moved
to
the
Shull
g ia n t the request, even if he w ish-
sient and visiting
ed to do so. He gave as his reason place south of Kent. The deal was
brothers are cordi
th>t the labor arbitration counts ”inde through,.W. B. McCoy,
ally
invited to meet
V
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W
allan
is
to
be
the
new
were private courts, established
with
us.
cashier
in
the
W.
W.
M.
bank
and
’ for he one purpose of hearing the
Orlo M art’n, N.G. '
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argum ents of labor and their em- may Ibe county treasu rer as well,
Vernon Miller, Sec.
* ployers and th a t there was no lie succeeds Capt. Stanley.
place forAthe public or representa Grass Valley Joprnal. Feb. 4t 1921
Bethlehem C hapter/ No. 78.O.E.S
tives of  y 'portion of it.
Moro, Oregon
M. Br O’Brien returned from
Mr. Moree’s answer seems reas-
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Meets Every Second and
onable and is prdbably the correct ' Fk-rtland Sunday where he attend-
Fourth Thursdays in each
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answ er under the law.
ed the state hardw are convention.
Quick - Easy - Safe
Month. Visiting members
This being so, the law should be
Mrs. Jasper Dugger ^was buned
V
Invited
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changed. J u s t w hat sort of a po- > here last Monday a fter her death
Naomi Van Gilder, W. M. * •
Write or call
sition ia thia country getting into , near Boring.
Ruth Sparing, Sec.
when we have private courts in
A bill to raise the salaries of
for com plete
the firat place,T Suppose th at in district attorneys has been intro-
information—
Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116
the end they lead to private a g re e diced. "Tt would raise the Sher
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Moro, Oregon
m ents arid we have to go through man county attorney from $1000,
Aged persons, “ in their second
Meets
2d
&
4th Tues
a repitition of private agreem ents to $1500.
childhood,“ should be denied the day of each month.
The
United
States
shipping
board
between all sorts of people and
right to vote, according to Dr. Ray-
issue
bids . mond Pearl of Johns Ilopkins uni Visiting members wel"
corporations th at are sanctioned advertises in this
,
,
, for
.
v’
H e a d O f f i c e ', P o r t l a n d , O r e g o n
on
wooden ships th at vergHy> His r* „ on: Too m an y^ otes come.
by law.
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A nnar I)avis, N. G.
It ia entirely possible that our- aie for sale.
for old age pension plans.-
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Florence Johnston, Set
Tegular courts should try Istxir ■ r •
Team stersH nion Buys Hood R iver Apples
Grim Role in
Experim ent
ar
Station
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College Changed
Like Father, Like San? Definitely
In Other Days
Would- Deny Vote
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A New Modern
Deposit Plan to
save your Time
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T h e D a lle s B r a n c h oz the
.U n ite d S ta te s N a t io n a l B a n k
Continued from page one.
park service (one undef d ep art
ment of agriculture, other under
departm ent of interior) and dis
agreem ent among three Oregon
cpnimunities. .Similar plan pro
posed by the i late Nick Sinnott,
congressman, and senator McNary
21 years ago was abandoned be
cause of the dissensions.
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As predicted , in this column
several months ago, the president
would «cut appropriations for CCC
comps. Unless congress restores
the cut (not expected), about
200 camps m ust be dropped and
this means elimination of approx
imately five camps in W ashing
ton and five
Oregon. W hat is
alarm ing various communities in
the Pacific' northw est is th a t their
particular camps will be elimi
nated, and telegram s of protest
are arriving daily, * These camps
have left millions of dollars in the
two states and enrollees have per-
Q/imed valuable services.
Rep. W alter M. Pierce has w arn
ed th at trade treaty policy will be
defeated unless most favored na
tion clause is eliminated', excise
taxes are not tam pered with, and
treaties m ust be ratified by the
senate. Practically every member
west of the Mississippi river is op
posed to some features of the ex-
it'ng law.
4-H leaders Meet
To Tell Experiences
Close to 200 volunteer 4-JI club
leadei-y participated jn the sixth
annual lenders* conference at O re
gon State college. Many of those
attending pronounced the three
day training period the best in the
hi<tory of this movement. Some
were attending their third such
conference.
H. C. Seymour, state club leader,
charged those who participated
with the responsibility of seeirig
that as many others as possible
(btain the benefit of the inform a
tion they gained a t the school.
In a concluding address to the
conference, Dr.
Frederick
M.
Hunter, chancellor of the state
system, assured the volunteer
leaders th at they are considered
being ‘ essentially auxiliary
members of the extension staff of
the college. He also said th at the
4-H club work bridges the gap in
American education caused by the
failure to develop a compréhensive
vocational education program . He
le» closely the objectives of educa
tion in a democracy.
A .small town is the one where
they don*t wonder how much
money a man makes. Everybody
krp ws.
GEORGE G. UPDEGRAFF
A ttorney A t L e w
M o ro an d W asco
NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING
Rosa A. Miller, adm inistratrix of
the estate of Joseph J, Miller, de
ceased, has filed with the Clerk of
the County Court for Sherman
County, Oregon, her final accouin,,
and that Monday, 19th day of
February, 1940, a t the hour* of
10:00 a. m., .in thé County Court
Room, in the County Court House,
in Moro, Sherman County, Oie-
gon, has been fixed as the time
and place for the hearing of ob
jections, if any there be to said
final account
and
settlem ent
thereof.
<
Rosa M. Miller, A dm inistratrix.
GALLOWAY & KRIER
The Dalles, Oregon
Attorneys for A dm inistratrix.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
All persons
having
claims
I against the E state of Catherine
1 Johnson, deceased, are hereby noti
fied to present them , with tho
proper vouchers and duly verified,
to the undersigned, the duly ap
pointed executors of the estate of
Catherine Johnson, deceased, a t
the office of T. Lester Johnson, a t
torney at law, ’Wasco, Oregon,
within six months from the date
of the first publication of this
notice, to-wit: January -19, 1940. -
J. T. Johnson
A. S. Johnson
<
Executors.
Date of last publication February
16, 1946.
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