Sherman County journal., March 29, 1940, Image 1

Fifty-Second Year N o .
anes End Starvation for 50,000 Wild Ducks
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W ashington, M arch 28 — Food
Bjamps wild <be extended to several
m ore O r e g o n and W ashington
towns w ithin a few m onths and if
the depression continues and s u r­
pluses accum ulate the s ta m p s may
be made available in several hun­
dred com m unity«.
T he stam p p lan w orks like th is.
Anyone on relief c a n purchase^ a
book o f th e o rap ge colored stam p s
fo r $1. In th e (book (th ey come
like re g u la r books of postage
stam p s) are blue stam p s w ith a
value of 50 cents. W ith the orange
stam p s th e reliefer can buy any
food essential in the sto re ¿but the
blue stam p« can b e ’exchanged only
fo r ce rtain comm odities which are
listed as su rp lu s, which v ary from
tim e to tim e. By th is m ethod, for
every dollar o f stam ps b o u g h t the
re lie fer has pu rchasing power of
$1.50 fo r $1.
D ealers obtain th e ir supply of
supius com m odities th ro u g h re g ­
u la r channels and receive th eir
normal profit. I t is now proposed
in congress th a t F ederal Surplus
Com m odities corporation purchase
su rp lu s a t the source and a t whole
sale and th ereb y th e m oneyfor re
m oving su rp lu s through the stam p
plan will go fu rth e r as it will eli­
m in ate profits o f th e middlemen
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T u rk ey grow ers of th e Pacific
n o rth w e st have been given a hint
by th e b u reau of a g ric u ltu ra l ec­
onom ics to raise 10 and 12 pound
birds. Of the stocks o f tu rk ey s now
in cold sto ra g e 65 p ercen t weigh
16 pounds or over. T h ese-are birds
w hich consum ers passed up during
th e holidays. P ractical reasons for
10-12 pound birds which include
such m a tte rs as sm all fam ilies and
the size o f ovens found in m odern
hem es, especially in ap artm en t
houses .The 16 pound and o .e r
tu rk s are in dem and only fo r the
hotel and re s ta u ra n t trad e . The
b u reau also predicts th a t produc­
e rs will ra ise 4 to 5 p ercen t more
.b ird s in 1040 than in 1930. Oregon
sta n d s fifth in turkey producing
sta te s.
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D rainage d istricts on the lower
Columbia are expected to contract
fo r 7500 kilow atts of Bonneville
pow er fo r pum ping purposes, the
sen ate com m ittee on ap p ro p ria­
tio n s has been inform ed, and 8450
k ilo w atts will be sold to REA p ro ­
jects in 1041. The R EA projects
a re in W ashington, Idaho and O re­
gon.
Official County Paper
Moro, Oregon. Friday, March 29, 1940
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THE MERRY-GO-ROUND BROKE DOWN
Grain Rates Are
w
After some nine years of faithful preformance
the heating element on the linotype pot in the
Journal office failed to heat Wednesday morning.
Repair parts being at some distance this issue will
be partially set by hand.
Protested By
Truck Interests
We find ourselves in much the same position
a farmer would be in if the tractor suddenly ceased
to run and there was none near to substitute and
the work had to go on. He would probably hitch
up a team of horses and fall ba£k on an older mefh-
od of farming.
Delegation To Confer With
Commissioner About Value
Of Rates To Wheat Growers
Protest against the grain
rate reduction filed March 5th
5y the Union Pacific railroad
was made this week by four
organizations all connected
with the trucking interests.
The protesters: Barnard &
Co., The Dalles, Shaver For­
We are falling back on an older method of warding Co., Willamette Tar­
iff Bureau, Inc., a truck organ­
setting type. Like the farmer who has disposed ization of Portland, and (of all
of his horses, we have disposed of our small type things) Property Owners Ass­
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V ociation of Washington with
and can give our readers only an abbreviated re­ headquarters in Seattle.
Organization of a group to
sume of the weeks news.
meet with Public Utility Com­
More than 50,000 wild ducks were saved from starvation when Illinois sportsmen distributed six tons
missioner Bean w a s made
We ask the indulgence of our subscribers.
of gram from the air along the Illinois river in the LaSalle region. The feed was distributed by the air­
Wednesday and Thursday by
planes in ice-locked slopghs and back waters. Top: Some of the hundreds of ducks already dead from star­
vation.
Bottom: Loading shelled corn in the plane at the LaSalle-Peru, III., airport.
managers of co-operatives in
this county who obtained rea­
dy aid from Gilliam and Mor-
tow county farmers and ware
housemen
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A letter, somewhat in form
terized ag itatio n a g a in st the cen­ W ith 296 candidates to be nom i­
Ry A. L. Lindbeck
Jack Milne jr. was here this of a petition, will be present­
Salem , Ore. M arch 28— A noth­ sus q u estio n n aire s as “ p etty and nated by th e two m ajo r p artie s
week from The Dalles while on a ed to Mr. Bean setting forth
er old age pension schem e was ill-timi’d” and declared the cen­ in this s ta te in c lu d in g legislators
trip through the territory adja the major reasons why the
$199,257.78 Collected In
dumped into th e hopper this week sus project to be to o im p o rtan t d eleg ates to th e natio n al conven­
cent to the port of The Dalles to farmers o f the three counties
p resid en tial
electors
when prelim in ary petitions w ere to be crippled by bow and arrow tio n s and
obtain wool tonnage. Mr .Milne affected feel that no protest
Current and Delinquent
politi e s.
on both tick ets alth o u g h filings
filed w ith
S ecretary o f S ta te
atates that he is able to offer wool by the truckers should be per­
Taxes For First Period
have beCn com ing in a t the ra te
Snell b y F. L. A ustin.
shippers a combined rate for truck mitted to postpone the effec­
On the a v e rag e ten or m ore of som e 20 a day fo r th e p ast
and barge that is lower than com tive date of the new rate, set
A u stin ’s plan calls for the in­ m ism ated couples seek a solution ¿week or ten days.
Collection of $103,395.19 in petitors in the territory being cov­
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crease of th e pension level to $40 to th e ir problem s in the divorce
for April 5th.
m onth fo r persons who have courts of Oregon every day, ac . H erm an H. C hindgren of Clack­ current taxes and $5862.59 in ered.
Trucks have hauled a small
reached the a r e of 65 vears w ith 1 corxlin? to recordss compiled by am as county who filed as a Rep­ delinquent taxes for a total of
From
Grass
Valley
wool
may
be
reached the age otf 65 years w itn S e c re ta ry of s t a t ^ Snell. S tate
part of the wheat from this
ublican candidate fo r the sta te
an extension of cred it, w hatever d e p a rtm e n t records show
th a t legislature th is week has let it $109,257.78 brought nearly 3 shipped to Rortland through the area in recent years and a pro
th a t mean», to those in need over since Ju ly 1, 1938, a to tal of 7113 be known th a t he is out fo r the
new port for 241 cents, from Kent
quarters of the 1940 roll into the rate is 271 and from Shaniko test by them seems “irrele­
50 years of age.
The program divorce actions have been filed in House S peakership.
C hindgren
would be financed by a stam p tax Oregon courts o u t of which the alread y has fo u r legislative ses­ the coffers of the county and it is 301. This is in 24,000 pound vant, incompetent and imma­
terial” under the circumstan­
of two per cen t on checks, d ra fts, sth te has realized revenues a g ­ sions to his cred it and is one of
w a rra n ts and other evidences of g re g a tin g $35,575 a t the ra te of the few house v eteran s still in the left but a little of $40,000 left lots that are-w ith in three miles ces say local men who have
credit and a th ree percent tax $5 fo r each s u it filed. Money thus raca. R epresen tativ e Wm. MdAJ- to collect, according to Sheriff of the highway.
been watching the situation.
on cash sales. Any surplus a fte r collected goes tow ard the p ay ­ liste r of M edford is also a candid-
Handling
charges
are
also
low­
p a y m e n t of pensions would go m ent of salaries of d istric t a tto r ­ a te for the House gavel wielding and Tax collector C. C. Wilson
Tax Turnover
Stamp Tax Plan Now Advocated As Means
of Raising Money for Pensions
All six sen ators of the Pacific
n o rth w est are p artic ip a tin g activ­
ely in the debate on the proposal
to extend for th ree y ears the act
auth o rizin g reciprocal trad e tr e a ­
ties. These sen ato rs, w ith p ra ctic­
ally all oth er senators w est of the
M ississippi, regardless of p o liti­
cal affiliation, a re opposed to the
extension. T h is is th e b a ttle which
w as predicted in th is space last
year. I t actually affects the pay-
check of every w orker in the land
and th e housewives, too. The de­
b ate will probably end in a compro
m ise. P ractically every th in g pro­
duced in th e northw est is invol­
ved in ^ ra d e agreem ents w ith fo r­
eign countries. r
Jap an ese b uyers are a rra n g in g
to co n tact Oregon packers of can ­
ned goods for ex p o rt to Nippon.
T his deal is th e re s u lt of a to u r
m ade la s t y e a r b y Jap a n ese b u si­
ness men through th e Pacific n orth
tow ard the reduction of
taxes and to b o lsterin g
n u n school fund.
A ustin’s m easure is
for which p relim in ary
have been filed so fa r.
property
the corn-
the fifth
petitions
M embers of the S tate F o restry
Board m eetings here this week
(T n u rsd ay ) on call of Governor
Sp’ ague are expected to tak e ac­
tion on th e election of a perm an­
en t sta te . fo rester. I t is known
th a t C arl L jDtavis of Coos co­
unty who took over as ’ tem por­
ary fo re s te r on J a n u a ry 1, suc­
ceeding J. W. F ergusen, resigned,
is anxious to be relieved of his
duties in o rd er th a t he m ay re ­
tu rn to his own business affairs.
It is also expected th a t th e gov­
ernor m ay have some re p o rt to
m ake on a special investigation
which he has been
conducting
into the affairs of the d e p a rt­
m ent, a h in t of which w as con­
tained in the recently
released
audit of the affairs of the fo res­
try d ep artm en t.
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The s ta te has no cannon to
give aw ay. Two of the sm aller
canrxfn which fo rm erly s t o o d
guard o n ' the capitol cam pus b e­
fore the big fire of 1035 have
¡been donated to the Oregon N a t­
ional Gudrd and have been se n t
to Cam p C latsop. The rem aining
a rtille ry piece a relic of the w ar
is ¡being rem ounted on th e ca p ­
itol grounds to the w est of the
new s ta te house.
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Made; Large
Percentage Paid
neys.
job as also is R obert F a rre ll of
Recipient of the largest sum
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M ultnom ah county.
other than the county general
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Uuless P resid en t Roosevelt in
the m eantim e w ith d raw s his nam e
So fa r only two R epublicans have fund was the Rufus school dis­
from the
Oregon p rim ary the filed as candidates fo r the state
$11,713.33. The
third term issue will
probably t» easuryship. These are E arl Hill trict with
have its first real te st of public of Cusihman, Lane county, and Wasco school got $2425.55,
sentim ent when the voters of this Floyd Cook of P ortland. Rumors
Kent $4313.46, Moro $7377.35
sta te go to the polls on May 17.
p e rsist, however, to the effect th a t
and Grass Valley $4852.27.
A nti third te rm dem ocrats are Leslie Scott o f P ortland, form er
rally in g around the stan d ard o f/c h a irm a n of the state highw ay Rural districts that levied a
V ici-president John N ance Gar com m ission will en ter the race be­ tax for this year received pro­
ner whose candidacy is being man fore the books are closed to en trie s portionate sums.
aged by fo rm er governor Chas. H. next Monday night. • On the Dcmo-
M artin, ably a s s is t d (by a group c ’s tic side Lym an Ross of W ash­
Of the towns Wasco obtain-
ington county, who has announced ed $3323.09, Moro $1835.70 and
dem ocrats.
of the s ta te ’s m ost prom inent him self as a candidate, is not ex­
Grass Valley $1416.47.
The f a c t 1 th a t the
Roosevelt pected to have any opposition in
The moneys were distribu­
nom inating petitions in this sta te the p rim aries.
ted by Treasurer Naomi Van
were filed by Com monwealth F ed ­
eration leaders ra th e r than re g ­
Two
ers . in . . the
— life-term
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Gilder Thursday and are a-
u lar dem ocrats is expected to cost p en iten tiary received th eir liberty
u b, e t o t h t
jng dietnct8
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the president much su p p o rt in as E a s te r g ifts from Governor , “
th is from dem ocrats who would S prague, They w ere Joe P erry , 1 immediately,
otherw ise su p p o rt him. On the received from U m atilla county in |
other hand this radical alliance 1926 on a second-degree m urder
can be expected to a ttra c t some ch arg e, and Joe W allace, o f G il­
additional su p p o rt fo r the new liam county, who has been in p r i ­
deal cham pion.
son since 1917, also on a life sen­
The election ” division of the tence for second degree m urder.
s ta te d ep a rtm en t in Salem is pre
The board of control paid the
p arin g , to cope with the custom - ......
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la s t bill
incurred in connection
Prof. W. E. Dahlberg, head
ary biennial eleventh hour rush w ith the erection of the new cap-
of the University of Oregon
of p ro castin atin g candidates n ex t itol this week and found t h a t it
Monday, the la s t day fo r filing still had a balance of $1153 unex- speech department, and two
(f«or places on the p rim ary b allo t, pended in the capitok fund.
students, Leonard Clark, Port­
Wasco Civic Club
Sets Lamb Show Date
As Byrd Expedition Crosses the Equator
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w est.
The m illionth jobless insurance
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check to be issued by the Oregon
'• House of R epresentatives has U nem ploym ent C om pensation co­
passed a bill placing a $5000 lim it m m ission w e n t this week to Ole
on soil conservation paym ents. A v­ J. Rudi, an. unem ployed shoe fit­
erage benefit paid in th e northw est te r, fo rm e rly em ployed by a M ar­
is $7®, b u t one insurance com pany shfield store, but now residing on
collected a q u a rte r of a m illion a fa rm n ea r W oodburn. A pproxi­
dollars and an other m ore than $200 m ately 20,000 checks are being
000. T he records do n o t show, how mail d each week to jobless men
ever, how m any fa rm s were in­ and .women of this s ta te accor­
volved in the paym ents to the in ­ ding to records of the commission
surance com panies, b u t the to ta l which show t h a t ’ in the 26 m onths
is a stag g erin g num ber.
since benefit paym ents began in
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this s ta te m ore th an $11,000,000
W ashington scene— Rep. W a lte r h avc ibeen paid out to tem porarily
M. Pierce has become the spokes unem ployed w orkers of Oregon
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m an fo r the d ep a rtm en t of a g n -
cu
ltu re in
Governor Sprague
CUIVUIC
ill the plan - to reduce in-
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UUVCHIVl
-ft»'- this
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te re s t of the F arm C redit Adm in'.i took his pen in hand to urge cit-
istratio n . «Albert S. Goss, who was 1 izenp
Oregon to cooperate with
a?ked to resign as land bank com-
censua en u m erato rs who will
m issioner (he was form erly m asU r.,
to sw arm over th e land
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charac-
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Port of The
Dalles Offers
Low Wool Rate
Southward bound for the wastes of Antarctica, the Byrd expedition
held appropriate ceremonies while the S. 8. North Star was crossing the
equator. Under the guidance of Dr. Alfred B. Geyer, a “southern cross’*
Is clipped on the chest of Murray Wiener, assistant physicist of the expe­
dition. Jack Gambole assists by washing Wiener’s mouth.
land and Charles Devereaux
Eurene, gave the program for
the Wasco Civic club Monday
night.
Mr’ Devereaux gave a back­
ground of our distribution sy­
stem as first speaker on the
subject. “Is the cost of distri­
bution too high?” and Clark
attempted a solution to the
problem. He approached the
question from the point of
view of the railroads, the mid
dleman and the consumer.
Paulen Kase berg was made
chairman of the committee
responsible for the manage­
ment of the annual lamb show
which will be held April 27th,
Saturday. A Sheepherder’s
ball will be given the night of
the show. Both will be Was.
co this year.
er in the port of The Dalles, Mr.
Milne says, quoting a rate o f $1 W e a t h e r fo r t h e w e e k
Max. Min. Ppt-
per ton which includes the usual
30 day storage. Longer storage M arch 21
31
74
87
68
22
rates are 11 cents per ton per day.
42
74
23
04
49
61
24
08
40
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25.
28
44
56
26
02
38
54
27
.57
Total to date for March
Two Boys May
Join CCCorps
Mary Louise Ireland, acting re­
lief administrator for Sherman
county reports that the quota of
this county for applicants to COC
camps has been set at two for
this enlistm ent period.
Boys who are out o f school, un­
married, physically and mentally
fit. of good character, unemployed
and needing a j-oib, and between
the ages of 17 and 23 are eligible
for enlistment. They may apply
at the relief office for enlistm ent
which is for six months.
Cabell Says
Federal Tax
Not Distributed
. Dr. E. B. McDaniel of Portland,
president o f the Oregon State
Motor association since 1928, was
re-elected when ithe association’s
annual m eeting was held In Port­
ia 11 don March 20th. Also re-el­
ected were IC. E. Gates, Medford,
vice-president; Ralph Ctoan, Port­
land, treasurer; and Ray Conway,
Portland, secretary-manager.
Henry F. Cabell, chairman o f
the Oregon State Highway ©om­
ni ¡««ion and president o f the Am ­
erican Association of State H igh­
way officials w as principal speak­
er 0 / the evening. Mr. Oabell hit
at the diversion o f road funds by
the federal government.
He
pointed out that more than $360,-
000,000 w as collected each year
by the federal goyem m ent from
special taxes on m otorists and
that only $180,000,000 w as return­
ed to sta te highway commissions
for use In road (building purposes;
He pointed eut that eome of
th e diversion money ; was uaed
for roads through th e works pro­
gress administration but held that
the WPA could not give the m ot­
orists the same dollar for dollar
value aa could the state highway
commiasiona. r
Oregon Seed
Must Be Marked
Washington, March 28 —In the
controversy over Oregon seed in
New York state which has been
refused by the New York conser­
vation commission, Secretary o f
Agriculture Wallace suggests that
seed sent to New York be plainly
marked as o f eastern Oregon ori­
gin and that tests o f alfalfa and
clover grown in eastern Oregon be
made to determine whether these
seeds are adaptable to New York
state conditions.
April Quotas For
Army Being Filled
Although March quotas for the
regular army have been filled, Ser
géant Albert Lawrence, in charge
of the* array recruiting station at
The Dalles ,has been authorized to
start accepting applications for
the openings whioh will be avail­
able during April ,it has been an­
nounced by Portland recruiting
headquarters. The April replace­
ment vacancies include several
branches o f the service lo r Paeific
coast posts and a limited number
for Hawaiian duty.
Government To Pat
Water on Lawn .
- Washington. March 28 —To doll
up the grounds of (Baker eounty
court house the president haa ap­
proved of an allotment of $7346
From WPA funds. MTbe project la
to install a sprinkler system in
the grounds, make a lawn and aet
out shrubs.
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