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Moro, Oregon. Friday, June 7,
SHE'S MISS EXPOSITION Instructor Tells
O f Good Class
Attendance
ft'.
District Voted
By Court
Rain Comes
To Lay Dust
Cool Air
Word from Chauncey Del French,
instructor of the students’ driving
school held h e r e /is that “Moro
Provisions of Law Asked
has easily led all of the other
schools in attendance. This helps
By Group Fearful
to bear out my own impression
that Moro had the outstanding
of Weed Menace
school in central Oregon.”
The instructor also expreseed his
The county court Wednesday de­
pleasure at the cooperation given clared Sherman county a weed con.
him by the parents of his pupils trol district in accordance with the
wlio were: Max Elmer Barzee, Isla piovisions of the Oregon law as
Gene BrisbinS, Margaret Josephine amended in the 1937 and 1939
Caldwell, Betty June Coffman, sessions.
Wyman John French, Mac Nish
A fter notice has been given the
¿Hall, Vera Jean Henrichs, Florence provisions of the act will be in
'Isabelle Tawpence, George William force. T his^ipeans||bA t the prin­
McLeod, Mil- cipals of the act are to be put in­
Vernon Carl to effect. These specify th at “re ­
Noonan, John sponsibility (for weed eradication
and control) rests not only on the
The last ipeeting of the class individual land owner and operator
was held last Wednesday morning but also on the county, state and
the end of seven weeks training in federal government and th at the
diiving. Records kept of the stu­ county, state and federal govern­
dents of these schools show that ment should cooperate with indi­
six of them per thousand have ac­ vidual land owners in the control
cidents whereas 28 per thousand of and eradication of noxious weed
those without the instruction.'
pests.”
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’W ashington, D. C. June 6.-
:her the United States can kei
of w ar is a debatable question
:he national capital. In askiqg cc
gross for another billion dollars foi
national defense President Roose­
velt’s m essage contained no a ssu r­
ance th at
country will npt be
involved. He said the possibility
exists th at th a t all continents nrav i
become belligerents—and th a t in­
cludes the American continent.
Left to his own devise, the aver­
age American wants peace, (but at
this time there is 'being promoted
an intriguing program to influence
public sentim ent and land Am eri­
ca side by side with the allies.
Agents carrying on this propagan­
da plan to drag the United States
into war are as busy as bird dogs
in this federal city. The principal
argum ent—to inspire fe a r—is th at
H itler’s legions will attack th»s
country a fter disposing of Franc?
ana England. It may turn the trick
Motorists in Oregon paid $10,
yet.
591,000 in state gasoline taxes in
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.1939 according to( Ralph A. Coan,
L ila Deane Is this p re t t y young woman who has been chosen.
Conditions in W ashington now
Miss Exposition fo r the F a ir In '40 on Treasure Island. She's
treasurer^of the Oregon State Mot­
are following the pattern of the
to reign over th e 1940 Golden Gate In tern ation al Exposition as
or association The national figu
events which led to A m erica’s en­
one of the stream lined beauties o f the Golden Days of '4 0 show.
res reached $816,433,000— an in­
trance into the first world war. The
crease
of $49,680,000 over 1938.
United S ta te s is the arsenal of th '
Levies
on motor fuel now sup­
allies, a board of civilians has be *
ply
approximately
one-quarter of
appointed by the president to f .
all tax revenue of the states. An­
nish supplies for prepare ir. ss
nual state gasoline tax receipts
(now called national defense): he
new exceed in amount the annual
president is calling for d-u.ir-a-1
total of all tax revenue for th».
ye*r men; congress is asked to take
states prior to 1922.
f .. e..'»09,dOO of taxpa • 'r money
Mr. Coan said that retail prices
ar.u g.’. c
,p
•• '»h*1 wa” ' Infant and Pre-School Child
of
gasoline in. 50 representative
to«-n countries.
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t ’.y about . Health Conferences will be held in
cities in the United States was
every step ir-beinfc taken except Sherman county June 10, 11 and
In celebration of its 30th anni­
12.91 cents per gallon—the lowest
sending American troops abroad.
versary, Pacific Power & Light
12.
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price since the 12.78 average of
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company will hold open house for
The first of a series will be held residents of Moro and vicinity a t January 1, 1935. Taxes averag­
A calm view of the situation in
the national capital (there are in Moro on Monday, Jurfe 10, at its Moro office Friday, June 14, ing 5.42 cents per gallon lifted
some who are keeping their heads) the Moro Women’s Club rooms. Ap­ from noon until 10 p. m., R. V. 'he cost of motor fuel to the cus­
is th at there is little likelyhood of pointments to be made with Mrs. Lockhart, local agent for the com­ tom er to the average of 18.33 per
gallon. At present price levels the
America entering the w ar unless Di wey Thompson, phone 494. Kent pany announced today.
retail sales taxes on gasoline now
Hitler, when and if he conquers uil! have its conference on Tues­
“Thirty Years of Public Service” average more than 40 percent.
day,
June
11,
in
the
morning.
Ap­
England, tries to seize British,
has been selected as the anniver­
French and Dutch islands in the pointments to be made with Mrs. sary theme because of the progres­
Atlantic and invades Canada-Then, Theo, von Borstel, phone 4F3. Tues sive record m aintained ’by the
under *the Monroe doctrine, the day afternoon, Grass Valley will company since its organization in
United States will be compelled to have a Child Health conference. June, 1910.
take a hand and resist this viola­ Appointment to be made with Miss
Starting with 8500 custom ers,
tion of a century old American Cassie Holmes, phone 202.
the company has built up a system
Next Monday noon 23 children
policy.
Call Mrs. M cIntyre, phone 663 that now serves 67,000 custom ers,
will
leave from The Dalles for
Sources close to the White House
appointments to the Child
including more than 11,000 farm s, Corvallis and the annual summer
th at it is this possibility—viola­ Health conference in Wasco.
m 1.30 Oregon and W ashington school term. There they will a t­
tion of the Monroe doctrine—that
communities.
Average rates for tend classes, listen to speeches by
has aroused the president and has
residential service annual resi­ prominent men,-play, eat and make
inspired him to ask for billions for
dential use is more than 80 per cent a broadcast over KOAC during the
national defense. Recognizing that
above
national average.
ten days of the session.
seizure of the islands may be a
Those who signed up for the trip
Displays
and
exhibits
at
the
open
m attter of months, Mr. Roosevelt
urges th a t the p r « ™ be “
Auxiliary house carry out the anniversary are Je rry Wilson, Shelton F ritts,
for it requires t.m e to m anufact r e t
.
afternoon with theme and reveal the tremendous Boo King, Clyde Fridley, Ed F ritts
strides made by the electric indus- Elton Medler, Frank von Borstel,
plane, anti-aircraft guns, provide'
elected tiy in its brief half-century of ex­ Carsten von Borstel, Bill Todd,
the rifles and other equipment. A ^ . ^
istence. One exhibit traces the Jack von Borstel, Lee Barnet, Le­
so a year is needed to train
cction of Mrs 0 G Say i s as p-es- history of lighting for 2500 years. land Barnet, Claudine Thompson,
harden troops for a campaign.
dent for the year, Mrs Wesley Ful­ Oiher exhibits show the huge va- M argherita von Borstel, Anajean
Time is the essence. Ever- ,
ler as first vice president, Mrs. n e ty of lamps now available since Knighten, Cassie von Borstel, Le-
thing is being speeded against the '
Carl Melzer as second vice presi­ the first successful incandescent viqa Barnet, Betty Juhnke, Shirley
day when H itler undertakes to pos- |
dent; Mrs. Wily Knighten, secre­ electric lamp, invented by Thomas Juhnke, Phyllis Medler and Dick
sess the islands, particularly. A-
tary and Mrs. Serai Searcy ;v- t ca- A. Edison, revolutionized lighting. Wilson.
side from the Monroe doctrine, i
This exhibit features a comparison
•he United States cannot perm it | s Jier.
the islands to fall into enemy hands ■ ’Two girls were chosen to attend between the ‘‘grain of w heat’’
as they could be used for airplane ( the Girls State camp at Silver lamp, smallest in the world, and a
giant
This 10.000-watt -(10-kilow att)
bases against the Panam a canal. I C .tek falls this summer
Not unless and until the western I camp will be sim ilar to the Boys which dwarfs the largest of house­
hemisphere is threatened will Mr. state held a t Hill M ilitary acad- hold lamps.
Modern developments in lighting,
A two weeks session of the Daily
Roosevelt favor war, and only con- ( tm y. Vera Jean Henrichs and Ardis
gre«3 can make a declaration of T ruitt will probably go from here, including fluorescent light and Vacation Bible School will open a t
war. But to p u t our house in or- !
for Auxiliares and Lcg. weird “black light,” are explained the Moro Community Presbyterian
der requires tremendous effort. Dis | k i n .Hres
familie8 wl)1 in other demonstrations. Guests Church next Monday morning.
regarding increase in the standing
heJd jn the Moro park Wedne3- at the open house will be invited to Sessions will last from nine thirty
army and national guard, increased ,
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a t 6;30 June i ; ) . ----- ¿U Llhfiir skill a t generating elec- to eleven thirty each day for five
t ’ ¡city—an amazing dem onstra­ days of the week. There will be
pp^sonnel for the navy, the g reat)
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two general divisions—the littla
task is "reeking of things. Things |
‘Other displays include a power folks down stairs and the Junior-In
cannot be made unless men know
pole in “full dress,” m eter testing term ediate section up stairs. All
how to make them. Consequently
and a number of pictorial exhibits. boys and girls over five years of
hundreds of thouasnds of young
age and through the eighth grade
men are trained until they are
are urged and invited to attend.
skilled mechanics; regim ents of
The summer camp for members
There will be inspirational singing,
men m ust acquire the technique
Bible memory verses, Bible stories,
of operating precision tools; the of the girl scouts is 'being held thi3
Missionary stories, and for all
ground crews (mechannics) must week a t the cabin of Mrs. O. A.
there will be handwork of some in­
be educated for the air program. Ramsey near Wamic. The girls
left Wednesday m orning and will
The Sherman county Sunday teresting nature. The school will
Piesident Roosevelt was so en­ rtm ain until Friday. Mrs. H. B. school association will hold its be supervised by Rev. and Mrs.
tranced by photographs of scenes Pinkerton and Mrs. O. IA Ramsey svmmer quarterly meeting in the Henry G. Hanson, assisted by a
on the Oregon coast th a t he appro­ are in charge of them.
Methodist church at Grass Valley number of local helpers. Among
ves the idea of a seashore national
on
Sunday, June 16 beginning the assistants will toe «Ardis T ruitt,
At the camp are Mary S a y s .
park being created in Curry^ co­ T atty French, Veda Belshee, Ana- vrith a covered dish dinner a t 12:45 Merle Marion Miller, Mrs. Marvin
unty, north of Brookings.
Re­ jean Knighten, Carolyn Fisher, The afternoon program will begin Miller, and Carl Peetz. Ramsey
commendations for the park whs Gloria Douma, Frances Greer, Dor­ at 2:00 and a special number from Schadewitz and David McLeod will
made to Secretary Ickes by the na­ othy May, Ja n e t Schadewitz and each school in th e county is being also assist in the manual training
tional park advisory board and Patricia Pinkerton.
asked for. The superintendents work. Last year 44 were enrolled.
Tekes took the m atter up wHh
will also report as to the progress It is hoped there will be as many
the chief executive; a hill ftas
To date $128,857.73 has been r e ­ of their respective schools. An this year.
prepared and has been introduced ceived in checks for farm ers who inspirational speaker will be provid
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Tomlin of
<by Senator McNary
complied with government reg’J- cd but the name cannot be given
There will be 30,009 acres in the i ja tjom during the past year. The at this date. Everybody is cordially Gilchrist spent the week end here
area and, aside from a few acre?. to tai to
received is in excess of invited both to the dinner and the with Harry Kunsman and daughter
Marjory.
piogram .
$170,000 at this tim«.
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Gas Taxes Now
40 percent of Price
Child Clinics
To Be Held
Next week
Light Company
Proud of 30
Year Record
4-H Summer School
Starts Monday
Auxiliary Elects
New Officers
Vacation School
To Start Soon
Girl Scouts
Now In Camp
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O fficia l County
1940
Captain Tells
Of Army Guns
and Equipment
A raip of sufficient duration to
be worth noting fell Thursday
r.ight and Friday. While it was of
Officer Demonstrates With
little value to the wheat it dam
pened the ground and laid the
New Pieces Now Being
dust. In years when the winter
aifd spring had not been filled with
Bought For Army
rainy days this recent wet spell
n .g h t have been acclaimed as
Captain James M. Gavin, seventh
rtally something. This year it wa.-, infantry, U .- S. Arm y,, was the
ju st a shower
speaker at the Breakfast club meet
ing Wednesday morning. He gave*
A toaal of .40 inches fell during
members much information about
the storm , p art of it in May and
the mechanics of an army ordnance
the rem ainder in June It ended
that has not been available hereto­
with a wind »tonn, which was
fore. With talk of 75a automatic
stn c tly in the proper tradition.
rifles, etc. the curiousity of mechan
TctaJ rainfall for May was .36 in­
¡tally minded men has been arous­
en which makes th at month the
ed and the captain’s talk explained
first in 1940 th a t was not rem ark­
many questions.
able for its precipitation.
He had with him a Garand rifle
The weather:
which he dismantled and which he
Tree. described. Corporal Stevens and
Min.
Max.
Date
52
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May- 30
Private Ford, explained the army
.32 tank gun, the 37mm, a sample pf
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” .08 which was also brought along.
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June 1
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Capt. Gavin, who entered the
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army 17 years ago as a private,
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reviewed the national defense
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Meed Inspector Needed
.40 since the last world war, saying
Total
. . 7 that the last of the world war
r
equipment had been used up in the
The weed inspector who is ap­
early days of this decade and new
pointed by the court sha’l have the
equipment bought. Changes have
right to enter upon any land and
inspect it for weeds, owners or
been made in the drill, the uniform
the armament of the army since
occupiiers of land shall eitherTcill
then and are still being made, the
or prevent from seeding any nox­
The Grass Valley baseball team o b ta in aald,
ious weeds or ibe guilty of misde­
.
meanor which carries a fine of I Went to Lyle Sunday and returned
The tank gun on display would
f ”om $10 to $100. If weeds are ! with ft close victory, wan toy a score penetrate two and a half feet of
not either killed or controlled the of 1 to 0, in what is described ac Concrete and 2 inches of armour
v. eed inspector may hire men to one of the best ball games of re­ piate by direct hit, but la now poa-
tie a t them and the expense shall cent years by the local club.
sibly too light for heavy tanka
be levied against the Tana and put'
Notable also was the return of now in use in Europe. Heavier
on the tax roll.
King F ritts to the m ask and pad guns are being developed. Army
C ountifs are authorized to levy after a retirem ent of two years;
ordanace is good machinery, finely
a tax to pay for weed control on
machined and requires good care
Line-ups:
public lands and roads and for co­
to remain in usable condition. In
G. V.
Lyle
operation with individuals and
W. Stark, 1 case of war there will be need for
Tanner, 1
state and federal agencies.
Pfeifer, 2 technicians and machinists.
A weed control district n»«* &e Hewett, s
.The army, stated Ospt. Gavin,
Fritts, c
declared inoperative by the coun­ Reynolds, p
still
believes that the American
Schilling, 1
ty court and must be so ended up­ Cody, I
soldier
fights best as an individual
McKay, s
on petition of a m ajority of land Ccdy, 3
and
therefore
equips each one with
Rolfe, 3
Clary, 2
owners in the district.
the
automatic
rifle. Other na­
Stark, m
Chamberlin, m
tions
develop
four
or five man
Threshing machines are to be
Barnett, r
West, r
crews of men. The motorization
thoroughly cleaned before moving
Morgan,
p
Leathers, c
and mechanization of the ground
tneqi along any road so as-to pre­
vent the unnecessary scattering of ' Morgan allowed but four hits phdusedingghlk
weed seed along the road or fro»i during the game and his team forces is of great importanee to
mates garnered six off «Reynolds of national defen.se for it is the in­
one field to another.
The county accepted title with Lyle. Only run of the game was fantry that is expected to take and
Moro and with Wasco to pieces of McKay’s home run th at came in holo whatever gains are made.
Club committees were named to
property pn which the county and the sixth inning.
arrange
for participation in the
Next
Sunday
the
Graas
Valley
the cities have claims for taxes
team will play the Bend Shamrocks parade the Fourth of July at The
and street assessments.
Dalles and for the next meeting.
a t Grass Valley.
Grass Valley Wins
Close Ball Game
Three Counties Now
Have Food Stamps
With the addition of Clackamas
and Marion to Multnomah, already
under the food stam p plan, Ore­
gon has an estim ated additional
7301) relief cases eligible to assis­
tance under this program. Doubk
benefits accrue from operations of
A.
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n.
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AAA office in Oorrallia. ¡Ftrat,
needy families are aided in buy­
ing staple food in which their
diets are lacking. Second, produc­
ers of surplus products are aided
in moving them • to consumers.
Under the plan, eligible fam i­
lies may buy orange colored food
stam ps and then receive free blue
stam ps in the ratio of i50 cents
worth for each $1 worth of orange
stamps. They buy the regular
fotds a t the grocery stores with
the orange stam ps while they buy
food« designated as surplus com­
modities with the free blue stam ps
Typical foods which are desig­
nated as surplus and which may
be bought with the free blue stam p
are apples, butter, w heat cereal,
eggs, flour, milk pears and prunes.
Marine Corps
Sunday Schools
Will Take Men
To Hold Rally
The United States Marine conn
recruiting office in the U. S. court
house at Portland has been author­
ized to accept an unlimited number
of men for enlistm ent during the
month of June, according to word
received today from Captain Jam es
B. Hardie, officer in charge of m a­
rine corps recruiting activities in
the Portland district.
This, Captaih Hardie stated, is
due to fact th at congress has auth
orized the expansion of the m arine
co’-ps to 34,000 enlisted men, its
gr^ktest peace time strength. Due
to this g reat increase, promotion
will be faster than it has been in
the past twenty years, the Captain
said.
Speakership Contestants Out In
Numbers Despite Distant Election
By A. L. Lindbeck
Salem, Ore. June 6—Even be­
fore the official canvass of the
recent prim ary vote has been com­
pleted successful nominees in the
race for legislative seats are scur-
tying around in an attem pt to
gupport fo r the House
speakership.
The past week has developed
two new candidates from mid-
Willamette valley counties. Lyle
Thomas, west Salem school prin­
cipal and Polk county’s represen­
tative has let it be known that he
is ambitious to wield the House
gavel and claims a substantial
block of votes lined up back of
this ambition. At the same time
It became known that John Steel-
hammer, Salem attorney and a
member of Marion county’s House
quartet also has ambitions in this
same direction.
Friends of both Thomas and
Stcelhammer point out that it has
been a long time since the Willa­
mette valley section has been hon­
ored by the election of any of its
favorite sons as presiding officer
of either legislative branch. As
against this claim .however, there
looms the prospect that the senate
is about to recognize the Willa­
mette valley at the next session
with Dean Walker of Polk county
and Douglas McKay of Marion
being prominently mentioned for
tjie senate presidency. While some
“contend that election of either Me
Kay or Walker to head tfee senate
would detract from the chanejs
of Thomas and Steelhammer ,on
the theory that one honor should
be enough for the Willamette val­
ley .friends of these candidates
point out that eastern Oregon
bagged both honors last year
year with Robert M. Duncan and
Ernest R. Fatland.
In addition to the two new Will­
amette valley candidatea Wm. Me
Ailiater of Medford and Robert
Farrell, jr of Portland are known
to have 'been doing a lot of pre­
liminary ground work already in
preparation for the big push in
their campaign for the House
sjieakership as soon as the House
personnel is definitely settled by
he votes next fall
The war in Euope is affecting
Oregon in more ways than one. The
state board of control was remind­
ed this week that «because of the
German invasion of the low coun­
tries no more flax pulling mach­
ines will 'be available from Bel­
gium. Two machines ordered by
the board some time ago were
shipped just before the invasion
and are safely on their way to
this country. Oregon will have to
manufacture its own flax pullers
from now on until the restoration
of peace again opens up the Bel­
gian plants board members said.
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The status of the Nehalem val­
ley PUD is still in doubt. Returns
filed with the hydro-electric com­
mission in Salem show that while
the Columbia county area included
in the proposed district approved
the project by an overwhelming
majority, the Washington county
a re« divided evenly on the proposi­
tion. Attorney General VanWinkle
has «been asked to interpret this
vote. If he should hold that a tie
vote fails to approve the project
then it will be up to the commis­
sion as to whether the Columbia
county area shall be organised
into a PUD without the Washing­
ton county area.
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Rate reductions adopted by elec­
tric utilities during the past IS
months will result in savings to
users of electricity in Oregon of
approximately $1,400,000 it b re­
ported by O. 'R- Bean, public utility
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