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.X' Moro, Oregon. Friday, June 21, 1940 F ifty -S eco n d Y ear N o . 33 T h e A llie d T ro o p s R e tr e a t F ro m D u n k ir k Official Oonnty Paper Station Has Interesting Data For Grain Farmer Experiments on Every Phase of Growing 1 Grain Viewed Today W ashington, D. C., Ju n e 20— W ithout form al declaration o f war, the U nited S ta te s becam e an a c tive p a rtn e r of th e allies. Comply mg w ith public sentim ent, the a d m in istratio n has been giving E n g land and F rance ev erything t h a t th a t could ibe sp ared until the equipm ent o f the arm y Iw h ic h was Inadequate a m onth ago) is now a l most a t the zero point. In face of the fa c t th a t A m erica is fu rn ish in g supplies of all so rts evaila/ble and h as ap p ro p riated $50,000,000 to feed and clothe refugees in F rance an c E ngland, th e allies ask for m ore and m ore—m eaning A m eri can troops. Il has been an intef-esting study to w atch the tran sfo rm atio n of the A m erican people (and th e federa. g o v ern m en t) since M ay 10 when when G erm an troops invaded Hol land, B elgium and Luxem bourg. F rom a standoffish a ttitu d e and contention that “it is .none of our b u sin ess,” sen tim en t grew to the point w here the people are dem and ing th a t the U nited S ta te s “ dt e v e ry th in g ” sh o rt o f w a r to aid the allies. N or does everyone stop th ere . D em ands are also received by th e n o rth w e st delegations th a t the la s t b a rrie r be removed and a d eclaration of w ar issued. Two m onths ago anyone who p re d ic‘ed th is inflam ed opinion w as called a w arm onger. • • r T here is little m ore the U nited states can do. One more step would be extension of credit -vhich would knocipthe gpsh-and-carry .n eu trali ty > «*ked u u g g ij’ c i n a v a l vessels to convoy h.W chant skips e a r r in g supplies in A m eri can b ottom s; giving (th ey won’t bi paid fo r if sold) the B ritish the obsolete destroyers and subm arines wnich have been ru stin g in bone- )u rd s since the World w ar; tu rn ing over the 100-odd m erchan. ships which are 20 years old and are in ch arg e of the fed eral m ari tim e com m ission (F’acific northw est sh ip p ers have been unable to c h a rte r any of these sh ip s): send su rp lu s crops in addition to the fifty m illion d ollars’ w orth voted la s t week; send the planes, tanks and tru ck s which the national de fense com m ission is p rep arin g to produce fo r the protection of Uncle Sam . A fte r all th a t has been done, anr the possible additional aid en u m erated it is no w onder t h a t p re s i dent ta rtly replied to the ‘ la st ap p e al” of the F rench prem ier for the U nited S ta te s to help im med iately and declare w ar on G erm any. The prem ier implied th a t d efeat of the allies would be tho^fault of the U nited S ta tes. \ This aftern o o n fa rm e rs c .h e rs in terested will g a th e r the ex p erim en t statio n to view ex p erim ents being tried there a.id to th e ir knowledge of business of farm ing. The picture s' .3 the allied troops wading out from the beach to the rescue boat in the right fore ground, during the evacuation of Dunkirk. This was one of the most remarkable retreats in history, 887 British craft t n ; - r t in the operation. A correspondent reports that every building in this city of 33,000 persons was Cr’ .r . . . 3 by the Nazis. Bob King Has Nelson Talks Eventful Week On Northwest A s 4-H Clubber The county road crew under L. L. To Breakfasters P eetz built a p ark in g space for car? in fro n t of the co u rt house the first of th is week th a t will r e lieve the p ark in g problem th ere m ost'effectively. D irt from w est of the court house was «brought to the fro n t o f it «with th e new LaT ourneau and the en tire s tre e t m ade level. The bunk on the upper side of the stre e t w as cut down to m ake room for a re ta in in g wall and concrete side w alk and the county is expected to gravel the e n tire spot ¡before job is com pleted. The new p ark in g place is eighty fe e t wide and full length of the court house block which gives sufti. ch nt room. A fence will be erected to insure p ark in g a t the edges. Fatker’s-Son s Banquet Tonight "~‘W. S. N elson, sec retary of the C ham ber of Com m erce a t The D alles, spoke to m em bers of the Moro B re a k fa s t club W ednesday m dnrtng and review ed th e reasons for planning fo r the developm ent of the Colum bia riv er from th e point of tra n sp o rta tio n , pow er and irrig atio n . As th e la s t ce n tu ry has been the period of developm ent of different in d u stries, the n ex t period m ay well be the, period of the coordina t i o n of *industfr«y tb m a k e 'f u r th e r advances, he said. Men have moved across th is c e rtin e n t b rin g in g civilization b u t also w astin g the n a tu ra l resource* found th ere ; th e fo rests have been cut, the fish ca u g h t or killed by si. earn pollution, th e land laid w aste by erosion. Now it is the a u ty of civilization to re p a ir this dam age and b rin g back the re so u r ces of th is co u n try . This ma>*well be a job fo r the federal governm ent foi the necessary coordination can hardly be obtained by any o th er unit. The n o rth w est, he said, has 13 percent of th e area and only 3 percent of th e population and wnile it grow s a larg e sh a re of the m ajor food crops it is dependent o:i tri n ;o -tation, ch?- p tran sn o r- ti.tio?.. t«' f i t it> products to the sea. Th? riv er m ust be developed to achieve this aim. G uests for the day were O scar M a th w s , directo r of d ry land a g ri cu ltu re. of W ashington, I). C. and D. E. S tephens, fo rm e r su p erin ten d en t of th e ex p erim en t statio n and now fed eral coordinator in W ashington, D. C. S urp rise fe atu re of the day will be the presence of D. E. Stephens, fo r over tw enty-five y ears the su p erin te n d en t of the statio n , who is known to every fa rm e r of th is county and the other w heat coun- tiesad jo in in g . Mr. S tephens, now coordinator between the soil con servation service and the bureau of p lan t in d u stry in W ashington, D. C., is in the w est on a to u r ano fo rtu n a te ly will be here to see* old friends and b rin g word of late de velopm ents in th e a g ric u ltu ra l field. The w inter w heat on the statio n is generally thin this y ear and does not give evidence a t p resent of m aking a larg e crop. Rex p ro b a bly looks «best a t th is tim e and F ederation ap p ears to be the best ' of the spring wheats. New fe a tu re on the .station h V he final m eeting of the Wasco the ex p erim en t being done-by Joe Civic club was held M onday night. B elanger to d e te rm in e ' th e best The n ex t one will be in October sum m er fallow methods and f u r sta te d T. L ester Johnson, .president. th e r th an th a t, to find o u t why E n te rta in m e n t included two solo« these m ethods are best. Some of by A lan F ra s e r, who w as accompa- the g rain th a t received a shot ot n ied by W illiam C lothier, and sev- fe rtiliz e r this sp rin g in these plot-» eral reels o f pictures presented by beaded out sooner th an the plots a field m an fo r the S tan d ard Oil not fertilized , which may prove to com pany who said th a t 33,000 miles be significant. The ex perim ent to try the effect were trav eled by th e p h o to g rap h ers in o b taining the view's of wes of C rested W heat G rass and a lfa l fa as a ro tatio n fo r w heat will tern in d u stry and scenery. The raining, fa rm in g , lum bering, prove of in te re st especially If the flving done w ith petroleum pro w heat reduction program is to con ducts was the them e o f the film tinue indefinitely. The g ra ss and which also showed the developm ent legum e is planted in row s. A fte r of w estern in d u stry in recen t tim es. fo u r or five years it will be plowed O ther films w ere of w estern up and the effect on the w heat crop rodeos, w ater sp o rts and a film of feund. Check p lo ts will m ake the old tim e scenes. A crowd sm aller re su lt known. W heat now on land th a t was in th an the usual tu rn o u t was p re s C rested W heat G rass fo r sfeveral ent. years should indicate w hat resu lts cculd lire obtained from land so trea ted and those fa rm e rs who h ive C rested W heat g ra ss land to plow up will w ant to see this e x perim ent. A nother trial is being made on deeper soil. Condon d efeated W asco in an In the tillage plots the poorer eleven inning gam e at W asco last tilled ones are looking th e b e tte r Sunday by a score of 11 to 9. W as a t this stag e of the year which is co held a decided lead until the a condition th a t is not uncommon eighth inning when Jfensen w eak although not the rule. ened and Condon m ade five runs, Some ra th e r su rp risin g th in g s which added to the two they had will ‘be seen on these tillag e plots m id2 the score 9 to 7. In tin fo r some of the plots are not at ninth they added the two runs all good. needed and in the eleventh put the The con stan t losses from sm ut gam e on ice w ith an o th er two. each will m ake an additional in te r Jensen will not be able to pibch for est in the sm ut ex perim ent being a few weeks it w as rep o rted , as conducted by Roderick Sprague his arm was injured. vvhc plants w heats with all kin Is Lir.e-up: of sm u ttiness in an effort to find Condon Wasco out w hat m ethods of tre a tm e n t is «* the b e tte r. The three stan d ard M arshall, 2 K irelie, 3 tre a tm e n ts are so fa r th e m ost Seale, 3 McKean, r successful although experim ents P a rrish , r O’M eara, in a .e going on in an a tte m p t to find Schaeffer, c O’M eara, 1 a b etter method. Ogilvy, p Hines, s G rasses, g rain s, new w heats, till W illis, I Spencer, 2 A shenfeler, m ag e tre a tm e n ts, nearly every kind Rice, c of system to grow w heat a re being Sm ith, s Van Gilder, I experim ented with on th is station P o tte r, 1 Jensen, p1 which has had a large p a rt in th e Condon made 14 h its off Jensen developm ent on th e w h eat in d u s :ind W asc0 made ten off Oglvy. N ext Sunday W asco will play the try in the mid-Columbia basin in the past th irty years. Lyh team . The program will begirt a t 1:30 and everyone is welcome to a t tend, look, ask questions and see w hat is being done. Z Wasco Club Sees Picture O f Development T onight of special im portanci is the F a th e r’s and Son’s banquet in the C om m unity Church base m ent. A fine attendance is expect ed. A varied program will be put or by local talen t, and the special speaker of the evening will be Rev. Edw ard F. O uellette of The Dalles C ongregational Church. He conies highly recom m ended by those who have heard him and his , m essage, ‘‘P la in T alks to Two Gen e ra tio n s” will be the central in spiration of the evening. Tickets can be obtained from Mi's. Dewey Thom pson or Mrs. S. W. Searcy. Men who have no boys locally a re invited to ¡borrow a boy or young m an for evening. The banquet is Some slig h t benefit will be de- set for 7:00 o ’clock. rived in C lark county, W ashington, -------- ---------- ---------------------------------- in Hood R iver, W asco, M arion Yam hill, Lane and W ashington coun ties, Oregon, by Ita ly ’s e n terin g the w ar. Action by M ussolini p re vents im portation of m araschino cherries, filberts and alm onds which Over th ree hundred persons who nation was 390 KW per year and have com peted w ith cherries and visited the open house o f the Pac- the average Pacific «Pawer & L ig h : n u ts grow n in the northw est. For ific Pow er & L ig h t com pany here custom ers 450 KW per year. Now the u ra tio n ” the A m erican m ar- i . ‘‘d « i l l hP f o r the A m erican pro- ol<l ,* <’uipm ent enou* h the national av erag e is 900 and k e tjv ill be fo r the A m erican pro m ake th e ¿fternoo^i as in te re stin g the local av erag e 1610. In 1925 ducer. , as a trip to g ra n d m a’s attic. T here the average «dost was 7J cents and Ita ly ’s act, on the o th er hani , v/as a wa3hing m achine 30 years file PP& L co st 6 cents. In 1939 , cuts off m ark ets of n o rth w est fresh ojd ^ chain driven, galvanized. JVo the av e rag e cost is 4 cents per fru it, w h eat and flour in 14 Me i - ia{jy could hold up her head in the k ilo w att hour and the local cost terran ea n countries. Jeru sa lem f;f o r c]u^ w ith such a thing in the 2 G cents. exam ple, was an a ttra c tiv e m ark e t woocjshed these days, T here w as a hundred pound m ot fa r apples and pears. Then th e re was a 30 y e a r old or as big as a th ree horse job . stove, wooden fram ed, plugged in . w as a a h alf h horse E xpecting, or hoping fo r a fa m - d e m e n ts, b u t expensive, my! my! now days. Y V et ' * it 1 W*S °™ iue in E urope, m em bers o f congress and u sing some precious juice, too. ,i nelor of 188j’..vintai?e th a t had are being pressured to use th eir in- And t h < wag new stuff( neW been in use u n til a y e a r ago. fluence to have the crop policy of p nurescent lighting, any color, '■ The much «poken of ‘“black S ecretary of A griculture W allace niad(i w jth m ercury vapor jn paint- L^ b t” whieh re a lly violet rays. tossed o u t the window. Those ad- (.d tu,beS( decorative and handy. had a s t a r t i n g effect on certain vocating discarding the J'e v er nor- £,here was a ijt t le4 ig h t of the kind1 t e s t e d m aterial. And ce rtain . m ai g ra n a ry ” program are arg u in g W ( . by doctors in exploring the n a tu ra l products gleam under it th a t g ra in grow ers should be per- ¡nnards df one wbo ¡8 ¡1) and a as if read y to b u rs t into flame. ,p itted to cultivate as m any acres j.nht Jarge R cQuld not tu rn . New it is a p lay th in g to am use as th ey desire. The se c re ta ry is fd op from the local circu jt.. the public— soon it will be used n o t convinced th a t the w heat acre- There w ere old lam ps d atin g C( nim erciallv, no doubt. One tim e age should be expanded and points from the oil'lam p s of 100 BC, pot- th a t . dim little bulb of Edison's to th e m any m illions of bushels tory lam p?, brass lam ps, all b u rn - was a g re a te r m ystery, of carry-over. ing anim al or v e g e ta b le ' oils on F our men b ro u g h t th e m aterial The m ost im p o rtan t subject th a t wicks and stin k in g to high heaven, for the show in ‘b y tru ck and stay - can be m entioned in the s ta te de- Tben tbe coal oil lam p ahd Edi- ed the afterno o n and evening ex- p a rtm e n t these days is the recip- gon,g firgt eiect r ic lig h t th a t was plaining, tellin g , re p e a tin g ., Mel rocal tra d e policy which S ecretary <jcvejop€(j ¡n 1879. Kennedy, ^ d v e rtisy ig m an, Ben Hull believed would b rin g peace in A c h a rt showed t h e Use o f el- W beelon. A. L. B earaer and Jack the world. C ountries, alm ost w ith- ec|iricj t y in the com pany’s te rri- Foley were assisted by the local c u t exception, having trad e agree- ,to ry as com pared to the national cvmv and H om er C u rtis and George Cont ’n‘,ed on Two u s e .'I n 1925 the average in the Edm undson of The Dalles.; Open House Commemorates 30 Years of Electric Business and at. the and the Condon Beats Wasco By 11 to 9 Score Commission Opposing Large Park Area . . . Opposition to the creation of the proposed Cascade R idge N ational P a rk, exending along the sum m it of the Cascade R ange from the Canadian to the M exican borders, Was expressed by the Oregon S tate Game Commission a t its la st m onth ly m eeting. The commission voted to concur in resolutions adopted by th e W ash- ington S tate S p o rtsm en s’ Council, C reation of the proposed pa^k would remove control of all w ild life in this area from s ta te control and according to th e resolution the proposed ^ction is an o th er step in governm ental encroachm ent up on state rig h ts. ; Copies of the resolution are be- Coast ir.g forw arded to Pacific m em bers of congress w ith the re quest th a t the plan be fo u g h t vigorously. Chemists Wanted By Government ' Explosive, chem ists are urged to a ,ply a t once for the civil service exam inations now open for the various grad es of chem ist and chemical technologist positions in th e Federal service. In connection w ith the p resen t national defense p ro g ram it is e.xtrem ely im portant th a t a larg e num ber of well qual ifica explosive chem ists and chem- cal technologists be im m ediately Itbl in this ils field. The salaries for the positions fo r which these exrinn- ran g e fro m ' $2600 to $4600 a yt>a»*. A pplications m ust be on file w itn the US civil service commisson s t W ashington D. C. not la te r th an Ju n e 27 fo r s ta te s w est of Colo- rsdo. Parking Place Built For Court House Visitors The p ast week was a week th at will undoubtedly go down in the diary of Bob King as one to b.> rem em bered. (Bob probably doesn’t keep a diary for him self even if he docs fo r several fa tte n in g c ilves.) • • At the Union Livestock show at I nion his H ereford calf took firct place and cham pion; his A ngus calf took first and reserve cham pion, lie won the 4-H classes and the on- en classes. Sales of the steers was not so good, the top price being twelve and th ree -fo u rth s cents and eleven cents. A t the 4-11 club sum m er school a t Corvallis which Bob is a tten d in g for the last tim e as a stu dent, he was. chosen head of the boys hous*\ p ro id e n t„ o f the boys executive council, honors which m ade the .week a full one^ v :• •» Same Directors No Startling Developments Come From School Election Held This Week Last Meeting Held By Missionary Red Cross Quota Still Not Raised Portland School Committee Doesn't Like Public Land Policy By A. L. Lindbeek Salem, Ore. June 19—The O re gon school fund com m ittee, com posed of rep resen ta tiv e s of some 20 P ortland organizations in te re s ted in education, is vigorously opposing ihe recently announced p rogram of the S tate Land board fo r the ad m in istratio n of school lands. The com m ittee is p a rtic u la rly opposed to blocking of school lands around p riv ate holdings Such a policy, its spokesm en claim wkould enable the stockm en to dictate the lease prices. They arc also opposed to long leases on the pound th a t im provem ent in range conditions now under w ay will make these lands m ore valuable and insure a la rg e r re tu rn to the school fund in a fe-w years. Instead the school fund com- rritte e is su p p o rtin g a policy of blocking the school lands in 16 to 2d larg e areas of from 25,000 to 200,000 acres each fo r lease to associations of stockm en on a year to y ear basis. Such a policy, th ey in rist, would insure a revenue of $60.000 to $80,000 a year to the school fund in stear of the $10000 now b eing received from grazin g leases or the $20,000 which the land bo ard hopes to g e t un d er its new. policy. • • • Oregon will receive $2,385,000 for highw ay im provem ents under the federal aid bill ju s t passed by congress, aocordings to R H. Bald- etk , sta te highw ay enigneer. This am ount, Baldock said, does not include an additional $1,250,000 to be sp ent in fo rest road« w ithin 4 . Generally Elect Election of school officials in the several d istricts in S h erm an coun ty was done M onday w ith a m ini mum of in tere st in m ost cases. At Wasco 28 voters came to th e polls but m ost d istricts had a sm aller vote. The Wasco school chose Afton M cIntyre as directo r to succeed th e v e te ra n 'W illia m Nisbet, who has st rved for m any y ears. W ayne Darby was elected clerk. The R ufus d istric t elected H ugh M athieson as d irector to succeed Torn S trik er who fe lt th a t he had served long enough. M rs. A. D. McDonald was chosen aa clerk fo r an o th er term . The Locust Grove d is tric t ^e- elected Vic A nderson d irec to r and Mrs. G. H. Root clerk. On June 12 the Moro W om en’s At Moro Dewey Thom pson w as M issionary Society held its last made school d irector succeeding m eeting for the sum m er, in the Melvin Schadewitz. Jo e T ru itt M oro W om an’s club house w ith a was re-elected clerk. to vered dish dinner. The hostesses more more more more At G rass Valley T. M. «Rolfe was ft r the 12 o’clock, noon, dinner elected d irecto r for an o th er th re e w ere M rs. F l o r M a r t i n,^Mp5. year term* and 'Mrs. Eva Cantrall W alter R uggles and Mrs. M. A. war made clerk for an o th er term . B u ll. A fter th e delicious, buffet A t E rskine Roy Powell was elec style dinner, and the usual business .m eeting, the m eeting was tu rned ted directo r w ith Wily K nighten, over t u the program com m ittee, clerk. H arm ony re-elected R- J . B ruck- headed by M rs. Serai Searcy. The ert, and Clyde C rite sr, clerk. tt pic was “ Social Service in Ac A rt C hristianson w as elected as t-on,” and d e a lt w ith the Jew s, em igration, and prohibition. The h re cto r a t Boardman,, w ith Tom program was handled so e n te rta in F raser fo r clerk. Fairview elected C arl Melzer for ingly and in stru ctiv ely th a t the h recto r and Mrs. Wesiley Nichols afternoon was gone «before the pro- as clerk. g iam was finished. A’ Gorm an H ugh Shull was elec- •T h e next m eeting will be held ium J as director, w ith M rs. Shull for a t the home of Mrs. Jack Noonan on the 23rd W ednesday n S eptem clferk. H. A. W alker w as elected as di- ber. •ector in th e DeMoss d is tric t w ith -t. C. Byers, clerk. In the M onkland d is tric t Darold k lsh e e was elected fo r the 2 year irector and Claud Thom pson fo r he 3 year term . M rs. O rval Thom p Sherm an county's quota for the ion w as elected as clerk. At Biglow F ay H. B rack et was Red Cross is still not entirely filled d ec Led as d irecto r rep lacin g Die- and there is a need for more funds all the time to care fo r the refugees bert Johnson, w ith George Fox aa in F iance who have been driven out clerk. The Rosebush d is tric t ejected of their homes in «Belgium, Holland .■ml n o rth ern F rance. The local J] Tom m ie B arn et as d ire c to r fo r h ead q u arters asks th a t all do as - an o th er term and H enry 1C. P eters, much as they can in this u rg e n t clerk. m atter. C hildren can do th e ir bit K enneth W alker announces th a t as well as g ro w n ups. M oney may quota of- S herm an county in be left w ith C. A. Tom a t R ufus, I he the CCC wll be th ree boys. These Di V. B. H a u fe lt a t W asco, T he ------------ Hank a t Moro, Cassie Holmes a t boys may enlist d u rin g th e fi t G -ass Valley and Mrs. W innie Wil- p a rt of Ju ly by callin g on Mr. son a t Kent. W alker. / i ■1 L School Districts ■! the state. ’ * * * A n ticip atin g su b stan tial price increases in m any com m odities as a re su lt of new fed eral tax es, th e board o f control has au th o rized th e s ta te p u rc h a sin g d e p a rtm e n t to lay in e x tra supplies of item s th a t can be sto red w ith o u t losa. A s a resu lt o f the «board’s o rd e r th e de-. p artm e n t is c o n tra ctin g fo r a y ear supply of m any com m odities o rd in arily purchased on a six m o nths basis. • * • The states of California, W ash ington and Idaho contribute 75 percent of Oregon’s summery-tou rists, according to statistics com piled by secretary o f state Snell. C alifornia alone accounts for more th an .50 percent of the visitors to this state, e • • 'Dir. Grover C. Bellinger, superin ten d en t of the Oregon Tuberculosis hospital, has ju st been honored by election as vice president of the National Tuberculosis association at its session in Cleveland, Ohio. V • .* Only 54 percent of the register ed Democrats took the trouble to go out to the polls to vote in the recent primary election. The Rep ublicans did a little better, m as tering approximately 60 percent of their voting strength for ac tive participation in the biennial t a t t le o f the ballots. Bot£ o f these percentages allow for a ten per cent tolerance over and above the total vote cast for the moet hotly eorttested office on the tw o tickets, Continaed on page tw a
