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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1940)
--v* < * •sF /. W, f X \ • . — *•. • J ’ i —r- - >• . / • : t ..- T *> ft' )Ml » F ifty-S econ d Y ear N o , 34 Moro, Oregon. Friday, J u n e 2 8 , 1940 Britain’s ‘Rock’ Under a Double Threat Officiai County Paper Flax May Be Alternate Crop T <C-'-jù- .-r^r - ih il ■ i i ™ For Wheat Ä ifc Deficit Crop Instead of i Surplus Crop »»’ay 3e Demand * » As Conditions Change - , Tex Irzyk Hurt In Accident With Binder Wheat Prospect About Normal; 1,850,000 bus. Tex Irzyk, who has worked at tne Eva -ranFh for some years, was serio u sly . injured last Tues Less Than 108,000 Acres ; day ju s t before noon while work » ing with a binder. In Wheat; * a y Produce As the accident was recon- ~ r .. -- • acted it appears th at the main Average Yield - draper of the binder becamo- «legged and th at Irzyk, alone in From now on the condition and tue field, went around the ma- probable yield of Sherman court '< bine to 's ta ’r t it again. He failea ¿ y / wheat crop will be an absorb- to throw the machine o u t*of t'o f g gear e a r mg topic of coiwersation for all* » r tire gear shift slipped. It was those men and women who have a t. m otor driven machine. prim ary interest in the income i„ any event ljo was drawn in- fr,,Tn th a t wheat. to the reel and in front of the There seems to be general agree sickle where he was Severely cXiL A nent^thS t The 1940 c ro p ^ b n o t hjs right arm and leg. The to he a record breaker of any team did no^ rjin,_away but did kind, neither much better th a n - sta rt up a few feet, the average or much worse, par- TJ?e injured man started for the' excepted, of course. house, about a q u arter of a mi),* There are some very £°od onM« t y> but wfta not able tQ m a k c and some vqgy much he other Flierman county farm ers who i ttf-i.ded the-field day la s t'F rid a y W ashington, ID,. C., June 27— 's / w a fit-11 of flax growing idr When President Roosevelt T fo l perhaps the first time although lowed public opinion and was giv there-w as some of it on -th e s a- ing w ar m aterials to France and * t»on in - 1939. England, people urged him to give There is no feeling th at flax more and -more. W hen' France « ¡Il come to be a m ajor crop in folded, up, England's prospects fnis county as long as conditions were dark and the public discov remain the same as a t present. ered th at alm ost everything had : lu c re are few farm ers, however, been disposed of until the « arm y „ ? ‘ expect conditions to rem ain has only broomsticks to use in* * n \nU r , i- i • • national defense. In response to ’ v f; ? pri.<,,et/ ‘d’ ther^ . H ■ the new public sentim ent, con ’*"< • IO m aiket for wheat, nor ships Ma gress inserted in the new defense’ to m ove it in if a m a r k e t is found it all the way. He was taken to VW- bill th a t no more supplies can be « it m ay be* advisable to grow some Tin Dalles hospital by Mr. and -As a general thing the grain eent unless the chief of naval M È T < ox in th is c o u n try to m ake up Mr.,. *Eva where it is thought he a l’Pears to h e , proportionately operations or chief of staff noti «•; p a r t o f - th e n a tio n a l deficiency v.lk recover. le tte r as one travels from the W; ■ fies the senate committee on mil in th a t c ro p .'* horth to the south until the K ent ita ry affairs th a t the m aterial is »An aer! * Flax will grow he,>* and lloh *"T* zt_G lbnlt»r, Britain’s mighty fortress at the entrance to the M editcnzjcan, one of the plateau is reached. Much of the not required by arm y or navy key points c - I" ropean chessboard. Great Britain may be forced to defend Gibraltar against both Musso- Henderson of tho station staff is W inter wheat is weedy, some of Pdblic sentim ent shifts like the lini and C c ; cisco Franco, who has been urged tp repay Spain’s debt to the Ramc-Berlin axis by co- trym g to find a variety th a t will it is frosted, and now and then a wind. People who have w ritte i operatin’ ia . r ■ axis operation against the “ Rock.’ P »educe well nnd have few weak field is very good,-but the aver • j — — ------------------- -v members of the Oregon and Wash nesses,, A short' Indian flax calico age will not be far-from lh « c o u n - ir.gton delegations to give assis Hold, has been crossed with a tall •arefui adjustm ent of a w ra Kc <>« !» bushels. Alorc tance to the allies short of war, South Dakota flax called Bison, Spring wheat because of some a n . now expressing their fear f.i an effort to produce a flax th a t “ “«bines for 'th is year’s wheat nnrFBfnnria K____k4. K„ . m ^ t e r n -Oregon Will Wfll lU nda. th a t the United S t a te s 'w i ll be- ;- , . • trusting of the ground after seed- confe involved. They are < .«sily and produce good yields and i iv big dividends in higher prices ¡r g and the lack of June rains up the cry thaf* the president U its free from , disease. - y reived for the - grain, judging wiu probably^ yield lea« than . the head of a w ar p a rty —charge . N t - rcal Tistase has been found from reports from the grain in- the average for the county. .first made by the Democrats, by Thn F ith p r »ni, tht‘re a ^ ‘rviee a t ^ r t l a n d . It While the county allotm ent in »the way, in the senate. Organization of- the Sherm an The r a t h e r and Son banqu»«., tioq of K$af that u :-erious. A hen n -m , that a large percentage of acres for 1940 is 107,727 acres noi • • » county central committee of the - ' **-- given by the Ladies of the Comniu- lh‘-‘ S' ouad te n ip p a tu re gets h.gh -the*grain from the Columdia basin a ll of this has been sown to whea« • W ith the intention of showing, Republican p arty was done Mon- For the third successive year, ri’ty ^church, was a splendid sue- ( nouga,. above 1-0 dcgi the graded down because of M.E.O., because fa rm e rs 'm u s t be under unity in national defense, the pres day afternoon jn a meeting at the Oregon w heat growers will be able tall over from a heat can- (¿., as called by the inspection the limit. There is 107^86 acres C£fs. E ighty three people ident appointed two leading Rc- court house. Hugh A. W alker of s. i vice. These initials stand for ol wheat now waiting for ha harvest piAdicans to , his cabinet, Henry. Klondike precinct was chosen as in 1941 to protect themselves from down a t the laden tables, and en- l i . that kills them. I mx dmob-wents can be sown Of this this 38.642 38,642 acres acres are are w inter the feHowship c f ’the CVP. naiw used with f«,r ordi- “matei ml other than grain,” or. Of L. Stim son, secretary of war, and to u n ty chairm an and Mrs. Howard " ° P haZ^rd8 through the use grow- m ev •.) plainer ; language, cobs, wheat and 68,624 acres of spring Cal. Frank Knox, secretary of Conlee, of Monkland precinct, vice federal crop insurance/ says • „ ~ .. : ig wheat, can be sown with drills cnaff and other m atter left in be- wheat. navy. These appoin‘mcnts p leas chairm an. Mrs. Collis Moore of announcement by Will Steen, " a °son pie- i-n rum m erfallow prepared in the the program which was V-ual »banner. It can be harvest «.u... of poor cleaning when . On this basis ¡t seems safe to ed neither D e n v e r / n o r Repub More is the new secretary and chairman of the Oregon state Si^eti win i.;‘ separated. conclude that weather conditions licans and increased’ the fear Mrs T. M. Rolfe of Grass Valley AAA committee. g*'ven a t the dinner. Carl Peetz ed with the ordinary - machinery. Tne speed with which money b«ing normal from now on until tfcat the #dm) n i l t r a i l o n J a a. w ar . tneeaurer. D. r L Reynolds of Next year’s crop insurance plan ffavt , a piano solo, , Frank Sayrs It i< , sown from 40 pounds pounds can roe j0st jg i n d i t e d by the a fter harvest, the county will p r o - ' , 1 om 20 to l<’ 4U p a rty because Knox- and Stimson. Rutledge precinct "was named will be practically identical with a tuba solo,-and Alan h raser a -A» the avit* a t -»-depth of a hak- nfet That much of the grain re- duce 1,850,000 bushels o f w heat a r t avowed interventionists. Two state committeeman and Wilford ti e program- now in effect, with vocal solo. The last two numbers r ’ lv' ° inches deep.. Medium seed- c ived at Portland contains from this year. This is very good con- days before his appointm ent Belshe of Monkland, congressional the m ajor exception th at the clos- wew accompanied by ^Vlrs. Carroll a m edium d e p th w ith a b o u t 2 t< 3 per cent M.E.O.G. Only sidering th at less than 108,000 Stimson made a radio speech de committeeman. »ng date for accepting applica- a foot between the rows seems to one-half of 1 per cent is allowed acres are perm itted to be sown m anding th a t the neutraity act 1 grade, 1 per cent for out of the 290,000 acres available be repealed and supplies rent to for crops in the county. England in American vessels con There are many thousand acres veyed by the United States navy. of barley and oats in the county Under international law, th<t this year and much of it looks very would be the act of a belligerent good assuring feed for livestock and German submarines would be f ' n'pM « 11' L’ S T ’Ji»’ CV<!~ iS carlier' • ’ " " The Congregational Church of The S h e , C e u n t v Health as- « ^ ¡ " « r ily a little less cylinder «" J probably much for .ale. perfectly justified in sinking the C; M®? M ° ! H . The closing date for spring The Dalles< His theme was m erchant vessels and warships. - ■a-h tlu n an t.T i d ay 'at the court ' '.• c<l *nd. uic ot » ‘¡“T more .a ir . of Klondike was named precinct wheat insurance applications a -' “ K ain Words to Two Generat- will eliminate the difficulty, ac- Because of their attitude oh in committeewoman to fill a vacancy gain w’ill be February 28, Steen iors,” which was treated in a li-’U. ? m i h aid a talk by Miss coiding to those who discussed the W EATHER FOR TH E WEEK tervention, the selection of K nox. Hb i W itihen of. the state asso- said. 1 pen. ted, practical,, challenging ewt.on. and Stimson has resulted in aii Max Min The rcsl-znatlon of Miss •'1> >ation a t the last m eeting of Date ciiit.on. Adm inistration of the 1941 pro manner, and was well received 20 unfavorable reaction against the 71 43 Kunsman as ' secretary- ; he ? a8,tern Oregon W heat league. Mirt joi ie gram will be aided by the fact by botl^ old and young. Fairly low cylinder speeds are al- 21 75 president. Another angle is th at 43 Irt'iis’ urer v . t . s ‘accepted. No one that more complete wheat- p r o d p c - ------------------------ 82 52 H arry Woodring is believed to war, appointed to the position as s » favorable for another reason 22 t:on history' for each farm w i l l ; when threshing Rex wheat, as it 23 92 h iv e been kicked out as secretary 48 Miss Kunsm an-agreed to stay un 100 51 of w ar because he opposed rob ’Straw scattering a fte r com be on hand, Steen said. County til another was named. The next is inclined to crack considerably 24 ’ __ , 98 61 bing the arm y of equipment to bines by use of special scattering committees are now a t work c o m -._ meeting, will he held in the early v.hen thrashed a t high cylinder 25 j i * v- yieMs whh’h farm ers speeds. 1 26 80 46 aid th e allies. It is a fact th a t attachm ents will be more preva.- potin - nort o*' S-otem her. ,------------------- -----------------------------a r, . . Woodring was told to obey the lent this year than ever before ? ay j / '7 i an<- itt5’" ? nce r a t~s . i. , . . _ for th" t.i’-rii m their counties. Dc rgned to interest new cap- orders of the commander-in-chief, the president, and withdrew his objections. This he did with re luctance. W oodring’s letter of resignation was so hot that the evenly behind the combines and . >(.r :0(j " ...................... “ bas j ust ,been released by Pacific W hite House refused to make it make it possible to work th* Power & Light company for dis- I'y A. L. l.indbeck United States Senator Rufus The w ar in Europe and Uncle straw back into the soil bv the - ne 1941 wheat crop will be t i ’Lution to leading industrialist* Salem, Ore.,—The population of C. Holman has appealed to D r. W. public V » • • Sam’s trashy fallow method. The t»*ash, tI,e third on which “all-risk” in- an({ jnv<?stm ent groups throughout tin state prison which stood at H. Lytle, state veterinarian, for . . rearm , am ent program was Before this appears in print the fallow, in turn, prevents most surunce has been available to tb t United States, according to 1102 a year ago is now down to advice and help. Senator Holman home to Oregon this president m ay have asked for the •wind and w ater cros'on and helps g o w e rs. In the first year of the y Lockhart, agent for the 1033. This reduction of GO irn- m somewhat .of a farm er on the u <ek in an increase in the cost of resignition df Frances (Perkins preserve moisture and pla-nt food P ': g ’’a ni. on the 1930 crop, 662 company. ♦ mates is due in p art a t least to side. He owns a siz a b le /a rm near the 1941 license plates, w ith the (Mrs. Paul Wilson) as secretary for succeeding crops. ii ' whoat ?rowprs insured . T^ t bQok wag w rittck the operation of the new parole Molalla on which he has a large low “‘1J bid approxim ately one-half of labor, for he contem plates,oth Some operators object to the t ’‘ ir harvest. Due to crop damage , Robert Ormand Case nation- Sf l uP w’lh more, li'heral pro- hi rd of registered dairy cattle. c«nt higher on the pair than th a t er changes in his cabinet. Labor, scattering attachm ents because b « experienced losses, .receiving * supervision * . - . he explains ...................................... eiving knbwn Pacific ' Northwest v 'i * ° n for of parolees .But, in his letter to ‘ ,ast year. This means an in- in the preparations for national they cause some ex tra dust and 101,380 bushels of w heat or Ca8"1 author who has woven a weaft.i th(‘ n,<,r<‘ paróte policy D i. Lytle, it begins to look as crease of nearly $2000 on th e defense will play -an im portant dirt. Others say this is. a small equivalent in indemnities of factual m aterial and historical lablished* b y the ..new board. though his dairy herd is headed 400,000 sets of plates required to role, and Madam Perkins’ hand price to pay for, the advantage In 1910, a total of 2.011 insur- background into a swiftly moving ’ • Accords of the parole board at for the rodeo. Of, the last 26 1»«™« Oregon automobiles this ling of labor and her condoning of holding the soil on thè field race applications have been writ- story of the opportunities th at 1 ,e en<1 (,f its first ypar thaL <a,vp» -horn at his farm 20 w e r e ,n<?xt year. the sit-down strikes are said to the rest of the year and return- -t< n in/O regon, which Would guar- if 1 yd 582 former prisoners under buMs. He wants to know of the • » • exist - in the region. make her unfit for dealing with ing m aterial to the soil which,, nnfoe growers a Another hike in liquor prices 1 of 3,700,000 .. .. . ... - i:s supervision, compared to* 173 siute veterinarian if there isn’t the pro b lem w h en so much is a t in actual volume of plant food bushels. Adjustm ent of early ore an e,8_ mon . " ‘/ p e n and women who were report-, sxnnething that can be done to w as reported to -be in the offing l. e çfli< m w r .^ e r filial i^ U tc dlto unbalaneed stake for the nation. (Ais a m at elements, ranks almost equal *o crop losses is now beginning in research and editing went .» n y £ ,g . jp U h e «U te p n a .r ro o le nbalanced wnr«« s e x ' following a conference between this state, - although no actual Production r f the honk, which ter of fact the v^hole labor supply barnyard manure. num bers of the Liquor Control •ir ago. -In addition to 280 pa- ratio. !< if« , have yet boon paid. . ' ^ ’2 ? F.ublLshed_ • • • •problem has been placed in the _____ . ' dess' f. ........ ......... ..... - ..........., - -___ Commission and of Governor oni-Ltlle -state prison, 7'J of Pacific Power & lg t com pany j vj7,iat (u*s who are at liberty Discovery of an unexpended Sprague this ---- ... ----------- hard s of Sidney Hillman, CIO vice, and its sister, company, North> ti ,((>i) .h 1)a|.((1(,(.s .,fl(| 37 whl, | , j ;(nce o T n e a rH .in the the commission reported that president, as a member of the n a X ,.r w<stein tional defense advisory comimis ec on conditional pardon/, si iti library building fund has liquor profits for the current sion. Hillman was born in Russia “Need for a comprehensive book lbo fu,]d n,e„ of >the nrw pnroie rt-vived discussion of a flag pole fiscal would closely approxi- He has refused to join John L. about this region has become sc»t.Up ape ajso (becking on* 79 for Oregon’s eapitol building. It mate the $3,250,000 estim ated as Lewis, CIO chief, in opposing Mr. mere and more apparent as ou> j e^ Qns who are a t liberty under will be recalled th a t the state necessary to m eet relief needs for Civil service examinations for Roosevelt for third term . . I he mut'h maligned woman industrial engineers have gone . ¿¿tyiUon. * house architects had provided for this year. entrance to W est Point and Annap • * • * - olis will be held October 5 a t va-r- driver has finally found . a cham- about seeking new industries,” * ’ . * * * two flag poles, one a t either end • * *' said Paul -rf I t adds up to this: The presi ious post offices ^throughout the pion ip Yale University according Sa’d F*aul B. McKee, president *»f *pb(, be of the building at a cost of $6000 The solitary cell adjoining the The next- legislature will be^ dent is gradually being placed in second district of Oregon, notifies to the Oregon State Motor A3- ^*e Pa(^Ac company. ‘ In the east, t o provide a new 300j 'jed each. Fund« available for use on lethal gas chamber a t the state the attitude of heading a wai W alter Pierce, representative from sociatidn. ' * * a n big part of, the jo»b ia is to pnn’ con- * t .-eatinent ‘ ’-----* hospital ’ for the state .........................* this building, ’ however, — were - ex- - «rt««« prison received 1». its second oecu- *»- p arty. H alf a dozen Democratic this district. Candidates must be Studies recently completed by vince industrial prospects that the • Uespital for insane at Salem, ac- hausted before the flag poles Were - Pant since it« establishm ent three *'• Northwest »« n-nnrl place c o i d i t i g » to. ... D r...John »_v_ C. ™ ------ _ reached. > , -------------- years »<><.«-<. ««-« aerato rs are preparing to bolt between 16 and 22, in good physical th at university among 3000 Con- **“'“ Pacifiç is » a.good Evan’, The . _»._»._ s ta te " emergency ago when r<L..iÆ* Claude v E. rv.no Çline, their .party on th at excuse—Wash condition, aryd in which which uj to iuvct invest t-uperintend' of the board, called called into.session in to .session to to pro-; pro-z ** 46-year Fossil prospector was recu cu t drivers drivers seem seem t,o to contra- contra- In ^ l capital. a p u -i. * Few' su p e rin te n d e n nt t ol tne institution, institution, board, u*ycar old ro»»n w«» apd able to pass an ex- recticut _____».:__A 1 in- _______1 __ *■ geometry, _____ .3:^4- diet il... r- k._,j ____ i that .n__ ington’s Rone being among them '»Tycpntion Algebra, the belief held r- by ma/iyt them have any idea of the re- ¡»(¡ntfng out th at more than (100 vide thy necessary funds approv- brought in this week under sen- __—and the senate chamber is a English, Literature, U. S. History men are better drivers thanjiwo- sources and productivity of our c r u 1(. 2790 patients at t'he»hospi. ed the expenditure of $500 for tence to die for the murder of sounding board enabling them To for W est P oint and these and An-, men. I t was found th a t while section of the Pacific N orthw est i a j arp physically ill, in addition tins improvement but so fa r the ^-’s mining partiier, George get th eir views before the public. cient, History and English G^am- jvomen drive about half the mil- until the facts are presented. to their mental ailment, Dr. Evans Board of Control has pot availed Clictty. So fa r tl on lyuSeAnade Unless there is a change, it is a roer for Annapolis. gas chamber since its subr-. Copies , of the “River of the d -elares th at' the present 160-bed itself of the opiportunity to spend °f . ~ , age of men, they have less than safe prediction th at ’ the accusa ent hospital in- this .. ......., sum, apparently regarding stitution for the gallows three - one-third _ of __ the accidents. _______ W est” are now being mailed to ) treutm _ ....... ..... , __ is entirely ............ _____ __o ________w tion th a t the adm inistration is a Joe Belanger * came ¡back from -P was also fôümf th a t young a carefully selected liaJL. of TtiFn adéquate To The. needs of the* in- the amount as inadquate. The yfa rs fas in the execution w ar party will be the m ajor iissuc Pendleton where he had been drivers’ have more accidents per in all parts of thé country. R* sti'ution. Other improvements to bm rd is now considering the of 26-year old Hershel McCarthy in the presidential campaign. If working with his erosion experi- mile than older drivers. Motor- cipients of the book arb invite I be sought fo r; the state hospital possibility of using the $6000 sur- °£ Portland, in January, 1939, for- the ch arg e’ can be made to stick ments for a few days. He - ex- i:Ts betweeen the ages of 20 and to a s k , for . detailed • information will include a new chapel with plus in-the library-fund in provid- t^ e slaying of ' a gasoline station it will m aterially affect the chan- pccts to begin harvesting, up there 25 bad three tim es as many, acci- abcut any specific subject th at in- recreational ’facilities, Dr. Evans ing the- “ flag pqles for the eapitol. attendant.» dMits as drivers in their forties, terests them particularly.* Continued on Page Two * '' next week. i. -, z" .'■'4 said. - T r , ' i ------ J '" ' ’ ‘ r- - Combine Adju tments MayHelp Grades 7 Republicans -A Third Year of Crop Insurance ; County Chairman Promised Farmer Dads Dine With Plan Party More Straw Scatterers Ordered p rower, company IC411AC RnflK Prison Population Drops As Parole Regulations Are Put In Force; Building Program Needed V Army or Navy Posts Open Women Drivers Have Fewer Accidents - - j - W .* «KZ • • '< ' r •. « 'T 'A . -W *’* . i >.
