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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1940)
/ Moro, Oregon. Friday, A u gu st 30, 1940 Fifty-Second Year No. 43 School Teachers Hired For Term — - S. Starting Sept. 9 Breakfast Club Hears Board of Health Doctor O fficia l C ounty Paper Number of Horses Tickets Stolen;- Moro Merchants &l Kirkley Ends Queen Race ni p •. Life With Pistol Enters Its Last, Make More Races Culprits Known; rían Community \ /n Wasco Shed Arrests Delayed At County Fair A1 Kirkley, about. 62, former Hardest Week Sherman Oounty Fair season Aid Program First meeting of the Moro 1 on.eman and farmer of Sherman tickets numbered 451 to 460 and : Breakfast club for the fall season county shot himself fatally with a children's day tickets numbered 181 ' was held Wednesday morning with Virginia Helyer Leads More Fast Colts Now 38 caliber Colt Wednesday in the to 190 were stolen from George i Weekly Drawing To Give Turnover of Nearly 30 an attendance that boded wdll foi old Crosfield warehouse in Wasco. McKay’s service station early this I another lively winter, for the mem As Girls Start Last Customers Valuable Ready Than In Any The body was found by one of Percent Made In Staffs week. This paper is authorized to I bers. state that the persons who took | Merchandise; All Co-operating ‘die Nisbet boys who, while playing Week Of Contest Dr. Edwin C. Drescher, who is Year of Local Fair 1 :de and seek ran into the office oi Of County Schools them are known and that if they i attached to the state board of If any one has had fears that In just a few days now citizens art not returned by Saturday of i A plan for com m unity building, the old building to hide. School begins September 9 in alt health although one of the doctors theie wasn’t going to be a contest Kirkley had worked for Sid John this week, tomorrow, arrests will'? for a ttra c tin g in terest to the town Sherman county schools, complete employed by the national health are going to appear at cheir daily be made and the tickets recovered. in the race for queen of Sherman son for several years on the ranch. i l a s been devised by business o: agreement as to date having been beard, spoke to the members and j work bedecked in shirts of rarest If r.ot so recovered they, will be County’s fair he jnay prepare to He left in July and went to Cali- ; Moro and is being put into o p era- cdors. Then he who runs, or reached for the first time in yeart,. showed a picture of the ravages of shed them now. f f nnia having received a small cancelled. j tie r beginning th is week end. even he who rid*es by as a tourist, It it expected that the arop in syphillis in the United States. * This week Virginia Heyer, the legacy from a sister’s estate. He i The plan is going to cost the Dr. Drescher said that one per will know that the pre-fair day3 high achool registration will con choice of the south end of the r< turned Tuesday and rode from are upon us and we are preparing . business men who are co-operating tinue for at least another year ano son in ten in the United States was county, is ahead of the field but by The Dalles to Rufus with one of Red Cross Club ' several dollars. N ineteen have a- that high school will be smaller or would be a victim of syphilis be to celebrate. p . margin of a little lesa than two the Macnab boys. From there h? ! greed to the provisions of the plan, But no matter what preparations than for many years as larger foie the age of fifty. This percen «tusón tickets. June Wilde, who walked up to the Johnson place i Each one p uts $1.25 into a pot classes finished high school work tage is being cut down by the work are made by the fair visitor they Formed at Kent dropped to third last week is in where he entered the house and j each week. Of this sum 75 cents cf the national and state health will not equal the preparations than the grades. took the pistol. second place and Claudine Thomp Registration in .th e primary beards and by better laws regard- that are being made by the fair A Red Cross class in Home Hy- I is used for a weekly prize, 25 cents son of Moro, dropped from first tc He was seen in Wasco Wednes rooms will probably be about equa. ii.g marriage. board to make thi3' the best of a ! gent and care of the sick is being 1 is p u t aside to buy a m ajor prize day morning ftnd appeared nervous third. to that of last year or perhaps a Twenty percent of the insanity number of successful county fairs. J organized at Kent by Miss Lucille i to be given aw ay December 21, hut nothing was thought of it un New the surprising thing about Finest feature of the Sherman i Volt who returned to 'this county i J ‘J4Q and 25 cents is to be used foi til his body was found in the after all this is that the customers are little larger so that the total regis is cr.used from this disease and this tration may be little different than is a heavy drain on taxpayers at County Fair is the large and grow, after six weeks in Morrow county. 1 rd v e rtisin g . noon. Sheriff Wilson and state po holding their stubs. Not a single all times. In the Scandanavian ing group of locally oWned race The class will meet at the houses , Tickets are to be given aw ay licemen photographed the remains stub worth 1500 vote«, coming from last year. a stason ticket was voted thia Of teachers there will be the countries the - disease has been horses that make horse racing the of members and be composed of ; with each sale of tifty cents o r aiiii called the coroner. Kirkley had lived in Sherman week and few have been voted be ' same number, no changes having largely curtailed and only one in King of sports hereabouts. This adult women who are able to meet over with a lim it of 20 tickets foi been made in number by the fiv»« 700 are affected in Sweden. The year the number has been increas twice a week for instruction. Class , any one sale. The purchaser then county for nearly thirty years. He fore. doctor urged that early treatment ed by 14, as that many two year es will be held Tuesday afternoons ' w rites his nam e on the ticket and worked on farms and later farmed jchool boards hiring teachers. from 2 to 4 and • Thursday nights drops it in a box provided for it. vest of Wasco for several year', One Week Left In personnel there will be a con- be given in all cases and said that olds are listed. I Each S atu rd ay afternoon a d raw twice as many persons are now be. sideable change as nine new teach be married Emma Peetz whom he This makes it necessary that the from 7:30 to 9. Just one more week remains for ing is held a t some business house xu’vived. A sister in California the girls to gather in their promis ers will appear before classes in i.ig treated in Oregon than before FitzHampton futurity race be run end a prize is given to the p e t s : i , , ‘ 1 v a s the only known survivor Fun- ed \otes, stuff the ballot boxes with the county signifying a thirty per the present laws were passed. Its in two sections which will insure KENT NEWS OF THE WEEK son v^hose nam e is draw n. Each o^ j* cost is greater than for all other the cash customers twice as many services are aw aitin g word their ticket stubs and newspaper cent turnover. th e s e 1 *weekly prizes will have a Mr. and Mrt. Roy Taylor and from her. two years old races as formerly. At Rufus John F. Jenkins will be diseases. vo.ter and hope there is enough to value of $1L25 w holesale.... Thy, The problems of obtaining feder Friday half of them will go to the family and Boyd Davis of Redmond prizes cannot be won unless the principal assisted in the high lead the field. spent the week end at the Arthur school by Martha HooveT. In the al appropriation for the experiment po>l. Saturday ths other half will Ciatty home. It has been estimated that it person w inning it is present when grades will be Leland Jenkins of station and of obtaining a part of run. Then Sunday the finals and Wheat Crop would require well over a million his nam e is draw n from the hat. Mrs. John Woods gave a surprise Athena — no relation — Esther the federal road money we^e consolation races will be run. Be party Thursday at her home, in votes to win the contest. Thia may A fte r each weekly d raw ing the brt ught up and a presentation of fore there has been but two.futur Busche and Marie June Andrews. all be a day dream but a little fig honor of her daughter Georgia’.- tickets fo r th a t week will be put Over 80 Percent At Wasco C- C. Caldwell will re gymnastic equipment was made to ity races. uring will be sufficient to persuade the sixtl birthday. Guests included aw ay until the draw ing for turn as principal, Jean Ackerson Dick Lockhart for his- interest in There is probably no better way anyone that there are still a lot of Jack Bartlett’s donkeys will be Joyce, Virginia and Billy Smith: m ain prize in December. fo i determining the percentage of votes to be counted before anyone and Wayne Burt will teach in high that form of exercise. Joe Belan here Saturday night for a circus. Norman and James Wilson; Carol . i normal the 1940 crop achieved than can be crowned as queen of the school and Robert Belknap, Mary ger made the speech. Two clowns, one cartoonist, ana Ann and Ross Nortonj Jean Engle- i to take the yields at the experi- fair. Alice Burns, Helen Dubois and Ora another clown group con* i«ting of brettson; George and Paul Wilson; ' ? Machine Shed m n t station and compare them to two twin brothers and a perform Stevens in the grades. Il 1 ww And those votes will be counted Grace Cratty; F e n c e s and Paul Moro is retaining its principal I I n r a l M a n the yields for the previous -ten rext Wednesday afternoon for the ing donkey will fill in between races Woods; Mrs. Millard Howell, Mrs. i years. This has been done by Mer- boxes will be taken up at noon, R. G. Cunliff and Russel Hollins- | and Mac Barber’s horses will toss Walter Wilson and the honor guest Preparation Made [-til Oveson, director of the station, Wednesday, September 4. head in high "school to be assisted V nV A nt'inn riders all over the arena. That has Georgia Woods. by Josephine Cornacchia who will « a S W VCHUUIl | and the results indicate that the 1 Lou Peetz is happy. H i; is a t become a sort of Sherman county Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schadewitz: The voting to date: teach English. Reba Powers Nye, P C. Axtell of Moro will be one specialty, calf riding by boys - and Dick Wilson; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Iasi, a fte r y ears of anticip atin g , 1940 crop Is more than 80 percent 336,000 Virginia Helyer Naliw Jaekson, Mary Williams and of the Oregon inventors whose new ambitious visitors - will also be on Bsrr.et and Levina; Mrs. J. L. Mai J stai ting in to build a m achine shed of normal? 325,400 June Wilde for the county m achinery. Effie Jackson will instruct the devices will be exhibited in motion the program. In fact for winter wheat it is thes; Mrs. Alfred Lyons, Mary Lou 292,299 Claudine Thompson grade children. Several horses are already or. and Sammie Jean; Robert Schilling ! Elwood M cPherson is in the more than that. Of the seven pictures at the Oregon state fair 112,000 Catherine Fridley At Grass "Valley Ray Jewel is inventors’ show, one of the many the grounds being worked out and and Mr. and Mrs. Gus Koepke were height of his glory. He is driving Wii ter wheats that have been 76,500 Marjorie Rich beginning his second year as prin educational features to be seen others wiil be brought in time to among Kent people shopping and a big tractor and d rag g in g a La- 1 grow n over a long period the aver-« . 36,600 Vivian Fuller cipal. Patricia Cyphers will in during fa ir’ week which starts fet them used to the track. The v;s:ting in The Dalle« last week. T ourneau full of dirt. r . Rc js yo.2 percent. In 1940 they struct in English and another, still September 2.—--- ----- —----- Block 27, ab out which an election i n t j e jy bushels. In th e decade of stock barns have been painted Paul Smith, Harley McKay and unnamed will fill the other, place. was held, is now denuded of its one j 1« 30 to 1939, inclusive, th ey made white inside to give th< m a better Walter Wilson spent Sunday at the Axtell’s invention is a new kind I. V. Kane, Margaret Trabue, Jean of plow lift, which automatically appearance and the track is receiv Deschutes fishing. ! building, its g ra ss and its former* 20.6 bushels on the average. If the 1941 Program Powell and Virginia Helyer will fill raises or lowers following plows af ing its final work to make it ready. Mr. and Mrs. George Barnet of shape. It is being leveled and 17 y ear av e rag e is taken, the per- the grade positions • ’’’he Dalles spent last week visiting • m ade ready to have a new county 1 C( r tage js #1.5 for th e sam e win- Much Like 1940 ter the driver of the tractor puPs The Kent school will be presided the. cord to operate the first plow. at the Roy Barnet and J. L. Mat , m achine shed built on it. And th a t’s te r w heats made 23.3 bushels in Slim Newton and wife were at ever by W. R. Jones with Esther ¡♦he sto ry except th at th a t end of n h a t longer period. the? homes. With the 1941 AAA farm pro This is one of the several farm the Columbia county fair at St. 1 town would g e t 'dusty if the wind i Cammack assisting, Brad Dodson Mrs. J. M. Wilson and Mr.'. gram providing more leeway than Spring Wheat Yields Less and Winona Baker are two grade inventions which are included in Helens last week end and Slim won C harles Bothwell w ent to Eugene blew. ever before for county and state a third in day money for bucking. tne color pictures and working instructors with another one to be For spring wheat the three Fed- variations to meet local conditions, • models of the inventors’ show, ar He left Tuesday night for Gresham la s t M onday, re tu rn in g home T ues reported later. day. ' ciation wheat, Baart and Bluestem the state committee for Oregon is ranged by J. T. Anderson, Portland where he will be in charge of a Mrs. Melvin Schadewitz and chil- Fraser’s String were taken as examples. These r ow preparing the new handbook patent coordinator. bunch of race horses. drtn, Mrs. O. A. Ramsey of Moro; averaged 15.5 bushels in 1940 and and other details for putting the X— -- ......- k. ■■ ■ ■- Sherman Countians Mrs. E. J. Barnet and Emmajean ' in the ten year period averaged program in effect in this state. ««a 1 of Clem were dinner guests last Wins Ribbons Oregon is one of the few, if not I 21.7. Therefore spring wheats Read State Books Thursday at the home of Mr. and Tom Fraser was here a day this trade but 71.4 percent of the avei- the only state, to have the same Mrs. Carl Schadewitz. Sherman county residents made week from Gresham where his age at the station this year. How- fuimer personnel on the state com - Mr. and Mis. L. W. Amick were good use of the State Library, ac iv ei if the 17 year averag e is used mittee since its organization in Sunday visitors at the G. L. Barnet s trin g of Belgian horses had finish-- the percentage is 73.8. This .indi 1936. The only change has been cording to figures released in the ed a to u r of d uty aa a p art of the Barkley’s part to obtain the con home in The Dalles. the promotion of the first chairman, Biennial Report of Harriet C. Long, By John W. Kelly exhibition a t the M ultnomah coun cates th a t sp rin g w heats have done- sent of democratic togamen to dis Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wilson went N. E. Diodd, to the position 0/ wes State Librarian. During the two b etter in the la s t ten y ears th an in Washington, D. C., Aug. 22.— ty fair. They moved to Salem tern regional director. Other farm year period ending on June 30, 1940 Oregon, regardless of political af pose of no important legislation to Wawaiwai, Wn., last Wednesday T hursday to g et ready for the sta te the last seventeen. the mail order service was used by filiation, turned out to give Sena while the republican leader was 'n to visit a few days at the I. E. Wil f e n . On the crop residue experim ents er members then and now are Will Steen, Milton, chairman the past, 366 rural residents, who were tor Charles L. McNary, republican far-off Oregon to be notified of hia «on home. They were accompanied All prizes in the Belgian classes sp rin g w heat made 18.6 bushels was re two years; John Shepard, Scio;; reached through Sherman County's nominee for vice' president, the her,or and for him to accept thi by Alice Mae Wilson, who Moscow w< re wort by F ra s e r’s horses a t this year and 21.9 for the previous William Enschede, Hillsboro, and 8 post-offices. Traveling libraries greatest ovation that has ever been nomination. Figuratively speaking turning to her home at ten years. The 1940 crop w as 84.i> G resham with th i exception of Robert Weir, Lakeview. were found in 6 communities, in recorded a native son. While offic the legislative clock is standing Idaho after spending the summer three, these being the yearling percent of the av erage, still. here with her grandparents, Mr. Final detail« of the 1941 program each of which some one person ial notification of his nominatioi On the tillage experim ent where In order to be absent from his and Mrs. J. H. Wilson. Jerry jr., stallion and m are and two year old announced late in August, follow gave his or her service to act as uas strictly a partisan affair, as it w inter w heat is used the w heat this volunteer librarian in order thatl must necessarily be, insofar as the ifficial duties at the national capital whe had spent the summer at the m are. Both cham pionships were y ear made 17.5 bushels. This is closely the recommendations of taken by the local strin g of p u re farmer committeemen at a national others in the neighborhood might j jeople of Oregon were concerned is the shortest possible time, Senator I. E. Wilson home, returned home bred«. In the six horse team driv 87.1 percent of the ten y ear aver- conference earlier in the summer, McNary flew across the continent, Sunday with his parents. enjoy the state’s book service. Pub was non-partisan, for here was an ler ving Washington one afternoon Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson ant. ing contest F ra s e r and the M artin i-ge of 20.1 and is 84.9 percent of says N. C. Donaldson, Oregon ex lic libraries in Sherman County bor event transcending mere politics. the 17 year av erag e of 22.2. 1 ereherons tied for first place. ecutive officer. Both the agricul- rowed 1,431 volumes during this It is not generally known that end arriving at Swan Island air Kenneth visited at the Ed Sanborn port the next morning. It was the home at White Salmon over the tuial conservation and range pro time. out of regard for McNary the sen first time that the senator was a grams follow the same general week end. ate where he is minority leader, tl • air for more than 20 years, and Mrs. Grant Smith and son and lines as those of 1939 and 1940. will mark time until his retutn o i that occasion the plane was a Fishermen Asked her brother, Henry Moers, of P o rt ^Provision is made for continuing from the trip to Oregon. Debate crude affair compared with a p r ‘- the combined range and agriculutr- land spent last week end a t the will continue as usual, but Senator nl conservation irt any area approv si nt day ship. The pane cracked ip home of their sister, Mrs. Mitx To Send Catches •A'lben Parkley, the democratic lead !: ter in the day McNary made nis ed by the state committee. Fluemke. Tishermen are again urged to er, had agreed that no vote of any first flight and a congressman was Payment for natural reseeding Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilson were send in catch report cards v after manner of consequence would be kil’ed. It was to have carried S unday dinner guest« of Mrs.’Id j hy deferred grazing and aupple- each fishing trip. Cards can be ob taken during the absence of the S< nator (later president) Warrift Davis and Pauline-^at Moro. They iucntal practices is increased from tained from sporting goods stores republican nominee for vice presi G Harding. were accompanied home by Nellie 75 per cent to 100 per cent of the dent. Barkley, incidentally, had or from the Portland office of the range-building allowance, to per For the few days after the noti W ilson, who had spent S atu rd ay Game Commission, and should be hoped to be the democratic nominee fication this week Senator McNary night with her grandmother. mit ranchmen to carry out to a sent to the Game Commission office. for president if Mr. Roosevelt did w.Tl attempt to obtain rest. His g. eater extent practices best adapt Mr. and Mrs. John Koepke were Data contained on these cards rot seek a third term, and later favorite place for relaxation is a t in The Dalles Saturday taking then- ed to their land. Maximum pay will be used in connection with the heped he might be the running Yaquina bay and Agate beach, daughter Helen for medical treat ment for deferred grazing without lak< and stream survey now being mate of Mr. Roosevelt in this where he can find rock oysters and ment. supplementary practices is alto in . conducted by biologist« to deter* cpmpaign. Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson and creased somewhat. The senate is something like a crabs such as are not found in the mine where fish plantings may be Three provisions jbfcioh may be sons, Mr. and Mr3. Charles Both-^ fish mart of the national city. Then club. Its members may quarrel and made to best advantage. applied in individuals counties to «ff xin a plene to his des^ìoné-dutiea-Hell, Mit and ’MrsCjatnr Woodwamkr n o t T ^ O ^ a k W B ffiW S aT W ^ H i)u n n g IE e ^ obtain greater conservation are in in the capitol. The position of family and Jack Murphy were local sands of report cards have been abide by the traditions and observe party leader in the senate or house people attending the show at Grass cluded in the 1941 program. ’Hiese mailed in by sportsmen, and it is senatorial courtesy—a phrase may be used in lieu of total soil-de ii difficult because if the party Vi lley Sunday. urged that during the remainder of which covers a multitude of things. happens to be the minority party " The Rebekah Social club met pleting acreage allotments in areas the fishing season these cards be Ti at one of their own number has (as the republicans have been for Wednesday at the home „of Mrs. where feed crops are not generally b< er nominated for vice president used. • grown fo i market and where great i ; a matter of pride and this has eight years) the measures support Edith Lyons. Those present in er conservation can be obtained ed or opposed are considered the cluded Mrs. Ada Guyton, Mrs. A national wheat acreage allot been enhanced by reason of the policies of that party./ A majority Emma McKay, Mrs. Lola Barnet, under the alternate provisions. ment of 62 million acres for 1941 fact that Senator McNary is re party takes its policies from the Mrs. Mildred Norton, Mrs. Laura was announced some time ago. garded as the most popular mem administration. The minority mem Sather, Mrs. Phoebe McKay and Rates of payment under the AAA her of the body on either side oi bers have to carefully weigh an ad children Work is now going on west af S en ato r lirliloinat Brown, re c e n t horse show at the^regon state fair and Mrs. Margaret Mobley program wil be determined and an the aisle. The “aisle” is the passage ministration policé before opposing end children. at Salem, starting' September 2. Shaniko on the six miles of road ly dated one of the 10 best P erch Also Mrs. ’ Eben nounced after all national acreage across the senate chamber which will also enter a grey six-in between that town and Criterion Rolfc eron stallions in Am erica, is one of Fee and MrfTDorothy Dunlap of allotments on other crops are avail- separates the republicans from the or supporting it. From all walks -of life came tho Grass Valley and Mrs. Jennie Sim-, the horses which T. M. Rolfe of harm exhibition team in the night Junction. New alignment will ba made and new pavement laid. . Grass Valley will enter in the draft I horse show competition. lar of .Toledo were present. McNary Hailed By Fellow ( Townsmen of State Capitol Senator Brown Goes To Salem > F-Â
