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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1940)
Registration of Pupils Drops In A Bomber’s-Eye View of City of London Most Schools —Through the offices of Senator Charles L. McNary last July con tact was made between representa tives of a Swiss aluminum com pany, next in size to the (Aluminum Company of America, and members of the national defense commission in the Rational capital. The Swiss gentlemen frankly stated their mission was to And a 'site in the United States for an aluminum plant, and they intimated that they Lsd their eyes on the. TVA area. Senator McNary informed them of the advantages offered by the Pacific northwest and called atten tion to the fact that rates of the Bonneville hydro-elecric plant wera lower than could be obtained any where else in America. Senator McNary’s efforts were a;ded by Edward R. Stettinius of the defense commission, who in formed the visitors that no surplus electrical energy is immediately available in TVA while (Bonneville could supply their needs on short notice. The Swiss company pro posed a $5,000,000 plant which would require 30,000 kilowatts for its operation. The fact that the Aluminum Company of America had already located a plant on the north hanu of the Columbia river was not reagrded as a handicap, and investigators were sent to Ore gon to look into the situation. The report of these investigators has now been made and, needless to say. it is favorable. There remains the matter of obtaining a. site and this is now under consideration. Whether the company will locate in the Portland area depends upon availability of site and the price which must be paid for the desired acreage. It is understood that ne gotiations are now in progress. • * * Hereafter and during the “emer gency** state highway commissions T.ill have little to say about what new roads are to be built and what improved with the aid of federal iunds. In the regular federal-aid authorization bill there is a clause which alters the picture, allegedly in the interest of national defense. It stipulates that priority be given routes designated by any defense agency, which means that in some states a large portion of their funds must go to highways of mili tary value. The bill also provides for federal studies, when required by states, for “flight strips” along highways where planes may be landed without interfering with ordinary traffic. Il is not expected that other steps will be taken immediately for the carrying out of a program foi rcvlifcary highways. What is to be done about the inadequacy of pres ent highways to bear the burden of heavy motorized movement may come later as a part of the nation s ’. defense program, but no provi sion will be made at this session. Pari-Mutuel Betting Arranged For Fair First and Second Places To Be Used In High Schools Getting Smaller Washington D. C., September 12 Official County Paper Moro, Oregon. Friday, Septem ber 13, 1940 Fifty-Second Year No. 45 But Prim ary Enrollments Experiment With State Controlled System Show Slight Increase Of Wagering; All Fairs Profit Monday Sherman county young sters of school age trod the grounds of the school yards again after a rest of over three months.^ A sa general rule there were fewer legittered in the classes than last year although the drop is not startling. In Sherman county the decrease in school enrollment is an old Ftory. No figures are at present avail able for the Kent district but the other districts have a total of 297 pupils. These are divided as follows. Grade Dist 63 Wasco 31 Rufus 56 Moro 58 Grass Valley Kent has between fifty and sixty pupils in all probability. Announcement was made Wed nesday bv the fair board that, an a.ranfrement had been ’made to ha\;e pari-mutuel betting the first two days of the fair this year. Now^that a larger number of h.ojjf-es are on hand and ready to race than before and the horsemen anxious for a try at the state regu lated betting system, this was thought to.be a good year to try the method here. Robert J. Murray, who has hand led the Multnomah county fair for several years is here to handle the le ttin g which is under the super vision of the state racing sommis- Here is an aerial view of a section of London’s waterfront as it appears to the bombardier of a raiding plane. In the foreground are som e of the piers and warehouses that stretch for miles along, tire Thames; across the river; magnificent public buildings and residential estates. London, heart of England, and nerve An oddity is the enrollment of center of the British empire, has been in a continual state of alarm recently, as Hitler’s air armadas swoop the Rufus high school as all eight 1 in from across the channel. The Thames is a silver signpost that leads air raiders right to the front door. Student Body All Boys of them are boys, none of them are ; seniors and it is expected <by the , principal, John F. Jenkins, that the . Va.-ket ball team will be as good as usual. Wasco has the largest school with 93, Grass Valley next and Moro third. gram. A survey of school shop By A. L. Lindbeck A comparison between the first Salem, Or., Sept. 13.—With the equipment now available in this g aders and the high school thin Oregon National Guard scheduled state is said to have shown that ap will be graduated next May. The for mobilization into federal service proximately $200,000 will have to classes that have been graduating next Monday state affairs have be spent to bring this equipment a'c larger tfian usual for a large assumed a decidely military atmos up to the standard necessary to number of children were born in J phere this past week. meet the new demand arising the post-war years of 1920 to 1923. ( Governor Sprague on Thursday through the need for trained work- s.gned the formal order transmit cis in war industries. • ting the president’s proclamation n first Drawing Won calling up the Oregon troops for O. D. Adams, state director for a year of intensive training but rotational education, has been even before that machinery had gi anted a six months leave of By tanle Coelsch been set in motion for a promnt absence, in order that he may serve The drawing for the Moro Com and orderly compliance with the as head of the 13th naval district t. aining program at the Bremerton. munity Club prize this week will be mobilization order. held at Foss & Company. The time The adjutant general’s office Washington .navy yards. Adam-, has been changed to 5.30 in the which is also the headquarters of holds the rank of lieutenant com alternoon which will be after the Major General George A. White, mander in the naval reserve. Atltftig last, it now appears, fair program. Stanley Coelsch is commander of the 41st division, driving more safely now since the has been a veritable bee hive of in Oregon’s $2,500,000 capitol is to drawing of last week. dustry as a substantially augment have a pole from which to display ed force of clerks and stenograph a flag on appropriate occasions. ers have labored over time to grind Failure of the capitol construction out the numerous orders and whip commission to provide for a pole Sheriff Wilson Brings into shape the documents and rec has caused comment and result“d ords incident to the mobilization of in nc little embarrassment to capi- Man Back To Jail l onlinjtG on Page Two Oregon’s more than 4500 officers and men. Sheriff C. C. Wilson drove to Prosser Tuesday night to return When Governor Sprague this Ophfer Baker to the county jail week signed the official order call Guyton Family here. He is charged, according to ing up the national guard for fed the sheriff, with stealing a car in eral service it was the 3rd such or Klamath county, a tire and tube der issued by an Oregon Governor Has Reunion from Hartley at Grass Valley, in the past 25 years. The first of The Guyton family met near beating and robbing a garage man these was in 1916 when the Oregon Government (’amp for a reunion at Condon and stealing another car troops were inducted into service Sunday. There were forty-four at Heppner. State police are ex for duty on the Mexican border ieiatives and friends present. This pected to take charge of the pris and the second in 1917 when Uncle is the first gathering of the family oner before the end of the week. Sam again turned to Oregon for since the death of William F. Guy help against Germany. ton, pioneer of Wasco and Sherman General White announced this counties, over ten years ago. There Helyer Horse Wins week that Oregon guard units will v't-re only four of the six living be billeted in local armories where sons and daughters of Mr. Guyton that plan is practical from the present. Eleven grandchildren and Place At Salem fm e they are mobilized next Mon f< urteen great grandchildren were iPrince Rupert, bay gelding be day until their departure for the a’so present. Plans were laid foi longing to W. C. Helyer, placed In concentration camps on September making these gatherings an annual * w • Powerful farm groups are put the steeple chase at the state fair 23. Where local armories are not event and a president, vice presi ting pressure on congress to pass Saturday. Earlier in the week h* available or are not adequate dent and secretary were elected and the Jones-Gillette bill amending the placed first, with two seconds, in quarters will be rented for the ermmittes appointed to assemble a 1937 agricultural marketing agree the musical chair race. He will ap troops. Where it is not practical h story of the family and make ar ment act as that all farm products pear in the races at the Sherman to set up unit kitchens and mess rangements for the reunion which may be included in marketing county fair. Sir Kent, grey geld facilities arrangements are being it to be held at Bear Springs next agreement to be administered by ing belonging to Durward Helysr, made to feed the men at restau June when^it is hoped, the. whole fi.mily will be present. AA'A. The plea is offered that this was sold after the state fair to L. rants. Governor Sprague in addressing- is necessary because of loss of ex R. Banks, of Portland for $200. He the state convention of the Amer poit markets. Canners are oppos will be .used in a sheriff’s posse. ican Legion at Seaside this jveek Sherman County ing enactment of the measure as made public plans for the organi they don’t want marketing agree Rain Comes To Wet sation of an “Oregon State Guard” Horses Win ments on products they buy. if the need should arise for armed At present, only milk and a lim troops during the absence of the ited group of fruit and vegetables Track For Fair Tom Fraser brought his horses national guard. This “State Guard” can be controlled by the marketing home from the state fair Monday agreements. In the Jones-Gillet- First rain of the season came would be made up of veterans of tee bill apples not produced in the Monday evening after a day of sul «he World War. already well train bedecked with many more ribbons Pacific northwest are the only pro try heat and for a few minutes the ed as soldiers and hundreds of than when they left late in August. ducts not blanketed by its prov:- rain came down like the start ot whom have volunteered their ser- His string won 12 of the 15 places in the Belgian’ classes including l^a flood. Only .24 inch was record v.ces in any emergency. - sions. The governor, however, express grand champion stallion. He also ed at the experiment station, how Preiminary steps toward bring ever, which was light compared to ed the belief that state and local took second in the six horse team ing about the setting .up of a Col the 1.10 that was reported at Con police would be adequate to handle ! driving exhibit. T. M. Rolfe’s Percherons also umbia Valley Authority, similar«to don. A much heavier rain fell at any ordinary situation that might arise with the help of a body of , came home Monday from the state TVA have been taken in the name Kent, also. of national defense and progress to John DeMoss, back from the police reserves which it is planned fair with a number of ribbons de that end is being watched with in Mitchell country, reports a minor to organize to supplement the state spite the competition of the Norval Martin string from The Dalles. terest by private untility companies cloud burst in that town with mud police force. ! His stallion is also grand' champion ^ o f the Pacific northwest. The first and debris washed into business move was an order by President houses and over the highways. The state hoard for »vocational of the state’s Percherons. ¡Roosevelt placing in the hands oi The skies still threaten, and more education meeting in Salem this i The Sherman county horses re - Administrator Raver of the Bonne rain may fall before the end of the week gave its approval to plans for quired over half the draft barn ville project the power of market fail week. What has come has been a substantial expansion of the en room used at the state fair. They ing both Bonneville and Grand Cou- of great aid to the track and has tire state program in order to meet are now back in Moro ready to dis- 1 !ee, with an eventual pool of 2,400,- irtsured a cleaner fair than some the increased demand imposed ot 1t lay their quality to the homo the present national -defense pro- folks. times can he held. ( Continued on Page two) Mobilization of National Guard Makes Change In State Offices Mass Meetings Announced For Stamp Plan M ass m eetings of ¡all food re- tu i.ers in M orrow, ijherm an and W heeler counties are being held the la tte r ' p a rt of this m onth to d b tu s s details of operation of the Food S tam p Plah which wilt he in- ai g u ra te d in the eastern "Oregon area on October 1st. M ass m eeting of food re ta ile rs foi Sherm an F o u n t/ will he' in A ilin g to n F rid a y , I Septem ber 20 These m eetings will be held in the e\ ening. It is essential th a t all food re tailers atten d th e m ass m eeting m ost convenient to them in order tha* they' may be inform ed as to th eir p a rt in the Plan. According to Donald A. -Fareed, G iegon rep resen tativ e of the S u r plus M arketing A dm inistration, f'u e ra l agency which adm in isters the Food Stam p Plan the volume of new food purchasing power re p re sented by surplus food stam ps is equal to a new industry with a siz- i.Lle payroll com ing to each of the vi unties.. “ To illu stra te the im portance of ‘he Food S tam p Plan to the fa rm ers, re ta ile rs and public assistan ce fam ilies in the th irteen county tv e a ,” said Mr. F areed, “ We can take the am ount of surplus food stam ps which will be used in the {.'•en annually as estim ated a t $125,000. It would take a new in d u stry with a yearly payroll of $400,000 in the area to re su lt in $125,000 being spent for food.” Moro Budget Meeting Set The city council met Tuesday night and decided on a date for the Lv.dget committee meeting which the city for 1941. Named on the committee to assist the councilmen in making the estimates were J. F. Foss, S. W. Searcy, J. K. McKean, Joe Truitt, Dewey Thompson and E. E. Barnum. In addition to holding this meet ing on September 24, Tuesday, it was voted to hold the bi-annual caucus on the same evening at the same place, This caucus will, have i.s its duty the nomination of a mayor, a treasurer, and three coun- ednen for two year terms. Coun- c’lmen whose terms will expire the fust of January are M. E. McKee, L. R. Conlee and»Ralph Brjsbine. _ Republican Leader To Visit Here Mrs. Grace M. Wells, vice chair man of the Republican state cen tral committee, will be in Moro re XL Tuesday for a brief confer ence with members of the party and county central committee offi- e ids. A luncheon is being arrang ed by Mrs. Howard Conlee and Mrs. Collis Moore, vice chairman and si cretary respectively of the coun tv organization. This will be at M oro Hotel. Reservations are now being made for the'luncheon which is t< be attended by precinct officers rr.d other interested party mem bers. s en. No machines will be used this year as Mr. Murray is a calcu lator of the days before machines were used. “Straight” and “place** thkets only will be sold and there will be no quinella tickets. The Huggins carnival company began moving into town Monday evening to set up in the flat. Rides for the youngsters and games for the otder folks are being drawn from the wagons and set up. The Huggin shows played at Salem and Goldendale. Mac Barber is in town with a string of buckers which he says te r. little tougher than he has brought here before. At the top of the list is Whiz Bang, the tough little bay, CB, Red Bluff, Reserva tion, Tip Top, High Hat and Johnny Jay and to ride them Jerry Ambler, Jack Sherman, Don Bentley, Cecil Bedford and a host of other riders rre at the grounds today. Instead of holding the saddle ilass judging before the meet on Saturday, it will be held Saturday morning. George Gochnour will p*3ceThe saddle horse classes, the’ ladies and gentlemen’s classes. The rain the first of the week put the track in fine condition, the best it has been in years, say the horsemen, and this is expected to insure times as good as ever made here. Races are consistently run in 53 and 54 for a half and of ten in 51 and 52 seconds. Sept. 28 Date Wasco Library Festival ‘ The 17th annual Wasco library festival will be held- in Wasco Saturday, September 28. A parade of children and their pets will start at 1:30 and will be followed by the crowning ceremony for the junior end senior queens of the day. A program will be given by the schools in the afternoon. The fra ternal societies will serve dinner at tneii hall at 6:30 and in the-eve ning Ivan Koeher will play for a dance at the Opera house. Local concessionnaires will take over Main street in the afternoon. Money raised by the festival will be used to maintain and enlarge the Wasco library. Wasco high school Fas named the following as candi dates for senior queen of the af fair: Shirley Juhnke, Gladys Ston*», Thelma Lutje and Idabelle Spence-. FAIR BOARD FAIR ADVERTISED * A small group of fair enthus iasts went to The. Dalles Wednes day afternoon to arouse some in terest in the fair. Glen King and Claud Thompson transported the horses and the queen and princess D EER SEASON TO OPEN es were there dressed in all their In j.ust about a week, S eptem ber leg id ia to parade the streets 20, the deer season opens. Shortly mounted. Some little attention was th e re a fte r, on S eptem ber 29, the <’iuwn to the fair program. MEMBER HURT k Roy Barnett was seriously hurt Tuesday afternoon while driving his chariot team on the track. The tvngue of his chariot broke at the double trees and Roy was thrown out. He sustained a bad cut over one eye, a cut on his arm and a lot of stiffness which kept him in bed for a day or two. Mr. Barnett is a member of the fair board. antelope season is on and Noveni- b< r 1, the elk season, both for hull end cow elk, will be officially open. ‘ Decision of the Game commission to throw open a num ber of gam e receives for deer h u n tin g has made m w deer hunting grounds th at will accom odate m any spor tsm en. Last, ■yiar the commission opened O th er o, M yrtle P ark and Canyon Creek ir G ran t c o u n ty and th ese thrc+ reserves will again be opened this year. In Canyon Creek refuge, only bow and arrow h u n tin g will he per m itted from the opening of the neér season until October 3. CHILDREN TO BE EXAMINED Physical exam inations of the pupils in Sherm an county schools, in the first, th ird , sixth and eighth g -ad es will" be m ade next week by -Dr. C. L. Poley assisted by the health nurse, Miss Lucille Vale. The schedules for the examina tions will be as- follows: September 18, Wednesday, „Wasco and Rufus; September 19, Thursday, Grass Valley and Kent; September 20. I'«day, Moro. Purpose of the ex aminations is to find any defects that may interfere with school work. - ‘ Jack Bartlett’s famous donkeys will again be at the Sherman coun ty fair with a new show. There will be a grand entry, donkey soft ball, polo and bucking. The field will be lighted Saturday night for the. donkeys. Thik event is put on by Bartlett and not the fair board al though It derives a percentage from the gate, a __,
