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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1940)
% V «y * s .f. r/ 1 *'■ Fifty-Second Yefiwr No- 47 Moro, Oregon. Friday, September 27, 1940 Breakfast Club To Have Float A t Festival Food Stamp Plan Going Into Effect Reliefers May Buy Food With Donated Stamps After October First • Washington D. C., S e p t 26— Daily the impression deepens in the national capital that the Unit ed States is headed for war. Gen eral Marshall, chief of staff, in a xraido broadcast declared that military danger (war) may devel op in /lx months. Because of this apprehension the high com mand is speeding up the manu factu re'of munitions and expects in 1941 the production of planes, bombers, powder, tanks, etc., will be under way but peak production will not be attained until 1942. Here are some of the steps taken for national defense: Is lands at either end of the Panama canal are being acquired as air and navy bases and the defenses of the canal are being increased. In exchange for 50 over-age de stroyers the United States has been given a 99-year lease on air end navy bases from New Found- londMo the Caribbean. Each of these sites will be developed an-, equipped with all possible dis- pat An aggreement has been com pleted with Canada for mutual defense in case either country is attacked. In accordance with this agreement, a special commission is now looking for defense sites to protect the Pacific northwest frm Alaska south. These sites will be manned with Canadian and American soldiers equipped with artillery and combat planes. Sim ilar protection is being prepared on the Atlantiic. - . . . * On October 16 some 16^000,000 man between 21 and 36 years will register and from these about 000,000 will be conscripted for military service for one year These are in addition to the na tional guard, called into service for one year. After one year of service these conscripts will be in- r< serve for ten years. Ultimate aim is an army of trained men. active and reserve, of 5,000,000 which is approximately 500,000 stronger than the German army. . The government is rushing the establiahme nt of munitions fac tories in the midwest and these will be in production next year. Aircraft factories have so many planes to build that present capa city is inaquate and all of the plants (principally on the Pacific coast) are being expanded. Thou sands of youngsters are being trained to pilot these planes and .other thousands as ground crews 'to service the bombers, pursuit ships and training planes. Fee toriea are being ordered to expe dite the manufacture of rifles with which to arm the soldiers f.nd other factories are turning out ammunition for the weapons. ‘ Two more immense plants are un der construction to make smoke- ; k ss powder. • Contractors are preparing to produce tanks for the motorized army; tanks of 20, 40 and 50 tons, and designs are being drawn for a 70-ton tank. Every na^r yard is engaged in building fight ing ships and private yards have been assigned some of this work. About ,50 destroyers are to be constructed on the .Pacific coast in addition to submarine tenders, seaplane tenders and a fleet ot speedy motorboats which carry torpedoes. Five years are requir ed to construct the super-battle ships, but while these ere on the ways the navy will be busy pro viding itself with smaller craft. .. ■ * * * To house the new army, can tonments are under order (901 buildings at Fort Lewis alone), requiring the employment of a great number of skilled members of the building trades and train loads of lumber and other mater ia ls Contracts for building shel ter-for the troops specify that the work must be done in 90 days. A tiipc limit has been placed for the celivery of uniforms, blankets, shoes and other requirements for the soldiers, not to mention the food supplies. •' • All i» hustle and bustle m the national capitol as the nation launches its preparedness pro gram, as though to be in readi- • ’ 7 (Continued on P a g e tw o ) -I k ? " • ' _ > v This Tuesday 6,000 public as sistance persons in the thirteen e x te r n Oregon counties will come under the provisions of the Food Stamp Plan. Inauguration of the plan fol lows a month of preparatory work in which, county commis sioners, state and county welfare departments, various business groups, farmers, wholesale and Recent photograph of Greta Gar- ittailer food trades, W.P.A., and l o ’ who passed her 35th birthday the U. S. Department of Agricui- September 18. Safe in the Unit tvie all cooperated to have the ed States from her native Sweden p’ar. in effect at an early date. which remains the only indepen Essentially a program to move dent state in Scandanavia, Garbo surplus crops off oveer-laden retains her dislike for personal farms, the Food Stam Plan is ex p u bl ici t y. pected to result in an additional $150,000 being spent annually in the 18 counties for surplus foods. The current surplus foods list as designated by Secretary of Ag riculture Wickard for the period October 1 to 81, includes: butter: eggs; pork and pork lard; fresh apples, pears and oranges; fresh The sheriff’s turnover of taxes Irish potatoes; beets, cabbage, for the third quarter of the yea»* Ceery and carrots; dried prunes, has been made by that office with raisins and dry beans; com meal, the result that the various taxing rice, hominy grits, wheat flour and bodies of the county are $16,092.- whole wheat flour. 69 richer than before. , J Inauguration of the Food Stamp A large part of this total was (Pian eliminates the direct diatri- in current taxes, $13,118.16 being button of surplus foods through taxes levied for th is year. $1,- commodity depots and trucks. V'6.46 was 1939 sixes; $816.60 Hwever, distribution Of surplus 1938; $175.76, 1937; $37.05, 1936; foods will be continued to schools $47.84, 1936: $160.98, 1933-34 and sponsoring free school lunch pro $459.84 was 1932 and prior taxes. grams. This latter program finds nearly 15,000 undernourished Ore gon school children being served wholesome luncheons every school day. Complete instructions n how to secure food stamps have been ■ More than three fourths, or m riled .to * alL public assistance 79.6 per centfc of - the wheat re families by the State Public Wel ceived in Portland last month was fare Commission. The sale of bulk shipment, reports the statt food stamp books will be handled department of agricuture division by mail with participants remit of grain inspection- This was an ting money orders or cashier’s increase of 10.3 per cent in bulk checks in the correct amounts to shipment over the previous month. the Portland Stamp Issuing office The division sampled 11,425 of the Welfare Commission. A series of mass meetings were sacks*of seed in intercoastal ship the thirteen ment last month, and also issued held throughout county area to acquaint grocers certified weights on nearly 11 mil anc other food retailers with the lion pounds of scrap iron. These are highlights of the monthly re details of accepting and redeem port of the grain inspection ser ing food stamps. vice. — Sheriff Turn Over $16,092.69 To Taxing Units Bulk Wheat Now . Greater Than Sacked George A. Deleau, secretary of the Eastern Oregon Land com pany was here Monday on busi ness tor the company of which J. . Adams is local manager for this part of Oregon. Joe Belanger returned from Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday evening. His trip to the mid west was to attend a conference of Soil Con servation experimentors. Stubble utilization was the topic of the meeting. Portland Livestock Prices Show Good Market For Sheep The following report of live- with grassers $8.50 down. Good stf ck prices will be a regular beef cows sold $6.75 to $7.50. Med feature of this paper. It comes ium to good bulls brought mainly $6.50 to $7.25. Choice vealers direct from North Portland. The livestock market , at the sold $70.50 to $11.50. Wednesday's Pcitland Union Stock Yards, cattle market was active on cows North Portland, for the week end and heifers, with steers steady. ir.g September 21st, showed addi- Stocker arid feeder sales $7.50 to t tonal strength in the sheep $8.50. Extreme veal top $12.00, trade Lambs carrying a finish sold with most sales at Monday’s $8.00 to $8.25, with outstanding spread. lots up to $8.50. Good quality fed i Monday’s hog market opened cattle ruled steady, with some , with the bulk of the carlots sell- veakness and- lower prices evi- ing at, $6.85 per cwt., or 15c lower oenced in the lower grades. The than the previous week’s open trading in, the hog alleys onened ing. Most of the good to choice «round 25 to 40c lower, with an 170 to 215 ib. trucking sold around upturn at mid-wpek and a decline S6.60 to $6.75. Packing sows in the closing sales. The hog bulked at $4.50 to $5.00. Feeder prlce' range during the week was pigs were mainly $5.75 to $6.25. $6.50 to $7.00 for good to choice Wednesday’s hog market was ac 170 to 215 lb. butchers, the latter tive at steady tb stronger prices. price being paid for carlo),». Sales of good to choice 170 to 215 Tnere were 3,100 cattle, 275 lb. truckins mostly $6.65, with calves, 4,000 hogs and 2,850 sheep several lots at $6.75. Feeder pigs sold on the open market during mostly $6.00. iFat lambs again showed the past week. This week’s trading opened strength Monday at prices around Monday with 2,500 cattle, 150 25c higher. Wednesday’s market calves, 2,500 hogs and 2,000 sheep was active and strong. Most sal*.? of good truckin lambs were $8.25 for sale on the open market. The cattle market opened the to $8.50, with top quality carlots week with good grain-feds mostly quotable to $8.65. Good slaugh shady while grass " steers were ter ewes .mainly $3.25 to $3.60. fully 25 to 50c lower. She stock Good feeder lambs mosty $7.00 to poW mostly steady to 25c higher, $7.50. The following quotations are with vealers fully steady, and based o n 1 prices being paid in bulls . strong. A few loads and oad lots of good fed steers sold at Wednesday’s trading. CATTLE: Good grain-fed steers $10.25 to 810 50, with a few head Good grass rnd one outstanding carload of $10.00 to $11.00. steers $8.25 to $9.50. Good grain- steers and heifers -up to $11.00. Grass steers sold up to $9.50, with fed heifers $9.00 to $9.65. Good several loads around $9.00. Some grass heifers $7.50 to $8.50. Good (Continued on page /our) fed heifers brought $9.15 to $9.65, The Moro Breakfast chib met Wednesday and saw a preview of pictures o f the 1940 Sherman County fair that had been taken by S. W. Searcy who permitted Gordon Harper to run them for the club. A smaller crowd than usual was present due, perhaps, to the number of members who are on hunting trips. i The proposal to furnish money fcr a magazine article and added information about road matters were - discussed and Truman I Strong was made chairman of a committee to provide a float for the Wasco Library festival Sat urday afternoon. Harvey Miller Here To Visit Official County Paper Officers Named Wasco Festival Draft Registration For City Election Ready With Next November Court Appoints Boards for County Five Boards to List Names of Men Between Ages of 21 and 35 At a special meeting of the county court held Monday five beards charged with responsibi- ity of registering the young men of the county between the ages of 21 and 35 were appointed. These boards of three members will fill out the cards for the men registering. They will have no responsibility in the draft to any further extent. At Rufus, S. A. Wilson, Mm. Adeline McDonald and Mrs. John Addington will take registrations at the Grange .ball. \At Wasco, H. H. White, Joe Mee and R. O. Scott will meet at the council room. At Moro, Velma McKean, Mae Moore and M. A . Bull will meet at the hotel room on the ground floor. At Grass Valley, A.' M. Zeyely, Don Smith and Tom Garrett will take registrations at the library. At Kent, Mrs. George Wilson, Mrs. Guy Ho skin son and Mrs. Frank von Borstel will be at the Grange hall. Here to mslrr * acquaintances during the fair was E. Harvey Miller of Heppner, candidate of the Republican ta rty for the state legislature . from this district which comprises Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman and Wheeler counties. Mr Miller was president of the Fastern Oregon Wheat League a few years ago, b an officer of the Morrow county agricultural con st rvatin association, and a grad uate of Oregon State college. He Registration t^eld Octo farms hi* own land and rents more a few miles east of Lexing ber 16, Wednesday, and it is nec essary for all men between 21 and ton in Morrow county. 35 to register giving age, address, date of birth and other specified information. Glassification will come at a later time. ' Raver To Talk To Waterways Men Walla Walla:—Dr. Paul J. Rav er, administrator of the Bonne ville-Grand Coulee power admin istration set-up, will address tho seventh annual meeting of the Inland Empire Waterways asso ciation at Lewifton, October 9. on "The Part Which Coordinated Power Resources o f Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams Can Play in a National Defense Probram.” The recent announcement Of the Grand Coulee and Bonneville power projects prompted the Wat erways association’s deviation ftom its program of adhering to a strict navigation program. Any utilization of power from these two projects must be coordinated v :th the program for the develop ment of navigation, it is pointed cut. Thomas E. Shea of Portland, executive director of the Oregon Motor Transporters and past editor of the Portland Newa-Tele- granm, also will be heard at the Lewiston meeting. He will dis cuss the prdblems of motor trans porters of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, particularly with refer ence to their task in transporting to and from the river banks the tonnages carried by the water carriers. There are some state barriers existing that limit the econom’c distribution of tonnage by motor tiucks thus keeping from the public economies to which they are entitled, Shea j s expected to bring out. Ex-Service Groups To Install Officers October 2, at the Moro Legion hall, Legionn«yres of the county who have been elected to office, will be installed and members of the Auxiliary who are'* officers elect will be likewise inducted in to their posts. - Penn Cram ol Hood River will charge the new Legion officers with the serious ness of their duties and Mrs. F oye von Borstel of Kent will in struct the women. TEACHERS TO MEET Next Monday evening, Septem ber 30, at Grass Valley the teach- eis of the county will have their first get together for the year. The occasion is the meeting of the Sherman county chapter OSTA of which Ray Jewel, Grass Valley principal is president. Dinner is to be served. PROSPECT OF RAIN Although the general opinion is that the rain has passed ius by the skies are cloudy again today, end there is a chance for rain. An inch would make seeding safe all over the county and raise pros pects for the 1941 crop. Drivers Handbooks To Be Given Out - The latest addition to the Ore gon Driver’s manual, published by Me state motor vehicle depart ment, will be placed in the glove compartment of all new oars sold in Oregon in 1941, it was disclos ed today by Earl Snell, secretary of state. Snell said his department was cooperating with oar dealers in all parts of the state-in the pro ject. The new manual contains complete information on rules and regulations pertaining to the -safe operation of motor vehicles ?n Oregon. It is the same manual studied by those who wish to pass the law teat for a driver’s license in thia state. ”1 urge every driver who ob tains one of these manuals to Carl Peetz was the lucky one study it thoroughly, even if ho to have his name drawn from the has been driving for some time,” squirrel cage last Saturday after said Snell. “We sometimes neg noon and was therefore made the lect keeping up with changes it owner of a pair o f tires by the our vehicle laws and by reading Moro Garage, where the drawing this booklet, this situation can be wan held. This Saturday the remedied. It often is wise to re di swing will be held at Buggies ft eah our memory on the vehicle Confectionery. 1 lsws and by passing the book aiound among members of the family, many others may be bene fited by the information included.” Gar dealers have expressed ap- pioval of the plan to put the man ual in all new cars, declaring that The concrete is being poured the person who understands the for the floor of the machine shed vehice laws is a much better and the county is building on the hill safer driver than one to whom near the court house. Sidewalls the law is vague. and roof of shiny sheet iron are George Williams, water rent already in place and in a few days the county’s graders, trac collector for the city will be at tors and other equipment will be Flatt’s office the first of the under shelter for the first time in month instead of at the council rooms. history. Girl Peetz Wins Parade, Dance Six Man Football Game Between Wasco and Lexington Arranged Next Saturday afternoon at the houi of 1:16 the festivities of the annual Wasco Library festival will begin, according to a program given out this week by officers of the Wasco library board which is in charge of the event. The parade will tour , the down town section of Wasco ending at the hotel where Mayor Niabet will place the crown of authority on the head of Senior Queen Idabelle Spencer and on the brow of Jun ior Queen Jean McIntyre. Immediately after this engage- n ent with royalty a six man foot ball game between the warriors of Wasco and the huskies of Lex ington will be held on the field. ^This will be the first game of this sport this fall and is one of the attractions of the day. During the afternoon local con cessions will be held on the main, street with local service organiza tions in charge of the different lxoths. Games of "chance” and foou galore may be found. Raffles will be held for the quilt and oth er material that is to be given away. / In the evening the ladies of th e’ community will serve dinner to those who come to Fraternity hall. \At nine o’clock Ivan Koeberis orchestra will start the dance that will end the show in the small hours of the following morning. In Prize Drawing Machine Shed Being Finished Willkie’s Visit Biggest Political News In Oregon’s Past Week By A. L. Lindbeck Salem, Or., Sept. 26.—Activity on Oregon’s political front gained considerable impetus this week as the Republicans , brought their biggest gun—none other than Presidential Candidate Wendell Willkie— into the state for a ser- i«s of rear platform speeches at KJamath Falls, Eugene and Salem and a major address at Portland cn Monday morning. Everywhere along the line the G. 0 .. P. stan- oard bearer was greeted by enthu siastic throngs, all of which is re garded • by. Republican leaders aa indicative of the popularity of tneir candidate and assurance of victory for the Willkie-McNary ticket in November. It is, however, a bit early in the campaign to venture any predie- to n s as to the outcome of the presidential contest so far at Oregon is concerned. Republican Chairman Ralph Cake is claiming Oregon for Willkie by at least 60,000 majority. Democratic lead ers are making just as extradant claims for the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket All of which must be put down as wishful thinking rather than conservative estimates. Es- picially is it a bit early for pre dictions since the Democrats have not yet brought any of their big artillery into play in this section of the northwest. •Unprejudiced political observ ers believe that Willkie will carry O egon. This belief ia based up on the fact that Oregon ia nor mally a Republican state, coupled with the additional fact that Will kie’a running mate— Chas. Mc Nary—is a native son awl a very a • i - Members of the Moro City corun cii, the budget committee and a i few interested citizens met at the ! council rooms Tuesday night to ; nominate a ticket for presentation to the voters at the election on November 5. No changes were offered and all present officers were named to serve again for another two year term. Giles French, mayor, M. E. McKee, Ralph Brisbine and L. R. -Conlee, councilmen and C. V. Etlknap, treasurer, were the choices of the caucus. The budget committee made up an estimate of the city's expenses ano receipts that is expected to reduce taxes by a fraction of a mill for next year although no drastic changes were made. The budget was set at $0621.60 with receipts estimated at $4270.00. *. I popular one as witnessed by his repeated elections to the United States Senate. If, under these ciicumstances, Willkie cannot car- i ry Oregon, these observers point I out, then the Republican cause nationally is pretty hopeless. Offsetting the Republican com plexion of Oregon and the strength which McNary will bring to the ticket, Democrats are count ing strongly on the strength of the New Deal with the labor groups as well as with WPA workers, reliefers and other bene ficiaries of New Deal benefac tions. Outside of Willkie’s visit to the state the only major development on Oregon’s political front this week was the outright declaration of' former governor ’ Chas. H. Martin, an old line Democrat, in support o f the Willkie-McNary ticket; Martin who is bitterly op posed to the New Deal has accept ed the state chairmanship of the Jeffersonian Democrats of Ore gon, an organization of conserva tive Democrats who are support ing the republican national ticket this fall. Other Democrats affil iated with thia organisation are George P.» Putnam, publisher of the Salem CapitaUJournal: I. H. VanDtUzer, • prominent Portland lumberman, and State Senator Dellmore Lessard. The group at tempted to buy a page in the official voters pamphlet in support of Willkie but’ were denied the privilege on the ground that they d ’d not represent a "political or ganisation with nominated candi dates.” A t about the same time CeatJaoed cm Page Two P. P. & L To Build Power Line To protect the line against ex traordinary ice conditions such as hit the area last January, Pacific Power A Light company will fur ther strengthen its 66,000,volt The Dalles-Hood River transmission l.ue at the point where it crosses the top of Indian mountain, about four miles east of Hood* River, according to R. V. Lockhart, agent for the company here. This* work will be started in the near future. Twelve new supporting pole structures, sandwiched in between prerent pole supports, will "stif fen” the line, according to Lock hart, by shortening span lengths in the trouble area to 100 feet. Present spans at this point are only 200 feet, although usual practice in thia type of construc- t on ia for spans from 250 to 350 fret in length. Many new guy wires will be placed on the pole structures, adding to the rigidity of the line rnd enabling it to withstand ice loads far in excess of past experi ence. Cost will be approximately $2700. Indian mountain, by a peculiar quirk of nature, has proved sus ceptible to ice storms, particular ly in a half mile area at the vary top. Last January 1 a storm not noticeable elsewhere in this reg ie ii deposited 14 tons of ioe on each span of the transmission line near the top of the mountain. The job will be accomplished without interrupting service on the line, which brings the bulk of the electricity to The Dalles, Golden, dale, and Sherman, Gilliam and Morrow county area. 4-H Clubbers Going To P. I. Next Thursday the 4 h H club children o f this county will load their livestock and send them to the . Pacific International Live stock Exposition. Odd is the fact that so many brothers are taking livestock and sisters are also in cluded in the list. Of the 21 chil dren going from here 16 are bro ther and sister teams or brother and brother.. Taking stock are: Don and Bob King; Shelton and Ed Fritts; Las and Leland Barnett; Elton and Phillis Medler; John and Gordon Hilderbrand; Dick and Jerry W il son; Phillip and Carzten von Borstel; Frank and Jack von Bor stel. Also Dick Oveaon, Bob Hos- kinson, Henry Richelderfer, Lloyd Kelly and David Moore.
