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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1940)
F ifty -T h ir d Y e a r N o . Complete EOWL E. O. W. L. Officers Ready County Buys Meet Program Buildings From Announced SCService Carnival- B azaar Wheat League Makes Money Committees To For A u xiliary Begin Meetings The American Legion Auxiliary w'th the aid of the Legionnaires • presented a carnival and bazaar i Five Groups Will Formulate Assistant Secretary of Remaining Half of Camp nt their hall last Saturday night Agriculture Hill, Land Resolutions For Consideration Sold For $60. Will Be Used that proved successful from the standpoint of gathering a crowd, Bank Economist Speakers « At Pendleton Meeting By Local Fair Board providing means of amusement and « making money therefrom. Fendleton—An unusually “high Meetings will be held next Mon The county is now the ownei Games of chance were aligned day and Tuesday at the court home cf the buildings at the fail powered” program has -been ar Washington, D. C., Nov. 21—Ad- I giounds formerly occupied by the j ?’des of the hall except bv the five committees of the roitly, President Roosevelt is chang ranged for the thirteenth annual CCC and SCS I lor ^ a t Part ta^en up by food wheat league. At these meetings meeting of the Eastern Oregon ing the National Labor Relations They were bought on a public ! ''o’ « bs and fancy work displays, the program this county deelrea board from a scourge for employ Wheat league here December 5 to bid after such bids were asked j p amblijig games were, veryjj^opu- to see adopted at the Eastern Ore 7 according to the detailed list of ers and have for young radicals lar and Sheriff Charley Wilson gon Wheat League convention at lor by the SOService last month. who disapprove of the American topics received from officers of the Eastern Oregon Wheat League Officers shown here have completed The price paid for the buildings dealt the old army game of black- Pendleton, December 6-7 will be form of government, to a more con league. details for the annual convention to be held December 5 to 7 in Pen ” i« was $60. The fair board bid $50 ipek half the night with success formulated. After Thursday’s session devot dleton. The first day will be devoted to committee meetings. One com servative agency. The practice of that would have made him envied and the 4-H club organization $45. The meetings will be held al razzing employers on the slighent ed entirely to committee meetings, mittee and considerable program time will be devoted to consideration It. is exected that within a cou 22 years ago. Games of skill were most continuously from Monday provocation and going beyond the the league will begin its general of the present AAA and related federal programs. ple of weeks the SCS will come ana also provided and visitors were- morning until Tuesday afternoon Those shown here are, first row, from le ft: Clyde Denney, Morrow Wagner act to impose punishment two day meeting on Friday morn take the stoves and plumbing from able to find something to do on p’though committee memberhip is county executive committeeman; C. K. Barker, Condon, president; S. J. and interpreting conduct of payroll ing. Following is a condensed out the buildings leaving the houses every hand. mot the same on any of the com makers as crimes, is to be aban line of the program as now ar Culley, Weston, vice-president; C. W. Smith, Corvallis, secretary. Stand Report at the end of the evening mittees. ing are executive committeemen: J. Z. W eim ar, Gilliam county; R. B. for the county. What disposal will ranged : doned. Taylor, U m atilla county; J. L. Staggs, Wallowa county; and M illard be made of the the cord wood war that $223 had been taken in First one of the sessions will be .Principal criticism of the Wag Friday, December 6: Forenoon— Eakin, Sherman county. in sale of “funny money” and held by the Federal Farm Program at the old camp is not known. ner act was not of the law but of Opening musical selection at 9:30 These buildings were built in ’./bile net profits have not been committee which will meet at 9:30 the manner of its administration o’clock; address of welcome, C. L. the summer of 1935 at a cost first computed they are certain to be Monday with Joe Peters aa chair by NLRB. The board took the Lielallen, mayor of Pendleton; re estimated to be $17,000. What the ratisfactory. .. Funds so raised are man, Arthur Smith as vice chair- view that an employer had no sponse by Harvey Miller, Heppner; actual cost was on completion was | used for child welfare under the mar. and Kenneth Martin, L. E. rightawhich should" be respected. president’s annual address by C. not reported. Three barracks, the ] auspices of the auxiliary. Clark, Roy Barnet, Georg« Wil The board promoted boycotts, K. Barker, Condon; report of recreation hall and the hospital,.—------------------ - cox, J. B. Coon, Carroll, Sayn, strikes, and while permitting cer Charles W. Smith, secretary-treas- —By A. L. L:ndbeck driving. Harvey Thompson, Clarence Spar tain groups to attack the employ urer: “Trends in. Livestock and Pending receipts of the complete the larger .buildings, were remov- ! ling, Floyd Root, L. E. Dehler, Salem, Or.—Nov 21—Oregon a text of the report by the Osborne ed two years ago. The remainder Breakfast Club er forbade and punished employ Crop Production in the United A. T. Striker, L. P. Haven and e s who attempted to print their States,” by Orlo H. Maughan, di first quota of 83 men, reporting j Association criticising conditions at i were just sold to the county for Wallace May as members. siae of the story. The board even rector of research, Farm Credit this year for a year of military the state training school for boys $60. Hears Dr. Poley That afternoon at 1:30 the Land sought to destroy freedom of the administration, Spokane; “The training under the recently enact- i members of the state board of I It is not known what the coun ty will do with the buildings. Thev Lse committee will meet. A. C. Report on the tale of 4-H club splective service act were all • control refused to comment-on the ■ press; undertook to punish an edi World Wheat Situation and Out tor for publishing an article favor- ' look,” Gordon P. Boals, federal seected from volunteers who had report. J. S. Murray, fingerprint^ will undoubtedly be used «by thv entf wa* made at the Moro Break Kat aberg is chairman of this growp applied to their local «boards for expert at the1 state prison, however county fair association eithe in f fast club meeting Wednesday and Wallace May, vice chairman. able to an eastern industry. economist, Washington, D. C. Some of the board’s best trouble ! Afternoon —“Experimental Re immediate induction into the armv, 1 called attentioA' io the fact that th<ir present location or removed , mo’-hing by Lloyd Hennagln to the George Potter, Arthur Smith, Clyde makers were employed in Washing- I sults of Feeding Wheat to Live according to Lt. Col. Elmer V. fingerprinting at the boys’ school, tr a spot nearer the tracks and ; effect that but forty pounds of the Fridley, O. G. Hildeitorend, J. M. ton and Oregon. For its review stock,” by D. E. Richards, super Wooten, state director of selec to which the Osborne report ob n.ude into barns. There is talk of meat remained and that, when W ilson, G. H. Root, Joe Peters, section the board hired many ; intendent of the Union branch ex tive service. At that the 83 rep jected, was ordered by the boar! turning the mess hall into a dance f rol(i>. it wouk, bring the receipts David Reid, J. E. Norton, Fred L, p $90 which will leave Hernagin, Roscoe Moore, Carl young men and women who had periment station: “Desirable Land resented only about 40 per cent of of control five years ago over the pavilion. Some of the buildings may be about $G0 for thc club to take up Adams, J. B. Adame, Harvey scarcely left law school and these I Ufa Adjustments in Oregon,” the volunteers in the districts con objection of Sam I^aughlin, super Thompson, L. P. Haven, Kenneth p.cted on the reports of examiners, William A. Schoenfeld, dean and tributing this first contingent, intendent of the institution, who used as sleeping quarters for 4-H as R subsidy for club'work. club children who bring stock to Martin, V. B. Eekin, -Roy J. Baker J. B. Adams reported that the who had to know law. Many of director of agriculture, O. S. C.; Wooten said. # feared that the practice would lead tl e fair. There are manjr'propos- committee in charge of the brief and Lloyd Hennagin are members the employes of NLRB were asso “Some Aspects and Implications of Only ten Oregon counties were j to public criticism. als, but, so far, no definite plans. on behalf of the experiment sta- of the committee. ciated with Communist controlled American Foreign Policies in the culled on to supply men in this ’ * * | toned bad finished that document Tuesday Meeting Scheduled ‘fronts.” Members spied upon one Present World Situation,” »R. L. first quota. Multnomah county sup Meeting here Saturday to can and sent it to Washington D. C. another and an examiner who ap- J E dm in is ter, assistant to the sec plied 24 of the 83 men, these be vass the results of the recent elec Grover Hill, assistant secretary of At 9:30 Tuesday morning the pvared to give an employer a fair . retary of state, Washington, D. C. ing called up from six of the tion of State Hydroelectric com Red Cross 1 ngriculure, is expected December Taxation, Legislation and ■ Hand break became suspect and soon was Evening banquet and entertain county’s 13 draft districts. Other mission issued proclamations auth- ! f.’st to look over the station. Electrification committee will meet off the payroll. counties contributing to the first o: ¡zing the creation of five new Membership Sold ment at 6:30 o'clock. Dr. G. L. Poley, a recent visitor with J. B. [Adams aa chairman peoples utility districts? The five quota and the number of men Saturday, December 7: Fore Roll call for the Sherman coun NLRB leaned toward CIO ano noon—“Plans for Distributing fiom each were: Lane, 12; Klam districts in which a majority of ty chapter, AmericanRed Cros« and a recent patient, at the Mayo anu Dean Reynolds as vice chair in Rochester, Minn., told man. George Wilcox, Corliaa An- rguinst AFL, as the records show Bonneville Power,” Paul J. Raver, ath, 10: Benton, 5: Linn, 5: Hood the voters favored the PUD wero began last week under the leader- 1 clinic £ hout thp dinjc and his trip to the atews, E. R. Barzee, W. S. Powell, *,nd a congressional investigation administrator; “Agriculture and River, 5; Deschutes, 5; Coos, 6; Central Lincoln, Clatckame, Col- ship of Mrs. -Robert Hoskinson I inif. ; n nn infnrmative and proves. As a result of the boards Defense,” Grover C. Hill, assistant Josephine 6; and Marion, 5. umbia River, Union county and who has named her aids for the mid-west in an informative and David Reid, A. D. RicheWerfer, G. H. Root, Dewey Thompson, C. laiiure to play fair with both labor secretary of agriculture, Washing iD'uta is now being assembled or: Central Oregon. In Union county several districts of the county the interesting manner. A. Tom, H. A. Walker, and Giles organizations it caused strife and ton, D. C.; “Farmers’ Program for all Oregon men now serving in the municipalities of Elgin and following persons: Kent: Mrs I« ' enefi are members of this com in<i eased bitterness, preventeo Meeting Wheat Problems,” N. E. the various fighting forces of the bland City voted against the PUD George Wilson. Grass Valley: A. mittee. labor from resenting a solid front. Dadd, director of western region, nation, including the national and were not included in the dis A. Dunlap:’ Finnegan: Mrs. Oscar Wasco Band Play 5 Fresident Roosevelt was patient AAA, Washington, D. C.; reports guard, according to Colonel Woo- trict. In the central Oregon dis Buggies; Rutledge: Mrs. Dean Tuesday at 1:30 the Production, Marketing and Handling commit- for a long time, but immediately of federal agricultural and conser ttn^. As soon as these records can trict which includes portions of Reynolds; Moro: Mrs. LeeRoy For Civic Club tic under the leadership of J. L> after election he acted to reform vation programs committee, and be «broken down each local draft Jefferson, Crook and Deschutes Hanson Wasco: Mrs. Charles the board. This was accomplished transportation committee. board will -he given credit for the counties, the city of Prineville vot Everett; Locust Grove: Mrs. Louis The Wasco Civic club met Moti- Davis as chairman and Fred Hen nagin as vice chairman will meet by appointing Dr. Henry 1A. Millie Afternoon— “Modern Millers’ men from his district already in ed itself out of the district. Six ScEoil; Rufus: Mrs. Cu rt Tom; r?ty night with a small crowd on w’th A. A. Dunlap, Ted Ball, Har- in place of J. Warren Madden. ether proposals to create PUD’s the service and these credits will hand because of other attractions. Klondike: Mrs. Arch Gosson. Di. Millis is nationally known as Problems in Meeting Changing operate to off-set future calls un were rejected at the recent elec Thc Wasco high school band plav- 1 y Pinkerton, 0. G. Hilderhrand, World Conditions,” A. M. Scott, a labor conciliator. With Dr. Lie- tion. cd numbers during thc dinner and Harvey Thompson, Vernon Miller, der the selective service act. serson, member of the board and president of the North Pacific • * • * • • Jimmy Coats, Marion Crews, Clyde L. K. Smith, Herman Schilling, Two Men Enlist a-so famed as a labor conciliator, Millers’ association; reports of Fridley played solos in preparation Arzell Lemley, Roy Powell, Fred In spite of the fact that general A total of 186 Oregon motorists NLRB ha? now two seasoned, well committees on production, hand were deprived of their operator’s fund revenues for the next bien for the school fband meets next Cox, Marion Powell and M. M. Oveson as committee members. balanced members with years of ling, marketing and weed control; licenses during the month of Oct nium wil'l exceed /those of the In U. S. Army spring. Patty Yocum sang. Ait 3:30 Tuesday afternoon the experience. Next step will be a taxation, legislation, and rural ober, according to figures compiled 1939-40 biennium by approximately No election of officers was held. Two men who were registered house cleaning of the employes of electrification and land use; busi ' by Secretary of State Snell. Nine $1,500,000 the legislature will for the draft in Sherman county, William Cowan of Renton, Wash Transportation committee will meet with W. T. Balsiger as chair radical type. President Roosevelt ness session and election of officers. ty one of these had their licenses actually have less money available have ended their worry about war ington talked. His theme was man and D. L. Belshe, vice chair believes he has now cured a trou revoked for drunken driving. Reck for appropriation purposes than it service and volunteered for the lack of democracy in the United ble spot. less driving accounted for 43 lic had two years ago.s This is due U'-my. They are Gordon Woodrow States which he asserted was not man, Roy Barnet, T. H. Fraser, The national grange is please ! ense suspensions. Thirty three to the fact that relief needs will Piangham of Kent, whose order begun as a democracy in the first E. P. Rich, M. G. M^elzer, H. D. IToudfoot, Giles French, Harry w;th the board changes, 'but insists Oregon motorists ran afoul the law dip into the general fund for ap number was 17 and Charles Wil- p ace. He talked of the jniqu¡ties _ that amendments to .the Wagnei proximately $2,500,000 to supple while traveling in other states, 24 barn MacKinney of Moro whose cf corporations and of the well to Pinkerton, Vernon Miller, Arzell act recommended J?y the grange ment profits from the state’s liquor order number was 149. The coun- I do and reiterated the well known Ltmley and J. L. Davis are mem of these being guilty of drunken Elmer Fisher, assistant hydro and AFL be enacted. These amend monopoly. This drain on the treas t y \ quota was given as six but canard that the rich are getting bers of the committee. LeRoy Wright, county agent, ments have been bottled in a sen logic supervisor, and M. P. Mon ury, exceeding the 1939 appropri local draft authorities are not richer and poor poorer. will act as secretary of all eom- ate committee for months by Sen son, inspector, of the USDA wea ation by approximately $1,900,000 sure as to how many recent vol ator Thomas of Colorado and Sen ther bureau visited the experi Census of Workers mittees. more than off-sets the estimated unteers will 'be credited against ment station Tuesday afternoon ator LaFollette of Wisconsin. increase in revenue, most of which this number. As this six was to New Books At • w • while on an extendeed trip through Being Made is accounted for by the six per cent be the number taken before next Paul J. Raver, administrator ot eastern Oregon. annual increase which, compound The automatic rain gauge at the The state advisory council of ing annually as it does, will in June the action of these two men Wasco Library Bonnevilla and Grand Coulee .pow er, is in the national capital ask station is now charged with an the Board for the Moboli^ation of crease the tax base for the two will postpone any drafting here Following is a list of books re ing for more money to construct anti freeze solution which causes Labor is trying to obtain a list of year period by $1,329,282 over the for some time. cently purchased for he Wasco f r • more transmission lines. His pro the snow to melt as it falls and men in Oregon who are trained io i 1939 and 1940 levies. Some of the best ateer offerings Library: Kitty Fayle, Christopher tny precipitation is instantly and dc the kind of work needed in rc- j gram calls for extending lines in • • • Women Aid Morley; Bat Flies Ixiw, Sax Roh- as well as canner cows, sold sboot to the Blue mountains, into central continuously recorded in ink on pimament. Recognizing the need for im mtr: Whispering Valley, Robert steady on Monday’® market, but For that reason they are mak Oregon, and on the coast in Ore a chart. Thia eliminates the for provement of conditions at tha Case: Desert Moon Mystery, Kay most of the better cowi and nszhy mer troublesome job of melting the Hospital With Tea ing a census of men who can do gon and spreading out into re Straham: Missing Link, Carolyn of the heifers and short fed steers snow or i<?e in order to measure it. ibe kind of work in demand by state hospital for insane at Salem mote sections of Washington. The benefit tea for children in Wells; Frontier Doctor, Urling were around 26c or morte lower, The solution used is calcium chlo- plants making arms ~ and - muni Governor Charles A. Sprague is recommending to the next legii- Doembecher hospital in Portland Coe; Swift Flows the River, Mard bulls shared the decline, While Only stand of Port Orford cedar l ide, water and oil and will ‘ not tions or fighting cquiment. lature the construction of a 300- and children’s farm home near Jones; Homing, Grace L. Hill; Run good veelers held fully steady. A freeze above -30 degdees. Sheets on ■ which to mark the in the world may be saved-by the bed treatment hospital at the in Corvallis was held in the Women’s away, -Kathleen Norris; Death in load of good fed steers brought Data collected from these gauges occupation with which one is fami government. For years Japan stitution at an estimated cost of clut rooms Friday, November 15, the Back Seat, Dorothy Disney; $10.00. Short fed end good fht bought the cedar logs, sent ship ¡3 sent to Portland and summar- lial may be obtained from B. H. $325,000. This, incidentally, is the with Miss Grace Phelps as apeaker Saddle and Ride, Ernest Haycox; steers sold mainly at $8.26 to $8.36 izer and used by army and con Grady, at Wasco, Wily Knighten loads to Japan, and the supply of only major capital outlay includ of the afternoon.* Miss Phelps is Chiffon Scarf, Mignon Eberhart; w«th some fed heifexh goidg at at Moro, A. A. Dunlap at Grass trees gradually diminished. These struction engineers. ed in the budget for the forthcom superintendent of nurses at Doem- Night in 4Bomlbay, Louise Bram- $8.60 to $8.66. Canner to common Mr. Fisher was a class mate of Valley and J. E. Norton at Kent trees are stubborn about reforesta ing biennium, all other requests becher. The members of the Grass fvld: The Wayfarer, Shirley Sie- cows sold mainly from $3 Tom Fraser at Oregon Agricultur who are county representatives of tion, although the forest service is «conducting experiments with in« al college. a committee headed by Wm. A. fcr new buildings at state insti Valley and Wasco clubs were fert: Oregon, End of the Trail: 75, heavy Holstema reached $6.60 Mystery House, Kathleen Norris; and better. Good beef c«w< bulk Bowes and Dtto Hartwig of Port tutions being turned down by the guests of the afternoon. dications of success. There is a budget department because of lack ,. The program was under Child The Trees, Conrad Richter; Quiet ed at $626 to $6JO, w ife a probability that the last stand of land. Il is the understanding of the of funds with which to finance Welfare and Health Deartment. ly My Captain Waits, Evelyn Ea young cows 1 above. Goad Mef these cedars may be declared a Mrs. Margaret Peetz and Mrs. ton; How Green Was My Valley, bulla sold around $6-60 to |6,76 local committee that war indus their construction. rational monument and thereby While state officials admit that Stanley Coelsch gave talks on The Richard Llewlyn; I Married Ad with a few to $7.00 or ower. Good tries will be located in the states preserved for future generations. conditions at the hospital are by Bible and Art. Mrs. Lloyd Henna- venture, Osa Johnson; Moon Tide, to choice vealers made H0.O0 to whet-e men are immediately avail Protest, if any, will come from no means ideal they at the same gin introduced her kindergarten Willard Robertson; Corpse Grows $10.60. Word from the state tax com able for the work to be done. Ore county officials who do not want Carlot hogs Monday sold at time deny that they are as deplor class in two numbers which were a Beard, Margaret Sc’nerf; ’In the timber removed from the tax mission to Mrs. Margaret Peetz gon is interested in getting sprne able as pictured in recent attacks very enjoyalble. Yankee Windjammers, Charles $6.60. Good to choice frock-ms «Refreshments states that the elementary school of these factories and keeping its roll. on that institution. The buildings wen served at the close of the af N.irdhoff; Song of the Valley, weighing around 170 to 116 ffia. ' * • « tax levied on this county for 1941 skilled labor here. while old, are substantial and have ternoon by hostesses Mesdames Shalem 'Asch: Tassels on Her Boots bulked at $6£6 to 36J5: 306 to (Assemblers, barrel drillers,'build- Despite re-employment resulting will be $14,306.93. been made reasonably fireproof Haufelt, Cope, Miller and Flntt. Arthur Train: Honey Colored Moon 270 lbs butchers ad d from This is all elementary school on , case .• hardeners, draftsmen, f . om the national defense program to $6.86, with some in the raff di and British munitions orders, tax and does not leave the county electricians, engineers, inspectors, through the installation of sprink Tin table center piece consisten Tamela Wynne. ler systems and the over crowded vision to $6.00. UgfctweUfcts of yellow chrysanthemums and trere is still the relief problem. but is retained here on local machinists, molders, operators of 1 erndition will be greatly relieved moved at $5.50. to $6.76 mafaffy^Tka Earl Thompson is here today to harmonizing candles were used in The government is spending about schools, There will be no state all kinds of machines, repairmen, j by the construction of the new bulk of the packing sowz confer with officials of the county the decorative scheme. The silver welders are all needed along with 11 million dollars a month on re- propert tax or 1941 or state t4.60 to »6.00. ' , . farm adjustment program. offering was $12-. 70. Continued on page two many more specialized workers. purposes. (Continued on Page two) Vo/unfeers fu// O regon’s D raft Quota For First C a ll o f 1940 Rain Gauge Treated For Winter Portland Stock. Markets Firm No State Tax Levied For 1941
