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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1940)
1 ■7 diminuii Group Attend Tax Meeting In Portland New Community Committeemen To Be Elected Woman s Club Committees Bring County Court Hears Visual Pays Election, Reports to Education Head Court Bills League Members Wheat League Speakers Talk J. B. Adams, A. A. Dunlap and Members of the Woman’s club H A. Walker, representing the j COUNTY COURT PROCEED- < nioyed an interesting program li newly formed Sherman County j INGS, DECEMBER TERM, 1940. First of Week To See under the direction of the Library Taxpayers Federation, drove to December 4, 1940 being the time No Property Tax Raise committee Friday, December 6bh. Portland Tuesday to attend the World Position of Whe ! for the regular term of the Coun- Five Meetings Held In The ten minute talks on the Bible, convention of the state federation. | ty Court for Sherman County in Wanted, Farm Program Art, and Music were given by 8 The group passed eleven reso And Livestock Told By Different Communities ! the state of Oregon, the Honorable ¿dames Van Gilder, Ruggles and lutions asking for economy in locai Liked, Bigger Trucks Asked ' County Court did on said day meet ! Ilcnnagin respectively. Other talks Government Economists Election of new officers for and state governments, no exemp j ir the County Courtroom in the m Miss Gertrude Gillmor, “Libra- tion for any type of wealth, that county AAA organization will be Committees of the Eastern Ore Courthouse at Moro, at the hour Washington D. C. Doc. 12 —Con- real property income taxation be an event of next week with eacn y” and Miss Williams, ‘'Maga A larger crowd than has ever gon Wheat League decided on I of ten o’clock a. m. ines,” a reading, Mrs. Poley. grtss is getting into an ugly mood related to real property taxation, before gathered to attend the an the five communities holding The following being present: Mrs. Cunliff gave a book review resolutions for presentation to the about strikes which are interrupt uniform accounting, uniform as- elections. The schedule for the nual meeting of the Eastern Ore general assembly and with few ing the national defense program. sessmen-t, real property tax relief, I communities are as follows:. Mon- Mrs. Miniver, by Jan Strut- exceptions these resolutions wer“ G- o. A. Potter, County Judge; gon Wheat League in Pendleton David Reid, County Commissioner: ’ast week end to listen to the talke On the floor of congress there has m / g ™ TnUhMted in ’ v h u a i withoBt argum ent, a l - ( J. M1. Wilson, County Commissioner been much said—and critical—re tu - miUage limitation, encourage-I day, the 16th Locust Grove will mint to new industry and promis- I holo an election at 10 in the morn- , Education ¿^tension Denartment U2 ? 1 Mme .chan«es made. 1 T Lester Johnson. List. Attorney red take part in the emmittee garding the troubles in lumber in od work of that organization. continued work for the ideals >hg; Wasco will elect at 2 in the * — « m oi vn a ! » The Taxation, Legislation and Joe Truitt, County Clerk. dustry of Washington and Oregon. expressed. Committees met Thursday and afternoon. Both meetings will be tw0 T T " ' T Rusal Electrification committee J The following proceedings iwure On their return an accident to ' held in Wasco. * MEbel McKe0 waa ho8tl“ss f°' The Pacific, northwest strikers, ir to a large extent had the problems heaoed by Millard Lakin of Grass ; lad at said term: 1 lie afternoon. respective of the merit of their Mr.- Adams car delayed them al- of the wheat growers decided by Tuesday, December 17, the Moro Valky . asked that no increases lx» i I’1 the matter of the payment of cause, have increased the impa- ch.: u^ . . nL 7 : s iynid X a^ . the that night. The formalities of the made in r?al property taxes, that, j claims presented against the Gen- 4icr.ce of the lawmakers and al- meeting, consisting of the address in the morning and in Grass Valley day December 19, as the club is va.nations be equalized, that the | tral Fund. Claims examined and of welcome by the mayor of Pen leady several congressmen have the election will be held at two. assessor be made an appointive I ordered paid. sponsored measures which are real Wednesday Kent will elect at invited to Wasco as guest on the office,, (this caused an argument) | j n the matter of the payment of dleton, the response and the re 20th. Please let Mrs. O. A. Ram ly drastic. At the moment there Agricultural Men port of the president and secre 10 a. m. Community chairman will and that person^/ property taxes | claims presented against the Road tary were first on Friday’s pro is a special committee studying ccnduct the meetings in each com sey or Mrs. Joe Truitt know if be collected upon assessment. t Fumi. Claims examined and or- gram. you can go to the Wasco meeting. all laws of the first world war and munity. ft derally -owned land be ti , drred paid. those enacted since which deal At Winter Conclave Grlo Maughn, research director Officers now acting as commun- Re: County Treasurer's month with labor, the purpose being to of the Farm Credit Administration „ * • . .. . i Adi agricultural officials of the I Ry committeemen are for Locust A M ' 1 report. Report examined and ap . ^ , C - e . ^ e d H e n n . g i „ . ch airm an ;' A . M . WllliaUlS ‘ ’ poke on the trends of the livestock - . ptoved. meet the strike situation part of this week in Corvallis to A. C Kasnberg and L. P. Haven, industry morning and gave given counties from the gas tax Court adjourned subject to call figures to Friday without enacting new ones. show the changing pat- attend the annual conference of Wasco: O. G. Hilderbrand, Remodeling Store of County Judge. Congress has been informed that ‘< rn of American food and feed foreclosure be. sold in two years: ( laimant and extension w Workers, A. T. and Lee 19 non ~ * x t • I v experiment vin;i m iciiv n uu tJAvcnaiun o r a e r s . chairman, --------. . . * . v Striker /w .w v . <,,,■« Account Amount nroduction. Wheat growers have A. M. Williams and Company of that a labor relations hill be pa? ♦’ ’ i -^i \ v k! Joc Belanger and LeRoy Wright Dehler. For Moro: Carroll Sayr3, Fi’rt National Bank General "lipped from third place to sixth, Me lumber industry and that three k f t Monday and Merri] chairman, Harvey Thompson and The Dalles announces the comple- ed; that-some means of reimlburs ! assistance $118.95 iff the proportion of American farm times that number of men are ,n pnd Robert Henderaon left Tues- Clarence Sparling. For Grass tion, ?< the secon<1 uT nit re’ J. C. Freeman, P. M. Stamps income they receive, said Mr. llVlng , n *ents at Pa* day. They are expected to return Valley: George Wilcox, chairman, modeling program. It will be re- found and that congress continue for Cderk’s office 7.00 Maughn. This has been the gen c fic coast camps waiting to be by Saturday „ -----:-------------------------------------- ealitd this pioneer store just a appropriations for P. G. O’Meara, Fees and mile- (Continued on page th ree ) eral trend of the past seventy housed in cantonments. The strike age as juror in .Circuit years. Sheep in the meantime is preventing completion of th Court 4.80 have doubled their share of the 1 uffding at an expenditure of Moro and asked its continuance »» »» Wm. C. Todd ~ 4.90 national income and cattle have révérai thousand dollars. ? end that the A, Roy Powell 4.00 dd their own. The extent of the remodeling changed, department is provoked • »t the p » I • A /•„ . . . m n 5.09 es stated by J. F. Moore, manager The Federal Farm Program Edgar A. Alley' lumber -strike, too, b^pause the /fc- Up to 1900 the total American 4.S0 ’ •od and feed production approxi- has been the installation of new’ committee led by R. B. Taylor of C. N. Fridley partment has given its solemn 9.00 pledge that conscripts will not be —By A. L. Lindbeck ately doubled« every 25 years, services of the State Bond _______ Co’ itnmis- ta1bJes’ 8he,vjnf and showcases. ! Adams',’held that the ~AAA *~*pro- A von Borstel 6.40 he increase was greater than the sint to camp until camps are built s»on, without cost, to all Oregon Als0 a complete new set of light- gram of 1938 was sountl> practical Ernest Blaylock M 7.00- Salem, Ore., Dec. 12.—The re PUD’s in working out their finan- in£ fixtures have been installed to r,I(j workable, with the single im- A. T. Striker and comfortable. Stopping con increase in population. This trend, W. F. McLeod 3.00 said the speaker, leveled off during struction is delaying the plans for signation of Sam B. Laughlin this cial programs, At the same time ,(*Place the old inefficient system. perfection that appropriations Herman Peters 6.20 the first 20 years of this century The new improvements are con- must be made annually to retain military training of thousands ol week a* head of the State Train the governor warned the PUD’s John M. Rolfe . 5.80 ee nscripts. School for boys at Woodburn against entering into any financial *tnicted of bleached Phillipint it. The •*.nn the present output of food .... committee ............ favored ....... the 4.80 and feed per person is steadily de With the shutting off of mater- baa atarted a °t speculation arrangements with private promo- uu hogany. Lighting fixtures were • certificate plan but gave the league A. C. Kaseberg 4.60 clining. Offsetting this, however, ills, naturally the hundreds of aa t0 what Prompted Gover- terr that might lead to serious by W n/ McDaniel, elec- executive committee authority to Wesley Fuller 3.00 America now is an importer of carpenters employed* in building hor Sprague to “suggest” the emb&rassment later. Jn a letter tr,cal contractor of The Dalles, endorse other plans -if they arc M. A. Bull ' 5.80 the cantonments were idle. resignation and who is to succeed to Paul Raver, Bonneville admin- w’th the aid of the Pacific Power found to. be'better suited to Or-1- W. II. Andrews and there are only half as W. Roy Belshee , , „ Laughlin when he steps down on istrator, the governor expressed anc* 5.80 company. A total of gn r’a needs. Frank Pike 5.00 the hope that peoples utility dis- u ^ nty ei*ht H ^ ts have been in- Various proposals have been sub- 1 No change was found necessary ki tneth_ Martin • 7.80 Gordon Boals, economist for the mi tied to congress to curb or pre- 1 The resignation was all the tricts in this state would be able 8,6 Ied. to rcPlate thp old ones an,‘ in crop insuranse and the program 5.00 I SDA, and an Oregon man, spoke vent the strike menace insofar as n,ore surprising inasmuch as there to avoid the ‘‘very heavy expense ’ wni give the store lighting facili- wa? endorsed but it was not felt Gus «Smith W. I). Watkins in keeping with the latest 5.40 c -n the outlook for wheat and found it retards national defense. The been or n° public criti- involved in tihe financing of some that crop insurance should be man 3.00 i developments in depart- datory for compliance. Wheat M. M. Oveson d. He reported that we will Irmfc^r industry strike is only one c*’m of Laughlin’s conduct of the of the Washington projects which R. S. Macnab 5.80 h a surplus of around 365 of many; there are rumors of ’’ 'titution in the nearly ten years the governor declared to be ‘‘not 1 ” nt stor® lighting. lo: ns were liked but it was felt A. W. Schilling , 6.20 n pending disturbances in the ship- **•* has held the post. at all justifiable.” that more local «authority should A if red Rock 5.00 c • • • zards of Puget sound and on the While the resignation came on be given. 1 ester K. Smith 5.60 o Moro Library Atlantic coast; in the automotive the heels of the Osborne report The program committee disliked Kenneth McKean Oregon motorists may begin 3.00 i> p ants manufacturing tanks and which severely criticised the iu- displaying their new green and the possibility of reducing the $10,- C'.irence Huis 3.00 * > ur surplus because of war. Only aii plane engines. Shortage of sup- stitution and Laughlin’s adminis- white license plates next Sunday, Buys New Books 000 limit on government payments T. M. Garrett 5.00 c v'’ for instance, resulted in 1,- trntion the governor insists that according to Secretary of State end asked that it lie retained, J. M. Axtell, Bailiff The following new books have POO men being laid off at the air- this report did not prompt his sug- Earl Snell. It is estimated that The transportation committee Tb.» First National Bank 3.50 'u plane plant in Seattle, where grea»t gestion that Laugihlin resign al- approximately one-third of the recently been added to the Moro vith E. M. Hulden of Arlington as Assistance 9.40 G — - ___ flving fortresses, bombers, are be- though admitting that the report strte’s 323,000 passenger cars will ' brar> •, chairman adopted the same gener Tin Blind First National Bank, Aid ing built. ‘ p’-ecipitated” the resignation. have been supplied with the new’ Invitation to live, Douglas; Mr. al policy as in 1939. tr Dependent Children ries and make quotas for All deday is not caused by labor, As to the Oslborne report: That plates by that time. Littlejohn, Flavin; Meet the War- j It also favored the retention o The First National Bank, Old 22.20 Readjustments in the wheat hrwever. One reason for slowness document devotes fully as much At long last, two years after its rens» Hancock; Witchcraft, Se^- the long and short haul clause in Age Assistance 166.60 business are sure to come and ir. production is the tendency of a SDace to criticism of tihe state and completion, Oregon’s $2,500,000 brook: Hillbilly Doctor, Seifert; the tran transportation act. It held Maigaret W.* Peetz, County may cause an even greater need centractor to do all the work in the board of control for its alleged capibol now has flag pole—two of Ship and Scrub, Willard; Aces Up, that thal the Wheeler-Lea bill will A ssessor’s S alary L50.Q9 for government and producer to his own establishment. Nation il “penury” in providing for the care them in fact, one at each end of arh- the Fog, Lincoln; benefit bmefit the farmer in this area work together. Defense Advisory commission is of its youthful wards as it does to the building. The two fir poles, Sniffy Dog, McLain: Secret Mar- ntid commended the principle of Joi Truitt, County Clerk’s D. E. Richards of the Union Salary 125.00 tew urging (later will insist) thst Laughdin’s administration of the each more than 80 feet in length, riage. Norris; River out of Eden, tba* act. M arie lloskinson, Deputy Livestock station told of his ex - tr ”-tors be given part of in-stituWon. The report declares 16 inches in diameter at tihe base Gne Foot In Heaven, ; The committee also recommend Clerk’s Salary 27.68 periments in feeding wheat to the job. By spreading the work ol the buildings at the school to be in- and weighing nearly three tons, Spence, Rubber iBand, Stout; . ed a study of intra state freight \rdis Truitt, Deputy Clerk’s sheep ahd cattle and held that procurement, using the facilities substantial and improperly arrang- were set in place in their granite Lone Ranger and Tonto, Striker; ' rates and asked that ,a channel wheat is stock feed .equal to Salary 62.32 of small factories, plywood estao- ‘ cd in spite of the fact that at the and concrete bases under the sup M ooden Shoe Mystery, Wirt; Lit- depth of 27 feet be maintained on C. C. Wilson, Sheriff’s- Sal rnj of the other grains. lishments, ets., parts can be sub- time it was completed in 1927 the ervision of E. C. Settergren, Port tic Women, Alcott: American the lower Columbia so that boats Dean W. A. Schoenfeld told the ary $150.00; Traveling ex contracted and the entire project institution was reputed to be a land contractor, this week. 5 White Paper, Alsop; Tarzan and of good size could be brought t ) league that Oregon was in a good pense $35.00: 185.00 the Lion Man, Burroughs; Docto-s I The Dalles. Uniform weights be speeded up. In a few months model of its kind, costing the state • • « • mndition to withstand economio Party, Doner: Hildreth, Estes: and lengths for trucks was the re Ross C. Ornduff, Deputy Sher the public wild learn more about more than $250,000. Rumor has it that Governor Gold Comes in Bricks, Fair; 30,- i quest of another resoluti d sturbances in agriculture because iffs Salary 125.00 ion. this method of expediting produc- . Governor Sprague insists that of early study of land use prob E tc ? H ^ n v ^ d o u S r v 1 » Sim .Cully ot. ' N' ^ nn’ who hi'5 Wily W. Knighten, Superinten- tion. he has no one in mind as a suc- DnnTc“ chairman of Hie Unemplov- lems and well organized agricul dt nt’s Salary $125.00: Trav ! cessor to Laughlin and join with eling expense $25.00; 150.00 tural services. When the Oregon and Washing- | Secretary of State Snell and Lynn R. Edminister, special as Nj.oinr Van Gilder, County nA« hi t r ti.re, Johnson; Valley of the Sun, | suixeed Carrol Barker of Condon, ton legislatures assemble next ! Slate Treasure/ Pearson in d?- c-’dpnt sistant to the Secretary of State, Treasurer’s Salary 75.00 r v n ir ^ th fir « / î thï Î IT Rfdland: . Schoolmaster of Y ester-! R B. Taylor, also of Umatilla tiiiint’i there will be introduced bills daring that the new superinten- came from Washington, D. C., to \T-<r tht fi \ t’f t?’6 ’y v L 'fday’ Kenne(iy:‘ Blue Mask Vic- county, w as chosen vice president Gee A. Potter, County Judges imposing severe penalties for con- j dent must be a man of ability n Dunne tell the wheat growers that the «Salary 75.00 is now completing his eighth torious, Morton; Secret of the [ rnd Charles Smith of Corvallis was viction of sabotage. The measure j with experience in work with boys Otis Baker, Janitor’s Salary 75.00 reciprocal trade agreement! were year as a member of the Accident Marshbanks, Norris: Toby Tyler, ,, -elected secretary. Millard Ea- has been written by the depart- f nd as an administrator. aiding them. He urged a study of commission, to which he was first o .i?: Great Mistake, Rinehart; ! j,in was chosen as Sherman coun- S. A. Wilson, Chairman $3.00; rr.ent of justice and will be sub the foreign trade situation. He 133 votes at 3c $3.99; Hall appoi e by vernor u ius Obver Wiswell, Roberts: Heidis tv committeeman for another year. mitted to the governors, wiho are stated that our first task was the Meier and later reappointed by rent and janitor $10.00; 48 Children, Tritten. Oregon industrial firms with Heppner will be the meeting place expected to have the proposed leg- job of keeping our security with Governor 6has. H. Martin. miles at 10c $4.80 21.79 for 1941. Moro could have had - islation sponsored by one or more good employment records will out involvement in war and that this honor, but those in attendance W. R. Belshee, Judge $3.00; lawmakers. It is part of a nation benefit through substantial reduc- we must aid the nations of South Patrons of Oregon’s liquor store? 13.'-: votes at 3c $3.99 6.99 f'oni this county did not think 't wide plan for oo-ordination of fed- tkns in their rate of contribution Trent a total of $10,235,543.32 for J. 0 . Thompson America to achieve thia end. He possible to handle the crowd that il. H. Brackett, Clerk $3.00; _ ersl and state-. governments io to the unemployment compensation liquid refreshments during the 12 133 votes at 3c $3.99; . 6.90 quoted Hull as saying that ‘‘To the na maA attend. dealing with subversive activities, fund after next July 1, have peace we must have security, month period ending June 30, last, Buried At Wasco Those attending the wheat Adeline McDonald, 2nd clerk r Another act will require licensing tional Social Security Board ap according to the annual report of to have security we must be $3.00; 133 vetes at 3c $3.99; 6.99 league meeting from- Sherman of persons wfho wish to use ex=. proves the experience rating pro the Oregon Liquor Control commis strong.” James Orval Thompson, 81, died county were: Lloyd Hennagin, W. A. Morris^3rd clerk $3.00; plosives. This would apply to min gram adopted by the Oregon Un sion. This figure represents an in Paul Raver, director of the 13.3 votes at 3c $3.99; 6.99 ers, or farmers using dynamite to employment Compensation commis crease of nearly $750,000 over 11- in The Dalles last «Saturday morn- , Robe rt Henderson, Merrill Over Paul Alley, Chairman, $3.00; Bonneville administration, spoke sion this week. This program ing after a lingering illness and j son, W. S. Powell and wife, M. M. blast stumps in clearing land. 108 votes at 3c $3.24; 6.24 Saturday morning and urged farm acopted by the commission upon ouor purchases during the previous funeral services were held Sunday I Powell and Mrs. Esta Powell, S, ers to take advantage of the pow- 12-montih period. Profits from the Victor Anderson, Judge $3.00; More than 40 different govern ♦he recommendation of its exper state’s liquor monopoly available with interment being made in the A. Hall, II. B. Pinkerton, Joe o- being offered them, for it was 108 votes at 3c $3.24; Hall ment bureaus, state and local ience rating council embodies what foi public assistance needs during Wasc« cemetery beside the ‘body Peters, L. C. Wright, V. B. Eakin. $¿1.00 34 miles.at 10c*i3.40; 14.6i in opportunity never before grant agencies are cooperating to deter is known as the “inverse chrono the fiscal year amounted to $3,- v of his wife who passed* away ten Mil’ard Eakin, John Reckmann. ed tc any district. No profits from H. A. Walker, Carl Everett, Cecil Amelia C. Root, 1st clerk $3.00; Bonneville will be siphoned off for mine methods for • developing the logical” method of computing 370.273, an increase^/of approxi j years ago. 108 votes at 3c $3.24: 6.24 other Mr. Thompson was born in «Scott F’itlds, BrucO Grady, Asa Riche!- purposes, he promised. In 1.200,000 acres to be irrigated by benefit payments and employer mately $500,000 over the previous county, Iowa. lAugilst 27, 1859 and dtrfer, #A. C, Kaseberg and wif<* Cadys Zell, 2nd clerk $3.00: dustry will follow power and the the Grand Coulee reclamation pro- ce retributions. Under the experi- fiscal year, the report shows. 108 votes nt 3c $3.24; 6.24 northwest will be developed thru came’ with his parents to Oregon H. D. Proudfoot and wife, G. H . ject. In Januarv the new congress ÎS,ce rating plan employers with Mabel L. Haven, 3rd clerk $3.00; in 1875 settling in Sherman coun •Root and wife, A. J. Smith, W. T power to become an industrial cen will he asked to make an appro good employment records will be Buildings owned by the state 108 votes at 3c $3.24; . 6.24 ter larger than we have dreamed. priation for.the start on the recla rewarded with a reduction in their of Oregon have an aggregate value ty in 1883. He lived here am Bakiger, J. B. (Adams, L. E. Clark, J. T. Johnson, chairman $3.00; Of $150,000,000 dollars spent* for mation end of the gigantic pro n te of contribution while employ of $24,930,218. it was revealed in raised his family of two children Joe- BelangeFand wife, Joe Hilde”- 100 votes at 3c $3.00; 6.00 Bonneville and Grand Coulee pay ject, as practically every cent to ers with unfavorable records or a report compiled by Clifford Mudd; until 25 years ago wthen he moved Irand and Giles French. A. B. Potter, Judge $3;0€; JIall - ment will be made in 40 yean plus date for Grand - Coulee has gone 1 ■ ge labor tum-overs will be pen- head of the estate property con to Tygh Valley where he has re lent $5.00: 100 votes at 3c 'Charles H. Johnson is in the 3) percent interest on the unpaid into the dam. The planners have ' ah'zed by an increase in their nDe trol division. Other property own sided most of the time until $3.00; 11.00 balance. i ecently. o u n ty jail after having be*n even spotted sites for towns and contribution. ed by the state as listed in Mudd’s He .is survived by a son, Pere'p found guilty in Justice Mee’s Geo. W.- IJrinkard, 1st clerk He quoted the amounts of elec recreational centers for the future report includes 61,000 chairs, 10,- of Moro and a daughter, Pearl of court of having improper license $3.00: 100 votes at 3c $3.00; 6.00 tricity sold to the aluminum com se‘tiers. Ir. a letter to the Northern Was 840 tables, 3900 desks, 2800 type The Dalles and several ’ brothers rlates. H's fine was set at $10 or J ni\i.UV4vjd>rand. 2nd clerk pany and indicated that several Army officers are provoked be- co Peoples Utility District this writers, 675 automobiles and 20 $3.00; 3f*miles at 10c $3.40; end sisters of the once numerous five days in jail which Johnson times the 30 contracts that ___ have — ---------.. week Governor Sprague offered the tractora. (Continued on Page two) Thompson family of this county. elected to serve. (Continued on page four) (Continued on page thre»> Of Economics ^ r n^ S«Perintendent of Boys Training School Resigns After Criticism ♦ » 99 99 99 99 i f •V - , ■? . • ’’ •r. • 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 »> 99 99 99 99 99
