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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1940)
r s * ~ . 'i n *- PAGE < « « « W A N COUNTY JOURNAL. MORO. OREGON FRIDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1940 fcj May evening after the program of $200,000, and new school build for Ashland where they are spend ings àt the institutions for blind ing ihe holiday season with his and deaf children, each to cost $126,000. During the 1945-4? parents. Relatives meeting at the Her biennium it is proposed to con bert Holzapfel home for* Christ struct a néw ward building at the mas included Mr. and Mrs. Doc state hospital a t a cost of $240,000, Rrennen of Kinzua and W. F. Nel remodel the administration build ing at the state hospital at a cost son and family of Carlton. Mrs. Robert McDonald returned of $50,000, replace the frame ad At a quiet wedding Sunday to her home last Tueaoay and is ministration building at the school Sarah Stalcup became the bride reported doing well after an op for blind at a cost of $70,000, a of Alvin* Stott of [Arlington. A eration. Christmas guests at the kitchen and dinning room at the few /dose friends were present home of Mrs. McDonald’s parents, school for blind to cost $65,000, with the ceremony read by Rev. Mr and Mrs. W. A. Medler, were construct a nurses’ home at the F L. Cannell of the Wasco Meth ; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McDonald, Pendleton hospital at a cost of odist church. ' Mr. and Mrs. Harland McDonald $40,000, a combined recreation hall Mr. and Mrs. Louis Scholl and daughter, Dona Jeanette and and school building at the girls’ spent Christmas day in The Dal i son Billy. school to cost $70,000 and remodel les with their son in law and dau Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Walsh and one of the cell blocks at the state ghter, Mr. and Mrs. George Kne- 1 child spent Wednesday in The prison at a cost of $50,000. Dalles with her parents, Mr. and A proposal by Budget Director Sunday night the Methodist Mrs. H. L. Hazlitt. church was packed with people E. K. Knox of The Dalles was Eccles that the state of Oregon when the combined churches pre a week end visitor at the Frank discontinue cooperation with the W P A in order to encourage sented a Christmas program of Knox home. Bcb Collins of Pasco visited increased employment by the •o:«s, recitations and drill num bers. A number of hymns from ; several days returning home af private industry was turned down by the Board of Control. The boa»d the audience were sung. Rev. Ste- ter Christmas. sui" ieau in prayer after which I Joe and L^e Dehlar, as is usual however, did agree that henceforth ' IrJii-s .heir under the direc with them, spent Christmas with f 11 state cooperation ' with this federal ageftcy would be confined t s of Mrs. Maud Akers sang their mother at Mt. Angel. their oanrtata number. A scene Miss Margaret Moon spent a to what it termed “pick and of the babe in the manger and week with her parents, Mr. and the mother Mary while the shep Mrs. Ed Moon. She is employed herds paid tribute was presented in Portland. dvring the singing by the choir. The mystery mothers gave their This was followed by a candlt Christmas gifts to the Standard si ng service. Closing benediction Bearer group of girls when they was given by Rev. Cannel. Then met recently at the parsonage for Santa gave sweets to the children a 5:30 no-host dinner. At seven ’ Miss Jean Ackerson and Miss the eight girls went carolling and Alice Burns were in Portland foi later joined the Epworth league th< holidays. J rtembers at the church for an eve- •Mrs. Lillie Stevens and granu in in g d f merriment and refresh- daughter, Miss Ora Stevens left : ments. Friday for Medford. Saturday Delbert Rice arrived Louise DuBois is also visiting 1 home for the holidays from Camp in Medford. Murray. Dewey Thomas left for the home Preaching at Methodist church Sunday by 'Rev. Cannel at 11 a.m. of his parents in North Carolina Sunday school at 10:00a.m. Pre and his cousin, Lane, left for the aching at Grass Valley at 2:30 home of his parents in Tennessee. At the Wasco public school They will return to Wasco before Friday evening friends and par spring. Mr. and Mrs. T. Lester John ents enjoyed the following pro gram. Several numbers Iby the son left for Portland Tuesday, rhythm band, Ace of Diamonds where they will spend some time end The Christmas Tree; Whis visiting their parents. Christmas dinner guests at tlu tle band, March and Silent Night Bund numbers under direction of home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthui Andrew Landless the last one be Srigent included Miss Olive Rob-, fi7g a Christmas pantomine, The inson, Miss Vivian Trounce, John Nativity. Candy ,nuts were del 'Robinson, Walter Eaton, James Maddox, Wayne Barton, Mr. and ivered by Santa Claus. Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Smith Mrs. Harry VanGilder, Mr. and were called to Spokane recently Mrs. Vernon VanGilder, Bryan when Delmar was given a posi VanGilder and Raymond and Ar tion with the elevator company. thur VanGilder. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hilderbrand - Bert Hatley left Monday for Prineville and brought his dau motored to Portland Sunday. Mrs. Bella Clothier is here from ghter home after she had visited with her sister, Mrs. Ivan Gervais O.ympia, Wash., visiting over the Harley Dutton drove to Foesil holiday season with her children Sunday and brought his daugh and families. ter Mrs. James Dunn and two children, Douglas and David home mmp w:th him for Christmas week. Harold Dutton came from John (Continued from oage one» Day for a visit. Mrs. Dunn will ksve from here for Redding, Cal. sus it is now more than 30 yean, v ith *her children to join her hus- since the last legislative reappor- , tionment although minor readjust bt nd who i* employed there. James and Philip O’Meara came ments in representative and sena from Linfield college for Christ torial districts have been made from time to time. . mas vacation. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Funk Multnomah county legislators, spent Christmas week with Mr. and Mr». Gene Hull-ini Portland. whose county would be the chief Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fergeson beneficiary of any thorough going and children visited Sunday at th? reapportionment at this time, are home of Mrs. Lydia Darby, Mrs. coming to the session prepared to insist upon a complete reshuffling Fcrgusen’s mother. Miss Mary Fortner left Monday of the legislative deck. At the evening for Portland to see her piesent time Multnomah county puents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fort has six members of the senate,- ner. The family spent Christmas plus one other shared with Clack- at Forest Grove with Mr. and amas county, and 15 representa Mrs. Grant VanDoren, the elder tives, plus one shared with Clack- amas and Columbia counties. T hit daughter of the Fortfters. Mrs. Jessie Amos is spending gives this one county approxi her holiday vacation at the home mately 22 per cent of the senate of her sisters Mrs. E. 0. McCoy and House membership. Inas much as the county contains ap and Mrs. Crosfield. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Caldwell and proximately one third the state’s Argilan Foister left immediately population ita delegation insists that it is entitled to one-third the legislative reats. That means an i addition of three senators and six ; representatives. But in order to , give Multnomah, county these ad- , ditional members they must be taken away from leas populous counties. And there is the rub. fa * Up-state counties feel that Mult nomah county yields entirely toi much influence in the legislature already for the good of the state as a whole. To give Multnomah the additional members to which she is entitled on a strictly popu lation basis, it is feared, would be and a. to turn over complete domination of the law-making body to that county. Counties destined to lose through a legislative reapipdrtion- ment at this time can be expected to oppose the move, and, under the Circumstances these counties will have the sympathy if not the out right support of most of the out- state counties in what they regard ns an attempted grab on the pari of the state’s smallest, if most populous county. ThU is the season in which w e like Vasco Woman Becomes Bride On Sunday shovel” jobs, that is projects re has been awarded to the Signal, 100; general government, $1,886,- its an- offending motorist would quiring a minimum of skilled Standard and Union oil companies 274; conservation and development h tv i bq opportunity to prove to for the bulk deliveries and to the of natural resources, $1,775,086; the court that in spite of the fact labor,, .« T Union oil company for the service protection of persona and proper that he was exceeding the indicat . * * ' ty, $1,474,124; Would War Veter ed maximum speed his driving was Dates for the 1941 state fair station business. ans State Aid commission, $896,- rot reckless or unreasonable under I * ♦ G were announced by the state board * of agriculture Saturday as Septem ¿Construction of a school build 787; health and sanitation, $131,- the existing circumstances. An other group flavors the enact of ber 1 to 7, inclusive. ing, at the State Industrial Scffool 665 ; ^miscellaneous, $116,824. » « » . • absolute minimum speeds with no Talk may be cheap but Oregon for Girls, is recommendeed in the “ifs,” “and’s” or ‘Units” attached. Registration of out of state care report of the Oabome association, patrons of the 12 principal tele phone utilities operating in this copies of which have just been re in Oregon - during the first y ll Secretary of State Snell sponsor state in 1939 paid a total of $73,- ceived by the Board of Control. months of 1940 fell approximately ed a proposed ‘‘prima facia” speed 799,225.26 in rentals and tolls that The school building, ‘ the report 20,000 below the record of 1939 law at the last legislative session year according to a report just re recommends, should contain a gym covering the same period. Tourist but the measure died in a House leased by the public utilities com nasium, auditorium and chapel in travel into Oregon during Novem committee after having passed the missioner. The report does not rdodtion to. adequate > class room ber as recorded by the registration senate. Increasing traffic fatali cover the operations of so-called facilities. The Osborne investiga figures, fell from 30 per cent be ties in most of which speed is re class “D” utilities or those with tors alio took exception to rthe low the figures for November, ported as the principal factor now seems to have aroused public gross operating revenues under operation of a dairy at the school 1939. * • « • Opinion to »a pitch which the law $10,000 a year. The report of the ' and recommends that the dairy utilities commissioner shows that herd be transferred at once to the A sharp legislative controversy makers w illnot dare to ignore at there were a total of 173,008 com state penitentiary in order to re is understood to be brewing over the forthcoming session. • » • < pany owned telephones in use in lieve the girls of this work. pioposed changes in Oregon’s Oregon at the end of 1939, a gain speed laws. While it is pretty Peru and Persia have joined the of 7690 over 1938. Of the $19,527,784 - budgeted for , generally admitted that the pres i list of customers for Oregon grown - * » • expenditure from the state’s gen- ' ent basic rule has failed to provide fax seed, Dan J. Fry, clerk of the State owned automobiles and oral fund during the forthcoming effective Regulation of speeding board of control told the board trucks will consume approximately biennium $5,733,690 has been al- I motorists and that a new speed this week. Four thousand bushel 2.200,000 gallons of gasoline during located to educational purposes- law with teeth in it is needed there were shipped to Persia last week, 1,41; according to estimates by the according to David Edcles, state a it at least two well defined views the purchaser paying X12.000 cash state purchasing department.- Con budget director. Support of state a« what any new speed law should in advance for the seed. A simi tract for supplying the state with institutions will require a total x contain. One group is known to lar shipment was made to Peru a its motor vehicle fuel next year $3,680,153; public welfare, $2,878,- support co-called prima facia lim ' few weeks ago Fry said. 4*' H o w can we bear to ex say “Happy New Year” when there is so much misery in the (I world? Look at Europe, the Far East, at South America, at our own country . . . hunger, death, G MERRY CHRISTMAS the world is mad. Yet, down the street, Mrs. Jones had her baby yesterday, an old man, a business man for fifty years died; and nearby, a young couple were married yesterday; and it's rumored that a new business will open soon. Nothing to forget business-and extend our thanks to you for the pleasure we haxe had serving you throughout the year. •Caterpillar Tractor Co. joins with us in wishing you a very «ad a Happy and RflotparouaNcw Yaar. OWeXRA Sbpph s Imp. C C aterpillar can stop X ions,- and these homely things are the stuff of which life is made. Birth and life,- kindness, courage and — • - - faith— these things * by,, far . ... 'V . . outweigh death and hate and cynicism, and they always will triumph. . A long range building brogrnm for the several state institutions cvtlined by the Board of Control calls for .the expenditure of ap- 1 proximately $1,600,000 during the ' next six years. Major item in the 1 program for the next biennium is , the 300-bed treatment hospital for 1 the state hospital to cost an esti mated $325,000. For the 1943-45 biennium the board has included an auditorium and commissary at ihe state hospital to cost $146.000. replacement of the frame build ings i t the Cottage farm at a cost It will be a H appy N ew Y ear - * .....«_...- *x> this progression, neither wars, nor Famine, nor depress- man HAPPY NEW YEAR - war, unemployment, . . . it seems X ex
