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Official County Paper Moro, Oregon. Friday, J an u ary 17, 1941 Fifty-Third Year N o. 11 Moro Lodges British War Minisi» r in Middle East Install Officers For Coming Year' Local Farmers Chairman 1940 Events Attend Weed Listed For Control Meeting Journal Readers f’ The lodges of Moro the past - Chronological Summary Of Two Speakers Discuss ... x ■> f MTii 4 week have been busy practising to make ready for installation of the j Local Events During Weed Problems of interest new officers chosen to direct them j .1* for the coming year. The Preceeding Year To Local Farmers Members of Eureka Lodge No. * 1 121 A.FJA.M. and Bethlehem Jan. 5.—Mrs. Ruby Pettys 'bur T h irty seven fa rm e rs attended ied Sunday. Ernie Weld d ie s ^ f Chapter No. 78 O.EJ5. met for a the weed m eeting a t the C ourt Washington D. C. Jan 16—Every 6-30 dinner at the Masonic hall pneumonia. Bob King leaves for Douse last W edneesday. Mr. Lynn one in Washington knows that Saturday evening followed by the the Ogden and Denver Stock H a iris and Law rence Jen k in s o;’ ccr.gress will enact the “lease- installation of officers for 1841. Shows. A son was born New Oregon S ta te college were sp eak Installing officer for the Masonic loar” hill under which President Y» ar arrives to Mr. and Mrs. Jean ers on the program . Mr. H arris Rrosevelt can do anything he de lodge was Clarence Sparling, as Joyal of Wasco. talked on weed control practices i sires with American war material. sisted by H. B. Pinkerton as Mar- j Jan . 12.—1946 starts with mois anu m ethods that are being e a r Naturally, it makes the president rhal and Ramsey Schadewitz as ture in contrast to 1939. Mrs. n ed on by the Oregon S tate col a dictator, hut that is understood organist. Officers installed were: 1 Palestine . . . Captain Anthony Eden, British minister of war. is lege experim ent station and Mi-. ’ Sen. W ,liter Pearson, ex -state Kate Johnson dies at the age of r ahd, if need he, he can be deprived Wendell Balsiger, M; Darwin Van shown (hatless) shaking hands with an officer of a Trans-Jordan frontier Jen k in s discussed th e pro g ram s tiei.su re r, chairm an of senate 91. David Hoskinson dies at the of these powers by a vote of two- Gilder, SW; Willard McLeod, JW; force during his recent visit to the British army of the Middle East. Tlie as being carried on in individual ways , and m eana—oojnrtiitiee. His r.ge of 18 following an apendec- i Clarence Sparling, treas; C. V. thirds of congress. be-medaled officer at left is unidentified, but the gadget he holds in Ids com ities th ro u g h o u t the state. The experience ha .state tre a s u re r will lumy. Lucille Vale now county hand is a fly-switch, if that’s of any help. " i t will be no rush job, enacting Belknap, sec; Ralph Brisbine, SD; county co u rt in cooperation w ith 1 be lielpf’pl in his new position. nurse to replace Katherine More«, the county a g e n t’s office will, in the measure, for the senate will Chas. Ruggles, JD; LeRoy Wright, who resigned to enter matrimony. consume time in debating the bill. SS; Wm. J. Martin, JS; John Mc- the very n ear fu tu re , ap p o in t a $268,S06.35 comes through the Ag weed council consisting of repre- ! ricultural conservation committee Af present the bill (it was intro- j : Clure, Tyler. cuced simultaneously) is in the 1 Installing officer for the Chapter to be distributed to complying sentatives from the various dis foreign relations committee of the was outgoing Matron, Mrs. Naomi tricts fo r the purpose of adm inis- j farmers. fci ate and the foreign affairsof Van Gilder assisted by Mrs. J. C. Jan. 19.—Telephone change put» terin g the weed control program in Sherm an county which is now ' the house. The fireworks will be- | : Huntley of Beaverton Chapter, dial system to work in Sherman county. Mrs. Hazel Wood» and gin when the bill emerges from ; mother of Mrs. Dorotha Moore, as Salem, Ore., Jan. 16.—Construc I s;«?(ial authority to organize a a weed control district. - cimmittee and reaches the floor. : Marshal; Irene "Fraser as Chap tion of another state office build state guard he has no intention of daughter Signa bid farewell to The activ ities of the council will community as they leave for Opposition will not be on party lain: and Mrs. Nina Pinkerton, ing, taxing of trucks and busses, making use of that ‘authority un, be tc establish a policy under All of the county AAA commit- Lnes; there are good Democrats i organist. Officers installed were- the need for a system of voca less an emergency should arise re which the sta te weed law will bi tic s thro u g h o u t the S tate of O re Drain. Grass Valley also bid their as well as Republicans who be Dorotha Moore, WM: Serai Sear tional schools, the condition of the quiring such an organization, he applied to the county and to th«* gon are m eeting in Corvallis th 's operator, Mrs. Ben Leghorn and lieve that the measure gives too cy, WP; Marie Hoskinson, AM, slate institutions. These were saia. Local and state police have individual farm s. week where the en tire program will family, adieu. much authority to the president, i Roy Powell, AP; Patricia Woods, some of the problems discussed by J the law enforcement situation well Jan. 26.—Tax notices to be sent Mr. Lynn H arris, weed specialist '.e disci:.'sod. Those atten d in g end each will have his “say” be lj.ee; Pauline Davis, treas; Norma Governor Charles A. Sprague in I :r. hand in Oregon now and there lep o rted on the resu lts o b tain finm this county will be the out soon to call for slightly less. fore the bill reaches aFrollcall. i Balsiger, cond.; Alice Omduff, his message to the law-makers i is no present need for a home ed through the use of Sinox for county committee members, Siierman county pioneer, Ralph C. What is occurring in Washing assist, cond.; Anna Moore, chap; assembled here for their forty- I guard organization in this state weed control, purposes on the a n I . vvey Thom pson and LeRoy C. Bennett, dies in 'Portland and Peter ton is what had been predicted; , Rose Amidon, marshal; Lois Bar- first biennial tessjon this week. nual weeds. In the re su lt it wa-> W right. Joe P eters, the c h a ir Piters dies at home near Grass j in the opinion of the governor. ! zee, organist: Betty Powell, Adah; pnyone who refuses to go the ¿whole Calling attention to the fact found in ’940 th a t this chemical man of the com m ittee, will report Valley.' Mrs. Perry Strong, a for- distance in aid to the British is I Ethel Searcy, Ruth; Naomi Van that two of the largest state de ! The cost af relief in Oregon would control Russian T histle, , if t n Sherm an county’s activities in nei resident, was killed in an auto viewed with suspicion and is called , Gilder, Esther; Helen Ruggles partments—the public utilities com ' shows a steady year-by-year in- rpplied to the weed while it was- the federal program , covering con accident near Tpalatin. Fob. 2.—Rufus Distriot to get an appeaser and is not regarded Martha; May Belshe, Electa; mission and the unemployment ! crease ever since the present poli- young. One of the big problems servation p ra ctiie s, Crop loans, as exactly “right.” Somehow such Margaret Peetz, warden; Darwin compensation commission— are I cy was inaugurated in 1933 and in Sherm an county is the control crop in su ran ce-an d oth er detailed power from PP&L Co. H. A. individuals are gradually being con • Van Gilder, sentinal. r.ow housed in rented quarters in of Russian Thistle, m ustard and ii.form ation vital to the program Sommer buried Monday. O’Meara A lovely floral degree was con- downtown Salem the governor . the end is not yet in sight accord tarw eed. This chemical has been as it is operated here. Chairm en holds annual Tractor school. L. R- sidered as disloyal. It is in reali ing to figures compiled by the ty the beginning of a witch hunt ; ferred on the new Worthy Matron suggested that another building I state budget department, very effective on all three of these 1 ,f alT of the com m ittees in oth er tonlee sells his grocery store to such as always presage» entry in ! ?nd Worthy Patron by 'David be erected in the capitol group op i When the legislative session of annuals and it’s application in this counties will do likewise which aons. [ Moore, Connie Rugglea, Alan posite the new library ouilding. Feb. 9.—Wayne Darby appoint to war. 1933 created the state’s first sev- county would save Sherm an coun will build a foundatiofi for im- ed tc do the field assessment work ty fa rm e rs thousands of dollars. Tucked away in the bill (its P nkerton and Donna Kay Spar- To finance its construction he sug I provem ent as well as educating i •»ntinued on P a n e T w o Mrs. R. W. Kase- r oncer is 1776) is a little item bng. Mrs. Irving Hart was solo gested a loan from the common In addition to discussing the an- je m h and every com m itteem an this spring. ist for the degree singing “You’re oerg dies in The Dalles after lsn< which authorizes the president to i whereby they m ay (be more fa m school fund. I r.ual weed problen^, through in fo r make, available the pest*. of the the only Star in My Blue Heaven.” Pointing out that license», fees and Ronald Powell Burned m ation obtained’ oy Mr. H arris in iliar with the p ro g ram as it illness. John Kaseberg, early resi The Rebekahs and Odd Fellows gaioline taxes now paid by trucks United States to disabled foreign Following these dent of Sherman county dies of ! l.is experim ents, indications -ire ¡effects Or?gon. warships. It makes no mention of I k Id their ceremonies Tuesday and busses all go into the con In Explosion reports various com m ittees will be* heurt attack in Portland. ; th at cultivation of m orning glory, Feb. 16.—Smut losses total $23,- what nation, but, of course, it right with a 6.30 dinner preceding struction and maintenance of the unpointed to form ulate practices knapweed and white top using a Ronald Powell suffered severe 436 in county in 1939. F. L. Kee installation. highways over which these vehic means British. * This gives the delayed m ethod, cultiv atin g a t not anu im provem ents applicable to the Vernon Miller was installing les operate the governor declared burns about his face, when he ; to exceed six inches, during the ' ir.dividual counties and the state dies of stroke in Salem while on British fleet full access to Ameri way home from California. can ports and all facilities for re officer for the Odd Felows and they should pay their share toward lifted the draft on a diesel heater season, th a t cxcelfent control and as a whole. Fob. 23.—The Gus SdiHling pairs. For the larger vessels cflicers were: Joe Hitner, NG; the support of general govern, in a watering trough at the family J in some cases eradication was ob i This is the first m eeting of its home last Friday. The heater up nomc near Kent was destroyed by Paul May, VG; Vernon Miller sec. mint. He recommended that the there is only one such place on the tained. Two chemifalB which are kind to he held in Oregon. The Mrs. Rebekah Wilson installed legislature either impose an addi- on receiving the air, blew up , recommended and have (been found fio eral farm program has been in fire Political activity begins for Pacific coast—the Bremerton Navy \ard, and two on the Atlantic side. the following officers for the t ’onal tax on these commercial throwing hot soot in Ronald’s face, very effective arc Sodium C hlorat. < pc ration since 1933 and conse inunty officers. Fred Peterson of With the Germans bomibing the Relekahs with Helen Martin, NG; operators or capture the present injuring one eye auite severely be and Carbon Bisulphide. The lat- quently suggested im provem ents klunwnth Falles scheduled to be docks at Britain, the English navy Lueile May, VG; Florence John earnings tax which amounts to sides other facial burns. He wa~ , ter chemical is the most effective rnd practices will l>e founded on here on the county school law is looking for a place to have re- ston sec; Havie Brisbine, treas. more than $1,000,000 a year fot token to The Dalles hospital im and is applied for the best results experim ents m aking it possible for which may be voted on here. 4-H mediately. There w-as some con 1 early in the spring and the form ei im piovenients which will apply clubbers 4tart feeding calves. Roy Kessinger was presented this purpose. •r pairs made to the fleet, and this Mar. 1.—(Continued rains end hill will meet all requirements in \v:th his 35 year jewel and Art j Touching on the subject of edu cern for a day or two about the , for the best resu lts in 'h e fall. under the varied conditions thru- .-.hortage of moisture, winter wheat that respect. There is, perhaps, Barnum with his 40 year jewel. cation the governor said that “a injury to his eye sight, but have ci: i the state. Mr. Jen k in s discussed the weed in giod condition. more objection of this part of the serious deficiency in our school r.ow decided it will not be impair- ' control practices being used in PiDrch 8.—Wasco play “It Happen measure than to any other. It system is in vocational education,” eu, *• . M alheur and U m atilla counties in Ronald w-as dismissed from the ' this area and in the W illam ette Sherman County Boys ed One Night” presented by th« sounds too much like war. and told the legislators that there Dates Set For Garden Club was well attended is need for genuine vocational hospital Wednesday but will re : valley. He reported on the actie- County court orders election on While debate rambles on, Amer Sherman County Fair schools of below college level lo- main a few days in The Dulles ! ities of the county courts in c a r Make Honor Roll school bill. Crop insurance taken i.cated at stragetic certers over tin. for further eye treatment beforu rying on weed control . practices ican production will be geared up. coming home. O. G. Hilderbrand and LeRoy , state. New plants are being erected at O iegon S tate College^ Corvallis, cut by 364 farmers. ! which w-as in the form of cooper- March IB.—Power line for Kent fUecaring that “the time is at the expense of the government for C. Wright attended the annual . at ion between* the farm ers and the Jan HI.—Jack Dillard S ath er, ju n r.i aring approval. Addition to be tl>e manufacture of smokeless pow meeting of th? Oregon Fair As hand for an overhaul” of the court. In general these activities ior in ag ricu ltu re from Kent, made made to Moro elevator. Action on der, for shell-filling, for tanks, for sociation held at the Imperial workmen’s compensation law and Kent Boy Ordered , have been devoted p rim arily to I he honor roll for-,the fall term . airplanes, engines, etc. Several Hotel in Portland January 9 and recommended an increase in bene cultivation for the purpose of con- The roll includes . only those s tu politicaJ front speeding up. March 22.—Sherman county months will he required to pre 10. At this meeting the dates for fit payments to permanently dis Into Training i tro llin g and erad icating the nefx- dents who make grade point av e r wins seal sale cuu. Grass Valley abled workers and to dependents all of the county fairs for 1941 pare these plants for production ages of 3.B0 or (better while c a rry i iouis weeds. ciiureh gives concert to raise build end once they are running out in this state were set. The Sher of deceased workers the governor Sherman county will provide ing 12 or more credits. their particular product, th f pres man County dates are September warned against entering into any cne man for the second call issued Only about 6 per cent of the ing funds. Easter cantata to he ident will be sending the material 12 to 14 inclusive. The tentative p’ogram that might endanger the last Friday by selective service 4759 stu d en ts reg istered for the risented by Presbyterian church. New Barber Comes to the British, saving only a trifle program has been established solvency of the insurance fund. * headquarters at Salem. fall term made the honor roll. Rtgistration ends for rimaries. The governor pointed with pride of the output for American nation which will include outstanding at Gordon Woodrow Bringman, These represented every school and March 29.—Wasco Civic club set tractions, races, rodeo, dance and 1 to the balanced budget which he registered from Kent while em From Ontario al defense. ; . all classes, with the sophom ores date for La mb show, April 27th. Tax turnover made, lare percen Of this material for the British carnival. The local fair board has prepared for the consideration ployed at the L .V. Walton farm, Hensen has taken over having the la rg e st num ber but t'ige paid. Proposed reduction of none will be paid for by the Brit pirns to supervise all of the ac <?f the legislators and urged that bar been notified to report January the Clarence Leroy B arber Shop from Mr. seniors having the larg e st percen grain rates by railroads protested ish taxpayers; the load will be tivities mentioned above and to “there must be no extravagance 24th to the army induction station | Engebretson and is open for 'busi- tage on the list. carried by the American taxpayers, hold the entire list of activities on in appropriating state funds lest at the Armory in Portland. He U niversity of Oregon. Jan. 16,— by truck interests. ' n iss. whether or not they like it. There the fairgrounds. This is a change this «balance be wiped out.” April 5.—Jack von Boreted places will be given another physical W yman J7 French, Moro, fresn- Mr. and Mrs. Hensen arrived man m ajoring in law a t the U ni second in the American Legion is no mention of money anywhere over recent years since at this c xaminaton and accepted or re i F rid ay from -Ontario and Leroy versity of O r e g o n , o n e of 160 oratorical contest for the eastern The first contingent of Oregon’s jected from there.— — in the (bill./.The measure is an fair the dances and carnival will I Einglebretson loft. Sunday to join Ji nuary quota of trainees will re- authorization bill and once it is be held on the grounds proper. Mr. Bringman was the first j his fam ily a t Oregon City who left stu d en ts to make the fall term Oregon district. Wasco cooking 1-ort for duty at the Multnomah since the registration to apply, for passed congress wall (be told how hon»r roll with a grade point ave school attracts large group of county armory next Monday, ac voluntary induction in Sberman i Moro soon a fte r the holidays rage of 3.5 or b etter. v omen. Breakfast club sponsor much money to vote. The extent TAX INFORMATION i started. to which the United States will | The following information may cording to schedules worked out county. Grades are com puted on the ing clean up in Moro. '" " j April 12.—William Clothier buys aid British, Greece and China help to explain the changed basi3 by Lt. Col. Elmer V. Wooten, state h.isis of grades for each hour. In Sherman county was not asked (possible some Latin-American I for filing individual federal in- ; director of selective service. These to provide a quota in the first call LOCAL RED CROSS this com putation, a grade of “A” Wasco Market. Work starts on wild include men from Marion, ai barracks were not ready. nations) is now a matter of guess , come tax returns for 1940. CHAPTER MEETS is listed as 4, a g rad e of “ B” as new elevator in Moro. Power line work, but administration leaders i Duplicate copy need not be filed Polk, Clackamas and Washington being built to Kent. The Red Cross Chapter of Sher 3. “C” as 2, and “ D” as 1. counties? The next day (the eastern JApril 19.—Adams vs Halley pxpect it to be not less than three for 1940. man county held a meeting at the cAsc now being tried entails old hili ion dollars to start with. This Amount of gross income—not Oregon contingent, men from Mai Jack Southwell Hotel Moro on Monday afternoon h-story. Voters reject county . is on top of the 17 billion dollars net income—determines liability heur, Baker, Wallowa, Umatilla, at three o’clock, with the following Land Use Specialist and school plan here. L. D. May die* v.hich the president has submitted Your attention is directed to an Morrow, Gilliam, Grant, piesent: Dr. C. L. Poley, Wily to congress—more than congress important change for filing fed- j Wheeler counties will report Services in Portland Kuighten, T. Lester Johnson, To Be Here Wednesday at Grass Valley. addi April 26.—Rain comes to add to voted in the first world war for e? al income tax returns for 1940. together with a few Jack E. Southwell, 33, stepson George Potter, Ed Alley, Jay Free a’ready ample moisture. Returns for the calendar year 1940 tional trainees from Washington, of C. A. Harper of Wasco, died man and Ray Blake. r.ny one year. J. R. Beck, Extension Land Use May 3.-«--High school*,track meet rre required to be filed under the C’aek&mas and (Clatsop counties. Sunday in a local hospital follow ■Permanent officers ^vere elected S p icialist, will be in the county In the president’s budget he has following circumstance»: Single Wednesday’s contingent > will in ing a long illness. He was bom in as follOWs: Dr. C> L. Poley, chair W ednesday afternoon, J a n u a ry 22, ends in tie for Wasco and Grass eliminated all river and harbor individuals, or married individuals clude trainees from Coos, Curry, Duyton, Washington June B, 1907. man; T. Lester Johnson, vice to m eet with the Sherm an county Valley with Moro winning the Sherman work, and road funds other than r.ot living with husband or wife, Dpuglas, Jackson, Klamath, Lake, Survivors are his ¿ mother, Mrs. chairman; Ray Blake, secretary; I,?nd Use com m ittee. Mr. Beck declamatory contest. those he must sanction. There is having a gross income of $800.00 Grant, Tillamook, Yamhill and C. A. Harper, Wasco and two sis J. M. Wilson, treasurer; execu will discuss land use and its effect cvfcnty has few tax delinquencies. Jefferson counties. - Lane Benton, May 10.—Erskine elevator eras net a nickel for military high or more. ters, Mrs. Inez Hartung, Portland tive committee: Mrs. C. L. Poley, upon national preparedness, as it Married individuals living to I inn, Lincoln and Columbia coun ed by fire. Yellow wheat cause ways in the budget, (but there is M. E. McKee, Wily Knighten, Geo. wilk apply to Sherm an county ’n ' and Calana Harper, Wasco, found by station staff. a strong and persistent demand gether, haying a combined gross* ties will furnish the Thursday i Funeral service» were held Petter and Ed Alley. particu lar and to Oregon in gen i quota and the men from Crook, May 17.—Lamb show W fewer for'such and before this session income of $2000.00 or more. eral. The com m ittee then will The annual President’s Ball was Wednesday at the Portland Crema entries than usual. The funeral closes a military highway bill will . The net income is no longer to I Deschutes, Harney, Sherman and torium. discussed und plans; made to hold disiuss recom m endations w ith the for Mrs. Florence Beezley was held he offered by the house committee be used in determining liability W&Sco counties will. report on it this year February J kt; at the object of b e tte r land use planning in Grass Valley Monday. County 'on roads. To date the report on for filing federal income tax re Friday" with Multnomah county nV applied to Sherm an county. Mr. and Mrs. Hal Shelton and Kent Legion hall. J. M. Wilson ! supplying a few men on each of graduates 42 seniors this year. ~ military highways which has ibeen turns. daughter,’ Nancy, were week end was made chairman of the dance Severe penalties are imposed lihe five days. .... May 24.—Republicans and Dem on the president’s desk for months Mr. and Mrs. R obert Marvin a • r guests of Mrs. Shelton’s parents, committee. ■; Their plan is to have ocrats elect committeemen and is still there. Administration for for not filing a return, for filing of Hermiston spent the week end two or Uiree girls from each town ces contemplate using federal aid a false or fradulent return, or ’ While Governor Sprague is ask- Mr. and Mrs.. Ed McKee, from se'l ticflBts.• Continued oa page tWt • visiting in Moro. | ivg the legislature to give him their home in Hood River. facing to file by March 16. I . “ • - (Continued on Page two) Governor Sprague Advises New Building, New Tax » ’W : AA A Committee in Corvallis This Week I
