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Official County Paper
Moro, Oregon. Friday, February 21, 1941
County Court
Reports on
February Term
COUNTY COURT
PROCEED­
It looks like it can now be s ta t­
INGS. FEBRUARY TERM, 1941
ed w ith a reasonable degree of
February 5, 1941 being the time
certainty th a t thia thing is not
for the regular term of the Coun­
going to go forever. It is going to
ty Court for Sherman County in
stop same night in the first week
the State of Oregon, The Honor­
of March with the singing of
able County Court did on said date
W ashington, D. C., Feb. 20.—In Au id Lang Syne and the members
rr.-ut in the County Courtroom in
lea« than a year, according to the are going to go home and begin
the Courthouse at Moro at the
U. S. Maritime commission ano answ ering questions about w hat
hour of ten o’clock a. m.
navy officers, tihe Columbia river they didn’t do—and why.
The following being p resent:
T hat is a prophesy and like
from Astoria to Portland will
G o . A Potter, County Judge
have all the ship building it can other prophesies it may be wrong
David Reid, County Commissioner
handle. One of the problems will but there are unm istakable signs
J. M. Wilson, County Commis.
be finding skilled men for the th at this legislative session is
T. Lester Johnson, Dist. Attorney
work, and plans are now in pro- getting to the stage of m aturity
Rrss Ornduff, County Clerk
g’X'ss to train young men and give a lte r which it soon does up its
The following proceedings were
refresher course« to older men who work. It has had a long adoles­
‘b id at said term :
arc rusty to afford a new source of cence. It has been a puling and
In the m atter of the payment
craftsm en. The indications are crying infant. It has gone through
o e the claims presented against
th at the ship construction program a long period of childhood when it
the General Fond. Claims exam ­
w ’ll practically eliminate unem­ was Interested s in baubles like
ined, approved and ordered payed,
ployment and th a t this work will dog bills, etc.
In the m atter of the payment
continue for a couple of year».
Now it is coming to the time
of claims presented against the
• • •
when it m ust come of age and
Road Fund. Claims examined and
So serious is the shortage of s ta rt to take on some responsi­
approved, and ordered paid.
magnesium becoming th a t new bility. The problems it was des­
Re: Bond of Roy P. Barnet,
plants are to be established. There tined to settle will not aw ait
F air Board member. Bond exam ­
is a possibility th at a magnesium much longer; the senate will have
ined and approved.
operation will be established in the killed the truck bill with a volley
Re: County Clerk’s annual re­
northw est — somewhere in the of rowels or laid it ungently in the
port of fees collected and disburse-
vicinity of Srxrkane, where there lap of the house by the time this
»ments of the same, January 1, to
Next Tuesday »February 25th,
is an abundance of ore and cheap
written- The judiciary com­
December 31, 1940. Examined and
power. Scientists at Pullman. Wn m ittee struggled long and difficul­ there will be a m eeting of the
apnroved.
claim to have worked out a form ­ tly with the unemployment amend­ chairmen of the following com­
Re: Clerk’s annual report of
Next Monday, February 24th at
ula which produces magnesium ments, staying one night until af- j m ittees: the land use, AAA, live­
disbursements for the period Ja n ­
cheaper than aluminum. This is ter one. When these problems are i stock, and the members of the th ;- court house in Moro, there is uary 1, 1940 to - December 31,
an ore process. Another method before the two • houses and the , County Court, at which time in­ to be a m eeting of all livestock 1910. Report examined and ap­
is using sea water. RFC is a r­ ways and means bills have been 1 ventory of the land, livestock, men in the county, at which time proved.
ranging to finance a plant in Cal­ passed, there is nothing to do that crops and other enterprises car- Mr. Jackm an and Mr. Lindgren
Re: Clerk’s annual report of
ifornia, and another m ay come will keep the legislature in Salem- neff on in Sherman county, will will be present to discuss feed­ disbursements made against tlx1
north.
So, those who have bills
P*8S be made. This inventory will in- ing and management. There is read fund for the period January
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aie working on them now and this
the grazing and crop land a production of approximately 1, 1940 to December 31, 1940. Re­
Having declared he would not week sees more activity and the J under .private
ownership, the £000,000 bushels o f wheat average port examined and approved.
spend a nickel on rivers and h a r­ hoys are startin g to talk to their grazing land under ’state owner­ in tiis county a fte r the AAA cut
Re: Clerk’s report of over­
bors but would use every dollar neighbors in
plaintive tone of ship. An attem pt will be made has been applied. Research and drafts, under budget expenditures,
*c? national defense, the president request and ask for support for to forecast the future for livestock experim ental results indicate that etc., for 1940. Report examined
has become convinced th at work on thia or th a t bill.
production in Sherman county as the average producer can realize and approved.
rivers and hadbors is «ssentially
a i income in the neighborhood of
"Tie: Copy of an agreement
Among the bills likely to be left welt ae other crop«.
a defense policy. A request foi
$1 00 per bushel for each bushel between the State Highway Com­
in some other place than the sec*
In regard to crop land, the
several million dollars for this retary of sta te ’s office duly deco-
of wheat fed to cattle. The. recom­ mission and the Sherman County
acreages will he divided into wheat,
activity has been made to con' ated with the signature* of the
mended feed program among the Court, providing for the construc­
rye, oats, barley, otc. The acre­
gness. with a fair prospect of fu r­ speaker, and president and the
growers would be the putting of tion and maintenance of the Mary-
ages
for 1939 and 1940 will be
ther develcpment of harbors on governor, is HB 94, which is an
sle trs weighing between 500 and hi’l F irry connection with the
summarized on the basis of yield
600 pounds on winter feed with Columbia
the coasts of Oregon and W ash­ effort on the p art of 22nd district
River
Highway,
in
per acre, the adjusted yield per
wheat as the bulk of the grain Sherman County. Agreement ex­
ington.
'legislators
to
reform
the
method
acre
and
the
total
adjusted
pro­
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of .apportioning the gas money duction of livestock per acre. This rrtion. Experim ental results in­ amined, approved and ordered
There is such a demand for elec­
dicate th a t approximately 120 to filed.
bock to the counties. A number
tric power in the Pacific northwest of methods of doing this have survey is being made throughput 130 days are necessary in order
Re: Letter of proposal of Pacific
th at government projects cannot been worked out by the delegation the 35 counties in Oregon and the to get the desirable gain on these Power & Light Company, contain­
summ arizing of the information
take care of requests until addi­
but none of them have aroused collected in the individual counties particular steers. The steers will ing proposal of exchange of Pow­
tional generators are installed,
the proper and necessary en­ will he under the supervision of consume between 7 and 8 pounds er lines between Pacific Power &
according to Secretary of the In­
thusiasm in the breasts of the the sta te land use planning com­ average per day of grain and Light Co., and County Court
terior Ickes. Contracts arc being
somewhere around 10 to 12 pounds wherein Pacific Power & Light Co.
committeemen.
m ittee. The tabulation of these
w ritten for future delivery of
of hay. The average total gain
Reapportionm ent is also a prob­ figures will be associated with the ever the period should be some proposes to exchange present
power from generators still to be
power Tine inside of County Fair
installed. Full capacity of Bonn«, lem but there is as yet no move information recommended by the where between 300 and 350 pounds. grounds for the present line oivn-
various committees just complet­
toward
making
g
reat
changes.
ville has been ordered, ten units,
On this basis each steer would ed by the County, between E xperi­
which will provide 518,400 kilo­ Thi? has been said before and is ed The state land use planning consume approxim ately 16 bushels mental Station and the Fair
w atts. Grand Coulee dam has been being said again to give assurance. committee will then set up a state of wheat. . On the average the Grounds. Re: Proposal of P.P.&
agricultural program which, it is
finished and two 10,000 kilow att The m aster may change in any
m arket reports indicate that not L. Co. accepted, • subject to a r ­
felt, will to the best extent, meet
week.
There
will
be
a
change
in
stations will s ta rt next month,
to exceed 20% of all the steers rangem ent of the P.P. & L. Co.
and in August the first of the 108,- the date of assessm ent unless the the impacts of w ar and the period m arketed in the Northwest have for bill of sale of property in­
wh’ch is to follow.
000 kilowatt generators will func­ senate delays too long.
been grain fed. This means that volved.
And except for a few salary in­
tion. This will he followed by a
80% of the cattle sold on the
Re: Report of County T reasur­
second 108,000 kilow att generator creases for county officers and COMMITTEES MEET TO
m arket in the Northwest goes to er for month ending January 31,
next February, and a third in some amendments to existing l&ws
m arket without being fed any 1941. Report examined and ap-
DISCUSS SOIL BUILDING *
th a t is about all.
June, 1942.
grain. This means a loss of a con­ pioved.
So it doesn’t really make a lot
Shasta dam, across the Oregon
Court adjourned, subject to- call
Monday morning, February 17, siderable amount of a prospective
line in northern California, has of difference when the session ends. there was a meeting held of all m arket for surplus wheat in the of County Judge.
been, rushed and four 75.000 kilo­ However it can end normally in the county and community com- Northwest.
CLAIMS PRESENTED AND AL­
w att generators and two 2,000 kilo­ about 55 days unless snags of some m m ittees on AAA a t which time
In addition to the feeding of
watt station service generators will kind arise in w hat now appears to Mr. Earl Thompson, farm er field- steers, which probably are the most
LOWED AGAINST THE GEN­
be working in • December, 1043. be a placid course. ,/.
man for AAA, discussed with desirable type of livestock to be
ERAL
FUND,
FEBRUARY
This is one year ahead of the ori
The house by a decisive vote those in attendance the 1941 pro­ fed under our conditions, there arc
gir.al schedule, and Californians made it plain th a t the purchase gram which included crop loans, i thousands of head of hogs and
TERM, 1941
are urging even greater speed. clause in the Columbia river bridge crop insurance, trashy fallow and ! sheep which are shipped in and Claimant
Account
Amount
Bculder dam, expected to reach bili was in demand. It was the other soil building practices which 1 are not fed in the Northwest which
First National Bank, Gener­
capacity in 50 years, has not touch Contention of the opponents of could be adopted by Sherman I cculd very easily be fed to some
al Assistance
$192.54
ed th at point and three more great this clause th a t it would serve to county farm ers for 1941.
‘ extent in this county.
A .s’n of Oregon Counties
generators are being added to the retard the construction of the
Membership fees 1941
64.36
needed bridge across the upper-
plant.
L- Roy C. W right, Secretary
Meanwhile, the Columbia power Columbiaz
F air Fund 1941
500.00
authority is developing a contro­
And its spring in the valley and
F irst- National Bank, Old
versy. The northw est people, anc each day brings a bright sun and
Age Assistance
154.60
particularly the — PUDs, are de­ the new lambs a re out in the sod­
F irst National Bank:-.Blind
manding th at Bonneville, Grand den fields and the hair on the cat-
Assistance
9-40
increased to in excess of $300,000
Coulee and possibly Shasta be t le 'i s g ettin g its pre-shedding By .A- L. Lindbeck.
by approval of other non-»budget- F irst National Bank: 'Aid to
Salem,
Or.,
Feb.
20.—The
legis­
managed bv a hoard of directors roughness' and the time will soon
Dependent Children
22.20
ed items and predictions are that
elected by PUDs with a full time be here when legislators should be lative ways and means committee,
Otis
Baker,
Janitor
75.00
the
budget
will
be
a
t
least
$500,-
th a t reputedly hard boiled body
manager, hut in W ashington. D. C. home—and they will.
000 in the red before this session Joe T ruitt: Bond of Roy P.
of
senators
and
representatives
th° power policy committee is p re ­
Barnet, Fair Board member 5.00
whose function it is to pass on all ends.
paring legislation to give control
Gio.
H. Wilcox: County Treas
requests for state funds, appears
into the hands of the secretary of
uret Bond $100.00. County
Reaction of the Oregon law­
to
be
reconciled
to
the
-restoration
-the interior. The group in the
Coroner Bond 5.00;
105.0Q
of a deficit in the state bud­ makers to the visit of the W ash­
national capital desires to squeeae
State
Dep’t
of
Agriculture:
ington
delegation
which
came
to
get. This, too, in spite of the fact
out all private companies in Ore­
Sealer of Wts. & Meas.
3.76
th at the. general fund revenues for S ì h m this week to discuss Col­
gon and Washington, but this view
Two wedding anniversaries were appropriation purposes are ap­ umbia river fishing problems, was
(Continued on page four)
is not entertained by the PUDs. A celebrated a t the home of Mr. and
anything but favorable. Spokes­
proximately
$2,000,000
greatei
hri°k battle can he exmected over Mra. Max Pluemke Sunday when
men for the visiting ' legislators
this issue before the adjournment Mr. and Mrs G rant Smith of P o rt­ than they were two years ago were very tactless- in presenting
when the committee insisted on a
of congress/
land, m arried 21 years came to balanced 'budget.
their views and their ‘‘demands”
help Mr. and Mrs.’ Pluemke, m ar­
served only to antagonize the Ore­
The
carefully
balanced
budget
At the present rate, most of the ried 33 years celebrate.
gon legislators to*theiir plan for a
presented
to
the
lawmakers
by
the
communities / in IVashington and
The table was laid fo r 16 guests governor was first thrown out of tri-sta te commission to adminis­
Oregon will he p*uren a new airport
M. H. Pitcher and Guy Hulse of
ter fishing problems on the Col­
or present facilities improved in and table decorations were yellow balance when the ways and means
Portland,
were in Moro Wednes­
umbia.
Instead
of
coming
to
any
Narcissus
and
Oregon
grape.
committee refused to approve the
the three-way combination of arm y
day
dem
onstrating
“The soil-till
agreem
ent
between
the
states
as
governor’s
proposal
that
the
in­
Out of town gaests included Mr.
air com?. Civil Aeronautics suth
hnd been hoped the conference be­ plow” designed and built by Mr.
come
tax
commission
be
placed
on
Henry
Moers,
brother
of
Mrs.
orifv end PMTA. In the past ten
tween the legislators of the two Pitcher. '»
d,y> several million dollars have Pluemke and Mrs. G rant Smith; a self sustaining basis. That nec­
About twenty-five farm ers gath­
states ended with a decision to
essitated
a
general
fund
appropri­
beer allocated for airports, and Mix and Mrs. G rant Smith and two
ered
during the course of the day
~ask
for
another
interim
committee
ation
of
some
$306,000
and
a
book­
pddit’onal town« are expected to eon* and their friend, all of P ort­
to make a further s tu d y /o f the to se/e the plow- in action on the
keeping
deficit
of
approximately
land:
and
Mr.
and
Mrs.
A.
S.
he taken care of. The armv w^hn*
Burnet farm near Moro.
$240,000. This deficit was further
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Johnson of Moro.
(Continued on Page two)
Conference Committee Livestock Men
Chairmen To Confer To Meet in Moro
Monday, Feb. 24
State Budget Expected To Be
Half a Million in the Red . .
Two Couples Observe
Annhrertaries
New Type Plow
Demonstrated Here
Use of Rex
Farmer Telephone
WhectfSpreading Lines Now Exempt
Rapidly
From Taxation
By Bob Henderson
Adolph H itler’s spirit ' of con­
quest seems to have been unin- I
Due and Past Due Taxes
tentionally - bred into Rex wheat.
Not content with having secur- j
Must Be Paid In Full To
ed domination of the wheat fields
of Sherman and Um atilla counties j Obtain Exemption
this variety launched a successful
campaign of conquest in Wasco,!
Word has been received th at
Jefferson, Gilliam, Morrow, Mal­ Senate Bill No. 2, introduced by
heur and Union counties in Ore­ Senator Steiwer and Representa­
gon and adjacent counties in Wash tive French, has been signed by
Irgton and Idaho.
Governor Sprague. The aot pro­
Unlike most European aggres­ vides for exemption from proper­
sors it received a sincere welcome ! ty taxation of certain mutual and
from residents of th e- lands that J cooperative telephone lines, com­
have yielded to it. The report ot monly known as farm er lines.
its high productivity, sm ut resis­
Although the act will not become '
tance and general adaptability, i effective until ninety days after
circulated far and wide by its fifth the legislative session, section 4
column, have been proven to be of the aot provides that those
well founded by actual farm trials qualifying for exemption should
Superintendent M. M. Oveson of be exenm-pt from assessm ent for
the Sherman branch experiment the year 1941. Exemptions, how-
station at Moro, where it was bred, evei, are not autom atic, and are
«elected and tested, reports that ( granted only a fte r application by- ,
it has recently established new the line for exemption and appro­
bases in Texas, California, Wyom­ val of the application by the Tax
ing, A rgentina, Mexico and Bui- J Commission.
gara.
One of the provisions of the reg­
Claiming superior germ plasm,
ulations adopted by the Tax Com­
Rt x, the new king of Eastern Ore-
mission reads as follows: “13. No
con winter wheat varities,, traces t
exemption
will be granted unless
its parentage to two far-flung con­
al!
taxes
due
or past due as of
tinents.
Hard Federation, an
March
15,
1941
are paid in full."
Australian spring wheat, and
The Tax Commission is requiring
Whitfc Odessa, an American win­
attachm ent of a tax receipt, from
ter wheAt, were united to produce
this outstanding wheat by form er the sheriff and tax collector th at
Supt. D. E. Stephens and his staff all taxes have been paid, to the
application form.
at t'he Moro station.
To expedite handling this m at­
Encouraged by results of com­
parative tests conducted by the ter, the Commission is not waiting
Pendleton field station, Rex made until the effective date of the act,
its first successful “putsch” with but within the next fortnight will
mail the required annual reports
the hacking of that station.
and
application forms to the v a r­
The ‘‘new order” in the wheat
ious
lines concerned.
fields of Oregon, as envisaged bv
this ambitious monarch called for
it to replace fall-sown Fedeera-
tion and Forty-fold wheat varie­
ties. The form er lacks the ability i
inherent in Rex to withstand se- 1
vere winters and to resist certain j
Portland, Ore., >Feb. 11.—More
forms of smut. Fortyfold is high­
ly susceptible to all forms of smut, than 25 percent of the bridges on
secondary
highways
shatters badly and is generally , Oregon's
inferior in yield when compared ' would not be able to carry arm y
troops and convoys in a period ot
with Rex..
This ‘‘new order,” unlike H it-, emergency, it was disclosed today
ler’s, appears to be almost an ac- , in the study of m ilitary road re-
qttireeneata being made by the Ore­
eomplished fact already.
gon State Motor Asociation.
There are 900 bridges on the
BASKETBALL (¡AME
sia te ’s secondary system . The 25
per cent, chiefly in need of widen­
ing to prevent “bottlenecks” th a t
would stall troops and supply oon-
voys, totals about 225 spans.
in addition, there are a t least
ninety bridges on the secondary
routes th at would not carry heavy
m ilitary tanks and trucks.
The disclosure th a t one-fourth
of the state’s secondary road
bridges would need to »be rev am p ­
ed in order to meet arm y need*
was made by 'R. H. Baldock, state
highway engineer, who is Co-op­
eratin g in the road study inagu-
rsled by Dr. E. B. McDaniel, pres­
ident of the motor association,
under the direction of Ray Con­
way, m anager.
“The highway commission has
plana for the needed reconetruc-
t.on work, which would ba under­
taken as funds became available,”
Baldock said. “ But the m ilitary
emergency is with us now and the
more extended peace time program
must be whipped into high gear
to guarantee our safety through
defense.”
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Baldock said the commission has
City of David Bearded Aces will surveys ready for a vast program
play the Grass Valley Zebras on of highway developm ent and th a t
Oregon Bridges Not
Adequate for Defense
Sunday, February 23, a t 2 p. m. at
the high school gym.
The (Bearded Aces team is com­
posed of collegiate players all be­
ing 6 feet tall and over. They
combine a fast passing game with
superb showmanship and scoring
ability. The team to date have
lost only five games while winning
56 games on their continental tour.
The Zebras have scored many
victories over the independent
team s of this section and should
furnish plenty of opposition to
the House of David Bearded Aces
Continued on page two
Breakfast Club
Appoints Committees
The Moro B reakfast dUb held
its regular m eeting Wednesday
morning. A report on the basket
social was given showing a profit
of $56,39.
Standing committees for 1941
appointed by the executive com­
mittee were given as follows: A gri­
culture, W. T. Balsiger, chr; Leg­
islative, Giles French, chr; Recre­
ation, Dewey Thompsen/ chx;
Community W elfare,, Dr. C. L.
Poley, chr; Public Affairs, Lloyd
Hennagin, chr; Education, Carroll
Sayrs, chr; Membership, W. W.
• The Wlasco Civic club will Hold Knighton, chrri._ Finance, LeRoy
it? regular meeting Monday, Feb­ W right, ehr.
,
—
The Moro High School Glee chib
ruary 24, nt a 7:30 dinner in the
1 under the direction of Mr*. Nye,
Sherman hotel dining room.
This will be an open meeting sang several songs.
The members to be responsible
and a special invitation is extend­
for
the entertainm ent at the next
ed to anyone wishing to hear Mr.
Baldock, chic* engineer of the meeting ara A. M. Nelson, Ross
OMT
state highway commission speak Ornduff, Walt Rugglet
on ‘ Roads for Defense.”
Sayrs.
__ a
Wasco Civic Club . $
To Meet Monday