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'^ U l " 'i r*~- x> Moro, Oregon. Friday, February 28, 1941 F ifty-T h ird Y ear N o . 17 Pending Bills * Weird and Wonderful Discussed By Representative ' W ashington D. C. Feb. 27.— Dol la r a y ear m en flocking to W ash ington are, " in m an y instances, m aking a good th in g o f th eir tem p o rary federal jobs. T hey are do ing so well toy them selves and th e ir friends th a t OPM is quietly easin g some o f these men out and a congressional in v estig atio n is nibbling a t them . » A few of the top $1 a yeai men, sych as Bill Knudson and Sydney H illm an of OPM, pay no atten tio n to hours and work until late a t night. O thers, however, m ake an a p p e a r ance and a fte r a couple of hours consider th a t they have perform ed th e ir duty. In the p ast ten days so many rum ors have circulated in the cap ital about monkey business with* aw ard in g co n tracts of various so rts th a t a re g u la r house com m ittce is calling w itnesses and df Iving into the reports. In the senate a resolution fo r a sen a te com m ittee has been approved, and i* will probably go into action shortly. Am ong oth er m a tte rs, the spec ial com m ittee is expected to inves tig a te why the w ar d ep a rtm en t had no plans for cantonm ents, a ir p o rts and sim ilar defense m atters. The General public, and a t least the m em bers of congress, p re sum ed th a t the w ar d ep artm en t had a com plete program wovked c u t in the event of an emergency (such as the p re se n t). No inch p ro g ram ex ists. W hat ap p e ars to be the an sw er is that the war p a itm e n t never contem plated rais ing a g re a t arm y, such as is now in process of being form ed and train e d . T here were no p lan s for exp an d in g industries or building m unitions plants. The en tire scheme is fa r beyond th eir w ildest im aginings. A few known contonm ents were to be used, but w ith the selective service m any more were required. Came a rush to locate them , and also came a realization th a t the arm y was not prepared. C anton m ents have been selected in places w here th ere w as no available w a te r and a f te r a s ta r t was made in construction the cam p had to be abandoned and a new site found. One camp has been located on the edge of a sw am p and m il lions of dollars will be required to d ra in the sw am p and fight m ala ria. when a good dry location could have been found elsew here. A ra ck et developed in the purchase of cantonm ent sites and the gov- cin m en t has paid a p re tty penny to operate in the deal. A bstracts fo r land have 'been ex o rb itan t. R ackets developed in can to n m ent construction. I t has been necessary fo r an ^American citizen to join a union before he could work for national defense. To join a union applicants paid from $50 to $300, depending on the locality. P ro tests have come to m em bers of congress a g a in st this practice in various sections of the country but nothing has been done about it by unions, co n tra cto rs o r arm y officers. And congress has only talked. W hy the price of arm y shoes has jum ped; wno tells the arm y w here the co n tracts should be given, w hat p a rt is being by the dollar a year men— all these are subjects which are to ‘be investi gated. ** * * » U nless the rem ainder of the n atio n looks out, the C olum bia r ver area will be the principal source of pig alum inum in A m er ica. C ontract is being negotiated to expand the Alum inum Company of A m erica’s use of Bonneville pow er to1 200,000 plus - kilow atts. R econstruction Finance C orpora tion is all set to finance th e Rey nold? M etals Com pany ,m that area and the .federal power com m ission has approved' a \ special Bonneville ra te for- the Reynolds company. Millions of pounds oi nirv alum inum will be m an u factu r- er on the Columbia in- 1942, with tb; ,-u antis of em ployes. N ational •defense'- commission now adm its th ere is a serious sh o rtag e, altho a few m onths ago the statem en t ” (Continued on Page two) Uta I rW. Giles L. French It looks as if the unemployment compensation bills will get out of t ?• the judiciary committee this week, , I oi a t least some of them , and the work of the legislature will (begin its final phase. While these bills . *- • have been given the spot of being the most controversial of this ses sim they really are not so contro- 1 versia! as to cause a great flurry, i No one would foe seriously dam ag ed if they did not pass. The law doc.4 need some amending how- i - I #r ever, and this will likely be done. V a - . >hen there is >the firemen’s pension bill which Rep. Lonergan ; tv faithfully sponsors each session— b s , - a and never > pas see«. This time it is so written th a t a fte r 1943 it will take around $100,000 away from the tax now collected by the state on insurance companies. To th at A fairyland in vivid colorings best describes the spectacle of extent it will be a tax on the general fund of the state instead Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah. Bryce is a huge of an additional tax on the insur bowl-shaped canyon filled with countless rock formations tinted in ance companies and the policy every shade of the rainbow. This is one of the most unusual of our holders as it has been w ritten be- i national parks. —* fore. The insurance companies aie not fighting it therefore and it may pass the house although it will not become law. The «ales tax bill will be out this week or early next week. It Notice for call num ber four for is usually injected into the session t ,< „• selective d r a f t has been sent along toward the end. The pen t) the local d ra ft board asking for sion groups may put it through M onday, F eb ru ary 17th a t 2:00 c i? more d ra fte e from Sherm an tha house but the old alignment p. m . a t the C ourt house the com c unty. against a sales tax in Oregon will They will be called for induction take care of it a t the general m ittees, land use, crcps, livestock, e th er between M arch 17 to 21 or election. It m ay cost the state farm home and ru ral life, made re f om M arch 24 to 28. $25.000 or $30,000 b u t we m ust (be p o rts which included recommen- Word w.as received by Mr. doing something. Grea^concern^has evidently been dations and suggestions % be fol- K nighten, a m em ber of the d ra ft Official County Paper A vailable Feed Livestock Men Great Problem In For Livestock Discuss Feeding Discussed Sherman County At a m eeting a t the court house Methods Soil Erosion Is Short Term Leases, High Rentals, Cheap Wheat Held Responsible last week Joe P eters, C hairm an of the AAA com m ittee; the m em bers of the county co u rt, Judge P otter, and com m issioner David Reid; K enneth M artin, C hairm an of the Land Use com m ittee; and Mr. Campbell from the AAA, m et with th ? county a g e n t for the purpose of discussing th e present census figures and the available feed “sup plies of the en tire acreage in Sherm an county which: included the g razin g land and crop land. The ftetl possibilities include chaff, grain hay, alfa lfa hay and the g rass hay now being produced. In the m a tte r of p astu re, the annual g rains or ro tation p asture, crested w heat g ra ss p astu re and native bunch g ra ss p astu re were discuss ed and c a rry in g capacities estab lished fo r each of these p articu lar types of crops. The object of th5 survey^ is to combine the fig ures from the various counties and jiut them to g eth er in to tals for th* sta te , a f te r which they will be broken down into areas in or der th a t the au th o rities m ay be able to set up a s ta te ag ricu ltu ral policy, using the perpetual live- : lo c k carry in g capacities and the ultim ate m axim um figures of live- stoekfor the s ta te of Oregon. This inform ation is to be used by tile s^ate land use planning com m ittee and i t ’s sufo-conwnittees which include livestock, crops and range. Soil erosion is the most d e stru c tive problem confronting the fa rm er* in the Columbia basin and in She» man county. This problem is increased th rough the eombina- tior of te n a n t operations and lov\ pi ices for w heat for all producers. F undam entally the main defect in ten an t operated land is the ex istence of sh o rt term leases, m ak ing it im practical for the operato r to adopt practices which will help t/» prevent and control erosion under our system of farm ing. In addition to the sh o rt time | liases it is also found th a t in ' si me cases re n ta ls charged ten an ts on some of these farm s are too j high, th e n by cu ttin g o p erating i capital and m aking it even more impossible for the te n a n t to adopt I p;actices even though they do not co.>t any considerable am ount more than th eir usual' system . The Sherm an County Land Use com m ittee considers it feasible in o n ier to control soil losses from w ater and wind erosion to seed all steep slopes p erm an en tly to crest- eel w heat g ra ss; to d iv ert out of pioduction of w heat all blow lane» and seed it perm anently to grass where the problem is serious; to eed 'all shallow land adjoining the canyons, breaks and scab patches perm anently to g ra ss; to adopt ti„ s h y fallow on land which is . . . K . »..i from ('/ii'wlzin Ut*inivhQni b nrd, Gordon B ringham , inn the susceptible to wind and w ater felt in the 22nd district over Sen lowed in this county over the nexi first m an called from here. He eiosion; co n to u r -seeding on all The Sherm an County Health ate Bill 213 which would, if pass couple of years and for over a long s ales th a t he is now located a t slopes, and where the preceding Association held a m eeting F eb ru ed, give the public utility counmis- tim e period. Follow ing these com F o rt Ord, C alifornia, where he was named practices do not control ary 1 Kth at the court house for the »¿oner authority over the minimum m ittee rep o rts and the discussions t' i re fe rre d from F ort Lewis. He erosion it is recommended th a t election of officers. Mrs. A. H. rate« of railroads. He ha« this says, ‘‘We have good eats, a good strip cropping be adopted on these M cIntyre of Wasco was ^.elected which followed the re p o rts, Mr. authority over the trucks now. place to sleep, good ¿octors, and serious problem areas to , prevent president for the ensuing year. B itte r plan, probably, would be to E. R. Jack m an , extension special if you mind w hat the officers say, erosion. She will appoint others to help give him no right to hold up any ist in farm crops a t Oregon S ta te y, u will g et along good.” A nother factor which indirectly hei with the y ears program from reduced rate. The federal govern college, discussed b riefly the afU ets and is discouraging to the th at vicinity so they can work to- m ent is encroaching on sta te regu Am erican producer of ag ricu ltu ral j g eth er more conveniently. lations in transportation m atters m ark e t outlook, over the period of COUNTY AGENT pioducts is foreign im portations years to come and also discussed A rep o rt was made on the seal and it is possible th a t before long A T T E N D S C O N FE R E N C E which, have occurred under recip sale showing a to tal of $440.84. the problem of soil fe rtility and these atters will illese m aivri.i «»»• be beyond the ---- - . County A gent LeRoy W right rocal trad e agreem ents. All ol Of this am ount $110.12 will he sent ken of s ta te leg islatu res and local w hat it m ean t to the individua. and other* lineal agents attended a th. existing trad e agreem ents tend to the state* and $330.36 will re * fa rm er. It was b ro u g h t out dur- groups. - . , The senate killed the big truck m g the m eeting th a t for each conference on T hursday afternoon, t ) include products, which over a main in the county to be used for bi 1 much d eader th an w as expect- bushel of w heat produced t h a t on F e b ru a ry 27th, at the Union E x pi -tod of year.-, have been ex p o rt various obligations of the associa L ast y ear they paid $100 ed h v any of thè observers. I t has the av erag e 35 cents w orth of sod p erim ental S tatii n where various able from this country. The land tion. passed the speed law w ith am end- fe rtility was included. Mr. E arl fe a tu re s of extension work as ap- us • com m ittee of Sherm an county toward the salary of the county m ents m aking it a m ore w orkable | Thom pson, Parm er fieldman fo r pli *d to this section of Oregon was believes it advisable under trade health nurse, $35 to I)r. H aufelt agreem ents, th at' the products in law than it would have been ori AAA, then spoke briefly on the discussed. In addition to these* cluded should be based upon defic fo r dental clinics held in the five schools of the county, $10 to Dr. correlation th a t the com m ittee re fe a tu re s the county ag en ts had an ginally. iencies and. not upon ag ricu ltu ral O’l »ell at the E astern Oregon Hos M atter of b ig g est in tere st to ports had in regard to the AAA o p p o rtu n ity of visiting the live pioducts now in surplus or near pital in The Dalles for a m agazine eastern Oregon rig h t now should program and its application to stock feeding operations and re surplus. called “ S an scrip t” for patients. search subjects as being carried Sherm an county. In fact it w as be the equalization m easure fo r In order to relieve the pressure» Some for C hristm as presents for elem entary schools. N early every b reu g h t out by Mr. Thom pson th a t by Mr. Richards, S uperintendent on the A m erican farm ei it appears c; i»i',ty patien ts a t the hospital, etc. of the E astern Oregon E x p eri eastern Oregon county would lose m any of the recom m endations and The association now has a bank m oney under this plan. They : suggestions -which were included m ental S tation at Union, where vefy im portant th a t every produc er increase his net income by balance of $575.72. would lose real money, too as Um a- ! in -the re p o rts could foe brought ca ttle and sheep are fed under adopting practices and inereasng various m ethods of feeding, in o r tilla county would find itself sh o rt j about by applying the AAA pro- 598 000 and Sherm an county would gram to the various ranches and der th a t the farm ers m ay have his en terp rises on the ranch. ’ In Sherm an county, due- to the low lose two dollars ¿or every three | to the county in order to arriv e al this inform ation to be applied un prices of the cereal grains, it ap- der a sound, fundam ental -basis. raised 'by the elem entary school the objectives set forth. pi ,.rs there is a possibility of in- m illage of 5.9. c»'i using the num ber of livestock The wine bill will come in for or, the individual farm s, by devel The Moro W om an’s club held its its day in the legislature but the op ng the livestock en terp rise to reg u lar m eeting F riday a t the cluo good idea originally incorporated it highest degree. It is funda- house with Mrs. R. C. Byers as therein, which was to prevent the nu ntally sound as brought out by hostess. sale of fortified wine except in research and experim ental infor Mrs. Russell Ilollinshead favor s ta te liquor stores has suffered ex By iA. L. Lindbeck. . i neg ativ e vote in the .senate this m ation th at w heat can be readily ed with a solo, followed by a talk tinction. The wine men are con fed to finish livestock for m arket. Salem, Ore., Feb. 27.— The 7 th :v .* e k was held in com m ittee more cerned over it and goodness knows week of the legislative session | tlu»n five weeks before the legis- At the present time som ewhere in on music by Mrs. M artha Cope. w hat will happen. The berr> the neighborhood of three fourths M esdames Helen S ayrs and Hen- finds every m ajo r bill still in the lato rs were given a chance a t It grow ers w a n t som ething done, of the ca ttle m arketed in the re tta H ennagin gave a two person house of its origin; most of them Di feat of this m easure was some- production of H.M.S. pinafore from the beer sellers w an t fortified wine w hat of a surprise, h aving as it N orthw est are not g ra in fed. taken out of th eir stores and the are still held in com m ittees to di;!, the blessing of Governor Public demand and national p re G ilbert and Sullivan opera. Three which they were referred in the num bers were given by the glee leg islatu re w ants to g e t along. opi ning weeks. This is especially I S p rag u e and the sta te highw ay paredness requirem ents call for club members. higher quality m eat than is now tru e of the proposed am endm ents ' com m ission and going out onto the An invitation from the Waseo p.ixluced in the northw est. The to the unem ploym ent com pensation sen ate floor with the backing ot w heat producer has the answ er to Tuesday club was extended to the act which rem ain in the hands of , fix of the members o i the com- thir quality in the products now mem bers of the club to » attend the House judiciary com m ittee, m ittee on roads and highw ays. being produced on a good share of their Doernhecher tea on March W hile the legislato rs them selves the proposed am endm ents to the the tillable acres in the N orthw est. 4tli a t the Sherm an hotel from 2 w orkm en’s com pensation act s t i l l ; a n now working on th e ir own There products are w heat, barley to 4 p. m. Claudine Thom pson, of , the in the hands of the senate com- i tim e, th eir pay having stopped at , M ---- ías ------------------ - and oats-. - The deficiencies e x ist Moro High school, has been enos- , mJ^ ee Qn ¡n(]ustl ieS( a ll of the old i m idnight F rid ay , the pay of the en the w inner in in Qhprman Sherm an coun county v , ¡on m mcasurcs> m ost ost of | sm all arm y of clerks, stenogra- ing in the production of quality _ xu. pension easures, m li\esto ck in this county is rough- ot the annual Carl Raym ond G ray the educational „dliratinna1 bills hilIs and and scori scores of phers, pages, doorkeepers and oth- age or hay. In order to produce m em orial U. P. .scholarship of $100 o th er m easures. | er em ployes goes rig h t on. With thi-' product to m eet the dem ands to atten d Oregon S tate college. While in one sense these are n itre th-an two hundred of these the problem s facin g ' the land use Selection was based on records classed m ajor legislation th ere ) attac h es on the payroll a t an ave •‘The Yellow ^Shadow ” a m ys indicating th e w inner to be the is nothing in the hopper of eith er ' ra g e of b etter than $5 a day the com m ittees will ’he answ ered to a m ost outstan d in g club boy or girl House o t the Senate th a t cannot J l«n m aking m achinery is costing larg e degree since it will be tery-com edy in three acts, will be in the county fo r the p a s t , year be scrapped w ithout in any w ay I the tax p ay ers more th an $1000 a necessary to include in all farm g iv en ’F riday evening a t t^ie Moro program s the m a tte r of addition school house. Proceeds to be used who is prepared to e n te r college Seriously affecting the s ta te or its | day. Sundays and holidays in- al grass for p astu re and addition for the benefit of the Moro library. in 1941 and 42. eluded. al hay for w inter” feeding. ^ h is, cifizenry. The scene is laid a t V iew crest in tu rn , will cause a reduction in Lodge, on P uget Sound, with Nell Probably the m ost g larin g ex In an effort to head off fu tu re the acreage of w heat for m arket T ravis (M rs. C. L. Poley) as am ple of dilitoriness on the p art This is Music Night in Waseo of the law m akers a t this session a tte m p ts to raid the s ta te ’s high as w heat. The present reduction housekeeper. O ther local talen t The second annual music night is th a t of the so callee! speed bill. way funds th e senate com m ittee of w heat in -S h erm an county is p articip atin g are George Upde- presented by the Wasco school is Introduced as senate bill No. 1 on an i roads and highw ays is spon about 30,000 acres per j / a r on the graff, Sally Doum a, Velma Mc- to be given F rid ay night, F e b ru the opening day of the session and soring a proposed consitutional average. This is drastic cu rta il ary the 28th. proceeds which m eeting b u t little opposition this am endm ent which would forbid m ent and your local com m ittee K ian, M ary W illiam s, Paul May, Durward H elyer, Bob Hoskinson, are raised by collection will be used m easure was not rep o rted out of diversion o ffh ig h w ay revenues to fgels th a t until other producers Lucille May and Ted Thompson. tow ard d efray in g the expenses of the com m ittee on roads and high- ; any oth er purpose oth er th an the m eet such cu rtailm en t th a t fu rth e r the Wasco school band in thp an ways until the fo rtieth day of the construction or im provem ent of cu rtailm en ts are not advisable The Am erican Legion A uxiliary nual trip to La Grande A pril 26-26. will hold its n ex t m eeting a t the session and did not reach third roads and bridges. The proposed here. One member, Jim Coats, who read in g until Monday of this week, am endm ent would not preclude hqnig of Mrs. Lew Thom as, Wed- piays the trum pet has been ac fo rty -th re e days a fte r it was first the counties and cities from a t C harles M ontgom ery returned to 'ni .-day, March 5. The afternoon cepted for the North W est Band tem p tin g to divert a slice of this Moro S atu rd ay after, spending tvvo will V1' spent in m aking cushions presented. which is to be held in Spokane The ‘‘big truck” bill which went revenue into their own coffers so m onths in P ortland with relatives for the V e te ran ’s hospital in P o rt March 28 to April 1. land. down to defeat under a two to one this winter. ^Continued on Page two) Com m ittees Offer R eports A n d Suggestions Another Man to be Drafted from County Proper Kinds and Amounts Of Available Feeds for Good Results Discussed ShermanCountyHealtli Association Meets Moro Woman’s Club Holds Meeting Lindbeck A sserts Law m akers D ilatory and Expensive Local Girl Wins Scholarship Woman’s Club To Give Play Tonight i Monday afternoon, February 24, at 2 p. m. a t the Court house, live stock men and feeders as well as a number of the 4-H club beef members assembled and diacuesed the feeding of livestock. Mr. E. R. Jackman, crops specialist of Oregon State college, discussed the various grasses, eanphasixtng »hat for feeding purposes the 'bul bous blue grass was an excellent grass to include in created wheat seeding. It was brought out th a t crested wheat has been used for hay and that the yield per acre has been from one-half to three- fourths of a ton per acre. Mr. Jackman mentioned and discussed the m atter of over pasturing grass emphasizing the fact th a t it was important, due to the reduction in root systems from over pasturing to give -the grass an opportunity about every other year and not to exceed two years, a chance for the grass to grow up and head out so that the root system would be of sufficient density to take care of a good yield of forage. In discuss ing other forage crops Mr. Jack- man mentioned the possibilities of seeding alfalfa in this county on the north slope« and in the canyons or draws, but also suggested th a t the alfalfa should be seeded in 30 inch rows. It is estim ated th a t the yield of forage from th k type of seeding would be semewhat around three-fourtht of a ton per acj-e. Further discussion by Mr. Jackman was in regard to grain hay, suggesting th a t oata ; and barley wctc excellent hay, as well as wheat. He suggested th a t un der the present outlook for whosrt, that larger acreage probably could be harvested fo r hay, particular ly since there is a possibility ol inertasing the feeding of liveetock in Sherman county. Mr. H arry Lindgren, extension specialist in livestock, from Ore gon State college, discuooed with the growers the research and ex perimental results received by the various experimental stations in feeding wheat to livestock. He emphasized the necessity <xf oup plying protein to the rations un der our conditions here. This pro tein can be supplied in the form of alfalfa hay in. the form of con centrated protein supplements such as cottonseed cake, or oil meal It was brought out th a t all types of livestock, cattle, sheep and hegs, needed a supplem ental supply of protein along w ith oar wheat. Research information In dicates th at for feeding 2 year d d steers and older, that* the require m ent of hay is nearly doubled and the expected gains from the same rations, feeding up to the m axi mum consumption, would be less than on baby beef or yearling calves. The conclusion« were th a t for cattle feeding the best possi bilities from our standpoint here would be for feeding the baby beeves or yearlings since their hay requirements were low. Hay sup plies in Sherman county are the limiting factors. Under feed lot conditions it was felt th a t the maximum amount th a t could be consumed of grain w h en .th e cat tle arc on full feed would be ap proximately 1 pound fo r each 100 pounds live weight. This would mean th at by m arketing time or at the 900 to 1000 pound weight that these cattle would be receiv ing a t the maximum, approximate ly 10 pounds of grain per day on the average. It waa emphasized that regularity of feeding waa one of the very im portant details in order to have a successful opera- tien. The m atte r of other supple ments such as m ineral and salt, it was suggested th a t sterilized steam bone meal and half ground salt be supplied and kept before the feeders a t all time«. The aver age length of feeding p e rio d 'fo r yearling steers is considered from 120 to 150 days, depending upon the weight of the cattle a t the be ginning of a feeding season. The lighter cattle will take longer period« to finish;' Under manage ment it was suggested th a t the feed lots be located on a side bill where the cattle would have a dry place to rest during the day. *n»e providing of bedding,is of much consideration to - obtain, the beat results. . ' -4 ^ .4