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—__ ’ -.4 **'" '•T ‘l ) * f .. 1, ../f PAGE X »HERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO. OREGON 4£awnig £a»r»sU freedom of the individual is a rea Sherman County Observer Established Nov. 2, 1888 Grass Valley Journal Established Ovt. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 Wasco New s-Enterprise Established Nov. 1891 1ONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 Published Every Friday at Morn. Oregon I 1.-« I., French Editor Enti red as secon -c la ss m atier at the PostofF.ee at Moro. Gregor under Act of Congress of March S. 1879. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER s » rt* 0*11 •■ in siti' ciati o* SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in ONE YEAR A d'ance ....................... A P R IL 18, 1941 .. $L&' ' I ISH OR CUT BAIT “The Germans have Subjugated Jugoslavia;” “The British art leaving Greece ” “ Serbs Recap ture Skoplje;” “ British-Greek Forces Push Back Invaders” These days one can pay his nickel and take his choice of the news. Perhaps the divergence be tween the reports is due to thi fact th at the arm ies at this time are fighting battles in country that hrd, even in normal times, few tiansportation facilities and few communication lines. All head lines may be true in the immed iate locality in which the dis patches were written. F o r. most of us here across half the world from the war the im p o rtan t thing .is that Germany i? trying to crowd the English oil the continent of Europe and gair a right of way to the Mosul o»l he’d.® In order to insure their sup ply of fuel for the all out attack on England. England, with her troops of necessity scattered to several front«, is having a hard time to stem the tide. Our help, often promised, is being held up because of the national inertia, the desire to realize some economic benefit from the w ar and the disposition or. the p a rt of labor to strengthen its organizations. Public poll ¿ in d ic a te th at there is a vast m ajority of our citizens who want England to win. The public record is th a t those who are willing to do much about it, but hope, are in the minority. The retention of types off government that give the greatest amount of L latehouse Goss.p son often given for favoring the j English. k ixmiinucu from pag^*one • It now seems entirely possible; that there will soon be no govern- ’ i ?d $325,000 for construction of ment in Europe that gives the in- j t i? new building which will be the dividual any rights a t all. This I • t of a group to be located north may be overcome by future revo- c the main hospital building. l .ions. If this happens there will iurely be a division of the peoples The state prison fiax plant is \,hc want to exist under such a i .ttin g ready to handle one of the government for this nation will have failed to support its profes 1 ggest fiax crops in the history of that crop in Oregon, according to sed type of government when its L. L. Laws, m anager of the prison support was called for. industry. Present prospects, Laws It appears that the time has s. id, are for a better flax crop than rem i to either give real aid to I « ! year although a prolonged Britain by making some laws ?i»out delay of national defense s Veil of dry weather could serious- vreparations through strikes and 1 damage the » crop. • • excessive demands by industry, or Oregon’/ 1942 automobile plates make some plans on how to get v .11 consist of white letters and -fin g with Nazi Germany next year. We can’t continue to do num erals on a dark blue .back- neither one. We have been swash- p ound, it was announced this week ecklin-g al»out the western hemis- by Secretary of Sta-te Earl Snell. uhre long enough with our so- This combination reverses the one alled statesm en sounding off on u ed in 1940 Snell pointed out. international topics and doing nothing about a solution of the »rc iblem. CIVIC PLANNING The approach of an annual cl^an-up day makes it again tim e ly to discuss a longer range plan for city beautification than is pos sible for a committee chosen for a single day. There might well be some plan to make Moro a prettier town and a better one to live in, in 1950, thus giving clean-up day committees a goal to work for be tween now and that time. W hatever one may think about the economic future of small towns in rural areas, there is a practical certainty th a t fn ten years, or forty years, people, many of them our descendents, are going to be living right here. Some of them will ‘be us. The question for a city, there to» e. is to plan to make the living corditions better in the future than they have been in the past. Small towns, ilke Moro, do not have to plan for industrial expan sion. to purchase land for factories. Their practical problem is a social cue. to make their city so fine a place to live that to be a citizen of it will always be an honor and a pleasure. As a part of such a plan these things might be considered. For a comparatively few dollars the im portant streets of this town might be surfaced to prevent dust and mud; we have a great many trees, (but the distribution may be improved; old 'buildings, unused end unuseahle, should be removed or destroyed through civic action; we have a sewer system and a w ater system th at will probably be adequate and the rates on the w ater system can be reduced when the (burden of municipal debt is shaken off. The - interest now raid annually would provide many civic improvements. The buildings along the south west side of Main street could be gradually eliminated and their place taken by an extension of the city p ark with trees and lawn the creek bed could be lined with rock to make it of neater appear ance; public buildings could be kept in good repair and conveniences made in them for the use of what ever public groups wanted to us'- them. Every person who considers thi« m atter will find something he or she wants done. Some of these will b e /e rp en siv e , some will be very simple and easy of attainm ent. Ail may eventually be done if there is a public will to provide the m aterial pleasures that make liv ing here worthwhile. f FRIDAY, APRIL 18. 1941 \N UNFAIR PROPOSAL n a y . prices, which would mean inhation. I • * * ! Government wants more money i for the farm ers so, apparently, the ' distributing channel is the place ; where the prices will be held. • Bernard Baruch, chairman of the war industries board in the other war, is a weekly White House visitor. He has suggested to the I president a universal price control as the way to prevent inflation. Thus far the president has not ac cepted the proposal— it is too com plicated—although a food adm in istrato r may laYer be appointed V’ith powers such, as were held by H erbert Hoover. , . With defense orders the attitude of organized labor is this: A “ clos ed shop:” an opportunity to force industrialists into bargaining col- lectively, and jurisdictional strikes, i On one point all adm inistration ! officers are in agreem ent: a juris- • dictional strike is nonsensical. The officers differ on the other two Physicians and surgeons who are points raised by organized labor. Subject to the m ilitary d ra ft are Most of the strikes in Oregon and b -mg urged by Lieutenant Colonel W ashington have been jurisdic I' mer V. Wooten to apply for tional. The president wants strikes c mmissions in the medical corps stopped, as they interfere with the r serve rath er than w ait for d raft- lcnd-lease plan, bu t he prefers ii g into regular m ilitary service. to have congress take action in order not to offend organized labor, Industrial payrolls in Oregon which consistently supported him for the eight month period ending in his three campaigns. IV arch 1 were the largest in the slate’s history, according to records of the state industrial accident NOTICE TO CREDITORS ... ci inmission. Total industrial pay NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN r< Ils for the eight month perioct that the undersigned, Carl T. w re $118,910,257 compared to a Sheargr, has been appointed ad previous record of $110,688,986. An average of 130,649 men were m inistrator of the estate of Grace employed during the period a t an Pearl Shearer, Deceased. All per average daily wage of $4.55, an in- son.«- having claims against sa<d estate are hereby required to -pre ciease of 14 cents. H * • sent the same to me, with vouch Fi.ur women are included in the ers properly verified, as by law •i t of 98 law school graduates who required, at the office* of M. W. here applied to the state supreme Wilkinson, U. S. National Bank C< urt for permission to take the Bui'ding, The Dalles, Oregon, state bar examinations July 8 within six months from the date het eof. v j 9. Dated this 28 day of March,1940. 21 - 25 Carl T. Shearer A dm inistrator The plan proposed for a PUD ‘i&triot for the towns of the four county district would combine -ipht or nine towns into a district. Seme of these towns are more thar. a hundred miles apart. The district would be very badly scat tered and, from a practical stand- mint most unworkable. The Bonneville adm inistration nut this plan forw ard as one of i v-eral th a t may be presented, not vs a final offer. At first it was •ggested th at this proposed dis- n e t take energy a t D ufur; now it ■. proposed that it be delivered at 'Mtx. Those a t the m eeting were as- cu^ed th at the postage stam p theory was still in effect. If this be true the town« in this area are entitled to obtain electricity the same rate as those any other place except right at the darr These towns should not have to buy any transm ission lines at all: the transmission of electricity is NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING the job of Bennevlle, a job it has taken upon itself by stringing Notice is hereby given that the lines throughout the state. undersigned has filed in the Coun Every town in the area now ty Court of the State of Oregon owns a water system and manage® for Shepnan County his Final Re t satisfactorily. There is no rea port and Account as A dm inistra son to presume th a t they could not tor of the estate of James C. Mc •’so manage an electric distribu-. Kean, deceased, and that Saturday, tion system as successfully if they I? May 10, 1941, at ten o’clock a. nt., vere able to buy eleatricity at their ot said day, a t the County C ourt •rh station. We know of nc room, in the Cburthou-e, at Moro, other public utility district in the Oregon, have been fixed by the •tate th a t is asked to buy over Court as the time and place for i hundred miles of transm ission hearing of objections to said Final .1 »kn W. Kelly line and think it unfair that this Report and Account and the set ouunued from page one. area should be asked to do so. is having its effect on the m arket: tlement of said estate. J. Kenneth McKean The Serbs are now said by but the governcent wants no run- Geo G. Updegraff 23-26 Berlin to be driven to twkjng up Attorney for Adm inistrator. guerilla w arfare. T hat is the kind C/.LL FOR BIDS *l*ev have always waged succees®- INVITING PROPOSALS FOR AL fdlly. TERATIONS AND A/DDITIONS Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-M Meets on the 1st and TO THE SHERMAN COUNTY 3rd Thursday eve COURT-HOUSE nings of each month. Sealed proposals will be received Vis'iting members cor at the Office of the Sherman Coun dially invited to meet ty Clerk a t Moro, Oregon, until r with us. From the Observer, April 26, 1912 1U-.00 a. m. May 1, 1941 for a lte r Wendell Balsiger W.M. Nominated at .the prim ary last ations and additions to the Sher Ci V. Belknap, Secy. Friday were • Fred Krusow for man County Court House in ac county judge, W. H. Ragsdale for cordance with plans and specifica Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78.O.E.S. Moro, Oregon state senator, J. C. McKean for tions on file a t the Office of the Meets Every Second and Sheintan County Clerk,- Moro, sheriff, N. J. Sinnot for congress Fourth Thursdays in each Oregon. A $10.00 deposit requir man. Month. Visiting members We hear th at a few farm ers in ed on Plans and Specification? will Invited be refunded when Plans and Speci the south end of the county are Patricia Woods Sec. reseeding their fall sown grain. fications are returned to the P o ro th a M oore, W.M. To» much formaldyhide, better County Clerk. No proposal or bid will be cou- stick to blue vitriol. No. 113, I. O. O. F. A car load of lumber is in the sidued, unless accompanied by a Moro L odge Moro, Oregon YU* check payable to the order of the city for fair buildings. Meets 1st and ,3rd Frank Hennagin delivered a six Sherman County Court, certified Tuesdays in the by a responsible bank for an horse load of wheat to Moro this I.O..O.F. hall Trai a n u u n t equal to ten (10) per ce.it week thus getting advantage ol sient and visiting of the aggregate amount of the the better price. brothers are cordi proposal, to be forfeited as fix< d From the Observer April 18, 1902. - ally invited to meet and liquidated damages should the A. L. Huff of Arlington missed bidder neglect or refuse to enter * x jvith us. thi train Sunday but succeeded in into contract and provide a suita Joe Ritner N.G. catching the connecting train at ble bond for the faithful perfor Vernon Millet Sec. Bipgs by using his bike. He re mance of the contract, in the evert ported meeting a snow storm on th e-sa id contract is awarded to 1 upine Rebekah Lodge No. 116 i Moro, Oregon Gordon ridge. him. Meets 2d & 4th Tues E. R. Hickson and son, Jack, Geo. A. Potter day of each month. brought home a mess of 60 fine Sherman County Judge Visiting members w el( trout from Grass Valley canyon J. M. Wilson, Commissioner '•< me. Sunday. David Reid, Commissioner Helen M artin N. G. Sam Landon is back from his 4-4-18 Florence Johnston. Scd GiPiam county farm and reports th at 18 sections of new land is being surveyed there and being rapidly taken up, plowed and pu* in crop. The Goose Pit Mining company W. A. Tate, R. C. Wallis, J. S. Arnos and Hank B arnhart have their gold machine working a t the mouth of the John Day river. From the Observer April 21, 1922 < Property owners are petitioning (/»er p in /) the city for construction of sower on Fifth St., to serve the property from the railroad to , the coun SINNYB wx * ^ C H E E R U L A S "K house. Plans are being made for <jrrrcM itvmr IT S N A M E " ' the construction of a large septic • D istilled in Kentucky tnr.k by the city at the foot of V /0 • T his W hiskey is 4 Years Old Fifth stree.. Henry Root, pioneer of the W as co community, and eousin of Elihu Root, died at his home Saturday n ig h t Contractors hftve begun to rock the ‘Sherman highway beginning on DeMoss hill. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 93 Proof Mrs. J. F. Foss has, returned National Distiller* Products Corporation, New York, N. Y. >4 from St. Vincent’s hospital Sunday after a »erioua brain Operation. _ In Other Days FOR JUST A FEW CENTS MORE THAN A DOLLAR S tjhny B rook W h en You A re Hunting A X s A X » > for information about SHERM AN COUNTY Don’t Forget The Sherman County Journal W e d o n ’t k n o w e v e r y th in g , b u t w e h a v e n e a r ly c o m p le t e n e w s p a p e r f ile s fo r th is c o u n t y fo r t h e la s t 5 0 y e a r s . T h e in f o r m a t io n c o n t a in e d t h e r e in is a v a ila b le to o u r s u b s c r ib e r s w it h o u t c o s t. This is one of the many services this news paper offers the community. 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