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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.
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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.
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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.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 18. 1941
\N UNFAIR PROPOSAL
n a y . prices, which would mean
inhation.
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! 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.
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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.
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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
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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 *
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house. Plans are being made for
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the construction of a large septic
• D istilled in Kentucky
tnr.k by the city at the foot of
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• 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.
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from St. Vincent’s hospital Sunday
after a »erioua brain Operation. _
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