Sherman County journal., June 06, 1941, Image 1

F ifty-T hird Y ear N o . 31
Moro, Oregon. Friday, June 6, 1941
Clean-up Day
Held But Few
Signing Farmers
Out For Work
Trailers for Defense W orkers
Weed Board
For Cultivation
Purchase of Machinery
Depends On Acres Lined Up
Washington, D. C., June 5,. With
in a few months a gfreat aluminum
plant will be built in the Columbia
valley with money furnished by
RFC and operated by the govern­
ment. The enterprise will be
larger than the Alcoa plant at
Vancouver or the Reynolds Met­
als Co., at Longview. No site has
b^en selected, and it may be plac*
ed anywhere— Grand Coulee,
Puget Sound, or right at the site
of Bonneville. This will be the
fin-1 time that the government has
ever directly invaded the aluminum
industry, but having made up its
mind it is planning to compete in
a big way. Nor is it the purpose
of certain power minded officials
to close the plant wh^n the
emergency is over; they intend
continuing in operation to put
Alcoa out of business.
More th an 50 percent of all the
alum inum m an ufactured
in the
m onths to come will go into a ir ­
planes, w ith an o th er large per
ccn tag e going to th e navy as the
fig h tin g ships are equipped
to
shield them ag a in st bomb divers.
A sm aller am ount will go to the
steel in d u stry fo r allow ing and
oeoxidizing purposes. W hat alum ­
inum goes to com m ercial channels
you can put into your eye; th a t is
out, and vacuum cleaners, pots,
pans, re frig e ra to r tra y s will be
m ade of som ething else.
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T housands o f m assive bom bers
have been ordered in recent week«.
It is difficult to keep trac k of the
airsh ip s, so m any statem en ts have
^ht$n Issued, b u t it is possible to
c lu ck th ro u g h the pilots. A rm y
a ir corps has been tu rn in g o u t
12,000 a y ea r and th is will be u p ­
ped to 30,000 beginning next
m onth. T here is a bom ber or
fig h tin g plane for every pilot. T h at
gives an idea fo r the arm y air
force. By n ex t year you can stand
outside anytim e of the day and
se? them droning over the house;
-they will be as num erous as th a t,
and co n stan tly increasing in num ­
b ers, re g ard less of the bombers
flying in England.
Back o f all
these, of course, will be the
alum inum p lan ts o f the northw est,
fo r fully h alf of all alum inum pro­
duced will come from Bonneville-
G rand Coulee power. O ver-adver­
tised TV A , w here much was ex­
pected, has alm ost no power and is
dt pending on steam plants. This
is a re su lt of w a te r sh o rtag e
This is so serious th a t th e S. S.
N orm andie (F rench ship seized
by the coast g u ard ) m ay be taken
to Mobile and used to provide
pow er—e ith e r th at or ah obsolete
battlesh ip .
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Feeding the B ritish is one of the
m ajo r task s assum ed by the ad-
n ;n istratio n under the lease-lend
bi'!. O bservers from B ritain say
th a t the people have -become accus­
tom ed to being bombed and accept
it as a m a tte r of course, although
m any are killed, but the food ques­
tion is an o th er m a tte r. I t is cal­
culated a t the p re sen t ra te , unless
food supplies arrive’ ea rlie r,, J a n ­
u a ry will see the B ritish h u n g ry ,
and a h u n g ry men cannot fight.
W hile the ad m inistration is try in g
to poke the production of planes,
tanks and m unitions into g re a te r
activ ity an o th er governm ent agen­
cy is busy purchasing food and
sending it abroad. T rainloads have
been sep t to A tlantic ports and
shipped overseas.
In th is field farm ers of thb north
west are benefitting to some ex ­
ten t. The governm ent put in ft
call fo r berries, black, 1-ogan, and
•young, but learned th a t th ere is
no surplus: the canneries require
every pound to fill th e ir own orders
fo r dom estic and overseas supplies.
Demand fo r prunes fo r the iBritish
is also increaising. G row ers of
tom atoes have been asked by the
governm ent to increase th e ir ac re­
age 10 «percent, for canned tom a­
toes have v ita m in s, needed fo r
A m erican troops and B ritish civi­
lians. Dried beans arc being snap-
* pod up fo r the arm y and overseas.
U nder p arity paym ents approv­
ed by the president C anadians can
pay four cents a bushel and dump
their w heat on the A m erican m a r­
ket. To prevent this destruction
of the hem e m ark et the president,
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The county weed control board
has been having a busy week.
Alter attending the meeting of
weed control men at Hermiston
and visiting the morning glory
control plot near Pendleton they
r« turned determined to start a
program for cultivating weed
patches in the county as an effec­
tive manner of control.
The board, which is composed
ol C. M. Kuypers, A. C. Kaseberg,
Rjy Powell, Dean Reynolds and
J. L. Davis met with the county
court Wednesday morning and ask­
ed for $1500 to be used for the
purchase of a tractor and a duck-
foot cultivator and killifer with
which to cultivate weed patches
in the county.
Work was to be done for own­
ers of land at a price of 75 cents
per acre cultivation where contract
was given for a years’ cultivation
and $1 per acre for one cultivation.
The county court agreed to mak­
ing this appropriation if the
wt ed control board, through its
secretary, LeRoy Wright, would
fiist sign upl50 acres of weeds for
cultivation throughout the summer.
If this is done by Friday the
pi rchase of equipment will be
made as planned by the committee.
Lesson tought by the visit to
the morning glory experimental
plot at Pendleton was that wheat
may be successfully grown on
load that is infested with morn­
ing glory if the weed is kept un-
di r control during the summer the
land is summerfallowed.
After early plowing the land is
w. rked with a duckfoot cultivator
eight days after the morning glory
hr.* emerged. Depth worked ia
/our to six inches. Land may be
seeded in the fall as usual and
a good crop may be expected.
A uthorities differ as to w hether
this m ethod will en tirely kill the
weed or not, b u t assurance is giv­
en th a t the weed can be controlled
by this m ethod.
r
Clean-up day in Moro found
much better weather than did the
previously arranged day, but the
enthusiasm and crowd of workers
failed to appear at the Breakfast
club. About 25 were out to work.
Jobs done included the painting
of the new tables and the bridge
in the park, the preparation of the
new' lawn bed for seed, the painting
of the wading pool, the cleaning up
around the Legion hall and the
burning of many dry weeds around
public buildings and on vacant
lots arouryi town.
Now Widely Used
Farmers Vote
E ighty seven descendants of
David and M ary Stockton m et a t
T he Dallas la st Sunday and o r­
ganized a fam ily clan w ith W. H.
R agsdale, president, and M rs. Sam
A rb u th n o t as secretary . The g a th ­
erin g was originally to be a re ­
union of the H am pton clan b u t a
la rg e r u n it was found necessary.
From Sherm an county w ent the
Guy Hoskinson fam ily, and the
A. S. Johnson fam ily.
Sherman Grain
The first of 2,000 trailers purchased by the Farm Security adminis­
tration with funds from the $5,000,000 urgent deficiency appropriation
voted by congress to provide temporary shelter for homeless defi nsi
workers are shewn leaving the nation's capital for Wilmington, N. C.
Miss G eorgia Blaylock, daugh-
T ley will be used to house defense shipyard workers. Fifty trailers were
in the group leaving Washington.
te r of Mr. and Mrs. E rn e st Blay-
lo< k and Clyde S tradley, son of
Mr. and Mrs. F red Stradley, both
of G rass Valley, were m arried
Monday, May 26, a t the home of
Mr. and Mrs. E lm er Hansen a t
Goldendale, by Rev. C. J. Hall, of
the M ethodist church. Both young
people are g rad u ates of the G rass
Valley high school and are well
Mrs. W illiam C. H arp er, long
known in the county. Mrs. S tra d ­
tim e resid en t of the Wasco com
Cecil Russel N orton was iu- m unity died in a hospital in The ley has been w orking in The Dalles
for several months.
s .a n tly killed Tuesday evening Dalles, T hursday m orning about
about 6:30 im m ediately e a st of 9 o’clock a f te r an illness of sev­
eral weeks.
K ent while helping a boy who was
Surviving are her widower, and
n n n i n g a tra c to r for N o rto n ’s
three children, G eorgia, Gordon
father, J. E. Norton. Young N o r­
a rd W illard all of Wasco. F uneral
ton was helping hitch the tra c to r
tn a plow as it was being backed services have not been arran g ed .
The following quotations are
up
based on prices being paid in W ed­
It is th o u g h t th a t the clutch
n e sd a y ’s tra d in g :
s.uck causing th e tra c to r to back
C A TTLE: Good grain fed steers
into N orton knocking him beneath
$9.50 to IO.50. Good g rass steers
the g rousered wheeis.
$9.50 down. Good grain, fed h ei­
Cecil N orton was born December
While the arm y is reaching out fers $9.25 to 10.15. Good beef cows
2!, 1918 in Moro, m oving to Kent fo r pilot m aterial, the NYA is $8.00 to 8.25 (g ra sse rs $8.00 down)
v, ith his p aren ts when a sm all opening up vocational train in g medium $7.25 to 7.75, common
child. He graduated, from Kent schools in every state, in every $6.25 to 7.00, canners $5J36 to #-00.
H igh school and h ad been working larg e city, teaching boys and men Bulls, medium to good $8.00 to
th ere, stay in g at home. L ately he the use of tools; the first principles 9.25, common $7.00 to 7.50. Veal-
had been w orking on the section of ship building, airplane m ak ­ ers, good to choice $11.00 to 12.00.
a t K ent and had ju s t returned ing, iron work The governm ent is
home from work when he went to spending $150,000,000 to train men HOGS: Good to choice 170 to
215 lb truckins $9.75, mediums
the field.
to work on ships, in airplane fa c­ $>9.50, selects $9.35; 230 to 285 lb
S urviving are his fa th e r, two to» ies, in plants with orders fo r
butchers $8.85 to 9.25; lightw eight
bro th ers, Eugene, now a t Oregon tra c to rs, tanks and a n ti-a irc ra ft
butchers $8.75 to 9.00; packing
S ta te college, and R oss; three sis- guns, and to build up a reservoir
sows $7.75 to 8.25. F eeder pigs,
ti r s , Mrs. A lta Felsch of San F ran - of mechanics for the ground crew s
$8.50 to 11.00
ciscc, G eraldine and Carol of needed a t all aiq x trts, of which a
S H E E P : Good to choice spring
R ent.
half dozen are already established
lam bs $9.25 to 9.75; common to
F u n eral services were held from in Oregon and W ashington, w ith medium $8.50. S lau g h ter ewes,
being pro­
the K ent C hristian church T h u rs­ more to follow. It
good to choice $3.00 to 3.50. F eed­
day afternoon and in term en t made posed thatICCC and NYA be m erg ­ e r lambs, good to choice, $8.50.
ed, as they are com peting with
in the K ent cem etery.
Shorn lam bs, $45.00 to 7.00.
each oth er for the sam e group of
boys. Abolition of the GCC, how­
ever, is not favored in the n o rth ­
west.
Mrs- Will Harper
Killed Io Tractor Dies After illness
of Several Weeks
Cecil R. Norton
Accident
Grass Steers Bring
Growers To Meet
The cooperative g ra in grow ers
will hold its annual m eeting
M onday afternoon a t the Opera
house. A t noon a com m unity pic­
nic will be held in the W asco
perk, coffee will be provided by
the grain grow ers who invite every
one to come and bring one dinnei
dish and table service. Speakers
for the m eeting will be C aptain
R.E.M. D eslslets en gineer from the
J.
D.
Mickle, s ta te d e p a rtm e n t of a g r i­
culture and N orval M artin , m ayor
of The Dalles.
Straughn-Coats
Wedding Observed
Coats, d a u g h ter of Mr. and -Mrs.
Claud E. Coats of W asco, Oregon,
and H a rry H. S trau g h n , son of
Mr nad Mrs. H a rry C. S trau g h n ,
of Cheney, W ashington.
Rev. F a th e r Nooy Qf The Dalles
officiated. The bride was given in
m arriag e by h er fa th e r. She was
a ttire d in an inform al redingofce
of dusty pink crepe. She wore a
corsage of white g ardinia and c a r­
ried a w hite p ra y er book.
Miss Edna Fleck, cousin of the
bride, was her honor a tte n d a n t.
She wore a frock of m isty green
crepe w ith a corsage of pink sweet
peas.
Mrs. E lton Eakin, siste r of the
bride, was her m atron of honor.
She wore a dress of pow der blue
crepe, with corsage of pink c a r­
nations.
W idespread use of the new en ­
riched or resto red flour containing
additional vitam ins does not re ­
place the valuable vitam in food,
w heat g erm , in the diet, believe
n u tritio n ists a t Oregon S tate col­
lege.
E xperim ents carried on this year
in th ^ n u tritio n laboratories «by
Do rothy H a rstad F e n n e r,.g ra d u a te
a ssista n t, and A gnes M. Kolshorn,
a s s is ta n t p ro fesso r in foods and
n u tritio n , have resulted in the de­
velopm ent o f num erous recipes
u«-;ng w heat germ , which provide
foods exceedingly rich in vitam in
B !, vitam in E, and one of th e other
Brother Is Best Man . .
B vitam ins.
W heat germ is obtainable a t
Vern S trau g h n , b ro th er o f the
gr'X’ery s to re s in vacuum cans, in
groom acted as best man. U shers
ce'Jopbane packages, and in o th er
convenient containers. I t is pro­ were Elton E akin, brother-in-law
of the bride, and Don M acNab.
cessed .before packing to reduce the
The bride’s m other wore a navy
chance of its becom ing rancid, a l­
blue redingofce, w ith corsage of
though "it is b e st k e p t in a cool
Talism an roses and w hite sw eet
place, since its f a t co n ten t will de­
peas.
The groom s m oth er was
te rio ra te a t room tem p eratu re.
becom ingly a ttire d in a black dot­
W heat germ -may be included in
ted satin, w ith corsage of red roses
the hom em aker’s fa v o rite muffin,
and w hite sw eet peas.
cookie, or n u t b read recipe b y sim ­
G uests from out of town were
ply su b stitu tin g it fo r one-third
of the flour. U sually no o th er the groom s p aren ts, Mr. and Mrs.
changes in ingredients o r m ethods H a rry C. S trau g h n , and siste r
of m ixing are necessary.. In m ak- Evelyn and b ro th er Vern, all of
Mr. and
ing y ea st bread s, how ever, it is Cheney, W ashington;
Mrs.
E
lm
er
S
traughn
and
fam ily
h r possible to use as la rg e a p ro ­
of
Pasco,
Wn.;
Mr.
and
Mrs.
portion of w heat germ , as it lpter-
fc -es w ith the developm ent of the Raphael S trau g h n o f, Lyle, Wn.;
g l’itin; Mrs. F enner found. W here Mrs. Rose M organ of P o rtlan d ,
w heat germ is used in bread, an aunt of the groom ; Mr. and Mrs.
i” 'reased, am ount of flour in re la ­ Carl R utschm an, Mr. and Mrs.
te n to liquid, a s h o rte r rising,.per- George B ourland, ‘ Mrs. Henry
iod period, and low er oven tem p er­ - Busch and Mrs. Zelma L indhurst,
all of D ufur: Mr. and Mrs. Elton
atu re s a re recom m ended. , -
Use o f refined cereals has created E akin of G rass Valley.-
a d ietary problem in the «United • * A reception was held fo r the
S tates which is now being correc­ im m ediate m em bers of the fam ily
ted in various w ays, p artly as a a t the home of Mr. and Mrs.’ Car»
national defense m easure to insure Rutschm an- in D ufur, bro th er in
t*er h ea l’h and national vigor. law and siste r of the bridf.
A fte r a wedding trip of two
T^e th ree m ost p ractical ways are
considered to be the use of whole weeks, w hich will tak e them to
grain products m ore reg u larly , use San Francisco and coast points,
of the, recently developed enriched Mr. and M rs. S trau g h n will be a(
flour,, and the addition of w heat heme in Spokane, W ashington,
germ in the home to cereals used where Mr. S trau g h n is employed
eith er in bread products or b reak - bv the S ta te D ep artm en t of A g ri­
culture. ,
,
fait food*.
Quotas By Huge
Majority Here
The Moro lib rary board m et
M onday evening, Ju n e 2, for the
Only Nine Voting Here
annual m eeting.
Mrs. Carroll
S ayrs was elected president, Mrs.
Oppose Quota System In
Darwin Van Gilder secretary , and
Mrs. C. L. Poley, trea su rer.
First Vote On Restriction
M embers of the board will m eet
Only four persons voting in
a t the lib rary Ju n e 10 to arran g e
the books in alphabetical order by Sherman county registered a “No”
au th o rs as a m eans of reclassify ­ vote against the imposition of
ing them . Suggestion was made quotas on wheat farmers and five
tnai books also be classified by absentee voters voted the same.
subject m a tte r but action on this I'i the meantime 551 wheat grow­
ers and their wives who had a
was- deferred.
Folks Married
Organizes Sunday
Bonneville administration,
Moro Library,
Board Elects
Mrs.C.Sayrs
Grass Valley Young
Stockton Family
Some farmers prefer to do the
w »rk themselves, but if owners of
iSt P eters C hurch, The Dalles,
lfO acres sign contracts machinery was the scene S atu rd ay , May 31st
w 11 be purchased by the county.
of the wedding of Miss A nna Leah
Vitamin Flour
»
Official County Paper
$9.50 In Portland
Vocational Schools
For Fliers Established
Oregon Kills Fewer
Betty Jane Harding
South End Wheat
Far From Perfect
*
One who takes tim e to travel
over some of the roads in the
southern p a rt of the county will
not be im pressed with the perfec-
t*on of the wheat crop in general.
True, th ere are some fields th a t
look as near perfect as w heat can
look a t this stag e of its existence,
but in the sam e districts th ere are
fields th a t are no b e tte r than
average for the first of June.
•Some fields begin to look as if
a few too m any pounds of seed
m ight have sprouted and w ithout
rair, will probably not produce a
m axim um crop.
Some grain is
late; And w orst of all, lots of it
is weedy w ith b rig h t yellow Jim
Hill m u stard or «patches of cheat,
the la tte r the re su lt of a new
method of plowing which some
th.nk will produce more in pay
m eets th an in crop.
The crop will probably he b etter
than av erag e (if good w eather con­
tinues) because of the ex tra good
fit Ids and not because of the av e r­
age of all fields.
It was locally reported that sev­
eral’who had expressed themselves
as unfavorable to the quotas failed
to vote, but these were few and
would not have influenced the out­
come of the votTng.’’
Grain trade seems confused as to
the result that might be expected
fiom the decision of the farmers.
When the president signed the bill
making 85 percent loans available
he asked that there be no price
for grain greater than the parity
price. Parity is now thought to be
$1.14 per bushel although figures
given in the press indicate that
the loan will be 97.7 cents, tide­
water, which indicates a parity
price of $1.H5.
In congress there is a bill to
increase the total parity and soil
conservation payments for farm­
ers from $212,000,000 to $460,000,-
000. If this passes it will mean
that wheat farmers will get nearer
40 cents in payments than the 18
cents they received last year.
It is not known what will became
of this bit of legislation now that
Local m ark et prices of farm the larger loan price is ordered
pioducts continued upw ard last by vote of the farmers.
m onth, and in mid-M ay the index
If payments are reduced in con­
of prices received by farm ers formity with the wishes of the
reached 112 percent of the 1910-14 cheif executive farmers may aot
level, the U. S. D epartm ent of get much over a dollar for their
Ag rieulture reports. At this fig­ 1941 crop. If payments remain
ure prices averaged two points* “the same they shonld receive be­
above a m onth ea rlier and • 14 tween $1.05 and $L10 in Sherman
p rin ts above a year earlier.
county.
In d u strial
activ ity
increased
While wheat is advancing on
som ew hat in May following a te m ­ cash markets it is still several
porary relapse in A pril, and in cents below the loan price that is
m id-M ay was a t or near record expected to prevail under the
high levels. As a result, the do­ quota system.
Swing Upward
m estic dem and for farm products
continued to improve. Govern­
m ent purchases • under the food-
for- defense program have reach­
ed considerable proportions, b u t
actu al exports of m ost farm p ro ­
ducts have continued a t extrem ely
low levels.
L arge supplies of m ost farm
products rem ained on hand in May.
C otton supplies continued large in
cu rtailm en t of the usual ex port
dem and more than offset the in­
creased
dom estic
consum ption.
Stocks of g ra in s a t dom estic m a r­
kets d u rin g the week ended May
17 were 52 percent larg e r than a t
the sam e tim e last y ear; livestock
slau g h ter u nder F ederal inspection
d uring the sam e week averaged 13
percent h ig h er than in th e eorres-
pen ling week la st «year; and milk
The Sherm an county youngsters production on May 1 continued at
who go to' the ^summer school at a record level.
Commodities purchased by fa rm ­
Coi vallum n ex t week will broadcast
the th ird 4j»y over. KOAC and will ers brought h igher prices in mid-
be heftrd by locdl people who can May than a m onth earlier. At 130
g i t th a t station. The hour for the percent of the 1910-14 level, prices
broadcast is 7.00 to 7:45 the eve­ paid, in terest, and taxes averaged
ning of Ju n e 11. B aker, Jackson, 1 point above the April index and
Coos counties will share th a t p e r­ 2 points higher than in May 1940.
iod w ith the Sherm an county Increases in both per-unit ru ra l
living and farm production costs
youngsters.
contributed to the rise, food and
Glen King was bro u g h t home feed prices advancing m oderately
from the hospital in The Dalles aq,d other com m odi^es bought by
W ednesday and will rem ain in fa rm ers being steady to a little
4-H Youngsters
Will Broadcast
Queen
this year’s P ortland
R ose F estiv al, June 11 to 14, wjll
h» B etty Jan e H arding of Girls
Polytechnic -High School. This is
the first tim e this high school has
been represented by a queen.
Wheat Price Up Slightly
Farm Prices
People In Traffic
Im provem ent in O regon’s traffic
accident situ atio n fo r the first
fe u r m onths of 1911 com pared to
the sam e period in 1910 is shown
by the traffic death ra te , showing
the num ber of persons killed in
relation to the exposure to acci­
dents, according to word from the
secretary of s ta te ’s office today.
The death ra te so fa r this year
is 10.6 persons killed p er one
hundred million miles of travel,
c< m pared to a ra te of 12 fo r the
corresponding period la st year.
The decrease in the d eath ra te
indicates im provem ent in driving
and w alking practices of Oregon
citizens because of a stro n g in-
ciease in the use of m otor vehicles,
the fa ta lity ratio dropped, it was
said. M otor vehicles use in creas­
ed nearly 17 percent d u rin g the
first four m onths of this year. •»
share in the farm crop voted "Yea**
to make the decision in this county
well nigh unanimous for the
quotas.
Oregon voted favorably by a
large margin and the entire nation
gave the quotas a substantial
vote. Only a two thirds vote was
necessary for the imposition ot
the quotas and early reports are
that over 80 percent of thoee
voting were in favor of them.
This percentage was materially
aided by the signing of the bill
amending the farm allotment law
which made those eligible who
grew 15 acres of wheat instead of
thdse who grew 200 bushels. It
was said locally that this amend­
ment ruled out 60 percent of those
who were eligible when the vote
was called May 10.
Another ruling about which local
boards were told the morning of
the election was that wives of
farmers could vote if their name
was used in title deeds or leasee.
This increased the vote consider­
ably.
W. M. Pierce Say«
Baker Gets Most
Walter M. Pieroe writes from
Washington D. C. to give thia
detail of the probable increased
cost of bread on account of the
recently passed laws regarding
prices of wheat.
“I have here a very interesting
break-down of figures showing the
division of the money received for
$100 worth of bread in Washing­
ton D. C. The baker gets $66.42,
the retailer gets $19Jt, the wheat
grower gets $13.26, the miller $7.28
and the wheat broker t$1.20 out
of that $100 worth of bread.^ 1»
other words, in round ntnaOWS,
the ibaker gets 65 percent, <ho rb-
tailer 19 percent, the wheat grow­
er 13 percent, the miller 7. percent,
transportation 3 percent, the bro­
ker 1 percent. This ebow» full
justification for the President’s
signature to the hill ywherday
allowing the farmers wheat leans
of 85 percent of parity.
That will mean that the in­
creased return to the fanner will
only be about i cent per loaf or
about $6.50 on $100 worth of
bread and that he will still get only
about one third as much as the