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PAGE 2. SHERMAN ÇOUNTY JOURNAL, MORO. OREGON FRIDAY. JU N E 20. 1941 flexibility to" speed and will estab zones for different speeds. It fflperouui C a « « ^ S i t n r M l lish should be a marked improvement although it may need some amend- Sherman County Observer ments to make it more nearly per- Established Nov. 2, 1888 fe d . Grass Valley Journal The prim ary purpose of the law Established Oct. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 was to give Oregon a speed law instead of a basic rule law. When Wasco N ew s-Enterprise properly engineered zones .are Established Nov. 1891 CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 established and speeds posted for each, the law should be a factor Published Every Friday at in safety. Moro, Oregon Giles L. French Editor THE WHEAT CROP Entered as second class m atter at Every day it rains a little and the Postoffice at Mero, Oregon almost without exception the days under A c t'o F T o n g re ss of March are cool with few touches of east 3, 1879. wind that was feared would shrivel and brown the thick rank wheat. Every day the neat comes a little SFAMA O il CIA T I »N nearer to th at time when come » ■ IL I S»o what may there will be a bountiful crop. In the north end of the OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER county th a t time is alm ost here SUBSCRIPTION RATES . . and farm ers have shortened their Payable in Advance prayer for cool days to two or ONE YEAR ............................ $1-50 thr ee in some cases. Residents of forty years, and a few hardy old tim ers of sixty JU N E 20. 1941 years, say they have never seen any thing like it. Certainly this ELECTION PRECINCTS year will go down in the sagas of The next m eeting of the county the county along with ’95, ’12, ’16 court will be the only time in this ai:d *21 as being among the best. Except for wide spread hail or biennium when it will be legally devastating fire that is now cer possible to change election pre tain. cincts. There are several changes Wheat*Tn the n o rth >end of thi needed in this county and voters rounty is now turning from the have expressed themselves as fav rich green of a few weeks ago to orable to such changes. the golden color th at precedes the* There are voters in some rural russet in Federation and the yellow precincts who do not care to vote richness of Turkey Red. • From the in abandoned school houses and roadside it continues over the hill wculd prefer to go to town where in unbroken perfection without there is a bit more election excite brown spot or draw to m ar the ment and there are some voters oviness of its changing color. This may not be the perfect who would like to be put in pre- evicts other than the one they are crop but certainly this will do until a better one comes along. now in. A call on the county court Wed How’ much will it make ? Forty nesday, July 2, will in most cases bushels, Pouf. An ordinary year make it possible to vote where it m ight produce that. F ifty bush- tic ? Whole wheat fields , will is most convenient. average that, say their owners. Sixty bushels. Look at the north KILLING KITTENS KINDLY sidehills, note the rare color, count Wednesday morning a visitoi the kernels and see th a t every who had parked his car without head is full of three kernel meshes locking it found th a t it contained and be not afraid to prophesy it. Some think the county will four small kittens, left there, no have 3,000,000 bushels of grain doubt, ¡by some one whose desjre this year. It has done th a t well for cats was limited by his im before when the governm ent did mediate need. It is recognized th a t the job of not restrict the acreage. Such restrictions has had a minor effect “ plowing under” the surplus of on production because lower pro kittens has long been a chore th at ducing land has been taken out taxed the ingenuity of those who would tem per stern necessity with instead of the better land: kindness to animals. In a country where there is no aw ift flowing river to provide a ready method of exterm ination for unprem edi tated kittens many ingenious schemes have been tdied. There is a story of ancient vin tage about two maiden ladies of m ature years who wished to kill an old and dearly beloved rooster. '-Wishing to make his departure from this world as painless as possible they placed his tw isting neck on a soft and decaying log in an effort to soften the blow. A ttem pts to do away with k it tens often are as heartless. They are taken far away from their place of birth to . which, in these days of sw ift automobiles, they seldom are capable of returning. A few are able to bash out their brains w ith a hammer. The jester who incarcerated his surplus in a parked car was an inventor with some imagination who, undoubtedly, performed his disagreeable task with much pleas ure although with not much hum anity. SPEED LAW Oregon now has a new law regulating the speed of autom o biles on the public highways of the state. It is being said th a t it puts the burden of proof of speed on tfie one arrested and yet words m aking th at effective are not con tained in the w ritten law and would probably not be constitutional if they were. The law does state “ Any per son who drives a vehicle upon a highway a t a speed in excess of that, designated by this act—shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not to exceed one hundred dollars or by im prisonm ent not to exceed ten days or by both such fine and imprisonm ent: provided that any speed in excess of said designated speeds shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of subsection (a) of this section.” In other words if a driver is caught going a t a speed greatei than that perm itted in a specified zone it is evidence thathe is guilty of breaking the law. Prim a facie m eans a t first sight, on the face of it. Prim a facie evidence must be disputed or be taken by the court. * ,- Now th a t does not make this lsw much different than the present one. Ah officer arrests a m otorist and reports to the court th a t the arrested ope was going 60 miles per hour. The victim says he was going but 40 miles per hour. ¿The court believes the officer and levies the fine. U nder the new law that is exactly what will hanjien, too. A man isn’t guilty until proven so and he isn’t going to be under the new law. The new law gives greater g r 5 ; * . , ? -o $ j ». , •' f Lent People «• MOTORLOGGERS FOLLOW CAVALRY OFFICERS ON BUYING TOUR THROUGH EASTERN OREGON ,, ■* w*. /*) Honor George ' , the Editor: A Call to /Prayer. No doubt most people in S h er man county have listened in on The Old Fashioned Revival Hour each Sunday from five to " six o’clock p. m. This broadcast leaches three fourths of the globe. Charles E. Fuller, the ministei who conducts this broadcast, has cd led for a day of prayer, Mon day, June 16. P ta y er i§ the great- i st power known; find yet, sad to f ay, the least used. Our Lord said th a t “ ’Men aught always to pray, i. id not to fain t.” Luke 18:1. At this time when nations a rt falling and civilization crum bling end our own »beloved nation greatly threatened, we all would do well to heed this admonition. The God who delivered Danel f on, the lions den; and the three I .ebrew children from the fiery fira a c e ; who divided the waters ( f the ’Red Sea: and fed the multi- t ide in the desert forty years; and f ught their battles when they tu s te d in Him, is the same God of power and is just w aiting for us t > pray down heavens blessings. The invitation of Our Lord is to come and take freely. The Word says: If my people which are call ed by my name, shall humble them selves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and vill forgive their sin and will heal their land. II Chron. 7:14. I thought it well at this time to exhort all who believe in the power of prayer, to join in prayer on June 16, as only God can save our nation and liberty. ”0 Lord by Whom we come to God, The Life, the T ruth, the W ay; The path of P ra y er Thyself h ast trod: Lord, teach us now to pray.” Mrs. D. H. W right. Kelly’s Column BY D. J. CONWAY McKay At Party Thia la one of a aeries of articles condensed from The Oregonian, recounting Journeys to Interesting areas of the Pa cific northwest made Tn co-operatloo with ‘ he Oregon 8tate Motor association. The complete article will' appear In The Sunday Oregonian. ~ George F. McKay was the honor g n ts t a t a surprise gathering and d.nner given by his children and their fam ilies at the Kent Grange hal: Sunday. The event was in honor of F a th e r’s Day. Out of town guests were: Mr. and Mrs. P aul McKay, Mrs. T. W. Runnels and Mr. and Mrs. W alter Carson find daughter Elna of Husum, Wn; Mr. and Mrs. Ray McKay and son Benny and daughter Phyllis of Coquille; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Cox and W arren Morgan of Grass Valley: Mr. and Mrs. W alter Beyers and daughter Thelda ol Shaniko; Mr. and . Mrs. E verett C ra tty and son Roy and daughter Alice of Santa Rosa, California. Kent people: Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Sm ith and daughters Virginia and Joyce and son Billie; Mr. and Mrs. Ja y McKay and daughter Kay and son F rank; Mrs. L. M. Schadewitz and son Teddy and daughters, N elina, Shirley and Kay; Mr. and M rs. A rth u r C ratty and daughters Dorothy, Ruby, Grace and Rose and sons Clyde and Floyd and Mr. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. McKay. Pictures were taken and the a fte r noon spent informally. Does the arm y still use horses? To obtain the answ er to th a t question an O regonian - AAA •notorlog p a rty trav eled across rre e n E astern O regon nearly to ♦he S n ak e riv e r to observe arm y horse buyers in action. They found th e answ er in Pine V al ley in th e foothills of the W al lowa m ountains. A tiny, blonde, 13-year-old school girl, Kath- een C urtis, d ram atically sup plied th e answ er. It was an •emphatic but a h e a rtb re a k in g ”CS. A rm ies do use horsds, for three arm y officers cam e to the « iie t, pictu resq u e Pine valley * 'd bought m any horses. But • n at m ade K ath leen an author- ty w as th a t th ey bought a *orse she had helped raise. They ’ ought h er P e rc y ’s P ride, a • alf - th o ro u g h b red , fo u r-y e a r- id, sorrel gelding, w ith two v»hi.te stockings and whose sire was B row n S u g ar,-an arm y re m ount stallion. ' B ehind P e rcy ’s P ride, and thousands of o th er horses the arm y is now buying, is a story of long-range planning on the p a rt of the U nited S tates arm y in co-operation w ith hundreds of ranchers. D uring w orld w ar No. 1 it w as not easy to obtain I horses ideally su itab le for mili- , tary use. I In 1921 congress authorized a horse breeding plan having as ! its p rim ary object the produc- i tion of large num bers of good horses suitable for riding, which would be available for purchase in ‘he event of a national em ergency. Like Member of Family To K a th le e n it was alm ost ike buying a m em ber of the "'•irtis fam ily. W hen.she found ■**’. P e rc y ’s P rid e had joined <>•«.• arm y brave tears coursed *• •” sun-tanned cheeks as she •—xe him goodby. '•/: it do m ilitary authorities t » v a o c u t horses in m odern v m fare? Colonel E. N. H ardy, chief •■»t a rm x z ic m o u n t service, •r. a recen t speech said: “W hy .Army Lends Stallions Ur.der this p lan the arm y has •‘■•-■y still use horses? Horses ii : ill used because they can acquired pure-pred stallions of r r:rn some functions n othin" ! proper type to produce good • ■<' can perform , and can still riding horses. These stallions s ie other things b e tte r w ere placed in the hands of - -•«. ,e. y i ? / —: ',l™o can do them ." ranchers and o th er civilian Mrs. B. A. Hogue received word of the death of her brother, Milton (Bennett, at Tillamook June 13th. Mr. B ennett and family were form er residents of the Kent vici nity. (Mf?. and Mrs. Homer Sibley and Lawrence P ra tt of Portland were calling on friends at Kent Monday morning. Mr. Sibley be remembered here as a form er school teacher, but has been teach ing in Jefferson high school in Portland for several years. Mrs. J. C. Wilson spent S a tu r day and Sunday a t the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Reckman at G rass Valley. Mrs Reckman sud der.ly became ill on Friday evening and was taken to The JLXalles hos pital. She was able ’f o r e t u r n to her home Sunday afternoon. Mrs. R." P. B arnett, Mrs. Cart SchEdewjtz and Geraldine N ortor drove to Portland Monday morning when Levina Barnet returned with them , having completed her B iauty course. Mrs. R. P. Hulse and son Bill of Dufur, and Mrs. Paul Collins ot San Luis Obispo, California, were dini.er guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. H Wilson Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. , William Moers and son Raymond and daughter Elaine of LalCenter, Wnn * .were week end guests at the home ol Mr. and Mrs. Max Plumke. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Helyer. Mr. and Mrs. Finer Helyer, Ger aldine Norton, Dolores Gregg and , R Abell attended the Rodeo al Antelope Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bennett ol The Dailey were dinner guests of Mrs. B. A. Hogue and Gertrude Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Helyer were overnight guests a t the Quentin Kremmel home at Gresh am Thflrsday ’ rtlght.“ G. F. McKay and son Harley, E. C. Smith and Ray McKay were brief callers at Shaniko Sunday. A rthur Cratty and daughters Ruby and Grace, E verett C ratty and daughter Alice went to P o rt land Friday and returned early Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schilling ■find daughter Bobetta were dinnei guests a t the A. F. Lyons home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bothwell and son Edward left Sunday for Dufur w h ere'th e form er has em ployment. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wilson and children and Robert Wallman were P.y John W. Kelly n i doubt of their parly connection: two had run for public office on the communist ticket; some were on W1PA rolls: others in the lumber industry. They were fairly well placed to spread their party line. When the president requestea si rikers to return to work, and they defied hm, patience ceased to bf *a virtue and troops were moved in zand took over the Inglewood _ I an-craft plant. This defiance was the last straw . It appears th a t the From the Observer June 20, 1902 adm inistration imagined th a t the Don W heat left Tuesday for radicals could be controlled when Lake’s Mill where he will load two the president spoke, but they had wagons with trough and tank lum grown so self-im portant th at the ber for Mitchell & Foss.v admonition of the president of the Hon. J. B. Hosford was reelected United States was ignored. Then director and R. E. Hoskinson, clerk c me the time to act. at the Moro school meeting.- In piece with the new attitude, G raduating exercises were held the president has ordered every at DeMoss school, June 10th. person in civil service to be finger Misses May and Lottie Robinson printed and these prints will be were graduates of the eighth grade. examned by FBI to learn whether The 14th annual convention of there is any prison record. For the Sherman county W.C.T.U. con the first time the adm inistration vened in Moro M. E. church, June is plannng a system atic investiga 19th. A two day program had been tion of governm ent workers. H ere arranged in which all members of a fter things will probably be di.T- the Union w ere" invited to par- • enent. ticipate. Miss Elsie Fitzm aurice accom- paned Mrs. G. P. Higinbotham to of the fire. Joe Rutledge left Tuesday for The Dalles S iste rs’ school last Baker where he has accepted a w(ek to witness the commencement position on the .Sum pter Valley exercises. Miss Mary H iginboth am graduated from the school at nairow gauge railway. Archie Blue has been wearing that time. splints on his nose p art of this . Rev. M. F. S. Hinton was chosen a director and Waldo Davis, clerk, w eek/ An auto crank—iron, not at the DeMoss Springs school m an—hit him when it slipped. One of the small bones of his nose meeting. From the Observer June 21, 1912 was broken. Mrs. Cora Guyton was in Moro Marvin Miller, son of Mr. and last week taking * teachers ex Mrs. E dgar B. Miller of the Bad ger |iT m , is visiting .with his aminations. Guy Walton and wife were Kent cousin, Trym an Strong, this Week. visitors here this week. S. Elcock, Dr. Joseph Sanders and S. P. Brisbine are out of the city enjoying themselves with the Revised Version The cadets were eagerly aw ait Grand Army boys. ing their dinners at a certain RAF Mr. A lterm att, of the Rufus T. Lester Johnson training school,, where the sea air fiuit and vineyards, delivered a load of cherries in Moro Tuesday. stem s to create perpetual hunger. LAW TBK Some of our farm ers are figur One of them was heard to rem ark: WASCO MORO ing on 20 sacks of w heat to the “Never was so little w aited for by so many for so long.” acre, so be it; at all events there will probably be the biggest lot of wheat shipped from this county k next fall th at has ever been known in the history of our Little Short J Lint railway. ? LaDru Barnum took a run down to Biggs Sunday with his locomo bile and picked Mrs. Barnum and Mrs. Rutledge up, bringing them borne to Moro 3 hours in advance of th e' overworked mail, express, freig h t and passenger train. An accident delayed him an hour on the return trip. A dead mule in a plow runaw ay, • Check the proof (it’s that good a smashed rubber tire tra p in an S ckny 6 bo <# 93 proof) . . the superior flavor other, a man crippled in a saddle (only Kentucky-distilled bourbon feat, are three incidents in the has it) . . . the age (4 years of mel accident chain happenings this lowing to your taste.) week. Fortunately wo person killed. • From the Observer June 13. 1922 Word was received in Moro Thursday morning th a t the barn on the Roy Powell farm had burned KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON 'WHISKEY the night previous. Mr. Downing, This whiskey ia 4 YEARS OLD • 93 Proof in charge of the ranch during the National Distillers Products Corporation, N. Y. absence of Mr. Powell a t Gamp Sherman, did not state the cause' In Other Days : “If I ever get into the army. I want this horse." said Wayne Curtis, holding bridle, when he turned "Percy's Pride" over to Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Kocrtrr, right, of the cavalry. agents in com m unities w here th ere w ere ad eq u ate m arcs available. The use of the sta l lions has been supervised by arm y m en rep resen tin g the re m ount service. Oregon east of the Cascades has been know n for its good horses for m ore than a century. In the early days large bands of Indian horses, descendants , of Spanish im portations, ranged the bunchgrass lands. 1 The rem ount service has ju st : com pleted a te n - d a y buy.ng j tour th roughout eastern O re gon. Many excellent h tr .c s w ere acquired and im m ediately shipped to Fort Robinson, Ne braska. for conoitioning and is , suance to various branches of , the service. Lieutenant-C olonel F. W. K oester, officer in charge o f. the w estern rem ount area, was in charge of the buying 1 party. 1’h s O regon S tate Motor association'* fam iliar w h ite car stops beneath the gatew ay of the farrrnu« Diamond-and-a-Half ranch in th e Burnt river valley . The ranch is noted fo ’ SorAes. calieis in i he Dalles feunuay. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Kruger and diipghter, Donna, o< Portland were_ week end guests a t the L. W. Amick home. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Davie ana son Luther W arren, Wilbur H ag gerty, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Mclnnez, Mr and Mrs. Am andus von Bör stel, J. C. Wilson and J. M. Wilson w ire among those from Kent who attended the Glen King funeral at Grass Valley Thursday. A dm inistratrix Geo. G. Updegraff All persons having claims Attorney for. .Administratrix against the estate of Glen P. King, 33-36 deceased, are hereby notified t o - ---------------------— present them in proper form, to the undersigned, the duly appointed* qualified and acting A dm inistra trix of the estate of Glen P. King, deceased, a t the office of Geo. G. Updegraff, Moro, Oregon, within six months from the date of this notice, to-witf: June 20, 1941. Civic Frances King NOTICE TO CREDITORS ■35^ You ccn get it a t - - - Zeigler’s Qsta o'rey Moro 113, I. O. O. F. Moro, Oregon Meets 1st and 3rJ Tuesdays in thj I.OiO.F. hall Trai sient and visiting brothers are cordi ally invited to m ett .vith us. Joe Ritner N.G. Vernon Millet, Sec. Supplies for Harvest w hen hard w orking men need good food and lots of it. b Q uality -- Price -- Dependability 1 Quick - Easy * Safe Write ‘or call for com pleté information— S tonybrook / > Rebekah Lodge Moro. Oregon Meets 2d & 4th Tues day of each month. Visiting members welj come. Helen M artin N. G. Florence Johnston, Sed H e a d O ffic e , P o r tla n d , O re g o n FEDERAL D E P O S IT IN S U R A N C E ' • C O R P O K A 1 IO N * f - 116 Moro, Oregon Meets Every Second end F o urth T hursdays i i each Month V isiting m em bers T Invited Patricia Woods Sec. Dorotha DJoore, W.M. -t » No. Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-AI Meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursday eve nings of^each month. Visiting members cor dially invited to meet with us.* Wendell Balsigcr W.M. ___£ ,. V. Belknap, Secy. Bethlehem Chapt er~NoT 78. <PE. 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