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Sherman County Observer
Established Nov. 2, 1888
Grass Valley Journal
Established O ct 14, 1897
CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931
Wasco News-Enterprise
Established Nov. 1891
CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932
into decision pretty soon it won’t
make any difference what we con
clude about this war.
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1#«
Kelly’s Column'
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SPECIAL SCHOOL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Wasco Çhurch of Christ: Church to the legal voters of School Pts-
Bible School 10:00 a. m. W. D. tnct No. 20 of Sherman County,
Devine state of Oregon, that a SPECIAL
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WEDNESDAY, October 15
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JUDY CANOVA
added to Oregon payrolls. Com-
munion. Morning Message “The trict wi)1 be held at the school
The law that will make un loth Field Artillery Schofield Bar pared with August. 1041, the num-
IN
.Divinity
of
the
Christ.
house,
on
the
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ay
o
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necessary the 2 mill elementary racks, T. iH. September 15, 1941. her employed in Washington in-
The State 90 and 9 Convention 1M1, at 2 o'clock ,n the afternoon,
school tax throughout the state To. Editor Sherman County Jour- cea sed 65,000 and in Oregon 34,-
is in Portland on Monday 13 Af- f w the follow,ng objects:
was introduced by men from this n.ii, Moro, Oregon:
.
000. As the defense program tcrnoon and evenmg at iF.rst
For a vote on the sale of the
¿Also Cartoon and Travel Talk
legislative district in 1939 when
Your editorial of August 29th, speeds up these states will have Church of Christ. Are You G oing. -school buildings and school prop-
there was little thought that it entitled “A Failing Industry,” was
F. Claude Stephens, Minister. erty.
Published Every Friday at
SUNDAY, OCT. 12
especially interesting to me, hav- an all-time high of employment in
would take e ffe c ts o soon.
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Dated the 30th day p f Soptem-
Moro. Oregon
CHARGES
G RAPE WIN
ing
recently
completed
a
n
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army
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.The
figures
give
an
idea
the ' "law
Christian Science church ser her. 1941.
.
8Pv° nX 8 ^neofim
tax
coursé in mess management, oj the number of workers to come
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Giles L. French
a W e the amount needed
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dealt wlth the co,t oi iU ple
" CUri‘y Payr° U vices are held every Sunday mor Clyde Crites, Dist. Clerk.
ning at eleven o’clock. Subject for S. A. Hall, Chairman Board of
Entered as second class matter at receipts
articles.
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Sunday the 5 12th is “Are Sin, Dis- Directors.
the Postoffice at Moro, Oregon to take up the state property tax
RUM0R& hajre been circulating
ydodT w S
under Act of Congress of March and the elementary school tax th^Poat'bakery’ a ^ r ^ c le a n b a k "
Plus Cartoon
Read the Ads In the Journal
would have <gone to other school erv Droducinir bread of a quality for months that the federal govern- school begins at ten
8. 1879.
purposes instead of becoming a comparable with any commercial ment is contemplating the estab- Wednesday
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Surplus in the state treasury. Sur firm The startling fact was th e . lin in g of a pulp mill somewhere
,a t .a* ^ t , cloefc T he,reading
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pluses in the treasury are always
- in Oregon or Washington to man- room is located in the. rear ol tne
lei at i o i a temptation to those who have cost of this bbead. Figuring all ufacture an ingredient in smoke- church building with an attendant
h in t
bright ideas about how to spend la»bor, fuel, depreciation,, etc., the less powder, and probably placing after the church services,
cost for the month of August was
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
them.
it in the “fog belt.” This report
Moro Presbyterian Church: Bible
It is true that the income tax $0.925 per pound loaf. The Army has reached the territory affected,
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
figures
their
bread
cost
will
al
school
at 10 a.m. Morning wor-
has resulted in Oregon taxpayers
but no amount of inquiry in the
Payable in Advance
ways be as follows: The cost of
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ship
at
11 a - m- “Abraham’ The
of
all
classes,
paying,
more
money
national capital has been able to
ONE YEAR -
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for government than before. Tax flour plus one-half cent for labor, uncover any supporting evidence.^ Man Who Believed God. Christian
payers might well have had to pay other ingredients, etc., per 1 pound Ail the present two score pulp and Endeavor Sunday evening a
OCTOBER 10, 1941
paper mills in the northwest are P m- James D. Moberg, pas or.
more without it. There is a bet loaf.
The average wage paid the sol
ter distribution of taxes through
reported to be working on a 24-
CONGRATULATIONS
Wasco Methodist Church: Sun-
out the people of the state with diers employed was $60 per month. hour basis, so great is the demand
This
plus
the
fact
that
they
were
day
school at 10 a. m. Sunday
It was certainly with no Jittle the income tax than there would
for their material.
using old and out of date machines
School Rally program 11 ly m.
have
been
without
it.
Those
who
community pride that Sherman
requiring a larger amount ol
Epworth Leagufe 6:30 p. m.
countains read Wednesday mor are criticising it are income tax labor, and coupled with the typical
F .KR. Cannell, pastor.
payers
and
not
property
owners.
ning of the success of the coun
governmental inefficiency meaps
Experience has shewn that any that the Army saying of, “the cost
ty's two horse herds at the Pacific
EROSION SERIOUS
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new
tax fesulfs in a greater in of flour plus one-half cent” is Continued from page one.
International.
The most serious soil erosion in
We knew we had some good come for the state. It seems to alx)ut what a pound loaf of bread the state ¿tax commission.
WhenHhe tax commission some eastern Oregon is occurring on the
horses, worthy of being shown be impossible to make a tax that should cost our commercial bakers
two months ago handed down its Columbia basin wheat lands, where
any where against anybody’s will merely be a substitute for an to produce.
existing
tax.
States
that
have
a
now
famous opinion precipitating heavy soil losses have occurred
horses. We thought they ought
History has pointed out that
sales
tax.
whether
it
was
started
the
row
over assessments in that from botjr wind and water erosion,
to win. Nevertheless we were
whenever the price of a certain
overjoyed to learn that grand to take the place of other taxes article is set by law or a board county it did so under authority according to the report and recom-
m o d e ra
p lu s
championships in both mare and or not, collect more dollars per whether it be high or low, for ol the legislative act which pre mer.dations of the Oregon state
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c
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stallion classes were won by our capita than do states without such any prolonged period, due to the sumes to give the state commission land use planning committee. Act
taxes.
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inefficiency is arising from lack this authority. In that opinion ing upon the recomn.endations of
own Sherman county horses.
Criticism
of
Oregon’s
taxation
of opposition, the industry affected and order the tax commission held this committed",-«plans are under
This county has about one-five
hundreth part of the state’s pop svstem is always in order for out always manages to raise or lower the “varible ratio” system of as- wav to organize definite programs
f a t e ,® to " * “ “
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__ sesrments being followed by the to combat this erosion of the five
ulation but it has all of the of it may come a better system. their production costs so w that
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state’s best four horses. Not only But. Oregon can stand comparison pioduction cost plus a reasonable Multnomah county assessor to be principal counties affected
with
nearly
any
other
state
in
this
return
on
their
investment
equals
in
violation
of
the
constitutional
Citing
studies
made
y
e
.01
that, it must be remembered that .
horses from all over the northweat regard and any .weeping change the price as set.
and statutory requirements for Conservation service on represen-
ulartoJ-
Another fact with which every- equal and ratable assessments. At tative farms in the Columbia basin,
and Canada are shown at Port- 1. more likely to do harm than
ove
good.
one is familiar is that when the the same time it directed the the planning committee repo s
land. t
that
on
42.5
per
cent
of
the
crop
price of an article is low the utili- Multnomah county assessor to
Sherman county has long been ------------ --------
Farmers and others who would ty is great. While not so apparent bring his assessments up to a uni land up to 25 per cent of the sur
famous for its fine draft horses.
in
face soil has been removed. On
However, we do not recall such like to have their tax statement in the case of staple articles, it form basis.
51.7 per cent of the crop land, be
evidence of success as a double show small or at least smaller functions nevertheless. You bear
In following out the terms of
tween
25 and 75 per cent of the
grand championship in the two figures will have a chance to do this out by the statistics you quote, this order the assessor increased
or blown
n«oAt important breeds at the something about it Tuesday when that is, when baking was a home the valuations of residential prop- surface soil has washed On
a n o th -
same show.
the budget committee meets at the. industry we used six bushels per erty in the city of Portland while •_
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er 5.5 per cent of these wheat lands
Congratulations of the most court house.
capita per year and that now it is 31. the same time reducing valua
more than'75 per cent of the sur
hearty sort to Mr. Fraser and Mr.
4.2 bushelR. I think we can reas tions on some business properties.
face
soil is already gone.
Rolfe, and their aids, too, for the
onably conclude that while Grand-- Then the Multnomah county
I
The
summer fallow type of
showing.
ma was baking bread it didn’t equalization board stepped in with
cost her ten cents per pound, so an order in which/the assessor was wheat farming universally prac
consequently
she
used
more directed to ignore the tax commis ticed in the Columbia basin is con
MY SHEKLES. O MY SHEKELS
bread.
sion and re-write the tax roll on ductive to the development of
erosion, the committee points out.
It seems to* me that it’s up to the old basis.
Worry about Russia’s religion From the Observer Oct. 10, 1902
Mrs. Dan McLachlin met with the wheat afrmers to do some-
In its latest ordqg, issued this While this ' type of farming is
and the movement to insist that
the leaders embrace our beliefs is another fall Sunday seriously in- thing to correct this. I’ll grant week,
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but another of the many indices of juring her head and shoulders fall- the afet that our diets have chang- that the Multnomah county board tedge is concerned, immeuia
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the unreadiness of this nation to ing down stairs at the farm
ed some, but not that much. The of equalization acted1 entirely will he required if be er an a
The last act of Uriah Serviss be- thirty percent more bread used in without authoring but authorized of the crop land is to be prev
go to war.
fore
leaving for his California the old days would just about tak" the Multnomah assessor to reduce from becoming marginal o r s u
We seem to look upon this war
as another of the sporting con home was to sell his section of care of our surplus at present. I the 1941 assessments on residential n arginal for wheat produc ion
Much progress has been made
tests we so enjoy, as an interna land near town to Harry Lanphere believe it reasonable to assume improvements by 25 percent and
that
of
business
unprovements
tby
in
the last few years in lessening
for
$13,000
cash.
,
that
the
increase
in
population
tional bombing series an Olympian
O. A. Ramsey has staked off a would compensate for our change 10 percent. Whifc this latest or- losses from erosion by the adop-
munitions conflict on which we had
der represents a comprimise over tion of practices such as trashy
bet on England and her allies and quarter block at Scott and Second in diet.
therefore hoped she would win. As streets and will build a nice resi-
If we have to have bakery boards the commission’s Original order the rummer fallow, cross seeding ot
far as sacrificing anything toward d< nee there.
end a set price, let the afrmer see commission still insists that the slopes, and a certain amount of
law requires uniformity of assess- strip cropping using crested wheat
that end—Nothing doing.
Martin Holman has leased his to it that the price is five or six
The administration itself has re- land to his brother John and will cents per pound and not ten or nients and that the Multnomah grass. The plan of the coming
fused time after time to let pass
make his home in Portland.
twelve cents per pound. The bak- county assessor must conform to campaign will be to make more
any of its attempts to reform this J)r. Goffin’s bam is quite
a eries might have to eliminate a this requirement as soon as he general the use of such practices
nation into the type it prefers— feature on McCoy street. It is a few of the twenty or thirty kinds car. make the necessary reapprais already found effective.
J h e planning committee also
whatever that is—and it still in- very substantial building veneer- of raisen bread and some of the al of properties in his county.
Inasmuch as the county equali- called attention to the danger of
sista that the political atmosphere ea with brick making it almost a fifty or sixty other varieties. There
m ight not be so many IBuck Roger z^tion board has again instructed erosion developing on the U. S.
be kept safe for the new deal, re- fire proof building.
stories on the radio advertising the the assessor to ignore the commis- army bombing range and ordance
gardless.
preventive
brea<1 tbat wfli make the weak SiOr/ 8 or(jer
js entirely probable depot areas unless
Labor hopes, according to the From the Observer Oct. 11, 1912
measures
are
taken.
Mr and Mrs Phil Yates and man strong and the aft lady thin, that the argument will find its way
AFL leaders, that Hitler loses as
long as it can be done with a 30 Mr. and Mrs. Orville Davis were but all in all it owuld be distinctly into the courts for a final inter
pretation of the law.
hour week at high wages. Farmers dinner guests at the O, fA. Ramsey to our advantage.
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If we can get rid of the bakery
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enjoy high prices for food stuffs.- ,
Mrs. Harold D Peterson of
Men drafted into the army pro auw 'aa” m ^ an srf transportation boards and keep the industryfrom
fine city
setting the pnee on it own, it p aiia8 has accepted appointment
test their low wages. Apparently
we look upon this war as a chance ° O u r n e x t countv judge Fred would be only a matter of months by Governor Sprague to a position
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iin w n a fine ex- urtil tbe baking industry aws pro- heading up the women’s partici-
to obtain more wealth and position S
n e T during bread at a coat much lower
tio/ te the 8tate's civili8n de.
for ourselves. We do not seem to
than at present and one that would fenge program.
consider it a threat to our form of Grass Valley.
encourage
far greater consump
government, our way of life but as
iRoy Powell has arrived from
The high cost of labor and ma
an opportunity to get rich. No Prineville to see his new daughter tion.
Wishing you a rainy fall, 1 terials may necessitate’ a halt in
wonder Europeans call us Uncle here at Moro.
the state’s building program for
Shylock.
Eugene Amidon will construct remain, .Sincerely yours,
the time being. The board of con
A part of the people speak ill of a comfortable tent house on the Paul A. Fraser.
1st Lt. Field Artillery, USA. trol this week found it necessary
Col. Lindberg for wanting us to land he is farming for his family
.
to reject all bids for a physician’s
keep our armaments at home. A this winter. Go to it, Gene, you’ll ------------- --------—
part of us speak ill of the president find it better than a sky scraper IN THE COUNTY COURT OF cottage at the tuberculosis bospi-
THE STATE OF OREGON FOR tai at The Dalles when the lowest
for trying to lead Us into war.
Did you ever think of adverting
civic s
for health.
hid wai\ found to be nearly double
We *are buying millions of dol-
SHERMAN COUNTY
Geo. Crosfield opened the fair
lavs of defense bonds and stamps * day eaHy by arriving with a long
as a short cut, a time saver?
In Matter of thft^state of Hin- the estimated cost of the building.
Plans ; are being prepared for
and the question seems pertinent gtrjng of f arm implements drag- rich Peters, deceased.
building at other state institu
whether we are doing it to speed ged by a tractor of the Caterpillar SS. Notice to Creditors,
tions including a $320,000 treat-
defense or because it is the best
As a matter of fact, that’s all it is.
type.
t o WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
investment for our war made
Henry Root and wife
left this Vo,,’ . « 'hereby notified that the ment hospital at the stote hospital
You
dollars.
week for a four month« trip to ullder8igned has been duly appoint- ior mentally di at Salem.
The answer to it a ll' will un California. He has been here 34
, . dmini8trator of the above en-
nf Orevnn’s
It enables a store of factory with a
doubtedly be that wars are not won years.
1 « «tied estate, by the County Judge
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without sacrifice, not against such From the Observer Oct.
13, 1922 „f Sherman County, Oregon, and P ’"e * * * « he S Z X A r e
tO R SALE: 20 to 30 head of black
lot of merchandise to sell to find a
a war machine as Germany has
faced ewes, bred to lamb in Feb
The
assessment
roll
for
the
coun-
all
persons
h»vl"8
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im
e
d
full
of
valuable
informa-
developed. We don’t seem to be
ruary. W. C.Helyer, Kent, 47-8
th^proper'vouchee Annexed 4
concerning the state and it,
lot of people who want it.
scaring anybody by thumping our ty showed total property valued
chest and making resounding ora at $12,323,470.
a
♦ a low
rtf Rov 3 -'Vanous activities. Copies are sup- FOR SALE: 48 ewes, 64 lambs—
Rev. H. G. Hanson left this Baker ta Grass Valley.. Oregon, 1»««* f
38 of them ewes. Call George
tions against dictators; certainly
to state officials, schools,
The people who use. advertising
Drinkard or R. M. Johnson at
we are not scaring anybody with morning for Redmond where as
libraries and, newspapers and are
Pendleton - Pres withirt six months from
Wasco, Oregon.
48-49
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niutiuii building
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.1 • available to thd general public at
our siuw
slow motion
of anna-
arms moderator for the
find it the cheapest way of doing
ment, surely no dictator is going bytery he will preside at the in- o. the first pu 1
25 cents each.
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Eureka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-M
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to begin trembling in the knees at str llation of Dr. Schnable as pas notice.
Meets on the 1st and
this job.
.
First publication being Septem
the threat of a nation where men tor at that place.
The State Employment Service
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3rd Thursday eve
ber
12th,
1941
and
last
publication
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Alfred
S.
Powers
and
Ninus
will work but 30 or 40 hours per
reports an increasing demand for
nings of each month.
week at plane building and ..then Eslinger were married at the M. being October 10th, 1941.
skilled
workers
and
office
help
are
Visiting members cor
Herman D. Peters,
E. parsonage here Tuesday, Sept,
Which help to keep prices down.
strike at will.
dially invited to meet
Administrator. also in great demand.
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,
.
Maybe we have decided that this 12.
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with
us.
Moro Lodge No. 113, I. O. ì). F.
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A. B. Montgomery and J. E. Roy J. Baker,
type of government is due for the
Wendell Balsiger W.M.
Moro. Oregon
Attorney
for
Estate.
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cleuners anyway and we’d just as Montgomery, brothers of Bob
C. V. Belknap, Secy.
Meets
1st
and
3rf
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well get our share of the pie while Mbntgomery formerly of Moro and
Tuesdays 'in the Bethlehetn Chapter, No. 78.O.E.S.
we can. Not even a confirmed Kont were here appraising land l.upine- Rebekah Lodge No. 1 1 $ ,
Moro, Oregon
Morb.
Oregon
âLO..O.F.
-hall Trai
optimist could be happy over the for the Pacific Coast Joint Stock
Meets
Every
Second and
aient
and
visitin<
Meets 2d 4 4th Tues
outlook if we are really planning I^and bank.
Fourth
Thursdays
in each
brothers
aré
cordi
day
of
each
month.
to get in the war. N either coujd w The Christian Endeavorers ral-
Month. Visiting member*
ally
invited
to
meet
Visiting
members
weld
g confirmed optimist be satisfied lied in strong formation at the
Invited
.▼Ith us.
at our actions if we are going to hospitable home of Chris Anderson
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Woods Sed.-
u
Patricii
Joe
Ritner
N.G.
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stay out of war.'..:
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Thursday night. More meetings* Helfu, Martin N.
Moore,
W.M.
Doroth
Ve
mon
Millet,
Sec.
Unleaa our national thought jells will be held during the winter.
Florence Johnston,
OREGON TAXES
“ Puddin’ Head”
“ Tobacco Road”
Statehouse Gossip
OF KNOWING HOW
lor
rvilielminq pop
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In Other Days
_ _ Shortest
distance between
two points
W ant Ads
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