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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1941)
// - Moro, Oregon. Friday, Fifty-Third Year N o. 1 City Officials N jv e m b e r 7, 1941 Rain Makes U. s . NAVY RECRUITING OFFICER PRESENTS APPLICANT WITH NEW “ BADGE OF HONOR? Invited To Meet Seeding Safe All Over County With League The Dalles To Be Host City r- m «« íl — t Ü a -Z Washington D. C. Nov fr -T h o « fa rm e r, of Oregon who u « trac- t e r . in their operation, and have. difficulty in obtaining p a r t, when they break down breause of . hor- tage of »teel, will be interested to learn th a t the second lend-lease bill provides fo r 10,285 tractors to coat 110,000.000 and these are pre- sumed to enable the B r itish to cultivate four million acres of land The farm s in England, Scotland ar.d Wales are not like those in Oregon. but quite small, instead of containing several thousand acres. Suspicion has been voiced by half a dozen members of con- gross th a t the tra c to r, will not be feasible for English use because of the small p lo t, to be cultivated and, anyway, 10,000 men would have to be trained to operate them when these m e n m ig h t be in uni- fo iw instead. The assertion was made on the floor of the house th at the Br.tish intend re-.hippm g the tra c to r, to A frica where they can.be used m competition with ^ e American farm er. These sus- Sr£S5S5 Moisture Conditions Better For Municipal Office^ Last Fall For First Two Friday Noon Months of Crop Year University of Oregon, Nov. 6. (Special)—City official* of Moro atUnd g jpna, conference of mayor«, coun cj,men departm ent h ead. to he]d ,n on Friday, November 7 9tartinK a t noon. The a r t being presented t|irough the co.0[K.r a tion of the u of Oregon C ities and the bureau oj municipal research a t tke u n iv ersity o f Oregon, it was announced by Herm an Kehrli, di- reftp r the g ke„ a t the m eeting will in- dbde „ Rjley of P ort. ,and M Henry McKinney of Mayor w w . Chadwick Salem The ronftrence at fh e Dalles is - , Mrie, to be held th h ottt the state during Nov- fm b tr an(J December. It will pro- yide an opportunity fo r city offlcial, u eIch ange experiences an(J jdea, on , variety o( munic- . , blem, ,„ d make sugges- t;<|n> foJ> needed reaea„ h through the b urtau Speakers a t the meet- . will al9O diKU„ atate legi9. of ¡ntere, t citje, and give r.x .rs < Service, is shown here placing the new Navy “Badge of Honor” on the lapel of an applicant for enlistment in the Navy. (Badge shown above at right.) All ambitious young men who apply for service in Uncle Sam’s “Two-ocean” Navy, whether accepted or not, are given this new badge as a mark of their patriotism. To learn of the many opportunities the Navy and the Naval Reserve offer, local men of 17 years and over can get the official illustrated free booklet, “Lifein the Navy,” from this news paper’s Navy Editor. „ .... . . . r-j farmers Who Aid rrogram Io Have Price Protection Until 1943 F o r N ovem ber T e rm the goods going to Russia th a t Oregon, Monday, November 17, country should be willing (or com- ^ 4 * pelled) to make good on the ae- Adams Gra99 Valley: Äkjfiri p J l • /A CiRTTiS, VirHHS v niicj • curities. A rthur W. Spencer, Wasco; Jam es Wilson, Kent; Geo. W. Drinkard, John Boettiger, son in law o of l tn the e Klondike: Lewis Langford, president, is reported as bav'n8 R ufu,: Arvid (Anderson. Wasco; cooled off about the government o- Millard Eakin, Grass Valiev; R. T. ing something for the logged-off D5nRiet ,Ruf us: Chas. F. Kuypers, iands and the the disappearing disappearing forests fo re .ts Joe lands and Lowell Burres. Wasco; Joe of the northw est Mr. Boettiger Hi^ erhranrf; Wasco: A. T. Strik- was sold on the idea when enry~ R „fUs: Jam es T. Brown, Grass A Wallace was secretary of Agri- V allçy. H erbert W. W illard, Biggs; culture, and Wallace Pa if®s j cj,r Decker. Kent; Frank von f 7 - r e -fa t; P ‘ ' Borstel, Kent; Geo. H. Root, Was- of the situation was first brought c<) N McDonald, Moro: Jay to W allaces attention by timber McRay Kent; E p. -Rich, Wasco: men of Oregon and his statement. ir m oAnfirm Pil h v th p n*»r- H^lver, K*»nt: Geo. Thomns v ice) The son in law said he Bftrne*t ’ Grass Valley; A rthur B* would take ud the m atter person- Christianson, Moro; S. A. Wilson, us; W ’lfprd Belshe. Moro: Guy «,11« xiyiili tbp nrp«5dpnt and see Rufus; WW^rd ally with the president and see Hoskinson, Kept: Cecil Fields, th at there was some action. Since W psco : Qeo. H. Wilcox, Grass yal- then nothihg has happened. l e v Fred Cox,' Grass valley; Those congressmen who have 1 fffalstion to d e sl with the mh-^^rt,Ur W asc°! Clarence ^ c ^ a r e now m arking tim e' wait- Baffoon, Kent. 3 ing for the green light. * They ’ sus- ----- 1---- . -J____> pect - th a t presidential approval Old nuilnmo lorn Down about h a , been reached w hether Secre- c0” pietod the job of tearing down tory of the Interior Jcke. s h a lU thc „id Binder building on Main have the forest service turned over, s t r e e t which he has bought and is lUw» ihaV ffiv 'M’v is tn TcVna ’ now io " n s ’ till t h e /*nVAtin<F T p a rt" ^ T / t r «»««« a r t / u r e Kni ” 1 rlin t or reported as of Sep^mber Lb, 1941: B utterfat, 34.8 cents a pound; c)ljckens , 5 fi centg , e(tg, t 33 „ cenU g d o ien . ho(ts J989 „ hundredw eigbt. cattlCi a hundredweight. These parity prices are not constant, however, t u t are guhject to change depend- ingon- th e changing relationship o f farm cost9 u farm prjce, as com- p ared with the 1910-14 base period, .«This new price suppOrting de- yelopment is an added feature of the national farm program design- ej to protect the income and secur- itv the farm ers who answer Am erica’s call for greater pro- duction of the vital foods,” Taylor commented Mrs. C. E. Johnson e f R l i r |6 ( ] T llC s d a V D J . Mrs. Curtis E. Johnson, 53, died a t her home in Canby Sun- day a fte r an illness of several veeks. Mrs. Johnson, with her husband, lived in Moro from 1912 to 1919 when they moved to Gresham and later to Canby where he ir m anager of the bank. Surviving are the widower, a son , C. E. Jr., two daughters, Jan et and Mrs. John E. Fergus of Brinxville, New Cork and three sisters all living in Portland. The fu n eral was held Tuesday at. two o’clock interm ent being made -in the Rose City cemetery in Portland. s u g g e s tio n s . A committee made up of Wendell Balsiger. LeRoy W right and Dewey Thompson w a, named, to ,ee about f » l b , lity o f sponsoring a 4-H d>"n" th ' 8 "'2 n td - . . T“m F; aa" and T’ ’ , a "! 8 “®Et , of t e c u an *a S'»®” »" opportunity to express h i, dis.lam for the o th e r , breed »f horse and h „ »PPt®®>»‘«>’' f“a the local people who had pra .ed then efforts. Both won top awards tbe Pac>fic International for ,,’®ir h®rds *' 4-H Calves Coining Into County of calves (Although 2 ea been bought for the c b "'""''□''"k"? oe* ’'ll t J ’ n e e d ^ muted th at 29 more will be needed to fill the demand Angus calves have lieen deliv- ered to Lee and Leland Johr. Schadewitz, M ernl and G en Rather. Henry Richelderfer 2, El- ton Medler. John and Gordon Hll- derbrand, Darrel, McLachlm, H ar’ ry H artley, Shelton F ritts 2, l a F ritts. Those getting Herefords are Lee and Leland Barnet, M ernl and Glen Sather, Henry 'Richel- d< rfef, Elton Medler 2, H arry H artley, Shelton F ritts, S c o tt F ritts, and Ed F ritts. About 15 more Herefords are wanted and 8 Shorthorns. __ Special Session Being Asked By Some Tax Groups And Interested Politicians of Multnomah County Salem Or. Nov. 6.— Demand for created by the last legislature is es) $1,560,970.50. World W ar Vet TP- re- a s p e c ’ i a t i o n of the iegisiature not. a t work on a study of . a nunt- - __Ctntn ^ t a t Aid o onmmiqqinn Aid »niinission, 1 X ^ 1 ^ o r t,^ Seal Sale Starts With Enthusiastic Dinner Meeting Sadie Orr Dunbar Telb ei Need For Funds For Tuberculosis Preveniion Although the death ra ta from tuberculosis has dropped until it is slightly m-ore than a quarter of the 1900 rate the work of the public health departm ent is com- betting this, disease and h a ,,ju a t reached its most important stage, was the burden of the word brought to the Sherman-Wasoo counties kwk-off dinner Monday n]ght in Wasco by Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, executive secretary of the sU te tuberculosis association. Mrs. Dunbar, who w as both ac.h° o1 girl and ,cho?1 t “ eh" £ Sherm an county, spoke to nearly » h«ndred man and wolm e" wh° . a?' tended the dinner and by their very presence Indicated th a t the campaign in this county is going to be successful. jn 1900, the speaker said, the death r«to from tuberculosis w a . 201 per hundred thourend. Now eleven s ta te , h a . reduced th a t rato 1®«« than 40. Oregon's « t o £ 28' b“ '* exp« tad ri“ thia ye?,V *a _ u k ek. e k e We are through with the, shot- gu„ " p„ , od of com battrng the de %” ?*. niethod, w,l bring result,, y d are now in the “rifle* stage when more intensive methods must be used. We must now find the rea sons why each individual case e x tracted tuberculosis for as long as anyone is infected all are endan gered. ' We need, she said, a more com plete testing program to And symp toma e>riyt -.. a greater bed capacity -------------x . r in many states, although Orego«. h” *” • " ’.’’' j T *“ * and we wilI ha„ u deralop a rehabilitation program for there who a r , cured rt111 unaM, *0 ren.m e their normal occupation, We nee<j 95 000 hospital beds in the United S tates to care for tuberculosis victims. Oregon pay, out $1000 per day for oara of tuberculosis patients. There is need for an educational program to bring people to ttW hospitals for testing and to caote them to accept treatment before the diseage H orn es acute. We win have 300 deaths or more thia year in this state. Young women have always been susceptable te tuberculosis, negro, make up many of its victims and now men in industry are being found with well develeped cases In 1940 more men than women have the disease for the first time. The purpose of the annual cam- r X h T ^ X Plans F o r 1942 a v and Max Wil- Donsld Monday mocn- be inducted b - w ay, of th^t side of the block. V A - 85 per cent of parity level. These “pric® floors" will enable farm ers * Plan ‘hair J ? 42 Pf«*’““ “ '' tha ‘' " “»ledge th a t prices can and wi‘“ >® «hould it become necessary, Taylor added. The following commodity parity been 2.10. These m arks are all higher than a t Wasco where there are com plaints of the dryness of the fall. Seeding there has been delayed w i d k ’ t h « p artT ’ o f t h i "county h.iv. seeded long ago and the •grain i, green in many field,. At Wasco the re in fa jk h a i been 1.73 a , .69 fell in each Septem ber and October and .35 in November. Since the latest rain, which w „, better a t Wasco than in other p a rt, e f the county, seeding h a , been general ami nearly all the grain is sown. Opinion over the county is th at cro ,r pr”ospects are really better this year than last fall at this time, although no ®ne expects the 1942 crop to equal that of 1941 The B reakfast club met Wed nesday morning and heard a re port closing the work of the com m ittee th at was responsible for the brief made to the governmnt about the Lunds for the experiment station.- With other agencies the committee had ended a successful campaign and $5000 are now avail- nbl‘‘ for the usea of the 8tatlon* A request was made for other activities in which the club m ight become interested. Two were to ¡"»“K“™ * “ for tree planting and general beautification of the city and the country around it by planting »"d shrubbery and aiding th e tearing down of unused and encouraging the sbu 8 painting of other buildings, and tl> arrange for greater use of the I*Kion hal1 sor‘ of 8 cl“b " * « rciae r" ° m f°5 tho8e„wh° 1,ke »” P1“ '' .vo11^ ? * ” ’ handbal‘ or other sports. Both are waiting ^u r^ ‘er ftCtion by the club which, meanwhile, is desirous of more Official County Paper commodities are well above the Certainly there is no special ses Unless this committee can agree j 28,309.16; federal aid for high- pia ru e Wasco and Sherman coun». ____2 _____________ _______ ____ ’ <»■ sentim ent to be found around on a deflnite p rogram of tax re- ’w v s ; $2,659,137.11 : insurance de- ^ baTe ra" d Mgh In th. 0».- _ . „ ., the state house and all comm®"‘ forn’ ,l 18 felt th“ ‘ ‘Î W° U d ' partm ent fees, $939,877; corpora- ,, t , t yeara and Jmv, c c u n g from up-state senat „ ,9 h(ipel expect th e ^ O mem- ti(>n departm ent fees, $322,277; J of the h<atth C O U B C ll an., representative, has been op- o{ the legislature to get to- e commis9inn fro m licensea, units ,m i(. ln , b. United S ta te , in the entire United States pe.sed to the move. get lier starting from scratch and an(J f}neg, 3300336. I L R r P a lt' said Mrs. Dunbar and continued ASK S F i f e D fe a K S Dean Walker, senate president w 'th no definite goal to shoot at. ♦ ♦ • success is hoped for by the leaders ®phe Sherman county defense from Polk county, has expressed Furtherm ore state officials officii are Fifteen of Oregon’s 36 counties in the work. councii met Tuesday afternoon a t opposition to a special session un- not inclined to view the situation si ™ A ? Pot- ^ ie 'r a a and n d u until n ti, a a.definite program ^ growini!r - ^ 1 out of toe o f t o ’e thp t a y of j udge George A. less definite program the ^ a s s s e l = . chairman, and listened to the has been worked out for its con- controversy in Multnomah county State T reasurer Leslie M. Scott, presided and by her activity rCD’ort s of group chairmen pres- sidération and Robert Farrell, Jr., O(. tp,e prospective s responsible for a considerable part t » speaker of th é 'House who has been ir!C(,me tax fund as of the crowd present. Rex H u m , - A Dunlap, of the protection repeatedly quoted in the Portland whJch cannot a w ait-1 president of the Wasco county as- div^ ion’ offered a resolution th a t pres? as urging the session told ular aesf,ion for atV vxr« . _ _______ - __ ___ w sociation, introduced guests from /arn iers' be asked to co-operate in c rn ’tol newsmen this week th a t he iawmakers. viously qualified for a place in that county, Mrs. W, A.^ m.eventinir wheat fires by leaving wa? only lukewarm toward the f • preventing , • f this list include Clatsop, Columbia, local-chairm an told of thu-work a ten f Qot st r ip un-seeded along proposal. -j ne Casn o a ia n ce m e ov*.w mw»ru the me “ ' The cash balance m in the state , L. , ke Linn Linn> Marion, Polk, bher- Sher- atreaay already acne done toward each road and highway. I t , was The Governor has refused to com treasury at the beginning of the ’ Till^ ookt Um atilla, Union, Judge George 'Potter gave un(|erRtood th at this could be n,pnt on t he p roposal except to current fiscal year, l..^ w . a s an(l an(, W ashington. wricoming address, » ---- Larry j --- , - July -v vvasninguon. -------------------- ’ > - donfk er the AAA w ithout re- adm it th a t h he e js 500 done unj under RHmit is being urged t to o " 33 33,500,000 greater than a t the th ^ be- T< debfc . _______ The net t of the counties as presented a trum pet solo, « Judge r. ducjn ~ the number of acres atfail- conVene the lawmakers. The gov- ginning c innin of the previous fiscal of June 3() jagt, aK{fregated $13,- Kirk of Wasco county »nJ Donald . j or wbeat. Big wheat fires. ernor’s Political advisors, however, yfear> according to a report by as compared to $15,551,451 Bourg talked briefly, be alm ost stopped by this br.ve let it be known th a t he does g tate T reasurer Leslie M. Scott— on 4 June - - 30, - 1940,—a reduction of ^ W w i m V each family t h .: i n . - a few wpp weeks m etbod it was argued. (Burning not faVor the session. Among the 3)5311.470 compared to $11,592,- $2,230,123 in the past year. Every in the county will receive > letter of weeds along all roads was also reaslons the governor is disinclin- g2l. Receipts for the treasury county in the state __ _____ _ of the work and made progress telling 8 ’ as - - fire prevention ed to call the lawmakers into ses- (icpartm ent for the .fiscal year attack against th e ^ d e b t num ber of stamps with • JecpMt suggested sion is the fact th a t no one ap- j ust us). ended enf)ed totalled $86,715.367.59 $86,715,307.59 burden » 1 _ Hn rin » th with ,the that the money be sent for them. measure. ,, * during the e vear year WithSthe Fire in the w heat Pears to know YhaA V g° Od AF^inst disbursements of $83,1945,- - cyception of Malheur whose debt the greatest menace th a t m ight could be accomplished thereby 6 J?, gcOtf , report’ shows. Largest ,r.ftd dncrett9cd by more than $14.- F a r m p r s S i p n i n f f hand,cap Sherman county s defense While the Portland agitators for a!nJ|.Ie aouroe of revenue was the 00() ¡n thc 12. month peri„d. r a n T C r » p lg B B U J — ~k inasmuch as a series of fires ^ho session are clamoring for re- gaao)ih^ tax which poured $13,- ♦ » ♦ y^s p 4A JO wor^ 1 for the small home owner 741,906.13 into the sta te ’s coffers v ™ W in TTiipht ruin thè w heat . c rp p '/a n d ham per . national wdrh:-®and the small inpnmp income ta tax x d^ he N e rt lortrn«! larg eSt --4 :— 1 defense W drk<-1 f j . H Attorney General t<> Van Win- Farmers are meeting with offi h u „ t in the early day, for Perry . _ . - in 9Upport of toe session have.not w ith .i„uor saie. and license, bring s t o l C r c T T Z t ^ cials from the at county G « ., W atkins of lumber hauled from - - -- ~ , 1 w .'....... «19 n™ 9« A storia the state Doara 01 co n tro l ofrce th is across the Columbia by S. £ p Q n [ ) e f in S e b 7 ovld(,dd. N either does any o th « " m ajor source, 'of 's t a t e ’s ‘8 rtad y to contribute $40^00 as Moro d Wasco to sign Prw en. i t was first used as an _ _ _ ____ „ „ ^ ^ i y,QVo x»nv 2 ______________ r_____ „„a «xV. the s ta te s share of the •’construe- ghects sheets fo, for the 1042 crop. ere U niversity of Oregon.Nov. 6.— one around the tfapitol have -any p pnup included: Income and ex- the ag gub_ — eHting house and room! rooms were their ln the _ unstoirs. (R p e e ia ll-G a rl Peetz of Moro, an well d- ^ ^ ; et . e h nnrogram Ts ± ^ Md 7; ’M^ 8 T t ,;m . - ¡ t ie d to toe hoard the city of milk )US i Had i a 800, a thc same September, unemployment ooted crease < Continued on Page two) j COMMANDER F. K. O’BRIEN, of the U. S. Navy Recruiting tion. Oregon farm ers who volunteer Bond salesmen in the northw est Towns included for the regional t h d r fa producing tfce in- about 20 years ago unloaded on private investors (th rifty A m ,ri- " ' « tin K ,a t The Dalle, are Ante- auantitie, of dairy pro- can citizens who had raved money) loP®. A/ lm/ to n ’ ^ a8cade L^ k’ ' , , Q „bi, k(!na and hoea a large part of a .Russian issue B®»d; . C »"!“". D“{ur;. Gra;.’ .X *? duct“' _ . *! am ounting to $75,000,000. Most of «ood ^ v e r , M adras. Maupin. sought in the 1942 defense program ' the banks of th a t region placed Moro’ ,IJ®d,Jlond’ will have the protection of new fed- some of their fu n d , in $15,000,000 Shaniko, Wasco and The Dalles worth. (Both s, Inr these narticular com- (Both issues issues were were boosted boosted by the United States governm ent eoUspses P and people and banka were en- N a t i o n a l L d U C a tlO n moditiea, Robert IB Tayto.- of couraged to buy. The governm ent xxr , AL Adams, chairm an of the stole itself took $376,000,000 of Rus- W e e k O b s e r v a n c e . USDA agricultural defense board, sian securities. N ot a red cent . , v . • i P'’inled out thls week' hus ever been paid as in te re st or Mcmbers of.i .t he American Le- This new act of congress, the on the principal The Bolsheviki R,or' and Aux,1,ary are l^e,n8 Steagall amendment, requires the repudiated the securities and since minded th a t the cooperation w ith , e cretary ' of agriculture to give then American taxpayers have s®’1';01» and other educational or- public notice whenever he finds it been holding t^ J b a g . When Pres- rarn'zations in the observance o necessary to encourage the ex- oosevelt reco im ized th jon of any non-basic commo- ident 'R Roosevelt recognized the e N ational Education Week, Novem- her 9 to 15 inclusive, is a p a rt of djtv Th<? law fu rther directs him Soviet in 1933 Foreign Commis sar Litvinoff (a fter presenting Community Service ^program of to *use public funds to support the farm price of the commodity a t th? president with a complete set th«» Legion and Auxiliary. Members 'of George Bell Post not less than 85 per cent of parity. of Russian stam ps for his collec v v to attend •„ » u the rn Before the secretary can dis" tion) agreed th a t negotiations and U nit are urged school program which will price-supporting ..pro- would be taken up to make some at Kent Friday, November be 7, held at ^ i t m u e a P P P sort of redemption of the bonds. 7:30. Although th i, program .. ^ T 0’ti a ? f the term ination to Nothing happened. held prim arily for entertainm ent 1,c no*lce . Now th at the president is sup it will also be in observance of 1*™>‘ producers to make a re-ad plying Russia with tanks, planes justm ent in production, Taylor National Education Week. and ammunition a number of bond explained. holders in Oregon are prodding — — —— — Secretary Wickard has already then delegation urging th a t now J Q 0 Sen given public notice covering, un is the time for the governm ent to ” til December 31, 1942, hogs, eggs, insist th at Russia do something evaporated milk, dry skim milk, about having the Soviet redeem these old niust obligations, arguing at as they pay taxes to.pay th for ( X Z » f X ih £ ment of agriculture. ’ * ’ * ’ • • Unemployment condifions are improving •proving in Oregon, says Paul V. McNutt. The benefits paid in t o s i s t a t e fo r toe first nine m onth. & & * Over most of the county rain- fall has been plentiful for the two months of the crop season already passed. The average a t M«ro for September and October is 1.59 nnd 1.86 had f a i i V a t " t h e is 1.59 nnd 1.86 had fallen at the end of October and .32 has come since to make a tbtal of 2.18 for the cron year so far. A t r Gra«a“ V a lle y .'a t the Arzell At Grass Valley, Lemley ranch, the total for the two months and first three da vs of November has been 2.28, the high- . ire fho ™„n7v " ♦ Bourbon, where Henry P e ter, tak e , care of the guage, the rain- fall w a, 2.12 and a t Kent it h a , » Breakfast Club Hears Horse • Breeders Talk