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I /i ’ V ■ « -i— Z Fifty-Fourth Year No. 4 K I Moro, Oregon. Friday, N o v em b er 28, 1941 Speakers Of AAA Will Bob King Goes To Chicago To Be At Heppner t " Conf re” National Heads Bob King left Wednesday night from Portland for Chicago being one of a group o f 4-H club boys and girls making the trip to the International Live Stock show and 4-H Congress. They will spend six days in Chicago. Bob won the trip by being de clared the winner of the market meat animal contest, in which the judges held him to be among the best in club work over the entire nation. H e is 20 years old, a freshman at Oregon State college and has spent 11 years in club work principally with market ani mals. He has had grand champion steer at the Pacific International and has won frizes at San Fran cisco and Denver shows and the Oregon State pair. Bob is a son of Mrs. Frances King. Evans and Dodd On Program For Wheat League Conclave Wheat League Committees Pass Resolutions Full Program Covered By Resolutions of Three Committees Once again the meeting of the Committees named to consider Washington D. C. Nov. 2ff/—To Eastern Oregon Wheat League at the prelim inary program of the the Whit« House went Oregon’s Heppner, December 4 to 6 becomes E astern Oregon -Wheat lea g u e Senator McNary In response to a the wheat center of the west as have m et this week pnd gone o v e r call from President 'Roosevelt. national and itate leaders prepare the agenda submitted to them. There is now in the house the to take part in tty; program and The taxation, legislation and omnibus rivers and harbors bill, as membership committees study transportation group met Monday authorizing in excess of one billion recommendations on national poli and made resolutions to be sub dollors for projects. Out in front cy. Attendance of a considerable m itted to the league committee on the list, which includes every number of county AAJA committee Thursday night of the Heppner th ingfrom development of Yaquina men from Washington and Idaho meeting. Ba/ to Umatilla dam, is an item of wheat regions is now assured, They include one against any ex '.1 ¡IVANS several hundred millions for the adding to the large attendance al em ption of real property from St. Lawrence waterway and power ready expected from Oregon. taxation. The committee was em project. What did the senator phatic in meaning ju st th at; no The program just issued by think of the bill? exemptions of any kind.. Charles W. Smith, Corvallis, sec If, said Senator McNary, you retary, shows the general sessions It was also against any tax exempt bonds or securities. It op toss out the St. Lawrence project, starting Thursday afternoon in posed a lowering of the income tax tha Florida ship canal and the stead of Friday morning as form rates and believed that any su r Tombigbee river, the bill would not erly. The first program session pluses derived from th at source be bad. As the bill stands, he said, will start at 3 o’clock with the should be sent back to the coun he could not support it. But, chief item being the .president’s Less than half a million bushels ties in proportion to the amounts hinted the president, the Umatilla annual address by S. J. Culley of of wheat arrived a t term inal paid hy the counties when state dam is included. That, answered Weston. N. E. Dodd, director of points for ' inspection in October, taxes are leived. McNary, is a project so good that the western region of the AAA, is according to the report of the The committee recommended it can stand on its own feet and first on the program Friday morn grain division of the state denart that a tax lim itation law be passed "'"»pass the congress without being ing, with an address on the inter ment of agriculture. The 940,196 to limit urban taxes to 40 mills tied in with flubdub. Besides, said national wheat conference and bushels of w heat inspected in Oct and rural taxes to 25 mills and the senator, what would the people v/orld wheat supplies. ober was less than half the Septem th at now prevalent assessment sa> if a senator who has voted ber inspections and 352,494 bushels ratios be used. against a St. Lawrence treaty and McNaughton Will Talk short of the inspections in the the Florida canal should suddenly It favored a 2 percent sales tax Other addresses that will deal same month a year ago. Sixty on tangible property with the in support the omnibus bill because with weed control by L. E. Harris per cent of the wheat inspected come derived being used to „ cut it has.Um atilla in it? Wouldn’t of Oregon ‘ State college, farm arrived in bulk shipments. that look as though it was a sell financing by R. E. IBrowne, FfOA, property taxes. Only two export shipments of out: that a senator had been Spokane,' and ‘lAfter Defence It favored the county m anager grain were..peeorded in the month. plan, ask that a study be made of bought ? r W hat?” by E. B. McNaughten, These were 1,156 bushels of wheat the method of gas tax return to Mr. Roosevelt laughed. There president of the First National to Hawaii and 1,563 bushels of counties, ask th at federal land pay are few senators who can talk bank of Portland. Joseph K. Car N. E. Dodd oats to the W est Indies. Six hun its share of taxes to counties. - straight to the chief execvutive, son, former mayor of Portland, will R. M. Evans is chief of the AAA dred and sixty sacks of rye grass The groun held that if a special and he likes the frankness of Mc be the banquet speaker that night. seed were shipped to England. session be held the surplus in the and N. E. Dodd, former wheat Nary, leader of the Republicans in R. M. Evans, • administrator of The intercoastal seed movement sta te ’s treasury he returned to the the senate, the . so-called „“lovnl the AAA, who is coming from farmer in Baker county, is western pickd up eonsidemtrtv. - with 1 -599 counties, th at uniform assessments opposition." What, inquired the Washington, D. C., will speak director. Both will appear at the sacks sampled in October and only ratios be used. It asked th at if president, did McNary suggest? Saturday morning on “Food Need 600 in September. Sixty-three car and when more money is needed meeting of the Eastern Oregon That was easy: all the president ed by Great Britain and What loads of com, 34 carloads of wheat, for welfare work it be raised from has to do is to telephone Speaker American Farmers Can Do to Wheat League in Heppner next 4 of flaxseed and 13 of oats were some other source thaji property. Rayburn to have the St. Lawrence week. . shipped into Oregon in October. Help. an< the Florida and Tombigbee Closed Shop Opposed The Saturday afternoon program items eliminated from the bill. But, will deal largely with livestock said the president, all the projects It opposed the closed shop. in the country had been rolled in feeding, with D. E. Richards, su The federal program committee to the omnibus bill for the purpose perintendent of the eastern Ore met Tuesday morning and passed of getting enough votes to pass it gon branch experiment station, re resolutions asking th a t the quota and thus save tjie St. Lawrence; porting on latest research results votes be held every two years in eral states to control highway Salem, Ore., Nov. 27.—Announce he was not particular about Flori and summarizing the outcome of traffic contained in the Wheeler bill stead of every year, th at 109 per da or Tombigbee, but he must have the 4-H club wheat feeding con ment th a t the state board of con now before Congress. This m ea cent loan on wheat be given with test. A new feature of the conven trol is negotiating with the Bonne the waterway and power plant. sure would vest in the In terstate no conservation pavments, th at a It the bill comes to the senate tion this year will be the display ville adm inistration for the pur •Commerce commission the rig h t floor of 55 millio"n acres be made. with the St. Lawrence in it, ob of 4-H club pens of lambs fattened chase of electricity for use in the to regulate the sizes and weights This group also favored the con several state buildings in the vicin served the senator, he will endea on wheat. tinuance o f the AAA. the expan of trucks engaged in interstate The entire program this year ity of Salemwas made by Governor vor, when it is in committee, to sion of the crop insurance program, has been arranged to give more Sprague this week. According to commerce. The m easure would the continuance of crop loans hut have each item taken up and acted give the ICC authority to set on individually, and he was satis time for committee sessions and th governor’s announcement, a aside the laws or regulations of at least an appropriation high study ju st completed by O. R. fied that on this procedure he less to public addresses. enough to keep the" price to parity. Bean, public utiities commissioner, states or other political subdivi would be able to knock out the St. This county has accumulated shows th a t purchase of Bonneville sions when these were found to Lawrence. Anyway, concluded Mc $14.000 from fees from the half constitute an unreasonable obstruc- pov’er at wholesale rates would Nary, that is a treaty matter and cent and cent loan charge which the result in a saving to the state of tior to the free flow of truck committee felt should be retained - not an agreement; the senate has approxim ately $15,000 a year over traffic between the several states. defeated it once when presented as by the county board. No change tb • price now being paid to the The measure is of particular in ter a treaty for ratification. was asked in the method of check est to Orpgon right now in view When the Grass Valley Student Portland General Electric com of the efforts being made by truck ing compliance. There the matter stands. Other members of he northwest delega Body of the high school decided pany. The land use and weed control Seen as a stumbling block in operators to increase the length tion, however, are inclined to sup to present a mystery play this committee resolved th at they would anc weight of trucks to the m ax the proposal to substitute Bonne port the omnibus bill, fearing that year, coach Mrs. Potter read doz work for the seeding of problem* imum permitted in the adjoining ville power for th a t now supplied their constituents will be angry if ens o f. popular published plays. states of Oregon, W ashington and areas to grass as a perm anent cron, bv the private utility is the prob they oppose it when the bill con Bet when she got hold of a copy of Idaho. The American Association th at land producing 8 to 10 bushels “THE HIGH SCHOOL MYS lem of transm ission and distribu of Motor Vehicle adm inistrators enn profitahlv grow grass if stock tains such items as Umatilla. tion. Lackng any present author The omnibus bill is an “authori TERY,” the others were promptly ity to construct a power line to of which Secretary of State Earl a re .k e p t and th a t poorer land zation” measure and carries no fc-gotten. So it is “THE HIGH serve state buildings, the state Snell is president is opposing should be seeded to grass. It held th at grass plantings appropriation. However, the pres SCHOOL MYSTERY” that you would either have to enter into passage of the bill on the ground ident can pick out of the list such wi’l see on the evening of Nov a contract with the private utility th at it constitutes an unw arranted should he rotated every 3 to 5 years, th a t trashy fallow studies piojects as he deems are for ember 29 when you go to the Civic for use of is power poles or per invasion of states’ rights. * • ♦ should be continued. Tt recognized national defense. If the bill pass Auditorium in Grass Valley. suade the Bonneville adm inistra This play was leased from The th at trashy fallow and grass seed’ • Oregon motorists will-pay near es he plans to bring out the St, tion to construct the necessary Lawrence item and shelve all the Northwestern Press of Minneapo with its high tension lines in Polk ly $15,000,000 in gasoline taxes to ings do not alwavs control erosion the state this year according to and some strip cropping is neces rest until after the war and use lis, who guantee it as being one county. Secretary of State^Earl Snell. This sary. Saving of crop residue is them as a means of employment on of their most novel and exciting * * * a massave WPA program. Oppo mysterycomedy dramas, written by Conscientious objectors who are an-ount which represents an in good and burning is not favored Good seed cleaning and tre a t nents of this assert that the St. 'Robert St. Clair: sent to work camps instead of crease of approxim ately $2,000,- Those taking part in the pro m ilitary training camps will not 000 over gasoline taxes paid in ment is necessary and all should Lawrence is not a national defense measure; that, if started, it will duction are: Emma Eakin, Doro be protected in' their jobs when 1940 is greater by $1,000,000 than become acquainted with flag smut. take steel, iron and other materials thy Ball, Frieda IBuether, Lila their term of service expires, Lt. the state’s present outstanding No substitute crops were recom away from sadly pressed indus Alley, Betty Payne, Grace Zevely, Col Flm’er V Wooten has ex highway bonded debt of $14,00,000 mended. It -was asked th a t farm ers do not move tillage tools thru tries now engaged in defense pro Duane Lemley, Ross Fields, Hans plained.. Wooten points out th a t Snell pointed out, » * • noxious wee’d patches and that air duction. In this fashioh, they in Bardenhagen, Frank Payne, Her the reemployment provisions of the Considerable confusion appears cleaning of threshing equipment sist, the project* would interfere man Ziegler and Robert Ziegler. selective service act are limited The play is directed by Mrs. to persons who a te inducted into to exist in the mind of the tax be done before it is moved from , with national defense. _ Potter and the properties and stage the land or naval forces. Conscien paying public as to ju st w hat one field to another. ♦ * * These resolutions will all be In the price fixing bill now in de effects are being handled by David tious objectors, except those who effect, if any, the change in the bate in the house, it is estimated Bayer and Lloyd Kelley. It’s the nr« , expresslv excluded from the tax year, voted by the last legis taken to Heppner for discussion that if a ceiling is placed on farm biggest event of the year, so don’t benefits of the civilian reem ploy lature, is going to have on their before the general group there. pocketbooks. products, based on the complicat fail to see *‘THE HIGH SCHOOL ment provisions of the act.” Here, then, is an attem pt to ex ed mothod of arriving at a price, MYSTERY.” DEFENSE STAMPS SELL the ceiling will be as follows: Small town m otorists drew the plain the situation: The tax levy to be jnade by the Washington D. C.— Sales of De Wheat, $1.34 a bushel: butterfat, first four nuwbers for the new various taxing units this x fall fense Saving Stam ps for October 41 cents a pound; ' cheese, 23.25 1942 automobile license plates in cents a pound; eggs 4L5 cents a flv annual drawing conducted .by (state, county, city school district, reached a total of $5,935,934.50, dozen; hogs, $10.96 a hundred Secretary of State Snell this week, etc.,) will cover only 50 percent of establishing the highest monthly weight: cattle, $9.18 a hundred dum ber 1 goes to Mapleton, num the normal annual levy and will total since the Stamps were placed A traveling examtrfbr of Opera-_ ber 2 to Cave function. number be payable in two quarterly in on sale last May 1, the Treasury .weight; wool, 49 cents a pound; hay $18.02 a ton; butter 45.8 cents tors and Chauffeurs is scheduled three to F o rt Stevens and number stallments, March 15 and June 15. Departm ent announced today (F ri to arrive in Moro on Wednesday, four to Seneca. Mailing of the Then next July, (and each Jqly day, November i4.) a pound. This figure, compared with the . The farm bloc wants no ceiling, December 3 and will be a t the. new plates will- get under wav this thereafter) the annual levy will be of Defense arguing that in .1942 .the cost of courthouse from 10 a. m. to 5 in icrpk but thev may not be put into promulgated. This levy will be $4,978,000 worth payable in four annual install Stamps sold in September, shows #.->$• will b« «o the afternoon. use until December 15. ments—November 15, February 15, an increase of 19.2* percent., Tt * * • high because of competition with All those wishing permits'* or m arks the fourth straig h t tnonth war industries for help and higher licenses to drive cars may get in State officials “viewf with, alarm” May 15 and August 15. . th at the sale of Stamps has risen. touch with him at this time. Continued on page two - the threat to the right of the sev iContfaiued on Page two) Wheat Remains In Country Warehouses State May Contract For Power From Bonneville Administration Grass Valley Hi To Give Play License Examiner Coming Wednesday 4 4 » -• Official County raper Farmers Promise County Will Goals Asked Have No Tax By Government The goal set for this county by the state board have been well re ceived by Sherman county fan n ers according to a compilation of estim ates for 1942 production made and released this week. In 1941 there were , 692 milch cows in the county and 846 are promised for next year. Froduc- tion of milk was 4.821,276 pounds and 4,754*510 are expected. The county had 520 bred sows and will have 737. It m arketed 4401 hogs and will sell 5903 in 1942. This year it is estim ated th a t 132,589 dozen eggs were pro duced and in 1942 it is expected that we will have 165,117 dozen. We sold 2742 beeves and will have 3322 for sale in 1942. No increase was asked in sheep and this item shows the only decline. Whereas the farm ers sold 7292 sheep in 1941 only 7031 will be m arketed in 1942. First Half of ’42 Cash oh Hand Sufficient For Needs of County, Roads For Six Months The county court, sitting as the c„unty levying board.’decidedM rly this week to levy no tax for county or road purposes f9r the first half o f .1942. Taxpayers will receive a tax bill for city taxes and for special school taxes if their district levies. a special tax. Those living out-:, side of a high school district will have to pay the non-high school lax also. Nearly everyone will re ceive a tax bill of some kind but nothing will have to be paid for county or road purposes until Nov ember 1942. There is one group of residents who may not have to pay any taxes at all. These are the property owners in the Kent school district. That district is levying no tax, the district is not in the non-high school district and there will be The American home departm ent no city taxes. of the Moro Woman’s club had The action was taken after the charge of the program at the regularly appointed day for the regular meeting a t the club house hearing of the budget, Friday, Friday. Mrs. Ray Blake was chair November 21, when members of the man. Included in the program . , . . Sherman County Taxpayer’s Fed- ” 2? 5 ™ I ™ ™ O r a t i o n , led by J. B. A d .™ and Mrs. Ted_Thompson, on good m an H. D. Proudfoot appeared to talk ners by Mrs. Tom F raser, on in ter over the proposed budget. ior decoration by Mrs. Orlo M ar tin and on the new standardized Taxpayers Protest labels for cafinCd goods by Mrs. Their protests about budget Orval Thompson. Mrs. Clarence Sparling read Henry M orgenthau items were unavailing as the eourt J r ’s recent speech on inflation, upheld the budget. On the matter and a group of girls from the high of unexpended balances the Fed school sang two patriotic songs. eration representatives insisted A paper on rayon, its m anufacture, that more cash was on hand that) use and care, was read by Mrs. the budget indicated and the eourt Gladys Morrison and Mrs. Jam es increased the cash on hand to balaqpe the proposed Kenny. .------- _ , . ’ The club is sponsoring1'’’ a doll tures. Therefore no levy la and toy sale at their meeting sary. The county budget will remain December 5th. Each member is as published except for an item of to bring a doll or other small toy $100 for aerial maps, which cannot to th at meeting and a fte r the pro gram the sale will be -held. (Any be purchased. Total is $64,011.00 one interested is welcome to a t which is offset by cash on hand. tend. The sale will begin a t about $38,527.33 as published and $26,- 484.67 additional. 4 p. m. The county will have some $14,- 000 remaining in cash above the budget items but this cannot be expended until budgeted in May. Another reason for taking enough cash on hand to completely balance the budget is that some Miss Jennie Hulse, 76, died in $40,000 was taken last year and if The Dalles Monday having been a large sum had been left until taken there a day or two previous the next budget the county’« ly. She had been staying here with tax base would have her niece, M r,. W. A. Ruggle. for i ; ; erer,eriou.ly"w hichini«ht h»V. several weeks. handicapped county financing for She was a daughter of Mr. and years. Mrs. Paul Hulse who settled in Sherman county in early days. She had tau g h t school for over forty years serving a large p art of th at time in Astoria. Funeral services were held in The^Dnlles Wednesday with Zells Jack Sather of Kent, who 1« a t in charge and Rev. Frank Cunning tending Oregon State college re ham officiating. Interm ent was ceived one of the highest honor« made in Astoria where further conferred on a college student re services were hrid. cently, when he was initiated into Survivors are a brother, O. P Hulse in The Dalles, a sister, Mrs. lPhi Kappa Phi, national schoiast)« Lillie Taylor in Iowa, Ray, a neph- honor society Jack, a senior majoring in Farm ew in Camas, C. G. a nephew in •Portland, Clarence, a nephew in Ci ops, has been prominent in many Moro and nieces. Mrs. W. A. R ug ways since attending college and gles bf Moro, Mrs. O. N. Ruggles has had several other honor! be of Grass Valiev, Mrs. Tom Peugh stowed on him. He ia president of of Wasco and Mrs. M argaret Pills his living group, Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity; president of the bury of Vancouver, Washington. Agricultural Club; a member of Blue Key, national service society for senior men: and a member of Alpha Zeta, national honor society^ for students in Agriculture. William Ball of Grass Valley, who is attending Oregon State The following quotations are college, recently pledged.- Alpha based on prices being paid in Gamma 'Rho fraternity. “Bill” la a Wednesday’s trading: _ ’ sophomore at OSC, majoring J » CATTLE: Good grain fed steers . . . . . . $11 00 to 12.35. Good grass’ steers £fr?icult u r* * . _ Valley $9.60 to 10.75. Good «rrain fed *<«* sch°° ’ he was prominent heifers $0.50 to 10.60. Good grass h" wtt’ erominent affairs and at college haa heifers $8.50 to 9.50. Good beef strated ability along those cows $7.50 to 8.25, medium $6.75 . • to 7.50, common $5.75 to 6.75, lines. canners $4.25 to 5.50. Bulls med ium to good $7.50 to 8.75, common WE RUN ON AIR -b - . . ' Fuels on which testa warq run $6.50 to 7.50. Vealers, good .t u included propane, n-butane, Iso choice $11.50 to 13.00. HOGS: 170 tev2L5 Tb truckins pentane, iso-octane, and $10.85 to 11.00; 230 to 285 Tb butch With these lighter ers $9.75 to 10.35; lightweight mixtures than used with gs butchers $9.75 to 10.50; packing will result in maximum ec< # 94>ws $7.00 to 8.00. Feeder pigs the report shows. Propane, $9.50 to 10.00. example, was found to give SH EEP: Good to choice spring est power at 15.5 pounds of iambs $9.75 to 1050; medium to pound of fuel, though good, $9.00 to 9.50: common $7.00 economy at 17.9 pounds of^alr per to 9.00. Slaughter ewes, good to pound of fuel. Gasoline, ^on the choice $4.5.) to 5.2.7?’ Feeder lambs other hand, gave maximum pewa* good to choice $8.00 to 9.00. Shorn at the proportion of 11. to 1 and lpmbs $8.75 to 9.50, maximum economy at 16 to Women’s Club Talk About Home Miss G. J. Hulse Buried In Astoria Local Youths Win Honors Stock Market Remains Stable ' . » . ' ' ' 1 a . • * a
