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anwiMAi* • i < " county JOURNAL. MORO. OREGON FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1943 'r anything until he is drafted into fy rw a a #*»**« [w . IO .amn some sort of work o r service. It is very apparent that there - * Sherman County Oboerver are too many agencies giving - : Established Nov. 2, 1888 orders and putting out propa- /jra s s Valley Journal gnnda. It would be eomfo« ing i Established Oct. 14, 1897 f.o know which one— if any—is rp0 the E ditor of ».he Jo u A a l: I am asking for a little space CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 n ht< Wasco News-Enterprise ' in your estim able paper to in- Established Nov. 1891 iorm the membera of «Ms com- Cl FAN-VP DAY iron CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 Before another week rolls by nuinrly about our M «o‘T ¿ " h a v e a clean-up” day. d 'rive?I have been ask ed ” by i.ho ~ Published Every Friday at ,c uch thing« a re an annual event chairpian of the c o u n t y w ar Moro. Oregon - n many Towns and are a ra-e b o a r d , Joe P eters, to a c t as Editor o-curanee in ethers. The fact th a t c h a i r m a n of th is community Giles L. French o.curance g 1 a d 4 y do, 'but I E rtered as second a ^ tl ie y m u rt h a v T 'I l o t o f 'co-operation ? A ^ C ™ \f ° Z c tT " X for neatness,' '< p u t.th is drive over e lì 1879. Me*il>£* UP E R OlE I ATION PUBLIS ' OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance ONE YEAR .......... ................. $150 M A Y 1, 1942 PUMPERS th at causes some men to keep .heir homestead in good,, order and eth ers to let it fall into dis- repair. Moro’s clean-ups have done much for the appearance of the town in previous years. There e re jobs y d to do. Small town citizens cannot by a .lavs’ effort make th eir town an in d u stra l center, a ' meeca for 1 outlets or a booming metropolis. Gleaning it up might improve its chances for all of these. Principal virtue of a clean-up day is th a t i.t it ... . raise« the morale of the residents and gives them a cleaner, green- e. city in which to live Chief aim of a a small small town .might well Ibe to be the kind of a town >s citizens liked to live in. Here are the ^f acts and sugges- tions. 1. A car-MfciJl be spotted fo r loading May 6 and 7. . , 2. Each mails loads will be weighed and the returns pro- rated am ong us. ■ 3. C a st iron $18.00 per •.on, No. 2 8crap *1000- ' , 4 . . ’Rags paper, burlap alum- in»m and brass a re wanted, also t'™ - R r,ne thf,m 5n\ _ . .»• Bring in .«mailer stuff m P“* - UP »r n Je morrnn£ - v ™ " « May 6. Then weUl make r n crews on the trucks t> handle A ♦ he big stuff. <•£’ - Chas V. Galloway, chairm an of the state ta x commission, who Jias (been the b u tt of considerable criticism a t ‘«he hands of news'- paper editorial w riters and . poli tical demogogues the past year, is a t last going to break his sil- cnee and «trike back. Galloway is digging down into lh’,9 own pri- vate purse to pay fo r JO minutes of time on radio station KGw between 9:00 and 9:30 o’clock Saturday ™Sih , .May , . ALL TAXES ON PROPERTY *uue P«*- ’ poses have been wiped out. 2 Now Gov. Sprague is determ ined on 20% cut in slate incom e taxes. 3 State bonded debt slashed > 1 2 ,3 0 0 ,0 0 0 . a’ State Guard it now expanded into a tru 1 e hom e defense system. - C Gov. Sprague originated the plan for the Civil Reserves; 1 1 0 ,0 0 0 have enrolled. . ' RLAxt,.-&e-EUctG<n.SFrM u.CO«n John B. McCourt,Sec.,P^^cBdg P o r t ia cov, spRAGue • ..J f I j T ire rationing is 'beginning to be reflected in reduced >.A«nline consumption on the p a rt of Ore- gon m otorists. Sides for both F ebruary and M arch were down ibelow »■he levels fo r the same month la s t year, according to a report by Secretary of St»te Snell. However, due to a h'g Ja n u ary increase g a --'m e eon- amnpt.on fo r the n u a « e r « . ?•’ » ’above t W fo r th<> aam<‘ p er‘ 10d a year ago. r,, , «. , »•«. of Plans R lans fo r the protection of Oregon’s forests from fires . ,.• „„««««nr th rough sabotage this summer Kelly’s Column In Other Days /âvüw.i c . c î - ’f W f’r e s fc.-¿J a j J and W¿ne Lc/vZ cc! Cóidifully LsíiíSai handbook on how to select, use, serve wme Margaret W. Peeti. ,‘Oounty Assessor NOTICE OF FIN A L HEARING W [~ iE S ..a n d W INE SERVING T h ii book mailed direct to you without ex pense. F ill in and mail the coupon below. ---------MAIL COUPON------------------- TO W IN E C O U N C IL O F OREGON P O R TL A N D.V O REGO fc To the Republican Voter; of Sherman County: H4'?tes / w competition bankruptcy, or a low standard of living will result. 1 shall therefore do everyth ng ;that I can to protect the Amen* can m arket for American good», Out immediate objective is, of course, to win the war. No pat- rio.tic American object« Do paying hervv taxes but w hat he does ob- to is to paying out th re e d o l- lars and g e ttin g only one dollar in value. I shall therefore work for a ™ore efficient prosecution of the I believe th a t the success of this b ««<1 ?P « ¡‘ h the succès, of the Republican p arty and for th a t reason it ,s very im p o r tâ t ^ba», the control of party re niam in the hands of the people. MARVIN KLEM M h Republican Candidate for Con- gress Paid ad. by Marvin Klemme No situation in which the na- iin many tion has found itself (in years has ffiven rise to to much confusion in the minds of citizens, even citizens who are ordinarily able lx) keep up with the rush of public with ease. There seems to be dozen« ol agencies in W ashington D. C. put- tm g out news stories and each one conflict« w lh o th e r stories on the same subject. If the aim- bit ion of these agencies L to keep the people up irt 1 he a ir and men- Hally muddled they are succeeding very well. We a re told we must save aJtttninuro - and th a t i.,’ was not good a fte r w as saved. We are told th a t Waite paper is valuable —and th a t there already much on hand. We are told tbt/. taxes ’ are to be much higher— and th a t th is will not • affect \b e small er salary. We a re stoid th a t m ar- nad men will be drafted—a rd tin t, they will not be ^if they are sepportin* th eir dependent«. T hat t o have too much w heat—th » we need more w heat? €Jbe American citizen will ap- p g M B tly have to learn to ne a who pay» no intention to snow storm th a t lasted nearly all day Tuesday. AL iShanikp about six inches fell. When called out of town by company business T. 1C. Lee now8 travels in an electric (lighted RCH aut o A subscription paper 'has been started iby J. N. Landry for the purpose of raising money to make a 1 all ground a t the fa ir grounds. L. K. Moore has sold the Cooo- er f ftrm near Hay Oanyon to II. m . Shull for $21,600 for the 720 acres. r rom the Observer, May 4. 1923 Wm. D aggett has sold his 'inter- e;i jn the W illiam s-Daggett motor company to (his partner, W alter Williaims who will continue • to cenduct the business, The county court recently ap- poi.i.ed as fair director», > A. H. Barnum, G. E. Mathews, Fred Cox, L. B. Payne and Richard Dingle, The main event of the Frank Brown poet smoker «tonight will be A rt Bibiby of Kent and Clarence Bauman of Heppner. The city council has had m ark- ers placed at Lhe center of nil principal «treet intersections to direct traffic. The nickel loaf of bread is now on saJe in Portland. Energetic Experienced Influential Paid A dr. by M cNary Volunteer Com., Ralph D. Moorea, Sec., 312 Mayar Bldg., Portland, Ore. S TOCKMAN / o r C o n g re s s 3nd District Republican . . . F* mar " A ll-O u t W ar E ffo rt in s te a d * REPUTATION Charles H. MACK Read These Sincere Comments on Democratic Candidate for Congress VOTER (State political weekly) April 18 “Charles H. Mack. Klamath county assessor, may win the nomination away from the ‘unbeatable’ Pierce” . . . “His fine record in county office is so well known among assessors elsewhere that his fame will be spread with enthusiasm” . . . “It is refreshing to note his courage, in dependence and enterprise.” KLAM ATH Prim aries, M a y 15th BASIN PROGRESS (Democratic) April 3 K L A M A TH HERALD A N D NEWS (Ind.-Rep.) April 1 Sa^ S unny “Mack represents the clean type of younger in public office. He has a record of public of interest and work in public and civic make him a candidate of which his home well be proud as he tries for high office.” . • 'I 'V Y X w ^ *CHARLES V. G ALLO W AY, Chairman Commission, Feb. 11 men-needed service, and affairs, that county may State Tax “Now that you have decided to quit assessing for other work I want to express my sincere appreciation of our ever pleasant and helpful association of the last seven years. During 23 years as a member of the State Tag Commission I have worked with many County Assessors and, for all around ability and efficiency, no one of them takas rank above you.” • The (tateincnt ot CharlQB V. Galloway wag made In a personal lettei to Mr. Mack, dated Feb. II, 1W2 when his announcement wag made that he would not seek re-election as Klamath County assessor. . Vais for Choriss H. Mack A t the Democratic Primary May 15. National Distillers Products Corp., N. Y. • #9.4 s Pnld for by Mack-for-Congress Club. R. A. Woodruff. Chairman in the case of The Federal Land Drnk o f Spokane, a corporation, P ^'”" ^ va- Oscar Karl Eaton and fciuise J..E a to n , husband and wife, 4 J . C SI e-m an County, a murveipaj cor poration:. .. , _ and Mid-Oregon Na- th)naI Farm Ixxm Association, a corporation, defendents. C. C. WILSON Sheriff of Sherman County, Oregon Moro- Lodge No. “Charlie is no spell-binder or rabble rouser, but he is a clear thinker and good fighter and is politically am bitious, and he would not let himself or the district he represents fall into a position of obscurity back in Washington.” o f Pensions fo r Congress'* On Saturday, the 9th day «a May. 1942, a t the hour of ten t. cock a. m. at the fro n t door of the courthouse in Moro in Sher- mi n County, Oregon, I will sell at jitiblic auction to the highest bid der for cash, the following re s o rb ed real property located in Sher man County, Oregon, to-w it: The W est H alf of the, N orth west Q uarter of Section Two, the E ast H alf of Section Three, and the N orthw est Q uarter . of the N ortheast Q uarter of Section Ten, all in Township Four South, Range Fifteen, E ast of the W illam ette Meridian; Together with the tenem ents hereditam ents and ap p u rte nances thereunto belonging or ir. anywise appertaining: Situated in Sherman Oounty, State of Oregon. ' ’ Said sale is made under execu te n issued out of , the Circuit °f of (>re^on f^r NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: T hat the (County Court for S her man County, Oregon, has appoint ed P. Waldo Davis, A dm inistrator for the Esta'te of Lizzie Irena Davis, deceased. Persons having claims ag ain st said E state are hereby notified to present same within «ax months from the date of first publication of this notice, Guly varified, to the A dm inistra tor ait the office of the County Judge for 'Sherman County, Moro, Oiegon. F. Waldo Davis, 'Adm inistrator of the E state of Lizzie Irena Davis, deceased. John W. Pennington Eugene, Oregon A ttorney for A dm inistrator 22-25 A Man Makes His Own OREGON Notice is hereby given th a t the undersigned has filed (in the County C ourt of the ‘S tate of O re gon o ír Sherm an County h tr Finai Report and Account a s Adm inis tra trix of the e state of Nelson W. Thompson, deceased, and that S aturday, th e 16t(h day o f Mav. 1942, a t ten o ’clock a. m. of said day, a t the County Courtroom in the Courthouse, a t Moro, O re gon., have (been fixed by the Court as the lim e and place for hearing of obje^ions to said Final Repori and Account and the settlem ent of said estate. Frances Henrichs. George G. Updegraff, A ttorney for A dm inistratrix 24-27 NOTICE OF S H E R IF F ’S S A I/: OF REAL PROPERTY Statehouse Goss:p CONFUSION NOTICE: , There will »be a meeU ing of the County Board of Equa-4 luutiort of .Sherman County, Ore gon, a t the Court House, Moro, Oregon, on the second Monday in May, th a t bein^ th e 11th day of May, 1942, to publicly examine the Assessm ent Rolls, correct all errors in valuation, descriptions of lands or e th e r property assess ed by me, and it shall ibe the duty of persons interested to appear at the time and place ' appointed (appearance is by petition) All petitions m ust be in w riting and verified (by the oath of the appli cant and filed w ith the board within the first week i t is by law required (to be in session. 24-27 Simple, understandable—“de-Dunking” the complex etiquette—you will find every thing you want to know in ‘‘In asking you to support me in my campaign for Congress, I ff‘f‘1 th< you should know some 1 king of my background and what ' stand lor. I w o * bom al>out 41 years ago opd was raised on a farm : am an , > .,c rv 'c A man (U. S. M arines) ..•Hh n vear and a h a ^ of foreign q (.oliofgp graduate in fo r estry and agriculture. I spent «•f-vcral years with the US Forest Curt ice and later a« h nad of the T' c iGfp^ln.'r service in this state, w h:nh norjnd about 12 - f'6p 000 acres of federal grazing I >nn was placed under adm inistra tion In 193R-3Q I made a world tour for th e num ose of m aking a gen- '^rn l studv of agricultural condi tion« abroad. Over th irty foreign countries including A ustralia, th • P b:’innines. China. Jan an . Russia. and G rrm anv were covered on the drin. For the past year and more T have been in charge of the state school lands. During this short ner od th e revenue from these lands ,hos more than doubled.' Mv work has tkken me over nearly every section of the dis- tu e t which has given me an op- porlunitv to become fam iliar with • ts P-oMems. T also feel th at my knowledge of international affairs should be of considerable value at t H”’« time. T b o T en n le of Shorman county nre- alm oat completely dependent on the production of irrain -n J lAestnck for a living. If the price ef these two commodities can be (Stabilized a t a reasonable price piosperitv is assured. On the ftb c i bond, if these commodities are not protected from foreign EQUALIZATION MEETING 1 time he w .ll g.ve b ,s version of the uniform assessm ent order *he »h lft in the tax neri d end ¿ .h e r controversial issues fi. The state w ar board is in- were made by a committee o: aisting we get this< m aterial in. the state fo restry beard meeting No scrap—no more new plow in Salem this week. Included in shares. It works both ways. these plans a re g reater re:*ric- 7. D rag your scrap iron out of tions on entry into timbered the ditches and scabs .o some a n !.s, more closures of forests \ ICTORY GARDEN accesible place before. May 6. and an absolute prohibition on They argued alx>i< it, gently 8. L ets load our car May 0 .slash and debris burning after and jokingly. About the «m e to "with”« big load M ay IB. of scrap. He was for waiting un>il it was W arning ..Eat Japan c-»’» Carroll Sayrs w arm er and «he for getting the pected to «trike back a» ‘ seed? in the ground while It was try for the T 'ml wet- He held out for warm.fi other cities of the i 'bind emo re. Jerrold Owen, coordir • 'T of the a,i(1 sae for wetness. It was set- . . . Oregon defense council ha« sent tied like most of such argum ents. Cf.nt inno, I f m n i p a g e o n t* word to all county 'defense co And th e n there as the m atter ordinator* to keep th «b r organi of planting the rows fa r a p a rt to side outfit. zations constantly b n the ale:* . give more moisture. This would ’ require more hoeing. If the rows H n° t compulsory for “ A bombing fleet over the Rac’fic were close together 4, would take Oregon women to register, but -—and th a t m eans Oregon—is not more w ater—less, hoeing. He was registration will be solicited on a ;mp''.r*sible.” Owens declared In f or t he w ater and she for the hoe- voluntary basis. R egistration for his buFetin addressed! o the conn . . be . . called . . . for |y coordinators. women will probably fl,I>l»,' r \ t ''i 1Rnn V Cbeiievedybv any ^ e radishes and lettuce came Ihc national capital. ’d W the nurchase of the on and brigB ened ¿he table and J u ly 4- a t least th a t “ t,he talk at cne th a t the " e lhe menu. There w as prospect « p e J e d to be 1.500,000 women pumpers would obviate all d earlv potatoes and neas eer working in munitions . factories cujties of figE’.ing fir.e They would ™ e a r7 potatoes and P^as eer within 12 months 1 „ ek zyf hnw ta Py discovered th a t their argu- alR’ on Iarm s wivnin merely solve the problem of ho , . . . . . , p| us the thousand« of trained to put out the fire a fte r men and ™<‘” ’ l’.a<‘. been ,n r a 'n th a t tb ’ reouired for tlhe armed H time and the m anner were not the nurso9 requirea i u r une ai.ueu water had been gt.t'herev at the im portant things about t.he g a r- ^orce» and the women s auxiliary scene of the fire. ¿ fn corps, the M ter a uniformed Until some one invents a m a It was planting it, caring for it. « rouP wWch ,b'' «“ 4 to chine that will put out fires by < hat made the difference. “And, as Pa rt woldd where Ameri- some <4 her (method waver is al he said as he bit into an early can t r ?°P8 ar„e LEADERSHIP ways going to be a problem in radish all t a r t and juicy, “Tbis is to speed Oregon’s putting out wheat fires. It d *es ................... Reclamation service announces war effort. ppear th at (he pum per, th a t ’ ur‘‘ * Ple»»»nt way to lick Jap s.’ that, it w îllcarry on investigation^ were tested here will put out more LEADERSHIP w h ic h th e r e cf the feasibiH ty <>f project? at fire with a barrel of w ater than . in rac® ..... ............ John John I)av, for the the basin: Per.d'o fox Oregon’s tax Day, for bassn: Penfilc any K her m ethod heretofore die 18 “ >» Me interest there may be J<Mln J ? y’. ’ . . . .... problems. ton, Talent, Medford, C lear I>ake, cn'areA Whatt-ver equ’nment is 8ome sta rtlin g upsets. This year Sam ’s valley and five pr w‘ct” i* LEADERSHIP •nsed, be it sack», shovels, ptow . ' BUpramTe Willamet/e_ ^ . . . a m c e valley. They are ir.- .... » for Oregon’s indus -o r putmpers. there will have to be w_ n . "L T 4 tended to he ’’backlogs’’ when the trial development. men a t the fir<*Vo use «hem and B? ind bV E. B. A shurst w ar is over and there will be no LEADERSHIP they will have to tom e by c a r or v'ho., ^ as <*<*<«»«* »« circuit judge need fo r public work» to provide that is efficient, truck if they get there very quick- K lam ath county a t the las’, empoytifient. No appropriation was effective, friendly. ly. W h«. ever equipm ent is used «‘« « o n . Judge Brand is a cap- allowed for coj 4 iEuing the Des to put w ater on t h e / r e will have « hl« Ju r,st w,tJ> a K***1 re w r<1' chutes project, (but it will not be to have a supply of <Jhat along suspended as there is ouffioient The pum pers do not solve Abe surplus from previous appropria entire problem. Nothing will. tions to carry on th e work le a s t They do, however, seem to solve for one more y ear; say into the FOR G O V E R N O R Pd A d » S n lH 1o> G o » C cn m wim mer of 1943. one phase of it better than any- p rom Observer May 8, 1903 J e n y S jy ie r , See'"* P l* lt B ld ç . P o itiu n d thing tried before now. Wasco baseball company has -------------- been incorporated for $2000 with D F i'K F R ’S I AKF McPherson, Frank Meatier ----- -------------------------------------—---- M nvA ono A n n F^ k Hul<?ry incorporators. (Continuée from çage one. News items fronn Ke*. occasion- One of the slivers on an Opera aow refinanced A, an average ally refer to Decker’s I>ake. Now house bench pierced the pnnta- iriteroi^t ra te of two per cent in- a iake is not a geographical des- loons, the underw ear and epideT- s t«a d of the four to six per cent igr.ation comrrson to Sherman mis of J. R. IBelchee and broke off ‘-be old bonds bear. county. Our only w ater comes in th e flesh so deeply that. Dr. ------------------------------------------ ;------ from the skies o r frwn wells, our Ixigan had to remove it. Jim had rivers are deep below «.be plains 1 he bench down and was sittin g on which m ost of us live. How on it when it attacked him. come Decker’s Lake? Moro beat G rass Valley 15 to 7 It is strictly a m an made affair, ’with A rthur Smith and Ira Ax- this lake, caused by damming a tell as « s battery. N ate Murphy, w ater course with a soil conserva- 'Rey Vintin and Herb Murphy tx>n dam. L is said to be 12 or 15 wpre the Grass Valley b attery, feet deep. W ith adaptability E. H. L. V. Moore and Frank worthy of the pioneers the c).i- Su>T9 returned from a three day zens of the Kent d istrict built Ashing trip to Buckhollow with Ihem boats and bought them out- ‘-rout. , (board motors so they may go From the Observer May 2, 1913 u.s. The Kent section of Sherman beating when the desire for open LOW ELL SENATOR county and as fa r as a mile nvrth w ater is on them. • of Grass Valley was visited by a The county court is «till deb« - ing within itself about the desir- ability of buying some of the pumpers for fire protection. Its members are hearing argum ents pro and con on the m atter and they are undecided. '7 r ^ m e n u '7 g B ~ n s t the pur- chase seem to be thA. the pump- ers while light and easily p o rt able and apparently efficient, will need w ater to make <hem effec- • U of „/■ g e ttin g w ater t.ve. mt The job a. i e .„ ^ A „ i . able uhl,. tn to them seems insurmoum w the critics. The facA th a t it may l»e difficult Ijo #et to the fires is also used as an argum ent. I t is true th at w ater will I)e something of a difficuky. It does not m atter what sort of fire fight- mg equipm ent is orq w ater is needed. If men are to COARD , 0 F Oregon is F o r g i n g A h e a d with Gq¿$prague , 113, 1. O. O. F. Moro, Oregon Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in t h | I.O..O.F. hall Trai sient and visiting brothers are cordi ally invited to meet rith us. P tul May, N. G. Percy Thompson, Sec. Belhlehem Chapter, No. 78.O.E.S Moro, Oregon Meets Every Second and Fourth Thursdays in each Month. Visiting members Invited Marie Hoskinson, W. M. Pauline Douma, Sec. iim ^ka Lodg^ No. 121A -F & A-M Meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursday eve nings of sach month. Visiting members are cordially , invited to meet with, us. “ Darwin Van Gilder, W. M. C V. Belknap, Secjrrtary Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116 Moro. Oregon Meets 2d & 4th Tues day of each month. Visiting members wel come. I.ucille May, N. G. l-'lorence Johnston, Set1
