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z ?• ÇOUNJIW ^UVKAAL. J4.OMO, -üHKGO.V FRIDAY, JANUARY », 1945 court during hie two terms. He was most attentive to the of being a county judge. He made Sherm an County Observer regular trips to the county seat Established Nov. 2,^888 or. minor matters, attended to Graas Valley- Journal probate duties religiously a n d Established Oct. K, ¿$97 CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1931 made many trips over the state to attend meetings at which he W asco Newa-EatarprUe thought the county should b e Established Nov.# 1891 represented. CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon »tics L. F rench Editor Lrtered as second class matter at the Postoffice at Moro, Oregon under Act of Congress of March t, 1879. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance ONE YEAR ......... .....- ..........y * *150 FRIDAY. JANUARY 8. 1943 . , LEGISLATURE Next Monday Oregon’s legisla tive assembly convenes for i t s forty-second session. It will be the first such assembly during war for many years. This may seem to indicate that it will be concerned mainly with affairs having to do with the prosecution of the war. It is not likely, how ever. One- time state« and <x>unties had to raise troops, supplies and money to carry on wars. N o w those duties are taken over' by the national goevmment as w an are fought by larger units o f peo ple than formerly. Certainly there will be prob- - lema arising from the war. But the main troubles that take up the time of the legislators will spring from Oregon itself. These will be important enough. In first place must be placed the taxation troubles of the state, rot the usual trouble, either. This time the state has plenty of mon ey, a surplus of it, with more coming in a flood next March. The question now is how to care for this surplus so that it will do the most good for the people of Ore gon. There is ro lack of hands reach ing out for a part of it, or all. The schools want it. the aged want it, state employees have a clainf on some of it, counties would like a larger share, state wards cry for more buildings, and, last but not least, the ordinary taxpayer feels that in some way a part of this year’s prosperity should be retained to »often the harder taxpaying days that may be ahead. Oregon has an unemployment compensation fund out of all pro portion to any such fund ever be fore imagined. It is growing at the rate of nearly a million dol lars per month. We will need much of it to care for labor when * the boom days are over. Yet a balance must be made between reducing the cost of production new by lowering the tax and this preparation for unemployment ro come. There is a demand for changes in workmen’s compensation. It is not sufficiently inclusive to be an adequate insurance and there are loop holes in it that many have foupd. Shall we keep on trying t o solve the forestry problem and the method of handling cut-over lands, of utilization o f wood waste which takes a surprising part of cut timber? There will always be a fish problem. Oregon wants more industry, and looks to the legislature to pass laws that will obtain it. There are minor item»: Increas es for state employees, changes in management of state ' boards and institutions, of (bounty gov ernment, of game, roads, banks, insurance companies—in f a c t , nearly everything that concerns modern life comes at some time before a legislative body. The legislature will handle them as best it can. If it be—as ap pear»—composed <rf indbttrious men with ability to gather a’nd use information and strong enough to be guided by that information only, it has a chance to f o W n e - thing for the state in the way of aiding its progress. That is the way legislatures must be judged JUDGE POTTER When county court m»t thia week it was without the presence, in an official capacity, of Judge George Potter. He is ex-judge Potter now. This is not written to comment on the political , change, but to compliment the former public servant on faith ful attendance to public duty dur ing his tw elv e years as judge A» near as can be remembered be did not miss a meeting of the " V NEW CONGRESS When the 78th congress met Wednesday it marked the end of the new deal, or, at least, a ces? sat ion of new deal public policy for a short period. » There is to be a change in na tional philosophy if the words of congressional leaders can be fol lowed. Since 1933 <the new deal admin istration has tried out many kinds of social change— often called reform. It has given labor nearly everything it wanted: it has spread public imoney over the land in a wide, deep and cont'nu- ous stream; it ha» subsidized far mers and rendered their demands for a proportionate share of the national income ineffective and their name anathema in the-minds of city people; it has built many projects of value only to those employed on them. Its prosecu tion of the war is accused of be ing dilatory: it caused the nation’s most disastrous military surprise attack; , it has withheld informa tion from the people. Leaders of both parties, al though not those in administration favor in congress, say this is to change. There is to be vigorous prose cution of the war with general agreement with military men in charge of the war. There is to lie a curtailment of bureaucracy and of federal spending not relat ed to the war. . There will be e- nough of that. To this newspaper such a pro gram is all to the good. It comes from an interpretation of the vo ters’ voice at the last election. There is n» doubt that many of the things started by the new deal will continua. Every administra tion starts some thing that is held good by the nation. The move ment toward governmental con trol of everything has been halt ed. Part of this is because of the rise in the respect o f industry, which, from being the national whipping boy, has become the sa viour of the nation in time of war. In Other Days From the Observer. Jan. 11, 1924 Milton 0 . Howell. 55 years old, a .farmer living east of- Wasco, was accidentally shot and killed Monday morning, the accident oc curring in a woodshed in the rear of the family home. Our little flurry of icy winter zero weather was brolen up Wed nesday by a gentle and persistent old-fashioned Chinook wind. . Large pieces of ice are floating down the Columbia river. About a week «go the river was pretty nearly full of it. The shore ice was about nine inches thick at some places and extended about 2G or 30 fort out into the river. The river is now quite low. Medler’s Cash store at Wasco was completely gutted by fire Tuesday morning of this week. The complete line of dry goods and groceries, fixture« and shelv ing was entirely destroyed by a fire thought to have been started when an airtight heater blew up. From the Observer Jan. 8, 1901 N. P. Hansen has just bought another of the best farms in Sher man county. The Buckeye, o r Robert Newton farm, now occu pied by G. E. Moore. Considera t e $25 per acre. The directors of ErskineviTk» school district want a teacher for a four months’ ^erm, beginning Feb. 29th. They want a good tea cher, one who understand music preferred. Oregon will hold three elections this year. Every other d a y seemingly. Get your papers and register early. Our worthy friend Ladru Bar num has succeeded to the man agement of the Wasco Warehouse Milling Co.’s banking business in Moro. This is a very deserving honor to a Moro boy. Frm the Observer Jan .9. 1914 At the regular meeting of the city council last Monday M. A. Bulf was elected marshall and F . E Fagan recorder for the city fcr the year 1914. Lumber for the sidewalks re cently provided fotf?b|y ordinance has been distributed to the vari ous properties to be so improved. Those Interested are hoping for a continuance of god weather so the work can proceed. Sheriff J. C. McKean has made a record as tax collector that i* hard to beat with the year just ended. From a tax roll of $106,- 560 he reports but $485 deJinouent A record never before established in Oregon. Kelly s Column Continued front ^ age one. ~ J cows three times a day). And while you are tightening your belt a few notches congress will be working on a new tax bill, to take effect in 1944 on 1943 in come. This bill will make t h e present tax ^measure look like milk and water—it will hit s o deep into every purse. And one new tax may be a sales tax for federal purpose«. There has al ways been opposition to this, but war makes more money necessary ar.d the sale« tax ia a reservoir of small change. There will be no eynthetic rub ber tires for civilians an 1943. The present capacity o f the var ious plants will rot be sufficient to turn out enough of the syn thetic product to more than take care of the motorized army and the United Nations. There is no prospect of new tires for civilians before 1944, and in 1943 millions of private automobiles will dis appear from the highways. This will reduce state revenue from the gasoline tax and will require new source« of taxation by Oregon and other states, a search that may start with the coming legis- lature »t Salem. Two years from -now—the 1945 session—it will ly* too late. donment. Defense council makes new plans. Grass varieties shown to visiting farmers. June 19— Warehouses are being prepared“ to receive big crop. Scrap rubber being gathered. Boys 18 to 20 ordered to register. Rub ber drive may avert gas ration ing. Loan rates set on wheat. Rur al information scheme explained. Farmers getting truck tires for harvest. Q. C. Wilson made Le- gion commander. Mrs. America told Life May Not Be Soft ■ <1 IDE q tR N E S T H A Y C O X fcrtt&sc CHAPTER I 4 From the high edge of Mogul to the floor of Powder Desert was a sheer drop of fourteen hundred and sixty feet; and even on the quietest day a stream of warm air from the desert boiled up the face of the rim, so that if a man stood at the break- off and tossed his hat outward it invariably sailed back to him. Clay Morgan had shown this to his daughter Janet long ago. It was a part of their ritual on the trip to town, and as soon as they reached tiie rim this afternoon, she remind ed him of it again; h ereup on he sailed his hat across the rim, caught it on the rebound, and witnessed her deLghted smile. Afterwards they turned downgrade on a road steeply and narrowly cut against the face of the mountain. Z.s they descended she began to recite lines of "Hiawatha,” in prep aration for a school play. Riding slightly back of her. Clay Morgan watched her small arms gesture and her naturally sober face lighten and grow faintly dramatic. To him it was a matter of ncWr-ending as tonishment that one nine-year-old girl's head could hold so much. The silence and the slow way she had, of judging people came from him. The vivid imagination and the growing beauty came from her mother. It was something Clay Mor gan had watched for. through the years—and yet, much as he had ex pected it, it still was strange to see in this girl the image of a woman nine years dead, to know that the tempestuous Lila who had been his wife now reached out of the grave to remind him of the one brief and violent and miserable and beautiful year of their marriage. In the be ginning she had said she loved him; she had died hating him. Powder Desert began at the bot tom of the grade. Sand and sage brush hummocks, built by the cart wind, lay before them; around these lumpy barriers, high as a man's shoulders, meandered the deep twin ruts of the road. This September day's sun was haft-down in the west and heat lay heavy on the flat; and in the near distance, on the bencIUand at the head of the desert, the houses of War Pass made an irregular outline. Toward this cat tle town they traveled, Janet dreaming her nine-year-old dreams in sober stillness. Clay Morgan hold ing his clear intimations of trouble ahead. Turning at the corner of Gentry’s corral. Clay Morgan faced the length of Main Street, with its dou ble row of angular wooden buildings and its deep golden dust. Under the courthouse locusts at the comer of Main and Stage, a large group of men idly waited; and he knew then that the trial of the rustler, Ollie Jacks, was still unfinished. He dismounted by the stable and permitted both horses to nose into the water trough before tying them to the rack. Janet said: “I am go ing to Ann McGarrah’s, Daddy.” She always had a quick smile for him when she mentioned Ann Mc Garrah’s name, as though there might be some secret involved. "I think,” she added, "we will eat sup per there” —and watched him a mo ment with her observant eyes. "You seem pretty sure of that.” Morgan remained near the sta ble’s hitching-rack to roll up a quick smoke. But he was never a man to let his eyes be idle; thus now, while his fingers tapered off the cig arette his glance ran down the street, past the courthouse and post office and the Long Grade saloon, past the Mountain House hotel and beyond that to the little cluster of brick and dobe buildings of Old Town. Two cross-streets dropped from a higher level of the hillside. Up there sat the high, square, iron- ornamented houses owned by the wealthier merchants and the big cattlemen who liked to winter their families in town. This was four o’clock and already the street was in shadow, though the far desert burned up its brown-gray glitter. Jesse Rusey, the town’s marshal, cruised the walk—short, broad body swinging a little. He had the shoul ders of a wfrestler; above the sweep of his mustaches was a glance as cool as flint This man had a kind of rocky solidness, a kind of formid able courtesy. He said, "How are yolg Clay?” and passed by. Charley Hillhouse and Hack Breathitt broke from the courthouse group and walked toward him, their boots puffing up the street’s dust; but for a moment he remained slackly by the hitching-rack, his mind picking awry at the mystery of Jesse Rusey. 'ibis town marshal had been in War Pass for twenty years, yet nobody knew him, or knew what he thought, or knew where his sympathies actually lay. Hillhouse and Breathitt came cheerfully forward and for a mo ment these three fast friends stood by the hitching rack and swapped gossip, pleased to be together again. All of them had grown up' in tke country, they had gone to school together and had worked and hunt Life may not be a# soft for Mrs. America’s fam ily during the com in g ’ year, for upholstered furni ture over wooden springs will be a new home furnishings note. But seriously, shoppers may be sure that they will get their money’s worth from the new product, for the Office of Price Administra tion is checking to see that all substitutes for metal springs mea sure up to certain standards. Fur niture manufacturers must have wooden springs tested at a desig nated government station before they can submit the articles for price approval. This new ruling affects manufacturers of uphol stered wood chairs, sofas, sofa beds, studio couches and b o x springs. A recent War Production Board order prohibited the use of metal springs in wood unholst°re<l furniture, and so chalk wooden In order to familiarize our read springs up to the ingenuity of ers with federal income lax regu m a n u fa ctu rers._ lations for this year, the Journal • • • will run a series of articles deal It takes 15 pairs of discarded ing with various things each cit izen should know before fik’ng his silk stockings for Uncle Sam’s ex or her returns in March. The first perts to reclaim enough silk to article of the series follows, and make one average size powder others will be printed as space bag for military use. And Uncle Sam’s nieces turned in enough old permits. silk stockings during one month The' federal income tax is, as of the War Production Board’s the name implies, a tax levied un- hosiery salvage collection to make on incomes, and it is pavable in over 100.000 powder bags. The relation to the amount of income. Income, for federal Income tax 2,800,000 pairs of old silk and ny lon stockings turned in would onroos®«. means in general any. stretch across the country from c<->mr,*»nsation for one’s services, New York to San Francisco if whether the compensation be in they were »trotdhed end to end. money or in goods or other ser- If you want to contribute discard 'd**'»s. It includes also the net ed silk or nylon stockings for the -o--nved for fihe product of manufacture of war. materials, one’s labor, as farm produce in simply wash them and then drop ♦"he case of a farmer; income from them in the collection box in the investments; profit from business hosiery department of retail stores onorations; and other gains from throughout the country. sales and exchanges of goods and • ? • — property. Certain limited cate Remember to have your tires in gories of income are, however, tnv exnmot. and to the extent of spected before January 31, the such exemption are excluded in deadline for the first compulsory tire inspection for every passen computing the tax. ger car in the U nited States. F ol Becau«e of exemptions from the lowing the first check-up of your tax given to persons having less precious tires, it will be necessary than certain stated amounts of to have them inspected every four income, as well as because of var months if you have an ‘‘A” mile ious deductions and credits al age ration. Holders of “»B” and lowable, only a small proportion “Q” 8UPPiem*ntal rations are to of the number of person« receiv Have tires inspected every two ing income have until recently months. Tires must be checked been subject to the tax. Thus, rf by an authorized OPA inspector, the estimated 55 million persons who may charge up to 26 cents in this country who received in for inspecting all the five tires on come in one form or another dur your car if he doesn’t 'have to re ing the calendar year 1941, only move any. some 26 mPlion nersons were re • * * quired to file federal income tax If your electric iron sticks as returns for that vear, while of you work, rub it on a little salt these same 26 million, more than nine million were not taxable due sprinkled on paper, .or smooth to credits and deductions allow with paraffin or beeswax. This „ is one of |he tips contained in a able. As a result of the lowering of new pamphlet, “Making Ironing exemptions, many more persons Equipment Last Longer,” which are now subject to the federal in has just been issued by the OPA come tax than before, and for the and the Department of Agricul -calendar year 1942 (it is estimated ture Bureau of Home Economics. that more than 35 million persons Putting a pinch of salt in t h e starched will file returns. To the large starch helps v to keep pumber of persons now subject clothes from sticking to the iron, to the federal income tax, w h o it. is pointed out. And once a have never repotted income be • month wax the ironing surface fore for federal tax purposes, an while still warm with a small understanding of th° law and ap amount of paraffin or beeswax, plicable regulations is of prime .being sure to wipe off any excess wax. Keep the iron dusted and importance. the surface clean and smooth. An income tax return is a dec laration on the part of the tax payer of bis total taxable income for the year, together with the various deductions, exemptions, and credits to which he is entitled. Any person who willfully makes a return which he does not believe Every woman who has married to be true and correct in every since she last worked and now is material matter is subject to the contemplating re-entering employ penalties provided by law. ment should have her social se The first requirement is the fil curity account corrected to show ing of-the return. For individuals her legal neme. according to Ver generally, this must be done by non A. Welo, manager of the La March 15 following the end of the Grande social security board of calendar year for which the re fice, turn is being made. The return “You can do this,” said Mr. We must be filed w ith ' the Collector lo. “by going to the nearest field of Internal Revenue for the dis office of the social security board trict in which is located the legal and filling out an application for residence or principal place o f duplicate account number card. business of the person making The completed application is then "the return. sent to Baltimore, Md., where so Under the present law every cial ^security wage records a r e ■single person, and every married i'ept» an3'a duplicate account num person not living with husband ber card-bearing the same num •or wife, having a total income ber as tihe original but showing (earnings, together with other in your married name, will be sent come) of $600 or more, and mar to you.* ried persons living with husband Mr. Welo placed emphas’.s upon xor wife throughout the taxable the fact that a woman should keep year, who have an aggregate in the same account number through come (total earnings of both hus out her working life, although band and wife, together with oth her change of name should always er income) of $1200 or more, re be reported. gardless of the amount of net in •d and had their fun together, and come, must file a return. B oy War Benda Today Will Run Articles On Federal Income Tax Married Women Shoo’d Change Security Cards thinkln’ that this, is probably the last time us three ‘will sit at the same table.” "Don’t talk like that.” said Char ley Hillhouse. * , But both of them were watching Clay Morgan, who sat silent all the while, burled In his own thinking. He had always been the silent one. the last one to speak. He said, very quiet with his words. "I want you 'to know this. Hack. If you ever get in trouble, come to me. I’ll stand behind you.” I'm CHRONOLOGY C ontinued from P age One in trouble had stood inseparably side by side. Clay Morgan said: “ Noth ing new on Ollie Jacks yet?" Hillhouse shrugged his shoulders: "They been arguing about it since noon. I don’t see nothin’ to argue about We caught Ollie dead in his tracks, bendin’ over a Three Pines calf with his iron. But there’s a .couple townsmen on the jury. They’re the ones hanging this thing up. Hack Breathitt grinned: “Ben Herendeen’s sore enough to shoot the jury.” He gave Charley Hill house a slanting, skeptic glance. "Your boss is gpttin’ pretty large for his pants, Charley. But then he always was that way.” Ben Herendeen owned Three Pines, and Charley Hillhouse was Herendeen’s foreman, loyal to the core. Hillhouse said in a mild voice: "If they don’t throw Ollie Jacks In the cooler there ain’t no use for any Juries in thia country. “After all. Hack, it was Ben’s beef.” They moved toward the Long Grade saloon, three abreast. Direct ly opposite, under the locust trees. Clay noticed the crowd grouped around Ben Herendeen—Gurd Grant and Lige White, both big cattlemen, and Sheriff Ed Nickum. and a few smaller ranchers like Hamp Brig ham and Vance Ketchell. Heren deen’s riders, with a few townsmen, made up the rest of the crowd. Hack Breathitt got a bottle, two glasses, and a bunch of cigars. They wenCto a corner table and sat down. Hack Breathitt passed the cigars to Morgan, poured a drink for Hill house and for himself and settled deep in the chair. For that little interval he was as relaxed as he could ever be, still smiling a little, still with the sparkle of secret amusement in his eyes. He said, ”To law and order," and downed the drink. "You,” said Hillhouse tolerantly, "are an ornery son-of-a-gun.” "The country ain’t the same,” murmured Hack. "There** one hell of a beautiful ruckus cornin’. The sheep and the goats. That's it. The sheep and the goats. Accordin' to Ben Herendeen I’m one of the goats. Ben's about ready to work on the goats.” Charley Hillhouse. who was a quiet workhorse of a man. slowly nodded. Ereathitt started to speak but was stopped by quick-rising talk on the street. A man struck the swinging doors of the saloon with both fists and rushed in. He said, in ii half shout, "They let Ollie Jacks free.” and ran out. The conversation in the saloon rose at once to a noisy pitch. Hack Breathitt grinned. “I’d like to see Ben Herendeen’s face right now.” Cjiarley Hillhouse answered irrit ably. "If it was your beef. Hack, you wouldn’t make a joke of it." Hack Breathitt had his moments of wisdom; he had his far thoughts. "There's two kinds of people In this world. Charley. Those that have got beef—and those that have g<»t none. People that stick and people that drift. The Lord made you ancj me different. It ain’t my fault and it ain't your fault. But I like my way—and no man can make me change.” "Ben’s got nothing against you." said Charley Hillhouse. . Hack Breathitt showed Hillhouse a smart, dark expression. "When* folks get heated up, Charley, there ain’t no halfway. It’s one thing or the other. The sheep or the goats ’’ He poured himself a second drink. "You know what I’m thinkin’, boys? - Charley Hillhouse shook his head, bothered by Morgan’s words. ”1 knew you’d say that. Clay, but 1 wish you hadn’t Makes it tough on me. Long as I work for Three Pines, I ’ll let nothing get between me and the ranch. Nothing at a ll.” He met Hack B reathitt’s glance and quietly added: "Don’t come to me. Hack.” That was all. These three rose and crossed the room, pushing through the doors. Ben Herendeen remained under the locust trees, with Llge White and Gurd Grant and a group of Three Pines riders. Sher iff Nickum was also there, coat hung loosely to his gaunt frame. Jesse Rusey, farther down the street, watched this crowd; and on him Clay Morgan put his glance for a moment Charley Hillhouse went across the dust to join Reren- deen Janet turned out of McGar rah’s store, advancing toward Mor gan. Her little shoulders showed straight in the sunless light, her small feet made a quick tapping on the sidewalk boards. She said: "We are having supper with Ann McGarrah, Daddy." Her soft smile held its secret again, her eyes showed it. “Didn’t I tell you?” Hack Breathitt removed his hat with a flourish. “How. honey?” "How, Hacfi.” Hack said: "Come along with a gentleman.” Janet put her hand in Hack Breathitt’s Ast and walked away with him. Morgan laid his shoulders against the wall of the saloon and freshened his cigar with a match. The group remained beneath the locust trees, Herendeen and Lige White now talk ing together while the rest remained 'silent A good many -people had come to the street, scattered under the board awnings All of them, he noticed, were watching the court house. Tension crawled up the street, strong enough to touch Mor gan's nerves. Jesse Rusey never moved from his position as he. too. watched the courthouse door. A stage stood by the Mountain House hotel, ready to go. At the stable. Parr Gentry sat on a capsized bar rel. lumped over and apparently disinterested, but Morgan saw the way the man’s eyes traveled, around. Hack Breathitt and Janet were crossing the dust to Tanner’s drugstore and at this moment Ollie' ’ Jacks, freed by .the Jury's verdict,. 1 stepped from the courthouse, looked to* either end of the street, and:! halted. He was a wiry man with the drawn, blank face of a gambler; he was a man who had been caught stealing beef and now, by the act of the jury, was free to ride out. His horse was in Gentry’s stable, fifty feet from where he stood, yet this was as far as he got, this rooted position before the courthouse with Jesse Rusey on one' side of him and Herendeen’s group watching him from the other, and with alk the town looking on. At that mo ment he knew what Clay Morgani and every soul in town knew: he* knew he was a dead man. Continued on Page Three Lupine Rebekah Lodge Moro. Oregon Vleets 2d & 4th Tues day of each month. Visiting member« wel come. Lucille May, N. G k Florence JohnstoiK Bethlehem Chapter, No. 78.O.E.S, Moio, Oregon Meets Every Second and Fourth Thursdays in each “7 Month. Visiting members Invited N o rm a B a ls ig e r W . M. M a rie H o s k in s o n , Sec. BUY WAR BONDS • Moro Lodge No. 113, No. 116 I. O. O. F. — —■ I’t-reka Lodge No. 121 A-F & A-M’ Meets on the 1st an<9 3rd Thursday eve nings of each montk- Visiting members are cordially invited to meet with us. Darwin Van Gilder, W. M. C V. Belknap, Secretary Moro, Oregon Mi eta 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in th< I.O..O.F. hall Trai sient and visiting brother^ are cordi ally invited to meet .vith us. Paul May, N. G. Peicy Thompson, Sec. BUY WAR BONDS DEPENDABILITY I In these times more than usual it is_important_to have a-dependable grocer— In wartime prices and quaiity and even quantities are subject to change. Quality here will be good, prices will be fair and quantities what is- allowed. Zeigler’s ^ 7 G rass Valley
