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■-•L. f A G E ' j , £ J tg £ M A ft * * ? , man p fiL N T J JO U R N A L , Journal Sheraan County Observer Established Nov. 2, 1888 * Grass Valley Journal MOKU, DKEGON. F R ID A Y , MARCH 12. ttfig remainder of it, including the tax reduction bills might better be forgotten. C«n* •ni*'d fvnrr • a | I d Other Days j Established Oct. 14, 1897 CONSOLIDATED March 6, 1911 Wasco News-Enterprise Established Nov. 1891 From the Observer, Mar. 11, 1904 CONSOLIDATED March 4, 1932 President Roosevelt sviil not Publish'd Every Friday at take any part in the campaign Moro, Oregon this year. He will try to be coiu l-.diiiti tent with the simple formality of liie s L. FnucJt receiving the office. Ei-Iered as second class matter at The worst mud holes in the the Postoffice at Moro; Oregon city are the street crossings lead under Act o* Congress of March ing to the' hotels and churches. I. 1879. Z A boy with a hoe and a bit o f gumption could keep them all clean with the expenditure of 60 minutes elbow grease a week. El W. B. McCoy discovered a live F im iiti IT 10 1 tarantula in a bunch of bananas Saturday. When disturbed it OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER showed its poisonous venom too S U B S C R in tO N RATES plain for comfort. Dave Bigger- Payable in Advance staff has it preserved in alcohol O N E Y E A R ............................. $1.50 at The Maxappa, as a fearful FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1943 warning to people that eat bana nas. 7' % SLICING BREAD From the Observer, Mar. 13, 1914 eaid«£>uh The abort ban on bread slicing by the bakeries was funny. It is said by bakers that slicing the bread is a part of a production chain that is done a bn oat auto matically aa the loaves move to ward the wrapping machine. The order made them take out the knives from the machines a n d saved nothing in time, money or tempers. Householders had to go to the stores to buy bread knives and more steel was used than before. Now the OPA/ PDQ, or whatever it is, has ruled that bakers can put the knives back in their ma chines and another governmental hurla-bulla hullabaloo is over ex cept as it will five in unfragrant memory. JITTERY It seems that as war progresses people boome more nervous and irresponsible. They change fro m one job to another with less rea son. They decide on their actions more quickly. It affects not only the ordinary citizens but also those in official places who make decisions that are eometimes so ill-advised that they are enough to make ewaryone jittery. There »«n’t any cure for it, ei ther. One can no more quiet them down by telling them of it than he can quiet an unruly team by hollering “Whoa” at them. They are just nervous, and with mighty good reason. Hearsay evidence leads us to believe that when an Idaho dheep man asked for canvas to construct lambing pens OP A refused his request with the suggestion that he postpone lambing until warmer weather. We would appreciate suggestions from our readers as to how this could best be done. Keiiy’s Column aw • • ' Rationing restrictions are so tough and so many housewives are finding it difficult to buy food that congress is expected to in sist upon some modification«. The housewives are told they can buy all the fresh vegetables they wish but, for instance, they are being asked to pay 10 cents for a single tomato. And... Oregon prunes, which have been so plentiful that the growers could not get rid of them, requires 20 points W the 48 monthly points for one pound dried. Sbm/etime next autumn look for milk to be rationed; evap orated milk is now almost unob tainable. M. S. Pittman, representing the Monmouth Normal, waa in the county this week with a brand new scheme by which the taxpay ers residing in cities could pass the larger part of the school tax burden up to the fellow that lives in the country; and, under his scheme, the schools of a county were all to be managed by a board of five who would have entire management, and no school could have any say as to whom their teacher would be unless the coun ty school superintendent and board agreed. An effort is being made Official of Treasury Is to put it over in this county. . . Am ong ‘Outstanding’ Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Tom Young Men in Nation lin, jr., a nine pound girl» on the Ted R. Gamble, Assistant to the evening of March 9th. • 4 Secretary of the Treasury, has been From the Observer, Mar. 14, 1924 •elected by the United States Little Eva Ricks, two years old, was burned to death in a barn fire on the L. N. Conley ranch, four miles from Cove, and Lewis Martin Ricks, aged four, her bro ther, was seriously burned about the arm« and neck. The barn was destroyed. Owen Searcy left Tuesday for Sisters, Oregon, where he will work this summer in a sawmill at that place. Willis Ivan Buxton and Gen eva Irene, Dillinger, both of Moro, were united in marriage at The Dalles last Friday, March 7th. The service was read by Rev. H C. Kohn, in the presence of the immediate families of the bride and groom. AfteT a brief wed ding trip to pointe in the valley, Mr. and Mrs. Buxtop will be at home to their friends in Wasco. iruir. veur '.ciory Iranian '>iu> • day” to the Red army said that, Russia had carried the fight a- gainst Hitler alone and he asked for a second front. When Stalin said the Red army had battled alone he failed to mention that the United States has been help ing him with 2600 fighting planes, 3200 tanks, and 81.000 trucks and jeeps. All this for the Red army from the United State«. In ad dition, the Red army has been and is being fed by Mr. Whiskers in larger measure than any other of the United Nations, as is attested by the Russian cargo carriers taking food from Columbia river and Puget sqund ports, and or anges from San Francisco. And not a cent is being charged against Russia for this very material as sistance. * • W • . • A ' a « ys ? J -M -a Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the nation’s ten outstanding young men for 1942. . M r. Gamble, who is 30, came to Washington from Oregon, where he had served as State Adminis trator of the W ar Savings Staff. During his tenure there, Oregon Bond sales reached a new peak, ZRIDE I« RNEST HAYCOX T U I STORY BO FA R ; Clay Morgan ba j i. ¿elded to play a I o m baud asxtost GARDEN SEEDS FOR ALL T h ere w ill be enough seeds of standard vegetables to meet the normal needs o t Uncld Sam’s vast army of Victory Gardeners in 1943 " This ccr64«nt statement comes from Dexter Ferry q f the Ferry-Morse Seed Co., the world’s largest seed breeding and growing organization. “O ur own home gardeners are pro vided for,” he adds, “even though we are shirH n» large quantities of seeds to our Allies.” Ameri''-,n.c»rown seeds w ill In deed riant the gardens of the far corners of the earth this year as well as those of this hemisphere. Certain typ*»s of seed are being sent to ell the friendly nation’ because their usual sources of supply have b~en cut off Sharing carden seeds with other countries, as America is doing, is one of the most economical as well as one of the most effective ways of helping needy neighbors in wartime. Seeds take up less room than most food stuffs, thus leaving valuable shipping space foi important muni tions and other jwar supplies. From a health standpoint vegetable seeds are a necessity in every land be cause they are the basis of fresh foods which could not possibly be «shipped long distances without de terioration “Because there are garden seeds enough for Victory Gardeners does not mean that they can be used carelessly," Mr. Ferry explains. “As a wartime measure, every man, woman, and child who plans a Vic tory Garden this year should make the most of every seed planted. De termining the right amount of seed fbr a given space, proper planning and planting so that all seeds w ill have the best growing chance, car ing for crops to avoid waste and spoilage, and making good use of the garden-fresh food produced, w ill all help to prevent what other wise might be serious national food shortages.’’ Although seed supplies In general are sufficient, certain varieties of some kinds of vegetables are rather short this year due fu unfavorable growing and harvesting conditions, according to M r Ferry "That should inconvenience no one." he says. “I f you cannot find seed of vour pet variety of vege table at your dealer's, there w ill be others so nearly like it that you w ill riot miss your favorite." NOTICE TO CREDITORS All person« having claims against the Estate* of Bart Bur rell, deceased, are hereby notified to present them, with* the proper vouchers and duly verified, to the undersigned, the duly appointed, qualified and acting administra trix of the Estate of Bart Bur rell, deceased, at the office of T. Lester Johnson, in Moro, Oregon, within six months from the date of the first publication of this no tice, to-wit: March 12, 1943. Leota Burrell, Administratrix Date of First Publication, March 12, 1943. Date of Last Publication, April 9, 1943. f 18-22 WILLfAMS’ COLUMN Continued fr**<n P n -e One Ren Herendeen, a rancher bent on run ning the cattle country bia own way. Tbe two men have boon enomlea lor years, having tr s t toosbt over d a y ’s wlie, Lila, who died battas him and be lieving she aboald have married Heren deen. Morgan la a solitary tgnry, de voted to bis nine-year-old danfbter, Jan et. Although two Women, Catherine Grant and Ann M cGarrah, am In love with him, they know ho cannot forgot Lila. Of hia form er friends, only Hack Breathitt baa not gone over to Heren deen's aids. Seen camping with Pete nrrders, a matter, be Is a fugitive from Ue.cn Jeea'a men. Gard Grant, Cather ine's brother, hesitated about joining Herendeen, but became Morgan's sworn enemy when ho discovered that Cather ine had been In bis ranch. Learning at t' b last minute that Government V al ley >« to be auctioned at Sage City ISO milea away. Clay rldea'WB night and ar rives in time to outbid Charley Hill- housv. Herendeeo’ a foreman. When ho lea : ts*1 Herendeen has sent a party out to Bnd Hack Breathitt and kill kim. Clay starts out to find him Brat. Ho goea In Fr?eport. to Rem Case's store, whore tie Halaks he will And Hack. Aa he to talking to Cass, Herendeen appears. He shoots out the glass in one of the store .. C A . Rurgles . INSURANCE f break tbe grip, but Herendeen held on, weathering through his punish ment, tightening his grip until Mor gan felt his skin burn and seem to burst. He lay on his side, pushing his arms against the floor but finding no strength in them. He could move them but he had no feeling in them. All this room" was gray-black and Herendeen was a blurred shape across the room, slowly trudging forward. He heard Herendeen say something, though he couldn’t make put the words. Herendeen, coming nearer, grew taller and broader above him. Herendeen's foot struck him solidly at the base of the spine —and this brutality was a^new stream of pain along his nerves. It moved Morgan around on the floor, loosely as though he were a straw dummy. He rolled completely over, coming against a cracker barrel*. Morgan got behind the cracker barrel. He held to its top rim and - - - ib - c r — Morgan drove his aimed bums t t tbe huge jaw. Morgan crawled across the floor pulled himself up as Herendeen walked against the cracker barrel. He flattened himself near the door Herendeen swept one fist out, strik way, catching a slanting view of the ing air as Morgan jerked back. Her street-end. His horse, spooked by windows. endeen started around the cracker the firing, had drifted away from KiW continue with the story. barrel, flat-footed and patient. Mor the hitching-rack into the farther gan, still on the defensive, still weak shadows. Meanwhile he heard H er C H A P TE R X I from his beating, kept circling. Sud endeen calling from the Yellow denly Herendeen stepped back from Front saloon. “Get your horses off "Case,” Ben said, “this is a crook the barrel, took a half-dozen side the street. Jim — ” One more bul ed town full of bums. I can make steps and seized a chair He whirled let struck the shelves. Kern Case any of 'em run. There ain’t a white it over his head and flung it at M or said, so smoothly outraged. “ I ’ll man in the place.” gan. Morgan dropped behind the have a little slice of this.” and Kern Case said: “That window cracker barrel and rose again, see walked back through the store. Roll pane will cost you six bits.” K ing Herendeen at once rush for ing over to the opposite edge of the “ Charge it on the account.” ward. Herendeen seized the cracker doorway, near the counter, Morgan “ What account?” barrel with his hands and swept it heard Kern Case's fat weight groan rtMy beef account,” said Heren aside, diving at Morgan. up at a back set of stairs and deen. ” Your friends keep you pret Morgan knew what Herendeen across the second floor. F ro m ‘ his ty well supplied, don’t they? It I meant to do before Herendeen's new position Morgan saw a Three had a couple men to block off this mind had recognized the ax-handle; Pines hand lead four horses into an damned joint I ’d go through these and now Morgan, looking around alley. At the moment there no rattletrap buildings . and drag him. saw a rack of new Winchesters firing; but. watching th i Ytllow Breathitt out by the back of the on the wall. He seized one by the Front, Morgan caught a Putter of neck. He’s here.” barrel, kicked his way out of the light on its windows and stared Kern Case walked around the debris of nails and harness and cir steadily at it. not immediately un counter. He started to speak, but cled Herendeen slowly, the butt of derstanding the source of that flash Morgan waved him back. “ M ay the rifle lifted like a club. Heren Kern Case had reached an up be.” Morgan said to Herendeen. deen moved slowly forward, follow stairs window and now waited for “By God,” shouted Herendeen, ing Morgan’s circle. Somewhere, as his chance. Somebody ran along from a great distance, Morgan the back of the store and came “I’m going to drive you outl” “ Ben.” said Morgan, ”1 guess I ’d heard the rush of horses along the through a rear door. Morgan rolled street and a voice calling. better teave my mark on you as I ' against the base of the counter, Morgan backed against a hang listening to those quick steps ad did once before.” ing harness. He put his shoulders^o vance. He heard Hack Breathitt's He was still by the stove, glance pinned to the butt of Herendeen’s this flimsy support; the harness gave voice murmur: “ You there, Kern'’“ Morgan said: “How you like our gun. Im m ediately afterward^, Her way and he sat down, still gripping endeen’s hand came away from It the Winchester by the barrel. He little party, kid?” “Clay? W hut the h e ll you d o in ' and Herendeen's boots seemed to could not draw wind Into his lungs; he- was starving for air. his heart here?” crush into the floor as he jumped beat against his ribs and his head Kern Case came down the stairs forward. was light. He rolled over, sucking with a fat man's slow haste. He Bringing up his arms, Morgan realized he had his own chance to wind through his teeth, with his said: “We got to get out of here. draw—and refused the chance. He face to the floor; and heard a voice Clay.” “Sure,” said Hack. “ We depart started to move away from the at the doorway, calling into the blackness. from hence, mighty damned hence.” stoVe as Herendeen’s whole bulk “ You all right. Clay?” said Case. swept at him; and stopped to smoth- « “Who’s here?” It was Bones Mc- That drew Breathitt's interest. er Herendeen’s fists as they drove Geen’s voice. Kern Case’s voice was a lower “ Why wouldn’t he be all right?” in. He knocked the blows aside, no and lower murmur. “ Make a step “ I tribped on a rug,” said Mor more. Herendeen’s onrushing body gan. He followed Case and Breath caught him and drove him against and I ’ll blow your chest out.” Bones yelled Into the store. “ Ben, itt through the back quarters. The the stove. He slid along the edge three of them paused by the back of the stove, falling backward. Her you there? Hey, Ben!” A shot broke along the street door while Case scouted the round endeen hit the stove Both of them again, quick and hard, and other about shadows; afterwards they dropped behind it. Morgan bringing men ran rapidly across the dust drifted along the building line and up his knees and beating the wind out of Herendeen's belly. Her Bones McGeen swung from the paused halfway between the street endeen sprawled aside. The stovff door, rushing down the porch. The and the down-bearing timber of the had gone down and the pipe began shots came in regular method; and hillside. Light began to brighten at the Three Pines men were begin the other end of town; smoke-smell to fall in disjointed sections, sifting warm soot on them. Rolling half ning to answer, a ll the racket boil drifted with the wind. Morgan saw ing up the dead echoes of the town. his horse in the shadows ahead of around, Morgan saw Herendeen Kern Case said, ”1 hope you’ve him and went over for it. When he push"himself half erect to come at killed the------," and his easy voice came back he heard Case say in him, he doubled his legs and shot laid terrible words on the past and the same even tone: them out and caught the big man “ If you full in the face with the sharp heels present of Herendeen. “M y dad built that store. I was of his boots. He rolled again and ain’t I*m like to finish the job. born in it—and all my brothers and You all right. Clay?” sisters. But she’ll be nothin’ but was up. Clay Morgan said: “Who’s shoot- ashes In two hours from now. There Herendeen lifted himself.from the ain’t a single way to stop this whole floor, dashing a hand across his face in'?” . “ B re a th itt started i t He's up in town from goin’ up.” He let out his to scrub the bright quick blood on his cheeks. Morgan's sharp heels thejiotel. That's what I was going to sigh. “Well, it was a good store. haff chopped the flesh of Heren tell'you when Herendeen came in.” I ’m goin’ back to get the rocker my Morgan pulled himself from the -mother used.” — deen’s lips; one raw strip hung harness and found his legs snarled down, redly swaying over his mouth. Light broke the shadows. He saw In it. He sank back to the floor Hack’s face set in its restless half The impact 'm om entarily drugged h im , it took him off his guard. Mor and rolled clear and stood up. Light smile and realized his partner found gan m ovdl in. He punched a fist flashed red before his eyes, thqugh a malicious satisfaction in this into the wide, hard pit of Heren there was no light in the room. His chase. That was B reathitt’s way. deen’s stomach, watched Heren head ached in Inns, solid surges of He had a wild kink in him and he pain, from the base of his skull all was tough enough to run his luck out deen's arms fall, and hit him again •round to his nose. He tasted his to the bitter end. Hack murmured: in the soft neck flesh. Herendeen’s face showed sudden pallor and he own salty sweat, his own blood. He , “ Later, maybe.*’ stayed a little, windless and drew deeper into his lungs for wind, Morgan said, “Get out of this catching the throb of his ribs. His light. If you bump into trouble, kid. shocked. - left flst began to send up its steady you know where to come.” Morgan drove his aim ed blows racket and he knew then he had Hack raised his head. He said, at the huge jaw , hooking his broken a knuckle. He could nqt “That’s whut you came down here punches up against the long move the middle Anger. to say, wasn’t it?” He was no long shelving chin. Kern Case said: “That you?” er smiling. His face was in the Herendeen dropped his head and Herendeen’s boots scraped the shadows, his voice was grave and Morgan, missing his target, smashed floor. Morgan bent down, catching troubled. “I guess I have brought his knuckles on that rocky-hard poll Herendeen’s shadow, on all fours, a hell of a lot of trouble down on and felt pain knife along his left against the faint light of the door my friends. I ’ll remember it, Clay. arm ; it was a sudden agony that way. He saw Herendeen come up I f I don’t see you again soon I want made him suck in his wind. He and weave toward the door. He said you toTuiow—” This was as far as caught the dulling of Herendeen’s to -Case; “No.” he got He shrugged his shoulders, eyes; he had this man half knocked Kern Case called: “Stop right only adding, “So-long.” out—and the old, Violent, savage in there, Ben.” Morgan turned up the trail, wind stinct rushed him in until he was at Herendeen moved on toward the ing with the steep grade until he close quarters, trying for the kill. door. He was out of it before Case It was a mistake. Herendeen’s got around the counter He was on had reached the last high point be fore going into solid timber. From great outsweeping arms caught him the street, calling through the spotty this elevation he looked down on the in a bear’s grip and drew him in, racket of the gunfire. “ Bones—come white-red tangle of high leaping crushing his ribs. Morgan’s arms, here!” flames. The roof and sides of the thus held, could redch nothing; he Kern Case swore in the same, pulled himself backward, seeking to passionless voice. “ I should of shot hotel were eaten away and what he - saw now was the inside skeleton of the------. Now we’re in trouble.” He the building penciled darkly against Bethlehem Chapter No. 78, O.E.8. stepped around the floor. He said: the swirling fire. One wall of tho “ Duck.” The front windows clat store had caught. All the surround Moro. Oregon tered down before the sudden veer ing gulch was day-bright and he Meets Every Second and ing of, gunfire. Slugs struck th< made out Gale and Gale’s family Fourth Thursdays i n store shelves. A can of wet, goods Each Month. V isitin g punctured, began to spill out Its •lowly crossing the head of the gulch, toward the Potholes Merer, Members Invited. fluid with a gurgling Irregularity deen, apparently, had gone. Some of Norma Balsiger W. M. Another slug, striking metal, wen. the adjacent trees began to catch lire the appropriation measures. There is enough important legislation before both houses to keep the lawmakers more than busy until REPRESENTATIVE’S REPORT adjournment without considering anything else. Next week we T E D IL G A M BLE (Continued from Page One) will give you the total number of there is some to be made whether house and senate bills introduced placing that area in a leading, po those making the reduction really during the session, the number sition among tiie State organiza tions. think it advisable or not. The old thkt failed, passed, etc. Because of his outstanding War • • • tuners around the legislature, the a Bond work in Oregon, M r. Gamble The lawmakers are showing was invited to come to Washington veteran members of the ways and means, the tax men, all know that the strain of the long grind. Tem as Special Consultant to the Secre any serious cut in the State’s tax pers are flaring up quite often and tary of the Treasury, and later structure is going to make our the boys think nothing of indulg earned the titlp of Assistant to the Secretary. In this Job he exer present surplus Jook pretty email ing in personalities. Last week, cises both advisory and executive after the house had recessed dur authority in connection with the NOTICE TO CREDITORS before long. There is going to be need for ing an evening session, a few of natipnwide payroll savings drives Notice is hereby given that C. some money when- the soldiers the lawmakers took time out to and the field organizations of the A. Tom has been appointed Ad come home after the war. They tell each other just what they W ar Savirigs Staff ministrator of the Estate of In peace times Mr. Gamble is will need rehabilitation to acquaint thought of their colleagues, in no the owner and operator of a chain George W. Ramey, Deceased, and them with - civilian ways again. uncertain terms. Many f o l k s of Oregon motion picture houses,- has qualified as such. All persons There should be, and will be, an think that serving as a legislator having been the manager of a chain having claims against said Estate educational program for . them, is a snap. People read that the of 11 houses when he was 19 years nre hereby notified and required to perhaps some sort of loan to en house or senate convened at 10 old, and director of 29 theaters at present the same duly verified to a^m. and adjourned at 2:30 until the age of 22. able them to buy a home. said Administrator at Rufus, Ore The citizens of the state are go the following day. The folks back gon, within six months from the ing to want to do something for home get the idea that the law date of the first publication of this the boys then and will feel as makers enjoy banker's hours, hut notice. The first publication is foolish as did Simple Simon if such is not the case. Long before February 26, 1943. they have nothing with which to the daily session convenes, and C. A. Tom, Administrator. many hours after it adjourns for do i t , J. Tracy Barton, It is probable that the people the day, legislators are attending The Dalles, Oregon. of the state would have been bet the all-important committee meet A ttorney for Estate. 16-19 - . W ar 3c 7 . ^ ter off if the legislature had quit ings. which take hours of time, ll . J X A Every Fay lie ; Saturday night. Always there is and that is the very place where Moro Lodge No. 113, I. O. O. F. a bunch of bills left in committee all legislation is either made or ' Moro, Oregon at the end of s session. These killed. Meets .1st and 3r< Scores of people interested in Eureka Lodge No 121 A.F. & A.M. are generally bad bills that had Tuesdays in th| objections so serious that commit various measures, both for and Meets >on the 1st and 3rd Thurs I.O..O.F. hall Trai day evenirgs of e«cn sient and visiting tee members would not pass them against, appear before the com month. Visf ing mem brothers are cordi out in regular course. As t h e mittees and talk on, and on into ally invited to meet bers are cordially in necessitating many session comes near its end t h e the night, - . vith ua.- ’ vited to meet witlf us. sponsors of these bills renew their night meetings. Often it’s mid Charles C. Wilson, N.G. ■'* efforts and often succeed in get night before the lawmaker can W. F. McLeod, W.M. , - Peicy Thompson, Sec. ting the bills out. Then they call it a day. Many, if not all, C V. Belknap, Secretary sometimes pass. It is often well of the legislators receive hundreds if the session ends before many of letters, telegrams and phone .! opine Rebekah Lodge No. 118 Moro. Oregon calls from constituents during a of these can get out. 'le n s 2d & 4th Tues Of course many of these could session. These are answered, and day of each month. be beaten i f everyone wasn’t so it takes hours of time. All in all, ‘Visiting members wel busy trying to finish his work. the lawmaker earns his salary, come. *niere it nothing around here now and he soon learns that eerVing Coila Belshee, N.G. that needs to pass except possibly in the legislature is no bed of M o r o - » i“ O rc . '.•renre Johnston. Se<^ the eonpationsl disease bilL The rosea. Marie Hooklnson, 8eo. Oar Jcä is to Sere Sollass Rd<asc ffhtnng! (TO BS CONTINVBUJ
