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CCmtttly Journal
rwRU^ed Every Friday at
Moro, Oregon :
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Editor
Giles "L. French
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TheRuhr valley muK be reduc
ed in production by a third to a
half according to stories of bomb
ings. It was probably the greatest
industrial center in the entire
WOTki a year ago. Now it is a
wreck and the material for the
Gen“ n’S
*’
o.ider Act of C ontre« of March wr are ~ rr« ^ y informed.
So speedily has aviation devel-
I, 1879.
oned that no nation can be safe
from possible destruction of its
O re
production centers if built on the
Pints
_ __ ATI 0 N old pian. Perhaps it will be kept
C D IT O R IA l—
out of sight in forests, or under-
NATI
^ S O C I A T I O N Sroun<C Perhaps a stronger anti-
— —- n ---- j ^ 1 — aircraft gun will make bomlbings
unprofitable.
The possibilities of such des
r OFFICIAL COUNTY PIPER
tructive bombings have not been
SUBSCRITOON RATES
entirely explored. If A1 Capone
Payable in Advance
could make millions with a little
ONE Y BAR
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tl.fid organization and a few machine
guns, what could he do with a few
hundred .planes, especially ST he
JUNE 18, 1943
onerated or, an international scale ?
It looks like it is time for the
PAY AS YOU CAN
world to make peace with itself,
,
,
Now congress is Calking about a ..... _ ,. _ ■____
new tax bill. Just talking about
Ernie Pyle says Saturday night
it with general sentiment appar is the same all over the world. As
ently being that it had better be a war correspondent, he has been
put off until next year.
around, too. People cut loose the
We heard of a soldier’s ” com- strings of restraint, exercise tijeir
ment the other day. It was to the individuality and do things they
effect that he hated to fight the wouldn’t consider when in their
war and then have to come home weekday mind. We had thought
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___ that that
__ _ _
_ urge
_ to shuck off the
and pay __
for ___
IL __
It _____
looks like
the
is what he is going to have to do- covering of civilization was the
Payrolls in Oregon, as in every exclusive property of those Who
otheT state are up. In Oregon bad some. Now cornea Pyle to say
they are nearly three times as that people want to unwind whe
large as in 1941 which wasn’t ther they have been wound up all
such a bad year compared to week or noL Maybe we can learn
some. The state is going to col- something there.
If we don’t
lect less taxes and the federal have to work to want to celebrate,
government slightly more than why work?
inl941. All this extra money roll- ----------- ---------
ing around to swell prices—and
Last winter it was warm until
heads-witl be gone before gov- the winter solstice, then cold, it
emments get around to taking could happen that the summer
enough of it to pay even a docent would be the same as to heat.
portion of the debt that Is being
incurred.
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When we settle down to in •
comes half what they are now and
to pay roHs about the same or From the Observer June 17, 1904
leas some one will decide that we
A G Anderson of She car’s Brid-
must pay more taxes. We are ge was in the city Wednesday. He
really going to have to. you know, reports the new school house
Then we will pay them the hard well along towards completion; thn
way. .
stone foundation is all done and
Sherman county farmers learn the studding and frame - work
ed in the last twenty lears that placed.
it is advisable to pay debts when
Sheriff-elect W B McCoy has
it is easy, when there is income, appointed M. Fitsmeurice his de-
Thev paid thousands and thou- puty. County Clerk, H S McDaniel
Other
sands of dollars of debt out of ras appointed George E. James
50 cent wheat; debts that were his deputy. Both are well quali-
made when wheat was 11.50
fied for the position«.
A good suggestion that will not
Visitors to Portland will find
be taken, would be for one of these that the Esmond hotel is one of
farmers to b e . employed by the the best hotels in that city. It is
United States treasury to direct located at Front and Morrison
the tax program. He knows the streets, in the central part of the
value of paying when you can city, within three blocks of every
instead of waiting until it takes car line in the city.
the shoes off your feet to pay.... The Badger farm, of 640 seres
the interest.
in Cottonwood canyon, owned bv
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a non-resident, has passed into
the hands of O C Mortensen who
RATIONING
owns 480 acres adjoining. M».
News from all oveT the country Mortensen paid $13,000 for it.
that everyone with an unused This make« him a snuv little
Ne. 17 ration stamp, good for a farm of 1,120 acres, all good
pair of shoes, was buying said wheat land. v _____
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shoes was a sad comment on From the Observer June 20
human nature and surely a dis-
Two cars,loaded with wheat, in-
appointment to OP A officials. It cuded in the freight that left this
could hardly have been ,a sur- city on Wednesday morning jump-
prise to the OPA, however, .for ed the rails about three quarters
ever since rationing started sales of a mile north of DeMom station,
of canned goods have been great-
A deal that ha« been pending
er than before.
for several weeks was expected
Local store keepers freely state to be closed this week, whereby
that the canned good business is the Crocker Grain Co. of Kent
shove normal for with the end concludes the purchase of the
of every expiration period huge wheat warehouse at Bourbon and
sales are made. Maybe the pur- Gram Valley owned by the Sher-
chasers eat the food, maybe th y man Warehouse Co. of GraasVal-
store it against a harder day- ley. *
Anyway the result is more gales
The Moro cgmp fire girls re-
of canned goods.
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turned to this city on Wednesday
Not many people—and those very from a ten day outing spent in
young— try to change human a grove eight miles from Dufur,
nature ao there’s nothing to be They report a “glorious” time.
done about it, except to hope that
M r s Dayton Henrichs a n d
such buying doesn't really’ make chid re n are having a week’s va-
the country short of any of the cation at Camp Sherman They
necessities. A plan o f? rationing will return the first of the week.
food and clothing that was madd From the Observer Jane 19,1914
to work with the eccentricities of
Born to Mr and Mrs A R Kes-
humaa nature instead of contrary singer, at the Poley sanitarium
to it would, however, he very in Moro, a daughter one minute b«-
acceptable.
fore midnight Monday Jbne 15.
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The auto fishing party compos-
ed of O L Belshe, Martin Hansen,
BOMBING
L L Pests. George and Fred Hen-
Botobers are realliy air borne
artillery. And it is aa artfllery they
are doing their beet Job. They cat-
ry «hells bigger then can be shot
from any cannon, go much farther
and shoot all night i f neeessary.
Civilians would like to know
the effect of heavy bdmbings.
Great quantities of materiel must
be destroyed, factories put out
of coomdaaion and people made
hfwnslsrt Still doe« bombing make
its victims ready to capitulate or
more determined to stick it out?
The latter waa the case in Eng-
UnJ
FRIDAY, JUNE 1». 1 9 «
NOTICE OF 1943-44 BUDGET MEETING
Kelly’s Column
(Continued from pair« one»
affairs of the most populous stain
in the union. The Dewey people
n>¥e
wnvn. year w
have H
a whole
to mw»»
work on
**“ bui,<hl', . •“ ‘L * * 7
lo.ing , „ y tlm£. When convention
time rolls around next June n
wey
organised “draft” Dewey
move win be in full swing. The
huife New York delegation (lar-
geRt in the convention) is being
¡jned up for Dewey ,which he is
sure. fo get. At least the New
York governor is going to be in
a SWeet trading position if <noth-
ing else.
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War food administration’s order
of last Monday .requiring all live
stock slaughter houses to set
“ ^ « percent of all steer and
heifer beef for the arm y. will
cause a further shortage of such
meat for Oregon and Washington
civilians. Deliveries of all meat,
says the order, must come up to
army specifications in the form
of boneless and carcass ' beef.
Army and navy have had a har I
time lately obtaining enough beef
in the northwest for tbeir daily
needs
Both states have many
army camps and naval training
stations populated by about 250,
000 men, comrihg and going. It is
expected this number will mater
ially increase d u rin g \h e summer
months. The order means civilians
probably will not be able to bu”
any meat at all from now pn. It
looks like beefless days are here
for John Q. Public who resides
in the Pacific northwest states.
Army and navy requirements hem
tofore necessitated the setting a-
side of 35 percent of (the avail-
able supply of the designated beef,
MORE FARM MACHINERY
A total of 300.000 tons of car-
l»on steel, with other materials in
’'roportinn. haR he«n allocated t o .
the farm machinery program for
♦lv» quarter beginning July i -
An addition»! 200.000 tons of
each of the thre€ Quartern from
October 1. 19<3 to JuW 1. 1 ^ •
During tb“ third cuarter
th’ >
year, special emphasis w ’”
given to the manufacturer e*
harvestintr machinery for thi*
year’s crops. The whole Vor~*
nvachinerv program h a s hem '
- ‘” -oed up.
B u r W ar Bond« Today
T. Lester Johnson
•Loeai'Budget Law" Seetiotw 110-1201 to 110-1215, O.C.L.A., « unended,) notice is
In accordance with Lie provisioM oJ
.
county,
in compliance with
set forth in
c s '.n m .t. -
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_ - - ., Oregon,
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beiwuy given tuat tnc
fiscal year July 1, 1943 to June 80, 1944,
for
Sherman
County.
Oregon,
far,
the
ensuing
1943 at 10:00
1943, the budget estimates
erman County
th . a ceom p ^ yin , s c h ^ i e . I. II,
a.in, in the County Court room in the Courthouse in Moro, Oregon said budget e s tim a te s _y ___ ,
will be heard
Court, the levying board for Sherman County, Oregon, and Any person subject to the proposed tax levy or tax levies
in favor of or against mid proposed tax levy or tax levies or any part thereof-
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r Oregon at May 24, 1943 was NONE.
The outstanding indebtedness of Sherman County,
T.
W.
Alley
J.
M.
Wilson
Signed: Fred Hennagin
’David Reid
P. C. Axtell
-Vernon , I. Miller
E T IP JNJITUR ES
Schedule HI
Estimated
GENERAL
July 1, 1942 to June 30, 1943 -
Actual for
Expenditure
Actual for year
CLASSIFICATION
FUND
&
Budget for year
1st 6 mo.
l- l - ’42 to 6-30-’43
1941
1940
1939
COUNTY COURT
900 j OO
County Judge Salary
450.00
-
900.00
45000
900.00
900.00
125-00
696.26
County
Judge’s
Expense
84.80
125.00
41.50
101.45
f
30.00
192.87 m 165.72
County Coman is («oner’s Fees and Mileage
121.05
475.00
201.25
473.65
433.90
395.90
CIRCUIT COURT
¿00.00
Witness and Juror’s Fee«
500.00
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413.70
* 50.00
Reporter’s Fees
50.00
, 10-00
26-00
Meals for Jurors
25.00
8.10 '
■V V • -¿.¿A m
26.00
Bailiff’s Fees
26.00
14.00
JUSTICE COURT
50.00
Jurors, Witnesses, etc.
2.50
50.90
80b
!
f
34.00
44.78
16.00
OFFICE OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY
16X00
District Attorney Expen«
94.10
150.00
69.55
156.80
145
74
164.85
COUNTY CLERK
2000.00
Clerk’s Salary
750.00
1500 00
760.00
1500.00
.1519 20
1590.39
1500.00
Deputy
Clerk’s
Salary
600.00
1200.00
600.00
1080.00
1020.00 \ 109385
390.00
Incidental Expenses
309.94
300.00
482.52
250.00
270.58
300.00
¿50.00
-
Record
Books
and
Blanks
15&114
250.00
98.00
151-30
244.50
p25.8l
COUNTY AGENT
2210.00
County Agent
1105 00
2210.00
-925.00
I85<MX)
185040
1700.00
COUNTY ASSESSOR
2000.00
1800 00
Asseseoris Salary
900.00
900.00
1800.00
1800.00 .
1800.00
Field
Assessor
400.00
375.00
40040
G00.00
'? 219-80
500.00
Rolla, Detail Sheets, etc.
K 405.79
580.94
441.65
449.56
300.00
•
40-50
540.00
Office
Help
*318.90
391 50
305.00
250.80
260.00
200.00
Appraisal and Field Work
112.88
34.02
SHERIFF’S OFFICE
2000 00
' 900.00
' 1800.00
Sheriff’s Salary
900.00
1800 00
1800.00
1800.00
1700.00
760.00
1500.00
Deputy
Sheriff's
Salary
750.00
1500.00
1500.00
1500.00
Traveling
Expenses
166.55
420 00 . > 420.00
420.00
650.00
Incidental Expenses
510J1
400.00
1.78.81
518.17
504.10
836.10
100.00
State
Industrial
Accident
Commission
28.76
100.00
28.70
60.02 • i - 68,72
59.98
COUNTY OFFICIAL CAR .
160.58
420.00
County Official Car and Incidental Expense 420 00
26.00
Insurance
SUPERINTENDENT
COUNTY SCHOOL
2000.00
Salary of School Superintendent
750.00
760.00
1500.00
1500.00
1500.00
1500.00
300.00
Superintendent’s
Traveling
Expense
150.00
150.00
300.00
300.00
300.00
300.00
250.00
Incidental
Expense
?
165-70
/• 72.62
250.00
249.77
318.32
396.44
400.00
Office Help
300.00
321.00
. 4 700 00
600.90
600.00
500.00
COUNTY TREASURER
1000.00
460.00
900.Q0
County Treasurer’s Salary
90Ô\ m )
450.00
900.00
900 00
160.09
Blanks
Books
and
164.40
152.00
Record
86T.T5
58.55
57J75
’ 144.46
COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER
600.00
Health Nurse Salary and Expenses
385.00
870.00
406-00
1098.20
741.28
000.00
500.00
Nurse
Mileage
268.85
720.00
329.96
COUNTY CORONER
50.00
F ees and E xpenses
6.20
50-00
8.00
42.80
23.06
7.05
25.00
Juror and Witness Fees
_
26.00
644.43
285.75
100.00
16.16
1500.00
247.20
1500.00
247.20
1500.00
618.00
60.00
500 00
80.00
6000.00
57.30
500.00
80.00
5*730.00
52.30
500.00
80.00
5230.00
3294.09
173191
900.00
1619.64
9Q0.00
17.61
31.94
42.97
299.10
250.06
349.60
2.00
21.80
1736.33
2354.76
56.49
244 52
1520.55
2539.60
102.80
281.40
1069.91
1868.80
112 80
267.00
141Ä.71
Ì 782.08
1979.24
law ns
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
All . persons
having claims
against the estate of J. P. Yates,
deceased ,are hereby notified to
present them, with the proper
vouchers and duly verified ,to the
undersigned, the duly appointed,
qualified and acting administratrix
of the Estate of J. P- Yates, de
ceased, at the office of T. Lester
Johnson, attorney -at law, at War-
co, Oregon, within six montn*
from the date of first publication
of this notice, to-wit: June 4, 1943.
Casha Yates
Administratrix
Date of 1st publication-June4, 194 ?
Date of last publication - Juno
25, 1943. ' '
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Moro Lodge No. 113, 4 .0 . 0 . F.
Moro, Oregon
Meets 1st and 3 r |
Tuesdays
in the
I.O..O.F. hall Trai '
sient and visiting
brothers are cordi
g’.ly invited to meet
.rith um .
Charles C. Wilson, N.G.
fViev Thompson. Sec.
j upjB# RebekahMLofte No. l i é
Moro. Oregon
Meets 2d & 4th Tues
day of each month,
Visiting members wel
come.
CoiIa Belshee, N.G.
' / » * * > "?***«**
, i — -
Eureka Lodge No 121 A.F.A AM
Meet« on the 1st and 3rd Thurs-
^py evenings of each
nagin and families returned Thurs
month. Visiting mem
day, after a tour of several hund-
bers are cordially in
red mile« in interior Oregon,
vited to meet with us.
About thirty neighbors gather-
«d at the Bearcy home, near Rut-
. F. McLeod, W.M.
ledge Tuesday evening, in honor
V. Belknap, Secretary
of the 15th birthday of Serai
An old fashioned candy pull oc- Bethlehem Chapter No. 78, O.E.S.
copied the larger part of the eve-
Moro. Oregon
njngs fun. The .Miaaes Nita Mar-
Meets Every Second and
tin and Della Mortensen were
Fourth Thursdays
i n
guests from this city.
Each Months Visiting
’-Frpd Mahrt has purchased from
f Members Invited.
Ginn, Coleman A Co. a 46-horse Norm a Bnlstger W. M.
power In tarnation ti Harvester Co. Marie H osklnson, 8oo.
gas tractor engine for his farm.
t?
04-36
28F.00
285-00
285.00
46.12
46.12
46.12
207.50
• 376.00
'396.10
600-00
85.83
-
108.23
ELECTIONS
360.00
Judges and Clerks
350.00
321.35
150.00
Ballots and I S Supplies
150.00
124.05
50.00
Booths
50.00
27.50
" 16.00
Ballot Boxes and Registration
1500
1.90
COUNTY FAIR
County Fair
1500.00
750.00
Insurance on Buildings
250.00
Well at Fair Grounds
50.00
COUNTY SCHOOLS
School Library
46.70
45.70
Four H Club Fair
? . 500.00
500.00
250.00
8000
County Teacher’s Institute
80.00
80.00
4260.00
Per Capita School Tax @ $10.00
4570.00
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Light, Water, Telephone, Repair, Fuel, etc. 1500.00
1500.00
746.83
1200 00
Janitor’s Salary
496.85 .... . 1020.00
JAIL
COUNTY
75.00
Board of Prisoners and Supplies
50.00
30-84
ITNTY PRINTING
350.00
County Printing
350.00
102.30
225.36
COUNTY STOCK INSPECTOR
12.00
12.00
Stock Inspector
200.00
Indemnity (Bangs diseased cattle slaughter) 400 00
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240.93
MENTALLY DISEASED CASES
25.00
Examination, Expenses, Transportation, etc. 50.00
20.00
RELIEF OF DEPENDENTS
1860.00
Public Assistance
1860.00
602-31
678.32
2331.00
Old Age Assistance
2066.00’
88160
923.80
110.00
Blind Assistance
11300
30.00
25 60
335.00
Aid to Dependent Children
408.00
127.60
157.20
EMERGENCY FUND
5000.00
1006.98
5000.00
Emergency Fund
2090.81
ASSOCIATION OF OREGON COUNTIES
76.00
60.04
63.00
75.00
Dues
5.00
2 oo
4.00
6 00
Public Lands Committee
AUDITING OF COUNTY BOOKS
500.00
326 00
- 235^00
500.00 — County Auditing
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
50.00
22 56
22.66
- 50.00
Sealer, weights and measures
^ P R E M I U M ON OFFICER’S BONDS
-
400.00
406 00
306.00
400.00
Premium on Officers’ Bonds
INLAND EMPIRE WATERWAYS ASS’N
100.00
100 00
100.00
Inland Empire Waterways Association
DE MO88 MEMORIAL PARK
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,
100.00
4.00
100-00
Maintenance, Repair ,etc.
99.67
INSURANCE ON COURTHOUSE
z
200.00
16318
500.00
Insurance Premiums
503.36 -
CRICKET CONTROL .
,
500.00
500.00
Cricket and Grasshopper Control
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY
600.00
300 00
600.00
600.00
Biological Survey
FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT & OPERATION
450.00
* 1010.12
2500 00
. Equipment, Operation
Insurance
25.00
EXPENSE OF GOVERNMENT TRAPPER
180.00
75 0Q
37.50
150.00
Monthly Expense Allowance @$15.00
C haritable contributions
toO.00
100.00
White Shield Home of Salvation Army
25.00
100 00
10600
•
100.00
Boys
and
Girl«
Aid
Society
26.00
100.00
100.00
Louise Home
25.00
100.00
100.00
-
Waverly
Baby
Home
25.00
• 100.00
100.00
Volunteers of America
26.00
cost ' of delinquent tax foreclosure
100.00
72 60
150.00
Cost of Delinquent Tax Foreclosure
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
400.00
800 00
300.00
Service Organizations
advertisbment of wheat league ass - n
20.00
30-00
Advertisment of Wheat League Association
1940 CODE
r. ‘
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85.00
1900
60.00
60.00
‘ 1940 Code, Annotations and Law Books
. CIVILIAN DEFENSE
;
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.
.
100.00
Civilian Defense Administration
275.85
145.40
35.00
7.40
75.14
291.60
293.65 .
500 00
600.00
600.00
140.22
188.46
160.00
50.00
50.00
50 00
50 00
50.00
50.00
60.00
60.00
50.00
50.00.
50.00
50.00
. 60.00
50.00
50.00
10.00
466.30
30.00
30.00
186.26
44,425.60
GENERAL ROAD FUND
22932.44
25324-37
14910.04
3151.71
270.18
941.33
964.50.
10258.60
7990 00
250.00
. . 250.00
250.00
6834.00
4858.94
12000.00
Weed Control
( Wages
x
( Repairs
( Tires and Tubes
( Gas and Oil
( General Supplies
( Insurance and Miscellaneous
250.00
10000.00
2500.00
1000.00
’ 2200.00
1000.00
1650 00
BRIDGES OVER TEN FEET
1500.00
Bridges over ten feet
432.57
2000.00
R ° AD machinery . -
3000.00
to
2500.00
Purchase of Road Machinery .
CRUSHED ROCK OR ROAD IMPROVEMENT
?
2600.00
19Q8Q 7S
‘ 11 to
4000 00
Crushed Rock or Road Improvement
SINKING FUND
.
.
_
Roads, bridges, machinery sinking fund 15000.09
24.50