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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1943)
a S °c •< Moro, Oregon Fifty-Fifth Year No. 35 Storage May Be Problem ain This Year r r M ___ ___ Washington D. G. -Northwestern .«eed dealtrv--there are scores them in Oregon and Washington —are threatened with a law su t by the office of price administra- tion for charging more for clean- ing seed now than they did in the spring of 1942. It is ¡possible that the the aeed aeed dealers dealers may may carry carry that ♦he se to the supreme court if iu e e r try and the oponion o f the bight*. k ’.uthority in the land be hio-h« > h -tuthoritv invitid t- determine whether OP A is rigt ' cr wrong. The dealers inefist that OPA is wrong. As OPA views the matter, the dealers have been cleaning the farmers as well as the seed and it is demanding that the dealers refund to their customers some- thing like 20 percent of what they collected for cleaning services within the past year. Dealers say that they have increased the price of cleaning because of the cost labor. Formerly they paid B0 cents an hour and now they must pay «0 cents an hour. The dealers up- P'd their price sufficient to pav the cost, but OPA insists that the farmers were gyped. "otwith- standing that the dealers (who operate cleaning of aeed apart Friday, July 9, 1943 O ffic ia l C o u n ty P aper Wheat Turning Marines at Work on Pacific Base 9 Color Under ■KM * / Warm Sun Lack of Sacks Makes Prospects Getting Better Some Storage Unavailable As Harvest Comes Closer And Big Crop Possible With No Damaged The wheat in these warm days is turning rapidly from the green of a week ago to the tawny color of harvest. It comes on spotted as the shallower soil gives up the green first while the ridges hold the wheat to greenness Fields are patchy looking and one unuaed to their appearance Marl_ , alded by , . Kingfisher” Lane at Funafuti. think <**• Yet Yet “ in American base In the E llice Islands, sooth of the Albert Islands and them is still one of the finest pros thc Solomons. ^1 peels for a crop the county ha has ever had. There at are sections o of had Th/»r<» »» acctwvns the county where this hope does not prevail, yet, it may be said to be general.^ The rains o f June are showing up in plump kernels in the heads and three kernels in the mesh are common. If they ripen as na ture intended there will be ele vators running full of golden groin for over a month this summer. It is not expected that harvest win begin until late in July this year for even in the earlier north end the wheat has not yet reached the full harvest brownness of Rex and Federation nor the ’rich golden of Turkey Red. That takes time despite the warn sun. West wind« still ripple the fields and prevent the heat from doing dam- > ----- -------- ____ -------------------- --------- ------------------ C^tsd Nazi badge« of persecution are torn from their clothes by age, that is, so far. Danger from Storage facilities o f the county may be taxed again this fall if the expected crop materializes, According to figures released by | the local AAA office today there is 1,884,760 bushels o f bulk sfcor- age available in the county at present in addition to 696,400 bli shels of sack storage. It may be mrposaible to to use use the the sack sack storage storage mrposaible because of lack of sacks, however. storage total for the county nrrar now sta n d s a t 1,441,000 zvu,n$„ bushels but m ost o f it cannot be without cribbing and this will not be done to any great ex- between now and harvest Available storage consists of 43500 bushels of sack storage end 222,000 bushels t of bulk stor- aj^ farms and 1,662.750 bu- ahels of bulk storage and 664,900 t ^ b e ls o f sack storage in public warehouses and elevators, Within the « ^ t y <W1 the date theae firurea were made, July 6, w&g «44^50 bushels of bulk wheat ggo.OOO bushels of sack wheat, * Jarjfe W<1 A lso, buahel8 of fan n stored wheat buik making a total 1 i 75^,26O bushels of old wheat on hand. 1 - ™n from th e purchase o f seed when i t is cleaned) ara paying th e fa r- „ m «re than ev er fo r their for than Allies Walk In: Persecution* Ended storage th a t can be used 11 •ege Jew ish bays In Kalrouan, Tunisia, as British soldiers. who liberated 4 tbc y°uth«’ observe e se ef the effects of the Allied vlpUry there. These P considerably less were forced te work for (he German« withoat pay and also were 2,000,000. U n le ss th e sack g^a.«e to wear a Star of David to d lstlr-ulsh them from pon-Jewish ..................................... cleaned seed. storage can be utilized this will • Auditor, of OPA h»v.exam ined eh. hook, of «»>e uMfe|g yMg . . . have taken a hrt of their custom- . — • them, ,expec exnec- Prospects are __ that the crop ers and . . interviewed i™ ting the farmer» wooid complain " U he much larger than «na. Al- at !he 20 cent, .ncrea.e for clean- though .am e atorage can be ob- “ ., av 4. .ww far. tamed, probably already has, m ing. Itj. i® dtosotkrfaction Portland and other down river mer has exp , - laboe points. If crop prospects mater for they knew the iafcae tbe tsorage problem may had , «gnito again again (this th is year year unless had risen risen and and they, they, » m be acute unless receiving a betteT pyic ny^t^nt heavy shipments of gram for feed tly, however, v OPA u ftre month. dy. . with the sentiments of the l a r ______________ mers and i« determined that they workers. . , ___________ _________ -■ /• « /> » ~ r y C l T lt i L J U T IU ~ Q U O td „ -W? More Machinery d e f A t $14,000 For Farms Hope m ' X ; Buried At Salem County Budget Reduced At In direct contrast to the normal Final Hearing Fourth of July of another time, the national holiday was observed in Moro and Sherman county with no more noise or oratory than any other calm, summer Sunday. A few picnicked in the park. • a smaller fej$* traveled to places of celebration but most of the cit izenry merely stayed home, read the Sunday papers, hoed the vic tory garden and took a snooze in the afternoon. Gone were the firecrackers that made the dog hide under the porch —and the elders want to—.gone the oratory, the crowds. Gone, also, the deaths from accidents. The nation is a year older al though it entered into its latest year with less fanfare than us ual. Vic Smith Buried In Portland Part of Sinking Fund To Be Made From Unexpended Balances Taxpayers of Sherman county will find an item of about B.7 mill* on their tax statements for county costs this fall instead of one for about 7.7 mills because of an ac tion by the county levying board (county court) here Wednesday when the budget was approved after <10,000 of the 16,000 sink ing fund had been taken ffom unexpected balances instead of being left itK the budget tor 1943- 44- The exact county millage cannot be figured closely aa the valuation of state tax commission assessed property has not as yet been re ceived by the assess or. Bowwvsr, the estimate of 6.7 mills for county and county road costs is reasonably accurate. Millage for are past year was 2^. The increase has been due to the fear of the court and budget com mittee of losing the base for tax ation purposes and cause annual election« on the budget. The bud get as passed will give the county a base of *60,868.22 which 1» about *12,000 lees than at pre sent. Court members in making the amendment to the budget Indi cated that they thought this suffi cient Otherwise the budget was pass ed as published. '»Victor Hugo Smith died at his home near Hillsboro at the age of 72 and was buried in Lincoln Memorial park July 7th in Port land. Vic Smith, twenty-five years ago was one of the most active of Sherman county farmers in pro moting farm organization . H « made several trips to Chicago and at least one to Washington in be half of northwest farmers. . He left here about ten years ago to reside at Hillsboro. unkind w eather is lessened .each He is survived by a son, Lynde, and th e cpap can m ature of Bellflower, California, t w o . f another tw o 01 slaughters, Mrs Be mace Ba^nck ano y ’ three weeks in the south, there Mrs Virginia Herr&hey of Hills June Expewdibsrea Large will be wheat enough in Sherman boro, two sisters, hia widow, three The July session of the court county to feed nearly a million grandchildren and one great grand approved expenditures of *13,400 mouths for a full year. child. from the road fund to make June one of the largest mouths of the year. Payment of over *9,000 was made on gravel hauled from the pit in Finnegan canyon and bought from E C Hill who crush The Wilson family held a picnic ed maintenance rock for the state 1 Delivery of the new pressure cookers for home canning of food at Poplar Grove on the Columbia Another item was a down pay m ay be delayed according to word last Sunday which was attended ment of *2600 on a shovel to load from Robert Tavlor. Taylor, head of at the by 47 members of that family. rock. Total cost o f thto hOtor gtatc war board to LeRoy Wright, Obaervance of birthdays of nine item Is in excess of *8,000 and county agent. Shipment la not ex- members of the family were obser delivery will be made when the ^ rt JuIy 10 and ved the dae being within two new machine can be delivered. from one of the three fac- weeks of the actual days. That Payment of bills and aeeeptaae > makhi< of W L Wilson, 79, and of Kelly of reports required the greater Ceiling price, have been Mt at Wilson,6. were at the ends of part of the time of the session. jg an<j 1050 with a 90 the list. Others celebrating bir Treasurer’s report showed hal- 1 guarantee. Cookers are all thdays were Mrs C E Bothwell, ancee of over *76,000 s t the dose ? quart ¡n size and the quota for Mrs W L Wilson, Jerry Wilson, of business June 30. Thia wa» re g^yuty is ten, on which allot- Dick Wilson, Connie WH»on, Mrs duced by the amount of expendi ^ ^ t a have been made. Purchases H C Chillberg and Mrs C C Wil tures approvod Wednesday. This can be madg f rom hardware stores, son. was all totaled but cash en hand ______________ Attending were the families of in all funds approximates *68,000 Jerry, Jerry jr., Paul and George The court approved aa emer G a S o I in C U s e Wilson, Charles Bothwell. and J gency item to pay for the law li R Gardner of Kent, Mr and Mrs brary deficiency wbteh hae got [)rO D S S ll f f E t lv H F Bothwell and Mr and Mrs ten into arrears because of an r O J Lester Wilson and family of Du insufficient number of eourt cases, Gasoline consumption in Oregon fur, A A Dunlap of Grass Vaiey, from which the funds for this during the month of May register- L D Wilson and family of John library are derived. ®d th« smallest decrease for any Day, Mr and Mrs H C Chillberg The county fire truck wil, be 80 f« r y*ar' and Bob Wisner of Klamath in operation again this year on Secretary of State Bob ParrelU Falls, Mr and Mrs N G Miller of a similar schedule to that used who d'wlo8ed that (ra8 u8e dr°1’’ Arlington, Mr and Mrs W L Wil last year. Althugh no Ikes o! ped only 10.8 percent th » May in son and Mr and Mrs S A Wilson consequence have been starte4 oamParls<>n With May 01 1942’ of Rufus, and Mr and Mrs C C this year the truck is considered There were 20’143-547 &alk>n* Wilson of Moro- a safety measure that sheuld be uaed in Ore*on May’ comPareJ used. 22*602»294 in May of Pressure Cooker Delivery Delayed • _ WfrvgV A ' • 1 The quota for Sherman county I | v | l A*. ; K f t a r f l for war war bond bond sales sales for for Judy July has has O lz A for w O w a u lU iu been set at *14,009 wLLhia *4,000 Assurance that Oregon farmers ____ ___ ...____ , for jarger ... larger than the June quota which wjJ, the county met by buying $10,130 k ___ in bonds. ’7 “ ’ The demand for the Mie of 18 bY Albert L Girod, chair- bonds is growing as the need for Tnsan ^ re8«n USDA War munition, expand, with the ex- »«chmery ccmmrttee ,n pending war effort. 1944 ^*CTn| , on*''r customer, straight. Frank SpaWing, early d a y c u s i a m ii ' c i o ----------- If »»’«her la- Fourteen thousand dollars is not just issued by the War Production cannot charge for the ig < minister who served in Sherman a groat sum for this county and board. • |>or cort he wiB clean ^ 5 ^ county in eariy times and for ft can be raised with ease if in- Production of machinery equal at a loss, and this he wi whom the old Spalding chrapvl terest can be aroused while those to 80 percent of the 1940 ^output As an a’temative the reed was named, died in Vale a t the who have the available money are as provided in the order, as ccm- farmer will be invited. age of 81. Funeral services were busy. pared with the 40 percent pro- es the seed cleaned, to cotrbrwu - Sunday and mtermept w a s ---------------- duction this year. All restrictions or. production of re p air p a rts have labor ,nd V» made in Salem. Bishop Bruce RS DEMAND also been removed. the cleaning machrne Baxter officiated. hold down the labor c o sto W h e - R ey FranR Spaldin^ first Demand for predatory animal Girod points out -that consider- or the farmers will he 10 preached in Hood River in 1886 hunters under matched fund« is ably than twke a8 donate thrir time and W * T * ftnd gpent peveral yeare a s p a stor greater this year than it has been macWnery 8heuld be available to mains to be seen. The seediMwun- of at Monkland andMoro fcr some time, Director E. L. Pet- farmers , n 1944 than this year. ness in Oregon and Washington Wasco Except for four ersonof the state department wh(ile a 4Q p g ^ e ^ Output was is now a hig ¡business literally and * misaionary in c «^culture said as he announced a uthorized under the 1943 pro- b rin g s several million d< sts bg lived in Oregon f i e department’s allocation o f pre- gram, only about half of the ma- n year to the farmer«. Hovnw«. an(J his work c’.itory animal fund» for tha fweal chine8 been ,reeeiVed. all of the seed before ftt » »old S u rvivin e are ^ 8 , Earl year starting July 1. Materiai„ have } * ,„ . allocated must be cleaned. of Hcod River, RoJM, and Frank Ha pointed out that 30 counties ,uction the 19U * * * cf Texas, Olin of Arlington, Lee t 'v e reported appropriations for J «tarted Julv 1—three Henrv Agard Wallace, rice pre«- A n g le s. iBruce of Dallas this work totaling *44,430, indi- erlier than thra yiar. ident of the United State», has dauKhters, Mrs Fav Swan eating the strong need to exterm- bpKpvp. that more mschin- rosd himself «»t *he ^ rtn Vale end Mrs Mary Fletcher inate predatory animals that are available in time for term ticket with E“gene- * ,T ” M M M I needs, and that much of Monthly d«*w 8e8 “> RooMvelt. H i, public --------------------- . . of the state. County fund, appro- de|iveriea experience,i far th“ yMr were: January- 29 percent: February, 22 percent; calling Jesee H. Jones, secretary priat<. thj, control—carried on co- tUi____ _ m.„ „„„puj calling Jease H. of » • i f _ * . -1 _ _ D - • r Z t r thte wil1 <>v<xided- March, 16 percent; April, 17 per nf comm erce .name« disposed oi m i V I O operatively between the c o u n tie s ,____ <________ his future as presiding officer of J tbe state and the U. S. Biological cent; and May. 10.8 percent. the senate. Mr Wallace charged a picnic dinner wa« enjoyed the Survey—are greater this year than M r « M o i i r l A k f T S For the year to date, gasoline consumption amunts to 84,887,393 Jones with interfering with the pouryj of July the city park t h e combined funds available hoard of emwrgencv warfare in iln Wasco by Mr and Mrs R S through the state department of F in r l« T w o W a v l i e s * » lk » b • decrease of 184 per rpurchawna natertab —■ — MV cent fr^m the gallon age of the TOirchtaiuv «n Itati», Macnab and daughters Margaret agriculture and the state game * ’ nOS 1 WO America for stockrfl»*«. A» a mat- and Jaan -pj^ Dalles and Anna commission. The game ©omml'ssion Mrs Maud Akers of Wasco was first five months of 1942. ter of fact there arc three actin- Wasco, Mr and Mrs Bill Mac- has authorized *11,800 for preda- recently surprise^ to read in Er- Taxes paid on gasoline usaq in cies concerned in the procurement Mr and Mrg Don Macnab tory animal control, major por- nie Pyle’s correspondence from Oregon for the first five months of raw materials in lands south and daUghter Ilia Jean, Mr and tion of which Is to be distributed North Africa a paragraph about this year totaled *4,244,369,083. of the border: the department of Mtj, Medler and grandson to counties not sharing in the de- one Captain Wayne Akers of --------------------- state, the RFC (Jones) through p ^ n k Lg Master of tbs UJSJi., partment fufrida. « Memphis. Mrs Akers has son, RECORDER RESIGNATION UP snubsidiaries. and the BEW (Wal- ,Mr Alex Macnab and The state department of agri- Captain Wayne Akers, who is ex- lace) There ha® been some under- son p f c George L. Macnab of culture has allotted half or *21, ecutive officer at Letterman ho«- ' The resignation of Charles Rug- cuttling and stabbing among these Army Air Base at Alliance. 250 for this year and a like a- pital in San Francisco— or at least gles was presented to the council Agencies and they have not w o’-k- ^ eb and their »on Pat and dau- mount for next year. Money grant Mrs Akers thought he was. of Moro Tuesday night and it will ed in uniton- — - , ghters Roseanna and Joan, also ed for this control work Sn the de- A letter to the Oregonian re- be acted on at a later date Die- The Wallace-Jones affair c*Tn€ (their daughter Mrs E W McMil- ipartmsnt’s appropriation wall go suited in an editorial in .th at pn- cussion at the meeting was about on the heels of Elmer Davis char- jjn aiKj 4^0 »ons Denney and directly into it, and the admin,’*- per in which it was explained that renting the hotel although no de- ging that the Washington corres- §<50^ of Portland. Others at the trstive costs, estimated at *660, there were probably two Wayne cision leading to a definite oon- pondents are prone to play up were Carl Peetz of Moro, will be borne by the funds allotted Akers and that both might con- elusion was reached. A commit- Rrnall controversies instead of Kenneth Fleck of The Dalles and to the department’s divtwrion of ceivably be captains in the army, tee of Harry Kunsman and Wal- taking OWI handouts. Mr Wallace Wayne Barton, U .S . Army animal industry. x Nevertheless it is an odd coinci- ter Ruggles was named to han- ------ ‘CfWflpned page two Ord. Corp. Sherman county’s quota la *600 dence. } * U the fmatter« farmer Pioneer Preacher Fourth of July Quiet One In County Wilson Family Picnicks The Fourth War Stamp Sale of $1681 Asked Governor Snell assigned a quo ta of *1,681.00 to Sherman county to be raised by the sale of war savings stamps during July, ac cording to word received by tho county war bond oquimittoe. The drive is part of a national campaign being conducted »by re tail merchants to finance the build ing of an airplane carrier to be named Shangri-La. Cost of the carrier is estimated at *136,000. 000. The campaign ns scheduled to continue through July 3L All those wishing permits or licenses to drive cars will have this opportunity Thursday, July 16. at the courthouse in Moro between the hours of 9 A. M. to 11 A. M. when a traveling examiner of op erators and chauffers w ilt be here. Naval Academy ' Position Open Congressman Lowell Stockman will have a vacancy at the U-S. Naval Academy for the class ba ginning July 1, 1944. Candidate4 must be not less than 17 nor more than 21 years of age em April 1 of their entrance year. AppUoants should be high school seniors, at graduates or college students. The Civil Service conanfiseioii expects to hold a competitlto ex amination early in t^e fall to »id in selecting the nominees Appli cants must be legal residents of the second congressional district of Oregon and In perfect phyrioal condition. All boys who are mtorosted and qualified should write Congress man Lowell Stockman, 407 House Office Bldg. Washington D.C. for complete infonmstlon-
