Sherman County journal., August 13, 1943, Image 1

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Moro, Oregon
F rid ay , A ugust 13, 1943’
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Sherman County School Costs
Association To
From $226
Meet Sunday
The Sherman County ‘Pioneers
are going to meet next Sunday,
August 16th Wt Lauzelhurat perk
in Portland, according to a letter
from J. J. Wiley, president of the
association. Laet year it was • a-
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greed that meetings would be
Washington D C —Rumor has held the third Sunday in August,
it that Alvin J WirU, recently
The meeting was started by
appointed by Secretary of the In- Sherman countians who lived in
Urior Harold Ickea as a consul- Portland and who deeired to get
tant on power matters, will put together at least once a year for
in considerable time in the nortJh- the purpose of renewing old ne­
west. Wirtz, who was an under- quaintances and talking over old
secretary of the interior in 1940- tunes. ’<*
y<*™ many
41, ie a protegee of. ‘Honest Har- gohe down from Sherman county,
old’ who placed him in charge of
AU Sherman countians and all
the Bonneville power admmtatro- former residents are welcome to
tion during that time. Mr Ickas attend and take part in the picnic,
believes Mr Wirtx knows as m u c h ---------------------
wer situation in Washington
Oregon. Among other thing», the
consultant will make a further re-
port in the contemplated Umn-
tilla rapid, project, ,whxdi has
been in the blue pnn t «tare for
yeers. Another look-aee wdl aUo
be made of Grand Coulee by Mr
W
is The t*. story
Oregon’s Farm Income
w.
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F lO W O l ^ h C S t
>Cmh fsrm inc<nBe in
f<r flM2 r(ju,h(_(| >pprertnBtel,
| 2ao>000>MO the greatest of re-
u „ tin tato, o!
Department of Agriculture
ancj ¿be Oregon Agricultural Ex-
,,
<he average from
1#3#>
war y OJ
flr>t fwjr nKmth(i of w43 fur.
f#m) jn00m>.
fa Ore(ton {n m the - J e of er. |(
m<) anim>, ^
utl<
ne.rlv
tVCF
One Axis Leader Down— -Two to Go
To Over $1350?
< County Has Most Costly
A Crop Almost
In Past School Year
f Equal That ef 1942
The financial reports of the /
four high eehoolfe in the county
have been compiled and returned
from the auditor-
They show some startling xfig-
ures.
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Most startling is the per pupil
cost. Without transportation the
per pupil cost at Rufus was
11160.08. at Wasco >326.80. at
Kent <470-84 at Moro-GV >226.60.
With transportation the cosrt at
R«fus went up to >1355.19, at
Kent to >611.70. There was no
transportation cost at either Moro
or Wasco schools.
’ Average daily attendance at
Rufus w m 6.4, at, Wasco 25.6, at
Kent 15.9 and at M»ro-GV 38. S.
Total cost was >6210.16 at Rufus,
>8366.04 at Wasco, >7629.50 ,at
Kent and >8792.13 a t Moro.
Moro.
Cost of instroction
34 at Rufus. >6596.37
>2470.00 at Kent and >6640.69 at
Moro-GV. Supervision, which may
be partly matruction, coat >1496
a t Rufus, >1406. at Wasco, >550
at Kent and > 1456^ at Moro-GV.
iVheat Yields
Running About
30 Bushels
IndicatkiB Are Fer
High Schools b State
Daily Attendance Varied
Official County Raper
This is the first week in which
harvesting operations have been
carried on this year in Sherman
county and the results have been
very satisfactory, aMbough not
quite as good as the snore optimis­
tic have hoped.
Except for the small section
on the north border of the joeonty
the wheat is making about 30
bushels, perhaps a little
of Waaoo, and a little more h»
other parts where harvesting is
general. The extrañe northern
tion ia producing a crop ef 16
bushel or leas. 1
Around Moro wheat ia making
from 32 to 40 bushele. the aver­
lea
The snddea political demise of Benito Mussolini m akes him the first Axis dictator to fa ll under the
m ilita ry and Intellectual m ight of the Allied nations. L e ft: K ing V ictor E m m anuel of Ita ly who accepted
Mussolini’s resignation and appointed M arshal Pietro Badoglio, center, as the new p rem ier of Ita ly . Al­ age o f w h eat com ing in to M oro
though Badogdo announced that “ the w ar continues,“ as he proclaim ed m a rtia l law. he was never a m em ber
of the official high ranking Ita lia n fascist group which surrounded Mussolini, lie has been known to have dis- being 30 to 36 bushels and into
agreed w ith t i e form er p rem ier several tim es. R ight: Benito Musso'ini who took advantage of the unrest of Hay Ganyon being 36 to 40. Sev­
Wor d W a r I to create a dictatorship and now finds him self overthrown by sim ilar forces in W orld W ar I I . eral fields have reached the top
figure and none are eo far sffiwft-
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■ W aw
ed to be going less than 90-
goes that Secretary
Libtle catting has been done
lckes « not too well plcaaed with
south of Grass Valley and it is
4the progress made in the north-
too early to tell how much . the
weet by the public power advo-
spring grain there will stake al­
cate., who have been defeated
though there 'ia agreement that
time after tune in their attem pt.
a large part of it ia shriveled
to take over the private otihtoae.
Sherman county failed by >259 The loes ia, however, undrinwnin-
The voters in most all such elec- one-fifth greater than for the
Two temporary markers for the
to
meet its July quota of war ed and will certainly vary.
tion. have aaid NO. .
wm, ^ „ o d in 1M2
County Highest In State
Old Oregon Trail have been re-
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An improved outlook for
ior reed
feed bonds and ended with a percent-
There ia etill many < field* ef
source of mformaUo» ~ y . that
Agriculture is the principal ba
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ceived and will be placed along
,.
_
. 7 ? Qre<on
Greatest spread in
coots
comes h route
supplies
for
livestock
and r poultry
Turkey Red aroand Waaqo, but
es-conyreesman Walter Pierce.
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age
of
98.
The
entire
state
sold
s source of income in Oregon
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. . . the route of the tfail
soon a s __ ,_____ ____ . . . __ . .
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who during h l, ten jeers a* an
° { yean> b(jt tjmbcT. under Bunliary scen e,«, w lu e h .............
it is possible
to oM a.nlhe «Wen- producers
n ' ? T ' ‘ V was ’ , " disclosed
‘7 ”’ ' “ . by
”', N.
" ^ E r * * 4 PerCen‘ ° f
iU Ju‘y qUOt#’ in the Moro section
means transportation 4n the main.
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on
Dodd,
national
administrator
of
Eastern
Oregon
counties
were
most
none
of
the
eld
•taudby
eastern
Oregon
hrmber is a close second when
tion of the public for such an . . . . . .
Rufus
parked die torch for poblta v ^ e r
by
— _ spent
------- >1110.41,
— ---- . Wasco
— — >139. awant. Aa t^ffie aadar oosts are
^AA, at the recent meeting of largely the cause of the failure Wendell BaUiger reporta .that
;
Kent
>2098,
Moro
nothing
*ven
7"
h-;««
state AAA committee and Ore although Lake couhty topped the there is three rime» as much Fed­
82,
will join the Bonneville
income,
The
sr
e
r
sjs
par
p
u
p
il
cost
ot
Td
!°
8 U te
*th
M0- p e l t o t -
. ■ ■ eration aa Kes oaeenog h»to the
Pierce, who is an expaneacad earn-
u u g DA
besting
a
high
schoot
pupil
in
10
,
brighter
outlook
applies
both
to
county
quota
for
August
Moro Grain G row er's hounen
paigner al—
ttattas. Mine and quarry products
Pu * 009
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wheat and to high protein sup- hag
at $11,800 and with
In the sooth end of the eooarig
. wide acqua.ntaace in the, nort
><wuioni! the 1941-42 school year was >138. ^ lU
th ere is also a :»™po»denance of
23
according
to
the
latest
reoort,
,
t>
plies.
‘
harvest
on
m
full
swing
that
west and rt »
important heme resources The«,
of the state superintendent. Sher- 01 t ',e
Enough feed wheat to meet al! month it ,may ,be ag difficult to Federation because of spring seed
enta will be u sed ta that direction.
„ i oe
man , county’s cost at. that time ®’ml
P°
*7
«e
™
normal livestock needs foT an in- reach as was the larger July quo- inf.
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To the degree that agricultural included, usually account for near was >300.74, higher than any
e rou
®
e
ar
definite period will be available
unless everyone gives them a-
Barley is doing well, Flynn
fa k e d by a <me-half of Oregon’« income, ex- other county by >20.72. Gilliam u° GrMB Valley canyon to bner tbrough the Commodity Credit tter of buying bonds a few min-
making well over a ton and the
condrtions may be
*
t during period, of economic
ccunty’a coat was >162.58, Mor- ar^
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., corporation as a result of recent utefl attention during the month, bald barley usually running un­
survey of conditions in
tie . in various part, of die Uni- deprese.on.
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row’s >202.80. For the 1942-43
Th« work of »>*rk>ng the trat. congreg8ional action. Dodd announ-
September 9 the third war bond der that figure.
school
year
the
average
cost
In
a"d
lo
o
tin
g
it
1«
being
done
by
Cojjt
slightly,
but
drivg
,beging when the people of
ted States, just oompldtod by the
Sherman
county
will
bejover
>361.
the
American
Kone^r
Trails
As-
jg
expected
to
remain
near
the
the
Un}ted
States are asked to
dopurtment of agriculture, the
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F
sociation
which
Is
selling
m
m
-
preg€nt
price
based
on
the
reln-
American farmer is far more pro-
buy >15,000,000,000 in bonds. The
orial half dollars to raise funds tionkhip to com parity prices.
«perous than the attitude of farm
banks will not be a part of this
fo r ' that purpose. These, togeth­
A probable solution
of
th drive, it is learned, which means
lobbyists and farm bloc congre«-
^ m .1,
er with a membership in the as shortage of high protein concen
men would «indicate. According to (jO VC H IID C D I UD1IS
that regular purchasers will be
Oregon State Cottage-— Every
sociation sell for >5.00. Loca’ly tra^ s .g geen by D(xld
arrangj
this survey, northweat farmers
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_ given a chance to add to their in- state except Vermont is r»pM»»n-
they may be obtained from Gile3 ments recently ccrfhpleted with oil vestmebt by getting additional
ted among the 1341 oaUier 4tu-
French.
clothing and banking moré savings
seed crushers. U nder theee a r ra n ­ government securtiea.
A good day’s journey to the ______________
dents enrolled bore in th» Army
gements the OCC will control ap­
o í‘ W « U w » r t » d X roX
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A pamphlet .bout unit, ot west was suiother great landmark
Specialized Training pa<a>ram. s
proximately 25 percent of the
known
as
“
Split
Rock
w
This
ffi-
summary
compiled by
B Lemon,
tion is said to exist nationally government in Oregon has been
country’s total supply of vege­
ant »gn-post can be seen for
J
®
coordinator,
shows.
Figures released by the federal
j,y the Bureau of Munici-
table protein concentrates in con-
mile», its cloven figure rising
California leads with M5, but
farm loan bank show current pay-
Research. Number of school
tra s t to only 4 p ercent la st year.
eleven hundred feet above the
distant
New York <» aaaotod with
m ents have been met and cons-id, - d¿gtwtg
c,ther govern­
This reserve will be used as a
waters of the river, like giant pin-
Burt Snyder, agricultural sup-
132.
Other
Urge num bers a m * o m
a ,
w
u ” 7 cfolr nool from which to make alloca-
Last week was an unfortunate
or able amounts of rrioney have
. . .
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At ervisor for the War Bond Stair, P°°J iroTn w,uv"
trvinc Ohio, 92; Illinoia » ;
stars
IttcIrirBn;
depositad for future pay- menta, units ' by a surpnsm j cers reaching for the stars.
tlm, »pot the Sweetwater daehes e l Oregon wa, in Mori> Wednesday tion»
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" fh a r te e t a, .65 inehe. of rata 67: Missouri 65; Waobmgton 61.
ments. One reason advanced for degree. Aa a t June 30,
there
a canyon two hundred to confer with the local bond com- et;cn
may
pp
w^i«r,o,in,r nio-bf «nJ
14 Oregon 48 and Pennaylvwnia 45.
larger saving» ventering farmer were 1919 school districts levy- through
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s
Of the total 894 have prwriaos’y
savings accounts is that fawners big taxes, 187 cities, 36 counties
to five hundred, feet at the top.
foi-w arJunds which will beg n
W>
clgim they attended college, 274 of whom have
have been unable to buy new mac- an(j one ^tate
Dr. Whitman s medical skill wa September 9th.
quirements based on approved pro- were given more rain than the already earned degree« but are
hinery and in other ways have
* population of
a-jam called into service when the
Arrangements have been made dvi
p
aboVe
here for training in Hdfeemt fiaki*
been forced by circumstances to
square mMe, Sherman third Covered Wagon Baby join- for distribution of War Bond Kits tein ra os.
^ ek the weatber has or for specialised addltie««!-train­
limit their spending.
county haa.2.8, Harney .6, Mult-
e l the empire builder« wwneiwherc which have a budget form »etout Regerve p rovided
b(?en fine for harvesting with «he ing in their original fisAd.
J
ncmah 837.5. Although
Sherman
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^ .«tob le exception that the wheat is still
The ASTP students are«i» 4mr
I t w i o u k l be undewtood,
eounty j8 next rto the , smallest o', the Sweetwater. As if to soft- for use of bond funds as they ma-
< i the grief of Joel and Sally lure for the varioue purchases
Further to fac htate «J™**
Jn the morningg be<ause of units, with 688 in basic ar tower
course, that conditions pn > ( j effter8<m). bi
population it has
Eembre over the loss of little Joel the buyer might desire. Use of dis*tri u on, an ers 0
the rains of last week- It is not division engineering, 425 hi ad
counties do not neceasen y pre
g reater assessed valuation than
r.
p-rKhild
w
a,
born
to
them
on
these
will
aid
any
farmer
to
plan
m
e
a
l
to
hot enough to bo uncomfortable. vanced engnaering, 124 in bttgaa*
«ent a true picture of the natxm- Jeffenjon GiUi<m w ^ k r , Cur-
July 26. She was named Nkncy his bond purchases and maturing ers to 15 day
upp
however
ge and area «tody and
in gmd •
wide agricultural situation,
Harney, Crook, Grant, and is
fund, m the h e* possible manner,
a,<o h„
The Moro elevator ha. been uatoe engineering.
officials in the department oi
ftg valu>fele ag
or Jane. The men in the t«*in
tended to mourn over the fact he said.
#
contract kept busy with around 150 loads
agriculture assert that with a Jo9ephin€
t1,at there was not an bx^river
A meeting will be held, probably h
or more each full day.--------------
national farm income th b
• Jn vajuftt ion per capita Sher-
born on the trail ao far, .11 of the September 4h. for the purpose for the P»rehwe ° f b
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GOV’T EXPENSES HUGE
gredter than the 1942 record , of
is listed as having habiea being girla.
of final planning for the earn- terns ,f necessary to take care of
>18,628.000,000 therc
" ’>3081.84 which is greater than
Government budgetary . «rtinwu
Sweetwater river was crossed paign.
Z n JiLnUv. ‘
question but
’ that
any other county. Neared
es for the Fiscal Year ISM4 e»ti-
ific states have been recently
agriculture is proepenng.
GiWiam wRh $2500.12, Jeffer- a number of times as the wagons -
mate total expenditures
the
W hile th e new p rogram will not _
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followed' its winding course to- FARM PRICE LEVEL 194
year, excluding Debt ’ Retirement
b» fully effective until about Dec.
u a
-thp city turn. Morrow, Umatilla, Lake, Har-
The old stary .bout the
ward the summit of the Rockies. .
-
-u n . aro. .hili
The last crossing was sk Burnt
At mid-Ji/ly the Oregon general L nearly ha f
e
Mrg Herbert (Alta) Willard and Trust Fund D»bur»emffi»t%
slicker takmg
«-tar. The .v e « « e for the state Rouch. later a famops Pony Ex- farm price level stood at 194 per crushing soybeans from la * y e a r
TRe
gth at 106 billion dollars, and net
ing ,n re«™ * these dey^
keg
w cr.
nress station
cent of the 1935-39 average, as crop and some amma p
afife Qf 49 and wag burfed receipts M 38 bBHon dollar». Tho
expected deficit ef 68 billion will
The emigrants left the $weet- calculated by the Oregon Agricul- being
i’L ^ d U t e future
p X tX n e s k y
h ijh
bout « H rimes . . - h
.
the water
with regret for it had fur- tural Extension service.
Despite outlook for the
• Mrs Willard was born in Ne- bring « the public debt above 200
dollars by next , June 30.
mid-May
^ i . X s t visit to hra,,ka
DecCTnber 2 i - 189’ *n billion
<1
L n y farmers are
X
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t
of „¡shed them with wood, water" a 3-polnt decline since
In
the
Fiscal Year juet eaded.
level a is year
still a<o. 28 per W’ This was
sberman county v^hen a
Zb a <rrsss
' T e e fo i ^ r manv
r X J a p urtile
^ t a throu-
" ^ d . the
c e n t general
U h e r than
X t Dodd
a i Z t s o fl r .a r t ’s p X carp(?
cWW - Sh‘
actual expenditures war© .80 bil­
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Oxen were leaning in the yokes, , Farm costs are higher than a
£ Haines who ¡» I»20- she h « been a constant lion dollars, adtual receip t 22
billion dollars, or a deficit a t 58
to curb the booml, such a»
P
«oua xqr 22
pulling a grade so gradual as to year agh.also, with the US t"«***
work * | m from a local AAA
billion
dollars. A. hundred W < m
'
Mn 1 Af- isen In the state pays >3»
be hardly noticeable, leading to of prices paid for commod.tics ha. worked
wm
Surv.wng are the widower, a
r r i e tart Ww « flock. Of inaur-
While the state a , a whole ha,
dollars will be needed for war ex­
, jjr^-ior nnd then ,on' John in
*"« ni
ter the la
wnrtaare loan 59 percent of its people living in the famous South Pass over the interest and taxes up over 8 per
penditures during the Fiscal
Reeky Mountains.
-
cent and the US farm wage index ¡ »
MrtT
S
1944, compared with 76 M B * » 1
anee
invwrtoT8 and incorporated areas Sherman coun-
That night as they vtoited in up 36 percent.
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HI
associations, pr
percent city dwell-
dollars
actually spent for war
man of Biggs, two brothers, Clar-
dtbers were left h o ld in g ^ th e ^ U
u a pon- family groups, they reviewed the , Average farm wage rates in ‘ *
in
1943
The War Depart»»«* now
events of the journey thus fir , Oregon per month with board arc SCHOOL ftUPT DRIVES TRUCK once of Portland and Robert of
°h fh ^ X
Z Serious loasen ulatlon of 110 for each of the 21
is expected to spend less and the
w ily Knighton, feeling the sur-Viata. California. •
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w T ^ X
^ a u c W in- «hool s t r i c t , and an .r e s of and wondered what was in pros- 47 percent higher than a year
Navy Department and xther •'
pect
for
them
when
they
crossed,
ago.
Increases
in
the
cost
of
hay
gc
of
youth
in
his
veins
again,
wont
Pall
bearers
were
vecil
Fields,
and wrecked m a y
39 5
„Hes. The average
gencies are expected to apend
the Great Divide and entered the and feed have also been greater out * Dean Reynold’s place thi-Kenneth Snagle, Carl Thompson,
•titutione.
for
the
state
ia
'640.8
people
for
more
for war than
esthm ted
‘ happen,nj la th , t a ^ t a e «)^
„ R immense Oregon Country where in Oregon than in the country as week to start harvest Wily will Elwood McPherson. Clyde Hearing
in
January.
lay the land of their dreams.
a whole.
|
drive truck.
-
and Bruce MiBard.
partment ot agriculture want.
reB”’en'^''' and
ataff- h .
M arkers Received Dodd Says
£or Old O les°" Enough Stock
Trail Memorial
Feed. Available
War Bond
Sales Under
July Quota
osC ,u.
*, fiwm
Pamphlet Shows
I
State Position
Men From 47
States At OSC
100 Years Ago
With The Pioneers
Qypf SnV^F UrgCS
Weather Good For
Big Third Bond Drive
{"¡HrYCStin^ NOW
B
1940
144
MfS. Herb Willard
DUflCQ IYlOlKlHy
that, fa
for
Th<? Dalle* liiRS’r’
nnd
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W
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Tw
» l> BP*
A r2^*. th d<.
Csotluurd si- paj«
ww
M‘ a e