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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1943)
i AGE X SHEHMA^ JOUILNAL, MOHO. OttEüOM FRIDAY. ÍJECEMB^H !•, 1943 Mr and Mre Lester Nahoure of be temporary. Any scheme to have Salem spent from Tuesday last ¿S^írinan tiiountg J m at ut i the government subsidize a high week to Friday visiting at the price and budW up a national sur homes of Mr and Mrs Lew.s Olds (Continued from pa^’e uiP»'*; plus is also temporary, if not J ’ubhsbsd Every Friday at and Mr and Mrs Ted Trimble. purely political. ' ' ey price control act, ¿and so far Moro, Oregoa They left Friday for Tygh Val V-»V> 1 Subsidies on Farm Prices* The Columbia basin is so fine R V hoo, aroused text no determined trr- _ 1 /"X* 1 ley to visit' relatives before re E d ito r a wheat country and the farmers portion from Giles L French the White (House. P l a l f I turning to their home. Moderated by Entered as second class matter at are so efficient that it is likely bloc of some 70 members has * HEED O. CLARK Necessary to P revent In fla d o r ’ Gus Smith was a business cal- General Chairman the postoffice at Moro, Oregon they can go on producing wheat been loosely formed in the house s nreant William Ball and Mis« ler he Dalleg Thursday, American Economie Eoendatiaa under Act of Congress of March after nearly everyone el*e is for- u. fight for continuance of the Winifred Millrandt were united in . Mtea LlIa Lee fley canM? up f rom As debated by ced to stop. But they wil not b? price control agency, but no aim- marriage in Portland Thursday The Dalles Friday to siyend the Honorable W r ifb l P alm an I Honorable W . R. Po»*® very prosperous while doing it. nar support is observable in the December 2» Sgt Ball, having week end .viafrtins h— >r. Congrettm an, lt t District o f Tex— I C ongressm an, U t h D U lriel » ! Texa» The increase of beef cattle on senate. Just what the ac|miini?tr *- completed his course in aviation Mr Mrs g j Alley. AL EDITORI A L _ SSOCIATION Shenman county forms is a hope tion pian ¡s cannot be determined mechanics, is enjoying a short Mr aTKj Mrs q jsj Ruggles, and CONO. r A T M A N O PSN 8: Y e a H CONG. PO A G 1 OPENS: Food sub ful sign ; the decrease of hogs aryl from present indications, but there furlough at home with his bride Mrs Orville Ruggle« took Mr? we properly encourage maximum sidies have been tried since the days dairy cattle » not- Unless there ¡9 a rumor that the agency, be- Mrs Ball is employed as an ac- Lucy Ruggles to her horn? in Moro production of needed foods, pay of ancient Rome. T h e ir only lasting result has been the destruction of ia an economic miracle, or iul c^use of its unpopularity, may counting clerk for North Western after spending a week at the fanners adequate prieps for produc economic and political institutions- It tion, keep down living costa pre s O fei those who are in oosition to knov become the victim of political Electric in *their Portland office. Ruggles home- vent inflation. Farmers are to be In is easy to inaugurate but very diffi P lB L IS M E t ATIIR are wrong, we are going w grow expediency. It is expected the sit- Her parents, Mr and Mrs Arthur Mr an(j Mrs pt Valbntvn* N»< duced to grow maximum amounts of cult to abandon a subsidy. Any dem can promise a gullible public someth ng ether than wheat or Uation may ibe clarified when c Millbrandt, reside at Hillsboro. Gladstone spent last weekend vis- needed food. H ard h it by manpower agogue and a Job-hungry bureaucracy that grow very thin producing that. President Roosevelt returns. A pleasant diversion w«w enjoy- Ring at the home of Mr and Mrs and m a c h in e r y shortages, higher it w ill in tome mysterious way re prices, other unfavorable factors, OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER lieve consumers of a part or even all ' . . . * ed Saturday evening when a Del Eakin. farmers must be assured a fa ir price of the cost of living. Once fastened in advance. Thia canno^ be done SUBSCRIPTION RATES STILL SHOOTING Announcement of the purchase number of friends and neighbors gjjj ¿, a Link T r 'r* ‘ on the country, no political party w ill w ithout subsidies. In many cases they Payable In Advance of 19,687 acres in Grays Harbor charivaried the newlywed« at tee er instructor a t Orangeburg, SC w ill be asked to grow unfam iliar have the nerve or the power to re „.The declaration that came cu‘ county, Washington, for the pur- Ted Ball ranch. Mr and M/a Art S ' W r J P-4 .food crops. This can only be suc move i t I t is worse than the drug ONE YEAR ...... ........... ......... $2<9 of the Teheran conference «nurt pose o f establishing another Mis« Dorothy Ball spent the f amfly aIMj Mr and Mrs Vgnr th cessful if proper support prices are habit. It passes today’s costs on to our returning soldiers. 1 think, thjse have had a hard time being born, “tree farm” serves to call atten week'end at home. She came from Todd brought a dinner to the offered in advance. It cannot be done of us who stay home should at least DECEMBER 10. 1943 without subsidies. Preventing infla ,. It gives every appearance of hav- tion to a movement Inaugurated La Grand? with Jomes C. Larkin, q Todd ranch Sunday and sur- tion is our No. 2 problem. No. 1 is pay our own grocery bills. I l w ill winning the war. We cannot prevent cost less to pay now. To po-tj. tie ing been batted around, di-ccu • an 1941 by the Wey?rheauser who was driving to hi? job - prised Mr Todd on h is- 1 •’rih the payment w ill involve not nnly WFF.AT GROWER’S amended, rewrote, debated, chan Timber company and conristently pilot instructor at Tulare, Calif. Mr amj Mrs Lawrene- T o ’d «•»-. inflation unless we control prices! e x o rb ita n t administrative ex reuse Congress, first fixed prices as of Oc- HEADACHE god, reworded, edited, broadene (, carried o t t since that time, uu Mr and Mrs Art Schilling and haby were aleo present. “ 'tober, 1941 That line was not held. but also billions of dollars in in-cr One o f the greatest weakness- Untól a11 actual meaning was w l der the auspices of the W W children were btxsineri visitors Mrs« Esther Strecbm Then the line was fixed for wages, est. General subsidies themselves are salaries and prices as of S e p t 15. certainly no less inflationary tnan es o f education is that of getting woHwd w t of it Kke cheese out Coart Lumbermen's assoc, ation and in The Valles Wednesday. v cago, n i. is enjoying a visit here 1942, insofar as practicable, and the wage increases. They mase money people to use the acquired know- ° f whey< ' tht Pacific Northwest Loggers Miss Betty Barnett is now eni: wrth her cousin, Mrs Wallace May. President was directed by Congress available for bidding up the price of ledge. They know it but they The fimt Pa‘r’a* raPh * 7 * the association, for the protection ployed in the office of the J. C Among the G rps ■to hold that line. That line can only other goods, yet they produce no goods. Last June a 10% subsidy was don’t do any thing about it three men have a common rooticy. and conservation of privately own- Penny store m The Dalles. dents in The Dalles - *? be held if subsidies are used. There placed on beef; consumer prices ts no alternative. I prefer w ar sub- For at least two years the biaamtlch as they have all ed timber. To receive the desig- Mr and Mrs Frank Pike, Mr attend the Wh at lenp-’i? iSidies to a policy that w ill im medi dropped only 9%; yet producers lost been fighting Germans for two nation of “tree farm” definite and Mrs Joe Biibby and M n I. D. and to «hop were Mr and Mm W“’ a te ly compel great cost of living in from a fourth to a third of the value wheat farmers have been told creases, destroy the only price line of their cattle that there is going to be a «mai years together it seems fairly ap- standards of planting and prctcc- Pike weat to The Dalles Thurv- iace May, Mr and Mm we have, and put us on the paved CONG. PATMAN CHALLENGES: tion must be maentained and tne day when Frank was initiate4 :n- Bakin. Mr and Mrs Del Eakin, ■road ler market for wheat after the parent. to runaway, ruinous inflation. I, too, would be opposed to subsidies N ext we learn the startling news work i s carefully superv ?ed. to the Elks lodge. Mrs I D Pike Mr ancj Mrs y g Eakin, Mr and COltfG. POAGK CHALLSNGES: in peacetime and as a permanent war. Ed Dodd «aid at La Grande that we were not going to export *kat they are to IC0I*tinn® These tree farms are becoming remained and came hem? Satur-, Mrs Vernon Eakin-, Mr and Mrs > Why pay subsidies to hold the line? policy to help agriculture. Subsidies Z\ VSF ZX 4 4 V» « m A k*. jam a aa aa _* _ — _ numerous _ — _ — _ ? in X the 1 V ~> * Z* day. 1 Vv a1 a • V T nra « M « Rolfe. » J* Tem FV^ 'Proponents of subsidies are not both are not new; they are used to help more Pacific *- » Dean Reynolds, much wheat after the war oe- to work together in thfts war. ered about that line: They want to pay the rent bill for workers around Fine. Applause northwest and the movement b Jamee T Brown MM 1-c left Alley, A A Dunlap, Mr and Mrs drive down the prices of farm prod defense plants, to help pay the fuel cause the demand would be for Thirdly, the military men hav'* attracting much attention in the Friday for Treasure Island, Cal- Don ClodfeRer and Mr and Mrs ucts and 14t costs of production go bill for New England oil consumers, more concentrated foods, dehy- 'up. The September line fixed wheat to the amount of almost $100-.n*,. n drated, powdered? mrtk~ cheese «°nierre<l and a time and place south and middle west. ifomia after «pending a 30 day Ted Ball. $1.47. Yesterday wheat brought a year to subsidize the postage b ill ' * for the final blow has been decide ! _______.__________________ -______ furlough with his parents, Mr and Mr and Mrs Arden Squire ox at $1.30, but the wheat farm er got no of newspapers and magazines, which At The Dalles Fred Entermile UpOn‘ They are going to attack day. Mrs J E Brown- Gresham are the p a ren t of a subsidy. It is the wage line that has is all righ^and should be encouraged said that Europe was going te ea*t> 80ut,h and wefet' Mr and Mrs W F Jackson are Mr and Mrs 7 ° ^ ’/ V ? dau»hter’ Sandra Jo’ brrn Tburv not held. Witness the recent coal set to disseminate knowledge among the tlement! ’T h e line” has been breached people. Farmers receive lower in «rnw hp»vv food? frwwU like uv« wheat * 7 have do,n* for a}?ain a «t t home from their east- ö.JaK Mr9 . . . I^-wrenc« grow b» its heavy w *“» that' *«**»' *«« . . . Todd o and babv day November 18t.h a t the Port- time and again, but not by farmers. terest rates through a subsidy and and (hat world demand w». about «yera l montha. Sunpnae u, that frn tI_. whi<;h thoro h. and Mr and M „ Art Schilling and ,ond Sanitarium. The question becomes: Is it neces’- A A A payment* through pay checks. sary to issue bonds for future gen Consuniers who are taxpayers can they faoled to mention north (who Louis and all family were among the busmens Mi»s Cassie Holmes ^oent the half world supply. erations to pay and deny farmers a save from $5 to U 0 for every do.iar often has a good bridge (hand). m. FeskhivllU 1 H visitors in The Dalles Sa'urdnv. week end heTe with h°r father, ir price in today's m arket in order i paid in a food subsidy and $1 can oe Mr. Dodd and Mr. Entermile Fourth, they now know they 't/ii •n'°^,au- *V^ ? Mr and Mrs J E Brown have Sam Holmes coming vp frem The fa to coyer up labor's breaches of the , paid currently. are two men, former Oregonians, are going to win, “common under- f * 00^ -» moved from the ranch to town Dalles. J942 line? CONG- POAGE REPLIES: Let’s who should know' wbat they /Zk are standing which we here reached ° r CONG. BATMAN REPLIES: If sub ? ay evening or w arg nQw jn tbe Kendrick Mr and Mrs Dell Ob’s r-'t-i’-nc-l i look at the record, not in. the ' wish talking about Mir. Wickard of the ” .< „ _ benefit of the library. ~ r ' j sidies are not paid and the President . . _. cf . «tr^ . j rU . ur. and , Mr. ,, guarantees . . .victory ’•.^D unlap recently A-r.rtnncnt J . That s The DeMor, f.m H y Lyric « BarJZ Ear, house „ fam i, vacated b? home Sunday from a few davs carries out the law of Oct. 2, 1942, ing w ell.” My distinguished oppo Kelly’s Column W ake U p , A merica ■ William Ball Marries A m Jane, cj the War Food a4m,n„- tration are their daily business diet. They are not joking and their opinion ... should ----- be as valu able as any tbe wheat famwr could get. They are sympa4bebic but sure. 4 The’e seems to be few ways that thia reduction in wheat pro duction could be evaded by Col- . . . . . . iz umhia basin wheat growers. If it be assumed that there is not going to be a» large a demand for wheat—and this seems faâr- ly certain—how can th:s area A.,vs.4tMiia to r prosper M VW SHTW *!* T continue i n total First, a reduction wheat may not necessarily mesn that we would suffer m u c h ^ UI’ tiii'ment. This ib * natural wmea country that grows wheat cheap „ than ahnoM any oilier place in 'the United State«. If anyone raises wheat we should remAinJ ” the businees Yet we have no north west market for eur crop and must ship a long distance, and under a control system would cer- tactily not be favored aa ^°'^d the Mfeyll |ggNil«lM und-wert. ably an W tn ft redaction wou cut u»- Second, we might daversify by p)#ye<J are now delighting audience, w»y and Mp, farmers w ill be in a squeeze— they nent says $1 in subsidy w ill save $5 cannot produce and sell for the prices to $30 in taxes “and the $1 can be 'that would be fixed. Therefore, a sub paid currently.” The dollar ' not sidy w ill help the farm er pay extra being paid currently. It is being bor and increased costs of production. rowed through the sale o.' bonds, the The object is not to h u rt but help proceeds of which are supposed to him. It is better he receive a dollar be a sacred trust to supply our fignt- that w ill buy a dollar’s worth rather ing men. Actually the subsidy pa:c than receive $2 that w ill buy 50# ; on beef this summer amounted tc worth. Farmers must be paid • fa ir I 10% of the price, but the consume: price, but I ’m sure they won’t o b je c t! got only a reduction of 8 9% This if part of the money comes through wnat has actually happened. Wi!.’ a w ar subsidy if they and the coun i:...t record stop inflation? 1 say uie • ■-<rd »iiov/s it w ill notl try are helped by i t E M He,yer and They are going to <bave a » _19 o. son* Gordon, were dinner guests Mrs Willard r Rolfe crime im ing peace. A t least that’s a wor- o Sunday a t the home of Mr and from Portland Thursday to spend ambition. Wilson had it, too. Tho wheat fie,d* ^ Sherman Dop clodfeMjer 8evera, (iays here v o t in g h^r nar- tyranny r1s_ county was covered w ^ an av- , Mr ftnd Mpg Martin Melzer and Mr and Mr, T M very, oppression, intolerance. e Twga t f two inches o f Wiow Mon- f amRy M oto were Sunday die- Rolfe. Word was r?ce;ved here In the next paragraph they re- day nio,m’nF which stayed on thr ner of v[t. tba<. Willard. Wth tho U.S.N. hnc affirm that they are going to win. Kround until a chinook wind and and ^ rg Dean Reynolds. arrived overseas safely. In the next they do away with a warm drizriy rain made and Ralph E c\in and R J Baker • arrived here Mou- ■ a rld disappear into the ground on fam(ily were dinneT guest« at the ¿ay evening from The Dalles to tyranny again. Giad to of ; _ _ Tuesday night. _ - • home of. Mr and Mrs Harold Ea remain several days on business. I ~ Finally they came ^aPth hope B Johnson and P L Scham 1 Sunday. Gene Vintin arrived here Tues- NOTICE TO CREDITORS and determination and leave returned last Saturday from a Mrs Wren Hogue has been ap day from Corvallis to ~T'.end the Ail persons having claims a- friends, which is 'probably an in- ^^ut trip to Kaiskela, the new pointed J acting pcrtm««t'‘r f o r week here with relatives. <hcatk^ of <hc hope lumber town on the De«chu.tw Grass Valley beginning the first gainsi the estate of Clara Mc « » « rfver- oorarzs«* and ovszl -to mAmte /A T of, > the xi. _ ___ _;_ t I T l.’t.* — .11 year _1 wh°n D \ T Pike will over determination. |Points Bride Stone, Deceased, are hereoy retire. Favorable cornment ehould be B*™.* notified (to present them, with the Tom Fraser had bls houl- Mr his left t shoul Mr and and Mrs Mrs H H W W Hughe« Hughe« „of of proper vouchers and duly verified, the docw w nt ** the pre- d«r broken last Friday at h i BakeT left Sunday after «pending A T 1 < 1 f O O C l S S l l © to the undersigned, the duly ap of the United States, the f®rm when the horse he was rid- a few days visiting at the home pointed, qualified, and acting Ad soviet union and inK of Mr and Mrs C M Clevenger. PLACE: Grass Valley Library ministrator of the Estate of Clara G nM BH E ,H Moore, injured in a mo- Mr and Mrs John Block and Mrs McBride Stone, deceased, a.t the Casablanca they were tor accident on the Columbia bign; John Hays returned home Satui . liOO to 5.00 p...m. office o f . T. Lester Johnson, at JtOOSEVELT and CHURCHILL, way last month, was able to I)*5 day evening from Portland whert SPONSOR: Social Service Society torney at law, at Wasco, Oregon, There may be, and probaWy are brought hor”» frem Portland la’’ they spent several days .on buai within six months from the date DATE: Saturday, December 18. noss. some excellent reason why • the Sunday, 0/ first publication of this notice, text of what was agreed upbn Refreshments will be served. to-wit: November 19, 1943. cannot be released. What was gnven out i« a mighty thin gruel people who are fighting and dying and in need of stronger THE OLD JUDGE SAYS. . . spiritual food from what wns a world shakjhK meet. 4 zx ........... ........ ....... B azaar ‘ H. A. White Administrate :• Date of last publication - Dece-r- ber 19, 1943 Date «f first p-ufolication-Novem- ber 10, 1943 Moro Lodge No. Ill, 1 .0 . 0 . F. Moro. Oregon Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in I.O..O.F. hall T.ai sient and visiting brothers are cordi ally invited to meet rith us. Charles C. Wilson^ N.G. Percy Thompson. 8ec. g ro w in g some other crop such as meat, wool, poas or other, yet to be discovered crop. Th a is antagonistic to wheat farmer desire or habit although R may be recesaary in a few years. Third, hhere may be enough pol itical strength in farming area« to cause the government to ship wheat abroad for an indefinite number of years regardless of economics. It i« surely realized that this would m?rely delay the eventual result as it did before. Fourth, there may be enough ir.dustrial develoipm«nt (Sn the northwest after the war that the demand for all foods would reduce the acreage of wheat until the north west wheat crop could be eaten here by man or beart. This ir a good solution but a little on the optimistic aide- Fifth, the wheat growers nught actively and quickly support the cbemurgic development so that some use for wheat could be found that would provide a use far the surplus and at the same time bring more wheat eaters to the northwest. There is probably not enough time for this to happen before supply again catch re up -with weak demand. Certainly there is no iniosmed person who will argue against the sUtement that eventually we *can grow only as much wheat a< |w e can aell to a bona fide purcl»- laser—one who wants to eat or ^process wheat I Any plans for ’ high domestic Ifrtc* o«d foreign dumping jnuc’t eol<Jier atickg bead foxhole to l« - Un thig pro?raim The ¿a still shooting. In Other Days ____ ______________ From the Observer, Dec. 11, 1911 a gpecia i meeting of the farmers’ union, held Satur- day> 100,000 grain bags were |x)ughrt under contract for har- veid delivery at the lowest quot- price coming under our notice year. Sherman county has had snow covering its wheat fields for the jaat ^ y g . The (first to arrive followed a severe rain stonmthat offset the previous lack o f mrow- Since then several small «now storms have ocrurred. but ground has had hardly en- Ough covering to protect it from subsequent freezing weather, A d ass of fourteen represents t jve farmer» joined the farmers* onion local lodge last Saturday, The lb t inciu<}e<i C h^, Anderson, Cha- Bullard, H H Brackett, R 5 Hansell, Frank Hennagin, Jas. Kenny, Herman Christian««, E A Cushman, A C Thompson. Mar tin Hanaen. C G Hub. I K Ax- u ll w A W<xxb t G A Meloy Th? two by „^ewal. Fr<Ma Observer, Dec.Y. 1MI H A Page’s new market will >g*jn snake it a point to have frerti fish by tr^in every Thun»- i To th e p e o p l e o f G rass V a lle y and K ent: S e ason s G r e e tin g s , A s is our usual cu stom w e w ill have y o u r Christm as tre e again this y ear. G rass V a le y G rain G ro w ers EATING is a daily performance, a habit aim 1st universal, praise be. B U Y IN G F O O D I 1 is almost so. You need a constant, steady, handy source of supply where the larder can be replenished with goed ‘food at good prices. T h at means------------- — Zeigler’s Grass Valley •‘Never knew that before. J u d g e ...I would have sworn it vzas just the other way ’round.” •‘No, Arthur, the grain used in distilling war-alcohol is not wasted. In an efficient dis tillery up to 29% of it is reprocessed and is returned to farms like yours in the form of premium-quality livestock feed. “ Remember, this nourishing remainder ¡9 plumb full of protein, vitamins and carbo hydrates and becomes a highly-prized feed concentrate. TSi» “ B y developing new products from this processed grain, the modem distilling in dustry has taken a leading part in solving the vital shortage of cattle and poultry feed ingredients which are rich in vitamins B -l and B-2, so essential to satisfactory growth and production. / “ And what I have told you about the absence o f grain w a ste in m aking war- alcohol, Arthur, also applies in the making o f whiskey, aftAoagA not a drop has b u n mado in this country fo r over a year.*9 aptmtnS Vy Co^ftrmct nJ AleoMie B etra f Ittdtutrin, Inc.
