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-
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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
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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
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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
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4 V» « m A k*. jam
a aa aa
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? in X the
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V
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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
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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
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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.
_
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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
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_;_ t I T
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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
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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
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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.