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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1944)
Warm Days Marshall Inspects Oahu Jungle Fighters tension Men Drive Out Frost an 1944 Crops '\ 9 , Moisture Below Normal And W inter Slipping Along Toward Spring to a federal judgeship or some political job, usually with a life time tenure. These appointments did not m atter, because of the trem endous m ajority, until the Inst two years when the places of the lOO-percenters were capture-1 by Republicans. Oregon removed its one Democratic house member bv electing a Republican and W ashington ReaublJcan. rn.de in- ro .d s on it. solid Democratic del- r, egatron. W hatever may be the outcome on the »residency, it is now free* ly .predicted th a t the PepubBe.n party will be in control - of the house following the November election. Of the 217 Democrats remaining not ali are new <|«kw3 and. in fact, m any of them a re a s opposed to the political policies of the adm inistration as are th* nw t reactioTvarv Rpni>b1ican<, T«ko the of Representative . . .... Sm ith of Virginia, an old-line Democrat, who demands that the departm ent of justice tak; . Dr°; ceedings against Philip M urray of CIO. contending th a t CIO is violating tti« law in coBroting an ’und to im » $800.000 campaign fund iised for Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Smith f and Senator Tom Connallv Texaa are sponsors of a bill pro hibiting labor unions from contri buting monev to -political cam- pp.igns. Members of the CIO in the northw est have been chipping in to the fund, as heretofore re- ported in this column. • • • . . , , , sre pro ises n p V work for the AMG (allied * ..... ...... . m in- ta ry government) in the liberated « ¿ t r i e , of which armers, AAA, Unseasonable^ J For the first time in 11 years the new deal h as loat ita m ajor ity in the lower house of the con- Kress. This has been brought about by death, by resignations and by appointm ents to federal jobs- Today there are 217 D e w ocrwts in the house, and a major- ity : ; 218. N or have the Repub- l'cr.-s a m ajority. The gradual e> fce: • nnation of Democrats of th e nr v deal variety has been prog v~ ri"g. From time to time, when there was a whopping Dem- ocratic m ajority, President Roos*i- « I t would reward some faithful house member by appointing him O ffic ia l C ounty P aper Moro, Oregon Friday, .January 21, 1944 F if t y - S ix t h Y e a r N o ^ 11 ---------------- W h . . . -i -..... , ■ ■■■ « I Jh| «'»* F or the peat week the weather ha«, been very nuxah unlike Jan uary- The days have been Warm, This week fo r instance Monday's top was recorded ae 47, Tueeday •» and Wednesday at 56. E arlier in th e m onth there were 8on** daX8 thM wer* warm *b o - Coldest weather £pr the month bas been 14 which is not very <»ld the normally coldest m onth of the year, The temiperature, however, b not what ,4a WWiylug the farm ere w'ho st* nd on <ftreet cor- neTs m the sunshine and hope for * bi* ’ now W hat they w ant *a afalfagra. Moisture lacking *Pbe i«ikiuiierf allow in which the 1944 crop is planted is wet clea»- down, because of 1943 croa> year moisture and the big rains of October. Almost no prerim tn tion has fallen since then. Nov <’•"**«■ " " than U9Ual Dcc eTOb«r tb * loweMt and iO f ay <" fallCT and "'<**• o f ‘b ' i d’' , ' Dat^ beaaune in the o-round. b e« u ae of frost f r e t fa oroun.l Normal for January is l.W. Stories th at the mid weM •3 dry are not so im portant as «ro most mid-west normally receives ’ta Prec’pitation in tbs* wny’n* £ J ^ V ^ ^ t e r ¿ T * Paralysis Ball Scheduled For January 29 Bond Sale Starts Toward County Goal of $142,100 The dance that has been gw en annually to raise money for Salesmen Working Daily the treatm ent and prevention of More Wheat, Less Barley, Infantile Paralysis will be given To Sell Bonds To Neighbors this year at the Moro Legion Hail Fewer Hogs Asked of January 29th. Mrs Lawrence Ken In Fourth W ar Loan Farmers Thts Year ny is chairman. Tickets are on . , . o u Sales of $14,850 in war bonds mu >• *u t j rale a t McMillan r m Wa-sco. Buch • The meeting with farm ers and v were ^ a d e the first day of the . .. . . oRz Confectionery in Moro, Ed Jepreeentattves of the « * » ■ « " A„ Grass Valley and Nor Fourth W ar Loan cam pa.gr m — — and „«d AAA AAA ,.ro„ u io .( M oro ^ ve a s t a r t to w a rd th e service was u held last f J Friday fo r a general 'discussion ton » m KnUfy, ,— goal if $142,WXFwhieh this county of the program to. be followed by Thc quotas fo r the , March of is expected to raise before Fri>- ^Sherman county producers d u rin / Dimes, another feature of the lg whpn drlVe ciosws< campaign against Infantile Paral- „ „ ..u si:* .. r ,1944. Possibility of raising this f-inn Charley Smith said there wa-t wa y01- X«’ 1 a «‘« r« • ««s«« hi«her y8ar than be a n.m strengthened by the informa- A 3 fore At Grass Valley A A Dun . < . ,to be little change from 1943 :,. *” ..___ ♦!.„ tion that there is more money th e labor situation, little improve- laP i» collwrting funds for the the local bank than in September | m ent in machinery supplies and canrrPaign. as th e r r is more money on de possibly a better stock of extras posit throughout the state than ’ i . lea. demand for pork. J u i l i o r S P r e S M l t P l a y at the beginning of the Third W ar Loan drive. OPA not relenting, as local pnek- T o L a r g e C r o w d Because of the success of the lo ing houses have closed. The de cal efforts in the form er drive mand is for cereals, he said. Dry I t all happened at Mrs. Skip- «•h»"*«' have b,M' n ™ade in ><23 adible peas are wanted by the gov w orth’s (Doris Payne) boarding ‘ba I»” 1 organization and then ernment. Chicago. Her place was wb<‘" neceaary. In a gener- At one time, he reported, the icaUy infested wiU) workinc al way the same men will cover Gen George C. MarehaU. I'. S army chief of staff, and Lieut. John sta te had around 4.000,000 acres praC IC* y everything from the tfrT' , “r y i • Ferguson (left! of the Infantry, watch a well trained jungle fighter un<ler pk)W In 1943 2.96.5.300 girls w,'° ' the five and ten to re- H Joe Petere atar^ r a s h , fisrbed wire .b s la c le w lih a (as. large. L lc r to .s a . Fcrguscn an io- wa# crapped , f , he nationa) working m the crash siructor ln Jungle fighting, w-.s the Bist married man to be dratted [ram — po rting. There was Dorothy Brill Moro and west dLstnrt 5 ■tractor i n e>u* • •• - • * goal ls achieved there should bo p „ „ „ u / ,i. and has already reported sales oi San Antonio, Texas. „ (P atricia Pinkerton) Peggy Wal- J . ,'J l - .3.116,460 acres in cron in 1944. ~ u.,,. above $12.00,• Collis Moore and -------_ _ _ ---------------- 4 • , There is already 802,000 in fall erS ar, aJ7 kt ____ i „ A rt Bucholtz are in the Hay Can man (P atty French) Nancy Lane . . . . , 4 wheat. , tv , . v jz * D ^,,eiu von district today and Gtarenc* (Veda Belshee) -Kate Roberts 1 __ _ ,, n ' . !.- • u. \ d m .r. Sparling and M ernl Oveson will He recommend! d n > cb vn JA najean Knighten) Rosma w an- the .. ish , ztv ori, Jones) > t k Minnie < d the f Lone Rock and upper V ^ r /v In h i T h n t N t X x J A t t p n t i n n th% long ' T thr*» 1 7 program. " " ? c, ' “ dish (D P eter, work 7 ' ’k tb (D ons Jones) Minnie Peters * e a r ly ^ O O S I H C t ^ lO W lO J l / Clyde , Kaldl- sa.d (Dorothy B .rn e t) and Maroella Hav Cany° " cour* ry, ..............s . c T o E D u n AGAINST t y had 121.000 . _ T urner (Margie Barnet). Thé com- ___ H D Proudfoot will tell bonds pROCEE1MNCg o p . JANUARY CLAIMS P R z E - S . tN ’c° “nt* ; ;i i s ; < for crop in 1944, n&rm.il’ . y *«■■*'-* I t the district southwest of Waaco. 5 J#44 MEETING OF COUNTY ____________ SHERMAN OOUNTY, OREGON ab,e fr ___ r , edy part that of the awkward . GENERAL AND ROAD FUNDS had 134.500 acre’ m on even , ____ _ A_ th at bounded on the north by the COURT maid Imogene, fell to Gloria Wasco west road, the weet by the In re: Claims presented against FOR DECEMBER, 1943, AND years and 136.000 in odd years c0‘u; t7 ^ ~ ™ ï ".„d"' « » , ! ' Funds: A P P R Ö W B D jÖ J A N U A R Y H e a ,k « l for increased m arket- D° Uma Deschutes river, by Gordon ridge claims allowed as presented and TERM OF ’’J J x ^ ^ N T Y COURT of cftUk ]944 t<> r^duc<l It seems that Kate’s brother Qn thp Sherman ordered paid. total numbers to 13 percent (Dean Wilcox) had gotten on east. Ormand Hil th' County T rearurer presents tnon- General Fund: himself into some difficulty by derf)ran<J and A lt s ^ t h wiU take ^ f* D ^ ^ r^ l^ 4 3 ^ S tT te - WrigM 7aW the wheat t r o u g h « ato^ and their old district from the W -c o January Court Session Finds Many . ment examined, approved and or- fll, been dered ground by the Application presented by H H. . • __ W illard for reconwnendation of cWnOOk >nd court for rm ew al of Beer License: shine putting the ground in ex- Recommended th a t license be is- ceyent condition for a snow for sued. firwt time since the first of Court approved and signed two U e m h e r when, freezing -began. cron south of Gordon ridge wm eonal to th at of 1942 bu*t hod fa„ pn dnwn n<)rtJh thftt n5d<?e . .. , making the total crop alighHv under the previous year. The county now had 15.000 head of as compared to 3000 :r 1935 a pedestnafi. Ha wefl)t rojtd h ighw ay.-It ia " « te d by Sergeant Kelly (Wayne pvTXvtpd ex-Judge Potter Melzer) and put on trial while all again cover the Klondike dis- firirls triod to find m^ans of A ___ A I p t tn ct. Because of .line« of Alex ‘ , Macnab another will have to be been force(^ to « rive recklea y obtained to take the northeast a ifanff«^er* district with C. E. Goats. All Right In T h , End At G r ^ s Valley a meeting fait expense $7 50. May & Son. County . In the afternoon the visitors heW Sunday to determine who iail expense $1-01: W est Coast endeavored to determine percen- - ^ en Howard (Duane Lemley) ^ jll see their neighbors and take P r 'nting & Binding Co.. Assess- t agPa cf certain crons th at would reporter on an opposition patper OKjerR for fche government bonds 0 « « D ïllg le ” ° r ’" office expense $189.40; W T- hp Droducpd in relat jon to 1943 ®l«o a ^ but was ««orned by the A rthur Justesen and Dick Abell eiR9 9A^ Thev were told th e countv would K*rls, including Kate» , until- - he wyj ¿elicit in the Kent district, D ie s o f H e a r t A tta c k «‘pd fixtures courthouse .$152.26: aa proven ihim-vlf valuable. Henry from Bourbon south. j - » Mid-Columbia Typewriter Co., as- produce as m any potatoes. Mrs Eliza Dingle of Wasco died ’o d o r’s office extxmse $12.50; jnany dry peas (350 acres) a? Banks (Bob ,Brisbine), who came quota® are established for in a hospital in The Dalles Sun- f rtnrf roo,in r«nnrt tn T real Scl- f )Te^ on ^Late A crr’cn’^"r ‘J { h ’^ m a n v eats, 110 nercent as much to see Nancy, picked up a.h an g er- t j,p geverai sections of pie county eXening a fte r a few hours ective Board showing effort’ hav- 'XT»nnronriut?on for A gricultural wheat, 25 percent as much b a r ° ” * L mpy ^B(*b although there is competition to suffered a heart ing been made relative to renlace- Ac.pnt *110500; Sherman Countv lev. as much hav (16.0(H) acres), about it and thus the release of thl£. “ at eacy, »bowing is as afctack ftt Wa5co honK, eari_ m ent of present D istrict A ttom -v. Jo„ rnal't ’ county printing $7.25 R,>bt of way makes up from 5 the was accomplished. Hank good M any thp day ftnd succumbed Union Oil Gomnanv presented Giles L. French, nremrums on offie- / percent of the total acreage, .(Harold Melzer) quarreled with Thp campaign runs from JMn shortly a fte r reaching the hospi- c°2^rac.t f(* s L7natuJ en .?f pr" bnnd‘' *1 0 0 D epartm ent of ' explained " th<4 mai<1 and the landlady on hi<? uary 18th until February 15, a snortiy a lte r reacning P pertaining to Gas A Oil ouroh- A griculture, sealer, w eig h ts and 11 was e*™aineu. t r;n<» fnr the laundTv • j t v tai. - ases for 1944: Action deferred measures $3 76: Pac Tel. & T -L 1 Tb>8 wdl make the coun’v frequent trips for tfry. perK>d of four weeks, Mrs Dingle was born in Indi- pending further coprideratrion. telephones nil offices $28.95: City acreage division roughly as fol B arry Richard» (Tommy er Delegation nf Voro. w ater ater m for r courtnouso courthouse *1. «1. lows: ]OWR. 106,700 acres of wheaL .married Rosina to add another in- I.n n a rv 24 ----- 1863 and . came veiegaiion appeared before n-m re the in»- nf Wwo. w N e w S y s t e m G iv e s an a- y court, isubm ittier n - budget Co., in lignt . . > v , tereat to - - J - 05. £ p „ P power A Light Sfafa d u ,. . _AA’ Tom the / play, J the McDermid who control of Mormon Cricket’ dur- | rfa» Âocideut. C^mtui’ s^on, peace mainder of the crop land is in Juniors in their play and cast F e w M o r e P o in ts will be fa r from agreeable and m arried John wa3 ing sum m er of 1944: Court exures- nflR nPr’s nrnt/>ctjon $5 31; J. C which will te s t the ndrnini»tr«tive died in il920. In . *be to cooperate pend- r rPPn,pn PM ., box rent due ouar- crested wheat grass, little of ,thorn in parts ao skillfully that ability of m em ber, to the uhmort. >»»"¡«1 *> R-chard Drngle who in»” vrilRpgnesa Mrs. America’s point stamps furth*r developments. -31.' 1^44 $3.16- which will be disturbed. the play held the interest of a A number of prominent Oregon pnn®»^, , , . . xl still will bring tier about the C ountv Tr®a*s»*‘*r n fc’ ^nls c°urt j g F r*''«w i P st*si»w c1<*vkn Also the m -n present »aid .1 I a rye crowd every m .nute th . and W arhinrton men h are been SunrivinK *re a * r " ^ ith aemi-anmml ronort ooyerir ofAr-' $10.06: - M ri L. L. T svlor. v.oter:o«r5nn’ fi^M ,h*V'*r *0 °0: was their opinion that cattle (Curtain was up. aaaijrned to t h e ., duties, .m om , ^ ia B r<” ™ W „ tp o rt. Ky., - n o d from .TnW 1. 1<HS to .Ta-, a fter the new ration token plan x a brother Alfred 'Smith of Po- ’,rv 1, 1944; Report approved an 1 F irst National Bsnk. with-Jvdding would he reduced the requested*--------------------- goes into effect the latter part ^ 'T r o r t t a T CnW orni. •* * * w r t « «Hr.......... ¿ ± 7 « ^ 19 ' h” P **“ *•“ I 1 . W iL v of February. At the present time B u r ie d Multnomah county district Judge ° * le in T h e __Da*,*,K G n n b t v ^ e e o r e r to purihsen w^»r ply ¿fcyo’f office exmoTVJp $9 45 about th4 some in numbero and J . J« i f IIICj consumers g et ration stam ps in Multnomah county ; Mecmillion Co., Sun’t, offic» Hogs would be cut to 40 percent, Donald S. Long Some of the ard Dingl^, Mrs Nellie Fields bonds to th*» extent of ^ 0 0 A co the amount of 64 points per mon In P o r tla n d 'ntvlinip oriro, (from Post W ar ne ultry and victory gardens Fontiuwed on P age Four men from th ° Pacific northw est Prudence FI th for meats and fats, and 48 Sinking Fund. remain about the same. are alroadv on duty in North Af- are 9teD «b >W"n; points for processed food»- When In re: Offiein1 AumMuf^n^nts fr,r Wallace Mav, AAA chairman, Julius J. Wiley, long time res «11 rica and Sicilv and. others will he Mrs Dingle bas long been in- vp^,r of 1O44 tbrt f-Mowing rr W i l l i a m H o l d a w a y presided, and local committeemen »dent of this section, died Sun- « J be worth 10 nointa eiven aroiCTments a , rani<Wv a., »«"reated m dhurch work and rm r«ro»nl, aereed th a t it w a , advisable th at day in Portland a fte r an ¡line« «tamps will be worth 10 point, agreea wrnt it was auvisame tn at / each. Three stamps wiH become territory is released iron, Ger- b« b- ^h T " U d T ^ e ’ D ie S H e r e F r id a y community m e e tin g be held te of »bout a month He ha., baen a each evolences. She traveled extensive- __ . , , J man bondage. , . . G ^ m fv H ea lth r)ffie*»r. D r F th cl Illlam M. Holdaway, «1, died Kive information about practice res^ ent of tbe for about ' two-week period for m eats and « « a . xi_ «? • • i b ' until recent - years m aking a p . w. t b a in e t'v’^n^ensv ^ u n England and Palestine be- Countv Truant Officer: Sheriff at in Moro «, the t««c home w ..»v. of ro. his .— son ................. ...... payments . - and plans for 1944 pro years fats, making n monthly total <9t Friday mornine. January 14 from A ction to all farm ers who will When a young man Mr. Wiley points F}ye proce„ e d food * . , , , , , fore the war. C. C. Wilson, dertakm g has been rendered v a s t , u„ worked in the old U m atdla house stam p, wi„ lbe validated each Funeral service» were held Count,' Fair^Boa-d Member for tubercu,osis. He been here attend. ly more difficult Ihy the develon- Thursday from the in The Dalles until he came to m<)nth making a M Christian member renppointTd (o 3 this winter but had not been ~ ment of fractional divisions in Shaniko where he built the first M(,atg <n<| are church in Wasco of which she was s t^rm. ............................ ............»- xeriously Hi u n u i ............ recent w eens. I l J p /V , Poland. Yu- a ,on* time member. Interm ent ’ y^sr building when th a t town wa» eIpected dropped »lightly . . Italy, France.-Greece, ... j>eMo’ s Memorial Park Board: a jr f orces. and one grand daugh- K C Cl L f O S a U U O lB go,lav,a and o th e r, of the sm aller Jb fcm etery .. c t v Conrt ; Mf Hol(lawav Tex. . started in 190«. He was later In M(J proceMed food, point, prob-- countries conquered bv Hitler. ______ _ buaines» in Kent and Grass Valley aWy wi„ go Mm. Am- P o w e ^ d f l l a« March 12, 1882 and cam e to $ 4 1 0 0 T h l S Y e a r each faction claiming to renra- •_ . * ; ’ . ............ .. ..„ ... before buyinK “ farm e a ,t e ric , should come out about the Washington when a baby, living sent a m alority of the people [ ^ ¡ 5 C o a t S H O H O f PMce tirni. County Road Foreman: L. L. fo r many years a t Glenwood. He The county’s Red Cross quota th at town. He farmed a few ^ m ^ e ^ e p t ghell get token, and each demanding recognition Psctz. > V j, 9urvjved by a sister, Mrs Jack has been set a t $4.100 for thc years before hi» retirem ent to worth one |n change, and bv th . United Nations. In Italy. $ t u ( Je n t a t E Q C £ S t* « * Portland, two »on«. Mamh drive, the largest quota the i n s u r a n c e ^ real estate theae » m ham no explm- Greece these do ?ece and Yugoslavia Y ugoslavia Wiese do- ag«.TndeTT”” tv FiiP't: W Kn»ck- • .. . w. ~ A v _ — v„,i an,«, hndne«.« in Portland tion date. •tie differences -have reach ed -’ Miss Lois - Costs, daughter of ert. Tom Douma, Louis Sather. Cpl. Charles I. with the U. the county • p me stage of onen hostilltlro. and Mr and Mrs C. E-Coats of Wasco, „C o u n ty Brand Inspector: T en Engineer» in the south Pacific capita quota, i. $2^40 .I ” I ' .« f i ,./ the stage - ------------ —— ------------------ ------- - Garrett and Pvt. R ichard.» now thought the population figures released a son Ed and a grand daughter, Members of the American Le- a sim ilar situation is rapidly de- ja on the second honor roll fnr ’ Jn Apnointol,ent n t Eiection , w. r thls week which give the county Mrs Gus Koe\>ke of The Dalles gion and American Legion Aux veloping in Franco In Pol pad the fall term a t the Oregon College of county votin’ nro. ; 1108 citileB, t increa«. of 65 a„ d d . a step ,tep eon, Herman Praag. ellow eon, Herman Praag. ¡11.,y iliary m m ot et fa a t the the Odd Odd F Fellow’ governm ent in exile is being dis- of Education a t Monmouth. T hu emet’ for years of 1944 -and 1945. with tne a ir corps vngmoei - ----- - - - - Funeral services were conduct- hall Wednesday night for a pot- credited ’by its, controversy with honor goes to those . who hav- Board so appointed subject t-> re- Freinds from Glenwood and Roo s.nce the fall count. The Red Cro«s campaign will ed in Portland Wednesday with luck dinner. A welcome was giv Russia, over the Boundary quea- e a r n e d « grade-point average of c)r(,oit <ollrt j , lrv e„m. H o racV w h ite a life long »tart in March. It ii expected th a t interm ent in Lincoln Memorial er to four discharged from the tion, and even Norway la not free 3. o r better whde carrying a mm- nam ea. ,e )ecte,) • f,)r «« did Horace w a n t a m e g th„ „ u„ . v PnrV armed ......................... forces of the present war. from domestic turmoil. ' imum -of 1» term hour.. Miss ,944 »„d lint thereof c o -m l-d friend from Portland. the annual m eeting of the roun y P , rk. Gene Lockett, Loyal Zell, Cliff- The prospect of aetting up d e m - Coats graduated’ from W arm No fu rth er m atters being a t ia- Fun oral services were conduct- aa»oc.at,on will be held in a f e w ------ m e proanv« ... - - m - -•, . . . - . . . CallffWay, Jn DalleJ Glen McLachlan returned from ord May and Max B ehM who da a -rn. ’ AZV X 1X X»V1 0/1 lOA >O/*T I . J m 1 1 z^ggfn g fa-gw 1 W *h "l" The A A IB U 1 1 /> 3 weeka 8nd ,pians made to conduct o cr.tK * ’ ™ ' ™ t h e '“1' of vriuniy r °unty .»uuv-e. i ' ± ’ - _______ — Tuesday interm ent in the the work of obtaining the fund, the hospital late last week and la aro eligible to bteome Legion Tnesdav with i der such conditions » not en- and is now a freshman \o n ttye A ttest: RGBS ORNDUFF a^ ,« . .. a recuperating at home. v nalxes. requested. Clerk of Court Odd-Fellows cemetery there. Continued on Page Two campus. MrS. located in Hay’s Addit;eo to Mern to Charles and Myra Ro’lard. H B Pinkerton and Dewey Thrmnson conferred with court latfVe to cattle crossing and «¿/i DnojT a.„iv«wF Co., 1943 Cumulative P o ck 't parts fcr aC L > A . H 0 .00; F irst Nation- a l Bank. Old Age Assistance $115. (X). F irst National Bank, a.d to the blind $7.60: First National Bank, aid to dependent children $50.80; David Reid, County Com- mi’is’ener $9.00: Vernon I. Miller,