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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1944)
ttttfcu journal F i f t y - S ix t h * * Moro, Oregon F rid a k Jupe 23, 18^4, a ft O ffic ia l C o u n ty P a p e r -» Tillage Plots Visited} New Plowing Tested A column o f news About Government, War Bond Sales Three Counties With Biggest E Bond Sales Launch Rain Brings Brighter Prospect Start Slowly; For Wheat Crop As th e s u p e r fo r tr e s s e s w ere [ h e p F urrow D rill U sed com ing off the assem bly lines . . , , a av rk - tn u The land was seeded wrth a h u n d red , of thou“ " £ < deep furrow d rill. 14 in c h « be- Experiment CricAef Control Few Changes In T otal rainfnll for June has been exactly one inch a t the statio n , th ere being .17 on the 8th, .02 on the 9th. .44 on the 16th. .02 on the 17th and .35 on the 18th- R a h over the week end ch an g ed the prospects fo r a w heat crop fo r th e b etter. U ntil S atu rd ay .44 had fallen a t Moro and th a t n ig h t an o th er 36 fell to moke n early an inch when combined witl> the traces and l i t tle showers. While there is n o th ing phenom enal ab out th a t much rain in June i t is very pleasan t to receive and in th is case, insures a much b e tte r w heat crop than seem ed likely. Several places in the county re ceived m in atu re cloud b ursts, th a t washed sum m erfallow in sports. One 0/ these fell east < m £ (yrass V alley and an o th er fell Monday at K ent s o a k n g th a t town fo r a few m inutes In a «bowery period such as the week end some spots are missed w ith th e heavier rains and this has been the case this tim e. But th e rain waa general enough to prove very helpful. fo r the the building airfields ' .n CAina C hina for - e e i a l uae of t h i . flying b attle- P** ~. • a r ia M .,uir- ship. These airfields were requir H , » - «oumk thn ed as a base from which the P 0 9 . could fly from C hina to B ¿Vs y J a p a n H c tu r e , of the C h m e « Station Field Job Nearing End Here9 School District Farm Bureau The farm demonotrution on the Barnett Estate land on which Joe Belanger is testing a new * method of making sumerf allow wifA e tp tc ia l em phasis was inspected Tuesday night by a group of 20 farmers who had been invited by county agent, M right, to look over the crop Like so many other things in which ia now maturing, this war, the B-29 superfortress Mr Belaniter explained - that which was a . »C- sec- Whlch bombed homhed J Japan .p « . ™ *n at- Politics and People on the Northwest re t w ith held from th e A , m erican .. people until the ep e rta c u ta r raid on the ateel mill» a t Y aw ata. (M ore th an a m illion to n . o f « r a p « « , »hipped to thoee m .lh. from the Paeifte northwwt prior to the war, valued at many millions of dollars). It is true that is tru e th a t *®®re3 new spaper r e p o r te d knew a ll a- to u t the B-29 b u t they were pled- i,ed to eocrory w rite a line and im td the raid had been made. However, ere inklings in pufcl tions gave a h in t— b u t n o th in g . ' to . show . _ farm . __ _ ers. _ how . _ tempt . , to done te s t . me. t n b ^ e The po- , tuW)le M d str> w piowlng e itS e r th e ground , or mixed w ith th e top soil. . _ The The „.«ailed metropolitian coun C ounties buying th e h ig h est per Above picture ia of a tanker •Ust is m ade by keeping the ties, Multnomah, Clackamas, Hood ca p ita am ount of E bonds in each stubble on top of the ground. This eimiliar to one that wJl be laun River, Washington and Columbia of th e tre e d istricts will be p ri of ched by county groups from three nre in one diotrlK. the Willamette vileged to launch one of these R pIW(.nt ccuniiee in Oregon whose citizens valley counties are in another and sh ps. Sherm an county h as had to r ly. I f it ran produce a» much make the best record for sale of the eastern Oregon counties w ith tnc highest per cap ita E bond sale wHeat pn(J t(w U nd can be worked L bonds during the present cam Jnekaou and Joseph ne are the fo r th e Third and F o u rth W ar 1 , &s economically, it will be consid- paign. third group. L oan drives. cred a successful experim ent , , rm m o re. 1***n rowa. T here • are wane w eed, *lthou« ^ n o t m ore than the aver- t g e field. Seed waa p u t on a t 72 * K pounds per ac re as com pared to *> »" « d W » « l»"d ' On r^M> »»m te r pl<* south jf Day Tomorrow B«ty Farmers Can a t woric were p ..MUenrr w' ,nr tillage method, were used p u b lic a t,« ,. b u t the j u g n ^ n c . * c f these fields was not compr* , « c- th e neighborhood, being cleaner of bended by the A m encan madia. p u b ic . W hat they « w w w .» e rm y of coolw . carry in g load. See Tears Expernoenb la Oae Afternoon Saturday, June 24, is the day of th e Field day a t the ex perim ent of rock in e h p lo t th e day o f th e field day a t statio n. pole over then- .>*«>der». £ y , , .rp e r,m e n ta l farm , w ay the Chinese vegetable g ard - . Farmers and o th e rs interested en e rs used to vend th eir w ares to will m eet at the station at one housewives and in Seattle. Portland Tacom a. The airfields with hand -power, were V O U H I J nothing P a ttflt i N o C hange One day a B-29 in a te s t flight W ithout a rg u m e n t th e county tra s h e d into a m eat (packing plant co u rt, actin g as th e county levying in S eattle, killing several people board, passed on th e c o u n ty bud- end w recking p a rt of the build ng g e t as published and passed it to The public knew it w as a new assessor who will figure the plane b u t made no inquiries, for ta x lev«« th erefro m . The budget testin g new planes in the p ast i>oard gave its OK to the move, th ree years has become ro u t n tt. E stim ated ex p en d itu res are L ater the B-29 w ent into mas« >111399.10. a g re a t deal more production. The Boeing comipany. than th e $75,026.60 th a t was es- in its several factories, w as do- Unrated to be expended la st year ing a m a g n ific a t job. The big E stim ated receipts was $49,715- f lanes were taken to I n d a and qq also m uch la rg e r than the thence flown to C hina and the >14.157.38 of la s t year. Jap an ese ag e n ts knew all about The tax levy will be alm ost them the tim e of th e ir arriv al, identical as $64,184.10 will be th e ir size and speed and th e air- r8i«ed by the 1944-45 b u dget us fields hi China The Jaipe knew the com pared to $60,868.22 fo r 1943- E-29 was ntended to find its U r- 44. All m oney to be raised will gets in the land o f th e m ikado, and com e under th e 6 percent lim ita- knowing this, they began decen- t »on. tia liz in g th eir w ar industries Main change in the budget wa- and surrounded the Y aw ata plant r a c in g of a fund of $40.00') w ith a n ti-a irc ra ft weapons. fo r poet-w ar road b u ik in g Oth**r So fa r as the enem y was con- changes w ere m inor. cerned, they were well advised a s ----- t< the n a tu re of th is new bomber and realized th a t they w ere to be or. the receiving end. B ut, what between the photographs of th e coolies pounding out an immense airfield w, th th eir bare hands and the loss of life and property when f bom ber fell in S eattle, th e Am erican public could see no con nection. B-29, no longer a hush- bush, is a m onum ent to the Boe Saved From Japs ing eng neers. Shipped o u t of the p o rt, o f the n o rth Pacific have been m any ton. of medical supplies and food m- Unded fo r the Am erican « I d l e r , who are held a . jxrinoner. o f w ar bi the J a p a n « * . T h e « conmgn- m e n t. have been taken 8t V ladivostok, along w ,th boots, b u tter, f a r m ' m achinery, e to . which th e R ussian* wldl use. TM a p p lie s fo r th e p riso n e r, o f w ar hatM- been w » re h o u « d in the cold Siber. an p o rt fo r m o n th , instead Of being rushed to them d « tm - ation. The hitch in tho program lies a t th e door of Joe S talin , t e g a llan t ally o f Uncle Sam Stalin refuses to perm it th« panose . h p . to Vladivostok and rem ove and medicine. W hy he has tak e this »land is not expHmed, f the Jap an ese are fam iliar w ith h a t p X t and th ey know every- th a t p o rt b e a d e d there. th in g th a t is ba g -o Und and tran sp o rted from P ug th e C olum bia river oy *»*9* _ - ^ ^ ¿ ¿ r ö i T ' P a g e Two «rriheir'tnd be conducted over the of *aa$> Rauf and 800 acres experim ents by M errill Oveson, .»uper n ten d en t, aided by O rm an W eaver. C ounty a g e n ts from ad joining counties an d S herm an county will be p re s e n t as will D. D. H ill, who is tak in g th e place left by the d eath o f George Hy- slop a t the college. Am ong the th in g s to be seen are th e pea tria ls which show d fieren t v arieties of field peas sown in different ways. In te re st in pea crops m ay n o t be very widepread bue fo r those who have stock such hiform ation is im p o r ta n t. Gr»<88 Strains Studied Johns«». • im ali Australlaa lad. wbe has heea a captive of the Jap s « o o a p y la g th e B e lla a d la , D»4«* New ° Oataea * to . , area. ionnd> utu< gugw t waa wearing a dtocarded j B>aaese army ghees three times tee large. of tilled land. Complete coverage 5s not expected b u t enough land is covered in an area to control crioketz- Coat to Sherm an county has been in excess o f $800 which is fo r board of th e men m <xmg the bait. Ground b aiting will be done ofc s trip s and along fence rows on farm ». OSC Speaker Defines Democracy “ Democracy is n o t a m as« move m ent b u t a way of life th a t is based finally in th e individual, his allegiance, his u n d erstan d in g , co- eperation and fo reb earan ce,” said P resident W illiam C Jo n es of Wh ttie r college in hi» commence m en t address here. He en u m erat ed th ree cardinal jirinciples of Am erican faith a s belief in the d ig n ity of man, belief in develop m ent of personality reg ard less of race, class or creed, and belief in equality of op p o rtu n ity . The sp rin g and w in ter w heat v a rié té « a re alw ays m a tte rs of in terest. The ra te and date of eroding tria ls h a v e both Elgin and Rex w heat and have ra te s o f sow ing of 65, 72 and 90 pounds per acre, a t v ary in g dates. The-se ore th in g s th a t have affected the 1944 w heat crop. The n u rse ry and ro tatio n plots will cause a stop of the caravan. And an E xperim ent in g rasses will a ttr a c t in te re st. N oi only k ’.nds of g ra sse s b u t stra in s of them are being grow n to d e te r m ine w hat s tra in s are b est fo r The N ation’« F arm A rm y of this area. T here is a difference six m illion along w ith th e ir town and local g ra sse s m ay be g re a t and city neighbors w ent into ac ly im proved by hew stra in s tion th is week on th e F ifth W ar Loan, the W ar F inance Division of the T reasury announces- Total goal fo r thi« loan is 16 bllEon dol lars by Ju ly 8. b a s t y ea r farm people bought $1,200,000,000 in Hellping to p re v e n t accidents W ar Bond a—a b o u t 10 pecent of on th e fa rm . R alph B risbine, P ac th eir n et income. W ith ah e s tim ific P ow er A L ig h t local ag e n t, ated net farm income of 13 Wl- h as offered th e help o f com pany lio dollars for 1944, bond p u r crew men to fa rm e rs who m 1st chases by farm people are ex p ect cross under th e lines w ith farm ed to be higher t h a y ea r than m achinery. B risbine said a re last. The W ar Bonds b o ught d u r q uest .'n advance by telephone or ing th e F ifth W ar Loan will en m a l will b rin g a service m an to able our governm ent to g e t m ore c ith e r ra ise th e electric w ires to and b e tte r war equipm ent fo r its m evide safe clearan ce o r will fig h ters than th e bonds b o u g h t a deaden th e line u n t i the m achine year ago, according to a com pil is d e a r of w ires. N o ch a rg e is ation o f w ar equipm ent co sts by m ade fo r th is service. the W ar D epartm ent. A heavy tx rrb e r, w h ijh ' a y ear ago cost J500XXX). today court* h a lf th a t ATTENDS CONVENTION much. A Bofors a n tl- a r e r a f t gun M r and M rs B ernard M artin form erly cost $26,Q00, now costs and d au g h ter, D eanna D arlene, ac- only $13XXM) A y ea r ago the G ar- co m p an e d by M r an d M rs Louis and Rifle cost $80- Today it costa R ather, retu rn ed from th e S ta te $35. 1A few item*, among them G range convention which was the good old A rm y mule, have held in G rant» Pa«« la s t week. gone up in price. A y ear ago L ittle D eanna stay ed w ith her Uncle Sam pflid $190 fo r an Arm y g ra n d p are n ts a t R oseburg, d u rin g mule. Today such a mule costs Uncle $226. - the convention. War Materiel Down Power Men Will Handle Wires ------- h a p -------------- p y smile is warn by An The report of H arvey Sum m ers, superviaor of the M onnoo cricket .b a itin g operation, ¿n his report as of Ju n e 17 says th a t 225,246 pound« of bait had been sp read in Sherm an county, 116.- 650 in M orrovt county and 79,588 in G illiam coslaty S herm an county h as been p r e tty well covered except fo r a «mall patch X n o rth e a st cor net o f the affegfeed area. T hia bait has been ap rea^ over 22482 acres Officials Made Kent Votes To Send High School Pnpils To Consolidated High N ex t w inter th e high school pupils of the K ent d istric t will be tran sp o rte d to th e Moro school ac cording to a vote taken Monday a t th e K ent d istrict school m eeting. R um ors th a t thia m ig h t happen have been current, b u t have gen erally been discounted as th e wish of the pupils and younger res - dents o f the district- It is expect ed th a t the addition of K ent to the M oro-Graas V alley.high school will add ten or tw e lv e 'p u p ils to this school. A t Moro, because of the resig nation of Vernon Miller, two di re cto rs were elected. C arroll S ayrs was elected fo r a th ree year term and W. C- Schilling was nam ed to succeed M ile r in the two y ear term . Mrs E rn est Woods was elected clerk. A t Buckley, A rt Schilling waa reelected director fo r three years and Law rence Todd was reelected clerk. The DeMoss d istict chose the sam e officers by reelecting H arry P inkerton as director and Mrs C harles B urnet as clerk. In the Erskine d s tric t H arold Ginn was reelected ’ director and Wily K nighten clerk- A t G rass Valley both Roy Schilling as d irector and W illard B arn et as clerk were reelected. Rosebush d s tric t reelected Sam S ta rk as director and H enry P et ers as clerk. Klondike made Lee D ehlar di re cto r fo r a three y ear term fol lowing his recent appointm ent as d irec to r and reelected George P o t te r clerk. M arvin Thom as was made school d recto r of the Wasco d istric t to replace Lewis H astings re tirin g d irecto r who is in the navy. Inform ation on how farm ers can g et th e m o st hauling done and suffer th e least inconvenience un d er cond tions o f farm tra n s p o rta tion th is year will be carried to every farm fam ily in the sta te , es f a r as possible, th ro u g h the neighborhood leader system , an nounced W L. Teutsch, a ssista n t directo r of extension a t OSC. “The farm tran sp o rta tio n pro- Uem is m ore critical than d u rin g any previous tim e,” «aid T eutsch. “ By inform ing all fa rm fam ilies as to the facts, it ia believed »co operation can b e tte r be obtained tow ard m eeting th e situations which m ay develop.” , N o leader train in g m eeting? are be ing planned in handling th is j’ob, b u t istead a farm tran sp o rta tio n handbook is being p repared by P aul C arpenter, sta te leader of fA rtt tra n sp o rta tio n fo r the ex- te n l ion service, fo r distribution to community leaders. Will Reorganize There will be held the re o rg a n ization m eeting of the Sherm an C ounty F arm B ureau in the C o u rt Houae a t Moro on F rid ay evening, Ju n e 30th. a t 8 o ’clock arran g ed by S ta te M em bership C hairm an, f a m H unter, to which all old and new m em bers and th e ir fam ilies and all o th er Sherm an County fa rm e rs are cordially invited. Mac Hoke of Pendleton, P resid en t of Oregon S ta te F arm B ureau, will be the principal speaker of the evening. Quotas Expected Total Sales Not Determined As Reports Not In On Work The county has made a fa ir « ta rt on th e purchase o f the $176,000 an bonds expected of it, but still h as m any thousands to Fo. Sale« of E bond» have not been heavy partly because solicitor« are busy and have to choose a con venient time to go bond selling. Some farmers have already bought but the greater number hare n e t C orporation sales are net. com-; ing very fa s t no far, although some of these come through tfcu f ta te organization and are credit ed th ere before th e nmns reaches Gherman county. The PasiAc Pow er A L ight haa b o ught $6060 and o thers are expected to eorrie in to fill th e $31,000 coarporation quota. The county court bought $14.000 of 1 1-4 percent bands with, the sink ng fund. These bonds hr paid in March 1947 and th» mon ey will be available fed. t road work a t that tame. F arm ers who a re able te look over th e ir crops • and estispato th e ir income th is year ana-bulg ing aeries C, treasury notea, with which to pay their inooshe tax and some Ge are being sold. E Bonds Moat P o p sta r Bulk of sales, however, in this county is in E bonds With rate making a good crop almost cer tain and with harvest close at hand a goodly part of the money on hand in the banks can be ex pended for bonds without haadl- capphtg the bueteeee of any Auras or. The exploits of our service men on all fronts is sim ulating to the patriotic citwen wants to aid his country and his country’s sons ir the battles for our national se curity. There should be' UtiJe doubt about this county reaching «t‘ quota and passing it te the same percentage as before- “ W EIG H TY " REPLY A local war price and ratio n in g board in P o rt A rth u r, Texas, re cently g et more inform ation than dt bargained for. When a woman, applying fo r an additional su g ar allowance for hom e-caning, fo r got to tell the num ber of pounds she needed, the Board prom ptly ---------------------- letu rn e d her appl cation and ask ed her- to specify the exact weight3. Via re tu rn m ail, she w rote back th a t she weighed 210 pounds, her husband- 145, and her The advisability of planned m o th er in law 160! burning depends to a considerable Range Burning Sometimes Helps extent Mrs. Eliza Martin To Be Buried Today Mrs Eliza E tta M artin died Sunday a t Sacram ento, C alifornia w here ahe had been visiting at th e home of h e r daughter. The fu n eral will be held F riday a f te r noon a t 2:30 from the Moro church. M rs M artin, horn, E le a Buchn- nan, a t Island City, Oregon A ug u s t 2, 1866. She w as m arried Ju ly 27, 1884 a t La Grar.de to W lbert John M artin. H er death in te rru p t ed a m arriag e th a t had lasted n early six ty years. L a st M arch Mr and Mrs M ar tin w ent to C alifornia to sta y w ith th e ir d au g h ter, M rs H. E. Wooten fo r a few weeks. He fell and broko «orne rib s and was incapacitated. M rs M artin, aJready grieving over the d eath of a son, W illiam J M ar tin., in Moro last fall, w ent to the hospital where «he died. N early all of the M artin ’s m a r ried life has been sp en t in S herm an county where «he became a m em b er of th eE a ste rn S ta r and the R ebekahs and th e C h ristian church. Survivors are h er widower, two d au g h ters, M rs B F M organ of Medical Lake.W n., and M rs W o o t en, th ree sons. G eorge E. o f T a coma, W n., W ilbert A. and A- very M., both o f P o rtlan d and a num ber of gran d children. LOCAL GIRL GRADUATES M is» Catherine Richelderfer, daughter of Mr and Dr. Asa Richelderfer of Waaeo, a senior cadet nurse of The Dalles hospi tal reported for duty at the Barnes General hospital to complete her course in traning at an army .luriA 16th. on the condition of the range and the type of forage, the bulletin points out. Undesirable effects, even of planned burning, are that Idaho feecue grass and bitter brush a re injured, * banned ranges dry up earlier, and fall fc ra g e is usually more scanty on burned areas because of fewer edible shrube. Jackman points out that Idaho fhacae, eage, and titter brush may fwafca up a heavy ipereentage of the cover te many range sdctlona of Oregon. Heavy sage brush eauaea oon- sderwble kite to stockmRt hflf using ut> moisture and ep»ce that \«ould otherwise be ueed hy, bat ter forage, by providing, hMteg places for predators, and. by, egiw- m g wool l oeaee pu|led fr a n ih« fleece by the stiff brush. When range $a burned i t mpat te protected from gregin^ W? first year at least* as eble grasses and w^edo .donothe- < come well established untf th* ». the ra- second and third xpara. rearch revealed- P P 4 l# » n . O f >500,006 te war bonds pur chased by the FacMe Row#r sad Light company J|b<inaa will reoeiv» credit for W/MMfc 6U its Fifth War Loan quota G lr Corey, district manager today., Corey explained that the half- million total thue invested te w*t bonds normally would be expend ed by the ooihpaay for taafMMf- ments and additions- “Beeante of war time ehortegea of material^ v/hich limit constefcction te bate necessitiee the ere making thia in war bonds t e prnvids n 1 rtunzl tm- nnatwar «raansion*.
