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JAMQHAM
Fifty-Sixth Year
No. 40
A column o f news
About Government,
Moro, Oregon
Harvest Slowed
By Damp Days
And Light Rain
August 11, 1944
Troop Train Wreck in South
*v The weather this week has not
been so favorable for threshing as
it has been before during this har­
vest. Bain fell Tuesday over a
part of the county and many ma­
chines were stopped. It was a tight
wifA especial emphasis
and spotted .rain ti^ t fell south
of Kent in some volume, was herd
enough at Grass Valley to lay
tlie dust and was a mere sprinkle
Of course, the United States at Moro. Harvesting south east
invented the submarine and the of Moro WMg stopped by a harder
'S^
a rplane., but the strategists have rain-
J
been doing some “eopv-eat” on
Wheat continues to pour in to
other war materials. The latest the elevators in a constant stream
is the rocket Germany
has dev- wih trucks wait ng a large part of
At least 17
aU hut two af them ssWers. were killed aad
eloped rocket planes and the robot tbe day. Cutting b probably about scores of
tajared when an U and W. ^tj^q^lealB planted
late
bomb which flies blindly and ex- h*lf over and some farmers are a SU-foot gorge ef the Clear riser U “ mil«?
“ soatb ef JoUtcy. 1 Tet.n. The
plodes on contact. To
date the already through - although aome trala was carrying mere than l.Sta Gia Jast eat ef tralaiag.
The h * (-
robot has not damaged
a single fields have not been opened at ail- <a<e carg Bnd WUt*©« burned
A ll
V
O fficial County Pi
Sherman County
Citizens Buy
$84.48 E Bonds
Wheat
Millages Ghr<Mi
For Tax Units
Of County
military installation, only civil-
tan buildings. Just before the end
c f the first world war the techni •
cians of the.m ilitary service had
'worked out a rocket, or jet pro-
pelled device, but came the arm-
istiee and the experiment* ceased
The u .e of the rocket by the Ger-
mans has renewed interest in
that type of weapon and orders
tiave been issued for an almost
unlimited supply of this type of
ammunition to be fired
from land
,
er water, especially on . water
i rom
J * “ *1*;
keta will play an important part
in the later phases of the war if
hostilities do not end before the
v * n ment‘j i u^ X
Mn” oni'
Yields continue to be good with
I
u
K V
*, T l X *
.
»°me men reporting more than 40
Q fJ I r u c J tS P e r m i t F a r m
bushels and the general run being
#
«»ore than 30 buaheb orth of Nig- A ]' • r r h h s w ' o THrk
«er ridge. South of that Hne
I s O O p e T a te
yields are smaller but very good
The extent to which farmers own provided such neighbors are with-
“
ing trucks of “F” plate registry in a radius of five miles of the
M n . J q J jjj
are authorised _ to ___
do ___
hauling
hauling
_____________
___ _ fbr farmer furnishing
_ the hauling
their neirhbor. i . «plained in the
<»P«»«on is west
k V
the Cascade mounts ns, or with-
recent bulletin on farm tranapor- in a
10
eagt of
'Mrs Margaret Schasaen, widow tation facta issued by the OflC ex- the mountains-
c f John A. Schasaen. died at Pen*
tension service as a leader’s hand-
,
“Nominal consideration” is de-
¿acton Tuesdac night atfer a Ion? book. Paul Carpenter, author of fined as any cbaMg mutually agr^e
WaS ^ )rn in, ^ ^ 2
the tMlllrtin and leader
« « ex- able. To an increasing extent
Germany, a daughter of Andrew tension service farm transports- fapnwra U u ,
¿ r otJer farm.
and Lixxie Patjens, and came to tion prorect, obtained kgal opin- erR an, eharging the published
this county when she was a girl jon8 on this subject, which in- m tes permitted common and anv
the fo,,owing
Threshing at the experiment sta­
tion this year follows a different
pattern than in previous years
Report of Fifth War
School Levies High
when plots Were cut with a binder
and the grain threshed in a small
Loan Drive Made
lu Town Districts;
stationary machne. Nursery plots
arc still cut and bound and thresh­
By Headquarters
City Millages Rise
ed in a little machine that whi.iks
Millages for the several taxing
.Final and complete report on Ore- ^be small bundles through in a
gon sales during the Fifth War Ji^y. but a newthreaher will do unit* of Sherman eounty have
Loan drive which ended in all the work this time.
teen figured out by assessor Char­
phases August 31 has been issued
For the rate and date of sowing lea Ruggles with few exceptions
by the state headquarters.
and the other larger plots a new rnd will
accurate information
Hood River county was the win-
propelled omriMwe Is being “bout 1044 taxes to those who
ner in the state in percentage of UBed’ a 8CVen foot "*chine, it ia know their valuations'
quota of all bonds sold by selling °Perated by one man and speeds
The geserai county levy for
218 percent of its overall quota up tbe « « a lly tedious job of thre- 1 #44-46 taxes, payable in Novvm-
Grant county was second wHh 163 eKin<
of *** pear b 8 2*
percent of quota. In this class
Preliminary reports on yields, Hudes the post-war road improve-
Shtrman county was 19th wvth 131 according to Merrill Owson, are m«nt fund which requires 4.2
percent of overall quota.
that El*™ wh«at baa again made ««ill», the road fund of .1 mill, the
In E bond sales Hood River a bett* r record than Rex. Th s may Ter capita school fund of .4 mill,
county roi* first with 189 percent Tw;an that Rex, which has been i and the county fund of 1.9 mills,
of quota and Grant was second witn H* her yielder than Turkey will be *nd the non-high tax of 1.6 mills-
166- Sherman county was sixth ’oon di«Placed by Elgin, a club There w.li be no date tax this
with 133.6 percent of its quota.
type wheat’ And th*t larger yields >«*r and no elementary school tax.
Sherman county was first in per wiU 56 harvested in the county.
The reverse 1» true—that the
canrta
sales
of
E
bonds
w
ith
184
48
’
rtate
in addition to not levying a
capita sales of E bonds with >84.48
„
Mdrrew eohnt, had »57. GilHnm R o b e r t W . P i n k e r f o l l
L’com.
$60 and Grant >35. Hood River
«tomt laatA
made aeJea of
D|<>S A t 8 6
** mUla<*
by
resident* of schools districts where
1**4» 1“ Percapita
Robert W. Pinkerton died at there is no special school tax lev­
Final totals gave Sherman corn,- bis home In Moro M3iuUy p om in g
Thaee wfll be Big >w, Emi-
t> a larger sum than liad been ftfter a lon? iUeM* FsrtMW ser-
DeMose. Erskine, Monklaad,
¿ ured *y the local heaZ iarU rs
were ^ ld Wednesday after- Fairriw^Gorman and Boardmax
as allotments from sales to armv noon from the Com’»unitv church
Other school districts will levy
and afftV man and sales c r e d ite d
Rev Moberg giving the eer- fbe followig millages w bici must
:ond« r x x n
tion have been perfected.
Early in the war efforts were
made to have the war department
build glider planes. An historic
document is the letter written by
the assistant secretary of war ia
which h . M .u d that th . war da-
as ja
ig s r rr
She w
was
r e d m 1886
The
Dalles to John Sobassen, also an
emigrant from Hanover. They Hv-
„»r., - - V
ed on thear farm until they moved
hi the early twen-
to The Dalles « n X l to
ties Mr. Schasse
T- I T
Sunhvto* « . . « »
John of
rloyeeg were add^ after the cam.
paign stopped. Sherman county
sales of E bonds were $144,300 of
individual bonds other than Es
H0.600 »nd of corponttton bond.
««.200.
.
lnft
Politics and People
on the Northwest
’ '"¿h ‘ «•'*
/VCfgnOOrf JO
SduUSeD
Dies Tuesday Night
.................. ...
.
---- x_r N<> reMrktion<(
dig.
1V A»T
P*ate truck 1
, frequency or consideration
1“ Addition to hauling h s
______ ______w
when an “F* plate operator
produce and supplies to and from
hi* farm, may “infrequently and **«1« f<rm products from a farm
• »«»in*' c o J d .r .t io n h.,,1 « U » ^ » »
»W .
'
eneh cnm .
ltowtock mrodoeed
•'Ooeretinr » r ie il« » . for *'P”
’«>• ' " * • « » livajOock produced
sz x j .
Mr. Pinkerton was born April
26. 1868 in Page oeunty. Iowa cd
Iri’ h ance»try He was married at
Clarnda Iowa February 8, 1882
* M «. Carrie Bennett wtth whom
1,¥ed / or ov" 6# )" » " “ntl1
her death at Moro March 5. 1941.
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r
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- - »
s u s
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northern* « o n u « ta * thaee mo- d a r k o f Portland. Mr. iTnnje Eck naiirhbnrhood.-•
.
Carpenter. -Moat violation, artoe ’ ^«n dnve The .mailer percantar?
T he term ‘'infrequently” ia de- from unsafe equipment on thh ■» q»<*» “ Ie« » accounted for ' ,
» ••i
glider.. Now they are a part of
arsault attacks, carrying para-
trZ T Vh Pa^ d r° ° f t i T l i t i f i '
oped in the w<MX^ of
Pac*fl*
torthwest when
J***™™
then- supplies were droppedfrom
ihe sky. When a Germa« M M W y
a tto n a
drop and when eqm pm ^t foWW-
ed he made a report to Bjrlta IM
paratrooper^ became a part of
the army. It was long later be-
fore the American army adopted
the idea.
*
Men from Puget sound cities
and IDartland (representing the
same company) «pent months here
in the national capital trying to
cell the maritime cornto «non the
idea of building landing barge, on
« hi weet coaat. wring Uie tooib -r
produced in that section. Comm-
».¡oner Vickery
v u v .™ more than ”knr„
“kno-
eked down the ear.” of these
fcrsfrti men from the northwest
country. Neither V ckery nor oth­
ers on the commission sow sense
in building barges; they were an­
xious to get the Liberty ship un­
der way. Not until army engineers
on the Persian gulf sent word
that they wanted barges to lighten
supplies from ship to shore did
the maritime commission give
heed, and then they frittered away
time for many months before ta­
king steps to meet the require­
ments of the eng.neers.
• • •
Look for the resignatioa of
James Lawrence F ly from the
general communication« oommis-
sion (FOC). Do not look for the
real reason for hie resignation, for
H .will not be made (public- Before
Fly (became cha'rman of FCC he
took a flyer in the power sdtuatkra
in the »Oregon-Washington country
but left the Bonneville administra­
tion to dab bid with the commission
cn communications- He made a few
talks on power in Washington and
Oregon, but did ot undertake U
lun the show as he has since been
doing with FOC.
Fly has clashed with groups and
members of congress and general-
ly has won. He was mixed up ¡n
in
the Pearl Harbor debacle through
his control *>f radio. The higher-
ups in the army did not want FCC
handling confidential upessages;
Continued oa Paga Twa"
T
y
v jssv ;
y
x «■ a •
a iiu
i t s i i liv T v s s o a v ^
. .
„
M to determine the total levy
1« millages. Rufus 9J ; Rufus A
6.9; Locust Grove 1.9; Wasco 7.7:
Kent 134 (approx); Moro 16 4;
H.nwony
G ™ » Vriley «J;
Rutled/ ‘
■«:
h»ah 2.6 and Buckley
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«
. «
.
L e " « ^ to" t t ' l At "the' t o U e r lo ^ T to ,
- T?,, 1 " . 1 1 At
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....
d ty
•-* *W
—
bond quota.
Mrs Margaret Eoff of Yakima, Valley pays the IA mills of non-
reghborhood” is subject to a com-
Sell ing the largest amount of E Harry of Moro and Mrs W. E. Hgh school levy but has much the
A « M ass w m s j
mon-sense interpretation and var-
n8. nor «'¿nit* win* /nr the Newton, now deceased. Eleven lowest school levy of any town
0017 f° Ur
« a t T ,de 7 m-
erWt ParU
P
J L t y ’X privilege'Tf launching n grandchildren survive.
school-
rmoag the 27 persons who drew
*
One of the early functions of «h p. Word from headquarters is
Durin* Ws entire life Mr- Pink’
At Wasco in addition to the 19J
unemployment benefits for each
(2) For a nominal considers- the AAA after the war will be that the vessel to be launched by erton was a devout member of the of eLty tax there ia 7.7 milla of
c£ the past four wee>s, and three lion but without limitation as to to help Amer can farmers adjust this county will be ready in Octo Reformed
Presbyterian
church, Rpecial ^hool and 6.6 of county
these four were past the age of frequency he may haul to any to the changes necessary in the her and that some other counties "tern in hi® faith and consistent in (without the non-high of 1 j 6) to
BHMWAOnt» tM State ttetal|HOy- market the agricultural confrood- switch from wartime to peacetime will be asked to participate in the ^^aenranee.
,
maks a total of hs.6 mills
p^nt Compensation. Commission jVes produced by neighbors and production, predicted George Wea- ceremony. Details of the event will
He had been 111 for lon< n in th s At Moro the tax will be 12-6
revealed today.
may deliver farm supplies to them, p F( national AAA official who was be announced later, probably from Rnd
been
fsr three of city UXi 16 4 o£ »pedal school
Ages of the four unemployed ____________________
—------------- !---- --------------------------- $ Oregon recently helping to pre- th e P o rtlan d office
years.
an<j fi.Q <rf cousty to make 26.6
^ n were 54r
72, and 74 res
mills total.
pare tht 1945 Oregon handbook
INFLATIONÄRE SIGN
ipectively. Of the 23 women draw- G O U D ty 1 1CH1C
The ’ school
1 . . .V
U .^ .. M
Element, that mig-ht contribute
cnoo‘ tax at Rufus is
"
jng benefits, six were below the
«-
nit
»
ms
»
age
40 Most of these were can- D u e S llD G a V
AAA changed ite emphaeia quickly . . . . . . .
, the
k. end
„„j of , the
k„ second
____ A ___
If Rufua
were to ceeee Ito hign
quarter
of
nery workers in Astoria and 1 Sherman countiane, past and pre-
cr0P contro1 ind sd- B u H e d S u n d a y
til's
to the end district
»al*00! and
join the
Salem-
w ill m e e t * t T ^ u r a l h n r » t n*rV ju stm e n t to the encouragem ent of *..
*
\ «.v year as compared
Z J 1 ♦
it would
pay non-high
on this school
year's
Although benefits for July were
will meet at Laurelhurst park
nr«rtire* which would
Harry Nathan Richelderfer/who of th« same penod last year, ac- « a kx 1
ui pay
yuar
higher than the earn, month la.-. ’-» P °rt * nd “
help insure maximum production d ed at the home ol his daughter, cording to data made available “T “ ™
f
Mg , ” ’ , 21M
paynlente for 1944 Mill are
«°r the annual Sherman Coun- N fo maure mar m m product on
WatkinSi nPor WMeo hy the Bureau of Agricultural
«* »1^4«.1M or » 2 1 «
Agricultural
country ^or „ non-hlffl» school fund. This
43
nt under the ,208.314 paid
Picntc Officer, ol the group are
" " " ^ u r c « « t o W «ver’ *»»>“ ‘ 3, was born to Phillip.-
De™ nd de.P0• i,■ in
C0Untry
be a material saving fof*
'ru^ during the first »even month. C W J.hn«m who live, at Aloha ♦'»»»
’J ™ * ’ ; “ '¡f. " ^ T o burg. N^w Jereey. November 3. b*"ke. ~ » » ‘«t'»«
of
. . ,_C
ls-,t year. The
T u . July .„
total
,.1 war end Mr.
« • » Erma Jonee
Jonea of Portland. •“
In the Mme ,7
w"^
'.d to 14 .t"
wl"
‘“to“
haTe
~ Ic^
l'1 WO.
,„ „ i’ He
„ ______
.pent . ¿ Ms
1 v boyhood
. - v . . . „ an.l inn
'»» a account,
c c o u n t, w
were
ere un
up 28
28 ocreent—
p ercen t- ">e «»
taxpayer.
dL* ^
„4,788, bring ng the yeari, pay- EvCTy year 30 to 50 fetomer reri- * ’ p r‘ P*’* ?
’Z early manhood in thi. community «" '»rreaw partly accounted for ’ h o « >” »>' «»><*>' now « “ t’
,1 ? to of thl. county meet for a
~ » d^ » . - - » » «>ewar
, -y
» - , y half of ito , 1 4 3 ^
ments to >118,505
talk fest and picnic dinner at the ends*
. . fig0
funds. These checking accounts
K«nt ^ u ld ¡pay >1553 to the
park and usually aome from this
Work on the Oregon handbook «
wouM
inflationary
u
county go down to visit with old was completed the first week .n haueen of Glenwood. Washington ^'d UP Pr'ce of land and auarce
^ÎJL, h ivh «bool d i,
f™ nd» and meet those they have August so that H will be ready December 25, 1904 and resided on C<x>d«- Another inflationary aign to Jo'n*d
^ ^ b u d « ? a lar-
the Orr place until .he died to «>•' — rage per « ^ e veto, of trick OT i t o J W budget . t o r
not seen for several years. All pro ^°r uee ’n
near future.
1923. He then returned to Waeco f«™ ■'*»' « to te . . of July 1 waa »«r «■■» “ **" ^ **
J tent and former Sherman countians
He was manager of the Waeco °F IB percent over year ago. For -chool under the p r ie n t «yrten.
are invited and welcome-
,
Government I laDS
JJL.
Oit-war Control
w u, the advent of the war Harry N. Kichelderter u in(1>tjon contjnue to
.«d th. mini«« 1. ».2.
Ace Méels Princess
Game Permits
All Taken
Market for 14 years, a member the quarter, cash receipt, from
of the Odd-Fellow, lodge, Marian «»"» marketings were up six per A A A A i d « W a f e r
Rebekah lodge and the Wasco « n t over a year ago and prices
Mr and Mrs R C 1 Byers have
Methodist church
and ____________
of Glenwood Paid by farmers for the things
No more applications will be _________
__________
heard from Mrs Herman
Christian- accepted by the Oregon State Grange.
.
tbey bu^ including interest and
son that he son. Kenneth, who had Game c omTnj8SiOn for the follow-
Survivors are his daughter, Mrs taxes—were up five percent. The
New or iTOpr<>ved waW»Tacili-
bcen reported to have lost an arm jng apeciai biK
tags: Grant- Watkins, a son Henry M. of Ord- cnly non-inflationary factor, more
doM to three mUlion
!»■ »> • in France a» a paratroop- paifer do€ deer; anterless elk; or nance, Oregon four grandchildren,
^ an offset by increaeed reeelp.
aCres of Oregon range land have
er on P-day. The word
is that Hart Mountain buck and doe deer, two brothers, E- H. sd A. D. of irom farm marketings, was a de-
provided under the AAA-
h is a r m is n o t lo * t b u t w as
hit ^ a ^jie num ber of applications ex- Wasco, two sisters, Mrs Emma /lin e of one percent in prices re- sponsored range improvement pro­
shattering the bone in the upper ceeded the quota of these tags, Dutton of Wasco and Mrs Laura ««iyed
farmers-
gram in the six ^eara 1937-1942,
arm «salting a long recuperation drawings were held on August 2 Fordyce of ‘ Husum, Washington.
inclusive, according to figures
compiled by the state AAA office.
necessary. He is at present stn-
determine the successful applP
Funeral services were held Sun- D i i ( | i « M at ) M a Q^
tioned in the Rhoads General hos- cantg Everyone
be notified of day at one o’clock at the Wacso 1>U1U* l f l “
Water developments have includ­
ed the improvement ,ot 3662
pital in L taca, New York.
r a w in g s a as s M
ethod s st t church with Rev. F. L-
J n (I a I v
the results « of / th«>
the d drawings
Method
springs, boring o f 278 wells, and
fast as the notices can be mailed Cannell officiating. Interment wait
cut
by
the
Commission,
and
those
made
in
Mt
Adams
cemetery
at
Italy—Ray
E.
Myers,
24,
son
building 946 stock water roaer-
WHEAT LOANS TAKEN
, -w ho are to receive tags will be Glenwood with the Glenwood Gra- cf Mr and Mrs L. T. Myers of Ru- voire- Estimates aro that each de-
Wheat loans are being made at given ten days from the date of nge giving graveside services-
fus, Oregon, ha* been promoted *° velopment serves about 600 acre*
an ipereasing rate thi* week as
notice in which to forward the ---------------------
the rank of Gorporal, according to <rf range land*. In the United SU ti
farmero finish their harvest and required fees.
f i r F B lTRNM 50 ACRTS
a recent announcement made' by as a s a whole water development*
appl^ ^or gp'ernment loan*. Ten
There are plenty of antelope tag*
J
hi* unit headquarter*.
-
*n that period have affected close
loans had been made up to Tues- r vailable and these are now being
The county^ firo truck was call-
Corporal Myer», who entered the to 200 mHIion acres, aa the num«
c
A
day, nearly all of them to men iMued in the order applications are ed to Klondike late Friday after- United States Army on December her of individual developments
Prtecess Elieabete ta riiews hero who had finished with cutting and received. To apply for an antelope noon to help fight a fire that was 11, 1940,and who has been over has exceeded 300,000.
In
Uent. Gen.'
■ esoversatiep with
oemmander
aca ba<^ *be*r wheat in thl^e
The range program of the AAA
thffeh l e v a t o r s . i t j8 necessary to forward th* burning on the Potter land south eeaa since February of last year.
oemmander gen-
c £ Eighth air feroc
in the market price to a f ee of g2.50 for a resident or >6-00 cf* the Klondike elevator. It w re- is a ‘ graduate of Rufus high includes a number e f other prac-
prlnoeas christened a lyiag figure below the loan price hei» f or a nonresident, together w^th ported that between 40 and 60 school and is at present serving twtis for which payment Is «»ads,
|ertreM ogeaa ef York," at aa apparently stopped the earlier in- information as to the number ami ceres of standing wheat was burn- as an a'rcraft technician with a and encourages deferred graslng,
/American bember stattea 1« Bag- cEnation to sell instead of t a k i n g of hunting license held by ed and a large amount of stubble heavy bomber squadron establish« although no payment is madt tor
this proetioa.
the loan-
before the fire was put out.
ed somewhere in Italy.
the applicant
ARM NOT LOST
flftA rtHW »» MW
of St&tC