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Fifty-Sixth Year • No. 42
Dividend For
A column o f newt
g a in
About Government,
Politics and People
W-
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w ith especial emphasis
Year Not Windy
Wheat
Rather Calm
Goal Cut
In F a d
For 1945
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Continued on P age Two
AbbUBfr5
^dividend” totalin g
$500,000 wui
.received by cua-
^tcrawd o / .
Power A L’g h t
company about _ le end of Septeni-
b*r> giving thet the equivalent of
onjjfc moron •
service in 1944.
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PICK-UPS CAN BE
BOUGHT, IF—
F arm ers who Want to buy a
new pick-up m ay do so by finding
one th a t ie fo r sale, obtaining the
serial num ber, the m ake and the
r.am'e of the dealer and th en a p ­
p ly ng to the county tra n s p o rta ­
tion com m ittee for a perm it to buy
says LeRoy W right, county agent,
VriO has received new instructions
on such purchases.
O regon’» w h e at goal, fo r 1945
has been s e t a t 950,000 acres, or
37,000 acres less th an w as p lan ­
ned fo r 1944 h arv est, according to
n o tfficato n received by the O re­
gon S ta te college extension s e r­
vice fro m M arvin Jones, w ar food
a
rd m in istra to r. T his ia the figure
r<-commended by the Oregon AAA
com m ittee.
The N ational g o a l' ju s t a n n o u n ­
ced is 68.500,000 acres, as com­
p ered w ith 67,000,000 .acres last
year.
The W ar Pood ad m in istratio n
is advising fa rm ers not to go be­
yond the established goals in
p lan tin g fo r 19Î5 in view o f the
im proved w heat su pply situ atio n .
Oregon extension official» ag r?e
w ith the W FA th a t excessive
w heat plan tin g fo r the 1945 h a r ­
vest would be unwise. Oregon f a r ­
m ers cannot a tta in th e needed w ar
production goals fo r o th e r crop3
if too much land is planted to
w heat, these officials p o n t out.
These w ar goads include additional
feed crops fo r livestock and neces •
sc ry seed and specialty crops
Mikkalo Elevators
Burn To Ground
The Mikkalo elev a to r and the
pew elev ato r being built a t th a t
place were both destroyed by a
fire a week ago S atu rd ay th a t
fia rte d from th e engine room and
sp read by a d u st explosion th a t
m ade fighting
impossible. There
\ a? a high wind th a t had brougnt
the roofers down from the new
elevator and probably saved th eir
lives, says the Condon Globe-Time.x
•in re p o rtin g th e fire.
There w as 89,703 bushels of
g ra in dam aged and the tw o 60,
000 bushels elevators m aking a
less estim ated
a t >200,000, of
w h c h the buildings m a d ’ up, $75,-
000.
G rain from th e elev ato rs flowed
onto the ra ilro a d tra c k s and hetd
VP traffic.on tb s b ranch fo r sever­
al days, which handicapped w h eat
shipm ent from points
f a r th e r
south.
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War Prisoners Work;
In Some Countries
M any of th e G erm an prisoners
of w ar captured in N orm andy have
volunteered to help w ith th e h a r­
vest in G reat B ritain , according
a BBC B roadcast reported to
the Offipe of W ar in fo rm atio n . In ­
experienced .w orkers a re paid six
pence a day and experienced w ork­
ers one shilling. Thé broadcast a l­
so reported a sto ry ab o u ^ tfie
h arv est in N o rth e rn Ita ly , w here
the facts w ere quite d iffe re n t I ta l­
ian p atrio ts drove the G erm an oc­
c u p a tio n troops from one village»
rnd captured the en tire harm s*
which w as all read ÿ fo r shipment
t.o G erm any.
Trashy Fallow Plot
Makes 36.4 bus.
Yield of th e Bex w heat on t!.e
trashy fallow plot on the Moore
fa rm grow n by Joe B elanger m eth ­
ods was 36 4. The crop was sow?
October 12, a few weeks la te r than
ocher Rex -th a t made a g re a te r
yield.
A new drill Wfll be used th s
year, one th a t fltommes to give a
wider drill row ’ As the drill used
is 14 mcliea * 9 B » e n furrpws the
grain appeared thin. T his new
drill will plant the furrows six in ­
ches wide leaving a more normal
d stance be4v^ee»z.j^v^ This m ay
make a difference.
A la rg e r acreage w'H be In this
ty p e o t w heat on th e Moore farm
n ex t year, it being between the
fa rm bouse and the tre s tle ’ w here
it can be easily seen.
Crop Year Moisture
Low At 9.42 in.
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•‘Hift
Official. County Papqr
Near 3,000,000
Winter and Spring
bus. Of Wheat In Unit Ordered
Wheats Differ
Warehouses Now
Little At Station
Crop Record May
Fall Before End
Announcment ¡of the “ dividend’’
waa made fo lia tin g a m eeting of
th e company’s ^©ard of directo rs
in Yakima, a t
the paym ent
was authorised. -
L tì» I ' W f i f r payment m ade
to electric user» J a s t ’ May, th e la t­
afe
est "dividend” Will am ount to ap-
p io x im a fely onB-half of a typeeal
m
on th ly'b IK It will be paid by
"Hlndenborg Bastion,** as this captttrtd German "West Wan” con
creté empfccemeat was known, la the prêtent abode of Sergeant Savage check» fettikd to each custom er
and Ms caindlts. The new act upaata, ttiewn pointing to a com m ent 'aa ; T fie tw o ^xBW dividends” , w tl’
waU, are members of a Before gun crew.
r» g n total aavlags of >600,000 in
ek ctrfc bills « * Pacific Power 1
Light eom p»ny'j^iebomcr in 1944,
and w|U be equivalent to an 8.3
p er cent rate redaction/
Careful tabulation of bills pas­
sed or pend ng in the present con­
gress, aside from direct appropri
a t o m for the war effort, shows
the astounding total of fifty bil­
lion dollars in annual expenditure
unless the proposed amount» are
cut down or the measures are re­
jected o u trig h t A s the situation
stands a t the present t une, with
the appropriations made or a u ­
thorised, the annual government
expenditure is approximately twen
ty billion dollar*, exclusive o f the
cost of the war. iNo peacetime U x
system has y et been proposed
which will bring in this amount
of revenue.
L adies wh.3 th o u g h t thia y ear the
G overnm ent revenues from ta x ­
w indiest ever have been going
ation as of the present approki- (1 areheaded. Really this has been
mate 145,000,000/XX), but this is o re of the ^juiet years, one th a t
on the basis of a national income will very likely end w th an av-
of ab o u t >150,000,000.000. I t is
e ia g e mile» per hour of wind of
rot contemplated by anyone that
about 5.3. The average for the
the p o st-w ar income o f th e feder
first seven m onths has been 5.9
al government can have any such
ond the Windiest p a rt of the yfa i­
btsbv and there ¿a the practical
ls over.
,
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certainty that a demand for tax
A v e ra g e .fo r , these first seVt-n
redurtion will follow shortly a f­
nronths hi 6 9. ’ ,
te r the cessation o f hostilities
However, 1944 has been a l i t ­
These redactions cannot be m ad'
tle windier than have the recent
as soon as the war ends, o f eoorae,
years. In l»4> She averfcg* fo r the
tu t
demand cannot long be
seven m onths w as 5.4 and for two
ignored. I t is, however, the con­
e r three years ,’t has been cam par
sidered op i»ion of - government
atively calm.
•A c W s th a t ta x cates must be ” , In th e first y ears of th e lost
maintained sufficiently high to ¿w ad e it was really windy The
b rin g in approxim ately >20,000,-
first »even m onths o f 1930 av ­
000.000 a year for an indefinite
eraged 8.8. F or the year?- 1929 to
period n the fu tu re
1934 all years averaged
over 7
U nder the m ost favorable of
m ik e p er hour.
conditions, it » estim ated th a t
This y e a r the crops are good,
the p o st-w ar national income may
the price high and it is possible
reach >120,000,000,000 and on this
to notice th e w'nd- Back in th?
basis an annual revenue of tw enty
ea rly 30s crops w ere very poor,
billion w 11 necessitate a higher
♦he price worse and little th in g /
r t t e of taxation than has ever
1 ke the wind could be very bad
iteen imposed in th e U nited S ta te s
and still not be noticed.
in o th er than w ar tim e. T he only
a ltern ativ e would he continued
borrow ing in suffic ent am ounts to
4-H Club Calves
nudto tip p n difference between
income and outgo. This, w ith a
war debt alread y ap p ro ach in g the Weighed This Week
>300,000,000,000 m ark, would in ­
The 4-H club calves o f * th?
vite an economic condition bo rd er­
county were weighed W ednesday
in g on bankrupey, according to>
b y LeRoy W right, county a g e n t
R igum ents by se n a to rs who are
and chib leader, and some very
e p p o d n g legislation which would
fine g ains rbown by the youthful
m ake fu rth e r inroads on th e tre a ­
fe ed ers o f the livestock
sury.
B est gain was made by C lar­
It was th e presentation of these
ence M ay’s S horthorn ca lf th a t
facts, to g eth er w ith th e inherent
l.as gained 2.96 pounds per day
unsoundness of th e m easure, which
since the la s t weighing. I t now-
resu lted in defeat o f the K ilgore-
w eighs 1028 pounds. Second waa
M u rray bill n the senate, and it
m ade by an A ngus c a lf being fed
is believed they will have a de-
b y Ed F ritts which gained 2.81
» te rre n t effect in the house.
and th ird by an A ngus fed by
>
L a te st demand for rem oval of H a rry H artley w h c h gam ed 2 6
th e b ah
ag a in st oriental» h a s pounds p e r day-
Only tw o H ereford» are being
come from an
fed th ia y ea r by th e boy», and
India farmer» in central C alrforn 3
b o th a re a t th e Am andus von Bor-
which claim» to speak fo r member»
of their race in California. Texas, stel Tknch aad both w eigh 860
pounds. F red and Pbilin are feed­
Arixon a and W ashington. In a le t­
ing them . O ther calves being fed/
ter read to the sen ate th e y ask
'with
th e ir w eights are: two An-
pasage of senate bill 1505 which
pur.
being
fed by H a rry an d Jam es
would p e rm it th e n a tu ra lisa tio n of
H a rtle y w eigh 734 and 815 end a
3 000 natives of India now . in .
S horthorn w eighing 965. Duane
U nited S tates. The le tte r po in ts
a r d M erle
E ak in ’s - S horthorns
to th e fa c t th a t th eir people are
w ifc h 709, 795. 800 an d 895 and
fighting w ith the allies In th e v ari-
T erry Bucholtz has an A ngus w ei­
OU6 th e a te rs of w ar and t h a t the
b a r ag a in st them ia discrim inatorv ghing 865.
All will be shown a t th e local
and u n ju st. They do not ask th a t
4-H club fa ir and then tak en to
th e (bars he let down to perm it
th e Pacific In tern atio n al. The lo­
u n re stric ted im m ig râ t on o f o th ­
cal fa ir will probably be h e ll
ers from India.
im m ediately prior to the In ter-
T here ia still doulH in the m inds ratio n al-
c f m a n y observer» a s to th e s ig ­
nificance o f a vote in th e sénat»
d u rin g cona'deratlon of the ebn-
vt r »j<m b ill which, on th e face of
it, would seem to place a m a jo r­
ity o f the sen a to rs s a being op
pored to fu rth e r re strictio n s on
im m igration. The vote cam e on
an am endm ent offered by S enator
Reynolds of N o rth C arol na w hich
read s as follows: “ A fter the d ate
o f en actm ent of th is ac t, an d uw
til th e C i t a t i o n of five yeat^
e
Moro,» Oregon Friday*}A uj^ust 25, 1944
‘Hindenhurg Bastion’ Falls
on the Northwest
»
of
1944 Harvest
It is
probable
th a t UieTc
By Council
The Moro city council
m et
Tuesday n ig h t voted to order a
new boiler for the heating p lan t
in the hotel. Decision was caused
by the condition of the old boiler
'/ w h c h w as found to be inoperable
-. by the s ta te boiler inspector last
. ij . week.
New Varieties
a
Take
Top Honors In
Yields This Year
Very l t»tle .difference in yield
lx-tween
fall and sp rin g • wheats
A new boiler to g eth er w ith new
«".000,000 bushels of w heat alread y
was recorded a t the expeim sat
recounted fo r in the Sherm ?n w ater tank will be installed ' <o
^station this year, says M errill Ova*
make
th
e
h
eatin
g
and
w
a
te
r
h
e
a
t­
county w heat crop fo r 1944. I t
ing p a rt o f the hotel entirely new son, superintendent. The w in ter
possible th a t an o th er 600,000 .or
It will be about a m onth before v-h eat averag e was 35.9 and fo r
600,000 will conte in later-
the new equipm ent can be del ver- s Pr *ng w heat .w as 35.3-
A t Moro thn efevators have tuk-
B est of the w inter v arieties waa
ed.
*n i-n more than 760,00 bushels of
a cross between Al cel and Rax,
v h e a t and this is but little over a
a Red chaffed club w heat with
q u a rte r of the a rea o f th e crop as
some sm u t resistance th a t may
r g en eral rule. -
Bicycle Rider Rules
be heard from later. It m ade 42.2
While the larg e r p a rt of the
h ufhels per acre
g ra in has been c u t th e re will be
Elgin made 40,0 and
4
Ma cave Lives
.some th resh in g d o n e ’ fo r a colt
Golden tied with' '3 9 .
e .».
ph weeks, although few will go
The fa c t th a t so many of these T rip let made 38.9; Federation 8R<
into the second week. The croo bicycle fa ta lities were the resu lt Rex-Rio
( beard less-short) .3741:
ha.e been much larg e r than e«tim - of unsafe traffic practices on th*» Rio-Rex (bearded-red shaff) 37.5-
sited ea rlier and y elds o f 40 bu- p a rt of the riders ia evidence th at
Of the mo-? definitely Turkey
shels have k e n announced all tney need not have occurred.” F ar- u h e u ts R o made 35 1,
Karkof >
over th ;' county Few farm er« ob- rcl’ said. **Bicycl«»ts should observe 33.6, Oro 33.0.
tained less than '3 0 bushels on traffic regulations and they should
Oddly R e«-w as.low with but 30.9
com€ p a rt of th eir crop land There learn th e rulesr of wafe riding ami bushels on the statio n . Iu nearly
v e re 121,2.57 acre« sown to w hen1 observe them in the intcraats o f every o th er p art of the couhty
this year.
tl.e ir own sa fe ty .”
Rex out produce«!. Turkey Ra<
H arv est has been fa rte r this
These rules o f safe riding were w heats by four to six bushel», al­
j e a r than last because of b e tte r sugg ested :
though some fa rm ers re p o rt Rsx
v e a l her. Only once did a spotted
1 Keep well to the right on as falling below* T urkey Red-
Of the sp rin g w heats the best •
lain flurry ^top h a r v n t and al- stre e ts and h ghw ays. Never rid»-
} ield was made by a cross brfcd
though morning« wen» damp, m any in the cen ter of th e thorough far«-
fj rm ers thresiirng Turkey Red di 1 2. W hen tu rn in g , get in the pro- v -heat parented by F ederation and
not lo**© much tim e. Elevators have y Vr | ane ancj give the propeT han F unyip which made 40.3 bushels
^ ^ t e n through with I ttle stoppage an<j arm ¿g p n i.
Ram ona did as well, Idaed 39A
W
h te F ederation 38 9, H ard Fed­
or d elays o th er th a n w aiting for
3 Never c u t sharply across the
eration
36.3 and F ederation 37.3.
oth er tru ck s to unload.
j - j th of vehicular traffic
T here seems to b e a g re a te r de­
V ariation in the F ederations was
4. When rid in g in groups, ride
w ioer this yeqr than usual a c ­
mand fo r new seod w heats thb?
eingle file so no r d ers will be for
cording to Mr Oveson-
fall th an usual and farm ers with
ced o u t into the path of heavier
Result« of oth er tost» on tlk<*
MI Rex have' sold much of it to
vi hiclcs.
t eK bbo„ for
strtio n are be ng weighed
5. When riding into stree ts or com puted nt the station and will
highw ays, w atch fo r approaching j,e published when possible. There
cars and do not ri<k out into their is a g re a t blowing of s^nxples, to ­
. p- th.
g eth er w ith careful w eighing to
d eterm ne the ex act yield per
r.cre from a sam ple grown in a
sm
all row.
Republicans of Oregon 7JR*t las*
Several of the new w heats show
S atu rd ay in th eir biennial session
,
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piom ise an d m ay become as valu­
to elect sta te officers and listen to
able as have ea rlier g rain s produc­
political talks and organ, nation lec-
tures. E v erett Dirksen, congress-
W ly K nighten, chairm an of the ed on this station.
uocal Workers
Attend Party Caucus
No Draft Call
Coming In September
P recipitation fo r fche crop year,
S eptem ber 1 -to Septem ber 1 ha3
been 9.42 to the end o f Ju ly and
none so fa r has been recorded n man from Illinois, was th e prin- Sherm an County d ra lt board, has
A ugust. I t seemjs unlikely th a t any cipal « p e a k ‘r a t the
S atu rd ay announced th a t th ere will be no
will come from present indications n eeting whi?h wiw held in P o rt- S tp tem b q r call fo r men fro n u S h ei-
This is nearly two inches im der land.
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fia q county. Several young men
the norm al precipitation of 1R34.
Neil Allen of G rants P ass was Vi€re deferred u n til a f te r they had
Only montbsi of the 1943-44
crop re-elected state chairm an and Mrs fn ish ed harv est w ork and th eir
y ear th a t were really good
w ere John Y. Richardson was re-elected c a u w,aS expected, som etim e this
November, A pr l and June,
the vice-chairm an. Kenneth Nielson oi f fiu Rut will be delayed until
o th ers brought sm aller rain fall Eugene and Howard W all of P o rt- K ter. William I^eck and R obert
land wore , also re-elected as '»ec- Holme» loft Monday for service,
tiian usual.
le ta r y and trea su rer, respectively. r< p o rt n g to Portland
A ttending fom Sherm an county
w ere M rs Howard Conled, county
chairm an, J . B. Adams, tre a su re r
eno Giles F rench, «s ecretary. . . •
Famed DDT Kills
Cash Wheat Weak
Oreggon Bugs
Com plete control of the oblique
banded leaf roller th a t ruined much
of the Gresham b erry crop la st
y ea r w as obtained th is scas-'w by
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the use of the new w onder insec-
t.c 'd e DDT, reports Joe Schuh, as-
, .
’ „x,
-rtarat entom ologist o f th e OSC
ex p erim en t .statio n .
who
has
been w orking on th is problem fo r
several years.
th e
Aa f a r as known th ia is
first crop of com m ercial aixe on
vzhoh the
new insecticide nas
been used, as all su p p lies ex cep t
experim ental q u an tities have been
reserved fo r the arm ed forces.
Recause of the im pending certain
loss of th e crop on hundreds of
acres o f the rasp b erries destined
fo r m ilitary use, federal offic. als
last s p rin g released 100 pounds
of th e precious m aterial, which
was applied to ’50 acres seriously
in fested .
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF
M IND. SAYS O.W.I.
T h e office of w ar inform ation
w y e : Young lady, if your boy
frien d is in A u stralia, you’d b et­
te r w rite him today—and every
day. The A ustralian News and
In form ation Bureau says th a t an
estim ated 10,000 A m erican sei-
vicemten in th at country have m a r­
ried Austral, an girls. The .more
than 7,000 marriage® reg istered
w ith American consulates do not
include recent weddings-
I
WAR EX PE N D IT U R E S
In Portland Market
The cash w heat m ark et situa-
Ju ly w ar expbnditotes by vh*
U. S. Governm ent am ounted id
a t-P o rtla n d was »omewhat
57,355,000,000, a 7.6 p er cent de-
p ast week, w ith or-
June. A ^ ^ g t <xp<n j )na
classes ra n g in g from un-
(i lure« in July to taled $282,900,-» .
J
B
of any montPl tfr«s changed t o ‘ s ig h tly lawer, while
Five Named To
Veterans Committee
A ppointm ent of a com m ittee
fo rm er service men to act a» a
V eterans Advisory C o m m ttee was
done th is week by Ix>Roy W right
and J M Wilson, chairm an and
re ta ry of the county ag ricu ltu ral
planning com m ittee Named ware
Lee D chlar, L P H aw n , A rth u r B.
C hristianson, N orris G. lkison and
H enry P eters. Their duties will be
to advise veterans.
New Rates Made
For Veterans
Because of an o rd er authorised
today hy Public U tilities Com-
c- Jen d a r year. From July 1, 19$n H ard Red W in ter and H a rd 'W h ite
m isao n er George H. F lag g , Ore­
t l rough Ju ly 31, 1944, spending for with 12 protein, were higher
gon personnel now being diechar-
v a r puposes am ounted to >207,200,- cornpar€tj w ith a week ago. De- gG(i f rom the service will be aMe
000,000
mand was reported a s. extrem ely to ?each th eir ho m es w ith more
dull from all classes of. buyers,
th e ir discharge pay in thalt
cspocially coast mills
Difficulty pockets.. F lag g approved a f plan
in o b ta ning 12 percent protein th a t w 11 allow discharged person-
h a r d W hite caqeed the advdne** ,,el to tra v e l a t half fa re on all
in th a t q u ality w ith trad e rep o rts railroads. The ra te tak es effect
indicating new crop H ard - W hits Septem ber 1, with the u « ial priv-
is ru n n n g relatively low in pro- iivge of com pleting the jouraoy
teini The CCC was out with a Bup- jn 30 days.
port price of $1.45 Pfcr,bushel a t
Hw action will have th e ap-
tbe close o f the period a t P o rt- pi oval of the In te rsta te Commerte
land, fo r w heat in store a t term - Commission Mr. F lag g tit assured,
V
innls, w ith coast transit- W heat Pn4
lfkely to be pUced in effact
receipts a t P a g e t Sound and Cob by all o th er state commisaicaw.
e u m h a R iver term inals
sea- The m ilitary branches a re said
edbally largo a t 1,190 cars for the to be discharg ng thousands o*
v»xek o f which P o rtlan d had 465. men a t th is time, as well as «and-
T h rc receipts were reported to ing home those who have com-
consist largely of CCC g rain and plcted hospitalization. /<’
wheat shipped fo r term inal stonago
Round trip tickets will also ba
Grow ers were reported offering «old to furloughed men a t one and
,
w h eat only sp arin g ly since quota- one q u a rte r cents per n fle . wbleb
tio n s here are o t h e r a t or .only is a little less th an one-half fava
slig h tly -under loan values- Condi- on m ost railroad».
fions in Oregon w ere favorable
Civilians will n o t be entitled la
Vice
M. A. Mltscber. cena fo r h a rv e st of g r a n w h ich '» n ear- the special rates,
vice Ada».
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