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Hi a rxor. * « hermas ' ' ' ì guumti joui I n a u moro , or loon N ew market Local interest in the sale of the T frH¿ t P vfasyrg'jilday at Wasco Warehouse A Milling com puny to the Loose-Wiles Biscuit M w KX m A » company m'lling affiliate has so Riles L. French Editor far been in the historical changes .U n I1TT-* WT TT “H*6* by endin* ° t the & ttif at Ma»». . Q m s »> «Mar tot year old firm that has been so FoM o ofUe« ( Congre«« o f March closely identified with this county. is very Lkely that the change EDITORIAL in It ownership will have a greater klATION portent for Sherman county farm : zb ^ ers. Loose-Wiles ie an old com pany that is expanding. It has a plant in Oakland, C alfom ia that is reported to be a model for u anufacturing hakeres. in its efficiency and neatness. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER Tlifc mill in The Dalles will l>e SUBSCRIPTION- HATES used to make Hour for the Oak Payable in Ad» aure ' land plant.•ft. Seems probable that ONE YE a K .. — $2<0 th- s will increase the demand for 4 . L. 2 I ■ ----- t .......... pat'try flour in th e territory. 8, 1944 . We have been told that we cr.nnot long expect to grow T h o s e w h v w o u l d t r a d e wheat that • be8t used ,or bread o u ** * / ' ^ 'flo u rs. Our wheat no longer ha s rPeeaO ffb'pep, are protein to use without blend- (U s e r m n é o f n e ith e r . ing and it does not produce as „« well Aa the starchier wheats. We í SEPTEMBER triday , S eptember », 1944 Kelly’s Column (Continued from the Columbia basin reclamation project, or 160 acres tn the Cen tral Valley project in California, cr 80 acres in the Owyhee project. It all depends on the character of the soil, apparently, and what can be grown on the ignd Thus a family size farm may range from 40 acres up to 300. The definition g'ven congress is a farm that is sufficiently large to sustain a farm family, and it coesn’t matter how many acres are involved, providing the farm . . , - * .. . furnish. n comfortable living. O f course, on reclamation projects, at is explained, this living can be obtained from a m inm um o f ecres, again providing the soil is ‘T ig h t- and a »uffleimt amxmL , ’ . .... _ . / . c l w a t e r ,, available. Having heard tin , explahaton, eo n g r„ a has de- cided not to specify the actual number o f acres ¿n a fam ily-size j arm „ , W Page One) w ake U p . A merica ! ■ , Should Price Controls Be Maintained' FUD O. CLAJK in the Postwart Chairman, American -----— otad hv Cconomlc foundation As debated by Dr. Lewie H. Haney, Dr. Sherwood M. Fine, Profomor of Economic». Economist m i Author of tbs recent book “Public Spondino m i Portamr Economic Policy" P dr . riNE OPBN8: Can the ^ aer- lean economy risk the consequences th® removal of price controls as •o o n M v ic tory is won? SgcB a sW would jeopardize the fruits of vie- tory „ d„ r,y „ n0 surer way of undermining the tranai- tlon to a healthy peacetime economy, The strongest argument for the re- tention of price controls is found in ^ ..n ^ close of World War I. Not until eighteen month, after the gun, ceased «ring did the Inflationary spiral reach its peak. Forty per cent of the entire price rise attributable to the war took place after Novem- ber 11, 1918. Why drop price control In the transition period? Has price control hurt business? No! Corpora tion profits have hit all time highs and business failures established new tows under price control. Farm In* r-me, too. has reached record levels. T ost important, price control has made possible the greatest production ¿his nation has ever known. The old adage of “Whatever goes up must Noto Tori» Un inanity REPUBLICANS OF SHERMAN COUNTY We Jiave splendid State and National org anizations and candidates this year and will win the November election, if we follow th rough as we can and should. Some funds for necessary campaign purposes are now urgent ly needed. Our party is not putting on the 'Rite4, as is being done in certain other quart ers* but voluntary help is desired. It is our party’s policy"to finance its activities with popular contributions of small amounts, rath er than with large donations from the wealth- ly few. A good many Sherman Countians have responded liberally, but many of us have somehow delayed. Let us at once con tact our respective precinct committeemen or committee women and hand them what ever financial aid we can. Let us give this matter our attention at once. DR. HANfeY OPEN8: Prices are right—not too high or too low—-when they represent values which are a< free balance between the desires of individual buyers and sellers. There is only one way to get such price»— let all Interested individuals “vote* by bidding for or asking for goods in free markets at prices they think them to be worth. No government; bureau can make such prices. Even, If an allwise dictator existed, he would have to approximate the re sults of competitive markets. But in a democracy politics are bound to intrude. Pressure groups arise. Inef ficiency is general "Squeezes,” mal adjustments, discriminatory bonuses Contributunat will, be receipted for and Membership or penalties are the rule. Prige-flxing Card» be issued by * the ¡State Central Committee. Our would break down, save for steps to local precinct personnel consists of the following: control all conditions of demand and supply which lead toward a managed economy, managed currency and con Rufus: O. A; Tom, Mrs Susie Tom trol over wages. Price-fixing mi»-, Locust 6rove: Harry Van Gilder, Mrs A m elia’ Rdbt directs and reduces the main Incen tive to production; tends to prevent Klondike: Claud Coats, Mr« Wilma Hansen output increases which might mini Monkland: Perry Axtell, Mrs Belle Conlee mize the effects of inflation. Price fixing should not be extended. It is Rutledge: D. L. Reynolds, Mrs Ellen Reynolds harmful to society. In wartime. It Kent: Frank von Borstal, Mrs Floye von Boratel may be expedient to some extent, but It’s then associated with produc Grass Valley: A. A. Dux lap, Mrs Clara E. Rolfe tion control, rationing, restrictions Moro: Giles French, Mrs Dorothea Moore . on individual spending by means of. wage regulation, high taxes, pressure Wasco: E. D. McKee, Mrs B. Estreile Ha ley to buy government bonds. These , * mean near regimentation of economic • J a o . B . A d a m e , C ounty Treasurer life, which most Americans don’t want Even with them, we have black markets, up-grading, quality deterioration. Date of last publication Sept., 8, NOTICE TO CREDITORS DR.' FINE CHALLENGES: The 1944. "free macket” in time of war and .All persons having claims a- postwar shortages is the plaything of the profiteering speculator and' gainst the Estate of Nora MauJ FOR SALE: Mr«- Virginia (Y.".i unscrupulous merchants — a seller’s Aker», Deceased, are hereby not paradise. In Dr. Haney’s "free mar ified to present them, with the tier) Cirby quarter, described a . ket” 'the wealthy would outbid the poor. ’Govern’ment price control ha» proper vouchers and duly verified NE% o f Sec. 2 in T 3S, R 17E, ONE BOSS, OR MANY? '' f a" _ •< . r isfactor ly. Although not definite-. Gold miners of a . the far w est Senator Claude Eeppej coat- ly informed thia mama vto be the t e petition ng the powers that taller from-Florida, is in the we«t type of wheat the Loose-Wiles b e In the national capital for per- expounding| his peculiar theofe.t mill will need at The Dalles, m ission to resume operations. of governments in ftshhlf of the Our market problems „will b? The manpower shortage in t ’;.i r.ew deal and CXX partially solved, at least, if the early days of the war result-d y Senator PappecW is that new manageipent can use the'knd an order closing all non-essential we can npt ttu st big ndustry of of wheat we can grow best and it mines, with a fe w except ion 4. for this country; that we must al- may have a very salutary effect the duration. eon»« down” la especially true of way» elect those men who will or Sherman county’s economy in —----------------- wartime inflation. .In the eighteen The men who succeed beet in months after the World War I peak, prevent big business from gett- the next few years. This may be eg- ir.g in- control of the economics pecially true if the world wide de- public life are those who take the prices collapsed and with them burst the inflated and synthetic postwar c f the n<t on. mtnd for wheat suffers the ex risk o f standing by their own con bubble. Should we again sacrifice —J. A. Garfield stability for Illusory prosperity? It is not such a bad point, e i£ - pected curtailment in the post victions. » er. There has nearly always been war years as occurred after the MINE FOOD CELLAR DR. HANEY CHALLENGES: Can a political group that existed be- last war. the American economy risk the ex The first shipments of food to cause of. fear of some one eiae’s It may well be that Sherman be stored in the Atchison, Kan tension of war price-fixing when business. The Populists express- county can welcome the new firm sas, mine converted into a huge peace comes? War price-fixing must be dropped so we can have a transi- eo that fear and hate in the other- to The Dalles with as heartfelt a cold storage warehouse— are ready t¡on to peace, and return to the dem- w «e gay ph»ties. handshake as can the residents of foi m o v n g the W ar Food Ad ocratic condition of free Individual Big buainose, being managed by that city. m inistration reports. The new- choice. In all wars vast unproductive human a, „does like tq. have an a d ---- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ storehouse is located about tw o debta and unsound credit expansion maintained the nation’s purchasing to' the undersigned, the duly ap- offered for sale on sealed b ds to . . . , . j nt occur. In this, price-fixing makes no vantage In dealings With the pub- Winning aver the Balkans does- miles from Atchison and will pro- . great inflationary p<zinUd quaHfied, and acting Ad h.'ghest bidder for cash, prior t > difference. According to Dr. Fine’s power despite lic. That is to be admitted. For n’t seem to help the nat ves very Dr. y is Haney’s concern for a * . . . ... vide storage space for a wide var- statement, 80% of the price rise in pressure. fw 'econom noYshared by Amer- mmtetrator, with the Will annexed, September 15. at my office. All bid* that mattgr, so does everyone else. much. They quit fighting on one r.cty o f agricultural products. World War I came before peace, dur lean management By “free individ o f the E state of Nora Maud Akers, subject to rejection by the heir*. We .all Ike to get our business aide end have to start irt on the'r ing the attempt to fix prices. The ual choice” 17 leading industrialists deceased, at the office o f T. Lester ROY J. BAKER. Admin strator TRIBULATIONS OF A affaire ee well organised that pro- fermer allies. best way to bring prices down is to in a Life Insurance Poll this month v Johnson, attorney at law, Wasc » . MAORI WOMAN free the economy from price-fixing, stated that the greatest inflationary fits p to ’Om y and continuous If —---------- --------- Sherman county; Oregon, within peril would be faced in the postwar som e.one or pome group . gets Great surpluses of food are My nose w as just a copimon nose^ and let the debts be-Uquidsted. Price VOTE FOR fixing ip both wars has caused seri transition period and that price con six month» from the date of the ricked in the process, that is «tored up, which, together with Tho somewhat plain and bent. ous matedjustments and bad short trol should not only be retained but first publ cation o f this notice, ether conahieTat ons, allow point P ut now it ie a nose no more— g { strehgthened untH that danger wa* C .J. ' their owjn lookout. ages anjl ‘•squeezes." which date is August 11, 1944. over, ' About the only hoto for letting reductions. Wonder if they’ll go I+’e a fam ous monument. 1 DR. FINE REPLIES: Present price DR. H A N E Y R EPL IE S: Dr. Fine business and labor and agrcul- on «8«»® >« November? Lloyd Hennagir So tourist, take your place in lini? •controls should be maintained a$ mixes his war and postwar ideas. And for a modest fee, ture go on in their own free long as' lifting thenq would mean a There will be more surpluses than Administrator, with the Will An* You may rub the nose that rubbdd «ignifleant increase in prices. Price shortages in postwar times. I stand vexed, of the Estate of Nora Maud V h y . «*« toy|n« f e l FOR control admittedly has been imper for free markets when the war is Akers, Deceased. The nose o f Mrs Franklin D. . an advantage ie t o give Abe gov« won. 1 don’t care whether manage An awful thought occurs to me—- fect but without it (he cost of the ment shares my concern for free Date of first publication, August emnaebt control over everything. CONGRESS war would have been vastly greater; Tlyg thought is really stunn n g , insufferable burdens imposed upon markets or n ot Anyhow, the vast ^ 1 , 1944. Senator, Pepper »peaks for that — Pd. FaL A d a Freas the Observer, Sept. 18, 1915 Since my dose rubbed a Roosevelt war workers afidEMBUeflon diverted majority of businessmen oppose ex kirfff. af government. It is the new Misses Della ^Rortensen and into unessential channels In periods tended price-fixing. Dr. Fine can nose deal t hq i» r y Wh Mink it more dan- •of war and postwar shortages a “free have his 17 “industrialists.” Free Nina Searcy le ft Thursday for Will it alw ays keep on running T market” exists for the seller alone. markets stimulate mass production greroog than any other kind. Monmouth, where they will attend America’s splendid production per of the goods the masses demand. A We hnve learned many ways the state normal. NOTICE TO CREDITORS formance is the best answer to criti wealthy man can always outbid a off controlling business big and ¡HU Brackett has sold a team All persona having cla ms a - cism that price control discourages poor man in any market including little. The people can generally the present black markets. Free mar c f draft horses to W Y Shearer, gein st the Estate of Harry N. output. Let us not be fooled by mis kets make for abundance, and by leading cries of isgimentation—gov count on aid from their govern who will drive them overland to Richelderfer, deceased, are hereby ernment wartime controls are help preventing monopoly and profiteer ment in such a contest. We may his new home at Shedd. notified to present them, with the ing us win the war. They will help ing tend to keep people from getting learn to control labor unions too wealthy. v Erskine school opened Monday proper vouchers and duly verified us win the peace too. rome tfsne. • • . . 4 with Mias Young as teacher. The to the undersigned, the duly ap- The difficulty with the totelitar ment o f Robert Pinkerton, de —BUY BONDS TODAY— school grounds were enclosed this po nted, qualified and acting E x ian kind of government such a* ceased, a t the office o f Geo. G. Up- with a substantial iron ecutrix o f the Estate of Harry N. Mr. P e ste r advocates ■' is' that NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING oograff, Moro, Oregon, within six Ätofa.' >n>o» • « ■ » « * íoot- R’cheldsrfer, deceased, at the -whes S Ä - months from the date of this no A ing. For bolding and Equipment office of T. Lester Johnson, at Notice is ‘ freby given thattY? commute control there is no or- thia school ranks as one of the torney at law, Wasco, Oregon, undersigned \a s filed in the Coun tice, to-wdt. A ugust 25, 1944./ ASK FOR SPECIAL DEPOSIT ENVELOPES gam sston to oppose IL It gets Harry B- Pinkerton within six months from the date model districts of the state. ty Cou-L c f ÜW S U U o f Oregon like the governments in Germany, G Updegraff Mrs Christianson has sold her o f the first publicat on o f this no for Sherman County her Final Attorney for Executor. and Italy And Rnesia. It «nay At 42-!X tice, to -w t: September 8, 1344. Mitchell auto to Jim Kenny. Account and Report as A dm inis the kind of people who live khera. Selma Viola Watkins tratrix, De Bonis Non, o f the es NOTICE TO CRÉDITOR8 but this is Amerce. From the Observer, Sept. 8, 1905 Executrix is te o f S. A. Hall, deceased, ar. l For ^«Mtanes, when • the gov * * We very much regret our in- All persons hav ng * claim» again Date of First Publication Septem that Wednesday, the 11th day of ernment is in complete charge of s b lity to attend the nuptials cf HEAD OFFICE, PORTLAND st the estate of Gerhardine John MEMBER F-p I Ç / . ber 8, 1344 October, 1944, at 10:00 o’clock the railroads and decides.to raise Miss Sadie I. Orr, and Jesse Aus- son, deceased, are .hereby notified Date of LaM. Publication October A. M., of said day, a t the court- the rates there-is no means of op- tm Dunbar, at the home of the . . . , , . to present them, in proper form, 6, 1944 room, m the co u rth o u « , in Moro. duly ^p. poaing the raise It may he chased brides parents at Hood River yes- A p p lic a tio n fo r m e m b e r s h ip in - - around Tn the bureaus until the terday. { Oreyon, Sherman County, Oregon Bnd , cting E„ . NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT C O M M U M IT Y C L U B 2 4 7 1 and teoU- people quit fighting. Even now, A Dalles woman was married Notice is herby given that the heve been fixed by the Court a < cutor of Gerhar(, tie Johnson, de when the government decides to one day, eloped the next, arrested undersigned has filed r’n the Coun the time and „lace fo r h ea n n x The D a lle s , O r e g o n ^ O f objections to said, Final Ac keep the points on Iamb, there ¡3 the third, brought back home on ty Court o f the State o f Oregon ceased, at the office if Geo. G Up- I hereby apply for membership in Community Clnb 2471, rcthing the farmers oan d<y but the fourth, and went back to live foi Sherman County his Final count and Report and for the degraff, Moro, Oregon, within six sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Ware in order to w a i t l f , a s did bsggen ^ th e lambs with h«n on the sixth. It is not Account and Report as Admini? settlem ent o f s a d estate. months from the date if this no- help acquire a "home” for returning war veterans. I certify become sheep to the mgtting time presumed that she rested on the trstor of the. Estate o f Clara HOPE H. BELSHEE tice, to wit: September 1, 1944., that I am of Legal age; a citizen of the United States; a it is just tea bad. seventh day. McBride Stone, deceased, and that Administratrix, D.B.N Mary Johnson Eva relative of a veteran; will abide by the Rules of the Club, - Wheat a governasent starts on Mrs Emma Johnston having sold Wednesday, the 11th day of T . Lester Johnson, Geo. G. Updegraff/ and enejo«« $1.09 for mjr 1944 dues. tin? totalitarian path* there to no f a m ia about to return eajL. October, 1944, at 10:00 oclock A. Attorney for Administratrix Attorney for Executrix 43-6 Signature ----- ■ ------------------------- place for to Mop. We m ust go ^ e understand that'J C Todd was M., of said day, at the courtroom, on controllmg xmr business and purchaser. Consideration 830.00 ¿n the courthouse ,in Moro, Ore Local Address NOTICE TO CREDITORS labor and let them remain pri- p^r acre. * | gon have been fixed by the All persons having1 claims ««- City ft Stete vate industry and independent la- x Wasco county outfit sold a Court as the time and place for a.n st the estate <if Robert W. bor or put them-all uader the gov- load of water-melons on hearing o f objections to said Fi • ^ n^erton’ deceased, are hereby % emment thumb -and be a dictator- Main street Sunday. Price* rang- nal Account and Report and the settlem ent of said estate. notified to present them, in proper ship. - ■" ? f cd from 26c to 11.26 each. R o m w h e re I s i t ... ¿ y J o e M a r s h H. A White form, to the undersigned, the duly beings «are a great Administrator appointed, qualified and acting Ex- deal alike, Every packer, every From the Observer, Sept. 11, 1925 Monday test reports from the T. Lester Johnson, ' ecutor of the last vail and testa- contractor. every manufacturer would control the, whole of the county fair grounds stated that A ttoroey fo r Administrator T h a d P h ib b s’ --------- ---- —------------- - business M be It used to b* the race horse bam was filled to 44-S < «Ued loadable awb tion. Every overflowing with horses that will F o rm u la fo r Fun labor lead«* UMfta -to obtain as compete in track event« and NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING muck power o s be ean. o b o . We that some o f the space in other Notice i« given that Leonard' Thad Phibbs has a thoory of en w e know in our hearts w e’v e ___ forgat'Aliat ^ »"g con- buildings was needed to >ccom Workman a« executor x>f the will’ joym ent all his own. The more done a good job well? neeted with juru— Wit d sasn ot «nodate them. . of Val Workman, deceased, has tired he ia from w orking at the From where I ait, th a t’s one change a h— — a Mt; he still Dorothy Foes returned last Sat- filed With the clerk of the County War Plant, the more fun he has o f th e t h in g s t h is w a r t im e waato to imitrol «mmHit-r « ’¿ay f«*» Portland where she Court of the state o f Oregon for pitching horseshoes with the strain has tanght ns. W e’re a ll wMIramMtion to had been visiting with N P Har.- Skerman Oouny, his final report boys these sum mer evenings. • f na w orking hard a t our jobs, ensrisfd Is m i oh assre dangerous »«n and family. of his administration of the estate doing our level brat to pnll our “T h a t’s because I feel th at I in * ‘ffevnrament position than as Who sa d bobbed heir w as go- c f eaid decedent, and that said w e ig h t A nd we’re learning the deserve It,** Thad aays simply. little rewards, the simple pleas presutent o<la «bosfroeatto«. That ing out of style T It might be in court has fixed Saturday, Septem And I wonder If h e isn’t righ t u res—a hom e-cooked m e a l, a ie -oof good riassr why the Am- Paris or N ew York« hut in our lit- ber 30, 1944, at the hour of 10* I w on d er If w e d o n ’t en jo y glass of beer w ith friends—are e/d ah people have alw ays been tie city of Kent It to becoming o’clock a. m. of said day and the things in proportion as w e know more welcome n ow than e v e r. . . rtnart enough to* change them n*ore popular every day. courtroom of eaid court in the w e’ve earned them. Is a little because we’ve earned them ! every now and then. I t i s one way , Mrs Howard Conlse has return courthouse in Moro, Oregon, as the relaxation ever more welcome of keeping cantiul in »M Land« cd from Portland where she and time for hearing said report. All. than after a hard day’s work? of the neoole daughter, J e a rie , have been objections to said report ehall he Do w e a p p recia te our little ■ TT— ’ virittog the past vreek. Mies Jessie filed on or before said date. pleasures quite as much as whr~\ Those who have Ahns tor soeh w.fl attend high school in that Leonard Workman Standard sf California Afo. 9 3 o f e Serie» things have here noticing the heat, city' \ I _ Executor InduOry Fmniotion SBORB | ill Other [jftyt to BANK BY M A I L ! The Dalles Branch United States National Baj^k Another HARVEST /- 7:15 » p* LOWELL THOMAS NEWS TIME DON LEE-MUTUAL Kent Legion Hall SATURDAY Sept. 9 Supper Served In Hall 4 •
