Sherman County journal., July 13, 1945, Image 1

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Fifty-Seventh Ÿear
Mono, Qregon, Friday, July 13, 1945
No. 36
O fficia l; C ounty P ap er
A cohrnn of now»
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Abort Government,
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Tin and Paper
Collection Due
Here Saturday
Politics and People
with tp tc ia l empitati»
on the Northwest
With eggs scarce to the point
where groeer» are soiling three
or six to a customer; with bacon
unavailable, ditto beef and ham;
with butter commanding so many
rtd points that housewives cannot
afford It; with olao almost as ex-
hotter .in red point»;
with poultry »cnrce, and a ahor-
ace oT L xatoea, and with ancar
rationed, Fred M Vinson, former
war mobUimr and now «cretary
tb . treasury. told the American
people they hare been eating wo
much from January to July 1,
and will hare to poll up another
hole in their belts for the remain
der of 1 8 4 6 -and perhaps In 1846.
M r. Vlnaon, who « . a member
r f congreai until Mr. Rootevelt
appointed him to the federal bench
and than turned the job of war
mobiliser over to him, expeeted
soon to return to the bench, from
which be was taking a leave of
**
The judge, who continued
to draw his judicial salary while
engaged in w ar work, became war
m obiliser when Jim m y Byrnes re
signed th a t task juat before Mr
RooaeeeR passed away.
The American people had »
idM (erreoeau. according to Mr
Vinson) th a t they were on short
ratkons t^ns fa r thia year and It
Kim tt
ai
Station Shows
Next Saturday tin cans and pa-
per will be picked up in Sherman
county. Plans for this job were
made by representatives of the
Masons who are raising the money
from tin and paper for the benefit
of the Shriners’ hospital in Port-
lard.
Farm er» llvinr a t the end of the
road« have been asked to pick
up paper and Un can. at the cro.»
road, if it is delivered there.. The
O dd-F.llow , b u ild in , in Moro will
ba open from Wednesday until
Saturday when the material ga-
thered will be .hipped, s
.
,In town Charles Ruggles and
Clyde Gilbnor will gather paper
and tin cans. O ther, will pick up
the salvage, in other towns. Per-
to n . haying, each salvage should
p u t in on the street Saturday
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(JoUHCll LOO|i$ VVCF
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Place
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The Moro council a fte r hearing
the report of the committee char
^ t h the duty of negotiating
for he sale of the hotel, went to
the council room above « * * *
hall (fire house) and inspected
th a t spot preparatory to future
m eetings there. \
inatrucUd
will be difficult
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offictoU reiterate th a t people are city hall proper.
. . the
" average
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well-fed,
m an i in the
It Is expected Ak.A
th a t the ..ba
sale nf
or
stre e t challenges ■ tW i statem ent the hotel will be concluded this
and la convinced that not since -week or early next and city ofli-
Pearl Harbor has the menu in the cials will immediately move to
.«.taurtert or on the tebl« a t home pay »11 city bond, and clear the
botr oo Mrirnpy ao it i» a t p re « n t. tow n from debt fo r the Unit tune
And from new on out food -will Mnce July of 1899. A reque»t for
.
moPe difficult a celebration of th
has
th a a t t event
be eVto» scarcer and more difficult a celebration
that
event has
nas
to obtain.
b««n made.
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to wairtaag.
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Varieties, Soil
Commiifd Says Wheat Crop Cut
By Hot Days
Conservation
Bqpd Purchase Of Past Week
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wish to fftot on- sin*
o thank» to"' the area and
women ef flherffito countv
'who » responded as fully to
aid in raising the X bond qu«>-
ta of the county.
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New Wheats Interest
Fanners As Older
Varieties Shew Damge
The crowd that
attended
the
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“The quote e f $ lH ,005 was
raised fully sad Oompletel*
by the citissus e f Sherman
ueuaty, wttheut jCgsfars er
hoop-la, because the people
acre willing te M y bond-
without the omotioual stress
ef large crowds.
“Many persons height more
bonds than they expected to
in order to put the eounty o v ­
er, and to them we ere espe
eially thankful. We thank yoe
and we are eertaia that Sher
man county's men and women
la the serviee are ala<» thank
ful to every baud huytr.”
*• d 7 at Iho
«»" wa‘ *m* >*r ‘han “,ual but
1ntereat
wa’ «’
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* F wa’ »■<*.">>•<* accounted
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thing shown
M am ’1 Oveaon gave aome fig-
" « * <"> the county aaylnt that
the crop year normal rainfall is
1133 -*v ** the 1944-45 erop year
so f a r has bro u g h t 9.91. Our rain ­
fall state March 1 Is slightly
above normal because of the May
The Sherman County
rains. W inter wheat requires 1500
Bond Committee.
pounds for a pound of wheat, or »
46 tons of w ater to make a bu-
the
War
Erskine Warehouse
• The wheat oir the 54 plots in
the soil erosion experim ent were
first visited. Results have shown
jr four yeaM th»t mol(lboarf
ng yields best w ith disc tiller an i
The Erskine ' warehouse Broke
lister bottom following in th at or- 0l4 Wednendfcy • ! B7WW of men
der‘ Th^ e
heen much .***?
bU xiog
washing of soil on the Mater plots, This
part of
had
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.. the
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_ been
however Over
Over the
the county
county th
the . mold
mold <Ubd
before
and
braoed
fllbd
nnd bteted but the
the
board plowing h a . yielded «bout brace» had been removed prepar-
ory to
to thia
this filling
filling.
P
bushels m ore than trashy
fal- atory
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low
but 1944 w as _________
an exception
to
The blower v th a • t was filling the
house was on the ground at the
a
e>
Wheat a fte r grass produces a- aids of the house when the upper
ApATt
1 Estimates Run From
A Third To Three Quarters
Damage Done
it«». 4p told uf
Mm late
Cbarles Schwartx whose words
were often pointd and pertinent,
that fit. the present case perfect-
ly. It seems th a t Mr Schwartz at
tended one of the field days at
the experiment station in a year
similar to this one. D E. Stephens
war »peaking to the farm ers in the
<kld and said, “ The wheat you sec
behind me is ’suffem g from the
heat and laok of m oisture”.
Mr fiehw arti, every one to de-
termlne for hlmaelf, walked across
the road way, and broke off a few
heads from their brittle stock,
glanced a t them and remarked,
“Hell, th a t wheat ain't sufferin’,
it’s dead”.
All farm ers have found wheat
in their fields the last week that
is dead. Some have decided that
therefore it is all dead and estim ­
ates in tihe north end of the county
run up to 85 percent gone. More
conservative
their crop will be a third less th an
firs* astimated.
Although
,
___ the wtad ha» blown
th
e
west
io r several days it
i
not e^oied off much. A fter a
tnne U 1e haPed th at cooler
w” ‘ come hu t even th a t will not
«»eh o f the w heat on south
S,°T*8- H s dead.
Purchases of Last Day Put County Over Top
In E Bond Quota; Other Quotas Met
Earlier; Per capita Leadership Retained
Sherman county went over its ases other than E bonds was made
E bond quota Saturday morr.ing some days ago as was the corpora-
when returns had been compiled ^ on Qu°to. Total sales o f other
,
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, , . * bonds than Es was $75,607. The
and early morning
sales added to . . . . .
.
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individual quota was $24,000 and
the total. Additional sales were the corporation quota was , i !!(0(w.
made to bring the
total E bond
Total quota was
$233,000 on
**1®® accounted for in the four is- which total sales as compiled local-
• u,n* a^ encX offires to $201,057.25. ly were $276,664. This is 113.7 per
Tt is P°8sible that the total will cent of total quota, smaller than
** lari<' r than th a t
a''mc ,a l” tha averag<“ for th“ sUte
are reP°r ted coming from he fed-
In per capita sales a department
eral reserve office tx) the credit of in which Sherman co .aty has long
Sherman county, a proceduie that held supremacy it is si II f , - ahead
is new to this Jrive- A,s0 there is of any other county in Oregon,
often an al,otm ent dt the end of a *nd as far as can be learned,
of Ra,e!' ma,le to mcml>“ ra ahead of any other county in the
of the "ervice!r and t6 employees nation.
under pay-roll savings. W hether
p er <-«pita sales for this drive
not ^ >e*e ^a Te J >£€n >dded is wjy probably be r. ar $125. This
not known aa ye t-
will make an average for the last
.
quota for individual pureh- five drives of nxound $110. The
national average is about a fifth
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of that. The state average is a
little over a third of that. Defin­
W r SCO
ite figures must necessarily await
the release of com plete figures lor
the seventh campaign which will
Work of pouring concrete fo^ be done today.
the new Wasco elevator addition
The final week of the drive saw
has been completed except for fin- sales of over $25,000 made at the
al touches. The job requires long- hank, nearly
$10,000 at Wasco
er than estim ated because but one and about the sume at Grafts Val-
crew finished the job after so ley That wus in marked contrast’
many men had left th at tRerTwefe to the week before wbou a lmuMt
not enough for a night erew
no bonds were »old.
There are eight circular bins, with
Local bond campaign U-orkers
storage
space between them, give
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. . .. credit to the desire of citi-
j{oom for .machinery will bt built lens to keep the county a t the top
a t the top and removal space at and meet the quota giv^n it. Pride
bottom is connected with the in the county’s record, desire to
elevator. It is thought that show the hoys in service th a t Sher-
annex will be ready for use man county was behind then», and
this harvest although that is not financial ability to buy bonds are
no param ount as it appeared to believed the m ajor causa; of the
when construction started
final push for success.
ElCVatOf
Job Near End
»mul a n o r m .l c r o p .l th o u g h the end o
l
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»econd crop will probably be bet- John Gilman w « on top of the
From appearances of the crop
U r. Barley produce, more »rain w heat and m ved^hhn.elf by «rab-
per
acre
than
w
heat
beating
wheat
bing
a
rafter.
OtTiers
in
the
erew
the
first of June a fter the effects
.
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May
by 3 to 400 pounds per acre on were Bob F latt, Wesley F la tt and
estimated of 30 and 40 bushjgls J
the 30 year average.
,
Vernon Shipley.
were common and based on good
Considerable interest was shown
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in the variety tests as thia was BARDENHAGEN GRADUATED grounds. Now it is probable that
the county will make less than
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the firs t year w eather had changed
wt^n America was fighting on two
re-
20
bushels
(about
the
average)
CONDENSED
REPORT
OF
PRO-
the
same
as immediately hereto
Among those graduating
the appearance of the grain. The
front*, and It will require a long-
B i ,H ,
F .
a ’ i LT i
2nd Ceot4y from an intensive courac or perhaps less than t h a t Eacn CEEDINGS OF COUNTY COURT fore; with exception th at Rutledge
er haul to deliver the supplies to
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in of basic engineering at service day th at the wtad blows hot and —JULY TERM
Precinct No. 7 be forthw ith dis­
the l.l.« a » ta th« t " P«d,!c
A
fire that b“ rn' d tovef R” -A'i<-<''-
tje
Han> c
the , un shln„ brightly cuts l)la
continued and abolished and the
Then, #«r the immediate future, « v e ra l hundred a c re , at the h e e l tne wheat e ro w e r, with P-» Tur-
-
R E . claim s aKainr t County Gen- territo ry heretofore comprising
(ñatead W f te d ln , troop, in Eu- of Spam .h Hollow last Saturday
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j . B a ^ e n k gen. Gram V ^ley Ore- ‘ n . one capect, to have wheat ( ral a,"d ^ " nty R»a d / “ " da: C la the Rutledge Precinct No. 7 be an­
nrhru. (nrmMMe ouantitles o f food- afternoon and night destroyed
A few samplep of the well pub-
x
,
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»» »
, »
av
ce
i mir allowed as presented.
nexed
and made a part of Grnvi
rope immense quamiwc«
.
-
t
„ „„ j
» « = . »A«dun«Hnn f ° n- His training has
des that weighs more than 56 pounds
» o-
Muffs «mat «till go-to th a t contin- fences, telegraph poles and rail- licized w heat-grass combination •
.
Monthly report of County Trea Valley Precinct No. 9.
in
itself
is
, 4 i V—
million civilians road tie . to an undetermined »- were shown. TFIbaf are bein» W ed
“ > flt hun io r »
P tr i>»»hel and th a t .
surer showing fund balances as
Transfer of funds, as pertains
e n t to keep aeveral million elvtiians roaa n o . to
/ -w
„ - rpnnial navy job in the long Pacific war a To» of 12 percent
percent ol of the crop.
from starving.™ « will be under mount.
m Russia to produce a perennial
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ol June 30, presented, examined
1044-1945 'budgeted amounts,
UNRRA. The E u ro p e* « lie f pro-
The railroad engine i . thought wheat crop, b u t they did not look
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The county has 119,319.5 acres and filed.
in County General Fund and Coun-
blem is expected to make heavy to have started the fire which re- formidable to the grain growers. in » « ■ « g y
peace
.
-n wheat thij} year Twenty bu-
Bid of Oregon-W ashington Rai.- ty Roa(f p y nd authorized and di
demands on the United States for qnired the combined aid of railroad _ Root stock alfalfa was detag
’
shelg to the acre would mak*
road andNavigation Company ac- j^ te d .
IS m onths or two years, crews,
highway crews and farm- well and will be expanded ff- I t
E -,E . Barnum left Monday for 2.386,390 bushels. No one can be ccpted for purchase of Tax Fore
«Mr the 1946 harvest sections e rs to put it out. It burned nearly proves adaptable. The g ra ss ex- Redmond to »pend a few V eeks found this week who thinks we closed Property in Ken; and pro- CLAIMS PRESENTED AGAINST
will get th a t much. About 1,750,- perty declared sold.
S.1ERMAN COUNTY, OREGOi«
of Europe will be »elf-sustaining to Thornberry, being stopped at périm ent has been cut down to with hla son, Cleo and family.
000
bushels
would
m
eet
with
more
Bid
of
D.
H.
W
right
accepted
GENERAL AND ROAD CLAIMS
but meanwhile the job of feeding the Lowell Burres place.
foin varieties, - Crested
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general
agreement.
io
r
purchase
of
Tax
Foreclosed
FOR
JU N E 1945, AND A PPR0»'-
the hungry is the responsibility of
Hurried work was done by sec- gr ass, Big Bunch grass (agropy-
iSpring wheat is still green and Property in Wasco and property
July, 1945 TERM OF THE
ncle Sam ’
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tion crew*’ to *e t the ties reP^aced rum irerm i) Big Blue grass (poa
has not succumbed to the heat so declared sold.
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COUNTY COURT THEREOF,
b
a • »
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»O th a t the stock train could make am pla) and Idaho fescue. Some * _ •
fully as ha» the w inter wheat.
Certificate
of
Appropriation General Fund:
Judge ^fciion’s report explains the down rip.
bulbous blue grass is grown as a*
,
But it is not immune.
signed by Court certifying bud-
F irst National Bank, General
that thia y to f iood production wijl
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filler.
be lower t h » t o L » year .Ince
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geted appropriation for mainten- ssistance $24.44; Wasco County
the war. The report Ignort. the were coming to town Wednesua> y lg IT FR0M DUFUB
ance of County Agent’s office.
Clerk> Sherman County’s share of
Semi-Annual Report of County Health Unit expense for year Juiy
f a c t - t h a t Che u u o ta * « ta b ll.h e d
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» ‘»<> « . Mr, A1 Wooda , nd , on, Clifford,
T reasurer presented to, approved 1» 1944 to June 30, 1945, $436.00
for the current year were .lellber- __^a/ e,ar_
7 „ ,' Ar't came over from Dufur Saturday
and
directed to be filed by Court. F lrst National Bank, Old Age As
a 1 '
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k - 41.0
•c™«« the T oad and into
io ris it her son, Ernest and fam ­
Christianson’» w heat field.
f
Deeds
approved and
signed ¿‘tence $155.40, Aid to D ependtrt
ily and make plana for harvest.
and, naturally, there will be
Carrying recommendations
o f whereby county deed tax foreclos Children
$30.40, total $185.80,
county and community farm er ed property in Wasoo to B. Estrelle Clarence Mersinge/, J a n ito rs sai-
committeemen, members of
the Hailey, and tax foreclosed proper- a rY $10100; James W. Jones ex-
farmers were W to kill off i
state
AAA
committee
less
for
t j in Kent to Oregon-W ashing ton P°nse of Government Trapper $50.-
larga percentage of their hens
W
afhington,
D-
C.
on
June
25
to
Railroad
and Navigation company
A. Wilson Chairman Rufus
because OP A was afraid of the
prepare
Oregon’s
1946
agricultur-
Order
signed
by
Court
wherein
Precinct
$4.90; iH. H. Bracket Jud
growfeg rtwplua of eggs' This di-
«1
conservation
program
.
<
County
grants
tem
porary
perm
it
Bufus
precinct mileage and
rective eurtailed. egg production
Making
the
trip
to
work
out
the
to
Oregon
Railroad
and
Naviga-
*tn
t
$14.30; Berneice Mor-
until W » I they are aVnost a col­
tta te handbook of *AAA practices tior. Company and Union Pacific n s » clerk Rufus precinct $4.90; A-
l e c t o r item and * caused such a
conserving Oregon’s soil and Railroad Company tb construct ¿«line McDonald clerk Rufus pre-
shortage o f poultry that it takes
'water resource» will be R, B. Tay- m aintain and opitrate a railroad Cinct $4JO, W. A. Morris, clerk
isa l money to buy * chicken— if
Tiler, Adams, chairm an; William J. over and across certain county Rufus precirK-t $4.90; Paul F» Al-
tne rideken can be found In the
Erecbede, Hillsboro; John Shop- owned property In town of Kent
chairman Locust
P*0*
meat shops or groceries.
herd, Scio, and • Arnold Bodtker
In re: Gravel loader purchased cinct, mileage and rapt of hall
Jem $s still going to Britain, bui
farmer-fieldman for southern Ore- subject to approval of operation-: $12.02; W. H. Carlisle, Judge Lo-
in America |purew«ves cannot ob­
jpoTi counties.
Test unsatisfactory and acceptance
Grove precinct, $5.02; Rosalie
tain sufficient sugar to preserve
► Recommendations of county com- rejected.
clerk Locust Grove precinct
the berries and fruits that are go­
mitteemen »as reviewed recently ,, In re: Cancellation of taxes here-
Gladys Zell, clerk Locust
ing to waste. By and large, the
w tth the state technical committee tofore levied against Moro Hotel: Grove precinct $5 02; Amelia Ro »t,
food* supply for the civilian popu­
represent only minor changes from M atter referred to D istrict Attor- clerk Locust Grove precinct $6.02:
lation will he almost seven per­
this year's program . It is expected nty for consideration and advices .
Wooda chairm an Klondike
cent below what TO’ availsble In
In re: County Fire Truck: Court Precloct mileage, and rent of half
th a t the 1946 handbook a» finally
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OeB’ Alexander Patch, oom- tenj ej participation from the 32- directs th a t Fire truck be forth- I 13-25; A. B. Potter Judge Klon-
;• x • e
Reprerenting the Big Four at the Berll. conference, where the pact »ander rt the 7tb army, la shew. g
wiU contain gubetantial- with prepared for operation, sub-
P « * in ct $5.05; AJta SmiU»,
Not an
__ of Judge
, . Vinson’s re granting the Allies fall supremacy ever Germany was signed, are, left te after being „decorated by Gen.
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a.£fV d b r u i l f ~ r t h e «hor- right: Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, General of the Army Charles de Gaulle With the oordon of
the game Practices as the 1945 ject to ©all, and that due notice
Wond. 1 ««Tin
ir e ffb e a H . Ha ipakks Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marshal Gregory K. Zhuhov and Gea. Jean De « Commander ef the Loglen ef Hon- program , which drew a record in- be published so advising.
A- Woods, clerk Klondike precinct
S ^ U D U e a e war and edrtesto SLattre De Tasslgny.* They will be la charge of occupied Germany.
»r and Croix de Guerre with palm, 000 farmers who signed farm
County Electjon Precincts ro- »^Q6; Joe Hilderbrand, clerk Klon-
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' plans this spring,
established and to be and remain
• Continued on
Ol
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County Sells Tax Foreclosed Land
A t Kent and Wasco; Pays Bills
Grass Fire Destroys
i “n ■«
Pasture III HoIlOW
-Mrtl'
fii IrtWt
A
Patch Wins Honor
State AAA Members
In Washington
Vwy
w a^T’tw
Big Four at Berlin Conference
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