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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1945)
Fifty-Seventh Year Moro, Oregon, Friday, Jn ly ftO, 1945 No. 3, Twenty-Four Planes— 25 Final Report - Official County Paper Rate Reduction A column o f m w i , Shows County’s Made By About Govénraent, E Bond Sales Best PP&L Company Politics and People with w pw àal wnphaiu on the NorAwest H . .bould know—William B .tt, ... of the war odoctio* board. who Ratified ,1«« a eonwreaaional oommittce . t "irorU^iaraona and two hove „ Sherman Maintains Its Commercial Usen To Championship By Receive Lower Rate Beating A ll Others As Well A$ Homo Uteri4* Some statistics a&out the Sev enth War Loan campaign should «* <* i - * « « 4 Sh‘ ™ M' coun- tians who. agam, put their county over the top with the beet E bond •»«• Per «q»ta >» the ,tHte *nJ probably in the nation. Wry « M a o tto l perceetar«, depleted t a M y taMMi » At tat can never be replaced. At « preMnt rate of consumption, Batt, the high grade . lf^ * b e ranee will ” v J ^ b « . . P« , gone in ten yenr., but a , pre B «ad on population. of Novem- ber 1943 Sherman county bough. $131.44 in.E bonds per individua., * The average for the state wa * 9 .4 9 . Second to Sherpjan was Wasco with 186.26, third Hood R -« Fr0“ the>C „p*. S X XT m I = t r . v ~ . “ “ 2 . - - for Crook. Z Mr Bott. there to I" > » ' « H°od h e X n ore but nM of » c b b,gb «ed - i t i . K 7 8 ...n • e futur. iron and to e ! w ll coat ir grandchildren and our great •andchlldren more than the pre- o t „ „ .r a tio n * » p .y K - The t a J a raggeated th .t atocbpBe. u . .n d « p U h ~ d that on. , the beet dernmiu of high grade ” neat « p M iu m w « , * J r ? T “ ~ fc^ nnfal •** « > " • T * “ W ‘"ty ' The «tate aa a whole led the na- tK>n in® -**1*8. J ? ;n «» * * b o n d s 'th e average P ™ »*-« Oregonian having bought some worth .Ince the war begun Sherman countlan. have eround »860 of them on the average. Oregon had the hlgheet E bond quota in the nation and Sherman These m a r in e pUets m a d e »TbIUa history sff Okinawa b y bnockl»»» down 24 J a p p lanes tai 23 m in u to s . L . to B. fa r e a r a n : MaJ. CL Axtell, L a g u n a B e ac h , C a lif.; C o l. W . K . D ic k e y , D a B e la . Fa.; M a J . I . D o rm b . Ho<><* R iv e r , O re .; 14. E . A b n e r, W ash in g to n . F r a t rs w (I k to B 4 : B t. W . L Hood, B ento n H a r b o r , M ic h .; 14. J. J. O'Koefe, Biloxi, Miss.; U N . T T h e r ia u lt, M ilfo r d , M a s s .; an d L t C . A lie n , E s r t W s rth . Hunting Rule» Sid Smythe Injecting Give Three Days For First National A well-known Eastern [ Oregon Goose Shooting rancher, Sidney T. fimytbe, this Customer savings totaling $1,- 000,000 a year will result from sharply reduced electnc rate sche dules filed by Pacific Power & Light company with the Oregon public utilities commissioner, it was announced Wednesday by R P. Brisbin«, local manager. Biggest slash 5n the company’s 85-year history, the rate cut is slated to go into effect August 22, subject to final review and approv al by the state regulatory auth orities, It will be the fifth system-wide rate reduction, made by PP&L since 1936- and will bring savings from these cuts up to a total of more than $2,100/XX> annually. In addition, a tem porary rate reduc tion In the form of two “rate d’v- idends” totaling approximately $600,000 was paid to the company's customers last year. The 1945 hunting regulations week joined the staff of the First tentatively were set by the Oregon National Bank of Portland as live State ga<me commission when it stock loan inspector. held its annual hearing in. Portland . Smythe, who is well acquainted July 14. The hearing was adjourn with ranch operations Mill serve All Customers Helped ed until July 28 a t which time final several of the First National's Residential and rural customers branch areas including Sherman regulations will be passed- will save an estimated $440,000 a There will be no special cow elk county, as livestock liwpector and year* under the new rates, an av tags ¡«sued this year auhough the counselor with ranch owners and erage of about 1.4 percent. Savings same area in southeastern Oregon operators. He wlH make his head to most users In these riasses here s r « . . . . » — » “ - FT irci —. . State. Quotas are based on pei will lie open to the hunting of elk quarters in The Dalles. Educator in Arlington, Portland «will run between 15 and 20 per X ’^ ^ T ^ ^ n d I X " eepHd' w e .ith and income of the of either sex on the regular elk cent. tag. The elk season will ,ne from and Spokane schools, Mr Smythe Commercial and industrial uscis . t bringmg in of iron ore from JJJ^1' ,n Xo'TonaMered has spent the past twenty years ii\ November 3 to 25. will save an estim ated $570,000 an «<> would be taking awey » b e Hst f or The deer season will be open the livestock and related business nually, or an average of about nrn America« workmen from September 29 to October 28 es throughout the state of Oregon. 15 percent. Commercial rates here WWt Mr B an told the commit- for buck deer having not less than will be cut close to 30 percent for identical with what a min- forked horns. There will bt no s p $- in** axptoM T t t hi» column cial doe deer tags issued except In addition to slashing Its rate.*, t year ago. The raining eng in 800 tags for a post-season sEoot the company Is moving toward stated then that the mnnufae _ to be held in the F ort Rock-Silver fewer and simlper rate schedules. of trucks and tanks for all. A l K d p I O i \ 3 l 6 l>ake area from December 1 to 5 It also makes available to res alltoa w a . a drain on the raw government inclusive. The fees for the«e tags - The Butler-Byrd bill to make idential users an “all-purpose ’ ,riala to the United B . U . «M _ „ . L , ,45.588. scores of taxpayer-financed gov are $3-50 for residents and $5 for block of 600 kilowatt-hours a ernm ent corporations reeponsible — „nd T hat w a, an average of about non residents, in addition to thfe month at the very low rate of 0.6 to Congress as to budgeting, ac d . ,r e Uken from the »™ m c. At en(, of regular hunting license fees- counting and general practices, has cents per kwh, regardless of whe World War I our public debt had There also will be issued 800 United SU tee to loabt< w> - g<Jare<j u »25,482.034,419, which tags for the taking of antelope been endorsed by a sub-committee th er or not the customer has an of the powerful Senate Banking autom atic electric water heater. urable resource. wag about $240 per American. AI with ear length horns. The season and Currency committee, by the This block is available to all res - .. »* , * d non houses the end of World War II the pub- will be from September 22 to 30. U. S. General Accounting Office, idential and farm customers af „ Britieh loat 450 0 ^ houae Fees for antelope tags arc $2.50 Bureau of the Budget and the ter the first 250 kwh used in any for residents and $5 for non resi additional 000,000.000 even a t preeent rate T reasury Departm ent. So many month. not habttabld. , . ' j of federal taxes. T hat will mean a dents. The new residential Pate to he creatures of Congress became in Drawings for both the doe deer effective here will be as follows: dependent of th eir creator,, and and antelope tags win he held a t 85 cents (min.) for first 16 kwh grew so large, th at the p aren t it wants 90,000 small fshri^nU dates to be published later if the 8.5 oent per kwh for next 44 kwh self finally became concerned about muse, and the United State, JH x number of applicants exceed the 2.4 cents per kwh fot next 65 kwh M e northw est factories have r r a i l K l a y O C 11UW its sprouting offspring. num ber of tags authorized. - 1.5 cents per kwh for next 125 kwh Sherman county dates are: 0.6 cents per kwh for next 600 kwh ngilW supply the dwellings. Pheasants. Huns and Quail: 1.0 cents per kwh for next excess. prefabricated b o u ^ a™ pyt payne Mn of M„ October 13 to 28. • t on the order of thoee Mr> B p payne of Graas Va| Minimum Reduced M igratory W aterfowl: During . been bui t_, ley, Oregon h a , won the right t > open season for m igratory w ater- The present residential rate giv ilopment in Eastern Wa. g “ Roots and W ings” of fowl, shooting will be allowed on Volunteer workers, principally es 12 kwh for the 95 cents mini _ ... , the United States Army Para Thursdays, Sundays and Mondays mum charge and the next 48 kwh de Dutch Have app ’ troops. He has completed four only m Wasco, Gilliam and Sher Clyde Gillmor and Charle« Rug are a t 4.3 cents; the next 140 at gles, gathered several tons of pit, MM) board feet o weefcg of Jump training during man counties 2.5 cents; and excess at 1.5. For r work of recons rue »on. which time he made five jumps, per last Saturday afternoon a- automatic w ater heating, the pre i d E n d in g a tactical jump at night ATTEND MEETING round Moro and farm trucks sent rate provides a block of 500 ldvel of physi involving a combat problem on Mr and Mrs Giles French drove brought in more to swell the pile kwh at 0.7 cenbs after the first Hollanders cannot hand e to Salem Sunday to attend the sec in the Odd-Fellows bnilding where 200 kwh used. rtfe o f ordinary al*e. The Gei- ______________ ond monthly meeting of the state the accumulation is awaiting ship The new rural rate gives 16 kwh « opened the dykes and flood- tax study commission, a group of ment. , s for the minimum charge of 95 Hollaitd There is a dispute as SHOE STAMP GOOD 13 named to study all phases of tax Receipt« from the sale of the cents, and the next two steps are rhat effect this water will have JN AUGUgT ation in Oregon. Representatives paper will he given to the Shrine 3.9 cents and 2.5 cents, a fter which the land, but one of the first of counties and cities' presented hospital in Portland where crip the schedule is the same as for city » is to get rid of the water. The new shoe ration stamp their problems to the commission pled children are treated. homes. ► of the best pump men m the that OPA announced would become a t the meeting Monday. Commercial customers will re ted States has been sent to valid August 1, 1945, will be Air ceive savings in dollars ranging land to direct the Job. He has plane Stamp No 4 in ^ a r Ration from nearly $10.00 a year for rowed all of the fire fighting Book No 3, the agency said. Air- 60 kwh a month to about $85 00 a Lpmeiit in London and moved plane Stamps Nos. 1, 2, and 3 arg year for 500 kwh a month. Large o Holland to pump out the cit- good indefinitely, OPA added. The commercial user» -will also make There are 26 cities completely last »tamp was validated Novem- An interesting original relic, inois, who ran unsuccessfully a- substantial savings, it was stated. ded and the job is to dry them her 1, 1944. OPA pointed out that Holland ie a country of 8,- the intervals between validation of dating from 1855 in the career of gainst Abraham Lincoln for the Savings to Industrial custom ers 000 people and it has almost »tamps depend on the available James Shields, one-time appointed presidency In 1860. He also is the will vary with the size of load annd territorial governor of Oregon, has first signer. nature of their operations. n wiped out in the war. Food supply of shoes. Other signers, and there are In announcing the proposed new been ao scarce that the men That the supply ui shoes for been presented to the Oregon H is too weak to handle the lumber crviHans wilt be increased is indi torical Society in Portland by Hon» 42 of thetn, were all members of rates, the company stated th a t the repairs unless it is cut short, cated in the downward trend in oraible Lowell Stockman of the 2nd the United States senate, attend reduction was being made in anti • • • the production of army footwear, congressional district of Oregon. ing the second session of the 33rd cipation of savings in interest costs »•legate J. R- Ferrington of The War Department announced «Shields resigned his position as congress, which ran from March through the prospective refinan rail has introduced a bill in that production of army combat Oregon Territorial Governor im- 4, 1853 to March 3, 1855. Their cing of its bonds and also because gres* to extend American cit- (boots will be reduced in September medately to accept an election in nam£s, subscrfced to the petition, of increased evidence That the P a cific Northwest communities served iahip to the native« of Guam from 2,100,000 to V'00,000 pairs the federal senate, where he served fill two foolscap pages. The signers include three sen would Vnantiain their healthy grow [>-of American Samoa. There an<j that of army service shoes will as senator from the State of Illi 20,006 native^ on Guam and be lowered from 700,000 to 350.000 nois and senator from the Stale ators who became, less than 10 th a fte r the war. years later, members of the cabinet XX> Samoana. The delegate (ter- pairs during the same period. This of Minnesota. » o The document is a manuscript f the Confederacy. They were >riea have delegates until they decrease schedule will be Continued EXAMINER COMING admitted to statehood and then throughout the fourth <(uartjr of petition presented to President Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, A traveling examiner of opera resentatlvea are elected) de- 1045. Announcement at thia time Pierce seeking appointment as bri Attorney General, Secretary of tors and chauffeurs is scheduled War and Secretary of State; res that the people of Guam of the reduction in army footwear gadier general in the army for to arrive in Moro Mnday^*July23, wed themaelve» loyal to the needs will provide a 60-duy span Shields, who at that time was ser «Stephen R. Mallory, of Florida, itad States when that island during which time the shoe mdus- ving as senator from Illinois, The Secretary of the Confederate navy; and will be on duty at the court house between the hours of 10 a. m. s invaded by Japan, and in the try will be able to prepare for in- peOtion is In the handwritng of R. M. T. Hunter of Virginia, who and 4:00 p. m. Senator Stephen A- Douglas of Ill became Secretary of State. (Continued on Pa<e two) creased civilian production. " t ; £• Public Debt Rising , q KB b tm to n U « . Make B a r e ,« Behave uOatntwdand sts .' t s s ' bs ; ~ p ■ “ •' , p* Paratroop Trainee Paper Gathering Bee Successful Oregon Historical Society Gets Original Petition From Stockman 9 tajan?, users. ,, Rep. L. Stockman Crop Dartiage Less Stops Briefly Than Anticipated While On Tour Representative and Mrs Lowell Stockman, now visiting their con stituents in eastern Oregon, stop ped in Sherman county Tuesday while on their way to Bend and Klamath Falls Mr Stockman says the recerat hot spell in Oregon felt nyce and cool to them when com pared bo the heat of the W ashing ton summer. It really cooks you he reports, Mr Stockman says the senate can ratify the San Francisco char ter any time a vote is taken but th at it may he delayed for awhile so th a t all the talking can he done. Adjournment of the senate is not expected to come until mid Aug ust, but the house Was to adjourn a week ago, but has not done so yet. The eastern Oregon represen tative has been working on his idea of getting some of the north w est’s surplus wheat shipped to Europe as feed for the people there. - •*' ' ----r — -—, . - — State Agencies Need Workers Immediately Earlier In Month Crop Expected To Be A verage or Better But Quality Poor • As so often happily happens the appraisers of the value of the wheat crop have decided th a t it m not ao bad as originally thought. All of it is hurt some, some of it is definitely worthless, but the crop will be pretty good anyway. Nineteen forty-five will not go down in history as one of the big crops for the county but it may well be one in which farm ers reaped a crop above average, and certainly one in which the farm in come was above average- • Very little harvesting has been done so far and it will be next week before many combines are in the field. Some are starting every day hut harvesting is not general. Reports indicate a crop of 20 bushels although in these days of hulk truck it is hard to get much of an idea of the yield until a field is finished. Fields th a t looked like 40 bush New examinations for clerical and casework personnel have been els will make 25 or b e tte r in many scheduled by the M ent System cases and fields th a t seemed hope Council. The examination date has less a week or so ago will m ake been tentatively set for August 15-bushels. And th e county will pro 25. Examinations will include ad bahly h arv est 2,000,000 of w heat vanced and l>eginning clerical and of poor quality that will bring tin* stenographic series including ivh price down to $1.33. m inistrative secretary, stock con W eather has Maidenly I »won»«' trol clerf^ an\’ telephone operators; much ci»oler a fte r its ram page )>eginning and advanced casework th a t drove the th erm om eter up to ers, assistant casework supervi 98 ten days ago. N ights are cool sor, and casework supervisor with and often dam p so th etired men the State Public W elfare Comm is-, will g et to sleep an o th er hour in •ion. themoming. Employment with these agencies This crop will not be eountod offers perm anent tenure, reg u la t'd among the previous fo»r mortgage compensation, paid vacations, sick lifters, but it is certainly out of leave and protected working con the class of those of the thirties. ditions. As «career service it off ers opportunities for in-service ad vancements. Retirem ent benefits as passed by the State legislature include employees m the agencies covered by the merit system. F ur ther, applicants qualifying no^v No radical changes are contem need not qualify again when the plated in next year’s AAA pro new State Civil Service law be gram , unless changing conditions comes offeetve. call for emergency modifications, reports R.B. Taylor, chairman of the state AAA committee in Ore gon, who has ju st returned from a national conference of northwest 1946 AAA Will Be Like Older Models Farm Safety Week Observance Urged s ta te com m itteem en nt W ashing Individual observation.of Nation al Farm Safety Week, July 23-28, means avoidance of accidents that interfere with vital food produc tion, Secretary of State Farrell said today in urging care in the transportation of volunteer farm workers during the summer h ar vest season. “Thousands of urban residents are volunteering to help the fa r mer harvest food crops this year, ’’Farrell said. “Many of these vol unteers are tranported to and from the farm on farm trucks and other vehicles. “ Oregon has established an ex cellent record in this type of tra n s portation and we are anxious io continue that good record. Whole hearted cooperation on the part of the vehicle and passengers will as sure the continuance of this acci dent-free record.” Farrell listed th'ese ^ f e ty pre cautions for the avoidance of ac cidents involving the transporta tion of farm workers: 1: Make sure vehicles are equip ped with adequate sideboards, at least four feet high. 2: Provide tailgates on trucks so passengers will be protected. 3: Provide benches so passen gers will not be tem pted to sit on the bed of the truck with their legs dangling over the end. Rear-end collisions are a serious hazard in such case«. 4: Inspect vehicles reguarly to make sure brake» and other equip ment are in good operating cond: tion. 5: Observe traffic regulations ot all times. 6: Encourage passengers to a- void horseplay enroute. ton, D. C. Food shortages, both real and fancied, are prim e topics of con versation throughout the country Taylor found, with the situation worse in populous eastern centers. Food production goals for next year which are curtain to reflect the continuing rpeak needs here and abroad are expected to call for all-out production of the most essential crops and livestock-pro ducts. The Oregon wheat goaJ for 1946 will he announced soon, we31 m ad vance of fall seeding time Taylor reported. A tentative goal was re ferred to th? Oregon committee, passed upon by the technical committee consisting of state col lege and other agricultural officials and then returned to Washington with recommendations. It is ex pected to approximate this yea? s planted acreage. Visiting committeemen had an opportunity to meet the new sec retary, Clinton P. Anderson, and found him a man of vigor and direct action, Taylor reports. He had a special committee working on detailed reorganization plans for the departm ent, but denied that there is any revolutionary over hauling contemplated. R ather there will be changes to clarify fu n c tions and responsibilities and speed u,p operations. Anderson, a former congressman from New Mqxico, is a farm own er and operator of considerable experience. He told the committee men that hia policy will be to make the department function with Speed and efficiency in getting the best result» for Amencan produc ers and consumers o f agricultural proucts^ Taylor says.
