Sherman County journal., July 27, 1945, Image 1

F if ty Seventh Year
A column o f
N a 38
EOL Agent A t
Ontario Found
mwi
x2
Aboet Government,
Official County P npeg,
Moro. Oregon, F rid a y ,J u ly 27, 1945
Utility Valuation Blood Donors
Goes Up $52,500 Due For Trip
Isigny Cows Return to Fields
J. B. Adam« was here for - a - 4T« . / a J w I
brief week end i from Ontario
where he has been spending most
of his time of late, being in char­
ge of both the Ontario and Moro
offices of the Eastern Oregon
band company While here Mr.
Adams was notified that the body
of the former Ontario manager,
Charles Flegal and that of Frank
VanPetten had been discovered in
the wilds north of McCall, Idaho.
The
men took VanPetten’«
gon to a summer camp May Tt
and started or\ the return trip by
VanPetten’s plane that evening,
Nothing was heard of them, nor
were their bodies found until Sat­
urday, when an elderly man ^with
two dogs discovered the partially
burned plane and the two bodies,
A pack train brought them in
Sunday.
Flegal is known in this county
having managed company busi-
ness here several years ago. Van
Petten is one of the well known
family that owns many lumber
yards- throughout the eastern
As If they knew that the hells sf peace have
part of Oregon and Idaho
Is
time
they had their grazing fields ts themselves
■
wander idly Into an ammunition damp s« the road near
Thousands of head sf cattle, driven awny by Qermaaa
•yz J
In Sherman Co.
Monday a.m;
Now About 20
Bushels per Acre
Next Monday blood donors will
have another turn at giving blood
for the benefit of soldiers. A
Tax Commission Raises
Harvesting Brings More
Politics and People
call has been sent out from the
Assessments of Railroads
Cheerful Reports But
Red Cross in The Dalles for 20
The state tax commasaion’s an- donors from
Sherman county,
Yield Spotted
—poetai emphaeu
nual statement of valuation of Wily Knighten, local chairman,
public utilites in Sherman county has accordingly sent out a request
Estimates on the wheat crop
has been received by Assessor for five persons to make the trip
^>een «»limbing and now yields
Charles Rugges. It shows an in- to The Dalles by 9:30 Monday
bushels are heard of ocoa-
crease
in
such
valuations
of
from
each
of
the
five
districts
into
gjoniy
n<yw be conaerva-
Of plana for post-wer highway
$62,531
over
th
a
t
of
last
year.
which
Sherman
county
has
been
and
voice
an
estimate of 20
Construction there accuse to be no
The
1944
figure
for
public
util-
divided.
bushels
for
the
county.
Thia will
end. Several bills have been intro-
Ries,
which
are
assessed
by
the
District
chairman
are
Mr»
majce
a
crop
of
2,386,390
bushels
duced m congreee, dM ambitious
tax
eommiasion,
wax
$1,834,260.
George
Wilson
at
Kent,
Mrs
Sadie
^or
county
and
will
exceed
in their aoope and each centempla^
That
for
1946
is
$1,886,791.
.
AUey
at
GraM
Valley»
Mra
Paul
the
average.
ting the expenditure of enormous
Principal increase will be ab- Wilson at Moro, Mrs Afton Mein-
Thg qujdity of
cpop ig not
suma of money. Generally, an ex-
sorbed
by
the
railroad
company
tyre
at
Wasco
and
Mrs
Adeline
go
M
thought
although
no
cuse for Vie generous spending is
_.U—
.
.
.
Koan
in.
McDonald
a
t
R
ufus
who
wdl
mak?
field
^
¡
n
.
whose assessment has been in­
found in the expected need foi
creased
materially.
This
may
be
volunteers
Weights are running around 56
public works to take up the slack
due to larger business carried on
to 60 pounds with a few reports
m employment during the recon-.
the lines and may be partially P a f a g r d D h s A b o i l t
of grain going over 60 pounds.
version period. The latest highway
due to improvements made on
®
H v
Harvesting is general around
bill to appear in the house ia the
■ Wasco where nearly everyone is
brain child of Representative Hand
cutting, but not over half z the
of New Jersey and while H omits
R ailroad valuation in Sherm an
some o f the features which were
county is about $1,600,000. The, Mr and Mrs L. H. Nahouse of farmers are harvesting around
found to be objectionable in pre-
tunnel on the Deschutes river is Salem and their daughter, Mrs Moro. At Grass Valley bat two or
nous K b it is even snore ambi-
pe, and It owned by the Oregon Trunk which Marjorie Stewart from McMinn- three have pulled out, although
these oswa has an assessment of $7992.40 on ville stopped
to visit a while more are starting every day.
Coos in expanding the highway
, France,
it. The Union Pacific uses the at the Lewis Olds home on thoir The crcp ¡g going to be spotted,
battles, left
The plan, Mr Hand insisted,
•f whence? tunnel and is assessed an addi- way home from Moro where they Reports have it that some land
io shift for themsetvea, are being divided among the
_ / tional $1508 for the use of cars visited their daughter, Mrs Ronald with an average of well above
w ill: be self-liquidating, job-creat ■ » j
p
1A JC
Ing and revenue-producing for the I f l a d C I OF 1 5 / 4 3
on the .59 miles of track in this Powell and children.
20 bushels is making 15 and otheT
4
county
The
valuation
of
the
Mr
and
Mrs
Ernest
Blaylock
land
with an ■ average of 15 is
federal government and at the
Mrg Egtella Dillinger of Salem
branch
line
is
$553,000.
were
business
visitors
m
The
Dal
making
25. It seems to depend on
«ame time profit-making for pa- wag ^ e first person to obtain a
-
The
valuation-
of
the
Pacif.c
les
Monday.
several
factors among which must
trons. He describes his project as wheat Joan in Sherman county TOTAL EXPENDITURES AND TO WHAT FUND CHANGED FOR
Power
4
Light
lines
in
the
coun-
Mrs
Art
Smith,
Mrs
Jennie
be
listed
variety of wheat, rate
a national defense super highway this year having gotten her money’
PERIOD JULY 1, 1944 TO JUNE 90, 1045, INCL
o*'
increased
by
the
addition
Hearing
and
Mrs
Ormand
Hilder
and
date
of seeding, nitrogen
and airport system. It would pro- jag^ Saturday on 1945 wheat,
88’flo7 oq
nyi^ 8
*‘ne- Purftl l*ni brand were in The Dalles last oonftent of the soil that affected
General
Fund
Total
vide automobile highways, airplane
Mr and Mrg Elmer R Barzee
General Road Fund Total
I
of the company is assessed at Saturday.
amount of growth and use of
emergency landing fields, and com- Were here this week to superin-
ts
writtm
|$
52,911.51
per
mile.
Locust
Grove
line,
Mr
and
Mrs
Ralph
Haynes
and
moisture.
Tetal
all
War
mercial airports. There would be t^nd the harvesting on the' Bar-
ONTH
now sold to the Wasco county REA daughter, Carol, arrived this Wed-
Jn any event this year marks
COUNTY GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES BY
no less than „15 super-highways iee piac^. Their home is
in
is
valued
at
$162.50
or
a
total
of
nesday
from
Richland,
Wash.,
to
the
end of the four year period
criss-crossing the country in every Portland.
July
I
$4226.
The
Michigan
line
is
val-
visit
bis
slater,
Mra
AJL.
Dunlap,
(n
which
no one who MUad
direction, touching all the princi-
Mrs Ronald Powell and infant
August r - - ■
-
ued
at
$91
per
mile
or
$1033.
Mr
and
Mrs
Millard
Eskin
and
««oil
could
go wrong. Tn those
9366.06
September
pal cities and Unking them up in a daughter were
brought home
1,879.60
Total
valuation
of
the
Pacific
family
were
business
visitors
in
halcyon
years
any land brought
October
national system. The work
would from the hospital Sunday by Mr
4,194.06
November
Power
&
Light
company
is
close
The
Dalles
Sunday
forth
prodigious
yields if plowed
he in charge of a national
com- and y rg ROy Powell. ¡Her parents,
2,428.04
December
- '
to
$200,000.
Mrs
Art
Bibby,
Mrs
C.
R.
An-
any
time
and
sown
anytime. Now
mission of nine members
each y r and Mrs L. H. Nahouse of
3,740.41
January
Companies
that
operate
car*--
derson,
Mrs
Orville
Ruggles
and
farmers
are
going
to be faced
drawing $10,000 a year. Employ- Salem, were here for the wees
2,088.54
February
over
the
railroad
are
assessed
for
Mrs
Edgar
Alley
were
hostesses
again
with
the
age
old
perplexity
1,767.99
ment would be given only to Am- end a]go. coming to see therir new
March
the
cars
on
the
14.f*9
miles
of
ait
a
bridal
shower
for
Mrs
Ross
that
farmers
have
had
to deal
1,832.28
April
erican citixens at standard wages, granddaughter.
2,749.44
track.
Pacific
Fruit
Express
is
Field
at
the
Odd
Fellows
hall
Fri-
with
since
they
stirred
the
earth
May
with preference going to dischar-
Mrs Jack Matson and son from
3,042.09 .
June
valued
at$10,574,
the
Pullman
day
afternoon.
Mrs
Ellen
R
oberts
with
a
crooked
stick.
ged veterans. All material must be Red Bluffs, California are here Total expenditures, - General Fund
$ 33,664.22 $ 33.664.22 company at $13,458.
sang several selections accompan- ----------------------
produced in the United States and for a visit with her parents, Mr
GENERAL ROAD FUND EXPENDITURES BY MONTH
The
Western
Union
has
201.42
ied by Mrs Orville Ruggles. After
by American owned business. No and Mrs John Foss.
$ 1,627.30
July
miles
of
wire
valued
at
$58
50
and
the
bride opened the many lovely
convict labor would be permitted.
Mr and Mrs Roy Powell drove
1309.00
August
14.74
miles
of
poles
at
$132.60.
and
beautiful gifts refreshments
806.81
Building of the highways and to Centerville, Washington . Mon-
September
Telephone
company
lines,
of
of
sandwiches,
cookies and punch
The hotel deal was closed Tua<-
1,388.06
October
their adjuncts would be financed day to see their ranch over there
which
there
are
1307
miles,
are
were
served
to
about
fifty
guests
when Ernest Eslinger and
2,426.90
November
by the issuance of government and visit with son in law and dau-
valued
at
$91
per
mile,
which
by
the
hostesses.
wife
made final payment on the
1,231.27
December
bonda in the amount o f $10,000,- ghter,Mr and Mrs Lyle Woods.
1/429.69
makes
the
valuation
of
that
com-
Henry
Miner,
who
spent
a
mon-
hotel
and took over management
January
000,000, to be repaid by the im-
Mrs A. S. Johnson, Mrs Jean
1,950.10
February
pany come to $118,937 in this ths vacation at Eagle Creek, re- from Harry Kunsman, who has
position o f toll charges not to ex- Stamey came up from Salem
1367.83
March
county.
turned home Tuesday.
charge for the city fur
1,665.03
April
ceed one cent a mile for use -of the Friday to
visit Mrs Johnson’s
---------------------
- Mr and Mrs George Rusaler and over two y«a>®-
1,491.80
May
roads, Thia, Mr Hand explained, daughter, Mrs Lamer Sayrs and
A car load of new combines son, Loren, arrived Thursday from
Sale of the building and city
2,59348
June
would encourage use of the super- family. Another meter, Mrs Dae Total expenditures, General Road Fund
$ 16,667.29 $ 19,667.29
Wednesday morn- Shirgle, California to spend a few owned contents
f°r $13»600
highways for long distance trav- Idleman, came Saturday and all Total number of claims presented against General Fund
611 ing and work was immediat.dy days v o tin g her unde, Sam Hoi- which will permit the city to pay
el, Waving local highways open returned to Salem Sunday,
Gross amount of claims against General Fund
$ 33,004.22
»tartod to get all the p a rts on mes. They also visited a t the home its bonds m -full a m w tter-th a ts
for customary uses and thereby
Mr and Mrs Richard Ginn of Less amount of unpaid warrants
3/>77 58
them so they could be pulled into of Mr and Mr, Tod vonBorstel.
expectod to be eompletod by
averting congestion and contrib- Spokane and two children stop­
toTfield for harvest
Mr, Leonard Tubbin, arrived August 1, thu. « d in g a period
lount paid
$ 29,926.64
Total
p in g to public safety.
ped Sunday night at the home of
Q uite a few men have come in- Friday from Bremerton, Wash-, « t 4« years of continue«, city
Emergency landing fields, pro- hie brother, Harold Ginn,
TOTAI OUTSTANDING WARRANTS AGAINST
to the county an,I arc awaiting to spend a few . days visiting at Indebtedness.
$ 3,677.58
perly lighted, would be built a-
County Judge Jerry Wilson left GENERAL FUND AS OF JUNE 36,1945.
infc. Fow comnlaints are heard the home of Mrs Helen Bayer.
Mr and Mrs Eslinger expect to
long the highways at frequent for Portland Tuesday morning to Total number of claims presented against Gen. Road Fund
315 3
farmera aJ to the scarcity She left Tuesday for San Diego, make improvements m the hotel
$ 19,907.29
intervals, also
commercial and consult his doctor about a stom- Gross amt. of claims against Gen. Road Fund
of men, by which it may he as-^California to join her husband, to enable them to open the dming
2,132.92
military airports located as close ach ailment that has been bother- Less amount of unpaid warrants
room within a few weeks.
sumed that the supply is ample who is stationed there.
to each center of traffic as prac- ing the Judge for some months,
Total amount paid
$ 17,774.37
ticable These would be open to the
Mr> Bernard Martin took her
public for use in flight instruction daughter. Deanna Darlene, to The TOTAL OUTSTANDING WARRANTS AGAINST
$ 2,132.92
and to accommodate private planes Dalles Friday, where Deanna en- GEN. ROAD FUND AS OF JUNE 36. 1945
Thia report is based up9n the records of all warrants written in
a t reasonable fees.
*®red th« Mid-Columbia hospital
the office of the. County Clerk.
to have her tonsils and adnoidi
I hereby certify that thia report is true and correct.
• ♦ *
Congress is placed in the seem- removed.
Dated this 14th day of July, 1946.
One of the first civil suits in
and was to be permitted to Peareon lost a poait when, it
Ross Ornduff, County Clerk
ingly ipconswtent position of be-
Mr and Mrs Ronald Jones and
RE'
newly
formed
Sherman
county
feed
' up tx> cattle the hay that was found that he had deeded a
mg asked to appropriate $10,- children of Seattle werfc here last COUNTY CLERK’S SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF FEES
was
that
of
Pearson
vs
Fraser,
wa»
on
the place. V. C. Brock and part of the land away to hi» wife
CEIVED AND DISBURSEMENTS OF SAME
000 000 a year to develop more week end to visit Mrs Leota Ga-
which arose over a dispute about W. M. Barnett were witnesses to in 1889.
JANUARY 1, 1945 TO JULY 1, 1945.
deadly war weapons while consid- vin. Mrs Jones and children ro­
care of land. In these days of pub- the document, according to the
Subpoenaed as witnesses were
erin g means by which to prevent mained for the week when Mr MONTHLY RECEIPTS:
72.25
January
lie consciousness about the dan- complaint.
E. B. Penland, A. D. McDonald,
another war. It ks held that the Jones returned to Seattle Sunday,
62.65
February
ger of erosion it wou-ld have been . In the ¿all c f i&88 Potter sold Wilmer Herrin, Henry < Hanson,
army and navy, due to lack of
Sid Smythe, new field inspector
96.25
March
a leading case, and even in far- gnd asgigned to J. H Fraser, a Hamipton Laughter, F-M . Hamp-
funds for that purpose, failed to for the First National Bank, was
76^0
April
off
1898 it caused much comment g^eep mant his right and title to ton, Ammanuel Potter, F .J . Mof-
continue proper research after the here the first of the week to take
57.86
May
90 23
a»nd brought many witnesses to
place. Fraser admitted to tak- fltt, N. E. Moffitt, Fred MathHs,
A n t world war and thereby plac- a preliminary look-see over Shor- -
JUNE
the box.
t
ing possession March 2, 1889.
Dora Mathie«, A. M. Wright,
ed the United State« in an infer- man county, which he already
Total Receipt«
$ 494.93
ior position as compared with de- knows pretty well having , lived
As well as the story can be re-
The suit grew out of Pearson’s James Tomlin, F Jf. Anderson,
SOURCE OF RECEIPTS
velopsnents in other countries The for years «t Arlington,
constructed from stories of old charge that Fraser had laid waste Alex McIntosh,
$ 237.35
Recording fee«
timers
and from the public record to the bottom land and had failed Clark Dunlap, W. B. MeCoy ILA.
office of scientific research and de-
Mr and Mrs Ernest Eslinger
16.88
Law Library Fund
29.00
velopment would prevent Tecur- returned Monday /rom Hillsboro
of the trial in the clerk’s office, to care for the trees, had let the Murray, M- A. Potter EBB» w»
Circuit Court Fees
82.80
County Court A Probate Fee«
it went something like this:
- fence fall down and had permit. Porter. Not all gave testimo .y
rence of this situation by making where they had gone to return
6.00
Marriage
Licensee
available not less than $10J»0,- his father, Asa Eslinger to his
James Pearson owned a place in ted other minor acts of omission apparently, at least, not all were
79.40
Misctflaioous Copying and Indexing
000 annually for research and ex- home and visit with Mrs E x ­
Gt» m Valley canyon «vliich at that or commission that Pearson*» at- listed in the claim for fees,
«8.50
' Migratory Lien»
time
was a rather bountiful mea- torneys, Mays, Huntington A Wil-
The jury of which O. W. R K »
periments in the development of eris sister, Mrs Byland,
who .k
5.00
Litigant Fees
500
war weapons and materiel. Mean-
Arizona.
dow
instead
of
a
waste
of
bould-
son
and
J.
B-
(Hosford,
held
should
ardson
was foremafi,
ptvfNfi U m b
,
<
None
whfle consideration «. being given z Three locally called men went
ers. November 19, 1887 Pearson be recompensed by payment o f verdict for the jMfattW, Peara<4b
Naturalization Fdea
a bill Introduced a few days ago to Portland for their first physi-
leased the place to one F G. Pot- $2200 by Fraser to Pearson.
for $20 and
K t
$ 494.91
Total Receipt«
to create the cabinet post of sec-
examination Monday They
ter and departed for upper Wash-
A. S. Bennett was attorney for «ome argument amou®t?d to less
DISBURSEMENTS:«
for peaee to emphasize were Donald DeMoss, who is re-
ington state to engage in the Fraser. He called the washing of than $200.
$ 8.50
Migratory LiSnt paid to See. of State
500
the evils of war. Both the ' pre- Ported to have failed to pass and
stock business on a larger scale, the bottom land an act «of God,
It Is mid that at one |ime the
Litigant Fees paid to State Treasurer
5.00
paratton for bigger and better UeeRoy Hansen and Robert Belk-
Divorce Fee» paid to State Treasurer
Potter was to pay for the use whereas Pearson had contended part of Gran Valley canyon 1n
$ 451.48
Paid to County Treasurer
and the plan to prevent war "*P. former teachers, who have
of the land by planting 10 acres that driving sheep up and down which, the early Pearson pl$fifi
would W financed from the fed- *><>th annealed for delay in induc-
___ Diabaraement»
___________
of tree« in the spring of 1888 on the
. valley . had caused trails that was located waa a lino meadow.
.
Total
$ 484.93
Btfil tyeflKty.* ‘
» -
t ’on-
Archer went from
I hereby certify that the foregoing report la prepared from and the timher cultures of both Mr wore through the sod and permit- Them were many other Ilk « F
« •
Moro having been
transferred based upon the records of this office; and that .the same is a full
. -.
pearaon Potter was al- ted washing to start. Defense days, b u t few o f them MBB a«d
Why there was Imported inte from a South Dakota board. Ho true and correct report to the best of my knowledge and belief.
a two wire fence, waa also made against the wast- so much legal attention attend*
the United States last year a total is said to have passed the examin-
Detod th i, H to <b, of July. IM. Rm> om(h|ff
C]frk "rX t Pwa.to o’f tand".nd buUd.' ake d ffc n c in , an'd orchard p l.t., ant to thrtr «tartruction.
(C*ntiiTO6d on Page two)
ation-
' —e 7V,Af
on the Northwest
the T*^'
«a
Sherman Countians
First Wheat Loan
Clerk’8 Semi-Annual Report
f
Hotel Ownership New
Early Civil Suit Had Land Use Basis O f Interest
To Erosion Conscious Farmers o f Present Time