Sherman County journal., August 24, 1945, Image 1

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^ o r o , .Oregon, JpHda?? August 24, 1945
No. 42
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Government,
Harvest Nearly
Over Thit Week
Crop Average
The last week practically ended
the 1945 harvest attnough a few
combines »re »till running. The
weather has been almost perfect
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•
for cutting the last few days and
with M pteial empitati»
machines are able to put in a
fuller day than earlier in the see-
son. Days ere generally rather
hot and nighto also warn, enough
_ .
lk. i , __ _ _ _
Co prevent much morning tough-
Sober thinking men In cow gie^ s___
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and the ’ higher admin istfgSya . ” ***
Amount of grain
produced can
poets r ea lm that peace has ',Ut be figured m a «.art time after
urea by the surrender of en
threaVinc is completed as
’
San F?an h‘ uMr* ” **“ done
ior ,he
T “ ** “
bushels atored on the farm . This
•iseo ga adpm nc« in itself,
to being measured and computed
(g lu t future w a n ; and there is ”y ^ ' ^ nty
Fear that the public will take too
-
ma<ie
much for granted in popular oval-
afe<>ut
Politics and People
on the Northwest
Mtion of » h a t h a . >»«» « « « -
and that b for a near 20
pltahed and the «top. tthi h mutt
a w r aee I t seem , probable
b. taken to implement plan, to
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X
toe
strength«, and perfect what ha.
uremiy been done, in corridor.
2W(1(XX)
aV b u , h -
rtt elo.kroom .nron, o p in io n , are
Wtotoad which do not find toew
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’
way 4i*ma»eSe*
into press from
dispitches from
can be counted when it is ail
Jie tiattoaal capital. Some of these
m.
apftifeM may not be more well
’ounded than those held by ti e
s x r s r s u r i » “:»": Unemployment Not
M «tody w»d lessons learned from
Pressing Now
of State
.
Brrtrw>n)il
rom u u rooree .. the
prepos.I
this source is the proposal
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I set up m the senate a commit-
H to torottigate un-American
euvttire K m g to . Hnc f l o w e d
w t o e d d Dhtt rerereittre in t o .
‘knlirslT
? “**’ H
aer
isokaMonlst«». -
o t,b e denied that the sentiment
■ehind them ts distinctively anti-
om m uniet
So This Is, or Was, Hiroshima
Two Missing
Canny Thursday
Harold Metier,
Donald
Thompeoa
and Leland
Number of hqrik
Schweodd. The flret three gv in
And Teacbert Laryoet
limited eerrice but X is not thou­
ght that there wi| l be much diff­
Factor bvolved
erent h i duties hpipoued now that
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L
,
__
They may got a
Distribution of state fund» for the wor-iar
dlatocU h , , bron don. bow «triad o f taatoing and become
. , .
.
a port of
« t u g a t occiumtion.
by Wfly Knighten, eebeol
This hi the iMjjt contingent to
«end«»*.
* **“
eounty after the
«o«™ »«
, ,
but the peace
The
"**■ iwwb
“" X * ”
*"£
t
co n fcto t.« ,.. S o m e j A » U do
,
Partrcipate to the -dWrtottwm he-
cause they did not le v , 3 m ill, or
for school purposes. Num- / a f t , ft
~
ber o f pupda <nd number of tea ( j a l t L f t l f Q t l S t e r
chore unit, are toe detormtog h e -
to r’ in «>• dlvltton.
The fund, reeelred by the d i.-
trfeto are deducted from the totoi.
<* * * ‘»•dget. and t o .; lo c a l
school tax u reduced by the a-
m ou|U receivedfrom toe ttate.
The comparatively small sums
budgeted by rome dittricU may
be accounted for by the fact that
oervae, kn/Uttt.
some budget» nod to « •
by appropriations made over t o .
legal mx pereent as determined
by toe budget U v held Invalid m
No Additions Made
To Casualty List
Since Memorial Day
1 U , G utter
,
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Fraser wee
was
Fraser
to
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* * U1 *or he/ °
“ Gordo^’ o
T<iO^ " ’F r, ;
'
r o r v C ^ r ito the
serving wiwi
with vne
the
serving
«< « - M rdJBtood .« r i Fire) DI-
vWoo. On March f t tt945 between
Bubmsen and* F edringen Germ -
fc— viJ. —.¡ ,t
“ X> d« to
An aerial view of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, an Important In­
dustrial center and m ilitary base, which was the first target to be hit by
the new atomic bomb, announced by President Truman. The following
m orning the Jap s adm itted eaten
damage done by the new “ bombs.1
O“ >, •>“ hemb
fl ap..!’ ■
* per rent of the city estimated
dettrnyed.
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d iv
J » J matlU
t£
passed, the third is the sum re-
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a .
TT\
.
_
cewed from toe state fund ark
f
a.
__ _
u. ate casualties and reorganise. Dur
Quality of Crop
Averages Better
Than Normal ’
New Crop
l n S lir a n f o P k n
lO S U ia llV v 1 Id U
Held Successful
the fo u rth is th e « n o o n : to he
enUw)
F ra .
Early m arketings o f H ard Red
™
* in
‘n *«r stayed gftj>5l£i«fa«*ry bat-
™i»ed b , toe spec
special * rohooi tax
W inter w h eat from
O klahom a,
^be
load P^*»h!y
probably *****
» Cj
<*a«a
m
talum
directing srtil
the unem ploym ent ’«»<>
F
ederal
all-risk
crop
insurance,
T
exas,
and
so
u
th
ern
K
ansas, in-
Ja_
„mJ Diet
Budgdfc State
Tax
*
TLT -
a
will not reach its height fo r sev-
now being offered to Orogon grow - dicated a good quality of g rain
Non-hi 110,292.24 $Mft84 $9925.10 7 ^
«wj month.
era on 1946 w h eat crops, h as heen from th is area. T e s t w eig h t per
none
none
none
1
of th e U nem p lo y m ett
making
.
.
, .
..
v«o.ia bushel was relatively high and
24391.68
26,241.11 1849.4«
3
•tro n g ly endorsed by the heada
,
m o istu re content low, b u t a fte r
.
none
hotte
nene
4
*2*°
in
- th e h arv etin g extondefi
• na*y*1® wben asked to com-
m the-state, according to W il liam _
ment on benefit payments durirg flp s * S flM O 333.40 « m m Armed Fence»
TT ft
wetoher
4178.08
7538.12 3356.04
7
.
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* * ad ju stm en t period. Admims
Previous to hi*—entrance into J. Enschede, chairm an of the state
(late
**’n inCPease^ *** m oisture
22,414.56 2873.09 »,641.47 the Away. SqptnmMsr 17, (1941, AAA com m ittee
(Hosing
t r a t o r Silas Gasser explained th a t 9
none4
none
th e em ploym ent service through
none
13
fo r insurance on co n ten t in *the w heat, re su ltin g in
1629.16 * 333.40 1193.71 Purdue University.
15
fall sown w heat is Septem ber 30. 14 percen t o f (the receip ts in­
its 24 local offices is co-operating
A
spected
d u rin g
Ju ly
g rad in g
node
none
none
to handle any reasonable claim s 16
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S upport of th e p ro g ram by all
“tough.”
20391.50 3446.72 16^42.78
17
load.
_
I
farmers, both for protection on
I>omestic g rain m ark ets were
none
none
none
“T he em ploym ent service
nas 19
O w ^ o t l ( TODS L e s s
w h eat now and fo r possible fu-
n
o
t m aterially affected by »nnoun
none
none
none
listed thousands of jobs wiUh can­ 21
Ore tUPe exUn8iOn
°f
t ^ cem€nt
the war’8 end during
667.75
1001.15 333.40
neries, railroads, lum ber and log­ 20
c r o p prottX ^U d -rto ttd in Ore- o th er crops, ,» urged by M orton
,7
836.51 (o n tttw relly during in ly , •»- T om pktn., m a .te r o f the Oregon m g
11-69 91 383.40
g in g firm s and o th e r in d u strie s? ’ 22
th e offlce
6860.99 1718.65 5142.34 though the weather was favorable Farmers Union.
ad m in istra to r said, ‘‘they are 23
M arketing Services o f th e U. S.
to offer work in accard 24
3943.52 333.40 3610.12 In the nation as a whole, accord­
In a lette r to all subordinati. Dept. o f-A g ricu ltu re. The m ark e ts
displaced person's skill
2448.10
2781.50 333.40
Members of congress on both
idea of the a to e are not yet cor.-
diyced of Russia’s future peace-
fal intentions and they point to
wviet dominance m central Eu-
ope at p ro o f o f th e ir contention
hat Stalin i» not Immune to the
30
ing to a weekly review by the
ome lust for power that led Hit- and experience?.
1342.11 333.40 1008.71
32
pared fo r th e situ atio n , sfnoe th e
er to attempt world conquest # -.D unn< thflS period, ¿»cat work- 33
4525U7 333.40 4191.77 pnwpebU fell sharply <fe Otegou
G ran g ers ahould lbe interested ^ o p ^ rih M tT litT e s had ’been ex-
rundamentally, the fear .i s not
^ ould accept the best jobs
$M^92A7 but -hay production is still expect
$118,48434
.’i A
Vk /»y/A
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in seeing to ,it
th V a 4
t 4
the
crop n 1 Hi­
pec-ted fo r some tim e,
o much that armed forces will <va|m j,je a t prevailing w age ra t- Totals -
S16.SK1J7
u exceed
year.
lf * The q u ality of the 1945 w in ter
so rance program succeeds.
e employed
as It
Some ma
m ay have to re tu rn to
m pioyea »>
iv is
>» of
v> the erec-
a
A few years ago t*e
the schools o*
of
National prospects for com
corn urn-
nn .
w hc a t is success-
? 1
a
« •
. f Ittretore which will
ev2n t.hoi
though Sherman county were oper.ted „ „ j „ d Uw
reporting « r - ? ? P
7 lhc “ ** Cr“P » 7
,n the
"
"will inter- _ Jwar’
m with world tr.d e and thus tfce
may
temporarily les,. with a special U x of from fifty vice estimaU waa raiawi to 2 3 « d“ ’ ^ iJ n " weather -inrecta, fire, i* ’* * bet:t®r th ,n . “ w " « e- “ ?
re ate condition, which «nay
This difficult period ahead will re- to sixty thousand Now the total „m jun bushels, 130 million more
d flo(x| a re removed 'n iPe®,K>n" °
rec*!p 8
HT j
ttoierehle and in direct cdnflKt
,
althou<h
by X
toe July 1 figure but still 7 ^ *
o- 7 .J Z ”
T
' ?
rito to . purpore of t o . charter
ow r , l8>000 by „utaide fund.- In n perrent under . toe harvett of ,TOm the ha“ rd> of ia ,m ‘n«
R*d Winter wheat ,s g rad m g
rhiefa «n«i-ged from the confer-
the war plant layolTj
at ,arge cort< have hi- w 4 ” th . percentage o f roft com- P o « * » « out
c.ru»>„ ln8ur- « ' '« W hijher than the 1944 crop
a-rw«
..
considerably
anc^
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f
th
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at
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com« too quickly and there arc creased by about half as large
Union national ag ric u ltu ral pro- eraife. .Soft Red W in ter w hea’,
Real*>tion of these fears, it Is
enough jobs to ' go around, percentage.
~Th*
o a t . crop a t 1 643
J<>n“ ’ *ln “ kttCT “
th ‘‘ howev€r- '» 3 ™ d'n3 m a te ria lly
dmitted, would nullify all that
unemployment commission now ______ ____—_
m
illion
bushels
b
re
a
k
,
the
25-ye«r
P
re
sid
e
n
t,
o
f
a
ll
locals,
declared.
)ower th an th e h ig h q u ality crop
as been gained through theJ ex-
early $73,000,000 with which
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“
If
we
ever
w
an
t
crop
insurance
)aat season and is slig h tly lii-
enditure of American blood and
tide workers over. Beefits of
reasure and create a situation frojrv $10 to $18 a week fo r from
^hofolD to .the Bnafntenapee of &
2Q weeka m y ^e paid to
•so®. While those Who fear th is
w orkers each year,
4-
- g h u m - was t o r e e n on August 1 p o r t ” He also stressed th e self- M0RE ITEMS FREE
levelopment are in the minority
(Unenxployment claims may be
E a rly com pletion o f , plans
•$
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-
su stain in g m u tu al aspects of the
The “de-control” process will
it . congress, tfcdir
ce^’
Oregon at any
__ • al_ oUtoH*
M|i “ filed
•—* against
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’ of
. ov now buildings at OSC with actual tiiasug»My laiger oowp
,
»Tvwrtoan
ta k e nlace trraduallv sa v s OPA
5 J i t i i ^ . v t o r ^ > “ o w ito m " 1f W, ? nX>k‘7 ‘X”
" « »"»"“ 'y toU 1 • 7 * ,y
« " * " 7 ““
^ T g r a n g e s and union locals C o m n L it ^ s will be released from
Of this ^ „ ^ . X ^ s ' b e T ^ t r r ^ n d ^
2
“ < « ^ X ™ ™
“T
“ T
New Buildings Due
At Oregon State
»■wan
100 ’
7
.
to
y
taw™
Proposed as a public works pro <ny__^____ X — — —— ---------------- -
i
set 'os On aid in takmg up the
lack in employment, a bill has
een introduced in the senate to
uild a national memorial stad-
um in Washington, D. C., sc­
olding to (plans which wopld pro-
ide for lit* pslf-Wquidation. This
stter feature, however, is purely
peculative and if the project is
luthority’ tt »■ believed an obli­
gation would rest upon congress
o make good any deficit which
night occur. Tor this xea8OTI
ucoess of the measure is doubt-
’ul although (it is sponsored by
Unstore Mead o f New York, Bur-
ion a i Ohio and Bflbo of M ississ­
ippi. A preliminary aipproprix
mm a i $150,000 Is .asked for a
lurvey and study of the project
kctuaJ construction cost is intend­
ed to be paid by private subscrip- _________________ ________ _____
¡.ions
made
"
S T .k 2 but
M ttu BO
n .S provision
t of t o . is wnrk
in • - . O
Major Bong Killed
i U - t o t o . tttorortfition.’ prev«
k« S tran d in view of the ur- 45
of migrants from gen<.y
by
^ e n
»g
how the com crop
finally
__ «to u n d ertak e sales agencies for determ ined th a t rem oval will re-
turn.
ingurunc€ wherever 9ult in no increa8e
ithe
of
endng of the war.
,,
out.
~
all
P resident S tra n d spent port of
1
to be ab o u t
the wiir-ond holid^vw wMSi MTch* CPO^pO NMWI
.tecta working on ptan> » « th . OT 1-2 p tt « * - I W « ‘7 W44
largest
new electrical engineering build This would be the third
.
ing which is one of the Aret class- crop output of record.
he r>
room buildings scheduled. Another cord wheat »crop of 1,146 m illion
is the,dairy manufacturing build- bushels, a near-record hay crop,
ing, while a third approved by the and above average indications for
state board of higher education is potatoes and fresh maifcot Aege­
an industrial reseagph building.
tables ’contribute to the favorable
erov t ______
Plans are nearest i ceaoU tion national crop prospecta,
,
.
-ireht
for the « new
‘
T ..1 dormitory
° Z £ 7 for women
-lu .
which . . badly n«ded oow to rtow m .X u dttfitotoM * * * ¿PP»«.
o f th . rorlv return «f «TO to the gerohe., pro», x ’
<)wrrle
campua in pre-war n»mb.r.. The p l ^ . , p r » «
? P* ? * ' ^
college has leased sll iTanflNn
_
«^Zroent below
“
yfa, OTX ’ X i ^ X X
£ J M a r g a jX Z T lu U l^ X r .
M p ttcrot of 1944 when
«1 to the Naxv for t o . NROTC.
appl. prodrotion waa «bout equal
Pre.id.nt Strond paid tfe. rod. to toe 19fifi-3e »veroge.
____
_______
th
wisdom
° " ildin,
T<>" .r e < .
“ ,iXe8
»
in e .^
r e r in « o i t ' o rrP*
. tm
^ “ 7 . ^
^ 1 ^ 7 ^ . X *
possible. Such a rra n g e m e n ts aro living. Ceiling prices on a few
be*nk made in a num ber of coun- consum er goods have already been
taips Enschede imported-
vnTVT
Auz»/i These {«^
z*iiizi^x axxx/xxnxi
rem
oved.
include
several
_«_•__________
jew elry item , sp o rts equipm ent
item s, toys selling a t re ta il fo r
25 cents or less, c ig a re tte lighter,
pipe, some photographic a p p a ra tu s
tro ls have been suspended on a
clothespins and notions. P rice con­
Baaed on
inform ation front num ber of “lu x u ry ” fu rs and fu r
Charles R. B aird, regoinal OPA g arm en ts, to o .-
OPA Boards Will
Be Consolidated
administrator,—Janney said that
local board, would « ro n to .ll, be
,nto ..araa
con.
,
jn
itie. y et to be e X t e d . The ac
txm will affect all boards in region
8 which inciud.. Oregon.
“ U r o l w ar price and ra tio n ,n g
board, have .been
and more into to .* pr .
J
^ * 2 l i w ’X v e Cr.v’ P ™ ^ ^ - ^ din.g . ? h*?„t ,h*
y y T * tk-*n la s t tio n al OPA 76
h a s add<
authorized
tonal p erre errt
nS
7 i
13 County Men
Dead In War;
Made Mere
There are smgle-tracx minds
-
d ith
food lum bering. tran
Pk sp t o rta badly
W
tio n c o l u n ^ V t o T ' Z ^ o f ^
and
eongrees, as elsewhere
rem i “ i ^ o f ^ e T a t r p r ^
aggeetiooe and : proposals some
k „ w ar;„M „
f which InovitoMy will achieve
H t In i i£ ,
.* n .w r
thPrir areaonta- tn*** i<b<)uld
able to finH Ji>bs-
S E !!? 2 ? 2 L ^ i,
A Because of V-J day com ing in »he
h*. expected m
idst
of
O
re*
°
n
’* busiest
m idst o f O regon’,
buniert season,
season,
Four Soys
4ntt>
Official County Paper
^ ^ n
to C
region’« p rire divixion. to
to b .-m ttto q n .to .’l t i . pre'ndcd, •
kU’ 1 „
atoa„ w u «
«
t
H
. C i T X t X n t a T ^ T t o c i u d i n , “handl. roconrereion pnein« end
to 2 ’ l U
reatortol.
to . national ceiling
E ' ^ V t o 8b*Ott"<
r ^ f
~ £ h knlUHre,
^ g
» . t o ^ w «rill
i i , L w - m S d . £ and
e L t o on r budding
i . ^ ^ and
,nd conatruc-
“
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be he had tak . t o . p ^ c h u to wro part- permit r o ^ J o ^ n u c n
X ^ i t y T
n»V«d to tapajtnent of the mon- bank, Calif.
(Continued on Page two)
F
The record of Sherman county’s
participation in World War II has
been made. Mpet of it has been
written. Remaining is the job of
compiling it and gathering up
the- information about it.
First comes the record of lives
lost in the conflict. Unless there
have been change« made in the
last two months the record show.
13 dead Sherman countians due
directly to the war. The list was
published prior to last Memorial
day along with the list of those
who had served and were scrying.
The names of all of them are on
the plaque on the court house
grounds.
In World War I Sherman coun­
ty lost two men in action. They
were Henry Baker and Chris
Schults. Five died of other cause*.
A total of 208 from tbas county
served of whom 16 were tn actual
battle.
A similar record for th e’recent­
ly closed war may be made al­
though , th e
change.
Known
clasmficatkon
killed in
^¿rtoiion
may
are:
Wyman John French, killed in
action in Holland.
Carl Frederick PeeU, kilUd in
action in Germany.
Carsten Amandas von Borstel
killed in Italy.
Earl Charlo» William*, killed
in the Philippines.
( heater Donovan Watkins, kill­
ed in Germany.
DfccT in service fsoVne
conditions that may be mterpret-
ed as killed in action) were:
Kenneth Emmett Barnett, died
aboard ship in South Panh<
Leland Andrew Barnet, died
in hospital in San Francisco.
Donald Roscoe Burnet, killed in
plane accident in Louisians.
Earl David Dutton, killed while
flying in South Pacifle.
Robert Hnck, killed in accident
in France.
Charles William McKinney, kill­
ed in accident near Klamath Falla.
Harlow Judson Parkins, killed
in plane accident in Italy.
Samuel Fradindhd SUrk, killed
when ship Bank In storm off
Philippines.
Listed as mrnsing in action are:
Robert Kelso Christiaason, miss­
ing ov€r Truk on B-17 flight.
William Goldie Macnab, miaa-
ing over Austria while on B-17
flight.
The total of thooe who served
from Sherman county has not
been fully compiled. Some art
being taken even yet mto the ser­
vice from other counties. The list
includes thooe who entered from
this county, those who had lived
here since 1935, or whose parents
lived here.
Blagg-Coyle Wedding
Held At Vancouver
Miss Dorothy Coyle, daughter
of Mr and Mrs Jerry Coyle of Le­
banon and M-Sgt Ivon Blagg, son
of Mr and Mrs J- W. Btegg ‘ of
Grass Valley were united in m arri­
age at seven o’clock Saturday
evening August 18 at the First
Christian church in Vancouver,
With major emphasis from now Wash., in the ¡preoenee of inom-
on ^ d e , , in the directton of priee ber* of the immediate fismihes.
contn>,
R j
M t. The double ring ceremony was read
by the Christian minister. Their
nounead tod .y a gradual consol- attendants were Mr and Mrs
jdation of local board activities as James Blegg o f Bingen, Wash.
remaining rationing ^ m . to-
The bride wore a p h * coral
off.
,
,
/ eurt with brown aeeeesoriee and
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