Official County Paper
one 21, 1946
Fifty-Eighth Year No. 33
School Elections Hail Damages,
Make Some New Rain Improves
Burned Down
School Officers
With Huge Loss
School elections w ere general Wheat Prospecfs
O’Meara Store
A column o f n e w
About Government,
ly decided by a few voters, there
being general lack of interest.
Crop Destroyed In Streak
Saturday Night Fire Destroys <\t Wasco w here th e re was dis
agreem ent about w hether to hold
Six Miles Long Near
g Harvest Repairs tad Big
high school, to send them to
Moro, or to teach pupils from
Grass Valley; Raiu .80 inch
Collection of W ar Trophies
eepecial emphaeie
adjoining d istricts th a t are mem-
' 4 •
J The big O'Meara Supply & bers ’of the non-high school dis-
H ail and a heavy, th o u g h spot-
Im plem ent store a t a Wasco was trict, a fair sized group came ted rain hit the south end of
com pletely destroyed by
fire to th e meeting, about 20 being Sherm an county last Thursday
S aturday night, together w ith reported present.
High school night and almost completely des-
Judging from letters b e i n g
C aterpillar and H arris and John w ill' be continued at Wasco.
troyed severaj fields of standing
dumped on members of congress,
Deere extras fo r the 1946 ' har-
Lloyd Royce was elected di- grain. Other fields were mater-
the American people are becom
vest season and the finest col- recor replacing Afton M cIntyre ially helped by the rainfall,
ing tired of the program to feed
lection
of w ar-tim e souvenirs in at Wasco, H. H. Brackett replac-
The hail hit first on the Davis
all the hungry people In the
this area.
-
t
i ed Hugh M athison at Rufus, Fay ranch southw est of Grass Valley
world. The wheat shortage, to
Cause of the fire Is unknown. B rackett was reelected at Biglow, and proeeded in a north by east
gether with the announced plan
I
t
was dlcovered about 10:30 H. M. Zell reelected at Locust direction to George Sm ith’s place
whereby every farmer who puts
a
t
w hich tim e the interior of Grove.
in Nigger Hollow, northeast of
his wheat In a warehouse must
th
e
wooden
building
was
all
At
Moro
E
rn
e
st
Woods
was
Grass
Valley. Damaged was grain
sell 50 percent of which the gov
ablaze. Nothing was recovered elected to replace Kenneth Me- on the Lemley, Coyle, Stradley
ernment will buy 25 percent, half
/ro m i t -
Kean. C. 0. Higley was elected Olds, E a k n , May, Kock, W illard
of which will be sent overseas,
The
fire
departm
ent
was
able
to replace Irving H art at H a r- Barnett, Kee, King, and Smith
is not making a hit. The Pacific
to
save
the
W
alter
Medler
house
fmony.
farm s.
northwest, as a sample, has con
im m ediately w est of th e store
B ernard M artin, from the new
is likely th a t well over 2000
tributed more than Its quota of
and th e residences east were also p a rt of the Grass Valley district acres
were seriously damaged
wheat for the starving and now
aaved
b
y
constant
w
etting
from
was
chosen
to
replace
Dell
Olds.
Or
destroyed,
sufficient to run
finds that it does not have en
th
e
fire
hoses.
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This
broadens
the
board’s
re-
nearly
to
$100.000,
depending on
ough feed to save its poultry In
W tth tourists and vacationists free once again to
, Loss of the extras Is a serious presentation as to te rrito ry and the recovery that may he made
ta k e to the open road and travel as far as they wish,
dustry from liquidation.
The
Oregon's picturesque coast line is expected to -a ttra c t
m atter to the ow ners of farm ^ v e s recognition to the newly from what rem ains.
smaller bake shops are closing
a i eto d num ber of visitors th is year. T h is picture
m achinery who have long de- votcd section.
T he taller w heat. Rex an d Fed-
for lack of flour, and bread lines
o. w
¿Uf« of seashore is one of a series of tw enty-
pended
on
O’Meara
for
repairs
E
arly
retu
rn
s
Indicate
that
eration
seemed to have stiff
are being formed in many cities
In harvest. H arris extras w ere Tom F raser has been reelected enough straw to be bent over
to buy the few loaves that are
distributed over four counties to the non-high school board, w ith some of the , heads being
avtttable. Also, the loaves are
a n d ' C aterpillar extras over all together with Alfred Payne from knocked off and m any others
smaller, the price Is a trifle high
of
Sherm an county. The O’Meara the G rass Valley zone and Ken- damaged by hall stones. Turkey
er and there is talk of rationing
firm has been In business for neth Fridley from the northeast Red suffered least, being softer
bread one loaf to a c u s t o i y
over 30 years. The souvenirs zone. The six percent limit was straw ed. Elgin and Alicel were
And m eat Butchershopr* >
Approval of 1946 loan pro- $1.462; Pt
Umatilla coun- w ere the property of the O’Meara waived in the non-high school dis- h u rt w orst as the b rittle straw
closing b / the hundreds and the
gram s for Oregon’s tw o leading ty, $l.4i3;
lies, Wasco boys, five of whom served In trict.
w as bro k en off com pletely.
grain crops, w ith loan values county, $1,1
P a rts of th e E ben Kee field
the arm ed services. W hole show
8 cents a bushel higher than 1045
County /g
tor barley cageg were filled w ith them and
of E lgin look as If m owed by a
th a t rem ain open m ust take such
Since the big hall and rain of fOT w hea‘ and 5, .. cents a buahel
dull m ow er about six inches
mAot ns is offered and it Is tied
the collection included almost
in w i t h stuff th a t they do
not last T hursday and the sm atter- higher for barley, have been an
G ill ia m . 90
at>ove th e ground, n o t ov er 5
Jaifwnson, 88 everyth ln g of interest from Ger-
cents, Urna- p a n y and Italy. Gun?, knives,
and which they have difficulty ing of rain of Sunday the weath- nounced by the state PMA oom- cents;
p ercen t of th e head s b ein g left.
»0 cents. ‘ tn oney, uniform s, medals, Ins’gn
in telling T ry to buy a ham or a e r m an has decided to w arm up mittee.
till», 87 a
Oat rig h t of way w ere also mow-
the country a bit and tem pera-
G eneral provisions of the loan
Farmers
Saturday. Ju n e _ 8, at 9.00 a. m. ed around some fields.
and
deal
an<^ a great <
^eal of other
______________
pound of bacon
disappears, the m eat tu res have ben m uch higher th an plans for both cnZDB- remalp. the
r y on
<^Red "purity"
m aterial Much of it Miss Elizabeth Mary B ryant was
W hether
owners will choose
À i
try in g to dispose of during May and June.
sam e as the
1945
program. Index p u b lish ed m o n th ly by d ie
invaluable
for sentim ental united
In wedlock w ith
John (O cut the rem aining green s tu b
chickens w hich are being
a great deal of hay w as
down through which m oje
than $10,- costs except hired Mbor, believes j-eaaons.
Angelo De Santo In St. M ary's b ie tu rn in stock, or wait until
liquidated. Spring lamb is about before the rain and the w arm 000,000 was loaned
to Oregon USDA to show the trend In fa r m . T be ¡Qgg | n supplies and extras Cathedral in Seattle, W ashington, ^ t e r to determ ine has not been
th e only m eat generally avail- w eath er has dried th a t although producers. Details can be
O-8-C- ex te n sion ^ d tb e building is estim ated at The bride, who attended
R ufus icarned. Some crops m ight grow
able. W ith th e liquidating of the m ost of it was turned. Sum mer- tained from county agricultural agricultural economist. Even in
qqq w hich Is partially cover- school unil her senior year, was from
the roots and produce
poultry Industry th ere is a grow- fanOw will have to be worked conservation com m ittees, w hich
farm operation expense«
’
insurance and the loss given in m arl age by her gather, something, it is stated.
Ing shortage of ~ e£gs ________
and the - price ______
but - th
th at
at was
was a a job
job th
th at
at a8ain
a«ain will
will handle
handle the
the loans
loans for
for in Oregon had reached a ® lev” jn , souvenirs is given as $30,000 Joseph Bryant, Biggs section fore-
R ainfa n was heavy a t Moro
lasso ing up. Prices are now up would have preceded harvest in Commodity Credit corporation.
g rea ter th an the total value of
wag uninsured,
m
an
for
nine
y
e
a
rs
before
mov-
w
h
ere
go ¡nch w as
recorded
w guui«
. . . . d u . rin g J . u n e
w
h e a t loan
rates
and anim al production
1 flrm hag * mQved tQ t the ing to Seattle.
on
b u tte r uh
and cheese.
any event. R r ainfall
vvneat
loan ra
te s will
w m be
oe at
a t crop
c < v P «.»u
p iw u v u v ,, be-
w lthjn a cpa(ie f)f
-VGr an
As one W ashington housew ife has totaled .86 inch, w hich is n et 90 percent of parity as required ore the w a r and
hlgi e r costs E agtern Oregon Electric com-
a wedding dinner for family hour. At the Peters ranch south
complained;; “It Is m ore difficult fa r from norm al and,
despite by ,aw - Th® terminal loan rate are indicated for 1946, he says, p ^ y 8tore, owned
by P atty and relatives was served in the of Qrass Valley .58 inches fell
to buy food now than it was dur- t b , dry May, chances for a crou f° r P ortland will be $1.57 a bu-
T he p arity Index of farm costs O'Meara, for th e present and will dining room of the Casa Italiana, and 34 was recorded at Kent,
ing the w a r and everything else seem p re tty fair in the
sections shel to r No. 1 soft w hite w heat, rose sharply from
mid-April to continue in- business.
Every ef- and a reception,
followed by R a jns did not reach far east of
is going sky high. W e are now of the county h it by the heavier Rates tor principal stations in mid-May this year.
At 184 per- fort wlll be m ade t0
obtain r e- dancing, was held at 8:00 p. m. town
suffering from inflation and no rainfall.
main w heat producing counties cent of 1910-1914 this index a t
and supplies for the com- in the Casa Italiana ballroom.
On m any fields the rain will
one knows how much w orse i t ---- ,---------------
are as
mid-May was 3 points higher j
harvest.
C u ttin g th e cake a t 11:00 p m. hp su ffjcjent to insure a b etter
will become, b u t I anticipate
,
GTl" iam
coun^ * th an a* mid-April and 11 p o i n t s ---------------------
The bride and groom departed
than wag expe€ted before
th at we have scarcely begun
’ Je^ erSOn COUn^ ’ over May 1945‘ I n d u < W h ire d
.
for a week in Vancouver B. C., u
y J ttle rain fe„ north of
^ e x p e r i e n c e of the reaction
$ .4 3 1 ; H eppner!M orrow county ,abo r farm co«a a re now around
F e V e r F U n d .a f te r Wh,ch they will take up
„ r)d
frAm trvinv to save the starving
.• _ k< K
S1 45. Moro» Sherm an county, 5 or 6 percent higher than a year **“
rpsid
- the
_ * « _ “ ■
. „
. . .
residence in - Seattle, w • here
Some damage was ...............-
done to
la n d s "
ago,
the data indicate.
P rice Fiir
m illions of other lands
Kroom operates a grocery store. w heat on the l „ u Schadewitx
advances for farm products have
pl?ce farm ed by Grover Young
Bread, m eat, chick®n s' J**®
Of the $175,066.27 on the 1945-
averaged nearly as m uch so far,
b u tter, cheese, are vanishinR
bu t other reports from th a t area
however, although som e have de- h e X % X a T : ^ \ h e natlfToiad
from the grocery stores th
g
a)J hag been
but $3376.. » C . . . - ™ - - . Q ~kz>rd
do not mention extensive loss.
««« percent * collec-
n
■■■
d in e d recently.
The only field covered by Insur
out the land. Some ea .
T his is a 98.2
of rheum atic
fever has
been
• 1 a . WI*la.
collec
B
BB . l i i i i m i r - i a i - i i u u i
plain the
i”'
and tion. Since the first of the year
F ourteen 4.H club
children _
ance w as that of Wallace May
taken by the American Legion
who had governm ent insurance
and A uxiliary by placing $25,-
f ^ t e ^ f t e Ju ly 1. when W UO57 in taxes and interest ,eft
mornlnR for Blggs N e W S D O p e r M e n
000 each in a pool from which
Friends w ere saddened by the on his crop.
ott,er foods a n e
y
w))) has
collected.
w nere they caught a bus for Cor-
r
r
funds will be draw n to combat recent death of W illiam Henry -------------------- -
thOfle J?
m arket. The
In deliquent taxes $5264.63 has vallis and th e annual sum m er
the menace of rheum atic fever. H arder of Milton, Oregon, who
throyr t em
^ j y j been collected includir^g the in- SChool. A bus ow ner from Condon
1 OT
Ptans f o r ^ h e Joint p r o l a n ,
’„ »/«„“e « e ’o , ^
talH W lon
s
and th a t te re st th at has accrued. L argest took children from G rant, Wheel-
f - -
r r ^ a t s o m i d e ^ r s are w aiting pm ounts paid w ere on 1939 and e r, Gilliam and Sherman count!«*. A i m U a l M e e t
w ere announced In a
Mr Hacder owned and operated
m eht by John Stelle,
/
T rum an said mon- prior years of which the sheriff 3 he children will re tu rn June
and his ranch southw est of Grass
N
ew
spaper
publishers
from
all
Com
m ander of the Legion, — -
for.
Prssvwmi
ncople
fcas
gotten
$1443.73,
which
w
as
28
Mrs
B
.
H.
Roberson
went
H----------
ago
tn«
th a a t t th
the e Am e'
£ n e ^ a r r|y
th s ago
ago th
i v $400
«400 interest,
in te re st. No recent a iong as chaperon un til Sunday sections of the state will gather Mrs W alter G. Craven, National Valley,
u
T iirprtnr«? o f the F irst National
would have to tighten their. M its.
when he retired to his old home R
Monday to transfer
y e a r had delinquencies collected wnen she will be relieved by Mr at G earhart on F riday and Satur- P resident of the Auxiliary.
in
Milton,
leasin
g
,
his
ranch
to
T he chief executive w as right.
day, Ju n e 21 and 22, for the 59th
F ifty per cent of the funds m M iuon, ic a » u ig .« «
~ $5 m inion from tbe undivided
g reater th an $200.
W rig h t
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
annual convention of the Oregon available have been earm arked
em ey.
countv Profits and reserves account to
•
,vi an amend-
The rep o rt is one th a t m ust be
N ew spaper Publishers associa- for a broad program of attack
mong
w ho attend- th e b an k s surplus account, ao
SCnat!her cTse bill which would m ade to the county court and
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on th e disease and the rem aining W ends and neighbors w ho.attend
R R MacNau(fhton,
Vile Case
Vz<i‘
m et to the
1
.go
a _-
rb b $tate fov
tax onmmiccinn
comm ission tn
to ebn
show tax 8HEI7T BURRE8 8E L W
tion.
L
I
„
.
a
.
«,11.
h»
Iitllli.
ed
his
funeral
at
Milton
Monday
arllnn lncreased
m !to n P™f la to r «disputes in util- collections j>n p roperty d uring 8 T e E R 8 FOR FEEDERS
rs s a . a
uuiitdp president.
actIon
“Advance registrations Indicate half of the funds will he utiliz-
“ pd *M r
A. Dunlap,
Itles and Industries affecting the fiscal year.
s h e ll B urres sold 67 head of °ne of the largest attendances ed In research.
M r^ n d Mrs ArzeH £ m d e y ° F ra n k 'h e surplus acrount . to
4tI*®. J lf. WPifare and s a f e t y ,------------------ .
.
t h r „ vpar oid steers in th e history of the organiza-
Rheum atic fever, w ith its ef- arnmond
Mr and Mrs Max
Total capital funds of the F irst
S u ’^ t d l X d e ^ author. Sen- «89« NORMAL GRADUATES
' ^ a n d ^ e ^ a r , o l d ¿ d e e rs
q
mana- fects upon the heart, causes m ore Brow n°and Mr and Mrs Donald National, Including capital, sur-
± r " w n w o f W isconsin, from MEET AGAIN AT MONMOUTH
" n c S v e r and *er of the association.
"M any deaths and m ore Invalidism up c)odfelter
plus, undivided profits and re
X t i n ^ l n i hte effort and renew-
The 1896
c ,ass of X Z n u r e and finish them on c u rre n t problem s of th e Industry to th e age of 18 than any m her ------------------
serves, now stand in excess of
$23,000.000. No stocks has been
al of his plan aw aits the propl- Oregon s ta te Normal at M o n -corn
The steers w ere In good are to be discussed fry qualified d i s e a s ;
th e j >■
sold by the bank to the public
tlous hour for the
m o u th m e t for its 50th anrdve.,-cond,tlon and w e i g h t around
Erer’ aSd X m a C i t y B u d g e t
since 1910. All gains in the in
tlons
w
ill
be
given
to
help
pub-
of
26
rhem
atic
fever
and
rhema-
of a hill by him . This is th e con
last week Out Of the oiginal 1000 pounds.
stitu tio n ’s capital funds since
elusion to he
class ’o f '51. 17 attended four o, —
E' a Keyg. nee EUa K enoy, « .h e re Improve th e ir newspa- tic
1910 have come solely frm o earn-
W isconsin eenetor-s rem ark s on whom w ere from sh e rm a „ coun. 6lster
c h a rle s , Jaraes an d J ir e
>peake„
,nclude Dr
H
The
Moro city 'council, sitting Ings. Dividends have been paid
C o lu m b u s,--------------
as th e levying board for the city, continuous y ° f .
..
approved the budget as published
The capital of the bank,
late in May. It calls for a lower 000, plus the surplus now $10-
millage than have form er bud- 500.000, sets the basis for the
t3
am ount the bank m ay loan In
“
“ s
Am endm ents to the curfew any sin g le ' tra n sa ctio n ,. or - the
becoming m ore acu
found
M artin will take charge o f - the
Oregonians who w ill appear
The departm ent -»f agricul-
..
w ere given flnal pas. am ount the bank m ay Invest In
which a
on mu
t^ u e MARION CREWS FINISHES
church services at the community Qn i tbe
a n H. tu
lu re
r e ’s s latest
miem h crop
u h
the prOgram
program include c Carl
reP °rtth ..................
° ’? 5 r° sagP, funds w ere tran sferred to one single bond issue « t $1,500,-
lf the United States 1
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
church Sunday and speak on their G th Portiand; w ill W. Henry, amount of wheat in North Amer
on rem ove some • non-active funds 000-______ '
on the rttad to full Industrie
■ of F . M . w o rk as teachers of the Bible to Portland;
S. W. Starr, Salen u J'a shows l 90,486,000 bushels or
X n u were ^ X ’red % i n ' £ COUNTY COURT P R E F E R S
~
,__
. ...
_
— .. .
_\ »i.i„ ...not nn inrrfMKf
Stanley Bacon. Portland; and hand th is wgqk, an
Ve«umTmr W iley adm itted th a t Crews, w as presented the Char- children.
-.___ u Moro.- .
frnm
week
over -a
from last
last w
eek of
of dvw
y¿ “0 ~ - wlth red tops the 'public SHED TO SERVICE MEN
w ^ T ta lta r and m anagem ent have Ieg E .’ McCulloch Scholarship for. Alan Thompson, son- of Mr and Glleg T
French,
to com- outstanding
Thom
pson
Joined
Tom
'P u rc e ll,
£ roperty com m ittee w as asked
T he county court, together
both labor been
ana opposed
___
_____ — scholastic o h i ability
n i v U r « M rs
O r v Orval
a l Thom
pson
joined
th e th e Tnm
n * Bw
Purcell,
l publisher of bushels^A year ag? s.ocks
Un™ arbitration because of over a th re e year period a t th o ' m arine corps this week » L P o rt- the G resham Outlook and presi- 334,737 000.
.
iceg Qn w )rlng the w lth the m em bers b f th e budget
E l u t i o n W broader govern- A w arda Chapel a t th e university, land according to w ord sen t rel- dent a th e ONPA will preside
In the U nited
„ „ slr€n
th e city hall.
, comm ittee, m et last F rid a y and
IUm t controls but, he declared W ednesday. T he aw ard allows atives here.
,
•
a t th e aeaalons. A rrangem ents and
00440000 last year.
A rep o rt w as made by George approved th e budget as published
control in the inter- for fu n tuition for the fourth
Mrs G arth Bonney and tw o for th e '.convention are being J ^ e d
’ ’ dr0DDei flom U pdegraff to th e effect th a t the w ith th e exception th at th e $1500
g°t nf the public cannot be avert- y^a r at W illam ette.
\ children, G arth Jr. and Jeanette, m ade by a comm ittee cprpposed ^a«adlan
°
r (0 city had no au th o rity to compro- th a t had been placed in th e bud-
m anv event and com pulsory
Crews is a Junior at the uni- w ere here the first of the week of M erle R. Chessman, A8torian- 249/7 G,
Bancroft assessm ents and get for paym ent of $ service Of-
X
D iv id e s an answ er y e rsity and ha7* public school to visit w ith M rs B onney's sis- Budget; Max Schafer S e e s.* ■ S.g-
J a
week
Politics and People
on the Northwest
Warmer Weather 1946 Loan Rates on WÀéi
Comes As
Barley Announced;
Summer Starts
Former Biggs Girl
Married in Spokane
yaH
ab- 1*.^. BUMupt,
% 2 Percent TaX
*
p 11
LOlleCUOn Maae
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4_U ViUDDerS
flnkkprc
the shcriff <|-n
In OWDmer dCllOOl
RhflimatlC
Research I rovided
William Henry Harder
(Juried At MlltOIl
Uudivided Profits Put
In Surplus Account
Approved By CoUnCll
Wheat Sleek»
(Continued on Patf® two)