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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1947)
— ( - •4 '■— A- Official County Paper 1 Fifty-Ninth Year No. 40 Vf IF Bays Charch Building For New Meeting Place Spring Wheats Best Winter In Station Trials The Veterans of Foreign Wars has bought the Christian Science church building and will make a club room of It, according to Dar win Van Gilder, adjutant of the post. The building, originally built for a store, was remodeled by the b y Cile» L. French members of the Christian Science society and used as a church for Edgar Lee Masters in his Spoon many years until the membership River Anthology -has Alexander became smaller. Decision to sell Throckmorton give this bit of was made recently. The building is on Main street philosophy: - between Second and Third. my wings were strong gpd tireless, R u t^ d ld not know the moon C o s l o f Up I T ( Spring wheats were much bet ter in yield than fall wheat at the experiment station this year, markedly better, according to the -returns figured by M. M. Oveson, superintendent. , A cross between Rio and Alicel made the best yield, 19.7 bushels, smaller than many commercial fields but serving Just as well for comparative purposes Second was Blackhull-Oro with 18.9 for yield. Third was Local Turkey with 18.2 followed by Alicel-Rex with 18.2, Rex with 18.1 and Rio- Rex with/17.6. Others trailed down to Golden with 12.8 and the composite mixture produced but .114. The spring grains did much better being topped by a Baart Hard Federation cross which made Sunday Mail Service Utility Valuation n Ordered Stopped Down Slightly; In Sherman County Vernon Flatt has received word School Costs Up that Sunday mail service in Sher man county will be discontinued August 10 This has been contemplated for some months and the service south of Moro has been discon tinued for some weeks. Protests to po6tal officials have been of no avail and the state’s congression al delegation has written about it to the postoffice department without Obtaining any definite assurance ( of continuance. The order was given, apparently, as soon as congress adjourned. The truck will make its trips the same as before because mail will go down Saturday night and must be brought up Monday morning. Newspapers will be brought in by another means, al though less promptly. County Assessor Bill Todd has received word from the state tax commission that the valuation W- »» Sherman county for — the 1947-48 tax year will be $1,-. 827,806, slightly less than for the previous fiscal year. Biggest owner of utility proper ty within the county is the Union Pacific which has $1,438,799 of the total. Next largest is the Pa cific Power & Light company with $204,389. The telephone com pany has $133,781 and smaller companies have the remainder. Remainder consists of compan ies operating cars on the railroad, the Oregon Trunk that pays on M age I knew the mountains .29 mile of tunnel, the Rufus wa ^ B u t my weary wings could not f O r f a r m e r s ter system and rural telephone Afaltow my vtokm— „ lines that have not paid old taxes tohrtodom and youth. Rural living costs nationally and thus become tax exempt. are 25 percent higher than a year The REA does not pay W »val • iiProm some* a n A s k the Indian ego and more than double those orem taxes, being a sse sse d ^ 3 Tygh Fair Featuring percent of the receipts. ■nne&rs to be a smarter man «coil of 1935-1939, according to an anal- than does his white y»to of USDA data by OSC ex- The Union Pacific main line Is A Federation Bunyip cross made Worries of international tension agricultural economists. assessed by the state tax com Childrens’ Exhibits 23.0, Baart made 22.0, White Fed nor do national Thu., the real net Income of G E N U IN E U N IT E D N A TIO N S S P IR IT . . . The auto m atic g s fis m e » mission at $43,344 per mile . of eration 21.4, Marfed 20.3 and S lX ia exctoe him unless they bo farmers Is not to be Judged atone whe are wrangling around the peace tables a t Lake Success, N. T ., Directors of the Wasco County which there are 14.29 in Sherman Comet 20.2. Hard Federation was by prices for farm products, or m ight do weU to drop In oa the 35th anniversary en< ¿ m p m e n t ef the r air have commenced making ex county. The branch line is assess about fish or bunting grounde, even by the dollar income. hurt the worst and returned a International G irl Scouts a t Camp B arree, T a ., for an objoot lesson tensive preparations for a much ed at $10,080 per mile. Assessment state and county affairs (those yield of but 12.9 bushels. It takes five farm family dol expanded opening day program of the Pacific Power & Light com- which have to do with taxes) do lars to buy the goods and ser in how to get along with one a »other. Shown here are some ef the Those who saw the varietal that will be devoted principally pany G irl Scoot delegates who came from a ll the states and a score of is on the basis of $630 per not concern him s t alL vices that could be bought for foreign countries to attend the three-week encampment. trials at the station late In June to the interests of school children rnile for transmission lines of « When the white man with his four __ _________ dollars a year ago. Mean- could determine that the yield • x »boro from a11 sections of the county, which* there are 115.26 miles and huge and Insatiable ambition took whWe farm production expenses 7 “ /.nm wlth 811 children admitted free of of $504 per mile for distribution the land to do with as he jfJcreased overall at approximate- was considerable damage from charge throughout the opening ijneg of which there are 135.2 he inherited the Indian ly the sam e rate as the general * a ' vvys zv « w eauier. vump«u weather. Comparisons between <-ay, Friday, September 12. The miles. as a permanent guest. Probably ’ level of prices for farai products. varieties is of most Impor Tax levied against the railroad the 1*4**" got the best of the bar- The real income of farm fam- t nnn<* b nw vpr in inins Fair at the county ground^, near tance, however, In determ determining Tygh Valley will continue on company for this year will be - - I ,’ Dies has declined rather sharply a method of handling the tax millage of 28.6. A code called R3 the best grain to g ro w .___ through Saturday and Sunday $39,059.68, against the light rom- ’White men build roads put up tbug ^ar jn 1947 the economists bas beer, introduced into the is set up in case Rufus d e cid e s------------ —— with a wide array of rodeo events pany is $5,202.30 and against the the buildings, plant the lawns, do pppopt At mid-June the U. S. county assessor’s and sheriffs to incorporate and levy city taxes. races and exhibits in the daytime, telephone company is $3,892-94. the bookkeeping and worrying. jndex of all commodities used offices, it has been called a ma- Code 4 has a millage of 13.5; Sherman County and evening programs featuring These utilities pay the larger part The Indian does the fishing and ^or farm families maintenance rb ine system and is partly done Code 5 of 154: code 7 which Is dances, fireworks, a smoker, car- pf such taxes in th e county, hunting and the squaws pldTIbe stood at 253 percent of l91Q-1914. by machines although not to a Wasco has a millage of 50, and 7A Total tax to be paid by proper- Every day is Sunday far u points higher than at mid- e3rtent. More machines will tne part of the Wasco school dis Picnic Due August 17 rnval, and costume dances by In- dians from the nearby Warm ty owners of the county Is $225.- Indian. z Januray. Meanwhile, the cost in- added jater if the county court trict outside of town, has 1 mill The annual Sherman county Springs Reservation. „ - 047.98, a much larger sum .than long as the country was pop- <jex representing all com modi les budget committee so decide. age of 32.3. picnie for residents of Portland Sherman county school boards has been levied against property ___ d only by Indians it became bought by farmers for production Sheets are stamped with the Code 9, has 27.3 and thesg la a and vicinity who used to live here are invited to consider making it in this county for year». Thia la a little better each year. The tiro- rose faster than the genera av uamg ^nd address and ber. grew unmolested and annual erage of prices received for farm algQ a degcrlpUon property. code K9 in case Kent wantg to be and for Sherman coutalns who possible for thejjr grade and high made up of $40,442.01 . for the ' the-dap ^ r i erflT fund, which la no large some day. Code 13 ‘ to meet old fires to burn the forest dross -were product». TOe resu ^ ^ era)1 rea, • These sumps are made on an ad* city code 15 has 244, code Xg^has held at Laurelhurst park Sun- at Tygh Valley on Friday,. Sept, increase; $31,564.50 for the road Mg enough to destroy the bto-fciton dressograph which makes it un- 13.5 code 17 has 20.8 and code 17A ¿gy August 17, according to Char- 12. Then newly completed hard fund and $40,442.01 for the special The horses were not num- farm Income Compared with January, the necessary • to change them until has the same because there are no j^y Powell who is president of the surface road through Sherars rOad fund, recently voted by th e ‘~ enough to eet all the grass re. a new ownership occurs, group in charge of the event. Bridge to Tygh Valley is now in people. This special fund millage and erosion was no problem. No general level of farm prices up In figuring of taxes the county city taxes In Moro this year. Code 20 and 21 have a millage j8 planned ’ to hold a short excellent condition. ceived, at 271 in June, was is 4-1, the same as the general dams handicapped the fish. 11 points to stand at 229 at mid- is divided into groups which are Of 13 5, code 22 has 14.7 code 23 program this year, hut the visit- ' fund, and the amount raised is Nature was bountiful to the In The parity index of farm designated by codes. This year has 32.1 and code 23A the Grass ing among people of all ages who in excess of the amount voted but dian and since the white man Jun€ costs including interest and tax- each school district has a differ- valley district outside of that once yVed in Sherman county will Service Women To is figured to the nearest tenth of took over nature and its gifts es, but not labor, stood at 230. ent code number. Cities that are town has 22.7. code 30 has a mill- lhe main feature of the day. a mill. b c ^ n o took over nature s care Farm wages rates nationally a part of a school district bear age of 13 5. _____ _ There Is also a $95,082.74 total for the Indian. Start Paper • ‘ ’ were at 397 percent of 1910-1914, the same number as the district On the lax notices will appear of special school taxes and $11,- Probably on latest figures , - nature - . did .. a better w .» April ........ 1. the — ------ - and the part outside the city has the code number, the millage, the HARVEST GETTING ON 498.58 of non-high school district The George Bell Auxiliary Unit job although the Indian seems to avallable> the gufflx “A” as there is a dir- valuation and the total taxes. If No. 49 of the American Legion taxes and city taxes of W.01844.- do pretty wall 66*^» » » in terms of parity the overall feren^ ra^e applying. Harvest is getting on around at Kent, has been notified that the Growth ofschool taxes has been the taxpayer wans to know how county and some — farmers are Department of Oregon Is offering ™ re, ra± much of his p X think as buying th^ocak There are 21 of these codes and m utu w u»» taxes v«*®» goes to city, • the me evumj ....--------- ™ ii shade while the 11R a t mid June seven of them have the same tax county or school district he may already boasting that it is too a new publication, “The Oregon t0, “ 1 ' ’ X - M X - rate, that being the genera, coun- .nqulre. Legionette,” to all members of « « »8 scbI00 ? This year the general fund levy next week most of the cutting the Oregon Auxiliary whose dues taxes tb®te *s the **;ho° «•u aomethig no one really needs, mid-May to mid-June The ty tax, the special road tax and Z * 8-20 ®n^ >the a soeech no one wants (Un'ine was due to a slight in- the non-high school tax. School School is 4.1 mills, the special road fund wm be klone and the grain in the have been paid through 1948. The tax . -e t- l o « meeting no rreaae In price« paid by farmers districts having a special levy will Is 4.1 mills, the non-high levy Is elevators. ■ f) t j mane<, August school tax of $10 per child which ^ rto X a b T ^ o u m 7 sHght ^ X e in the aver- nave more uxes to PV. - .... 2.1, mills and the genera, road T h e hail damage « « m a te 25th to ali members who are elig will be paid by the state. I t am and a sHght enjoys or to grab ounts tb $4620. The basic school For instance Code 1 is the Big- fund levy is 3.2 mills. This makes grows as the fields are being cut received for farm ible to receive it. fly in g as surcease from daily age of prices support fund, voted last Novem low school district where proper- 13.5 mills which everyone has to and lo8ses of 50 percent are now Contact members from the dri toil. White men die of heart products. pay. figured where 25 to 30 percent ve are Mrs Clarence Young presi ber will raise another $110,061.42 ty owners pay only the county, trouble; Indians die of old age. special road and non high taxes. . In achool districts having a ape- was the original estimate. The dent elect of the unit for the Kent (from income tax) In this county. ♦ * Code 3 in the Rufus district whicn clal levy (there are nine) there ridn delayed the cutting, not only area. Mrs Donald van Borstel, Of this amount $42,676.20 will be Scales Over State * about dinners is still paying on the school bonds. will be an additional tax varying tor tbe three days when no wheat unit president, Mrs A. A. Dunlap, returned. 'W h u U x b a lo , Total cost of schools in Sher- Its millage is 30.8. That part of fipm 1.2 mills kt Boardman to ^ 1 4 he accepted but by causing unit secretary, M rs Kenneth for gefple who were trying to get may be Need Mach Repair a government contract for air the Rufus district not paying on 20.9 at Wasco. In cities there will wet mornings and slow cutting, Crews, vice-president elect, and man co_uP5y ncxt yea as that $153,923.72 inasmuch be th e elty tox to P ^ wirglri m ike little news un W ith about one-third of the the old bonds is 3A and has a Mrs C. W. Fields, secretary elect available much money will be der ordinary circumstances. It is will act for the Grass Valley area. 450 heavy duty scales tested in _ ________ _ for schools here. That will be a of aummer madness «« v«r Salesmen Oregon during May and June cost of $355.05 for each census customers out condemned until repaired, deputy Mr and Mrs Jay McKay enter- at the home of Mrs Plemke’s dau- Mr and Mil* Clarence Young SHANIKO Cost to the taxpayers of the »nb sealers point to M e f»o r of Oie entertainment de- tors which are causing iheunus- ta)ne(, Sunday w)th , dinner for a ghter Mrs Paul Smith. They K e^neth'cviw s^hom e'hi Grass The local scho&l board met Ju|y “ “ »ty wUl be some $«8,000 more on the «rice of the product. U8"y lar8® percentage of «rrors group of frlehds and rela- were on Bnwlast stage of a trip Ke n V » made up and had accepted than the $153,823 because of the iSFlo’liwt likely that everyone ln* acales, and to some, tlveg. Those present Included Mrs- which had taken them Gir»“ *'1 V y' H arrr Young were th® budget for the coming year, basic school tow. • hov. an «utomoblle from any *htch owners end operators theip ^ th e rw o o d and daughter. Vellowatone f e d Glacier NaUowd Mr andM ra Harry l o u w R R and BU1 Garrett ------------------- X n n ^ e S ^ e a h l m o u t f o f - e e ' v « » * ^ « ^ 1- m, lfl Sherre and son, Jim of Sweet. Parks. Mike Smith a“ omP»n ed Sundayjuesto at the honw of Mr w,th a )oad 0{ "A™™------ if it were true The trouble lies In rtree^ main HQme Mr and Mrs oeorge McKay h is ' grandmother to Portland for and Mrs Harold Owens of G Klnney,s household goods Satur- Cities’ Value Small the beat salesmen-would be those sources: improper original Insta.- Qf pay a t y Mr flnd Mrg Jgck Mc_ g v|glt Smith were Mr and Mrs Eugene Knott ad day. Mrs Kinney returned with and _ Mrs Paul j ™ Mr and son returned Saturday from Eau them and stayed over until Mon- Part of County Total »k. AQtlncr and drink- l»tlon; improper operation, a Kay and daughter, Lois of Corval- Mr ai poor maintenance or none at all. Mrg M pO well and daugh- Sunday caoacity. 1». * . *’l'w ---- ” s, Mrs Mary Foweu ana aaugn- » u n u » j «»!»*«•» dinner guests of Mr mi a and son wiapnnnln where they dfly evening. W artime artim e difficulties, unnineham Mrs H arry Justesen. The fact that Hughes obtained W difficultly ^ * ranging ter, Ann, Mrs Maude C Cunningham h«v#» been visitlnv relatives Mr George Ward was called to Port- From the property valuation N o te New Method of Keeping Tax Records Held $im„ler When Complete the r anQ More ACCUtate , ^ i' Kent Famfy Has Reunion With Distant Relatiees suns*. S .5 2 X - « S t s ~ ¿ j r - s « i. c b X In sny event. If it tent Bhould Mr and Mrs Jack Sather and Erickson, and Earl Br ner at official« granting It do be h"' ^ p uty state children of Corvallis were Sunday the D ^ h u te s did the belong to , public service. Iton E. DuritoKl. deputy state StlteMh-W. Bettv and Charles Bothwell vis- not sealer of weights and measures - - - - reoently Wednesday through What is important Is that nó ptone. were delivered on the eon- ¿ b a rg e.o ftt* w , d f st. yincent’a hoapi- ite d f« ™ S T of - their Monday at the honv _ 2 tract that more than 50 per cent tal ln Portland grandparents, Mr and Mrs Flske , — — « ». % Of the scales tested In May and Mr and Mrs Mahlon T r ^ y ^ J Bothwell. This has been a slow harvest j une *had not^been maintained and twin sons «of J u t l a n d arr1^ Judge and Mrs J. M. Wilson handicapped by several sorts of properly and were exceedingly Thursday at the home of and grandson, Skippy went to bad weather. Besides the old dirt^T much dirt was found in TraceweH s m0* * * M™ Emma Tygh Valley Sunday afternoon. harvest day* are goqe when crews g ^ e pits that the lever Davis. TheyJ>l a n u n t i l the Rev. and Mrs Earl Hastings were Sunday dinner guests at the raced to .heat each other and the 8y8tera and wtlgh-bridge were completion of harvest, urgency o f‘the Job was felt In ^ ¡ d i y imbedded. Beam notches Mrs Ben Leatherwood a n d home of Mr and Mr» J. M. Wilson. ’ partially filled With dirt aiso cnnaren onerre and anu Jim jh « of mi Sweet Migg Barbara Love of Newberg the air. Harvest to a Job these partjany with also children Sherre * make accurate weighing impossi- Home arrived Thursday at the ls an extended visit at S the H U~1 to b . .n adventure, ^ a c c u r o u wetoW ngJmpo».- Z , ble. Many of the older scales had E. C. Smith home for an Amandus vonBorstel home as the | settled far out of line due to de- visit. Mr and Mrs Jack.McKay of Ml » Mary Louise von •Tor some men die by 9»™ p ™-‘ 1 £ " £ ~ < 7 'i™ Ufflclent foundation, arrived Saturday from Corvallis Coryau.» Borrtel. ' c - _ B Mr C. ^ J. Kulltk, Miss Smlths8h°rt fltSy Wlth th‘ a ^ L and o - v Mrg e" M M * The entire county has a valuation flew to The Dalles some time. of $9,863,906 of which only 6.2 on business. Mrs Myrtle Ellis and daughter, Mrs Maude Garrett was in percent is within the three In- Trevelyn returned to Sacramento, Grass Valley Sunday to attend corporate«! towns. California by bus Monday even- church and visit friends. Wasco 1« valued at $258,885, Trevelyn has been visiting Mr and Mrs Jack Milligan of Moro at $203,569 and Grass Vfd-. for the past month at the John Aurora, Illinois are visiting at iey at $152,753 all of which totals Wood’s home and Mrs Ellis has the home of Mr and Mrs Jerry $615,207, probably the smallest percentage of urban valuation of been visiting at the Wood’s home Johnson. for several days following the Charles Brown is in town laid any county in the state. completion of a three weeks trip up with a sore foot. > Ed Enright is here from Antel- to Flordla TODD RED-X TREASURER Misses Oeo^la and Frances ope for a few days. Woods, Mrs Myrt e » s ,an i- ” gt thp junction BUI E. Todd of Moro hM been 8 er, R v n 0|ce x/ondav when she returned from appointed and Ray Bo.ce Monday when she returned from appointed temporary secretary an soni i Harolrt How- Dufur where she was visiting her of the Sherman County Chapter epentSunday at the Haroiq How D u fu rwhere American Red Cross follow. elll home In Centerville wasn. grandparents. ___ . i « . J Z n k .v i- Reeder was a visitor In ing the resignation of Charto« Mr and Mrs George Rolle and ~ John „ a Sunday coming borne ■ Mrs Lester Wltoon of Sherman A drtv ~ T nc .n»e examiner I. cent of Its load on the rear axle. who has been vtalUn* at the home Spring, Sunday fo ^a p to n to ^ “X l will be held at „ harvest progresses . ^>*duled to b e ^ d u ^ r i n M o r o a r e ^ a d » °f Mr overnight guests Fri- ten o’clock at the Kent church, to Corlls. Mcltood of Grass Valley Mrs Max Pleumke and Mr Hen- Maupin ere overnight guests r r.- ’a ¿ ¿ „ o n by wa here Sunday while on his way hZriZron tta h o u k of to’ uu-ee^uarters the capacity of ry Mars of Portland were guests day at the home of M rJuetese»8 from Tuesday through Thumday mother, Mm Thora Juatesen. Rev. Earl Hastings, . to Antelope. _ . ■ . : ... courthouse between the the scale. |0 A nt and 3 p. ®- r ■ 4«. F. Batoer of O r « Vdley Both appointment, were m ad. b , Frank von Borstel, chairman of S hem -n ----- 4 .1
