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Sixty-First Year No. 13
Moro/ Oregon, Friday,
Legislative News
T hese
Of 45th Session
T h in g s
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Note
By Giles L Preach
Freezing weather seem s to have
had an effect on legislative pro­
posals. There la talk about frozen
funds and some of the self styled
tribunes of the people are w illing
yea, even anxious, to warm up
such funds. All in the public in­
by Giles L. trench
That Willamette valleyites are
making little or no comment on
the unsual severity of eastern Ore­
gon weather. In fact towns near
the foot of the Cascades are about
as cold as eastern Oregon and
Salem residents are boasting of
thermometers that approach aero.
We do take pride in extremes.
And those who live In equable
climes like to get out of that class
now and then. We only relaté our
exceptional experiences, ’ giving
precedence to the highs and lows
of our experience, saying little
about the dally job, the ordinary
food, the bland existence of the
usual and ordinary.
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.«r
The slot machine is getting
the bum’s rush In Portland and
may In all Mifttnomah county if
some one will just tell Sheriff El­
liot that some do exist outside the
city of Porland. It Is reported that
they are strangely absent from
Salem clubs. Including the pri­
vate ones.
Well. As has been said before,
there are laws against them, the
supreme court has upheld the
laws, the people have voted them
out and they existed until a lone
woman advanced to public office
cleaned them out. Maybe, as some
say, the clean-up won’t last, but
maybe It will.
A lot of reforms have to be
started by the women, who like
to clean house and officials who
have been saying that there Is no
way to control them are saying
little.
terest, be it known.
The definition excludes the pro­
perty tax payer from the classifi­
cation of public.
/ron Lung Benf it
January 21, 1949
clean - up time in the army
Official County Paper
Iver
B. Hansen
Dance Saturday
Pioneer Passes
A benefit dance by the 20-30
club of The Dalles, Is being held
at Grass Valley, January 22, with
the proceeds going to the Iron
Lung fund of the organization,
according to Jack Lewis, The Dal
les, who made preliminary work
here Monday.
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The Iron Lung at The Dalles is
now at Yakima, where forty cases
of Infantile paralysis are con-
fronting authorities there. In case
of need in this locality, the Iron
Lung can be flown back from
Yakima at an hour’s notice.
Due to the cooperation of the
suroundlng areas In contributing
needed equipment, the fatalities
have been kept down, but the
need for additional eqtipment is
stressed.
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The Columbians will furnish the
music.
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News of the passing of one of
Sherman county’s pioneers was
belatedly sent to the Sherman
County Journal. Iver B. Hansen,,
born Jan. 2, 1880, and died Dec
25, 1948 at Goldendale, Wash.
At the age of five years he
fame to Sherman county with his
parents, where the family engag­
ed in farming. Following the
mother and son lived in Portland
and in 1912 came to Goldendale.
In January 1927 he was united
In marlage to Mrs. Mabel Leuthen.
Illnes had confined him to his bed
for the past two years.
He leaves to mourn his passing
his wife, Mabie, sister Chrlstena
Gano, eight nieces and four nep­
hews.
He was burled in the I.O.O.F.
cemetary at Goldendale.
EOWL Enlarges
Scope of Work
EOWL ENLARGES.....................
SCOPE OF WORK . . - ...................
Eastern Oregon Wheat League
at its last annual meeting dissol­
ved its organization and increas­
ed its scope of activities to include
the entire state of Oregon.
In
making this move the name of the
organization was changed to "Ore­
gon Wheat Growers League.”
Under this change three new ex­
ecutive committeemen have been
selected, two from western Ore-
and one from southern Oregon?
The major wheat producing coun­
ties each have one committeeman
on the hoard.
Paulen Ease ber g of Wasco, pre­
sident of the Oreogn Wheat Grow­
ers League had called a meeting
of the executive board to be held
in Pendleton Friday and Satur­
day of this week. This meeting
is to be devoted to a study o f
the resolutions and recommenda­
tions presented at the last meeting
at Condon. The Wheat Growers
League has been asked to meet
Friday morning with the Oregon
Wheat commission.
The Oregon Wheat commission
Is charged with the duty of car­
rying on activities In research,
education, production and mar
keting of wheat. The Oregon
Wheat Growers League la a com­
modity organization representing
wheat from the producers’ stand­
point. Its activities are correlated
directly with the activities of the
commision and are requested for
suggestions and recommendations
in the development of the activi­
ties of the commission.
Actually there are no frozen
funds. There is money In both
the excise and Income tax funds.
It can be taken out and spent by
a vote of the people by a simple
vote of a tax levy over and above
the six percent limitation. The
procedure la exactly the same a
that used in school districts,
cities and counties.
ks fs w Mtaraisa to tb«ir kerracks. All U. S. Army rK ra ih kern
* • S M M sdshM e ef tfce M l , m well as « r e sag »«in to »«.«« W H m "werM'a
The state could spend all the
MMwt rifle.
so-called surplus, past and future
by a vote of the people over the
six percent limitation. That would
Organization Meeting Sherman County Club
be orderly and time-honored so­
lution to the financial problem of
Held Tuesday
Active in Civic Work
the state. The appropriation might
By Giles L. French
have to be $60.000,000 and could
An emergency 15 to 20 per­ The organizational meeting of
The appointment of a commit­
be as little as $25,000,000 depend­ cent cut In use of electricity to
It is intended to write some
'publican Precinct commit- tee representing the different lo­ notes on the history of Sher­
ing on how man-y requests were help conserve the dwindling sup­ the Republican
tee men and committee women of calities of Sherman county, was
denied by the legislature.
ply resulting from reduced river Sherman county was held at the appointed Wednesday at the meet­ man county. These will not be
Already there are some who flow Is being requested of all
a completed history. Too much
would take permanently , away power users throughout the Paci­ couurt house Tuesday ftaernoon. ing of the Sherman County club. research work must be done be­
from the people their control over fic Northwest, effective at once January 11th and the following The committee Is to make a study fore that can be 'accomplished
the Income and excise funds by acording to Lawrence Kirby, local officers were elected to servie for of county road equipment and but the general plan may* be
needs and Is to report at the next laid out and some writing done.
placing them in the general fund manager for the Pacific Power A the next two yea^
Mrs. Howard Con lee, chairman, regular assembly.
where they would be available for Light company.
The hope is that those people
and E. D. McKee, vice-chairman;
appropriation by the legislature
He appealed to all customers of Giles French was named as secre­ The meeting was called to order who know most about the his­
That would mean, of course, that the company to join Immediately
tory of the county will correct
the property t»x pay«* would be In the concerted power-saving tary and Carl Melzer as treasur­ oy President Allen Tom, with BUI errors that occur in these notes.
required to pay a state tax on top drive, which is being carried on by er. Alternates are Giles French Hall as secretary.
For much of the county’s his­
of his already huge and climbing all power agencies, public, private and Mrs. Colls P. Moore.
It was also suggested that the tory there is no place to look
county and city and school dis» and federal, serving the whqle
The Congressional committee committee report to the Sherman lor exact Inlormatlon except
trlet taxes.
_______________ shortage area. -
- ---- - «. man and committee woman are county court on February 2, fol- from the elders who remember
Those who helped enact the In­ The saving is vitaly needed, he Carl Melzer and Mrs Ernest lowin gthe report to the club.
it with accuracy which long
come tax law back In 1931 say declared, to cqrry the region tn- Shull and the five district nomi
gone events appear to those
The next meeting will be for who look back at them through
that the only way It could have rough the present critical short natlng committee members will
been passed was by making It a age period without danger to es­ be Ed .McKee, Mrs B Estelle the discusión of the formation of years.
property offset tax. The supreme
Hailey of Wasco, A. A. Dun lay a soil* conservation district. Also
court has upheld It as a property sential services or threat to In­ and Mrs. Elisabeth Hartley of the club Is to attend a special
The land between the rivers
employment.
of Commerce on January 31, an came fortunately through the up-
off-set tax. If it Is changed (and dustrial
Grass
Valley
and
Mrs
Collis
P.
The new conservation drive be­
meeting with The Dalles Chamber heavels of the geological ages Lewis A. Olds was born in Yam­
the same generally applies to the came necessary because the con Moore of Moro.
evening session at The Dalles that made the history of the hill county March 19, 1875 and
corporation excise tax) property
came to Sherman county with
tinued
cold
wave
blanketing
hotel.
ow ners will be subject to a tax
mid-Columbia so turbulent There his parents when he was nine
Ralph Watson, one-time politi­ for state purposes within a year Columbia river valley is making MORO I. O. a F. INSTALLS *
Ir, In Sherman county, Utile years old. They lived on the place
the power situation steadily NEW OFFICERS
cal reporter for the Oregon Jour or to.
PLAN TO TRY SALT AIR
evidence
of the Inland lake the where Alfred Kock now lives. He
worse. Water to turn the genera
nal, who was retired a year ago
geologists say once ft lied this married Ida M. Walker on Jan­
The following
leers were in ­
Mr.
and
Mrs.
John
DeMoss
left
because he had reached the - age
The state of Oregon has grown tors s t the region’s hydro plants
part of the state; the formations
of «5, Is back on the job again some 49 percent In population Is falling to dangerously low levels stalled for the Moro lodge of the for Taft, Oregon, Wednesday to that make the upper John Day uary 20, 1901, and lived on the
writing for a group of dailies since 1940, has increased Its val while the sub-freezing weather is I. O. O. F. on January 18.
see if the ocean breezes would country so Interesting to explor­ place where Willard Rolfe now
lives until th e / moved to the
throughout the state. And his uation some $300,000,000 or about keeping power loads high, ex­ I>eo Watkins as Noble Grand; benefit Mrs. DeMos’s sinus troub­ ers, step at Clarno.
ranch
south of Grass Valley where
plained
Corey.
“stuff” rolls along with the ease 33 percent and because of Infla­
Certainly this part of tne
It was emphasized that the sav­ Marvin Howell, vice-Grand; John le. John E. (Curlie) DeMoss wil*. land underwent great change he lived until he retired In 1943
that old time reporters strove to tion and rather liberal spending
accomplish Nowdays the limita has Increased Its expenditures ings must be made throughout DeMos, secretary and C. M. Mes- have charge of the store at De- when the Cascades were heaved and moved to town where he
Moss Springs in their absence. Into their early form and when lived until his death January 12,
tlons of space, the haste of make­ many fold. Now there are enough the entire region and by every inger, treasurer.
1949. He had been ill for ten years
customer
to
meet
the
emergency.
up and the Jittery times make for requests to use up every cent of
the volcanos oovered the earth of which the last twenty-one mon­
writing that Jerks Instead of money lq the excise and income
with lava.
flows.
But when it was all done the ths were bedfast.
tax funds and leave the state's
A lot of men who have been treasury bare for the days ahead
part of It all that is now Sher­ He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
kicked out of th eir employment which may not be so economically
or would enjoy knowing man county was left fairly Ida M. Olds, a daughter, Mrs.
Thelma Trimble and a son, Alton
because some writer of rules heid bright as they have ben In the re­
smooth.
that 65 was an end of usefulness cent past.
Geologists are not sure about Olds all of Grass Valley; six broth­
are working again. A college In
what happened back in the oll- ers, Charles, Dell and Earl of
Slippery Highway
California hires all of the retired
gocene and miocene times.
If Grass Valley, Dean Olds of Port­
The house has in it a bunch of
law professors It can get—and new men, many of them young,
If there are animal remains they land, Frank Olds of Milton, and
Cause of Auto Crash
has a fine school. Retired OSC pro and who generally appear to be
can identify them and better set Wllie Olds of Yuba City*, Califor­
fessors are filling Important jobs good legislative caliber. Of course,
the time. Here there are none, nia, and two sisters, Mrs. Bertie
Slippery icy spots on the high
capably In other institutions and the legislative processes are new
nlther petrified 1 nuts nor leaves Brown of Tygh Valley and Mrs.
George Van Gasbeck, 84, a resi­ that can be identified as native. Iva Nahouse of McCoy, Oregon.
from other places there are eld­ to them and It will take some time
Miss Marie von Borstel, a stu way* between Biggs junction and
Wasco, caused Mr." and Mrs. John dent of Oregon for the past 19
Funeral services were held
ers carylng on.
for them to become accomplished dent at St. Mary’s academy in T. Johnson to skid off the road years, died at his home in Was<o ' Eons and eons of time must
This gives weight to the argu­ legislators but first impressions The Dalles spent the weekend
have been used by the rivers from the Methodist church of
last Friday night. Mr. Johnson re­ Sunday morning. He was a retired to cut their deep channels that Grass Valley Saturday at 1 pan.
ment that age Is a poor Indicator are good. Eastern Oregon has al­ Mrs. Ted von Borstel.
of ability and worth and while the most a new delegation in the here with- her parents, Mr. and ceived facial cuts, but not of a farmer. Mr. Van Gaasback was make the county’s borders and with the Rev. W W. Gearhart of
serious nature
born in Dane county, V «»cansih probably new inundations of lava Moro officiating. Mr. and Mr».
future of a man 65 must of neces house.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Martin
February 28, 1804.
The
couple
were
taken
to
the
sity be short that Is no indication
filled them time after time be­ Orville Ruggles sang, accompani­
The same condition does not entertained friends at a party Fri­
Mid-Columbia
hospital
where
an
that he cannot work for a time. prevail in the senate. Losses day evening, January 7, and those
He is survived by his wife, fore they assumed their present ed by Mrs. Elton Eakin at the
examination
disclosed
that
their
piano
Vleda
of Wasco; a son, Clark Van form.
there were serious. No legislative present were Mr. and Mrs. Donald
A way of getting out of the body can lose men like clear von Borstel, Mr. and Mrs. - Gene injuries were not serious.
Nearly* all of Sherman county
Gaasbeck, Blalock; two sisters:
Pallbearers were Edgar Alley.
penitentiary not before discover- thinking and speaking Chessman, Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. John
It Is Henry Peters, C. W. Fields, Her­
Mrs. Ada Glasgow, Spokane and is of volcanic formation.
ed has been found by a resource­ talthful and effective Fatland, de­ Reckman, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus
Mrs. Mlnie Dutton, Wasco; a called Corlba for Columbia River man Peters, Roy Schillng, Boyce
ful Oregon State Penitentiary in­ pendable Lee Paterson, popular Eslinger and Mr. and Mrs. Char­
brother, Bert Van Graasbeck, Basalt. Along the northern part Blaylock. Funeral arangementa
mate, or former inmate. He need­ Doug McKay, tough minded Zur les Perrigo. The evening was
Council Groves, Kans., three of the county there Is some were under the direction of Spen­
ed an operation and refused to cher without having to undergo a spent playing pinochle with high
grandchildren and two great Shuttler formation, coming over ce r& Libby, The Dalles, with
from Gilliam county but not ex­
have It done Inside the walls. So rebuilding process. Men like them scores held by Mrs. Reynolds and
grandchildren.
burial in the I. O. O. F. cemetery
they turned him loose. That, of come from a combination of abil­ Mr. Perrigo and low scores by
I^ast rites were held from the tending Into Wasco. Its soil Is at Grass Valley.
course, was the only considera ity and experience.
Mrs. Reckman and Mr. Eslingei
Wasco Methodist church at 1 p. Ughter than the regular basalt.
Out of town relative» ano
By Mrs. George 1*. Fox *
tlon.
Refreshment were served at the
m. Wednesday with the Rev. Carl - Sherman county Is one of the friends attending the funeral w et'
Just
a
sheet
of
ice
Is
what
the,
It may sound odd In eastern close of the party by* the host­ John Day river is at present With Stierle officiating. Interment was northern tier of Oregon coun­ Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brown, Mia.
ties, bordered on the north by
California who has boasted Oregon but the withholding tax ess.
this cold spell going Into Its fifth In the Wasco cemetery. Arrange­ the Columbia river, on the east Lester Brittain, Frank Brown,
that their children have never has many friends about the .state
Kenneth Crews and Frank Ket- week, it’s no wonder. The therm­ ments were by Sepncer & Libby by the John Day river, on the Mr. and Mrs. Willis Brittain and
seen snow can find something else Even fruit growers, hop growers
of The Dalles.
south by Wasco county and Mr. and Mrs. Omar Brittain, all
to boast about. No damage, we and potato growers like it and ter were business visitors in The ometers have gone to zero, and
Dalles
Monday.
the frost has gone forther and
Buckbollow and on the west by from Tygh Valley, Mr. and Mrs.
are sure, has been done the child­ some of them have made up re­
Mr. and Mrs. Norris Gllkison farther In the ground until a good
the Deschutes river. All of these Lester Nahouse of McCoy, Mr. and
turns for two and three cents, too. were Sunday dinner guests at the many have frozen water pipe Ambulance Makes
ren.
rivers run In deep canyons and Mrs. Dean Old«, Willard Olds and
A bill Is In to repeal It, another
Buckbollow Is also a deep can­ Miss Betty Howe of Portland,
There is a striking lack of ima­ to amend It by making the mini­ home of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard lines leading from their cisterns.
Fred Walker of Independence,
Martin.
This
gives
us
a
tase
of
what
a
few
gination among politicians. Look mum amount of wages on which
Two CallsGrass Valley yon.
Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Walker of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Olan
Stark
and
modern
conveniences
means
when
The
county
is
therefore
a
geo­
at the way they hang onto the colection would be made $25.00.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Harold
Owens
and
Boise, Idaho, Mrs. Ronald Powell
we
have
buckets
of
water
with
a
logical
and
geographical
entity
The
Sherman
County
ambulan­
word “deal”. We had the new That would make thevnlnlm um
daughter
/Carol
Ann,
were
din­
dipper
In
them
on
the
side
boards.
ce made two trips to The Dalles as well as being a political en­ of Moro, Mr. and Mrs. Marion
deal, and the Tru deal and an tax to be paid by the producer 25
ner
guests
Sunday
at
the
home
of
It
makes
one
stop
and
think
Just
Tuesday. Around 9:30 a. m. a call tity. It Is a natural unit of area. Crews of Stevenson, Wash., Mr.
Oregon man Is boasting of a cents. Whether that can be done
Mrs. W. D. Barnett. Mr. and Mrs. what our forefathers went throu­ was made from Grass Valley
It was neither the steep, can­ and Mr». August Wassenmiller of
straightforward deal. All probab­ or not Is not known.
Willard
Barnett
and
son,
Keith
gh with to modernize this old where James Brown suffered a yon filled terrain of Wasco coun­ Tygh Valley, Mr. and Mrs. V. B.
ly came from the square deal
Neither Is It known how mucn called In the evening.
world.
heart attack. And during the after­ ty lo the west, which slopes to­ Eakin, Mr. and Mr«. Tom Alley
but so far have not aproached that the tax will bring In to the state,
The Ladies Social service club
The
west
wind
that
sprang
up
noon, at 1:30 a call came for the ward the Deschutes river |n d and R. J. Baker of The Dalles and
net. About ten million has been met at the home of Mrs. T. M.
philosophy.
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whose land Is cut by many Mr and Mrs. Waren Morgan of
collected but how much of this Rolfe Thursday afternoon with Friday Is slowly drawing the ambulance from the Wilbur Hag­ small streams and canyons, por Condon.
frost from the ground. Some say gerty farm, where the hired man
Ice in the Columbia Is noth­ will be used as pre-paid Income
ing new and old timers may be tax will not be known until after eight present." Refreshments were eighteen inches wouldn’t b e had suffered a stroke, and had the multitude of deep canyons NEW FACES AT LOCAL BANK
found who will say that it. used April 15 when Income taxes must served at the close of the meeting. stretching the depth of the frost lain In the cold until his hands that cut Gilliam county on the
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Alley were in the earth. The farmers are and feet were frozen, acording to east. Neither has It the desert
There were a few changes no­
to be a yearly occurance. But it be paid. Officials don’t figure on
in
The
Dalles
Thursday
where
land
that
begins
somewhat
far­
holding their breath to see yet local rperot._____ ____________
ticed last week In personel at the
is not likely that there has been a much over a million net ,but have
Mrs. Alley received medical at­ whether the wheat will have to be
ther south.
permanent change In the
local
bank. Grant Perry of The
no basis on which to estimate tention.
os vised
The county has a general aloi^e
reseeded
although there
eventual returns.
Mrs.
Richie
Dingle,
the
new
H.
Dales
was waiting on the window
from the Columbia to the south­
Mrs. R. J. Baker came up from
that govern» auch
“
The luncheon was served buf­ E. chairman, opened the business ern boundry, from 120 feet while Bon Christianson was at­
TheDalles Wednesday to spend a fet style when Mra. Robert Byrd
could be Mfer to believe th a tth e Coi tinued to page 4 , - •.......
The tending Chief clerk’s school In
few days here with Mr. Baker and Mrs. Frank Smith entertained meeting. Roll call was answered above sea level to 3000.
weather la what « * *ndl«there
by members telling their New towns, most o f them in canyons,
years
we
would
have
a
w
et
year
who
spent
several
weeks
here
on
Portland. Mrs. Florence Martin Is
te a cycle It to strictly accidental
the Home Economics club at the Year’s resolution. The year books
and has no bearing on the future. and a wet cycle folowing a dry business. They left Saturday for Byrd home Thursday afternoon. and projects for the different indicate the elevation: Wasco In Portland for medical attention
1271, Moro 1807, Grass Valley
their home In The Dalles.
It could atoo apply to our mol» one..
Mrs. Smith had prepared hand de­
for a few day».
Likely
It
will
be
dry
tom
e
times
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ture condition, which would not
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corated napkins to match the dish-
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and
wet
sometimes
•
mean that for each of our dry
Day and Night
History Sherman
Power Curb Need
County Presented
Lewis A. Olds
Buried Saturday
About the County
Grass Valley
Wasco Resident
Folks Entertain
Taken by Death
John Day River
Is Sheet o f Ice