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Official County Paper Moro, Oregon, T S B T r April 8, 1949 Sixty-Fifst Year No- 23 Americanization Day Gifts From France T h ese Discussed by Giles French T h in g s We N ote Varied Bills o f 45th Session are T ax System Changed Danger to property tax shown H ighw ay money division on way Adjournm ent has handicap The senate’s version of how to change the tax system was reveal ed late last week and passed by the members of that body with by Giles L. French small debate and smaller under When reader^ can read of the standing. passage of bills from the ways there be undue criticism and means committee they can of Lest the senators let us hasten to be assured that the legislators are say that understanding the re soon to adjourn. These bills do vised House bills 5 and 424 is a not come out until the whole bill requiring some has been totaled and some means job a well prepared and lightning of paying for It has been decided mind. Actually the bills divert the upon, either by cash or credit. income and excise tax funds to They will start about Wednesday the general fund for legislative (did start perhaps). appropriation, but d° 80 langu Efforts of the ways and means age so involved that sponsors are committee to hold salaries down able to say wltn some show of by meeting the demands of the truth that the bills preserve the civil service board and then cut- provision ting appropriations have run in Unless HJR 9 is also passed the to trouble around Salem, although property tax payer will have suf the idea is a good one. It would fered irreparable damage from handicap the most efficient of the hands of the senate taxation nanus u. fices, however, for they would be me committee. What members of that the ones most hurt. Effect would group expect to do about HJR 9 is be to raise pay but reduce num not being told and discussions ber of employees because of lack about it are couched In terms as of funds. Good idea if it can be indeterminate as are the bills on done. the other parts of the tax pro gram. The sun shines on the grass in Briefly the senate has divided block-wide Willson park, the income and excise funds both evergreen trees have put out new past and present, has spent In and lighter colored leaves, leaves come tax funds first, even though on the elms are growing and Sun there is much less legality and day It was spring, really spring, morality about spending them at for the first day this year, all, has diverted money unneces a • e e e e sarily, has approved two measur- Men are wearing brighter garb _ difficult to understand undersl tneee day» Red shirts o f . other p ,rt ot Oregon hue .n d g ro e n end blue-rotor, to « £ „ ^ t n e r make the rainbow jealous can be ed as too hard to understand. seen often It’« about time. The The senate has missed an op male of other species wears the portunity to take a step toward colors and lets the female g<> simplification and has. in fact, about in the greys and browns of backed up several steps Perhaps, But that Ä Ä X ™m a n d p ro S a V ,’tt wJH brighine« of the China r o o ^ r 1. a btt of . .hock even to spring Perhaps bright colors are hunt ing colors (and we are not speak ing of deer hunting) and during the war years the women wore them and now it is the men. Could be. But whatever the reas on the men are wearing some bright shirts. because It to ,'" d« ^ d- c a u s e t h e session was A program was held in observ ance of Am ericanization Day and Army Day. A reading was given by Hattie Si»encer. A^poem was read by Grace Busse and the Get tysburg address w as read by Beatrice Howell. Plans w ere com pleted for installation of officers to lie held later this month. I This isn’t much, and it is a long way from final enactment yet, but it Is a start. The senate approved the bill giving clubs the right to *keep and sell hard liquor (the master locker plan) with 9ome provisions which lighten the Knox law some what, but not so extensively as at first expected. The senate has passed out HB193, the bill for an additional $30 per month for census child ren for schools. The money would be paid on a strict TDM (total d membership) basis which * .. provides another handicap to eastern Oregon. It may pass the senate if teachers are able to ob tain pledges as they did in the house and then it will have to go to the people. the entire senate's debate tint« and ^ o w 'n o signs of slackening their gab. Neither is a good talk er, seldom does either have any thing of moment to contribute, but each is enamored with the sound of his own voice and im pressed with the jewel-like quali ty of their ideas.______ - Aid Started On VFW A uxiliary held its re m eeting April 4 a t the hall with President Bea Howell presiding and 11 mem tiers present. of com m ittee. Adjournment now seems ten days away, perhaps the night be- for Easter or thereabouts. The senate , still has unemployment compensation, workmen’s com pensation. game, highways, final on education and taxation and some other smaller stuff. The house has the bonus, now not nearly* so popular as when frist debated When means of financ ing Is added to it It isn’t so pop ular which is like the old conser vative policy of reading the right side of the menu first. What is hadicapping the sen ate is the eternal and lintermln- able talking of Senators Carson o f and Marion and Neuberger of Mul- y tnomah who have spent half of few will not read R, would understand it If they did. Thus it has proven that it is often as valuable to think last in a le gislative session as to think best. Training Meet The gular VFW trice than any similar bill has ever done. As of now it would give' Multnomah county % of its re gular share and divide the differ ence which would give some $400,000 to other counties. The terms of division for cities give Portland % of its share. A half dozen methods of dividing the funds were figured out but none could get enough votes to get out The bill to change the method of dividing highway moneys to the counties had another hard “-------- - are — - hul did come out of the A lot of interim committees being planned H 18 °th e 'future highway committee which Is more ---J giving legislatures of some new information about a certain subject. The highway committee of last H ell bv VFW Aux. D ISTA N C E LE N D S E N C H A N TM E N T . . . The two top men In the field of Ionr-dist»noo flying met eaeb other daring a nationally-broadcast radio program In New York. On left Is Capt. Bill Odom, who flew non stop from H aw aii to New Jersey, ft,«M miles, to break all such records fo r non stop light plane flights. At right Is Capt. James Gallagher, commander of "L a rk y Lady II”, B-M long range U.S. bomber that flew non stop around the world, refuelling In flight. Ivan Blagg Heads Symphonic Choir Local VFW Post April 18 Date of School Fund Vote On Monday, April 18th at 2:00 p. m. the registered voters i of Sherm an county will vote on the question of exceeding the 6% lim itation or base in the am ount of $111,503.00. according to the re port-from the Sherm an county school su p erintendent’s office. Well A ppreciated For Sherman Co. At Courthouse Former County Judge J. M. Wilson was at the courthouse Wednesday to bring the box of gifts sent from France, on the French “Thank You” train, to Sherman county. This collection includes several pictures, hand paintings, prints and etchings. Some of the pic tures have been drawn by school children. There are a number of books and pamphlets, two carved wooden plaques from the city of Cherbourg and several envelopes of stamps from a collection. There is a picture in a small antique frame of Jules Massenet sent by Simone Conoseur whose card says she lived in Portland, Oregon, 1928 to 1931. There is afeo a box of semicolor sand painting ma terial whose card reads “French Souvenir,-—Langlet, a soldier of war 1914-1918. This display is In the county courtroom at present and may be seen by those Interested. If the vote is in favor of the levy it will mean pn 18 mill county wide levy by the R ural School district. The Rural School Board did not accept the school’s budgets in total, but left some of the levies to lie made locally. Judging from the consolidated levies of the other counties of the Funeral services were held Sat state last year this will probably urday, April 2> 1949 in Portland, lie the lowest county levy in the for Mrs. Netta MacKay. 66, wife state for school purposes. )f Circuit Judge D. N. Mackay of Sherm an county will receive ’ondon. Mrs. Mackay's health has been $2,000 less money this year from failing for the past three years, the Basic School Support Fund due to a change the form ula during which time she lived with her daughter, Mrs. Rex Eastman, gor payjng transportation The VFW post of Moro has elected Ivan Blagg commander, Jim Brown, senior vice, Richard Holdaway as Junior vice, Bill Brinkcrt as adjutant and quarter master, Bob Boylngton as post advocate, Norria Gilklson as his torian and service officer, Elton Lane, chaplain 'and George De- Moss as officer of the day. Color guard is William Pausch while Richard O’Meara and Don Smith are color bearers. The post sur geon is Joseph Rimer. Trustee of one year term Is Clarence Spencer, two year, John Rust and three year, Willard Harper. The Dalles high school Sym phonic choir under the direction of Sam F. K erbs presented a con cert at the Moro Com m unity chuch Tuesday night. T hey gave a well balanced program In three p arts th at was thoroughly enjoy ed b ythe large crow d attending. This choir took p a rt in the music festiva in Plortland recently and will soon go to H illsboro to e n te r the district contest. T heir friends In Moro are hop- ing they will get the opportunity to go to Eugene to com pete In the, In Portland. Judge Mackay was finals. E xpenditures are necessarily with his wife at the time of her This is the third year they have appeared here under the sponsor greater this year due to the lm death. Mrs. Mackay had lived In Con ship of Bethlehem ch ap ter order provem ents that have to l>e made to meet standardization require don for more than 30 years. of te E astern Star. Mr. and Mrs. . George Mitchell m ents. All schools were inspected She was a member of the Con have as guests over the weekend last fall and given conditional don chapter order of the Eastern Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hertz and Kelly W ilson of Eugene spent standardization. Very ' 111 11e Star. son, Donald, Mr. and Mrs. A1 his spring vacation with Koepper, Mr. and Mrs. Morris m other Mrs. Doris Wilsori his tat money has been spent during the Temple, all o f Pendleton. On Sun oast ten or fifteen years in the Moro and his grandparents Mr. day Mr and Mrs John Searcy of and Mrs. J. M. W ilson of Kent. schools to modernize their plants Hillsboro, Harry Ragsdale of Portland and Mi .and Mm. Wm. Mr. and Mrs Tom Douma left anti equipm ent. ■ The inspections H.- Ragsdale of The Dalles called W ednesday for Corvallis to visit pointed out the weakness in the on them. Sherm an county schools and his m other. Mrs. R. Douma. By GILES U FRENCH Mr. and Mrs. W alter Reseberg Mr. and Mrs. Mac Bull had their steps m ust be taken to correct J r. and baby, Mr. W alter Rese two grandsons here from C ondon, these deficiencies in order to A correspondent w’rltlng from berg Sr. and Mrs. 'Q uestad, all of over the school holiday. *Iraw s ta te school funds. Spanish Hollow wrote to The Seattle visited this weekend with Sherman county can well afford Dalles Times November 4, i860 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ginn and the Ivan K irkelies’. Mrs. Kirkelie two children. Richard and Rose to have standard schools w ith to say: "As a result of settling of and Mrs. Resebrg are sisters. Mrs. these bunch grass plains there tl m ary of Spokane, Wash spent Questad, Mrs. K irkelle’s m other their levy being th e lowest in ere 62 votes cast at Eaton’s on this week visiting the Harold rem ained for a longer visit. the state. Most counties had an election daÿ, lies ides there were Ginns. equalized levy in the 30 mill 10 or 15 who absented themselves. Mrs. W. C. Schilling and daugh County Agent, Tom Thompson bracket last year with the highest Ï A majority of them have settled ters Lavelle and Linda of Cottage moved his family into the Claude (h here within the last year. As I Grove visited her m other Mrs. F. at 57.24 mills. Thom pson house M onday._____ ride over the hills I meet on L. B urnet last week. Severy hand new houses and im Netta Mackay Funeral Held Sherman County History 7 very successful and it turned In a study of much value to the state. Already written are resolutions provements. They have just com for committees to study educa Congressman Lowell Stockman, plétée! a school house; had church There will be a training meet- tion. taxation, highways, public services in it last Sunday, when Ing for Four-H ciuo of the 2nd Congressional club livestock Institutions (killed) and several 50 settlers assembled with lunch leaders at the Courthouse, Friday of Oregon, has introduced a bill i other subjects. The Dalles T hursday on business. baskets, etc., and spent the day A further study of taxation Is night at £ d . m. Cal Monroe, state the House of Representatives to They brought Sharon Sawtell In getting acquainted with each sorely needed but it should not to in d u c t the meeting. permit the C° m . ^ ! ^ , it7 grefor home w hh them to spend the other. be conducted behind closed doors Four.H club leader will be here Corporation to build f^ cilltl^ ^ a s the last one. Half the nlgfet at g p m a t the sto rln g w heat and other agricul- weekend at the home of Mr. and “A thief marred their pleasure Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brown were as tural commodities at primary by going through the houses of committees value of oi interim lnuiiuii -- ----------- — is hi h gchool auditorium in Moro W ednesday visitors In The Dal Mrs. Boyce Blaylock. Mrs. J. W Blagg and daughter, Messrs Biggs and Love while the the education they give the Public is to be a fun night for all points close to the farms and les. Marie and Carol Norton were Inmates were at church, robbing and the members and tne legis- club members, parents ranches where such commodities Mr and Mrs. Andy P atjens re business visitors In The Dalles on the former of $600 and the latter lature. Oregon’s and leaders. The Happy Hustlers are grown. the turned from their trip Thursday. Saturday. W ith a thought tow ards of a pistol. He did the job like an Congressman Stockman stated, isn’t bad; its Income tax, p Q ub of Condon will give a ................. — the Sandy, Miss Carol Norton of K ent experienced hand at the business. ions do very well, but its business demonstration of a model Four- «j believe the Commodity Credit future, the farm ers are turning They visited the coast, W illam ette spent the weekend as a guest of M other E arth under with their ¿"re^ham and other The theft has created consider U x (corporate h club meeting. During the even- Corporation shoul d not be ham- able __________ excitement and the settlers Miss Marie rflagg _ poorly drawn, it ^ c e s corpo music and games gtrung because of lack of storage plows. This land will be seeded valley points. Mr. and Mrs. Jam es Phifer and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stradley of have formed a vigilance commit- refreshments. facilities .In carrying out its pro- this warm tlon only when other form« w followed e , by ___ r__ nnt it« nro- the farmers. I also vest in another year. These warm chlldren m otored to Grass Valley The Dallps spent Thursday here tee and aU future thieves will be business organization go free. As grams to aid sessment methods on which visiting at the home of th eir son found dangling from the end of a PORTLAD’S SHERMAN__ think these storage facilities days, when the mercury nas Sunday evening. the climbed up a bit, has done a lot Mrs Garrett and sons were Clyde Stradley, and family. property tax is based also need rope, labeled with their occupa '^ F s h J r m a n « T n c h e o n X ^ a ^ r Te Lyons’home a X t “crass the some adjustment. tion by a "court and Jury” of Mr. and Mrs. Arch. Cantrall The snerman w uuij — • farm8 where tn e vigilantes.” were in The Dalles Friday on group will meet at the Portland produccd. This would not only re- toft w etJO . are 00 'rooking dovm gas. , In hotel Valley 'ala at o the Jam es E church arl home. business. Mrs. Art Bibby and A justice of peace and constable Jn the Mirror room on April Uevc the congeatlon at the, ter- orchards the fra- ¿.hey attended KnPfl even COOKllig novel p i Vila; ------------- - lie v e m e ------ — ,xl Ae tb o R u f Mrs. Joe Bibby were visitors in were then serving the Eaton pre Canned g ^ can be bought more 13 at 12 o’clock. A ll^p re^n t^n d mjnal , „ th e .W e ,c itie s . blog8om6 are In full ¿ ragS Valley Sunday evening cinct. cheaply, clothing is on sale and former .residents of Sherman byt would make it easier ror tne * 1 . Jf the amount of bios- lfan Oisen of Madras was a The Dalles on Thursday. In February the correspondent John Koepke of Bend was an household equipment Is coming county are moat welcome, repo raliroads to distribute oar- a gl(fn there wU1 be plen- Monday business visitor here, overnight guest last Friday at wrote again to report on the down as dealers, try to unload M Powell, president of the those , and hadle the) ship- soms s of Prineville will apricots the home of his brothe-ln-law and wlnter saying: "The winter has ping of the commodities during ^ o' ^ j ^ a ''are jugt beginning to ho'^ Easter services here Easter their stocks before prices drop unjt jms are sister, Mr. an?l Mrs. Frank Pike. long and the stock is dying more. Even automobile prices are ----- the peak seasons Sunday at 5 p. m. Instead of the peek out hère and there. Everett Dunlap and Mrs. T. M. fagt cattle and sheep are faring VISITS poRMER PRINTER «retting down to a - better Deuer size. poRMKK The Congressman further Rta- and ^ r s . Delos Williams 10th as annouheed before. Rolfe were In Goldendale Mon- i think fully one half of That is usually considered good JOURNAL . OFFICE « Tankman ‘«I- “Wh«31 Btorag<> facilities » flnd fam,|y were visiting Rufus That day on business. tnese have died. If some of your the news, but it will not make who Mr- and i*rs. y R L Jw nnvil- the district 1 represent were fr,ends lasl weekend. Williams is Mr. and Mrs. Collis Rice and merchants would come out here people any happier Those price and 8on' ^ n ^ F r i d a v of last seriously inadequate during the the former pr|nc|pai of Rufus daughter, Dolores and son, Huell, ond start a store I think it wouW can be successful one r and Je held up „ Frbiav oi Tn the the town town of of Con- where Mrs^ Williams also le w ere In - level will do so under another^and f(n held ao hQUr T m in worn Moro 19« season. se school wn of Sweet Home came Friday and pay them. There is no store tnat tide spent the weekend a$ the home of amounts * to anything on this ■ those who are always brok ^ w h ji blasting was done on the ig ^ eat storage space avail- J ^ ^ i n CoUon now where Wll- Mr. and Mrs. Harold Eakln. Do oi the DesChutes river where we lores rem ained here to w ork for can get foods by ‘the There is a movement in the di Mr. and Mrs. Gene Reynolds Mrs. Eakln. Andersen and Earl Olds rection of getting a post route from Grant’s Landing to Bake- ... find 7 - ---------- ho, „j. „ ,s such Communlty s ,ng elub boro at The Dal w e^^ Mid oven. with oftlces along the road. will as much difficulty difficulty living rig h t and This will be of great benefit to ................................. 1 1 " ^ •* Uaj, __i n _«l.r.11 T gafierim rr will meet with Mrs. James “ Tate on $3600. Julie Suzanne and weighed seven Columbia Baseball Teague meet the settlers in this section. The W ednesday afternoon. pounds. Grandparents are Mr. ing in the council chambers. Base man who starts the first store WMtreet parküW to ‘' X ^ T u r e l y the com- areas, _which are In need of in- will be held at the :om- areas, whicn a Th will be a card party at ‘ De Reynolds of Q Grass baU practice w K bavé to S s e tU e d soon She grasped deft creased storage faclUt es ^ car and Mrs. g ball park here Sunday afternoon, will "hit the nail on the head. the Rufus grange S th e ^ th M or m a » t~"«norta- stick Valley and Mr. and April 10 and anyone interested is ~Of the permanent settlers who night, April, 9 at 8 o’clock. logg of Portland. can be remembered or who stayed tlon will have to be that peop- back ln its prOper place., and had ^ ^ f ^ ^ ^ ^ T ^ Î S d ’ucts In T^pre^isn’t any chance Mrs. Clara White and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph LiSN i of asked to l>e there. sometimes holds Its products long enough to make a martt — - »„«.i« onH SOmeiiine» i---- -- . a t o n -♦nrv ___ __ goes etaoin ano gtQrage over tw0 seasons.” Virginia of Portland spent the Pendleton on were overnight v w . r . guests - — Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Schilling there ,‘ m e ere who *»**v “ ve S story aoart- apar, forgotten where were Graham at the mouth weekend in Rufua being guests of at the home of her brother and and daughters of cottage men, house can park their cars shrdlu. M «ud77,arrett and son, Mrs. Elizabeth Küppers. t ne FranR d¡nner guests pyiday even- of the Deschutes, the Fulton«, close; workers In a ton atory of- William Walker, Sam Price. J*«- Mr. Maude Garr _ _ -rv,« The ao 42 trlcohone telpohone line was out wife, wile m mr . »„o ___bomc ()^ ^ r . and Mrs. to work and the same"time home Bn7 ‘ jn<Soied to~The Dalles Wed se Eaton, Glrklng. James Pierson, ,ndav and Morubv. » It was lm- one day last '«reek flee building hi)'.« the Qne Mr and Mrs. Ernest Blaylock Orville Ruggles, “ llve |„ The nesday nesday t0 to nee see Mrs. Mrs. GarJa” G arre"- ’ Sunday Continued on * correspondent Conilnned on Page F o ar for yotlt and Mrs Boyce Blaylock went to ................... ^ n r b S ^ t . » office men Dalles and work In Moro as ea.i- fsther. father, Mr. W. .1. Crozler^oTf Crozier off on possible to gather the new«. the bus for Snokomish, Wash dr^ve sn hour and a half ».-.fft ly. For 4-H Club Wheat Storage About the County about folks vou do know or would enjov knowing Rufus Folks Note sl«‘niko N°tes Spring Signs . . . ------------- V . j p Grass Valley Folks Announce Birth I
