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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1950)
PAG E 2 SHERM AN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO, OREGON Either that o t make everyone save for his own future with no payments from either govern P ublished E v e ry F rid a y a t ment or industry. Payments from M oro, Oregon PUTS B — u Editor either source cost many who - u , r. are not included in the pension Jbfyerm an C o u n ty J o u r n a l PoatoifiM at Moro. Oregon, under Act o f Congreai o f March I . 187»t O F F IC IA L COUNTY lis t. SU BSCRIPTIO N R A T E S ONE YEAR ir» inm To the Editor: PAPER MEN « FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1950 AND FASH ION Men are a prosaic lot. A look $2.00 at old pictures proves it beyond Does it take Experts? To find out that the quarter myu on spent each year for schooung is not eduoating any pupll To search the records for pro- ygpf)jai rat holes. Don’t we know that the shift in personalities necessary to plug the leaks will still he up y S? Then why put the matter on Ice by ieaving it up t0 highly paid experts? Because we are individually scared of public candor of course Every thinking person in this county has his nose to the sev- era, rat boles as is shOWn by Ppjyate discussion. He refuses to admit the rat is in his terri- tory. He’d rather back-bite any- thing but a local rat while it js looking, (figure of speech) Meanwhile lets take a look at the holes (we could put it off some more, hut our sins add up with each graduating class.) The first rat hole is distance. That hole has been vacant so long that it doesn’t even smell ratty. Parents who still keep their nose to it are engaging baby sitters and travelling across several counties to games engaged in during midweek by .¿dCLUB TO MEET th is twenty-round-no-declslonj bout as to’ where to spot this school plant? The present per sonalities in the rural school board can’t make a move. But the people could latch on to their citizenship and parental responsibility if they could leave their love feast with jealousy. Little encouragement as they get, their children do not re- fleet this, thank God? Last Friday a representative group of high school boys met with the county agent and or- ganized a “tractor maintenance club”. There was no shop, a pub- lie spirited rancher had studied and volunteered his time as in- structor and the boys volun- teered out of school time to pur- course. sue thls educational They were keen alert young farmers who were athletes, had distinguished themselves in beef feeding and wanted to go on learning. And our $260,000 per year spent in schools will not be out a penny. WTiat is to he the function of our schools in the future? Ted M. Ball The Sherman County Club is to meet next on Wednesday the 18th of January when Allan Tom will have harge of the meeting as agricultural chairman. He ex pects to explain the new PMA rulings and to have Paulen Kase berg and Floyd Root talk about the recent wheat league execu tive meeting at Pendleton. The meeting will be at the Moro Hotel at noon, with every one welcome. a question. Of course, if one goes back far enough he finds them N A T IO N A L Î D I l O t l A l pictured in knee pants, with A suparkr sarvUa long silk lined coats and wigs, o f personal «Rand a oca powdered at that. But that was a hundred and fifty years ago THAT COSTS HO M O I and such resplendent costume was considered too patrician for the times and men took to trousers and coats of coarser cloth. CM Since that time men's cos- K » KBIT AV«. JANUARY 13, 1950 tumes have changed little. Coats g0M E SHooT IN ’ IRON, PARDNER . . . President Truman examines have been short and long, lapels an(j Bj m|rcg thC pjstol carried by Mike Folliard, son of a Washington - * A w id a r a n g a o f p r U o s * 263 BILLIONS wide and narrow, trousers tight correspondent, who greeted him upon his return by plane from Chi the! m o ^ o l wishes and loose hut the changes are cago. The President landed at National airport after a tWo-and-a-half Reporters say that the Rus hoar flight from the Windy City where he addressed officials of the sians are saying in their news minor. Bh rine convention. Women in the meantime have papers that America is going NOTICE OF final S E T T L E - broke and are just waiting for varied between dozens of petti- Rufus grange mtf in regular The city council granted a M ENT session Thursday evening. Atlee room ncense to G.J.Blum that to happen. What the Rus- coats and none, between narrow NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, sians say or wait for is of little w a ists' and none, high collars Wilson the regular master # ho,‘ at ieg meeting Tuesday night That the undersigned Executors consequence to us, but the fact and none- They have Kradually is ill was unable to be present, and algo pald $1000 on its bond of the Estate of w . h . Carlisle, that their hopes are getting such disrobed while men have con- so a past master, Will Huck jccue to reduce the city’s debt deceasedi have filed In the Coun- presided at the meeting. It was to $7500 valiant support from the admin tinued wearing wool coats and ty Court of Sherman County, From the Grass V alley Journal not a very good night for trav istration is a matter of great vests and high collars. State of Oregon their final ac A glance at old pictures shows January 14, 1921 eling; therefore but eleven mem- concern to us. count a s v such Executors, and The farm home of E. E. Bar- bers answered roll call. A good ««, nation reduced the «... na- a- women with straight fronts and This that the 30th day of January, tion*ardebt.V'down^to'^'iK billion straight backs, with big sleeves num was destroyed by fire this program was put on by the lec- 1950 at the hour of 10:15 A . M., r in lla r q thp war hv «Aiiiniz and hare arms' skirts below the week. ---------- turer, Mrs. Harland McDonald has been fixed by said Court as surplus materiel and cancelling ankle and skirts above tbe knee' ^At Kent and Grass Valley sev- the time for the hearing of ob F K Men,or women hither, had no erai thousand bushels of wheat contracts for materiels n o t jections to said report and the $4.00 w a n tP d N o w in n r n s r ^ r n iiK t i m choice about the styles and Was sold for $1.50 per bushel. 2j Gallon? wa Induced settlement thereof. bv P viJm i? eoods could on,v r e s t e a sy for th e p re ‘ tb e ir teen agers> RuS tim e Can T h e 8 as en ^ ne th a t m ak es 1.60 Attorney at law One Gallon Horace S. Carlisle es, 45 K ferred one would he along again easily he included in social stu- electricity for the city has a .95 *Maravine Carlisle away to destitute allies and en Half Gallon in a few years. dies very objectively by the pro- rusted cylinder and it may be , Executors emies, we are increasing the na .50 MORO Quart Men we guess are shy crea- Jcct method. some weeks before it will run tional debt which is expected to Gavin & Gavin Pint A very smelly hole so far as again. ' ’ W J Monday, Wednesday. Friday reach 263 billion dollars next tures and do not want to appear Attorneys for Estate Afternoons to differ from the pack, feeling, economy and efficient instruc- From the Observer, Jan. 13, 1911 ORDER PIES, CAKES, M APLE year. The Dalles, Oregon * . _ ___ n z .r k n n t ' t h a t 3 m in U O n 1 8 V U I l V e i I l f U I S U 1 S V 1 FRESH tion is concerned is district, or George Berrian made an auto BARS, DOUGHNUTS One of the surest ways to P enPugh without trying ta villaPp jealousy. This is never trip to Antelope Monday and T H E DALcRR EVERY DAY NOTICE OF F IN A L SE T T L E prove that democracy w ont work ® h SDecial kind of admitted locally so so long long as found the roads bad. 211 East Third Street , ____ is to burden it with debt. No look like any special klno^of kppn , F IV E CENTS M ENT ALL POP you can keep 'kaitinpr for rats George Simon has succeeded NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Telephone 3209 kind of government will work man. ™ayb* w ? T £ ra£e satisfied “ with that Daniel Webster could ,n another district you can p h . Buxton as bookkeeper at That the undersigned Executor if weighted down with a huge • hlg Qr pound sand down your r»wn rat the Moro Hardware and Imple- of the Estate of Mrs. Louie Da debt— if it is honest enough to , clothes and not be very holes W&sco seems to have ment store and as justice of the vis, Deceased, has filed in the try to pay it. People lose their ainary^cioines an m y a litt little more sand than Rufus peace. Mr. Buxton became deputy County Court of Sherman Coun incentive to produce and with- cofispicUOtts. for this game. Though the oth- county clerk. ty, State of Oregon, his final ac out production all are poor. Clothing for the L ittlest ones, er districts know how It is p roin the Observer, Jan 9, 1931 count as such Executor, and played, too. Of course, the ex- News of the death of I. N. Disraeli said “the world is . all of them . Com plete stock of that the 30th day of January, wearied of statesmen whom BU t TER B I L L perts will show that with only I^emon at Corvallis was record- babies' wear, and the cutest 1950, at the hour of 10:00 a. m. democracy had degraded intp ’ One of. the littlê’ items of things, too. :n- 100* pupils to work with or even e(j He died January 4. has been fixed by said Court as NeW officers of the Moro politlclans” . He had it hack- O€ray c gpyernment that, is sure twice that many, you Would be the time for hearing of objec wards; the world is wearied o to dedght historians of the fu- hard put to have a well rounded state Bank are R. H. Coppock, tions to said report and the set politicians who have degraded tupe |g the to.do oyer the mar. curriculum in one high school - president; J. R. Morgan, vice- Sweaters and Skirts for Schoolgirls - Beanies, tlement thereof. democracy Into dictatorship. - - Marine" hill .................. for the COUTrtV - They - would president and J. L. Searcy, cash- Sam Davis bright fejts - Beautiful new fall dresses People can stop the trend to- 8 brlght Wt of legislation npver consent to two. But how ier, P . C . Axtell. W. H. Ragsdale Executor ward national bankrutcy^ 'they ,be j a|ry states caused a tax to can **le experts ever break up and j , c . McKean are directors. Gavin & Gavin can do it by notifying their re- jajd on oleomargarine and to Attorneys for Estate > NOTICE TO CREDITORS presentatives in congress that prevent margarine that *was col- The Dalles, Oregon All persons having claims they will not vote to approve the ored t0 resemble butter could against the ' estate of Walter A. men w’ho vote for excess appro not pasg state lines. It was a Medler, deceased, are hereby priatlons— and then do it. Those good example of using the laws . ... Ppdar 27c notified to present them, in pro- who vote to flatten the public restrict competition of which ea. On Evergreen highway at per form, to the undersigned, purse should stay home for a we have a great number, Underwood Store. Ph. 3711, the duly appointed, qualified while, talk to taxpayers and Ils- Now we are short- of butter Underwood Merc. Co., Under- and acting Executrix of the ten to the bitter jokes about gov- and have been for some time wood, Wn. 10-21c Last Will and Testament of a ernment spending. and thg same government has the above named deceased, at -Order early for ------------------- stepped in to increase the price HARTS CHIX the office of Geo. G. Updegraff, layers and ^ e r s . Dryden MorQ Oregon wjthin s ix and to buy great quantities of IN C LU SIV E PENSIO N S it for storage in a cave some- White Leghorns, months from the date of this Reds Rock-Hampshire Cross The pension business is get- place. The result is that people notice, to wit: January 13, 1950. and New Hampshires. Farm. tin all mixed up. Through so- want to buy margarine. But F ay Helmick Medler cial 'security the government they like it colored and see no Red and Leghorn ckls. during rn d ecraff Feb., March and April. Hatch p d egra« provides for some, through old reason why it should he taxed Attorney for Executrix every WED.» year around. age assistance the governments when other foods are not. Prices and circular available Eureka Lodge No. 121 A .F. A A.M (federal, state and county) give That’s reasonable enough al- Meets on the 1st and Harts Hatchery, Beaverton, pensions to some others, many though it seems that the sena- 3rd Thursday evenings Oregon 40-tfn flrms provide a retirement pay- tors from the cotton states, TED BA RTO N each month. Visiting ment for employees, many oth- whose cotton seed oil is used In members cordially In P rttu U ^ , Hood Rivtr Cbootbor of Coonorrco er8 are being asked or forced to margarine, find it more reason- FOR SALE: The City of Moro vited to meet with us. will sell 100 sheets of 4 x 8 Fir- do the same, many persons are able than do the senators from C. S. Bennett, W. M. tex; 42 sheets 4 x 12 Firtex; in none of the lists and must Wisconsin and other dairy states H B Pinkerton, Secretary and 10 sheets 4 x 8 half Inch provide their own pension or That’s the way laws are made Moro Ix>dge No. 113 I.O.O.F plywood. do without. in what we choose to call a dem- Meets 1st and 3rd None of the pensions are large ocracy which Is really a repub- F0R SALE: N. W. Thompson Tuesdays in I.O.O.F. enough. This is a fault for lie. And as peculiar as it seems house in Moro, 6 rooms, full hall. Transient and which there may be no remedy it is much better than ha ng basement, oil furnace, hot wa visiting brothers are because inflation grows with the some small group je t t i n g to- ter heater, fireplace, tile gar cordially invited to added expenditures for pensions, gether and issuing an order. age, chicken house, $4750. meet with us. Giles French, Moro, Oregon. Leo Watkins, N. G. It may lie like a dog chasing his -----------------— John DeMoss, Secretary tail; to set aside the funds ne CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING — cessary for adequate pensions we TAX M EASURES Meat cutting, wrapping, sharp Bethlehem Chapter No. 78. O.E.8 may have to Inflate so much that (g onp a(lvantage tax. freeze. Bring them in any dav Meets every second and pensions will never buy enough hav<? ha)J |n th,g poRt. fourth Thursday in each but Sunday. C & C Food Store, month; visiting members But that objection will apply war J>eriod that they did not Grass Valley, Oregon. 21tfc Invited. Moro, Oregon to any pension plan. have In the last one. In the Olive-Young, W. M. If there is to be pensions ev- years after World War I Sher- FOR SALE— Now available for Immediate delivery W i 11 y s Naomi Van Gilder, Secretary erybne should have one. There man county had to pay a state Jeeps and four-wheel drive should he no argument about taX of from $32,000 to $96,000 I.U pine Rebekah Lodge No. llö pick-ups. Complete Willys - . that. Otherwise a part of the which has not been levied so Overland line of panels, station people are paying for something far after the last world war. wagons and Jeepsters now month * visiting* they do not get and others are «phis relates only to property sensationally reduced in price. members welcome. getting something they do not taxes. Actually much more has Contact Willis Motor Co., Third Hejen Kruger, N. G. • pay for. been paid out in taxes on ln- and Lincoln Sts., The Dalles, Lucile May, Sec. Prohahly the only w ay to ar- comes both to the federal gov- 22tfc Oregon. range for everyone to get a ernment and the state. However, ¿«vertfeMMn» pension is to put the whole pen- these taxes are - large because, sion business into government! incomes are «large and will drop hands and let it be managed like with lower prices of wheat. It Insurance company. That would is likely that when that hap- requlre another bureau or doz- pens there will be a recurrence ens of them and the «overn- of state property taxes which ment would perform the service may he as large. much less efficiently than pri Most of the state expenses vate industry. But how’ else can that will cause state property FOLE-TOP TSANSFOSMEKS ere D m lo»t link. b«lwe«S Meh-VoWo«« liaes end Iks wlrw that wrry power to yoer home, i we provide pensions for every- taxes come from measures that >«rty 1,000 ef them vltol veil» Her« been 1« »1* P™» ) ^ r' •» <*>"”"«•» ’»• record-brooklng building progra«. one? . have been voted by the people, darn if he didn’t run and get Scoop Blake paid as a friendly It has been authoritatively not passed by the legislature, call at the Clarion’« office last week Pacific Power & Light Company has spent more than $25,000,000 on new construc elected sheriff h im to lf I stated that men who get a pen- The method of preventing a re and we were talking about when he From where I sit, we should find gion fixyn the steel and the coal turn of state property taxes is tion since V-J day. These are taxpaying, job-making dollars— development dollars was a reporter here. industries will have to remain naturally to not vote for any out the facts before we try to talk — invested here in the great Northwest to help meet your electrical needs. pretty close on the job. If they further state expenditures, about anything. When we do, we’re “ Remember how mad I got when The power requirements o f a fast-growing region demand a steady flow o f j It is possible that voters will go running off to California they inclined to be more to leran t. . . I found out you were writing that * these developm ent dollars into the Pacific Northwest. That is why all o f us want will lose out. If It was all man soon get an opportunity to vote we’re apt to understand a little election story right from your aged by the government it could on a measure to prohibit the state investors to look at this legion as a land o f opportunity, and o f fair reward. more about the other fellow’s pref desk?” I asked him. “ And how I provide for percentage payments from levying a property tax This erence for, say, his political candi made you get out and learn what The investor whose dollars help extend and improve your low-cost electric b y employees and for employers was proposed by the 1945 tax date or for a temperate glass of a sheriff’s job was all about?** service, while sharing your tax burden, is truly a Partner in Progress I . so that funds were accumu- study committee and is being beer now and then. I say, if you * 1 sure do, Joe/* aaid Scoop. “ I lated for the payments It would considered by the present tax don’t want to get tripped up, don’t w ant to thank you for teaching me be a complusory insurance plan study group It may take action leap to conclusions! thfcApt-trick’— putting on my hat with an endowment feature at by some agricultural group to '.-r get It on the ballot. It would of anafinding out the facts, that is.** some determined age. _g an _ _______ Then we both had a good laugh As alternative to some necessity be a constitutional A progrew/vs pow«r «ysf«m — business monogad people being pensioned and oth- amendment and need the vote of because he found out so much that er« having to do for themselves the people but it would protect •1 the compulsory pension pay- real property y owners when the Copyrif Af, 295A United State» Brewers Foundation ment plan m lght.be acceptable, next depression comes. In Days of Old GO 10 BLOM'S George G. Updegraff Infants’ W ear The Gay Shop Want Ad» F ’’Continued. p r o s p e r it y depends on the growth o f • p r iv a t e in vestm en t.’1 Rom where I sit... Zy Joe Marsh Why Scoop No Longer Works Here P acific P ower a L ig h t
