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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1950)
K I AGI 2 SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO. OREGON FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1950 ( early February seasonal ABO U T T R E E S w ith 10 inches or less annual • the tion until they now have assum ABOUT THE COUNTY This compares rainfall. At the Sherman Branch peak of 65,731. ed some of the characteristics trees do not experiment station, Moro, for with 39,043 a year ago and a Unlike Topsy, Mrs. Leo Dumler and sons of the trusts of the first of this T. Lester P u b lish ed E very F rid a y at grow.” example, 30 different kinds of 1949 peak of 62,816. century. They prevent produc- left-1 Sunday for their home in “just Moro, Oregon If you are one of several hurt trees and shrubs are growing Of the 136,780 workers who ■y* tion and make necessary price Salem after a weeks visit with dred farmers who have received satisfactorily in an area which have sought compensation since Cile, I . F r r . c k .......... — Editor lncrcases for their own personal relatives here . tree seedlings this year from the Entered a« second clans matter at the welfare. The Rufus grange. is sponsor- state deparment of forestry nur receives less than 11 Inches of the start of the 1949-50 benefit P oetoffice at Moro. Oregon, under Act annual rainfall. They are not wa We have never settled the ing a dance w t heid at the o f Congreea o f March A. 187». sery, or elsewhere, don’t make year last July, 119,790 were found primary question of how to con- grange hall Saturday night, April the mistake of “planting and for tered. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER trol business so it could not de- 15, to have valid claims. Nearly 104,- in THE COUNTY COURT OF’ getting” them as soon as they mand and get excessive profits. 000 have received at least one THE STATE OF OREGON FOR FE W E R UNEM PLOYED SU B SC R IP T IO N R A T E S It is possible that government The Wasco high school boys are in the ground j check and more than 22,000 have THE OOUNY OF WASCO Oregon’s unemployed workers received maximum benefits. A IN THE MATTER OF THE ES. efforts along that line have real- and girls motored to Rufus Mon- This tree planting reminder Is $2.00 ly been detrimental. ONE YEAR day afternoon to have games of fronv Charles"R. Ross, OSC exten- received $3,677,021 last month, a year ago 10,597 had exhausted TATE OF JOHN KARLEN, DE- In other words. Hus govern- basketball und volleyball w ith gjQQ service farm forestry spe* decrease of more than a ra/llion their benefit rights, CEASED. ment really helped the citizen the Rufus students. cialist, who says trees planted or 24.8 per cent from the record N O TIC E OF ADMINISTRA for whom it set out to “do some- Mrg Don Macnab wag hostess for windbreak put poses require amount paid out in February L^Ftoe RiBekah Lodge KoTTii TOR’S SALE N 0 1 V Jp C £ S V thing Can it ong continue to sewing club care. He suggests that the area, by the State Unemployment Com Meets 2nd and 4th NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVHN, pensation commission. The total Tuesdays of each iv ia o iia 3 1 V N O I1 V N ! exercise the controls that appear Wednesday afternoon. Spring prepared before planting, be was Visiting that the undersigned, as the Ad nearly half a million or 11.7 month. necessary and still let the people n flowers were used . f for a™ -« fenced against livestock and that decora- fenced against ministrator of the Estate of John per cent less than went out in members welcome. vote? It has been demonstrated rrtzivo tions. Easter bunny place cards the seedlings be watered the first March, Helen Kruger, N. G N EW S P A P 3 R Karlen, deceased, under and 1949. that the voters will demand mote gnd napk,ns were used Qn r year or so even If a bucket or by virtue of an order of the I^ast month’s payments brought idicille May, Sec. PUBLISHERS than govemmenl. can afford I t ,ace dlning room taWc tank wagon must be used, above entitled Court, made and 1950 total to $12,844,2^1, a ,----— , w à > A A IT has been c o n c lu s iv tly p ro w n upon whlch refreshments were In cases where trees have been - the ASSOCIATION w quarterly high and /nore entered on the 23rd day of new that government is much less eryed M » D u m ler of Sq ordered and soil preparation and efficient than private persons In fencing have not Veen completed than for any entire year with 3rd Thursday evening! ^ ^ p ’...!95°’f ln, Hie matter of the exception of 1946 and 1949. each month. Visiting ,he E.Htatfn of J 0*111 Karlen, de- management. It is y.v a r^niiiar known fact . - hal *1W“ Members present were R°ss offers th is a ltern a tiv e: h ill I^ast year’s record high of $26,- noon. - members cordially In- < eased, WM sell at private sale, A P R IL 14, 1956 __ that nwn eletted by popular bab Mpg Kenneth Mrs E1. them in a garden row fqr a year vlted to meet with us. ln one or several parcels, to the 389,788 included $7,021,982 paid . . . . . w- . lo t o fte n paSS an y rV,ea su r® ton Medler Mrs Gordon Reid or tw0- They wil1 *row nicely C. S. Bennett, W. M. highest bidder, upon the terms WHAT C J H E F U N C T IO N S people demand regardless of the Mrg Lclan(j Medler Mrg Georgp there,,he points ou t, and will lose to veterans under the G-I Bill and conditions hereinafter men of Rights. H .B. Pinkerton, Secretary « t ill a iiv p in some Fox and Mrs. William Macnab. Httle growth while waiting to be OF YERNM ENT? Meanwhile the number of M oro L odge N o . IIS I.O.O.F tioned, and subject to confirma The hope, still alive in some planted permanently a year tion of the above entitled Court, claimants continued to drop Meets 1st and 3rd ernnient were first elder breasts, that it may be Mr. and Mrs. Gordon- Reid hence. Wh n on and after 10:00 A. M. on the steadily to 32,357 last week from Tuesdays ln I.O.O.F. Type of windbreak usually re- ” iHStniiCeu ey were simple. War possible to reverse this trend and sons Gary and Rickie had 2nd day of May, 1950, at the hall. Transient and ...uce to aggression were and return to a simpler system Easter dinner with Mr. and Mrs. commended for eastern Oregon or resista office of T. Lester Johnson, at visiting brothers are I> tne Hrst needs that in which the citizens accept their David Reid in The Dalles. is one containing thre^. rows, proba oly torney at law, in Wasco, Oregon, w governments seem neces- responsibility is a vain one. We The primary room at Rufus Facing the wind, 41 low growing George G. Updegraff the following described real pro meet with us Fe of police power was an will go on. Fast and at a speed school lost a couple of pupils line of shrubs or low trees to Sai Attorney at law perty situated ln the County of manifestation of govern- that may insure the downfall of last week. This brings down the intercept ground winds is sug- Marvin Howell, N. G. Sherman, State of Oregon, to-wit: solvent government, or slow at a. attendance to 27 for Miss Elva gested. To extern! the zone of . I^eo Watkins, Secretary menu (1) Northwesterly one-half (Vi) MORO Among the settlers of Oregon speed that gives us time to check Howey's room. protection —normally 8 to 10 Bethlehem Chapter No. 78. O.E.8 of Lots Nine (9) andTen(10) Friday Wednesday, Monday, th e f l r s i g o v e r n m e n t w a s start- ‘he system for more noticeable times the height of the wind Meets every second and In Block Five (5) of original Afternoons ed to probate an «Mate, the po errors. Sandra and Dell Squire arrived break—a taller second, or mid fourth Thursday ln each Town, now City, of Moro, In the end the whole idea may Friday from Wheeler to spend dle tree row variety is recom lice power being then handled b> month; visiting members Oregon. fail No other nation has been Ehster week end with their uncle THE DAL g BS mended. For the Inside or “seal’ invited. Moro, Oregon. the Hudson Bay company. Early (2) Lots Ten (10), Eleven (11), Mr. and Mrs. Eben row, Ross suggests conifers hav governments Kept records 0/ able to continue after the spirit and aunt, Olive Young, W. M. . 211 East Third Street and Twelve (12) in Block and ambition of the people was Kee. ing a dense foliage. property ownership, levied small Naomi Van Gilder, Secretary Telephone 3209 Thirteen (13- of Clements Once established over a period taxes for payment of expenses, sapped by governmental gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Douma were Addition to the City of up from their Portland home of one or two years, trees may and tried men^ for violation of Maybe this n ation can do i t t Grass Valley, Oregon. w hether we ta n o last weejc looking over things be grown in windbreaks in areas the law. Little else. (3) An undivided one-half in Important Question than how to « From where I sit ... ¿y Jo e Marsh In the United States the gov make -a hydrogen bomb. terest in: Lots (10) and J * ernment did not meddle with Eleven (ID in Block Six (8) R. Reid & Son religion but did levy taxes for of original Town, now City, ~ representatives of both counties support of schools and roads JU ST P L A IN IMKiH of Grass Valley, Oregon. Wasco, Oregon went before the highway com G ab b y Enjoys G oing indicating an early socialistic (4) Northwest Quarter (NWV4) Another of those stories which mig8ion together and obtained trend. When the federal go ver n- we find it hard to believe has of Southwest Quarter ISW- promise Of twp roads, to The Dentist Anything in waterpipe ment found itself with vast acres been printed under the name of _ ■ .r Vi) of Section One (D in o f lancL obtaThed liy purchasie or \h e Associated Presswhich should From Sherman fo an ty Journal Township Five (5) South, conquest it gave it to .citizens he wary of such things by now April 17, 1931 Range Sixteen (16) East of and fittings A s Doc w ent to work he told me One of my molars was giving me whp promised to do certain This one had to do with a newly The Union Pacific has started Willamette Meridian , a bad tim e Tuesday afternoon, so I th a t he’s glad to have Gabby come things toward development. discolored loss -of „deer in the a pick-up and delivery service. The terms of said sale will be: slipped over to Doc Jones, hoping up and read m agazines . . . they It aided the • construction, of east because of depredations by Billing will be through Union Bath Tubs Cash, lawful money of the Unit to catch him free. When I arrived. m ight not all be fresh off the news railroads, gave subsidies to canal a cross between coyotes and Pacific stages. ed States, ten percent (10%) of stand, but i f Gabby— or anyone Gabby Jackson was sittin g there lines and shortly after the adop- dogs. Farmers are goipg to Columbia T n J|pf < th e p u rch ase m oney to be paid w ants to w hile aw ay some tim e reading a m agazine. I said hello to iK»n ol 1 he constitution passed a Well. we’Ve lived within sound river points where tractor gas IV IM 5 I» at time of sale, balance on con who is he to stand in their way? tariff bill to aid industry, which- of a coyote’s yapping a long may be had' for as "little as 12Vi Gabby and he nodded. firmation of sale by the Court From where I sit, this “live and continued to suckle at the public time and there’s always been cents per gallon. It is the annual Septic Tanks All bids or offers must be in Doc cornea out and says I’m next. let live" spirit helps make America teat long after adulthood and ag- dogs aplenty and the crossing of gasoline war. , ' writing, and may be left at the “ W ait a m inute,” I sa y s. (M y tooth what it ia. If I prefer a friendly gressive vigor was attained. ’ the two while held to he possi- Crop conditions are reported office of T. Lester Johnson, aV seemed to have stopped aching.) The theory that government b le physically is highly improb- to be fair with crop year mois- Pumps for all purposes “ How about Gabby — doesn’t he glass of beer with my supper and torney or 6ald administrator, at you prefer milk—who’s to !sy one’s should “do something ’ for the -®ble socially. The two branches ture up to eight inches, almost Wasco, Oregon, at any time a f W e service w h a t we sell have an appointm ent?” Doc sm iles right and the other wrong? i>eople came early ahd naturally of the dog family just don’t have a normal am ount ter the first publication of this and says, “Gabby? W hy, he’s got to a government based on suf- anv truck with one another. --------------------------------------------------- . ---- ---- notice and before making of the the finest teeth in the county. He fra g e of the maioritv. i t seems ver very odd that the . SY N O P S IS OF A N N U A L S T A T E M E N T lajorlty/ It was a- a • it sale. • ju st comes up here and reads the way to get elected. It was done, few coyotes that have been tak- p or the year ended December 31, 1949 Dated this 31 st day of March, The groat increase of so-called en to the east coast would get of the OREGON MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY of Mc- m agazines whenever he’s in to w n ! 1950. social” legislation came after mixed up with dogs. The ones Minnville, ln the State of Oregon, made to tho Insurance Com- Emanuel Karlen CopyngAx, Ì9S0, United States Brewers Foundation Uie depression of the thirties, around here look upon dogs as missloner of the State of Oregon, pursuant to law: . Administrator Whether because of the thinking an enemy to he shunned. Until income NÎÎTICK O F 1950-51 BU D G ET M E E T IN G of the theorists who came ln the pedigrees have h e e n Net premluma received $ 2,658,940.88 with the new deal or as a nat- more carefully checked we 11 Total Interest, dividends In accordance with the provisions of the ’’Local Budget Law’’ (Sections 110-1201 to 110-1215, O.- C. L. A.), notice is hereby given that the budget committee of Moro, Oregon, In compliance With ural consequence * of the times keep on thinking wild dogs are real estate Income line 26 84,695.31 said law, prepared and adopted April 4, 1950, the budget estimates for Moro, Oregon, for the still debated. . killing the New Aork deer an incame from other sources lines 30 to 35 2,211.38 ensuing fiscal year July 1, 1950 to June 30, 1951, as set forth in the accompanying schedules 1« II. in any , event this nation now that the coyotes name has been $ 2,745,847.57 Total income ' line 36 - of ‘ .May, " ----- :( 1950, at U 8:00 III, ahd IV. All persons are hereby notified that on Tuesday the .9th - day is eng; eM in doftig a great many brought in to lend a little glamor be discussed with the Council, the levying board DISBURSEMENTS p. m. in Moro, Oregon, said budget estimates rrtay things to and for the people, to the story. 789,692.60 Net amount paid for losses for Moro, Oregon, and any person subject to the proposed tax levy or tax levies will be heard in There 5 l>een too little analy 80,767.25 favor of 6r against said proposed tax levy or tax levies or any part thereof. Loss adjustment expenses sis of what is being done, or why, T H E W IN D 785,548.85 Underwriting expenses The outstanding indebtedness of Moro, Oregon, at April 1, 1950, was as follows: $7,500.00. or the probable effects thereof. Dividends paid to stockholders Winds have whipped the Dividends paid or credited One might consider it from a Signed: Clyde Gillmor, Chairman, Budget Committee; Michael Mulick, Secretary Budget moral viewpoint a n d ponder over-tilled soil of Colorado, Tex- Committee; John Parker, G. Douma, Darwin Van Gilder; Harry Kunsman, Vernon Flatt, John 318,031.65 to policy holders government as, Kansas and Oklahoma into All other expenditures (includ on whether the Foss, Members Budget Committee. .. » ~ • should engage in activities de- clouds of dust and piles of al- 49,467.80 ing investments expenses) Hch. I SU M M ARY OF E S T IM A T E D E X P E N D IT U R E S , R E C E IP T S, L E V IE S F IS C A L Y E A R 1950-31 signed to aid individuals. And most worthless earth with the $ 2,023,508.15 Total disbursements also consider the reasons for result that the wheat crop will Total of 1950-1951 ADMITTED ASSETS A ll Funds doing them, most of which are be below average for the first TAX LEVY CALCUI^ATION 95,000.00 •$ 6041.40 Total Estimated Expenditures lMilitical instead of being based time in vears. The farmers who Value of real estate owned on intere-rt In the welfare of the „ere granted extra acreage will- Loans on mortgages & collateral etc. Total Estimated Expenditures 3,500,260.50 6041.40 Reserves & Transfers citizenry. now hive no crop at all. Value of bonds owned (amortised) 3515.22 Estimated Receipts & Cash T h e problem might be consid- That Is but a preliminary to re- Value of stocks owned market value 526.18 711,971:31 Tmount to Balance the Budget cred from the social side and ar- marking that so far there have Cosh in banka and on hand 526.18 Total levies needed for 1950-51 gument mode against the effect bwn none of those whooping Premiums in course of eollwtion 526.18, Tax levies inside 6% limit 639,181.57 oqt uodn seq pie |eiuouiuja.vo3 winds that herald the spring sea- w r t n a nee 3aPt- . none Tax levies out side 6% 26,340.74 lives and habits of the people, son nearly every year. Flowers Interest and rents due & accrued 74,934.73 Sell II SU M M ARY E S T IM A T E D E X P E N D IT U R E S , R E C E IP T S, L E V IE S F IS C A L Y EA R 1949-50 Certainly it reduces their inde- are out, frogs are croaking and Other assets (net) $ 5,047,688.85 Total admitted assets pendence and their desire for trees are budding but so far no 1 Q4Q-1 osn Total of self reliance, both of which wind that really could qualify. LIABILITIES, SURPLUS AND OTHER FUNDS All Funds TAX LEVY CALCULATION $ 111,073.21 were strong forces in making You know the kind, that send Total unpaid claims $ 6541.41 Total Estimated Expenditures this nation successful. ~ everything rolling as they hurry Estimated loss , adjustment ex- Total Estimated Expenditures 5,500.00 6541.40 Reserves and Transfers Perhaps the weakest link in by with as near a shout of joy pense for unpaid claims •' 6045.00 3,124,564.42' Estim ated. Receipts & Cash the argument for huge govern- as a wind might give when re- Total unearned premiums 496.40 Total levies needed for 1949-50 290,141.98 ment aid programs is 'th e econ- leased from bondage. None of All other liabilities 496.40 Amount to Balance Budget 3,531,279.61 omic one. It has not been dem- those good old^ wild and free Total liabilities, except capital 496.40 Tax levies inside 6% limit onstrated that government can winds. It’s time, too. You don’t Capital paid up none Tax levies outside 6% limit do all these things as well as can suppose anyone is .holding it up, special surplus funds $ ,266,409.24 S( H E D U IiE III EXPENDIWRES the people themselves. It has not do you? Unassigned funds 1,250,000.00 Actual for Actual for Actual for Budget FUND & CLASSIFICATION been shown that the people Surplus as regards policyholders $ 1,516,409.24 Budget 7-1-48 7-1-47 $ 5,047,688.85 themselves will not have to do Total 1950-51 Six Months 1949-50 GENERAL FUND to to them themselves in the end. BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR THE YEAR - 1 » 7-1-49 7-1-48 Our pension system has tend $ 1,053,823.25 Net premiums received $ 145.00 360.00 Treas. & Recorder Salaries $ 360.00 ed toward currency Inflation un 330,892 63 Net losses paid 4.68 75.00 State Industrial Accident 75.00 til it is not effective. For politi 152,800.85 Dividends paid or credited to policyholders 131.55 150.00 Administration 150.00 From the Observer, A pril 14, 1911 cal reasons It-has been broaden $ 281.23 $ «98.7« $ «7A.87 585.00 TOTAL GENERAL FUND Principal office in Oregon Me Minnville, Oregon 5S5.00 C. R. Belshee has sold a match- ed until there is grave doubt WATER FUND ■ k « S if we can support those who do ed pair of 3-year Cloanthe colts 24(5 o .OO $ 484.25 Marshal & Collector Salary 2400.00 not work for one reason or an- for $600 to the I^add farm, 600.00 Water, Labor Account 4026.08 OLD 300.00 other without putting huge and Jess Landry has one of the 2548.09 800.00 ' 8307.27 1090.77 Water Supplies Account 500.00 Unbearable burdens on those nicest single rigs, horse, buggy 750.00 265.60 Water Power Account 750.00 who produce—and oh the Indus- and harness, as may be seen in 200.00 „ 37.94 171.44 65.17 Fire Department 200.00 4750.00 TOTAL W A T E D F U N D try directly responsible for pro- Sherman county; and Jess knows $ «$11.87 $ 8478.71 $ 2586.63 4150.60 duction. how to enjoy it. MISCELLANEOUS This county is now starting L. Barnum, W. H. Ragsdale 400.00 Emergency 200.00 320.40 806.40 380.80 1494.89 a soil conservation program as a and E. W. I^ewis attended the Power, Street light Acc’t 806.40 5699.05 4.13 259.35 Old Legion Hall part of the agricultural machin- Roosevelt rally in Portland go- 5699.05 935.14 3988.2$ Streets, Walks & Sewers ery of the federal government, ing to The Dalles in Barnum’s 300.00 «619.45 1575.29 $ 5487.25 $ $ 1200.40 TOTAL M ISC E L L A N E O U S Will the men who come here Ixxomobile. $ 1906.40 DEBT SERVICE be able to stop soil erosibh or F rom th e G rass V alley Jou rn al 318.75 Interest on BondR A pril 15, 1921 will they merely serve to tell the 280.25 $3.00 5th 1000.00 Principal on Bonds The county grader made the actual farmers how < to do it? 1000.00 $ J 318.75 TOTAL D E B T SE R V IC E $2.30 a pt. They know now, but will not do round trip from Moro Tuesday $ 1260^5 $ 9282.35 $ 7866.15 TOTAL E X P E N D IT U R E S $ 7788.39 $ 14664.72 it as long as the government as- and the roads are smoother. The $ ra tu tC N O A TIO m su m e s th e responsibility. In the tractor pulling the grader Us a NCHKIX'I.K IV7 R E C E IP T S A M 1AT long run the farmers may find 120 HP machine obtained from $ 240.00 $ 256.3ÍJ $ 200 00 $ 203.13 State Liquor Apportionment $ 200.00 «NTVCXY 45.00 45.00 30.00 it their job. the government by paying $1000 45.00 Licenses & Fees 50.00 lA m ir r 2554.98 4000.00 2957.65 4123.1Ò Water Rents The novem nent has dabbled freight fr&m the east, 4000.00 15.00 Legion Hall Renta in the business of farming and The wheat marketing move- 60.00 60.00 82.50 Rent of Property thereby has created many more’ ment is said to be going ahead 60.00 105.05 Sidewalk Collection problems than it has solved. In aii over the country. C. C. Cal- 100.00 200.00 PP&L Franchise 152.56 e. < la w o f su p p ly and klns 200.00 357.58 600.00 County Road Tax demand may have to be followed The Wasco county highway 360.00 National Distillers Prod. Corp., N. Y. • 86 Proof • 65% Grain Neutral Spirits Miscellaneous Revenue 300.00 and the Sherman highway are r*' • ’ "ohitiorj. TOTAL RECEIPTS $ $270.00 We have aided labor organiz- going to be. built soon because ^ H e r m a n l£ m u tin Ijou rn al W. H ermitage Áentucíy ///z.ß6y -A b ’Z7 tul ? / Á Gentlemans Whiskey from Kentucky A *
