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> PACK 2 SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL. MORO. OREGON J FRIDAY, MAY 1ft, IftSO IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED ble, now, therefore, an emer were enough for any man it was Oregon for Sherman County her Section 3. The Council of the Council in the manner provid said that it was necessary be Final Report and Acqpunt as Ad City shall include in the annual ed by law, that is to say, by pu that the 3rd day of June, 1950, gency is declared to exist, and cause we had a great man in ministratrix of the estate of Mae tax levy a special additional levy blication of this Resolution in between the hours of 8:00 o'clock this resolution shall come into Published Every Frtoay at Office who should not be displac Moore, deceased, and that Sat in a sum sufficient to pay the full in the Sherman County A. M. .and 8:00 o’clock P. M. is force and effect upon its adop ed for any reason. Most people urday, the 27th day of May, 1950 principal of and the interest on Journal, a newspaper in Moro, hereby designated as • the time tion. Adopted this 12tn day of May, Editor have somewhat recovered from at ten o’clock A. M. of said day, the bonds hereby authorized as Sherman County, Oregon, and for the holding of said election, Gilè» L. F r e n c h -------- the hypnosis that made such 1950 by the following vote: and the following polling place at the County Courtroom, in the hereby designated by the Coun it becomes due. I M m U •»" » w t d a « ■ * » at Ä statements possible. / Yes----------- and the following judges and Poatoffioe a* Mora. Ora»«», andar Art Courthouse, a t Moro, Oregon, RESOLVED further that the cil, for two consecutive publica o f Cor.zrwe o f M *«k S. 18TB- Yet. having broken down a has been fixed by the Court as following ballot title is hereby • tions thereof, within the twenty clerks are hereby designated No -------- — OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER world-wide tradition, we will the time and place for hearing adopted for said amendment: days preceding said election at as the place and the officials to Absent certainly see every man who of objections to said Final Re CHARTER AMENDMENT SUB which said amendment is to be conduct said election, to wit: Giles L. French, Mayor fills the office trying to remain Carrel S. Bennett, Recorder Polling Place: County Court port and Account and the settle MITTED TO THE VOTERS voted upon, and that the propos SUBSCRIPTION RATES there as long as political manip ment of said estate. room, Courthouse, Moro, Oregon. ed Charter Amendment be kept BY THE COUNCIL ulation will make it possible. ONE YEAR . -------------- J. F. Foss, Judge, Chairman Evelyn G. Bonney open for inspection in his office Shall the Charter of the City The nation must realize that Geo. G. Updegraff 2O-9c of Moro, Oregon be amended, during all office hours prior to Vernon Flatt, Judge Attorney at law a president has a much better Attorney for Administratrix R. P. Brinbine, Judge by adding thereto a new chap said election. opportunity to publicize himself Naomi Van Gilder, Clerk RESOLVED- FURTHER that ter, providing for the issuance than any contender. He can, Gwendolyn Mitchell, Clerk MORO N O T R E OF the Recorder be and he is here of improvement bonds of the for instance, take “non-political” Whereas It is necessary for Monday, Wednesday. Friday by instructed and required to City in the sum of Fifteen Thou SPECIAL ELECTION trips at public expense whereas post notice of election in at the peace, health and safety of Afternoons M A f Ì», 1^90 a contender would have to pftg,, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, sand Dollars ($15,000.00) to pro least the City and Its inhabitants that three public and conspicu vide funds with which to im that a special election has been thousands of dollars to covet Improvements to the streets and THE DALLES ASSESSMENTS the same territory and meet the called to be held In the City of prove the streets and drains of ous places in the City for a per drains be made as soon as possi iod of not less than ten days the City, and providing a special same people. The very prestige Moro on Saturday, the 3rd day 211 East Third Street ble, and that this election be We read that residents of of the office gives the holder of June, 1950. The polling place tax levy to pay the principal of prior to said election. Telephone 3209 called at as early a date as possl Clackamas county are in an up an- advantage. Then there Is the for said election will be the and the interest on said bonds? Ves roar over the attempt of county matter of political appointments County Courtroom, Courthouse. 100 No*, officials, especially the assessor, and all the connections that are Moro, Oregon, and the polls will 101 - to double the assessments on possible for a man trained in be opened from 8 o’clock A. M. RESOLVED FURTHER that property in that county. If ac the arts of the political machine. until 8 o’clock P. M. The Judges this resolution for a proposed tual doubling is correct the as Cities have had to exist for and Clerks appointed to conduct charter amendment be filed with sessor may well be in error but years under a political boss said election are as follows: the Recorder for submission to Lovely line of Easter Dresses and there are some very definite because- it W « impossible W J. F. FOSS, Judge, Chairman the legal voters for their adop ’ < . J ■ . * *> 1 . 1 - reasons why assessments should upset him at the polls. tion or rejection to be voted on Vernon Flatt, Judge The be changed in many Oregon Tammany gang, Boss Hague at a special election which is R . P . Brtabine, Judge Spring Cottons, fine, fetching frocks counties. hereby called to be held on the Naomi Van Gilder, Clerk and Crump are examples. Unless Oregon law says that proper the constitutional amendment is Gwendolyn Mitchell, Clerk 3rd day of June, 1950. ty shall be assessed at its true approved by endugh states the IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED Complete line of Baby wear and Gifts for all times Said election has been called cash value which is defined to entire nation may find for the purpose of submitting that the Recorder be and he is he the price at which a willing governed by men who are adept to the legal voters for their ac hereby instructed and required seller would sell to a willing at staying, in office more often ceptance or rejection, the fol to publish the hereinabove pro buyer. Actually there are almost than by men whose Interest la lowing proposed CSiarter Amend posed Charter Amendment sub no such assessments. in good government and tne ment as embodied in the follow mitted to the voters' by the Property owners might well advancement of the fttfttft- ing Resolution: become alarmed over the valua tions put on their property. As RESOLUTION long as the only property taxes KENT CHURCH HAS BE IT RESOLVED by the are those levied for county or NEW PASTOR Council of the City of Moro, Ore local ’ purposes It makes little Rev. and Mrs. Paul Bales and gon, that the following proposed difference about the valuations daughter arrived In Kent last amendment - of the charter of as long as they are comparable week from Los Angeles, Calif said City be and the same is throughout the county. If the hereby proposed for submission assessor assesses at 50 or 300 ornia to take over the pastorate to the legal voters for their adop the Kent Christain church. percent makes no difference as of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Trimble left tion or rejection at a special long as all receive the same rate election to be held on the 3rd It is when there is a state tax Wednesday for Warm Springs to day of June, 1950, as herein pro ->";d « WS’i'hE < that real trouble begins for the spend a week. vided. ' * ,.w state tax commission, try as it CHARTER AMENDMENT SUB-' h o s K h f o b ,, M o r e t f c n . might, has never been ablfe to MITTED TO THE VOTERS evolve a system of establishing A tuperior mmv I co BY THE COUNCIL ratios between counties that O reg o n ia rts have already a ■ - ■ ■ u d * h e r n - • f personal attendane« AN ACT please many county officials. To amend the charter of the THAT COSTS NO MOW That difficulty is one of the ma s e lv < * i o f O F S m e m b e r s h ip a n d o f th e l o w » £ f t f t t ' . . . . . . 5 City of Moro, Oregon, adopted jor arguments against a state 3 • ■ \ * by the Legislative Assembly of •' " U ■ ' * ’ i - property lax. c o v e r a g e m a c k - p e s d b k b y th e the State of Oregon and approv It is a fact that property in ed February 17/ 1899, and to Oregon as in other states is not amend all amendments thereof .w e t ----------» V - ■ € ; > h - ■ k t a n s r m d s ur g eons. ■ valued at much more • thap it MM by adding a new chapter au was 20 or 30 years ago although ■OOttUVAVt thorizing the Council to im t o l c r m o t i o n g f a d l y s u p a l i t c i - - p le ase u$e cooppt-TVTOTfc œ f- „ prices of everything else—and prove the • city by constructing, A wide r»nç» of pdeet prices of property being sold— reconstructing, repairing, o r are much higher. Houses that ♦het m oth a l wbltet O*0 *** °* ****** * ........ mo« ■ maintaining streets and drains of could be built for $5000 now said City and issue and sell im cost $15,000 and in many places provement bonds In the sum of bow* are assessed at the same rate. Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15.- Total valuation of Oregon has ! > ° wro'’ M”‘ 1 000.00) to provide funds with U U . « r i» » œ U A M M increased from roughly a bil which to make said Improve « V lion to a billion and a naif and* ments, and to provide a tax ’• - . VFOFOtO nearly all of it represents new ? ■ ’. a . ' v ~ -t levy to pay* the principal of property instead of increases T MORO SPONSOR!.0 AWO APPBOVÉO BY.O W Ç O N STÀÌl MEDICAI ÎÔ O tTY and Interest on said bonds. in the old. BE IT ENACTED BY THE There will be a real uprising PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF about it when the state levies MORO, OREGON, that the Char a tax on property, which will ter of said City of Moro, adopted be soon If we keep on spending DOR1N W IL B U R N by the Legislative Assembly of 1 A T O F O R T Y Y EA R S AGO ruga were beaten In a moiWy faster than we collect it. the State of Oregon and approv W e ll D rillin g C o n tra c to r cloud of d u s t H ousew ork was full of backbreak ed February 17, 1899 as amended THIRD TERM THE DALLES, OREGON be and the same hereby is a- ing drudgery. E lectrical appliances were few and crude. Observers, both Democratic Phone 3729, 518 W. 7thSt. mended ' by adding thereto a E lectric service waa expensive, and, in many communities, and Republican, are becoming new chapter to read as follows: suspicious that the president Lapin« T&UhaE Lodge No. I l l CHAPTER XVII would like to' run for another Meets 2nd and 4th Section 1. The Council of the term. That would make three Tuesdays of each City of Moro is authorized to month. Visiting for him. improve the city by construct Back In 1940 when .this nation members welcome. ing, reconstructing, t repairing departed for the first time from Helen Kruger, N. O. or maintaining streets a n d the tradition that two terms Lucille May, Sec. drains of said City. For the pur pose of providing funds with Eureka Lodge No. 121 to pay the cost of said Meets on the 1st and -which improvements the Council is au 3rd Thursday evenings thorized to Issue and sell gen each month. Visiting m / s ” . obligation improvement members cordially In eral vited to meet with us. bonds of the City in the sum of C. S. Bennett, W. M. Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($16,- H B. Pinkerton, Secretary 000.00) Said bonds shall be In such form and mature as deter Moro Lodge No. 112 I.O.CkF. mined bv the Council. Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in I.O.O.F. Section 2. The debt limitations hall. Transient and contained In the Charter of said visiting brothers are City shall not apply to the bonds cordially invited to hereby authorized. w meet with us. J&brrnian C ounty Jou rn al George G. Updegraff l o i o m ” for FROSTKIST ICE CREAM 2i/2 Gals. $3.75 Greeting Cards AU Kinds SPR IN G DRESSES The Gay Shop .. .OÍ tK&t&it COdtf f T. Lecter M m so X V X V EN/OY A-F. A AJt ■—« e a iimtitmiik 10VBB0N Marvin Howell, N. G. Leo Watkins, Secretary Bethlehem Chapter No. Tft. O.BL8 k Meets every second and fourth Thursday in each month; visiting members V invited. Moro, Oregon. Olive Young, W. M. Naomi Van Gilder, Secretary NOTICE OF FINAL » rmriT NG """S E frU Í I ENT ax;:V,L i f i - - r tô N for the. r4S-dïW ....¥ : r-,’ Bk«d»’’to tha ß - ^onralMloncr of tha State of Orono», vur-uartto tow: Not wr-tluma iw envai-81.lT 3.831.T l T8.BM.BS ‘ Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has filed in the County Court of the State of th e miracles of the A m erican enterprise system . 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