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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1950)
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Improvement is to con sist of grading and surfacing ana oiling with an .09 oil mat to a width of tw erty feet. 44-5c Glendora Smith, recorder wtta te . Among the problems that the committee has studied are the ><. Congre- of March », 1R7V---------- amendment to the six percent OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER limitation so that taxing district whose citizens desire a broaden SUBSCRIPTION RATES ed tax base may obtain it by a ONE YEAR - ---------------- vote of the people. Other sug gestions that have been made have to do with strengthened budget laws and consolidation of budget elections so that there was but one day on which tax payers could vote 5n district NIW SFAM R financial matters. Some means of better assess PUBLISHERS ment and collection of taxes on ASSOCIATION personal oroperty have U cn under discussion and in this cat egory comes the proposed btsi- S E P T E M B E R 1, ISSO ness tax which would eliminate F O R E IG N POLICY personal property taxes and sub- the It seems possible that uic 8titute therefore _ a tax « on net squelching of General MacArthur buslnees profits So much of per- although too late to do anything 8O™> P™P*rty » now; « e m P ‘ but give wider coverage of his «J»1 complete exemption o fa H Recent visitors at the Vernon already published remarks, may “ OT u “ Uo" • “ of “ seem Flatt home was his cousin, Mrs. It has been apparent for some help bring to an end the so-call- a necessary so u Pete Anderson and family of time. There are few big grocery ed bi partisan foreign policy. Ac Methods of assessment and stores in down town areas. They San Francisco. collection are under scrutiny tually it has been none of those and there may be an effort to are in residence districts or on NOTICE o #" M nal A c œ M i things. NOTICE is hereby given that consolidate assessment and col the outskirts of cities and towns. The net result of success in The job of parking is too much the undersigned has filed In lection offices. A way to assure such a policy is that decisions are counties of efficient assessing for a man who merely wants a the State of O regon for Sher made secretly instead of by a better informed loaf of bread anda slice of cheese. man County his F in a l Account open debate. This is denied but equalisation board, a plan for Other businesses also have and Report as Administrator of just the same the increasing se state assessment that would put been moving out of town and Estate of James D. Kenny ----- _ the «wv. crecy about our foreign policy an equal valuation of property along --------- the main highways one and that Monday, (sic) came at the same time as of equal value are all being con finds machinery companies, fur- the n t h day Sepn mber, 1950, we were said to have a bi-parti niture stores and appliance deal- ... at _______ i q :00 A. ___ M., ___ of said day, sidered. - - at san policy. There Is a movement for ellm- ere. One big clothing firm has courtroom in the court Let the adherents of both lnation of the state property Ux. many branches along country house> in Moro, Sherman Coun- parties disagree wherever they This would make possible the rOads, or on highways, where Oregon, have been fixed by choose and let them talk long use of the Income and excise parking is possible. lh’e court as the time and place hours in Congress and take to taxes without passage of a pro- it Is probable that right in . hearing of objections to said the uw radio r « u o « and n u the u » stumcp until to ofrsct by the downtown Portland there are Final Account and Report . and everyone a . . . oDlnion Income taxes and do much to businesses or offices that could to said estate. ir tim to r ^ to Z S ^ d e c is lo n simplify the tax system. Besides Jugt ag well he In a small town, for the settlement Glenn W. Kenny will a c tu a l' m ,k ‘ |t Would assure property owners' Few people call, business Is done Administrator ™ . X ' the c a l toe that they would not be taxed by telephone, deliveries are made T. Lester Johnson, Z T o . . ? have hrouvht so m uch for state purposes by truck An insurance man Attorney for Administrator 41-4c u s, that have broug Exemptions under the corpora- Muid do his business about-aE to r t ^ u o n for tlon tax have been under s tu c k wel. on the outskirts ____ _______ as __ in a Eureka Lodge Jt< ¿21 A J . A A.M cost It so much m repotauon __ , will 1 undoubtedly 1TWv-iubtedlv have H,,<uun<r Meets on the 1st and and have to to building, square dealing 3rd Thursday evenings be justified If they are to remain. That automobile has made it each month. Visiting The committee has not given w ep nlgh impossible for people members cordially In the measures about education t0 jam jnt0 ciosely packed cities, A FT E R H A RVEST vited to meet with us and veterans consideration other g efore Ford a business man oc- C. S. B ennett, W. M. ------- W hen th e w h e a t --- g r ------- o w e r . g — ets than these measures affect taxa- cupIed but little space in a city, H .B. Pinkerton, Secretary done with his combine and puts ^ on> but has called attention to a ioot 8qUare and six feet high B ethlehem Chapter No. 78. O .M it back in the shed he can wash the cost the passage of these was enough for the average. Now Meets every second and his face and put on his stole measures would entail. be must have a space at least fourth Thursday In each duds and go to town looking Members of the committee ten foot jong by five feet wide on month; visiting members just like anyone else. That is, have said in some of the 19 a convenient street. The auto- invited. Moro, Oregon except for the Un on his face hearings held over the sta te th at w h i l e s used by daytim e resl- Olive Young, W. M. and neck which any sub-deb jt was^ not concerned w ith the dentg of som e high buildings Naomi Van Glider Secretary would like to trade for 00 a finding of new taxes nor th e w oujd m ake a pile alm ost as lm- . Lodge No. i l l LO.OJf different part of the anatomy. increase of the old. Making the presgjve aR the building itself. Moro Meets 1st and 3rd He can borrow a couple of present system better and clos- Besides people like to live in Tuesdays in l.O.O.F. bucks on his wheat and visit the mg loop boles by which taxes the country better anyway—and hall. Transient and beaches, fish, go to the moan- now escape may* serve the pur it is better for them. visiting brothers are talns or stay home and watch the pose of keeping money enough —----------- cordially invited to hired man milk the cow. Except coming to to »olve the stato» Pauline Flatt returned to meet with us. tor the nutoanc. of getting rto problem for another^bl^nntam . M l « ^ £ Marvin Howell, N. G. of the hot weather supply of Eventually Oregon is going o q ,.nriav a fte r spending ten days Leo Watkins, Secretary weeds on the aummerfallow hrve to ^ b " X X S X u X £ rn o n F.aU ____________ ___ _____________ at th . Mora. Oraaoa. ondar Act new fall merchandise newest of fashions for fall clothes for women 1 » girls, juniors - - Take a look. Complete line of Beby wear and Gifts for all times The Gay Shop keep America Green Program Important To I " ’. Forest Future KCCP GR«<N »TAT€S TEU nation's Sunday punch in its never ending battle against forest fixes U the three-word slogan, Keep America Green. In less than a decade the Keep Green Idea has sprtsd across the continent capturing and challenging the imagi nation of etrizena. everywhere. The phrase Keep America Green has be come a symbol for millions of alert citizens who understand the ver^ real role green and growing forests play in the economic life of the United States. It was launched In a Western state jright years ago by a group of conser v a tio n m in d e d men rapreeenring the for Mt Industries, government agenriae These rentable. The eoludda td the whole forest fire problem, they reasoned, was education. The problem required more then a "Don't do that" approach. It requires endless education 00 a personal level to effectively show tbs ordinary men end women of America what foreat fires mean la terms of taxes, wages, profits, recreation end living standards. Pre sented la thia pcectieal, pocketbook phraseology, forest f in prevention and gets results. States that have had Keep Green programs longest have reduced forest firs losses materially. The Keep America Groea movement it sponsored nationally by American Forest Products Industries, lnc^ of operating successfully under the indl vidual banners of at least two dozen major wood producing states. Results art uniformly encouraging. Like contagious diseases, man-caused } forest fires may be controlled or pre vented. Intensive Keep Groea pro grams, carried out in the 41 states, i promise to do to man-caused forest 1 fine what vaccination has already done to smallpox. States participating la the "Keep America Green" movement Indodei Arkansas, C alifornia, C on n ecticu t, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indian a, Louis- iana, Maine, Measaohseetta, Minnesota, MlseiesippL Missouri, Montana, New Hampshiro, North Carolina, O ngod, Rhode Island, Tsxa% Utah, Varmong, L ip ln e R 2 E e k ih ~ ^ * £ £ 2 5 5 2 1 ? lhX X X X Pleasurable m o i^ d o T lX . The decision wll. and family. Meets 2nd and 4th Mrs. Howard Knudsen (Gene Tuesdays of each acOVtties' m lM another day he made by the people month. Visiting Zevely) is here to visit w iti rel members welcome * when a farmer barely had thne atives while waiting for a now to get his hair cut after harvest pR onuCTIO N CHANGE apartment In Portland where she Helen Kruger, N. G before he had to start hauling Lucille May, Sec. w heat He’d hook up six or eight The recent harvest with the now lives. horses that had come through change in comparative yields the heading and threshing In oveI> the county may be indica- good shape and take 80 to 100 t jve of a change in production sacks of wheat to the warehouse, for gome time to come, making about one trip per day. Land that has been a heavy It took quite a long time. In producer of wheat for years did the meantime the summer weeds not do so well this year in many grew and grew. places while land that was not Generally there was straw to considered valuable did compara To The 1950 Wasco County haul, either from the stacks as tively much better. Rainfall is left by the thresher, or picked not considered the reason, up from the combine. Either was The poor crops on good land a job delegated to a hired man is often laid to lack of nitrates if one could be found with a because of leeching of this soil strong right arm and a tougb element by snow water this neck and an amiable disposition. spring. It may be that land that has been producing heavy crops (I t required all three.) It was well along into Novem for years is now becoming some- ber before the wheat growers of what deficient in nitrates so th at the pre world wars era could lt not produce as well as stay In bed until plumb daylight before. Likewise land that has The rest that now comes when never grown a heavy crop may the combine was In the shed was ln better chemical condition A not for him. the trip to the ocean for continuing production, was something for a work In Many persons can remember duced old age, the fishing trip tbat changes ln productivity have consisted of packing a hook and taken place In this county anti line In his saddle bag while hunt- sections of the county once held ing sto ck . ln low esteem have* raised good But there were compensations crops at some later period. 40 years ago; a farmer didn’t The success this year of fields have to weary about investing treated with nitrogen ma\ be a his money, he didn’t have to fo5erunner of fertilization as a follow national politics to get gt«ady practice. However, there rid his crop, his sons were are things to learn about on the farm and he knew fertilization of dry land areas, THURSDAY.' all his neighbors. - The rains were good this year ________ — * and came at an opportune time H om e E con om ics D em on stration and J u d g i n g ; .x,^ to help fertilized fields. Added TAX HTUDY nitrates could do as much harm The tax study committee ap- some years as they did good this FRIDAY: pointed to Investigate Oregon’s year. 4-H liv e s t o c k Ju d gin g Sue system during the bl-ennlum Erosion is another factor that Staler and h is T rain ed D ogs following the 1949 legislature Is must be taken Into . F ir e w o r k s In th e e v e n in g reaching the end of its labors, as steeper land suffers mo^t near enough anyway, that the from run-off water. And the general outline of what lt may steeper land h o been the best SATURDAY: -.nTviMwi producer of late years. ....... ^ I t h w ^ ro n d u c te d 1U work Of course, it Is hr,po^ ' e L iv e sto c k J u d g in g and Ju d g in g of E x h ib its H o rse S h o w and R aces U sed to some extent aft the project a major c h a w from 1 RODEO sta r ts at 8 p. m. study made by the 1945 commit experience . of one Year’ but tee which compiled a great deal change always comes sometime, of tax Information about the ■ SUNDAY: state, its tax system, the ability BlQ «0 a. m. 4-H livestock 11 a. m. Worship Hour of citizens to pay, the constltu- 11:30 p. m- Rodeo h (H) p. m. Hiawatha PageeflA tlonal Inhibitions against some The census figures bowed Staler and h is T rained D ogs Lane Trio and Hom« kinds of taxation and other things that cities have grown about as that formed the basis for the much as they are going to. Peo present tax study. pie moving to the suburban The 1949 tax study committee areas In greater numbers and seems interested in the elimlna apparently will continue to do tlon of off-sets, exemptions and go. Thurs. Aug, 31 Fri. Sat. Sept. 1 2 W e’ll get It for you,”wholesale”! / f A home in the country? $2,000 $ l¿ 0 0 DOWN FAYMENT OUk FMICI . . A business of your own? EST1MATID CAPITAL . » $10,000 OUR PRICI . . . . . t I r College for Bob? $3,000 ESTIMATED COST OUR MICE . , Sun. 3 ■ Retiring to a small farm? at W . E. HUNT PARK $15,000 $11,350 ESTIMATED COST OUR PRICE . . Tygh Valley, O re. CARNIVAL ON GROUNDS A trip to Europe? ESTIMATED COST OUR PRICI . , $1,500 $1,135 1 You figure H owl. A B on d th a t co sts y o u $ 1 8 75 today, pays you >26 te n years from today. Stash aw ay >76 to d a y and th a t B ond is worth » fuil >100 in te n sh ort years. A nd if you think t h e y aren't short years, ju st look back for t e n . 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