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sherm an county journal , moro , oregon
page t
jftftr txum Cuxuttç Journal
Fuhliahed Every Frioay at
Moro,
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loopholes In the Oregon tax
tem. It may be expected to
ommend legislation th at
simplify the tax system of
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F R ID A Y , S E P T . 1, 1950
C A L L FO R B ID S -
sys
reo
will
the
The city of Grass Valley will
receive sealed bids until Monday,
September 18 for the improve
ment of Second street from
Church street in Sherman addi
tion to Market street and Mar
ket street from Second street in
Rollins addition to- Mill street,
approximately three-quarters of
a mile. 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
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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.
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W hen th e w
h e a t ---
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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
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at th .
Mora. Oraaoa. ondar Act
new fall merchandise
newest of fashions for fall clothes for women
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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
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grams, carried out in the 41 states, i
promise to do to man-caused forest 1
fine what vaccination has already done
to smallpox.
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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 ?
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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
________
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* 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:
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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”!
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A home in the country?
$2,000
$ l¿ 0 0
DOWN FAYMENT
OUk FMICI
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A business of your own?
EST1MATID CAPITAL . » $10,000
OUR PRICI . . . . .
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College for Bob?
$3,000
ESTIMATED COST
OUR MICE
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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
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$1,500
$1,135
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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 . H e w
m any o f th e long-range plans yo u m ade then
h ave you accom plished tod^yf
Only one thing stopped you then. One quick.
dedaiog will get you started now.
Moke »hot decision today 1 Sign up now for the
A u to m a tic P ayroll S av in g s Plan., Y o u ’ll never
m iss i t i f y o u d o , n ever h a v e i t if you don’t.
(If y o u ’re n o t o n a payroll, m ake arrange me nte
to save a B on d a m onth a t your local bank.)
W hatever yo u w a n t 7 . . y ou can buy a t a dis
count w ith U . 8 . Savings Bonds.
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