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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1951)
y-;;?«-:;* f f .. : ' /. ::* A'M ' ' “ 7?5?5r 4. , .;• ’:v- .’• V 7:”- ,! '• <>. , <• * 'S . .. . ,,-r .y w ■teteAfc . . «X- . / »!__ _ ’ 'J • «r r. r* SHERM AN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO, OREGON APRIL 6, A W ~ r~ F IN A L CALL M ADE FOR EASTER SE A L DONATIONS Farm .Workers TH E A M E R IC A N W AY County leaders for the annual Easter seal sale of the Oregon Society for Crippled Children and Adults today made a final appeal to the hundreds of persons in the county who have not yet respond ed to the Easter Seals th e y ceivea. Although a i u w u k u the seal sale was for- mally ended Easter Sunday, the leaders expressed hope that re- turns will continue to come into county headquarters for another few weeks, The Society’s principal project at the present time is the hospital school for crippled children in Eugene, where youngsters from over 20 Oregon counties are re- ceivlng special education and treatment. Now Covered By Social Security entered aa aecond claaa m atter at the poetoffic* at Moro. Oregon. under Act • f Oongrem o f March 1, 1879. < 4 4 would Ve a government thing/’ When Ray Tracy's father ar- rived 15 minutes later he was runnlng the town of Manton, and this same spirit has involved him in enterprises in almost all of the western states. Fighting Sheepman was p u t lished by Little, Brown & Com- pany on March 15. — —— A of Rufus a group oi rvuiu» women wuiuvu are sponsoring a bridal shower in honor of Miss Darlene Smith at the Rufus grange hall on Friday, Apr g at 2 p.m. L .. — A— Many farm workers to. «her- man county are covered b y the federal social security program, OFFICIAL COUNTY starting 1, i»oi. 1951. artlng January l, in the past, agricultural work n e w spa per has not been covered by social se- curity. The decision of congress k P U B L IS H E R S to bring about 800,000 farm work- ASSOCIATION _a________* ers under the old-age and surviv- ors insurance plan was one of the N A T IO N A L E D IT O R IA L major changes in the social se- A s s b c ii at bon curity law in August. Temporary and seasonal farm workers will, In general, continue to be exempt from social secur- SUBSCRIPTION RATES ity. Thus, a farmer will not have ONE Y E A R . ._ ................... to report the earnings of his ber ry pickers and other temporary A P R IL 6, 1951 help. New Book Published Regularly employed farm work BUSINESS TAX ers, though, will get the same so The business tax bill has cial security protection that em On Sheep Country finally been written and intro ployees in business and industry duced Into the house. It is a have. j By Western Author good bill, carefully written and To come under social security, while it does not carry repeal of a farm worker must first estab Ray Palmer Tracy, a one-time the personal property tax it is be lish a “service relationship*’ by cause it is impossible to inalude working continuously for one resident of this region, has writ- both ideas in one bill. I«.»»* ____ of ten Fighting Sheepman, an ad- farm operator __ for - a period Weakness of the bill is the three months. That period can be. venture novel which deals with method of distributing the tax the last three months of 1950. the sheep business in the Pacific back to the counties, it may After the “warm-up” period, Northwest. Stockman, mine oper- prove to be a fatal weakness for the farm employee will be cover- ator, prospector, and forest rang almost no one likes the method ed by social security if he contin- er, Tracy is widely known from used and are unable to devise a ues to work for the same farmer border to border west of the better one. The bill would return at least 60 days out of every Mississippi. For a long time he the funds obtained from the busi three months, provided he earns was a partner of Kirk & Tracy, W ouldn't That P . ’ > Dandy! ness tax back to the counties in cash wages of at least $50 during ou well contractors. At the age of the proportion each county had the three months. 15 he enjoyed a short term as postmaster of Manton, Cal., The from personal property taxes in game herds and cattle has ser head the last three years. It is not a Deer-Elk Range iously depleted nati/ral forage lousiy --------- -------- -r on - Miss _ _ of the combination store the range, and large numbers of fus is now employed at the bner- and pogt office about all there method that could be used for deer starve there in hard win- man County Branch of the First ^ ag Manton at that time, long because the basis for it • ----- *- ational Bank here In Moto, asked Tracy to watch his store would change and it would be Land Leased ters, the commission reports. inaccurate. This is the first winter big Mr” and Mrs. John Parker mo- for “a spell" while he went to Some tax minded persons, in By Commission game range has been acquired by tored to Grandview Wn„ Sunday look after his cattle. Tracy t W cluding the tax committee of the commission. nestora- Restora * ___ , . . the game commission, d the day with Mr. and be was sworn in as postmaster, The Oregon game commission work and experiments sDena w w y * Portland chamber of commerce, “so if I ran off with the mall It --------- a 22-year -------- 1 lease ^0 . EOT c ~______ a rrle d _ o u to n th e John Day win- Mrs- , have evolved another variation hax signed of a business ox uuBincBo tax. taA. By this uuo formula 4,83« acres of deer and elk win- range wm get a pattern for there would be a corporation tax ter range land In southeast Urna- management of other Oregon of four or five percent, and a ulla county with the Pilot Rock ^ me ranges. Trial plantings of business tax of three Or four per- iumber company. various shrubs are already under tax n would Located the brakes of the w a y o n the newly acquired c cent e I i The n e u business u o in c B o voa u u . u ap- L o c a i e a i In n u ie ply to all business corporate and north fork of the John Day river, range. ^ang€ Deer and livestock num- otherwise and it would be off-eeU'*t‘he pgnge is classed as a major bers be controlled and the able. That is, persons owning wlntering ground for mule deer. range wlll fenced. personal property could^ off-set constant over grazing by big Anottier 1,400 acre Pilot Rock the business tax with personal lumber company tract adjacent property tax receipts. This would pendable, but expended. Appro- to the main wintering range has give the owner of personal prop- priations have eaten it up and also been leased by the commis-. erty a chance to reduce his taxes along with lt a probable property gion for Qne year In a manner somewhat like the Ux ahhough some steps are be- _______ _ personal property tax repeal. taken to prevent the latter. ~~’ Business mpn with Uttle or n o Can there be economy when Major Earnshaw personal Ux would paV and the bank account on which - tax^baae would be broadened wQ, removal 0, u « Korea ‘ It la k u il an Idea although one ^ o /X ^ X rto Major Arthur of a 4 f Mr. and Mrs. Don DeMoss were hosts April i at a potluck llnner at their Hood River home in hon- or of Mr. and Mrs. John DeMoss who had just returned from a winter spent in Arizona and Cal- ifornia. Those present from Moro were Mr. and Mrs. Curley De Moss and children, Mt. and Mrs. George DeMoss and daughters, Tommy and A ile€^ DeMoss, Wil bur Piatt * — and ---- -- Max Saxton. John returned by plane Sunday wi Curley, landing at the a . a. C h ris tia n s o n and Mac* n a homes. .See First National for Financing If your home improvement plans require financing aid, see First National Our Home Improvement Loan plan requires no mortgage, provides for liberal repayment terms. See First National first. ASK for FREE FOLDER I mm . Inqu r. out •u rt BUILD OMOOte ro w m ir M M w Material tester's ar aay af artica«. h y ? SHERMAN COUNTY BRANCH F lM T ; <— > NATIONAL BANK OF FOtTLANO •pm 10 to 9 7b s tnân who /ikes tax „ not W tX a‘ frUnd o7the Ern- a v e ^ good one being overloaded ^ e Pr X . ^nd eat Woods family, was killed to with exemptions and being high a^ m le ¿ tw e e n those action in Korea, according to enough to prevent some desirable X news received on March 14 by firms from coming to Oregon. It ° P R hig mother, Mrs. Arnold Earn- can be Improved and perhaps few Persons shaw at DeLake. Mrs. Woods was some method such as the above dlsy ^ t e d « vlgUlng ln DeLake when Mrs. or a variation of It can be made P reCeiVe With education at Earnshaw reelved the dispatch acceptoble to a majortty. ‘ pupU per year th a t^ e r been to how many men pay taxes suffl- CHANCES FOR ECONOMY T ^ ^ u ^ a te ^ e d ' d “ ld *“ ?’ Aiid \nd Korea since July, last year, and It Is the contention of the writ- cl®nt of nolice pro- had just been transferred to the ,— — er—and it is well k n o w n -th a t when 1* neflU °f P >ro- are 15th ------------- regiment of * the 2nd ^’vision division the people are paying tor, more ^ ¿ n;h^ ^ 7 t o w ^ l ^ d ^ l ’ who ¡s executive officer in ^ < * 7 ’ government than they ant thelr w wav. m charge of supphes^ He^had^re man m e y w ant. n ay ------------ Comment on state government J £ u get economy cently received the (to say nothing of national) runs . . MV for cost of al. It is believed the Major was to acidulous expressions about with the third battalion which the number of Inspectors, the A(,tua|iy the ordinary man can- u;“ trapped behind enemy Unes number of automobile, .een to a pay for hl8 share of govern- « » ^ ^ , ’V o r ld War II and given area ln a given time, the doesn’t earn enough. Then was among the first to go over marble palaces ln which the markedly . lackadaisal employees certainly the .cost of government the Stanley mountains in New spend their time, the excess of should be cut back- to a point Guinea. - A fter'the war he owne< where the average citizen could the Ocean Crest Apartments n boards and _______ commissions. The __________ , V £ r T ” h £ e It does not DeLake, but-sold this business to comment Is not complimentary As a matter of record the peo- upOn the rich. Because if go to Korea. ' pie have done a bit df careless eoVemment is to be something The motto which h u n g oyer voting which has aided the lack riven — through taxes—to the desk was: While we live e s of economy. W ithjn a few years poor by the rich there will be in clover, for when we die we die the people have voted some $75,- uttle of democracy anon. all over. 000,000 without proposing a sing le dime with which to pay the bill. Advocate told unwary people that it would pome o a t of the “surplus’’ which m ust have been ln the minds of the ordinary vo ter something like the widow's cruse, always full. The discovery that the surplus was manmade and not of divine origin and therefore finite and «expendable has not occurred to many until this meeting of the legislature. Now It is not only ex- te* 1 Thought far toefcy." ” I t ’s not that I ’m b lin d e r,” said A lgernon Sites, ’’O f late I just seem to enjoy lots o f lig h ts! •'I’m so much more cheerful w ith lig h ts in my life I t ’s noticed by even my ch ildren and w ife . “ W h a t’s more, I ’m resolved that in this residence These lig h ts w ill stay o n — and to heck w ith expense! A t this chance remark, Reddy K ilo w a tt ran T o b rin g home some facts to this misguided man. H e said: " M r . Sites, you’l l be happy to know Pacific Power rates are reaHy efuite low . ‘•So tu rn on your lights, and relax when you do. T he difference in cost? Just« penny or tw o !” • V- “The Freedom ta d Happines* of m a n are the tole objects of all legitímate ' governments." PP&L electric rates are lo w ! Yes, in spite o f rising costs o r almost everything else you buy, the average price paid fo r Reddy K ilo w a tt’s services is 40% low er than in 1940. D u rin g ¿ e same period,'other costs o f liv in g have gone up For moderau ntfreshment... ! :nore than 80% . PP&L rate cuts since 1940 have meant total net savings O lympic NEVADA GOVERNOR GIVER BLOOD . . . Hr.<Jn Un. t . ,iv e «k»« a mnhile blood car, the Charle« O. Sweetwood. rolled Into Reno •M tkt Mitor- w’« ’ b.in< takes here by Red Cree. Norte R eeem sr, Bsllrh el Portlesd. Or.- Tkr r.llro.d ear le eererl e UUh. C .llforol. and Nevada, reeelv. in, blcod and flfta (ar Amertean w M k n (IfbUn, Io Korea. ... I ■ T E5È -I S1 , * * _________________ ‘ 7" ’ : • ~j ■’î ” ■ ¿ to customers o f more than 18 m illio n dollars. N o wonder /Ulkt ■-y 7 ■■ / j , .1". - - * . 4 A.’- -f' , 9 K' . < -. r __________ people here say: ’’Electric service is the biggest bargain in the budget!” A .
