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SHERM AN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO, OREGON
APRIL 6, A W
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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____ 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
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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
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-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
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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
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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
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Portland chamber of commerce,
“so if I ran off with the mall It
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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-
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personal property tax repeal.
taken to prevent the latter.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Comment on state government
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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
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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.
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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*
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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 !”
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“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. ...
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people here say: ’’Electric service is the biggest bargain in
the budget!”
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