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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1952)
PAGE t SHERMAN CO UNT! JOURNAL. MORO, OREGON FRIDAY, M^Y 1«, 19$2 ^Fi{ermsn C o u n ty J o u rn a l W H A T GOES ON? TTie statement by General tre ry M t e y at Hoyt Vandenberg that the Unlt- More, 4x1 SuteB a ir force to unprepared (.lie» L. F r e n c h --------------- M a r defend the nation o r carry on an extended battle over Europe; htMefflca rt Mt.ru, Orervr. far A m that the fighting in Korea is in «T CoärrM« «rf Harto t, litt. efficient because of obsolete OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER planes, must and w ill be a shock to. American taxpayers. W e have appropriated billions to achieve an adequate defense. I t is true that a lo t of money to still unspent ant) that more is being held u ntil contracts " are completed. But nevertheless that NIW SPAPIR mtony billions fchould have k PU8LI1H 1RI brought security if it is possible ^ASSOCIATION to bring security at all. O f course the general's state ment oome6 at a time when there SUBSCRIPTION RATHS to debate in congress over the ONE YEAR . slae of m ilitary appropriations and may be considered a political MAY 10, IMS «kxmmeru H ABTO LN OREGON The 88 percent o f Oregon that Uee east o f the Cascades totals 42.788,840 acres according to the federal census which msana that K to larger than most of the states. In tact there are counties larger than as many as five states The federal government ' owns 83 percent of eastern O re «on. Oddly enough there to no accurate survey o f these lands and figures disagree as much as 700,000 acres as to the extent of federally owned land. County mssasors have 15,480,> 992 acres ltoted 00 being in terms A few acres are In city lorn, but not many in eastern Oregon. The state and counties own some land although a small proportion. In Shennan county ttierc m 531.200 M T e . r f w ilc h 402J93 are In n ™ , . very high per carnage. The govemnwn, o w n . the remaining 33,000 acre, but according to figure, r f the Bu- to that extent It comes nearly every year. Tax- payers will also wonder at the jo in t chiefs o f staff who have been putting off the year of pro- bable security w ith great regu- tority tor some five years now. It was in recent times 195^, 1953, and' to now 1954. N ext ye»r, we prophesy, it w ill be 1955. I t seems likely that the dollar- paying, peace-toving American taxpayer (to also going to be a question-asking person w ith the kind of treatment he had been getting. ~ * He m *? want to know why we are continually unprepared, why d* t« of ««curUy to constant postponed, w h y the chiefs of always need more and more for *«**• and k * 8 An<l naturally h * H118^ request throuh his vote U » t If * e prw ent nUUtary head. " bU hl “ ™ rity * * b e * ‘v* n * T ' * u* 4c‘° n «*“ * mUl' “ 2, i? " * retoftM* i ln OI^*er Ul *“ * them urday, June 14, 1952, at ten o’clock a. tn. of said day, at the County Court room in the Court bouse at' Mbro, Oregori, has been fixed b y -th e Court as the time and place tor hearing of object- I oml to said Pinal Report and A«xnlnt and the settlement of «aid estate. , - < Mabel Holmes Cassie Holmes Geo. G. Updegraff, Attorney to r Executrices. 28 31c Scholl, deceased, are hereby noti CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING — trlx w ith W ill Annexed of the fied to present them in proper Meat cutting, wrapping, sharp Estate of Christopher Thomas form, to thè undersigned,* the freeze. Bring them in any da? Taylor, Deceased, has filed in duty appointed,, |quuidied and but Sunday. C 4 C Food Store, the County Court of the State 2 life of Oregon for Sherman County, acting Administrator, with the FOR S A LE — 3-bedroom, 1-story * GrasZ Valley, Oregon, w ill annexed, p f the estate of Bis- (house, completely redecorated FOR SALE: Old make violin, her Final Account and the Court mark Scholl, deceased at his of Inside, complete w ith electric fine* tone. Case Included. $100. has set the 10th day of Ju nl, flee In Moro, Oregon, w ithin six range, water heater and part I f interested see M^s. Davis at 1952, In the office of the County- ly furnished. See Paddy O’Mtoa- months fro m th e date of this Union Pacific depot.| 26-30c Clerk in the Court House at ra, Wasco, Phone 761; after 5 FOR SALE: notice, to wit: M ay 16, 1952. 1950 Chev. 1-ton Moro, Oregon, at *10:00 o’clock ' p. m . call 173. 28-9c Pickup w ith 4-speed . trans, a. m. as the time and place for Geo. G. Updegraff 28^31c L IB E R A L IN C O M E , G R O W TH stock rack. B. McNeely, Grass the settlement of said account & S A F E T Y for spare m|oney Valley, Oregon. 13c tfn ing and for hearing objections to through high grade stocks, mu In two years the canning of N E E D AN A L L P U R P O S E CAR? the same, if. any. tual stock and bond trusts, prunes in Oregon ha.-, risen from N O T IC E TO CREDITORS , D O N ALDA K N IG H T E N Then see the W illy« Station which have unbroken d iv i All persons having claims 28 iperecent of. the . total crop Adm inistratrix ^vith W ill dend records since 1924 and Wagon on display at W IL L IS *: ag iinst the estate of Bismark grown to 52 percent 2fr9c earlier. MOTOR CO. All-steel body, over Annexed. le a r n why millions of investors, drive, plenty of carrying capacity J. Tracy Barton large and email, yipung and means safety, economy and prac The Dalles, Oregon old, have been MORE than sa tical transportation. Also New Attorney for the Estate tisfied w ith past results. MJany Four Wheel D rive JEEPS, P IC K N O T IC E OF F IN A L H E A R IN G tax advantages possible In es- G IV I YOUR HOME A'BEAUTY Notice Is hereby given that the tabtthimg estate-building and UPS and S T A T IO N WAGONS. education funds fo r the future. Contact W IL L IS MOTOR for W ll undersigned Jhas filed in the Coun TREATMEMT, T©< W rite, call on J. W. DODD, lys-Overland Sales, Service, Parts ty CourL-Of , the State of Oregon T Y G H V A L L E Y , ORE. Agent. and Accessories. West Columbia Co W j j v J. Collins A C o, U. S. River Highway, The Dalles, Ore Report and Account as Execu Bank B k & , Portland. , 28tfc gon. 23-tfc trix o f the Last W ill and Testa FOR SALE: Spinet Plano. W ill W A N T E D : “W<ant your own ment of W alter A. Medler, de sacrifice for quick sale. Gash busirtess? Start w ith benefit ceased, and that Saturday, M ay or tern|B. Can be seen In MJoro of our 84 year old national SI, 1952, at ten o’clock A. M. ..Write Tallm an Plano Store, reputation and on our capital. of said day, at the County Court- 365-395 South, 12th Street, Sa 800 fam ily route open in i?her rdbin, In the Courthouse,. at lem, Oreon 28-30 m$n county. tV rlte J. R. W a t Moro, Oregon, has been fiyed by S A L E S M E N W A N T E D IMRROVEMEN1 kins company, 137 Dexter Ave. the Court as the time and place F A R M E R —- L U M B E R M A N — Seattle 9, Washington. 23-8c for hearing of objections to said D A IR Y M A N — H O U S E W IF E LOANS FOR YOUR HOME or anj| qualified person— I f Final Report and (Account and ANNOUNCEM ENT you have a car and spare time D on’t put ofl needed repairs that would the settlement of said estate. I hereby announce that t am w rite for information how to mean greater expense later o n .. If you are Fay Helmick Miedler earn $1 to $3 an hour »apply a candidate for the office of short of "ready cash” come in and talk over 26-9c from the Geo. G. Vpdegraff ing users near you w ith R a y State Representative your problem with a Loan Officer. Representative District Attorney for Executrix leigh flavors, spices, foods, 22nd Money to put up an attractive fence. . . house and fa rm supplies. Free comprising Gilliam, Wheeler, lx»okiet and information witn- Sherman and Morrow Counties, Moro lxMlge No. 113 1 .0 .0 F improve your lawn and garden...repairing out obligation. W rite Sales subject to the w ill of the Demo Meets 1st and 3rd and modernizing your home can be easily Manager, Hawlleghs, GaAland cratic voters at the prim ary Tuesdays in I.O.O.F. arranged through a Home Improvement 20, Calif. 28-30c ball. Transient and election May 16, 1952. visiting brothers are Robert Smith cordially invited Cqpdon, Oregon Floyd I,ane, N. G. Want Ad* N O T IC E OF H E A R IN G ON F IN A L REPORT Notice to given that Cather ine M. Anderson, adm inistratrix of the estate or*Cheeter R. A n dersen, liai filed her final re port and ocoount of her admin i»tnation of «aid estate and that Saturday, June,14th, 1952, at the hour o f 10 o’clock, a. m. Stand ard time, o f said day and the courtroom o f the above entitled court in the courthouse in Moro In Sherman County, Oregon, h a j been fixed tas the tim e and place fo r hearing all objections to said final report and the settlement thereof. Catherine M . Andersen, Adm inistratrix Carlton L. Pepper - ~ Attorney for Adminis- tra trix • ,- 28-31 c SHERMAN COUNTY BRANCH F l k S T NATIONAL BANK OP PORTLAND ¿ J ™ .o Of Lend Management that agency controls 53.951 acrea In ^ “ U ? t , e<~<*X ’n y . w ith the thia county end the state has U lrw “* d*PrM rto " « ”* ««ner.il 1400 f i^ T X ™ “ • ~ ™ t t M t u r : ul>1 balance. In feet they batanne for ^ ° W ¿2 ^ no Fastern Or»snn nra.intv fenee materiel« b S T lh e ’ t l i ^ . ■ . / ' ‘J ? * on'y tW£ scale natural In sc m t « t \ r e o * ration Eastern Oregon has many til- toWe acres, about its proportion the *tates tilled acre«; 1J73,- 000 acres to take the census ft- natl° n *“ • * * 2.7 tillable acres per person, and OragPQ hut little oyer three, eas hZT? 2 I' 7 ° n ha* 29 acres til toble land per person, enough to ®n ever increasing popu uatdon There to wide variation among the counties and Sher man county has 129 tillable acren per person, probably as large as any county in the land. I f the efficiency of agriculture to to be judged bythe number of persons engaged in raising food Sherman bos a most efficient ag riculture, for a «mail number produce o great deal. Nations where three-quarter» of the peeople have to till Jand In ordpr _ to live ore poor nations. Income from agriculture In ’ oaotern Oregon io greatest from field crops which accounts for over $62 ndllton. Next Is live stock W h $51 million followed by1 fru it, dairy and vegetable crops. I t 1s estimated that half the livestock production comes from non-tlltoble land. > I t 1s still an expansive land, one In which the people, like their pioneering ancestors, are 3 «till reaching for more land to Irrigate and plow, new crops to plant, wider markets. Seldom can one find a community that wants to settle down and con tinue In th e same channel. Some cltiseno may be old; the spirit to young Even w ith all these agricultu ral resources the development of eastern Oregon to not likely to he on the to ftil|T h e vast amounts of comparatively cheap, clean easily transmitted power should bring industry to the north west— when and If Industry can ho made free to expand. N ow it to held down by reotrictlons, Jby taxes, by uncertainty. The natural market for north west products to in the Orient Where millions are without auf flclent food, without machinery, almost w ithout clothes. In tact the market fo r the world is around the Pacific, fo r there is Where the need is greateoL They have tin. rubber, copra, other things we can use In exchange, maybe not much at present, but great potential capacity In raw materials. • Gould we but teach ten .per cent of them to sat wheat In stead of rice we would have a m arket for years and It would take more cattle than roam the western ranges to furnish th eir need N they were to eat ten pounds o f m eet a year— • mere six percent o f what wo e a t How to do it is the question and It Isn’t so im portant that all the details be worked out in a blue p rin t Immediately But i t Is im portant and the direction of the nation turns toward the west, toward the northwest for Industry and food and toward the O rient as a n w rk e t This is not only fo r o ur own economy but for the peace of th e world. ln* * and hiring men * - tha' . th.e a.<lml" THE G A Y SHOP i * * * w Inn,n* * : on taxpayer, ____________ N O T IC E OF F IN A L H E A R IN G Notloe is hereby given that the undersigned have filed in the County Court <* the State of Oregon for Sherman County their pin^j Report and A c c o u n t. M Executrices of the Last W ill - arxj Testament of Samuel B. ’ Hoimos, deeeMed> and 8at. lovely new dresses and Lingerie W hite Stag, Lazy Susan wrap skirt Clam Diggers, Levis, N e\^ Blouses Gay Shop W asco O re g o n Bjmmgartnrr Hdw« A Eh (¿roMM Valley, Oregon NOTICE OF FIN A L HEARING > Notice is hereby Donalda Knighten, ITS W HAT’S INSIDE That Counts! given that Administra- Leo W atkins, Secretary Laptne Rebekah lxtdge No. 118 Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month. Visiting members welcome Josephine Gentry N.O. Helen Martin, Se€. Rareka Ix»dge No. 121 A.F. A A .* Meets on the lo t and 3rd Thursday evening* each month. Visiting members cordially In vited to meet with us Clyde Gillmor, W. M. If. D. Pinkerton, Secretary Bethlehem Chapter No. 78. O.B.8 Meets every second ano fourth Thursday In each month: visiting members Invited. Moro, Oregon Bonnie May, W . M. 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