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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1954)
PAGE S SHERMAN COUNTYI JOI K N A U MURO. OKHGOX. îpljrrntan (County Hour nai l'uhlisht*«! E v e r y F rid a y M u ro , O r r go n t al ■d a» «reond riama m a tta r a t fica a l M < *o . O rvtron, andar „ ••« a a of M a rc h B. I W tha Act new spaper PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION E D IT O R IA L N A T IO N A L A$3>C a : i < . e O m C IA a N M IM O » COUNTY PAPER S I’IWI ItlPTlOX RATEH IIWK VKAR . .............. TAXES .ARK I m »W \ m a LT KK PiKK< K E d ito r G llr* I- Fre»rh FRIDAY, M 'ltll. 2. IMI Bt.w APRIL 2. I9.AI JOHN HAY HAM We really don’t care much who builds the John Day dam. If It Is built It w ill produce electricity, aid navigation, provide recreation. If some make a profit from doing all this we can’t worry about that, either.We like to make a profit so are in on position to feel hurt if others do the same. Neither are we convinced that all dams must be built by the federal government. They run Into larger figures if publically done, are subject to more controls (political as well as economic) and then the taxpayers have to foot the bill sometime. Of course, there Is amoritlzatlon In theory and in terest in theory. Also there is al ways political pressure for cheap electricity and subsidies to navi gation which make both amori tlzatlon and Interest indefinite of achievement. The projected dam. If built by private companies, w ill be lower than the ones the federal engin eers have projected and it w ill not flood so many acres of low land«. It w ill therefore lie of less value for flood control. That fea ture does not enhance the value of the dam to us, although to oth ers It w ill be a blessing. It would be a fine thing If we could have at least one big dam built by private parties. That would give us a check on costs as between the federal govern ment and private Industry. One feature of the plans, as an nounced, Is that all sorts of agen cies .w ill l>e in on the building Private power companies, the fed eral government, I ’l ’Ds a n d REAs. All are Interested in the same thing actually—In the pro duction and sale of power. The progress of the northwest w ill be hastened by all working together. Neither do we see any insur mountable difficulties about ar ranging a division of costs bet ween private companies and the government. Naturally navigation Is a charge of the federal govern ment, also flood control. *The benefits the dam gives to those functions can lx* paid by the gov ernment; the part of the cost ac cruing to power can tie paid by private companies, PUDs, REAs, etc. As for recreation, the lake w ill tie there and It w ill have wa ter In It and the water w ill float a txiat and fed a fish whether the datn Is built by taxpayers’ money or private industry’s bonds. And the most basic Item of all Is that the northwest can use more power. So let’s let someone build a dam for It. Government w ill regulate the charges anyway. Walter 11. Pierce died Saturday night at his home near Salem af ter living for more than 9o ysare. the majority of which was dedi cated to politics, an art at which he became a master. He was as full of hokum as a medicine show barker and he sold his wares just as successfully. He said, t h e people don't want to be bored with the serious prole lems of government, tell ’em a story” . He did, and also quoted ’em a poem and sent them away still under the spell of his oratory. Let not this generation sujier- ciliously say that such things are out of style now. The answer is that no one now can do it like Walter. People haven't changed. It used to be quite a sight to see Walter come into town dress ed in a baggy and well worn suit, his shoes scuffed, his watch foil a piece of sack-string and accom panied by a young man to pack his notes and provide his memory. He needed to know but one citizen and from him he obtained infor mation about the next. "Hello, Bill, my old friend,” be accosted them and Bill was pleased too to resent that his name had been learned from the man next door. Whether Walter believed the things he told the people w ill never lie known unless his mem oirs are much more frank than expected. Did he really think that he could cut state taxes by half when he went about tearing tax statements In two? Did he be lieve the national economy would lie Improved if farmers got their "feet in the trough, too” as he so blithely Invited them to do? Actually Walter didn't have to lie an economist. It would have been superfluous, perhaps a hand icap. He was a politician, he knew how to get elected under ad verse circumstances—and did. He feelingly told the sad plight of the country In March of 1933 in explanation of his votes to give almost unlimited powers to the executive, powers that were leg islative ¡xiwers under the consti tution and powers that were re served to the people under the constitution. He shook their hands and told them what fine folks they were; he gave them oratory and garner ed their votes. And he did it splendidly, successfully ai^l ap parently with much personal joy. He was an accomplished practi tioner of a lost art. Rest in Peace. „ I t was rather unexpected that Gongre •» would pas.-. a tax bill so that it would take effect A pril 1. the date the war time excises would have expire J. It was pretty fast work. Although exact provisions of the bill have not been published as yet, the house-senate confer ence just being concluded, the reductions seem to have been made on the items that w ill give the greatest benefit to citizens. Re luction in excises on house hold appliances should certainly redu e the price of them and give some stimulation to business. Au tomobiles are selling well and w ill carry the same rates as before. The same Is true of tobacco and liquor, the sale of which does not appear to lie greatly retarded by taxes although bootlegging is in creasing. Reduction In the tax on movie tickets should help small theatres w’hich have been having a hard time generally. Ix?vles on tele phone and telegraph tolls and on freight should have been cut long ago for they are legtimate Items of business expense and not luxuries In any sense. To have given an additional $1(X) in Income exemptions would cost $2,400.000,000 ‘which Is too much to drop in addition with the cut in excises. We expect many changes in the income tax laws later and most of them w ill lie beneficial. Although It did not prove pop ular a reduction in taxes on in come derived from dividends would help citizens who provide the monetary sinews of business. Business of necessity is getting bigger and it needs investment by those who have money. Double- taxation retards that investment. Politically it isn’t popular. Tax ing both the corporation and the sto khokler is pretty rough on business. wracking and pain enduring. Then came gunpowder and gun« of one kind or another which were better and completely pain less for those who got hit in a vulnerable place; for those shot in most places there were days of recovery accompanied by inac tion and misery. Bigger guns, cannon. TNT bombs all.speeded and helped the process of ridding the earth of its most aggressive animal. Yet not until the latter days of the latest world war did man invent the granddaddy of them all. Now be L et’s Have a Poll of O ur O u n I . JCveryone is getting a chance to express their opinion in various polls except the residents of Sherman county and we’ve never heard of a single one of them being asked a question by Gallup or anyone else. To relieve that situation and give local folks an op portunity, here are some questions in our own Sherman County poll. Do you Iwuieve this county should have compulsory test ing for Bung’s disease. can snuff them out by the m il lions with a mere suitcase full of stuff. We’re really getting good and if something gets us started we can wipe out civiliza tion entirely and turn the world over to the "savages” in a couple of weeks of well spent time. No one can envision the effects of an explosion that reaches 70 miles in its effect Counting a m illion would be child's play in comparison. I t sure has been a great Im provement, not only in quantity, but In quality. For those near the explosion it doesn't hurt a bit. But there’6 going to be a lot of standing in line at both the pearly gates and those flaming ones as well. NOTICE—I w ill not be responsi ble for any debts other than my own. Mary E. Rehr. 2o -22p CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING — Meat cutting, wrapping, sharp freeze. C & C Food Store, Grass Valley. Oregon. 47tfn FOR SALE; 4 bedroom house, 3 lots, garage, 40’ x 20’ shop; electric heater & range, oil beater & 265 gal. fuel tank, all goes for $4750.00. Ivan Kirkelie Moro, Oregon 26tfn MAY ELEOCTRIC, electrical con tracting, Moro, Oregon, Phone 722. 19 tfn WANT ADS Yes----- No-—— EXPERIENCED farm worker de sires permanent work on wheat ranch. Elmer Terry, 814 N. E. 72nd. Portland 16. Phone L I_ 4802. 20-23p ® FOR SALE: 4 liedroom house, double plumbing, oil furnace., Eureka l.ooge Nu. 121 A.>.2kA.* Meets on the lot anu 4 lots, fine view. The Dalles/ onstration agent ? Yes---- - No------ 3ro Thursday evening» Inquire Journal office 21-2 c each moi.ui. Visiting MAN WITH FAM ILY wants members cor<l:aii> m year around Job on ranch. W rite vited to meet with < im Do j think Sherman county needs a county a g e n t! Box 405 Wasco. 21-22c Howard Ross, W. M. LOST— LAST FALL: Three com H. B. Pinkerton, Secretary Y e s----- N o----- ing two-year old registered Hereford heifers, branded lazy H e tlile h e u i « h a p te r No. . i . O.E.S Do y.>.. think Sherman county should have one high • S-S on right rib. No ear mark, N x / Meets every «econd ano fourth Thursday in ea-.o but tatooed on right ear. Reward ‘ month; vistttng member* for Information leading to their Sclit o l! *, Yes------ No----- invited. Moro, Oregon recovery. Sid Seale, Condon, Betty Christianson, W.M. Oregon. D you think Sieuman comity should continue* the soil STATE WIDE PAINT CO. com Elsie Jones, Secretary plete painting and decorating M u ro Ixidge No. 113 l.C.O.F. service, spray or brush Phone Meets 1st and 3rd c iscrvation service here! Yes---- - No----- 3977 or 5293, 1205 E. 12th St. Tuesdays il> 1 O.O.F. Vern Campell and Jack Null, hall. Transient and 38tfn visiting brothers are Do you think Sherman county should continue the spe The Dalles, Oregon cordially Invited BETTER INCOME. Greater tax C. O. Burnet, N.G. cial road levy! Yes------ No------ shelter may be had through ’ et> W vk.ns. Secretary various high grade investment securities. Inquiries invited. J. Do you think the rigid price system for wheat helps W. DODD, TYGH VALLEY, Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 116 Meets 2r.u and 4th ORE.Eastern Dregon Mgr. Wm. Tuesdays of each "’herinan court) ? Yes------- No------ J. Collins& Co. Stocks, Bonds, month. Visiting Mutual Funds. Tax Exempt members welcome Don’t sign your name. Send slip to the Sherman County School and State bonds. Invest Althea Burnet N. G. Ielf*n Martin. Sec. ment planning. 20tfn Journal or stick it under the door. We’ll count them and report. Do you believe Sherman county should hire a home dem RIG BOMB Referring to the latest lximbs as big applies to their power. Ac tually they are little things. But In power they are the bigg'1 things »man has invented. Years ago men used to k ill eac’t other with clubs, a brutal busi ness and while we’ve never been killed with a club our Imagina tion tells us it would lie painfuL Then men sharpened the club and made him a spear, later tipped with iron. It was a better weapon but still the ministrations of an enemy with a spear were nerve BUICK PRESENTS A STUNNING S/' Gay new cars /j Fresh new colors I We are happy to « Smart new décors SLEEK NEW FASHION IN 'H A R D - TOPS" It tho brand-now, all-now 200 hortopowor Bulek C in t u i y Rivioro shown horo— with the look of tomorrow that it in ovory '54 Buick today. have this opportunity to ! congratulate Este' Hartley ‘ on his new SHERMAN THEATER 1 I : ' : A-i r-V;- I First National • | Now in the S P E C IA L and C E N T U R Y models! Sherman County Branch Io see the to m o rro w -sty led Buicks we have ready for you today— but now in airy new body styles never available before, and in fresh nczj sum m er colors never shoum before. là F o r these are sm art new Convertibles, hand some new “hardtop” Rivieras and new ail-steel Estate Wagons ready for the first time in tl.j budget-priced Y8 S pec ia l m odels, and in the high-powered CENTURY models - and all w ith the u ltra m o d e rn w indshield design ot sweepback pillars. N e w C o n v e r t ib le s Just Arriving! i . la v 2 , 4-D 1* f* f F ■ R N M I ■ f N e w R iv ie r e s First Time Available! And these high-fashion beauties come in bril liant new summer colors —rich new hues that lift your spirits like a robin’s spring song. .■YR I I m M ■JF V ou r a ) W ' » n.ce of q u a lity N e w E s t a t e W a g e n s Now All-Steel Bodied! AT COMPETITIVE. PRICES w: ’E cordially invite you to a fashion showing of a bright new springtime on w heels. . . ( -omc see our sampling of these rakish new’ cars and fresh new colors—and discover, in the doing, w hat beautiful buys these supremely powered, smoothly responsive Buicks are in every way. M ILTON BERIE STARS FOR B U IC K -S .. rt» BekkB .de S h oG hm dar E.»r Five bottom Case Plow BRIGHT NEW SPRING AND SUMMER COLORS! ta i'll Gulf Turquoise • Tunis Blue Lido Green • Condor Yellow M atador Rod • Malibu Blue • W illow Green * and Case 500 Diesel — e n d m an y m e r * on hand, Come, See it, Drive it Tom’s Welding & Equipment indw dm g fresh now »we-» o n » , I WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK W i l l BUILD THEM ‘ Drivf^from factory Gave up to 3 2 9 o 0 0 See your BUICK Dealer” t s r ir a - L i e BUICK SERVICE MOTOR CO. THE DALLES, OREGON o 8»
