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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1930)
Bible “^Iwaya Best Seller” against it. This action leaves the Big Factory Plant Will Public Service. just barely won over Meier in Mal Multnomah was three times that given old controversy still in the lap of the In the last SO years 237,000,000 bp-state. Show Autos Being Made Meier Given Hu<e Major- heur. Counties carried by the Inde Bibles have been sold by the British The defection from republican legislature, where it has been for 80 Of all the men who have served in 'and Foreign Bible society, according ¡ty Vote For Governor pendent were: Baker, Clxikaasas, ranks on the governship was re years or more. Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Crook, De Ford Motor Co. Will Exhibit Sound Congress since the beginning of our to Its report. The Bibles have been The amendment creating the office flected in other spots on the ticket government, Joseph G. , Cannon, distributed throughout the world, and schutes, Douglas, Gilliam, Grant, Motion Picture Road Show at Meier Is First Independent Candidate “Uncle Joe," of Illinois holds the the Good Book Is still the best seller Hood River, Jackson, Jefferson, Jo and all down the line there was a of lieutenant governor almost made The Dalles Next Week z Ever to Win High SU U Office - sephine, Klamath, Lake, Marion, decrease in the republican vote. This the grade, practically complete re longest record, 46 years, all of which <n all leading countries. turns show an adverse majority. is shown by the greatly reduced ma Multnomah, Sherman, Tillamook, in Oregon * Residents of Moro and Sherman was in the house of representatives, Before turning from reference to Personally, it is our own belief, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, Washington jority which United States Senator county will have an opportunity to although his service was not contin McNary and W. C. Hawley, repre the measures upon the ballot, it that a man who wrestles an alligator and Yamhill. The counties carried by uous. “visit the great plants of the Ford Julio« L. Meier, governor-elect will sentative of the first congressional might be interesting to note that but deserves to be bitten on the arm. the democarts were: Curry, Lane Justin S. MorriU of Vermont had Motor Company through the medium roll up a majority almost as lv g « u district, received. They won, but by three out of the 13 were approved, Lincoln, Linn, Morrow, Polk and the longest continuous record in that achieved four years «go by the no such leads as in previQUs elections. •aside from the* income tax. These of a sound motion picture to be ex Congress, a little less than 44 years, UU Isaac Lee Patterson, republican, Umatilla. The republican counties The McNary majority, like that were the amendment repealing the hibited in The Dalles next week, o w Walter M. Pierce, democrat, but were Benton, Harney, Malheur and of Representative Hawley, suffered guaranty of irrigation bond interest, Fred Pickett, local Ford dealer, an divided between House and Senate. For total service in the Senate, it is likely to be several thousand less Wheeler. materially. When a candidate six the amendment providing for filling nounced Wednesday of this week. On the face of the returns it ap than the majority Mr. Pierce had over The movie will be a part of a Ford that of Francis E. Warren of Wyom years ago he had a majority of 89,000 legislative vacancies and the grange Ban W. Olcott, republican, in the pears that Meier drew most of his over . Milton A. Miller and F. E. water power amendment, the last by show to be held beginning November ing was the longest, more than 87 strength from the republican reser gubernatorial election of 19?$« 10 and continuing through November years. But for longest continuous Coulter, and a plurality over Miller an immense majority. voir of votes. This is apparently For the first time in Oregon poli of 109,000, but his majority now over Those which were killed 5vere the 12 in a large tent at the foot of Senate record William B. Allison of tics a candidate running as an inde- confirmed by comparing the votes four opponents is around 30,000, a cabinet form of government amend Court street in The Dalles. The show Iowa achieved the distinction with pendenUhas been elected to a major received by Bailey, for governor, slump of 59,000 and his lead over ment, the bonus loan extension, the will be open to the public free of more than 35 years of uninterupted office. The success of Goven.jr-elect and Elton Watkins, democrat, for Watkins is down to 64,000. The in two motor vehicle tax amendments, charge from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. each service to his credit. lf« 4 e r is unique in this respect. In United States senator. They rah dependent, L. A. Banks, accumulated the legislative pay amendment, the of the three days. ’ None of these records are even •Those who visit the show will be closely approached by any present other elections when there was an about the same race, indicating that a good vote, but neither he, H. H. two judge bill, the anti-iigarette aggressive independent in the field Bailey and Watkins held their party Stallard, independent, nor O. D. Teel, amendment, the Rogue river fishing able to learn not only how the Ford members of either branch of Con the result has been to elect the demo strength. socialist, ever had a chance to win. amendment, and the lieutenant gov automobile is manufactured in quan- gress, and it is likely that they will Not only did Meier win, but the crat This time it was different for tity production, but to obtain some ay s^anj f or a gOOij many years to ernor amendment. G ra n g « Bill C arr»«» » the independent built up an oi^aniaa- grange power bill, which he advo idea of the vastness of the Ford en- 'corne ' Sherm an C ounty R esults The grange power bill carried, and terprises, Mr. Pickett pointed out. tion more state-wide and c< mpleU cated, was carried by a larger ma than the organisation of either t.;.e jority than the independent has over substantially, the great support given State candidates who carried Sher They will see how coal and iron are Smoking never hurts anybody who his opponents. The power bill car the measure by the Urbane dwellers of man county were McNary for senator; obtained from Ford-owned mines and republican or democratic parties. E x c h in g e Governor-elect Meier carried 25 of ried in 21 counties and most of these Portland augmenting the favorable Butler for congressman; Meier for transported to the plants at Dearborn l ? doesn’t smoke. y r in te r fo r the 3« counties, Edward F. Bailey car countjes were carried by the inde vote. The income tax has been sal governor; Kelly, Campbell and Belt Mich., in Ford-oWned railroad cars; •u m m e r. Go pendent, but not all of them. It was vaged and has carried by a safe vote. how lumber is cut io the Ford forests ried seven and Phil Metachan, four fdr the supreme court; Howard for to C a lifo rn ia . There were narrow margins in five Multnomah county which gave the This income tax was enacted by the state superintendent; and Gram for and carried in Ford lake ships; and I t ’ s as e c o - how invthe manufacture of the car R . & K . P r o d u c e C o ■ o m l e a l as counties, only a few votes separating power bill its great majority. The 1929 session of the legislature; was labor commissioner. s ta y in g a t bill carried up-state, but the vote held up on, a referendum, and was sub various by-products ate utilized for Meier and Bailey in Yamhill, Lincoln, County candidates. favorably en h o m e. (12 years on Front Street) friendly to the measure rolled up in making fertilizer, charcoal briquets, mitted to the people Tuesday and Douglas and Curry,» and Metachan * dorsed were Snell and Yates for state CIRCLE TRIP adopted. In the general confusion and O n e w a y v ia S a l t representatives; George A. Potter for chemicals and other things Owners of Portland and Salem argument over the gubernatorial con Besides the motion picture, the lu ik e C ity ( th e o th e r county judge; A. A. Dunlap for coun Piggly - Wiggly Markets v ia P o r t l a n d a n d test and the grange power bill, the show will include a number of special ty commissioner. San F rancisco. F in e income tax measure was not given the exhibits revealing step by step how 128 Front Street, Portland, Ore f a s t t r a in s . S to p Only two measures on the ballot spotlight as it was in some other various parts of the car are made, a overs going an d re out of the fourteen voted on in Sher- cutaway truck chassis, and a Tudor tu r n in g . elections. Ship us Your Turkeys, M A K E R E S E R V A T IO N S N O W Twenty one years ago, at the legis bnan county received & favorable vote body cut in half to reveal the details Geese, Capons, lative session of 1909, Charles V. Gal in Sherman county. These were the of its construction. A feature of the Ducjcs, loway, then as now a member of the repeal of state payment of interest on show will be a display of the full line Hens, Roasters, etc. state tax commission, drafted and irrigation bonds and the income tax. of Ford passenger and commercial Write us for prices had introduced in the house the first All other measures were turned down cars and other information Arrangements for the show were income tax measure to go before the by the voters of this county, including legislature. He did so “for educational the proposed initiative measure to in made by the Fred Pickett Motor Co., Reference: U.S. Nat’l Bank, First purposes** and for two decades since crease the salary of the county school local Ford dealer, in cooperation with the public has been undergoing its superintendent. This last measure, Ford dealers in nearby towns and the Nat’l Bank, Portland; and Salem A. Rose, Agent education. In the session of 1923, when first talked of and when the Portland branch of the Fprd Motor U. S. Nat’l Bank. Moro, Oregon with the property tax system bogged petitions were being circulated, was Company. ' down, the legislature passed an in spoken oLfavorably and if a vote had come tax measure, and it was at been taken on the measure at that tacked by referendum and repealed, time it undoubtedly would have been principally by the vote of Multno favored by the voters of the county as a whole. mah county. A HAND-SIZED cloud is seen on the hori- The last session of 1929 again pass Moro Has N ew Mayor ed an income tax measure, to be at son. ,<a storm threatens. . . mid-afternoon A close contest resulted on election tacked from the same source and re day between J. C. Freeman, whose brightness changes to shadowy g re y ... ferred to the people. This time the name was printed on the ballot, and voters of the whole state without any lights twinkle hours earlier than normally. that of E. E. Barzee, whose name had organized campaign in behalf of the to be written in, for the office of measure, marched to the polls to af mayor of Moro. During the entire A sudden weather change can increase firm the law by a majority of 4268 time of counting this vote there was votes. Again Multnomah county electrical uses many times in a short period. not more than three or four votes be registered heavily against it and again tween them and at the last the con an organized campaign was conducted - Yet invariably, service is there when you test was decided in favor of Freeman in the effort to accomplish its defeat. by two votes. 3nap the switch! Foresighted organization Outside of Multnomah county but six Fred Pickett, Joe Truitt and A. M. counties voted against the act— Har must meet the changing demand of the day, Wright were elected as councilmen ney, Jackson, Klamath, Lane, Sher to serve for a term of four years. We the week, the month, the year. Back of the man and Wheeler This verdict, coming close upon understand that neither Pickett nor button that responds so instantly to your the heels of the supreme court’s ad Truitt will aocept the office. This verse decision upon the intangibles would put the next two highest'in the every touch there is a far-flung organization tax law, will ease the taxation trou final count as eligible for the offices. that anticipates every use you make of its bles of the coming legislature, which These two are John F. Foss and E. E. subject was thrown again into an Barzee. all-doing service. —--------------- ' C. V. Belknap was reelected city almost hopeless tangle by that deci sion and the problem of returning the treasurer for another term, without 31,000,000 of intangibles revenue opposition. collected and sp^nt. The one hair-trigger decision of About W omen the electorate was its defeat of the constitutional amendment closing the Rogue river to commercial fishing. The .first woman airship mate in » Nine counties, beside Multnomah, Germañy is Froif Sophie Thomas, who gave affirmative votes upon the was given a license by the German amendment — Deschutes, Douglas, Ministry of Transportation. Harney, Hood River, Jackson, Jose Nina Petrovanna Demney of phine, Klamath, Umatilla and Union. The rest returned varying majorities Leningrad, Russia, who is a radio 'i telegrapher and a map maker, is the world’s first woman Artie explorer. LOW ROUND T R IP FARES •TO Instant and Constant Service Pacific Power & Light Company A D M IS S IO N FREE - in T h e D alles, O regon F o o t o f C o u r t S tr e e t N o v e m b e r 1 0 - 12 - 1 2 “ Always at Your Service” U N D E R T H E B IG T E N T N o t ic e o f M e e tin g a n d R e p o r t o f B u d g e t C o m m itte e fo r th e , C it y o f M o r o , O r e g o n , f o r th e year 1931 For the first time in the history of the British Labor Parley, a woman, Miss Susan Lawrence, recently pre sided over its annual conference. BUDGET COMMITTEE REPORT Margaret living, the only known _R otice of the estimated expenses and receipts and the proposed tax levy for the City of Moro, Sherman County, woman employed as a tea-taster, samples nearly 300 different teas Oregon for the year 1931. every day and is able to distinguish Notice is hereby given that in pursuance to a legislative act approved by the Governor February 19, 1921, that every one of them,., on Tuesday November 25, 1930 the Budget Committee of the City of Moro, Sherman County, Oregon, will be in ses sion at the city hall at the hour of 7:30 o'clock P. M. and that any tax payer of the City of Moro will be heard in A new jumping record for women favor of or «gainst the proposed tax levy as hereinafter itemized. was made by Miss Bertha La Balter of New Jersey, when she jumped Est i m ated R eceipt» Itemized Budget 17,518 feet in a parachute, requir 31500.00 Water fund ....................................................... $4000.00 ing 30 minutes to descend. Marshalls salary . . . 180.00 Emergency fund ...................................................... IQP.00 Recorders salary . . 120.00 Miss Kathleen Neilan of Hamilton, Treasurers salary . • Total receipts ......................................... $4100.00 100.00 Emergency fund . . Ohio, who won a scholarship awarded Total amount to be raised by taxation for 2000.00 Water fund ........... all purposes for the year 1 9 8 L ...................... $7590.00 by the Woman’s Press Club of New 2500.1)0 Retirement of bonds York, has entered the Pulitzer School 3090.00 Interest on bonds . 800.00 of Journalism of Columbia Uni Street lights ........... 1400.00 Hotel fund .............. versity. Total expenditures ....................................$11690.00 — What’» .New ? Dated at Moro, Oregon, this 29th day of October, 1930. J. E. Coleman, Chairman of Budget Committee. L. H. Nahouse, Secretary of Budget Committee. ORIGINAL ESTIMATE AND ACCOUNTING SHEET Of the City ci Moro, Oregon, for the years, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931 Operated by an electric motor, a safety razor has been invented that consists of two parallel slotted shear ing plates. This original estimate is made in compliance with secton 231-A of the laws of. 1921 and shows in parallel col- A portable apparatus has been in- umns the unit co« costs of the several services, materials and supplies for the three fiscal years next proceeding the | vented in Germany for pumping hot current year, the expenditures and the budget allowance fpr e first six months of the current year and the budget air into new buildings to dry them allowance for the year 1931. | quickly for prompt occupancy. Budget allow E stim ate d Expe n d i t u r e s Detailed Expenditures For The General Electric Company has ance for first expenditures for first six Three Proceeding Years six months of for the year months of made the largest shovel in the world, 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1930 I which is operated by electricity and . 1620.00 1475.00 is used in the coal-stripping fields. 1620.00 895.00 810.00 S« * .• 1800.00 3148.24 3322.10 3072.57 773.28 1500.00 2000.00 fund . Maurice Poirief, an > inventer of 120.00 120.00 120.00 Library fund 390.58 211.94 Burbank, Calif., has built,a model of 791.39 100.91 100.00 150.00 4000.00 3000.00 a rocket plane which he hopes will 2677.20 6500.00 . 2600.00 3000.00 of bonds * . . . . 2946.00 3136.67 t. 4372.09 8090.00 6215.99 1680.00 Interest on b o n d s................ • 536.25 attain a speed of 600 miles an hour. 146.70 Rfenoti ...................... 1192.68 1207.41 1651.00 488.70 800.00 600.00 S treet lig h t s ........................ -A divicé has heen invented to 8009.62 3566.94 600.00 335.65 Hotel fund '.......................... 1400.00 664.15- 1 record brain action, operated by - 750.00 S in k in » f u n d for bonds . . r * 130.13 City Hotel a c c o u n t ............ electrodes placed on the tongue, where they are affected by p lica te 17867.94 11499.00 13489.66 9090.00 16817.23 13321.3$.. Totals , .................. I nerves. L Z L Searcy, dd hereby certify that the above estimated expenditures for the yoar 198i .was prepared by me In order to avoid annoying per i expenditures and budget allowance for the first six months of the current yoar, and the expenditures the current year as shown above, have been compiled from the records in my charge, sons living along railroads, a locomo ‘ belief are true and correct copies thereof. tive whistle has bean invented that of Moro, Oregon, this date: $63,700.00 concentrates its sound in a beam indebtedness of Moro, Oregon this date 4,837.18 J. L* SEARCY, City Recorder. projected ahead of a train. !» 1 0 A. M. TO 1 0 P. M. * RAIN OR SH IN E err òtt TALKING-PICTURE “ A TRIP THROUGH THE FORD PLANT FAR o f people from all over the world visit the Ford plant every year. See what they see! Hear what they hear! You’ll say this is an unusually entertaining and instructive picture. THOUSANDS SEE ACTUAL FORD CAR SAWED IN TWO Women as welt as men show great interest in this revelation of vital mechanical parts that are seldom seen. Shows valves, pistons, cylinders — fuel, cooling, ignition and lubrication systems__how the body, seats and upholstery are made — how the different layers of paint are put on. There’s also a cut-away Ford truck chassis. Many things you have always wanted to know clearly explained., . , ALSO SEE — First complete showing of all the new Ford ears in this vicinity. Includes the smart new De Luxe Bodies — Ford trucks and delivery cars. — The Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield that will not fly when broken. • “i — How Rustless Steel exterior parts are made, from the sheet metal to the ever-gleaming finished products. — Why Ford steel-spoke wheels are so strong and sturdy — how the wheel is welded in one piece. / — How the Houdallle double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers cushion against hard shocks and why they are called double-acting. — How the crankshaft and camshaft are made — from the original steel bar to final machining and polishing. — And many other features which make this free show well worth your time. s k Fred P ick ett M otor Co. M oro, s. *7? • 3* L «J •! O regon
