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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1939)
s THE SHERMAN COUNTY. JOD RNAL, MORO, OREGON 9MK r o w T.Metoki Buried to Wasco Friday FRIDAY, JULY S1, 193» = 3SSE Crop Prospects From Seattle to New York Via Northwest Passage Just Fair For Big Crop Crop developments remained an outstanding feature in the gener al situation although large re maining stocks of old wheat con tributed to the weakness both in domestic and foreign markets. A United States wheat crop of 716< 655,000 bushels was indicated by conditions at the first of July. Pro duction of winter wheat was esti mated at 537,767,000 bushels and spring wheat, including durum, at 178,888,000 bushels. Durum pro duction was estimated at 30,890,- OOff bushels compared with 40/145,- 000 bushels harvested in 1938. Total production of spring wheat last season was 244,164,000 bush els harvested from an acreage 20 percent larger than remains for harvest this season.- Spring wheat prospects in the Canadian Prairie Provinces continued very favor able with warm bright weather hastening growth and providing ideal conditions following the good start obtained in June. A consid erable part of the crop was head ing at the middle of July with no. extensive damage reported. Light yields however, were in prospect in south eastern Saskatchewan and the Peace River area of Alberta. No important chapges were re ported in European prospects. The International Institute forecast a European crop of 1,640,000,000 bushels this season or about 200,- 000,000 bushels below the unusual ly large crop of 1938. North Afri can crops are materally larger than last season but outturns in Russia are still uncertain. Recent mild weather caused «.xcessive growth of new wheat in Argentina but the weather turned colder dur ing the week! The new crop is re ported mostly in favorable condi tion in Australia. Complete data are not available on world carryover of-old wheat but stocks are relatively heavy. Farm stocks of old wheat in the United States at the first of July were estimated at 90,838,000 bush els compared with 59,113,000 bush els on July 1 1938. Market stocks of old wheat totalled approximate ly 67/500,000 bushels againt 22,- 190,000 buhels in store a year ago. Stocks of wheat in Canada a»*; about 100 million bushels larger Dr. Ttodore Beletski of Hermis ton was interred in the Wasco cemetery Friday. He was about 73 years of age at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow and two daughters living in Hermiston and a step daughter in California. Dr. Beletski, a veter inarian, lived here for many years when horses were used on the farms. __Jfcr . and Mrs? Ed Feldman and daughter, Mrs. Wm. Hulitz, w>;re week end visitors in Portland. The special harvest crew ser vices held Sunday at the Christia. ehunch was followed by a pot'luck d.nner. Walter Bruckert’s harvest crew received first place and was Envied by rocking chair adventurers are Or. Homer Flint K ellem s. skipper of the tiny ship Pandora, given recognition by a gift of a his daughter and his crew . The Pandora will sail from Seattle to New York through the Arctic sea and the watermelon. A special program famed Northwest passage, the trip to take approxim ately three months. Pictured at front. Dr. K ellen » and was given by Gordon Rich in .1 his daughter. Vivienne. Other m em bers of the cr?w include a cook, photographer and engineer, nset. Leo vocal solo', Marion Crews, piant Clark radioman, who will m aintain contact wl I. the outside world. The little ship is expected to dock in aolo, Andrew Landles gave a mus- New York in October. icai number on his baritone. Mrs. S. A. Roe is employed dur ing the harvest season at the L. ley were business visitors in The Dalles Tuesday. ’ P. Haven home Mr. and Mrs. Hal Shelton were At the home of Mrs. L. P. Havel week end guests from Hood River Wednesday a layette shower was given in honor of Mrs. Francii at th? McKee home. Mrs. H. A. White returned from Taylor, with the Dorcas societ> of the Christian church as spon He»miston where she stayed with sors. The afternoon was spenl her sister, Mrs. Beliska. Miss Winifred Fortner return in playing games. A vocal selec d home from Portland, where she tion was given by Mrs. Leo Wat kins, “Little Blue : Bird of Mj had been a visitor with relatives Heart.’’ Refreshments were serv for several days. Mrs. C. A. Moore and daughter, ed to the fourteen present. Ruth Ann of Goldendale, arrived John\Milne came Lest week to at the home of her parents Mr. install the iron fireman in th( local school building. New floon and Mrs. Bruce Grady Sunday for a visit are being laid. LeRoy Grady, a cousin of Mr. Mr. and Mrs?Gharles McGregor, Grady’s is spending several weeks and their neice and family, from here. Idaho were Sunday visitors at the Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Gervais of home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Rice. Prineville, have a baby girl born Miss Phyllis McElroy *nd Miss July 8, named Dorothy Darlene. Margaret Williams of Portland Tom Smith, a brother of Mrs. were week end guests at the horm Louis Scholl, was buried in the of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Watkins Echo cemetery last week. Mr. and Mrs. Don Johnson ar; Cliff -F.xttey was a business leaving their old location in town - and have rented the house owneo visitor in Lexington last Tuesday “ Ripper,” a hard-working locom otive, celebrated its thirty-fifth birth by Mrs. Helen Dingle. Billy Reid, jr., visited his par day recently in Hoboken, N. J. Here Thom as T. Taber of Madison, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mauruu ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Reid, president of the R ailroaders of A m erica, an organization of railroad fans, have decided to rent the Georgt over the week end. Mrs. Reid re em pties a birthday “cak e” into Ripper’s firebox. The “ cake” is a hatbox Raaeberg house vacated recently turned home Thursday from a trip full of nut coal. At the right is Bruce Nett, Madison, N. J., youngest ind will be home for several m em ber of the club. by Hal White and family. Rev. Gilbert Caney motored tc A’eeks. Mr. and Mrs. Frank All- Gresham Saturday for a visit with man and son Geo'rge, with Mrs. Mrs. Carey, who is staying there icrtrude Penline came from Port- during the berry season with hei and for a week end visit with the Reid family. children, Violet and David. Mrs. Dan MeDermid and Miss Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kaseberg of Margaret motoned to The Dalle.1 Portland visited here, returning A new soil building practice, g ram , or m ake it more effe!» ive Wednesday to meet Melice Bukei home Thursday of last week. Mrs. that of maintaining a vegetative from th? stan d p o in t of soil cofi- of Oregon City, a classmate of Frank Morrow accompanied them ; seivation, says the Oregon offi Margaret. This is her first visit to. Hood River, for a rvisit with cover such as grass on crop land, cials.. The conserva4: n program pro- Mrs. Thomas, a relative of the là one of the most important rec- to Shbrman county. ommendd.ions agreed upon at the Mr. and Mrs. J. C. MeDermid Morrow family recent national AAA conference J vides for establishment of n.1.ion- and Margaret MeDermid weft in Washington, D. C., according al allotments for soil-depleting guests at Dufur for the wedding to Will Steen, state chairman, and crops and a national goal for soil of Mrs. McDermid’s neice, Eva- N. 'C. Donaldson, executive officer, 1 building crops and p ractices, which winne Jones which was held Sun who " represented Oregon a*t the • will be broken down to individual day. | farms. The national whstc allot meeting. Mrs. Robert Evans returned This new practice is designed ment of 62,000,000 acres for 1940 home Tuesday from a visit of to encourage longer rotation in has already been announced. „ several days at Lincoln beach at dryland farming and is expected the home of a neice and relatives to be particularly valuable ’.o east Prelude to Genius including a sister, Mrs. H.4& ern Oregon farmers who have es Miller of Salt Lake, Utah, and Once when Paderewski played tablished large acreages of crested some time spent visiting in Port wheat grass on former wheat before Queen Victoria, the sov land and Beaverton. ereign exclaimed with great en Mr. and Mrs. Jean Hull accom acreages. panied by Mr. and Mrs. John Ami- Small farmers will also have a thusiasm, “Mr. Paderewski, you ther of Portland were week end better opportunity to participate are a genius!” visitors with relatives. ;his next yei r, if recdtnnn ndatiens » “Ah, Your Majesty,’* h? replied, Carpenters from a , contracting are adoped as expected, as these “perhaps; but before I was a company were employed last week call for selling tT minimum soil geniua I was a drudge.** at the Earl Ricfoelderfer home building allowance of $20 per Read the ads in the Journal. lsying asbestos shingles on the farm. sine walls and a new composition State and local !AAA committee, roof. men will have more responsibility Mr. and Mrs. Pat O’Meara and for the field administration of the Misses Esther and Ivalou crop insurance and loans,in line Peugh motored Sunday to the wfch established AAA policy of de Ochoed mountains returning by centralizing administration of the w »y of Redmond and Prineville program wherever possible. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Neeshanr The national conference wa*i were in The Dalles Sunday. held a month earlier this year than Alice Roberts and cousin. Mar last '.o give farmers in 1940 a be.- ge re* Curry, left for Brooklyn, ter opportunity than ever to know Washington Monday, followihg a well in advance of the planting weeks visit at the O’Meara home ‘‘P orlrait of A rthur A th crley,” season what ».he program has to Phillip O’Meara accompanied them fam ous 18th Century E nglish m as offer them. and will stay several days. by Sir Thom as L aw rence, Recommendations adopted at the Mrs. Marie Barnett Cooper terpiece on exhibit In the Fine A rts P alace national conference will be used spent Sunday and Monday in Port at the Golden Gat« InternaG onnl for drafting specific provisions of land, her nephew, Jerry returning E xposition. On loan from nn; the 1940 program. In general, i1 actress Marion D avies, the f . : . ; - home with her after a visit of a e ing w ill rem ain on T reasure Island will continue on the same lines as week in the city. That’s the way one wheat farmer the 1939 program. Changes recom until the end of th e Fair. Recent visitors at the home of describes the fuel savings he mended are' those which will aim* Frank Knox included a sister, Mrs makes with nis “Caterpillar**,Die plify administration of the pro- August Lofstrand and husband Color Scheme sel D4 Tractor. He says, “My for from Yakima. They left Sunday “What do you think would go mer 30hp tractor (burned 4 gals, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Dixon of Sar with my purple and green golf of 12-cent gasoline an hour. My Diego, Cal., were there Wednesday seeks Di uses only 2 gals, of 6c fuel and Miss Leona Holmes was a “Hip boots.”—Grit. for the same work. So, I figuie. guest of Doroty and the twins. gasoline would have to sell at 3c Mrs. Fred Cole and Steven Al- a gallon before a tractor like my old one cOuld do an hour’s work T . Lester Johnson N ew ru b b e r for 12c.” a g it a t o r a t o p * LAWYER Locomotive ‘Celebrates’ 35th Birthday hsr of satisfactory straw scattar- ers on the market, and that rela tively low cost when it is remem bered that such equipment will last indefinitely if given Ordinary oiling and other care. Several of • the machines are manufactured in the Pacific Northwest. As long as there is a field left ¡to cut, the Camp Conservationist suggested, there is time to make good use of a straw spreader, for very little time is needed to attach and* adjust it. Moreover, a neg ligible amount of extra power is used to pull the scatterer. Ths .n wer scatterers, too, will permit raving the chaff, that many farm ers want for feed. In the, past, he recalled, some BRAND INSPECTOR^_______ farmers have objected to having (Continued from page one) .trouble with the straw scatterera Horses, mules, asses and cattle, hanging up ill cross’ng field de aie inpectcd for brands. pressions, but most up-to-date . Brand inspectors and .depwties machines are built so as to over appointed for this county are Toni come this difficulty. And, he em Garr.i.t, Grass Valley; Charles phasized, if the rig does get out Everett Wasco; John Carlisle, of order, it should not be pushed Miller; Art Schilling, Grass Val off to one side and abandoned for ley; Max K. Pluemke, Kent. the season, but should be repaired Livestock owners, before ship and kept in operation. ment it to be made, must furnish Another objection that Mr. El the brand inspector or deputy a list mes discounted has been that the giving brands, age, sex, color and straw scatterer produces more flesh mark.s. The inspector must dust around the combine. A com then inspect and check in • such bine is bound to be dirty in any manner as to enable him to ob 1 event, he pointed out, under cer serve distinctly all brands, color, tain wind conditions; and the ben-^ sex and markings. DayligW- in efits from th? proper handling of' spection is required and animals the straw more than outweigh any are to be driven into pens in lots inconvenience of that kind. The Service representative add of five or less for brand inspec ed the suggestion that even if it tion. ‘ is not possible to put on a straw scatterer this season, the farmer STRAW SCATTERING can spend an hour or two of his time profitably in visiting a neigh Continued from page one. Mr. Elmes called attention to bor who is using such equipment, the fact that there now are a num- and observing its operation. than last season with the balance reipaining for export or carryover placed at around 135,500,000 bush-, els at the first of June. Based on trade figures of shipments and al lowing the usual quantities for domestic .utilization, . about 150 million bushels remained for ex port in Argentina at the middle oi July compared with about 30 mil lion bushels on hand a year ago. Calculated on the same basis, Australian supplies of wheat re maining for export or carryover at the middle of July totaled about 40 million bushels against about 50 million bushels a year earlier. Get the world’s good news daily through T he C hristian S cience M onttor A s Intersstiossl Dsily N r w i W ’ » P u b lu M by THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY One, Norway Street, Boston, Maa»achu»ett« Regular reading of T hf C H tin n i» S ciencb M onitor U consider«! by many a liberal education, lu clean, unbiased news and well-rounded editorial features, including the Weekly Magazine Section, make th e M onitos the ideal newspaper for the home. 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