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t PAS! I IBBBMAN COUNTY JOURNAL. MORO. OREGON. FRIDAY, MARCH T, 1»41 Moro Basketball 1 - .......... ... ....•"*'------- — -~ r — ■ MORE POWER TO 'EM ■■■' Team Loses To I ■ .■ ■ ■ ■ ■ II. ■ »..¿ ».4 Grass Valley The Moro town b ask e t ball team finif-hed the season w ith a gam e Tuesday n ig h t with G rass Valley or. th eir floor losing b y 'th e narrow m arg in of 47 to 49. They have 10 wins and nine losses to th e ir credit lo r the seasons strenuous work. H ollinshead w as high point» man in the G rass Valley g^m e and also for the season. Joseph B elanger retu rn ed to Moro S atu rd ay a fte r m oving his wife and household goods to th eir new home in Pendleton W ednes day of la s t week. Mr. B elanger's w ork rem ains much the sam e ex cept his h ead q u arters will be P en dleton now instead of Moro. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. McLeod and son, accom panied by A rdis T ru itt, sp ent the week end in Pasco, Wn., as g u ests of Mr. and Mrs. Webb Tem pleton and fam ily. M rs. C harlie H oggard of Wasco v irited a t th e Wm. Powell home F rid ay afternoon m aking the trip with Mrs. Roy Belshee, who came for her Jolly Dozen party- a t the home of Mrs. M. A. Bull. Will C au thers received a tele gram from his brother Bob C auth ers in G lenbùrn, N orth D akota, of the death of th e ir m other, Mrs. E lizabeth C authers, who was 87 y ears of age on C hristm as day. Mr. C authers anfl wife and son F rh n k drove back to i see her in October of last year, and she was very ill a t th a t time. The H arland View G range dance announced for F riday n ight has been changed to S aturday night, M arch 8. R. W. Pinkerton suffered a p a r tial stroke Monday and is a t pres en t confined to his bed. L. J. Pape and son E arl, of P o rt land, arrived in Moro Tuesday for a few days to look a fte r business p ertain in g to his farm s in S h er man county, which he is now o p eratin g him self. His son ex pects to re tu rn soon to operate tlie Clarence M orrison tra c to r d u r ing the plowing ceason. The jcounty court has purchased and placed in the sheriff’s office and car sh o rt wave radio sets for po- bce calls. Sheriff Wilson says its the same set-up as the state police havé. Mr. and Mrs. Tom F ra se r have received word from F t. Lewis, W ashington of the b irth of a 7-lb d au g h ter, S herry Kay, to Lt. an<^ Mrs. Paul F raser. W. M. Bailey of The Dalles is here a line and service man for the Pacific Power & L ight com pany to take the place of Ralph B ’ isbine who is confined to his bed with a case of rheum atism . Cliff Jackson, who w orks on the m aps in the County A gents office, spent the week end in Salem on business. He expects to finish the mar, work within the next three weeks. Mrs. Wilv Knighten and Mrs. F rank von Borstel, d istric t presi- d< nt of the Am erican le g io n A ux iliary made a trip to Prineville and Redmond. Tuesday, to visit the U nits in th a t p art of the d istrict. Mrs. A. Nish, m other of Mrs. S. A. H all, visited here F rid ay re- tu r ning to The Dalles Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Barnum left Sunday for a few days visit with th eir son, Cleo, who is farm ing • n ear Tumalo. Mrs. M ortensen, m other of Mrs. C srl M elzer. left for her home in Salem F rid ay , a f te r spending several weeks at the M elzer home whilee Mrs. M elzer underw ent a m ajor operation. Mr. and Mrs. Jam es Kenny and fam ily and Mr. and Mrs. Ruasel Belshee and fam ily spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Belshee. Melvin B aker spent S aturday here v isitin g with his parents. Mr. ar.d Mrs. Otis Baker, from Camp Loo#** I Contest Winners -■ .4. '« • - - - - * Receive Awards M rs. A rzell Lemley visited school the first of last week to pre sent the prizes to the winners in th e essay contest sponsored by the 'A m erican Legion A uxiliary to thi follow ing: Ro»bert Ziegler receiv ed first prize on “ National De fen se” ; D orothy Ball, second; Don ald Olds received second on “ Amer- .caniam.’* - Mr. and M rs. Dick Holdaway were hosts a t a dinner Monday evening a t th eir "home. Those p resent were Mr. and Mrs. Ben Payne, Mr. anti Mrs. William B rm k ert, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P ayne and d a u g h ter and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R ust and children. Mr. and M rs. Donald Clodfelter and son were visitors in The U. S. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIO R ACTS TO FA C ILITATE Dalles M onday. iNCREASE OF THE NATIO N’S A LU M IN U M SUPPLY: Through F red Cox m otored to Corvallis the Department’s Bonneville Power Administration, 40,000 kilowatts the first of th e week to visit Mr. >f hydroelectric energy from the gigantic Bonneville-Grand Coulee dams on the Columbia River w ill be supplied under a 20-year con ami Mrs. A1 R oberts. He returned tract for the operation of a new defense plant in the Pacific North home F rid ay accompanied by Mrs. west The plant will be operated by the Reynolds Metals Company Cox, who had bem visiting a t her and will add 40,QjD0,000 pounds annually to the country’s production d a u g h te r’s home for the past week. of aluminum, one of the vital factors in the emergency program Lynn LeBleu cut his hand Sun Site of the plant has not yet been selected. Concluding the history- day while sp littin g wood and was making negotiations at Washington recently are (left to right) Marion M. Caskie, Reynolds vice president; Paul J. Raver, Bonne taken to The Dalles by his p ar ville Power Administrator; R. S. Reynolds, president of the com ents w here is required several pany bearing his name, and (standing) Ulrich Gendron, Assistant stitches to close the wound. * Bonneville Power Administrator. Mr. and M rs. Arch C antrall were business visitors at Wasco Mrs. R. W. P inkerton. The next M urray w here he has been s ta , tioned since en terin g the arm y last m eeting will be. the re g u la r m eet Monday. Mr. and M rs. E. M. H elyer and ing M arch 21. fall. Ed Alley were business callers in Mr. and Mrs. M arion McKee C harles Powell spent the week e n d j n Moro coming up S aturday, entertained w ith a birthday a n Moro Monday. Miss M yrtle Helyer, Sheri H el brifiifing his sister, M rs. E. H niversary dinner fo r th eir son yer and Jesse H elyer were visi Moore, home from a weeks stay in Gordon. G uests were Mr. and Mrs. ters in The Dalles S aturday and Claude E aton and two sons, and the city. Sunday n ig h ts. Mrs. E. R. Barzee entertained J. N. Stevenson, relativ es here Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Baker m otor her two table co n tract club Mon from W ashington. On Tuesday day afternoon w ith M rs»;riYalter evening they en tertain ed Mr. and ed to Wasco Monday afternoon. The Bookworm club met Friday Ruggles w inning high honors. M rs. E. D. McKee from Wasco, afternoon a t the home of Mrs Mr. and Mrs. A rth u r C hristen F irem an ’s Dance - Moro Legion Richard H oldaw ay with nine mem sen entertained w ith a dinner p a r H all S aturday, M arch 8th, with bers present. Mrs. Roy Wells re ty Sunday. Guests included Dr. Morey G raff’s orch estra playing. viewed “ W inds of S p rin g ” by and Mrs. Poley, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Special for men showing D raft W alter H av ig h u rst. R efreshm ents King and Mr. and Mrs. Wendell re g istra tio n cards .75c O thers $1.00 were served by the hostess. B alsiger. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Adams were The W om en’s M issionary Society Mrs. W alter B urford, m other of ; The Dalles visitors Monday. will jwld it-8 reg u lar m onthly m eet Mrs. Paul May, arrived Sunday Mrs. H. O. Dugger, and her from her home near Lebanon to ing a t the home of Mrs. O. A. d au g h ter, M rs. Tweet, were shop R am sey W ednesday,' M arch 12. help h e r dau g h ter who had her p er1' in The Dalles Monday. knee placed in a cast as the result Mrs. Holinshead will have charge Mrs. Dell Olds was hostess to of the program which will deal of a fall suffered recently. nu rubers o f the Grass Valley w ith Jap a n and new Am erican Paul May did not purchase the J bridge club and the following B antam as stated in this column ; neighbors. gu ests, M rs. Marion Van Metre but m erely had it fo r a try -o u t. i S ixty five people attended the Mrs. R. J. B aker. Mrs. Dick Huh- It seems he decided ag a in st it when ( covered dish dinner la s t Wednes man and Miss (Barbara Walpole tak in g his wife to the hospital for , day evening. Mr. H anson reviewed a t her home Tuesday afternoon a cast on her knee, he could not j a ch ap ter on the M igrants. Mrs. High score honors were made by get her in the B antan w ith * 'Ramsey and Mrs. L. V. Moore Mrs. C. C levenger. Mrs. A. F. Bal- sufficient com fort for the trip spoke on the C hristian Mission in zer and Mrs. Mfirion Van M etre. hem e, had to borrow a car and P ortland. Mrs. H enry G. Hanson R efreshm ents were served a t the make a re tu rn trip to bring the I on 'behalf of th e.w o m en of the r o s e of the aftern o o n ’s play by Bar.tan back. church, in a few well chosen words the hostess. M is. Wendell B alsiger e n te rta in presented to Mrs. M artha Cope R rb e rt E slinger arrived here ed the two table contract club a t a housecoat as a farew ell g ift on T uesday from W heeler where hv her home F riday. Mrs. LeRoy h?i d ep a rtu re fo r Texas. Mrs. has been for th^ past several W right held the high score for the Cope responded happily and in te r m onths. afternoon. estingly, ending up w ith an o rig i Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Eakin and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dunahoo, j nal poem w ritten for the occasion. H arold E akin and son m otored tc of The Dalles, accom panied "by his , D ufur T uesday to visit Mr. anc m other, Mrs. Rose Dunahoo, a Mrs. Alva Eakin and family. MORO SCHOOL NOTES form er resident of Moro, visited j Mr. and Mrs. Gus Sm ith, Mr. Ev Mary Kenny briefly Sundav with Mr. and Mrs. . This F riday, M arch 7, the F resh and Mrs. Ed Alley and Mr. and William C authers. m an class will help the Sophomores Mrs. Don Sm ith w ent to The Dalle? -The highw ay crew starteed to ■ en tertain the student body a t the T uesday to visit John H ays who is work M onday with three new men very ill a t a hospital there. on the payroll, Dan M cLachlan, 1 m onthly stu d en t body m eeting. , Don’t fo rg et the plays to be This is the last of the first six Ariel M organ and Stanley Coelsch. presented by the G rass Valley P earl Thompson of The Dalles, weeks of the sem ester. The s tu D ram a class, “The Troublesome dents have b:en very busy review left Sunday a fte r a weeks visit R ascal” a hilarious comedy in 2 here with her b ro th er and wife, I ing and p rep arin g for open house • acts and “ The Control Room” a and the Senior play. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Thompson. cne act play of tru e courage, and Mr. and M rs. P. A. W idener of ) The Senior girls are planning eth er a ttra c tio n s a t the Civic au Eugene, stopped over the weekend tin if annual senior ball. dilorium F riday, March 7. fo r a visit w ith Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L The editor of the O ptim ist is Mr. and Mrs. Ted E v erett and M artin on th eir way home from , g ath erin g m aterial for the paper ¿ R ig h te r, Izois Ann, were visitors a m onths stay in S eattle, W ash- j th a t will soon be put out. in The D alits Monday. ington. Mr. W idner is a step- i Mr. and Mrs. Bob LeBleu were Have a Coke On Us, G ents! father of Mrs. M artin. visitors a t Wasco S atu rd ay . Mr. and Mrs. Joe T ru itt are re- 1 F rankly and freely we concede Mrs. E d g ar Alley and Kenneth ported tem porarily located a t our error. We ’poligize profusely Crews were business visitors in for our rash statem en t la st spring T aft. The Dalles Friday. Wendell B alsiger spent Monday J __th a t wom en’s h ats couldn’t be Mrs. Glen K arnes, Miss M yrtle and Tuesday of this week in W alla ( funnier. H elyer and Lila Lee Alley a tte n d W alla, W ashington w here he at- | ed the play given a t Moro F riday tended th e annual directors j Some people are m ighty poor night. m eeting of the Pacific Cooperative.^ l ’steners. T h at is 'because it in C harles Powell of Moro was a Dr. Leo Moore and wife, ac terfere s with w hat they w ant to caller here S aturday. companied by Mrs. George W ern- tell you. W. C. Todd and Mrs. A rt Sehili m ark, all of The Dalles, visited in ing and son. Carl w ere visitors in 1 ------ Moro Sunday a t the Leon Moore The Dalles Thursday. , home. ' GEORGE G. UPD EGRAFF Mr. and Mrs. H arold Eakin and Mrs. O. A. Ram sey and Mrs. j son and Mr. and Mrs. Dell Olds L. V. Moore returned F rid ay a fte r m otored to P ortland F rid ay re A tto r n e y A t L a w atten d in g a church conference in , tu rn in g home Sunday evening. P ortland. Mr. and Mrs. W illiam B rin k ert There will be no reg u lk r Worn- , M o ro and W asco left F rid ay for V ancouver to spend an ’s club m eeting this F rid ay on account of the funeral service for U h — — T. Lester Johnson C o m p le te S to ck Try th e W ant A ds STEAD WORK—GOOD PAY Re liable-.M an W anted to call on fa rm ers in~ County. No experi ence or capital required. W rite McNess Co., 2423»Magnol»a St., Oakland, C alifornia; f FOR SA L E : My home in Moro furnace and electric w a te r h e a t er. Inquire of Mrs. E. H. Moore. Victor S, B arr, Jordon Valley, • Oregon. STRA Y ED : Small 2-yr old Jersey H eifer no visible brand, both ears cropped and a sm all under- I - 'b iu ln both ear«. Owner m ay , and 5 Quality Goods D r y G o o d s , C lo t h in g a n d S h o e s to m e e t th e n e e d s o f th e c o m m u n ity D e p e n d a l e , Q u a lit y G r o c e r ie s ZEIG LER'S °S ±’ Grass V alley g have her for the pfico of this , ............MupiunM M M miinnmnttttrntlll l inD I infflUllH l l lH i H ll HnmHH l l H i r' ad. Sid eSale, Condon, Oreegon. LAWYER MORO WASOO EASY WASHER C A tT t? d i l l J—J New rubber og’tator stops wringer rolls Trade your old washer as* down payment. Phone 161 for trial HAMPTON FURNITURE -f# The Dalle«, Ore. the week end. Mr. and M rs. R. J. B akef .r.bl Gresham were dinner ’g uests a t the home of Mr. and M rs. John E ngstrom . u Mr. and M rs. Dick H uhm an were business visito rs in The Dalles Thursday. Moro Com munity P reabyterian Mr. and M rs. M arion Van M etre Nearly 700 farm families in and Mrs. A rt Bibby and d au g h ter Church Sunday, M arch 9, 1941 Montana, Idaho, Washington and 10:00 - Sunday School. Classes for Janice, were Moro v isitors Mon Oregon started on the road to farm ail ages. day afternoon. ownership in 1940 through the pur Mr. and Mrs. Roy Powell of 11 00 - M orning W orship - Serm on chase of farm s from the Federal Moro called here F rid ay . Their Them e. ' “ W hat is C h ristia n ity ” ? Land Bank of Spokane, according d au g h ter, Miss Jean Powell, ac Song by Mrs. Ray S ieg en th aler of to Victor G. Peterson, secretary- companied them home to spend Portland, tre a s u re r of The Lalles National the week end. 12:45 - Covered dish dinner A us Farm Loan Association«, which Miss V irginia H elyer was a pices C ounty S. S. association. serve Gilliam, Hood River, Sher business visitor a t Moro F riday P rogram about 1:30 p. m. No man, Wasco and Wheeler counties. a fte r school. Last year, Peterson «aid, the young people’s m eeting. lan< bank sold 1,347 farm s or parts \\ ren Hogue moved his well Irilling outfit Monday to the Max On Monday, March 10 the young of farm«. Of this total, 422 or Brown place a t Lickskillet arid will pi epie’s society will hold a social 31.3 per cent, were sold to ten in the basem ent of the church. ants. Another 158, or 11.5 per la rt d rilling a t once. Ram sey Schadewitz, David Mc- cent, were sold to former owners Dwight B aker, son of Mr. and L.od and Millard M elzer consti of the land, or to relatives <xf for M n . B ert B aker of G resham is »»oftssor of m ines in the S tate tu te the com m ittee on gam es and mer owners; in most of the latter College a t Rapid C ity, South Ci: udine Thompson and Florence cases, sons of form er owners. Dakota. He lived w ith his p aren ts Law relic, will have ch arg e of the Finally, 101 farm s, or 7.5 per cent, at G rass Valley about 1 1 years refreshm ents. The hours are 7:30 were returned to form er owner« under five-year leases with option to 9:30. ~ ago. to buy a t the end of the lease Henry G. Hanson, pastor. Jack Lewis and Miss V irginia period. Other farm s sold went Helyer were visito rs in The Dalles mainly to farm ers buying addi Saturday evening. Waseo M ethodist C hurch: Sun tional land to round «ut their Mr. and M rs. K en d rick 'D u n lap , day school at 10 a. m. units. Mi. and Mrs. W illiam Beck, Miss Preaching Service a t 11:00 a. m. In the te rrito ry served by The Patricia C yphers, Miss A nita Dun- Epw orth League at 6:30 p. m. Dalles office, 18 farm s were sold ap and K enneth B arn ett were during 1940 by the Federal Land . Due to the County Sunday Bank for $49,900. zisitors in The Dalles Sunday. Mr. M rs. Roy B a rn e tt and School convention in the Moro Mr. and M rs. E. M. H elyer a tte n d P reesbyterian church Sunday a f Melody Linger« On ed the dance here S atu rd ay nig'it ternoon, there will be no preach “ My d a u g h te r has arran g ed a ing service at the G rass Valley little piece for the piano.” from Kent. Mr. and M rs. Arch C an trall ami M ethodist church. “Good! I t’s time we had a little F. L. Cannell, pastor. peacej»> family were Sunday dinner guests it the home of Mr. and Mrs. V ein Mobley, n ear Kent. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn N aylor and son of The Dalles were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Karnes Sunday. Joe Bibby, Mrs. A rt Bibby and lau g h ter, Jan ice and Mrs. Ed Al- ey were in The Dalles T hursday. Mr. and Mrs. Louis May anil son uotored to H erm iston S atu rd ay to .•¡sit her b ro th er in law and slste. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Goodrich, sev eral days. F rank Pike and C. W. Fields were business visitors in The tulles F rid ay evening. Miss M arg aret T rabue spent the week end in The Dalles visiting T h e C a lk in s R o d t ille r a n d M M U n it ille r her m other. I M iss V irginia H uhm an of The w ill b e d e m o n s t r a t e d —t h e s e i m p l e m e n t s Dalles spent thee week end v isit a r e d e s i g n e d f o r d e e p t illa g e — e s p e c ia l l y ing her p aren ts, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Huhm an. fo r m o r n in g g lo r y & o t h e r n o x i o u s w e e d s Ray Jewel left F rid ay a fte r 1 uh o o l for P o rtlan d to spend the week end visiting relatives. Miss Doris S tradley came up from The Dalles to spend the R u fu s week end . visiting her parents, D e a le r f o r M M I m p l e m e n t s Mr. and Mrs. Fred S tradley. M iss B arb ara W alpole came up | from P ortland W ednesday and will -cm ain with her paren ts for a month. Mr. and M rs, Dick Holdaway ( had as th eir guests S atu rd ay and Sunday, her p arents Mr. and Mrs. , W. G. H elyer of Kent and Mr. and M i-. W. H. H elyer of C arson. Wn Miss G eorgia Blaylock of The Dalles spent T hursday and Friday 9 :0 0 a. m . h ire visiting her p arents, Mr. and Mrs. E rn e st Blaylock. Parman Ranch—3 miles northwest of Condon Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rfitner and . Mis.- Kathleen Stout of Moro a t 1 No. 36 C aterp illar Combine, 20 tended the dance here S atu rd ay 2 RD 6 C aterp illar tra c to rs ft. cut, p artially on rubber, night. eith er bulk or sack 2 Sew n-bottom Oliver 16-in Plow Lew Riggs is now employed at Outfits, patented steel hitch lie Bub LeBleu ranch. K enneth Crews left Sunday for 3 Oliver Superior D rills and H itch 3 In tern atio n al Rod Weedera and Hitch i The Dalles where he is employed by the Tum -a-lum com pany. 12 sections In tern atio n al Spring- M rs.' A. A. Dunlap, Mrs. K e n -1 1 John Deere G rain E levator tooth H arrow h ick Dunlap, Mrs. Arzell Lemley and Mr. and Mrs. Sam S tark were , M ary, m any O ther Pieces of F arm Equipm ent visitors in The Dalles F riday. John Wilson of K ent w as a call- ! R. V. Runnion, auctioneer >r here F riday. . L. G. Parman & Sona Garfield Dugger was a visitor FR E E LUNCH at Wasco F riday. Mr. and M rs. A rt Schilling and fam ily, Mrs. Ed Alley an d , Ted E v erett were in The Dalles S a tu r day; Carl Schilling entered a hospital for medical treatm en t. Mr. and Mrs. Cleon B arker and fam ily moved th eir household j goods from The Dalles S u n d ay and i Monday to the house recently v a cated by Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Roberts. Mr. B arker will be em ployed by the K arnes M arket. ° H Grass Valley Many Families ¿fe Farms In 1940 Field Demonstration T h u rsd a y , M arch 1 3 G iv en b y T. L. F ield s o n th e F o w ler r a n c h 2 m ile s so u th o f R u fu s, at 1 :OO p. m . T. L. F ield s AUCTION SALE W e d n e sd a y , M arch 1 2 BARGAINS Special Reduced Prices W h ile They Last i Weather Indicates Spring Here Early, O n e E lectric R a n g e T w o W o o d & C o a l R a n g es * , Every indication th a t spring is hi re. March came in like a lam b around here anyw ay— the first of t'ne week being alm ost p erfect ' spring w eather, with the exrepion J of a little cast wind, of which we have had an abundance he p ast three months^5—-»but not the real cold blizzardou«' wind we have ltn rn ed to associate w ith a' wind ccm ing out of the ea st ju st a little chilly.- "P ra ctically every fa rm e r in the t county has started his spring work or is in prep ratio n for s ta rtin g scon. Folow ing is the w eath er rep o rt for the p ast week: Feb. 27 48 33 ’ 02 Feb. 28 46 40 .05 Mar. 1 52 .42 ,07 Mar. 2 52 32 Mar. 3 54 37 Mar. 4 50 34 M ar. 5 51 37 .14 T w o O il Circulating H ea ters * O n e B e n d ix H o m e L aundry V T h e se a re all n e w eq u ip m e n t p riced d o w n to m o v e . SZ W. Searcy HARDWARE & INSURANCE . r
