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Moro. Oregon, Ftfd&y, 1946 — ------ -------------------------------------------- Fifty-Eighth Tear No. 31 À cofavnn o f news Wasco Wins 13 Non-High Inning Game Holds To From Condon fX •» 1 •'» M -W V tM f • W asco won a h a rd fought Decision on School baseball gam e Sunday from the t> *' . About Government, Official County Paper nt 1926 Moro High School Class Reunited • Historical Society Has Ten m em bers of the Moro High School graduating class of ’26 m et Condon team, taking 13 Innings High School Matters Taegkd£ Saturday night, the date of their to win by a 13 to 10 score. I t graduation 20 years ago, at the Until Wasco Determines was a tig h t game all the way Odd-Fellows hall and held a re w ith each team evening up th e union after dining bountifully on with especial emphasis Nearly 400 Gather To Hear P o le / For 1 9 4 M 7 score as th e other forged ahead. tu rk e y and trim m ings. • i s i i O bei* B urns for Condon and Jensen The tables w ere decorated w ith Program at DeMou Sunday The meeting held Saturday for Wasco both w ent the route class colors: green and w hite and night by the non-high school ( w ithout relief. w hite rosebuds, the class flower. When First Meeting Held T he w in puts W asco in the board and budget com m ittee w ith t Avery Martin, class president, N early 400 citizens of Sherman th e W asco school’ board endeo 1 was toastm aster, who Introduced S a^ a !X . each m em ber and asked them to c°u n ty or ex-citizens m et Sunday w ith the form er decision u n ch an -. ® introduce their families and tell a t DeMoss Springs to s ta rt a w U iitm a n d o n b a s fallen to W asco twice. ged - The Wasco i n f i e ^ a a shuJ- w hat had happened to them in se r^ s of m eetings of the Sherm an The non-hlgh school board held the interveneing 20 years. The County H istorical Society, which ™ " 7 M WacthnabW^ hog n ngS “ th at it could not continue to tax r class will prophesy and poem hoped will long continue, vaster played th ird a « ! F ridley its people at a higher rate lp or w ere read and variations from They began coming before noon, the facts noted. laden w ith boxes of food, and fill- r™ PAC Mr A. F. 18 apparently a fixture at second der to send high school pupils 3 JJJJ® m*C" rB, ... , ‘ thA tr a «n for the rem ainder of the season. to Wasco w here costs a re over A rrangem ents w ere made to w ith a desire to m eet friends tw ice th e cost a t Moro. Wksco hold another one ln five years an<^ Sherm an county. By w anted the decision delayed a 1 and Paul Alley placed ln charge 006 o’clock when the women had of directors has authorized him bngton a t W asco. year, stating th a t by th at of its dilection. Plled the tables full of food 369 (since the House passed the leg sentim ent a t Wasco m ight c h an g e1 Of the class of 16, ten were had arrived, illation requested by P resident . F m > to perm it the rem oval of th e ^ e n present: Paul Alley, Vernon Mil- The program began at three Trum an) to spend $2,500.000 to U t r e C t O T S r O T tire Wasco high school to Moro. > ler, Lenore (Amidon) Narkaus, and lasted for well over an hour, defeat m em bers of congress who r » • > ra The action m eans th a t around M orris Searcy, A very Martin, being composed of singing, music voted for th e legislation Mr W hit- [ y O f t - H i g h H O C t T u 9 pupils from th e district In th e 3 Gladdis (Gentry) Bucholtz, Edgar an^ talking. The girl scouts pre- ney hinted th at his railroad bro- ® north end of the county which Alley, Minnie (Starr) Fargher, sented the flag. Miss Trounce J AT * Ar HEAT ... . Farm ers of Medina county, therhood has $47.000,000 In the £ F lo n tir s h m aintain no high school will be gone (Miller) McKinney, Marie Play ^ America, Rev. F. L. Can Okie, are> giving a union treasury and w ill use every U p r O T E A e C l l O n ▼tag M M I or more of wheat to a f f refa te enough to feed transported to Moro next school (Amidon) Hoskinson. Absent w ere ne^ 8ave the invocation, the pre* M average fam ily far $S days, with the spirit that a farm er will de p e n n y < , *,^ l l^ L 1I i nX 8l|dCTt Election of new officers for the year. This will leave th e W asco zDarold Belshe, Lloyd Hennagin, sident welcomed the visitors and prive hlm riar te l e A Marines« which he will not “ sell” lor a 30-ccnt-i- tatter U a « " dlda“ / " T n 948 non-hlgh school district will be Jiigh school w ith 13 to 16 pupils Ardvth Cochran, Cecil Gragg, Ed- the secretary reported. P. Wald<5* bushel bouaa. Norman Morton (In track) Is receivln f gift wheat for < , 5 7 ^avJ since done at the regular achool meet- depending on conditions th a t may the farm bureau ftwtf |$r. and Mrs. Burt E. Beach, while Mrs. Dor na Grimes, Helen B ryant. Davis, as lively as when half his which .statem tng (he th ird Monday In June, arise between now and the sta rt ethy Moorhoeee, right, the originator of the campaign, cheeks with ------------- age, played his musical bells, a ^ f school. It is possible t h a t th e b*«n i retracted. i , ™ * v a t v i.n- which falls on th e 17th. Mra. Beach. Mrs. Moorhouse, a fa rm e r’s wife, received the active * • q Quartette from R ufus sang, Mrs I t is the pri/J J eg® Kenneth Fridley was appointed Wasco district m ay choose to support of the entire farming farm ing region of Medina county. Oscar Ruggles read an original ion or non-union c i t i z e n t h i s H an.y absorb the cost of educating the poem, W alter Meacham, secre country rone 1,- com prising districts 1-4- non-high pupils adjacent to it, ot the co«, rotation pleases. b u t the 5 and 15 and some one m ust be which am ount to about $600 each .. millions of dollar. * elected for a one year p e r io i Some teachers have been hired t The state liquor store was mov ®hip this county bears to th e trails ter. Tim e w as when to* Jn z()ne 5 George W ilcox re by _ the w asco board. . The Moro _ --------------------------- --- ed Tuesday m orning to Percy a88°ciation as two of the famous grets took d e l ¡ f ^ ? " '? h*r f ln* K , Signed and a successor m ust be Board ta In ne«l of some ta«c^«g, _ , nr u zx z. Thom pson's sto rt w here It will tralls of the pioneers cross this publicans w ith ha ng elected T h at zone includes dis- but W hether . n arrangem ent Q- l a m ; a w idow o f » World Q. Can I convert by Insurance he located for the present, Mr coun‘y- cam ps gn fund, and tricte 23 an d 32. could be m ade for th e ir tra n sfe r W ar veteran w h o « death was at any tim e if I decide to change Thom paon being the new a g e n t Ju d «e Fred Wilson talked of the the railroaders * * JPAC boasUng ,n 3 the u r m of Tom F ra . In case all pupils w ere sent to a aenlefrom nected from one perm anent plan to an- Because of th e shortage of P<oneers who settled this land disability but he draw ing a other? ° ' a o rt r'K,Cam , r has ” Pired an<1 an elec' IOn Moro is not known. liquor all stores have been p u t on and philosophy of self pension of $11.50 p tn n o n th Am th e .. .■ -om m ltteesl mugt ** held ln th a t w n e whlch A. Yes. H ow ever, if you change — a _ quota In kinds of liquor as reliance and he cautioned his I entitled to a psrtles (the national com m ittees! dtatrlct8 i 6, 20 and 22. AWMB a higher rate policy to one well as totals so th at only so hearers to “abandon not the an- A. You should T ^ m .rn n itT of course In «» the non h igh school dls- ?f 8 1° 'T !L .rate' 8 phy8lc8' exam m uch of the better grades can be clent land m a rk ." of Indepen. «ion w ith your local Veterans - . ThT *t a 7 2 ? ! K m ln X V lcta an election will be held to V eteran, (. required. , - each an<J week dence of thought and reliance on A dm inistration representative. •h»t Will ellm validate the budget which exceeds Q. W hat schools can I attend w - H Howland of the commla- selves- Q. How much money m ay I a few m em bers of (he House of lim itation. Hon. Leslie Scott, state trea t>orrow on m y NSLI 20-pa'jTnent under thc a ’• BI|H slon’s staff was here to m ake the R epreeentativs this fall, b u t th at surer, told of^some of the troubles Sum m er school for 4-H child* Mfe policy? __ A - A ny 8cho° l —grade, high, change. aU who supported the bill request- of state governm ent, m any of ren will begin Ju n e 18 th is year, A. You may borrow 94 percent vc^ ational. college or technical “ ed by Pv«ldB>t TVuman can be which, he said, stem m ed from the dislodged from their positions ln ot th e cash va,ue available after 9ch°°! ¡f aPPr°ved by th e sta te f a or at least the youngsters will w ish of so m any people to depend k th e policy has been in force for ^ c re d itin g agency and certified congress is unthinkable T here | | i on governm ent, w hereas the pio leave on th a t date for school, one y ea r | to th e VA as an approved instl- is Just as m uch likelihood th a t U D u CT rO ^FftlT I n e e rs did things for themselves. ■returning Ju n e 28, m aking a ten ‘ Q Is there any llm lt on the tutlo» or facility. few house member« who opposed , _. . R eporting on society activities passage of the bill may be retired (»m prehenslve » h e a t ^ r o - d a y sta y a t Corvallis. o f a joan obtained w ith a gov- Q Gan I attend a foreign w ere Giles French, historian; Har- to private life by th eir constiuenU g rsm for the crop year 194*4 A ttending from Sherm an coun- em m ent guaranty? school uncier the G. I. education- Rainfall for the first nine ry Pinkerton on county better- A. The am ount of the loan will al provisions? ^months of the crop year has been merit. W ily Knighten led group who resent th e w ay they voted, ■ i^ilturc will i f ty will be Duane E akin, who won Today the PAC drive against p artm en t of agriculture will af- His place by Shosthorn breeding, be up to the borrower an d the A. Yes. Approval to attend a 9 84 inches, slightly short of the singing, a Grass Valley trio sang, <lemJX>r^ ‘a ^ X g livestock ^ d u ^ r 0 E. his father having given the lending agency. The lim it made foreign school m ust come from long tim e average of 10.24 Inch- the younger DeMosses played, PT X X ’s. “ e r X r e b a w b e e !’ Harvey Miller, state PMA direc- scholarship. Roy H arvey, Here- by the governm ent is on the am- the central office in W ashington, es for th at p a rt of the crop year. Waldo Davis again gave some mu- ford. Club funds; Bob Hoskinson, ount which m ay be guaranteed— Direct cause of the discrepan- is ieal num bers w ith his bells, •L i* * ^ T w t i d ^ h Z ^ u s e ^ P A C T h e policies announced include Showmanship, Moro V ariety store ^9 percent of real estate loans up cy was lack of rain in May when All officers w ere re-elected for Scott F rit Os, Angus, Club funds; to a m aximum of $4000. $2000 is /only .34 inches fell at the station, another year, which wilj be their ' the recent raises in g ra in and pro- although some sections of the iast as officer term s are limited does not ®ppro^ / ^ J7 « 1R tein ceiling prices, and earm ark- Alfred Kock Jr., Best Beef, Fir- the m axim um guaranty on non- southern dem ocrats failed to sus- a fQurth Qf egtlm ated st National Bank; Dick Oveson, re®I estate loans. .county c la im .a greater am ount, to two years. Directors chosen tain the P re sid e n ts p ro g ram ^ In w h m cm p for export Sheep, H arlandview Grange; Q- I am now attending school fThe average for m ay is .81. Al- w ere T. M. Rolfe, G. H. Root, subsistence pay- the rest of the country, t h« * * n?r m ent Em phasis will continue John Alley. - Pig, U. S. N . . a tio n a l' »nd receiving . , W eighing of club calves for m ost no rain has fallen so far a H Barnum, A. A. Dunlap and al public has been so a ro u V ,on Jnaklng th e m axim um tonnage Bank; Doran F ritts, Poultry. Club* m ents ynder the G. I. Bill. T in- fhe end of May discovered the fo Ju n e although there have been Mrs Lois H ilderbrand. continue my course / act th at one calf had made . a -some . _____________________________w showers and m any cloudy Present from out of the county the railroad* «trike th a t PP • w ^eat available for hum an funds; Edd F ritts, G reatest A- tend tlon of th e railroaders Is no ex- cfmsumptjGn, while reducing the chievem ent, Moro B reakfast club: • through the sum m er session. Is galn of four poundi3 per day, dur. days. A dark cloud skirted the w ere Mr and Mrs W. E Buell, for- p eeled ,to cause m any changes in am ount of w heat used for live- D iane Christianson, Best Q u ality ''11 necessary to rea^pply In order ing the m onth. This was the county Tuesday and m ade the m er Moro principal, M r and M rs the general election in November. stock feed In the CO(untry as a work, Club funds; Donna K a y 'to receive m y subsistence for the sh o rth o rn owned by Dick Oveson. eastern sky black during th e af- John E. DeMoss, Mrs Nan Baird, Ability, trim m e r month«? Several gained three pounds and ternoon but little rain fell here. Mr and Mrs F rank Cox, Mr and * * * * * a whole by half, the announcem ent Sparling, AU A round Michael S trass is on a hot seat. gtate8 Club funds; Priscilla M elzer won over,, indicating th at some c a l - -------------------- M rs G arfield Dugger, P. W aldo V r Strauss w as appointed Com- The 250,000,000 bushels o f a place in canning, b u t will not Davis, Mrs Aurelia DeMoss, Mrs app]y Ves wil1 very lar^ e a t falr n VA guidance center or Um m issioner of Reclam ation shortly w heat for e x p o rt will be draw n attend. Joan Oveson and H arry 'J? W. B. Johnston, W. J. M artin, H artley will attend and pay th eir th * of the cal- V d n M , U before Harold Tckes took a walk- from 1945 crop though a re-” Leslie Scott, Mr and Mrs Paul out powder. It appears th a t th ere qUfrem ent th a t half of all w heat ,own way. •McCulloch, George W . Brock and F ailure to S u p p ly the required Yes 8nd present weights are glv- is a disagreem ent betw een some J laced in elevators be sold im- daughter, Mrs Laura Loftom, Inform ation will necessitate your n ^ eF EltJeholtz, of the field engineers of the Re- m ediately into norm al trad e chan- reentering a claim for subsist- p nortnorn 9u0, Shorthorn 764. i n a double ring cerem ony on M a rtin ' Donnell, Mace Fulton, clamation B ureau and Commis- nels At the same tim e, half of ence and will result ln a delay ,A n^ a 772' H ereford «37, Here- Ju n e 2, Miss Cleo Rosalie Snyder. a" d Si™0" ' “ r «loner Straus which apparently ajj w heat purchased ’ from pro- of paym ents for the period in- ,o.rd 565:DIck Oveson, Angus 807. daUghter of Mrs C. I. Laffoon of \ nd Carl Ad8m8' , M r . „ goes to fundam entals. The en- ducers by county elevator operat- a . tervenlng between th e end of the Shorthorn 768; Steve Oveson, fçent and Theodore Carlson, son Mrs H ow ard Belshee, Mr and Mrs gineers w ish to get rid of Strauss prs and oth e r commercial buyers David W right, o f'M r’ and M rs A rth u r Carlson"of H ^ g8.da? ' J i . r “ S -J iZ . - - spring q u arter and the beginning H ereford 930; and he m ay decide to get rid of get aside for sale to the Hereford 8 2 8 ; , Dalles, w ere m arried a t her Hines, Mr and Mrs BI M Veterans of W orld W ar II pur- o f the sum m er term. H ereford 850, th e engineers. Outside engineers Commodity Credit corporation, chased alm ost tw ice as m uch _____________________________ B arbara Alley. Angus 704; John ¿ome. Rev.' W. I. Ick of Portland “ r J nd have not hesitated to suevest to These provisions will stay ln ef- surplus „ . Zk Alley. H ereford 539: Keith Bar- „m H ated Mr 8nd Mra V ' B H aufelt> property du rin g the Mr and M r. Merrill Oveson . . . . C)arence o fflc ta te d ^ the new Secretary of the Interior, u n tn the 250.000,000 bushel nett, Shorthorn 759 m onth of April as com pared to and fam ily IC 1V left T hursday for J. A Krug, th a t there be a new requirem ent is assured, Mioe Shorthorn 766, Hereford th e r the brlde w ore a dressm aker ^ r s 7 o e any sim ilar period, C, T. riKidge, to V| gjt jjer re iatives for a May, commissioner. Mr Kruer. however. The price ceiling increases an- Hereford ¿¡llt of aHce btue wUh w hite halo ¿ n “ asalkt r; “ T a" d M™ 709 Alfred Kock Jr., regional director of W ar Assets ;rou^ e WMks e tlng to retu rn does nothing In a . rush, he is pounced on May 8, Secretary of adm inistration announced today. „ S h o r t - bat and veil, white accessories M orrison, P e rry Axtell, M r and H ereford 878 thp ml(Jdle June whcn 874, careful and m ethodical and wish- A griculture Anderson has said, 836: Edd F ritts, Here- a “d a ‘ white* orcH d^corsage. Miss r Consum er «bods w ith a report- Jack McDermld leavea to U ke to learn both sides of an issue w ere made to rem ove uncertain- ed cost of $40,500,000 w ere ac- Qver ico erm in eaves to u x e g33 H(?reford ¡ " ^ ^ i n cousin of the bride Char,es Cowley- MZ an? i n sta tio n ^ n e a r W est L inn S“ m «26; “ aW 2 V n o r and wore a m aking Ws decision. Mean- ties concerning price relation- quired by the vets, an increase of — w hile Commissioner Strauss has ships throughout the 1946 grain 87 percent over th eir M arch pur- H illt sU ti° n neHF Scott F ritts, Angus 751, Hereford Ruit of w ith pink halo hat, > n ’ ^ r and Mrs A. Rose,_Mr and ruffled congress as well as the and livestock m arketing period chases. Over half of thia am ount ---------------------------------------- 738, Shorthorn 914; Doran F ritts m atchlng accessories and a cor- Ur an^wggrs. and 10 about a b e tte r bal- -H ereford 763; Joe Harvey, Angus Rage of plnk rosebuds. Gerald ^ red ^ ^ b e r g S “ was for m otor vehicle sales. » ♦ ♦ ♦ ance between livestock num bers ■809, Hereford 727; Roy Harvey, Carlson, brother of the groom, B arnum and Sales for the five w eek period The com m ittee Investleallng un- and th e grain supplies available H ereford 600; Leroy M artin, Her- was m an. was anuolntad ending April 30 show th a t the American activities, having re -< o rfe e d . eford 834, H ereford 730; Carl A reCeptlon was held after the „ veteran s’ purchases continued to celved another appropriation of The need for grain abroad as Schilling, H ereford 579, Angus cerem ony for m em bers of the ™ ™ Thp' S r i ^ i a U im X be concentrated largely In a rel »75,000 Is m aking a- prelim inary * ^ " 7 ^ ^ e.8" 8 694; Don Schilling, Hereford 645; two fam nie8 erate check of th e revived Ku Klux »«“ P°r k ' sm aller production of atively few lines. In th a t period Marie Reckman, Shorthorn 754, Mr Carlson is a graduate of X f o U t o FYe^h W ’^ k h e e $23,393,693 w orth of m otor ve Kian; Which held political swav poultry and eggs, and less top H ereford 710; Roger Ball, Here- Dailes Hlgh School and has ™ ^e Giles FYencK Roy B e liz e . in the Pacific N orthw est and the although th e tota hicles w ere sold to th e v e ts for ford 820, Hereford 727; Fred von ju8t retu rn ed from th ree years ^ H ^ ^ U th e r w ^achool $12,580,786. F o r all o th er goods, B a ; ____ 1920 to 1924. W ithin Vu PP>y <* a)1 thes<‘ » expected Borstel, H ereford 612, Hereford ag a junior officer ln the and c h n S ^ ^ d l t t 2 ? « £ t 7 w o m onths KKK h a s ^ »*, ^ v e Pre-war levels, the costing over tw enty m illion dol 663, H ereford 690, Hereford 789, m ^ hant m arinea in the South C* 2 lars, they paid $8,920,936. . and j ashington m , announcem states, H e r e f o r d 721- .Tam es H n r t le v * - arran g e for a m arking Obvser- tab b L- ed r r * up again burned iHr. the W r Congum w ln Jo,„ ent , arm erg H ereford 721; Jam es Hartley, p ac|fic. Mr Mudge, who recently re n r * , eross on Stone M ountain 1M() H ereford 748; H arry Hartley, T he couple will m ake th eir vanee. turned from W ashington D.C., and hekt an Initiation—tbN time p ,y MUJer w lth lh e pointed o u t th a t sales to veterans Hereford 794, Hereford 774, An- home ,n The Dalles after a m otor • w ith w om en joining T he con- of the M percen t during the m onth of April w ere gus 934, Shorthorn 761; Rodney trip to California. Rolfe, Angus 742, Ronald R o l f e ,_____________ • the Benson Commission company gressional com m ittee p o u r extraction provision. In ad- m ade, w hile th eir p rio rity w as H ereford 586; L arry Sayrs, Short* M N orth _>ortland died last Fri- know w hat if th e idea of the re- dItton an order effective Juiy lf still Inferior to a ho st o f . other F rank Beardsley ’ returned to day o f a h e a rt attack and his fun- crudescence of the Kian and such wi]1 Hm,t am ount of agencies. However, now Chat th e R E G IS TE R « HAPPINESS . . . h o m 890, Angus 783; Roger Mil- .o th e r m utters as it can learn from fjoyr milled each m onth for do- ex-GI’8 have exclusive p rio rity John L. Lewis Seem* to be well ler, Angus 892, Hereford 654; Don- Moro W ednesday m orning look- eral w as held TM esdyJ CfclglBl* to Belshee, "who has shipped to Ben th a t secret society. In th e r ®'yv* jnestic use to 85 percent of the on a num ber of Item s on the pleased with the re ta il* of the cent aid Miller,. Hereford 709; Doug- ing fine and fit in contrast attended th e ah of the Kian a fter thfc first ^m ount distributed for dom estic “set-aside” list of item s In heavy •trike. He beam* happily on leav- ias Alley, Angus 736, Hereford his appearance when he left last son for 35 years, W orld W ar, it developed into a consum ption In the corresponding demand, their purchases are ex t a ( the meeting of hl* policy com 763; Edw in Balsiger, Angus 812, w in ter after a selge of pneu- funeral of the 61 year old stock m ittee darin« negoUaIlona, Angus 843. ___monia. man. ___ j pected to rise considerably. (QonUnutd os Page two) month of 1945. » Big Picnic Politics and People on the Northwest I jj Is* Liquor More Location, to TOte ,, ,lrtnJ - - What Veterans Want To Know Manager Changed Von of 016 p,oneer trails a^ia ¡o ld Uy {¿uesttons a n d A n sw ers 4-H Children Going dwUw(L fn»d To Sommer School Gr0WerS Come n • 11 UetlCieilt H X* * KailUall I During May ^A bttag \ Club Calves Gain Weight Rapidly 1 C l CarlsOD-SllVu^r WeJdin„ Observed 6 Btort Mn «(»*1 yT?