Sherman County journal., July 12, 1946, Image 1

Fifty-E ighth (Year No. 36
nly J2, 1946
Official öoünty
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Farm Prices
Wheat Crop of
Leisurely, Other Prices
F lip p a n t Still Climbing
see-saw race between advan-
C O M M E N T ing A farm
costs and advancing
3,000,000 bus.
Now Possible
. A father pacing the hospital prices for agricultural products
pperidors has nothing on a wheat has been going on in the past
whose
every waking few months according to a re­
thought is concerned with the view of USDA data by the Q.S.C.
^ e ^ iw r to the final days before agricultural economics extension
the wheat crop gets out of danger section. Cost increases have aver-
frornVast Winds hard rains, hail aged a bit faster, but with some
storms, hard wind or arty of the commodities such as grain the
other things that reduce, yields price increases have been the
in carefully tended wheat crop«, winner.
,/ _
,
A further rise in the parity
An a g r ic u ltu r a l economist is index of farm costs was register-
new crust justice and
reported as saying, via radio, that ed during the period mid-May
w as earned chief justice of toe U. «,
o f no ORA prices are going xto mid-June. Prices paid by far-
T rem ea, aad Reeeaveeelea Dlrectar
wfrhfe and surpluses are going mers jumped 3 points to 187 per
to secceed Vinson as heed sf lbs
Fred M. Vlasea. Preatdea
to accrue, knd the bottom is go- cent of 19104914, an increase in
s e c r e to ry o f tre a s u r y w as a formes flft.
ing to drop out sometime. With <he past year of 14 points over
in congress a a d oa federal beach.
OP A, the process might be brak- June 1945.
ed down a little.
Partly offsetting the increase
He may be right. Somebody in costs, the general level of prl-
has to guess the future correctly ces received by farmers rose 12
since everybody tries and he has points during the year which
history behind him for tnat & ended at mid-June. Thus, the
about what happened after every «xchange value of farm products
war./M oney is easy, people are declined from 119 percent of par
Miss Betty Lou Olds, daughter
Sunday afternoon
July 7 in
e t y . % Then production catches ity to 117 percent, calculated of Mr and Mrs Dell Olds of Grass t h e ------*
7 ’ Dal-
and Mrs Dell Olds of Grass the Methodist chttch at The
up following Its war time duties without including farm labor in Valley, became the bride of Mar- toe, Miss Lenora Veda Held dau-
2 2 ' ± , ‘* Uer *he f° rmUla
ion Crews'
o f Mr and Mr, ghter of M r n « i V**ia Reid, dau-
¡Mrs David Held.
InaMnuch M t h e law of supply». Par"*
»"*«<■<'
' ' T . Crews of * “ c? at » 4 becamo U h M W of Harold Spen
*n aan ,u c" “ “ ** . "
s u p p ly .
o clock ceremony Sunday after- cer Bardletv wm o f Mr and M r.
AS ”ari,T iB
Ju"e t a‘ « « G n u , Valley w . H. H . r d ^ o “
to the contrary, United States average beef cat- Methodist church.
ifornfaL D r .^ B W Bruce
A sh.
*,e price8 6tood at 140 Ptroin t»
The R ^ r e n d F. L. -Cannell land,term er p J t o r f n 'T h e D a n £
te MUUuM the n m e as i t always ^ wn 3
,
from
o f W asfo
lra " n *
\
T the lamb8 13°- d , m 1 point: tmik a ceremony In the presence of a d e t ^ t f o n J F ^ “ , i X
above la probably In more for u ,. w h o lesa le 127. u p 3 point,; chick- large group of relative, and » A
i l S i T
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Make Spring
G r a b Prospects Much
Brighter Than Month Ago
‘ Another quarter of an inch of
rain fell Monday to make more
pure a good crop for 1948. Crop
prospects over a large part of the
county are now about as good as
for any remembered year, even
the years from 1941-44 when boun-
tiftil crops occurred every har-
Vest.
It is the north end of the coun-
ty that has the poorer prospects
this year and that is largely be-
cause of weeds. Tar weed, pepper
Xrass, m u stard a n d o th e r Annual
Reed E Rudin
Awaiting Trial
Or Hearing
r
Field Day Brings
Large Group of
Farmers to Station
Reed Ellis Rudin was brought
to the Sherman county jail last
week by Sheriff Fields and his
hearing ’ before Justice of Peace
Interest ■ New WUob,
Ryland Scott was held Monday
Weed O l e r , aad C ran e,
on a charge of assault and rob­
bery while armed fith a danger­
Sbawa By V ia to r,
ous weapon, a charge identical
tbe one Placed against Les-
One of the best attended field
,ie Wilson- bis accomplice, who idays in the history of the Sher­
was 131(60 to the Penitentiary man branch experiment station
,a8l mon®1’
was held Saturday when nearly a
?
was 8et at $2000 by the hundred farmers from threwpoun
ties came to go over the Iritis
Although Rudin has signed a with
wiui Merrill Oveeon, superlnten-
confe8«ion R is not known how he dent
will plead when he oomes be-
TJ
.
,
Judge Mackay. John D. Cra- 8hown flr8t th€ weed u n e d
'hiPorl? in? atl ? rney,K1Ci ne tO ln< PePP«r trass to a large extent
see
Wedoes<fay, which may In explanation Oveeon ¿Id D. IX
r^su 1 in a change in intent on
& o s c explained that me-
he p art * '
^ o s e heating, ™
weeds have kept many fields ‘f ®”
™ Yt T ™ dU ** most successful,being superior to
north of the ridge looking ha<>for Tuesday morning at 9.30 a. m. 2_^D in moet Q{
tegU
all spring, although other fields
here
appear normal.
This may be a year in which Vernon Shipley Head* which8 wL"
late wheat has an advantage over _
.
by a former weed control expert.
earlier Ju
wheat, because of the late Legion Post For Year but 18 not avaUab,e ,or purehaae.
I?
The ent
season has l>een
The spring crops looked fine
backward
. C hris
Schultz Post, American «nd the varieties all appealed to
Legion chose Vernon Shipley as the large crowd who looked at
« O .th End Good
Commander for the'com ing year them while Oveson
told the
South of Moro there is quite a at its meeting Wednesday night names of the varieties and their
bit of spring grain which
uni- and elected an entire group of reputation tor production, sm ut
formally looks fine and has pros- World War II veterans for all resistance, test weight, etc. The
pects for 30 to 40 bushels
unless offices.
oat and barley crops on the sta-
f»ot weather comes
soon. Some
Robert Marvin
was elected as tion w ere all good.
is still green but will not long Vice-commander, Ralph Busse ad- . On the test plots w here.alfalfa
remain that color in July.
, fntant, Lloyd Henrichs finance and grass .had been growing tor
ens
125.
dow
n
12;
wool
123.
dow
n
frie
n
d
,.
The
^
tlng
Did you ever notice how fine a
p ; corn 118, ty» 18; veal, 117,
Cutting
began
on
the
point,
thi*
Ray
Jewel
and five years the wheat waa a failure
The
church
beautifully
ed
e
n
u
ren
was
o
e
a
u
u
iu
n
y
e**renu>nv
w
as
a
ttra
c
tiv
e
w
ith
w officer, . rxa
y jrw
tri u chaplain
w p m m unu
—
booster for Sherman county is
dow n' 1; b u tte rfa t 116, dow n 4; decorated with baskets of white b a sk e tsn fS B tte gS t o u and ferh week wlth Wes Fuller readv to Max B elshe serg ean t a t arm s, h av in g dried up liv May before
t h e . man who has moved away?
oats 108, up 10; po tato es 107,
m -
8 tarl M ondaY o r T u esd ay had not O th er o fficers are
ap p o in tiv e ra in s came. Too much nitrogen
They are tickled to get back and dow n 36; w heat 105, up 7; hogs gladioli, lillies and other white about the alter
summer flowers. Two candelabra Schuchard sankl ' “The L o ^ a
™,n interfered He estimated and will lie namwl by the new fn d too much run-off of moisture
always refer to Sherman county 105, dow n 7; eggs 96, dow n 16;
on either side of the alter were Pravor”
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u i„ .
his crop at 20 bushels at least, commander upon his assumption was given as the reason. Some
as the best place in the world—
and hay 66, dbw n 12 po in ts.
but returns are not in.
office later in the year.
Alfalfa apparently well adapted
which it is—old timers w ho are
The general trend, however, Miss Patricia Kaseberg dressed in the
prewoea ai
Estimates of the probable size
Plans were made and com- F> dry land was shown,
faking their so called easy years
t
of the crop are generally high, mittees appointed to give a har-
A trashy fallow experiment on
amid the concrete and confusion is similar to the situation follow- dotted swiss floor length dresses
ing the first world war. From before the ceremony.
k -1 !
»liter In h may be that 3,000,000 bushels vest ball at Moro August 17, fol- tvhich grain was sown last Sept
y * ClVe* ,,r e the 6681 l>OOeter!i ateui"-the' present
■® ^»‘>jvas her only will be warehoused before har- lowing by two weeks the harvest ember 27 with a Dempster drill
parity level,
the county has.
a Wue net vest end«. Wheat has been remov- ball at Wasco, given by the Le- and a deep furrow drill was
the general farm price level
one to eoine
otok un droPped 10 ,75 percent of parity
h,ng
M from the houses to meet the gion there, and a “dress-up” showrw- On mold board plowing
— —
a” ™ ™ * ” »
£*"” ■
" * '* 1 , betore the
lh* “ there
“ ** * was
“ mUe <UHe“ BC* h“ 1
easy money
on
the
trashy
fallow the Demp-
1.
It
rose
to
average
about
80
.
.
.
.
,.
.
««u
««•egay
or
swaeapeas.
space
is
available
for
a
larger
Sherman
County
Fair.
for the riding
Miss Olds, given In marriage Gordon W /H e ld wad beet man crop thin that If needed. Contrary — --------------
fter
drill
was
held
to have done
percent
of
parity
for
several
o f d t y fo lk s w ho w ant tr>
. .
,
by her father, was attractive In and ushers were Dr. Prank D. v , conditions for recent years
the best work. The crop was
k « p , saddle horse and have no- » “ [ L ^ f° re P,u"«>nS do* n
storage is not a problem,
good, being almost ripe Turkey
th in g to feed him. That may be
F?T 8 y“ 1; ° r tw° ust in a white marquisette gown with Reid and Chester Coats.
A rm y Engineers
Given in marriage by her fath-
There are 120,589 acres sown
Red.
;
one use for the farm barn, which L* "
* 8r " • farm Prlces a basque watot, the yoke of which
of was outlined with medalions can*, er, the bride was gowned in white to wheat in this cour\ty for 1946 T II n ’
r>l
At the nursery D. D. HUI spoke
Is now used as a place In which
1
tered with seed [n ars, long sleev- organza, trained with tight bo- harvest as compared to 106,000 I C ll Ix lV C F i lH ilS
Df the need for raising fewer
to milk the cow—If any—and pa y ‘
es and full length train. Her fhj» dice, Zveetbeart neckline and last year. A crop of 25 bushels
kinds of w heat A cereal nursery
which is entirely overshadowed
ger tip veil was held in place with Jong aleeves. Her full length veil >ould make a total crop of 2 -
Army Engineers have $2,600,? Is being started at Pullman, he
by the machine shed on most
organdie
flowers
centered
with
waB
of
net
with
insets
of
lace
650,000
bushels
and
expectancy
Is
000
with which 10 Vitiate con- said, and If given governmental
farms. Who ever thought that the S h e riff s Posse Wants seed pearls. She carried a white an d WM heW ln p lace b y a
a Jarger y ieid th an 25 bushels, «truction of McNary dam on the ¿upport will be of immeasurable
horse would become a plaything
prayer book centered with a sin- beaded tiara. She carried a bou- It is possible for the county to C olum bia near Umatilla,
Colonel yalue lo northwest wheat grow-
in this country, where he was M ore Horsemen
gle white orchid.
quet of white sweetpeas and pink produce 3,000,000 bushels again
E- Walsh, Portland
district ers in that it will tell them the
once so much of a necessity?
Mrs Arden Squire was matron roses with shower of bride’s rose- if conditions remain favorable
engineer, told delegates
10 the yalue of their wheat before so
” »7,
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The newly reorganized Sher- of honor, Miss Margaret Kock, buds.
and the wheat is as good as it Northwest Rivers and Harbors much testing is done. Rex, he
Speaking of counties: what
be a perfect w heel tor
/nan County Sheriffs Posse met and Miss Barbara McConaughy,
The reception was held at the looks, and most observers think Congress meeting today at Long- Mld
takes one a great county, any Tuesday
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_
view, W ashington.
chemurgic uses and testing- would
night and.
made arra- bridesmaids, wore floor length Reid home with Mrs 1* A. Dun- it very good.
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ngementa for a meeting Sunday pastel sheers and carried old fa- can and Mrs G. W. Bruce pre-
“Part of that amount will be 8hOw that if true.
cauae of good s o il good farmers
determine Just how many rl- shioned nosegays with matching siding atth<
used to complete plans, acquire
and date of sowing and
the coffee u A and punch
and good crops that are in de- „ ers
availabJe for rides coronet8
J
- ‘bowl.
*
land
at
the
dam
site
and
erect
tlmc
ot
plowing
were shown and
Rei
Frank Reidr Miss
iwipfL
cities tool ancj practice sessions bet w e e n
a
small
construction
camp,”
he
the
party
went
past
the rotation
Don Rostad was best man for Louise Hardisty t and Mrs Ray
*
o
_
are great because of the P^°P^e now and fair time when it is the bride groom and Kenneth Kcrtge served. Miss Roberta Ginn n
said. “Early in the fall,” Colonel plot8 w here all kinds of system s
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1
who. inhabit them. . Springfield, p ianned to give some drills* as a Blau and Clyde Fridley Jr., were
Walsh stated, “Army Engineers of g ^ w in g two crops in three
in charge of the guest book. D U y l D g H 1 1 6 3 1 O lO C K S
Illinois had no reputation for fi-
of the fhir program.
will
advertise for rock excavation yearg or three ln four are tired,
ushers. '
bride and groQm cut the
f M F * * . ? y lrC* k*0* ?n . 1,16
It was announced that Fred Hill
J
’
all w
without
by farm-
A re ceo tio n w as h eld a t th e
n ° 3CtlVe ° f th<? M cNary dam
lock
and a ‘ all
itn o u t a acceptance
cvw
«50 h but is was a great town wouJd nQt come down from pen. hom
e of the bride’s uarents im- * in*
and Mrs c A
La trading on the cash wheat markets portion of the approach channel. rr8 Qver 30 y ^ .
h J L ,in „
th . n r » . Grande, conUnued the cutting. ' of the Pacific Northwest for sev-
“The lock of the dam, primar-
c ^ n ^ n t heard was that the
nf ver5*le?ea8. because Abraham djeton Sunday but would wait
Lincoln lired there.
untjl R was known how ma
in that all
I f this county had 20 or 30 or 50 w ere lnterested in doing the pra. mony. The linen
«Using necessary“ to” make a ¿oJd *®8 " tab y^ glad toll8 pink and b la r t’a o c w w ri^ " «ñd’ c w ía g e o" e"d ‘n« J“ 'y 3’ was n8t 80 dlsturb' of «0 feet and maximum of 92
* ‘ lf theyn<irouW<p X > «
Crews-Olds Wedding Solemnized;
Hardisty-Reid Vow» Exchanged
Mîl]< WaitlIlíF BcíofC
P1«** of
S o n r ía n county the best
ity socially as well as econ-
oafiically. it could be as filatine-
tive a nlpce to Jive as it now is
distinctive as a place to make
money.
thw* R«*» wed'
SUwe theFe had
l o w i n g in drills. Everyone who
,gladl ’ .
shell pink roses. The eouple left ing 38 with ^ me other g rain s, feet.”
el.
harvest. In the nursery
detlp
X le ^ o l^ 'i“
at*’y followtog Z r e c e p - according to reports to the Pro-
Initial construction of one of
varieties of wheat.
wants
have a part in the posse
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bVÍ?
lion
for
a
short
wedding
t
r
i
f
x
^
‘•-duction
and
Marketing
Adminis-
the
four,
five
or
six
slackwater
of
whlch
be grown ail
|s urged to come out Sunday
with white tapers. The three tier-
The bride was graduated from traRon, U.S.D.A. Some feed man- navigation dams -on the Snake oyer
northWest In ten
when the posse will meet at the
c u i X ' t h i brl*d M ir 5rhe n “llaB Hl«h »chool and at- ufacturcra desperately ln need river during the 1948 fiscal year The
M ,nterMted ths group
fair grounds at two o’clock.
bv Mrs5 DA Van ‘ended ° r * o n State college. Re- of what may have made purchas- is atlclpated b ? Colonel Walsh, ^ „ y ,nd gome may I be develop-
» * * ♦
P H der T h T 1 ices were served by ctnUy
b"
«»ployed ln <* <* «P01 what at hl«her Prlc®8
Another of the new p roj«te
w ,u
w h(„ mar-
?.ilder„-,Th
e
.
:
C€S
w.e™
San
Francisco.
California,
w
ith
when
the
ceilings
were
removed,
is
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Pniiic
and
Mm
Kon
r>an
r
rancisco,
v
aiuumto,
witD
.
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improvement
of
the
Columbia
conditions
change
to cause a
mJ;
Threshing Machines
Mrs Collis Moore and Mr» Ke
g Ar
Engineers.
but reports indicate that the river between Vanoouver and The
_ . U8 of wheat again.
stead of cigarettes. Reason given
-
neth Blau presided
F The bridegroom was a graduate graIn trade generally hesitated to Dalles at an estimated cost o f __________
is that nearly all pipe smokers
g e C le a n e d
bowl. The young
Rje *o f Fullerton Union High school ma** new commitments, prefer- $1,176,000 with additional
t>TTw n
t
-
wedding party assisted about the
.
fl»tended y>iS>rtnn Jun- rlng to wait tlu the situation 1*- tures including a ten-foot channel UNBMPIXMfllWI®
give the appearance of enjoying
their smoke. They revel in it
The county clerk Is having rooms.
s
wwjwi four years comes more stable. Flour mills« 300 feet wide at the entrance to OTAYg
HIGH FIGURE
Whereas many cigarette smokers gome excerpts of the weed law
For going away the bride chose Jn
y ‘g
jliyirrf rLwUk/- with wheat stocks entirely ex- Oregon Slough $6,000; a small
Unemptoyroent
grab a puff and hastily put it printed so they will be available a black suit with matching ac- ,
discharge in Fehmiarv
hausted, apparently were unwill- boat basin at Hood River with a . The Oregon
away from them as if taking a to owners of threshing macnlnes cessories. Her corsage was the _____________
ing to take on large stocks of ten-foot chanel 200 feet wide con- Compensation Commission in the
dose of quinine. Women do this and other machines of the county white orchid she carried during
wheat at the advanced prices, acting deep water, $8,000; and a first half of 194« paid out near-
m^>re frequently than men, hence
are jpOVed from one field to the ceremony.
> Interest in wheat is principally ten-foot channel 200 feet wide ly 20 millions, more than the pay-
the suggested
reform, about |another.
After a weeks trlp
an undis. MAY
HAZARDOUS
^centered in the new crop which is connecting the waterfront at Bin- menta for the entire e ig h t years
which, we feel aM» j o assure you
The weed law states that every ciosed destination the young oou- FOR MOTORISTS
,
reported to be in excellent con- gen, Washington, to the main of unemployment insurance upV*
nothing will be done.
machine moved shall have one of p,e wiU make their home |n Moro
dition
throughout' the entire channel through Bonneville lake,,V-J day. The total waa divided
>as follows: Civilians; $11,249,821.
e«
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the statements on it and that for the remainder of the summer. • Oregon’s traffic death rate for /Pacific Northwest; with unusual- $101,500.
We* rather wish it was time to ^very
QUt
The other three projects includ- veterans $5,5«T,512;
salf-emploved
. machine shall be thorough-
___ of _____ relatives
_______ present fh® month of May dropped three ly . favorable weather conditions
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take the census again. There are ]y cleaned before being moved folT tfje ceremony were Mr and points below the rate for the same Muring the month of June a very ed in the Authorization bill p ro veterans $896,093.
so many young people in the onto the roads or into another Mra A c Hali aunt and uncle month a year ago, Secretary of > r g e crop of fine quality winter vide , small boat basins at The
Payments to covered dvtttan
.workers dropped off 27 percent
county now. After so many years f |eid. AW weed seed of the varie- of the ¿ ride and Mrs James wfrfo-' State Farrell reported today. The wheat is practically assured, ac- Dalles, Astoria and Newport.
Colonel Walsh said The Dalles- in June to $1,601,77«. Uy w sfln y -
of seeing old faces, wrinkled
Weed control district was enshaw the brides grandmother., rat® RR® May wae ten persons cording to reports from the large
faces, and faces a bit drawn from formed to control or eradicate
.killed per one hundred million .wheat producing areas. Harvest Celilo handled 598,980 tons of ed veterans racetvad $771,022.
work and worry, it is pleasant must be removed from the ma­
miles of travel, compared to a will be later than usual as a re- commerce during 1945, greatest only 2 percent leaa than in Magr»
suit of recent rains, but is expect- in its history, and that tonnage while payments to the aelf-eaaqaiogr-
te see* young men w ho swing fhine, in order to comply with COUNCIL TALKS LIGHTS
rate of thirteen a y ea r ago.
along and
young women who tbe law which has been invoked
Farrell said the actual death ed to be quite general by July this year appears to be 40 per- ed increased about 8 percent to
bouce down the street. W e’d like for Sherman county.
The city council decided on toll for May of. this year was 37, 20.
. cent greater than last year.
$228,834. Veterans are petd by
to compare the membership of
Combine owners shall apply locations for street lights _ at Ils Compared
to 31 for May of 1945.
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In 1945 the Columbia River the state agency from
age groups now and four years | O the clerk for the statements of m eeting Tuesday night,
prepara- However, motorists ran up 371-
and Wlllamette River below Van- funds under the GI Bill O
ago. And the youngest age group the law.
tory to making a new contract 999,044 miles on Oregon high-1 OREGON A N T E L O P E
couver and Portland handled 17,-
R eduction in eivllian
fc, growing, too. And that’s the ---------------------
with the Pacific Power
Light ways in May of this year, com- SCARCE THIS YEAR
360,827 tons of commerce, heavi-
ascribed m ainly to
best part of i t
company in A u gust The lighted pared to 226,946,212 miles a year Observations to date by Game est tonnage in the past ten years,
tidn of the 184« benefit
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MRS BRYANT ENTERTAINED 8P°ts w ere not changed much al- ago. The accident death rate In- Commission biologists in d ica te --------------------
.o f 18,700 wortesrt, alMMR 7 8 4
Harvest about the last week in
though sbme of the locations were» di cates the number of persons that the antelope popluatlon In VTaim
T R T ivfiT n K
cent of whom
July Is like old times when head-
Mrs E. H. Moore was hostess at (poorly designated.
r
f ille d in relation to exposure, as southeastern Oregon is very low.
yard employes to the mstropoii-
Ing began about then and thresh- p luncheon Monday in honor of
it is expected that
fraaoWse show by motor vehicle use.
/ Although a high percentage of
Mr and Mrs Merle Becket drove, tan area, fttononal work,
ing went on and on into the cold Mrs Elva Bryant, who has been cfOr the power company^.will be Farrell urged Oregon m otorists, the does dropped twin kids this <o Heppner Wednesday night to
was picking up '
and quiet fall,with wheat hauling .visiting here for ten days. Ladies sign ed at the next meMlng. It to remember the increased traf- season and no evidennee of di-.spend the Fourth th e re ’with her pecially to the
Just finished in time for late invited visited with Mrs Bryant will be similar to that recently /ic volumes on the highways to sease has been found, the loss by relatives and witness the air show with tim bering and
seeding. Them was the days—for who was leaving for her home given the company by the City of day and to exercise greater driv- predation of coyotes "has been * t the Lexington f airport on the ploying about 14,080 more
hard work.
in Hood River Tuesday.
^Wasco.
ing care to avoid accidents.
quite heavy.
nation’s birthday. •
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