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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1948)
. ,, ,j.V , -jT *' ' f ! ’— ---- r—.—- g - . ^ . . r ,— .?— • --------gg"" ) y \ y -; ! * ■ o^5 <r Moro, Oregon, F rid a y , S ix t ie th Y ear No, 29 Official County Paper fo ay 21, 1943 T— Crop Year ■ Pegram Preparation Moisture 5 ¡„rf, Highwav 97 Ass’n Graduates End Elects Oregon School Days As Getting Along Directors MAJOR INCREASE IN SHEEP EXHIBITS Historical Society T h e se ., M * . At Bend A OVC INOriTlill for Terms Finish A m eeting of the Oregon sec T he program the 1948 d tion of the Highway 97 associa m eeting of the 8h«6nan County , «v « G raduation tim e finds Sher tion w as held at Bend Friday H istorical Society, which will Up to the latest rain 15J27 in m an county with 17 boys and night. Purpose was the election be' held a t DeMons Springs, Sun- eh of precipitation had been girls ready to finish their high of directors from Oregon and day Ju n e 6, Is being arranged, corded at the experim ent f school courses. Of these nine are California and fu rth er discussion I/eslie Scott, sta te treasu rer, will tioJJ s ’ace Septem ber 1 from the; Moro school although be the main speaker of the day To May 1 the rainfall for this of the budget. ) all but one are from Grass Valley of t h e crop year was exactly five inches chosen were Giles French of and has chosen “Ta and Kent. The commencement Trail” as his subject, one on more than lhe normal which is Moro and W ilford Josey of Bend exercises for them will be held by Giles L. French w hich he is w eli'v*rsed. having 9 44 inches. So far for May th ere for tw0 year term s and Guy next T hursday evening, May 27 w ritten a h isto ry o f Oregon. has been 83 inches w hereas the W ade, M adras and Malcolm Ep- and Jam es Hartley, R ichard Ove- I like eastern Oregon towns, W alter Meacham of the Terri- norm al is .78 for the entire m onth. ley. of K lam ath Falls for one son, H erm an A. Peters, Philip T. especially the sm all ones—and Mortal C entennial fein m lM rid n . And th ere I r e the bald figures year terms. C E. M otschenbacher Bors Car| , e Ver. m ost of them are. will attend and te ll local mem- which tell nothmg of tru ck s sUll 0< Dorris, California will be th e na Ju n e Coy|e Lyons T here’s a frankness about the bers w hat has been done and will getting stuck in sown fields, of director from th at state. » Sharon A rdenne M artin and Lola residents and a friendliness th at be done to com m em orate Oregon roads still ru tted * from W hen W ashington has elected Jean Zeveiy w ni graduate, is still tinged deeply w ith native h isto ry th is year an d next. storm s, of long delayed field directors a joint m eeting will At W asco both the high school independence th a t keeps the J and visit- work and soddy- sum m erfallow. be held in Moro for complete and grade school ceremonies M eeting old stra n g e r from presum ing too Rain this orgsinizatiOn a budget of $2000 have been held May 20th being ing w ill be ‘given m ore tim e this Rain has has been been the the lot lot of of this m uch. They talk about th eir V ’ lofAro w hich m eans section of Oregon w ith alm ost for . . . w a_ recommend- the date of commencement there. each state was year than before, w hich means problem s w ith little reserve w ith a snorter prog.wii m ore continuous regularity since Sep- ed &nd the p o r g ^ t o come from Finishing high school were Pa- and shorter program out expecting sym pathy, although tim e to sit under th e trees and tem ber 27 when the heavens op- gherm an county was set at $150, tricia Kaseberg, Jam es W hite aid m ight be welcome. . •* __c n W l f W l V th P V h llV P F lO t . . . __ talk about a tim e back when. ^ped so widely they have not w hich is now being raised. and Louis Lutje. The wom en who m eet the pub •An in p io n eer food will been able to get closed again. Rufus High School will have lic are often notew orthy. *, Clear- have a part 6 f the program and December was a com paratively comm encem ent exercises next eyed and clear spoken, they m eet a picnic d in n er w ill b e spread on dry m onth, there being but .55 P M Shown with his grand champion lamb of the 1947 «how at The D ales T hursday when Shirley May Yo- you as persons and not like the of the Eastern Oregon W heat League Is Stephen Oveson of Moro, also tables so the h u n g tf — and who inch instead of the usual 1, .64. . I lVIrl cum, Audey Mae Blackbum e, sim pering clerks in the cities _ _ named the champion showman. At th b year’s 4-H «how 80 sheep will be It really has been cold too. ■ - a Jpan Sm ith Vclda Marte will not be—can eat. - who m ay peer coying beneart) e<hlbited to 34 7, 8 and 9, with ibited compared to SO lxst l*st year. year. Show Show date« dates are are Jane Jn Mean average1 for March fit was . M l Guilford and W illiam H. Mc- th eir bangs as if th eir m ind w * the place again ' — *' Auction ‘ - Yards - - in — W ink’s The ----- Dalles. mean, Wo) was 38 8 d^ reer. and Donald will end their local school m ore on th eir repressions than — ■ while Marchs aren t often warm ayg on your re q u e s t to speak w ith the average tem perature is 42.2. Sherm an county PM A commit- A grade school com m encem ent the boss. A . Although April figures are not ttcm en q q H ilderbrand, Rus- will be held at Grass Valley Mon- A m em orable occasion w as a ar .1 . yet available at the station sell Belshee and Frank von Bor- day May 24 at which tim e grade breakfast at a very smaii town daily .readings indicate t ey are about m idway in school graduates Kent, Grass />r stopping place a t an hour of Judge D,< _ Nz Mackay - has re- . not m _____ tte r t,han cesg of setting up new and other N orthw est producers uch te better t,ban those t ose for or tfte p rocess the m orning when the cook and The In tern atio n al W heat Ag- w est's crop is used in the area the Attor- March and even here in May an w beat insurance rates and cover- Valley i - uh L v s and' Moro will finish, sole m anager of the eating place reem ent w ould not fix prices re- w here it is grown.. The rem ain- g ra n t School D istrict YE A tic>r overcoat is standard equipm ent. ages made possible under pro- From Grass Valley the punlls was already preparing d inner for ceived by Oregon growers, ac- der—about 65 million bushels is "General N euner to 9<‘t dates G ardeners are pulling th eir visions of recent changes in the finishing are Duane Eakin, Bar- a crew of hay hands. N eat, and cording to an analysis by E. J. sold elsew here in the nation o r , , and it as hoped — — . , , , t first radishes and onions but ftderal crop insurance program , bara Alley, M argaret Reckm ann, trim and efficient she made break- Bell of the Oregon W heat Com- abroad, Bell explained. th at the case can be fceaM before . u th a t requjre the sun are W ork Is expected to be completed Geraldine R ust and Ixtis Kelly. fast for the visitors, perfect in rrission and OSC economists. --------------------- i,m n p e 7 7. T his legal action KTWf still 1— o n H o r n plants ln n t s set Ju behind. T Tender set al>out May 28. From K ent are Leroy M artin, the age-old qualification of worn- Prices of Oregon and o th e r out of th e W eir w ill which set hopefully in the garden have per- A fter new rates and coverages A rthur B uether and Doran F ritts, en: to m in ister to the w ants of N orthw est w heat largely will be up a trust, fund for purposes in some of th e frosty men. j set by governm ent supports and which cannot now /be fulfilled. nights, the last of w hich was are set up in Sherm an county, From M ojo are Norva Jam es Maybe it’s small tow ns them- other factors of supply and de The district, • through? H» a tto r the 14th. Average date of last present w heat insurance policy Robert M artin, and Ju an ita Mc- holders will have the option of Ju n e Scherrer selves th a t cause people to be mand, they ¿aid. V ney, is asking j th a t other p u r spring frost is May 8. chariging th eir policies to take Clain. friendly b u t anyw ay they are— The agreem ent, now before poses be made possible Donald Total precipitation has brok R ufus grade school graduates and It’s fu n to m eet them. the j j . S. Senate, was w ritte n H eisler is a tto rn ey <or the dis en all station •records, the form Immediate advantage of the new w ho will hold exercises a t the tric t and Rex K im m tl is,appear- ™ belRg the 5 rainfall changes, according to County Ag- ♦ by delegates Of 36 n a tio n * at same tim e as the high school are Oddity in the election statistics: W ashington, D istrict of Columbia, betw een Septem ber 1 a n d -Ju n e t cnt W right, ing for N euner John Fow lie S te w a r d .N o r m a n In N orth H eppner precinct th ere in March. . U nder it th e United which occurred in 1942 -43. This Coverage under the new pro- H ans Brand, Tony Victor Jim- are 314 R epublicans a n d 157 Stategt Canada a n d A ustralia H onoring of 4-H club boys and vear there is an inch m ore th an gram will provide between 60 inez, Roger Vernon Miller. nn/l I 65 percent of an average Democrats. In South Heppner woujd agree to ex p o rt 500 mil- girls, together w ith news about and W a sc o g ra d e sch o o l g r a d u a te s that. precinct there are 314 Repubh UoB buabe|8 of wheat a year rom ing E astern Oregon crop as com pared w ith the old \Vho finshed T hursday night w ere cans and 157 Democrats It Is al- The 33 s p o r tin g nations would Wheat 1>eaRUe sa ie and Show m aximum level of 75 per cent Gordon Buck, B etty Dorm aier, most Impossible to any to4>uy that amount. an<1 the horae show of the Sher- yield insurance. Under the- chan Roliert Howell, W illiam Nisbet, preclncts of exactly if ratified by the- United Stat- m an County R iders w ere all on ges proposed, coverage will no M arvin Richards,, Erm a Jean Charley H. Adamson of Rt. 4. site to say nothing of finding es and the o th er 35 nations, the the Sherm an County club p ro longer be established on an in W allace, Jeanne W atkins, Jan et two so close together with ex agreem ent would become effec- gram W ednesday, n ig h t,. T he ---- dividual .farm basis, but ra th e r W orkm an, Joe Yocum and Leo Mil « r h actly the same num ber of R e live A ugust 1. It would 1-e <11- moto odd-Fellows hall w as th e down car on DeMoss Mil eari on an «area basis. These area rented by an Internationa. W heat of m« t in g . X se At a recent m eeting the S her rates and coverages are now be Roberts. publicans and Democrats. man County Post V.F.W. and ing set up by county PMA com- Council. . • H arold Eakin, co-chairm an in R tb{? ditch, throw ing the Cows th at w ere thin a few auxiliary elected new officers n-jtteem(,n w ph the assistance of Prices would not exceed $2 a charge of telling about the rid- out Ad imson w as weeks ago and baw ling restlessly for the cu rren t year. These new- rancbers jn the areas concerned, bushel and would not be Jess ers show gald th a t th e re w ere brough t ? to town by M rs Jaen- for th eir wobbly leggled calves lv elected officers w ere installed p rem jum rates are expected to are now shZdTng -pTdly“ and be- ^ ’ X ^ l d S n mZ ^ T . n and X X ' n b u to ' Jointly w w ith ith TJie T fe Dalles Dalles Post be m a te r|a |,y whpn the Yocum was t T taken k i n ^ n ^ t o look sleek on the Kch c e l l i n g ^ c l^ -^ th a ^ e a ^ J X e ^ 's X in jX w - V new office™ at a tneet.ng of lnsurancc Rocs lnto A game of baseball will be ira a a of the upper country, rn e ™ in The Dalles. effect. a bushel each year. w b jcb others would be invited. lance. No m ountain m eadow s have started found. Those elected for the Post are: county played at Grass Valley Sunday problem facing The Goidendale has already been host. a n d ^ h e " c re e k s 'ru n high D uring the fifth and last Bob Boynton, commander; Ivan PMA comm itteem en now is to afternoon at 2 p. m. Prices ^ ’S ^ Ä . ^ e T e 0: - u l d floor be would based be on $1.10. Canadian It is. planned to hold the final Blagg, senior vice commander; divide the county’s w heat lands Am erican le g io n team o show, a t which district w inners Dick Holdaway, ju n io r vice com UP In such a way th at all farm s Dalles and a team of boys from J _, HzAÌlor< 1 M anitoba nor th at lia» less w ind in the hill country and dollars for No. F o rt W illiam - will compete, a t th e Sherm an m ander; Bill B rinkert adjutant; having the same producing oapucl- this county. ___ county fa ir next fall. Only those the sun seems to do m ore good. th em w heat at T here is a likelihood th a tJ lf Eldon Lane, chaplain; F ran k tv and comparable degree of In- Port A rthur. y w inning events in some of Sayrs and John Rust, trustees, surance ______ V.ov risk will will hnvp have identical identical a team of boys can be organized • • * • *b t P ortland price for No. 1 soft local show s Could com pete a t the here it can enter the race for th e The American Legion baseball N orris Gilkison, patriotic instruc- x ^ ^ w i ^ ^ v e n - the advent of w hite would range betw een 3>z fair he Dewey Thom pson Th< coverage and prem ium rates. $2 district composed of Corbett, bUt in 7 H a p s little toward th at and $1.45Vij a bushel for the first showed his colored m ovies of the team won from H eppner Sun- tor. W right states th at a sliding Hood River, Bonneville, and H eppner Elected for the auxiliary were: saw m ___ ills Ql w off th eir year, incc riders. day * by a 9 to 7 score. H eppner ll'u nreiide"»- Myr- scale of prem ium rates play an The Dalles. Boys m ust be under take less “such quality discount ^a jr and end. Local peop Qn m ay be m utually agreed upon and W asco w ere Bed fog ' eag^ senior vice president; Im portant role In the new In- 17 as of Ja n u a ry 1. Those boys high-heeled boots __________ -.............. leadership a t three Straight b o Ue R u st ^ ,OT ,o r presi. 8Urance proeram . For Instance. ac- , m irth by the parties concerned” interested should be at G rass loggers caulks b u t their be Jn T he Dalles j u n e ' f ore the game. Y Marion Boynton, conduc- a rancher w ith m ore than 1000 Valley by one o’clock Sunday. and th e ir enjoym ents are . th cording to a U. S. D epartm ent of A griculture analysis. 7 g g im provem ents have been Because of a de^.lsl tress* K errone Christianson, sec- acres of w heat will qualify for • sam nu e as before They » ney are men No. 1 soft w hite was quoted a t made ln tac iu u e s a t W ink’s league officials A rlm rton Was d - tress * H>w,e Rpencer, the highest prem ium discount, Instead of men raising $2.40 in Portland May 5. T he d and T he Dalles is again d a re d w inner of , 'he 9 ™ a r t M ary DeMoss and Donna 20 percent. Moreover, if prem- T A X T U R N O V E R M A D E calUe’ h u t a r e ”stlll the same kind economists said the average price preparlng e n te rta in m e n t for th e which went to nine innings a n c r gua a,. y hparPr% Carm en lums on all sized acreages are T urnover of taxes by the ^ P ortland from 1935 to 1939 ^ giu n r clubbers. ' a dispute. Arlington was ahead at I a n e ^ color Belle pald cash p r|or to established of men. , - ■ Z V o r e than 12 steers wUl seven Innings when .h e gam e w as Brown, ^ a tr lo h c instru g 6h erjffs oHice as of May 15 The sparrow s probably suffer- wag g5 centg a bushel. D uring was small b u t indicative th at - m ore than m ost species w ith tbose same years this nation ev- be in any one class and It is ex- K|n7„ a a t Waaco m uslcian; Sylvia Gilkison. trustee. Is allowed W asco plays Kinzua at ___________ Those called to aid the county th a t there are not m any taxes coming of the autom obile. T he ported oniy 42 million bushels pec ted th a t th ere will be six or th is Sunday and A>pes to con- the ìade change* yeap . and com m unity com m ittees fo r to pay. On the current roll the seven classes of H erefords and inanim ate auto i tinue its winning stre#kyi; RTlANtKO ' W asco and Ixicust Grove are: ' tu rn o v e r was $1035.82 and on very-m ode of The UnUed s ta te s ’ “sh a re ’ un In th eir three of S horthorns and tw o of necessary i» «— vaÄwPver Is n v M rs Mamie G arrett v Flov.1 Root. L. P. Haven. Damon the delinquent r o ll..was $16.85. llfe. T _ he s p a rro w - However, _ >WHVelnow der the agreem ent would be 185 Angus. O fficers of th e show ex By ‘ Fields Gordon H arper, David Rem aining delinquent is a m ere ^ i e to m eet change a n d ^ mUlion bùshelg pect 140 head of steers, 50 head Mr and Mrs W. D. H^nks, Mrs RicbGl'd erfer F red D orm aier, $3132.31 showing paym ent of can be seen picki g T b e analysis by the W heat o f hogs and a like num ber of 'G lade Carrigan and Vernon Miller, Leland Medler, n e a rly . 98 percent of the taxes . _ a . — J V enerei Oil V iive o _ « . __ 1 rver1 deseicated bugs o? L ^ e rno^ in g Commission and OSC econom ists sheep. Boys and girls will be If Oregon voters let thè elem ents were visitors W ednesday and K enneth W alker. lor the past year. S S g a s 3 = 2 = « e g o - We 'N ote Its t ______l ‘ifi® A P olio VdllS I U* InSUrailCe M e e t International Wheat Agreement May Make Problems for Northwest brain Growers School District vs. Neuner Case Called Club Learns, of Coming County Events ‘Bug’ Hit» Difcÿi, And Man Injured two agree VFW and Auxiliary “Ä Elect Officers American Legion Ball May Be Played Wasco Takes Fourth the Loses One By Ruling rs Sprague OKs McKay T he sparrow intends and even in th is have gome day m an^?nt Q change as to adapt him self to fa r reaching- *• *“B u t* la d y , didn’t a been ln r policem an liceman. suspect b u rg lars n — w u found all you th e .hoU8% WDUned out and their th e draw ers p Qver the contents scattered floors? j thought Sher ‘‘Ce,? ln?y . been looking m y husband had been j for a clean X snw y * kznvq " a r e 8<>ln8 .^ V £ a l n to n W Small 0 7 - / t v t Y again to nign* n e s t l e and ^ * ubt J ^ prov<<e rovt4e à â‘ lot wresu« andr W?n a d d itio n ^ 0 s0™! of f u n l ? a - d about w hat to do knowledge a valuable i m l ^ w i S ’ ¿ k n o w l e d g e , of other exporters w ould be sell- introduced w ere Duane E akin, ing w heat below present worl Merle E akin, L a rry Kaseberg, • "“ M r a c w r ' ^ k « 8" » ^ ' ntrvr Douglaa McKay- W ednesday to get his « Jplck-up governor, urged th e^ ltd jp lito which was there for repair«, pricea (2) T axpayers would need Joan Oveson> .A lfre d Kock, Ed- nQminate and e iect as governor w o rd has been received here ________ _ to p u t up m oney for ex port sub- w£n Balslger, L eroy M artin, Clar- whose record shows be has w ilb u rn F razier of Pacoima. ... . .uwv » E xporting ------ m — ^,,rvtvioQ . . May . . .. orai char- _ „,ac was kicked in the sjdieg. ^3) (KrtUitries Gbce and th e ir w innings re- ^be re8ohition and m m oral char- p aiifo _ rnia kicked m lgh t be unabl* to force i m p o r t - t ed. O thers w inning scholar- and executive com petence ^ a at the dairy w here if O444F™ ............... pregent pressures for lax law . s he ^ e a w d orks n y a and th at his vacation ------- - ~7- - allQtmGnt - r -------- Wen? ---- D1. ------- : w heat w ere available at , ane C hristianson, Doran, F ritts, and lax enforcement. Antelope will be postpon- prices elsew here. (4) It would M ie von Borstel Scott F ritts , Com paring the legislative re- Frazier own the keep governm ent In expert bus- F)orenoe Oentry. Roger Ball and c o r d ,,o f two fo r the ed £ » y here. _______ keep govem m env «$ — Florence u e n try , ,— w ««« w> - v , . KflV ftnd Iohn Young propery . lness for for anorner an o th er u five David W h t. . x tj ^ f rnor8oh ™ in??d Ou o u " t Joe Morelli and J. S. Holt drove lness v e years. UavlQ w n rig gm . ....... g— i P_ , r i ............ Aims of 010 a8r* 'n}entt ^ e il? , A discussion of th e t>est course JJa -, agSPk)^ rnOrPHaii has ap tQ p rin evllle Friday, -a8Su re supplies of w heat to ^ w heat leggue follow ^ o s t c o n s is te d ly voted w ith the Bill Garre tt w ent to The Dal po rtin g counlfleS and } the pacific In tern atio n al UquQr and gambling interests, Me- les t0 see a doctor about a m inor r n r k e t s to “ h a T d e cid e d to hold its ju n io r ^ " X l the opposite w ay. £*c |£ n t to his f l n ^ r sustained Oregon Bell said, 8Oft would need to be alert If to who vçrote in w heat and flour outlets w ere E dw ard Young, early 18th ^ W h ^ T O percent of th em a tio n ’s to e u V « 'a t . s = w hat others fists. 'cali do with M rs Edw ard C arter _ _ of _ the w ork icai nf€t they _ will endanger the W right then told (2) It would discourage district • was ^ ^ n s i o n of w heat production in of chlb w orkers who had won in teg rity of their g o v a ra n g p t and p art im porting countries. (3) I t would sum m er scholarships and Dick open the 8tate to the forces df p u t a flopr un d er w orld prices Qveson who had won the Union evii form er Governor Charles A. • Amanda Fine visited her ---- received and Ed gprague, said in a radio address M An te lope Tuesday and above •< those before *pacific scholarship, F ritts who had won, b u t could i n -Portland. , t . *, r . a sons a t Antelope y W orld W ar II. (1) ,U . and not use sum m er-school prizes. SP5a«ufe’nwhoJ b!d ohfe { n fh ^ n re ^ J o T V o re lH went to P o r t e d Disadvantages— (1) th * r on“ 3 5 cent of th e show“in . th e . spring foHowM^a sh o rt talk by M illard Eakin, w heat league officer e Com m ittee for th e next meet- Ing, Ju n e 2, will be W endell Bal n„i. p a t Rageberg, B. c North- g artn er and Carrel Bennett. “ s p ra g u e declared Oreaon needs ss governor a man of unlmpeach- able integrity, busin tt« ability, w arm personality, decisiveness courage and good* w orking the state, and he waR convinced McKay passes all these tests with a high rating. yh)le w orklng on the K ent eie- yator. Donald McRae and Jim m ie Dillon of The Dalles spent the week end here visiting friends and attending the funeral of Alex Campbell of Antelope. » WAR B R ID ES FROM N IPP O N . . . Now I f . J a p a n « . w „ N * . U arrive In tae rtatUO from occ«pati«n doty In Japan, these are two of t h r A m e r k an aoidiera who landed In Seattle with their newly won S ^ a li? M rs. Vincent P. CoateUo of Philadelphia (left) and CpI. and lir a . Doyle Sima of Memphis. Tern»., are Interviewed hy a upon their entry into the U.~S. . . .