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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1948)
1 Sixtieth Year No. 40 These T h in g s Moro, Oregon, Friday, August 6, 1948 Official County Paper Oregon Wheat Com m ission Fire Destroys Fridle’' Wheat Total Valuation Drops As Utility After Lightning Value Lowers Destruction of 160 acres of standing wheat occurred on the Fridley place east of Emigrant Springs Tuesday evening when lightning struck immediately in front of a truck driven by Dewey Thomas and ignited the grain. Although neighbors- from an area several miles across came to aid in putting out the fire it was not controlled until it had reached the summer fallow east of the wheat field and north of t^e Chester Coats place, A part of the field was saved by pfowing so to confine it to the east and south thus saving some of tbe north part of the field. It was one of the best parts of the Kenneth Fridley crop and was estimated to make 40 bushels to the acre. The fire accurred about 6:30 jn the evening during a heavy lightning storm which brought min to the area north of the Fridley place hut did little to aid in putting out the fire, Dewey Thomas was not injur- ed by the lightning which came so close to him. ------------------, •••*• Valuation of property in Sher man county increased by $46,250 according to assessor’s figures recently compiled by Bill E. Todd. This increase, however, was less than was the drop in utility valuations made by the b y G iles L. F re n c h state tax commission with the Down in Oregon City the pub result that total valuation of the lisher of the daily newspaper county is $9,760,561.62 instead of criticized the centennial cele $9,859,476 as it was last year. brants f o r wearing whiskers A slightly smaller number of and insisting that everyone else acres' are assessable in Sherman do likewise. It started quite a county this, year than last, there little fuss and some statewide being 268,365.94 acres of tillable discussion of the propriety of land whereas there was 269,- wearing whiskers when prepar- 572.94 last year. -Someplace 1207 Ing for pioneer events. acres have been lo$t to local There is something to be said assessment, probably gone to for the edMor’s case. A bearded state or federal government. townsman riding in a modern- Valuation of tilled land is up motor car hardly resembles a to $21.23 from $21.15 so the loss pioneer, the whiskers are too in valuation is but $1839. Non- small a part of the attempted tillable land dropped to an even simile. A man in an air condi- $1.50 per acre instead of $1.51 as it was before and there is tioned office, bathedt clean cloth 105.72 acres less and $230 in ed, passing upon matters of valuation. selling gasoline, refrigerators ov Improvements on unplatted electric stoves is a far cry from lands, which means outside of the pioneer even though his chin towns, is $515,890, a drop from be adorned to suit the most $537,800 of last year. Improve strict vigilance committee. ments on platted lands, in towns, Those who desire to appear as are valued at $307,660 instead of pioneers might well go farther $285,110 which would indicate than their tieards. A pair of Hood River Music that sitch improvement is have heavy dowhide boots, instead of been m< de ha vi been in the shined shoes, a linsey woolsey towns. shirt instead of one of the sports Festival Attracts The Oregon Wheat Commis- Members are ( left to right) Jena Terjeson, Pendleton, chair-ford. Arlington, vice-chairman .. City lots are variety, a well used pipe instead sion posed for a picture during William 3: Enscliede, Hillsboro; man; E. J. Bell, Pendleton, ar- and Ralph McEwen, Jr., Haines but are only a? ip a few dollars Keen Interest of Timberline eased ax $h3,080 of a cigarette would do as much its May meeting in Pendleton. Millard Eakin. .Grass Valley; mlnlstrator; Marlon T. Weather- These figures make the total to ^glve that pioneer look as a visitors ‘ In the Music Festival real property valuation $6,869,030 fringe of well trimmed whiskers- brochures placed at the resort or $870 Jess than for 1947-48. Now and then- one is found hotel soon exhausted the , supply whose appearance Is helped by a> hand- and a T ue,t, for slx Personal property is .valued was higher being $1,213,670 instead whiskers. Whether wives would hundred additional copies with made. They were delivered, of $1,165,870. There is an item of,?. permit them on the family plh containing the $51-00 for improvements oh U. S. low as a steady thing cannot he * P p wa. Mr and Mrs Harve Cutts and dike they said there was not pecially to get their son who Land Machinery and equipment known but some men’s face look dropped from a plane, piloted daughter, Joann, o f Albany enough rain to eettle the dust, was visiting relatives there. Mon- is,down to $28,330 from $52,020 better when dressed than when hv Mel Lingren of Hood Rh spent the week end here visiting A bolt of lightning was seen to day th^y came to Rufus to spend Merchandise is row valued at naked. Earl Swanson assistant manager her parents, Mr and Mrs Jerry strike over in GUlliam county a few days with Mrs Clarke’s $109,420 instead ‘of $99,580 and • of Timborline reported that more Coyle. Saturday night causing a fire to parents. Mr ant} Mrs Glen Grain continues to come tnto farming equipment has gone to The Indiana legislature has than three thousand spectators Mrs Dean Reynolds and Mrs spring up- From what could be Thompson. into the elevators in surprising $588,020 from $519,460 reflecting passed a ' resolution regarding stationed themselves on the Gene Reynolds were business seen from the Sherman county ------------------------------------------- quantities and they fill up the purchase of much new equlpr federal aid to states which says; mountain aide to watch the de visitors in The Dalles Friday, side, it burned s<^ne grass land wlthln a few days time unleiw went. Equipment in «-onunwrelal “we have taken a good look at Hvery of the brochures, follow- Mr and Mrs Willis Brittain and the Bartlemay ranch, Louise White Buried provision is made to ship out use is up to $41,720 from $25,330 federal dollars and find that they announcement of their pending children of Tygh Valley visited Visiting here for several days, to tidewater storage points or indicating some change .over al! lose weight on their journey arrival. At exchange of signals Mr and Mrs Frank Bayer Fridav. were Mrs Clara White and dau- In The Dalles from machinery and equipment removal to local houses. the packet, replete with red wrap The children remained here to ghter Virginia at the home of to Washington and hack.’ - > o. items. Wheat from the Sherman and streamers to facilitate loca- spend, a week with their uncle her aunt. Mrs Elizabeth Kuypers Alice Iaouise White Endicott operative Grain Growers is be There are 615 horses worth The Whites are from Podtland died in Portland Friday at the The item that shows the great- tion, was dropped and hit the and aunt, the Bayers. $26.26 each. 8663 cattle worth est inflation is the cost of gov- target accuratelv. Mr. Swanson Mr and Mrs Jerry Coyle had and-w hile here they were also age of 37. Funeral serices were ing shipped to Portland and it is $ 16.56 and 560 sheep at $4.78, expected that a fifth of the ernment. Wheat is high and beef reported the box so well wrap- a8 dinner guests Sunday Mr and overnight guests of Mr and Mrs held in The Dalles, Tuesday, 1293 hogs at $11.73 and 3721 is soaring and the price of ma- ped arrived in excellent condi- Mr8 Harve Cutts and dayghler CharleR Kuypers, to view the August 3 at 2:00 p. m. with In crop will have to l>e moved in poultry valued at 95 cents. All that manner. chinery is out of sight, but the tion in fact. w?s so well wrapped of Albany, Mr and Mrs Ivan activitiy of harvesting. terment beside her parents, Mr The Moro Grain Growers are figures as of the first of the cost of government l»eats them three men struggled to unwrap <qagg and family, Mrs Alton Harvest is rolling into its third and Mrs H. H. White, year. Personal tax valuations all. ,t - ’ Coyle and sons and Verria June week Of hustling bustling. With Louise was born at Grass Val- blowing wheat into flat houses are made by the owners. to keep the elevators open at f’oyle and Ed Fritts. some of the machinery cutting I®y> an(i Has lived nearly all her Hav Canyon and Moro. At Grass 'Pho Pacific Power & Light • ♦ * • • Rufus experienced quite a rain fifty acres and more a day. hf(> hi Sherman countyzattending Valley the harvest is not far romiKiny is valued at $630 per Domestic animals like to stand ■ during the thunder storm Sat- quite a few of the farmers ex school here w’hcn a girl. She Is ninniz to make removal mile for the lines. The Pacific in the shade these hot days and Crop Insurance urday night. The rain was more pect" to see their operations survived by a_sister, Mrs Walter frnm p nece Telephone & Telegraph company switch lazily at the Ries. Pre- in local spots, as out at Klon- wjnd up this week. Several dif- Bruckert of Klondike, two bro- °f grain from elevators is valued at $94.50 per mile and sumably they could get along H c l u S cU fF _____________ ________________ _ ferent times including , Monday thers, Hal of Wasco and Hudson sarv. . . . . r , a than ,)ePn .30 . $1.27,197 total. without the flies and just stand evening, the eleetricMy was off of Madras. « re t ir n ^ o Valuation- put on the main in the shade. Horses have been Merle Cummings and Ross at Rufus elevator. This caused made 4 hut 1 there are many more line of the Union Pacific with liberated from harvest by the Dimmlck were here Tuesday on Bells Buy Pick-up quite a pile up of trucks tha! Sage Removal reports of 40 bushels or more yard and side track is $880,316.- motor and like other things behalf of the crop Insurance But had come in to l>e unloaded. than of those below 30, indicat 61 slightly lower than last year. without an excuse for being program which will start soon To Replace ’Surrey’ ing that the average will he Value of the branch line Is there’s not many left, so don’t and end In September. The plan the weather Exhibit Planned L. L. Bell has a pick-up truck ty good harvest, above 30 bushels and bring in a $417,565.60 a drop from $557,020 envy the horse too much. has been changed from complete possi- cr°P 1° cxcesR 4.000,000 to the last year. Man likes to recline In the insurance to a program that will and he is re-learning to drive and not too bad, and the yield beyond- ^ Alicel wheat seems A program that shows of becoming the most county. That is, barring hail or Sherman county has only shade on hot days, too, and return cost of production in anv the girls are getting used to the expectations. to be yielding heaviest, hut it bilitles significant movement in the his- other disaster. $216.050 in tax exempt property snoozing through a summers year in which a crop is lost, feel of the wheel. extra -mois- The car that Mr Bell is dis- way be , due A A to r o n the i tory of western stock raising is Farly reports from Grass Valley according to compilation that day 1 is » sort V v of a stock theme of V Cost isl ower than at t . a any time. ri a --------------- U S l 1 SI u w e i LI m i l a n j u m v , - ----- ----------------------------------- H in lt v poets and essayists Others do it Mr n immick iS from Washington carding for the pick-up has had ture the community received g tttjng under wav in I^ake Conn the of 40 bushel crops although must be made l»y the assessor for tv Oregon, in the Ivakeview Roy threshing is of winter wheat so the state tax commisison. Of and poets talk about it. D. C. and working in the north- one of the longest lives of any this spring. tary club's program to encourage far 1 this the federal government has known in these parts. A Max- ' Making a living is easier in west- land owners— private well in the early days, when its A fir° causf(I by* the machin- range Well authenticated yields in the most or $79,170 with the summer because one can do with on the west side state and federal—to clear off excess of 50 bushels are known county having the major part of motor became senile and weak erV broke out out shelter and heat and not n rpmnved and a tongue of Vernon Millers field last Frl- the sagebrush and plant hardy but they are usually of small the - remainder or $37,750. , eat much.- If man could forget pieces. Entire fields are doing Tax levies for all districts in about the coming winter he could Pageant Professional letter than 45 and many will heat the county will be out within a was aimed at the wholesale re spend the summers with less A mammoth historical pageant have been made in the tonneau amount of stubble and grass ?hZ seeding of the sage covered de- 40 An average of 30 bushels will short time, reports" Mr. Todd. activity and get more time for In with a cast of more than 450 ac- since that time and it now re burned. ourneo. The me wind wiuu was wm m Jn Lake j^ ^ e county. There g.ve the county 3,840.000 bush- sert jand land^Jn fishing. . tors will depict the - history of 8€mbles a hack as much as an right direction to nelp tne men Js about million acres of this. and ghould the average be ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ this area as the central attrac- early day Maxwell, but it still otherwise the entire field could most of Jt ow^ed by the federal 35 bushels there will he 4,500,- Grass Fire Draws The weather man can sure tion of tbe Ft. Dalles Centennial rf,ns On rubber. Have gone up in smoke. government, but many tbousandP 000 of grain In warehouses and dish out a small rain real quick Days celebration In The Dalles Mr. Bell bought ) is last car ir Mr and Mrs Bob Clarke of of acres are o w n w o y el vators when harvest ends Rufus Neighbors like this summer. A few white August 26 to 29. 1917 and has had it ever since Portland were weekend guests ‘ Aireadv the local project has clouds at night and there’s as Odd contrasts between the old The agricultural depression of of Mr and Mrs George Van Gaas dfawn the attention of large Just as the harvester was cut like as not some wet grain h y and new wm feature the elabor-» 1921 adversely affectel his fi- brek at Blavlbck. They rame es- stockmen outside of this county Fie dricity Off ting the first round in Leland morning; a little cloud that ate program. Modern athletic nances and made thk job of p a y - _________ ___________________and even outside of the state. Medler’s field,, a fire was set by 3'he Rotary club’s end of the would blow away another year events and other forms of en- ¡ng for his then new ranch in _ _ . Electricity was off for about some of the machinery last program Is, first, to put on an weeps all over the wheat fields, tertainment will be offered in Nigger Hollow a long job. He CfOSC OWIITI night when Tuesday morning, It was set In all-day demonstration of sage three m ree hours nuui» Tuesday 1 Such actions by the weather addition to the historical pag- bought his new pick-up with his aring - and seeding methods, lightning struck t p . , the right away, the wind was man keep the farmers on their eant with its costumes of anoth- own money without advice or m b e held AugURt'i'fl'at the Elder Harold Olnn corner and burned wheat Classes To Start fle\ l . hut ,‘he - fire — toes, that la, the ones who are er era and re-enactment 6f pio- consent of banker, mortgage Rrothers ranch at Valley Falla. „ off near burned into coippany or federal government. akevlew stoppage cutting. The others just worry neer scenes. Mrs Paul May, Red Cross 20 miles north of I crops the grass burning as far as the ex One of the devices used to Sherman county section which When the weather is so touchy chairman for Sherman county, Stockmen, soils and road south of George Fox’s cnaiinidH ___ nerts. and public officials from goes as far as Heppner. there is no trouble about start help finance the celebration is announces that swimming class- Oregon have been Invit place. It burned within fifty The i>ole at this corner has yards of the Fox house on the* ing early in the morning or keep the circulation of wooden nick Car Wreck Puts es will begin at The Dalles nat- invitations are extended two for ing at it until the sun is gone at els. The rectangular wooden atorium August 9, next Monday. interested men in the West. been most unfortunate . .. last west side. Quick work of the ninht Tt m av be the verV last pieces of currency are being pur «yn ■ The classes will last for two When white men first came have been burned neighbor saved many acres from night, n m ay buglnesg houses and Three In Hospital weeks and will he held every day tn i,ake countv, thev found the three years and seven tFans,° burning but not before approxi aA twelve hour harvest dav. issued ‘to customers In change, with lush piers have been destroyed there. mately 160 acres of grass land A car carrying four California except Saturday and Sunday, desert countrv and covered sagebrush was The company has tried manv with time out for some eating Redeemable at local banks, the grasses. Treasures to prevent *so much had burned. Fence posts were burned and damage hut so far without avail W Vy Z “ hrmdred mfle, -be - u n t will depend on how W ^ ^ - b d U ^ n o o n had^rom m n ^ y o n o rs ; fac€ or A new ground, using salt, is damaged as well as some of the IK- m any 'coins" are kept as sou- with the result that tnree oi at Kent. " overgrazing and drouths. As the new being tried. The pole is on telephone poles. It was the grass truck is a e unredeemed, t ________ in The Oveson at In a truck is hardly naru.v backhreak- man) • coins othprwlse them were hospitalized In The valley, Merril Merril Oveson at Moro Moro, Brasg ,|lsappeared. the sage mov the main line from Dufur to that’ was hoed away from the Ine work although a, par Dalles post No 19 of the Dalles, having been taken there Mrs Afton McIntyre at Wasco P(, ollt over the land. Erskine and carries transform- REA poles last spring that saved of one's anatomv might become The Da p i , , ,he VFW ambulance. Most or Curt Tom at Rufus. Schoo Seeding among ‘be «ut-hnwh ers liecausc current 1« taken from the electric line from damage. overly acquainted with the seat. AmeOcan X h ¿rew seriously Injured was Mrs Julius bUs transportation will he pro- he. he~t .. bu this Is not Mr and Mrs George Fox ar*' TVS not like dragging a Jackson the i thp ¿ r^ r Ft Hlrsch who has Internal Injuries vjded and will meet students at X 7 r b v ^ a t u ’e has ail It can there to serve Ginn and F rank grateful to the neighbor* and mu fork w sewing and bucking some , ceK'bration and possibly a broken neck, Norton’s store in Kent, Alleys ■ » £rt the sagebrush. So Rayrs. Current was again off Thurs friends and also the county road 140 pound sacks from five imtll Frolic* commenorat- Mr Hirsch who has broken ribs. Confectionery at Grass Valley the to brush sunnon g. must first he remov of crew who so generously gave 9 which were a couple of Jobs Is one of the The driver. Peter Jauch has the Hotel in Fdro, the Hotel in ed. The problem affects manv day morning briefly because White their services to help put out the a thrown switch at the that were held to require Oregon Country’s admission as minor injuries and his wife es- Wasco and the ra..of..vC n millions of acres throughout the River plant fire* I *'T3B some 30 acme in masculinity acme Vnited States. raped with slight .cuts. Rufus. W est years ago. N o te A A D O U l in e rm m h i ^O U TU y about folks vou do know Wheat Estimate or would enjov knowing . . . Appears Low As Big Yields Come ft-.k.
