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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.
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•••*• 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
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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.’
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>
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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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_ .
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
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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.