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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1948)
\ la ,r « ’- a .» • «. J ^ ■ . ¿ ' . . --r-- » -, ; , -~ -'• •-— .». - , ' • ■ ' ____ ' r . .. .; e ' * . '■ . '. ¿' . .’4/ ,__________— --------------- --------x -«“ 'g tl t '" * - •••x—----- ---- . * , ., A » ’ ' ’ ✓ ' * . . . -> . • __ W Ä . * ■- • ' * ■ ' % ~— — —- ---- ; •• ' ^V heruutn (County ¿Journal «P?V Moro, Oregon, Friday. Sixtieth Year No. 41 T h ese Elevators Full To T h in g s Overflowing As -r-r-r We Files For Judge Wheat Pours In N ote b y G ile s L. French A few days ago a bunch of gypsies stopped in town* briefly, but they stopped and the women were dressed in the newest of the new look with long skirts and plenty of goods. z • * • • * - If there’s some one who knows ot a good way to prepare Zuc cinl squashes we know of a man who will be glad to get it—and he will even furnish thé Zuccini for the experiment. Whenever we see a summef squash, in whatever shape or color it comes unw wi w»c remark . ___ we think of the some learned college professor was said to have X e a student. The student didn’t want to spend four years getting an education and was asking for some quick means Art Christianson As Forms Close Wheat Is overflowing the ele vators. The bins are full and the tide of golden grain is being turned outside in hastily made pens until some can be shipped to make room. At Rufus, at Wasco, at Klon dike and at Moro there are piles __ * besides the already full of wheat ejeva^ors an(j harvesting still goes ori County grain men have been building more storage space for years and there is almost 4,000,- 000 of it when all is «totaled. Hut it is not enough this year altho some houses may not be entirely fined Cars are not coming fast enough to take the wheat away and even if they were the farm- ers do pot want to sell. They have the practice of selling the Miss Jo Ann Clodfelter, da ugh- following year and the present _____ ___ than __ _____- and Mrs Don Clodfel- market is lower the ___ loan tcr price. They do not want to con- ter Grass VaI1fey; is a candi sign. ‘ ^ a te fo rq u e e n of the centennial to be held in The Dalles, Aug- 4, |doin seen ust 26 to 29/ Miss t Clodfelter finished her Except for some piling outside Official County Paper August 13, 1948 as for three tickets One cent paid brings one vote The programs are to begin at 8:45 each night and the program committee promises a revival . an . u of pioneer scenes that that will °.f pione?r will t take the watcher heck a century to Last School District Bond Paid Off; No Pnblic Debt Left Payment of the last bonds of the Rufus school ’ district last week by Naomi Van Gilder, coun- ty treasurer, completes payment of all school bonded indebtedness in Sherman county. The Rufus school building was financed with $80,000 in bonds, the final $2500 being taken up with the tax turnover of last year and payment made when the bonds were due. Filing for office by August 9, Monday, final date for indepen- dent candidates to get on the ballot saw one new candidate for county judge. Arthur B. Chris- tianson of Moro, farmer, filed as an independent and will con teat with Curt A. Tom, Rufus, retired farmer who was regularly nominated at the May primaries Tom if? a Republican. Christian son, although running as an in dependent, is registered as a Wheat Market Helds Democrat. Frank on Borstel- is reported to be the moving force behind Steady; Below Loan the candidacy of Mr. Christianson The markets • for new crop although his three petitions were strengthened toward the circulated by Mrs Ernest Woods ?T“'" S ' TLi £ close of the first week in at Moro, Bob Rolfe at Grass Val August, to partly offset earlier ley and Luther Davis at Kent. declines, according to this week’s Joe Peters, Republican, who was grain market review, prepared not a candidate at the May pri by the DSC extension service maries received the Democratic from USDA reports and other. nomination by being written in on that ticket. He did not accept daHl . t„ fWnmhln that nomination and will follow Wheat 8hiP,nents to Cok his ex Dressed desire to retire Liver terminals are showing siz- - Increases. There were 1215 from the county court next Dec able cars received during the week ember 31. endlntr August 5. compared to Board Maps Fair Program; Riders Will Perform Sherman county’s fair board met Wednesday night and made general plans for the 1948 fair which will be an all county event September 17, 18, 19. One of the main attractions will be the final horse show by the members of the Mid-Colum bia riding clubs in which con testants will l>e those who have won event in the eight shows that have been given during the spring and summer. This part of the show will be put on by the Sherman County Riders on Saturday and Sunday. The fair board is paying a flat - sum to the riders who will furnish jud ges announcer, programs and prizes • to the winners of th e ' featured events. These events will lie held in the arena except for two or three races which will l>e on the track. ItaceN A n n on m ed Track events presented and di rectly by the fair board will be three races and a chariot race Saturday and four races and a chariot race Sunday. There will lx? a two year old race, a three year old race and a Sherman County derby Saturday. A two year old consolation, a race for two year old winners and three year old losers, another derby anti a race that will be opm to outside horses (not thorough breds)^ will be run Sunday. There will be a separate crew of judges for track events. -- « Eddie Burke of San Francisco will bring his seven piece band here to ptay each afternoon and will also furnish music for two fair time dances on Friday and Saturday nights. Keneth Young will present some of his small wrestlers and boxerR in a smok er Friday night before the dance. Night life during tbe fair will center around tbe * Redwood Empire shows which will bring five major rides two kiddie rid es and 20 concessions to present one of the largest carnivals the county has seen since the war. Concessionaire at the grounds will lx? the Veterans of Foreign Wars whose members and auxi liary will sell hot dogs and pop. Over 90 head of cattle are ex pected. The Invasion by the rid ing clubs of the district will In sure great numbers of horses and other stock will fill the barns allotted to them. a bushel. This is 1 cent higher months; when he wants to grow . . rpu,,, Vttar tbp at Sorosis park in The Dalles tion. - full. than last week but is 3 cents an oak he takes 60 years.” plans could not make the the nights of the 26th, 27th and Tickets are on sale at ^ en Republican filings . Include under the close of the same wees But a recipe that would make c,ppvators hold the wheat which 28th* Genedal admission is $1.25, Zachary’s at Moro and at Gan‘ Rufus Allen Tom and Mrs Min a squash taste less like a short rolls in truck load after truck reserved $1-75, 'children $0.50. trail’s at Grass Valley. nie Morris; Klondike: Mrs Mar- a year ago. Tickets must be term oak is what is demanded. bought by < jory Shull; Monkland: Mel- load from the time the dew is ______ Carl —........— off until dark. eral admission tickets is also of- August 21 to count in the queen zer & Mrs Howard Conlee; Kent: n r n I II Yields are not so startling, but _ret an< ! 10 count ls Gie same race._________________________ Frank vonBorstel and Mrs Floye KUlUS CitlD Il3S Some of these damp »mornings so far have b e e n general von Borstel f Grass Valley: A. A. smell almost* like fall. Probably Dunlap and Mrs Elizabeth Hart- CknwAr Fnr PrPttJpnf Era ley; fall has a different oder in all throughout the e n tire county, Old Sherar Barn Sold L gc Lumber Moro: Giles French and Mrs TUr I i volUClll which Kood land and poor, and there countries and districts Ifa * . Dorotha Moore; Wasco: E. D. The Home Ecomomlcs chib of might be safely called a mature are sotne larye ft,-Ms- that ar Q f ¡J H o'u » ' „ t« few McKee and. Mrs B. Estrelle Hall- ^be Bufus grange were hostesses smell. The green is gone fr-.xr.-, from making R over 40 Ixishels and • at a layette Shower honoring the grass and it is hay and tuck- un er The old Sherar barn has lieen the construction, mortise and eY- Democrats^ Rufus: II. H. Bra- thep. chairman, Mrs Joe Morris, ed away In the mow, the grain is “ sold to C. S? Peck of Tygh Val- dowel being the means of fast- cut and hauled to the market and BI To J utnRrr fo l ley who will tear it down to ob- ening. The footboards on the ckett and Pearl Brackett, Klon- About twenty six ladles gather tain the lumber for other uses, outside are nailed with square b ^ p A " " ^ n W a n d * ^ J ^ B u - *1 at th* hahU Thursdj£ the stubble smells in the morn- lvllS. 1 cd 'YO m D O I o I v I This huge barn is known to cut iron nails—and boards are L , t and Mrs Tjeona Douma- a,fternoon for the sb°2ver/ ing dampness. In fruit countries * everyone whether they have still there, .................. ____ ___ « Lhe program a song, Rock a By there is a different odor, surely, ¡Qiyp^Q [f] Crash Kent: Arthur Justesen and Mrs Baby, was sung by the group; F h J still c tlll ram Iniccpnt n thp pnd J but reminiscent of f the end crossed Sherar’s bridge In recent The huge mow would hold tons Wynona Wilson. Grass Valley: a reading was given by Nell of growm. growth. times wnen when me the barn Mrs Millie vonBorstel was in- limes oam has nas been oeen and tona of hav ia hnif Ur« nma Rakin “ This might jured Saturday O nn.rd-.v a afternoon fte r n o o n at it Grass unused or In another w h e n pitch *7. u and . thousands 7* 1°°’ 18 shud J 1 V T«m Darrett Mrs Dma solo was a played i nis -vear year the tne stubble sturMne nugnv urass unuseo, or in anotner dav nay John and DeMOtt and h.akin. Mrs u-. h Brackett; Mra a piano PnD,Ip <! nnH vnr.d <7 . — --------- - ---------J . -------- * wnen — pivcii ami UJVUM1IU9 have uavr m iiu ii - Moro: MOTO JOnn l/CIVIOHo ana ivii» w-« well I ts g Valley when her daughter, Marie the barn yard was w ith. dered to think how the shinglers c iara Houston: Wawo: Gordon solo was sung bv Mrs W F Rice enough to actually wave ave and drOve the family car into a tree, freight wagons and the barn was worked on the river side so high and M rs V ir g in ia Me- ° sung hv Mrs W. E. K1 e hat make They had ___ just w_ left Z v e the ruZhlr^ water I O s accompanied by Mrs Ernest Eng- even the dead stalks that __ w____ _ the __ Sam ___ Hoi- full of horses. I n h mes ________ If oo fU me were ruanin^ it is intyre. ____ les nlano. The gifts were stubble can be proud of r »ho the job place ' and as Mrs vonBorstel It „,00 was in io 1893 that - Joseph aoove sajd they tied water with ropes *es on on the Plano. The gifts were done this year. For such a wheat turned to wave to her father she Sherar built the big hotel that to the - m — nnb w««« nrin > opened by the honored guest crop there has not l>een since the was thrown forward breaking stood until recently and the __ . ., , . , .. 1 ’CK NHES lit»-. . and shown for the pleasure of first settler put out a little some ribs and buising her head, barn was a part of the same c. k Tuu*9 ih Looked at your driver s - an. Gifts which had been prevl- wheat for hay to feed the saddle she was taken to The Dalles building program. Joe Sherar Sherar buildings. The old hotel cense lately? It may be past due ousiy hidden were found from ponies. Like as not be chose a hy her sister, Miss Cassie Holmes had been around. A native of Ver- Wui' S 1 W ° °«WS ^or renewa^ 8®na® as having clues which were hidden in dlf- — * — < .... 7 a patient _ a in The Dal- i mont, a _f Irish ------- a — spot where the stock had eaten and . |8 gtm of parentage, he and its gab 1 es and its expansive no license at all— reminds Sec- ferent colored ballons, and whir. Mrs Morris had to '‘pop” bef(j"L» off the grass pretty close for jes hospital where her condition had mined in California, packed kitchen where cooks served votary of State Newbry. ah Oregon driver’s licenses finding the notes. Refreshments sticking a plow into the sod un- ¡s improving. and frieghted in Oregon and had plain and satisfying food to men der high grass would have been —. ------------ - grown stock at Tygh Valley be hungry from weeks of camp bearing the serial numbers 5R- were served. On serving corn- too much for the little 12 inch fore buying the bridge across fare. The huge old barn on the 462001 to 5R495000 must be re- iace covered table on which was the Deschutes from John Y. Todd Finnegan place burned a .few newed by Tuesday, August 31st. a mixed bouquet of flowers and plow with wooden moldboard Indians Drink White years ago and now this last build- under the provisions of the re- pink candles In crystal holders. and a strip of steel for a share. in 1871. ing succumbs in a gentler man vised license renewal system Cake, Ice cream, coffee and punch He sowed it by hand, packing a >4 I foil Sherar had a way of getting ner to a new age. adopted at the last session of were serevd. On the serving com One Time Editor’s ' bushel or so in a bag thrown lllall S lulCjllOi ■ Il J «11 along with the Indians and some Travel that used to come slow the 8late legislature; All numbers mlttee were Mrs Lois Steward, < H mem v.. I..« 8.«uC B ___________ over his shoulder and then it f them worked on the grades was harrowed down with a fal- James Jim, Ernest J. Sconawah that h u brid Good roadg iy down the rocky roads at two 4>elow 5R462001 are now void. Mrs Harland McDonald, Mrs len tree • and Pals3T A. Py«4UI TO O» Ceiilo . th traff<p and tbP tolls miles an hour and stop with re- — ------------ — Walt Morris, Mrs George Fox, Remains Removed What a start to end up with and all Indians were held in the 1^ tolls bddge for * ....... .................. R T Dlngle BUYS VMI'HT C. L. Ireland was here Satur the whole county in wheat, county jail for fivr days begin- homesteaders who had t0 hauj a night now rushes by on oiled The Portland office of the Coin- day with a crew of men to take plowed, rodded, spring toothed, ning as r y Herald wo°l to supplement their meager roads at forty miles an hour and ... Credit Corporation pur- rt l nr I r> • 1 up the bodies of his father, Dewitt C. Ireland who died in 1913 and his sister In law, Mrs and incomes the first farmer is serving a ten day. go6<J building}^ - The barn has served Its pur- This m^kes V total* of "around AI Tamer Smith who died ln 1904. wouldn’t believe even if he for selling liquor to the in . oW barn buiR Qn the R flnlshed itg enit shelter- bushels bought Tince ^0 dendale They were removed to a ceme- it all. all. and may be held for the U. S. cliff .__.. ___ river . _ and there ed the horse as long aa since should wake up and see it beside «he as tharP there 7.-W Ju|y O, (X , X) busneis whea{ nougni ,g lo . fQr many years tery near Canby where Mr. Ire • ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ barely room to walk along the was a ournose horse for whidh it was 6°-day de,lvery' at elther Co’11"1- a resident of Kent, died there land has made arrangements for Sentence win w|a ■ s imposed by a , _ v . a . ~ . amusing j ustice Ryland Scott after arrest sirie u The ar? , ? Ug!, ° f | h e„ P And that mark« a good b,la rlver or Puget Sound termin- Thursday afternoon from a heart a family burial place. One of th e ' most i y »«„or rough pine 12 x 12 with rafters built. Mr. Ireland, for 37 years, pub als. attack. He was working at Kent things ln the papers rrw-pntiv - was made on the Columbia Riv r 4 x 8 No naJls were used ln Hfe for ejther barn or man. unloading hay when he became lisher of the Sherman County was Drew Pearson’s article on highway by Sheriff Fields. _ _ his ex-mother in law, Cissie Pat- ----— — ----- tired. Herman Petef® told him Observer here, said the removal rest awhile and he would help of the Ixxiies was because of de terson. He thought she had been U ; about folks vou do know to him. In a few minutes Walman, sire to have them in a perman too personal in her Journalism JameS RobertSO!) tflC G O U /lll/ who was sitting In the shade of ent care cemetery. or would enjov knowing • • • ♦ The lqts vacated in the local the elevator, slumped down and When the women find out how f H m H Attack Odd Fellows cemetery will be Kenneth Karnes and a friend Frank T. Bayer is driving a Mr and Mrs Kenneth Harford wa8 dead. The county VFW am- easy it is to control the law of JLrICS OI IlCail rtlldCh . arrived Thursday from Kansas new Plymouth he bought at of Redmond spent Sunday even- bulance was called but too late, at the disposal of tbe lodge, he supply a n d demand perhaps they’ll quit talking about govern- James Robertson died in a jQbg as barve8ting is all done Wasco. ing visiting with his sister, Mrs coroner Ed Alley found death said further. mental controls. If they want hospital in The Dalles Monday Kansas . Kenneth lived here Kenneth Crews and his sister, James Easter and family. I^arry tQ be from natural causes, beef to go down all they need after having been hospitalize! wjth big pQrentg Mr and Mrs Miss Josephine Crews and Ever- Faster went home with his uncle Funeral services were held to do is quit eating it. If they since Saturday when he suffered Qlenn Rarnes and moved to Kan- ett Cantrall went to The Dalles and aunt for a week. Tuesday at Goldendale. Center- Terminal Leave Pay want electrical appliances to go a heart attack at Maupin. He about gJx yeapg agQ Thursday morning to visit Mrs Mr and Mrs W. C. Schilling vHle was the horte of the Wal- down all they need to do is was a native of Scotland and has • Crews at the hospital. and daughters, Lavelle and Lin- man brothers, and interment was quit buying them or to get the been foreman of the Shaniko Kenneth Crews and children Melvin D. Balzer arrived Tues- da Rae of Cottage Grove visited mode in Klickitat county ceme Deadline Nears manufacturers and laborers to highway section for many years. and Everett Cantrall drove to day afternoon from Oakland, his parents, Mr and Mrs W. F. tery ^Veteran# who have not applied work faster at making them. Survivors are a step-son, Ro- Tbe Dalles Sunday to bring Mrs California to visit his parents, Schilling one day last week. La for terminal leave bonds for un SimDle sure But it is easier bert Tatum of Kent, a sister Mrs Crew^ home from the hospital. Mr and Mrs A F. Balzer. velle remained for an extended used leave during active service . unupr for helo A. E. McLennon of Camp S h e r - Mr and Mrs . Ed Alley and Kent visit with her grandparents. N o rth E n d Full as enlisted men in World War II ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ • man, a brother Peter of Shaniko, her mother, Mrs John Hays were ¡ morning August 6 ___ also Mr and Mrs L.- S. Ix>gan and It is sometimes necessary to a nephew and two nieces. Fun- business visitors in The Dalles Alfred I’ayne and J. W. son Robert, left 'Thursday for The north end of Sherman have only until September 1 to rpnpat that newspapers do not eral services were held .Thursday home wlth a new Frazer sedan. r.inches. their home in Oakland, Calif., county experienced one of its to so, the Oregon Department of Veteran’s Affairs warned today. publish anonymous letters Us- at 2 p. m. in The Dalles with „ c Baumgartner went to Mgrg Slm Duncan gave a party after spending about ten days toughest breaks Monday when County and veteran organiza uallv the content isn’t much dif- interment in the cemtery there. Tb>> Dalles Wednesday to bring Thursday afternoon at the res- here with her parents Mr and all the elevators became full of tion service officers will assist Mrs Baumgartner a n d infant ¿ 'u7ant for her twin sone, Jim- J. S. Newcomb and other reia- wheat, with the loan value high ferent than those that are signed. those eligible for this benefit daughter home from the hospital. and j ohnny. who celebrated tlves. er than the present selling pr ce, The writers are just bashful I *.• Ql-owzl* Everett Cantrall Is now driving their 5th birthday anniversaries. The John I>ay river was begin- none °<' the nditlon to complete the necessary forms, about signing their names and IngpCCuOIl uldllUS which must be notarized and „ a n Oldsmobile he bought In The Those present were their sister,' nlng to get muddy Sunda> after, sell at this time. T*1*8 . admitting ownership of the ideas mailed, along with photostatic U d n is ^ u ld get'Tnto ery had tha^'Tie " d e c l s t o n oT'^the I * » « ^ ^ arU~ her ^ ¡ ¡ 0 ° a m r . h r t r ^ T h e r ’l!."*. X e S " w a u r ^ i u S T o w n Uking expressed. When a'v considered, copy of discharge, to appropriate branches of the armed forces listed on the application blank. An important amendment pass « x s e a s - s . ’ s ed by tbe 80th Congress makes it possible for brothers, sisters, accusers- tofrecUoR fee for Stock leaving Rockaway where they spent F leer, Di n R J e«*m n weeRend R wag qu iu warnl. reedy ^ id .p a r t of their cro r nephew’s and nieces who survive harvest recognized Mock yards Inspcc- three weeks birthda^ ‘ ’ d . b t There was a strong breeze Mon- I^ast week end quite a few far- a deceased veteran to reeeive ttong w„, he necessary where Mrs O tr, Tom went to Wa la Punch were g0 w)th the heat. - mers fInl8hed harvest anc. some payment for his unused leave, This Is the kind of weather no one t the hought rain« re- stotk is moved. aWa Wednesday and was ac e M rg d . D. Williams of Colton expect to get through by the mid- the state veterans’ agency points Anothed change makes It man- companled by David White, a . . of . this . . week. . would have when the rain« r ^ Grant Boise M>ent was in party Rufus favor- over the weekend, die and . last But out. Heretofore the only eligible fused to quit in June . , and datory for stock inspectors to nephew who lives In Weston. Air and In Mr Camas, Wash., Don Mttler survivors wrere the spouse, child accompanied her others have two weeks of har- the charge a milage of five cents per David has been helping harvest th l week en< ♦hlnas were propL’ 1 disrupt ’-*1 ren or parents of the .^eceased. vesting ahead of them. the charge^a^mllage o! n t farm (;rant.s folks. • „ home for a visit. still not too late to south end harvesters As ssis1 .‘ s t s a ’X »-«“■ rx s x iw> w«i«» L. / A \ u OIXL <4
