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heruutn (County ¿Journal
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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.
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«
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,
..................
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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
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. --------
* 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 *
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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.
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