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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1949)
Sixty-Piret Year No. 33 —— Moro, Oregon, Friday, June 17, 1949 These About the County T h in g s . We Note Substitute Crop Official County Paper Elevator Construction sw««u. Experiments May Last week saw most of the hay down In the north end of the county. A few don’t Intend cutting the right of w ays for hay, hut are leaving It to thresh with the rest of the grain. Dif ferent methods are used to put up hay here; , some of It is cut and put In wind rows with a side delivery rake which Is then loaded Into the truck w ith a hay loader. Also the binder or just the old fashioned way of m ow ing. raking, shocking and haul ing it In loose. The binder seem s to be the most popular way of taking care of the hay*. Most of th e hay Is also put through a chopper, and blown Into the barn when It is hauled In. Some o f the hay Is left in bundles In the fields or a pile to cure until after harvest, so there won’t be danger of spontaneous combus tion as there Is when green wet chopped hay Is put In the barn. The weather has been Ideal for hay making; usually the clouds keep a close watch, and choose that time to put down some rain, but they, must have been having the proper siesta this year. Mr and Mrs W. H. McDonald spent the weekend in Portland to attend the Rose Festival and the Elton Medler - Nadeen Zani- ker w edding,' an event o f June 12, a t ' Willamette, Oregon. Mrs Harold Engberg left for Eugene W ednesday where she will spend the weekend with her mother, Mrs James Mobley. School Elections Coming Monda The Oscaloosa House, Mrs Mr and Mrs Charles L. Pear- Dora Moore’s hostelry, Is tern- son and daughter Karen, Mrs S. porarlly closed because s h e Pearson and M iss-Jeanette Pear- Construction work on the ele- V /I A lC X t vv C C K wants a rest. son were weekend guests at the vator has stepped up to a faster R ev. Earl Hastings, pastor of home o f Mr and Mrs W. H. M o Whether the government re tempo with the completion of Next Monday is school election the Kent Christian church, was Donald. On Sunday, the McDon- tains the Aiken plan, which will the pit. The 30 Inch concrete day. Budgets have already been a visitor in Wasco Wednesday, aids entertained at a birthday permit eventual use of a 60 per- base for the structure was fin- approved through the rural Lloyd Long and family spent dinner In honor of Charles Pear- c e n t o f parity, or uses the inter ¿shed early Wednesday and the school board. What remains Is the weekend at Fossil, he on son. national wheat agreement figure walls are going up by the slip to elect the officers who will business, the family on recrea- Word has been received by which will permit a price of help make up the budgets for tlon. friends here of a daughter born, $1.20 In a few years, or takes form process. b y G iles L. French Probably the walls will take next year. Grass fires east of town have May 11, to ' Mr and Mrs LeRoy the Brannon plan which wlU re- pearly two w eeks to finish al There are seven school dist- • Frank King In Western Live* created a problem for livestock Pybum of Salt Lake city. The duce the size of the farms, the though the schedule la a bit fas rlcts of the third class in Sher stock Journal quotes: The Lord men who must find new sum baby which weighed in at 6 lbs. wheat farmer can look forward ter than th a t > The foundation helps those who help them sel mer range for cattle. was named Su»»n after her to some urge and some need for starts at bed rock, due to a man county and each must elect a new member of the board or ves, and the government helps Arlet Rinehart of The Dalles, great grandmother Pyburn. Le- another crop than wheat. change of plans becaaue of the retain the present chairman. To those who don’t. wlth his fam ily of five, has mov- Roy who lived in<hl8 communl- A t the experimental station hard rock p i t be replaced or re-elected are: 1$-» • • • • ed into the Ida King house. He ty for some years and attended there are always some expert It is estimated that the new Fay Brackett, BIglow No. 1 Now the children are having expects to work here during the Rufus school Is well known ments going on with substitute elevator w in . require about 90 H. H. Brackett, Rufu^ No. 3 harvest. ‘ a good tim e. The days seem lon h e r e .. Last Sunday Harley Dutton, • A daughter was born to Mr crops. Among the promising cars of sand and gravel together o aude Coats, Emigrant No. 4 ger since mama and papa and Earl Richelderfer, Mrs Leo Wat and Mrs Frank Adams of Ar ones is a new variety of winter with several cars of steel and u oyd poyse, Wasco No. 7 teacher do not rush them around; kins end Mrs Leah Richelderfer lington Thursday morning at barley, Olympia. It has an aver- cement. Work goes on 20 hours j j pecker, Kent No. 9 the clock Is no longer an enemy per day In order to meet the Bernard Martin, Grass V. No. 23 attended the funeral of W. Ro- The Dalles hospital The Adams' age of 38.5 bushels per acre for to rule their Uves with Its mea nine years and is really winter deadline of 'July 20 when it Is Ernest Woods, Moro No. 17 bert Fordyce, a brother in la w also have three other daughters sured ticks. Thesun shines warm hardy. There was almost no promised that new wheat can be In addition to these officers w h° was Mr and Mm Whitmire killing last winter while nearly received. and friendly, the tennis court ' i new directors must be chosen buried at W hite Salmon. Wn. o, Vernonia are at the Pay beckons, clothes m ay be what all of the winter barleys suffer- -------------- - ■ ■ for three places on the non-hlgh Guy Andrews and his house- Brackett hom e for the summer, suits, parents have not figured ^ eat'y v . , c . school board, an- organization keener. Mrs laym an , left Tues- Mrg w h ltm lre T w il help Mrs. out a work schedule so far. whose functions have been pret A new spring barley shows M r u V -M C W a r t The first few days after school Klamath Fall’s to X l t her^rister ' "quart,-tie much promise also. It Is a selec- J ty well taken over by the rural Is out are really a vacation. St,‘erie a,t,ended ’ v6 « ‘he R u h S c h u r T ^ tlon of a composite cross of bar- O k fp r v p /l school board or removed by con ley and has averaged 412 bush- N u p u a l S V D S e r V e d solidations. A new zoning rule There’s * something of a con Methodist conference last week, dav _ makes zone 1 consist solely of els for three years while the old *pbe marriage of _______ Leonard Kir- returning In tim e for his regular ' troversy right now about loyal Sunday service Luncheon w as atrved on indl- Mclogf bzrlsy has averaged 38.6. jjy gon of Mr and Mrs Lawrence ^l®trlct 4, Emigrant; zone 2 Is ty. There Is a lack of It In the Last Sunday the Kaseberg vW‘lal card U b ! T c° v’ red w,th The test weight of the new bar- Kirby of Moro and Allle Lee district 1; zones 3. 4. 5. atomic works apparently and In family observed Its annual fam- aprln« flo w er e d - cloths upon ley, Which is also a bald barley,_ stew art of Milton, was observed are ^he Grass Valley district some of the colleges there Is ily reunion at Fleck’s orchard. which a rose In »-bud vase cen is 42.3 compared to 39.0 for Mel- at lhe Klrby home here s unday These three districts are all the doubt as to the loyalty of some afternoon. inon-high territory remaining in Members of the family came tered each - table, when Mrs oy. of the Instructors. Som e o f the Trace Fields and eo-hostess Mrs from Walla Walla, Portland and But If farmers do not wantYo The bride, given ln marriage tbe county. more Idealistic writers hold that Andy Engberg entertained the grow barley and feed stock they by her father, wore a pastel The Dalles. The positions long occupied loyalty Isn’t o f much consequen Tuesday afternoon ten invited Rufu8 «range Home Economics may raise safflower. It ’s an Im pink - afternoon dress, white Tom Fraser and Harry Pink- ce; that It is better to let a guests met at the Ora Workman c,ub Thur®d®y «Rernoon at the portation from India and has crochet hat with white veil and «rton, original members of the man use his head freely to ga Fields country heme The m eet been known for some 3500 years a corsage of white carnations non-hlgh school board are va- home for a demonstration ther atomic wisdom or tell ing was called by the chairman It has a seed something like sun- with pink rose buds. Hey brides- cant. One man is to be elected household equipment. youngsters about Russia. T h e Mr and Mrs W. E Spangler Ada Dln«le after the luncheon, flower although smaller. * maid, Arajuana Rutledge of at BIglow and two by Grass Val< truth, they say- will out. More spent Sunday afternoon and Ro11 caH was anr"*rp<1 by mem It is grown for its oil, which Milton, wore a dress of aqua ,ey* one of which will fill the conservative persons say to kick evening In The Dalles w ith rel- h®1*8 telling what they had done Is extracted from the seeds. Lo- with white hat and carried a pl*ce of Ted Ball, present direc- the rascals o u t stives. to elim inate fire hazards In their cally grown seeds have yielded corsage identical to that of the bJr. The problem of loyalty Is not Ed Feldman is seen in the homp Th< secretary reported 42.5 percent oil, which is very bride. In the rural school board Fifteen boys and girls left new. People have been hung postoffice these davs to do some most ° t the carda wh,ch the high considering that the stan- district George Fox, original di Tuesday by bus for Corvallis Hugh Thornton was best man and burned and otherwise badly of the postal work during the c,ub bad previously bought had dard is 28 percent. It producing and James and Donald Hoag. rector for zone 1, has filed for heated because of a lack of loy to attend the ten day 4-H sum busy season. 7 . «old. Bem leoe Morris re- about a third as much as wheat cousins of the groom, were ush- mer school on the OGC campus. alty. Seldom Is there a very de Bill McKean and family were Ported the grange program for although when grown on lrrlgat- era. W hite gladioli and delphln- plred. In zone “ 3, Charles Burnet, 1 - All are attending on scholarships finite knowledge of what each outlined for ed land does much better. Yields lum Were the altar decorations. who succeeded Irving Hart, is given by individuals, firms or in Wasco Sunday to visit his June 16 bad Is properly loyal to. A college the lecturer’s hour. Susie Tom at Moro have groups. Mrs Elizabeth Hartley mother and sister. averaged 643 Rev. W W. Gearhart performed at the end of his term but has teacher might feel It more Im Rev Claude Stephens will talk «ave a report on the Pomona pounds per acre. to the chaperon for the group the ceremony. Mrs Donald W et not filed for reelection. portant to teach the truth as he on . “Fathering the Boy” next «range luncheon of which she Officers of both non-hlgh and Duane . and Safflower Is grown commer- more sang “Because” accompan- rural school board where no sees It than to uphold the prin . Leaving were: Sunday In honor of Father’s day. was chairman. Mrr William tod by , Mr* U U U e Osborne, ciples of America. Trouble la Merle Bakin, Larry J Kaseberg- w ho also played toiddinR candidates have filed w iH be cho- Wednesday evening Russell Uuck has asked t o f c k e «be chib rtally in Billy Coats, Clarence May, Ed and there was some 50 000 that ha knows nothing more Belshee brought a colored pic- ^or the September 8th m eeting march ‘ * sen toy open ballot with voters about what is truth than anyone win Balsiger, Douglas Alley, ture to the Rufus church for the which was an open date. At this acres grown in Oregon, Bill After the ceremony the bride votln« for anYone eligible, else and that the principles of Terry Bucholtz, LeRoy Martin, congregation to enjoy. The pic- meeting Ada Dingle w ill discuss Hall reports. and groom opened and displayed Present .worry* of the county America are still In constant de Sharon Martin, Marjorie Baum ture was called "The Voice of “Removal of Stains from Fab- their presents and cut the wed- school superintendent is how to gartner, Marie vonBorstel, Joan the D eep” and was a sound pic- rics”; a book review w ill be giv- bate. ding cake which was served by «et tbe school books completed ALLAN TOM’S ENTERTAIN Loyalty is one of the cardinal Eakln, Barbara Blaylock, Phylls ture showing the sound of dlf- en by Mrs Trace Fields. A dls- Mrs. H. L. Hoag. Mrs L. B.Ste- 80 they can ** audited virtues. But It is essential that Rust. They will return June 24. ferent fishes In the ocean. cusslon on “Entertainment of Sherman County club mem- wart, mother of the bride, wear- we be loyal to the right things. W e are proud to have Don. 0 ,6 7 ° “ ^ ln C om m u n ity bers I h ts were guests of the presi- ing a grey afternoon dress, pour- I | • p Determination of the right things Roger and Arnold M iller In our was had by member, present It dent, Allan Tom, Wednesday ed, Mrs W ayne Froebe served IHClUSIVC VTOD comes from character. community with the honors the ^ a s d e ? ‘^at ° f morning at the new Tom real- the th* Ices. lrwi Th* r The mnthpp mother nf of th*. the boj% walked away with at the ‘h* V0“» *ho,u ld . ^ ‘ dence atop the Columbia river groom wore a green dress with l n e n r a n / * A P n e e i k l o corsage, t . I n s u r a n c e T O S S lD le ♦ « c l u b show which was held * ^ “ *ei ? nd *Jan, 7 * n‘« f or «> •« bluffs. Breakfast the Alling white carnation La- ln The Dalles the first of last J™ P . which farm kind, was served by Mrs. Vonn, sister of the groom, had Farmers in one of four Ore has fallen b y the wayside In the Tom. No business was trans the guest book signed. n t the necktie and suspender The grain salvage from the» gon counties may have the op *ade are nightly Jealous of the burned elevator Is being shipped The Community Sewing club beu.'T acted at the meeting and election Guests were parents and portunity before the start of orlst and candy dealers. ' » ld- of officers and other affairs will friends of the bride from Milton out as fast as cars can be load members, their families a n d high school and the await the first meeting of the and relatives and friends of the 1950 crop year to obtain Insur ed. «It Is Reloaded and trucked friend. met at Uncle W alt’s ance coverage on the bulk of °n " J T fall which will be held at Moro, groom from The Dalles. Wonder If the government Is to a site above the warehouses park for a picnic Sunday. The the crops they raise, under pro responsible for big salaries by where it Is dumped into a hop club furnished Ice cream and « ‘yed fr^ ‘h<- a , w dlah Pre September 7, the first Wednes visions of new multiple crop ' “ n‘ for thJ m « tl,n« h c l d e . the day In that month. levying a big tax. A man has to per. Screens and wind are^both pop for the occasion. policies written by (the federal 4-H ERS TO TOUR Donna Smith, student at EOCE h o u s e s Mrs Fields and Mrs draw down a million to take used to do the cleaning. Then crop insurance corporation. arrived home Friday to spend Engberg were M'-sdames Walt $100,000 home. On -smaller in the grain Is blown Into cars. A Columbia Basin livestock HEARING DUE TODAY Principles for multiple crop comes the government still takes Alfred T. Nelson, special ag the summer with her mother, ” orr ’ • Garland M eDonald,_Joe and crops tour for 4-H clubbers Insurance have been worked a big slice and is really the big ent, In charge of the Job says Mrs Alta Smith. ® l« l- The hearing about the estab- will start ln Sherman county Bob Clarke and partner of „ Kuv-per^ , Chn i i.0 " ? * ’ llshment of a soil conservation June 30, according to county out on a trial basis in Michigan gest partner In many business the grain has been sold. It will, ®Jph. Leo district for Sherman county will agent Tommy Thom pson.. In- and Minnesota since the start es. No wonder so many get to however, be ' another week or Portland are drilling a well for Glen Thompson; Clarke Is a son _ tk *• Brackett. Curt be held today, Friday, at the eluded in the tour will be child- of the 1948 crop year, it Is re thinking that they might as well more before It can all be shipp ln law of Mr and Mrs Thomp- Tom and Mlsa Mary liv e off i the government as to ed. X court house at 2 p. m. Those ren tfrom Wasco, Sherman, Gil- vealed by Mûri E. Cummings, Spokane, Oregon-Washington di keep on contributing so much. who are interested should attend, liam and Morrow counties. son. Members of the state soil conser- The first day will be spent In rector, federal crop insurance • • • • • vatlon committee will hear rea- spectlrqf the local experimental corporation. This may be one of those By 1950, Cumrplngs states, the sons for and against the organ- station and camp w ill be made years that serve to separate the multiple crop insurance program izatlon of the district and If the ln Moro for the night. July 1 good from the bad In • both soil is expected to be available in all committee approves an election the party w ill go to Wasco coun- farmers. Certainly the thinner will be held to determine final ty stopping at some stock ranch- states, soli Is show ing up and • maybe In answer to the question as Miss Shirley McIntyre of Was- Sherman county wheat farm- some of it Is farming. It is hard to whether this April and May approval of the district by the es on the way to Tygh Valley FRED MEADER VISITS to tell how much the farmer co, has been selected as one of ers w ill soon know their acreage w ere the driest on record, George property owners of the propos- and from there w ill continue on Fred H. Meader, who came to to other counties. has to do with the size of the twenty girls ln Oregon to repre- allotment for the 1950 crop year, Mitchell at the experimental sta ed district. Sherman county ln 1886 when a pent her chapter at the Pacific O. G. Hilderbrand, chairman of crop, nature being such an all tion has the following to report. boy1 , was here for a visit this regional meeting of Future- the AAA committee announced In April of this year there pervading force in crop produc week, coming from his home in Homemakers of America, to be today. Work has been progres- was .15 inch and In MÓ .51 ma tion. ’ Los Angeles. He is going on into It 4s easier to admit the power held at Santa Barbara, Callfor- sin g on this program since the king a total of .66. There has Washlhgton and Idaho to visit nla, June 21-23. A junior In the operators recently submitted been none so far in June. of nature In affecting yield relatives. His father, Georg; Moro high school, Shirley Is en- their land use history to the lo- In 1924 the total for April, when crops are poor; when they rolled ln homemaking under the cal office. Meetings w ill be held Meader, took up land in the E s May and June was .44 (and the are good the human tendency is Thomas Dorrance of Enter skine country which he lost to Instruction o t (Mrs Helen Sayrs. w ith the community commlttee- crop was very, very light). In to assume a larger part of the the EOLCo. After working for prise has taken the place of Elghteen chapters ln Oregon m en during the week of June^20 1930 the total for the three credit. A poor year now and Moores and Powells, F red Mea ill be sending delegates. They and 1 doterminZi for months was .67 and ln 1039 It Grant W. Perry as livestock In then w ill aid the development o f w der came to town and w ent Into win be accompanied by Miss acreage w ill be determined for was .76. spector for the First National “humility, that low, sw eet root the store business, building the Detacher, assistant state allnwbeat, farma- For 1924 the months of April Bank of I Portland ln Central from which all heavenly virtues Mildred brick building now occupied by supervisor lof home economics w ill be then used to determ ine and and May brought a meager Oregon, according to an an G. Douma. He was in with A shoot.’’ - v the acreage allotment, when the .17 Inch. In 1930 it w as .53 and nouncement by “ C. S. Bennett, C. Sanford at first, later by him eaucauon. reduction figure Is announced. self. He sold to George Hlggln- The Oregon delegates will play Mr Hilderbrand stated that in 1939 .26. This has not been manager of the Sherman Coun- I n Spoon River ’ Constance ty branch. He will serve all Cen the driest spring on record but bottom and John Schaeffer In an Important part at. pne of the the o o n ^ ju e e s will allow credit ately*s epitaph Yeads: 1906 and went to Wasco where acreage jj OW jn crested wheat it can be the second driest if it tral Oregon banking offices ln ITou praise my self-sacrifice sessions when they w ill present the First National system and he was ln the grain business b £ a skit on careers In home econ- j^o restrictions have been doesn’t rain in June. Spoon River, will make his headquarters ln fore moving to Idaho. omlcs entitled “A Glimpse piaced on the land to be taken i rearing Irene atxj Mary, The Dalles. Mr. Meader at 77 looks as spry Ahead”. The Oregon delegates o| wbeat production. It has rphans of my older sister! GRAIN GROWERB •* R M L B C T Dorrance Is popular In this as a colt and drives several that thls land nd you censure Irene A Mary w in also participate to a “Par- been hundred miles a day when tra The annual meeting o f the territory, being well known as ade of SU tes” when they pye- not lnto another crop on or their contempt of me! a partner In the Enterprise veling. Moro Grain Growers w as held eent “Oregon Unlimited”. w h ich the price support applies. ut praise not my self-sacrifice, The Santa Barbara meeting Is However, acreage may be seed- Tuesday afternoon at th e Mason firm of Dorrance A Son, a nd censure not their contempt; Hereford cattle-breeding Arm A fire burned ' over reared them, I cared for them, one of four regional m eetings ed to w heat for hay, in excess ic hall with a good attendance, which was sold three years ago. thousand acres of grass land on m any from outside the county to be held this year by the as- of the allotment, with the ap- true enough! < Perry, who served five years the John Day operated by Geo. coming to attend. soclation of the Future Home- proval of the county committee, ut I poisoned m y benefactions iDrinkard and Mrs Iva Damsi Directors Carroll Sayrs and as livestock Inspector, has been n th constant reminders of their makers of America. This w ill be This approval must be request- No wheat was burned, it being attended b y representatives from ed prior to seeding time. The Clarence Sparling w ere re-elect assigned to First National In spendence.** Klamath Falls, where he will too green, but grain belonging ed. The action of the executive the eleven western states and percentage of reduction ln acre- committee about the new eleva handle ¡livestock and agrlcultur The Dalles, Includes First N a-to Art Bucholtz and Lawrence Hawaii. This year four regional age of reduction, 4tk If a man keeps trying he’ll tional group banks In Hood Rl-Kenny was threatened. The tor was approved and annual re al credit work. Iways find something he can’t m eetings are 1 being held In or- age has not been announced but ports read. Net for, the year was ver, Condon, Fossil, Moro, Bend. Drlnkard cattle will be moved The Central Oregon territory o. Note the Milton Berle der that more members may beta expected sometime during the $108,000. to other range for the summer. which Dorrance serves, besides Prineville and Heppner, t able to attend and participate, week of June 20th. olumn. ’ • ' Become Useful Stage This Weefc 4-H Boys and Girls At Sommer School Salvaged Wheat .y'It.nu^ t wLir £ £ £ Being Shipped Shirley McIntyre Acreage Allotments April, May, June FHA Delegate Soon To Be ToM Dry, But Not Driest New Livestock Inspector Starts Work for First National In This Territory
