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Ni A® ^ • 5 ____ - S Gherman Cnuitiy journal Moro, Oregon, Friday, Sixty-First Year No. 34 T hese A b o u t the C ounty T h in g s We Note June 24, 1949 about folks you do know or would enjoy knowing School Patrons Elect Directors Official County Paper Improvement Contrrct Let Bv School Board Cattle Tour Stops At Ranches In Last Wednesday night the Miss Eleanor Fox who is em A miscellaneous bridal show at Cannon Beach and visited Mr school board of the Moro dis er will be given for Marie Blagg and Mrs Jim Griffin at Hebo, Mr ployed in The Dalles this sum trict let contracts to Western at the LO OP, hall Wednesday and Mrs P. A. Eslinger at Clov mer spent the weekend at the Builders of The Dalles for con June 29 at 2 o’clock. Everyone erdale and Mr and Mrs W. C. home of her parents, Mr and struction of a new heating plant Patterson at Junction City be Mrs George Fox. is cordially* invited to attend. The third Western Livestock Election of new officers for Kenneth Lane of Pendleton fore returning home Sunday. A large happy birthday table the school districts of t h e and to Pioneer Electric for re Journal sponsored cattle tour stopped one day last week to vis Mr and Mrs Grover Young cloth was -used on the dining county was done Monday and wiring the entire school building. passed through Sherman county it awhile with Bruce Alley on and Mr and Mrs Harry Young room table when guests assem Monday evening with fairly Total of contracts was $15,056, Monday when a chartered bus being only $56 more than the his way to the Elks convention and the twins motored to Port bled at the home of Mr and Mrs good turnouts at the polls. estimate of the board for the carried the visitors who travel land June 14 to meet Mrs Gro Leland Medler to celebrate their at Klamath Falls. 1 ed the longer distances and the John Decker was re-elected at work to be done. Fred Cox went to Tillamook ver Young’s sister, Mrs B. O. son Douglas’ 4th birthday anni Kent. Ivan Blagg replaced Ber short trippers went by car. by Giles L. French There is a possibility that last Thursday on business, his Baldwin of Oakland, Calif., who versary Saturday afternoon. Fa nard Martin at Grass Valley. Er The party* came first to the some additional work will be The southerner says that his mother, Mrs Emms Cox of Van spent several day here with vors were laid at each plate and nest Woods was re-elected at done around the school house Ted Ball ranch where they look father’s slaves were the only couver accompanied him and them. Harry Young stayed In besides the birthday cake, Ice Moro. The Emigrant district this summer. This may be im ed over his herd held in the persons he ever knew who were will stay there to visit her son Portland to attend the Masonic cream and punch were served. chose Fay Brackett as director provement of the playground bottom land above the buildings. In law and daughter, Mr and grand lodge returning home Sat Present for the occasion were assured of security. and perhaps curbing of the The sleek cows and calves, still • Mrs Leo Dumler and sons Wally again. urday. • • • • • Mrs Charlie Anderson. on green feed, were a picture af Allen Tom was elected the street. Mrs Simon Hix of Dufur and Leland Medler put a concrete and Denny of Salem, Mrs Peter In Seaside the other day a Work Is expected to start Im ter the miles of dry country. three year term at Rufus and young couple strolled slowly Mrs Art Muller and children of floor last week in a large fire Macnab and son Loren of Was Frank Smith for the one year mediately on both jobs so that At Fred Cox A Son’s ranch while pushing a go-cart occupied The Dalles spent Tuesday visit proof building he built last fall, co, Mrs Bill Macnab and daugh term. Cheater Coats was named the building will be in proper the group looked at cows, heif by a small bald-headed son of ing at the home^of Mrs Art Blb- expecting to use it for his home ters, Arlene and Kay, Miss Shir to fill th’e vacancy left by his shape for the opening of school ers and the Cox bulls, Aldarra ley Herin of Paisley. Mrs Don storage of wheat this harvest. Trlx, the well-known animal, about one year who was wear by Macnab and Jeannie .and Karen, father in the Emigrant district which is but 70 days away. Mr and Mrs D. W. Roark of ing dark sun glasses There are and the newer Princeps bull. Harold Eakin was chosen to fill Rufus grange mçt Thursday lots of sights in the towns along Portland arrived Tuesday to night with Overseer Leo Wat Mrs Stuart Macnab >11(1 son Bill the vacancy left when his bro The next stop was at the Cox the coast when the sun gets hot stay over night with her parents, kins in the master's chair due and daughter Dianne, from The ther Millard Eakln resigned. pasture where cows and calves Fathers H ear Odell Dalles were Mrs John Macnab were brought to a convenient and the waves roll in invitingly. Mr and Mrs Tom Coyle. Roland Johnson was elected to Mr. E. C. Eaton’s absence, and children Anne, Stephen, and Kiss £arol Clodfelter arriyed enclosure for Inspection. Most of them have to do with from zone 2 of the non-high who was at state grange in Coos Douglas, Mrs Bee Macnab, and T a lk To Sons Mr and Mrs Harold Eakln the threatened nudity* of the home from Corvallis to spend Bay. Sixteen members answered daughter, school board for one year as Joan, and ¡Miss Mari her vacation with her parents, first fed the members of the female form. Threatened is the Bernard Martin was chosen for roll call. The various commit lyn Zodrow. Fathers and sons of the Moro caravan before showing the Gol word. With what native wisdom Mr and Mrs Donald Clodfelter. tees gave their reports. The Lec two and Ball for five Mr and Mrs A 1 Roberts and community were guests of the do women make so small a bit A surprise party was given at Charles ’ Burnet was chosen Mariners club at the Community den Hills Herefords, a somewhat turer R. T. Dingle turned over daughter, Linda, arrived Satur smaller bunch since the May of secrecy serve as an appetizer the program hour to Mrs Ber- the grange hall Friday night in as member of the rural school for mystery and glamour! Per day from Corvallis to visit her neice Morris and members of honor of the newl Nazarene board to fill the place left va church last Friday evening when sale, but showing the same qual haps there is something in parents, Mr and Mrs Fred Cox. the Home Economics club The minister and wife, Rev. and Mrs cant by Irving Hart and George the annual banquet for mascu ity. Ralph Eakln was host to the man's thinking that aids the they left Sunday taking their proram was as follows: “Carry Adrien Roblrts. Games were Fox was re-elected to succeed line members of families was sons, Rodney and Ronald home held. Women of the church pre last stop,' His herd was very played and later Refreshments process. Me Back to Old Virginia”, a solo himself. with them after spending three small when the tours began and • • ♦ • • ( On the non-high school board pared the food. weeks here with their grand sung by Mrs Sadie Rich and ac were enjoyed. Speaker was Dr. Morgan S. it has grown to full size for the Tuesday the men of the Rufus companied by Mrs I^eo Watkins Bernard Martin • and Ted Ball Wheat looks better in this parents Odell, president of Lewis A Clark land farmed. His new herd bull, A buzzing game church met at the parsonage to were named from two Grass Val university county this week than last. The A clinic for pre-school children at the piano, of Portland, who Mt. Crest Mixer 11th, brought help Rev. Roblrts pour concrete ley zones. t dampness of the weekend seem of the county will be held at In which all present took part, brought advice to the fathers In from Hilt, California where , * ,, ,’L , •> , • • a | receiving to add a new roorrvon the par ed to provide an unguent that the school house In Grass Valley with winning side and sons from out of his reading he topped the sale last fall, at A pot luck dinner was soothed the burned spots. Monday, June 27, between 2 and prizes. A poem “Enthusiasm”, sonage. and experience. Mrs Odell and tracted favorable attention. served at noon and n e women read by Mrs Lucille Fox. “A their son also made the trip to We think our new cattlemen 5 p. m. The party went on to the Earl spelling Bée” in which the vow had their Missionary [meeting in Wasco News Mrs Hollis Marple and (laugh Moro. are beginning to look on cow Hoag ranch at Blaylock for din the afternoon. els of the words were acted out Collis Moore was chairman ner that evening and many of Monday the twentieth of June, raising as a business Instead ter, Maxine, and Robert Whit- in motions. (This was a lot of Marvin Langford of Seattle is moore from Oregon City arrived of the meeting Introducing Paul the Sherman county group went of a hobby, useful to use up sur fun, but if any one peeked in visiting with his cousin, Mrs Virgil Fields, the youngest child Fraser Sunday to spend a few days at who welcomed the sons along. ’ of Mr and Mrs Leonard Fields plus grass. They seem more the window we’d have all been Fay Brackett this week» and Bob Martin who answered fell from a retaining wall, a dis practical and down-to-earth a the home of Mr and Mrs Fred judged crazy.) Leo Watkins was The Boys Airplane club met 1! present for the sons. Miss Pris bout it nowdays, which is both Cox. the champion speller and receiv with Jerry Brackett Tuesday tance of about twelve feet, while cilla Melzer read two poems to FIELD DAY SCHEDULED Mr and Mrs H. O. Dugger took climbing and missing his step. natural and good The quality Sides were chosen evening. They finished one mod truck ’ load of cattle to the ed a prize provide a bit of feminine Influ of cattle still goes up, which is a Portland and a debate on the “Columbia el plane and are read\ to start He was picked up unconscious ence for the meeting. Jimmy Ro The annual field day will be market Sunday, and rushed to The Dalles the main thing. held at the experiment Btation Mr and Mrs Dell Olds had as Valle^ Authority** was held on a new model. for observation. He remained berson played two piano num Visiting at the home of Mr in a state of unconsciousness bers. Table decorations slmulat- July 6 which Is a Wednesday. dinner guests Sunday Mr and which was Interesting as well as The controversy about federal Mrs F. M. Crews and Ed Feld enlightening on the subject and Mrs Don Micnab from Superintendent George Mitch spending runs like thia: the con man of Wasco who spent the af A pot Itick supper was served Paisley is Miss Shirley Herin, for one and a half hours, but ed mountain scenery and was at ell will direct the visitors over the following day was returned tractive to men young and old the station to see the regular servatives say that too much ternoon. Mr and Mrs Darwin after the meeting. who Is a niece of Mrs Macnab. home still under observation. ------------- ----- ' . 1 spending can get the nation in Van Gilder of Moro were dinner Roger and Arnold Miller, sons She expects to remain until experiments that are well known No bones broken Is the report bad shape, the administration of Mr and Mrs Vernon Miller, and well observed, these being July* 4th at which time her par g uests in the evening. Rev. Carl Stierte attended Mrs. Aden Axtell says that ft Is hart economy to the rate and date of plowing, Ted Trimble motored to The who broke out with the measles ents are expected to also come the Methodist conference last last week are quite sick with not spend the varietal trial, etc. for a visit. Dalles Thursday to bring Mrs week and was sent to a Portland Buried Monday The latter sounds like an ex Trimble home from the hospital them. There are some new things church for the coming year. travagant wife telling her hus recovering from a recent opera to be seen and some new condi The name of his successor has band she needs a new hat to tlon. Mrs Aden Axtell died Friday tions which will be explained not been made known. keep her looking pretty so she evening from a heart attack. She on the tour. Mr and Mrs Walter Gould and The L. E. Kasebergs and John had been caring for the Ernest can join a new bridge club and his mother, Mrs Mayme Gould Fosses went to Redmond last Woods’ children and had return associate with a new group of Portland arrived Saturday to weekend to attend the wedding ed home although in some pain. Seventeen Owners where she will < have to have a spend the weekend visiting at CONDENSED REPORT O N John Milne, $14.20 of a cousin there. new car. « She sat down and talked a min OF jY jN E DISTRICT ATTORNEY: $7.5(1 the home of the latter’s son In PROCEEDINGS The Wasco library has some ute with her husband apd sud law and daughter. Mr and Mrs TERM OF COUNTY COURT SEALER, WEIGHTS AND Decide On Vote Whether the Portland Beavers Bruce Alley and family. new fiction and some of the la denly passed away. Claims against various funds MEASURES: $2.56 ever get any higher or not they ter summer mysteries for lend CRICKET CONTROL: $100.00 Saturday was clean-up day In allowed as presented. Mrs. Axtell was 64. She had Seventeen land owners of have aroused some Interest Qraas Valley« Trucks hauled Treasurer’s monthly statement COUNTY PRINTING: $17.80 ing. More are coming steadily lived the greater part of her Sherman county heard about among the fans, Irish Sweeney the Juhk to the dumps and the showing fund balances ' as of ANDIT OF COUNTY BOOKS: and may be taken 'out Wednes life In Oregon • and for over 30 soil conservation last Friday has a motley crew in Italian Db trees and poles on main street May 31, presented and filed. days and Saturdays. years has been a Moro resident. and discussed what a soil con $110.00 Blast, Slav Basinski, Negro Aus were white washed. A pot luck Mr and Mrs Walter Farrer of Pleasant and uncomplaining she servation district might do for Clerk's monthly statement of RETIREMENT FUND: $58.68 tin, Cuban Marquez, German dinner was served in the city budgeted fund balances in Gen ¡PREDATORY ANIMAL CON The Dalles were house guests had many* freinds. them. At the end they voted 14 Burgher and some others, most park at noon. of Mrs Esther Stanley * at her $178.84 eral Road fund as of May 31, TROL: Surviving are her widower to 3 for a vote on the matter. ly others, whose names sound EMERGENCY FUND: $800.00 home here. Among those going to The presented and filed. Aden K. Axtell, a son, Cecil The state soil conservation com like roll call in an army camp— Dalles Saturday to visit Mr and Howafd Spencer went through Gragg of Portland and a sister, mittee will meet again In Au Sheriffs report re: tax collec MISCELLANEOUS: or at Notre ¡Dame. Well, we’ve Mrs Gerald Haskln and daughter, tions from February 15, to May State Industrial Accident Com the surgery in The Dalles last Mrs Nora Jack of Reedville. gust and will probably decide done well in this country with from Boise. Idaho, who Is visit 15, 1949, presented and filed. mission, $7.82; First National week. He is home now and Im Funeral services : were held In favor of the formation of a mixtures of nationalities and ing at the home of her parents, Clerk directed to purchase Bank, $91.30; State Tax Commis proving. Monday afternoon from the Com district here. Then a date for races. Maybe Portland will prove Mr and Mrs V. B. Eakln. were fire extinguishers for Court sion, $13.73; Public Employes Little Judith Long, younger munity church with Rev. W. W. the vote will be set. again that the way to win is to Mr and Mrs Gwen Eakin and house. Retirement System, $147.5Q; Na child of Mr and Mrs Floyd Long Gearhart officiating. Interment Present to do the explaining have a Uttle of everything. Hospital Association, had a painful experience of hav was made in the Odd-Fellows were Charles Nish and Robert Charles R. Logan reemployed tional family, Mr and Mrs Vernon Ea • - - * - » * ing two of the fingers of her cemetery under kin and family, Mr and Mrs as auditor for fiscal year 1949-50. $10.50 direction of Warrens of the state committee, Now it’s summer. Officially, Ralph Eakln and family. Mrs Clerk directed to remit $250.00 left hand caught In a lawn mow Spencer A Libby. Howard Cushman, secretary, ROAD FUND ' • f the calendar, by the sun and Bernard Martin and daughter, to T. L. Fields in settlement for er, while both children were -------------- . and William Brown and Tom 3 ’ < <9 oon, not merely by that man- Mrs J. C. Nelson and Mrs Jennie gravel WAGES , » , playing with the machine. One Helseth, federal soil conserva George H. DeMoas, $97.83; finger had to have several stitch RUFUS NEWS FOR WHKR ifined little bulb of mercury Martin. Permission granted to George tors. Kenneth Morehouse, $102.37 es, otherwise no bad results. iat pushes on the top of the W. Drinkard Jr., to construct Mr and Mrs Bud Brinkert left By Mm George Fox J. T. Brown, $279.57; E. McPher ass along in the afternoons. Sunday for Airlle where Mrs telephone line along certain Miss Ada Gene Packard, a re son, $206.37; Frank Bazzel, $185.- cent graduate of Grant High of WAITERS MUST BE PURE , • was probably necessary to Brinkert will remain with her county roads. The orchard men at Rufus $234.65; Portland, and a near relative of The Oregon Liquor Control vide up our years into seasons parents, Mr and Mrs Ered Crow- Deed executed to City of Was 65; Frank E. Bayer, have been busily working with Commission today reminded all id months, but some times it Jey. Mr. Brinkert returned home co covering purchase of tax fore Charles H. Perrigo, $219.90; Mrs T. L. Fields Is spending a their cherry harvest. Joe Mor holders Claud P. Bayer, $219.68; First time with the Fields during the of Service Permits, ?ems like a bookkeepers idea, after a few days visit. closed property in Wasco, ris expected to be finished with which are required of all em National Bank, $75.00; State Tax eally the beginning of summer No further matters being at Mr and Mrs Bud Coon were harvest. Commission, $17.08; Public Em • Recently Trace Fields took a the picking at his place this ployees of licenses of the Com leans that we have had the married 57 years Monday June issue adjournment ensued. week. The report is that the ingest day of the year. The 20. CLAIMS PRESENTED AGAIN ployes Retirement System, $69- load of very fine veal calves to cherries are not a high quality mission who serve, sell, or mix eather may be hotter or colder. Mr and Mrs C. R. Andersen ST SHERMAN COUNTY, ORE 10. the Portland m arket grade this year and th<* prire is alcoholic beverages, I that pre sent permits expire on June 30. As far as days are concerned had as their guests Sunday June GON. GENERAL AND ROAD REPAIRS For Sunday at the Christian not as high as hoped for. Only about 1500 applications e are on the the down grade, 1. to celebrate the 84th birth FUNDS FOR MAY, 1949, AP ISunset Motor Co., $1.00; Was church: “Jessus, The Son of The farmers on the hill are lding into that dark time when day anniversary of her mother, PROVED JUNE 1 TERM OF co Motor Co., $6.50; Mid-Colum God, In His Continuing Minis still haying, and getting their for renewals had been received bia Equipment Co., $5.25; O’ try.” ie sun spends but a few hours Mrs C. Wilke, who Is living THE COUNTY COURT machinery ready for the promts from the nearly eleven thousand Meara Supply A Implement Co., bove the horizon. * But there with them, her sons and their GENERAL FUND Ing wheat harvest which they persons holding permits In the $14.87; The General Tool Co., rill be some months in which wives Mr and Mrs Walter Wilke SHERIFF'S OFFICE expect to start the week of the state. Norman E. Fields, $50.00; Nor $8.40; Contractors Equipment Sherman County) ne can walk about in the long of White Salmon and Mr and 4th of July. Corp., $43.10; -Interstate Tractor arlllght or In the early morn and Mrs Frank Wilke of Bingen. Wn. man E. Fields, $23.50 Mrs Leo Dumler and sons, HISTORICAL SOCIETY PLANS A Equipment Co., $69.70; J. K. j. W. Blagg and daughter, CHERK’S OFFICE ee as well as at midday. Wally and Denny, are visiting Lowest In Bond Buying The report that the Wasco- McKean Co., $1.45; Will Huck, West Coast Printing A Bind That’s the time of year. * This Marie, Leone Moore and Clair relatives and friends here fo ra Sherman Historical groups will $63.00 uslness of being «nugly bet Balzer went to Portland Sunday ing Co., $0.65; Craig Office Sup Sherman county Is now at the week or so. They arrived In Ru affiliate is incorrect. ween walls with a coxy little on business returning home ply, $5.42; M. J. Mahoney, $81.- GAS A OIL The Sherman County Histori bottom of the heap as far as fus last Friday, and at present Union Oil Co., $102.05; Stan 75; Elsie Jones, P. M $10.00 ire warming, the body doesn Monday night. are guests of Mr and Mrs Bill cal Society will aid and cooper purchase of war bonds Is con dard Oil Co., $364.52 Mr and Mrs Dell Olds had as ASSESSOR’S OFFICE ppeal as does the cool wind or ate with the newly formed Was cerned. It has bought 32 percent Macnab. West Coast Printing & Bind TIRES ATUBES « ....u ■■ norning. the calm of sundown dinner guests Monday evening Mr and Mrs R. T. Dingle and co County Historical Society but /Walther-Williams Co., $38.54 of Its established quota or $16,- ing Co., $7.45 Mr and Mrs Wendell Andrews nd the out doors that goes Mrs James Mobley went to gathering and storing and dis INSURANCE 743. and daughter of Long Beach, COURT HOUSE rtth them. i Richmond Tuesday where they playing of records will remain W. T. Balsiger, $48.60 The present drive for bond Pacific Power & Light Co., California and Mr Andrews’ mo were guests of Mr and Mrs separate activities and meetings sales ends June 30 by which MISCELLANEOUS Where the (hitching racks used ther, Mrs Melvin Andrews and $25.38; Pacific Telephone A Tel George Smith. Wednesday they will be held independently of O. J. Williams, $183.94; State time it Is hoped by bond drive o stand there is a line of cars her daughter, Betty from Mau egraph Co., $26.15; John F. Foss, Industrial Accident Commission, officers that more sales will be celebrated the birthday anniver each other. $1.50; C. Mersinger, $128.99 >ach costing more ; than foui pin. It Is understood that an in- $69.94; Railway Express Agency, made. In the entire state the sary of Mrs. Smith. The Dingles Mr and Mrs John Rust and COUNTY COURT if the fanciest driving teams returned to Rufus Thursday In corporation has been made in percentage Is 53 although Wheel $3.48; Pacific Telephone A Tele Vernon I. Miller, $21.00; l i s rhey’ll get the owner to town daughter, Geraldine left Friday time for the grange meeting. the name of the Wasco-Sherman graph Co.,-$17.50; Pacific Power er, Umatilla and Malheur coun ter. Wilson $15.00 n a quarter of the time, too, for Portland to spend Father’s Mr and Mrs Harold Engberg Society but officers of the local A Light Co., $3.23 ties have exceeded their quotas. Jut the round trip takes Just as day week end with her father, JUSTICE COURT and Mra Andy* Engberg motored group were not a party to the CRUSHED ROCK A ROAD IM- The quota for the state is $11,- R. O. Scott, $6.03 Bill Hayes. to Spokane last week. , organisation. * ong. 784,334, which Is very small in PROVEMENT ELECTION EXPENSES $332.75 Mrs Iran Blagg and children T. L. Fields, $250.00 comparison to war times. •And some men*dli by shapnel »went to Lebanon Friday June 10 COUNTY JAIL A grass fire nearly burned the The Moro liquor store will be $33.35 K en Zachary, $0.75; Hotel RETREMENT: to visit her parents, Mr and Mrs knd some go down in names, Mr and Mrs Earl Olds motor old Tate houseln Wasco Tuesday moved Friday to the O. J. Blum SPECIAL ROAD TAX FUND Moro Coffee Shop, $7.85 3ut most men i perish Inch by Jerry Coyle. Ivan left Wednes GOV'T TRAPPER: ed to Portland Monday on busi evening when a small boy played placeof business, that being the BRIDGES A CULVERTS $50.00 day evening June 15 to spend with matches. . former location. Inch „ • ’ ness for a few day«. Rich Freight Unes Tnc., $81.33 the weekend. They spent a day DEMOSS MEMORIAL PARK In play at little games. Sherman County Again Monday J« County Court Claims j
