Sherman County journal., July 01, 1949, Image 1

Moro, Oregon, Friday,
Sixty-Piret Year No. 35
These
: .0 4
Wheat Price E xpected Body of Gordon
Historical Society]
Crop Estimated
To fie $ 2 .0 0 In
Affiliates With
At More Than
Sherman County
by Gilet L. French
It seemed almost too bad to
have those two colored gentle­
men wearing each other out
when nobody cared about their
troubles. ¡What were they fight
lng about anyway?
Wonder how far that Florida
governor will have to go for
his fourth wife.
f*We hold* these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are
endowed by their Creator with
^certain inalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of ' happiness;
that, to secure these rights, gov­
ernments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the govern- *
ed; -
*• < e ->_• ■ • —
That girl back In Wisconsin
who declared the decision of the
Jury a pack of lies when her
tover ~
S om
dering her sister
tends to stick to her
M ILES . > . Weary. happy sad seotof «11 at «very
Bin HeUaod sMs keek to the backet seat ef his
te accept oeagratatotteas after
the todton-
Day.
Beaming at
ef the oar am m erle aetveoe Ltada DaraeU and
the tire mas. H elitag the mlerephene to Wilbur
(left). L to Meere s ta n d s beh in d him
y"X Early Day Cattle Brands Marked Herds
error
X T ^ ‘cLt“ d. i*ndu “ie« Before Brand Registration Conceived
their first brand from J. D w
__ Jp
cox, for whom Wilcox station was
named, for he branded with a
plain U.
It was customary in those days
to vent a brand with a bar. A
man buying a brand would place
a bar above or below, usually be-
low, and create a new brand,
George Vintin, who ran stock
on the Deschutes for years before
1900, brands 1 with a plain, neat
V and Carsten vonBorstel who
had some stock west of Kent had
a rafter CB brand that Is still
used by his sons.
Frank Watkins used a boot
were some protection against brand but also had an open A that
T
The
.
cattle rustlers who stole cattle in h e put on anyway, usually with a
when men who liv«d
*** ~ — d a/s still for cattle
stockers.
It was
«really
regís-
rustlers Now
but quartercircle.
tered to his wife,
Lottie
Watkins,
removed f ryots <roupa wore
__
secure. They joined with others
gteai for meat e u k after < The story of Fraak Watkins is
>een dressed
dressed in
In s a truck
tru ck tf^ortÇ
ing wi
all by
itself, both
and went Under the leadership
has been
wwi^n uU
«muig
oy iu*eu,
uuui
of a big shot of some sort who identification is only valuable ae i y j y ahgt fact- ®nd few today
had them build Oilm ». c®«tle a means of Incriminating the rus- could separate them
and th e n traded his support to tier. It can never bring the steer
A well known brand in the
a king or duke for some title
with
the left fo V o fm -e y ^ o ris 6
and power. The king was th ^ ^ j j y ha^
Schwartz brothers called
top dog, and power
f oounty was iam es Fulton who their ranch? south of Grass Val-
downward to the
branded his horses and cattle ley the White Horse ranch be-
who iwas bottom dog, r. who did
a JF connected.
It was cause they raised Percheron hor-
the fighting and the dying a S knnwT1 and uaed for yeras. Some- ses that turned white at an early
the working.
time hard to identify from It was age. Nearly everyone had some
A roundU ie castles the trad the nearly Jease Eaton brand of X h e m .
.. i
era congregated and cities starV j g connected Eaton had quite a
John Spoonemore, who had
ed bringing on the middle class number of cows also.
stock In the Lickskillet ^country
truths that hurt the ego. There
is no time limit on crime on
immorality; what Is a sin toda^
was one yesterday and will be
tomorrow
i
* e e
e
A
J ;
~ ,, j . ... .
The foreign mUMUOT» na e
ended their Parts stay ana gone
home to their (respective capl-
tola to catch up on their home
work. If some one should intro
duce a diplomat in that com-
nanv some of the disagreement
mieht be removed and the boys
*
----
would
have to stay - home
- •
-.a •
stockmen of the United States
have always. had b ran d s, and
marked their stock with them,
Cattle are traditionally branded
a bot iron and sheep with
a sort of paint. That is, they used
to. Now many cattle are too valu-
abJe
brand, are seen every day,
kept ^ th in fences or tatooed in
^ j. or branded on the horn,
being purebreds.
But
oid days calves were
branded at the time of the spring
round-up and perhaps not seen
closely again until sold three or
four years later. That was the
mt
Hall Removed
State Group
From Deschutes
2,500,000 bus.
Lancaster Pollard, superinten­
dent of the Oregon Historical
There have been few estimate
Th® body of Gordon Hall was society, attended the executive
found Monday near Mile Post 22 meeting of the Sherman County ®s on the
cr°P of Sherman
by a g ^rch party composed of (Historical Society Monday night county for the coming harvest
sheriff Fields, deputy coroner and explained to the local group and 8uch estimates as have
Bruce Alley and william Paus- the advantages of affiliation l>e€n made are either very pessl-
a n ®v e n
I
cj. wh0 brought the body Ito the
with the state socelty. mistlc or very optimistic. There
This is based on the national ^ p .
Receipt of the quarterly, four are conditions that lead to either
average price of1 $1.96 which
Qordon Hall, 48, was drowned th oldest historical publication oonclusion.
would give a prtce of $2.15 at March j j at Maupin presumably In the nation, and ability to
There are 129,000 acres in
Portland and as
. costs are whjje suffering from an attack purchase historical publications grain this year of which nearly
15 cents between here and tide- Qf a8thma • Hlg lower teeth were | major inducements al- all is wheat, barley and oats
w ater the prtoji for grain at were found a t that time and though the advantage of coop- 1X51 being favored since the
Moro would be ®.00. A price matching uppers were found oil peratton r were given as well. price dr°P- Incidentally there
very similar to this has been the
wUh Many of the county or area so- are still 15,000 acres of Crested
expected by locabgram
locals grain men be-
be­ Qther identification made It cer- defies are already affiliated.
w 3®at <ra®,>
cause of
o .otiMr* pMnces established
UBttse
officers that the
The executive committee vot
1® the ^ m e general acre-
earlier.
body was that of Hall.
ed to affiliate with the state so- a8e that produced 2,500,000 bu-
Mr. Hall was born In Canada, ciety* and to incorporate as a shels of warehoused wheat In
May 23, 1891, and had been a non-profit society. It agreed to 1947 after one of the most disas-
Elevator Reaching'
resident of Sherman county fori work with Wasco county and trous hail storms of the county s
many years working on farms other nearby grous In matters history. That year the Sherman
in horses much of of joint interest but decided to Co-op at Wasco stored 1, 250,000,
To 120 Bin Heighth and dealing He
entered World continue under its own power bushels and Moro had 590,000
the time..
The elevator stretches up ag- War I from The Dalles in Sep- for the present at least.
4 bushels and Grass Valley 625,-
ainst the clouds about 11 feet tember 1918. In recent years he George Potter and Theodoro 000 bushels, the latter two suffer-
more each day and by Friday had lived at Maupin and in Cal- Johnston reported on the pro- ing the greatest hall reduction,
morning it is e v ic te d to reach ifornla and Arizona.
posed marker to be erected at the
Despite prophesies of shorter
its heighth. of 120Jeet above the
Surviving are a .sister Mrs. John Day crossing saying that crops with south and west slop-
slab. Then the 45 foot headhouse Ethel Volkenberg and a niece sand and gravel were on hand, e® returning to conditions of tne
will be erected on top of that. Wilma
Volkenberg, both of the site had been leveled and thirties there Is reason to believe
that construction would be done that the 1949 crop will be better
Work has beer progressing Chilliwack, British Columbia
than that of 1947. Wendell Bal-
hy September.
according to plan'with* the day -------- — ■
slger
feels sure that the Moro
sh ift m aking about six feet and
district^
will have more grain
the night shift adding another Field Man Hired By
this
year.
Earwig Exterminators It is very evident that the
five feet. Slower ^time at night
is due to cold weather which
County does not have a crop like
U.S. National Bank .
prevents hardening
May
Be
Obtained
that of 1948 when Wasco took in
After the elevdlor proper Is
1,800,000 bushels, Moro 1,300,000
C.
A.
Reynolds,
-
manager
of
poured the headB<>use will be
The
Dalles
branch
of
the
United
and
Grass Valley* 1,100,000 to say
built by the same slip form pro­ States National bank has an­ For Local Battlel
nothing
o f . over half a million
cess. The scale how se will go on nounced the appointment of
bushels
w
in
farm _ storage
and
TT T1
„ ..
H. W. Wright and .William
.
anytime and whfc at can pour
Elmer
H
Lierman
as
field
re-
3
Undy
of
the
City
of
Portland
smaller
elevators.,
That
4,500,000
into the structura by July 20th
insect control bushel crop la not expected.
If plans are not 5 upset by un presenUtive for the bank in deDarLment ,
The
Dalles
area.
wero
here
last
week
to set a
The average for-tbe county
forseen troubles. -1
Lierman, a graduate of Ore­ trap far some earwigs.
They 1® now 19.2 bushels. Th«-ration^
gon State coLlege in agriculture, are out of them In the city al average Is Cie.l. An average
U.7
B'nce Importing th . taclnld fly Y>«'d *•» ^ ^ " X ^ t t a r
Veterans Fail To
ral sociology and agricultural which* is an earwig parasite.
But lb® county looks better
education and for the past eight They need some eacwlgs to pro- than that. With continued cold
years has been farm manage­ pogate the parasite that kills weather and favorable harvest
Record Discharges
ment supervisor for the Farm-
' days It seems likely that the to-
A «pot check of county court er’s Home administration In
Shirmar. ™unU.M who
w ill'o‘ "
Rouses by the Oregon depart- various sections of Oregon and s - s s S ' s s x r x ’S H
»-
n% Affairs this Washington.
of Vetera«.^
Jn h|g pew
accord-
week revealed that an alarming
Mr. Lierman the parasites from the Port-]
number of war veterans have will
ln£ act
lo ne>
as a special agent for land bureau of Insect control
neglected
to
record
•
their
mill
tary* discharges as a safeguard the bank on agricultural loans, and the two men w ill return n l
£
Y
The AAA office has not re­
ceived any official
« information
about the wheat Joan price for
the 1949, crop although news re-
ports from Washington indl-
cate that the price here will be
N o te
Official Couñty Paper
"July 1, 1949
in the eyent of los« of their or-
j inal p w a pers
}ginal
p^
slightly more than half the
estimated World War II veter
oonulation of N
Multnomah,
Clackamas, Columbia, Washing-
ton and Yamhill counties have
taken advantage of
recJ)rd'
|n g seevice provided by law,
inquiries by the state veterans
agency disclosed.
“State law provides that the
counties will make this a free
service. Evefy veteran should
take advantage of it, because in
public relations and farm ap- a few days ,to see . WM* t M j f » «.
£ l?*
•
pratsals.
-----------------------------have caught in their traps and j e llS 01 t in a ilC in g
may have some parasites to dis­
During the past three years
tribute.
N EW S FROM R U F U S
(1946-47-48)
the State Highway
i^ s t week saw the finish of
Commission has been contract­
most of Rufus cherry harvest B R A N D L A W C H A N O S »
ing and constructing
W|th a few exceptions the hay
_ _ a three
Ing operations have also btog. FOUND . M M Q U I
•
approximately $52
brought to a close in this com-
chani,ea ln the adminis-
in monev and which
munity.
. .»? ®hrftn/t law h ave "In ° ™ . u
t h / i m n r n v w n .n t
A welcome rain fell early
hv the Deoartment r ** 1 « q , mtiM
to
Sunday (morning ln this vicin-
to
mnt™ r Z t r U
lty, wetting the earth down
accoi dln« 10 the
about an Inch which was enou- bherirr Field«.
__
tlfltt grkl of the state^ in com
gh to hold the dust ln the roads
A transportation
certificate parlson with the progress made
one ,<coni«icuon wiui ww v u i u i _ h u .
nidc ant a int of the J AS can always obtain a photost
____ «.*
Conclusion may when h that
e .l o « «
h n r e « ° » h ^ Sandrock left the copy front hl» county jtfiotostatic
clerk or been
)y. Friday, the current on the In for immediate
immediate slaughter in the 48 states bf the Union.
become, a serf when
h l i ‘h ^ d s ” a i' far''as_ the^~would horses when Sandrock left the copy from his county «
REA went off about one p. m. which case the fee will be paid
Of the $52 million, approxl-
his oower of decision, whethei
PzT”
; »
country. Olds also branded with recorder for >a small fee
Gaaren-- and didn’t come on again until upon delivery If an.ow ner tak- mately ¿«»¿OMOO
he be rich or poor. For
Henry* Barnum branded with a plain E but that might have
Our department,
vaaren - aua
«7 that evening es stock to the yards that are federal aid projects, the remaln-
vtears men have been struggling
connected when he first start- been his sheep bran .
s ti^ m «aid ‘‘as w ^ m coumy arou
g P-
afternoon It sold as feeders no such payment lng $11,700,000 state projects to
and later used the JT connect- The O’Leary’s, who were pri- and veterans organization ser- and again ivionaa^
for the e right
right and
and the
tne power
p o w „ to
-
exacted
’ .
which no federal money attach-
wlth the bar of the J elongated marily sheep men, branded with vice officers, has been too many was off for four hou .
, — — ry \ j
Thia*work constitutes what
^ X a h T l^ h a T b e e n Amerlcai», to m2ke"Æe”T. U
' ^ p ’h herds’
Ä crook.
* bÿ
‘ a ä sheep
crook for the J. C
C. .
where a veteran or
Bobby Brooks who is ln th e . An cffort ls being made to ®d TpJ® work ronsmuws wnai
and a plain circle for the J| V. Jn«tanees
kin has suffered ___
army air corps •«.
brln«
»dmlnlstratton of the
the 1944
^ m e Ol'whom ae«n willing to
The Floyds had a queer brand, ^ e n the .p^ £ e Cni?ghb£rs of costly delays 7n ^ r l n g “ ^ ^ ¡ting relatlvei'end Wends. Bob- )aw lnt0 acceptance by the stock 8™’>
corurress which
trade It for comfort.
ict of
of congress,
congress, which
It was a ile d a wagon box, mean- « " " ^ X / ^ V a n d e d with pensation, pensions, subsistence by has been stationed ln Arabia
and .nippers.
. road , act
earmarked
$36
million ($21 mil­
.w-
t i S « r l s w u H quartercircle over it ^nd
veterans’ benefits due for eighteen months, and ex- -------------------
lion
of
federal
funds and $15
° ’^ h,ib ° f, , h 7 h S ^ i ^ i » t i o n s to and that brand ls still In use.
to the fact that the dlacharge peots to serve the rest of his
FAMILY PICNICS
Some governors OPP***1
million
of
state
funds) for fed­
McKelvey, , who
achieved was
nQt
recorde(l and
the
tlme
th a ta te a He plans on «¡ANIN FAMILY r ic n iu .
T T ia lC n in K
B V e IVICxvtziv
▼
▼ is v
wda
I1UL r e v u i v i t r u
a iiu
V ile U l r
matching
system t h a t t gives a d r e e with t u m l n o * I n S lQ P t n C “ J g J ,™
eral
aid
construction
In Oregon
• but -fcold
from Perhaps
turning in®
tn Worses
horses Jnal papers were miMtng.”
a discharge in ^J****1
October. ^ Bobby
Eakln family held its
their states federal
^ ¿ i e n it hub.
a a®-----
wagon ------------------
some fame as a Q Hoalpr
dealer In
. Mrq
Mrs
’ ‘
4y
o
during the three year period.
rnrwit of them were willing to wooaen
generally owned, or had ________________
1g a grandson of M> and Mrs
9th reunion I at Bear Springs The second postwar federal
take the cash regardless of what
uged
hlm
m
branded with a DM on the
Migg Rosem
Leehan arrlv- Gien Thi™p8<Jn
, ' Sunday, June 26, with barbecu- aid program i was authorized
th e shoulder
___
A .v
most
of his
i* * YY~1~,
H*lm w.-oH
^ sed an unchnr 016
i i t ‘
a ed
week
at - t h x.______
e , home snent
of ®Pe"
t ,most
. school aays y edbeef t and a pot luck dinner and initiated by the congress
happened.
Sam McDonald branded wUh^a
and Mrs Leland Medler at
2^,2?!?'
served at noon • followed by a In June 1948. Under this pro-
“Take the cash ana h* tb® Donnell’s a Z and Jim Jenkins a
credit go;
___ _
Nor heed tne mu»v
drum.”
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LL’
fS W V ie iU l
lU I iU S
,.W H O U U L U V II
« •♦ ♦ ♦ *
z.
touch* the upright Pierre Couch- ^¿¿d a running
Clarke
and
'
hla
helper
w
J
£
ñ
n
.
v
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ra ^ h T ^ n w a T ^ U ^ i
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w ^ SSK *
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Police ^ o v ^ a « ^
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)y timer
Umer whose
whose brand
, rand wm wp|) nay^ m ^
wa8 aet up>
In may
major ^ r t , ^
i old
~ n in a dead h a t with waa a c ’ h an — « for
argument. - «>«*•
there, put
put on.
on with
vrtth a,rtHmlngjron.ffU
a rum im g^.
whgre ^ . y draws of Parkdale »nd_a
- yocai
™ ‘ was
up in
hsve been in a ue
a s the herd« ranged close togeth- is a plain rod. P®rnap
» d known He used a auart>r plrrlA awY j nu_
a
OUf| ®olo by Jo Roach W portiana, the commission at
a jRMgter circle were drilling a well for GlerJ
, -
urhilP tne con
Father Time.
,
a
w e n those
p erso n , how- bent
flattened
n
er
w o s e uay®.
azww.- and
—-_j«ng
wag at a the
process
vi o. n c «urn tne Fh
rinnegan ranch to Thnmoson It ls reported Glert baseball was iplajred for
meeting.
er s for
for
days. j-Ncaow»». —
ever, was not here for many and bran in« r^ , 8on
hide of Sherar and It is probable that a Z?q° ^ t q of water now. Thomp- *>ut 1« was so cold every one
June „ and 28, at a meet-
* « «
ThP Bend Bulletin surprises years and neither was Coudherie. drawing
a^ at Sometimes It TJ brand, the J being reversed
n
covered up left ear1^ for thelr h0“ ®8- lng ¡held In Portland, the com-
The Bend
branded with an H the prone animai. ou
was used there some .later.
son« old w e ll.w a s. covereu P Among thoBe present were Mes- mUgion let contracts * totalling
Shaniko is the inside a diamond but he used It
xjraHrle who had some
William Froebe who ran his wit
(
rs and Mesdames, V. B. Eakln approximately $3 million. One
than their dusky brothers.
i \August Scherneckau ran a
stage station, and eating place
suitably equipped with. a
g
- - 80s.
-
spirits in
in the
of volatile spirits
engineers
Hoi-
When the railroad
to build to
was given to tne spuv.
the railroad went that far be-
there was water to be had
C?e7 to c r o «
£ n < L . luat to th . Plain -bove
the canyons.
x.
brand history and among ©n cattle frdm outside. The Bel- been very wen lately.
connected,
the often n
wlth variations, ghees branded with a connected
M ani| v»rg Leonard Jordon
Nat^ Ea
- h.VP b « n .« n d ln g their V«a.
^ n ty
There were lots more, and of
««hlng up a t Paiilina lake
popular
who really
really* had
had hundreds
of
‘¿7,7 « ' usually
,7
______
is a popular brand. Then men who
hundreds of
are quite
a circle __
and Tom McGraw had an MC, big but it is a
tlka
which
1
®
head
of
cattle
or
horses.
What,
where
they____
y^
r2Li/x«
swasuxa
--
V
,.
77-
’
"
-777
Jllrkv
/ishermen
Mrs.
Jordon
and bold. George Reeder brand- there to t h e / . w a s t i pair
^ ^ « lo o r s f ^ n s t a n « . w ^
always In use ________
Cornwall, while she — ------ ---- — ~
King, of Brown haa undertaken the post
„ r , v (HV
— ..... .... -- Harrington, offlce dutla .
also na« _ _ -------
.
..
Ob King waa an eany
J
dozpnj of other whQ
Medler
(Harvey) Smith branded his
on |he gragg
J™
g
Bheep with an S bar, the bar J UI\‘ stockman, who also
n ^ Ä " t ^ “ « n t e r o f th e « » d W c h e r ^ them
X
” ore
the' O
M.Ï. T î h e s t«
..............................
..... p h r 7 k . o’f t £ ^ k . ^
at home on
„ n d j t A A ^m H h ^ - e d ^ a n 0
^
*
^
Rlng county,
.
the ranoh here.
A new basement hag been dug
Wallace May, MW Hiu amitn
and Miss Dorothy Kelley
. of under
— the
__ __________
Rufus parsonage, and
O r«~ V«fl«y, Donald Martin « ment tor u » walla was run
and -family*, Beverly 'Van Metre, raat week along with the foun-
- Jennie
- - - --
-
-----
. C. daUon for another
.
Mrs
Martin,
Mr» J.
room which
Nelson
and
Mr
and
Mrs
Ralph
will
»»
eriderf
o
n
th e main
m e in h
ouee.
Nelson and Mr and Mrs Ralph will ibe added on the
house.
E a k ln «
«
of M o ^ SU rr
th jw .
nm-
,
-x.«» _
ton, Mr and M r. J o M Dill ng j o n t floor.
w. Mr «nd Mrs L. B. H ^tael. Mrs BUI Meyars and son are
Mr . and Mr« B. J. Baker. M«now at the home of her parents
and Mr« Ted Smith of The Dal-Mr and Mr« W alt Morris while
lea and Mr and Mrs Emmet her husband to employed down
at Big Eddy.
Eakln of Dufur.