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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1949)
Sixty-First Year No- 38 These T h in g s We N ote Moro, Oregon, Friday, About the County July 22, 1949 about folks vou do know or would enjoy knowing Official County Paper Crop Insurance Mrs Walter Adams Cost Under 3% To Be Buried Wheat Acreage Cut To 118,632 Mr and Mrs Ralph Balzer end By now, most all of farmers Activity of most of Wasco far son, Carcel, arrived Friday even in this community are out gath mers - grain harvest. Bulk trucks Sunday at Kent ing from Portland to spend the ering in their wheat. With the are moving to the elevator_ Mrs Walter R. Adams, 68, a week end with his parents, Mr exception of one or two outfits, not so much as last year, but former resident of Kent and An and Mrs A. F. Balzer and to at the hustle and bustle of harvest satisfactory. John Shepard of Scio, mem telope, died at a hospital in Ta Sherman county farmers can tend the wedding of his brother, is here. That means hours from |Mr and Mrs Ed Cardinal are Clair, on Saturday. early morning until late at night up from Portland, to tend their ber of the PMA board and Crei coma, Washington early this seed 118,632 acres to wheat for Mrs Charles Perrlgo and dau until the harvest has been stored grain harvest on their Klondike »----- ghton ----------- Lawson, - who Is „Working week and will be buried at Kent the 1950 crop. Official word to that effect ghter, I^eslie and David Bayer safely away, and the hopes of S X d X W*th theCTOP Insurance'division, ^ 1 ^ ^ £ was received by the county PMA went t o The Dalles Monday two years has been reached. One were in town Tuesday somewhat at that time, t Mrs Adams was office Thursday morning. Thi9 where Leslie entered the hospi year the land lays idle and stor them. by Giles L. French concerned over the fact that is an actual reduction of some tal for medical attention. es up moisture for the next year Harry Allen, who was badly Sherman county has not accep a sister of the elder Wilsons. 11,000 acres from the 129,000 Mr and Mrs Frank Bayer had when the land is in crop and it burned last week In the Dor- ted the crop insurance program My, Goodnes^! A town publi acre total of the 1949 crop. The cizes a picture of an event queen as their guests several days last is growing. It was threatening maier fire was taken to The as well as other mid-Columbia to be enforced by the gov Northwest Must Have cut with clothes on. Skirts on a week Mr and Mrs Bob Wren of rain Tuesday, and few sprinkles Dalles Monday for medical treat counties. ernment is 17 percent from seed Sheridan. were felt in the morning, making ment. queen. This must be official. ed acreage and 20 percent from Mr and Mrs A. F. Balzer and the air quite chilly. This makes Mr. Shepard said that Umatil Mrs Gina Medler was up from • * • • • Low Freight Rates the usual acreage. Both figures Mr and Mrs Melvin Balzer and la county farmers were 80 per the wheat stocks tough and much Portland last w e e k visiting The world is softening up; are involved In computations daughter, Sheila, went to Red cent insured and that farmers harder to get the “cream” out. friends and attended church ser an Irish girl made the headlines Fair and equitable transporta based on previous history of mond Monday and visited the Therefore, the hot days, most vices at the Church of Christ. In counties with an average by beating up on a cop. tion rates for northwest wheat the movement and mean little. Peterson rock gardens. yield smaller than Sherman were town people complain of, is just • • # • • Many housewives just now Even the 118,632 may be insured. are necessary if it is to compete |Mr and Mrs A. F. Balzer, Mr right for the wheat harvester. are doing a good turn in helping We feel a little sorry for those and Mrs Melvin Balzer and dau slightly restricted l>ecause ten again In eastern markets, said Mr and Mrs Dick Yocum and to save the apricot crop by put- The new crop insurance pro who saw grasshoppers at Hart ghter Sheila, and Mr and Mrs percent must be reserved Jo r Frank P. Aughnay, manager of Mrs Leah Jenson went to Stan gram will eventually become a ing it in Jars for winter. mountain. But perhaps that’s Ralph Balzer and son, Carcel, the newly-formed Pacific Nor possible appeals. Notices of al field last week where they were county program, said Mr. Law- At Wasco, Church of Christ, better than snakes. motored to Timberline lodge guests of Mr and "Mrs Miles Bar- Sunday topic “Active Agent In son, for whenever enough reser thwest Grain and Grain Products lotments to individual farmers • ♦ • • • Sunday The latter left ager. They went -especially to Man’s Salvation.’* ves are built up the county may association, in Pendleton recent must be sent out by August 15. State highway officials persist for their afternoon. there will be a 15-day per in Portland and celebrate the birthday anniver iM an/ transients are seem at take over the program and set ly while on a get acquainted Then in calling “Buck Hollow”, “Buck the others home iod for . appeals to the local took the Mt. Hood sary of Mrs Barager who is a times on streets of Wasco, look whatever rates are necessary tour. * Creek”. They say it is Impossible loop highway home. Present shipping costs, he said, committee and following that a to have a hollow unless there’s ■ Rev. H. Y. Schultz of Portland sister of Mrs Yocum and Mrs ing for work, fron: the age of With the government merely su 15-day period for appeals to the high school boy to the more ma pervising. Sherman county has are discriminatory and are driv state committee. Then the ten a creek in It which is an indica stopped at the C & C Food store Jenson. Visiting h ere». from Vernonia ture, but with . the farmer al-^about a th ird . of. the required ing northwest wheat and flour tion of a lack of mental curious- Monday and visited with Mrs percent can be distributed by from eastern markets. ity covered with mental persis Kenneth Crews a while. He told were Mr and Mrs Truman Dav- ready having his crew and not a reserves to date. the county committee. A three According to Aughnay the ba percent reduction will also be The actual rate for full crop tence. Or to not use the language her he had married her father enpot. Mr. Davenport’s parents very heavy crop, there is not rate a hundred figured for new farmers, as in of administrative ineptitude, ig and mother, Mr and Mrs Henry and also a brother, Harvey, live work to employ the “willing Insurance is now a little under sic freight worker.” three ¡Jercent which means that pounds, set in 1935 by the ICC, previous programs. norance abetted by stubbomess. Roth 34 years ago and that they in this community. Mrs Curt Tom and a friend (Mr and Mrs Di< k Ninefeldt, an insured farmer could have a was higher than that for the A meeting was held Wednes were the first couple he had from The Dalles spent three days daughter and son in law of Mrs complete failure in 35 years east: therefore percentage in day night when E. Havey Miller, Jackie Robinson is reported married. last week visiting friends in Lehman, -With their son Dickie, and come out even. “Not many creases that followed widen the as saying to the congressional Mr and Mrs Orville Ruggles Walla Walia, Washington. They were visiting at the home of farms go that long without spread between the freight costs state PMA head, and Arnold committee that life in this coun took her mother, Mrs S. L. Boy Bodker of the same office stop Guy Andrews. Ninefeldt’s are losses”, said Mr. Shepard. till it is now impossible for ped in Moro. Friday local offi try can be “mighty tough for ce to Prineville Sunday after returned to Rufua Saturday. Mrs Catherine Boise has ac from Gold Hlii and were favor people who are a little different spending a week with them to Sherman county’s present rate northwest producers to compete cials including O. G. Hllder- cepted a position in The Dalles ably impressed wlti this part of from the majority.’’ It doesn’t ap visit her daughter, Mrs Lou Fis brand, chairman, Frank von is .6 bushel per acre. For a mam in eastern markets. and is making her home there the state. They retta ned to their ply here but some are different cher. Borstel, Ralph Busse and Tom with 15 bushel land and a 1000 at present. home Tuesday. by perference anyway. Thompson will attend a meet acres the cost would be 600 bu- Mr and 'Mrs Bill Lawson of Mrs Mae Fowler accompanied ing In Pendleton to learn of full shels. He would get a 20 percent L i r C U l a r V jU lC lC l / l l t * /♦ * * . * Portland were dinner guests Sat Mrs Lila Hailey to Rockaway, details about the wheat c u t reduction because of the size President Truman wants to urday at the home of Mr and leaving early Monday morning. Veteran Payments of his farm and a further five A new handy reference guide have plenty of money to spend, Mrs Kenneth Crews. Mrs Fowler will stay there for percent reduction l>ecause of to available mimeographed ex PORT TREATM ENT REPORT which is a normal ambition. \Mr and Mrs Earl Olds took several weeks with Mrs Hailey Fence post treatments that early payment. Insurance would periment station circulars of in Most people have to work to his daughter, Mrs Glenn Perry who lost her husband last week. Nearing End have no value as well as those cost him $912 for which he could formation and extension circu get it and he wants to raise to The Dalles Monday where Mrs Hailey has an auto oourt at that have lengthened the life receive $30,000 in case of total taxes so everyone will have to she entered the hospital for Rockaway lars, giving numbers and titles, An estimated ©r. percent of of posts are summarized in the loss. work. , . has been issued as revised ex medical treatment. Her mother IMr and Mrs Bill Meyers and Oregon’s World W ir II veter • • • • • Whenever sufficient reserves tension circular, number 530, latest report on the T. J. Starker Mrs Irma Whithead who arrived son have moved to Portland for ans will be ineligible for GI job “post farm” which has now Men standing on street corn from Portland came home with the next three weeks or so. Bill less benefits after July 25, stop- are huilt‘ up a further reduction now ready for distribution thru been under research observation of 30 percent will be possible. county extension- offices or di ers waiting for a harvest job them to care for her grandchild 18 working below Camas with the date for payments to men dis- for 22 years.. have small chance of being hir ren. engineers on the dredging crew, charged from active service pri- That would make the insurance rect from OSC. (With Douglas fir posts, three ed unless known It isn’t like it - Mr and Mrs John Buether re Mr and Mrs Donald Klock and or to the official end of the war rate about two percent, permit The 11-page mimeograph cov treatments that have proved used to be when men came by ceived word Friday night that daughter Patty were in Rufus on July 25, 1947, the Oregon de ting one total failure In 60 years ers publications in the fields worthless are brush application scores and farmers needed them. their son in law, Francis Ham Friday where they visited with partment of Vetegfrn’ Affairs re or enough partial failures to of agricultural economics, crops, of asphalt, charring, and cold Grain was cut with headers and mond had suffered a heart at Mrs Klock’s parents, Mr a n d ported thia week. £he remaining make one total in 50 years, ex dairy, food technology, horti soaking in zinc chloride. Port the normal crew was seven and tack and was taken to the Red Mrs W. A. Morris. five percent can draw until their plained the visitors. culture, ornamental plants, ve- Orford cedar was not benefited Dinner guests at the home of two years following discharge 30 acres was a good days work mond hospital. They left Satur VA few more than 50* farmers getable crops, livestock, poultry, . a hotand<old bath of carbol- day morning for Powell Butte to Mr and Mrs J. G. Huffman, who time is up. in this county are now insured, soils and weed eradication. With- for a 14 foot header. n though Douglas fir Then threshermen had to have be with their daughter a few live in the Chenowith district, As the end to this phase of said Mr. Shepard, and they have in each listing Is included sep- were Eight treatments, in ¿¿j neared, figures from i>een constant in their adherence arate extension and experiment J., 1)hng the “salt” treatments, 18 to 22 men and a good days days. Mr. Buether went back up Sunday night were Mr and Mrs run for a stationary outfit was Monday for a few days. Joe Morris and sons. the Oregon State Unemployment to the program aH are farmers station publications by* order . nroved beneficial on fir number and title. pPne are glven. Mrs Frank Bayer and Keith Mr and Mrs Robert Morris Compensation Commission dis in other counties. 900 to 1000 sacks or about what a good 16 foot combine turns out Bayer went to The Dalles Satur and daughter Shirley were in closed that only 6530 veterans, now in a good day. And the day to bring Frank Bayer home Walla Walla, Washington where or less than five percent of Ore combine is doing the work of from the hospital recovering they were guests of relatives gon’s World War II veteran header crew, only twice as much from a recent appendectomy. population, had exhausted their last week end. Mr and Mrs Charles Perrlgo ' Mrs Pearl Pearson and two benefits, which amount to $20 of it, and the threshing crew, PROCEEDING« transfers in budgeted Item bal SURES: $2.56 and in addition night time finds gave a dinner at the home of Mr children have been visiting at a week for a maximum of 52 CONDENSED the grain all in the elevator. and Mrs Frank Bayer Jr., for the home of Mr and Mrs Har- weeks for the unemployed ex- OP JULY 194» TERM OF ances as may be necessary in COUNTY PRINTING: $112.80 balancing out fiscal year ac AUDIT OF COUNTY BOOKS’. Neither the standing grain, the their daughter, Linda, who cele- land McDonald. Mrs Pearson s GI and $100 for slightly more COUNTY COURT i$67.50 Minutes of June 1 read and counts. cut grain, the straw nor the bated her fifth birthday anniver husband Is stationed with the than ten months of self employ RETIREMENT FUND. $58.68 No further matters at issue approved. threshed grain is ever touched sary. Guests Included besides the navy. i ed. MISCELLANEOUS above mentioned Mr and Mrs Claims against all funds al adjournment ensued. Mrs Harland McDonald was by human hands. Meanwhile, efforts to get Con State Industrial Accident Com- There used to be dozens of hor Frank Bayer Sr., Mr and Mrs on the sick list last week, but is gress to extend the deadline lowed as presented. CLAIMS PR E SEN TE D AGAIN mission. $7.80; First National ses involved also and cooks, my Claud Bayer and son, David, reported as improving this week. were stalemated, according to Monthly report of County Trea ST SHERMAN COUNTY, ORE Bank. $91.30; State Tax Commis David’ and Keith Bayer, Leslie word how they sweat and hustl Washington reports. Arguments surer showing fund balancés as GON, GENERAL AND ROAD sion. $13.88; Public Employes ed in those narrow cookhouses, Perrlgo and Julia and Byron FUNDS R)R JUNE, 1949, AP of June i30, presented and filed. put forth to congressmen by Na Bayer. w Monthly report o f County PROVED JULY I TERM O F Retirement System, $147.5»; and wheat was worth but « veterans’ groups nationwide, in Association, Jomes Coats Weds tional Hospital Mr and Mrs Ted Trimble and THE COUNTY COURT cluding the advisory committee Clerk showing General Road $10.50 Three men do the work of 30, Mrs Grace Perkins were busi to the Oregon veterans’ depart fund budget balances as of June G ENERAL FUND ROAD FUND ness visitors In T h e Dalles Walla Walla Girl SHERIFF’S OFFICE 30, presented and filed. efficiency is infinitely ment, urging the time extension WAGES there is much more machinery Thursday. Semi- annual report of Sheriff Norman E. Fields, $50.00; How were these James T. Brown, $267.16; E. Mrs T M Rolfe and Mr and and the price is higher. James E. Coats, son of Mr and j Veterans graduating from showing tax collections from Oc ard Cooper Corp. $46.40 McPherson, $208.35; Frank Baz- Mrs Bert Cox motored to Antel Mrs Claude Coats of Wasco, was college are having difficulty find- tober 15, 1948 to June 30, 1949, CLERK’S OFFICE W est Coast Printing & Bind zel, $212.32; Frank Bayer $200 - It may be a good many years ope Monday to spend the day married Sunday, July 10, at the ing jobs in the current recession. presented and filed. visiting the former’s daughter, ing Co, $17.90; May & Son, $1.45 38- Charles H. Perrlgo, $242.54, Jack Jefferies employed to before the nation knows whether Congregational church at Walla 2. The recession is forcing the First National Bank, $66.30^State Alger Hiss was tried more fairly Mrs Charles Baker and family. Walla, Washington, to Miss Bev- lay-off of veterans ahead of other paint certain portions of Interior ASSESSOR’S OFFICE Tax Commission, $12.56, Pu J . W. Blagg and Gerald Blagg M. J. Mahoney, $75.00; Marie in federal court or in Time mag erly Mulhair, daughter of Mr workers because they were hired of Courthouse. Employes Retirement System, went to Portland Sunday after and Mrs Miles W Mulhair. Certificate of appropriation Hoskinson, $50.00; West Coast |a9t and lack seniority. azine. $46.04 noon o n business returning The church was decorated with ’ 3 1 The bulk of veterans have issued by Court certifying bud Printing & Binding Co., $3.00; t 4 Mrs Irene gladioli and baby breath and a not yet earned sufficient wage geted appropriation for office of Mahoney Office Equipment, $10.- REPAIRS In Colorado *a sort of interna- Monday evening. • C H. Urness Motors. $54.20, Mansfield accompanied them to sorority sister of the bpide sang, credits to draw state unemploy- County Agent for 1949-1950 fiscal 00 tional get together was held to her home in Portland after loggers & Contractors Machin COURTHOUSE “Thru the Years” and “Because”. ment benefits. In Oregon, the year. ery $911’. Wasco Motor Co., discuss man and what the week end here. .City of Moro, Water Dept., Order Issued ^directing Clerk The bride was led to the altar SUOC said only 60 percent of click Man Is be«»™11« “ " “ “ J spending $11.05; Motor Supply & Equip- $7.00; Pacific Power & Light Co., The marriage of Miss Marie . cn Sfi43' Industrial Mot- ised and therefore losing his per Blagg, (laughter of Mr and Mrs by her father and was gowned in 94,680 veterans who filed for to cancel outstanding General $24.82; Pacific Telephone & Tele X n t y . 1. is said. AS he depend, white taffeta, with fitted bodice GI benefits since 1944 will be Fund County Warrant. * "r P a rts /$19 25; Central1 Machine James Blagg and Clair Balzer, and long train. Her bouquet was protected by* state Jobless pay Order issued approving in graph Co., $39.12; Ivan Kirkelie, on the state or something else son of Mr and Mrs A. F. Balzer, $12.65; Eastern Oregon Electric ¿W elding Works, $35.15,,O M he losses the power to depend was an event of Saturday, ju iy Rubrum IHie®. She was attended ments when the veterans’ pro crease of certain County Offici Co., $4.80; Jack Jefferies $1000.- ra Supply & Imple™ep nntYac’ als and employées/ and Com by sorority sisters whose dresses gram runs out. On top of this on himself, which ¿*duce. his Arstill-Monroe Pontiac 16, at 11:00 a. m. in the Baptist were styled similar to that of the state veterans’ department missioners’ per diem fees and 00; Ranch & Home Store, $25.89; $14 08 " S ¿ « ¿ T V S * * ^ e ndr a ^ U n t l T l l t u a . church in Grass Valley, the Fyr-Fyter Products Co., 169.00; said, must be figured thousands mileage, and directing Clerk to the bride. Elsie Jones, P. M, $4.80; Wll- home of both families. Rev. F. Don Bryant of Seattle was who never worked in jobs cover- so accordingly pay. s x a x w « Hearing held on proposed laims Construction Co., $27.46 " “w ell we reckon any biologist L. Cannell of Odell performed best man and fraternity broth Zi bv su te benefits. COUNTY COURT Oregon veterans received $31- budget fo fiscal year 1949-1950; ers of the groom were ushers. or anv physician could have said the ceremony. Vernon I. Miller, $21.00; Les- Motor Co., $11.10 The reception was held at the 300,000 in federal jobless pay in budget adopted, as published and Sle same thing. However the ter Wilson, $22.50 levy to cover so G^ a ^ ‘rd Oil Co.. $379 49; Shell order of tax Beta Theta Pi house which was the nearly five years of the pro- W H EAT YIE L D « HOLDING ohilosophers did sayf it CIRCUIT COURT was atP a religious conference VP TO AVERAGE decorated with many* seasonal gram. The jobless peak was in made. ■ oil Co., $13.70; Union Oil Co. D. N. Mackay, $100.00 County Agent authorized and flowers. Here the bride’s cake March of this year when 24,329 after a fashion. about $74.87 __ LIBRARY Resutls of harvesting indicate was cut and the visitors book veterans drew benefits in one directed to negotiate for print LAW of us worry little anout TIRES * TUBES $20.- The Frank Shepard Co., ing of pamphlets covering 1948 w h a f te Put In our stomach and that the crop will be larger than signed by guests. week. The lightest load, 1152 Wasco Motor Co., $3 05, A 00; West Publishing Co., $90.00;' veterans, occurred in Octol>er, Conference Committee Report. none at all about what we put at first estimated and may reach Both were students at Whit stlll-Monroe. Pontiac, $3.-0, J * - The American Law Book Co, Right-of-Way Easement f o r ?n our heads and we worry little 3,000,000 bushels. man college where the groom 1948. $62.50; Bancroft-Whitney Co., McKean, $1.00; S erv i^ Garage. County Road by Frank Medler Most reports are that the graduated in ' June. They will ---- t about our place In nature Too $18.50; Firestone Stores $260 . - $80.50 et al, presented and filed. yield is good although some far live at Phoenix, Arizona, where. D . much trouble—let’s have fun. Walther-Williams Co., $208.55 1 4 A DEMOSS MEMORIAL PARK Matters of Courthouse roof re mers seem disappointed. Yet, Mr. Coats will attend the Insti- l lO I lC C f 1 I 4 115 i l C a u W. R. Reid & Son, $9.57; Col GENERAL SUPPLIES pair held in suspense , pending Too bad * the marksmanship there are more reports of fields tute for Foreign Trade. Ranch & Home Store,- $8.73. umbia Agricultural Supply & receipt of further communica J Z , X r in that U » Angeles making 30 bushels than 20 bu Moon’s, $5.76; Contractors Equip- Equipment Co., $32.61 Coining To The Dalles tions. shels and even deducting for Corp., $397.40; Moro Lumber & Communication f r o m State COUNTY CORONER: $27.65 optimism a n d early reports ANDREW PATJENfl RETURN Dr,g g s. Qf New Highway Commission re Fire COUNTY SCHOOLS: $124.50 Fuel Co.. $49.79 MISCELLANEOUS game board looks there seems a good chance that COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER: guards along U. S. Highway No. Mr and Mrs Andy Patjens re- York City, president of the Am- State Industrial Accident Com good appointments, the county will average 23 bu turned Friday from their trip to erican Pioneer Trails association 30, presented and filed. $2189.20 , BUREAU O F BTOIXX5ICAL mission, $51.47; Railway Express it will have its shels which will bring the total Germany and other European and party, will be in The Dalles Clerk directed to draw on bud Agency, $0,98; Pacific Telephone , fewer fish anf* up to the 3,000,000 mark. Qual countries? They also spent sever- Sunday evening, July 24, and the geted Predatory Animal control SURVEY: $361.19 & Telegraph Co., $15.24; City of re hunters and fish- ity is not high but test weights al weeks sight seeing in our Chamber of Commerce is plann- fund In payment of portion of GOVERNMENT TRAPPER: Moro. $3.50: Pacific Power & mid need a miracle are around 58 or 56. Already two own U. S. A., as they returned ing a basket dinner for them at May and ail of June salary of $50.00 -yone happy and It wheat loans have been made, in their new Studebaker. The 6 p. m. Interested Sherman coun- government trapper. DISTRICT ATTORNEY: $14 85 Light Co, $1.90 3ng time since mlr- one on No. 2 and one of No. 3 Patjens report a wonderful trip, tians may attend. Clerk directed to make such SEAl.<ER, WEIGHTS & MEA- RETIREMENT FUND: $3.83 wheat. ►en performed. Says Shepard For 1950 Crop County Claims and Proceedings Show Court Actions