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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1949)
•% . PAGE 4 SHERMANT W t fN Ï Y JOURNAL, J d ô fc ô .ô R B G O T Mrs Alice McDougal and dau ghter, Sally, of Portland came Thursday to visit at the home of Mr and Mrs Bert Cox, her son, Allen McDougal, who spent the summer here returned home with his mother. Ivan Blagg is back in the postoffice after two weeks - of harvesting Mrs. Matt Simon acted as postmaster in his ab sence. Marquita and Helen Koepke G ra s s V a lle y Mrs. A. P. Balzer A clinic for pre-school child ren only will be held at the Grass Valley school house Mon day, August 15, between *1:30 5 p. m. All pre-school children must be examined bÿ a physici an before starting to school. Mr and Mrs J. W. Blagg and Mr and Mrs Ivan Blhgg and family motored to the Peterson rock gardens Sunday where they enjoyed a picnic dinner. Mrs T. M. Rolfe had as her guests from Wednesday until Friday Mrs John MeKenzie from Vancouver, Washington. M rs Rolfe and Mrs Bert Cox took her to The Dalles Friday where she left by bus for her home. PROTECTION FEDERAL ALL-RISK P INSURANCE g ? CR I0MRMAII Get your Twin Sweater sets, that have just arrived. Ifeî’A’î i t against all hazards Priced separately. Jake Keeler, Agent GRETA, The Dalles From where I s i t ... ¿ y FRIDAY, AV GTS Y 12, 194# of Bend visited a week at the home of Mrs W. D. Barnett. Their father, John Koepke came Monday and took them home. Mr and Mrs Donald Clodfel- ter and family and Jackie Hel- zer of The Dalles left Wednes day for avacation along the Ore gon coast. Mr and Mrs Alfred Payne and family and his mother,, Mrs Ben Payne, were visitors In T h e Dalles Sunday. Mr and Mrs O.fN. Ruggles left Saturday for Ione to visit their son in law and daughter, Mr and Mrs Earl McKinney and family. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Crews and family and ' Mr and Mrs Henry Roth motored to Gold- endale Sunday to thefcall game between Wasco and Odell. Odell won by a score of 9 to 8 on an over time game. Mr and Mrs Don Smith and son, Larry, and Mrs John Block took the latters mother, Mrs John Hays, to The Dalles F ri day to stay with her daughter, Mrs Gus Smith. She spent the summer here with her daughter. Mr and Mrs Sim Duncan bought the place where Mr and Mrs Olan Stark live and will move their family there in the near future. Mr and Mrs Stark will move to a ranch near Kent. Mrs Vickie Davis of Grants and hqr sister In law, Mrs Davis of Portland visited Mrs. Claud Bayer Wednesday afternoon. We Invite you to flse opi enjotj a There's a full measure of pleasure in every glass of light and lively open an account. Blitz Weinhard. Light, cool, clear ...lively, refreshing, satisfying. GRETA, The Dalles George G. Updegraff Attorney at law MORO Wednesday, Monday, Fridaj Afternoons tub DAL g ES 211 East Third Street Telephone 3209 ------------- 1___________ Jo e Marsh RIP«4 -• »-w» Specs A n d I S ee P u m ic e B u ild in g B lo ck s Eye To Eye Store Y ou r farm m a c h in e r y in a firep ro o f p u m ic e b u ild in g, to what I think is rig h t I’ve no call to dislike you for not seeing energ- thing the way I see i t ” From where I sit, open-minded ness is a wonderful quality. There are p’.snty of things Specs admires th at 1 don’t care for. Like his fondness for buttermilk. I ’d rather have a glass of beer anytime . . . but Specs Allen and I don’t let lit‘J.2 (i'.fTer'nen get in the way of can:: thin” Lij l:ks friendship. Asked Specs Allen to go hunting last week. Known him all my life, so I wasn’t surprised when he showed up with no gun. Specs doesn’t like to kill anything. Couldn’t ask for a better hunt ing companion, though. We tram p nround the woods, and whenevvr the dogs flush a bird, I blase away while Specs just watches. Told him once I was surprised he went along . . . feeling the w. ./ >.2 does about shooting a n ;.. . “Well, Joe,** he sajs. “you C ; you think is right and J I : c o o l in su m m er, easy to h eat in w in ter. F R E E E S T IM A T E S * o n a n y ty p e b u ild in g . PERM ANENT V E R M IN P R O O F TH E DALLES PUM ICE BLOCK CO Makers of Oregon's Best Building Block Phone 3973 ' P .O . Box 880 , ■roveri t w.datton BirrZ WEINHARD COMPANY. PORTLAND, OREGON -a- 1 • ; Ms * ** * * t ver knew of a : *• ib , * « ♦ aii wit Ï S ». - H mt 7 here ll he lots o f them during the 1949 Sherman County Fair! Thursday night at Grass Valley, briday night an Moro and B Saturday night at W a s c o . Sherman Countians like to dance, 3 fóto® L old or young, spry or stiff, they take to dance music like ladies Ml Jimmie Whet more was born in Columbus, Ohio, March 9, , 1913. At the age of three his parents took np residence in Dallas, Texas, where his musi cal career began. Feeling that their son would have a better opportunity for a continuation of his studies in California, they took up residence in Hollywood, California, when Jimmie was ten year« of age. His mnslcal career continued 1« Hollywood, and In June of 1928 Whetmore did his first pro fessional playing, ’ when three months after his fifteenth birth day he became regular organist at the old “A n o n ” theater in I xm Angeles*, playing accompan iment for the then silent pic tures. H e cohtinned to play the pipe organ In various theaters in and around I xm Angeles un til the advent of the “Talkies” replaced him, along with thou sands of other organists throu ghout the country* It became obvious that a stndy of the piano would be necessary since pipe organs seemed a thing of the past, and to love. They especially like good music-and this we have. so Whetmore spent a year In intensive study of the piano and was engaged In the latter part of 1931 by Radio Station KVOS, Bellingham, Washington. A year later he moved to Seattle and played on KOL, KPCB, (sin ce KIRO) K V L and K XA, and on K X I liQTacoma, Washington. It was while in Beattie that he began teaching piano and organ as well as playing. In 1933 he went Into the pop alar field as pianist with the Mlfi£ht Owls” In I xm Angeles and while again In Hollywood took np popular arranging at Hollywood Conservatory of Mu sk*. Returning to the Northwest In 1935 he wrote a library and began leading his own orchestra based north of Seattle. After a return to Hollywood for further study In 1937 Whet more organized the present Portland, Oregon group In 1938, and this band continues in op eration today. In fact, two of the original members of that Portland group are working In the Jimmie Whetmore orches tra at the present time. . ANN M .* 4 HAYES, VOCALIST several positions that were now offered to her, since she had al Ann was born In Klamath Falls, Oregon, In 1926. H er ear ready begun her training in the profession of nursing. After sev ly childhobd was spent in the eral “sleepless evenings", to town of Lakeview in Oregon, use her own way of putting it, and she did not come to the she decided to let the vocal car Portland area until she was al eer wait until after her nurses most 18 years old. During her early years and as a teen-ager training was completed. she had the usual number of In early 1947, with her three- glee club, high school, and choir year course at one of the local singing activities, Without seri hospitals due to be completed ously considering her voice as a . in October, Ann auditioned career. In fact, she received a with the Whetmore orchestra. scholarship for her work in She was selected from auditions high school, and decided to. nse of more than fifty girls, and thia to enter a school of nnrs- without Whetmore having any ««. ' 1 knowledge of her previous suc Shortly after her arrival In cess In the radio auditions three Portland she agreed, at the in years before. She began her sistence of several girl friends, work with the Whetmore or (and more as a ' lark than any ganization at once, hat was thing else), to audition for a unable to handle many of the position as vocalist at several out-of-town engagements until of the Portland radio stations. her training was completed in The response was immediately October. A t present she retains favorable, and probably more of membership In the Norses asso a surprise toA ftnthaa to anyone ciation but, of course, confines else. Most disappointed though, her activities to her vocal work was the fact that Ann was un with the Whetmore orchestra. able to take advantage of the -V-- / ■ . / î •
