Sherman County journal., January 13, 1950, Image 1

Moro, Oregon Friday,
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Ja n u a ry 13, 1950
0. H. Rowland Has
Republicans Talk
Hearing on School
Wrecked Car After
Shaniko Mishap
About Program;
Separation May
Decide Questions
Result In Peace
O. H. Rowland of Biggs was
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coming home Monday
night
The county and community when he got stuck in a snowdrift
Sherman county Republicana
PMA committeemen m et Tues- about four m iles w est of Shan met at the court house Monday
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Sherman county 1950 conserva- Tenn.,
tlon practice handbook.
Farmers present were unani-
m ously in favor of lim iting the
by Giles L. French
.
maximum
soil
conservation
Virtue is Its own reward— practice payment per farm to
and the lack of it Its own
punish- $1,000.00 to enable the available
mmm.
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monies to be spread evenly over
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county. ’ This payment is
Once there was a man
and $250.00 more than last years
his name was Uncle Sam
and 1|m|t of $750.00 but far lees
he was pretty prosperous
and than the possible maximum of
had a large famHy.
He
sent $2500 as allowed by recent con-
his boys to school and
they gressional action.
wanted auUWBW(lsa^ ano fc>q> z To enCourage
increased ef-
clothes and coon skin coats an fort8 for perennial weed con-
trol namely, Morning Glory,
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his
Top- ,nd RuMlan Kn* , o -
thought it w u flo e to have hla w WhHe
eed the
thLJht
Peter8on of Erwin,
and w ife came along and
parke<T across the road. While
they were working a truck driv-
en by R A Korth of Yakima
carne along and hit both cars
wrecking the Rowland car bad-
jy No one was seriously hurt,
although the truck went into
the ditch. Rowland was accom-
panied by M. W. Rice and Mary
Garrett of Biggs. Sheriff Fields
was called to the site of the
wreck and aided in getting traf-
fie started and the damaged cars
out of the way.
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Rebekahs uimh
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boys have things he’d i w w
the
CO8t of controlling p
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had end Aunt Samantha P r i d e d » ^ , weeda
to the $1000 00 F O r TWO L o d g e s
heraelf that her daughter, were-
„ Th)g lnclude9 2 4 .D at two
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n
t
going
to
have
to
wash
dishes
annH_a.,AnJl
lf
neceasarv
and
the
Jolnt
‘nsUllaUon
of Rebekah
and they didn’t learn to do any- “PP> r X
necesMry *nd
officer, for the Marlon
IWascol
thing else, either, except, wear
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and Lupine (Moro) lodges was
nice clothes and go places. And
The ““ ° f m°td^ ? rd
held a * the Moro hall Tuesday
the relatives came bin looking 10 estabIteh JJ 8 u ®
. night with a goodly crowd pre-
seedy and Uncle 8am had to
eliminated fro™
' sent. Intalllng officer was Ber-
make them presentable and he
as an
jj
tha Belshe, district deputy pre­
loaned their sons money which Other types of V*88 y
Bident assisted by Helen Martin
he didn't get back
And pretty
™ y *
*nd * as marshal.
soon the income from Uncle’s P .5 .
farms wasn't enough to pay the
bills so he borrowed and signed
mortgages and then the costs
kept on growing and the inter-
est did too and when the market
dropped off Uncle went broke
and lost his farms and his boys
couldn’t work because they did-
n’t either know bow or want to
and the girls were mad because
they couldn’t have any more
fine clothes and the relatives be-
came disrespectful and . Uncle
5am and Aunt Samantha spent
heir last years
years in a most unhap-
-»v and
anzl
r e o e n t a n t mood
m ood .
But
py
repentant
there was no telling them at
the time. The boys don’t amount
to much and the girls to less so
a one-time fine family has gone
Into oblivion that hides incom-
petents.
And w e’ve Just been
readlng the national budget.
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Well, what’d you expect in
the winter Ume anyhow?
oounds of stubble
New
r a l e r than Helen
bushel«
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*rhe 1950_!'andbi5?!LOf
#xwi
vation practices will be completed
and .forwarded to all operators
In the county These handbooks
w ill
not be
avaM IlB
until
March
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W SLSCO JJ O m C T l I v l " l
officers for Lupine are
Kruger’ nob,e
^ and:
Gladys
Morrison,
vice-grand;
Lucille May,
secretary; Clara
Houston, treasurer; Marie Peters,
RSNG. Maggie Barnum. LSNG;
HeIen MartJn
g Florence
LSVG; Mollie Mc-
qq Gene Bennett, IG;
Jo Gentry, chaplain.
For Marion lodge Sadie Rich
noble grand; Selma Watkins se
cretary and Leo Watkins, trea­
surer
RSV ;
.
A n J H e r e S fO lltl
M J1U
U V U U l»
iinc
•rhe w a « o u w /A o m
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club
m el
’January 6 at the
hoine
Mrs. bam bom
with
Mrg carl Tuggle as co-hostess. V H 0S6I) rfO ID V rC gO U
cau wag answered by
each u llln g of an event which
Re* Warren,
OSC extension
had
ln chndhood days. farm crops specialist, will ser-
Following roll call the meeting ve as chairman of the Pacific
wa8 lurned Ovcr to Mrs. Paulen Northwest Smut Control com-
Kaseberg leader for the day, mittee for the coming year, it
who discussed Girl Scout train- was announced recently at the
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ing, work and awards
After conclusion of the com m ittee’s
Maybe w e’re aiming too low.
a number of Girl Scouts annual meeting held in Walla
In a campaign against commun frorfJ lwo lroops
by Mrs Walla, Washington
ism we must capture the minds Kaseberg attended
the
club R. O. Fletcher, Walla Walla,
of the people; we are working „ ^ t ln g .
They
favored
with secretary, Northwest Crop Im-
on their stomachs . The moral geveraj songs and showed
provement association, was re­
force would secure to us lf we awards won by them.
elected secretary.
stood resolutely for freedom of
Dainty
refreshments
w ere
The committee, composed of
the lndlvdual is )>elng lost.
served at the conclusion of the grain trade representatives, far-
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afternoon by the hostesses.
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mere, experim
ent
and
Reports have It that 4.9 Inches
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extension service personnel, is
of
>r rain fell
icu In
m 24 hours around
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concerned with reducing the
-00« B«y To u» that sounds like F y f y . T o v < N e e d e ( J
amount of wheat smut disease
■onsolldaUng six months Into t A l I « l U J S I t c c u c x i
which is prevalent throughout
the
Oregon, Washington,
and
Idaho grain belt.
Portland pastors are inclined
Those who have toys or other
to criticise church goers for
sneezes and yawns. Well.
Anyhow It does seem t h a t bring
------- them to the America^
the congregation might be given Legion In Moro where they w ill
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a chance to answer back once be repaired for shipment to ga- k j Q p t m O I O V i n e n t
in h while instead of just sitting thertng place at Portland on
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there soaking up the pastor’s their w ay to Europe where
q»he meeting of the South
views Sunday after Sunday.
means of distributing thein to Sherman County* P-TA scheduled
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children In zones w here children for p y j ^ y nlght at 8 p m at
John Maragon has been In- get few presents have
*•" the school house will give an
dieted for lying to senators. Man tablished. This Is not a Chrla - opportunity to hear William
bites dog?
mas project hut one^to aid the v anNeter, deputy labor commls-
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poorer children of Europe ana 8ioner who is also an Episcopal
When front page characters give them a more ix>rmal ou - mjnj8ter of t^e Corvallis church,
get mixed up ln some sort of look. The post will also aid the
vanN eter will talk about
matrimonial mess it’s just as infantile paralysis ( v e T .
the Fair Employment Practices
» d as if they . were bowery month, says Commander John- act
Jn
at the
:hactere. If you ain’t got any de- gon
last legislative session and the
cency you ain’t got any, that’s
cases that have been brought
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before the commission since it
w ent into effect. Some pictures
Churchill Is reported to have
will be shown.
written that children who had a
p A r * ||f lv
happy childhood seldom amouub O IIIU I i U X C U U j
ed to anything In later life Be
Oregon and the Pacific North-
ihat as It m ay there are certain-
>eem w e„ on the w ay
ly some things that should be
the dubious distinction
learned In childhood and not
the nation’s number one
all of them pleasant - One who wheftt gmut
gorespot.
achieves maturity
le8™*
During 1949, 20.3 per cei^ of
Ing them Is 111 prepared for w e . nearly jg ooo farmer owned lots
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of wheat graded sm utty, a rise
‘There Is moderation even ln of e
cent from the preceding
excess”.
—Disraeli. year R wa8 reported recently to
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the Pacific Northwest Smut Con-
Cousin Freddie has Just came trol committee by* R E White,
home from spending New Years p y A grain supervisor. Portland,
in the city and he’s full of new w bo handles , federal grain ln-
Ideas. He says he thinks he might gpections for the three north-
jzet used to communism but West states.
he’ll never take another drink • Total smut Infestation after
of vodka If Stalin takes the being reduced to Just 2.8 per cent
whole world.
of the crop In 1942-43, has been
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- climbing for
s e v e n straight R E M U N E R A T IO N . . . w illia m
.«KVxr this is the law
and the years. Sw ing to non-smut rests- Lewan. Jr., U , Chleage, wUl r e
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tant varieties such as Elgin and «.He «lU.SM tern the liquid
Tin "the ear™ in Its course
U Golden, and failure on the na-t Curb^ c . y ^ U .a u.der .
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of farmer« to take proper seed
seMfemeat far brain Injnriea
That whoso eateth another’s treatment precautions, are listed
o X r .u d bZ the
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as the principal reasons for .he
* truck °P*rat*d
th*
Smut Chairman
For Europeans
PTA To Hear About
More Damage From
S ^ ll do the other's wlU?
increase.
Official County Paper
afternoon to talk alxjut the pol­
icies they wished the party to
adopt for the 195« campaign.
The opening statement indicated
that they were of the fortunate
party in that regard for the
opposition party will get its pol­
icy. from the top. Mrs. Howard
Conlee, county chairman acted
as chairman of the meeting.
Major points were discussed
individually and
a decision
reached about them As to agri­
culture it was said that the pre­
sent plan was failing and that
the Brannan plan would be un­
satisfactory to Sherman county.
A committee consisting of Collis
Moore, Harold Bakin and Lee
Dehler brought- ln a resolution
recommending agreement with
the certificate plan which was
adopted.
The committee on government
costs, I>ester Wilson. Carl Mel-
zer and E. D. McKee, ask for
REPAIRING THE DAMAGE . . . Mrs. Vicki La Motta tenderly min­
a balanced budget ' and a two isters to the battered eye of the fam ily breadwinner, world's m iddle­
percent reduction In the budget.
weight cham pion Jake La Motta. The champ ran into a Frcm-'im.tu
It also ask-for continued appro-- nam e of Robert Villem a at Madison Square Garden. Jake, who won
his title from another Frenchm an, the late M artel Cerdan, u.. .. * u.i ->o
prlations for Pacific northwest
w ell against the second Frenchman, and took a Shellavking. tie re­
because of the influx of people
to this area. The general assem­ tained his title, because It was not at stake in the bout.
bly, however, voted to remove
the request for northwest funds
and approved the main resolu­ Planning Committees Meeting; Listening\
tion.
The group did not like CVA, To Voices o f Advisors; Planning More
federal aid to education, social­
The Crops, Farm Home and diesel oil in place of water as a
ized medicine and did like the
Taft-Hartley law well , enough Rural IJfe and Weed committees carrier for 2,4-D will be two of
to approve a resolution for its of the Sherman County Agri­ the Important items discussed.
culture Planning conference will Allen Tom is serving as chair
continuation.
A committee on reapportion­ meet this coming week at the man of the Weed committee.
ment consisting of Mrs. Collis courthouse in Moro.
Arrangements were made at
Moore, Mrs. l i s t e r Wilson and
The Crops committee
will the recent
County Planning
Paul Fraser approved the federal meet Monday, January 16 at Council meeting, for the various
plan of reapportionment which 9:00 a. m. with Dewey Thomp subcommittees of the confer­
was later approved by the gen­ son as chairman. E. R. Jackman, ence to meet this winter.
eral assembly.
farm crops extension specialist
The members of each of the
A meeting will be held later will attend the meeting. The committees will review earlier
In the winter in Th< Dalles with Farm Home and Rural Life recommendations and bring them
other counties to vfrhieh Ralph committee will meet at 9:30 a up to date if necessary. Through
Cake, national . committeeman, m., Friday, January 20. Mrs. W. the recommendations as planned
has been invited. Policies will E. Bruckert is chairman of this by committee members, an edu­
be discussed there also.
committee and Miss Frances cational extension program may
Clinton, home economic special­ lie formulated for the county
for the coming year. All com­
A1 Gust, district commander ist will attend this meeting.
Several very important items mittee members are - urged to
of the American I region, was
will be considered when the attend their individuaf commit­
here Tuesday from Maupin to Weed
committee meets at 9:30 tees with all county folks en­
visit local Commander Lloyd
a.
m.
Saturday,
January 21, couraged to attend one or all of
Johnson and aid in signing up The need
for
enforcement
of the committee meetings.
more members.
the wreed law' and the use of
The hearing before the county
boundary board (county court
members) to^conslder the appli­
cation of Ihe Locust Grove and
Gordon Ridge areas for separa­
tion from the Wasco district
consumed the time of the court
last Thursday and resulted in
the appointment of a committee
by County Judge Tom to endea­
vor to settle the argument. Nam­
ed were Mrs. B. Estrelle Hailey
and Mrs. Paulen Kaseberg. They
may name a third.
Filing of a petition by the
residents of the areas named
above and which formerly had
tw'o districts started the contro­
versy over a month ago.
Both
sides presented their arguments
and both were well represented
wdth the circuit court room be­
ing well filled by participants
and the curious.
No time was
set for a decision by the commit­
tee and apparently no under­
standing as to whether the de­
cision of the committee wil^ be
taken as final.
i
The first day of the January
session found the court naming
election boards, who were all
reappointed,with one exception,
Harold Eakln was placed on the
fair board replacing Ernest E s­
linger, Don DeMoss was named
as caretaker of DeMoss park re­
placing his father..
Joe Peters.
J. M. Wilson and Dick Yocum
were named as roadvlewers,
Sheriff Fields was made truant,
officer, the dog board is to be
W. E. Bruckert, T. M. Garrett
and Kenneth Sather, the offi­
cial newspaper will be the Sher­
man County Journal. Frank Baz-
zel was made road foreman for
the year anil a list of 200 names
w'ere drawn for possible Jury
duty.
Bank Deposits Climb
Say Statements
In answer to the year-old call
of the comptroller of the cur­
rency, the Sherman County Moro
branch of the First National
Bank of Portland reports depo­
sits of $1.893,685; and loans of
$162,648. In charge of the local
hanking office Is Carrel S. Ben­
nett manager.
On December 31, 1948, the
were: deposits $2,374,101;
about folks vou do know figures
and loans $2,419,357.
The First National Bank of
or would eniov knowing
Portland, with 45 branches, re­
In the north end of Sherman home the middle of the week, next meeting, and not at this ports deposits of $476,427,181;
county the freezing weather let Paternal grandparent is Mrs. time as it was previously plan- and loans of $151,055,062.
up Friday and it began to thaw Bee Macnab of The Dalles, and ned.
The United States National
a bit. Several inches of frost were maternal grandparent is Frank
The grade school boys motor-
Bank
again leads the state in
in the ground. By Friday even- Medler
of Rufus.
ed to Wasco Friday, afternoon
ing the roads were getting mud-
The Rufus school district for a game of basketball with total deposits as revealed by Its
dy. The farmers who went into held its regular meeting Mon- the Wasco boys.
The Rufus year-end statement just Issued.
With deposits of $527,181,823,
town Saturday, said the travel- day at the school house.
The team held a large lead over
the United States National Bank
ing was pretty rough owing to budget will be made out at the Wasco during the game.
the * softened condition of the __________________________ _____.___________________________ _ has marked up a deposit in­
crease of $21.590,224 during
roads. The weather took a dif- n
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1
I f
the past six months. Total de­
ferent turn Sunday morning Road Commission Budget Indicates MOW
posits for the
The Dalles
when the sky let down a couple
®
branch are $12.118,551.84, and
loans and discounts $4.753,193.12
was more welcome on account Work This Year, More Aid To Counties •
according to C. A. Reynolds,
of it had a chance to do some
manager.
good In putting moisture in the
During 1919 highway commis- tions.
earth The ground is short of sion revenues grossed $31,335,-
For 1950 the commission will
moisture and the hopes are that 000. Of this $11,829,000 was di- have an anticipated income of
enough moisture can be stored verted under legislative com- $35,627,000. It has budgeted dis- CH1DREN TO SEE PLAY
□ w a v
m akp
vood crops
croDs for
for mand: $5,558,000 to the counties bursements totalling $36,955,000.
away
to make
good
The high school pupils, or
for county road financing; $4,108,- Of this $20,676,000 is set aside
1950.
part
of them, are going to The
000 to the cities for use on city for construction and right of
Chicken pox Is making more
$1.035.000 to the state way flanacing; $10,138.000 for Dalles Friday to attend the
progress ‘" ‘^e community with po|ke
„ )2R0(X) t0 coun. malntenan?e of ,he state high- "Taming of the Shrew”, Shake­
spearian comedy given by* the
to school again tles <in loans to t,e use<1
way system; $2.837,000 for capl- University of Washington play­
retu
g
them in the repair of unusual tai items; $3,640,000 for admin-
Tue* 5ay*
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frost damage suffered by coun- istration,
operation of state ers, and will play The Dalles
Arnold Lampert of Troutdale ^y roa(js during the winter of parks, conduct of the travel in- teams at basketball after the
show.
arrived last week for a visit 1943.49) leaving $19,506,000 of formation service, debt service,
with his brother in law and sis- gagojjne tax motor vehicle reg- operation of drawbridges
and
ter, Mr. and Mrs. James Fox.
istration fees, motor transport ferries, et cetera.
The Airplane club met last
an(J incidental revenues -
The 1950 Income will come,
Tuesday at the home of Vincent gtate highway funds - to spend $28,827,000 from gas taxes, reg-
Rice. Five boys were present and
forwarding the state highway istration and motor transport
had an enjoyable evening.
program.
It had in addition fees and incidental sources, plus
Chicken pox and snowy wea-
500,000 of federal aid allot- $6,800,000 of federal aid allot-
ther had cut Into the attendance mentg During the year it dlsbur- ments.
of the Rufus Sunday school hut ged $34,303,000, approximately
Gross revenues from road user
the average attendance Is still
300,000 in excess of 1949 in- sources are expected to reach
larger than It was a year ago, come t^js was made possible $40,715,000, but again this will
and the teachers want to keep by r^venues accumulated during be reduced $7,270,000 to meet
It that way. They say they’d
war years due to govern- the 19 percent diversion to the
like th e opportunity to Invite ment restrictions on construe- road use of the counties; $3,600,-
everyone to attend the next tJon and
available ma- 000 to finance the 10 percent <11-
Sunday school class at 10 o’clock te rjajs
'
version to the cities and $1,018,-
Sunday.
t^e total. $12,034,000 were 000 to the state police.
Rev. and Mrs. Adrian Robirts reqUlred for maintenance of the
F ro m .1917 to the close, of the
were guests Sunday at the home 7 300 miles of the state highway fiscal year June 30. 1948, a total
of Mr. and Mrs. Fay Brackett.
s y s t e m , including $2,000,000 of approximately $340,000.000
A new daughter has arrived at made necessary for repair of had been spent for construction
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. frost and storm damage caused and maintenance of the state
William Macnab. The baby girl, by the hard winter of 1948-49. highway system. By the close CONGRATS, H U B B Y . . . Gea. J.
bom Tuesday in The Dalles has Construction and right of way of 1950 approximately $90,000.- Lawton Collins, form er vice
staff, tJS arm y, feta k l M f r i
been named Nancy Carol and expenditures took $18,080,000; 000 will have been added or ob- ef
wife after being sworn ln aa
weighed in at 81b 12 oz. The Mac- $1,236,000 went to finance equip- ligated, bringing the grand total of staff. Collins
nabs have two other daughters, ment, buildings, parks, travel expenditure on the state hlgh- Om ar Bradley, wha to
Arlene and Kay. Mrs. Macnab information service, debt ser- way system, by that date to ap- man of the US Joint efciofs ef
and baby are expected to bevice, bridge and ferry opera- proximately $430,000,000.
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