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Moro, Oregon Friday, Sixty-Second Year No- 12 T h ese T h in g s W e ' N o te Official County Paper January 20, 1950 UP Farm Train Soil Conservation Due Here Next District Now Ready Monday p.m. Blizzard, Cold Make To Operate Living Uncomfortable, The Sherman County Soil Con servation District was given full Smut and weed control, will be approvai by the State Soil Con the main topic of discussion dur servation committee at a recent ing the Union Pacific agricultur meeting in Corvallis. County al improvement tier visit to iandowners had previously ap- Moro Monday. January1 23, ac. Proved this measure 169 to 55 Snow started falling l a s t more snow and somewhat war- cording to T. W. Thompson, ex- -on NoVember 16. Thursday i n ' fairly warm air mer weather but Sunday it by Giles L. French tension county 9g9Bt. Charles Kuypers of Rufus, Vhlch by Friday morning had snowed heavily again to make The program walk start at 1:30 and Luther Davis, of Kent were turned to a sweeping blizzard a total of 14 to 15 Inches by that We suppose it is considered p. m. at the depot fh Moro with appointed by the state committee with a high east wind. It was night. . progress that a man can be born all Sherman county people able as supervisors of this., district one of the worst storms in re- Oddly the south end of the in a log cabin and die from an to get out of the snow Invited. for two and one years respect- cent years and country roads county had a Chinook Sunday atomic bomb. Speakers accompanying the fuiiy. These two men fill out the were soon drifted full. and it drifted the snow back • • ♦ • • car include Rex Wfcrren, exten- ffve man board of supervisors Friday afternoon the wind over the path It had taken In the The president says that Am- slon specialist Oregon State col- which will carry on the business moderated and snow continued east wind which brought It. At ericans should have an average DANCE OF T H E D E L E G A T E . . . Warren R. Austin, permanent lege; R. O. Fletcher, Walla Wal- of ^he district. The other men fap until there was eight or Moro and farther north the United States delegate U the United Nations, dances with his wife nt a income of $12,000 by the year la, secretary of the Pacific Nor^h- elected to the board at the time <en inches on the level although wind was easterly all day Sun spectacular masked ball at the Waldorf-Asterta betel la New Terfc. 2000. The way the national debt west Crop Improvement assocl- Of balloting were A. C. Kaseberg, there was no level because of day except for a short time In The U. N. delegate frena Bnrlinfton. Va., was only one of the many is growing they'll need i t ation; and^ George T . Penrose, Wasco, Vernon I Miller, Moro, the drifts. Travel was almost the morning. Such change^ of glittering names from the world of diplomacy, the stage, and society « * * « * Portland, U. P. agricultural ag- and w . L May, Grass Valley, stopped and big tru ck s returned* w i n d direction, temperature who were present for this gala benefit affair Is help the pension fund The storm which we are now ent. W. E. Hall, Moro, not ac The five man board gives t0 the|r base and remained there.* and snow fall have been corn- digging out of was hailed as the _ of the New York philharmonic sympheny- companying, will also speak. equal representation to each Travelers were warned to stay mon In this storm. worst blizzard of the winter at Sherman county being one of of the communities In the coun- off the highways and for most Saturday night the tempera first and grew rapidly to become the serious offenders in the ty and thus equal part In the th em no - urging was neces- ture was seven below but Sun- the worst of this century. We * » S smut picture can well benefit formation of a long range soli sary. day night it was an even zero. from the latest information on conservation plan. Friday night the thermometer Monday night it dropped to ten q u V kae s ^ / c ^ e ^ u presented An organization meeting of at the experiment station drop- below again and water pipes be- batty with any within tb® . j^ y Shermul county b o y s' Beef club members in the by Mr Warren, said Mr. Thomp- the supervisors will be held on ¡ ^ / ‘¡o eleven below, coldest ¿f gan to freeze all over the coun 20 years. Gr»ndpa can t organized Moro area have joined together 8on’ county agent ^ tro1’ Tuesday. January 24, In Moro th wlnter. Saturday brought try and the cold crept in. worse ones back when no fam- 8 i Moro area have joined ^ e t h e r ya situation, and seed house wlth a representative of the Althouh t h e ’thermometer drop- lly had central heating, hot wat- £ * * * clubs^ r^ W a c ,n a 8Undard dub and elect wU1 dlscufi8. commIttee present lo a 8 8 ls t------------------------------ — ---------- ped to below zero Tuesday even er tanka, warm barns; when the T h irty -tw o ^o f officera at lhelr next meeting ed by the other speakers. In outlining the duties of the Qn n w a n J C h a n f f P ing about dark there was a gen ^ h e ro ^ e « X ^ u a r y 25. W. T. Balaiger U ------------------- N>ard and tbe election of a cbaln ¿ " « W 3 0 0 ICC V n a i l g e eral trend toward warmer wea- Balaiger vice-chairman, and secre- • • o • ■ ther. Wednesday the mercury man, p lr fir s t v year p a r of club work. w o rk . nervin e as r this aw ay'over "unplowed roads; and tb their first serving aa local local leader leader fo for this D r i v i n g R e q u i r e m e n t s Climbed to ten above, reminding KNIGHTEN HAS FORMA tary. about which memory has become To obtain a better knowledge group. everyone that It takes time to forms for the more sewing ______ and _____________ forestry club Application __ _ competitive than factual, of proper tractor maintenance _____ Ice and snow conditions now warm up a whole state full of Farmers now days have stopped ten boys have been organized organlBed at last week at Washington State World War II I f TIC R o « U n l o v e general throughout the state are cold alr There was a promise of that old worry about tying a into a Tractor Maintenance Rufyg. Five girls ara starting veterans’ bonus are available at i ’l l l u D d S n C lC c lS bringing an upsurge of skidding ________ 8omewbat warmer weather— rope between the house and barn club under the leadership of La- beginning sewing project state and county agencies and _ T\ r accidents, the secretary of state’s sometIrne ¡n the future. to Insure accurate passage bet- mer Sayrs. Clarence May was under the leadership of Mrs. service organizations throughout F ro m DuiUF Traffic Safety Division has re ween. They don’t have any rea was elected president of the d u b Charles Wilson. Mr Donald Oregon, the state Department of H ighw ay 97 Open ported. son to go to the barn. with I^ rry Kaseberg and Roger Brislain, instructor at the Rufus Veterans’ Affairs announced at The Moro high school b°ys The division said following Highway 97 remained open ....................... _ Ball elected to the offices of vice- achool, has eleven boys organized Salem this week. won their second game of the another car mo closely, sudden ,hp tlm. . xceD, at Tupfidav hv heating D ufur 7 _ Z Z T .__ - - a nearly all th e tim e except a t A group has filed a petition for president and secretary, res- lnto a fore8try ciub Officers of The Oregon veterans’ depart- “ • I ue^ Games y scheduled ^ a2 !" L DU this /h'!I B Ä 'ü p - or b rnt^ectl'o'ns r Ä and bill that would atop pectlvely. - X s e tw o T lu b . are not avail- ment has received a supply of 40 to 29. 2"?, ¿ " ¿ V S liquor advertising in Oregon. Well Done and Whistling ble at the persent time. - the forms and has distributed week have not been played and and curves are commonest drl- PAV/v ? ^ v crew kw t the Some one has faith in the value Tea-Kettle Cooking clubs were All of these 4-H clubs are plan- them to county veterans service probably will not be this season, j faults causing trouble on h g aifhnuizh of newspaper advertising. We organlzed ln Moro ^ t b ^ Mrg club year with at officers in 22 counties The coun- At Dufur the second squad won u ^ o r snow Sherman section. althou^ travel was hazardous and chains suppose, however, that the group f^3ipb Busse and Mrs. Thomas least ten meetings, including a ty service officer for this area 28 to 13 with Leslie Edwards Braking distances are from 3 were considered necessary by .w ith 10 and Bob Martin . with will use billboards to carry on w Thompson serving as local picnic or party, carrying on their is Wily Knlghten. seven dolne a larce Dart of the to 12 t,m®® 8reater under such most drivers. The road was cov- the campaign. And lose leaders. The Well-Done club lessons, entering into demonstra g g P conditions, it was pointed out. ere4 by by two or three inches of • • • • scoring. girls elected Sylvia Zachary as tion contests, exhibit by each ROAD« DRIFT 8HTT making it imperative that driv- packed snow with a couple of The reports that president, Kay Klrkelie, vice- member at the county fair, and «CORE: — Oregonian _ FG FT F PTS ers keeP blenty of sPace between of banked snow alongside Roads opened th e first of. the Moro George Sandy says that the mod- an<j Eaves, secre- complete their 4-H club record their car and the vehicle ahead. plow ed track. Some very week drifted fuH agein in some Alley, J RF ern printer Is no longer a ,i lre~ tary of their clube. hooks To help avoid that lielpless deep drifts had to be moved to 10 Instances and road crews were Rust, D. LF man with an eye Susan Woods will take over ------------------ - feeling when your car goes Into kPep the road open. 16 having trouble getting through May, R C diction to the use o e the presidency of the Whistling Je a skid, the division offered these Almost no farmers came -to Well, we suppose the, cigarei Teg Rettle dub glnce ObD RESIDENT DIBS many of them. It Is expected to Roberson, RG town; almost none could. Har- 5 tips; be next week before anything Knighten, i/J has pretty w®11 p . Sayrs, elected president, is Join- 2 1. “Pump the brakes when ap- ry and Dean Pinkerton drove ln chewing tobacco as burnea another group of girls James H. Frazier, former re- resembling normal living is res- Bucholtz, T. C 0 plying pressure to the brake pe- on a small open tractor and some marks on print shop furniture second year cooking club, sident of Sherman county, died tored and that only with for- Moore, D. G 2 dal to keep wheels from locking, made the trip ln trucks. testifies but as for the eye sha e Mlller wiy g ^ e aa the at his home at Wenatchee, Jan- tunate Generally farmers stayedlhome 0 help prevent side skids, and to we refused to be nU* ^ t secretary for the group. A new uary 12. He was a brother in official and storm maintain directional control. _ waited until the w printing business because we ld t wlll el€cted at law of the late Al Wright and wait until Monday before trying DUFUR 7 2. Be gradual ln starting, stop- abated before trying to break — Incidently this is _ ---- M -------- 2 3 to open schools. Mead F wear one. a«vpn their next meeting, 7 ping or changing direction of through drifts and clear the printing week and it lasts seven 3 1 F Potter 10 movement. roads. Those who had to come days. Five days would would 5 0 C Lovey 5 3. Use tire chains to reduce took to the ridges in the fields. have been enough tout even 2 1 G Crump that Is better than some. The ° hLakln^ ,'! i S'.anCH an<L l° m n v Htor,n 0 0 Thom pson 0 vide added traction when mov- coal miners could have a coal 0 0 Hix C 0 ing from a stopped position or Schools were closed Friday 0 o week ln two days. Taylor G • • • • • ________ climbing a grade. and remained so. Nearly all Dick Yocum, William Huck, C. , Frances Woods was an over ture from the snow. A drivers license examiner 4. Whenever possible, stay off meetings were cancelled. Social Tuetday was Ben Franklins nigbt guest Thursday night a t ' The basketball game between A. Tom, Carl Thompson, Tracy will be on duty In Moro at the the roads entirely following sev- affairs consisted of chattering birthday and it Is appropriate J()bn home. Moro and Rufus boys was post- Fields, Bruce Millard. Mrs. Bill Macnab returned courthouse between the hours ere storms to facilitate snow re- remarks about the weather and that we remember it by _***®*J* i na May Ziegler of Grass Val- poned Friday night as neither Ing some of this American phll- ,ley wflg a at tb e Lester school had held classes that af- borne with her Infant daughter of 10 a. m. and 3 p. .m. on Tues- moval and sanding by mainten- heartfelt imploratlons_ for re lief from the e cold. cold. osopher’s sayings: “They that wdson home from Thursday to temoon. -----»bn just beating the day, January Ta«„nrv 94 ance crews. Hof from th Radio and last Thursday 24. newspaper stories promised no CM give u p , e8“ nllal Mon<l«y - own» .... storm. Some farmers have been . able change except occaslonly and obtain a little temporary saie^y Mr gnd Mrg Qug Koepke of get U)wn wJth trucks but these promises were not observ George Fox Jr. attended a deserve neither liberty nor sa Tbe gpent Tuesday at lhe going is slow and hard with ed by the weatherman. ln the cuts. meetin8 of bis 4 H club ln Ru- ty.” t it. , . the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harley deep . cuts. Given the blame for the cold “Dost thou ovle life? Then OO R »H a m w h a v e «rotten rus ia8r vnursuay lu s n t h“ve ? °« en Thnrsday^ A r m e J f Qr spell was a frigid wave that not squander time for^ that is Mr and Mrg Harry Howe„ frozen cheekB The worst case «P«* th e n ig h t with Paul Black- came down from Canada across the stuff life is made of. were dinner guests Wednesday jg of Tommy Macnab whose burne. The snow came on A reeducated and rearmed be the deciding factor in wheth- eastern Washington. It arrived . a i____ww . . . Friday while going __i__ n e next x t d a day v and George hasn t It is hard for an empty bag at home of ««3 Mr. tuvc and Mrs. stalled West Germany rpay prove to be er the Germans go with us or abead of a warmer storm that been able to get borne so far. to stand upright Harley McKay. home. He had to walk and was our most substantial European whether they go with Russia,— wag due from the ocean. The u V p to Mr. and Mrs. Jay McKay and nijjjyed by the cold wflich was bulwark against Russian aggres- in which case Russia would con- cdd wave had super iOr force If the i reader injured family, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Bek- down to zero. It has hovered T\ R q 4 T im o sion, Congressman Ixiwell Stock- trol Europe. It is these leaders and forced its way down the bre the person~w h kedahl and family and Miss around zero since Friday. LlCCCmbCr DdQ 1111)6 see man of the second district of and young people who must be Columbia gorge to give Portland l V. by the loss of ^ na Marion Buchanan -Were dinner, The Rufus community sur- Oregon stated from t Washington shown that American’s material ¡ ^ ’ ¿'treets" and colder weather but to l ^ k in the m ^rnjr Iagt gunday gt Joh„ Mf M ^ a, f 0|> D n V e rS today. resources stem from the found- c ^ n » are used to Much of our B" )t Decker homc ThC afternoon was Morrte last Tuesday night the Representative Stockman has ation of the great spiritual re- havlng The gorge routes were the wesi w m t ° ur manu-« spent skiing and sleighing. occasion being their 35th wed- Application of Oregon’s finan- recently returned from an in- sources as set forth in our Con- dosed and many cars and trucks took our wnea arG gnow and blizzard ding anniversary. The crowd d al responsibility law resulted speCtton tour of Europe with the stitutlon, where recognition Is were abandoned, some were what to do next began at Rufus Thursday when met at the Morris home and ln 8Ugpension of 5.973 operators’ House Appropriations Commit- Riven to the right of every in- blown off.th e road and others quarreling hdo became icy played cards and visited untB Hedges and 7,187 vehicle regis- tee and he sald that. “While dividual to ‘life, liberty and the wrecked.Heavy snow and slides £5 mire is that we should and visibility was reduced to late when supper was served. tratlon8 iast year, according to w e* have made great progress in pursuit of happiness.’’ kept the Columbia highway par- One tning sui rtm ent that flfty feet Friday morning a t The group presented the Morris the department’s annual report, revitalizing the economy of Eu- “Since the basic struggle is tIally dosed for three or four g eti^ I a Z v more than one direc- l i o’clock school was dismissed with a gift and their six child- Majority of the drivers whose. rope our efforts may prove use- one of ideas,’’ he continued, “I days and made travel slow and could A AM.n look ir™ more and none wa8 held, this week, ren brought them 12 big toses. llcenses were suspended failed to ,esg ’unie^s we induce the Ger- believe there should be much dangerous when travel was pos- tlon at once There is about 18 inches of Children are Mrs. Ray Brown, ftle proof of responsibility after man natiOn to accept the prin- more active use of Ideas to pro- 8lbie' at all. xv m b4»t*thl‘s *ls the only snOw on the level, although it Mrs. Ronald Klock, Mrs. Frank lnvolved in property dam- dple8 and t0 practice the meth- mote the living of democracy in »rv ¿ h ere the papers carry is not level, and farmers estim- Adams, Mrs. Bill Myers end Joe flge Qr lnjury accidents. Owners of democracy. There is need Germany where occupation Is Lit«« Frost country w reducing diets. ate that there is not ¡more thap Morris. Present att the party of vlebiCles involved must also for practical training in how to Riving us a chance dt reeduea- What seems at present a for- is one of the most an meh of frost In the ground were Mesdames and Messrs liar- fUe proof and 5114 of the reg. Hve Jn freedom tion.- ’ tultous circumstance was that 2 3 * ! ? va of human necessities which should assure som« mols- land McDonald, Andy Engberg, i8traUon suspensions resulted g congressman Stockman “We have never before tried the snow fell on ground barely eT r t * I l n and is often sold the ____________________________ ___ _________ — ------------------------ from failure to comply Other th)nk Ruggla wlll de. the job of leading a country, frozen and the concensus of cheapest when once obtained. ,,NITHn STATES WHEAT SUPPLY A NID [DISTRIBUTION vehicle suspensions were for un- llberatelv gtart war any time ln Bteeped ln hundreds of years of opinion is that the snow will go satisfied judgments, drunken drl- mrseeahle future due to the war thinking, Into the simple into the ground—or the major • • • • • tfuojui 4 1949-50 flP.AftON SEASON WITH C COMPARISONS . we hav^ uken ln philosophy of live-and-let live, part of it at least. Some who 1043-47 1949-4» 1949-SO ving not resulting in accident. An Arizona man has beeij and failure to maintain proof af- r . rn1. nv hp declared “We and 80 far we have been playing have been traveling across fields average Preliminary arrested on a charge growing ter filing. >2? cw adi nulckiv into ,lke amateurs with the reeduea- and on nearly bare ridges say from the cutting of his w ifes ■ , -'•n r? 13 = — Million bnahela— More drivers’ licenses were ^ a rdif we ^ i axed and failed to tlon of the y°uth of Germany, that cars will break through 307.3 196.0 hair. That Just about completes Carry^ yer 8tockfl July i .......... 279.7 . f, „ He feds that the The Problem should be approach- the light frost. 1,146.5 reinstated than were ^suspended, 1,313.5 the circle. e New c r o p ..................... ............... however. Expiration of the three- rparmlnC of Germany would ed wIth the same thoroughness r The early part of the storm 1,4334 1,5094 9 WQO alven a Total do»«***« ' J**86 2 year period allowed return of K support to our stand. that hafl brought success to our brought .85 inch of moisture Each of two men was given quantlty for feed and 5,009, and furnishing of proof oper PP military and economic efforts, -being a light, powdery kind of 225.0 230.1 borae- t n geed & industrial use for season 390.7 after suspension another 3,593. The Congressman said that Substantial savings can be achle- snow. Normal snow of this “How are we goi R Quantity remaining for milling. A total of 4,051 vehicle reglstra- while he found Europe to be, ved ln carrying out the program depth would make almost an 1,228.8 1,279.4 them apart?” asked o . „ export or carryover .......... . ^5.5 tlons were reinstated on filing “A place of too many people on if the duplication which L saw inch and a half. With normal I’ll cut off my Disappearance, July 1 through of proof. too little land with too little re- in our military and civilian ac- run-off this will add much to guggested the second. So they ^ mber 31 December was tae month of sources,” he was impressed with tlvftles overseas is eliminated, the chances for a 1950 crop. 276.1 .329.2 trimmed one borses w heat milled for f l o u r .......... 319.1 heaviest activity, with 792 oper- the outlook of the people he saw We must find better and less ex- Stock in Sherman county 146.7 189.0 It soon ^ ° utb.T i o r s ? s till Export of wheat as grain - ators’ and 907 vehicle licenses on the West German farms, pensive machinery for main- were near the feed lota in most 4224 318.2 then cropped his horses xai exorted or milled suspended. February showed the and with their energy, ambl- talnlng the peace. Part of the cases and- no loss has been re- but it, tpo, soon STewou Balance on hand January 1 for lowest totals, affecting only 1&9 tion, spirit of sacrifice and strategy of the • enemy is to ported by stockmen from the 806.0 761.2 ^ u r c enough milling, export or carry-oyer operators and 200 vehicles. Oc- willingness to work. “The attl- make us exhaust our cash and storm. Some small bands of suggested the firs t S u r e e . Qf n<)ur ,n v. tober was tops in revocations for tude of their leaders and of their our credit, and this must be sheep were having Iambs and It worked. tf>ri>laclt alent, July-December <not ln- younger people,” he said, “will prevented.” were being cared tor adequately. 21.4 drunken driving with 232. 83.1 two inches ttllar W* eluded in grain e x p o r ts ----- -- 54.3 horse. Travel Hazardous, Slow 4. J] Clubs Being Organized In Many Activities Preparatory To Coming Spring gmut W About the County about folks you do know or woald enioy knowing Stockman Thinks Germany Should Be ()ar Qwn Protection _ A _ r _ T a /-, 1 n rv4 VS V-» ♦ Vx r . ♦ A w x rx«» I zx rx *x * r» < x 4 x x * « i« x l * • « ____ /s
