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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1950)
i 1 ( ■ : } ...._,. . A ,r^«#w v;-( 'S ~ ~ ' . \ PAGE S SHERMAN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO, OREGON FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1950 ABOUT THE COUNTY Moro Mdlard R. Eakin, co-owner Mill- oma Farms, Powell Butte, J. F. Short, co owner Mile-Away Ranch, Redmond, R. R. Ray mond, Raymond S h o r t h o r n Ranch, Helix, Oregon. r Kent basketball team will meet the Wasco grade team at Kent on next Tuesday, January 31, at 1:15 p. m. . Miss Marlon Buchanan attend ed a meeting of the OEA salary schedule committee which was held at the court hourse in Moro Saturday afternoon. W. S/Pow ell and his daughter, Mrs. Opal Parkins, returned from Portland Sunday coming by way of the south Santiam pass, the only one that was real ly open that day. They made the trip without chains. Miss Evelyn Christianson went to The Dalles last Thursday and entered a hospital there la ter in the week. • Senator Phil Hitchcock o ’ r Klamath Falls stopped briefly in Moro Wednesday while on his way to Pendleton to address a Presbyterian church group. Van Reitmann of Condon was in Sherman county Wednesday afternoon to enlist aid for the continued improvement of the Cottonwood road which t h e highway commission has agreed to consider in the 1950-51 con struction program. Mr. and Mrs. Paul May went to Portland Monday and returned Tuesday night, and found the going rough In spots. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ginn came home by way of W ipinitia pass one day early this week and thought the going was pret ty dangerous. Holding URANIUM TYCOON samples of the precious stuff is Boris Pregel, reputedly the urani um king of the world. A cxarist Russian who has lived In exile In France and the United States, be was one of the first to predict im portance of uranium in atom re search. The» annual meeting of the Community church has been postponed until February 5 when it will be held immediate ly after the morning sermon. A potluck dinner will be served and the meeting held. Plans are being arranged for refreshment hour arid banquet on the evening of March 1, 1950 in cooperation with the Oregon Swine Growers who hold their Grading will be held at 10:30 second annual sale that same af a. m. March 1, 1950; auction at ternoon. A committee for the • setting up of criteria to be used in se lecting language arts textbooks for the coming year met In the office of the county school su perintendent Saturday afternoon with Eugene Knott of Kent as chairman. Other committee me mbers were Mrs. Catherine Soh- nenberg, Grass Valley; Mrs.Shel ley Robersonf Moro; Mrs. Doris Ellis, Moro; and Verne I^arson, Wasco. The group studied ma WANTED: A HOUSE AND HUBBY . . . Mrs. Jean Zinlkowsi’s ad terial dealing with the language vertisem ent in a Ravenna, Ohio, newspaper brought 12 quick proposals arts group which is composed of of marriage—all rejected. The 27-)car-old divorcee wants a man with reading, writing, spelling and a house in which she can shelter her two children. She also requires English, and made suggestions that he earn at least $70 a week. Here, she answers an applieaiicn by as her daughters, Sharon Rose, 4, and Patricia, 7, wait. This regarding the forthcoming cur telephone fam ily, looking for a father, lives in Cleveland. riculum which were to be sent to the State Department of Ed and B arbara, had them a t the All bulls entered in the sale ucation. Rufus school opened Its doors again Monday morning after be ing closed all last week. George Jr. and Jimmy Fox had to use their saddle ponies to make it to the place where they* catch the school bus. Luther Steward bus driver, and Joe Morris, chair man of the school district, drove . . the school bus around the route Sunday - to see if they could make it alright before they got all the children on the bus. The roads were muddy and soft but no real difficulties were encoun tered. Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Thomp son and children left Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Amidon for Pendleton to attend a range are missing the Sherman coun- before going on ty snow and watching it snow in m e e tin g th e r e to a 4-H club leaders meeting Seattle. at LaGrande. They will be gone Terry Bucholtz is staying at about a week. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mrs. Lloyd Johnson and child Belshee so he can attend school ren returned home from The easier during the bad weather. Dalles after being snow bound It was colder Monday, after be The Sherman County club’s in that city for over a week. She ing so warm Sunday. Sunday annual social gathering will be was visiting her sister, Mrs. the temperature was around 40 February 12, from two until five Dave Ransler and family. p. m. in the Imperial hotel. The degrees above zero while Mon Earl Gentry came home from whole family will be more than day night it was 28 degrees above zero. A driving wind ac his trip to Tennessee the night welcome. companied the cold. Perhaps this of the big storm and had a hard Mrs. Millard Melzer and In is Just as well, as it will slow up time making the last mile. He had to walk and wasn’t dressed fant son came home from the the thawing process and let the moisture have time to go down for walking in a blizzard. He hospital Tuesday. drove a new car back from Mi Eleanor Fox, daughter of Mr. in the earth. chigan. and Mrs. George Fox of Wasco, . The snow plows got around in David Moore has been ill with has been pledged to -Kappa Del this vicinity Friday, so a good the flu and. is staying at the ta, national social sorority. She many had to try out the roads home of his grandparents, Mr. is a junior, enrolled in business^ Saturday by going into town, anl technology at OSC. The freezing rain which, fell last and Mrs. E. H. Moore. __ _ ______ week has made a crust on the snow making further drifting of the old snow impossible. Frank Medler got tired of staying cooped in within the house walls during the storm. Saturday, with but a short de lay on the road, he made it into The Dalles where he plans to stay until the ground hog comes forth. same time, but the children are all over them now, and a re fine. Mrs. Grace Medler who had gone to P o rtla n d “ before the storm hit, made it home during the storm , but after a delay. Mr. and Mrs. T)i(fk Yocum and Mr. and Mrs W illiam Huck w ere dinner guests W ednesday evening at the home of Mr and Mrg An(J E will be graded first w ith those grading A or better going on for placings. This will be m ost helpful to all livestock breeders and especially to those who are getting th eir first s ta rt in the S horthorn industry. It is felt by m any in the livestock industry th a t grading of bulls is especi ally beneficial to the range and com m ercial breeder. , Shorthorn Breeders Planning Sale J o e Johnson, Oregon State col lege, Corvallis, and H erm an Oli The Oregon Shorthorn Breed ver. John Day, have been asked e rs ’ association will hold its to do the grading. fourth Oregon Shorthorn (beef Auctioneer will be N orm an G. type) show and sale M arch 1-2, W arsinske, Billings, M ontana. 1950, at Prineville. Sales com m ittee consists of GO 10 BLUM’S February 18 MHS Gy m A d m . $ 1 .2 0 inc. tax G o o d M u sic L unch S e rv e d Y o u ’ll co m e, w o n ’t y o u ? t * > Ä A. BULLDOZERS Heavy Duty Hydraulic Angle Dozer Oliver DDH Oliver B International Jnternational 14 9 Caterpillar Caterpillar 6 4 AC AC 7 d»I P A Ç $ 1T O 5 Installed and <M 9 Q C Fully Guararteed «P1 Quails and small birds were found dead around the grounds and barns unable to stand the cold. Bill Macnab got down to the Leland Medler place Monday to get his daughter Kay who had been a guest there while her mother was in The Dalles. Also a guest thefe was Miss Arlene Macnab; Arlene first got the chicken pox then T<ay and the two Medler children, Douglas Virgil Conlee Ijrave at Ranch & Home OLD H ermitage Adams Paint Store Third & Union St. The Dalles Oregon Paint - Wallpaper - |Venetian Blinds GENERAL PAINT |PRODUCT8 Heavy Kote • one coat finish Flex - Colorful decorator Rayonlte, washable smooth finish Painting Interior Decorating Sheetrock Finisning Paper Hanging Phone or write Jack Brady Wa«o, Oregon Ph. 403 Grass Valley •FOR Kentucky fllt/skey -A ß le n d OKNRRATIONS - A O tIA T KENTUCKY FA VO R ITI* $3.60 FIFTH $2.30 PINT It P100F A Gentlemans WhiskeyJrvm Kentucky Beefo’s BEE 1.60 .95 .50 Quart P int .25 AKES, M APLE ERESI! BARS, DOUGHNUTS DltDBK PIES, At the CAPITAL CITY, Moro, Oregon EYERY DAY G o o d F o o d w h e re it’s p o ssib le to get w a rm e d u p c le a r th r o u g h George A G. Updegraü* o ♦ lotit A L L POP El VE CENTS Attorney at law MORO . . Dr. Harvey Blank, University of Pennsylva nia, Philadelphia, disclosed re cently that the virus causing cold sores has been seen under an elec tron m icroscope. He said the virus is like that which causes polio. nday W ednesday. Afternoons Friday T ill. DALLES 211 Fast Third Street Telephone 3209 H ave you been in since w e m ad e ♦ th e place over? I t’s w o rth lo o k in g into. Y ou’ll like B eefo’s. Beefo’s Beefo’s Infants’ W ear C lothing fo r th e L ittle st on es, all 0i them . C om p lete stock of b ab ies’ w ear, and the cu test th in g s, loo. Sweaters and Skirts for Schoolgirls - Beanies in bright felts ~ Beautiful new fall dresses The Gay Shop ■ It did warm up a day or so and maybe thawed most of the ice in the watering trough, but its down to zero again and that ice cold water shrinks UNION PACIFIC a cows stomach so, fast,: it makes her MOON EQUIPMENT CO. w e e » » They will cut LIKE NEW! 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