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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1950)
Sixty-Second Year No- 23 T h ese T h in g s We N ote Moro, Oregon Friday, Wheat Leaguers Go To Meeting; Elect Delegates Paulen Kaseberg, Kenneth Fridley, Leonard Fields a n d Floyd Root were in Pendleton last Friday to attend a joint meeting of the Oregon Wheat commission and the executive board of the wheat league. Mr. Kaseberg, Henry Baker» wheat league president, and Jens Ter- jesen were chosen to be delegates to the Kansas City meeting for organization of the national wheat league. Marion Weather« ford and D. D. Hill may also attend. Some of the new “Farm” bread was inspected and sampled and Root reported that 16 percent more flour fs used in its manu facture and that it stays fresh longer and Is less soggy than ordinarv white bread. Besides it tastes more like home made bread. No action was ta ;en about chdnging the ’oan rate in south Idaho, about asking for a mil- ler s subsidy. The balance 1 r°- apportionment plan was approv- ed as being a substitute for the federal plan which was adopted by the league In December. » ........- > „ April 7, 1950 City Faced With RSB Budget Down Larger Cost Than lrom Last ^ear s n i i - Record Peak Contemplated The Rural School Board Officiât County Paper National Wheat Crtv Water Will Be League Organized Off n v , Reports Kaseberg April 8th; Notice County Court ' Asks Special Levy 5 mills, 2 Years met Water in the city of Moro will _ , Wednesday and passed on the be turned off Saturday, April 8, The city council of Moro and budgets of the several districts _____ o, ...___ — of at 9:30 a. in. in order to replace Paulen ______ Kaseberg, member Sherman county’s court passed the budget committee made up of the county. The loard ruled the Oregon Wheat commission, the main broken in the recent a resolution at its Wednesday a budget for the city Tuesday against payment of tuition which and a delegate to the meeting ____ flood. ____________________ Because of a lack of ___ «uf- session calling Tor a special elec night and by curtailing probable changes the budgets somewhat at which a national wheat league fldent* shut-offs it is necessary tion to be held on the same date expenditures were able to bring although not affecting receipts was started, spoke to the Sher- to cut off the entire system . as the primary nominating elec it Into balance (lose enough to but indirectly. » man County club Wednesday It may take over an hour. tion, May 19, in which the court by Giles L. French forestall a request for funds In Budget Items for capital ♦ noon. He told of the reasons Those who live on the hill may asks „„„„ for a special levy ... In excess excess of the six percent llmita- ,ay were exduded from the flnal and methods of organizing wheat find it advisable to turn off their of the six percent limitation for That the ordinary garden will ion. Rural School Boar<i budget and growers into a group. water at the meter in order to general road purposes wear off more weight than its It was the original intention if districts are to get money for- The first meeting was held in Prevent water in the system produce will put on. It has been thought for some of some of the council to arrange that purpose it will come from a Denver the last of January and from draining out. TTW N weeks that the court would pro to make a continuing levy in or- vote over the six percent limita- Henry Baker, wheat league pre- —-------- -------- * “Big men never feel big; small bably take this action at the der to pay for the cost of the tion and from the district want- sident, and Jens Terjesen, chair- . men never feel small”. -Arnold April meeting because a. hearing new ditch and the bridge across ing the improvement. man of the wheat commission W h e a t C fO D S LOOK Gia sow was held about it early in March First street. Preliminary 7 estim The result Is a lower budget attended along with Kaseberg. ■ TTW N but nothing further had been ates indicated that the cost may than was finally passed last A meeting in Omaha in March heard of it in the meantime. One thing the wtor didn’t do reach $30,000 which was adjudg year. was held for the purpose of form- Generally much for is the automobile. It The resolution asks for a gen ed too large for a continuing Levied last year by the board in* a Preliminary organization, T h e United States winter eral road levy without specifying is as much like the 1940 car as levy. Present intent of the coun- was $235,451 to which must be A larger meeting, to ’ wfiich possible. Oh, they’ve bulged the cil is to obtain a vote on a bond added the $27,500 Item for the many ¿delegates and wheat, grow- wheat crop continues mostly fa- the roads to be built or repaired . . a„ . . . . . vorable except in the- southwest- nor equipment to be bought windshield and speeded up the issue of sufficient size to pay Moro school. ers are asked, - will be held in ern portion of the Great Plains. (if any) nor whether the work motor but automobile makers for the final estimate. This year the Rural School Kansas City, April 21 and 22 didn’t learn much from the great It has been orettv well agreed o 7 7 , 'VTn? ^ n°°! £ “’“* 7 7 ? 7* The chief complaints are from is to be done with county equip to change ik e d itc h from ^ s U< lo^ 8, $20147°- and Pre**nt ™eth<* of organizing is the Texaa and Oklahoma pan ment or by contract. These are mechanical stimulus that came present course to one almost 7 7* are approv" . P**". . e^c 8ta e handles", and parts of Kansas, with the war. present course to one almost by the local boards the total three delegates for each $2400 Nebraska, and Colorado. In this not necessary in the resolution and such information may be TTW N straight from the footbridge at ^ill be$212,450, those items being contributed to the association, Where, we wonder, are the few the football field to Railroad but $io;98O. • Other delegates can be had at area wheat Is reported in a obtained from court members critical condition. Some fields in all prababllity. avenue. This will entail moving remaining sheep herders going By school districts the budgets one for each addiUonalcontribu- have abandoned the red pump house in the flat, as approved are: Jliglow $3,398; tlon of $5000 up to$25,000. A ten- for companionship and such so It is understood that because Recent rains in California the resolution is for a general Cost of digging the ditch will be Emigrant Springs $2.146; Non- tative budget of $40,000 has been lace as the city might afford have improved the dry land road levythe cities will share In $4 or $5000 depending on the High $3,155; Rural School Board set up. now that the old Star rooming grain prospects considerably. disposal made of the dirt. house is to be torn down. any tax moneys raised up to office $9,150; Rub $35,089.50;- A location of headquarters will Argentina is planning an in the normal one half. This would Estimated expenditures total Wasco $37,411.60; Kent $25,348.- be chosen with Washington, D. To a man whose sole sample Rainfall Above Usual led $6041.40 and receipts $5270. 82; Moro $58,040.04; Grass Valley C. the probable choice. Alms of creased wheat acreage. The goal amount to two and a half mills of sophistication came from for the 1950-51 season has been The tax levy will be $526.18 $27,730.34. reading what pulp magazines Rainfall in March was 1.31 the group are to prevent the set at 17 million acres. This will a year on a valuation of $264,766 were brought out by the packer inches which is more than the which is all the city can levy In Wasco; $226,439 in Moro and passage of t bills that \ increase “ 7 be the „„ largest wheat |f acreage in $154,821 IniGrass V.1 ey_ ru le s the 8^x percent limitation. the comparative elegance of the average of .87 and brings the acreage unfairly and to watch ,.eached. CWes Star rooms were sufficient The crop year moisture up to normal Bond repayment and interest W illin r n S P o w p ll over a" The w heat acreage In A rgentina u "°! ' „ .T h„X r T ( W eil beds had springs on them, didn’t which Is 8 TO C op year mols- whl prevent prosperity of wheat has been decreasing since 1941. of the tax, however, having less they, and not boughs of redolent ture to April first was 8.71. sl<^e 'Imitation than $700,000 total valuation in growers. The the council voted to sell the » D i e s In H o s p i t a l » The acreage for the last two a county valued at nearly $10,- fir or caustic sage. There were Since the beginning of April .37 There will be a board of di seasons has been around 13.5 ~ other men about to assauge the inch has been recorded at the old Legion hall to Kenneth Za- 000,000. - '■ , ; ____ rectors, a president and an exe million acres. W illia n rs. <Bill) Powell died .The tax would raise some $47.« loneliness that brought them to station the largest part of which chary for $2000. cutive officer who will direct at St. Vincent’s hospital in Port The price set in Argentina for fell Wednesday night. Although town. the work. Oregon men have been next year’s crop has been an 000 and increase the road funds land Wednesday night, after an by that amount less rebate and If one liked there were places it rained in Moro a few miles GO TO THAI’ SHOOT illness of ten days. He went effective in preventing sectional nounced at the equivalent of less city’s share. The levy would > - ' ** w hen the hot distillation of cbrn south of town well over an inch ism and in making the new or This compares run for two years and he "for Mr. and Mrs. Francis Watkins to the city and entered a rest ganization one truly representa- $2.27 a bushel. and the cool brew of malt could of snow fell and cars and trucks home from which he was trans with $1.90 a bushel- for last five mills. be blended in an effort to attain coming from the south were well were at Walla Walla, Washing- ferred to the hospital a few Ove of the. ’ hole. „ ° L wJ:eat covered. / - 1011 Iast Sunday where he shot growers of the nation regardless v^ i r 8 crop- the correct interior temperature. days before death. , Mr. Powell a 25 and Helen a 24. And the Star was a place to was 77, having been born .in of the size of operations. Cancer Drive Starts , L in n co u n ty in Aug _Judge Curt Tom reported that deep when the experiment prov ist of 1872 .. ® . An Accident Apiece 1 ,.^ . \ the resolution passed at the last ed unsuccessful. He lived for a Bm© when a about hiring an educa About the Star have moved Here This. Month . boy at Prineville and came to meeting tor to make a survey of the 1« A ||t O A.VCF212C Program of Moro Community church choir to be presented at other social divertissements that Sherman county b the early i ‘A i i n t u ' a u p lin n lu h a a n 't r w l _ O county’s schools has been acted The drive for funds for can kept the rtieepherder from Ms the church on Good Friday evening, April 7, 8:00 p. m. eighties to make this his home upon and C. A. Huffaker of the suffered an cer research and prevention wilt Oregon motorists flocks and made his brief stay Prelude ' - 5 t . ,, r Z Mrs. Carroll Sayrs for the remainder of his life. University of Oregon would come esUmsted 492,106 breakdowns start Immediately In Sherman among the so-called civilized Women’s Trio: The Lord’s Prayer Mrs. K. Young, He farmed" w w t' of town" when at the expense of the Rural during the year 1949, accordingbo county according to Mrs. Ernest something to remember on lone young and owned two sections Mrs. R. Powell, Mrs. J. W. Coons School Board at a fee of $75. the Oregon State Motor Associa- P3alinger, county chairman. Mrs. ly nights when the coyotes howl Scriptural Interlude: Mark 11: 1-10 Rev. Wm. W. Gearhart of land there together with other Allen Tom, agricultural chair tion. The association reached the Hlldred Zell la district chairman. ed as woefully as the modern Duet: The Palms Mrs. A. Paufson, Mr. Russell Belshee wheat land in this and Gilliam man reported that an effort figure by applying percentages Others who will assist rn the trains that pass the old Star. county. Lift Up Your Heads Women’s Chorus: He was married to Frankie would be made to have the weed of breakdowns as reported to drive are Mrs. B. Estrelle Halley Hosanna Well, well, if The Dalles is Choir: Rev. Mr. Gearhart Landry who preceded him In ,aw enforced and that the PM A their emergency road service de- at Wasco, Mrs. Charles Perrigo John 19:17-30 not careful the things that have Scriptural Interlude: Survivors are two dau would pay the full cost of spray- partment, to the state’s reglstra- at Grass Valley, Mrs. Clarice Mr. T. H. Fraser death. rkade it Interesting, and occasion- Baritone Solo: Were You There? Bekkedahl and Mrs. Frank von ghters, Mrs. Opal Parkins, Mrs. Ing material, making enforce- tiun figures. Powell, Mrs. Coons Duet: Calvary > Mrs. ly lively, will be history. And ment much less expensive. The breakdown total In Oregon Borstel at Kent. • „ Mrs. Coons J. K. McKean, two brothers, Roy \ the new things will be common Contralto Solo: O Sacred Head President Bill Hall reported amounts to alxiut one every _______ _ quota is $600 whicn The county of The Dalles ' and Charley of God So Loved The World place and The Dalles will be Choir: that thé next meeting will he minute and one for virtually should be raised before the end Portland, two sisters, Mrs. Er as one with Centervilles, Bridge- Violin and Organ Interlude: Meditation Mrs. Young, Mrs. Sayrs held at Grass Valley, probably every private passenger automo- of April. nest Moore, of Moro and Mrs. ports, Fairviews, Ridgewooda, Contralto Solo: Mrs. Powell Mary Eye Hath Not Seen Southwick of Portland, and ln the evening, bile registered ln the state. the nation over. Mrs. Coons Duet: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Flat tires lead the list of motor two grand daughters. Nancy and TTW N Mrs. Frank Sayrs Janie McKean of Moro. _ woes, in Oregon as In the nation, High School Playing We are well enough prepared Women’s Quartet: The Holy City Mrs. Young, Mrs. C. Moore the Oregon motor club reported. Mr. Powell was active in Boy Scouts Make to defend ourselves if we have Mrs. Powell, Mrs. Coons farm organizations >eing a mem There were 114,019 flat tires suf no war. Never have we, nor any Men’s Chorus: The Trumpet Shall Sound Bass Solo:'Mr. Sayrs ber of the Farmers Union years fered by motorists ln 1949, or Baseball Today ather nation, been well enough Scriptural Interlude: John 20: 1-18 Rev. Mr. Gearhart ago, one of the organizers of Week End Trip 23.17 per cent of the total mptor T he’Moro high school baseball prepared for a war. Our prepara Offertory: Hallelujah Chorus Mrs. Sayrs the Eastern Oregon Wheat Lea Battery trouble was team will play the high school A group of Boy Scouts made a troubles. tion— and our defense— must Women’s Chorus: Rejoice, The Lord Is King gue, the first local director of hiking‘'"trip’ u“p the“5eschutes second, causing 22.43 per cent of team of The Dalles at that town largely be in the abilities of the Choir: Unfold, Ye Portals, Christ Arose the North Pacific Grain Grow- riVcr '’over rthe"’Spring'ia'caG on the difficulties besetting motor- “ " " ,avu,a *a‘ wm “^ a7 the' junior men who prevent war and not Organ Interlude: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth Mrs. Sayrs ers. He served several years on Sun()ay £ ey wa)ke<1 up ,8t3 a„d amounting t* J 10.279 Friday wn"x t' Tuyesday.These In those who make i t Women’s Chorus: The Ix>rd Is Risen Today the city council. the river a few miles and camp- cflUs for assistance In Oregon, are the first games of the sea- Choir: Open The Gates of The Temple .T T W N Funeral services have not ed near the old Gordon place Third in the list of calls for King All-Glorious Women in small towns are beert arranged as yet. and-Monday went on to the Har- help were tow jobs, with 52,163 Playing this year are Rust, ' ] Rev. Mr. Gearhart usually better dressed and more Benediction: ris place to spend the second reported In Oregon. F ourth on and von Borstel, pitchers, both Postlude Mrs. Sayrs pert looking than those in the night. They were accompanied the list of breakdowns were whom have been out of city. Canners Can Compare by L. E. and Paulen Kaseberg. ignition failures, with 46,553 In of school for several days. Skippy TTW N Boys making the trip were Doug- Oregon. May has been doing the mound les Alley, Larry Kaseberg, Billy The motor club said the other work in practice. Scott FrUU Nearly every kind of trans Canning Friday and Bobby Root, Bob Howell, motor troubles, ln order, were: does the catching and first base portation can be found along the Columbia. Hitchhikers wave Homemakers of S h e r m a n Donald McIntyre, LeRoy Stultz, carburetor failure, car stuck, chores will be divided between invited Niorman Fridley and Billy Cogts. out of gas, starter trouble, lock p*^T°von Borstel and LeRoy their thumbs at the thousands county are cordially School Root w111 8 ° Portland and key, brakes, gas line, lights. ° The other places in the of passing cars? tugs push awk to a Home Judging ward barges into the muddy cur infield will be HHed by Wily Friday, April 14, at the Moro Monday (o attend the second of rent, trucks roar along the high Knlghten, Les Edwards. Roy High school beginning at 2:30 a series of training classes given , a r KNC*R MAY p |n . for scout leaders who will ac- ways, a big Mallet chuffs across Harvey and Norval Lane. the bridge and takes up its metro Arrangements have been made company boys on the eastern trip WINS SCHOLARSHIP my Roberson, Bob nomic beat as it starts a long Clarence May, son of Mr. and some of the above not by T. W. Thompson, county in June. train of cars up the steep Des Mrs. W. L. May of Grass Valley placed will roam the outnet . agent, for Mrs. Vivian Freeman, “ chutes, a plane comes silently was recently announced as the _______ ____ representative of the Kerr Glass TAX STUDY GROUP above the hills and in a few winner of the County 4-H Breed company, to come to Moro to vFIIX MEET APRIL 17 minutes disappears like an eagle ing Livestock Scholarship award Charles Stewart conduct this Rchool. into the blue. Horseback riders Your ticket of admission is The April meeting of the inter- presented each year by Safeway may occasionly be seen although one filled jar, any quality, to be im tax study committee was held store. man gained but little in speed used In the discussion, however, in Portland Monday. Plans were The award consists of a 1950 Buried Tuesday when he mounted the horse and these jars will not be opened un- made for the tour of eastern Ore- 4-H summer school scholarship, Charles Stewart one of four the horse and buggy or wagon less you wish questions answer- gon towns which will begin with Safeway stores provide scholar- in Sher- is as hard to find as the older ed about their contents. Your a meeting In The Dalles at noon ships of this nature to each coun- brothers wen k i jar will be returned to you. April 17. Members of the commit- ty ln the state as well as $100.00 man county, was Indian travois. Mrs. Freeman suggests that tee will explain the state’s finan- college scholarship for the state Dalles Tuesday. tiand and TTW N you bring jars about which you cial condition, tell of the effects winner. July 22, 1876 n young The muddy colored water in wish to brag on with their ap- of possible legislation and pro- The purpose of the award is came to Oregon w Colun^)ia the rivers is a very good argu pearance or flavor or, any which pose some changes that might to promote the development of man living in the m ment against the production of brother you have questions. This meet- serve to equalize taxes some 4-H livestock breeding projects area most of his life surplus crops. Let the hill tops ing, where each attending will extent. They will not propose and to encourage club members He Is survived . ws’ go back to grass— with the aid have an opportunity to practice new taxes, but will give listen- to continue their 4-H work and John of Moro, n p ' and advice, of course, of the Judging of the filled jars will ers an opportunity to propose improve and enlarge their herds Lee of Salem and < har federal government— and there son of Dufur and six nieces, last about 1V6 hours and will methods of how to keep the state or flocks. will be land—and fish—for the Include a “question and answer” operating at the same rate of Any 4-H club member who has Mrs. Clarence Quirk. Mrs. Mil next ^generation. forum. expenditure, practice economy completed a livestock breeding ford Ball and Mrs. Janette Sor- TTW N This promises to be the bestor levy new taxes. Giles French, project is eligible. Breeding pro ahan of The Dalles. Mrs. Arthur For the first time this year opportunity this season, for alia committee member from the jects shall Include beef, hog, Mason and Mrs. Nblvtn Ball of th e frogs started croaking last Boyd and Miss Cora Stewart of homemakers to receive the new-house of representatives, at- sheep, dairy, or goats, week hut on some of the frostier Corvallis. est information about currenttendecj the meeting. He will dis- Safeway stores will continue ON A BICYCLE BUILT FOR GREAT GRANNY . . . Model Jcfcnne nights since then have l>een Funeral services were in Loren«, New York, tries out the pedals of an old Columbia bicycle of research on home food preserva-cuss pending school legislation these breeding livestock scholar- quiet. We don’t charge of the Odd Fellow’s of tlon, enabling you to more quick-and the business tax. John Sell ships for the 1950 club year. A vintage 1870. The strange vehicle Is a part of the huge collection which frog knows so much about the arrival of spring but their judg- was placed on display at New York s Madison Square Garden recently. ly and easily achieve complete of The Dalles will talk about the Sherman coynty 4-H club mem- which he was a long time mem- ment has been superior to most Guides, in explaining that the bike was a mode of transportation of success and satisfaction withproposal to abandon the property her will he selected for this year her and Interment was in the Grandma*« day, did not mention how Granny managed her «klrt«. your home canned foods. tax as a source of state revenue, after the fall shows. cemetery at The Dalles. humans so far. Program For Choir Recital Prepared
