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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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-
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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