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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1950)
au.» 3a?! Sixty-Second Year No- 49 Oregon Friday, ^oin Mafaj Seeding T h ese T h in g s We N ote Safe A s Months Total Reaches .8 5 ” by Gile6 L. French / ~— Gardeners: Those black spots In your garden are the remains of tomato vines. The movement to match Mioro’s high school football squad with the University of Oregon some idle wee< end has been, killed by the improved appear ance of the Ducks, not the de cline of the local team. . TTW N What nation is going to pay the costs of our socialism like we are paying for England’s? TTW N Some boys are, doing-; club work, fattening calves and mak ing gardens, - some are playing football and going to school ^nd % __ . « Calta ot the iStti dtvialaa. some are killing policemen. Why Anselm lgftfc Igbuitry rsgfcnent, aatrala Ur Camp O M kM are some so good and some so the girls Uss the beys, g^dbye. ■■»P« Ralph Wald (Wt) and ng«. Set. wnu*m i w j ana Gate. «<r w .r LZoL _„ tr»ln lea v » L » A ntel». G s I m ki~ U m ih their bride* fareVell keto,, Cpl. Herbert Cabea aad S,t. Herbert Can- O. H. Borthwick, cousin of Jeath Valley Scotty, ^nd long ime resident < L Antelop* writ?s his reflection pertinent to' the id a c K m Standi», ,aard ara *«»• __________ - ■ ; - • -T • Holy Report Wants Against Danger o f H r » £ C?.:. I : State Control Ih Educational Affairs Jut I’m just an old hick”» ¡- ; «o "Citizens >- of 1 vtq Oregon ¡Yorn sticks, r u in out u u i of or the vne such .», . *>4" jv u k should io u iu be oe DT. State de- Dr. Holy braised praised the state he land of sage-brush and ticks concerned with the problem of partment, particularly its or- Vhene the coyotes yell, # state contròl in the field of edu- ganization and quality o f person- >’er mountain and dell. r ation.” . nej( congratulated the state _on /here the Antelope use to play jbig statement, buried in the having kept its schools pretty y night and by day. . . V i mass of facts and recornmenda well out of politics, in spite of lut the deer still , roams, __ Uooa of the.4fX>pnge “Holy re- a fystem that makes, political Jlaround llaround our our homes homes - port” on On u >n s schools, is manipulation of schools possible, 'ramping down gt ram ping down the golden wheat a generalisation. < I t is The superintendency as it is lasting they eat. astine more more than t an they e possibly second in importance now, is not directly responsible Therefore it seems a good only to the baste recownenda to the State Board of Education reason *hat we should have one out tion— statewide reorganization —In fact the superintendent, as of school districts, jm an ex officio member of the of aaason Dr. C. T. Holy, the Ohio State state board and its nominal tut the law-and Warden say Not ¿ ,’th u n iv ersity -ex p e rt w h o - headed chairman, is in the position of et we practically raise the legislativ e iP W * ««unit- passing on his own administra- buck and »doe. o M» s u r r e / of Oregon’s schools, tlve Job' ” as acting head of the t doesn’t seem fair, yet it is so to law we haven’t says without qualification: schools. There is nothing to pre- T^chance. ’ “Oregon’s first school job is vent a future superintendent o more than the man in the reorganization to eliminate the from following a school policy fancy pants. many professionally and finan- in contradiction to the board e are just on a paj, dally sub-standard little dis- and wishes of the people, ith the man behind the bar. tricts.” The superintendent should be L the sound of a <?rash Reorganization , of the State appointed by the board—chosen ley shoot as quick as a flash, Department and the State Board from the best of the education is quite obvious that you can of Education is also * vital but profession available in the na- guesa most of the changes at the top tion. Choice of*men for this vital la t a man Went down instead recommended, are dependent job should not be limited to of their quest. on lean in g up the local prob- citizens of Oregon who are -JO. H. Borthwick, lem (seven Wndg of school dis- willing to run for the office. Antelopo, Oregon tricts a county pattern that Oregon s top school man, as TTWN ranges from one school district It now stands, is at a disadvan- There’s almost too much go- more than 90, and annual costs tage in dealing with the legisla- g on to make the election fcn- from $2Q t0 tUre and -the governor. His elec- >rtant thB year yet, neverthe- • ’ - . . ~ tion by the people does not ss, everyone - in this county * • give sufficient prestige to work lould be prepared to vote be- The work of the state deP* * an ¿qua^ basis with the other use there are so many things ment ^ e a tly c o m ; s t a t e heads. Only thing that will >out which their opinion should increased by thè existingjU stnet opinion'of Dr. Holy. > recorded. __' -oygg W >■ i» “the assurance of an individ- . TTWN . trict system is continued» • there tQp professlonal quaiity Some smart man (lazy, of ** °u . im»nae—K Dr i° the position.” >urse) thinks he has a chemical will have to be increased, . Ag fór the g state 1 As for department at will reduce the number of H oy says. vninminmi«an which is not me mentioned in Ore mes a lawn has to lx? mowed Throughout the voiuratoous* p constitution or laws and has tch summer. What. And let his praisal of pu c sc , grown around the superin- ife get fat? showing up inim any £ U h e 275 ^ de^ lt ghould le. TTW N recommendations, is declaration status. Every time we print a list of of the. »tato’s Recommended is an elective xiigrees for stock to be sold we ment of instruction and cur * board of nine lay citizens. (At >te the care taken with the lum, maintenaifce of present there are four in addl- cords of animal parentage. A standards only, wjth regu ex-officio members, who •eeder will pay almost any tory” function over local dis- appolnted. one from agricul- issible sum to obtain a bull of tricts be held to a minimum. oQe frQm ¡abor, one from certain strain to improve a The state department, accord- ’ and one a housewife.) ult in his herd. Of course pure- ing to the report, has been forced "»¡r mgny recommenda •ed animals all have records to great expansion in the past Qf gtate de. ' their ancestors and stockmen two decades, particularly since which point up the low that qualities and charac- 1940> largely by the added res- commlttee.8 statement that weak ristlcs are passed on to o - ponsibllities of the standl^ M ^ districts and small schools (Ore- »ring by parents. If a Jarnier program (this is the attempt 400 one.room schools, is a bunch of heifers w-th to brlng backward schools up to J schools with less than ?ht bone he will want to buy j e v e i through “equalization- students) make for expen bull with bigger bone to oor- Wed by the 1947 ba- cont “ ict the fault He knows what measure) and by the in- slve »tato COPTO. >rt of an anirrial he is breeding voived * mechanics of distribuì- J z , obtain. Humans might be LAWN CUTTING )le to do the same thm g for 193Q w ere tw o prq. r f r it c e d lemselves if there was an idea fegglona, empioyees in the stafe MAY BE REDI CED hat kind of a person was tne d including the super- ii, Tpc d leal k iS T th ^ t rontrois’ most w ^ y en a w p II turned ankle 20 professional, 38 clerical In g ^ g g ^ j8 described in a new W t^nw»-hither eye and tó general education; 6 professional o s c experiment station bulletin ability to cook . clerical No. by V1?gi|> -------- Vi-'gil H. Freed and with physical handicapped; / 12 pro- Rierman of the station think. - . ■ gtaff This now * In mar- 1 fessional, CBO1W1SCSS, 12 clerical -------- In vocation- HUtir. I II in material, luaicnai, -iww *» sssos m v s that since al education; and 17 professional provides a means of elimlna HnnaThaa lost 40 cents 12 clerical in vocational rehablll- Ung from iegume and oth- ° tb inflation May a citt- tatlon. er broad-leaved crops, just as *°UgL that the government The reason the state depart- 2 provides a means 6f killing x suggest tna k m ent mugt lnevltaWy expand broad-leaved weeds on a selective r t w a rt S u e V i t t o n u u W the votora, through the let w ars DO legislature, order a reorganizfl- Freed is also experimenting, tion and strengthening of local wlth considerable promise of « vt J?m !rT caS look charm- districts, Is simple, Dr. Holy success, with using dilute I PC are hutting", re- —as simple and obvious as the a? a growth detorrent on lawns, 5 if ner iee ,<My political axiom that a ^veak thereby reducing mowing to a Uncle Emmett, county govemmtent invites state few times a Season while not a .’ last nlace I'd a look- control and a weak state govern- harming the appearance of the ia ts the ia « p«BQe bdngg Qn federgl ,awn m nrnrdinv October 6, 1950 Official County Paper Moro Smothers tri ...... . ■R-lwihwtnM jSStt ’.*£ M Papooses 46-7 Uz» tamisa «U j » . r .1 . v- *dSh *>tî Sherman County Clnb Pioneer H U Meetings B D e d ic a tio To H S ta rt Marker ^ H I^ With Rufus Grange Be Sunday Event Rain that nteasured .45 inch The first meeting of the Sher fell Wednesday >ight pretty gen man County club will be held erally over Bhermtan county» The Moro high school football at the Rufus Grange hall on The marker on the John Day making it possible for farmers team, confident after its first Wednesday evening, October 18, river will be dedicated"Sunday to go ahead with their seeding, victory, ran over the Papooses, according to L. E. Kaseberg, pre- afternoon. Prior to ’ the Wednesday night second team of The Dalles high sident. It is a solid volcanic rock rain seeding hadibeen slowed be- school, here last Friday by a This meeting was arranged be- boulder blown from a cliff on cause there » was too little mois- 46 to 7 score. torn the club adjourned to/* the the Art Barnum < ranch by the ture for shallow seeding , and The local lads scored seven summer and the women of the CCC- Imbedded in it is a bronze prospects were too good for con- touchdowns spacing them two Home Economics club of tne Ru- Plaque, suitably inscribed to tell tinued deep se< ling which is for each quarter until the last fus grange have planned a boun- readers that near the point of usually done in warmer weath- when they stopped with one. tiful meal for the club members Placement the emigrants into er. ' ¿3 A* a gam« It was a rout. who attend. eariy Oregon crossed the deceit- The latest Addition to the The locals ran around end, in- The program will consist of a fuI John Day river. moisture makes the total for Oc- tercepted passes, bucked the discussion of the nine measures The monument is being erect- tober .85 or practically normal line for successful plays all after- that will appear on the ballot at ed by the Sherman County His- and conditions, are that more noon. John Alley, center, inter- the November election and such torical Society through the ef- rain may fall before the storm is cepted a pass and scored a touch- other business of the club that forts of Jay Price, president; Les- over. In September there was down. Dick Rust, who played a may come before it. It is under^ ter Barnum, vice-president; Mrs. but .14 inches of rainfall. much Improved game, made two, stood that President Kaseberg O N. Ruggles, secretary and a Some farmenL particularly in Ddb Martin made one after a will have his committee appoint- committee that helped choose the rock and mount it in solid con the north end, J have used deep lon< pass, Lane made two and ments ready at the meeting. furrow drills ’in recent years Roberson made one. ' ' . - crete. The list of yardage gained ,r ■ with good success and these men The work of placing the stone have already Jeeded and some looks fantastic. Dewayne Duncan C r UCUS D d t C was done last week tor Lester a guard snared a fumble and J of the grain is doming up. Barnum, Ted von Bdrstel, Wal -i. ~ made 10 yards, Leroy Martin, ter Bruckert and Oscar Ruggles. « a sub, 15; John Alley’s run was Is October 10 Whiter Meacham, secretary of the Oregon Pioneer Trails asso yard®> Bob Martin ran 38 The caucus for the nomina ciation, will be speaker of the yards, Lane 30, Roberson Roberson 20. 20, Rust 15, Wilbur Piatt, a sub, 15, tion of Moro city officials will occasion. Giving the welcome School Halted Roy Harvey 25 and Fred von be held next Tuesday night at will be Jiv Price, now the eld It will be est person born in Sherman Borstel w a s catching passes the council rooms. followed by a regular council county, and Mrs. Agnes Merritt, There will be no vote on the steadily. establishment of a single high The heavy Moro line kept the 1 long W11_ « a resident -- ___ of the ___ area near .school district for Sherman backfield men safe from enemy T h t city Officials are now ser- the c a g in g , win recount some oounty this fa according to hands when passing or kicking because no election has Qf ^er memories of McDonald’s Lloyd- HM v M h L chairman of and opened holes where wanted c^ange them or to. perry near where the emigrants the Moro school district. He has when it was time for line plays re-elect them. The people should found the original crossing, received a letofc from the office . Moro plays the rugged Maupin nominate and elect a mayor, three Mrg Ruggjes w wb0 has l>een of the depart1« » 11 of education team at Maupin this Friday and <yunci,men f or four year terms, up the program has ar- - BUtlng - ___ __ ____ trouble ____ Maupin having __ that there is doubt if expects ^hree councilmen for two year ranged for appropriate music. A the law would ftrv e the purpose beaten Culver by a ^ Y to 0 score Urms and a recorder basket dinner and free coffee A representative group of will be served at one o’clock desired in thia county as now* ia8t Friday cltlw ni will be needed to give written. the program will the caucus the proper backing. atart The d e p a r tn w postponed its It will be possible to nominate request to theHocal board that N p u z S i i F i t t - n f i n n Everyone is invited and ill are other tickets by petlt*on until requested to bring their child more work be itone o n ih e school* 20 days before November 7. house for the |lme being. This ren. Purpose of the society in ■was done beca«s<‘ the Holy erecting the marker is to make port, which a s f t for better or- # permanent note of its regard ganlxaUon of Oregon school dis- P^KJc Power 4 Light W a 8 C O d 6 I V lC e W o m e n for the hardy pioneers who made tricts, is going to come before company has bought the Tom this state possible by their forti the legislature and changes may Douma Jot at the corner of Sec- y p h P i tude and self reliance in crossing come that might make the for- ond and Scott streets, Bnd back of IO Oeil TOOO the plains. ..-- ---- garage, ------- the r. Pontiac mer ruling inappropriate. a Legtoh auxlli- according to Lawrence Kirby ary* the Frank E. Brown Un it local agent for the company. No- 91 met Monday afternoon at BOVS TALK BEFORE The new station will be »dne- the Legion hall In Wasco. A RUFUS P-TA ed on the ground, on concrete fiToup of members met at the The Rufus PT-A members met blocks. The transformers will haH la8t Friday to prepare the Monday evening at the school be surrounded by a modem steel for future meetings. The oil ¿bout sixty-five attended the house. The new lunch room and fence and everything about the heater which the late Ormand pQt luck d|nner formembers of its modem equipment was nd- new Installation will be up to « Q W « « n d <tan*ted to the hall the American legion and auxill- mired. The school janitor Carl date, if present plans are follow- waa »et up. This was the first ary at the Kent legion hall Thompson, had the place shining ed. Cost is estimated at 313 000. P y t t o g held in the new club Thursday evening. E. E. Billings, with new painted walls, wood- The company will move from ho^ e- t t district commander, of The Dal- work and floors.:’ In front of the old Legion, hall The business meeting was wgg in sta inng officer for the The business meeting was in where transformers have been presided over by the. president, ljCglon and brought Mr. Daven- charge of Mrs. Allen Tom. The located for many years and H. B. Mrs. Kenneth Blau. Mrs Earl n corrtmander of the Dalles minutes of the last meeting were Roberson will Install a service Rlchelderfer acted as secretary post and the installing team and read by Mrs. Joe Brackett, sec- station there. due tothe absence of the’ regu installed the officers of the retary The group decided to ---------------- lar secretory Mra Gerald Nlsbet. George Bell post No 49 of Rent. purchase the Hamilton Beach <. f t ^ *4 flMHlW to nave the re- Marcus Eslinger was installed mixer which the lunch cook, Mrs. MORE MONEY NEEDED gular meetings at 2:00 p. m. dur- ag John Buether, Hazel Eegberg was using for ap- ...... . . . tog, the montM. Itt the lgt ylce commander and Harry proval The group also decided Additional fund? are needed to spring when the days are long- w Young as adjutar,t. 4 to^buy a new 8 tooV General Shernwn county's quota In er the meeting time Is.2:00 p j n ™ s w X y Krucger, state Electric deep freese. the campaign to finance the re- The members planned a social ident, of The Dalles was In- The meeting then was turned apportionment battle. Contrlbu- meeting for the Legion men. The for auxUlarjr. tlons are being received at the date to be set later. Her installing team included over to Floyd Root in charge of the Boy Scouts. Ur. Root showed ° m<* °r , the ,H * a8 voted, to a h?ve ® f? ° ? Mrs. Edward Seufert. district pr<- slide pictures of his and the J ™rnal fTO.m . W,h*” H*! " T Z “ i e the, Becond and. J 0U£ h Sa,t' «»dent of The Dalles and Mrs. boy scouts' trip last June to the "<“ *» “ nt the headquarters urfa y of every month. The sale Frgnk yon Borstel, past state National Jamboree at i Valley ln r.8*(wa: ■ vdU be held at the B u lan Ore- pre8|dent and others from The Forge. These pictures were all , ° P ’’one" ‘? 8to™ own?d Pat- Dalles. Mrs. Harry Young was in color and gave a good Idea of “ r « '’»’’ced than those favoring tie O'Meara. The refreshments lngtalled M president, Mrs. Rob- what took place’ and^w hat the an'J hay* “ iiP h,,?,Or!,,HPa“ ni °f pumJ’kln ple wlt,J ert Tatum, 1st vice president, scouts saw lo rry Kaseberg gave ^ e Voter a P»nVhlet wtth some whipped cream, and coffee and M|s, Marie von secre- an outline on the first half of the statements that need correcting, was served by the hostesses, Mrg j „ Norton hlstor. Mrs. Sam Brock, Mrs. Lee Deh- ,an Mrfl Bcn M ananeid , sergeant scouts adventures and Jim Ro ---------------- ler and Mrs. Gus Hartmann. arms. berson gave the last part. Both BANK LOANS UP . » ^ rs. Virgil Brock was a at Mrs. Donald von Borstel as boys were to be commended for mot . ability _____ j to ™ o- - - o________ Figures compiled b y t h e guest of the club. Memben pre- • cbaplain. (Mrs. Gene Reynolds their give good talks.- The boys told of tome of the Sherman county branch of the ®ent for the .rnee^?.g TJT*.’ ’ and Mrs. Charles Perrigo having predicaments which they got First National Bank of Portland ~ P na 2 ^ ’ A „ McIntyre. formeriy received the obligation into that was amusing to tell show that on September 30, de- jy » - K,t°n Meoier, Mrs. Grace a8 treasurer and 2nd vice presi- about now, but catostrophies posits for this branch amounted dent’ respectively.) at the time. to $1,994,569 and loans $1,287,873. 5 1 m IV Visitors were Rev.» and Mrs. Virgil Brock who is ou the The totals were majie available Donald, Mrs. Jerry B arnet. Mrs. pauJ Bayle6 and Car! von Borstel territorial committee of the by Carrel 8. Bennett, manager, Clyde FHdiey Jr., Mrs. K enneth from R ent After |nstan a tiOn Boy Scouts was Introduced. jn line with a new policy of Fir- di^ ine “®»te8a^s JJ.s. brfef ulkg were glvpn by the Floyd Root presented the scout 8t National to publish its finan- “ roc*’ Mrs. Denier . n Mrs. offlcerg charter to Mrs. Allen Tom, as cial statements quarterly. The next meeting of the auxili- president of the group. Ray A year ago, on September 30, ary will be held at the home of Brown will be the Rufus scout 1949, the local bank’s comparable CRUSADE GETTING STARTED xirs. Wallace May, Wednesday, leader. ’ totals were, deposits, $1,824,592, The Crusade for Freedom drive October 11 at 2:30. Guests present for the even- and loans, $159,012. has won thousands of signers in ------------------- lng were Mr. and Mrs. Larry As of September 30 this year, aome places in Oregon although Kaseberg and soq Larry, . Mr. the First National Bank of Port- little has been done to date in "CHOENFELD RESIGNS s and Mrs. Floyd Root and sons of land, with «ported Sherman county. Nineteen years of service to Wasco and Jim Roberson of deposits of $494,684,588, loans of Purpose of the campaign Is to Oregon agriculture as deab and Moro and Virgil Brock. $217,575,018, and resources of enlist the support of millions of director of the far-flung agricul- A lunch consisting of sand- $536,202,820. Against the loan Americans to work for getting tural organization of Oregon wiches, potato chips, pickles and figure there has been set up out information behind the iron state college, ended October 1 coffee was served by the hostess- of earnings since January 1, curtain where the desire of Am- when William A Schonfeld es, Mrs. Don Macnab, Mrs. Allen 1949, to September 30, 1950, a erlcans for peace can be told to retired voluntarily. He was Tom, Mrs. Charles Wilson and reserve for possible loan losses Russians and others who have succeeeded by F. Earl Price who Mrs. Joe Morria. In the amount of $850,679. This no regular means of learning has been assistant and associate On the .program for the Nov- reserve la to apply against any about this nation. < * dean tor the past 12 years, ember m#Hng a man from the loan losses that may develop in Method of the compalgn Is to Dean Schoenfeld wilt continue army engineers will speak on the future, and it has not been obtain signatures of those favor- as a member of the college staff the Columbia river development allocated to any particular loan lng the work and to obtain some on an emeritus basis and will and the John Day dam. It Is or type of loan. financial aid from those able algp retain many of his activities hoped a good sized crowd will By way of comparison, on and willing to help bring peace in the agricultural field through be able to attend and hear about September 30, 1949, deposits and understanding to the world, membership 0» various boards, the dam which is so much were $467,876,086, loans, $157, The Moro Woman’s chib is commissions and foundations on Interest to the Rufus commun- 084,692, and resources $505,784,- working on the campaign in a state, regional m d national ba- Moro. Sl8. 252. ity. Vlty Vftfp Cftlin tv lilgu Hl oh fo TULC Oil VJU WUUIJ va r pd 2 s 5 Ijane 30 - i OUDSianon p a |L C rl VjOiniJ Up 30011 —■' — »■ Auxiliary Installs A *. kp»i ScSSlOIl Haranw». of •
