¿Mpermmt (County ¿Journal
Sixty-Fourth Year No. 13
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Moro, Oregon Friday, February 1, I9Ô2*
Candidate
Grants W as Once Largest Town of Area
Before Fire and Flood Removed It Entirely
____ County Official Paper
Snow Melting;
Creeks Running;
The town of Grant is in the Grants took hold again and
process of being forgotten. It is started another towm, this one
gone and even the landmarks to lie platted and incorporated.
that were about it are changed; William Murray & Isabella Mur
the reasons for it no longer ex ray together with W. Ixiir Hill
The snow that came Decemlier
ist. There is nothing but memory and Julia Hill, platted the town-
26
has been on the ground 37
to sustain it.
site. Other towns had sprung up
days today. Weather has been
Grant, or Grants, was a town, in the interior and homesteaders
cold enough to keep it but not
once the largest in the county, could buy flour and sugar at
below zero in many parts of the
located on the new Oregon Rail Wasco, Moro, atjd Grass Valley
county.
Winds have drifted part
road and Navigation company by the time Grants got started
of
the
snow
but not enough to
line about where Charley Wil again. Its growth was slower
By Giles L- French
bare the ground, thus the wheat
son’s service station is now sit after the fire. A newspaper mov
has been protected.
ed over from Dufur to be pub
uated.
It sorta feels like spring. Odd
This week the snow is leaving,
When the railroad builders put lished in Grants for a time.
how it can feel like spring at
early
in the week from the ef
A firm of outside investors
th? line down the Columbia a
30 degrees whereas it felt like
fect of soft westerly winds and
station was , established there had I alii a new flour mill at
winter when it was 30 degrees
bright spring like sun. Thursday
and called Villard, because Hen Grants and as a side line had
last fall.
there was intermittent rain.
ry Villard, a German capitalist, installed a distillery. Waste pro
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On the fields the snow is soft,
had much to do with building ducts of Ixith were fed to cattle
We know we’d ought to feel
where packed there is a layer
the Olt&N. Reason for the sta making what seemed a nice
sorry for someone in this latest
Giles L. French, Moro, this of ice on the ground. How much
tion was that the town of Colum round business. It had barely
crime in Portland but we are
week
announced that he is a is going into the ground is being
bus on the V\ ashington side of started when the highest flood
not sure who it should be.
and will be for all time.
the river did quite a bit of busi in the white man’s history of candidate for congress in the debated
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•Some is running off. Wednes
ness and received freight on the the Columbia river came in June following statement which lx>re day
The old poets were also philo
Hay Canyon was roaring
a release date of January 31.
new railroad. It was then car of 1894.
sophers and often their words
with
dark,
mud packed water
I
am
a
candidate
for
the
Everything
was
washed
away
ried across by ferry from Grant’s
have been preserved because of
that
loosened
some bridges and
Republican
nomfaation
for
con
except one house along the hill;
landing on the Oregon side.
what they said instead of how
some damage to fields as it
Eventually the name of Grants the distillery and mill, together gressman from the second dis did
they said it.
Oliver Goldsmith,
started on its way. Wednesday
of Oregon.
succeeded that of Villard. The with some of the cattle were trict
the poor, pock marked Irishman,
night, when there was little frost,
I
was
born
in
Sherman
county
taken
down
stream
with
the
towm grew rapidly because it
who wrote, “The Deserted Vill
water started in Barnum can
and
it
has
been
my
home
all
my
Homes and
was on a railroad and in the rushing waters.
age”, may be rememered for
life, except for absence to at yon though Moro and no doubt
HE WAVED GOODBYE TO FREEDOM . . Detective Frank Farrel early eighties, when the • town stores floated from their rock
many years for these lines:
tend high school, University of on other creek beds.
“111 fares the land, to hastening phones for pie wagon while Detective Arthur Damick holds gun on flourished, settlers were coming foundations and drifted away.
Weather prophets say that
Oregon
and serve in the chemi
The
very
top
graphy
w
a
s
Joseph Ricciardl in New York apartment. They saw Rieciardl, carry into the new wheat country that
ills a prey,
cal warfare service In World temperatures will drop again in a
Where wealth accumulates, and ing a fur coat and a radio, leave the apartment. He saw them too, and, became Sherman county. What changed, sand was piled in new War 1. Occupations have been few days and if this happens it
aa a ruse, turned to wave goodbye to someone in the apartment. There
wheat they grew was hauled to places, ditches were cut where raising wheat and cattle, nine may stop the run-off lx?fore it
men decay;
The
Princes and lords may flourish or was no one Inside. The detectives said Ricciardi took furs, radio and the railroad at Grants, whose solid ground had been.
years, selling machinery and removes all the snow. As it is
jewelry from the apartment to the value of $1,000.
merchants also supplied plows whole »town was gone and traces groceries,
may fade;
four years, and editing we are having a bit of spring,
of it obliterated.
and harness and supplies.
A breath can make them, as a
the Sherman County Journal, too early perhaps, but spring
By
that
time
there
was
talk
,Old
timers
remember
Grants
breath has made;
Farmers Expected ToJ No Candidate
nevertheless th at will stir the
years.
as something of an oasis, a place of building a railroad into the 21 For
But a bold peasantry, their
long
chilled roots and start the
17
years
1
have
lieen
a
higher
country,
up
Spanish
Hol
where men gathered to tell
country’s pride,
of the Oiegon house of buds to swelling in preparation
stories, exchange 'experiences, low, so that wheat growers, now member
When once destroyed, can never Produce Mote In ’52
representatives
from Gilliam, for another vernal season.
and learn about the new country. in plentiful number, could mar Morrow, Sherman and Wheeler
be supplied.”
ket
their
grain
without
the
long
Farm
production
goals
for
1952
Some of the residents were char
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where interest has been
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acters such as Willian Grant, three or four day hauls to Grants counties
The proletarian advocate will aim higher than ever.
in taxation; have been a member $563
and
Biggs.
The
Columbia
South
Farmers
are
being
asked
to
PER « M l I t COST
himself,
Fox
&
Scott,
who
later
r.ot be surprised at the connec
of
three
interim
taxation
com
started the first Moro store had ern was not started until 1897 mittees, was chairman of reap- OF TRUM AN BUDGET
tion lietween mink coats and dis increase farm output sharply
but the shadow cast before It
a store at Grants.
honesty. He always did maintain above that of a year ago; about
Oregon’s share oil President
was sufficient to prevent another ixirtionment committee in 1951,
50
per
cent
more
than
before
Grants
was
a
shipping
point
that wealth came from crooked
have served «in education, labor Truman's $85.4 billion federal
investment in Grants.
World
War
II,
says
E.
Harvey
for
wool
and
an
outfitting
point
ness and never work.
Actually there were many and industries, land use com budget, would be $860.6 millions,
Miller, state production and mar
for sheep men of which there
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reasons
why a town should mittees; have lx?en consistently or $565 for every man, woman
keting
administration
committee
was a good number in the area
“Polks ought to move once in
have
been
established along the for economy, for strong local and child in Oregon's 1950 cen
between the Deschutes and John
a while”, said Uncle Emmett as chairman. First importance in
Columbia.
The railroad was government as opposed to cen sus, Oregon Business & Tax
Oregon,
he
adds,
is
production
Day
river.
he looked over the announce
there,
and
in
those days, river tralization of power, was among Research, reports.
of
feed
grain
to
keep
apace
with
But
Grants
was
a
hard-luck
ments In the paper. "Otherwise
This requested spending, if
transportation.
The fire of ¿83 first five in newspaper poll of
expanding
.livestock
numbers.
town and after some three years
they stay too long in one place
approved,
plus actual $176 per
house
members.
and
the
flood
of
’94
acts
of
nature
Barley and oats are Oregon's
of growth and activity the town
or in one job. If they’re good
Have been mayor of Moro capita cost of all state and local
both, probably had much to do
principal
feed
grains.
Eastern
burned
on
June
18,
1883
and
the
they ought to move on and if
since 1932, member of local government In Oregon for 1952
loss was estimated to have been with the distribution of towns civic clubs, chairman of ixrnd tlscal year, would total $741 l»er
they’re bad they'd ought to move Oiegon is where most of the
in
Sherman
county.
feed barley is produced, but this
between $150/000 and $200,000
campaigns In which Sheiinan person cost of all government
out.”
year a shift lo wheat is notice
w’hich, considering the value of
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county made best record in sale during 1953. This assumes that
a dollar in those days, indicates
Anyone contemplating a crime able. Farmers there have planted
of “E” bonds of any county in 1953 cost of state and local gov
that Grants was quite a towm.
the United States, member of ernment in Oregon will not be
should arrange to give it an angle about 953,000 acres of fall wheat,
Stewart
Hardie
Will
a
14
percent
jump
as
compared
Burned
was
tHe
OR&N
depot,
state and county historical so less than in 1952.
of sex. In that way public sym
Ixjwell Stockman, Pendleton, Cooper’s Hotel, William Grant’s
cieties, Old Oregon Trails associa Total cost of government in
pathy is enlisted and the crim with the year before. The state’s who
has been congressman from
tion, American Legion, Oregon Oregon next year, federal, state,
inal has a good chance to wind 1952 wheat goal is 1,000,000 acres the second Oregon district since warehouse and lumber yard, stor Run For Senator
Wheat Growers league, former local, will be twice what was
up in a nice clean hospital in and will be met and surpassed the 1942 election announced late es of Fox & Scott, A. Schwer-
nicken,
Ixiwengart
&
Sichel,
Stewart Hardie, state senator president of Oregon Newspaper spent In 1950 for food per per
stead of in a rough and cheerless easily unless a large acreage Wednesday that he would not be
Cummings & Dixon, William from this district, comprising Publishers association, l o c a l
normally planted to spring wheat
by anyone earning about
cell.
a candidate to succeed himself Burnet. Several wool warehouses the counties of Gilliam, Sher chairman of committee for Hoo son
is shifted to other crops.
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$8000, or $741 for government,
at the primary election to be were also burned and sheepmen man and Wheeler, has announced ver Report and Oregon Chest.
iThe
state
PMA
committee,
Mil
$316 per capita for food, the tax
To Patricia, the blonde bull
held in Oregon May 6.
lost their crop that had not been that he will be a candidate for
I lielieve that the first duty payer association estimates.
fighter: They’re not bulls at that ler, explains, is asking for 450,,-
Stockman was mentioned shipped. Murray Bros. Harvey re-election at the Republican pri of a congressman, or a state
Oregon people had a total 1952
age, Patricia, they’re little calves 000 acres of feed and malting last Mr. spring
as a contender for
legislator, is to learn as much as estimated income of about $2.3
and killing them is work, not barley with little likelihood that appointment to federal office, & Clark. Cochran & Downing maries next May.
it
will
be
grown.
Barley
seedings
were
all
wool
warehouse
firms
Senator Hardie has served on he can about his district, be billions. On that basis about
sport. But you got the publicity.
in 1951 totaled 362,000 acres. Mil particularly the Federal Reserve that were burned.
the Ways & Means committee, able to explain its problems ef 37.1 per cent of all Income of
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Not dismayed the settler» of state anil federal affairs and pub fectively, be willing and able all people in Oregon will be ear
ler warns that if the shift to Board, to which Abbott Mills of
Oddest thing about the raise in wheat continues, the barley Portland was recently named. It
lie welfare committees during his to work every day in behalf of marked f o r federal expenses
postal rates is the picture of old will be even less than that of has been thought generally that
two sessions in Salem. He major his district anti his nation.
alone. If 1953 incomes do not
Treasurer?
Ben Franklin in a bright red.
Mr.
Stockman
would
run
again
a year ago.
The welfare of eastern Oregon decline, about 49 per cent of to
ed in business administraton at
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The shift to wheat, says the although some have felt that un-
OSC, was county clerk, publishes depends on the continued devel tal income of all people will be
We wish some one would tell bureau of agriculture economics, liktdy.
Condon GlobeTimes and Fossil opment of Columbia river basin consumed by Oregon’s share of
us what good the Office of Price is being felt in the Willamette
In making his statement the
power together with transporta all government costs, federal,
Journal.
Stabilization does. Some prices valley where twice as much congressman said that he wanted
tion and irrigation; upon getting state and local, F. H. Young,
go up every week, few go down wheat was seeded last fall as to return home and take care of
grass to grow on its sage cover manager of Oregon Business &
and if they do there is a change. was the case in 1950.
his own business and that he
ed range lands; uixin further Tax Research reported.
It keeps thousands employed
On the national level, no goals would serve the district :o the
Moro Women Invite utilization of tlinlier resources;
and if they were all producing are being set for livestock pro best of his ability during the re
upon a foreign policy that will
something other than confusion duction because the number that mainder of his term which ex
e r m i t the development ol Globetrotters Billed
the quantity of goods would go can be raised is tied in directly pires in January 1953.
Husbands For Dinner! p markets
in the Pacific; upon
up and probably the price down. with the prospective feed supply.
keeping as much of our power at
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Saturday
evening,
January
26,
The national barley goal is 290,-
as we can use, upon keep Friday At The Dalles
Frost is going out of the 000,000 bushels on 12,865,000 MORO 51; CORBETT 43
the Moro Woman’s club enter home
ing
all
of our water, upon a tax
ground, baseball players are sign acres compared with 254,668,000
tained their husbands at a pot policy that
By Larry Kaseberg
will permit citizens
ing contracts, buttercups and bushels harvested from 10,840,-
luck
dinner.
Rev.
Gearhart
gave
The Moro Huskies played a
to buy and Improve property.
marbles will be next.
Divine
Grace.
000 acres planted in 1951—a 14 strong Corliett team on the Grass
The federal government owns
m w w
President Mrs. Hockman gave 70%
percent increase over 1951 pro Valley floor last Friday night
of eastern Oregon. As a
Whether contemplated or not duction; a 19 percent acreage in
a few opening remarks and then landlord
with Moro winning 54-43.
it should develop its
it was handy that the tax returns crease.
turned
the
program
over
to
Corbett bounced into the lead
property or let some one have
be made about tax paying time.
Mrs.
Lloyd
Henrlchs,
program
in the first quarter, 12-10, then
who will.
It won’t be long out of the hands
chairman, Mrs. Henrichs clever it The
held a 27-26 half-time lead. The
nation must be kept
of the government.
ly
introduced
the
following:
Mrs.
strong militarily and that means
Huskies came back with a surge
Boosters Gin Hear
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John
Parker,
who
gave
the
wel
large sums for the airforce, the
of power in the third quarter
The argument made by a Dem
come and Mr. John Parker who army and navy; it must be kept
to
take
the
lead
42-36
and
held
ocrat that an Oregon supreme FBI Agent Wednesday
responded. Mlrs. Francis Keyes, strong economically and that
out through (the remainder of
court judge should not take part
accompanied on the piano by Mr. means no spending for non-es
the
game.
in partisan politics seems a little
Keyes sang two numbers, “Calm
Program for the Wednesday,
Bob
Martin
rolled
in
22
points
late. It is possible to recall sim February 6, meeting of the Moro to lead the scoring attack with
is the Night” - Bohn and “La sentials.
I will work actively, constant
ilar activity on the part of fed Boosters club wifi be a member Harold Duncan helping with 16,
Donna E’Mobile” -Verdi (woman ly and aggressively for the wel
eral supreme court judges.
of the Federal Bureau of Invest Leroy Martin scored 9, Norval
Fred E. Robinson, candidate is changeable).
fare of the second district and
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Since Mr. Bolton of The Dal the nation. What lieneflts one
igation staff from Portland who Lane 4, Don Miller 2.
for .'Republican nomination ¿¡or
Potatoes are a dollar a pound is expected by provram chairman
Lyn Grouser for Corbett was state treasurer, is a native Ore les was unable to lie present, will benefit the other.
if bought In the form of chips. Norman Fields to speak on high
gonian, living in Jackson county. Mr. Dewey Thompson ably took
with 11 points.
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“What the Government is Doing
He is a firm believer in sound over. He showed films, consist HHORT COURSE COMING
The
officials
were
Tullin
and
It can be cold In February; About Communism.”
A short course given by ex
and well planner’ state economy, ing of their trip trip east, to the
Bughan.
it can be cold in March. But no
It will be the first meeting of
in making every dollar count, bathing lieautles on the Oregon tension will 1* presented to
one can look forward to the pos the club under the 1952 officers MORO 31; MOSIER 2»
Hherman jcountlans this spring
demonstrated in the building of coast.
sibility of so long a cold spell and it is expected that new com
The tables were nicely decor lieglnning early in March. ( lass
his
own
business
by
applying
The Moro Huskies squeezed
on February first as on January mittee members will lie appoint
ated with candles In pastel es will l»e held probably Wednes
out a close decision from the the formula of “a dollar ‘ saved shades and evergreen.
first.
day nights and will last for
ed at the meeting.
is
a
dollar
earned.”
Mosier
team
Tuesday
night
at
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Hostesses for the evening three hours. A teacher will come
He
is
married
and
has
three
Mosier 31-29.
The famous Harlem Globe
When we hear one of those
were Mrs. Truman Strong. Mrs. from OSC to hear the class.
The low scoring game was children; he is a home owner I>ewey Thompson, Mrs. Lloyd
trotters will play In The Dalles
individuals who tempers his de RALLY 8UHKDULKD
The
course
is
In
Natural
Re
The Westminister Fellowship largely on the part of the small and a latgj taxpayer. He be Henrlchs and Mrs. Mac Bull.
cisions with soft words and a
sources, which will lie the first Friday night with an Allstar
lieves also that efficient and
hesitant manner we often think of the Moro Con-wnunlty church floor and lighting and that the economical state government can
The next meeting of the club given by any college or univer team from The Dalles as compe
of the two kindly old ladles who will be hosts to a county wide basket just wasn't big enough only be achieved through great will l>e February 7 with Mrs. sity reports the state college, It tition. Also on the bill will be a
insisted on having a soft log youth rally to be held this Sun that night.
will f»e a four year course at game between White Salmon and
A. Douma as director.
Moro held the half-time lead of er individual Interest and ser
on which to decapitate their day night from 4:00 to 8:30 p. m.
Corvallis
and the short course the Kansas City Stars, a Globe
All high school age young people 13-11. The game was close all vice in the state’s political
chickens.
also
will
deal with soils, range trotter farm club.
are invited to attend. The even way through right up to the make-up. With the latter aim in EXAMINER COMING
The Globetrotters have been
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management, forestry, minerals
view,
he
is
taking
an
active
part
Bankers listen to many reasons ing will include a social hour, final busser. The game was won in Republican party activities, Is
A drivers license examiner wildlife, botany, geography and playing In Portland lately with
good crowds who come not only
why customers have to spend refreshments, singspiratlon and a on foul shots with Moro making sergeant-at arms and chairman will tie on duty In Moro Tues economics.
money. Taxpayers listen to rea worship service. The Rev. Mar 11 of the 15 attempts.
Those who want to enroll to watch them play but to see
flay
February
5,
1952
at
the
of
the
fourth
congressional
dis
The Moro Huskies have a
the ball handling team members
sons why governments must tin T. I .arson of the Methodist
trict of the Oregon Republicans courthouse between the hours may see Wily Knlghten, school indulge in when ahead.
spend money. Difference: bank church of The Dalles will give league standing of five wins and
superintendent.
of
10
a.
m.
and
3
p.
m.
clubs.
three losses.
the evening meditation.
ers are not impressed.
Spring Coining?