Image provided by: Sherman County Historical Museum; Moro, OR
About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1952)
Gherman (County ¿Journal Sixty-Fourth Year No. 14 T hese T h in g s We N ote Moro, Oregon Friday. February S, 1952 W a te r Rights Explained Bv State Engineer Tom, Steiwer File For State Representative County Official Paper W ork on Cottonwood FBI Organization I , Contìnue; Ware» Wes/ Plan Due By Agent Information about the law Judge Curt Tom attended the regarding water rights has been meeting of the Oregon highway- obtained by Louis Sather at the Candidates like crocuses are commission in Portland last Fri- I.xplanation of the organiza request of the Pomona Grange. Popping into sight __ with the day and learned that the com- tion and history of the Federal State Engineer Charles Stricklin warm spring sun. The 22nd dis- mission is planning a survey of Bureau of Investigation was writes as follows: trlct, Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman the Wasco west road to Root's made to members of the Boosters ‘ Our Supreme Court has held and Wheeler counties, in the corner this spring. Work on the flub Wednesday morning by J. that rights may be obtained to state house of representatives road may be expected thereafter. B. Poster, agent in charge of the the use of any waters flowing w illl have at least two Republi- The commission, says the Portland office, By Giles L- French in a natural channel. In the case can candidates to vote for in jutlge. expects to continue the First federal investigation A Pendleton delegation told the of Simons v. Winters, 21 Oregon, the iMlay primaries. construction of the Cottonwood group became involved in politics highway commission that 50,000 the Supreme Court held that the 'This week Allen Tom (Charles road and $80,000 w ill be expend- and it was not until the appoint- eastern Oregonians would vote term watercourse does not in Allen officially) filed for repre- ed on this side of the John Day ment of J. Edgar Hoover in 1921 for Truman unless certain road elude water flowing from hills in sentative from the 22nd district, this year, that the FBI started on its pre changes were made. Not that. ravines only in times of rain and He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. sent course. There are now some Is it that serious? melting snow; but that a stream A. Tom, his father being county (’•000 agents and the budget is T T W N flow is a watercourse if it judge. He is 89 years old, father Supervisor Explains 103 million dollars, said Mr. “ Honest* Harold Ickes, hatch Poster. originates from rain and melting of three, MS from Cornell, grad- et man of the new deal is dead snow accumulating in large uate student at OSC another The FBI does not enforce all after 77 well crowded years. So quantities in hills or mountains, year. He is a farmer on-the an- Standardization federal laws and no state or local far as bas been discovered he descends through long, deep de- cestral acres above Rufus. He laws he said. It does have 120 was honest although he boasted Miss Irene Hallberg came up federal laws to enforce mostly pressions upon lower lands, car- served 42 months in the U. S. of it like a gangster. He “ dished ves out a distinct channel which Naval Reserve as a lieutenant fu n , Salem to talk to the as- those involving crimes of vio- it out” and could take it when unmistakably bears the impress during the war, is chairman of sembled school )>oards at the lence such as kidnapping and ex- it came his way. He was a of frequent waterflow, and has the Land Economic’s sub-commit- court house Wednesday after- tortion. Espionage in wartime stouter, tougher, and probably so flowed from time immemorial, tee of the state college planning noOn- ^h* spoke about standard- takes many men, also. The atom- better character than is usually According to this differentiation, conference, member of the Sher- Izatlon and the necessity of ic energy commission is protec- found in the too often spineless rain and melting Wow may con man county planning council and schools meeting the requirements ted by the FBI as well, game of politics. stitute the source of a -water- of the Rufus school board. He is set fortfl by ,be stale depart- Decisions about prosecution T T W N the accumulation also active in support of the John nient- of those investigated is made by MASTERPIECE RETURNED . . . This war-damaged early 18th cen course, but Probably Mr. Newbold Morris, are four classifications, the heads of departments, not tury painting of the assumption of the Virgin has been returned by this must be considerable, there must Day dam. He farms a ranch in There who is going to investigate the country to the monastery of Mo He Cassino, Italy. It was discovered be an immediately discernible Morrow county in addition to his t b® standard school, the stand- the FBI It is an investigatory government’s personal crime among the rubble of World War II by a German soldier and still bears waterworn channel, ard school with advise (it gets agency* only. It has 57 agencies and the Sherman county holdings. wave, has not heard that the j, p. (Jack) ttteiwer, son of Bio money anyway but has some in the United iStates, only one in the mark of the siege of Monte Cassino. The German took it to Austria, condition must have existed for only cure for governmental dis where it was found by the InvaOng Americans. Our state department a long time.” former state senator W. H. controllable defects), a con- Oregon and representatives are returned it, via the Italian consul at Munich. honesty is complete extirpation. " Steiwer announced his candidacy oitionally standard school (in so scattered over the state that In other words the disease can this week. He is a Wheeler coun- which the board has plans for one can be at any place w ithin only be cured by an operation, T a f t T a ^ n a n ir A l product who graduatel from standardization) and the non- an hour. Some 320,000 investiga- Stockmens’ Association Organization May not by medicine. I a i l IO OpCaK A l the University of Oregon in 1949 «tandard school. tions are carried on each year. T T W N _ and is now running a real es- Factors involved are in order The finger prints gathered by We wonder what history w ill Come From Meeting Here February 15 1 d lo lp to n F th 14 tate an<* insurance business in °f listing: site, five acres; build- all law' enforcement officers are say about this era of American a v u u iv iu u a wu. Fossi! in addition to helping ings, which includes rooms, kept in the bureau’s files in Wa existence. Students used to be A ll county livestock men w ill Giles F'rench, Vaulen Kaseberg Mrs. Howard Coulee, chairman around the Steiwer sheep ranch lighting, window shades, water shington together with those of told of the excesses of the Ro- have, an opportunity to partlci- state chairman of Farm Crops of thè Republican central com- at the mouth of Butte creek. He 8upply, drinking fountains, wash- persons who have had their's man lords and were aghast, pate in forming a county associ- committee, Dewey Thompson mittee has received word from serve' 1 during the war and is at basins, flag; furniture; custo- taken for Identification purposes. When some brown eyed lad in ation or join w ith the Wasco Harold Eakin, and Mrs. Virgin W. E. Hanzen, who holds a like Preser>t a member of the Amerl- dial service which says that the These are qot used in criminal 4000 A. D. reads of diamond county association during a ia McIntyre. Eleven committees position in Umatilla countv that can 1 *«I°n, the Fossil city coun- janitor should have a hammer, investigation. The crime lnhora- studded shoelaces, fur covered meeting set for 2:00 p. m. Friday, are now working on their re Sherman countians are invited to cil, Wheeler-Gilliam stockmens' saw, pliers and a screw driver, tory, said the speaker, can de- auto seats, $500 a plate dinners February 15 in the county ourt- ports. All Oregon farm people come and hear Senator Robert association and the Fossil Com- Next ’division is admrfnl^tra- termine almost any* fact about a tion Including the school board, crime from the smallest bits of w ill he be told at the same time house. Sherman county has lag- are welcome and encouraged to A. Taft, candidate for the Re munlty club. p< inclpal and a staff, supervisors, evidence. Several examples of that these were connected with ged behind other eastern Oregon attend this conference meeting publican nomination for presi ---- -- . .... - community (it should be whole- scientific crime solution were the fall of America? counties in such an organization, Objectives of this conference dent, who w ill speak at Vert 4 9 0 V *ll J some and cooperative); class load, given. T T W N being the only county east of are a careful analysis of re Memorial hall in Pendleton at A I n°t over 30- must teach 170 days Committee appointments were in Oregon we are happy the Cascades not organized. sources and market outlets and 9:30 a. m. February 14. No O n ly 4 Z o K il le d * per year; transportation. announced as follows: Program: enough over the presidential Roy Foreman, president of the to determine what products charge w ill be made for admis Early estimates Third division is instructional Norman Fields, Tommy Thomp primary system, even though it Wasco county association, and marketing methods w ill insure a sion. __ of Oregon’s __ _ 1951 traffic death toll proved in program, curriculum, library ser- son, W. T. Balsiger. isn’t a very good criterlan of E. M. Nelson, Wasco county continued sound economic grow- error today when a later count vice; general spirit and tone of Membership: \ emon 1* latt, what voters think unless every agent and .secretary of the asso- th <> Oregon agriculture. Thru candidate is entered. It beats the ciation, w ill tell of their pro- counseling together foresighted turned up 428 fatalities rather school, described a; a condition Clifford Snow, Bob Martin, Mike old convention system and it pram and activities. I he \\ asco farmers, homemakers, business- Busse Again Named than the 440 anticipated by a i*1 which ' the entire school re- Mulick. preliminary check January 1. veals an air of efficiency and Recreation: V’em Arstill, Ivan may l>e the only way we know county group have 78- members men and technical people w ill Officials said December mis- happy expectancy as the progress Kirkelie. Lawrence Kirby, and not the best way. cooperating in county programs set up a program of develop- haps upset their calculations by of learning proceeds.” Civic Improvement: B. H. Ro- I« rood thn Bd in the interest Of the livestock ment behind which all forces Recorder Aga in Hie old bar tcndei re , industry. The association has can unite for a common good. producing 25 deaths, far fewer Representatives of school tea- berson, Bon Christianson, Har ' Reading maketh a full man work on theft preventJon, bran<1 In short a program tf) «uide Appointment of Ralph Busse than thev had reason to hope, chers met with the boards and win Van GildSr. as recorder for the year and The year’s trend had led to ex made recommendations as to W. W. Community Welfare: Ha, na.. saia ne- laws, disease control, livestock Oregon’s rural development. granting of a card room license contract' length and require Gearhart, Ralph Busse, Dewey Technically speak,ng, and hold- couniy au%on tt.e" C!?‘ ™ made * at to Ernest Eslinger were the pectations of from 35 to 40 fa ments and asked for an increase Thompson. talltles in the final month. ing strictly to the dictionary y g ° nt> auctlJn salt applications of Nu Green, a Urea principal actions taken by the Education: Homer Townsend. The unexpected fatalities de in pay of $300 per year for cost interpretation, a man who is for eic’ form of nitrogen, can give as- Moro city* council at its meeting W ily Knighten, Carrel Bennett. dine in December, which the of living. higher taxes is a socialist. Be- Sherman county livestock founding increased yields and fueeday night. New parts were state’s motorists and pedestrians cause the more money govern- nwn are welome and urged to protein content when applied as ordered for the broken fire truck achieved in the face of the year- ment gets the stronger it be- attend to formulate plans for a liquid on growing grain. Re- pump. WASCO MKTHODIHT CHURCH end holiday hazards and winter • (Sunday evening, February 10, Mrs W M Edwards come and the weaker individuals organization. The meeting ia suits of work at the Sherman weather conditions, brought the Family Night 6:00 p. m. pot And when the govern- sponsored by th e livestock branch xperiment station in 4951 1951 death count exactly even luck dinner; 7:00 p. m. pictures ment gets it all we have social committee of the County Plan according to George Mitchell did Buried Here Tuesday with the final total of 428 re and program. not give significant yield or pro Unander Announces ism.When people without pow- rung council, corded in 1950. tein Increases. Rev. H. Gravenor er or funds try to oust a govern- PM A community and county Mrs. Marguerite Edwards, 43, Numerically, the worst death ment and can't, they have a die- committeemen and Soil Conserva- Applications were made the Fot State Treasurer died Friday in The Dalles after toll of the post-war years was King George came to tiie tatorship. High taxes are a foe tion district supervisors w ill first of April, prior, during and recorded in 1946 when 482 fa throne by accident and without an illness of several weeks to representative government. meet February 20 to prepare after flavoring the grain. The Slgfrid B Unander of Portland taIltle8 occurred. Traffic mishaps desire on his part. He has served caUBed hy canc®*? She had lxf! n T T W N the 1952 ACP practice payment protein content was increased until recently the state Republi- ¡n 1947 took 442 lives and 419 England well has been a digni- a re8,<^ent of Sherman county rn n r h a lr m a i n n n n n n rn J (h o t k « .................................... ». r v v n , n a .-l d U lg lll . f . a U h rtn o h There are folks who think program. All county farmers are from a low of 6 percent to 7 can chairmati, announced that he for most of her life although that who wins the presidential welcome to participate to assist percent. Variations within the w ill )>e a candidate for the Re were killed in 1948. A post-war fied symbol of authority, the i>orn In Tacoma, Wn., December low of 356 deaths was recorded function of English kings. His race is no more important than in adopting practices for this plots could have caused this publican nomination for state in 1919, but the trend was revers death w ill make no change in 18. 1<>OH. who wins the Army-Navy foot- year. Practices w ill be adopted difference. Surviving are her widower treasurer in the May primary ed by 1950's death co&nt of 428. governmental policy. ball game. We do make a game that w ill get the most conserva- Mark February 28 on your elections. William, seven daughters, Mrs. out of it, a sporting contest. tion work accomplished. The calendar and plan to attend a George DeMoss, Moro, iMrs. Don Member of a pioneer Oregon T T W N meeting w ill be held in the coun weed meeting in the courthouse. family, the 38-year-okl Unander DeMoss, Viola, Rosa, Elmira, Jav Price Remembers F irst Roads That New chemical material available has been active in Republican The wholesale price of food is ty courthouse, Emma and Joyce and two sons, for farm use w ill be discussed circles since completing his work down from a year ago, Retail I.eslle and William, all of Moro; ” ’ e" w ill soon toHow. What Grub control time I. at hand. along 7 lth“ 7 pra“y " a father, Fred Dickenson of Ter for a master’s degree at Stanford keeps the index up is the inclu- " h y not cut down on ° - ; ment and proper adjustments in university’s graduate school of Brought Fmigrants Across The Countv rebonne and four grandchildren. sion of many items many fam- caused by grubs an< ppra' i handling the equipment In the business. He also received his Funeral services were held I would like to tell about some only monuments on these roads, High pressure spray rigs ( too Extension specialist from bachelor’s degree in political sci ilies do not want. Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 p. m. early history of that country are the ones at Biggs, „ N *, p o u n d s p re s s u re ' a te r«CO n n, •«. ThOM •i M t W ence from Stanford. l/etween the Deschutes and John John Day. Some years ago, from t h e Moro Community “ I loathe, abhor, detest, despise cd but its l>etter to do t e j<> > interested in weed control along He spent four and a half years Day rivers, before it became Walter Meacham, and I, and church with Rev. W illiam Gear- Abominate dried-apple pies, with equipment available than to fence rows w ill 1 m ? particularly in the army during World war II Sherman county. several Sherman county people hart officiating and Interment in I like good bread, 1 like good leave it undone. Rotenone at 7Va interested. starting as a first lieutenant In As far as I know, I am the placed temporary markers along lhe Moro cemeter-V t 6 per 100 gallons of water sprayed ___________ the field artillery and rising to oldest early settler in that coun- these roads. Several permanent Or anything that's fit to eat? on the backs w ill do the job. the grade of lieutenant colonel, try, dating back to i860. From markers should be placed along But of all poor grub beneath the Two treatments thirty days He saw service in the South Pa what I know, and have been these roads, and since Walter Land Drawing For skjes apart are advisable. Grub con- PP&L Business Up cific, North African and Euro told by those that have gone on, Meacham, the spark plug of this The poorest Is dried-apple pies, trol can only be done satlsfac- pean theater of operation. I am sure that I can tell many important work Is gone, it Give me the toothache, or sore tory at this time of the year. Unander was decorated with things that should be of Inter- would seem to be the duty of Veterans Due Soon In Past Year Frank von Borstel, David Rich- eyes, the Bronze Star by the U. S. est to those that live there now. the Sherman County Historical But don't give me dried-apple elderfer and Russell Belshee, Three more land openings Army, the Croix de Guerre of The first mark of civilization, society to carry on this work, county PMA committeemen. delivered * so that the future generations comprising a total of 81 farm The^farmer takes his gnarllest R a l p h ers Electricity by Pacific Po'wer to & custom- Light France and the Order of the B rit in that country, are the two ish Empire. He was also honor emigrant roads, the first one, w ill know about the early bis- units are scheduled for the im.me fru it, • . county r*» « <»u« * company during 1951 Increased ed by the F'rench Foreign I^e that in 1843, crossed the John tory of (hat good country. diate futur»» In the Columbia Tis wormy, bitter, and hard, the PMA con erence at Gearhart 92 pent p&al R McKee pre. glonf being made an honorary Day r<ver, where we placed the basin project in Washington, the The first to locate in that hoot: Februai> 11, **, , «.*•« am >«. si(j en» told * oi ( i preferred stockhold- private, first class, In that or monument to boot; rem uai» **, -w- » «j<Jent, Oregon Department of Veterans’ October 8, 1950. o, , w<w. C O Untry, was the Graham family, Y' " " 1 H ’ He leaves the hull, to make u. meet ng wl I cover topics of ape- prs h|B Eet, , <|Uarter|y Vet From there the road went up wb(, the A ffa ir, annnumed today ganization. eoueh c,al lnt«re8t farrner commit- have pri- the „1.. old r.mi. Eml- , i g5g hriW or 1MB anil |(ve(| „ ..... For two years immediately p ri the hill and near ,IW the _ erans of World War II hi And don’t take half the peeling teemen. extending assistance for Aye] Average use of electricity in "«>“ "> of ‘ he river They either or 'J J ." •™r ih “ ‘“lnK lhe , carrying out the county program homes served by PP&L through or to entering m ilitary service, grant Spring, ‘J1 Unander served as assistant to China Hollow, Spanish Hollow, buj|( tb(, fi|s( lojj br, , , r While the Oregon veterans Then on a dirty cord tis A state-wide meeting of rural out its system reached 4983 Governor Charles A Sprague. on in to Mud Hollow, down near- owne(, ¡, for so|ne , jnH. They department expects to httve s«o- And In a garret window nu»»- people Interested in agriculture kilowatt hours for the year, an ly to the big mud spring, (Dave to (. g MH|er in , H7G anb plies of application forms when And there it serves as roosi «■ homeg w m bei(i at increase of 218 kwh over 1950 roost « 101 rural homes ill be held „ I . e . 1 then . h e n over , . „ e r the , h . hill h ili la.ue.l, veteran» were advlued lo Fulton place), and down the hill near Biggs, In April l«12. (ieurge Maslker » r, " ,l'r« 't. flies, Corvallis on the Oregon State At the same time, the average GLADIOLVH (¿KOWHKM " ¡ e r « '»n»tk>n Until it’s made up Into pies. college campus March 27. 28 price received by the company MAY ORGANIZE where a monument was placed located at Hand Spring The office at Kphrata In order to get Tread on my corns, or ten m and 2g Committees of farm peo- for this domestic service drop- in 1910, by the old Wasco Coun faintly cnnidNted of Mr. and Mra. on tlte malling Hat for later an* lies, . pie, assisted by technical consul- ped from 1.42 cents to 1.40 cents The president of the State ty Pioneers, then to the mouth Maslker. William, Esther. Char- nouncements. But don't pass me driea-ap, 1 lants w m present reports giving per kwh. or half the national Gladiolus society Is anxious to of the Deschutes river. The oth lev, Elmira, and George B. Mas (Drawings to determine win get more members into his or er emigrant road left the one lker. Their youngest son, Martin ners of the farm units are or pies.” their views as to the needs and average An anonymous w riter 01 a opportunities for the develop- Construction by Pacific during ganization. He Is Therman Evans mentioned, at the top of the hili, was lo rn (here May 22, 1863. dinarily held from two to three other day had his troubles w nvent Of Oregon agriculture and 1951 cost $18,494,000, McKee said, of the Oregon Journal. He says going near Webfoot Spring, and Mr. Maslker died there in 1863, weeks after the filing deadline. out high taxes, foreign entang rUral living for the next ten to with just under $12,000.000 go- that Oregon growers are very in to Grass Valley canyon near by hl7 rtnujest ”wa Winners, to qualify, must have ments, speeding cars ant e twenty f,ve yearg. Sherman ing into development by the good Inasmuch as they won the where Nish is now, and followed Of| th(, his ()|(j ,,|ace fatbe, had honorable service in Wor’d high coat of living. county* folks who have particl- company of the 100.000 kilow'att prizes at recent shows. Sherman It to aiwut Its head, and crossed samuej pric«, crossed the plains War mURl have ha<1 farm,nB and j'n and experience, and must have at “ Pretty nice weather, ain't pated In the committee work Yale hydroelectric project Since county gladiolus growers are also the Deschutes some where near jn Maslker were married I was ,east *L500 In cash, assets which I t ” said the young man. have been Floyd Root. W. I. the end of World War II, the gcxx, and they may wish to join the present Shearer bridge I do not know Just what year ^‘X)rri Eebruarv 3 1866 can converted to cash, or "iBooks OK today” , replied the m ^ v , Allen Tom, state chairman company has spent $53,000,000 In order to show their suprem- acy. this road was first used. The ’' farm mahlnery and equipment. old timer. of Land Economics committee, on new facilities. iir io h u
