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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1954)
^hrmutn ÖTmmty ^cantai ______ „e______________________________________________ __ ________ ______________ ___________•__________ „__________________________ —- Sixty-Sixth Year No. 9 T hese T h in g s We N ote By Giles L. French * fax Man of the Yeai Moro, Oregon Frida > January 1. 1954 ________________________ Bov Scout Board Pa i se: Six On Eagh Scout Test Highway 97 Gets fnj{.rovement In Sic le Ptrgram All but a few miles of Highway 97 from the Columbia river to California is in precess of being realigned by the state highway commission according to a strip map received from Commissioner Charles H. Reynelds of I^aGrande Some of the work* will be done within the next four or five years and by that time the entire road will have been changed. The pro ject calls for realigning the road between Moro and Kent in 1957- 58 although it has been surveyed. Work will also be done farther north and surveys will be run be low Wasco to straighten out the canyon road. Only work scheduled for this . county this year is the rebuilding of the underpass south of Moro where preliminary work has al ready been started. This is a $103,- 000 job and badly needed because of the danger of the narrow and crooked bit of road. Next April a contract is to be let for improvement of the Shan John Struthers, a 16 year old banker had purchased, and since iko Junction Willowdale section unlor at Lincoln high school in that time the young man has which will cost $1,000,000 and ’ortland, became the 2000th been keeping close tab on the eliminate some turns. A change nember lemuvT of i»i the m e «-««ni First National .v .n u u u i progress |>n,Kn-ss of »>» First m s i National i-wuiluuiti stock «un is. is due north of Terrebonne where tank of Portland’s family of sales, awaiting his opportunity to the short turn at Crooked river hls week, C. B. Stephenson, bank purchase a share and became the will be eliminated and the high resident announced. 2000th stockholder. way south of Bend is being The youth is president of the A survey taken at the time of straightened to make this route achievers Bank of Portland, a the share of stock to Struthers one of the fastest and stralghest unior Achievement company revealed that more than 84 per in the state. ounselled by First National. Two ¿ent of the bank's shareholders It Is called a truck route be- tonths ago Struthers presented are residents of the state of Ore- cause^the huge trucks moving tephenson with a share of stock gon. freight from north to south fav n the Achievers bank which the or this road with its easy grades and infrequent turns. • Wealth Is often suspected of being the father of arrogance. T T W N The trouble about learning is what you already know; and the trouble with what you already know is that it may not be cor rect. T T W N Uncle Emmett thinks he has Edward B. Hamilton, Polk found a solution for too much county clerk, has been named government: why not send con Oregon’s first “taxpayers’ man of gressmen to foreign countries the year” by Oregon Business & permanently? Tax Research for conspicuous T T W N service as an elected tax-spend Days of peace may not be so ing public official. profitable as days of war but His citation by the taxpayers’ there’s no blood on the money. association was for turning back T T W N to the county $4,479 or 24.8 per Who do you suppose “brain cent of his 1953-54 $18,000 budget washed” that Missouri Republi while adding efficiency features can turned Democrat? to his office operation. Mr. Ham T T W N ilton’s 1954-55 budget was Only The government hasn’t moved $17,864 with a 10 per cent staff to do anything about the huge salary increase Included. crop of babies although it is add “Mr. Hamilton's conspicuous ing to public expense at a great service as clerk was proof that rate. public business can be operated T T W N on a private business economy All this talk about recession basis”, F. H. Young, the taxpay or not leads to the belief that we er association’s manager asserted. can have which ever one we work “The amount of dollars saved was to get. not large but to spend less than get. permitted was unusual.” Hamil T T W N ton has had lumber company Portlanders are finding that if experience, was an employe of you use an automobile too much the Oregon WW I vets’ commis Sherman Couny Fails you have to use it all the time. sion. Ill health forced him off a T T W N In Bond Buying farm and into county politics. Doesn’t it beat the deuce how Hamilton’s community service, Oregon residents continued men strive to keep away from the according to the Oregon Business “savings spree” last month security of our prisons? & Tax Research announcement, their by setting aside over $2 million T T W N includes draft board chairman, 333 thousand in series E and H The longer one has kept bad county budget committee, Legion habits the harder they will be post commander, county welfare savings bonds. "This represents a 40 per cent to change, just in case someone board, National Guard- battalion increase over the corresponding would like to make some New major. in 1952”, according to Year resolutions. Naming, a “taxpayers’ man of period French, county chairman, T T W N the year” will l>e an annual rec Giles Too bad that fellow Shoulders ognition by Oregon Business & “and reflects one of the highest monthly increases since the end Is In trouble. He has such an ap Tax Research. of World War II.” propriate name for a cop. And by County sales during November the way do you happen to know in E and H series bonds amount of a policeman by the name of Oregon Crops Good ed to $8,154. Feet- that would be better yet. He pointed out that the healthy n Most Fields T T W N savings bonds pattern in Oregon In the boxing game they used A year-end look at Oregon crop was also reflected across the na to draw the color line and a darn values in 1953 shows many of the good thing they did for now the state’s farmers fared quite well tion. Almost $440 million in series colored boys have most of the in spite of the declining price E and H bonds were sold, an in crease of 25 per cent over Novem championships. level. Marion Thomas, extension ber of last year. “November re T T W N economist at OSC, demptions of matured and unma Frankie Sinatra’s troubles cause agricultural says there were some striking tured bonds were $25 million less us to doubt whether a voice is gains over 1952. than sales.” the best thing to hold a wife with Changing ’ supply and demand or not. conditions, coupled with a break T T W N from the weather, brought more US Bank Sending The best thing about Syngman money into the pockets of straw Rhee is his age. berry, cherry and Bartlett pear Trust Expert T T W N growers, the economists reports. From what we note about the The United States National The 6-mlllion dollar take from new Bonneville administrator cherries bank’s trust department is now was nearly double the we’ll bet that Bonneville will lie rather disappointing return in planning Its 1954 series of estate less in the news than it has been, 1952. This year’s all-time record and trust forums. Mr. Pearl not looking lige a man strawberry crop was worth al Residents of Moro and sur rounding community will be in who likes hot water. most 10 million dollars, or about T T W N lMf million more than the year vited to the forum which will be Uncle Emmett says that some before. Bartlett pears found bet- presented in The Dalles, E. C. men love their wives because ter-than-usual fresh market out Sammons, U. S. National presi they know they are too mean to lets, largely due to a short crop dent, announced. Similar meet ever get another one. in California, and brought grow ings held in the past have been T T W N ers a gross of better than 5 mil well attended by men and women Wonder what a cop thinks lion—up a full million from 1952. Interested in estate planning and about New Years eve; probably Wheat, long the state’s leading economical management. about what the celebrant thinks cash crop, set neW highs, Thom 1 he U. S. National has pioneer about it January 1. as states. A record crop, benefit ed in Oregon in bringing trust T T W N ing from government support information to the general public A news story says that Ameri prices, rated a farm value of more through these forums. During the cans are spending twice as much than 73 million dollars. past four years, attendance has for liquor as for religion and No other crop came near the totaled nearly 8,000. charity and education. Well, says wheat total, reports the economist The new series will be held In the cynic, they wouldn’t give although vegetables for process the evening and will be open to that much if they weren’t drunk. ing showed consistent gains ovpr both men and women. Exact time T T W N 1952. Processors paid out more and place for The Dalles meeting Movie men couldn’t make the than 7 million dollars for snap will be announced later, according films better so they made the beans. 5 million for green peas, to C. A. Reynolds, manager of screen bigger. and 2Ht\ million for Oregon sweet The Dalles branch. T T W N The need for a will, misconcep corn. The total for these three We feel sorry for Barbara Hut crops was about a million dollars tions regarding estate planning ton and maybe that is because we greater than the previous year. and administration, danger, of tax feel sorry for the men she has Oregon's most Important seed pyramiding effect on estate when married. crop, ryegrass, came up with not properly planned will be T T W N higher prices and smaller produc among the subjects discussed. Under “Good Reading” in the tion but kept total value about Oregon Journal is notice of a the 5 million dollar level. ABOUT THE COUNTY story about a Rose Queen’s In In sharp contrast with these jured knee. The editor is no gains, Thomas reports lower val Mr. and Mrs. Ken Waldroff of royalist, we note ues of several other important Sunnyside, Wash., were here for T T W N crops. Light yields cut walnut One of the common ills of and filbert returns almost In half; the Christmas holidays with her American politics is that too lower prices are having a similar sister, Mrs. Stan Coelsch and her many blatherskites get elected by effect on potatoes and onions; mother, Mrs. Glayds Morrison. Miss Edith Paulson, primary their intemperate talk. and removal of supports on clover teacher, spent the school holidays T T W N seeds let the bottot c fall out of This is a time of year for won the market in 1953. Values of oth- in Portland on business. Mrs. Ruby Grabbe of San Fran dering about oneself, his p3st and of crops like hops, peppermint, cisco presented the Grass Valley- future. How many blame them hay and barley also dipped sharp Kent Boy Scout Troop 362 with selves, how many the conditions, ly during the year. a ten foot American flag at a how many others for their bad recent meeting. luck? Mr. and Mrs. Olan Stark and ABOUT THE COUNTY TT W N family, Mr. and Mrs. Herman p et Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Thompson O A private power man often ers and sons Herman and Arden,. wants public power too; a public went to Portland Wednesday to Mrs. D. Barnett and Mr. and power man wants the whole he there in time for the big bowl Mrs. W. Willard Barnett and son, games Friday. They weren’t the only ones. The lure of television Keith spent Christmas eve at the Harold Owens home. took several to the city. Happy New Year, More W ine D runk .ess W hiskey Apparent consumption in Ore gon of table wines Increased 22% luring the last fiscal year, ac- ording to an analysis by the )regon liquor control commission vhile gallonage sales of whiskey ind other distilled spirits declin 'd .5%, and malt beverage con- iumption showed a slight in- ■rease of .25%. Gallonage sales of lessert wines Increased 6%. °f ' K U.1.I7..1S barrels ,,( ma t tever- tes—each barrel containing 31 allons—Indicates apparent con- umption of 27,408.258 gallons for ie year ending June 30, 1953. ax collections on table wines ldicate consumption of 851,150 allons of wine containing not tore than 14% alcohol by volume n increase of 22%. Table wines re sold to the public by licensees f the commission. Sales of des ert wines of greater alcoholic antent which are sold exclusive- f by OLCC stores and agencies eached 150,128 gallons, a 6% icrease as compared with the receding fiscal year. Sales of spirituous liquor, such s whiskey, amounted to 1,997,- 78 gallons during the fiscal year, decline of 10,137 gallons or .5%. An Eagle board of review was held at Grass Valley Monday night with Kenneth Libby, chair man of this district, heading a board of officers and citizens who questioned a group of candidates for Eagle Scout honors. Board members were Gordor Acker, John McGraw, Dr. 1 ■ Jarm on, •< ». Minnick, Charles Harmon, ’iley, fro, t Mapes, Laurence Wiley, Dalles, J. E. Norton, I. 1. E berg, B. C. Pinkney, Marcus Es linger and Eugene Knott 'm Sherman county togethei 4 th Jim Jones and Harold Eakin, master and assistant of Troop 362, Grass Valley and Kent. Boys passing the test were Gene Cantrall. Ixtrry Easter, Har ry Eakin, Larry Kaseberg, Ron ald Rolfe and Gene Knott who will become offical Eagle Scouts at a court of honor which will probably l>e held in February. Cloud Seeding Going Ahead; Not Proven Important advances In the tech nique for analyzing results of cloud seeding are rep o rted by three DSC physicists. They be- lieve their Improved method will yield a much better measurement of the merits of “rain making.” To date, using their technique on an analysis of cloud seeding efforts In Sherman, Gilliam, and Morrow counties, the meteorolo- gists have not found any specta cular Increases In rainfall which could be credited to the seeding. After considering the use of the modern tools for measuring the Distributing Costs rainfall—Including radar— the OSC scientists have retained the More Constantly old-fashioned s t a n d a r d rain More services are being l>er- guage as still the most reliable formed than ever before in the marketing of food products, say Indicator. To anaylze the results of the extension service economists at commercial seeding opera Oregon State college. As a result tions In the cloud trl-county area, they a growing share of the consumer’s have compared average dally pre food dollar is going into market cipitation amounts at nine offi ing charges. cial stations in the “target area” More and better packaging, with average amounts at stations washing, selection, mixing, pre along a line from Portland to Eu cooking, and preparing of pro ducts for the American table are gene. Daily precipitation figures are a continuing trend which partial- w idening spread handled statistically in a “multi ple factor formula” which includ es important new features in costs of food, say the economists. checking results. The formula They po’lnt out the farmer’s takes into account various weath share of the consumer’s dollar er factors such as the air flow this year will amount to 45 cents pattern, location of the storm cen —2 cents less than in 1952. This ter, upper air conditions and gen is the lowest since 1941. eral -precipitation pattern In the Several reasons are given by the economists for the increased northwest. With the system, therefore, demand for marketing services. they are able to say how much One of the most Important Is the precipitation have been mounting number of women, es provided each would day by nature pecially married women, now em alone in the three counties. ployed outside the home. The The three scientists, Fred W. families of working women tend Decker, John A. Day and Russell to buy more partially prepared L. Lincoln, have been working and wholly prepared foods, and on their system this year for the eat more meals in restaurants. County Official Pa Storage Prob1 Worry Fof Elevator Men a The grain storage problem may easily become the most im portant one in this county for 1954. At the moment It’s pressing on the minds of elevator mana- •ers and directors and by July -v be very serious for farmers. » meeting is to be held at Grass dey early this month at which membership will decide whe ther to build some more storage “icllltles or whether the farmers will lx? able to care for their own barley crop. At Moro a letter has been sent to members of the cooperative telling the facts of the storage problem. It Is hoped to be able to move some grain out so that a normal crop can be handled by use of the old flat houses. Wasco has Its problems also with everything full and little wheat being sold or moved by the Commodity Credit corporation which will own It by May 1. Efforts are being made by the 0OC to utilize ships docked at Astoria for storage of grain but so far this has not been made very easy. The harbor where the ships are now docked is not deep enough to hold loaded vessels and it would be necessary to find a new moorage If they were used to hold the surplus grain of the northwest. It Is possible that nature will care for the storage problem with a dry spring or a few days of hot wind. Prospects at the beginning of the year, however are favor able and It seems likely that wheat and barley will be stored outside or In bins if the crop ma terializes. Local elevator coops have al ready built storage far in excess of normal uses. The county can store almost twice the average crop and further construction Is not considered economic. UP Orders M ore Diesel Engines Placement of the largest single diesel locomotive order ever giv en one firm by a railroad was an nounced today by the Union Pa cific railroad. ih e order Is for 205 units, at a total cost of $35,- 769,410. Upon completion of delivery of the locomotives, expected to be by June 1, 1954, the railroad’s main line lietween Omaha and the Pa cific coast will be completely dleselized for through traffic said President Arthur E. Stod dard, who made the announce ment. The order, placed with the Electro-<Motlve Division of Gener al Motors Corp., comprises 190 freight and 15 passenger locomo tive units. Stoddard said. The freight locomotives alone represent a total horsepower of 332,500 and theoretically are cap able of pulling a 60 mile long lar th a t go»» to the ariner. conducted In the ert-county train of 6,270 cars. CMher long term trends that c - * September 1950. un- ivestock Industry First deliveries of the new fect the spread Iretween (arm * .„„tracts between locomotives will begin shortly growers and various after January 1, with a total of o M eet A t Corvallis prices ami retail I,rices, according Representatives the entire fa rtT ¡ S X — 40 scheduel to be placed in ser vice during the month. -estock and meat industry are an(j more people in urban cen dll'l 111UI V . .. Herman Peters came home • 11 i u n r» f a n t io p v « __ r « ______________« « i eeting at Corvallis on January ters Transportation costs are In- 1 ne from Fort Lewis and and 7, 1954 to develop a better creased as more people live far- .huJ. 1 . g tu» spent the Christmas weekend Coon Has Place orking relationship among all W c h uieiI X ’ir iS S is produced. with hs, .«rents Mr. and Mr.. gments of the industry from w wnivI1 In M erchant M arin e t.tlu« IT through consumer u» I in.in t eters The recent break in livestock Congressman Coon today an •ices, position in the cattle and nounced that competitive exam >g cycle, reduced lamb prices inations for entrance to the U. S. ?splte low sheep numbers: The Merchant Marine Academy at wt-price squeeze confronting all Kings Point, New York, will be •gments of the livestock and held throughout the country on Tom S. Reese has a letter which 5, 1882 until August 25, 1885 April 5, 1954. eat Industry, increasing costs ’ marketing services, and possi- adds something to the rather when Thomas J. Miller succeeded He points out that the Merchant e opportunities for market pro scanty information that is avail him. The office was closed Sep Marine Academy offers young motional work prompted action able about Fultonville. His let tem her 22, 1886 and pa|»ers di men between 16Vi and 21 years of Alice 8. Huck age a four year course of train ter is one written by his late rected to Biggs. ► be taken at this time. Six committees have been or- wife’s uncle, Oak Starna, August apparently received a commission ing, a college degree of bachelor inized and are participating, 31, 1884 and be prefaced It with as iM»stmaster August 3, 1911 but of science, a license as United ______. the place name Fultonville and the national archives Indicate States Merchant Marine officer, hey are consumers, r producers, estock marketing a g e n c i e s then added Wasco, Oregon. It that this order was rescinded. and a commission as Ensign, U. There was also a postoffice S. Naval Reserve. ckers, retailers and labor. Each was written to Robert Starns at called Deschutes near the mouth these groups has been asked Mjonroe, Oregon. He recommends that all boys take part because all are integ- Fultonville was a postoffice es- of that river. Its first postmaster Interested In an appointment was Rosa Burrel who started dis 1 parts of the livestock and tabllshed by James Fulton who write Immediately to Supervisor, sat industry. Because of their came across the Ix»schutes river tributing letters February 20, U. S. Merchant Marine Cadet terdependence, a n y recom- In 1882 to purchase the north 1888 and turned the work over to Corps, Department of Commerce. endalions should consider the quarter of Section 25. A. L. Ful- Fred A. Phelps December 14, Washington 25, D. C. Completed ?lfare of each—thus calling for ton bought the southeast quarter 1892 and he kept It active until applications must be received by e active partlcipatmn by a I® of adjoining Section 26 in I'own- October 14, 1893 when the depart March 15, 1954. oups ship 2 North, 15 East of Willa- ment directed papers to be sent Candidates for the academy Questlons which have been ral- mette Meridian. Later map- show to Biggs. Exact location of the must be single and In good physi d Include: Market Information ownership as residing in ('. F. Deschutes postoffice is not known cal condition. although there must be elder re i livestock and meats, our pre- Fulton. nt concepts of quality In terms The location of Fultonville Is sident« who would remember. There was a postoffice known O rfk ss VALLEY NEWS consumer demand, advertising near the site of the cabins owned id promotion relating to con- by Mrs. Walter Carlisle. A as Deschutes Bridge established Mr. and Mrs. Pat Kelly of Port imer information, cost-, state townsite was platted after a fa h in I860 but it was at what Is now d federal laws on llveswCk and Ion although no trace of official Sherar s Bridge and John Moran land spent Wednesday visiting at the home of their son In law and eat marketing, and mutual un- or unofficial map remains. One was postmaster, rstanding of the position of lot was sold, Ix>t 2, Block 1, and Mr. Reese has an older letter, daughter, Mr, and Mrs. Willard her groups. the absence of a map makes It one written in a fine practiced Rolfe Mr and Mrs. Bob Otness and The role of the extension ser- impossible to tell exactly where hand to E. Wadsworth at Star ce In this pre-conference work It was or Is—for that deed was Point, Oregon Territory on July family of Astoria spent the holi to provide facilities and per- not recorded here. 28, 1855 from a relative at Tllla- day and weekend at the home of nnel to assist, and not to pro- The first postmaster was James mook Ten cents was paid for he’^»arents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph RuatT lote or set policies. Fulton who served from January postage. T “ F t z Tom Reese Has Letter From Almost Forgotten Fultonville, Early Day Postoffice O
