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Sixty-Sixth Year No. 9
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By Giles L. French
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fax Man of the Yeai
Moro, Oregon Frida > January 1. 1954
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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.
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Wealth Is often suspected of
being the father of arrogance.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 -
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September 1950. un-
ivestock Industry
First deliveries of the new
fect the spread Iretween (arm
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.„„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
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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
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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.
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Tom Reese Has Letter From Almost
Forgotten Fultonville, Early Day Postoffice
O