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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1954)
PAGE I SHERMAN COUNTY tut MM »1., Motto, uUEGOM FRIDAY, JANUARY I. 1 »•’»I Sherman County in 1953 W as Productive and h 3 I ( « < r » Û O L HI I L H U (* «<«*.» » • 1 «•< I & kt k fc 9 I ( J V U b C I U Ifc « I M < V I* ’ V < > < !< < > » L 1 jl it- •f - .r It is a custom, old and revered, and for that reason good, to select the ten biggest stories of the year as the year goes into history. There is said to be an interest in it. What Is not explained is why there should always be ten big gest stories or why the biggest ten should be comparable in im portance. Girls have taken over the fair. They did the cooking, haked the cakes, sewed the aprons and, believe it or not, found time to feed the calves. Considering their feat it seems possible that the Indian didn’t turn all work over to the squaw but that the squaw took it. Anyway the girls took over the 1953 fair in club work and the boys will have to do bet ter or find some other pursuit in which to excel. Jean Boss and Sally Fields had a pair of most excellent calves. Lloyd Henrichs brought in the biggest Hereford bull and had him posed for a picture, which he did without posing or strutting, being a dignified animal albeit a bit lethargic. The gaiety about did not impress him, nor did the sun brighten his outlook. and change policy as dramatical ly, we are all known so intimate ly by our neighbors that nothing we do is very surprising. 1953 started off with a big rain, 1.67 Inches, the biggest rain ever in a twelve hour period and it brought the somewhat under average crop year up to par in a hurry for it never quit. So for a The governor came to see us and said some nice things about us and about chib work before the audience in the grandstand and in general mingled with the crowd whose aims and ambitions he understood. Football took over then as a subject with the local high school eleven starting slow and getting letter as the linemen found that offense is the best defense. But they couldn't win the big one so lost the eastern Oregon Cham pionship in a post season game. We had our share of flood and storm, something less than our share of sun and heat, much more than our average of rain. î We chose a queen at an early June play day at the fair grounds during which men, women and children rode horses, everyone wore bright shirts and Miss Flalne Brinkert was chosen queen for the county fair because she rode her horse the best and smil ed the prettiest. Then the 4-H club boys and girls went to The Dalles wheat league show and brought home the highest prize, with Joann Boss having the top calf. That was news although not new for Sherman county clubbers have been doing it regularly. F T F K B î county where wheat Is king the year started auspiciously. Later in the month a suit was started by Charley I’owell again- Herman county doesn’t run •h to spot stories. Things hap- slowly us the wheat grows the spectacular seldom oc- ft Ù ...y And then there was harvest, and a good «me, over 1,5OO,IMM> bushels of wheat was cut from the stubbly face of Hhernian coun ty and hauleil to the w aitin g ele vators before the w arm th of the sun had <h,|wirte«l from the yellow kernels. Harvesting Is not the ,, . It 4 SH* »• st the school district of Moro to prevent the construction of a pro jected high school building. It lasted nearly all year Itefore the It is easier on the ncr\es ay. While we «He us sud- is any and are born at veg- .nt'il, drive cars at limits Sfc;- dlstrl t won a verdict in the cir cuit court and it caused argu ment?: and animousltles and was a lively subject for countless con versations. It may have caused, alst., a reform in the method of handling public affairs. Jim Jones’ boyn hchl an Eagle s«-«>ncl court at K ent In which * more b««5 s liecame Eagle scout* than before «in this county or in Oregon. latter, one of his boyn, H arold Duncan was name«l to a «*i»mmIttcc of 12 who w ill go to W ashington D. ( ’. to meet I ’rcsl- «lent Eisenhower. H L—_ - 4 ‘ With bitter word* and bruised eg. s the court ami the five-man hoard decided to pay for a port able rot k crusher which arrived early In the year and was put to work making little ones out of big ones for the Rosebush road c ist of Grass Valley. A body of citizen* met and voted another six mill tax for road purposes an 1 road work has gone on throughout the year In a wav suf ficiently satisfactory to cause lit tle comment © adventure it was In the okien day*. Th«*re are few men hlre«l ami few er yet «if the roving ones who used to sew the sacks anil fork the straw . These men are meehani«** who sehhmi tell of the threshing In fa r north Noakatebe- « a n in two feet of m o w , or of Im ikling a railroad In *ogg> P hilippine Jungle*. or cutting bananas in hum bl central A m er ica, «u- w inning a hand at ,Hiker in some Alaskan m ining canRn Such men. Hers or ijutertalners. «Io not come to ru n tl S e a s to h ar vest the wheat anym ore «o If one wants to read <»f adventure he must buy a magazine and find that edit«ir* (anil perhaps the pnntal law *) have spoiled the story. So back to farming and the soil conservation man of the year. Wallace May, who preserved his acres near Grass Valley after it looked as if they were ready to depart for the John T>ay river with the next big rainstorm. His plow bears little resemblance to the regular for he stirs the soil Instead of turning it. And so, we lives, the year, f ill ing our little place In the world and fillin g it w ell. O ur produc tion was high, enough to feed the entire state of Oregon its wheat, our children dkl w ell a t th eir ac tivities, our quarrels were normal and can he forgotten. Is
