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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.
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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.
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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-
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And then there was harvest,
and a good «me, over
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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
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It
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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.
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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
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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.
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