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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1954)
o PACE t SHKRMtX COVNTY lOVRNAI*, MORO. OREGON, © FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 4 0.» 1 for games. The .tuiua in these parts. The mild weather donation of money from Frank afterno their volleyball game, gave the wheat and pasture lands Rufus Pei sonáis Medler for which they are deeply girls 1» at Rufus had bei- a chance to grow. The farmers grateful. As the groups were The young buys taller than 'the are still spreading fertilizer on .»Irs. Gec.'gn ro-i beinfc just getting organized Judge and ter luck won easily by a their wheat lands, The new Rufus gr mge master Mrs. Curt Tom helped them by Kent boys and Kent didn’t have it was colder Monday night 34 to 24 score. Harland McDonald presided at donating soiM* money also. giving just a hint that January • Mrs. Pat Macnab was hostess to the first grange meeting of the used Mike can’t always rflnain so tropl al. year, when grange met in Rufus the Community Pinochle club at coach Larry Cagle only Fox for a The old timers say that when an •O'Brien and Jimmy Thursday evening. All officers her home Monday evening. Three open winter comes along, this 13 of the game. excepting two were found pre- tables of cards were in play with quarter Williams followed by a peak season of in Mr. and Mrs. Norvel Mrs. Kenneth Fridley winning sent, sects. it takes the cold to kill off A past master pin was given by high prize. Consolation prize was coming from Oregon City sur the surplus insects. Anyway, we rised the George Foxes Sunday. the grange to Rolland Johnson gjven to Mrs. Dewey Thomas. Mrs having dinner The Williams learn t3 take the good with the and presented by the new mas- Thomas will have the club at returned to their home early in bad and not try to grumble to , ter when Rolland was escorted her home next month. Gues.s much. to the m aster’s station by the were Mrs. Afton McIntyre and the evening. „» u.v This is the second year in suc- stewards. Rolland has been mas Mrs. Ira Fridley. Late in the ev ter of Rufus for the past two ening the hostess served angel cession that Rufus school ha, had a student years and an untiring worker In food cake, ice cream and coffee, the honor of the having East-West ' B Guests spending the evening picked for grange work. All Star foo’ball »RISTON SLAUGHTERING — Curtis Neal gatekeeper was in- Saturday at the home of Mr. and Shrine Pendleton Mrs. Bill Macnab were Mr. and game to be Pla>e\ \ at 1 en Fox ‘ ° jr, Meat cutting, wrapping, sharp A S S O C IA T IO N stalled by county deputy, Mrs. George C & C Food Store, Rolland Johnson. Neal was the on Mrs. Paul Stellmacher of Albany August 2 and Mrs. George Fox - freeze. TEN BIGGEHT HTORIEH j~ 9l I 'J U *-r of Mr Grass Valley, Oregon. 47tfn A C tIV l M IM B U ly officer who codldn’t make it and Mrs. Darrel Gutzler and sons son The following Is an article by was chosen as a first team tackle. There is general agreement Gus Norwood, head of the public for the installation by the Spring- of The Dalles. Mrs. Stellmacher The boys must all he seniors that about the ten biggest stories of power association. It seems to us water grange when it came to and Mrs. Gutzler are nieces of FOR SALE: 4 beurocm house, H I B H C R II’T IO N R A T E S are chosen. George jr. has attend 3 lots, garage, 40’ x 20’ shop; 1953 although their location in Mrs. Macnab. Rufus in December. that he may make a complaint »2.96 ONE 4 EAR the list varies. We, of course, dis well justified, in any event, one Mr. and Mrs. Don Macnab are ed Rufus school all his school electric heater & range, oil The master and overseer ap days beginning in 1942. Rufus- agree or there would l>e no need heater & 265 gal. fuel tank, all that will bear some investigation pointed the following committees caring for the mall son of Mr. Wasco combined boys in order JANVARY ■>, 1951 of writing this. goes for $4750.00. Ivan Kirkelle for this year: Relief: Mrs. Rol- and Mrs. Tom Macnab as the that they could jnake up a six and review. Lists include Stalin’s death, 26tfn Moro, Oregon HOW 1‘ROHI’EROVH? land Johnson, Mrs. Will Huck babies mother is ill in The Dalles. man football team. Bob Lecht of Korean armistice, coronation of Electric power rates In the and Will Huck; Legislative: Geo. Rufus school hall teams are Wasco was their coach and he NEED AN ALL-PURPOSE CAR? No time or place In the history Queen Elizabeth, Inauguration of Pacific Northwest will be artifi Fox, Allen Tom and Gordon Har still on the losing side. Friday Then see the Willys Station of the world have a people had president Eisenhower, W h i t e cially increased if the McNary per; Agriculture: Rolland John night the Heppner boys and girls was assisted by Larry Cagle ol Wagon on display at WJLLIS so much of everything as have case, Greenlease kidnapping, Ber- dam cost allocation is allowed to son Fred Harrison and Atlee both came for basketball and vol Rufus. Al Blake, son of Mr. and Mrs. MOTOR CO. All-steel body, over the Americans in this year of la fall, Berlin food riots, PW stand. Wilson; Finance: Mrs. Harland leyball games at Rufus (45 of 1954. They have houses, cars, camps, Bermuda conference, Ad In a letter’ of protest to the McDonald, Bill O’Brien and Gor them visitors) and outplayed Ru Charles Blake of Eleek Orchard drive, plenty of carrying capacity camp, was last years choice for means safety, economy and prac electric applances, food, clothes, enauer election. Federal Power Commission the don Harper; Youth: Mrs. Rolland fus In each game. Paul Black Al couldn’t tical transportation. Also New farm machinery, nearly two- Not many of them will l>e re Northwest Public Power Associa Johnson, Mrs. Joe Drinkard and burns made 14 points an 1 was the Shrine game. thirds of the whole world’s man membered long. Stalin had to die tion states, "The $63,000,000 of Mrs. Harry Adams; Membership: high for Rufus. After the gapie play because he was working at Four wheel Drive JEEPS, PICK ufacture, leisure and a system of soon and the exact time didn't padding on McNary’s power costs Atlee Wilson, Rolland Johnson the Rufus students served sand the Rufus grain elevators for the UPS, and STATION WAGONS. social security v. hlch It hopeo matter; putting a new executive compares with the final total pow and Mrs. Bill O’Brien; Entertain wiches anil pop to all the s'u- .summer, and didn't want to give Contact WILLIS MOTOR for Wll- lys-Overland Sales, Service, Parts up his job. will retain all these things inde and reigning head Into office In er investment at Bonneville dam ment: Bill O’Brien, Harry Adams dents. It was warm last week with the United States and England of $59,507,230. Thus the proposal Mrs. Joe Morris, Mrs. George Fox finitely. Rufus made Moro work for the very little freezing temperatures and Accessories. West Columbia River Highway. The Dalles, Ore- And we are in debt for every changed little If anything; the here Is arbitrarily to add the cost and Mrs. Grace Medler; Dues: ir points when Moro lieat Rufus 23-tfe gon. White case is charged with as of a Bonneville dam Into the Mc Atlee Wilson, Mrs. Rolland John at both the volleyball and basket hit of it. If we had to pay our debts ,vo much politics as policy; the Nary power Investment.” WATKINS DEALERSHIP: Make son anil Mrs. George Macnab; ball games. The Moro girls beat LEGAL NOTICES would he broke. We are un Greenlease kidnapping was mere The governemnt’s net invest Card party: Atlee Wilson, Mrs. by 8 points and the Moro hoy- up to $500 a month and more NOTICE: The County Court of willing to give up any portion of ly a miserable crime; the Bermu ment In the McNary dam project Sam Brock and Mrs. Rolland had a 19 point lead a t the end of if you qualify for the Watkins our prosperity in order to make da conference didn’t show althou as of the December 1, 1956 com- Johnson; Drill captain will be the game. George Fox jr. was Sherman County, Oregon, has Dealership in Sherman county. t . en a token payment on out gh something might have hap pleion is estimated at $309,015,- Will Huck and the degree captain high scorer for Rufus with 17 appointed William Harry Rags Car or truck required. No dale and John L. Searcy as joint pened that will come to light 100. In its order of December 4 Mrs. Rolland Johnson. debt. money required. Write J. R. points. After the game the Rufus executors of the estate of WIL We are like a hank stockhohler later; Adenauer's election assur the Federal Power Commission Watkins Company, 137 Dexter Mrs. William O’Brien, chair students treated the Moro stu LIAM II. RAGSDALE, Deceased. who owes the bank. We won t pa ed the west that Germans prefer allocated $283.201,600 or 92% to man of the Home E< club said the dents with sandwiches and pop. Ave., Seattle 9, Wash. 6-llc All persons having claims against and no one can make us. We It to Russia anil was a happy be repaid by electric power con club will put on a potluck dinner The Rufus grade school hoys said estate are required to pre ITATE WIDE PAINT CO. com !i. it* the bank won’t go broke. mark along a long road. sumers. at the grange hall at 6:30 p. m. and girls went to Kent Friday sent them with proper vouchers plete painting and decorating I'ct Is it prosperity? What seems to is» the most Im ‘‘Our concern is in regard to Thursday for their families service, spray or brush Phone to the undersigned executors at portant development of the year the unfair allocation of 97V^% There will be an officers meet- J977 or 5293, 1205 E. 12th St. the office of the County Clerk, I.G.O.F. M o ro Is x lg e N o . 113 was the adaption of atomic ener of McNary’s joint costs to power” ing at the grange hall Monday, Vern Campell and Jack Null, Sherman County Court House, IT. . M PROGRAM gy to Industrial use. That might said Gus Norwood, executive se January 18 at 7:30 p. m. There M-ets 1st and 3rd t a W / ’ , The Dalles, Oregon 38tfn Moro, Oregon, within six months Tuesdays il> l.O.O.F. , well effect human lives from now cretary of the Northwest Public will be no regular grange meeting hall. Transient and ii 'I- le president’s farm program WANTED: HOUSEWIVES • Ad from December 18, 1953. “The power January 21 on account of other will probably not be adpoted In on to the end of time, at least Power Association. dress advertising postcards, visiting brothers are £ . WILLIAM HARRY RAGSDALE long after the Whites an.I Green- house Is automatically allocated things coming up for the mem this political ycir altho It Is an Must have good handwriting. cordially Invited «£•’ Executor acceptable -tart toward curing leases and Adenauers have been 100% to power while the locks bers. UNDO, Watertown, Mass. JOHN L. SEACY, Executor John E. DeMoss, N.G « is a 100% navigation cost. But A letter of thanks was received some of the Ills that have grown forgotten. 9-13p PATTERSON, BUSH, & BRAD « rotary Leo W atk.ns. The Berlin riots and Hie un the joint facilities at McNary to by the grange from Mrs. Richie up under the present farm pro LEY, Attorneys for Executors. timely end of Berla may give an tals over $140 million including Dingle for the poinsetta plant gram. In the co i a of time it 7-1 lc WANTED: Housework and iron Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. I l f i ing. Phone Moro 594. lip could get rid of the huge urplUS- indication of some Individual fish ladders, reservoir lands, rail sent Richie at Christmas time. Meets 2r.d and 4th es but It would he a ow pro thinking behind the iron curtain road, highway and utility relo Richie was a faithful grange Tuesilays of each h i : > R |\(. N O T IC E <>F P I N A L WANTED:. Man or woman to call and he important as guide posts. cations, spillway dam, adminis worker up until he suffered a cess. month. Viamng Notice is hereby given that on farmers in Sherman county.« A sliding parity prl «■ won d The Korean armistice is a his tration buildings and all the in stroke several years ago. He has members welcome Admlnistra- Leonard Maurus Jr., Some making over $50 a day. tend to reduce planting hut a toric landmark also liecause It cidentals. Electric consumers are lieen bedfast ever since, and Is Mollie McLachlan tor of the Estate of Arthur W. Full or part time. Write or parity price of 75 pe» cell would, brought some reason to our con expected to pay 97Mf% of such now in the Wasco county hospi N O Spencer, Deceased, has filed in wire for free proposition. Me- costs at McNary whereas the same tal. Mrs. Dingle said other pati ielen Martin. Set in normal times, be o gh en u gh flict with Russia. Court of the State of the County Ness Co., Dept. B. PO Box 14, Start of electric production at commission ordered 50% for Bon ents enjoyed the plant also. to keep wheat planting to high Oregon for Sherman County, his Bayshore Sta., Oakland 23, Cal- The grange plans on seeing E u re k a I, « m u í * No. 1- I A. •4 A-*» Final Account, and^the Court has for any great reduction In total McNary «lam might well be of neville and zero percent at Fort Meets vi. the La a.»«« nia ll-12p more Importance to the human Peck. TWA uses 40%. We think about indirect lighting for the wheat crop. 3rd Thursday evening* set the 12th day of February, The Elsnehower p*<> a a i to race than the inauguration of a FPU should reopen this subject hall. There’s too much glare with 1951, at 10:00 o'clock a. m., in the FOR SALE: Used John Deere 55 ea. n inonu: Visitiez Insulate" the huge «uupd'i es so president or a queen an«, certainly and conduct public hearings in the lights they now have. offke of the County Clerk of members cord .».I• combine, $2250, level land, has the huge surpluses In many the Pacific Northwest. For the lecturer’s hour Mrs. hey would not he a* fac i n the vitiMl to meet wifi Sherman County, Oregon, in the cut 3500 A., stored in shed. Can "Even if the Bonneville formu Harry Adams had all tell how market would he very difficult parts of the world, and assur Howard Ross, W. M. County Courthouse at Moro, Ore be seen by appointment. ance that it is possible for the la of 50% allocation to power he gov- they spent their Christmas vaca t , accomplish although Pinkerton, Secretary gon, as the time and place for Used D-2 Caterpillar tractor, human race to feed itself in spi’e were applied, MJcNary power farmers tion and what New Years resolu eminent might do It if settlement of said accounting motor completely overhauled would reduce acreage enough to of Increased numbers. Is of prime would lie no bargain. Eventually tions they made. B e th le h e m » l».»|ner No. *1. O E.8 and for hearing objections to the In shop, remainder overhauled it would force a rate Increase. W. B. Simmons visited grange make eventual reduction of sur importance. Meets every second an . same, if any. last year, $2450. The added artificial Increase is during the supper hour, which pluses possible. fourth Thursday in ea. n LEONARD MAURUS JR. Used 4-bottom Case plow, what Is unfair.” I n less some sort of agreement S A t 'C E F O R T H E G O O H E the members partook of as soon month; visiting member* Administrator spring release hitch, $300. between farmers and the govern as the meeting was over. invited. Moro. Oieg«>. J. Tracy Barton INTERSTATE TRACTOR CO. NOTICE OF ment. as holder of surpluses, Is The Campfire and Bluebird Mary O. Coons, W. M 'I lie Dalles, Oregon A New York member of con 9-12c The Dalles, Oregon lip BANG'S CONTROL MEETING groups met for their first meeting found there will come a time gress has suggested that when Gwen Ross, Secretary Attorney for the Estate NOTICE is hereby given that since the holidays. The Campfire when politics will demand that and if Hawaii Is admitted to the surpluses he put on the market. union as a state It he given less a public hearing will lx* held at girls will hold another candy sale That would mean an entire col than two senators because it has 2:30 P. M. on Wednesday, Fel>- next Wednesday. They are also ruary 3, 1954. in the court house planning a surprise for their mo lapse of prices. A major difficulty but half a million residents. aliout having a billion bushels of That Is In keeping with the at Moro, Oregon, by the County thers in February. The girls were w guess ___ the number of wheat is how to get it used with theory followed by the voters of Court for Sherman County, Ore asked to 0„ t a deck the guardian out hurting future production Oregon when in November 1952 gon, fur the purpose of determin- Actually Elsenhower, as spok they voted for a constitutional ing whether compulsory testing was holding. Carolyn Tom won esman for government, is making amendment that based represen- of l»eef cattle for the control of the prize—a miniature Campfire a very good proposal. The reduc tatlon In the state legislature <n Bang’s disease and other com girl doll. A balloon relay race and municable diseases in Sherman twenty questions was played. tion would not l>e more than five population. The Bluebirds started making percent a year and that only af Next step would undoubtedly county shall be enforced. C. A. Tom, a bluebird sewing card, in order ter another year of full parity, he to base senatorial membership County Judge to test the sewing ability of the is assumed that acreage controls In the United States entirely on Donald Martin girls for future projects. Mrs. would continue as under this population which would give County Commissioner William Macnab assisted Mrs. R. program If the government Is Oregon one senator, California Kenneth Sather U. Bishop in the absence of Mrs. willing to hold the sack full of seven mil two blocks of western County Commissioner Morris Burnett. surplus until the wheat growers ( >s w iH|ld ,M > h„n|M. | together 111213c f(>ur gtaleg WOuld share a The group of girls received a have gotten ---- used . to .»„.uin produ iiw ing no more than the market will ab senator. Such a movement would _ sorb it is a good break for farm to all practl al purposes put the « west outside the United States in It Is not assumed that the gov all but geography. This comes from the growth of ernment would merely hold the wheat, hut would make every ef democracy In government be fort to sell it abroad as needs cause of the new deal which was arose and markets were available basically opp«»st*«l to the republi can or federal form of govern to us. As for this northwest wheat ment that has prevailed since the Pure belt. The war-time farm program constitution was adopted. by establishing Inflexible price denu eraev. it Is agreed by poll- supporta Increased the competi tlcal philosophers, is a form of tion northwest wheat growers government as dangerous as had so that our market Is a local monarchy and one less likely to one only. Furthermore It stopped succeed for any length of time, marketing of wheat so that no Democracy places little limitation one Is Interested In selling it. M « on the avarice of citizens and can probably raise wheat ehea|>- soon iMH'omes mob rule. This nation Is no, a democracy; «*)• than i ni tiie lit,I«’ 1 • acre farms, but in order to compete It is a republic. For It has been the content Ion of against them we will have to 21 cents a bushel have a free market without rigid tin sc who favor the federal plan as Little os for representation in the state price support. You Can STO RE G R A IN an<i Can Get a If a free market Is too high a legislature that the system that Get a Butler Galvanlged, price to pay to regain our share worked so well In the federal of the market we might g Hie government wouhl work ecjually All-Purpose FA R M B U IL D IN G GOVERNMENT IOAN That theory the production of sheep or attle. well for the state If you need additional Under tha Dept. of Agriculture’» has never been presented to the facilities to store your •torage plan, you can get 1 M M E D IA T B voters of Oregon. It diould Is* productftn of: W H A T, NO SUN SE N ? STO R A G E that can aave you enough to and perhaps will I*. pay for • targe part or all your inveat» W H IA T COSN Somewhere In the vast jour The opposing contention that ment in your Butler Building. After grain Olintles are no, sovereign, as arc OATS « A S U T « Y I nalistic outpouring that Is pub la marketed, you can ahelter farm Imple ORAIN SORGHUMS state«. Is a feeble one. I, Is based ments. feed, hay, teed, etc. W idths: 20 j lished every month we read that MAN U TS SOYSIANS on a technicality. Actually coun 24 28 32 ’, 36 40 50 ’, 60 ’, TO ’ «nd the sale of vodka Is Increasing DRIIO M A N S ties arc ’overnnicnts; they repre wider; lengths variable. Inquira today rapidly all over the country. M U D MAS RICO enti- S p ecia l m ap »IO <»nr sow n. Telephone lines above and below the streets of your com The reason Is no,, apparently, en, nr« O they are actual their COTTONSKO FLAX Built Better . . . To Last Longer that It Is a foreign drink or that ties with governments of by the munity are charted on special maps. When delicate instruments detect trouble, these maps drinking It gives understanding own Thev were created help locate buried cables, conduits, manholes and the like . . . and repair crews can get on of tho.e distant people, the Rus people and by higher government ------ORDER NOW FOR KARIY OILIVIRT— sians. I, could ¡perhaps give an in much the same manner as are the job fast. Large cities need thousands of these maps. And they're an important part of tha HALLIDIE MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT CO The creation of Wasco understanding of how hard Is ihe states. planning that has helped us bring you good service, reliable service, at the lowest possible 15 Li S. E. I iilon A ve. I*«»» tl.n o l 14, Ore». Phone F illm o re 7 491 life of those doomed to vodka county In 1854 by the territorial legislature was no, greatly dis Wm. (Bill) Kelvin ° drinking and assist Iri bringing cost Pacific Telephone w orks to m ake your telephone a bigger value every day. some respect for the people we similar from the creation of the 1731 Ullh The Ibdles, I'honr 9«M3 state of Oregon by the congress are told are our enemies. The reason, Instead, is that S hrriitatt iCiuititu -iluurual vodka has little effect on the breath; that any mixer or fruit I'ublisticd Every Friday a t juice charms away the boozy Moro, Oregon odor so associated with our native I . «litui intoxicants and leaves one smell (illas !.. I ì i i h I» ing like a rose although unable to ih I c l * * * lilB tU r Bt Ur <1 »» nt ■ m c M o oro. Act Oretron. coder distinguish a rose from a raw o f M on ti S. IM7R. hamburger. COUNTY PAPER Ladies, who know the advan 4>I I I» 14 tage of smelling sweet, adore it, said the writer and men can be NEW SPAPER stiff without stinking. Great is the invention of potato whiskey. p u B L IS H E R S This must he the final blow to association the sen-sen Industry which In another day gave a certain toler ance to the pie-eyed although it came to add assurance to suspi n a t io n a l e d it o r ia l cions of inebriety. In 1859. An appeal has just been filed to the supreme court asking a hearing on the decision in Marion county that declared the 1952 amendment constitutional. It is based on the provisions that make apportionment a function of the executive and judicial branches of government instead of the leg- Islative. It is, and should remain, a legislative function. The appeal might well lie based on the lack of adherence to the federal sys tem of government which each state is guaranteed. People are more Interested in good government than In self government just as they are more interested in good cooks than in cooking themselves. WANT ADS » l# y BANK YOUR GRAIN STEEL BUILDINGS YOU ’J
