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’ -, PAGE 2 SHERMAN COUNTY] ><>• KN'AL, MORO, OREGON, FRIDAY, FERRI ARY 1», 1954 and steady players.. For the last and Mrs. James Maddox who took ited Elmer Barzee at Moro recent few games It certainly would en home the consolation prize. Mrs. ly and Miss Vivian Trounce courage the boys for more par But all those things are in the Fridley was a guest, Mrs. Maddox past. Foreign nations do not want The Tuesday bridge club met is a member now living in The spent the same afternoon with ents and friends to turn out. The our wheat; they grow their own. with Mrs. Harry Van Gilder last Dalles but had come up for the Mrs. Elizabeth Schaeffer of Moro. schedule is February 19 at Rufus The Legion hall redcorating has basketball and volleyball, Febru Those who do buy can find cheap week. Guests for the afternoon party. been completed and Reelings are ary 26 Heppner here with both er wheat. Domestic consumption were Mrs. Idah Everett and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Sargent vis- again being held there. games, February 27 Rufus at has gone down because no one W. A. Nisbet, Club members at Mr. and Mrs. Tom Striker help Wasco both teams playing. Let’s has tried to keep it up. Govern tending were Mrs. Harley Dutton, ed their great grandson, Dick, cel see good crowds and plenty of ment bins, private bins, old Mrs. Hugh White, Mrs. E. H. barns are full of wheat and anoth Watkins, Mrs. Hildred Zell, Mrs. MAN WANTED: To own and op ebrate his third birthday Febru cheering. er good crop is growing. L. P. Haven and Mrs. George erate Watkins business in near ary 8 by having dinner at the Benson gave the dairymen an Harris. High score for the after by locality. Hundreds of fam home of Dick's parents, Mr. and other year to try to reduce gov noon was held by Mrs. Harris. ilies needing service on famed Mrs. David Richelderfer. Miss Margaret Howell spent a ernment purchases of butter. Mrs. Dewey Thomas was host Watkins Products, now Nation They didn’t do it. Now the gov ess to her Thursday evening ally Advertised. Must be over week with her grandparents Mr. ernment owns 270,000,000 pounds bridge club recently. Bridge was 21 and have car. For Informa and Mrs. Tom Jacobson. She im Optometrist of butter, most of it getting worth played following a dessert sup tion write J. R. Watkins Com mediately left after arriving home less rapidly. The longer butter is per by Mrs. Pat Macnab, Mrs. Da pany, 137 Dexter Avenue, Seat for a weeks visit at Kent with her withheld from the market be vid Richelderfer, Mrs. A1 Dor- tle 9, Washington. 16-21c great grandfather, George How 405 B. 2nd SL cause of its high price the more maier, Mrs. Chet Coats, Mrs. John FOR SALE: Flynn Barley. Peetz ell and family. The Wasco high school basket families will get the habit of us Foss, Mrs. Gerald Nisbet, Mrs. Brothers Ranch, Tygh Valley, ball team Is steadily Improving (Across from Stadleman- ing oleomargerine. Competition Stuart Macnab, and Mrs. Pete Oregon. Call 2254 or 2252 Wam and playing some really good Bonn Hardware) LAW S A R E M ADE TO OFFICI ' i in ' i t FAFEF is on a price basis more than on Macnab. High and low scores ic. 16-17c games. While with not many wins RE BROKEN were held by Mrs. Pat Macnab a quality basis although oleo Phone 53Ö2 The Dalles, Ore. M BM-ltIRTION RATKM SALE: Two 3-yr old regis parents may be proud that the It is an old saying that laws makers declare there is as much and Mrs. Stuart Macnab, respec FOR tered Hereford bulls. Bernard boys are fine sports, good losers •INF YEAR «-<* are made to be broken and thaf food value in their product as in tively. Martin, Grass Valley Ph. 419. Mrs. Paul Patrick entertained butter. they are expected to be broken I i BKI %R1 i'' HIM 16-8p As had as farmers want to get the Tillicum club at her home otherwise no penalties would be WANTED: Man or woman to call high prices for what they raise, recently with a 1:30 dessert incorporated into them. on farmers in Sherman county. CHALLENGE But any law Is an expression it is not likely that a majority of luncheon followed by bridge play Some making over $50 a day. of rather general opinion. Cir them expect the government to ed by Mesdames Bill Nisbet, Anna Full or part time. W tite or wire The case of Powell and others cumstances alter the commission continue to buy and store food Lee, Sam Brock, Lee Dehler, L. L. for free proposition. McNess Co. Funk, Trace Fields, George Har against the Moro school district of thq offense. Even the law products that cannot be sold. Dept. B, P. O. Box 14, Bayshore, For this part of the wheat belt ris, Harry Van Gilder, and the has been decided in favor of the against murder isn’t enforced Sta., Oakland 23, Calif. 16-17p district in the circuit court. The half the time. It is against the the acreage reduction program prize winners Mrs. Vernon Van plaintiffs have until March 15 to law to kill another, yes, but—and is a path hack to sheep herding. Gilder who held high, Mrs. Ira FOR SALE: 75-100 tons baled alfalfa and barley hay, $20.00 appeal to the supreme court. the jury looks it over and deter As long as the wheat price is Fridley with the traveling prize a ton on ranch. Also few tons What action will be taken, if mines the seriousness of the high enough to stimulate produc Compana barley seed (drouth any, Is not known to this news- crime. A jury itself is an indica tion in the big agricultural states NOTICE OF BID Notice is hereby given that the resistant) $75.00 per ton. Ben tion that laws are made to lie the northwest cannot ship wheat paper. Taylor, Antelope 15-18p However, the plaintiffs have of broken and juries are to decide east at all. We must export it. Sherman County Fair Board will ten said that their objection to whether or no the law shall be Canada's price is $1.65. Australia’s accept bids for one or more of FOR SALE: Home consisting of is no more. Another acreage re the eating concessions at the the bond issue for a new high enforced. two lots, 3 bedroom house. Rea school building to be built by the Rules are made to be broken, duction will certainly be larger Sherman County Fair to be held sonable. Terms. Mr. and Mrs. September 9 to 12. All bids must Moro district was that it was too. Any administrator of any than the nationwide 20 percent Clair Axtell, Moro. 15c planned to be large enough for law knows that his job is to per and the countywide 33 percent. be in writing and be mailed or LOST: Hereford heifer, 11 months We had better take three-quar delivered to the Secretary not lat all the secondary pupils of the form his duties within the broad old, weighs 650 pounds, tatooed county and was to be paid for by intent of the law and not be a ters the price for a full crop than er than April 1, 1954. 43 each ear, with horns, from The Sherman County Fair Board the taxpayers of only one district. martinet about It. If he sticks a full price for half a crop. Hay Canyon place Ernest Mr. Benson Is staying by his reserves the right to refuse any That was not considered a suffi to the letter of the law he Is a Woods Phon^ 671, Moro. 15c or all bids. cient argument by the voters al nuisance that the people will re guns as a brave man should. It Dated February 14, 1954. your old equipment TAKEN UP: White faced heifer though it was not without reason. move as soon as they can. may t>e that his program is not calf, underbit on left ear, It now seems to be a proper No one can write a law' that the eventual answer to the farm weight about 350. Came about time for another bit of action on fits every case it covers; no one surplus problem. We are very NOTICE TO ( ’REDITORH O N A BRAND NEW All persons having claims November, at my ranch 8 miles the school front and the men who wise in governmental experience certain, however, that when and against the Estate of Jesse N. east of Grass Valley. Dean Rey objected to the new school built expects It to he done. Many laws if It is solved there will be price nolds, Grass Valley, Ore. 15-16c by one district might well support are on the books only for the hard competition involved. Until there Landry, deceased, are hereby it, if Indeed, not lead it. Another cases, the deliberate offenses. Is the farmers who have big acre notified to present them in pro NEED AN ALL-PURPOSE CAR? vote on high school consolidation As long as an offender doesn’t ages, big machinery, efficient man per form to the undersigned, the Then see the Wlllys Station with a new county high school break the law with malice afore agement will get no benefit from duly appointed, qualified and act Wagon on display at WIILLIS would l»e timely. thought he draws a smaller penal the lower production costa they ing executrix of the Last Will MOTOR CO. All-steel body, over and Testament of Jesse N. Landry, The county has a total valua ty or none at all. enjoy. deceased, at the office of T. Les drive, plenty of carrying capacity tion of $10,407,508. Major school It Is expected that . laws and ter Johnson, attorney at law, means safety, economy and prac And here’» e »acre»: The more district valuation is Kufus, $1,- rules will be observed by their W e've 90» Ouf «redin* botch»» on Also New Wasco, Oregon, within six months tical transportation. 010,402; Wasco $2,081,213; Moro Intent, not by their letter; it is used equipment w e've go» on our end w e're i»<h»n' for »eliön. So don'» There seems to be no particular from the date of this notice, to- Four wheel Drive JEEPS, PICK $2,028,664; Grass Valley $1,780,• expected that administrators will reason for suppressing many of m itt «hi» chenco «o ge» yourself e Io» »he le u enxiou» we ere »o »rede. UPS, and STATION WAGONS. 153; Kent $1,000,700. I here is use good judgment In enforce the desires written in for the wit: February 12, 1954. brend new N ew Hollend Beier or Contact WILLIS MOTOR for Wll- So get w» before the re»» of the Eva Landry plenty of valuation to build a good ment. We would all be In jail If Oregon Journal contest. Perhaps Forego Herve*»er •» »he lowe»» ce»H crowd doe» ” while w e're »»»II feel Executrix lys-Overland Sales, Service, Parts school building without high tax all the rules and laws were en they are merely suppressed by outlay po»»>ble. You'll be emeeed and Accessories. West Columbia ing hberel. Here'» one time when T. Lester Johnson, levies. Any one of the districts forced In full strength. People are fear or Inertia. when you f«nd ou» how much w e 'll River Highway. The Dalles, Ore it'», ’’Fir»» come, be»» »erved." Attorney for Executrix 16-9c gon. could do It and still have smaller wiser than legislators or admin ellow you on your old equipment. • 23-tfc school taxes than most of the dis istrators and they only stand for ITATE WIDE PAINT CO. com tricts of the state. so much pushing around. CALL THIS NUMBER NOW plete painting and decorating If Sherman county is to have service, spray or brush Phone an acceptable school, high school 3977 or 5293, 1205 E. 12th St. that is, it must put Its small en MR. BENSON Vern Campell and Jack Null, rollment together. That Is the Regardless of what anyone may The Dalles, Oregon 38tfn trend of the times. see i t n o w a t y o u r a u t h o r iz e d Pro|>erty owners may have re think of Ezra Benson’s ideas FOR SALE: or trade for hard duced incomes for a time because about the farm program everyone freeze cabinet, 1935 Chev. flat ew olland d e a le r has to admit that he is a man. of reduced acreages permitted for bed truck. Eugene C. Eaton, He Is not a coward or a politician. wheat. It is doubtful if school He Is a man who has faith In his Rufus, Ore. P.O. Box 54 14-6c costs can be reduced in the same own CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING — ideas and Isn't afraid to pur proportion. The county hires far Meat cutting, wrapping, sharp too many teachers, especially in sue them. Flexible price supports have freeze. C & C Food Store, high school, 12 fulltime teachers Sales Service - Parts Grass Valley, Oregon. 47tfn Instruct about 100 pupils for an a tough row to hoe In the con gress because farmers are doubt FOR SALE: 4 bedroom house, Case - Calkins - New Holland - New Idea average of eight pupils |>er teach 3 lots, garage, 40* x 20* shop; er. Half of the teachers could do ful of them. 'They want guaran Moro, Oregon electric heater A range, oil the Job lietter and eight or nine teed prices for the very good KENTUCKY heater A 265 gal. fuel tank, all THE DALLES 2292 could give a much more complete reason that prices of what they goes for $4750.00. Ivan Kirkelle STRAIGHT course for the secondary pupils buy are still high and they want to make a profit. There Is good Moro, Oregon 26tfn of the county. BOURBON and sufficient reason why farmers W H IS K E Y should l»e nervous. Based on experience before the T H E R E W IL L RE SPR IN G end of the war and especially be Nature, capricious though she fore the end of the exporting pro is, is not misleading us with these gram to foreign nations not recov T H I S W H I S K E Y I S 4 Y E A R S O L D • 8 6 P R O O F warmer days that melt the re ered from war, it appears safe T H E H I L L A N O H I L L C O M P A N Y , L O U I S V I L L E . K Y. maining snow slightly before tin* frost of night settles down to slow the process again. Nature is being bountiful anil sending the kind of weather that has been requested for many, many years. A warm, wet fall, lasting until mid-January, a deep snow that settles into the unfro zen ground as easily as rain and a bit of winter to make spring more enjoyable. And soon, the spring will 1 m » here. One of these nights there will come a rattle from the limbs of the bare trees and a gust of wind will shake the house as in warning. The native will know from his bed that the Chinook has come, that country wide an nouncer of spring. Because the ground has been ^lirrm .tn (Cmuitu Ho urteil warm under Its blanket of snow the grass will show green on the Published Every I m l a y at hillsides almost immediately and Moro, Oregon the little yellow buttercups will (.îles I,. French E d ito r blossom on the south slopes to > ,, n ti »« »ec» nil el«»« m a tU r at tha proclaim as with a golden seal i »««(flea at M »w . Oranen, under A rt that spring is here. , C o n v ita of March 3, IH79. Women will rake the yards and men will fret to get into the n ew spa per fields and small boys will find the cache of marbles laid aside PUBLISHERS last summer. The sun will grad ^ ^ A S S O C IA T IO N ually warm the back more than the wind can chill. It will be spring again. The earth will make the plants to grow and nature will N A T IO N A L E D I T O R I A L . speed the blood of animals and A S S O C IÂ T L O N man will have bis hoi>es restored. to ask for rigid price supports. WASCO NEWS WANT ADS <5 Dr. Otis G. Perkins Ttodci TRADE IN N ew H olland FOR AS LOW AS S1800 BEST! MORO 792 N A H TOM’S WELDING SHOP Muller FARM EQUIPMENT Oregon's Bank Q^BBANCHES.’ TO SERVE YOU! E u re k a No. I M A . D . J f t A . * Meets u». Ute lot a.tu aiu I'hutoday evening» «Mt O OMM«Uk. V MlttOd memt>ers cord any «. »” ed to m«*ei * itn •»- '//fc Z v ' Howard Roes, W. M II. 11 Pinkerton. Secretary Bethlehem % tuipter >Nu. .8. o .t k s Meets every secon d an-, fourth I'hursduy in e n .ii month, visitin g m em be. * invited M oio, O rego.. Hetty Christianson, W.M. First in deposits, first in customers . . . now your First National is the greatest bank in come drive a '5 4 Elsie Jones, Secretary Moro IdMlge No. lid Meets 1st snd 3rd Tuesdays it, l.O.O.F. hail. Tiansirnt and visiting brothers are cordially Invited q John E. DeMoes, N G ».»v W atlulis. Secretary Lupine Rebekah Iswlgr No. Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month Visiting niem t*ers wenunw- Althea Burnet N .G . .«den Martin. Sec. 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Wherever you go in Ore gon, there s a First National branch nearby, ready with the same efficient service and friendly aseistanee. So . . . bank First National . . . where con venience and service are always ftn tl I# SHERMAN COUNTY BRANCH T N A T IO N A L B A N K u n i u f t o o s io o n r o o f î H i s * Moahw Fadaral Daaatlt iMwaaca Caraarrtiae o
