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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
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Meets every secon d an-,
fourth I'hursduy in e n .ii
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M oio, O rego..
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First in deposits, first in customers . . . now
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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.
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Tuesdays of each
month
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