Sherman County journal., July 30, 1954, Image 1

Sherman Œmtttfy journal
Moro, Oregon
Sixtv-Sixth Year No. 39
T hese
T h in g s
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N ote
By Giles L. French
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.»An
U. S. Senate is now giving Is to
elect men who don’t talk so
much.
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The Hood River News wisely
pointed out that newspapers were
responsible for the Neuberger
myth and would have to learn
and tell the truth about his re­
cord In order to correctly inform
readers.
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One must »be an abject creature
of habit to send out recipes for
cooling drinks this year.
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Secondary Unit
For Fine Rock
Production Asked
Minutes of a meeting of the
county court and the five man
road hoard resulted in the deci­
sion set forth below.
Joint meeting of the Sherman
County Road Advisory
board
with the Sherman County Court.
Members present, County Court:
^
K c A,1Tr ; h D o n 3 M a r iin
Advisory Board:
Charles Kuy-
pers, Chairman, Albert Kaseberg,
Bill Holmes, Harold Eakin and
Russell Belshee, secretary.
Purpose of meeting:
To consider purchasing a Sec-
.
crusher
nr dry Lru8her
It was agreed unanimously by
the 5-man advisory board to ad­
vise the Sherman county court
to purchase a triple roll crusher
from the Feenaughty Machinery
Company for $24,027.00. The rea­
son for this decision is to get
fine rock where needed, also the
capacity of the present crusher
«»•> ■» increasoil, an,I more cru
shed dock can be made for the
same amount of money 6pent un-
der the prescnt
present set
set up
up. TJie secon-
1
will enable the
county 10 crush 011 rock-
The Sherman County Court
moved and seconded that the
County Court
follow
the advise
$
advisory
board
'
Motion carried unanimously.
Respectfully submitted,
Russell Belshee
F ri<! .
I , U , < >11 iciul l ’upet
. .inly 30, 1954
Utility Valuation Four Turks Here To final Vote On
24 3 -5 9
Drops; So Does See How Shorwoo
County Agent Finds Agricultural Items
About \arious Mutters Affecting Farming
Countians Farm
Harley harvest got under way bushel on new wheat. The insec­
in good order last week. Joe HU- ticide is sprayed on the wheat
derbrand reported 153 ton har- as it leaves the bin prior to going
Four employees of the Turkish
vested on 159 acres of Winter up the leg. Anyone thinking of
ministry of agriculture got an
Club Barley. The barley ran 46 the use of this material should
Utility valuations for Sherman insight into Sherman county
pounds per bushel test weight, observe the methods used by county have lieen received by farming Thursday, reports Coun-
Paulen Kaseberg cut 56 ton of the.-e folks.
Clair Balzer, assessor. .T his will ty Aegtn T. W. Thompson,
winter barley on 30 acres. This
The establishment of a Plant permit work on computing tax-
The visitors, who are all man­
barley was on alfalfa ground next cHnic at o s c gives et)Untv folks es as all budgets are in.
With agers of large-scale government
to the house where one crop was an opportunity to determine dis- both valuations and budgets on farms in Turkey, will be in
taken off since plowing up the ease and Insect problem s quicker, hand the assessing job is now Oregon from Ju ly 25 to A ugust 7.
alfalfa stand.
Folks having disease or insect figuring.
They are seeking information on
Sherman county farmers did problems should contact this of-
Valuation of utilities is set by large »iterations on American
not turn out as last year for the fice and in time if nee, ed contact the state tax commission.
'Phe farms, especially those producing
marketing quota vote July 23rd. will be made with the Plant Clinic, value has dropped this year from wheat, livestock, vegetables and
Only about half as many voted Identification and control mca- $1,562,078 to $1,500,713,
Valua- seed products. During their Ore-
this year as last.
sure will lie extended. This is one tion of property within the coun- gon visit, they are scheduled for
Bill Holmes, Joe Peters, Tracy of the service* available from ty also dropped from $8,845,430 to stops in »Malheur, Baker, Deschu-
Fields, and Leland Medler spray­ your Land Grant college and $8.207,530.
tew, Sherman, Umatilla and Jef-
ed sagebrush with 2,4-D by plane every effort will be made to help
Changes in major utilities are: Person counties.
in May. The state highway folks you with your particular prob­ 1953, Union Pacific $1,208.375;
In Sherman county, their stops
under the direction of Clyde Gill- lems.
1951, $1,145,061; 1953 Pacific Tele- included the L. P. Haven and
mor have sprayed Sherar’s grade
phone & Telegraph $162,638; 1954 Harold Eakin farms. Inspection
and Cottonwood canyon for sage­
$157,852; 1953 Pacific Power & was made of harvest and general
brush along the road lied.
Light $146,962; 1951 $154,622; 1953 w heat production operations on
Grass Valley Grain Growers Mrs. Josephine May
Maryhill Ferry $4510; 1954 $3901; the Haven ranch, livestock and
have demonstrated the use of
1953 Rufus Water Co., $1800; 1954 livestock equipment and prac-
Funeral
Today
CMU, ‘ a newer soil sterilant
$1692; Oregon Trunk $8210; 1954 tices were observed on the Eakin
Mrs. Andrew May (Josephine) $7905.
ranch.
around elevators at .Grass, Bour­
bon and Kent. The immediate died Monday night, July 26 in a
The real property valuation is
Accompanying the group are
area around the warhouses was rest home in Vancouver, Wash., $7,067,820 and the personal is translators, a technical consultant,
sprayed las, December. CMU Is the result of a stroke suffered in $1,143,950. The local valuation is and J. C. Moore, Oregon State col-
especially effective for grass con- June She was living with her $8,207,530 and the utility valua- lege extension conservation spe-
trol and should be used at about son. Clifford uhtil moved to the tion $1,500,743 for a total of clalist.
40 to 60 pounds per acre.
The home w'hile his house was re- $9,708,273 a drop from $10,407,508
Another group of 16 from Tur-
Grass Valley Grain Growers have modeled.
last year.
key will tour other parts of Ore-
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gon from August 2 to 20. That
done a go<xl j°b in furnishing a
Mrs. May was l>orn Jo se p h in e _____________
group will concentrate on feed
fire guard around their buildings. pOurron of French parentage, on UP CHANGES USE OF
During the recent educational November 1, 1874 and was mar- MAIN LINE TRAIN
resources and livestock manage-
meeting on acreage allotments pied to Andy May in Kansas in
Passenger service was discon- ment that might be applied in
early cutting of grain hay was 1897. In 1904 they came to Sher- tlnued this week on Union Pacl- Turkey,
advocated. Grain hay cut imme- man county where they lived un-
trains No.. 26 and No. 25.,
diately following heading, prior til his death.
which will hereafter carry no Arstill-M onroe Co.
to bloom stage is recommended. Surviving are three sons, Olif- coaches. New train numbers will
Controlled trials have shown that for(i of Vancouver, Wash., Frank be 125 westbound and 126 east- Sold to Chipmans
at this period of growth maxi- of Dufur and Lewis of Hermiston bound. The same schedules will
mum protein and forage yield oc- antj one brother, Charley Pourron be maintain«! and the same
Wade Arstill, who has been
cur for a balanced grain hay to of Portland,
purpose of owner of the Arstill-Monroe Pon-
stops made for
lie fed to livestock.
The moral of the story might
be one can get the same food
value by hauling half as much
bay comparing this stage with cemetery.
Idahoan.
charge Monday morning.
the dough stage. The early cut-
The sale includes the garage
ting stage will Insure cattle of
building, the business and the
a good quality feed when pur-
Pontiac agency. Mrs. Chipman,
chase of protein cake or use of
who is here awaiting the coming
grain is not possible.
of her husband, says that Mr.
Chipman has lx?en wholesale dis-
The Moro Grain Growers start-
trih
iitm * for
fo r the
t
O
rfiffnn Journal
Jo u rn a l
trlbutor
Oregon
cd tu run 1953 wheat into their
new flat house last week. They
Liquor sales Increased slightly preceding ycat.
at West Linn and has lx»yn a oar
are employing a unique system during the fis(*hl y ear ending
'n r 2 5 ne r cent salesman for a part of his life. He
using an open screw worm to June 30, according to the Oregon ed to $ ,
•>,
Is a brother of Ken Chipman, The
move the wheat lengthwise in the liquor control commission, but less revenue.
.
Dalles business man.
long house. Of .pecial interest is declines in privilege tax and H-
Although the greater part of
No change In the employees Is
A,.S|U
still and
their program of treating all cense revenues resulted in 1).M the liquor sul,I hv the «..»mission
from
was
IhruuKh
its
sh.i-.-s
an.
ag«»-
,
,
, as me­
1953 wheat with a grain protect- percent less net Income
effects
of
liquor
by
the
ant upon movement for Insect all operations. lotal net inc
in ih-it ton chanics anti Min Howell as ser­
----------- 7 20 wh.i h is $85,- drink were evident In that k m vice man.
control. * Manager Balslger Indi- was $ij,i8J,<]
cent more liquor was sold
Mr. and Mrs. Chipman have a
cates about seven hundred thou- 583 las» than that of the preced- per
from the warehouse, through son, 12 years old, ami are looking
sand bushels will lx* treated In ing fiscal year.
«_i u u«..
nurchas-
thls m anner They are also going
Pure a»ei paid $43^074,480 foi u
1
licensees during for a house to live in when they
to treat some 195^ wheat as It 854,287 rases of distilled spirits ed.
du" n« m ove to Moro.
goes into the elevator. The trial and‘
wlne - a -a gallonage Increase the
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and*wine
W y year
w pun hastd
«1 «
ga)e of Il tKRV DUTTON STOPS
will surely give a sizeable check of 1.82 percent—and after all op- of «'
on the use of so called grain pro- erating expenses were deductec, s "i . ....... ,*<», inits droonxl 12 TO VISIT FRIENDS
tectantc
fnr com
m ercial anil
stores division
revenue - putt last . 1 . .
.... .....
tectants for
commercial
and farm the net -------
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Harry Dutton, ex-Grass Valley
storage elevators.
was $11,387,864.76, a 0.44 percent per ten , 1 ‘
, enforcement boy, former newspaper man In
12 ix*r cent
Use of similar material on the gain.
®x^ n
of license Lakeview, now news editor of
L. E. Kaseberg ranch was used.
Although consumption of ix’ci due <» k <
the Visalia Tlmeg-Delta In that
This trial was run on the Kase- dropped, causing a decline in Investiga ions lx»ing made as a California town, was visiting
result
of
dispenser
applications.
lierg place some time ago in co- privilege tax collections on malt
As part of Its program to re- friends in the county this week
operation with research folks in beverages, consumption of
-
i,,w.m»lllnir ite m s while on a short vacation away
the Entomology department at wines apparently Increased slight- duce s o< .
>
.
from his work.
Oregon S ta y college.
ly, a r c ,d i n g »0 taxes co llect.xl on the cm u n >do
r ng the year
Manager Balslger Indicates cost wines. The total privilege tax reduced he ^inven’orV
,ry
Will be IVi cents per bushel on revenue is $1,181,832.69, whichI 1«
¿ 6 5 3 W4
old wheat and about one cent a nine per cent less than for the at June 30, 1 ,
Local Valuation
Inu ,San„ f rwh‘i ! ^ X u S
up his wif
1
looked,
Yes, *“
in
j, on,
on, unmoved.
un^uwvvu
once romantic
San F-----------—
romant c ban
c
»
the great American west, under
a democratic government, in a
Christian nation.
Do we still
boast of our chivalry?
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F unniest sight of the week wa&
Portland Beaver Manager Clay
Hooper while in an argument
with an umpire, catching his
teeth and putting them back in
place.
Oregon Farmers
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Grandma used to talk about the
purpose dn life and she had one May Make LeSS
because she made one.
These
»
Oregon farmer’s incomes from
days it is possible to get along
this
year”s
crop and livestock pro-
without a purpose although it is­
ducts
are
likely
to total at least
n’t much fun.
5
percent
less
than
last year and
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may be down as much as 10 per
The raise in the price of bread cent, say extension agricultural
should aid in informing bread economists at Oregon State.
buyers that the farmer has lltitle
“Current conditions seem to
to do with the price of that com­ assure a continued strong demand
modity. Also it could stimulate
. .
„ f o r most farm products of the
the home baking of bread for any state durjng the remainder of
woman with ability to handle the 1954, but this doesn’t necessarily
kitchen equipment can bake bet­ mean properity for all farmers,
ter bread than is sold.
the economists add.
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Price and Income prospects for
A retired teacher recently said the second half of the year vary
that teaching was much easier widely, they say. Some products
than doing and and it seemed w jjj bring more, others will bring
It iess tban last year. Mostly, chan-
a little odd at the time.
isn’t odd any more, not since ges in auppiies and price supports
we thought of a football coach w.jn make the difference,
who can tell a half back just how
Dirge national supplies are llke-
to turn and swivel and change ,y to kc<?p (be farm price pointer
in order to get down the field. unj er last year, especially on
The doing is more difficult, bogs, turkeys, eggs, milk, bar-
Theory of any kind is easier to ¡ey Oats, turf grass seeds, hay,
learn than practice for in theory appies, Barlett pears, and fil-
one can evade difficulties which, berts.
in practice, are often troublesome
Even so, the economists ex-
—very.
pect some farm products to sell
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for as much or more than they
For once we see some point in d id a year ago.
the showing of fur coats in July.
Those most likely to bring
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about the same as last summer
Living in a small town where the and fall are wheat, hops, tjeef,
grocer can buy no more hardware lambs, wool, alfalfa seed, vetch
than the hardware man buys seed and walnuts,
groceries and the newspaperman Prices above the last half of 1953
trades out his advertising is good seen in store for clover seeds,
experience for understanding of tall fescue, perennial ryegrass, po-
tatoes, onions, peaches, winter
international trade.
pears, pepperment, and cranber­
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We hope our government nev- ries.
Fruits and grains are likely to
or vnes back to acting like an
angry baby sitter. It spoils our show the biggest drop in income
dispositions to lx- yapped at all while gains appear to be in the
i n l i n e and told ‘Don’t” and making for most seeds, some
• You can’t”. I^ave us alone and truck crops, and potatoes. Small-
we’ll build something with our er returns from poultry and dairy
. .
products are not likely to be off-
diocks .
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set by changes In Income from
Maybe the process of education other livestock,
is a process of getting Interested -
-
in something liesides self. Child-
Still SlOWJ
ren are self-centered.
Returns from early harvesting
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have been satisfactory, very
Well, the senate finally talked
so.
itself out and passed the bill. Won­ much
Threshing is general in the
der which will do popular govern
— “si(le of the
ment the most harm, the M
¡^unty and ako in the extreme
thy hearings or the
g
north end. Otherwise harvesting
buster.
ls yet spOtty. Winter barley is be-
T T .
»0 Ing cut with moderate rew rns
The circus J*®?
d
and spring barley is not ready ex­
town anymore but the fair does.
p
1 1 v
Stories of fabulous yields are
Prisoners around the northwest alwayg curm et at this«»ime in
are refusing to eat. They don't harveM and are often ruined by
like to be prisoners. PPhreaspI grpater exactitude later.
Yet,
like to be prisoners. Perhaps we then?
indication that the 1954
could devise a system that only crop wdl
very good, j>erhaps
incarcerated the extreme search- an average of 35 bushels per
era for governmental^ sent se- acre which wlH make a crop of
curity. They would like It
3,500,000 bushels for the county.
T T W N
The method of cutting does not
It is cause for wonder; Whe- make for an easy figuring of hu-
ther Winston Churchill is living 8helage yields as was once the
too long or not.
case. Trucks are filled any place
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In the field, and with an estlmat-
The old fighting words seldom
nun?ber of bushels. It was dlf
arouse the ire they used to; but ferent when anyone who could
don’t call a man a communist.
count could tell the number of CAM PAIGN
HKAIHJVARTERH man, of the < ordon < «m m ltb e.
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sacks dropped each round.
office Is
Lack of faith 4s what keeps us
py next week some of the early for U. M. Senator Guy Conb'n The new lieiHk|«arter» Portland.
« e r e opened till- w eek by, left to li 231 Im perl.d H otel,
from making a pact with the Rus- ¡carters will have finishe I and
Ilf
Itey (<«!> R. 0*»ly, Se< re- Henatnr Conlon m I m > w ill use th is
sian». The same objection may more accurate Information will
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motivate the Russians.
OLCC Makes Report on Finances Showing
State’s Drinking Habits Since Bars Bach
C,",
In County
A fter m all ballot» w ere counted
the official Sherm an county 1951
vote wa.<* 213 for and 59 agaiuxt.
In 1953 the vote w as 13« for anil
3<i against.
'Phe vote on marketing quotas
in Sherman county resulted in
support of the program for cut­
ting acreage 37.3 percent and
retaining the rigid price suppotrs
now in vogue. The vote was 223
for and 55 against.
Division was marked in the
voting. At Moro 56 were for and
33 against. At Wasco 106 were
for ami 14 against and at Grass
Valley 59 for and 8 against.
Oregon favored the supports
and they carried all over the
United States by a percentage of
73.4 according to preliminary
figures. An accurate count wl
l»e delayed some time because
mail votes are not counted or
several days and returns are
sometimes slow. A vote of 66.7
must lie registered before t e
quotas are legal.
Some of the states that are
growing wheat in greater quanti­
ties than before went against the
acreage allotments in sufficient
numlxTs to Indicate that future
votes on the question will 1«* in
doubt.
Church Lists Guest
Speakers For Sunday
Guest s|xxikers at Moro Coin-
unity church this Sunday will be
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Townsend
of Menaul School, Albuquergue,
nsend, former Moro
Sui>erlntendent, is execu-
t lve of this high school for Span-
ish-American youth, operated by
. Preabvterian Board of Na-
tlonal Missions.
Following the morning wor-
shi }
and
Townsend, and
b;d ,y daughter, will l>e honored
,• pjcnie to be held at noon In
i.
the city ____
park.
John Royse Has
77th Birthday
The 77th birthday of John
Royse was celebrate i with a pot
luck picnic at the Wasco Park.
Be-ldes Mr. and Mrs. Royce those
attending were the Royse sons
and families Mr. and Mrs. Otis
Royse, Gary, Donald and Sharon
Roe Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Royse,
Carmen and Everett and grand­
sons, Mr. ami Mrs. Gerald Nlsbet
and family and Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Nisliet and family. Also Mrs. Har-
fV
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
y an <}||«’|er ami grandson Gary
and
an(| Mrs. Dell Wright.
Mrs. Lloyd Royse made the Iplnk
an<i whlte birthday cake and took
number of pictures of the group,
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Robert Draga-lna May Ziegler Nuptials
Observed At Grass Valley Baptist Church
In the presence of rHatlves
and friends Sunday afternoon Ina
May Ziegler, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Ziegler, became the
bride of Rolx.rt Draga of Portland,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Draga
of Mountain View, California.
er" during the ' ' ' <
Orville Ruggles ‘“ ‘Y "11’'1 ' ‘ . he
at the organ and a
I y
wedding music,
Mrs. Ziegler chose for her (lau
ghter’s wedding a ‘lusty
dress with matching
_
and the groom’» mother chose a
The Grass Valley First Baptist dress suit of navy with white
church was the scene of the cere- polka dots and black accessories,
mony performed by the Rev. Mer- |<;ach wore an orchid corsage,
lin L. Shields of Wasco at 4 o’clock
reception was held In the
asslstefl by the Rev. Don Leach, chur(<h reception rw m Immedl-
before an altar decorated with ateiy following the ceremony. 'I he
three candelabra in front and bas- |,r ide’s table held the three tier-
kets of white gladioli in the back.
caRe, baked and decorated by
Kay and Evelyn Klrkelle were Mrs. Joe Hammond, topped with
the candlellghters, they wore bal- the traditional bride and groom
lerina length frocks, one orchid figurines, was cut and served by
lace and net and the other green Mrs. I tester Wilson after the brl-
lace and net.
(|ai couple cut the first piece.
The bride given In marriage by
Mrs. Earl old®’ aun.t
her father wore a floor length bride, poured and Mrs.
gown of white chantllly lace and kelie presided at the pun« >
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net with long sleeves. The neck- Mrs. Carl Ziegler and Mrs. «w -
line was encircled with sequins, man Ziegler Jr., sister*.in
Heie fingertip veil was
held in the bride helped with the serving,
place by a crown of seed pearls. Ml»» lx>la Kelley had <
She carried a Ixiuquet of white the guest book. The young <o 1
orchids with ribbon streamers.
left for Portland where
Her cousin, Barbara Alley, was will make their home.
maid of honor and Yvonne Klrke-
Out of town guwb» preeeo
lie and Carolyn Ixrnley were the Mr. and M r^ I’ony
bridesmaids. They wore floor California, Mr. •)*"*
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length frocks of orchid lace and Eakin of Condon; Mr. ®
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net with picture hats to match Herman Ziegler Jr. an<
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and carried round bouquets of Mrs. Carl Ziegler from F e
,
pale yellow gladioli.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wilson and
Fred Pfoab of Portland was family, Mr. and Mrs. Dick W .
best man and Carl Ziegler, bro- and Mr. and Mrs.
he reDir»» Io Oregon f o l d i n g ther of the bride and Ed Zablockl from Kent.
r arJ', '
.......... m u ni of ( nngress. The of Portland were the ushers.
Klrkelle ami M l»
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|ihotoKi.iph.
Menalnr’x cam paign on the prelim
right, look* d o n a
Diary work o f op en in g the office
In ,
I '- n i <>f P >rtlan«i
mg P "" M i<> and \l L - _N< a
, Y -,i Mine
Mme'' txMmo
gg r P
and Mr
and Mr<
before the t ■ h w
r o prt'.m
rn a n d u am*
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ceremony and
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