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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1954)
O P IG E 4 SHERM AN C O U N T Y JO LH N I l s MORO, O REGON F R ID A Y , J U L Y 30, 19M Fire Burns Land Near Rufus Mrs. William Mr. and Mrs. amlly, Mr. and lerfer and fam- »at Maenab and r.s. George Mac- id trouble last • wheat to test nature to har- ngs were cool e moisture go eleven per cent all< ved. This week >f the farmers :ing wBh a J ha Ht Wa T munity fire tru to keep the fire from Jump road. Help rain e from no living as far as ten miles Glow fl «I aeree bume WC ifl fortunat >n to burn. B’ fire jid of ui » watchl d fulve nes<lay at the home of Mrs. Willis Barney. The study was on new India, and very interesting. The society meets once a month and keeps right on during the sum mer months. Mrs. Tom Buce left last Sunday to drive truck In harvest for her uncle Marion Weatherford of Ar lington. Mrs. Buce’s children, Alana and Mike are being taken care of toy her mother, Mrs. Frank Weatherford. Mrs. Edna Brown is taking care of the Kufus Motel for Mrs. Buce while she is away. e road men. ur through It and out the other side this to was surrounded by sum mer fallow, so soon it was brought un!er control. If the fire had gotten in to the wheat, they could n’t have stopped it, and many acres would have been burned, as the wheat is dry enough to burn.. Mr. and Mrs. Boy Blake have livisl for the past year on the Brackett place. Rev Willis Barney «pent a week at Deer lake, aj, Boys Camp near Sprokane, Wn. Mr. Barney acted as counselor and the camp doctor for the boys. A group of people enjoyed a picnic and swim Sunday at the old swimmln’ hole on the James Fox place. Among them were District office is a part of the new Portland regional operations Antelope Permits organization, embracing Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Now Available Alaska. Other District offices are Applications for permits to at Boise, Spokane, Seattle, Butte hunt antelope during the 1954 and Anchorage. Reorganization of the vast Post Office operation into compact re Dr. Frank D. Reid gions and districts is part of Postmaster General Arthur E. Dentist Summerfled’s program to im prove service and eliminate the Moro Hotel huge annual postal deficit. Office closed until further notice “ Until now each of the 42,000 postmasters in the U. S. corres ponded with Washington on all postal matters,” he explained. “ Moro postal patrons who come to me with requests, complaints, and other postal service problems, can expect more prompt replies and better service than they ex perienced in the past,” Postmaster Lloyd Johnson said yesterday. With the opening of the Port land district office, Johnson pointed out, all postal operation Mr. and Mrs. Bill Maenab brou and service mail leaving his office ght their daughter Kay home Fri are now sent to Portland rather day from a hospital in Portland. than to Washington. The Portland Kay had an operation on her an kle. She Is confined to a wheel Civil Engineering chair and Ixsl for the first couple weeks at home while her ankle Land Surveying has the cast on. WALL & TENNESON The Missionary society of the Phone 5<»3<!, T iie Dulles church of the Nazurene met Wed- 0OHl/n E. 2nd St. : CUSTOM CUTTING ! I Self-propelled, Level-land , • , I John Deere combine . . . with understanding | ____ . j Right of way & Field Cutting . . . responsible Claude May . . reasonable j g r a in sto r a g e b u ild in g s Q UO NSETS Navy Surplus 40’s & 20’s Limited Supply AS LOW AS lie Per. Bu. Delivers All M aterial Above Sliib Simmer down, Doc! Things w ill be better soon as you wrap yourself around a cool, cool, better-tasting Blitz. There just isn’t a better, mellower beer than B litz ...¿ » /trie rt/ Blitz combines the crystal-dear purity of famed Bull Run water w ith other matchless Northwest ingredients to bring you taste refreshment just the way you like it! Sec for yourself... better buy Blitz! All steel lined. Outside nil new steel MERRELL STEEL BLDG. CO. 2207 N. W. Front Portland, Ore. Moro, Ore. Phone 722 Blite lUeinhard W rite o r phone: Fre«l Ashley Tygli Valley t i n . B««r S in t. 1 8 5 * Ph. 9F2 ...»I»« Leonard & Wilma Smith 'hon e T h e D ulles ,t accompany the applies- > ti »e person may apply only A of the three areas as «les- one « cribed in hunting regulations. ci A public drawing will be held at the game commission head quarters on August 12, and per mits will be mailed to the lucky winners on the 13th. Seasons in areas one and three run from August 21 to 26, and the open dates in area two extend from August 28 to Septemlier 2. JOHNSON LIKES NEW P. (>. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Burnett entertained with a picnic dinner on tiie lawn honoring their «lau ghter Louana on her 7th birthday. Invited were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ma nab and daughters Kay and Nancy, Mr. and Mrs. Iceland Med- ler and children Doug and Bar bara, Wally and Denny Dumler and Jimmy Maonab. FUNERAL SERVICE season are now available at the offices of the game commission and its license agenies through- out the state. A total of (MX) permits are to lie issued to resident hunters this year. All applications must be in the Portland office of the game commission before 10 a. m., Aug ust 10, and only those on official application forms will tie consid ered. Parties of not more than four jiersons may apply together, but • Portion«!, Or.«.« 313-5 push and inventiveness our fa ir is. T h e homesteaders chang«*d it, fa th e r changed it, we changed i( anil here is an agriculture as new as a 19.5.5 Cadillac. . - That is w’hat we are celebrating, not our agriculture only, but the newness of it, the rapidity of its development. We are observing J». .1 J I , . . V 'i tant as the making of automobiles or the building of railroads or • used grass, year after year har the production of tractors. And vesting the crop with the sharp the big grass made horses strong teeth of cross-bred cayuses. The w heat grow er drove out and tough and wiry. There • YrtL-.*! S t z T • s?; *tr that ,;he «llsplay of Sher- ics by picture at county ir won Li be> as interesting as xhihit that could l»e made. lean d<»zen:« of them. Thi se arc not moveable and ex- fhln It would I k * a terr tue n taki if this county < lid not hoi.I It has a lot c f distinctive things almut it, thing i that would never lx* shown if it was not for the hililts must he moveable. These fair. aie the very nature of the county, It also has many things that aren 't shown at a fa ir and maybe som ething should be done about that, to«». There is the view from (¿onion Butte tow ard the wheat- fields o f the north eml of the county; there Is the view of the Colum bia w ith Its varied transpor tation systems moving men ami m aterial east and west qulcklv by ra il ami highway and plane anil slowly ami p o w erfu lly by r i ver Isirge; there Is the «|nlck glimpse of the Deschutes as seen fnnn the road along the breaks; there are the w heatflelds a* per fect ami productive as any in the world. o These are not shown nt our fair, r fail S inctlme-- we a p a i l of It, startlin g evidence of its geivgraphical posltl«»n lying, an it does, between tw o sw ift ami deep-canyoued rivers, sloping to- w ard another huge rive r, a p art of a geographical fau lt, ash ami lava covered eons ago. T he years ami the rains and the fedsts brou ght decay to the basalt rock am i the w ind brought seed of Juniper, *age, ims k «»range, vv lid rose ami huiicltgrass to grow on the hills and In the draws. The white men f hi de< were cattle although the w ild things ami the h alf-w ild including the horses, never so many ami they succeed things, ami eventually bought Iron ma ed horsen aft«,r a fashion. were transpiration in those days. They were railway, truck and plane. A man without a horse could not exist. The raising of horses was an Industry as impor- The wheat grower succeeded them both, he and his plow. Im agine the anger of a horse man as he watched a newcomer turn tiie big grass under, using horses to destroy the fine feed they thrived on. But the horse owner didn’t own the land; he merely chines to end the era of the horse as they had ended his feed. Now the hills are covered with wheat, great fields of It and little towns, with their locust-lined streets, nestle in the canyons and farmers and townsmen hold fairs ’ ¡it commemorat« bruTly th t ex cellence of their crops. It hits only been a little w hile, one life tim e w ill span it. since the original grass covered the hills am i the only exhib it from the county was a band of prune* ing h«»rses, a few nervous long- horned cattle, some beaver pelt». Here, now, In 1954, fairs are held, attended by men in white shirts and women in flowered frocks w’ho come in smooth rid ing automobiles o v e r paved roads to see pampered steers, fancy work and sugar-topped cak es. In one life-time. Men w ill attend the fa ir who r«wle fore ro w ti«»n arra u ) the same ground be the plow h.sl turned a fur- on it. I f any fa ir is celebra- «»v er the speed of Am erican the results of our impatience, our anxiety for fatter steers, plumper kernels, better homes. And we are noting it because we want and expect to continue it; we are praising the rapid development in the past so we will keep going steadily in the future.
