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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
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Right of way & Field Cutting
. . . responsible
Claude May
. . reasonable
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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-
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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
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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.
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That is w’hat we are celebrating,
not our agriculture only, but the
newness of it, the rapidity of its
development. We are observing
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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.