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marketing year (July 1) with a
900 million bushel carryover—
enough for a year’s domestic and
export needs without even har
vesting this year’s crop. On top of
that, the July crop report says
this year’s crop may nudge a bil
lion bushels—988 million. Add the
900 million and the 988 million,
plus around four million imports,
and we come out with a supply
of 1,892 million bushels—48 per
cent above the 1955 estimated quo-
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ta level 001,276 million bushels. one month wj left to take the
We could come out with a billion other half.
bushels carry-over on July 1, 1956.
Most importing wheat countries
Dr. Frank D. Reid
are not going to make good on
D e n tis t
their current commitments at ex
isting prices. Up to the end of
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June they had taken only half of
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It is not known when the first dance was held in Sherman
county. Probably not at Graham’s. They ran a bridge and a stop
ping place and although the family was large, those who come and
go don’t often stop to dance-
More than likely it was at Eaton’« or at Leonard’s. Eaton had
a big family and many firsts were inaugurated at bis place for it
big family and many’ firsts were inaugurated at biswas...
was a sort of center for what population there was in the sixties-
Leonard’s was a stopping place, too, on the John Day where the
Walla Walla stage crossed the river. But Leonard kept the crew
that patrolled tin* telegraph line after it was built and a bunch of
young men would have danced bad there been women to dance with
them. Wotmm were aearee, tin* only knowt^woman at Leonard’s be
ing M ary, the wife of Daniel, himself, who later was charged with
shooting said Daniel with a gun loaded with powder and lead and
achieving, niter some days of frustration, his demise.
Dancing was an early mode of cnterti^m ent in Sherman
county, as it has remained. When the settlers came to this county
they held dances in their own homestead cabins, iigiting a few
neighbors and a fiddler.
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There were few fiddlers in the county and they had to be seen at
opportune moments, cajoled into coming and waited upon when
they finally arrived a-horsebaek with their fiddle tucked under
their ann.
Sometimes they danced quadrilles with the fiddler ¡torched
precariously in the comer of the room while the long-dressed ladies
and the heavy-shod men went through the intricacies of the ‘‘do-se-
do” to the command of the caller. And sometimes, it the fiddler was
accomplished at the long drawn notes of “ Over til* ’VaveS” , they
waltzed. There was a combination of the two. the waltz quadrille, a
dance by ‘ sets’’ like a quadrille and to waltz time and with a little
song which the dancers sang:
“ First couple down center and there to divide,
Ladies to the right, gents down the side;
Honor your partner and don’t he afraid,
Swing on the corner with the waltz promenade.”
Soon someone built a hall, hauling the lumber from Golden-
dalc and it was used for meeting*, for church, perlrapa, and for
dancing and more folks came. They gtmc for miles, 20-30. and the
young men for 40 and they danced until the sun came up across the
snow, for surely this same group of |«eoplc would never get together
again and we might as well enjoy ami prolong it.
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So dancing has been « pastime of the county for SO years and
more and a Shermna countian who couldn’t dance was merely a
Shtnnan countian who wouldn’t; stubborness overcoming oppor
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tunity. Many a lady has said ‘‘yes’ to the “ Blue Danube” or the
‘Missouri Waltz” or a (lershwin melody ami. no doubt, as many
have said “ no” , music not being so full of eharms as the romant
icists say.
Down through years and years of local history almost any
occasion was sufficient for a dance- Fourth of Julys, Christmases—
especially New Years— have had dances. Moralists put a limit on
dancing down at Salem and Earl Snell and Phil Yates had the hour
extended for rural dances some years ago, hut still the law—theore
tically puts an (*nd to dancing before dawn. So this generation
will never know, legally, tin' supreme delight of dancing wearily
around ami around to some fascinating tune as the sun lightens the
sky and exultation lightens the spirit as one realizes that he has
outlived the night without benefit of sleep.
So there will be dancing at the Sherman County Fair, come
Septemltor 9-12. No imported orchestra will play, hut a local one^
composed of musicians from Moro and Grass Valiev, Beaehler’s
BeBops. modem in name Imt still having among its music many
of the tunes that father knew when he was young and gay and mo
ther n'tuemhers front the time the dresses were sacks as they threa
ten to l>e again.
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Long dresses, short dresses, boots, patent leather pumps, fid
dle music in the corner or a full orchestra in the pit, dancing goes
on an expression of human jov. Is there anything betterf