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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1955)
9 Ohennan (County ¿Journal County Official Paper Moro, O regon'Friday Ju ly 1, 1965 T hese T h in g s W e N ote By Giles L. French Voters Approve T T W N t We get so used to using w ords in special ways and cast 8 ^ J stona w ith them. For instance, ‘‘nower lobby’ is a bad word and ••™blic power lobby” is a good in je “€'Y>n^crv3- wnrri in ’ some some m minds. “Conserva- word In minds, ‘co aser liv e” used to be a good word and now it isn’t and «n p o j t t t g By 174 to 90 Sherman county approved the present farm program by a favor able vote last Saturday although opposition was larger than it has been previously. The nation, how ever, approved the quotas by a larger vote than it did last year. Total vote in Sherman county was 261 for and 900 against. By districts the vote was: No Total Yes 153 L Grove & Wasco 119 34 88 49 39 Moro 83 16 Kent í G. Valley 67 27 1 26 Mail Votes The vote followed the usual pat tern in Sherman -county except that more farm ers from Moro op posed continuance of the quota system as a farm program. Per centagewise the vote was approved by 74.4 percent of the farm ers vot ing. A little less than a quarter of the voters of Sherman county ap proved a budget levy In excess of the six percent limitation at the special election held Wednesday, June 29 by a vote of 174 to 90. Only opposition to the budget was the Inclusion therein of an item of some $3000 for a home dem onstration agent which was opposed by some voters who ap- parently failed to organize suffi clently to defeat the entire budget and cause a second vote on it with the item eliminated, The vote by precincts was: No Y es Precinct 4 18 Rufus 11 38 Wasco 43 73 Moro 19 21 Grass Valley 13 24 __ Kent Major change in budgeting is that the entire road program is in the new -budget instead of being under a special fund. This will make accounting easier in the clerk’s office and will give the COUrt an opportunity to manage rOa<l m atters w ith more flexi- bility. The Moro Public Library board held its annual meeting on June 24 t th library. Officers select- ed for the coming year are: Mrs. Lamer Sayrs, president; Mrs. Stan Coelsch, vice-president; Mrs. Har- ry Pinkerton, secretary; Mrs. Don- aid Martin, treasurer, The business included the deci- sion to Increase the fire Insurance due to the value of the books and properties owned have by the library. Over 200 books have Iwen added during the paat year ""p e rso n n e f'o f standing commit- tees were named to serve for the Ju |y 1. fiscal vpar beglnn(ng beginning July Wednesday, July 6, was decided as the date for first su summer as the oate t o n the n e „rsv .u .n .. story hour at Jhe Hbrary for children < m ? ps 5 to 10 years, in- ages elusive._____ I n la n d doesn’t even mean the thine to two people. Odd, elm s homo 1 g t m w N Th n r , s a l to pay social se- T he pr P workers makes curity to inj < insurance the P‘an In<’ . n< and seems a good move. KODL Changes Wave Length Recently Listeners of the mid-Columbia are finding KODL at a new spot on their dials these days, accord- in« to Manager Paul Walden. Last weekend the Federal Com- munications commission in Wash- ington D. C. gave the mid-Colum- hia’s ninnper station authority to change from 1230 kilocycles io 1440, a change from a purely local Shower Brings New Hope For Crop b p r .M d la fiv i Srm Coon 1«., Oragl wo. ho.» rxonrty to NaHaoal 4-H Club delegate» from ioetem Oregon. Pictured ore I t »• r.l Jock John«, from Few, near John Day, Congroomon Coon ond Ivy Nol.on, ef lakwvigw. loch U oh had four Io the National 4-H Club Camp wbkh met In Washington Jane 14-15. The Second Congr.i.lonol District ef Oregon was one of the few districts In United Slates from which two delegates were chosen. Mite Nelson and yet Jahns ae well as the rest a f the Oregon 4-H Club delegation were guests of Congressman Coon nt lunch In the Members' Dining Ream at the Capitai. Coen «lea had the group appear with him on his weekly broadcast. ----- -- — - d ll f v r il V. Wasco To Get New Street Lighting China Hollow Road Straightened Now n ^ ¿ ll^ o u ^ U d S t m o v w 'w S V>ad. China Hoi- "was'named for two nhinam Chinamen . B_______ 1 e— an whose bodies were found there in th at . a the lH60s. The story goes that boasting about killing Chinaraen in The Dalles a ter and was thought probably guilty of the crime but the killing of Chinamen was not considered a heinous _________ . when there crim e in those days wa3 prejudice against Orl- enlal8 Chinamen w ere numerous ¡n the area because they were good miners who could make a Hvlng laklng gokl frOm stream s after wbite men gave up. old-tim ers had a habit of call- zirawo nr nanvorts a hollow, There Spanish Hollow ami Buck Hollow in Sherman county even over all said, Well Attended; ^ \ ^ \ T t T h o n o r roll * To be listen on . average and m ust X r*v no t i £ , lhan than 12 ,2*t.rm hours. term hours. e averagc u fig. T l ^ gr * * p o V I S 2 Oo“ C. tbe honor roll from Moro is o________ T MiHer of Moro. __________ A c c id e n t W r e c k s T w o U& T» Cars f l« r d o n Ridffe driven by Bill Nlsltet of Wednesday dent on «o™0" »J*0» for a check-up. 1 .» ^ m 1M>2 Moro had a « le - Strand Speaks A pleasant day, except for a late afternoon wind, helped bring out a larger than usual crowd to the field day held at the experi ment station Monday for the first recent all day program. The forenoon meeting was held g on the lawn at the station grounds anil featured a talk by Miss Why- bark who told of the w heat lea gue’s home economic program and a talk by Dr. J. S. Butts of OSC, who spoke on the uses of Carbon 12 in determ ining the age of an cient discoveries and atomic en ergy in relation to agriculture. After a luncheon served by the A. I«. STRAND women of Harlandview grange Dr. A. L. Strand, presklent of Oregon State, talked, telling of Inventions and discoveries in Reapportionment Plan the the latter half of the 19th century pertaining to agriculture. Scienti Gets New Boost fic methods were first found and Giles French and Collla Moore first used in that 50 years and were in Pendleton Saturday to at ways have l»een found to make tend a regional meeting of propon life easier for everyone, particu ents of the federal reapportion larity rural people who were once bound to a life of grinding toil by ment plan for Oregon. Representatives of the counties low prices and superstition, attending voted unanimously to Three trucks took the men into go ahead with previous plans to the field for an inspection of the put the measure on the ballot in trial plots on the station ar.d the 1956 by having petitions printed, women settled themselves on the filing the m easure and arranging lawn to hear more about wheat for more general information and food technology. about the advantages of the plan, BUI Hall, station su perin en- particularity to residents of rural <*ent. explained at the tra sh y fal- Oregon. low plots that it had been easier T he recent action of the Oregon to Ppt a stand on tra sh y fallow grange convention which approv- because moisture was neaiet u ed the plan by a 115 to 72 vote is top than on moldboatd Pl° 1 one indication of the Interest of Plots T here was a arger pert ei - rural people in obtaining more age of m oisture in ’and d teked adequate representation in the leg- than in land plowed, be . Islature. The federal plan would H afflower Show n give each county one senator. A small field of safflower m erit ed a stop and the uses of the oil Relative Position Of bearing seed crop explained. The price and yield are not sufficient Districts Compiled to make It a rival of wheat as a VOmpilCO Some figures figures showing showing th< the com- “ a”X . U Some paratlve standings of the J^ re e reported. <« * c U c o m , . F r l e l n g K he Ferüh zer experimento on Tur- h ^ W llv KnU hten keg Red wheat waH shown w lth been c o n ¿12}- K *h ’ different amounts of nitrogen ap- school miperlntemient. pilled a t different depths ami dif Dollar* P ercent Valuation: ferent spacings. Bob Chesny ex 18 $ 956,635 Kent plained tlie trials on the station 30.6 1.628.943 G rass Valley 51.4 and on farms in the mklrColumbla 2,734,585 Moro School Censna:: N um ber P ercent area. Lloyd Patterson told about the 18.4 nursery after visitors had had a 70 Kent 34.3 look at some burned plots w here 130 G rass Valley 47.3 annual cropping and too much 179 Moro Bonding ability of the d lstr'ct Is $301,173.19 at present valuation and laws governing school bond- lng limits. wheats that are ready for release Game Hearing To If given final approval. One, ami the most promising, Is a red w heat with a red chaff, a descen Be Held July 8 dant of Rio, Rex and Nebred. An- A public hearing for the setting « a sftft whHe club of the tentative 1955 hunting reg- resistant and a hard ulations will be held at 10:00 a. m. Uiat may better El- July 8, at the offices of the Oregon M a ^W er State Game Commission according ‘ (he of the trIp the tree The 13 original states were re- ed to attend the hearing whichi 1» who rem em ber ly ^ n o n g J h e J tr a L ^ r * In ussion in Miss Minnie Gilklson was the subm itted to the commission Others ap- w ritten form hut may be stated th at “Every effort Is being Goddess o£ ’¿ ’^ t y m os? en- ¡^earing were Miss Anna Powell as orally at the hearing a second -------- and the young ladlee :an h w ^ ear their -re -u w M h ___ p ^ ^ v e r a g . preferred by iadiea in 1892 the danger of sunburn seems remote in this day when the sun's only effect on women s dress is to reduce it. But even an editor in 1892 couldn’t guess that, The county’s first census had shown almost 1800 persons here in 1890 and more were coming In all the time so-when It was «aw ¡n the the < ele » 1 ih a t the crowd camo from far and wide It wasn t an exaggera- tion. T h e .d a y started fair and sub- Ume but beforeJong the wind -None „ „ of and y o u blew r^ W jaard jW j l l d a y . Switzer,am,. W hite stu- ¿ e X .. . -- S S S 25g _........ __ __ ro“ Fourth of July Celebrated In 1892 In ~ Moro With Speech, Lemonade and Liberty Car Drops Sharply g ^ r ^ w o r n e n 1’"4’ 4 p a n y .^ t was announced’wednes- day by Art Thrasher, district for the the row power company. m manager anajpr for er company. The new lighting program , which wiU will increase incraaae the the system system ’. ’. whlch illumination more than four times, wm meet the h ip e s t recommen- da tion for modern commercial gtreet lighting, T ’ hrasher said, ’ U.»., »aid Pacific Power will spend an es- tim ated $5,000 for the mstalla- tion. Nine new street lights will be installed along U. S. highway 97. and three additional fixtures will be placed at new locations in the residential section. The highway unito w ill consist of six 20,000-lu- man mercurv vapor lamps, two îo.OOO-lumen incanoescem « uq » an d one 4,000-lumen lamp. The tial things, the a rts of daily living, prograrns that have been so popu- n fth e * election dlrertors"t'hat ‘ grandpa had it all over grandson. jar over tb e past 15 years. accompanied the vote on forma- W ithout m achinery this genera- t,on of the dletrict D avi, defeated tion would be helpless in the mid- N e w M a n H e a d Q f Henrichs by St Oi p l e n t y t w n Chemical Company The vote Those who are In a business Appointment of Peter K. W hite when canvassed by the county that entertains and amuses peo- as Northwest D istrict Sales man- court, ole are prosperous; those who ager for Brea Chemicals, Inc., suh- merely fee<l them may not be. sidiary of the Union Oil Company niei^ y t T W N of California, was announced to- Cash Grain Market Young men have trouble find- day by R. H. McGough, Brea man- Ing enough to do; old men In find- ager of Argicultural Chemical inir time enough to do w hat they Sales. ro rm e erly n v Brea nrva Field r .v.u Equipm ™,u.,. . . . ent ... Cash grain m arkets were fea- have to do Form Service Representative, W hite will tured by the sharp» drop in w inter , T T T , " r e f i l l of W- ™ n T B r « ' c h 7 m i ^ u T n ’ lii w i ü l " 'p r S . ” d u r t i , ' the week Wo used to^got a Vu|vf a'nd a^ | vltlM in this area connected ended June 23, the departm ent of trtotlsm on th e F ■ the m arketing of Brea’a agri- agriculture reported. H arvesting now It le t h e ^ s m n k . vdh^h f(e w |)| work waJ advanccd Well into the Kan- h L w ritten a book with B rel dealers In supplying lo- sas area. W heat receipts at the has w ritten ... S A T woman China whinrlS r X ? sold'- h ig h -n B rogan^)ntint ^ ------------------ i t U i ^ r t y ^ ------------ R e ^ r t shart>- o V r^ com ^ ^ i n A quick shower fell Tuesday noon "to cheer farm ers in the plac- es where it hit- Like many sum- mer showers It was only of local significance, some p arts of the county getting little rain. At the experim ent station near Moro the total fall was .29 inch, enough to cool and cheer the w h e a t Thto Is one of those years in which farm ers are growing a crop of wheat on west wind and cool w eather and from the quantity of both the crop should be satlsfac- P tory. Construction of a new street system for Wasco’s business dis- R o ffe r M ille r M a k e s the road north trlct has been recommended by . . ® o Honor Roll w a s h h e s turned slightly to the the Wasco • students was in- W ,atlon work city council and instal- soon U. T T W N Sale of a five cent stamp for in its arrogance says $4200 should stim ulate tne KODL was granted an increase in canyon. Some are-called hollows postage stamps. Just u __n power from 250 w atts days, 100 c a rry w ater a part of the away and let great-grandson i w atts nights, to 1000 w atts full year antl some are called hollows wealth from them time. that are nearly always dry. T T .W nnp vnte Thus ending many m onths of ------ ---------- How, we wonder, does one vot feverish activity at the station, J n . who wants neither free o r fee n v erecting a new tower, installing a HeiiriCh$ and USVIS And who is so naive as to_ think transm iU er and other assod. hum ans are going to vote^t p y equipment, to make KODL ( q Another ClOSe One when they can get it fi Qne Qf tjie most modern hi-fidellty T T W N transm itting plants in Oregon, and Unofficial returns, but It seems th at each generation he on,v gtat|on ,n the m id-Colum- from each district, in the forgets at least as many skills as Wa area lk,ensed to operate full for director-for five years learns. Each individual, how- time Ume with wlth 1000 1000 w w atts l t u of of power. tjiio n H I * S e h o o ^ t . ,t . _____ ever, feete sm arter than the an- Walden stated that the coverage cients because tie or she knows of the station has been greatly rlcj^ _ an? a ? ? ? . e v e VI Station Field Day Speaks Here Program If Vote On Theory Alone County Budget T h e e m p lo is on security causes us to wonder if the only thing wrong w ith slavery was the wages. 7 T W N We note that Klamath county’s sheriff -wears rings on his fingers. Presumably he discovered those hack saw blades while testing the cherry pie. Still it seems more natural for a prisoner to w ant hack saw blades than for a shet to wear rings. T T W N Now they have issued, a pictorial Bible. We suppose it will be “fun- ny strips before long. TTW N We see men sm oking one brand of cigarettes who do not look sm art and others smoking another brand who do not look contented and others coughing over another kind until we wonder at the ap- Library To Have parent patency of advertising. c h i l d r e n s - H o u r A g a in „ . • n n n stav on H°4W h I° w h in he learns it well one job. W-hen he - X indefinitely g , Just for the We have been invited to join . W* i ,» o „ h thp idea is the probaWy it would Z null a t t planning about tra- , „ A h 1« ¿.¿nosed to be the ve In cu rab le part. part We will mM, t pleasurable never know for we don’t talk S such thing«—we do them, Farmers Like Farm HOST Î0 4-H DOKATES - i ? a Z n nw « h.M U S Ä T c U Ä m o n t Men’, a, mo.t other market« Peace, s e — Eggs ' = SSS ™ paign. _____ j |n a ranj?e « «Ts t2 45 » hite «urreem Viyue c Dlatrlet to »2 4# . per bushel ,i„r>endlne hay. former Northweiit depending on on Sales Manager, who is now a Brea quality. Rye declined 1 cent per dealer in the Ritxvllle-Harringion- buahel Corn price« advanced I d prs ’ bad S h id ï a ^ refreehm e m ent stand .«and and thev they sold «old enough e n o u g h ! lemonade * m o n ,d e to to float a •_ 0 t* |n g Ifo sford» Ohaervff. th a t t g a. Grass Valley Gets Street Paved The street Ft Grass Valley was hearing will be paved W ednesday from curb to brown Moore’s horse won ^ Watklns> " o ' v i r Ernie bay. the • An- eon Woods and Fred Krusow were race a m lM r , . i r c h i ^ h e ohJecthma m - v e regula- regu,.- objections to ™ the tentative Ail persons a . ^ i n g ' S J he„ - logs are given an opportunity to voice their opinions. Food Cheaper By Some Figuring , _____ t w t for when __sk , h v ree k s hiock. and pui. ™ t ihe huge POpiar. th»t had » ■ » « ¿» '•J« ” * nf l h ,t ,OW" for generations. City officials made several trips to visit the state highway commls- tdon and a contract was let last fall for the paving, now completed. Condon Round-Up Food Is actually ‘ cheaper”— , - . a(|d|t|on to being better—than C o m in g July I 1 Pendleton Round-Up Q u e e n durlng ,.gfX>d oW of K aV hrynW y,, and hor m u rt will p ex;en8‘on economist«. appear In the Oontlon R<x*'oJ ,’ r: T hirty years ago an hour’« take- ade Sunday. July 3, preceding korne pay would buy 5% loaves tbe opening of the regular two breX n o w It buys 10 loaves, day event. The parade wll W i n an hour’s take-home pay at P- m; ,a.n<l ’'•’"'q'.Yetd wou,d buy 3H quarts of m i l k - the gaiety w I be the Main Street now lt buyg 7 Tben r bought 1 % Cowboys ( ^ T ^ r " o On n July 2, the festivities will 8tfak J r 3 open with a Junior Rodeo starting 30 p. m. at the Fairgrounds. — OSsrES - - - T T W N corporation u taxes. x « . ' At À tE 52 5 percent .wreent eorpora.ion tax it wouldn’t he long T T W N Before long it will he possible sr 11 sta rt m X M o w ,.= E diU ijind'K ose Delckman, iielckman, Jessie JesBle L-Mitk orwi itose VI and Iva Sayrs, « ____ o _ n FranUe, Anne and Clara Landry, Neece and Miss Lena jj eydl played and sang and S. B. Adarn(} pregident of the day in t be program which con- glRted q{ # prayer ,by Rev. W right, reading of tbe Declaration of In dependence by Hiram Tyree, su- of schools; oration by FYe<l Booth to ^ to to the la d l« ^ r l « p y T ä H oror. to Our >nd Flag by J. B. Hoeford; our Navy by William Holder. y>|ley won the ball game - the sm all ¡ ixunon « n o n as „ Judges Judge« In £ the e evening there nanee ... in Mcivenxie « o ra n " g e n sjw ^ r pr , tw l„ .» mueh ice Hayes and G arnett Parman, all there w«« w a, a a nance were sold Music was by the cream and tomatoes, about two- of C rodeo ¿ „ th e m ’ airing band, third« more chicken, about a _ .T h « J™ > will run two «lays = i s s s S=S5= =S tables and fruits. i ’
