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.
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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
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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
..
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S S S 25g
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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
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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.
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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,
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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 ’