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© O o 0 o b r r m a tt (C o u n ty i n u m a i Sixty-Seventh Year No. 36 T h e se T h in g s We N o te County Official Paper ------------------------------------ Moro, Oregon Friday J uly 8, PJoo Two Car Upsets Holiday. Record annual EiAx-riox Cat’s Curiosity Cuts Power. - Kills Cat Freakish W.eather Dominates Picture As Tim For Cuttiag 1955 Grain Crop Nears k b tVeaki3h w eather th at has kept the w arm est day and the coldest My Mrs. Geo. L. Fox the "**h‘ w" . ‘ 2 * 2 ^ Curiosity killed the cat. the time in recent months domln- tem perature, 35 degrees, was re- A large yellow tomcat proved ated the picture in June atui is June 16, while the maxi- that fact a t Rufus early Sunday holding over into July. It has been mum tem perature was reached morning when he climbed up an Crop conditions in Sherman freakish in th a t normals figure June 21 w^ en the therm om eter »electric pole that had g transform- county as the hay is cut and the An otherw ise tranquil Fourth of only as ‘ above” or -below . soared to »4 degrees. Average max- er on and got in two cross wires farm ers prepare for harvest are July week-end was broken by car Local W om an Saw A sum m ary the precipitation imum for the month was 75.7, min- of electricity that singed him fore generally good, very good, cons id- accidents which happened in the Long Beach Tragedy and tem perature charts for June imum 46.7, for a mean average of and afl and cauSed an outage of ering that there has not been as south end of the county on the Sherm an county as prepared by Bill Hall at the 612 Despite the extremes, or the pacific i’ow cr & Light com- much moisture as usual for the Sherm an highway. There were no At least one past few years. Cold w eather and fatalities in either accident, al- resident w itnessed > the the trairedv tragedy Moro experim ent station reveal possibly because of them, this fig- pa ny. at m oisture content was down ure j )us, Ust two-tenths two-ten though an occupant of one of the the Ufe ’ of < a email boy hoy th that ur(, of one per aw.illent happened Just nut the half true, half Jest west wind _ a . . _ a „ that toon tne i _ fm m r the nnrm«i side of tbe Rufus Grocery store moisture have made the crop a •« * ““ M X ’S averaae t » ,Wrma' By Giles L. French an erratic where the cat was found dead good one despite a drier season. which may keep her in the hos- Wash. Mrs. Alene S a » < . of Moro J J u l y eterw d off A few weeks ago we wrote here pital for some time. was --- llw immediate vicinity cipitfltion for m th u e jn o n th f o r m a l ______ m anner with a July - 2 minimum under the electric - pole. 1 he cat ___ ____ 'j’here is a lot of hay down. Far- g . Tuesday . . . --------------- _ „ Frank -----„ w whereas > r d in g of e « rees. u It u is g get- e t- WiW tra y c claimed laim ed by th a A t tew one wees. must keep some frenzy morning the when the little feUow fellow drOpped dropped a a of of an an Inch, inch, w w reas the vie norm w i u i al « iw recording of 34 34 d degrees. was a a s stray by no one merg wbQ over seeded have cut coing in his h e a rt and mind lest laney family of Seattle figured in nrecracker in a can of gasoline, Is .74. ting to be a July’ habit, since since he was turned loose in Kufus h and there was an announced he become too staid, too conserv- an upset in which Delaney’s mo- lhe exploding contents of which Hall reports that the precipita- ^ja t was the tem perature recorded .by a generous soul last fall. Ju st shortage of hay In the stock coun- ative too fixed to one set of ideas ther-in-law, Mrs. Jessie M. York, enveloped him in flames. tion for the crop year which on July 2, 1954. These are the coJd- two weeks ago he was seen climb- J that probably encouraged and one place of residence or oc- suffered a possible broken back. Nlrs savage said the sad p a rt sta rts in September, up to June esl tem peratures recorded in July mg a high tree to get to a bird’s re . cuttlng There are fewer cuuation The accident occurred near the of the story is th at the fire depart- 30 totaled 8.17 inches. This figure since 19xi, Hall su te d . nest perched out on a dangling eedg spraying has done Its work particular frenzy of the Sherman-Wasco border w hen the m ent ^ ^ n d e d to the call by go- is down 2.99 Inches from the nor- Q(Uhore Untb. It was noted he hovered >nd fe|U><? rows Bhow w heat or As our „«iry® tn take a bit car swerved n off pavem ent and 7 jnc , to of another for that U period. , _ ; ........ ., ,tlll flirw.tlrtnlnff 1he above the nest for at least 10 min- ha,.,ey to the traveler along the 7 n th g " ¿“ ti/l the Striking a rock, 7 the »“ home anw UvTng " family an- mal ' 7 , of the 11.16 predplU on In June. ras assum ed th e clim i b road . ‘«„atond nf m stard or o r pepper Instead of m u ustard : 7 a 7 « n T y \ ; " l “ o t‘dthe deflected to Urn, o p i a t e 7 7 « o? the town, thus losing £ 9 fell tn one 24 Lour period, Ju n e - a p paying proposition. At #g wag common a few years least it seemed like he came down > ed a frenzj m by'coun- side of the road w here it all but ^ ‘eraTTprecious minutes, A spread of 59 degrees between for the next five days at lea-.t. the tree with a contented look on { ^ n e w s p a p e r m e n whose vaca- went over an em bankm ent, and Ueach was 8warming with his face. His forage for food kept South slopes are ripening more ¡ions are" entirely dependent on finally came to a halt w hen t cars and people over the week-end, him In good shape quickly than north alopee. That is obtaining someone who can p u t upset about 200 feet from the po t the Moro woman reports. Clam W heat Support Up Now wo’re wooUerlng about the normal, although there haverb«m o u t the paper regularly in his ab- where the trouble started. tides attracted hundreds of clam number of lives a cat is supposed years since 1940 when there was Mr O. G. Crawford, known The county ambulance was call- diggers besides the thousands of T w o Cents a Bushel to have. No more yellow to m . are little ¿ " 7 ™ . "„■‘ ‘ih.'.’ wh well here because of previous ed and the c a r s occupants w ere vacaUoners thronging the penlnsu- With few exceptions the wheat on The agriculture departm ent in- seen arounj yet. t i n t « i n our behalf has a couple taken to The Dalles, w here 1 wa ja towns and beaohes. And to add south slopes looks as If It would 5 w « k s rig h t now which he will found that Mrs. York was the only lhe woes of the tlred motorist creased the national average sup- ___________ yield a good crop unless some late f . U f , nor one suffering serious Injuries. waj. lhe long w alt a t Megler to port price for 1955 crop wheat to storm or heat wave interferes. not have later. mpntion The accident happened about h f to Oregon side. $2.08, up two cents from Lhe min- C A f i r M l h e 1 ] n In this place we m ight ment on a m T h r ~ ferrias had to labor many mum price announced last fall, in i U IW The county has around 90,000 that there have been lots of > Sunday morning, about 4:10 w eary houvs to move the traffic an action Tuesday. acres in wheat and should get a In Oregon and now it o’clock, Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Oregon m otorists who had Voters of Union High School Tbe a v e r s e support price of minimum of 2,500,000 bushels of S. senate to perm it Greathouse of Jose> Calif. m et ° On the job” Tuesday District No. 1 are reminded th at $2.08 a bushel compares with the one in the U. -------- ,, . to be “back on the job the grain. The barley will be in newspapers to miss 2 weeks w ith a truck about four miles south of morn|ng. there is an election today (Friday) SUppor t price of $2.24 a bushel for addition to this and between the out losing their standing as an of Moro. Mrs. Greathouse was d r i v - _____ _ for the purpose of voting bonds {or the 1954 crop. two the county Income will be ficial newspaper. We have never ing and sw ung a little too far out for the construction of a high increase in the supports re- Four miles, 23,000 feet, al>ove n(d gOl>)| as some years, favored such bills, and do not now, in passing. The right front wheel Form er Pastor To school building. It is anticipated, gults fronl a higher june, 1955, ¡^)Ulb Dakota, moving at 300 miles perhap8 no better than the aver- feeling th a t If a m an puts on the stru ck a hole, causing the driver and desired, th a t a full expression wbeat parity price that the Aug- an hour over a checker board of of recent years, but far, far cloak of civic responsibility by be to lose control of the car and it Occupy Pulpit Sunday of the eligible voters will be re- 1954| prlce used to determine u u le farins> nttle compared to ahead Qf the tong thue average. coming a r publisher he Is . duty skidded a across w »t»*R ~ ---------- nub- SX1UUVU u u M the highway, com- — corded. the minimum support announced eastern Oregon farm s. It all s e e m s __________ ___ bound to see th at J 1 t ing to rest against a fourfoot bank Here on a vacation fishing tr p, uuestion subm itted to the last September 15. At th at time, Very unhurried and almost slow, llshed every week. True, it i causing considerable damage ReVt w . W*. G earhart of Ojai, Calif. The question . departm ent said if the w heat L J business of going 3000 miles, c • n KT I ° ftCn X i e T n F w e a ™ th in k fu l to the car. w lll occupy the.pulpit a t the. Moro of June 1, 1955, was one coast to the other, be- are available and we arc i Mr G reathouse was asleep in Community church a t the 11 Shall Union Hig higher that the $2.50 parity price . n breakfast and dinner. Today for Mr. C raw fords pres < (he |>ack geat and the crash Caus- o’clock service, Sunday. A form er ro n tract a tM>nded in- of August, 1954, the 82to percent we spend the time from 9 a.m. to and in past years. ^<1 him to suffer several injuries, pastor of the church, Rev, Gear- < alltn ,,f «qni non of parity minimum support would g.jg p ,n going to Chicago in six «» ■ There is no difficulty in one including a cut on the forehead, a ^ rt u filling in for Rev. Solomon, debtedness I n th e sum o $30L000 hours ? h M s using up life pretty convincing oneself th at he needs a uppef Hp and bruises on th e wUh hig famUy ls ln call- for / h e ptm po^ bul «nd prlce was f lhe vacation, nor in fl" d l” g f ™ . it upper part ° f his Hght leg' M1 S' fornia w here he has ,been taking m and Id? e a id ih o o l district ” $2.50, resulting in an increase of The caplaln just announced that saving1 largely as a result tude of reasons fo rd o in g Ju st ^ h a t Greathouse s u f f e r ^ a cu t on the a brief sum m er so h o o l^ u rs e . ln ^ 2 Cp m . at two cents a bushel abovfce the Aberdeen. S. D. he w ants to do. V b a t back of her head. Both were taken A potluck dinner will be school building. m inim um support announced last where the tem perature was 97 de- periods during the average the hum an mind for if to The Dalles General hospital, the ln t he church parlors Immediate y . fad and that the teunperature pYenchmen*» present itfettme, ac- find reasons for doing w hat county am bulance answ ering the R o w in g the w orship service. .— ------------- The support ra te for the 1950 outslde the cabin was exactly zero. <<)rdlng to sta te T reasurer Slg hum an spirit w ish « ? call. -- ------------- . o u t of town visitors of Mr. and crop already has been set at $1.11, much for s tratocruising. Unander, who has Just returned So we are Hying east - u ^ u V n ^ P K C T IO N FKK Mrs. E rnest Eslinger during the or 76 per cent of parity. The plane circled throUgh the froni a vacation trip to France and flown, in fact), and-w ill visit the Grass Valley Llve8t« k brand lnspecUon tee» we«k.end Included Mr. and Mrs Mra Earl Baker, Moro hotel. ^ ' ^ “o V o ^ ^ X ^ p 'i h ^ C o l u .n - IU ' y' daughter and a trio of growing B y M rs. A. F. Balxer in Oregon were reduced July 1 w n l paUerson of Eugene, Mr. and especially interested In see- «liver barley russet The state treasurer, who was ac- grandchildren and a son-in-law «he w ater pageant at . Bend ^ " < * . „ 7 ^ » " S io w of the con,panted on the “ to la basin showed plain- Unander, made the trip prim« y typographical map on to receive the Legion of Honor, _____ _____ . . _ „ __ - ____________ _____ ___ ivf zvAttnn had highest highest honor, bestowed cotton France’s had France’s Maréchal league shortstop w ants t o s e e it July picnic a t the Alfred Rock cuiture. * a> ° ** "thrown Heighth was 15,000 upon him by A iarecn.u Alfonse i Z until Idaho w ien we wenl up Juln. The on.>■ hvlng .n aretal In the legislative hitting and fielding fanch were Mr and Mrs. Arzell Also effective July 1, the depart- ri much le tte r in ‘ W ashington IjCinley and daughter, Carolyn, m ent put Into use a new series of Oi with the four motors France today, Juln Is likewise me Z l l Z Z k e a lee m otor climbing idgheat m ilitary figure In France than in Salem. And there is curi- Mj. and Mrg Dahrns> ji,n Rober- stOck Brand inspection certificates. - r cu of U e D ^ S e o canyon. Then and Is In command of the ground oslty about John Day an^ son, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Pinkerton These wU1 be issued only by au- out of the DeHcnuies cany SHApB (irgan|za- w hat hat sort sort of of a a farm and two tWo children, chiid re n, tne the uonaiu Donald w von t horized in inspectors, w larm program and n thonzeu s p e c t» , about 100 -- of --------- --------- probably to get over tlon. The honor was conferred in might be a-cooking and a reP°rb Borstel family, and Mr. and Mrs. whom are working th roughout Eaton, w ith hl* wife and Miners and prospectors and «. wasn,t bad. e r’s confident feeling th a t it t Ijester Barnum and sons. egon on full or part-tim e basis. ou.idren ^ ate was 14 and oldest, trappers kept coming by for they » Wftrwa together to get recognition of services rendered iust as easy to see the man who d Donald Clodfelter The reduction in fees will mt*an 'Dalles on a February day were on the main traveled road 1 he crew w g uaaaen by Unander in the last world war m a V d Z s I o n s as the man who ” nt t he Fourth of July visiting a auhatantlal saving to Oregon „“^ X l of going l-ctween The Dalle, and Walla the w ork done for t h . 62 paaaen In behalf of France. . -------- t ‘ic.r . l i g h t e r s and families in cattlem ent and allied livestock en- n 18M winn # Walla and every party wanted to gers alx>ard this 81 passenger talks about them -- before or after. after city dwellers in Rents roj,i iirtsiul that was plane. Two pilots handle the Hood River and Dee. terprises, says J. F. Short,. direc or Eaton w as a native T T W N Sometimes, often in summer, the w eather on the Deschutes river becomes as near perfect as ____ _____ out. sw switches. minis- where the cost-rent ration fter th sundow n n , wo daugh. daugh. bran<j S ^ lngpectlon d o a polntfi points ,n In ureg«.. Oregon '*‘7 dren ' were born , to ford the 1>s. few days the flour supply ran out. can be be. A After the e early early sundow twQ nci.«.. The * two o hostesses m . e ondes s w th e a ,r is of unlH thevable^oa ^ n arUve„“ ;m ( husban,k k . a Mr and Mnv j.cached a new high of more than “ , ^ d (ord us„ , Mrs. Eaton sent Jess back to The w r Jo Jh e U ljn d ;he.bungry; o p e r a t t a . S d M m .R Z heaZ.V hr^ugh 1 ^ c h u u T r iv Z th e 'd d ford used Mrs- ™ o „ j ¿ „ m V e e r v e d a lu n c h « n to Ute • ^ « n c h peop.e ness and there is no i Z S o n s each month this year by the em igranu b ut ^ e r e d « “ ' « ^ ^ c h to p u t a lean-to whole outfit Wonder ,«l>at woldd n<jw buylng automoblle., « - S S n ? h e constantly changing roar R k h ardV Sherman chapter, E astern Star, we£ higher than In the sam e that fording the ,nJ £ ¡,vcr the fantastically profitable hapiwn If they dldn work „.|ge ,.a tors and other of the river and th e cry of birds ruary wasn i t « a g ghe also algo ordered ¿ rdered Jess Je«8 gether. durables of rpygh mverb Valley V a lie v Sun- S u n - month ------ - last iQD» year vear for cOOk stove. She A tira h le s using the American settling down for the nignt. heJd a picnlc at' ••• W J iO .l- t- a M o n bargained with * the f w T ry n a » n to redeem the « ___ c k of dried a p p l« Montana is a long state w th lom of buying on credit, Trains on the w est bank do day. J u ,y 3 pbirty.fjve a tte n d e d ,------------------ -- passage. Eaton had no money. ferryman. high mountain« on the west edge proven a boon to the break into the quiet first with a reportlng a very good time. 7 . J. H e * X k InTeoupW of d e y . whfch give rU .O o n u » e ro u . rfv- F r a « e e lth o u g h b j. low whine th at may The W W arren arren Morgan Morgan family family of of C h i l d r e n S u l O i y H O W iow wi».— _______ The th at he had put up the fall before He w « m » eoupm o. u e y . ; — Je „ eraun. Mad,- „ a t i v e l y emah for the noise of a passing plane Condon came to visit his parents, _ 7 ’first cbddreh-e sfory hour n Z , u ,'\ a k u ^ Z 'm X Z . « L o f the" p ~ p , or an approaching jeep but which and Mfg Bert Cox> over the f k w r b u t no apples The ferry- Forks to make the big Missouri, J ht refrigerators, for instance, soon is identified as a train h> w eek-end. Tbe first children’s story h< « ¡.re ■«.! 1. a fanje untapped high song of th e rails. Big long Mrg Alfred j<ock was hostess of the sum m er was held Wednes- the Eaton river. drove on tow ard P e n d f. - n ’woufdrrt let r t Z r g r Z e h a u W by three and - — r ^ n o o n ' bridge club " a. ^ S 3 Z n‘ ‘^ t e ^ i to «elec- ton and that night camped In fru it he d had In a ,„ng Ume an(, othar atreama they flow eaeb m arket Unander said th at whereas lie- four u n i t d 1eee1s ; l t i s . o n e hOM(he „ „ June 30. High Boor, umejheld ¡,ons from K lphng’a''JuB t,So’? Ue S t-nlsh^H otow n j j r . e p i r l n g ^ ¡X fore the last war many of the men maior rail links between the Co- by Helene Lemley, with Dorothy read by Mrs. Lamer Sayrs. now have motor Rich. As Eaton was staking his 8Ummer they had enough h , d between the Missouri bad bicycles, ^ T T f u . n they ’‘motorcycles Food lumbla river and California. Dunlap second. Velma Bibby w o n ___________ S ir » « out on the fine tall gram, a n i . h i M l X l p p l - Jue. about Rut the few evidences of com- <he traveUng prize. Cecil Eakin that covered the vaUey a n d ^ r . h.tded f je m T h t ,h e d a - .m the whole w fd e w o rfd - - , b ^ y o n c gets fomh n m g Z r t h Z V ’v Z ' Z m i m » " ^ M e m b e Z i ' X e n t were Clara Pe- ¿ ¿ .i ,’ fertile, well watered, pro- - — ” ” i f c W S K a f » Now Number 6,900 a s p rln g g H f em ge^ta- e s s s s r r s v W hat i n « Z o r T h e ir '» u p p e r .^ ^ p a r ty of K k erjtJh eJtam ^B ^e « f e “Z ...... in g In Sherman Co. tion for infantile Paralysis at 2 r u ’ . S a ^ ^ n U b u i . d u « Busl. ness w in*include*election*of offi- cers. Crop Conditions Generally Good In Sherman oi School Building Bond Election rOUV IflUeS Up Rni/c Today’s Business To Freeze Up Editor’s Trenchant Typewriter SaV U U lg «.X N C.AnAm o OilgCF an II L Habit 01 rrCnCnlTian, Uliander DlSCOVerS 4--.I-- U Aorz? M nrP W dC pIm hatl ¡JflgJ Applet fftTC MO Te IT O m m P t T I H UH p Offl i i 1 . U L E s arlV flV DeSCHUteS Ferryman U UI IT D «zur PkSlQ fnrv rlfllir J*or Slimmer Oiariea CaHGray OC when it lightens the dark <lif- and makes the riv er glow like a ¡¡¡ierm candleetlcK In the daytim e the river and the 1 hills are harsh and say rs of Moro, W lnnifred 1 austh, 1)oi,othy Dunlap and her sister-in- law from „ P e n n .y lv .n le , Nel. Swjck and Cecil Eakin ______ ______ Sis.««?«! U«ls SMUer Family S s S v 5 a a »>• ««■"“ " s ™<1” ' Mr. and M rs, U m le.Sather web Z o!ed. the huge h.llB_become pro- S S w alls"an d th e « f i n e « of corned tlx children » M a m nd- « e n m g pervades a rough acene chi dren at a faml ly re union In i v , the man Interested only the r horn \ t r ' an,i'M rs Ken- Present u e re Mr. and Mr>. hen b«k railing P ^Siifeniugh w)klng a 0(her associated vocational agriculture supper? We are going to ht ,Ilin4.r <H>uld find food for sale article the other <lay saying with an evening meal, ^ ^ y U^ion Pacific Railroad one said. j u g[ y, ^ 1 1 ^ 25 «if thmn wo“ «l hunger made communism and an- W* ° d * in lta iy are ^ t o u ^ / i o o , according to J. W Now the E a < o n a - 1 ^ ^ have and eomet. m « 2u them fa ™ “ l o ^ i S ' a n m S a n « . Unander Jarvis, supervisor of agricultural dcvelopment for the railroad. Reporting on the scholarships f o r X period 1921 through 1954, xt . n i m l U ^ d o . U r , on th e acholar»hlp P ^ - KholareW p, are are 0 scholarships w o ^l ^ ’¿ to ™ o uU tan,hn(( 4-H 4.H club aw T erd u u tendtng to outstanoing -»-n boy» and girls and vocational ag- boys ano »*5« much g ,, b t On one of his trips to town Jess made hunger. Jn not intended to sell any , went Ui the ^ r t house to l‘«ve- c|ared that the traditions made »bout taking up a home- Some are adventurer«, Inven happy to share with hungry trave e ra , ^ d X d ^ r he had foSnd the ors, .-lentlsts. thinkers, andU t is ^ ? Pin farming t ^ ^ j X ^ a ' ^ r d the '/ohn Day The next m orning j ohn Day. m e next iw irm i« an o,her party goingfin, going In to h „ h e er r fVtrty to> The om ---- -- D - e ll« „topped to see If they could .. to ett> and they were t d . ^ V d ^ e n " « ^ . - ....... «... - - restric- pie w ho-never know or care m e the not well well known known or o r care- c a r^ name 01 me m.“ „ Z h e . i t t . U nander »aid. ■ not f enforced fully ^ tfo n e d a ,X ' n ^ " f lo v Z V ^ e ■ be . h b : ä fui activity spemi more th an they in dollars tr o u t n lwth countries he de- the children look clean quite in contrast to the whh b they looked dur- s s s s - ¿sHSas ’’Ä S S S ä S S ä S 2 Ä Ä Ä 5 S always pTenty tor Americans to eat ami a» a country th at can be trust- for these are not Ill-kept p a tc h « <•<>. ___ im ander talked of .off tepde.1 by ignorant peas- The people hat I nan e ^Ulk s t r e e t - -------- good and w a tc r^ a n d y they would D e ll« the d e m a lls ’ made on them. T hat the etre , ra th e r they liken It to of stay and b a k e ^ o m e more bread [®n ar* ’.,a L rJc for . f< w ® e k s Is, unless som ething else Inter- lv ffnlnxr on. The little stove Iker an 1 > rg venes l»ctween them and the con- death, a thing not looked on di rectly. sumers. (Continued on Page 4) (C ontinued on Page 2) Ö Dalles « e » «Ss ««s
