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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1955)
o PACK 3 SHERMAN COUNTY ,Ol RNAI., IIORO, OREGON Moro Personals Mrs. Robert Cockburn of Port A drivers license examiner will land left for her home Tuesday be on duty in Moro, Tuesday, Au after spending a few days here gust 2, 1955 at tihe court house with her i>arent», Mr. and Mrs. A. between the hours of 10 a. m, and Douma. Attending the funeral of Ver 3 p. m. non Flatt Tuesday were Mr. and CARD OF THANKS Lou Grage, Mrs. Marvin Howard, We wish to thank all those who Mrs. Francis Schechinger of Gran were so kind to us during the din, N. D. and Mrs. Merlin Grage great loss of our husl>and and fa of Hillsboro, N. D. Mr. and Mrs. ther. Frank Cauthers, Mr. and Mrs. R. Especially for the lovely flow T. Cowin of Seattle, Mrs. Ralph ers and cards sent and Kraft of Jamestown, N. D. and To Rev. Gearhart for his com Mr. and Mrs. Edd Crawford of forting words and all those who Sequim, Wash., Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Curtiss, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Cloe helped us in every way. Mrs. Vernon Flatt H. H. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mr. anti Mrs. Bob Flatt Davis, Mrs. Bernard Bockh^ld, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Axtell Mr. and Mrs. Don I^ewis, all of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Flatt The Dalles, M. A. Fugeyand Lloyd Neece of Portland. _____ and families Mrs. B. H. Roberson left Wed CARD OF THANKS I want to thank every one for nesday for Seattle, Wn., having the cards sent to me while I was enrolled in the University of Wa shington summer school for a at Doernbecher Hospital. Vernon (Skipper) Axtell four week course. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Peetz and son, Lester, came Monday after noon for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Ora Peetz. They live on the Hawaiian Islands where he is a mechanic for a sugar plantation. Byron has not lieen in Moro for many years and finds difficulty in finding many he knew’ then. The Minnesota society will hold its annual picnic July 31 at Jant- n a c m iM F Zen Beach park and all former Minnesota residents are invited. i u n io n . Mrs. John Stewart and son, Bruce, of Coos Bay, are here for a * visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Christianson. After a NEW ROYAL TRITON few days ehe will return home leaving Bruce here with her mo IRA FRIDLEY ther. Consignee Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Scott and Mr. and Mrs. “Togo” Osburn, all Wasco, Oregon of Kansas City, Missouri stopped 5—20 and 10—30 here Monday evening to visit over UNION OIL COMPANY Tuesday with Mr. Scott’s niece, Mrs. Henry Barnum and Henry. of California They left Wednesday for Portland and Seattle. Phone 272 /tfoWT a 1600 I ' * ' « * MORO HOTEL COFFEE SHOP under new management G FRIDAY, JULY t t , l»4i Wasco News Mrs. Joe Hrlnkaru Milton Zell came home Satur day for a few days with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. HlUlred Zell. He is in the navy and stationed at San Diego. California. A. B. and Bon Christianson were first to start this year's har vest and are hauling to Biggs. Following them were Clem Welk, George Fox. J. R. Yocum, McCoy Bros., John and Gordon Hllder- hrand, Pat and George Macnab, the Macnab Co., Ed Cardinal. Clarence Morrison and Fred Dor- maier. A normal crop Is being cut and several more are to start this week. The warm weather ripened the wheat in a hurry when it finally came. Last w’eek’s fires brought this years total to more than we had all season last year. They includ ed a fire on the Kasebegr place where a barn was burned, a gra.* fire in Biggs canyon and a grass fire in town between the homes of Bertha Moon and the Joe Mor rows. It got into Harry Van Gild er’s wheat but was stopped almost at once before any real damage was done. Later that evening the rest of the lot was burned off as a protection for both homes. Rev. and Mrs. Richard Bruner have as guests his parents, the Samuel Bruners of Cleves, Ohio. They and Mrs. Bruner and son left Wednesday morning to fly east where she will visit her own parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mad dox of Columbus, Ohio and the elder Bruners. She expects to be gone about three weeks. Mrs. Tom Besslar and son Felix and Mrs. Mac McBride are mov ing Saturday to the Besslar home In Portland where she can be close to her doctor. They have been living In the Rich apart ment. , . Guests a day late last week of Mrs. Vleda Van Gaasbeck were her brother in law and sister Mr. and Mrs. Ed McKee of Hood River and Mr. and Mrs. M. E. McKee of Portland. Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dell Wright have been Mr. and them in this area were Bill and Don Macnab, Iceland Medler and Dick Yocum. Yocum is the only one hauling to the Rufus elAa tors at this writing. The others take their loads to Klondike. The Home Ec. club of Rufus grange met Thursday afternoon at the Wasco City Park for a pot luck picnic. Some invited guests and their families also attended. There was a short business meet ing after the picnic. Mrs. Harland McDonald reminds the women they will soon have to make pre parations for the food stand they plan to operate at the Sherman County Fair in September. Also the grange plans to have a dis play booth at the fair. Jerry Brackett and Jimmy Fox drove to Kcho Sunday to pick up Michael O'Brien who plans to work for the Fay Bracketts dur ing the harvest season. Rufus Personals Mr. and Mrs. Bill O’Brien brought Patty O’Brien down from Mrs. George Fox Echo to jdin the local Girl Scouts Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Franklin who will spend this week at the and children of Chelan, Wn., plan Girls Scout camp. to come to Rufus Sunday where Mrs. Franklin will be the new’ pastor of the Rufus church of the Nazarene. Mr. Franklin is also a ------( H I M O R R H O I D S ) minister, but due to poor health S IN OUR is retired. The children are a sen I —end 'Retai di»«o»«» ior and Junior in high school and Tl’l • COLOR A STOMACH AILMENTS will be students at Rufus this fall. è “ i f treated without hospital operation It took the ferocious wind of ¡YEA R Of CREDIT TO RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE last Saturday to blow’ out the heat I SIR V ICI i E D E C Du»tripN»u 8 oklul r R t i r t , t . ........ of last week when this community * . sweltered under heat hovering C L IN IC around the 100° mark. No exten D E A N Open 10 o.w. until 8 p m. Mon., Wud Fii, sive damage of the wind was re 10 u « . until S p m Tuui ond Ihurt. H,7110lhu1ap.it, - Chm piactic ’ hvnciun» ported, however, but it did hamp N i . SANDY BOULEVARD er the harvesting operations of PHvnr 2 " 0 A 2 il « 39 18 Portion 12 ?ro«on the few* who began Friday. Among w » » e * -w w w w - w w w w w ■w -r w> w v w ■xr w w V Mrs. Dale Wright, Mr. a ml Mrs. Perl Wright and Lesion Wright and his son, all of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Haines have moved to the house on the Harry Van Glkler ranch. They hail been living in the Owen Barnett house on Main street. Mr. and M pb . Joe Morrow are living in the house formerly oc cupied by Mr. anti Mrs. LeRoy Hesgard. Mrs. Vleda Van Gaasbeck stum bled and hurt her leg and foot and was unable to be around much for a couple of weeks. It is much better now. Mrs. Hazel Boyd Is to enter a Portland hospital Sunday, July 24, for surgery. Clarence Odell Is in Vancouver, \Wn, w’here he Is to roof fourteen new houses In a unit. CAI FO R B ID S • N # view applicants for bus driver for said d.strict on Tuesday, August 9. 1955, at 8 o’clock pin at the 'i-hool house in said school dis trict. 37t2 Clara Houston, Clerk. Dr. Frank D. Reid Now Open MORO BEAUTY SHOP same location PHONE 512 DKNTIMT Office Clotted Until Further \n iii i Moro Hotel 761 We have a lot of clothes here. Dainty, light, pretty things for summer. And being old residents we always have some heavy, sturdy, clothes for this kind of weather. We Keep what you want at a price you can pay WASCO OREGON P IL E S Cooking's easier with a phone in you» kitchurt Beefo’s And in every other room you use a lot, extension teh* phones save lime and steps. Call our business office to- d; ' ' '.ne T ele p h o n e. at the Capitol City Hot, ain’t it? Cool in here. Fans going, air circulating, cool things on the bar. Nice place. Come in. You’re welcome. •oih » ... ..on phone t o ,I, (••• Ihan a n itk tl a day Sunday Dinners P erfection Special Attention to Children Mrs. Olive M Willis You and the West profit when Standard changes a dollar in every service at reasonable cost. Like you and your family, Standard Oil Company of California has to have money coming in to keep gi ¡ng. And like you, we must divide every dollar of this income into quite a few pieces to keep the bills paid. Our budgeting is naturally on a large scale, but the result is about the same: most of the money Standard takes in goes right back into circulation. And when a sum like $1,229,000,000 (our total in come last year) goes into circulation, its benefits are broad and deep. Practically everyone in the West Mortgage Loans To Meet Your Individual Needs ATTRACTIVE TERMS • • PROMPT SERVICE Standard Insurance Co. A western company serving western agriculture HOME OFFICE 812 S. W. Washington Portland, Oregon Phone ATwater 4331 •Leonard & Wilma Smith funeral directors Phone The Dalles 3135 shared, directly or indirectly, in Standard’s good year. We thank you for your patronage that made it possible. And we’d like you to know that a sizable piece of change from each of our dollars goes for things that improve service to you: research facilities for development of better products at low cost; new plants to make them more available; widespread ex ploration for new petroleum fields to help keep America’s oil barrel full. To do these jobs, now and for the future, here’s how we changed a Standard dollar: 2^ to w o r k in g c a p ita l and d eb t. This $20 million increased inventories of products for future sale and included payments on debt. from every dollar went for wages, services and goods. Of this $471,500,000 the largest item was for payroll, vacations, sickness pay ments, other employee benefits. Most of the rest went to buy supiriies, from paper clips to steel, bought locally wlien possible. Standard was a cus tomer of thousands of Western firms. n eed mone 12^ paid for other new c o n s tr u c tio n and exploration. a low-cost f ir s t 17. p e r s o n a l lo a n is as easy as th is ... It cost $162 million and it included money for refineries, pi|>e lines and for drilling wells in the search for new oil. 8< for taxes was divided among w a s s e t a s i d e fo r d e p r e c ia tio n , to help replace Gw io your nuurbv First Nunonul Brunch, and utli to s r i loan officer. (Y o u 'll find him friendly, helpful.) facilities as they wore out. A great deal of this $119 million went to workmen, technicians, and suppliers. Explain your needs (Y o u might wish to consolidate debts, pay doctor balls or taxes, or have one of many other reasons io need ready cash.) went for crude oil- To supplem ent our own production, Standard bought millions of barrels from h u n d re d s of in d e p e n d e n t producers. This cost $268 million — an important item to producers'prof its and their employees' paychecks. 7 7 ^ 7 Arrange your own repayment plan. (S m all m onth ly payments w ill he suited to your particular urusuon ) You will raen»« cauh. or ha*a Ivan t reduud Kt youi Ubfauesa M/ 7* o f e v e r y d o lla r , or $87 million, was left to divide among our owners, S ta n d a rd ’s 117,035 shareholders, in return for the use of the money they have invested in the Company. * SHERMAN COUNTY BRANCH I t you wish a copy of our Annual Report for 1954, write to Standard OU Company of California, Rra 2162, 225 Bush S t., San Francisco, 20, Calif. © •> N A T IO N A L B A N K “tir s © ■fa ■' ¿ the U. 8. government, states, coun ties and cities. Standard’s tux bill came to $101,500,000 . .. enough to build plenty of schools, bridges, park equipment, etc. Standard also col lected product and sales taxes for federal, state and city governments. B U ILD O IIO O M STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA plan» ahead to serve you better TO O ! T H i r o
