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Nature i
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in the weatii-
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y of every native
in the me
ian who can recall
Sherman c
r of 1919 and the
the deep i
1935 with enough
hard freez
accuracy to dislike the memory.
The sudden change that ruined
the entire crops of the county in
192 4 will not ix? forgotten by the
generation that had to borrow
money from the state to get seed
wheat for the 1925 crop and those
w*ho were farming in March of
1906 will not forget the storm
that wiped out the crop that
year.
Although we know such things
may happen we do not like them
and this »pell of severe cold, com
ing as it did right after some of
the balmiest November weather
in years made the extreme partic-
ularlly notable.
Rut optimism is an incurable
trait. Already folks are saying
that maybe* just maybe-this will
lw the worst storm of the winter,
that perhaps we will have ban
ana weather through December
and January until ground hog day.
Maybe we will, but coming this
early may indicate the advent of
a real winter such as we have
not ha<l for years.
FARM TRO UBLES
We have l»een talking to a lot
of farmers, fruit growers, nut
growers, stockmen and while
they’re,not doing so badly, they
are all having troubles.
Prices are going down.
Rut
prices on the market are going
down much less than prices on
the farm. Packaging, shipping,
marketing, costs more. A farmer
get 1,6 cents for potatoes that sell
for eight and ten, he gets two
cents for prunes that sell for 40,
he gets three cents for a pound
of wheat that sells for 17,
The customer has been trained
to like easy shopping and pur
chase of food in small packages,
wrapped attractively In cello
MORO, OREGON,
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sort of thing would mean that
forever, he would be a serf, with T H A N K SG IV IN G
out hope of economic indepen
Everyone always has some
dence.
thing to be happy about juat as
If farmers would stay together they always have something to be
"In an organization they could sad about. No one lives long un
control their prices and they may der conditions that are perfect,
have to do that eventually; if nor utterly miserable.
Thanksgiving is a oay set aside
they could manage somehow to
control their own product clear for us to remember the things
that make us happy or that did
The housewife m«.y complain to the consumer they could do al make us hoppy during the past
right
but
that
involves
many
about the high cost cf food when
year. The history of it is well
it is the package that costs so other skills than farming.
known; how it was first celebrat
much.
The farmer complains
Neither are we impressed with ed for a satisfactory harvest by
about his poor price. His price
the Pilgrims. Nowda's we are not
is variable, subject to rise and the argument, recently made, that made happy over a mere adequate
fall. The price of packaging, sell farmers are these days so small supply of food. If it were so this
ing, shipping is constant— and a part of the entire national econ nation would be the most cheer
constantly rising as labor costs omy that their welfare will af ful In the history of the world.
fect the whole but slightly. We
increase.
With sufficient food we began
know that when we see old auto
Neither aj;e farmers angry that mobiles on the streets of Moro to worry about other things and
labor gets good wages for without we shall soon see them on the found plenty about which we
that they would buy less food, streets of The Dalles and Port could worry. Of worry there is
always a surplus.
What they would like Is a better land.
Thanksgiving is a day for re
price for the raw product without
It is entirely possible that the membering the good hings of life.
which none of those providing the
services could exist. Another cent eventual solution of the farm Sometimes it seems that one day
on the wheat in a loaf of bread, or problem will come from a study is hardly enough and that there
on a pound of potatoes or prunes of farming in all its aspects ra should be such a day once in
wouldn’t cost the consumer much ther than from a rereading of the every week. Wle might even make
Certainly it more impressive by having it
percentage-wise and would put books on economics.
the farmer in a far better position it isn’t a matter that will be sol- follow a day in which we deliber
to buy the products of industry. veil by politics for political ans ately recalled all the bad things
Neither, we think, does the wers are all of the flashy, temp that happened to us.
farmer want to live by means of orary kind suited to the next
a direct subsidy from the govern election. The farm problem is too
ment.
The acceptance of that deep for that
P E I/T O N D A M CA SK
phane, labeled flashily. Much of
what the housewife pays for is
package. Farmers don’t think this
is going to change. The time is
gone when a householder stows
a half dozen sacks of potatoes
away in the cellar for the winter,
or takes home a 40 pound box
of dried prunes and a sack of dry
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Rom where I sit... ¿y Joe Marsh
Seen Monk's
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Meets 2nd and 4th
Tuesdays of each
month.
Visiting
members welcome
Vada DeMoss, N. G.|
Jo Gentry, Sec.
M oro
Ixxige
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Monk McCarthy’s latest crea
tion has the town talking again.
You can see it parked in front of
Monk’s auto repair shop on Maple.
Remember last year Monk cut
two cars in h alf, and put their
fro n t ends together? You couldn’t
tell i f the thing was coming or
going. Sure attracted attention.
Now M onk’s taken Tog M or
gan's old sedan and completely
restored one h alf of it. One side
is as good as new, the other looks
like— well, Tog’s old car. “ Sort of
a b e fo re -a n d -a fte r dem onstra
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THIS WINTER
Insulation can make it less uncomfortable.
I am equipped to insulate your house with blown in
rock wool that will save a third of the fuel and in
crease the comfort many times.
The job is not messy It is not expensive. It saves
you money.
FRED MERRITT
formerly with Clarence Odell
Phone 383, Wasco, Oregon
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»f America arc rid-
it prosperity this
ng high
rntry has ever known. I otal national
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t's wonderful! And it can continue
—r/ we handle this prosperity with com
mon sense. IJ each of us, as an individual
tilizen, manages his own financial af
fairs with care.
One of the most important things to do
« to save sensibly now. Right now,
• hen your earning power is at a peak,
put something away for yourself every
rayda\ systematically. 'The best way
to sign up for I . S. Savings Bonds
riirotiuh the l’a\ roll Sa\ n - Plan where
you work. Another way is to buy Bonds
regularly where you bank.
Here are three reasons why IJ. S. Sav
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the V. S. Coir,
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They're liquid- you can always cash
them, if you have to, after you’ve held
them for two months.
Treasury Secretary Humphrey said ,
(on June 24, 1955), “ We believe at this
time of great prosperity that all ol us
- Government, business, and individ
uals alike — should exercise self-re
straint in the use of public or private
credit and the accumulation of debt.”
l et’s apply his words to our private
affairs and preserve this prosperity
for ourselves and our children!
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From w here I s it, some of
Monk's ideas may look a little
wild sometimes . . . but I woulda’t
want to tell him how to run his
business any more than I ’d like
Aim to tell me what beverage to
enjoy. He always keeps a hot pot
of tea in his garage —I ’d rather
have a cold glass of beer —but re
spect for each other’s opinion io
“auto”-matic with us both.
Copyright, 1955, United States Urewe/s t oundauop
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as you prefer!
$2.80 pt.
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tion,” Monk told me, “shows folks
the kind of work I do.”
LOST: Chev. truck spare wheel
with tire between Condon and
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against the Estate of W. D. Fuller,
deceased, are hereby notified to
present them, with the proper
vouchers and duly verified, to
the gnoersigned, the duly appoint
ed, qualified and acting Admin
istratrix of the estate of W. D.
Fuller, deceased, at the office of
T. Lester Johnson, attorney at
law, Moro, Oregon, within six
months from the date of the first
publication of this Notice, to-wit:
November 11, 1955.
Eunice L. Fuller
Administratrix
T. I^ester Johnson
Attorney for Administratrix
Mbro, Oregon
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E u pi nt* Keb**kah Ixxlge No. 118
Meets 1st and 3rd
Tuesdays in l.O.OJ’.
hall. Transient ar.d
visiting brothers are
cordiallv invited
There has recently been more John Shipley, N. G.
interest in the Pelton dam deci
i.oo Watkins. Secretary
sion that was made last summer
by the supreme court. That deci Aethlehem Chapter No. 78. O.BLS
sion was that the federal govern
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fourth Thursday lnea.b
ment had authority over streams
month; visiting member
entirely within states.
Meets every aecond anu
First intimation that such a
Invited. Moro, Oregon
ruling might he made came about
Catherine Thompson, W. M.
15 years ago when the court ruled
Naomi Van Gilder, Secretary
that any stream that would float
a shingle was a navigable stream U u re k a L od ge No. l l l
Meets on the 1st and
and presumably under control of
3rd Thursday evening»
the federal government. The Pel-
pprh monufi. \ lsitif.4
ton dam decision naturally follow
members cordialb m
ed.
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The Oregon cas», which per
Frank Sayrs, W. M.
mitted the Portland General Elec Clyde Gillmor, Secretary
tric to build the Pelton dam,
means that states have no rights
to determine the use of streams
for power.
It also presumably
gives the federal government au
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vive without power to act in its
own behalf and while a state is
not usually considered local gov
ernment the same rule applies to
it. Our constant centralization of
governmental authority is a very
serious matter to everyone and
encroachment of higher govern
ments on the power of smaller
units is taking government away
from people and giving it to huge
bureaus that apply one yardstick
to all cases. This removes the peo
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and vary the use of streams in
ths case.
Congress should act to change
the law on which the decision
was made or to change the con
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much about it for the house, be
ing elected on a basis of popula
tion actually represents the east.
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