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o PAGE 3 o SHERMAN COVNTT JOURNAL, MoRO, OREGON, FRIDAV, DEC EMBER 16, 1933 ^ _ O ___ Moro Personals Mrs. John DeMoss has return ed to Phoenix, Arizona from her recent trip to Oregon. They are moving from Mesa back to Shady Ranch Traiier Lodge at 3041 N. 44th St., Phoenix. Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McKee December 12, a son, in Portland. Mr. McKee is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion McKee, for merly of Wasco and Moro. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Masiker of Hood River, Mrs. May Schiller of Newport and Mrs. VI Chandler of Portland, son and daughters of Charley Masiker, called on Mrs. Ora Pettz and Mh and Mrs. E. E. Barnum Sunday. PCA Trying To Buy Out FICB ® Teachers Leave Jobs Cut Costs By Storing Oil In Earthen Pit The average Oregon school dis trict lost 20.04 per cent of its cer tified school personnel over the last year, according to a teacher turnover study recently completed by the Research Bureau of the Oregon Education association. The study shows that of 14.038 certificated persons in Oregon ele mentary and secondary schools, 2,813 were dropped from the per sonnel lists of individual school districts between last fall and this fall. No reasons are given for the dropouts, but it can be assumed that some took jobs with other districts in Oregon and elsewhere, some retired and some went Into other lines of work. Greatest tnurover percentage wise was in the second and third class districts which were tabul ated by counties. The average turnover of these smaller districts was 28.84 per cent. A The Mid-Columbia Production Credit association and 29 similar associations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington w ill' ev entually own the Federal Interme diate Credit Bank of Spokane and the IToduction Credit Corporation of Spokane if plans now’ under consideration are successfully car ried out, J. Merton Stefb. secre tary-treasurer of the local associ ation announced today. Mr. Stein, has just returned from a four-state meeting of Pro duction Credit association officers and directors at Spokane, Novem ber 30, where plans to merge the two district credit institutions and for farmers to gradually become their owners were discussed. Also representing the local association at the Spokane meeting were W. R. Bailey, president and Riddell Lage, vice-president. herd testing, and better feeding are among suggestions. liihstitutlng lower-priced «rain fo a high-priced hay m Oregon dairy rations "»«»« y cut *__« fe et!___ this winter, For the longer pull, the economists fav more pas- ture and silage. Recent steps by the dairy indus try to shave farm-to-market ex penses have reduced Oregon milk di.stt ibution costs to among the lowest In the nation. Early this year, Oregon marketing costs and margins for fluid milk averaged alxiut 9.9 cents a quart compared to a national average of 12.2 cents. The shift from cans to tank-hand, ling of milk, collection and deliv ery of milk on alternate days, and wider use of paper containers are changes that are helping to hold down marketing costs. ducted as big game animals move to the winter ranges and must lie done before the bucks lose their antlers. Herd composition is es- sential in determining the number of bucks available for hunting and breeding purposes and the number of fawns available for fu ture hunters. Incomplete reports from game agents indicate that the buck, doe ratio is normal and that plenty of big racks escaped the guns of the hunters this past fall. In addition to herd composition, range studies are also being con ducted to measure the amount of browse available for big game winter use. Sample plots have l>een established on all big game ranges, and measurements of the growth and vigor of the browse species are made each year. An other study will be conducted in the spring to determine the amount of winter utilization. Big game population trends— whether the herds are increasing decreasing or remaining constant- and mortality studies will l>e con ducted in late winter and early spring when all big game will be using the winter ranges. Mr. and Mrs. John Parker drove to The Dalles Sunday and Mrs. Maggie Barnum went down with them and remained a few days in that city. Game Commission A major oil company Has discovered a simple method of slashing Bill Hall and Tommy Thompson Storage costs. Instead of using the traditional steel tanks, the ( reole Prophesy 1956 Bucks Petroleum Corporation has scooped out a great earthen pit. The pit, are in Corvallis this week to at costing more than a million dollars holds 3,500,000 barrels of oil. Cover tend the annual conference of ex How many bucks will lie avail- ing nearly thirty acres, the basin provides the first outdoor storage facil tension workers and research Dairies Get Bigger able to hunters next year? ities in Venezuela. It is five feet deep and is encircled by a 30-foot dike. men held in December. The ownership plans, w hich will The answer to this and other Construction took three months of around-the-clock excavation. Accord H. F. Miller, owner of the new be presented to Congress, were And Much Fewer ing to company officials, oil can be stored in the big pit at a cost of about Important questions will lie deter station being built in Moro, was explained py Earl H. Brockman, 80 cents a barrel compared with $1.65 to $2.00 for storage in tanks. Trends toward lietter and few mined bv game commission field Before going ahead with the new project, experts were called in here from The Dalles Wednesday. Caldwell, Idaho, a member of the er dairy farms, coupled with a agents during the big game sur from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They discovered that price-cost squeeze, are spurring veys and range studies now in Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Johnston Federal Farm Credit Board, R. B. the clay of Amuay, Venezuela, was of sufficient consistency to keep Tootell, Governor, and Harold A. farmers to get bigger or to get out progress. Big game surveys will oil from seeping through. Outdoor storage has another advantage: It write from Honolulu, Hawaii, that will enable the company to maintain normal refinery operations during of the dairy business, Oregon continue on all winter ranges they expect to be there most of Miles, director of Short-Term Cre * Now Open the slack summer months. Creole is the Venezuelan affiliate of the State college agricultural econo throughout the winter months. the "winter and send home Christ dit Services of the Farm Credit MORO BEAUTY SHOP Standard Oil Company (N .J.). Administration, both of Washing During December and Into Jan mists report. mas greetings to Sherman coun- ton, D. C. Mr. Brockman told the uary, herd composition will lie A big drop In the number of tians. same location Wasco Church Plans group that the plans were devel W heat Growers Back Oregon farms keeping milk cows determined’ by classifying the PHONE 512 oped by the Federal Board after number of bucks, does, anti fawns Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Robert is shown In preliminary 1954 cen Federal Plan Christinas Program Boynton Wednesday, December a series of meetings held through sus figures. Only 33,170 farms re The Oregon Wheat Growers 14, twin girls. The first was still out the country last summer at league has endorsed the “soil Friday, December 23 will be ported one or more milk cows last which the board asked Production born. Graveside services were bank“ proposal for taking land the date of the presentation of the fall— 5000 fewer than In the held Tursday afternoon at 2 p. m. Credit associations and others in producing surplus crops out of annual Christmas program for the spring of 1950. terested to make suggestions. As production and putting it into a Church of Christ in Wasco. The Further emphasizing the trend at the Moro cemetery. a result of these meetings and reserve to save its productive ca program will begin to specialization, the economists 8:00 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Thompson after considering the recommen point out that only 9866 Oregon drove to Portland Tuesday taking dation of a majority of the 12 pacity fog’ the future needs of the Nearly 50 children, young people farms sold whole milk in 1984 and adults will join to present the at the Capitol City nation. her mother, Mrs. Jack Lawrence, district Farm Credit Boards, the compared to 13,173 in 1949 and down with them for a medical program was drafted as the best The league while approving con Christmas story in pagent, drama 15,010 In 1944. More milk was tinuation of efforts to obtain and song. Featured during the check up. means of carrying out the request adoption sold per farm In 1054, however. Come in out of the wind. of the self-supporting evening will be a pagent written Congress to develop a method Despite the trend, the econo Postoffices at Grass Valley and of domestic' parity plan for wheat, In Portugese for the mission in Get th at chill out of your bones. Quit Shaking, man, Moro will be open Saturday af of making the entire farm credit approved the soil fertility bank Brazil and translated Into Eng- mists expect some farmers to turn ternoon Ao receive Christinas system farmer-owned. plan as a practical measure to use Hsh. There will be numbers in iwick to milking cows as a break your spilling it. W e’ll warm you up. away from dwindling returns packages report Glendora Smith Both the Production Credit until production and demand are singing and pantomime by the and Lloyd Johnson. No mail or Corporation, which supervises the in better balance. The league be- Cherub choir and climax of the from other livestock and most ders or COPs will l>e taken after operation of Production Credit as lieves the soil bank plan would fit evening will be the presentation crops? Closer herd culling, more em 12 o’clock. sociations, and the Intermediate in with the domestic parity plan, of the drama “Born to Die’’, phasis on milk and less on fat, which it has been backing for sev- Everyone is invited to share in Moro Grain Growers Ass’n. W H IC H H. M M ~ . Elmer Halsted, one time in Credit Bank, through which the eral years as a “realistic pricing the evening of spiritual enrich greater use of artificial breeding, structor at the CCC samp here, Production Credit associations ob and marketing program f o r menL OFFICE dropped into town Thursday while tain most of their funds to loan to Following the program, all who on his way to Redmond to give a their farmer and rancher-mem wheat’’. wish will join in Christmas carol- U U H U , wheat W l l w C a V growers J I V To be o sound, be school for firemen in how to put bers, are presently government lieve, any soil’ bank program and then return f° r «atnes owned, Mr. Stein said. If the plans will be closed Saturday Afternoons out and prevent fires. now under consideration are should be applied to all field crops, and i Christmas ' V, » refreshments. , I nt rM n a Sunday Uimsi the services adopted and successfully carried and should provide adequate com at the church will be held earlier out it would complete the task of pensation to operators for divert- land from production to soil- than “«tial. Bible school will be- EMPLOYEES Do your CHRISTMAS retiring the last of the govern Ing ment capital in the entire cooper conserving uses. Such payments, K»n at 9:45 a m. and the church ative farm credit system. Mr. the league holds, should be based service a 0:45 a. m. and dismis- will be present to handle sales of Stein said the Federal I^and on the productive history of the bed at J J i5t) a- m- M**. Shield« SHOPPING at land, and should cover taxes, in- announced later' Banks, the local National Farm Loan associations and most of the terest, depreciation, reduced earn- jJoijxij,« m ill Farm Supplies Production Credit association are ing capacity of the farm and all " o im a y W i l l De already farmer-owned. In the Spo costs In establishing a suitable Dangerous Again With Christmas and New Year’s kane district, which comprises soil conserving crop. ONI. Y the office will be closed Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Wa Application of the soil bank day both falling on Sunday this shington, 24 of the 30 Production program either should be compul- year, the association of Casualty Credit association are presently sory, or payments should be high and Surety companies estimated owned .by their members. In ad enough to attract voluntary par- today that the two year-end holi- dition, the last session of Congress tlcipation, the wheat men held, days will bring accidental death adopted long-range plans for farm * ' Growers instructed their offi- to 800 people on the nation’s Another ers’ marketing, purchasing and cers to take the strongest action streets and highways. business service cooperatives to possible to obtain postponement 400 probably will die in the inter- own the banks for cooperatives. of the effective date of the so- vening week, bringing total traf- Sparkling refreshment coming up. called “modernized parity formu- fie deaths for the holiday season Take a moment to enjoy the satisfying The Mid-Columbia Production la’’ on wheat. This formula will to 1,200. good taste of Olympia . . . Credit association extended $1,- mean a wheat price drop of about Thomas N. Boate, manager of then carry on, refrethed. 529,755 in credit during the first 26 cents a bushel In the next two the• association s accident pi even- 11 months of 1955, according to years Besides this, under flexible tion department said that official- Mr. Stein. Farmer members bor supports and acreage controls, ly both holidays extend from 6 p. rowed $119,970,951 from the 30 wheat men through 1956 will have m., Friday until midnight of the Production Credit associations in a 41-cent price cut as compared following Monday. “390 people”, the Spokane district during the to 1954 and a 35 per cent cut in he said, “will die over the Christ year ended June 30, 1955. mas weekend and 410 more over production. PUn Your The league approved the pro the New Year’s weekend. During Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Bull and gram of the U. S. department of that time an additional 30,000 Sutont sons of Portland were guests Sun agriculture In discounting wheat people will be Injured in traffic Production day with his parents Mr^and Mrs. of inferior quality, and went even accidents. further in recommending that “The Christmas-New Year sea- Mac Bull for the day. Financing now Mrs. Ivester Barnum and sons wheat varieties not meeting qual- son, as a time of happiness anti S A L A M A N D E R and Mrs. Clara Kock spent Thurs ity requirements be placed on a celebration, usually brings forth a state penalty list. greater number of parties and In- BUDGET LOANS day In The Dalles shopping. Oil Burners On the legislative front, the formal get-togethers than any SAVE YOU MONEY league voted financial support to other time of the year. The party- the federal plan for apportion- goer Who is over-indulgent is in See them a t- You Pay Interest on ment of the state legislature, and line to kill or be killed on the high- Each Dollar Only • yr urged adoption of a state sales way. It should lx? obvious by now Moro Lumber & Fuel tax with proceeds earmarked for that the person who drinks should The Time You Use It! public schools. not drive. Similarly, this holiday Company OLYMPIA BREWING COMPANY. Olympia. Wash. U. S. A .*® Mid-Columbia The league, which was chosen season always brings extra traf- heme ID- Hotel Dalles Bldg. by the U. S. department of agri- flc and congestion. When a mo- noo Ö11» AVt culture this fall to activate a mar- torist loses his temper, or tries The Dalles, Oregon ket development program on to make up for delays by speed- A neme dotely eno- wheat In Japan, heard a progress ing, it Is just a matter of time PRO DUCTION CREDIT report on this program from Rich- until he contributes to the traffic ard Baum, league secretary. toll. Baum, who returned from Ja- “The fact that more than 30,000 pan just before the convention, American homes will be touched said two projects to increase by sorrow this holiday season is wheat foods consumption in Japan a soberihg thought. Particularly has been set up, and eight more when a little restraint and self- were awaiting approval by Jap- control could avert the bulk of anese government agencies. this useless highway misfortune.” B e e fo ’s j t ìv iu Hi ZIPPER Olympia? 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