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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1957)
© © o © 0 ^limitan County Moro, Oregon Friday June 21, 1957 Sixty-Ninth Year No. 33 T h .6 8 6 T h in g « We N o te By Gile° L- French K S J n . n f t h p use of much curtailment of the use as of cigarettes for health reasons long as smoking them is the style. One might as well be dead as to not conform, you know. TTW N We are willing to go to great lengths to be like grandpa; wear , whiskers, drive covere ® ’ sail across the ocean. , help us from working like gra Pa- T T W N The supreme court says it is al- right to advocate communism as long as you don’t succeed. After that it is too late. TTW N Scientists are said to be worry ing as to whether the earth is get ting colder or hotter. Some days it is one and some days the other Just like always. TTW N Overheard: “big enough to play a tuba”; “getting thoroughly tan ned is as private an affair as tak ing a bath.” TTW N Here is a classic quote: “Educa tion is the most important single responsibility of government--”, Sweetland said, -from OEA bulle tin. National defense, protection of life and property, keeping the peace, all secondary, Eh? TTW N Girls State Girls Win Offices; Learn About Government The five Sherman county dele gates to Girls State, together with their chaperon, Mrs. Mildred Mc Donald, who acted as senior coun selor, returned home Sunday after a week spent at Willamette uni versity in Salem practicing the arts of government. All five of the Sherman county girls were elected to an office af ter nomination, a campaign and election bv ballot of the voters of e.ecuon y a or the general as- their counties sembly of 246 girls, the largest number to ever attend Karen Wilson became county commissioner, emulating her fa- ther, Lester Wilson, Kay Kirkelie was elected county judge of a dif- ferent county, Bonnie Schaum- burger was county chairman of her party and Diane Schilling and Geraldine Holzapfel were state senators. Mrs. McDonald was greatly en- thused over Girls State as a means baching government and - also ...„....... o--------- ---------- ^appy congratulate the units on sending outstanding girls as county delegates. Shrine Football Tickets Available Ernie Woods expects to get a block of 50 tickets for the Shrine “B” football game in Pendleton by July 10. These are in the cen- ter of the field and may be obtain- ed from him by those who may wish to attend the game. Playing on the East team this ar will be Louie Miller and Jim year Brady of Sherman high school seniors and Robbie Hastings and Jim Beishe are alternates who will used in the big game for smaller schools. Swimming Starts Sherman Countv’s Hauling Needed TTW tv A style doesn’t have to be bet- ter, only newer. Political theories are much like styles. T T W N The Moro TV __ _____ . . club ---- -- at a regular _ quarterly meeting Tuesday even- ing elected officers for the com- ing year. The officers elected are: John Parker, president; John .... ......................... To . produce an acre of wheat Jn p Uck, vice-president; Ken Dunlap, America, it once required 57.7 sec.treas. Also elected was a di- man hours of labor. Today w ith rector for a three year term, this mechanization, it takes 1.8 hours. p^R ion was taken by Clarence These and other striking facts j j ujg about accomplishments of agrlcul- outgoing president is Clair Bal- tural engineering have been out- zer, vice-president Andy Paulson, uned by OSC as part of the 50th sec-treas. Lloyd Wooderson and year observance of professional director Harry Benson. agricultural engineering in this Directors who hold unexpired country. terms are George Geiser and B Rod««™- head ot a«rlcu1' Keith Thompson. tura) eng|neering at the college, for next year was The nudeet budget for saYs value of farm equipment ajso appr0Ved and an assessment on American .. farms . is more member was levied for .. t than . . of ______ billion, five times the total the upkeep of the line and other investment in the automotive in- eXpenses. This figures out a little dustry. And today, the modern jes8 than 42e per month for tele- farmer has at his disposal about vjsiOn service, after the initial 36 mechanical or electrical horse- membership fees are paid. power per worker to help him do At the present time the club has chores. 65 members. - ------ ------ . ---. . p . The money the government spends to help the farm situation would be well spent if it helpei the situation. Instead it makes it worse. T T W N op- Borrowers w m ™ " are generally and posed to a light m p b lenders generally favor it. Maybe l>orrowers and there are more borrowers and there are eventually ,.v prevail. nrpvaii That »* the? willing to will me wld loan money rates in bring n ® en. will loan itself un B *han jt will money a have to P t t W N If we could mobilize the effort Americans take to win plaques we ’Teac|1ers Salaries couw easily fly w a » moon. .. .............................. aiiw Up t t w n Go Up and inm Who sald’ tWs'iCTeration Isn’t some other'roum riM .’ So’in2 .o,y..h thi- morning a radio sta- teachers have not yet signed con- tougn, , „ Presley — .. only be- tlon was in playing an _ Elvis tracts, she ------------- reported, - but record before seven breakfast. cause they are “extremely choo- T T W N sey” about location and type of We think labor will be in bet- position. ter position when it is able toM re Elementary teachers are in Lma’lTweak men as organizers in- greatest demand, Mrs. Smith said, small, Slead’o, the big. s.x-fooier, now wlth the cai, ,..r teachen. stead doing that Job. in the Intermediate grades. This T T W N is a shift from previous years Ernest Willerton of The Dalles when teachers in the youngest died while on hls way to Montana grades —kindergarten to third for a vacation trip at the home of grade—were most needed. his daughter and son in law. He About two-thirds of the OSC was born in Hay Canyon March graduates are staying here in Ore- 13, 1884 and was well known to gon |O teach, according to Mrs. many old timers of this county, smith. All could have been placed TTW N here, but opportunities in other Fertilizer Effects Being Compiled July 2 For First Hired For SHS; Visit This Year r akin Elected The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at the Moro Community church ’ esday, July 2. from 2:30 p. m. ' 5:30 p. m. The American Legion posts of the county and their auxiliaries are sponsoring this drawing, Members of these units will have pledge cards to be signed by don- ors. However, for those who wish to donate and do not happen to be contacted cards will be at the Wasco Market and Mae Reids in Wasco, Cushman Equipment and Doumas Market in Moro, Fields Confectionery and Hoopers Union Station in Grass Valley. Since the drawing last year, re sidents of Sherman county have received 51 pints of blood at The Dalles General hospital. This is the only hospital from which we re- celve a lab. sheet. We know that almost as much was used in the Portland hospitals. The 51 pints were distributed as follows: Rufus 9, Wasco 27, Moro 4, Grass Valley 7 Ken‘ * Fr° m re|,;>rlS f ' Ve" US by persons concerned we know that residents of the Moro district «.-celveU 12 pints at the Veterans ta' and >» !>'"« «• other Portlan<1 hospitals Letters are l>eing mailed soon w,ilb 3 niOrf Metalled explalnatlon of the program and some of its results. We hope to exceed our quota of 86 pints and send 100 to the center. By a somewhat smaller vote than the Sherman high school budget received a week before the voters of the county approved a new tax i>ase for the high school district 142 yes and 66 no In Mon day’s election The vote on the budget was 166 to 23. Harold Eakin was re-elected to the high school board with few dissenting votes, some of which were cast for men residing out side the Grass Valley area. It was necessary to elect a director from that district although voters from all over could vote. The school board met Monday night and elected William Bleker as the new superintendent. He has been teaching at Lorane, an eleven teacher school in I-ane county near Cottage Grove. There were three full time teachers and tWo part-time in high schoo , av erage dally membership was¡38.8 and the assessed valuation *755-’ 445. Mr. Bleker is 33, married and has children. He is and a grad- " " Z three . P - , elite university has uate of 1 aciflc university an obtained an M A. degree from Oregon State. Cloyd Duncan, science teacher, has resigned to go to Athena and a new instructor is being sought l0 fin the position he has held for the past four years. Incldently, Gerald Dlsch, former Moro coach, has accepted a position as coach in a Florida school and Oregon. . , Herman Peters has accepted the Job as janitor at the high school and started work Monday morning. Work on the athletic field has l>egun and effort will be made to _ get it drained and graded and ready for seeding soon Effects of fertilizers on wheat yields throughout the Columbia Qasjn dryland area from 1953 through 1955 are reported in a new lxMk|'et' published by Oregon e,.lfp ,.,,11 pen nffripnitnral pvnpri L ?* g ‘ 1 '"Experiments on nearly 100 wheat farms of the area are sum- ____ ______ marized in the _ ______ circular, . Wheat Fertilization Experiments in the Columbia Basin”. While the circu- lar does not pin-point fertilizer recommendations, it gives pat terns of yield increases for vari ous climates and soil conditions. Effects of fertilizers on test weights and protein contents of I I 7 L - - 1 . Di«, wheat are also discussed. ** ilC a l ILXpOilS Dlr, Bangs Testing Still Going On In State More than 27,000 Oregon cattle Were tested in May, and another 18,214 calves were vaccinated in the federal-state brucellosis eradl- cation program. The testing re- vealed 194 reactors, or 7 20th of one one per per cent. cent. Officials of the state and fed- eral departments of agriculture at Salem said the May testing wag carried on 2,590 herds, in 86 of which reactors appeared. More than 600 herds were included in the month’s calf vaccinations. Fifteen Bang’s reactors were found in Columbia county’s 289 cattle tested to give that county the highest percentage of May re- actors. Klamah and Lake, where fewer were tested, showed _ . cattle . ______. - ___ . __ ___ 44 and 4 p ercent of reactors, res pettively, and Jackson county with 1,614 cattle tested had 3.1 p e rc e n t reactors. j n the cooperative testing for tuberculosis last month, only one reactor (Wasco county) was found in the 12,708 < attle tested. Kay Kirkelie Going n _ 1 ____ t . QL D I Again In May Keith Mobley of Kent has been named winner of a scholarship to Oregon State college next year. He was one of 124 Oregon high school seniors selected to receive scholarships at OSC for 1957-58 under sponsorship of the state system of higher education. The scholarships are worth $138. Mobley, son<>f Mr. and Mrs. Verne E. Mobley, Kent, graduated from Sherman high school earlier this month. He plans to major in OSC. in In high w-.“‘ ».-„ve student school he was active in student government and during his senior year Mobley served as student President. r* V 11 .. D Grass Valley r . A U. m q n a. J 1 O Be Dedicated Mrs. Glendora Smith, Grass Val- ley postmaster, announces that there will be open house at the postoffiee Saturday June 29 start ing at 2:00 o’clock with a flag rais ing by Boy Scouts and with an of ficial of the postoffiee department on hand to speak. In the evening there will 1* a potluck dinner at 6:30 with all lodges co-operating. A history of ,he Baptist church will bn given ant* a' 8° a history of the <ra8S al,ey postoffice. Patrons of the rural route will 1 honor Matt Simon mall carrier, who has served them for 30 years. Reason for the celebration is to dedlcate the new building recent- ly built by Mrs. Smith and the installation of new equipment by ^ e government Monthly records for export movement of grain from Oregon ports were smashed for the sec- ond consecutive month in May, according to the state department of agriculture. More than 9.4 mil- lion bushels of grain, mostly wheat, were loaded last month on ships at Portland and Astoria ports. This is about a third of a million bushels more than in April, and represents almost 28 full cargoes, T. Ralph Harry, chief of the de- partment’s division of grain in- spectlon, says much of the export grain came from flathouse stor- Moro Grain Growers age in the Portland area. Three mothball ships were also unload- To Hear Youth Members of the Moro Grain ed during May. The May exports included 448,- Growers will be able to hear a 000 bushels of corn and 529,130 program given by the Young _ Oregonians at the annual meeting bushels ________... of barley. ____________________ . ___ on June 29 which will be held at On the other side of the . picture, more than 7.3 million bushels of the Sherman high school build- Incoming grain, again mostly lng. It has been several years since wheat, were Inspected at Portland and almost 820,000 bushels at As- a group of Young Oregonians toria. The Pendleton office in- have visited Sherman county with spected 51,300 bushels of Incom- one of their varied and entertain- ing programs. ing wheat.______________________________________________ ---------------------------------------- — J r r i Jtr JU a D U a J Mountain Sheep Released rrom Enclosure; may Not Be Hunted _:_ On Long Trip ture w lT w ha’t ’rve s a v V " ' said Salaries for beginning teacher. an^ , ys ^ a V y 'm ’.Ur't’’ Su°mtay i ^ n <'TnprOtaieslhplusW.« l a* a«-t ’aTt 'with “ he dema nd“ condn u Ing " " ^ c r i'M h e V a U o n a 'iV o X a ’ s " “ run T , . . far '3’ ahead of the supply in ,o a,,an<1 ,ha Nhem a a'« . '^ '°GU 1 .rH ? M d inflation to . 'n rllh n nnA e eli li curlty an N aH fieldS( accordlng to Mrs. Kath- h.mdre The ins are often the party of ryn Smith, director of teacher B4gnieen nunarea A ftiiT h rL n fp re n re which will tiffht money and the outs the placement at Oregon State college. n . L 0« TnivVthP n r i oartv of loose money. In fact, All of OSC’s 352 teaching grad- . . „ June to July un.nh 3 the thru Ore- rn.m an had a tight money policy uates this year could have been be held ioi0<~ t irtn 26 will mice and^held onto it. Any admin- placed weeks ago, Mrs. Smith { ^ ^ e w Mex?ci and Ari- once • _ a J M d A v iz w a n t i i ' i i i u i u i » from m ill stratlon is afraid of a inflation if . said. Requests were r received 5« m X a to u r of those ___ _____ 1 all areas of the state, from every “ X a n to g V make p aH fo rn la before com It has any sense. other state in the nation, and T* and L . . m S X a The Sherman county entry in the mid-Columbia Junior baseball league went to Kinzua Sunday and won a double header from that team by scores of 12 to 4 and 7 to 5. Playing for the Sherman coun- tians was Tommy Eakin, catcher, Terry Kaseberg, 1st, Butch Kir- kelie, 2nd, Keith Hockman, 3rd, who played those positions in both games. Others playing were Jim Brow n, Charles Griggs and Jim Duncan, pitchers, J. Hollo- way and Jim Duftcan, shortstops, Lee Kaseberg, G. Smith, Tommy DeMoss, Gary Thompson, out fielders. Several cars were taken to the Wheeler county town to trans port the boys to the game. Parker Heads Moro TV Club Now Cattle in the John Day valley should winter well to Judge from ■ . J ProduCP the size of the hay crop now being L 3 D 0 r 1 0 I lOUU -C cut there. Acre of Wheat Less Superintendent Young Ball Players Mn Doubleheader Monday; Local Swimming classes sponsored by the local chapter of the Red Cross will start Monday, June 24, and run for two weeks. The classes will be held in The Dalles where the chapter has rented the pool and engaged life guards and in- structors for the course. Each community will furnish transportation and chaperons for those those attending attending the classes. All children of school age are urged to attend if they would like to learn how to swim, Classes in The Dalles start at 10 o’clock and end at 12. Bus transportation will leave the different communities in suf- ficient time to arrive at the pool prior to start of class, Those from Kent are advised that the bus will leave the school house at 8 o’clock, at Grass Valley they should meet at the drug- store at 8:30, . at Wasco, Mrs. Pat- ---------- rick should be contacted for time and place for the bus, at Rufus, they should meet at the postoffiee at 9 00 o’clock and at Moro no definite arrangements have been made as yet, but it is expected that transportation can be ar ranged. Notice of arrangements will be posted at the postoffice in Moro, so check this for final in- structions. Children attending swimming lessons who have not registered should do so Monday at the pool, The Red Cross has arranged for the use of the pool, set the dates and hired the instructor. Trans- portation is a local matter Bloodmobile Due More Coyotes Killed More than twice as many coy otes were taken in April than in Marvh py Oregon predatory wii- jna, hunierg. This is revealed in the monthly report to the state (]epartment of agriculture, coop- pra(ing agency with the U. S. EJsh and wildlife Service, The tota, AprU take in 32 Ore- gon counties was 814 predators, compared with 551 in March. The April destructions included 567 coyotes, 183 bobcats, 9 bear and 55 fox. The hunters also caught 39 badgers, 17 skunks, 66 raccoon and 110 porcupines. Umatilla led the ___ counties on coyotes, with 74 destroyed; other top coyote takes were in Lake, 63; Crook, 60; Umatilla 50; and Mor- row, 45. Itake county accounted for 39 bobcats. Yamhill topped the fox column with 18, Itane was second with 12; and Marlon and Linn accounted for 9 and 8, res pectlvely. The bear catch was all in seven western Oregon counties. Oregon Traffic Down Oregon highway traffic record ed at 28 rural automatic traffic nucleus , or furth < r releas <'5- wlng ’ - A t one 8 tal ! e ot , helr ) our ‘ counters showed a statewide de crease of 1.5 per cent for May The first sheep seen were two ney, a sheer drop of at least 30 1957, as compared to May 1956. rams’ one Probably a 3‘year old feet was encountered with a 2 Despite the overall decrease for with about a three-quarter curl to foot ledge which led off at an the month, some counter locations hls horns- The rams were a,ready angle- Even bere the anlmala d‘d showed substantial gains. Gervais on the move when observed and not hesitate but dropped over the Market Road No. 629, 1 mile heedlng for lhe aheer rock e8car{> at u>p gpeed. Watching the usi)9E waa up ’ _ 17 _ j _ w _____ ____ ment on lhe S0Uth 8lope ° f lh<? anlmal8 closely through 12-power cent; Gresham on US26, 1 mile canyon. On the way down other binoculars, it was noted that each eMt of GreHham Up 11.7 per cent; blghorns jolned untH 28 were ,n anlmaI’ exc«l* the ,a!nba’ louyb* anil Midland on US97, 6 miles the band which moved out onto ed the face of the rock once with s()Uth ()f Klamath Falls up 7.8 the face of the rock cliff The Its feet on the downward decent nimble footed animals progress- perhaps as a braking action, o r _____________ ed without fear of the almost more important, as leverage to sheer wall upon which they were twist its body in line with the College Grads Wanted crossing, leaping from ledge to ledge. The lamb’s feet hit the face The demand for trained gradu- ledge, some scarcely wide enough twice, the second time twisting ates in agricultural engineering for their feet to land upon. the body in general direction of is constantly increasing, Rodgers As the crew headed down the the ledge. reported. Some 1006» agrlcoH ural o i I i i t s , , , , , , l , , , , , ,o Until BtinA InCCeO SeS,‘ Agile, FeatletS Animals Hard to Hetd F or the , lrst , lme , ln ” the la , e '9°9' bighorn mountain sheep once a&aln roam the scab rock coun‘ try of eastern Oregon. But don’t get y°ur fever UP for 11 wU1 prob‘ ably be Quite a few years yet lie- ------U all_ , fore any hunting will 1 be allowed. flrst re,ea8e of the blg rlm rock t e l l e r s into the wild« of Oregon took place last week when Frank Grogan, district game blol- T re X T e rU n m ^sion? ¿IB ¿¿I««." w lth'the help of five other month. I resbj lerlan m.»slons will comm|sglon emp|Oyees, drove 18 be vi.sited animals through the gates of the . Miss K irkelie won the rip k ’- Hart mountaJn enciosure The anl- ng one of eleven Jfom ‘ mai9 included two young rams, land I lesbytery, for ’ four ewe8 four lambs, and the and b<‘lpfui activity in the church. yearlings of undetermined jn. . T •** Th* released bighorns have Fl»h Tagging ShOW» frctiexcesx^ ...ro a m ,l,v Run Tendency xsrn^AA 8 7 which 7 ^ on any part 0 of * the ^ range Stace two of an eien alv e study They might find Io their liking. htage two ot an expensive sui iy incy m » Bfo „ n e X 1n , ? S <, : = ^ get r « c excited l ? e d " w nor 2 " 'did h « '7 ever v e i >»•<!• their «Kape from Hart atrg arc available each June. did ’ t they panic. All they seemed to want mountain pen prior to the dellber- 0 SC a one ot 25 U S. collegea * d i«tanee l>etween them ate re1«*«« by the game commls- nationally accredited in agrlcul- bX k^T e ^ Z i X 4 d ^ started last week by the Oregon fjSh commission as a part of the lenng research tcxcarcn fisheries engineering Corps of program of the dnation is Engln- . , 4 g pers. A determination considered to be at least 400 yards. caused bv heavy snow, or mautcr’K dem-pe levels Only once did any of the crew get t->rh,ina fl ()ppr Htfl, much clowr and that about 75 P -fhaPa % a <*«' “ “ " " P '1"« ' ' ’" ’al clcctrifk atlon has brought yards when six animals were en- 8*’1 ln- At c “ "i resk and es an< <2>n,vTh"<'??:^ rL „ countered direct,y iwiow a rim " T ric o n ' "d r. S task. During the 2 tt years of con- finement since their introduction .rum British o n u ... Columbia ................ in Janu- from ary of 1955, the bighorns had tic- c o it. f.m .lUr w „h e v e r y ,;» , of lion deducted the pay be raised tlOO But it might do something ___ 1 xx k k v I n to halt the successful lobbying efforts of tie tax spenders. and physical sciences. Women tea- year the fish commission The day of release proved no diagonally across the cliff, over a accurate count of the cher3 are in great demand at pre- put plastic tags on approximately exception although O ’Ogan plan- pinnacle of rock, and then down * . sent—a reverse from >0 year, ago .„m onoid, at Bonr.eviile ned a carefu, m e th o jo , attack. ^"n'g “ t h ^ v X . ________>_____ — i ________________________________i i - - a ___ a □ 11 t h o fiSinth lln p t o th p ftaffP- H nevp, CWI1 Hl BU u V n tT k n o w n when school superintendents dam to assess average migration Ron Shay of the division was floor. Ju8t hoW many Rheep ln 8,1 C° m' TTW N were crying for more men teach- rates for salmon prior to the com- slon’s information X X , ' ' / m ho°: ers, ^ ^ Mrs. X Smith ^ f pointed f ? « out. main. T * . 1 X S “ .ntOd*„„T^ nd ^ n O,ti.hef X ndo,Thke ^ " c o m m i s s i o n u rg £ al, The OSC placement office main much mai that w«ra was »•»«■»'» before the .U te > lln s s records a,so to cliff ^ w n d T n o X ^ e commls ion mucn ••— — ^ iln also for for graduate, graduate!. salmon .,a,1Ilw,, e,gM w swim . ............ - aho ¡ ^ s e ^ . h e = w lxxaisi.A’ure really concerns the o{ pa3t years who are in teaching, i ie river miles from Bonneville case too many animals were drlv- one average citizen? Not much, m o s t Some ..................... ... ..............................— _ McNary. ~ «... a break in pace. The small Immediately as b» th< 7000 teachers are now reg- to Blueback and fall en down. It ..... was hoped that aw»,« about out Istered with Mr,. Smith j a l many Chinook salmon made the trip 15 animals could be driven thru la mist followed with the same It Is especially! «r»«"* ' 11 of it is petty. If a better Job was the gate Io freedom, the rest to breakneck speed leaping pell-mell are seen outside the Hart moun- done on the Important legislation of them are placed in b J » e r Jo,« more slowly, averaging about nine days. be held inside the enclosure as a through space as if they had tain vicinity. the nation would be better served. each year. ,2^?’ o iooo O; «, and beef cattle feeding this ’ \r?™iitiiral engineering It requlr- -T it« , ,,t ¿5 nor cent oM he people ed «bout 85 per cent of tne people to do the jo .
