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o o o o o o O ** © Ahm ita tt Corntty JJmuttal Sixtv-Ninth Year No. 34 These Things We Note By Gile* L- French Every stockman has had the experience of cows in good pas ture reaching through the fence after a bite of weeds. Now we read that people all over the west- ern world are unhappy, are mad about this or that, and naturally mad at government instead of themselves. Residents of the west have more than they ever had, have more than any people, any where on earth ever had. They are fat and bored by properity and in- dined to reach for some weeds. Moro, Oregun Friday June 28, 1957 County Officiai Paper Win Bloodmobile Unit Moro Grain Growers Public Health Plan Farmers Show Little Little Leaguers Due Tuesdav; Many Schedule Annual Summer Service In Interest In Quota From Fossil Sunday Sherman County Vote Which Carried Give Regularity Remember the Red Cross Blood- mobile Tuesday July 2, 1957 at the Moro Community church. This will be the ninth trip since the first made November 8, 1950. Three persons have donated a pint of blood at each visit and are now members of the gallon club. David Richelderfer, Wasco, Charles Burnet, Moro, Donald von Borstel, Grass Valley. Three have given seven pints, Mrs. Emma- jean Smith, Grass Valley, Mrs. Lena Brown, Kent and Ralph Busse, Moro. Those credited with six pints make up a long list. Two families are tied in number of members donating. The Macnabs and the Van Gilders, with six in each. There is a correction on the time published last week. The hours will be from 2:30 to 6:30 p. m. Meeting Saturday The Moro Grain Growers is go ing to make something special of its 1957 meeting. It will be held at the new Sher man high school building south of town starting at 10:30 a. m. next Saturday morning with the annual business meeting. At noon there wdll be a lunch eon for members and their fam ilies engineered by Lloyd John son. In the afternoon the party will be entertained by the Young Ore gonians, 37 strong, who will come by bus from Portland for the meeting. Mrs. Metra Lee, Wasco-Sher man Public Health Nurse, will i>e in Moro at the courthouse every Wednesday from 1 to 3 p. m. Mes sages for Mrs. Lee may be left with Mrs. Marie Hoskinson, county clerk. Persons needing mailing bottles for water sam ples may obtain these thru Mrs. Lee’s office in the courthouse. She will be in G ikjss Valley every Wednesday a. m. from 10 to 12. Rufus every Thursday morning and Wasco every Thursday after noon. Her offices in these towns are to lie announced later. Balsiger Elected J° y c« Andrews Says Head of G rain Dealers M arriag e Planned Not many farmers bothered to vote in the election to «leterndne the continuance of the present furm program. In Sherman coun ty the vote was 126 to 29 Thus 18.7 per cent were opposed to the plan and 81.3 favored it. The program was favored in the nation by a percentage equally as high and wheat farmers will jet the full 75 per cent of parity for another year and will i>e res tricted in acres by the full amount. The Wasco and l^ocust Grove communities voted 69 to 13 for the plan, Moro voted 25 to 12 and Grass Valley-Kent 32 to 4. By 12 to 5 Score The Sherman Junior leaguers won a game with Fossil Sunday by a score of 12 to 5 on the Fos sil field and followers of the club say the locals played a go<xl game and showed improvement over previous games. Drown pitched most of the game l»eing relieved by Charles Griggs in latter Innings. Hockman was on third, Tommy Eakin catcher, Duncan, Holloway, Klrkelle, and two Kasebergs making up the team. Darby, Thomas, Zachary and Jimmy Duncan also played. Milan Smith Speaker A t Station Tour Employment Down Field D ay Date Is July 9: Station Tour In Morning The annual field day at the Sherman Branch Experiment Station, Moro, Oregon, will be July 9. The program is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a. m. with a "buck-a-plate” luncheon served on the station lawn at noon. The tour of the station’s experi mental plots will occur in the morning. It is hoped this will es cape the summer heat or strong wind so often present in the af ternoon. A 4-H tractor driving contest with contestants from Gilliam, Wasco and Sherman counties will be held in the after noon in the shelter of the station buildings. The station tour will feature plots fertilized fall and spring with anhydrous and aqua ammon ia, rates and dates of seeding wheat and safflower, annual crop ping of wheat, oats and barley, and wheat rotary hoed in the spring. A high-ranking aide to Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra Benson Commander and Mrs. E. \\. An Several members of tne board drews of Seattle, announced the in Private Industry is scheduled to address Oregon of directors of the Moro Grain engagement of their daughter, wheat farmers, July 2, at the an Employment in Oregon’s non nual Pendleton branch experi Growers were in Spokane last Joyce Elaine, to Jules A. Chriest, TTW N week to attend the meeting of the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Chriest agricultural activities increased ment station field day. Board of Agriculture Perhaps the worst things about Pacific Northwest Grain Dealers of Seattle. The engagement was more than 9,000 last month but Milan Smith, executive assis Grass Valley Postoffice atomic tests is the excuse they association. Wendell Balsiger, announced at a celebration in the 489,600 jobs listed were 2,800 tant to Secretary Benson, will Recommends Changes give those who like to worry manager of the local grain grow honor of her parents 25th wed l>elow a year before, according to speak at the noon lunch at branch To Be Dedicated about their health. The state board of agriculture, preliminary estimates made by station headquarters, 14 miles ers, was elected president at the ding anniversary. T T W N holding on June 19 what members tj,e State Unemployment Cctt.pen- meeting which was held Thurs Pendleton on the Commander Andrews is a chap The report is that 65 million Saturday Afternoon termed their last meeting, left sev day and Friday. He also made lain in the United States Navy, sation Commission and based on Walla Walla highway. Americans are “gainfully employ Programs for the dedication of the response to the Spokane may and at present is serving aboard reports from nearly 2,000 repre Reports of the station’s research eral recommendations for general ed”. Wonder how many it would the new Grass Valley postoffice or’s welcome. Oregon agriculture sentative firms. Tlie figures were findings during the past year will welfare of the USS Princeton, CVS-37. Miss take to do the work. have been distributed by Mrs. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Andrews and Mr. Chriest are both preparer! with the co-operation of start at 9 a. m. and continue with Roliert J. Steward, director T T W N the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statis through the afternoon, according of agriculture. Don Smith, postmaster, telling Irving Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Ted President Eisenhower makes what is going to happen Saturday, Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Roliert graduates of IJnfleld college. The members urged that th« tics. to Merrill Oveson, superintendent. During the past year Miss An sense when he asks governors to June 29 in both afternoon and Brisbine and Mr. and Mrs. W. T. state board of agriculture conduct Failure of seasonal operations, A crop spraying demonstration drews taught home economics, plan to take over some federal evening. particularly lumbering and con by helicopter, tours of green studies to coordinate operations Balsiger. physical education and American programs and thus save taxes. It struction, to make their usual houses where winter-hardiness of and management programs for At two o’clock the boy scouts problems at Sherman high school, could lead to a program .going will raise the flag and Rev. Don the 3500 acres of state farm lands. April-May gains cut down the Moro. She also coached the girl’s number of workers noticeably, grains and other research prob This plea was based on studies back to the individual. Leach will give the invocation and Special Services lems are tested, and demonstra volleyball team, was supervisor of while food processing, machinery tion of a new 4-bottom 2-way plow previously made by chairman 3. Don Acton, assistant district man TTW N the school cafeteria, senior class B. Hall, Troutdale, of the Pennsyl manufacturing and paper mills ager, of Portland will speak. Held A t Grass V alley adviser and pep club adviser. Christine Keith comments on and an experimental grain drill vania system of coordinating farm also fell short of the 1956 totals. At 6:30 there will lie a potluck our recent remark about affec are scheduled for the morning land management for sta’ e insti The wedding is to take place in The Rev. James Braga and the Ixiggers and sawmills reported program. tionate girls marrying men who dinner at the Odd-Fellows hall Jtev. Vern R. Hodges, both of the the early part of 1958. tutions. which, the program says, will 58,700 jobs, 7,000 fewer than a like dogs and others preferring faculty of the Multnomah School Careful Driving On Fred Cockell, Milwaukie, veter year ago, while construction was Iteseiircli Report* hue men who like cats by inquiring start on time. Orville Ruggles will of the Bible in Portland, Oregon, an board memlier, urged that the off 1,000 at 23,900 and plywood be master of ceremonies, repre what to expect from men who The afternoon field day pro day-to-day operational Job of farm will speak in special services to mills had 13,500 employers or 700 like parakeets. Wle didn’t intend senting the lodge, Sherman chap lx? conducted at the Grass Valley Fourth Hoped For l>e removed less than last year. Paper plants gram will include reports on market reporting to publish the entire glossary all ter will present “The Wilson Oregon safety officials express- with 7 000 in 1956 and the same chemical removal of cheat grass from the state college extension Baptist church June 27-30. Sisters” a musical skit, Giles at once, but since inquiry has Mr. Braga, instructor in Chris- ed concern today over what might number ia8t January. Machinery from fall-seeded wheat wltn Slma- service and placed In the state been made would presume that French will tell something of the agriculture. He radio history of the Grass Valley post- tian life and English Bible expo- happen to the state’s traffic death nianufacturlng, employing 4,900, »in, a chemical Import from Swlt- department of men who like parakeets are sition at the Portland school, has record over the Fourth of July. was jower than during the winter zerland. ITie material was ap- said this work does nbt fall with office. The Rebekahs will pre announcers and you don’t marry Their concern stemmed from and 500 under last May. Ship re- plied Just Iwfore wheat emerged in either the research o" exten them? you'ean "listen to them (or sent a skit Mrs. O. K Ruggles had wide pastoral experience and f will give a history of the Baptist has spoken at various Bible con- the fact that over Memorial day palrlng an(j SOme durable goods last fall. Simazin also shows pre sions fields of the college. No vote holiday weekend, not generally ln<jU8trles fell off somewhat but mlse for chemical summer fallow was called on this proposal but T T W N church, Norris Gilkison will speak ference grounds in the Northwest, Mr. Hodges, instructor in Chris- considered a major travel holiday, ___________ electronic and a few small manu- <>f wheatlands. no oppsition was voiced. Hall, a T w o w e a th e r DroDhets say the for the Masonic lodge and Don Wheat seeding trials with the former county agent, pointed out, »1 « » onin<r m i»e wet and Acton will speak about postoffice tian education subjects and Dean l l people met death in Oregon factUrlng groups reported increas- n° ? fo^ a s i n fnd one says it affairs. Retired postmasters will of Men, is well known among the traffic accidents. new Omar and Burt varieties, however, that the college Is set up cool for a spell conservative Baptist churches of Those planning trips over the Rest gajng over comparable spring wheat and barley fertilizer for education and reseirch as be honored. will be dry and warm. Democracy Oregon, having served as pastor Fourth, the division said, should p^o^g were recorded in service trials, weed control in peas, and opposed to operation functions. doesn’t rule in science and he in Enterprise just prior to his follow these four suggestions for line8 and governmental activities, sm^ll grain variety trials will t»e Hall urged strengthening the de majority isn’t always right. coming to the school in 1953. a safe holiday: Public state and local groups in- seen during the tour. Trials with partment’s division of market de- Range Management TTW N The proposed meetings are part l. Don’t attempt to drive too crease<i 3900 over last year to such special crops as safflower, velopmnet. Isn’t it odd that private electric The l>oard agreed unanimously of a new program in the summer many miles when time is limited. reach G4.8OO, while service was carrots, sweet corn, and lima utilities that give more for a dol Tour To Be Held beans will lie reported. Stubble on motion of Lee Holliday, Klam calendar of the Multnomah School 2. Stay alert for mistakes of 2 800 higher Wlth 60,800. The t- lar than almost anything else mulch tillage and drill trials are ath Falls, that the position of di of the Bible whereby members of other drivers who may have been ter inrreaseti 1/700 in April, should be in competition with July 1-2 at Burns rector of agriculture should be the school’s faculty are ccnduct- drinking. Retail trade had more employes, also scheduled. government that gives the least? The regular annual summer ing short Bible conferences in 3. Drive at a reasonable speed, reporting 84,000, while itlllties ------------------ removed from political considera TTW N tour of the Pacific Northwest sec- Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and remembering that traffic will l»e and finance also were slightly EXAMINER COMING tions “ for the protection of ag The sun is nice to . .. take pictures u tlon of the American society of British Columbia, during the heavy. higher. Transportation and ware- A drivers license examiner will riculture as a whole” . Holliday, by this year but it as a ea g Range Management will be held months of June and July. Some 4. Avoid becoming over-ti'-ed be- housing stayed about the same as l>e on duty in Moro Wednesday, who is vice-chairman of the board, element it is a joke. July j ancj 2 at Burns, Oregon. twelve to fifteen four-day confer- fore starting home since a tired the previous month, a thousand July 3 at the courthouse between said tiie director of the depart T T W N »The program is under the direc- enees are planned in churches driver fails to react quickly to lower than in May, 1950. the hours of 9 a. m. and 4 p. tn. ment of agriculture should be re In the polite argument between tjon of j ohn Scharff, chairman of which have requested them. unexpected hazards. moved only for cause and not Secretary Humphrey and Senator fie](j tour committee. The first with switches In governors or pol Byrd the nation has an opportun- ¿ay of the tour will be on the Mai- itical parties. ity to learn much about the econ- heur NatIonai wildlife Refuge, Under a new law, the governor omics of money. Neither, thank- g2 miles south of Burns and on may appoint an entire new board fully, is an inflationist. What ex nearby range improvement areas CONDENSED REPORT OF PRO- made. J. E. Norton bids on tax Service, $2.00; Assessment & Tax- 20; State Tax Comm.,$107.71; So- of agriculture on July 1, with ser perts are? administered by the Bureau of CEEDINGH OF R E G U L A R foreclosed property in Kent, Ore ation County Fund, $4000.00; Kll-clal Securlty Revolving Fund, vice thereafter limited to two T T W N Land Management. The second TERM OF THE COUNTY COURT Court with holds decision until ham Stationery & Printing, $5.97; $121.15; State Ind. Acci. Comm., terms of four years each. Getting into an day of the tour will be on the _ the government _ next term of court. C'lalr L. Balzer $49.10; Moro Post- $6.58 JUNE 5, 1957 industry isn’t so hard these days, gqUaw Butte-Harney Experiment RE: B. Harris of The Dalles ap- master, $10.00— brd of equallza* RETIREMENT: Those Steelhead but getting it out is a terrific station. Social Security Revolving Fund, RE: Claims against all funds pears before court and explains tlon Albert Kaselx*rg $47.20; Roy $127.31 process. On the refuge the first stop will presented— all allowed. tire sales for Sherman County. Schilling, $52.00 Go A Long W a y MISCELLANEOUS: TTW N • be at the headquarters where the RE: Treasurer’s Financial state- RE: Ferry Landing Site— Court COURTHOUSE: Sale of the A. M. Williams com- ------- museum may ------------ })e visited. The Oregon fish commission is State Ind. Aocl. Comm , $100.97; City of Moro, $6 20; Pacific Tel. ------— A dis- ment showing all fund balances signs Order and Permit w.ih B. H pany removes another pioneer bu- CUS8jon W1U foiiow concerning as of May 31, 1957 presented— ex- Roberson for landing sit and op- & Tel., $53.00; Pacific Power & K. A. Dunlap, $2.32; Flatt’« Truck positive of the final disposition of alness landmark from The Dalles. some of high point« such as amined, approved and ordered eration of ferry. Light Co., $29.02; Moro Lumber Service, $21.67; C A C Food Store, at least two steelhead that entered It is getting to be a chain store refuge establishment, objec- filed. RE: Vacation time for road & Fuel, $3.03; Ranch & Home $1.77; Pacific Power A Light Co., the Columbia river last year. The fish were "tagged” by the $16.67; City of Moro, $1.75; Paci town. tives, flyway importance, and RE: Gasoline Consumption for employes discussed. Road em- Store, $1.00 fish commission at Bonneville fic Tel A Tel Co., $21.00; T T W N economic use being made on the month of May, 1957 presented— ployes to take vacation time each CIRCUIT COURT: dam last July and were released John H. Newman $9.25 repor- WEED SPRAY. The state legislature passed 727 area. The forty-mile-long Blitzen ordered filed, year; time not to accumulate for First National Bank • K. Falls to continue their trip to the ter’s ex ¡tense. bills and the governor vetoed sev- valley will be seen, stops being RE: Road Fund balances as of more than one year. Br., $1307.12; Ore. State Dept. of spawning ground«. But these two en. Of the remaining 720 it is made to discuss developments, May 31, 1957 presented— examin- RE: BRIDGE SURVEY— Coun COUNTY COURT: particular fish failed to reach Vernon I. Miller, $47.04 judges Agriculture, $2 00; possible that twenty were impor- game use, etc. A buffet lunch will ed approved and ordered filed, ty Treasurer istructed to transfer their Intended destination. tant, appropriation bills excepted- served at the Frenchglen Hotel RE: Mosquito Control— Delega- from general fund and special expense; lis te r Wilson, $30.00; GAS A OIL: This month, the numbered plas Shell Oil Co., $167.12; Standard and some of them might better at a nominal charge. BLM grass tion from Rufus, Ore., appear be- roati fund $5,000.00 to a Bridge C. F. Kuypers, $30.00 Oil Co., of Calif., $441.45, Moro tic discs that had l»een attached JUSTICE COURT: have been tabled. plantings will be visited during fore court and ask for aid in Survey Fund. to the steelles at Bonneville were Grain Growers Ass’n., $2160 City of Wasco, $10.00 Rent TTW N the p. m. A banquet is being plan- spraying area around Rufus for Re: Monland road-V. R. Jones, returned to the fish commission, He who makes two jobs where ne(j for at Burn«» the evening of extermination of mosquitoes— city & County relations file<l en- MENTALLY DISEASED CASES: BRI IKIES A CULVERTS: Moro Lumber A Fuel, $92.84; accompanied by a letter written Mid-Columbia Hospital $15.00; one would do shall be elected a j uly j Court agrees to finance first ap- gineer appears before court and Tygh Valley Sami A Gravel, $182.- In French. A translation of the labor leader. On July 2, at the section five plication. ' explains program for oiling said COUNTY JAIL: Moro Coffee Shop, $98.80 • brd. 50; Daugherty Supply Co., $292 - letter by Dr. Roger Oeke, Reed T f w N unit of the Experiment Station, RE: Audit 1957-58— Hiring of road. college language professor, dis 50; Woodbury A Co., $117.42; We parted with an old friends the group will see the results of an auditor for year 1957-58 dis- NO FURTHER MATTERS AT of prisoners. closed that the tags had been re GENERAL SUPPLIES: DEMOSS PARK: last week when we had the locust research work that has made two cussed. Motion made and second- ISSUE COURT ADJOURNED. Moro Lumber A Fuel, $49.90; moved from the fish by a Rou Pacific Power A Light Co., $095 tree in front of the office cut «tacks of hay in fields where ed a state auditor be hired for CLAIMS PRESENTED AGAIN COUNTY PRINTING: Moon Equip. Co., $45.54; Smith manian dishwasher at the I ts down. The biennial frustration there was only one before. a fort mentioned years, Sherman County Journal, $37 18 Auto Part« Co., $59 09; J. E. Hazel- Reine Pedauque, an exclusive power company crews dealt out on the Squaw Butte unit of RE: C. G. Hansens from Corp« ST SHERMAN COUNTY, ORE- tine A CO., $17.47; English A Co., Paris restaurant. to the tree finally touched our the station the group will see a of Engineers office in Walla Wal- GON, GENERAL AND ROADS DISTRICT ATTORNEY: John I. Hodges, acting director $2911.85; Woodbury A Co, $99.56; T. lis te r Johnson, $16.75 heart and we decided to nut it out forage improvement program that la, Wn„ appears before court and FUNDS FOR MAY, 1957 AP Ranch A Home Store, $3 56; Wal of the fish commission, said the of its misery. has resulted in more than trip- discusses the probable effect on PROVED JUNE 5, 1957 TERM COUNTY AUDIT tagged steelhead were probably ther-Williams, $18.00 OF THE COUNTY COI RT Charles R. Ixtgan, $425.00 T T W N hng forage yields on sagebrush- the road program for Sherman among the last fish taken com REPAIRS: MISCELLANEOUS: Tljf report of the unemploy- type land. At both places will l>e county, when John Day Dam is ELECTIONS: Feenaughty Mchry Co., $8.58; mercially by Indians at Oelllo Election Boards, $253.75; Rent First National Bank, $280.50; ment commission shows 7,000 shown some of the research in built. RE. Insurance W. T. Balsiger of Halls, $25 00. Sherman County State Tax Commission, $51,06; Smith Auto Part« Co, $28.32; falls. Completion of The Dalles fewer loggers working, 1,000 few- progress. Of special interest will Miller’« dam last winter flooded out his Soc ial Security Revolving Fund, Moro Motors, $5 48; er in construction and 700 fewer a fjrst time showing of a new appears before court and explains Journal, $30.00 $12060; State Ind Acci. Comm., Truck Parts, $40.00; Empire Mchy toric fishing sites at Celllo. mills. There a[e in . plyw’ood . . 3900 type range seeding implement. amendment to be made to present SHERIFF’S OFFICE Dr. Gake said he had a little dif Co., $131.76; Muller Farm Equip., Norman E. Fields, $70.00; $8.70 more in government and 2800 Lunch will be served at Squaw insuran e policy—court accepts $5.30; Auto Electric Supply, $90- ficulty translating the letter be George J. Geiser, $16.56; Norman RDAI) FUND: more in service industries. No Butte. such amendment. WAGES: Axtell, $317.08; Dunlap, 40; Service Motor Co., $8.62; The cause the dishwasher had used comment needed. All members of the society and RE: Budget for 1957-58— Hear E. Fields, $13.10 TTW N $434 30; McPherson, $33667; Bay Dalles Iron Works, $6.72; Dlel- phonetic French spelling In his others interested in land use, ing held on budget as published CLERK’S OFFICE: Moro Postmaster, $10.00: Mid- er, $348 43; Morehouse, $319.11; schuelder Equip., $.50; Cushman letter. The name of the writer The economy drive seems to management and improvement, for fiscal year— no objections, ac was Illegible, but his curious final have lost steam. When it was im and in wildlife management are cepted as published, no changes Columbia Typewriter Co., $2.50; Oosson, $337.30; Gray, $337.61; Yu- Equip., $1049 passage was clear. » Grant A. Young, $15.00-Re<order’s CUm, $338.43; Johnson, $308 43; INSURANCE: possible (or seemed so) to cut urged to attend this meeting. made. “ I hope this information help« W. T. Balsiger Ins. Agency. foreign aid congressmen lost in Those attending will headquarter ’ RE: Tax fore closed pro Ass’n Dues Hammond, $270.48; Griggs, $358.- you to cure these fish of their 43; Rodda, $296 37; Wilson, $348.- $92.56; terest in cutting domestic aid, at Burns, The program begin« at perty— E. C. Smith bids on tax ASSESSOR’S OFFICE: polygamy and the cruelty of gob Waunda I* Shaver, $204.58; 43; Brock, $348.43; Gra>enhorst, TIRES A TUBES: which is what should have been 8:00 a. m. July 1. at th*» head foreclosed property in Kent, Ore. bling one another.” Equip., $1267.82 quarters of the refuge. Court accepts bid and order« deed Otilia Geiser, $26 33; Flatt's Truck $21.10; First National Bank, $429.- Cushman done. Cj County Court Pays Claims; Decides To Have State Audit Books