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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1958)
lu'rman (¿mutfq ¿journal Seventieth Year No. 40 T hese T h in g s We Note Moro, Oregon Friday CCC Will Boost Rate Before End of Loan Settlement North Sherman TV Ready To Start Construction Band Statements Show Upturn ¡n Mid-Columbia Area Au,mist b, 195s New Map Made cl r, . Ut ¿Herman County County Official Paper r r . . bame Commission Forty Bushel Crop Makes Record For Production The State Highway departm ent. Changes Rules On in coojvration with the Bureau of Public Roads, has completed a Tiiinfinrr revision of the general highway llUMHlg Producers who have their wheat A slight upturn in business in and transportation series maps of The gam? commission has made or barley under a CCC loan will Oregon was evidenced in the bank Wasco and Sherman counties as receive the benefit of the recently Notice that the Federal Com debit reports for June. A total of of 1957, according to an announce a change in the license system for antlerless deer, which is way of The Sherm an county wheat announced rail freight reduction. mission ha<l approved the appli $1,660.602,574 was tallied by the ment by the departm ent. saying < oes. It is called the UNIT crop will average 40 bushels per According to the local ASC office cation of the North Sherman TV 167 reporting banks ami bran The series shows all range, a settlem ent paym ent will be Co-op was received last Thursday ches. This was up over the pre tow nship and section lines of the hunt instead of controlled hunt. acre it now appears w ith the made on wheat and barley taken from Senator Richard Neuberger. vious month hv 09 per cent and counties and all drainage features Districts have been established crop nearly all in and th at will over by CCC at country points. The farm ers of the north end up over Jflrte of 1957 by 3.2 per as well as all features of transpor and the prospective hunter ap I k .* by far the biggest crop the county has ever harvested on a This paym ent will be 2 cents i>er of Sherm an county have lx;cn cent. tation and major electrical tran s plies for a license in the district Giles L. French bushel for liarley and 3 cents per w orking on an improved way to Bank <'ebits, which represent mission lines. Also included on where he wants to hunt. Appllca- bushels per acre basis. A few years ago (say 30) the In a private company those bushel for wheat. It is expected obtain more adequate TV recep the dollar value of checks draw n the maps an? the types of road tions are available at places where county was happy to advertise licenses are sold. They must I k * that paym ent will l>e made by the tion for several months and have against the deposit 'accounts of surfaces in rural areas ami houses, persons an? stockholders who that It sometimes raised 20 bushels w ant to be and who invest; in a local ASC office after m aturity decided that the best way was to individuals and business firms, industries and other culture along filed before August 18. Applications will I k * held until per acre. When the federal govern form a cooperative. This was are generally regarded as go<xi the highways. public company everyone is a date of the loans in the spring. a draw ing date ami the winners ment mail» its appraisal of yields done early in the sum m er with activity. The U niversity of Ore member w hether he w ants to be The maps are available from officers sim ilar to those of the gon’s bureau of business research the Highway D epartm ents Traffic will be notified on their success for the first farm program of the or not. The private company pays Sherman Co-op Grain Growers. collects the debits monthly from Engineering Division in Salem at or failure, if a hunter fails to get present series the average yield taxes and dividends; the public Warehousemen Have was I k *,ween 17 and 18 bushels. What is contemplated is a tran s banks of the state. one neither. a cost of 75 cents a sheet for the a permit for one area he can ap New Regulations • In those days the county grew lator to I k * placed on a high hill T T W N In the upper Columbia river one-inch to a mile scale, or 25 ply for another one later. lietween 130,000 and 1.36,000 acres New evidence causes some to in Klickitat county, W ashington Regulations governing the op counties of Sherman, Hood Riv cents a sheet for the half-inch of wheat per year. This year the doubt w hether or not man evol eration. licensing ami m ainten to reflect programs from Portland er, Wasco, Gilliam, ami Wheeler, scale. The complete Wasco county total acreage perm itted was a lit ved from apes. To others the key ance of lionded public warehouses stations sending on channels (>, 8 the nine reporting banks had a set consists of five sheets, three About The County tle over 92,000 and it is estimated and 12. in Oregon were put into effect word is evolved. total of $25,795,301 in debits. This ha»? and two enlargem ent sheets, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. that the actual acreage was about July 25 by the state departm ent The Klickitat county I’l l) is was up over May, 1958, by 3.9 while the Sherman set has two TTW N We think it is very generous of agriculture. now making an estim ate of the per cent and up over June, 1957 base sheets ami one enlargem ent. Burkes, he a one-time resident of 90,000. There was an utklltlonal Sherman county, stopped here 40,00,) in barley. The oth er 6 to for the people to let legislators The final order modifies the cost to put power at the transla by 3.1 per te n t. briefly Saturday while on their 6,000 acres has been put In grass spend so much of their money. d ep artm ent’s original proposals tor site. \*lien the agreem ent is PT&T Grows In way to The Dalles to visit his or alfalfa. Also foolish. on m arking and identification of made the translator will be in Warehoused this year has been Eighty Years cousin, Bud Harris. The Burkes TTW N grain and storage facilities, m ain stalled by Video Utility of Seattle Centennial Sells 1,231,843 bushels of wheat by the One of the reasons why small tenance of quality and quantity which has done tin* engineering Pacific Telephone celebrated its now live a, Coos Bay where she Sherman Co-op Grain Growers at business is in need of govern of grain and maintenance of for the m anufacturing firm in the 30 percent Space 80,h birthday in Oregon Satur Is a superintendent of schools. Wasco and around 4,000 more eust. m ent aid is th at so few small b u grounds and physical plant. day, Angus, 2, by placing a $ 1 ,- The Paul Cyphers family took are expect«*d before the final bu T hirty percent of the available sinessm en are able to be both The new regulations require How far the benefit from the 300,000 microwave relay system the weekend off leaving Mary shel is in. A, Moro the crop will employee and boss. Bossing your that storage facilities must be translator will reach is not known exhibit space a, .Oregon’s 1959 in service. Marsinger and Wanda Dunlap to 1 m * about 901,(KM) bushels of wheat. Centennial Exixwition and Inter self isn’t easy, requiring a strong adequate to protect commodities until tried. The central and south The new system increases the e r hand than bossing others. But from the elements, rodents, birds ern parts of Sherman county may national Trade Fair has been con number of long d istan ce circuits take care of the store. They went At Grass Valley receipts were no business can get along w ithout and injurious vermin. Windows get lienefit from it or may not. tracted or reserved by local, na between Klamath Falls, Medford to ('am p Sherm an when* Cyphers 797,765 bushels of w heat last Sat- from The Dalles me, Cyphers from unlay night and it is expected a boss to see th at som ething is and other openings used for ven N either is it known when the job tional and international exhibitors, and other points in Oregon. Medford for a family reunion anil there will I k * 900,(KM) liefore the done and no excuses perm itted. tilation must 1 m ? perm anently will be com plete!, but it is ex reports Floyd Maxwell, managing "This new method of transm it outing, crop is all In. director of the exposion. T T W N pected to I k * in time for w inter screened. ting telephone calls through the W arehoused now Is 2,930,608 Total revenue the centennial Howard Conlo? was taken to a We would like to have been W arehouse interiors must be program s. air 'is a far cry from the day, bo-pi,at in The Dalles Sunday bushels of wheat in public eleva commission will receive from ren watching George Brown (boss of kept free of all rodents and birds 80 years ago, when telephones with an upset stomach and r o tors. T he Eakin elevator holds tal of the space so far reserved is COPE when the governor told the and reasonably free of dust and Highway Marking w ere firs, put into use in Oregon. mained there for a series of tests 80,0(8) bushels. It has lK*en cus approxim ately a quarter of a mil labor convention that he (Holmes) live infestations of injurious in The first exchange was establish to determ ine the cause. ' tom ary to estim ate the farm sto r lion dollars. Eighty one firms and was not a puppet of the unions. sects. Breeding places for rodents Being Planned ed 1878 a, Portland with a total age at 500,000 bushels which Is 25 foreign nations have already —weeds, old machinery, garbage TTW N of 32 custom ers,’’ according to Paul Goddard, the footliall play probably low as some new’ farm J. S. Sawyer, resident highway reserved exposition or interna Pacific Manager Cal Horn. Soviet women won the track and other debris— m ust be elim •■9 w ho was on the all,stati* squad, elevators have bean b u ilt In re meet recently over Americans. inated from w arehouse grounds. engineer at The Dalles, is inter tional trade fair space. In Moro, Horn said, the first and broke his ankle, Is ;l son of cent years. This does not Include Maxwell expressed oonfi 'ence ested in finding the exact route Maybe we should com pete on exchange was established in 1898 the former Gayle Amidon and the the seed and feed kept by every followed by the wagon trains of that the show would be a com with a total of nine telephones. late Paul Goddard. some more womanly basis. farm er for next years’ crop. tlx.* 1810s through Sherm an county plete sellout. TTW N Now Pacific Telephone serves New Weed Killers Bennie Irzyk of lx>s Angeles Total crop will therefor«* total Besides responding enthusias and has been working on that When Teddy Roosevelt argued some 235 telephones hen?. has been here during harvest more than 3,600,000 bushels of tically to Invitations to exhibit, project this week. for living dangerously all a man May Be Effective helping his brotbar, Tex and tak wheat and beat the fabulous 40 Mr. Saw yer has obtained blue Oregon businessmen have given had to do to qualify was shoot a ing ids vacation from work in the bushels |K*r acre no one ever U tility Commissioner teus of thoi'-owl«. of man hours cougar. Now he has to drive the Two new weed killers tested by prints showing the route of the southern city. thought we would reach. the Oregon State college agricul em igrants and will use it to es of time serving on various cen Motes Rate Reduction modern highways. Mis. Bella Clothier of Seattle As for lxirk*y. At Wasco there tural experim ent station look tablish m arkers when m arkers are tennial committees, commission Howard Morgan, public utility T T W N It is estimated commissioner, In a letter sent to and former resident and corres- Is 172,15!) bushels, at More 386,(MM) like the answ er for control of approved by the highway commis members (••port. It is very likely that the theory wild m orning glory— Oregon’s sion and the geographic Ixiurd that more than 2.500 of Oregon’s IKindent for this paper from Was- and at Grass Valley 240.440 with of integration in schools was dis most troublesome perennial weed which mus, pass on them. Plans top businessmen are serving in farm organizations notes reduc co writes that she was a recent 60,000 more expected. That means tion in rallroa I1 freight shipment credited when rvgroes failed to pest. to put a m arker near Richelder- some capacity for the centennial. from the midwest and east to the visitor in our slate and found It a crop of 1,150,(MM) bushels of (>ar- rat bar warm. support the party that advocated ley on 40,0(M) acres which is not At the same time efforts to gain Both chemicals belong to the fer's where the Old Oregon Trail The county court In Its August much over three-quarters of a ton it. The decision of the suprem e chloro-benzoic acid family and are crosses the highway were delayed com m itm ents for all rem aining Pacific coast. He says, "Since there is a large movement of farm ina- meeting Wednesday paid the bills per acre, not a big yield court was more political than now on the m arket. W. R. Fur- because the commission said a space have been accelerated with legal but if not supported at the tick, OSC agronomist, reports up change in location was probable. the enlarging of the centennial chlnory from the midwest and east and met with the welfare com- - to the Pacific coast, these reduc polls by those most concerne 1 to 90 to 100 per cent morning It still is. i*nl • i’ '" Keith Mobley on Roll exhibit sales staff and the expan tions will amount to substantial mlttw Io iking for roads c to end an un- will not long continue. * Increased interest by the high sion of sales offices in the centen savings to farmers in Oregon and glory control with either trichloro Keith A Mobley of Kent Is list eventful session. Tb? rm-k crush TTW K benzoic acid (TBA) or polychloro way commission in m arking his nial's Jackson Tower headquarters the Pacific Northwest, providing er site for Barney Helzer who ed on the spring term scholastic It may I k * assumed that the torical sites is pleasing to the his in Portland. benzoic acid (PBA). the freight rate reductions are will surface the Monkland road is honor roll at Oregon State col Arabs will continue to sell oil to Most spraying for weed con torically minded and is especially passed on to the purchaser of being changed. lege. the west. T h at’s the only place trol will be on small patches of appropriate because of the cen farm machinery through lower To Is* eligible for honor roll they could sell it and get paid. Mr. and Mrs. John DeMons Jim m ie Roberson is home again m orning glory even out in tb? tennial of 1959. prices.” listing, students m ust make at TTW N came from Hansville. Wn., Wed after having taken the exam ina Examples cited In the letter are nesday to do a little more work least a 3.5 grade average for the As soon as the hot spell is bro Columbia Basin w heat country tion for optom etry In California from $1159.20 to $894.00 or a re iroun I the home place liefore l e r rn ,4 imlnts representing ken we begin to wonder when the where the weed is a major proi>- More Money, Less Profit and will remain here for a few lem, says Rex W arren, OSC farm Higher prices and lower in weeks while his parents have a duction of 23 percent and on a leaving for Arizona and a w inter stralght-A. cold spell will end. crops specialest. comes continue* to squeeze the vacation. 34,000 pound car from $1387.20 to jn |j)(, sun T f W N Mobley Is m ajoring in educa One-half pint of the chemical buying ¡Mjwer of the consum er’s $981.(M) or 29 per cent. tion at OSC. Is it possible that citizens have formed a sort of vigilant group mixed with two to four quarts of dollar, accor ing to an agricul to counter-attack the labor gang w ater is recommended for spray tural extension economist at Ore sters in Detroit? If so, they’re ing one square rod— and area 16J gon State college. feet square. The cost: about 60 Mrs. Elvera Horrell says it now rough. cents. A recommenced m ixture takes $1.03 to buy what $1 w'ould Spraying of 2,4-D for morning f irm ers are using or planning The proje<*t will evaluate vari- TTW N At the same glory is sim ilar to investing mon Iteil B lu ff Bull Hale to use the new chloro benzole ous soil physical m easurem ents The proposal to make labor for spraying patches totaling one buy a year ago. contribute to unem ploym ent com acre in area is 10 gallons of the time, Incomes have slipped some ey In ound securities. Both will The eighteenth Red Bluff sale a. |,i morning glory control ma- to determ ine apparent differences pensation as well as business has chemical to 40 to 80 gallons of what lower than they were at re tu rn extra divi ends In the fu is scheduled for early February. terlal. Although quick use » he- lx*tween sum m er fallow p r e p a r »moldI>oard plowing its points. Not all of them are w ater. TBA and I’BA now sell mid-1957. Higher retail prices, ture states Sherman Oounty Ag Rules and regulations of the sale ing made <»f the material by far- tlon m ethod»— for about $10 a gallon. that have in hed up to the high ent T. W. Thompson. good points, however. do not require fertility test of triers much research and demon sweep and discing. Some of the Cost of treatm ent is comparable est jxiint on record this June, I.ate July «or August has proven hulls this year. The management strut Ion work Is needed. TTW N physical measures to I k * explored Summer fallow morning glory are crusting strength, infiltration Oscar, the pioneer statue atop to o th er commonly-used soil ster combined with these lower in the best spraying time. Amine entourages testing and indicates the capitol at Salem, is getting a ilizing methods. Big advantage of comes, have put a double pinch formulation* of 2 4-D are superior consignors may find it to their re.«arch trials have been estah- ((air-water penetration ratio), ce new coat of gold. Appropriate, the new m aterials is that soil on the consum ers purse strings. to ester > on morning glory. Amine advantage financially to have II-bed on the Lam er Sayrs and m enting agents and organic m at does not remain sterile as long Although recent rejxirts show types do not volatilize and are hulls so tested. Placement of hulls .Mat nab ranch (Rill and Don). ter ratio. Mr. Wright will use this what? after treatm ent as it does with tha, incomes are on the uj>swing, thus not lost by vajior action as will be the basis of Judging and The e experim ental plots will fur as the project for his m aster's TTW N At an eastern college steps other sterilants such as sodium per capita spendable income is esters this time of the year. grading Buyers at Red Bluff sale ther test the effectiveness of Ixtth thesis. still not quite u|> to what it was Amines cost more jmt gallon, hut have opposed dropping the grad of the chloro b»nzole acids (TBA are being taken to bring boys chlorate. Soil sterilized with sodium last year at this time, the econ contain a higher concentration of ing system and management has and I’BA). The trials Include ap I1NM* Conservation lt<*«rrvr closer to girls. That isn't the way chlorate may cause loss of crop omist notes. plications at different rates and 2,4-D. Recommendations based on satisfied their desire. we heard it the last time. 'Hie greatly lllK*raUsed Conser ping for 3 to 10 years depending It to st the consum er more to pounds of active material, there dates. Date applications were vation Reserve will wxm I k * an TTW N upon soil moisture, W arren re buy all major living items, and fore, give a lower per acre cost < < <' <»w ned Wheat made in early June on bare nounced In detail. It will lie t ' It is easy to see that argum ent ports. TBA or I’BA sterilize the on most she has to pay an all- with amine. ground and the middle of July on Hard Red W inter wheat pro heavy growth. Additional appli Interest and value to many mor over w hether, and if so w here soil for about one year. Grains time high. Food increased the Research results over a three duced in the Great Plains area Is cations are planned this week and farmers. and when, to hold a sum m it con and corn are more tolerant to the most, clothing increased th? least. 5 ear period at Pendleton show’ 3 Major changes In the 1959 Con the viillän in the wheat surplus th<* later part of August. ference may be more exciting chemical residue than are other According to Mrs, Horrell it pounds of 2,4-D to he superior for than the argum ents a t the con crops. now' takes a little more than $1.04 morning glory kill and Increase picture. <’( '( ' holdings as of June A trials In stubble following h a r nervation Reserve from the pre ference. TAB gave a better and faster to buy the same amount of fcxid yield. Dean Swan, Pendleton ex- 30. 1958, broken down by clashes vest was made during m kkjuly gram In effect for contracts tie- ginning this year are: TTW N kill of m orning glory than did that $1 would buy a year ago; jH*rlrnen, station, re|s»rts a de- IMiints out this picture. on the 18-wey 3’homas ranch. Ap- 1. An increase In the national White wheat stiN'ks equal only pll atlons were TBA at 10. 20 and It isn't that the Oregon song I’BA in OSC tests But Furtlck slightly more than $1.04 for a crea e of 7 5 s In morning glory is new nor that not many knew’ says this advantage may lie off 1957 dollar’s worth of medical with near normal yk?l«ls follow 3.71% of total ( ’(X’ holdings Hard to jtounds; and PBA at 10, 20 and average annual paym ent for Con servation Reserve land to $13.60 It. The interest comes from the set by the fact that I’BA doesn't care and reading and recreation; ing three year of 3 pound appli Red W inter wheat stocks equal Id pounds per acre. fact that certain politicians Just sterilize the soil quite as much. about $1.03 for personal <are; cations, Six pints of am ine or 7 72?). The-.e figures are signifi These ex|K*rtmental plots were per acre from the prevltnis na heard of it. He suggests grow ers might try nearly $1 03 for tranpsortatlon; pint« of ester are needed to sup cant when compared to normal established by D«*an Swan, Pen tional average rate of $10. Sher pro action by classes In the U. 8. dleton branch exiierlrnent station. man county rate though not an TTW N both m aterials to see which and almost $1.02 for housing. ply 3 pounds of active 2,4-D. W hite wheat aveiages almut 10% Additional dem onstration plots nounced to date* will probably 4 k * If the price of coffee goes down works best for them. To estim ate the change In re W ater application rate is Im and Red wheat almut 15-50% of in cooperation with various farm near $16.50 from a previous low enough it will probably tend Chloro lienzolc acids kill when tail prices of things used in every portant. Wtih ground applications figure of $13. to put a halt to the coffee break. absorbed directly by the plant or cay living. ;i sampling is made on a minimum of 20 gall».ns i>er acre annual production. ers are planned by the county 2. Additional Incentives, Inclu Total (XX' stocks as of June agent in August. Who wants to stop to drink some through the soil. Tests indicate, selected items. Retail price» cover has shown to lx* much superior, ding a payment of K) p e r cent 30 were 828 million bushels. Class thing cheap? however, that weed control Is thx? entire 4*ange of family buy Thompson states. above normal rates, for farm ers break down in buslwls were as Holl P h y s ic a l M **uNiirrm**nt« TT W N best when most of the chemical ing Including as many as 2,< m >0 Ia»wer 2,4-D and water rates to put all eligitil«* land on their follows: Hard W inter 596 million. Did you ever see anything comes in contact w ith the soil. different products or services. will give knock down, but are The go*«! earth has many hab farm s In the program for at k*sst Soft leave so suddenly as did the de T reatm ents can lie made any From among these, 300 of the not giving kllK that ra n result Hard Spring 174 m lll'on, its and charterlstlcs «unknown five years, pression? Just som ething to take time under eastern Oregon condi more im portant ones are select- with the higher rates suggested. W inter 1 million, W hite 31 mil 3 A priority system for ac lion, Durum 16 million and other to man. Res<*areh work uncovers it off the front pages and if was tions. W arren says mid-summer e<| for price sampling. Ik an Swan says,a farm er Is w ast many of these factors and ex cepting Conservation Reserve ion gone like last night’s ghost. and early fall treatm ents look ex The sam pling in< lode s more ing time and money with 2 pints 2.5 million The white wheat area In past plain why others hap|K*n. ( ’on- tract applications. TTW N cellen t In w estern Oregon, tre a t than 80 foods, clothing of all or less of 2,4-D on m orning glory. A regional m inting will I k * held years was always Jumpisl on as trihut Ions by research »bout our The Pacific Coast conference is ment should be before Sept. 1. kinds, rent, home ow nership costs, The ftew chloro bensole adds— liM-al soils are always welcome. In Pendleton, August 19 for ASC. busted anyway with so many w ith The chemical does not kill un- public transportation, auto mo I B I BAd PBA— are available and the surplus viillän The shoe Is on One method to secure additional ( ‘ounty Agents, and SCS people draw als There will undoubtedly germ inated seed. Seedlings a p biles an<l their operating costs, rcoonm endal for spot ireatm ent the other fis»t now Hard work by he another one and we hope it will pearing after the chemical has reading and recreation. |H»rsonal for perm anent kill of m orning prrslueers Is necessary to m ain reseaw h Is by graduate research to acquaint them with details of p ro fi ts Bill W right. Junior soil the 1959 program Following this be am ateur and not professional, leached from the sou srvnjkî ne care, medical care ami others. glory plants. The 2,4-D Is a value- tain this positkm. scientist, working with the Sher m eeting details of th e program the Rams and 49ers have th at controlled with 2.4-D or by cul Both services and commodities able t/K>| for field Infestations M o rn in g (»lory T ria l Plot« man station has start»*») a soils will I k * available to farm ers thru field w\?U covered. tivation, the specialist says. are indu ed in the sample. and th? best to date, Numerous Sherman county projei t. the county ASC office. Of Weeds and Bulls and CCC Wheat and Other Farmer Things ,-K
