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^tycrman County Jloitrttnl M oro, O regon F r id a y Seventieth Year No. 42 . .1 i AbOUt thC COlinlV Old Gordon Place Slill Has Some of Original Fruit Trees T hese T h in g s We N ote County Official Paper A ugust *22 19oS being news about people you know or know about Mrs Bill Paush. lowing: Vern Smith, the ’ohn Barnum and family. Kelloggs and Jack. Tom Moores Mrs. tra c e Fields had a pot and Barbara, Leo W atkins’ and luck dinner served out on, the Donnie. Freddie Dormaler and the lawn when the Home h r d u b f J a m « C lifton. and Danny. Rufus Grange met rt Probably no part of Mrs Jack Adams entertained l^ s t Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Tom cay afternoon. Mrs. Bert sw igai old G o X " "place 1\ b o u ? ,\;> u ; b r id g e J u b at her^hom e T h u « - Moore and Mr. ami Mrs Vent was co-hostess with Mrs. Fields served sliced peaches miles up .be Deschutes from its day with mouth. It was the location of of the county’s first farm s orchard where Thomas Gordon Tliev decided to and grounds never looked lietter. grew apples, peaches and berries. ^ traveling " _ *" * “ prize. ¡2e o v th rs present Day weekend. in e tm h »* — .........’ . . . . . Due to the warm day, tlx* women He had a bridge there which he traveling prize. » were Mrs. A. A. Dunlap. Mrs. Ar- cam p at Wasco Fine Mill r moved indoors for their business sold to The Dalles Military Road zell Lemley. Mrs. Harold Eakin, Giles L. French Mr. and Mrs. H arry VanGlWe ano Airs m a n « d slted meeting at which Mrs. Grace Med- . Nudists are having a T O X 3 X K \lr s Gene Reynold« and Mrs. Joe and Mrs. Charles E verett vlsite. Mr and Mrs Glen VanORder and ler. vice chairm an presided oyer ErfdXm there. Nudists seem to t e on the road to ( anyon t tty and ^ e r s .^ Andergon of The DaBtt5 w inning the battle against clothes b o it Boice. , from u a guest of her cousin. Gary and have picked up a lot of sup- , 1 g 1 ; B rinkert, at the home of his par- port the past three^w eeks. the bottom of W ing g w nU am 111 Mrs. H arry H«*ner Mrs Rov Schilling and '•••- Kendrick Dunlap of Moro Mrs invited guests when Mrs. w'ere S T J X X d the U that inflation will he hear tht <• w ith us until con.ifian \ he next see farthei a ic i n election. M ay, T W N WN ’ ; rHun,aii 7 h e p gueb‘ Labor, led by bigger and tough? He gels nerve enough Vo ^ o p R - lie gets nerve enough " V i* w 2 “ of three miles over land that has mostly been plowed at sometime since Gordon left in the seventies leaving his family the ranch. Young Tom was killed by one of Young tom was n.uvu u , v..v note O M route of The Dal- prosperity las < J* ( ing farms, b u . must no te^th at neatness oi o a intjepen. accomnany deno?. T T W N Good morals in the main are a code of fairness. T T W N The deer comes down to the Deschutes to drink at sundown and the families of chukkers run along the road -----. chattering - in anlm their aiM.tft ai ' T h i r d l » i ?n th e up- anU hv the heat and the end pressed by the heat ana ine ¿f the growing season. It was not Military Road is a project the ^ e™ ^ unty socie. ty may undertake at some future time, perhaps in the centennial We would like to a,w ay. run through .and C alm « , Dell French Buried In Portland Cemetery Dell French died in the Veter- an’s hospital Saturday from a ><"W t'au'i« 1 cancer lhe brain. Uirn #nd Mrg *Qn' th ej'r homestead t ^ r ^ a good, year for the l.rrle a and FWnK 1/xr RO it would heads on a rotten log so it wouia he softer. T T T W W N N T X v « " ' o ^ R e Ruggles and h .s m o,her Mr" O N Ruggles drove to Port- • ■ and Stanford, his subject being land Sunday to bring Mrs. Rug f jcg gles and gons honw after spending :uuuiiiivo. ------------- r - -• ’— w’ere conduct- ... since T h u rsd a y visiting her r Funeral u.n».». services ~ . .................................. rrnnl'v „ w o ith . York "w illam ette at* the ho me" of their mother, Mrs. with interm ent at W illamette at the home cem etery. . . . j - . . . M D aTuaan Woodward came w ith him to spend a few days w ith h l. pare„fs._M and Mrs. Roy ? pur til IN, 4VII r . 4B I1U .vl I IV V/J S ing. Gary will take her to her home in Hamilton City. Calif., Thursday and he will retu rn Mon- ij v iu ii dav ' Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Spencer Toinmy |<lft Augu„ „ for their home in San Francisco TTW N T M “ '“ “ “ " ¡ 'i n m . We.!nos<lay till - F rid a v ■■ at the B oyce B laylock f ho>«e- Mr. and Mrs. Frank von Borstel went to Portland Monday on bu- «iness. Mr. and Mrs. A. von Borstel and Phil drove to Camas Park, Wash., Sunday for the Ijoffel fam- iy reunion. Mr. and Mrs. Don Smith spent 2 / cd c o stu m e . a! " 'n - Clen ^ - u l ^ e . JMrk and MnZ ^ l y ^ e r m ... ...... up a a » good <liscu«rion the prize money menL Some of the young men are wearing whiskers, full beards. We think they look very well in them m o re distinguished more distinguished and commend the practice TTW N This may not he the end of a long dry sum m er l>ut we are p re t ty sure it isn’t the front end, TTW N If you can change and won’t you r , old; If you M n l ehan(m you’re dead , S X X n d ^ rX ^ X o’ £ I hey played, s e v e ra l uru lo a n guessing g lines . ' . Thompson got the door prize. Maple b a rs and c u f f w‘‘. , Mr. and M r ., BrackeU daughter, iss (.ia<t h r Un, Mr. ami ,.n |nv(.d , ami daughtei. Jane . ,,..rk pi •nic < ‘nn<’> s ‘ ‘ _ 1 In ( ondon. I be 8«rl ;...... f - - - ln * 7 ,rll nrt". ; •' ........ .......... Attendance - organization, Th" Slan'lar<|g l««,rers.' was or- ..... ...... ganlzed and lasted until 1954, when it was disbanded because of Ja(,k f)f a jeader i„ 1948 when Rev. Carl Stlerle was pastor one delegate. Patricia Kageberg wafl sent to th? Metho- (list conference at Cleveland, Ohio An outstanding event of 194» was the entertaining of the Port- J;jnd Youth Fellow ship Richard E B runer w<Hlt.psdav af. the new building program was S " 7 ' m ’ 1-^w carried out, with new Sunday school rooms added and the base* . , h c lindav ment enlarged and modernized, . 1 t h. ' ' " " 'X . - pu( (>n ,he church and .. “ io M. Work Day Dated For Fair Grounds Tuesday, August 26, will tie a work day at the fair ground« w ith ,h e specific purpose of building a waah rack for swine and sheep exhibitors. Howard Ross, super- jntendent of the two divisions, will l»e in charge of the work and exhibitors of such anim als and parents of exhibitors of sheep and sw ine are asked to come and give a hand to the work. There Is going to be an exhibit of poultry at the fair and Jack Travis member of the state board will bring some 1W birds to show |t wU| (or d|ap|ay purpoeea WmP*W W‘' h .......- ^ J ^ h ^ do not like the sound of the mod- h P b George Wellenhrook and Howan allen(kH| the Junior Rodeo and Mrs. De Rowland W ard and Saturday u and Sunday. Their son, ern w arning is that the air■ siren $JoO() * Dennis. sounds like a groan. I be ahi Ronnie, plated first In steer de- Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson corating and second in calf rop- w histle was a call to adventure. Sherman and Wasco have just returned from a vaca lng TTW N tion during which they stayed at Final defeat of the labor hill Mr. and Mrs. Ed Faust of The Nelscott on the coast for a week Dalles and his brother and wife will be <ampaign stuff. We hope To Have Rodeo Fair so. Surely the great and growing ‘ a in Sherm an an<^ a*so *h»ited C rater Lake, Dr and Mrs. F aust and their power of labor endangers the The rodeo' J®"1'. * rtu n itv ®nd the Ot*e8°n Caves- At grandson were reoent visitors at power of governm ent itself and county will have " nd Junction they visited Mr. and the home of Mr. and Mrs. T ester is a proper subject for political to see many row M il Vern l>arson, Mr. I>arson debate. The hill was a weak other Pro™J"e" 1 ; *’ o Q )un. having been a form er teacher at thing and of little consequence. hoys In af tl0^ dt T h y al|ev Wasco and te now a principal at TTW N F alr * I . Ti, , h„ ,nn North- Cave Junction. They also visited Congress passed the social se- August 23124. All I • th<f new |yw e, 8 Mr. and Mrs.- Da- curlty hill which raises the take west coW*°>s wl1’ Vid M<Gregor at -Salem, whose of recipients hy seven percent on P^tlng for *h *_ of The wedding was June 15. an average Thus does social se- tha i tke cham pion Gene Gosson visited his par- curlty Strive 1» k eep up w ith the lex WHIP re* X y S e n t. Mr. an., Mr. U -, W atkm . inflation which it helps to cause. ®V"aro u nd „ ar h rPi*?ntlv an d took Mrs. Gosson Store will present each recently and took T £ X g Nh imelRgent X him for a she return- There are Sherman — and eRucat«! . So X X W aU .........................- to make The girls had a party at the high school building Tuesday and W ednesday, a dress up party, a r-oklng and knitting party and v latever men or hoys were about v »re relegated to such tacks as carrying other lx»asts of burden jobs. It was the days for selec tion of contestants at the state fair among 4-H club girls W inners were: "Sew Its F u n ” Nancy Conlee, Caroline Henrlehs, raveling group sponsored by ex. College of the Pacific ut in Rufus and at- slon Rev. W alter W arner received st(M.kt()n ( ’allf., stopped for lunch __ ____ fended school here She left for ,he large aum of $200 for his en. a, (he Moro ____ H ote, last Friday Miss \ ivlan and SIX?nt pa r t of their tim e here tire year’s work. Nampa Monday evening. the C hristm as asking ” question« about Sherm an Mrs. Joan Thompson .................................- Alio- JOUI1 1 I HU» ........ entertain- » Trounce «tarted Ur* J iw ntlm uvl tfk 1 , . e<l in her home w ith a p arty Wed- bazaar which has << n n 1 county county and and learning learning aboul alxmt its re- nesday afternoon. Mrs. Hugh Ma- he present l ‘n^ Hev’ w h cn \ m arkable agriculture. The Th< group t hkwon and daughter Helen and a ham was in < hargt h . . a was endi a tw o week to u r of irirl frien d from i D ufur a attended tte n d e d fi>‘‘ e < hu >•■»■. ro h ...... —........ • t um w # NorthwaaL, lHifui ■>'»• in m th m«- wurmw*»Ri, looking looxnui a ai t historl and bingo bingo w ere »he changing of the position or ca, po|ll(s and new dams and film- several games and dar construction. Credit will be p|aye<1 Mra H>r|, nd M Ixmald »he basement stairw ay. Hev. Fletcher Canned was here given to those who w rite a sult- got the d<x>r prize. Mrs. Thomp- .............. able story of the trip which was under direction of R. R- S tu art of the college. tax money in it. r bv Mr. G<»son >i r - ana Mrv vnar.e» > y « TTW N The 75 room hospital WlU v 7 J , i . ’lny r ;,nR M r s . F » S • nd ,amily here b « 5 - X Ä . 8...... . Democrats, we read, expec larger m ajority in the tx»xt con- ----- of ineir 1,1 gress. Leaders will probably find become necessary and Mrs. "J»** 'J lohnnv , , Mrs Mrs T. M. Rolfe was brought a large m ajority more ndepen- » ^ t h e , » . m rs of t h , area. h,ed ~ dent than a small one and he less _ . ----- nappy nex, year * l ^ n ~ d « , « -he X u' eda“ fn . : ? . yi h Pre-judging Show University Group For Visit to Condon Sunday day visiting Mr. Tlnviu ily Davis qml and fam family, daughters left Monday Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hennagln Cassie Holmes Gives are hack in Phoenix, Arizona af- __ •. I let a few weeks spent in Oregon KOOIH 1 0 H O Spital Cassie H o lm «. Sherm an conn- " '2 Z L 2 'w I R Mr. anti Mrs. George W ilson re- turned Monday ’I « ' ' f . a n who h n u ? ^ fhousaVda brought them up and they w R Wlfohlla. Kansas for the wedding }£"• » n°h ™ h durlng p... niany spend a few days at the W illard of flKlr son l.t. George R. Wilson ta c k to h e a WM ,la rn e „ home and Miss Patricia Ann A n d e a n , a (<) , Spending the week at Scout Smith, ,„” tne t £ ‘M w '^ p l t a 'l £ i n g cam p Baldwin are daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edw ard a room in . . . new nuspim» i t » BRI i 1b ane H - - oyd - Rathtiur lUUd un u Mike ane and and J. Anderson of W>st Palm Beach, built along lhe Dry Hollow road • Floyd Donnie W atkins, who were trans- Florida. T heir son Paul made the S ä S S » s w Ä W S . -« s trip with them. T T W N o wmen a , N orthw estern Lake w»ere The way to reduo? is to eat ¿00,w from Hill-Burton funds as a gift, *> 31 Ä T T J ’ hP ahae S n S S ~ , X Fair Trip At left August 16 for s Laws to aid small business fol- low th e old political principle of "divide ‘divide and conquer” and m ay result in loss to all business. Little Kathleen Kraft, 34*, darted across Main street Mon day afternoon just in time to be struck by a car driven by Miss Carol Armstrong, county home agent. She Buffered a ury to her head and immediately to The Dalles anti from there to Port- land w here she was reported off the critical list the next day. lb ? K ra tts me from Minnc- apohs Mmn . and h a d ,« < w e d o Girls Picked For Sharon Karen Pow- Alice Kasei)erg. Karen Macnab, Karen Mrs Faye Bolce has rented the says It will furnish the paint if parents are I h llip ana u o ro tn y Tsubota. “Clothes for Fun and Mr. and Mrs. Jack G nfflth hai as overnight guests last Tuesday Grace Medler house in Wasco and the grange can get Lhe work done. Kraft S un’’ Arlean DeMoss. his uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. will make her home there Mrs. Fields said they anil Mr. and Clothing 1VB Janet Thompson. Bert G riffith of Grand Junction, Mrs. Fred Harrison are m aking Darlene Miller, Lana Jean Paul Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hllder- Colorado Wasco M. E. Church son. Clothing VA Ronda Fraser, ‘„L rlarp n ce Mav are brand and sons have just return- plans on a grange display Ixwth I h e ^ p ." a » .born « . from a ^ e e k . vaea.lon a, V ,c for the Sherman County Fair. Clothing VB Sherrie Fraser. Mrs. Grace Medler won the draw Celebrates 75 Years K nitting. Beginners: Nancy ' A group m Wes, Wind Kiden, ing. There of won’t <he he any unU, m ore Conlee. Interm ediate A: Nancy The Wasco M ethodist church McKean, Interm ediate D: Wilma pound, a n d ^ e n o u n c e .™ , « . T a ^ k » « « • * home of Mrs Fred celebrated Its 75th anniversary G entry. Food Preservation: Canning ¡w o ‘broihers. Wallace and Alan mypper P rw enl b e .n l« the Moor- * R u ()- a fe p)ck. August 10 _ with ....... alxmt 95 people orchards at Rufus are pick- at u»nding services. The church Patty Thompson, Frozen. Foods: Mrs. May and infant daughter am es am a » « Bettv Ha- *nK peaches. It was cooler Sun- history was glv en hy Mrs. Vleda Mary Mobley, her steter, Robbie Jane E arp of and I " ,n day with a strong west wind. v . „ Gaasbeck and Mrs. H arry “Easy Meals" Karen Tsubota, Portland returned here Saturday ven. . < v >» The wind continued to blow Mon- yanG llder. The church was or- y|arv .............................. ^ nn Thompson, ...... Patricia afternoon w . . prl ‘ Mrs Vleda VanGalsbeck and <‘«y a,so- P|ckln« up lhe , <?lrl ganlzed In 1883 and Jam es Helem Miller. ..Main Dish Meals" Jt June Mr. and Mrs. WHliarn B rinkert M re v a n t . a a wh|ch thp bullodier8 raising (hp pagtor Rpv B arret JefferfcM Mflry Spencer Harbi Barbara and Gary were in The 1 a 1 e s . . Mr and Mrs W alter Campbell in trying to level the land on the WM here when the first parson- G llm an. j un|o r D inner Club E rin b DT.neS In d em o n and S ^ k a n e . T k l n g X r a . T U t - Barlho.mew place. age w. . hull, an,! I. I. ...U ..and- Wllson; senior Dinner C u b N Nan- Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Jordan Ing (behind the present parsonage. cy j A,e \\«ilson "Advanced Foods" arK * ' ing side trips during this time. family, MI. H1U Mrs^Clyde V1|S v iyuv Fridley and and Mr. and Mrs. H arland M o The work on it was done mostly Mavla Miller. Mr.’"and John Rust and R- E. I^B leu children'1 a r e ,siH»ndlng*a*wtik,*in Donald went to High Rock near by the m embers of the church and Mary Spencer won at cake hak- went to Bend Saturday fishing re- Seattle a n d vicinity visiting Mt. Hood Saturday afternoon to Mrs. Barret, the m inister’s wife. |ng Sherrie F raser at Wool sew- turning Sunday. ¡•,.iends ‘ see alxiut getting some buckle- helped with the shingling. Rev. ,ng (R ^rgc Miller at Health. Mr. and Mrs. Jack G riffith re- ¡Mrs Roy Schilling son Gary berries. They said the grounds Frank Spaulding worked hard In , n the hresR Revue Arlean De- tu rw d home s,un^ y AhU*U,,; i,2 i ^ V 's u s a n ^ v ^ l w w l tw k M » w erT w eR pi,‘ke,i over. by. each ,he chur,-h and was sen, to Rrazll Mo«. •flo .h e a for Pun and from Alameda, Calif w f S h U H n T to -rhi Da lea came home with enough for a few for several years as a missionary. Su„.. I)arlene ClM.hllaut.r In "Beat visHed 8Qn and daughter m W. b . Schilling to i ne J am a wh(>n h(. ame back to Wasco he v i,n .ss;- Ronda F raser and law Mr and Mrs. Dennis Ander- Tuesday to see her doctor. px»s an« jt law, M r « Gene Reynoh1». M l - O n race Franklin who is a started a church at Monkland. sherrk» F raser in Clothing VA currants. ----- old house still standing on the We are v e ^ pleased that the Boh Schilling place. He wen. to the Michigan school and when senate rejected a hill to appro- fo r school construe- hut a boy played chords to his prlate money i a n t t h through m ilffh . •» toi x n b u s in e s s father's violin for r dances tion. It isn t feder south end of the county. TTW N T he bill in congress to enforce " X u ? 'u n td “ e V arn « ’ easier m e,hods of killing meat s c a n d antS a w C " « h e i r 'e h ' l X p U S t Z * Oregon v Small Girl Iniared By Car On Moro Street; Recovering * day evening after *»elng poatpon- “ ed for six weeks on account of the work season, So many people seem to have colds that It seems queer for this time of year when the w eather is so hot and dry. i l*cy say,, they ju st can’t throw them off. They are worse than the w inter varle- ty. ....... - flr.l p rla , = - the Annual Town and Country Wasco Fair Starts Church Im provem ent project for Today At Tygh 1955. The Wasco county fair, locally Guest speaker for the annlver- called the Tygh Valley fair, Is on s tr y - c e ll, brat Ion was Rev. Ernie , b |s wevk with Sonny B ak fs ro- Wilson, the new district uuperln- deo string. Indian horse races and tendent. whose theme was "We barns full of 4-H exhibits from Build for E ternity." The church tbe Columbia to the Indian re- choir sang "Bless This House servatlon. and Mrs Tom M<x>re. sang. "My »rbe getting is one of the best C athedral” accompanied hy Miss f(>r a <ounty fair In the state with Carmen Royse. During the ser- Umple grass in a level meadow vise the southw est corner class- behind a high hill for afternoon r<xim was dedicated to thc mem- Hba<Je, and m any Sherm an coun- qry of Olive Robinson, twloved ,jarw attend annually. Saturday teacher and friend of all In this w d| pioneer flay and the 4-H church and community. The dedl- fat stock auction will be held that cation came as a result of a mem- a ftern<x>n at 5:36. Sunday is The orlal fund given hy her friends Dalles day and Sherm an county and loved ones to the church aay, building program in the past few Undetermined year"~___ State Wants Man To Run Farms children and then return- « i X h e i r horn. In A.hUmL V »rthwpst Rodeo Association. At Mr. and Mr«. Vern Smith and N orth* 7 l l *2 rhamolon- I>eon Mr. and Mrs. Leo W atkins each o Ke w inners are giv- and family. Mr. and Mrs Tom sh ip .to d eo thc o f * he M oort and Barbara, and Mr. and n i>. Kdk>gg an<, j taled and the high point cowboy« joyed a picnic supper together at are awarded priaea which are pre- the Wathin* 7 >n?P‘„ , u 1 1 rented to them a t the annual con- The West Wind Riders vention The rodeo stock will general bu>.neKS m eeting at the again, as in previous years. I* club house at Klondike to dtw the coming program of furnished by Son Bain of Ante- ' v i r n S m ith s e rv e d Mrs. W rtra Iwe. Ml*s Z.rlm u nurses l-pe and H ow ard Johneon of Com e v e n l y the fob K - . - r u r - ............. « " M ie . I - - don fo r m-oi H e a lth • •” » The state of Oregon desire« to secure a well-quallflad farm ad m inlstrator. The adm inistrator would direct the o v e ra ll atate In- stitution farm program. Closing date for application is Se-ptemtier 13. Minimum requirem ents: five years of actu.il farm ing experl- cnee on which two must have t»een at the management level, college graduate w ith spoUallza- tion In agriculture. Preference will »* given to Pacific Northwest resident« and veterans. On Dam Celebration The date for the projected cele- bration because of the sta rt of the John <lam ha” been changed so often th at no one knows when It will be held, Klickitat county citizens have l>een Insisting that it be held this fall and although the September 19 date has not l»een found feas- Ihle the engineers have agreed to a date this fall, Latest suggestion is October 24 and senators are being asked if that date will be acceptable to two or more of them who will prcbahlv t* speakers for th e oc- casdnn.