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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1960)
• • *--- • • • - •Ohennan (Tiutniu journal SeventrSccond Year Xo. 13 These T hings We ASC Honored, Kelter Elected Moro. O regon Friday Moro Motors Destroyed in Fire By County Club The meeting of the Sherman County club held Tuesday even ing at the Masonic hall and cater ed by Beefo’s was for the purpose of giving the state ASC officers an opportunity to publically pre G iles L. F ren ch sent the staff of the Sherman This snowy weather has taught county office with awards for us one thing; that almost nobody service, accuracy, efficiency, good thinks almost nobody can drive w’ork habits and an orderly of fice, but several other matters a car on snow as well as they. took a good bit of the meeting T T W N One nice thing about an old time. timer is that you know the gossip Jens Terjesen of Pendleton, for of a bygone era, and can tell it mer wheat league president and as history instead of scandal. wheat commission chairman, an 1 T T W N now chairman of the three man Now we suppose we have to ASC board, presented the award-; worry about that ground hog. which were suitable for framing TTW N and were accompanied by a $25.00 A new dealer is one who thinks check for each of the officers. it proper to spend public funds With him was Dan Verhagen, for personal political profit. field supervisor for the mid-Col T T W N umbia district of seven counties. Those who paint insignia on Receiving the awards were Rus buildings at night can’t amount sell Belshee, chairman, George to much. When caught they Wilson, vice-chairman, Delmer should be made to paint some Smith, member, Ralph Busse, thing in the daytime. manager, Marie Balzer, secretary TTW N and Tillie Geiser, office girl. No From what we can tell from the check was given Tommy Thomp pictures the main attraction of son, secretary, who works for the Gamble Benedict is her dollars. government in county agent ca TTW N pacity nor to Rob Hoskinson, who If you think the middle-of-the in the words of Terjesen, works road Elsenhower administration so efficiently he only gets in part spent too much money (which it time. T he sm oking ...in s of the Moro aN dayh.eak lighted the scene of Chronicle. did) imagine the fix we’d be in Longest discussion was about M otors G arage Monday m orning the early m orning fire. P ictu re hy if w’e had elected a “liberal”. the resolution the club would Sherman Huskies T T W N send to the U. S. Engineers when One of the biggest costs of gov the hearing is held at Arlington Win Two More ernment is the taking from those March 3 about the recreational i . . , ------- T he h u stlin g H uskies ram bled who do work and giving to those facilities ... l>e provided the . . . , . . inhn Day tviv to liver, i Reid ,, , . on oix?n- to . another easy victory lust w'ho don’t. At the speed of in Jonn hiank « round . out * a week-end » Kat- , of - ... * * urday to crease you’d think that a majority eu the discussion with an exnlan- . / . ■ u nti«n of the entire project F and 1 outstanding triumphs on the were not working. ation u i .i n . « ■> w hat woo i . ; , bask etb all co u rt. S ettlin g an old TTW N Jo's: z . S r d asF ^ . ,ohra(i,h: w,,h n",e r ' j : h>; From what we observe from x r r r " i,arc" ,or ” ~ px ed , 2 2 ? t our window it apears that the ¡ snow has lost its saver. Sliding down hill is not so popular. Rut will he K kla'«ir«*i lend, shennan by a single point. This it was perfect and the rage for Ina Result deveSnSeS f "S.1“.'0" USk' 1 Sherman's turn to tie- awhile. ihe jJhn .» ? ’en '«'“' >'«• «‘«-finitely out classed TTW N y . ? much Condon team «M l. All this year there has been « S fe S n S S S g“ Sherman's O rtin g five man- snow on the ground. We have had what reasonably passes for a The club also voted to appoint aged, t“ T ” a", early lead. a" d appoint maintain it, as the score at the winter, the first in three years an imino».."__ inform fni Vh* 00 t<> p ,e p a re end of th e first q u a rte r show ed and it may continue for some » S m ation S X Jn d n e PS n n ‘ng "» • H usklM " " " “ P ° i" ' time. After that we can expect a commission and prospective in- ,,f lG.i spring which is also something dusti ies that may lie interested in uu . , . rhi« nnnntv ,n S h erm an w ent wild d u rin g the we have not had recently. resume of ± 8 brl?f fast < * uart< ” > 1< T T W N The past 20 years have brought countv noRsoe- 3 vantages the points while holding Condon to 5. DunCan Hel’Ver affluence to those who were not attractions "for industry-' w a t^ used to spending money. A gen eration used to spending may s e te X n of T i X ' r ,'tat'" gas' ‘n ' ~ Ge,,ing 4 e aK aa'i" dumptag^ln**? ” , T " : :Bl n "> ">« lad find the incomes Insufficient. p re s id e n t la k r f , h' Ret,cr as quarter were the Husky subs, TTW N vlce' Thomas, Mobley, Decker, Thump- The principal new attraction on president’ Inn it , “ C reU ry ' » n . F ield s and (b ig g s I, w as the lower John Day will be the H ,H s Mt' ln thi" ,hat 'ondon ‘ »».e long pool of slack water. Boatmen rngs cues F ^ T h ' out h l,,‘ng gond and clumped in and picnickers are interested in and ft,h k-LXnf di . The in te rio r of the burned that started in early m orning ami man. F ire pictures* taken b? the • ling the water; stockmen are interest garage the next day showing ears threatened ( I.........„ tire business Sherm an ( onnty Journal photog. ed in the grass. Boatmen will not Geiser Jr and Mrs. Harol.l Halley Sherman 1(1 29 4« 56 burned into jun k hy the hot fire p art of town. Pictures hy A ider- raphe, were not usable eat much of the grass and cows had baked a birthday cake in Condon l 13 18 31 will not drink much of the water. honot of Mrs. Ralph Busse and ____ ___ It seems easy to divide the in Mrs. Ray Kelso which was both The Huskies chalked up anoth terests. a table decoration and a feature er Deschutes League win Friday Northwest Grain Men T T W N of the dessert. Elmo Smith, once governor, no iho i.. . . night as they toppled Lapine 79- now publisher, would like to be n re L e n t kin? 7 con\mitt®e new 21. The game was one-sided all To Sponsor Elevator c appo1nled Olles the way, the Huskies forging national committeeman. If he E r l h L ,CUe antra11 an<1 ( lair ahead from the starting jump, wants to spend his money that Balzer At the meeting of grain grow way its OK by us. ' with Decker at center, to the end ers organizations in Portland last of the game. TTW N Everyone gets letters telling Coach Hoye put in a full quin week the North Pacific Grain them what to do and what to buy Dewey Thompson tet of reserves in the second quar Growers decided to sponsor con to become a great man. May be ter. The staiting five were bench struction of an export elevator at good advice, too. But it is sort of Buried Tuesday ed for the rest of the game, allow- Longview, Wash., says Wendell a do-it-yourself project. _ ing every man on the squad a Balsiger, one of the active sup Funeral services for Dewey chance to play porters of the project. T T W N The new elevator will have a Sherman scoring honors went You can’t win. The social se Thompson were held Tuesday af- curity that was supposed to make ternoon at 1:30 from the Moro to Charles Griggs who hit 20 capacity of 4,000,000 bushels an 1 retirement easy caused inflation Community Presbyterian churcn points, Terry Kaseberg with 13 will cost in the neighborhood of that makes retirement impossible following his death Saturday and John Fields who scored 12 $5,000,000 including shipping fa morning Interment was in the The Huskies’ shooting average cilities for loading ocean going T T W N was an outstanding 50 per cent. ships and barges. Two million of There’s several Moro business Rose cemetery’ the storage will be in a warehouse 21 34 53 79 men who will never say another Dewey Thompson was born near Sherman 3 8 16 21 type building. word against snow, especially on Moro August 27, 1897, the third Lapine son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C It is expected that the new a roof. Thompson, pioneers of the coun elevator will handle some 30,000,- TTW N 000 bushels of northwest grain When the sun starts back from ty, He attended Sherman county National Foundation each year. It will tie owned by, its journey south it stretches the schools and started farming. He the Port of I/mgview which will latter part of the day first. That was married November 20, 1917 Buys Polio Shots issue revenue bonds for financing, is the tired part of the day. The to Miss Inez Peake and lived on fresh, bright part of the day is the farm until he moved to town The Sherman County Chapter basing them on the contract witn Shell Barres Donates $20,000 To Research In the 1930s left short for six w'eeks. of the National Foundation ex North Pacific. ile was active in farm organiza- pended $235 99 in 1959 all of TTW N On Heart Ailments, Matching Cancer Gift W’e are not going to believe that tions including the wheat league, which was for the payment of J, S (Shelt) Buries , who last resides on the John Day river the Russians are three times bet was a member of Harlandvie-w vaccine for 532 polio shots The ter than us in missile making; grange, served as school director, number receiving them Is not Postoffice Department year gave $20 (xm for cancer re where he is developing some of not as long as the charge is made was deputy assessor, was on the given as some were booster shots, search, thi* year presented Mrs the Ixittoms he owns for irriga tion and dls|*ensing his consider by politicians in a political year board of the Moro Grain Growers, For 1960 the local chapter has set Anita H<x>per with a check for able fortune in the doing of good Neither will we believe thl^ na member o f the equalization board aside $200 for the same purpose, Will Call New Bids >20,000 for heart research It was works. Few of Mr. Burres’ con and the county budget board and The 1959 campaign brought In tion is that far ahead served on the city council. Since a total of $1377.35. Of this amount T T W N The government, at long last, pre ented to Mrs. Hooper, chair tributlons are known We commend the state admin youth he has been an officer of $344 23 was sent to headquarters to reject all bids for construction man of the local heart fund, but before the division was made of a postoffice building in Moro .|H-viiic.iily to lx* used fur re Because uf a sei ies of accidents istration for holding down ex the Moro Presbyterian church. Surviving are his wiodw; three leaving $1033 02 to be divided based on the archltech’s design on search so it is outside the drive he has lost both his legs but des penses this past year Anyone who spends a week In Salem sons Ted, Don and Keith all of That left $516 51 to lx> retained which the first bids were mad**. funds. pite that he gets around the Moro; one sister, Mrs Edna Mel- by the local chapter. knows it to he possible. Word from Portland headquar ranfh wl" ' ai(1 °r a driver, zer of Portland: a brother, Claud There tieing no polio cases in ters is that the pogtoffice depart- county whence his father came TTW N An improvement is the move of Pomona, California; seven the county the expenditure for ment experts to adverti»e for bid-. when Shell was a small boy. He runs bis ranch and has time to to increase salaries of long time grand daughters and two grand- vaccine was the only one made again in the near future This rode the ranges of southeastern occasionally visit about the old school teachers. A few years ago *’n8 This Information is abstracted time the bids will be for a simpler Oregon when a young man and da>s and tell some remarkabe Donations to the cancer fund from the report of R E Ferrell, and less expensive structure than became a successful cowman In stories of times and persons of the talk was about minimum sal treasurer. aries and no one coul 1 afford to may be made In his memory. the one proposed liefore. his own right. Now widowed, he sixty years ago. stay on the job long Note “ e S Towi Threatened By F'ving Erands ’Til Firemen Win Fire destroyed the 100 x 100 ft. garage building occupied by Moro Motors, the trade name for Les Gray, who was sole owner, Mon day morning a n d seriously threatened the business part of town lying northwest of Main st reet. The siren sounded at 4:45 a. m. and the fire was already weil unutr way. Les Gray had gone on a cull with his tow truck between, two and three o’clock und xvhen he returned found the building ablaze. There was no chance for the hastily called firemen to save the garage which was filled with fire within minutes of the arrival of the fire truck and coupling of hoses. But constant application of wa ter kept the fire within the walls of the one story concrete struc ture. Brands from the burning tar roof flew for blocks and en-“ dangered buildings to the north and east although the southwest wind was not strong at the early morning hour. The Wasco fire truck arrived in time to put a line up the alley behind the garage and control the fire In a small garage l»elong- ing to G. Douma that would have endangered the Bob Brlsblne f garage and the wooden buildings Jon First street housing the Sher man County Journal, the Ameri can Legion and Clarence Huis car pentry shop. I’he A & Z Cabinet works occu pied one corner of the garage building and was completely des- ti-oyed. It is owne I hy Ken Zacn- ary and the name comes from that of Wendell Axtell and Ken Zach ary. A stock of hardwood had Just been put in the shop. Smoke found its way through tlie brick wail separating the garage from the G. Douma gro cery warehouse and filled the grocery Itself. Although In line of the fire the Husky Hut, the Ranch and Home Store and Beefo’s were not damaged There was five or six inches of well ¡lacked snow on all roofs which saved many buildings from the flying brands. Had it been in dry summer there would have lx«en little left of Moro. The garage building was owned hy Louis H. and Thelma Jessen of Eugene who also owned some of the equipment obtaining ft from Cliff Chipman who leaded to Gray and Shoemaker about three years ago. Insurance Is s0td to lie under >25,000. Included m the loss were boats Ixdonglng to Raul Fraser which was Insured and another belonging to Nell McIntyre, In process of construc tion, which was not insured. In order to get his tow truck out to answer the call Gray had backed two trucks out into the street and they were saved. Cause of the fire is not known. One cor ner of the building was filled with discarded engines and pieces of discarded cars. There was also a gixxl deal of electric wdring In the building. The Moro garage was built in 1919 by Ray Goff with the finan cial aid of several Moro citizens including A. Rose, Roy Rowell, and O. L. Belshe. it was the loca tion for a Ford ugency for years hut was designed for and has lieen used as a gargae during its 40 years of existence. It is not ex pected that the walls will lie worth salvaging although the floor may be usable again. Fire engines from Wasco, and Grass Valley manned with volun teers and an engine from The Dal les, called when it seemed un likely the fire would be stoppe<l, arrived after the fire was well controlled. s< IIOOI, U Ai.ES vr The Sherman County School Boards Assn, met at the court house Monday evening for the annual discussion of teacher sal aries. After rather long discus sion the recommendations of a cussed at length’ were ’ ^dopUM This means a raise of $50 for a B A degree, >75 for additional al> e a A degree and s ... No it.uii .i a« made In the ex- i>erlencc pay.
