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Seventy-Second Year No. 28
These
T h in g s
We
Note
Moro, Oregon Friday
Sherman Wins
Track Meet From
May 13, I960
About the County
County Official Paper
Cascade College's
Acappela Choir
Historical Society
Plans Picnic For
Mrs lax.nard Jordan returned
Mrs. Vern Dutton entertained Members of the Wasco unit of the
Thursday afternoon from a four a group of toys at dinner Friday American Legion Auxiliary host- Ua r. Fr ;J„v Minkf
day state convention of the Na- in honor of the birthday of her ed a 9 (H) o'clock coffee hour in
rTlQQV fligh t
tional League of Postmasters held son, Doug Guests were Dick Mac- honor of Mrs. Delphene George of
Hated one of the finest A Capel-
in Klamath Falls this year. Clas- nah. Maurice Hoot, David Hichel- Eugene, department president
ses
r' " ' ---
’
by Walt R w l
ses of
of instruction
Instruction were
were given
given by
by derfer, Greg O'Meara,
Phillip (Vdwii^Gtiger
"f The' naHea"1^ •" > la !? College
Cul1?**’ Choirs
’ I"’1,” , , on
1"’ the
the West
West
Sherman won the League Track the nine regional office men at- Jones, Sandy Spender, David sident of Sstriet 5 and Mr!
to ast' Cascade f oUeKe- Portland,
The Sherman County Historl-
will present a thrilling evening of cal Society picnic will be held at
Meet last Saturday afternoon at tending
Welk, Bruce Lane, Eddie Win-
M.u?°2'rl'L
music geared to teens at the Mid- DeMoss Springs park June 12,
the home track over contenders:
Alliert Dormaier, Allan Fin- civil defense chairman Mr« Paul 7
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P
Maupin, Sisters, Culver, Dufur,
h was lovely weather here e . last t nett,
ncLf-in M ichael F o m and lio n » ’. r , “ “¿ rense cnairman. Mrs. I aul Columbia \outh for Christ rally, the second Sunday
Si
in the month,
w
eek
|,ro
th
e
r
Don
8
1
atrlck’
Presl(,ent
of
the
Wasco
Friday,
May
13,
in
the
Moro
Grade
Wallace
May
and LaPine. The meet was the wet*k- an(1 the start of this
and Theodore John-
preliminary for the district meet
*s nice a'so- The prospec “
make up the program
Overnight guests of Mrs. Hugh gave » X n r n u S ,
Sch° ° l
»«
•’ ">• »«>"
">»
Hugh gave an Informal talk on the work
which will be held at Sherman a wh«at crop is good, but more
aides to President Carroll
Giles L. French
m ourn« wHt lw S n . » S
la*‘ T.UMdaJ
>*■»» <<°ne by the Auxlhary mem a ™ £ £ ^ " V s ' . l o n , 8' « Sayrs, he having appointed them
next Saturday.
„
Mrs Harry Proudfoot of Portland hen Mrs. Goger alar spoke brief- , "
, , . <“ monln«ll<»»h «
Man wants the security of slav
School records were set by Gary 1‘
While Mr. Proudfoot, was busy |y. Members of Auxiliary units s,a,es aml 1 for7 Kn ~ u" tr-v 7 he to that position at a meeting of
ery more than he wants the free Thompson, Everett Royse and
Mr. and Mrs. Basil Bains of with Masonic duties, Mrs White at Grass Valiev and Moro were concert répertorie of the choir the directors of the society last
dom of liberty and whoever
gamut ~ of sacred Thursday evening at the Moro
k Z k ^ d hüThackle's'off ™ him Wa"
« * ,22°' ,2 39'
came up to spend .........nterlutoed a few ladles a. bridge presem for the morning M fM r
" runs
" " the whole
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music from the great classics of Hotel.
nn
fivnr
jump
_(»
J
,
and
shot
putt
40.
weekend
with
Mrs.
Bains’
parents
Present
were
Mrs
Hildred
Zell,
Mrs
Patrick
presented
gifts
to
no favor.
Boys who placed first, second, Mr . and Mrs. Trace Fields. Other Mrs. Harold White, Mrs. Floyd the department president and the the 16th century to the newest Committees were appointed con
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third
or fourth will participate In members of the Fields’ family Hoot, Mrs. Harry VanGilder, Mrs. district 5 president. Mrs McDon- gospel songs of the 20th century. firming the call to labor of those
Klamath Falls has long had a
The program presented at YFC who have done the work in pre
newspaper dedicated to the wel tiie district meet. Sherman won were here to sjiend Mother’s day Idah Everett, Mrs. Estrelle Hall- aid presented a personal gift to
the
meet
with
51
points,
Maupin
at
the
Fields’
home.
’
ey,
and
the
honor
guest
Mrs.
Mrs
Frank
von
Borstel
who
w'll
will
feature the type and style of vious years. Don Martin. Harry
fare of that area. Now it has lieen
Pinkerton and Helen Bruckert
was
second
with
24,
Culver
with
.............................
'
Proudfoot,
who
won
guest
prise
leave
the
last
of
the
m
onth
¿
r
-
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last of the month for mualc appealing to teenagers. The were named to the nominating
transferred to a chain outfit that 23, Sisters with 22, LaPine with
.11. ana Mrs. John Keckmann for the evening. Mrs. VanGilder Italy to visit her son.
college male quartet will also
will be interested in money—pro 17, and Dufur with 3.
and
family, Mr.
and Mrs. Hans took high honors.
Mrs K en n eth Crow« and Ms«™ present a series of numbers on committee with the duties that
fits. Klamath will notice that im
Bardenhagen
and
family
and
Pat-
Dinner
guests
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
and
^Irs^C
udy
Elehler
'and’
Car
S
* program.
evolve to that office.
Bardenhagen and family and Pat-
Event
1st
2nd
mediately and sadly.
Vint° n WatRlnS M°lher’8 d8y olyn were I n X Dahes M ^ ln "
Profressor Hay E.
Those interested In the history
Mi
4:56.6
MorehouseK
L)
Powell!
S>
Robinson, of tjie county wni gather at the
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uere his parents, Mr. and Mrs. day for medical attention for the the director of choral activities park before noon and at that hour
The east is still getting snow 100 10.1 Fletcher (L) Thompson(S)
.Mrs. Alfred Kock entertained
H..^.a^k‘ns. a,?d
and Mrs. girls.
and this will certainly go down 200 23.9 Fletcher (L) Thompson(S)
at Cascade College, has recently food will be placed on the tables
440 55.8 Taylor (C) Hawkins (S) members of her bridge club at her Leo Watkins, Judy and Donnie.
Paulen Kaselierg left Sunday come to the college from Indiana. antj members and visitors will en
as the year of perpetual winter.
880 2:09.1 Morehouse <L> Davis (C)
Mothers day guests of Mr. and for Spokane, where he attended a In addition to his activités at the gage in mankind’s most consis-
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is I musical
director
of l t n n t l v » i n l o v i l i l i . i w - i i n a t l n n
The summit business is off 120
— yd. Hi Hurd —
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n ic r m ig
ui
Ute W ctsiungion S iaie c college
o lle g e
l he
ie
IS
IIU S U 'U I U
lU X 'lU l
O
again and just when we thought
Hoyse- (S) Daniels (SIS)
Jddl ' ^ ^ 2 ^ 1 1 ^
Wh®at Comml8slon on Monday.
Portland Youth for Christ and the
The program wiH feautre local
17.3
Royse-
Hurd.
Khrushchev would talk himself Low H
unt
Barnum M r ^ c X l l Sayrs aid
U * SRUeS ° f P° rtland
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YFC ‘«‘v isio n program «’Teen-A- 8ingers and musicians, include
22.5
Royse (S)
into good humor
" Daniels
an e b (SIS)
‘ s Mrs beta Eslinger of Moro, Mrs.
Mr. Millard Leigh and George HW1MMING LRHHONS
Hama.”
some ttme for g o ^ ty business
Hl Jump
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Pamhaii i (C>
n Albreclt (D) Bill Pausch, Mrs. Harry Hooper Fox made the forms Monday for
The tentative date for Red
and provide place for a speaker
5’ 6” Camball
The two political parties are bid-
an<i Mrg Kenneth Hattrup of the concrete steps for the Rufus Cross swimming lessons at The Teachers To Be Honored
from out8ide the c°u»ty. That Is
ding for votes with the voters «. Jump
Crahtrpp
Grass Valley. A salad luncheon Grange hall. Tuesday the follow- Halles, has been set for June 13 A eacners 10
« O n o re a
(he officJal program T h e u n o ffl.
money. Wonder how long before
a itoyse tb) C rabtree (M) preceded (he aflernoon of hri(lge ing nien ca,ne to help with the through June 24.
Teachers In the Moro distrh t clal one will be visiting by old
the voters get wise> to that.
Rlir.ppn
<«!«» at four tables. Mrs. Hooper he. 1 work of making and pouring con- There
an urgent need for peo- who have served education for friends who will meet again.
Some bi!! ™ p ailing old- ¿ a v e ^ ! 4 4 T e r r e l (C) "w L l (M, ^«h, Mrs. A. A. Dunlap second crete, that is besides Leigh and P* who can swim, to help with 10 years will be honored May 18,
high and Mrs. Sayrs low. Mrs. Fox, Robert Davis, Sam Brock, the children at the swimming 8 p. m at the Masonic hall. The Form er Resident Chosen
sters is called necessary because Shot Putt
Harland McDonald and Otto Pet- lessons. Mothers or high school public Is Invited to join with Ma-
of the high and increasing cost of
44’ lOVi" Siegler (SIS) Heed (S) Barnum won the traveling prize. ersen. After this is done the gra- students who can swim are asked sons in recognizing these citizens
Mrs. Frances Leehan who was
Other
members
present
were
Mrs.
medical care. Arranging an easy 880 Relay
Sherman Maupin Eben Kee, Mrs Herman
Peters, vel can 1 m ? spread around so the t0 take a special class, which will who are devoting their lives to selected as Catholic - mother of
way to pay for It will certainly --------- ————
Mrs. Harold Eakin,
Mrs. Arzell weeds will not be a fire hazard
held ln The Halles at the civic younger generations.
the year In Portland last week is
increase the cost and on one, so
and
a native Sherman countlan hav-
in
Lemley,
Mrs.
Donald
Clodfelter,
to
the
bull
during
the
summer.
aiJ(ilto57_m’
startl
n«
Monday,
May
Seven
teachers
ln
high
far, has proposed a plan to reduce A ugust H. Thoele
Trace
Fields
donated
the
gravel
16
at
7:30
P-
m-
Th,s
class
will
he
grade
school
with
140
teaching
lng been born to Frank and Em-
Mrs. D. L. Reynolds and Mrs. A.
the cost.
August Herman Thoele was F. Balzer.
and came with his hullodzer last held three evenings prior to the years will be presented with the ma Van Patten June 29, 1897 on
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buried in Sunrise cemetery at
weekend to smooth the ground slart °f swimming lessons.
Masonic Teachers Award for long a homestead northeast of Wasco.
Those submariners who just Wasco Monday afternoon follow-
Recently Mrs. Harland McDon- around the hall.
Also, now is the time for each time service. Wayne Foster of the Mrs. Alex Macnab of The Dalles
completed an 84 day trip around ¡ng his death at The Dalles last aid and Mrs. Keith McDonald at
community to appoint someone Hood River school system will I m * Is a sister as is Mrs. Rachel Por
the world without surfacing were Friday after a lingering illness, tended a banquet in Portland,
There will lx? a no-host lunch- to take charge of signing up the the principal speaker.
ter of Hermiston. She went to the
as long without sun as Sherman Mr. Thoele was born at Harbes- honoring volunteer workers of eon meeting of the local chapter children for the lessons and ar- Lynn Hampton and Miss Mary Brock school for three years be-
countians.
ton, Missouri, April 30, 1901 and the VA hospital for meritorious of American Red Cross, May 19,
range transportation. Brackett, finishing their 27th and fore moving to Portland where
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lived there until a few years ago service. The banquet was provid- at. 12:10 noon at Moro Hotel.
When a community chairman 25th years, respectively, have she has since lived,
Communities that have been when he came to Oregon. He was ed by the Multnomah County Chapter Red Cross hussiness wdl has lx»en appointed or volunteers been the longest In education. Mrs. Leehun is the mother
of
estlmatlng their populations high a member of the Lutheran church. Council of the American Legion, be discussed. Cost $1.25. All Sher- to take over this phase of the Mrs. B H. Hoberson and Margar- 13 children, seven in religious
for ten years may have to back
Surviving are two sons, August April 26 Mrs. Keith McDonald re- man county people interested in program, please notify Clair Bal- ette Chiistianson are completing work, and is the grandmother of
track. Soon It will be time to H. Jr. and Lynn, both of Wasco, ceived a certificate of award for Red Cross should attend. Please zer, the County Water Safety their 19th and 20th and Mrs. Lynn nine. She is the aunt of Don, Bill,
analyze reasons for growth or two daughters Charlotte Genell completing loo hours of volunteer notify Lynn Hampton by Mon- Chairman, and necessary material Hampton her
17th year. Mr.-. Tom, Pete, Pat and George Mac-
decay.
Thoele of Wamic and Mrs. Sharon hospital work at the VA hospital day, May 16, so arrangements and other Information will be dis- Frances Jeffries and Ordle Hoye nab and of Mrs. Leland Medler,
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LaVell Bentley of The Dalles.
in Portland.
may be made.
trlbuted as soon as it is available, are completing their 16th year, all Sherman countians.
It is 15 years since the end of
the war and about time we were
getting some of our morals back.
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Four Schools
Jo/in Day Dam Almost Ready To Start Growing on Diet o f Concrete
The Portland paper strike may
bring to life an old condition,
that when a man walked off a job
he didn’t have one.
side of river gravel to crushed
rock of suitable sizes, a basin Is
being dug to land barges loaded
with sand from the Gilliam coun
ty side of the John Day river.
Both will 1 m » moved by lM?lts to
the plant where they will lie mix
ed with cement and water to make
the mix for the dam.
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We can’t help but wonder what
l>eople do for fun down south
where there Is but one political
party.
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Heard something nice the other
day. At the Chamber of Com
merce meeting the chairman ex
pressed regret at the coming de
parture of a citizen who ’ had not
a single enemy.” The ever present
cynic muttered, “Must never done
anything.” As the chairman Intro
duced a Morman elder who had
lived there 19 years, the cynic
apologized saying the elder had
nothing but friends. Good record
for anyone.
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We have heretofore expressed
the sentiment that being a woman
would lie more fun than being a
queen and now Princess Margaret
guesses that being married is
more fun than being royalty.
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Wouldn’t the insatiable urge
to take more power on the part
of government bureaucrats be a
great asset ln business; that is,
If they had any business.
Mb
x
,
A rou n d tlirse funnels at the end that w ill take m aterial to m ixin g the push-button process th a t w ill
of the overhead conveyors w ill plant. A lo ng the h ill is a field of make concrete to liuild the finul
he piled »rushed lin k of varyin g riv e r gravel that w ill go Into the structure on the big stem of th e
sizes. V n d e rg m u n d Is a conveyor ■lohn Day dam. T h is is a part of Columbia.
They don’t build them with
The plumbers, of all people, shovels.
have banned the coffee break
Seems like there should be a bet The biggest construction mach
inery ever built Is operating at
ter way to kill time.
the John Day dam where, on the
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In all groups from grade school Washington side of the Columbia,
to oldsters more are drinking the hills are being rearranged to
alcohol which may merely mean suit the deman»ls of U. 8. En
more honesty about it. W’e don’t gineers who designed the big
notice that the total consumption structure now almost ready to
start going up after long prelim
is up.
inary of going down.
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Some dabbler in chemical gym Trucks that carry 34 yards of
nastics has discovered a com sand or rock go hurtling down
pound that turns water into jelly. the road to carry material to the
Mebbe eat and drink at the same new SPAS grade being raised
bite.
above the new waterline and a
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yard shovel fills the behe
John D. jr. gave away millions six
moths as neatly and quickly as a
of dollars perhaps liecause of small hoy filling a toy truck with
strong criticismof rich men fifty a tablespoon.
years ago. He has done much
good
Building a <lam. we judge from
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a quick inspection trip with
Maybe it is better to have taxes Colonel H B Elder, resident en
than to have nothing to tax—ss gineer. is a procem of rearrang
in Russia.
ing the material In the area Into a
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J .
The moving belts will lie op
erated by a man by push buttons
and the concrete material will lie
measured or weighed to assure
just the kind of concrete the en
gineers want. There is no guess
ing alxiut It at all.
The hole behind the coffer dams
is alxjut 50 feet below the level of
the river and will go down a few
feet more before the pouring be
gins. The position of the fishway
is marked and rocks are being
shaped on which to pour it; wa
gon hammers are rattling a noisy
tune amid a cloud of dust as the
deep hole for the ship channel
is lx?ing dug and the piles of rock
and sand are starting to build up
against the time for concrete
pouring.
The small coffer dam where
the pouring will start Is to lie the
location of the northslde fish way
the ship channel and a part
new shape and molding it togeth huge r»»ck crushers are ready to
This U the six yard shovel
er with cement. At John Dav begin the job of reducing a hill- of the spillway. It will be built
to half Its destined heighth liefore »lumping a load of sand into one
the work moves to the south side -—
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of the river to build the power
house and south fish way whl'e
the water runs over the half con- HH||
structed north section now start
ing
Then the final phase of the «lam
will connect the two which will
lie sometime in 1967,
plates
seeps
through
IxMiking down into the excava ferdam
tion behind the cofferdam w here from the riv e r w hich is 50 feet
the flrM concrete w ill be [toured. higher. It Is pum|M*<l out by pum p
W a te r ru n nin g from hole«» in c«»f- show n in pk ture.
* ‘ h-
A contract will lie let thlH sum
mer for removal of the dirt from
the hillside where the dam will
be attache»! to the Sherman coun
ty base
A temporary highway
an»I railroad will be built and the
new locations for both made high
up on the hills above the water
which will I* 160 feet above the
present level.
Parties may visit
the dam.
There is a view point where any
one can stand and watch the ac
tivity going on below. And it
will be worth bis time for such
structures are not built every
place.
B a n k er
gtrteer
Bob
Hugh
«»f the 31 yard trucks,
< 'ost of
«-»liilpment in this picture Is o ver
KHMMXM».
F e rre ll
and En- |x»lot from which the en tire pro-
E ld e r at I.H.kout re ~ ‘ ,,f dam ‘” ' ‘ M ln g .a n he seen.
To left Is dim view of co ffer dam.