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fe r m a it Œnuttfy tourna Seventy-Second Year No. 3ti Moro, Oregon Friday .Julv 8, I960 County Official Paper These Things We Note Giles L. French The wicked flee-eth -and some- times so do the wise. TTW N One industry that is reaping m aterial gain from the race for complete security is the in su r ance industry. TTW N it is common to blame the ills of age to having too good a time, yet age catches up w ith everyone w hether they enjoy living or not. T T W N Elmo Smith Chief D°wn 7° 32 JUM Speaker At 20 *** for Political Picnic Delayed Summer Harvest Starts On Both Wheat Fourth Quietly Noted At Many Places Bv Sherman Countians And Barley Rufus Recieves Annual Singing Imagine this. On the 20th of Sherm an countians spent the June the tem perature dropped to Ex-Governor Elmo Smith will an even 32 degrees. That isn’t al Fourth of July weekend in a Harvest lias started in Siwrman lie the main speaker at a palitica, ways freezing but it’s just as close m anner that left them safe so It Fire burned over between 10 "'.‘¡'.’iL .'"* ? N!any of and 12 square miles south and rally and public picnic to be held as it can get without freealng outfit» w « t '' hringm s " 'm m n ’n, at DeMoss Springs park next W arm est day in June was 88 on elevators of the S h e r m a n i ’« J t h e n \ at hom® which is east of Kufus last Friday after- Sunday, July 10. Start will be at the 28th. H istorically we can «< O ram Growers. * D lc k V o c u u t’aitid -‘T * * "* * “* “ » " h“u«h noon. It apparently started in 1 P»k.nL pect 93 for lhe top anJ 37 the Geoiwe Eox* w e rV o in V « ? 111 h***? the youn® ,niiiht not think a home Rufus and burned up Scott can- dea h ?,f T p'n°,r n ' ,he ho,,oni Avera«« maximum was and 7 h « Coat* and c i X w X * ° U‘d * "Urely san"' y° " and down ‘° HiK>'way 30 < x \e rn o r I aul la tte r- 78 and average minimum was 47 w ere on bariev All »hex » / 801,16 wenl lo m ountaIns at cab- Up Scott it jum ped the paved ^ ¿ n a trZ d ^ ^ X v 3 ™ an-? f * A 10 near the ¿ lu m b la rK et ™ ° " Stream> w here r° Ud ' H‘tween G lrkin« and e average and that will sur- grain mature« there Earlier* tban !!nes couId l,e wetteU pleasantly canyons ami burned to the crest Elm o Sm ith legislative term . He is a nativt if not profitably; some picniced of the hill as far as Bruce Mil- prise everyone. That 32 was the on higher ground. of Colorado in Irtah« a ? \ h<> finiahed ^ ‘hool coldest tem perature in June since The cold at Bear Springs w here there was lard’s where it was stopped at a caused « .n,a,,v a goodly crowd; a few went to road west of his buildings. Some ‘î occurred ut in June - pU.b “ ^ ----- ------ -- r rost h a , kwvxx.icM ju n e rarm ers to t e spring i i ~ v » th.» t h a t i ' ;s paper ln Ontario. He left four tim es since 1911 the coldest would be much l a t e r thi ia ,'***t ,he * C h u t e s where fish pro- barley on the Elizabeth K uvpers' Leo Roberts Named n a flier ln WorW being 31 on the first in i» i? than usual h u t d u ro L 5' 7 ‘ claln,ed t h r o w n day of liberty; place was burned. miirex ,t - •"«'* ac‘ But 32 ° n lhe 20th 15 laste;t crop caught u , a n d t h e 'T v ' " T attended celebrations and Along the highway the fire To Sheriff Post ssession of the n.#,.,.,, . S . vartn Mountain I Eagle a, John Day .“ Blue the «n mu<.tr.i B* '“ ’ i ..- - m *° * -----. “ ““ « rodeos in central Oregon and raced out of control in the high rrady, — " Home were In The Dalles where w«at wind until it reached Helm Í ? ! Pioneer a t Madra“s a n d 'î h e ^ m æ been deputy sheriff Wlnnp?,Ce ,h * Cr*1 H erald at Alb«ny. lhe lane,' Rainfall was but .16 Inch, a big u“‘ u o u hJ esllniale the pi-ub- w ith stream s of w ater "and fire Reld’a 'p la c e " h a ln g ' turnw l^aahlc death of Lorin W innett, was a dally. Smith is Vigorous, mas- -7« below normal. Crop year total ? « » “ •* «*>««»> works by Ids lawn A , snmll G e ld o f b a r From Firebrands but the east-west possible to halt the When Americans lear alyze their problems and to settle all of them by cation of a money poultice will make progress. Our foreign affairs, our educational system, our social security all suffer from too much money and too little thought. TTW N Oregonians may now quit criticising southerners and stari looking for those who burned the home of a Portland negro. ___ ’ ’e Pre tt*cst dames in the com- m unity, a parade, and a patriotic speech from the court house steps, making the eagle scream w ith joy over tein g the emblem of such a fine country. Such things are as obsolete as the w hiskers and stove pipe hats the men wore who attended them. Fourth of Ju ly ’s have changed along with our concept of gov- em inent which is no longer an ideal to be defend«! to the death but a cow to te milked into the John . that riv er to B°x canyon, a distance of about B'e miles taking the grass from Ibe river to the top of the hill, Seriously damaged was the Charles K uypers’ place w here partly cut fields of hay were burned and all the grass on the Place destroyed. Both the Reid and K uypers’ cattle were in Iced lots Sunday. Firem en from Wasco, The I)al- I®8 and Arlington came to help and neighbors turned out. On level farm land w here m achin ery and trucks could te moved they prevented the fire from burning much wheat. The barley fields are apparently destroyed without tein g entirely burned. Fire went through the barley and 11 'Sio estim ate has teen announ- ced of the daina«e done but it will run inl° th ° “«and« of dollars eVen ,hou«h standing wheat was burned Two From Here a good croo is tf»n»r»iiv xx r.xx.7'7 uotn political parties have the Dalles and Paulen Kaseberg can- over that e n t n / a r ^ cxpe<ted H_g.ht .I° nonunatt> candidates and didate for the lower house of the any one may file as an indepen state legislature. Get Linfield Awards • lent and run at the November Sending regrets was Howard election. Belton who tried to fit this meet- . . Beba Goss Powell, daughter of G. V Grain Growers ing into his schedule b u t could ”*r ' and Mrs. D. B Goss, Moro, not. Ron Phair, candidate for and Rodn*y Rotfp- «on of the Elect Davis Again Economy of Farms congress, will te represented at late John M Rolfe' Grass Valley, 1 he annual m eeting of the the picnic and Howell Appling are among the 80 students named C___ C 1*1 t t w n ocenis Solid secretary of state has been invit to the spring senw ster honor roll (' raM Valley Grain Growers was for Linfield college, McMinnville ,ie*d ln the oR*ce Saturday, June ed and may attend. The hum an fram e is pretty __________________ * at O » ..*.1__ »-w Lowell Paget, new national according to Dr. E A. Whitman, 25 at 2 o'clock. L uther Davis w «« durable. We spend twice as much The economic foundation for re-elected president and Wallace for activity th at is supposed to farm m arkets appears firm this c°nunitteem an for Oregon, Mrs. college registrar. May was re-elected vice-president tear down the body as we do for year in spite of a few cracks here M t «. Collis Moore, national corn- In order achieve honor roll medical care that is supposed to anil there, reports Marion D. m ltteewoman, are expected and standing at Linfield, a student for two year terms. The members voted in the rain build it up. Thomas, extension agricultural Reter G unnar may accompany must earn at least 3.5 for the pre- Satus Pass Road TTW N economist at OSC. Sm ith in his plane. ceedlng sem ester. Fourteen stu- program beginning Sept. 1, i960 The question as to w hether the Economic conditions in the na- Irving H art is chairm an of the ^entii received 4.0 averages, indi for a 10-month period Members Section Dedication also voted to build additional president should engage in per- tion the rest of this year aren’t Picnic com m ittee and has made catinK perfect “A” work, sonal visits as an aid to diplom- expected to exert the upw ard pull a rra ngem ents for it. Everyone Mrs. Powell and Rolfe are both storage when the board found it A new section of the Sat us pass Financial report for acy is not the question at all. The °n farm prices and costs that who would like to m eet his offl- graduates of Linfield with necessary road will t e dedicated next Mon- the past year was thei te s t in problem is to deal with o ther comes with rapidly rising employ- clals and the candidates who may de^ rees in business administra- day morning, July 11, at 11:30 nations successfully and if visits ‘««nt and incomes. But, neither ,)ecoine officials is invited. tio n - Both were active in campus the history of the organization. a. m. with William Bugge, dire»-- help they are OK, if not helpful a re conditions likely to produce •— affairs tor of highways for W ashington try another approach. the downward push that comes as main speaker. Participants in County Joins Group TTW N when employment and incomes the ceremony will have lunch at The sum m er season has reach- level off or drop, Thomas t e F M “*id ,n Brooks park and the comm ittee For Industrial Plans ed the "is it hot enough for you” beves. Floyd Root Named will furnish coffee stake, which is a question that Instead, an in between period of Sherman County Judge Vernon 'Phis is a new section of the Practicing at L & C might more appropriately be di- over all stability appears to be .Miller attend«! a meeting in A r road tetw een Goldendale and Wheat Commissioner A bid of $23,869 was successful rected to a biscuit. growing out of a blend of mixed in getting a contract to build lington Tuesday with represent a- Ù akima and the Yakima delega Floyd Bitot, Wasco farm er and ends. ,he ecnnnnns, said, w ith n e w " ^ V .c r o a 7 O r « " X <?raaa Vallay' ‘a «v. Uonl are X TTW N trends, iorm er president of the ()r«'gon W eakness at the top is caus- Or n* \ likely i'ikelvni to . te £ operating ™'O h 'S e C° n ‘ ' anyon at , he *' one R o <* " » 'I A c r « r r Mus c W ,ik»hnnna,l'"l mld-Co,um1»» forming to giw le lhe affair Sit.- of ing a lot of trouble in the world, o»«y on a crossing about two miles south v ,U J ? *1 P L Lewls a regional agency for planning ol th e ribbon cutting is about 16 W heat league and the national grain growers, was appointed to gh but Thp state highw h io h u ro » ___ “i*1. n r o ir r e s s m ile s n o r t h o f « top of governm ents, leaders of high m u uneven plateau during of Moro. The av’cnnT u . arlc L StanI«y Glarum, industrial industrial progress miles north of Goldendale a place on the Oregon W heat races, head.^ of families. All the rest of i960. mission let the b id i. ' chairm an of the college rntisif r te group is at present inter- The Klickitat county cominit- commission by Governor Mark would get along te tte r if tougher. Unfortunely for farm ers, this funds alloted t o c o u n t i p ? * denartm ent, is director ___ 1 “ * es,w1 in preparing a budget which « « c o rd ia lly in v ite s th o s e in te r - Hatfield this week He will take T T W N generally favorable economic sit- The bride«» win _____workshop which features theory means W onder what sort of recreation nation won’t elim inate discourag- f rw n \te 'e x ls tH m bn a ” d Chortl c,asses’ ln whk‘h afl money it^ c a n * ob tain * I? 1*?1 ‘J ^ b l a U e m M h ^ e L ^ Hlg.h w ay ,he P,ace Vflcated by Paulen K u e - ^ d X - x ^ £ r H r " S S r b “ ^ n t .............. - TTW N Once in a while you see a man who thinks the old rule a te u t let ting the buyer beware has been repealed. But he is very young and very naive. TTW N Some old correspondence indi cates th at 50 years ago farm ers thought the E astern Oregon Land company was hard to get along with. But it could te argued with. Nowdays the boss brooks no arg u ments. ^ a- — omlc rondfiion does prom l«. high- or prices and higher incomes year f,,r n.,ost commo- dities that ate in sm aller national supply. The general outlook also im plies fairly gixxi chances for lit tle or no o v erall increases in pi i«>es of goods and services used by farmers. Instead, opportuni- for some tetter-than-usual buys may develop ~ ä ^ x x * °" m,h: x - y a n ls f'rom" The” p rX 'n 'i T rh iso and on , he eas, a id ,^ n ly a h o n distance The r o a d «•«.. - Will thereby te straightened ± Danny, son of Mr. ___ w m ? / o '. f '" '" ? 1 " * h *«h h<-'P"w m most coumies' S p ! a y a ' h,> sa«“' The Sherman budget phone and clarinet in the high provides for $400 county for this agenev school hand He is also Of Ihe Dixieland B a n d ’X “ ' County Agent Tells Allotment Plans o f Governm ent ft . --------------- . . . , ""Mces of farm allot- f|ow h internal . Terletmn ra.m, . a m en u for lhe 1961 wheat crop ers w lZ ° Ut ,h al fa r"*- are twing mailed to farm ers this ' urs T h i fungus re >ke out price support o .* iu ,hy ,he Coun,y A«r ‘™Rdcal J™“ " " d0™ ant ‘" ' b e Infected “ »■« »" commercially siored Stabilization and Conservation kernel «ccrnlnatlon of the from I960 crop«, will ben- Highway Signs coinm lltee under dlreellon of 8™ '" and growth of the seedlings. Immediately by this change, TTW N office manager, Ralph Busse. Ac- Th<* C001’ wet w eather during " h e n a fa n n e r has grains in a Down in The Dalles George Costly To Damage reage for '61 will lie up for Sher- i,ow«r,nK is favorable for dis- w arehouse as security for a price Lindsay, a newspaperman, be ”ian County farm ers a few per- ««rotation of spores and infec- su PP<>rt loan, he pays the storage came a postm aster which Is in Highw ay hooligans are costing centage points tion. Under these conditions a w hlch will now te at the new people of mil«, of of no wise a promotion, but we th« People of Oregon Oregon one one mile Reduction In 195» was 35 9*"; percentage of the grain com lower rate guess the hours are te tte r. average four-lane rural freeway w hile figures for 1961 indicate a ing from diseased fields will be For most grains stored on farms _ T T WN «ac year, according to W. C. reduction of 33.2% which is 2 704, inf«c ,«<I with ,h« l ^ s e sm ut fun- l,nder re-seal programs, the stor- I he Oregon dunes park seems " Ubams state highway engineer, less cut. County wheat acreae«- gua '* < ■ *** Pay ment to farm ers will te doomed for this session. Well, Vandalism of highw ay signs allotm ent received was »3 423 in u «. two cents a bushel lower the governm ent could interest «>«t the state $50,000 a year for ’59 and 97 131 for 2 4’H Hummrr/ “ m«> Following are the new ra.«— i itself in som ething more impor- the m aterial and labor require«! year. The farm a l l o t m e n t / ¿ i ’ « s h e n oan t >unty 4-H club mem- storage rates per bushel- Com tant than the voters’ recreation ‘o repair and replace the dam age! based prim arily on r Z w h in W “ opportunity 10 ^ r l e y and w h e a t - H cents r™r TTW N units,” W illiams said. "This production h i - i ^ . 1 ,ake in a »umi" « r camp experl- bushel 1 C hristianity appeals to the s p in t a‘n °u n t would provide the state crease fo, Sherman fanners i L ? . T o * / T r‘-County R« * « l storage rates will als«, of m ankind and communism ap- funds necessary to m atch the to this history d J H camP 81 M«th<xllst Youth be uniform on a national has' peals to the stomach federal money used to build one D oo~ Smut On When, “ ‘7 5amp grounds " « J elim inating form er g«,graphical TTW N mile of freew ay.” a serin..« . S utl,e Lake has >jeen ior J u ,X differences «rapnicai July is happily a vacation The destruction of highw ay in Burt wheat has te e n ^ X X !" !’« ? l° Ju *y 30 ^ Ub mernbers thal Farm storage commodities now month but politicians will go 8‘*ns has reached alarm ing p r> the W illamette Valiev t h i 7 * " tO *UWd H6ed not,iy eligible for reseal are 195» right on working anyway. pc.rtlons, W illiams pointed* out. Ixx>se X ! p m t n7 i n t a ? e a W>rn’ bar,6y X T 1 W * Vandalism not only costs the and has teen noted on B u r t w h ^ X h* Camp w heat. corn and bariev and 1957 There Is a four cent United Public in term s of money but in as well as v a r io . . « h >ear S * 850 Any bll8ln*s8 crop wheat and corn ’ .States stam p inscribed: ’ Fear to do ill, and you need fear .Nought Fl'se hat a u n t ,lve iv n ar»nrste»r,k *“■' W What a m " T TTW N Some some w isem an, perhaps George Bernard Shaw, said hell was a place where there was no work to do and after three days of little work we are inclined to _ _ M , N TTW There „ no longer any need for banning testing of atomic w eapon, In th i. country RIU» |. ± i ’Ì ; : " J WK , n n \ ‘T . " r,,W* •ky high and h a , probably heen «».ling „ead lly anyhow And th l, country should make Its its d c i i- deci- stona on the basis of Its own welfare. service as well W ithout guilding oats The disease has never ? h lndl V' dl ; al who d *, lrw Terjeson reported that in addl- signs, travel would te confused ven to te of anv P7' 10 iurnlsh money for a young per - Mon to th« roducllun In commer. aadl a n d 'beffec.lv« tiv o "E very ____ i and ,,g n „ " i_ he c Sherm an County G iM r o n » llK e r a 7 n n ce L „ in 2 son. ,o„go c^ p,ns m’.y " ° *> bX rial «.orage ra .e , will b e T num Mid, gives vital Information, Burt wheat how ever «hri.H ,he exfen’ lon office ber of changes In the handling and its destruction might lead to make «»re .hm r , h d ! C C C ’ St<’ra«e charges for loading m and ............. might lead to make sure th eir seed ^ a serious or posM hte'fala.'a'ccb S r a m u r . n ^ v ^ ’ ^ »his smut and save onl„ ty wheat farm er ‘lent rates and handling charges to from loose smut infestation of the State A gricultural Stablll gether, it is estim ated that the Signs are not cheap They cost Seed treatm en t « with present zatlon and Conservation commit the state of Oregon an average of chemical m aterials is ent will save t e t w e e n m *. not effective lee. announced lhat a new ached- governm 100 million dollar., durln« the P61" square foot They hold against loose - .............. Ihe high. Rxnl.m „ c a r r ir t 'i n a l d ^ . ^ k â i ’ “ 7 ” P 2 ? ' ° r 19€0Sl y« « an im portant place in » a y com m i,»,on’, over all opera- opera- ne! ralh er lhan on «he ^ d . w « T u « T °- Ch#" * ’ ** tions. The state has more than 100.000 ,lg „ , of every a M | w e a r o m o,, " r £ a 'n b ,™ Û * Ju ,y *' 19’ which wBI L o f f i J S ', w r 'P ,1->" m ar'“ b8 «ver.vu.uid ll.l, county a r' 1U’ ‘n,ed w“ h ■« * • to all eligible commercial w aro from curve« to deer crowing«. The .m u ,ted »nlkee or .. * ï 7 dJLO“ ,n_e.rî l*,,y bouvemen on an Individual ba«„ They are one of the mo'.i em erge’^ 7 h e lx»n e l r b 'e A h T ‘¿ i ™ * r ,,M ‘ " „ b e in g reduced The p n w n t agreem ent. , /iec, tiv « - devices d n - i . o » use«] latt^ri by Kv. « u . coinmis- ------------ t— tx L . ones release arller than an average of 19 percent, from since 1956. govern storage in live the healthy sion in its war on dents n H ,h b o r’ Mid-Col. Bank Deposits Down Bank debits for tiie upper Columbia river including, Sher- man, Hood River, Wasco, Gilliam an<i Wbceh-i oounttaa |.. i Ie n ' ln May <»«>»« coni|>ared to A pr“ ' Ifl6# by 5.4 per cent t year ago Debits for May. 1906 tolaled 26.737,861; and for May 1969 tho total amounted lo 25 369 1-,6 Two Attend Army Summer Camp Uadet Roy P. Cyphers, 21, son of Mr and Mr«. Paul M. Cyphers, Moro, Oregon, and Cadet Gordon h Bacon on ol Mr and Mi •’Tank B. Bacon of llufu«, are re- celvlng six weeks of training at the Army Reserve Officer Train- '"<! ''<>rp. sum m er camp al Fort w ««h The training Is scheduled to 1«. none July H a tfie ld Heere- |,|u r dottel w ith 50 Mam. in h«.n..r ip p iin g look Mt the of (h r In ly Ith o ffic ia l udmi«wion new fing w ith it>» field of blue of Hawaii to utatehoM.
