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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1961)
o V â ’iu 'r n ta ii ÖTounfy .îjm trita i Seventy Third Year X«. 10 These T h in g s We Note Moro, Oregon Friday January 6, 1<M»1 County Official Paper Brief Resume o f I9 6 0 Events Shows Change Deceniber Cold Threatening I f Not Yet Achieved .. .1 « Some things happened in 1960 Talk started about the John Day IvlOlSlUFC County Court Makes Few Appointments Jack E. Graves Makes Comment On Killed By Truck Farm Safetv W eek In order to co-operate with the On Pole Job Sherman chapter Future Farm pool, and argument that went on and on and resulted in complete | n n r l l H n r t R n H o r defeat of the stockmen involved. V U l l U l l I U I l D v l l v l A lot of snow fell the middle cf The county court sjient Wed If the breaking of records was ers of America and its safety nesday ip session jierforming the January to help the moisture sit Jack Eldon Graves of The Dal- functions of the office and agreed uation. The Moro garage burned the aim of weather recording the chapter chairman. Douglas Med- les, a worker on the power line up late in the month and the year 1960 would have been a ler which is sporsoring and pro- lieing constructed for Bonneville to meet again next .Monday to town still needs a garage. Shen pretty fair success. It was the looting a week for farm safety I, Power by Nichols and company, continue the work. At that time Burros gave $20,000 to heart re most quiet year as far as wind Vernon I Miller, Sherman Coun- was killed instantly Thursday the court will appoint a fair Thirty Years Noted search to match alike amount for was concerned since the govern ty Judge, proclaim the second morning, December 29 when a toard niemtor to succeed Phil ment began keeping records at week in January, January 5 to 11, pick up truck ran over him. Giles L. French cancer. O'Meara and pick the names of By Extension Staff 500 citizens who will be the jury Bids called on new post office Moro back in 1911. During Dec as Safe Farm Power Use ween Graves was holding on to a rope Thirty years of Extension work —not the last ones. Well, that’s that. Now we can panel for the year. Highway ember the total wind was 1517 While farm machinery is not being used as a stay rope. The settle down to work again and if What was done Wednesday was in Sherman County was com board alloted money to Was'o- miles for an average of 2.0 miles being used in the fields at this truck had been parked with mo- we didn’t want to there’s those to reappoint Gordon Harper to pleted during 1960. Major pro Biggs section (did it again this per hour for the month and that time of year some of it is toing tor running on the hill above him. tax notices to make it very real. the budget committee and Har gram emphasis was given to agri year). Farm machinery comptai was 1.9 MPH below normal. On repaired in shops on farms and The truck started down hill and T T W N lan«! McDonald to the planning cultural production, marketing, ies consolidating, Case buys Har- the 19th there was 137 miles of as many accidents can occur Graves could not or did not dodge Uncle Sam might well make a commission. The Sherman Coun youth activities, family living. rls. Sherman Countv Club corn- wind. Lowest year tofore was there as in the field. There is an it. It hit him in front and knock- resolution to treat majorities as ty Journal will 1 m * the official conservation, community and mittees appointed bv Pressident 1950 with 2.2 MPH. additional danger from fire from ed him down to the rocky hillside And December was cold the over heated shop stoves, not al- and ran over him. The report is good as minorities for a change. newspaper and I.«>s Gray will to leadership development, and pub- Ketter. lie affairs, states T. W. Thomp- Committee named to write char- monthly mean being 29.5 degrees ways safe themselves. And while that nearly every bone in his the truant officer. T T W N ter fov Countv, (still writing and a good 4.1 degrees below normal. machinery is l»eing repaired and body was broken, No tlog board was appointed, son. county extension agent. The Minnesota coach did the The Sherman County Exten- wm get help from county organ- The average minimum was 23.4 made ready for the field is an quickest job of taking the fat out the district having been abolished The accident occurred on the of the heads of his team hut and no road viewers were named sion office activties were many Nation); Sherman wins local tour- anti the average maximum was excellent time to -install safety point just north of Cottonwood 35.6. .1 Ig.le,St. ,en’iH,a,llI'e was devices to make it safer during canyon where the line is going should have done it tofore the because the law now requires and varied: Farm and Home vis- nament, (lost all at Baker), school ... ,w®8_5^e the working season. down on its way from DeMoss to second quarter. Washington backs viewers for each road to to chan- its, 970; office calls, 1300; tele- budgets show wide difference , ...°n. æ, UH 5”d phone, 2750; new articles written, Bid let on new Cottonwood lowest. This was the coldest Dec Therefore, as county judge, I Fossil. The hill is covered with could make yardage off the Kcd and The court paid the bills _ _ 82; radio program, 72; bulletins bridge. Buildings torn down to ember since 1944 when the aver urge recognition of this safety hig rocks and work progresses shoulders of Minnesotans in the age was 28.8 degrees. It has been week by all who are concerned slowly because of the steepness called a day for the first meeting dis,ributed» 3600; demonstrations start postoffice construction. first half, but not after. steadily cold but with no extreme with the repair and operation of of the ground. conducted, 42; 217 meetings held of 1961. County Court offers aid to new T T W N with 5,100 total attendance and veterans’ memorial at court cold. farm machinery. Graves was born in Chicago, Somehow we are not impress Total moisture for December 314 meetings held by local lead house. Hall and Belshee, local con Illinois, September 14, 1903, was Vernon I. Miller ed by the boasting atout brains ers with 1,300 in attendance. servation men (later won sta»e was 1.02 inches and that is .72 a veteran of World War II and in the new administration, to- Mrs. James Brown 'l’iie Sherman County Exten honor). Sherman won district below the average. The crop year is survived by his widow, Mil lieving that common sense, good total is 4.18 inches or .91 Ixiloiv sion o ffic e cooperated with in- Hack meet. dred. He had lived in The Dalles New Officials Sworn balance and wide experience are Aids Dime Campaign dividuals, organizations and ag Maurine Neuberger talks it normal. At the beginning of 1960 but a few months. totter background for a public encies. 4 H program expand- historical picnic, (ha’in Growers we were 2.96 short of normal. Interment was made in Port At Moro Council official. So many smart j)eople Mrs. James T. Brown will again ed and The the Extension unit pro- entertain land. think they are infallible. be chairman of the March of 01 gram made good good progress. Agents Elmo Smith speaker at Repub- ' ’’»’HLAX DEItS TO SPEND T T W N New city councilmen were tome ^»ple spend three work- County a n d ‘has"already staged Couniy ' Coun. "ioum y H a m d n g P hX a^dT of Tc’r e s KAHTKR" ORKGON «»TATE sworn in Tuesday night and dis- Market Report ing days a week watching TV. No (o recruit helpers for the collec- Commission, Rural thousands of acres Fire burns in A charitable trust conceived cussion» were started on several need to'Criticise tile ostrich for wh)ch „ j,, begm later ',h,'s fount-ll, Weid 'S u w a V 11 Loath Spanlsh Hollow- receipts totaled 126 nearly 20 years ago by J. G. Ed- plans a,X)Ut which no decisions . Livestock . Croi) raised on Julv west hot and <l-v WtrdS’ wealthy cen c e n tra l O rego n w e re ,na,,e fo r th e re co rd . D a r w tn head on th e N e w Y e a r s eve sale having his head in the sand. month. L. Doyn Price and Ray ers Association and Council, Ex- good is average TTW N a real- VanGilder took the oath as may- wRb 8. No. 1 and 2, 180-230 Sparks at the bank will act as tension Unit Council, Sherman and August started with rain ®heep bar° n’ WlU become ** butcher hogs clearing $18.00 The new light cars are putting s treasurers for the foundation and County Fair Board, Sherman New postoffice opened fo r hn". earl> next year w hen the first or and la‘la French, Ralph Busse, lb' a crimp in gas tax revenues. tiie campaign. v r i u, . distributions of cash from the Andy Paulson, the latter two to $19.00. Good feeder pigs around Wheat League, and Soil Conser n ness. Rniimnri Railroad asks freight rate fvin,|s Now they’ll have to put a tax on P,“r's't' n 7 re e le c t« !, oalhs „ ,00 lb», brought $17.50 to $19.00 vation District Board of Super cut on wheat. Fair brings fine small cars to make up for that. al Bank of Oregon. nien. Ernest Woods another new 11 heaviei weights down to tional visors, Grange and Agricultural exhibits. _. , .... councilman was absent? Clarence $150° Butcher sows sold at $12.- T T W N Health Association Committees, FFA and FHA Valuations down, millage up la Wa" 1 ? ‘ll< M l. In, I9.W' l< ‘a .vlnK a Some of the new cars look» Huis and Dale Harrison are the 50 to $16.30. youth groups, Sherman Branch tax prospect. Veterans of WW1 m 7 , 7. ,” ro Feeder lambs sold at $11.00 to as if they were frowning. holdover councilmen. and other state and federal ex- meet in reunion. Moro gets new cate of his bedridden wife, Eliza Hears TB Report $11.50 and fats at $14.00 to $14.80. T T W N periment stations, Agriculture fire truck. Six counties buy sur- beth, who was much younger Cutter and canner cows sold at The teacher’s union says that than he. Mrs. Edwards died one At the regular monthly meet Stabilization and Conservation vey. $11.00 to $14.00 with old shelly Kay Bevans To Go Oregon teachers now average Sherman wins football title for year ago after an Illness of many kinds down to $8.00. Light bolog $5500 a year, and of course, feels inl? of tbe Health Advisory Coun ( ommittee Soil Conservation Ser- years. re, Oregon State Game Com- this half of district. County votes na bulls brought $16.50 to $18.00 ban because it isn’t $6,000. That cil Wednesday, Jan. 4, Dr. Berg The trust fund, which is invest To Turkey as IFYE Ission, Bureau of Land Manage- more than 90 per cent. Fridley with good bulls lacking. isn’t too much for the dedicated reported on the tnberculin test- mission ed principally in stocks an i Overseas assignments for Die- ?nt, Fish and Wildlife Service talks to Sherman Countv Medium steers around 700 lbs. teachers who study every pupil program conducted in Sher- ment ounty Club Club bonds, is valued in excess of gon’s four International Farm sold at $17.50 to $21.00 and med- about highway prospects. Grain and bring interest to every an- Inun County Dec. 5 through Dec. and others. Forty-one 4 H club leaders men announce new, big elevator $600,000 according to Stetson B. Youth Exchange (IEYE» delegates lum steer calves around 400 lbs sterile mind. But it is far too led 24 !4 4-H clubs, whose total for co-op wheat. The Dalles port Hannan, vice pi esldent and sen- were announced this week by at $24.70. much for the mere time-servers. A total of 1218 individuals or »■rship was 211 In th e -5980 officer» come to say p la n s m c h i.lc . eJ- Oregon State College Extension Light dairy bred baby calves TTW N 50% °1 the population of Sher- membe ,, , . . lrustet ,1 un* ' ’ ,e service. sold higher at $11.00 to $15.00 and So far it seems that Portland is »nan County was tested. From club year. Ninety-six percent of entire area. bank Is empowered to use its dis- Kay Bevans, Rufus, will travel up to $23.00 on Holstelns by the having worse weather than this this group there were 95 positive the 214 club members completed cretion in the distribution of me to Turkey; Dale Martin, Long head, part of eastern Oregon. The east reactors. On the day the tests their project work. The members I ¡Mil MEAT WILL money, but the hirst National Creek, to Greece; Jean Penrose . wind doesn’t get up much speed were read x-ray pictures were carried a total of 391 projects COST ABOUT SAME here on the hill but after it is taken of all those wjio had posi- with 92 percent project comple Oregon livestock and retail b° ard chost> tO appoint an advls’ Tigard, Isiael; and Louis Pratt,’ tion. Fifty-two percent of the meat prices for 1961 are likely to ?ry, coni,nl,’ee of community Nyssa, to Columbia. Shower Planned For drawn through the Columbia riv- tlve reactions. avernap ri««,. t„ 10G0 mc.n levels, re- r... lcaders to offer specific recom- They will spend “°°ul about s,x six Bicxrs F ire V ictim s boys and girls "* in grades four average average close close to to er funnel it really chills. The five grade schools in the .T'*7" T T w n county will all receive certificates throu«h hi«h scho01 participated ports an Oregon State College ™ ndatlons on disposition of the months in each of their host coun- U && F lr e V ictim s Congressman Al Ullman is on from the State Board of Health in ,he 4 H Pro»ram- Participation agricultural economist. , ., . . tr,e#> ,,vinK wlth families in var- A miscellaneous shower will the Ways and Means committee commending them for 90Te o’* by c,uh niembers ln the County Local cattle prices are expected . Aamed to the advlsory commit- ious agricultural areas. General- be held for Clara and Art Macheel which Is good liecause it should over participation in the tests. , alr was the Brea^ in iiiswry history to sup slip a a nine little irom from last last year year’s ," 7 5 Haro*d Is during the warmer Thursday, January 12 at 2 p. in. s , ... „ 'vemlel, 7, ' N presl. I? ly, this ‘ ‘nre“» **olfe Co.; ? G. t ®’ P a F t of the year when agricultural at the Wasco Methodist church exhibit- average, average, hog hog prices prices should should aver- aver- rT n o ’ n L,*Prnan L. part Improve his understanding of The percentages for the schools of the program. Numbers exhibit- age slightly slightly higher, higher, and and lamb lamb is is ( a],”° n’ ,presldant.’ is at Its peak, - says Cal basement. No invitations will be h . 5 ?.l.a. 1 1 r?dard 1 ^ In' activity 3CtlV - --- ------ economics. are as follows: Rufus 92%, Was- ing in the Oregon State e Fair, age T T W N co 97%, Moro 100% Grass Valley, llekuise, was the largest on re- likely to hold near the 1960 aver- surunte to., Kudie Wilhelm Jr., Monroe, acting state 4-H leader sent. Everyone Invited. Hostesses are Mrs. Ixtwls Hastings, Mrs. Ro- Good representation was age, believes Stephen C. Marxs, vice president and general man- at Oregon State College. Smelt are in the C'olumbia. 05% Kent 100%. The particlpa- cord. agei, Wilhelm ( o.; Mrs. Joseph The trips are financed by tort Nlstot, Mrs. Al Dormaier, That may be as good a sign of Ron at Sherman High School was note<l at the Oregon Wheat Lea- OSC extension economist, gue Junior Livestock Show and Food buyers can look to a good A Minott, housewife; James H. Oregon Hankers Associations, 4-H Mrs. Gerald Nlstot and Mrs. Gor spring as the shadow bunting 69%. Sal«*, but no exhibits were shown supply of all red meats—165 1’olhemus, retired chairman of youngsters who raise money by don Harper. ground hog. But maybe it is too Dr. Berg felt that a 50% par early to talk about that. ticipation would |>ermit a satis at the P. I. Outside of the shows pounds per capita, only two Portland General Electric Co.; baby sitting and other fund r a l s - ---------------- ----- T T W N factory evaluation of the inci the annual Livestock Judging |>ounds below the 1956 record— and Edward I’. Staum, retired ing activities, and the state 4 H Crown-Zellerbach executive, Foundation. A writer has referred to Lyn dence of tuberculosis in Sherman Field Day, 4 H Summer School, with little price change Pacific Telephone The Health Advisory 1 H ( ‘" " |l ;" “ 1 ( T raining IneTN mg national l-eef pi.»du • don Johnson as the owner of the Countv finest ego in the senate. Strong Council thanks the people for ??y " / re lh1lghHg!‘ts of ,he C,ub tion ls Puling pressure on cattle l~!nm p F rte n ztn n / />///>r Will Spend Money their participation >®ar. S jx-cial emphasis was given prices but any decline will prob- LiXlCtlSlOfl LCQuCT LlStS competition, too. Pacific Telephone Northwest --------------- ----------- ... _ f to demonstration this year with ably to too slight to to felt at . ... - _ T T W N has programmed a $23.9 million Now we get back to our beans, cil will l>e February 8, 1961. good participation in this pro- retail meat counters, at least dur- ACCOttWllShmentS Ol G t OUDS Ifl Past tear outlay to expand and Improve ------------------ g,am in ,hp county and state ing the first half of 1961, Marks r ’ 1 bacon and beef diet. ------------------- telephone service in Oregon dur f.ilr n _. . Eight Home Extension Units conducting the Oregon Beef Cat- T T W N operated during the year. Over tie Performance program by ing 1961, F. M. Mitchell, the In the nation we spend $390 Wasco Church Hears company’s vice president and 250 county women participated In weighing and grading cattle, l>er year per child for schooling manager, a n n o u c e d this program in various educa- (7) Promoted use of sound general or $4680 Investment ln a high Thursday (December 22). tional family living programs, conservation programs and coop- Visiting Students school graduate. In Oregon we “This expenditure of almost The tailoring beef crated i with spent $448 to bring the Invest cookerv know work vour c shop, o u n tv r»- i, ° 'h<r .®roups and »nilllon is certainly the tost ment ln a high school graduate to The Wasco Methodist church tooxery, Kinw your county oc - agencies in an overall conserva evidence o f o u r in «»„. ... vices, and family business and tion education program i i $5376. If they earn enough to observed Student’s Recognition pay that much extra taxes the day at the morning worship ser- ;nhX n ^ ram8 W‘ re ° ' 8 m "a‘ investment is not lost. But that vices on Sunday Four of the Several major agrUuUure pro- »agehrush comro? and ^ o I o Z l . U ' i X 8,8,8" is only the financial side of it; church’s many college youth as- grams were conducted during studies sonie will be better citizens. slated with the service They the past year alone or in coopera- (9) Conducted experimental and KunTh« number o f ’ tekiihones TTW N were Everett Royse, Marilyn George Romney, boss of the Smith, Rob Hastings and Jean- tion with other». Fourteen of the demonstratlonal grain and forage served by his company in ‘he most Important projects, as ex- fertilizer trials. sfah. ,n y ¿^22942 Rambler plant has proposed to nette Belshee. give a government I»nd as a Members of the Wasco Metho- ample« of activities, are cited to- ‘ 10» Asslstcsi m completion of to(a, o( 676,ie9. The number of bonus to Rambler owners If pro- dlst church are kxiklng forward °W.\ Sherman County Soil Survey and |{,ng distance c a lls w o n t n n « h m ii fits warrant. Sounds good. Only to the visit of Bishop A. Ray- • It P ro m o te d use of adoptable Management Section Reports. q o IH,r cent during the ven- h.> grain varieties, securing supplies, t in Provided farm building and a d J .i ‘ ’ h trouole Is that owners of stock mond Grant, who will conduct Inspecting fields for seed, and as- equipment plans, bulletins, out- have been long on short rations, the consecration service for the In the Dalles 304 phones were slating in distribution. look and weekly market review added TTW N newly remodelled sanctuary Jan. the total In service dur <2t Intensified educational pro- circulars, farm record books, rax ing the to year, A rather recent development 15. The service will lx* followed according to Man- Is the growth of admitted experts by a potluck dinner and an open gram on peiwnnial weed control guides and similar information, tiger (' P. Horn. There are now and or eraditlon in cooperation <12, Cooperated with Sherman and the acceptance of them by house In the afternoon. The Rev. 0,763 phones in The Dalles ex- the public. No public tody will Ernie Wilson, district superlnten- with the County Court, Sherman Cattlemens and Wheat league change try to decide anything without a dent, will also to here at that m of C7 Supeivi- ,,w rv a - L o o k ln « ahea" . »■ «O report by experts. Not being an time The members of the WSCS tion District Board bringing D ire c t D iKtnrw n rv ia iin n expert we think it an easy job will to in charge of arrangements '.II ( orxlucted experlm.nt.1 »nd »or», serving as secretary, anil as- to some loo (Its) Portland nhones but it does require some effort: for the dinner, and also for an z x ,n pr<* r,m •"* "H8" 'nK wi,h 7 T,r ’,c' i ? p“01 and “ *• a pontlficial style of writing afternoon tea. coupled with a hail fellow well Following remodelling, the Was- X '. . “a,'l'onartoU8 ,W n n to ' «•‘,‘n ,';'"," „ ,ah °? V‘rUa' met demeanor; a source of statis- co Methodist church has several t.1 CIS,Herat«, In revert,I,ea Ap,„„s.’ W h e ^ V a d ^ . X ^ ^ t h W ^ P ^ Completion Is being rushed on left, J. L. Buckley, vice - president ------- ----- - ... .Kvvitiisin tics, preferably of theoretical ap- old wooden pew» and chairs avail- additional convention and meet- of Georgia-Pacific ( orp, winch tion of county for Bang's and TB other plication; an ability to generalize able to anyone who will come ing facilities at the new $8,000,- furnished t h e Slid diseases by land and nearby suburban com for no expert must to caught in and get them. t h e factoryfinished and assisted In coordinating pri field survey and specimen analy- munlties 1^1962 000 Portland Memorial Coliseum. American Oak plywood paneling vale veterinarian calls in county sis. 7 Com L«," a statement so definite as to to At the monthly board meeting Making their final Inspection of that line» /« iu X nnUCT i W'n" r " VMtOCk Work,!,l W,,h ,a™ °Wra- ™"vers,o„s a, r manual to dial proven wrong Outside of that mem tors of the Wasco Methodist the “(Borgia-Pacific’ Assembly B. Bruno, vice chairman of »he p production , n ,i.....7 , *” « a,»ut all the job demands is auf- ehureh voted to hold an all Room, uh,eh „ 0 0 per»........... and r e . r , , . „ „ ^ tT u ís e m ¿ L p e Z K □ t ' , " ^ T w,tn r í e ,ar,n t ^ T "P*™* ^ conversions Ä Ü at i Florence " , ^ and at 1 h 'lt 'ln ir h iu lu v n l • th n t -o n /l . , . . of some lasting moment and while it is not our intent to re- view the news of the entire year we herewith remind readers of so,lie things and to comment idet"eon if desired, We started the year pretty dry. County Judge Miller __ ,he C°Un,y U ^ r ^ X , r ’ i “' ’ b," ,V C r r Z h ?an„" a r y n an UP rn ia v . January 1.1. “nl ", " ‘F ,. V.. . •„.« room, are Hr,, n ■ ...'„mission vice chairman. m. A.s,«ed . U rm ’oíe’X 1*0." I n T X T a m ’ ln ’. h i l u n . r ' ' ' ' Ph° nM **
