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(Emtttfy jo u rn a l Moro. Oregon Friday Seventy Third Year \’o. 36 County Official Paper July 7, 1961 City Whaler Bills Harvest Starts Fourth of July Mav Be Paid Af On Record; Little On Barley With Quiet Day For City Hall Now Drier Than Normal Payment of city water bills Fair Yields June was hot and dry, just as Sherman County may be made at the city hall each the prophets prophesied. Rut Jane One of Hottest These T h in g s We Note Giles L. French We assume that the pleasure of taking an extra holiday comes from the oad boy complex of do ing something despite conscience. TTW N Isn’t it a queer world when It makes more difference who smokes a certain brand or wears It than the quality of the goods? TTW N If, as seems likely, the thinking of this nation is turning sane again after thirty years, we feel sorry for the “liberals” who have been following the false gods of spending and lending for fanciful things. TTW N When workers get over the holiday they will go back to work. The excuse of a strike sounds better than laziness. T T- W ft A man on the streets of The Dalles a hundred years ago would not have seen an ankle. Nowdays he seldom sees a skirt. TTW N The American army in Berlin has banned shorts. Tish. Tish. We’ll bet It wasn’t by a vote of GIs. TTW N As a liver of a life Ernest Hemingway was something of a bungler but he knew what to do w’lth words. then there are enough prophets that some are always correct. It did rain .85 inch which isn’t so bad and not nearly so much below normal as is moisture In the southeast part of the state. Il was but .05 below the normal of .90. Crop year rainfall is now 13.40 and that Is 1.93 above nor mal. It was 102 degrees on the loth and 17th and the lowest tempera ture was 39 which is better than the 30 that befell us last year. We usually get a high of 93 and a low of 37. This makes our nor mal monthly mean 61.3 degrees and this year It was 66.2 a strong 4.9 above normal. It was the warmest June since 1926 when the mean was 67 In 1918 the mean was 66.5 degrees. June was calm, a total of 2923 miles being recorded for an aver age of 4.1 MPH which is 2.0 ltussell Beishe (right), Sherman William R. Morrish of Portland MPH from normal. Evaporation county rancher, describes special (left) and Ron Rew of Pendleton, was more than normal. Tiie Fourth of July in Sherman County was another day in whiHi the sun arose on schedule and shown throughout the day handi capped by a few w hile and fleecy clouds. It was a warm day for the men and a skirtless day for the women. In the afternoon tne wind came up bringing clouds and that night it rained, not in response to the lightning and thunder as a summer storm, but quietly, softly as a requiem for hopes of a rainless harvest. In some parts of the county th?re was over half on Inch. Not many local citizens were or hand to view this masterpiece of nature, most of them having gone down to the Columbia river to dash about at the end of a string in the w’ake of a speeding motorboat, or to Camp Sherman or other shady spots where desul tory conversations and intermlt- tant naps made the day pass slow ly, leisurely, uselessly. A few, caught by the exigen cies of dire necessity, performed their usual tasks of preparing food, pumping gas or working ■ummerfallow. Locally there was no program; no one made a speech, no one sang a song, no fireworks were destroyed to imi tate either a Roman or an Ameri can holiday. Presumably everyone did the things he or she wanted to do and whether they liked it or nrt depended on their dispositions, not on their occupations. morning between the hours of 8:00 and 10:00 from the third to the tenth of each month. Loy Cochran, maintenance man and now water collector, will be there to receive payment. For those who pay by check and prefer It, payment may lie made by check addressed to Lov Cochran, W a t e r Department, Moro Ron and Betty Win Ron Mobley and Betty Beck mann have been awarded the two May Barnum scholarships of $250 each for work done at Sherman High School Awards were giv?n for outstanding achievement dur ing the high schixil career and were not announced at the time o' commencement, Sherman Lodge Has 50th Anniversary Grain is being cut in Sherman Ccunty several having started on winter barley right after the first of the month. Even at Monkland, where the fast moving Thomp sons hold forth, barley is being threshed. First reports are not so optim istic as some of the heads snap ped off in the recent winds, but from appearances the barley should be better In the north end than usual. Alpine and other win ter barleys are die ones being tut. They came through the win- tei in good shape and have given rise to hopes of a good crop for once. It will be a couple weeks be fore the results of the rust dam age will be known for wheat har vest will not start in earnest until then. Fields that suffered most from rust look good since the grain turned color but th* heads may be less well filled than they would have been or have some defect that tuts down the yield. Without knowing the extent of the damage or whether or not there is material damage estima tors are badly handicapped in foretelling the size of the crop. As for us, we will l»e surprised If the crop is less than 3,500,000 bushels. With favoruble weather and no disease it could have reached 4,500,000. Approximately 80 people at tended the dinner held In the I OOF hall Friday evening June Bank Debits Up 30 served at 6:30 by Mrs. Jack In Mid-Columbia Adams and Juanita McClain, hon Little Leaguers Near oring the Golden Anniversary of Bank debits for the Upper Col Sherman Lodge No. 143 AF & AM. umbia River including Wasco, End of Schedule The tables were decorated with Hood River, Sherman, Gilliam, lovely arrangements of yellow In the little league in this area and Wheeler counties Increased with two games left to play the and gold chrysanthemums, baby by 21.4 per cent in May 1961 as Wasco, Tygh Valley and Mt. Hoot breath and fern. The head table compared to April 1961 and de teams aie tied for first place wi*h held a centerpiece of yellow and T h e conservation practices creased by 3.6 per cent a year gold mums, yellow glads, baby a 7 to 3 record due to a defeat of which won the 1960 Oregon Con ago. breath and fern. Tygh Valley by W;,sco Wednes servation Man of the Year Award Debits for May 1961 totaled 25.- Seated at the held table were Moro Firemen Think day night by a score of 12 to 3. for Russell Belshee and Mac 775,297 for April 1M1 the total Kichelderfer and (»’Meara were Hall of Sherman County were ex was 21,229,838, and for May 1960 Mr. and Mrs. Howard Belton of the battery for Wa»co and Cox plained in detail and observed at the total amounted to 26,737,861. Salem, worshipful grand master Fire Season On of Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Harry and Cady for Tygh Valley. State Fair Plans Set Oregon with 230 I anks report close-hand during the Oregon Mt. Hood defeated Moro Wed Wheat Growers League Conser- ing had an increase in bank Proudfoot of Portland, grand sec City of Moro fie.nen have de Sherman County participant! to nesday night by a 4 to 2 score. retary; Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Clau cided that the fire season should vatiOD i'ield Day. debits in May 1961 of 10.2 per 1961 Oregon State Fair in 4-H sen, TTW N Sunday Wasco beat Dufur 7 Wheat growers from througn- cent compared with April 1961, the district deputy of Dufur; D-. b( declared and that no burn Horses and Home Economics de Will some country Jake figure tc 4 with Jensen and Richelderter That :s M. B Taylor of Portland, a char ing should i»e allowed out Central and Eastern Oregon, and an increase of 3.9 per cent monstrations were selected last out what rural people are going the battery for Wasco and Engels since the »Ire at the dump rd ter member anil first master of week at separate functions re Sherman lodge, which he helped nearly got away and burned a tc get from the new housing b*ll and O’Brien working for Dufur as well as a number of interested over May 1960. laymen from the western part of ports T. W. Thompson, county Institute; Mr. and Mrs. Alex field of barley Wednesday. Fire —not law? the state, gathered at the 1900 agent. TTW N More Travel On master of Sherman men will watch while residents Joy von Ilorstel, Grass Valley Brander, acre Hall and Belshee wheat No one seems to understand the Beef Research lodge Mr. Brander introduced the burn around their burning bar ranch in Hay Canyon east of was selected as Sherman County Oregon Roads need for the multiplying roster visiting guests, Mr. Belton, Mr rels but do nbt care for any more Moro to observe the conservation representative in the Individual Proudfoot of advisers who surround Kenne Extensive Matter end Mr. Clausen, who such experience«. There are sev A May increase of 5.5% In Ore Home Ec demonstration. Joy pre practices for which the Oregon dy. Sometimes it looks as if he gon rural highway traffic over sented a junior demonstration on responded with brief talks. Har eral places In town where the The summary of reports pre Wheat Growers league awarded hires a new bunch whenever the grass is dry and thick on the sented at the third annual beef last year’s conservation trophy. May of 1960 was indicated by 84 “Self Fabric Belt.” Younger sls- old Eakin gave the history of ground that could stand some pre old one disagrees with him. rural traffic recorders of the Ore tei Cathy, 12, won out as alter Sherman lodge. Mr. Belton pre cattle field day at Oregon State is At the annual Conservatian TTW N ventative burning. now available, a copy can be se Field day, wheat ranchers and gon State Highway Department. nate with a demonstration on sented 25 year pins to Dr. Taylor, J. W. Blagg, John Bayliss of Ash How long will it be before some cured from your extension office. other observers spent the morn Five recorders reflecting urban “Salad Secrets.” one advocates nudism to improve Beef cattle research by the OSU ing Inspecting the many pieces of traffic trends revealed an In Mary Girod, county agent, Con land, George Wilcox of The Dal posture? agricultural experiment station modified farm machinery on the crease of 1.8% l>etween the same don, served as judge. Girls from les, Harold Eakin, Lew Clark of TTW N all over the county vied for coun Portland, I). L. Reynolds, Don covers a wide variety of projects Hall and Belshee ranch and tour two months Clodfelter. Ed Plercy of Portland, Possibly the greatest concern and involves a considerable num ing the grain storage facilities Composite traffic counts for ty demonstration honors. Roy Feelv of The Dalles, Wallace about the present administration ber of scientists in several depart the first five months of this year Three young lasses l>eat out The Field Day concluded wita show a statewide increase of May and Eugene Knott of Kent. is not whether it will be this or ments and branch stations. Most the boys and found themselves that but whether it will be tne of the basic or semi-basic research a tour of the ranch to point out 7.1% over the same period of State Fair delegates In the 4-H last one or not. There really is is conducted at the Corvallis sta the various conservation prac last year. Horsemonship and Showmanship Lower Freight Rates tices underway at the Hall anl not much point in having anoth tion where laboratories, library Belshee ranch. These include ear Even greater increases were contests. Winners were Paulette Will Help Farmers er; the money w ill 1* all spent. and personnel from cooperating ly seeding, modified cross-slope shown on the traveled section Willis, Grass Valley, senior divi When the wheat harvest g'ds departments are available. Except seeding leading into established of the Interstate Highway Sys sion; Sharon Coelsch, Moro, in TTW N tem. Traffic counts on these roads Legislators are now picking for some basic work at the Squaw waterways or pasture, stubble show a May increase of 9.4 per termediate; and Randy Lvuiley, under way this month, Northwest the men they want to succeed Butte station, most work at mulch, grass and grain water cent over May of 1960, and a five Grass Valley, Junior division. growers can count on another them in case of death, the result branch stations would fall In the ways, proper use of nitrogen, month composite Increase of 12.3 These girls came out on top In season of freight rate savlnzs, combined judging in the halter said Carl W. Evers, UP traffic of a bit of arrogant fancy perpe category of applied research. brush and weed control and pas per cent. and saddle classes: Loleta Sulli manager. Branch stations were establish ture improvement. trated on the state during the Increases were generally le- van, Paulette Willis and Ann Hall No decision is expected from latest legislative imbroglio. Pick ed because of the wide variety of vealed on mutes US 20, US 97, with Sharon Coelsch as alternate the Interstate Commerce commis ing successors to legislative posts soil, climate, feed, {»araslte end An individual’s chances of be US 99, and the southern part of is the perogative cf the county disease conditions found in Ore ing killed from an automobile ac US 101 Decreases were Indicated They will represent Sherman sion until late this year in the County in the 4-H H o r s e grain rate controversy between gon. However, it is obvious tne courts involved and the elector cident is six times greater If of US 30 east of La Grande, and Judging contest. Loleta was top the railroads and the barges, ate. Letting a representative of experiment station cannot estab thrown from a vehicle. the northern section of US 101 4-H Judge with a perfect score Evers said. the people pick his own suucessor lish research centers in all of the The railroads estimated last fall Clifford Conrad, superintendent is a sign of mild insanity in our distinct environment areas of the ot State Fair, Salem, served as when they reduced their grain County wheal and tattle rancher state. To partially meet this need kind of government. 4-H horse judge. The 4-H mem rates to l»e competitive with 'he has i>een named as newest mem demonstrations in cooperation TTW N bers from the Hi-Yu Horse Club unregulated barges and trucks ber of the Oregon Wheat Commis This matter of huge public debt with producers have been con and the How-D Horse Club par that Northwest growers would sion. is merely this generation taking ducted and may be expanded as Governor Hatfield named Mor ticipated. Champions will be save $7,000,000 on their freight advantage of its children. the need arises. row to the position vacated by- Senate and House Agriculture gram advocated in Oregon for selected during Sherman Coun bills. TTW N The ICC, which refused barge the resignation of Morris Wilson committees are still undecided House amendment proposes a 10 ty Fair in September. Sometimes Russia seems to over either short or long time percent mandatory cut of present Placings in the various 4-H demands for an outright sus of Condon whose term expir’d talk and bluster about big mat Road Below Sherar farm legislation. Both the House ly allotted wheat acres with a Showmanship and Horsemanship pension of the rates, concluded a June 30. ters while stealing something Morrow, Immediate past presi and Senate Agriculture commit support of $2 00 per bushel and a contests were as follows: Show second hearing In Portland last smaller. Being Dug Out tee«» last week struck out the ma 50-60 percent land retirement pay manship, seniors: Floyd Rathbun, week. ICC Examiner Edward L. dent of the Oregon Wheat Grow TTW N Low-er Deschutes anglers will jor provision of Title I of the ment. 1st; Ann Hall, 2nd; Paulette Wii- Bolsseree announced a third ers league, with his brother oper We want to note that pouring hearing will be held soon in ates an 11,000 -acre v/heat and cat Senator EJlender lias intro lls, 3rd money into a country with im soon have freewheeling access Cochrane-Freeman omnibus farm duced a bill calling for a five Horsemanship, seniors: Paulette Washington, D C„ to consider a tle ranch outside of Madras. The mature economics may help k**ep all the way from highway 216 bill (HR. 6400 and S. 1643). In Its original form, Title I year program to cut acreage 20 Willis, 1st; Ann Hall, 2nd; Floyd railroad cost study that was ad 49-year-old rancher has been ac it that way. There is no gool near Sherxr’s bridge as far north mitted as evidence at the end of tive over the years in a number reason for Peru, for instance, to as the twin tunnels, a distance of of the bill would have given the percent in 1962 and 25 percent *he Rathbun, 3rd last week's hearing despite objec of farm and grower organizations. next four years. Price support Showmanship. intermediates: some six miles. Secretary of Agriculture author become mt»dem if It can borrow Phil Schneider, state game com ity to undertake production ad for the first year would be 80 per Sharon Coelsch, lit; Pat Alsup, tions by barge attorneys. easy money for being backward. Evers said the cost study by M arket Report missioner, said the commission justment programs without pass cent of parity and decline progres 2nd; Bonnie Jefferies, 3rd; Sally TTW N recently let a contract to the Cody ing through Congress although sively to C5 per cent in the fourth Bihby, 4th; Nancy Crews, 5th; Ford K Edwards, Washington, Some w’rlters have been be Logging company at Tygh Valley subject to Congressional veto and and fifth year. A rental payment Fred Hall, 6th; .John DeMoss, 7th; I) C., traffic consultant, shows Livestock receipts totaled 126 moaning the loss of the old-fa to complete the northerly exten farmer referendum. that the railroads’ new grain rates head. U. S. No. 1 and 2 butcher equal Vo one-third of Vhe tluve- Loleta Sullivan, 8th shioned Fourth of July and the sion as far as the tunnels. hogs sold steady at $17.75 to $18 • Horsemanship, intermediates: are compensatory. Status of 1962 wheat and bar year average would be paid In absence of flrecracxers in partic Schneider said that from this ley acreage is uncertain at this kind on the 20 percent acre diver Sharon Coelsch, 1st; Pat Alsup, “This study disproves barge 5.0 Sows $9.25 to $13.80. Feeder ular. For us we do not think that point the road Is barricaded by time. Ralph Busse has received sion. but none the following year. 2nd; Nancy Crews, 3rd; John De- claims that the railroads redu ?d hogs $11.00 to $18 00 a cwt. Good 600 to 700 lb. feeder steers firecrackers were indicative of cliffs, a partly filled tunnel, an 1 Sherman County’s 1962 wheat The National Wheat Growers Moss, 4th; Ronnie Jefferies, 5th; their rates )»elow cost to put the the old Fourth. What made it was huge mounds of rock This block acreage under the present pro Assn, is opposed to this legisla Fred Hall, 6th. I x> let a Sullivan, barges out of business,” Evers brought $21.00 to $23.00 with heavies up to 1100 lb. grass steers the getting together of people ade presents a project for future gram, but has not received au tion, which they estimate will re 7th, Sally RlbGy, 8th. said. whose means of transportation extension “Wheat growers should also $19 00 to 321.20. Comon and med Showmanship. Juniors: Randy thority for processing this into duce income by 25 per cent to prevented much visiting except The present work will consist farm wheat allotments. Present wheat growers. Ixunley, 1st Brent VanGllder, know that I^ew S. Russell Jr. vice ium steers $18 00 to $20 00. Good 550 to 700 lb heifers $19.- president and general manager of on a summer holiday. They were mainly of roadbed improvement, law’ provides that final vote lie The House Agriculture commit 2nd. more conscious of the glories of by passes on the upper sides of held in marketing quotas by Ju ’v tee will meet July 11 and the Horsemanship, Júniora. Randy Tidewater Barge Lines, testified 00 to $21.00 with mediums down the nation a couple of generations two short trestles, three culvert 25 It further provides that allot Senate will meet July 5 to consid Lemley, 1st; Brent VanGllder 2nd at lust week's hearing that barge to $16.00 and light dairy types ago—and properly so. installations, and the spanning of ments shall be available fifteen er further action on wheat and Showmanship, sub-Juniors: Leo rute would be increased if the $ li.00. Helfer calves up to $23.50 Cows sold strong at $12.00 to TTW N a narrow draw with precast ?on- days before this date or July 10 feed grain programs Best estim Coelsch, 1st; Ormand HUderbrand, ICC ordered withdrawal of the The theory of some writers crete planks Schneider said »he Immediate passage of new legis ates are that the 1961 Emergen ;y 2nd; Krista Mobley, 3rd; Paulette railroads' new gram rales. The $14.75 on cuttera and cannera, about America. I.¡eluding the road should be available for tra lation or a Congressional delay In Feed Grain bill will l»e extended Pat node, 4th; Gary Brlnkert, 5th. growers would thus loselhelr pre commercial and standards $15.00 to $16.70 sent saving In freight rates.” president, is that this nation was vel about mid-July the normal wheat marketing vote another year, and the berley wlh Jill Nogle, 6th. Light Bologna bulls $19.75 to Another significant railroad ex started with revolutionary ideas Showmanship, sub-juniors: Ix?o is thus necessary if any new lie included for acreage cuts and about the relation of the individ Eighty I »er cent of all home sc- changes In a wheat program for land retirement payments. Action Coelsch* 1st; Jill Nogle, 2nd; hibit at the hearing showed that $20.75. Rahy calves sold at $2000 to ual to his government. That is cidental deaths due to falls in 1962 are to be made on wheat is uncertain, but should Paulette Patnode, 3rd; Krista the Albany barge line was offer true, but nothing remains revolu 1960 occurred to persons 65 or Apparently there is no chance lx? known by this time next Mobley, 4th; Gary Brlnkert, 5th; ing preferential rates to selected $35 00 a head on dairy and Hoi- steins. ship|iers, Evers said. tionary forever. older. Ormand HUderbrand, 6th. for the bushel management pro- week ly constructed cab on one of president of the tractors used on his ranch to Growers League. Oregon Wheat Conservationists Tell How It Is Done and With What Tools Status of Farm Bill Constantly Changing Savs County Agent In Legislative Summary
