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N A T IO N A L
I I I A 14, IM I
Rufus News
by Mrs. George Fox
July G Mrs. Wayne Raton, Mrs.
POL IT HAL QUARREL
Howard Steward and Mrs. Jerry
Mere man Is sure to tie the Rrnckett «ponso^ed «* stork sho-v-
E D IT O R IA L
MUHH( R1PT1ON RATEN
ONE 4 EAR
W.00
MR. HOFF A
a theory based on assumption
and not on fact. Neither are we
going to stand for a comparison
of apples and onions, nor two dif
ferent economies.
J RIDA Y. J T tJ V.
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Maunne Neuberger Edith Green
hassle over patronage.
Whether Gus Solomon gets
kicked upstairs to the district
court or not concerns us little,
nor whether Mr. Lezak works on
a tempoarry or permanent basis
makes no difference. Government
we are sure will go on And f
some of It stopjied it would help.
What does concern us is that
In this boasted Government of
Law we are so easily upset by
people. No matter whether they
are United States senators or re
presentatives, people are always
putting their little piejudices in.o
the gears of government by law.
In this ease the motivation is
pergonal and this case seems
typical of others. It would be so
nice to lie represented by some
one who put us first and their
own ambitions second.
?rn
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C om m unity church
X’s 00V ‘. ed with blue
square feet of wall or floor sur 2. Winter Hardiness Study of
face area. But? this Is- vsrmrble, grain • Dr. Don George, supervi
depending upon the type of sur sor.
face to which the spray is applied.
3. Weed project wdth main em
Allow about a week after spray phasis on morring glory, steri-
ing before filling ».he bin.
lants. and winter and chemical
Store only dry, clean grain con- fallow - Dean Sv. an, project lead-
taining le«c »K'»n 1? ne-cent mils-
g'een
•1. New crop tv ting cuuplej
w»?ed seeds, broke kernels, or i• it t >t !gv.
. uSs and alfalfa
»hr*. ' ..l create con itions favor- w ork Ian in B u ed ier.
abie lor insect development.
5. Fertility and Management •
Where clean, dry grain is to be Dr. Bob Ramig.
held for at least a year without
6. Tillage Methods and Proce
moving, an infestation can tie pre dures • covering stubble mulch
vented by using a grain protect utilization and interaction with
ant. Protectants are dusts or fertility along with machinery
liquids added to the grain as it is evaluation - Ted Horning. .
being unloaded, or as it enters
Merrill Oveso.i, station super
the bin.
intendent, coordinates activities
Premium grade malathion has and programs.
been approved by tin- USDA M a A g ricu ltu re F acts
grain protectant. Apply 1 percent
Rats produce three to six litters
premium grade ma’athion wheat per year and each litter adds 7 to
flour dust to the grain at the rate 9 more rodents to the population
of GO pounds per 1000 bushels, or That’s why you can’t relax a ro
apply 1 pint of premium grade dent contnl program.
malathion 57 percent emuls'fi-
Thirty years ago the average
able concentrate in 2 to 5 gallons hen in the U. S. laid 121 eggs per
of water per 1000 bushels. Apply year; todays hen is laying 206
as the grain is being loaded or eggs, and our best flocks average
turned into final storage.
250 eggs or more per hen.
Protectant dusts or sprays con
Medical costs per person are
taining piperonyl butoxide or py- over 1.5 times more for older
rethrins are recommended and than for younger farm families,
are added to the grain as it is un according to the U. S. Department
loaded or as It enters the bin. The of Agriculture. A. nationwide sur
dust is usually used at the rate of vey indicated medical costs for
75 pounds per 1000 bushels.
farm families in which the farm
The protectants must he mixed operator was G5 or older average 1
throughly with the grain to be ef $92 a year per person while those
fective. Where infestations occur of all others average $59.
on the surface of bulk grain, these
protectorants are often effective
when mixed with the top 8 to 10
inches.
Bond Sales Down
"June sales of the U. S. Sav
ings Bonds in this County totaled
$2057, the Savings Bonds Chair
man said today. Last year it was
$8974.
•'Oregon sales of Series E and
H Savings Bonds last month were
$2,469,144, bringing the total for
the first, six months of this 20th
program to $17,908,772. The total
for the fifst half ' of 1960 was
$18,270,195,” the chairman said.
"The nation’s retailers are be
ing honored during July'for their
volunteer work in behalf of the
Bond program,” the chairman
continued. "They helped launch
the program in 1941 and later
helped the Treasury’s war finan
cing drives over the top. Many
retailers still serve as bond vol
unteers and are active in the
promotion of bond sales,”
crepe paper with A, B. and C’s in
blue and piled like blocks held
the gifts. The honor guest open
ed her many lovely gifts and then
passed them around for all to see
She graciously thanked everyone
for coming and the gifts for her
coming event. Mrs. Jack Steward
helped with serving the refresh
ments along with *he hostesses.
The Rufus Grange met in reg
ular session July 6 with the mas
ter Mrs. Rolland Johnson in tne
chair. On agriculture Rolland
Johnson told of the extra large
cherries grown at The Dailes.
The rain didn’t seem to do any
W ANT ADS
damage, and It helped the grow
EOR
SALE: 3 bedroom , b rh 'k
ing wheat crop. Mrs. Bert Swlgart
faced h »use, daylight basement,
H. E. chairman said the club did
built-in
kitchen
appliances
well from the recent rummage
(stove, oven, garbage disposal,
sale in The Dalles. Also all the
money is 'n now from the smor
gasbord. On education George Fox
Eastern Oregon
said the plans for the addition to
the Rufus school building have
been approved. He said the Rufus
Electric Co.
school budget was also approved
at the school election last Monday
Electric Contractors
night. Bill Huck said he Is still
or the job for Insurance and has
written several jtolicies lately.
PATTY O’MEARA
A note was received from Mrs.
Trace Fields inviting all the
SHERMAN COUNTV -JOURNAL commericial — residential
Grangers to her golden wedding
anniversary which will be held Pendleton 3 n ti< h Station
industrial
at the Rufus Grange hall July 16 County extensio.i agents in the
TH R E E DOLLARS A YEAR
ESTIMATES and BID
from 2 to 5 p. m. She and Mr. Columbia Basin and Blue Moun
Fields wish all their friends liv tain area visited the Pendleton
REQUESTS
ing in this area to call.
experiment station last week
For the lecturer’s program all Various programs and projects
with no obligation
Smith Caliaway
sang “Welcome To You.” Then were inspected. The Pendleton
E L E C T R IC
HEAT
each told of sometnlng they plan station has six projects where
FUNERAL
or have done already this sum major emphasis is being placed. J Chapel
O’MEARA SUPPLY CO.
S E R V IC E
mer.
1. Cereal breeding and testing
Leon« rd R. Smith
The next meeting of the H E. C. under direction of Dr. Charles
Wasco
Phone GI 2-5402
PI..» O 6 3135
will be July 13 at the home of Rhode.
Tin- Dalles, Oregon
The Dalles
Ph. CY6 4184
Mrs. Art Smith in Wasco with
Mrs. Roy Shafer as co-hostess
Hostesses for the evening were
Mrs Bert Swlgart and Mrs. Bob
Byrd, Miss Mary Brackett made
«i cake as she thought degree
work was to lie put on, but due to
s > many going away, the degree
work was postponed until later.
From all appearances It will be
hot again this week. It was 104
degrees in Rufus Monday and
Tuesday and the sky was clear
Tuesday, so more hat weather
is in prospect.
Mr Hoffa has just been re
elected for a five year term as
head of the teamster’s union in a
convention apparently called by
methods so legal the govern
ment cannot challenge it. He baa
won an additional salary and ac
ceptance of a plan to rise more
money for political purposes,
which takes no heed of a recent FAMILY FARM
supreme court decision making
The old chiches stay with us
such funds of doubtful legality.
Let an expression get established
Mr. Hoffa Is said to lie the es In the public mind and It is
pecial target of an administra there for generations, long after
tion otherwise subservient to la it has lost meaning. Congress Is
bor and it has been said that Mr. haggling aliout expressing some
Hoffa was to lie removed from pious thought about perpetuating
office, placed in a jienitentiary the family farm.
To defend the words is to cast
and perhaps boiled in oil. So far
Mr. Hoffa has shown no fear of a generous gesture toward the
the federal government and has past. The only people running
not changed his ways in the family farms are some retired
slightest regardless of the charge folks who only want to earn a
living from their acres. It takes
of racketeering.
It seems safe to prophesy that cash Income to run a farm when
Mr. Hoffa will go blithely on to it goes commercial, when it spe
Lie end of his days and even if cializes In one crop, when It quits
convicted will he able to live com- utilizing the labor of the family.
We do not know of a single
tortably as is his predecessor,
family, nor of a family that would
Mr. Beck.
The nation has no laws that live on it if there were one.
I lie farmers we know are com
labor leaders cannot evade. The
mercial
farmers, growing wheat,
government Is afraid of losing
the votes of laboring men alt ho barley (when made mandatory)
it is doubtful if a big majority of and cattle. They are In the busi
them favor strong bosses and the ness to make money— and do.
problems and costs they entail. With not much over ten jiercent
It is tlie laborer wno pays for the of the nation’s population work
ing at the job of raising food for
strikes, not the bosses.
It is a weakness of our form the rest of us we need such farm
of government—a serious weak ers. There is no place for some
ness, when citizens fear the re one who would like to use a few
prisals of a union more than the acres ,o piddle around on raising
power of their government. We his own groceries, working his
do not expect this administration family and gradually eroding the
to change It. We do not expect mortgage. That was a family
any administration to change it farm.
until we have one with more In Congressmen may mawkishly
terest in the country than in hs cry over the family farm and County Ramblin’s
own power. Government by ma keep the term In the law books.
jority is not good government un- It belongs in a museum of some Stored Gram Inject Pests
le#n it is also good government sort along with a home black "An ounce of prevention”—
smith shop, u top buggy and a
and in the public interest
nothing was ever truer than this
scythe and cradle.
old adage when controlling stored
grain insect pests. Good house
GROWTH
keeping is the simplest and best
T IA V E l H IG H W A Y 9 7
prevention.
This business about comparing
OKANOGAN CARIBOO
Growers who plan ahead and
the "growth" of this country and
clean their grain storage facilities
M.U xr
Russia always to our detriment hs
a Hi-W
new liefore storing the new crop
getting to be a disease. It smacks
1,523
have taken a big step toward
of fear ami weakness amt maybe
eliminating trouble later. Clean
a touch of cowardice.
storage bins before harvest by re
lali«
How under the sun can rn
moving all old grain, sweeping
economist compare Russia and the
the ceilings, walls, ami floors,
United States? He would have fo *■* *■*• B x fc m ’-r-msiwu
l'or small storage areas, a broom
be from some neutral country in
Is satisfactory. For larger facili
'R IN C I G fO R C l •
the first place ami there are no
ties, an Industrial type vacuum
neutral countries with econo
sweeper Is effective.
Bo-
1
«evi
mists. Otherwise, lie is guilty of
After cleaning storage bins,
propaganda.
treat interior walls and floors
Russia operates as a dictator
" 1th malathion spray prepared
ship. The state does ull the bus!
by adding one gallon 57 percent
nets. Sets »he prices, spend tne
premium grade malathion emulsi
profits. It can increase the gro»s
too AM«
fiable concentrate ,»er 25 gallons
national product In any way or in
of water; or with 2*4 percent
any amount it desires.
methoxychlor spray, prepared by
1 he I tilled States operates un
adding io pounds 50 percent me
der a capitalist system huinpered
thoxychlor wettable powder per
no little by government, but
A m »
2 gallons of water Or use pvre-
goods are made ami lkiught ac
LJ
thrin bln sprays according to th»
Í
A
im
ili
cording to the demand of the p«*o-
manufacturer’s directions.
SytRNO
pie and at a price they will pay
Apply sprays to the point of
willingly except for some mono
KflOWNA
runoff. It will usually require
poly items.
about 2 gallons of spray per 100
42
I here is no accurate wav to
•NTICTON
Eureka Ixxlge N^. 121 A.F.A. I.'*
Compare the "growth” by the size
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Meets on the 1 «t and 3 n A
of the gross national product of
Thursday evenings earn
each. It is foolish to try to ami
OovilU lo n c tk « !
north
Visiting ineinbets xx
more foolish to believe such
cor idlv invited to meet
m
CW W
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figures.
Max Belshe. W. M.
Cltiaens of the United states
Irving Hart, Secretary
have meat available ut all times
i «» p g R N o . its 1.0.(kF.
and In aufficint quality and quan
Meets 1st and 3rd Tue»
tity It is not rationed. We have
'T o d a y s In l.O.O.F. hall. Tran
shoes, clothes that do not look
sient ami vialtltti' brothers
like hopsacking, many times the
are cordially inv.ted
automobiles, millions more tele
Floyd Haines,
G
HUNSeuRG
phones, (letter housing, better
I eo Watkins, Secretai >
roads, better farms and better
VAKIMA
Bethlehem ( ha|»f«r No. 7H O.KJi
Vlo-x
farmers, freer newspapers and
’ - / Meets every second T h u rs
Topp»
radio, more time to read ami Us-
, t v day each month.
Visiting
/ > #2
ten.
7 members invited Moro, Ore
Eilna Paulson. W. M
Why forget all these things ami
l A M 90« Kl
IXrrothv Heater Secretary
let some theoretical economist
Qvo,,
•care us by saying Russia Is
Il till IN i »\ IKK i . it IMGVC
catching up Russia has a long,
Meets First ami Third Sutunl.ijr
long ways to go And we will he
rach month at N:OO p. m.
<la<l when they do catch up It
Earl Gentry, Master
will tie a tietter world when Rus
Florence Bruckert, Sec’y.
sian women do not have to sweep
I - .- Itrliek.« h lo d g e ’No. Il*
the streets ami wheel cement ami
leets 2nd and 4th Tues
wear clothes for warmth Instead
days of ea. h month. Visit
of beauty; it wUj
a
ing memtiers welcome
world when Russia gets over us
Mary Brackett, N. G.
inferiority complex (well deser-
Helen Martin, Secretary
tAllt
vedt and feels equal In creature
Taylor IxtfrGK a . F. A A. M.
f—
IIM M )
eomforts to the United States
Warn Meets First and
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In the meantime we are not go
Third Tuesdays. Visiting /G \
WtIC
**»»■■»»
ing to let some harebrained ecin
brethern welcome.
©mist confuse us (as they hive
Harland McDonald. W M
the government) by expounding
Vernon Root, Secretary
D-washert wall
wall carpet,
2 fireplaces, recreation roon,
laundry room, pa.io, all land
scaped, slot age .n garage. Call
WAsco GI 2-5210.
37-lfn-c
miscellaneous AUCTION
SAT., JULY 15th *10:00 A. M.
The Dalles: Auc.ion Yard at
The Dalles. 3,000 watt electric
generator, rugs, t ids, electric
equipment, mauls, hammers,
shovels, camp stove, work
bench, with vise A other Items.
THE DALLES LIVESTOCK
COMMISSON, INC.
37c
FOR Agricultural loans see FLB/.
of The Dalles and the Mid-Col
umbia PCA, 4th & Court Sta.
CI’press 6-2468.
, tin.
CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING by
appointment only. Custom cur
ing Meat cutting, wrapping,
sharp freeze. Kenny’s Market,
Grass Valley. Call ED 3-234S
for appointment.
23-tfn
STATE WIDE PAINT CO. com
plete painting and decorating
service, spray or brush. Phone
CY 6-3977 or CY 6-5293, 1205 E.
12th St. Vern Campbell and
Jack Null, The Dalles, Or. 38tfr.
*V!NK GOLDENDALE SALES
Yard, Goldendale, Wash., has
ai auction every Friday at one
o’clock We have the market if
you have the livestock. Guar
an teed top prices. Frank Wink.
33c-tfn
LIVESTOCK Men - Do it your
self - "Ancnor Brand” Aidmtu
Health Products, penicillin, and
instruments are available at
your Co-op Oil and Supply at
The Dalles
20c tfn
80 BED OREGON state approved
nursing home located in beau
tiful Hood River Valley, wltl
lovely fenced grounds. We a<
cept all types of elderly case»
as well as room and board care.
31-tfn.
FOR SALE: 3 bdrm house with
1 *4 baths, dishwasher, storm
windows, nice yard and id?al
location in Wasco. Call GI 2-
5460, if no answer Call GI 2-
MM
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