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J V Ohennan ÖTnattfy journal Seventy Tliinl Year No. 38 These T h in g s We Note Moro, Oregon Friday Publicity Shower A h n ilt rW U U l flip i f 1C f ,f lim lv V O u flly 21. llkil County Official Paper taing news about people you know or know about Local Ballclub To Gives Farmer Wheat Yield Drop Play at Home Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hicks and Mr and Mrs Byron Copenhefer Flowers were used to decorate family entertained Mr. and Mrs. of Goldendale brought Mrs Gwen the rooms and small bouquets de- N p y I Sunftnv lien Hicks of La Grande over the Sempey ba?k to .wis, 1. M . m . itoifpn , , th ,, e in . dividual ,. ., . t»KUu . . Mrs. T. H olies co rated M lf/IttflV weekend. Sunday both families after spending a few days with fi’n ,/ |n‘ ua ta »le> attended a reunion of the Counts them, they visited a while with wh,ch J * ’38 * r^ ' The Sherman County Braves Wheat farmers have been get- family held at Goldendale. Mrs. Rolfe before returning home I r u J V a> “I ** wl11 play thelr thlrd ho,ne game ting some of the kind of publicity Mr and w4tb M'or‘n« honors held by Mrs of the season Sunday. July 23, to The wheat Sherman they like in the past ten days Weekend guests of Mr. and anJ chiWren“ 3 i when editors from Portland came Mrs Floyd Root and Mrs. Rose honw in to see what harvesting was like Rveppell included Mr. and Mrs. sperujing a weej and see for themselves how farm- Dud R°ot and son, Mrs. Alfred niotber Mrs j ers live and work. Presumably Evans, Rosemary Rueppell n t , .. and Kent. morion at prize. Others present were Mrs on their 2-3 record to date. threshing wheat are all on a pre- the public relations firm hired by Mrs- Gary King and son, all of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sondomu iV1' “ ’ ^,rs Ftien Kee, Mrs The game is scheduled for 2:00 litninary basis so far as few fields Giles L. French the wheat league had a hand In Portland. and Lynne and Pennv arrived ^ ters’ Mrs Jack Adams p in. on the Sherman High school have been finshed and results not Mr. and Mrs. Dan Glenz and Sa,urday from ToWo io' vl,R her It’s an old trick: watching the the matter. W l , ' eld A d ">‘ “ “ >" •* d«»a' computed (or these pea under the first shell and try The actual job of raising wheat Danny returned from Mr. and Mrs. Don Smith were tion. Whether it was the rust, the u h ij i c i u i i i r u last la s t week w een . ir u in m o t hf»r M r« A v n n »» ....... ing to guess where it will be i3 little known to city dwellers a vacation trip to Cadott, Wis- and Mlis ‘ p rftrik ^ Vr . - *? Tbe Dallps Sunday and spent The winner of the second half hotweather or something else will ami Mrs. Frank Sayrs and Tony the day visiting his parents, Mr of the Big Wheat League meets never be known next. The handler always and in and is getting so complicated that cousin, where they were guests and because there Melissa of Moro and Mr. and and Mrs. Gus Smith * this case it is Russia, that has no one out of touch with it a few of Mr. Glenz’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank von Borstel had din Condon, the winner of the first will 1« no agreement. But yields us watching Berlin. years would be able to go ahead Mrs. Fred Glenz. Mrs. Harry Stark and daugh- half, to decide who gets the tro- a»'« down from the almost fab'i- ner with them Sunday T T W N with it. Since the end of World Houseguests of Mrs. Elva Deh- The trouble with smart guys is War II chemicals and fertilizers ler are her son and daughter in often that they’re not very smart, have added to the complexity of h'W, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hines and The president must be finding growing wheat and the knowledge their family of Whldhy Island, that out; the nation knew it. that told a farmer when to sow’ Mr Hines is working in the har- Mr a n d M r« I ph r□rinn.i n - J . *' vvumy agent in tne state. this year. TTW N and how to plow must be multi- vest. stayed for a longer visit with the o! Voro’ k‘ft Sundav f^ r 4 H club Zaniker, Thompson or Jensen Early returns from the Hay Ty Cobb has died, an old, ill Plied by knowledge of when to July 4 the young people of the Garlands sunnner camp at Suttle Lake for and Hastings will be the battery Canyon country which is Just man, who didn’t even look as if fertilize and how and when to Wasco Church of Christ enjoyed Mrs ixmald von Borstel was a week. for the locals. about average in quality of land Mrs. Bert Cox left July J Tur ' he could flash across the out- treat weeds and how. a picnic outing at Maryhill. They would indicate that the average hostess to the 4-H club outdoor Chehalis to visit her m’o ther/M r7 field or steel second while a catch- The stories will be valuable if were accompanied by Mr. and cooking nroiect <rroun h . ,, -------- • ...... • n * a ... yield would lx? in the neighbor et was drawing back his arm. they tell some city people that Mrs. Jerry Barnett, sponsors of home Mondav and T i L , i ., v 1 ( H- Augpp wbo was 444 and pass- K |r t h C e r t i f i c a t e s hood of 25 bushels. That will farmers are real iw onU w L the irn „ n ° m.e ™on<,dy and Tuesday last ed away July G. Mrs. John R ust T T W N mean something between 2,000,- (MX) bushels of wheat for the coun ty. Board of Elders will call that a good crop parents of but no one whose experience _ _ school comes solely from the nerind production operations to be f o u l Anne and C n lt °,fXISale"' Mrs "heir mnch “for a ' X 7 en" ',i “ r; and M™ Lawrence th‘s ta" '« «Main birth certlfl- 1910 will think »o. Since TTW N It is had enough that so many anywhere. Prosser, a sister of Mrs. Root, re- 1 a luke Tuesday, Augee and daughter of Los An- Cd,es for tbp,n aa soon as possible, that date we have had an extra mained while her husband attend- ‘ n pan led by Mls- von Borstel. geles brought his sister Mrs. Cox A rpR4stratlon card may be oh two inches of m o istu re have Americans have gone on relief; ed a meeting at Pendleton Sat- M ^ IX>n Clod el ter was hostess hom e Thursday on their way to 4a4™ 4 ^om the Board of Health earned to> a p a y Vo wee^s and and it is a national disgrace that urday. On his return to Wasco, ber, br4dgp club at her home their home in California. ’ ^ r a fee of one dollar by address aiJ the remalnlerntlv WSPH the self reliant Amish should New Farm Bill Mr. Prosser stopped in Athena to ^ “^ y u wl? Mr and *nd Mrs Mrs. Larry Larry Smi4b Smith a”‘l and lng lng tbe tbp re<iue8t rwR«est to to Vital Vital Statistics Statistics tu to apply apply fertilizer fertilizer Machinery ha2 have their personal property con < nVlted Mr pot Oail Pickard, a nioco of \Irs including Art Chris- i ’Krio. fomii» -----* • last week . MoHinn » z\ . . improved y Up To Senate ding Alts .Mrs. Art family of Portland spent St‘c44<m. Board of u„.i*u Health, » P. O. steadily fiscateti for not going on. tianson, Mrs i. T*ta Eslinger and end here visiting his parents, Mr. Uox 231 > Portland 7, Oregon. The crop of barley bai The Senate Agriculture commit- I"x>1' „Wh° wl" vlslt ln Wasc° for T T W N was good. Mrs. Lester r Conlee of Moro, and Mrs. Don Smith. Children born outside Oregon Even — in the A magazine tells that family tee last week approved an omni- 3 Ue€K ° r 8°‘ the nor Hurt h end \\ tiri »■ may obtain a certificate from the the growing of barley has not income has been increasing which bus farm bill which is virtually Mr. and Mrs. George Harris of S .1 e where they were born. been very successful barley re sounds fine. But the family ex- certain to be reported to the Sen- Walla Walla visited in Ivrsco turns were good and the remain penses often go up faster. ate this week and debated. over the weekend. Saturday they der of the county can usually ex TTW N The new Senate bill provides: were overnight guests of Mr. and Scholarship Group pect a good fiarley crop. Prophets are saying the wea- (it A one-year extension of the Mrs. Lawrence Funk. Sunday, ther will be dry and a little on special “one-year-only” feed grain they were dinner guests of Mrs* Named By Prexy the cool side during August. That program of 1961. Elva Dehler. „ , Republicans Plan isn t so had if it can reverse the (2) A one-year wheat program Mrs. Elva Dehler had as over Mrs. Nellie Fields, president of next two months. which would require wheat grow- night guests Thursday Mr. and the Sherman County Historical Fund Raising Feed TTW N ers to cut their 1962 acreage by Mrs. Charles Rourk of Fullerton, society, has appointed a scholar- irvi«» tinr» u u When you re lost you are sure 10 percent in return for payments California. Mrs. Dehler got to Shn. , , , , , , , conS|st,ng „( The. ‘ s‘av9 of something that isn t so, whe- (in cash or kind) equal to 40 per know the retired naval officer .«lore Johnaton Wallace May th„ ,nemtx,rii o( lhu(U^ ' ther you are in the timber or in cent of the 1959-60 average annu- and his wife on a visit to Hono- and Eva K irk elie to choose the have an Op p o rtu n itv to h e a r <4en. to hear Sen- your own mind. al yield on the land retired from lulu several years ago. winner of a scholarship to be atei John opportunity G. Tower, the Texas T T W N production. This program would given by an anonymous donor R< publican who was recently Whitaker Chambers exposed permit growers to retire an addi- Coming a? surprise to the Ru- to some graduate of the 1961 elected to the senate, the first one the rats in our closets and scared tional 30 percent of their wheat fus Pp°Plp was the wedding last high school graduating class of of that party to be so elected. the daylights out of a flock of acreage in return for payment weekend of Miss Joan Brackett Sherman High school. The dinner will lx? at the Marion parlor pinks, depression com- equal to 50 percent of the average and Char,PS Griggs. They announ- Hotel in Salem at 7:30 p. m. munists and ’ college ‘‘liberals’ annual yield. ced Sunday at the Rufus church .NEW Hl’P E itlN IE N D E N T standard time. Tickets are $25 who lacked faith in our country. (3) Expanded authority for use that they had ran away to Wash- Appointment of Sheridan v per couple as It Is a fund rais Watch ’em take after him now, Of marketing orders checkoffs 4ngton to be married. Joan is the Panther to succeed Charles Me ing dinner. Ten of the 17 graduates of good sand o ff. T T W n for research, promotion and ad- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fay Moro high school in IMS met to- Eight of those present are ph- Dowell as district line su|>erin The depression is officially end- vertising would be authorized as Brackett and 4s a graduate « rlh rr »„„day and bMl . ri(h t ..r w i: M . / b H.I.;,' l i , n „ h 7 r™ - .g"'*"1' '“T ’T ” ! * Women S hnw .r ed but in reality it goes on about part of any marketing order The of Sherman Higb Charles is the ■ood llm r U lk ln s. Other» o( that Ted Th..».|M»n. Dori» Morrl- ' "m ipany ',anv ,n The Dal1« ’* « " W O m en S h o w e r like it was last year list of commodities eligible for son of Mr’ and Nlrs Joe Gr4ggs same age or near h> it came to non Wayne Thompson, Gene- announced by Art Thrasher, TTW N’ orders would be expanded. of Moro and 4s a 1960 graduate of broaden the field of conversation vieve Nahouse, lx>is Kenny and PPAL district manager. McDow Bride To Be Daylight saving has made its (4) Extension of P. L. 480 (the Gherman High School. ell has been reassigned as Cen About 65 friends and relatives and the afternoon w as spent A ustin Foss, perpetrators unhappy. Agricultural Trade Development After hot most of all last pleasantly. The dinner gave it a tral Oregon district line suj>erln- attended a miscellaneous bridal TTW N Act) for .i three ter.dent for Pacific Power. shower for Miss Penny Hlgley « me years, . . .... with an au- wpek 44 4s starting out like it will ------------------------ ——---- ------------------------------------------------- Friday, July 14, In the Moro Pes- On the grounds of the Blue Sky 4hor,za44on of $1.5 billion per year be hot most of this week. It got v ar i f r 1« > i r» it t i hvlerlan church. hotel is a Quaking Aspen tree f'»r sales of surplus commodities up to 110 degrees last week at one I TOCV 00(1 N e llie F ie ld s rlflC lU v C e le b ra te Weed Control Includes Mrs Elton Eakln entertained about a foot through. Where for/ ° i ? ,gn currencies. p|ace in p ufus was most un. with a piano numlier. She played branches have been discarded by ;v- w S A r tf " r ’ U f y e a r.Na" ,nal Z ' X X m n T r X 1^“ m Fiftv Years o f Married Life Seed Prevention The Man I Ixive”. Another mu the tree some bugs have ex .... ..... .............. isted and woodpeckers have dug Several changes In the basic degrees according to the ther- Good weed control practices In sical number set the atmosphere Open house between the hours ti»i grandmother, ’rr:: Plan- them out leaving holes. In one 4pg4s*at4°n governing the Farmers momter. clude prevention of weeds front for a bridal shower as Miss Shir u . u . °f 2 and 5 p. m. was held at the che Dingle stepdaughter of Richie forming reminds Martin J. Zim ley Watkins, accompanied on the such place the woodpeckers have iome Administration, Rufus Grange Hall on July 16 for Dingle, wore as flower girl fifty merman, Sherman County Weed piano by Miss Judy Watkins —„ a hole large enough for a “ " dug in earnest last week and most of the 50th wedding anniversary of years ago. nest and inside it was a family of To Picnic Sunday the north end farmers were cut- Mr. and Mrs T. L. Fields of Ru- R. t . Dingle, brother of Mrs. agent. These jjests will spread Hang “True Ix>ve.” Assisting from dissatisfied offspring that kept up The Oregon ,, ting wheat or barley or they are for ,hc open hoUse ,.-,V|'.I h . who’ims Iwen an'invalid rapidly ,r° 'n , field to field f“ " If al- »l„? Z 2 the guest of honor as a constant complaining day and n„sslon repor,„ that dlstrlh,Jt|on in the fields with combines this were Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Field, for 12 years was brought up from .K 0* “t i L T I J „ i ' Mona P»v!„ ’ „ _ u w - were Miss •Mona Eakln and Miss Sharon night unless the parent oirds of revenue from liquor sales and ' ' Pek F rom tbe reports the of Wasco anj Mr. and Mrs. Basil The Dalles for the occasion. Mrs wildllfe’ llvP8tock a*4d ma Belshe. i ' , r ‘: / . ngof5d. . i " . . ’iUJ “ n.gJ th.e,o Pr'VlIege tax collections for the ,a_' ™ r s . arcn ,l Wttlng the yield „ aln8 of Portland. Ceorge Smith, sister of Mrs chinery nil carry seed large ‘ dis The tea table was beautifully tant es before dropping them mouths with whatever food could tnree-month period ending June as tbey bave ln some other years The hall was lavishly decorated Fields, was unable to come from decorated w ith an arrangem ent They don’t know go|de„ g,adlo||, the glft ,a. „ „ hJ mt. ranada ,„r , he again on to .he soil he found. Photographers stood 30 amounted to $3,075,069 ' for “ their ------ wheat. - ............................ Just what was lno the lrou’ trou- Me» and punch h ,.,hl,. „ cover- »ion Modem f.om ihcmlcals u n be “ roM s «»d I'lnk candles patiently about the tree awaiting According to George Van Per- f,-.- sure Jual w,lal was table w. were used to prevent seeding cf many g°unng were Mrs. Henry Jaeger the return of the parents who gen. administrator, a total of $17,- o<' a"d .f an,t, ?T‘ ,an asl|mat* «1 with golden colored table- Guests coming from common weeds such as Morning ;,nd ' 4rs Harold Eakln. Hostesses diu not hesitate to make trips as 924,412, nht.-iiniw, fmm 11«,,«. 44’ aR the field is cut. From all long as the men stood still. Startles Farmers; Voice He Wants Cause: Unknown T T W N It looks like the path of the i n h a w m r " ’^ b blM ''asb*thered " " ‘ at l , ? 1A ’®4^ gooders meet more resistance. Wh“e, ,hr ‘n“ r' an<' ‘ '!OO,' Pirated cities and county treasur- The farmers aren’t the only les « ^ ‘ved $3.217,113. $13,072 Ones to tighten their belts, the Who would have thought that was par™arked for the state cen- working men have been laid off since the strike Just before July a nation started in opposition to sus fund. 1 and they are feeling the pinch a minor increase in the tax on of the times too. There’s not tea would ever stand for taxes Distributes Funds much worx going on at Rufus such as w'e have? Plans are rapidly shaping up TTW N right now excepting apricot pick- for the annual picnic Sunday, Killing the goose that laid the July 23, for members and families lng at the local fruit orchards, golden egg is nothing to the bu of The Dalles Elks lodge No. 303. and that will he finished this reaucrats who try to kill the in according to Ev McReynolds and week dustry that pays their salaries John Becharas, co-chairmen for Mr. and Mrs Earl Weatherford and provides the cumshaw for the event. The picnic will again the improvident« who elect them. be held at the Dufur city park and children of Olex joined Mr. rnd Mrs. George Fox and all went i r w n and will be an all-day affair the to Vancouver, Wash., to a family We certainly hope our grain chairmen said reunion of Mrs. Fox’ relatives surpluses last until the govern Families should supply ‘heir at the home of a sister Mrs. Al ment gets out of the farming own picnic lunches and table ser Relatives come from business Any set of dummies can vice and the lodge will furnish ice Jenkins. Seattle, Tacoma, Corvallis, Ore- store a surplus; we would starve cream, soft urtnxs. drinks, coffee and rnn c i t v m a k in g n r t v in «n cream. son If government handled poor emoy .- ¿ a ,- o, ^ tlng and plc. crops. mlng, w l» ° X * o il old. and. 'wl,7 n* 'n« Th’ «'a» *daa' TTW N ming will take place In the city there for the outdoor party. Plc- If the machinery operators that arc striking really want to work J they act funny about It. We sus Section chairmen for the event movie machine when the reunion pect that union is doing nobody will include Pete Miles, Joe Ten- was held here, any good, the public, other work ney. John Lindsay Bert Holland, Dwight Hull of Seattle, Wash , ers, contractors or even the men Gay Dinger, Jim Sandos, TeJ war. a houseguest of Mr. and Mrs themselves. Walker and Clair Creighton T. L Fields over the weekend TTW N ' 60 -Th«, T " r , V S7 ? r“ w " Wlllla"' slab Knapweed'sho'u"d"i«''spr'v. 4^p Wasco Womens Study Club of Goldendale, Wash , Mr. and aprved at the punch table. Mrs Mrs. Verle Fields and sons, Mark, C. W. Fields, Mrs. R. T. Dingle, I aui and Kerrick, Mr. and Mrs. Zetta < arter, Mrs. Stuart John- Stuart Johnson of Salem, Mrs. sor’ Mrs Arvilla Beeks served Zetta Carter of Vancouver, Wn., coffee and tea. The ladies of the Besse Pound ami grandson, Nick Tillicum Bridge Club received Pound of Pittsburgh, Pa., Emma 4be g4flfl and tbe lad4es of tbe Schearer, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weg- Wasco Church of Christ opened ntr, Mr. and Mrs. Richie Dingle, 4hfc gifts for d4«P4ay- M,‘ and Uw The serving table was laid Mr. and .Mrs. Albert Kaseberg, with a linen cutwork cloth, cen- Mr. and Mrs. Bill Spencer, Mr. tered by the wedding cake, baked and Mrs. Bernie Rice, Mr. and ano decorated by Mrs. Harold Mr and Mrs. Gene Courtney, Brown, grand daughter, flanked Mrs. Pat Courtney, all of The Dal- by gold candles and mixed flower les, Mr. and Mrs. George Harris bovquets of Walla Walla, W ash, David Mrs. Emma Schearer, aunt of Fields and Tom llenche, of Ken- Mr Fields, made the wedding ncwlck, W n, iXvight Hull of Seat- gewn and dressed the bride fifty tie, Wash , grand daughter, Cln ■ _> u — .. . . . -----’ lih T .“ ’W 'r X n T n £ « « r y The W m c o Woman', Stu.lv Black'of Lo. Angel«. Celif. and ( The were irw leaves of the corsage ww made from the silk illusion of het bridal veil. Little Cindy Inman, grand dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold An drews wore the same little dress, gratulate me the nanny happy couple. graiuiate counic Preceding the anniversary par ty of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Fields a potluck diner was served in the basement of their home to 42 members of the family . 2i) f , , , , wPh a ’ wetting agent. These weeds may also be tilled lo from needing __________ «« 1 s. D M a r k e t K ep O tt * 160 head. Livestock totaled U S No. 1 and 2, 180 230 II» butcher hog8 b™ ght $l»10 to j , 9 rx) Goot, fpe<|er bogs 70 to 100 lbs. brought $20.00 to $22.80 a cwt. and good weaners $8 50 to $13.00. Standard fed steers $20 50 to $21.60 Good 550 to 700 Ih. feeder steers $20 00 to $22 00 Medium steers $18 00 to $20.00 and dairy types $1500 to $18.00. Heavy 950 to 1100 lb. uraa» grass s steers to lo ie e r s » $18.70 is ./u w ^ *°°" Weight Changes Car Lights Drivers pulling a boat or trail er or with hack seat and trunk 1< aded wltn camping or vacation equipment were urged today by the Department of Motor Vehi- i les to have their car headlights adjusted to avoid blinding oncom- leg drivers. The department said it had re- celved several complaints this summer from motorists who nave l»ein blinded by headlights of on- coming vehicles loaded-down with vacation equipment, The department explained that a headlight adjustment is requlr- ed io to comitensaie compensate tor for the addition addition- »si '" « » ± 2 . - ' “2 Otherwise, even headlights on . In good demand at $12 00 to $14.« 50 with utility to $15 50. Baby calves ranged from $12 00 on light dairy breeds to $27 50 on Holstèlns. flll(| (uinaeif uted by State Police for driving a vehicle with improperly adjust- ed headlights If he fails to get the lights adjusted, the department concluded.
