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V 55 s-hrrmau ÖTnunty Smmtal Moro, Oregon Friday Seventy Fourth Year No. 3tí T hese T h in g s We Note IFasco Red Deal Byron Bayer In From Fall To Curb On Trip To iakim i Serious Accident County Official Paper .hiIy tí. I‘‘tí2 Many Pastors Serve Moro Church In 75 Years o f Its History; Gearhart to Speak Moro Church Planning Many in the World W ar 1 years Ben- jam ln Trueblood Smith, wno also had a homestead in Sherm an The rainm aker almost missed county, was a pastor. He was not us completely in June and except Wasco Red, a well kiwiwn char The Community Presbyterian in good health and died hi 1920. for a dreary little drizzle on June acter around Sherm an county for Byron Bayer, 17 year old son of Elm er E. McVicker came in 1919 2 there w asn’t any at all Inas- Church is expecting many guests years, died at Yakima Thursday and during his time the Monk- much as the normal is .90 the anil friends from distant places evening shortly after striking his Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Bayer, land church united with the Moro drop was large percentagewise. for its jubilee celebration thU head on a curb, le was reported was seriously injured Sunday to lx* scuffling with Ju stin H. night about a mile and a half church to obviate the nrcessity But farm ers will not be too un Sunday, June 8. As previously announced, form of going to Hay Canyon each happy about that for the rust was Berry, 35, with whom he had gone south of Moro when he hit a yearling colt belonging to J. K. er pastor, William W. G earhart, Sunday. He organized many ac stopped with the dry w eather. to Yakima from The Dalles. tivities that are still of seivlce to Wasco Bed’s nam e was Elm er McKean on the left front corner For the crop year to July 1 will be the guest speaker at the the congregation. R. Browning, his age 64. He w ork of his 1957 Plymouth car the total was 8.47 and that is 3.02 m orning service, his topic lieing, Giles L. French The colt was dismembered, the Rev. H enry G. Hanson came in less than normal. In 1955 there "God’s Unfailing Purpose’ . A dou ed here for m any persons, on 1921 and m arried the former Mrs. was but 8.17 and back In 1939 ble quartet. Myrna King, Darlene farm s and at m aking gardens at head and neck coming through The oddest thing about econom which he was adept. He did not Smith, to settle down to five there was 7.41 and there have H arrison, Genevieve Powill, Ed windshield to pin young Bay- ics is th at nations w ith a compe et while the car rolled over off years of his first pastorate. He re been five other years when the na Paulson, Russell Belsbee, Al care for steady work titive economy that is successful, No relatives have been found and 6ie highway and onto the ¡ailroad turned in 1939 for two more years rainfall was less for the first ten lan Pinkerton, Mac Hall and should change it for a dictated Red has said th at he has not ri«ht of waX- He suffered a con- Frank Say ns, will furnish ’be spe of preaching in Moro. Rev. A rth m onths of the crop year. economy, th at is never success* seen them in years. cial music for both morning and cussion and had not regained ur Hicks w as here in the twen- And June was cold, w ith a 31 ful. Maybe it is because not all Berry was held by Yaki na au- consciousness by Thursday inorn- ties and helped dig the basem ent ¿ Cgree night on the 1th, ’.he first afternoon program s w ith Helen can be equally successful face an'1 hand* " t r e cut under the church. thorities, but po dice there said inR time it has been that cold in June Sayrs at the organ and Norma - T T W .N . v> <aa iiM acci Charles D. P arrott was here In since 1917. It was down to 32 Barzee, pianist. there was no M nattle between by windshield glass. The young man, just finished Following the fellowship din W hen Oregon s two ugg* s l’l) them, no blows struck struc in anger, 1929 and 1930 and Rev. Allan A. once a few years ago, however. hairm an of the Oregon Wheat McRae in 1932 nnd 1933 and it The average maximum was 74, ner there will lx* an Informal itical parties get through writ g a ,though B erry wa8 held on a his junior year at Sherman High School w here he is a prom- G row ers League W heat Utiliza- was during his term that the Me platform s each candidate ^ n , as m anslaughter charge. the average m inim um was 45 for meeting at 2:00 p. m. in the sanc inent athlete, playing football, tion committee, Mrs. L. E. Kase- thodist church disbanded to form tuary moderated by H arry Pink usual, decide w hat he w a rts to basketball and running the half lierg, Moro, has released rules and the Com m unity church as now a mean of 59.7 down 1.6 from the erton. At this meeting Mrs. Doro- stand for in his campaign. normal. Wind was lt\ss according mile, was returning home after scoring procedures for th? annual known. tha Moore will relate Important T T W N to the record by 1.7 miles per the picture show in Moro. Cake Baking contest. W e’d almost give up looking at T urning to youth, the church hour hut not many will believe happenings about persons in the The colt, of well breu light E n tra n ts in the contest this chose Lawrence H. Michelmore, life of the church. H arry Pinker the women in shorts if ‘he men stock, had gotten out onto the year m ust make an Applesauce still a student, who put an em pha that and the evaporation was 9.67 ton will call on some fr.cnds to would quit w earing them. inches up 1.35 from normal. Congressman A1 Ullma a called highway in some unknow n way. cake. Women of w heat growing help him in a “bit of rem h scin g ”. TT W N sis on youth the church nas not An attractive history of the The reason teenage boys wear this office last T hursday to an It was headed west at the time counties are eligible to partici forgotten. He stayed four years to nounce th a t the U. S. Engineers of the accident and the <ar was pate. They m ust lx* more than church in lxx»Het form, prepared such big shoes is because theii sta rt a m inistry that has taken had informed him th at Pacific going south. 21 years of age or m arried women him to several places in the no rth by Mr. Pinkerton, church histor feet are big. They don’t look aw k Concrete and O. T. Jordon Jr. of George Reed went to the scene to lie eligible. ian, will lx* given out nt ’he close w ard on purpose. west. Then came Jam es D. Mo- Portland had lieen apparent w in and called the ambulance crew of F ru its and nuts are no’ to be lx*rg, with a family of seven, that of the afternoon session. T T W N ners of the job of constructing a John Buck and deputy sheriff used and cakes may not be frost- We m ust say th at the com pro bridge across th e John Day river John Cain who extricated the boy ed. Cakes may ’.»e baked in loaf i.s still remembered around Moro mise on the King-Anderson bill for relocation of the Union Paci from the wreckage and took him or tube pan, not large layer or whose citizens have watched their How would you like the job of rounds worse than the original. development as they graduate fic railroad. to a hospital in The Dalles. catching and hog-rassling a 00- sheet cake pans. TT W N from colleges and go to teaching. The bid was the best oi 12 and pound calf elk? Contestants are reminded a re Justice Black of the n a tio n s was for $2,363,333 and Included Bill G earhart came as another It may sound like a lot of fun, cipe card m ust lx; attacned and part of the youth movement until suprem e court w rote an article the bridge itself and some grad Oregon’s traffic death ’oil for I.ut Harold Sturgis, district game cakes m ust lx* exhibited and saying th a t the lirst am endm ent ing and filling adjacent 1 hereto. he moved on to Ojai, California to biologist in the south coast dis the first six m onths of 1962 Is judged at a county fair in any m eant ju st w hat it said, Congress No date for completion w-as noted. lx*come pastor. A1 Solomon came trict, says that this job is also down alm ost 1 9 over a sim ilar of Oregon’s nine wheat growing shall make no law respect mg an up from California to lx* pastor fraught with the danger o* num- period for last ye »r, according . to . counties. W inner in county fair establishm ent of religion, or pro for a few years and blend some erous slashes, cuts, bruises, and the °.regon D epartm ent ot Motor FREIG H T RATE CHANGE com petiton will lx? paid prem ium s hibiting the free exercise thereof; Tiaffic on Oregon s In terstate from the Oregon W heat Growers country living wi’h his city back abrasions caused by tve well- Vehicles. or abridging the freedom of ASKED BY OFFICIALS Through the end of June, 189 increased nearly 11 per league office. County premiums ground. He was followed by Rev. placed kicks and frantic struggles Oregon’s Public Utility’ Corn- cent in May speech, o r of the press, ci the traffic fatalities were recorded of 1962 over May of are: 1st—$5.00; 2nd—$3.00; and E rnest C. Goixlenlxirger, from of a stout wild c ra te r. right of the people peaceably to m iSSioner Jonel C Hill, and Jam es last year, according to figures Montana, with a long background Sturgis should know, lie was this year, as opixised to 232 In $2.00. assemble, and to petition the p Short, director of the State from 14 traffic recorders of the 3rd— First place county winners will of l’' “aching in western surround in on the tagging of a total of 1961. The month-by-month toll governm ent for a redress of D epartm ent of A griculture, Fri- Oregon State Highway D epart 20 calf elk which were captured for the cu rren t year shows 32 lie eligible to enter the state ings, who Is pastor today grievances.” He said th a t libel ¿ ay, in a letter to M. F. Edbrooke, ment. in the Millicoma country of Coos person« died in January; 29 In bake-off, scheduled at the annual laws were of doubtful legality; chairm an of the Railroad's Trans- Part of the increases may lx* convention of the OWGL, sched county. These youngsters w ere I . In u h y , 31 'i March, 27 in VERY QUIET FOURTH IN the same philosophy determ ined continental F reight Bureau, Chi- attributed to the draw ing power eartagged with colored plastic April; 35 in May; and 35 .n June. uled N ovember 26, 27 and 28, in During the three month perdiod the decision on prayer in public cago, announced their joint sup- ot the W orld’s Fair at Seattle, stream er tags and then released MIKHMAN COUNTY NOTED schools. port of the A merican National Exceptionally high increascr were Portland. S tate ’.op award will re to scramble back to th eir m others. of April to June, 1962, not a sin ceive $100.00. If a county w inner T T y N C attlem en’s Assn, request for an recorded on Interstate SON, In- The Fourth of July was one of Several Coquille sport-oneii as gle pedestrian death was record cannot compete at the state con Governors naturally aie op- 11'7 reduction in both eastbound terstate 5, US 99, and US 30. Gen- vention, the second place w inner the quietest days In Moro. Irstead sisted Sturgis during the project, ed In the state rates on posed to Secretary of Defense Me- and westbound carload r, i - v ,nc,eases w ere also noted on m ay represent 'h it countv. A lo of a great string of cars traveling ami game commission fis'tery bi N a in a ra s proposal lor reductior all livestock except hogs. t s 20 and US 97. Decrease« were tating trophy, In addition to the th« highway there were c'liipara- ologist, Ron McDivitt, and stream of the national guard, but it wil Railroad rates on li zo hogs, * etected on US 26 and US 397. $100.00 top prem ium , will go to tively few and those most y from im provem ent, Bob Guymon, do be done soon, we’ll bet, because moving w estbound, w ere reduced out of state. Oregon ¡»eople stayed nated their week end time to ’lie I he composite change for the the state w inner. by a sindlar am ount sometime year, a com parison of the first home or ut least off H ighuay 97. calf catching. it costs more than it is worth. Cakes will lx* judged for; A. G. Erickson, director of In ago after petitions were filed five m onths of 1962 w ith those Local people caught up on their T T W N The first calf was eartagged 1. Outside appearance: sh"pe, size with TCFB hv state and private ternal Revenue f >r Oregon today yard work, went lx»atlng or to same m onths of 1961, shows a Unless the kids now in the on June 2 and the last on June 16. color and crust. 5.2 per cent Increase for all rural 2 Inside appearance; color, grain some of the celebrations near at By that tilde the youngsters of had a word of tax adv»ce for little leagues can rescue baseball agencies. They told the TCFB that a w est routes. U rban traffic was up 3.3 hand, or gathered w ith friends tills year'u calf < rop had grown him «-wives and other employers it is a lost sp o .t except for the and texture. of «lomestlc w o rk e rs • «lon’t ove* bound reduction in rates would per cent. for a picnic. very, very professional ‘earns. to where they could easily out- 3 Flavor. lx* of substantial lx*nefit to local T T W N battle or outdistance tlielr would- look |»o .able li ibllity for social taxes. livestock commission W hether Kennedy’s social su< packers, be captors. Eleven of the tagged security If you pay a household worker firms and stockyards, while an youngsters were i lales and 9 wen- cess comes from Ids actions or hi $.50 or more in anv calendar «¡uar- eastbound reduction would broad females. ’ w ife’s, it is a success. Now if ho ter, you and the employee liecome en m arkets for Oregon producers Tin- purjxise of the tagging pro could do half as well at economics. subject to the Federal It- urance of feeder and Stocker live dock. gram Is to study the range and T T W N C ontributions Act, Mr. Erickson Hill and Short told the TCFB distribution of <- »astal elk. This We’ll bet the Democrats wish that the continuous d e fin e in said. This tax fl t inces red rem en l study ha« lx*en under wa> for a they bad got along without Billie rates on fresh meats and packing paym ents and other Ixm« fits to nuinlx*r of years, although the Sol’s $100,000. But Estes made it house products from the Mid calves tagged this year represent w orkers qualifying pay. The tax for this year is 3 1 -8th west to the Pacific Coast without the greatest num lier tagged d u r T T W N ¡x*rcent for th«* *mployer and 3 1-8 com m ensurate reductions in rates ing <i single spring season. Each |x*r«-«-nt for the employee, or a to Prepaid medicare makes it pos in livestock has been a m ajor year during pa t bunting seasons, sible for many families to pay factor in the substantial decline tal of 6*4 percent of the wages a few of tin* previously tagged an- ¡laid. The em ployer is required to th eir medical bills; make* it pos in Pacific Coast livestock slaugh imald have lx-en t iken by hunters. report and pay the combined tax sible for them to 1 e sick and even tering. Since the loeatio.i of each tugged quarterly. advantageous if ahead of the in- Hill said, "Our local j ackers animal i.s carefully recorded, the Form 942 accompanied by pay surance company; makes it uossi- have lx*en forced to reduce opera tag num ber tells a story of the ment of the tax for the» quarter ble for doctors to get their money; tions and some have ceased bu anim al’s movements. < nded June 30, 1 >62 should he fil m akes higher charges feasible. siness . . .” The decline has re Records indicate that the coast ed with the District Director by Sometimes it is a good thing. duced local m arket outlets for al elk Is a hom esteader, seldom July 31, 1962. T T W N livestock producers, he explained. w andering far from its place of If someone doesn’t find a way • birth Of all tin- previously tagged to photograph rodeo p ro c e sse s anim als taken by hunters during w ithout hats we’re going ‘o lose the years, the iarthere.st move o u r horse sense m ent from tlie tagging |x»int has T I • u N lx-en aixiut two and one-half Next holiday is almost two R »Ix-rt Powell, the form er FFA tion are dwarfed. time, they have m any «Gnomic miles. Most animals tend Io re Price differences between feed m onths away. Close enough. At the moment, relatively low main dost* to home, seldom w an president of Sherman chapter won implications, Thom as s t a t e s . barley in the N orthw est and com T T W N grain prices in the Midwest dering much more than a mile first place in the Better Farm ing Among the more significant im and ndlo in the Midwest reached Tax cuts are already made. Ken contest. Robert’s parents are Mr. are enticing peopie to make new from where they are lx»rn. plications to Oregon and the Pa an ill time high this spring w ith nedy assured th at in his action investm ents in livestock produc Sturgis suys it’s no easy job and Mrs. Ronald Powell of Moro. cific N orthw est he believes, are; serious ccf nomic implications for about steel. If stock ow nets take Rolx-rt competed against 11 tion a n d m arketing facilities to round up a n *wlx»rn calf, and the Pacific N orthw est if th e large Ixiss of present payrolls and th eir losses, they will pay far less other chapters in the state which could lx* Jeopardize I when after the little fellow is over two difference continues over a period and investm ents in producing taxes. R obert's F F A project was regional grain prices readjust, he weeks old it's almost Impossible of time. m arketing livestock and poultry. T T W N w arns Manpower pays off. It takes at 83 head of black Angus cattle, 80 This is one of the points made Ixiss of opportunities for effici It isn’t so much that Kennedy least three men to surround a Suffolk ewes and lambs, 60 hogs, by M I). Thomas, OSU extension The large grain price gaps re ent use of the region’s resources has defied business, but that he flect many factors in which fed 60-pound calf x-iien he decides 53 acres of wheat, and 110 acres agricultural economist, «n the to help supply the present and has defied realism. eral program s n >w loom large, to get up and run. At least two of sum m er fallow. new Oregon Farm and M arket prospective needs of the meat-de TT W N Robert also won chaptr r Star he continue«. Production-adjust men are require«! to hold and tag Outlook ju st published and now ficient, rapidly growing West Farm er, D istrict S tar Farm er. Someplace we read that dress the critte r after it Is caught, ment, export assistance and dom available. Coast. State Farm er Degree ar.d State designer« over in Europe had estic sales program s h ave com and it’s a three-man Job with the Facts and explanations about Thom as em phasizes that the S tar Livestock Farm er. been trying to sunpress w om en’s bined with other economic forces larger ones. the grain price gap problem— its N orthw est has the location and In Farm Mechanics he has built curves, but that the women had to push Midwest feed grain prices Another man should lx- avail nature, implications and altern a resources to help supply n- t only corrals, bog feeders, dams, dou won out and th eir curves w ere able to divert the attention of the »»♦•low price support levels, while tives— are being developed by grains for export, hut also to going to be evident from now on. in the N orthw est barley prices m other if she de« ides to stay and ble de<k«*«l truck, end ove’ hauled OSU economist« In response to In- make efficient use of additional We are sure th at Is propaganda watch the show. Unlike deer, cow combines. have lx-en pulled «hove supports. du.stry reque sts. Statem ents are grains produced here or in other The contest was based o r: for som ething elk are quite Ixdligercnt when expected to be a' These conditions distort m arket ¡»arts of the nation to help sup 1. Use of horn** opportunities. TT W N th e ir youngsters are Ixdng molest Thomas said relationships, he ¡x»lnti out, and ply W est ( ’oast consumers 2. How program fits horn» farm. ed. Some will re 'ire to the brush C urrently, he p and llve- The new tariff bill th a t passed leave N orthw est poultr Growth of the region, cattle- and tlrnlx-r but most will rem ain 3. Knowledge of technical agricul dications are that adm inistrative the house is a complicated m ea stock feeders at a “s rious dis- leeding and hog-raising enterpri ture. sions of present at the scene harking furiously. prov action urxier su re that may have far reaching advantag p” because Midwest poul- «es, started in the mid-19.50'» wher. 1 Records of projects. With neck haekle-i raised, she will farm legislat Ion \ livestock will exchange results, not m any of them good. try and the price gap was narr* w, ha« 5. Evidence that he has profited o be rebeved in Is t stomp, lunge, and mak . other the problem It gives subsidies to iid u stry for m u d more feed grain at mar- now been interrupted, if not halt from vocational agriculture. threatening gestures the comlr.g «eas ton. Such action x than In the Northwest and laborers who are h u rt bv tar- ket price ed, he believes. The jihigi-s for the contest were It was «toon learned painfully seems likely to i hinge largely on supjxirt prices, the iff chango N At 1M1 Likewise, unless “man-made’ fforts of persons — that when a < alf Is caught. It E. Lierm an of the U. S National the continuii ag ci something. am ounts would have lx*en nearly obstacles in the form of fédéra Is sound treatm en t to hold the Bank and Wes Grilley of Pendle Interested in the economic devel- I T W N equal. grain program s are adjusted, ad Oregon, the Pacific youngster’s moutn shut to pre ton G rain Growers. ng the past winter, special D U nfortur ditional Investm ents will not lx and U. S , he sa.d. In this same contest la.»t year vent loud squealing, a call of dis if governm ent own°d mllo the the harant made and job o p p o r tu n ité will ce gaps have grown Allen Miller placed second tress that Invariably firings tin The p area partially relieved the court deci lie lost as the region’s potentials nee 1958, reach’np new m other on the m n. R eporter, Dick G rabenhorst ■ns. he said. e r comes from for livestock and poultry oroduc- pring C ontinuing over profit fr< m it. Sunday Night A fter twelve years of ninister- ing to the sp iritu al w e.fare of Sherm an count iaas Rev. Morrison moved to Albany and Silas (' Eld- e r came to take up Ids work. He was followed by an evangelist, A. Jack Adams, who had held ser- vices here during the ‘tu n s of both M orrison and Elder. As did his predecessors, he walked to Monkland for services. His m in istry, w ith one break lasf-u from 1905 until 1916, well bei\ re the advent of successful automobiles. ___ .. ____ .. Robert . K. . . __ Moseley came . from y ir gjnia for a short time in 1912 to fill in betw een Adam’s terms. Rain Almost Missed Us In June; Cold Weather Prevails Visitors Sunday Cake Baking Rule« Made for 0 *YGL Contract Let On Railroad Bridge Want To Rope An Elk? Some Do Fewer Dying On Oregon Highways Oregon Highway Traffic Increases May Have To Pay On Domestic Heb Underwrite your country’s m ight- Buy U.S. Savings Bonds n Feed Price Difference Hurting Oregon” Thomas Robert Powell W’ns Place For Farmin’»