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ëêfyçvtnein County Journal
Seventy Fifth Year No. 20
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Moro, Oregon
Friday, March S. lib
County Official P aper
Sherman Hopes
For Victory To
Equalize Playoff
T i; IF atherrmn
S ivs It lFa< Warm
In Febru.r , Br-r-r
The Vale Vikings gained a one
game margin over Sherman in
the Greater Oregon district play
off series with a 71-56 decision
on their home court, March 2.
The Huskies will be facet! with
Giles L. French
an all or nothing game this Fri-
Imagine a depression being ja y night. AVale victory would
used as a bug-a-boo to scare vot give it the berth at the state
ers Those who remember it don't tourney while a Sherman win
Those who remember it don’t would mean a sudden death tilt
speak the word lightly.
on Saturday night.
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Vale took a commanding 1
The latest word from science lead at the quarter mar' »• i
is that Mars is a barren planet poured 23 points into t. *
and all the plans for capturing to hold tight to their : ’ —
it are in need of changing. Com rest of the game. Sher? i” i i
mon sense must be forced on the lied to no avail in the s • ’
scientists.
half, outscoring the Vikir.g- ,r
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both of the last two periods
How does an American stu
Ron Johnson nabbed scor.
dent like Ronda Fraser of Moro, honors for the Huskies with hi.
Oregon feel living and studying season high of 24 points. Mel
in Mexico City, the largest met Hyland of the ,rikings had 22
ropolitan city in Latin America? and Ron Smith had 19. The Hus
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kies had but three other players
We read: the old should have in the scoring column: Doug
something leesides money. Well, Bish 13, Bill Doolin 15, Jack
yes, some memories of gallant Kellogg 4.
This is a picture ol' the Sher«
deeds done, adventures under Sherman made 64 percent of man county courthouse in IM98.
taken, courteous actions, brave its free throws to Vale’s 53.
These two wooden buildings
stands made and need them so
were used w h ile the present
Sherman
10 22 41
56
badly that if not present they are
con ithoiisc was being b uilt, ac-
Vale
17
40
58
71
often manufactured.
cording to E lv in B arnum who
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was a grow n man b.v then. The
Congress is talking about a Power Rates Down
teams and
hacks in the fore-
truth in interest bill. We think
that figuring interest is taught In Part of Oregon
Weed Control Meeting
in the sixth grade.
Electric
rate
revisions
reflec
The annual meeting of the Sher
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The sign on the state’s new ting savings of over $1,000,000 a man County Weed Council is
gas pump reads: “No Gas For year to Pacific Power & Light slated for Friday, March 8, at 1:30
Sale; I>o Not
Ask”. To make Co.’s Oregon customers in its p. m. at the Courthouse in Moro,
it complete may we suggest the southern division were approved according to Martin Zimmerman,
addition of a line: “ Do Not Wish today by the state public uf llity county extention agent.
Featured at this meeting will
For Any”. Oregon is quite a commissioner.
little unfortunate in its highway Commissioner Jonel C. Hill said l x , Dr. W. R. Furtick, OSU agron
signs. The one announcing $100 the rates will go into effect on omist, who heads up weed re
search in Oregon. Furtick will
fine for littering must cost the March 22, 1963.
The rate cut, the largest sin bring the very latest information
state thousands by the ineptness
gle downward adjustment ever in weed research to all those pre
of its approach.
made in Oregon by an electric sent. He has just completed a tour
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The people of hte United Sta utility, will bring the cost of el ot the Western States Weed Re
tes had lietter elect a president ectricity in PP&L’s southern div search projects stated Zimmer
who hasn’t as much to be ash ision more into line with rates man.
A panel discussion will review
amed of as this one. Then maybe in other parts of the state where
various rye problems in Sher
there’ll be less suppression of it operates, Hill pointed out.
The rate cut, averaging 5.6%, man County. Tiie discussion will
the news.
represents
annual savings of $543 include the merits of listing rye
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We note an opinion that this 000 to 59,000 residential custom 2s a noxious weed, problems of
nation would be better off if it ers and $500,000 to 9,700 com market'n*? and handling rye in-
worried more about itself and mercial and industrial custom tested grain, grower practices to
ers in Douglas, Josephine, Jack- combat rye and current research
Jess about the Russians.
son Klamtah and Lake counties. on chemical rye control.
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This is the second cut in
The meeting is
open to all
We note the announcement of
an insurance plan just for non PP&L’s rates in less than a year. farmers to get the latest informa
Hill tion on weed control.
drinkers.
It’s
cheaper. Well, L a s t A p r i l Jonel C.
authorized
the
company
to
slash
there’d ought to lx? some compen
10% off irrigation and drainage
sations.
pumping rates in this same five ¡ted Cross Helpers Meet
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Tues lay afternoon, March 5, 20
We note that Russia and China county area.
la lie ; net at the home of Mrs.
still continue to confuse the west
Huskies Plan Victo *v
Irvit r Hart, county Red Cross
with their gibes at each other.
Except fo r B ill Doolin and chalí man to lx* briefed for thecur-
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Governor Hatfield objects tc Byron Buyer, w ho were absent, tent rlrive for funds, Del Fried line
an operation on his budget with these arc the boyw w ho w ill de told fo plans for swimming les-
a meat axe. But Governor, a fend the honpr of Sherm an H igh sons planned locally for local
meat axe is a useful tool and this week end in the fin a l p la y chi I ren to lx» carried on with our
someone is going to have to off games w ith Vale fo r the tit e portion allowed from the Red
wield it eventually to stop the in the G re a te r ^Ayegon lx*ag..e.
Cross drive.
growth of government.
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The state senate voted itself
the ixjwer to pass on all apoolnt-
ments by the governor. Very poor
legislation which will delay and
confuse administration.
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It seems that European males
like their own women best. Our
soldiers did too. Maybe both like
the ones that are closest best.
A woman a long ways away isn't
much of an asset.
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We hope that some day w<? can
discover a way to pay public
servants on the basis of quality
of work done not just on the time
spent on the job.
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Maybe it’s machinery itself that
makes men more machine like
all the time, maybe more efficient
but not so much fun.
Boh P a rk e r
Ron Johnson
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The state game commission is
in line to get a $35.000 investiga
tion by an interim committee. It
of public funds and of
time and one of them
February was mostly dry and
warm, in fact 6.3 degrees above
normal t< mperatures. That con
dition prevailed over most of the
northwest, but not much but the
grass has started so far, nights
being often frosty.
As for moisture, we got .9o
inch at the experiment s’ it ion
which is lacking .28 inch from
normal. For the crop year the
total is 7.77 when we can expect
8.07 inches.
The high for February was 64,
tiie highest recorded since 1932
when the mercury got up to 68
one day and the low of 13 was a
holdover from tiie cold spell that
ended January. The monthly
mean of 40.9 is the third high
est since records were started in
1911, the highest lx?ing set in
1958 when the mean was 42.3 de
grees.
The soil temperature four in
ches lielow tiie top was 48 de
grees on February 28 and a foot
down it was 44
k
e n y Decker
ground Iw lo n g iil to A I W rig h t
and It. M . S tains, tw o citizens
of the H ay
Canyon
country.
S tu m s was the fath er in law ot
the late T o m m y Reese and A I
B r ig h t was the lath er in law of
H o w ard anil
Charles
Bclshee,
w ho gave the original of this pie-
tu iv to C arl von Borstcl from
whom the
ed ito r borrowed it.
T h e fare looking o ver the lend
team is prolm hly that of a county
o fficial, perhaps B ill Holder, who
was sh eriff, o r
B ill llenriehs,
who was clerk.
Boat Ciub Elects
Club Women Go
To Legislature
New Officers
Boat
The Sherbian ’ounty
night for a
club met Monda
discussion of way to get access
to the Columbia river which is
to lx' shut off by tiie new high
way. Isami Tsulxita lias a piece
of property near Biggs that would
be available if acce is can be ar-
ranged.
Elected to office were Harold
F.akin, commodore; Malcolm Mc
Kinney, vice commodore; Tillie
Geiser, secretary; Martin I’ dii-
goda is to i>e membership chair
man. Les Gray, safety; Curly
IX’Moss, program and Stan Coel-
sch, legislation.
High School Band
i o Give Concert
The Sherman High band will
will play “ Music For People Who
Hate Music”— (And For Those
Who Like It Too) on March 15
i’i the cafetorium at 8:00 p.m.
The theme of this program will
be light popular music with some
thing to please everyone. Tiie
program will also feature tiie
song stylings of Jacque Bucholtz
and the dance style music of the
stage band.
A delegation from the Moro
and Wasco clubs joined with
other memlx'rs of the Oregon
Federation of Women’s Clubs
to participate in Legislative Day
in Salem on Tuesday, March 5.
Registration opened at 9 a.m.
in the capital rotunda. Tours of
tin building were conducted by
members of the League of Wo
men Voters. The group attend
ed sessions of Ixjth house«. The
women lunched at noon at the
Marion Hotel. At 2 p.m. they
enjoyed attending tiie tea and
open house given at tiie home of
Governor and Mrs Mark Hatfield.
Over 300 clubwomen gathered
fer tiie special day. Sherman
eountians attending were: Mrs
L.E.Kaseberg, Mrs Gordon Har
per, Mrs Eugene Amidon and
Mrs Harry Pinkerton.
Highway Men Get
Driving Awards
The state highway commission
has announced the records of tiie
men who have a successful dri
ving career on the maintenance
crews of the state. In Moro the
record shows Clyde Gillmor 11
years, Glenn Virtue 13,W lliam
Brady 3, John Mitchell 5, Lloyd
Wooderson 10,
At Rufus: Ray Brown 13, Lu
ther Steward 7, Paul Blackhurne
6, Edwin Blubaugh 5, Theodore
Kimmett 4, Theodore Reed 2, and
Lyle Unger 2.
A rt Christianson
Members of the Sherman Co
unty club met long and rather
loud Monday night when discus
sion of Sherman county problems
was on the docket. Nearly every
one had an opinion about some
thing ami nearly everyone took
the opportunity to express It.
First of the major discussions
started when Hlldred Zell, new
president, asked Fritz Watkins
to explain the report of the plan
ning committee that had inves
tigated county roads and propos
ed a $30,000 levy for ten years
to pay for the improvements.
Watkins read the report which
lias been published in the Sher
man County Journal. Members of
the committee John Hilderbrantl,
Mack Hall and Max Barzee spoke
of toe work of the committee,
..» ..it
«»as O pinion
County Judge Vernon Mille r
and Commissioner Luther Davis
said the proposed program ag
reed in general with their plans
and they favored it except for
having grave doubts abouf the
ten year term. Miller said the
$127,000 road fund was used
mostly for maintenance but that
a little construction could be
done every other year with state
and federal help (FAS) which
means that the federal govern
ment contributes 62 percent and
the state and county 19 percent
apiece The county, Miller said,
lias excellent equipment, but not
enough men to keep it in use.
Davis reported that the court
was planning reconstruction of
the Wasco-Glrklng canyon road,
which is also first on the coinmit-
tees’s list.
Zell asked for opinions of most
of the farmers present and found
them infavor of Improvement on
roads liecause of savings in cost
of trucks and tires. Owen Edkin,
Caroll Sayra, Charles
Burnet,
Paul Alley, Wendell Balsiger,
for the grain growers, and Leon
ard Fields said good roads were
valuable adjuncts to a farm.
If the county court and the
planning committee wanted a
long and thorough discussion of
tiie road proposal they both
should tx? pleased.
Deschutes Discussed
Style Show Due
Saturday, March 16
i' .e Altar Society of St Mary’s
Catholic church of Wasco is spon
sor of the style show to be given
at Sherman High school on Sat
urday, March 16. The date has
lieen changed because of conflicts
Villi.mis ID store will show new
spring styles in a .setting decora
ted by Milne’s Gift Shop.
There will be a dixir prize and
1i freshments.
She. man Club
Has Long Talk
About Problems
F u n e ra l services fo r A rt h or
< li lis t Inn son w ere held from I
M o ro C o m m u n ity church M onday
afternoon when a large crow d of
friends anil relative«
gathered
to pay fin a l rcs|iect to a native
son. In te rm e n t was In the local
ce m etery.
lx's Johnson, secretary of the
Sherman County Rod & Gun club
opened the subject of efforts of
tt.e Bmea uof Land Management
to take over tiie Deschutes river
for recreation, which means fish
ing. Articles running in the Port
land Reporter were cited as ex
amples of ignorance and Irres-
ponsibility for the writers have
apparently made no effort to get
the truth.
I here is a plan to build a road
around the twin tunnels below
Sherars and o|x?n the road to
Mack’s canyon, but the cost will
i«‘ much higher said Johnson,
than estimates announced. John
Hllderbrand said BLM agents
had told him a two lane road
was planned.
BI.M Head Inquire«
Doug Bish
K enny
Zell noted that many Sherman
eountians had received letters
from Karl Ixindstrom, head of
tiie BLM in Washington, inquir
ing about local sentiment and the
reasons therefore and that some
had answered. letters were ap
parently an effort to reach a sen
sible conclusion On a motion by
Max Barzee the club voted to
write a letter on tiehalf of the
county opposing the opening of
the Deschutes because of the dan
ger of fire to the wheat fields
and the almost certain loss of
grass from fire.
Blagg
Com in it ( im s * A ppointed
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The new president appointed
committees for the year: Mem-
bership: Bill Hall, Frank Ketter,
Harland McDonald, Bob Kennedy
and Vernon P of
Agriculture;
Paulen Ka»vljerg, Bill Hall, Ver
non Root, Tommy Thompson and
Paul Alley. Schools: Ed Tyler,
Lynn Hampton and Ben Ward.
Recreation: Frank Reid, I^irry
Kaseberg, Leonard Fields and
John DeMoss. Entertainment and
Program
Giles French, Irving
Hart anil Duyn Pi ice. Roads: Ver
non Miller, Luther Davis, Pat
Kaseberg (the county court» F .k
Watkins, John Hilderbrand, Ken
neth Fridley. Legislation: Giles
8 rerich anil (*harles Burnet. In
dustry: L.E Kaseberg, Kenneth
Fridley, and Carroll Sayrs. Mas
ter at Anns: David Moore.