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✓ S'íwrntmt Ômmtfu tourna St^ventv Fifth Year No. 28 Moro, Oregon These T h in g s We Note Giles L. French We often hear th at as the world gets more people It becomes n io 'f necessary th at we have socialism as a form of governm ent. H istory (loes not indicate any su h thing Small countries may have com m unism or socialism, lar.* *r ones may get along w ith democracy but a big, heavily populated na tion will have some form of die tatorship o r absolutism No othc. means of exercising the necessar discipline is possible. T T W N Friday, May 10, 1963 Grand Jury Finds True Bills In Two Murder Charges County Official Paper School Elections Give No Surprises; Thomas And Shull Elected goaJ Levy Vote ° Y’ May 17; All Vote Prelim inary election returns from the Sherman County School' District Election Boards indicate Next Friday, May 17, voters of that Marvin Thomas was elected Sherman county will decide whe as County High School District th er to Improve the county roads Director; Douglas Shull as Rural or not. School District Board memlx*r The decision comes on a special and that the election to exceed election, called by the county the six iK*r cent lim itation in the court, on a proposal made by the Rural School District passed by, Rural Advisory council commit- a vote ot 202 to 128. , tee, Fritz W atkins chairm an. The Directors elected in the clement- committee asked the court to call ary school districts were us fol- an election a lte r making a survey lows. Rufus, Jam es Fox; Wasco, of the coun v s roads and pre John llllderbram l; Moro Stan paring a schedule of construction 9««*. »<«>1» Parker, who .-re iv e d Coelsch; G rass Valley, 5-year The original proposal was for an award for the best free throw - term, John Buether; 2-year term, a 10-vear levy of $25,000, but thy er, Virgil Fields, for outstanding D o n a l d vonBorstel, and Kent, court, with apparently general player and Kill Pool In on the Hans Bardenhagen. agreem ent w ith citizens, decide} other end Is being congratulated SI h - i iii . ui < ounty High School to limit the levy to five years lie- by Poach Gary Berg tor hi Director cause of almost certain changes * plaque for the best hackfh hl man Dist 7 Marvin Thomas— List. 3, in the county, and to Increase th * Rufus, 58; Dlst. 7, Wasco, 132; amount of $15,000. Dist. 17, Moro, 37; Dist. 23. Grass The assessed valuation of the Wheat Leaguers Valley, 37; Dist. » CJ, Ken» 38 county Is $11,177,235. If ihe state Total 302. tax commission raises the valua Hear Talk About Rural School Dist. Director tion of wheat land, that will In Douglas Shull— Dist. 7, 'Vasco crease the total valuation of the Big Referendum 157. county. It is already being in The panel cf Allen Tom, Milt E x.eed 6% Limitation In Rural creased daily by the influx of dam Morgan, Mert Stein, Harold Beach School Dist. and road w orkers in the n -rth en d anil Floyd Root dug deeply Into I f H N O of the county. the argum ents for and ag.dnst the Dist. 3, R u f u s ___ _ At the present valuation the 36 22 coming referendum on the gov Dist. 7, Wasco . . ___ levy would call for an Increased 72 86 e m in e n t’s program for wheat for Dist. ir, M oro __ 33 5 millage of four mills. By :he tim e 1964 at the spring meeting of the Dist. 23, Grass Valley . 31 6 taxes are levied this sum m er it Sherman chapter, Oregon Wheat Di.st. i) CJ, Kein . to y is certain to 1 m * less. Growers league, held Saturday Plans are to build roads in all 202 128 night at Wasco. parts of the county during the Elem entary School Diati let A m ajority of them favored a five-year program, startin g with ■election yes vote although Mr. Beach's For Director—-Dist. 3, Rufus— the Waoco-Scott canyon road to farm organization, the American lames Fox 33, Jack Beers 27. Rufus, which will also get some F arm Bureau Federation, opposes Dist. 7, Wasco— John Hilder- federal funds from one of several n r v i n r i ^ g‘Veni th a! Socretary ! brand 100, I’ete’ Macnab 5o' wavs. Orville Freem an has done a good | , is, 17 M s ,..n ,, Job of putting out argum ents f o r ' ' M oo" Stan < oelsch 33. his increased authority. Dist. 23, Grass Valley, 5-year HI F t'S GRANGE PLANS Soil Conservation w inner BP’. term —John Buether 30; 2-year s m o r c a s k d r d DINNER Todd was given the plaque for term, Donald v mBorstel 127. The Rufus Grange Is having th at honor and an award was pre Dist. 9 CJ, Kent— Hans Bar their fourth annual smorgasbord sented to Mrs. Sharon Thompson denhagen 3«. at their hall m Rufus on Sunday, for w inning the best caF- baker E xcimm I (» |»er Cent Eimitutlon May 1!) from 12 noon until 6 p.m. place last fall Mrs. Delta Johnson, m?«ter of , Ves No Rufus Grange and Mrs. liarlan d Jack Smith, state representative . Dist. 3, R u f u s ___ ____ 37 22 told of some of the thi.igs the Dist. 23, Grass Valiev - 31 o McDonald will lx* co-chairmen of L egislature has been iloin-; in tin Bist. 9 CJ, K e n t ........... the smorgasbord. Prices of $1.50 ;,o past four months. for adults and 75c for hlldren will be charged, with thi slogan The m eeting was held at the “All You Cun E at.” Masonic hall in Wasco and start cd with a dinner at seven o’clock fiasco Host to w hlch put the group in good hu I Young People Will mor for the program which start. Grddf? School T nrk ed at 8:30. HUdred Zell county ! U r t t U C UVHOO1 1 ra C K Jake Gross, 62, was indicte l for first degree m urder oecausc of his alleged fatal l>eating of Frank Finnegan in the b u n l- house on the Fred D orm aler ranch April 14, by the Sherm an County grand ju ry w hich met last T hursday and F ridav At the same session of the grand ju ry Dolphus Baker. 53. Rufus garage owner, was indicte 1 for second degree m urder for the I fatal shooting of Ed B sig, 31 whose spinal cord was injured so . , u . bi,n<’uet Hl badly by a 45 arm y autom atic th. high school Thursday night (•ary Irzyk, w ill lx* the stu that be died w ithin a few days dent body president next Sep Both men will en te r pleas be- of last week »he coaches prroent- tem ber when Sherm an High fore Judge E. H. Howell on May e. aw ards to the hoys getting school opens for the IMS-64 16 and will be tried som etim e 1.. ' special honors He,v Coach Onlk* lio y e congratulates Jack Kellogg June o r July. te r n . The Sherm an county court ha • who won the heat lineman pia- retained Roliert McCrea, assist | The length of the Oregon legii- Property taxpayers .‘" ’’„ ¡" “‘i ' 1 “ T 1' for '■■'»<• r .. ■ , county, Eugene, who will assist I lative session is certainly parti Hear Method for District Attorney T. L c sttr John I due to the expense accounts vote son in the two prosecutions. San' a t the the first of the sessio . A We said then that a salary rai,.* Appealing Assessment ^ n y actor of The Danes has been ° hired as attorney for B a re r and was proper but that expense ac i t) g°?ii t a x p a y f * ’ Ken A braham s of Hood R i v e r , counts were a bad step. O ur con lave until May 20 to appeal this, was appointed by Judge Howel' tention has )>een proven. y e a r s assessm ents to their Coun- to defend Gross, who L with- T T W N ty Board of Equalization. out funds. W e ie glad that the Oregonian Each County Board w.'ll cor N either man was adm itted »o has taken up o u r com plaint vene on Monday, May 13, for it bail. against social security by look annual review of assessment- This will lie tlie first m urder ing at the receipts and disburse and, under Oregon law, a prope trial in Sherm an county for many m ents of it. Any p rivate in su r ty ow ner may appear in person years although Dan Morgan was ance com pany would w rite a be» o r lie represented by an a tto rn c sentenced to life im prisonm e: . te r policy. before the Board w hen it consid for the m urder of Dewey B urrel ers petitions for reduction of as T T W N by Judge George U pdegra" in J ' Over the past 15 years we hav.* sessm ents. 44. The prospect of two m urdei accum ulated a num ber of pictures T axpayers cannot w ait until re trials on the same docket is en in the process of publishing ceiving their tax statem ents in them. We are sure they have the fall to appeal th eir assess tirely unprecedented here. more in terest to the persons pi •- ments. If they do not know the Stale R epresentative Jack Smith tured than to us or the Journal assessed value of th e ir property *|x,ke List Saturday night at the Anyone who would like io hav at this time, they can learn it a» Nancy Conlee Wifi Sherman County Wheat Grow the pictures taken of them m a' the County A ssessor’s office. By ers m eeting at Wasco. He told come in and see us. m ultiplying the assessed value bv Aid Barbara Jones of the LcgisLit lire's problem of four (except in M ultnomah Coun Nancy Conlee won over Mary where to raise an additional T T W N ty), they can determ ine the tri’n Coats In the race for A ssistant M 0 million in taxes to balance inflation will soon lx* with us cash (market) value. again. The policy of spendin. If a taxpayer feels the Asses Sherm an High Tim es editor re the budget Ot Gov. Mark llat- more than is taken in requires it so r’s m arket value Is out of line cently. She will aid Barbara tield. The Legislature bus mrw Iwen in session about 120 (Loya. the selfishness of pres.-nt dav w ith com parable properties in Jones next year and then will oc politics dem ands it. Even thougi. the district, he may appeal by cupy the publication position as it will tickle K hrushchev it w*.l petition to the County, B o a r . i a senior. FAIR QUEEN CONTEST lie done. She was a staff mem ner of the COMING WAV 30 of Equalization. Form s for th!» T T W N purpose are available n mos* Sophomore April Fool’s Edition The Annual Queen Contest for In the old Roman days a de- A ssessor’s offices or at th« Cour so she is well experienced in the the Sherman County F air Queen new spajier field. feated arm y was marched under! ty C lerk’s office and Princesses will lie held May the yoke, (an ox yoke) which From the Board the taxpave" Marcia M artin was elected As signified th eir entrance into sb. may appeal to the State Tax Com sistant Annual Editor, w inning 30 during the Sherman County Meet at Wasco " ' ' 1 1 Meet Here Saturday very. No man, in those days, mission (or, in the case of real over June Jefferies. She will as Riders Playday a t the F a ir " si le' ' grounds. Girls must lx* between went willingly; certainly none property, directly to the O regoi sist E ditor A rdine Todd Wasco Grade School w ll’ again nex the ages of 15 and 21 years, un- voted for it. I Tax C ourt’s Small Claims Divi year, and step into the position Sophomores Have s|x>nsor the annual County Grade m arried and a resident of Sher T 1 W N Ision if the m arket value as detet of yearfmok editor as a senior. School Track M iet scheduled Sat It used to be said th at If it mined by the Board is not more W hile serving on the H usky man County since Jan u ary 1,1963. urday, May 11 at 1 p.m. at the The contestants will be judged Many Entries for rains on E aster it would rain foi J han $25,000). staff this year, Marcia gained e x Sherman County High ith letlc on horsemanship, perso n a I i t v seven Sundays thereafter. Mayh® perience w orking closely with u n field. Both lx>ys and girls from neatness of jx‘rsonal costume and It could lie said again. derclassm en society editor Mona the county’s five elem entary Annual Talent Show |school neatness of Western equipm ent. T T W N Eakin. Del Friedline Off will participate In the a f All o u tf it con litln g o f p.-m ts. The Sherm an county taxpaye. The Sophomore Tatent show' ternoon’s events shirts, tie and hat will be present- certainly gets more for his dollar To Toppenish Job has gotten to ’x* an annual featii” The schedule includes: Mrs Hazel Woods, long tim e ®d to the Queen and two prin and attracts more contestants paid to county governm ent than Midget Division -B o y s 0 and resident of Moro, died at the cesses. to any other. W hat the county (ban ever. Th*s year, under the under 50 Yard Dash, 200-Yard home of h er daughter Signa at Applications will be available supervision of Robert (kieli, a n d 's h u ttle Relay (4x56), Standing gets from the state o r federal Eugene Tuesday night. Sons E th - ,a t the County Agent's office in with Fred Hall as MC, it was governm ent comes pretty high Broad Jum p ,.Softball Throw. The an and Lyle and Signa survive Moro. T T W N held April 26 at the Sherman High same events are scheduled for the School. girls. W inston Churchill is retiring W inner In the high school class Junior Division—-Boys ll and from the political scene. He was was Sharon Coelsch and Mary 1 2 75-Yard Dash, 22« Yard Shut- a great Englishm an, a w riter o. Coats with a piano-org’n duet lie Relay (4x55). High Jum p, R un m asterful language, a loyal son Jacque Bucholtz was second w ith ning Broad Jum p, Standing Broad of the crown. Despite a silly Am n vixal solo. Jum p, Softball Throw. erican law, he is not an American In the upper grades June, De’»- Thursday, May 2, Sherman’s I aw ards while Mr. Hoye s "five Girls — 50-Yard Dash, 220-Yard T T W N 1963 annual All-Sports Banquet fair juniors” 'Doug Blsh, Mike He and Shelly Reynolds w en Shuttle Relay (4x55), 75-Yard REV. PACI, "TEN ” Y F A R ol | We rath er like the idea of Bil’y sw ung into action as F’HA presi- Bone, Ron Johnson, Kenny Blagg first with a song and Gradin'-, Dash, Running Broad Jum p Graham l»eing m entioned for pre W ednesday night, May 15 at 8 dent P atty Miller welcomed a th - . and Bill Rayon) were also award* Phillis, Karen Wilson, Dennis Standing Broad Jum p, Softball sident. Not that he will be e l p.m. In the Wasco Christian leies and guests. Following a din ed. Statted and Danny Jansi n were Throw. ected, nor would be a good pre church the C hurch Young People ner prepared and served by F’HA T urning to hasebell, Coach Berg second with a choral group. L’p ix r Division Boys 13 and sident of he were. But his men of Sherm an County will present members, M aster of C erunonie m led that hi* had a young group iFor the sm aller children Mich over 100-Yard Dash, 226-Yard tion signifies th at m any Arne?* Rev. Paul "Tex” Yearout as guest ael McClain and Judith Puethei Ton Thompson Introduced Mr with Jack Kellogg the only senior. Shuttle Relay, Running High icafts believe in morals higher speaker for a Sherman County Tyler, Mrs. Hoye and Mrs Berg Other players aw arded ncluded were first in a tap dance and Jum p, Running Broad Jum p, than the present standard. Football coach Berg gave the G ary Irzyk, Dick G ralxnhorst, Mary Irzyk and Debby W oodei- Standing Broad Jum p, Softball Youth Rally. T T W N Yearout has just returned from fu st aw ards of the evening Out- Dill Rayon, Roy Sather, T mi Och- son w ere second with another Throw. Girls 50-Yard Dash, 75 If Is o u r feeling that manv several months in Europe appear tap dance. standing Lineman aw ard v ent to eI,reo> Ki< k Jonnaon, Joe Thomas, will lie surprised at the nations Yard Dash, 220-Yard S huttle Re O ther contestants were. T erria lay, Running Broad Jum p, Stand ing In high schools, colleger and Jack Kellogg while Bill Doolin Don Eakin, Bob B um s, Kenny and organizations that would turn was named Best Back. Tne Most Thompson, Mike Patrick, Curt Bucholtz, Susan Larim ore, Dan ing Broad Jum p, Softball Throw. churches. He s;M*nt s e »- e r a , com m unist if and when that weeks In Berlin and made nine Christy Welk, Jeanne valuable player aw ard, baaed on i D!agg and K ent Thomas. “These Jansen, ideology seems to be gaining Mr. Ziegler, Wasco, is coordina «¡»lllty, attitude and getting along ,HJvs an* the rjest and they des- Gayman, Loleta Sullivan Gloria tor of the meet; Mr. McGowan trips Into East Berlin behind the Very few have repudiated it con clusively. w lth the coach, was awarded to ; cv<‘ ^ c best, declared Mr Berg Geiser, Cathy Ward, Maureen Wasco, is announcer; aw ards will "Wall ” He is, as far ns Is k.mwn, King, Wendy Lynn Mart n, Dai Is* given i»y Mrs Hill, Was* o, Miss the only American to preach lie- a* he congratulated them T T W N R. D. (Del) F rie d lin e T w h ^ n a sJ Virgil Fields. ltne Archer, Cheryl Gray, Lori T rulllnger, Moro, and Ml-s Me hind the "W all” in a secret C hris Outstanding trackm en such as The magazines and the colum >een local m anager for the P a d I O ,her aw ards were g,ven to tian meeting. H°ckm an, Doug Reid, Doug Dill IkMilm and Doug Blsh recel- hock, Rex Brown, Cathy von cioskv. Rufus. nists are saying th at this nation 1C Power & I j f h t company for He has l»een working with young he past two years was transfer t,sh> Kenny BlagK* ,k,b P arker vei’ aw ards from track coach Borstel, Carolyn Johnson, Dennis is prosperous. That we doubt people since 1947 and Is best Gavrialson, Susan Robertson, Peg , Bob McM McMurtrey (Xhers urtrev I H°y« Hoye. (M het s awar aw arded w ere T erry It is living on borrowed money ed b> Toppenish ’w ash ’ when* T erry known to thousands of y o u n g e will be assistant line I Flcyd ^ t b b u n , Bill Rayor. Mike Vir*H H elds, Noel Hock- gy Riggs, Cassie Welk. Karen Rain, Rain Rain Rain which it cannot pay back, no people across the world as "T ex.” le beg .n “ u>c“ m J X U ne - **” > u‘,b lV r ' Jo h " S*1“ ' Cain, Johnny Hall, Bill Smltl has it the integrity to try. His work has led him Into h u n norw ng H ere a , a rZ CoM- l,k k ««» » n h o rM and « « " W . O r c Mar Dean Johnson, Arlene and Al T T W N It may no longer lie news but L dreds of high school, college, .a < X n . N PrZnT u ^ . ^ J '^ n n y lr n n la p 'I n , Ernie M -ire Kent Thomas bert Dormaler. Judges w i’-e Mar The fact is we have no hie Mulflur, sportsw riter for vin Thomas, Iceland Medter and has been raining nearly all week youth camp, church and youth how many Russians there ar ieholtes, of The Dalles, who c is) 1 “To me th e re ’s no bettet game I The sun came out on a part-time rank's all across the U. S., Can than Iw.sketball”, said ba>ketball ,h<’ Oregon Journal, rounded out I Dean Pinkerton. in Cuba and have no good wa cell known. Friedline s a-’vaneg- basis W ednesday and T hursday ada and many foreign countries. eocch Hoye as he awarded and lh<> evenin« as * uest Hpeaker. H i of finding out. But we are prote» lent is due to many chp»iges In but the prophets say It is but a He spoke 77 times durin g Febru* the athlet?s th at the r hlgn ting them. ae staff of the company. Th congratulated hfs boys. tem porary showing. I’KE-M HOOL < H ll.DREN ary, traveled through sever states Boh P ark er earned the Basket Mhool sjiorts would be one of lan he replaces comes to Th * t»all F reethrow Champion aw ard • tb eir most ou 'stan d in g memorie-; ' TO BE EXAM INED The big rain this week was and spoke on "T he Berlin Prob- T T W N »alles and the line foreman ther Mr Goldwater, Mr Romney a r Monday when everything was lem" in high school assemblies in Athletic * nes sportsm anship. I T here will be pre-school phy Mr Scranton should certain ’ oes to Walla Walla to fill th. whlch was given for the fi.st tim e Ath,etlca soaked again Here It is W ashington, Montana and a. Den- a* Sherm an. Jack Kellogg, Bill | k teach*s you »Hnd on your leal exam inations next Monday. I along m May ami some soots well aro i ver have been usners at the Rocki noes of a man who is retiring Doolin. Byron Bayer, Bob Par fee' W <‘H as to depend on May 13, at l:l5 p.m. at th? Wasco too wet to plow ‘ p«™ » une I. feller wedding. Fer. Virgil Fields, T erry Decker y, u r ^ a'n-mates. ’ ('om pletlng school. Children expecting to en So f .r ih,., . i. „ . 1 1 a7 ?nta» as «« .voutn, are The Friedline family will r.- T T W N and T .m AU-n re re .v » , lh rtr e « U r ...... .. nain here until school is out. The furore aliout the TFX co- t hi ne examined damage from this time on. I W ednesday, May 15. tract is exposing one of tne w or features about American polltl» Politicians are too powerful. Tr people should take some pow< aw ay from governm ent and r turn it to private contro». High School Athletes Given Awards A t Banquet In Their Honor; Mulflur Speaker Special Road Improvement Election M ay 17 - V o te !
