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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1959)
Vt I (i .J f Indian Ceremonial Dances Interpreted '3 7t RIDING CHAMPS Three riding champions at the Union county fair last year above will be seen in action at the Eastern Oregon livestock Show this week. From left. La Zelle Greiner, 10, junior champ; Wesley Kirby, 14, intermediate champ, and Jay Lor enzen, senior champ. (Observer Photo) Hot Lake News Mrs. Bud Sanford from John Day, spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Jo Hassleblad. ' ( . . o 1 Rev. Murl Gassoway, pastor of the Cove Baptist church, conduct ed Sunday services in the nursing home. Several members of his church were also present and gave special musical numbers, o Mrs. Ira Beer arrived by plane Saturday to accompany her hus ' band on his return trip to Seat tle on Sunday. Beer has been va cationing here for the past two weeks. On Friday he and the Charles Cfereys and Dr. Roth spent the day fishing at Owyhee Reser voir , o Gray Lady "talent scouts" are always on the lookout for new and. unusual ideas for the pro gram of activities they bring to tjie Hot Lake Nursing Home each week. On Thursday, May zi, Mrs Rov Osburn from Elgin arrived with a group of Rainbow Girls from her home town. These young ladies, Janet Osburn, Jean ne Gordon, Freda Hayes, Marue- lene Simmons and Linda Witty are known as "The Bottle Babes." Their skill in playing on their bottles - indicates many hours of practice. i After the Rainbow Girls left, Mrs. Merle Becket acted as pi anist and the patients and Gray Ladies joined in an old fashioned songfest. . i ' : . "' o ' Mrs. Gilbert Dory and Mrs. E. E: Eddv were nursing home visi tors Sunday afternoon, and called on. Mrs. Mildred Smith. ELGIN BRIEFS ' Mr.-and .Mrs.-. Ralph Wheeler and three children, plan to move to Pendleton this week, to make their home. -.-Wheeler will be a a disrict forestry supervisor there. v ' . , -. . , r " o Joyce -Waclty arrived at the home of her parents Monday, to spend her -vacation from the In surance Company where she is employed at' Portland. She will attend the graduation exercises Thursday when her sister Myrna is valedictorian of the class of '59- U-.-o- Lavone. Culver of Summcrville is confined in the St. Joseph Hos pital. He had surgery on his hip May 4, and hopes to come home in about a week. o Mrs. Wiley Gordon returned home Sunday after spending two weeks at Portland helping care for the new granddaughter, in the home of : her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Arlcy Oster. Wheat Had A Role In Oregon History As Golden Grain Wheat was "gold"' to Oregon pioneers and 1959 still finds it the slate's No. 1, income crop, yield: ing some oV, million annually. Estimates ," point to 890,000 wheat acres in Oregon this year and a harvest of 25 million bush els, reports M. D. Thomas, Ore gon State College agricultural economist. Acreage increase over last year's 861,000 is due mainly to Homemakers Buy More Non-Fat Dry Milk Now Oregon homemakers today are buying 63 Jirhcs more packaged nonfat dry milk thn they were 10 years ago, a recent Oregon State College study disclosed. Main reasons given for the growing popularity of nonfat dry milk are that it is cheap, conven icnl, easy to store and keep, con tains fewer calories than whole fluid milk, and has been improv ed recently so it dissolves readily. About 1,000 homemakers in four Oregon-cities were . inter viewed during the study, reports Dr. S. Kent Christensen, associate professor of agricultural econm ics at OSCUiftTheir replies indi cate that nonfat dry milk has re placed about 10 per cent of form er fluid milk consumption i nthe state. However, regular users of nonfat dry milk appear to have increased their total consumption of fluid milk and skim milk by about 1.8 quarts per week. About 40 per cent of the home- makers questioned said they buy npnfat dry : milk. One in four uses it regularly. , The steady cus tomers use about 5.4 quarts re constituted nonfat dry milk a week in acktition to nine quarts of fluid milk. close-out of the Soil Bank's acre age reserve. Crop experts be lieve, however, that some of the increase may be offset by slightly lower yields than last year when growing conditions were belter than normal. ' Whatever the 1959 yield, it would htavc been a bonzana to Oregon pioneers who hoarded meager supplies of wheat across the plains. Their diaries carefully noted the prices charged for flour at remote trading posts along the Oregon Trail, according to E R. Jackman, Oregon State College farm crop specialist who has au thored numerous articles on pio neer agriculture Flour sold for 20 a hundred pounds at Fort Hall near what is now Pocatello, Ida. Near La Grande it was 40 a hundred. Wheat became legal tender through informal law of Willa metlc Valley settlers in 1845. During the 'fifties' and 'sixties,' Oregon millers were exporting wheat to California gold mining towns where the going price was $25 a barrel. Difficulties of transporting wheat down the Columbia River gorge delayed building of the rich Columbia Basin wheat poten tial until the railrbad reached Portland inl883. Ten years lat er, Umatilla county harvested 4, 500,00 bushels and the big wheat shift from western to eastern Ore gon was under way. Today, western Oregan has about one-eighth of the state's wheat acreage, whereas 60 years ago half the acres were west of the Cascades. The future for this long-time golden grain" amng Oregon crops? Government programs loom large. So long as regula tions . permit, economists see wheat continuing as Oregon's top dollar crop for food, feed, and export outlets. Indians interpretation of danc es given at the Eastern Oregon Livestock show June 11, 12, and 13th in 1953. Written by one of the dancers. Fthr Dane Many people are aware of the fact that' long before the White man came into this country the Indians had their own religion. They had worshipped in their own way from the beginning of their people. The feather dance is a religious ceremonial dance per formed as a prayer to their Father. Today the dance is prac tised in the Indian feather re- and is hardly seen except occasionally among the older peo- ho still worship in their manner. Warrior Dane I InHinn hictnrv Ipllc nf thn m.inv -...... -..j wars between the various tribes, but in all these history books very little is told of the sorrows that came with the victories, or with the defeat. After the bat tles are over the warriors re turn home and find their fami lies anxious and eager for the rolurn of their men. The warrior, dance tells the Weed Pamphlet Published ByOSC An up-to-date weed control guide for Oregon farmers, orch- ardisls, and home gardners has just been published by the Ore gon State College extension ser vice. New chemical controls that have passed recent field trials are included in the booklet, "Weed Control Recommendations for Ore gon." Residents of Oregon may obtain free copies from county extension agents or the OSC bul letin clerk, Corvallis. Handy reference charts list all major crops or plants to be pro tected, the recommended chemic al for weed control, how and when to apply -the chemical, and special comments for each crop. Another section is inaexted ac cording to common weeds and the recommended control. Precau tions on handling of certain chemicals and care of spray equipment art also included. Bulletin Explains I Thistle Control Latest methods to control Ctnada thistle, a common weed found in most areas of the state are explained in a newly-revised bulletin published by the ore gon State College extension service. New chemicals and toil steri- lants that have been found ef fective against Canada thistle are discussed in the new edition of the bulletin, "Canada Thistle." The bulletin also discusses con trol of the weed. by cutlivation, and by use of perennial crops. A colored illustration manes u easy to identify Canada thistle in various stages of growth. The bulletin, written by Rex War ren, extension farm crops special ist at OSC, also contains a full de scription of the weed, tells where it came from, and how it spreads. Oregon residents can obtain a free copy at their county exten sion office, or from the OSC bulletin clerk. the story of how they will sink story of one family. After the battle which ended in victory the family waited for the return of the father and his sons. Only the youngest son returned with scalps as evidence of his victory over the enemy. He tells the slory to his family and dies of many wounds. Then this memorial dance is performed in honor of the men. Te movements tell how the warriors were wounded and how they fell. So this dance is one relating sorrow and grief in re membrance of famous wars of numerous tribes. Although they were victorious this dance was a high honor to the warriors who died to protect their land, their families and hunting grounds. Swan danc The swan dance is one of the Indian dances of the Northwest ern tribes that began long be fore the coming of the white race. It started during a cere monial dance and prophesied the coming of a strange race of peo ple who would come to take their land away. When the dancers reach down to the floor it represents the new people who will take the land away piece by piece. Next the dancers will reach low to the iloor moving forward and then all come to the center and raise their hands in a reaching ges ture. This part of the dance tells low into the depths of despair while fleeing from the people and next when they will rise again with new hope. The next part of the dance is where the new race continues to take their land. Then the Indians leave and give up their homes to the conquerors. EVENT The live standard events saddle bronc, bareback ridin, calf roping, steer wrestling, and bull riding are seen at R.C.A. - approved rodeos. Team roping, steer roping, and team ty ing may be seen in different r arts of the country where these events are more commonly known. The following eevnts may be seen in various R.C.A.-approv-ed. rodeos along with the five standard events: wild horse race, wild cow milking, ribbon roping, steer decorating, double mugging. Each of the above-mentioned is a separate event. Malt, Pelleting Convert Barley Into Good Feed Prospects that Oregon's bulging barley supplies may be convert ed into more suitable feed for swine are reported by the Oregon State College agricultural experi ment station. Special treatment to break down hard-to-digest barley fiber looks promising as OSC scientists seek ways to parlay loca lfeeds into meat supplies for expanding West Coast markets. Oregon ships in about 70 per cent of its pork needs, and hog prices in Oregon arc usually among the highest in the nation. . Preliminary findings by OSC researchers indicate that a combi nation of malt-enzyme treatment and pelleting may overcome main shortcomings of barley for hog feed. . Barley soaked in water, then treated with small amounts of malt, boosted hog gains 110 pound daily over hogs fed straight ground barley, report J. E. Oldfield, OSC animal nutri tionist .and L. M. Larson, research assistant. "Soaking," alone, gave no benefits as it had in earlier poultry nutrition trials. Malt providod additional en zymes in the hog's stomach to help digest fiber. Malting added only $1.50 a ton to feed costs in the OSC study where malt com prised 2.5 per cent of the total feed weight. Next step is to test a combina tion of malting and pelleting bar ley to learn if the steam treat ment in pelleting will replace soaking for breaking down barley fiber. Soaking barley commercial ly would be costly, requiring large vats and drying equipment. Pelleting barley, even without the malt treatment, increased gains more than 110 pound daily. The combination treatment will aLso be watcher closely by Oregon barley growers who last year harvested 20 million bush els compared to a 10-year state average of 13 million bushels. Otxorvor Llvsfock Edition, Tuei., Jm 2, 1959 Pag Findings Reported On Cattle Feeding New findings in beef cattle feeding, including adjustment of rations for animals receiving hor mone treatment, have been report- edby the Oregon State College agriculture experiment station. Results are summarized in a bulletin, "Results of 1957-58 Mil-ton-Freewater Beef Feeding Ex periments." Oregon residents may obtain free copies from la cal county extension agents or from the OSC bulletin clerk, Cor vallis. David C. England, OSC animal scientists, and Norton Taylor, Umatilla county beef producers. More than 200 animals provid ed by local ranchers were used in the trials. Major findings include adjustment of grain intake as ani mals gain weight, best protein levels, comparisons of various types of roughages, and experi ments with single and multiple hormone implants to stimulate jjrowth. ' Like most major sports, rodeo is increasingly drawing some of its best talent from college athletics. Two of the sports' top hands, Harley May and Benny Combs, are former collegiate' champions. Attend The 51st Eastern Oregon Livestock Show June 4-5-6 Bolands Mowers & Tillers. For Your Garden Needs & Seeds & Feeds'. irs INLAND POULTRY & FEED ' La Grande, Ore. The only complete garden sup ply store in Union County. ARENA DIRECTOR Person whose responsibility it is to see thatt he rodeo goes off smoothly and according to the rules. He supervises all jobs and details in and connected to the rodeo arena itself, such" as loading the chutes, keeping the arena clear,, etc. He may be hired either by the rodeo committee, the producer, or the stock contractor. Frequently the stock contractor or producer i works as the arena director. WELCOME TO THE ' LIVESTOCK SHOW! 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