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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1959)
r "WW .vnwver. La uranuc, vrg., rn., Mug, m, iyjy rage J SuppI.Jf. L -ar?15?rv3 - Values Of October V r , , : ' - .- ; ;' . .fC!' 1 ft I Farm Census Noted . . . I . i Why lake a farm census? I The census gives farmers the Census Inking rmuires money I same kind of informal inn t,i 'and time, but (urns up facts about 'by business and governmental FAIR GROUND CONSTRUCTION A new building rises on the Union County Fair grounds that will be used to house three eating establishments with a total capacity of 150 persons. Workmen at the far end of the 96 foot long building are rushing to complete the building before the fair opens. (Observer Photo) the fast-chaniiini! business of farm tng that makes it well worthwhile, maintains Marion D. . Thomas, Oregon Slate Cullrg? extension agricultural economist. The l"Ui nationwide farm count will start in October In Oreson. The census provid'-s a factual foundation of wise management of farms, businesses and govern ment. Thomas noted. II a our main source of county and local data, he added. Census answers such questions as: Where are yields hiehest? Where Increasing most? Where is production locat ed? How many farms are thvre? How big? How much are farmers sjiending for supplies? Each farmer benefits by knowing how he slacks up with farmers all over the nation. The farm count tells him how his farm is like the average farm; how it is different. It helps him make, de cisions in light of what has hap pened in other parts of the coun try. .... 4 , M - v . J V V r, ri, f ..... . . - ; V ' V '.V. . Jf Farm Bureau Members Work On New Office Union County Farm Bureau workers turned out Sunday to add plasterboard to the walls of the county office in Island City. "Farm Bureau business here in the county with a membership of 500 families makes the re organization of our county work necessary," Gene Slockhoff, coun ty president, said. The office will be open three dys a week, Monday, Wednes day and Friday with the hours be ing 9:00 a.m.-5.00 p.m. All county records have been transferred to the centrally located office with Mrs. Lillian Counsell retained as secretary to the organization. Insurance business will also be handled through the office with agent Everett Cornett being in the field except for the time the clfice is open. The southeast corner of the I l-e vimuue rami ouieau leiiit;! 1 uuuing was partitioned off to 16 foot square office Work will be completed members get together for . times but , "we arc now open for business," Stockhoff said. v-" I make a ' - I) . space. aM as meml -"Ja work . tir A CLEAN CUT Jim Jarnagin cuts lumber for the new eating pavilions at the county fair grounds. Jarnagin, a retired Army colonel, is in charge of construction oper ations. The lump in the jaw is the "tongue in cheek" as Jarnagin makes a clean cut. (Observer Photo) Union County Boys Return From Camp Four Union county boys re turned from the Range Manage ment Camp Saturday held in Logan Valley, Ausust 3 8 and sponsored by the Northwest Sec lion of the Society of Range Management. Attending the camp from Un ion county were the following boys: J hn LaVerdure, Telocas rt; Bob Peacock, Route 2, La Grande; Robie Fallows, . La Grande; and Jim Hicks, Elgin. Each boy received a $25 scholar ship from the following organi zations: Union County Livestock Association. Union County Farm Bureau, First Union County Soil Conservation District and Union BUILDERS HARDWARE ' Modrn and Traditional Dign Miller's Cabi.iet Shop Grtrnwood and Jefferson County Seed Growers. While at the camp the boys received instruction in identify ing range plants, woodsmanship. Hunting, fishing, classifying rang es, forest management, photog raphy, mountain climbing and livestock mangemnt. Instructors at the camp in cluded Barry Freeman, range management specialist, Oregon State College; Bill Farrcll, coun ty agent, John Day; Andy Land force, wildlife "specialist, Oregon state College; Robert Cole, U. S. Forest Service, John Day; Bill Nelson, U. S, Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland; Fred Green field, Soil Conservation Service, 3cnd; and Jim Loakum, Bureau jf Land Management, Vale. Local chairman for obtaining the scholarships for the camp was Henry Heyden, Route 1, La Grande. Mr. and Mrs. William Ht acock and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Hadden transported the club members to and from the camp at Logan Valley. WE ARE BANKING ON , YOU TO KEEP OREGON ' GREEN agencies in making decisions Puhlic and private agencies serv ing farmers with Information, ma terials, transportation, credit. storage and the like all use census figures to guide their plans, the economist points out. Advertising starTs of publications and firms that make or sell farm goods use census information to deter mine equipment wanted in differ ent parts of the country. The census provides facts for groups concerned with local prob Ivms such as best use of land and water. Figures are used in seek ing public support for research, education, hea'th protection, or when disaster aid is requested in times of drought, flocd or pestil ence. The government uses data to plan public programs. Facts obtained from the census are available to all through li braries, state colleges, the agri cultural extension service, and ether governmental agencies. is. ,v .V f V ir Among Valley Farmers By County Agents Ttd Sidor and Charltt Gavin New Stockyards Are Being Built Near Wallowa WALLOWA (Special) New stockyards are under construction about one-half mile west of Wal lowa. The Association board of di rectors approved the building of the yards August 6. Volunteer labor is being used and those donating time include Perry Johnston, John Barton, Orie Mahanna. Slim Bohna, Marion Dallas, Norman and Jim Oran. Other workers include Roland McCrac, Audas Bechtel, Alvin, Merle and Wayne Hawkins, and Harry Duckworth. Joseph Class Of 1939 Will Hold Reunion The Joseph High School gradu ates of the class of '39 will hold a reunion Saturday evening. The affair will begin with a social hour at 6 p.m. in the Chief Joseph Hotel. A banquet will follow honoring their. 20th year. ... ., . We have received several no tices concerning pink wheat. The notices tell us that stricter handling of treat wheat is neces sary to prevent this treated wheat from entering into com mercial grain markets. Sometime ago a certification committee was formed to sug gest and study ways that we could in the county, improve fain and grass stands. The com mittee felt that if a program was adopted that does the same thing as the grass growers are doing, we would all profit. One only has to look at some cf our fields of Alicel and Elgin wheat to see what can happen when a pure strain of grain is not maintained. Most of these grains are bred up from other grains to do a specific job such as resis tance to smut or other diseases or to combat insect problems. When these grains are allowed to de teriorate wc find a dozen vor more varieties coming into grain fields that are low yieldcrs, weak strained and not uniform. Recently wc have been asking various farmers to plant certifi ed grain and. to produce certi fied grains. Wc are sure a pro gram such as this will produce better crops for all of us. This year we did get some Ltmhi 53, wheat into the coun ty and it does look good. This wheat is recognized as being more resistant to stem rust than other spring wheats available. We had no stem rust in the county this year, however, we had no rust so we don't really know how resis tant it is in this area. As far as t am concerned, I hope the bar berry control program eliminat ed this menace and we'll never know how resistant it is. o Vance Pumphrey was out col lecting some of his wheat sam- Dles from his plots this past week. He recently sent us the make up of his 20 or more trials in Union county. Vance is certainly doing what was requested of him when he joined the Experiment Station That is, conducting the majority ot his work off station. This, of course, was requested by farm ers from Union county and cer tainly proves that Oregon Exper iment Stations will be guidced by the wishos of the people and rec ognize that farrqers are aware of their problems and know wnat they need In the way of research. Western Europe is having a drought. The Foreign Agricul tural Service reports that the dry weather is leaving its mark on the livestock industry. Den mark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and West Germany are all hav ing difficulty feeding their cat tle." Feed supplies are at dang er levels. West Germany has stopped the import of frozen beef in order to stimulate purchases in the domestic cattle market The national calf crop is up 2 per cent from last year and 7 per cent above the 10-year av erage and only a shade under the high 1955, crop. The West ern states make up 17 per cent ot the U. S. total. OPEN FOR BUSINESS New Farm Bureau Insurance agent Everett Cornett explains a policy to Bill Trindle in the partially completed office of the Farm Bureau. The office is open for busi ness although the building isn't quite complete. Sidor Attends Seed Hearing In Capitol Ted Sidor of La Grande and Clayton Fox of Imbler were among representatives of fescue seed growers at a tariff com mission hearing in Washington, D.C. Sidor is secretary of the Pa cific Northwest Chewings and creeping Red fescue association and Fox represented the Union County Seed Growers Association. in a personal appearance before the U.S. Tariff Commission, Senator Wayne Morse referred to the increasing imports of, fescue seed from Canada as a serious factor in depressing prices of do mestic fescue grass seed. "Creeping red fescue produced in Canada alone increased from 7.500.000 pounds in 1957 to 15.500. 000 pounds In 1958." said Morse. "Oregon can be proud o( the fine representatition made by these Oregon farmers on behalf of the granting of remedial action on the part of the Tariff commission. "On the basis ot my study of the facts of this case. I am con vinced that the petition for a 5,000.000 pound quota is justified. I believe it is to be justified both from the standpoint of the fescue seed producers and from the standpoint of our national interest as a whole," Morse said. Everett Cornett New Farm Bureau Insurance Agent The Oregon 'Farm Bureau Irt surance Company has a new agent in this county replacing retired Frank Poole. Everett Cornett, former Vale Vo-ag instructuor, his wife Hel en and their three children will move to the valley immediately upon finding housing. Cornett, a graduate of Oregon State College, . grew up on a ranch near Princville, has taught vo-ag 10 years and comes to La Grande with a thorough knowl edge of farming. His brother, Elgin, is well known here being the county agent of Wallowa county. The Cornett children include Jim, a high school senior; Chris tine, nine and Julie who is three. The incoming agent completed a course of training through the Salem orfice ot the OFBF be fore taking over his duties here. He will be doing business through the Union County Farm Bureau office in Island City. Feeder Cattle Sale Due Monday At Enterprise ENTERPRISE (Special) Sixth annual feeder cattle sale sponsor ed by the Wallowa County Stock growers Association will be held at the Enterprise Livestock Auc tion Monday. Traditionally these sales have been held on Labor Day, but the sales has been moved up this year due to special range conditions and the belief that the market will be betetr on the earlier date. Wilfred Daggett is chairman of the sale which begins at 12:30 with Corda Locke as auctioneer.. Cattle should be delivered to the yards by 10 a.m. on the day of the sale. Ag Department Sees Whopping Farm Crop . i i WASHINGTON (UPI The Agriculture Department predicts a whopping farm crop this year sec ond only to the record 1U58 harvest. The department's August crop production estimate forecasts a 1959 crop only 3 per cent below the all-time peak last year. 1 Sharp increases were predicted in corn, , cotton, sugar crop and tobacco production. Feed grain tonnage will be equal to or slight ly above 1958. Per acre yields of cotton, sugar beets and dry peas should set records. The per acre sovbean and dry bean yield should equal previous highs. WASHINGTON l'PIl The Agriculaure Department estimated today that there were 8.500,000 farm workers, during the week ended July 25. 4 per Cent less than a year earlier and 8 per cent fewer than average. The department said the down turn contrasted with a rising trerd in most years reflected the char acteristics of the 1959 crop-wcather pattern.. Good weather for haying and small grain harvest over wide areas and notable instances of early maturity and quick harvest of fruits and vegetables moved the usual July work peak ahead. In other sections, rains forced a layoff from farm yield work. Farm family labor totaled 5, 700,000, down 3 per cent from the some period a year ago aivj 9 per cent less than average. Hired hands numbered 2.800.0UO, 6 per cent less than a year ago and 0 per cent fewer than, the 5-year average for the pe-iod. WASHINGTON IUPI The upward trend in world wool pro duction has been resumed, the Agriculture Department reported today. Production of 2,992.000.000 pounds, clean basis, for 1958-59 was 4 per cent higher than the previous season, and 20 per cent above the 1951-55 average. U.S. production was about the same in 1958-59 us the previous season. FAT OVERWEIGHT Now available to you for the first time without .a doctor's pretcrip-. tion, our new drug called ODRI NEX. You must low ugly fat in 7 days or your money back. No more starvation diets, strenuous exercise, laxatives, massage or taking of so-called reducing can dies, crackers or cookies, or chew ing gum. ODRINEX is a tiny tab let and easily swallowed. Abso lutely harmless. 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