4 (Sec. 2" Statesman, SaTem, Or., Thursday, Sept. 22, 1955
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Town Holds to Goal of Farm Trading Center
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MONTTORpe Monitor MiUs N OM aock , Undj the oJd doMtion Und
"It't fine place to do bus!-' claims of William Eastham and
ness and to call home," Vetter, Joseph Eagon. It is connected
most any business man owns his Monitor, situated on Butte (Mills, the two largest businesses
own farm ... like Marcus Vetter . Creek, the dividing line between! are pronaniy me iwo implement
nouses larm implements, ine
ground its first grist on the day
of the historical battle between
Monitor and the Merrimae. It is
rZ.r.-w": .1 'president of the National Asso- to highway 99E by two paved
uu ir nu.ui, dation of Columbia Sheep, will roads. One connection is
at
tell you. Vetter bought the old Woodburn and one at Barlow.
nun less than a year ago. For There is a modern grade
more than 80 years the old mill, 'school and an auditorium, there
are two school buses and a PTA
with a membership of more than
100. There are three churches
in the community: The Nidaros
Lutheran. - Seventh Day Advent-
ist and a Community Full Gos-
ru1 A 19M1 fir hill. fur.
The mill, lying in the center I four years. Unlike the old clock, 1 nished with modern equipment,
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flour only feed for livestock and
poultry come out of the hoppers
today.
The water wheel has been
changed for electric switches.
ana norse ana wagon nave given
way to trucks, but the old tim
bers still hold up the structure
which still serves " farmers as it
like Grandfather's Clock of the
old-time ballad, ran without stop
ping. Then its owner Invold Ed
lund became ill and died. Ray
mond David took a brief swing
at its management, but gave up.
times in its schools and in the
products it sells, remains the
same," Tweed said, as we sat in
one u now ownea oy jmer i ine pauo oi nu attractive Dome,
Thompson, farmer in the Moni-linst east of the "center". 1
has done since it was first built, The wheels laid idle for about
of the little community, is a
symbol of the town's being. It
modernizes but it does not out-
serve the farmers.
"We aren't an incorporated
town. In fact, we aren't really
a town at alL We are a farm
trading center and that's what
we want to stay," any business
man encountered on the street of
Monitor will tell you. In fact al-
however. its destiny was not
"never to run again". The mill
and Monitor appealed to Vetter,
a widely known sheep breeder,
and he took over. The mill is
now again a smoothly running
plant, again buying, grinding,
mixing feeds and seedscleaning
and treating the products for the
rich farm community which bor
ders the , trading center on all
sides.
was built in 1948, when the Mon-
itw Rural Fire Protection dis
trict was formed. The fire dis
trict has a valuation of more
than $2,000,000 and includes the
communities of Harmony, Monte
Cristo, Oak Lawn, Marquam,
Needy, Ninety-One, Whiskey
Hill, Elliot Prairie and Union.
Has Two Machine Houses
In addition to the Monitor
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tor district. He bought it a few
months ago. ,
The other is one of the histori
cal items of the community. It's
senior partner is L. D. Lenon, one
of the timbers bf the town. He was
born in the area 75 years ago and
has spent most ,of his life here.
More than 40 years ago be bought
a half interest in the old grocery
store of Jensen and Cook. It be
came - a general country store.
known for miles around, where al
most anything could be bought or
sold. In 1919, Lenon became sole
owner, and in 1925, be added the
John Deere Implement and tractor
agency. In 1938, Lenon 's son-in-law,
Edgar Tweed, a native of
Salem, became manager, and the
general merchandise was closed
out in 1945.
"Even in the 20 years since I
came to Monitor, we've seen a
lot of changes but somehow. Moni
tor, while it keeps up with the
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ManT lovely homes are found la the Monitor area. This one, with owned by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Tweed. It was built la 1941. (States-
jnst is spacious a iwa w uc is bvku h
He went on: "Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars all farm dollars
change bands here each year.
During the spring, the summer and
the fall, we are a very busy little
place. ' In winter we are quieter."
We stopped our car near Thomp
son's implement bouse. A farmer.
whom we recognized as coming
from 10-12 miles southwest of Moni
tor, was getting into his car.
Doable Appreciation Noted
"Sure I've traded here for years.
Buy most of my farm machinery
and things like that here. I like it
They really understand the farmer,
We don't have to hear a lot of
hard luck stories. We even get to
tell our own once in a while. But
mostly everybody is sort of happy.
We talk about crops and the wea
ther. May be politics and the
schools. They appreciate our busi
ness here and we appreciate their
appreciation. I guess," he said as
he started his engine and hurried
homeward for evening chores.
At the top of the hill we stopped
to look back, instead of turning
to salt, like Lot's wife of Biblical
times, we almost turned to sugar.
Monitor is not as we had sup
nosed, lust another wider spot in
the road, another place we naa xo
slow uo on the way from our home
some nine miles to the south, in'o
Portland. It is an individual com
munity. A rich community. Grain
trucks were backing up to the
mill. Feed trucks were pulling out
loaded. Farmers and businessmen
together were stopping at the little
restaurant for a cup oi couee
While we couldn't hear the old
time clink on the anvil, the whir-r-r
and the whiz-z and hammering
a-plenty in the two farm machine
shops almost directly across the
highway from each other reached
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Monitor Mills, like the eld clock, raa 90 years without stepping, aad thea laid eff for fear years! New
It is running aad busy again. This miu was bum la ism, and wnue much oi ue structure remains
the same, it changed from water to electricity more than a quarter of a century ago. New owner if
Marcus Vetter. (Statesman Farm Photo).
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This is "Mala Street" ia one of the Willamette Valley's richest farm community trading centers. la
among the trees are hidden a half dozen business houses which cater almost exclusively to farm
business. It is a happy little center, aad ia the proper seasons a busy little center. It is Monitor.
siaicsman farm rnoiv.
OSC Lists Sprays
for weeay irass
Weedy annual grasses can be successfully sprayed out of peren
nial grass seed crops if the right materials are applied at the cor
rect time, -i
Research conducted by William Furtick at Oregon State Col
lege shows : that the following practices have been successful in
treating stands that -have been established a year or more:
Kate
. Material , .pounds
Chloro IPC": 3 to 4
or
Peach Fungus
Should Be
Treated Now
Farm
Calendar
Alfa fescue r . -
Time of Application
Sept 22 to Oct il
Chewings fescue
Bed creeping fescue
Highland bentgrass
Merion bluegrass
Perennial ryegrass
Karmex DW
IPC .
IPC
or
Karmex DW
Chloro IPC
or
Karmex DW
Karmex DW
IPC
2 Sept 22 to Oct 31
3 Sept 22 to Oct 20
3 N Sept 22 to Oct 20
2 v Sept 22 to Oct 20
3 v Sept 22 to Oct 20
2 Sept 22 to Oct 20
2 ' Sept 22 to Oct 20
2 Sept 22 to Oct 20
Where velvet erass is exceedingly heavy in alta fescue and
Highland bentgrass, the Karmex DW can be increased to 4 pounds I
Ber acre. Strong stands of alta fescue ana Menon bluegrass esiao
shed in the spring of 19S5 can be safely treated with Karmex DW
at the 2 pounds per acre rate. '
New Product Used
. Karmex DW is a new product that comes as a wettable powder.
The chemical has some advantage over IPC as it does have some
effect on broad leaf weeds as well as the annual grasses; however,
it has the disadvantage that it must be used in a sprayer with a
mechanical agitator. The cost of Karmex DW and IPC is practi
cally the same.
Moisture isn't too important for fall application as good results
can be expected after Sept 15. Spraying with IPC can be done with
a ground rig, or an airplane. With JPC, the recommendation is to
use from 10 to 40 gallons of water per acre with a ground rig, and
. 1 gallon of oil per acre with an airplane. With Karmex DW, the
recommendation is to use 30 Gallons of water per acre.
Weedv annual erassps that can be exoected to be controlled
with these chemicals are rattail fescue, soft chess, common rye-
crass, silver hairzrass. and fall gemmating velvet grass.
CaumoI w f MrarTF'ir n-urtfer vaaaivajI evwvt AntAl f9
weedy annual grasses and sheep sorrel in 1955 by treating their
filrt with a mixture nf IPC. and 2. 4-D. The IPC was used at the
rate of 2 pounds per acre and the 2,4-D at the rate of 1 pound per
acre. :
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Contemporary Records Compiled for Future
LOS ANGELES (UP) A
rroup of workers at the Univer
sity of California at Los Angeles
is busily compiling a historical
commentary on ecu temporary
American life for the use of fu
ture generations.
The UCLA library staff, under
the supervision of the school's
special . collections department
one
is bringing together under
roof not cnly books and periodi
cals, but also such articles ai
playbills, restaurant menus, pho
nograph records and business
ledzers. These are for the con
venience of historians of coming
years who wish to study our
mode of living.
MOMMY
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") c I ways get mixed up on Duncan Phyfe and
thj. .bit'tht kzi & sort of likt thisl
An after harvest spray of Bor
deaux 8-8-100 for control of Cory-
i neum peach blight is needed in
I Willamette Valley peach or
chards, say Willamette Valley
extension agents. A Bordeaux
spray, properly mixed ana tnor
oughly applied, will protect the
new wood from the contagious
fungus disease, also called "Fall
blight" or "California blight-
Regardless of the name. Cory-
neum blight is a serious prpb-
em. It blights the buds and
produces small sunken spots on
the one-year-old or fruiting wood
during the fall and winter
months. This may be followed
by spotting of the twigs, leaves,
and fruit in the spring and
early, summer.
Growers who are harvesting!
the later varieties of peaches
should look for small, circalar, i
purplish-red spots in the skin of
the peach. In larger : spots, the
centers turn white and have a
brown area surrounding the
white area. Unlike the watery
breakdown of peach tissue
caused by brown rot (another
fungus disease) the diseased tis
sue from Coryneum blight infec
tions on the fruit is typically
dry. Whether the spots are large
or small, they lower the grade
of the peach both for fresh mar
ket and processor use.;
Bordeaux Best Spray '
Bordeaux 8-8-100 remains the
best spray mixture for control
of Coryneum blight under condi
tions in the Willamette Valley.
Bordeaux 8-8-100 means 8 pounds
of copper sulfate plus 8 pounds
of lime in 100 ,galions of spray.
In any Bordeaux formula, tne
ingredients are always given in
the same order with the ptounds
of copper sulfate first then the
pounds of lime, and followed by
the gallons of water.:
Proper preparation of Bor
deaux mixture is just as impor
tant as proper timing and thor
oughness of application. The
best way to mix Bordeaux is to
follow "work with dilute solu
tions." Second, soak hydrated
lime in water for at least two
hours before adding in the spray
tank. Stock solutions can be pre
pared by adding one or two
pounds hydrated lime per gallen
of water. The required gallonage
of stock solution can be added
to the spray tank to give the
recommended pounds of lime
per 100 gallons of spray. -
Many growers nave bad good
results by preparing stock solu
tions of copper sulfate. Wooden
barrels make convenient mixing
and storage containers. Glass
Dned barrels are satisfactory but
the eorrosion of the copper sul
fate solution eliminates the use
of metal barrels. The rate is one
or two pounds of copper sulfate
per fallon of water. 1
Method Recommended
The recommended procedure
in adding Bordeaux materials to
the spray tank are as follows:
After filling the tank from one
half to two-thirds full of water.
wash the copper sulfate stock so
lution in a stream of water pass
ing through the screen over the
tank as the agitator is going. This
method will also work if the
copper sulfate powder is washed
slowly into a stream of water
failing into the spray tank.
After all the copper sulfa ta is
Sept 22-24 North Marion
County Fair, opens 4 p.m. Wood
burn. Sept 22 Milk hearing 10 a.m.
State Highway Bldg.
Sept 24 Oregon Shorthorn
Breeders heifer and bull sale,
Salem.
I Sept 24 Jefferson Country
Fair, Ankeny grange. Ham din
ner 6:30 p.m. Show 2 to 9 p.m.
Sept 24 Santiam Valley
Grange Harvest Festival, Lyons.
Oct 1 Jim Short Shorthorn
dispersal sale. Lane Bros. Farm,
WaUace Road.
Oct l Silverton Hills Fair! .
Oct 11 Oregon Jersey Cattle
Club meeting, Senator Hotel, 11
a.m.
Oct 15-22 Pacific Internation
al Livestock Exposition and Wool
Show, North Portland.
Oct 24-27 Oregon Town and
Country Church Conference, OSC.
Oct 25 1:30 p.m. Oregon
Aberdeen Angus Association
third annual sale, Brah's Auction
Yard, Corvallis.
Oct 27-Nov. 5 National Live
stock Show, San Francisco.
Nev. 3 Annual meeting Wil
lamette Basin Project 9:30 a.m.
Withycombe Hall, OSC.
Nev. 7 Grassman of the year
luncheon, Portland Chamber of
Commerce, Hotel Multnomah.
Nev. lt-12 Oregon Wool
Growers annual meeting Im
perial Hotel, Portland.
Nov. 13-16 Oregon Farm Bur
eau Federation annual meeting,
Salem.
Nev. 17-19 Western Oregon
Livestock Association, Gear hart
Hotel.
Nev. 27-Dec 1 National 4-H
Club. Congress, Chicago.
Dec. 1-2 70th annual Oregon
State Horticultural Society meet
ing, Corvallis.
Dec 1-3 Oregon Seed League
meeting. La Grande.
Dec 5-9 Smithfield Show,
London, England, agricultural
exhibit
Dec. fi-9 Pacific Coast Tur
key exhibit, McMinnville.
Dec. 7-8 Nut Growers Society
of Oregon and Washington, Mc
Minnville.
Dee. 810 Oregon Wheat
Growers League 28th annual
meeting, Pendleton.
Coyer Crops
Should Be
Planted Early
Sow cover crop early In the fall
and turn them under early in the
spring, has been a standard recom
mendation for caneberry and fruit
growers in the Willamette Valley
for many years.
D. L. Rasmussen. Marion Coun
ty agent, is reminding farmer' of
this area that it is still a good prac
tice. He adds that early seeding,
even in a dry year, is desirable.
Germinations wMl follow any good
rain. Farmers with irrigation sys
tems can sprinkle irrigate after
seeding to hasten a germination if
soil should become too dry again.
which is not thought likely as long
er nights prevent evaporation.
Crimson clover, common or hairy
vetch, oats, rye, turnips and chew
ings fescue are among the satisfac
tory cover crops for Willamette
Valley caneberry and tree fruit
plantings. Grower experience, cost
of the seed and soil requirements
will help the farmer decide what
cover crop to use.
Cover crops add organic matter
to the sou. Their decomposition
supplies good material to other
crops in the soil. The value of
cover crops for erosion control is
well established. Cover crops im
prove aeration and tilth of the soil.
Rasmussen points out, adding that
these are very much needed in
the valley.
Fertilizing the- cover crop is a
good practice. Nitrogen is the most
important element for fair cover
crops. From 20 to 25 poufds actual
nitrogen per acre will speed early
tail growth without delaying dorm
ancy of the caneberry tree fruit
plantings.
Sheep Growers
Give Approvals
To Promotions
Oregon sheep producers joined
the rest of the nation recently in
approving a promotion program
for wool and lambs. The program
was approved by 72.2 percent of
the sheep growers representing S
million head.
This approval put into effect an
agreement between Secretary of
Agriculture Benson and the newly
organized American Sheep Pro
ducers Council providing adverbs-,
ing; promotion, and related mar
keting activities.
Deductions from sheep produc
ers incentive wool payments-wi'J
amount to one cent per pound of
shorn wool and 5 cents per 100
pounds of live weight from lambs
and yearling payments. ,
Fall Time tb Fescue Screenings
Death Claims Mother
Of Rear Admiral
PORTLAND ( Mrs. Mary
Updegraff. 80, mother of Rear Ad
miral William N. Updegraff (ret),
San Francisco, died in a hospital
here Tuesday.
Another son, George G. Upde
graff, was district judge of Gilliam,
Wheeler and Sherman counties,
before his death two years ago.
Requiem mass will be said here
Saturday.
Gar Hits Deer;
Driver Injured
EUGENE m A deer bounded
onto the McKenzie Highway in
front of a car Monday night, and
in the ensuing crash the deer was
killed, the car wrecked, and the
driver injured.
Jack Summerlin, 26, Long Beach.
Calif., said be tried to avoid the
crash, skidded on gravel, hit the
animal 'and then plunged over a
roadside embankment. His wife
escaped injury, but Summerlin
suffered an elbow cut.
lkt Speaks
For Modern
Road Program
WASHINGTON President
Eisenhower spoke out again Tues
day for a modernized highway sys
tem and declared the country's
economic growth "must not be
stunted by a creeping paralysis
of traffic."
T-V T" ! J 1 It J m i
iy ine x-resioeni cauea ior support
from a directly interested audi
encethe 53rd annual convention
of the American Automobile Assn.
From his vacation headquarters
in Denver. Eisenhower sent a mes
sage asking the organization to
speak up again and again for
prompt action on a highway sys
tem adequate for modern living."
Congress this year rejected the
President's road-building recom
mendations, and administration
leaders say highway legislation
should be among the first items
tackled next year.
I Eisenhower proposed a special
bond issue outside the national
debt to finance a huge interstate
highway network. Both that plan
and another put forth by Demo
crats providing for tax increases
to exoand the present system of
footing road bills were turned
dawn.
"Motoring convenience, safe
driving and national security must
not be checked by a lack ot roads,"
Eisenhower said Tuesday. "A mod
ern road system is one of our
great national needs."
About 700 delegates represent-
Dust Sheep
September is a good month in
which to control sheep ticks, coun
ty ftgents are now reminding farm
ers! Ticks can be controlled by spray
ing; dipping or dusting. The latter
method is only recommended
where the owner has a few sheep.
Several insecticides are effective
against ticks, including DDT. meth
oxychlor, TDE. taxaphen, chlor
daiie, lindane and rotenone. Sug
gestions are for 8 pounds " of 50
perj cent wettable DDT to be used
in 100 gallons of water when a high
pressure spray rig is used.
For preparing a dip, use from 4
to t pounds of 50 per cent wettable
DDT powder to 100 gallons of wa
ter; or 8 ounces of S per cent rot
enone powder to 100 gallons of wa
ter! A 10 per cent DDT dust will
serve as an effective dust for the
smaller flock. .
If other materials are used, the
county agents suggest that the
mamif acturer's recommendations
are followed closely.
Russia Frees
1st Germans
Can Be" Poisonous
The feeding of nematode infested
screenings to livestock can be ex
tremely dangerous because of t
poisonous effect, says O. E. Mike
sell, Linn County extension agent
Chewings fescue and red creep,
ing fescue are the most commonly
infested, but bentgrass seed may
also contain nematodes. Screenings
that . are free of nematodes are
those of common ryegrass, peren
nial ryegrass and alta fescue.
Mikesell advises that screenings
from susceptible crops be destroy
ed by burning .as a number of los
ses have occurred in Linn County
in past years from feedine nema
tode infected screenings.
M
Negotiations
Of U. S., Reds
To 'Drag Out'
GENEVA, Switzerland W The
seven-week-old negotiations be
tween the United States and Com
munist China Tuesday appeared
headed for a long period of com.
jplete secrecy as they began deal
'ing with political matters for the
.first time.
At their 16th meeting Tuesday,
U. S; Ambassador U. Alexis John,
son and Red Chinese envoy Wang
Ping-Nan for the first time ex.
changed views on questions pther
than the release of civilians on
both sides. Their next secret meet
ing was set for Friday.
' It was learned that the two am
bassadors agreed Tuesday .to
clamp down a complete security
blanket on their discussions until
further notice. The negotiatums
i
Under Pact
FRIEDLAND. Germany tf
Four Germans arrived at this re
patriation center Tuesday after
their release from more than 10
years of Russian captivity.
Tbey were the first to be freed
since Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
returned from Moscow with a Rus
sian promise that all Germans
still held in the Soviet Union would now about to begin concern eco
be sent home
The four returnees included a
former German soldier and three1
civilians, among them a young wo-1
man witn a 2-year-old child born
in a Russia camp. The three ci
vilians were deported to Russia
from their native East Prussia
after the war.
They reported a wave of excite
ment is sweeping the camps in
Russia with every German hoping
to be in the first mass transport
home.
J nomic, strategic and political ques
uviia.
Johnson later said. "It is only
by restoring the private nature of
tnese talks that we can hope to
make any further progress."
in AAA's : nearly five million
members reported for the start
of the three-day convention.
DING DONG MAIL
OSWEGO, N.Y. (UP) A
three-year-old girl took her "Dinf
Dong School" lessons all too seri.
ously. Police and postal workers
received a hurry-up call from the
child's mother who said-the girl
had mailed a mud pie to the tele,
vision program's teacher by wrap,
ping it in a paper towel and
dropping it into a street letter
in the tank, add the lime solu
tion by washing slowly through
the screen into the agitating cop
per sulfate solution in the spray
tank. The lime solution must be
as dilute as ' possible before
meeting the copper sulfate solu-i
tion in the spray tank. Agitation j
must - be continued until the
spray is applied.
Mixing Bordeaux & 8-100 prop
erly, applying it after the peach
es are harvested (preferably aft
ter September 15 for all varie
ties, regardless of harvest date),
and applying thoroughly will
help control Coryneum peach
blight . ' A;
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