Image provided by: Beaverton City Library; Beaverton, OR
About The Beaverton enterprise. (Beaverton, Or.) 1927-1951 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1950)
/ BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE— Friday, June 30, 1950 ELSEWHERE IN OREGON TANSY IN CUTOVER PASTURE EVENTS AS CHRONICLED BY OUR CONTEMPORARIES IN SURROUNDING NORTHWEST COMMUNITIES NATIONAL RECOGNITION jjtenetal excellence for weekly pa In Forest Grove, when you win pers with more than 1500 circula- national recognition, you get full, I tion. local coverage. The NEWS TIMES, in a Nation SELLS HIMSELF SHORT al Editorial association competi Seaside comes up with the ans tion for service to agriculture, was wer of what a baker does when noted as having the best farm he sells himself short. section in the nation among week Says the SIGNAL, a local baker, ly and no-metropoiitan newspa beseiged by housewives who failed pers. to find Portland bread at the cor On the front page, this fact was ner gtocery store, sold out his heralded. Then, in the farm sec products long before closing time. tion. a large picture of the news Then, Just as he was about to man, Rod Johnson, who made the lock up, his wife discovered there honors possible, was printed with was no bread for their own sup- adequate coverage of his back | Per. ground in feature style. The baker’s wife met the emer Another county paper, the Hills gency, however, She said, "W e’ll boro Argus, was judged second in just have waffles tonight." TANSY RAGWORT, declared legally a noxious weed by the Washington county court and so under ban, is shown In the ac companying picture as It thrives In an east county cutover pasture land. Shown In one section of the pasture Is Clarence Walker, co owner of the Shaper-Walker dairy farm, 1% miles north of Hazel- dale. By designating tansy ragwort, Canadian thistle, Irish broom and gorse “noxious weeds", the county court makes it mandatory that anyone with such weeds growing on land under ownership or supervision must report them and take Immediate steps to control them. Tansy is particularly dangerous for browsing cattle and will in a comparatively short time result in their death. MAMMOTH TOOTHACHE WATER SHORTAGE PEAR ROBIN HOOD AND MEN In Sheridan, during the Phil In the Lakeview area, there once Sheridan Days celebration, much was a mammoth toothache. Eviednce of this fact is report ; popular acclaim was accorded Ro ed by the LAKE COUNTY EX bin Hood and his Merry Men. AMINER. in an account telling of The SUN credits this gang of a tooth seven inches long, three ! public relations ambassadors from inches wide and about four inch Washington County's Sherwood as es high, said to have belonged to | entering one of the most attractive some prehistoric beast. floats, featuring a gtrl with a Investigation shows the tooth 1 large bow and arrow. was an upper molar of the wooly In jovial mood, the boys from mammoth, which probably roamed Sherwood “forest’’ pulled many the area at the time cavemen stunts for the pleasure and amuse were living in caves. ment of the large crowd. • • • Forwarded to the paleontological section of the Department of In KISH WEIGHTS »7 FEET terior, in Washington, D. C., the Somewhat confusing, in Milwau- tooth was identified as belonging kie. is the allegation that a prize to the period of the ice age just winning salmon, for which the lo prior to the last advance of the cal Rod and Gun club presented great Ice sheet over much of Nor a trophy, weighted 37 feet. thern America. So reads the headline in the An awful lot of ouch, whatever R E V IE W ’ . the age! McMinnville, in the lush, green Yamhill valley of the rain-soaked «VetiLern Oregon (to credit some | reports) is faced with the bogey of an imminent water shortage. According to the TELEPHONE REGISTER, the city would just get by with a normal summer season. If a dry season prevails for the balance of the summer, it is feared stringent conservation measures will become necessary. Work is being pushed to estab lish a system to meet the needs of from 15,000 to 20,000 users. Present impounding dam on Has kins creek will be raised, starting this fall, to insure a minimum of four million gallons of water a day. Capacity of two service res ervoirs, 5% million gallons, will handle the city’s needs for some time, once they are completed. at WINTER WHEAT STARTS FLOOD Oscar Hagg Has All-Day Survey New Job As Ore. Of Weed Control Dairy Specialist Set June 30, A. M. Celebration June 30th has been set as the Oscar Hagg, Reedville, former president of the Oregon Dairy date for a weed control field day men’s association and longtime at Oregon State College experi Washington county dairyman, was ment station at Corvallis, accord appointed extension dairy market ing to Palmer S. Torvend, County ing specialist effective June 19, it Extension Agent. A GOLDEN FLOOD of grain has started its avalanche with the The all day rmeting is being has been announced by F. L. Bal beginning harvest of winter wheat through the Southwest. First lard, associate director, OSC ex sponsored by the weed committee carload, harvested in Temple, Oklahoma, tested 61.7 pounds weight of the Oregon Seed Growers tension service. and 12% protein content. An excellent price of $2.44% resulted from spirited bidding. Hagg will carry on an education League and is scheduled to start Wheat exports from July 1, 1949 through May, 1950, meanwhile, al program with farmers, con at 9:30 in the morning. have totaled around 281.2 million bushels, nearly 40% below export Those taking in the field day are sumers, distributors and processors figures for the same period a year earlier. of dairy products throughout the asked to meet on the street just Pacific Northwest wheat exports, however, total 58.4 million CARNIVAL - FIREWORKS - FREE ACTS - CONCESSIONS - state, Ballard states, in describing south of the College greenhouses bushels, decidedly above last year’s figures. Up to June 1, last year the duties of the ntw specialist. in Corvallis, Torvend said. GROUNDS - FREE PICNIC GROUNDS -DANCING - only 49.3 million bushels were for export. Program plans, as announced by He will work throughout the state Current quotaUons or ordinary export wheats are now around Sponsored by Hillsboro Fire Department on dairy products marketing prob Rex Warren, farm crop specialist .$2.21 a bushel. Wheat receipts, continuing rather heavy, are mostly consigned to the CCC. at the College include a visit to lems. An OSC college graduate in quack grass control plots where dairying with the class of 1926, quackgrass is being controlled us Hagg has since that time been a ing chemicals, tilage and using a partner with his brother, Henry, combination of both tilage and In the operation of a 186 acre chemicals. dairy farm near Reedville. He | Virgil Freed of the farm crop served as president of the Oregon department also expects to show Dairymen's association for five plots of perennial weeds where June is the peak month for years, and for the past few years soil sterilants are geing utilized. Brush control plots will be ; death losses among laying hens in has been chairman of the group's shown as well ns areas where pre their first year of lay. And culling legislative committee. Similar to all additions to the emergence sprays are being used of poor layers is urged to keep college staff, Hagg's appointment to control annual weeds in veg flocks profitable. Average mortality in laying is subject to approval by the state etables. Plots will also be shown where hens, says Noel L. Bennlon, OSC hoard of higher education. chemicals are being used for the extension poultry s p e c i a l i s t , control of annual grass in legume reaches a peak during May, June KEEK TOLL-FREE BRIDGE and July. The death loss in first St. Helens played host to nearby and perennial grass. year laying hens, reaching a peak Anyone interested Is Invited to city representatives In a project in June, is the result of gradual attend. seeking a toll-free bridge at Long building up of disorders that reach view. a climax during this period. GOES INTO PORTLAND The CHRONICLE tells of a Joint Birds going light and reproduc Mrs. Paul Thggart of 8. W. meeting of the chahber of com tive system disorders are two of Seventh St. was a Portland visitor merce and planning commission of the chief death causes at this St. Helens with representatives of on Wednesday June 21. season. Scappoose and St. Helens. REMODELS FOR HOME Low producing hens, Bennlon Albert Kemmer of Cooper Mt. a Discussion highlights n common adds, also start to molt during contention that the Lower Colum Portland attorney has purchased the months of May, June and July. bia area would zoom like a sky the McCloskey place on the corner rocket If passage over the bridge of Second and Tucker Sts. and These hens are best culled as soon as they are recognized, since between Rainier and Longview plana to remodel the place and producers cannot afford to feed were to he free. move his family there. molting birds. Early molters are easily Iden tified. As they go out of produc tion, their combs and wattles Fresh strawberries (or most any shrivel. Abdomens contract and pigment gradually returns to beak other seasonal foods) frozen and shanks. Feather* also begin to when at the peak o f perfection drop out. . . . and lowest in price. Think Bennion states that cull hens how good they will taste out o f will bring considerable more mon ey If they are marketed as soon season, and how econom ical as they show signs of going out of they will be on the pocketbook. production. They lose consider able weight and become covered W ith this big 6 -cu b ic-foot with pin feathers as the^molt pro We Carry Large Stocks of Fir Plywood in Standard Sixes, Norge Freezer you can have ceeds. July 1, 2 3, 4, - Hillsboro, Oregon SHUTE PARK Largest Fourth of July Celebration in Northwest Poultry Profits Languish Unless Molters Culled FREE ENTRANCE TO FREE PARKING ...... J ittofctie,/ Strawberries . . .-W inter Served Summer Priced fro m this NORGE FREEZER PLYW OOD Cash and Carry Bath Interior and Exterior ( waterproof ) Grades. All Five Standard Thicknesses- V i", V i", V i", V i", V i" We have a variety of small sixes at extra low prices. Our low prices are possible because we sell on cash basis only. Retail and Wholesale. We aim to satisfy contractors and builders. Inquiries invited. Open 8 A M To 6 P. M Saturdays; 8 A M To 4 P M See Our Stock Before You Buy 208 W Walnut. Hillsboro. Phone Hlliitboro «875 Former Location of the Old Hillsboro Auction Tatd RAYMOND CARLSON, Mgr. MULTIPLY IT BY THREE In Oakridge, there is no lament ing, particularly, of the census gain percentage over a ten year period. The TELEGRAM announces its population ha* trippled since 1940. I judging preliminary announce- j ment. Former census figure was 520 I but In 1950, it had grown to 155ft. ; In lane county, this puts Oakridge , fourth in size. Just outranking | Junction City. • • o GOING TO STAY ON TOP From where I sit... by Joe Mar#h Maybe This'll Wake Uf Upl Because a couple of tkoughtleae drivers threw a newspaper oat of their car yesterday. Miss Gilbert, our school principal, nearly had a bad accident. She was following them on tho highway and tho paper flattened over her windshield, ao she couldn't see. In a minute her little eoupe was across the line— right in tho path o f an oncoming trailer-truck. It missed . . . but only ju s t! The parties were recognised and soon as I heard about it I ran over to Sheriff Harper dtmaruitd they be brought up on charges. But Harper aayi: "Hold on. Joe. Lot's talk this out, ovar supper and a glass o f boor at Andy's." He poiated out that thoea wen aren’t criminals. Jnst carolane, liba a lot of us seem to be getting these days, judging from the tmsh yon see along roadsidoa. From whort I sit. this noar tendent may be the lesson we need to make us step Ut tering oar roods —and start show, ing a little tolerant consideration for onr neighbors ! f a Copyright. ¡ 050 . I'niltd S ta tt Br North Bend is not only the larg- ! est city In Coos county. Its offici als have determined to keep things that way. Picture and story in the COOS HAY HARBOR illustrates how the city is going to stay on top. Chamber of commerce manager, chief of police, chamber president and mayor of the city are shown | armed with authority of the law and a couple squirrel rifles, ques tioning a motorist about to leave the city. TRAFFIC LAW I KM II When you're next in Vemonla. it might be well to remember cer tain traffic regulations have sud denly sprung teeth. The EAGLE warns that the one hour parking limit, not enforced for some time because of limited parking space available, will be come effective following widening of a street suitable for off-ms In stem parking Likewise, no U-turns will be per mitted at one customary turn around point. highTfghted by a sign making this announcement. better meals all year round, for lettH money and with less effort. This model has six hinged inner doors opening into 5 large freezer compartments . . . refrig erated shelves . . . glass fiber in sulation . . . temperature control . . . Kolia tor Coldmaker. Come in today. Let us tell you how little it costs to own this beauty! Chest-type models are avail able in 10-, 18- and 26-cubic- foot sizes. ONLY .95 $ CONVENIENT TERMS TERRY'S FURNITURE H alf M ile East Beaverton City Lim its BEAVERTON, OREGON PHONE 4703 Come in and see the Beautiful New Self Defrosting Refrigerators
