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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1937)
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1937 PAGE TEN Lions Will Contact Railroad Company On Mail Service New Wheat Practice and Weed Control Steps Discussed A second petitiin carrying signa tures of local business people and others asking that no change be mafde in the mail service on the lo cal branch led the Lions club Mon day to appoint a committee to see, if possible, whether an improvement in the mail service could not be ef fected without disrupting the branch train service. The second petition was said to have been circulated in behalf of local railway employees who were quoted as believing that loss of the mail contract by the railroad com pany would result in tying up the branch train at Arlington instead of at Heppner, necessitating the re moval of homes of railroad em ployees to that place. This petition served to counteract a previous pe tition asking "that such steps as may be necessary be taken" to improve the local mail service, cited as being "consistently late due to the consist' ently late arrival of the branch train," Appointed on the committee to contact the railroad company were Ray Kinne, Estes Morton and Jap Crawford. Lions expressed themselves as be ing sympathetic to the petition in behalf of the railroad employees, and were ready to ask that the mail con tract be not taken away from the railroad company, and the mail brought up the branch by truck (steps toward which were reported to have already ben taken) if such loss of contract to the railroad com pany should mean a change in the train service. That no tenable foundation exist ed to the rumor that a change to truck mail service would interfere with present postoffice operation was reported on the word of Chas. B. Cox, postmaster, that mail would still continue to be handled through the postoffices in the same manner as previously. Mr. Cox was reported as having contacted the chief clerk of the rail way mail service at Portland seeking earlier arrival of the mail here after repeated complaints made to him of the delay in mail service. He was said to have received a 15-day stay in the taking of bids for letting the mail carrying contract to trucks, fol lowing receipt of the second petition by the chief clerk. Lions were interested in the re port of Joe Belanger, county agent, of a new cultivating practice being introduced into the county this year which may revolutionize the method of seeding wheat A test of this method, known as contour culti vation, is being made at the Hilma M. Anderson farm in Eight Mile. The method leaves strips of stubble between strips of newly-sown grain. The stubble strips prevent rapid run off of water and consequent wash ing of soil from fields, and aid in holding the water on the field, Mr. Belaneer said. The method is not new, as it has been used effectively In other sec tions of the county, said Mr. Bel anger, who held the hope that it might be the means of increasing the average wheat yield of the county several bushels per acre if like re sults are obtained here. At least two THAT HALLOWE'EN PARTY It's black cats, witches and bats in the steeple, Hallowe'en's here, so watch out all you people And about that party, you can't be to hasty ( By ordering now a variety of pastry. Tasty refreshments are half of the success of any social affair. Insure the success of your party by letting us bake some specially decorated Hallowe'en cakes for you. Heppner Bakery THE REFEREE SAYS: 1 frfutf EN COUNTS AND OUT ALWAYS SPELLS A WINNER." The new Coleman Oil Circulating Heater always comes out a winner. It beats Kid "Freezing Weather" to the punch. The Coleman has the extra warm air circulation that it takes to knock out cold- It is a radiant heater, too. The Coleman Heat-Reflector Doors with highly palished alum inum lined surfaces, reflect a penetrating fan-like zone of ra diant heat to warm YOU when you come in from the outside cold and numb. When you want radiant heat, you have cheer ful, penetrating warmth. When you close the Reflector Doors you have its whole circu lating power a whole roomful of frsehly warmed healthful rirculating air. See the Coleman Heater and the Reflector Doors Jemonstrated and explained at CASE FURNITURE COMPANY. Buy a genuine Coleman Oil Heater for extra warmth and com fort CASE FURNITURE CO. inches of conservable J moisture on the average is lost each year to Morrow county fields under present cultivation practices, he said. And citing the word of D. E. Stephens, superintendent of the Morp experi ment station, each additional inch of moisture that can be preserved will return an extra bushel yield of wheat. The new cultivation practice, if expectations are fulfilled, will serve a two-fold purpose. It will stay wa ter erosion of soil, an important phase to future generations and to society in general, and it will build up the moisture content of the fields to pay present operators direct re turns. Mr. Belanger also touched briefly on the noxious weed control prob lem, saying that the county .court had already ordered 15,900 pounds of chlorates to be resold to farmers at cost for combatting morning glory, white top and Russian knapweed. The court was also reported as tak ing steps to organize the county into a weed control district as had been memorialized by Lions, granges and farm bureau, and that $250 had been tentatively included in this year's budget as the amount believed to be needed in work that could reasona bly be done next year. The situation is not such as to require a large ex penditure of taxpayers' money at this time, he said, but some steps toward control should definitely be taken. Under the weed law, passed at the last session, under which the dis trict is being set up, state and coun ty are required to clean noxious weeds from their road right-of-ways. This differs from the former weed law in that under it each farmer was required to combat weeds on the half of such roads adjoining his property. The old law was unfair, he said, in that livestock and loads of hay going over the road are com mon sources of weed infestation along the right-of-ways and many times noxious weeds are found there and are not found on the farmer's property adjoining. W. F. Whitehead, representing The Dalles Hotel company, was a club guest Wnrd was authorized to be sent to The Dalles Lions that the local club would have at least fifteen represen tatives at a joint meeting of the two clubs to be held at Arlington at i:M next Monday evening. The regular club meeting will not be held that day. HOMECOMING SET Ruth chapter 32, O. E. S-, will stage its annual Homecoming night at Masonic hall tomorrow evening with special entertainment that should prove enjoyable to all at tending, announces Mrs. Virginia Turner, worthy matron. The Past Matrons club of the Eastern Star will meet Monday eve ning at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. D. M. Ward. 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