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
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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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