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Heppner Gazette Times. Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, March 31, 1938
Heppner
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Official Paper for Morrow County
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To Arms, Mr. Wire
WHEN you declared war on Ore
gon's stockmen before a meet
ing of your Portland friends last
week, Mr. Frank B. Wire, generalis
simo of Oregon's game commission,
did you prepare yourself for counter
attack? If you didnt, you had better
call in the board of strategy and
shine up your Big Berthas, for Ore
gon's stockmen, at least those in
Morrow county, have their guns
trained your way. Looking through
the sights are keen gray eyes ac
customed to drawing a bead on the
eye of a deer on the run, and the
guns are gripped in strong hands
steejed by nerves tempered under fa
miliarity with the haunts of the wild
life.
These men have slit the bellies of
deer on occasion to learn what they
eat. They have seen them browsing
on moss and needles while the sheep
grazed on the grass nearby. They
have seen the the deer in season
and out but, by and large, they have
been the games strongest protector.
They are not law violators, these
men. Familiarity with the denizens
of the wooded lands has given them
a deeper love for all forms of wild
life than, we dare say, exists in the
breasts of your city sporting breth
ren. Maybe you were warmed unduly
by the sentiments of National Wild
Life week, Mr. Wire, or maybe the
good fellowship of the occasion with
your city sporting partners caused
an! added degree of exuberance;
and maybe, you didn't fully mean
what a Portland paper quoted you
as saying, that it was time for lov
era of wild life to declare war on the
range users and forest service. At
least, we hope you were not serious
about it.
You should know, Mr. Wire, that
the income of Morrow county as a
result of it's wild life and it is a
favorite hunting ground for Port-
land sportsmen is insignificant as
compared to the income from it's
sheep industry. And you undoubted
ly know, Mr. Wire, that the summer
range in the mountains is essential
to this industry.
One thing you apparently do not
know, Mr. Wire, is that sheep grazed
according to forest service regula
tions and the way any good operator
who expects to stay in business
grazes his sheep, does not drive out
the wild life. If you will investigate,
Mr. Wire, you will find out from
many of your Portland sportsmen
that the most lucrative source of
information as to the best hunting
grounds is the stockmen and herd
ers who have observed the game
while following their work-a-day
pursuits.
No, Mr. Wire, it is not necessary
to turn all of the states mountain
region into a wild life reserve in or
der to have abundant supplies of
game. There is room in our timbered
regions for the sheep, cattle, wild
life and such other resources as are
properly managed. You might save
defenders of your type of wild life
administration, some severe casual
ties if you would come up to Morrow
county with a flag of truce and
learn your ground a little better
before proceeding with the war.
We'll gamble you'll find our stock
men just as good sportsmen as your
Portland friends.
How about it, Mr. Wire?
Good Bye, Congress
GENERAL public ignorance seems
to prevail over the content of
the president's reorganization bill
passed by congress this week. That
any measure as far reaching in ef
fect as this should be passed into
law without making the people
aware of its provisions and giving
opportunity for a definition of opin
ion, is an indictment against the ca
pability for self-government of the
American people, and a vital blow
to democracy. Whether President
Roosevelt be motivated by the best
intentions in the world, he has acted
outside the realm of public confi
dence, and thereby invites question
ing of motives.
There undoubtedly needs to be
considerable renovating and remod
eling of the nation's administrative
department structure. That fact has
been recognized for a long time.
But to place unrestricted power for
this in the hands of the executive is
to upset the system of governmental
check and balance provided in the
constitution. If congress has dele
gated such powers to the president
without reserving for itself the right
to accept or reject any reorganiza
tion meaures the president may wish
to institute, it has abdicated its
rights under the constitution.
And, if this be the case, the su
preme court of the land should re
ject the law as unconstitutional.
Since, however, presidential ' pres
sure has brought the executive a
large measure of control over the na
tion's tribunal of final appeal, it is
Look at the young people around you - per
haps there is one or two in your family I
Listen to their experiences in trying to
find work! Multiply these young men and
women you know by hundreds and you have
our FORGOTTEN CROP I Have we nursed this
orop through its educational years only to
NOW PREVENT its bearing fine fruits? All
these young people ask is the OPPORTUNITY
to WORK in the Columbia Empire. Think
this overl Are you buying products that
provide OPPORTUNITY for someone else's
"crop"; or will your purchases provide .
Jobs here in the industries of the
Columbia Empire? It's time we planned
WORK for our FORGOTTEN
CR0PI
Ask: IS IT PRODUCED IN
THE COLUMBIA EMPIRE?
hardly to be hoped that body will
find in favor of democracy's great
est constitutional safeguard the
safeguard against any one of the
three governmental branches usurp
ing the power of the other two.
Extraordinary powers have been
placed in the hands of President
Roosevelt under the New Deal, the
like of which never were enjoyed
by any former president. Though it
be granted stress of the times may
have justified the delegation of such
powers, there is little evidence that
the country's condition has been
bettered thereby.
And if, again, congress has given
the president a free rein there is
naught but trust in the ability of
one man to assure that the ship of
state will be righted and headed for
smoother seas. The prayers of many
people, ignorant of the machinations
of this new legislation, will implore
divine guidance of our president.
!
TIPS ON COOKING GREENS
To save all possible food values
and color in greens, it is best to
cook them uncovered and just long
enough to wilt them and make them
tender, says Miss Lillian Eaylor,
assistant professor of foods and nu
trition at OSC. Except for strong
flavored greens, such as mustard
and kale, it is best also to use just
as little water as possible, she says.
When done, greens may be fla
vored in a variety of ways, accord
ing to the family peference, with
butter or other fat. salt and pepper,
with bacon, salt pork or ham, or
with oil and vinegar or lemon.
CCC FIVE YEARS
OLD APRIL 3RD
CCC-Soil Conservation Service
Camps in Oregon to Celebrate
Fifth Anniversary Next Sunday
Along with other CCC camps
throughout the nation, four camps
assigned to the Soil Conservation
service in Oregon will observe the
fifth anniversary of the organiza
tion of the Civilian Conservation
corps on Sunday, April 3, reports
A. W. Middleton, CCC administra
tor for these camps. "Open House"
will be held so that people in the
surrounding country and commu
nities may become better acquaint
ed with camp personnel and soil ero
sion control measures they have put
into effect.
Erosion control treatment on Ore
gon farms totalling approximately
250,000 acres has been completed by
enrollees from these four camps,
working under the direction of
trained engineers, foresters, agron
omists, and other soil conservation
technicians attached to the camps.
Plans have been made for similar
work on aproximately 550,000 acres,
it was reported.
.Enrollees are engaged in putting
into effect on farms of cooperators
within the camp areas practical
methods to keep the soil from be
ing washed off sloping fields, by run
off waters. CCC-Soil Conservation
service camps are located in strate
gic farming areas where soil erosion
problems typical of wide surround
ing areas are encountered. From the
sand dunes on Clatsop beaches to
the wheat lands of eastern Oregon
these camps are demonstrating to
Oregon farmers the latest methods
of curbing sheet and gully erosion,
conserving moisture, and maintain
ing soil fertility and erosion resist
ance. Locations of soil conservation
camps are: Warrenton, Simnasho,
Moro, and Heppner.
Control of gullies that were cut
ting back into fertile farms required
the building of nearly five hundred
permanent and 1500 temporary check
dams and the sloping in and seed
ing of one million square yards of
gully banks to soil-holding vegeta
tion. Contour tilling is being prac
ticed on several thousand acres de
voted to wheat production, on which
camps have worked. This method su
percedes the customary up-and-down
hill practice which has caused
loss of soil and water . on sloping
fields.
Straw farming, essentially the
mixing of crop residues with topsoil
to create a porous, wash-proof and
blow-proof surface, has been adopt
ed on more than five thousand acres
of wheat land within erosion control
areas in central Oregon.
Several hundred thousand trees
and shrubs have been planted on
Oregon farms under cooperative
agreement with the Soil Conserva
tion service. Plantings have been in
the form of shelterbelts, woodlots,
for wildlife food and shelter, and to
hold soil on gully banks and steep
slopes.
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