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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, Dec. 29, 1938
Heppner
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Official Paper tor Morrow Comnty
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The New Year
fXUD FATHER TIME is' slated to
expire at midnight December 31.
He has been badly battle-scarred
in the last year, what with Japanese
bombs and Spanish shrapnel pep
pering him almost constantly and
Herr Hitler taking several good
healthy punches at his chin, but in
spite of this beating he will be fond
ly remembered for having be
queathed posterity with many spir
itual values that will give the Babe
1939 a healthy start.
While minds of politicians are
just now being keyed to untangle a
bad economic mess, the minds of the
public generally are still tuned to the
joys of fellowship and giving pre
dominating at the Christmas season.
Ill will, generally, is at the lowest
ebb of any time of the year, and the
spirit of live and let live has scored
a new high.
It is entirely fitting that interest
in Morrow county at present is cen
tering more in the fine group of
young people home from college on
vacation, in their accomplishments
and in their promise for the future,
than in next year's wheat crop. And
it is encouraging to note that a local
automobile firm has had the high
est sale of new cars this month for
any December since 1929 though
the cost of educating the young folks
and providing new cars (incentive
in many instances being given by
same) makes the low wheat price
look rather ominous.
The new cars are an encouraging
sign, for they indicate confidence in
the new year. And so, also, is the
general trend of improvement in
homes, in town and on farm, in bus
iness establishments and in prop
erty generally. These are indica
tions that our people are regaining
confidence in themselves as well as
in government, much of which was
lost in years of depression.
The promise of the new year does
not lie so much in betterment of
economic conditions, however. The
restored confidence which these bet
tered conditions imply, however,
points to a more contented people
who will think more of the higher
values of life; who, through being
released from shackles of hardship
will have more leisure to devote to
relaxing sports, to inspiring art, mu
sic and literature.
Such a people will have naught of
war. For minds so occupied are not
subject to avaricious thought. They
may not envy, hate, nor care for
greed. As one man wisely put it,
"Peace can only be attained in the
minds of the people."
Dog Fighting
CONGRESS convenes next week.
Immediately it gets under way
major issues will be turned into po
litical footballs to shape election
trends for 1940. Political dopesters
are busy analyzing every prospective
action to predetermine what these
trends may be.
In view of the strong political
pressure that may be expected, the
peoples' interests may at times suf
fer, and "dog fighting" among groups
interested in obtaining the same ends
will do little good toward attaining
those ends.
This is pointed out by leaders in
the northwest wheat industry who
recently got together and formed a
united front in protection of the
present farm act principle while ask
ing for such modifications as they
believe will better serve their in
dustry. With differences before pre
vailing among growers as to minor
parts of the act, it was feared that
should various factions within the
industry make conflicting demands
the way would be laid open for ene
mies to throw the act out in en
tirety. The move of the wheat growers
is wise, and should receive general
support from growers and those de
pendent upon them.
While the farm act as now consti
tuted may not be perfect, and while
it may not be operating to the best
interests of all the growers or of the
public generally, it is tending to ac
complish that which must be accom
plished for this important basic in
dustry to' keep its head above water.
It is right in principle that acre
age producing wheat should be re
duced to a point where a great dam
aging surplus will not be direly de
pressing the market. It is right in
principle that this acreage reduction
be accomplished without working
undue hardship upon any grower
who is operating on an economical
basis. And it is right in principle
that the land taken out of wheat
should be so conserved as to be of
greatest general benefit. These things
are striven for in a manner that
cannot be unduly criticized.
It would have been impossible to
make a perfect law to cover all an
gles at one writing. What has been
attained, however, has originated
with the farming industry. Every at
tempt has been made to keep the
agricultural act from being made a
political football. This is the spirit
in which wheat growers of the north
west are approaching the problem
of making the act work to greater
benefit of everyone. Members of
congress of both major parties should
lend a sympathetic ear.
IRRIGON NEWS '
CUTSFORTH ADVANCES FACTS AND
ARGUMENTS ON SCHOOL PLANS
Irrigon Homes
Have Holiday Visitors
By MRS. W. C. ISOM
Mac and Daphne McCoy of Imbler
visited relatives here Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Kendler and
daughter Yvonne of Grand Coulee,
Wash., arrived here Tuesday. Mr.
Kendler will return to Grand Coulee
January 2nd and Mrs. Kendler and
daughter will remain with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Isom, for
an extended visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Jones of
Rainier arrived Friday to spend the
Christmas holidays with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Beard of Lusk,
Wyoming, visited their aunt, Mrs. W.
C. Isom, and family Tuesday. They
were enroute to Hood River to visit
Mrs. Beard's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
S. L. Cork.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Warner and
family, Mrs. James Warner, Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Rand and Mr. and Mrs.
Foster and family from Hermiston
were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Batie Rand Christmas day.
The school gave a Christmas pro
gram Thursday evening that was
enjoyed by a large crowd of local
people. A Christmas tree and Santa
Claus' presence made the small
folks happy.
Members of the teaching staff are
spending their Christmas holidays at
their respective homes, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Jones with his parents near
Freewater, Miss Crooks at La
Grande, Miss Bowling in Portland,
Miss Clark in Eugene and Miss Du
senberry at Weiser, Idaho.
L. R. Smith of Wallowa is visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Fred Dall and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Berry and fam
ily of Portland spent Christmas with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett
McCoy.
Rev. and Mrs. Harness and Mr.
Sparks were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Steward Christmas.
Robert Smith and Clair Caldwell
returned home for the holidays. Ver
non Caldwell and wife of Portland
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Caldwell over the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery Bediwell spent
Christmas with their son and fam
ily at Sunnyside, Wash.
The Pentecostal church members
put on a Christmas play Friday
night. A large crowd was present
A misstatement anent the county
school law, proposed for adoption in
Morrow county as a means of effect
ing more efficiency in operating
county schools, was given at the
Lexington meeting last week as re
ported in these columns, says Orville
Cutsforth, chairman of the commit
tee making a study of proposed
plans.
The county school law definitely
provides that local school committees
have power to reject teachers not to
their liking. It was reported that lo
cal committees had only advisory
power in this connection with final
decision left to the county school
board.
Answering one argumentt that
danger under the county school law
lies in the possibility of an unsym
pathetic board majority unduly hurt
ing a particular school, Mr. Cutsforth
said that investigation reveals that
in very few instances in counties
operating under the plan have any
decisions been made that have not
been unanimously approved by the
entire board.
That teachers' salaries might be
unduly lowered, another fear ad
vanced, was refuted by quoting from
a statement published in the Oregon
Journal last Friday, which showed
three counties operating under the
county school law paying higher av-
and treats of candy and nuts were
given the children.
. Mr. and Mrs. James Arnbery were
guests of relatives at Pilot Rock on
Christmas.
(Crowded out last week)
R. M. Boyd of Longview, Wash.,
skidded his car on the highway east
of town, striking Mr. Anestes, a sec
tion man. He was taken to Hermiston
for medical treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell McCoy and
family arrived the last of the week
to spend the holidays with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett McCoy.
John Voile, Chas. Acock, Harvey
Warner, Carl Knighten and Prof.
Ralph Jones were Heppner visitors
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Batie Rand, Mrs.
Tom Caldwell and Mrs. Robert
Smith were among the Christmas
shoppers in Pendleton last Wednesday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gentry returned
from Centralia Tuesday and will re
main over the holidays with her
daughter, Mrs. Don Isom.
Miss Florine Brace spent the week
end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
F. Brace.
Irrigon high school basketball
team played the Boardman team at
Boardman Wednesday night. The
score was 5 to 10 in Irrigon's favor.
Miss Hayes of Horseshoe Bend, Id
aho, was a guest of Mrs. Tom Cald
well Sunday night.
Mrs. Robert Smith was an over
night guest of a friend in Hermiston
Monday.
Mrs. Earl Leach and sister Lucille
and brother Willard Jones were
shopping in Pendleton Saturday.
Calomel on Seed Tried
As Maggot Control
The use of mercurous chloride,
commonlv known as calomel, as a
seed treatment to prevent the dam
age from onion maggots, will be
given thorough field tests this com
ing season as a result of promising
results obtained by the OSC experi
ment station in plot trials last year.
Plots where treated seed was
sown produced 70 per cent more
onions than adjoining plots un
treated. Various spray tests were
also made and a few looked prom
ising, but more hope is held out for
success with the seed treatment as
it would be lower in cost and easier
to apply than either spraying or
dusting.
Studies on the control of onion
maggot, the most serious pest of this
crop, and of several onion diseases
were conducted under the terms of
a special appropriation provided by
the last legislature. Preliminary re
sults are given in the recent illus
trated bulletin, "Special Agricultural
Investigations.
Henry Peterson was in the city
Tuesday from Gooseberry.
erage salaries than those prevailing
in Morrow county. The fourth "unit"
county, Lincoln, is paying only
slightly lower average salaries.
Morrow county, paying an average
of $823.75 in the grades and $1290.43
in high schools, was shown to be
under the state averages of $930.25
in grades and $1314.96 in high
schools. Eight counties were shown
to be under the state average.
Mr. Cutsforth said an argument
had been advanced from the Board-man-Irrigon
section that adoption
of county school law would cut rev
enues received from tax on railway
property. He said it was true that
under the county school law, based
on current expenditures, the rail
road tax wWd be cut about 8 mills
but that the rest of the county would
match funds with the north end to
the tune of about 30 per cent to
compensate for this factor. And he
pointed out that people of the Board-man-Irrigon
section would enjoy like
cut to that received by railway prop
erty. As to the possibility of consolidat
ing districts rather than going un
der the county unit law, Mr. Cuts
forth said three districts now trans
porting pupils into Lexington are
about to be abandoned, leaving very
few, if any, districts with which Lex
ington might consolidate.
Yield of Ponderosa
Pine Stands Studied
The yield of Ponderosa pine, most
important lumber tree of eastern
Oregon and Washington, is the sub
ject of a new technical bulletin just
published by the Forest Service, U.
S. Department of Agriculture.
The bulletin presents the results
of a study of the yield of Ponderosa
pine in even-aged stands, made by
Walter H. Meyer, formerly silvicul
turist of the Pacific Northwest for
est experiment station, and now on
the teaching staff of the college of
forestry, University of Washington.
Ponderosa pine, Meyer says, is
one of the most important trees of
the western United States, growing
on more than 50 million acres in a
range extending from the western
border of the great plains to the
Pacific Coast ranges. The wood is
commercially valuable throughout
its range. He presents numerous ta
bles, including increment tables,
stand and stock tables, from which
predictions of future sizes of trees
can be made; height curve graphs
useful in calculating volume, growth
and yield; and volume tables in
cubic and board feet.
Copies of Department of Agricul
ture technical bulletin No. 630,
"Yield of Even-Aged Stands of Pon
derosa Pine," can be obtained for
15 cents per copy from the superin
tendent of documents, Washington,
D. C.
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