Thursday, July 20, 1939
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Five
Leonard Carlson made a business
visit to the city Saturday from the
farm in Gooseberry. His place was
among those heavily hit by last
week's cyclone and he was busy
catching up the loose ends to find
just where he stood. To see a good
looking crop prospect wiped out
right under one's nose in 15-minutes
time is a thrilling experience, and
.such as one does not care to see re
peated, Mr. Carlson believed.
L. R. Stockman, hydraulic en
gineer of Baker, and son R. L.
Stockman were over-night guests
at Hotel Heppner Sunday while in
the county on business in connection
with the new water system at Lex
ington. While in the city Mr. Stock
man was consulted on the break in
the local pipe line that caused a
critical shortage for several days and
caused opening of the new swim
ming tank to be postponed.
The Andrew Baldwin family
joined the Harlan Devin family of
Condon for a three-day vacation at
Blue Mt. springs in Grant county
last week end. Mr. Baldwin report
d that he and Mr. Devin caught
the limit of trout in a few hours,
and that his son Jim cut his eye
teeth at the fishing game by catch
ing the largest trout brought into
camp, and with a willow pole and
snell hook.
Jack Hynd was transacting busi
ness in the city Monday from But
terby Flats ranch at Cecil. A 600
acre grass fire burned over the Hynd
brothers range in the sand country
Sunday evening, keeping all hands,
on the ranch busy for several hours.
A contingent of enrollees from Camp
Heppner, CCC, gave valuable assist
ance in controlling the blaze.
Miss Edna Stephens was in the
city Monday from the farm in the
Hardman vicinity. She reported that
her father saw a large ball of fire
in the south-southwestern heavens
between 2 and 3 o'clock that morn
ing, in which location astronomers
have reported Mars may be viewed
at this time in closest proximity to
the earth in many years.
Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Crawford de
parted Friday morning for Portland
. and southern Oregon after a six
weeks' visit with relatives here, dur
ing which time Mr. Crawford assist
ed at the Gazette Times office. They
expected to spend a faw days in
Portland before going on to their
home at Ashland.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Main and small
sons, Jack and Jim, visited with
friends in the city a few hours Mon
day on their way from Pomeroy,
Wash., to Longview, Wash., while
Mr. Main is on a two-weeks' vaca
tion from his work as manager of
the Safeway store at Pomeroy.
Burl Gurdane was a visitor in the
city Tuesday for a short time on
his way home to Umatilla from a
short vacation. He called on a num
ber of old-time friends from days
when he resided here. He now op
erates an acreage and service sta
tion at Umatilla.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Gray and son
of Portland arrived in the city yes
terday and are guests at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. T. Babb while Mr.
Gray transacts business in connec
tion with his position as manager
of Copeland Lumber yards at Portland.
Homer Green was visiting in town
Monday from the Liberty section,
Though his grain was not directly
in the path of last week's cyclone,
he believed wind damage would cut
down the yield three to five bushels.
His grain had been spring sown.
Mrs. Clara Beamer and Mrs. Jo
seph Hughes left the first of the
week in Mrs. Beamer's car for the
San Francisco fair, where they ex
pected to remain for a week.
Dr. J. P. Stewart, Eye-Sight Spec
ialist of Pendleton, will be at the
HEPPNER HOTEL on WEDNES
DAY, JULY 26th.
Ralph Butler of Willows was
transacting business in the city
Tuesday. He expected to start cut
ting his second crop of alfalfa in the
next day or so. Hynd's and Krebs'
ranches had already started cutting
their second crops. A good yield was
expected.
Miss Georgia Kennedy of Corvallis
was a week-end guest at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Edgar Parker, and
with Mrs. Parker and children de
parted Monday on the return home,
Mrs. Parker to visit at the parental
home for two weeks.
Guests of Mrs. L. G. Rumble for
the last week were her nephew and
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gibson of
Newbury, Mich. Visiting here on
their honeymoon, Mr. and Mrs. Gib
son reported being much pleased
with the west.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Felker and
baby daughter left Saturday after
noon for Portland for a week's visit
while Mr. Felker is on vacation
from his position as teller in the
local branch, First National Bank
of Portland.
Mrs. D. P. Phelan returned home
this week from a month's visit with
relatives in Minnesota, taking in
many points of interest while away.
Mr. and Mrs. Phelan have moved
ther residence to the Jones apartments.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Shank, Jane and
Joseph, of Marshfield, visited in the
city a few days the first of the week
with Mrs. Shank's brothers, Henry
and Harold Cohn, and families. Mrs.
Shank was formerly Miss Eleanor
Cohn.
Mrs. Ted Krehler and children,
Sherri Diane and Gary of Walla
Walla are visiting at the C. J. An
derson home in Gooseberry. Mrs.
Krehler was formerly Miss Hazel
King of the Dry Fork district.
Mrs. Frank Riggs and son, Frank
Clark, returned to their home at
Cottage Grove this week after a
visit of several weeks at the home
of Mrs. Riggs' parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. D. Clark.
Walter Freels and son Carl of
Wallowa were business visitors in
the city yesterday, Mr. Freels being
interested in selling a block of tim
berland which he (holds in this county-
E. Jay Merrill, pioneer Hardman
resident, was about the streets in
town Tuesday, having just emerged
from an attack of flu that had left
him feeling pretty weak.
The W. C. McCarty family expect
ed to leave today for a week-end
vacation at Wallowa lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Smith of Balm
Fork departed Sunday for Longview,
Wash., for a week's visit.
Merchants wise advertise in the
Heppner Gazette Times.
SlabWood
$4 Cord for Green
$5 Cord for Dry
-delivered anywhere
within three miles . .
anywhere in county
reasonable.
3 at Mill
Good Wood
Good Measure
Heppner Fuel Co.
Phones: Office 152; Res. 1122
Straw Scattering
Said Good Practice
The start of wheat harvest this
year finds more and more combines
going into the grain fields with
straw scatterers trailing along be
hind. Soil Conservation Service men in
terpret this advance in harvesting
method as one of the most promis
ing trends toward good land use and
erosion control. The more straw
scatterers that are in the field dur
ing July and August, James E. Kist
ner, camp superintendent of the
Heppner Soil Conservation service
camp, pointed out, the less occasion
there will be for stubble fires next
spring. The fewer stubble fires, he
added, the less soil washing (and
blowing) there will be through the
long 1940 fallow period when the
clean-tilled land needs protection
against excessive rain and wind.
Scattering the straw instead of
letting it feed out of the combine in
thick, windrow-like piles, Kistner
explained, leaves the straw spread
uniformly over the stubble, so that
the field can be "plowed" without
particular difficulty. Farmers who
are following soil and moisture con
servation practices, he said, go one
important step further in their crop
residue utilization substituting im
plements such as the mold-boardless
plow and disk tiller for the regular
mold-board. In this way, they leave
the straw anchored on the surface
as a good protective covering when
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crops are not growing.
Kistner called attention to the fact
that there now are a number of sat
isfactory straw scatterers on the
market and at relatively low cost
when it is remembered that such
equipment will last indefinitely if
given ordinary oiling and other care.
Several of the machines are manu
factured in the Pacific northwest.
As long as there is a field left to
cut, the superintendent suggested.
there is time to make good use of a
straw spreader, for less than an hour
is needed to attach and adjust it.
Moreover, a negligible amount of
extra power is used to pull the scat
tered The newer scatterers, too, will
permit saving of the chaff, that
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