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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, Mar. 7, 1940
Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE,
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
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Official Paper for Morrow County
Ken Binns
MANY people now residing in
Heppner may not recall Ken
Binns, more recently on the sports
staff of the Seattle Times, who re
cently signed "30" to his last story.
Appearance of a nationally syndi
ted article on skiing by-lined "Ken
Binns" last winter inspired recol
lection in these columns of child
hood days in Heppner when Ken
Binns and your informant learned
something of life's mysteries to
gether. Recollection of those days now,
memorialized by Mark Twain as the
grandest in any man's life, deepens
the sorrow of Ken's passing.
Tribute is due Ken. By those of
us who feel deeply about Heppner,
because he is one of those boys who
first knew life here who went forth
into the world to gain a niche of
fame. And by the writer in partic
ular because on various occasions
Ken proved a friend when a friend
was needed.
Probably no other acquaintance in
the field of journalism was more
helpful. None inspired a deeper re
spect for and admiration of journal
istic ideals.
Therefore we say amen to the
fellow sportswriter on the "Times"
who was thus inspired by Ken's
passing:
"The snow-clad slopes of God's
mighty mountains which knew the
touch of Ken Binn's flying skis, "the
streams of the state where he waded
to lure the gamely trout to his bait,
will know him no more, for Ken,
sportsman, gentleman and newspa
per man extraordinary, died today
"He loved the great outdoors and
reveled in its glories. He sought
his joys out under the great can
opy of the sky and understood, na
ture's many strange whims.
"He loved the rugged peaks of
the great mountains and fought na
ture as he went to them for play.
And when nature softened her touch
and the snows retreated before the
advance of spring, he continued to
commune with the great outdoors
by wading the streams and rivers.
"For those of us whose privilege it
was to know him well, he was a
nobleman.
"For those of us who worked
shoulder to shoulder with him for
a decade, he was a pal, carried his
load with a smile and was always
ready to help if our packs felt too
heavy on the march of daily tasks.
"It is not only that we, who worked
with him will miss him. Nature, too,
lias lost a pal, and a close one.
"Good skiing Ken, very good ski
ing on the other side.''
or the relationship of organisms to
their environment.
This second annual colloquium,
like the first a year ago, is spon
sored by Phi Kappa Phi, national
scholastic honor society, in cooper
ation with other scientific groups
on the campus.
Visiting speakers include Dr. Law
rence E. Griffin, professor of zool
ogy at Reed college; Dr. A. L. Haf-
enrichter, Soil Conservation service,
Spokane, Wn.; Dr. A. B. Hatch, bu
reau of biological survey, Portland;
Dr. R. H. Huestis, professor of zool
ogy, University of Oregon; F. P.
Keen, senior entomologist, U. S. D.
A., Portland, and G. D. Pickford,
senior forest ecologist, Portland.
Science Confab Ready
at OSC March 9
Oregon State College A group of
the foremost scientists in the Pacific
northwest will join staff members
of Oregon State college in provid
ing a program for the one-day biol
ogy colloquium here Saturday, Mar.
9. Chief visiting speaker will be Dr.
H. L. Shantz, former president of
the University of Arizona and now
chief of the division of wild life
management in the United States
forest service.
Public school and college teach
ers of science subjects have been
particularly invited to attend this
one-day conference, where it will
be possible to obtain in the briefest
possible time a comprehensive sur
vey of recent accomplishments in
the field of biology. Stressed par
ticularly this year will be ecology,
Sociologist Sees
Value, Danger in
AAA Organization
Farmer committees used in ad
ministering local features of the na
tional agricultural conservation pro
gram have prevented the AAA set
up from assuming the form of a
governmental bureaucracy, domin
ated by Washington, declared Dr.
Edmund deS. Brunner, professor of
rural sociology, Columbia univer
sity, New York, at his visit last
week to the O. S. C. campus at Cor
vallis, where he spoke to agricul
tural students and faculty, as well
as at the home economics fiftieth
anniversary celebration.
Dr. Brunner, national authority
on rural prolbems and author of
several rural sociology textbooks,
praised the agricultural adjustment
program for its vigorous effort to
solve major difficulties which con
front farmers today.
With the lecturer's praise for far
mer committee administration also
came a word of warning. There is
a potential danger, he said, that
the thousands of AAA committee
men in the United States may be
come a "pressure - group," placing
agricultural interests above those
of the nation as a whole. They
should be watchful, he cautioned,
that farmers who constitute a min
ority group do not abuse their pre
sent organized strength by seeking
unmerited advantages from con
gress. Having prevented Washing
ton dominaton it remains to be
seen if they will in turn attempt to
dominate Washington.
The agricultural conservation pro
gram is supervised locally by county
and community committees, each
having a membership of three farm
ers. The county extension agent is
ex-officio member of, and adviser
to the county committees. Oregon
has 1026 community committeemen
and 174 county committeemen, in
cluding alternates, all elected by
their neighbors.
The farmer committee method of
administration is based upon the
farm program's recognition that
knowledge and experience of farm
ers themselves should be' utilized if
sound decisions' are to be reached
on the many immediate problems
which arise locally. A recognized
value of the farm committee admin
istration is that many new rural
leaders have developed among com
mittee groups.
Home Ec Meeting
Breaks Record as
1249 Jam Campus
The tenth annual Home Interests
conference, combined with the cel
ebration of the fiftieth anniversary
VALUABLE HORSE LOST
Mrs. B. F. Swaggart, who was in
Heppner Wednesday from her Swag
gart buttes ranch, reported the loss
of a valuable Creamoline colt. The
animal had been running in a pas
ture about three miles from the
home place and it is feared that
some ambitious truck driver may
have loaded him up and transport
ed him away from this section. Mrs.
Swaggart is offering a reward for
information about the animal.
CARD OF APPRECIATION
I wish to express my deep appre
ciation to the Heppner fire depart
ment and to all indiviuals who re
sponded to the fire call Saturday
evening. Although damage was mi
nor the possibility of a bad fire
was great and only the timely action
of those on the job prevented ser
ious damage.
J. G. BARRATT.
Chas. B. Cox spent a few days
in Portland with Mrs. Cox, who
has been receiving medical atten
tion in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Will
Ball accompanied Mr. Cox to Portland.
of the founding of home economics
education at Oregon State college,
broke all attendance records with a
total registration of 1249, from 24
counties and about a dozen other
states.
Visitors devoted the first day of
the session to an appraisal of the
past and future of home economics
education, and then spent the last
two days in a series of crowded
group meetings, where homemakers
had opportunity to brush up on the
latest developments in the various
branches of their profession.
Home economics has now become
education for home and family life,
and it is experiencing the fascinat
ing adventure of re-appraising the
past to determine what is worthy of
passing on to the future, said Dr.
Edmund deS. Brunner of Columbia
univesity, one of the principal speak
ers this year.
"The age-old concept of the fam
ily as a clan dominated by the father
as dictator, is passing," he pointed
out. "In its place we view the
family as the primary social group
in a society striving increasingly to
achieve democratic ideals. Never
have the opportunities been greater
to build a strong and happy family
life."
Chancellor F. M. Hunter led a
discussion of the future of home
economics education, participated in
by nine deans or directors of home
economics from middle western and
western states. Chancellor Hunter
declared that home economics edu
cation has progressed to a place
where it now constitutes essentially
one of the humanities in higher ed
ucation. "We become convinced that some
of the so-called practical prepara
tion for life plays exactly the same
role as those subjects and projects
which we now revere as classics
played for the people of ancient
Greece," said Dr. Hunter.
Mrs. Ethel Lathrop ot Jackson
county remains as president of the
stato home economics extension
council, which met in connection
with the Home Interests conference
This nnun cil awarded its annual
cash scholarship to Miss Bette Car.
others of Corvallis, who was judged
to be the most worthy of such fin
ancial assistance among seniors pre
paring for home economics exten
sion work. '
Shingle Bulletin
Issued by OSC
Shows Many Uses
Red cedar shingles, a distinctly
western product, constitute one of
iho hpst. if not the best, material
for modernization and repair of farm
and home buildings, according to
the authors of a new bulletin issued
by the extension service at Oregon
State college, which is virtually a
handbook for those who contemplate
using shingles in any type of build
ing construction.
"Roofs and Exterior Walls of Red
Cedar Shingles" is the title of this
extension bulletin, No. 540, written
by W. J. Gilmore, professor of ag
ricultural engineering; H. R. Sin
nard, associate professor of archi
tecture, and E. H. Davis, extension
specialist in agricultural engineer
ing , c
"The most important function ol
farm buildings is to provide shelter
for the farmer's family, livestock,
crops, and equipment," the authors
set out in the introduction. "This
protection comes mainly from the
roof and exterior walls. Since it
is recognized that many farm build
ings need only new roofs and exter
ior walls to make them modern and
well insulated, emphasis in this
bulletin is placed on modernization
and repair with red cedar shingles."
By observing the suggestions off
ered, it is believed that farmers
will be able to shingle roofs and
exterior walls of new buildings, or
reroof or cover the exterior walls
of old buildings with a minimum
outlay of cash. Application of shin
gles by the farmer himself is em
phasized throughout the bulletin,
which contains specific directions
for applying shingles over an old
roof or over an old wall, and for
handling the operations all the way
through to final staining and paint
ing. Diagrams, photographs and
text are use throughout in giving
directions for installing flashing,
gutters, downspouts, and other fea
tures in connection with new con
struction or remodeling work.
This 48-page bulletin has been
issued for free distribution to citi
zens of other states, as well as to
those in Oregon. Oregon citizens
may also obtain at cost blueprints
for most of the farm buildings il
lustrated in the booklet.
Trees Used to Protect
Steep Land from Slides
Use of young .trees, and particu
larly black locusts, to heal soil slides
on steep slopes is gaining in favor
in various parts of eastern Oregon
and Washington, reports the Soil
Conservation service. Even where
the sloping land has washed or
slipped away to great depths, the
trees have served to stabilize the
situation, prevent further damage,
and afford future protection even to
adjacent areas.
On the Harold Johnson farm near
Colfax, Wash., such a washed area
was smoothed over somewhat and
and planted to trees in February,
1938. Now, two years later, that
planting of locust trees is 10 to 15
feet tall, and is well on the way to
providing good post material, as well
as full protection for the soil.
Oregon State Gets
$1500 for Photo work
Oregon State College The Carne
gie corporation of New York has
just granted $1500 to finance a re
search project at O. S. C, to be
handled jointly by the library and
physics departments. Workers in
these departments will attempt to
develop a cheaper and more effec
tive method of using micro-photography
in copying and filing rare
manuscripts or current newspapers.
By means of photographing news
papers or other documents, page by
page, on small film such as is used
for motion pictures, it is possible
to file such material in a fraction
of the space otherwise needed. The
films are projected on a screen in
enlarged form for the use of students
or others.
REPUBLICANS TO MEET
Frank C. Alfred, president of the
Morrow County Republican club,
has called a meeting of the group
for Monday evening, March 11, at
8 o'clock. The meeting will be held
in the court room at the county
courthouse. Important business is
to come before the group for dis
cussion and Mr. Alfred has express
ed the wish for a good attendance.
CALL FOR WARRANT
To correct error in published call
of September 6th, 1939, for John Day
Irrigation District Warrants, No. 303
was inadvertently printed when it
should have been No. 302 on which
later number this call now applies,
interest to cease at this date. Feb
ruary 28, 1940.
L. W. BRIGGS,
Morrow County Treasurer.
Elks' Hall
SATURDAY
March 9
Merrill's Orchestra
Sponsored by
HEPPNER SCHOO BAND
Admission 75c the couple
Open Air Concert
by School Band at 3:30 p. m.
on Main Street.
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