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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, November 28, 1940
Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE.
Established March 30. 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15. 1912
Published every Thursday morning by
CBAWTOBD PUBLISHING COMPANY
and entered at the Post Office at Hepp
uer, Oregon, as second-class matter.
JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor
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Official Paper for Morrow County
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We Started Something
QUITE innocently, the Gazette
Times reported the considerable
length of one man's residence in the
county. The next week there came
forward another man who had the
first man's record beat, and note was
made in the paper of his record.
Now this week two more pioneers
step forward.
E. G. Noble, veteran maker of the
famous Heppner saddle, came to the
community in 1872, before Morrow
county was cut out of Umatilla
county. Then Heppner contained
one store, one blacksmith shop, one
saloon, one one-room schoolhouse.
He saw tho "bunchgrass on the hills
wave like rye fields in the breezes,
and Indian trails transformed into
beautiful hghways ... in fact many
changes."
Mrs. S. P. Devin came to the
county in 1876, has lived here con
tinuously since.
These have come forward to be
recognized. There are many more
who should be. It would be interest
ing to know just who is the oldest
person now living in Morrow county
who was born within its boundaries;
just who has resided in the county
the longest.
The passing of another pioneer,
Michael Kenny, this week brings to
mind that the ranks of those who
broke Morrow county's sod are be
coming all too thin. Mr. Kenny was
among the original homesteaders,
and one of the stagecoach drivers
who now are scarce, indeed. Start
ing with a small land grant claim
from the government, Mr. Kenny
grew with the new west to become
one of the large operators of live
stock and farm lands. Honored is
he with those other pioneers who
builded the foundation for the coun
ty of today.
This newspaper welcomes all pio
neers to step forward with their
story as a contribution of historical
value to those who must carry on.
Wool Growers To
Tackle Problems
At Lakeview Meet
Lakeview. A considerable num
ber of problems affecting Oregon
sheep growers are scheduled for dis
cussion at the forty-fourth annual
convention of the Oregon Wool
Growers association in Lakeview,
December 1, 2 and 3. The program
just announced by Mac Hoke, presi
dent, and Walter A. Holt, secretary,
both of Pendleton, calls for com
mittee meetings starting at 1:30 o'
clock December 1, with the opening
of the main conventnon at 10 o'clock
Monday, December 2.
Six committees have been arranged
in advance to handle the subjects of
predatory animals, legislation and
taxation, public lands grazing, gen
eral resolutions and organization,
transportation and marketing, and
national forest grazing. The first
North Portland
Livestock Market
The Livestock Market at the Port
land Union Stock Yards, North Port
land, for the week ended November
23, ruled steady for strictly good
lightweight steers and vealers, with
other grades of cattle mostly weak
to 25c lower; hogs were around 25
to 40c lower than the best time the
previous week; sheep were strong,
with an advance of 25c on slaughter
ewes. There were 2,760 cattle, 250
calves, 4,015 hogs and 1,190 sheep
sold on the open market during the
week.
Monday's market opened this week
with 1,240 cattle, 100 calves, 2,590
hogs and 1,375 sheep for sale on the
open market.
Cattle prices Monday were mostly
25 to 50 c higher, with good beef
cows and steers showing the most
gain. A few loads of good fed steers
sold around $10.00 to $10.50, with
most of the short feds from $8.75 to
$9.25. Common to medium beef heif
ers sold around $6.00 to $8.25, and
one load of good heifers reached
$9.00. Canner to common cows sold
from $3.25 to $5.00 mainly with fat
dairy cows up to $5.50. Good beef
cows made $6.50 to $7.00. Medium
to good bulls moved at $6.25 to $6.75,
with odd heads up to $7.00. Good to
choice vealers were steady at $10.00
to $10.50.
Tuesday's cattle quotations were
unchanged from Monday's trading.
The market opened fairly active,
but the closing trade ruled slow.
The Monday hog market was act
ive and fully steady. Good to choice
170 to 215 lb. truckins cashed at
$6.25 to mostly $6.35, with a few out
standing lots slightly above. Top
carlots reached $6.50. 230 to 270 lb.
butchers sold mainly around $5.75,
with a few to $6.00. Lightweights
brought $5.50 to $5.75, with a few to
$6.00. Packing sows were mostly
$4.00 to $4.50, with smooth light
weights upward to $4.75. Good to
choice feeder pigs brought $4.00 to
$4.50.
Tuesdays' hog market was active
with sales usually strong to 5c high
er than Monday, although the ex
treme top advanced 10c, one out
standing lot of truckins selling at.
$6.60.
Mondays' demand was good in the
sheep alleys, with fat lambs selling
fully steady and slaughter ewes
strong to 25s higher. Good to choice
trucked in wooled lambs made $8.50
to $8.65, with a carload 'and a few
lots selling up to $8.75. ood slaughter
ewes sold from $4.00 to $4.50, with
common to medium kinds at $2.00 to
$3.50.
The trading in the sheep alleys
Tuesday was active at fully steady
prices for both lambs and ewes.
The following quotations are based
on prices being paid in Tuesday's
trading:
CATTLE: Good grain-fed steers
session of the regular convention
will open with addresses and re
ports by the president and secretary,
and by the president of the women's
auxiliary, Mrs. Ralph I. Thompson
of Heppner. J. M. Jones, assistant
secretary of the National Wool
Growers association, Salt Lake City,
will discuss "Increasing Lamb Con
sumption."
E. B. McNaughton, president of
theFirst National bank of Portland
and chairman of the Oregon econom
ic council, will speak on "America's
Place in a New World" during the
afternoon. Other speakers will be
Grover C. Hill, assistant secretary
of agriculture, Washington, D. C,
on "Building Western Ranges;" R.
C. Rich, past president of the Na
tional Wool Growers' association,
Burley, Ida., on "How to Sell More
Wool;" and D. R. Phelps of San
Francisco on "Meat and Romance,"
illustrated with motion pictures. The
annual banquet will follow in the
evening.
Tuesday's program, in addition to
committee reports, will include talks
by D. E. Richards, of the Union
branch experiment station, on "What
Is New in Sheep Management;" Dean
William A. Schoenfeld of O.S.C. on
"Land Use in Oregon;" J. H. Carkin
of the Oregon public utilities com
mission on "Transportation Prob
lems," and E. L. Potter, O.S.C. on
"War and Its Effect on the Wool
Market."
TRAFFIC SURVEY SHOWS NEED FOR
REVISION OF "BASIC RULE" LAW
Oregon traffic regulations need
immediate revision to provide for
supplementation of the "basic rule"
by simplified and reasonable num
erical speeds, and authority for cit
ies as well as the state to establish
speed zones, it is declared in a sur
vey, "The Regulation of Maximum
Automobile Speed," prepared by the
Portland branch of the bureau of
mnuicipal research and service of
the University of Oregon.
The survey, which includes a mass
of information gathered from Port
land, other Oregon cities and from
cities of over 100,000 in other parts
of the United States, emphasizes the
finding that excessive speed is the
most frequent contributing cause of
fatal accidents, and an important
contributing cause of all types of
accidents.
Oregon is today the only state in
which absolute or prima facie speed
limits do not apply to mnuicipali
ties, and the only state which has
retained "indicated" speeds in its
legislation. Oregon cities do not
leave authority to fix maxmum lim
its at present.
Of 65 American and Canadian cit
ies studied, Portland is the only one
having indicated speeds, except Long
$10.00 to $10.50. Good grass steers
and short feds $8.50 to $9.25. Good
grain-fed heifers $8.75 to $9.00. Good
grass heifers $7.75 to $8.40. Good
beef cows $6.50 to $7.25, medium
$5.50 to $6.25, common $4.50 to $5.25,
canners $3.25 to $4.00. Bulls, medium
to good $6.00 to $6.75, odd heads $7,
common $5.00 to $5.75. Vealers, good
HOGS: . Good to choice carlots
to choice $10.00 to $10.50.
$6.60; 170 to 215 lb. truckins $6.35 to
$6.45, one lot $6.60; 230 to 285 lb.
butchers $5.50 to $6.00; lightweight
butchers $5.50 to $5.75; packing
sows $4.00 to $4.75. Feeder pigs $4.00
to $4.50.
SHEEP: Good to choice wooled
lambs $8.50 to $8.75; medium to
good $7.75 to $8.25; common $6.75
to $7.50. Slaughter ewes, good to
choice, $4.00 to $4.50. Feeder lambs,
good to choice $7.50. Shorn lamsb
$7.75.
Beach, California. In Long Beach,
hawever, prima facie limits have
been interpreted similarly to indi
cated speed.
"In the experience of Portland
enforcement officers, majority of
Oregon city police and national au
thorities, indicated speeds are not
capable of effective enforcement,"
the survey declares. "National traf
fic authorities and other states and
cities have abandoned the concept
of indicated speeds as an experiment
that failed. Maximum speed regula
tions that are capable of effective
enforcement are an important aid to
the city or state interested in acci
dent reduction."
Typical of the finding in the sur
vey is a table prepared by the feder
of bureau of public roads. Officials
probed 892 fatal accidents, and found
2524 contributing causes. Of these,
excessive speed led the list with a
total of 636. Excessive speed as the
most important or predominating
! factor was listed by 17 of 26 Port
land officers interviewed. Eight oth
ers listed it as very important. The
same opinion was voiced by officials
from cities in all sections of Ore
gon. The survey includes a copy of the
uniform vehicle code, 1939 edition,
prepared by the U. S.' bureau of
public roads. This recommends a
speed limit, where no special haz
ards exist, of 25 miles per hour in
any business district, 50 miles an
hour in other locations during the
daytime, and 45 miles in other lo
cations at night.
Opinions from Burton W. Marsh,
director of the safety and traffic en
gineering department of the Amer
ican Automobile association, from
Harold F. Hammond, director of the
traffic division of the National Con
servation bureau, and from others,
are also included.
The survey makes the following
definite recommendations: Use of
the revisions of the uniform motor
vehicle code as a guide, retention of
the basic rule, substitution of num
erical prima facie or absolute speeds
within cities for present indicated
speeds, proper authority for speed
zoning on the part of the state and
mnuicipalities, and simplification of
the statement of numerical speeds
similar to provisions of the uniform
act regulating traffic.
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