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Page Four Heppner Gazette Times Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon THE HEPPNER GAZETTE. Established March 30, 1883; THE HEPPNER TIMES, , Established November 18, 1897; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912 Published every Thursday morning by CBAWFOBD PUBLISHING COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon, as second-class matter. JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 Three Years 6.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months . .75 Single Copies ........... 05 Official Paper for Morrow Cqpnty t0 DECEMBER 140 VM. MOW. T. WW. tHU. rW. AT. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 n "An Ounce of Prevention" PREVENTION of an influenza ep idemic such as occurred in 1917 is most certainly to be desired. There is flu and talk of flu in the air all the way from Mexico to Canada. Schools have closed pre maturely before the holidays in many cities. The lone schools were closed the first of the week, and the Heppner schools joined the ranks yesterday. Outside reoprts indicate that the flu making the rounds at this time is less severe than the so-called Spanish influenza of 1917. Locally, majority of illness seems to be in the nature of severe sore throats or bad colds, with occasional cases of flu, mostly in light form. A good many school absences in the last few days are known to be accounted for by cautious parents keeping chil dren out to prevent exposure. Precautionary measures by par ents and school authorities are to be commended in face of the situa tion, though it is unwise for any one to become panicky. No ear marks of such an epidemic as pre vailed in 1917 are now present, and there appears no necessity for sur cease of ordinary business and so cial functions solong as prudence dictates the action of individuals. Doctors at all times advise against undue exposure of others by people having colds, if it be no more than a common head cold. Coughing, sneezing or expectorating in public places should be absolutely avoid ed; and, wisdom dictates that with the first sign of chill or fever the person affected should go to bed immediately. Well persons, on the other hand, are advised to avoid congested places where they may become unduly exposed, and also to avoid subjecting themselves to ab normal changes in body tempera ture, drafts and other conditions that help to induce respiratory disorders. Hackneyed, mayhap, is the adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," but it bears repe tition frequently. Everyone should be on guard against prolonging a disagreeable and costly epidemic, and exercise of judgment by every one would seem to obviate necessity for those in authority to take more stringent measures. Merchants and townsfolk, as well as countryfolk, generally, had a lot of fun out of the guessing games conducted in connection with Hepp- neis Christmas opening. Plans are to enlarge upon the idea another year, giving the stores more time to use their ingenuity. . . . The smartest fellow this year was the one who made it most difficult on the public while making it easiest on himself. He left but one number in a six hundred number punchboard for the public to guess. All he had to do was punch out the remaining num ber and look at it Others were busy after the contest digging seeds AAA Performance For 1940 in County Related to Lions 783 Farms, 288,655 Acres Included; Pay ments $124,000 Morrow county farms totalling 783 were listed on work sheets of the local AAA office in 1940, covering 30,138.8 acres of cropland, and 288, 655 acres were covered by signed requests for participation in the 1940 program, Merle Cummings, secretary, told the Monday Lions luncheon. Estimated totals were largely given as offical figures had not been compiled. Wheat acreage allotments of 104, 261 acres were distributed for the year, and 101,029 acres were found to be in compliance. Total parity payment of $124,080.98 was received. The most popular soil building practices as indicated by compli ance check to date, all figures es timated, showed: Protected fallow 96,000 acres, contour seeding 7,000 acres, sub-soiling 6,000 acres, seed ing crested wheat grass 3,000 acres, renovation of grasses and legumes 5,000 acres, re-seeding depleted pas tures 10,000 pounds of seed, seeding annual and biennial legumes and perennial grasses other than crested wheat 800 acres, seeding alfalfa 600 acres, green manure crops 150 acres, weed control 250 acres, check dams and drops 1000 cubic feet. Practic ally all remaining practices in the 1940 handbook were used to some extent. Morrow county was first in the state in 1940 in the percentage of wheat acreage allotments covered by crop insurance, with 313 policies covering 68, 968 acres. There were 51 losses in the county and 26,395 bushels of indemnities paid. The late fall drought and extreme hot winds in June were the main con tributing factors to the loss. Morrow county is in second place for the state in number of acres insured for 1941 with 52,101 acres. To date a total of 309 commodity loans have been made covering 680, 138 bushels of wheat and 7,609 bush els of barley. Of these amounts 118, 915 bushels of wheat and 5,997 bu shels of barley are in farm storage. In the 1941 range conservation program 65 range operators of an estimated total of 75 signed up for participation is the program. Those signed control 531,222 acres of range land. Natural re-seeding by defer red grazing was practiced on 77,230 acres. Most of the allowances earn ed by this practice will be used in the construction of range fences. These allowances will build approx imately 70 miles of new three-wire fence. In addition to natural re seeding it is estimated that about 1500 acres will be artificially re seeded. Ten operators requested range wells and six have been re ported completed at this time. Re quests for 36 spring developments have been made, and it is estimated that 30 will be completed. It was necessary to make new surveys for 89,579 acres of range this year. The average carrying capacity of these surveys was 44.1 acres per animal unit. Interest shown in the 1940 range program indicates that it is becom ing a very important part of the AAA program, Cummings said. out of squashes or counting num berless beans that had been dis played in jars. Make your appointment now for the latest hairdress. Myrtle's Beauty Salon. 37tf. CHRISTMAS TREES All Sizes and Green GREEN'S FEED STORE Removal of Light Lands from Wheat Production Recommended by League Thursday, December 19 1940 Calf Vaccination Aid to Bangs Control (This is the report in full of the committee on land use, adopted at the recent conference of the Eastern Oregon Wheat league, meeting at( Pendleton.) Recognizing that two areas of dis tinctly different rainfall and soil types exist within the wheat-growing territory, recommendations of this committee have been made with these differences in mind. This committee recommends that land in the lighter soil and rainfall areas which include most of the area in the Columbia basin counties and land in the lighter yielding portions of the Blue mountain area, which will not produce more than 8 to 10 bushels of wheat per acre, should be taken out of wheat production, and planted to perennial grass. In addition to the land that has been diverted from wheat produc tion in the Columbia basin and Blue mountain counties, the com mittee recommends that fifty-two thousand acres (52,000) of such low yielding land be taken out of wheat production and seeded to perennial grasses. (Morrow counties portion was estimated at 5000 acres.) In the heavier soil and rainfall areas where the erosion problem is not a prime factor, the committee recommends that land which will not produce more than 24 bushels of winter wheat or more than 15 bush els of spring wheat per acre be di verted to perennial grasses, grass seeds, or other economic crops. According to surveys made by the Soil Conservation Service, approx imately 50 percent of the land in the wheat growing area of Eastern Ore gon has had 25 to 75 percent of its top soil removed or relocated by wind or water erosion, and Whereas the committee feels that present methods of erosion control are known which can be economic ally employed to control most of this erosion, it recommends that trashy fallow and contour cultivating and seeding, be employed on all wheat land in the area, except where there is extremely heavy stubble for which no satisfactory method of handling has been developed. Ex amples of these heavy stubble areas are found in portions of Union and Wallowa counties. The committee further recognizes that in certain areas trashy fallow and contour cultivating and seeding may not be sufficient to control the IFOR RAIN A iSNOW.SLi r tHE RED BALL y m . 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Recognizing that the soil is the vital public resource of the nation held in trust by the farmers for all the people, and Realizing the need for conserving this resource, and Knowing that many farmers are not financially able to put into prac tice needed conservation practices, Your committee recommends that agricultural ' conservation practice payments be continued for assisting the farmers in carrying out the pro gram that this committee recom mends. This committee recommends that tax assessments remain the same as they now are on land diverted to grass as long as a diversion payment is made on such land, and Further recommends that the Eastern Oregon Wheat League ask the state tax commission to make a study of the problem of tax as sessments on low-yielding wheat land permanently diverted to grass. Recognizing the condition of an ever increasing amount of federal owned land which is taken from the county tax rolls, and Recognizing the load this condition places on the remaining taxable property in the county, The committee recommends that the Eastern Oregon Wheat League join with the Association of Oregon Counties in studying this problem and working out some solution whereby income-producing public owned land will return an annual equitable revenue to the county in lieu of taxes. Recognizing that our forest re sources are an integral part of our agricultural economy, and recogniz ing the importance of private own- I ership of forest lands as it affects tax returns to counties, your com- Calfhood vaccination as a control of Bang's disease will be used in all probability in most states in at least some areas next year as result of the federal bureau of animal industry's report at the United States Livestock Sanitary association meeting in Chi cago, reports Dr. W. H. Lytle, chief of the state department of agricul ture division of animal industry who returned a few days ago from the convention. Dr. Lytle said that if calfhood vac cination, as opposed to the present method of test and slaughter is used in Oregon, it likely will be in east ern Oregon counties. Here it is pos sible that a vaccine basis may be introduced, or both the old and the new with some herds using vaccine and some the test and slaughter. Before there are any regulations permitting vaccination in this state, the proposal will be laid before the state board of agriculture, which meets in Salem December 21. A recent conference of veterinar ians and dairymen was of the opin ion that western Oregon, where a number of counties are practically free of Bang's disease through the test and slaughter control method, should not adopt calfhood vaccina tion. The federal bureau's experiment conducted over a five-year period shows that, rightly used and safely handled, the vaccine is good; but it is not a panacea and herd owners should not get the idea that it is, said Dr. Lytle. He pointed out that the govern ment will make and supply the vaccine; that at present the recom mendation is for its use only in ex ceptional cases under satisfactory conditions; and. that the government will match indemnity payments un der calfhood vaccination the same as it does at the present time for indemnity under the test and slau ghter method. mittee recommends conservation of all our forest resources, and fur ther recommends that a complete study be made and a program work ed out for maintaining the produc tion of our forest at the highest de gree and for keeping it in private ownership. I Shux! This is better' n REINDEERS Hp v Yessir! The car looks pretty good after it's gotten your gift of a radio or horn or fog light. 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