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IONE NEWS
lone Schools Off to
Good Start; Full Corps
By MRS. ELMER GRIFFITH
School opened for registration here
Monday morning with a full corps
of teachers, several of whom are
new here. In the high school Erret
Hummel, principal, will teach his
tory subjects and sociology; Helen
Piluso teaches commercial subjects;
Richard Stachli, health and math
ematics; Mrs. Amy Sperry, English
and home economics, and Mrs. L.
- E. Dick, , Jr., music and freshman
English. In the grades, Harriet M.
Brown will teach seventh and eigh
th; Wm. Burk, fifth and sixth grades
and freshman science; Miss Mar
jorie Bell, third and fourth, and Miss
June Yarnell, first and second.
Mrs. Dick is driving from Hepp
ner, Miss Bell and Miss Yamell
each has an apartment at the Park
hotel, Miss Piluso is staying at the
hotel, Mr. Stachli is at Mrs. Minnie
Forbes' home, and the others have
homes here.
The ten members of the freshman
class are Robert Rietmann, Alton
Yarnell, Jim Barnett, Arthur Stef
ani, Robert Crowell, Dorothy Berg
strom, Mary Barnett, Darleen Bid
dle, Maxine Allyn, and Eunice Pet
erson. First graders entering school are
Richard Rea, Dolores Drake, Lee
Palmer, Mary Ekleberry, Roy and
Arthur Lindstrom, Colleen Bailey,
Paul Barnett, Shirley Ekleberry,
Ronald Haguewood, and Joan Cole
man. ,
Harry Ring spent the week end
here with his parents, and expects
to return this week for a long fur
lough. He is stationed at Tacoma.
Mrs. Lee Beckner and her neph
ew, Gene Normoyle, drove to Che
halis, Wash., the later part of the
week. Mrs. Jack Farris accompan
ied them that far on her way to
Seattle, where she will visit a sis
ter. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Reese and
family of Topenish, Wash., are
guests of Mrs. Reese's mother, Mrs.
Ella Davidson. Mr. and Mrs. Harlan
McCurdy and son and daughter of
Heppner spent Sunday there, also.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Ely and
family returned Saturday from a
trip to Portland and the coast.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Bristow re
turned to their home in Nampa,
Idaho, Wednesday. Their daughter,
Mary Jean, who has been spending
the summer here, returned with
them, and also Mrs. Ida Grabill, Mrs.
Bristow's mother. Garland Wright
of Baker and Anita Hooker of
Nampa made the trip with them.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heliker have
returned from a trip to Portland, and
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bryson, who
have been staying on the Heliker
ranch, have returned to town.
Huston Bryson is employed at
Hermiston, and he and Mrs. Bryson
are living here.
Forty-five hundredths inch of
rain fell here September 2. The
rainfall for August was 1.10 inches
and there were only 11 clear days,
16 partly clear, and four cloudy
days, according to the weather ob
server at Morgan.
Mr, and Mrs. Robert Buchanan
and little daughter have recently
arrived from Adams and are living
in the house across from the school
houst?. Mrs. Buchanan's brother,
George Reno, is living with them
and attending school.
Guests of Ed Powell of Morgan
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Parmen
ter and daughter and their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Freeman. Mr. Parmenter is Mr.
Powell's cousin.
Miss Ella Mason of Portland is
here visiting her brother, Bert Ma
son, and other relatives. Miss Ma
son formerly taught in the Portland
high schools but is now retired.
Gilbert Haller of Forest Grove
spent the week end here. Mr. Haller
taught in the lone school last year,
and recently resigned to accept a
position in Richland.
Earl Padberg of Portland drove
to lone Saturday evening to visit
his father, Louis Padberg, over Sun
day. Mr. and Mrs. Carl P. Linn drove
over from Sunnyside, Wash., to
spend the week end with Mr. Linns
parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Linn.
Mr. Linn is working with a sur
veyor's crew, locating power lines
for Bonneville and Grand Coulee.
Clarence Linn who is employed in
Heppner
Crested Wheat
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Introduced to this area some fifteen years ago by O. S. C. extension service as one of many grasses in county
trial nursery plots, crested wheat grass has proved its worth as a substitute crop for wheat on less productive
lands. Upper picture shows an excellent field of grass about ready to harvest for seed. Below is a field used for
grazing purposes. Cattle relish this grass, so that its production on 102,854 acres in eastern Oregon has mater
ially increased the livestock producing capacity of this region.
HARDMAN NEWS
No School Bell at
Hardman for Opening
By ELSA M. LEATHERS
The old school bell never rang for
the children of Hardman Monday
when school opened. Why? Because
the grade school was moved from
the old building during vacation to
the high school building, and the
high school doesn't have a big bell.
There are also new pupils present.
Bobby Buschke, Rodger Palmer,
Monte McDonald, all first graders,
and Joan Adams who was forced to
leave school because of sickness last
term, will also take the first grade.
New pupils isn't all. They have a
new drilled well, a new Delco light
ing plant, besides many other new
school room articles. Mr. John Mc
Donald, who did the janitor work
so successfully last term, was again
retained for this year. Miss Ruth
Eversole and Miss Cecilia Bell will
instruct the high school, while Mrs.
Delvin McDonald will have charge
of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades,
with Miss Lois Hewitt the 1st, 2nd,
3rd and 4th grades.
Clarence Ames, who was slightly
injured last week while felling tim
ber for Wm. Greener, consulted a
doctor in Heppner and returned to
the ship yards in Portland also spent
the week end at home, and on Sun
day other guests were Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Howk and family and Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Griffith and family.
Gene Bauernfeind of Morgan re
ceived a five dollar check when he
returned home from an outing in
the mountains. It was his prize for
being the best juvenile cowboy in
the Rodeo parade at Heppner.
Mrs. Erling Thompson and little
son returned Sunday from Salem
where she has been visiting her
parents.
Miss Betty Jean Mankin is leav
ing Wednesday for Oklahoma City,
Okla., where she will enroll as a
student in the Oklahoma State Col
lege for Women. She plans to study
art. Miss Mankin is a graduate of
St. Paul's school for gjrls in .Walla
Walla.
Miss Betty Bergevin who is at
tending a nurses' school in Seattle
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Tenuis Bfrrevin.
Mrs. Fred Mankin has returned'
from Portland and is considerably I
improved in health. '
Gazette Times, Heppner,
Grass Major Eastern Oregon Crop
his home near Kimberly, Wednes
day. Mrs. Hershal Townsend who vis
ited several days here left Thursday
to return to La Grande after visiting
at the George Krebs home near Ce
cil over night.
Mrs. Darrel Farrens is teaching
the Eight Mile district school this
term.
Glen Farens was injured at his
home Saturday when a horse ha was
riding slipped and fell. His foot
caught in the stirrup and the pony
became excited and drug him and
kicked him above the eye. A doc
tor was called and he thought a
shoulder bone could be cracked.
When Mr. Farrens came to, he was
near a watering trough some dis
tance from where he horse fell.
Mrs. Ad Inskeep and daughter
Alene returned from Tulsa, Okla.,
where they spent three months vis
iting a sister of Mrs. Inskeep. Mrs.
Vern Dalzell visited here Sunday,
bringing her sister Nona home. She
had visited there several days.
In spite of plenty of showers Fri
day, Miss Vern McDaniel and bro
ther Cecil, Mrs. Carey Hastings and
girls, and Maxene McDaniel had a
very nice picnic dinner at the By
land place with Mrs. Dallas Mc
Daniel. Miss Vera McDaniel, who has
been employed at the Ralph Scott
home near Lexington for some time
returned to her home this week to
be ready to start to high school the
2nd. She will be staying at the
Everett Harshman home and will
attend the Heppner high school. She
is a sophomore.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Brannon and
children and Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Alderman and son visited the Mar
vin Brannons here Sunday.
Hardman was the scene of much
activity Saturday when so many
were moving in for school. Mr. and
Mrs. Max Buschke and family came
in from Bull prairie ranger station
where they have spent the summer;
Mr. and Mrs. Delvin McDaniel from
Lonerock where they have lived this
vacation, and Mr. and Mrs. Owen
Leathers and son from the Bill
Greener ranch. Miss Ruth Eversole
came from her home at Shedd. Sun
day was more quiet, just Miss Ce
cilia Bell and Miss Lois Hewitt ar
rived to take up their teaching
work.
Eddie McDaniel and Dr. Horning
of Couer d' Alene visited a short
Oregon
time Thursday at the Ella Bleakman
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Stone of Spo
kane and Miss Lucille Reed, also of
Spokane, visited at the home of the
ladies' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Reed, at Reed's mill over the week
end.
Mr. and Mrs. Sabin Hastings, ac
companied by John Hastings, visited
several places in Washington last
week and visited their daughter..
Mrs. Glen Merritt of Arlington, Wn.
They returned Sunday, bringing
their two daughters, Ollie and Lillii,
home with them. They had been
visiting for the last several weeks
there.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Fuqua of
Portland, and Mr. and Mrs. Bur
bank and son, also of Portland, vis
ited at the C. H. McDaniel home
Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George
Browning of Hermiston visited there
also, Monday. Mrs. Browning is a
niece of Mr. Fuqua, a nephew of
Mrs. McDonald.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. McDaniel
spent several days at Arlington vis
iting the Allen Billings home. Mr.
and Mrs. Billings and Marlene then
spent the week end here, returning
on Labor Day to Arlington.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Lovgren and
son went to the Lonerock fair on
Monday.
Wheat Parity Checks
Received by Growers
Wheat parity payments under the
1941 program totaling $1,448,975.19
have been received or are on their
way to Oregon farmers, the state
AAA office announced September 1.
Ninety-five per cent, or 12,202 of the
estimated 12,840 applications for
payment have been received from
the counties and approved in the
state office.
Sixteen counties have completed
all of their applications and nearly
all the remaining counties are 90
per cent completed. Checks are us
ually on their way to the grower
within ten days after aplications are
approved in the state office.
NOTICE
No trespassing or hunting will oe
allowed on the F. D. Cox and Mrs.
D. O. Justus land in Morrow coun
ty. Anyone found trespassing or
hunting will be prosecuted to tho
full extent of the law.
F. D. COX,
28-30p. MRS. D. O. JUSTUS.
Thursday, September, 4, 1941
Crested Wheat Arrives
Continued from First Page
' duces bloat danger and prevents ero-
j sion. The alfalfa roots do not spread
I out and make a mat at the surface
' cf the ground as the grass roots do.
I Considerable washing can thus oc
j cur in alfalfa on steep land, whereas
i a mixture of alfalfa and grass will
j stop the erosion completely,
j In eastern Oregon as a whole the
I crested wheat acreage has increased
i steadily from 583 acres in 1926 to
j 202,854 acres at present.
The tfroundwork of trying out
crested wheat grass was all done
under the leadership of the exten
sion service, starting as early as
1924, even though at that time no
one ever dreamed that an AAA pro
gram would come along which would
need just this sort of a grass. A few
of the pioneers in the work were so
convinced that crested wheat grass
was the answer to eastern Oregon's
forage needs that they used their'
own private funds for buying nil
the supplies of crested wheat grass
seed available in the United States,
which were resold to eastern Oregon
farmers at cost.
From 1930 on, the acreage of crest
ed wheat grass gradually moved into
commercial production so that when
the opportunity for wholesale ex
pansion came under the agricultural
conservation program, Oregon was
the only western state where every
county had completed its own test
ing and where adequate seed was
available. As a matter of fact, the
Oregon work paved the way for the
rapid use of the crop in all oth-ar
western states.
Other states had the grass in their -experiment
stations but had not used
it extensively on farms as was the
case here in Oregon. The Oregon
bulletin on crested wheat grass has
been widely used through the west
and has formed somewhat of a text
book for beginners with the crop i;i
many other states.
Use of the grass here in lari
quantities has provided a cash in
come for seed growers, but mo -e
important in the long run is the in
troduction of a suitable forage plant
which is helping restore the live
stock industry to a larger percentage
of the eastern Oregon farm and
range lands. The grass is also cut
for hay to replace grain hay and
provide a crop suitable for hay ypar
after year on non-irrigated land.
One of the main reasons for planting
the grass on many farms is t con
trol erosion on steep lands and in
gulleys. Some growers are also us
ing it for lawns and to control dust
in barnlots and fields near the farm
houses.
The state highway commission is
beginning to use the grass on newly
constructed highways in order to
reduce fire hazard, control weeds,
prevent erosion, and in order to
improve the appearance of the high
ways. Mile after mile of green, wav
ing grass is certainly more attract
ive to the tourist than jumbled
masses of unsightly, partly dead
weeds.
Land use committees of this and
other eastern Oregon counties rave
uniformly recommended the plant
ing of crested wheat grass as a
means of improving agriculture in
this section of the state and as a
means of insuring continuance of
farming here on a stable, long-time
basis.
Wheat and livestock have always
been, and must continue to be the
mainstays of eastern . Oregon agri
culture. With the loss of foreign
wheat markets and necessary limit
ation on wheat acreage, the use of
crested wheat grass on these poorer
wheat lands and on steep slopes
where erosion has become serious
is going far to maintain the long
time stability of eastern Oregoa ag
riculture. TRACTOR CRANK BREAKS ARM
Oscar Peterson received a bad
fracture of the right arm just above
the wrist last Friday while cranking
a tractor at his farm in the Goose
berry section. The crank flew back
and caught him so quickly that he
had no chance to escape. It was the
first time in many thousand exper
iences in cranking a "cat" that he
was so treated, Mr. Peterson said
when in town Tuesday attending a
meeting of the county ACA com
mittee. A G-T want ad will do wonders
if you have anything to sell, trade
or exchange. Results every time.