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THE HEPPNER GAZETTE.
Established March 30. 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES.
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15. 1912
Published every Thursday morning by
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and entered at the Post Office at Hepp
ner, Oregon, as second-class matter.
JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor
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Official Fapir for Morrow County
A Real Need
jVffORROW county is truly in need
'of hospital facilities. That is no
indictment of such facilities as have
been available, though these have
been far short of requirements, both
as to modem appointment and
equipment, and in capacity to care
for the number of patients who
should be accommodated.
At the present moment, both hos
pitals in Heppner, one private and
the other partially county-sustained,
are closed because of shortage of
help, leaving the community in a
serious condition to meet such em
ergencies as may arise. That, too, is
no indictment of those who have
made hospitalization here possible.
At the moment the Heppner
chamber of commerce is taking the
lead in sponsoring a new hospital
movement. This movement is gain
ing momentum, and should gain the
support of everyone. Details of the
program are yet to be worked out,
but it is quite certain that a general
county hospital plan will be used,
with possible property tax added to
provide funds for construction. That
is yet to be determined when the
hospital committee meets and for
mulates plan for action.
No long discussion of benefits to
be had from a good, modernly equip
ped hospital, open to all practitioners
need be undertaken. The facts are
self-evident. The need, too, has long
been recognized, but the past decade
of depression has not seemed the
time to promote anything calling for
additional burden upon the taxpay
ers. It now appears that financing such
a project can be done without undue
hardship. There might even be pos
sibility of obtaining free will sub
scriptions in an amount that, would
cover a large part of the initial cost.
In the final analysis, however, any
cost may well be justified if the
realization results in saving one or
more lives. No one knows when the
lapse of the hour or two of addi
tional time it takes to reach a good
."hospital elsewhere might be the dif
ference between life and death for
someone in the immediate family.
The county has a definite obliga
tion to hospitalize its own wards.
This hospitalization might well be
of the best, while making the same
iind of facilities available to every
one at rates commensurate with
those charged elsewhere.
It can and should be done.
Apples Aid Ripening
Green Tomatoes
The use of ethylene gas in ripen
ing tomatoes which do not color
readily late in the season has been
practiced on a commercial scale for
some time. The gas may also be used
on a home basis with apples as a
source of the ethylene, points out
A. G. B. Bouquet, head of the veg
etable crops work at Oregon State
college.
Either ripe apples or pears give
off ethylene gas in small but con
tinuous quantities. In an experi
ment conducted by Bouquet, boxes
of mature green tomatoes were put
in a room at a temperature of 68 to
72 degrees. Some of the boxes con
tained a few ripe apples, while oth
ers had tomatoes alone. Those with
apples were sealed shut to confine
the gas.
At the end of ten days, 98 per cent
of the tomatoes in the boxes with
apples were colored and ripe, while
the remainder were yellow to half
red. In the unsealed boxes contain
ing tomatoes alone, a third were still
completely green, while less than
half were colored and ripe.
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
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One Out of Four Non-Pedestrian Accidents Involves Injuries
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Nearly All Pedestrian Accidents Involve Injuries
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Chart courtesy Oregon State Motor Association.
Accidents mean injuries when pedestrians are involved! Experience in
Oregon shows that while passengers in cars may escape uninjured in an
accident, rarely does the person on foot who is hit by a car escape unin
jured. Drivers and pedestrians alike should observe the rules, consider
the rights of each other and cooperate to avoid these accidents, says the
state traffic safety division.
AGRICULTURAL
ODDITIES
(Reported by O. S. C. Extension
Service)
Hybrid popcorn is now being pro
duced which is said to give greater
expansion in popping than ordinary
sorts. This makes the popcorn more
tender and allows the dealer to get
more bags of popped corn from a
given amount.
Trucks now haul about one-sixth
as much freight as railroads, and
farmers operate about one-fourth of
all trucks in the country. Because
the federal government wants a
complete inventory of transporta
tion available, a detailed registra
tion of all farmer-owned trucks will
soon be undertaken.
Various kinds of combination
foods are now being precooked and
then frozen for sale to those who
can thus take a frozen package, heat
it, and serve it directly. One of the
cross-continental airlines has already
ordered a varied assortment of these
precooked frozen foods to be served
on passenger planes
Oregon and Washington fruit grow
ers have been meeting a shortage
In refrigerator cars by improving
the refrigeration so more fruit can
be shipped in a single car. One me
thod is to use dry ice, found partic
ularly valuable in shipping cherries.
Pear shippers, by precooling the
fruit, are able to load nearly half
again as many pears in a car as is
possible otherwise.
Deaths from suffocation occur
Corporations Given
Added Tax Time
J. W. Maloney, collector of in
ternal revenue states that corpora
tions will have additional time within
which to file 1941 captal stock tax
returns.
The collector announces that a fur
ther extension of time has been
granted to October 29, 1941, within
which to file capital stock tax re
turns for the period ended June 30,
1941, ordinarily due on July 31. As
the extension is general, it is not
necessary to file an application there
for. Collector Maloney states that the
capital stock tax rate was increased
under the revenue act of 1941 to
$1.25 per thousand and that forms
now in the possession of corpora
tions may be used after correcting
the rate of tax to $1.25 per thousand
in lieu of $1.10 printed on the form.
Corporations which already have
filed their capital stock tax returns
and paid the tax at the rate of $1.10
will not be required to pay the ad
ditional tax due under the new rate
until they have received notice from
the collector's office.
fairly frequently in silos when no
provision for ventilation is made. In
an ordinary above-ground silo ven
tilation is accomplished by keeping
the doors open above the silage. With
underground silos it is always safest
to test for carbon dioxide by lower
ing a chicken to the top of the cut
silage and observing it for five min
utes before allowing a man to enter.
The gas if there may be driven out
by raising and lowering a blanket
20 or 30 times.
NOTICE OF HEARING ON NON-HIGH
SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a budget committee of the Non-high
School District of Morrow County, State of Oregon, at a meeting of said
committee held on the 6th day of September, 1941, prepared an estimate in
detail of the amount of money proposed to be expended by said Non-high
School District for all purposes during the fiscal school year beginning July
1, 1941 and ending June 30, 1942, and an estimate in detail of the probable
receipts of said Non-high School District from all sources for the school
year 1941, 1942. The Board of Education of said Non-High School District
has fixed the 31st day of October, 1.941 at the hour of 9:00 A. M., at the
Court House in Heppner, Oregon as the time and place at which said es
timates may be discussed with the Board of Education of said Non-high
School District, at which time and place any and all persons interested will
be heard for or against said tax levy or any part thereof. That said estimates
and original estimate sheets are on file in the office of the County Super
intendent of Schools and are there open to the inspection or an persons
interested therein, and the same are by reference made a part thereof.
RECEIPTS
I. Cash on hand at the beginning of the year for which this bud
get, is made $2,244.81
II. Amounts received from other sources 295.99
TOTAL RECEIPTS z,iw.u
EXPENDITURES
Tuition
Transportation
Printing
Travel Expenses of Board Mem
bers Emergency
Total Expenditures
1938-39
$ 9,856.00
4,737.29
. 17.11
30.60
14,644.00
1939-40
$10,549.80
6,088.82
14.61
38.80
16,692.03
1940-41
$11,574.61
5,152.62
26.36
43.20
16,796.79
Estimated
Expendi
tures 1941-42
$11,500.00
5,000.00
25.00
50.00
500.00
17,075.00
RECAPITULATION
I. Total Receipts $i5mSnn
II. Total Expenditures 17,075.00
DIFFERENCE: (Amount to be raised by tax on the Mor
row County Non-High School District) 14.534.20
Dated this 6th day of September,
RALPH L THOMPSON,
Chairman, Budget Committee.
PEARL WRIGHT,
Secretary, Budget Committee.
1941.
LUCY E. RODGERS,
Clerk, Board of Education,
Morrow Co. Non-High School Dist.
GLADYS ELY,
Chairman, Board of Education,
Morrow Co. Non-High School Dist
Thursday, October 16, 1941
ing it from solution is by the use of
a tank or settling basin in which
sodium carbonate is used to precip
itate the iron after which it will
on Doubles
Sugar Beet Acreage
Cir-oann uill nrohablv double its
production of sugar beet seed next 'settle out, says Jones.
year compared to this 11 growing
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to reports of acreage received by the
extension service at Oregon State
college. Approximately 1700 'acres
were grown this year, while close to
3500 acres have been signed up byj
the West Coast Beet Seed company;
for next year. j
A discussion of Oregon s oppor
tunities in sugar beet seed produc
tion was recently given before the
agricultural committee of the Port
land chamber of commerce by Ron
ald Hayes and George Scott of the
seed company. Before the war most
sugar beet seed was imported from
Germany.
Iron in Spring Water
Troublesome in Pipes
Presence of dissolved iron in
spring water causes considerable
difficulty when such water is piped
to houses for domestic use, according
to reports repeatedly received by J.
S. Jones, agricultural chemist at
Oregon State college. Sometimes
this dissolved iron may come from
the pipes themselves when the orig
inal water is strongly acid, although
more frequently it is dissolved out
of the soil.
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