Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, November 16, 1950
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ankle when she stepped on a rock
which turned under her tool. She
was taken to a doctor and is now .
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MrG Iffio CJtoviort rif TnVin Tin;
Mr. and Mrs. Chet Brown en
joyed a visit with their w anil
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Duane Brown
of Eugene. Duane enjoyed sev
eral days of hunting but had no
luck.
spent Saturday night with her
sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs.
George Stirritt. On Sunday she j
accompanied Criss Hamilton to I
Portland where she will visit her I
sister, Mrs. Geraldine Cox. Mr.
'Hamilton went to consult his
doctor.
Monument had its first snow- j
fall Saturday evening. It was a!
wet s,now and did not lay on the (
ground ,here in the valley, too j
long. j
Rho Bleakrnan was attending
to business matters in John Day j
Wednesday.
Red Henderson, district warden
of the Sisters, spent a day at the
guard station taking inventory.
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Soil-saving measures on this wheat ranch near Hardman were
judged top conservation job of 1950 in Morrow county. Win
ner, W. W. Bechdolt and Sons, will compete for Oregonian
Winner Takes It Easy Now
W. W. Dechdolt has turned over active operation of the win
ning ranch to his sons, Archie and Adrian, does other jobs.
Straw Blanket Protects Soit
Trashy fallow is one of erosion-control practices used by the
Bechdolts. Straw held by County Agent Nets Anderson is
residue from 1948 crop, picked from stubble of 1950 crop.
By JOHN L. DENNY
Market Editor, The Oregonian
(Pictures and story courtesy The
Oregonian).
An emergency job of doctoring
a "sick" ranch won the Morrow
county "Conservation Man of the
Year" award for W. W. Bechdolt
& Sons, Hardman.
When the Bechdolts took over
their present place two years ago
it rated as one of the worst-eroded
ranches in the area.
A gully funneled topsoil off a
long, sloping field and piled it
up six feet deep in back of the
house. During one heavy runoff
mud even, covered the living
room floor to a depth of six
inches. '
Bottom Field Split
A bottom field near the barn
was so split up that County
trophy in Oregon Wheat Growers' league "Conservation Man
of Year" contest. Picture shows (1) contour terrace and grass
filter strip which carries run-off water to sod waterway (2).
Monument Casts
Biggest Vote In
Precinct's History
Barney Cork took a load of
stock to the Portland market on
Saturday. He was accompnaied
by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Simas who
will do some shopping for mater
ial for their new house.
Mr. and Mrs. Hickman are lea.
ving Monday for Mississippi to
visit relatives and attend to mat
ters of business. They will stop in
Phoenix, Ariz, to visit their dau
ghter. They plan on being back
in Monument by the first of Jan
uary. Mr. and Mrs. Arlot Fleming left
Saturday for Blaine, Wash, to
make their home for the winter.
Mr. Fleming enjoyed hunting
while here. They are from Alaska.
Dell Neal was in town Satur
day from his ranch down the
river. He is a busy man and rare
ly takes a day off to come to
town.
Al Arseneau was a business
visitor in John Day Friday.
Millie Wilson took the ballot
boxes to the county clerk's office
in Canyon City Wednesday. While
there she visited the county
school superintendent's office.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Batty drove
to Heppner Monday to get their
son Joe who has been under the
doctor's care the past week. Joe
was guest of his aunt, Mrs. Dou.
glas Ogletree, while in Heppner.
Mr. and Mrs. Spike Miller drove
to Pendleton Monday to consult
a doctor concerning the illness of
their baby daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cupper,
Mr. and Mrs. Morton Cupper, Mrs.
Wayne Leathers and Johnnie
Lawrence drove to Bend Monday,
returning home the same day.
Mr. Peterman, principal of the
grade school, was forced to take
his pupils home Friday on ac
count of the furnace in the gym
being out of order.
In spite of the stormy day, Mo.
nument had the largest election
held here in years. The Hamilton
precinct is now included in the
North Fork precinct .
Agent Nels Anderson found it
impossible to drive his small
weed . spraying wheel tractor
across it. The area looked as
though a major battle had been
fought over it. N
"You wouldn't know it was
the same place," Anderson com
mented, when he led an inspec
tion tour over the 600 acres of
cropland.
First step taken by the Bech
dolts in their two-year "miracle
cure" was to banish the mould
board plow and to institute a
trashy fallow system of farming
that utilizes the straw and stub
ble to check washing. Common
place in some areas trashy farm,
ing is still a rarity in the Hard
man district, where sticky, heavy
soil and heavy stubble makes a
straw blanket very hard to
handle.
Subsurface-type tillage imple
ments leave" the surface of the
soil cloudy, rough and covered
with trash. Some folks call it
"squaw farming" but it's highly
effective in keeping the soil in
place.
Diversion terraces divide a
long slope into three sections.
They keep farming operations on
the contour, and channel runoff
water safely off the field. One of
the major 'difficulties with these
terraces is a tendency to fill up
Cith silt. The Bechdolts have re
duced the maintenance job by
equipping each one with a filter
strip of grass on the upper side.
A couple of the deeper gullies
have been seeded to smooth
brome grass and alfalfa and con.
verted to permanent sodded wat
erways to collect water from the
terraces. Their dry-land alfalfa
planting, which yielded a hay
crop this year, is the only one
in the area.
The senior Bechdolt has turned
over active operation and man
agement of the ranch to the
"sons" part of the partnership
Adrian and Archie. All told, they
farm 924 acres of cropland and
2226 acres of range. A sizeable
string of Shorthorn Hereford
yearlings were fattening on the
grass and stubble.
Boardman Farm Sold
The Bechdolts formerly oper
ated a wheat-livestock ranch at
Hardman and an irrigated farm
at Boardman. They consolidated
their holdings into one operation
by selling the Boardman ranch
and buying the additional 600
acres at Hardman two years ago.
The Morrow county winner will
compete in the state finals of the
contest, which is sponsored by
the Oregon Wheat Growers lea
gue. The state winner will receive
a trophy awarded by The Oregonian,
Chance Wilson, accompanied
by Ed Smisek drove to JohnDay
on Armistice Day. Mr. Smisek
drove a new car home.
The bazaars held by the MMM
club, the grange and the auxil
iary at the grange hall Tuesday
were well attended and complete
sell-outs.
The ladies of the town and sur
rounding communities are to be
complimented on the potluck
dinner they served at the grange
hall on election day. Everyone
had all they could eat for one
dollar. This is an annual affair
and the proceeds go to the church
A great part of the success was
due to the work of Mrs. Ida
Bleakrnan and Mrs. Margaret El
der and others who got every
thing ready so the dinner could
be served.
Mrs. Helen Brown left Monday
for Portland to visit her son and
daughter-in-law and her sister.
She accompanied Mr. and Mrs.
Aubrey Crum as far as Prineville
where she took the bus.
Mr. and Mrs. Mick Cimmiyotti
drove a new car homt. from John
Day, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Capon and
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Strecker were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Cork Sunday evening.
Ben Hinton of John Day' spent
several days the past week visit
ing his sisters, Mrs. Ella Durst
and Mrs. Ivy Barnard. He returned-to
his home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elzy Emry and
daughter Mary are spending a
vacation at Charleston, Coos
county, visiting Mrs. Emry's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gamble.
John Owings, Jack Forrest, Jim
Kindred and Earl Lewis will re
port to the induction board for
their physicals on the 16th.'
Mr. and Mrs .Lynn Forrest
were attending to matters of bus
iness in the sheriff's office last
Wednesday.
Mrs. Doris Capon, Mrs. Lois Hill
and Mrs. Clara Strecker were hos.
tesses for a dinner honoring Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Capon on their
wedding anniversary Thursday
night. After dinner the evening
was spent visiting.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred .Shank and
daughter Laura Lee and Mrs.
Grace Stirritt drove to John Day,
Tuesday. Laura Lee had dental
work done while there.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Round spent
the week-end in John Day visit
ing Mrs. Rounds' mother, Mrs.
Wright.
Mrs. Lottie Foss, who has been
visiting her daughter and hus-
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Thursday-Friday-Saturday, Nov. 16-17-18
The Great Rupert
Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake,
Frank Orth, Sara fladen, Queenie
Smfth, Chick Chandler
A goodly share of comedy and a touch of
fantasy are the highlights of this re
freshingly different photoplay.
Pioneer Marshall
Monte Hale in a new western thriller.
Sunday-Monday, November 19-20
Fancy Pants
A rootin', tootin', shootin' hilarity round,
up in Technicolor. "Home Cookin' Bob
Hope" is whoopin' it up with Lucille Ball
as his partner.
Tuesday -Wednesday, November 21-22
Rock Island Trail
Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara. Adrian Booth,
Bruce Cabot, Chill Wills, Barbara Ful.
ler. Grant Withers
Blazing, unforgettable adventure wh,en
reckless men defied all dangers to drive
their railroad West through the Wilder
ness. Filmed in outdoor natural color.
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Thursday-Friday-Saturday, Nov. 23-24.-25.
This Thanksgiving we give Thanks for
Freedom...Happiness...and for your loyal
patronage. And we have prepared a
Thanksgiving program to bring cheer and
laughter to every member of the family!
Singing Guns
Introducing famed orchestra leader and
crooner Vaughn Monroe as a new western
star in Max Brand's famous adventure
novel! Plus color photography and a su
perior supporting cast including Ella
Raines, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Jeff
Corye and Barry Kelley. The musical
numbers, among which is "Mule Train,"
are excellent. PLIJS
Triple Trouble
The Bowery Boys are in jail and breaking
out with laughter!