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Heppner Gazette Times; Thursday, December 3, 1953
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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ROBERT I'EN'LAN'D
Editor and Publisher
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $-4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents.
The Journal's New Face
We can't help but feel a little sad this week.
Sad at the loss of the Oregon Journal . . , . as we've
known it for quite a few years.
Last Monday this Portland paper came out
with a new type style, a new makeup style, a lot
fif new features and writers ... in fact is has a
complete "new look." It just doesn't look like the
Journal any more, but of course, that was the idea
behind the change. The Journal has "grown up",
so to speak, and we guess that after more than 50
years it's entitled to act as a sedate gentleman
after spending thai long, or at least a great many
of those years, as a noisy, blatant boy.
We're not referring to the Journal's policies or
abilities when we say it has been a noisy kid,
we're referring to its former makeup style and use
of big, black headlines not only on the front page,
but throughout its entire edition. Now it is com
ing to us made up in a lightface typo and its front
page arrangement and makeup is even more se
date and dignified than that of The Oregonian,
the paper which for years rated among the top in
the country in this classification. We're going
to miss the "old" Journal.
We don't mean that were against a change,
and besides, what the Journal wants to do is its
own business, but its elimination of the big black
headline from the newsstands of Portland and the
journalistic efforts of the stale, leaves a blank
spot in Oregon journalism.
Oregon's journalistic style, particularly in its
metropolitan press, has for many years been, what
we could call, above thai of many other parts of
the United States and particularly that of many
of our neighboring big cities on the Pacific coast
who have bad what might well be classified as a
sort of "wild and wooly," or "Anything goes"
style of makeup and writing. As an example of
what we mean, take a look at any of the San
Francisco papers, The well known Oakland, Cali
fornia Tribune, the equally well known Seattle
Post -Intelligencer, or the grandiladdy of all papers
for wild front page makeup, the Denver Post. It
is not unusual to find the entire top half of the
front page of any of these papers taken up ex
clusively wilh scarehead type banner lines, fre
quently one or more of them in red ink.
Portland has not, at least in recent years since
the discontinuance of the old Telegram and the
Portland News, had this type of a newspaper, but
the Journal, until this week, used somewhat this
approach to the reporting of the events of the
world, though it was nowhere near as wild as
some of the papers mentioned above. Journalism
professors and cri'ics of the arl of newspaper
makeup no doubt breathed a sigh of relief when
they saw Ihe new Journal, feeling that finally the
examples of type beauty and harmony expounded
in textbooks and developed by the masters of typo
graphy finally took effect on the state's last met
ropolitan holdout for a style a little more brash
and daring. We don't see it quite that way. We
think the old Journal is going to be missed.
Maybe the so-called "wild" makeup isn't very
pretty typographically, and we must admit that
some of the California and other papers overdo it
a little, but it seems to us that there is a need and
a place lor it in Portland. There are people, and
they're in a quite sizeable number too, who have
moved to Oregon from elsewhere and are used to,
and like, that style, as well as quite a few native
Oregonians who like to read the headlines and
little more. They could grab an "old" Journal
off the newsstand and get the gist of the world's
happenings at a couple of glances. They can't
do it with the new one and it seems to us that
the new Journal is forgetting about many of its
readers that have helped make it the great news
paper it has become. It could be, too that it is now
trying to get a different class of reader we know
nothing of the reasons behind the change.
Maybe The Oregonian, which during recent
years ha.s gradually gone in for more headlines
and front page display, will slowly step in and
fill the hole the Journal ha.s now stepped out of.
If not, we wouldn't be too surprised to someday
find a third paper in Portland, and it will no
doubt be of the tabloid style.
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Anderson
some areas of the state that it Jdie suddenly or recover. Death it
is becoming quite an economical usually the result of severe heart
i,s ,H-t'm,B 1 ,..., ,wt! 'Wry- While this is a bit ean
factor. An expenmcm-i , takin ah(.ut tho
is under way at the college, now,,sjnce our rancners do no,
ally start calving or lambinn un.
til January or later, however it
should be kept in mind by every.
mine to reproduce vvouc im
.i:1:. o, and sheep. The
I college is quite interested in any
i ,1 tii:o ncr-iir over the
We missed a big thing last the farm so that it will be eligible 1 ,l d uol( ,ike to t)e noti
week in this column when no for loan. Commercial storage we hav0 nf)t
recognition was given to Frank that is suited to wheat will not i U,f'jniu,iv diagnosed as
Anderson on showing the Grand be released for barley storage, I . . ' ' , in lorrow county,
there has without a aouoi occn
some losses here. Our ranchers
should be on the lookout for sym-
is follows: Ani
mals affected are usuauy mmm
four to six weeks of age. Two
of the disease have neen
Champion Hereford bull at the am sure. Umatilla county iarm-
Beef Center Show and Sale aers are getting under way with a
John Day. This is one of the 'program to encourage as many
bigger bull sales in this area,
and when you have the Grand
Champion it is worth talking
about. We think that congratu
lations are in order for Frank,
not only on his having the Grand
Champion bull at the John Day
sale, but in doing the good job
of improving his cattle over the
last few years to the point where
they are one of the better herds in
this part of the country. My
guess is that they will be im
proved further for Frank is not
one to stand still.
Glenn Campbell, chairman,
Morrow County Wheatgrovvers As
sociation, has been busy this
week gathering advertising for
the l!)."i3 proceedings of the Ore
gon Wheat Growers League. Pro
ceeds from advertising this year
here in Morrow county will go to
our County Association to help
I to promote programs vital to the
welfare of our wheatgrowers. -
ihlo tn find stor-
fnr the iu croo. One way which are
of relieving a lot of our storage is
to disnose of the wheat and get
, . u 1 1 vne
it moving eariy. j wd.u..uB ,,,;, r,iffer onlv in tie-
men uu.--i.i. -- .
ree ot severity, wue,
onset is
market when it becomes
enougn to come oui on uu. - , - ,,,,,,-wed hu dull
and selling, is one way of doing "- "uTiress and
this. We have arranged this.ness respen.o r I A res , a d
of our rapid course, n i...
the i" il'"n w"nln a uw ,wma- ,n
This bloody foam is frequently (lis-
,.h:,rrrp from the nose anu nu
dist ress,
week to devote a part
winter cereal meeting to
grain storage situation.
"'"""B . ' . ... ,U ,! f rleMth TWO
arv 12. and our Extension Agri- m ..... ...... - V" "' h '
... . :i. ..,.... less severe v affected cahes show
., . f ,.,. i.iin.7! considerable muscular
tlj0 OKU "ii.u.iu "i j.....
storage, having some grain stor
age plans available for farmers
who are interested in building.
In the meantime, everyone should
have this uppermost in his mind
so that the storage problem is re-
one when the time comes.
Lexington News
Miss Pat Forrest visited with
over
her parents in Monumei
the holidays from her work at the
Lexington Late.
Vickie and Valda Irviu, small
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George
Irvin are visiting their grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Breed
ing in Parkdale.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Borak and
children and Charlene Junes
were Milton-Freewater visitors
on Saturday. .
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anderson
and son Bobby spent the Thanks-
move
wilh difficult v, and may giving holidays in Salem.
lieved whenever the
permits.
opportunity
Young Journalists
4-H Club Reporters
The
We have had the question asked of us why the
Gazette Times runs in its news columns the re
ports of Ihe activities of the many 4 11 clubs
throughout the county. Particularly, why we run
them in the sometimes stilted and non-journalistic
style in which they frequently appear.
We run them that way first of all, because they
are tenvs, maybe not to everyone, but certainly to
4 11 members. In Ihe second place they are run
in almost always the exact wording in wHich they
are given lo us, because that is a part of the
i raining the 4-11 members receive. They are try
ingio learn how to recognize something of news
value and how to report it.
It must be remembered that many of the
clubs reporters are hoys and girls 10 or 12 years
old, hardly an age when you can expect a com
plete knowledge and mastery of English and Jour
nalism, yet to our way of thinking, they do an ex
cellent job of telling what their club is doing.
Seldom do we change even a word, unless on oc
casion the- meaning is vague or sentence structure
is confused.
A lot of farmers in neighboring
counties evidently have been ask-.
. , , , , .. , , ing for information concerning
A lot has been said and read ..fa . - i
,,,,,, . , , , the hay emergency program pur-;
about the grain storage problem , ', , , , t, .
, chases to be made for the drouth
that will no doubt be facing our , . , , , , ,ilfl,J
fr , , . stricken area. We have had little
farmers another year, farm stor- . , . . .
. in i ui .u . ' incjiury here, but in case any one
age will be tight, as those us ng . : ' , J ,
,, . , . ,. ., t is inieresieu, we are i assing woiu
their wheat diverted acres for , , ' ' . .
u i -n t a one to them. I lav is being
barley will want to store it on,, ,, , , ,
1 handled through regular com
mercial channels and there is no
single point of contact. The
emergency hay program current-!
ly covers Nevada, New Mexico, i
From files of the Gazette Times Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma,
December 6 1923 Texas, and states eastward. Utah
This paper is requested to an- an(i a sma11 section of Wyoming
nounce that the regular meetings Js expected to become eligible
of Morrow county Ku Klux Klan shortly. The commissioners on
at Lexington have been changed agriculture in these above men
from Friday to Monday evening tlonPcl states are serving as state
of each week. There will be no representatives and would be a
meeting of the klan this Friday, S1 Pint of contact as to any
but the regular meeting will be nay that may be available here,
held Monday at the usual place.! -Members
please lake notice. I Word was recerved from the
animal husbandry department at
The Mayor of Cecil and his Oregon State College, this week,
dauglit'-r Miss Annie Hynd of that the incidence of white mus-
Bu-terby Flats were county seat cle disease in young calves and
visitors Friday and Saturday. young lambs is growing so high
w
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Ilarland D. McCuidy, hustling
young farmer of the west end of
I the county, was in the city Wed
nesday from lone.
We know ihe club reporters take a great pride j Walter Luckman was in the
iji seeing their slories appear in print as they citv on Tuesday from the Luck-
them m l e too gain an especial ;ilea- man ranch near Lena.
a
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Mason of
wroi
sine as we watch them grow in ability during
club vcar.
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to It
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glad to be able to offer them a chance lone were visitors at Heppner on
Sunday.
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