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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, December 17, 1953 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Ileppwr Times, established November 18, 1897 Consolidated February 15, 1012. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETC'HEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCHTI0N J O 2EE Published Every Thursday arid Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second '"lass Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $-4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents The Night Before Christmas One of the best known of all Christmas poems is the "Night Before Christmas," but this version of it, which we are reprinting below is a new one to us. It was written by a member of the Los Angeles Fire Department and was printed in a current issue of an insurance magazine. It starts out the same as the old favorite poem does, but there is a different intent behind its rhyming than in the one so well known by most all of us. It was composed to impress the need for fire prevention and general carefulness around the home during the Christmas season, and it carries a message, which if observed in all homes during the next couple of weeks should help everyone to prevent a tragic or disastrous blaze that could well mean a very unpleasant "Night Before Christmas". Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse, When down through the chimney, all covered with soot, Came Hie "Spirit of Fire," an ugly galoot, His eyes glowed like embers, his features were slern, As he looked around for something to burn, What he saw made him grumble, his anger grew higher, For there wasn't a thing that would start a good fire. No door had been blocked by the big Christmas tree, It stood in the corner leaving the passageways free, The lights that glowed brightly for Betty and Tim Had been hung with precaution so none touched a limb, All the wiring was new, not a break could be seen, And wet sand at its base kept the tree nice and green, The tree had been trimmed by a mother insistent That the ornaments used must be fire resistant; And mother had known the things to avoid, Like cotton and paper and plain celluloid, Rock wool, metal icicles and trinkets of glass, Gave life to the tree; it really had class. And would you believe it, right next to the tree, Was a suitable box for holding debris; A place to throw wrappings of paper and string, From all of the gifts that Santa might bring. The ugly galoot was so marl he could bust, As he climbed up the chimney in utter disgust, For the folks in this home had paid close at tention To all the rules of good "Fire Prevention." . From The County Agent's Office By N, Two practices that are quite similar, which will lie found in the 1951 ACP Handbook, and A-5 and A G, A 5 js the initial estab lishment of contour strip-cropping on non -terraced land to pro tect soil from water or wind ero sion. The payment for this con tour strip-cropping on non-terraced land is $3 per acre for all land in the strip-cropping system. The strip cropping can be of sev eral kinds; (ai alternate strips of grain anil row crops, lb) alternate strips of grain and fallow, (c) al ternate strips of grain and grass or legumes, di alternate strips of bit of leeway. It is usually best to make these strips fit the width of some particular implement that the operator has or some combination of implements. For example if the combine is 16 C. Anderson I I feet wide and the drill 10 feet, then n nrettv L'nod width is lfiO fallow and grass or legumes, orjf(1(,t so that boln imPiom0nts will it could be in some cases a mix-!,,omfl out ov(,n at th(, ((1,e of 1ne ture of grain, fallow and grass. In!stril). This practice, too, calls for addition to the strip cropping, the; , wh(,at stubble to be left crop stubble must be left stand- stan(inK ov(.r winter this year it ing over winter. is in whpat- r.xpenenee in me pasi iew strip-cropping has years has shown that strip-cropping in this county is a very ef- THIRTY YEARS AGO w - , , t(pmmmr-mm3 I v- V-J f.':"p , '3 1, i 'ness in hind quarters, finally par 'a lysis if hind quarters. Ewes will 'usually recover if lambs are born. Feeding molasses or grain for about six weeks before lambing time is usually a good preventa tive. Calcium gluconate will 'cure the disease. Drenching with ia cup of kitchen syrup in a pint of warm water three or four times daily also helps. Several weeks ego we discus sed in this column the evident grain storage problem. In recent weeks, in fact every day, we see something whie r loser to mind. ganialion and come of the wheat gets shipped out so that most bins are about half full Obviously we won't be mitt in" harlev in on ton of the wheat with wheat worth ton for ton about more than barley, where is the barley going to go. A farmer can get a government loan on it provided it is suitably unrod. It seems now that most growers won't qualify for that (Continued an rage iseven) CATTLEMAN OF THE YEAR, Stephen Thompson receives his cattle man trophy from W. E. "En" Hughes, last Year's winner, at the Morrow County Livestock Association banquet last Saturday night. ' . v. . v' .mw.iw..tr-'---' ?'mm...,.,.M GRASSMAN OF THE YEAR award is being received by Newt O'Harra, left, during presentation of trophies at Cattlemen's banquet Saturday. Presenting the plccque is Kenneth Peck, who won this year's "Conservation Man" award. Mrs. O'Harra watches. (GT Photos) field to a strip-cropped field, it comes the some annual cropping may be disease that threat of pregnancy results from low necessary and in this case the blood sugar in ewes. I-arm flocks use of nitrogen may be almost a are becoming popular in Morrow necessity. In Morrow county Vounty with more added each strip-cropping can be seen on the-ear. This is a pratieularly Iron farms of Frank Andesron, Paullblesome disease under farm con- Brown, Al Bunch, Woodruff-Way, ditions. In the range flock, the i Fred Mankin Sid Zinter. Charles ewes are generally given more brings this Almost every or individuals are realizing this from day to day. On November 23, the Wheat Com mission and Oregon Wheat Grow ers League met with the Dean of Agriculture of Oregon State Col lege and Extension personnel to plan what might be done to re lieve the storage in Oregon. All agreed that something must be done. The group agreed that Ihere are three things that the wheat producer can do now. (II Sell his wheat whenever the mar ket price reaches the loan price or comes close to it. 2 Arrange for additional storage for next fa. II through farm storage. 3 Plan now how to use the extra barley for feed. It looked to 1 his group like the wheat and barley 'that must be stored outside in j Oregon, Washington, and north em Idaho, mhht increased from six million bushels stored i that way in '5.'! to fifty million busheN in Here in Oregon we will have 300,000 acres taken j out of wheat. A survey shows; that from 75 to 90 percent of this will be seeded to barley. Where; will this be stored? The obvious answer is in the bins left empty by not growing wheat. Most of these bins are full of wheat, and it looks now as though they would still have some wheat left in them next July 1. Suppose From Files of the Gazette December 20, 1II23 Times This paper is duly thankful to tly great number of our sub scribers who are dropping in and paying up on and renewals. their subscriptions Orig Padher Heppner flat, Heppner on Tuesday Christinas shopping. .young farmer of was a visitor in doing some Garnet Harratt underwent an operation al the Heppner Surgi cal hospital Monday morning for I cropping to proteci soil from wind fective erosion control method. The principal behind it of course is if water starts to run on the fallow land or on the newly seeded wheat land it tends to spread out and stop as it hits the strip of stubble or grass or alfal fa. This practice does not keep water from running off the land, but it tends to keep water from being real muddy when it runs off. Whenever a little rivulet strikes a piece of straw or grain stubble or a clump of grass it slops or slows down so that it drops the load of soil it is carry ing. II can only carry soil if it is running rapidly and these strips lend to slow it down. A good example of the benefit of strip-cropping was illustrated in storms late this summer and this fall. Strip-cropped fields pre vented any serious run-off de positing its load in the stubble while blocks of fallow were found to be eroded quite badly. The A d practice is for the ini tial establishment of field strip- Strip-cropping has never car ried the whole hearted approval , Carlson, Kenneth Peck, Andy Van exercise and are noi of Oregon farmers probably be-jSchoiaek, and Elmer Palmer.jget so fat -as farm cause of the uneven land in most! Frank Anderson of the Eightmile; have their pick and counties in the state. In certain'communitv says that since he place. The disease, Montana and in cer- strip-cropped his Held erosion of Canada one can! has been reduued to only a frac- travol for 50 or 73 miles ana see j lion ot wnai u was neioie. any land thai is not strin-cron-l ped. In changing an all fallow j counties in tain parts allowed to flocks that run of the which may appear in thin or fat ewes, usual ly occurs in severe winter and is associated with a slow down in exercise. It starts with a ewe Lambing time is near and with lagging behind the flock, vveak- J . .. .. .. .. . , . X EXCAVATING SEWER CONNECTIONS SPRINKLER SYSTEMS IRRIGATION LAND LEVELLING All kinds of CONCRETE, CARPENTER WORK M. W. COR3ETT At Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co, appendicitis, and is reported be getting along well. to ,or water erosion. This practice lows for the payment by the : government to the cooperating Hotel Heppner advertises spe-1 farmer of up to $2 per acre on all cial Christmas dinner from 12 to 'land in the strip-cropping; system. 2 and from (i to 8 at $1.0() per! The difference between ii and A-5 plate. jis that A-5 is on the contour and jlhis is merely st rips. The pay- Heppner high school will play its fii.it basketball game of the season tomorrow night with Stan field on tht' home floor. The work of remov ing the rock bluff al the South end of Main si reel to make way for the new grade, is now progressing in charge of the road crew. Check Your AGAIN Bad Weather Sets In COMPLETE insurance coverago of your car coiti littlo. NOT to hav it may cost you PLENTY I See Us First For Insurance Of All Kinds Turner, Van Marrer b Bryant BONDS INSURANCE REAL ESTATE PHONE 6-9652 ment is only for the initial estab lishment of the strip-cropping, and once the payment has been made there will he no oilier pay ment for maintaining strip-cropping in any future year on the same field. Strips must be less than 250 feet ami more than 2o feel wide, which gives the farmer quite a Winter IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER Car Coverage Before The - i. ' . Mil 1 R VIMI H 111 11! w Hrftvl for holidjy entirtninii;. f.imw v : ' Jl7 I likes iu ilt.m. Iii;ht la-lf. 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