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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.
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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
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'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.
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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-
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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.
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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
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