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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 4, 1954
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIME SI THIRTY YEARS AGO
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From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Anderson
townspeople,
For farm and
alike, here is some information
that is timely. Now is the time
while roses are dormant as they
ever get in this climate to apply
a thorough application of lime
sulphur. Prior to this application,
the rose grower should have
pruned out all spindly and old
cankered wood. Growers should
also have removed old blooms
and do a thorough job of raking
up the dead leaves and debris on
the ground around the rose gar
den. In such trash, many rose
diseases are harbored for poten
tial infection next spring. Fol
lowing this sanitation program,
the spray recommendation is
lime sulphur at the rate of one
pint in one gallon of water. The
final pruning and shaping of
roses should be completed about
the end of February.
It will be held at the Lexington
Grange hall beginning at 9 30 a.
m. All executive committeemen
Watch out for the possibility ofWjn be invited with chairmen of
discoloration of white paint trel-(,a(.n 0f our standing committees
lis and walls that will result for (hat day. That evening thev
from drift of the lime sulphur, rJian to have an one n meeting for
relief, as Idaho and Washington
will be treated equally in this
storage. Those attending the
meeting found that there were
ten million bushels more grain
now on hand than a year ago,
which was brought about by a
two and a half million bushel
overproduction of wheat in 1953
over 1952, coupled with lower
shipments and less use.
Several ideas were advanced at
the meeting and suggestions
made for relieving the situation.
One that received a lot of discus
sion was the possibility for feed
ing out as much grain as pos
sible this fall. Of course, it will
need to be stored, but since the
storage problem will evidently be
continued in 1955, feeding will
help to reliqye that situation.
Since the livestock feeder needs
cheaper grain and the hay man
needs a market, some wondered
Final arrangements have been why the livestock man, the hay
made for the executive committee j man and the grain man could not
meetinc of the Oregon Wheat IK01 "Winer and worn oui a so
Growers League for February 12
slon soil conservation specialist,
Oregon State College, will discuss
"Fertilizers for our Crops"; some
one from the Oregon Wheat Com.
mission will explain that program
Rex Warren, Farm Crop Special
ist, will outline weed recommen
dations. The big event of the
day is a discussion on rain stor
age. The situation is serious. Mr.
Huber, Extension Agricultural
Engineer, Oregon State College,
will discuss buildings for the
farm that will alleviate this situ
ation. Everyone is invited to attend.
spray.
Morrow county's livestock in
dustry took a step forward last
week with the addition of some
top animals to herds here. All of, League's program for 1951 will
all farmers in the county and ex
tend formal invitations to the of
ficials of all of the county farm
organizations. A general discus
sion or Oregon Wheat Growers
the animals were purchased at
the National Western Stock
Show, held at Denver. Frank
Anderson added a bull to his
herd, with the purchase of a
short yearling Fulscher bred calf.
While we have not seen the calf,
it was just what Frank wanted
and knowing that he is particu
lar, the calf must be a good one.
Frank was particularly choosey
in selecting his bull as he want
ed one with a dwarf free pedi
gree. Herbert Ekstrom, lone, also
purchased a short yearling bull
of Mischief breeding. It
purchased from the Bradshaw, on incomes. Lower
herd in New Mexico. Delbert, grain and hay will
Emert, lone, bought a bull of this
same breeding to go with the
W. II. II. bull thai he purchased
a few weeks ago. The sire of
these calves was bought by the
Turner ranch which has an out
standing Hereford herd. Gilbert
Eruert also purchased a cow from
the Mcliride Bros, ranch in Texas.
The cow is W. H. R. breeding. I
am sure that all of this breeding
stock will give our beef produc
tion a boost in Morrow county.
be the main event of the evening
Some entertainment is planned.
Letters will be sent out within
the next week.
Mailed this week were the
Agricultural Situation and Out
look that discusses the 1954 farm
outlook. These were mailed to
everyone on our farm mailing
list. If you didn't get a copy, we
may have otie for you in the
office. The outlook pointed out
that grain and hay growers will
he the hardest hit in 1951. With
other phases of farming already
was, past the worst of the shakedown
prices for
strengthen
and favor livestock and poultry
producers. We believe that you
will profit by looking over one
copy of the Outlook which was
mailed to you.
A letter is in the mail to all
Morrow county farmers calling
their attention to the winter cer
eal meeting that is being held
at the county court room in Hepp
ner on Wednesday, February 10.
This is a change from an earlier
announcement that it would be
held on February 9. The change
is made due to a conflict with the
annual meeting of the Lexington
Oil Coop.
The winter cereal meeting
should lie of interest to all of our
farmers. It will begin at 10:00
a. m. with the showing of a film
on wheat smut. Featured during
the day are speakers, including:
Hill Hall, superintendent of the
Sherman branch experiment sta
tion at Moro, who will have as
his subject "What's New in
Crops"; Howard Cushamn, exten-
The grain storage meeting
which we mentioned last week,
held at The Dalles on January 29.
was well participated in and
many interesting figures were re
vealed that made everyone at
tending more conscious of the
need for encouraging additional
storage to be built. The meeting
was called by Oregon State Col
lege Extension Service at the re
quest of the Oregon Wheat Grow
ers League to work out a program
that would encourage more stor
age before harvest time. After
everything was said and done, it
turned out that farmers must
provine auunional storage to
take care of two-thirds of this
years crop that will otherwise he
left without a roof over it. It
was also pointed out that while
much has been said of late about
the moth ball ships in storage at
Tongue Point being made avail
able, there are still many de
tails to be worked out iiefore
these may he released. If they are
released in time to give any re
lief for the 1951 crop. Oregon can
expect only six million bushels
'spending some time in Portland.jf II lail KJfiWS
! where Mr. Majeske is receiving! " Iott
From Files of the Gazette Times
February 7, 1924.
'medical attention.
The Lutheran Ladies Aid of the
Hermiston church met at the
With a sign-up of 93 members home of Mrs. Irven Rauch, on
in Heppner, a temporary organi- j Thursday and the afternoon was
zation of the Morrow County Ex-j spent in mencing imras xur
port Commission League was hospital. After a most successful
formed at Odd Fellows hall in meeting lovely refreshments were
this city Saturday afternoon.
Ralph Benge was elected presi
dent of the temporary organiza
tion, W. O. Hill, vice president
and Chas. B. Cox, secretary-treasurer.
Ex -President Woodrow Wilson
died at 11:15 a. m. Sunday, ac
cording to telegraphic reports
from Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Palmateer
and son Ted of Morgan were
Heppner visitors Saturday.
A dancing party was given on
Saturday night February 2 at the
served
Dates to remember:
Lexington P. T. A. will meet at
the Lexington school house nex.
Tuesday evening. Let's all sup
port our local P. T. A.
The Lexington Grange will
meet Saturday, Feb. 13. Let's all
attend and start the New Year
right with a 100 support.
Let's don't forget the play
'Comin' Round the Mountain' to
be given Feb. 11. This is a Three
Links Club Benefit to help finish
paying for the recent remodeling
on the hall.
Mr. O. W. Cutsforth and son Or
COOKING I WILLING
WORKERS
The meeting of the 4-H cook
ing I group was held at Mrs.
Earle Kendall's home. The Wil
ling Workers was voted for the
name of the younger group.
Officers elected were president,
Shirlee Canes; vice" president,
Virginia Thompson; secretary,
Mary Shannon; reporter, Nancy
Kav Mover: song leader, Rogena
May Wagner. Janet Kendall
gave a demonstration on meas
uring. The next meeting will be held
at Mrs. James Allen's home on
February 9.
Nancy Kay Moyer, reporter
BUTTER CREEK JUNCTION
CLUB
Sunday January 24 we had our
4-H meeting at Jack Lieuallen's
home. There were 15 members
Quaid ranch on Balm Fork by the' Jr. are visiting in Portland present-
Misses Ruth and Nellie Babcock.i iur a lew UA i'b ""-
One hundred and ten neighbors business.
gathered to enjoy the evening.
T. W. Cutsforth, south -Lexington
farmer, was a business visi
tor in this city yesterday.
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Lexington News
By Oelpha Jones
A no-hostess cradle shower was
given at the Bob Davidson home
on Friday afternoon honoring
Mrs. Wayne Papineau. There
were 15 present and refreshments
were served by the following:
Mrs. Alex Hunt, Mrs. W. E. Mc
Millan, Mrs. Bob Davidson, and
Mrs." C. C. Jones. Many lovely and
useful gifts were received.
Mrs, Bill B. Marquardt and new
baby daughter Billee June is
spending Some time at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E.
Messenger Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Majeske are
lution to all of their problems.
Since hay would be the most
bulky to move, livestock should
be taken to the hay, grain to the
hay and livestock and profits
split accordingly. It was also
pointed out that Sacramento
county, California, predict that
four times as many steers will be
fed out in 1954 as in 1953. This
is only one county, and they are
interested in a lot of Oregon
steers, however, that will not help
our grain situation.
I . , . : i . n : i : . : .
,I'V wwe ponu- We hope that evPryone inter
!" ".' " " ested in farm storage will attend
s i...,m.K nog di u nas oeeniour meeting on February 10.
for a great number of years, andiwhpre a thorough discussion will
thai one out of every four eces:u i ,.r . i,..: .v,..
. . - . , I nmuc. vv c ait: uwjMiiy mat
"w" ' mi'i'U the survey cards will be re
turned soon in order that we can
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FIRST
NATIONAL'S
2000
STOCKHOLDER
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JOHN STKUTHFRS, a 16 year-old Port
laud high school junior, became the 2000th
member of First National's family of
stockholders. Now, more than 8iri of the
persons owning First National stock are
Oregon inns.
Struthers is serving his second term as
president of the Achievers Bank of Port
land, a junior achievement company coun
seled by the First National Bank.
Finl National latulei Junior Aihnvmnt Weak,
January 31 through Ftbruary 6.
FlilST NATIONAL DANK.
Mn mi oueoM roauxw
consu mcd
in. There are opportunities for
expansion of both poultry and
swine.
Taking land out of grain pro
duction was kicked around quite
a little by the group and all felt
that the encouragement of plant
ing grass in waterways, steep
hillsides, and in a rotation would
help to relieve the grain situa
tion considerably. In trying to
determine the problem for the
Columbia Basin, each county esti
mated their 1951 wheat, barley
and other grain production and
tried to fit it into the commercial
and farm storage that was esti
mated as now available. This
was a little hard to do at this
lime of year but we have made
estimates before that have not
been too far wrong. This is the
way it looked for Morrow county:
Our wheat production should
run about three and a fourth
million bushels with conditions
as they look now. This would
more than fill all of our com
mercial storage if it was all
empty, which we all know that
it won't be. Barley production
should run slightly over a mil
lion bushels, while the other
grain production could amount
to (5,00(1 bushels. With a rough
estimate of approximately one
and a half million bushels farm
storage in Morrow county, our
barley and other grains could be
taken care of if these facilities
wore all empty. Since nimmvi.
matcly a half of this is full of
storage now and under govern
ment farm loan, we know that it
won't he empty as the govern
ment has no place to move the
grain to unless something unfor
seen happens within the next few
months. There is little hope for
this, It is easy to see what the
situation could be in Morrow
County.
Since we had to do some pretty
rough estimating on farm stor
age in Morrow county, we de
cided it was time to have a more
accurate survey of just what is
available, it can be used every
year for some good. This week,
we mailed a letter to all farmers,
asking them if they would give
us their farm storage in order
that we could attempt to do
little heiler job of educating
people on the needs that there
are for additional storage. Most
of this will be provided, we think,
in multi purpose type buildings
that can1 be converted to other use
in years that our storage is not a
problem, Those years will come,
we are sure.
The roll call was answered by
each member telling how their
Mr. and Mrs. William Nickols
entertained members of the play
cast of the play 'Comin Round the
Mountain' at their home on Sun
day evening. Those attending
were Earl Miller, Mr. and Mrs. O.
W. Cutsforth, E. B. Way, Mrs.
June Cooper, George Irvin and
Mrs. C. C. Jones and the hostess
Mr. and Mrs. William Nickols.
Refreshments were served.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Cox who
have been living in the Cutsforth
Cabin in the mountains the last
several weeks are now living on
the Cutsforth ranch in the house
recently vacated by Arnin Win
Ion. Mrs. Charles Breshears and Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Crowell attend
ed the burial services of Mrs.
Breshears brother-in-law, in Pen
dleton Monday morning. John W.
Noble passed away in Walla
Walla on Friday with services
from St. Patrick's Catholic church
on Monday. The Rev. Father Bai
ley of Pendleton conducted the
graveside services, in that city.
Jeannine Hunt has been on the
sick list this week.
The Mother's Club met at the
home of Mrs. Ken Peck, Thurs
day evening. A report on Child
Study was given by Majo Hughes
and after a most successful meet-
Palmer Dean Hunt. John Ledbet
ter, Alfred Nelson, Normon Nel-
j-on, Homer Hughes, Don Lamp
bell and Don Hatfield, and the
hostess Mrs. Ken Peck.
project was doing. After our
business meeting was done the
meeting was adjourned.
All oi our ciud mace rone
halters. Mr. Jerry showed us how
to make them. He also showed
us how to tie the rope and make
knots.
Cocoa and doughnuts were ser
ved for refreshments by Mrs.
Blewitt.
Next meeting will be held at
Sandra Rhea's home.
Sanda Rhea, reporter
Heppner Store Shows
Carpeting Display
Both as a means of brighten
ing the store and for display pur
poses, Case Furniture company is
this week laying a new brand
of cotton carpeting on stairways
leading to the second floor of the
building.
The carpeting is becoming very
popular nationally because of
price and durability and is being
installed as a custom-laying job,
which is also part of the service
offered by the store.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Smith and
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Blake left
Wednesday for a months vaca
tion to Phoenix, Arizona.
have some Information on that ing refreshments were served to
date. 1 the following, Mesdames, Ken
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Lexington Oil Co-op
Lexington Grange Hall
Tuesday, February 9, 10 A. M.
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