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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, March 4, 1954
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIME S THIRTY YEARS AGO
MOHBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHERS
ASSOCIATION
ROBERT FENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
I ASSOCIATION
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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.
Postol Restrictions Pinch
In Other Communities too-
W'e didn't K't much sympathy or attention from
oilier papers around the slate, when a while back,
we editorially beefed about having our mail ser
vice cut to six days a week and, in case of holi
days, even to five days Last week though, the
postal restriction order caught up with a couple
of oilier communities and now they know what we
were complaining about, as the two following edi
torials show.
In fairness il must be said that the editor of the
Staylon paper has previously complained about
the reduced postal service, but the following edi
torial makes it plain what he thinks about postal
holidays. The six-day service had only just been
put in effect at Lebanon when the reprinted edi
torial was published by the Lebanon Express.
Along with it vas a story telling of the general
dissalistaction of merchants with the new plan.
Yell some more, boys , . . maybe if we make
enough noise I'ncle Sam will listen to us!
UNDESERVED SPANKING
Lebanon, a city that's more than tripled its
growth in the past few years, a city that's kept
pare in every way ;'s the tapping of huge natural
resources developed her economy to undreamed of
levels, has been telegaied to the hick town cate
gory. And of all people responsible, it's none other
than I'ncle Ham, who in order to save a few dol-1,-ns,
is imposing a stop to week end mall service.
What's thai mean? It means a letter mailed
after 5:30 p. m. Saturday won't leave here until
Monday morning. Mail formerly distributed to
post office boxes Sunday will lay over in Albany,
instead, for distribution Monday.
And m hat's thai mean to you and me? To the
average resident, not so much, maybe, unless he's
one id the hundreds of post office box holders. But
if you have a tax bill due, remember that envelope
will be postmarked Monday, not Saturday, at risk
of penalty. Or you can run over to the metropo
lis such as Albany, and mail it there.
To the merchant or businessman, it's more
drastic. Merchandise orders, for instance, mailed
after that 5:30 deadline, will reach Portland Tues
day, instead of Monday. Merchandise ordered
will accordingly reach here one day later. And
it isn't easy for the merchant, hard-pressed on
Saturday, to post the order in time. Of course, he
too can run over to Albany.
It's unfair to the box holder, also, many of
whom are renting boxes chiefly because they get
(or got) faster service. A case very close to home
is The Express, which often relies on Sunday mail
for copy appearing in the paper produced Monday.
We don't know how much Uncle hopes to save
by this move. We bet he'd save more, though,
if he discontinued the partial home carrier de
livery. On a national level, he'd make a hand
some saving if he'd discontinue the simplified
form of address, which permits uninvited pieces of
Trivia to invade your home, burdens your mail
carrier and ups local post office costs substantial
ly. Please, Uncle, we figure we're an up and com
ing community that we're big enough to justify
the daily mail service we've never been without
since growing out of diapers. How about a break?
The Lebanon Express
HOLIDAYS
About the most useless, inconvenient, down
right expensive to most businesses is the February
22 holiday for postoffices; one Stayton firm, un
aware of the closure, was put to an added ex
pense of $30; doubt if George Washington would
approve of a holiday in his honor that would dis
rupt business so much; we're for fewer of the
minor holidays; if the trend continues we might
well expect closures on the postmaster's birthdays.
Stayton Mail
From Files of the Gazette Times
March 6, 1924
'The Heppnerian" made its
first appearance before the Hepp
ner public under date of Febru
ary 29. The paper is the Organ
of the Heppnerian Literary So
ciety recently organized in the
high school.
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Orve Rasmus has been con
fined to his bed at his home in
the Oilman apartments for the
past week, suffering a severe
sickness.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Ball of
Seattle are visiting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mahoney,
parents of Mrs. Ball, of this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomson
and sons and Mrs. Wm. Beymcr
of Heppner, who had been visit
ing in the Rose City, spent a few
hours with Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Hynd at Butterby Flatts when
they returned to Heppner on Sunday.
Case Furniture Co. takes orders
for flowers any time of the year
and forward all such orders di
rect to city florists to be filled
at market prices and of course
have to take such flowers as are
to be had at the prevailing prices.
STATE COSTS TO INCREASE
The population of Oregon will
increase to the 3.000.000 mark by
1975 and the distribution of the
newcomers will be along lines
similar to the present, State
Treasurer Sig Unander said dur-
doing much good toward the pur
pose for which they were seeded.
One of the most recent sod water
ways that is looking excellent
this spring, is one on the Norman
and Freddie Nelson ranch on the
Baseline. These waterways can
be used in putting up some hay
Many times we hear the objec
tion to sodded waterways from
farmers that they do not have
hydraulic lifts on their machin
ery for crossing them without
tearing them out. There is al
ways one thing to point out that
must be remembered. It is far
better to cut up a field with these
seeded waterways than it is to
have water eventually cut up the
field anyway. If the water cuts it
up, it is cut in' strips lengthwise
Salem
ing a
this week
tim Willamette va
I .u i ... i l- ,,f the influx
of state costs hi pointed out that
the main state hospital has a
Ludapt of around $7,300,000 for
the biennium while the operation
cost of Fairview Home is in the
neighborhood of Si.000.000. Oper
ation of tho penitentiary
around S3.800.000 each
period.
I; is a bit difficult to estimate
the needs of some state institu
tions, said Unander, in view of
the estimated increase in popu
lation of the different institu
tions. This is not particularly
true concerning the penitentiary
..h.M the ratio of law violators
remain fairly stationary.
now the Mate has 15,000 persons
and hold.
is
two-year
verdict handed down last week
by the U. S. Ninth Court of Ap
peals in San Francisco, invalidat
ing a Federal Power Commission
order which would have permit
ted the construction of Pelton
dam on the Deschutes river by
the Portland General Electric
Company. The high court ruled
that Oregon has complete sover
eignty over the waters of the De
schutes river and has the right
to regulate its own waters in its
own chosen way.
Outdoor organizations are
banding together to battle an ex-
i,,Jt ! peeled move at the 1955 legisla-
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ture uiai wuuiu oaiuuun reuon
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of the slope and once a farmer
Mayor Bert Mason of lone waSjets a field in that shape, lie is
doing business here on Monday, licked forever as far as redeem
He was accompanied to the cityjjng it is concerned. The sodded
by P. P. Hassler. editor of 1he strips slow down the water, tend
Independent. to nn in with soil and make the
1 draws easy to cut across with
amount of washing and steep machinery so that cross slope
areas have had much water to'pultiva,lon Practicable If.
, waterways cut down to rock for
take care of. Now is the time to, ,ack of stedlnKi these rocky!
establish permanent sod water- - traws are usually impossible to
ways. Assistance for this prae-1 cross with machinery, making it
lice can be gotten in the 1951 almost necessary to farm up and
ACP Program, which is practice! down the slope thus causing
on its pajroius aim i"u., i mpwBRY FILES FOR GOVEHNOd
t-hip of some 3.000 passenger i 0reons Sccretary of StaU
automobiles, said runnier. i Newbrv backed un hi
TAX RECEIPTS DOWN
Income tax receipts for the
seven months ending Feb. 1 were
S2S.S92.135. Compared with $31,.
583. 380 in a similar period a year
ago. this is a drop of 8 per cent,
the state tax commission reported
this week. The drop is largely
in the corporation income tax re
ceipts which dropped from $11,
58G.SS1 to S9.059.977 while per
sonal income tax receipts drop
ped only SIGI.OOo from the simi
lar period a year ago. During the
period 2.502 corporation tax re
turns were filed, a gain of -125.
The number of personal income
tax returns filed was 35.085 or 3,
200 less than the all lime peak in
1950.
previous announcement that he
would run for the state's highest
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From The
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By N. C. Anderson
Last week, members of the classinto effect. It adds up to progeny
of the livestock management,; tiling, the first in the county to
who have been attending school
ranch was pruned to let sunshine
in to the frunt, as well as remov
ing all branches that were not
capable of producing fruit.
During the afternoon demon
stration, pruning of roses, ever
greens, and other ornamentals
were discussed.
si net January 12, had a chance
to get some practical experience
In field lour. Three ranch visits
were made dining the day where
such practices as treating a
bloated ,'inimal, docking lambs,
gelling inlervonus and intraperi
toneal injections, as well as nu
merous management practices
carried mil on these ranches were
viewed. The electric dehorner,
a relatively new way to remove
calves horns was demonstrated
by Allen anil Kb Hughes, Butter
creek ranchers. The use of the
electric dehorner on some 250
calves al the Hughes ranch last
year liirned out satisfactorily
anil they are very enthusiastic
about the job thai il does.
Those oil the tour were very
much interested in the manage
ment practices at the Hughes
ranch where each cow carries a
.shoulder number brand which is
used in many ways during the
year. Kb Hughes explained that
one of the most important uses
for it was to pair up cows with
calves as each calf is tattooed
with the same number as its mo
ther in ils ear. A record is kept
of each covv and if there Is some
objection to the cow, such as
trouble at calving time, the cow
is maikeil down and is sold when
the herd is culled during the sum.
titer months, A new use for the
number system is just being put
my knowdedge, under range herd
conditions. Mr. Hughes has been
selling bis calves to a feed lot in
Umatilla county. He will be able
to visit this feed lot and to de
termine which of the calves of his
breeding have not made gains
comparative to others, thereby,
getting their tattoo number and
culling the mother of this calf
from his herd. Mr. Hughes told
the group that while it took a lit
tle extra time to tattoo and keep
these records that he felt they
were well worth while in their
quality improvement program,
lo date.
Morrow county's first pruning
demonstration, or at least the
first to my knowledge, was well
attended with over 10 persons
taking part in the two demonstra
lions. The first was held at the
Harold Dobvns acreage on Fri
day morning, the second at the
Marion Palmer ranch on that
afternoon. C. O. Hawlings, Ex
tension Horticulturist, Oregon
State college, who led the demon
stration, did an excellent job in
explaining the functions of limbs
and leaves on a tree and carried
out his pruining demonstration
to compare to these principles
The young orchard at the Dobyns
ranch was pruned for developing
a sturdy tree with scaffold bran
ches well placed, while the older
orchard at the Marion Palmer
While driving through the
county the past few days, there
are many examples of the need
for sod waterways in many of our
wheat fields. While this winter
hasn't been as bad as some, there
has still been a considerable
No. C-l, establishing permanent
sod waterways to dispose of ex
cess water without causing ero
sion. The assistance includes
50 of the cost of grading, shap
ing and filling, seed bed prepar
ation, nitrogen fertilizer, seed,
and cost of seeding. This is pro
bably the most complete assist
ance provided for any practice
in the 1954 program.
Grass mixtures recommended
for seeding down sod waterways
in Morrow county are Fairway
crested wheatgrass, six pounds
per acre with sheep or hard fes
cue, five pounds per acre. An
other mixture is ten pounds
more and more erosion until thej
field may be ruined.
With this fine cost sharing pay-'
ment, this is a pretty good year;
to start to seed some waterways.
If on wheatland, they can be I
counted in the diverted acres.
Word from Rex Warren, Exten
sion Farm Crop Specialist, Oregon
State College, points out that
early spring sprays get the most
weeds. Farmers, therefore, should
be ready when spring weather
breaks with their selective weed
control in grains. Tests show that
it takes only one half as much;
of 2.4-D, applied early before weeds
1'u descent wheatgrass with live I develop a stalk, to get the same
pounds of sheep or hard fescue kill as with late spraying. Trial!
per acre. Some excellent sod further shows that enough 2,4-D, i
waterways can be observed residue will remain to kill late
throughout the county,, and are weed seedings as they emerge.
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