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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, April 8, 1954
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES THIRTY YEARS AGO
MOHHOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppnsr Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Anderson
Bids were closed April 3, for
weed control chemicals for the
Morrow County weed control pro
k'ram. This years lowest bidder
was Paul Pettyjohn, lone. He
will furnish !X)() gallons ester,
300 gallons amine, M0 gallons of
low volatile 2,4-H's in 28 gallon
barrels. His bid also included 10
callous of spreader sticker.
The weed control program will
get underway within the next two
weeks with county road .spraying
for control of annual weeds,
mainly Russian thistle. Arrange
ments were made this week for
holding a general meeting of the
Morrow County Livestockgrowers
Association. Main business to be
transacted at this meeting will be
action on the game laws and di
sease control committee recom
mendation as well as to work
out a theft control program to be
put into effect at once. The meet
ing will be held at Heppner on
Thursday evening, April 22.
Plans will also be made for rep
resentatives ,f this section to at
tend the Oregon Cattleman's As
conation annual meeting which
will be held at iiaker on May 17,
IS and 1!. Committee members
will be selected at this meeting.
Chairman Raymond French in
vites all cattlemen regardless of
whether lliey are members or not
to attend this April meeting.
ington D. C. on April 12. Raymond
Lundell, lone, is county chairman
of the federal agricultural pro
grams committee. Other commit
tee chairmen who will report
during the evening are Frank
Anderson, land use and produc
tion; Henry Baker, lone, wheat
disposal and transportation; John
Graves, Heppner, youth activities;
and Henry Peterson, lone, taxa
tion and legislation. The Oregon
Wheat Growers League new pub
lic relations film "Give Us This
Day" will be shown for the first
time In this county that evening.
The film has just been completed
during the last month. H. G
Campbell, chairman Morrow
County Wheatgrowers Associa
tion urges all wheat growers
wives and other women interested
to attend this meeting, as Rose
Schmid, home economist with the
Oregon Wheat Growers League
will be on hand to meet with the
ladies during the evening. Re
freshments will be served at the
close or tne meeting.
mated to Eastern Oregon and
then transplanted next spring.
They do not take much room in
the garden as they can be set
about 6 inches apart in the row.
The 1954 crop vote support rates
were announced by Commodity
Credit Corporation this past week.
Morrow County's rate is 82c per
bushel. This rale applies to oats
grading No. 3 or better.
Another commodity organiza
tion meeting that will be held
(hiring April, is that of the Mor
row County Wheatgrowers Asso
ciation. H will hold its annual
spring meeting on Saturday even
ing April 17th. II will he held at
the Lexington grange hall. At
this time, .standing committees
will bring our wheal growers up-to-date
on what has been done
with the recommendations made
by this organization last fall. Ore
gon Wheat Growers League are
working on many of ihe recom
mendations made by our local or
ganization. .lack Smith chairman, federal
agricultural programs for the
Oregon Wheat Growers League,
who is now in Washington D. C.
Willi Floyd pool and Dick Baum
of the ( tregoii wheat Growers Lea
gue, testifying before the House
Agricultural Committer, will give
a report on these hearings. Ib
is scl eduled in reitirn from Wash-
There is still time for farm
families who would like to estab
lish wind break plantings this
year to secure seedlings from the
state forestry. The State Forestry
nursery at the close of their ship
ping season found that they had
a surplus of many of the seed
lings adapted to Eastern Oregon
and have made them available to
our farmers at cost. They will
be bringing a load of these seed
lings into Eastern Oregon on
April 12 for distribution. Seed
lings available are l'onderosa
Pine, Scotch and Lodge Pole Pine,
and Chinese Arborvltae of the
conifers; black locust and earn
gana in the broad leaf. There will
also be some Russian Olive, Chi
nese elm, and a few Russian mul
berry available. Anyone interest
ed should contact this officp at
once. For those of you who do
not have your windbreak plant
ing area in shape to plant, these
seedlings could be set out in a
garden row this year to make a
years growth and become aecll-
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The annual spring clean up
campaign is being observed this
month. In addition to having
things looking neat and nice
around the farm and home, one
of the big advantages of a spring-clean-up
campaign is a chance to
start a practical year around fire
safety program on the farm. In
getting ready for spring and sum
mer operations, farmers will find
that they can at the same time
correct many of the worst lire
hazards around the farm and
without too much extra effort.
There are five major clean-up
recommendations that are impor
tant: 1. Remove all old maga
zines, newspapers, clothing, rags,
mattresses, and broken and dis
carded furniture from attics, clos
ets, basements, and the barn and
outbuildings. 2. Cleaning up of
rubbish in the farm yard and
cutting down of dead vegetation
around buildings, along fences,
and in fields.1 3. Clean up of
the machine shop and work
bench including safe disposal of
shavings, oily rags and old paints
and oils. 4. Cleanup of all
electrical equipment and power
machinery and 5. Clean-up of
chimney, stoves, brooders, and
heaters of all typos. If any or all
of these recommendations are fol
lowed, your farm will be much
safer from fires as well as yo-t
being proud if its neatness.
From Files of the Gazette Times
April 10, 1921
Calvin L. Sweek of Heppner has
accepted the chairmanship of the
University of Oregon gift cam
paign in Morrow county.
W. G. MeCarty drove to Port
land on Wednesday to spend a
day in the city on bunsiness.
Heppner post of the American
Legion have been interested for
some time in the proposition of
building a swimming pool for the
city, and their plans are rapidly
maturing.
Martin Bauernfiend, car doctoi
of Morgan accompanied by Miss
Zoe Ferrens, school teacher of
Morgan, were calling in the Cecil
vicinity 0n Sunday.
W. L. McCalel), county road
master, has been laid up at home
during the week, suffering an at
tack of of quinsy and flu compli
cations. At this time lie is much
improved.
Some interesting figures were
found by the Farmers Home Ad
ministration at La Grande in
comparing 1952-53 loans. The
Farmers Home Administration of
fice at La Grande serves this area.
Some of the interesting figures
showed that the gross cash in
come for 1953 was X''! down over
1952. A gross cash farm income
was l'"0 down, net cash income
6 down, wilh the nel cash farm
income upl(), family living ex
penses wer 9 down under 1952,
farm operating expenses :ir',,
down. Borrowers paid 2'2ri more
on their debts in 1953 than in
1952. They owed VK less at the
end of the year. Their increase
in net worth was 30'" down in
1953 over 1952, and the net worth
at the end of the year was 15
down.
These figures may not reflect
all of our farm operations but
they are surely indicative of the
family size farm.
Donald Peterson, lone, has just
completel a 70 acre seeding of
grass and alfalfa on land taken
out .of wheat production. At the
same time a two acre sod water
way was seeded in one of his
wheat fields. The sod waterway
was seeded to Pubescent Wheat
grass and Hard Fescue. Fifty of
the 70 acres seeded to grass and
alfalfa was put into a grazing
alfalfa demonstration. Two
pounds per acre each of Ladak,
Ranger, Sevelra, Rhizoma, and
Nomad alfalfas were seeded
using G pounds of crested wheat
grass per acre as the grass, Ladak
alfalfa and crested wheatgrassj
were seeded. This was put on !
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Mrs. Nora Sells of Morgan is
in a rest home in Irrigon.
Dinner guests at the Mrs. Mary
Emert home Saturday evening
were Mrs. Raluh Matthews and
daughter, Patty, of Roseburg.j
Mrs. Blanche Willis of Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Dee Emert and fam
ily of Walla Walla, Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Pettyjohn and family of Ar
lington, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Em
ert and daughter, and Mr. and
Mrs. Phil Emert and family. Mrs.
Emert plans to leave for Tennes
see April 14 to visit relatives.
The 5'ouare dance at the Legion
hall Saturday night was well at
tended. This was sponsored bv
the 4-H Clubs and proceeds by
donations will be used for the
International Farm Youth Ex
change program.
Mrs. Arvilla Swanson and Mrs.
E. R. Lundell were elected as the
delegates from Bunchgrass Robe
kah lodge to go to the Rehekah
Assembly at Grants Pass in May
at the meeting Thursday evening
of last week. The alternates were
Mrs. Sam Esteb and Mrs. Ida
Coleman. Mrs. Ernest Heliker
was recommended as district
deputy president. During the
meeting Mrs. Geo Drake. gave an
account of the U. !'. Pilgrimage
contest in Echo, where her son.
Ernest was a contestant.
After the lodge meeting a
birthday party was held for those
having birthdays the first three
months of the year. They were:
Mrs. Lana Padberg, Mrs. Lewis
Rail, Mrs. Gel I Rea. Fred and
George Ely and E. R. Lundell.
The hostesses were Mrs. Paul
Pettyjohn, Mrs. Wallace Mat
thews, Mrs. Adon Hamlett, Mrs.
Donald Ball, and Mrs. Berl Akers.
Mrs. Ida Coleman. Mrs. Sam Es
teb and Mrs Echo Palmateer fur- j Portland are visiting at the home
nished the entertainment. The of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
tables were decorated with motifs; Henry Peterson,
representing the first three i Alton Turner of Medical Springs
months of the year. ! spent the weekend with his aunt,
Mrs. John Skuzeski and sons of I Mrs. Fannie Griffith.
steeper land that Don is retiring
from wheat production in the
wheat acreage allotment pro
gram. Other seedings of the like are
being made throughout the
county. Some yet to be seeded
this spring.
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