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Page 2 Heppner Gaiette Times, Thursday, April 15, 1954 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIME SjlHIRTY YEARS AGO MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Hepprmr Gazette, established March 30, 1S83. The Heppner Times, November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. established 8 ROBERT f'ENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN FENLAND Associate Publisher .. i -i .u n,. riffi,. nt ii(,i,r.nur Orpann n Sorond Class Matter Published Every Thursday ana r.niereu ii me ii uimc VV"-- -- Subscript and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION krmsaxTKnrs TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: After listening to Mr. Church, of the Idaho Power Co. at the chamber meeting last Monday and after reading the Article in the Heppner Gazette commenting on it. I feel that some points that Mr. Church did not bring out should be discussed so as to broaden the general outlook upon the entire subject. First: He did not mention in any of his figures, the down stream benefit from the storage reservoir of the high dam, which would half the cost. Also, the fact that had the high darn been built with no generators in it the downstream benefits would have been so great that there would have been no need to use steam rmipr;it ion last vear and no sur charge for it. Second: Mr. Church, mentioned the Tax benefits from low dams when it's common knowledge lliat all taxes on a public utility are added to their rales over and above the (J";, they are allowed to make and therefore their custo mers pay their taxes. Quoting a member of the State Tax Com mission at Heppner last spring, who said in his talk before the Morrow County Taxpayers meet ing: Why Utilities don't pay taxes; They are gatherers of taxes. Anyway, speaking of taxes and tax writeoffs, The East Oregon Ian, which must have a reliable source of information, said in an editorial last fall. That the Idaho Power company had applied for a five year depreciation schedule on two of their three low dams which amounts to a poker player reaching for the pot before the hand Is dealt. Now lets forget about power, it's a by-product of the develop ment of our Natural resources. We may someday make electric ity with Atomic energy or by other means, but food and water, inner. I was a member of the water resources committee, representing Morrow County at the slate hearing at Arlington this spring anil we were complimented on having one of the best reports there. However, all we and all of the oilier counties talked about was water and the lark of it, yet Hells Canyon Dam is the only dam in Oregon or Washington on From The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson Word has been received from Oregon State College that the new livestock pest control circu lar is being printed.' The new circular points out that U. S. far mers loose three hundred million dollars annually from livestock insects. The circular is brief, deals with the new insecticides and tells how to avoid this loss. It will be made available to our livestock men as soon as we have a supply here in the office. From Files of the Gazette Times April 17, 1921 The dates of Hennner's Chau tauqua have been set for June 30 to July 5th, inclusive, mere is some talk, also that Heppner will put on a 4th of July celebration this year. !and discarded furniture. Stored I aivav in attics, closets, and base ments and barns and outbuild ings, these fast burning things are perfect tender for spreading any spark or flame. Don't give fire a place to start. Glancing through the last copy of the weekly inice cost and weather review circular from Ore gon college, we find that con gress has set 100 as the bench mark of a fair exchange rate be tween prices that farmers receive for their products and prices on items that farmers must buy This ratio now stands at 90, 4; points below the fair exchange level. With the exception of last' October and November when the! ratio also stood at 90, the March ,jublisher an(i proprietor for the 15 level marks the lowest Wo since May, 1911. Prices have ' 3 been below parity for a year and a half now since September Of the products grown in Oregon only hogs and apples were on the above parity list on March 15. The price in percent of parity of some major commodities stacked u)) something like this; eggs 95, lambs 90, Oats 89, wool 88, turkevs 87, whole milk 80, Butleifat 84, wheat 81, barley 83, beef cattle 78, chickens 77, and potatoes 85. Word has just been received that the Oregon Wheat Growers tearriip executive committee. voted to change the dates of the j 4-H and FFA fat stock show andj colo at Thp Tlnlles from May 31. 1 June 1st and 2nd, to one week later, June 7, 8, and 9. The rea son for change in dates are for the fact that some schools in the area will not be closed until the fore part of June. Morrow County as it appears now will have many 4-H fat protects shown and sold at this show. Morrow County 1-11 club members are doing their share in increasing the hog popu lation which has reached an old time low in Oregon. With the good strong prices that hogs are demanding now, it looks like these club members should come out on 'top from the financial angle. During the last month, a good many of the gilts which were caught by 4-H club mem- Laxton McMurray, a business! bers as pig scramble projects at n,hnf f Tnnp. waslthe 1953 Morrow County Fair Roy Neill, sheepman and al falfa raiser of Big Butter creek was in the city Wednesday from his home near Pine City. Frank Turner began the shear ing season on Saturday last with the flock of Mike Marshal at Castle Rock. Mr. Turner's outfit consists nf ten machines and he is working a full crew. With its issue of Tuesday April 15 the Heppner Herald passed out. The. paper had been published here for a period of ten years, being established in April 1914 by Leslie Harlan and under the management of S. A. Pattison as State Traffic Deaths Drop During March TVentv-one persons died in 0on "traffic collisions during I . . .. fin. substantially be- , ha raided in February when'deaths skyrocketed to; 42. -;ccrctarv of State r.aw - I. to S 111 CUUiu h" f "delayed death reports are re- IONE LIVESTOCK CLUB lone 1 11 Livestock club held ,l.ir meeting on Sunday March 1 at the Herman Bletells. " Herb Kkstmm got a Hn" on livestock that was going to llu U-Ules We had a demonstration l,v Mr. Bletell on Marking Sheep. We also had movies on u.- of sheep and lambs, shown by Mrs. M.irkham Baker. ,..t r.ntimr was called Vnu ni-.si r off until the 25th of April, cause of Easter, and will be at the L. L. llowton ranch. The meeting was dismissed refreshments were served Ivan Akers, reporter be held and here Tuesday to attend ness affairs. to bus!- have farrowed. Robert Campbell, of the Buttercreek Junction l-H club, had the distinction of hav- : .. ...i,u lot,,,. Olin Oregon, is neaa oi me K , farrowp(1 and saved 10 pigs. Kit go.ng to southern Europe. Gordon ( Heppner dub Boals, Director of Export pro-,. ... ' r,,nnil grams for Millers National Feder- ation at Washington, D. C. will be one of the group going to Asia. the Columbia system that is of j a high enough elevation to inun date most farm land in Umatilla, Morrow nilliam and Sherman counties. To be sure Mr. Church empha sized the point that there wasn't any irrigation proposed out of I h at reservoir, hut who among us is brave enough to offer it to California. That reservoir i two hundred and fifty feet above the city of Heppner and the top one foot, I am told will hold more water than the hotom fifty feet of the small dam. So much for water, how about food? Fertilizer. The greatest expense on my ranch last year was fertilizer, eighty five hundred dollars worth of it and it all has to come from Texas, Tennessee and Canada. At least four thous and out of the eighty five hun dred was for transportation. We have here in tin Northwest one of the world's greatest de posits of phosphate rock and it can not be manufactured econo mically with current costing over three mills. The present new high Bonneville rate is about that, Idaho Power would cost about six mills. Mr. Church made the statement that there wasn't water enough to fill the high dam in the Snake tint he failed to point out the fact that the dam once filled, did The County Agent's Office has Just recently, the secretary of , received a fresn supply oi po.soo agriculture, announced that 34 " f snulrrt'1 c'm lading authorities on agricul-! ne who is having trouble with tural pVodue.ion and marketing squirrels can ob am this ba at ! have been invited to serve as con-; " "' - " il suhants in a. series of special for-' 'y tne u. . n eign trade studies about to be Service and.. s mixed for best con- undertaken in Europe, Asia and trol of this rodent. Latin America. The purpos,; will HOME BULGING reived or if persons injured later die. Worst accident of the month oc eurred in Deschutes county when two cars collided, killing four people. It was the only multiple death accident reported. Safety men said the March re cord this year was eight below that of last year and, in view of the February count, "a surpris ingly low toll." Qn far this vear, 85 persons have died in traffic, two less than the count at the same time last year, but safety men said months carrying the heaviest traffic vol ume are still ahead. No accurate traffic death picture will begin to take shape until spring and sum mer records are known. Continued emphasis onacci dent prevention efforts through out the state, and especially those aimed at improving indi vidual driver attitudes, wen urged by officials. . -o 1 Mr. and Mrs. James Healy and daughter Sheila returned Satur day from a weeks trip to Portland. WATCH for the Cub Scout Carni ' vat coming to Heppner April 30. AT THE SEAMS? J be to study the possibilities of ex- Much interest was fhown in ne possiouiucs oi va- :,anding U. S. agricultural trade, vvccks u , ' n, with those areas as proposed by,'"1 , " ,h ' President Eisenhower in his farm' State Board of Forestry . had in program recommendations to the surplus at the end of its tree ship- , ngross They will explore im- pin season. As a result several mediate possibilities of expand- individuals and Rups have or ing international trade in food dred seedlings hat will be sen :id fiber. The groups are ex- out. The truck will a m in Pec.ed to leave the United States "fPPner on Thursday, April U n April and return late in May. Those ordering trees were Mrs. This s in line with what our I-oyd Cooley and Lyle Robertson Oregon Wheat Growers League f Irrifion; Millard Nolan and has" bee asking for some time. Burton Peck Lex.ng on; Donald Some of the leading authorities Peterson of lone; P. A Mol ahan, selected are men well known in Heppner; Alv.n Wagonblast Lex- Oregon Niels Nielsen, Federal "Won; and he lone Garden S ate Statistician Agricultural Hub. A total of 00 Caragana, ' ':,,, , Agricultural 25 Mulberry, 150 Russian Olive. Est.maics. vv M b the Agru u tural M m,Lrl . '.borvltiie, 200 Scotch Pine, and 25 I black locust, were ordered to be not have to be refilled again, ex-, plant0(1 as windbreaks. cepl the draw down for flood con-1 trol and sla-'k water power goner- Last week's 4-H sponsored alion. square dance at lone, was quite There is one overshadowing j a success even though there were fact however in the favor ot tne manv events going on that even has nitrs from his gilt, Cunnu Anderson of the same club has a sow with 10 pigs. While not a scramble pig project, Jerry Ander son has a registered Duroc gilt with 7 pigs. Selection from these litters will be shown at the Mor row Cnontv Fair and Rodeo and sold ai the 4-H auction sale which will be the event of Friday even ing, September 3. 4-H Club News FEATHER AND HARE CLUB, BOARDMAN The Feather and Hare club met at the Cecil Hamilton home on March 30 and the meeting was called to order by president, Edna Hoffman. The flag pledge was said and minutes read and it was decided for the members to take turns serving refreshments. We talked about the diseases of rabbits and chickens. The fol lowing members were present: Lorelie Hamilton, Keeny and Vic tor Rayrollez. Edna and Jimmy Hoffman. Teddy Hoffman was absent. Jimmy Hoffman, reporter ADD A ROOM NOW! 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I am very sincerely yours, O. W. Cutsforth. ing that gave this event sun competition. Approximately $50. 00 was cleared which will be used in the International Farm Youth Exchange program which Morrow County 4 II clubs are con tributing to. This money will be used as a part of the expenses of Oregon Young men and women who will visit foreign countries I ibis summer to live and work with farm families in a better world understanding. I ll ( lubbers are being called upon to assist in the spring clean up campaign. They are asked to take the lead at home and spread the news to neighboring farms that now is the time to clean up and throw out or salvage news papers and magrzijies, old cloth ing, rags and mattresses, broken How to make tractor-track bearings last longer s I You can add many hours of life to your tractor's track-roller bearings if you lubricate thorn regular ly with RPM Tractor Roller Lubricant. 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