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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
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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
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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
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ind that is they can be
built now even if at some later
dale due to water needs they will
loive io hi- drawn out. However it
is believed that more than two
will never be built.
There are other small streams
here in Oregon that the private
interests could develop. For in
stance, the Pelton Dam on the
Deschutes. Portland General Elec
tric could have been building
this dam if they hadn't tried to
set aside the water rights of the
ink'alion (aimers, and the fish
and game laws of the state, They
also asked permission to rapidly
depreciate its costs.
In Imping that this letter m
help in clearing up some points
in discussion.
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
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