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e Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, May 20, 1954 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 NIWIPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATION A L EDITORIAL vy I I AsTbcfATLN 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 Coiy 10 cents. From The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson Last week's grazing alfalfa tour, ing conditions. Dusting should revealed much data comparison of various alfalfas and their adaptability to dry land range and crop specialist, Oregon State College, Marr Waddoups, of Pendleton branch experiment sta tion and Bill Cyrus, Burlingham Seed company originator of No mad alfalfa were those from out side the county who took part in the tour. All taking part in the tour agreed that there is definitely a place for alfalfa in all of our pasture seedings throughout Mor row County. As a general rule, stands established a year ago were excellent on summerfallow land while those that had to com pete with weeds and volunteer crops were not so well establish ed. Every one was pleased with the possibility of Nomad alfalfa, the original creeping variety, es pecially in fields that have been seeded for four or five years and given a chance to creep and es tablish itself. Seedings made in 1918 and 1919 by Lloyd Howton and Harold Wright were especi ally good in this respect. Bob Kil kenny now lives on the ranch where Nomad was seeded in 1919. At the Harold Wright ranch near Ilardman, his 1918 seeding using only three pounds per acre Is now a solid stand. During the two anil a half day tour alfalfa seedings at the Ber nard Doherly, Kenneth Peck, Alec Lindsay, Bob Kilkenny, Oscar Peterson, Donald Peterson, i'aul Webb, Harold Wright, W. E, Hughes, W. W. Weatherford, Del- beit Hmert, and Bill I'adberg ranches were visited, and com parisons of alfalfas made. At least one ' Morrow county farmer plans to do something about the cheat and fox tail prob lem in alfalfa. The grass prob lem is especially bad this spring. Delbeit Kmeit, lone, began con struction Saturday morning of a trench silo where he will store 10 acres of grass-alfalfa insilage. He has ordered a field chopper and will cut the grass and al falfa directly into dump trucks hauling it into the silos, This will nut only save a lot of feed but will make the cheat and foxtail' palatable and make it possible 1o utilize it for feed rather than waste without causing the prob lem of cheating or bearding livestock. concerning j be repeated at five to seven day intervals unui narvesi. jmiiht a five percent DDT dust, a three fourths of one percent rotonone dust or a five percent methoxy- chlor dust is recommended. The five percent DDT dust should be applied at the rate of fifteen to twenty pounds per acre, the roto none dust at the rate of 25 pounds per acre. The methoxychlor dust at the rate of 15 to 20 pounds per acre. Recent instructions pertaining to wheat marketing quotas for the 1954 crop state that the market ing penalty rate is 457o of parity, as of May 1st, 1951. A determina tion has been made in the penalty rate on excess wheat of the 1954 crop as $1.12 per bushel. For those farmers who might be seeded in excess of their acreage allotment, there is still time to cut this excess for hay or to pas ture it off. Acreage to be treat ed in this way, should be re ported at the local ASC office. Covering most of Morrow County, during the last week, it was noted that there is a marked increase of Washington ground squirrels in every community throughout the country. Last year at the suggestion of Harold Dob yns, local exterminator, and Gor don Stewart, district agent, U. S. fish and wildlife service, the in crease in this rodent was called to the attention of the farmers throughout the county. Very few ilid any work on the control of the rodent, this year they have multi plied quite rapidly in comparison with last years number. Strych nine poison grain are effective on this rodent. Strychnine grain is available at this office at cost. Or it can be purchased in neigh boring counties at some feed stores. For those gardeners who have trouble with pea weevils, now is the time to be thinking of timing insecticide applications for con trol of this M'st. The insecti cides are applied to kill the adult weevil before they lay eggs. Once the egg is laid on the pod it Is too late to prevent weevily peas. Generally the first application should be made when the first pods appear. Dusting is perhaps the most satisfactory method of controlling weevils under garden Disease is the greatest single hazard to profitable livestock production. The annual national livestock death loss directly at tributed to diseases has been con servatively estimated to be 15 percent of the swine, 20 percent of the sheep and lambs and 10 per cent of the cattle and calf popu lation. Sanitation is an import ant fundamental step in the di sease control. While we are talking about disease control, it might be time ly to pat Morrow county ranchers on the back after five years of intensive testing for the control of Brucellosis under a compulsory test program provided by Oregon state law. Morrow county is ready to be added to the list of accredit ed Brucellosis counties. Dr. A. G. Biegle, veterinarian in charge, V. S. bureau of animal industry, indicated to a member of the Mor row county livestock disease con trol committee, early this week, that our county could be put into this status soon. It is also encour aging to note that Sherman and Umatilla county both undertook a program of this kind this spring. It is also understood that at least one other county in East ern Oregon is now in the process of setting up a program of this kind. It is quite disturbing to note the large number of ranchers who are burning stubble this spring. It is especially hard to understand why this practice has become so popular this spring, after a period of years of utilization of crop residues that all Morrow county ranchers could be proud to claim. In covering the county last week, more burning of stubble was wit nessed than of any one year during the eight years as county agent in this county. It is hard to understand for several purpo ses. First, it appears to be no more and in most cases less stub ble to contend with this spring than there has been in many other springs. Secondly, there is more need as our land grows older, for conserving plant food and organic matter if we are going to maintain production and feed the increasing population in this county. With crop surplus es facing us, many ranchers evi dently feel that it will take less acres to produce the amount of crops that can be raised under acreage allotments and that poor er farming practices can be toler ated. It is disheartening to be lieve that farmers would take this attitude for, 'novorbefore do we need to practice sufficient crop production than now. Experi mental data from the Sherman and Pendleton branch experiment stations, results over a great number of years show, that while there has been in many years an increase production in wheat the year following burning, wheat yields have declined on land where stubble was burned over a period of years and definitely the organic matter and water holding capacity was decreased consider ably and that organic matter in the soil has gone down rapidly where burning Is practiced. For those of you who get the Country Gentleman, I would call your attention to the editorial in the back of the June issue of this farm magazine. COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS Court Proceedings for the month of April, 1954. The minutes of the March term were read and approved. The court approved the recom mendation of the Boardman Gar den Club that Certain roads in the Boardman area be named for early settlers on the project. The following Bangs' disease control claims were ordered paid: John J. Glavey $267.88; Anne Healy $8.00; Lowell G. Shattuck $24.00 and John J. Glavey $35.51. Warrants Issued on the General Fund. Sadie Parrish, Deputy Clerk . ... $ 297.85 Sylvia McDaniel, Deputy 179.79 Joyce Buschke, Office Clerk 184.65 Alice I. Soward, Assess or's Office Clerk 111.05 Barbara Ware, Nurse's Office Clerk 78.60 A. J. Chaffee,. Janitor 263.31 Dr. A. D. McMurdo, Physician 24.25 Herbert White Jr., Court Reporter 72.75 William E. Garner, Jus tice of Peace 72.75 J. O. Hager, Justice of Peace 150.15 Gustave Fisher, Justice of Peace 24.25 Calvin Carson, Weed Control 90.30 Garnet Barratt, County Court 42.08 Ralph I. Thompson, County ill JUST JJKE When you have a Crop Hail Policy in the Home! Morrow count v farmers and home gardeners will be interested in the fast, free medical service for plants that is now available at Oregon State college, with the opening of a plant clinic there. Diagnosis of plant diseases and control recommendations can now be made under a new arrange ment at the college. This service is the first in the west and the second in the Nation to be hand led on a systematic basis as a clinic with an advisory staff. Spe cial instructions for submitting diseased plants and complete in formation is available at this office. till.. J. mm Plans are pretty well completed now for the annual better farm ing and conservation tour which will be held this year fn Tuesday. June 1st. While the complete agenda for the day has not been made up. it appears as though stops will be made in the west Heppner, Lexington, and lone areas during the day. Such things as sod waterways estab lished; and new seedings; strip cropping; dryland and irrigated hay seedings, new' and establish ed; tall wheat on alkali land; crop residue management and management and various tillage operations; windbreak Court Russell K. Miller, County Court State Tax Commission, Salaries ' State Industrial Accident Comm. S. $4.87; S. S. 31c; D. S. 31c; CH. $1.36, Jan. 31c; W. C. $1.24 Merchant Calculators, Tax Collection H. Tamblyn, County Court Northwest Hospital Ser vice, Salaries Maternity Center Assn., Health Nurse Today's Health Maga- zine, Health Nurse Court Street Market, Jail Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co., Weed Control W. Howard Cleveland, Bangs Disease Control Jerry Brosnan, Bangs Disease Control Mahoney and Fancher, Bonds Public Employes Retire ment, Sal. $73.65; S. S. $228.22 Paul M. Pittman, Court house First National Bank of Portland, Salaries Case Furniture Co., Courthouse Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co., Courthouse C. J. D. Bauman, Sheriff Kilham Stationery and Printing Co., Clerk James H. Sturgis, Trustee, Publicity and Adver tising Sadie Parrish, County Clerk Henderson Office Supply, Treasurer Heppner Hardware & Electric Service, Court house Pioneer Memorial Hos pital., Jail Consolidated Chemical Co., Courthouse Bureau of Labor, Court House Packer-Scott Co., Court house Bradley D. Fancher. Dis trict Attorney Bradley D. Fancher, Dis trict Attorney 79.94 121.35 111.02 8.40 30.39 5.00 66.25 1.00 3.00 6.81 2.24 36.00 40.00 40.00 301.87 42.55 409.05 .15 6,10 158.25 118.72 100.00 4.50 ,45 4.66 7.50 16.50 3.00 17.43 12.48 31.00 gume nurseries; weed plots and wheat fertilization demonstra tions will be viewed during the day. Arrangements are being made to travel again by bus and the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce promises a lunch at noon. The complete agenda will be given in next week's paper as well as a letter and graz-1 calling attention, to be mailed to ing alfalfa seedings; -grass le all farm families. C. A. RUGGLES, INSURANCE PHONE 6-9625 HEPPNER BOS 6U Before Ii'i Too Lfta Insuit lo tht Home Iuiurtac Co. ELECT Olive B. Hughes REPUBLICAN County Assessor EXPERIENCED Has been in charge of the office during the current tax equali zation program. Knows end understands all phases of the work. Will continue to give taxpayers the same helpful, courteous service as in the past. Ii Adv. Olive B. Hughes, Heppner Herman Green, Court house 3.00 Heppner Laundry, Court house $1.00: Jail $9.35 10.35 Pacific Power & Light Comtanv. Courthouse 43.19 Oliver Creswick. Coroner 6.56 Helen O'Donnell, Circuit Court 5.00 Heppner Gazette Times, Official Publica t i o n $32.24: Election $20.75 . 52.99 Dunham Printing Com pany, Election 23.45 N. C. Anderson, Weed Control 2.55 Turner, Van Marter & Bryant, Bond, (Dep. Sheriff) 25.00 Otto Ruhl, Bangs Disease Control 16.00 Pacific Telephone & Tele , graph Co., Current Ex pense 70.55 Anderson Builders Sup- i ply, Courthouse 70.81 Henderson Office Supply. Tax Collections 32.05 Garnet Barratt, County Court 58.25 Warrants Issued on the General Road Fund Harold Wilson $ 352.64 Thoral Broadus 322.62 David McLeod 299.55 H. Sherer 356.48 Dick Borman 322.64 Calvin Carson 152.27 Lewis Ball 342.64 William Cunningham 338.50 Anderson Hayes ... 333.93 Walter Gilman 278.65 Ray Bailey 277.00 George Irwin 292.95 Glenn McLachlan 47.15 Cliff Swan 294.45, Austin Wilson 297.15 Jack Slocum 3-13.68 William Heath 342.64; Fred Booker 284.451 Donald Munkers 339.28 Walter Corley 294.45 Darel Hudson 331.05 Eldon Shannon 313.88 Public Employes Re tirement 152.57 State Tax Commission . 215.61 Northwest Hospital , Service 86.10 State Industrial Acci dent Comm 241.02 First National Bank of Portland 658.90 Umatilla Electric Cooper ative Assn. Northwest Industrial Laundry Co. ' D. H. Jones and Son Russell Miller Heppner Hardware & Electric Co. Pacific Power and Light Company Sadie Parrish, County Clerk Lexington Implement Company Heppner Auto Parts Paul G. Pettyjohn Rosewall Motor Company Empire Machinery Company Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co 9.00 1 00 Clifton swan 50.00 Columbia Equipment 6.27 company 215.84 99.70 Anderson Builders Supply 16.85 120.00 Anderson Hayes 334.03 Warrants Issued on the Hospital .10 Construction Fund J. C. Payne, Hospital 19.22 Construction $ 7.50 Warrants Issued on Miscellaneous 3.44 Fund. Harold Dobyns, Rodent 52.05 Fund $ 90.20 133.59 Jeff Walker, Coyote 232.42 Bounty 3.00 63.05 Harold Dobyns, Coyote Bounty 228.00 233.55 Public Employes Retire Continued on Page 6 Union Oil Company Pendleton Auto Parts Industrial Air Products Becket Equipment Company Contractors Equipment Company Armcq Drainage & Metal Products Company Independent Garage Montgomery Ward and Company 64.55 52.56 15.90 3.00 427.41 1,737.61 .65 10.73 IF YOU WANT COLD FACTS... SEE THIS Coronado Freezer Family Size 15.5 Cu. Ft. Shown ONLY 37495 This Family size freezer will hold ample frozen foods to keep your family eating wonderfully well and will save you its cost in only a few short years. Come in soon, see the advantages of a Coronado the "Cold Facts" will convince you. OTHER SIZES TOO 9. 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