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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
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ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
NATION A L EDITORIAL
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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 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
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