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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 19J954
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 183. The Heppner Times, established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Ofiice at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents.
Why Not Farm Fire Protection?
Rccontly a Heppner fire truck and several city
firemen made a run of several miles into the
country to try to help control a prass and grain
fire that threatened to destroy many acres of
wheat and numerous buildings. They didn't
fight much lire, nor could they have been much
help unless the fire had burned into an area
where there were buildings. It wasn't because
they didn't want to help, it was because the
equipment they had to work with wasn't de
signed to travel over wheat fields and range land.
Shortly afterwards the council issued orders to the
fire department that ther(. shall be no more dis
tant rural calls answered.
The council's action wasn't taken just to be
arbitary or with any thought that they didn't
want to help out a local rancher when he needed
help most, it was taken because the council had
no other alternative. The city's fire Insurance
rates are based on the amount of fire equipment
and number of firemen available within the city
limits and the rating bureau frowns (to put it
gently) on taking city equipment any distance
out of the city except under mutual aid pacts
With other cities or agencies or for civilian dc
fense purposes. Actually the reasoning behind
the order is very logical residents of Heppner pay
a tax to provide for and support a fire department,
therefore they should have (lie services of that de
partment at all times for no one can know when
every piece of equipment and every man will be
badly needed.
Rural residents can and should have their own
department, one with equipment designed to work
at rural fires (just as city equipment is planned
to operate where there are water mains and fire
hydrants i. Through the formation of a Rural Fire
Protection district residents of the Heppner vicin
ity could provide fur themselves the necessary fire
protection that many other farm dwellers in the
state now have. The city of Heppner we know,
will be more than willing to contract with such
a district to provide equipment, housing for it,
manpower to operate it and a central point for
alarm reporting. It is very willing to cooperate,
but understandably, it can't foot the bill too!
A rural fire district is simple to form, and when
plced in proper operation it can result in a saving
of 5 percent on nearly all insurance rates on rural
properties. Ii costs, too, as does any other simi
lar service, but that cost can't ho over 1 mills for
the first one or two years, and then should drop
to around two mills or less after initial equipment
purchases. Pi many cases insurance savings
would nearly offset the tax.
If rural residents are interested in forming a
rural fire district, the city of Heppner, its fire de
partment and the Gazette Times too, will be more
than willing to help for we all believe that a
properly formed and operated rural district can
give a real and valuable service to its residents
at a cost about the same as city residents pay for
the same service.
The initiative must come from those who live
in the area where such a district could be formed,
but we, in town, will l glad to assist. Also, if this
paper can answer any questions regarding the
formation of operation of a rural fire district either
around Heppner or elsewhere, we will be lad to
do so.
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C Anderson
in
The New Traffic Safety Plan
If you won't drive safely, you can't drive
Oregon.'1
That is t lie slogan under which the secretary
of state and law enforcement officers launched a
continuing campaign Sunday, to outlaw traffic
accidents in Oregon. The drive is based on com
petent statistics that 90 per cent of all traffic acci
dents could have been prevented . . . and that they
are the r.-ult of a careless, foolish or thoughtless
human act. The weapon to be used will be the
prompt suspension of the driver license of any
person whose record indicates he or she is a bad
driver" or who is responsible for a traffic accident
in which someone is killed or injured.
Last year there were 68,959 accidents in Ore
gon involving motor vehicles. In 311 of these ac
cidents 390. men, women and children were killed.
In 10,170 accidents 13,5f3 people were injured.
Property damage in these crashes reached a stag
gering $.5,000,'000. Although the safety activities
of a large number of groups have brought the
lecord of accidents for the first part of 1954 down
by 20 per cent from the figure for the same period
in 1953, there is still much room for improvement
more lives to be saved more personal injuries
to be prevented and more unnecessary financial
loss to be reduced.
Files of the state show that roughly 15 per cent
of Oregon's automobile drivers are in the bad risk
class in that they contribute to most of the acci
dents and violations. The program to be launched
by the state to outlaw traffic accidents is to tell
this group of motorists: "If you won't drive' safe
ly, you can't drive in Ore iron. "
We would like to remind all of
our farm readers that it will soon
be "fair-time". The Morrow
Counfy Fair and Rodeo is sche
duled to start Sept. 2 and con
tinue through the 5th. The North
Morrow County Fair at Boardman
will be the next week, ending the
9th, 10th, and 11th.
To make a good county fair,
every one needs to contribute
something. We believe that a
county fair is a necessity if agri
culture is to advance. Exhibiting
your products to compare with
your neighbors is bound to cause
competition and therefore to
make for improvement. We be
lieve that this has been shown
each year at our fair as exhibits
get better and we hope more
numerous. Comparing the 1953
fair with even one of 1947 shows
big strides in the improvement
of exhibits made. We hope they
will make the same progressive
strides at the 1954 fair.
While this is fresh in your
mind, take a look around to see
what you have that would make
a good exhibit. Besides helping
to make a good fair you will also
have the satisfaction of knowing
how it compared with the exhib
its made by your neighbor. We
are always short grain and hay
exhibits. This should not be the
case, since they account for the
biggest agricultural income in
the county. In comparison to
livestock, hand goods, and
needle work, our hay and grain
exhibits should fill several tab
les. We are wondering why we
can't have more in '54.
While we are talking about
son departed early Tuesday
morning on a trip to Portland
fairs, it brings to mind my visit
at the Multnomah County Fair at
Gresham last Saturday afternoon.
A lot of good ideas were picked
up from the fair that might be
used to our advantage another
year. However, in looking ovfr
the exhibits, I felt quite proud
of our Morrow county farmers for
the quality and number that they
exhibit in comparison to a large
county like Multnomah. I was
especially disappointed in the
fruit and vegetable classes as
Morrow county has during the
past few years, exhibited as large
if not larger than was evident at
the Gresham Fair. This surprises
me since the fruit and berries of
that area as well as the vege
table growing there has always
impressed me. I think our wo
men too far surpass the home
economics exhibits that were dis
played there. Their flower and
hobby exhibits were their big
attraction. It does a person well
to get away and see some of the
neighboring fairs for ideas and
appreciation of their own show.
Why don't you plan to visit a
neighboring fair this year. I am
sure that it will either make you !
appreciate the fair that we have
or give you ideas that will help to
improve your fair for another.
year.
canyons and bottoms where the
green feed Is found, there are
necessarily many grasshoppers
on the range and in unsprayed
areas that will be a menace for
another year. A thorough survey
of kills has not yet been made
but will be conducted this week
end. Checking some of the can
yons where spraying was made
on August 9, kills with the count
of 150 grasshoppers per square
yard was found in several locali
ties. Cooperating in the program
were the farmers who provided
the cost of airplane application,
the Bureau of Entomology who
provided the Aldrin insecticide
and Morrow county who furnish
ed the diesel.
A new Oregon State College
r,.. circular Inst DUblished
JLAieiia'V" - -"'" j ,
warns the users of pesticides of
their dangers. This circular is a
step in Oregon's campaign for
sate nanuimg ui h"""""
around the farm and home. With
the many new pesticides which
are introduced each year, people
should become conscious of the
fact that anything that will kill
insects, rodents, or afungi win
also kill people. Some are more
poisonous than others. The leaf
let cautions the uses of pesticides
to follow instructions on labels,
store out of the reach of children
and dispose of containers safely.
A copy is available at this office.
Harvest of the experimental
fertilizer plots which were k.
cated in all the soil type and rain
fall areas in Morrow County, was
completed last Friday with the
harvesting of one located at the
Kenneth Batty ranch at Hardman.
Results of the plots in the north
ern section of our wheat land
have been released. Yields are
now being calculated from the
remaining plots. " With harvest
Continued on page 7
Wheat Treating
FERTILIZING
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and Grays Harbor
Sound points.
and Puget
W. Claude Cox and family de
parted on Tuesday for Lehman
Springs where they will enjoy an
outing of ten days or two weeks.
All the wool on the Heppner
market, with the exception of
some very small lots, has been
This new policy on the suspension of drivers cleaned up
licenses will reserve the privilege of driving a car
in Oregon to those who will drive without need
lessly endangering others. If it can be enforced
properly, it should make Oregon streets and high
ways among the safest in the nation.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
August 21, 1921
ind Mrs. I'. A. Aiuk'rson re-
Mr.
turned on Wednesday from Wal
lowa lake, haing spent the week
end at that beautiful mountain
retreat.
daughter Miss Opal Briggs, Mrs.
Inda Bothis and Millard F.
French departed Wednesday for
an outing.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Briggs and! Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fergu-
Jack McCulIough, Emil Gros
hen, and Paul Hisler returned
on Friday from a trip to the
Greenhorns. While there they
called on Dan Stalter at the
mine of the Heppner Mining
Company.
Sheriff McDuffee and District
Attorney Notson went to Board
man Friday morning on a case
involving larceny in a dwelling.
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TRUCKS
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The cooperative grasshopper
control program started on Aug
ust 9th was completed the 17th.
Five thousand two hundred and
twenty-three gallons of spray
were applied by air over that
many acres during the flying
time of the 6 mornings that ap
plications were made. Approxi
mately 2 and ounces of Aldrin
per acre was used as the insecticide.
Spraying was made on those
ranches where infestations were
heavy and ranchers asked for
control program. Those having
grasshoppers sprayed were: Ger
ald Swaggart, Don Greenup,
George Currin, W. W. Weather
ford, Randall Martin, Hynd Bros.,
Dallas Craber, E. J. Blake, Eb
Hughes, Raymond French, Bar
ratt Ranches, Don Robinson, Paul
Webb, Frank Wilkinson, Bob Van
Schoiack, Jack Glavey, Paul His
ler, Ambrose Chapin, E. C. Dough
erty, Luke Bibby, A. G. Edmon
son, Charles Osmin, Peter Len
non, Alton Osmin, Ralph Beamer,
Harold Wright, Walter Wright,
Ray Wright, John Kenney and
Raymond Ferguson.
Inspection made showed an ex-1
cellent kill where spray was ap- j
plied and where grasshoppers I
had moved into sprayed areas, i
Since the spraying consisted of
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