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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 26, 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 NEWSPAPER ERS ASSOCIATION WftpW.SH VASSOCIAT ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher G RETCH EN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsTocNmc)N THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times August 28, 1924 The deer season for district No. 2 which includes this county, will be open on September 1st, accord ing to a telegram received the end of the week by E. Albee, deputy game warden. 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. From The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson The Morovv County Livestock Growers Association sponsored Livestock Marketing Listing is progressing quite nicely this week. It appeared that many of our livestock men were interested in the listing but had not taken the time to list what they would have for sale. During the past week, we have received many letters of inquiry for livestock for potential buyers. Such orders as the one from a Hamilton City, California buyer which was received today asking to help locate 300 weaner calves are being rccuived each day. Buyers to date have been from Idaho, Washington and Califor nia. The listings took on quite a spurt at the beginning of the week when farmers found that definite inquiries were being made. To date, approximately 2000 head of livestock, mostly weaner calves have been listed. Anyone interested can receive a copy of the listing at the county agents office. Listings can also be made at the same place. A charge of 10c per head on live stock listed is being made to help defray expenses of advertising, making the lists and getting in formation out to potential buyers. led the scales which will be used in weighing all livestock, espec ially for the 4-H Fat Stock Auc tion Sale.. Bernard Uoherty and Raymond Ferguson, on Tuesday, hauling straw for bedding which was furnished by Steve Thomp son. Everyone is hoping for a break in the weather and for many good exhibits. We hope you have taken advantage of 1he past few days when weather would not permit harvest or other field work, to select your wheat exhibit, and others as well. Wheat, hay, and other exhibits of that type can be left at the fair pavilion at any time In case you can not bring them In the day the fair opens. We hope that we will really see the agricultural products of Morrow county at each of our county fairs, The Morrow County Fair and Rodeo, which will he held at Heppner on September 2, 3. and 4; and the North Morrow County Fair which will be held at Boardman on Sep tember 10 and 11. Fair time is drawing near, lot of interest is being shown this year, in the commercial and or ganization booth department. Work at the fair grounds is pro gressing so that they will be in readiness when the show opens September 1st. This is the day that 4-H club activities start. Several 1 11 leaders along with fair board members have been active in working at the grounds Each day our farmers eagerly watch the newspapers for de velopments of a new or changed farm program that might affect them and their economy. Our A I economy has changed quite rapidly. E. R. Jaekman, Veteran Range and Crop specialist from Oregon Stale College, points out that we are in somewhat of a predicament now because of seve ral things. One of them being that we have disposed of about 17 million horses In a short per iod of time. These horses ate the produce from 50 million acres of land. Two, we have geared our production to war time needs and during the past few days. On Monday, Bernard Doiierty instal-1 we aren't at war right now. And KEEP OUT OF THE STOCKADE AND HORSE TROUGH .... GET YOUR Western Clothes TODAY AT WILSON'S WESTERN Shirts $4.95 up LADIES WESTERN BLOUSES $3.95 UP FELTS AND ' STRAWS HATS from $2.95 WESTERN TIES $1-$1.50 Levis and Lee Riders LADIES LEVI RIDERS JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIPMENT STETSON WESTERN FELT HATS only $12.50 WilsonsMens Wear The Store of Personal Service three, machinery and fertilizer have enabled farmers to produce more. On the bright side, Mr. Jack man sees this situation only as temporary. He feels that in about 1.') more years, we will have entirely different situation due to large population with no additional land. Our production Is going up 1 percent a year but our population is rising faster. The situation we are now in has been frequently called the price cost squeeze. While we are waiting for this situation to work itself out, there are ways that our farmers can help themselves. There are a lot of things that cane be done. First, we see a great number of surface and trench silos in store for the near future. They are less cost to build, less expensive to feed into or out of and provide a lot of good high protein feed for any kind of livestock operation. Each year new and better ways are found to get ensilage in and out at a minimum of cost, and equip ment. The self feeder silo and self-feeder haystack are coming popular fast. Much is left to be done in the way of range rejuve nation in most of Eastern Oregon. We here in Morrow county have a good lot of range improve ment that can- be done. Sage and rabbit brush removal would provide a much higher carrying capacity on many many acres here. Reseeding compared to natural revcgetation should be studied. Saving our natural grass by providing spring feed from temporary pastures, crest ed wheat or irrigated pastures offer much. We will be discus sing other possibilities of beating the price-cost squeeze from time to time. Those of you who are not being caught in this price cost squeeze will not be Inter ested. Some may be. Last week, Robert Every, exten sion entomologist, Oregon State College, spent a few hours with the agent to check kills from the recent grasshopper control pro gram. Mr. Every, as state leader of grasshopper control, was very happy with the type of contol program carried out here. He was especially pleased with the control in the areas which were sprayed. Random stops were made and an average of 14 grasshoppers per square foot were found to have been killed by the Aldrin spray program. With the farm program for at least 19.")5 settled in Congress last week, farmers are in a posi tion now to look ahead to the type of operations that they can earn' on. During the past week, J I have had an opportunity to talk to several farmers who have j called at the office in regards to the farm program as it passed. 1 While some points, especially the ! two price system that the Oregon Whe it Growers League was work ing for, were not passed, many are happy for the summeifallow ; amendment that passed. This amendment will increase the j acreage of most individual farm ers in Oregon by about 6''!. It Sis estimated that this will bring i an added income of around 2 and '.one half million dollars state wide. The Oregon Wheat Grow ers League, who was directly re sponsible for this amendment, feel that their efforts were worth while. Farmers who are mem bers of this organization should feel that their membership has been paid for years and years In this one action alone. The business men of Heppner are joining in boosting the Rodeo this year. FALL? Maybe it shouldn't be Mentioned at ail But the weather's beginning To feel like fall! Use of the furnace or stove Will soon be due Have you checked the stove And cleaned the flue? That's just as important as winter attire Might keep you from having A costly flue fire! hd For All Your Insurance Needs C. A. RUGGLES Phone 6-9625 ' Box 611 Heppner, Oregon Mrs. P. Quaid, now of Portland, fomerly of Heppner, is a visitor here today. Coming to Pendleton for the first time in 40 years. R. L. Burkhart and wife of Albany spent Sunday and a por tion of Monday in Heppner en joying a visit with their old-time friends, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Huston. ! 1953-54 expeiments were conduc ted. One objective of this re j search program is to sample the I fertilizer response of the area as widely as possible. This can best j be done by going on different (farms each year. Another rea son for going on different larms is in that way, a new group of far mers will become interested in the result of the program. We hope, that we can line up lots soon. The plots should be asses sible to points where fertilizer applications and plot combine can be taken by trailer. Location on a main traveled road is desir able so that people may watch results. The agent will be judging 4-H and open class livestock and con tests at the Wasco County Fair at Tyhe Valley on Friday and Satur day, August 27 and 28. Chas. Vaughn and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Stone, Earl Gilliam and family, Mr. and Mrs. Will Ball, Mr. and Mrs. Orve Rasmus are among the Heppnerites who departed the end of the week for a fortnights sojourn at Lehman Springs. Mrs. Ebl and son accompanied by Mrs. Driscoll and children all of Heppner, were doing business in Cecil on Tuesday. The Oregon Wheat Growers League have had representatives in Washington continuously watching legislation since in May. They are being credited with acquainting most of the people in Washington with what the problems of a wheat farmer are especially those in a summer fallow area. With the announcement of two livestock research workers in the Squaw Butte Harney Branch Ex periment Station at Burns, the station will be assured of being able to continue its livestock breeding program. The station has also been giving increased attention to nutrition work. In cluded for special studies which should be of much interest to Morrow county farmers are cara tene or vitamin A content of hay, forage digestibility, use of sup plemental feeds, proteins, grains and molasses, the place of silage in the area of beef production from seeded range lands. This station carries out many beef ex perimental projects that are di rectly related to our range opera tions. Last week we announced that we are looking for cooperators for the wheat fertilizer experi ments such as the nine carried out in Morrow county this year. We would like to get on ranches different from those where the 100 Gather For "George's Gallop And Gulp" Sunday Nearly 100 persons crowded the W. O. George lawn on Sun day, Aug. 15 to attend George's Gallop and Gulp, a potluck lunch and afternoon of riding and sports. The hosts were assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Ro'ce Fulleton. Preceeding the picnic lunch 29 riders gathered for a six-mile morning ride and afternoon events found the following win ning in the listed classes: Ladies' and Men's pleasure horse class, Bonnie Barratt, first, tie for second by Fred Hartman and Kaye Anderson. Junior sack race, Marlene Fetsch and Sherry Hartman; Kit George and Bobby Fetsch; Eric Anderson and David George. - Junior barrel race: Pat Steagall and Joyce Washburn; Janice Beamer and Kit George. Junior bending stake race: Kit George, Janice Beamer. Junior calf roping: Kit George. Ladies' bending stake race: Bonnie Barratt. Men's bending stake race: Bob Gammell. Stake race in teams and bar rel race in teams, Ralph Beamer and Oscar George. Calf roping, first won by Jim Farley, Oscar George, Ralph Beamer, and Floyd Jones. Head and heel, Bruce Lindsay and George Warner. Timers for the events were Mrs. Bill Mealy and Mrs, Roice Fulle ton; score keepers were Mrs. Pat O'Brien and Mrs. Archie Munk ers; Howard Bryant served as the field flagman; Malcolm O'Brien as barrier flagman; Roice Fulle ton and Cornett Green were the judges and Oliver Creswick ser ved as announcer. o Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson and family were in Portland last week on a business' trip. SUNDAY SCHOOL Tim: IS CHANGED Mrs Frank Anderson, All Saints Episcopal Sunday school superintendent, has announced that the church Sunday school will meet at 9:45 starting August 29 which is also Rally Day During the summer it had been taking up at 11 o'clock ORWICK'S HAVE DINNER GUESTS SATURDAY Mr. and Mrs. Roy Orwick had as their dinner guests Saturday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hud dleston and Karen, North Holly wood, Calif. Ale and Mrs. Ken neth Orwick, Mather Air Force Base, Calif.; Sgt. James Orwick, Ft. Hood, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Gene Orwick and the host and hostesses. the 1954 COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS Court Proceedings for Month of July, 1954. The minutes of the June, term were read and approved. The Court ordered the follow ing city levies to be extended by the Assessor: City of Heppner $14,061.00 City of Lexington $4,141.00 Citv of lone $1,530.00 City of Boardman $2,104.00 The Court orders the levy of .088 cent per acre levy on all tax able property for the Fire Patrol purposes as set out by the state Forester. The Court orders the levy of $1, 152.28 of the Irrigon Rural Fire Protection District for the Fiscal year July 1, 1954 to June 30, 1955, as extended on the Tax Rolls. The Court ordered the Rural School District levy $383,840.00 for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1954 to June 30, 1955 to be placed upon the tax rolls for the County, which said levy includes all of the school districts of the County The Court orders a levy of $5, 875.00 for the payment of bonds and interest for the School Dis trict No. 10; $12,182.50 for the payment of bonds and interest for School District No. 25; and $29,397.50 for the payment of the bonds and interest tor school Dis trict No. 35. The Court orders a 3 mill levy on all taxable property in the Boardman Cemetery Mainten ance and the Heppner Cemetery Maintenance District. The Court authorized the ad vance of $14,300.00 to the Oregon State Highway Commission as Morrow County share, or 20 of the $71,500.00 cost of the Jordan Keck Canyon Section of the Rhea Creek County road in ac cordance, with the agreement. The County- Court approved the lease of the property known as the Henry Clark place for $100.00 to Oliver Creswick for 1 year and the District Attorney is instructed to prepare an agreement for the same. The County Court accepted the resignation of R. S. Thompson from the Morrow County Fair Board and appointed W. e. Hughes to serve the unexpired term of Mr. Thompson. The County Court approved the application of Ola Jones for a stock guard across a county road on the upper Little Butter Creek Road with requirements that it be constructed in accordance with county specifications. 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