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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1954)
Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, September 9, 1 954 Page '2 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIME SiTHIRTY YEARS AGO MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Time, November 18, 1897. Consolidated February Id, 1912 established NfWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT FENLAND Editor and Publiher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL (association uic), ruo, Thiirirlav 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. Friday's Election is Important Friday's school district bond election will place squarely before the people the opportunity to set tle two very important issues. One Is financial, the other is moral. If district No. 1 is to solve its problem of trying to operate an ever-growing school without asking local taxpayers for additional funds to replace those now being held up by the state, the bond issue for a new grade school must pass. As has been pointed out previously, the state has with held basic support money until the district takes measures to overcome the crowded conditions in the building. A "yes' vote on the bond issue will mean that the start has been made and money which is badly needed to operate on will be re leased. If the issue Is voted clown, the state will continue to hold the money, which could eventu ally be completely lost to the district with a sub sequent reduction in school functions or a .special tax lew as an alternative. The" second, even more important reason, is o"r moral obligation to our children. They deserve better than we are giving them ... and we don't mean just in the looks of the building or the lack of many recreational and other facilities. It is a commonly accepted educational fact, and, just good common sense, that teachers who have to Try to care for and educate half again as many children per room as they should have, can't give those children the time and teaching than they should receive. Yet, we are sending our children to school to such conditions with the obvious effect . that they are going to receive less education than if they were to go to school in a district which supplied better facilities. The only way a start can be made in giving our children an education at least equal with others in the state, is to first, give them the necessary facilities room to conduct reasonable .sized classes so the teachers can seg regate the children and give them the attention they need to get a proper education. In the Hepp ncr schools this can't be done without a new ele mentary school building to relieve the pressure on both the lower grades and the high school. This week's registration figures do much to point up the ever-increasing need for more class rooms, for the first day's registration found 24 more children in grade school than were there last year. These figures don't leave much room for argument to those who have said that the stu dent load would decrease. In fact, the end of the week will probably find another 12 or 15 children here who were late in registering which could well make it necessary to again use all three of Heppner's churches for classrooms along with the rest of the temporary rooms now in use. We have heard some say that "the school was good enough for' my kids, it's good enough for to day's," but it must be remembered that when the previous children went to school the plant was 20 or 25 years younger and the consolidation pro gram voted In recent years has added many child, rn who formerly were cared for in one-room schools throughout what is now school district No. 1. Of course the parents of those children will also help pay for any new building, and their share will be much less than if they had to support the former small schools. Our present, school dilemma demands that something be done as fast as it is humanly possible to do it. The first step is to vote "YES" at the Friday school bond election. From The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson Fair time is over, the kids are back in school, and attention turns to the seeding of wheat. While it appears that the allot ment program is nut quite settled and it is quite evident that there will be some relaxation of re strictions on total farm allot ment, it has not yet been deter mined just what will be the final outcome. At this time of the year, there are always many questions con cerning such tilings as varieties, rate, and time of seeding, and others depending on the season. Last week, we called your atten tion to tin' yield results of the wiiii it wheat nurseries grown at .North lone and Fightmile. Klmar was the top yielding established variety at both of these nurseries. Ilex did well at Fightmile, Col den and Ilrevor at lone. Each year there are a good many bus hels of seed wheat wasted by heavier seeding rates than are necessary. We have had vari ance in seeding rates from 30 to !." pounds per acre within a not too gieat area. Hates of seeding using .'10 pounds, 15 pounds. W pound-;, 15 pounds, and !t) pounds on various feeding dales showed no average difference between the low a ltd high rate. Seeding September first showed that hea vier rates wcie a little more ne cessary than when seeding was done November first. The aver age for September 1, September 15, October 1, October 15, and No vember seedings, using 30 pounds, resulted in 2(1.3 bushels per acre; while the average for these dales, using !K1 pounds per acre, resulted in 2!Mi bushels per acre. While there was no significant difference between rate of seed ing, the dates with the highest yields were October 1 anil 15 with yields of 31.fi and 211.5 bushels per acre, which is significantly higher than the other dates. This data is from the Sherman Branch Experiment Station at Moid. From the Pendleton Branch Ex periment Station, 30, GO, 90 and 120 pounds per acre were seeded. The average yield from the 30 pound rate of seeding was 45 bushel per acre; the 00 pound, 45.4 bushels; the" 90 pound. 41.3 and the 120 pound, 41.4. Their conclusion was that the long time average showed lighter rales of seeding yielding just as much as heavier rates. The most advantages dates of seeding at that station have also been Octo ber 1 and October 15 for the long time average. The annual sale of the U. S. Sheep Experiment Station at Du Ii.iis, Idaho, will be held on Sep tember 30, beginning at 10:(K) a. m. Over 700 ewes, consisting of various ages and broke into lots from 25 to 200 head, will be sold. These are Columbia, Targhee, Rambauillet, and Crossbred ewes. Ap loximately 30() rams of these same breeds will also be sold. Just announced is the annual Feeder's I my at the Eastern Ore gon Livestock Experiment Sta tion at Union. This will be held September 15, beginning at 9:00 a. m. During the day, lambs on feeding tests; Columbia and Tar ghee ewes and ram efficiency testing; cattle efficiency breed lug program at the station; and experimental work on yearling steers and heifers, fattened on pasture, will be viewed in the morning. The afternoon program includes discussion on the sta tion projec ts; gains, costs and re sults of 1953 and 1954 cattle and sheep feeding tests discussed by II. G. Avery and Cecil Pierce of the station. Dr. Kermit Peterson, state veterinarian, will discuss Lentosnirosis and other serious livestock diseases; while Jim! Oldfield, Oregon State College, will discuss nutritional problems in raising and fattening cattle and sheep. Also on the afternoon program is a panel discussion on "What kind of livestock should we produce for market". This will be led by Ed Coles, secretary of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association. From files of the Gazette Times September 11, 1924 L. E. Van Matter and D. A. Wilson went out to the moun tains on Saturday evening and on Sunday Van potted a fine four-prong buck. The Heppner schools, grades and high, opened on Monday the 8th, with a largely increased en rollment over last year. Charley Vaughn took a run out to the timber on Wednesday and killed. a big buck deer. There was a family reunion, the first in nine years, at the home of Lou Davidson of lone, the first of the week, states the lone Independent. Those present from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. McCurdy of Heppner, Mr. and Mrs. Ries of Toppenish, and Mr. and Mrs. Beezley of Grass Valley. Mr. and Mrs. McCurdy left kneon Tuesday morning. BEAT THE HEAT At the Lloyd Howton ranch, sponse to fertilizer. At the Frank greatest response to nitrogen was I Anderson farm in Eightmile, the shown in the 20 to 40 pound ap- j plot showed again that 20 pounds plications.- The 20 pound appli- jof nitrogen in the spring was the Jas. Sharp will move his family to town this week from his home in Sand Hollow to take advant age of our school facilities. Here's the way to beat the heat and still be a perfect hostess. The pretty model demonstrates electric housewares received as gifts for summer time living. With their help she is able to prepare wonder ful refreshments and still have time to spend with her guests. With the current trend towards more and more leisure time modern living is made even easier with the hulp of over JO such electric housewares. They can be used outdoors as well as indoors with equal time and labor savings advantage. rates of gain are very good for a 228 day feed, and should make someone some good herd sires that will pass along this rate of gain characteristic. Results from the nine fertilizer experiments, carried on in the couiTy this year, have been sum marized. Results measured in bushels of wheat per acre varied from one farm to the next and did not show a general trend that would result in a general recom mendation for Morrow county or my one area. It appears now as though field soil testing is quite important to determine the am ount of nitrogen that might be economically used on each ranch in Morrow county. Briefly sum marizing the results, the follow ing was found: At the Ralph Crum ranch near lone, 20 pounds available nitrogen per acre gave the most economical return of the 15 treatments made. The 32 bus hels per acre yield compared with the check plot of 27.2. The ap plication of nitrogen at this field raised the test rate per bushel approximately one pound. At the Raymond Lundell farm, applica tions of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur did not appear to be eco nomical at the site. It was found at this plot that 80 pounds of nitrogen, applied in the fall, cut the yield to 20 bushels compared to the check plot where no nitro gen was applied, which yielded 27.9 bushels per acre. On the other hand, 80 pounds of nitrogen, applied in tru? spring, showed a yield of 29.2 bunshels per acre. cation yielded 33.9, while the 40 pound application yielded 35.7. No doubt there was a breaking point between these two figures that would be most economical. These yields, compared to 29 bushels for the untreated plot. At the Kenneth Batty farm near Hardman, 60 pounds of nitrogen applied in the fall gave a 10 bus hel increase yield over the un fertilized plot, showing the big gest response to nitrogen of any of the plots, this year. At the Frank Parker ranch the highest yielding plot was that where 20 pounds nitrogen was applied in the spring. It showed a yield of 35.2 bushels per acre, compared to 28 bushels on the unfertilized plot. At the Dee Cox ranch in Black horse, there was no apparent re- most economical, with approxi mately the same yield as the Par ker field. While we have reported the Glen Campbell and Nelson Bros, plots earlier in this column, we might say that the Glen Camp bell yields showed 20 pounds as most economical, while the Nel son Bros, plots did not show an economical increase In any of the rates of application. , . o Mrs. Luola Bengtson, Brenda, Brent and Hilda of Eugene were visiting over the Labor Day week end with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Benge. Stewart Hardie, publisher of the Condon Globe Times, of Con don was in Heppner Saturday to act as judge of the floats for the parade. Be POT II "F With the Majority ULL" BY THE 10TH WATCH FOR ACCOUNTS FOR SALE' n Pioneer Service Co. Oregon - Idaho - Utah - Nevada Division Offices Eugene, Ore No Commissions Debtors Pay Direct Interest in the production of Safflower in this area is still run ning high. Word has been re ceived from the Pacific Oil Seeds Company, who are interested in contracting up to 50,00n acres of Satflower in the Pacific North west, that they will meet with coynty agents from Morrow, Gil liam, Umatilla, Sherman and Wasco county on September 23 to discuss 1 1 10 program further. Pacific Oil Seeds have been in close contact with the farm pro gram at Washington D. C, and fee) that the chances of getting Safflower listed as one of the crops that can be planted on di verted acres are vcuv good. How ever, this mav not be announced from Washington for severa months, according to most recent information available. DC3 AC3EBKA OH pwnni 7f? til WYS FULL ONE TON CAPACITY Herbert Ekstrom. lone, who i: one of the Morrow county ranch ers producers testing his pure tired ilereiord neni. is consigning two bulls to the Burns sale on September 18. The two bull wer given a grade ot some months ago. The bulls on fee for 22S davs made average dailv gains of 2S4 and 2.9t. These STAR THEATER, Heppner n ji During September. Sunday Show start at 4:00 p. in. Boxofflce open until 9:00. Phone 6-9278. All other Evenings at 7:30 Thursday-Friday-Saturday, Sept. 9-10-11 RAILS INTO LARAMIE John Payne. Marl Blanchard, Dan Duryea. Hip-roaring Tecbnicv tops in thrills. ' Plus FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Buddy Hackett. Hugh O'Brian. up comedy with music. or western that's A crazv, mixed- Sunday-Monday, Sept. 12-13 Vun Heflin, Huih Roman, Howard Duff, of the hunter and the hunted. TANGANYIKA Technicolor jungle adventure in the land H Tuesday -Wednesday, Sect. H-15 Septemlx r mark? the 31th year of Sigsbee Family ownership of the Star Theater and we want to celebrate as well as to thank all our patrons for the'f attendarce and friendship through the years! So, for Sept. nth and 15th, even though our operating costs are many times what they were in 1920, we are reverting to our admission prices at that time! 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