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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, September 30, 1954
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIME S THIRTY YEARS AGO
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Neubcrger And The Bargain
Basement
Fellow named Neubcrger, running against Cor
don for US Senator, doesn't like corporations.
Seems to think that only big government can
handle our affairs, that businessmen are the na
tion's worst enemies. In his jousting with corpor
ations, Dick Neubcrger can't find enough cause
for action by sticking to the facts, so he dreams
up fairy tales. .
Take as one for instance the story Neubcrger
tells and tells and tells about Copco making a
"bargain basement" deal with the Bonneville
I'ower Administration to buy out the transmission
line which Bonneville headed toward Klamath
Falls some time back. The way that writer per
son, Neubcrger, tells it. Senator Cordon and Inter
ior Secretary McKay engineered a behind-the-scenes
deal which put the transmission line into
Copco's clutching hands, robbed the people of this
cheap government power and . , . the story gets
belter and better as Neubcrger works up to the
heat . . . Copco then hiked its power rates by 1G
percent
Told that way, it makes a black story; and
Neubcrger is seeing to it that a lot of people are
hearing the slory told that way. There are seve
ral facts in the background which could be told,
but it would lie a different story with the facts in
cluded in. So they don't get told, except by some
of us who are not too partial to Neubcrger.
There is another side, all right. It's the side
which Cordon tells, and strangely this side has
basis in fact and in the public record. It goes
like this:
Bonneville had a dream of building a trans
mission line across Oregon and eventually tying
in with Shasta Dam power. People up in Wash
ington didn't like that, as they believed the tie
in would mean loss of Bonneville power into Cali
fornia. Could be their fears were well founded.
Anyway, Bonneville got an appropriation for
a line from Redmond . . . then terminus of Bonne
ville power to the south in this part of the state . .
to Klamath Falls. The line was started and about
half finished when the Washington State powers
got in their licks to kill it. TheWashington effort
resulted in this paragraph being written into the
House Appropriations Committee report in April,
l!)5.'i:
"The committee has Information which clear
ly indicates thai expenditures for the Redmond
Klamath Falls line cannot now be justified. The
secretary (of the interior) is requested therefore to
terminate construction on this line at the earliest
possible time and' to salvage such materials as
can be used elsewhere." Nothing can stop con
sliucllon like cutting off the funds, so the line
toward Klamath Falls was dead-ended out there
in the hills.
Realizing how useless such an unfinished
power line could be to government or to people,
Cordon stepped in and suggested to Copco offi
cials that they work out a plan with Bonneville
for the salvage and use of that line. Copco did so,
with the result that they paid Bonneville $2,895,.
834.. 52 and took over, finishing the line to Klam
ath Falls. Dr. William A. Pearl, administrator of
Bonneville I'ower Administration, hag stated, to
wit: '"Copco paid the government in cash every
cent the government had advanced for this line,
including interest and overhead expenditures". In
addition, Copco agreed to furnish power from its
L'mpqua plants to the Nickle Mountain plant over
near Roseburg, in return for which Bonneville
would furnish power to Copco at Klamath Falls
over the new line. That part was just a trade of
kilowatts, and it saved Bonneville from building
a line from Eugene to Nickel Mountain. Perhaps
that part ired A'euberger, too, for it appears he
likes to see the government spending taxpayers'
money instead of saving it.
So much for the bargain basement deal. Strip
ped of the wig Neuberger tries to make it wear,
the "deal" becomes a transaction; and not a black
one. after all
But the man who would replace Cordon as
Senator goes on with his fairy tale to tell his
audiences that shortly after Copco gobbled up the
Bonneville line the corporation hit its power users
with a 10 percent hike in power rates. Just like
that.
In making that statement, of course, Neuberger
)nus,t ignore . . . and hope that his listeners do
not know . . . that power companies cannot sim
ply hike their rates at the drop of a kilowatt. Cer
tain channels they have to go through: Public
Utilities Commission, public hearings, protests,
testimony for and against, months and months of
waiting after application for rate increases are
made. So here are the facts:
Copco applied for its power rate increase long
before the House Appropriations Committee or
dered stoppage on the Bonneville transmission
line. It got the PUC okay about the same time it
bought the line. Because the two came close to
gether, Neuberger took the occasion to garble some
words and confuse some listeners.
Neuberger will get some votes out of his fairy
tales Cordon, of course, has made some enemies
in the course of his 10 years in the Senate . . .
show us the man who has no enemies and we'll
show you a man who has done nothing. So Neu
berger will get some votes from that direction, too.
But voters are people and people are not fools.
Some of them might lie fooled by some of Neuber
gcr's campaign tactics, but all of them will not be
fooled by all of the stories Richard tells. We ex
pect that Neuberger will see the backfire about
November 2. Lake County Examiner, Lakeview.
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Anderson
Last Friday afternoon, agents
from the Columbia basin, Pendle
ton and Sherman branch experi
ment station personnel and crops
specialist from Oregon State col
lege nii'l with a representative
from the Western Oil Seeds Com
pany to discuss the possibility of
growing Safflower under contract
with this company in 1955. Much
interest had been shown in Saf
flower production up until a
week ago when controls were
taken off of barley. It was the
opinion of any that barley was
only temporary and that perhaps
Columbia Basin farmers should
be trying this year, new crops
which might be promising. Saf
flower shows much promise for
the area.
In order to get contracts with
the Western Oil Seeds Company,
it will be necessary to grow at
least ten thousand acres In the
Columbia basin. The contracting
company is not interested in acre
ages smaller than fifty acres
to the farm. Contracts will be
made in the neighborhood of
$70.00 a ton f. o. b. Tacoma which
is the nearest oil seed plant. The
company is interested in estab
lishing Safflower in the Colum
bia basin and would like to es
tablish a plant here if the pro
duction is great enough to war
rant it. Any farmer who is inter
ested in growing some Safflower
can get further information by
contacting this office.
The Morrow county livestock
disease control committee met
last Wednesday with representa
tives from the Bureau of Animal
Industry and State Veterinarians
from the state department of
agrtcullure. Plans are now un
derway to clean up the remaining
herds in Morrow county that
have not been tested for the past
two years. It will perhaps be
necessary to ask that those who
have tested annually without
finding, reactors or suspects to
skip this year of testing in order
that a veterinarian can get the
herds that have not been regular
ly tested and that have showed
some reactions. Dr. A. G. Beagle
of the Bureau of Animal Indus
try, reviewed tests in Morrow
county and revealed that 821
herds had been tested since 1951.
Of Uiese, 5S3 herds are 70.3 per
cent clean on the first test, 130
and 111 herds or 10.5 had reaet
herds or 13.1 percent had suspects
ors. Of the total tests. 459 cattle
or a total of 1.4 percent of those
tested showed reactors. At the
present there are 8 known infect
ed herds in the county, one of
these having three tests this year,
one with five tests, two with two
tests and the other four with one
testing being made this year.
The county disease control
committee agreed to begin work
toward making Morrow county a
certified Bangs area. This en-
From files of the Gazette Times
October 2, 1924.
The court of Justice Cornett was
quite busy on Monday following
the wind-up of the rodeo. A num
ber of arrests were made for
liquor selling, possession of liquor
and intoxication.
Jack Terry wins '24 champion
ship. Heppner Rodeo draws big
crowds and was much enjoyed.
Judge and Mrs. W. T. Campbell
and commissioner Davidson
drove up from Portland Monday
after spending several days in
the city.
J. B. Huddleston and sister Miss
Bess Huddleston, who are exten
sively engaged in the raising of
sheep over in the Lone Rock
country, were visitors in Heppner
the first of the week.
Miss Mary Clark, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Clark, has
signed up as a student at the
University of Oregon for the year.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Troedson of
Grandview and W. A. Thomas of
Dotheboy's Hill, also Misses An
nie C and Minnie II. Lowe of
Cecil, were all doing business in
lone on Saturday.
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Lloyd Bridges, Vera Miles. Romantic drama centered around the sport of kings.
Sunday-Monday. Oct. 3-4
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Zooming story of sports car races winds up at the finish line as entire family en
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Sunday shows at 4, 6:20 and 8:40
Tuesday-Wednesday, Oct. 5-6
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FOOTBALL HEADLINERS
tails a test that would show less
than 1 percent of the cattle .as
reactors and less than 5 perecnt
of the herds clean. The disease
control committee will meet this
Wednesday night to line up their
schedule of testing for the 1954
test.
For those farmers and towns
people who still have peach trees
after two or three years of heavy
damage from frosts and winter
kill, a timely suggestion, is of
fered. The late August and early
September rains this year were
favorable for early activity of
the fungus responsible for peach
blight. Because of the serious
outbreak of peach blight during
the past two years, it is impari
tive that growers and gardeners
interested in maintaining healthy
peaches follow a fall spray pro
gram. Two fall sprays should be
applied. The first right after
harvest and the second as the
leaves are dropping. Depending
on the .severity of infection, one
of the two following programs
should be followed. I. light in
fection Phygon X L at 34 pound
per hundrd gallons for the early
spray and Bordeaux 8-8100 for
the latter spray. 2, heavy in
fection Bordeaux at 8-8-100 or
Phygon X L at Ji pound per hun
dred gallon for the early spray
and for very heavy infection a
later spray should be 10-10-100 or
12-12-100 Bordeaux.
To encourage more conserva
tion on diverted acres, the county
ASC committee last week agreed
on several practices that would
be encouraged for this purpose.
The practices that are being en
couraged are A-2, and A-3. There
will be a little change from the
1954 hand book, for the 1955 pay
ment. Applications for thes
payments are being taken now
for prior approval. They will be
paid for from the special Agri
cultural Conservation Practice
payment for diverted acres set up
recently for the stale of Oregon
which consists of $520,000. This
is in addition to the regular
Agricultural Practice payments
that have been alloted. for 1955
A-2 is the practice for the ini
tiai establishment of a perma
nent cover of ponnial leg'timo
or perennial grasses or mixture
of legumes and perennial grass
es for soil protection whereas the
needed land vise adjustment cost
.-hare payments vary with the
fiifi-l
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kind of grasses and legumes
seeded. Two dollars an acre is
paid for Crested wheatgrass seed
ed with Ladak alfalfa or for a
mixture of Crested wheatgrass
with hard Fescue or Bulbous
Bluegrass. A three dollar an acre
payment is made when Crested
wheatgrass is seeded with so
called grazing alfalfas such as
Nomad or Rhizoma. A four dol
lar an acre payment is set up
when such grasses as Pubescent,
Beardless, or Intermediate wheat
grasses are seeded with Nomad,
Rhizoma or Ladak alfalfas.
In addition a payment is made
to share cost for seed bed per
paration and seeding. Four dol
lars an. acre will be paid for
grass seeding on summerfallow
while one dollar an acre will be
paid for seeding in stubble. A!
payment will be made for the.
use of nitrogen which amounts to
eight cents per pound of avail-1
able nitrogen applied on stubble
not to exceed two dollars forty
cents an acre. In some cases
where soil erosion has occurred
there will be the need for grad
ing, shaping or filling before
these are seeded to perennial
permanent grasses. Fifty prrent
of the cost of doing this work, not
to exceed ten dollars an acre will
be paid. There is also a pay
ment of fifty percent of the aver
age cost of land cleared not to
exceed ten dollars per acre and
one for fifty percent of the aver
age cost of fencing materials not
to exceed seventy five cents per
rod of barbed wire fence and one
dollar ten cents per rod of woven
wire fence. These are to be used
when the land is to be put into
permanent pasture. In using
this practice, farmers are remind
ed that this plan will be reclassi
fied two years after the practice
is carried out and will no longer
be considered crop land. For this
reason there is another practice,
A-3 which takes care of cropland
which might like to be put into
rotation but still retains it as
cropland for the purpose of fig
uiing wheat acreage allotments.
A-3 is for the establishment of
additional acres of perennial or
biennial legumes or perennial
grasses or mixtures of legumes or
perennial grasses in crop rota
tion to retard erosion and im
prove soil structure permability
or water holding capacity. The
maximum federal cost share on
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