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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, January 6, 1955 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 18S3. The Heppner Times, estaBlished November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL r- i Publislied 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 1.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents. A Year of Accomplishment Outgoing chamber of commerce president Jeff Carter probably made the understatement of the year the other day when, during a year-end review of the activities of the organization for 1954, he said he was "pretty well pleased with the accomp lishments for the year." It is very seldom that any head of sut'h an organization will pat himself on the back ff what he and his committee members have accomplish ed, but Jeff could have gone a lot strong tten he did without anyone ever accusing him. et brag ging. Actually the Heppner -Morrow mu&f Chamber of Commerce has just ornpletat t the most outstanding years in its -history. As the year mtts hy and--the wafft of MCn an organizatfon is completed and, quite T8, soon forgotten-, it is frequently hart to look -back, and outline the accomjvlishmen.ts, but such is not the case, with the chamber this year there have been some 0'urst adding jobs undertaken and completed, Without do:ubt the- biggest task tackled this year -was raising funds- for the purchase and in stallation of lights for the Heppner. rode0 field. If had- been talked for at least seven years, but the job -was done this year. $10,000 was raised for the work, and through the- efforts of many chamber members; the installation was made for less than $8,000, which- is, in itself, a record for such a job. Arid to- that, the fact that there is about $2,000 available to start redeeming the interest-free bonds and the accomplishment is even greater, for the pay-back was started even before the lights are ready to operate. The lights, however, are just one of the jobs the chamber has finished this year, among the others, though far from the entire list, are the series of Heppner value days selling events, which aided in making the city a better place to shop; it raised money to send the high school band to the state basketball tournament last spring; it iiiori if riniv minfir in iettine interest started in the Cutsfoith forest park; Christmas decorations were plamd on IUppner streets "on time"; it pro vided pti-ws frtf the rodou parade and handled its management ; Hfm-fsored sale of fair buttons with the tost HJtes yK ebtaifleU; sponsored the Con iwatjft avtiifd dinawp, aidud with tho county pic nit' fetriqg -the fyto and ', and many, many Of Ks f aww;fjl is'tarorats kim in short com p&M t, fell tb wbten pnst-iiiwi'Ht Jeff C'a-rtpr. w Mis- a tele eoraitt-meBbw took m m4 eo"mipl;eft iurtog the pm, a they deserve a m if ewwfi to a- tot of jjafo well Am. They hav6 -helped! tteftt mt th wtawte rif Mr-ww county too, for m-an-y of -the fflrB:anii4Pi's pmjects were for thi henefit xjt th entire are, as tl-ivy should be. The new president, Jack 'Bedford, arid his scran-fo-be-announced committee chairmen, have a real goal to shoot for in the coming year in keeping up the pace set during 1954, but Bedford is not stranger to civic work and public relations and the list of accomplishments a the end of his term will probably rival that of the past year. The job of a chamber of commerce is never done, and re gardless of what is finished, it is always only a start on what must be done. With everybody's help the coming year can well be the biggest ever ... and everybody can gain from its accomp lishments. Jeff Carter this week stepped down from office, and he dit it, we know, with a feeling of satisfac. tioh, but it is easily understood why he was heard to say, "This year I'm going to work a little bit for J, C. Penney." From The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson During the past few years sev eral farmers and a great number of 4-II club members have order ed Tillamook county dairy herd Improvement association heifer calves, as a means of getting good producing dairy cows. Last winter; W. A. Heath and Sons, on Rhea Creek, ordered 10 of these as replacements for their dairy herd. Individuals have purchased these calves as a means of having a good farm mflk cow. The Dairy herd association-, offers two grades of heifers, the superior heifers are f'om dams with production records from 350 pounds to. 425. pounds. These heifer calves have grown into excellent milk cows. The Tillamook dairy herd improve ment association has recently an nounced a substantial price cut on both quality of their calves. The price cu's amount to approxi mately $10.00. This makes a good buy for those farmers who arc Interested In having high produc. Ing dairy cows. From a recently weekly grain market review, put out by Oregon State College we note that sales of wheat and flour under the in ternational wheat agreement amount to more than 71 million bushels since the beginning of the season. Last year at this time we had sold around 53 mil lion bushels. Last sales went to Japan and The Netherlands. This increase sale of 18 million bust he Is over a year ago helps to cut down that pile of wheat that has caused lower incomes for our wheat farmers. It appears now that the reports from the foreign relieve the surplus grain condition. agricultural organization, Oregon Wheat Growers League and other concerned with developing for eign markets that there will" be a lot of work done in 1955 toward an attempt to increase these for eign markets considerably. Sure ly if they are not increased it win not be the fault of a number of organizations that are spending much time and money on this project. A good example of Use that sur plus barley can be put to was demonstrated recently when Ken neth and L. A. Palmer, ranchers near Lexington, sold a group of cows at the sale in Hermiston last Friday. The cows were culled from the herd about November 201 hi as cows that were getting old and were undesirable to keep as breeding animals. They came off the range in poor condition and were put oh a ground barley and hay ration for 50 days. The cows sold from $10.50 to $14.50 per hundred. There were cows that weighed as much as -350 pounds. Cows in the sameshape that these cows were In hefore they were put on feed for 50 days sold at th same sale for $8.5o a hundred. It appears as though this barley brought a constdertble amount more by being fed to these cows than any grain mar ket could have offered. Besides putting on a couple hundred pounds weight on the cows, the price per pound was increased three to four cents. There are a good number of cases In the county where the same practice could bring more income to live stockmen as well as helping to f -v fV C.W. Hrdr Geographically, iff a long way from Dixie to the Far West. Yet, spiritually, there ii so close a tie one can almost hear the rebel yell In the West. This fact probably answer! In quiries as to why so many poli tical non conformists come out nf West and f IL T. - nnt ' by accident,' Sen. Williami K n o w 1 a n d (Calif.), party leader Is de parting from party lines, nor an accident Sen. Wayne Morse (Ore.) is lndenendent neither is fact for first time a senator, Strom Thurmond (S. C.) was elected by write-in votes. There is a deep seated grow ing revolt in under developed states of We3t and South against continued encroachments of Fed eral government into state af fairs especially Federal taxing revenue sources rightfully be longing to local governments. In a few days, any state leg islatures eanvene. Pressing prob lem in stats capitals Will be rais ing revenues. Due to population expansions in these states, iraney is needed principally tor schools and high ways. Yet problem is finding some revenue souree federal government hasn't already grabbed to finance monstrous foreign give-away programs. For example, only 3U states levy sales tax, but I out of 11 Western states have one, and Oregon is due for one early in the year. All 11 Southern states have a sales tax. Only 32 states have state income taxes., but 10 out of 11 Western states have one. all 11 Southern states have (9 Nullum! Fcl-rntinn nf Ttidp-nrtnt Hustnpn one. While State gasoline taxes average 4.83c per gallon, in West average is 5.5c per gallon, In south 6.5c per gallon, on top of national gasoline tax. And even though states need more revenue, it is difficult to further tax real estate. That la because Federally owned lands cannot be locally taxed, and In West Federal gov ernment holds on with stubborn determination to 54.5 of all land, 88.5 of all rural lands. Thus, over half the land which under private ownership would help support local costs is held by Federal government. Neither can most states further tax in dustry without ruining them. Many basic Western industries such as wool, metals and lum ber already fight for existence against cheap foreign competi tion permitted by reciprocal trade treaties, other tariff cut ting dodges. For example, Phil liplne mahogany plywood, pre sumably a semi-luxury Item, is being shipped in by Japan and sold in Western markets for less than same product made from native Western soft-woods. Possibly, as situation worsens, Western and Southern states can get Federal aid and thus recap ture pittance of money that should have gone to states in first place. But sovereign states are re luctant to go hat in hand to Washington. It smacks too much of pawn shop financing. In 1952 West went solidly for a change from twenty year trend and solid South broke over the same reason. Yet no appreciable change has been noted. And that's why Congress finds West erners standing up with South erners for a long, loud rendition of the rebel yell. jf Jf if PRE LEGISLATURE AFFAIRS When the House of Represen tatives comes to order January 10 there will.he Democrats all over the places-there are enough of them this session for ust that. A new seating arrangement will break up groups heretofore bunched together. Dr. F. H. Dammasch (Rep. Mult) who has taken over the seating arrangement says sec tional delegations will not be seated in their usual blocks in the house this year. Senior mem bers, however, will get first choice of seats. The Multnomah county dele gation will be seated eight on each side of the room. Other dele gations will be similarly separated. An alternative of a sales tax is one of the principal objectives of a committee set ud by the stata central committee of the Demo cratic Party. Howard Morgan, state chairman, has namea a legislative steering committee with Sen. Robert Holmes of Gear hart as chairman. "The party wants an organiza tion within the legislature which can screen, criticize and perfect the few proposals which the party may wish to present to the legislature," Morgan said. Other members are, Sen. Mon roe Sweetland, Milwaukie; Rep. Alfred Corbett, Portland; Rep. R. R. Klemsen, SL Helens; Rep. Ro bert J. Steward, Keating; Oscar Continued on page 7 Long Distance Nation-Wide Moving Service Mayflower Agents Padded Vans . Penland Bros. TRANSFER CO. Pendleton, Oregon Phone 338 BOX SCORE FOR '54 Everything is shaping up well for the annual meeting of the Morrow County Livestock Grow rs Association. It will be held on Thursday and Friday, January 13 and 14. The first days program to be held at the fair pavilion will feature a panel discussion of Morrow county's meat and live stock marketing problems while the demonstration on meat cut- tine, grading, identification, wrapping for freezer and cookery is expected to bring out many farm and townspeople during the afternoon of the 13th. The film, "The American Cowboy" which is said to be most excellent will bo shown at 1:00 p. m. that day. The business meetinc on the 14th will i feature several speakers along with committee reports and elec tion of officers for the new year. It will be held at the Elks Lodge room beginning at 10:00 a. m. The social hour beginning at 5:30 with the Heppner Branch of the First National Bank of Portland, as hosts and the annual banquet at 6:30 at the fair pavilion, fol lowed by the annual Cowboy Shuffle, should attract many. these meetings to be held at Arl ington on January 17. Oregon State College extension service, the Oregon Wheat Growers Lea gue and the county associations are planning the county meetings on this date. The Morrow County schedule calls for a meeting at Pine City on the afternoon of the ISth. One at lone, the evening of the 18th, at Heppner on the afternoon of the l'Jth, and at Lexington, the evening of the 19th. The meetings a,re scheduled to begin at' 1:30 in the afternoon and 7:30 in the evenings. At these meetings the wheat problem will 1)0 discussed with a thorough ex planation of the present farm pro gram and alternative programs, how they would affect farmer, industry, etc. Those present will get a chance to discuss each of these programs and indicate the kind they would like to have. January is a busy month for farmers with many commodity organization meetings including the annual meeting of many of these as well as other educa tional get togethers. An important schedule of meetings were recent, ly approved by Frank Anderson, chairman of the Morrow County Wheatgrowers Association, who is cooperating with the Extension service in holding wheat policy meeting in our wheat commun ities during the week of January 17. Meetings are tentatively scheduled to get underway on January 18, following a training meeting for those working with Another important meeting scheduled for the afternoon of January 21. is the Morrow County Land Use Committee which will meet to discuss the aspects of the Small Watersheds Act, the Soil and Water Conservation Loan provision, and, the Interim Com mittee report of the Governor's Water Research Committee. This group was active last year in adopting and presenting recom mendations on Morrow County s Water resources to this Interim Committee. Further particulars will appear in this column. JACK FLUG TO SPEAK SUNDAY EVENING Jack Flug, county superinten dent of schools, will speak at the Christian church next Sunday evening. An interesting talk on education and religion is in pros pect. o - Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomp son and daughters Judy and Janet of Pendleton, were visiting in Heppner Tuesday and Wednesday. Cottle Hogs Sheep Horses 1954 21,773 6,639 7399 36 1953 20,632 5,675 7,188 32 STAR THEATER, Heppner Admission Price: Adults 70c. Students SOc, Children 20c Including federal Excise Tax. Sunday shows start at 4 p. m.. also Saturday, January 1st. Shows every other evening start at 7:30... BoxoHice open until 9 p. m. Theater will be closed January 18-19 for installation of new equipment. Thursday-Friday-Saturday, January 6-7-8 OVERLAND PACIFIC Western, in color, starring Jack Mahoney of TV and Rodeo Show fame, with Peggie Castle, Adele Jergens and William Bishop. Plus MAN OF CONFLICT Edward Arnold, John Agar, Susan Morrow. Good drama centering around a con flict between father and son. Sunday-Monday. January 9-10 THE VANISHING PRAIRIE Walt Disney's second True-Life Adventure devoted to the wonders and mysteries of nature and her animal children is fully as stirring and spectacular as was his "Liv ing Desert". In the Great Plains region of the U. S. the Technicolor cameras recreate a picture of the hordes of wild life overwhelmed by the westward march of civiliza tion. Plus Disney's WILLIE THE OPERATIC WHALE, with Nelson Eddy LOUISIANA TERRITORY, CIRCUS ON ICE and NEWS Sunday shows at 4, 6:25 and 8:50 Tuesday-Wednesday, January 11-12 ' FORBIDDEN Tony Curtis, Joanne Dru in a modern-day fist and gun romance In the Portugese port of Macao off the coast of China. The answer to everyday Insurance problems By Turner Van Marter & Bryant Believ ing wholeheartedly in the philosophy that you hae to "give" before you can "get'1 and believing also that in these days of com plexities most people will be really interested in read ing the solutions to their own and t heir neighbors' everyday insurance prob lems, we decided to try something a little different. Beginning next week this advertising space will be devoted each week to a col umn of questions and ans wers on insurance problems ivhich aie common in the lives of ;,11 of.us. Frankly, this column will be in itself a form of adver tising but the offer to ans wer your insurance ques tions without charge or ob ligation is genuine and has no strings attached. We'll really appu'eiate an oppor tunity to be of service to you. If ycu'U address your own insurance questions to this office, we'll try to give you the correct answers and there will be no charge or obligation of any kind. 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