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Livestock Men Meet
Thursday
The annual meeting of the
Morrow county Livestock Grow
ers Association got off to a fly
ing start this morning at the fair
pavilion with a panel discussion
of county livestock and meat
marketing problems, a report of
the 1954 Oregon Livestock and
Meat Marketing conference by
Gordon Hood, state extension
agent, Oregon State college and a
report of the livestock theft pre
vention committee by Ralph
Beamer, chairman.
W. W. Weatherford was moder
ator for the panel discussion with
livestock producers, sellers, re
tailers, consumers, financers and
packers.
Main attraction at the after
noon meeting was a demonstra
tion of meat cutting, grading,
identification, wrapping for the
freezer and cookery led by John
Landers and Dorothy Sheirill,
Oregon State college. Door and
contest prizes were given during
the day.
Slated for the Friday morning
meetings are films, business re
ports, a talk on disease eradica
tion and research by -Dr. A. G.
Beagle, veterinarian, agricultural
research service, Portand, and a
report of the county livestock di
sease control committee chair
man, Kenneth Peck, Lexington.
Friday meetings are in the Elks
lodge room.
A discussion of the proposed
beef commission will open the
Friday afternoon session at 1:15
p. m. Election of officers and re
ports by Si Williams, western
livestock reporter, Stephen
Thompson, chairman of the pas
ture and range improvement com
mittee; W. W. Weatherford, live-,
stock marketing committee chair,
man; Dick Wilkinson, insect and
rodent contro committee chair
man; Gerald Swaggart, game
laws committee chairman and
Marion Finch, membership com
mittee chairman, will complete
the afternoon program.
A social hour, provided by the
First National Bank, Heppncr
Branch, will be held at 5:30 p.
Farm Bureau Starts
Membership Drive
Twenty members of the Mor
row county Farm Bureau met at
the home of Newt O'Harra, Lex
ington, president, Monday night
to organize for their annual
county membership drive. Cliff
Wright, Salem, state organizer,
was present for the session. "
Nine teams of two members
each were named to work on the
membership drive in observance
of "Farm Bureau Week" from
January 10-7.
"Farm Bureau Week" is ob
served to better acquaint the
people of the county with the
importance of a prosperous agri
culture and the efforts of Farm
Bureau to improve these condi
tions," president O'Harra said.
"We are putting on this member
ship campaign to invite every
farmer in the county to join our
organization. The teams are
formed to cover .the communities
in the least possible time."
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Leonard Rill, Mrs. Gene Ma
jeske and Mrs. O'Harra follow
ing the meeting.
The next county meeting will
be Tuesday, Jan. 25, at the Wil
lows Grange in lone, opening
with a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m.
Land Appraisals Done in County;
Work Started on Personal Property
Tax appraisals on improve
ments at Lexington, lone, Board -man,
Irrigon and Hardman are all
completed and reappraisal on
improvements and lots at Hepp
ner will begin this week by state
tax men, Edwin Walker and Art
Jenkins, according to Harry
Dinges, county assessor. '
As a part of the equalization
program advising direct apprai
sal of personal property to equal
ize it on the same standard as
real property, business establish
ments and groups are now being
contacted in the county. Assess
sor Dinges is now checking per
sonal property in different sec
tions of the county.
Reappraisal of all land in the
county has now been completed
by farm reappraisal committees
who met the end of December
with Dinges and Walker to turn
in their reports. Irrigated, graz
ing and wheat lands are now ap
praised according to their values
and a new appraisal map is be-
and Friday
m. at the Elks ladies lounge in
stead of the fair paviion, as was
previously announced.
Climaxing the two day meeting
will be the 6:30 p. m. banquet at
the fair pavilion where presenta
tions will be made to the cattle
man of the year, Delbert Emert,
and the grassman of the year,
Herbert Ekstrom, both of lone.
A public dance will be held In
the pavilion following the ban
quet. Everyone is invited to par
ticipate in all events.
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Water Resources
To Be Studied By
Land Use Committee
Recommendations have recent
ly been made to the Governor
after a study of Oregon water
problems under way since Aug
ust, 1953, by the State Water Re
sources Committee. This Interim
Committee was established by
Legislation that year. Contribut.
ing to the recommendations of
this committee were the Morrow
County Land Use and Conserva
tion Sub-Committee of the Agri
cultural Planning Committee.
This sub-committee was active
last year and discussed problems
affecting Morrow County's water
resources.
In order to review the recom
mendations of the State Water
Resources Committee, and to take
further action if necessary, the
Land Use and Conservation Sub-
Committee will meet Friday,
January 21st, at the Club House
at the Fair Grounds in Heppner.
The meeting will begin at 1:30
p. m. with W. W. Weatherford
chairman presiding. James C.
Moore, Conservation Specialist,
Oregon State college, who assist
ed the Interim Committee with
hearings throughout the state,
will discuss with the group, re
commendations made and pro
bable legislation that will result
from this committees study. One
of the problems that the commit
tee is facing is that of adequate
water t0 serve the states need.
While water appears plentiful to
use during these winter months,
the period June through Septem
ber, we hear on every side, the
need for more water to irrigate
our crops, sprinkle our lawn, and
run an industrial plant. This
problem of enough water to meet
our needs during the dry season,
will become increasingly acute
as our population and our in
dustries grow, says Mr. Moore.
Also to be considered by the
sub-committee at their meeting,
is the provisions of the Small
Watersheds Act which was passed
by last year's Congress. Possi
bilities of application of this act
to Morrow County's small water
sheds will be in for considera
tion. The Land Use Committee
in 1948 recommended at the
Agricultural Planning Confer
ence that a study be made on our
upper watersheds
The sub-committee realizing
that there is a good water supply
problem here will discuss the
economic stability of desert entry
claims in North Morrow county
where extensive irrigation is be
ing carried on from drilled wells.
They will take action on whether
it is economical feasible to re
commend soil and water con
servation loans for developing
this area. The committee invites
everyone who is interested to at
tend the meeting.
ing completed by Mrs. Earl So-
ward and Mrs. Edwin Walker,
Dinges reported.
The new land valuations are
being placed on work sheets pre
paratory to typing the tax roll
for the current year, Dinges point
ed out.
Of interest to trailer owners is
a law passed by the state legisla
ture last January requiring that
all trailer houses be assessed, re
gardless of license or location.
Valuation will be based on the
make, year and length of the
trailers but not on any furniture
within, Dinges said.
Frank Sarber from the state
tax commission, Salem, is now
in the county reappraising in
dustrial properties. Allan How
ells, head of records, state tax
commission, valuation division,
was in the county office Monday
checking records. Walter Taylor,
state record man, who has been
working on county records, will
return to salem with him.
Heppner,
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NEWT O'HARRA. left. Lexington, and Charles Carlson, lone, ap.
pear.d in the cowboy outfits presented them by the Goodyear com
pany at a meeting of the Heppner Soil Conservation district Tues.
day night Carlson and O Harra represented the Heppner district
which won the state award in the 1953-54 national conservation
contest sponsored Ly the Goodyear company. With winners from
the other 48 states they had a week's expense-free vacation at the
Goodyear farms at Litchfield. Parle Arizona.
Fair- Rodeo on Sept. 1-2-3-4
Rodeo to be Amateur Event
A major change from a profes
sional to an amateur rodeo show
for next fall was agreed on at
a meeting of the Morrow county
fair and rodeo committee Tues
day night at the county agent's
office. Dates for the annual fair
and rodeo show were set for Sep
tember 1, 2, 3, and 4 with the fair
scheduled for the first three days
and the rodeo on the third and
fourth.
Rodeo events will be the same
as In the past professional shows
with the exception of bull riding
which will be eliminated, N. C.
Anderson, secretary said. The
show will give everyone an op
portunity to participate and a lot
of local competition is expected,
he added.
The fair and rodeo board is
now negotiating with four dif
ferent contractors for stock to be
used at the rodeo. Special fea
tures are planned Including even
ing events, such as wrestling and
junior numbers under the new
rodeo lights, according to Ander
son. Reorganization of the county
fair and rodeo committee from
two separate committees of three
members each for the fair and for
the rodeo was changed to one
fair and- rodeo board unit com
posed of 10 members. Present
board members are Ray Ferguson,
Mrs. John Graves, Bernard Do
herty, Floyd Jones and John Eu
banks. Additional members to the
board will be appointed by the
county-wide fair board of three
members appointed by the county
court. Present members of the
board are W. E. Hughes and Wil
lard Baker, Boardnian. A mem
ber to replace Lewis Halvorsen,
lone, whose term expired January
1, will be named by the county
court at its February meeting.
Harold Erwin, long time mem
ber and chairman of the rodeo
committee resigned his post at
the meeting..
The yearly financial report
from the last fair and rodeo
showed an income of $7,935.49
from tickets, carnival concessions
dances, disbursements for con
tests, advertising, insurance and
administrative costs totaled $8,
452.90. A portion of the costs
was charged up to grandstand at
tractions at the rodeo, local ama
teur event prizes and children's
pony races.
The indebtedness will be taken
care of through rentals at the
fair grounds and by future dances
or special events to raise money.
One reason for switching to an
amateur show is in anticipation
of making the annual show a
paying proposition, Anderson
said.
The board appointed a com
mittee of 14, composed of 4-H and
Heppner Civic League
Elects Executive Board
The Heppner Civic League met
Tuesday evening at the Civic
Center. A resolution was adopt
ed that the organization will be
headed by an executive board,
composed of seven members, who
are as follows. Mrs. Herman
Green, Mrs. Bradley Fancher, Mrs.
William Labhart, Mrs. Larry
Dowen, Mrs. Jack Van Winkle,
Mrs. James Lovgren and Mrs.
Fred Sanders.
The group will continue to
operate the Kindergarten until
the school district assumes full
responsibility for its operation.
A permanent meeting date will
be decided upon at the first meet
ing of the executive board.
Admission to the organiza
tion is automatic for any interest
ed woman resident of this com
munity.
Oregon, Thursday, January 13, 1955
open class livestock superinten
dents and exhibitors to study the
needs of a sheep and hog barn at
the fair grounds. The group will
meet January 22 and make its re
port at the February 2 meeting of
the county court.
A contribution for new high
school band uniforms was al
lowed at a meeting of band par
ents preceding the regular busi
ness session. i,
Attending the meeting were W.
E. Hughes, R. B. Ferguson, Mrs.
John Graves, Harold Erwin, Floyd
Jones, Jack Loyd, Bill Smethurst,
Bernard Doherty, John Eubanks
and Anderson.
Captain LeMoin Cox
Captain Cox Wins
Marine Rifle Trophy
Marine Capt. LeMoin Cox, son
of Elbert L. Cox of Heppner, Ore
gon, displays the 600-yard indi
vidual rifle trophy he won while
serving at the Marine Corps Re
cruit Depot here.
Capt. Cox won the trophy at the
annual championship matches
held at Camp Pendleton Decem
ber 11 and 12.
Acting as captain of seven four
man teams from the Depot, he
shot on the one which placed
the matches.
He was awarded a Bronze Na
tional Rifle Association Service
third in the "Open" division at
Rifle Team Championship Medal
December 15 for firing at the
Camp Perry, Ohio, National Tho
phy Rifle Matches last August.
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Wranglers President
Names Committees
The HeDoner Wranglers riding
club held their first meeting of
the new year Tuesday night at
the club house with about du at
tending. Committees appointed by tne
new president, Howard Bryant,
included barn committee: Jim
Farley, Bruce Lindsay, Harry
Dinges; auditing: Mrs. Homer
HagerT refreshments and enter
tainment: Mrs .Al Fetsch, Mrs.
Bill Smethurst, Mrs. Archie Mun
kers, Mrs. George Warner; spe
cial activities: Cornett Green,
Mrs. Don Robinson, Ralph Beam
er, Mrs. Smethurst and George
Warner.
A committee named to study a
point system for individuals com
peting in events on horseback
during the year were Oscar
George, Bill Smethurst, Mrs. Rob
inson and Mrs. Bill Healy.
Dr. and Mrs. Jim Norene were
guests at the meeting and Ken
neth Green was admitted as a
new member. Refreshments were
served by Mr. and Mrs. Don
Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Pat O'Brien
and Mr. and Mrs. Don Robinson,
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Mr. and Mrs. Phil Mahoney
were Pendleton visitors Monaay
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Purchase of Patterson
Morrow County Being
Band Concert Set
For Tuesday Night
The Heppner high school band
will be presented in a January
concert Tuesday, January 18, at
8 p. m. at the high school audi
torium under the direction of
James Wilson.
Proceeds from the concert will
be used for purchasing new band
uniforms. Following the pro
gram pie and coffee will be ser
ved in the school cafeteria by the
band parents with proceeds to go
toward the uniform fund.
Among the numbers to be
played are "Poet and Peasant
Overature" by Von Suppe; por
tions of music from "Oklahoma"
by Richard Rodgers and several
lighter selections including "Si
Trocadero".
A trumpet trio composed of
Skip Ruhl, Jerry Dougherty and
David Cox, accompanied by
Lynda Borman will play "Flit
tation" and the bass section will
be featured in a march, "Them
Basses." Twenty-nine members
are in the band.
Court Makes
Appointments To
County Posts
P. W. Mahoney, present chair
man of the Morrow county hos
pital board, was reappointed to a
5 year term at the first meeting
of tho year of the county court
last Wednesday at the courthouse.
Dr. James W. Norene, resident
veterinarian, and Dr. George Ma
rugg, federal veterinarian, were
approved as county veterinarians
in the Bangs disease testing pro
gram. Each were assigned test
ings territories within the county,
Jury lists and election boards
approved by the court for 1955
will be listed in the publication
of county court proceedings for
the January term. The Heppner
Gazette Times was named the of
ficial county paper for 1955.
The court accepted an agree
ment between Umatilla and Mor.
row counties for maintenance of
certain sections of county road on
Bie Butter creek with an ex
change of about 3 miles In each
county. The road intercepts both
counties at various points, it was
pointed out.
Low bids for gas- and diesel
oil requirements for the county
in 1955 were accepted from the
General Petroleum company for
diesel at 13.13 cents for Heppner
and lone and 13.83 cents for
Boardman and for gas from Shell
Oil company at 21.01 cents for
Heppner and lone and 20.71 cents
for Boardman. Bids were received
from seven major oil companies.
Al Parent Becomes
Sport Business Owner
Al Parent, 1954 graduate of
Heppner high school, undoubted
ly became the city's youngest
business mart when he took over
Andresen's Sporting Goods store
on January 1st.
Parent plans to continue to
carry the same line of merchan
dise as is sold by the store at pre
sent with possibly more variation
as time goes on.
March of Dimes
Drive Underway
A total of $733.70 has been col
lected in the conty March of
Dimes drive to date, Floyd Sayers,
county chairman, announced
Wednesday morning. This total
Includes $91.90 from the lone
area, reported by Mrs. Ruby Ro
berts, lone chairman. Other com
munities have not reported to
date, Sayers said.
A benefit basketball game for
the March of Dimes will be
played January 29 at the high
school gym between the Heppner
Shamrocks, local city basketball
team, and Nirschl Brothers of
Pendleton. Nischl Brothers are
leading in the Pendleton City
League at present
GAZETTE EDITORS ON TRIP
During the absence of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Penland who are
vacationing in Reno, Nevada, the
office of the Gazette Times is
being stfafed by Mrs. Tom Wilson
and Mrs. Jack Bedford.
The Penlands expect to return
to Heppner Friday,
TV Hopes High
For Heppner
Plans for bringing television
to HeDDner are being investigat
ed by several interested. persons,
W. C. Rosewall reported Wednes
day. Strong signals have been
received about two miles west of
the citv limits, highly adequate
for piping into the town, Rosewall
said.
In anticipation of piping tele
vision into town individuals have
obtained pole contracts and fran
chises for study and a meeting
will be called sometime next
week to discuss it, Rosewall in
dicated.
The Television Supply company
at The Dalles, represented by
Winn Crest, has been checking
television reception in the Hepp
ner area the past two months.
Last week excellent reception
from the new channel 19 satellite
station near Pasco was seen by
several persons with a set located
at the top of the hill southwest
of the Heppner slaughter house.
Good reception at the same site
was also obtained from live
other stations in Portland, Seat
tle and Spokane.
1954 Fire Loss
Low at $510
Heooner's fire loss in 1954 was
comparatively low with a total
estimated damage of only $510,
Charles Ruceles. fire chief, has
reported. This compares to a fire
loss of $7,382.90 In 1953 and $.1
700 in 1952.
The fire department answered
14 calls during the year, two of
which were out on arrival and
one in an unauthorized incinera
tor. No fires were reported in
November and December. Ap
proximately 18 false alarms were
made in 1954, probably due to
dialing the wrong number, Rug
gles said. '
Oscar N. Ruggles
Funeral Attended
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ruggles
and Mr. and Mrs. Earl McKinney
attended the funeral services of
Oscar N. Ruggles at the Grass
Valley Baptist church in Grass
Valley January 5. Walter Rug
gles is a brother and Mrs. Mc
Kinney a daughter of the de
ceased. Oscar Ruggles, a native of
Sherman county, was born in
Moro in the winter of 1882-83. He
died January 3 at a Portand
hospital. Other survivors are his
widow, a son, Orvllle, Moro; a
daughter. Mrs. Charlotte Barnett,
Grass Valley; a brother, Starr,
Stayton; three sisters and live
grandsons.
Burial was at the Odd Fellows
cemetery in Moro.
Tom Nelson has been ill with
the flu this week.
Wheat Policy Meets
"Farmers want flexible price
supports. No, farmers want high
fixed price supports. Some say
farmers don't care but they want
the government to get out of
farming. ' .
Food prices are too high and
farmers are making a killing. No,
food prices aren't too high com
pared to other prices. And be
sides, farmers aren't making as
much money as they should.
I Farmers are backward and
won't Improve their methods.
Farmers Are . . . Farmers aren't
1 . . . Farmers should . . . Farmers
shouldn't. . . Farmers can . . .
Farmers can't. . . Farmers won't."
Artices like this have appeared
in various news papers and farm
'periodicals during the past seve
ral years, says N. C. Anderson,
'County Extension Agent. This is
indicative of publicity of the
confusion in agriculture today
because everyone is trying to
speak about the farmer and the
1 rancher, for them or against them.
As a resolution to some of this
I confusion, discussion meetings
have been arranged In each of the
communities in Morrow county
!for wheat farmers to gather to
gether to hold discussions or
questions that are problems fac
ing the wheat farmer now. The
'meetings are scheduled at the
Pine City school, l:3o p. m. Jan.
'18, lone Legion hall, 7:30 p. m,
71st Year, Number 44
Ferry By
Negotiated
Negotiation for the sale of the
Paterson ferry to Morrow county
was started last Friday when tho
county court met with the ferry's
owners, William Warner and
Frank Hogue, at Prosser, Wash.
The purchase price of the ferry
and all its assets, including tugs,
barges, landings, real estate and
liquid assets, is being made on a
revenue basis with little obliga
tion to the taxpayers of Morrow
county, Judge Garnet Barratt
pointed out.
Also included in the transac
tion is the construction of a five
mile section of new county road
between state highway 730 West
of Irrigon and highway 30 at
signpost 170. The present owners
are cooperating in financing the
new five miles of oiled road
which will provide a direct link
with the ferry.
Legal documents for the pur
chase of the ferry are now in
preparation and terms and sale
price of the transaction can not
be disclosed until the turnover is
completed, Barratt explained.
"The purchase of the ferry as
sures Morrow county continued
service between Washington and
Oregon points and will assure
Its continuance as an intregal
part of an interstate network of
highways and the Morrow county
road system", Barratt said.
A third of the 11 miles of new
bombing range road which takes
off from the Lexington elevator to
connect with the Columbia river
highway will connect with the
additional five miles of oiled
highway bringing the Columbia
and north Morrow communities
twenty miles closer to the county
seat and South Morrow area, it
was pointed out.
Meeting with the ferry owners
Friday were Judge Barratt, and
county commissioners Ralph
Thompson of Heppner, Russell '
Miller of Boardman and Bradley
Fancher, district attorney. At
torneys for the ferry owners pre
sent were Richard White, Prosser,
Winfield G. Boyd and Paul Foun
tain, Yakima. '
The ferry, built about 1918, has
been operated by the present
ownners about tewnty years.
Births Down And
Deaths Up in '54
Births were down 49 and deaths
Increased by 10 in 1954 over the
previous year in Morrow county,
records kept by Miss Lulu Hager,
county registrar, show, A total of
179 births were recorded in 1954
compared to 228 in 1953. Fifty
three deaths were recorded in
1954 and 43 In the preceding
year.
Some of the decreases in county
births were attributed to the
operation of the new Hermiston
hospital.
A total of 29 marriage licenses
were issued at the county clerk's
office in 1954 and 10 divorces
granted. One of the divorced
couples were remarried during
the year, it was pointed out.
Slated For County
January 18th; at the Lexington
Grange hal, 1:30 p. m. Jan. 19;
and at the Club House at the Fair
Grounds in Heppner, 7:30 p. m..
Januarv 19. The meetings are so,
arranged to give each farmer his.
voice in what he would like to set
In a farm urogram. Email discus
sion groups will meet to go over
a series of questions that have
been made up. An example of
such a question that will come up
for discussion is: "Last year con
gress passed tho law setting up
this years program. This is a one
year program only, unless
amended again, the complete
flexible price program goes into
effect; do you want this? If not,
What do you want." Anither
question might be "if the pre
sent law is left on the books call
ing for thirty or forty percent re
duction in acreage. Can renters
make a go of it in this county.
Can owners make a go of it if
they have fixed payments to
meet?"
E. R. Jackman, Oregon State
college, Frank Anderson, chair
man Morrow County Wheat
Growers Association and N. C.
Anderson, County Extension
Agent will assist" at the meetings.
Everyone interested is invited to
attend the meeting that is most
conveniently located for them to
attend.