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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, January 13, 1955
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
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The First Service Station
Many a great innovator is unsung and un
known. That's true of whoever established the
first automobile service station. But he certainly
started something!
By today's standards that the first station
would be about as unimpressive as anyone can
imagine. The equipment probably consisted of
an old water tank and a length of garden hose.
Perhaps there was also a compressor and a sign
offering the Inducement of "free air". But cus.
tomers flocked in, other men saw that this new
kind of business offered an opportunity for profit
and so a great competetitive industry was born.
The growth of that industry has been phenom
enal. Between 1929 and 1954 the number of sta
tions doubled, and there are more than 200,000 of
them in operation in this country now. Last year
they satisfied the voracious appetites of 55,000,000
motor vehicles, which consumed 43,000,000,000 gal
lons of gas, along with vast quantities of lubri
cants. There has been a comparable growth in
the nualitv of service to the customer. It's esti
mated that the free services offered actually cost
the average service station nearly $000 a montn.
Finally the modern service station is the ans
wer to the empty charge that the oil Industry is a
haven of big business, in which tnere s noi mum
room for the little fellow. Ninteen out of every
on stations are Independently owned, and are tyji
cal small business enterprises. All of them are
rwt in thnir communities and all of them are
making important contributions to the comfort
onrl r'rinvpnipnrp nf the DUbliC
Industrial News Review
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Anderson
plans have been completed for
the annual meeting of the Board
man Soil Conservation District
which will be held at the Green
field Grange hall in Boardman on
January 20th. The program starts
at 10:30 a. m. During the after
noon program, E. R. Jackman,
Range and Pasture Specialist Ore
gon State College, and Andy
Landforce, Wildlife Management
specialist, Oregon State College
will be main speakers. Everyone
is Invited to attend.
From a weekly price and cost
review report, prepared by Ore
gon State College it was found
that farm products are fast losing
their buying power. This came
about with lower prices and no
change in cost. The parity ratio
dropped to 86 in December. The
fair return to farmers as estab
lished bv Coneress is 100, the
ratio now stands more than 57c
below a year earlier and at the
lowest point since March l'Jii
The parity ratio is the measure
ment of the relationship between
prices received by farmers and
prices paid by farmers for com
modlties. interest, taxes, and
wage rates.
While Morrow County is pretty
DflfJCE
FRIDAY, JAN. 14
following the Stocknen's
banquet
Auldts $1.00 Students $.75
Fair Pavilion
DUKE WARNER'S
6 Piece Band
well down the list in Importance
in hog raising, there appears to
lie some increased interest in
raising hogs during the past cou
ple of years. With Oregoon ship
ping in the majority ot meir porK,
it appears that more farmers
could become more interested in
this enterprise. The announce
ment of barley support prices for
1955 crop puts barley at about
$10.00 per ton. At the price of
hops, it would seem that some of
this barley could be profitably fed
tn hoes. While it is quite a
while until harvest time it is still
not too early t0 talk about this
since it does take awhile to get
into the hog business.
For those that are raising hogs
and especially those that are far
rowing at this time of year or any
time of the year as far as that
is concerned it should be pointed
out that baby pigs require sup
plemental heat during the lirst
few hours of their lives if air tern-
Deratures are below 45. A com
mon practice of locating a heat
lamp in one corner of the farrow
ing pen is not enough. Heat must
be applied directly to the baby
pigs. The first twelve hours of
their life is important and heat
should be placed to warm the
pigs during that period. After
this period, heat, can be placed in
a protected corner where it is
not only kept the pigs warm but
reduces their chances of being
laid on by the sow. A 250 watt
Infra red heat lamp hung about
three feet from the floor will fur
nish enough circulation of warm
th to include the average litter.
The lamp should not be hung by
the oord supplying the electricity.
A separate support such as a
chain should carry the weight of
the lamp and the non-breakable
type of heat lamp should be made
secure so that they will not fall
to the floor because this could
burn the pigs and set a fire In
combustible bedding. Oregon
State College has a plan for an
electric lamp type pig brooder,
utilizing a 100 watt incondescent
lamp. This plan is shown In sta
tion circular 35 "An Electric Lamp
Type Pig Brooder" which is avail
able from this office.
been scheduled for the Pine City
School. January 18, 1:30 p. m.; the
lone Leeion hall, January 18, 7:J0
p. m.; Lexington Grange hall n
January 19th, at 1:30 p. m. and
the Club House at the lair
Grounds on January 19, 7:30 p. m
Assisting with these educational
meetings will be E. R. Jackman,
Ranee and Pasture Management
specialist, Oregon State College;
Frank Anderson, Chairman Mor
row County Wheat Growers Assn;
and the County Agent. Each
meeting will last about two and
one hair hours wun ine wneai
rxloblem, alternative programs
group discussions on the various
orocrams and a general session
scheduled. Everyone -interested
in wheat programs policy and
(arm nroerams are invited to
these meetines. We hope that far
mers will eo home from the meet
ings, understanding more of the
AKtiorta nf farm oroerams and
how everyone is affected by them
Final arrangements have been
completed for the Wheat Policy
meetings which we announced in
this column last week. They have
Another meeting scheduled in
this column last week was that
of the Land Use and Conservation
Committee which- is a sub com
mittee of the Agricultural Plan
ning Committee. It will meet
Friday afternoon, January 21st, at
1:30 p. m. It is being held at the
Club House at the Fair Grounds.
W. W. Weatherford is chairman.
J. C. Moore, Conservationist, O. S.
C. will be on hand to advise the
group on some points for discus
sion. The program will consist ot
a discussion on the report of the
Interim Committee of the Water
Resources Committee, set up by
the Governor for action at the
Legislature this winter. Of inter
est to many is a law pertaining
to ground water code. Other
points for discussion for the af
ternoon meeting wil be the
Small Watersheds Act provisions
and the Soil and Water Conserva
tion Loan provisions of the Far
mers Home Administration, this
snh rnmmifiee was active last
year in drafting recommenda
tions for the feeling of the inter
im Committee on Water Resour
ces. This meeting ts a iouow up
to acquaint themselves with the
actions taken.
On Friday evening of the 21st,
the agricultural committees of
the subordinate and Pomona
grange will meet with James
Moore, Conservation Specialist
and Oscar Peterson, State Agri
cultural Grange Committee chari
man, to discuss helps for these
mmmitteemen durinc 1955. The
letter is going out to all grange
Hericultural chairmen and mas
ters this week, inviting them to
the meeting.
STAR THEATER, Heppner
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Admission Price: Adults 70c. Students 50c. Children 2oc Including federal Excise
Tax. Sunday shows start at 4 p. m.. also Saturday, January 1st. Shows every other
venlng start at 7:30... Boxoiiice open until 9 p. m. Theater will be closed January
18-19 for Installation of new equipment.
Thursday-Friday-Saturday, January 13-14-15
DESPERADO
Good Wayne Morris western, boasting a number of new and suspenscful twists.
. Plus
TOBOR THE GREAT
One of the adventurous science-fictions yams with Tobor (robot spelled backward)
and young Billy Chapin creating the excitement.
Sunday-Monday. January 16-17
SUSAN SLEPT HERE
Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Alvy Moore, Glenda Farrell in a crisp
Technicolor comedy that will make you wake up and laugh!
Plus
CIRCUS TRAINER
A glimpse of the performing animals of a famous European circus.
Sunday shows at 4. 6:20 and 8:40
Tuesday-Wednesday, January 18-19
The theater will be closed for two days for Installation of new equipment
which will permit the showing of wide screen. Cinemascope and some of the
other new motion picture mediums. No Increase in Prices.
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