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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 3; 1955
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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Television in Heppner
During recent weeks, especially since a very
good picture has been received atop a nearby hill,
many of the residents of Heppner have been suf
fering from TV-itis. It is not an uncommon af
fliction, especially among those people who don't
have it in their own home.
It has reached a high pitch during the last 10 or
12 days when engineers have been receiving top
shows, fights, wrestling matches, etc., on their
portable set in the cold fog on a local hill, viewed
by many who have suffered through below freez
ing weather to watch the picture in the great out
doors. The "bug" has bitten hard enough that there
have been suggestions made to the city council
that it should take on the duty of giving Heppner
residents TV, when it appeared that no private or
cooperative group was going to service the town
with "piped in" television. It has been discussed
at a council meeting and the group has even gone
so far as to take a mail survey of residents to see
what their desires might be. When this is being
written, the final results of the poll are not known,
but regardless of its outcome, this newspaper
doesn't believe the providing of television is a
duty of city government.
That statement is made, not because we don't
want television, which we do, though we are not
as much of a "bug" for it as some others, but we
believe that city services should be restricted to
providing the necessities for health, welfare and
general use of all the people. Television does
not fall into that category, it is strictly a luxury
not a necessity.
We hope that TV comes to Heppner, and we
think it will, probably within a relatively short
time, but getting it into town constitutes at least
a semblance of a financial risk, and it certainly
is not the duty 0f the council to risk the taxpayer's
money, or the time of the members of the taxpay
er's servants the council, to bring us a luxury
itsm one which not everyone in town can have
and enjoy.
During the last few days there has been a
move started to form a cooperative organization
which would finance the necessary wiring to give
us TV, a move which we feel is a move in the
right diiection. Such an organization has been
formed in other cities and towns, and private com
panies are also doing the same job, and from what
Information we can get, it is functioning quite
well. We hope one method or the other can do
the job in Heppner.
To get TV. reception into Heppner will cost
money (the best estimate so far is agout $20,000)
and those who want to enjoy it will have to pay
for it. The estimated cost of $135 hookup charge
and $3.50 a month is very reasonable and about
what residents of other cities who have "piped in"
TV must pay, yet it is the hope of those interested
in forming a cooperative to serve Heppner, after
the initial cost is returned, to be able to reduce
the monthly charge by quite a bit.
Regardless of how TV gets into Heppner, it will
cost its watchers money but, regardless of how
It comes, it still remains a luxury, not a necessity,
that should be provided by the city. We hope the
council controls it through franchise or other
means, but it should not try to provide it.
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Andttaon
Work of the marketing commit
tee of the Morrow County Live
stock Growers Association and
their market listing service which
was offered for the first time in
Morrow county in 1954, have
drawn much inquiry from feeder
buers. It was reported at the
annual meeting of the livestock
growers association that over 1000
head of livestock had been sold
through this service during its
first year of operation. A poten
tial list of buyers from Oregon
and surrounding states has been
compiled so that future programs
should become more effective.
Most interesting is the fact that
many of these buyers are still
making weekly inquiries looking
for livestock to buy. Only a few
days ago, a livestock feeder from
Washington, contacted the office,
wanted several hundred head of
yearling steers and heifers. While
the normal marketing period for
Morrow county livestock is past,
the marketing committee have
recently got buyers and sellers to
gether. The cost of the listing
service, which includes phone
calls, advertising in newspapers
in feeder areas, is financed by a
charge of 10c per head on those
cattle listed.
Russell Dolven, 4-H club mem
ber of Lexington, is becoming an
From where I sit ...ty Joe Marsh
A Winner Every Time!
Last Friday at our big basket
ball game with Centerville I aat
next to a fine-looking old man.
Centerville had things their way
the first half and he cheered
very score they made.
But our boys began to catch
up. Then Stretch Brown put us
in the lead with a long set shot,
and I noticed that the old fellow
was now rooting for our side.
"What team are you for, any
way!" I demanded.
"Neither," he replied. "I've
got my own team. I figure any
kid that does a good job out there
is on my team'; Root for the indi
vidual like I do - and you'll al
ways back a winner!"
From where I sit, maybe it is
a good idea to keep our eye on
the individual, instead of auto
matically grouping him on tiains
you're "for" or "against." We're
all individuals at heart, with our
likes and dUlikes-our rinht to
prefer tea to coffee or beer to
buttermilk... our right to "blow
the whistle" when anyone tries
to regiment us.
Copyright, 19S5, United States Brewers Foundation
expert young sheep man. While
only 12 years old, he has develop
ed, as a 4-H club project over the
past three years, a sizeable herd
of registered Columbias and
South downs. He has improved
the quality of breeding stock on
both of these flocks until he has
some of the top breed lines in the
country. This past year he was
selected as the 4-H club member
which had made the. most pro
gress in establishing a livestock
breeding herd and was awarded
the Safeway Stores livestock
breeding scholarship to the 1955
Summer School.
From the way he has started
out on his lambing operations
this winter, he will increase his
herd considerably during 1955. He
has five lambs from three ewes
with one ewe having given birth
M
AYOR
ARY
SAYS
(Heppner's new mayor, Mary
Van Stevens, this week is starting
an editorial and news column
uider the heading "Mayor Mary
Says ". It will appear frequently
in the Gazette Times.)
By Mary Van Stevens
"I took a tour of the sewer and
water plants last week and think
the city should have open house
at the sewage disposal plant.
Everyone should visit this plant
and see how much they got for
their sewer bonds.
"The next council meeting will
be February 7th and many items
of interest to all residents of
Heppner will be brought up the
enforcement of the dog ordinance
. . . the plan for the city park . . .
the street assessment plan for
curbs. Plan to attend this meet
ing and learn more about how
your city is managed.
"We want gripes with facts and
plans, Not just words like "ifs"
and "ands."
STAR THEATER, Heppner
Admission Prices: Adults 70c, Students 50c. Children 20c including Federal Ex
else Tax. Sunday shows start at 2 p. m. Shows on other evenings start at 7:30.
BoxoHice open until 9 p. m. No show Saturday. February 26th.
Thursday-Friday-Saturday, February 3-4-5
WHITE MANE
A rare and exciting film. . . words cannot do justice to the wonderful photography
nor the individual scenes of this delightful fable, s
Plus
HEIDI
All its storyhood wonder becomes screen magic! A Completely charming treat for
all ages.
Sunday-Monday, February 6-7
PHFFFT
Jack Carson, Judy Ilolliday, Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak. At the very top of the
season's list as a dramatic comedy. . . it bursts and bubbles with good humor all
the way.
Sunday shows at 2 p. m., 4:20. 6:40 and 9
Tuesday-Wednesday. February 8-9
THE LONG WAIT
Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Peggie Castle. Gene F.vans.
Mickey Spillane drama.
A bare-knuckled
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From files of the Gazette Times
February 5, 1925
The barn on the W. K. Mike
sail place south of town was com
pletely demolished by a heavy
gust of wind that struck in the
course of the rain and windstorm
passing this way last evening.
Cecil Warner was in town on
Saturday from Lexington. Re
seeding of the damaged wheat
fields is the order there now and
the farmers are busy taking ad
vantage of the good weather.
Elvin Schaffer of Butterby Flats
was a weekend visitor at the
county seat.
Tilman Hogue states that his
section of the county, after all,
seems to have suffered a heavy
loss owing to the December
freeze.
Calvin L. Sweek of this city was
chosen president for this district
of the Federal Farm Loan asso
ciation at Pendleton on Friday.
s
Mr. and Mrs. Nat Webb of
Walla Walla were weekend visi
tors in Heppner, driving over from
their home on Friday and arriv
ing in time to attend the 30th
anniversary services of Ruth
chapter No. 32 O. E. S. of which
Mrs. Webb is a member.
to five lambs in two years.
For those farmers who are
going to order windbreak plant
ings, orders for seedlings from the
Oregon State Board of Forestry
must be made before April 1st.
Early orders get preference and
trees should be planted in early
spring, while soil moisture is still
good. Tree seedlings available
for Eastern Oregon for 1955, are
Incense Cedar, Ponderosa Pine,
Lodge Pole Pine, Chinese Arbor
vitae, Black Locust, Russian
Olive, Russian Mulberry, Chinese
Elm and Caragana.
vices are becoming quite popular.
While not quite as effective 3s
spraying, they promise to become
a great aid in insect control. For
grubs, a liquid rotenone is avail
able that can be mixed with die
sel to saturate the sacks of a
home made self treating device.
Homemade treaters are as effect -tive
as commercial ones and are
being used by a good many live
stock operators in the county.
Gene Majeske, Lexington, and Al
Bunch, Heppner are the most re
cent ranchers to construct home
made self treating devices in
their feed lots. Plans for making
the self treating device is avail
able at the county agent's office.
Much interest is being shown
these days in treatment for lice
and grubs on cattle. Grub con
trol time is at its peak now and
and application needs to be
made to control this insect pest
that causes one of the biggest
losses in the livestock industry
annually. For those who hesitate
to spray for grubs with cows close
to calving and unfavorable wea
ther conditions, self treating de-
Much interest has been shown
in the compensatory payment
that has taken effect for the 1955
wool crop. There are many ques
tions concerning how the pay
ment works, pon't let anyone
tell you that the government
guarantees you 62c per pound for
your wool so that it makes no
difference what you sell it for.
Nothing could be further from the
truth because .the amount of your
incentive payment depends upon
the price you receive for your
wool in the open market. For
example, the incentive level of
62c per grease pound established
by Sec. Benson, represents the
support level for all wool pro
duced in the United States for
1955 on the average. If at the
end of the marketing year, March
21st, 1956, the Department of
Agriculture, determines the aver
age price received in the open
market is 50c per grease pound,
the difference between this price
and 62c is 12c which represents a
percentage difference of 24. It
is this 247c figure that is used to
determine the incentive payment
to you. If you should hold your
wool for 60c f. o. b. loading point,
your incentive payment would be
14.4c per pound. (Sixty cents,
times 24). If you received only
40c your incentive payment
would be 9.6 (40c times 24) or
almost 5c a pound less. In other
words in this example, total re
ceipts for a pound of wool are 60c
in the open market means 74.4c
per pound in the end. A sale
at 40c results in 49.6c per pound
for a difference of 24.8c. On 1,000
head of ewes producing an 8
pound fleece, the difference is
$1,984. or almost $2.00 more wool
income per sheep. Sheepmen
would do well to study this
through.
minor turkey producing area, we
are still going to make mention
of a meeting pertaining to tur
keys. The meeting was the Na
tional Turkey Federation Conven
tion which was held at Atlantic
City, New Jersey, on January 5
Continued on page 7
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Phil's Pharmacy
Phil Blakney, Owner
Announcing the
-OF-
Gilliam and Bisbee Hardware
EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 1, CLAUDE BUSCHKE
AND JOHN KEY HAVE TAKEN OVER MAN
AGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE BUSINESS
To Our Friends-
We wish to take this opportunity to announce
that we have taken over the ownership and man
agement of Gilliam and Bisbee Hardware and we
extend to you an invitation to continue your pat
ronage with Heppner's oldest hardware business.
We are beginners in the hardware business,
but Lou Bisbee, Len, Earl and May Gilliam will
remain with us, ot least for the present to advise
us arid we have plans for the future which we hope
will make the store an even better place to shop.
We plan to do considerable modernizing, including
the installation of a new lighting system, a grad
ual changeover to more modern fixtures, and the
addition of new lines of stock.
In the meantime we hope that you will con
tinue to give us your support toward carrying on
the fine old traditions and policies of Gilliam and
Bisbee and a larger end better hardware store for
all of us.
CLAUDE BUSCHKE. JOHN KEY
Our Thanks-
To our friends and customers of many years
standing, THANKS for your loyal support and
patronage. Most of our lives have been spent
serving you, discussing your repair jobs, planning
your alterations, fitting out your houses and bams,
and cussing the weather, politics and the price
of wheat. It's all been fun and you've made our
lives interesting, pleasant and profitable.
So thanks again. We are sad to leave the
store and we'll miss seeing you there each day.
We are glad, however, that the Gilliam & Bisbee
Hardware will continue to do business in the same
place, with perhaps better service, but with the
same high quality merchandise. The new owners
end your neighbors, Claude Buschke and John
Key, are taking over and will see that your hard
ware needs are well taken care of.
Sincerely,
L. E. BISBEE, LEN L. GILLIAM,
EARL GILLIAM, MAY GILLIAM
CONTINUING TO SERVE YOU AS-
Gilliam and Bisbee Hardware Co.
CLAUDE BUSCHKE AND JOHN KEY