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Heppner Gazette Times, TKursday, February 10, 1955
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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Mppnr Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times,
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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ROBERT PENLAND
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GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
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Published 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 $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents.
A Noteworthy Birthday
We salute the Boy Scouts of America on its
45th birthday, now being observed during Boy
Scout Week, Feb. 6 to 12.
Since its founding in 1910 the organization has
enriched the lives of over 22,750,000 boys and
adult leaders. Truly Scouting represents a living
cross section of American life.
Boys of every race, religion and economic back
ground are attracted to Scouting and today we find
2,700,000 boys in its ranks. Add to that impressive
figure the 9(30,000 adults of good character who
give of their time and talents to serve as loaders
of units, merit badge counselors and in many other
capacities.' There is hardly an American family
that has not felt its influence.
Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, the chief Scout executive,
a leader in the organization since 1913, feels that
it is of vital importance to train the boys of today
to be ready for positions of leadership .as they grow
to manhood.
"Strong character, participating citizenship and
physical fitness," he says, are needs of our boys
and young men who are served by the program of
Scouting in cooperation with the home, the school,
the church, and all other community institutions
actively interested in training our future citizens."
Scouting's purpose, stated in the federal charter
granted by Congress in 1916, is to promote the
"ability of boys to do things for themselves and
others, to train them in Scoutcraft, and to teach
them patriotism, courage, self-reliance and kind
red virtues."
' Every member of the nation's 95,000 Scouting
units is indeed "having some kind of experience
that is added to his equipment to meet the prob
lems of adult life."
It is that training that we heartily endorse on
this noteworthy birthday.
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C Aadersoa
While Morrow County is ngt,from growing too tall, and fad-
considered a fruit producing
county, still there are a good
many home fruit plantings, that
in order to produce the most of
the best kind of fruit, must be
treated like a commercial plant
ing. Now Is the time to be putting
those plantings into the best pos
sible shape for the highest yields,
of disease and insect free fruit.
Now while the trees are dor
mant, pruning should be done
and dormant sprays applied.
There are always a lot of ques
tions concerning pruning. Prun
ing is not a difficult job and any
one can do it. Pruning should
always be done with a specific
purpose in mind. That purpose
may be the shaping of the plant
or the renewal or invigorating of
fruiting wood. Over pruning is
generally more serious than un
der pruning. The purpose of
pruning young non-bearing trees
is primarily to shape the trees so
that the main scaffold brandies
will be well distributed up and
down and around the trunk.
In pruning bearing trees ,the
grower must keep several things
in mind. There are several rea
sons here; as the trees become
older the top may become too
tflick for satisfactory spraying,
much weak growing wood may
develop throughout the tree
which never produces fruit of
satisfactory size and quality.
Within limits, the pruning of
mature trees may protect them
litate fruit spraying, thinning and
picking. Removal of weak non
fruiting branches will also enable
the sun to get in to the tree to
mature the fruit.
Dormant spraying is just a part
of the spray program for the
year. San Jose scale is the main
need for dormant spraying. It
does damage to apple, pear,
cherry, peach, plum and prune
trees. It kills the twigs and
limbs and if uncontrolled even
tually kills the trees. The bark of
infested trees are covered with
small ash gray or blackish pim
ple like scales. Removing the
scale covering discloses a flat
tened lemon yellow insect be
neath it. The live nearly mature
scales which survive the winter,
continue to grow in the spring
and reach maturity in April, May
and June. San Jose scale is con
trolled with a dormant applica
tion of liquid lime sulphur ap
plied just before the buds break
oien. This is also helpful in con
trolling peach leaf curl, and
should be applied to peaches just
before the buds break. To have
good fruit to harvest, several
sprayings are necessary during
the summer months. The main
problem here is coddling moth,
which takes a spraying of DDT or
one of the insecticides compar
able to DDT, sprayed every month
beginning at the time of the
flower petals begin to fall.
Plans are now under way for a
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"Coming Round The Mountain"
LEXINGTON SCHOOL
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 8 P. M.
Given by the Thespians
Benefit of V. F. W. Post
M
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SAYS
By Mary Van Stevens
If you love your dogs almost as
much as you do your children,
then why do you let them play in
the street?
It seems everything has a legal
problem and 1 spend a lot of time
waiting for leg;ri opinions. I won
der if Jess has his trouble?
See you in the park!
pruning demonstration to be
held in early March. Those who
might be interested in such a
demonstration should contact this
office so that we might hold one
in their neighborhood. For those
who might need helps in prun
ing and spraying, we have some
excellent bulletins in the office
that would be helpful to anyone.
Several farmers have shown an
Interest in a revived weather pro
gram and have made contribu
tions in order that the program
can get underway March 1st. The
board of directors of the Tri-
County Weather Research are
meeting Friday morning to plan
a program it they can see their
way clear financially. Morrow
County will need to contribute
considerable more than they have
on hand now if the program is
put in effect in this county. If
Morrow County does not raise
enough money to contribute to
the program, there may be some
dotermintal effects on rain fall
here with seeding being done in
Sherman, Gilliam, Umatilla and
counties in Washington across
the river. Seeding being done to
increase rainfall in those counties
without respect to Morrow county
might make things even drier
than now.
During the past several months,
a controversial subject among
livestick men is whether to or
whether not to favor a beef com
mission in Oregon. Some inter
esting figures have just been re
vealed by Marion Weatherford,
chairman of the committee to in
vestigate the desirabilities of such
a commission. He recently point
ed out to Pat Cecil, president of
the Oregon Cattleman's Associa
tion, thai cash receipts for cattle,
calves, beef, and veal in Oregon
for 1951 was $75,CS0,000 for 1952,
$5S.OOS,000. If there had been a
tax on the above amounts for a
beef commission for example, a
STAR THEATER, Heppner
Admission Frices: Adults 70c, Students 50c, Children 20c including Federal Ex
cise Tax. Sunday shows Btart at 2 p. m. Shows on other evenings start at 7:30.
Boxoff ice open until 9 p. m. No show Saturday, February 26th.
Thursday-Friday-Saturday, February 10-11-12
THE SILVER LODE
John Payne, Liabeth Scott, Dan Duryea, Alan Hale. Jr., Harry Carey Jr.. A good
western drama in Technicolor Plus
CHALLANGE THE WILD
Frank, Edna, Gooigo and Sheilah Graham the true story of family adventures in
the wilds of Northern Canada he shot wild animals and birds but only with his
camera she docs some exciting bow -and -a now shooting. In Color.
Sunday-Monday, February 13-14
THE ROBE
In Cinemascope and Technicolor
Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael liennie. Jay Robinson, Dean
Jagger. You will be engulfed in the everlasting wonder of the greatest story of
love and faith ever told from I.loyd C. Douglas' immortal novel.
Sunday Shows at 2 p- m.. 4:30, and 7
EMPIRE MACHINERY COMPANY'S ANNUAL SHOW
Tuesday, February 15. 1:30 p. m.
Tuesday-Wednesday, February 15-16 Heppner School Band Benefit
FIRE OVER AFRICA
Action against the exotic locals of Tangier and Malaga, splendidly photographed
In Technicolor, Makes exciting fare! With Maureen O'llara and MacDonald Carey.
Plus
MUSICAL NUMBERS BY MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BAND
Buy tickets from the students when they call on you. Proceeds over expenses will
be applied toward the purchase of new biind uniforms. These tickets are good at
the theater on February 15th nnd lt!th only.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of The Gazette Times
February 12, 1925
Hotel Heppner Is now in charge of
new management, Mrs. K. S.
Rogers, late of Portland, arriving
the past, week, and taking over
the hotel from Pat Foley, who
was looking after its manage
ment for a few days upon the re
tirement of W. E. Bell.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Anderson and
Howard Anderson were Eight
Mile people in the city yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parrish of
Condon were visitors in Heppner
Over Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Troedson and
Miss Frances of Ella and Mr. and
Mrs. Stender and dadghter of
Seldomseen were all calling on
friends in Cecil on Saturday.
total would have been as follows:
1951 tax of .00257c would yield
$189,650.00 or a tax of .0015
would yield $113,790.00. The tax
in 1952 of .0025 would yield
$145,020.00. A tax of .0015
would have yielded $87,012.00
The U. S. D. A. recently an
nounced that the National sup
port level for the 1955 wheat crop
will be not less than $2.06 per
bushel which is 82,i of the cur
rent parity price for wheat. Sup
port rates for wheat produced in
the commercial area, will reflect
the full national support level.
In the newly designated 12 state
non-commercial wheat area,
wheat will be supported on the
basis of 75 of the full support
level.
The support rate announced at
this time will not be reduced but
will be increased if the wheat
parity price as of July 1 of 1955 is
higher than the parity price of
$2.50 per bushel used to deter
mine the minimum price support
announced. The national aver
age support level for 1954 crop
wheat, $2.24 per bushel.
The agricultural act of 1954 in
addition to providing for a com
mercial wheat area, excludes the
wheat set aside from the total
supply in determining the sup
port price and provides for a sup
port level of not less than 82i
of parity for 1955. The set aside of
wheat has been established at
four hundred million bushels and
this quantity has been excluded
from the computation of carry
over for price support purposes.
Even with & gfct-aside of four
hundred million bushels the total
supply for 1955-56 marketing year
is estimated at 135 of the nor
mal supply of wheat. This supply
percentage would require support
level at 75 of parity except
for the minimum level of 82
Congressman
Coon Comments
By Congressman Sam Coon
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT
My Committee on Labor and Edu
cation has gotten under way, and
. . . do you know . . . that's going
to be a very interesting assign
ment. On our first day, three
members brought up three sepa
rate bills, that each member said
must have immediate action. The
first member asked for the in
stant repeal of the Taft-Hartley
Act. I was afraid he'd make us
repeal the Act before the meeting
was out!
Another member contended
that the minimum wage must
be raised from 75 cents to $1-25
without delay. The third was in
such a hurry for his federal school
construction bill that I thought
we would be starting right to
work.
BUDGET FOR EASTERN ORE
GON I now have the figures that
pertain to Eastern Oregon as list
ed in the President's budget for
the coming year. President Eisen
hower has asked Congress to set
provided by the new act for the
1955 crop.
The use of this set aside wheat
will be for disaster or other re
lief purposes, both inside and
outside the United States for sale
or barter, to develop new or ex
pand markets for research, ex
perimental or educational pur
poses and for sale for unrestricted
use to meet a need for increased
supplies at no less than 105
wheat parity, price. Disposal of
the four hundred million bushels
set aside will be limited to the
above uses.
aside 74 million dollars for con
struction on the McNary and The
Dalles dams. Of this amount,
$11,000,000 would be spent on the
McNary dam, and $63,500,000 for
continuing construction of The
Dalles dam. More than a million
dollars is also in the budget for
the operation and maintenance of
the McNary dam. The Celilo
canal has been allocated $100,000.
In advance engineering work,
the John Day dam was allocated
$500,000, and .other varying
amounts were listed for the
Grande Ronde, the Malheur River
and the Crooked River projects.
Extensive work is also planned at
the Haystack Reservoir and on
the Crescent Lake dam. Money
has also been allocated in the
budget for preliminary examina
tion for work at Dry Hollow, Was
co county and on the Silvies
River.
It adds up to a considerable
sum budgeted for the coming
year in our district. I am certainly
glad that President Eisenhower
has asked Congress to allot so
much money to be spent in east
ern Oregon.
FARM FUTURE Last week
some hearings were held here on
the Capitol Hill which I wish
each one of you could have listen
ed to. A group of farm experts,
appearing before the Committee
on the President's Economic Re
port, took a long look into the
future of agricultural policy. Here
are some of their ideas:
We must tackle the farm prob
lem in the same over-all way we
tackled the creation of the atom
bomb. The surest way for far
mers to have more prosperity with
less government interference is
for farmers and processors to take
much more responsibility for im
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Merchandise Shoot
AND SPECIALS
MORROW CO. GUN CLUB
Sunday, Feb. 20
10:30 A. M.
Sponsored by Heppner American Legion
Post No. 87
Lunch Served by Legion Auxiliary
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Romance
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They're all here in our complete col
lection of nationally advertised
designs.
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