Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, March 24, 1955
Page 3
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C Anderson
A regular weekly hay and
grain market review provided by
Oregon State College and the U.
S. Department of Agriculture,
this week announced that more
than twenty-four million bushels
of grain storage capacity In the
the moth ball fleet will be added
this year. U. S. D. A. officials
. have announced that 75 ships
will be available at Astoria and
30 at Olympia. This will add
seventeen million bushels capac
ity to the twenty million already
stored at Astoria. Olympia will
have seven million bushels add
ed to the present capacity of ten
million.
Still more storage facilities may
be needed to handle northwest
grain stocks for this coming year.
Supplies of Pacifiic Northwest
wheat on March 1st, were esti
mated at one hundred fifty five
million bushels. This is an in
crease of thirty million bushels
from a year ago and is nearly i
three times the recent average.
In addition to the extra supply of
wheat, we have an increase of
thirty million bushels of barley,
and five million bushels of oats
over last year.
The outlook goes on to point
out that some of the sixty-five
million bushel increase may dis
appear by the time we start har
vesting this years crop but the
outlook isn't very rosy right now.
Exports of local wheat are run
ning more than a fourth less
than last year and only about
half of the recent five year aver
age. Wheat used for flour in
creased over last year but not
enough to offset the decline in
exports. Feed grain stocks can
not be expected to decrease much
from now on, with the winter
feeding season just about over as
far as local livestockmen are concerned.
This week the advisory board
of the Lexington blow control
district have been busier than
any time since the creation of
that district, almost twenty years
ago. With continuous winds this
past three weeks, many blows
have developed. The board meet
ing with the county court Wed
nesday morning, decided that if
blows continue as they have that
it will be necessary to use some
of the provisions of the law that
have not yet been used.- The law
provides that an inspector can
be hired to determine when a
blow is becoming detrimental.
While no difficulty has yet been
encountered with farmers not at
tempting to control their blows
there seems that many have for
gotten that it takes drastic means
in many cases to control a bad
blow. In a case or two, neighbors
have rallied to assist their neigh
bors with controlling blows as
was the case at the Ralph Crum
ranch late Tuesday afternoon
and evening when eight tractors
were employed in getting a field
under control. i
In many cases, blows have been
caused through neglect of proper
farming practices, since no wind
erosion has occurred for so many
years. Such things as seeding
fields with deep furrow drills, to
the cross winds, will need to be
practiced more religiously if the
weather continues as now. There
will also need to be greatest care
taken in proper utilizations of
stubble to protect the surface
from wind erosion.
As we went through the
county last week, we found many
cases where farmers were asking
for trouble in a dry year. On
Friday of last week with a stiff
wind blowing, burning was ob
served on a field close to Hepp
ner, where all stubble is neces
sary to control erosion due to the
steepness of the land. Within a
half mile of this field, the soil
in a field of fall seeded grain was
drifting badly. A number of far
mers have commented about the
amount of burning that is being
done this spring in fields where
stubble does not appear to be a
great problem In carrying on
summer fallow operations. If
dry and windy conditions con
tinue to prevail, we will need be
talking a lot about wind erosion
control, rather than water erosion
that has been the main problem
during the past recent years.
IONE
School Notes
Chester L. Ward, superintendent
A group of Indian dances gave
an entertainment at the school at
nine a. m. Tuesday March 22.
They were decked out in their
native costumes and gave five
native dances. This was very
entertaining and educational.
The nine weeks examinations
are being given trfts week and
report cards will be given out on
Wednesday March 30.
Most all the teachers attended
the Oregon Educational Associa
tion in Portland last week and
many various reports were given.
The band went to Echo for a
concert last week and will go to
Umatilla Tuesday evening.
Wednesday March 23 at 1 p.
m. a program on wild life will be
given by the state department of
forestry.
The Juniors are very busy pre
paring for the Junior-Senior prom
and banquet. The Girl's League
is planning for the athletic ban
quet April 1.
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4-H CLUB NEWS
ENTOMOLOGIST CLUB
The Heppner Entomologist
club was held at the home of
Mickey Van Schoiack. "
The meeting was opened by
the flag pledge and the 4-H
pledge. Mickey led the pledges.
There was no old business. The
new business was when, why and
where the next meeting was to
be. The next meeting will be
April 6. The meeting will be to
complete our net and killing jars.
We will meet at the home of Lib
by Van Schoiack.
The meeting was adjourned.
Libby Van Schoiack, reporter
LQ)(o)j(
Bids were asked this week for
2,4-D for the county weed control
program for 1955. Bids were
called for 900 gallons Ester type
2,4-D, 30o gallons Amine type
2,4-D. From the bid or two that
we have received to date, it ap
pears that 2,4-D will be consider
ably less per gallon this year.
While talking about 2,4-D and
weed control, it might be well to
point out that there are several
kinds of 2,4-D on the market and
this year for the first time, there
appears to be more types of vary
ing pounds parent acid per gal
Ion than in the past. It should
be kept in mind that applications
should be made according to the
aount of parent acid than the
measured quantity of the liquid
For instances, it would take al
most twice as much Esteron 9-9
which is a two pound per gallon
material as the regular ester
types containing 3.34 pounds per
gallon. Operators found for hard
to kill weeds like tar weed that
and 1 to 2 pints of the 3.34
pound material is needed for best
control. When a 2 pound mater
ial is used, it would take at least
three pints of the material for
comparable results.
D. A. Short, your Telephone Manager for Heppner
Cable "doctors" they roll out day or night
Fortunately, this scene
isn't common. Tele
phone cables can us
ually be fixed in day
light. But once in a
while, on the quiet
streets here in town,
you'll see cable "doc
tors" taking care of an
emergency at night.
For along with police
men, firemen, and the
like, telephone people
help keep the night
watch while the rest of
tVio prvmmnnit V Ripens.
Operators, testmen, and repairmen are on the job throughout
the quiet hours. Indeed, one of the big values of your telephone
service is that it never rests. Your telephone is ready to serve
you whenever you need it, 'round the clock. Pacific Telephone
works to make your telephone a bigger value every day.
A calling card
you can use
again and again
you do much traveling, a Bell
System credit card is just the
thing for you. It's free. And
you can use it to charge long
distance calls from any Bell
telephone and from most others
anywhere in the country. Our
business office will gladly give
you more information about
these handy cards. So why not
ask about one soon. Your credit card will make it even easier to
keep in touch with home and make business calls at today's
bargain long distance rates.
When you go visiting by telephone,
it pays to know the "address"
You probably keep handy the
addresses of your relatives and
close friends. It's a real time
saver. And it's the same with
out-of-town telephone num
bers. For, on long distance
calls, you'll reach the person
you're calling a lot faster if you
can give the operator his num
berhis telephone "address",
so to speak. In fact, out-of-town
calls go through twice as
fast when placed by number.
So why not save yourself time
by keeping track of the out-of-town
numbers you call. We'll be glad to give you a free booklet
to list them in. Just call your telephone business office and we'll
mail it to you. Pacific Telephone.
fgff It ' ' i.
Morrow County farmers added
some potential dairy cows to our
population last week. Darrell
Padberg, Rhea Creek rancher,
brought back nine Tillamook
Dairy Herd Improvement Associ
ation heifers on February 28th,
Five of these were for himself,
two for Terrel Benge and two for
Nat and Maridee Webb. Dairy
heifers were from cows in the
Dairy Herd Improvement Asso
ciation with butterfat records
from 425 pounds up. Six of the
heifers were Jerseys, three were
Guernsey. Records on their
dams varied from 425 pounds
to 527 pounds butterfat. Orders
for dairy calves can be filled by
the Tillamook Dairy Herd Im
provement Association.
Arrangements are being made
for a demonstration in stubble
mulch farming in the Eightmile
Community as soon as soil con
ditions permit. Fred Mankin
and his farm operator, Paul Hen
derson are planning on a new
method of stubble mulch farm
ing which appears to be adapted
to this area. It is being used in
neighboring Umatilla county on
wheat stubbles from 50 to 60
bushel yields. The Noble blade
will be used as initial cultiva
tion followed by a skew treader.
The Skew treader, a new imple
ment in this area is a modified
rotary hoe. It is much more
severe than a hoe and is used to
break up heavy stubble and kill
grass. Watch for the announce
ment of this operation to which
the public is invited.
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HAPPY BLUE BIROS
The Happy Blue Birds met on
March 4 and 11. The Meetings
were called to order with the
flag salute and the Blue Bird
wish.
New officers elected for the
month are president, Jean Stodk
ard; vice president, Joan Stock -ard;
secretary Diane Warren;
treasurer, Karen McCurdy; re
freshent chairman, Barbara
Blake and reporter, Nancy Cleve
land.
We rehearsed for the Camp
Firp Ceremonial and made plans
to attend the Christian church on
Sunday the 13th.
Nancy Cleveland, reporter
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NOTICE OF SCHOOL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN t0 the legal voters of School District No. 1CJ, of Morrow County, State of Oregon, that a SCHOOL MEET
ING of said district will be held at Heppner, on the 12th day of April, 1955, at 1:00 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of discussing the budget
for the fiscal school year, beginning July 1, 1955, and ending June 30, 1956, hereinafter set forth, and to vote on the proposition of
levying a district tax.
BUDGET
Schedule !
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS AND AVAILABLE CASH BALANCES
ITEM
(1)
Estimated Receipts From
1. Delinquent Taxes
4. County School Fund
5. Basic School Support Fund
6. Common (Irreducible) School Fund
7. Vocational Education
13. Tuition Secondary
Total All
Funds
(2)
.$ 700.00
.. 4,958.00
. 52,000.00
400.00
.. 1.500.00
2.800.00
17. Rentals Books
500.00
19. Estimated Total Receipts $62,858.00
20. Estimated Available Cash Balance or Deficit (Add
Cash Balance Deduct Deficit) 800.0Q
21. Estimated total receipts and available cash balance
or deficit . $63,658.00
Schedule II
GENERAL FUND ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES
ITEM
(1)
Elementary Secondary
Schools Schools
Grades Grades
to -
(2)
to
(3)
Total
Estimated
Expenditures
for the
Ensuing
School Year
in Detail
(4)
Budget
Allowance
in Detail
for the
Current
School Year
(5)
Expenditures for Two Fiscal
.Years Next Preceding the
Current School Year
Detailed
Expenditures
for the Last
Year of the
Two-year
Period
(6)
First Year
Give Yearly
Totals
(7)
I. GENERAL CONTROL
1. Personal Service:
(1) Superintendent
(2) Clerk.
(3) Clerical assistants
(4) Compulsory education and census
(5) Other service
2. Supplies
3. Elections and publicity
4. Legal service (clerk's bond, audit,
etc.)
5. Other expense of general control:
6. Total Expense of General Control
$ 3,350.00 $ 1,675.00 $ 5,025.00 $ 6,700.00 $ 3,500.00
775.00 775.00 1,550.00 1,550.00
1,025.00 1,025.00 2,050.00 2,050.00 3,000.00
25.00 25.00 50.00 50.00 50.00
400.00
200.00 200.00 400.00 400.00 262.78
125.00 125.00 250.00 300.00 330.74
330.00 330.00 660.00 2,000.00 777.27
500.00 500.00 1,000.00 800.00 952.99
S 6430.00 $ 4.655.00 S10.985.OO $14,250.00 I 8,873.78
II. INSTRUCTION
1. Personal Service:
IV. MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS
1. Personal Service:
Repair, maintenance and replacement
(1) Furniture and equipment
(2) Building structure
Upkeep of grounds
Other expenses of maintenance and
repairs
Total Expense of Maintenance and
Repairs
2.
3.
4.
AUXILIARY AGENCIES
. Health Service:
(1) Personal service (nurse, etc)
(2) Supplies and other expenses
. Transportation of PupiLs:
(1) Personal service
(2) Supplies and repairs
(3) Replacement of buses
(4) Insurance
(5) Other expense of transportation.
. Other Auxiliary Agencies:
(1) School lunch
a. Personal service
b. Supplies and other expense ...
. Total Expense of Auxiliary Agencies ...
VI. FIXED CHARGES
(Exclusive of items included under V-2)
TOTAL SCHEDULE II GENERAL FUND Total Estimated Expenses
Items 1-6, II -7. Ill -8, IV-5,V-4, VI-5
VII-9, VIII-3. IX
$235,944.54
$220,000.00
Schedule VII
SUMMARY OF ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURES, RECEIPTS, AND AVAILABLE CASH BALANCES, AND TAX LEVIES
Estimation of Tax
Levy
(1)
1. Total estimated expenses
DEDUCT:
2. Total estimated receipts and available
cash balances (Schedule I)
3. Amount necessary to balance budget..
DEDUCT:
5. Balance to be raised by taxation
ADD:
6. Estimated amount of taxes that will
not be collected during the fiscal year
for which this budget is made, in
cluding estimated rebate on taxes
General Fund
Total
Schedule II
(3)
$235,944.54
63,658.00
172,286.54
172,286.54
2.800.00
7. Total estimated tax levies for ensuing
fiscal year
$175,086.54
$ 9.366.41
(1) Principals $ 2,183.00 $ 1,975.00 $ 4,158.00 $ 8,750.00 $1,000.32
(2) Supervisors 3,000.00
(3) Teachers 58,517.00 49,000.00 107,517.00 105,992.00 100,809.85
(4) Sub Teachers 625.00 625.00 1,250.00 1,300.00 1,242.51
(5) Travel, Etc 700.00 681.96
(6) Librarian 575.00 1,825.00 2,400.00 2.400.00 2,275.00
(7) Clerical assistants & official 400.00 300.00 700.00 700.00 400.00
2. Library supplies, repairs 75.00 75.00 150.00 150.00 170.01
3. Teaching supplies 2,320.00 960.00 3,280.00 3,136.00 3,369.60
4. Textbooks 1,893.00 616.00 2,509.00 1,922.00 2,794.05
5. Tuition to other districts 600.00 90.00
6. Other expenses of instruction 400.00 600.00 1,000.00 400.00 510.00
7. Total Expense of Instruction $66,988.00 $55.976.00 $122,964.00 $126,050.00 $116.343.30 $100.850.99
III. OPERATION OF PLANT
1. Personal Service:
(1) Janitors and other employees $ 6,360.00 $ 6,360.00 $12,720.00 $10,400.00 $ 9,792.95
2. Supplies 1,040.00 1,040.00 2,080.00 2,080.00 3,510.99
3. Fuel 2,500.00 1,500.00 4,000.00 3,100.00 2,638.30
5. Water 726.00 724.00 1,450.00 1,025.00 855.40
4. Light and power 4,088.00 787.00 4,875.00 1,575.00 1,622.13
6. Telephone 432.00 432.00 864.00 500.00 ' 539.62
7. Other expense of operation 200.00 200.00 400.00 350.00 353.08
8. Total Expense of Operation $15,346.00 $11,043.00 $26.389.00 $19,030.00 $19,312.47 $14,133.86
$ $ $ $ $
3,000.00 3,000.00 6,000.00 6,000.00 3,896.61
2,000.00 2,000.00 4,000.00 4,000.00 2,611.10
500.00 500.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 971.35
400.00 400.00 800.00 1,000.00 980.10
$ 5,900.00 $ 5,900.00 $11.800.00 $12,000.00 $ 8,459.16 I 3,883.44
$ $ $ $ 50.00 $
500.00 500.00 1,000.00 1,200.00 741.98
8,000.00 3,250.00 11,250.00 11,950.00 11,068.08
4,000.00 2,000.00 6,000.00 6,000.00 5,599.64
3,118.63 1,559.32 4,677.95 4,105.00 3,700.00
300.00 300.00 600.00 600.00 543.91
800.00 480.00 1,280.00 1,280.00 1,103.25
1,530.00 1,530.00 3,060.00 2,970.00 2,183.00
62.07
$18,248.63 $ 9.619.32 $27,867.95 $28.155.00 $25,001.93 $21,889.04
1. Insurance $ 1,432.00 $ 1,432.00 $ 2,864.00 $ 900.00 $ 747.34
2. Rent 500.00 500 1,000.00 1,500.00 2,146.06
3. Retirement 2,301.14 2,301.15 4,602.29 5,000.00 7,286.02
4. Other fixed charges Soc. Sec 1,433.65 1,433.65 2,867.30 2,418.00 82.45
5. Total Fixed Chargeg $ 5.666.79 .. $ 5,666.80 $11.333.59 $ 9.818.00 $10,261.87 $ 5,573.30
VII. CAPITAL OUTLAY
2. New buildings $ $ $ $ $ 2,292.89
3. Additions and alterations to buildings . 8,365.00 8,365.00 16,730.00 3,997.00 1,624.49
4. Library books 668.00 494.00 1,162.00 900.00 609.61
6. Furniture, fixtures and other equip
ment 600.00 2,323.00 2,923.00 2,500.00 2,578.13
8. Other capital outlay Band 545.00 545.00 1,090.00 600.00 368.49
9. Total Capital Outlays $10,178.00 $11.727.00 $21.905.00 $ 7,997.00 $ 7,473.61 I 7.768.54
IX. EMERGENCY $ 2,700.00 $ 2,700.00
Dated this 15th day of March, 1955.
Signed: Nona R. Sowell, District Clerk
L, E. Dick, Jr., Chairman of Board of Directors
Signed:
Howard Bryant, Secretary, Budget Committee
R. B. Ferguson, Chairman, Budget Committee