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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, May 19, 1955 Page 2 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MORROW COUNTY'S MIWSPAPst Th ppnr CftMtto, MUblUhed March 30, 1883. Tht Heppner Timei, tbllh4 Novmbr 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. NEWS PA FIR PUBUSHIKS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate publisher f DIlOaiAL Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Port Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrew ani Grant Ceuntle 13.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents. From The County Agent's Office lyK.C. Big news from the Oregon Cat tleman's Association annual con vention held in Corvallis last week was the decision to peti tion for a beef commission. Pub lic hearings on the desirability and necessity of creatine the commission will be held through out the state. Present plans call for an as sessment of 2 Vic a head for all cattle on the tax rolls. The money is to be used primarily for market development ana marKei ing research. A referendum will be held after the hearings. Two- thirds of the growers voting must approve the commission ana me total vote must represent 13 of the beef in the state. Beef pro ducers will have a chance to learn more details at educational meet ings and public hearing. Morrow County Livestock Growers at tneir annual meeting last January, ap proved the beef commission plan and went on record to actively support putting it into effect. Utter To The Editor Ta the Editor: . I want to take this method of expressing my thanks to the members of my Conservation Week committee and your paper for the fine work they did in bringing conservation, to the minds of the public during the observance. I believe the following letter which I received from Governor Paul Patterson expresses the feelings of everyone connected with the program much better than I could do it. His thanks to me I extend on to all who helped. "Newspaper and other reports received here have indicated that Conservation Week has been very successful and that you had an especially effective program in your county. "I wish to compliment you per sonally and also the other mem bers of your committee for the fulfillment of a very difficult and important assignment. "Undoubtedly plans will be made for continuing Conserva tion Week as an annual Oregon program "Again, it is a great pleasure to compliment you upon a job well done. I feel that your ef forts liave fostered a greater un derstanding of our resources of fish, wildlife, soil, forests, range, minerals and water." Paul Patterson, Governor. NEWT O'lIARRA Chairman, Morrow Conserva tion Week program. Morrow county farmers were well represented at the conserva tion field day held at the Paul Kortt'e ranch near Dufur last Friday. The field day was an an nual event, held each year at the farm of the state winner of the Conservation Man of the Year program sponsored by the Ore gon Wheat Growers League. Those from Morrow county with a part in the program were Ken neth Smouse, president, Oregon Wheat Growers League, and Al Bunch, chairman of the state sec lection committee of the Conser vation Man of the Year. About 125 farmers from the Columbia basin attended the field day. Those attending heard how Paul Kortge put into effect his conservation 'program cover ing the entire farm' that won him this honor. Practices observed in a tour of the farm were trashy fallow, sodded waterways, grass alfalfa soedings on all land unfit for wheat cultivation, diversion ditches and windbreak plantings. Those attending from Morrow county were Al Bunch, Fred Man- kin, Wallace Mathews Paul Hen derson, Kenneth Peck, Fred Nel son, Kenneth Smouse, Donald Peterson, Oscar Peterson, and the county agent. wr fi 1 444 All legislative atmosphere did not leave Salem When members of the 48th assembly adjourned and went home two weeks ago. Within the past three days there has been a very unusual interest in state government shown here. A conierence at tended by more than a hundred representatives of Oregon groups, clubs and organizations took a long look ahead and threshed over what to do about what kind of legislators and what laws they will support at the next election. This meeting was cabled by of ficials and members of local or ganizations who invited members of other groups to the all-day meeting in Salem last Saturday. Favored in the discussion was defeat of Senate Joint Resolution 4, at next year's election which proposes to remove a claust ot the constitution that Oregon With continued rains and good conditions for establishing stands of alfalfa and grass, much is be ing seeded on land taken out of wheat production as well as de pleted range land. Saturday, John Graves, who has recently purchased a ranch in the Hard man area, seeded 25 acres of land unfit for cultivation in small draws to Nomad alfalfa and In termediate Wheatgrass. Mr. Graves has about 100 acres of this land on the ranch that will be seeded as they worked up and seed bed preparations made. Harold Peck, in the upper Rhea Creek area, Saturday also seeded an 8 acre field too steep for culti vation to Nomad Alfalfa and In termediate wheat gross. O. L. Haguewood, Heppner Flat far mer, is preparing 50 acres that will be seeded this week to No mad alfalfa and pubescent wheat-grass. hopper infested area of Morrow county met last Friday evening to go over plans for the 1955 grasshopper control program. It was agreed that a voluntary spray program would be set up in case the grasshopper hatch turns out as expected. Other far mers in the area will soon be con tacted on their interest in the program so that funds might be gathered early enough for an effective control program. The agent accompanied Art Fah of the insect control branch of the agricultural research ser vice last Thursday to determine hatches of crickets and grass hoppers at this time. It was found to be too early for grass hopper hatch in the southeast part of Morrow county, however, there are heavy infestations of small grasshoppers in the Ord nance area where the season is farther along. It appears now as if a control program will be necessary there to protect the crop land in the area. The an nual cricket survey showed that Mormon crickets had not yet built up to a serious infestations but scattered crickets are found throughout the desert area. A grasshopper survey will be made in early June in the southeastern infested area to determine the percentage hatch. A group of farmers in the grass- DOBYNS PEST CONTROL RODENT EXTERMINATION SPRAYING, ALL KINDS RESIDENTIAL FOGGING, Approved Formulations Guar- antoed Results FARMERS Now is the time to spray your entire grain stor ages and elevators. CALL OR WRITE PHONE 8-7180 P. O. BOX 173 IONE, OREGON County agents from Baker, Union, Wallowa, Umatilla, Whee ler, Wasco, Sherman and Gilliam counties will visit grazing alfalfa soedings in Morrow county this Friday. Soedings on the Paul Webb, Donald Peterson, and W. E. Hughes farms will be visited These stops are a part of a district conference of the Eastern Oregon agents on forage, weeds and insects. A stop will also bp made at the Delbert Emert feed ing operation where grass le gume ensilage has played a great part in his feed operations. On Saturday the group will visit the seedings in Umatilla county. STAR THEATER, Heppner Admission Prices: Adults 70c. Students 50c, Children 20c including Federal Excise Tax. Sunday shows continuous from 2 p, m. Other evenings start at 7:30. Boxotflce open until 9 p. m. Telephone 6-9278. Thursday-Friday-Saturday, May 19-20-21 FOUR GUNS TO THE BORDER This hard fisted western in a Technicolor beauty wih Rory Calhoun, Colleen Miller, George Nader, Walter Brennan, Nina Foch. Plus RICOCHET ROMANCE Marjorie Main, Chill Wills, Alfonso Bedoya, Pedro Gonzales Gonzales, Rudy Valee, Ruth Hampton, Benay Venuta. Romance is sweeping the countryside in this Ranch house Riot and there's some good singing of songs. Saturday, May 21 FREE CHILDREN'S SHOW-2:00 P. M. During Heppner Value Days Sponsored by Chamber of Commerce Sunday-Monday, May 22-23 THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI Here are all th desperate and wonderful people of James A, Miehener's unforget able no el of our Jet pilots in the Pacific. The cast, headed by Acadamy Award win ners. including William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney in great roles. Actually filmed in the vast Pacific in Technicolor.. An important picture! Sunday shows at 2. 4:20. 6:40 Tuesday-Wednesday, May 24-25 DUEL IN THE JUNGLE Dana Andrews, Jeanne Grain, David Farrar. Red hot action picture with mount ing suspense. Many scenes were taken in Africa and they provide spectacular backgrounds of native dances, towering waterfalls and animals. t?4 SUM m mu ei nf n jj . 1 f W" fti "M 47 1 sf, J An interesting event happened in Congress the other day. Through means of a "privileged resolution" Rep. Clare Hoffman (R. Mich.) got information from Pentagon. A "privileged resolution" pro vides information requested be forthcoming in' seven days, or' Congressional action forces revelation of information. , Rep. Hoff man wanted tovfe know ho, (, many militan I iltj posts U. S. ha: f abroad, hOW C. W. Harder many men involved, the cost. He was told promptly U. S. has about 950 overseas installations manned by about half present U. S. combat force, or 1,370,000 men. He also learned there are about 167,000 U. S. civilian em ployees in armed forces plus 218,000 civilians working for foreign governments under con tract to U. S. plus 124,000 German civilians. Altogether, wages to civilian employees runs over $4 Ms billion per year. Rep. Hoffman is reported plan ning to use same method to force some information out of State Department. Thus, he invoked a Congressional weapon that bad all but been forgotten. Revival of this weapon may even embolden some Congress men to get curious about Foreign Operations Administration which continues to soak up billions in American taxes to give away around world. It is held doubtful that one Congressman in 20 knows how these billions are being thrown around, yet so far no investiga tions have been made. Nitloml Federation of Independent Pustnesi For example, FOA announces gifts to Israel. FOA announced among other Items it has given Israel $900,000 worth of fruit wrapping tissue. Some representatives of U. S. citrus industry on questioning refused to hazard guess on how many oranges could be wrapped with almost a million dollars worth of tissue. But average monthly exports of Israel of all products is far less than amount of fruit wrap ping tissue FOA has just given nation. And it is held pretty cer tain no Congressmen has any idea how many years supply $900,000 worth of fruit wrapping tissue is for Israel. Nor probably can any Con gressmen explain how . tissue wrapping Israel fruit contributes to U. S. defense. If tissue wrapped fruit is vital to defense, then fact majority of U. S. grown fruit is sold naked indicates U. S. home defense is in woefully weak condition. Thus it appears In Washington Rep. Hoffman has hit upon method whereby Congress if so minded, could learn many inter esting facts about way U. S. bil lions are tossed away while U. S. schools and roads suffer. Of course, some say GOP will not investigate vigorously a situ ation it is permitting; neither will Democrats investigate a sit uation they started. But on other hand, it is pointed out, Sen Harry Byrd 8f Virginia, undoubtedly a democrat just as undoubtedly as Is fact FHA was started by democrats, pulled out rug from under FHA scandals. So Washington feels it is not im possible for a vigorous probe of FOA to be launched during present Congressional session. shall not declare a state of emer gency for tax monies, and that Oregon should elect a lieutenant governor "so all the people in stead of just the legislature should have a voice in who might succeed as governor." Discussion on school support were appeased by a general ac ceptance that federal aid to edu cation will come within the next decade. Committees from the groups will work on lax and school problems and report at a meeting to be called in June. Another g?viup interested in government but who have their visions focused a little farther In the future, wlum they can vole, met in the Capitol at the end of the week to hold the ninth an nual session of the YMCA Youtli Legislature. A sales tax bill that excluded food, gasoline and several odd articles, was defeated aft?r de bates that argued that it was un fair to poor people and had been defeated at the polls several times. Not all of the 150 bills intro duced came up for discussion. Th3 seven that passed and were signed by the boy governor con cerned: making it unlawful to carry a loaded firearm in any motor vehicle, the establishment of a special office in the state library for the use of legislators, raising the wage of teachers, anti stream polution, mental health, compelling drivers to take certain tests at different ages and a bill 1 making it mandatory for food ! producers to date packing of cer tain food. VETO DEADLINE NEARS The deadline for signing or vetoing bills passed by the 1955 Legislature expires May 27. Governor Patterson is expecting to leave May 26 for Missoula, Montana where on the following two days he will attend the con ference of governors of Washing ton, Idaho, Montana and Oregon. Governor Patterson said he ex pected to dispose of all bills prior to leaving for Montana. EMPLOYMENT RISE SLOW The anticipated rise in spring employment was held back by cold and wet weather in April, with snow plagueing the lumber industry in the higher elevations. New and additional claims for unemployment filed during April were up 22 per cent over the same period last year. A slight rise in employment of skilled tradesmen was noted but the demand for building laborers continued to lag. Little change was seen in wholesale and retail employment. Since the start of the 1954-55 benefit year, an estimated 1,100 workers have exhausted their benefit rights, the State Unem Continued on Page 5 THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times May 21, 1925 Lexington was hit by a water spout about three o'clock yester day afternoon. When flood waters reached the town they were suf ficient to cause much damage. Marcel, the 12 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. 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