Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, May 19, 1955
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. Jones, residing
near Heppner, was severely burn
ed Sunday morning.
M. L. Case and R. H. Quacken
bush drove to Hood River on
Monday to look after some business.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Van Schoi
ack and family of Balm Fork
were visiting Mr. and Mrs. George
Krebs at the Last Camp Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Hager enter
tained a few friends at dinner on
Tuesday evening, followed by a
theater party at the Star.
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