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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, July 28, 1955 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MOBHOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Ieppnr Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Tlmw, November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. itablUhed NIWSPAMR PUBUSHIRt ASSOCIATION ROBERT PEN LAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher rt A T 1 0 N A t IDItpRIAl ET6'5W 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. Reapportionment Someone on the Oregonian appropriately put quote marks around the word "dead" in the headline over its editorial calling the federal plan of legislative apportionment dead. It is not dead. Upstate readers will find it a little pitiful that the Oregonian insists on being merely the Multnomah County Journal when, with its title, it indicates a statewide interest. But there are other papers with the name of Oregonian. The editorial in question raises the old argu ment against federal apportionment that a county is not a state. In the concept of the founding fath ers of this country, a state isn't a state either since they have given away their responsibilities, but but let that pass. A county is a unit of govern by approval of higher government. Certainly our form of government under the federal constitution is not so limited that it could apply to no other relationship than that between federal government and states. It is the conten tion of the sponsors of the federal plan that it would work in Oregon and that is a more sensible concept than that it would not. There is certainly a difference in population of counties just as there is a difference in the popu lation of states. The compromise that made the federal constitution acceptable, and that has made the development of the west possible, was that one house of the congress should be based on population and one on area. Other republics have found it workable, uregon wouiu aiso mm u unrkahle. The Oregonian's editorial writer fears that the city would not be able to get what it required n rural people had equal representation in the legis lature. That we deny. Upstate people are much better informed about the problems of the city than city people are of the problems of the coun try. That is not difficult to understand because upstate people read the Oregonian or the Oregon Journal, and certainly get the city viewpoint from that reading. The contention of the federal plan advocates is that development of the state of Oregon will be from its natural resources. Those resources are timber, power, land, fish. AH are upstate. When they are developed Portland will profit but the up state will have to have enough authority in the legislature to insist on development or it will not happen. The group that is interested in putting the fed eral plan on the ballot is interested in all of Ore pon, not just the city which is but the part that does the service work for the producers. The ser vices the city performs are important; it ships, it banks, it wholesales. But it is the producing up state that is most important for without that there would be nothing to ship or bank or wholesale. (Giles French of the Sherman County Journal,) From The County Agent's Office BrN.CAndffBon mid-afternoon when checked by the agent accompanied by Bob Considerable interest continues in grasshopper spraying as grass hoppers migrate and grow larger each day. Bob Fiynn, bureau of entomology, has assisted this of fice the past month with surveys of the Infestation of grasshoppers. As grasshoppers grow and mi grate into growing crops, these Infestations are becoming more evident. During the past week, several hundred acres have been sprayed for immediate control from damage to crops. Last Fri day, Gar Leyva Aviation, Lexing ton, flew on a comparison appli cation of Aldrin on the Bernard Doherty and Mrs. Lora Moyer farms in Blackhorse. Infesta tions on these farms ran as high 1000 grasshoppers per square yard. The applications were made in early morning and by Flynn and Bob Every, extension entomoligist, Oregon State Col lege, heavy kills were found. During the past few days, Mr. Leyva has made arrangements with the concern mixing the Al-drin-Oil preparation for the Grant county control program. The material is provided by a contractor for that project and cuts the price of the application about 15c per acre, putting the cost of grasshopper control down where more marmers are inter ested in spraying. During the month of June 1955, 330 cattle were tested for Bangs disease in Morrow county. Of the 16 herds containing the 330 cat tie, 4 were reactor herds with 10 From where I sit ... Joe Marsh Modern Science Finally Catches Up With Grandpa 1 got put in my place the other night. Deserved it, too. My father-in-luw said we were due for bad weather. "Birds are flying low,"he reported. "That means storm." 1 started to josh with the old gentleman about being supersti tious. Then my nephew Jim, on vacation from college, pipes up. "Grandad's right," he says. "At least, that's what they say at school," Jim goes on. "The heavy air you get before a storm forces insects down low -so high flying birds have to swoop along the ground if they want to eat." From where I sit, there's prob ably sound reasoning back of most old sayings . . . back of any thing people have learned to be lieve in. Take the idea of a Btitch in time saving nine-sparing rods and spoiling childron-of drink ing hot milk, or a refreshing glass of beer, at bedtime. You may not hold with any of these beliefs yourself , . . but it's not smart to give them the "bird." Copyright, 7955, United States Brtwirt Foundation reactors. This brought the per. cent of reactors up to a little over 3 the highest percentage of re actors that we have had in Mor row county for several years. This proves that testing must be car ried out on all herds consistently cleaning them up completely as long as reactors and suspects are found. Many small herds were tested during that month that had not been tested for some time which might account for the large number of reactors. Farmers with farm herds that able to test during the slack s ummer months are urged to contact Dr. Norene at Heppner so that a date could be made for testing your herd. Dr. Norene's phone number Is 6-965G. While Morrow county is not de pendent on poultry and egg as one of its major sources of income it was interesting to note that a quarter of a million dollars was derived from that source last year. How this source of income might be raised considerably is indicated by a farm survey in New Jersey that showed that the average poultry man loses from $250 to $30o per year on cracked or broken eggs. The survey showed an average of 25 out of 1000 eggs laved are cracked or broken before the poultry man touches them. Over crowding on nests, insufficient nesting mater ial, and frightening hens on the nests were among the causes of breakage in the nests. About 14 eggs out of every 1000 layed are cracked while being gathered and carried to the grading room Another item on keeping profits from your egg producing flock is watching feed waste. Two of the most common losses with feed is that consumed by rats and the amounts spilled by overfilling feed carts, pails, and feed troughs. It is estimated that 25 of the feed may be wasted if feed troughs are consistantly filled too full. The birds bill it out in the litter and the producer never notices it. Three rats will con sume as much feed as two laying hens. Two or three good cats or some Warfarin rat bait can be a STAR THEATER, Heppner Admission Prices! Adults 70c, Students 50c, Children 20c lncludln.j Federal Excise Tax. SUNDAY SHOWS CONTINUOUS FORM FOUR (4) P. M. Other evenings start at 7:30 Boxoffic open until 9 P. M. Telephone 6-9278. Thursday Frlday-Saturdcry, July 28-29-30 YELLOW MOUNTAIN Lex Barker, Mala Towers, Howard Duff, William Pemarest, John Melntire. Action crammed Technicolor western. Plus THE RACERS Kirk Douglas, Bella Darvl, Gilbert Roland, Cesar Romero. Lee J. Cobb, Katy Jurado. Filmed in Cinemascope and Color on the French Riviera, in Italy and European race centers a story of modern-day automobile racing. Sunday-Monday, July 31, August 1 MA AND PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson, Byron Palmer, Hilo Hattie, Alo-haha, they've gone native. He's a pineapple king, she's a hula queen and their antics drive Walklki wacky! Sunday shows at 4 p. nr., 6:15 and 8:30 Tuesday-Wednesday, August 2-3 THREE FOR THE SHOW Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Marge and Cower Champion. Fun is busting out all over this bouncy musical with such songhlts as Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Down Boy". The story is based on Somerset Maug ham's "Too Many Husbands". In CinemaSeope and Technicolor. THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times June 30, 1925. An organization meeting for the 1925 Rodeo will be held at the council chambers in Heppner on Monday evening August 3 at 8:00 o'clock. On the occasion of his 21st birthday Wednesday of this week, Austin Smith was honored by a surprise party arranged by his mother, Mrs. Mack Smith, and given at their home in this city last evening. Last Sunday a party of friends and neighbors gathered at the R. H. Quackenbush place on Rhea creek and spent a pleasant day that will long be remembered by all present. The occasion was the 15th birthday of Letha Hiatt of this city. Harry and Roy had fixed up an ideal picnic ground. A very pleasant surprise party, planned by her mother, Mrs. Eph Eskelson, was given at the Eskel son country home on Thursday afternoon last, in honor of Miss Gladys Benge. Lotus Robison, ranchman and stock raiser of Rock Creek, was doing business in Heppner on Wednesday. big help in controlling rats. Harvesting of wheat fertilizer plots got under way this week. While they were scheduled to start Tuesday morning, rain of that day delayed harvesting till later in the week. Wheat variety nurseries at the John Proudfoot and Frank Anderson farms are scheduled to be harvested this week too,. Results of both the wheat varieties and fertilizer plots will be made available to farmers as soon as they can be computed. From the production, price and cost review report issued recently by Oregon State College, some in teresting trends are noted. The report showed that American peo ple have bigger and better ap petites and that each person is eating about an eighth more food than he did before the war. There has been quite an accent on pro cessing. Each person is eating about the same amount of fresh vegetables this year as before the about one fourth more red meat At the same ' time we've cut our corn meal consumption in half, and we are using about a fifth less wheat flour per person and eating a fifth fewer potatoes One study made by the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture estimated that the daily time needs to feed a family of four using ready-to-serve foods took a little better than an hour and half and that partially prepared foods took dou ble that time. They found that if all the foods had been prepared in the kitchen either at the time of cooking or at preserving time, 5 hours would be needed. The home prepared meals cost about a fourth less than the ready to serve meals. Last week Cal Carson, county weed sprayer operator, gathered 11 colonies ofChryslina or goat weed beetles for release in goat weed patches in Morrow county. The goat weed beetles were gath ered on Cabbage Hill in Umatilla county and released in the south eastern part of Morrow county where goat weed infestations have spread rapidly during the past few years. With the releasing of these 11 colonies it brings to 26 the number of colonies which have been released in the past 3 years. W W. Weatherford, ranch er in the Lena community, was the first to bring a colony of goat weed beetles into the county and release them in an infested area of goat weed on his ranch. Dur ing the 3 years these beetles have been very active, have spread rapidly and are fast killing the goat weed on Weatherford's ranch. The goat weed beetles have moved from their original heavy infested area to small scat tering patches as the original area is controlled The beetle which is relatively new to this area was at first thought to be unsuited for our climate. How ever, we have found that the beetle is the most effective way of controlling this weed which is found only on ranch land and areas where cost of control by spraying or cultural methods are prohibited. Many times the cost of a chemical control program in goat weed is more than the land is valued at. o With harvest here it will not be too long until it is again time for seeding the 1956 crop. Wheat fertilizer trial plots will be har vested this next week and new first farmer to volunteer as a co operator. An area, approximately 120 x 200 feet is needed where 15 dif ferent rates of nitrogen are ap plied and yield determined. The farmer cooperator will seed the plot as a part of his field. Fer tilizer applications are made, the Continued on page 7 cooperators will be sought after war but he is eating nearly half fertilizer plots as we have had the again as many canned vegetables and 1100 more frozen vege tables. Each of us is eating about one fourth less fresh fruit but 10 times as much frozen fruit. We are each eating twice as much ready-to-cook turkey, 70 more ready-to-cook chicken, and past two years. Approximately lfj sites are needed in all com munities throughout the county. We are now interested in select ing these sites and would appreci ate any farmer who is interested in cooperating if they would let us know. Harold Evans is the DON'T WAIT FOR WINTER- Re-Roof NOW! 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