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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.
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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
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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
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