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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 11, 1955 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppnr Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Timte, Mtabliahed November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. NEWSPAHR PUBLISH! j ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher QRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher nATIONAl lOMOilAl 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 cenU. Everybody Will Be Heard The city council last week started moving on the long-dormant plan to improve several west side streets. The proposal lay quietly for nearly a year, not because the council didn't want to do something, but because it takes time to get all the necessary facts and figures. Since our story that the plan will be presented shortly, several of the council members have re ceived complaints from persons that the city Is trying to shove something down their throats. Actually such a statement is the farthest thing from the truth for the Initiative for the improve ment plan came from the people themselves. Over a year ago petitions bearing the signatures of at least 75 percent of the residents on the streets suggested for paving were presented to the coun cil. The council Is only taking steps to do what it has been asked to do. A public hearing will be held within a few weeks and at that time everybody Interested will have a chance to make their wishes known.' The Show Must Go On- Just about three years ago last week the Morrow county fair board faced a problem quite similar to what the same group in our neighbor ing county to the north Is struggling with today. Our problem was much smaller, however. The loss of practically all of the Umatilla county fair buildings by fire Monday really puts the fair board in a tough spot for their show is Just a week off. We lost just one building to the flames and had a month's leeway before fair time which wasn't any too much. A lot of do nated materials and labor gave us a new building by show time, but with five or more buildings and only one week, Umatilla county can't hope to re place the loss with anything except makeshift tents or buildings. But, Umatilla county says they're going to have a fair and we'll bet they come up with a good show despite all the difficulties. Some of the props and facilities may be a little wierd and no doubt unhandy but they'll serve until something better can be built. We wish them the best of luck in the tough job that they face. Apportionment Support Eastern Oregon's favorite proposal that -the state adopt the federal plan of apportionment (one senator from each county) last week found some support from a newspaper on the west side of the mountains where the opposition is centered. The Stayton Mail editorial, reprinted below, takes a much saner view of the whole thing than have some other papers in the valley. AREA DOES HAVE WEIGHTI In an editorial Arthur Bone, editor of the Ore gon Farmer Union, is upset about what he terms unequal representation should the state adopf the federal plan for apportionment of one senator for each county. Personally, we can't get so worked up against this proposal. Apparently, Editor Bone corrtplete ly forgets that representation in our nation's high est deliberative body, the United Etates senate, Is based upon area. New York State, population 15 million, 2 senators; Oregon, IV2 million, 2 senators; Nevada, 160,000, 2 senators. From The County Agent's Office By N. G Andtnoa A Mot of inquiries have been made at this office regarding the new wheat varieties that there has been talked of releasing this fall. The colleges of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon have agreed that they will release the Red Chaff Elgin verlety that will re place Elmar. The new verlety is as yet unnamed. It Is a near relative of Elmar and is slated to take the place of Elmar as a step forward in the fight against smut. Two other varieties that show promise enough so that consideration is being given to CALL FOR- Pride of Oregon ICE CREAM LOW Bacteria Count HIGH in Butterfat MADE IN YOUR OWN COUNTY TRADE AT.HOME AND KEEP MORRO W COU NTY ON TH E MAP Call For The Richest and Cleanest Ice Cream In Town! Morrow County Greamery their release are two Rex Rio crosses, one a hard red and the other a hard white. Milling and protein tests will be run before definite announcements are made as to whether they can be ap proved for release this fall. These new wheat varieties, the same as all breeder or- foundation seed supplies, are now released by the State Seed Allocation Committee. Forms for making applications for these new varieties are avail able at this office. It appears that there will be little seed to be distributed and the grower select ed to increase this seed will be selected according to his potenti alities to raise the most seed from that distributed to him as well as having facilities for keeping the seed in pure condition. THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times August 13, 1925 Mrs. Guy Boyer is anticipating a visit in the near future from her brother, Captain Everett May and wife. The family of L. E. Bisbee is spending the month of August at the coast, while Lou remains at his post in Heppner to enjoy the heat and smoke. that are as good or better than his neighbors. Some of the best yielding crops in Morrow county have been harvested on this farm during the time that he has been farming. Also, congratulations to "1954 ! Conservation Man of the Year" winner, Paul Brown with his good looking picture on the front page of the last Oregon Farmer. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Case and several members of the family re turned home from Newport on Tuesday evening. A Threshed Grain Show will be a feature of the 1925 Rodeo and exhibits are now being prepared. The show is in charge of County Agent Morse, who will be as sisted by a committee of farm ers and business men. Mrs. Claud Cox and children re turned home Tuesday evening from Newport where they spent ten days-at the beach. some of this new barley on your farm, you can make comparisons with others that you have been growing to see whether it has better characteristics and yields than present varieties being grown. E. R. Jackman on his present trip to Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada, reports on some interest ing work done there on dry land farming. A comparison of imple ments for making summer fallow showed that various implements used three times came up with the following results: Blade culti vators conserved 70 of original cover, heavy duty cultivators con served 62 of original cover, duck foot cultivators 57 of original cover, one-way disks conserved 12 of original cover, and a disk, then blade, then rod- 60 of the original cover. grain Is a deadly fly killer. It requires no mixing and no expen sive equipment for application. It is available at most insecticide dealers i n handy one-pound shaker containers or large cans. After some discussion for seve ral years, USDA officials announ ced this week that they will meet with farm and trade groups on September 28 to 30 to review pre sent official wheat standards and improve them, if possible. Sug gestions so far, deal mostly with foreign matter tolerances, milling and baking qualities, and sanita tion. No changes have been made since 1934. This meeting is intended as a first step in bring ing out new ideas. An interesting report comes from E. R. Jackman, range and pasture specialist from Oregon State College, who has just re turned from a trip to Canada. The trip was made to investigate the performance and history of Ram bler alfalfa a re-volutionary new variety with a growing habit somewhat like that of, Canada thistle. While there, Mr. Jack man had the opportunity to see other forage and range work in the prairie provinces of Canada, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The new Rambler alfalfa vari ety was the result of crosses with Siberian types and Ladak. Some offspring developed lateral roots that could send up shoots that de veloped new crowns and root sys tems of their own. These new crowns then sent out additional shoots that produced other new plants. While it was not expect ed to get this kind of a plant from the cross with neither parent having this kind of root system, the resulting cross was interest ing and promising. It was fur ther developed thinking that such a root system would make Continued on page 7 linden, a new variety of barley grown in Oregon the past two years, looks promising as a new spring variety for our farmers The variety has done well at ex perimental stations who report that the variety has adapted to dry and irrigated production alike.. It appears to have a good strength of straw while attaining a fairly good height. The first seed made available from seed increase grown at the Pendleton Experiment Station in 1954, was seeded bv Frank Anderson in the Eightmile area. While Mr. An derson reports that the field he grew this year does not look out standing it appears to be com parable, to Flynn 37 which has become very popular with our spring barley growers throughout the entire county. For those of you who might like to try this new variety, I would suggest that vou contact Frank soon and make arrangements for seed that you w ill wish for spring planting. He is keeping the seed clean and storing it where there will be no danger of mixtures. By seeding STAR THEATER, Heppner Admission Prices: Adults 70c, Students 50c, Children 20c Including Excise Tax. SUNDAy'sHOWS CONTINUOUS FROM FOUR (4) P. M. Other evenings start at 7:30. Box office open until 9 p.m. Telephone 6-9278. Thursday-Friday-Saturday, August 11-1213 CHIEF CRAZY HORSE Suzan Ball, Victor Mature, John Lund. The groat saga of the fighting leader of the Sioux and the stoiy behind Custer's Last Stand! Cinemascope and Technicolor. Plus HELL'S ISLAND John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L, Sullivan. Adventure, romance, suspense, in trigue! VistaVlsion ami Technicolor. Sunday-Monday, August 14-15 STRANGE LADY IN TOWN Greer Garson, Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell. Lois Smith. Walter Hampden, Gonzales Gonzales and the voice of Frankie Laine singing "Strange Lady in Town," Western drama of the highest order with all necessary elements for great quantities of entertainment. ClnemaScope and Warner Color accent the arrestingly beautiful scenic backgrounds, frontier atmosphere and authentic period sets. Sunday shows at 4, 6:20 and 8:40 Tuesday-Wednesday, August 1617 JUPITER'S DARLING Esther Williams. Howard Keel. Marge and Cower Champion, George Sanders, Rich ard Haydn, William Demurest ... a cast of hundreds including elephants! A re freshing mirth-and melody movie. In ClnemaScope and glorious Color! Congratulations to Donald Pet erson, who was announced this past week as "1955 Conservation Man of the Year" winner. Donald has been doing a good conscienti ous job of farming ever since he had taken over after returning from the armed services and Ore gon State College. He has proven that it pays to be patient in the sometimes slow process of mak ing a stubble mulch summer fal low in this area of heavy stubble, prove successful. Utilizing the straw, contour seedings with deep furrow drills have all contributed 'to his success in keeping the soil where it belongs. Soil erosion was prevented and all land put to its best use while maintaining yields An interesting program and tour at the Umatilla branch ex periment station last week at Hermiston, showed that progress is being made every day in de veloping new. and better methods of insect and weed control as well as increased yields by the use of fertilizer and development of new varieties in fruits, vegetables, and row crops. As an example, an nual and perenial grasses and broad le'aved weeds that not too many years ago threatened or made the production of aspara gus unprofitable, are now easily controlled with selective weed killers: Dalapon and CMU Weed willers have cleaned up the as paragus beds without any re duction in yield in them. In creased uses of fertilizers have continuously boosted corn yields until corn is one of the important crops in our irrigated sections in that area now. New melon varie ties, being compared at the sta tion, show that there are promises of varieties that are both resistent to virus and at the same time yield higher than many of the long-time growing varieties. A visit to this station will be profi table to all North Morrow County farmers. For you who have tried all kinds of fly killers and have had poor luck, there is hope for you in a powerful new fly killer recently made available. 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