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Heppncr Gazette Times, Thursday, September 29, 1955
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
Th lepener Garotte, established March 30, 1833. The Heppner Time, established
. November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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ROBERT PEN LAND
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
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THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
October 1, 1925
Jack French is champion buck
aroo and best all-round cowboy at
the Heppner rodeo.
Fire destroyed the big residence
of Pyle and Grimes at Parkers
Mill early Wednesday forenoon,
word reached Heppner about ten
o'clock to that effect.
The President
Ever since last Saturday's shocking announce
ment that President Eisenhower had suffered a
heart attack his health and condition has been
among the top subjects of discussion among a
big share of all Americans. And though he may
be berated by political opponents on issues, the
President of the United States, be he a Democrat
or "a Republican is looked up to, respected and
loved by all people, regardless of party.
That American citizens are first of all Ameri
cans, was again proven this week when political
friend and foe alike called for prayers by the
people asking for Ike's quick and complete re
, covery.
How important the President is to this country
we believe is well illustrated by this following ex
erpt from an editorial release of last week by
the Industrial News Review. It came out just one
week prior to Eisenhower's sudden illness,
"As a general principle, practically everyone
agrees that there is no such thing as an indispens
able man. As a practical matter, however, any
GOP political strategist, in a frank mood, would
tell you that there is one man who comes mighty
close to being indespensable and his name is
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"All kinds of polls and surveys and studies
have been made in preparation for the crucial
1956 general election. Most, if not all, have come
to the same conclusions. One conclusion is that
President Eisenhower, the individual, is far more
popular than the Republican party, the institution.
Another is that, as of now at any rate, he could
defeat any potential Democrat candidate in pretty
much of a walk. A third is that no other Repub
lican in the public eye has anything resembling
tht President's popular standing. It is not an
exaggeration to say that many of the most experi
enced political observers are convinced that with
out Eisenhower there will be a Democratic sweep
next year while, with Eisenhower, the Republi
cans will certainly keep the Presidency and very
possible regain control of Congress.
"The opinion is general that, even though it
may go against his personal desires, the Presi
dent will run. The Democratic leadership believe
that. Its present strategy, therefore, is inevitably
devoted to seeking issues that are not only anti
Republican, but which will undermine the Presi
dent's personal popularity and weaken public
confidence in his policies and his abilities."
The above is in a political vein, as has been
the comment appearing recently about the Presi
dent and it is only logical and normal in this
country with election only a year away. Discus
sions of that type seem very inappropriate at such
a time, yet the extent to which political decisions
in this country are felt around the world is great
Too, the affairs, and problems and business of the
world go right on regardless of whether this
country has a hand in the outcome.
Whether President Eisenhower now can and
will again be a candidate for the present office
we certainly can't say, yet there can be no ques
tion but that his present illness will be a major
factor in his final decision a decision that he
alone can make. '
Whatever the answer, we join the millions who
are hoping for his speedy recovery..
The Misses Alma and Leora
Devin departed Sunday for Mon
mouth where they will enter the
State Normal for the fall and
i winter.
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FARMS BIGGER. FEWER
If this keeps up until 1956 Ore
gon will be just one big farm.
Preliminary reports from the
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. McNamer
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visnurs uuruig me nuuro.
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Whittington
of Bend, arrived in Heppner on
Friday taking in two days of the
Rodeo.
Mrs. Phill Cohn and daughter
Eleanor were in Heppner for the
last day of the Rodeo.
T. H. Lowe, and Roy Scott spent
a short time in the city on Monday.
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Anderson
Executive committeemen of the
Oregon Wheat Growers League,
Wheat Commission members and
county chairmen of the various
Wheat Growers Assn. met last
week at Pendleton in an Inter
esting worthwhile get together.
Chairman, Kenneth Smouse did a
fine job in conducting the meet
ing for the day and in covering
the detailed agenda.
During the day, county chair
men met with the state standing
committee chairmen In the vari
ous committees. Topics were dis
cussed that were most pertinent
and which might be carried
back to counties for their fall
meeting. Reports were made by
tiie wheat disposal and Trans
portation, production and land
use, youth activities, domestic
wheat utilization, federal agri
culture programs, and taxation
and legislation committees.
Plans were made for holding the
various fall meetings of the
county wheat growers associa
tions. Morrow county was especially
interested in the plans for the
annual meetings which will be
held at Pendleton on December 8,
9, and 10. Morrow county are
hosts this year for the annual
meeting and will be active in
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carrying out various phases of
the social and business part of
the annual convention. Those at
tending the meeting from Mor
row county were Kenneth
Smouse, president; Al Bunch,
chairman, Conservation Man of
the Year committee; Donald Pet
erson, vice chairman, production
and land use committee; Glen
Campbell, vice chairman, tax
ation and legislation committee.
Oregon Wheat Growers League;
Frank Anderson, chairman; Ken
neth Peck, vice chairman; Milton
Morgan, chairman, production
and land use committee; Mrs.
Glen Campbell, chairman, do
mestic wheat utilization .commit
tee; Vernon Munkers, chairman,
federal agricultural programs
committee; Mrs. Vernon Munkers
visitor, and N. C. Anderson, secre
tary, Morrow County Wheat Grow
ers Assn.
this crop cannot be expected to
do much better in average years.
Several are talking of seeding
their land down to grass and al
falfa as a soil conserving mea
sure, feeling that the cost of
farming the land each year will
;soon eat up any profits that
might be gained by a good crop
of barley every few years. They
feel that grass and alfalfa,
while conserving the soil, will
provide hay or pasture that will
equal income from substitute
crops. Other farmers are talking
of seeding grain for hay to pro
duce some of the hay shortage
that we are having here in the
county, while others are looking
for newer substitutes for wheat.
Farmers who grew safflower
thi$ year are pretty well satisfied
with this crop even though the
I production in pounds per acre
was low. With a contract price
of $72 per ton F O. B. Vancouver,
the crop averaged close to the in
come per acre from barley. With
barley piling up and a great de
mand for safflower, it appears
that this crop might have more
possibilities for Morrow county
than at first was thought. A
group of farmers growing saf
flower last year, with the county
agent, met with Dr. Carl Claasen,
of the Pacific Oil Seeds Co. who
contracted for safflower this year.
At this meeting at Pendleton last
week the group convinced Dr.
Classen that this was a poor year
for testing the yield of safflower
:in this area and that they" would
1 like to continue producing some
safflower to see what it would do
in future years. While the Pa
cific Oil Seed Co. had agreed that
they would not contract for saf
flower in this area next year, Dr.
Classen agreed to take the pro
duction from this area and that
contracting could be done at
about the same price as the 1955
price of $72 per ton.
Farmers who are interested
should contact this office early,
so that it might be determined
how much interest there is in the
crop. This year's production in
eastern Washington and Oregon
is being assembled at Vancouver
for a direct shipment to Japan.
The crop here in Morrow county
produced ffom 250 to approxi
mately 450 pounds per acre, with
one of the better fields having
harvested at this time. No yield
has been determined for this field
yet. Those farmers who met with
Dr. Classen the past week were:
Kenneth Smouse, Kenneth Peck,
and Ted Palmateer.
1954 federal census of agriculture
indicate that farms in Oregon are
bigger and fewer than they were
in 1950.
Notations on Lincoln County,
'show the number of farms drop
iped from 856 to 677, while the
average acreage increased from
137.4 to 155.5.
Benton County reported 1,153
farms last year compared with
1,293 in 1950. The average acre
age rose from 178.2 to 185.9.
RHOTEN HEADS BAR
The Oregon State Bar in an
nual convention in Baker elected
George A. Rhoten president Sat
urday. A prominent Salem attorney he
has been on the Bar Association's
board of . directors for several
years and served as a protem cir
cuit judge in Multnomah County
earlier this year. He is a gradu
ate of the Willamette University
College of Law and a member of
the firm of Rhoten, Rhoten and
Speerstra.
TAX STUDY CHIEF
The 1955 Legislature's interim
tax study committee Saturday
selected T. A. Lindstrom to act as
full-time director at an annual
salary of S10.000.
For the past seven years Lind
strom has been in charge of the
tax research division of the State
Tax Commission.
Sen. Phil Lowry, Medford, ad
vised a projection of future tax
reauirements and the separation
of tax revenues and expenditures
A few weeks ago we comment
ed on the sanitary requirements
of the food and drug administra
tion on wheat going as human
food. Food and drug administra
tion will tighten sanitary require
ments even more next July.
Wheat will be condemned if it
has one or more rodent pellets
per pint or 1 or more, of insect
damaged kernals. This is just
the current allowance, This
means that wheat which is under
storage now, if delivered after
July 1 next year, will need to be
clean enough to meet these re
quiiements. If it is not. the grain
will have to move at feed prices
and farmers will take a consider
able discount. It might be well
to check a little closer on rodent
and bird proofing of the bins on
your farm.
Farmers received about 4 less
from marketings in the first eight
months of 1955 than in the cor
responding period last year. The
total volume of farm marketings
during the first eight months was
I about 1 larger than a year ear
lier but prices of farm products
averaged almost 5 lower. In
1954 total gross farm income was
about 1 less than in 1953, con
tinuing the decline which began
in 1952. Production expenses in
1954 were a little lower than. In
1953 but not enough to offset the
decline in farm income, thus, net
farm income was a little below
1953.
between the state and local gov
ernments. "Too much stress in
the past has been placed on the
state and not enough on local
taxes," he said.
The committee stressed that
the director contact large state
activities, such as the liquor com
mission, state welfare commission
and educational agencies to de
termine, if possible, their anti
cipated revenues and future ex
penditures. PRAISE FOR THE PUBLIC
Probably not .pften enough
does a state department head
give a laudatory interview about
the public he works for unless he
is up for reelection or reappoint
ment. State Forester George Spaur
who has resigned and goes to far
away Pakistan next week to do
a forestry job there thinks that a
growing public responsibility to
forests was largely responsible
for the unusually low number of
man -caused fires recently.
Spaur pointed out that during,
the severe dry spell of mid-September
none of the many serious
forest fires in the state were
caused by man. All the bad ones
were brought on by lightning
strikes. He was speaking of the
13,000,000 acres of forest protect
ed by the state forestry depart
ment. "And there were a lot of
campers, sportsmen and picnick
ers in the woods too", he said.
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The volume of livestock mar
keting is shown by U. S. D. A.
Slaughter Reports. Total live
stock slaughter during the first
seven months of 1955 was 6
above last year's, record. Pork
output was up 13, beef up '2,
and mutton and lamb up 5.
Veal production was down 3.
Here in Oregon, pork output was
up 19 and cattle slaughter was
up nearly 4. Calf slaughter was
down 97c and sheep and lamb
was down more than 16.
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Does 'Northwestern' Have A Larger Run
of Good and Choice Quality Cattle Each
Week?
The answer is because farmers and ranchers receive from $1
to $2 cwt. more for their stock at 'Northwestern' than In any
other place or manner of selling.
WHY DO THEY RECEIVE HIGHER PRICES (AT LESS COST)
AT 'NORTHWESTERN'?
The answer is because buyers in large numbers from a wide
area recognize 'Northwestern' as a dependable source of clean
sanitary, well-handled cattle.
Consign Your Cattle to the Market Where Open Competition.
Among Many Buyers on Hand Assure You the Top Dollar .
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There is a lot of discussion
these days by farmers as to what
they will grow on their diverted
acres in 195G. Many farmers are
a bit unhappy with this years
barley yield and many feel that
STAR THEATER, Heppner
Admission Prices: Adults 70c, Students 50c, Children 20c Including Federal Tax.
Sunday Shows continuous from 4 p. m. Other evenings start at 7:30. Boxoiiice
open until 9 p.m. Telephone 6-9278,
Thursday-Friday-Saturday, Sept. 29-30 Oct. 1
SMOKE SIGNAL
Dana Andrews, Piper Laurie, hex Reason, William Tallman. In Technicolor. Actu
ally filmed along the churning fury and boiling rapids of the Colorado River!
Plus
ABBOTT & COSTELLO-"MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS"
Shaply beauts wear bathing suits and every face wears a custard pie fun from
the movies' maddest days, the wonderful slapstick era!
Sunday-Monday October 2-3
THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern. A story of unusual excitement and sus
pense, the startling drama of teen-age terror as it confronts some sections of our
country today. Published in Ladies' Home Journal and as a best-selling book. In
cludes the "Jungle" sung, "Kock Around the Clock".
Sunday shows at 4, 6:20 and 8:40
Tuesday-Wednesday, October 4-5
THE PURPLE PLAIN
Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Bernard Leo. Acting of the entire cast is excellent in
this romantic drama based on the noted H. E. Bates novel.
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