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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, December 1, 1955
HEPPNER GAZETTE -TIMES
MOHHOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
Th Heppiior Gazette, established March 30, 18S3. The Heppner Tlmsa, Mtabllhed
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
NIWSMPIR
PUBLISHIRI
ASSOCIATION
ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
ORETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
NATIONAL IOMORIAL
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 cent.
Let's Moke it S-D Year!
By the time many persons will have had an op
portunity to read this America's second Safe
Driving day will be nearly over and it is hoped
that Morrow will again be one of the counties
in Oregon to come through with a perfect record
as it did last year. However, the early evening
and nitetime hours are always the worst for ac
cidents s0 there is plenty of reason to continue
to be a careful driver the rest of today.
Last year S-D was December 15 and on that
day theie were 80 accidents and 13 injuries in
Oregon. On December 1, last year, which is this
year's S-D day, there were C9 accidents, 27 injured
and two killed in Oregon and it Is the hope of
everyone in Oregon who is concerned with the
promotion of Safe-Driving Day that the 1955 ob
servance will mean a great reduction in unneces
sary traffoc accidents. Your help Is needed to
make the 1955 S-D a success.
S-D day is being observed nationally and the
idea of a one- day attempt to cut traffic accidents
originated with the President's safety council. In
Oregon the Day is sponsored by the Citizens Com
mittee on Highway Safety who not only work for
S-D day alone but are active the year around to
educate the driving public in the need for more
driving care.
In Morrow county we came through last year's
S-D day with no accidents of any kind and there
is no reason why we can't do It again this year.
Let's not just stop at one day, though. With a
little care, maybe Morrow county can make It
S-D Year.
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Anderson
Several weeks ago, w? announced county winners from the eastern
in this column that trees for
windbreak and shelterbelt plant
ings were available from the
state forestry. Trees available
for eastern Oregon planting are:
Grand fir, Chinese arborvitae,
Ponderosa pine, Lodgepole pine,
Black locust, Russian mulberry,
Russian olive, and Caragana. Ori
ginally announced, was that the
Chinese elm was available but
later it was found that due to
heavy deer damage, there would
be no Chinese elm available this
fall.
Last week we had word from
our extension forester at Oregon
State College that the state forest
nursery at Davis, California, has
several thousand fine Sequoia
gigantae trees two years old
available now. The cost is $12.
00 per thousand. Anyone who
would like to try these giant
Redwood can order them from
State forest nursery, Route 1, Box
68, Davis California.
Word has just been received
from Mrs. Raymond, chairman of
the domestic wheat utilization
committee of the Oregon Wheat
Growers League, giving rules for
the cake bake-off. This state
Oregon counties that participated
In the contest offered by the Ore
gon Wheat Growers League for
the first time this year. First
place winners from each county
will compete at the the annual
meeting of the Oregon Wheat
Growers League in Pendleton on
December 8. The contestants will
be honored at a luncheon at noon
at the Western Club, and will
begin the contest at 2:00 p. m.
Ranges will be furnished by Pen
dleton appliance dealers and in
gredients for the cakes will be
furnished by the League. The
contestants will have as long as
they like that afternoon in bak
ing their cake for judging. The
cakes will be judged Friday
morning, December 9 at 9:00 a.
m. Miss Francis Brennon, home
economist for Centennial Flower
Mills will be the judge. Winners
will be announced at the annual
banquet Friday evening. Three
prizes will be awarded. Winner In
first place will receive a
cake bake-off.
Thursday, December 1, 1955,
will be the second annual S-D or
Safe Driving Day. Its purpose is
to demonstrate again, that traf
fic accidents can be greatly re
duced when motorists and pe
destrains fullf ill their moral and
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
December 3, 1925
At the annual banquet and
business meeting of Heppner
Post No. 87 American Legion,
held at the Elkhorn restaurant
Tuesday evening, Harold Cohn
was elected post commander for
1926.
rtrr
Dean T. Goodman arrived home
from Portland and The Dalles on
Tuesday.
O. G. Crawford and wife and
daughter Miss Jean Crawford and
Miss Frances Parker, arrived
Wednesday evening from Joseph
to spend the Thanksgiving holi
day with relatives.
David Hynd journeyed to Port
land the last of the week, where
he took in the doings of the
Shriners.
Henry Peterson, Emil Carlson,
Leonard Carlson and Oscar Peter
son were Gooseberry residents" in
the city Wednesday, looking
after some road matters before
the county court.
civic responsibilities for safety.
It is sponsored by the President's that wlghs between 750 and 800
Work done in California measur
ing the relative efficiency of
sprayed open, and bred heifers
in the feed lot over open or bred
ones. Furthermore some mortal
ity results from this operation, as
well as shrinkage.
The most popular heifer to sell
on today's market is one that is
young, under two years of age
committee for traffic safety in co
operation with prominent nation
al organizations. The import
ance of this campaign to farm
families is indicated by the fact
that in 1954, three-fourths of 36,
000 motor vehicle fatalities oc
curred on rural highways and 5,-
900 farm accidents caused 42
pounds and will grade "choice"
when slaughtered. There are
many ways in which such a hei
fer can be produced. One after
weaning she can be fed on a
moderate plane of nutrition,
gaining approximately a pound
a day, after 150 days of this she
of the deaths from all accidents ! could be supplemented on pas
to farm people. Observing this
day, therefore, can be especially
beneficial to farm people and ru
ral residents as well as to every
ture with approximately five
pounds of barley salt mixture for
another hundred days. At the end
of this period, good to choice
one exposed to traffic hazards of , teeder heifers should be ready for
any kind. The challenge to'market' grading good to choice,
every community will be not aT'At tne end of tne 150 days
single traffic accident during the of moderate plane feeding, these
twenty-four hour period in dav-!heifers couI(1 be tip in a corn-
light or darkness. We hope Mor- mercial dry-lot and fed from
row county
goal.
can help with this
eighty to one-hundred days,
Three After weaning, place
them directly in a commercial
Economic activirv continues to feed-lot to be finished. This
expand rising incomes and great- would take aPP''oxlrnately 180 to
for $100, while second and third
place winners will receive appli
ance awards. It is expected that
a great number of Morrow county
women will be on hand for the
domestic wheat utilization Com
cake bake-off is the final for the mittee meeting and to see this
check er use of credit keePs buying at'200 davs feeding. The practice
a high rate. Farm output may ,U1 ru'"""S yearnng neuers on me
pass, last year's peak. Livestock ' 0Den ran&e where they are apt to
production is the highest ever, Decorne bred and where their rate
and this year's crop output is of gain will not be satisfactory Is
rated second highest ever onlusuauv nor recommenaea. it is
record. This larce nrnrinrtinn i much better to use a mature cow
coupled with heavy carry-overs J operation on the open range and
from last year's output and high!to handle heifers in one of the
cost ot marketing, keeps pressure wis ouuinea.
ITS GOVERNOR SMITH
Senate President Elmo E.
Smith, John Day, is acting gover
nor this week during the absence
of Gov. Patterson who is in Mi
ami, Florida, attending the an
nual meeting of the National
Congress of the American Muni
cipal Association. The Oregon
governor will read a paper titled
Governmental Relations of City
and State.
HELTZEL REAPPOINTED
Before leaving for Florida Gov.
Patterson reappointed Charles H.
Heltzel as public service commis
sioner for his second four-year
term, commencing December 9.
Commissioner Heltzel has filed
notice of appeal from a decision
by Judge Val Sloper, a circuit
judge of Marion county, on regu
lation of railroad schedules. Helt
zel has contended he has author
ity to keep the Southern Pacific
Railroad from abandoning its
"Rogue River" run between Port
land and Ashland. Sloper in a
declaratory judgment ruled he
did not.
The appeal to the State Su
preme Court is the first from a
decision by Sloper who was elect
ed a year ago.
INITIATIVE TITLE
The title of an initiative mea
sure to reapportion senatorial
representation, by giving each of
Uregons 36 counties a senator,
will appear on the 1956 general
election oauot just as it was
prepared by Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton.
A former legislator, Giles
French, proponent of the measure
objected to the federal reference,
"Federal Plan for Reapportioning
Legislature."
The Oregon Supreme Court
this week affirmed Thornton's
proposal.
If the initiative should be
adopted, it would give Multno
mah county one senator to rep
resent its 471,537 population and
give Sherman county with 2271
population the same representa
tion. OTHERS GOT THE BIRD
On Thanksgiving Day Fred M.
Shideler, Corvallis, had some
thing extra special to be thank
ful for. Wednesday Gov. Paul
Patterson appointed the Oregon
State College director of informa
tion to the much-scrambled-for
post now labeled Administrative
Assistant to the Governor, sak-iry
$9,000 per annum.
The new state job, created by
the 1955 Legislature, has never
been short of applicants altho it
seems to be for the duration of
the 1956 political campaign only,
as Shideler who now is director of
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on farm prices and Income.
A lot of concern is being shown
by catllemon over the past cou
ple of years in reRard to the mar
ket for heifers. The price of hei
fers have been consistently at
least 2c under the price of steers
and in a few cases this fall, sales
of weaner calves were not com
pleted because buyers would not
buy the entire herd, heifers and
steers mixed. One of the rea
sons for the discount on heifers
is the great number that are
being put on the market. With
cattle numbers as great as they
are, there are not as many re
placement heifers being kept and
many cows are being sold so that
mor e she-stuff are coming to the
market.
Weaner heifers are not the big
problem. Heavy over-fat heifers
andor pregnant heifers have
been discounted sharply.
California has done consider
able work with a marketing of
heifers and have large numbers
each year to dispose of. They
have found that these methods
return them a consistent gain in
income over other methods of
operation.
was mute a bit of nterest n the -laJi.
practice of spraying heifers a
year ago because of this, however,
it has tapered off some this year.
The national upturn in market
prices of farm real estate which
began during the last half of
1954, continued at a stepped-up
rate during the four months end
ed July 1, 1955. The index of
average value per acre for July
was 29 above the 1947-49 level,
3 above March of this year and
5 above a year earlier. About
one-thjrd of all farms and tracts
sold were bought for farm en
largement. Oregon farm land
values have followed the same
upward trend over the past year
but are still 13 below the high
There Point reached In this state late in
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CANYON CROSSROADS
Kichard Bnsehart, Phyllis Kirk, Stephen Elliott. Good modern western with a topi
cal slant. Plus
SPY CHASERS
The Bowery Boys ride again strictly for laughs.
Sunday-Monday, December 4-5
Walt Disney's LADY AND THE TRAMP
To everyone who's ever owned a dog. loved a dog, this picture is vours, heart and
soul. From the novel by Ward Greene. First all cartoon feature 'in CinemaScope,
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Sunday shows at 4, 6:15 and 8:30
Tuesday-Wednesday, December 6-7
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no pretensions of grandeur and never representing Itself as an epic, this poignant
little drama walked off with the top award of the Cannes Film Festival which re
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IONE NEWS
Thanksgiving day guests at
the Victor Rietmann home wore
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Peterson and
family of The Dalles, Miss Ruby
Ann Rietmann of Pendleton, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Rietmann and
son John, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Rietmann.
Safe Driving Day!
Whether walking or driving,
Remember it's S-D Day!
Results depend on us; make
This safety drive pay!
Why make it work just one
day?
Let's make it December!
Safety could make this year
One to really remember!
Work for safety all December
In every sort of way!
Make this Christmas season
A real happy holiday!
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