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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, December 8, 1955
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
Th Mppn Gazette, sitabllshad March 30, 183. The Heppner Time, stabllnhed
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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PUBLISHIRt
ASSOCIATION
ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, 53.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cent.
Somebody Goofed-
Somewhere back up the line between the local
TB and Health association and the state organi
zation somebody pulled a brodie recently when
the 1955 Christmas seals were sent out to the
Morrow county organization for distribution lo
cally. It seems that a great many residents here
have received 1954 Christmas seals instead of the
ones for 1955, and as a result there have been a
few red faces seen among the officers of the local
TB and Health association.
The local officers can't take the blame how
ever, for the seals come to them folded and ready
for insertion into envelopes for mailing. The crew
examined some of the seals received and they
were the new 1955 model, but apparently farther
down in the pile someone at headquarters got
some old ones tangled up in the shipment. Inas
much as the seals come folded face-in, it was an
easy mistake to make but it has caused consider
able comment.
Though you might have received last year's
seals, your dollar or two will be appreciated, for
the money will go for a good cause. The 1954
seals were pretty anyway, even though they aren't
quite up to dale.
snow and colder weather on several occasions, it
didn't last long and on Monday and Tuesday
while we were basking in warm winds and rela
fivr.lv milrl tpmneratures. residents five miles
awav were .still in the grip of old man winter with
freezing snow, rain and fog and icy roads. Don't
know just what we've done to rate such fare from
the weather man, but most people hope our luck
holds.
It never fails! If there is anything that will
bring a windstorm to Heppner, it's the hanging of
our Christmas street decorations. This year has
been no exception, for only last Sunday a crew
labored diligently to get the boughs and lights
strung across the streets then Tuesday morning
along came a wind and left numerous blank spots
on the streamers.
Someone could make a fortune if he could fig
ure out some way to paint wire green to simulate
fir boughs.
Speaking of wind and weather, Heppner cer
tainly proved again during the past week or so
that it is really in the banana belt. While we got
We know it's none of our business, but we
can't help but get a little enjoyment out of the
wrangle the city of Portland has going over where
it is going to build its new recreation-exposition
renter. We should sympathize, probably, and we
do, with the men who fell heir to the committee
job of finding the proper location, lor we see in
their problem a great resemblance to the one the
Heppner school board faced when it was trying
to determine the location for the new grade school.
Here, there were people who thought the
schools should be separated and could see no dif
ficulty in a school being four or five blocks from
the center of town the equivalent of two or three
miles in Portland. Also there were those who
felt it should be as close in as possible so the
youngsters wouldn't have to walk any farther
than necessary. As it turned out, the latter group
won.
In Portland, one group is fighting to put it
rieht downtown where the traffic is already too
heavy for the existing streets and parking is at
a premium. Another taction warns u pui wiitre
there is room to expand and conveniently handle
the traffic it will automatically draw. They claim
that in this day and ae a couple of miles doesn't
mean a thing, as long as the cars can be parked
when they arrive.
It is our guess that Portland will eventually
build its new center right downtown, and then in
four or five years have to turn around and spend
another 8 or 10 million dollars trying to unravel
the traffic problem it has caused itself.
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Anderson
All farmers seem to be happy
these days with the great amount
of moisture that is falling. It
appears now as though we will
gain much of the deficient deep
moisture that was lacking in the
summer fallow at seeding time.
From the many farmers who are
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keeping rainfall records, we find
that November rainfall averaged
considerable over two inches. All
reports that there has been no
run-off. Leonard Carlson, long
time, weather observer in the
Gooseberry community reports
2.41 inches for November. This is
compared to .71 in November
1954. At his gauge he has mea
sured 11.87 inches for the eleven
months to December 1. Last year
at this time only 9 inches had
been recorded. Leonard also re
ported 1.32 inches fell at one time
during November in the form of
snow and rain with no run-off
whatsoever.
While moisture conditions look
good, there is a bit of speculation
in some parts of Morrow county
as well as in the Pacific North
west as to cold damage to winter
wheat and barley. At the Moro
experiment station, Bill Hall,
superintendent, feels that dam
age was done in the early Novem
ber storm. A number of grain
firms in the Pacific Northwest
have inquired for sources of
spring wheat in the event of some
damage. The Pacific Northwest
Crop Improvement Association is
attempting to line up sources of
spring grain in case damage is
evident at spring seeding time
Anyone who has spring grain
whfflt or barley, in excess of
what they would need for them
selves in case of a freeze-out are
urged to list it for our informa
tion. A card dropped in this of
fice will be sufficient.
Avoid the Last Minute
Rush Be Sure Your
Christmas Cards and
Gifts Arrive on Time.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the. Gazette Times
December 10 ,1925
Heppner Lodge No. 69, A. F.&
A.M. chose new officers for the
coming year last Saturday night.
C. J. D. Bauman was elected W.
M.; F. E. Farrior, S. W.; R. W.
Wightman, J. W.; Frank Gilliam
treasurer and L. W. Briggs, secretary.
Claude Cox, manager of Mor
row County Creamery company,
departed for Portland last Friday.
Sam E. Van Vactor, who was
orator at the Elks Memorial ser
vices Sunday afternon, departed
for his home at The Dalles yesterday.
Charles McElligott, who Is a
farmer of the lone section, was
doing business in this city on
Tuesday.
Just released this week from
Oregon State College is a new
bulletin on beef cattle equipment.
The animal husbandry depart
ment in ' cooperation with the
agricultural engineer, have for
the last couple of years been co
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THE MAN FROM LARAMIE
James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donneil, Alex Nieol, Aline
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Sunday shows at 4, 6: 10 and 8:20
Tuesday -Wednesday, December 13-14
HOW TO BE VERY, VERY POPULAR
Betty Crable, Sheree North. Boh Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan.
ClnemaScope-Color. A happy comedy hit loaded with rock 'n' roll rhythm.
Activity in debate is assuming
a paramount place on the high
school calendar this year, with
the goal of working up a repre
sentative high school team which
shall be able to meet and cope
favorably with teams from neigh
boring schools.
received in the office only re
cently. This is a U. S. D. A. bul
letin which lists the plans avail
able from the 'college. There are
a number of excellent plans for
sheep sheds of various sizes, of
pole and regular construction,
with plans for self-feeders, hay
and grain feeders, salt and creep
feeders, shipping and weighing
crates, wool box, wool packing
rack, parting chutes, and dipping
vat.
Several livestock men have cal
led at the office to discuss lice
control in their cattle herds be
fore going into winter. This is
the time of year when lice in
festations start to bother and
build up over the winter months
to sap the 'Strength of cattle and
calves. Unless controlled early
in the winter, they can cause
losses in gains and prevent cat
tle from maintaining body
weights to be in good condition
for calving. Luke Bibby, Balm
Fork rancher, last Thursday
sprayed his 1955 calves which he
will winter and sell off the grass
next year. Luke said the calves
didn't seem to be doing as well
as they should and he thought
that a good spraying would help.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Marshall of
Kennewick, former Heppner resi
dents, were weekend guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Thompson.
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Mass and
three children of Richland, Wash
ington were weekend guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Blakney.
Syr&f Problem
vp"" Solved-
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lecting working plans of various
beef cattle equipment throughout
the state. With this equipment
they have weeded out and im
proved plans for the bulletin. The
bulletin includes pictures and
plans for such equipment as cor
rals, chutes, scales, head gates,
gates, loading chutes, spray cor
rals, hoof trimming stocks, man
gers and feed bunks, molasses
feeders, salt boxes, cattleguards,
creep feeders, portable shelters,
beef cattle shelters and silos.
Also included in the bulletin is at the rate
informatin o computing floor
areas and feed requirements. A
enpy of this well illustrated bul
letin is available at the office.
Each spring we have numerous
inquiries at the offics on control
of cheat and foxtail, as well as
other weeds around farm build
ings, machinery lots, fence rows,
and waste spaces. Generally the
inquiries are received too late to
do any good on controlling them
for that year. Now is the time to
be planning your applications of
soil sterilants of which their are
many to do an excellent job of
controlling these kind of weeds.
While controlling them where
they are a problem, it will also
reduce the spread to adjacent
cropland. At the present cost of
sterilants, more than 1,000 square
feet of surface can be treated for
less than $5.00. Several mater
ials are used, the chlorates,
which are commonly used re- j
quire 15 pounds per thousand
square feet, the chlorate borate ,
mixtures, which there are seve-1
ral, are used more commonly
around areas where there is dan
ger from fire. They are used at
the rate of 30 pounds per thous
and square feet. A relatively
new sterilant is Karmex W. or
Telvar W. These materials were
sold for some time as CHU. They
do not provide long time sterile
conditions but fit in very well
with a grass control program on
the farm. They should W used
of 1 pound per one
While mentioning plans, an
other well illustrated booklet on
sheep shelters and equipment was
thousand square feet. Chlorates
and Borates are most commonly
used dry, while Karmex and Tel
var are used as sprays.
o :
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomp
son of Pendleton were weekend
visitos here.
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