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WBZttt liJRAftr i r o IUQENE. ORE. :-n: 72nd Year, Number 45 Copies 10 Cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 19, 1956 Morrow Gevs Beanos Free Certificate Morrow county became the first beef county in Eastern Ore gon to receive a modified, certi fied Brucellosis free rating when Dr. A. G. Beagle, agricultural re search service, Portland, present ed the county with its Bang's free certificate at the annual banquet of the Morrow County Livestock Growers association Saturday night at the fair pavil ion. County cattlemen and county officials should be compliment ed in pushing the compulsory program which was started about 1948, Dr. Beagle pointed out. In addition to state and county funds, over $35,000 of federal funds have been used in te area to combat the disease, he added. Oregon raies fourth in 50 states, including the Virgin Is lands and Puerto Rico, in having the lowest incidenie of Brucello sis, Dr. S. E. McGough, represen tative of the Oregon Veterinarian Medical Association, Pendleton, reported in a brief talk. When a county has been certi fied the owner of any reactor herd is not at liberty to sell breeding stock into another herd until the cattle test clean, u wascases jn Oregon have been diag pointed out. Several counties in Eastern Oregon have started a compulsory testing program and it is hoped the entire region will have certification by 1960, Dr. Beagle said. Garnet Barratt, county judge, who accepted the certificate for the county, extended his appreci ation to cattle producers and to the county taxpayers who have helped pay indemnities in the Bang's program. Herman Oliver, past president of the Oregon Cat tlemen's association, urged the ranchers to continue their testing program consistently. Frank Anderson, Morrow coun ty cattleman of the year, was presented a trophy from the as sociation by Herman Oliver and Harold Wright, grassman of the year, was presented a plaque from the Farm Bureau by Newt .O'Harra. . Other numbers on the program included folk' dances by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hausler, lone; vocal solos by Victor Kreimeyer ac companied by Mrs. Kreimeyer and a skit by Mrs. Kenneth Peck and Mrs N. C, Anderson. William Weatherford was master of cere monies. The dinner was served by the home economics ilub of the Willows Grange, lone. , o Rainfall High For January Precipitation in Heppner since the first of the year totalled 1.93 inches up to Wednesday morn ing, according to reports kept by Len Gilliam. The heaviest storm hit over the weekend when 1.07 inches of rainfall caused soil washes over highways and con siderable erosion in the area. Total January rainfall last year was .56 inches. Total rainfall for the past three months to date is 7.30 inches with 2.73 reported for November and 2.64 inches in December. Rainfall in the Eightmile sec tion totalled 2.36 for the month to Jan. 18, with the heaviest pre cipitation reported on Jan. 15 with 1.63 inches, according to reports kept by L. Carlson. ji t?, St-". !, :,:,.: , ; i'v " if ; ' ; t ' . i' " - , H '( ' ' ;." . fvf"T ; i I i i L ' ' . r, IT V r Kv - , - vSi i , ' - . I ' ' ' ' - ' ' " l - ' ' ' I ' 4 te x"' t . ; MR. AND MRS. FRANK ANDERSON are shown receiving the "Cattleman of the Year" trophy for Morrow county from Herman Oliver, John Pay. past president of th Oregon Cattlemen's association. Cattle Disease Hits Lexington A cattle disease, Mucosal, new to the northwest, has struck 22 out of a herd of 42 purebred Hereford yearlings owned by Orville Cutsorfth, Lexington. Dr. Wayne B. Clizer, Stanfield, stated that the disease is extremely serious in an individual herd but that it spreads slowly and er ratically, from farm to farm, sometimes moving about 10 miles over a period of years. The disease, marked by froth ing at the mouth, loose hoofs and weight loss, was first noted at the Cutsforth ranch on two calves in July but was not diagnosed until this weekend by Dr. Cli zer and Dr. A. G. Beagle, agri cultural research service, Port land. A total of 19 animals has been killed by Cutsforth, includ ing eight in September and Octo ber, and five the past weekend. First report of the disease was in southern Idaho about 18 months aen and a few isolated nosed as Mucosal since then, Dr. Clizer said. Similar diseases have been reported in Indiana and New York and another similar type disease, Rhinotracheitis, has been discovered in Colorado and California. Although Mucosal will hurt the individual cattleman, no im mediate outbreak or big epide mic is anticiatepd, according to Dr. Clizer. If no other herds show up with symptoms federal or state authorities should be noti fied, he added. The federal government Is run ning a research an dcontrol sur vey on the disease, it was pointed out. At present no cure or treat ment is known, but it has been found the outbreak will be much less severe the second year in the individual herd. Young ani mals are most often affected and usually the animal will die in 5 or 10 days. However, in the Cuts forth herd the disease has run up to 40 days, it was pointed out. o Al Lamb Named on Demo Dinner Slate Al Lamb of Heppner, chairman of the Morrow county Democra tic central committee, has been appointed a meriber of the an nual Jefferson-Jackson dinner committee by Da.e Shaw, Gold Beach attorney, who is general chairman of the affair. The $25 a plate dinner which will be held in Portland, Febru ary 11, features Adlai E. Eteven- son, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and will be a money raising affair for the Oregon party. Lamb announced today that he has received tickets for the ban auet which will be held in Port land in the Columbia Athletic Club and that he has appointed a local committee to work on ticket sales with him. Lamm states that 50 of the net proceeds frm tickets sold in Morrow county or used by Mor row county residents will be re turned to the Democratic central committee here. This is the first time, the county chairman said that the party has been able to make this kind of financial divi sion and he anticipates that it will stimulate the Democratic county organization here to par ticipate actively in the dinner. Weather Blamed For Two Wrecks Murky weather Sunday caused two accidents on the Heppner Arlington highway. Allen HUghes, Heppner, was taken by ambulance to the Pioneer Me morial hospital with injuries re ceived when a 1953 Chevrolet sedan he was driving hit the rear of a Chevrolet truck driven by Wayne Patten and owned by Delbert Emert. , Fog and ice contributed to the accident which occurred about 6 p. m. when Patten entered the highway from the right side of the road and turned west. Hughes, coming over the hillcrest from the east applied his greaks and skid ded into the Emert truck with, the left read of his car. Hughes suffered a concussion and bruis es and Mrs. Hughes, riding with him, was shaken but unhurt. Considerable damage was re ported on the Hughes car. A 1951 Ford sedan driven by Herbert Hynds, Cecil, skidded off the Heppner-Arlington highway above Lexington about noon on Sunday and turned over in the adjoining field. A slick spot of i mud and water on the highway and fog were blamed for the ac cident. Hynd and Mrs. Hynd, riding with him, were uninjured and were taken to Heppner by a car following them. Car damage was confined to the top and fend ers. o March of Dimes ' Drive Lags The March of Dimes polio drive in Morrow county was reported lagging today by Floyd Sayers, county campaign chairman. Only $491.95 had been collected Tuesday f torn Heppner, Jone and Lexington. Reports from the re mainder of the county had not been turned in yet, he said. The Mother's March on polio will begin Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 6:45 p. m. under the direction of Mrs. Jack Loyd, Mother's March chairman. The March will be conducted by about 20 Boy Scouts under the leadership of George Terrill and Ken Keeling. Resi dents are asked to burn their porch lights to assist the col lectors who will accept regular polio card donations as well as the extra contributions. A party for the Scouts will be given by the Soroptimist club at the American Legion hall immedi ately following the drive. In Lexington the Mother's March drive by the Cub Scouts will be under the direction of Mrs. Lonnie Henderson, Mrs, Cecil Jones and Mrs. Marge Angell. Franklin Myles will be in charge of the Scouts. At lone the Scouts for the Mother's March will be under the direc tion of Dave McLeod assisted by Bob DeSpain. All three drives will be held Tuesday night, Jan. 31. Gross receipts from the 1955 polio drive totaled $2,489.94 of which $1,166.93 was sent to the national foundation, according to the treasurer's report. A total of $820.50 was used for patient care on two cases contracted in the county prior to 1955 and at present the county chapter owes Continued on Page 8 Dr. Wallace Wolff Named Staff Prexy Dr. Wallace Wolff was elected president and chief of staff of the Pioneer Memorial Hospital medi cal and surgical staff at a meet ing Tuesday night at the hospital. Other officers are Dr. L. D. Tibbies, vice president and Dr. Harold Huber, secretary-treasurer. o Former Heppner Man Fatally Injured Aulta E. Coxen, 59, former resi dent of .Heppner and nephew of L. D. Neill, was fatally scalded Monday while at work in the boiler room of the J. D. Johnson Lumber Company at Toledo. Mr. Neill left Tuesday for Tolego to attend his nephew's funeral. -u Road Crews At Work On Willow Creek County road crews have com pleted widening and replacing old timber underpasses on nearly a mile of the lower Willow creek road in preparation for surfacing and oiling approximately six miles of the road this summer, Garnet Barratt, county judge, said this week. ; In cummarizing county road work and finances Barratt point ed out that the county court plans to operate on a pay-as-you-go policy which is presently sup ported by a 10 mill road levy in stead of using bond issues for financing. In a seven-year per iod since the first 5-year special 10 mill road levy was passed in 1948, a total of $1,405,435 has been expended in graveling some 245 miles of county roads and graveling and oiling 70 miles of county roads. , In addition the canty has ac quired sufficient road construc tion equipment to further con struct and maintain an adequate road system within the county. Plus about $154,000 invested in equipment the county has a modern county machine repair and storage shop valued with the equnpment at $30,000, Barratt ad ded. As of June 1, 1155, Morrow county was out of debt for the first time 136 years. In 1925 the county had a bonded indeb tedness of $840,000 and during that 36-year period until last June the county had paid out $526,000 in interest, it was ex plained. Within the coming year the court expects to have a gravel roat to every live habitation on every cor .ity road in the county, Barratt said. At present only eight farms are without either a itock associations, Oliver said, graveled or oiled road to their He recommended tnat each cat door. In.some cases the crews jtleman invest the price f one have graveled private driveways cuU mw intQ caUle association from the county road to the habitation at cost to the individ ual farmer and the present policy is to continue tha tservice when requested, it was said. Total farms now listed in Morrow county are 473, some of which are off county roads.' Contract for surfacing and oil ing 20 feet of asphalt pavement with three foot gravel shoulders on each side of the six miles is expected to be let by the State Highway department sometime this May, Barratt said. Approxi mately $55,000 of public funds have been made available for the job with the county contributing 20 per cent, or $11,000, the state 20 per cent and the remaining 60 percent from federal aid second ary highway funds. The county court had hoped the entire 12 mile section to the city wells at the Forks could be let in one contract, but appro priations for the next biennium have not been made by congress, necessitating the awarding of. an other contract for the last six miles during the next fiscal year, Barratt said. The Willow Creek road is one of the heaviest traveled county loads within the county accord ing to traffic counts kept by the county during the past two years and by the State Highway de partment prior to the hunting season, it was pointed out. Part of the county crew are graveling about a 15 mile section of the Juniper canyon road and last week another portion of the crew was replacing a bridge across P.ock creek near the Cason ranch on the Lone Rock road. The bridge was washed out In the recent floods. RECEIVING THE CERTIFICATE rating Morrow county as the first beef county in Eastern Oregon to become a certified, modified Bang's free area is Garnet Barratt, county judge, right. From left: Dr. A. G. Beagle, agricultural research service, Portland, and Dr. S. E. McGough, Pendleton, repre senting the State Veterinarians association. Livestock Men Name Graves New President At Annual Meeting New officers of the Morrow county Livestockgrowers associa tion -elected at the Saturday af ternoon sessions of the two-day annual meeting are John Graves, president; William Barratt, vice president; Gerald Swaggart, trea surer and N. C. Anderson, secre tary. Raymond French is out going president. Pasture and range improve ments sponsored by the associa tion during the past year have included roadside grass seeding, grass-alfalfa seedings, and the encouragement of grass seeding demonstrations using new grass seeding drills now available, ac cording to Norman Nelson, chair man of the pasture and range committee. In addition ranchers have been encouraged to divert cropland to grass and to elimi nate brush areas and seed to grass. Herman Oliver, John Day, past president of the' Oregon Cattle mens association, urged all live stock producers to belong to their county, state and national asso ciations and to fight for the ob jective and protect the interests of the livestock industry. He urged representatives to congress to protect the Industry from the effects of the proposed soil bank program by prohibiting grass on extra acres to be used for increas ing livestock. Of 17,000 cattlemen in Oregon I,. ,9nn ara mpmhnra nf ijVp. memberships to combat a cattle situation which now is as bad as it was in 1932, Frank Anderson, chairman of the livestock marketing commit tee, advocated a state beol com mission for Oregon and reported that locally listing services for cattle had lacked in interest. Other reports were given by Gerald Swaggart, chairman of the Game Laws committee and Ralph Beamer, chairman of the theft prevention control commit tee. Beamer pointed out that the livestockmen were dissatisfied with the disposition of cattle theft cases as cattle are the in It I 'X. -. 5I l "J 'w ' " ' s l i Is .TV; t A NEW OFFICERS of the Morrow county Livestock Growers association are left to right: Gerald Swag gart, treasurer; William Barratt, vice president; Raymond French, outgoing president; John Graves, president and N. C. Anderson, Mcrttary, ' 11 ' Qr - "--j Km come source of the livestock pro ducer. A little over 7,000 head of cat tle were tested for- Brucellosis in morrow county last year to com plete the testing for making this a certified, modified Bang's free county, Raymond Ferguson, mem ber of the livestock disease con trol committee reported. Of the total only sixty-nine hundredths of one percent of the cattle were infected. In addition 0J2 re placement heifers vere vaccina ted against the disease, he said. In Morrow county Livestock growers association was one of the groups instrumental in get ting the state legislature to pro vide a law for setting up county grasshopper control districts which would help to make funds available to combat infestations in the future, Dick Wilkinson re ported. He pointed out that though Morrow county did not' use any of $34,000 state emerg ency funds which they had asked for in spraying grasshoppers this year, neighboring counties used $11,169.50 of the fund. The severe hopper infestation threatening the county last year was cut down do to parasitism of grasshoppers, Robert Every, ex tension entomologist, Oregon State college, reported. A survey last summer showed 90 percent of hoppers carrying parasites. The south Butter Creek area appears to be the only spot in the county with hopper infestation possibilities next year according to an adult and egg survey made this fall, said Every, who ex plained that the picture may change during the coming sea sons. Every discussed new insecti cides on the market, including Lindane, which Is doing a good job on all insects and has pro ved effective in combination with other insecticides including DDT, Chlordane and Methoxychlor., John Landers, extension ani mal husbandman, Oregon State college, outlined various feed rations for wintering brood cow herds, fattening rations and pointed out that producers should use more home grown roughage supplemented with high protein I foci ' L -. '.' A "V.; ' t concentrates. Control of stomach worms in cattle by oral administration of the drug Phenothiazine was ex plained by Landers who added that the worms may be held down after the Initial dose by mixing the drug with salt. Us ually associated with Irrigated pastures, the worms have be come more numerous in range conditions where they mature in standing water, he added. The history, symptoms and control of Leptospirosis and Ano plasmosis was outlined by Dr. A. G. Beagle in the Friday afternoon ' sessions. Aspects of marketing cattle were discussed in a panel com posed of stockmen from Umatil tl, Wallowa and Morrow counties at the Friday sessions at the fair pavilion. W. Y. Fowler, Ore gon State college, was moderator for the panel. Jiggs Flsk, Wallowa county, di.scut.sed feeder sales sponsored by the Wallowa Stockgrowers Association without profit with the object of making the most money for the, producer. TI12 producer who feeds out his own cattle and has a strong cen tral market to attract buyers has a distinct advantage, Orval Mc Cormack, Umatilla county, re ported on marketing practices in his area. With large feed surpluses available feeder cattle numbers could easily be increased from 17,000 now on feed in Umatilla county feed lots to 100,000 head, Bon Gilgore, Pendleton Grain Growers, stated. Raymond French, Heppner, discussed the need of attracting more buyers and more competi tive bidding in Morrow county. In the absence of Bill South worth, Grant county, Fowler ex plained the listing service in that area and stressed that ranchers should be ready to show their animals when buyers are around. Management practices empha sized by Fowler included de horning, castrating, correct time of weaning, keeping a high qual ity breeding herd and methods 'of fill before marketing. r 1 V
