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r Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, January 26, 1956 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MOBBOW COWNTY'8 NIWSPAPKR The Heppntr aaette, established March 30, 188. The Heppner Tlraee, eetaWlehed November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. PUBLISHERS j ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENIAND Sditor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL ft Eg EDITORIAL ASSOClkATiaN V U Q fTHiiHigjmn From Files of the Gazette Times January 28, 1926 Charles Latourell was elected president, Leonard Gilliam,-secretary and Frank Shively, assist ant field secretary, at a meeting of the Heppner Rod and Gun Club last night. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Port Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription R7tes: Morrow and Grant Countle., $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents. Ramblings We can't seem to get wound up to compose a weighty editorial this week so decided to try a little column-style travelogue instead. Took a little jaunt into sunny California last week but to our mind the California chamber of commerce got that word "sunny" in there by mistake. Saw more sunlight right here at home last Tuesday morning than we did in a week in California . . . plenty of water there though, and if anybody gets to complaining too much about our continuing rain here, a trip through the Sac ramento valley would convince them that Oregon, especially Morrow county, is a pretty good place to come home to. There's enough water In the rice-growing sections of the valley that they shouldn't have to irrigate the fields at all this year. Speaking of rain, we heard that one wea ther station near Santa Cruz checked in over 24 inches of rain in 24 hours during the big Christ mas week floods. A look at the town and sur rounding country and its entirely believable, too. Understand they're still looking for cars that washed out to sea at Santa Cruz ... if that had happened to mine, I don't think I'd bother looking. We join whole-heartedly with numerous other persons who have voiced their disapproval of the new broken white lines that Oregon is using for highway center-stripes. To our way of thinking they don't begin to equal our old yellow ones for ..!,.Kiii(., Tho hrnkpti white lines aren't so bad when they're brand new, but when they get .a Hirtv thev might as well not be there, especially during a heavy rain. It's going to cost the state a lot more money 10 Keep uki up too, even if they do only paint half as much 0 ho er.iifi ones . . . noticed numerous places where the new broken white stripe had been painted over the oiu sona yeiiow mie mc ...m ,oro nrartirallv invisible but the vel- WIHIC v"1- f , - iu, wa still in eood shape. We'll bet the state will have to paint the white twice or three times as often as they did the yellow and still won't oo cut itf iptnrv a lob. Speaking of water, a good dose of it wouldn't do our streets any harm . . . ougnt to oe aooui ume fur tho ri V in start its soring house celaning any way. Did notice the crew trying to get rid of the mud that has accumulated on Gale street during the winter, but suppose that about the time they get it picked up we'll get another downpour and fill Ihinfrc iin apain. TV did quite a job of covering the Los Angeles train wreck Sunday night . . . wasn't a very pretty return hut thp news isn't alwavs pleasant ... it ua nr'nhahlv the first time in history that mil lions of persons were eye-witnesses to such a rescue operation . . . while on the subject of tele vision watched seven channels while in San Francisco area and in very few cases was the pic ture any better than what we are getting right here at home. They just have more of 'em, is all. THIRTY YEARS AGO The President's figures of 25 mil lion acres and 350 million dollars for the conservation reserve im ply a national average payment of not more than $14, per acre for this purpose. Best bets are that there will be considerable debate over methods and amounts of payments and other details be fore the final vote comes in Con gress. E. C. Carlson, who was doing business in the city yesterday, reports that there has been an abundance of moisture in the Gooseberry section. S. E. Notson, district attorney and George McDuffee, sheriff, were in attendance of the law enforcement officers meeting held in Portland the past week. Ralph Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Moore and Elmer Bucknum, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Bucknum, departed Wed nesday for Marshfield where they have secured employment and will remain for some months. A number of neighbors and friends enjoyed a pleasant dance at the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. Alec Hunt on Saturday evening. . trarhptis. rommonlv called red I that they plan to attend the nose, which is breaking out In State 4-H Leader's Conference in feedlot cattle of the intermoun A recent report from Kenneth Fridley, President, Oregon Wheat Growers League and R. B. Taylor Administrator, Oregon Wheat Commission, who were called back to Washington, D. C. to meet with the Secretary of Agricul ture, along with other wheat growers indicates that the pf forts of our Wheat League might bear fruit. At least the wheat men have had the opportunity to pre sent their case and from the sounds of the report, some con structive thinking and planning was done at this three-day meet ing. There no doubt will be some follow-ups from this im portant meeting when wheat growers throughout the United States get together on February 1, 2 and 3 for the annual conven tion of the National Association of Wheat Growers to be held at Portland. tain states and California; ana nlasmosis. which takes a con i siderable toll 0f cattle each year. Additional research is also need ed for such diseases as leptospir osis, shipping fever complex, pink eye, white muscle disease of sheep and cattle, pulmonary emphysema and mucosal disease. Most of these diseases have ap peared in Oregon and some have given considerable trouoie. In Addition, new exotic diseas ps which mav be imported into the United States could be given immediate experimental work through such a regional labora tory. If the Salt Lake meeting in dicates the need for a regional disease control research labora tory, the group may ask Dr. B. T. Simms, of the regional agri cultural animal disease and para site research offices, to give some idea of possible federal coopera tion in this field. Dr. Simms will be present at the meeting. Several 4-H Club leaders from Morrow county have indicated Corvallis on January 25 to 27. Burton Hutton, State 4-H Club leader, predicts that this confer ence will be one of the most im portant ever held in Oregon as far as really pinpointing needs of volunteer leaders as seen by them. Three hundred and fifty leaders are expected to be in at tendance. o Lexington Notes .... Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Padberg have returned to their home here from a trip to the Willamette Valley and way points. Long Distance Nation-Wide Moving Service Mayflower Agents Padded Vans Pcnland Bros. TRANSFER CO. Pendleton, Oregon Phone 338 From The County Agent's Office By N. C AndMion Rainfall records received in the office from thirteen farmers throughout the county show that only two received less than two Inches during the month of De cember. These two in north Morrow county were not much below the two-inch mark. An average of all, run almost two and one-third inches precipita tion. While it is hard to find a Morrow county farmer who would ever complain about get ting too much rain, I think a few have a hunch that it might be well to save some of this rainfall for late May and June. Looking back over precipitation records for the past three months, there are few who have reported much less than one inch, wilh an aver age of over two Inches for No vember. Wilh the soil saturated such as it is now, soil erosion will continue to occur on those fields that do not have major conservation practices applied. Sunday's heavy rainfall, which was reported as high as one and three-fourths inches in the south lone community caused some of Culligan's Electric NEIL CULLIGAN, OWNER PILOT ROCK, OREGON Electric Wiring Contractor HOME BUSINESS INDUSTRIAL Electric Heating a Specialty Phone 2021 Collect 45tfc the most serious soil erosion that I have seen in the ten years as agent here. This erosion brought out quite forcibly the need for applying major conservation practices to farms and that it takes a number of practices com bined to be effective when con ditions prevail as they have this winter. With the soil saturated and with several months to go before the possibility of de creased rainfall, soil erosion could become a lot worse than even what has occuted to date. For some we have talked to that have not witnessed water ero sion, there should be no trouble in finding it without going many miles now. The program lined up for the annual meeting of tne lieppner Soil Conservation District, which will be held at the Lexington Grange hall, Tuesday evening, January 31 is an excellent one. A panel on conservation, with Fair Griffin of the Soil Conserva tion Service as moderator, will bring out the importance in con servation as seeen from various points. Members of the panel are Jack Flug, representing Mor row County Schools; Jack Bed ford, Banker; Irvin Rauch, Mor row County Farm Bureau; Oscar Peterson, Morrow County Grange; Donald Peterson representing the Morrow County Wheat Growers Association and Raymond French representing the Morrow County Livestock Growers Association. Thought provoking questions that these men will have with the discussion from the audience, should point to the necessity for everyone being concerned .with conservation of our natural re sources. Dr. Emery Castle of the department of agricultural eco nomics at Oregon State College will have for his discussion the title "Economics of Soil Conser vation.". With the serious water erosion this winter, this program should offer much in the way of why something must be done. A film "America for Me", which shows some of the reasons we all should be proud of our coun try will be shown at 7:30. Seve ral businesses have shown their interest in conservation by offer ing to provide coffee and snacks after the meeting is completed. Everyone is invited to attend. A happy surprise was arranged for Buster Gentry on Thursday evening last when his father, J. E. Gentrv. assisted bv his grand mother, Mrs. Sarah White, enter tained a number of Buster's young school friends in honor of his sixteenth birthday. From time to time since har vest last year, some farmers have shown interest in growina'Saf- flower this year. With the heavy rainfall and prospects for a good year, more interest has been shown the past few days. We have recently received at the of fice contraits for safflower pro duction for 1956. Dr. Carl Classen of the Pacific Oil Seeds has asked that those interested complete contracts at the County Agent's office this vear. Those farmers who grew safflower last year and wish to grow it again in 1956 will also sign contracts here even though a recent newsletter indi cated that the contract would be sent you from Wo6dland, Califor nia. Contract price is $70.00 minimum, not to exceed $100.00 per ton. Seed will cost $10.00 per hundred as last year. Approxi mately twenty pounds per acre is seeded. Seed will need to be picked up at the Pendleton Grain Growers unless a thousand acres or more are contracted here. For further details contact this office. encourage some farmers to take the summer off. Maybe a limit will be placed on the portion of the allotment that can be "bank ed". All farmers could make de posits in the savings account (conservation reserve). Land not copped or pastured, but protected against erosion could be put into this account. In return, they would receive rental payments equal to interest and taxes on the land plus possible payment of establishing and maintaining the reserve. For the time being, labor income would be sacrificed in the interest of eventually boosting prices and returns from remaining crops and livestock. More is being learned of the proposed soil bank which the President outlined in his report to Congress on January 9. It appears as though the soil bank will have two departments. One will be an acreage reserve, the other a conservation reserve. Wheat growers could make de posits in tlie cheeking account (acreage reserve if they har vest less than their allotted acre ages. In return, it is proposed that they would get a certificate equal in value to what they might net from the allotted acres left idle. To some folks, this sounds almost good enough to Morrow County cattlemen are invited to attend the seventeenth annual meeting of the Umatilla Cattleman's Association which will be held in Pendleton Janu ary 26. An interesting program is planned to be held in the Vert Theater, beginning at 9:30 a. m. continuing through the day, with a social hour, chuck wagon feed and dance, This week State Veterinarians and representatives of the leading farm organizations met in Salt Lake City to consider the neces sity for a regional laboratory for experimenal work on diseases causing animal losses in the western states. There are a num ber of livestock diseases, particu larly new ones which pose prob lems which need research on a regional basis. 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