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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 2, 1956
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MOBBOW COUNTY'S NIWSPAPEB
The Heppner Sazette, eUbltohed March 30, 1888. Tht Heppner Tlmaa, MtabUshe4
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1812.
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Paul L. Patterson
The sudden death of Governor Paul L. Patter
son Tuesday night came as a severe shock to the
people of Oregon. His political life had been short,
stepping into Oregon's highest office only about
three years ago when Douglas McKay was chosen
as a member of President Eisenhower's cabinet,
yet in that short period Paul Patterson had made
thousands of friends throughout the state and
had earned the respect of the members of not only
his own political party, but also of his opponents.
His passing leaves a big hole in the hearts of
the people of his state.
The Needs of Education
With taxes resting in top place among most
people's list of "most controversial subjects", or
"Things something has to be done about first",
and because the taxes needed to build and oper
ate our schools constitute one of the largest single
items on the tax list, many people have spent
many hours trying to figure out ways to cut the
cost of education. We have no argument with
their hopes, for we don't like taxes any better than
the next person, yet when talk of cutting the cost
of education comes up, those ideas must be bal
anced against the cost to our young people of the
education they are NOT getting even now.
Nearly every parent of a school child knows
there are some subjects which his child is not get
ting. And, to teach these subjects costs more
money just the opposite of cutting costs. What
some of these subjects are and one suggestion for
improving educational programs came to us In the
following article in some lone high school news.
It points out the need in America for some types of
training that our youngsters are not getting now
a need that is continually becoming more seri
ous. The article follows:
Several weeks ago Admiral Lewis L. Strauss,
chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and
Admiral H. G. Rickover, chief of the Naval Re
actors Branch of the A. E. C, made speeches in
connection with the six Thomas Alva Edison Foun
dation Institute. Both speeches were on the same
subject. That, of course, was not an accident. It
was designed to stress the importance of the prob
lem under discussion.
The subject of the two speakers was the in
sufficient number of young people being trained
in science and engineering. The numbers of scien
tific and engineering graduates are already too
few to meet the current demand for their services.
The need for them will Increase if the present pace
of scientific and technological advance is to be
maintained or stepped up.
Each speaker found that one of the chief im
pediments to a flow of new scientific brains lay
in the high schools. Admiral Strauss said:
"Large number of our high school students have
no opportunity to discover whether science and
engineering "appeals to them, because preparatory
courses are not available, or when such courses
do exist they often are taught by instructors who
double in science, but whose interests lie in other
subjects."
Admiral Rickover demonstrated the same the
sis statistically by comparing the percentage of
high school students studying scientific subjects
in 1950 and in 1900. He put in tabular form:
1900 1950
Physics " 23 4
Chemistry 10 7
Algebra 52 27
Geometry 27 13
But if scientific progress calls for training the
exceptional, why not establish advanced classes
for the exceptional? As Admiral Rickover pointed
out, it is considered wholly in the democratic tra
dition to have special training for the retarded.
Why not special training'for those capable of more
rapid advance?
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of The Gazette Times
February 4, 1926
Three students from Lexington
are honor students at O. A. C. in
Corvallis. They are Dalles Ward,
Alva McMillan and Wilma Beach.
Showing at the Star Theater
Sunday and Monday, Douglas
Fairbanks in his latest and best:
Don Q, The Son of Zorro.
P. A. Anderson, who since De
cember 1916, has been owner of
Morrow County Abstract com
pany has disposed of the busi
ness to F. B. Nickerson of Portland.
Sprague Carter, manager of
Buster Brown Shoe Co., at Pen
dleton, was a visitor in Heppner
on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Chapel
have gone on an extended trip
to Portland.
Karl L. Beach, Lexington hard
ware and machinery dealer, was
doing business here on Wednes
day.
Doric Lodge No. 20, K of P. held
their regular election of officers
on Tuesday evening and chose
Jasper Crawford, Chancellor Com
mander; Ed Clark, Vice Chan
cellor; Oscar Edwards, Keeper of
Records and Seal; Carl Cason,
Prelate; Earl Merritt, Master at
Arms; Austin Smith, Inner Guard;
W. O. Dix, Master of Work; Chas.
Thomson, Master of Exchequer;
Alex Cornett, Trustee,
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C Anderson
Time is growing short for or
dering your trees for shelterbelts
and windbreaks. A selection of
trees are available from the
Slate Forestry Nursery costing
about lc per tree. A new Oregon
State College circular which was
released this week points out
several of the important advant
ages of farmstead and field wind
breaks, diaries Ross, Forestry
Specialist shows in the circular
that windbreaks reduce heating
costs, save livestock feed, and
help grow better gardens and
orchards. Other advantages he
lists are less dust in the home,
more pleasant yard living and
value as snow catchers. Order
blanks for tree seedlings are now
available at this office.
Quite a little Interest is being
shown these days in top dressing
wheat with nitrogen. This inter
est is brought about through the
heavy rainfall that we have had
the last few months with a satu
rated soil. Several farmers have
purchased nitrogen during the
past week for application as soon
as they can get on their fields.
Rates of application run between
twenty and thirty pounds de
pending on soil depth and mois
ture saturation. A number of
farmers are putting on one hun
dred pounds of ammonium ni
trate which provides thirty-three
and one-half pounds of nitrogen.
Long Distance Nation-Wld
Maying Sorvice
Mayflower Agents
Padded Vans
Penland Bros.
TRANSFER CO.
Pendleton, Oregon Phone 338
Farm taxes have gone up fas
ter in Oregon than In most other
states. Since 1945 the amount
of tax levied against farm real
estate has more than" trebled.
Similar taxes in California are
two and one-half times as high
while they have not quite doub
led In Washington. Nationally
the farm tax levy in 1954 was
almost twice as large as In 1945.
This Is adding to Oregon's pro
duction costs and surely isn't
helping our ability to compete
unless Oregon farmers are get
ting more good out of the addi
tional tax dollars than farmers
in other states.
The farmer who raises lambs
will be eligible after April 1 for
wool incentive payments based
on the full live weight at the
time of the sale. Each following
owner for thirty days or more
will be eligible for payment only
on the added weight and only
unshorn lambs will oualifv.
Lambs bought before April 1 and
marketed later will be paid for
the old basis of full live weight
at time of linal sale.
From time to time we have
had inquiries at the office on
obtaining rain and snow g"auges
such as are used by the U. S.
Weather Bureau. We have been
able to get a few of these for
fertilizer demonstration coopera
tes with the understanding that
these farmers would report pre
cipitation to this office where a
record could be kept. For those
farmers who are interested in
buying such gauges, we find that
they are available for a little un
der twenty-five dollars F. O. B.
Washington, D. C. Anyone in
interested should contact this office.
ner and Don Robison, Heppner,
are consigning. Mr. Worden will
consign three, Don Robinson five
head.
Several farmers have asked
questions concerning a new 2,4D
preparation which has been on
the market in this area for only
a short time. The new form of
2,4D is a paste. It is a butyric
acid, consisting of finely ground
powder 2,4D plus emulsifier and
oil. Its advantages are that it
is absorbed very readily in the
plant and is less volatile than
ester, therefore is easier to use
near suseptible crops. Its dis
advantages are that it is hard to
get through a spray boom as it
is gummy. When used it is
necessary to equip the sprayer
with a coarser screen or elimi
nate the screen entirely. Some
have found that they can get it
through better by putting in a
larger nozzle and applying more
gallons per acre. It is hard to
get in to solution, however, this
can be done with the use of warm
water. It appears that for gene
ral farm use the disadvantages
outweigh the advantages.
Letter To The Editor
To the Editor:
I read your editorial in last
week's paper concerning the yel
low line on the highway, and I
have also been reading similar
letters in the Oregonian regard
ing others preference of the yel
low line over the white the state
is now using.
l am on the highways from 45,-
OOo to 50,000 miles a year under
all weather and road conditions,
and to my way of thinking the
yellow marking is far better than
the white. If there happens to
be snow on the highway the yel
low line shows up far better than
the white, in fact, the white is
almost invisible under many cir
cumstances. I wonder which is the most
valuable to the state, a little
more paint that will protect the
lives of our tourists and our own
residents, too, or the money that
might be saved by not painting
half the stripe the broken line
as is now being done.
I am very much in favor of
having another line alongside
the yellow line to show where
visibility is poor and passing
should be prohibited, such a
marking can save many lives.
We don't mean to criticize too
strongly, but for safety we'll take
the old solid yellow line every
time.
V. R. "BOB" RUNNION
There are two cattle sales com
ing up that might interest Mor
row county livestock men. These
two sales are important from the
standpoint too, that consignors
from Morrow county have added
animals for the sales. On Febru
ary 17 and 18 the Columbia Em
pire sale will be held at Yakima.
At this sale forty-five bulls and
fifteen females will be offered.
Don Robinson of Kirk & Robinson.
Heppner, has five head consigned.
On March 2 and 3 the Oregon Pol
led Hereford Association will
hold their annual sale at Red
mond. The same . number of
bulls and females will be offered
at this sale. Floyd Worden, Hepp-
Larry Smitten, district main
tenance engineer and Bill Kose
san, agronomist, state highway
department called at this office
the past week to discuss weed
control programs on state high
way right-of "ways. They expres
sed their satisfaction with the
weed control that Morrow county
is carrying out and indicated
that they would like to continue
cooperation with the county an
other year. They were most
deeply concerned about the in
festation of sand burrs which
have spread rapidly on our right-of-ways
and now are becoming a
problem in some fields adjacent
to highway right-of-way infesta
tions. They have been doing
some work with deisel oil but in
dicated that they would do a con
siderable amount of spraying this
year on their right-of-ways with
dalopon, the new grass killer.
Many farmers indicated concern
over this new weed for south
Morrow county at our county
weed meeting, held on January
18. The interest that the State
Highway Department is taking
in irradicating this weed is appreciated.
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR COUNTY SHERIFF
I hereby announce my candid
acy to succeed myself for the of
fice of Sheriff of Morrow County
subject to the will of the Repub
lican voters of Morrow County at
the primary election.
C. J. D. BAUMAN
Pd. Adv.
47tfc
FOR COUNTY CLERK
I hereby announce that I am
a candidate for the office of
County Clerk of Morrow County
subject to the will of the Repub
lican voters of Morrow County at
the primary election.
SADIE PARRISH
Pd. Adv. 47tfc
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For Your Present
Here is the way 1956 price pros
pects for things farmers buy looks
alongside -955. Somewhat lower
feed, seeds and feeder livestock.
About the same fertilizer and
miscellaneous farm supplies.
Somewhat higher farm wage
rates, interest rates, building and
fencing materials, farm machi
nery, motor vehicles, motor sup
plies and property taxes.
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Phone Your Newi to 6-9228.
How many ties did you get for
Christmas? For once I didn't
come up with any could have
used a couple this year, too. In
stead I got three wool mufflers.
Never wear a muffler.
Some people are determined to
do something about the Useless
Gift Problem they're holding a
"White Elephant Party" Satur
day at the Community Hall.
Handy Peterson's the chair
man. "Bring any presents you'd
rather give than receive," he
says. "Chances are you'll swap
them off for - something even
worse-but it ought to be fun."
From where I sit, it's sometimes
pretty hard to give a man exactly
the present he wants. Other
people so often have tastes and
preferences that differ from our
own for example, think of all
the people you know who claim
coffee's the beverage, and all the
others (like me) who'd rather
have a glass of beer. Being able
to make your own choice is the
greatest "gift" of all.
Copyright, 1956, Vnitcd States Brewers Foundation
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