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Pog2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 9, 1956 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 188. The Heppner Time, eetabUahed November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 12. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL lAsTpcliATLQN XT 8N y U Q Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Port Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents. The following article was brought in to us this week by a local farmer. It appeared as a letter to the editor of the weekly Western Livestock Re porter, printed in Montana. It presents another approach to the farm prob lem and we make no comment on it. Each reader may draw his own conclusions. It was headed Who's Important? I don't know what all the fuss is about. The "plight" of the farmerrancher isn't THAT import ant. When you examine all the charts and graphs and statistics, you can readily see there IS no farm problem. The problem is with the far mers. And anyway, a solution is near at hand, quick and easy. It looks very simple to me and if it looks simple to me, it must be. Pull out the props and let 'er all fall down. Now, isn't that easy? Inside a month there would be no farm problem for farmers to kick about or politicians to kick around. The coming election would be nice and quiet and there would be fewer farmers. And don't think that isn't the end in view: fewer farmers but bigger farms, fewer ranchers but larger ranches If you'd kick out the little guy and boost up the middle fella, the man on top would be in a position to negotiate. Why is it that farmers and ranchers consider themselves so special? Nothing else much gets that kind of treatment. Any other big business runs on the simple principle of high production big demand, low production-high prices. But rural folks feel they are entitled to their inde pendence and a profit, too. And it just isn't sen sible. It isn't the way things are set up in our great, big, beautiful country and nt's evading the is sue to think so. Rural production has no lawful mark-up on its goods. A rancher doesn't by law have to pay the owner (himself) any wages. He doesn't work on a minimum wage basis. He produces what people don't need so much of and expects to make a profit. He's crazy. The trouble with the rural population is that they are modern in every respect, even to the in side privy, but their thinking is about twenty years ago or older. They think they're important, when the truth is they comprise only 13 of the population. They think the nation's economy Is based on a prosperous agriculture. They think the financial pages are off the beam. They think that nothing could replace them in the scheme of living. They don't know from nothing but they don't even know it. They not only refuse to face reality but they don't even recognize it. Anything a farmerrancher can produce on the land, science can produce better and cheaper. Just take a look at wool versus orlon. And remem ber, oi Ion looks like wool, feels like wool, but orlon doesn't need ironing. Maybe test tube sir loin sounds improbable and unappetizing, but don't kid yourself, it would serve the same pur pose. And it wouldn't have to be chewed. Rural residents would do better to consider themselves big business and go on a weekly pro-fit-and-loss statement basis. They should get modern and expand until what they had fo sell would make a difference to somebody if it went off the market. A lot of little farmers and ranch ers can't do it even without their artificial res piration. But a few big fellas could get real tough and if that didn't work so good, they could start producing a substitute. You remember who it was put the work in on synthetic rubber, don't you. There is no such thing as the family size farmranch any more, and it's been long gone. It would take a big family to supply the unpaid labor needed to work a farm big enough t0 sup port the too-big family. And they'd still need shoes for their feet. But not even the farm advi sors, bless their little hearts, will admit the fam ily farm is gone. And farm papers go right on telling how to produce three hundred bushel corn and forty bushel dry land wheat each and every year after year. They tell you how to get ninety per cent calf crop and save all the twin lambs. But they fail to tell the truth: "Get big or get out." What makes farming and ranching any different , in that respect than any other big producer of necessary goods? Steel companies merge. Car manufacturers join with other car manufacturers. Country churches close up and go into town Sundays. Even schools are consolidated. Farming is just behind the times and we might as well face it. A smart farmer is the one who sold out to a sub sidiary of an oil company and went to work for the company. You really can't blame the urbanites. They have a legitimate beef about subsidies. It makes less sense than killing baby pigs, because back there were hungry people but now you have to beg overfed folks to eat more. Rural people have the very worst publicity but what would YOU say of CMC was subsidized? What good does it to to blame Benson?? What good is there in saying that it should have been been cut off ten years ago? Why cuss the get-rich-quick boys? Why snort at the city farmers? It's much too late to be gentle, so pull out the props and let 'er rip. What if a lot of small fellas fall by the wayside? They aren't really import ant, you know and nobody would miss them. Get modern, boy, get modern. You wouldn't want to go back to buggies, would you? Grace Kenfield, Kenfield Korral, Reed Point, Mont. THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times February 11, 1926 A better Heppner and a more livable community is the aim of the Heppner Luncheon club, or ganization of which was perfect ed Monday noon at a luncheon meeting of representative Hepp ner business men at the Elk horn restaurant The members of the Christian Endeavor play cast were made up largely of high school stu dents. They were: Crocket Sprouls, Merl Merritt, Velma Fell, Ellis Thomson, Jim Thomson and ttnei Moore. Minor parts were Mrs. Emma Emery Dies at Monument By Martha Matteson Mrs. Emma Alice Emery of Monument died at her home at noon January 30 following a men were appointed and asked to select their own committee members. Those appointed were: range and pasture improvement, Don Robinson, Heppner, chairman; insect weeds and rodent Control. Herbert Hynds, Cecil, chairman; Cattleman of the Yer. Frank An- takpn hv t imiio M,.n,iffpn Bnh derson. HeDDner. chairman; di- Turner, Onez Parker and Stephen sease control, Dr. James Norene, Thompson. Heppner, chairman; theft preven- tion, W. W. Weatherford, Hepp- J. W.Osborn. Cecil nioneer, washer, chairmanjlivestock market- doing business in this city yes terday. ing, Ralph Beamer , iieppner, chairman; meat promotion, Dick Wilkinson, Heppner, chairman; Maurice Frye this week moved , ""no icw, nuK' c ' o his stock of radios and electrical -ner, chairman; game laws, Ray supplies from the Slocum build-!mond prench' Heppner, chair ing into his new quarters in the,mdn McMurdo building where he is now nicely located. caused a lot of discussion. The County Agent had the op portunity last week while at tending the annual meeting of the National Association of Wheat Growers t0 visit with a young wheat grower from East Africa, The young man who farms fif teen hundred acres of wheat in East Africa is in Oregon as a Farm Bureau sponsored Interna A new committee .to handle matters of importance pertaining to the livestock industry that might not be funnelod through one of these committees was that of the interim committee which will be headed by O. W. Cutsforth, Lexington. The association asked that an adult livestock class be set up for those interested live stock men for the winter of 1956 57. Specific classes for which there was interest was that of newer livestock diseases, form bookkeeping and feed rations. A committee of men will be se short illness due to a stroke. She has been an invalid in a wheel chair for more than 35 years due to arthritis. She was born April 1J. tlie daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Merrill and she spent her iife fn the Hardman and Monu ment areas. Survivors are her husband Henry Albert Emery; two sons, Elzy Emery of Monument, Hugh Emery, Des Moines, Washington; two daughters, Mrs. Lawrence Johnson, Redmond; Mrs. Ivery Jewell, Monument; seven grand children and three great-grandchildren. She also leaves three brothers, M. C. Merrill, Eugene; Alonzo Merrill, Hermiston; Harve of The Dalles, and one sister, Mrs. Jane DeVore, Roseburg. Funeral services were held at Continued on page 7 He will spend ten months at the . Iected .80?n t0.stu and, suggest Floyd Root farm in Sherman County. Wheat farming in this area of East Africa is not too dif ferent from Oregon. County Agent's News By N. C. Anderson A rather large delegation of Morrow County wheat farmers took part in the annual meeting of the National Association of Wheat Growers held last week in Portland. Those -that I visited with during the meeting felt that it was very worthwhile and were happy that they had the oppor tunity to attend this Important national meeting which was held for the first time outside of the great plains states. This annual meeting, which was the sixth, had the largest GAR AVIATION SPRAYING - SEEDING - FERTILIZING For A Better Yield And A Cleaner Harvest PRAY by Gfl Phone 3-8422 Lexington, Ore. registration of wheat farmers ever. Over six hundred register ed during the three days. In ad dition to a top slate of speakers of national importance, the com mittees worked hard and came up with a number of recommen dations effecting wheat farmers throughout the nation. One of the things that most impressed me during the meet ing was that important subjects of public relations which the wheat farmer must carry out. Everyone indicated that a posi tive action public relations pro gram was necessory if the farmer was to survive. That committee came up with some fine recom mendations for developing a public relations program. Com mendation was given the Oregon Wheat Commission for an adver tising program begun late last year as a means of telling the people of Oregon about wheat. Perhaps the most interesting and largely discussed item of the three-day meeting was that of the soil bank plan. Morrow county farmers got across some good recommendations in the federal programs committee whic The agent will be out of the county on February 15 and 15 at tending a district county agent's conference in Pendleton. The con ference will deal with current questions in livestock manage ment. Discussed during the two days will be such things as fit ting the livestock enterprise to the farm business, what's new in nutrition, developments in live stock feeding in the area and re cent developments in forage pro duction. Several livestock and farm management specialists' from the college will be on the program. Recently the Morrow County Livestock Growers Association) met to outline their programs i and projects for the year. At' this time committees were ap- j pointed to carry out the accom plishments the Association in tends to strive for in 1956. Chair- a curriculum in these classes so that arrangements can be com pleted for instructors and others details. Livestock men who are do us a favor by letting us know of this interest so that classes could be arranged to cover sub jects of most interest. 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