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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 23, 1956 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MOBHOW COUNTY'S NSWiFAPEH Tht Beppnr Oazett. established March 30, 1888. The Heppner Tlmee, wtablished November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 13, 1912. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsTbcfATIAN yj KJ 3 From The County Agent's Office Considerable veloping in grass and legume seedings as spring draws near. This week, seedings of grass with Nomad Alfalfa for pasture, were discussed with Ralph Beamer and Don Robinson. Heppner: Oscar Peterson, lone; and John Graves, Hardman. Recommendations were made on seeding rates and kind of grasses to use. While questions were raised on various grasses suited to their condi tions, each were sure that they wanted to use Nomad alfalfa. Grasses seeded will vary from Crested VVheatgrass in the low rainfall areas to Alta Fescue and Intermediate wheat for the high er rainfall. Oscar Peterson will seed one hundred acres, Don Robinson ten acres, Ralph Beam er sixty-five acres, and John Graves fifty acres. While these farmers, like others, are inter ested in the soil bank proposal, they are going ahead with the seedings regardless of the type of farm program that will be of fered. They will take advantage of the agricultural conservation practice payments, A -2 or A-3 In the 1950 handbook. These pay ments provide for fifty per cent of the cost of the seed, fifty per cent of the cost of seed bed pre paration and seeding, fifty per cent of the cost of nitrogen for fertilizing and may take advane age of a portion of this practice assisting with fencing the area seeded. The seedings on the John Oaves, Oscar Peterson and Kirk and Robinson ranches are a con tinuation of a program to estab lish a portion of diverted wheat land or waste land to forage for pasture and hay. Each of the ranches have established seed ings in pastures and can plan to continue to do so, getting all suitable land into high produc ing forages. The Ralph Beamer seeding will be put in as a de monstration seeding of grass and FUTURE PLANS? You're probably planning To retire some day! If so, are funds ready & Laid carefully away? Good Life Insurance p'ans Could help you lots And the sooner started, The less they cost! A few winter evenings is Little time to spend For plans that could pay You good dividends! hr Make a date to discuss your retirement plans & needs with C. A. RUGGLES Heppner, Oregon Phono 6-9625 Box 611 By N. C Anderson interest is de-. Nomad alfalfa with E. F. Burling 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. on summer fallowed land profit ably. Eecause of this experi mentation, Mr. Waddoups is now with Lamb Weston Canning Com pany, promoting carrot and sugar beet production in Umatilla county. Yields of seven tons of carrots and eleven tons of sugar beets were raised on summer fal low. The carrots were found to contain double the amount of sugar content found in carrots grown under irrigation. Various other crops experiment ed with were sorghums and su dans, compared with alfalfa for silage. Sudan grass grown in twelve inch rows produced eight tons silage per acre. This com pared to alfalfa producing six and one half tons. With 'alfalfa, a crop is raised every year, with Sudan grass as an annual on; summer fallow, every other year, j Mr. Waddoups found that annual i cropping was a recommended practice where soil depth was no deeper than twenty-four inches, lie found that by supplying Nit rogen more production could be gained from this shallow ground which had only enough capacity to store moisture that would fall, in most vears, between harvest and seeding time, growing spring crops. ham and Sons Seed company which developed Nomad, provid ing equipment and supervising the seeding. This project Is being sponsored locally by the range and pasture improvement com mittee of the Morrow County Livestock Growers Association. On Tuesday afternoon of this week, board members of the sev eral rain increase programs un derway in Oregon and Washing ton, met at Hermiston to discuss the possibilities of an evaluation study on the effects of cloud seed ing under different conditions in different manners. While those present did not favor such an evaluation, it was an interesting meeting from the standpoint of an exchange of experiences. It was also quite interesting to hear that unofficially, President Eisen hower's committee on the study of weather modification had re ported positive results in the rain increase program carried out by Tri-County Weather Research over the past several years. The com plete report will be made public in June of this year by that com mittee. The committee encour aged Tri-County to continue oper ations for further study. Incidentally, several directors of "rain making" organizations in Washingon were not able to attend because of roads flooded out, while Gilliam county farm ers reported their first experience of having water as high as the bumper on their car over the road on Shutler Flat in North Gilliam county. My experience was noth ing new, as Tuesday afternoon's meeting resulted in the same out come as two previous rain meet ings attended, that of coming home to find the basement of my house flooded. THIRTY YEARS AGO From files of the Gazette Times February 25, 1926 Willows grange was organized at Rhea Siding near Cecil on Friday last. Newly elected officers were Oscar Lundell, master; Mrs. Lun dcll, lecturer; Mrs. Tyler, secre tary and Otho Spillman, treas urer. Harold Cohn, Roger Morse, Paul Gemmell and Aha Jones were members of Heppner American Legion post No. 87 who went to Arlington Saturday to take In the district conference held there. Mr .and Mrs. Charles McDaniel of Hardman passed through the city on Thursday afternoon last on their way down to Boardman. Republican nomination for Uni ted States Senator to run against U. S. Senator Wayne L. Morse In November. Congressman Walter Norblad's announcement that he would be a candidate for governor on the Republican primary ticket does not give him homestead rights. His unscheduled bid has not made the pundits happy. They wanted him to run for reelection in the 1st District which he has repre sented for 11 years and has been reelected four times. Governor Elmo E. Smith is expected to an nounce his candidacy for gover nor soon. Several years ago he was picked as a comer by party leaders. The blank in the Republican agenda for the 1st Congressional District caused by Norblad's gubernatorial announcement was quickly filled by William E. Healy who had announced he would be a candidate for secre tary of state, and would run against Mark Hatfield, also a candidate for secretary of state. Healy's crash into the congres cinnal race eased Hatfield and pleased Republican leaders. This Will be a Dig DOOSl io neaiy wuu resigned recently as assistant secretary of state after serving eieht vears. DEDICATES HOSPITAL Governor Elmo E. Smith will give the major address at the March 3 dedication ceremonies of the new '227-bed teaching and research hospital on the Univer sity of Oregon Medical School campus in Portland. Ceremonies are scheduled to start promptly at 1:15 p. m. and will be held outdoors at the Medical School campus. Following the dedication by Dr. R. E. Kleinsorg, president of the State Board of Higher Edu cation, the building will be open to the public for guided tours. Additional guided tours will be held Sunday, March 4 from 1 to Continued on Page 5 Mrs. John Durham is visiting with her sons, Frank and Orval Rasmus and will spend a couple of weeks in the city. Miss Ret a Neel came over from Yakima and spent the weekend visiting at the home of her mo ther, Mrs. R. A. Thompson. Merlin Hughes, son of Eb Hughes, Buttercreek rancher and a member of the Buttercreek llin ton 4-H livestock club, becomes the first Junior member of the American Hereford Association's new junior membership program. The program was developed to encourage 411 and FFA members to breed registered Hereford cat tle. Junior members are entitled to the privileges of adult mem bers at a special membership fee which may be applied on a life membership upon reaching 21 years of age. Merlin will receive as a junior member, a member ship certificate as well as pic tures of model Hereford cow, bull and steer for framing. Many young livestock grow ers, this year, are learning the value of insurance to protect their investment in livestock as 4-H Club projects. Some years ago the Oregon Farm Bureau Insurance Company offered an insurance to protect 4-H and FFA members from losses through an insurance program designed especially for them. There have each year, been club members using the insurance, however, it has not been used nearly as much in the past years as in recent months. Terhaps the reason for this is the price-cost squeeze which makes it all the more, important for livestock growers to protect their invest ment. There are losses each year of 4-H animals but in 1956 club members Kenneth Smouse, Bill Brannon, Tom Martin, San dra Beach, Karl Beach, Jerry An derson, Larry Campbell and Don ald Hughes will not need to worry about their investment. These club members have nine beef and eight sheep insured. Premiums for insuring these 4-H Club animals average about five dollars for the feed period on beef and three dollars per head per year on breeding ewes. if, fa if, if if, i Political apprehension in an Oregon election was never sharp er than in the current campaign. However, on George Washing ton's Birthday, with only 12 legal filing days left for the May 18th primary election, few Republi cans and fewer Democrats had filed. The deadline for filing is March 9th. This does not mean there is a lack of interest 1n the campaign. Oregon is in focus for the nation. National political headquarters are mumbling, "As Oregon goes ." Local leaders of both par ties are getting advice from ex perienced campaigners in eastern states. A revaluation of all can didates is being made. The actuality that the Demo crats in Oregon have been short on candidates and success, for many years may give them a break this year. So far they have avoided party-splitting contests while several impetous contests are plaguing the Republicans. Friday, Philip Hitchcock. Port land, a former member of the Senate from Klamath Falls, an nounced he would oppose Attor ney Lamar Tooze, Portland, who announced several months ago he would be a candidate for the WEEKEND SPECIALS AT COURT STREET SLICED Cello Pkgs. IMP 1 mF ure Lard 4 lb. pkg. FRESH Columbia River SMELT 3 LM f 1.00 Gerber's Strained BABY FOOD I ft CANS $1 .00 JLSi JL Dundee 22 Cans TOMATOES ft CANS 2CANS39c Nalley's 15 oz. CHILI ft CANS 2 CANS 43c ourt Street Market FREE PARKING PHONE 6-9643 For those farmers who have thought that there were no new crops for the Columbia Basin, they will be interested in some findings of the Pendleton branch experiment station last year. Last week at a conference of experi ment agents, H. Marr Waddoups, formally with the station, report ed that as a result of experimen tation on crops suited to be grown on diverted acres, carrots and sugar beets were produced lUf ILWIUKlUIl L,lVeSK)CK C1UD 1S the first to have the distinction of getting in all report cards for pro jocts carried by their members. The sixteen members are enrolled with twenty-five different pro jects which includes eighty-five head of fat or breeding animals. Of course this does not count sud den increases such as Tom Poin ter's brood sew which f arrowed thirteen pigs, eleven of which he savd or the many lambs that club members have reported coming fast and furious. To re cord this outstanding club's pro jects for future reference, club leaders. Harold Beach and Ken neth Palmer are getting a series of pictures of animals now and will then take pictures at fair time for comparison. AUTO Wl ATI CA0.LV. . . rlost Modem Trucks on any job! STAR THEATER, Heppner Admission Price: AdulU 70c, Student 50c, Children 20c Including Federal Tax. AH children occupying seats must buy tickets. Sunday shows continuous from 4 p. m. Other evenings start at 7:30. Boxoffice open until 9 p. m. Telephone 6-9278. Thursday-Frlday-Saturday, February 23-24-25 THE LAST COMMAND Sterling Hayden, Ernest Borgnine, Anna Maria'Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, J. Caroll Naish. Stirring Trucolor picturization of a thrilling chapter in American History. The splendidly filmed story of James Bowie and Davy Crockett, heroes of the Alamo, has appeal for every type of movie-goer. Gordon MeCrae sings catchy tune "Jim Bowie". PLl'S two cartoons and other subjects. Sunday-Monday, February 26-27 THE TALL MEN Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell. CinemaScope and Color. One of the greatest frontier dramas. This story of the Bozeman Trail has plenty of action and surprises to satisfy the taste of the entire family. 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