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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Thursday-Frlday-Saturday, February 23-24-25
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Sterling Hayden, Ernest Borgnine, Anna Maria'Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur
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American History. The splendidly filmed story of James Bowie and Davy Crockett,
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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.
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of action and surprises to satisfy the taste of the entire family.
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Tuesday-Wednesday, February 28-29
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