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Page 6 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 23, 1956 Mustang Tournament Hopes Higher Heppner Wins Two Out of Three In Week's Play The Mustangs roared back Tuesday night to bury Irrlgon 68 to 30 and keep their tournament hopes alive. Heppner will play Stanfield there Friday night and If they can win that game they will be tied with Stanfield for second place In the district. Should the Mustangs win they will play off the tie Saturday night. If they take third place, Heppner will then play either Helix or McEwen Monday night to determine who will get last place in the tour nament to be played at Pendle ton late next week. By Jameg Monahan Tournament berths looked a little farther away for the Hepp ner Mustangs after the results from last weekend's split in basketball play. In a Friday nigh ttilt that wasn't very im piessive, the blue and gold hoop sters edged out the Lexington Jackrabbits by a 43-36 score and met the Echo Cougars in an ex citing contest that ended in a 43-38 loss for the Mustangs. Lexington with only on? win to Its credit for the entire year gave their host a rude surprise throughout the contest. Jumping to a 2 0 lead on a Jump shot by Hunt the bunnies added gift shot for a 3 0 lead. Ruhl hit from the corner for the Mustangs first score and then Tibbies tipped in a duece for the horses first leading margin of the game. D. Piper took a re bound and dumped It back for a 6-3 lead. Patrick sank a couple for the "long ears" last score of the quarter. S. Ruhl connected on a feed from J. riper to complete Heppners first period shooting. Lex hit for one field goal and 4 freethrows for a second stanza total of 6 while the Mustangs rolled through 6 field goals for 12. Del riper opened the Mustangs scoring in the second with a fade away hook. Piper added another lipin while Connor hit a long set from the side. riper again hit with a jump from the side. Connor fired in another 2 pointer from t ho side to up the Mustang lead to 1S-9 before Nolan hit on a jump shot from the front. A faulty upcouit pass gave S. Ruhl his first steal of the gamej as ne intercepted it lor a lay-in to bring the halftime score to a low 21-11 total. "The Third Quarter Blue" ac companied the Mustangs through out the entire third portion of play as the Mustangs lead dwin dled from 11 points to 7. Scoring for the Heppner cagers in the third section was started when D. Piper dropped through his third tip-in -of the night. J. Piper scored a long set shot from front of the key to give the horses their longest lead of the game and after that shot the "bunnies" settled down to "basketball busi ness". Ahead only 32-25 at the final period's end the Mustangs con tinually lost ground in the scor ing column and witn z6i naa only a 38-34 lead. J. Piper was fouled and made good only one of his gift shots but immediately afterwards his brother Del hit for another gift shot to give the Mustangs a 41-34 lead with .58 seconds to go when Herman hooked through a shot. Ruhl ended the game's scoring with a jump from in deep In the key. D. Piper was high for the night, clicking for 18 field goals and one gift shot while Ruhl was runner up with 15. Mike Tatrick was high for the bunnies with 11. George Delapp's Cougars were still sitting on the U. M. C. lea gue throne after their tussle with t lie Heppner Mustangs despite a 13 point output in the last six minutes of play. Breaking the ice first the Mus tangs Livestock Marketing Trends For Oregon, United States Listed Floodgates have been opened on the nation's record back log of finished beef with more than one-half of the nearly six million wintPr-fed cattle likely to be marketd during the- first three months of this year. Livestock feeders who have held longer than usual hoping for better prices are "bunching" marketings rather than holding animals to heavier weights that meet consumer resistance, reports William Fowler, Oregon State college livestock marketing specialist. Partly-finished steers may also move rapidly to avoid competi tion with last fall's big pig crop scheduled to hit retail markets by late spring, Fowler says. Main hope for feeders of heavy cattle lies in the defense depart ment's announcement that the military will continue through March its program for accelerat ed purchases of boneless beef. The program was started In De cember at the request of the U. S. department of agriculture. Nationally, winter feeding of cattle has increased one-third since 1950 with this year's 5,823,- 000 head running one percent above last year's previous record. scored on Skip Ruhl's short lVtl jump shot but Echo's Mike Tolar tied it up with a fade-away jump. From that point on Heppner con tinually forged ahead until they had posted at 13 6 first quarter lead. The Mustangs defensive game sagged off in the second period and in the final two minutes the two squads traded bucket for bucket with Echo tying the game on a short shot by Ramos for a 21-21 halftime total. Mike and Sam Ramos lead the Cougars in the last half as they potted 13 of the "cats" 24 points while th Mustangs collected 17. Heppner went behind as far as 11 points in the third and man- iged only 4 points the first coni ng on a pair of tosses by Ruhl with only 3:19 left in the first quarter. Tibbies dunked a tip- in for the other Mustang score. Trailing 25-35 at the last stanza start the Mustangs outscored the Cougars by 3 points but failed to overcome the winning margin the "catmen" had built up in the third. The Mustangs outshot the Cou gars from the field by two points but lost the tilt on the black line as they canned only 4-12 while the Echo cagers rolled in 13 for 23. High point laurals were won by Skip' Ruhl with It while Mike and Sam Ramos tallied 10 apiece for the Cougars AT HEPPNER MARKET Bclleanna Cleaned, Pan-Ready SMELT I POUND PACKAGES PKGS. 93c FISH STICKS O PKGS. Tour Fishermen PORTER'S FRILLETS PKG. Largo Packages 69c 29c Morton's Macaroni Cr Cheese POT PIES 4 F0R 95c BUY YOUR LOCKER BEEF NOW! (BURKENBINE'S) Heppner RSarke Phone 6-9922 percent of the total, held their numbers close to last year's. But Western states were feeding 1, 503,000 head on January 1 three percent above last year's previ ous record. Oregon feeders had 45,000 head on January 1 for a 24 percent in crease over last year, Fowler reports. Even more significant than to la numbers of cattle, the special ist explains, is the present rate of marketing. Farmers' inten tions on January 1 were to mar ket 51 percent of the total num hers during the first three months of the year compared to 44 per cent for the same period last year. Fowler explains that far mors can no longer afford to give cattle extra finish while waiting for better prices, Other feeding trends noted by the specialist this winter are fewer calves and lightweight cat tie on feed, about the some num bers of middleweights, and a big increase in heavy cattle. o MARION GREEN NAMED INSURANCE REPRESENTATIVE Marion C. Green, local business man, has been appointed as local life insurance representative for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Green is presently associated with Empire Equipment Co. as parts manager and will work life insurance on a part time basis. He is married and has one son and is well known in the Heppner community having lived in Hepp ner all his life. He will specialize in mortgage, family income, juvenile and es tate analysis. o DOG-GONE Sportsmen who have hunted be hind Smokey the Chesapeake Bay retreiver owned by Dr. A. D. Mc Murdo will be sorry to hear of his death last week. Smokey had been sick with infectious Hepati tis for over four months and had dwindled to a mere skeleton. He was 10 years old last November. o Ed Rice of Portland is visiting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Rice. (Farm Land Values Up, Farm Incomes Down; OSC Reviews Reasons Farm land values, high during the past two years, have been supported by several factors other than farm income, reports Man ning Becker, farm management specialist at Oregon State college. In the past, the value of farm land and buildings went up when farm income increased and went down when farm income de clined. But since 1953, farm land values have slowly and steadily risen to a new record high in the face of declining farm in come. And regular reports to the U. S. department of agriculture from 16,00o farmers and 10,000 real estate men show this to be a na tionwide trend. Becker says several factors are j probably responsible for this un expected strength in farm land values: First, farmers are strong bid ders for additional land to en large their own farming opera tions. Many farmers see the use of machinery on more land as a way to increase their production efficiency in the face of the pre sent cost-price squeeze. Second, it's been easier to ob tain credit for farm purchases, Several large leaders reduced in terest rates and raised appraised values for loan purposes in 1954 Third, a booming non-farm economy has encouraged invest ment in farm land by- urban peo pie. Despite the influence of these three factors on land values dur ing the past few years, Becker believes that over the years farm land values will depend as they have in the past upon the gen eral level of farm earnings. Some current investments in farm land may be based on the belief that land will develop "scarcity" value as our popu lation continues to increase. But Becker thinks technical advan ces in agriculture during the next 20 years will make it possible for farmers to produce all our popu lation will need from present farm acreage. Q BLOW CONTROL DISTRICT ANNUAL MEET SET Morrow ounty farmers living within the boundaries of the Lex ington blow control district are reminded of the annual meeting of that organization which will be held at the Alfred Nelson home Februaiy' 27 beginning at 8:00 p. m. Business will be taken care of with a discussion of the reasons for the district. Election will be held to fill the unexpired terms of Bob Kil Kenny and Albert Lindstrom. All are invited to attend. Radioactive Treated Foods Show Promise; Flavor, Looks Vary OREGON STATE COLLEGE Wide variations in flavor, appear ance and texture of different foods treated with radioactive materials have been reported by an Oregon State college food technologist, who urges large scale tests to determine how well irradiated foods 'will be liked and accepted by consumers. Dr. H. W. Schultz, head of food technology at Oregon State, points out that ionizinc treat- ments hold tremenduous possi bilities for preserving foods with out refrigeration and for ridding foods of parasites. It Is still imDossible to sav. however, whether the flavor and HOSPITAL NEWS New Arrivals To Mr. and Mrs. William Butler, Kinzua, a 9 lb. 8 oz. boy born Feb. 16, named Ron ald Jean. To Mr. and Mrs. Fide lis Unrein, Heppner, a 6 lb. 2 oz. boy born Feb. 18, named Jack Dee. To Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Prock, Heppner a 8 lb. 1 oz. boy born Feb. 21, named James Mich ael. Medical Charlene Weather ford, Condon, dismissed; Edna Brandt, Kinzua, dismissed; Ger- aldine Sumner, Heppner; Amanda Duvall, Heppner, dismissed; Ruby Billingsley, Kinzua, dismis sed; Lynette Thornhill, Arling ton, dismissed; Edgar Denton, Heppner; Marjorie Craber, Hepp ner; Clayton Parton, Kinzua, dis missed; Kevin Morgan, Condon; Wilma Nichols, Spray, dismissed; Marie Rhoton, Kinzua; Bee Kenny, Heppner; Mary McLeod, lone; George Eaton, Condon; Mary Umphrey, Condon; Ida Ol son, Heppner; Linda Woods, Kin zua. Major Surgery Beulah Sherer, lone; Joyce Buschke, Heppner; Johanne Taylor, Heppner. OuttPatients Betty Gentry, Heppner; Ray Heimbigner, lone; Opal Pettyjohn, Heppner; Doro thy Pettyjohn, Heppner. n . SERVICES HELD Graveside services were held in ' the lone cemetery Sunday Feb. 19 1 at 2 p. m. for Carl William, infant I son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schulz, ' with Rev. Alfred Shirley officiat ing. Creswick Mortuary of Hepp ner had charge of the arrange ments. Carl William was born Feb. 14 and died Feb. 17. ! "looks" ehanges that come with treatment of many foods will make them "unacceptable" to consumers, Schultz continued. Re search is needed to clarify these points. "Some foods, such as milk and cheese, bananas, orange juice, and certain cured meat products such as frankfurters have be come notorious examples of pro ducers of undesirable flavors when irradiated." the OSC food processing expert said. On the other side of the picture, i asparagus, bacon, green beans, beef liver, broccoli, brussel sprouts carrots, chicken, codfish cakes, pork and pork sausage rate "good" on the appraisal chart. Many meats which are among the key foods under study show promise, Schultz said. It ap pears that irradiation of meat may cause no greater flavor changes than those produced in some food canning or freezing he reported. Raw meat generally is "very slightly browned" on the outer surfaces when given ionizing treatments, Schultz found, but when cooked 'there is no discern ible effect." Texture sometimes is changed. Ground beef takes on a "crumbly" texture when ir radiated at high dosages and beefsteak texture is described as "softened." I A panel of trained taste test ers rated the irradiated meats l "different" than non-irradiated, Schultz said, but it is not known to what extent this difference will influence consumer accept ance of the meats. No changes in flavor or tex ture have been reported with bread but a "light straw" color resulted from the ionizing treat ment. Potatoes have been found to develop an "off flavor" and brownish color. Eggs give a stale appearance. The three major areas for which ionizing radiations might be con sidered for foods according to Schultz, are (1) for preservation by total sterilization using rela tively large dosages of radioac tive materials; (2) "pasteuriz ing" treatment where smaller dosages are used to cut the mi crobial population and extend storage life; and (3) for destroy ing parasites in food products using still smaller dosages. OSC has an extensive program of research underway at present on meats. Heading up these stu dies are Robert F. Cain, E. C. Bubl and H. C. Nordan. Findings to date show ionizing treatments might make it possible to keep tuimi minimi 1MIII nil iNfW8 l i OP' fcl "Fasten your safety belt, Horace!" Local News In Brief Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beardsley of Portland were recent visitors at the home of Mrs. Beardsley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Swaggart over the weekend. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Evans over the weekend were Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Kari of Pendle ton and Dick Kari of Hanford, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Scrits meier of Portland were in Hepp ner over the weekend to attend the Elks Annual and to visit with Mrs. Scritsmeier's sister and brother-in-lw, Mr. and Mrs. Faye Prock. Among weekend visitors here for the Elks Annual were Mr. and Mrs. Percy Dickerson, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. McElvain and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hendricks of Pendle ton. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Parker of Pasco were weekend visitors at the home of Mrs. Parker's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clive Huston. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Case of Seaside, were guests last week end at the home of his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Case. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Johnson of Pendleton were Heppner visitors over the "weekend and were house guests at the home of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Edger. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Parrish of Portland visited over the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parrish. meat for long periods without refrigeration. In the studies, raw meats are canned and then sent to Arco, Idaho, for immersion in canals where radioactive rods are cooled Other foods are treated in a simi lar fashion. GtfltRAL AMERICA COMPANIES MAHONEYS LEAVE FOR HAWAII Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Mahoney left Monday for a vacation visit to the Hawaiian Islands. They ex pect to return to Heppner about March 4. Mr. and Mrs. David Brizendine of Arlington were Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Lab- hart. Mr. and Mrs. C A. Ruggles spent the weekend in La Grande where thev visited with Mr. and Mrs. Bus Dodson. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Haider- son of Condon were Saturday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Gribble. WEEKLY SPECIALS AT PHIL'S ABSOR6INE JR. 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