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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 1, 1956
72nd Year, Number 51
Effects of Winter
Runoff on Fields
Viewed on Tour
Mo'e than 50 local farmers,
FFA students and interested local
business men took part in the
Heppner Soil Conservation dis
trict's annual conservation tour
last Monday. The approximately
40 mile tour was planned to
show th effects of the unusually
wet winter on farmlands.
The tour, an annual affair, is
normally taken in April or May
but was set up this year to give
farmers an opportunity to view
the 'effects of heavy runoff of
water and snow on both seeded
and summer fallow fields. In
nearly every Instance some indi
cation of soil loss can be seen,
but the group viewed both lands
on which recommended conser
vation practices have been used
and where they have not. On
some fields where such practices
as strip-cropping and other soil
saving measures have not been
practiced the tour members found
very heavy erosion and soil loss.
In numerous instances deep fur
rows have been cut in bare fields
and roads have been covered with
soil washed from fields.
By comparison the group found
that in areas where strip-cropping
and other conservation mea
sures were in effect runoff and
soil loss was practically n'eglibi
ble. It was pointed out to tour
members that the past winter has
been one of the wettest in many
years and that soils throughout
the area are saturated.
The tour is sponsored jointly by
the Heppner Soil Conservation
district and the Heppner-Morrow
County Chamber of Commerce.
The chamber was host at a free
luncheon for all ranchers at the
Methodist church Monday noon
prior to the start of the tour. The
trip was made in a school ' bus
provided by school district No. 1
and in many private cars.
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Red Cross Drive
Opens Today
A kickoff breakfast for the
Mo: row county Red Cross drive in
March was held this Thursday
morning at O'Donnell's Cafe
with volunteer community chair
man and chapter directors at
tending. Dick Brunner, county
drive chairman, was in charge.
The fund quota is $2,818.
Community chirman are Mrs.
Raymond Lundell, West lone;
Mrs. Art Allyn, Boardman; James
Hendeison, Irrigon; Mrs. Orville
Cutsforth and Mrs. Robert Kil
kenny, North Lexington; Mrs.
John Graves, Mrs. Edgar Albert,
Hardman; Mrs. Eldon Padberg,
Lexington; Mrs. James Lindsay,
Morgan; Mrs. Don Heliker, lone;
Mrs. Earl McCabe, lone bus route.
Mrs. Ralph Beamer, Balmfork;
Mrs. E. R. Schaffer, Mrs. Herb
Hynd, Cecil; Mrs. Sam Turner,
Sand Hollow; Mrs. Harold Wright,
Ruggs; Mrs. William Barratt,
Hinton Creek; Mrs. Eugene Ward-
well, Hinton Creek; Mrs. Eugene
Wardwell, Blackhorse; Mrs
Claude Graham, Heppner-Lex-ington
highway; Mrs. Frieda Slo-
cum, Upper Rhea Creek; Mrs.
Gerald Swaggart, Lena; Mrs
Ben Anderson, Eightmile; Mrs.
Marcel Jones, Dry Gulch; Mrs.
Garry Tullis, Lower Rhea Creek;
Mrs. Tom Wilson, Upper Willow
Creek and Mrs. Buster Padberg,
Clarks Canyon.
In Heppner Mrs. Jack Bedford
is residential chairman; Jack An
gel, business district; Miss Shir
ley Kononen, Heppner schools
and Bruce Lindsay, courthouse.
Volunteer solicitors in Heppner
will be Jack Edmondson, Mr. and
Mrs. James Driscoll, Miss Ona
Gilliam, Mesdames Lowell Grib
ble, Harry O'Donnell Jr., L. L.
Robbins, Marvin Smith, Victor
Kreimeyer, Jack Loyd, Harold
Johnston, Lucy Peterson, Kenneth
Keeling, Richard Brunner, James
Monahan, R. B. Rice, J. J. Nys, L.
D. Neill.
Working in the business dis
trict will be Dick Calvin, John
Hartman, Jack Van Winkle, Bill
Collins, Del Jordan, Howard Bry
ant, Phil Blakney, Allen Case.
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VISITORS FROM SCOTLAND
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilkinson
have as their guest his sister,
Mrs. Ellinn Morttimer-Rose of
Troon, Scotland, who arrivedJiere
last week for an indefinite visit,
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hamlin
returned Saturday from Gresham
where they went to attend the
funeral of Henry Gerdes, who
was a butcher in Heppner in 1896.
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CONSERVATION TOUR members
winter runoff on a field of fall
of the many seen on the tour
furrows and caused extremely heavy soil loss. (Story adjoining)
Other pictures in this group, and elsewhere in today's paper, were
taken last week but the cuts did not arrive in time to be used in
last week's paper. The washing and damage shown is similar
to that seen on the tour except that the pictures were taken while
the runoff was at its height
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road. Topsoil washed from fields has completely filled ditches
and overflowed several inches deep on the highway. This is one
of the pictures taken a week ago during the very heavy runoff
and similar scenes could be found on nearly cny road in county,
BALM FORK ROAD, shown covered with mud from adjacent fields
for a stretch of over 100 yards was just one of the many instances
of heavy runoff and soil loss that could be found throughout the
county as a result of the snow melt and rains early this week.
The mud in this photo was as much as 8 inches deep on the road
and ditthes were full.
Patients Overflow
Hospital Capacity
The value of and the need for
the new addition to Pioneer Me
morial hospital which was com
pleted last year, was well demon
strated this week when the insti
tution operated for a few days
at over 100 percent capacity.
Administrator Jack Angel re
ports that early this week the
hospital had 29 patients in the
general hospital section which
has a normal bed capacity of 28,
and 16 in the nursing home sec
tion which is maximum capacity
there. The overflow was cared
for in a special bed in the pe-
doatric ward.
Before the new' wing was com
pleted, it was not uncommon to
find as many as six paients in
beds along the halls, but this Is
the first time the hospital has
been over-full since the addition
has been in use.
AUTO DAMAGED
A car driven by John Piper, of
Heppner left the road and over
turned a short distance west of
Heppner Friday afternoon caus
ing $700 damage to the car but
causing no injuries. According
to the accident report the car
left the road when the brakes
were applied as it came up be
hind a slow-moving car on a
turn east of the Heppner Pine
Mills.
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GRANGE MEETING CALLED
Rhea Creek Grange will meet
Sunday, March 11 starting with
a potluck dinner at 1 p. m. Miss
Donna Lingle, Oregon IFYE dele
gate will speak about her experi
ence in Greece.
are viewing the effects of heavy
- seeded wheat. This was Just one
where the water has gouged deep
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south of Heppner on the Condon
New Transformer
Installed by PP&L
Pacific Power & Light com
pany has installed a large 5,000
kva transformer at its Jordan
substation which will increase
the power capacity for the Hepp-ner-Jordan-Ione
area, it was re
ported here by J. R. Huffman,
local manager.
The big transformer was hauled
to Jordan from Central Washing
ton on a special underslung flat
bed truck, and was installed
for service last week. It re
places a 2,000-kva power unit,
which is being kept in the area
marked especially by a steady
rise in the use of electricity in the
past several years, are reflected
in the increase in substation ca
pacity.
He pointed out that the Jordan
substation is a major supply
point for Pacific's system in the
Heppner-Jordan-Ione area. Under
an interchange agreement, the
company delivers power into this
section from its substation at
Hermiston to Jordan by way of
the Columbia Basin REA trans
mission line.
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Democrats Line Up
Precinct Candidates
Over 30 county Democrats at
tended an organizational meet
ing Monday evening at the Newt
O'Harra home in Lexington. A
general discussion of political
probems was held and it was
announced that candidates have
been obtained for precinct com
mitteemen and committeewomen
for all county precincts
Grain Growers Buys
Paierson Ferry
Dock and Elevator
The Morrow Ccunty Grain
Growers Monday exorcised its
option for th3 purchase of ele
vators and doi'k facilities located
at Patcrson Ferry in north Mor
row county. The plant was pur
chased for $150,000 from the Con
tinental Grain Company, builder
of the facility which has been
operated under lease for the past
two years by the Grain Growers.
Grain Growers manager Al
Lamb said Tuesday that the ele
vator and dock facilities have a
storage capacity of 175,000 bush
els. The purchase did not in
clude the flat storage elevator
adjacent to the dock which is
owned by VV. E. Melena of lone
and is operated by the MCGG
under lease. It has an addition
al storage capacity of 575,000
bushels giving the co-op total
storage of 700,000 bushels on the
river.
The shipping and storage plant
was built in 1954 and the Grain
Growers took over its operation
in August of that year. The
large Melena elevator was built
last summr. Duiing 1955 a total
of 1,200,000 bushels of grain were
Jlandled through the plant and it
is expected that over one and one
half million bushels will be ship
ped this year including a con
siderable amount of Umatilla
county wheat. It is classified as
one of the largest dock facilities
on this section of the Columbia
river.
With the completion of this
purchase the Moirow County
Grain Growers now owns seven
elevators in the county and oper
ates two others under lease agree
ment giving the co-op a total
erain storage capacity of over
3,000,000 bushels in all plants.
The two operations now leased
are the Melena warehouse at Pat
erson Ferry and Archer-Daniels
elevators' at lone.
Will Not Be Flooded
Lamb said, in making the an
nouncement of the purchase, that
the Patcrson ferry elevator is lo
caed on high enough ground that
it will not b? flooded out when
the John Day dam is built and in
operation.
Lamb also said that shipping
from MCGG elevators has been
going on at a rapid pace during
the coming season. Most of the
barley has been shipped to Eur
ope and the wheat to the far east,
Lamb said.
Livestock Sales
Up in Volume
HERMISTON After three slow
badweathor weeks, the Hermis
ton livestock auction bounced
back with the sun Friday and
moved swiftly, sale manager Del-
bert Anson said today
Volume, off (luring the bad
weather, peaked at 272 cattle,
284 hogs and 113 sheep. Anson
said the hog market was much
stronger. Veal and dairy cows
were higher and fat and heavy
feeder steers were showing stren
gth at the sale.
Next Friday, a special sale on
registered cattle will be held in
connection with the market's reg
ular action. Buyers are also call
ing for grain fed steers, heifers
and veal, Anson said, adding
that the market is opening up on
good stocker cows.
Sherman Sayre ot walla walla
Washington led other consignors
in the volume department at the
Friday sale. Sayre marketed 24
white face feeder steers weigh
ing 24,360 pounds and earned a
top price-of $lo.40 a hundred
weight for them.
The Market:
CATTLE: Baby calves, 2.50 to
29,00 a head; steer calves, 17.30
to 18.30 cwt.; heifer calves, 13.80
to 14.60 cwt.; veal, 19.50 to 21.00
cwt. Stocker steers 13.70 to 14,
60 cwt.: feeder steers, 14.70 to
16.8o cwt.; fat slaughter steers, j
15.60 to 17.60 cwt.; fat heifers,
14.10 to 15.30 cwt. Dairy cows,
89.00 to 154.00 a head; stock cowsl
101.00 to 110.00 a head; commer
cial cows, 12.40 to 13.10 cwt;
utility cows, 10.10 to 11.50 cwt.;
canner cutter cows, 6.50 to 9.50
cwt; shells, 5.00 to 6.00 cwt.
Bulls, 11.50 to 14.00 cwt.
HOGS: Weaner pigs, 2.25 to
4.75 a head; feeder pigs, 9.60 to
10.80 cwt.; fat hogs, 12.30 to 13.80
cwt.; sows, 8.20 to 11.5o cwt.;
boars, 2.25 to 4.60 cwt.
SHEEP: Feeder lambs, 13.50 to
14.80 cwt; ewes with lambs at
side, 18.25 to 20.25 a head; no
bucks.
$?k ' I : V.:
FIRST BOXES OF CANDY in the
were sold to Heppner Mayor, Mrs.
Making the sale are Diane McCurdy, center. Camp Fire Girl; and
loan Stockard, a Bluebird. The
in Heppner on Saturday, March
and appropriate identification.
organization's activities during
MOUNTAIN SNOWPACK 50 PERCENT
ABOVE LAST YEAR,
Water content of the Arbuckle
mountain snowpack averages 36
percent above the 14 year aver
age and 50 percent more than
last year at this time according
to measurements taken Tuesday,
Feb. 28 on the Arbuckle moun
tain snow course.
Tom Wilson, Soil Conservation
Service, and Whitmer Wright,
Forest Service skiied into the
area and reported 51.2 inches of
snow with water content of 15.2
inches. Measurements taken
last year at this time showed a
snow depth of 38 inches with
10.1 inches of water. Comparable
measurements in 1954 were 21.9
inches of snow with 8.4 inches of
waer and in 1953 snow depth was
Future Farmers Give
Awards at Parent-And-Son
Banquet
Future Farmers of America
held their parent-son banquet
Wednesday February 22 at the
Legion hall. Approximately 85
members, parents and guests
were in attendance.
President Eddie Brosnan led
the members in the F. F. A. cere
monies following the invocation
by Reverend M. W. Zier. Presen
tation of awards was made by
L. L. Robbins, vocational agricul
ture instructor as follows: A pin
to Tom Wilson in recognition of
his work in soil and water man
agement; to Bob Stevens, a pin
for best farm mechanic; to Bob
Hare, F. F. A. belt and buckle
for the best green hand initial
project. Bob Hare, Bob Stevens
and Eddie B osnan received F. F.
A. school letters for their accom
plishments in F. F. A. activities
school work and supervised farm
ing. Eddie Brosnan received the
Star Chapter Farmer Plaque for
his' outstanding work in voca
tional agriculture and F. F. A.
activities. Robbins received an
F. F. A. Advisor's jacket from the
Heppner F. F. A chapter.
Other features of the program
were viblin solos by Bob Stevens
and songs by Judy Trowbridge
accompanied by Janice Martin.
Orville Cutsforth showed pictures
taken on his world tour, particu
larly stressing farming methods
in Japan, India and the Holy
Land.
F. H. A. girls served at the
tables and Mrs. Scott Furlong and
Mrs. Wyland were in the kitchen.
Mrs. L. L. Robbins assisted the
F. F. A. members in planning the
banquet.
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4-H Club To Have
Window Displays
Store windows in Heppner, Lex
ington and lone will be decorated
by 411 clubs and will be on dis
play during the week of March 3
to March 10.
Prizes will be awarded the club
with the best display and there
will be a grand sweepstake prize.
Each club member will wear a
tag and the member getting the
most names signed on their tag
will also be awarded a prize.
All 4-H clubs are to be repre
sented in the window displays.
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State Income Tax
Field Men Due Here
Representatives of the income
division of the state tax com
mission will be in Ueppner from
3 to 5 p. m. Tuesday, March 20 to
aid local taxpayers with the pre
paration of their state income
tax returns. Their office will be
in the courthouse.
The field men will also be in
Condon the same day from 8 a. m.
to noon.
Camp Fire Girls annual candy sale
Mary Stevens early this week.
girls will sell their boxed canay
lo and all will wear uniforms
The sale raises money for the
the year. (GT Photo)
SURVEY SHOWS
38.6 inches with
water.
15.5 inches of
A water content of 11.2 inches
is the 14 year average for this
time of year according to records
kept by Federal and State co
operative snow surveys. Soils
are wet and unfrozen beneath the
snow pack, Wilson reported.
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Elks Scholarship
Winners Named
Two students from lone high
school, one from Lexington and
one from Heppner were named as
winners of the scholarships of
fered annually by the Heppner
Elks lodge. First place winners
receive S200 grants and second
place get $100.
First place winners were two
lone students, Ernest Drake and
Anna Jepsen. Donald Casteel of
Lexinerton was announced win
ner of the hoys' second place
award of $100 "and Virginia An
drcsen, Heppner took second
place honors for girls. Two alter
nates were also selected and
they are James Monahan and
Sharon Bryant, both of Hepp
ner. The scholarships are given an
nually by the local Elks lodge,
but, this is the first year that
second place awards have been
included in the program.
The tw0 first place winners
wore taken to La Grande Sunday
by Elks lodge officers La Verne
Van Marter and Alton Yarnell to
compote in the district contest
for further scholarship grants.
Neither placed in the contest
which was won by two Ontario
students, but both showed up
well in the competition, it was
announced.
The local contest is open to all
students of Heppner, Lexington
and lone high schools.
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Entire lone School
Faculty Rehired '
Board members and school of
ficials of the lone school district
announced this week that all the
teachers in the school have been
rehired for next year.
On the high school faculty are
Phil G. Newitt, superintendent
and instructor; Selma Johnson,
Zara Z. Porfily, Larry I'ryse,
Grant Rigby, Gary Stephenson,
Joe Ilausler and Mrs. Grace
Schmidt. Elementary teachers
are Harriet I. Hall, Roxie Moeck
Gladys Ely, Joe Ilausler, Wayne
Pierce.
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Adult Welding Class
Completed by 25
Twenty-five students last week
completed an adult course In
welding conducted at the Hepp
ner school by L. L. Robbins, local
Ag instructor.
Robbins announced that some
welding rod was left over from
the classes which will be divided
among the students. He asks that
anyone taking the course who
has not picked up his rod, to ao
so.
BABY GIRL TO WAIT
LONG TIME FOR BIRTHDAY
It will be a long time between
birthday for a young lady who
arrived at Fionoer Memorial hos
pital Wednesday and plans to
make her home with Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Hairston of Fossil.
The girl, who has not yet been
given a name, weighed in at 8
lbs. 5 oz. She arrived In this
world on February 29 so she wont
have her first birthday until 1960.
Filings Indicate
High Interest in
Political Races
With only a week left before
the March 9 deadline for filing
for political office considerable
activity has been apparent dur
ing the past few days. Several
filings have been made for county
offices and at least 18 persons
have indicated their intention to
run for precinct committeemen
and women.
Those having filed for county
offices include Mrs. Sadie Par-
rish, Republican candidate for
count clerk; Bruce M. Lindsay,
Democrat incumbent who is
seeking reelection as county
clerk; Sylvia McDaniel, is seek
ing the Republican nomination as
county treasurer, a post she has
held since last summer when she
was appointed by the county
court. Two other county officials
have announced their intention
to run for reelection though they
have not yet filed for the posi
tions. They are C. J. D. Bauman,
Republican, incumbent sheriff,
and Russell Miller, Boardman,
who will seek reelection as county
commissioner on the Republican
ticket.
Heaviest filings seen in many
years have been made for the
positions of both Republican and
Democratic precinct committmen
and committeewomen. For those
positions from the Democratic
party are the following: Al Lamb,
Heppner; Bruce Lindsay, Hepp
ner; Lloyd Howton, lone; C. N.
Jones, Heppner; Newt O'Harra,
Lexington; Barbara Cutsforth,
Lexington.
Filing for Republican commit
tee posts have been Rachel Dick,
Harold Becket, Robert Penland,
Olive B. Hughes, and Mildred
Wright, all of Heppner; Margaret
Troedson, lone; Donald Hatfield,
and Lucille Peck, Lexington;
Dewey West Jr.,and Myra Sko-
ub0( Boardman; and William R,
D. Allen, Irrigon.
Other filings on both the
Democratic and Republican
tickets are expected for precinct
positions before the deadline.
Of interest to local voters Is
the recent filing of John P. Iloun
sell, Hood River Republican, who
is seeking reelection to the sen
ate from this district. He may
be opposed by senator Stewart
Hardie, Condon Republican who
has served several terms in the
senate. Both Hardie and Houn
sell were in the senate last session
but because of reapportionment
only one senator will represent
the district in the future. This
week Hardie had not indicated
whether he planned to run.
The secretary of state's office
has received many filings during
the past week for state and dis
trict posts and a continued rush
is expected during the final week.
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Plays to Be Given
At Speech Festival
Entries for the one-act play
festival to be staged in Lexing
ton at 7 p. m. Tuesday, March 6
in connection with the county
speech festival were received
this week.
The plays to be presented are:
Heppner, Great Smokies, a hill
billy comedy directed by Stan
ley Holm; lone, The Seventh Age,
a comedy directed by Mrs. Freda
Thayer; Lexington, Shock of His
Life, a comedy directed by Mrs.
Nola Covai; Irrigon, The Dummy
a mystery directed by Ruth Coy.
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Kirk and Robinson
Cattle Take Honors
Two Oregon cattle breeders
won top honors at the Columbia
Empire Polled Hereford Associa
tion show and sale Feb. 17 and
18 at Yakima. Breeders from
Oregon, Washington and Idaho
exhibited at the show.
Top honors were received by
Earl Hoag of Blalock who ex
hibited the grand champion bull
and Kirk and Robinson of Hepp
ner who showed the grand cham
pion cow.
Kirk and Robinson also took
honors at the recent Oregon
Hereford Association blue tag
show and sale at Pendleton show
ing the reserve champion bull.
They were in competition with
well-known breeders from over
the state.
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Rev. and Mrs. George Little re
turned today from Lakeview
where they had gone to attend a
meeting of the clergy of the Epis
copal church.
Mrs. Tom Hughes of Fosfrtl,
former Heppner resident, was
visiting here on Friday.