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Pge 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, June 28, 1956 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MOBHOW COUNTY'S NKWSPAPIB The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Ttme, Mtabllshed November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. I r. NIWSMFIt. PUIIISHEKS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS'sbcHTLQN muiiiiiwii'Mia Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cent. The New Federal Highway Program Will It Help Oregon, or Can it Hurt Us? The federal highway program which Congress last week gave tacit approval, will provide Oregon with a total of approximately one-half billion (not Million I dollars in federal road funds over a 13 year period. To this amount will be added from 10 to 40 percent In matching state highway funds. That's a lot of money and it can mean a lot of things to the state. Getting first priority on the program will be the reconstruction fin many instances) and widening to four lanes of divided roadway, ail of highways 99 and 30 from the California fine to Portland and from the Idaho line to Portland. These highways are to be limited or non-access highways unencumbered by cross traffic or signals which will be part of a great system of national highways. Another smaller portion of the federal money will be used to improve other roads in the state. At first glance such a tremendous raod-build-ing project in the state would appear wonderful. Yet, a second and deeper look at what it may mean shows a picture not quite so bright In fact downright fearful to a great many businessmen in Oregon. WHAT IS THE PLAN? A close examination of what a non-access highway from one end of Oregon to the other, and from one side to the other, at least as far as Portland, can mean to the cities and towns along the route can show but one thing. When these highways are completed they will no longer be on the "main stem" they will all be bypassed and many of the thousands of businesses now located along the highways which depend entirely on tourists for their livelihood will be left holding the bag. The recent state highway program of bypassing has already effected many. Not all have been hurt seriously, but all have been Jiurt, just the same. A PROGRAM OF CONTRADICTIONS Another point we feel doesn't quite add up also concerns tourists. The state highway commission currently is carrying on an extensive advertising campaign throughout the nation to entice tourists to visit the state. The cost of such a campaign is well up into six figures, and the program is beginning Uo bring results for at the present time, the tour ist business is one of the largest, dollar-wise, In the state. When the new non access highways 99 and 30 are completed, tourists entering Oregon via its main entrances will be funnelled completely through he most scenic parts of our state and into Portland lor clear out of Oregdn before they hardly realize they're here) without giving them .i cn.ince to taue a few side trips and spend a few days looking over what we've got to offer. If that isn't a case of contradictions we never saw one. How much the tourist business means to just one community in Oregon can be illustrated by the tourist-host school put on this year by the Bend chamber of commerce. They teach mer chants how to treat tourists so they will want to stay around a while and come back again, telling them that if just the tourists who come through Bend will stay ONE DAY LONGER it will mean an extra $1,000,000 a year in the pockets of merchants of that city. Bend and other cities are making every effort to get tourists to come to their area and see what they have to offer for recreation and vacation. Yet, working against them will be the state's plan of THROUGH highways which will make every effort to get traffic through and OUT OF Oregon as quickly as possible. We're not against good roads and highways far from it, for there is no one who appreciates more the value of the new Columbia river highway 30and how much easier it is to get to Portland and the Willamette valley, but we can't go along with the idea of a system of very limited access or NON-ACCESS high way funnels through Oregon We think we can have good, modern, safe high ways throughout our entire state without having to shunt all our tourist traffic into the bottle-neck at Portland which, scenicly has much less to offer than many other parts of Oregon. The East Oregonian Monday took editorial notice of the highway program and forewarned Pendleton residents that the plan called for the by-passing of that city by highway 30 and that thinking should be started now as to wiiere Pen dleton wanted the by-pass to go. They also said that "some cities are going to raise a ruckus (to no avail, of course) about being by passed." In many cases it is necessary to by-pass towns along a highway, and where through highway traffic only causes congestion in a town, -businesses there can benefit by the elimination of heavy traffic. What hurts though, is when a town is by-passed and no provision is made for the re location of tourist facilities such as service sta tions, motels, cafes, etc., along or adjacent to the new highway. The prize example of such action by the state Highway commission is the new Wilson ville highway from Portland to (or rather around) Salem and south. The road is beautiful, but from Tigard, just out of Portland to a point about 10 miles south of Salem there is not one motel, cafe or even service station allowed along the road. if you forget to get gas in Port land and run out anywhere along the road, you can look forward to quite a hike to find any. Again we say, we're not against good roads, but we think the NON-ACCESS highway program in the state of Oregon needs considerably more consideration before it is put into effect. We can THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times July 1, 1926 Some little excitement was created at Heppner shortly after the noon hour Wednesday, when report came here that the State Bank of Echo had been held up by a lone robber and a consider able sum In currency taken. The report further stated that the robber was headed this way, mak ing his getaway in a Star car. The Ferguson Chevrolet com pany announce that they will be located In their new garage build ing on the corner of May and Main streets after Friday July 2. Friday night they will stage a big free dance, open to the pub lic, on the garage floor. Elmer Peterson, who completed a four-year course at the Univer sity of Oregon this spring, has departed for Hartford, Conn., where he expects to take a course in insurance with the Aetna com pany. crops to get the best yield and highest quality silage possible. Suggested stages of harvest for some hay and pasture crops are alfalfa one-tenth to one-fourth bloom or when basil shoots begin to appear; sweet clover early bloom stage; small grains early milk stage; grasses late boot and early heading stage; com mon vetch and peas when seeds in pods in lower half of plant are one-half developed; Hairy vetch early to full bloom; Red or Ladino clovers from early bloom to one-half bloom. Miss Margaret Barratt of Port and is a guest this week at the home of her friend, Miss Kath een Monahan, at the Monahan home near this city. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCormick, Mrs. G. W. Palmateer and Earl Morgan all of Morgan were in Heppner Saturday. Buyers may look over these ani mals at the college barns any time before the sale. The animals are of high quality and are being sold in order to keep livestock numbers In line with physical fa cilities at the college farm. August 1 is the deadline date for entries for the Midco Here ford Association fall sale which will be held at Moro on October nursed this original forty pounds rumier imormauon can De, along until he has approxima Morrow County, over the past year, has increased their farm sheep flocks considerably. With these farm flocks being held in relatively small pastures comes the possibilities of internal para sites, which if left go will cause much damage. Ewes can usual ly carry a heavy load of internal parasites before much damage is done, but lambs, like young pigs, suffer early and serious damage from parasite infestation. If lambs are not doing well and show signs of scours and unthrifti ness, a worming is suggested. Phenothiazine treatment, as a li quid or piill, is quite effective. Pills have a disadvantage as they can be belched up and lost. Treat ewes and lambs weighing over sixty pounds with two ounces of a phenothiazine drench contain thiazine per ounce. Give one- ing 12Vj -grams of actual pheno- ounce to lambs under sixtv pounds. One-half ounce will pro bably do the. job for lambs weighing under twenty pounds. Kenneth Peck, Lexington far mer, reports excellent prospects for a good Olympia barley crop this year. Kenneth received the only Olympia barley seed in the northwest three years ago, when forty pounds of seed from the Sherman branch experiment sta tion was made available to him for increase planting. He has Some spot follow-up will be made during the summer months, how ever, concentration will be made from now on on perennial noxi ous weeds on county, state and railroad right-of-ways, as Well as some commercial spraying for farmers. This year, annual weed control was carried out on 2,050 miles, the greatest number of any year so far. These miles in cluded some second sprayings. The cost was the lowest yet and a decrease of 10c per mile under the low 1955 cost.. Cost was $1.72 per mile this year. In addition to these annual weed controls, 500 pounds of Dalapon was applied in Boardman for the control of roadside grassand cattails. Far mers are reminded that the county weed control equipment is available for commercial spray ing on their farm, while spraying in that community. o TRIPLE LINK MEETS MONDAY The Triple Link club met Mon day evening at the I. O. O. F. hall with about 30 members present. After the business meeting the drill team practiced and the me morial services was practiced for the convention. . fv TTtf cr ED GEARY GOVERNOR Speaker of the House Ed r. pa ri, was governor or uregon ror the week of June 21-28 while Gov. Elmo Smith was in Atlantic City attending the National Gover nor's Conference. Up in Republican Ed Geary's legislative district there' was a Democratic representative in the house for 20 years until 1955 when Democrat Henry Semon de cided he had had enough and did not file for the Democratic nomination for election. Now Henry tells us he wants tn come back to the House, "just for one reason," as he nuts it vta now says he will file as an independent. In the session of 1953 he had a serious handicap of poor health. Continued on Page 5 31 received from Bud Tibbits, secre tary, Midco Hereford Association. Moro, Morrow county farmers who wish to have crops inspected for seed certification should get their application in at once. Applica tion blanks are available at the county agents office and are due in this office by July 6. With the last few good davs of sunshine, hay making has been accelerated and we haven't heard too much aUfcdfr silage. However, there has been considerable in terest this spring over other MOYER'S CAFE WILL BE OPEN SUNDAY, JULY 1 AND CLOSED WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 Adrrrtttnnmt ' r: " i to increase as years go by While hard for thn tnllrlut nr tha lrvial tfiimni in ro ' . ju.o 6u u j, . vyuiic k r ;r-;rr i .ri" may Da little a number uu "luit, uui emu roi uut luuu culU olay in our hotels or motels. tely a fifty acre seeding this year. The field contains no rye and will be made available for seed at harvest time. Olympia is a six row rough awned winter bar ley which has done well In the Columbia basin. It is classed as most winter hardy of all winter barley varieties, has a higher yield than winter club, over a period of thirteen years at the Sherman branch experiment sta tion at Moro. Under field condi tions it appears more progressive than many other varieties grown in the county. i r rom where I sit ... Joe Marsh Junior Gets "Pinned" Down Letter To The Editor To the Editor: The people of Heppner are to be congratulated on having got Ben Tarrell to take over the local saddle .shop you really have a fully qualified, all around saddle maKer-ieatlier worker you can rely on. I don't hesitate to recommend him because I know him well, know his work and his fine fam ily. We worked together for five years in Grangeville, Idaho starling over 10 years ago, and again at Hamley's since he came to Oregon last year. We at Hamley's certainly hated ior nun to leave us, and would welcome him back into our shop any time, but our best wishes go with him for success in Hepp ner. Again, congratulations. Wm. L. Knight Pendleton, Ore. o Phone Your News to 6-9228. From The County Agent's Office By N. C Anderson While several applications were Columbia and to consider those of farmers have asked the pro per stage of maturity for various Spraying for Russian thistle and other general weeds that interfere with county road main tenancewas pretty well complet ed this week by Cal Carson, county weed sprayer operator. Junior Baker and friends are all set for their circus. Look for their advertisements on neigh borhood trees. The kids have had problems in staging the event. The biggest was the admission fee. Junior wanted to charge five cents, Mrs. Buker thought it would be much nicer if they charged five pins. So Junior held a meeting with his Directors then told his mother they'd taken her advice. The ads now read: Giant Circus in Bilker's Backyard. Admission Kivn Pins Plus Five Cents Tax. From where I sit, that's a cute example of a mighty important point-if you want things to turn out your way, then you had better let the other fellow have his choice, too. For instance, if your taste should happen to run to, say, iced tea... then you owe it to yourself to see that those who prefer beer, buttermilk or what-have-you get to enjoy tViei'r fa vorite beverages, too. After all, turn about's fair play. Copyright, 1956, United Stale) Brewers Foundatiu received during the past week for Omar and Columbia seed wheat which will be allocated soon, there is still time and avail able seed for more farmers. Omar is a club-type wheat released to replace Elmar, while Columbia is a new nam red winter which Is adapted to the Turkey variety area. Applications are also being received ior Kio x Rev x 27-15, a new variety which is expect6d to be released this fall. This new variety compares to Rex in growth habits but has milling qualities which are desirable. The seed al location committee Is going to meet at the county agent's office on July 6 to allocate Morrow county's production of Omar and applications made for. the new variety to be released this fall. Morris Wilson, Condon wheat farmer, has recently been ap p(inted as a member of the Ore gon wheat commission for a five year term,' beginning July 1, 1956 and ending June 30. 1961. Mr. Wilson has been appointed to succeed Marion T. Weatherford who has been on the commission since it was created. Moat modern truck V8's ...and the .pounds prove it! Pound for pound, the most powerful truck V8's today are Chev rolcts. That's one way you can tell they're the most modern V8's going! They carry around fewer pounds for power they develop. That means you not only can haul bigger loads-you have more usable power to move them! Stop by and let us give you the facts on Chevrolet's compact, super-efficient truck V8's. PRICES SLASHED TO SELL 80 OFF-AII Stock Must Go 0 SAVE ON COSMETICS $10 VALUE - NOW $ Qg You receive 12 different lotions PLUS Beauty Creams. A total of 96 ounces of lotions alone, One-year's supply Stock up now and save S8.00. Remember the price is only S1.98. 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