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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.
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ROBERT PENLAND
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GRETCHEN PENLAND
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oregon State Collece announ.
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the college on July 26th. The sale
oegms at 1:00 p. m. Included In
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