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Pe2 Heppner Gazette Times,-Thursday, July 5, 1956 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MOBROW COUNTY'S NBWSPAPIR The Beppnr azettt, established Maroh 30, 183. The Heppnw TlmM, MtaMMwd November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. I cx PUBLIIHItS aIjOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL AOCyiN Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Poet Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cenU. From The County Agent's Office By N. C Anderson A recent meat animal and wool Classes covered subjects all the review report from the college lists some country saies or live stock which have recently been made. Some 2,100 fleeces, most ly three-eights were sold for im mediate delivery at forty-cents per pound. Another 3300 fleeces of fine wool brought forty-one and one half cents. It was re ported that 180 good yearling steers have been contracted for October 26 delivery. The price is $16. The cattle will be weighed after a two mile drive and a three percent shrink will be taken. Estimated weight on the steers is 500 lbs. Another con tract calls for 195 good weaner steers to be delivered November 9 at $17. They will be trucked twenty-six miles and weighed with no shrink. These lots are from south-eastern Oregon and are bound for Stockton, Califor nia. These prices reflect predic tions made by economists earlier in the year that weaner calf prices would be down two-cents under a year ago. Food buyers will soon be find ing a new U. S. beef grade on the market. U. S. D. A. commercial grade Is being divided into two grades, standard and commercial. The division is being made on' an age basis with standard apply ing to younger animals and commercial continuing for beef from older animals. Thus the names of U. S. beef grades start ing June 1 became prime, choice, good, standard, commercial and utility. The change Is expected to result in improved marketings way from "how to cast for fish" to "how to make a dress." This year's 4-H summer school was the biggest one yet. There were 1,238 girls and 616 boys making a total of 1,854 club mem bers. There were 128 extension agents and 4-H club leaders, Seventy-seven counselors were used in the various housing groups bringing the total of the summer school community to 2, 059. The major change in pro graming this year was the de velopment of a leadership work shop for the older club members, 400 participating. Those older 4-H club members attending from Morrow county had the opportun ity to participate in this work shop and to bring home valuable experience. This experience was used last week at the annual 4-H summer camp held at the Herron Creek camp grounds. Scholarships to the 4-H summer school which enabled our 32 members to at tend were provided by business es, organizations and individuals interested in youth. While we are discussing 4-H club work, we might add that last week's 4 H summer camp was one of the most successful yet. Two contributing factors to lis success was excellent wea ther, the best for several years during club camp, and second, the cooperation of 4-H parents and leaders in completing the permanent camp building at the grounds. Building chairman, Glenn Campbell, is to be con gratulated for his organization in getting facilities finshed be- Attending the and should benefit both the producer and the consumer. Many fore camp time. camp were fifty-one boys and girls, with camp councilors Jan ice Martin, Mardine Baker, Judy ft if POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS This week we got the "inside story" of a group of political speculators (gamblers) and were shown some of the evidence they scrutinize in arriving at their verdicts for betting odds. They have expert calculators, conduct their own polls and work up to the last hours of the day of election. "A stormy election day could make a great differ ence', it was explained. Here are some of the conclu sions that have jelled: The November ballot will be the heaviest for both parties in the history of the state. At the primary election the Democrats showed the largest gains. This has been a general pattern for the past six years in registrations by Democrats. As the state has gained in population a majority of the newcomers have been Democrats. More of the first-voter youthfuls have registered as Democrats, particularly In Portland, In col lege towns and logging districts. Campaign contributions and expenditures are as difficult for the calculators to pinpoint or total as it is for the state de partment, This phase of the cor rupt practice act is a free merry- goround for the candidate riders and those buying the tickets. Claims by political press agents furnish the comedy relief THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times July 8, 1926 John Eubanks, young son of Walter Eubanks, received a bad cut on the head and dislocated his wrist Monday. One hundred seventy five acres of grain on the Lowell Stockman ranch in the Helix region was burned yesterday. Launch Trip Up Yaquina Offers Rural Vista to Motorlog Party Mrs. E. L. Vinton of Coquille, Ore., and Mrs. A. W. Chapin of North Bend departed this morn ing for their respective homes after a visit of a month at the home of Mrs. Vinton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack McCullough on upper Rhea creek. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Troedson and daughter spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday at Minor's camp at Parkers mill. Roy Her and family were up from Portland to spend the Fourth with the home folka and enjoy a visit with old time friends. sways a few who want to get on the bandwagon at the last turn. McKAY FREE WHEELING Douglas McKay has been quiet ly making society and lodge! meetings over the state, being introduced as "a man without a Mob", shaking hands, getting ac quainted and renewing ac quaintances the personal touch so potent in politics. This week he will be in the Burns, Klamath Falls and Lakeview areas with frequent speaking engagements. He is "making up," he says for three and a half years he was out of the state as Secretary of the Interior in Washington, D. C. MARRIAGE INCREASE The 1955 marriage total in Ore gon represents a 10 per cent in crease over the 9,567 of the previ ous year, the Oregon State Board of Health has just reported. How ever, it did not follow that there were more divorces. Divorces were down slightly from the 6,130 recorded during 1955. The divorce rate of 3.6 per 1000 is the best scored by this state since 1940. A total of 7,754 of the brides and 7,914 of the grooms were married for the first time last fall have graded commercial now they move up into standard which will insure the food shop per mild flavor and rather tender meat from a young animal. Sup plies of standard beef vvfll be largest in the fall. The announcement made this week of a new superintendent of the Eastern Oregon branch ex periment station at Union to re place Harry Avery, who is re tiring, ends a long career of ser vice to the public. Avery has pro vided as superintendent of this experiment station many of the answers in fattening, wintering, grazing, breeding, and manage ment of livestock along with work on production of home grown livestock feeds, soil con servation and fertility mainten ance. Dr. James A. B. Mae Arthur, who will be the new superinten dent, has an excellent animal husbandry research background Ihe 1957 wheat marketing quota referendum will be held on July 20. The hour of opening of the polls shall be 8:00 a. m. with the closing of the polls at 9:00 p. m. All wheat fanners should plan now to vote at this referen dum. Notices of polling places will he mailed to all wheat far mers. A week ago last Friday, 32 Morrow county 4-H club mem bers returned from 411 summer school after 10 days on Oregon State college campus attending classes in the morning with sports and recreation the rest of the day. STAR THEATER HEPPNER Thurs., Fri.. Sat., July 5-6-7 Day The World Ended With Denning Richard plus The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues Sun., Mon., July 8-9 The Court Jester With Danny Kaye Tues Wed., July 10-11 The Phenix City Story Howton, Carole Ann Anderson, Janet Wright, Karl Beach and Mickey Van Schoiack. The staff consisted of cooks, Mrs. N. C. An rehson and Mrs. Bernard Doherty, health nurse Velma Glass,; ex tension agents, N. C. Anderson, Beverly Bradshaw and Mary Ann Norton; agent at large, Charles Ross, extension forester and a representative of State Game Commission, A complete program with the crafts, field trips, recreation and evening camp fires made up the five day camp. A picnic on Sat urday noon ended the camp with parents participating and help ing in dismantling camping fa cilities. Permanent facilities, at the grounds now consist of a 20x 120 foot building with 20x30 feet as kitchen and store room, the remainder a concrete slab with roof for protection from sun and bad weather. The kitchen is now equipped wilh running water, hot water heater, sinks and gas stoves with a large counter for serving meals. Additions single cut mattresses and a refrigerator will be added as soon as they can be secured. Glenn Campbell had provided a 110 volt light plant J for use during camp, the building being completely wired. 1 Among persons who have been married previously, 47 men and 10 women 75 yars of age or older went to the altar again last year. A total of 156 marriages ended by annulments for the hard-working calculators beued ias7'y 'was" 2 On noon of the day of the pri- but 18 was the mospopular ag mary election a political worker If... hrif10 quoted a proiessionai polling establishment as "polling" Mc Kay two-to-one over Phil Hitch cock. Latest figures at the state elections department are McKay 123,281 and Hitchcock 99,296, Deetz 23,170, Altvater 3,525, scat tering 1,137, total 250,409. McKay ran a 5- to 4 odds favorite, re ceiving a little less than half the votes cast. The political pollster firm was off 50 per cent, if the quota by the political worker was honest. The "worker" (working whom?) was working the old ,'He's a win nah!" gag that most always Stream on Oregon Coast Is Waterway Into Past Period The foUowlnf U ft condensa tion of a motorlof appearing Jane IT tn Northwut rotogra vure magazine ot Ihe Sunday Oregonlan. It ii one of an an imal eeriea Donaored Jointly by the Oregon State Motor associ ation and The Oregonlan. BY VERA F. CRITESEB SiwcUd Writer, The OreionUn A run up the Yaquina, that arm of the sea that twists and turns its way for miles into the Coast range east of Newport, is a viyld and nostalgic cross-sec-' tion of the Oregon scene. You can leave the car behind In this case, the white motor log sedan of the Oregon State Motor association at Newport or Toledo after an easy drive (it is 116 miles from Portland to Newport via the Salmon river cutoff) and transfer to a boat for a leisurely cruise up the river. Boats can be rented both at Newport and Toledo. This is lumbering country; the great C. D. Johnson mill at Toledo is one of the largest spruce mills in the world. Their huge barges, loaded with lum ber to be sent on ships to all parts of the world, make a stately procession behind power ful little tugs on their way down to Newport. Mills Work Busily Shingle mills and sawmills, cutting short-length boards, work busily along the Yaquina almost as far inland as Elk City, about 20 miles up from the coast The Yaquina, a wide bay In side the bar, gradually narrows as you go upstream. On the right bank, a graveled road leads part way to the ocean, but on the left, the road runs out to U. S. highway 101 at Newport. On the left, above Toledo, a spur of the Southern Pacific railroad crosses the mountains from Corvallis" and hauls logs to the mills and chip waste from the mills to be converted into paper in Oregon City. This waste was formerly sawed into slabwood and sold to families for burning. Train passenger service was discontinued years ago. The few NEWPORT. "SS. Within environs ot Elk City, quiet Hamlet on the laqulna, are two covered bridges, this one on road to town from Corvallli. Since passengers are not car ried on the trains any more, the covered bridge across to the railroad is used only by log trucks, and the county road ends at the bridge. Another covered bridge is a short dis tance upstream, on the road to Corvallis. On the hillside be yond are scars of the old quarry where the rocks for the jetty at Newport were blasted out and sent down river by barge. Hopes Held High Time was when this section of the country had high hopes for future development Two and a half miles farther into the mountains, a place called Pioneer was platted. A large house was built to serve as a hotel, and the steamboats came regularly upriver. Elk City was quite a place then, boasting boat service and a daily train both ways that ran all the way down to Ya quina, about half way between Toledo and Newport Yaquina is more ghostlike now than Elk City. The steamboats were discon tinued at the beginning of World War II. As the logs were removed from the moun tains,, the people moved on to greener prospects. In time na ture will heal the scars and cover them with new growth. Perhaps some spring the clean high water from the winter snows will carry the cluttering drift, which works farther upstream with every summer tide, down to the ocean and leave the Yaquina as clean and clear as it was when the first men roamed its forests and paddled their canoes over the t reflected skyline on its bosom. Communities along course ol Yaquina are located on map. farm families who still live farther inland along the left bank of the river above Toledo must cross by boat to reach the road. Most of the farmhouse windows have a vacant stare, and they are mossgrown and saggy, while the old orchard trees grow gray with lichens and plead to be pruned. Many ghostly pilings, stand ing singly or in groups lashed together by rusting cables, give evidence of past activity along the waterside. Below the banks are floating logs, some fastened together with steel straps, some almost submerged, basking in the sun like lazy hippos. It took over an hour to travel from Toledo to the small dock a" Elk City, which was built at Toledo and towed upstream to replace the old one when Elk City was a port of call for the steamboats on the river. Elk City, according to Paul Hanson, storekeeper, postmaster and general factotum, is only three miles across the mountains, as the bees fly, from Toledo, but by the curving river it is nine. In this isolated country, the small cluster of buildings is town to the 70 inhabitants, and the grange is the center of so cial life. ON JUDICIAL BOARD Oregon's Justice George Ross man of the state supreme court Six men married for the first has been reelected a member of time last year were above the the five-man executive commit age of 60, but only one woman tee of the National Conference of VACATION DIVIDEND add extra days . . . your vacation starts the mo ment you step aboard UNION PACIFIC'S all new City of Portland Domeliner. Avoid high way hazards and fatigue. 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