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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.
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ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
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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
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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
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