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Page 6 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday July 12, 1956 Livestock Prices Holding Steady IIERMISTON Fred Hoskins Jr. of Heppner, earned $9 per head for seven weaner pigs to place among the tops at the Hermiston Livestock Co. sale Friday. Eighty-one consignors put 310 cattle, 85 hogs and 63 sheep on the auction block In what mana ger Delbert Anson described as a snappy post-holiday sale. The market held steady with prices almost identical to those posted at last week'c sale. More grass fat heifers and fat hogs will be needed for next Friday's sale, Anson announced. The market: CATTLE: Baby calves, 8.50 to 21.00 per head; steer calves, 16.60 to 17.80 cwt.; heifer calves. 13.20 to 16.00 cwt.; veal, 15.60 to 17.90 cwt.; stocker steers, 14.40 to 15. 40 cwt; feeder steers, 15.40 to 17.20 cwt.; grass fat heifers, 14.20 to 16.00 cwt.; dairy cows, 101 to 116 per head; stocker cows, 110 to 125 per pair; commercial cows, 11.80 to 13.50 cwt.; utility cows, 10.40 to 11.70 cwt.; canners and cutters, 7.40 to 9.20 cwt.; shells, 4.50 to 7.10 cwt.; and bulls, 13,70 to 15.40 cwt. HOGS: Weaner pigs, 6.50 to 9 00 per head; feeder pigs, 13.75 to 15.10 cwt.; fat hogs, 16.90 to 17.- 90 cwt.; and sows, 11.50 to 14.20 cwt. SHEEP: Fat lambs, 16.35 to 18. 10 cwt.; feeder lambs, 14.60 to 16.00 cwt; and ewes, 2.25 to 4.10 cwt. Others earning tops at the market included Don Webb, Hermiston, 17.90 cwt. for two fat hogs of 400 pounds; Ben Cochran, Milton-Freewater, 15.10 cwt, for two feeder pigs of 250 pounds; Marvin King, Weston, 18.10 cwt. for 16 fleshy lambs of 1580 pounds; Ted Lewis, Stanfleld, 160.0 cwt. for seven feeder lambs of 580 pounds; Pete Celoria, of Boardman, 9.20 cwt. for a 1085 pound Holstein cow; H. W. John son, Hermiston, 16.00 . cwt. for a 840-pound white face heifer; and George Edwards, Milton Freewater, 13.50 cwt for a 900 pound white face cow. Weekend Specials SLICED A ORIOLE - FRESH AND CLEAN lib TUNA Bonlta 12 Cang F Zi LARGE 12 OZ. CANS 3 ffoir 79c GREEN BEANS Hudson House Fancy 303 Cans STANDBY TOMATO WW LARGE 140Z. BOTTLES 5 tor UD9 BUY BY THE CASE AND SAVE (BURKENBINE'S) Heppner Market Phone 6-9922 3,500 JOBS PROVIDED BY LUMBER INDUSTRY IN NORTHEAST OREGON Sawmills and other forest In dustries of Northeast Oregon em ploy more than 3,500 persons, and their payrolls total more than $16,000,000 a year. In 1955, approximately 35 plants of Baker, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa and Morrow counties produced about 15,000 car9 of lumber products, enough to build close to 45,000 houses. These and other economic facts about the forest Industries of Northeast Oregon were re ported today by Paul Koenig, manager of Heppner Pine Mills from statistics compiled at Port land by the Western Pine asso ciation. Koenig said the mills shipped an estimated 485,000,000 board feet of lumber last year, twice as much as was being produced in the area 10 years ago. Much of the output was marketed in other states, bringing millions of dol lars into this part of Oregon. "Those log trucks rolling in from the woods really mean something In our economy," said Koenig. , He pointed out latest complete tabulations of the Oregon State Unemployment Compensati o n Commission show an average for est industry employment in the five counties of 3,564 persons. This was for the 12-months per iod ending September 30, 1955. Records are kept on a quarterly basis and were averaged for the year. In that same period total pay rolls came to $16,663,730, or near ly $1,400,000 a month, he report ed. . , Taking the whole Western pine region of Oregon, embracing 18 counties east of the Cascades crpst, lumbering employed an average of 13,513 persons during this 12-monhs period, and the total payroll was $65,738,269. Included in the statistics are all lumber and wood products in dustries employing four or more. Starting with 1956, forest Indus tries employing two or more are covered for unemployment com pensation. This applies to log ging operations, sawmills, plan ing mills, box factories, furniture At Heppner Market CANS " 89c CANS $4 -Iff " X i V plants, veneer and cooperage mills, millwork plants, lath mills and other plants manufacturing products of wood. The timber crops, Koenig said, bring much other employment and value to communities and state. The stumpage bill alone (cash paid by sawmills for tim ber purchased and harvested) has been estimated at between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 a year in the five counties. The railroad freight bill on 15, 000 cars shipped, Is also a sub stantial item. It costs about $750 to ship a car of lumber to the Chicago area market, for in stance. And for every car ship ped there, Uncle Sam gets $22.50 in the form of a three-percent tax on the freight bill. Insurance protection for the mills is estimated to cost them upwards of $100,000 a year In premiums. "Yes, it's quite an industry," remarked Koenig. "And based as it is on a soil-grown crop, it's an industry we can have always. By growing and protecting new timber crops all the time we assure an abundance of timber for future use at the same time we harvest ripe trees for today's operations." YouFfaik Heard At Pomona Pomona grange was held Sat urday. July 7 at Willows grange with about 75 attending the din ner at noon. Henry Henrickson, Sherwood, Oregon, state grange youth sup erintendent, was the main speak er of the day, speaking on youth. Henry Baker gave a talk to the group on the R. E. A., and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Tannehlll gave a report on the state grange ses sions at Pendleton. Other numbers on the program! included round singing by all present; a reading. What Is a man, by Margaret Thorpe of Greenfield grange; a piano solo, Hungry, by Karen Lundell of Willows grange; a piano solo, Fairy Wedding, by Shirley Nash of Rhea Creek grange; a poem, Be A Pal To Your Son by Alice Tatone, greenfield grange and Pomona - lecturer who arranged the program. After supper in the evening Mr. Henrickson showed pictures of the grange tour of the Hawaiian Islands and of the state grange meeting. A contest is being held to in crease attendance at Pomona meetings with a cake walk being held each time and the proceeds going into the purse to be award ed the grange getting out the most attendance by the time the contest is closed in January. A safety contest was held at the meeting with the sides being the men against the women. The men won the contest. The next Pomona meeting will be September 29 at Lexington. Delegates Leave For New York To Attend Soroptimist Meet Miss . Leta Humphreys, Mrs. Clara B. Gertson and Mrs. Pearl Devine left Wednesday for New York City where they will at tend 11th biennial convention of the American Federation of So roptimist Clubs to be held July 29 through August 3, and the fifth quadernnial convention of Soroptimist International the fol lowing week. Representatives of 30,000 dis tinguished business and profes sional women from 27 countries will attend the convention. Mrs. Gertson expects to be away about a month but Miss Humph reys and Mrs. Devine will tour the East and into Canada and will be gone about two months. HARVESTING? Harvest time is again ' Drawing near! In some places it is Already here! Regardless of which Class you fit, Hail & fire hazards Worfy you a bit! Why spend your time To fret & stew? Insure & let a company Do that for you! hr For All Your Insurance Needs C. A. RUGGLES Heppner, Oregon Phone 6-9625 Box 611 Fire Danger Brings Urgent Request To Keep Oregon Green All the teaching, preaching, and appealing to Keep Oregon Green, that has been going on during rainy weeks of winter and spring, from now on will be test ed. The sudden change of tern peratures this week, going up to over 100 degrees, also involved a change in humidity,- From now on there will be fire weather in Oregon. If the forests do not burn if Oregon's timber stays green it will be because: Every person who goes into the forest as a camper, fisher man, hiker and mountain clim ber, pours water on every camp fire until there isn't a tiny living ember left to hiss. Every motorist who travels a forest-bordered highway considers it a misdemeanor to throw from the car a lighted match or burn ing cigarette. Every woodsworker sees to it that no stray spark from his cig arette or power saw gets a chance to start a fire. Every logger "shuts down" his operation when the humidity reading gets in the neighborhood of 30. Every forest officer and pub lic official charged with direct responsibility is on the job night and day. The general public now fully understands and fully supports forest fire prevention as one way to maintain the principal payroll and the greatest single economic and creation resource of the Pa cific Northwest. Regardless of weather, man- caused forest fires can be kept to a minimum if everyone takes care and cooperates. Remember, the first test is in preventing the second is quickly reporting and extinguishing the forest fire. Let's all Keep Oregon Green. AT CHURCH CAMP Libby Van Schoiack and San dra Campbell are attending the Church of Christ girls camp at Cove this week. Rev. Charles V. Knox of Heppner is camp dean. o Printing Is Our Business! 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C. will meet Thursday July 19 at the county home ot Mrs. John Bergstrom starting at 2:00 p. m. o DEGREE OF HONOR TO PICNIC The Degree of Honor will hold their annual picnic Sunday July 15 at the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bergstrom. It will be a potluck picnic and Ice cream and beverage will be furnished by the lodge. All members, fam ilies and friends are invited. SCHOOL OF MISSIONS TO BE CONDUCED HERE Mr. and Mrs. Martin Clark are conducting a two day school of missions Thursday and Friday from 2 to 4 p. m. at the Heppner Church of Christ. Each evening there will be a preaching service at 8 p. m. with Mr. Clark as the guest speaker. Following the services there will be an informal fellowship hour in the dining room. The public is invited to all services. o ON VACATION Mr. and Mrs. Phil Blakney left last weekend for a week's vaca tion on the Oregon coast. Frank Merwyn of Walla Walla, a regis tered pharmacist, is working in Phil's Pharmacy during their ab sence. Mrs. Patrick Mullin of ..San Francisco is in Heppner for an extended visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Case. In a Thunderbird OED Ahead of you the highway unwinds like a carelessly coiled rope. But firmly under you is a car designed to take roads like this in easyhide. Beneath that gleaming Ford hood, 225 eager horses await your orders. Nudge the gas pedal. Gently now . . . look! That truck that was ahead of us is now safely behind. See that flat "S" curve ahead? With Ford's low center of gravity and ball joint front suspension, well follow its twist ing turns in sure-footed safety. There, we're through it, and it was fun! in performance Local News In Brief The Rev. and Mrs. L. D. Boul- den will leave Saturday for a week at the Methodist church junior camp at Suttle Lake. Miss Nancy Anderson will accompany them and will act as counselor at the camp. Mr. and Mrs. Omer McCaleb and daughters Mary, Barbara and Beverly of Portland are visiting at the home of her mother, Mrs. Alex Green. Mrs. Karl Baker and children Charles and Wilson of Bothell, Washington are visiting for a week at the home of her mother, Mrs. W. A. French. Mrs. William Labhart and Mrs. James Norene returned Monday from Monmouth where they at tended the wedding of Miss Vio let McFarland and Conley Lan ham. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Padberg and daughter Mary Evelyn have returned home from a 10 day vacation part of which was spent in Yellowstone park. Mr. and Mrs. John Foon and daughters of Portland were week end visitors at the homes of Her man Green and Marcel Jones. Erma Boyd and Mrs. Ralph Scott returned from Portland Monday evening where Erma has been hospitalized for two months. She is making satisfactory re covery, and will enjoy seeing her friends. Mrs. E. O. Williams and her daughter-in-law and children Phillip, Jill and Jane of Pendle ton spent the Fourth of July at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Williams. Mrs. Williams and Phillip stayed in Heppner for the remainder of the week. Mrs. Mervin Leonard. Morrow County Board member of the Ore gon Tuberculosis and Health As sociation, Mrs. Herman Green, President of the Morrow county T. B. and Health Ass'n., and Mrs. Lowell Gribble, vice president of the Morrow county group, left Monday for Eugene where they will spend the week attending the summer institute of the O. T. H. A. Mrs. W. O. George and sons Kit and David left Tuesday for Leh--man Springs where they will va cation until Friday. Special V-8 engine 225 eager "horses" await your instructions Available in Fordomatle Fairlanet and Station Wagona driving goes Beyond any doubt this '56 Ford will re capture for you the adcenture of driving. Behind its giant Thunderbird engine driv ing is full of fun again! Where a Ford V-8 is concerned, only driving is believing. And the keys to a Ford are waiting for you now at your Ford Dealer's. Get behind the wheel of this great road car. Put it through its paces on any highway or byway. When you return to your dealer's showroom we think you'll agree that Ford, indeed, goes first.. J . . , in safety Radar Speed Checks Get Motorist OK Oregon motorists, as represent ed by a large segment of AAA members polled by the Oregon State Motor Association, favored the use of radar in speed detec tion by the ratio of three to one, the Motor Association reports. In the recent poll, 77 per cent of the members replied in the affirmative to the question, "Are you in favor of the use of radar in the apprehension of violators of speed limits?" Oregon now has 43 radar sets licensed to five cities and the state for use in speed detection, the Motor Association reported. In the nation as a whole, 1,398 sets have been licensed by the federal government for this use. In Oregon, cities using radar are Portland, Oregon City, Salem, Eu gene and The Dalles. While figures on radar arrests from all cities using the electro nic devices are not available, state police reports that during the first three months of 1956, they made 548 passenger car ar rasts for basic rule violation as a result of the use of radar. For the . same period, arrests for the same 1 offense without radar totaled 2,750. Truck-bus arrests by radar for the same period totaled 15 compared to 956 non-radar ar rests. THUNDERSTORMS (Continued From Page 1) and rocks and there were re ports of a bridge being washed out on the Service Creek road to Mitchell. ...Lt. Col and Mrs. C. A. Shaw and sons Rob and Steve of Ft. Leavensworth, Kansas are guests at the home of her parents for a few days before continuing to Chicago, where Col. Shaw is to be stationed. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wilkinson have as their guests, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman- Dean and daughters Diane and Debbie of Port St. Joe, Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Williams of Bend were guests over the week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Turner, her sister and brother-in-law. in economy first I
