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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, July 26, 1956
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
Scoop A Summer Snowball!
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 Cents.
Other Editor's Thoughts-
(With at least half of all editorials appearing
in newspapers running to the political side,
praising or, condemning the Hell's Canyon de
cision, or working Morse or Neuberger over, it
was a pleasant change to read the following
which we found in a recent issue of the Wallowa
County Chieftian of Enterprise. We reprint it here.)
EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
Some people are never quite satisfied with the
kind of creatures they find on this good earth and
are constantly seeking ways and means by which
they can "improve" various bird and animal spe
cies. These efforts have been directed to produce
short-legged cattle, long-backed hogs, broad
breasted turkeys, boneless fish and the like, with
a view to greater profits for the livestock, poultry
and fish producers.
No one has ever bothered to inquire into the
number of people who might prefer soup bones to
sirloins, wings to wish bones or hocks to hams.
The people will eat what the experimental breed
ers produce even If they don't like it.
Now comes a new development In the field of
experimental biology. Some Chinese communists
have been crossing hen with goose eggs to see
what would happen. They have injected the
white of goose eggs into chicken eggs and hatched
a modified chicken with a broad beak, longer
neck, bigger haunches and larger body, the re
ports state. It has not been announced whether
the fowl will be called a chicken, a goose, or
maybe a "yen" or a "hoose".
We don't know what advantage it will be to
have a domestic fowl with a longer neck or a
broader beak. We have "been amazed for many
years at the preponderance of neck in every serv
ing of chicken. The prospects of a chicken with
the neck of a goose, or maybe a swan, doesn't par
ticularly enthuse us.
An amphibian "hoose" might be an advantage
in area which are alternately suffering from
drouth or floods. This hybrid might be able to
take to land or water as conditions should dictate.
As a matter of curiosity we have wondered
whether the bird honks or cackles, quacks or
crows.
Maybe the white of canary eggs could be In
jected into chicken eggs, along with the goose
egg whites, and produce a "cenoose" which would
scratch like a hen, swim like a goose and sing
like a canary. They could be kept as pets in the
house making It unnecessary to buy, or even to
gather the eggs.
But before the Communists beat us to it, we
would like to see someone try Injecting the whites
of alligator eggs into chicken eggs and see what
would happen. We might get a chicken (or "alii
ghen") with a breast ten feet long, no wings and
no neck. Then we would really have something.
From The
County Agent's Office
By John Massle
Morrow county is fortunate in
having a county weed program
which is actively pushing the
fight against noxious weeds
Under the direction and super
vision of Nels Anderson, your
county agent, now on vacation,
(he weed program is put Into
action by Cal Carson, county
weed sprayer operator. Cal is
the fellow you see out spraying
roadsides and farmers fields with
the county spray rig, You're
liable to see him out anytime
of the day or night as he likes to
work when the air is still.
It is remarkable in recent
years the advances we have
seen in spray materials. We see
new kinds of sprays coming on
the market continually. For every
weed there are at least two or
three sprays that will knock it
out. Much remains to be done
in spray research not only In
amounts applied but the time of
application and stage of growth
of the weed are all vitally im
portant to good control. Any one
of these not watched closely can
lead to poor results in a com
plete kill of the weeds. .
There is another very interest
ing side of this problem of weed
control. This is the little known
field of finding an insect which
will live on and eat only the .
STAR
THEATER
HEPPNER
Thu. Frl., Sat., July 26-27-28
BACKLASH
Richard Widmark, Donna Reed
plus
The Houston Story
Gene Barry, Edward Arnold
Sunday-Monday, July 29-30
Anything Goes
Bing Crosby
Sunday at 4, 6:10, 8:20
Tues., Wednes., July 31 Aug. 1
Miracle In The Rain
Jane Wyman, Van Johnson
weed we are anxious to stamp
out. As you could imagine, this
would indeed be the lazy way
for weed control.
Here in Morrow county we have
an excellent example of this type
of weed control program. You
all probably know goatweed
which i fairly widespread in this
area. In 1954 Cal Carson put out
five colonies of goatweed beetles
which will eat only goatweed.
There are 2500 insects in a col
ony of goatweed beetles and they
anacK tne goatweed witn a
healthy appetite. Originally im
ported from Australia, the beet
les were distributed in this area
through Oregon State college and
the county agent. Along with
the original five colonies, an ad
ditional four colonies have been
put out.
The goatweed beetle has some
interesting habits. They will go
at a patch of goatweed and v in
a very methodical fashion like a
group of soldiers, will fan out
from the center working their
way through the field. Once
finished, they can travel from
three to five miles to another
patch of goatweed. Cal has ob
served them doing Just this.
When fall begins to approach,
the goatweed beetle will burrow
down into the roots of the goat
weed and there hibernate until
spring. When spring arrives
they will come above the ground
and start their feeding on the
goatweed again. Once they ex
haust their supply of goatweed
they will starve to death. Every
spring Cal will go out and col
lect enough beetles to make a
colony and transport them to
a new patch of goatweed. Cal
says this beats spraying anytime.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
July 29, 1926
Twenty three car loads of
lambs, purchased here last week,
were shipped to Omaha and Chi
cago Sunday. The principal sell
ers were C. A. and Ellis Minor,
Bob Thompson, Mahoney and
Kelly, and Mahoney and Gentry.
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Fresh Apricot Sauce
1 cup sugar
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2 cups cold water
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a Tokyo hospital to the Oregon
State Tuberculosis hospital at
Salem.
Sgt. Robert W. Young, Spring
field, who filed the petition, is a
veteran of five years in the Far
East, and indicated that he would
return to the United States if al
lowed to bring his wife.
LOG HAULING BREAK
A receyt order by Public Utili
ties Commissioner Charles H.
Heltzel will give weekend vaca
tioners a big break and serious
ly may save lives.
Log hauling on highways will
be allowed from 4 a. m. to 2 p.
m. Mondays through Fridays and
the hours on Saturday will be
from 4 a. m. to noon.
No hauling is allowed on Sun
days and holidays.
The order permits hauling to
begin four hours earlier than In
the past.
CAMPAIGN TALK
A switch in Republican gene
ralissimos on the state level
which became effective recently
started the GOP campaign on a
high tempo. Douglas Huegli re-
Monument News
Fred McWillis is doing some
repair work on the school house.
Paul Kimmel drove to Pendle
ton Wednesday to meet his folks
who arrived from the east.
A Stanley party will be held
at the Kingman home Monday
afternoon at 1:30.
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Lexington News
Mrs. Frances McMillan spent
Sunday at the home of her
daughter Mrs. Freda Slocum in
Heppner. She was taken there
by her granddaughter, Mrs.
Clough of Arlington.
signed as executive secretary of
the Republican State Central Com
mittee to mangae the campaign
of Douglas McKay for United
States Senator.
Vern Stephens, Portland, was
named to succeed Huegli.
Combine sugar, cornstarch, and salt in saucepan. Add cold water
and blend. Add apricots. Place over medium heat and bring to a boil,
stirring constantly. Then cook 3 to 5 minutes, or until clear. Cool
slightly. Serve on Cflconut Snowballs.
Chris Brown is the proud pos
sesor of a new Dodge sedan pur
chased this week through the
local agency, Cohn Auto Co.
The Guy Boyer family were
over from Monument the end of
the week enjoying a visit with
Heppner friends.
Miss Anabel Turner is spending
the weekend with Miss Betty
Cason at her mountain home
near Black Butte. j
Miss Josle Rowell, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. M. Rowell of Rhea
creek, was severely poisoned by a
bee sting on her head Sunday afternoon.
L. Van Marter returned home
Sunday after the ball game at
Condon the worse for wear by at
least one cracked rib.
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Willamette Valley Ram Sale
The annual Willamette Valley
rain sale will be held at the Linn
county fair grounds right north
of Albany. The sale starts at 10:00
a. m. Saturday, August 4, 1956.
Catalogs are avaliabel by writing
to O. E. Mlkesell, secretary, in
Albany. Mail bids will be taRen
if you are unable to attend the
sale.
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Mrs. W. C. Erther, Milton, and
her sister Mrs. Claude Lane of
Maumee, Ohio are spending the
week with Mrs. L. D. Boulden.
where he will take charge of a
highway mission that is work
ing under an agreement between
the Unit ed States and that coun
try, acting in an advisory capa
city on highway matters to the
Government of Irak.
YELLOW STRIPE NEXT
It would not be much of a
problem for the State Highway
Department to find a yellow paint
that would fade to white but
what they would like to have
now is for the white paint they
now use on the center stripe of
highways to turn yellow.
Two years ago the department
changed from yellow to white
in a move to standardize the
color of highway center stripes
used throughout the United
States.
State Highway Engineer R. H.
Baldock has announced that
white will not be used again.
"It has been found," he states,
"that white lines fade sooner than
yellow and that Oregon drivers
have expressed a preference for
the yellow, even though fresh
white lines are considered some
what more visible than yellow
lines."
It will take quite some time,
perhaps a year to make the tran
sition, but it will be started as
soon as possible.
LOW BIDS TOO LOW
After submitting the low bid of
$490,560 for "building a new dor
mitory at the State School for the
Deaf at Salem, George Moore
and Associates advised the State
Board of Control Wednesday that
their bid contained an error of
approximately $60,000 which
would cause the firm heavy fi
nancial losses."
Seven other bids were submit
ted with James Hickey, Portland,
the next lowest at $518,000 which
was accepted in view of the bid
withdrawal.
The board rulecf that because
of the error in the bid and the
withdrawal the Moore firm will
not be eligible to submit another
bid for state construction for a
period of three years.
WAR BRIDE ADMITTED .
The State Board of Control
looked with favor on a request
of an Army sergeant to get his
Japanese wife transferred from
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BALDOCK WILL RESIGN
Oregon's renowned highway
engineer, R. H. Baldock announ
ced Thursday that he will resign
August 16 to answer a call from
Irak to head a highway commis
sion chore.
He has given 41 years of con
tinual service to the Oregon
Highway Department, 24 of them
as State Highway Engineer He
is 67 years old and has been
recognized as one of the leading
highway engineers of America,
now a member of the executive
committee of the American Asso
ciation of State Highway Engi
neers and a past president of
that organization.
Within days following the date
of his resignation, August 16,
he and Mrs. Baldock will leave
for Europe where they will spend
several weeks touring that conti
nent before leaving for Irak
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