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r Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 2, 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 THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times August 5, 1926 "Hole in one!" Whether or not there is a heaven in the here after, it is true none could bring greater state of elation to a gol fer than this accomplishment. So, of course, Ed Bennett has been walking on air after his feat last evening. ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate- Publisher NIWSPAMt. 1ATIONAI EDITORIAL PUIUf HIRf ASSOCIATION ASVbclhATlSN rrrswm ZJ J 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. Frank S. Parker is leaving this weekend for a visit with his mo ther at the old home in Missouri. l?y""'-'iiw Minn . iii-h. ,., !" i r w, nw , & 1 1, , ,i , T"i " XJKF Odd Ends Heppner and all of Morrow county join with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright In congratulttlng and being mighty proud of their daughter Patsy Her appearance on the nation-wide television pro gram, Voice of Firestone, Monday night marked the first time anyone from this area, has been so honored, and It is a compliment to the 4-H leaders of Morrow county that one of their girls was chosen to represent all the 4-H club girls of the nation. Patsy's poise and confidence before the cam eras Is ample proof of the value of the training that 4-H boys and girls get. The fair board ought to be happy too, for It Isn't every county fair that gels a nation-wide plug for Its show such as Queen Patsy gave ours Monday. The long-dormant plan for a dam on Willow creek came to the front again this week when J. O. Turner, a member of the county water re sources committee, told the chamber of commerce that prospects are brighter than at any time In recent year. He pointed out the state water re sources board is offering its aid, but the most im portant need is for a genoral agreement among those persons who will benefit from such a dam, just what type of program they would favor and if they really want it. There is probably no single project which could mean . so much to the economy of the county, yet there has been a decided lack of Inter, est among a big share of the residents. The plan presented in past years, as we understand It, was quite nebulous and loft a lot of questions un answered, and at the present time the same Is still true, but the county water resources commit tee Is tackling the job with vigor and with the help of residents a workable plan certainly can be developed that will benefit everyone in this area. The committee will hold another meeting in the near future and it is hoped that a good at tendance will show that there is interest in get ting an Irrigation and flood control dam built. Water is this area's most important problem. A start on solving that problem shouldn't be de layed any longer. From The County Agent's Office By John Massie O. W. Cutsforth, Lexington rancher, last week took a step toward improving the gaining ability in his registered Hereford herd. His purchase of two of the top gaining bulls offered In the fourth annual Oregon State col lege livestock sale will pass on to their offspring higher gaining ability. The two bulls made rates of gain of 3.57 and 2.9 pounds per day. At the same time, pounds of feed fed per hundred pounds of gain were lowest of the entire lot of regis tered bulls offered in this annual sale of increase of the college herd. Wheat Here Tops Returning from a vacation trip of 4600 miles, visiting seven states have excellent yields, with an in come surpassing that from bar ley or other alternate crops grown on allotment acres. Plants are well branched with large bolls, with a good seed set. It appears that the crop will mature earlier than was the case last year, which was shortly after must De marketed elsewhere. The shining example of what can be accomplished by planned intelli gent export promotion of basic American products may be seen in the long range program of Ore gon wheat growers. Wheat is Oregon's largest farm crop, a soft, white wheat, ideal for milling into cake, pastry and biscuit flours and for blending with high protein hard wheats for flours. Yet only aljput 25 of Oregon's wheat crop is used in the state for food, feed and seed, which means that 75 of it Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cohn and Mrs. Frances Rood departed on Sunday morning in the Cohn car for an "extended auto trip that will take them away from Hepp ner for a period of a few weeks. I Mrs. G. C. Aiken is in receipt of word this week from her son, Cyrus W. Aiken, who is at pre sent located at Amarillo, Texas, and engaged in the selling of real estati with J. W. Crudging ton, owner and developer of sub urban property. David Wilson and family re turned Tuesday from Ritter. Mrs. Lenore Taylor and son Jack of Berkeley, California, were visitors In Heppner during the past week, guests at the home of Mrs. Lena Coleman. September 1. For those farmers who have not seen Safflower growing in a field, this years crop Is a sight to see. Growers are Harold Evans, Leonard Rill, Don ald Peterson, Kenneth Smouse, Henry George, Ted Palmateer and Pete Cannon. Cattle Listing Dropped The marketing committee of the Morrow County Livestock and two provinces in Canada, urowers Association met rues crops In Morrow county look bet-day evening and decided to drop ter than in any of the area cover-1 plans for the cattle listing service eu. mere was no exception to onerea to Morrow county live- this, including the Palouse wheat 'stock growers. The committee country between Walla Walla and Spokane. Grain crops in the Mid-West generally are very poor due to a dry, early spring. Late crops such as flax and corn show excellent prospects, how-j ever, in most states, rain was! needed badly. In North Dakota alone, millions of dollars are being paid out under the soil bank program for wheat that is being plowed under because of low yields that would not equal the soil bank payment. In Iowa, where crop failures are unknown, much of the grain crop Is too poor to harvest, and there too the soil bank program is quite popular. Soil bank payments were varying from $44 an acre In Iowa to $14.50 In North Dakota in counties where I visited with ASC officials. In the wheat coun try of Alberta, much of the wheat crop will not be worth harvest ing. In the flax country farmers are looking forward to twenty bushel yields which rarely occur, pne of the best fields of com seen on the entire trip was on a farm owned by Harold Beach, Lexing ton farmer, on the St. Croix river In Wisconsin. With the exception of small localized areas, here will be no yields of wheat better than what our Morrow county far mers are harvesting this year. Safflower Good Visiting the fields of Safflower seeded this year In Morrow county early this week, John Massie and I found fields looking excellent. It appears as though the farmers growing Safflower tnis yvarwm was of the opinion that livestock men here did not care to have assistance in obtaining addi tional markets and top prices for cattle which has been the case in other Oregon counties where this practice has been in effect over a numher of years. The small par ticipation of livestock men list ing cattle for sale was the reason for this decision. Those livestock men who have sent in their list ings with a check for the fee to help defray expenses of advertis ing will get a refund soon. The committee decided however, to refer buyers who have shown an interest in the listing and have asked for the list, to these cattlemen. Wheat Plan Praised A recent issue of the Harbor News, issued by the commission of public docks, gives recognition to Oregon wheat growers in their program for development of ex port markets. A few quotas of the article are given here: "A STAR THEATER HEPPNER Thu.-Frl.-Sat, Aug. 2-3-4 Five Guns West Technicolor plus Threshold of Space John Hodiak, CS and Color Sunday-Monday, Aug. 5-6 CAROUSEL - All-Star and Terrific! Sunday at 4, 6:30, 9 Tue.-Wed Aug. 7-8 Bottom of the Bottle Van Johnson Excellent, Adult LOTS OF USED APPLIANCES Maytag Electric Dryer $119.50 Norge Automatic Washer $75 9 Ft. Admiral Refrigerator $125 New Unit 9 Ft. Coldspot Refrigerator $100 8 Cu. Ft. Frigidaire Chest $149.95 ELECTRONIC SERVICE I GUtnore b. Phone 6-9975 picture is the same for Washing ton and Northen Idaho, which lion that the increase wouia be retained, although fluctuating with rice production. Another favorable factor was the tremenduous increase in the population it is estimated that every ten years there will be a 180 million more mouths to feed in Asia and it appears doubtful that food production can be increased to meet these demands. The team worked in Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore. Indonesia, Ceylon, India and Pakistan and found definite encouragement in some countries where wheat was being adapted to the food habits in rice eating areas. The Oregon with uregon, maKe up the paci-1 wheat groups payed an important fic Northwest wheat growing re gion. As long ago as 1926, Oregon wheat growers felt the need for a united approach to their prob lems. They organized the Ore gon Wheat Growers League. Then in 1946, growers decided that when post-war world de mand for wheat declined, sur plus and acreage controls would be inevitable. A better approach they decided, would be to put ex. perts on the job full time, find new markets and expanding ex isting markets for wheat". The article goes on to outline the es tablishment of the Oregon Wheat Commission and the one half cent bushel tax which pro vides money for research and program development to assist in the surplus problem. "It was de cided that a representative, each, from the Oregon Wheat LOague, from the Foreign Agricultural Service, and from the Millers Na tional Federation, form a team to visit Asia to determine speci fic projects for each county to aid in expanding markets for United States grain products. The previous missions have found a significant increase in consumption of wheat products in Asia since the war and'indica- roll in the introduction last year of a new wheat food called Bul gar wheat, a popular wheat dish in the middle east for centuries. It is made by boiling, drying and cracking the wheat, resulting in a product that is high in food value, yet is easy to prepare into a tastey dish of high nutritional value cooking time only fifteen minutes. The biggest program to increase consumption of wheat by Asiatic peoples is that under way in Japan iready the North west's biggest foreign wheat cus tomer, which is also believed to have the greatest immediate de velopment potential. The wheat team has been in Japan for months working out eleven promotional projects, con tracts for four of which have just been signed. WTieat promotion efforts of the Oregon Wheat Growers League at the 15-day International Trade Fair in Osa ka, Japan, during April turned out to be almost too successful. The exhibit was literally mobb'ed by crowds of Japanese. On the final day, in fact, more than 100 police had to be called out to keep the thousands of people from completely over-running the wheat exhibit. As part of the five-unit exhibit, baking demon- FALLOUT CLOUD could look much like this artist's conception following an attack on a tar ret city, such as the 76 target areas which will be assumed hit during Operation Alert, 1956 (July 20-26). Radioactive dust In the bomb's mushroom could be blown 200, miles or more downwind from the blast area, covering the countryside with radioactive material which for days could bring Injury or possibly death to anyone not under cover. In rural areas, a base ment, root cellar or "cyclone shelter" would be the best shield from radiation. Such a shelter should have food and water for at least seven days, and a battery-operated standard radio to receive emergency Instructions from civil defense broadcasts. (FCDA Photo) it Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton has asked the Oregon Supreme Court to halt construc tion of Pelton dam on the De schutes river by Portland General strations of cake mixes made a big impression on the Japanese public, millers and bakers, as did the scones, sweet breads and other baked goods. A Japanese home economist and four assist ants spent full time preparing and explaining dishes made from Ala, the new Bulgar wheat food. Some 100,000 sweet rolls, count less thousands of samples of Ala and recipe folders printed in Japanese were distributed during the fair. Twice as many people visited the exhibit as had been expected. As we said, the work of the Oregon wheat people, coupled with efforts of govern ment agencies is a bright ex ample of what should and can be done toward promotion of world trade." Electric Co., as it is in violation of state laws. The company is going with construction on a license from the federal power commis sion that was upheld by the U. S. Supreme court and overturned longstanding interpretations of state water rights and laws. In his petition Thornton asked the state supreme court to take jurisdiction in the controversy. He said "the unlawful acts of the defendant corporation are ad verse to public interest in that they affect and endanger use, control and distribution of waters of the state of Oregon for irri gation, municipal or other uses, and further development of the public waters as may be in the best interests of the state of Ore gon." Previously Thornton asked the Jefferson county district attorney to bring criminal action against the company if he found any violation of he state law in con struction actually underway. The Jefferson county grand jury failed to find a violation of the law. LEGIONARIES TAPPED Everybody had a roaring good time at the annual convention of the American Legion, Depart ment of Oregon, at Albany last week. Everybody, that is except five men who lost a total of $500 reported taken from their billfolds ahead by a prowler as they slept. Also ! .... U n .mi. ...m... Ha mnmhn.n rf umiayyy wet; mc juciulcis ui the 1957 convention committee. They reported that the chambers of commerce in all the towns in Oregon were asleep and neglect ed to put in a bid for next year's convention. A resolution was adopted urg ing Oregon's senators and mem bers of congress to support the Legion's veteran security bill. Don Eva, Portland, was elected commander of the Legion and Mrs. Clarence B. 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