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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 9, 1956
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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MOB BOW, 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
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GRETCHEN PENLAND
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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.
Catch the Rain Where it Falls
Nowadays millions of people think of flood
control as something that requires huge multi
purpose dams cpsting an incredible sum of tax
money.
The truth is that big-scale flood control, in
case after case, can be better effected at vastly
lower cost, by small upstream dams.
This story was recently told in a National
Municipal Review article by Peter Farb. Mr.
Farb dealt with what ftas been done on a stream
in Western Oklahoma whlchly formerly suffer
red an average of nine floods per year. The Soil
Conservation Service with only pennies to spend
where the big dam groups spend dollars solved
the problem by the upstream approach. Of this,
Mr. Farb writes, "The upstream approach is as
different from the big-dam apporach "as earth is
from concrete. While SCS diminishes floods by
trapping water upstream, and thus minimizes
downstream flood conditions, the Army Engineers
try to control already-swollen rivers." The up
stream dams, he adds, are each about l2000th
the size of a typical big-dam built by the engi
neers, and the cost is comparably less.
The whole theory of upstream flood prevention
can be expressed in a phase catch the raindrops
where they fall. It is sound, it works, and it is
relatively Inexpensive. Industrial News Review
From The
County Agent's Office
By John Massle
For the seventh consecutive
year the U. S. calf crop has shown
an increase over the previous
year. This year's calf crop is
expected to total over 43 million
head, up 1 from a year ago.
The record high number is he
result of a near record number of
cows and heifers and a slight in
crease in calving percentage. All
regions of the country except the
north-central showed an increase.
Oregon, Arizona and Nevada were
the only states to show a de
crease. Acting secretary Morse has in-
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Rhonda Fleming, John Payne
vited representatives of livestock
producers, farm organizations,
processors and distributors to a
conference In Washington on
August 15 for a discussion of the
cattle situation. Particular em
phasis will be placed on the
heavy marketing period that is
ahead. The 1956 lamb crop to
taled 20,428,000 head, up 1 from
a year ago. Oregon's lamb crop
of 672,000 was down slightly this
year.
The marketing committee of
the Morrow County Livestock
Growers Association, several
months ago In planning activi
ties that might assist our live
stock growers to keep Informed
on country markets, asked that
any information of this kind be
passed on through this column.
It would be very helpful If local
livestock growers would report
sales to aid in this service. We
will try to keep Informed on the
neighboring county sales tor com
parison by our livestock growers.
In Klamath county a small pool
recently sold its 5,000 fleeces for
43c a pound, which Included both
black and white faced wool. The
lamb wool brought 40c. Tags
were sold at half price. In north
eastern Oregon 550 fleeces were
reported sold to a Portland buyer
for 47c. Tags from this clip
brought 20c. Some 350, lambs
were contracted for August de
livery In north-eastern Oregon at
$17. In Malheur county 400 good
heavy two year old steers were
contracted for delivery shortly at
$16.50. In Klamath county 77
steers and 45 heifers were con
tracted for September 20 delivery
at $15.00. Anither small bunch
of straight yearling steers was
contracted at the same price.
One Morrow County Livestock
grower has reported buyers of
fering 16c for heifers and 18c
for steers only recently.
At a recent meeting of the
county ASC committee, plans
were made for putting in effect
crop insurance coverage on bar
ley for the 1957 crop year. The
Federal Crop Insurance Corpora
tion has agreed to extend crop
insurance on barley in several
counties in Oregon and Washing
ton after a trial program this
year. Details are not yet worked
out but will be available from
the ASC Office within the next
few weeks.
A number of farmers, this year,
have asked about breaking over
conditions in many fields of Or
fed wheat. In a field or two, I
have noticed as much as 1 of
falling over. This was found only
In Orfed wheat. The condition
causing this is Columbia Basin
root rot which is caused by a soil
fungus. The last occurance of
this root rot that amounted to
anything was found in 1952. The
fungus is associated with higher
than average rainfall. There Is
little that can be done for this
root rot. It does not occur in
enough years to make it a major
problem. In some areas where it
has occurred year after year,
spring wheat has been planted as
it is not nearly so badly effected
With fair time only a short
time away, our farm people
should be giving much thought
to the exhibits they are going
to make this year. Much work is
put. into a fair each year to make
it a big success. Your exhibits
can be the only thing that con
tributes to making the fair big
ger and better every year. In the
past, grain exhibits have been
few, especially when we stop to
realize that grain crops, wheat
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a new service Flowers by Telephone. When flowers are to be sent out of town, the florist
calls the distant city and places the order before the customer leaves the shop. If the
flowers asked for are out of stock, the customer is free to change his order, knowing his
flowers will arrive on time. Florists who offer this new service display an emblem read
ing: "We speed flowers by telephone." It's another way telephone people working
with florists make telephone service do a better job for you. The men and women
of Pacific Telephone work to make your telephone more useful every day.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
August 12, 1926
The Heppner troop of Girl Re
serves in charge of Miss Helen
Fredrickson and Mrs. W. J. Bey-
mer and assisted by Miss Esther
Frederickson of Stanfield, are
encamped in the mountains this
week.
A. M. Edwards, well driller of
Lexington, was a visitor in Hepp
ner Saturday.
The Ford emine nf Fred Hoskins
who lives on the Adkins place on
Rhea creek, was stolen Sunday
night.
Edward Chinn and family, ac
companied by Miss Anna Sten
der, departed for Portland the
middle of last week.
Miss Leta Humphreys and her
brother, Roland, arrived home on
Thursday for a visit with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
Humphreys.
Claude Cox, manager of Mor
row County Creamery, accom
panied by Mrs. Cox and children,
departed Wednesday morning for
Lehman Springs where they will
enjoy an outing of a week.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Elv and
daughter were calling on Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Palmateer Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bauern
fiend and Misses Beulah and
Geneva Pettyjohn spent Sunday
in the mountains.
of course being major, provides
the main source of our agricul
tural income. This year, to en
courage more grain exhibits, the
Morrow County Grain Growers
are providing a trophy for the
sweepstakes wheat exhibit. They
are in hopes that this will en
courage a lot of wheat exhibits
so that the fair audience can see
the quality of grain grown in
Morrow county. This year, too,
additional classes have been ad
ded. These are Safflower and
field corn. A new addition to the
wheat class is one which It is
hoped will create a lot of com
petition between farmers who
claim to do the best job of com
bining. This lot is for the clean
est sample direct from the com
bine (uncleaned). The premium
on this lot has been made attrac
tive enough to demand a lot of
interest. Collections of grain in
sheaves should also attract a
number of exhibitors. This year
specifications for sheaves are two
inches in diameter, tied with
three strings. Why doesn't every
one take a little time this year
and make this year the best yet
in number and quality of grain
exhibits.
MORE JUSTICES NEEDED
In the first annual report of the
judicial council, created by the
1955 legislature, an increase in
the number of supreme court jus
tices in Oregon was recommend
ed. During the first six months of
this year a total of 175 cases were
appealed to the state supreme
court as compared with 117 cases
during the corresponding period
last year and there are ap-'
proximately 220 cases at issue.
There has not been an increase
in the number of justices since
1913 when the court was in
creased from five members to
the present seven members.
A percentage wise comparison
on a population basis shows that
Oregon has 21 per cent fewer
supreme court justices than the
average other states.
The 1955 legislature passed an
act which empowered the su
preme court to name circuit jud
ges pro tern of the supreme court.
The constitutionality of the law
was challenged before the court
and a decree issued declaring the
law unconstitutional. Since then
the work of the court has been
handled by the seven elected su
preme court justices.
INDECENT LITERATURE
A crusade started in Marion
county by a Silverton woman to
suppress the sale of indecent
books and magazines may spread
to many parts of the state or
farther.
Newspapers and ministers are
receiving a flood of letters ap
proving the efforts started in a
modest way.
A Marion county grand jury
spent almost four days reviewing
testimony and examining various
examples of national publica
tions found on magazine ana
book racks of stores throughout
the county.
Two magazine and book dis
frihntnrs uprp indited on a
charge of selling indecent publi
cations. They were arraigned on
Monday and freed on $500 bail.
DRIVERS LOSE LICENSES
Suspension of their drivers
license were given 102 drivers in
July because of their poor driv-
i .1 " t" i
ing records. The state TC(6tor
vehicle department said the num
ber was larger than usual,
having averaged 73 per month so
far this year.
Convictions for driving while
drunk totaled 315. These viola
tions continue to hold a steady
increasing pattern.
There were 10,229 drivers con
victed of violating traffic laws in
Oregon during July.
Continued on page 7
Allocation of two new wheat
varieties, Omar and Columbia,
have been made by the county
allocation committee. The com
mittee meeting last week distri
buted the increase from these
two new varieties to farmers in
the county who had made appli
cations earlier this spring. Due
to the exceptional yields of these
two varieties, It now appears that
there will be some additional
wheat available from the grow
ers. Growers of Omar wheat
were Lloyd Howton, Dehward
Bergevin and Oscar Peterson,
lone, with Dick' Krebs, Cecil grow
ing the Columbia. Farmers who
I might be interested in some of
these new varieties should con
tact these growers personally for
additional wheat which has not
been allocated.
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