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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MOHROW COUNTT'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Timeg established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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ROBERT PENLAND
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GRETCHEN PENLAND
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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.
Local Politics on a
National Scale
Oregon's senator Wayne Morse should have
felt right at home Tuesday evening when he
spoke before the Democratic national convention.
By the time he finished his speech the great con
vention hall was almost as empty as has been the
senate chamber on many occasions when he has
expounded. Television certainly does have some
genuine value to the voters of Oregon they were
able to see first hand the blank seats that Morse
has had to face for the last several years.
It seems to us that the Democrats were a little
too obvious in their inclusion of Morse on their
speaker's program. During the Hell's Canyon de
bate in the senate, top Demos made the statement
that the party faithful had to do something for
Morse if they were to get him back for another
term (such as pass his pet Hell's Canyon dam
bill). That didn't work, so they gave him a spot
on the national convention program where, we be
lieve, he gave one of the poorest speeches of his
career.
' If Wayne can't even keep the Democrats inter
ested, we don't see how he can hold much hope
for a victory in November.
Not Much of a Record
The last issue of the Oregon Voter carried a
compilation of the vote in Oregon at the primary
election. It showed that Morrow county came
very close to setting a record in the state for the
percentage of voters who got around to cast their
ballots. The record is nothing to be proud of.
In May a total of only 1,104 votes out of a total
registration of 2,170 bothered to cast their ballots.
That is a percentage of only 50.8.
That figure means that Morrow county was
the fourth lowest in the entire state in the per
centage of voters who voted. Only Wheeler
county with 41.4 percent; Crook with 45.3 and
Columbia with 49.3 percent of their voters voting
were worse than we were.
Top county in the state was Hood River where
68.7 percent voted. The state average In the pri
maries was 62 percent
From The
County Agent's Office
By John Mcusle
While Morrow county has beensmut treatments, HCB and PCNB,
fortunate over the years to be
relatively free of wheat smut,
there has been years when rather
heavy infestations of smut have
occured. A number of farmers
have complained this year of
more smut than usual. This might
be the result of several things,
Including a gradual build-up of
smut spores In the seed wheat
and the soil, a particularly good
year for smut and the occurance
of newer smuts which attack
wheat varieties resistant to older
type smut strains. Whatever the
reason might be, there are seve
ral things that farmers can do to
Insure themselves against a re
occurance of this smut in 1957.
Perhaps the first and most Im
portant is that of a good Job of
seed treatment. With the new
smut spores have a hard time
living and reproducing. These
new materials which are sold
under a variety of names, among
such as Smutgo, Smut-no-More,
Smut-Away are effective on soil
borne and seed borne smut
spores. In the past seed treat
ments have been effective only
against seed borne spores of com
mon smut. There are also some
other advantages of this new
material which includes much
safer and more agreeable for the
operator to use; seed can be
planted immediately following
treatment or held over long per
iods without loosing effectiveness
of smut control or harming ger
mination of seed. Beside treat
ing, it is also a good idea to use
seed wheat which is known to be
free of smut spores. Where smut
has been a problem in a particu
lar variety, it is often times de
sirable to change varieties on
this particularly smutty field.
The last of the wheat fertilizer
trial experiments were harvested
on Tuesday of this week. The five
plots were located on the Harold
Beach, John Eubanks, Kenneth
Peck, Lawrence Becket and Har
old Evans farms this year. All
but the Harold Evans's plot was
harvested last month, Results will
not be available until weighing
and cleaning of samples for yield
data.
Something new in wheat fer
tilizer plot experiments was tried
this year when a number of the
1953-54 plots were harvested to
determine if there was any
carry over to this year's crop.
Plots at the Frank Anderson,
Frank Parker and Raymond Lun
dell farms were located in the
field and harvested this year.
While we do not have the com
plete results from all of these
S&tm ll If
BEFORE FIRE STRUCK, this was a green and growing
forest. It was a place for pleasure where people pic
nicked, hiked and hunted. It was also a place for work
where men made their livings harvesting and growing
trees for lumber, plywood and paper. Each year
forest fires, most of them man-caused, destroy enough
wood to build 86 thousand homes. You can help halt
that loss by always being careful with fire in the woods.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
August 19, 1926
The water situation at Hepp
ner is greatly Improved as a re
sult of the copious rain of the
week. '
That there will be good music
as a leading feature of Heppner"s
Rodeo this fall is guaranteed by
the fact that the association has
secured the services of Percy A.
Campbell's American band of
Portland.
Miss Ruth Tash of Arlington
and Miss Willetta Barratt of Port
land are guests at the home of
the Misses Devin In Heppner this
week.
Harry Turner and family con
template leaving the first of the
week for a trip to Idaho.
Miss Lillian McMurdo of the
University of Virginia, has been
visiting with her uncle, Dr. A. D.
McMurdo and family in Heppner
for the past few days.
Leonard Carlson,
Wheat raiser, was
ness here Saturday.
Gooseberry,
doing busi-
plots, the Raymond Lundell plot
was so evident as to nitrogen
carry-over that the curiosity was
so great to see what the results
would be after a year of summer
fallow that a quick calculation
was made. It was found that 20
pounds of nitrogen applied in the
fall of 1953 had carried over and
gave an increase of 4.1 bushels
per acre compared with the check.
Forty pounds of nitrogen gave
exactly twice that increase, or 8.2
bushels; 60 pounds of nitrogen
gave a 5.3, bushel increase; while
80 pounds gave 4.4. The plots
where nitrogen was applied in
the spring gave even greater re
sults with the 20 pound plot giv
ing a 4 bushel increase; the 40
pound an 11.5 bushel; the 60
pound a 14.8; and the 80 pound a
14.6 bushel Increase. Evidently
the spring applied nitrogen was
not made available to the grow
ing crop that year, therefore, a
greater carry-over for this year's
crop. The results of this plot in
dicate that farmers might be
thinking of carry-over and plan
their yearly applications of nitro
gen accordingly.
With this year's nitrogen plots
out of the way it is time now to
locate farms for next year's plots.
We would appreciate having vol
unteers. We would like to have
plots put out on as many differ
ent farms throughout the county
as possible to determine nitrogen
Influences so do not want to go
back to the same farm cooper
ators unless it is absolutely ne
cessary. Plots need to be located on un-
Evaporation Pans
May Help Predict
Irrigation Needs
Pans of water set in strategic
spots around the countryside may
be able to tell farmers when and
how much to irrigate If research
at Oregon State college continues
to pay off.
Paul Riley, OSC agricultural
engineer, and Dan Evans, soil
scientist, report that the amount
of water evaporating from pans
during a three-day period gives
a good indication of the amount
fertilized summer fallow, prefer
ably close to the road for ease of
the various operations that need
to be carried out on land that is
quite level. The fields where these
plots are located are worked and
seeded as in ordinary operations.
The only difference in operation
would be at harvest time when
forty-inch swaths are taken from
each of the plots. The plot is ap
proximately one-half acre in size.
William J. Doherty, Sand Hol
low farmer, was in the office one
day last week to inquire of recom
mended tillage practices and dry
land grass for -seeding at his
farm. He is making plans now
for seeding 150 acres of Crested
wheat and Nomad alfalfa. This
will provide additional feed for
his herd of cattle which he runs
in conjunction with his wheat
operations. While visiting with
Mr. Doherty we found that he
was very well pleased with
Flynn 37 barley grown on his
farm this year. His entire acre
age of barley yielded over 1900
pounds per acre. One field yielded
2056 pounds. Barley yields are
apparently at least double last
year's yield with, Flynn 37 mak
ing some excellent yields from
some farmer reports.
t ,atnr a rrOD Uses. Ana ims
information, together with know
ing a soil's moisture-holding ca
pacity and a knowledge of a
particular crop's water needs,
could give farmers a simple and
accurate method for figuring
when and how much irrigation
water to apply.
In their research, the scientists
fuund that while evaporate
pans set as far as mree rau
apart varied considerably from
day to day, the average evapora
tion loss was fairly uniform
when measured every three days.
Size or shape of the pans didnt
seem to matter.
Big obstacle to use of the met
hod is a lack of information on
the rate plants draw water from
the soil during different stages of
maturity. For example, scien
tists know that corn needs more
water at tasseling time than at
any other growth period. But the
rate of water use at different
stages of maturity hasn't been
established for most irrigated
crops. , , t
When this relationship between
water needs and evaporation
losses to a plant's stage of growth
is known for all the various ir
rigated crops, deciding when and
how much to irrigate may be
come a simple arithmetic prob
lem. Weather stations could re
nr,rt pvanoration losses from
strategically located pans of
water. Then, knowing the water
holding capacity of his soil and
the maturity stage oi nuy
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a little adding to figure the water
losses from the field he's irri
gating. o
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Miller of
Portland were guests at the Jack
Bedford home Wednesday and
Thursday of last week enroute
to Mt. Baker.
STAR
THEATER
HEPPNER
Thurs.-Fri.-Sat.. Aug. 16-17-18
GLORY
Margaret O'Brien
Plus
Dig That Urcnium
Bowery Boys
Sunday-Monday. Aug. 19-20
Birds and Bees
George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor
Lots of Fun!
Sunday at 4, 6:20. 8:40
Tues..-Wed.,
Hilda
Guy Madison,
Aug. 21-22
Crane
Jean Simmons
Burton Peck called at the of
fice last week with a sample of
Japanese Millet which he grew
on his farm this year. The par
ticular plants he brought in
showed a tremendous growth and
would compete well with that
type of millet grown in the mid
west where that crop is a popu
lar one. While at the office, Mr.
Peck told us that he had read the
card mailed recently from this
office pleading for grain, grass
and hay exhibits at the Morrow
county fair. He will have a,
number of them for exhibit and
said that all it took was just
a little time and effort on the
part of the farmer to make a
good exhibit at our Fair. We
rope that there are others follow
ing his footsteps. ,
Don't forget that Fair time is
growing closer every day. It takes
your exhibits and the cooperation
of everyone to make good fair
better. Why don't you get into
the spirit of things this year and
bring in an exhibit.
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