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HEPPNER
MOBHOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. "'ha Heppner Times ootabliohed
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
Subscription Rates: Morrow and
How Much for College?
Parents don't talk about It out loud, but many
of them must feel that the system of sending every
Mary, Jane, and Harry to college as a part of the
caste system badge of arriving is a vicious and
mean part of today's life.
How much for college? It's a real problem
to most parents who feel the increasing cost of
college education while at the same time facing
the desperate battle with the collector of all taxes,
local, state and federal. How much can you af
ford? You can afford only as much as Tom can bene
fit, directly, from his education. You can afford
to spend only that which will bring back to him
a fuller life, and a lite dedicated to service in a
profession or occupation.
The house that gets saddled with a great big
whooping mortgage so Mary can live In a man
sion of a sorority house is not a house of serenity.
And Mary should not be happy either when she
has taken from the old age of her parents for the
glitter of tasteless days.
College should be costly. The professors should
From The
County
Age
By John
Things are shaping up for an-
other good Morrow County Fair
arid Rodeo. The fair will get
under way Wednesday morning,
August 29th when 4-H club en
tries close at 9:00 a. m. The day
will be spent in 4-H contests and
Judging of some exhibits. A
change from the past year's fairs
Is the new deadline for open class
entries, which is noon Wednes
day, August 29th. In the past
years the deadline has been 9.00
on Thursday morning. This
change will give a little more
time for judging and the ribbons
to be placed before the fair audi
ence earlier in the week. It will
also give superintendents an op
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GAZETTE TIMES
ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere
be tne best men
quire the best
sacrince many
the politic way.
striving to
Professors
and hesitate to
big-wig in the
are mane worKing years.
How much for college?
Everything if
ca liner.
club. (Coquille
nt's Office
Mcusls
portunlty to have a full morning
to receive exhibits and get them
in place for Judging. Flower Judg.
ing will be done Wednesday
afternoon while they are stin
fresh. Our Morrow county fair
Is a good opportunity to exhibit
your wares of home and farm.
It is also a good place to come
and see the good examples of
Morrow county's agriculture and
culinary exhibits of the home.
Flower exhibitors, whether In
dividually in that class or In the
make-up of a booth might wish
to see the new bulletin on flow
er, arrangements Just off the
press. The bulletin is the com
Heppner Gazette
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in their field. Thev should re
students who will profit from the
parents make each fall.
There's a problem that grows greater each year
m our uigory 0i "everyone to college". High schools
help perpetuate the hoax by blithly baptizing
everyone at the end of a four year sentence. It's
colleges takes them in a constant, ambitious
out-enroll State or the U of Podunk.
find their social intelligence hieh.
call in the Dean lest the political
town call the Prexy on the phone
anu asK wnat s up.
In the meantime mothers go to work; fathers
borrow money; the golden years in many cases
your youngster is of true college
If not, he will bo happier, and so will you, with
a trade school, a business college, or a good Job
where he can make friends, live a happy life,
and grow up to become a president of his service
Valley Sentinel)
bined efforts of the Oregon and
Washington State colleges and
the University of Idaho. Display
techniques are shown with every
day arrangements, containers and
holders, as well as important
flower accompaniments. A copy
is available for you at this office
Details for the complete soil
bank program are shaping up
and announcement will be made
soon. ASC County committees
and county agents from eastern
Oregon are meeting in Pendleton
this week to get detailed lnfor
niation.
The Morrow county court, each
year, budgets funds for preda
tory control work. Funds made
available by Morrow county are
matched by state and federal
funds.
Carl McDaniel, Heppner, Is full-
time predatory agent with the
Projreu In tht Weif meam , , ,
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1956
atomic Mer0 will b nded to
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CALIFORNIA
Times, Thursday, August 23, 1956
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
August 26, 1926
Garfield Crawford, for many
years a resident of Heppner,
where he grew from childhood
to his majority, Is now operating
in west Texas oil fields.
Harold Dobyns and Elmer Wil
liams of the U. S. Biological Sur
vey, were visitors in Heppner
Wednesday.
Mrs. W. O. Dix, who has been
visiting In Portland for about
three weeks, returned home this
morning.
The Heppner-Arlington stage
run for several months by Walter
LaDusire, has been taken over by
Allen Case who is now operat
ing the service.
T. W. Cutsforth and daughter,
Mrs. Pointer, were calling in Mor
gan Wednesday.
Irving A. . Mathers and wife
have been guests during the past
week at the home of Mrs. Ma
ther's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
P. Mahoney.
Miss. Eula McMillan and Miss,
Gwendolin Evans returned from
Hood River Tuesday afternoon
U. S. fish and wildlife service and
receives salary and expenses from
these funds. The county also has
an agreement with Harold Do
byns for part-time predatory con
trol. The state department of
agriculture, last week, allocated
$30,000.00 for the control of pre
datory animals during the fiscal
year, 1956-57. This money will
be used with county appropria
tions for predatore control work.
The June report of these hunters
gives an idea of the value of pre
datory animal control funds. A
total of 608 predatory animals
were killed, Including 183 coyotes,
127 bobcats, 43 bears, 60 foxes,
42 badgers, 18 skunks, 58 racoons
and 77 porcupines. These hunters
reported stock and game losses
between April 1 and June 30 of
this year. Known livestock losses
in Oregon during that period due
to predators totalled 1,214 live
stock, 732 poultry and 26 game
birds and game animals. These
figures are not total livestock
losses due to predators, they are
ones actually found by the federal-state
predator hunters during
their routine work.
Bill Hall, superintendent of the
Sherman branch experiment sta
tion tells us that the station has
approximately 150 bushels of Rio
(Turkey) and 50 bushels of Elmar
wheat for sale. Both varieties
have passed field inspection for
certification. If anyone might
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Winners of Rides
Winners of the Oscar George
Gulp and Gallop, a Wrangler
sponsored ride and play day on
August 12 were revealed this
week. First second and third
winners are listed in that order,
Bending race,- vz years or un
der: ' Gcraldme Swaggart, Kit
George, Bobby Fetsch. 13 through
17 years: Jim Steagall, Barbara
Steagall, Christine Swaggart,
Seniors Jean Boylen, Bill Healy,
Bob Steagall.
Stake race, 12 years and under.
Kit George, Bobby Fetsch, Mar
lene Fetsch, and Geraldine Swag
gart (tie for third). 13 through 17
years: Pat Steagall, Christine
Swaggart, Jim Steagall. Seniors
Bob Steagall and Jean Boylen
tied for first and second, Ralph
Beamer third.
Barrel race, 12 years and under:
Geraldine Swaggart, Kit George,
Bobby Fetsch. 13 through 17
years: Christine Swaggart, Bar
bara Steagall, Pat Steagall. Sen
iors: Ralph Beamer and Jean Boy
len tied for first, Bill Healy third.
Musical ropes, 12 years and
under: Kit George,. Bobby Fetsch,
Anna Marie Brindle. 13 through
17 years:Christine Swaggart, Bar
bara Steagall, Pat Steagall. Sen
iors: Jean Boylen, Bob Steagall,
Bill Healy.
Junior calf roping, David
George, Kit George.
Senior Calf roping Oscar George j
first.
Cow riding: Sherman Murray,
Steve Green,. Bob Williamson.
Ribbon roping, Vern Evans,
Bill Healy, Bob Steagall.
station can be contacted.
A four to six month old heifer
may slowly starve on lush grass
at this time of year. Grass at this
time can easily have more than
80 water In it. A three hund
red to four hundred pound heifer
would have to eat about fifty
to sixty pounds of grass daily to
get enough dry matter. Young
calves are often unable to eat
enough grass to meet their needs.
In some recent tests Guernsey and
Jersey calves six, eight and ten
months of age on irrigated pas
ture only, gained only 53 nor
mal. Good pasture after four
months of age, plus three to four
pounds of grain daily will enable
these future herd replacements to
make good profitable growth.
This applies only, of course, to
those that do not have mother's
milk as a supplement. It Is Just
plain good economy to keep hei
fers growing at a maximum rate.
Earwigs are a frequent prob
lem around the home at this
time of year and in most cases
we can expect their numbers to
be increasing for the next few
weeks. DDT or Malathon dust
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Letter To The Editor
Last week you carried a news
item in your paper as a state
ment by O. W. Cutsforth of Lex
ington, to the effect that Cuts
forth had Just harvested a field
of 177 acres of Elmar wheat and
that it made an average of more
than 80 bushels to the acre. Mr.
Cutsforth has ever been known
for his integrity and I have no
reason to doubt the assertion.
However, that is something
phenomenal for Morrow county.
I have been associated with
wheat production in this county
for more than 50 years, and no
one has ever come up with an
average equal to that. Many
farmers have reported 40 bus
hels per acre, some 45 and a few
have claimed 50, but never ou.
Several vears ago, Floyd Wor
den had a bull that weigneo
more than 2000 lbs. Floyd said so.
saw the bull, and I believed
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it imolicitely. inow, ii rwyu
should come up with a bull that
weighed 4000 lbs. Well, I couldn't
help but be surprised and also
astonished.
This report by Cutsforth is
tremenduously important to our
county and many of us individ
ually. I have a wheat rancn
within two miles of Cutsforth, and
while my place averaged less
than half that yield this year,
definite proof of Cutsforth yield
would have the effect to increase
the value of my ranch $25.00 to
i $50.00 per acre.
I would suggest that a commit
tee be appointed by some impar
tial organization, such as the
Grange, The Farm Bureau or the
Chamber of Commerce, to investi
gate this yield; measure the land,
or get the figures from the
county agent's office, check the
elevators and storage bins for
grain weights and ascertain Cuts
forth's 1956 over-all average (It
must have been exceedingly
high) and then make substantial
proof of the average on this
specific field. This would not
only stop some of the snide re-
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marks of Cutsforth's report, but
would also give our county a
good cause to whoop and holler.
We owe it to ourselves to boost
our county, as a wheat producing
county, to where it belongs at
the top. Why, Umatilla county
cannot even equal this. This
sounds like a story of Iowa corn.
While I have been associated
with wheat production in this
county for more than half a
century, I am like Harry Truman,
not too old to learn. I would like
to know what farming procedure
Mr. Cutsforth followed? What
kind of fertilizer he used, if any,
how much per acre, and when ap
plied, etc.? Sakes alive, I would
be tickled to death if I could get
an average yield of 50 bushels.
If we had a committee to back
Cutsforth up and take the heat
off of him, then we could really
go forward and boost our county
as it deserves. I am really vital
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