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Page 4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thurs'day, August 30, 1956 New Hard White Wheat Ready for Oregon Release OREGON STATE COLLEGE Release of a new hard white win ter wheat variety this fall may swing Oregon's wheat Industry into large-scale production of bread flour and improve the state's export position. Representatives of the Oregon Seed Allocation committee an nounced this week that 8,000 bushels of the new variety are ready for commercial plantings in Oregon's intermediate rainfall area of 10 to 14 inches. Committee chairman D. D. Hill, Oregon State college farm crops department head, says actual distribution of seed will be handled by county committees appointed jointly by the Oregon Wheat League and the OSC ex tension service. Official release of the new wheat was made Friday in Wal la Walla at a meeting of indus try representatives and OSC and Washington State college re searchers who worked jointly on its development. The new variety still referred to by its technical name Selection 41 of27-15 X Rio-Rex is highly smut resistant and outyields its parent, Rio, the main turkey type wheat grown in the 10 to 14 inch rainfall area. The 27-15 strain has the same parentage as named after title clearance by the U. S. department of agricul ture. Suggested names are Brio, Burt, and Bayles. Need for such a wheat has long been felt by Pacific Northwest millers who import most of their bread-type wheats from Montana. At the same time, foreign buyers of Pacific Northwest wheat re port strong demand for bread type wheats. Most of the re gion's current exports are soft club varieties not suited for the bread flours. OSC research administrators and industry representatives are hopeful that Selection 41 will re place club and turkey wheats in the intermediate rainfall areas as fast as seed is available. Dr. Hill says this year's 8,000-bushel seed supply in Oregon should seed some 10,000 acres of the state's 200,000 acres in the 10 to 14-inch rainfall area. Recom mended seeding rate will be 30 pounds or less per acre based on Umatilla county trials last year when seeding rates as low as 20 pounds gave wheat yields in ex cess of 70 bushels per acre. Selection 41 has a bearded, common type head, white chaff, and short lodge-resistant straw in contrast to limber-strawed Rio that lodges badly. Over the past six years, Selection 41 has yield ed slightly more than Elmar and Brevor and 18 percent more than turkey wheats in the intermedi ate rainfall area. Researchers point out that the new wheat should mean Deuer profits for producers and more stable markets for wheat from this area. Since turkey wheats Yosemite Perks Up Under Mission 66 Program, Motorloggers Report Brevor. Selection 41 will be are low-yielders in the area, the DANCi FRIDAY MIGHT, AUG. 31 10 P. M. TO 1 A. M. Heppner Legion Hall With Music By GOOD PENDLETON ORCHESTRA New Facilities Include Modem Yosemite Lodge Tb foUnwlnf I condensa tion of a motsrlof appearing In Northweat rotocravur mf a line of The Sunday Oreronlan. It la one of an annual eerie pontored Jointly by the Ore ton State Motor association and The Orefonlan. BY J. RICHARD NOKES Qtf MKor, The OrafoMtn A brighter day has dawned Jor our national parks. Two years ago in the white Ford of the Oregon State Motor asso ciation we visited four national parks in California, Oregon and Washington and came .back with a rather dismal report of many condition we found therein. Housing was below par. sanitary facilities in many cases were poor, campgrounds were run down, roads and parK lng facilities Inadequate. Last month on another Ore-Eonian-Oregon State Motor as sociation motorloe we visited the largest of those four parks, Yosemite in central California, and came away convinced that things are definitely looking up in our wilderness wonderlands. There are two main reasons for this optimism: 1. Concessionaires, the pri vate companies who supply the lodging, restaurants, gift shops and the like, have greater con fidence in their long-term fu tures. They feel that gone is the threat of a few years back that private enterprise might be replaced by the federal gov ernment in providing creature comforts to those who desired more -than a starry sky for a ceiling and mother earth for a bed. Program to Run Ten Tears 2. The park service, sup ported by congress and the ad ministration, has embarked on a ten-year improvement pro gram,. "Mission 66," which will provide $500,000,000 for capital improvements and another $250,000,000 for operation and maintenance if carried through. Let's take first what the yosemite concessionaire has accomplished. In the last year Yosemite park and Curry company has invested upwards of $1,000,000 in capital improvements (more than $2,000,000 in the last four years). A new Yosemite lodge, dedicated in June, cost $1,000, 000. Other funds were spent for a new hotel-type housing unit that will accommodate 70 per sons in modern middle-class : I The potato and straw plus sup plement fed cattle also came out ahead on carcass grade. EL N. Hoffman, Malheur station super intendent, and J. E. Oldfield, OSC animal 'husbandman, reported that the potato-straw carcasses graded 1 commercial, 13 good, and 9 choice. The alfalfa-corn : group graded 17 good and l choice. j In the experiment, potatoes were fed whole and free choice. Straw also was fed free choice. : Small amounts of alfalfa-f rass !hay were fed the first 10 days until cattle were eating pota toes regularly. Swelling and stiffening of the front legs of some cattle was the Swank Yosemite lodge, dedicated in June, took the place of "temporary" facility which had lasted 40 years. At foot of Yosemite falls, It has three nnlta of redwood, stone, glass. style. The new unit, called Cedar cottage, joins Pine and Oak cottages, which were built within the last four years. The lodge replaced a "tem porary" facility that was erected 40 years ago. Nestled near the foot of magnificent Yosemite falls (2425 feet high, four times higher than Mult nomah falls), the lodge is a pic turesque three-unit develop ment of steel, redwood, stone and glass. It contains a lounge that will seat 200 with glass walls providing a spectacular view of the falls. A massive open, circular fireplace deco rated in ski motif is the center of interest. A second building contains a cafeteria that will seat 300, a coffee shop of smaller capacity, a gift shop and service units, cocktail lounge, post office and souvenir shop. This building opens onto a terraced outside dining court. The third building comprises the registration center, offices and the lobby. On the other side of the ledger, the campsites are defi nitely in need of improvement, and Superintendent Preston said this is high on the list un der Mission 66. Most of them have no cooking facilities ex cept a circle of stones for a campfire site, plumbing in pub lic restrooms is rusty and stained, water outlets are scarce. Trailer accommodations are substandard, but a survey has been completed and will be used as a guide to improve ment. What lias the park service done the last couple of years? And what will it do first un--der Mission 66? It'has begun to meet one of the most pressing needs -parking space near centers of inter est in the valley. It is presently working to repair some $800,000 in damage to roads, sewers, trails and campgrounds caused by a Merced river flood last winter. Flood Repairs Necessary In fact, the amount of money which must be spent to repair the flood damage will reduce considerably the amount the park service had hoped to spend on relocating and reconstruct ing a 21-mile pioneer stretch of road through Tioga pass that connects Yosemite with Lake Tahoe, Reno and eastern points. A large new campground de velopment is planned in the Bridal Veil area on the road to Glacier point. This and other campground improvements will total $75,000. Improvements to roads, trails and parking areas will cost another $51,300. Mission 66 is a ten-year pro gram that will end in the 50th anniversary year of the na tional park service, 1966, and is designed to ready our parks for 'steadily increased use through the years. Mission 66 is not entirely a matter of money. It is an adop tion of a philosophy that long has been needed in the park service. It is a statement by the government that our park sys tem is a primary economic asset and is not to be longer treated like a dog fed with leftovers. only ill effect noticed in the poto- to-fed animals. However, the researchers said this didn't seem to affect feed intake or gains. One animal choked on a potato early in the experiment and had to be slaughtered. But after the cattle learned to eat the pota toes there was no further trou ble, it was reported. Costs in the project were ng- ured on the basis of prices Ontario.' at Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kelly and daughter Luan of Everett, Wash., arrived Tuesday to visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ferguson. IN MOTOH TRANSPORTv N THE KJ Illustrated CMC Model 4S0 is available with a 180 h.p. V8 engine or 160 h.p. six. It has ow size axles-7,000 lbs. front and 18,000 lbs. rear. It's rated for 25,000 GVW-60,000 GCW work. TiiGV eui yyr eo -fa extra-pro ffp size growers have swung heavily to club wheats in recent years. Un- j fiirtunatelv. thp hich-vieldin? i club wheats have been going out side their area of adaptation and do not always produce suitable pastry-type flour and have had the wrong characteristics for bread flour. Milling and baking trials show the new wheat produces flour and bread that compare favor ably with any of Oregon or Washington's hard red winter wheats. Tests were conducted by cereal chemists of the USDA Western Wheat Quality labora tory and commercial mills in the Pacific Northwest. Some millers attending the meeting opposed release of the new variety, fearing that it might replace certain hard red winter wheat varieties -which they rated higher. Although Selection 41 is highly smut-resistant now, it should be treated with hexachlorobenzene as a safeguard against develop ment of new smut strains, advise OSC scientists. The HCB treat ment controls both seed and soil- borne smut spores. Potato Ration Givts Fast, Cheap Gains In Beef Cattle Test Beef cattle fed potatoes as the; main item in their fattening ra tion last winter gained lust as fast and made cheaper gains than cattle fed ground ear corn and chopped alfalfa. That's the result of a 123-day feeding trial carried on at the Malheur branch station of the Oregon State college agricultural experiment station. Cattle fed potatoes and straw,; and two pounds per head per day of a 32 percent protein supple ment, gained an average of al most two pounds per day at a feed cost of 14 'a cents per pound; of gain. In contrast, cattle fed corn and alfalfa also averaged, about two pounds gain per day.J but at a cost of 20 to 22 cents peri pound of gain. Cattle fed just potatoes and straw, without a protein supple ment, made the cheapest gains at 14 cents per pound of gain. But the cattle averaged only a little over l'a pounds gain per day. 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