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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, September 27, 1956 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, THIRTY YEARS AGO MORROW COUNTY'S NKWIPAPKR The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times erteMtohed November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 312 NIWSPAMft. rytusHits ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher JATIONAL EDITORIAL Si if n 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. Mr. Contradictory The following editorial ran in the Hillsboro, Oregon Argus late in August, shortly after the Democratic convention. It was written by an 18 year old boy, who, though his father Is a news paper man, has (until writing this) shown little or no inclination toward newspapering or writing. After listening to Senator Morse's convention speech, he wrote the following which was pub lished as an editorial. We reprint it here, not only because it also reflects our views, but also in the hope that it may Influence other teen-agers to look a little deeper than the surface of the senator's voluminous speeches and get out and work for the defeat of "Mr. Contradictory" at the general election. During his speech on television before the Democratic national convention, Senator Wayne Morse made some highly interesting statements, especially when contrasted with those made by him as a Republican. First of all, the senator said his newly adopted party was the only place for the "constitutional liberal." However, on January 13, 1946, Morse was quoted in the Dcs Moines Register as saying: "Liberalism is dead in the Democratic party, and that party has reverted to its traditional role of placing political privilege and corrupt machine politics, a la Missouri gang, above the general welfare of our people." Last week at Chicago, Morse declared that the "Democrats have that vigor and vision to use government as a creative force in the solution of the complex problems of the 20th century not as an instrument of reaction and retrogression." On Reporter's Round-up, July 31, 1952, Richard L. Strout of the Christian Science Monitor asked: "Senator Morse, have you ever considered be coming a Democrat?" Senator Morse's reply, according to the trans cript was: "No I have never considered becoming a Demo crat, because there certainly would be no place for me in the Democratic party on the basis of the record ot the Democratic party and let me tell you why. "Because I do not think the Democratic party stands for a system of constitutional checks and balances in the administration of government. "I think they've demonstrated over and over again that they stand for government by men rather than government by constitutional checks." In his convention talk, Wayne Morse called Harry Truman a "great president." But, on May 9, 19M, this same Mr. Morse stood on the platform in the Corvallis community center building and said before several hundred Republicans that Mr, Truman couldn't be criticized for his Intentions or his motives, but he could be for his judgment, Then he added, "The Creator didn't give him the ability to deal with the problems he has to deal with as president." Senator Morse last week praised his senate col league, Dick Neuberger, but back in the days of Morse the Republican he praised Guy Cordon as follows: I shall continue to work in close co-oper ation with the very able and distinguished senior senator from Oregon, Guy Cordon, and with each of the very able members of our Oregon delegation in the house in serving the best interests of Ore gon in its relations with the federal government." Every time Morse speaks now he accuses the Republicans of being for the big business, so it is very well to remember that Morse made this statement November 2, 1948: "The notion that special privilege through big business and mon opoly controls the Republican party is without foundation in fact." Also Morse told the Young Republican conven tion in Salem December 4, 1948, as quoted in the Congressional Record January 3, 1949: "Nothing will wreck more quickly or more completely po litical and economic democracy In America than the development of political alignments based up on class conflict." At the Chicago convention, Wayne Morse criti cize former President Herbert Hoover, yet Morse is on record as praising Mr. Hoover on several occasions. After listening to the speech Senator Morse made during the Chicago convention, a person should remember the words spoken by Abraham Lincoln: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." Maybe that is why there were so many vacant seats on the floor of the convention at the end of his talk. Perhaps they have good reason in view of his contrdictory remarks to wonder as to whether he is actually a Democrat now and where he will end up next. From Files of the Gazette Times Sept. 30, 1926 Twelve throwers of the flat needle vied for honors in the preliminaries of the sack sewing contest, a feature of the Morrow County Wool and Grain show, on Friday. Of this number, six sewed hi the finals Saturday. Harry Tur ner was declared the best all around sewer with Chas. Ritchie crowding him hard. Glenn Ball of lone placed third. The Misses Florence Cason and Bernice Sigsbee were driven to Portland on Sunday by Carl Cason and tomorrow will sail for San Francisco. Miss Sigsbee will enter business college in that city, and Miss Cason goes to find employment Miss Opal Briggs arrived home on Wednesday from Los Angeles where she has been spending a vacation of two months and a half. Mr. and Mrs. Phill Cohn and daughter, Miss Eleanor, came up from Portland for a part of the Rodeo. Braving the coldest spell this fall the largest crowd in Heppner Rodeo history surrounded th big arena on Saturday to witness the wind-up of the fifth annual pre- sentation of the show. Soph-Fresh field day Is a new event instituted at Heppner high school to take place at Rodeo field tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. hels. All of this has been allo cated to our farmers. TO THE EDITOR . . To The Editor: I am thinking if the G. O. P. Had made their convention open and free, And let Joe Smith, the mystery guy, Enter the ring and have a try, Who knows but what the guy might lick The well known fighter known as Dick. But poor Joe Smith, his hands were tied, For everything was cut and dried. Joe Punk and Joe Smith you know, Is the same old man we call John Doe. The folks at home he represents, Whose population Is immense, Should be considered at every meet, Or our higher aims will meet de feat. The big steamroller to Joe was new, And little lie thought the thing they'd do, Not even Stassen with his east ern man, Could make a dent In their puncture-proof plan. vvnen tne steamroller was brought Into play Stassen let Herter fall by the way. Then meekly repented for his great sin, For trying to push his balky man in; And apologized for his sinful trick, He fervently tried to foist on Dick. Joe Martin, the chairman, as the story goes, Seemed to have It In for the From The County Agent's Office By N. C Anderson Farmers with wheat under loan would do well to watch the local markets with the possibility of liquidating their loan, making a few cents over the loan price while moving their wheat into the cash market. For the second week in a row, Portland grain markets made sharp advances in cash wheat prices. The week of little Joes. This gentle Joe is a great for giver, But this thing of being sold down the river, So as to let Dick Nixon win, He says is getting under his skin. And surely, he says, he will re member, This sham convention on the 6th of November. The Democrats and G. O. P., Don't mean anything to me, Unless they legislate for Joe. I mean, of course, "The Man with The Hoe". He might of course get too strong, If his rope Is made too long, And like the calf we heard about, That had been snubbed too close no doubt, When hfs rope was Increased in rength, lie wanted to show his increased strength, And got so frisky and felt so free, He hanged himself upon a tree. So In the coming years I hope, You'll give Joe Smith plenty of rope; The same amount you give to others; For in Christ we all are brothers. SrENCER AKERS, Aumsvllle, Ore. September 10th through the 15th, ttie bid on soft white wheat ad vanced 7c a bushel. From Sep tember 17th through the 19th, white wheat gained another 6c a bushel. Since September 4, when the new wheat export pro gram went into effect, cash wheat prices in Portland gained a total of 11c a bushel. Current prices on export soft white wheat are 10c a bushel higher than a year ago and 13c above the Septem ber effective support rate of $2.12. This week results of the 1955 56 wheat fertilizer experiments were snt to all wheat farmers. Along with these yields were al so yields from the same area of the plots in 1953 and 1954. Yields were calculated on these plots to determine the carryover of nitrogen from one crop year to another. Also included is com parative yields of several of the popular wneat varieties grown throughout the Columbia Basin. The newly released hard white winter wheat, Burt, is included In this yield data. We hope we have simplified the interpretation of the yields in order that everyone will find them easy to read. If you did not receive your copy, or would like to discuss thest re sults, we would be glad to visit with you. Morrow County 4 H club mem bers made a good showing last Saturday in the livestock judging contest at the Umatilla county Junior livestock shpw, held at Pendleton. Members of the Mor row county livestock judging team that will represent this county at the Pacific Internation al next month entered the con test in order to get some further training in livestock judging. The team, composed of Kenneth Smouse, lone, Carlene Rhea, Echo, and Sandra Beach, Lexington, were second place team at the show, while Kenneth Smouse and Carlene Rhea were second and third place Judges respectively. Martha Doherty, alternate judge also participated in the contest. Harold Beach, Kenneth Smouse and Carl Rhea, fathers of the club members, assisted Umatilla County leaders in staging the con test. These club members will par ticipate in the F. S, & Stanley Green field day near Stanfield this Saturday, getting further ex-! perience in judging. acres for weed control lor 1957 on land heavily infested with noxi ous or obnoxious weeds. Use either chemical or tillage or both, To prevent erosion combination of chemical with a minimum of til lage is best. This could be seed ed then, in the fall of 1957. An other suggestion, is to lay out alternate strips of wheat and grass for 1957 acreage reserve on eroding hillsides or take part or all of the hillside. In 1948 lay out another hillside, and pasture or cut for hay the 1957 strips or hillsides. This would provide use out of one series of strips or hill sides on the odd years, out of the other on even years. The same system will work for good wide sod waterways. There are a number of other ways that the acreage reserve can be used to good advantage other than seed ing to barley. The time is grow ing short to plan these uses, as the deadline date is October 5. Consideration should be given to this program soon. Farmers who have not ye"t ap plied for their Federal Tax Re fund on gasoline used on the farm have until October 1 to do so. This claim applies to the re fund of federal tax on the first six months of 1956. In the future, the refund will cover the entire fiscal year. Claim forms are sim ple and take but a few minutes called "slick spots" is a combined application of gypsum and man ure, the bulletin states. Applica tions can be made anytime this fall or winter when it is possible to get spreading equipment on the field. Spring snow-melt and rains help work the materials into the soil, and spring land preparation incorporates the rest of the material with the soil. Straw, hay and crop residues can also be plowed into slick spots to improve physical condi tion of the soil and permit better water penetration. Recommend ed fertilizer applications with the various crop residues are listed In the bulletin. Other suggestions outlined for better water use include ways to Improve soils water-intake rates through cropping practices, cor rugation spacings, and timing of water "sets". Water storage ca pacity of different soil types and seasonal water requirements of major crops for the area are dis cussed in the bulletin. lone News Out of town relaties attending the funeral of A. A. McCabe were Mr. and Mrs. Clifford McCabe, Ronnie and Eleanor of Brookings; Mrs. Don Harris, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCabe. Forest to fill out. Forms are available, Grove; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Eu at this office. Farmers continue signing up for the acreage reserve. From the number of acres that will be taken out of wheat production, it appears as though the wheat surplus should become a thing of the past. A number of farmers have indicated that they do not believe that the acreage reserve will solve any of their produc tion problems. The basis for this is the diversion of acres from wheat to barley, with their thought that there will simply be a transfer from surplus wheat to surplus barley. Most of the far mers are planning to switch the acreage reserve back and forth on the summer fallow, using dif ferent acres on the odd and even years. They will reduce wheat, increase Barley and Safflower. For those who do not believe in this, there are a number of other plans that will decrease the pro duction of wheat, at the same time building up cropland. The acreage reserve can be seeded to grass Alfalfa, doing the same In the following year, thereafter pasture or cutting for hay on al ternate years. If the program Is carried out thereafter, pasture the Interest continue, tn nm hichl0' acreage reserve in isds ana In the newly released hard white 10; Pasture the 1958 a"eage re Farmers who recall last sum mer's Irrigation problems may correct much of the trouble this fall through land-leveling and soil -conditioning, says Marvin Shearer, Oregon State college ir rigation specialist. A handy guide for better water use, the specialist reports, in a new bulletin just published by the OSC experiment station, "Im proving Irrigation in Eastern Oregon." It was prepared by OSC and USDA researchers A. W. Marsh, soil scientist; F. M. Tiles- ton, irrigation engineer; and J. W. Wolfe, agricultural engineer. Copies of the bulletin are avail able from county extension agents or the OSC bulletin clerk, Corvallis. Field patches that yielded poor ly this year may be corrected by one of several steps outlined in the bulletin.. For example, any high spot on a field may pro long an Irrigation unnecessarily. By the time the high spot has received sufficient water, the rest of the field has absorbed too much. Fall is an ideal time for land-leveling, avoiding the rush of spring work, says Shearer. Other problem spots in. Eastern Oregon may result from clay layers in the sub-soil. The best method of improing these so- banks and family, Arlington; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ingalls, Adams; Miss Mabel McCabe, Enterprise; Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Carmichael. Washougal; Mrs. Stella Phelps, Pasadenia, Calif.; Harry Culbert son, Nampa, Idaho; Mrs. Jessie Henderson, Howard Henderson and Mrs. Lois Place,, Alicel, Ore.; Mr. and Mrs. Grant Henderson, La Grande. Mrs, Oliver Creswick and Mrs. Velma Glass were in Portland on Friday of last week. NOTICE OF HEARING TO INCORPORATE Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an Order of the County Court of the County of Morrow State of Oregon, a public hearing will be held at the Morrow County Courthouse, Heppner, Oregon on the 3rd day of October, 1956, at the hour of 2:00 P. M. at which time any person Interested may appear and present oral or writ ten objections to the petition on file herein requesting the sub mission to the legal voters resid ing within the following de scribed territory the proposition that a city to be known as the City of Irrigon, be incorporated within the following described boundaries: to-wit: Commencing at the intersection Nf the West boundary line of Second Street extended and the South meander line of the Col umbia River, in the Original Town Site of Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon, thence South following the West boundary line of said Second Street to the intersection of said boundary line and California Ave., thence East following the South bound tary line of California Ave. to the intersection of Fifteenth Street, thence North following the East boundary line of Fif teenth Street extended to the South meander line of the Col umbia River, thence West fol lowing the South meander line of the Columbia River to the point of beginning, all being within the County of Morrow, State of Oregon. By Order of the Morrow County Court, dated this 12th day of Sep tember, 1956. GARNET BARRATT Morrow County Judge Attest: BRUCE LINDSAY Morrow County Clerk 28-29c We Will Be Closed THURSDAYS INSTEAD OF FRIDAYS UNTIL AFTER NOV. 12 ALSO We Will Open Early For HUNTERS' BREAKFAST ELLA'S GRILL Hotel Heppner Building styled for modem farming- winter wheat, Burt, with addi tional demand for seed this week. serve in 1959 and 1961. Another suggestion that many farmers The original allocation of 2,000 could use Is the acreage reserve bushels given Morrow county has heen increased now to 2.550 bus V til ' i '".A. The most important qualification of all . . . To me there it no more important qualification for a man who seeks a public trust than personal and political INTEGRITY. He should be honest with himself and honest in what he tells the people who elected him. He should say what he means ... do what he says he will do ...and be faithful to the commitments he makes until they are finished. 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