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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
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ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
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.
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
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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. I intend to be that kind of a Senator.
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