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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, December 6, 1956
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MOHBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 188S. Tha Heppner Times sWWtah
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February IS, 1918
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PUIllSHItS
ASSOCIATION
ROBERT PEN LAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Orgon, as Sacond Class MtUr
Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Centa.
CHRISTMAS "BUG" OR GREMLIN?
We hope that most of our readers took the time
to read our front page editorial-feature last week
that we titled, "Shopping Can Be Fun ..." We
tried to point out how confusing and discourag
ing it can be to travel quite a number of miles
to a "Faraway City" to do some Christmas Shop
ping when you can do better right at home.
The way our story appeared in print is definite
proof that such an excursion can be really "a
mess." That's the way it finally came out, any
way, and if we can't get even a story about such
things straight, just think how much trouble the
actual shopping can be.
Don't know whether it was the "Christmas
Shopping Bug" or our own Heppner GT Gremlin
that mixed up the lines of type last week but
something certainly tangled things up. Hope you
got the idea, anyway.
Just goes to prove don't even THINK about
shopping anywhere else.
OFF TO A FLYING START ...
Our congratulations to Pat Clement who last
week published the first issue of the PRAIRIE
COURIER, a newspaper at Prairie City. He's got
the makings of a good newspaperman. Volume 1,
No. 1 carried a front page story and picture that
was a dandy. The headline read, "Prairie gets
new depository", and the story started out . . .
"October 31 marked the opening of the new Prairie
City 'Depository.' Erected on the site next to the
lower Pastime, where the BANK was to have been
completed last April, the new edifice, once the de
cision was made, just seemed to spring up over
night . . .'
The picture accompanying the story showed a
small .building of a type which most older resi
dests of Prairie City have certainly had some con
tact with in past years. To the best of our recol
lection it was known as a "one holer."
AN ILLUMINATING DISCUSSION ON STREET
LIGHTS
Our week isn't complete until our copy of the
Fossil Journal has arrived and we can see what,
in the eyes of that paper's prize correspondent Ned
Norton, has happened during the past seven days
in Mitchell. Last week his interpretation of the
lighting problem in that Wheeler county town
was, to say the least, 'illuminating'. We offer rro
solution, but we think his story might be of inter
est to some of our readers. In his words , . .
"The City Fathers are having trouble with the
street lighting problem. The lights, most of them,
don't burn, and when the lights don't burn the city
fathers and numerous citizens do. Since, argues
Alderman Smith, the ratio of crime committed in
the dark us compared to crime committed in the
light is very high indeed, the absence of light is
an invitation to all kinds of evil doing. That no
wrongdoing has been reported whether the lights
have been off or on is, in his opinion, no reason to
take it easy in regard to lights. Says the word just
hasn't circulated yet and when it does it will be
an open invitation to such shadow haunting char
acters as, say, Prineville's Battles, Donnelly and
Kinkston to move in. They might even bring
Keyes Hyde along and that would be a major dis
aster. Then there is the matter of Bugs. It is a
fact known to one and all that the illuminated
area furnished by street and other lamps has
been, since time immemorial, the social gathering
place and courting area of bugs of many kinds.
Without such facilities the bug population will
dwindle to token force, such as the U. N. has in
Egypt, with the bug population gone next sum
mer's song birds would starve to death, without
their cheering music we would grow morose and
vicious and probably fall upon and destroy each
other. Gentlemen, this is a serious situation. Also
the city is being called upon to pay for those
lights whether they glow or do not glow, and this
is a damsight more serious situation."
TO THE
EDITOR
Dear Mr. Penland:
Seventy three years ago, my
father, J. L. Yeager, and my mo
ther and two little sisters landed
in Heppner. The little city was
wild and wooly then and things
were pretty rough for the people
of that day. There were no tele
phones, no electric lights, no
sewers, no state highways, no
paved .streets and very few side
walks. In the summer time the
streote were two feet deep in dust
and in the winter time, two feet
of mud. Eight to sixteen and
twenty horse team freight
wagons was a daily sight on
Main street then and cattle and
sheep were driven by the hund
dreds down main street and bed
ded down for the night either in
the Vincon or Morgan feed yards
down in the lower part of town.
There was not even a court house
here then and Heppner was still
in Umatilla county. Everything
in the stores was sold in bulk and
their displays were on the old
wooden walk in front of the stores.
Twenty-five cent pieces was about
ihe smallest money spent here.
My father brought out from the
east when he came about 20 ten
cent pieces and sold them for five
dollars apiece. Mr. Briggs told mo
a short time before his death that
he bought one of them from my
father.
I think it was about the first
of April or the last of March 'of
that year that the Gazette was
first published. My father was
one of the very first subscribers
of the new paper, and never mis
sed a copy until his death a few
years ago. Since that time I took
up where he left off and have
never missed a copy since and I
know when I am gone in a few
years, Jack will keep up the old
family tradition of never missing
a copy ot trie out tamuy news
paper. He will be the fourth
generation of the Yeager family
to subscribe and read this historic
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C Anderson
The 4th annual Round-Up Pol
led Hereford sale is scheduled
to be held at the Round-Up sale
pavilion in Pendleton this Satur
day, December 8. The show will
begin at 10:00 a. m. with the sale
at 1:00 p. m. There will be 38
bulls and 11 heifers offered for
sale. Consignors include Bernard
Dohcrty and Kirk and Robinson
of Heppner. This should be a
good sale to pick up bulls that
he needed for next spring.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
December 9, 1926
At the annual business meeting
and election of officers of Hepp
ner Post No. 87 American Legion,
Monday evening, the election re
sulted as follows: Commander,
Spencer Crawford; vice Comman
der, Andrew Olson; finance of
ficer, Alva Jones; adjutant, Paul
Gemmell.
Letters were given out to mem
bers of the grammer school foot
ball team, for the first time, on
Wednesday. Those earning them
were Alex Ulrich, James McNam
mee, Roy Gentry, Orrin Furlong,
Elmer Hake, Gay Anderson, Bruce
Gibb, James Farley, Gordon Buck
num, Faye Prock and Oral Wright.
Clarence Bauman and Jack
Smith will mix it in a fistic en
counter as the headliner for a
smoker to be staged at the Bur
goyne store in Lexington Friday
evening.
Showing at the Star Theater,
Greta Garbo In the Temptress.
Health Is The Best Gift
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The 7th annual Washington
Satte college stockmen's short
course will be held there on De
cember 10th through the 14th and
promises another fine program. I
have arranged to attend and at
State college stockmen's short
least one Morrow county Stock
man, Eb Hughes has enrolled for
the course.This year the course In
cludes a general program on up-to-the-minute
information for
stockmen, a livestock marketing
margins and cost program which
is designed to determine the
amount of, and what accounts for,
the spread between what the
laboratories being arranged. Fea
ture of a stockmen's course is F.
B. Morrison, who is known the
world over as, "Mr. Feeds and
Feeding". Other guest instructors
from Washington and neighbor
ing states are many. While it is
getting close to the time for this
short course, there is still time
for other Morrow county stock
men to attend.
Jim Elings, Farm Advisor in
Sacramento County, California,
who many of our livestock men
know as former Livestock Spec
ialist at Oregon State College has
recently completed some rather
extensive Silbestrol trials with
suckling calves which were fol
lowed through a pasture and feed
lot period and finally to market.
The results of Jim's trial showed
the best use of Stilbestrol is on
steers being fattened for market.
He found that there is no appar
ent advantage to repeated im
plants throughout the lifetime of
the steer. The test started Febru
ary 12, 1955 with 50 head of nurs
ing calves. He found that steers
Van Blokland and Frank Ander
son and the Butter Creek Junction
club led by Delwin Nelson and
Carl Rhea. Officers for the Rhea
Creek livestock club for 1957 are
president, Kenneth Wright; vice
president, Dale Van Blokland;
news reporter, William Rill. Other
members are Eric Anderson, Gary
Van Blokland are new members
Nat Webb. Archie Ball and Dale
Can Blokland are new members.
In the Butter Creek Junction club
Mitchell Ashbeck is a new 4-H
member. Officers of this club are
president, Sandra Rhea; vice
president, Carlene Rhea; secre
tary, Bill Doherty; and news re
porter, Phyllis Nelson. Other
members are Eugene and Larry
Campbell and Bernard Doherty.
In these two clubs beef, sheep
and swine are the projects car
ried. From now until spring cattle
will be thinner but the lice they
are wearing are bound to get fat
ter unless something is done to
get rid of them this fall, says the
University of California. There
may be a lot we don't know
yet about cattle lice but we do
know that they don t do cattle
any good and we do know how
to kill them. Fortunately for the
lice however, they don't kill cattle
but perhaps more serious losses
might cause cattle owners to kill
more lice. Field trials have
shown that a ndrmal crop of cat
tle lice held down the gain of
feedlot steers by one-third of a
pound per day as compared to
treated cattle. On a 50 day basis
this amounted to about 17 lbs.
per head. At 20 cents per lb. this
extra gain was worth $5.10 as
MsA "I P ' .
stockman receives for animals on 'making the best gain were those
foot and what the consumer pays
for meat, and a horsemen's
course. A total of 80 different In
structors will participate with
over 100 different lectures andor
STAR
THEATER
HEPPNER
Thurs., Fri., Sat.. Dec. 6-7-8
The Vanishing
American
Zane Grey's famous adventure
with Scott Brady, Audry Totter
Plus
Bandido
Robert Mitchum, Ursula Thiess
Gilbert Roland, Zachary Scott
Sun.. Mon Dec. 9-10
Bus Stop
Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray,
Arthur OConnell, Hetty Mem.
Sunday at 4, 6:15, 8:30
Tues., Wed Dec. 11-12
Storm Over The Nile
CInemaScope, Technicolor.
BUCK NIGHTS bring tin
whole family for a buck.
paper. Long may it be publish
ed and read by future genera
tions, but inclosed you will find
my check for another year of
good reading and if I am not
mistaken this will be the 74th
yearly subscription to the Gazette
for the Yeager family.
Sincerely,
O. M. Yeager,
Castle Rock, Wn.
that were implanted for the first
time with 15 milligrams of Stil
bestrol. Their average daily gain
was 2.71 pounds. From these re
sults he found that there is no
advantage In early implantation
over a single treatment at the
time steers go in the feed lot,
in fact animals implanted as
suckling calves may be actually
depressed in over all growth rate.
During the past week two of
the 4-H livestock clubs have or
ganized for the new club year.
These clubs are the Rhea Creek
livestock club led by Wilbur
p.
Better
Check It
for Size
Is your present fire insurance coverage
geared to the current value of your prop
city? If not, better take steps now to cor
rect a situation 'which couhl result in serious
lo. s. Let us !) Is. it with you.
Turnr, Van Marter & Bryant
Real Estate Insuraaa
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Bee Contributions
To Oregon Legume
Seed Crops Given
Soil bank demands for alfalfa
and other soil-conserving legumes
have opened speculation on the
Oregon bee population, chief pol
linators of the state's four to five
million dollar legume seed crop
industry.
Beset by insecticides and other
chemicals used for modern farm
ing, bees are waging an uphill
battle to keep full -staffed for the
essential pollination job, Oregon
State college scientists report.
Importance of bees in pollinat
ing alfalfa, clovers, and similar
seed croDS is outlined in a new
circular of information published
by the OSC agricultural experi
ment station. The circular, "Bees
!fnr i PfTiimp Seed Production,"
was prepared by H. A. Scullen,
Drofessor emeritus of entomology,
who retired from OSC in 1953
compared to 30 cents or less per
head for spraying. Like bank
robbers, cattle lice are worth
more dead than alive. There are
a number of good sprays on the
market which control cattle lice
DDT, Methoxychloride Hexaph-
ene, Lindane and preparations of
mixtures of these have been doing
a good job when used according
to the manufacturer's directions
Animals should be thoroughly
wet to the hide all over. Three
or more gallons of spray applied
at 300 pounds pressure should
be used for mature animals. Re
gardless of what you use now is
the time to use it.
cussion groups in Oregon com-munities.
Started in 1955 in a few urban
centers of Uregon, tne program
is offered state-wide this year
through sponsorship of Oregon
State college extension service
cooperating with the Foreign Pol
icy association and i nterested
groups.
Mrs. Mabel Mack, assistant di
rector of OSC extension service,
says ministers of some 30 Oregon
churches in 17 counties have al
ready indicated interest in par
ticipating this year, following
announcement of the program at
the Oregon Town and Country
Church conference at Corvallis in
mid -October.
Dr. Mark A. Talney, Portland,
executive director of the Oregon
Council of Churches, this week
commended Great Decisions to all
member churches as a guide for
reaching Christian decisions "for
the preservation of mankind, as
tensions mount throughout the
world." A special article on the
possible role of churches in Great
Decisions will go out to 1100 Ore
gon churches in the December is
sue of the Council's "Oregon
Church News."
Church participation in world
affairs discussions will be sought
through young adult and teen
age groups, Sunday school clas
ses, and church study groups.
Other examples of how churches
might want to participate, Mrs.
Mack said, would include spon
sorship of public meetings to
after 33 years of service to Ore- examine moral implications of
eon's bee industry and otner
fields of entomology.
Research findings on increased
seed production through use of
bees show, for example, that al
sike clover seed yield was multi
plied 300-fold when bees had ac
cess to clover in contrast to plots
where bees were excluded. In
creases for other seed crops ran
ged downward to hairy vetch,
where yields were still tripiea
by use of bees.
Work habits of bees and sug
gestions to persons who provide
bees as pollinators are discussed
in the 16 page circular. Copies
may be obtained from county ex
tension agents or the OSC bul
letin clerk, Corvallis.
o
Churches to Join
"Great Decisions"
Study in Oregon
An opportunity for Oregon
churches to participate in "Great
Decisions . . . 1957" was announ
ced this week with background
material sent to pastors of the
churches throughout the state.
The eight-weeks' Great Deci
sions program, scheduled to start
January 20, is aimed at building
informed public opinion on key
foreign policy issues through par
ticipation of small, informal dis
certain Great Decisions issues.
Details on how any citizen of
Oregon may participate in Great
Decisions may be obtained from
county extension agents or Mrs.
Maud Walker, group development
specialist at Oregon State college.
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