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P.flgt 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 14, 1957 ifjjjpner (Bmtti imps MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER Th Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Hsppnw Time Mtabllahed November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 16, 1912 N IWSPAMR PUItl$Hl Association ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETC1IEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION fWJiirwrf'Trrm Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3JX) Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Weekly Papers' Value and Growth Noted by Time Magazine Weekly newspapers today are the fastest growing publications in the U. S., Times Magazine says in a special report in its Feb. 4 issue. "Metropolitan newsmen who daydream of re tiring to a country paper have long viewed week lies more as a rural retreat than as an influential segment of the press." Times says. "But with the swift growth of suburbs and small towns since World War II, weeklies have largely shed their cracker-barrel ways, developed sophistication and a new sense of mission." Weekly Newspaper Representatives, Inc. last week reported that 8,478 weeklies in the U. S. in 1956 reached a paid circulation peak of 18,529, 199, up 6.5 over 1955, Estimated gain for the 1,700 dailies (total circ. more than 56 million): about 2. Advertising in weeklies increased 1.2 to a record $112 million; this includes a 30 Jump to ($25 million) in national ads since 1954 vs. an estimated 107c gain for dailies. "The weeklies' resurgence reflects editorial as well as economic vitality," Time says. "In ad dition to relaying the back-fence chit-chat on which weeklies have traditionally thrived, the papers are the only interpreters and watchdogs of local governments in hundreds of U. S. com munities, whose problems, aims and achieve ments go largely unrecorded in the metropoli tan press." According to one editor, weeklies "are giving back the home town" to suburbanties who have lost contact with community responsibilities. In many areas, fast-growing suburbs have produced weekly and semi-weekly chains that are as slick in appearance and information in content as their city cousins. "Even outside metropolitan areas", says Time, "most small-town weeklies . . . have thrown out the smudgy type and bumpkin prose that once characterized the weekly press, now run staff written stories and editorials instead of the boiler-plate and canned sermons that once crammed country papers. The old-time Jack-of-all-trades country editor has been largely suplanted by trained staffs. Lured out of the cities by the prospect of editorial and economic independence, trained newsmen in increasing numbers are bringing professional standards to weekly news papering." Though once renowned for their timidity, many weeklies have developed the crusading spirit that has vanished from many a fat-cat daily, Time notes. "In the South, many weeklies have constantly taken a more liberal stand than the region's big dailies on the touchy desegre gation issue. ... "Since weeklies are closer than dailies to readers and advertisers and more vulnerable to the pressure of advertisers, they are often hit by economic boycotts. But few editors cave in under such threats or worse. In Granite City, 111., after Editor Cornelius E. Townsend had waged an editorial campaign against organized gambling in the community, a hoodlum recently emptied his revolver into Townsend's Press-Record office. Echoing many a fighting editor be fore him, Townsend said: 'Maybe they'll scare hell out of me someday and I'll quit. But I don't think so.' " From The County Agent's Office By N. C This is the last minute remind, er of the Wheat Industry confer ence which will be held at the Multnomah Hotel in Portland on Tuesday and Wednesday, Febru ary 19 and 20. The conference is sponsored by Oregon State col lege at the request of the Oregon Wheat Growers League. The con. forence is concerned with finding a better way to solve the prob lems facing the wheat industry, at the same time being careful to maintain the productivity of our Oregon wheat lands. To do this, four mam confer ence committees were set up and assigned problem areas in 1, mar. keting; 2, production and land use; 3, farm income and cost; and 4, government programs. Wheat Growers In particular are urged to attend to take part in this conference discussions and de cisions. There will be a good representation of other members of the wheat industry which would Include dealers, millers, bakers, livestock feeders, home- STAR THEATER HSPPNEB Thurs., Fri., Sat., Feb. 14-15-16 Stagecoach To Fury With Forrest Tucker, Mari Blanchard, Wally Ford, Plus Between Heaven And Hell Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Broderlck Crawford, Buddy Ebsen Sun- Mon.. Feb. 17-18 Walt Disney's Westward Ho, The Wagons! With Fess Parker. Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York. Sunday at 4, 6:20, 8:40 Tues., Wed., Feb. 19-20 Somebody Up There Likes Me With Sal Mineo, Everett Sloane, Paul Newman Buck Nights Androen makers and exporters. The wheat grower will have to be on hand to look out for his interest. On the first day committee for ums will be held and those at tending will have a chance to revise any of these before adop tion. Also during the conference two Internationally known speak ers will be featured. Gene Flack, sales consul and director of ad vertising of Sunshine Biscuits, Ic, New York will talk at the opening session Tuesday morn ing. His topic is "Future Mar kets for Your Wheat". He will explore possible uses and mar ket for the types of wheat grown in the Pacific Northwest and will discuss ways to improve the mar keting of local wheat. Flack is not an ordinary speaker. He has been called America's top humorist and is noted for his rare balance of genuine humor and serious thought. In the last" 40 years, Flack has stood on a speakers platform over 11,000 times and brings a wealth of ex perience to his audience. It is said his name is magic in the food field, and he is well quali fied to speak about the use of wheat for food. The Wednesday noon luncheon speaker will be C. D. Davidson, I secretary of the Canadian Wheat Board, Winnepeg, Canada. His i topic is "Through Your Neigh bor's Eyes". He will discuss how the competitive wheat position between Canada and the United States affects world wheat mar kets, and In particular the mar ket out of the Pacific Northwest. Morrow county wheat growers seldom have the opportunity to participate in such a program as will be in store for those attend ing the Wheat Industry confer ence next week. this past week it will not be long until Morrow county farm ers will be in the field. In fact, some farmers are working in the Boardman area Monday, after noon. One of the first opera tions will be seeding of grass and legumes. At this time each year questions are asked concerning nurse or companion crops for the new seedings. The nurse or com. panion crop frequently becomes a robber or curse crop. This nurse crop idea of seeding alfalfa un der grain, has been to crowd out the weeds. The grain, is a large seeded annual that grows rapidly and uses many available soil moisture while the alfalfa is a small seeded perennial that starts slow and in its early stages is suseptible to drying out. When the alfalfa and grain are sown together it is just as if you added weed seeds to the alfalfa crop. There is unnecessary com petition from the grain, and the alfalfa is frequently robbed of needed moisture and nutrients. When the alfalfa is seeded alone in a carefully prepared seed bed in the spring and cropped once to cut off weeds, the crop will be vigorous enough to offer strong competition to weeds; robber or curse crops have only limited uses in this county. They may be used where a blow hazard exists or where there is plenty of water to provide moisture for both the grain and tne aiiaua or grass being established. r From time to time questions are asked at this office as to whether antibotics fed to live livestock is a paying proposition Here is a bit of information con cerning antibiotics which might help answer the question. Anti biotics in the daily livestock ration act more or less like medicine and mav be called "health insurance." They are not considered direct growth stimu lants such as vitamins and other nutritional boosters. There apparently no such thing as completely healthy animal. There are a lot of normal ones, but that does not mean they are healthy Even though animals look like they are doing well, they are con stantly harboring what veteri narians call subclinical infection These are low-level infections which compete with the animal for its nutrition and livelihood In time of stress (such as haul ing, vacciniation and castration) low nutrition and bad weather may cause these infections to If the weather continues as multiply and impair the health An educational meeting to ex plain the conservation reserve of the soil bank program will be held at the Lexington Grange hall on Monday evening, Febru ary 25. E. R. Jackman, range crop specialist, Oregon State college will explain how the conserva tion reserve fits Into farm opera tions In Morrow county. Keep this date in mind and look for further particulars. OREGON HEREFORD BREEDERS ASSOCIATION BLUE TAG SALE PENDLETON, OREGON 11 A. M. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21 SHOW 10 A. M. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. FRANK ANDERSON, HEPPNER, SELLING 3 BULLS & 2 BRED HEIFERS ANNUAL MEETING Oregon Hereford Breeders Association 2 p. m. Wednesday, Pendleton armory. Social hour. Banquet 6 p. m. February 20 at Western Club. THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times February 17, 1927 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hughes took their departure on Saturday night for Portland where they will be located in the future. Beth, Dale and Percy Bleakman were weekend visitors in Hard man. Mrs. M. L. Curran and Mrs. O. T. Ferguson returned home on Sunday from Portland where they had spent a week. Oscar Keithley and Lawrence Redding were Eight Mile far mers transacting business in Heppner yesterday. Young Jerry Brosnan of Butter Creek, suffered a badly hurt leg on Saturday when the horse he was riding slipped and fell on him. Miss Rita Neill arrived here from Yakima on Sunday, and will spent two or three weeks visiting at the home of her mo ther, Mrs. R. A. Thompson. of the animals. Therefore, sci- SLANTS FROM THE SESSION By Mrs. C. A. Tom During the week Allen had a letter from an elderly gentleman in the Western part of the state who said, "I am with you all the way and will shove all my weight for you to get things agoing tor the schools." He went on to ex plain that he had been deprived of schooling, and for this reason he wants to do his part to assure today's children of adequate educations. At this point, how ever, he requested that the com mittee give some thought to eli minating a few of the expensive frills which have crept into the schools in recent years. All of which leads us to the main topic of my column this week. Education measures will consume a large chunk of the 1957 legislative session and it is well that people give much thought to what is being done. Public hearings have been held already on two of the most im portant bills, but the education committee plans to have more in order that everybody might be heard. House Bill 1G3 is the school dis trict reorganization bill. Oregon entists are pretty much agreed of has at present over 700 school continuous daily feeding of cat- districts. This bill, it is hoped, tie of a level of 10 milligrams of (will reduce the number by 150 aureomycin per 100 pounds of(to 200 districts. In the hearing weight may give excellent re-.last week the only opposition suits. On younger cattle 75 was voiced by Elmer McClure, milligrams per head per day can Master of the Oregon State be fed over the entire feeding Grange. period without making adjust-1 Upon questioning by the com ments' for body weight change.' mittee Mr. McClure admitted For lambs 10 milligrams of aure omycin per pound of total ra tion gives best results. Consequently, the feeding of low-level aureomycin may re duce cost of production (1) by lowering or eliminating death loss-in visibly sick animals, (2) by improving weight gains and feed efficiency, (3) by lessening the recovery period needed once the disease is brought under con trol, and (4) by minimizing the further spread of infection in the herd or flock. The whole idea about a daily low-level feeding of aureomycin is that a healthier animal is able to convert feed into meat more efficiently. A desirable anti biotic would be one that would be: 1. Active against a wide range of diseases. 2. Safe at high concentrations. 3. Pala table at high concentrations. 4. Readily absorbed through the intestinal wall and distributed through out the system. 5. Re tained in theissues long enough to be effective. 6. Stable both in the feed and In tissues. 7. One against which organisms do not readily develop resistance. There are a number of antibiotics on the market and can be pur chased from any feed store. that the Grange does not find the bill as objectionable as those of previous years. There remains only one section with which he could find fault. That one re lates to voting procedure. House Bill 171 increases basic school support from $80 to $120 per census child. This would mean an increase of almost $40, -000,000 in the general fund bud get. The House education com mittee has referred this bill to ways and means with the recom mendation that it do pass, but that the increase in basic should be a property tax offset within the 6 limitation. This will bring direct property tax relief at the local level. It was estimated that the in crease in basic school 'support should give about a 12 decrease in property taxes throughout the state. With the increase in teach ers' salaries and other items of increased cost to schools, how ever, the savings in property taxes would probably be reduced to less than 10. Many feel that within two years the property taxes will be back up to the pre sent level. Old taxes never die. Both of these measures are included in the Governor's pro gram, which, with other educa tional measures, would cost thejgaret Jean, daughter of Mrs. 7os taxpayers something over $50,- ieph Kelly of The Dalles. She had 000,000 over the present budget. Members of the education com mittee have been surprised at the lack of opposition to these two bills in the public hearings. Do people no longet care about tax spending? This is hard to believe. If by some miracle they are for once completely satisfied with the acts of their legislature the members of that body will be very happy. If, however, they are saving their complaints until after bills are passed, not much can be done to help them. Friday afternoon I had a most enjoyable visit with Sister Mar- brought a group of her political science students from Marylhurst to attend the two day seminar on politics for college students. Later in the day her brother Joe Kelly from The Dalles drop, ped in on us after attending a Farm Bureau meeting here in Salem. Small world? o Mrs. John Pfeiffer returned Saturday from a weeks visit with her parents and brother in Seattle. Mrs. Elaine George will return the end of the week from a busi ness trip to Portland. I Qmwl Opening UidibsasJ boon I V t ttmiu rim iitmi J ON MAIN STREET IN HEPPNER COMPLETE Tire & Battery Service Ford's Tire Service WAYNE SNYDER, MGR. PUBLIC DANC1 IONE LEGION HALL Sat., Feb. 16 DANCING 9 TO 1 ADMISSION $1.00 MUSIC BY FOUR TONES J Iff ft Another chapter in Z Longest Love affair M Another chapter in the Longest I Love affair since automobiles began MORE CHEVROLET CARS WERE BOUGHT IN 1956 thsn ANY OTHER CAR . . . THE 17 smiGHT CRR PRODUCTION YEAR THAT . CHEVROLET'S BEEN FIRST IN SALES OVER 35,000 1 1 Official and conclusive registration figures it! j Only franchi sod Clterrolet dealers JttX display litis famous trademark Fulleton Chevrolet Company
