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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, March 7, 1957 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER Th Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. Tht Heppner Timet stebliihad November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS j ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL asTocItati"Sn Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Ratus: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents, From The County Agent's Office By N. C Anderson The Pacific Vegetable Oil Cor poration of Woodland, California this week offered to pay $70 per ton delivered at a local ware house for Safflower production here. If enough interest is indi cated in the Pacific Northwest contracts will be drawn up and seed will be available at $7.50 per hundred. Seeding rate is ap proximately 20 pounds to the acre which makes cost of seeding quite inexpensive. Seeding and harvesting operations are carried on with the same machinery used for wheat. Those who might be interested in growing Safflower this year should contact this of' fice at once. In a recent survey game bio logists determined the annual herd composition to determine sex and age ratios of Oregon's deer herds. In their travels to the big game ranges biologists observed more than 18,000 ani mals which were classified as to sex and age. Of this number 2,896 were bucks, 9,140 were does and 5,974 were fawns. Another several thousand animals were observed and went unclassified because identification was not possible. Herd composition on most ranges showed a slight in crease in the buck-doe ratio and a slight decrease in the fawn-doe ratio. On a state-wide basis, black tailed deer west of the TO THE EDITOR . . To The Editor: Recent press reports convey the story I was the only Senator from Eastern Oregon who voted against Senate Bill No. 92. I am very grieved that the press re ports did not give the entire story why I voted against this bill. I know this bill was one of the hottest political gimmicks that has come before this session and all those who supported the measure resorted to every ave nue to promote their individual contention. In my explanation on the floor of the Senate, which was never mentioned in the press, was two fold. The first reason was that I felt the Senate Tax Committee did not have an opportunity to properly study this measure as all we had was one morning's testimony of those who were in favor of the bill. There was no discussion of the bill in the com mittee nor had there been an opportunity allowed to those who wished to appear against the bill. Secondly, I voted against the bill because I believe there was a grave possibility the repeal of this section of the law might ma. terially ol'fect the credit rating of the State. I remember distinct, ly during the 1951 session when this particular law was finally adopted by the Senate Taxation Committee the factor of protect ing the State's credit was stead ily brought forth. The 1951 legis. lature referred this matter to the vote of the people and in 1952 the people overwhelmingly ap proved this measure. Senator Ben Musa Cascade stood at 32 bucks per hundred does and 57 fawns per hundred does. Mule deer herds in Eastern Oregon were 32 bucks and 67 fawns per 100 does. The 1956 composition count stood at 31 bucks and 66 fawns per 100 does on the west side while 29 bucks and 80 fawns were tallied for Eastern Oregon. On several of the more critical ranges, measures of herd com position indicated low fawn pro duction. This was especially shown in Grant county where classification of almost 800 ani mals on the north side range in dicated a ratio of 39 fawns per 100 does. Last year's production stood at 62 fawns. On most of the better deer ranges fawn pro duction was on a par or above the production of 1956. The Waterman range had 80 fawns per 100 does, Umatilla, 93, Hepp ner 93, and Lookout Mountain 103. Game agents reported so far this year mild weather had favor ed deer and they still remain widely dispersed and at higher than normal elevations. Food also has been available in quan tity and quality and deer are going into the critical part of the winter with a good reserve of fat. Baring severe winter con ditions in the next two months herds should pull through in fine shape with a minimum of winter loss. January 1947. Overseas buyers during the week were India and Formosa. India bought 23 car loads of white wheat and For mosa took one cargo of white and Wi cargo of hard red winter. Because offerings of free mar ket white wheat are limited, the trade is becoming more depen dent on Commodity Credit Cor poration supplies. A number of 4-H clubs have been added in the county during the past two weeks. At Boardman a Electricity I club is being led by Gunner Skoubo with 14 mem bers; Livestock club led by John Partlow with 7 members; a Poultry and Rabbit club led by Mrs. Daniels with 9 members and a Saddle Horse dub with 6 members led by Wanda Huey has held several meetings. A group of boys and girls wishing to organize a livestock club in that community and have not been able to do so for lack of a leader. At lone, Joe Hausler and Walter Corley are leading Elec tricity I and II clubs with 9 mem bers enrolled in each. Recently the ten most import ant crops and forest iiiset'ts pests in Oregon were selected. They were alfalfa weevil, aphids, cherry fruit fly, coddling moth, mites, mountain pine beetle, onion magget, psylla, spruce bud worm and symfillets. The ten top pests of man, animal and household were cattle grubs, Mosquitoes, earwigs, house flies, termites, carpet beetles, roaches, sheep ked, northern fall mite and cattle lice. Those who have had a problem of getting rid of these pests either the ones affecting crops or livestock will know why they were listed as important. As livestock men plan to seed irrigated pastures results of a six year pasture study might be in teresting to them in determin ing grasses to seed. In the pas ture study orchard grass and tall Fesque were each grown alone, each grass was grown with La dina Clover. There was one Bluegrass and White Clover pas ture, and one Orchard grass and Red top pasture. With the grasses alone, nitrogen was ad ded so that the comparison was actually between the grass fer tihzed with nitrogen and the same grass fertilized with La dina Clover. Animals grazing the tall fesque, clover mixture, made somewhat lower gains than those grazing on the others. The ani mals grazing on the grasses fer tilized with nitrogen made lower daily gains than those grazing the same grasses grown with La dine clover. Orchard grass, either grown alone or with fes que pasture, fertilized with nitro gen produced the highest carry ing capacity of all of the pas tures. The tall fesque main tained its stand far better than the orchard grass. The live weight gains per acre for the last year of the experiment, 1955. are -perhaps a better indication of what can be expected from these pastures than are the aver age figures.- Taking the average gives undue weight perhaps to the first year to yields maybe influenced by the cultivation methods used in getting , the stands. Here are the weight gains per acre: Tall fesque with nitrogen, 443 pounds gain per acre; Orchard grass with nitro gen, 382 pounds per acre; Orch-j ard grass with Ladina, 274 pounds per acre; tall fesque with Ladina, 258 pounds; Kentucky BJuegrass, White clover, 249 pounds; Orchard grass and white clover, 202 pounds. The slightly poor results from tall fesque with the clover are considered by the experiment people to be due to the fact that tall fesque was more competitive Ladina clover, and therefore there tended to be less Ladina with the fescue than was the case with the Orchard grass. SLANTS FROM THE SESSION By Mrs. C. A. Tom Our days of sun are increas ing in frequency and it becomes more and more difficult to stay indoors. I must not let myself start to yearn for the great open spaces with a good two months oi law-making still ahead of us, remarK mat i cherish was made halfway through the 55 session by the mother of Louise Hungphrey, our highly respected jaay tax expert. Bess Cynthia, whom many of us regard as a female "sage of the Ozarks", wrote to Louise asking her if it were not about time for her to go home and start acting like a proper housewife. "Or", she asked, "are those men still sit ting there in Salem squandering THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times March 10, 1927 Lester Doolittle, Chas. Vauehn and M. R. Fell made up the team Sunday representing Heppner Rod and Gun club in the state telegraphic trap shooting tournament. opinions?" A great many opinions were aired on the morning of Febru ary 28 on the subject of school reorganization. Debate lasted one hour and fifteen minutes, but tempers remained in check. In previous sessions this same sub ject has led to much heated dis cussion. Allen was delegated to make the introductory speech, and since our two young sons had the week. Now it became neces sary to recall the bill from the Senate and rerefer it to House Judiciary, requiring two sepa rate parliamentary maneuvers in which the members of the Food and Dairy Committee gleefully joined. The Senate early in the week passed Senate Bill 92 providing that the State rax commission mav no longer automatically levy a state property tax in the never heard their father speak event that the taxes for the bi on a major piece of legislation I ennium fail to cover expendi tures. If the bill passes the House and is signed by the Gov ernor, a property tax levy will re quire an act of the legislature, it seemed like an ideal day to let them serve as pages. They car ried messages and ran errands all over the building to their Tiearts' content, but I rather suspect that,, except for bond service the oratory left them cold. Als0 Dassed bv the Senate this There was a motion to rerefer, week was a measure generally the bill to the Education commit- referred to as the "fair dismissal" tee in order to delay action on 'bill. It would require school it until the Senate had had time boards to produce a written Jeff Neel, former Heppner resi dent who has been absent for sev eral years, arrived in the city yesterday and is enjoying a visit with old time friends. Bernice Stoneman, Irene Riatt and Loia Hiatt are absent from school because of scarlet fever. B. P. Doherty was here on Sat urday from his home down Sand Hollow. Mr. and Mrs. Claud Sigsbee recently arrived at lone from Portland, where they have been spending the winter. The Misses Helen Fredreckson and Hester Thorpe of Heppner were the weekend guests of Beth. Bleakman at Hardman. to vote on the Key District bill, relating to distribution of the Basic School Support Fund. This move failed, with only thirteen Representatives supporting it. The final ballot gave the bill a strong passage, 46 to 10. Its fate now lies in the hands of the Senate. On the previous day we were exposed to almost an hour of argument on a bill intended to halt watering of milk and giving the Director of Agriculture the power to establish rules as to what constitutes a diseased dairy herd. The major portion of the dis cussion was dominated by attor neys in the House objecting to wording in various sections of the bill. Our legal eagles succeeded in their effort to send the bill back to the Judiciary committee for revision. During the debate more than one attorney said that the Foods and Dairy Committee need not feel apologetic over the errors, since they do not have a man with legal training on the committee. The next morning these same attorneys blushingly confessed that glaring errors had been un covered in House Bill 343 which came out of their committee and was passed by the House early in STAR THEATER HEPPNER Thurs., Fri.. Sat. March 7-8 Everything But The Truth Tim Hovey, Maureen O'Hara John Forsythe Plus The Beast of Hollow Mountain With Guy Madison, Patricia Medina Sun. Mon.. March 10-11 ATTACK Eddie Albert, Jack Palance Lee Marvin Sunday at 4, 6:15, 8:30 Tuea., Wed.. March 12-13 Flight To Hong Kong Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush Plus Musical Featurette FAMILY NIGHTS Local wool quotations have re cently been around 8 to 10 cents a pound, grease basis, over year ago. Boston and other world wool markets advanced rapidly last fall but have held about steady since December. Government stock have been cut in half since last spring. Heavier mill use has also cut back trade stocks of raw wool. U. S. sheep numbers are a little under a vear aeo. but wnrlrt umni From the Oregon State College production has increased about grain ana nay market review II 5 in the last seven vp;i.- nnH we tind that soft white wheat is expected to increase some more prices at rortiana last week this year. ' climbed to the highest level in I yrs- It was the highest since Classifieds Pay I Try Ono Today I Our Thank We want to express our thanks to the people of this community who have so faithfully patronized Moyer's Cafe during our better than two year's operation of the business. We are certain ycu will like the new owners, Mr. and Mrs. Sang Chinn and will continue to give them your support. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Moyer statpmpnt as to the reasons for dismissal of a teacher, upon re quest by the teacher. The bill was a repeat attempt, introduced at the request of the OEA and hotly opposed by the Association of School Directors. Teachers feel this law will give them protection against dismis s d for reasons of a petty nature. School board members, on the other hand, fear they may now be open targets for libel suits and community squabbles. Sena tor Phil Lowry, Medford, is of the opinion that the bill will fail to accomplish its purpose because school directors may tend to avoid becoming involved in un pleasant situations by entering ficticious reasons for dismissal on the record. Two letters received this week deserve mention. One, which was sent to each member, pro posed that we designate the Corn Tassel as our National Floral Emblem. Why not wheat (the surplus kind). The other letter would be humorous had it come from a small child, but having been composed by a junior high school student (in the Western part of the state) it becomes pathetic. It was a request printed in pencil read as follows: "Will you please send me an autographed picture of yourself, also a letter telling me how the legislator is runed." Visitors this week included Kenneth Batty, Hardman, Phil Mahoney, Heppner, Gene Cuts Continued on Page 5 WOULD IT? It's precipitation, whether It's rain or snow! It's welcome because it Helps things grow! Speaking of things growing Around about here, Has your personal property Grown this year? If so, is your present Insurance enough? In case of loss, would it Replace the stuff? hr For All Your Insurance Needs C.A. RUGGLES . Heppner, Oregon Phone 6-9625 Box 611 Chevy is America's "hot" cm officially! Thank You, Heppner- We want to express our appreciation to the many persons who waited on our opening days to be served Chinese food. We had a "full house" our first two evenings and many were forced to wait our thanks to you. It takes 15 to 20 minutes to prepare good fresh Chinese food and we want ours to be the best we can serve. Our special thanks too, to The First National Bank and Peggy Moyer for the lovely flowers. We also wish to announce that we will be open Sundays from 11 a. m. to 8 p. m. Again, our thanks and we hope to see you again soon. ' Chinn 's Cafe HEPPNER ' "" s 1"""" , ; - pfm POWERFUL? 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