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
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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?
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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
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