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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, March 28, 1957 f jpjniw fertt? tmw MORROW COUNTY'S NKWSPAPSR Th leppnw Gzatte, wtabllshad March 30, 138J. The Happnr Ttmw wtuWlahed Novmbr 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publtahar CRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publlaher NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION From The County Agent's Office By N. C Asdenon , r..... .l ,.r ein.mont nf delegates selected by i,,k mnn.k i,oo hwn hnsv in th committee composed of Mrs.i ,,,,. jnVpe started out filling out applications to be con- Louis Carlson and VUbu van . 4- nnlinn VmilDht to an end a series of eight night Uv visitations to the flock where 'altogether 81 sheep and lambs I were stolen. Joyce Peck, member of the Fur and Feathers, poultry and rabbit club of Lexington Is in the raD- Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Pout Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second I Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewher, $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. SCHOOL BOARDS, GO HOME (Below we reprint an editorial on Federal aid to education which appeared in the March 14 is sue of the Lake County Examiner, Lakeview. We believe it is one of the best discussions on the subject that we have seen and it coincides with our previously stated opinion on the same sub ject. As a footnote . . . where the editorial men tions St. Helens, you may substitute the name "Heppner." If you will remember the same thing happened here not so many years ago). At a recent meeting of the Lakeview school board, we made a remark something like this: "In about two years, word will come out of Washington; "Go home, school boards; from now on, we'll take care of all education matters from here.' " Probably the time table is wrong; it will "fake longer than two years. But this thing is coming . . . control and direction of schools and education by higher echelons of government. Already, much of it has happened. In Oregon, much school control has been passed up to the state level, thanks mostly to the basic school fund which gives the state a terrific club in imposing its will on the local school boards. The people of Oregon have meekly permitted the state to take over. Recently at St. Helens, because the voters refused again to approve a bond issue for the schools, the state withheld the St. Helens pay ment from the state basic school fund. The voters of St. Helens have been told off in no uncertain terms. But control of the schools is going to go even higher into the untouchable reaches of govern ment. The federal government soon will be hip deep in the financing of education, and of course that means federal control of schools. (Petty words have been mouthed about writing the laws so all school control will remain in the states, but no one . . . especially the federal government , , , puts up money without laying down rules on its use, and taking control.) Last session, Eisenhower's proposal for federal aid to school construction (embodied in the Kel ley Bill) was defeated, but it has been Introduced again In this Congress, with provision for state match-money. It or something like it will be pas. sed, to the everlasting shame of a free people who permit government to grow bigger and bigger, and to take away more and more of their own powers. Senator Morse has introduced a bill for wider federal aid to school: Aid to salaries, mainten ance, books and new facilities. He says the money under his bill would go to the states, ''with guar antees htat the states will have complete control over the funds." To which we say "Nuts." The education committee of the President's Commission on Inter-Governmental Relations made an exhaustive study of the states' abilities to finance schools, and reported: "We have not been able to find a State which is economically unable to support an adequate school system . . . Federal Aid is not necessary, either for current operating expenses for public schools, or for capi tal expenditures for new school facilities." The commission's report has been totally ig nored in the clamor for federal aid to schools. In regard to the construction aid bill to come up in this Congress, the director ot tnat commis sion's education research, Roger A. Freeman, said "What we are faced with is not a federal school construction program, but the first and fateful step in the nationalization of the public schools." Speaking before the Civic Federation in Chi cago on October 31, 1956, Freeman poimea oui: The public schools last year expended slightly over S10 billion. A federal aid program of $250 to $400 million misht boost that total by 2Vi to 4, Ipsb than half the Dresent annual increases in school costs." He continued: "It is apparent that the bills Congress considered would have made very little difference in overall school finance. What, men accounts for the excitement over the failure of the school aid bill? It appears that the sponsors of the Kelley bill had far more in mind than a $400 million federal aid program. That was to be only the down-payment. The real purpose was to get a foot-in-the-door, to get the principle of fed eral responsibility for the schools established, and then prove in subsequent years that the amounts were far too small. ' 'That gives the subject a different aspect," Freeman said. "It would be naive to assume that the federal government would spend several bililon dollars a year for any purpose, and have nothing to say on how the money was to be spent. Sooner or later they would suggest . . . with the big stick of non-compliance behind it . . . that schools conform to their ideas of how they should be organized and administered. History teaches that political power inevitably follows the power of the purse." sidered as delegates to the 1957 4-H summer school which will be held at Oregon State college on June 11 to 21. Morrow county's quota is 32. This week selection committees for both the South and North Morrow communities have been busy in choosing members who will represent our county, 4-H members were chosen who are at least 13 years of age by January 1 of this year, who have completed at least two years of 4-H club work and have successfully completed all pro jects enrolled In during the past club year. Scholarships of ?25 per club member will be provid ed again by farm and civic or ganizations and business people interested in the 4-H club pro gram. Club members will pro- the expense of transportation with a Greyhound chartered bus to carry the Morrow county dele gation to Corvallis. Announce- Blokland for the South Morrow with one doe last November fnd ior u.e. , ' ' . . ... oi .ahhlts. The arpa and all of the C1UD ieauei'al mis xime " fn the North Morrow area will beistate club office at Corvall s ade as " as approved by the,ells us that with one doe mo e THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times March 31, 1927 A deliehtful reception of an informal nature, was given Mrs. Sarah Parker, mother of Frank S. Parker, at the parlors of the Methodist church on Wednesday afternoon. A large number of ladies from the Methodist and Christian churches came to ten der congratulations to Mrs. Par ker on her 83rd birthday. That definitely has been the history of state aid to schools in Oregon. At the close of World War II, because there was a large surplus from income taxes, the state legislature arbitrarily paid $8,000,000 to the school districts. That was the spark which fired the cannon, and the next step was to levy a tax of $50 per census child for the state basic school fund. This has been hiked to $80, and the current move is to raise it to $120. And with each step the power at state level over the school districts has been increased; with each step, the people at home have lost more con trol over their tax money (look what happens at St. Helens when the people vote their wishes regarding a bond issue), and the school boards have less and less to say about administering the . schools. Bu we ain't seen nothing, yet; wait until the federal givers of "free" money get into the school act with both feet. In just a few years, word will come from Washington: "School boards, go home Charley Hynd of Ukiah was calling in Heppner the first of the week. Miss Gladys Benge, student at Whitman college, Walla Walla, spent the past week visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eph Eskelson, in Heppner. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Akers came up from their Portland home Wednesday and are visit ing with their relatives. Miss Vera Mahoney of Seattle is visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mahoney. SLANTS FROM THE SESSION By Mrs. C. A. Tom On Friday, March 15, in their first afternoon session of the year, members of the House passed IIJR 11, providing for a referen dum to determine whether the people of Oregon wish to abolish capital punishment except in the case of second murder com mitted by a person already under sentence for murder. The debate was long and solemn, and the measure passed with only seven dissenting votes. If this resolution passed the Senate the voters would once again have to take a stand on capital punishment. It was abolished in 1914 and reinstated in 1920. Should the measure pass In the 1958 General Election, Oregon will become the seventh state to abandon the death penalty. Monday the Senate passed HJM 1, Introduced by Representa tive Tom and Senator Wilhelm, memorializing Congress to ap propriate funds for the immedi ate construction of the John Day Dam. An amendment aimed at the preference clause, asking that Oregon be given "her fair share" of the power generated by the dam, was killed by a tie vote. A Senate memorial adopted the same day requested Congress to provide funds for deepening the Columbia channel from Van couver to The Dalles. Among several bills which have kicked up a fuss in the House this past week was HB 187, which would give weigh masters the authority to require trucks parked within five miles of the weighing station to come and be weighed if the weighmas. ter has "reason to believe" the truck is overweight. This bill has been rereferred to the committee on Highways three times, which must be something of a record. Our mail is steadily increasing in volume as people become more personally concerned with bills before the legislature. One of the first problems about which we receive numerous letters and cards this time was the request for a new dormitory and display building at the state fair grounds for 4-H and FFA youngsters. It is still being considered by the Ways and Means Committee, and we hope funds will be available. Also early in the session we started receiving many letters re. garding the proposal to close banks on Saturday. This mea sure was tabled a few days ago in the Senate Financial Affairs Committee. Our friends at home who have been pleading with us to save Green Stamps may now relax because the same Senate Com mittee has also tabled the trad ing stamp bill. Senator Sweet land states that he is going to rescue his bill, which he intro duced in company with Repre sentative Wilderman, but he will probably run into a solid wall of opposition. Call 6-9228 For Printing Needs I STAR THEATER HEPPNER Thurs., Frl.. Sat, March 28-29-30 Walk The Proud Lane Audie Murphy, Anne Ban croft, Tat Crowley Plus Wetbacks In color. Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates Sun Mon., March 31. April 1 Wings of Eagles John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Mau reen O'llara. Ward Bond. Sunday at 1. ii:0!V 8:10 Tues., Wed., April 2-3 Unconquered Gary Cooper, Paulettn God- jard Family Nights. AND INSIST ON BOYSEN It's spring . . . it's time to make your home sparkle with new paint inside and out. Why not come to Tum-A-Lum today and let us help ycu plan your colors and paint needs with Boysen's Colorizer chart. You'U want Boysen Paint of course, it's the best you can buy I Financing too . . We can help too, with financing your paint Job (or any ether type of repair work). No down payment if you wish and up to 36 months to pay. Ask Usl I 1 "WE LIKE TO HELP FOLKS BUILD" PHONE 6-9212 HEPPNER A deal was consummated this week whereby M. L. Case, of Case Furniture company, pur chased the controlling interest m the Fair store building on lower Main street, from A. G. Edam son of Seattle. County 4-H club councils. The Morrow county extension office has been invited to ap pear periodically over the "Sa lute To Farmers" Program which makes it appearance weekly on Monday nights over KfcPK TV Benton, Franklin and Walla Wal la counties In Washington with Morrow and Umatilla counties in Oregon will make up the pro grams in the future. This office has tentatively scheduled to hold its first TV program on May 20. Prom a recent Grain and Hay Market Review we find that there is little Pacific Northwest wheat left under loan. Farmers continu ed to redeem loan wheat at a fairly constant rate in recent months. As of February 15 there were only 3.4 million bushels of wheat under loan compared to 62.4 million bushels a year ago U. S. farmers withdrew over a fifth of the 316 million bushels of wheat placed under loan through February 15, Oregon farmers took in more monev from the sale oi meir farm products last year. A pre liminary estimate shows cash receipts added up to nearly $416 million about 4 above 1955 The increase was due entirely to heavier markets as prices were down a shade. These estimates are based on receipts from sales, before production expenses are taken out. Oregon realized net income, after produition expen ses were cieauctea, averagea $2,795 per farm last year. That was an increase of 77c over 1955. Higher cash receipts from wheat, potatoes, green peas and pears and hay more than offset a con tinued rise in production expen ses. In some parts of Oregon live stock rustlers are dealt with quite harshly. Recently two men drew two prison terms, a youth's parole from McLaren School for Boys was revoked, and sentence of another youth is in the bal ance as a result of larcency of sheep in Linn county. The two men were each sentenced to two years in the state prison March 4 when they appeared before cir cuit judge, Victor Oliver In Al- rnlspd in pounas oi nicai. v.a,. a vear in the rabbit business than a "beef cow would produce. If this is the case the twelve mem bers of this club led by Mrs. Bernard Doherty and Mrs. Lu eer.e Wardwell will produce a lot of meat for tne Lexmsum -v,..-munity this year. Roppntlv we reported hormone tests on yearling steers fed on the Marion Weatherford farm m Gilliam county. Details were re ceived this week. It was found that the feeding test got under way on November 8 and was con. eluded on March 5th for a feed of 117 days. There were 20 steers in each of three pens which averaged 816 pounds at the beginning of the feed period, une of the pens was a control, one pen was implanted with Syno vex and one pen with Stilbestrol. At the end of the 117 day feed npriod thp calves implanted witn the Synovex had averaged 2.71 pounds per day; those implanted with Stilbestrol 2.66 pounds per day while the check gained pounds per day. The Synovex implanted steers had made a 42 pound gain over the control lot while the Stilbestrol a 37 pound average gain over the control pen. This experiment carried on by Marion Weatherford in co operation with the county agent, Ernest Kirsch and Dr. Dave Eng land of the Oregon State College experiment station are pretty much in line with our report of results at the Milton feed trial which I had visited last week. Washington State College re cently reported that beef cattle herds that were pregnancy test ed in the fall and winter showed an unusual large number of bar ren cows. Each one of these cul led out meant a saving in winter feed loss from 30 to 40 dollars. One herd had 26 barren coWs. Others reported from 10 to 207c of cows not setted. It is too late now for ranchers to adopt this practice for this year but by all means it is a recommended prac tice for the fall of 1957. A few herds were pregnancy tested in Morrow county last fall with number of barren cows found. A local veterinarian can do this inspection job almost as rapidly as cows can be put through a squeeze chute. With the cost Boardman Notes The grade and junior high school band went to La Grande Saturday to play in the Eastern Oregon Music Competition. With them was their director, Marion Morlan. Parents attending were Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Ely, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Miller, Mr. and Mrs Nathan Thorpe and daughter Teresa, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Part, low and sons, Mrs. John Partlow, and Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Rogers and son Duane. Mr. and Mrs. Ely also visited at the home of their son-in-law and daughter Mr. ana mrs. ciaon Lilly, and Mr. and Mrs. Miller visited their son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs. Vern Carpenter. Mrs. William Garner attended a meeting of the Demolay Mo thers' Circle in Hermiston Mon day evening. o Nancy Ferrell Has Sixth Birthday Mrs. Robert Ferrell entertained Thursday afternoon of last week at a party honoring the sixth birthday of her daughter Nancy. Guests were Linda Orwick, Jane Dowen, Kathy and Karen Blake, Debby Bennett, Charlene Knox and Marcia Jones. Games were played and a prize won by Karen Blake for pinning the tail on the donkey. Linda Orwick won the prize bal loon. Refreshments of cake, ice cream and punch were served and each guest received a party favor. price squeeze getting tighter this is one of the ways that cost of operation can be cut down. CARD OF THANKS Although this message cannot convey the real depth of our feel ing and gratitude to all you wonderful people who sent floral offerings, letters and cards to Reba during her illness, we want to tell you. there is no way we can ever fully thank you. Your reward must come from the know ledge that they made her very happy. We also thank you for your sympathy, funds given in Reba s memory, and many other things all of you have done to show your lifelong friendship. All of it makes us very humble and grateful. Nowhere but in our area here could there ever be so much concern, so many cheer ing messages and real neighbor liness shown. We sincerely thank you. Bob and Robert Grabill The Tilman Hogue Family The A. E. and A. A. 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