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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, April 18, 1957
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MORROW COUNTY'S NBWIPAPKH
Thm Heppnex Gazette, established March 30, 188. The Heppnar Times etaUehe4
Novecnbef 18, 197. Consolidated February li, 1912
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ROBERT PEN LAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PEN LAUD
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NA.UQ.N A I EDITORIAL
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $100 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files' of the Gazette Times
April 21, 1927
Word was received by this paper
this week is to the effect that
Arthur W. Campbell, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Campbell, will
upon his graduation from the
State University of Iowa at Iowa
Cjty, accept a position as re
search chemist for the Goodrich
Rubber company of Akron, Ohio.
Where's Eightmile ?
(Following is an editorial which appeared In
the April 12 issue of the Eugene Register-Guard
and which has to do with all well-known Morrow
county community. It said . . .
8 Miles from What?
A Corvallis mapmaker named Eddie Chandler
is, we understand, now up In Morrow County,
armed with a tape measure and a fish pole. The
tape measure is for use in finding an elusive town.
The fish pole is for use in a project that Is no
body's business but Eddie's.
He's looking for Eightmile, Eightmile, Ore.,
which Is somewhere In Morrow County. Maps he
checked while preparing a new map of the area
show Eightmile in several places, some of them
as much as 17 miles apart.
Sure hope he finds it. We checked three maps
here and all three put it In the same place, about
a quarter of an inch west of the road from Hepp
ner to Spray and about an Inch east of Condon.
But that's not where it belongs, according to
the usually authoritative "Oregon Geographic
Names" by Lewis A. McArthur. This monumental
Work says the town(got its name from Eightmile
Canyon which is eight miles up Willow Creek
from the Columbia River. That would put Eight
mile two full Inches from the dots on the maps
we checked, and two inches is right close to 40
miles, 23 miles farther off base than Eddie Chand
ler's maps showed.
We await with interest the results of Eddie's
tape measure work, and also a report on how
he made out with that fish pole,
Don Campbell, now a resident of Eugene who
formerly lived In Morrow county, advised the
Register-Guard editor by letter of the whys and
wherefores of our Eightmile and told him that it
is now only an area with nothing but an aband
oned school house at the location of the sign
marking the spot.
Actually, the Corvallis mapmaker may have
chosen just the right tool to bring with him to
find our Eightmile for if he measures the dist
ance between the two signs tiat mark the spot, a
tape measure would be the most useful thing we
can think of. If our memory serves us correctly
the two signs are on the opposite sides of a 4 by
4 post so if the wandering mapmaker will stop
by we'll be glad to show him where our 4-inch-wide
Eightmile is. It may not be very big, but
we're glad to have it in Morrow county and we
want it to stay here. What it Is eight miles from,
though, we don't know either. Maybe its just
eight miles from any place that Is eight miles
from Eightmile.
What Mr. Chandler is going to do with his fish
pole, though will have to be his own business.
We've got a couple of pretty fair trout staked out
for the opening of the season and we're not about
to help anybody find them before we do.
A Dangerous Conflict
Ever since the start of the Shrine East-West
All Star football game, its date has been sand
wiched in between several important events in
Eastern Oregon, one of which Is our own Morrow
county fair and rodeo. This year, however, the
Shrine game has been changed to fall on Satur
day, August 31, the first and largest day of our
rodeo.
Such a conflict can mean only trouble for
both events for many persons will want to attend
or take part in both, something that is almost
an impossibility. Saturday and Saturday night
are very important days for the rodeo and a lack
of attendance can be disastrous, for the event's
only source of revenue is its paying customers.
Likewise, Heppner and Morrow county staunchly
has supported the Shrine game and probably
sends more paying customers there than any
other community of its size. The Heppner band
Is a vital part of the rodeo parade, as are the
other visiting high school bands, yet Shrine fes
tivities also start early in the day and most of
those bands want to play in the Shrine parade
and at the game in the evening. They cannot do
both.
The Morrow county fair and rodeo certainly
has no exclusive right to the date, but over the
years it has established itself as the big Eastern
Oregon event of Labor Day weekend now almost
accepted as a tradition.
We hope that the Shrine game date can be
changed back to its former schedule of the week
ahead of our fair, for it is impossible to change
our fair date later into September it would rob
local exhibitors of their chance to show at the state
fair which opens on Labor Day. If the change
cannot be made, it is certain that both events will
suffer materially.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nickerson
motored to Portland on Sunday
where they spent several days
this week.
Henry Peterson and family were
in the city Saturday from their
home in the Gooseberry section.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Booher of
Heppner were visitors of Corda
Sallng in Hardman Sunday.
Morrow county fair in the annual
spring workshop which will be
held at Corvallis on April 22 and
23. The fair board recently voted
to encourage participation by the
superintendents by making a con.
tribution to them to pay for ex
penses and time spent at the
workshop. Those who have in
dicated to this office that they
will attend are Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Wilson, Mrs. L. E. Ruhl, Mrs. J.
R. Huffman, Don Robinson, Mrs.
Ernest Heliker, and Mrs. William
Labhart. The workshop is set up
for the purpose to help promote
better fairs through consideration
of ways of improving fair man
agement, production and display
of products. During the two day
workshop superintedents will
meet in work groups to get ideas
and exchange methods of doing
things. There will be a discus
sions on making the fair attrac
tive, selling the fair, and other
points for improving county fairs.
Miss Mildred Farrens was
chosen to represent Hardman
Union high school in the .oratori
cal contest to be held in Heppner
Friday evening.
A. C. Crowell and familv and
Harry Cool and family were the
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Bauman of Lexington
Sunday.
We'll Wait .
If there was anyone left in Morrow county
wiio questioned that we had an "unusual" winter
and spring, they certainly should have gotten
their doubts settled last Friday. Anytime we get
a twister in this section of the world, its "un
usual," but wo had one that day.
That tornado which traveled about 20 miles
before breaking up was genuine and though it
fortunately didn't hit any buildings it gave a
great many persons a real scare . . . and with
good reason. Fences and power or phone poles
apparently were the main sufferers from the
storm, but had it moved only a short distance far.
ther, the town of Lexington could have suffered
and there were many people there who didn't at
all like what they saw coming their way.
As far as can be determined, the last such
Horrible example of what a storm can do was
just 70 years ago, when a similar tornado did
strike Lexington doing considerable damage and
killing one woman. At about that same time, ac
cording to our information, the town of Long
Creek was hit by a twister, and the Monument
area also saw one strike in the valley.
We didn't get to a vantage point quite in time to
view Friday's black funnel before it dissapated,
but its all right with us if we are forced to wait
another 70 years before we get our second chance.
in most instances compliance
cannot be checked until harvest
time. It is hoped then that pay
ment can be made here In Mor
row county in the early part of
the summer.
Farmers are reminded that
this year they must sign requests
to -protect their wheat acreage
allotment if they are under plant
ed accidently or intentionally.
Farmers were notified by the
ASC office last week of this
change which requires that these
requests be signed and filled in
the local ASC office by May 1,
The signed requests protects your
allotment through maintaining
the wheat acreage history. The
new provisions for this were
made under the Soil Bank Law.
sembly, weighing and shipping
livestock. The association has
been reminded from time to
time by many of its members
that such corrals are badly
needed in the area. The situa
tion has become worse in past
years as more cattle were ship
ped from the county by truck
due to poor rail service. Many
livestock growers last year had to
deliver calves to Hermiston area
to he weiehed: this being the
closest point for weighing. Thir
teen livestock growers making
up the executive committee
agreed that contributions would
be collected at the rate of 75
cents per head on all saleable
cattle from members interested
in this project. They also agreed
that a 50 cent per head weighing
fee would be charged with this
refunded to contributors at the
end of the year after any main
tenance expenses were taken out.
Non-members who might wish
to use the scales would be
charged the flat 50 cent weigh
ing fee with no refund. Floyd
Jones and Ralph Beamer heading
up the marketing committee will
begin contacting livestock grow
ers this weex.
With sizeable contributions
already made the executive com
mittee approved a bill for 400
railroad ties to get the project
under way so that facilities
would be available for this fal.
marketing season. The commit
tee investigated several possible
sites with the executive commit
tee agreeing to build the corrals
at the Bill Barratt ranch where
ground is available and scate?
installed. The executive commit
tee ask that a meeting of the
generdl membership be called
for Monday evening, April 22 to
discuss further this project and
to get the reaction of all mem
bers on the expenditure of funds
from the general treasury on
these facilities.
Plans were made for the an
nual meeting of the Oregon
Cattlemen's Association which
will be held at Eugene on May
6, 7 and 8. Resolutions sent to
the state association after the
annual meeting "of the Morrow
County Livestock Growers as
sociation was reviewed. It was
agreed that resolutions opposing
the homestead exemption and
key district school bills be con
sidered at this annual convention.
It was also agreed that the as-
Conunued on Page 6
Considerable interest is being
shown by superintendents of the
The Morrow County Livestock
Growers association executive
committee meeting Tuesday
evening made plans for building
a stock yard corral which will be
available to members for as-
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C Anderson
rTl. . .
ine county weea spray pro- sprayed
gram got under way this week
with Calvin Yackley as sprayer
operator. First spraying was in
the Boardman-Irrigon area. Rus
sian thistle are coming along
quite rapidly and it appears as
though spraying for these weeds
on county roads will begin in
full scale operation next week.
Spraying for annual weeds which
Interfere with grading of county
roads will continue until early
June when perennial noxious
weeds will be ready to be
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tation to hold down the cost of
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the weed spray operator when he
Is In their community or report of
weed infestations and other weed
problems to this office. Mr.
Yackley replaces Cal Carson who
was weed spray operator for four
years and has resigned to work
full time for the county road de
partment.
Word has been received that
payment to farmers who take
the Soil Bank acreage
program will be made
part in
reserve
when compliance with the pro
grams provisions can be fully
determined. Compliance with
Soil Bank acreage limitations is
in general on harvested rather
than planted acreage basis so
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