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t Page 2 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER Th Heppner Gazette, stabJiahed March 30, 1883. Th Heppntr Time established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 NEWSPAPIR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Subscription Rates: Morrow and Our Doctor of the Year All of Heppner and much of Morrow county can well be proud this week of the honor which last Saturday was bestowed upon one of Heppner's best known citizens, Dr. Archie McMurdo. He was chosen Oregon's first Doctor of the Year. The Doctor's selection by a committee of the house of delegates of the Oregon State Medical Society is due recognition for the nearly half cen tury of service he has given to the people of his community not only as a general practitioner but for the greatest years of service of any public health officer in Oregon. He started his practice here in the horse and buggy days, not only of travel but almost of medicine too, by present day standards. His desire to continue to learn and SLANTS FROM THE SESSION By Nicky Tom Writing this column has given me a much more sympathetic feeling toward news reporters. Some weeks I have to scrounge for enough legislative news of special interest to the people In our part of the - state. Other times there is almost too much to write about. Last week Representative Bob Steward, chairman of the House Ways and Means committee (and director-to-be of the Department of Agriculture) proposed a plan for obtaining funds for a new 4-H and FFA dormitory at the state fairgrounds. He suggested that the $300,000 might be bor rowed form the Public Employees Retirement Fund and repaid from racing commission funds which are allocated to county fair as sociations. It would be repaid at the rate of $100,000 a year. Representatives of 26 county fair associations meeting In Cor vallis last Monday went on re- cord as being opposed to this plan. They feel that if such a loan is made it should be repaid from the general fund or some other source. The House Friday killed 1 IB 421, which was introduced at the request of the Oregon Livestock Association and the Oregon Wool, growers Association. It would, among other things, have re moved the payment of bounties TO THE EDITOR . Tojhe Editor- To Dr. A. D. McMurdo Oregon's Doctor of the Year One often waits to say the words, Or toss the nice bouquet He feels deserving folks have earned Until they pass away. But one is always happier To know such things are said To the ones for whom intended, Not to listening friends instead. And so we're all rejoicing With our friends both far and near As you're honored with the title, "Oregon Doctor of he Year". What a wealth of treasured memories Must be yours this happy day As you pause for one brief moment To review life's runged way! And what greater satisfaction Fills the heart of any man Than to feel he's served so nobly In a Greater Master's plan! On the road that lies before you, Through that portion yet untrod, May you still continue boldly Walking hand in hand with God. By Fern Roth Hot Lake, Oregon STAR THEATER HEPPNER Thurs., Fri Sat.. May 3-4-5 REPRISAL Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant Plus ODONGO Rhonda Fleming, Macdonald Carey Sun., Mon May 5-6 The Girl Can't Help It Jane Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien. Sunday at 4, 6:15. 8:30 Tues., Wed., May 7-8 LISBON Ray Milland. Maureen O'Hara. Claude Rains. Family Nights ROBERT PENLAND Editor and. Publisher GRETCHEN PENLANB Associate Publisher Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere on cougars and certain other pre datory animals, at a saving to the state of some $20,000 per bien nium. The state now spends $160,000 per biennium for its share of the expense of the federal trapping program. Members of Ways and Means, who are now knocking themselves out trying to find ways of saving money, were dis tressed over failure of the bill. Those who voted against it seemed to feel that federal trap pers are not doing a thorough Job of controlling cougars, but the bill had received the support of the Izaak Walton League, Oregon Cattlemen's Association and the Game Commission, as well as the two groups who sponsored it. Thursday the House defeated by a vote of 34 to 24 a resolution calling for a constitutional am endment to allow school teachers to serve as members of the legis lature and still hold their posi tions as teachers. Opposition was based mainly on two arguments first that such an amendment would disturb Oregon's tradition al "separation of powers", be cause teaching is an activity of the executive department. Secondly, and probably bear ing more weight, was the feeling that conflicts of interest would be Involved when teacher-legislators were called upon to vote on education measures. Failure of this resolution does not mean that teachers are "se cond class citizens", forbidden to serve in the legislature, as pro ponents of the measure stated. They can be elected and serve, provided they resign their school positions for the duration of the session. After legislature ad journs, they resign as members of this body and resume teach ing. They are, of course, pretty well excluded from serving on interim committees by this rou tine, but so are school board members and secretaries of cor porations, who come under a similar provision of the law, Passed by the House this week was HJR 4, calling for annual sessions of the legislature. If it goes through the Senate it will Join the growing list of issues to be decided by the voters at. the next general election. The resolution contains only a simple restriction of 65 days for the session. Other states have found methods of getting around time limitations, the usual one being the simple act of stopping the clock on the final day. Many legislators feel that to call an annual session without setting alternate sessions aside for only taxation and ways and means bills would be a serious mistake. -This bill contains no such provision. Can Oregon afford the luxury of annual sessions at this time? The 1955 session cost $740,218.56 for 115 days. So far this session $200,000 has been appropriated for legislative expenses and It is possible that an additional sum will be necessary before we are through. Printing Ig Our Business I Call Us Now. Gazette Times Printing shop OLYMP1A with pleasure -nra thb water' that Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, May 2, 1957 NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION 1JJIB'IMH Oregon, as Second Class Matter $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents, advance in his field has never slackened, even to the present time ... an era In one's age when most people are more desirous of reminiscing about the past than of learning for the future. Dr. McMurdo fully deserves the congratula tions he is now receiving and we here want to add ours for a Job that is still being well done. Quite an Order .... U. S. News & World Report computes that the 4 million babies born this year in this country will need, during their lifetimes, 1,059,000,000 pairs of shoes, 91 billion gallons of gasoline, 25 billion pounds of beef, 6,300,000 electric refrigera tors, 200 million tons of steel, etc., etc. ft ft ft, ft ft ft ft ft MAKING DECISIONS The members of the current session of the Oregon Legislature so far have established a re markable record for even keel going in the face of the rough seas encountered during organi zation of the Senate, which also were felt in the House. Ninety men with many varied vocations and temperaments in variably handicap one another in the acceptance of understand ing, in the various concepts of lawmaking, and the humility that encompasses those of the minor ity. The drill of legislation is large ly making decisions. The business of making deci sions, particularly when most of j them are unrelated, is accepted! as being one of the most exhaust. ing parts of leadership vocations, j The life span of editors, impre sarios, generals, and governors in j particular are too often measured by the grind of making import- ant decisions. An edtior of one of the large Portland papers quit because, as he said, the making of many im- portant decisions was changing his disposition and ruining his health. When he left to take the chair of journalism in a re nouned university, friends de plored that would b3 the last of him. However, when he returned within a year he was looking ten ' years younger. He took a set of rubber dice from his vest pocket ad epxlained i,,umu mru, , noiselessly, in me tup urawur of my podium desk." ATTITUDE STUDENT'S DRAG One of the two principal rea sons tor a serious snortage oi technically trained manpower confronting the United States is attitude and not aptitude, Dean George Gleeson of Oregon State College said in an address in Salem this week attended by a large group of legislators. He charged tfcat many students entering college display little or no sense of responsibility, have never worked and take little in terest in working. In this connection Dean Glee son reported that the engineering department at OAC had lost 40 per cent of its freshmn class. This situation, he asserted, is the re sult of the "shock" of being con fronted with the load a pupil is expected to carry in the field of engineering. WANT MORE LIQUOR FUNDS The present allocation of liquor revenues has never been enough to meet city costs of liquor law enforcement, the legislative com mittee of the League of Oregon cities resolved at a meeting in Salem this week. The league appealed unani mously to the Legislature to help the cities meet what the com mittee termed a growing crisis makes it so refreshixo c n ... THIRTY YEARS AGOt From Files of the Gazette Times May 5, 1927 Appointment of Miss DeLoris Pearson of the Heppner high school faculty as Morrow county chairman of the Greater Oregon Club for 1927 summer sessions of the University or uregon, was - , t conditions these announced on the campus today. lent soU moisture am seedings should provide good Miss Mattie Udell is a guest stand establishments at the Don at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. aid Robinson and John Graves G. McCarty, having arrived from ranches where they were seeded, her home at San Francisco the At the Sand Hollow ranch of Don end of the week. Robinson's 30 acres of Nomad al. falfa and grass were seeded. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Jones enjoyed Grasses used were Crested wheat, a trip to Spokane the last of he Sherman big blue, tall oat grass week They returned home on and Whitmar beardless wheat. Monday , Twenty acres of this seeding was on steeD hillside taken out of m- onri Mrs nttn t ,i ndst rom visitors here on of Morgan were Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wright were Hardman visitors on Monday. Mrs. Ellen Buseick and son Reid are visiting relatives in Portland this week. Mrs. Floyd Adms was a visitor! in Hardman Monday. in financing city services, parti cularly thos? having to do with public safety. The best way to accomplish this, the committee contends, is by pending legislation to increase the cities' share of liquor reve nues which will be before the Legislature for action in a few days. They say the situation has become worse since liquor by the drink was legalized in the state. The result is that cities have to rely on the property tax to pay for regulating liquor and prosecuting liquor conditioned violations. LAKE ROAD OPEN MAY 17 Senator Harry Bovin (D) asked the Oregon Highway Commission Monday when they would an nounce the opening of the road to Diamond Lake. He said he and other members of The Diamond Lake Summer Home Assn. would like to know. The legislative messenger de livering the request to the High way Department, opposite the Capitol, returned with the ans-i w:?r that it is now open. Tlie commission said Its snow plows started clearing the road two weeks ago. BOUNTY LAW RETAINED An attempt to kill Oregon's bounty aw on cougar and wild cats has een indefinitely post poned. The bounty fund will re- main at $30,000 a year, of which the state will pay $10,000 a year and the state game commission $20,000 a year. jS535K5Bg!SS3 the MERRY TAILORS We, the Merry Tailors held our ! April 26 meeting at the home of 'Arleta McCabc. For refreshments we had Dixie cups ana aonuis - ' . , d ciding who would most likely be the father of the year. We all started on our stuffed toys. Mrs. McCabe served dinner at 6 p. m. to the club as surprise. Our 4-H notebooks arrived and will cost 50 cents each. Sheryle Lundell, reporter Clear Sharp ai&si-lot KODIAK PRINTS "Big as a Bear" BOX 6 COOS BAY, OREGON WE Supply Postage-Frae, Addressed, ! QUALITY PHOTO sEHncE 4j Near aa Your MAILBOX 8 EX. ROLL 50c Dev. & Print, 1 2 ex. ROLL 75C We Finish Negatives . All gliei Roll! and Including Color t-29 mm U U U NLW From The County Agent By N. C .... ,.. v, and oas - 1WO new uiy Id"" ""J ' ture seedings were made during week with tne excel- ' wheat production. At the John Graves ranch approximately 20 ! acres of wet wasteland, draws ! and steep wheat land was seeded to Nomad alfalfa with Alta Fes- que ana miermeuicue grass. Seedings made by both of these ranchers were a continua tion of plans started several years ago to seed down all land best suited for grasses and alfalfa. Excellent results have been od tained by both of these ranchers with earlier seeded pasture and hay seedings. The U. S. Department of Agri culture and several state colleges have been testing insecticides given orally to cattle for control of grubs and believe they have one to be quite successful. Giving about 1.6 ounces to a thousand pound animal the insecticide kills grubs before they broke through the cow's hide, and yet had no ill affect on the animal. One dosage was given two to five months before the insects normally break through. This not only kills nearly 100 of the biting flies for several days, biting fliest for several days. On Saturday of last week Mar cel Jones began seeding of seve ral thousand square feet of lawn area around his new home south of Heppner. He is using Merion blue grass as the lawn grass. This new strain of bluegrass is becoming popular each year as home owners find out the excel lent qualities of a lawn of its type. Berion Bluegrass is a step closer to the dream lawn of the home owner who has not been able to produce a good lawn from common bluegrass seed. It builds a close-knit cushion of turf under close mowing in contrast with a open loose turf developed by common bluegrass. It is highly resistant to leaf, spot and crab grass. It produces a dense cushion of turf of beautiful color which is highly resistant to drought and which requires less frequent mowing than common bluegrass. There are a number of good seed ings scattered throughout Mor- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1 w These tires must be sold to make room new shipment of 14" tires... GENERAL SILENT GRIP $11 (0)65 j 6.00x16 '51195 $1125 4.70x13 I tj 7.1011 Plus tax and recappable casing. d mm EASY TERMS - FORD'S N. MAIN ST. aMV 's Office Anderson . row County which look excellent ,itv,!1q the under all condition WhU , the seed is high in price for Merion bluegrass in comparison to com mon bluegress seed it is really less expensive for it takes fewer pounds of seed to establish this aggressive grass. While the American Society of Agronomy recommended only one pound of seed to a thousand square feet many of our home owners are hiin(T nr tripling this amount. This ic in comparison to the ror-nmmended seed rate of 4 to pounds per thousand square feet of other types oi glasses An interesting experiment has hpen completed at the Pennsyl vania agricultural experiment station on methods of feeding Comparisons of Hflirv calves fed from an open nail on the floor with nipple Dails or a nipple bottle resulted in calves being fed from the open pail gain faster. The methods studied were an open pail placed on the floor and an open pail elevated 10 inches off the floor nipple pail and nipple bottle. Care and feeding of all calves were the same except for feeding milk. Pens were provided for the animals with fresh water, salt, hay and concentrates. Calves fed milk from the open pail on the floor gained in body weight at a significantly faster rate than those fed from elevated pails or nipple pails. They also ate more calf starter at an earlier age. Re sults showed that nipple fed calves require an average of 3 minutes and 49 seconds for a full allowance of milk compared to 52 seconds by pail fed calves. Scrapie a disease which ef fects sheep and goats, and which we heard about a lot a few years back has cropped up again only GAR AVIATI0R SPRAYING-FERTILIZING DUSTING - SEEDING HOME OWNE"'aNd""oTeRATe"6" We're As Near As PHONE LEXINGTON DAY OR NIGHT no jm Must be SACRIFIC GENERAL FIVE ft V I OFF LIST rr X! If ITTTT PAY Vi JUHE. . iiiiv V3 AUGUST "YOUR GENERAL TIRE DEALER" TIRE SERVIC recently. Recently 1400 purebred sheep were destroyed on the Cas sar ranch in California where Scrapi was diagnosed. Federal and state officials are now en gaged in tracing all animals sold from this ranch, and they and their proginy will be destroyed. As a result, several ranches in Oregon will have one or more sheep possibly exposed to the di sease which must be destroyed. Other outbreaks in California traced back to the Broadmead farms at Amity. As a result and official rder destroyed this en tire flock of more than 700 head. The flock had been under obser vation for 2V2 years. The disease apparently entered the Broad mead flock through sheep im. ported from England. No treat ment is known for Scrapie. The most effective means for combat ing is destruction of infected and exposed animals as soon as pos sible: The extremely long incuba tion period extends from 18 months to as high as 3 years or more. While this makes eradi cation difficult, it tends to pre vent explosive outbreaks. The mortality rate of infected sheep is high. In Scrapie, the most characteristic symptom is intense itching, which causes the animal to scrape off patches of wool from the side, back and rump. Infected animals develop an in coordination and convultions may later develop. Thirst is frequently noticed and appetite is usually good and temperature . remains normal. With a recent announcement of the wheat support rate "of $j..",8 a bushel on tht 1958 crop the ef fect has been depressing on cur rent cash wheat prices. However before eligible growers In the 36 commercial wheat growing states are assured that the support rate will be not less than $1.78 a bushel,they will have to approve marketing quotas on the 1958 crop of wheat. The Secretary of Agriculture set June 20, 1957 as the date for a referendum to give producers a chance to decide Continued on page 7 Your Telephone 3-8422 for STAR I RklPna Off 0 PRICI PLUS TAX AND ED RtCAPPASU CASINO HEPPNER
