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MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
Th Heppner Gazette, stabJiahed March 30, 1883. Th Heppntr Time established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner,
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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
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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
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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, May 2, 1957
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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