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Page 2 MORROW COUNTY'S NlWIf AF1R Th Happcsr CaaU, established Ma rati 10, 18. Th Kppnsr Tl mWltt4 November 18, 1897. Consolidated February It, 1912 Heppner Gazette-Times, Thursday, June 27, 1957 NfrWSPAMft fuiiuhmi Association ROBERT PBNLAN1 Editor nd Publlshor ORITCHEN PENULN Associate Publisher NATION A L EDITORIAL s r t ASSOCIATION giiiiiriiefTTTm Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Coontlt $&00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Downtown Poor Place For Horseback Riding prise or a federal agency should develop the hydroelectric power potential of the Snake River. It certainly shows at least one thing how adept the socializers are at blocking needed work of We don't know whether Heppner has grown this kind, a lot in the last year or whether more kids got in June, 1947, the Idaho Power Company filed more horses for Christmas than ever before, but a preliminary application for a license with the whatever the cause, they are developing what Federal Power Commission. Public power groups could well be a problem. objected, and proposed a federal high dam. We certainly have no objection to horses but In April, 1950, the Senate voted to table the they are a little out of place in the downtown federal project by a two-to-one margin. Later area esneriallv when thev carrv one or more that year the private company filed formal ap- small youngsters. We are thinking about the plication with the FPC for a license to construct the first of a series of dams. Both the Interior Department and several power groups protested this application. danger of a serious accident happening when some driver fails to see a horse and backs out of a parking spot, or some animal gets frightened In Mav 1953 the Secretary of the Interior by downtown traffic and throws its rider onto the withdrew the Department's objection t0 the ap mighty hard pavement. The city council has re- pijcation. The private company then submitted ceived complaints about the increased amount to FPC its complete proposal for development of of horse traffic on downtown streets, and even p0Wer at Hells Canyon. on sidewalks but declined to pass an ordinance Fpc engineers and examiners spent 44,000 to restrict such riding, hoping that maybe per- man.hours in studying the company's three dum suasion could solve the problem. Such efforts proposal and held hearings over a full year dur haven't done much good. jng whjch every conCeivable pro and con was We would like to suggest that for the safety argued. In August, 1955, the FPC issued a license of the youngsters, their parents recommend that to the company. if the kids want to ride from one end of town Public power groups then went into the fed to the other, they use either Gale or Chase streets cral courts. This legal stratagem finally failed and stay off of Main street as much as possible. when the Supreme Court refused to interfere Trucks, you know, can't stop as quickly as cars wjth the FPC's licensing order, and thus upheld and we'd hate to see some child seriously hurt its validity and the right of the private company or killed. It will happen though, unless the to develop the power. Meanwhile the Senate again youngsters use a little more care in their choice relected a bill which would have authorized THIRTY YEARS AGO From The Files of The Gazette Times June 30, 1927 As a result of a heavy cloud burst that struck a few miles up the canyon, Arlington's business and residential district was greatly damaged Sunday evening. Harold Becket is suffering with a badly burned leg this week, received when his motor cycle caught fire and burned up last Sunday on the highway a short distance below Cecil. Dwight Misner was in town for a short time Wednesday from his big wheat ranch north lone. ' wnresentlng Burns, d-ye . , , Oregon Cattlemen's A , n., Lew t Wettstine, wm'" erm representing Eastern Dairy term, if ,,.i11iams. Canyon men; i"' and Oregon Renew Brucellosis War A sudden change in scope a nd procedures of fighting brucellosis in Oregon is scheduled for mid- JUIn the forthcoming accelerat ed campaign Oregon's new dir ector of agriculture, Robert J. Steward, forsees "the final bang up cleanup" to eradicate brucel losis, the icious cattle disease of that's a constant unauiam 100 i thrpnt to humans. i Thprp are now only 14 counties Cole Madsen of Portland who! in the state that are brucellosis spent the past week visiting with free friends in Heppner, returned at home on Monday. Buck Lieuallen, state traffic cop, was in the City on Monday afternoon from Pendleton. Clarence Warren, residing west of lone, was kicked by a horse one day the past week, receiv ing a break in the small bone of the leg just below the knee. of a place to ride. One problem we forgot to mention in that connection, too, is the street cleaning detail. It's a stinker! The Record . . . The Council of State Chambers of Commerce has Issued a factual chronology of the famous jects will the American people stand? Industrial Hells Canyon dispute over whether private enter- News Review federal development. Now, to quote the Council, "In the face of this history the Senate is about to debate and vote on a Hells Canyon bill for the third and, presumably, last time." (Since this was written the Senate did vote and approved the bill, but there is still no assurance that it will get any farther. Ed.) How much blockading of needed power pro had received many samples from the Columbia Basin counties which were diagnosed as 2,4-D damage. They had found that Orfed and Federation seemed to be sensitive, since most of the samples were of these varieties. The sensitiveness to 2,4 :D when the seed heads are in the embry onic stage is causing most of the damage. Evidently the wheat was just beginning to develop seed heads in the late tiller stage at the time that the 2,4-D was ap plied. Damage was most severe in those fields where oil was used as the carrier. From The County Agent's Office By N. C Anderson The Oregon Broiler Growers association is sponsoring a unique way to advertise their product with an Oregon Broiler Festival to be held in Springfield, Ore., July 20. They are hoping to have be tween 4000 and 5000 people at this festival who will be served barbe cued chicken for the first time. This will give these growers an opportunity to tell the story of Oregon grown broilers to a lot of people. Included on the Festival, along with Iho barbecued chicken feed, is the crowning of Miss Slick Chick of 1957, a talk by Bob Stuart, director of agriculture, a log rolling contest, an exhibition softball game, a barber shop STAR THEATER HEPPNER Thura., Frl., Sat., June 27-28-29 WALT DISNEY'S CINDERELLA And DISNEYLAND, USA A reissue of one of the most famous cartoon features Plua THE QUIET GUN Forrest TucKer and Cleo Moore Sun.. Mon.. June 30, July 1 THE DESIGNING WOMAN Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray. Sunday nt 4, 6:10, 8:20 Tues, Wed.. July 2-3 FOUR GIRLS IN TOWN Geo. Nader, Julie Adams. Added, Cowboys of Maremma. Family Nights quartet contest, square dancing and other activities. This sounds like an excellent opportunity for this commoditity organization to push their product. The deadline date for listing fields of grain intended for seed purposes is drawing near. An nounced recently in this column, was the plan set up by the Mor row County Wheat Growers As sociation, through a seed com mittee, to inspect fields listed by farmers who would like to sell seed. The committee, In turn, planned to inspect the fields for purity In order that a list of available seed might be made and provided to those who are interested in securing sources of good, clean seed. All recommend ed varieties will be listed with emphasis on the new wheat vari eties introduced which include Omar, Burt and Columbia. Varie ties such as Orfed, which are popular in the county, will also be listed. The seed committee would like to have all listings by the first of July In order that they might Inspect the fields be fore harvest time. Members of the seed committee include: Max Barclay, Heppner; Kenneth Smo use and Donald Peterson, lone; Frank Anderson, Heppner and Kenneth Pock, Lexington. Fields can be listed at this office or with any of these committee members. While we are talking about seed grains, it might be timely to suggest that those who have fields which are eligible for cert ification, should make applica tion soon In order that this in spection can be made by seed certification specialists from Ore gon State college. Inspections will probably be made some time during the week of July 8. Ap plications will not be accepted after July 8. They can now be secured by calling the office. Ac nha rman 01 ine nuuc Ways and Means in the late leg islature Representative Steward was in a strategic position to give understanding assistance in drafting and passing a bill ap propriating $381,865 to fight bru cellosis and give the State Dep artment of Agriculture broaaer powers to establish rules and regulations for a statewide cam- naien to eradicate Drucenosis, tuberculosis and paratuberculos- is in cattle and prescribe en forcement procedures. The bill becomes effective July 1. Relvine on negotiations the agricultural department anticip ates federal cooperation on the brucellosis project that will total about one million dollars per bi-ennium. Oregon's new brucellosis law provides for a five-man advisory board which Governor Robert D. Holmes named last week. They are: Al W. Lindow, Portland, 3 vear term, representing Western Oregon Dairymen; Pat Cecil ni, 9. vear term, repim...6 ' " ' . Asen . -- n .,or form reD- Rod McKenzie, - - resenting Western Livestock Assn. Governor Overhulse It's "Governor Overhulse the Capitol just now donate President buju Madras, is having an un- ..oi'i., ninvable vacation from his booming law practice as he factions as acting governor ,.,ii0 novernor Holmes is attend ing the governors conference at Williamsburg, Pa., and occa oinniiv neeuDving a courtesy seat in the Senate or House in Washington, D.C. He phoned Miss ,art riarke. his research as sistant while In the fervency of having just witnessed the Senate Having J .... ,t pass the Hens anyuu um. tonk real courage for a good Re publican like Margaret Chase crvith tn hrpak Dartv lines ad vnte for the creat dam," the gov ernor said. He is scheduled to return to Salem July 1. Srlem Firm Wins State Bid An unusual thing happened at the Capitol this week. A Salem firm was awarded a sizable state contract. "Outside" bidders are consistently anxious to win them as there is an accolade of favorable publicity attached for having completed a project-that complied with the strict stand-. ards of state requirements. The result is that most "out side" bids are low. The Salem S &.G Co. had been awarded a contract for construction of a 500,000 gallon steel reservoir and extensive pipe lines to serve the new reformatory, Prison Annex, Cottage Farm and State Tubereu- Continued on page 7 Long Distance Nation-Wide Moving Service Mayflower Agents Padded Vans Penland Bros. TRANSFER CO. Pendleton, Oregon Phone 338 THE TIME from the Weston Cattle Comp any of Weston, Oregon, who are now contracting peavine silage for winter feed. Contracting price is $3.50 per ton, loaded F. O. B. Weston. They also have a price for peavines delivered which varies according to the length of haul. They also have facilities for wintering cattle in case that the haul of peavine would be too far. There have been a number of farmers who have called the of fice on damage to wheat. Many of the heads are .deformed, with the beards of those bearded varieties being held in the sheaf, causing a twisting of the head and stem. While in Corvallis last week, I checked with the farm crops department and weed specialist on this situation. They As a last minute reminder, many of our farmers will want to attend the annual field day of the Pendleton branch experi ment station which will be held on July 2. The program begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. The program this year will be of interest to men and women alike, with flower garden inspection, flower culture, flower cuttings, food preparalion and demonstra tions of Bishop sewing technique for the ladies. The men will see tillage machinery demonstrations crop spraying, stuble mulch drill trials, chemical summer fal low, rate and date of seeding trials, small grain variety trials and new crop possibilities, in eluding: Safflower, carrots, sweet corn, lima beans and others. Lunch wil be served at a nomin- A number of farmers in Mor row county have received letters TO THE EDITOR . . . To The Editor: It is nice to be optimistic over our crop prospects, but it is a little bit silly not to consider all of the facts concerning our coun ty income. For the past several weeks we have had a wonder ful crop prospect, but the past few days of strong winds have cut that prospect down 15 to 207r. Strong winds tend to dry out the grain and cause It to shrivel. On an average $2,000,000.00 crop, a 20 cut in yield would amount to $100,000.00. Don't forget another cut that seems to be coming in fast. Dur ing the past three weeks, the price of wheat has dropped 20 cents per bushel. On Wednesday, June 19th it dropped 5 cents per bushel. Multiply 2,000,000 by 20 cents per bushel and you have another $100,000.00. So, in spite of what the boast ful prophets say,- it Is quite plain to see that Morrow county has lost nearly one million dollars in the past few weeks. It is the booster's boasting that causes the drop in prices and I some times wonder If the winds are not caused by the same thing. J. O. Turner al cost on the grounds, at which time, Milan Smith, executive as sistant to the Secretary of Agri culture will speak. For those who might be wait ing for the annual field day of the Sherman branch experiment station at Moro, this will be held on July 9. The program is sched uled to begin at 1 a.m., with a tour of the station's experiment al plots in the morning much the same type of experiments will be viewed as at the Pendle ton station. The tour of the sta tion plots has been moved from the afternoon to the morning in order to escape heat and wind which has been characteristic of the last several field day tours at this station. The agent would be happy to have some farmers ac company him to these experiment ment station field days. grain Fire Insurance COSTS NO MORE NOW THAN LATER PREMIUMS AS LOW AS ANYWHERE C. A RUGGLES INSURANCE AGENCY HEPPNER PHONE 6-9625 Bring on the mountains! This new Chevrolet takes steep grades with such an easygoing stride you hardly even give them a thought. There's new lean-muscled power tucked away under that hood, just rarin' to handle any hill you aim it at. And no matter how curvy the road, a light touch keeps Chevrolet right on course. You'll like the solid, even keel way it stays put on sharp turns. A car has to have a special kind of build to handle and ride and run like a Chevy. It has to have Chevrolet's low, wide stance, its outrigger rear springs and well-balanced weight! 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