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T Pag2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, July 25, 1957 MOBROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 NEWSMPII PUI1ISHIII ASSOCIATION ROBERT PEN LAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsfbcfATfiN rijjiuiin.irnn Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Lents. Too Much . . . And Too Little A rising population and improving living standards automatically broaden the market for food and other farm products. Even so, it is be lieved that the productive capacity of American agriculture will outrun food consumption for many years to come which means that We will continue to have a surplus problem unless new and different kinds of markets are found and developed. That is why much attention Is now being given to the possibilities of increased use of agricultural products by industry. The 84th Congress established a bipartisan commission to examine the matter. In carrying out its assignment, the commission obtained the assistance of 188 of the country's outstanding leaders in agriculture, industry and science, Its report has now been made and it is an exceed ingly interesting one. The question the commission dealt with Is this: "Can the economy develop profitable in dustrial markets capable of absorbing enough of the excess farm production to minimize, possibly even to eliminate, the need for costly restrictions, supports, and surplus-disposing operations?" The commission found that "the answer is an em phatic Yes, providing the necessary steps are tak en to make possible and encourage such a dev elopment." There are four main needs. The first is a suf ficiently sharp sense now lacking of the Im portance, the possibilities, and the urgency of the industrial utilization approach to farm sur plus problems. The second is a greatly expanded program of both fundamental and applied re- THIRTY YEARS AGO From the files of ihe Gazette Times, July 28, 1927 Supt. J M. Burgess of the HeDD- ner schools was in the city over Wednesday, departing today for his summer camp at Elk lake, west of Bend. Mrs. Ida Dutton. who sDent a few days in Heppner, returned to her Portland home Wednesday, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ayers and Mrs. George Fell. search a program which would not be confined to the laboratory but, in promising instances, would go through the development stages of pilot plant experiment and trial commercialization-. The third is to ensure, through fellowships, scnoiar ships, grants and other means that much more scientific talent is trained for and channeled into this neglected field. The fourth is to provide, when necessary,, suitable financial incentives during a temporary trial or development period. The initial step, the commission states, is sound legislative action by Congress. The commission emphasizes that, by com parison with industry, agriculture research is in the doldrums. Industry is currently investing at least $3 billion a year three percent of gross sales in research, and the result is a constant flood of new and improved products. Agriculture spends not more than $375 million a year on re searchabout one percent of gross sales and most of this goes to improve and increase produc tion, rather than for utilization research. Conse quently, the commission says "agriculture has been researched out of a good part of its natural markets" through the increasing use of detergents, synthetic fabrics, leather substitutes and so on. The commission proposes that a five-member non-partisan Agriculture Research and Industrial Board be created by Congress, or alternatively, that responsibility for the program be placed in the Department of Agriculture, under a director with Assistant Secretary rank. And it makes an other important suggestion that the program be undertaken in a way that will "... add as little as possible to the structure of the govern ment." Industrial News Reveiew Donald Duvall, wife and little daughter, arrived Monday at the Harry Duvall farm and will make a visit there. Walter Stuart and wife and their son and daughter arrived from Albany Tuesday afternoon for a short visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Huston From The County Agent's Office By N. C Anderson A progress letter on the J.957 Oregon State Fair from the newly appointed fair commission out lines a number of changes in this year's State Fair, making it, as they put it, "Oregon's biggest an nual family event". This year's fair slogan is "Oregon Grows on What Oregon Grows." On emph asising land products, these ex hibits will be housed in a build ing of their own, making more room for expected additional ex hibits. With a complete plan of rejuvenation of buildings and facilities, an architectural firm has been hired in working out a master plan for greater utiliza tion of the present fair property with the hopes that in 10 or 15 years there will be an enlarged modern fair to serve Oregon's in creasing population. Plans ar go ing ahead In locating and build ing the new 300 thousand dollar 411 and FFA building which was authorized by this year's leg islature. It sounds like this and future State Fairs will have a "perked up" air about them. "Only top quality lambs and STAR THEATER HEPPNER Thurs.. Frl.. Sat., July 25, 26, 27 Mister Cory Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford. PLUS Desperados Are In Town Robert Arthur, Rex Reason Sun., Mon., July 28, 29 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum Tues., Wed., July 30, 31 The Brave One One of the distinguished pict ures of the past year. Family Nights ewes will be sold at the 17th annual Willamette valley ram sale at' the Linn county fair grounds in Albany on Saturday, August 3, starting at 10 a.m.," says Claude Steusloff, Salem, sales manager. All of the 260 head of yearling stud rams range rams and ewes will pass the inspection of a sifting com mittee headed by Harry Lind gren former livestock specialist at Oregon State college. Assisting Lindgren will be Edward Gath and Eddie Ahrens Turner; Floyd T. Fox, Siiverton; R. V. Hogg, Sal em; Jack Stump, Monmouth; Frank Brown, Jr, Carlton; and Dr. E. R. Derflinger, assistant state veterinarian. Steusloff says that sale catalogs are still available from O. E. Mikesell, Secretary, Willamette valley ram sale, Albany. A number of ranchers have in quired at the office to see wheth er they were selling their calves too cheap after reading our news lolumn which said that calves ere being contracted in Morrow county for 28c a pound. While we would like to be able to report this, upon checking, we found that there evidently had been an error in type setting. While we reported several 20c sales in our column two weeks ago, there has been some latter sales that top ped that. We have had a handful of reports on 21c sales on mixed heifers and steers with some higher prices received for straight steers. resistant to all known races of common and dwarf smut and shatters much less than Rio. The 31st annual Oregon ram sale is scheduled to be held at the Pendleton Round-up sales pavilion at 10:00 a.m. on Mon day, August 12. Rambouillet, Lincoln - Rambouillet crossbreds, Hampshires, Corriedales, Col umbia and Suffolk rams will be offered by the top breeders in Oregon, Washington and Utah.. Morrow county sheep men have depended upon this sale for many years as a source of rams to head their flocks. A limited number of catalogs for this sale are available at this office. Harlan Devin, Terrel Benge and Maurice Edmundson arrived home Sunday morning from Van couver Wash, where thev SDent six weeks at the Citizens Military r raining camp. H. M. Olden and Claud Huston took out a new Wood Bros, thresh er Saturday which they will use in threshing the crops on their farm. One-Car Accidents Increase in State Oregon has been experiencine i a sharp increase in the number of serious one-car accidents in which the automobile simply ran off the road", according to the department of motor vehicle's traffic safety division. Such accidents accounted for 64 taffic fatalities in 1955 but jump ed to 99 last year, an increase of 55 percent. Injuries nearly doub led with 754 recorded in 1955 and 1,445 in 1956. A check of accidents for the first six months of this year showed little improvement in the picture. Olficlal figures revealed that ten of Oregon's 28 fatal ac cidents during May were of a type in which the car went out of control and left the roadway. While It Is manv times diffi cult to analyze the full cause of such an accident, too great a speed for the driving conditions obviously is a major cause.1' James R. Banks, manager of safety division said. Banks pointed out that many such accidents occur when the pavement is dry and visibility is excellent, ine vacationing or weekend driver who fatigued or careless appears to be a frequent victim of such accidents,, Banks concluded . three basic rules to prevent for est fires: (1) Use the car ash trav. It is unlawful to throw cig arettes, cigars, pipe heels, and matches from car windows. (2) Watch woods smoking. Never drop lighted material along forest trails or streams. 0 break match es in half Be sure the match is out before you throw it away. Neglected or abandoned camp fires ranked second in man-caus ed fires in Oregon forests in 1955, accounting for 124 fires. Next on the list was logging with 81 fifes. Burning of debris caused 75 forest fires Railroads accounted for 2 forest fires. Nineteen forest fires resultted from intentional setting of fires. Of 729 fires that year, 165 were unclassified or listed under miscellaneous caus es. There are, of course, a large number of lightning fires which cannot be prevented, Ross ex plains But many of these fires can be anticipated during storm periods so that "lookouts" and fire-fighting crews are usually prepared to combat them. THE BRAVE ONE is a great one! For our iamny auuiem.e on Family Night, members of the same family AND same house hold for $1.00. Tuesday and Wednesday, July 30-31, at the Star Theater. The Sherman branch experi ment station at Moro reports an average yield of 45 bushels per acre on their Columbia wheat harvested from the tillage ex periment fields on the station. Columbia, a new hard red wint er wheat, developed at that sta tion outylelded other varieties at the station by several bushels per acre. It is best adapted to the eight to 12 inch rainfall areas and has outylelded Rio and other Turkey varieties. While little Columbia has been grown in Morrow county, it is the recom mended variety for those areas producing Turkey varieties. It is For those Morrow county farm ers who have wondered about the comparison of leaving the straw on the surface or incorp orating it into the soil, some 37 year old rotation experiment studies at the University of Wy oming might be of interest. They devised a system for measuring water in filtration and found that straw on the surface took up water at the rate of 3.36 inch es per hour. Straw plowed in took up only half or 1.55 inches. While these figures are on the amount of moisture that the soil will take in in one hour, con sideration should be given to the fact that while there is little danger of this much moisture falling, only in extreme cases on our summer fallow, that steady rain over a period of time would be much better absorbed by land with straw on the surface with out causing erosion. produced without the aid of in secticides. Properly used, insecti- cides, enable us to maintain the upper hand over our enemies but if they are improperly used or handled, insecticides can cause needless tragedy. There are a few basic rules for the use of them 1. Keep insecticides out of reach or children. 2. Some pesticides are safer than others. Home gard eners and home owners should use only the safer types. 3. Dis pose of insecticide containers safely. Burn combustible mated- al, break glass containers, then bury in a place where they will be a hazard to no one. Children have died from eating the residue of insecticides in an empty, dis carded container. 4. Follow the manufacturers recommendations and precautions which are on the insecticide label. Oregon is onp of 13 states sel- ected for a new informational and educational survey on lepto soirosis. In the survev. to be started soon, tests will be made of blood samples of 10 of the herds in every county of Oregon to determine the extent of the leptospirosis incidence in the state. The samples will be select ed from the thousands of blood Careless Smokers Cause One-Third Of Forest Fires Careless smokers start about one-third of Oregon's man-caused forest fires, reports Charles Ross, Oregon State college farm for estry specialist. In 1955, the latest report year, smokers caused 233 of the 729 man-caused forest fires in Ore gon. Ross says smokers are tra ditionally at the top of the fire setters list. The holacaust that roared out of the woods to burn up Bandon, Oregon in 1936 kill ing nine persons was started by a cigarette. Smokers are urged to follow samples taken each month in the federal-state brucellosis con trol program. Leptospirosis af fects principally cattle, swine, horse, dogs, rats, and man. It is caused by a .spiral bacteria of which about 40 species are known in the various parts of the world. The disease has been diagnosed in cattle in 40 states and in swine in 10 states in this coun try. There have been some out-. breaks in Morrow county in past I years. GILLIAMS .HAVE GUEST Guests sat the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Gilliam are their son and family, Rev. and Mrs Jack son E. Gilliam, Anne and Marg aret of Great Falls, Montana. On Monday Mr. and Mrs. Gilliam and Mrs. Jackson Gillliam and daughters left for the coast where they will vacation while Rev. Gilliam attends a conference in Portland. LIVESTOCK MARKET Cattle Hogs Sheep SALE EVERY TUESDAY 12 Noon On U. S. 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