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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
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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.
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Oregon is observing farm and
home safety week this week,
July 21-27. While this week is set
aside to stress farm and home
safety, safety is an every day Job
in everyone's life. Each day we
hear of accidents that have hap
pened, many of which could have
been avoided had more people
been safety-minded.
An important safety hint at
this time of year is the careful
use of insecticides. Only last
week we read of art incident
where a child lost its life from
insecticide poisoning through
carelessness in disposing of the
insecticide container. An insecti
cide can be a powerful ally or a
treacherous foe. Few of our crops
are immune from insect attack;
many of these crops could not be
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