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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, October 3, 1957 MOBHOW COWHTT'S NBWIPAPEB The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 NIW1MPI ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GSETCHEN PENLAND Aseociate Publisher N A T I 0 N , SI ON AL EDITORIAL ASSodTATM&N PubUeke Kvery Thursday and Bitot at the Port Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Cla ldatter Subscription Kates: Morrow and Grant Ceunties, ?3.uu xear; uwwuei This Is Newspaper Week This is National Newspaper Week, and if we tend to boast a little just now perhaps me may be indulged. For the newspaper, which regularly devotes itself to bring news and the interpretation of news to your homes, has a message of its own. We believe that message worthy of some atten tion. The American newspaper occupies a unique place in the world. Its freedom to print is guaran teed by the Constitution. It has been considered from the beginnings of the Republic and from even before that an essential instrument in the lives of the American people. Its basic purpose has been and always wiTl be the same: to tell the happenings of the day. Here the function is of particular importance in regards to the happenings of government, which is but an instrument of the people's will. Its next and almost inseperable function is to try to place the facts concerning these happen ings in perspective to give them meaning in the light of other events, past and present. It has other Important purposes to serve as a medium for advertising to entertain and amuse, to serve as a public forum. You may, and undoubtedly do, on occasion become discouraged with your newspaper or even become angry with it. Yet it is an indispensible item for intelligent living, and in more cases than 'is generally realized it is the most constructive and most educational item in a family's existance. Where newspapers are free from government restriction, as they are in the United States, you are free - to select the reading matter of your choice. You are privileged to have a voice of pro test. You are favored by having news of import ance about you, personally, collected, verified and presented in readable and understandable form delivered to your home every week. The modern newspaper is a swift and accurate purveyor of important factual data and a medium of considered, moderate and enlightened opinion. The newspapers of America set aside this week, therefore, to call attention to the services they perform. But more than that they set it aside to remind themselves and their readers of the thn Ampriran Dublic. It is their constant hope that the reading public will continue to trust the integrity oi uii :.. t tu hoir instant effort to maintain tne standards which have made this nation, more than all others, a nation ot newspaper ream. B- Week, therefore, is not an occasion for self-praise by newspapers nearly so much as it is an occasion tor seu-appi-'- no-cnarfrc over the land to re 11 In it lime ii .."-i"-i--- ---- tui dedicate themselves to the trust placed in them by the vast intelligent, progressive anu em.KnL ened American public. o ODD ENDS... ,... n.jiK.r. i,m't hras much about their mis takes, and we have made plenty we are keeping real quiet about, but last week we carried a story " . .,nti n nacflrl With on the front page mat we aic vn, ' " .. t arnaA th weather . . . and when it comes to that subject we probably hold one of the unique records in local newspaper history-weve never been right yet! Last Thursday in our story about the deer i.,.i n,.ctnnnpi heeause of the dry weath er we Included a paragraph about the weather prospects for the following days. We used for our p 1 e Sam's weather bureau reports and our own observation of what might be coming weainerwise--iKum...iC., Mtnrv thp ideas of a couple of old- r,,i cmHrv nthpr sources, to make me statement - . . "Slightly cooler temperatures have been forecast for the next few days, dm prouiuiy i7mcdm pain WAS FORESEEN." As you now know we were 100 wrong for it has rained more in tne past six uap u,m.' .y , . mnthc hut who's complaining.' Our farmers now have a better start on another 35 bushel wheat crop than they nave ncu u irh. Limi i.f weather vou want, just let us know. We'll forecast just the opposite and probably be wrong. Heppner High School SCOOP By Jan Beamer Annual sales ended, with seni ors copping first prize. A food sale was held Saturday, which netted $10.65. This will go towards fin ancing of the annual. Advertising will start sometime this week. Getting the school paper out every week is really a feat for H.II.S. A large note of praise was included in the recent O.S.P. bul letin. Seniors of "58" started the money-making year off with a candy sale which added approx imately $20.00 to the ciass treas ury. October 12, Ed Groshen, Helen Graham and Jim Morris will trav el to Corvallis for an FBLA exec utive meeting. Accompanying them will be Mrs. Kirk, who is FBLA advisor. Members will plan the year's program and organize commit tees for the state convention in April. Helen is the hostess for the coffee hour. The Oregon School Press Con ference, which is held at Eugene October 11 and 12, will be attend ed bv Janice Beamer. Judie Spauldlng, Thyllis Quaekenbush, Janice Martin and Helen Gra ham. Judie and Phyllis are to be on panel discussion relating to the financing of the school paper, and advertising of the annual. Going down with this group will be Roy Kirk, Hcpner high teacher and annual advisor, and Roy Quaek enbush. A county OEA meeting will be held at Irrigon Monday, Oot. 7, at 4:30. School will be dismissed at 2:45 that afternoon, so as to STAR THEATER Thurs.-Fri.-Sat., Oct 3-4-5 . The Lonely Man Anthony Perkins, Jack Palance Elaine Aiken. PLUS The River's Edge Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget. Sun.-Mon Oct. 6-7 OKLAHOMA! with Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Shirley Jones and many more. Sunday at 4, b:w and 9. Tues.-Wed.-. Oct. 8-9 For Whom the Bell Tolls With Gary Cooper, Ingrid Berg man, Akim Tamiroff. FAMILY NIGHTS give teachers time to get to the meeting. Principal Gordon Pratt and su perintendent Jos Stewart will at tend the secondary state high school principal's association meeting in Salem, October 13, 14 and 15. Senior of the month, Jim Mor ris, was recently elected on the basia of citizenship. Schedule of Events: October 1, Student Council, Gth period; National School Assem bly, 11:15; 4, Moro, Here: 5, Dist rict FHA meeting at La Grande; 8, Student Council, 1st period. Student Council Minutes: The meeting was called to ord er Sept 27 by president Len Schwarz. Minutes were read and approved. A treasurer's report was given, which stated $901.23 In the student body fund. The Elks and Soroptimist party will be Nov. 29 at the Elks hall. The National Association of Student Council presented a rec ognition of outstanding service to Heppner High for the work done in the Denim Council pro ject last year. This project was the gathering of clothing for the clothing drive. A $25 bond was presented in adltlon to the certi ficate, The student bodv will buy the crepe paper to decorate at games and pep club members will do the decorating. o Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Cribble spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Portland. THIRTY YEARS AGO From the Files of the Gazette Times October, 6 1927 Dempsey and Tunney at Star Theater tonight. the Mrs r?nv Oviatt and son 6f Heppner spent Saturday in Morg an. Loren Mikesell and wife were visitors at the home of Mr. Mike sell's parents In this city during the past week. From The County Agent's Office By N. C Anderson 4-H livestock members have Koon hnev thp nast COUDle Of weeks getting their projects lin ed up for the new club year which began Oct. 1, A number of boys have foeHpr rnivps on feed for the Wheat League sponsored show and sale held at The Dal les annually, early in June while others have their calves picKea for the county fair. Those who have calves selected are Roland Ekstrom, a calf from his Dads herd; Dennis Doherty, a calf al so from his Dad's herd; Russell Dolven, a Hereford from the John Graves herd and two Shorthorns purchased at the Winks Auction sale. Mancell Townsend and Dav id Anderson, new beef club mem bers, are each feeding out Here fords from the John Graves herd. Billy Doherty and Jerry Ander son have shorthorns also trom thp same herd. Kenneth Smouse is feeding a Hereford out from the John Graves herd and Jerry Anderson a Hereford from the Frank Anderson herd; Steven Anderson, a new club member, has his Hereford steer picked out of his father, Frank Anderson's herd. There are a number of boys and girls looking for good steers to feed out for projects, we would appreciate it if ranchers who have calves suitable for 4-H pro jects would contact this office. Jacauelvn, Jennifer and Anna- marie Brindle purchased South down cross ewes at the Harry Cline farm at Milton-Freewater last week, getting set up with a breeding nroiect to raise their own lambs for feeding out. The ewes were all bred yearlings and will provide an excellent start ior the girls. gon Farm and Market Outlook contains a lot of information onj outlook that Morrow county farmers should be interested in. Discussed in the issue is the changes in the Soil Bank of 1958, more stable cattle prices expect ed for the year ahead, wheat ex pected to stay in favorabl spot despite lower price prospect, ana articles on the large supply oi fppfl trains and hay. Copies of this Outlook issued by Oregon State college periodically are av ailable at the office, 'inose wno are not on the mailing list and would like t0 be can be includ ed for the asking. 4-H club members, leaders and parents are urged to mark dawn two important dates on their cal endar. These are the dates for the annual 4-H achievement parties at which time club members and leaders receive recognition for their year's work. Achievement parties will be held at Boardman on Friday evening, November 1, and at Heppner on Saturday eve ning, November 2. tacle to you. Every year we receive many inmiiries about treatment for j blight in Arborvita shrubbery I trees. This is most generally iBerckmann's Blight which is common to oriental ArDorviw including golden wnicn wwe most susceptible of all. American and European species are im mune. This fungus disease is ,pHiiv rPi'oenized by the' brown dead areas in the foliage occur jng earlier in the season. At that time the foliage takes on a gray ish cast then turns to a reddisn brown as the fungus moves down the small branches which become brittle and die. Spray application should now be made for control of this fungus disease. Current recommendations are Copper-A at three pounds per hundred gal. COCS at two and one half to three pounds per hundred gals, or Tribasic copper sulphate at three pounds per hundred gals. A spreader or wetting agent should be added to any of these matprials used at the rate rec ommended on the package by the manufacturer. books, and this year's looks like it will a "must" for everyone. The 1957 year book features "soil". The books 88 chapters were writ ten by 142 scientists in the fields of soil mwiagemnt, botany, chem istry, horiculure, soil conserva ion, agronomy, irrigaion and oth ers. Copies of the 1957 Year Book of Agriculture may be pur chased at $2.25 each from the superintendent ot documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. The first 4-H clubs to be org anized for the new dub year are saddle horse clubs which were organized this week. Nineteen boys and girls joined the two saddle horse clubs which were organized in the Heppner com munity. This is the first time that this community has had an ore- anization of saddle horses and members joining are loking for ward to a year of fun and profit. Continued on page 7 This office this week received sunolv of the new Oregon State college leaflets which des cribes the new hard winter wheat, Burt, which is available in abundance for seeding this fall. The new wheat variety yields more bushels per acre than any other hard winter variety ac cording to the folder. Burt also resists smut and may turn out to be a more attractive variety on some major foreign markets than medium to high protein club varieties now grown. It is the first hard white bread type winter wheat released by Oregon and Washington and has been recommended in areas of 14 inches-or less rainfall. The variety did very good in Morrow county this past year and many farm ers are seeding it this fall. The September 18 issue of Ore- Farmers and .ranchers who have hesitated to seed grass and lecumes to divert acres from grain crops or to improve past ures and ranges should consider doing this work now. Many may not bo aware of -the low prices of grasses and legumes and the liiirh nrino lipinc one Of the I "b" ..v. reasons for Hesitation in doing this improvement work before. For instance crested wheat grass which sold for 60 cents a lb. in March 1957 is selling now at 20 cents a pound. Ladak alfalfa at 46 cents this spring is now selling for 34 cents. Other ex amples and comparisons of grass seed prices are Alta fescue- 20 to 25 cents last spring now 12 cents. Intermediate and pubes cent wheat grasses selling for 90 cents a pound last spring now 38 cents; other grasses are down in proportion to these. For a straight grass seeding this year's clean stubble is an excellent seedbed for fall seeding. If Alfalfa is seeded with the grass late fall seedings should be made so that the alfalfa does not germinate before spring or spring seedings should be made. Grasses and legumes seed price trends have in past years been ub following a vear or two of excessive production as producers shift to other crops. This no doubt will be the case in anolher year. Fall and spring seedings may therefore be in order if the price of seed has been an obs- Brucellosis testing in Oregon in August found 96 reactors in 55 iierds of cattle, for a monthly reactors percentage of 34 of 1, according to the August re port from the federal and state veterinarians in Salem. Total number of cattle tested during the month was 12,879, coming 1.873 herds. More reactors were found in Jackson county than in any other with a county percent age of 2.696 for the month; second greatest number of reactors were found in Wallowa county, 8 cattle reacting out of 778 tested. Thirt een in which was done.had no reactors. Baker, Coos, Curry Des chutes, Grant, Hood River, Jef ferson, Klamath, Lincoln, Mor row, Polk, Wasco and Wheeler counties were without reactors in the cattle tested. Not a single re actor was uncovered in the 3,173 cattle tested in 592 herds for tuberculosis. GOOD LOOKING! , : M ill f S:;;f::;iIIi i iiiviiii The 1957 Year Book of Agri culture has just been published by the U. S. Department of Agri culture. A number of our farm ers have been securing year 17- Long Distance Nation-Wide Moving Service Mayflower Agents Padded Vans Penland Bros. TRANSFER CO. Pendleton, Oregon Phone 338 GOOD HEARING! Others have tried now Sonotone has hidden its latest transistor hearing aid in light, graceful eyeglasses. Worn as one unit nothing else to wear. Choice of smart styles for both men and women. Look your best while hearing your best. COME IN, PHONE Oft WRITE ' FREE DEMONSTRATION SONOTONE MR. HARRY BOSTRON M:nager of Sonotone of Walla Walla, will be at the HEPPNER HOTEL For Service and Fittings OCTOBER 9 From 2 to 7 p. m. Walter Moore, cashier of the First National bank, enjoyed a visit this week from his brother, John T. Moore of Seattle. An all day meeting of the Mis sionary society of the Christian church was held at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Parker on Tuesday. Otto Ruhl, Lexington wheat raiser, was attending to business in this city on Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hynd of Cecil were visitors here the first of the week. Cloudy weather with Intermit tent heavy rainfall the past two weeks has shown the first signs of a break today, with the sun shining brightly. Printing It Our Business! Call Ui Now. Gaaette Times Printing shop It ' than to be sorry I DON'T LET FIRE THROW YOU FOR A FINANCIAL LOSS Are your farm buildings and their contents adequ ately insured against loss by fire? Better let us check your coverage. For all types of farm insurance coverage, see us. Turner, Van Martar fir Bryant INSURANCE PHONE 6-9652 KXPFNZB Pip7 vVf' y - viv y?" THE 6 The beautiful Bel Air Sport Sedan with Body by Fisht SO'S THE GETTING RIGHT MOW ! 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