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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
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ON AL EDITORIAL
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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.
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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!
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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
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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.
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