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Page Heppner- Gazette Times, Thursday, October 10, 1 957 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1888. The Heppner Time esteblished November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 NIWIMMt PUIUIHIII XSIOCIATIOM ROBERT PEN LAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Aseoclate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION VV wunmimmui 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 Cent Russia's New Moon Last Friday night's announcement of Rus; sia's "new moon" probably was the most import ant story to break in the world since the word was flashed that the first atom bomb had been ex ploded. Yet, It is doubtful that many persons fully realize ihe importance of the event. Just the fact that a basketball-sized man made satellite is now circling the earth sending back a bunch of beep-beeps that we in America can't understand is in itself quite a story . . . and an event of notice. But that is only the begin ning. Do you realize that man has now taken his first step off the earth . . that the universe is within reach for our exploration? It won't be tomorrow that man will first put his feet down upon the moon, or Venus, or Mars, . . . but it will be reality far sooner than was ever thought.. What will be found there is yet any body's guess and whether it will be worth the trip is also open to conjecture. But, one thing is certain, lhat the first person to make such a landing will stake out a sizeable piece of property, for the use of the country that sent him there. The more ominous part of last Friday's story is in the undisclosed part of it. HOW the Russians got their satellite into the void beyond the earth's atmosphere. It had to be done by a multi-stage rocket much more powerful and more controllable than anything the United States has been able to get off the ground, or at least that the govern ment has told us about. Suppose the Communists decided to aim a few dozen of these rockets, armed with atomic worhnartu intPArl of satellites, at the U. S. If ttinv ran tret one 500 or 600 miles straight up, they undoubtedly could aim it our way with reasonable assurance that it would land somewhere in this country. Not a particularly pleasant thought, is it: Apparently Uncle Sam's guided missile pro pram has been going at a slow trot when it should have been at a gallop, but we imagine the lights in research laboratories are now burning around the clock. They should be! ON THE SIDE-by other editors RUNGE, TEXAS NEWS "The greatest troub le with this modern living is to keep our amhi tions pinned down to our salaries." , ALTOONA, PA. MIRROR "You get the inv pression ( sometimes that mosquitoes are look' ing for oil." TAYLORVILLE, ILL., DAILY BREEZE-COUR it.'p "it is rood that we have for the time re solved the federal-aid-to-education problem back into our hands but there is a need for a warning even in face of the virtue of .governing ourselves and this comes in the form of meeting the call to responsibility of caring for our own problems ourselves." From The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson 'fire safe" home. This is fire prevention week. Fire Prevention Week each year is a full calendar week including October 9,. anniversary of the great Chicago fire of ,1871. It is observed at the same time in the United States and Canada by pro clamation of the President of the United States and the Governor General of Canada. It is observed to bring before the public the much needed lesson of fire pre vention. In the last decade, fire has killed more than 100,000 pers ons and burned disfigured many hundreds of thousands more. During the year 195C, fire struck an average of 29 homes every day. A total of 10,838 fires ocur red in dwellings and apartments covered by Insurance with many additional fires in non-insured homes. In Morrow county alone last year 31 fires occurred in homes not counting the great number of grass and grain fires which occur each year. Oregon had 58 fire fatalities In 195G with nearly half of them children un der ten years of age. Since a big percentage of the Oregon residential fires start from stoves, furnaces, chimneys, flues, over heated or defective, and since it is getting that time of year when everyone will be starting heating stoves and furn aces for the fall and winter months, now is a good time to check this source of possible fires. There are a number of things to check: first, be sure that the heat er or furnace is in good condi tion, has no cracks or other de fects. Automatic mechanisms on heaters and furnaces should op erate properly and be smoke tight at the Joint, not rusted or worn through.lt is also suggested that home check ups be given electrical hazards before start ing heavy use in t he winter sea son, An inspection by Portland firemen of more than 30,000 homes a few years ago showed that nearly one fifth of all fuse boxes were over-fused and nearly 10':; of the homes had defective wiring.' Let's take advantage of this week to make your home a STAR THEATER Thurs., Frl.. Sat., Oct 10-11-12 Duel At Apache Wells Ben Cooper, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Jim Davis. PLUS The Way to the Gold Jeffrey Hunter, Sherree North, Barry Sullivan Sun., Mon Oct. 13-14 The Kettles on MocDonold's Farm Marjorie Main, Parker Fenn elly. Sunday at 4. C:05, 8:10. Tues., Wed., Oct. 1516 The Wayward Bus Jayne Mansfield, Jean Collins, Dan Dailey. FAMILY NIGHTS A recent Meae Animals and Wool Review report from Oregon State college show that record supplies of feed grains and hay are in prospect for 1957-58 feed ing season. Since an abundance of cheap feed tends to encour age livestock production, late last week, the Secretary of Agricult ure took action to head off a threatened over expansion in hog production and other livestock in 1958. lie announced thdt corn in commercial corn growing areas which is not produced witlun acreage allotments will be sup ported at $1.10 a bushel. Also support price rales will be lip ped some on sorghum grain, rye oats and barley. This action was taken by the USDA to help stab ilize the feed grain market now and the hog market in the future. Those who plan to plani tree seedlings either for commercial production or windbreaks, are urged to get their orders in early this year. The Oregon Forest Nursery supply of tree seedlings is expected to fail far short of demands for the fall planting season. last year Morrow county farm people were not able to get trees in sufficient quantities as needed. By ordering this fall, or ders are more apt to be filled than waitinng to the spring plant ing season. LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION of the WORLD "W ! 'j( ft (1 Big game hunters will like iti husky, "Jfavy-gun" per formance. . .will appreciate even more its amazing light weight 6 lb!. 6 or. HV A Impravtd MovtM A(H ( World's Hn.il lw4lh Stl Ivropsan Walnut Sportina Stack kgllt-ln thk Mil CAL. .243, 7mm .30-06, .270, .308 ALSO Several Excellent USED GUNS CASE Furniture Co. Tree planting on marginal Ore gon cropland under the Soil Bank Drncram is expected to to take a large chunk of the expanded seedlings supply next year. The Soil Bank urogram makes an annual rental payment to" farm ers for placing such land in con servation reserve and pays up to 807; of planting cost the first year. Contracts are offered for 10 years when plantings are made for forestry purposes. Starting in 1958, the. Soil Bank will offer 5 or 10 year contracts, at tlie op tion of of the producer, for tree or shrub plantings .for shelter belts, windbreaks or wildlife hab itats. The present 10-year contract requirements remains in effect on tree plantings for forestry purp oses. Many farmers with private ly owned land in the forest foot hills would do well to Investi gate possibilities under the Soil Bank program. Dith a 10-year contract farmers would be re ceiving income for a food por tion of the time it is necessary to get a timber crop. No matter what thedemand is for tree seedlings, whether for windbreak or for commercial plantings, orders should be made this month. Soil Conservation District sup ervisors will have the opportunity this year to enter in a state wide judging conttests which will l,e held prior to the annual meet ing of the Oregon Association of THIRTY YEARS AGO From the Files of the Gazette Times October 13, 1927 The big barn belonging to the Heppner Farmers Elevator comp any and situated on the east side or Chase street on west end of the lot on which the mill stands, was totally destroyed by fire early Monday morning. At a meeting held at the high school Monday evening the Camp Fire girls were organized. The high school group elected Kather- ine Bisbee as temporary president and Alma McDuffee as secretary, Jasper Crawford, Charles Bar. low, Ed Keller, John Hiatt and Chas. Swindig of Doric Lodge, No. 20, K of P, journeyed over to Pendleton on Saturday evening to attend a K of P meeting, John Wightman of Alfalfa Lawn Dairy spent several days this week in the Yakima val ley looking up some breeding stock for his dairy herd. Soil ' Conservation districts. The contest will be held in Tillamook on November 21 and 22. Soil jud ging in becoming quite popular throughout the country and this will give an opportunity for any adults to become acquainted with judging their soil. Contest and actual experience in judging has beeen limited to date mainly to youth activity organizations and agency technicians. Some time ago we an nounced the date of November 18 and 19 for the Oregon light horse judging school, to be heir at Oregon State college. Attend ance is open to anyone over the age of 18 and submits a $10 entry fee to the business manager, Oregon State college. Morning classes will consist of lecture demonstrations on fundamentals of light horse judging, care of foals and yearlings, parasites, in horses and treatments for them, care of the teeth and veterinary aspects of light horse judging. Each afternoon will be devoted to actual judging of four classes of light horses. Judges placings and reasons will be given for each class. Mr. Leonard Milligan, Henderson Colorado, a prominent breeder and judge of quarter horses; Mr. Gone Stark, horse specialist, State College of Wash ington, Pullman; Mr. Jess Bone, of the veterinary staff, Oregon State college, A. W. Oliver, In charge of the horse program for the department of dairy and an imal husbandry at Oregon State college and Joe Biles, a leading trainer of show horses on the west coast, will be lecturer and judges. Those who might be Int erested and wish further inform ation should write to Professor Joe D. Johnson, Department of Dairy and Animal Husbandry, Oregon State college, Corvallis. WANT AN EVENING of GOOD entertainment? Want to get away from the tensions of your everyday problems? See a movie at the Star Theater. "OVER THE TEE CUP" By Jackie Labhart As LiDton would say about his cup, so must we, agree, relative to our tee cup . . . brisk Isnt it?" (The weather in our case, the tea in his.) Nevertheless it is invleoratine but somewhat ex asperating, when your hands be come so numb you can hardly grip your club. But wont it De nice when the creek freezes over and your ball will be on top in stead of at the bottom. Enough of this idle chatter. To get on with the doings at the Willow Creek Country Club . . . last Friday Cork Norene and I journeyed down to the course to wash all our golf balls in prep aration for initialing them, but the lure of the Jinks enticed us to Dlav seven holes. On the last hnf uhirh is also the No. 2 hole, we met John Wil iams and Paul Koenig coming from the other wav as we were approacn- ing the green. Well, they told us to p, ahead and approach first (which we did) but they decided to Dutt first so they could be on their wav to the next tee, telling us they would be gentlemen and move out of our way. Well, they did . . . and guess who tnat left to drag the green? (Pretty foxy don t you think.) Saturday afternoon I took my parents down to show them the course and they were quite im pressed with our homemade links. Notice Larry Dowen was running the mower, and seemed to foe having a jolly good time "putt ing around on the machine in stead of with a golf club. Friday we met Betty Brown on the No. 1 hole (my I jump around a lot) and she told me her hus band Paul said she would prob ably shoot a better score if she brought a shotgun and hunted pheasant on the course instead of golf balls. (I'm sorry Betty, but you knew better than to tell me that.) Undaunted and undismayed by the brisk and blustery weather, 21 stout-hearted women defied the forces of nature to play the nine holes required for our week ly ladies day competition. Jan Dowen shot low, low, low score of 49 to win the new golf ball donated by Marie McQuarrie. I must say tho' she was aided and abetted by four layers of sweaters, plus "long Johns" and levis. (In other words she was really "hot".) I hereafter dub di minutive Jan "Long John Dowen." Harriet Hall was having a b-a a-a-d day (which all of us have most of the time) but the worst blow of all was when she teed off her golf club literally speak ing. With a beautiful back swing, and follow-through, her c ub flew 30 feet forward, as the little white ball defiantly main toined it's perch on the peg. Aftnr lunch at the "Wishing Well" Dee Gribble, Marie Mc Quarrie, Hazel Mahoney, Jan Dowen and myself player seven more holes. With grim determin ation to do better than we had, on the previous nine, we teed off off. Dee was the only one which made it across the creek and not in the rough. Boy, were we "teed off". But finally things began looking up and on the No. 4 hole Hazel was on the green with her drive and in the cup with one putt. This made a birdy for the hole (one under par) but she had a 1 stroke penalty when she missed the ball completely, which really meant she parred the hole. Anyway I think it was something pretty grand and vvill give the men a little something to think about. Next Ladies Day (Tuesday) the women of the Kinzua Country club wi 1 be our guests for lunch at the Wishing Well at 11 a.m. to be followed by nine holes of golf.- Bonnie Barratt was a new ad dition toour clan today and we will welcome further golf gals who are interested. The men of our group are spon soring a Country Club dance, Sat urday, October 12 at the Legion hall. I have also been told that a map of the golf course has been given to the pro from Pendleton for his recommendation for Im provements. I do know that he htinks the no. 2 hole is much too narrow and most of us are in firm agreeance. Paul. Koenig also announces that anyone wishing to shoot go phers (I said gophers not golf ers) on the course will be heart ily welcomed. Maybe we could have a "Go pher's Day" as well as a Ladies Day. Have heard by tne partee line that in the swampy rough at the lower end of the course there is buried a fortune in goir Dans lor someone with hip-Doots and blood-hound fortitude. (Anyone heeding this advertisement, ple ase drop all initialed balls in the box by the ball washer). Another item of interest we are now 85 members strong and are hoping to have many more by next summer. Well, that about drains my tee cup for this week but wait what's this I see in the tee leaves a grandmother who follows through with her right leg about as high as her Case, ooooops, I mean club a very odd put ting stance by a fellow who dim ly looks like Eddie Gunderson a brand new ball landing in the murky depths of Willow Creek snow covered golf course covered with bright red golf balls and as the visions fade out, I'll do the same. 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