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Interdependency
Of Farmers and
Business Stressed
Oregon farmers and city busi
ness men are now almost com
pletely dependent on each other
for their mutual well-being,
Ralph Beck, assistant director of
the extension service at Oregon
State college, told guests at the
annual Farm-City Week banquet
Monday night at the Heppner
Legion hall.
Beck showed how 40 percent of
. all persons employed in Oregon
are in some way connected with
the food and fiber business and
he pointed out that agriculture
is the second most important in
dustry in the state. He listed tim
ber products as first in import
ance, followed by agriculture,
tourism, hydroelectric power, min
erals and fisheries.
He pointed to the continued
development of hydroelectric
power as a necessity for greater
development of industry in the
region. He said Bonneville pow
er Administration figures show
that at present we are about one
third completed in the develop
ment of the hydroelectric poten
tial of the Columbia river syst
em. Six million KW of power are
now being produced, another 6
million KW are under construc
tion and a like amount is still
projected. Further development
with its additional population
gain is needed to give producers
a better market for local products
a market that will cut freight
costs.
He predicted that maybe in the
next generation we will see great
irrigation developments, because
of dams, that will convert much
present wheat land into irrigated
areas.
Awards Given
s Master of ceremonies at the
banquet, which was sponsored by
the chamber of commerce, the
Heppner Soil Conservation dist
rict and the Farm Bureau, was
, Oscar Peterson, lone, who told
some of the history of the soil
district. Conservation man of the
year, Burton Peck, Lexington, was
presented a gift from Raymond
French, chairman of the Heppner
soil district, and the Empire aw
ard, by Jack Whitman, Pendle
ton, of Empire Machinery Co.,
donors of the very unusual
plaque.
Past supervisors of the Heppner
soil district were also given
plaques in acknowledgment of
the effort they had given the dist
rict, one of the first organized In
Oregon. They were John Wight
man, an original member and
still a director; Henry Peterson,
Newt O'Hara, O. W. Cutsforth,
Orian Wright, Charles Carlson
and W. F. Hughes.
The 1957 Grassmen of the year
plaque was presented to the Wil
kinson Ranches by Harold Beach,
president of the Morrow county
Farm Bureau who told of the
accomplishments in that line
which have been made on the
ranches. The award was accepted
by Mrs. Frank Wilkinson for her
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BACK IN THE OLD DAYS OF HEPPNER Pictured is a group of five freight wagons
getting ready to leave Heppner on the long trip over the mountain to John Day.
This photo wss kept by Rush Crabtree, one of the two surviving men pictured,
who now lives in Monument The other driver still living is Jack Hughes, Hepp
ner, who brought the picture to the Gazette Times. Pictured on their wagons,
when this photo was taken in June, 1912, were left to right, Roy Boggs, Harrison
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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 28, 1957
WHEATGROWERS ASK BETTER
WEED CONTROL, TAX STUDY
Morrow county wheat farmers
turned out in larger numbers than
for many years at their annual
fall meeting which was held at
the Lexington grange hall last
Thursday. Over 70 wheat farm
ers, including the ladies, attend
ed the all day-tneeting and help
ed with drafting recommenda
tions which will be carried out
through the coming year. New of
ficers were elected with Milton
Morgan elected as chairman and
Max Barclay, vice chairman.
Recommendations from the pro
duction and land use committee
headed by Tad Miller included a
request for the continuance of a
county seed source to locate and
distribute clean seed to our
farmers. The committee comm
ended plant breeders for excellent
varieties released in the last few
years and asked for continued re
search in the development and
release of new varieties as need
ed. They ask that an effort be
continued to establish a USDA
soils and water laboratory at the
Pendleton branch experiment sta
tion. They asked the Oregon
Wheatgrowers League to bud
get necessary funds to encour
age chemical companies and the
experiment stations and colleges
to put an all out effort into the
development of methods to erad
icate the number 1 weed prob
lem, morning glory. They also
recommended that the Morrow
county weed control district law
be enforced with special emphas
is on morning glory. They also
asked that a study be made on
Canadian screenings and that an
analysis be made to obtain the
percentage of weed seeds and
feed value to determine the com
parison with local feed grains and
the danger of gaining noxious
weeds through this feed.
The taxation and legislation
committee, chairmaned by Har
old Beach, Lexington, asks that
research be made on the present
equalization formula in determ
ining a more equal base than as
sessed valuation for distribution
of state basic school funds. They
favored a continuation of the ten
mill levy for maintenance and
improvement of roads and asked
for a five man committee to ad
vise the county court on road
needs by communities. They rec
ommended that a study be made
of taxation on income producing
property owned by charitable org
anizations to determine if they
are paying their fair income tax.
They felt it very important that
the Oregon Wheatgrowers League
hire a capable man to represent
wheat growers at the 1959 state
legislature and went on record
opposing any increase of REA
loans that would make them
higher than average interest rates
paid by the government on any
other loans.
The youth activities committee
made a number of recommenda
tions pertaining to the Oregon
Wheatgrowers League sponsored
fat stock show and sale. They
asked that the show be held on
June 8, 9, 10 and 11 and that the
auction sale be continued in
place of a marketing day which
has been considered. In the live
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stock judging contest held as a
part of the show they asked that
4-H and FKA members be required
to give oral reasons on their clas
ses but that the method of judg
ing these reasons be improved.
They did not favor the fattening
of heifers for the show and asked
that no restrictive weights be set
up for lambs. They were very
much in favor of returning to the
ration requirement of using 50
wheat necessary until the last
year. They asked that the determ
ination of sale weights be made
through a weighing with a 12
hour shrink rather than using the
off-truck weights which have
been used the last two years. They
felt that using off-truck weight
penalized the boys and girls who
musthaul their livestock a long
distance, and they favored re
stricting the show to Oregon ex
hibitors only and were opposed
to combining 4-H and FFA comp
etition in the show. Bernard Do
herty, Heppner, is chairman of
this committee.
The Federal agricultural pro
grams committee presided over
by Max Barclay asked that con
sideration be given in develop
ing some kind of program or de
vice to prevent a buildup of bar
ley surpluses such as has hap
pened in the case of wheat. They
asked that Public Law 480 be ex
tended and that it include white
wheat. The committee spent a
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Elks Slate Memorial
Service Next Sunday
The Heppner Elks lodge will
hold its annual memorial service
Sunday, Dec 1, at 2 p.m. in honor
of lodge members who have pas
sed away during the past year.
J. O. Turner will give the me
morial address and musical sel
ections will be presented by Vict
or Kreimeyer. The service is open
to the public.
Elks Teen-Age Party
Set Friday Night
All Heppner, Lexington and
lone high school students are in
vited to the annual Elks spons
ored teen-age party to be held
next Friday night, Nov. 29 at the
Elks temple.
There is no charge for the party
and members of the Heppner
Soroptimist club will assist with
the serving.
P-TA Study Group to
Meet at Lexington
The Heppner P-TA study group
which is currently studying local
school reorganization will meet
Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at
the Lexington school, it was an
nounced today. Members of the
Lexington P-TA had met with
the local group in the past and
sufficient interest was shown to
hold one meeting there.
Anyone from here wishing
transportation to the meeting are
asked to call Heppner vSchool sup
erintendent Joe Stewart at the
high school.
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Heppner Area Gives
Good Response To
Christmas Seal Sale
One-fourth of the Heppner area
residents have sent in their do
nations for the Christmas seals
1 mailed by the Morrow County TB
iand Health Association on No
J vember 15, reports Mrs. L. E. Dick,
Jr., seal sale chairman.
; This response :is particularly
gratifying because tuberculosis
i is on the upswing in Oregon.
In Portland 228 new cases of
tuberculosis reported as of Octo-
ber 25, 1957, are noticeably in
excess of the 206 new cases in
1 1956.
! There were 539 new cases of TB
i reported in Oregon last year. Sev
' enty persons died of tuberculosis
last year.
Christmas seals support the
work of the tuberculosis associa
tion for prevention and control
of TB. The annual Christmas Seal
sale is the only fund-raising
I campaign put on by the associa
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Savings Bond Sales
Climb in County
j Ocober sales of E and H sav
i ings bonds for the state of Ore
gon were greater than any other
month in 1957, totaling, $4,860,
1 451. They were up 29 over Oct
! ober 1956,. .
! Morrow county according to
. county chairman Jack Bedford,
showed an increase over October
1956. Sales for this county were
$59,102, compared to $57,710 in
October of last year. County sales
through Oct. 31 this year are
$247,886 compared to $228,333 for
the same peroid last year.
October 1956 sales were exceed
ed in 27 of Oregon's 36 counties.
WEATHER
The Heppner we?ther station
reports:
Hi Low Pr.
Thurs. 40 29 .
Fri. 56 29
Sat. 66 40 .
Sunday 70 34 .
I Mon. 69 38 .
Tues. 57 33 .
Rainfall for week, none; for No
vember .95; for the year, 15.45
inches.
SUFFERS HEART ATTACK
Jack Flug, county school sup
erintendent, suffered a heart at-
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he had gone to attend a district
school meeting. He is in a Hood
River hospital and Tuesday morn
ing was reported resting fairly
easily.
FRANK BAKER SERIOUSLY ILL
Word has been received here
that Frank Baker, former resid
ent of Heppner, is critically ill at
his home at 23 S. Underwood St.,
Kennewick, Wash. His wife, Jos
ephine Mahoney Baker was cor
respondent for the East Oregonian
for many years when they made
their home here.
Floyd Bayers and Tommy Dris-
coll were in Eugene for the ball
game Saturday. Tommy visited at
the home of Brent Bengtson.
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Flowers, Dick Johnson, Hughes and Crabtree. The photo was taken on the corner
of Gale end Willow streets, looking north on Gale street. In the distance on the
far left can be seen the steeple of the Methodist church. The trip from Heppner
to Monument normally took from four to eight days but sometimes required as
long as 21 days. The old 4, 6 and 8 horse teams succumbed to more modern
means of transportation in 1917.
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Stepped Up Traffic
Safety Program
Now Under Way
Heppner mayor W. C. Collins
this week joined with other city
and state-officials in urging all
residents to take part in the
slepped-up attack on traffic ac
cidents program which will be
gin Dec. 1.
The mayor's proclamation,
which is printed below, came at
the same time as did a notice to
all statp police officers that they
are to concentrate on stringent
enforcement of all traffic laws
from now until the first of the
year. The state police order came
at the close of a month which
has seen a steadily rising traffic
death toll in the state, one which
has pushed Oregon's deaths by
traffic far above the same period
last year.
State patrolmen have been ord
ered to desist from warning verb
ally or in writing, for the re
mainder of the calendar year,
any person detected in violation
of the basic cule and to takeap
propriate court action against
such persons instead.
Mayor Collins urged the coop
eration of all motorists and ped
estrians and instructed chief of
police Dein Oilman to enforce
traffic laws to the limit during
the holiday season. The follow
ing proclamation was issued at
the request of state safety offic
ials: "Whereas, Oregon's accident
toll usually reaches a record high
during December, and
"Whereas, positive action must
be taken to make every Oregon
ian conscious of the necessity of
safe driving on highways and
city streets during the holidays,
and
'Whereas, the cooperation of
all motorists and pedestrians
with traffic activities of public
officials is needed to provide ef
ficient and safe traffic move
ment, "Now, therefore, I, W. C. Col
lins, mayor of the city of Hepp
ner, do hereby proclaim the
month of December, 1957 as a
month to re-dedicate ourselves to
stepping up the attack on traffic
accidents and call upon citizens
to support officials and take part
in organized traffic safety efforts
in order to curb the shocking
traffic toll."
Attendance Small
At Chorus Concert
The Pendleton men's chorus
Tsrng to a small audience Friday
evening at the high shool gym
and was enthusiastically received
by those who attended the con
cert. The group presented a varied
program of choral selections inter
spersed with solos by chorus
mombeis. The program was under
the direction of Robert Henson,
and was presented by the Hepp-ner-Morrow
county chamber of
commerce as a benefit for its
field lighting fund.
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FIRST OF FOUR WEEKLY GIFT
"GIVE-AWAYS" STARTS FRIDAY
Heppner stores this week open i
the Christmas shopping season
with one of the most ambitious
promotion projects to be under
taken here in many years a ser
ies of special events expected to
draw the interest of every resi
dent of this area.
Starting this week, and con
tinuing for four weeks, 22 Hepp
ner stores will each offer a worth
while free gift to lucky winners
who visit the stores. Every resid
ent can participate and each has
an equal chance to win one or
more of the prizes being offered
to those who make Heppner their
Christmas shopping headquarters.
The complete rules of the con
test will be found elsewhere on
this page but the idea, briefly is
this: In the upper right hand
corner of this page of the Gazette
Times is a number. Every partici
pating store, whose ads readers
will find elsewhere in today's
paper telling of this week's free
gift, and other interesting and
timely merchandising news, will
display a placard in their store
with a number drawn at random
from the circulation list of this
week's Gazette Times. If the pa
per number you have, coincides
with the number in any store, the
prize is yours. There will be a
new contest each week for four
weeks, with new prizes each
week, and a new number on each
copy of the paper so every resi
dent will have four chances to
win the many excellent gifts . . .
in fact, every reader will have 22
chances to win each week!
The unusual contest is being
sponsored by the merchants com
mittee of the chamber of com
merce in conjunction with the
Heppner merchants and the
Gazette Times, as a means of
proving to the residents of Mor
row county that local stores are
now displaying one of the finest
selections of Christmas gift
merchandise ever shown in this
area.
As an added feature, this week
only, the Gazette Times is spons
oring a special "Name the Sant
as" contest which can prove Int
eresting and amusing as well as
profitable for the lucky winners.
Complete details to this contest
will be found with the page of
HERE'S HOW THIS EXCITING
CHRISTMAS GAME WORKS!
1. Check the front page of
your Heppner Gazette Times
for the special number which
appears in the upper right
hand corner of the page. Each
copy of the Gazette Times will
bear a special number like
this each week from now to
December 19.
2. Compare the number on
your copy of the Gazette Times
with the number on the poster
in the stores of each of the 22
participating Heppner merch
ants. The numbers on these
posters are the lucky numbers
which will be different each
week. Only 22 winning num
bers will be picked at random
each week and each of the
participating stores will dis
play one number on the poster
in the store.
3. If the number on your
copy of the Gazette Times cor
responds with any 1 of the
numbers which appear on the
posters in the stores you are
the winner of the FREE GIFT
which will be presented to .
you by the store which has
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pictures of all the many Heppner
"Santa Clauses" on page 2 of to
day's paper.
The chamber of commerce urges
every reader of this paper to read
the rules (below) and start out
today to see if his or her lucky
number is one of the 22 lucky
ones this week. Prizes in this
week's contest must be claimed
between Friday and next Wed
nesday. Starting next Thursday
there will be new prizes with a
whole new set of numbers. Don't
miss an ad in today's paper
either, for they all tell of the
prizes being given this week. It's
a good way to get acquainted
with all the Santas pictured in
the many ads, too.
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County to Receive
Forest Monies
State Treasurer Sig Unander
has received from the Forest Serv
ice division of the United States
Department of Agriculture the
sum of $9,450,662.51 as the annual
25 percent distributive share of
the state of the amounts collect
ed by the United States govern
ment from forest reserve rentals,
sales of timber, and other sources
from forest reserves for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1957. The
amount received by the state
from the same source for the year
ending June 30, 1956, was $9,
422,817.04, according to state
treasurer Unander.
The money will be apportioned
and distributed to the various
counties based upon the amount
that was received during the fisc
al year from forest reserves.
The amounts apportioned are
divided in the proportions of 75
percent to the road funds and 25
percent to the school funds of the
counties.
The tabulation by the treasurer
shows that Morrow county will
receive a distribution of $16,
677.35. Orin Bisbee of Sen Francisco
returned to his homo Wednesday
having visited his father, L. E.
Bi.sbec for 10 days.
your number just show your
number to someone in the
store.
4. Remember absolutely
no purchase is necessary to win
the FREE GIFTS and anyone
is eligible to win regardless of
age or residence. One person
may win more than one time,
of course.
5 The lucky winning num
bers will be displayed in the
stores each Thursday after
noon and winners will have
until store closing time Wed
nesday of the following week
to claim their gifts, at which
time new numbers will appear
in your Heppner Gazette Times
and will be effective for the
next week's gifts.
6. Extra numbered copies
of the Gazette Times will be
available at the Gazette Times
office at no charge. Gifts will
be given for 4 weeks so be
sure to check your copy of the
Gazette Times each week fof
the numbers and check each
store each week to see if you
are a winner.