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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, December 19, 1957 MORROW COUNTY'S NIWSFAP1R The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 188S. The Ideepnw Time etablihed November 18, 1897. Consolidated February IS, 1612 ROBERT PKKLAND Editor and Publisher NEWSPAMR PUILISHIRI ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher Publisked 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 $4.09 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. "Thou Shalt Not Kill ..." We can think of no more tragic memory to haunt what should be the happiest season of the year than traffic deaths and accidents during Christmas. Christmas is a time to remember . . . the smiling, anticipating faces of children, the gayly lighted trees and decorations, jovial Santas, the echo of music, the hustle and bustle of shop pers and the good will of mankind. Christmas ushered in a new era for mankind, a new way of life. The greatest gift that ever came to man came on Christmas. A little babe wrapped In swaddling clothes and lying in a manger calls us to remember the Commandment: "Thou Shalt Not Kill." We have not done so. We have made the Christmas holidays and spirit an enterprise so selfish as to turn this festive occasion into one of carnage. What a Christmas it must have been for the families and loved ones of more than 600 traffic victims during each of the last two Christmas seas ons. This is a sadistic sacrifice on the altar of speed and greed. The record shows that excessive speed and drinking were the two greatest influences on the Christmas holiday toll. Many did not stop to remember to stop and think. On Christmas alone in Oregon last year from 6 p.m. the night before until midnight the day of the holiday 192 accidents took five lives and injured 69 more, according to Department of Motor Vehicle figures. December has proven to be the worst month of the year for traffic accidents in Oregon. Over the last five years, an average of nearly 7100 accidents per December have resulted in an average of 41 deaths, one of the worst times of the year. Don't let a' traffic accident blacken your Christmas. Take time to count your blessings and to give a hand to others. Take time to give courtesy consideration and kindliness. Spreading Christmas cheer it's called, but you get it back a hundred fold. Make this a safer, merrier and happier Christmas. From The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson This Is the last call for beef and dairy cattle owners to reg ister to be eligible to vote on the proposed Oregon Beef Commis sion. Registrations close on Tues day, Dec. 24. Only those who have registered by that date can vote when the referendum Is called. In Morrow county registrations have been very small with less than a fourth of the eligible pro ducers registering. Whether you decide to vote for or against the Beef Commission makes no dif ference, but register! Mrs. R. A. Thompson, Heppner, is looking to the future. Mrs. Thompson this past month ord ered 2,000 Ponderosa pine seed lings for the Oregon State forestry nursery. They were planted in wet spots and waste land on her property In the mountain foot hills. Mrs. Thompson believes that this land might as well be growing something. While It will be a number of years before there will be timber to harvest, there might as well be something grow ing as time goes on. There is a lot of such land In southern Morrow county which could produce tim ber for future cutting. STAR THEATER Thurs., Frl.. Sat., Dec 19-20-21 Quantez Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Sydney Chaplain Plus I've Lived Before Jock Mahoney, Leigh Snowdcn, Ann Harding SATURDAY,!!! p"m. ANNUAL FREE SHOW FOR CHILDREN Sun., Mon., Dec. 22-23 The Quiet Man John Wayne, Barry Fitzgerald, Maureen O'Hara. v Sunday at 4 and 6:30 NO SHOW CHRISTMAS EVE I The American farmer pays ab out two billion dollars a year for the privilege of sheltering and feeding rats on his farm. The two million bushels of grain they de stroy each year would bake 12 V4 billion loaves of bread or 317 loaves for each household in the United States. As winter ap proaches rats are looking for a place to spend the cold months with a handy food supply, Now is the time to be baiting rats be fore losses occur. Most popular of rat baits is Warfarin. It comes pre-mixed or as a concentrate for making your own mix. Warfarin is available in Morrow county at all places handling chemicals and insecticides. A female rat can bear young at the age of 3 months. The gesta tion period is about 4 weeks, lit ters range from, 4 to 10. The aver age female bears about 4 to 6 lit ters a. year if conditions are right, 8 to 10 litters a year. Now is the time to bait rats with war farin as they move into farm buildings for winter protection. and have now advanced more than 40 above the 1947-49 aver age. Even with this rise in values, Oregon gains are still below the average with the rest of the na tion. Farm land value shot up 8 in the past 12 months and are now better than 50 above the average from 1947 to 1949. Florida with land values almost double, has increased the most in the past decade. Maine, with only a 16 rise shows the least increase. There are now 56,300 farms in Oregon according to a revised series of estimates made recently by the U. S. Department of Agri culture. That is the lowest num ber of farms In 30 years. It rep- from the files of the Gazette Times, Dec. 22, 1927 With the affairs of the bank in as good shape as possible, the Lexington State Bank of Lexing ton closed its doors voluntarily Monday after setting aside en ough assets to pay 80 percent of its deposits, according to R. L. El liott, representative of the state banking department, in charge. A, F. Majeske is well pleased with conditions where he farms In the Clarks canyon district, this fall. The following girls turned out Friday for basketball practice at Heppner high school: Alva Me Duffee, Rosella Doherty, Ann Me Daid, Hazel McDaid, Louise Lang don, Erma Schulz, Mary Beamer, Katherine Bisbee, Janie Allsott, Margaret Becket, Evelyn Swindig, Velton Owen, Janet Turner, Harri et Morgan, Zella McFerrin, Mild red Green, Francis White and Winifred Thomson. Sam Devine, father of Joe De vine and Mrs. George White, is here for a visit with his people. Showing at the Star Theater Thursday and Friday, Tom Mix and Tony in "No Man's Gold". resents a decrease of 5,500 farms in the past five years, and is 8,500 fewer than the peak numb er counted In 1935. There are only two more weeks left of this year and farmers will need to start a new set of rec ords for the new year. Quite a number of farmers are using the Oregon State college farm account books. These books are again av ailable at cost at the office. Some have been picking them up late ly, better get your copy now. Even though it is hard to be lieve that it is Christmas time 4444 '58 Campaign Is On When the pilitician with the quiet voice commences to have quite a voice you can say the campaign is on. When Lew Wallace came out last week for the Democratic nom ination for governor that settled it for the Democrats as to cand idates. There will be no others if party potentates can block their attempts. It has to be Holmes or Wallace now. Friends of both candidates, realize that the potentials of a third candidate in the primaries! would leave a party split in the i general election. There are conditions when a political party can stand a two-j way split but not a three-way 1 breach, particularly when one candidate is strong (as Wallace is) in the state's metropolis. This was discovered and used by Tam many more than 100 years ago, whenever they were successful in crossing party lines and get ting three or more candidates nominated on the Republican ticket. Lew Wallace's platform has only nine words: Reduction of taxes, economy in government, keeping campaign promises. He has served in the Legislature dur ing six sessions, one in the House and five in the Senate. At present it appears there will be a very close race between the governor and his challenger. Last year Congressman Walter Norblad said he would run for governor, but he didn't. This year he says he won't run for govern or. So maybe he will. Politically Unconfused Those who know Secretary of State Mark Hatfield best will readily admit he never makes wild guesses or loose statements. Ail of which makes more re markable the accuracy of his premonitions concerning the late special session of the legislature which he made on the same day that Governor Holmes announced that he would call it On August 23 this year, Secre tary Hatfield said the session would last 20 days. It lasted 19 days. He predicted the school sup port per census child would be raised from S5 to $15. It was $10. He estimated the cost for a 20-day session would be $110,000. The current estimate is$100,000, alth ough a total cannot be computed because the printing costs have not been completed. Pearl Harbor Cetremonies WAVE Mary Ellen Warner, daughter of Justice and Mrs. Har-' old Warner, was selected this Continued on page 7 GOOD WESTERN plus Imagin ative Drama on the double bill at the Star Theater, Thursday. Friday-Saturday. I Kf ' than fob. 15 with the excellent weather we are enjoying, we are reminded that this is the last column before Christmas. The county agent's of fice would like to take this op portunity to wish everyone a ver ry Merry Christmas. sorryl DON'T LET FOR A FINANCIAL LOSS Are your farm buildings and their contents adequ ately insured against loss by fire? Better let us cheek your coTerage. For all types of farm Insurance coverage, see u. Turner, Van Marter fir Bryant INSURANCE PHONE 6-9652 HEPPNER I V Several farm and townspeople have picked up two health It ems In our office which they felt have been very helpful to them. These two items are a booklet entitled "Your Family Health Record" which provides a place nasic neaitli facts of your fami ly for school records, for Insur ance forms, for a doctor's med ical history. A small bill fold card containing personal health in formation is also available. Recently Oregon State college released plans for six different types of beef cattle corrals. The detailed drawings and descrip tions including gates, loading ramps, chutes and head gate. Re leased at the same time was plans for a three way sheep cut ting gate, lhese plans are avail, able at this office for the asking, From a recent production, price and cost review report from Ore gon State college we find lhat Oregon farm land values have again hit a peak. They have gone up almost constantly in the past throe years. Current values in this state average 1 over a year ago Ti Bel Ml 4-Door Sedan-brimming wild bold new beauty VL JF Come try the quickest combination on the road! -HBA1'" y - I,,, ,r. 7n Be Air mpala Spoil Coupe -one ol two new super ipor mode's --v 1Hfi ill 1 N You shut the door on damage to your grain when you store it in a permanent, versatile Timborib building. At the same time you get post-free space which permits mechanized grain handling. 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