HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES. Thursday. February 6. 1958
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MORHOW COUNTY'S MiWIPAf 18
Th Hppnr Gazette, established March 30, 1SS3. Tin Hsppnw Tlm
Novmbr 18, 1897. Consolidated Fbrury 15, 1912
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A Parable For Our Times
Once there was a little boy. When he was three
weeks old, his parents turned him over to a baby
sitter. When he was two, they dressed him up
like a cowboy and gave him a gun. When he was
three everybody said: "How cute," as he went
about lisping a beer commercial.
When he was six, his father occasionally dropp
ed him off at Sunday school on his way to the
golf course. When he was eight, they bought him
a BB gun and taught him to shoot sparrows. He
learned to shoot windows and windshields by
himself!
When he was ten, he spent his after-school time
squatting at a drug store news stand reading com
ic books. His mother wasn't home and his father
was busy. When he was thirteen, he told his par
ents other boys stayed out as late as they want
ed to ... so they said he could too. It was easier
that way.
When he was fourteen, they gave him a deadly
two-ton machine, wrangled a license for him to
drive it, and told him to be careful. When he was
fifteen, the police called his home one night and
said: We have your boy. He's in trouble." "In
trouble?" screamed the father. "It can't be my
boy" But it was!
MORAL: As the twig is bent ... it is apt to
snap back in your face.
Deuteronomy 6:7 "And thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children.
(Editorial from the Minor County Pioneer, How
ard S Dak., via the Stayton Mail and others.)
ODD ENDS...
It took Uncle Sam's Army to finally get our sat
ellite off the ground which just goes to show that
we can't get along without the foot-soldier ... no
matter what the Navy or the Air Force might
think.
While were on that subject. . . wonder what our
sputnik is going to come up with for a name? So
far all we've seen suggested Is USNIK and IKE-NIK.
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From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C Aadttson
The newest 4-H club In Morrow
county Is the Spoonlickers, a
Cooking I club with boys and
girls from the Heppner commun
ity. The club Is led by Carole Ann
Anderson and Celia Boulden,
members of the junior leaders
club. Officers for this new club
are Jeanne Stockard, president; ,
Kathy Ray, vice president; Pat
ricia Van Winkle, secretary; and
Douglas Anderson, news reporter.
Other members are Darlene An
derson, Patty Collins and Judy
Smith.
will get under way at 1 p m on
the 12th and will adjourn at
3:30 on the 13th. During the day
and a half training session, lead
ers will discuss 4-H records, un
derstanding club members, coop
eration between the club leader
and the parents and between the
club member and the leader and
other problems of the leader.
4-H leaders from the Columbia
Basin counties will attend a lead
ers workshop at Condon on Feb
ruary 12 and 13. The workshop
TO THE
EDITOR .
The private power companies,
including the Idaho Power com
pany, have no doubt already se
lected Mark Hatfield's campaign
manager in his race for the Re
publican gubernatorial nominat
ion. But if they have not, I sug
gest Mr Paul McKee frankly
take over.
The open secret In Salem that
it was the private power lobby
which initiated the Hatfield
boom has not yet been discov
ered by the press apparently, but
the Unander forces should insist
now on a complete revelation of
the facts. Mr Hatfield Is a "lobby
candidate" and It's a limited
lobby and far less democratic,
than a Republican nominating
convention would have been.
D L McDonough
491 West Rural
Salem
STAR
THEATER
Thurso Til, Sat Feb. 6,7.8
The Deerslayer
Les Barker, Rita Moreno, For
rest Tucker.
Plus
Bailout At 43,000
John Payne, Karen Steele,
Paul Kelly
Sun.. Mon Feb. 9. 10
Operation Madball
Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs,
Kathryn Grant. Sunday at 4,
6:05, 8:10.
Tus Wed. Feb. 11.12
Roman Holiday
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hep
burn. FAMILY NIGHTS.
Hereford breeders will be in
terested in attending the Blue
Tag show and sale at the Round
L'p grounds in Pendleton on Feb
ruary 19 and 20. This sale is spon
sored by the Oregon Hereford As
sociation and will offer 67 bulls
and 16 heifers. Sale of cattle will
be judged at 10 a m Wednesday,
February 19 with the sale sched
uled for 11 a m February 20.
Kirk Robinson, Heppner are the
only Morrow county consigners.
This sale has provided some
top quality bulls for many of our
breeders in past years.
Some interesting figures were
released recently on production
of various crops in Oregon dur
ing 1937. The study showed that
Oregon ranked first among the
states in 1957 in their production
of filberts and second in the pro
duction of pears, prunes, sweet
cherries and English walnuts. On
the basis of harvested acreage
for 59 fruits and crops, Oregon
ranked 31st with 2,941,000 acres.
The list excluded vegetables and
melons. Texas was the first place
state in harvested acreage of al
most 21 million acres; Rhode Is
land was the low state with only
31,000 acres. Oregon raised nine
of the ten principle processing
vegetables in 1957 with a pro
duction of 275,300 tons ranking
sixth in the nation. Interesting
was the fact that Oregon produc
ed 97.2c of all filberts grown in
the nation; 29.1f"r of the sour
cherries; 30.9 of the peppermint
for oil and 20. of all pears.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
from the files of the
Gazette Times
February 9, 1928
According to the best available
data gathered in by C W Smith,
county agent, the total yield of
wheat in Morrow County for the
season of 1927 came close to
three million bushels. It was one
of the largest yields In the hist
ory of wheat production in the
county.
Shortly the new Congress will
be faced with the problem of
chickens come home to roost.
la 1956, with both the admin
istration and Congress deplor
ing the constantly creeping, and
sometimes galloping, inflation, a
huge road building program was
enacted call in gr .m9ti
lot the con- hK
8tructionof41,-t f '
000 miles off l
highways at a
cost of $27!,'E
billion. IV.
Congress waif J?
soon be lacerf
with th fne'l
that this pro-
gram entered c. w. Harder
into In a period of constantly in
creasing labor and materials
costs, will actually require at
least $40 billion.
When this program was set up,
Congress provided for the financ
ing with heavy new taxes on
tires, on gasoline, trucks and
buses, all naturally passed on to
the bard pressed consumer.
In addition, these taxes are not
delivering the anticipated reve
nue. So with extra costs, and re
duced income, a very pretty
problem is posed.
Perhaps the chief cause of this
wide error, involving many bil
lions of dollars, Is slipshod plan
ning. In presenting estimates of
costs, the Federal Bureau of
Roads relie on data furnished
them by the various state divi
sions of highways.
It turns out these various state
estimates were based on 1954
costs, and no allowances made
for possible increased costs.
Thus, roadbuilding costs in the
meantime soared 12" or more.
Thus, there Is presented here
an almost unsolvable problem,
(Pi Nattnnil F1fri!l?B "f In!Vppnrt B'Mnni
unless Congress decides to cur
tail a part of this program to
keep expenses in line with In
come. It previously forbid the
project to go in red but Insisted
on highway program being put
on a pay as we go basis.
But there is this one problem.
If labor market remains tight,
continual demands by big labor
will keep costs going upward.
But on the other hand, if the
labor market softens to the point
where costs become cheaper, by
the same token, there will be a
curtailment in the usage of gaso
line, tires, trucks and buses
which are taxed for project.
Thus, in either boom times or
slack times, the government can
not afford this project In the
scheduled thirteen years.
And while in getting this
program approved, considerable
pressure was exerted by big ce
ment and big machinery inter
ests who stand to gain from the
vast project, It Is doubtful that
they can persuade Congress to
raise the money needed by levy
ing new taxes. Indeed, there is
grave doubt there is anything
left to tax except air to breathe.
For a long time the nation's
independent businessmen, ex
pressing themselves on many is
sues in the nationwide ballot of
the National Federation of Inde
pendent Business, has asked gov
ernment to stop, look and listen,
before plunging into more and
greater expenditures.
Basically, as businessmen, they
know it Is impossible for govern
ment to spend so many billions
wisely and Intelligently. There
is definitely a limit to efficiency
in spending, and, as evidenced
by this highway program mess,
other situations, it seems appar
ent the point of efficiency has
lon since been passed.
Hnimpc has been here one year.
I How did the poll add up? The
pollsters won all bets.
Of 400 persons who "voted,"
WnlmM had 158. Hatfield and Un
ander were about even. There
were only eight scattering votes.
I The explanation of the result
lis very simple if you happen
!to think of it. There were two
Republicans being voted for who
divided the Republican vote. The
Democratic Governor Holmes got
almost 80 per cent of his party
vote.
5110,000 TO KILL MICE
Tho state emergency board Fri
day considered an earlier appeal
for $80,000 to help control mice
infestation in south Central Ore
gon and $10,000 research and
voted to allocate $100,000 to fight
the mice plague and $10,000 for
research. The $100,000 was given
to the board of higher education
and the $10,000 to the experi
mental station at Oregon State
College of Education in Eastern
Oregon.
State Representative Duncan
of Jackson County and Rep Wells
of Union and Wallowa counties
objected to granting the $10,000
item set up for research, con
tending that a long research plan
was not an emergency.
CURFEW LAW ENFORCEMENT
The state curfew law seems to
hp fnrfotten in some towns and
sections of rural population. Not
forgotten by the peace otiicers
but by uncomprehending juven
iles and mental stolids.
The law provides for issuing
Krebs Bros, R A Thompson and
a number of others of our sheep
men are in the midst of lambing
at Cecil, with the weather con-1
ditions just right.
Adele and Francis Nickerson,
children of Mr and Mrs F B Nick
erson, who have been confined'
to their home for some time with '
flu-pneumonia, are now recover-'
ed and have returned to school.1
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Oscar Peterson was a visitor
in the city for a short time on
Tuesday from the Peterson farm
south of lone. , I
B G Sigsbee, manager of the
Star theater, is in Portland this'
week on business.
i
duct comes out. No finish is need
ed.
Washington State college has
announced that Its scientists have
produced a new product from
i wood residues that looks like
brown marble, shines like glass,
I and wears like iron. It Is a new
l board called "Flapreg," that is
! heavier than wood but only half
'as heavy as aluminum. It can be
J used to build everything from
; golf club heads to table tops, the
Icollege announced. In making
I the board the wood flakes are
tumbled in a machine that looks
like an automatic washer-dryer,
jthen resin glue sprayed into the
wood, the flakes come out dry
and workable. Eight inches of
flakes are then moved onto a
1 press ami 1200 tons of force com
! presses them into one and a
: quarter inches. All air is forced
lout of the flakes and the resin
flows into every fiber of the
wood. When the cooling process
is completed, the finished pro
While visiting at the Krebs
Brothers ranch last Saturday, we
found them taking alfalfa en
siuage from their trench silo
built last spring and filled with
the first crop of alfalfa last June.
The Krebs were feeding the en
silage from their trench silo
lambing corrals with lambing to
start at once. In visiting with
Dick and John Krebs, both were
pleased with results to date of
feeding ensilage. They remarked
that they were having no waste
whatsoever from ensilage while
In the' past there was a lot of
wate hauled out of the feed rack
where the ewes had eaten the
leaves but left the stems. They
also like this method of putting
up their first crop of hay which
gets away from the heavy loss
from rain damage as well as
being able to utilize the grass
which is generally found in the
first cutting without any waste.
They also l'ke the fact that they
are able to hay a couple of weeks
earlier getting it off the ground
so that they might get an irr
igation which otherwise thev
would miss. ,
j They were taking silage out of
the pit using a new type ensilage
loader, the first to be used in the
Northwest. They were comparing
two different makes of loaders
which they had at the silo. They
were very much interested in this
method of taking ensilage from
the silo as a means of easing the
job as well as speeding it up.
Already they are making plans
for enlarging their silo and Im
proving it when it is filled this
spring.
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POLLSTERS JOKESTERS
Four unemployment compen
sation beneficiaries had profita
ble fun this week with a group
of GOP politicies--head them in
hair shorts for hours principally
at the local rumor factory just
outside the elections department
here at the Capitol.
They took a poll on three can
didates for governor, Secretary of
State, Mark Hatfield, State Trea
surere Sig Unander and Governor
Robert D Holmes. Salem tradit
ionally a Republican city is high
ly biased territory for a reveal
ing poll--but the choice made the
number one object of the poll
more alluring to the vote-takers.
While participating in the poll
most "voters" asked, "Hows the
vote going?" Truthfully the an
iswer was, "Holmes away ahead."
This stirred Republicans and
imade Democrats hilarious. When
accused of padding for Holmes
i the pollsters were indignant and
'offered to bet two to one their
- poll was correct within one per
cent. They invited any takers to
go along as score keepers. Some
, bets were reported made. If the
J reader wants to estimate, consid
er that the popular Mr Unander
has been in Salem as State
i Treasurer for five years and re
'sides here. He led the ticket in
1956 when reelected and polled
,10,000 votes more than President
Eisenhower. Salem is Secretary
.Hatfield's hometown. He also Is
'very popular here. Governor
citations to all juveniles under 18
found on any road, street, park
or public place between mid
night and 4:00 a m unless accom.
'panied by parents, guardian or
other authorized adult.
I The effectiveness of inflexible
letter - of - the law enforcement
has reduced curfew cases in the
courts of Salem and Marion
county particularly within the
, last year.
Salem's Chief of Police Clyde
Warren reports there were 236
curfew citations made in 1956
and only 118 In 1957, a drop of
50 per cent which Is also reflect
ed in the crime docket. Marion
'county sheriff Denver Young has
'made sharp inroads In crime in
Marion county the past year, but
not fast enough he believes. He
has schooled his deputies in new
apprehension tactics so often
necessary when juveniles are in
volved. "Our objective is to
make Marion county bad for bad
'actors," the Chief and the Sheriff
declare.
;eye state agencies
j Someone with a nose for news
on the Legislative administrative
organization committee stirred
i the bones of an old political
' chewing rag Wednesday by gett
ing the committee to announce
that a questionnaire that has
been in the formative stage for
months is now ready to be sent
to all state agencies in order to
get information on their funct
ions, authority and responsibil
ity. Continued on page t
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