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MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazotte, established March ."W, 18!. The Heppner Time eaUblUlied November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL asTocITatiQn J U TO- f M Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Countlee, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. What's Going on in Oregon? This contest for governor of Oregon is getting more complicated by the minute. The Democratic picture started out clearly enough with the encumbent, Robert D Holmes, declaring. This Is a normal and logical develop ment. The picture was altered somewhat when Lew Wallace tossed his hat in the Democratic ring. Wallace does not have a name as a top flight politico, but voters will remember that,he had enough strength to threaten Holmes in he last Democratic primary even after he had pub licly withdrawn from the race (although by that time his name had been printed on the ballots). A further development in the Democratic lineup was the addition of a third candidate, Wiley Smith of Multnomah county. We cannot imagine Smith as the winner of the Democratic primary, but he will steal some votes (he has been making a play for pensioners and senior citizens) from somebody. The question is: from whom? The Republican situation, too, started out log ically enough, with Sig Unander making his bid for the GOP nomination. Then along comes Mark Hatfield to challenge him. Some Republicans have been wondering, in view of the limited number of first-rank candidates from which to choose, why pit two of them against each other in the race? That question becomes all the more significant with the word that Warren Gill, too, has entered the GOP race for the gubernatorial nomination. That makes three able men shooting for the same spot. Gill, in making his announcement, brought out into the light of day (in the GOP camp) what the Democrats have been talking about for some time. Namely, the influence of the so called "Arling ton club clique." He showed, by inference at least that Unander is the Arlington club's entry. Does the very number of entries in each of the primaries indicate that the forces of revolution are at work in both parties? Unless all these six are self-starters, the situation shows a wide di versity of opinion in both parties. That's the least you can say for it. The Madras Pioneer ODD ENDS... Doggoned if we didn't have to "mow our lawn last weekend a whole week before the end of February. The only conclusion we can get from this occurance is that, if this growing weather keeps up, its going to be a long hard summer, By MURRAY WADE I GILL SURPRISE PARTY ! Senator Warren Gill, Lebanon ; Republican, did a minimum of pulse feeling before announceing his candidacy for governor. If he 'confided with any of his Repub- keep from growing too high if heighth is a problem. The more dense a shade tree grows, the better it serves its purpose. One of the things that gives much concern to the home owner is the correct pruning of ornament als. Many people have an urge to prune heir ornamentals in the spring. Most trees and shrubs do better if minimum of pruning is done. They should be let grow as near natural as possible. If prun ing of ornamentals must be done, take out dead and broken limbs first. Weak growth can then be removed where it is interferring or strength is needed for a better growth. Trees need no more limb removal except for convenience such as those overhanging a side walk or street. From Th County Agent's Office By N. C Anderson The recent Oregon Hereford Association's sponsored blue tag sale held at Pendleton was a source of good herd sires for a number of Morrow county ranch ers. Those who purchased bulls during the time that I sat in on the sale were John Graves, Hard man; William Smethurst, Don Greenup, Tad Miller and Marlon Finch, Heppner; Hynd Brothers, Cecil; and Tony Vey, Echo. Don Greenup bought at least six and Hynd Brothers, several. As I watched the sale and the bidd ing I could not help but think that Morrow county ranchers were picking the top of the bulls consigned to this sale. Quality of the bulls will do much to Im prove the already high quality of beef cattle in these herds. Our ranchers did not hesitate to pay a premium for the better quality bulls. While the grand champion bull was consigned by Herbert Chand ler, Baker and sold for $935.00 there was no question as to the quality of the top selling bull consigned by Walter Egg and Son, Milton Frecwater which brought $2000.00. With Double M Hereford ranch, Adams and Hort on Hereford ranch, Klamath Falls in the bidding the bull was pur chased jointly by Harold and Cec lie Eakin, Grass Valley, and Earl Gentry, Moro to be used as a registered herd sire. Don Green up bought an outstanding bull from the Egg herd. and more recently with Dr Char les Smith and Merrill Ovcrson of the Pendleton branch experiment station we checked with experi mental work done on this prob lem of leaching. Experimental re sults show that the danger of leaching of nitrogen is not so great when ammonia-type fert ilizers are used such as anhyd rous and aquerus which most of our farmers have used. However, when this is transformed to the nitrate form leaching will occur. With the warm weatlier last fall we can assume that much of the ammonia has been converted to nitrates and that much leaching could have occurred during the winter months. Several farmers are applying fertilizer with the assumption that this leaching has occurred while others are having soil tests made to know what the situation is on their farm. One test which will be made this week should provide a lot of information helpful to all. This soil test will be made on the Kennetli Smouse ranch near lone. Kenneth had a soil tost made last fall, applied nit rogen and with a soil test again this spring, can tell exactly what the situation is under his conditions. Wheat farmers, Vernon Munk ers, Frank Anderson and Kenneth Smouse recently represented the Oregon Wheat Growers League and Orgon Wheat Commission visit to the Western Utilization Research Laboratory at Albany, California. This laboratory carr ies out research on may agricult ural commodities including fruits and tree nuts, wheat and rice, wool and mohair, vegetables, poultry and eggs, sugar beets al falfa and other forage crops. Our wheat organizations are interest ed in the further utilization of this crop which was the reason for the visit. In visiting with Kenneth Smouse it was quite in teresting to hear of the many new and varied uses that this labor atory is finding for various farm commodities. While nothing def initely new was reported for I wheat it is found that if every person in the United States would eat one more slice of bread per 1 day, 40 million bushels of addit ional wheat would be utilized for food each year.' THIRTY YEARS AGO From the files of the Gazette Times March I. 1928 Betty Marie Adkins, little daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Alkins, celebrated her sixth birthday at the Adkins home Sat urday afternoon, in a delightful party, at which 16 little girls were present. Hcan cohorts in the Senate they are being pleasantly passive a bout it. However, you can never tell about a Senator on an elect ion year. The Senate has been well described as 30 potential candidates for governor. Democrats who would be happy to see State Senator Walter J Pearson come; out for the Democratic nomlnat- j ion for governor. It is not a wish . wrapped in admiration for the Multnomah county Senator so much as it is that he would cut: in on the primary vote of Lew Wallace in Portland. j DON'T LET 'EM GET MAD 1 The art of not making "sore hpads" in a Drimary campaign was something the late Governor ;Earl Snell (it seemed he couldn't lose an election) practiced de voutly. j Currently the Democrats have done a better job than the Re publicans in avoiding post-primary party splits by holding down the number of candidates for the same office. I The winner of the Republican 'gubernatorial nomination, wheth er Warren Gill, Mark Hatfield, George Livingston or Sig Unan 'der, will lose enough votes of 1 disgruntled friends of each of the three losing primary candidates to add up to three times the winning margin Bob Holmes had over Gov Elmo Smith in 1956. The harder these potential "soreheads" work for the losing primary candidate the more likely they are to vote against the primary winner at the gener al election. There is no assumption here that the per cent of political workers that renig on the party is high, although it has been es timated to be above 3 per cent, in some campaigns. Gov Holmes won by a little over 1 per cent of the total vote. CRACK DOWN ON ROAD HOGS HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, February 27. 1958 Oregon State Police arrested "51 794 persons and warned 175, 2G8 others last year tor violating traffic laws, Supt H G Malson sali hnrp will bp more inis yetu i.iv..- - arrests and fewer warnings be cause of Gov Robert D Holmes order to crack down. There were 10143 arrests for violating the bo'sic speed law, and 987 for drunken driving. THESIS ON TEXT BOOK LAW Now we may soon learn if the shocking hands of big business 'have prejudiced young minds by ; slanting textbooks. Harvard University Wednes- day informed Joseph I Hall, dir ector of curriculum and publi cations for Oregon's State De Ipartment of Education, that he had been awarded a doctor of education degree for his doctoral i thesis, compiled after twelve j years of intensive study and re search. I Continued on Page 5 Cal's Tavern Cafe WILL BE OPEN DAILY 12 NOON TO 2 P.M. 5 P.M. TO 2:30 A.M. SPECIALIZING IN STEAKS Miss Eleanor Cohn departed for her home at Portland Monday after spending several days here at the home of her brother and wife, Mr and Mrs Harold Cohn. A party of Hardman ladies in the city yesterday were Mrs Frank McDanlel, Mrs Carrie Hast Ings and Mrs Robert Steers. Mrs John Her this week closed a deal for the residence property of Eugene Penland and will take possession of same. Many inquiries have been re ceived during the last week in re gards to the feasablllty of using a top dressing fertilizer for wheat at this time. The Interest is, brought about through the abun dance of moisture falling during i the fall and winter months. This moisture brought about two sit uations: 1. a saturation of the soil which appears to make it possible to use considerably more nitrogen than normal and 2. the possible leaching out of nitrogen already in the soil through this excessive rainfall. Visiting with Roy Warner of the soil testing laboratory at Pendle ton Grain Growers last Saturday STAB THEATER Thurg., Frl.. Sat, Feb 27, 28, March 1 DINO Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, Sus an Kohner. PLUS Streets of Laredo William Holden, McDonald Carey Sun., Mon., March 2. 3 PAL JOEY Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Rita Havworth. Sundav at 4. 6:10, 8:20. Tueg., Wed,, March 4, 5 Love Is A Many Splcndorcd Thing William Holden, Jennifer Jon es. FAMILY NIGHTS & Tues day is lone night and Wed nesday is Court St., Heppner night. See our March program for details how you may reg ister for a free show. A lot of Interest is shown this spring in the application of nit rogen through the Uran form, some alone and other In combi nation with 2,4 D. Several are now spraying with this combinat ion and others will within the next few days. An experiment at thii Pendleton branch experiment station last year comparing Uran and Uran 2,1-D combinations re sulted in a yield of 50.4 bushels per acre where Uran was spring applied and weeds completely controlled by hand. In comparis on the yield was about 50.2 bush els used In a combination. An 89 weed control resulted. Where Uran was used but no weed con trol practice, the yield was 44.6 bushels and where no fertilizer or weed control methods were carried out the yield was 29 bush els per acre. One of the recommendations made bv a committee reDortinc; 'at the planning conference last Week was that of rodent control. The committee recommended that farmers consider rodent con trol as one of the good farming practices carried out by everyone. They pointed out that demon strations on methods of control were available. Farmers should avail themselves to these. This office has a fresh supply of zinc phosphide poison grain and stry cnine oats for control of field mice and squirrels, respectively. This is made available to farmers at cost and we would be glad to give assistance in demonstrating methods of using the baits. Ray Taylor, who spent the most of last week at Portland, attend ing the school for Ford Mech anics, returned home on Thursday. Mr and Mrs Floyd Adams en tertained a number of children at their farm home on Surjday afternoon, the occasion being the birthday of little Betty Jane. CAN YOU QUALIFY ? There is an opening at the present time in your area for someone to represent us as an agent. Previous life insurance experience not necessary, but experience in selling or meet ing the public would be help ful. The man we wish to ex plain our offer to, should be between the ages of thirty and fifty-five, and stands well In the community. 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