MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazotte, established March ."W, 18!. The Heppner Time eaUblUlied
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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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licly withdrawn from the race (although by that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
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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. If full-time
cannot be given to the work,
and it is desirable to add to
present income, part-time sell
ing will be given the same
consideration.
We welcome your inquiry
for further information.
B. C. Carter, General Agent
Kansas City Life
Insurance Company
510 Mead Building
Portland, Oregon
At this time of year we have
a lot of inquiry on pruning of
all types of trees and shrubs in
cluding ornamentals, fruit and
shade. Fruit trees are pruned
each year to take out growth
that hinders best production and
allows the sun to get into the
tree for ripening. Small fruits in
cluding cane and trailing berries
need thinning out of last year's
growth and cutting back excess
fruiting growth. It is well to keep
shade trees shaped up but no
more pruning should be done
than is absolutely necessary to
fGet Them
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nd their contents adequ
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