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i MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppntr Gazette, stablished March 30, 1883. The Heppnw Time established November 18, 1897. Coniolidated February 15, 1912 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL I a e c i rfiA t ifn a r5 Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Kates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. The Wrong Approach What Is probably one of the worst recent ex amplos of a department of government trying to get bigger than the people whom it is sup posed to serve and who are Its boss, supposedly, came to light Tuesday when the post office de partment made an offer to Congress that if the 5 cent first class postage bill is approved, the department will build several hundred new post offices around the country. As a threat, it said if only a 4 cent rate were approved, only half that many new buildings could be constructed. (Our figures on the number of buildings are in accurate, but the principle is the same regardless of the figures). The number of post offices or their age has never had any connection with the amount of the postal department's operating deficit, ex cept how those offices were operated, nor would it make any difference regardless of whether any rate raise was approved. Congress must approve any construction money for new post offices, and what it might approve has practically no con nection with whether the post office department is going in the hole a billion dollars a year or is showing a profit on its operations. Neither does such money come out of the post office's budget. The attempt to win approval of new post office construction money by the depart ment was strictly a left-handed political trick- one that could well be called "dirty pool". The postal department Is not making ends meet, there is little doubt, but the building of several hundred new post offices isn't going to solve much of that problem. True, such con struction could temporarily aid the unemploy ment problem slightly, but, that wasn't the basic reason the post office department made the de mand regardless of what it may claim if the big first class postal increase were approved it would pretty well get the department out of the woods, but it wouldn't do one single thing toward making it modernize its operation to the point where it could come even close to breaking even.. Actually, if it has more money to spend on the operation of the service, a way will be found to do it without increasing efficiency and reducing cost that is the history, (and, we don't mean that wage increases weren't a necessity in the department). In reality, the postal department was attemp ting to pull the wool over the eyes of citizens and unsuspecting congressmen in its Tuesday state ment about new buildings. If that is the way the department is being operated, congress would be completely justified in refusing any rate in crease until some definite proof is shown that sincere effort is being made to bring the post office operation as a whole up to modern stan dards of efficiency, or at least bring the service back up to what it was. . .even 10 years ago. THIRTY YEARS AGO From the files of the Gazette-Times April 12. 1928 Miss Lulu Hager, Miss Donna Brown, Mrs S J Lininger and Mrs F R Brown were among Hep pner people registered at the Ho tel Pendleton who were attend ing the mid-year meeting of the Women's Foreign Missionary so ciety at the M E church. Rod LaRocque and Delores Del Rio in Resurrection, at Star Thea ter, Sunday and Monday. The largest as well as one of the nicest parties of the social season was that held Tuesday evening at the Episcopal parish house when Mesdames C W Mc Namer, F J Lucas and D M Ward entertained at bridge. Twenty one table were in play and guests were present from Arlington, lone, Lexington and Heppner. rom The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson Last week a committee ap pointed by the Morrow County Wheat Growers Association vis ited all communities in the women. Put this date down and we will provide further details later. county to observe conservation operations in selecting an out standing Jarm to give recognit ion as Conservation Man of the Year. The trip was an inter esting one at this time of the year. The agent having made this same trip yearly for the past ten years felt that conser vation is definitely growing In Morrow county. With the big wheat crop In 1957 stubble poses quite a problem in the summer fallow operations this year. With the exception of a very few who have burned, present day im plements are being M to work to conserve all the trash In an attempt to maintain organic mutter and keep the soil in good working condition. Even though the spring has been wet and summer fallow operations have been slowed down, some excel lent summer fallow is being made. For those in the north end of of the county who prefer to keep their stubble trash on top of the ground as means of pre venting wind erosion it appears that the stubble available this year will do much in helping to keep this soil in place. Other areas of the county are showing increased interest in using trash and new practices such as strip cropping are covering more acres gradually each year. The severe water erosion in the steeper ar eas have brought some farmers to the local office of the Soil Conservation District to work out conservation plans to slow down this waste of soil. The committee making the tour found that in the areas where severe water er osion occur several conservation practices are being combined to combat the problem. The com mittee given the Job of selecting the Conservation Man of the Year and making this trip were Max Barclay, Heppner; Burton and Kenneth Peck, Lexington; Raymond Lundcll, lone; accom- STAR THEITER Thurs.. Fri., Sat.. Apr! 10, 11, 12 Gun Duel at Durango George Montgomery, Ann Rob Inson, Steve Brodie TLUS The Curse of Frankenstein A successor to the previous trankenstein films. Sun., Mon., April 13. 14 Tarnished Anqels Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone. Sunday at 4, 6 and 8. Tues.. Wed., April 15. 16 The Private Life of Major Benson Tim Hovey, Charlton Heston, Julie Adams. Family nights and Heppner residents whose home face on Baltimore St and North of Baltimore, not including Water, K and Aiken Sts. may register at box office for a Free show Tues. or Wed. panying them were Tom Wilson and John Dennlson, Soil Conser vation Service and the county agent. At a meeting this week of the Morrow county Town and Coun try Planning Conference council plans were made for publishing the six committee reports in booklet form for distribution to those who might be interested. Earlier the Morrow county court had indicated their interest in this project and appropriated money for the publication. The publication will contain general information of the county in cluding the area land in farms crop land, number of farms, av erage annual rainfall, length of growing season, topography ma jor soil types and other pertinent information which should make it much in demand. Publication chairman is Bill Barratt, Hepp ner. This office recently received a letter from the Supervisor from the School of Agriculture at the Oregon Technical Institute at Klamath Falls. Inquiry was made for a position for a .student who will graduate from the farm technology class in June of this year. He is particularly interested in a job on a wheat ranch and has had some exper ience. The school of agriculture would like to place him on a farm where he would have an opportunity to learn the business because he is ultimately inter ested in a farm of his own. He is married. Anyone interested in this might contact this office for furl her Information. As a part of the observance of Oregon Conservation Week May U to IS. A county wide soil judg ing contest will be held at the Newt O'llarra farm near Lexing ton. Soil judging has become an important activity throughout the entire country. In order that our people can learn to under stand mort about soil, its quali ties and characteristics; a soil judging day was arranged for . May 15. The event will begin at 1 11 AM with an educational prac tice judging ending with a con- test afternoon. There promises to be some prizes for the top judg es in classes of youth, men and Continuing with the past two weeks information on seed cer tification this week's discussion will be on varietal eligibility. Select a crop variety that is eligible if you want to qualify for seed certification in Oregon. In other words, there is an ap proved list of crop varieties in the Oregon certification program. A variety does not make this eligibility list through a hocus pocus procedure, but each var iety, up for consideration, is re viewed by the Oregon State Col lege certification board. Facts such as data showing adapta tion, yield disease and insect re sistance and seed needs, are just some of the things that are ex amined by the certification board. Proved superiar perfor mance of a new variety in one or more categories over variet ies now available is considered a requirement to eligibility for certification. Even though this procedure has been a part of the Oregon certification program for many years, there are people who still believe that payment of certifi cation fees entitles them to cer tification of almost any crop or variety. This eligibility list is subject to revision each year by the board. As new superior crop varieties are developed they may be added' to the list. Older var ieties that are replaced by better ones are removed from the eli gibility variety list. At least one year advance no tice is given before a variety is dropped from certification. Final approval to delate or add a var iety is given by the certificat ion board. The board reserves the right of accepting for certification, varieties recommended for pro duction in Oregon by the Oregon experiment station. All crops rec ommended for production in the state will not automatically be eligible for certification. Onlyi varieties that contain superior' quality that may be lost with1 out a planned method of pro- j duction, ate eligible. Many crops' are produced for seed in Oregon! that do not need a program such as this. With these, good seed can be maintained by reason-! able purity standards. Crop var-! ieties developed in other states, j to be eligible for certification in. Oregon, must be approved here, too. More information on this1 Margaret Notson, Jack Casteel, Vivian Cason and Letha Hiatt are chosen to represent Heppner high school at the typewriting contest to be held in Pendleton at 10 o'clock April 14. ing was held later. Mrs Dean Hunt and daughter Jeanine and Mrs E E McFadtten were The Dalles visitors where they went to take Jeanine to a doctor there. Phyllis Thornburg, daughter of Mr and Mrs Pine Thornburg, is a patient in Pioneer Memor ial hospital where she under went surgery for appendicitis on Tuesday. Dona Ritchie of Salem was re newing acquaintances in Lex ington over Easter. On Monday the Cub Scouts met for their regular meeting. Den I went for a flower picking outing and den 2 worked on a short skit for next pack meeting. 4444 OLD CAMPAIGN SAGAS SAG A new and better campaign format is in the development stage this year that promises to aid voters in evaluating candi dates, bring out better candi dates and of course result in more economical government. By DELPHA JONES Everv fiftv vears. so the pat- The Lexington Cub Scouts tern seems to e0 something that held their pack meeting last is br-ing considered as top in pol Monday night with the Scout , itlcai campaigning dissolves into Master Cecil Jones presiding. At j nostalgia and is tossed out of uus nine ine awarus were given tne D0i t cal Dror rooms. 2 HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. April 10, i958 Lexington News se has been of a new and sincere type. . - not the applause race of the old pattern, trying to see who can make the most noise for assumption of popularity. Governor Holmes and his pri mary opponent Lew Wallace who differ widely have also given their audiences solid things to think about. Both have been re ceiving grateful applause. ELFSTROM FOR SPEAKER Robert L Elfstrom, Sr, Salem businessman and state represen tative from Marion County who underwent major surgery at Sa lem General Hospital Wednesday made a rapid and complete re covery returning to his Salem home Sunday. Representative Elfstrom who has served three terms in the Legislature has always been a top vote-getter and was urged to run for congress in the 1st District. He is the highly favored Repeublican candidate for Spea ker of the House if the Republi cans reverse the present Demo cratic majorty. FATHER'S RIGHTS UPHELD It took a Marion County jury less than 10 minutes to free an exasperated father charged with assault and battery on a persis tent suitor for his young daugh ter. The suitor had repeatedly de fied the father's orders to stay away from the girl, according to testmony. "WARNING HONEYMOON ENDS Continuing their drive against speeding, state police made 1,440 arrests last month for violations of the basic rule. The officers didn't hand out a single warning for speeding. Continued on page 7 SOLUTION FILE :h mm HERE'S YOUR BEST SOURCE OF FERTILIZER FACTS FOR FARMERS! It't the completely new Brea Brand Solution File. Tells you which so lutions to use when you're plan ning a fertilizer program. Ask your local Brea Brand Fertilizer Dealer for your free file. Agri-Chem, Inc. REPRESENTED BY Les Wyman Phone Heppner 6-9619 by the advancement chairman Bob Lovegren. The following boys were given Bobcat pins: Nelbro and Ricky Cox accomp anied by his father Lyle Cox; Matt Hughes acompanied by his parents Mr and Mrs Homer Hu ghes; Bobby Van Winkle accom panied by his mother, Mrs Glad ys Van Winkle; Johnnie Hat field, accompanied by his par ents, Mr and Mrs Don Hatfield; Mike Palmer who received his wolf badge, accompanied by his parents, Mr and Mrs Ken Pal mer; and Frankie Robinson re ceived his lion badge and he was accompanied by his moth er, Mrs Frank Robinson. Cecil Jones presented Chris Lovegren his Bobcat pin and he was ac companied by his parents, Mr and Mrs Bob Lovegren. Mrs Ed na Turner showed both movies and slides of her trip to Alaska and the boys each showed some thing they had collected or made pertaining to Alaska. Mrs Hen derson's den 2 made a large map of Alaska and each boy gave a report on an industry. Mrs Jon es's pack I each made individ ual maps of Alaska for note books and gave reports on the country. A short business meet- subject may be obtained at this office. For fifty years the torchlight parade was the radiant pivot by which a candidate was measur ed. The longer the parade the better the candidate was consid ered to be. It was last used ex tensively when Howard Taft was elected on a states rights plat form in 1908. The stench and flare of the torchlight was shifted to a fast spreading limbo of "Every man his own orator, with or without tails," and polsterism. The current election year is the golden, or is it brass, centen nial of the advent of the pollster and the grandeloquent self starting orator. Since the pattern ed fifty years is up the poll tak ers are drying up hoping the or ators will do the same. For the past two weeks the campaign has been honest and sober, confined to govern men tal policies and procedures Slate Treasurer Sig Unander and Secretary of State Mark Hatfield have calmly discussed matters of state and presented their views to many audiences, fre-i quently from the same platform. They have differed in their views but have not annoyed their list eners with slanted personalities and affronts. Their statements have been forthright and en- 1 lightening. The audience respon- v Better to be sate than to be sorryl DON'T LET FIRE THROW YOU FOR A FINANCIAL LOSS Are your farm buildings and their contents adequ ately insured against loss by fire? Better let us check your coverage. For all types of farm insurance coverage, see us. Turner, Van Marter & Bryant PHONE 6-9652 INSURANCE HEPPNER AT YOUR CHEVY DEALER'S USED CAR LOT ewn the price tags look good! AiftrtitmittHl J From where I sit ... ly "Joe Marsh 4 -tela Grown-up "Kid Stuff" The kids around here are sure pulling a lot of weight with local businessmen these days. For instance, Monk McCarthy has collected and patched old inner tubes all winter. He'll pass them out for the swimming hole season -with this stenciled on: "Courtesy of McCarthy Auto Service." And Mr. Troy, over at the bank, has put in three new shiny high chairs-for visiting: moth ers to park their kids in. There's a sign over the chairs: "Save now for a happy future." From where I sit, I like the way people take to new ideas to promote their business. It shows that they are open-minded. We all could stand a little more of it in our personal lives too. For example, you may prefer tea or buttermilk to my choice of a glass of beer. But if we're "open minded" we accept the other fel low's choice. Coprriiht, 1958, L'nittd Statu Brewtrt Foundation ALL MAKES! ALL MODELS! ALL COLORS! ALL PRICES! !S I I IV. i Check the clouified ode Cam for good bargain at your UtevroUt dealer 1 Big doings! Big dealings! Good looking used cars! Attractive price tags! For the make and model of your choice, go where you see the OK Used Car sign. Your Chevrolet dealer has the widest variety of used cars. And he has them priced to move fast to make room for the cars he is taking in trade on new 1958 Chevrolet. Without doubt, he has one that will satisfy your needs! See your local authorized Chevrolet dealer FmLET0N CHEVROLET COMPANY MIN PHONE C.QQ9I MAY & HEPPNER, OREGON
