M01R0W COUNTT'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Tlm established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
ORETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
NATtO NAL EDITORIAL
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From the files of the
Gazette-Times
July 26. 1928
A number of Heppner people
enjoyed the shade and swim
ming tank at Hidaway Springs
Sunday. Among those going over
were the families of L Van Mar-
HEPPNER GAZETTE -TIMES, Thursday, July 24. 1958
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County Agent's Office
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All Out For Form Safety
Makers of farm equipment always have put
safety high on their list of goals. All manner of
Important safety features have been incorporated
in the machines as soon as proven. A great mass
of literature stressing the rules of safe operation
has been distributed. Years ago, working through
the Farm Equipment Institute, the manufactur
ers decided to open all patents to the industry
which furthered safety in equipment design, and
this has been the practice ever since.
Now Farm Safety Week will soon be here it
is to be observed July 20-26. And the Institute and
its manufacturer members, in cooperation with
the National Safety Council, are undertaking a
new and vital safety promotional program.
This program emphasizes that "modern farm
machinery is designed for safe and efficient oper
ation", and that if the operators follow the rules
they will be safe, A new leaflet, 'Tips for Safe
Tractor Operation", will be given free to all who
want it by local farm equipment dealers. Special
safety promotional material will be released to
thousands of newspapers and magazines. TV spot
announcements will be distributed on film to 500
stations.
Here is a real opportunity for farmers every
where. The equipment industry Is going all out
in this comprehensive safety drive. Now It is up
to the users to devote a little time and attention
to a program that Is designed to save life and
limb.
Guest Editorial
FROM THE NORTHBEND NEWS
Unemployment Law Needs Study
As Oregon business struggles to keep Its head
above water during the current recession, it now
gets another body blow in the form of increased
payments for unemployment insurance.
The politicians are going to have to do more
about unemployment policies than just to dream
up new pie-in-the sky campaign promises.
The News has consistently advocated broad
and purposeful unemployment compensation, and
will continue to do so. but like drinking, it must
be controlled.
Our unemployment system is beginning to lose
all relationship with actuarial studies and is
becoming another excise tax on business, which
is already surfeit with all kinds of burdens.
We like the idea of a sound payment plan for
people who are out of work, and we like the idea
that this payment be large enough to meet the
needs of the day. But we don't like, the chiseling;
and we. don't like the idea that the employee
pays nothing into the fund.
We know one family in which the husband is
working and earning a good salary. His wife is
drawing unemployment compensation.
We know of one merchant in North Bend who
was asked for a job the other day and when
he replied he didn't have one right at present,
the applicant sighed relief and said, "Good, I
didn't want to go to work anyway."
As far as the local office is concerned, It does
a fine job of trying to prevent chiseling. Very
likely it is one of the best offices in the state,
both from the standpoint of the worker and the
employer, But the present law provides built-in
abuses.
The entire unemployment compensation pro
gram needs close scrutiny by the next legislature.
ODD ENDS...
We're pretty well convinced now that before
very long women are going to look like women
again. For proof we offer: Even the women are
beginning to make fun of the "chemise, bag and
sack" styles.
TO THE .
EDITOR . . .
To The Editor:
I'm concerned, genuinely con
cerned, for the future of agri
culture and Its young farmers.
The occupation and Its owner
ship has been the foundation and
backbone of this country, as the
losing of it has been the down
fall of almost all other countries.
Pride of ownership, rural im
provement, broadening of the tax
base, thinking voters, conservat
ion minded, and good solid citi
zens against absentee landlords
Is our strength. Oppressed rent
ers, mined out soil (wind and
water eroded), destroyed build
I,
investment of city capital want- fL l Yl L V
ine only 6 on its Investment natS W ItN lOUl
i
enables It to pay 250 more than
a farmer can. Why? Because a
farmer has to pay the 6 inter
est, 6 on the principal and 3
income taxes on the principal's
payments, so it can readily be
seen that if urban capital can
pay $1000.00 per acre, a young
beginner can't pay more than
$40.00 or $50.00 and live.
Then, too, these absentee land
lords do not rent to young farm
ers, no matter how good a repu
tation they might have. Neither
is character any longer much of
an asset when applying for
loans from the modern big chain
banks.
Now we've been fighting a
w will civAitu;, m-oiiwycw uuuu- 14i 4 1 . . ,
ings, anything to lowe? the taxes - 5 lLtl
and Increase the immediate reve-1
nues. That is what we are fac
ed with on the other hand.
Truly the saying Is true "a
young farmer has to be a farm
er's son (or his daughter) to get
started farming". It's Impossi
ble for a farmer to buy a farm
and pay for it off that farm. The
Home Agent"
By ESTHER KIRMIS
This week I meet with the pro
gram planners of our Morrow
county home extension .groups
to plan our year's club program.
In looking over some background
material . preparatory to this
meeting I came across an inter
esting booklet put out by the
Federal Cooperative Extension
Service which gives In capsule
form some of the changes, trends,
and influences which are a part
of modern living.
Our population continues to
rise rapidly, with Oregon's
growth coming at a faster, rate
world from communism where I than that of many other parts
the above ownership trend has 'of the country. Migration Into
By N. C- Anderson
With only four weeks left be
fore county fair time, now is a
i, waviu wiisun. opeiiLci . ,,. ho
ford, W V Crawford and Alva ewu "
about tne exnimis
Jones, Mrs Paul Gemmell and
children and Miss Bernice Sigs
bee. m
thinking
which they can and will make at
the fair which opens on August
nc Ttvttiv Itofa Qpa holntr mall.
J G Thomson and sons, James, rtLV nlv frnm th nffice
ion creek and Olive W In Grnt,K over .reful y end note the
many umertriu uivioiujia cn,w
classes in which you can ex
hibit. While premium lists are
county.
.Tl i . J ...n.
.:' r ,:Z ETX, " , being mailed to our farm mail-
p esumed to reached Us J U "inM
. w, 9 onH 4-H members there will no doubt
4-H or any group, for that mat
ter, can plan an effective booth
or exhibit for a fair. Included
are tips on planning, construct
ion, materials and color use. If
your group can use one let us
know.
be some who are missed. You
1 a'aIaaI. JTA-.An.. nftMHnnn
when the mercury tipped the 108 m have a copy by calling at
mark, the hlghTst temperature ffc J" the JJSf
an far remrHH Hurina the unelLlB" building Of by dropping
O r nwA ii nrrronWotinno OTP
1 J J 4Un4- 4 ta rt
rWWomA. r,Mflnt AMho'miHimUU aiSO it ia mire w
announced the dates for the 1928 "Jlch w 11 be followed. The
performance to be September 27,
a, anu dQubt wU1 be ,nterested in a new
bulletin available from this of
They are living longer. This ' fjce which is designed to help
means that a higher proportion folks plan community booths at
of the people are In the "over 65" (ars. The name of this bulletin
age group. They have special in- js "planning a Community Fair
terests and needs. 1 Booth." It suggests how a grange,
Women are living longer than
men. is lainuy uuuua ie uiu- . . rrui io
r;:,"""" ... they were born. This
sen uy uun. uiese wumeii iuiu - mn,t nt -w.
lonal community."
They are living better. By any
method of measurement that one
might use, our level of living
continues to rise.
it necessary to adjust to a new
mode of living. Frequently they
are ill-prepared to make this ad
justment. Young people are marrying
earlier. Youth is assuming adult
The Wallowa County Stock
grower's Association have recent
ly announced a feeder lamb sale
sponsored by this group to be
held at the Enterprise Auction
Yards at 1:00 PM August 18. Any
one looking for feeder lambs can
be assured of a good supply at
this sale. Also of interest to
sheepmen should be the 32 an
nual Oregon Ram sale which
will be held at the Pendleton
Round-Up livestock sales pavil
ion in Pendleton on Saturday,
August 16. The sale will start at
10:00 AM and offers over 200
head of Rambouillet, Lincoln
Rambouillet crossbreds, Hamp
shires Corriedales, Columbias,
and Suffolk rams. On August 2nd
the 18th annual Willamette Val
ley Ram sale will be held at the
Linn county fair grounds in Al
bany starting at 10:00 A M. More
than 240 head or the Willamette
Valley's finest purebred yearling
stud rams, range lambs, ana
ewes are listed including Rom-
ney, Lincoln, Corriedale, Colum
bia, Cheviot, Shropshire, Hamp
shire, Southdown and Suffolk.
which' each year inflict a heaw
loss to Oregon's economv m.7
this week is a special one Z
oucaa mc iiuyuiiance or avoid
ing all types of farm accidents
we should be on guard during
the whole year against such loss
ps. Even thnnch
o- " - cue ever
aware of the dangers lurking on
thp farm, mano n(,i... 6 1
, j -...iijcius occur
regardless of the many precaut
ions taken. Not only our farm
families but everyone should
practice safety throughout the
entire year.
Considerable interest is being
shown this summer in weed con
trol with participation in a spec
ial agricultural conservation pro
gram practice which assists in
a cost sharing payment on an
approved weed control program
on the farm. Farmers from every
community in the county have
or are planning to take advan
tage of this assistance in an ef.
fort to control noxious weeds on
their farm. Farmers have smeA
up for the control of Russian
Knopp weed, morning glory,
white top and Canadian thistloe'
Chemicals being used are 2,4 d
TcA, pba, sodium chlorate and
amino triazole. Harold Wright,
Rhea Creek farmer, reported this
Continued on page 7
responsibilities at an early age. I "U1C ucllc 7 ,, 0h,
-.... u. .;.i,,' though they may be well edu-
uvcj null, ui Uie lliai uiaiiiafta, , . . i-J!-
tnHautakBniahv the time the !cated- manV folks are finding
t. '.nH tho olr, that the education of a few years
jruUJlg lilUll Uiiv bw 6
is 20. Over half of the mothers
ago is not enough, today.
"back-to-school" movement
farset c2h6ild0isyb0oUrng It SESSJ J latemal and formal na
lure is eviueiu.
There is less
STAR
THEATER
Thurs., Fri., Sat July 24, 25. 26
Return To Warbow
Phil Carey Catherine McLeod.
PLUS.
Plunder Road
Gene Raymond Jeanne Cooper,
Wayne Morris
Sun., Mon., July 27, 28
I Married A Woman
George Gobel, Diana Dors,
Adolphe Menjou. ADDED:
"Dance Demons" with Les
Brown and his orchestra. Sun
day at 4, 6 and 8.
Tuefl Wed., July 29, 30
Jubol
Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnlne,
Rod Stelger.
taken place. The land in great
estates Is owned in town, the
farmers are tenants with an in
come which makes them mere
serfs. The business houses in
small towns are broke and most
ly gone because their customers
have no money. In Japan the
farmer pays 80 of his income
in rent, Kowloon 80; Johore
(Rubber) the big estates can't
be rented; Thlaland good, home
owned farmers, people are hap
py; Jordan 90 rent; the Holy
Land and Egypt 95 In rent;
France and Germany and other
parts of. Europe 70 to 89 is!
rent The young people have no
hope and want to leave or if
they stay they become more and
more communistic. Hunger is the
result of soils eroded and gone.
Now, take a look where we
are going! One large ranch con
tract farmed this year fbr about
Vi the crop, another good ranch
rented for and the tenant
pays the taxes. So who cares
how high the taxes go! 14 of
fered to rent one rancl) in one
week. WHY? The landlord's
money in most cases isn't spent
in local business, its the hard
pressed tenant who will owe the
bills.
Now, I'm offering no solution
here, but as goes the home own
ed farm, so goes the home own
ed business and the content-
the state is largely responsible
for Its rapid growth. (Yours truly
is one of these migrants.)
What Do We Know About
People Today?
ment of its people. This problem
deserves the best thinking of all
of us or, the history of the rest
of the world is ours.
O W Cutsforth
at the age of .48 well over half
of these women will, In turn,
have "married off" their last
child.
Families are having more chil-
drudgery in
homemaklng today. Although
studies show that there is little
change in the amount of time a
1 f I - J ... xM 1
dren. Young couples today are ! :e.r. "
which they tend to have close to-, Wndof work she Ms doing and
geather and early in married life.
Because of the trend toward lar
ger families, there is a higher
proportion of youngsters in o,--'
suc'ieiy.
But, households
in the energy requirements of
the job.
There are many demands on
young homemakers. The great
today are
small in size, averaging 3.39 per
when they are least prepared to
cope with them.
If you apply the trends men
sons. The larger households of tio' bTeo youTelf "'and
the past were composed of aunts, vnr rnmmnriitv rL .,. Wi,
uncles, and unattached persons, ' rao ... ' narnii .' h.
as well as the immediate family.
Many hands were needed to pro
duce the things that were need-,
ed. Today, households are larg
ely consuming units. '
More single and widowed per
sons are livng alone. These peo
ple are setting up separate liv
ing situations rather than liv
ing with families.
Folks are moving around more.
In the country as a whole about
20 of our population moves
each year. There is a marked
tendencv for movement of people
suburban and large metropoli
tan areas. In addition, fewer and
fewer persons spend their lives
in the communities in which
agree that the concerns and prob
lems they present give us a pict
ure of modern living.
Our program planning meet
ing will consider these problems
and try, in a small way to meet
some of these needs of our Mor
row county people in our exten
sion unit program.
This week is National Farm
Safety Week. Oregon is joining
with the nation -in an all-out
effort to halt farm accidents
Dr. James Norene
VETERINARIAN
WILL BE
Out of Town
July 18 to Aug. 3
CORRECTION--
ln Our Last Week's Ad On
USED APPLIANCES
One Price Was Misquoted
2 Norge Automatic Washers
$7500 EACH
L. S. DICK
Phone 6-9633
Heppner
torn where I sit ... Joe Marsh
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Curly "Eggs" 'Em In
Well, we've hd drive-In
restaurants, drive-In movies,
drive-In banks. Now a drlve-ln
etstrj. It was Inevitable.
Curly Rice and his Missus
have sold eggs retail at their
place for some time. "But all
that running back and forth,"
exclaims Mrs. Rice, "it fairly
wore you out."
"So we set aside one room for
the egg business. We enlarged
a window about car height, and
circled ihe driveway past It It's
efficient but it cutt Visiting'
with customers and you know
how I love to talk!"
From where I sit, I'll go along
with Curlj's wife because
there' nothing like good talk
between good neighbors spe
cially when there's a healthy
difference of opinions. Now you
might like some elder to help
the conversation along I hap
pen to prefer a glaas ef beer. Aa
long as we agree ra our right to
disagree what doe It matter?
Copyritht, 19S8, Uitt4 States Brtwtrt Fnuidation
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MR.
FARMER -
YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO
BE WITHOUT
rain Fire
Insurance
BE WISE it costs no more to insure your 1958 grain crops
now and you'll be sure of being protected throughout the
entire fire and harvest season. With a crop the size the
county is producing this year, you can't afford to be without
protection.
DON'T WORRY
INSURE TODAY
Turner, Van Marter Cr Bryant
INSURANCE REAL ESTATE
PHONE 6-9652 HEPPNER
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WHAT'S 'fT
in a 1
TREE ? j tr
Trees provide man with
shelter, food, clothing and fuel.
business to protect woodlands I Lt?j v I 1L& I
from fire and manage them
Heppner Pine Mills, Inc.