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MOHHOW COBHTT'S NEWSPAPER
The Happner Gazette, established Marah 30, 1883. The Happner Times established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 11, 1912
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Subscription Hates: Morrow and
It Had To Happen Sometime
(Guest Editorial: Eventually, it had to happen.
Someone was bound to propose farm-type legisla
tion for nnother industry. . . the "Cedar Hapids
Gazette" did this in a tongue-in-cheek editorial
recently. The "Gazette" suggested we (the gov
ernment) buy the surplus automobiles we (the
people can't afford to buy; store them; and
thus give the recession a quick cure by returning
the auto industry to full employment.)
This would be good for General Motors, Ford
and Chrysler. It would be good for the auto
workers. And it would be good for the whole
economy since everyone knows that when the
auto industry sags, it drags down everything
else.
Of course, when the CCC got Into the auto
storage business, we'd need both in-the-plant
storage and lots of steel warehouses around the
country. Storage would get to be a profitable
new business, as it developed In agriculture.
We'd also need plant allotments of some kind.
But the "Big Three" would probably choose to
idle some old, outlying buildings that dont pro
duce much anyhow. And then, by adding a few
more workers here and there in the main plant,
the Industry could easily Increase its total pro
duction, Agriculture did.
Also, with a guaranteed (government) mar
ket, dozens of new little auto makers would
spring up outside the Detroit area. We'd be con
stantly adding counties to the commercial-car-area.
These new producers would add to the
surplus. Not much at first. But the carryover
would grow quickly. . , as witness the feed grain
situation.
Production might get a little sloppy, and we'd
have a batch of pretty tinny cars in the CCC
warehouses. After all, why should the manu
facturer worry about developing markets based
on quality? He's been reading for years about
low-quality soft wheat and the poorer grades
of cotton piling up In tents and empty ships
and abandonded schoolhouses.
Eventually the Congress would force the Sec
retary of Manufacturing to "dump" these poor-
TO THE
EDITOR . . .
To The Editor:
I see that I made a slight err
or In my last letter to you. I
stated Dr Shipley purcnased a
2Va acre tract now occupied by
the Morrow County Grain Grow
ers. Don't know how I slipped up
there as I knew better. Henry
Heppner's wool and storage
warehouse was already on that
ground. The doctor's land was
just across the street, south of
there. Years ago, Harry Cum
mlngs purchased this property
and started a tree and flower
nursery there. I enjoyed Stan
ley Minor's letter. Stanley is a
faithful friend and writes to me
whenever the spirit moves on
him. I get lots of news through
Stanley. Makes me think of a
story about his father and mo
ther. Don't know if Stanley ever
heard this one, but here it is.
Many years ago, when the Sper
ry flour mill at Heppner got into
financial difficulty, several local
men, including Oscar Minor,
Stanley's father, stepped in and
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quality, out-of
formed a company to keep the
mill running. The mill stood
right where I built the new house
for Joe and Nina Snider, who
later sold it to Frank Monahan.
Well Mrs Minor used to bake
their own bread and always In
sisted that the Joeal flour was
Inferior to the flour shipped in
from Portland. But Oscar always
took home the local flour, un
til one day Mrs Minor dumped
two or three sacks Into the creek.
She told Oscar to go down to
the store and bring back some
decent flour or there would be
no more bread baked by her.
Oscar went to the mill, had the
miller dump out a couple of
sacks of outside flour and then
fill the sacks with Heppner
flour. He took it home and Stan
ley's mother baked up a big
batch of bread and it turned out
the best she had ever baked.
She said. "See I told you the lo
cal stuff was no good. From now
on, I want the kind you brought
home today." Oscar told me once
that he never dared to tell his
wife the truth about this.
Maybe some of Jack's friends
In Heppner will be interested to
know about him. He served about
two years in the Air Force in
Korea, then about the same time
at Mountain Home Air Base in
Idaho. He met a fine girl In Twin
Falls and about two years ago
they were married and came to
Castle Rock to live. They live
in Longvlew, Wash now, about
12 miles from Castle Rock. They
have a little son named Michael
John Yeager, now about 8 weeks
old. He , looks like his mother
except his hands. They are just
like Jack's. Jack says he will!
make a good magician out of
him in about 20 years. Jack is
employed In the office of a large
shingle mill in Kelso, just across
the Cowlitz river from Longview
and about 9 miles from Castle
Rock.
O M Yeager
Castle Rock, Wash.
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
a$socPat9n
Oregon, as Second Class Matter
style cars overseas at half price.
This would make the rest of the world quite
unhappy but after all, there are millions of
stockholders in the auto Industry and millions
of workers. All of whom vote.
Smart operators abroad would scoop up these
give-away automobiles, nlckleplate the motors,
and sell them back to our U S high school kids
for less money than the domestic price. Can't
you see the ad? "Genuine no-mileage 5-year-old
Fords. Make wonderful hotrod. Take advan
tage of your own two-price system. Only $700.
Uncle Sam paid the rest. Open day and night,
Pier 17." Sounds silly, doesn't it? About like the
situation on cotton, in fact. '
Remember, of course that this would not be
permanent legislation. We'd just write it for a
year or two, to curb the present recession. It
would be extended maybe 6-8 times, what with
cold war threats, cost-price squeezes and other
regular emergencies popping up.
After maybe 10-12 years, most everyone would
recognize that the program wasn't working too
well. Producers had found that the "floor" had
become in effect a ceiling and they never re
ceived a parity price. In addition, they faced
repeated cutbacks in total output so they had
less price and also less volume in the real car
belt. While new producers around the edges
constructed enough cars to keep the surplus
stocks growing higher. Labor, on a short .work
week, made less pay. Industry made less profit
And the public was unhappy about both the
extra taxes and the artificial pricing of cars.
Many took to travel by rail, plane and locally
on bicycles.
But Congress would have voted too often for
the auto-support legislation to face up to its
weaknesses. Attempts to inject sensible amend
ments would meet opposition. House and Senate
would prefer to just "freeze the situation until
after election" and wait for the miracle, as
they've waited so long for a similar miracle in
agriculture.
From Iowa Farm Bureau Spokesman in Amer
ican Farm Bureau.
Federation Official News Letter
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From the files of the
Gazette-Times
August 9. 1928
Mrs Paul M Gemmell was elec
ted delegate from Oregon to the
national American Legion Aux
iliary convention, to be held in
San Antonio, Texas, early in Oct
ober. David A Wilson is the holder
of a new record for the Heppner
Country Club golf course, dis
placing the record of 37 for the
nine holes held by L Van Mar-
ter, with a 36 which he turned
in Sunday afternoon.
Mrs H Krhfr7ln(rpr rprnrnpH
hnrno this wppi. from Mnnmnnth
where she has been a student at Machine office in Seattle dem
the State normal. I onstrated on "Getting the Most
Mr DnH -Mr. t t Unmnhv,
and children, Leta, Evelyn and
Roland, departed on Tuesday
morning for Yellowstone Nat
ional park.
Mr and Mrs S E Van Vactor
of The Dalles were in Heppner
over Sunday.
"Chats With Your
Home Agent"
By ESTHER KIRMIS
One thing I enjoy about my
Job in extension is the travelling
around one does as county ex
tension agent. The past week I
was called into Oregon State col
lege at Corvallis to sit in on a
sewing machine workshop put
on by a Singer Sewing Machine
representative.
I drove down to Corvallis on
the Columbia River drive. This
Columbia never ceases to in
triegue me! Being a "tourist-at-heart"
I decided to return to
Heppner on Thursday by way of
From where
A
Took a bark road home last
week and stopped for (as at
Hopkins Crosslin a village
with three or four stores, a few
houses and a Post Office.
While I was there another
fellow drove up to the gas sta
tion, with Big City written all
over him from his clothes to
is block-long car, to his atti
uic. "Nothing like the real
.ountry for peace and quiet, is
there?" he remarked to the at
tendant. "Why, 1 wouldn't know," the
Cepyrifht, i9S8,
From The
County Agent's Office
By N
4-H livestock club members
will have newly revised 4-H pro
ject material this fall when the
new club year begins. Advance
ment programs have been de
veloped for beef, sheep, swine
and dairy using four advance
ment steps. The four levels are
aimed at various age groups
with the fourth or advanced step
preparing the club member for
college livestock courses. The ad
vancement program was devel
oped recently by a group of coun
ty agents from throughout the
state with this agent being re
sponsible for the beef advance
ment program .
Included in the various levels
will be such things as the be
ginners learning the breeds of
beef animals, parts desirable and
undesirable characteristics, com
mon livestock "terms, shelter
and needs for winter and sum
mer, records, beef, records, beef
management problems, making
a ropt halter, becoming acquain
ted with beef terms and equip
ment, control of parasites, learn
ing the names and values of
feed nutrients, market grades of
beef, market cuts of beef ani
mals, and characteristics inheri
ted. Club members in order to
complete their project require
ments will be asked to visit a
packing house and make a re-
port of it, visit a commercial or
DurehreH hnPf rattle hreedins or
feeding operation, elect, label row County this year. Over of
and display forage plants, ser- these bys and girls are carry
ials, proteins supplements and lnS livestock projects including
minerals suitable for beef, give beef- da'ry. saddle horse, rabbit,
a report on a good pasture pro- sheep, swine and poultry,
gram for the area, start a person- j Demand fonhe"new bulletin
al library on beef management, entlUed .,planni a community
describe and give treatments for Falr Booth hflS bepn glm
important diseases as well as our comment on lts avallabIllty
management practices. In the top ,n thig column , Qf
level of the advancement pro- n Tt.,
gram club members will be re-
Central Oregon. Many have told
me about the beautiful scenery
one sees when going through the , of planning a community fair ,
Willamette, Deschutes and.booth. In looking It over it ap-1
Ochoco National Forests. They, pears to contain a lot of good
surely weren't wrong! The miles information which would make
and miles of pine covered moun-' a much simpler task to plan and
tains topped with the snow cap-1 develop an organizational booth
ped peaks of Three Sisters just ( Those groups who are planning
thrilled this North Dakota gal ( booths should make their reser
to no end. I'm wondering if you vations now in case they have
native Oregonians realize the! not done so as the time is run
beauties of your state. ning short.
In typical "tourist-like" fash-
ion I had to run into some road The quality and numbers of
construction when I hit the rock 4 H sheep projects were increas-
Creek road in the southwestern
part of Morrow county. I held
my breath and gritted my teeth
as I bumped over the rocks be
hind trucks and heavy road
equipment for 4.3 miles. Believe
me, it was the longest 4.3 miles
I'd traveled for some time.
But now back to business.
What did I learn at the sewing
machine workshop? A Mrs Jo
Doneviel of the Singer Sewing
l out 01 Your sewing Macmne."
. The first day was spent in
"Knowing Your Machine," les
sons which are given to the sec
ond and third year 4-H sewing
club members; and "Adjust
ment and Care of the Sewing Ma
chine." The next day we were
given samples of various kinds'
of fabric that differed in weight, I
texture and thickness. We learn
ed how to adjust the machine
for sewing on these various types
of fabric. The part of the work
shop that was most enjoyable
was seeing how the use of at
tachments on your machine can
give a professional touch "to
your sewing. Mrs Doneviel dem-,
onstrated the use of the seam
guide, bias guage, cording and
zipper foot edgestitcher, auto
matic zlgzagger and the button
holer. !
Yours truly is making plans
now to pass this information on
to our Morrow county 4-H sew
ing leaders. If you're contemplat
ing leading a sewing club this
coming year you would benefit
from this sewing machine work-
shop. Just telephone me for de
tails. The number is 6-9642. !
I sit ... ly Joe Marsh
City-Ditty
attendant said. "I lived all my
life right here in town!"
From where I alt, opinions
are sometimes like fincerprlnts,
never two txactly the same. The
idea is not that yon have to
think like the nest feUow but
to undtrttani his point of view.
(For instance, your preference
for tea, my llkuif for aa occa
sional class of beer.) It makes
nelchbort more Ilka nelf hbors.
United Statu Bnwvt Foundation
C Andersen
quired to learn the functions of
regulatory and service organizat
ions throughout the country,
study and report on advertising
and promotion of a beef product
anu me eueci ui mipum tum
exports, become familiar with the ,
and the effect of imports and
various types of beef cattle pro
ductlon records, develop a practi
cal beef ration using local feeds
indicating percentage of protein,
carbohydrates, fats and cost per
pound, make a beef cattle first
aid kit, learn the principles of
genetics, being able to explain
what Inbreeding, line breeding,
hybrids, and cross breeding are,
study beef cattle management
in the area and make recommen
dations for improvements among
many other optional Items.
Swine, sheep and dairy ad
vancement programs will follow
the same type of outline aimed
at letting 4-H club members ad
vance as they are qualified. Spec
ial recognition will be given club
'"76 suggest that you read the
members as they advance fromiwe ""ee"1 , 1 ort .
- a. -a news article in another part of
livestock clubs now organized
will be reorganizing in late Sep
tember for the new cluD year.
Boys and girls between the ages
of 9 and 21 who are interested
in joining a club In their com
munity or having a new club or-
ganized should contact this of-
lce- 207 boys and girls are en-
rolled in 4-H projects in Mor-
stock Association and other
groups have picked up a copyj
at this office. The new bulletin
, suggests a step by step method
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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES.
ed considerably this past week
with a purchase of nine regis
tered Romney ewes and two
Southdown rams by 4-H mem
bers here. Getting Romney ewes
were Kenneth Smouse and Ken
neth Lynn Smouse of lone, Al
fred Nelson, Jr, Lexington, Doug
las Anderson, Heppner and John
Graves, Hardman. The Graves
ewes will be used to get their
randcnlidren started in club
. Rnth Southdown rams were
purchased by Kenneth Lynn
Smouse, lone. The rams were
consigned to the Willamette Val
ley ram sale by Claud Steus
lauff while the ewes were pur
chased from the Lynn Barnes
flock at Halsey.
A lot of interest has been
shown the past two or three
weeks in morning glory control
with a number of farmers sign
ing up to the weed control pract
ice offered by the ASC In a cost
sharing practice payment. A
number of farmers have used
the new weed chemicals TBA and
PBA. For those who are inter
ested in these new weed killers
and contact
our office in case you have fur
ther questions.
As farmers have completed
harvest and we visit them con
cerning yield and adaptibility of
the various varieties, we find a
number who have had consider
able shatter in their wheat this
year. While Burt seems to have
been especially bad this year,
most all varieties have shatter
ed some. Unless the wheat was
insured for this type of damage
the farmer has no sure way of
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Thursday, August 7. 1953.
determining just how manv h
shels of wheat are on the ground
While It Is a bit late for thiS
some may be interested in
method developed at one of m
colleges for determining com
bine losses or wind shatter Tn
determine this a one square 'font
Continued on page 7
Soroptimists Meet
At Creswick Home
-Mrs Oliver Creswick was hos
tess for the Soroptimist Internat
lonal of Heppner for lunch on
the patio of her home Thursday
noon. 3
Birthday cake was served in
honor of Mrs Creswick, Miss Leta
Humphreys and Mrs Robert Pen
land. Work was done on decorations
for the float and some members
took materials to work
on at
home.
TRAPPED at the top of the snow
covered Canadian Rockies.
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Friday, Saturday.
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