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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, September 11, 1&58 Small Amount of Ragweed Found in Morrow County After surveying ragweed infes tations In eight eastern Oregon counties this summer, the state department of agriculture esti mates there is now a total of 18,905 infested acres in this area. This is an increase of between 5500 and 6000 acres since the last survey. According to George Moose, supervisor of the program for the department the total estimated infested area in Hood River coun ty is 1500 acres. Apple pear and cherry orchards are infested, he said, as well as pastures, sod water ways and other drainage ways leading directly Into the Hood River. Infestations were al so noted alone the highways in scattered spots near the town of Hood River. Wasco and Gilliam counties ap peared to have no infestations along the main highways, Moose said. Morrow county has a small infestation extending from the Umatilla county line near Irri gon for about four miles west along highway 730. Road should ers, pastures and waste areas have the heaviest infestations. Previously, Umatilla county was estimated to contain 13,000 acres infested with ragweed in three locations the Milton-Free-water area, a small area along U S 395 near McKay Dam, and an area in the western part of the county adjoining the Morrow county line along state highway 730. Aditional areas found this year raise the total estimate to 17,000 acres in Umatilla county. Moose said Umatilla Infestat ions have spread or new infes tations been located along U S 30 at the Stanfield-Echo junction and west to Include the irrigated corn and pasture on the "Stan field Flats". Additional infestat ions were noted along U S 395 from Pendleton in scattered spots to "Camas "prairie" near Uklah, on highway 11 from Pendleton to the Washington state line and along tributaries to the Umatilla river. No ragweed was located In Wallowa or Grant counties and the presence in Baker county is questionable, although Moose himself found none. In 1957 the Oregon legislature enacted a law making 18 coun ties in western Oregon a ragweed control area, and set up a $50, 000 fund to find and spray rag weed on private lands in these counties. No provisions were made for control of ragweed In eastern Oregon. WINS BLUE RIBBON The Heppner Christian church was the winner of a blue rib bon for Its booth at the Morrow county fair. WINS AT STATE FAIR Mrs James Thomson, Bernlce and Bruce attended the state fair where Bernlce won a second place in the 411 style revue. YES, we've heard that onions in the water made the BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI but you'll cry, too, if you miss this Best Tlcture of the Year, Star Theater, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. GET YOUR JEEP b PICKUP TIRES KISSAFFIS MOW! Hunting season is less than 30 days away (in fact, quite a little less than 30 days)? Is your Jeep, pickup or hunting car shod lor the work it ii going to have to do? Run out right now and take a look at the tires. . . if they're not the best you'd better bring them down to us right now and let us cap them so you'll be able to do your hunting without any tire worries. It won't cost much, and they'll be good all winter, 'c use they'll have winter treads that will get you through all the snow later on. Better come 'a runnln'l THE GEKERAL Monument News The Bob Holmes family visited in Bend last week. Mr and Mrs Mike O'Rourke and family drove over from Jo seph bringing her nieces, Miss Gwen Van Detta home for school. The boys started training Thursday for football. The first game will be Friday, Sept 12 with Spray. Mrs Stella McCarty helped three days at the Matteson home with the canning. Mr and Mrs Charlie rioach drove to Pendleton Friday even ing to meet their daughter, Mrs Norman Du Bosch of LaGrande then went on to Chehalls, Wash to visit his mother. Mr and Mrs Clayton Sweek and two sons and her niece, Miss Elaine Reynolds returned from a two weeks trip to Yellowstone. On Labor Day they went on to their home in Springfield. Private MacKennon, son of Mr and Mrs William McKennon, came home August 30 on fur lough. Lee Slocum who underwent surgery, Sept 2 at St Anthony's hospital in Pendleton returned home Monday. Maynard Hamil ton stayed in Pendleton during the time to help care for him. Gerald Slocum brought them home. Justice and Municipal Courts Walter S Duran, violation of basic rule, $25 fine. Elbeta Louise Adams, drunk on public highway, 1 year pro bation. Roland Donnelly Cassens, vio lation of basic rule (radar), hear ing later. Vincent Depaul Bellonl, pos sessing alcoholic liquor contrary to provisions of liquor control act, 30 days in jail, suspended, $35 fine. Arthur Chester Weems, no tall lights, $10 fine. Myrtle Delorls Orwlck, failure to stop at stop sign, pleaded not guilty, posted $15 ball, hearing later. Gerald Swaggart, violation of basic rule, forfeited $30 ball. Sylvester Shirley, drunk in public place, $20 fine. Jack Griffin, speeding, $30 fine. HOSPITAL NEWS New Arrivals To Mr and Mrs John Henry Hawk, KInzua, a girl born Sept 9 weighing 6 lbs 8 oz. Patients John P Doherty, Hep pner; Gene Hall, Heppner, dis missed; Mildred Morris, Heppner, dismissed; Isabell Kelly, KInzua; Marlon Olsen, Heppner, dismiss ed; Delpha Nelson, Lexington, dismissed; Barton E Clark, Hepp ner; Julie Arlene Way, Heppner, dismissed; Charlotte Hatter, KIn zua; Gwenneth Pape, Lexington. GUESTS AT THOMSONS Miss Meredith Thomson had as her guest during fair and rodeo week her roommate at OSC, Miss Sherrle Kadel of Sherwood, Ore gon. Overnight guests on Saturday night at the J G Thomson home were Miss Cecelia Parker, Hood River; Kathy Chlsholm, Oswego and Janet Wright, Rhea Creek. HUNTER'S WILL YOU BE DEER SEASON OPENS OCTOBER 4 Ford's Tire Service PONY - ? ? t -7 f 1 4 Ponv express riilcrs will thunder down historic Oregon trails again next June as part of Oregon's great Centennial celebration. Here Harry Long, left, and Stan Thompson, both of Baker, rehearse a relay in the ruts of the old Oregon trail hear Buker. Long is vice president and Thompson president of Centennial Pony Express, Inc. HEALTH NORSE AT MEETING Mrs Velma Glass, county health nurse, was at Wallowa Lake last week to attend a meet ing of the public health nurses of Eastern Oregon. Members of the State Board of Health were present and the purpose of the meeting was to discuss the pro blems of the health nurse who works alone In a county. VISITS FROM NORTH DAKOTA Miss Adelheid Kirmis, Lisbon, North Dakota, is here visiting her sister, Esther Kirmis, county extension agent. Adelheid Join ed her sister at Salem, Aug 31 where she was assisting at the Oregon state fair. A few days were spent at Florence visiting Frances Watts, Lane county agent and a former North Dakota resi dent. Adelheid will return home this weekend. SORORITY COUNCIL TO MEET The Eastern Oregon council of Epsilon Sigma Alpha will meet ! Sunday, Sept 14 at the home of .Margaret Marston, one mile i north of Arlington on the Con j don Highway. I A luncheon will be served at 1 1:30 p m and the charge will be I $1.50. Those going frdm lone will leave at 12 noon ana anyone wishing a ride should contact Betty Hausler or Eileen Padberg. IONE NEWS v Mr and Mrs L A McCabe and daughters returned home Thurs day of last week from a 4 weeks trip. They went to Yellowstone park, Glacier national park, Ban iff, Jasper, Edmundton, Dawson Creek and into Alaska to Fair banks and returned by way of Prince George, B C. Phone Your News Items to 6-9228 READY? 650x16 WINTER- TREAD RECAPS $1320 up PLUS TAX EXPRESS TO RIDE aft 1 Oregon Form Wages Rank 2nd in U S; Washington First Oregon farm workers receive the second highest farm wage rates in the U S topped only by Washington, according to an Ore gon State college extension econ omist. Average hourly wage rate paid farm laborers recently in Oregon was $1.12 an hour compared with $1.20 in Washington and $1.06 In California. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts follow ed the three highest Pacific Coast states. These average wage rate fig ures compiled by the U S depart ment of agriculture include all types of wages whether paid on a monthly, weekly, hourly or daily basis. If a house, garden produce, or board and room are Included In the farm wage, It Is also totaled In the over-all or composite Tate. Oregon kept pace with the av erage percent net increase in wage rates reported during the past year for the entire country and also approached Washing ton's wage level. While Wash ington rates remained almost the same, Oregon's increased almost 2 cents an hour. California wage rates went up about 1 13 per cent while the entire Pacific Coast region Increased less than 1 percent. While farm wage rates increas ed for most of the country, they decreased in the midwest and the southern section Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Tenne see reports reveal. Industry's competition for la bor may be why East and West have been able to maintain steady wage rates, believes Mrs Elvera Horrell, OSC economist. Last year's business recession probably reduced the demand for farm workers, fewer people left the farm to go into industry, and some returned to the farm, she noted. LEXINGTON Recent callers in Lexington, and at the Eugene Sawyer home in Heppner were Mrs Sophia Ku bock and son, Eddie and Mrs Helen Sawyer. Pearl Lee and Walde Sawyer returned to their home In McMlnnvllle with them for weeks visit. W C Collins, Al Fetsch. Archie Munkers and Bruce Lindsay will leave Friday for Malheur county where they will spend the week end hunting during the special deer and elk archery season. UVESTOCK MARKET Cattle Hogs Sheep SALE EVERY TUESDAY 12 Noon On U. S. Hiway No. 30 NORTHWESTERN LIVESTOCK COMMISSION CO. JO 7-C655 Hermiston. Oregon Frank Wink & Sons. Owners Don Wink Mgr. Res. Hermiston JO 7-3111 FOLLETT MEAT CO. Hermiston, Ore. Ph J07-6651 Or Mermlston McNary Highway CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING WHOLESALE MEATS AGAIN -J J y Local News In Brief Harvey Miller left last Tues day for his home in Philadelphia Penn after a week's visit here with Bob Wlghtman. Mr and Mrs Seymour Graham of Ogden, Utah visited over the weekend at the home of his bro ther and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs Claude Graham. Guests over rodeo weekend at the home of Mr and Mrs Claude Graham were Mr and Mrs Hugh Ward of Forest Grove. Mr and Mrs Bernard Damon of LaGrande visited the first of the week with her parents, Mr and Mrs Claude Graham. Orville Smith of Seattle was in Heppner Thursday and Friday. Mr and Mrs Jack Bedford left Saturday for Wenatchee, Wash ington where they will visit with her brother then they will go on to Long Beach, Washington. Mrs Elaine S George and sons, Kit and David spent several days last week vacationing at Lehman Springs. Mr and Mrs Jack Holt and family of Salem were visiting relatives in Heppner. They visi ted the C J D Baumans and his grandmother, Mrs Lee Cantwell. Bill Hughes, son of Mr and Mrs Joe Hughes, left Friday for Forest Grove, where he attends Pacific University, to report for football practice. He was accom panied by Julie Lee, Keith Lynn and Anthony Marshall of Sweet Home, who were returning home after visiting here with their grandparents, Mr and Mrs Hugh es. Mr and Mrs E E Gonty and son, Doug were in Beaverton last week where they visited Mrs Gonty's mother. From tflere they went to the coast and also visi ted at Redmond and Madras. Their son and daughter-in-law, Mr and Mrs Raymond Gonty of Renton, Washington ran the store for them while they were away. Rodeo weekend visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs Roice Fulle ton were his mother, Mrs Edith Fulleton, his sister, Mrs Jim Haw dey and son Frank, all of Vale. Robert Clark of Oceanlake ar rived Wednesday to visit at the home of his daughter, Mrs Floyd Adams. Mr and Mrs John Housman of Largo, Forida are visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs Paul Hlsler. Mr Housman is a former Mor row county resident. i fc. w. ft 1W play it cool with The Good Light Beer HeiMbera Sow Brewed Oregon Cow Total Hits Record Low; Production Drops The number of milk cows on Oregon farms has dropped to the lowest point on record and milk production continues a down ward trend, reports Oregon State college extension service. Oregon has 178,000 milk cows this summer, a 2 percent drop from last year and the smallest number in 23 years of record, according to Stephen C Marks, OSC agricultural economist. The report is based on a mid-summer inventory by the state crop re porting service. Milk production in Oregon last month dropped 2 million pounds below tne same monin a year ago, Marks said. Elmer (Ole) Peterson of Port land is visiting his brother, Hen ry Peterson. The Harold Beckets are spend ing a month on vacation which will take them as far East as Michigan. Mrs Alaott Lundell of Portland was in Heppner Wednesday. She is visiting relatives In lone. 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