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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1958)
5 f pjttttr fee ttf tm?H MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883.. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897: Consolidated February 15, 1912 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL asTpcITatin 7 J U Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $4.01 Year; Elsewhere $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. From The County Agent's Office By NELS ANDERSON By N C ANDERSON Annually about this . time of the year we receive Inquiries at Me ornce concerning methods of preventing damage from rab bits to newly planted shelter belts and fruit plantings. If you are having such trouble you might be Interested In recom mendations for rabbit control through repellents recommended by agricultural research service specialists. These repellents can be easily made at home. The re pellents are low in cost and the ARS specialists report good re sults with repellent treated car rots. Recipes for the new repel lents are: 1. add one gallon as phalt water emulsion and 1 pound household detergent to 1 gallons of water. Mix until smooth. Add one quart Black leaf Forty and mix thoroughly. This gives three gallons of repellent for about $7.00. For spraying, add pint of Black Leaf Forty. 2. Add two gallons of water and 1 gal lon of asphalt water emulsion. Stir in 4 pounds Arasan SF 1 X and mix thoroughly. This gives roughly 3 gallons of repellent for a little over $6.00. This for mula does not make an effective spray. 3. To one gallon of asphalt water emulsion, add one gallon water and stir in 2 pounds of Arasan SF-X or Tersan 75 and mix thoroughly. This yields about 2Yt gallons of paint re pellent for about $3.00. To make a spray, add one gallon water and 1 pound of Arasan, SF-X or Tersan 75. One of these repellents mix tures should be effective for your rabbit control program, however, we do not have any Oregon trials on effectiveness. Plans were recently made for an appearance for the Union Pa car stop in Heppner on January 23. The program this year will be centered around soil conser vation with an interesting pro gram being arranged. A num ber of authorities on soil conser vation in Morrow county and Oregon will participate in the program. Among them will be E R Jackman, Oregon State col lege farm crop specialist. The program, in light of the impor tance of soil conservation will get much advertisement but we suggest that you mark the date of January 23, on your calendar so that you will not schedule something else for this impor tant day. The dates for the annual 4-H summer school were recently an nounced by the state 4-H club office. The dates this year are June 20 through 27. Summer school delegates will travel to and from Corvallis on Saturdays Monument From the files of the By MARTHA MATTESON Gazette-Times The Monument teachers, cus December 27, 1928 todians and cooks of Monument At their home on Willow creek j schools enjoyed a dinner and an below Heppner, Friday evening, j evening of cards last Tuesday at Mr and Mrs Arthur Parker enter- ;the ranch home of Mr and Mrs talned a large number of their j Bill Mart. There was a gift neighbors and friends at a 500 , exchange and a special birthday party, and the occassion was very 'cake for Robert Gertson. Those enjoyable. present were, Mr and Mrs Mead jGilman, Mr and Mrs Ed Rounds, On Monday, December 31, Mr and Mrs Boyd Hinton, John there will be a road show demon- lAkers, Mr and Mrs Robert Gert stration of Melophone, one of the ' son, Richard Drees, Mrs Ruby new systems of talking-movies, :Gienger, Delvin Van Detta, Mr with Patsy Ruth Miller in j and Mrs Charles Van Detta, Mrs "Beautiful But Dumb" coming to Fordyce Hills, the host and hos tile Star Theater on that date. 'tess. Mrs Clara Flowers and Da- vid C Stewart were unable to Mr and Mrs J O Turner and attend, son, Don arrived Saturday from! The Monument school presen their home in Salem and are ; ted their Christmas play Thurs spending the holiday season with , day evening in the gym. It was Nativity 2 HEPPNER GAZETTE -TIMES. Thursday, December 25, 1953 folks here visiting the Turners and Crawfords. David Hynd was in town Sat urday from the Hynd Bros Rose Lawn ranch in Sand Hollow. W P Mahoney, C L Sweek and John Kelly were in Condon on Saturday. ter and had less scours. Vitamin A, is the disease resistant vita min, without it infiamations and irritations in the intestines, lungs, uterus and udder result which can upset a pregnancy. leaving them a full week for j 0ne of the good sources of vita an extra gallon of water and acific agricultural Improvement iiimiiiiiimiiiil A FINE OLD SONS BEST - WISHES FOR CHRISTMAS activities on the Oregon State college campus. A committee of 4-H club leaders and parents in cluding Mrs Veda Brenner, and Lloyd Morgan, lone; Kenneth Peck, Lexington and Mrs Andy Van Schoiack, Heppner will be gin making selections of the Mor row County 4-H delegation short ly after the first of the year. Summer school delegates are se lected from among our 4-H mem bers who are at least 13 years of age on January 1, have com pleted at least two years of 4-H club work and have successfully completed all projects enrolled In the year before. Over-all par ticipation in 4-H club activities and extra-curricular activities are considered in making the selections. GONTY'S IN HEPPNER if A ,Spfl In last week's column, we com mented on the stockman's short course held at Washington State College the week of December 8. One of the interesting dis cussions was concerned with abortions in cattle from causes other than contagious diseases. The discussion was led by Dr Charles Andrist, a veterinarian from Chewelah, Washington. This was interesting to me since a number of abortions have occurr ed each year in cattle in our county that have been tested and found free of Brucellosis and Lepto-spirosis, the two common contagious diseases causing abortions. Reporting on a case of heavy abortions, Dr Andrist found these to be caused from cattle eating pine needles which have been known for many years to cause such a -situation. The question, however, is why cattle should eat needles as everyone has agreed that pine needles don't taste good. Since cattle do not eat them in the summer, speculation was that the cattle were looking for something green. It was found that the cattle's feed was deficient in car otlne, the raw material from which vitamin A is made by the animal. When a vitamin A sup plement was provided to tide the cows over the lag period, when the vitamin A level was at its lowest, troubles ceased. Calves born were stronger, gained bet- min A is good alfalfa hav. If the hay is good it can provide all of the Vitamin -A necessary, however, if haying time was wet and rainy; if the hay was cut at over half bloom; or, if the storage timelas reached about six months, then a probable de ficiency is almost inevitable. If the deficiency is not met a con dition is set up for abortions, re tained placentas and explosive infections of the reproductive tract that can end in, the death acted out by the children with readings from the Bible and music by the band, Director John Akers, music teach er, accompaniest, Mrs Harold Cork. 27 pieces of music were sang and played. The scenery of the Nativity was painted by Henry Cupper, Jr; coordinator, Richard Drees; properties, Meade Gilman; lights, B Leathers. After the play Santa Claus had bags of candy and nuts for the grade school and little children, The M M M club held their Christmas meeting Thursday afternoon at the home of Ellen Stubblefield. There was a big feast at 1:00 p m and the busi ness meeting in the afternoon, followed by exchange of Christ mas gifts. There were 15 present. The n ext meeting will be held at the home of Helen Brown frost occur. Cut the tops back to within two or three inches of the tubers and allow the clumps to dry enough so excess oil can be removed. These clumps of tubers can then be stored in a Ponl. WPll VPntllatoH ctnrtkaa in of the cow. The best prevention containers of dry peat, sawdust is to see that our hay is as or sand t0 DreVent desication, nearly first grade as possible. untll growth starts in the spri Feed, the second cutting later in the year, say around the middle The county agenfs offlce of December on, using the first would like to extend a wish to cutting for earlier fall feeding. all o our readers for a ver Late pastures cannot be relied on merry Christmas and a Happy for good nutrition. If there is pjew year any aouDt about tne vitamin A reauirements being met. a eood vitamin A additive with iodized salt and bone meal can be fed beginning at this time of the year and continuing until grass is good. This, in the opinion of Dr Andrist, is a practical pro gram, and will pay dividends in better, stronger calves and a bet ter breeding rate as well as con trolling spontaneous abortions. We reported last week that Bill Weatherford, Heppner rancher had attended the short course. Bill evidently was convinced by Dr Andrist that this practice was a good one as he started last week feeding a Vitamin A addi tive with salt to prevent any such conditions in his cows and to get his calves started out right. on January 8, when they expect to tie some quilts they are mak ing for defense work. The American Legion and aux iliary held their Christmas party for the children Friday evening. Games were played, led by Bob Holmes and Jack Sweek. After the games they sang Jingle Bells, accompanied by June Hutchinson. When Santa Claus arrived he gave sacks of nuts and candy to each' child and then passed presents to every one. Potluck refreshments were served of salads, sandwiches, pickles and coffee. A benefit dance was held Sat urday night after the ball game between Dayville and Monument, for Mr and Mrs Glenn Williams who have had bad luck, she has been a patient at St An thony's hospital in Pendleton for almost a month, since giving birth to a daughter. She has had to have surgery two or three times. Morris Croker and two sons of Walla Walla came in Friday night to spend the weekend with his brother, Jim Croker and family. STAR THEATER Thurs FrL. Sat, Dec 25, 26, 27 The Law and Jake Wade Richard Wldmark, Robert Tay lor, Patricia Owens. PLUS The Hunters Robert Mitchum, Robert Wag ner and many more. Thurs. day show starts at 5 p. m. Friday ana Saturday at 7 p m. Sunday, Monday, Dec. 28, 29 Onionhead Ahdy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau. Sunday at 4' 6:05, 8:10. Tues., Wed., Dec. 30, 31 The Badlanders Alan Ladd, Ernest Borenine Katy Jurado. USB GAZETTE TIMES CLASSIFIED ADS MOYER'S CAFE WE WILL BE CLOSED CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS 'At this time of the year there are a number of questions come to the office about flower bulb storage. For those who might be interested Gladiolus are lifted when the tops start to lie down. The tops are cut back close to the corm and the corms are dried in a warm dry place with plenty of ventilation. When dry remove old corm, and soil and J store in slatted trays with plenty j of ventilation in a moderately cool dry storage. It Is well to dust corms with DDT as you ' store them. j Dahlias can be lifted any time after the fall rains start or light IHE IES 3Tn IEn O and a GILLIAM & BISBEE HARDWARE Claud Ct Margaret Buschke I L. 0 j A J3g?LIIJ & ten NS 1 r.-3W!wF v JV 11 11 'C fl$Mn P ' kf j 'is- js. pSf; W MAb jf pi V 'u K00 to have served you, f Ct?iMl! an( we are 8rate 'not onty from It ? I P'i I if rli the standpoint of the good business I ' $ f j 1 1 J we've enjoyed, but from the 1 111 1 w ' knowledge that our greatest I asset is our many friends we are t cwn&s y ... . jH f I privileged to serve. 1 4 Merry Christmas wishes. HOWELL'S UNION SERVICE We Will Be Closed Christmas Day HAN FROM THE STAFF OF HEPPNER BRANCH Your friendly home-owned bank Member Federal Deport Insurance Corporation I
