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MOHHOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppnr Times established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thundery, January 22, 1958
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Published Everv Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, 34.Q1 Year; Elsewhere $4.50 Ye ar Singl e Copy 10 Cents.
More People, More Customers
Here is the third In a series of articles look
ing into the future which were prepared by Kip
linger Washington Editors. This one deals with
foreseeable increases in population and birth rates
and what it will mean to the nation's economy
during the next decade.
A 20 per cent increase In population and a
roaring birth rate Is predicted for the next decade
by the Kiplinger organization in Its annual re
port on population and business growth In the
United States, released today.
The "Soaring Sixties" will bring another wave
of economic expansion and further shifts in the
habits and needs of the population of this country,
Kiplinger says. In the late 60's population will
reach 208 million, compared to the 1958 total of
175 million. And the birth rate will Jump from
an annual rate of four million babies to five
million a year.
"Also more babies per family. Parents used
to want two . . . now want three. The trends
have been well established and there is nothing
in sight to change them," the report says. 'This
means, among other things, a much greater mark
et for children's goods, a demand for bigger
houses with more bedrooms."
"The coming high tide of marriages is now
only three years off. Children born in the 40's
when the spectacular high birth rate began, will
marry in the 60's, pushing the marriage rate a
third above today's rate. Average marriage age
probably will continue about as now, men at
age 23, women at age 20."
The result of this high marriage rate will be
a stepped-up demand for houses, furniture, home
appliances, cars and all the other things that
are needed to equip new families.
According to the Kiplinger report, "By the late
60's, there will be 20 million oldsters, over 65
Now there are 15 million. Length of widowhood
will be about what it is now, nine years." I
The future will see 75 million youngsters under
18, now 60 million. That means even more gear
ing of our lives and living to the children. Teen
agers alone will make up a larger proportion
of the total population than now.
With more oldsters and more youngsters, both
in numbers and proportion, the people of work
ing ages up to 65 will have their hands full
producing enough goods to meet all the needs.
"But," says Kiplinger, "it will be done by
greater productivity with more older workers em
ployed and less full retirement at ANY age. More
women will work, many more than now."
"Don't run the risk of later moaning, 'If I'd
only known!' You DO know . . . and In advance
.... about the "Soaring Sixties," says Kip
linger. ODD ENDS .T.
We have heard of quite a number of business
men and others complaining recently that they
wish Uncle Sam would get on the ball and send
out the necessary employment tax forms W-2's,
W-3's, and all the rest so they could get their
year-end reports In the mall. We, too, were among
those growling . . . until the first of the week (
when we finally got our head in gear and started
looking through our collection of state and fed-1
eral forms. '
Sure enough, there was everything we thought ,
we didn't get all wrapped up in a new parage
that we didn't recognize. This year It all comes
In book form and looks just like the usual fed
eral personal income tax book rather than the
conglomeration of separate forms that used to
be the order of the day.
We'll bet there are dozens of others who didn't
recognize what they had in their hands either.
Those who didn't, better take another look, for
it arrived about the middle of November.
From The
County Agent's Office
By NELS ANDERSON
An outstanding program has
been arranged for the 94th Nat
ional Wool Growers Association
convention which was held In
Portland this year. The Oregon
Wool Growers Association an
nal meeting will be held Sun
day, January 25, with the nat
ional starting on Monday, Jan-
STAR
THEATER
Thurs., Frl., Sat., Jan. 22, 23, 24
Saga of Hemp Brown
Rory Calhoun, John Larch,
Beverly Garland. PLUS
Rooney
Barry Fitxgerald and John
Gregson.
Sun., Mon., Tues., Jan. 25, 26,
27
Walt Disney's
Tonka
Sal Mineo, Fess Parker. Film
ed near Bond and Madras,
Oregon. Sunday at 4, 6 and 8.
uary 26 and continuing through
the 29th. A number of outstand
ing speakers are scheduled as
well as committee meetings and
reports. For those who have not
seen the detailed program, we
have one at the office.
Farmers Interested In placing
additional wheat, barley or oats
under government loan have un
til January 31 to do so. Appli
cation should be made with the
local ASC office.
Monday afternoon the execu
tive committee of the Morrow
County Wheat Growers Associat
ion met to review recommenda
tions and plan activities for the
winter months. The meeting, held
at the conference room at the
Bank of Eastern Oregon, had
one of the highest percentage at
tendances ever when all commit
tees, with the exception of the
youth activities, was represented
by both the chairman and vice
chairman. The attendance also
included the officers and two
of the state association standing
committee chairmen from Mor
row county. Plans were made for
members of the Morrow County
Wheat Growers Association and
other organizations interested to
hold periodic meetings during the
time state legislature Is In sess
ion to keep up with legislative
matters, especially bills being
introduced effecting our people.
Dally digests of bills being in
troduced to the legislature are
being mailed by the Oregon
Wheat Growers League to chair
man, Max Barclay, Heppner; vice
chairman, Walter Jacobs, lone;
and taxation and legislation
chairman, Fredrick Martin, lone.
These daily digests prepared by
the Oregon Tax Research will
be used to keep informed as the
groups meet from time to time.
The domestic wheat utilization
committee chairman, Mrs Max
Barclay reported that Frances
Barnick, home economist for the
Oregon Wheat Growers League
would appear in Heppner on Jan
uary 27 to give a demonstration
lesson on Oregon wheat products.
This committee is seeking new
and better ways to make this
state program and the domestic
wheat utilization committee most
effective in human consumption
of wheat products.
The group took some actions
for attention by the taxation and
legislation committee. They ask
ed that Investigation be made
concerning house bill 1028 to de
termine whether limits proposed
on the appropriation for the
wheat commission was to the
wheat growers benefit, if not, the
bill should be opposed. The group
favored passing of house bill
4o and 41 and favored discon
tinuance of a rural school board
and county school superintendent
when all the county Is Included
in one county administrative dis
trict. Plans were made for the an
nual spring meeting to be held
at the Lexington Grange hall on
2E
otice To Taxpayers
There will be a Personal property tax foreclosure pro
ceeding started in the near future. Persons owing de
linquent personal property taxes are urged to pay such
taxes prior to publication of this foreclosure notice.
C. J. D. BAUMAN
Morrow County Sheriff,
Tax Collector
the evening of April 28. Progress ,
of committee recommendations
will be made at this time and a
speaker to review legislation on
the national level will be feat
ured. The ladies ask that inter
est for the Oregon Wheat Grow
ers League sponsored cake bak
ing contest to be held at the
county fair be stimulated with
a cake contest also at this April
28 meeting. Those In attendance
were, Mr and Mrs Max Barclay,
Kenneth Turner, Alvin Bunch,
Melvin Moyer and N C Ander
son, Heppner; Mr and Mrs Ver
non Munkers, Lexington; Mr and
Mrs Louis Carlson, Walter Ja
cobs, Fred Martin, Henry Baker,
Don Peterson and Earl McCabe,
lone; and Paul Tews, Echo.
Results of some feeding trials
comparing rolled, ground, crumb
led and pelleted feeds for young
animals reported on by Joe John
son, formerly of Oregon State
College, now extension livestock
specialist at the State College of
Washington at the recent stock
men's short course were interest
ing. Realizing that in mature
animals, palatability of feed
stuff is one of the most, If not
the most, important single factor
in feed consumption. It was
the case of the mature animals,
how much more important is this
factor of palatability of feed to
the young suckling calf, pig
or lamb. In making the test,
twelve litters of Berkshire pigs
were removed from farrowing
crates with the sows and placed
in ordinary rearing pens under
the regular management routine.
Each litter had access to a creep
feed pen which contained four
feeders each holding a creep-feed
ration identical except for tex
ture. At the end of 56 days when
the pigs were weaned it was
found that the litters had eaten
1413 pounds of rolled; 535 pounds
of ground; 270 pounds crumbled;
252- pounds of y4 inch pellets. The
study showed a marked prefer
ence by baby pigs for a rolled
creep feed ration over the other
textures. This preference was
very marked at the beginning
of the creep feeding, but decreas
ed in Importance as weaning
time approached. In another test
with lambs, it was found that
627 pounds of pellets were con
sumed, 627 pounds of pellets with
Aureomycin, 831 pounds rolled
and 1044 pounds whole grain
ration. With the present swing
toward pelleted feeds by feed
manufacturers, it becomes more
Important to know what texture
of feed is most liked by our farm
livestock. Since a pellet of a cer
tain mixture is the only grain
offered to livestock in many feed
ing operations, it follows that
this feed will be eaten. Possibly
greater consumption might be
realized with a differently tex
tured pellet. Further tests may
show that so called naturally
Lexington News
By DELPHA JONES
Anna Mae Steagall and Mrs
O G Breeding were co-hostesses
to a surprise birthday party hon
oring Mrs Pearl Green and twin
sister, Miss Murle Brannon and
Berniece Wihlon at the Green
home last Wednesday afternoon.
After a fine time enjoyed visit
ing, opening of gifts and cards,
refreshments were served to the
following, Mrs Cora Allyn, Mrs
Faye Green, Mrs Betty Orwick,
Mrs Gae Papinea and the hos
tesses and honorees.
Mr and Mrs Earl Moyer of
Emmet, Idaho, and Mr and Mrs
Dick Cunningham of Pasco,
Washington were weekend visit
ors at the Armin Wihlon home.
The Women's Fellowship group
of the Christian church met at
the C C Jones home on Tuesday
afternoon. Preceeding the regular
meeting the executive board held
a short meeting during the
luncheon hour, with Mrs Hender
son and Mrs McMillan guests
of Mrs Jones. It was decided to
try and improve attendance by
having the meetings in the
homes for the next 3 months be
cause of weather conditions. The
regular meeting was called to
order at 2:30 P M by the presi
dent, Mrs McMillan. Mrs Hen
derson gave an outline of her
programs for the next three meet
ings it was announced that the
next meeting would be at the
C C Jones home with devotionals
by Mrs O G Breeding, the next
meeting in March would be at
the LaVerne Henderson home
with devotionals by Norman
Northrup, and the April meet
ing at the Florence McMillan
home with devotionals by Mae
Campbell.
Surgery caps for Pioneer Mem
orial hospital were hemmed, and
coffee served to the following,
Mrs Annie Keene, Mrs LaVerne
Henderson, Mis O G Breeding,
Mrs Cora Allyn, and Mrs W E
McMillan and the hostess.
Tommy Steagall, small son of
Mr and Mrs George Steagall, is
a patient in St Anthony's hos
pital in Pendleton following foot
surgery there last week.
Mrs George Steagall entertain
ed with a birthday party last
week honoring her daughter,
Vickie's birthday. Guests were;
PP&L DOUBLES POWER GENERATING
CAPACITY DURING PAST YEAR
coocfni cnmDletlon of pow
er projects doubling Pacific
Power & Light Company's elec
tric apneratine capacity, explor
ations of Northwest coal resourc
es and a role in pioneering a
n'u.tvne nuclear energy reactor
have highlighted the company's
system development program
during the past year.
Record expansion of Pacific
Power's generating capacity to
supply customer needs was
achieved with building of the
world's highest earthflll dam and
a 250,000-kilowatt powerhouse
for the Swift hydroelectric pro
ject, the installation of a third
45,000-kilowatt unit at the Mer
win plant, both of which are now
in operation on the Lewis River
in Washington; and operation
of the 100,000 kilowatt Dave
Johnston steam-electric plant in
Wyoming.
PP&L president, D R McClung
reported initial power output at
the three major developments
had dramatized at year's end
the magnitude of the $63,000,000
of construction activity marking
a new record of capital invest
ment made by the company In
any one year.
"Completion of Swift increas
es Pacific Power's generating ca
pability at its three Lewis river
projects to 533,000 kilowatts, and
boosts the average annual out
put from the Lewis plants to
Mary Kay Hughes, Penny and
Connie Papineau, Jeanine Hunt,
Laurel Messenger, Kay Van Win
kle, Linda Cooper, Vickie Irvln,
Karen Edwards, Brenda, Tommy
and George Steagall, David, Rod
and Tommie Williams, Lola
Breeding and the guest of honor,
It has been announced that
there will be first aid classes
starting February 3 at the Lex
ington city hall from 7:30 P M
until 10 P M each Tuesday night
for 4 weeks. These are free class
es and all Interested are urged
to attend.
more than two billion kilowatt
hours of electricity, he said.
New heavy-duty transmission
circuits and extensive distribu
tion system Improvements roun
ded out the 1958 accomplish
ments, McClung said.
The company now serves 305,
208 customers, an Increase of 3,
542 in the year. Annual average
use of electricity in residences
served by Pacific Power topped
7,000 kilowatt-hours for the first
time, It was reported.
"Pacific Power continues to go
ahead with extensive investiga
tions looking toward the future
power needs of Its customers, and
fostering constructive programs
for the development of the region
in which it does business," Mc
Clung said.
The power company official
reported the outlook for depen
dable supplies of power for the
region is the "most favorable" in
a decade because of the record
amounts of new generating ca
pacity being installed by the gov
ernment, the local agencies and
the utility companies. He said
the region has adequate supplies
for at least until the mid-1960's,
and the the utilities are well
along on the job of planning
for ample power through 1975.
Pacific Power is studying the
Eden Ridge coal seams in south
west Oregon's Coos county, where
a steam plant may be combined
with a hydroelecteric plant on
the South Fork of the Coquille
river. Explorations also are in
progress in coal fields of Lewis
and Thurston counties in Wash
ington state.
A co-founder of the Rocky
Mountain-Pacific Nuclear Study
Group, Pacific Power is among
50 utilities supporting a propos
al before the Atomic Energy
Commission to allow the groups
to develop and build an experi
mental nuclear plant of new con
cept Printing Is Our Business I See Us
ir
ground and mixed rations are
better liked by .young farm ani
mals and may give better re
sults than pellets, in spite of
some waste of feed. Since the
young meat animal grows and
fattens in proportion to the
amount of feed consumed, ration
texture undoubtedly needs more
careful consideration to insure
earlier consumption of grain and
rapid continuous growth and fat
tening from birth to market.
ANNUAL SHROVE TUESDAY
Pancake Luncheon
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Served From 1 1 :30 To 2
ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL
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January 22 through 24)
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AT A NEW LOW PRICE !
Here's the latest addition you'll find
at your Chevrolet dealer's Open
Jlouse January 22 through 24. It's
a new 4-door sport sedan in the Bel
Air series and it sports a lower
price tag than any other Chevy
hardtop. Bring the family and look
it over. And get the full story on
off the other striking models note
available. Remember, production
is rolling and you can count on
prompt deliceryl
Just wait till you see what's waiting
for you a glittering constellation of
sleek-lined exciting new ChevTolets
In a wide choice of colors, models,
engines and drives. The spotlight
will be on the new Bel Air 4-door
hardtop and you'll want to check
its ultra-reasonable price against
any other hardtop. When you do
and when you see how much more
Chevrolet gives you in styling, in
extra-roomy Bodies by Fisher, in
the super-softness of Full Coil
springing, in Easy-Ratio steering
then you'll know that this is the
happiest surprise of the year. Come
on in; don't miss this Open House!
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