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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1959)
HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, January 2X1958 4-H Sfory Told At Heppner P-TA Twenty-five 4-H members a long with leaders and former members presented the "4-H Story" to the Heppner P-TA on Wednesday evening, January 14, at the multl purpose room of the Heppner school. The program was under the direction of Miss Esther Kirmis and N C Ander son, Morrow county extension agents. The meeting was opened by community singing led by Esther Kirmis, who acted as mistress nf cpremonips for the evening. The history, objectives, policies and symbol's of the 4-H were ! explained by Anderson to inter ested parents. 4-H members, who represented 411 clubs in the Heppner vicinity, carried on stage attractive mo biles and posters Illustrating the 27 4-H projects that are available in the state of Oregon. The mo biles were created by Mrs Al Bunch and the posters were made by Mrs Glen Smith. Testimonials for the 4-H pro gram were given by Mrs Louis Carlson, lone; Mrs Clint Agee, Heppner; and Ronald Currln, " - ... Hennner -all former 4-H mem 1-w.t.t. T tAinra t7nr& flln TiH( from Mrs Ron Anderson (Patsy Wrignt) ana Mrs uanies vnecu (Sully Palmer) both of Arling ton who had been outstanding 4-H club members in Morrow county. Mrs John Graves and Marcel Jones both spoke on 4-H work view point. Both agreed that the , d.tr nrorrram develops talents lor , greater usefulness and makes a better citizen. The stage was attractively dec orated in green and white, with 4-H colors and displays of 4-H materials were placed arouncin me mailing mai mey iw the room. Of special Interest was tact her for the questionnaire, the scrapbook of Mrs Ron An-1 The announcement of the win derson (Patsy Wright) who was ner will be made shortly after chosen national 4-H uub Gin or the United States in 19M). It Is hoped that slnilar 4-H programs might be presented In the future to other schools of Morrow county to thoroughly ac quaint parents with the 4-H pro gram. 4-H members who took part in Wednesday night's program In Wednesday nigius piugiam hi- elude: Bemice Thomson, Linda StPWiirt. Parol Rurkenb ne. JudV.1"10 ""- Smith. Ronnie Jones, David An derson, Jerry Anderson, Trisha Farley, Susan Drake, Annamarie Brlndle, Kathy Re a, Brenda Young, Meredith Webb, Tanna Valentine, Bobby Harris, VIckey Barratt, Kit Anderson, Darlene Anderson, Patricia Van Winkle, Elaine Laird, and Joan Stockard. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim NEW PRINTS IN OUR "RONDO" Only at Penney's . . . beautifully styled machine washable high count percale at this low prlcel Prints unlimited to tew Into children's togs, dresses, shlrtsl PENCALE Silken Combed - Silken smooth luxury only per cales can give you. But Penney's Percales give you more: a fine balanced weave that means lux ury with no weak spots . . . sheets with wear built In. 72 by 108 inch twin flat or Sanforized fitted bottom 1.93 42 by 3812 inch cases 2 for 99c Mrs John Graves Continued from Page 1 at her suggestion and recommen dation. Six years ago, she and John achieved their life long ambition when they purchased a large ranch near Hardman. Here they have made a success of Hereford raising and wheat ranching. Besides her 4-H work she has been active In the Rhea Creek Grange for 15 years, serving In many offices. She has participa ted In the Farm Bureau for 12 years, and Is a state official In the women's auxiliary oi me Oregon Wheat League. She holds . i i r tfrMf membership In the Oregon "Cow Belles" and at present is cnair man of the beef promotion cam paign of the Oregon Cattlemen's association. There Is hardly a community activity, but what this energetic ranch wife has not played an important part. Doris youthful appearance be lies the fact that she is a grand mother of ten grandchildren. "John and I are Just waiting un til they are old enough to be 4-H members," she smiles, "We'll have a calf ready for them when the time comes." Pother of The YeOf Award Help Asked The annual Father of the Year contest, sponsored by the Mor row county Cow Belles Is to get under way In the near future ng mailed to all youth groups ' mum aa.e nominations for the award. Mrs Herbert Ekstrom, lone, Father of the Year committee chairman, this week asked that if any group has been missed roomers aay AiasKu mqnr Planned by Church A potluck dinner will be held In the Methodist church base ment Sunday, Jan 25 beginning at 5:30. The theme for the even- ; , . , . 'ng will be centered on Alaska, 4h ii nr i - t f r' a n mlfnOt OtatO A film on the subject will be an Important part of the Alaska emphasis. It was announced that there will be a special parking place for skiis, snowshoes, sleds, etc, for those arriving from the snowy regions. An Interesting evening is promised. PENNEY PLUS VALUE I 39 C Yard SHEETS Yarn Percales $209 SI by 108 Inch full flat or Sanforized fitted bottom mm mvuimL album PR., RST WOMAN FROM PACIFIC COAST TO GRADUATE FROM A MEpiCAL SCHOOL. 6HE WAS A TIRELESS CAMPAIGNER FOR PROHIBITION, WOMEN'S RIGHTS ANP STERILIZATION OF THE INSANE. PRACTICED MEDICINE IN PORTL AN P AND YAKIMA, RETIRING IN 1906. Evangelistic Series To Open January 27 A series of revival meetings, sponsored by the Heppner Bap tist mission and featuring evan gelist, Elder Gordon Harris, will be held at the Heppner Legion hall nightly at 7:30 beginning Tuesday, Jan 27. Special music and evangelistic messages are scheduled each night. Community Choir To Be Organized An organization meeting of a community choir has been an nounced by Arnold Melby, high school music teacher, for Mon day, Jan 26 at 7 p m at the high school gym. The first production of the group will be the Cruciflcation by John Stalner, to be given dur ing the Easter season. Singers of the area will join the high school choir of 60 voices, and practice will be held each Mon day night. Interested persons are urged to attend. Stockmen Make 'Continued from Page 1 Brucellosis test program and is the first county to do so. Sev eral other disease control recom mendations were made. Dr Lee Anderson, representing the veterinary medical associa tion, and Frank McKennon, dir ector of the state department of agriculture, discussed the pros and cons of the reorganization of the agriculture department; and Ben Kilgore, manager of Fed erated Ranches, talked on pork production. Mrs John Graves, secretary of the Cow Belles, reported on meat promotion activities and said that members would appear at county events In dresses common 100 years ago in observance of the centennial. It was recommended that the theft reward program be con tinued and recommended pay ment of a $50 reward be made In the trespass case at the W E Hughes ranch. The game com mission was also urged to con tinue its education program to continue huntor-landowner re lations. Membership was report ed to be 103, down slightly from last year's high. Over 200 persons attended the banquet where presentatl o n s were made to Alec Lindsay as Cattleman of the Year, and N C Anderson as Father of the Year. Herman Oliver of John Day spoke briefly. Banquet entertain ment was provided by the Hepp ner high school chorus, Rain bow Girls and songs by Bill Ken ney. HOSPITAL NEWS New Arrival To Mr and Mrs Bernard E Marshall, Heppner, a 7 lb girl born Jan 20. Patients Bonnie Barratt. Hep pner, dismissed; Clarence R An derson, Condon; Iris Morley, Kin zua, dismissed; Agnes Payne, Heppner; Dean Oilman, Hepp ner, dismissed; Neal Fenland, Heppner, dismissed; Margaret Madson, Heppner; Linda Wool man, Heppner, dismissed; Ed ward Hall. Klnzua, dismissed; Colleen O'Hara, Condon, dismiss ed; Patricia Monroe, Klnzua, dis missed; Ruth Bedford, Heppner; Maxlne Schmidt, Fossil; Suzanne Vinson, Heppner; Cecil Mabe, Klnzua; Ruth Swart, lone. RETURNS FROM MISSOURI Mrs Harry Duvall returned Saturday from a ten days plane trip to Springfield, Missouri, where she went to attend a birth day dinner for her uncle, in honor of his 91st birthday. While there she attended funeral ser vices for a cousin who died suddenly. Ml nimM ) i hi mii'jii awivw .ummimii Jl-m (L Hf 'Jtl(iH C'NIINMtAi COMMISSION . 840-926 CROSsrr? the plains at 3, married ATI, DIVORCEPATl9,WORKeOAS A MILLINER TO SUPPORT HER 60N. ATTENDED ECLECTIC 6CMOOL OF MEDICINE IN PHILADELPHIA. LATER GRADUATED PROM UNIVERSITY OP MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL (ItBO). If : mi t T I TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: -One of the chief means of conserving top soil for the present and future genera tions is being brought about through the system of land culti I vation referred to as "Strip Crop ping." i This system is especially use- ful on sloping or rolling hill- i i.i i x i i siues wneie nature lenus iu ciian nel off heavy showers or snow water to lower levels, carrying with it the earth's most valuable possession; The top soil. In laying off a strip crop unit a strip about 40 feet wide is staked off as headlands for the field strips. If this is a Federal cost-sharing project, assistance in staking will be given by the Soil Conservation Service. Lines are staked, on the con tour, back and forth until the field is completed. Note We followed the staked lines Immed iately with a double-disc harrow, which made it much easier to follow at plow-time. The contour strips must be planned for each field. Corrections are needed oc casionally to keep the strips more nearly on the contour. In the Lexington community, wheat or barley are the chief crops raised on the farm and they are grown under summer fallow conditions so that each fail every other strip with its headland Is sown to a cereal, while the alter nating strip with its headland is left for summer fallow. So whether harvesting or cultivating, the strips of the year's immed iate operation are connected. Here is a normal working sheet for a strip-cropper. At harvest time the combine usually spreads the straw, but catches the chaff and bunches It in dumps to be picked up later and stored for annual feed. If the stubble is high it may be clipped or stubblebusted by a modern machine. Occasionally it is adviseable to use a deep-tillage tool while the ground is hard and dry to break up the sub-soil by increasing the capacity for moisture penetration. We use four-bottom and a 3 bottom 16 inch mouldboard plows-in gang. After plowing, if stubble is troublesome, we use a gang of two double disc har rows which cuts up the stubble, slices the furrows and removes most of the air-pockets next to the plow-sole. The next cultiva tion is the rotary rod weeder, perhaps twice before harvest re sulting in a fair quality of stubble-mulch. After harvest we aim to rod- weed a few days before drilling to catch that fall crop of weeds and to smooth the field so an even penetration of the disc wheels or furrow-openers Is se cured. This cultivation also as sures a maximum of small clods on the surface which shades the ground and protects the tender plants after germination. After seeding, winter condit ions may bring hazzards. If the soil runs together the field may need breaking up in the spring VACCINES and SUPPLIES for CATTLE, SHEEP HORSES, HOGS ..J POULTRY HUMPHREY'S DRUG CO. S & H GREEN STAMPS f iTif VrrTLI -' 'fe Authorlitd jk .with a rotary hoe, which while (cultivating the crop will kill many weeds, with attending ben efit If weeds continue -a thor ough spraying is needful. After the weeds, the hot winds may descend and scorch the tender wheat heads in the boot, or hail descend and drive the vegitatlon into a mass of waste, or mice grass-hoppers, crickets. Let's talk about erosion. A main value of strip cropping comes from catching and holding the rain or snow water that drains from the fallow strip a- j bove together with the sediment fertile top soil-being moved down hill. Year by year better yields ; are being secured where this sys tem Is being installed. Of the annual "Morrow County Conser atlon Man of the Year" awards five have come to men of this Immediate vicinity. Beginning with 1952.Fred Mankin and Al Bunch; 1953, Kenneth Peck; 1954, Paul Brown; 1956, Nelson Bros; 1957, Burton Peck, also 1957, Ken neth Peck won the State of Ore gon Conservation Award. Each of these farmers, Nelson Bros excepted have engaged in strip cropping and none of these have returned to the old up and down hill tillage methods. Other strip-cropping neighbors are Wal ter Ruggles; C N Jones, Alvln Wagenblast, Vernon Munkers and Al Bunch on a second farm. Altogether we have more than 10,500 acres in operation in this community. We admit strip crop ping takes a little more time, but as one is working on contour, less fuel is consumed and power is conserved. Another benefit is the I lessening of fire hazard. Fire on ' a strip should be easily controll ed with summerfallow on three sides of it. The ALP recommend strips 'not exceed 250 feet in width. A : safe rule is to consider the pitch I of your field. The steeper the 'slope the narrower the strips should be. Our strips are 190 feet wide, which conform to the widths of our machines and lm . plements. I This article was drawn as a 'unit at Lexington Grange, 726 achievement program 1958. Burt Peck Justice and Municipal Courts James Anderson Tackett, fail ure to transfer title on motor vehicle, $10 fine. Raymond Melvin Warren, fail ure to drive right side of high way, $25 fine, $15 suspended. Ernest N Lundell, no operat or's license, $10 fine. Vester Wayne House, no emer gency brake, $10 fine. William R Mardock, failure to stop at stop sign, $10 fine. Dick Applegate, improper park ing, $2 fine. FORMER RESIDENT IS QUEEN FOR DAY Named Queen for a Day Wed nesday on the popular TV show of the same name, was Mrs Wen dell Herbison, a former resident of Heppner who now lives at Corona, Calif. Mrs Herbison is the wife of Rev Herbison, a former pastor of the Heppner Christian church from 1943 to 1947. Rev Charles Knox and Earl Soward were in Eugene for three days last week attending a preacher's parliament. limMIMHIMItlllllHIHHIIIHtMHIMIMIIHHItHMIIIMIIHIHHtm The Finest Tire You Can Buy THE PUNCTURE SEALING PREMIUM TIRE SEE IT MlllllllltllMIIIMIIIIIIIlllMIMIIIIIIIItllMIIIIIIMIIItllllllllllllllllltlllMMMIHIIMMIIIIIIIItlKtlllllllllHItlMI HWHIHil(IHIIIHIIHIinilMH1lllIIIIIMintlllllllllHIIIIIIIMMIIIMIIIIt GEMERAi I fiUSllJl N. Main I NEW CHURCH TO BE DEDICATED Mrs Frank W Baker of Kenne wisk, former Heppner resident, urritoc that the new St Paul's Episcopal church In Kennewlck is finished and there will be a formal dedication the evening of January 25 at 8:00 p m. The church Is located at the corner of Tenth and Qulncy Place. PARENTS OF SON Mr and Mrs Donald Drake of Stockton, Calif are the parents of a 7 lb son born January 21. Grandparents are, Mr and Mrs J B Weir of Hood River and Mr and Mrs Ray Drake of Heppner. UNDERGOES SURGERY Dean Gilman, Heppner chief of police, underwent major sur gery Tuesday at a Walla Walla hospital. He is reported improv ing. He was treated at Pioneer Memorial hospital for a kidney ailment before being taken to Walla Walla. TO SHOW PICTURES The Tom Wilsons will show pictures of their recent European trip following the Heppner East ern Star meeting Friday night, Jan 23. The public is invited. CLASSES TO START The Rev Bruce Spencer, rector of All Saints' Episcopal church, has announced the opening of confirmation classes starting Tuesday, Jan 27 at 7:30 p m. They will be held in the rector's study at the church. ELKS TO HOLD LODGE OF SORROW SUNDAY The annual Lodge of Sorrow will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by the Heppner Elks lodge. Rev Patrick Galre will be the speaker and the program Is open to the public. HOPE LUTHERAN POTLUCK The International potluck will be held in Hope Lutheran church basement after services Sunday, January 25, featuring foreign hot dishes. The program will be ama teur talent by members of the church and Sunday school. RETURNS TO DUTY A2c William Arthur Mahan left Pendleton Frldav bv plana for Harllnger, Texas where he is stationed. He has been home on a 30-day leave visiting his par ents, Mr and Mrs Aivie Manan and his grandparents, Mr and Mrs William Mahan of Heppner. Airman Mahan Is an aircraft electrician. TUNE IN TO COLOR The meeting was called to or der by our leader, Mrs N C Ander son. She discussed with us what ve would be doing In the home living project this year. We selec ted Tune In To Color as our name. Officers were elected for the year as follows: President, Con nie Anderson; vice president, Car ole Anne Anderson; secretary, Celia Boulden; song leader, Jan ice Martin and it was decided to have the vice president hold the office of news reporter. We decided to meet the second and fourth Thursday of each month after school. Carole A Anderson, reporter Winter Isn't Over YOU CAN Winter Tread RECAP: 15 Inch Passenger Car Full Caps As Low As GENERAL "DUAL 90 Winter Tire Headquarters Ford's Tire Service ELUTA CAMP FIRE GIRLS The Eluta Camp Fire Girls met for their weekly meeting Mon day, Jan 19. Dates for the follow ing programs were set: movie on human growth, Jan 26, the girls are to invite their mothers; Feb 1 at 3 p m, program for the parents at the Methodist church basement; Feb 2, Mothers' club program at 8 P M. All membership cards and $1 dues should be turned in to Mrs Kreimeyer. All jackets and note books should be completed this week. Vlcki Kreimeyer, reporter Local News In Brief Mrs Joe Hughes returned Sun day from Sweet Home where she spent two weeks with her daugh ter, Mrs Keith Marshall, who had undergone surgery. Mr and Mrs John Pfeiffer re turned Monday evening from Portland where they had been for the weekend. Mr and Mrs Cliff Moynihan of Lebanon visited last week at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, the Rev and Mrs Bruce Spencer. Mrs Bruce Spencer and daugh ter Joan were weekend visitors in Lebanon. James Valentine and Wayne Martin returned Tuesday from a business trip to Denver. Mr and Mrs C A Ruggles spent four days last week in Eugene attending a special insurance school. USE GAZETTE TIMES CLASSIFIED ADS hnrl YOUR Hndetendcnt Insurance JJ AGENT iivnrooif" Income-Outgo? Most families have Hospital Ins. For their bread-winner But, If income's also cut, who Buys food for dinner? Get Disability Income Ins. To replace income lost! Before becoming hurt or ill, Do investigate its cost! hr For ALL Your Insurance Needs C. A. RUGGLES INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 6-962S Box 611 HEPPNER. OREGON Yet! STILL NEED EXCHANGE Phone 6-9481
