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,
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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.
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Mrs John Graves
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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.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.
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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
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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.
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