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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. June 11, 1959 MOBBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Tlmeg established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 UfiiL NIWSPAM d3v ruiuiMUi 'ASSOCIATION ROBERT PEN LAND Editor and Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASftbCHTlCoM U kJ ZJ NATIONAL mi GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher o..i.iii..w c-., tk,iiHp iih rntprprf lit tho Post Office at HeDDner. Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties. 540 Year; jbisew.nore aq.3u rear, amgie v-upy m ima, TO THE EDITOR . . . To the Editor: I wonder why It has become public sport to pick on the farm er, especially when it comes to subsidies. Uncle Sarr hauls the Life, Look, Saturday Evening Tost and many others all over the United States and most of the world at about 5 percent of cost and of course that Is no sub sidy to them, their employers or readers, Is it? Life magazine is supposed to receive about $9,000, 000 in reduced postal rates, and the rest of the publications in proportion. The articles I have read in these publications are half truths. For Instance from the floors of congress to the press here at home, there was much to say about my neighbor re ceiving a $104,000 wheat pay- STAR THEATER Thurs., FrL, Sat, June 11. 12, 13. Gun Runners Audio Murphy, Eddie Albert, Patricia Owens, Everett Sloan. PLUS Kathy O' Dan Duryea, Jan Sterling, Pat ty McCormack. Sun., Mon., Tuea., June 14, IS, 16. The Journey Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards Jr. Sunday at 4, b.-U and 8:40. ment from the Commodity Credit Corp. Actually there was not one .cent of government money in I volved. This amount was a mort ! gage on the wheat crop and fin I anced by the First National Bank of Heppner. Ninety-two thous and dollars of these funds were expenses in raising this crop and the money spent in Heppner. The wheat was later sold on the open market and the loan was repaid by the operator. The only time the taxpayers funds become in volved is when these loans be come delinquent, the same as F H A and Veterans Administra tion Louns. j Agriculture is Industry's larg est customer In the use of the Ifour basics, steel, petroleum, chemicals and rubber. How can . Industry and its labor exist with its best customer getting not 100 per cent but 65 per cent of par ity. A depressed agriculture has ( always led to a general depress- I ion. Because there are less farm ers, It floesn i mean inai mere Is any less of these four products used. During the years 1956 and 1957 1 1 sold my wheat to the private trade for 10 to 40 cents per (KtteVml nhrma thn onuernmpnt UU,11., MWU.fc W1V. foW . ......... V loan price. Now if this so called friend of the farmer In Wash ington, D C was thinking of the taxpayer and the cost of the government farm program, why didn't he liquidate the Federally held grain Instead of allowing the grain trade to export it at a huge profit for two years? Why should anyone deliberately lower the value of this loan col lateral as he has done for years with the market value of the commodity credit stored grains. The billion dollars he says the farmers are getting for storage on loan grains Just Is not so. How Is the farmer getting It? This grain is nearly all stored at terminal elevators and the port cities are getting it. When this aforementl o n e d friend was first appointed in 1953, the Department of Agri culture was spending about three quarters of a billion dollars for Forest service and everything. Now he is spending over seven billion annually and he said he is a saving man. There has been over thirty five billion dollars spent and mostly wasted since he was appointed. All of this money used to destroy the farm program in every means at his disposal. History will record this expenditure the greatest rape of public funds the world has ever known. I am the largest grain grower in this county and I have never been asked to leave out one acre of land or controlled production in any manner. I was required only to shift 36 per cent of my acres from wheat to barley and have done so for seven years and my 900 acres of barley along with my neighbors has aggra vated the corn surplus all over the nation and barley Is more costly to handle and store than wheat. We had always left our diverted acres uncropped under other administrations but under this industrial minded admini stration unfarmed acres would have meant the sale of less steel, petroleum, rubber and fertilizer besides the success of the farm program. The secretary has never asked for unit control pounds, bushels, bales, and etc. Instead of acres. Why? It again would have meant the sale of less goods by Industry. In the Secretary of Agricul ture's determined policy to de stroy the farm program at all cost and In so doing the farmer too, he has set labor against the farmer by saying that the high cost of living is due to the high price supports. High? No price supports have ever been at par ity. We could give our wheat to the flour mills and a 34c loaf of bread would still cost the con sumer 30c. Milk bottles could be filled with water and It would still cost the consumer 17c per quart. Wheat has come down ift price 50c per bushel in the last From The County Agent's Office By NELS ANDERSON This week's news column is being written In The Dalles while attending the Oregon Wheat Growers League Junior Livestock show and sale. It Is the thirteenth annual show and sale and is bigger and better than ever. Hog numbers are al most double last years; the big From the- files of the Gazette-Times June 13, 1929 Six Heppner boys have enlisted for the annual Citizen's Military Training Camp at Vancouver, Wash July 2 to 31. They are Gay M Anderson, Harlan J C Devin, Clarence W Hayes, Jack M Casteel, Maurice W Edmond son and Harry B Wells. Morrow county students who received degrees from the Uni versity of Oregon on Monday, June 10 were Luola Benge, Wil liam Vawter Parker and Mary Clark all of Heppner. Raymond and Charles Lundell and Erling Thompson are lone boys who are In attendance at the two weeks' course in club work given at Corvallis. Members of Heppner Lodge No 69 A F & A M and Ruth Chapter No 32, Order of Eastern Star who are in Portland attending grand lodge are Dr A H John ston" and Mesdames Charlotte Gordon, Hattie Wightman, Sara McNamer and Caroline Johnston. year and bread has gone up In price 5c per loaf. The cattle man has done all right without price supports, Why? Because high feed costs have kept numbers down with in reasonable limits, but now we have cheap feed and by next year we will be smothered with hogs as we are now with chick ens and two more years will see the ruination of the cattleman. Mrs Housewife don't anticipate a Jot of cheap meat for your table, you will never get very much of It and if you do your husband won't have a job. Let's be honest. These are my views and convictions. O W CUTSFORTH Lexington gest yet. Sheep and beef num bers are about the same. From Morrow County, 4 H and FFA beef exhibitors are much great er with 14 4-H and 7 FFA fat steers. FFA exhibitors are Joe and Tim Yackley, 3; Don Hughes, 2; Mike Gray and Jerry Ander son. Exhibiting the 14 4-H steers are Billy Doherty, 2; Mickey Van Schoiack, 2; Karl Beach, 2; San dra Beach, 2; Tom Martin, 2; Eric Anderson; David Anderson; Russell Dolven; and . Kenneth Wright. Showing 4-H hogs are Dennis Doherty, 1; Tony Doherty, gen of three and a single; Ken neth Smouse, 2 singles. Exhib iting 4-H lambs are Jerry An derson, David Anderson, Archie Ball, Nat Webb, Dennis Doherty, Tony Doherty and Kenneth Lynn Smouse with singles; Dennis Do herty and Kenneth Lynn Smouse with pens of three. Monday's 4-H judging contest results put several Morrow Coun ty members among the top scor ers with the team of three from Lexington Livestock club, Karl Beach, Sandra Beach and Tom Martin In 3rd place. Karl was top beef judge. Kenneth Smouse was third high livestock judge. Re suits of the FFA contest were not yet announced at this time. Ranchers who have turned to ensilage as a way of preserving their first cutting of alfalfa were happily haying last week as showers put conventional meth ods to a standstill. Traveling down Willow creek Sunday after noon on the way to The Dalles Fat stock show several trench silos were filled or In the pro cess of being so. Delbert Emert, Lewis Halvorsen and Phil Emert, lone are filling silos again this year as are Krebs Brothers, Ce cil. These llvestockmen like the trench silo way of preserving first crop alfalfa and alfalfa-grass cuttings. Some of their reasons: "We like to get the first crop off early so we can get another irrigating before the creek goes dry"; "Foxtail and cheat grass In first cutting doesn't spoil our first cutting when put up in ensilage"; "We never put up the first crop without at least part of it getting spoiled by rain rain and damp weather doesn't bother silage making"; "It's the closest thing to green grass we can feed in the winter makes the ewes and cows give lots of milk." If the old expression "a mil lion dollar rain" means any thing last weeks rain was one. Farm visits early In tne weeK showed some grain fields suffer ing, so the general one-half to three-quarter inch rain made several extra bushels-per-acre In all communities. In some spring fields this was what It took to give It the push that was need ed to at least give it half a chance. From the smiles on everyone's face we expect that no one objected to the rain. A visit to the Henry Baker ranch, near lone, will convince "non-believers" that a little care pays off In growing a farm wind break. While the Caragana-Aus-trian pine combination planting is designed to protect the house and yard only it has responded wonderfully to proper care and a little water. The Caragana has been pruned to branch close to the ground and serve as the "wind-stopper" needed whlle the slower growing pines are becom ing established. They are now growing as much as three feet each year. Both rows fit in well with the nice lawn and yard the Baker's keep. Anyone, with pa tience and care can have the same results. nvAnrii Insurant TODAY,, C. A. RUGGLES INSURANCE AGENCY PHONE 6-9625 HEPPNER MP A. Rom where I sit ... Joe Marsh Trouble "Shooters" Stretch Taylor, captain of the high school basketball team, thought up a great way to keep the new schoolyard clean. The teachers were haviDg trouble keeping the kids from leaving their ice cream wrap pers, empty milk cartons and paper napkins in the area after lunch and after school ... In spite of the handy trash cans. So Stretch got the idea of equipping each can with a small basketball backboard and a sign saying "Shoot a basket." From the way the trash problem disappeared, our school should have a basketball powerhouse next season. From where I sit, every problem needs just one good solution. For instance, it oc curs to me that in getting along with our neighbors, tolerance U the solution. That means that your choice of tea should be honored just the same as my preference for a glass of beer. Makes for a "high scoring" combination in the friendship department. Coprright, 1959, United Statu Brewtn FounduUo 2C The of mi EXTEND A SINCERE WELCOME TO THE Bank of Eastern Oregon ON THE OPENING OF ITS N ew lone oranc h The businesses and residents of lone want to extend a hand of welcome to the Bank of Eastern Oregon. You have shown your confidence in our community by establishing a branch bank here and we appreciate the service that it will give us. We wish you the best of luck for your contin ued growth and expansion. Dobyns-Hart Pest Control Omar Rictmann Hardware Akcrs Motor Service Swanson & Hamlctt Insurance Bristow's Grocery McCabe's Meat Market Ekstrom Farm Chemicals Jim's Chevron Station Paul Pettyjohn, Shell Jobber Peck Leathers, Standard Oil Distributor Stefani's Fine Foods Morrow County Grain Growers A. C. Swanson Grocery Charles O'Connor Insurance Melena's Builders Supply Independent Garage Dick's Market 3C
