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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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