MOHROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
NIWSPAMR
PUBLISHERS
ASSOCIATION
Published Every Thursday and
Subscription Rates: Morrow and
TO THE
EDITOR . . .
To The Editor:
I am glad you published the
old flood pictures. These old pic
tures were taken Just a day or
so after the flood by Mike B
Galloway and Bert Sigsbee. Mr
Galloway had been operating the
photo studio for a number of
years in the upper rooms over
the old Gazette building way up
on South Main street close to
Billy Stewart's livery stable and
across the street from the la
mous old "Mountain House." Mr
Galloway told me of the taking
of these old flood pictures, when
we visited him at his home at
Sweet Home, Ore. a few months
before his death. He gave me all
of his original flood pictures
then, which, after his death, I
presented to Morrow County
through Judge Garnet Barratt,
with the understanding he would
turn them over to the county
or Heppner whenever they or
ganized a historical society or
built a museum there. They
should now be in the hands of
the society.
Mr Galloway had made a deal
with young Bert Sigsbee to pur
chase the gallery, but the flood
came and the deal was not com
pleted until afterward. He said
that he and Bert worked togeth'
er to take these flood pictures,
Mike worked outside and Bert
working In the studio doing the
developing and taking some of
the pictures. Mr Galloway left
Heppner forever a few months
later. Now, I would like to Iden
tify the pictures on page 9 of
the June 11 issue of the Gazette.
The top picture, left, was taken
In the fall of 1D0O. The old white,
two-story frame cour t - h o u s e,
shown In this picture had Just
lately been sold to Judge Thom
as Ayers, Sr. It was soon torn
down to make room for the stone
structure now standing, and the
salvaged lumber was used to
build Heppner's first hospital. It
was a two-story frame building
built on the east bank of Willow
creek right by the old wooden
bridge that went up to the court
house. Contractor Joseph Hock
ett and I built this new hospital
for Judge Ayers. It was to be
operated by Mrs Will Kirk as
a nursing home. She was an aunt
of Mrs Jeff Jones. The flood came
along and washed away the new
building before it was even fin
ished. The second picture, left from
the top was taken two days af
ter the flood by Galloway and
Sigsbee. The caption under the
third picture is entirely wrong,
iuu naica me tan two-story
white house, still standing on
the corner of Jones and Water
STAR
THEATER
Thurs., TtL, Sat., June 18. 19,
Money, Women And
Guns
Jock Mahoney, Tim Hovey,
Kim Hunter. PLUS
From The Earth To
The Moon
Joseph Cotton, George San
ders, Debra Paget
Sua. Mon., Tuei. Juno 21. 21
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The Hanging Tree
Gary Cooper, Maria Schell,
Karl Maiden, Ben Piazza. Sun
day at 4, 6 and 8.
'rE HAIL STORM!
C. A.
PHONE 6-3625
ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Mattel
Grant Counties. $4.0T Year; Elsewhere $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents.
streets was the O M
house. This Is wrong. The house
shown Is the old Judge Ellis
home, later sold to Bert and Julie
Phelps and still stands on the
corner of Gale and Water streets,
across from Joe Ny's home. After
the flood, Car and Cox, Con
tractors, remodeled the big house
for the Phelps' and built on the
round tower and the round porch.
I was a carpenter on that Job.
The old Yeager house, Jones and
Water streets was built by my
father, J L Yeager in 1888-9. This
old home never did have double
windows or a slanting shingled
front porch roof. All the won
dows were single and tall until
I remodeled the house ten or
twelve years ago. The tall house
at the right in this picture was
built by Robert Wills. I think
harnest Moyer owns it now,
Would be Impossible to have
the two houses in this picture
if one was the Yeager house,
taken a little south and east of
our house. The one story hip
roofed house shown In between
the Ellis house and the Wills
house was the Ed Slocum house,
now owned, I think by Mrs Lucy
Peterson and I helped move It
right back to where It was first
built next to Joseph Ny's home,
Before the flood, my father had
his undertaking parlors where
Joe's house Is. Olive and I built
this house several years after
the flood for our home.
The lower left picture of the
Methodist church showing the
upper section of a house with
an electric light pole sticking
through, is what was left of
Oscar Minor's home. It was torn
own and never rebuilt. It stood,
before the flood on the east bank
of Willow creek close to the
Lover's Lane bridge. Later on
Oscar built his new house on
Court street. Stanley was not
born yet. The old Wrecked Thorn
as Ayers cupola Is the most wide
ly known picture of all. Every
xiooa writer, including me, has
used it In magazine stories.
The second picture, down, right
side is no mystery to me. The
house still stands right where
It was built, but has been re
modeled several times since the
flood. It is the old Matlock house,
childhood home of Leslie, Minnie
and Bertha Matlock. Part of the
old Park Garrieuos
planing mill shows In this pic
ture. Uncle Mike Galloway was
standing in the debris south-
east from this house when he
took this picture. The Methodist
cnurch steeple does not show In
this picture because It is on the
wrong side of the street in the
picture, but the old Park1 Harr.
igues home, corner Gale and
Church streets, with its two dor
mer windows on the roof does
show, also the roof of the old
planing mill just down the street.
This house was owned by the
Jim runeys wnen we left Hepp
ner and is the third house ud
um vnurcn street on Gale,
unra ngnt hand picture, down is
uk.. ihe tall, two dormed house
in lower right picture is the same
ciormcrecl house shown in the
picture Just above, on the S W
corner of Gale and Church
streets, showing above, on rhP
o v Liiinor oi uaie and Church
streets, showing the front of the
O IT .
oici uarrigues home. Jack Van
Winkle did own this house nn
This picture also shows the old
Planing mill, which stood riehr
wiutc me catholic church now
tanas.
I have the most complete, oris,
lnal flood storks ever told bv the
survivors, wnicn i hope to have
published some day if I ever
get enough money to do the Job,
Many or most of these stories
have never been told before,
They are all dead now and all
old friends of mine.
Catsle Rock, Wash
O M Yeagei
muronc TODAY,,,
RUGGLES
INSURANCE AGENCY
HEPPNER
NATION At EDITORUl
Cy B.liJU'Ug'U'l tiw
By N C ANDERSON
Forage fertility plots establish
ed eary this spring were har
vested this week to determine
yields from various treatments,
They were established on the
Art Watkins, W W Weatherford,
Orin Wright and John Graves
ranches. The plots consist of ten
8 foot by 25 foot treatment areas
comparing sulfur, combinations
of phosphorus and sulfur; phos
phorus, sulfur and boron; nit
rogen, phosphorus, sulfur and
boron; with a check plot. Each
application is duplicated. Har
vesting was done In cooperation
with Howard Cushman, exten
sion soil specialist from Oregon
State College. A 40 Inch swath
was cut through the center of
each treatment with a special
sickle type power mower. The
alfalfa from each strip was then
weighed to be calculated for act
ual yield. While actual yields
will be determined later when
yield weights have been conver
ted to an air dry basis rough
calculation in the field has shown
that there are differences of at
least one ton yield between
check and fertilized plots. Phos
phorus and sulfur have appeared
to give the greatest kick. Actual
yield differences will be publish
ed as soon as they are available.
While no doubt almost every
one has read of the announce
ment of the 1960 wheat program
there may be a few things con
cerning Its effect upon ranchers.
which might be well worth re
peating. First, it is well known
that next year's national wheat
acreage allotment will remain at
55 million acres, the same as
this year. It will be the sixth
year in a row that allotments
have been set at the legal mini
mum fixed by law. At the same
time the USDA scheduled refer
endum on marketing quotas for
the 1960 wheat crop was set for
July za, 1959. This is the seventh
successive year for which wheat
marketing quotas have been rjro-
claimed. Growers who will have
more than 15 acres of wheat for
harvest as grain in 1960 will
be eligible to vote In this refer.
endum. Farmers who have sign
ed applications under the feed
wheat provisions permi 1 1 i n g
mem to grow wheat on the farm
for feed will not be eligible to
vote. Wheat farmers will be in
formed of the allotments for
their farms in advance of the
referendum. The USDA will an
nounce the support price on I960
crop wheat before the referen
dum date. On the basis of pres
ent supplies and legislation, the
legal minimum support rate for
the 1960 crop would be at 75
of parity. That rate will become
effective only if 23 of the pro
ducers voting in the referendum
on July 23 approve marketing
liuulos' 11 turns out that quo-
IdS are disapproved, OP return ol.
lotmnntu if 11 i- .1
but, there will be no restrictions
-....., , ,clutuIl ,n eiIecl
on wneat marketings and rh
support rate as of July 1, i960
wuuw arop to DU of parity, as
required by law as in other venrs
The reason for marketing quotas
on next year's wheat crop is
that the secretary is required by
law to proclaim them when the
available supply is more thn
20 above normal. Total sup
plies for the 1959-60 marketing
year are now estimated at near
ly 100 above normal. This es
timate is based on the prospec
tive size of the 1959 wheat crop
and carryover on July 1 plus im
ports. Rom where I
From
Couple of months ao, Cap
Anderson traded In that flf-tern-year-old
rattletrap of his
and purchased a new snaziy
'59 model ear. A real beauty,
two-tone, and complete with
power-evcry thins.
But yesterday, of all things,
Cop rattled into town behind
the wheel of his old car. Nat
urally, all of us wanted to find
out "How come?"
"Bought it back," said Cap,
"I'm now a two-car family. I
like my new car because it
looks real modern but I like
Ceprritht, 1959,
From the files of the
Gazette-Times
June 20. 1929
Dates for the 1929 Heppner Ro
deo have been set for Septem
ber 26-27-28, announces C W Mc
Namer, president of the Heppner
Rodeo association.
The Hudson automobile of
Fred Hosklns was completely
ruined by fire Sunday evening
on Heppner hllL
A large number of Heppner
people attended the water re
gatta above the McKay creek
dam, on Sunday. Among those
going over were the D A Wil
son family, Spencer Crawford
family, Mr and Mrs A J Chaffee,
Alva Jones family, Earl W Gor
don, Andrew Baldwin, Eva Hiatt,
Mr and Mrs B G Sigsbee, Mrs
L Van Marter and LaVerne Jr,
Beryl Coxen family, Mr and Mrs
B P Stone, Mr and Mrs Chas
Vaughn, Mr and Mrs Osmin Ha-
eer. Mr and Mrs Dick Wens,
Walter Moore, W O Bayless, Mr
and Mrs P M Gemmell.
Mont Bundy was In town Sat
urday and he was wearing a
broad smile because of the big
rain that fell over his part of
the county Saturday.
A date that Morrow county
livestockmen lnteresed In beef
cattle feeding should mark on
their calendars is that of June
30. This Is the date of the field
day and tour of the Milton-Free-water
beef feeding yards at which
time results from locally grown
feeds will be reviewed by rep
resentatives of Oregon State Col
lege who have cooperated In the
beef cattle experiment. Beef cat
tle on test at the yards for the
part year are" owned by the lo
cal ranchers who provided feed
and facilities. This year research
highlights which will be review
ed include use of antibiotics and
hormone gain boosters; compari
sons of pea vine hay, pea vine
silage, and alfalfa hay for both
wintering and fattening steers;
most profitable levels of grain
feeding; meat quality studies;
and use of new, systematic ma
terials for controlling cattle
grubs and effects of the treat
ment on animals feed lot per
formance. The program will
start at 1:30 at the feeding yards
south of the Umatilla Canning
Company silage pits. At 2:30
p m further discussion of the
college livestock program will be
held at the Milton-Freewater
city park. Speakers will Include
F E Price, OSC dean of agricul
ture; J C Miller, dairy and ani
mal husbandry department
head; Walter Kenney, meats re
searcher and A R Gouldlng, re
search entomologist New chemi
cals to help weaner calves ad
just to feed lot conditions were
included in feeds of various com
binations. Materials tested in
elude antibiotics, tranquilizers,
aynaiac, a chemobiotlc similar
in action to antibiotics. Purpose
oi the entire feeding program
was to compare total grain In
take through the different meth
ods with rate and cost of beef
gains and net returns.
cooperators in the HeDDner
&ou conservation District which
includes every rancher in Morrow
county with the exception of the
Boardman-I r r I g o n area will
norpo that iha w.. t tirn
son as conservationist for the
district will be keenly felt While
many of us take a lot of thines
for granted many times we do
not appreciate these things when
they are available. I think that
we will find this to be the case
as Tom is not readily available
io consult as conservation prob
lems arise. While Tom as a mib
lie servant, was paid for the Job
he was doing and was interested
in it those who worked closely
with him knew he had his heart
and soul in his work. Starting
with the district as it was newly
organized and working In it dur
ing its enure life he became an
authority on the problems in the
sit ... fy Joe Marsh
A Tip
Our "Cap"
this car because it's real mt!"
From where I sit, all of us
have certain affections that
stow more a part of us with
each passim year. For Instance,
when I think of Saturday nlrht,
I alwaya think of my easy
chair and a cold class of beer.
Your idea may be somethlnr
else. But let's not ask each
other to "chanfe" Jet's Just
respect the other fellow's pref
erence. Afreed?
United Sttte, Brtwtn foundotUm
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF
Following a recently complet
ed study of the adequacy of un
employment benefits the Ore
gon State Unemployment Com
pensation Comlssion has com'
piled and published an analysis
which shows that unemployment
insurance recipients in Oregon
far from keeping their normal
living pattern often must go In
to debt, neglect medical and den
tal care, exhaust savings, and
curtail their buying.
Data for the 100-page study
was gathered through personal
interviews with a representative
sample of the 7,666 workers fil
ing claims at the Portland, Hills-
boro and Oregon City offices of
the Oregon State Employment
Service during the week of
March 24, 1958.
Interviews brought out detail
ed Information on income and
expenditures of a sample 354
persons, including single people
and members of four person fam
ilies, both during and before un
employment . . . Time covered
April 1, to March 31, 1958.
Recalling President Elsenhow
er's repeated requests that un
employment compensation bene
fits be equal to at least half
of regular earnings, findings
district. Under his leadership
the district's accomplishments
brought recognition as one of the
tops In the Pacific Northwest.
We are sure that Tom will enjoy
his new assignment and that
the cooperators of the Bonner
County Idaho Soil Conservation
District will soon realize that our
loss was their gain.
Horn flies are active now and
their numbers will continue to
increase through out the summer
months. Livestock can be pro
tected very effectively against
horn flies by the use of sprays
or self treating or rubbing de
vices. For dairy animals that can
be Individually treated at milk
ing time with Methoxychlor us
ing one tablespoon cf 50 wet
table powder on each animal
rubbing It lightly into the hair
on the back. Methoxychlor will
need to be applied no oftener
than once every 3 weeks. For
beef animals there are several
effective sprays. Methoxlchlor at
the rate of 8 lbs of 50 wettable
In a hundred gallons of water
If applied as a spray Is one of
the more effective methods of
controlling horn flies. This same
insecticide can be used in a 5
oil solution using 1 gallon- per
20 feet of cable back rubber.
Toxaphene used at the rate of
10 lbs of 40 wettable powder
per hundred gallons of water to
one half gallon of emuslflable
concentrate containing 8 lbs of
toxaphene per gallon Is effective.
One gallon of 50 emulsiflable
concentrate or 16 lbs of 25
wettable powder of Malathlon in
100 gallons of water is very ef
fective. Toxaphene and DDT can
also be used in a 5 oil sol
ution in back rubbers, A new
Insecticide, Korlan, has recently
been approved for horn fly con
trol. Those who have not been
getting effective control from the
above mentioned materials
might try Korlan this summer.
It should be applied as directed
on the container.
Cattlemen &
1 (SG&VW
Hereford Breeders
WILL
IN THE MORNING
FRANK ANDERSON RANCH
AND
KIRK & ROBINSON, HEPPNER
LUNCH AT NOON IN HEPPNER
HERBERT EKSTROM & SONS, I0NE
IN THE AFTERNOON
Cattlemen From 4 States Are Participating
2 HXPPNEB GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. June 18. 1959
show that at least 65 per cent of Mr and Mrs McKay plan to
Oregon's workers do not achieve be back at their Salem home in
this standard. J"lv-
Family groups which have but no NEW CONGRESSMEN
one wage earner are particularly The speculation of Oregon hav-
hard hit
THREE GOVERNORS
Oreeon had three different gov
ernors within four days last
week. Two were Democrats and
one an elected governor Is
a Republican.
Speaker of the House Robert
B Duncan had a sanawjcnea-in
term of two days that was pre
ceded by Senate President Walt
er J Pearson and ended when
Gov Mark Hatfield returned from
a short trip to Washington, D C
and New York.
Duncan took the gubernatorial
chair when Pearson decided on
a Seattle trip.
SCAN $100 BILLS
Look out for bogus $100 bills.
There are several strangers push
ing them in the Willamette Val
ley and Northern Washington,
according to reports of the U S
Secret Service. The counterfeit
federal reserve notes are num
bered K-21-L-21, and carry a ser
ies number 110, year 1950, on
the back.
DOUGLAS McKAY ILL
Former Secretary of the Inter
ior, Douglas McKay, Salem, is
In Walter Reed Hospital for a
check-up. He is expected to leave
Washington, D C hospital soon.
President Elsenhower recently
called on the former member of
his cabinet at the hospital.
Mr McKay is anxious to be
feeling fit before June 25 for
the dedication of the St Law
rence Seaway when officials of
the United States and Canada
will join with Queen Elizabeth
of England and Prince Philip for
the dedication ceremonies.
Chairman for the United States
on the International Joint Com
mission, Mr McKay will meet
that day with Canadian mem
bers. At
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Thursday, June
ing another representative in
congress after next year's cen-
sus was set ahead at least ten
years when the new states of
Alaska and Hawaii were admit
ted into the Union. Each will
get a congressman.
Since eastern states are not in
creasing in population with the
same tempo as western states
it was reasonable to presume
that Oregon would gain another
congressional district. Californ
ia will gain from 6 to 8 represen
tatives in congress.
STATE WORKERS WANTED
The Oregon State Civil Service
Commission sent an appeal for
addressing machine operators at
a salary ranging from $222 to
$280; unit supervisors at $265
to $326 and cardatype operators
at from $265 to $326.
Application forms may be ob
tained from the office of the com
mission in Salem. Examinations
are for building a backlog to
fill places of retired Workers and
other vacancies.
Any honorably discharged war
veteran of the United States who
has successfully completed the
examination, will be granted 5
points preference.
The backlog build-up is acti
vated by the large number of
employer persons in the state
that has been increasing rapidly
during the past months.
THE HANGING TREE was film
ed in Technicolor amidst some
of the most beautiful scenery
in the United States 40 miles
from Yakima, Washington.
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