HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thundery, July 9, 1959
MOBROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAJIB
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1833. The Heppner Times established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
I
From The
County Agent's Office
By NELS ANDEHSOW
NiWSPAMR
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A PUBLISHIRS
ASSOCIATION
ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Claw Matter
sXriSoXi Morrow and Grant Counties. $4 QQ Year; Elsewhere $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents.
The School Budget Law
It Needs Revision
(The following article appeared last week in
The Orepon Voter, written by Ralnh T Moore. It
has a direct interest to resident of Morrow county, "
but as is pointed out below, the school budget
problem is not confined to any single county area.
The thoughts expressed are worthy of every
reader's consideration.
The growin" ruMic resentment over high
taxes manifests itself In Orepon through the un
usual frequency of voter rejection of proposed
school budgets that are over the constitutional
6 limitation. In fact, our growing school costs
have just about leached away any protection of
taxpayers given by this venerable provision. It
might as well be repealed in the interest of cut
ting school election costs.
Josephine County (to name just one of sev
eral among the latest) rejected its county school
budget twice in succession and then wangled a
tiny majority for it in a third election after some
very Intense electioneering by P-TA patrons and
organized school teachers. The result still leaves
a residual doubt if the budget was actually ap
proved by a majority of voters. True, it got a
majority of those voting but the majority was
so small that it could be easily upset if those
not voting could register their opinion. It thusly
becomes another of those dismal instances where
the voters are repeatedly bludgeoned with school
elections until they obediently come up with the
desired approval.
It would seem that our school budget election
laws need some drastic revising if anything like
fairness and equity is to be achieved. We do not
hold repeated elections for public office until our
boys finally make it. We have one election and
then everybody abides by the result. It is hard
to see why school affairs should be any different
and Justification for repeated trips to the voting
booth Is not apparent. At least we should force
submission of a substantially reduced budget
when the original has been defeated.
In the Josephine County case the budget was
reduced only some $11,000 out of a total of over
$800,000, an Insulting sop to the opposition and
a virtual thumbing of the nose at the sovereignty
of voter decision. The result, though assuring
operation of the county schools for the next fiscal
year, leaves a very bad taste that suggests the
Pusslun "da" and "nyet" techniques. If there is
n ua inv rpal meanin? to these plus-6 school
elections they should be made to conform to
general election methods.
if tv,o vntore rrwt a school budeet. Its re
submission should "not be sanctioned until it
embodies a reduction of the order of at least 10.
For it is both an insult to the voters and an
h.urim.nt nf thp snvereie-ntv of our electoral
processes to cynically submit substantially the
identical figures neretoiore rejecieu. it uuimca
v,.,t thn nir.ptnratp doesn't know its own mind
mnct Up made to obediently do as papa says
and vote right. We have altogether too much of
this sort of rannygazoo in school elections for
State. Investors get to thinking
that if this type of ramming issues down the
voters' throats prevails in scnooi elections men
what has become of the constitutional property
rtnhte cn ninnslv set forth in the law? If for the
schools then why not for government in general,
with thr voter reduced to mere rubber-stamp
stirs' And where is any security of private
property tenure in such a unilateral deal? Truly
our school budget submission to xne voters nas
become more the polite convention than tne pro
tcction for the taxpayer it is supposed to dc
A great deal of our school trouble stems from
th nnrslstent and completely fallacious pre
sumption that public education can be measured
by the dollars spent more than by the actual
results obtained. It is certainly a most convenient
this annraisal of education via the dollar
sign, and lends itself well to state-aid systems
that spread both burden and responsibility so
wiriolv that neither is felt directly by the home
folks, at least to a degree commensurate with the
taxation essential to its maintenance. It affords
needed for the techniques of
operational standardization and particularly for
the maintenance oi teacnersaiary sciu.-uuu.-a uii
are both generous and unresponsive to purely
local conditions and resources. It freezes the
teaching profession into a rigid structure akin
to the frankly selfish labor-union type and dl
teacher from classification with the
ministry and the medical professions, both under
strict dedicated status mat enuirones bovh.c
above self.
TMc urrltor Hnnhte If this is What most School
teachers want. Yet they are being dragged into
it involuntarily as the dollar-sign looms ever
larger In their profession. Truly, we neeo. a tuur
ageous and objective review of the whole matter.
While only a small amount
has been harvested, those few
growers of Alpine barley are
happy with the prospects oi tms
new winter variety. Claimed to
be much more winter hardy than
other winter varieties It witn-
stood the past winter weatner
well. Seeded all the way from
intP Rpntpmhw thrnueh Novem
ber yield prospects appear the
same. Yields at the experiment
stations during the past two
vears that It has been grown
havp heen substantially above
other winter varieties. Those who
are looking for a winter barley
variety would do well to check
on this and make arrangements
for some seed to try it out.
20 pairs of cows and calves from
the Paul Muuer uanuw
ford ranch near Wamlc while
tt .. emith has taken the
yearlings from this same herd
I accompaniea rrann. io
ranch to look at this herd a
onn and was very much
impressed with the quality. The
. r,. t iv,orr hulls which Mr
Muller brought in from Canada
Renorts coming' in from those
who have harvested small acre-
apes of barlev and even some
ivhpat arp that some of our pre
dictions for a considerably lower
yield this year might be wrong.
Cloudy cool weather the past
couple of weeks has helped in
developing a crop that might
have other wise been pincnea
due to the drv soring. While
much of the grain in the higher
country could yet be hurt ty
hot weather a good snare oi n
is over the hump. We may have
.
to revise an early estimate oi
an averaee vield of 25 bushels
of wheat and 34 ton oi parley
ven variety for the farm, as
following a good conservnuui.
program, or treating grain for
smut, secondly, u h
i, oHvnntace of the ACP pro-
lane rt --
gram for weed contro ,g0 produced some
cost-share programs wM wrist, J,9 S,mals. We are
the farmer with 30 oi "T fhl8 herd come to
for the materials used and, glad to see tnis ne
thirdly, because farmers m mot- wuuuw
ZTSSZ Members o, ,he ... H -
i men TUlo monne that uttii THA hnrse ClUD in ine
starting in isw. - wi a ..t last
evervone shall have sianeu suiu Tone community iuuu
active program oi weeu mi Thursday now to --.. '
bv that time or be subject to tne easy way for their club,
the provisions of the law which Members participating would not
l" r. ... t . nnnlo . . v,o it vuaa The
was inacted oy our idn agree nowevei moi " .. ,
several years ago. While many easy way after leading their
are concerned with Canada nies around the block dozens
.... iu. inniiU1aB ara . rlrlac tn Vins less
thistle most oi me ins""1-" - oi times givms
mninino . . Unf TVtrinff The
being maoe conceiiB '"""& iortunaie man mcj. -
glory control. day $12.50 was earned. The mon-
First we would like to remind ey will be used to buy outfits
hv the club members in
you again that the most euecuvc -- and
and economical way of control- , on Au 1 29. Gary
ing Canada thistle is spraying Tunis, leader of the club, re-
i. ot thp ratp i-j Uo armttior such DonV
Wltn amino inutuic i ' porieu mat """ , . a
- o j ttrro Tf annlled kaan cfhpduled for Sat-
OI o pounus hc -rr ----- nuc iinu
with a spray boom it snouiu uc urday, however, we mu nui
. . r ii , ,ntA. nf . . .. 1,. nn this
mixed in 20 ganons ui wolci wnat me results wcie -
Dick. Stadleman Ice Companv.
Mor-gas Company, The Dalles;
Paulen Kafseberg, Wasco; A B
Clough, Arlington; Northwest
Livestock Commission, Hermls
ton; Brady's Market, The Dalles;
Swift and Company, Portland.
JMOB
If UU tlK8
Evervone is complaining of rye
In their eraln this year, it ap-
npars there will be a good de
mand for some clean seed wneat
of the popular varieties. If you
have clean wheat or barley for
sale let us know so that we canp TRA
pass the word on to those who I nor are
hnvp nr will nou re for sucnii1 av-lc- . " .-,
llii ... o ...
1 1 r.iaA v, hand nozzle it Will
take 8 pounds in approximately
100 gallons of water per at-ic
to wet the plants thoroughly.
Those interested in morning
glory control favor the relatively
new chemical, TBA this year. Re
sults from applications of this
ohomioal under all kinds of con
ditions last year are good. If
there is any one point that
should be stressed It is to be
sure to get the recommended
amount nn ner acre. The Ore
gon State College recommenda
day.
TO THE
EDITOR
To The Editor:
I love the picture in last Thurs
day's oaner. but It Is not the
first school built In Heppner. The
school shown In the picture was
erected in the latter part of 1883
and the first classes were held
there that winter. It was a two
story, five room school. I am
positive that Mrs Elsie Lacy Al
ger did not teach in this old
school as she would have been
too young at that time. I was
attending this old school at the
time of the fire in 1892 that
burned it to the ground and so
was my sister, Mrs B H Peck.
Elsie attended the new school
built on the hill and may have
taught for a term or so after
graduating from there. She Is a
first cousin to Ralph Thompson.
The vcrv first school house ever
built In lionpiier quite a few
years before this one was built
became too small so they de
cided to build a new one on the
same lot. Here Is a little story
about the very first school ever
built, told to mo by Billy Cowlns
just before Olive and I moved
to Castle Rock. Story follows: -
I attended the very first school
ever built in Heppner, which
stood on the lots now occupied
by Wm McCaleb and Doctor
Wagner's clinic building. This
school house was a long, narrow
one story, two-room building. In
the early part of 1883 the people
decided to build a new and lar
ger school house as the popula
tion had grown so fast there was
not enough room in the old one.
They sold the old building to
Judge Dutton, nn old pioneer of
Heppner. He sawed the building
In half and moved It to a lot a
short way up the street from the
present location of the Christian
church. Here he put the two
halves back together and added
a little on and made a dwelling
out of it. It has been owned and
occupied bv Mrs Lottie Scher-
zinger for many years and she
still lives in the original school
of Heppner.
One time Art Minor and I and
some other boys stole a Jarge
wagon wheel from Nordyke's wa
gon shop (we, had several wagon
shops here then) and took it
to the top of the big hill just
west of the school house. We
never even thought of wrecking
the school house, but as you
know, Art Minor was always put
ting us boys up to something we
ought not to do. He conceived
the Idea of rolling the wheel
down to see if it would scare the
few teachers and small kids in
side the bulldine. It cot to roll-
nc so fast no power on eartn
could have stopped it. Once. It
swerved to one side and we held
our breaths for a while, as we
had become frightened by this
time, mu tne very om inick mm
self must have had hold of that
old wheel. Down it rushed with
faster and faster speed and fin
ally with a large crash It struck
the school house on the side to
the north. It completely demol
ished that half of the building
uul knocked the only blackboard
in the county about fifty feet
across the street. I meant that
part of Umatilla county that is
now Morrow county. We didn't
dare go back down the hill, but
ran away and hid. I didn't dare
tell this story until twenty years
had rolled away, ana men oniy
to my father. You are the very
first person outside my father
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From tht files oi th
Gazette-Times
July 11, 1929
Little Josephine Case, of Port
land, is spending the summer
with her grandmother, Mrs John
Grimes.
Among wheat farmers In the
Lexington section who begin
their harvest this week are Earl
Warner, Jimmy Leach, Nick
Nichols, John Miller, who started
their combines Monday.
sources.
We would like to remind all
of our readers of this column of
the referendum to be held July
23 on marketing quotas on the
1960 wheat crop. Everyone win
receive a notice of the voting
nlares of the referendum and if
anyone should be left out they
can get this Information by call-
ins the loca ASC office, farm
ers who are eligible to vote in
the wheat auota referendum are
all those who In 1960 will have
more than 15 acres of wheat as
rrrain on a farm, except for those
who are participating in the 1959
feed wheat program.
We are receiving a lot of In
quiries these days on recom
mendations for perennial weed
control. This is good. It is good
for three reasons, first, a good
farmer cannot continue oper
ating without a weed control pro
gram on his farm or rancn. A
perennial weed control is as im
portant as planting the best pro-
vertisements that 5 and 6 gal
lons are getting good control you
will have no consistant, perm
anent kills using rates under
the 10 gallon recommendation.
Most farmers are interested in
complete control when they go
to the expense of applying ster
Hants of the type which TBA
falls into. The 10 gallons of TBA
should be mixed with 20 to 30
gallons of water per acre when
anolied with a crop spray boom.
For treatine individual patches
with a hand nozzle it will take
10 gallons of TBA in at least
100 Gallons of water to wet each
acre as a heavy dew. One of the
nice things about TBA is that
it can be applied at anytime
of the year wltn comparable ei
fective results.
d.H piuh members who exhib
ito,i nnH sold fat animals at the
recent Oregon Wheat Growers
League fat stock snow ano saie
at Thp Dalles did very well at
the auction. While we do not
have the final average price re
poIvpH lamhs broueht ten cents
or more above market price, beef
four or five cents, swine live or
civ rents. Buvers of animals ex-
hihitPd bv our club members
were Bernard Doherty, Bank of
Eastern Oregon; and first flat
innai Rank. Heopner: William J
Doherty, Mrs Roy Martin, Harold
Beach, and Morrow county wain
Growers. Lexington; Pendleton
grain Growers, Hermlston; Wool-
worths, First National uanK, em
SASSY SO AND SEWS
Thp Sassv So and Sews 4-H
club met July 2 at the home of
Terry .Munkers.
Members present were Maur
een Doherty, Leora Van Winkle,
Jeanette Ledbetter, Phyllis and
Linda Thornburg, Barbara and
Mary Nichols, Glenda and Bar
bara McCorkle and Terry Munk-
ers.
visitors were Mrs Leonard
Munkers, Craig, Barry and Chris
Munkers and Becky Doherty.
We had our business meeting.
We then worked on our projects.
Most of us worKea on neaa
scarfs and but thre of us have
completed them. We are pro
ceeding with our stuffed toys.
Five of our new members are
planning to go to 4-H camp.
Our next meeting will be held
on July 18 at 2:00 p m at the
home of the McCorkles.
Beverly Davidson, reporter
Frank Anderson, Heppner and
Harvey Smith, lone both breed
ers of aualitv registered Here
ford cattle have this week made
additions to their herds which
will Improve the quality mater
lally. Frank has bought the top
IONE NEWS
Mrs Dale Bennett of Pendleton
has been visiting her sister and
family, Mr and Mrs David Ba
ker. Mr Bennett Is helping with
the work on the Baker farm.
A WHALE of a double bill: Audle
Murphy western plus PURSUIT
OF THE GRAFF SPEE, one of
the most stirring dramas of
our time. Both in color. Star
Theater, Thursday -Friday-
Saturday.
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. HAIL INSURANCE TODAY!
C. A. RUGGLES
INSURANCE AGENCY
PHONE 6-9625 HEPPNER
Mrs O'Shay and son Richard
are visiting at the home of Mr
and Mrs Harold Cohn in this
city, to remain during the ab
sence of Mr Cohn who is attend
ing the national Elks' conven
tion In Los Angeles.
From Roadmaster McCaleb we
gather the information that work
of improving the county and for
est roads in the timber belt
east and south of Heppner is
going on rapidly.
that I have ever told about this
I wonder what they will do with
me after all these vears? Mavbe
I will still have to go Jail. Mr
Grant was the proiessor men
The verv first professor In Hepp
ner was a man named Kennedy."
Hope this little story related
to me by an early day Heppner
school boy, Billy Covvins, will be
interesting to the people of Hep
pner.
Sincerely Yours,
O M Yeager
Castle Rock, Wn
STAR
THEATER
Thurs.. Frl.. Sat., July 9, 10, 11
No Name On The
Bullet
Audle Murphy, Joan Evans,
Charles Drake. PLUS
Pursuit Of The
Graff Spee
With John Gregson, Anthony
Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunt
er.
Sun- Mon Tues.. July 12, 13.
14
The Shaggy Dog
whh Fred MacMuiray, loin-
my Kirk. Jean Hagen.
Sunday at 2:30. 4:50 and 7:10.
Printing Is Our Buslnessl Sm Ui
torn where I sit ... Joe Marsh
Slim Pickins-Up!
Slim Thomas' wife thought
up pretty slick way to jet
Slim to clean up their front
porch.
Slim had a habit of leaving
his tools there before coming
into the house. And he'd al
ways tell his Missus he'd get
around to tidying up later.
So Mrs. T. nailed a large sign
to the porch for all passers-by
to see: "THOMAS' JUNK
"PILE, DUMP YOUR OLD
EQUIPMENT HERE!" When
Slim saw the sign he cleaned
that porch so fast he was
through before any junk de
positors turned up. Threw the
sign out, too.
From whrre I sit, sometimes
it takes the "dramatic" to show
folks they're wronr. But usual
ly you can solve things by talk
ing them out. For Instance, my
neighbor once objected to my
preference for an occasional
"(lass of beer. But after discuss
liH it with him, he realised he
was Just plain intolerant. Now
he accepts my choice as I ac
cept his. What do you say we
"clean up"J intolerant think-
Ins?
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