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MOBBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPIR The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1868. The Heppner Timet established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 NIWSPAMt rUIUSHIRS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAKD Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL IDITOIIAl -r BJiiiiui h.'.i rrm Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $4.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. From The County Agent's Office By N C ANDERSON During the next several weeks cattlemen will be weaning their 1959 calves. At this time most pf them will be selling weaning calves after they have picked their replacement heifers. Sever al things should be considered in this heifer calf selection. Weight at weaning time can be a useful guide in selecting these beef herd replacements, but the stockman must take into account the sex and age of the calf and age of the mother. Guides set up by Michigan State College to balance out weaning weights of calves before putting them on a feeding test for final selection include: 1. Each day older a calf is at weaning time, its weight is 1V pounds heavier, on the av erage. 2. Steer calves are 15 pounds heavier, on the average at wean ing time (six months of age) than are heifer calves. 3. Two-year-old cows will have calves the are about 50 pounds lighter at weaning than they will have a mature cows. 4. Three or four-year-old cows will have calves that weigh at weaning in between two-year-old heifers' calves and mature cows' calves. The college also noticed some other factors that influence weaning weights, in addition to these four Just listed. Dlf feren ces In weaning weights are due to mothering ability of the individual cow, genetic differences in the calves' makeup and environmental dif ferences, such as disease and ac cess to feed. About one-fourth of the dif ference In weaning weights is caused by genetic differences, one-fourth of mothering ability of the cow and one-half by en vironmental differences. Fair time is upon us. By the time that you read this column many of the activities will have STAR THEATER Thurs.. Frl. 29 Sat, Aug. 27, 28, WATUSI With George Mon tgomery, Talna Elg, Rex Ingram, Da vid Farrar. TLUS The Oregon Trail In color. Sun., Mon., Tues., Aug. 30, 31, Sept. 1 Green Mansions Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J Cobb. Sessue Hayakawa. Sunday at 4, 6 and 8. taken place. There will be many important activities, however, that you will want to see if you have not been to the fair. On Friday morning the grand champion 4-H showman will be selected. This contest is one of the ones of the fair in that the ciub member Is not only devel oping himself but also Is show ing off how well a job he has done in working with his animal, fitting, grooming and training it during the year. We are pleas ed that there are so many people interested In this contest as shown by the number of trophies offered. Besides the grand cham pion showman trophy that I have had the privilege of awarding for the past twelve years, many more have been added. For sev eral years Jordon Elevator Com pany has provided trophies to the high placing junior sheep, swine, beef and dairy showman. This year Morrow County Grain Growers has provided trophies for winners of each of these classes in Intermediate and sen ior divisions. Central Market and Grocery and Turner, Van Marter and Bryant have provided show manship trophies for the small fry, junior, Intermediate and sen ior 4-H saddle horse showman. Paul Pettyjohn, lone, has pro vided a trophy for the grand champion 4-H horse showman. There are trophies for livestock judging, agricultural demonstra tion, and grand champion beef. All are verjj much appreciated and add a lot to encouraging boys and girls In the 4-H club program. There will be a horse show all day Friday, which Is one of the best in the northwest. B.veryone Is Invited to attend the pig scramble and 4-H livestock auc tion sale at the judging arena at 7:30 Friday evening. There will be the same good quality livestock which will provide you with that good meat for your locker as well as helping the boys and girls. Fair exhibits will be on display all day Saturday so after you have seen the par ade go out and look around. We'll see you at the fair! factory for spring wheat. Some have asked why the protection against soil-borne smut is im portant. It Is important because of the long duration of spores in Infected soils, particularly in dry land winter wheat areas, be ing responsible for the contin uation of the infestation once it is established. Smut was almost non-existant in this years wheat crop, therefore, wheat being used for seed should be free from seed -borne smut spores. The danger of infection then comes from soil-borne smut and only HCB gives adequate protection against this phase of the dis ease. Others ask why worry a bout smut when we have resis tant varieties such as Omar. Even Omar is not resistant to all races of smut. Already Omar has been attacked by a new race of smut in some areas, but as yet none of this race has appear ed in Oregon. By effective treat ment against both seed and soil- borne smut spores we can pro long the time that new races of smut will develop. Losing a re sistant variety because of smut cost everybody money so lets prolong the number of years we can keep them by doing a good job of seed treatment. GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, August 27, 1959 2 HEPPNER pt t 1 ' 1 Hi V a V s f cm IK... .it. ,A - A V. ' ' I " . . - r u V " m K .- . F ' ' THIRTY YEARS AGO From the files of (he Gazette-Times August 29- 1929 The combine belonging to Joe Batty of near Hardman was to tally destroyed by fire on Thurs- day afternoon last wnuc at in his field four miles out of Hardman. The Misses Anita Hughes and Dorothy Kelly of Umapine were honor guests at a lawn party given at the Frank W Turner home on Saturday evening. E N Gonty and sons Ed, Jr and Thomas returned Saturday I TO I evening from a two weeks' va- AW I cation spent at Portland and the coast. The McMurray clan held a MIGHTY FINE EATING This fat beef Is typical of the 4-H animals that will go on sale at Friday evening's fat stock auction sale at the fair. Scheduled to be sold are a sizeable number of steers, lambs and hogs. The auction will start at 7:30 p m. Over The Tee Cup By Jackie Lafobart While many of our farmers have treated their seed wheat there are still many questions asked everyday concerning rec ommendations for seed treat ment. Recently we checked with Dr C S Holton, head of the reg ional smut laboratory stationed In Pullman, Washington con cerning some new products on the market. He emphasized that there has been nothing yet de veloped to take the place of HCB for treating winter wheat for smut control. Some of the HCB products being offered on the market are: Anticarie, No-bunt, Sanocide, Smut-go. Stauffer HCB, Calspay HCB, etc. These are ef fective In controlling both seed borne and soli-borne smut spores. Mercury preparations are effective only against seed-borne sproes; they are recommended for oats and barley are satis- The recent disaster in Rose burg is causing some unneces sary concern about the use of ammonium-nitrate, one of the most popular and economical nitrogen carrying fertilizers used by Oregon farmers. Many news stories could have left the Im pression that it was ammonium-1 nitrate alone that caused the gigantic explosion, although some news stories emphasized that it was an explosive mixture of ammonium nitrate and diesel oil that caused the damage. Art King, Oregon State College soil conservation specialist points out that ammonium-nitrate alone will neither burn nor explode, but it Is used in various forms and in various combinations to make dynamite and other ex plosives. Sodium chlorate, potas sium nitrate, and sodium nitrate are other common materials that could serve the same purpose. Several years ago ammonium nitrate was blamed for the ex plosion that leveled Texas City, Texas. But here again the amon-ium-nitrate had been mixed with a waxy material, somewhat sim ilar to diesel oil and which pro vided the carbon and hydrogen to make up the other end of the explosive mixture. A couple of years ago a fertilizer storage shed on the state college cam pus burned with no explosion and for other than the fact that the covers on the outside were burned off the ammonium-nitrate was not harmed. As a sep arate material, diesel oil is much more dangerous than fertilizer grade ammonium-nitrate. This does not mean that ammonium nitrate should not be treated with equal respect. Remember that if it is mixed with an or ganic material, it can become BARBECUED Beef Dinner EPISCOPAL PARISH HOUSE Saturday, Aug. 29 SERVED FROM 5 P. M. A COMPLETE DINNER OF BARBECUED BEEF. BAKED BEANS, BAKED POTATOES. TOSSED SALAD AND DESSERT Adults Children Under 12 $1.75 75c Prepared And Served by The Episcopal Men Cheerio! It's tee time again, and even tho' the ingredients for this cup have been in the "bag" all during the month, this brew er of tee talk was way off "course"" and was unable to get off of the California freeways onto the Heppner fairways to pour out this receptacle of non sense for some three weeks. But in between ballgames we man aged to squeeze in a few rounds of golf on several large courses in the bay area as well as sev eral on the Oregon coast; so we weren't completely out of shape when we played our course on Sunday. Among those also on the links Sunday were the Allan Cases, the Ambrose Chaplns (am so glad to see them taking up golf), the Al Mattoons, Harlan Mc Curdy, the Ed Shaffitz, the Ray mond Fergusons, Velma Glass, Phil and Bob Mahoney, Larry Prock, LaVern Van Marter Sr., John Piper and Steve Flug. With this autumn air anhil ating any ambition for routine chores, golf seems to be first and foremost in all link lovers' Itin erary during this time of year. Our ladies day competition Tues day was no exception as four teen foolhardy females disre garded rodeo and school prep arations to partake in this week ly golfing get-together. Those playing were Marguerite Chapin, Bobbie Driscoll, Hester Creswick, Coramae Ferguson, Helen Schaf fitz, Gene Case, Dee Gribble, Kay Robinson, VI Lanham, Bonnie Mattoon, Vivian Williams, Hazel Mahoney, Marie McQuarrie and myself. Before teeing off we all load of lambs to Heppner Sat- urday. Mr and Mrs Loyd Geinger and baby were In Heppner for the weekend. Mrs Jim Croker and Mrs June Hutchison were in John Day Fri day on business. Gerald Slocum was up from The Dalles for a few days taking care 01 Dusiness. Mr and Mrs Ernest Johnson re turned home Wednesday from a tour in Canada. They took in some sight seeing and did some fishing. Ben S Spain's company for the weekend were his two sisters and a brother-in-law. They at tended the Co-op picnic Satur day then in the evening the costume dance given by the Leg ion and auxiliary. Owen Smith was in for the weekend with his family. He is at a camp near Eugene. Mrs H W Scott took care of i, at thp family dinner ... tavern Saturday while f. Tnn Ha o home on . x. - . Street at lone. Mrs J F Swanson has return ed from a pleasant visit with her daughter, Mrs Elmo McMil lan, In Salem. Monument selected a' handicap for our selves, which when subtracted place us somewhere between 30 from our actual score would and 35 for a net score. (Sounds complicated but it really wasn't, except in some cases when a person would give themselves too much of a handicap and end up with a score way below 30). Ha zel and I both parred No 7 which was the hidden hole; Vi, Bobbie, Hester, Hazel and I all tied for the fewest number of putts, and on the "choose your own handi cap" competition number 33 was drawn and Kav with a 51-18, nni Vivian with a 48-15 both Mrs Dick Hiese, haH a 33. , Billy Neal, Frank Elder and Ben S Spain and Jack Sweek made a quick trip to Coeur d' Alene. Idaho Wednesday and Thursday to get Ben's car that had broken down on a recent trip. Elzy Emery and Stanley Boyer drove to Portland Sunday even ing with a load of stock. While in the valley they visited Emery s father, Albert Emery and Miss Aldura Briggs and returned home Tuesday evening with a load of building material. Hugh Jackson drove Mrs Wilhur Flowers to Prineville Wednesday to visit Wilbur Flow ers. Mr and Mrs Sonny Hiese and daughter spent the weekend at Ritter with his folks, Mr and LADIES DAY LAMENTS: Helen giving herself a 41 handicap and then shooting a 52 (now as any one can plainly see that would give her an 11 for a net score which would certainly make her a pro among pros) . . . Kay hav ing trouble with her head again (guess she needs blinders) . . . Marguerite and Gene with a real different follow-through kick . , . Hazel losing all the flips of the coin .... "Chloe" Gribble with the swamp song blues (seems as tho' while searching the swamp for other golfer's balls she developed welts on both legs. Says she is either going to burn all the weeds or quit being a good Samaritan). Gene and Hazel will be in charge of ladles day activities during the month of September and tee off time next Tuesday will be at 8:30. That about does it for this week but I will drain the cup a part of an explosive material. Dirty warehouses could, in real ity become dynamite. Any stor age place should be kept clean and free from both dirt and loose ammonium-nitrate. Chaff, feed, sulfur, oil, and molasses are especially dangerous. Any material from broken or leak ing bags should be swept up and removed from the prem ises. Burn bags as they are emptied. Smiths took in the Co-op picnic. Mr and Mrs Wayne Leathers and Buzzy, Deanne, Billy Neal, Jerry and Hankie Cupper left Monday morning for Chico, Cal ifornia to visit their daughter and family, the Abe Gates. The boys will go on to Las Vegas, Nevada to visit the Tom Youngs, who used to live here. Mr and Mrs Fred Shank drove to Madras last week on business then on to Portland to visit a few days with Miss Laura Lee Shank, who is in school there. The American Legion and aux iliary's costume dance was held Saturday night in the gym and was well attended. Several cash prizes to small tots, then Jimmy Neel won the prize for Indian boy, Jerry Cupper for high school class prize, Mr and Mrs Bob Holmes for a couple, they were dressed as cave man and lady. Isabell Neel won a live pig as a big black cat, then she auc tioned off the pig, which Fat Robertson won. Door prizes went to Archie Cox and Miss Theo Van Detta. Mrs Bob Neel and children drove to Prairie City Thursday on busi ness. Mrs Jack Sweek and children came home Friday night from Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, where she had been visiting the past two weeks. .Mrs June Hutchison and four children were Sunday dinner guests at the Dick Hiese ranch home near Ritter. Mrs Stella McCarty and daughter Alene spent Friday night at Spray with her sister and family, the Darrell Dulan eys. Saturday morning they all drove to Heppner on business and back to Monument 'for the big costume dance Saturday ev ening. Jack Cavender drove a truck with this parting advice . . . . Hit your ball gently, as you would pluck a plum, and it won't end up in a "Jam". Mr and Mrs Ted Smith return ed Saturday evening from a two week vacation spent at the Met olius River and also visiting their son, Mr and MrS Phil Smith, who live in Springfield. g LUTHERANS May we show you what Luth eran Brotherhood will do for you. WrlU STANLEY McCALLUM .1923 W. 5th Ave. Kennawlck, Wash. . - FOLLETT .MEAT CO. Hermlston, Ore. Ph. JO 7-6SS1 On Hermlston-McNary Highway CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING WHOLESALE MEATS NOW smguard AGAINST EXPENSES OF CANCER -v " urn i . and 13 wifttr:myi DREADED VSSO DISEASES A K Ask about our new insurance policy that pays expenses of up to $10,000 to each member of the family for 13 dreaded diseases including polio, dlptheria, meningitis etc, PLUS special cancer plan that will pay up to $1500, $2000 or 52500 for each member of the family. It is our newest dreaded disease policy. 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