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The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1868. The Heppner Timet established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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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.
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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
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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
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Adults Children Under 12
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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.
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