MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1833. The Heppner Times established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
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From The
County Agent's Office
By N C ANDERSON
Several days ago we received
In this office a list of the class
es which would be offered this
year at the Washington State
College short course. The list in
eluded over 150 different lecture
and laboratory periods with more
than 80 guest professors to par
ticipate. The short course will
bo held this year during the
week of December 6. Those from
Morrow county who have attend
ed this short course In the past
years have felt It one of the most
worthwhile events they have par
ticipated in. An example of some
of the short course classes In
clude antibiotic feeding of loose
salt to control diseases, princi
ples of genetics for the purebred
breeder, the changing need for
minerals in stock feeding, lamb
feeding, producing meat hogs
from inbreds, breeding better
livestock, how to develop a range
improvement program, lowering
the Incidence of bloat, special
wool school, range seeding reas
ons for success or failure, fer
tility school, soil testing, Can
adian experience with artificial
insemination on range, new for
age crops, their development, re
lease and recommended ' man
agement; virus diseases of cat
tle, pasture and pasture man
agement, farm house remodeling,
and many, many more just as
Interesting. A number of ranch
ers have Inquired at the office
on the p'artlculars of the 6hort
course. We would be glad to pro
vide further Information for
other interested persons.
Recent reminder from Ralph
Clark, Oregon State College ex
tension horticulturist, suggests
that rose bushes be planted In
the fall so they will have the op
portunity to develop a good root
system and consistently out
bloom those planted In the
spring. Before pla n 1 1 n g the
ground should be prepared deep
and thoroughly. Spread the roots
out well, setting the plant at
approximatoiy the same depth
it grew in the nursery. Plant
firmly and water well, so that
no air pockets remain around the
roots.
This week all of our farm poo
pie should have received In the
mall a farm census form which
will be used in taking the 1959
agricultural census. We would
suggest that you sit down soon,
look this over, and fill out the
form as completely as possible,
Later the census taker will con
tact you to pick up the complct
.i i t
t-u lorm anu neip you II you
have questions. Inform a t i o n
gathered by this census, taker,
every five years is necessary be
cause of the Information they
provide for better planning by
iarm people, their representa
tives and the government.
As a result of the wheat and
barley nursery trial at the Frank
Anderson farm, discussed in this
column two weeks ago, a num
ber of office and phone calls
have been received regarding
some of the varieties grown.
Most Interest was shown in the
yields of two barleys, Hudson
and a Moro selection. For those
who have inquired, we do have
more Information now received
recently from the experiment sta
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PLUS
Mark Of The Hawk
Sidney Poitler, Ertha Kltt
John Mclntyre.
Sutu, Mon., Tues., Oct 25, 26
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Imitation Of Life
A Big Ticture with John Ga
vin, Sandra Dee, Lana Turner.
Robert Alda and many more.
Sunday at 4, 6:20, 8:4a
ROBERT PENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
tion. Hudson barley was released
by Cornell in 1951. It is grown
extensively in the east and to
some extent in Ohio and Illinois,
It has been grown at the Sher
man branch experiment station
at Moro for seven years. It's
yield appears to be better than
Olympia and its winter hardiness
about as good. It was severely
winter damaged in 1956. The sta
tion is not willing to recommend
Hudson over Alpine as yet. Al
pine is more winter hardy, stif
fer strawed and more shatter
resistant than Hudson. Hudson is
somewhat earlier maturing than
Alpine. Seed iias not been gen
erally available. The Moro sel
ection is a high yielding variety
when it does not winter kill.
It requires a good blanket of
snow to protect it. The station
does not consider releasing it
until they have more years of
experience with its winter hardi
ness. Bill Hall, superintendent at
the station, advises within the
past three years some very good
looking winter barley varieties
have come from Purdue and Mis
souri. These will be placed in
our nurseries next year. He ad
vises also that there are some
hybrid barleys from crosses made
at Corvallis which should have
good chance of , producing a
satisfactory variety. It appears
By Jackie
years and several
Three
months
ago, some citizens
brought forth upon this commun
lty a new sport, conceived for
fun and dedicated to the prop
osition that all golfers are creat
ed equal. Now we are engaged
in this great pastime, testing
whether this golfer or any golfer
so conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure. (And at this
point in the game I think sev
eral of us are beginning to won
der.) Our ladies day Tuesday, seem
ed to be a day of dedication to
Willow Creek and the swamps,
for it seemed no one wanted to
play the "fairway" and we were
penalized numerous strokes for
'illegal use of hands". (Could
be said we also were searching
for the perverbial missing
"links" for we could never seem I
to find the middle of the fair
way.) The so-called female golf
ers were Marguerite Chapin, Sue
Valentine, Hazel Mahoney, Gene
Case, Cork Norene, DeP Gribble,
Irene Wilson, Coramae Ferguson,
Marie McQuarrie, Faye Ruhl, Vi
Lanham, and myself. New golf
balls were awarded to Cork for
having the lowest not score
(that's with your handicap sub
tracted from your gross score)
and Coramae for having the
least number of putts.
LADIES DAY LAMENTS: Hazel
driving her tee further than her
ball on one hole . . . Cork and
Dee having a swamping good
time on the no 5 hole . . . Irene
(playing her first game of golf)
doing real well considering she
had four amateurs giving her ad
vice from every side . . . Cora
mae having trouble with the no
From where
lanoi
Last week, the Clarion ad
vertised homemakliif course
t Iven by the Woman's Club.
"Seemed a fine idea to me,"
Red Davis told me later, "so I
showed the ad to my wife. Told
her she'd learn how to do new
things mote efficiently, too."
"liut all she did was look at
me and smile," Red continued.
" 'You men,' she said, 'always
thinking of more work for
women. Learn new tilings?
Why, I haven't even got the
time to do all the old ones!' "
From where I sit, a lot of us
do leap Into the new at the ex-
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
inmrmrmrirrrra
that we might look forward to
new and better winter barleys
to be released in the next few
years.
The range improvement pro
gram which we have mentioned
in this column as planned for
the Wilkinson and Rugg ranch
operations got underway last
week. First seeding operation
was on mountain range with the
use of the grass land drill, seed
ing alta fescue, intermediate
wheatgrass and nomad alfalfa
on depleted rangeland. The mod
ified grassland drill is being
used to prepare seedbed and seed
all in one operation. George
Rugg will continue to make such
seedings as long as weather per
mits this fall. Cooperating with
George this office established
last week a grass legume nurs
ery at marker s Miu. ine nurs
ery contains 50 different varieties
of grasses and legumes which
will be compared for adapta
bility to the area, winter hardi
ness and palatability. Among the
varieties being compared are 11
wheatgrasses, 4 bluegrasses, 4
bromegrasses, 4 fescues, 6 al
falfa and 5 clovers, meadow fox
tail, orchard grass and tall oat
grass were some of the other
grasses seeded in the nursery.
The prepared seedbed in the
same field was drilled to combi
nations of alta fescue and in
termediate wheat grass; smooth
brome, tall oatgrass and Drum-
mond timothy with nomad alfal
fa, yellow blossom sweet clover,
alslke, and two varieties of sub,Wlnner of the area contest will
Over The
Tee Cup
Labhart
8 hole .
Marie driving into
la certain obstacle on the no 2
hole . . . Faye, who has justeth Lynn Smouse, Roland Ek
played the course a few times, strom, Ione and Russell Dolven,
putting "circles" around her vet- Lexington placed 6th at the pac-
eran foursome.
Golfers seen on the course dur-' 1
ing the last week were Reverend
Knox, Reverend Rydgren, Amn
brose Chapin, Coramae and Ray
mond Ferguson, Ed Bennett, Ha
zel Mahoney, N D Bailey, Lester
Doolittle, Ned Sweek, Faye Ruhl,
Velma Glass, Marie and Clint
McQuarrie, Vi and Conley Lan
ham, Bob Jones, Dick Meador,
Father Spencer, and Frank An
derson.
ODDS AND ENDS: Our thanks
to Dee for taking the time and
effort to figure the handicaps for
our gal golfers, which are now
posted on the bulletin board . . .
Ed Bennett, Lester Doolittle, and
N D Bailey are three of our
most avid golfers, for I think
they must play at least nine
holes every day of the week . . .
overheard that Sunday the four
some of Marie and Clint Mc
Quarrie, Dee Gribble and Ned
Sweek had their troubles with
the no 4 hole and that all in
all it just wasn't their day for
golf ... the railroad has put
up "right-a way" markers in the
no 1 and no 2 fairways, and be
lieve me they are aptly named
for they are "right in the way"
(just ask Coramae).
The 'ol tea pot has just about
perked dry for this week, so un
til next tee time when I'll have
a fresh cup of tee talk; stay
with it golfers and maybe we'll
"iron" out our troubles by "put
ting" along with grim determin
ation and "wood" be confidence.
k&vm tit mrW?
I sit ... Joe Marsh
Airs. Davis
es the "ADvice
prnse of the old. Take the idea
of tolerance, for instance. It'a
been around for centuries . . .
but It's something we can
never bypass. Tolerance de
uta.iJs d.iily respect tot the
other feilow's preference
and that im lull's be erases.
Tolerance doesn't mean that
you h,n e to like a (lass of beer
for Saturday nlht supper
just as I don't have to choose
buttermilk. Just respect the
next man' choice.
From the files of the
Gazette-Times
October 24, 1929
R C Phelps, who recently came
to Heppner from Wapato, Wash, i.
1 "iakllhiS Clty J?ls "I'attendance and" several members
home, announces the opening of
the Phelps Funeral Home on
Monday, October 28th.
Several Hardman hunters en
joyed the season. Those killing
deer are John and Carry Hast
ings, Owen Leathers, Herbert Mc
Daniel, Chas McDaniel, Dick and
Gus Steers.
Mr and Mrs Chas Thomson,
Mrs W P Mahoney and Mr and
Mrs ranK s Parker formed a
party driving to Pendleton Tues
day afternoon to attend a meet
Ing of the dads and mothers of
the University of Oregon
Among Heppnerites attending
the Oregon-Idaho grid classic
in Portland Saturday were Mr
and Mrs W R Poulson, Mr and
Mrs Gay Anderson and Gay, Jr,
David A Wilson, Dean T Good
man, Paul M Gemmell and C L
Sweek.
Mrs Holmes Gabbert and
daughter, Patricia Ann of Port
land are guests at the home of
Mrs Gammert's parents, Mr and
Mrs Dwight Misner of lone.
clover. Information gained from
these seedings will be used in
an overall range seeding pro
gram planned by Wilkinson and
Rugg.
Anyone and everyone is in
vited to hear a speaking contest
which will be held at the Hepp
ner high school on Tuesday af
ternoon, October 27. The contest
sponsored by the Heppner Soil
Conservation District will select
a winner who will DarticiDare
in the area speech contest to
be held at the civic recreation
center in Hermiston, October 29.
represent these districts at the
state contest being held in con
junction with the Oregon Assoc
iation of Soil Conservation Dis
tricts to be held at Salem on
November 4, 5 and 6. Contes-
noma are memoers or kov lurKs
speech class and L L Robbins
agricultural class at the Heppner
high school.
This week a 4-H livestock
judging team consisting of Ken-
luc international Livestock Ex-
positon at Portland. The team
M "'ra,"i''"lon W1 omer
. ..T'" vvasmngion, uregon
and Idaho.
The first place team from Urn-
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ROCK HOUND'S
CORNER
By BETTY WAGNER
What a pleasant evening the
rock hounds spent together at
the Paul Brown ranch just north
of Heppner last Saturday even
ing, October 17. We had a good
brought some of their specimens
for us to see. George Miller had
several trays of arrowheads, gem
cabochons, and miniature tools
made of jade; and Joe Baltrinus
showed us some very interest
ing specimens real conversation
pieces. Sheriff and Mrs Bauman
brought a limb cast and the
Babbs did some sawing on it
the next day. Reports are that
the cut showed a hollow center
framed like a window with
beautiful black and brown mossy
dendrites in the clear iris frame.
What is a dendrite? Webster
says a dendrite is a branching,
treelike mark made by one min
eral crystallizing in another.
After a short business meet-
ione
School Notes
lone high school student body
officers for 1959-60 are: Gregory
Leyva, president; Bob Akers,
vice president; Karen Lundell,
secretary -treasurer; Evelyn Jep
sen, assistant secretary-treasurer;
Paula Barak, annual editor;
Dalene McDonald, paper editor; ;
and Mary Emert, Brenda Town
send and Judy Morgan, yell lead
ers. atilla county had a score of
2000 points, while the Morrow
team in 6th place scored 1896
points.
Kenneth Smouse was the 5th
high individual judge for the
P I contest. He was competing
against 150 other judges. I think
Kenneth should be congratula
ted for his fine performance.
First place individual judge
was Barbara Wittmer from Crook
county with 737.5 points. Smouse
in 5th place was close behind
with 694.8 points.
Final arrangements have
been completed for the soils
i judging worKsnop xo De neia at
Heppner on Thursday, October
29. The program will get under
way at l:0rj P M at the fair
pavilion annex.
Howard Cushman, extension
soils specialist, Oregon State
College, will be on hand for the
program. Anyone interested in
soil, its quality and make-up is
liivueu 10 attenu.
This workshop had previously
been tentatively scheduled for
October 28. Please note this
change on your calendar.
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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES,
ing, our program chairman, Ran-
dall Peterson, gave a very in
formative talk on opals. Since
opals have a 6-10 water con
tent, the tendency is for them to
fracture after they are dug and
exposed to the air due to rapid
dehydration. One suggestion to
prevent this is to coat the opals
with olive oil as soon as possible
after they have been dug. There
are different kinds of fire opals
with the black opals being the
most expensive. Opals are very
beautiful, among the most beaut
iful of the gem stones, but be
cause they are soft they do not
tolerate a lot of abuse as they
can scratch and fracture.
Doc and Mrs Babb showed
some lovely colored slides of
their rock hunting trips last win
ter in Arizona. One slide showed
Mrs Babb talking to a man
named Orval Ewing who tra
vels around the country in his
covered wagon. I understand he
is quite an interesting person
ality and early last summer Sat
urday Evening Post carried a
write-up and pictures of him. He
has 5 burros and on the back of
one rode a striped goat; a dog
rode on another one and a rooster
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Chew's eat o .v,rtia
nevvs Sot a unole new approach to truck
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Thursday, October 22, 1959
and banty hen scared the back
v v. .v. DaDDS
plan to leave soon for their an
nual vacation trip to Arizona and
we are. looking forward t0 the
many pictures and rock speci
mens they will have to show us
upon their return here. Delicious
refreshments were served con
cluding the evenings program.
LEXINGTON
The Women's Fell 0 w s h i p
group met at the home of the
president, Mrs Florence McMil
lan on Tuesday afternoon with
6 members present.. Plans were
made for the bazaar and dinner
to be held Dec 5th. At this time
fancy work, aprons, and Christ
mas decorations will be sold. Re
freshments were served to the
following, Dollie Smith, LaVerne
Henderson, Delpha Jones, June
Davidson, Annie Keene and the
hostess.
IMITATION OF LIFE is no imi
tation, it's the REAL THING.
Fannie Hurst's best-selling no
vel is GREAT! Every character
is a person. Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, Star Theater. Sunday
at 4, 6:20, 8:40.
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