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MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Time established November 18, 1897. Consolldatd February 15, 1912 Cr NiWSMlft PUIlIf HIRI ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher G RETCH EN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATION At EDITORIAL g1lAc5"" Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $4.03 Year; Elsewhere $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Give the Firemen a Chance! Every so often, it seems, people of almost every community have to be reminded that there are some quite stringent state and city laws governing the behavior of motorists during fires. Between those periodic remindings, most drivers apparently have a complete lapse of memory . . until, that Is, a policeman stirs up their think tank a little. After seeing the actions of 50 or 75 drivers during last Friday evening's fire In the north end of Heppner, it must again be time for some memory-jogging. During that fire nearly a dozen cars deliberately drove over fire hose before police could be gathered to clear the streets. Cars also followed so closely to the fire trucks that it was literally necessary to bulldoze some of them out of the way so a pumper could even get close enough to a fire hydrant to lay a line of hose, and then by the time the truck had a chance to lay its line and return the nearly two blocks to the hydrant so it could pump, the street was so plugged with traffic that it had difficulty getting through at all. Both city and state laws prohibit the follow ing of a fire truck closer than 500 feet (that Is about two blocks), and it is also against the law to purposly park a car closer than 500 feet to the scene of a fire. (This does not, of course, apply to authorized firemen). A fire truck at times may be forced to run over fire hose to get back to a hydrant or to get other equipment to a blaze, but a motorist does not have that right, and those who do so in the future may find themselves digging up a sizeable fine. Such regulations have a definite purpose and if it should happen to be your own house that is ablaze, you'd want the firemen to have every chance to control it as quickly as possible. That's the reason for such laws. Let's give the boys a chance. It won't hurt the spectators to wait at least a couple of min utes to run for a fire, and it could mean that firemen will be able to save a house, or store, or maybe even a life. From The County Agent's Office By N C ANDERSON This is the time of year when our beef cattle operators should be considering various methods of cutting out some of the over head of their operations. Many have culled cows that for some reason or another have not raised a calf or have some particular thing wrong with them. One practice which more breeders should use Is that of pregnancy testing their beef herd. By doing this between now and December 31, there will be cows In the herd which can be sold before very much expensive hay Is fed. Calving percentages will In crease whore this is done. This Is a job that needs to be done by an experienced veterinarian. The charges for It will vary de pending on the distance the vet erinarian has to travel and the number of cows to be checked. Economically speaking, this is money well spent. While a complete slory of last Saturday evening's achievement party elsewhere in this paper, we cannot help but make a few ob servations on this highly success ful event. It is gratifying to compare the 1959 event with the one of some recent years, espec ially with ten years ago. Atten dance at Saturday night's party was estimated at 375 compared to the one held at Lexington Grange hall in 1949 which drew 180. While 4-H enrollment has not increased proportionately, there has been a sizable increase. up operation can be repeated again In mid-winter or early spring when dormant spray ap plications are usually made on roses, peaches, apples and pears. All trees other than evergreens can be pruned anytime now as fall comes on with cooler j weather. The main reason for waiting for winter is to allow the leaves to fall to avoid the weight and bulk of handling and to better see what may need to be removed. Remember that the more you prune, the more the tree will grow. Broken, dead ap pearing limbs make up the main pruning needed. Rose bushes should be headed back only enough to prevent their whip ping in the winter winds. It left too tall, they whip and will loosen the soft wet soil, often severely damaging the root sys tem. Some of the old parts of the hush can also be removed lit they are heavy with growth. (Keeping soil around the base of the rose bushes is also helpful In colder areas. At this time of the year many questions are received at the of fice concerning the home or chard, garden and yard. As these areas are prepared for the win ter, it should be kept in mind that many of the home orchard and garden diseases In shrubs, ornamentals and annuals are carried over from year to year on leaves. Haking up the leaves and disposing of them in the fall instead of waiting until spring can be one of the good methods vi keeping clown some of this disease. Rose diseases such as rust and leaf spot over winter on old leaves either on plants or on the ground. Apple and pear scab, and several other diseases are reproduced from year to year on leaves or old flower petals. By raking and cleaning up this fall, a good start can be made on disease control for next year. Leaves may be burned or burled on the bottom of a compost pile. The raking and general clean Swine growers who are adept in do-It-yoursolf will be Inter ested in a recent issue of swine equipment plans which is avail able from the Midwest Plan Service, a copy of which is a vailable in this office for your inspection. There are over 50 plans in the book which varies from planning a complete hog layout with self feeders, troughs, waterers, sun shades, sorting and loading chutes, fences, gates, farrowing stalls and what have you. "GOOD SHOWS" NO-GOOD One show might be a good show but not good. Another could be a no-good show but good. Sound like George Ade or Will Rogers? No, Bob Thornton? Rlcrhtl Attorney General Robert Y Thornton has been taking a legal slant at recent TV pranks. He sees them legally clear, that Is as seen through the big holes in Oregon law on the subject. Thornton says there Is no Ore gon law that says TV programs made in this state have to be honest any more than there Is a law saying a theatrical show "on the stage" must be true. What constitutes deception or fraud upon the public is some thing lhat is not known to have bothered either Shakespeare or Gladstone. One of the near misses is the Oregon law that requires a can didate shall not use a portrait cf himself In the voter's pam phlet that Is more than five years old. Some, who yet have their Centennial beards, are hap py to comply with this law. An Oregon statute makes the pre sentation of a show drama or play which "purports to be the criminal exploits of any desper ado or convicted felon" a misde meanor. Until the U S Attorney General makes his recommenda tions, expected In January, about all that Oregonians can do is to flip off the set. CHRISTMAS TREE SALES Too many characters have been celebrating Christmas by swiping Christmas trees from state-owned forest lands. Forestry Department attach es and State Police regard these renegades of decency as one degree above zero, u me thieves Dersist news might break that they have been apprehen ded with one foot in a bear trap, the ether being measured lor welding on an Oregon boot Nn Christmas trees will be sold this year from state-owned forest lands, and the Forestry Depart ment will maintain intensive pa trols to see that none are stolen. The trouble has been most a cute in the Tillamook Burn and other re-forested lands. Enforcement will made easier bv a new law which requires per sons hauling more than five Christmas trees to have evidence of ownership. HIGHWAY BIDS LOWER Successful bids on 12 Oregon hiehwav urolects were 11.9 per cent below estimates when open ed Tuesday by the Highway De partment The total of the bids was $3,831,315 which included a new highway shop building in Sa lem, work on the East Bank Freewav. which will carry Pacific Highway traffic through the heart of Portland: this contract calls for demolition of seven buildings. Also on the list was a major project for construction of Thi.s Is a last minute reminder to all sheep men who might be interested in the annual Ore gon Purebred Sheep Breeders As sociation bred ewe sale which will be held at Rlckerall, Oregon on Saturday, November 14. The sale will bo held at the Polk county fairgrounds Va mile south of Rickreall on 99W. It gets under way at 10 A M with over 150 bred ewes and ewe lambs for sale. Those who might be in terested and have not seen the catalog can look at one at this office. A few cattlemen have been asking about a Bangs test for their herd this fall. Some have iound that they cannot get their herd tested in the usual manner. Recently the county livestock disease control committee check ed into the situation and found that wltli the ail out drive for state-wide Bangs certification that funds for further testing are limited. While local veter inarians were doing this testing, state and federal veterinarians are now responsible for this un less other arrangements are made. Dr George Puis, Union is the veterinarian who will test herds in this area. Anyone wish ing to make arrangements for such testing might contact mem bers of the disease control com mittee which includes Ronald Currin, Heppner, chairman; Jerry Brosnan, Randall Martin ana Kenneth Turner or this office. Arrangements have been made for a soils day on Wednesday afternoon, November 18. This field day is a result of a num ber of questions brought up by some of our wheat ranchers who arc more inquisitive about the physical make up of their soil. Many of them want to know how much soil there Is available to support the plant, what the restrictive layers are and how some of these might be broke up by various tillage practices. Others are concerned with a "plow-sole". The get together Is planned for the Don Peterson ranch in the Eighmile commun is beginning at 1:30 P M. How ard Cushman, ' extension soil specialist, Oregon State College will be present for the Informal i field day. a long Willamette River span and railroad overcrosslng at Eugene. INDUSTRIAL ARTS Mn thnn 20n members of the Oregon Industrial Arts Associa tion and associates Inspected ex hibits of equipment at special sessions Friday ana saiuraay i South Salem High scnooi ana Marion Motor Hotel. Salem. Supplier representatives at the conference voted to Jm a nat ional organization called Ships in an effort to improve the qual ity nnH rcodo of commercial ex hibits. There were 28 exhibitors at the Salem conference, rnmmittppa were announced to plan an association sponsored scho arshlo to aid students aim ing to be industrial art teachers and to Improve the level of voca tional and craft Instruction in Oregon. OREGON TOURIST VOLUME Oreeon's Centennial summer failed to show increases expected bv some members of the Oregon Motor Court Association who at tended their convention In Salem, Monday and Tuesday at the Marion Motor Hotel. "After a slow start things picked up in late summer and eaiJy fall," according to Edward F Boit, Gold Hill, president of the association. 'Total volume for the season was normal but below expectations," Bolt said. URGES POLICE SUPPORT Rather than new laws, the an swer to the problem of sex of fenses, advises Attorney General Robert Y Thornton, Is better pub lic support of the police. In an answer to a letter from Mrs David McCarthy, Portland, legislative chairman of the Ore gon Congress of Parents and Teachers, Thornton said that more police are needed to pro tect the areas of streets and parks. HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. Novembw 12. 1959 USE GAZETTE TIMES CLASSIFIED ADS CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS ST WILLIAMS CHURCH lone Mass 9:00 a m Sunday. VALBY LUTHERAN CHURCH Worship Service 9:15 a m. Sunday school 9:15 a m every Sunday. Services held the second and fourth Sunday of the month. HEPPNER BAPTIST MISSION Eld. Gordon Harris, supply pastor at Degree of Honor Lodge room every Sunday. Sunday school, 10 a m. Church services, 11 m. Mid week Bible study and training, Wednesday, 7:30 in hemes. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH lone Sunday school 10 a m. Sermon by guest speaker, 11 a m. Evening service 7:30 p m. Prayer meeting Wednesday. 7:30 in the homes. STITCH IN TIME CLUB The "Stitch In Time" sewing 4-H club was organized October 30 at Elaine Gaarsland's home. Our leader is Mrs L A McCabe. Officers are, president Elaine Gaarsland; vice president, Arleta McCabe; secretary-treasurer, Marilee Leathers; news reporter and song leader, Sherry Corley. Mrs McCabe handed out the new 4-H materials and we all signed our names to the enroll ment blank and made out en rollment cards. The next meeting will be at Arleta McCabe's home on Nov ember 11, 1959 at 1:30 P M. Our mothers will also be invited to this meeting. Slieiry Corley, reporter Notice, ELKS new DINING ROOM HOURS . ON SUNDAYS 12:30 to 7:00 p. m. IN THE LOUNGE Fri., Sat, Sun., Nov. 13, 14, 15 'THE TUNESPINNERS' Entertaining for Listening & Dancing we're mailing OVER '2,000,000 to Oregon people this week! STAR THEATER Thurs., FrU Sat, Nov. 12, 13, 14 Tarzan's Greatest Adventure Newest exploits with Gordon Scott. TLUS Rawhide Trail A Rex Reason western Sun., Mon Tues Nov. IS, 16, 17 Don't Give Up The Ship Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer, Mickey Shunghenessy. Sunday at 4, iind 8. Ailrtrtitrmmt From where I sit ... ly Joe Marsh -CS This week, people who joined First Nation al's Christmas Club a year ago will receive checks totaling more than $2,000,000! This extra holiday money (averaging over $85 per check) will make Christmas more fun for thousands of families. You can be prepared for the season next year, too... by joining First National's 1960 Christmas Club. It's open for membership now. You save a little each week (50c, $1.00, $2.00, etc.), and next year you will receive a check for the full amount saved . . , plus interest! It's a sure way to a merrier Christmas! Join First National's Christmas Club . , . Now! up Sizing-up the Situation When a lady in our towu's looking for a new dress , . . her first target is Sandy rhllip's Shop. The other day I finally asked Sandy how eome he's been so successful. "Well," Sandy said, "I've al ways treated my customers with courtesy. And my secret Ingredient which isn't really a secret is flattery. "Whenever a new shipment of dresses conies in, I cut off the size markers in every dress and make thcrn a size smull cr. Size 16 becomes size 14 and to on. Course, all the ladies know I change the number1 but they like it. Helps them pretend their figures are a lit tle better than they really are." From where I sit, we all like to think the best of ourselves often "shrink" the truth to do It Reminds me of people who claim they're not preju diced then turn around and argue agslnst neighbor's choice of a glass of beer. 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