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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, November 28, 1959 MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Timet established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 0 NIWIPAPII PUILISHIKS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATION At EDITORIAL 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 The main topic of conversa tion these days seems to be "how bad was your wheat and barley hurt when temperatures dropped rapidly and reached be low zero for several nights the weekend of November 13". How ever, it Is a bit too early yet to determine the exact actual loss. There will be some wheat and a considerable amount of barley which will need to be re-seeded. With several days of warm weather It will help the grain to begin to grow. I spent Monday afternoon examining a number of fields in the south Heppner, Eightmlle, Gooseberry and south lone areas. Some fields that had been reported to be hurt badly were beginning to grow and if the weather continues as mild as it Is at the time of this writing, they will become re-established well enough to withstand normal winter weather. Some fields are doubtful as to whether they will recover. Quite a lot of barley appears to be badly hurt, de pending on the stage of growth and protection offered by deep furrows. Most severe damage Is found In the western part of the county, with damage varying with stage of growth and lo cation of the fields. Ridges which generally take the brunt of freez ing weather seem to be hurt less than the lower areas of the field. Some ranchers plan to re sted as soon as they can ade quately determine the damage, if need be, to get away from having to seed in the spring and the problem of securing spring seed wheat Most all spring seed ed barley varieties that had made any growth at all was def initely damaged. Late seeded Flynn barley which was just coming up at the time of the freeze seems to have withstood the freezing well. A timely reminder comes from the brand recording office of the state department of agriculture. The department is now entering on the last phase of the six months period allowed re-recor ding of brands. All applications for renewals of brand must be in the mails by December 31 to meet the deadline set by law. Their office reports that on Nov ember 13, about 50 of the hrands now registered had been renewed. The department urges that those who have applied for brands not to be alarmed if thov do not get their certificate of ownership for sixty days after making application for they are about that far behind at this stage. Applications have been sent out to all registered owners of brands. If you are such an owner and have not received an application or have laid yours aside, It is time to get it in the mail now. Considerable interest has been shown the past week by a num ber of livestock men planning to attend the 10th annual stock men's short course which will be hold at Washington State University on December 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. Fred Nelson, Homer Hughes, John Graves and W W Weatherford are those we know of who have enrolled. There may be others. A special livestock fer tility school will bo a part of the short course this year; the fer tility school Is under the direc tion of Dr E S E Hafez who is physiologist for the department of animal science at Washing ton State. Bill Weatherford, Hep pner, Is furnishing the cows that will be butchered and used In the school. The program for the entire course looks very Inter esting and covers all phases of the entire livestock Industry. Word has Just been received from the Tillamook county a gents office that because of the great demand for Tillamook Dairy Herd Improvement Assoc iation dairy heifers this year, there will not be any available before early spring. This year only one grade Is available-superior quality which sell for $26.75. These calves are guaran teed to be sired by registered bull whose dam produced 400 pounds of butterfat or better on a 305 day record. STAR THEATER Frl Sat. Nov. 27. 28 Senior Prom Jill Corey, Paul Hampton Louis Prima & Keeley Smith and dozens more. PLUb Warlock Richard Widmark, Henry Fon da, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone. Sun MoOm Tue, Nov. 29, 30. Dec. 1 Last Train From Gun Hill cuv nnnclns. Anthonv Oulnn, rnmlvn Jones. Earl Holliman. Next week at this time the annual meeting of the Oregon Wheatgrowers League will be under way at the armory In Pen dleton. All wheatgrowers should have this week received the quarterly issue of the Oregon Wheatgrowers League's publica tion, "The Wheat Field." In looking through this Issue the program outlined looks very in teresting, As In past years we ex pect a good representation of wheat farmers to participate In the commltte meetings on Thurs day afternoon and to attend the various sessions during the three days, Thanksgiving Day marks the end of the fifth annual Farm City Week which has been ob served Jn the United States and Canada during the period Nov ember 20 through 26. In Morrow county the annual Farm-City banquet held Monday evening of this week drew approximately 125 farm and city people who seemed to enjoy rubbing elbows with each other. Substituting for associate extension director Frank L Ballard, who was un able to attend, Charles W Smith, assistant director had some re vealing facts concerning the de pendency of farmers on our city cousins and vice-verse. He point ed out that in Oregon, agricul ture Is the second greatest nat ural resource. It is exceeded only by forests. Economic activity generated by Oregon farms has been measured at better than a half-billion dollars. Much out of-state money Is brought into Oregon as a result of selling a product in out-of-state markets. Out of some four-hundred mil lion dollars annually from sales of farm products, about two-hundred million dollars Is accounted for by sales outside our borders. Oregon farmers turn much of this take back Into the business stream to buy the equipment, fertilizer, and other retail goods necessary for operation of the farm and for farm family living. In recent years Oregon farmers have accounted for about $1.00 out of every five spent at retail In the state. He pointed out that retail food prices in 1958 aver aged 26 higher than In 1947, the first full year following lift ing price controls, but food Is still a good buy. Before the war, It took nine farmers to produce food and fiber for a hundred consumers. Now four farmers can do this same job. Factory workers earned their weekly family market basket of U S farm produced foods In nine hours 36 minutes last year. In 1947, the factory worker worked 13 hours and six minutes for the same quality and quantity of food. American people are eat ing better, diet-wise, than they did a decade or so ago and this better diet took only 22 of the I From the files of the Gazette-Times November 28, 1929 A 4-H dairv calf club was organized at Gooseberry Sunday with 12 members and Mrs Beu- lah Lundell as leader. Members are Charles and Raymond Lun dell, Raymond and uonaiu Drake. Jovce Carlson, ixtnaia McElligott, Theodore and Erling Thompson, Arthur Bergs trom, Clifford Carlson, Elaine Nelson. Mr and Mrs Claude Cox left for Portland on Monday expec ting to spend Thanksgiving hol idays with their son Clair, stu dent at OSC. The first dance under the management of Cole Madsen and his Black Cats of Heppner, was given in the old rink at lone Saturday night spendable income last year com pared to 27 in 1947. Number wise, farm people are in the minority. Onlv about 12 percent of the nations population now lives on farms, contrasted wiui 23 just before World Wrar II. It is pointed out that both agri culture and industry are entit led to share in the credit for this progress. All along the line, farmers are farming better and results are being applied both in producing farm products and in marketing them. By working together, people on farms and off can continue to add to the comfort, convenience, and satis faction of all people. Don't forget the Midco Sale scheduled to be held in the Seu fcrt building at The Dalles on December 1 and 2. This years two day event features Hereford, Shorthorn and Angus bulls and heifers. Eighty Hereford bulls and 15 heifers will be shown and sold on the 1st; 30 bulls and 10 Shorthorn heifers; 20 bulls and 2 Angus heifers will be shown and sold on the 2nd. If the quality of all consignments to the sale are as high as the bulls and heifers going from Morrow county this will be an excellent opportunity to buy the breeding stock you have been looking for. CAPITOL MALL PROPERTY Some $600,000 has been spent since June 15 in acquiring Cap itol Mall property and Dy tne end of the year the entire $700, 000 appropriated by the Legis lature will have been used. In all some 30 properties have been acquired so far this year, including a number of resi dences, apartments and one res taurant. Contemplated purchase of a tavern is scheduled to await until after the next Legislature meets. State agencies will be housed in some of the buildings. William C Ryan, secretary of the Board of Control reports that the state nets about 5 percent profit from it's houses rented on the mall taking Into consider ation those which house state agencies and for which no rent is received. When It is found that it is not economically feasible to re pair the state-owned houses, they are torn down, some for parking lot locations. STATE BUYS SMALL CARS After a vear of testing the state purchasing division has de cided to use small cars in most departments. The exception will be the state police cars, with V-8 engines in conventional two door sedans. More than 40 of the 80 cars which the state will purchase in December will be of the compact typo. Bids have been called for 41 cars with 106-inch minimum wheelbase. Standard sized autos have a wheelbase of at least 118 inches. At present the state operates some 50 Ramblers and 20 larks which were purchased to test smaller cars. Falcons, Corvairs and Valiants could also fit the specifications for smaller cars. All the new cars will be equip ped with safety bets In front and back seats. AWARD VOIDED The Oregon Supreme Court this week ruled that a Lebanon woman is not entitled to a $40, 326 damage award from the Southern Pacific Railroad. Mrs A F Carlson had sued for $134,326 for injuries received in Nov 1954, when the car in which she was riding struck the 19th car of a 38-car log train on the road between Lebanon and Scio. The high court found that the Carlson car was going 50 miles an hour when it plowed into the train. The accident occured on a clear night, and the crossing was clearly visible. The Supreme Court said that it might be desirable that trains carry devices to mane them more visible at grade crossings, but that "this must be balanced with the public interest that re quires adequate public service from the operation of railroads." 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