MOHBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 80, 1883. The Heppner Times ertabUahed
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912
KOIEBT PENLAND
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On Earthquakes, Jet Planes and Ned Norton
Last week In the Fossil Journal there ap
peared this following observation by Ned Norton
of Mitchell, the Sage of Wheeler county, who
compiles copious quantities of news and other
information for the editors of the Fossil Journal,
the Condon Globe Times and the Central Oregon
ian of Prlnevllle (with whom he is in almost con
stant running battle). His comments were:
"There Is the making of a mighty nice Donny.
brook over to the northeast. The Heppner editor
says It was an earthquake, the Condon editor
says not so It was a Jet plane. If this thing
develops as I hope, about the next earthquake
or cracking of the sound barrier will be a couple
of editorial heads coming together over In the
Gooseberry area."
Now, first of all, we rather doubt that In all
his time In Mitchell, the Wheeler county news
gatherer has had one opportunity to observe at
first hand, a real, genuine earthquake. We'll
admit that oft several occasions there have been
some ground shaking occurances take place In
that fine city, at least according to his reports,
but we seriously question that any of them were
real earthquakes.
Secondly, we are forced to admit that we
missed Condon editor, Dick Zlta's comments
about our earthquake, but we take it for granted
that Mr Norton speaks the truth when he says
that Zita called our earthquake a Jet plane
breaking the sound barrier.
Now In defense of our position (which, by
the way, we can prove by means of our files),
we never made the statement that what we felt
was an earthquake but we THOUGHT maybe
It was! And, to back us up, we have the state
ments of several fine residents of Heppner and
Lexington who are experts on such stuff people
who went through a flock of southern California
quakes and should know what they're talking
about, and others who rattled around in that
one a few years ago that shook up Seattle and
Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, (we
personally took that one in, by the way) so
we've got some backing for our side. Several
of these citizens also say that we had an earth
quake, and this editor certainly isn't going to
question the Integrity of his local citizenry.
"Vve heard jet planes breaking the sound
barrier In fact there have been close to a dozen
of them rattle the windows around here during
the past week, so that's nothing new to us. But,
If our earthquake was a Jet plane, it's the first
one that ever went over Heppner and shook the
ground, moved chairs and tables, stopped clocks,
etc, and still didn't make a sound.
If Mr Norton can give us a logical expla
nation for that, we'll give consideration to his
comments. ,
Besides, what's he trying to do? Start a
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Prom the files of the
Gaiette-Times
December 19, 1923
A snow storm, which began
locally at an early hour Wed
nesday morning, resulted In
much temporary inconvenience
by wrecking electric light lines
and telephone lines.
Buster Gentry, Lexington, a
sophomore at Oregon State Col
lege, was formally recognized
for his act of heroism in success
fully stopping a run away ar
tillery team during mounted
drill December 9. The team be
came frightened and threw both
lead and wheel drivers.
David and William Hynd and
Miss Annie Hynd were visitors in
Heppner from Rose Lawn farm
in Sand Hollow Monday.
Ionites attending the mass
meeting . of Veterans held at
Heppner Friday evening were Mr
and Mrs E G Sperry, Mr and Mrs
Walter Corley, Mr and Mrs John
Ferris, Mr and Mrs Blain Black
well, Mr and Mrs Lee Beckner,
Chas Dane and Jack Whitesides.
MARK TO STAY ON JOB
Gov Mark Hatfield made a
Wednesday that
he has no Intention of running
against Sen Richard L Neuberger
in I960, "despite encouragement
from both sides of the political
fpnee."
Gov Hatfield added he and
nnpraHe Sen Neuberger must
LCliivviv"'
work in harmony next year and
"he and I should have no ab
ruption of working relations.
Rnth the governor and the sen
ator are anti -liberal in their re
snpetive political parties.
Gov Hatfield put the pointer
on his elimination of free loaders
from the welfare rolls, reaucea
the staffs of the tax commission
Z-- .fftffWER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday, December 17,
19SI
fight?
ODD ENDS-
AND, ON DREAMING I
Tuesday, the East Oregonlan editor Bud For
rester, had a very interesting item In his "Of
Cabbages and Kings. . . " column In which he
discussed at considerable length the new calen
dars, some of their styles and their art. Much
of it we have to agree with, but he made one
statement in which he gave himself away. We've
known Bud for quite a while, but we didn't have
any Idea that he was going down hill so fast
until We read this paragraph:
". . . It probably would be well for us to
get off the United Air Lines calendar kick this
year. Maybe we should try a Northern Pacific
calendar diet for a year. Come to think of It,
one of the nude lady calendars would be a good
change. We could look at one of those without
dreaming. . . "
It's the last couple of sentences that disturbs
us. We didn't think Bud had gotten that old!
From The
County Agent's Offi
s vjttice
If N C AHDERSON
From time to time we have trees larger than 8 to 10 Inches
after cutting. It is important that
through Cascade Meat Company
at Salem on a carcass yield basis.
Recently a total of 229 hogs were
shipped by ten owners In the
cooperative with all but 22 head
grading number 1. In this ship
ment Kenneth Smouse had 13
Palouse hogs which all graded
No 1. 1 think that Morrow county
can be proud of its hog pro
duction, the efficient high gain
ing meat type hogs which have
been developed here over a rel
atively short time of Interest in
much hog production. Several
months ago 19 hogs exhibited
by 4-H club members at the Mor
row county fair all graded U S
No 1. Breeding from a good many
of these were from hogs bred
by Kenneth Smouse. Surely our
hog producers are to be congrat
ulated on this constant Improvement.
Tests at Kansas show how
fast-gaining bulls pay their wav.
Three closely related bulls with
different gain records were mat-
cows.
questions asked about brush
spraying. A lot of the Inquiries
comes in the summer time, when
for some reason or another, con
ditions are not Just right for
spraying brush. For those who
might not have been able to
spray during the summer or
those who are planning to do
some spraying In the next year
or two, we might suggest that
now Is a good time to get this
underway. In spraying undeslr
ed brush during the winter per
iod, the only change from sum
mer spraying Is the method of
application . and the carrier for
the spray. When leaves are on
the brush, water Is used as a
carrier for the active spray ma
terlals. When leaves are off the
brush, and for certain brush
species, oil is substituted for
water, and the spray is applied
principally to the stems and
trunks of the plant. This is
commonly called basal spraying,
The usual mixture for basal
spraying is 20 to 25 gallons of
oil, plus 4 pounds, usually
gallon of Ester of 2,4,5,T or a
50-50 mixture of the two. The
advantages of basal spraying
are: 1. Longer spray season for
brush control, 2. brush can be
sprayed when susceptible crops
are dormant, or before they are
planted, 3. lower pressure spray
era can be used.
Basal spray the lower two to
three feet brush of the tree,
Enough spray should be used to
reach the ground line at the
base of the plant., Cut stump
spraying is another common
spray method. This method Is
generally used for larger trees,
EARL AYERS
cut stumps be sprayed immed
iately after cutting, before the
cut surface has dried out. This
will prevent sucker growth from
the cut trees. We believe that
you will be happier with winter
brush spraying than waiting to
make a spring brush spray.
Herbert Ekstrom, lone, Here
ford breeder Is to be congratu
lated on the good showing which
his cattle made recently at the
Mldco show and sale held at
The Dalles. Herb exhibited both
the champion and reserve cham
pion heifers and the price of
his bulls consigned topped the'Tl ?. recoms wer
average of the sale. One of hlsed to unlfo groups of
bulls brought the top price of the
sale beating both the grand and
reserve champion bull prices.
The quality of these and others
consigned from Morrow county
at this show and sale were con
siderably above average. Sever
al of these bulls were purchased
and brought back to Morrow
county by our breeders to lm
prove their commercial herds.
Kenneth Peck, Lexington and
Kenneth Smouse, lone are mem
bers of the swine marketing co
operative almost a year ago with
swine growers from Morrow and
Umatilla counties participating.
Hogs are assembled at the Her-
miston livestock auction yards
and shipped each week. At pres
ent all hogs. -.are marketed
Here's how they passed their
gaining ability on to their off
spring: Calves from the slow
gainer put on 1.81 pounds per
dav: from the medium gainer
1.94 pounds per day: from the
fast gainer 2.07 pounds per day.
The "Rough Riders" Heppner
4-H Saddle Horse club will meet
Sunday, December 20, 1959 at
2:00 P M at the county fair
grounds In the annex building.
All those boys and girls 9 to 21
years old who are Interested in
Joining the club should be at the
annex by 2:00 Sunday afternoon.
Officers for the club will be
elected.
and department of employment
Between the first and second
quarters of this year, he said,
welfare payments decreased
$1800,000, contrasted with only
reduction ol $ii,uw u
same time a year ago.
OPPOSE SALES TAX
The first plank in the plat
form of the Oregon Democratic
narty will be complete opposit
ion to a general sales tax. This
was decided early Saturday
morning at the first meeting of
state committeemen at which
their new State Chairman Ro
bert W Straub presided.
Apparently settled at the Sal
em meeting was the ..vitrolic
question of division of money
from Portland fund-raising din
ners. A transitory plan would
give Multnomah County one
third credit, the state organiza
tion another third and the coun
ties which bought the tickets
would get the other third.
A $5-a plate banquet at the
Salem Armory honored Straub,
a Lane County senator, Satur
day night when he called for a
$50,000 fund to revitalize the
party. He said he viewed very
seriously the challenge of the
party in I960.
ENTICE NOT LURE
A change in objective, pro
cedures and top executives for
the Oregon Planning and De
velopment Department was com
pleted Monday when Gov Mark
Hatfield confirmed the appoint
ment of Robert H Tarr as acting
director.
Julius R Jensen, who became
first director of the department
two years ago when he came
to Oregon from Iowa, now ls
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CHURCH
ANNOUNCEMENTS
IONE BIBLE CHURCH
Rev James W Riley, pastor
10:30 a m, Combined Bible
school and church services
6:30 p m, Youth Fellowship
7:30, Thursday, Bible study
and prayer fellowship.
Services are temporarily being
held in Rev Riley's home on 2nd
St., the former Elmer Holtz rei-
idence.
HEPPNER BAPTIST MISSIOH
Eld. Gordon Harris, supply paster
at Degree of Honor Lodge room
every Sunday.
Sunday school, 10 a m.
Church services, 11 a m.
Mid week Bible study aid
training, Wednesday, 7:30 in
homes.
FIRST BAPTIST CIU1CI
Ion
Sunday school 10 i m,
Service 11 A M.
Evening service 7:00 P U.
Prayer meeting Wednesday
7:30 in the homes.
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