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2irjijntrr fedtr intra November W, IW7. Conaolldatad February SI. Wl V VSAIOCIAtlOM BOB EST rEKULWO Editor and ruMJth Aaaoctal PublUher ,imiT" 11 lin THIRTY YEARS AGO from U (Hm el t AptU J. I With 73 rr.rmtr i-rdng j!r.ii i.u.t.t-l. th Morrow County Grain Crowrr. !Sn- ed an! ami m an.. corporation to th t-i c-rp"- Hurt communion. ulm-ni0n Fatear Morrow ana wtm - Education and tho Cost of Living (Tb following oueet editorial w writtea tT b nmbm of the aubcommlHe P Uclry HPP erbool bulldlog commute.) Kv.n Ihouch w have cifH-rlrncc! a period of Inflation. It la lgnlftcnt that the cmt of wt cammodltie. and aervlcea In thU country have risen faster than the cot of education. It U also true that the cost of education haa been a follower and not a leader In the spiral of In flation which hn wept the county. Most of ua have come to accept the rising coata of things which we buy directly, but are not no cheerful about the services which we purchase Indirectly through taxe. The average individual acccpta the low of Vr In depredation on hla car but strongly resents work Ine 2 hours and 26 minute each day to ry federal taxes. Such an attitude Is understandable. The ct of federal administration, national de fense and subsidies to Industry and agriculture represent expend for l,em" "ntl w'rv,rc" w',hlfh the Individual did not lone for In the first place. While most of us more clearly recognize the need for schools, we do not feel the same compulsion to buy education that we do for such Items as alcohol, tobacco, beauty care and other personal services. We object less to the 206 Increase In the price of haircuts, 171 Increase In shoe re pair 151 Increase In food costs. 123 Increase In automobiles which have taken place In the last 20 year period, than to the rising cost of education. Most of us, upon careful thought, can see that our standards of living Is higher. We haye as commonly accepted facilities a u t om a tic washers, television, automatic transmissions, bet ter clothing, better homes and better food. A shrinking world with complex and serious political and economic problems has caused large Increases In governmental expenditures for defense and economic growth. Normally, we would expect such huge ex penditures to result In a drop In our standard of living, however this has not been the result. Economists of the National Planning Insti tute and Resources for the Future, Inc.. calculate that from 19G0 to 1970, the average family In come will Increase from $fiG00 to $9000 annually. In this same period, the total U S economy (all goods and services) will Increase from 470 billion to 800 billion. Meanwhile local government ex penditures In the USA will be about as follows: 1950144 billion; 1900 42.2 billion; 1905 48 billion; 197055 billion. The federal budget Is expected to show the following rate of change: 1961 82 billion; 1970 110 billion. Taken together these economic forecasts in dicate no local or federal tax reductions, but what Is more significant, no decrease in the standard of living. We do not expect that the pattern in Morrow county will be significantly different from that of the rest of the state or the nation. There are folks who believe that the pop ulation of our town and county will remain the same or decline. They believe that for every Increase In population, there is a corresponding decrease someone leaving the community. Facts available show this has not been true In the past and trend, du iM IndUate that It M In the coming yr .i-edv ... .-..iiii(.n has shown iteay erowlh of 7 prr year fur the r t f..ur enr 1"" -A ' J , .L .,l thildren In our com- ;Tn.tyUT e n That ihl. .rend U toward an n greater Increase. St.tWlr. from the rede a nunu of The Census, and t he Un M - Public lira th Service snow ----pubi c lira, n children will In- fimi when the large number will be greater In the rural are- than In urban communities and census w-n. - -- . ' .. in the far west. High tate officials have recently revealed plans that IrV op 'K c for an expanding ,-.pulatl..n and l.r M-rrow county and It. -ablshed ,ownHltea. These plans are quite consistent with ('rt,.And.,.r.?,r ... vv, u booming. The Col umbla Itlver Banln combines p.-er with cheap transportation VC ,or JA,'m" Added to this Is one of the world's greatest poten ,,a" import nt to .1. taxpayer. .. how can the exoendlture. for puouc weimre, -j. tlonal institutions and prisons be duced-and . ' .. u... h enriched through edu- cation. Can present teacher expenses of $186 r pupil be too great In a n .Hon that .pend, $52 per person (over 14 years of age) on tobacco . ' ,, 7t vears of ace) on and a9i in r i'i i wi. . v - -alcoholic beverages? The overwhelming desire to Indiscriminately reduce taxes cou.u -astrous results on the education of our children and grandchildren. In a second rate school, our children may t. ti,..ir rrmAp hut falling their prep- .ration for life. More than ever, our thren. success depends upon quality education. Quality education depends on many factors, but these three are most Important: 1 Quality teachers most of whatever quality we have in education, depends upon quality teachers. First rate man power In teaching posit ions Is the key to quality education. 2. Quality buildings the quality teacher for maximum effectiveness must have a quality classroom one which Is not obsolete, inadequate or overcrowded. 3 Adequate financial support we can get quality only by paying the price. Teachers sal aries and school construction are nt the heart of Instructional programs of our schools. They comprise 70 of all school costs. From the standpoint of expenses, we may ask. "How big a school can we afford?" From the' standpoint of educating our children, we should ask "How small a school can we afford? Education Is the most hopeful of our community s enterprises. As A Voting Citizen Thesa Ara Our Choices 1 Residents of Morrow county are faced with existing educational problems as well as some serious future problems. The nature of our vote in this year's school election will determine whether we begin the solution of the problem this year or postpone an inevitable and more expensive solution to some later date. i . i, kir: I .... - ftiHin 1 IP'!"""' Idled U ene-uch ta M pour tujW w Br " ammonium " n"0"1 and urea art left on th. .urf.ca .f uiU with a 1 bov M; and hen high rte. tt un-a are ten , : , i and) tcitureJ. mom - irm.TlXU. nuradat. Mnh 11. M tHb) Mr and Mrs Leonard Shwari ... t. VVaiikt.i Wh Ilivil.'lft- . " " . Saturday to take Mr. K K Merriu hme LaVrrn Van Mrter. R"y Ohlewhln f. .in- tt., Junction Tuesday on a tM mn Ing trip along mr river caui.i ft,wi"-, .. i. . tt.M tun eomrtouna. will b im-ettigatrd during com. Ing month, ana cuu.u ""'," r.evt Insifht lnt4 U ewmplr allergy problem. T1,e ik I'rdvermlty vt Or l,ey Foundation. Giant. toUl InttaUM hvt been rved . . .. .k. trf itm. tha a Her - , i ( if tti a m iiiv - - - - high temperatuie. I compound, from gT P"' ctrter will reduce this urea "'(,,, ,n4 n0UIM. dut. Greater un- from urea ahould nut jdrniUndtn of th Im txrweted when Irrigation Wichcml.al makeup of the auer rain immediately Wlow applica- r,, ,nd more prwlw know. ,My M M fr ."."r..-rr nnviiriAn .niiMiii farmer, con sult their county extension agent m t .bI.n.m ak knl 1 1 p Van waner, iw; fljr detailed iniorrnn f-,r, Iald Wi!on an'',thee factor, affecting loss, ull went to ll' l pn" nesearchem found some exper iment, where one source of nit .no better results than ,vh... - other sources, cut in every . .. there were other experlmnt. MU Cleo Duncan and wne thu aourc of nitrogen Jennie fwlndlg. seventh grade WMn.t uperior. Cheney pointed pupils of the Heppner school. ouL pupils of the ueppner -l '""' out will represent the schmd In the county smng con"-" day. A surprise party was given Mr and Mrs Chas Battersby Satur day evening at their home In lone. In honor of Mrs Batters by's birthday. "Apple Blossom Tlmr". a three act comedy staged by t te Christ ian Endeavor society Wednes day had as member, of the cast Clarence Hayea. TerTel Benge John Parker, Homer Hayes. Paul Jones. Luclle Hall. Mary McDuf fee. Ella Fell. Jeanette Turner. Evelyn Swlndlg. Lola Hlatt and Alva McDuffee. Nitrogen Fertilixers Boost Farm Incomes; No One Superior Use of nitrogen fertilizer add. about $30,000,000 to Oregon rwu-kcthnnks each year, 1(1 1 I ' 1 L I '' ' ' . . w r, rkAnair npin OI reports ut n o deDartment Nitrogen fertilizer continues io . j.. .i.. Khnuld aid at ten ai - ... tinAinm more rffrctHt treatment, and preventive, vt Arthur Uetre. pro;m ir-.. plalnea Approximately 1 p-nwn out of 10 Is affected by anergir. this country. 'lrn,H1 Wesiern Oregon. hous dust and nllin aormunt for fflOlt of the Inhalant asihma and hay fever. Almost unoeuevauiy m-i. It the t'nlvewity of Oregon Med l,Vl Vhool and lh.OSctoAr. Keseareh Inttitute. imui. rrojert. " rh,rse uf, U f.J- i..Mn human volun- tM-rs. a vital part of tha rwearch. Working with Uel is Anour Malley. Sn Francieo graduate rme.rch awlstant who U mak ing the pollen allergen laola-tlona. - .v.. ... the stuoy. nwuiu- - - ... nZ' came to tM- pound, will bring rc.cuon. ,n conclusion- the nitrogen fcrttl some perwn Izer that costs tne leasi ir -... neipmR utj ----- on! led !au si rat r j rr H iTTaints f rom tne in the soil Is usually the best u S Public Hesl'h Service, the Costa of transportation, handling. .rw anniiratlon ahould be In cluded In figuring cost Of course, there are iiem .v.. iv. met tn keen In mind. The value of other plant nutrlt- I I . . - 1m BaMA lenU sucn n. auuur nitrogen fertilizers should be recognized, but only If that plant .....niiint ! npprfml In the soli on which the fertilizer Is to be applied. New Findings On Allergies Told by OSC OREGON STATE COLLEGE Significant new research find ings about allergen compounds In grass pollen and house dust have been reported by a team elentlsts. The OSC workers have proved ,Rert htiii-i V - nrev ouslv ho a "best buy" even thougn me a-n - r - - - - I Ml I LINJ From The County Agent's Office By N C ANDERSON Jerry Brosnan and Ebb Hughes, Buttercreek livestock operators enjoyed very much the livestock field day at the Squaw Butte experiment station on Monday. The day was filled with reports and question and answer per iods on the practical application of livestock production. For in stance, they were told that can cer eye in cattle was hereditary and in selecting replacement heifers to pay particular attent ion to the cancer eye In that family; that antibiotic supple ments in the winter ration for weaner calves increased both weight gains and feed efficiency particularly following weaning; that In order to reach a heavy weight on long yearling feeders, ranchers must capitalize on both the winter feeding period and the summer grazing season. More specifically, the ranchers should strive to promote an op timum rate of winter gain of weaner calves that will not have a depressing effect on their gain on grass the following summer; that it pays to provide shelter for wintering calves. They got to see cattle that have been op erated on for experimental ob servation of the rumen. A lot of Interest was shown in the possibilities of cross breeding a part of the Hereford herd at the station with a Charalais bull. Besides the interesting field day the trip through the range country between here and Burns and observation of livestock op erations created a lot of discus sion Those livestock men who did not get to go might like to pick up a copy of the brief re suits of research at the station which we have here in the office. Ernest Kirsch, county exten sion agent at Condon. .dvia this office of a farm equipment field day which will be held on the Taul Jaeger farm one mile east of Condon on the Heppner highway on Saturday afternoon, April 2. It will begin at 1:30 p m. There will be all types of modern Implements for making and working trashy fallow, man ufactured by the major equip ment companies. There will be stubble mulch plows, rod weed ers, skew treaders and drills. Ernie says the site has a lot of stubble and should give the equipment a real w.orkout Everyone is invited. The 1900 Tarma, Idaho, wool pool sold last week on a high bid of 49 cents a pound. The 1959 pool turned at 38.65 cents orW Inst jnrinB'. This pool in cluded about 16.000 fleeces from w farm flocks In Mainour county and western Idaho. Fleec es were mostly medium o. b io V blood wools. The high bidder was the same midwest spin ning mill that has secured the pool in other recent years. Two of the other throe bidders were within a half cent a pound of the top bid. A few other sales in the Malheur county area have been made recently in a range of 41 to 46 cents j pound. f,iii,iv Wheat Growers Assoc iation president, Walter Jacobs and several of his committee chairmen will attend the spring executive committee meeting which will be held in Pendle ton next Thursday. April T. Bob T..n and Norman Nelson. countv chairman and vice chair . kl; 1 miit.li'l man or the county in"' ,v i , . ........ I m... are exiHHted i method a to attend an! participate in a discussion. The public relations committee is a new one this ear. There will be four agricultural agen cies, present their ideas for a public relations program for the league at this meeting. The dom estic wheat utilization commit tee, too, has some public re lations Ideas which will be dis cussed at this time. The Oregon Wheat Growers League, like many other farm organizations and individual farm people, are realizing the need for an active public relations program if they are to retain their place in In dustry. Morrow county ranchers will be hearing more of this as our active committee goes to work. Elsewhere in this paper you will fine? a report on the annual spr -ig meeting scheduled for Monday evening, April 25. It promises to be an Interesting one as vou will see Irom tne story. Recently In visiting with rep resentatives of the U S Fish and Wildlife Service they told of a burrow builder for the control of pocket gophers. Yesterday we got a copy of a report on the mnehtne and how t has Deen used experimentally. The bulle tin starts out with this expla nation? Improvements of meth ods of controlling pocket gophers has long been needed by farmers, ranchers and others engaged in agriculture. A new approach, one using a machine called a "bur row builder' ha9 been developed. This equipment, attached to a tractor, constructs artificial go pher runways at controlled depths below the surface of the ground and mechanically places bait In the runways. Tests in Colorado have shown the high potential this approach and eoutPTv.or.t have in controlling tho plains invket gopher and the percent related-to gen in me crop """; :,,. compound that II I feA nnlAfl KKPHrCIl I I " -..--r, . OSC and in otner siau- cates that 70 percent recovery oi the nitrogen applied is real good. . . I .... rt What nappens io me the nitrogen? Dr T L Jackson, OSC soils speclrctlst. explained . i. nitrniron mnv be lost lllal oiuic i by leaching; some may escape; Into the air under certain con-, i t.nm t.HN ho ineor- anions; "u "im.- porated into soil organic matter. I OSC soil scientists have found little basis for claiming super-: lority of one kind of nitrogen j fertilizer over another. In 65 field 5 experiments In Oregon, no one jjj nitrogen fertilizer was consis- tently better than another when the fertilizer was applied prop- erly. Fertilizers compared In- .mmnninm nitrate, urea. I luiuutr. niiiuiwi""' - . 1 3 'ammonium sulfate, calcium ni- trate, annyarous ammunm, " e jua ammonia. ) E Regardless of the type of nit- rogen fertilizer used, Oregon farmers can expect less man j tnee -,f nitrrvcron to the S air when the fertilizer is applied properly to the soil, Jackson said. lie listed uuee suui." DOG OF FLANDERS coming to th Star Tneau-r day. . . YOUR "SHIP WILL COME IN Sooner By U M af NewipajeA ADVERTISING, ant I I "11 1 Just What Is A Local Independent Insuronc Agent? Utueity h U nMx. (mmmity end a good dti. oc In Hoirt. rW'i In b!nM WmMlf and p,mnti net on, bwt iwmber ef th fint Inturence eomeenlei In Anwlc He's f,ee to place fovt bu!neu r for yew. Teooy, yewr beil buy In buwroMe tiM eemtt frem eW, tim taid tomponta. tK km4 on independent " repretenh. We i BU the tKonce to pre CAU Utl C. A. RUGGLES INSURANCE AGENCY rirp nnecON BOX 611 PHONE B-wna - II . - BUICK "EASY OWNERSHIP PLAN" a dempster oorn can with a large whole center drop plate with press wheels. We hope that 5 we can have this machine to E our county for a demonstration in the not too far distant future, s iLrrJTT' -jr . r , i, ,v ,, o for met- S UOI1 I l"C nc.v. ing sponsored by the Heppner Soil Conservation District to be - 1 SOU VOIlei toiiuu - 3 a !nr Anrll 5. ... . . Aim 1 k. I TTI) k AC f DM.M. TUaim In. Marvirrheare NAMfc TUUIt UVYM CIMYiJ w n3 v iallst, Oregon State College will jjj ovolaln state water laws and 5 " water rights. The film "Water for Farm and City" will be shown. The meeting will be held at the fair pavilion annex begin- ning at 8 r M. Everyone is in- vited. ! E rxvket gopher. The d machine may also have appllcati.in in tho control . f ctl'.cr rovler.ts." j Th.e burrcw builder is made up frvm a Ford tl carrier bar with a 21 Inch sub aoiler thank. STAR THEATER Thurs Fri.. Sat., March 31. April 1, 2. 30 Foot Bride Of Candy Rock Lou Costello and Lenny Kent. FLCS Bandit Of Shobe Victor Mature Anr.e Aubrey. Sun.. Mon.. Tues.. April 3. 4. 5. Wreck Of The Mory Deare i;ary Cot-per. ClMtlton Heston. Muhael KV.i;rae Sunday at i, 0, S. FARLEY MOTOR COMPANY, Heppner, Ore. Gentlemen: I would like to kaep my monthly pcyments for a new Bulck '60 to about Mease put your "Easy Ownership Plan" to work and how ine aU the way to make this possible. NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE No gimmick.l No pressurel Simply bring us your ticket (above) and well make Wrr elfort to tailor a plan to fit Tur budget You can own this great motor car easier than you may think under our "Easy Ownership Plan." It costs you nothing to find eut-end you could be driving your own superb Bulck -60 this time to morrow I Farley Motor Company HEPPNER. OREGON
