TO THE EDITOR
To the Editor:
Dear Sir:
A letter to your paper recently
raised some questions about the
Community College election and
the operation of the Morrow
County School District. I would
like to make some comments
of clarification:
1. The Community College
election was conducted by the
State Board of Education from
Salem.
2. This election was not spon
sored by or conducted by the lo
cal school district.
3. The ballots were prepared
and printed by the State Board
of Education.
4. The instructions for the con
duct of the election came from
the State Board of Education.
5. The polling places were de
termined by the State Board.
6. The local school district fur
nished the building facilities and
gave the State Board of Edu
cation a list of people who could
serve as election boards in the
various communities. The dis
trict also supplied the poll lists
of eligible voters. People resid
ing more than 15 miles from the
polling place, may in the proper
manner, obtain absentee ballots
for any public election and avoid
long travel and loss of time.
7. The State Board of Educa
tion canvassed the results of the
election, not the local school
district board.
8. To the best of my know
ledge all the school district elec
tions held in this district since
July 1, 1959, have been held in
complete compliance with the
laws of the State of Oregon and
the U. S. Constitution. All bal
lots and records of these elec
tions are on file in the school
district office and will upon the
direction of the school board or
any other legally authorized
agency be made available for
review by any interested parties.
People in the school district
with questions about the oper
ations or financing of the local
schools are invited to attend the
school board meetings, or obtain
answers from our school district
office in the Courthouse.
Very sincerely,
Robert Van Houte
To the Editor:
We can't help but feel very
gratified to the voters of Morrow
county who so generously ap
proved the measure to levy the
tax for the road program. Al
though we are all taxpayers and
affected in a greater or lesser
degree, I, as one member of the
county court, feel most happy
and gratified at the vote of confidence.
Taxes are many and in most
instances auite heavy, so ac
tually it humbles us all when
it comes to making expenditures.
We do feel and hope more than
ever before that we can make
the expenditures as wisely as
possible.
However, as a member of the
court, I want to most sincerely
thank the good people of our
county for the vote ot commence,
Sincerely,
Judge Oscar Peterson
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County Agent's Office
Agent Compares Ag
Of Colorado, Oregon
By N. C ANDERSON
Greeting's from Colorado! After
two full weeks of college life
it is getting a httle easier to
study and concentrate on term
papers rather than day dream
about what is going on in Mor
row county. The weather has
been so nice here warm days
with cool nights its hard to stay
cooped up in the class room lor
four hours, the library four or
more hours looking up referen
ces and the rest of the time pre
paring term papers. Of course
I can't resist visiting with other
agents from 32 states and eleven
countries that are enrolled here.
Get a lot of ideas as well as
hearine of their types of agri
culture and economic situations.
Enjoyed a trip to the Greeley
area a few days ago to visit feed
lots which there seems to be
on every ranch. Those we (140
agents)' visited would average
about 2500 on feed with a turn
over of about two and one-fourth
times per year. One exception
was the Monfort feedlot on the
outskirts of Greeley that is one
of the larger feedlots in the
country. All were feeding ap
proximately the same ration
green chop alfalfa or oats during
the haying season, corn ensilage
and wet beet pulp. Concentrates
are mainly corn with some milo
and a little barley. All were com
plaining of the high price of
feed grains and told us cost of
feed had brought their cost of
Rains from 19 cents per pound
last winter to 22 cents at this
time even though cheaper gains
are expected during the time
they are feeding green chop for
age direct from the fields. Most
all are growing their own hay,
and ensilage but buy most of
their grain and all beet pulp
feed. All land in the area is
irrigated and I have never seen
so much water in all my life.
Ponds and lakes, man-made, can
be seen any direction as far as
one can see.
It was interesting to visit the
Monfort feedlot and see 35,000
head of cattle in lots covering
140 acres of land. They feed out
some 80,000 a year all of which
are southern cattle. There were
trucks unloading 1000 head of
yearlings from Oklahoma very
common cattle. We were told
that they were going rapidly to
ward the common type feeders
as they could buy them for less,
rrot ac crnnri cains and receive
only a small amount less for
them as tat catue. mey nave
their own packing plant al
though a separate corporation,
in Greeley with trucks deliver
ing beef carcasses 10 me mm-
west, East, South, and west
coast. A trench silo that holds
65,000 tons was the largest I
had ever dreamea couia De duiu
and a lagoon for run -off water
w.m tha Into hM 35 acre feet
when full. Incidentally, manure
is sold irom tne iois io many
dmici rf tha nrpn fnr $1.00 a
ton. They sell 100,000 tons per
year.
I mentioned the weather was
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line, uui . m ... . . . . j
changeable. It will be clear and
warm one nour, noi a ciouo. in
tha otu nH rflininc 30 minutps
later. On the feedlot tour we saw
a large area mat naa a nan
storm a few days before. Corn
InnlfoH tprrihlp. hut thp ranchers
said it would come back. Sugar
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Deeis weie auiptieu ui muai ui
their leaves and some fields of
small corn and pinto beans were
being plowed UP. A cloudburst
Saturday washed large piles of
baled hay down the streets of
Fort Collins while a mile away,
here at the college, it only
sDrinkled. One day last week
thora upra tnrnnrlnps pnrth.
quakes and cloudbursts in a 100
mile area.
Morrow county crops looked
much better than anvthine I saw
on the way out. Union, Baker
and Malheur crops are late ana
spotty. Idaho and Wyoming crops
looked terrible. Colorado crops
are spotty and slow even though
there was ideal weather this
cnrlno thpv mv. flnpsa Mnrrnw
county farmers can't kick unless
crops nave ranen a Dealing dur
ing the past two weeks.
Interest is growing in slatted
floors for hogs mainly because
they reduce the labor needed
for cleaning. The animals work
the droppings through the slots
In the floor and keep themselves
clean. Manure can then be re
moved from under the slats with
out interference from animals
and equipment.
The school of agriculture at
University of Illinois experimen
ted with three different materials
for slats concrete slats, wood
Youth Range Camp
In Grant County
Set Aug. 6 to 11
Oregon boys interested in the
state's rangeland country have
an opportunity in August to
learn more of this great natural
resource in a "laboratory as big
as all outdoors."
The 1962 Youth Range camp
is scheduled August 6 to 11
in Logan Valley in southeastern
Grant county. Tucked away in
the Malheur National Forest, the
camp will combine instruction
in range management, outdoor
living, and recreation. It is spon
sored by the Pacific Northwest
section of the American Society
of range management.
Oregon boys 14 through 17
years of age are eligible to at
tend on a local selection basis
with $30 scholarships provided
by local sponsors to cover costs
of attending.
All eastern Oregon counties
and Jackson, Josephine, Douglas,
Coos and Curry counties are el
igible to send four boys each,
reports Dillard II. Gates, Oregon
State University range manage
ment specialist who is program
chairman for the event.
Emory Clapp, county chairman
of this year's camp, reports that
the boys representing Morrow
county at last year's camp were
pavict Anderson, Roger Doherty,
Gene Wallace, and William
Weatherford. These bovs were
sponsored at the camp by the
Morrow county Farm Bureau.
Morrow County Livestock Assoc-
HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, July 5, 1962
iation, Chamber of Commerce,
and Heppner Soil Conservation
District.
Selection in each county is
made by a county extension
agent and a local representa
tive of the Society of Range
Management.
At camp, boys will learn about
range management, wildlife and
the range, livestock manage
ment, identification of range
plants, how to ludge soil, pub
lic relations of wildlife manage
ment, and other related topics.
Instructors for the camp will
be drawn from Bureau of Land
Management, Forest Service, U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Soil
Conservation Service, Ore g o n
Game Commission, ranch man
agers, and Oregon State Univer
sity. Ed Abbott, John Day, Malheur
National Forest, Is in charge of
this year's camp, and William
K. Farrell, Grant county agent,
will be camp boss. Interested
hovs mnv nhtnln mn Informa
tion from their local county ex
tension agent.
slats, and quarry screen. The
concrete slats had a top width
of 5 Inches and taDered to 3 inch
width at the bottom. Wood slats
were made by cutting 4x8 Doug
las nr timber into two equal
parts. The cuttine was done at
a 15 degree angle so that each
slot had one tapered side, and
a top width of slightly over 4Va
inches. Both the concrete and
wood slats were spaced one inch
apart, lne quarry screen had
openings of about one inch
square.
Considering all factors, such
as durability, anchorage, sta
bility, and cost, the concrete
would appear to be the best
choice for their particular con
ditions. Wood is more costly in
Illinois tnan it is in Oregon.
Pigs raised on the concrete
and wood slats showed no visible
ill effects. Animals on the
quarry screen had been rather
reluctant to move around and
their hoofs showed some wear.
Pits may be cleaned when
needed with a manure oumn.
Dlaphram pumps have been used
successfully for this purpose. No
difficulties have been reported
to date with livestock grazine
areas where liquid manure has
been spread.
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v ' ' :
It Gives Us Pride And Pleasure To Call
In For Redemption All Our Outstanding
Series 9 Capital Reserve Certificates As
Of July 1, 1962.
THESE CERTIFICATES
WERE ISSUED FOR THE
1949 CROP
TO GRAIN GROWERS:
Kindly endorse and mail or bring in your 1949 crop
Series 9 Certificates and we will issue you our check in
payment of same. Should you prefer to receive some of
our Class A Preferred Stock bearing 5 interest, rather
than cash, we will be pleased to issue same to you in units
of $50.00, up to the face amount of your Series 9 Certificates.
The Total Of This Call Amounts To About $36,000
This is money that stays in our county Money
that would have gone elsewhere and which you
would never have benefitted from had you not
patronized your own association.
DW COUNTY
The Capital Reserve Certificates issued represent
shares of the 1949 crop earnings and are in ad
dition to competitive cash returns received in that
year.
-AL LAMB, Treasurer
LEXINGTON
PH. 989-8423