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County Agent's Office Three Important Public Meetings Slated Here By N. C. ANDERSON There are three events sched uled for next week which should be of interest to many of our ranchers. First, the annual con servation speech contest will be held at the multipurpose room at the elementary school in Ileppner at 8:00 p.m. on October 23. Several high school students will participate with a speech on "Water Conservation in the Ileppner Soil Conservation Dis trict." The public Is invited to this local contest sponsored by the Heppner Soil Conservation District with trophies and medals for participants provided by the Morrow County Grain Growers. On Wednesday, October 24, the annual fall meeting of the Mor row County Wheatgrowers assoc iation will be held at the Wil lows Grange in lone. Starting at 9:00 a.m. the day will be de voted largely to committee meet igns, drafting recommendations for action by county, state and national wheat groups. Meeting during the day will be the Do mestic Wheat Utilization, Public Relations, Federal Agricultural Programs, Production and Land Use, Marketing and Transpor tation, Taxation and Legislation committees. Of special interest to all ranchers will be a dis cussion of the new farm pro gram with emphasis on the cer tificate plan which will be pre sented by Allen Tom, president of the Oregon Wheat Growers League. This discussion will be held immediately following the noon lunch which will be pre pared by the Willows Grange Home Economics club. All inter ested persons are urged to at tend. On Thursday, October 25, the annual soil judging contest spon sored by the Heppner Soil Con servation District will get under way at 1:15 p.m. Meeting at the fairgrounds at Heppner the pub lic wlil be given a brief outline of plans for the contest judging which will be done in soil pits located not too far from the fair grounds. This year Inland Chem ical company has offered to pro vide prizes for the first and sec ond place men, women and youth participating in the contest. The contest is held at this time of the year as a last minute train ing for those who might like to take part in the annual state soil judging contest. This con test sponsored by the Oregon As sociation of Soil Conservation Districts will be held at Coburg near Eugene on November 7. The annual meeting of this assoc iation follows at Eugene on No vember 8-9. Again, we hope for a good turnout at our county contest. We hope the prizes will act as an incentive this year to have a larger turnout. Four Morrow Families Host Valley Editors The Frank Anderson, Louis Carlson, Bob Jepsen and Kenneth Turner families, I am sure, did much to promote better under standing between the rancher and the city dweller when they were hosts to four Portland and Oregon City newspaper editors last week. Each of the families enjoyed having their guest but commented on the time being too short to visit with and show them everything they wished to. The first results, an editorial by Jalmer Johnson, Associate Editor, The Oregonian, who stay ed at the Frank Anderson ranch is an indication of this better understanding. For those who have not read this editorial,, "Wheatg rowers Earn Their Nothing Beats Rain, But... NITROGEN la ntlal for maxi mum yields from cash crops . Next to moisture, nitrogen is the most important factor influencing crop yields. Phillips 66 Agricultural Am monia is 82 nitrogen, the most concentrated form of nitrogen fertilizer available. It encourages develop ment of longer, stronger root systems that can make better use of essential moisture. it iti 4f fit . .. If m I i mm lit. 2 ft. 3 ft. 4 ft. j 5 ft. TESTS SHOW: fertilized roots (right above) are longer, heavier than unfertilized roots (left). Phillips 66 Agricultural Ammonia can be applied by injection or by metering into irrigation water. Plan now to get higher yields and bigger profits from all your cash crops by applying Phillip 66 Agricultural Ammonia. Chats With Your Home Agent Emergency Brings Out Need for Stockpiling Food By ESTHER KIRMIS I didn't realize I was exper iencing history last Columbus day when the worst windstorm in the state's history hit Wil lamette valley. I was in Corval lis finishing up some training on furniture restoration when the big blow the tail end of Typhoon Frieda hit! My guardian angel was surely working overtime as I had in tended to drive to Portland that night. Instead he deluged me with such a downpour of rain, previous to the windstorm, that I decided to spend the night in Corvallis. Hurricane force winds slam med into Corvallis around 4:00 Order Tow Supply Today! OTifeBN STAMPS FARM CHEMICALS IONE Ph. 422-7289 or 422-7430 WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS Money" which appeared in the Saturday issue will do well to look it up and read it. It con tains a lot of truth which many people are not aware of. Mr. Johnson has been an editor for a good many years and has "been around," however, I am sure that he picked up a lot of good in formation from Frank during his stay there. Rains Bring Help To Soil Crusting With the sun shining as I write this news column this week it looks as though our rain has pnripri. Evervone should be ex ceptionally happy with the good rains we have had this month which I believe, has set some kind of a record for uctooer. Regardless of whether a long time record has been set is sure ly welcome, especially after the dry Octobers ot tne pasi several years, wnue some concern was shown a couple of weeks ago with "soil crusting" and the wheat not being able to maKe it through this crust the rain has relieved this situation in all cases but a few where an ex ceptionally deep seeding was made early and the wheat was too "exhausted" before the rains came. There will be some re seeding in these cases but a lot less than appeared to be needed ten days ago. Talking with some Sherman county county ranchers at a wheat meeting last week they indica ted that their Gaines wheat has sent up a second sprout after the first could not make it through the crust with this sec ond seedling maKing it aner the rains came. Gopher Poison Baiting Advised This Month October is a good time to poison gophers. Use strychnine and rhoplex treated oats with baiting machines. Use strychnine treated carrot strips for hand baiting. Cover the opening after inserting the bait when using a probe. If using a gopher bait ing machine: (1) the artificial burrow must intercept the go phers runways, (2) the machine must make a good artificial bur row, (3) a teaspoon full ot bait should be placed in the arti ficial burrow every five to six feet apart. If the gopher infes tation is at all heavy it will be no problem to intercept run wavs. After these good rains an artificial burroy can be easily made in the moist soil. There are several gopher baiting ma chines in the county and those who used them last winter and spring were quite happy with results. For those who might be interested in a gopher baiting machine I would suggest that you visit with Pat and Gordon tsnen, Kon ana ueorge urnn, W. W. Weatherford or Harry Proudfoot who have had exper ience with these. p.m. and I saw tree after tree toDDle over like matchsticks, taking power lines with them. Signs and roofing flew in all directions, and many large plate glass windows in downtown Cor vallis blew in. What a slave we have become to electricity. Without power- no lights, no heat, no not tood Traffic became congested and sirens screaming as police cars sped to emergencies these were just a few of the problems that confronted us. It was a little preview of what Civil Defense has been talking about if we should experience an atomic at tack. Although I had taken shelter in a downtown motel, I couldn't help but think how much more secure families must feel who have done some stockpiling of food and clothing for just such an emergency. Civil Defense has provided us with many good bulletins that will assist us in choice of foods for such an emergency. Why not cali or write the county agent's office for, "Family Food Stock pile for Survival. ; Now for other items '. . . Is it apple polishing to call homemaking an executive job? When you're up to your elbows in dishwater you may wonder what an executive is, anyway. Do you really count in this money-conscious world? A recent African visitor to thj OSU campus said that one of the big problems in his under developed country was that "the women didn't want anvthine." What music that would be to some American husband's ears! But think what this means. Without demand for things to be manutactured and sold, there aren't many jobs, people are hungry, and living is largely a matter of merely existing. You homemakers pack a wallop here in our land. Your wants dom inate every consumer product made in America. If enough of you turn thumbs down on an item, they stop making it. You, the consumer, make this country tick. Turn this over in your mind wnile you're working at that stack of ironing, or anytime you neea a Doost. Smart Homemakers Tell us: Heres a trick to keeD wax paper from sliding when you use it as a substitute tor a Dastrv board. First, wipe the work table with a damp cloth before you lay the paper on it. The paper will cling to the damn table top when you roll out the pastry. Atter washing and rinsing a drip-dry jacket, stu'f the sleeves with terry hand towels. This 79th Year Number 33 THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES October 18, 1962 Sec. 3 4 pages USDA Sets Prices On Wool Support A shorn wool Incentive of 62 Agriculture to take into consider ation prices paid and other cost conditions affecting sheep pro duction in determining a support price that will encourage an an nual production of 300 million pounds of shorn wool. The Act also requires that both the total amount of payments and reimbursements to Commod ity Credit Corporation for ex penditures in operating the pro gram be limited to a portion of the duties collected on imports ol wool and wool manufactures. The year under the program was changed to a calendar year basis after receiving recommend ations from producers. The pre sent closing date of March 31 comes within the peak shearing season in some areas of the country and was encouraging earlier-than-normal she a r i n g and selling of the wool in order to receive the payments the fol lowing July rather than a year later. USDA officials said the new yearly basis from January through December is expected to contribute to better production practices and more orderly mar keting of wool and mohair. cents per pound and a mohair support price of 76 cents per pound were announced by the U. S. Department of Agriculture for the period beginning April 1 and ending December 31, 1963, The USDA also announced that the marketing year under the wool payment program is being cnanged trom an April-March period to a calendar year basis in line with recommendations from producers. In making this transition, the 1963 marketing year will be a 9-month one from April 1 through December 31. After 1963, the marketing year will be on a 12-month calendar year basis. The incentive price for shorn wool for the 1963 marketing year is tne same as for the first eight years of the program, running irom 1955 through the 1962 mar keting years. The mohair price is up 2 cents from the 74-cent level for the 1962 marketing year. ine wool incentive price is es tablished under the legislation which directs the Secretary of helps sleeves to dry Into shape and also shortens drying time. County Auto Toll 64 in 25 Years Traffic deaths in Morrow county total 64 for the 25-year period, 1936 through 1961, a re port from Vern L. Hill, director of the State Department of Motor Vehicles, shows. This is an average of some 2.5 deaths per year. In four years during the period the county went without fatalities in 1940, 1942, 1944 and 1957. In four other years there was only one death each year in 1938, 1941, 1945 and 1955. Record number of deaths for any year was seven In 1951. None of the years showed six deaths, but two years, including last year (1961), had five deaths each. The other was in 1943. In the state at large, the record accident toll was in 1959 with 492 deaths, followed closely by 1961 with 485. Low year was the war year of 1943 when 233 died in auto accidents, tne report shows. MIMEOGRAPH PAPER 16 AND 20 LB. 8iaxll AND txU in white and colors GAZETTE-TIMES Ph. 676-9228 Public Reminder See, Hear Our Farmers of Tomorrow In Action Today Soil Conservation Speech Contest Heppner Grade School Multi-purpose Room-Tuesday, October 23, 8:00 p. m. Sharp Support Our Youth By YOUR Attendance - Parents, Friends, Farmers, Public (Courtesy of Morrow County Grain Growers, Inc.) Calfhood Testing, Herd Testing Encouraged As cows are being brought in off of the summer range, calves weaned, cattle to be kept over winter sprayed with a systemic insecticide such as Coral or Kue lene. one operation that many cattlemen have been neglecting is the calfhood vaccination of heifers. While it does not work out many times to vaccinate heifer calves that will be sola mmediately it is still a good idea if arrangements can be made, It is an exceptionally good habit to get into for the heifers that you will save regardless of whether you intend to keep them for replacements in your own herd, sell them for replacements on the feeder market. There is no cost for calfhood vaccination and arrangements can be made by calling Dr. Norene at Hepp ner. The job of calfhood vacci nations should not be put off as most of our calves are the rieht age for vaccination at weaning time. If there are cattle men who have not had their cow herd tested for sometime I would suggest that you con sider testing them this year. Con tact Federal Veterinarian Dr. Henry Hefferman, Pendleton, phone 276-6162 for arrangements. Rainfall Records Important to Farmers We hope that all of our weath er observers have been keeping records of rainfall during the August, September and Otober rains. We havent had a very eood turn-in of records for Aug ust and September so we would like to ask you to continue keep ing records as during the past, For those who do not have re port sheets we would be glad to send vou some 11 vou win con tact this office. We have not mimeographed a new supply and sent them out to everyone since we have been waiting to find out changes which might be made from last years form. TALK ABOUT SPECIALS! CHECK THESE: 3 Case Drills, NEW 14" Spacing, Ea-$929 (NoTradein) 1 Baler 200 P.T.O. Operated, NEW $1,429 1 Baler 200 With Motor $1,759 1 98 Combine, NEW Case-Harris $12,250 2 Hay Rakes, Case, NEW Ea. $549 (NoTradein) 1 Used 88 Combine (Cut 3800 Acres) $6,449 1 Used 88 Combine $4,990 1 Swatherl Year Old $2,299 1 '51 International Combine $199 (Use it for parts) 1 Feed Truck With Bed $1,699 (Worth $1000 more than asking price) 1 TD-1 4 TRACTOR $1,499 WE ARE CLEARING FOR THE FIRST OF THE YEAR YOU SAVE AT OUR EXPENSE Inland Equipment: Company See Claude Buschke or Lowell Gribble
