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
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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
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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.
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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
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