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The Heppner Gazette, established March 30. 1883. The Heppner
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1912.
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Let's Keep Backing the Dam
Because the public hearing on the Willow Crook dam early
this year was so highly favorable for supporters of the dam,
there may be a tendency for some to think that the battle te'
won, that we on the local level have expressed our feelings, that
this expression is in the record and we noed not reiterate it.
Unfortunately, however, if this project is ever to roach cul
mination, it will take continuing emphasis. The need will have
to be told and retold. Complacency would be fatal.
One would expect that the public hearing would have a
preponderance of favorable testimony, as it did, but now the
project is entering into a higher level. It is starting the rigorous
route of getting approval in Congress and through governmental
agencies which noed to look favorably upon it. Probably any
one of them could kill the proposal or at least give it a serious
setback.
If Heppner and Morrow county really want this dam, the big
test is yet ahead. There is keen competition from all over the
nation for the public funds available, and it is our job to show
that this project is among the foremost needed.
It is imperative that there be representation at the Rivers
and Harbors Congress in Washington, D. C, in June so that
appearances may be made to reiterate the local interest, to
give a first hand report from the local level to emphasize the
urgency of this project and its importance to the future and
economy of Morrow county.
Two men who recently have done the most in working for
the project, Judge Oscar Peterson and Oliver Creswick, chairman
of the Chamber of Commerce development commit tee,
have been urged to attend the Congress to represent
the county. Creswick, who conducted an irrigation survey among
farmers, painstakingly compiled information on the project, ami
with Judge Peterson worked with Army Engineers and spear
headed the hearing, has sponsorship of the Chamber of Com
merce in making the trip. However, it doesn't have all the
funds to underwrite expenses.
Those who have given the dam their support, who realize
what it means to this area, and who wish to see it reach a
successful conclusion have an opportunity to give material assis
tance by making a contribution to the expense of the forth
coming trip. The amount needed, $400, isn't great If many
people would make small contributions.
Both the Army Engineers and the Inland Empire Water
ways association have stressed the importance of representation
at the Congress. Every businessman, every family in south
Morrow county, and ranchers have a stake in this. Let's get the
Job done.
Epilogue: A letter to the editor, eleswhere on this page,
reveals the writer, Don Turner, titular head of the Republican
party in Morrow county, as a master of subtle invective and
innuendo of the style in vogue in journalism many years ago.
Col. John Watermelon Reddlngton, one of the first editors of the
Heppner Gazette, may have relished it.
We respect Mr. Turner for his intelligence, his ability
and convictions. However, he dissipates his effectiveness with
a sarcasm that seems to stem from a bitterness borne, perhaps
from a loyalty to his party principles the same party, indeed,
as that of the editor.
It is our feeling that his letter is an expensive indulgence
and it is for that reason that we make this comment, although
it Is our policy In general to restrain ourselves in writing'
editor's notes to letters submitted. Mr. Turner, we believe, has
the right to express himself and has insisted to us that he
wants to say what he has written.
The letter will tend to alienate at a time when we need
unanimity. After all, Morrow county should not regard the
Willow Creek dam as a political plaything to bandy about, but
a project that deserves and requires the best efforts of Demo
crats and Republicans alike to achieve.
If there are those better qualified to promote the county's
interests at the Rivers and Harbors Congress and they are
willing to go, then they should be sent.
On the basis of work performed on the dam to date, how
ever, Judge Peterson and Creswick have shown the most Interest
and enthusiasm, and, as a result, have been the most effective.
Mr. Turner has told us his conviction that the Willow Creek
dam is needed. It will be to the best interests of all concerned,
then, if he uses his party leadership to come about and seriously
devotes his abilities to help get the job done.
Wheat Fact and Fancy
(From the Des Moines Register)
The Farm Bureau is conducting a major drive to defeat the
new wheat program which will go into effect in 1964 if two
thirds of the growers vote in favor of it In a referendum In
June of this year. The Bureau says the basic issue Is "whether
the farms of America are to be managed by farmers or by a
government bureaucracy." It says a favorable vote would "give
a great boost" to the administration's efforts to expand "supply
management" to other commodities, but a "no" vote would
be interpreted as a sign farmers do not want additional com
pulsory supply management programs.
This view of the wheat referendum seems unduly apocalyptic.
If farmers vote for the program, they will not be committing
themselves to it for all time to come, but only (or the 1064 wheat
crop. If the program proved in practice to be as bad as the
Farm Bureau says It Is, surely this would me apparent to
farmers, and they could reject the program on the next vote. And
Congress could change It. What farmers are voting for In this
referendum is not a new direction for all farm programs, as
the Farm Bureau says, but a trial of a new plan for wheat.
The Farm Bureau is sounding dire warnings about the
wheat "controls" which Charles B. Shuman, president of the
organization, says are the "tightest, most restrictive ever pro
posed for any farm crop." That is extreme language, and it is
careless language. Many kinds of controls have been proposed
since 1920. The wheat controls are no "tighter" than those
which have been in effect for tobacco and cotton for years and
are not as tight as the controls for sugar. The Farm Bureau con
sistently backs these programs.
If two-thirds of the farmers vote In favor of the program,
every wheat growers will be required to comply with his acreage
allotment. He can grow as much wheat as he Is able to grow
on the allotted acres, but he will receive the full support
(about $2 a bushel) only on a number of bushels to be determin
ed as his share of the national supply used for domestic food
consumption plus a portion of exports.
There are no more "controls" no the farmer than In the
case uf any crop where mandatory acreage allotments are in
effect, as they have been in wheat for years. The main difference
in the new program is that the price support will be a "two
pIce" deal: The grain not eligible for the top price support
- TIMES, Thursday, AprU 11. 1963
HEPPNER
HELEN E. SHERMAN
Associate Publisher
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
Chaff and
Wes
WHEN THE story broke in The
Oregonian Monday morning
that Boeing Company had "no
plans for Boardman," and it was
pointed out to us by Al Lamb,
we took it with a grain of salt
because we had just received a
special article from Chuck Grell
of the Capital Journal, Salem,
who had gone to Seattle to in
terview the Boeing people. We
interpreted his story quite dif
ferently from the Oregonian ar
ticle. Later the same day, a wire ser
vice story appeared in the East
Oregonian which confirmed our
thinking that Boeing still very
much has plans for the Board
man site, just as Grell tells in
his article. He had called us re
cently and told us of his inter
view and courteously offered to
send us a copy of his article.
It is printed in this paper and
gives the best firsthand run
down from the Boeing viewpoint
that we have seen to date.
We don't know of any con
tinuing story that has been more
prey to rumor, conjectuie and
speculation than the Boardman
development. One paper will
take a statement from a Boeing
official or a government spokes
man and give it an entirely dif
ferent slant from another, and
this is about what occurred in
Monday's papers.
Development on the Boardman
site is inevitable. Even if Boeing
had never entered the picture it
is bound to come sometime if for
no other reason than because
of the trend towards the total
development of the Columbia
River with its power and trans
portation resources. Those who
can think back 25 years can
recall how undeveloped it was
along highway 30 from Hcrm
i.cton to Portland in contrast to
what it is today. Industry is
bound to come in a growing
nation with a greatly expanding
population.
WITH THE death of Roscoe Cox
last week went one of Morrow
county's more colorful citizens,
according to Orville Cutsfoith.
Sometimes known as "one shot"
Roscoe because of his expert
marksmanship with a rifle, Cox
had a rich repertoire of stories
of his firsthand experience ac
cumulated since he first came to
Morrow county in 1903, Orville
declares, and the Lexington
rancher used to delight in hear
ing the quiet Mr. Cox tell them.
One of the best of his tales
was that of his killing a bear
with a hatchet while riding on
its back. "That was the tallest
bear I ever did see," Cox re
counted. Some might think the
tale is equally tall, but Orville
is confident it is true.
Roscoe, many years ago, was
on horseback in the Rock Cieek
area and spotted this big bear.
He lifted his rifle, shot once and
hit the bear in the head. Ap
parently undergoing its terminal
agony, the big b'ar lumbered
down a hill and went into a hole.
Cox followed, got off his horse,
went to the hole and, unable to
see inside, reached in with one
hand and felt the bear's rear
paws. Satisfied that it was dead,
he tried to figure out how to
get the animal out of the hole
because he wanted to salvage
the hide.
He got some pieces of wire,
twisted them together, and loop
ed one end around the paws.
Then he cut a sapling with a
shingling hatchet and by hook
ing the pole through the wire
and working it back and forth,
edged the bear outward.
Once he had succeeded in this,
he straddled the bear, with a
hatchet in his hand, and exam
ined the bullet wound on the
animal's head. To his conster
nation, he found that the bullet
had just grazed the head. At
that precise moment, the bruin
gave a snort and jumped tj his
feet with Cox mounted on him.
The old b'ar took off down the
hillside with Roscoe a-straddle
him, going full tilt, the bears
claws raking Cox' shins at al
most every step.
The old-timer, who had come
here from Virginia figured he
had to dispute T lie animal with
one blow of the hatchet and he
lei go with a oig larrup Mi
penetrated the head with tne
blunt side of the tool. This did
the Job.
Cox showed the hatchet to
Cutsfoith as he told the story,
and following Cox' death, Cuts
forth tried to find it at the man's
trailer house, but he couldn't
locate it.
Among the items found In his
effects, though, were 01 elks
teeth that his son, Herman, took
(probably about one-seventh of production) will receive a
lower support comparable to feed grain supports, about $1.25
a bushel. Growers also will get a land-retirement payment for
acres taken out of wheat.
The Farm Bureau correctly says that this new program
will result in some decline, probably small, in the total net
income received by wheat growers (but not in average income,
because the number of growers is dropping). The two-price
support plan results in a lower "blend" price support for wheat.
But rejection of the new plan would mean a much larger
drop in wheat income. Price supports for all wheat produced
would drop to 50 per cent of parity, about $1.25 a bushel.
It is hard to see how the Farm Bureau leaders can get
so wrought up about "compulsion" and "dictatorial controls"
which do not go into effect unless two-thirds of the producers
vote to accept them. What the government is savin. is that,
if two-thirds of the producers favor the controls, then everyone
who chooses to grow wheat will have to go along. Every busi
ness has regulations, governmental or private.
It scorns not unreasonable that the government ask farmers
to cooperate in limiting production if they want a guaranteed
price for their product. If they don't want to comply with acreage
allotments in return for a higher price, well, that settles that.
But it isn't an issue of "government Management" of farms, nor
is it setting the course of farm policy forevermore.
Chatter
Sherman
back east with him this week
after the funeral Saturday.
Undoubtedly Cox had a rich
storehouse of Morrow county
folklore. It is truly bad that
someone didn't get it down be
fore his pass'ng.
WILEY KNIGHTEN of Heppner,
who was Sherman county
scnool superintendent tor many
years, participated in his 41st
consecutive Oregon Education
association convention in Port
land when it was held there
March 21 t0 23. His long inter
est in education was recognized
in the most recent issue of "Ore
gon Education," publication of
tne Ufc.A, together with his pic
ture. Pictures of retiring state
president, Robert Van Houte, are
also prominently featured in the
publication. In one he is shown
with Lavrent Botokeky, minister
of education of the Malagasy Re
public of Africa. To those of us
who haven't kept up with the
rapidly changing geography of
the world, Malagasy Republic
may be better recalled as Mada
gascar. FROM A RESIDENT who lives in
a location that commands a
full view of the new high school
on the hill above comes the
thoughtful sug g e s t i o n that
something should be done to
clean up the littered hillsides
that mar the beauty of the new
structure. It is a good sugges
tion. In the good old days when
the school grounds got cluttered,
the whole student body was ask
ed to take a half-hour or so and
get the job done. Maybe when
the move is made, or even be
fore, two or three hundred
youngsters could be turned loose
for a short time to pick up the
paper and debris that tend to
make the area unsightly.
JOE BROSNAN, who underwent
long hospitalization in Pioneer
Memorial after the tragic acci
dent near lone at the first of
the year which claimed four
lives, is coming along very good
in Providence hospital, Portland,
now, Will O'Harra tells us. He
was transferred there about
three weeks ago.
WHILE THINKING on the sub
ject of accidents, you might
help prevent some future trag
edy to your family or friends if
you get seat belts installed in
vour car at lone Saturday. The
Lions are doing it at cost. That's
a mightly good investment at
lowest price, and in so doing
you are helping the club, too.
It's at Jim Barnett's Chevron
Station from 8 a.m. on.
.-
EVEN TO newspaper people
things can happen right under
your nose without you knowing
it. Two weeks ago today, the
ambulance drove up to Economy
Market and took Millie Howeil
to the hospital after she had
become ill and collapsed. Even
though we are just across the
street we didn't know about it
until yesterday when she came
in to run a card of thanks in
the paper to friends for kind
nesses shown her while she was
hospitalized. It's good to know
though, that she has recovered
and is able to be about again.
She and hubby, Tom, work
awfully hard too hard.
Social Security
Visit Day Changed
Beginning with the month of
April 1963, the Social Security
representative will be at the
HepDner City hall on the third
Thursday of each month rather
than Wednesday as before, ine
hours will remain 9:00 a.m. to
12:00 noon. The change of sched
ule has been made necessary
due to increased service in the
La Grande District office service
area, according to Vernon A.
Welo, District manager.
Ron Reid Closes
Flower Shop Here
Ron .old, owner of Ron's Flow
ers, f unounces that he has sold
his stock of gifts and plants and
closed his business March 30.
He is now associated with
Helen Cox, owner of Helen Cox
Flowers and Gifts. They plan to
continue offering gift lines, flor
al arrangements, plants, and
will add an interior decorating
service.
Metsker maps of Morrow
county, $1.25, at the Gazette
rimes office.
TO THE
EDITOR. . .
T0 the Editor:
According to your newspaper,
the Heppner Chamber of Com
merce is sponsoring a pilgrim
age to Washington, D. C, on be
half of the proposed Willow
Creek dam. Contributions were
requested, and, assuming this to
be a typical well-conceived and
organized Chamber project, I
was about to man in a contri
bution to help get Judge Peter
sort and Oliver Creswick pack
ing. Then, another idea occurred
to me that seems more likely to
succeed. Let's send Mayor Lamb
to plead the case of the Willow
Creek dam. After all, he has
proven connections in our na
tion's capitol. He was Ullman's
campaign chairman and there
fore deserves some more favors
from our district Congressman,
and Ullman, with his outstand
ing record as a spender, is cer
tain to never quibble over costs,
needs or other justification. If
more influence is required, May
or Lamb can call on Senator
Morse and Mrs. Neuberger for
help. With their tremendous in
fluence in the Senate, and with
Ullman on the House Ways and
Means Committee, the dam
should be under construction by
mid-June.
Mayor Lamb has already prov
ed his tremendous worth as an
emissary. Last year, at the tax
payer's expense, he made a won
derful contribution to the na
tion's welfare by touring a part
of Africa, under the sponsorsh.p
of Secretary Hodges and the De
partment of Commerce. He came
back with the astounding news
that many nations in Africa were
under-developed, that there were
no communists in Africa, and
he obtained photographic proof
of the immodestly bovine qual
ities of some black native fe
males. With this outstanding record,
Mayor Lamb would have no
trouble getting a dam on Willow
Creek. But, to make certain that
his trip doesn't end in failure or
delay, may I suggest that he
be accompanied by Robert Van
Houte. He is another good Demo
crat, with a proven record of
accomplishment, who, like May
or Lamb, has enough able and
conscientious assistants, to have
plenty of time to pursue more
weighty and important activities.
I think this suggestion has merit
and deserves serious consider
ation. Who better than these two
of the New Frontier could help
improve the lot of our old fron
tier. Furthermore, we need Judge
Peterson here to keep up the
roads and complete his Board-
man project, and we can t poss
ibly spare Oliver Creswick. . .
Jim's
Juniors Lead lone
Honor Roll Students
Honor roll students for third
nine weeks of work at lone High
school were released by Gene
Harryman, principal, this week.
Three seniors attaining the
necessary GPA averages were
Bill Akers, 3.60; Tass Morrison,
3.60, and Louise Pointer,. 3.25.
One junior, Arleta McCabe,
led all honor students with a
perfect 4.0. Other honor Juniors
were Tom Heimbigner, 3.80;
Judy Sherrer, 3.66; Merrie Jo
Morrison, 3.60, and Steve Lind
strom, 3.40.
Sophomore honor stud e n t s
were Cheryle Lundell, 3.83, ana
Sid Zinter, 3.83.
Two freshmen girls, Cherilyn
Smouse and Karen Hams, each
with 3.83, attained honor rat
ings. Honorable mention went to
four juniors, each with a 3.0
average, Barbara Bishop, Delores
Emert, Cherolvn Benson and
Dick Hynd, and two sophomores,
Bob Emert, 3.20, and Frank
Wiley, 3.0.
Sumners Make Honor
Ratings in Colleges
Among those attaining honor
roll ratings at Oregon State Un
iversity for the mid-term was
Jack Sumner, senior student in
agriculture, and son of Mr. and
Mrs. Cal Sumner, Heppner. His
grade point average for the term
was 3.81.
Jay Sumner, another son and
graduate student at UCLA, Los
Angeles, Calif., also attained
honor ratings with a GPA of
3.5 for his first semester's work.
He is working for a master's
degree in business statistics.
Taxpayers Offered
Help on Returns
A. G. Erickson, director of the
Internal Revenue Service for Ore
gon, announced today that ad
ditional assistance will be pro
vided in Pendleton for taxpayers
needing help in completing their
1962 Federal income tax returns.
The office at 611 S. E. Emi
grant in Pendleton will be open
from 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on
April 8 and on April 11 and 12,
1963. The telephone number to
call is 276-7652.
Payroll deduction slips are on
sale at the Gazette -Times.
someone might die or get a
ticket for speeding.
Incidentally, as long as Mayor
Lamb is spreading his influence,
why not have the State of Ore
gon widen the bridge at the
North end of Main Street, a pro
ject of great need in Heppner
for years. All he'd have to do is
call Jack Smith in Salem.
Don Turner
Lexington.
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They arrived in Pendleton Fri
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Tommy has recently been ad
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Coming from Elgin to see her
brother and visit the McDaniels
was Miss Joan Mahon, in com
pany with Miss Vickie Delong.
Thev returned to Elgin Sunday
evening.
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Coming Events
LEGION MOVIES
Friday, April 12, 8 p.m.
"You Can't Take It With
You," starring Lionel Barry
more, Jean Arthur, Jimmy
Stewart.
Plus one-half hour of car
toons. COMMUNITY
GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE
Heppner Christian Church
Seven 20-minute ses s i o n s
starting at 12 noon. Public
invited.
EASTER FOOD SALE
By Heppner Soroptimist club
Saturday, 10 a.m., . Central
Market.
BAKED FOOD SALE
By American Legion Auxiliaiy
April 13, 10 a.m., Heppner
Red and White store.
EASTER MONDAY
CARD PARTY
Episcopal Parish Hall
Monday, April 15, 8 p.m. $1
per person, prizes, dessert.
BAND CARNIVAL
Fair Pavilion Bldg., Sat., Apr.
27. Full evening of fun,
starting at 5:30 p.m.
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