HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, November 14, 1963
County Agent's Office
Soil Conservation District
Has Full Agenda at Meet
By N. C. ANDERSON
There was a full agenda for
the last meeting of the Heppner
Soil Conservation District super
visors who met on their regular
first Tuesday night meeting date
last week. Spurred on by the
good showing that Conservation
speech participant Marcia Rands
has been making in winning the
district and area contests, they
were certain that she would be
a state contestant vieing for first
place to hold that position won
by Martha Doherty last year.
They authorized expense money
for her to represent the district
at the annual meeting of the
Oregon Association of Soil Con
servation districts which is being
held this week. Raymond French,
chairman, will represent the dis
trict as a supervisor. Bob Jepsen
and Kenny Turner, co-chairmen
for the conservation speech con
test, reported that students at
Heppner High school urged them
to continue the contest in the
future. This year's content speech
title was, "Woodland Manage
ment in the Heppner Soil Con
servation District."
Plan Laid For Annual Meet
Reports during the evening in
dicated the successful co-sponsorship
of the Farm-City Ban
quet held November 2 and a Soil
Judging Field Day sponsored by
the District on October 23.
Plans were made for the an
nual meeting of the Soil Conser
vation district which will be held
on February 4. Plans were also
laid for publishing a newsletter
for all district coopcrators, busi
nessmen and others, providing
background Information on just
what part the district plays in
a well-rounded conservation pro
gram for this county.
Development Discussed
Watershed development came
in for quite a little discussion
and Ron Currin, district cooper
ator from Buttercreek reported
on a recent tour that persons
fmm tho Honnnpr and surround
ing conservation districts attend
ed in mid -October. The tour iook
the group of 19 to a water de-
vnlnnmpnt nrniect in the Mt.
Hood area in ' order that they
might see watersnea ueveiop
ment in action.
Tha Hiutrirt l wnrkiner with
watershed projects in the Butter-
creek and Knea ureeK waiersneu
areas as well as cooperating with
the Willow Creek dam irrigation
project. It was agreed that sup
porting letters would be solicited
from such county groups as me
county court, Farm Bureau,
granges, Farmers' Union, Live
stock and Whoatgrowers' assoc
iation and Chamber of Com
merce, asking for accelerated ac
tivity in the Rhea Creek water
shed project, application which
has been submitted for a survey.
Groups interested in this should
contact either this office, the
Soil Conservation District office,
or district supervisors.
Group Support Pledged
The group pledged their sup
port to the Morrow county Wheat
Growers' association in their pub
lic relations activity in sponsor
ing a Portland eighth grade
tour to Morrow county next May.
This project was first initiated
by Gilliam county two years ago
and is spreading to other Colum
bia Basin counties.
SIRES - ANDERSON
BULL SALE
Dec. WEDNESDAY 1:00
4 p. m.
At Highway 30 Hereford Ranch
Uniform offering of Big,
Rugged Beefy Bulls of de
pendable quality, pasture
raised.
BULLS
Ernest Sires
Echo, Oregon
Frank Anderson
Heppner, Oregon
New Developments Cited
Included in tne uctooer pro
gress report given Dy Kaipn
Pihorrlo rnnsprvationist. was
35 acres of surveys for land level
ing on the Kennetn lurner, kod-
ert Mahoney, ana a. wauen-
hnrtrnr rnnfhpR! 2338 feet of til
ing at the Kenneth Cutsforth and
Raymond French ranches; 3600
feet of survey for diversions at
iha PnvmnnH T.lin dell and Elmer
Palmer ranches; 4700 feet of Irri
gation ditch at the KreDs Brom
ers ranch; two stock ponds and
one erosion dam at the Elmer
Palmer ranch, as well as a con
servation plan completed for
Ronald and Thomas Currin, cov
ering 3660 acres. Completed dur
ing the month were duuu teet
of irrigation channel on the
Dallas Craber, Alfred Lovgren,
onH .Toff Walkpr ranches. Soil
surveys were completed on 800
acres.
Cattlemen Request Change
One of the many resolutions
coming out of the recent 50th
anniversary annual meeting of
the Oregon Cattlemen's Assoc
iation was a request tnat me
State and U. S. Departments of
Agriculture, when testing cattle
to meet the certification stand
ards within a county, that herds
that have not followed a calt
hood vaccination program, ba
designated as the herds that
would be tested to meet county
percentages.
The crouo agreed that this was
only one of the ways that might
encourage livestockmen to vac
cinate 100 of their heiters. it
was pointed out that even though
many livestockmen do not vac
cinate heifers with the belief
that they will go to feedlots
and eventual slaughter, that his
torically 25 of these heifers get
back into herds.
With restricted funds for call
hood vaccination as a result of
cutbacks in state funds, depart
ment people indicated that there
would be more stringent require
ments to make the money spent
most effective.
We have advocated calfhood
vaccination for many years and
urge that anyone with heifers
still on hand that have not had
them vaccinated for Brucellosis
do so at once.
This was only one of several
resolutions or recommendations
considered by the Disease Con
trol committee of which I was
secretary at the recent annual
state convention.
This was my first experience
as a secretary to this organiza
tion and I found a lot of interest
and participation in committee
meetings.
Laboratory Extension Asked
While I returned home before
the committe reports were given
and was not advised on action
of other groups, our committee,
in addition to the calfhood vacci
nation recommendation, ask for
a study of possibilities of ex
panding the state animal disease
diagnosis laboratory and to
make services more available to
eastern Oregon ranches.
A special committee was ap
pointed to see how this might
be carried out and to investi
gate a livestock growers "self
help" program for financing.
There was a recommendation
that the Oregon Catltemen's as
sociation ask the State Depait-
mmi nbot
Carnival Play Follows
Awards for Achievement
A grand departure from the
type of program of former years
was the 4-H Achievement-Carnival
enjoyed by 250 4-H boys
and girls, their parents, and
younger brothers and sisters on
Friday evening, November 8, in
the new school cafetorium at
Heppner, according to agents Joe
Hay and Esther Kirmis.
The committee felt a party
should be a party, comments
Hay, so they set about planning
for homemade games, mavies
and dancing to run for 1 hours
after the awards were read.
First, third, fifth, and ten year
pins are furnished 4-H young
sters by the First National Bank
ments of Agriculture to give
veterinarians at the auction yard
authority to prohibit cancer-eyed
cattle with advanced leisons
from going through the sales
ring. It was pointed out that
there was beginning to be quite
a little bit of reaction from
people on a physeological affect,
at least with this type of live
stock being sold for slaughter.
They ask the State Depart
ment of Agriculture to more
strenuously enforce the law re
quiring health certificates on all
livestock coming in from out of
state In an attempt to cut down
on spread of livestock diseases
and that Brucellosis testing be
limited to herds of known infec
tion, rather than those herds
that are volunteered by growers
for test to meet three year re
certification standards.
There was a resolution, also,
onposing the requirement that
cattle in inter-state shipment re
quire back or ear tagging at
point of origin. I thought the
whole convention was quite
successful and was disappointed
in the poor representation trom
Morrow county livestock growers.
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Forest Service Cooperates
In Project
Arrangements have been made
with the Forest Service at Pen
dleton for the use of their range
land drill for making rangeland
seedings. It will be used in a
number of neighboring counties
this fall. Anyone who is inter
ested in the use of this drill
should contact this office at once
so that a schedule can be worked
out.
of Oregon, explain the agents.
Haney sager, oi tne first nat-
innnl Rnnlf nf Hpnnnpr was in
troduced to the group. Intermit
tent years are recognized by a
small certificate.
Wilhiir Van Blnkland. Iparler
nf thu Rhpa Crppk Livestock eluh.
was surprised witn a special
leader pin awarded to him by
memDers oi nis ciud m recog
nition of his excellent work, says
Hay.
A summary of 4-H clubs in
the county for 1962-bd showed
24 Home Economics clubs with
17fi nrnWt mptnhprs: 7 Apri-
cutural clubs, 119 project mem
bers; 5 Saddle Horse clubs, 50
project memoers; i wnaine
plnhs 34 nrnippt mpmhers: 2
Woodworking clubs, 18 project
memoers; I KocKnounaing ciud,
5 project members; 1 Flower
Grower ciud, 8 project memDers,
and 2 Health clubs, 52 project
members.
There was a total of 47 clubs
with 471 projects. There were
five individual projects com
pleted. Those receiving recognition by
local organizations were the fol
lowing: Rhea Creek Extension Unit:
Dixie Peck, Lexington, (best
foods demonstration). Susan Mc
Coy, Irrigon, (best food exhibit).
ione Extension Unit: Cheri
Carlson, Ione, (best clothing
demonstration). Deniece and Ber
niece Mathews, Ione, (best team
demonstration in clothing).
Heppner Extension Unit: Jean
ette Ledbetter, Lexington, (best
knitting demonstration). ue
Griffith and Linda Eckman,
Heppner, (best knitting demon
stration, team).
Pinp ritv F.xtpnsion Unit: Kar
en Hams, Ione, (best clothing
construction, intermediate).
Judy Smith, Heppner, (best
clothing construction, senior).
Morrow County CowBelles: Car
ol Ann Harper, Boardman, (best
demonstration using meat).
Boardman Extension Unit:
Karen Nelson, Lexington, (style
revue winner, intermediate). Ar
leta McCabe, lone, (style revue
winner, senior).
Irrigon Extension Unit: Judy
Smith, Heppner, (high clothing
judge, senior). Joan Stockard,
Heppner (high foods judge).
Judy Gentry, Heppner, (high
knitting judge).
SnoMal fniintv Award hv Ore-
Beekeepers Ass'n.: Lonnie Wil
son and Lynda Eariy, irrigon.
Three Ten-Year club members
were honored. These were Mar
tha Doherty, Heppner; Beverly
Davidson, Lexington, and Gary
Van Blokland, Heppner.
Taking top honors for National
Awards were the following:
Achievement ttora motor
Co.): Arleta McCabe, Jeanette
Ledbetter. Doug Anderson ana
Tony Doherty. , ,
Agricultural (international
Harvester): Dale Van Blokland,
Barbara Bloodsworth, Tom Raw
lins and Allyn Witherrite.
Beef (E. I. Armour): Karla
Luciani, David Hall, Mitch Ash
beck and Maureen Doherty.
Dairy (Oliver Corp): Terryl
Greenup. ,
r.arrion fKarm Eauioment,
Allis-Chalmers): Susan Drake
and Nonda Clark.
Leadership (Sears Roebuck
Foundation): Joan Stockard,
Dick Struckmeier, M a r 1 e n e
Fetsch and Judy Sherer.
Recreation (John Deere):
Penny Jones, Martha Doherty,
Theresa Munkers, and David
Anderson.
Safety (General Motors): Pat
ti Collins, Leon Magill, Leland
Magill and Gary Ball.
Swine (Moorman Mfg. Co.).
Steve Pettyjohn, Richard With
errite, John Rawlins and Keith
Nelson. , .
Home Economics uvionigum
ery Ward and Co.): knitting
Jiil Padberg and Shirley Jackson-
, i
Clothing (Coats and Clark).
Judy Smith, Lynn Burkenbine,
Leora Van Winkle and Jean
Stockard. .x .
Dress Revue (Simplicity Pat
tern): Karen Hams, Franell
Walker, Cherilyn Smouse, Ro
genia Wilson, Carol Rawlins,
Kay Daggett and Anne Ober
meier. ,
Food Preparation (General
Foods Corp.): Susan McCoy,
Dixie Peck and Carol Ann Harper.
Outstanding Foods Club Mem
ber (General Foods Cookbook):
Susan McCoy.
Sears Garden Award (Sears
Roebuck and Co.): Joan Stockard,
Carol Rawlins, Nonda Clark,
Jean Stockard, Susan Drake and
Michael Smith.
Home Improvement (The
Snprrv Wntphirson Co): Tom Van
Horn and Byron Hobbs.
Danforth Foundation Award
(Ralston Purina Co.): Penny
Jones and Gary Van Blokland.
The planning committee for
tho Aphipvpmpnt-Carnival in
cluded: Mrs. Louis Carlson, Ione;
Mrs. uene cutsionn, L,exmKiu
Mrs. N. C Anderson, Heppner,
and Mrs. George Luciani, Echo.
Special thanks were extended
the First National Bank of Ore
gon for furnishing the 4-H mem
ber pins and certificates.
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