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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. December 26, 1963 THE "W fwF' GAZETTE-TIMES MOHHOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897, Consolidated February 15, 1912. NIWIPAPII ruiuiHits ASSOCIATION WESLEY A. SHERMAN Editor and Publisher Subscription Rates: $4.50 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter. lllllllltllMIHIIMIIMIIHIIIHIHIIIIH" Interest Needed on Wheat Program One of the practical reasons why the national situation on wheat is in such a confusing stale is that not enough mail has been received by congressmen and senators to show interest in the matter. This is something that tire Oregon Wheat League hopes to rectify by instituting a letter-writing campaign, details of which are in a story elsewhere in this paper. It is a major project to get Congress really at work on a down-to-earth plan in the first place because so few are actually farmers, and also because farm state delegates are so far out numbered by others in the legislative bodies. Since the wheat referendum was defeated last year, those close to the matter have implored farmers to come up with a plan upon which they can agree and press for it. Wheat growers well know that as a group they have not presented enough of a uniform front to the Congress, but they nope to rectify that now and ask the support of others sym pathetic to their cause. They are supporting Senator George McGovern's voluntary certificate plan and hope that it could be enacted for the 1964 crop, which means intensive action is needed. Walter Jacobs of lone, public relations chairman for the state wheat league, is working hard on this campaign, and urges everyone to write to key figures in Washington, D. C, including those on agriculture committees and Oregon's dele gation there. It must be recognized that this is a vital matter for Morrow county, as well as other counties in Oregon which are de pendent on wheat raising for a substantial part of their economy. It is virtually as important to business people in these counties as it is to the farmers because a considerable portion of the income in business comes through wheat growers. Jacobs has pointed out that most ranchers in Morrow county have held to their wheat acreage allotments in the be lief that some program would be adopted and have not planted fence-to-fence, and this in the face of what they verily believe will be $1.25 per bushel wheat if some program is not adopted. If it be true that the growers have been slow to present a unified front on this matter, it is also true that those dependent on farming in counties like Morrow the businessman, in par ticularhave been delinquent in becoming informed enough to help take up the cudgel for those who contribute so much to the health of business locally. The league does not ask that anyone compromise his con victions. Those who may be opposed are Invited to write, too. But those who feel they can get behind the growers and their stand on the McGovern proposal are urged to pitch in and get those letters in the mail as soon as possible. '63 Forest Fire Record Said Good Pacific Northwest citizens have received a Christmas present ahead of time in the form of thousands of acres of forests that were saved from fire in 19G3. J. Herbert Slone, regional for ester of the U. S. Forest Service said that although 1,823 fires blackened 7,345 acres of National Forest lands in Oregon and Washington during 1963, the record is considered good in view of the high fire hazard stemming from the Columbus Day, 19G2, blowdown imbcr. In the 1!)C2 season, by com parison, 1,228 fires on Pacific Northwest forests were held to 3.G72 acres. With tons of downed trees and debris littering timber lands in Oregon and Washington after the October 12, 1962, storm, for esters were fearful that 1963 would be one of the worst fire years in history. The fact that it didn't happen can bo attributed to three fac tors, Stone pointed out: CONDON Invitational BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT DECEMBER 27 and 28 CONDON HIGH SCHOOL GYM Friday Night's Pairings: 6:30 Heppner vs. Wheeler County 8:00 Condon vs. Sherman County Winnets Play and Losers Play Saturday Night ALL FOUR TEAMS SHARE IN THE PROCEEDS ADMISSION: ADULTS $1 STUDENTS WITH CARDS 50c HEPPNER NATIONAL EDITORIAL HELEN E. SHERMAN Associate Publisher "We had fine cooperation from the forest users. The weather was favorable. And fire sud- nression fnrr'ps rnrriorl nut Ihpir work quickly and effectively, re sulting in an average loss of only 4.02 acres per fire on the National Forests." Country Cutters Club Has Zipper Lesson The Country Cutters 4-H club met at the home of Sandra Carl son, Saturday, December 7. We checked our goals for the coming year. Our leader, Betty Carlson, showed us how to put a zipper in. The rest of the meet ing was spent practicing sew ing zippers. Refreshments were served by Sandra. Our next meeting will be on January 4, 1961. Kristine Peterson, reporter Tell the advertiser you saw it in the Gazette-Times. HOLIDAY Chaff and Wes ALTHOUGH having major res ponsibility in staging the Far West basketball tournament in Portland this week, Jim Barratt, athletic business manager of OSU, and his family sneaked off for a couple of days to be in the old home town of Heppner for Christmas. He came lugging a big port folio of dope on the tournament, however, and has been hounded by phone calls ever since he has been here. Always exuberant and enthus iastic, Jim (once called "junior" in his home town and so re ferred to by Dr. Tibbies in greet ing him this week), had plenty of joyful news for home con sumption this week. He bubbled over with it as a guest of the Chamber of Commerce Monday. Michelle (Mike) Morrison's selection as queen of the classic over beauties from the seven other colleges rperesented was one of the happiest items of glad tidings that they brought. The candidates were not iden tified in the selection process, but Mike's poise and charm won over another top candidate, Judy Green of Brigham Young. Jim says that Mike is a nat ural on television and radio and seems to be perfectly at home. More good words emanated from Barratt concerning Dick Ruhl, who has carved a name for himself in OSU football. "Dick did a great job at OSU," Jim said. "We think he will be the best linebacker on the Pa cific coast next year." Dick has another year of eligi biliyt if he can be prevailed upon to lay out a term and come back next fall. Morrow county currently has quite a one-two-three punch in publicity through the OSU ath letic system in Barratt, Ruhl and Queen Mike. WE'RE STILL HOPING that Jim will run down the matter of whether his dad, Garnet, is going to be on the TV program, Bon anza, or not. Since this story got started, Bonanza's rating in Heppner must have just about set a new record, but no one has spotted Garnet in a cowboy suit on the program yet. Jim said he would phone and find out about it. DAVE GEORGE should have some kind of plaque set up by the student body in Heppner High school, He was the first to score points in a varsity basket ball contest in the new gymnas ium, getting the first three in fact a field goal and a free throw against Condon. That should be something he can tell his grandchildren in later years. MORROW county folks who read the Gazette-Times from cover to cover are topped by readers in Vietnam. Mrs. Terrel Benge sends copies of the paper with magazines every month to her son, Mike Benge, who is teacn ing there. But by the time he gets to the papers after the na tives have read them, they are so tattered and worn that they are unreadable. It is nice to know that we have such avid readers, but it is no compliment to us Breeds on Range Hearing Jan. 14 Purebred bulls of more breeds of cattle would be permitted to run on the open range in Ore gon under changes proposed by the Oregon Department of Agri culture in regulations on breeds allowed on the open range. A hearing on the proposed changes has been set for Jan uary 14 at 10 a.m. in the Agri culture Building. Salem. The department proposes to enlarge the list of breeds to in clude Angus, Shorthorn, Here ford, Charolais, Santa Gertrudis, Galloway and Devon. Angus, Shorthorn and Here fords have been the only breeds on the list. The hearing is open to the public and interested persons may also send their views and evidence to the department un til the date of the hearing. Copies of the list of breeds the depart ment proposes to permit on open ranee can be obtained from the department. It's our pleasure fo send you our very best wishes for fhe com &2f XJL rKV fX V PETTYJOHNS' Farm and Builder's Supply HEPPNER Chatter Sherman particularly. They go for all reading matter the same way. Some have expressed interest to Mrs. Benge in sponsoring some of the pupils there as a project, and some clothing has been re ceived. RAY GONTY, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gonty of Heppner, is a policeman in Seattle. He received prominent attention recently when he participated in the cap ture of some hodlums after a grocery store holdup. Officer Gonty was involved in a chase through the Queen Anne dis trict, and with other officers, got the culprits. His picture was in a spread in the Seattle Post Intelligencer on December 10. SEE BY THE papers that in some city they suspend their com munity Christmas tree from the end of a crane boom, maybe 100 feet in the air. Maybe we ought to do that here to keep the lights intact on it. Last year they were stolen and this year they were broken by a prankster. TO THE EDITOR. . . To the Editor: This is about the same letter published in the East Oregonian last week. I sent it to Umatilla county because they favored it as it stood to benefit from the Boeing deal and stood not of the cost. And as I've had several requests to write it here at home I've decided to do so. I think we are over optimistic about the Boeing lease of the Boardman lands. If I were Boeing's attorney's and were drawing up a lease to submit to the state of Oregon and saw the need to arbitrate each point, I'd shoot for the moon and I'm told that is just what they did. They could have needed a 25 year lease; wanted 49 years so applied for an eighty year term. They needed a quarter mile water front, wanted a half mile so asked for the entire 8 Ms miles (about as much as Portland's water front). They needed to freeze the real taxes against future raises at the true cash value now so asked to get them froze as of 1938. Knowing the value of a 100,000 acre field for agriculture, they didn't apply for grazing rights, they asked for all agriculture use's. And with the tube in Mc Nary dam to water it and as it has under it as tar as we Know, inexhaustible underg round water, it could produce $15 to $20,000,000 worth of sugar beets annually. And then to protect themselves from competition and to stop any such foolishness in the future they inserted another clause com pelling the state to lease tnem all adjoining lands the state now owns or will ever own for the remaining 77 years at the same rate of 50c per acre. Yes they shot for the moon and the school boys in Salem gave them the Universe. O. W. Cutsforth Saddlelites Elect The first meeting for the year of the Saddlelite 4-H club was called to order by Dick Struck meier. The purpose of the meet ing was to elect officers. The club voted for Dick Struckmeier as president; Barbara Bloods worth, vice president; Verina French, secretary, and Sandra Matheny, news reporter. Before adjourning we played a game led by Joe Hay. Sandra Matheny, reporter Mrs. J. O. Hager U convales cing at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hager, from a heart at tack she suffered recently. State to Begin Issuing New Auto License Plates Oregon will begin issuing new style automobile license plates January 2, but the Department of Motor Vehicles says it will be five years before ail autos are equipped with them. Over a four year period, new plates will be issued to persons who buy new cars or move to the state. Replacement for mut ilated plates will continue to be available. Remaining plates of the old series, first issued In 1955, will be replaced in 1968. The new plates will contain a three letter prefix and three numbers (AAA 001), similar to the system used in Washington and at least three other states. The first letter will indicate the month of expiration, but the other letters and numbers will have no significance. Color of the plates will be un changedyellow on a blue back ground. Missing from the new series of plates will be the slogan "Pacific Wonderland." The Leg islature dropped the slogan to permit larger letters and num erals and a larger "Oregon." Vern L. Hill, director of the department, says that taking the next five years to issue the plates will save $200,000 because it will be unnecessary to make an im mediate massive switch in filing systems or employ extra person nel to help make the re-issue. The new system will permit an almost endless combination of letters and numbers. No ef fort will be made to spell words. Some letter combinations, how ever, will be eliminated since they might offend an owner. Oregon has approxima t e 1 y 900,000 registered pass e n g e r cars. Field Man Coming Robert Albrecht, field rep resentative for the Social Security Administration in Morrow coun ty, announces that following the Christmas holidays he will be in Heppner on Thursday, Jan uary 9, from 9 a.m. until noon in the city hall. Looking Forward New Y II v Jr J "f "" Here's a royal jf I J wigs welcome to me New -"-"riiiiumiii KlNZUA One -Shot Roscoe As Told By ORVILLE W. CUTSFORTH (Editor's Note: This is an other in the series of stories about Roscoe Cox, legendary Morrow county figure who died earlier this year). One time the bunch of us wers hunting elk up by Ellis. We were lined up crossing the ridges, about six or eight of us. My wife was on the right as we trailed through this country. She scared up a pair of coyotes crossing a ridge. These coyotes ran by Roscoe. Roscoe shot one of them. He lowered his gun and didn't shoot the other one. Old Pappy Leyva was next to him and was watching him. Roscoe didn't know Pappy was there. Well, Pappy wondered why Ros coe didn't shoot the second coy ote. He didn't know Roscoe was playing with him. The coyote ran by Pappy some distance and then Roscoe nonchalantly raised his rifle and shot this coyote in the rear end. The bullet tore a big hole in the coyote. Pappy said this was the most wicked thing he had ever watch ed. He thought about the shot Roscoe had made, 200 to 225 yards, at a small end of a coy ote dodeiner throueh the trees. He thought it was the finest 1 shot he had ever seen and Pappy had been with the game commission for 40 years. At noon we were gathered around the fire eating lunch and Pappy was telling about this shooting job that Roscoe had done. My wife spoke up and said, "Roscoe, shooting the rear end of a coyote at 200 yards running through the brush, it would make about a 4 inch target. That's a pretty small target isn't it, Roscoe?" Roscoe said, "No lady, all tar gets are the same size, you shoot the middle." TO ear Mrs. Lula Pierce of Pendleton is spending Christmas week in Heppner with her son, his wife and family, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Pierce. Visiting the James Pheglev through the holidays are Mrs. Phegley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Phelps, who arrived here Saturday from Crescent City, Calif. COMMUNITY I yj BILLBOARD I Coming Events BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Condon High School Gym Heppner vs. Wheeler Co. High, Friday, Dec. 27, 6:30 p.m. Condon vs. Sherman, 8:00 p.m. Playoff Saturday, Dec. 28, 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. Admission, adults $1, stu dents, 50c. Support the Mustangs. BENEFIT BOWLING TOURNAMENT Fiesta Bowl, Sunday, Dec. 29, 7 and 9 p.m. Benefit for Hospital Expenses of Shirley Cox. SKIING AT ARBUCKLE 6" to 20" packed snow on hill. Tow operating Saturday, Sun day. Skiing hours, 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. SEASON'S GREETINGS May the New Year Bring Peace and Prosperity to all. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. Box 247 PH. 676-9625 Heppner Here's a royal welcome to the New Year, with greetings to our friends and thanks for ail your cooperation in the past. May the months ahead bring you much happiness.
