HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES,
County Agent's Office
Portland Graders To Tour
Morrow Farms In April
By N. C. ANDERSON
Tentative plans were drafted
last Friday for the Portland
Eighth Grade School Tour which
will be held in Morrow county
on April 24, 25 and 26. The tour,
fashioned after the successful
experiences of such a tour in
Gilliam county for the past two
years, is aimed at acquainting
city children with the agriculture
of Morrow county.
Thirty-give Portland eighth
graders will come to Morrow
county to spend the week-end
with a host farm eighth grader
and family. Applications for host
eighth graders are now being
distributed through these classes
in both lone and Heppner. Leon
ard Herrick, lone elementary
school principal, is distributing
his this week but Hillard Brown,
Heppner elementary principal,
has back most or the appuca
tions distributed to his farm
eighth graders two weeks ago.
Applications coming back show
a lot of enthusiasm for this pub
lic relations activity.
Locally, the Morrow County
Wheatgrowers Association is tak
ing the lead with several organi
zations backing them. Among
these are the Heppner Soil Con
servation District. It is hoped
that the Morrow County Live
stock Growers Association, South
Morrow Leaders (4-H) Associa
tion, Heppner-Morrow County
Chamber of Commerce will also
assist.
The 35 boys and girls will
arrive in lone for lunch on April
24 and will have an opportunity,
after becoming acquainted with
their host eighth grader, to see
farming practices in the south
lone area which will include a
demonstration of machl n e r y
common to wheat farming, con
servation practices and the op
erations of a grain elevator. Sat
urday will be spent in seeing
more agriculture of the area
with Dick Wilkinson, Heppner
livestock operator, inviting the
group to his ranch on Willow
Creek to observe cattle opera
tions. Included on the Saturday
tour, will be a demonstration of
aerial spraying for weed con
trol, some more farm operations
and a visit to some of the coun
ty's famous farm fish ponds. A
Saturday evening gathering is
planned for the entire group so
that everyone might get better
acquainted. After church on Sun
day, the group will return to
Portland to report their exper
iences to their eighth grade
class.
Those attending the Friday
morning committee meeting
where tentative plans were
made, were Hillard Brown and
Leonard Herrick of the Heppner
and lone Elementary schools;
Louis Carlson, chairman, Morrow
County Wheatgrowers Associat
ion, Public Relations Committee;
Paul Tews, president, Morrow
County Wheatgrowers Associat
ion; Bob Jepsen, former state
chairman, Oregon Wheatgrowers
League, Tublic Relations Com
mittee representing the Heppner
Soil and Water Conservation
District; Walt Jacobs, Iona,
chairman, Oregon Wheatgrowers
League, Public Relations Com
mittee; Dick Wilkinson, presi
dent, Morrow County Livestock
growers Association, and myself.
Tree Fact Sheets Available
We have copies of a new Ore
gon State University fact sheet
entitled "Dwarf Fruit Trees for
Homo Gardens." The fact sheet
deals mainly with varieties in
cluding apples, pears, peaches,
prunes, plums and cherries. For
those making dwarf fruit tree
plantings, this fact sheet should
be of interest.
French Sileage Good
If 'Pickled' Correctly
While trench silos have never
been accepted as wide-spread in
Morrow county, those who have
used them are quite well pleas
ed. One livestock operator, John
Graves, HardnNin, has ensiled
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grass and alfalfa In trench silos
for several years and is real
pleased with the results. John
is the first to admit that you
cannot make good sileage from
poor feed and Is quite particular
to use young succulent forage.
From time to time, those who
do not need all of their sileage,
ask how long sileage can be
kept in a trench silo. I was in
terested In the article in a publi
cation recently for two reasons.
One, was that the person quoted
was a former 4-H club member
of mine from Bowman, North
Dakota; the second was that it
was found that the sileage was
still as good after 14 years as
when put in the silo. This anal
ysis was made by the State Uni
versity determining nutritive
value and other factors.
The extension husbandman
said that the 14-year-old sileage
smells good and has a good
color also. He referred to the
sileage as "pickled pasture" and
says that farmers find trench
sileage the cheapest method of
feed storage with the sileage re
taining its quality and volume
if it Is "pickled" correctly.
Booth Organizes Boys
In 4-H Forestry Club
After a few years without a
forestry club, Heppner has an en
thusiastic group who call them
selves the Eager Beavers. Stop
ping by their meeting for a few
minutes last week, I am sure
that the name fits them well
Bob Booth of the local Forest
Service is their enthusiastic
leader. He is doing a real good
Job keeping the 13 boys engaged
in constructive activities of this
4-H project.
This first year group will take
hikes into the woods, learn the
names of trees and other forest
plants, learn about the animals
and birds that live in the woods,
how trees grow, the importance
of Oregons forest, enjoy health
ful outdoor recreation as well as
preparing their exhibit of mounts
of foliage, seed, flowers or other
forest plants, including 5 or more
trees at the county fair.
President of the group Is
Loren Hopper; Robbie Booth,
vice president; Tom Stockard,
secretary; Jon Hodman, news re
porter; Mike Sweek, recreation
leader, with other members be
ing Bobby Ployhar, Dave, Mike
and Bryon Hughes, Mike and
Steve Hedman, Cecil Berry and
Dwayne Steers. The majority of
the boys are 9 and 10 year-olds.
Lack of Manganese Diet
Cause of Deformed Calves
New research at Washington
State University seems to have
solved the problem of crooked
calf, a deformity that has cost
stockmen millions of dollars.
A combination of atomic
science, experimental feeding
and range observations shows
that the crooked calf problem
is caused by a manganese short
age during the pre-birth period.
The affected calves have bent
legs, twisted necks or spines or
a combination of all.
Using a nuclear reactor it was
possible to determine that nor
mal calves had two or three
times as much manganese in
their bones and tissues as the
deformed calves.
Manganese supplementation,
the solution to the problem, can
be very inexpensively perform
ed by mixing manganese with
salt, according to the WSU ex
tension specialists.
Butterfingcrs Meet
The Butterfingcrs Cooking club
met at the home of Mrs. Wallace
Wolff on Wednesday, January 22.
We made relish dishes. Next
time we have, to bring recipes.
We will make hamburgers. Mrs.
Earl Ayres brought refreshments.
Kathleen Ayres, reporter
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Decisions Due
The time has arrived for pro
ducers to decide how many acres
of feed grain to divert from pro
duction in 1964, says David Mc
Leod, office manager, Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conser
vation Service.
February 10 through March 27
is the period for signing the
forms necessary to participate in
the 1964 feed grain diversion pro
program. All producers with a
feed grain base may participate
by visiting the local ASCS of
fice and indicate their intentions.
A producer may divert from
20 to 50 of his base and re
ceive a diversion payment, price
support payment (on the acre
age of feed grain produced in
1964), as well as being eligible
for price support loans on all
his 1964 production.
Those who are undecided to
participate should take a look
at the benefits of signing up and
deciding later whether to com
ply or not, according to McLeod.
Only through producers' cooper
ation can any program accom
plish its goals and benefit those
who make it successful.
For further information and
assistance farmers may visit the
county ASCS office.
Chats From Your Home Agent
Welcome
To North
By ESTHER KIRMIS
Your agent had an interesting
experience last week paying
"Welcome Wagon" type visits to
the new McKenzie Trailer park,
a mile south of Boardman.
We found that the McKenzies
have formerly been in our home
state, North Dakota, working at
the Minot missile base. They
have built a home for them
selves and have the beginning
of a nice trailer village there.
Laundry facilities, fenced yards,
sewage and water, and lights are
all being provided to their 20
some trailers already there. The
McKenzies were making provis
ions to equip 20 more trailer
spaces. It's miraculous how the
village "popped up" over night.
We gave each family a wel
come packet containing litera
ture on Morrow county, explan
ation of 4-H work, year's pro
gram of the Home Extension
units in the county, and a small
catalog of bulletins offered by
Oregon State University.
Although most of these people
are on road construction, they
were quite pleased with the re
lease in a Portland paper that
Boeing is planning ground
breaking ceremonies on the in
dustrial park this month.
4-H Food Leaders Train
Mrs. Wallace Wolff, Heppner
was hostess to other 4-H food
leaders in this area for a 4-H
Foods training session bv vour
agent. Eight principles of modern
cooking served as the back
ground for this training. We
went through the first three
foods project books and brought
out principles there.
Mrs. Robert Abrams, Heppner,
and Mrs. William Doherty, Lex
ington, were the additional lead
ers. The day before we visited with
Mrs. Arnold Hoffman, Boardman,
about these same things. Mrs.
Charles Meador, a Foods V leader
from Irrigon, attended the Uma
tilla county foods training meet
ing at Hermiston.
We have five 4-H foods clubs
with a membership of 32, at
present.
Money Notes
Why all the talk about money?
We don't have to look very
far to notice the attention that's
Ining given to money and fin
ancial planning these days.
There's evidence all around us
in newspapers and magazines,
on radio and TV, in cartoon, and
comic pages and in conversa
tions with friends and family
members. Why all this attention?
The change that's brought all
this money talk is a many-sided
thing. Here are only a few:
Widespread use of credit.
Credit has forced a certain
amount of financial planning.
Our families have changed
since the turn of the century
from a producing to a consuming
family. Today we need money
IN THE RUSH SEASON!
Grange Program To
LEXINGTON A movie, "The
Co-op Circle," will be a featured
part or the program for the Lex
ington Grange meeting Satur
day night, February 8, at the
Grange hall.
The regular business meeting
will start at 8:00 p.m. Refresh
ments will be served by the com
mittee at the close of the even
ing. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Miles
and children have moved to
Lewiston, Ida., where Mr. Miles
has been promoted to manager
of Pacific Finance Co. Due. to
lack of housing facilities in
Lewiston, they are living in near-
dv ciarkston. Miles is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dunbar and
his wife is the daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. M. V. Nolan, all of
Lexington.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Cutsforth
returned Saturday from a plane
trip which took them to Albu
querque., New Mexico. They con
tinued south to Mexico for a
short visit before returning
home.
Mrs. Bertha Hunt, Mrs. A. F.
Majeske, Mrs. Edward Hunt,
Mrs. Florence McMillan and
Mrs. Charles Colley visited Mrs.
Julian Rauch in Good Shepherd
hospital in Hermiston on Mon
day afternoon. Mrs. Rauch is still
Extended
Villagers
to buy the necessities and pleas
ures of life.
More and more of our people
are owning their own homes and
the financing of the home it
self has brought families into
money management in a big
way.
The baby boom in the 1940's
had a great influence. Today
money is needed to see them
through their school years until
they have left home for a life
of their own.
People live longer today. At
the turn of the century the av
erage life expectancy was 47
years. Today it is 69 years. This
means we have 22 years more to
plan for and enjoy.
People realize that what they
don't know about money leads
them to woes and worries. That
is why the Oregon Extension
tries to help people with their
money planning.
Write Box 397, Heppner, Ore
gon, for "Money and the Life
Cycle," OSU Extension bulletin.
Two Trackers Meet
At Wrangler Ground
Two Trackers 4-H club met
February 3 at the Wrangler club
house. Meeting was called to
order by our president, Judy Ny
man, and Gail Malcom read the
minutes of our last meeting. Roll
call was answered by giving
our horse's name.
Floyd Jones demonstrated the
side step with his horse and we
went over safety rules. Ora
Evans and Betty Ful let on
brought refreshments.
Marcia Jones, reporter
Electronics, Radio
Classes to Organize
The first of what is designed
to be a series of classes on ele
mentary electronics and radio
theory and practice has been an
nounced by Ray Smith, the in
structor, for Monday evening,
February 10. The organizational
class will get underway at 7:30
p.m. at the Smith residence at
190 S. Chase.
Enrollment will be open to
both beginners and more advan
ced students and is not limited
to any particular age groups.
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in a heavy cast, recovering
slowly from injuries received in
a car accident near Hermiston in
December.
Mrs. C. C. Jones was among
those who attended the confer
ence of Grange Home Ec. club
chairmen at Stefani's banquet
room in lone last Thursday. She
returned Tuesday from a few
days in Portland, visiting at the
home of her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Eatch.
Democrats Elect
Five Delegates
For Pre-Primary
Morrow county Demo c r a t s
held an enthusiastic meeting in
the old library last Thursday.
Delegates to the Democratic
State pre-primary convention in
Corvallis were elected.
Because of Democratic victories
in this county beginning with
President John F. Kennedy in
1960 to the substantial margins
given Democrats Wayne Morse
for Senator and to Congressman
Al Ullman two years later this
county was given three extra or
bonus delegates for a total of
five. Those elected were Kenneth
Cutsforth, Dee Jones, Betty
Brown, Virginia Rosewall and Al
Lamb. Alternate delegates named
are Barbara Cutsforth, Bernice
Lamb, and Mrs. Kenneth Cuts
forth. Announced candidates indi
cate that each county precinct
will have an elected committee
man and committeewoman for
the first time in many years.
The meeting was opened by
Chairman Al Lamb with a eulogy
on former President John F.
Kennedy and expressions of
gratitude for the training and
fitness for the job of President
Lyndon B. Johnson. The speaker
said that no one today is better
fitted to assume the office of
the presidency than President
Johnson. He urged the election
of candidates friendly to the pro
gram initiated by President Ken
nedy so that a fitting memorial
to his greatness could become
a living and lasting witness to
our martyred.
President Lamb also urged the
end of "irresponsible charges"
against the patriotism and mo
tives of all candidates and elec
ted officers, pointing out that so
called "hate actions" hold Amer
icans up to ridicule and appear
ances of lack of maturity.
"Good sportsmanship in poli
tics, with honest and objective
differences, will further the pro
gress of Americanism much
more than will adoption of
methods used by former and
present dictators," he said.
The meeting voted to donate
a copy of the Kennedy memorial
book "The Torch is Passed" to
the local library. The committee
also urged all eligible voters to
register and asked that addit-
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160 Scales Checked
In Morrow County
Weights and measures men of
the Oregon Department of Agri
culture checked a total of 160
scales, service station pumps and
meters in Morrow county in 1963.
In their checks of these meas
uring devices inspectors con
demned two for inaccurate
weights or measurements. How
ever, after being repaired they
are rechecked and sealed by the
state. The state seal is the sign
of accuracy of those scales and
meters tested.
The inspections in Morrow
county included 40 small scales
ranging up to 399 pounds; 10
medium scales in the 400 to
7,500 pound class; 24 stock or
vehicle scales of from 7,501 to
60,000 pound capacity; four ve
hicle or grain hopper scales in
the more than 60,000 pound
class; 57 service station pumps
and 31 meters, including six
liquid petroleum gas liquid
meters.
The department's figures on
weights and measures work in
1963 show a total of 37,653 in
spections made statewide with
1,569 condemnations. In 1962
checks were made on 35,848
measuring devices and total con
demnations numbered 1,404.
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set up, such as in the bowling
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Hospital Project
At recent meetings of the
Needlettes 4-H club we practiced
different construction points be
fore we started our main gar
ments. On January 28, we met at lone
meeting, we discussed different
types of inter facing for different
High school at 3:30. At this
garments.
We also made some pillow
slips for the hospital as a com
munity service project.
Shirley Hicks, reporter
ZIP CODE RUBBER STAMPS for
Heppner and lone on sale at
the Gazette-Times office.
LIVESTOCK LOSSES
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( according toUDA estimate!)
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