Image provided by: Morrow County Museum; Heppner, OR
About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1964)
HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, February 13. 1964 MBtM NEWS 1''-- ""T"' I ' 4 - a TWO LITTLE Charlais-Hereford Hereford mother on the Dick Wilkinson ranch a few days after their birth. They are the product of artificial insemination with their father being a Chariots bull, "Maestro" of Tyler, Texas. (G-T Photo) Twin Charlais Arrive A Charlais bull by the name of "Maestro" which weighs just under 3,000 pounds, is the father of twin Charlais-Hereford calves born on the Wilkinson ranch on Willow Creek last week. Born In Tyler, Texas, the bull Is a member of a battery of progeny tested beef bulls in the mid -west. The twins, each larger than the average single calf, were doing quite well when visited last Friday morning at the age of 26 hours. The result of arti ficial Insemination, they are a part of a large group of calves at the Wilkinson ranch that were conceived by this method. Dick Payne, son-in-law of the Wilkinsons, was the insemlnator, and evidentally has the tech nique down quite "pat" from the percentage of calves that are Signup Starts For 1964 Feed Grain Program Oregon barley and corn pro ducers are now signing up for the 1964 feed grain program. Those who wish to participate must file with their county Agri cultural Stabilization and Con servation (ASC) office by March 27, advises M. D. Thomas, Ore gon State University extension economist. Producers of feed or malting barley, field corn and grain sorg hum who sign now and make required acreage reductions later will be eligible for program ben efits, he said. These include price supports and payments for diverting feed grain acres to con servation uses. No diversions are required to qualify for price supporting loans on oats and rye, Thomas added. The program, authorized by Congress in 1903, aims to keep national feed grain production within needs, protect farm in come and reduce government costs. On farms with feed grain bases of more than 50 acres, the maximum acreage that may be diverted to conserving use for payment has been increased to 50 percent of the base. Last year, the maximum was 40 per cent. The payment rate per aero for diverting 40 percent or more will be higher than in 1963. The entire base may be di verted for payment at the higher rate on farms where the total is less than 25 acres. On farms with bases from 25 to 50 acres, a total of 25 acres may be di verted. As in the past, the smallest acreage that can be diverted for payment is 20 per cent of the base. No payments or prit?o supporting loans on feed grains other than oats and rye will lie available to growers who do not divert at least 20 per cent of their base, Thomas said. Growers who wish to partici pate must first file reports with the county ASC office, if they are not already on record, and then file an intent ion-to participate form at the county office as soon as possible, the economist added. Further details on the 1961 feed grain program may be ob tained from county ASC or ex tension offices. Rhea Creek 4-H Club Hears Sheep Reports Ft bi nary meeting of the Rhea Creek Livestock 411 club was called to order by John Harris, temporary chairman. We dis cussed the sheep reports, in the absence of some of the reporting members. We talked over our projects. After the meeting adjourned, r reslimt nis were served by Mrs. Darrel Harris and Mrs. Har- old Wright. John Harris, reporter File cards and guides, 3x5, 4x6 and 5.S at the Gazette-Times. ) i ? cross calves are shown with their at Ranch being born this spring. While semen from Hereford sires at the beef battery of American Breed ers Service was used, a Charlais Hereford cross shows up quite distinctively with the white faced "yellow" calves. Many nave seen this peculiar color from these same cross breeding at the Orville Cuts forth ranch for the past several years. Even more striking is a cross between the Charlais and Angus cows, which gives a pecul iar "dirty white" color. There is much interest shown locally in improvement of beef herds by the use of artificial insemination which provides for the use of progeny tested sires to be used on cows that other wise could not share in such beef improvement when used the conventional way. Home Extension Unit To Sponsor Food Sale A food sale will be sponsored' by the Heppner Extension Unit on Friday, February 21. It will be held at Red and White Groc ery, starting at 1:00 p.m., accord ing to leaders of the unit. The sale is one of the unit's money-making projects schedul ed for the year. The unit helps support Azalea house at Oregon State University, sponsors the Homemaker's Spring Festival, contributes 4-H awards In knit ting and other local projects. Busy Needles Meet Meeting of the Busy Needles 4-H Knitting club was January 21 at 4 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Spohn. We knitted on our potholders and caps. We had a visitor, Tanya Tucker, who s joining the club. The next meet ing will be February 18 at the home of Mrs. Spohn. Christine McCabe, reporter Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sherman were week-end visitors with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wes Sher man and family. The couple lives'in Salem, where Mrs. Sher man Is home economics teacher In Tarrish Junior High and from where Dick commutes to Corval lis to complete his college major in mathematics at Oregon State University. FARMERS! THIS IS OUR SLOW SEASON GET YOUR FARM TRUCK, TRACTOR AND PICKUP TIRES CAPPED NOW. FARM DISCOUNTS ON ALL RECAPS AND NEW TIRES We Handle Standard Batteries N. Main PH. 676 County Agent's Office Plaques Awarded At District Meet By N. C ANDERSON Morrow County Agent Two new supervisors were wel comed and two were retired after their long and faithful service to the district at the Heppner Soil and Water Conservation District's annual meeting in the Lexington Grange hall last Tues day evening. Chairman Raymond French thanked Raymond Lundell, retir ing director who had served J2 years, and Bob Jepsen, who had served four years. Vernon Mun kers, Lexington, and Roger Palm er, Heppner, are the new di rectors chosen for four-year terms, and W. C. Rosewall, Hepp ner, was elected to fill out a one-year term. Gar Swanson ana trench nar rated their presentation of color ed slides on their trip to Good year Farms at Litchfield Park, Ariz., in mid-December. They represented the district as state winners of the nation-wide Good year Soli Conservation awards contest. Some 40 persons were present to enjoy the report of the trip. George Bonbrite, Good year field representative of Pendleton, awarded plaques to uar twan son, Morrow County Conserva tion Man of the Year, and each supervisor in the district. He complimented the supervisors on their unique position as being a part of the only district in the state to have won the state Good year award twice in the past 10 years, as well as being second place winner in 1958. William Cochran, assistant ad ministraitve officer, State Soil Conservation committee, also complimented the supervisors and said that he wondered . ?f the people in the Heppner dis trict realized "the nice job their supervisors are doing." He sug gested cooperators go out of their way to give these super visors a pat on the back for their intense interest in conser vation of resources of the coun ty. A long list of achievements of the district which appeared in the special boil and Water Conservation district page in last weeks Gazette-Times, was re viewed. Bill Coffield, watershed plan ning leader of the conservation service, explained Public Law 566 in a talk. It provides for Federal cost sharing in develop ing watersheds, such as the Khea Creek and Rock Creek pro jects now under study in this area. He pointed out that most developments now are multi purpose, which Includes flood prevention, recreation, irrigation and drainage and detention res ervoirs back in the watershed before it gets out of control. Ha said there are 39 applications LIVESTOCK LOSSES mount to ovir $2 Billion annually, (according, to US DA estimates) USE OUR LIVESTOCK SUPPLY DEPARTMENT It It designed to terve you In your Livestock Disease Prevention Program WI FEATURE VACCINES and SUPPLIES HUMPHREYS REXALL DRUG FORD'S TIRE SERVICE - 9481 Heppner for watershed developments in Oregon with 14 authorized and six in the planning stage with some construction underway. He pointed out that developments of such small watersheds move along in relation to the leader ship given In the community and announced that a reconnaisance of the Rhea Creek watershed will be made in late February. The sponsorship, development and maintainance of these projects are left up to the local people. Ken Keudell, speaking for Farmers Home Administration, pointed out that many of the small watershed projects are financed through FHA loans. These loans are available for two important parts of the pro ject, the watershed development project where the water is re tained and loans for irrigation development on the individual ranch as well as group irrigation projects. This takes care of the expenses of organizational right-of-ways, attorney fees, as in cluded in a watershed plan with terms up to 50 years to pay. 25 Persons Attend Weed Shortcourse Excellent weather and con flicts in '-community activities kept many people at home, but more than 25 persons attended the weed control shortcourse last week. The shortcourse took its enrollees back to the funda mentals of plant growth in ex plaining how weed chemicals kill and then carried through with the latest research and rec ommendations. Dr. Bill Furtick told of three relatively new chemicals, Tor don, Banvel D, and Bentrol, which look especially good on Canadian thistle, morning glory, as well as the hard-to-kill an nuals. He told of the cooperative pro jects that OSU has with Chile where weed control work can be carried on for the whole year. Chile has the same weather with opposite seasons as Oregon so fits in perfectly as an opportun ity to speed up weed research activities which is being done. Claron Hesp, Farm Chemicals, Athena, did a fine job in point ing out the importance of hav ing good spray equipment for Iti ... and have everything at your fingertips. Most homemakers don't have eight hands, but they have the next best thing: electric housewares. For every job, there's an efficient , convenient electric helper: fry pan, hot tray, vacuum cleaner, or electric blanket to name a few. Each electric houseware does its specific job faster, better and more economically than you Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative 70 Head Offered At Angus Sale The "Angus Capital of the West" has attracted consign ments of 70 head of all black bulls for the twelfth anniver sary sale at Baker, Saturday, February 22 at 12 noon. This report of consignments by 13 Northwest Angus breeders of registered Angus bulls comes from Sale Manager Joe Freeman, Baker. The consignments will come from Oregon, Idaho and Wash ington and sale is sponsored by Oregon Angus association. The Baker sale will be one of the few big Angus sales in the region. It is offering a wide va riety of the breeding selections as well as fine bulls for the com mercial herds looking for out standing quality. Sale catalogs may be obtained by writing Mr. Freeman. A show will be held at 1 p.m. Friday with J. D. Mankin of Pay ette as judge. an efficient, effective job. He ex plained the various spray nozz les and equipment which are necessary for modern chemicals. He demonstrated one model of spray boom which is being used very effectively by many wheat growers in the area. The group asked that a handy reference book of weeds common to Morrow county be assembled to all growers to facilitate con trol methods. This will be avail able within the near future for distribution from this office. Tad Miller Plans Four-Row Windbreak Tad Miller, North Lexington rancher, is the latest to plan a farmstead windbreak. Last week we assisted Tad in planning a four-row windbreak which will give protection to his home. Something different from the us ual is being added to this wind break where Tad will plant a number of dwarf fruit trees In terspersed among the inside pine row. Caragana and two rows of black locust will make up the planting. The William Dohertys last month set out a two-row wind break of black locust and pine. Others interested can order trees from the state nursery before the end of the spring planting sea son which is April 1. Order blanks are available from this office. g&od t& be ever dreamed possible. Electric housewares with automatic tem perature control mean (Is ELECTRICITY the heart'of modern living Serving Morrow and Gilliam Counties Fred Ball of Henniston arrived in Heppner Tuesday to spend the remainder of the week visiting friends and relatives here. Mr. Ball is staying at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wavel Wilk inson. Mr. and Mrs. Don Hevener and their infant son, Brian, returned to their home in Cornelius last Thursday, after spending three days visiting friends and rela tives in Heppner. They were house guests of Mrs. Hevener's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Sal Ing. Week-end visitors in Heppner were Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Lind berg, Mrs. Marjorie Puckett and her son Doug, all of Spokane. Mrs. Lindberg is a sister to Mrs. Ella Bleakman, who is a patient in Pioneer Memorial hospital. Beginning Monday, February 10 Free Public Dumping AT Heppner City Dump Is Restricted To Saturday and Sunday Afternoons -- I to 5 p. m. The public will not be permitted access to the dump at other times. Violators will be prosecuted. -By order of the HEPPNER CITY COUNCIL equipped you set them and forget them. New automatic electric housewares are so streamlined and modern they can go right to the table. Automatic control panels with built-in timer will let you use as many as six appliances at one time. Up-date your living, the low-cost electric way. Visit your appliance dealer soon. (Electric house wares make wonderful gifts, too. Why not get one for everyone on your gift list?) LEXINGTON NEWS Miss Joyce Peck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Peck, is a patient in Pioneer Memorial hos pital. Mrs. Emma Breshears, who has been a patient in Pioneer Mem orial hospital, is now at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Steagall. Mr. and Mrs. Greg Leyva and children of Hood River spent the week-end in Lexington with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Steagall. George Irvin, son Billy, and Dewey Irvin and son of Rufus spent Saturday in Lexington at the C. C. Jones ranch. Keith Peck who is employed in Portland spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Peck. THE 0 nuca
