HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, February 13. 1964
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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