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HEPPNEH GAZETTE-TIMES, THE W GAZETTE-TIMES MOBBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPEH The Heppner Gazette established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. NIWSPAMI rUILIIHIIt ASSOCIATION WESLEY A. SHERMAN Editor and PublUher Subscription Rates: $4.50 Year. Every Thursday and Entered at as Second Class Matter. Agreement Made on Beef Imports Cattlemen who have been greatly concerned about the rising competition of meat imports, principally from Australia and New Zealand, will welcome the agreement that has been negot iated with those countries to limit their exports of these meats to the United States. According to John Landers, Oregon State University animal science specialist, imports of beef, veal and mutton under the new agreement will be held to approximately the 1962-63 av erage, which is about six per cent below the record level of 1963. Future increases in imports of these meats from the countries is to be in line with the anticipated growth in the U. S. market for the meats. Cattlemen have pointed out that in 1962 this country im ported the equivalent of almost a billion pounds of meat. In 1963 the total imports of beef and veal on a carcass weight equivalent was about 1.7 billion pounds. For comparison pur poses, it may be pointed out that imports in 1957 were about 770 million pounds. Bringing it closer to home, in 1962 meat imports through the Port of Portland were 2,789,519 pounds with a value of almost $900,000. Reports are that the Imported meat is being used right in the heart of the cattle country in Oregon. It reportedly is being soid in the John Day country, has been sold in Prineville and Mitchell. Since receipts from the sale of cattle and calves comprise the largest of any agricultural commodity in the State of Oregon, and since there are many, many people dependent upon the livestock industry (sales yards, transportation people, slaught ering and processing), it is understandable that cattlemen and livestock and farm organizations are very much concerned. Landers reports that one of the prime factors in getting the government to recognize the problem was the fact that beef prices have remained steady or dropped in some cases, while the cattleman's cost of production has continued to In crease. The sharp rise in beef Imports Australian shipments were up 89 per cent in 1962 and another 17 per cent in 1963 coupled with rising cattle numbers in this country, have had a depressing effect on U. S. beef prices. Cattlemen have released information on their position to the effect that they are not seeking to curtail the sale of foreign meats completely, but only desire to establish some curbs to prevent endangering the economic welfare of the industry and those dependent upon it. Australian beef comes from range cattle that are not fattened just before market on grain. Dick Wilkinson, Heppner cattleman, states that it therefore is a leaner meat than that generally marketed domestically. The imported meat is used principally for canning in this country but is also found in markets and in lower-priced restaurants. There is no requirement that im ported beef be labeled as such, although certain states Wyom ing and South Dakota have passed labeling laws. Oddly enough, some Americans are attempting to play both sides of the coin. American capital in sizable amounts is moving into Australia to buy land and stock it with herds. The Kle bergs of Texas with their worldwide King Ranch operations have acquired a tract in Australia said to be equivalent to a half-dozen counties of Texas size. While cattlemen have been pressing for control on the im ports, there has been some fear manifest in other quarters that attempting to force beef-exporting countries to cut down their exports might prejudice America's position in the tariff negot iations to be in Geneva in May. In this respect, the beef ex ports to this country are part of a larger picture in which the relation of America's farm surpluses to world trade and in particular to the European market Is at stake. Nevertheless, apparently efforts of cattlemen to alert the government to the damaging effects on the economy because of the Imports were responsible in negotiating the agreement that should result in some improvement for the industry in this country. Ruby Fulleton Hurt Ruby Fulleton, young daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Roice Fulle ton, suffered cuts to the face and head Saturday afternoon when she accidentally broke a glass door at Fulleton's Chevrolet. Ruby was running down the sidewalk when she came to the outside door and expected that it would be unlocked. She tried to enter in a huny, but found the door locked. She crashed in to the glass and shattered it. Although she was not badly Closeout Sale On Ski Wear, Ski Equipment And Skates Prices Slashed Sale Ends At Midnight, Friday, February 28-We Will Be Open All Day Friday and Friday Evening. PECKS' SKI SHOP HEPPNER Thursday, February 27. 196 HEPPWEK NATIONAL EDITORIAL s)cQtin HELEN E. SHERMAN Associate Publisher Single Copy 10 Cents. Published the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, hurt, one piece of glass cut her forehead, requiring six stitches by a local physician and she also suffered another cut to the head. 1 Hrmi All SIS I Chaff and Chatter Wes Sherman IT TOOK some real detective work to get the Gazette-Times telephone functioning Wednes day morning when it was dis covered that the phone was in operative. When we went to dial a number, we received no dial tone. There was no hum, no tone, no busy signal, nothing. If one listened intently, he could hear some talk that sounded far In the distance. We caught the faint words, . . order some double strength glass." It then occurred that someone had called the office and had neglected to hang up the re ceiver on the other end, keep ing the line open. The caller controls the situation, and if he fails to break the connection, there is nothing the receiver can do about it. He is out of business. So the detective work started. Who had called the office last? After some pondering, it was concluded that it was Pastor El wood Boyd of the SDA church. So we went across the street to Charlie Ruggles' and used his phone to dial Pastor Boyd. El- wood promptly answered, which meant, then, that his phone was not off the hook. We explained the situation to him, and he said that he hadn't even called us from his home but called from lone. When we had heard the double strength glass," we had surmised that it must be em anating from a hardware store or building supply, but none in our office had recalled any calls from Gilliam and Bisbee, Tum-A Lum, Pettyjohn's or any other such firm. But when Elwood told us he had called from lone, we asked him from whose phone he had placed the call. "It was from Rietmann's Hard ware," said he. This caused the bells to ring and the lights to flash. That's where the trouble was. We then called Charlie O'Con nor in lone and asked him to walk across to Rietmann's and get them to hang up the phone. By the time we walked back across the street from Ruggles' the G-T phone was in working order again. We thank both Charlies for their help. The paper without a phone on Wed- esday is like a car without wheels. It's our lifeline. STUDENTS in the Carnegie course last week were asked to bring an exhibit connected with their work or hobby some thing in which they were very much interested. When Mrs. Carl (Betty) Mar- quardt of Lexington arrived in class that evening carrying her baby in her arms, classmates assumed that she hadn't been able to get a baby sitter. But when her turn came to talk, Betty held up her baby and Salem Scene By ROBERT L. DERNEDDE Three Sales Tax Measures Aimed at November Ballot Likelihood of Oregonians vot- ng on three state sales tax measures at the November gen eral election looms today with two initiative proposals already filed and another soon to arrive at the Secretary of State's office. Whether or not all three meas ures will appear on the ballot, ill of course, depend upon how successful advocates of each pro posal are in securing 37,096 valid signatures by July 2. The Citizens Committee for In come and Property Tax Relief proposal is a Constitutional amendment authorizing the leg islature to enact a 3 percent retail sales tax with food and drugs exempt. Some 60-80 per cent of revenue would be used for income and property tax relief. Remaining revenue, anywhere from 20-40 per cent, would be delegated to the general fund. Income, if the law were in effect this year, is estimated at $66 million. The amendment provides for no future increases in the state income tax without a vote of the people and would attach an emergency clause to the bill en acted by the legislature. An initiative filed by Donald L. Jordan, Eugene contractor, is also a Constitutional amend ment directing, rather than auth orizing the legislature to enact a 3 per cent tax with no ex emptions. Revenue under this proposal would be used exclusively for sup'Hir nn! - -aintenance of " n ''o'- ' '.(! c!nmunlty i ViU ::e-.;. Kst.u ad in me for the present yen- would mean ap proximately $79 million. A third sales tax measure ex described the tot to the class. "We were told to bring some thing that was important to our lives," she explained simply, "and my family is both my life and my avocation. Instructor Bob Marsh declared that this was the most unusual exhibit he had seen since he started teaching the Carnegie course, and classmates were in trigued with her very novel pre sentation. NEWS THAT the Bill Barratt family is going to move to Spokane later in the year be cause of his new position there brings some const e r n a 1 1 o n around here. It will hardly seem like the same place without any of the Barratts around after all these years, Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Barratt having left for Arizona a couple of years ago. At this moment we don't know just how Bill and Bonnie are going to get out of Heppner with son Scott, what with all the basketball fans around. Just as Scott really begins to show promise as a whale of a basket ball player, with the fine height he has, Heppner High is going to lose him. It just doesn't seem right. THE BASKETBALL boys who so deftly played ball control against Sherman Tuesday night and won the low-scoring game, 28-24, are deserving of the best and heartiest applause. No one would have conceded them a chance, but they carved one of the season's greatest victories around the state, playing a type of "slow 'em down" game in which they had little experience. It certainly caught the Huskies by surprise, and it was a clever coaching maneuver designed to make up for the loss of man power that the team had suffer ed last week. The victory puts the Mustangs in the district tournament, regardless of how they make out Friday night against Burns. AT HERMISTON high, the dis trict 7-B sub-district tourna ment (an awkward title, wot?) started today, and in the com petition are two Morrow county teams, Riverside and lone. One will eliminate the other right off the bat. Ione's Cardinals haven't had an outstanding rec ord this year in the won-loss column, but the admirable thing about the Cards is that they never quit. You always find them coming on fast and hard late in the season, and it is possible that they will really be heard from in their tourna ment. Riverside has a real good team this year and has a darkhorse role in the tournament. Morrow county fans would dearly like to see one of their teams upset the tournament favorite, the fine McEwen Scotties of Athena. pected to be filed in the near future by the Oregon Agricul tural Council, is reported to also be a Constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact a 3 per cent sales tax with emergency clause provision. Food and drugs are expected to be exempt, and it is under stood that revenue income must be specifically used to provide local school districts with ap proximately 50 per cent of cur rent operating expenses. Its pro visions will limit property taxes for school purposes and will pro vide some income tax relief. The emergency clause pro vision attached to two of the three proposals would make the law enacted by the legislature effective upon the signature of the governor. In each case, the burden of writing a sales tax law will be left to the legislature. The legis lature, however, will have to write the law within provisions outlined in whichever measure passes. If more than one receives a majority vote, the measure re eiving the greatest number ef "yes" votes will become law. Although each measure has built-in income and property tax relief provisions, voters should not interpret any of the pro posals as capable of reducing the total tax burden. On the con trary, the total tax burden will be increased to some degree, should any of these measures become law. The past two week-ends have found the L Aorams in Fossii on busings r.nd also visiting at t;.v L,. J. Mar i residence. Vsek enc. gjsts of the Wayni. Ilarsins were Mrs. Harsin's par-1 er.ts, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fossum i of Kennewiek, Wn. One -Shot Roscoe As Told By ORVILLE W. CUTSFORTH (Editor's note: This is an other in the series of anec dotes about the late Roscoe Cox, Morrow county outdoors man, who died last year). Roscoe spent one night in jail. Just one night in jail in his en tire lifetime. One time they ar rested him upon the hill. They arrested him and his two part ners when they were coming out with this new whiskey from this still. This was about in 1930. Well, they threw the whiskey out, all but one gallon jug. They put it in a gunny sack. They carried it and the five of them came from the mountains down to the court house. They flung old Roscoe and his two partners in Jail, got there in the even ing. The jail was adjoined to the courthouse. There was a win dow and a door that opened into the courtroom or into the sher iff's office with bars across it. Across the hallway In the sher iff's office they put the gallon jug of whiskey in the sack against the wall. They left for the night. Well, the three rascals in the jail looking out this window in to the sheriff's office looked longingly at this gallon jug in the gunny sack and they devised a means to get it. They took a wire off of a piece of clothes line, and they took the suspen ders off Old Roscoe's back for a fishing line. They made a hook out of the wire, and they tied the outfit to the stove poker. They started casting and casting to try to hook the gunny sack. After awhile their right hands wore out so they tried the left hand. This poker wasn't a vry good casting rod, but they fin ally hooked the gunny sack and they pulled it across to the win dow. They drug the sack up to where they could get a hold of it and they sat the jug on the window ledge outside the steel bars. They couldn't drink out of the jug in that position. So they took a inch pipe out of the plumbing and bent it in a U-shape through the bars and put it in the end of the jug. This made a fine siphon. They nursed on that siphon, the three of them, for five or six hours until, the jub was empty. Roscoe was the only one left standing on his feet the other two were down and out. So Roscoe stood there holding the jug through the bars, so it wouldn't fall, wondering what to do and he knew the empty jug wasn't the thing. So he took the siphon pipe, straigh tened it some, put it in the jug, and he carried water from the tap in his hat and poured it into the jug until the jugi was full of water. He threw the pipe back into ONE 26th for OTHER SPECIAL ON MEN'S AND SHOES No Mail or Phone Orders Please All Sales Final No Refunds No Exchanges No Charges or LayawaYS Wheat Standards For New Grades Effective May 1 By JOHN WELBES Executive Vice President, Oregon Wheat Growers League Last fall four area hearings were held throughout the United States in regards to changing the U. S. standards for grades of wheat. The Oregon Wheat Growers League was represent ed at three of these hearings by Milt Morgan. As a result of these hearings, Secretary of Agricul ture Orvlile Freeman has an nounced the following changes. 1. Maximum limits are set for "total defects" damaged kern els, foreign material, and shrunk en and broken kernels. No lim its for "total defects" exist in present standards, except for the summation of the maximum limits for each of these three factors. The change sets limits for total defects in grade No. 1 at 3, in grade No. 2 at 5. Limits are also set in the other numerical grades. 2. Limits for shrunken and broken kernels are lowered from 5 to 3 per cent for grade No. 1. Limits are set at 12 for grade No. 4 and 20 for grade No. 5. 3. Minimum moisture content for wheat graded "tough" is re duced from 14 to 14.5 per cent (depending on the class) to 13.5 per cent for all classes. The change also eliminated moisture as a factor in determining sample grade. 4. "Dockage" is recorded in half per cent, whole per cent, or whole and half per cent, with other fractions reduced to the nearest whole or half. For in stance, dockage of .4 would be zero and .8 would be .5 dockage. It is not a grade determining fac tor but is recorded on inspection the jail cell and put the cork in the jug, put the jug in the sack and hooked it to the wire. He let it down to the floor and poked it as far out into the middle of the room as he could with the poker. This wasn't but about halfway across, and he thought if the deputy comes in the morning he'll know some thing is wrong. Well, the deputy didn't come. The state policeman came and the state policeman took Roscoe and his two partners and the gallon jug to the courtroom at 10:00 o'clock and the trial be gan. The judge in those days sometimes liked the evidence, so he took the cork out of the jug and he smelled the whiskey and he said to the deputy, "This seems rather weak but it does smell of moonshine." Then he tasted it. He asked the deputy and the state police man, "Now, is the water in Hepp ner so bad that you have to carry a gallon of mountain water clear here? Case dismissed." It was Roscoe's only night in jail and he enjoyed it. MORE WEEK ON SEMI-ANNUAL SALE OF SHOES Two Pair of Nationally Advertised Women or Girls Shoes For The Price of One Pair Choose From Such Famous As VELVET STEP and AIR Ingle To Speak Guest speaker at Sunday's services at the Lexington Church of Christ will be Ronald Ingle, a teacher at Heppner high school and an ordained minister. The Rev. Earl Soward, minister of the church, urges everyone to come to the service and hear Mr. Ingle speak. certificates. At present, dockage when equal to 1 per cent or more is recorded in whole per cent, and fractions are reduced to the nearest whole per cent 5. Percentages of White Club Wheat and Common White Wheat in the subclass Western White Wheat are to be stated in inspection certificates. 6. During the transitional per iod following May 1, grain in spectors will, on request, show the grade of wheat under the old as well as the new stand ards. The secretary emphasized his belief that the new standards will be an important step to in crease dollars of U. S. wheat abroad. Yes, the Gazette-Times can print the form you need for busi ness or ranch use. Phone 676- 9228. Coming Events HEPPNER HIGH BASKETBALL Heppner vs. Burns. Bend High gym. Friday, February 28, 8:00 p.m. League Championship play off. Support the Mustangs! GEM AND MINERAL CLUB Saturday, Feb. 29, Old Library building, 8 p.m. Colored slides on Alaska. Business meeting. MOSAIC WORKSHOP March 2 Lexington school, 10:30 a.m. Bring wooden base for picture, some "found" or treasured ob jects, spackle, vinegar, can and stick for mixing. MARTIN LUTHER FILM Sunday, March 1, Seventh-day Adventist church. Monday, March 2, Lexington IOOF hall. Thursday, March 5, lone American Legion hall. IOOF CONVENTION Heppner IOOF Hall. Saturday, February 29, after noon and evening. SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency P. O. 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