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Times established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15,
1912.
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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
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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.
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Choose From Such Famous
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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.
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