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2 HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. April 27. 1967 J A 1 ' ' ,-f P 1 A. ."V 1 ;istw f i ir.:: "" .a. V - ------- - -.! n'i t t -i i r - "-f i KNEELING beside a tod welder is Morrow counts 1967 Consecration Man, Louis Carlson. His ranch home is in the background. (G-T Photo). 1 Beet Sheep Days Slated May 5, 6 At Oregon State Driving 70 miles por hour on Willamette Valley freeways or bucking traffic in downtown Portland mav seem a far cry i from riding the range, but the livestock industry in Oregon is no less important now than it was back in the days when sheepmen and cattlemen, were warring over grass and water rights. About half of the contribu tion made to the state's econ omy by Oregon's second largest f v a I Industry, agriculture, is accoun ' J,ted for "by sales of livestock and rvt1 1 livestock products, it is noted. 'Vv Of course, the livestock busi- " a ness nas changed - considerably . since the early days of state "ukd hood. Today's cowbov is just as . Jiapt to herd cattle from a jeep " 3 or even an airplane, as he is 4 'rom a horse. ' , - 1 Research conducted over the the Oregon State Im : ; h 1 -a x ' - - ' 1 ' -.V - "' . '-!. , v . . j v i 'A ". - . - -vT 1 , Vi,' " "' ,-' . -v -S. . . . i y .4.4 - ' i' ! sVf- -T-. f ..v . . , - . '- " a, 5 v - , ' -...'. . . i ears at v',"" -T- ."v- " ' 1versity.Agricultural Experiment - 1 Station., and at branch stations t - 4!scattered throushout the state ---c.-S "v!has done much to spur livestock " " .'V LOUIS CARLSON sifts topsoil through his bands on his ranch near Valby Lutheran church. He is kneeling in a diversion . ditch that keeps his valued topsoil from washing away. (G-T Photo). BOWLING THURSDAY NITE LADIES Team L. E. Dick Ruggles Gateway Murrays Columbia Basin Coles Homelite First National Miladies W 44 41 33 33 26 25 19 Vz 18 L 16 19 27 27 33H 35 40 42 High Ind. Game Marge Eck man, 203; High Ind. Series Marie Ball, 552; High Team Game Gateway Toyota, 953: High Team Series Gateway Toyota, 2b. TUES. EVE PIN SPINNERS Team Bristow's Del's Market Elma's Apparel Bank of EO Wagon Wheel Jack's Chevron High Team Game Elma's Apparel, 892; High Team Series jack's Chevron, 2568; High Ind Game Mabel Heath, 207; High Ind. Series JoAnn Dyck, M9. W L 37 22V4 33 26 31 29 29 31 27 33 22 38 Spring Chinook are still run ning in the Columbia River. Vic Groshens caught a 15 pound fish Saturday and his wife caught a 20 pounder on Sunday. Mrs. Lyle Matteson caught a 20 gound fish on Sunday, and mile Groshens' boat saw a catch of one fish over 30 pounds near McJMary Dam on bunday. Mrs. Claude Buschke is a pa tient at Providence Hospital in Portland for a stay of a few weeks. Her room number, for the benefit of friends wishing to write, is Room 574. COLE ELECTRIC Motor Rewinding INDUSTRIAL - COMMERCIAL FARM AND HOME Pendleton 276-7761 industry changes. Each year, OSU sets aside separate days to report current research results to cattlemen and sheep ranchers of the state, and discuss application of these research results to the problems of the state's livestock industry. This year, the two days will te held back-to-back, on May 5 and 6, with a banquet in be tween. . ? , At the May 5 Beef Day uni versity scientists and extension specialists will discuss subjects ranging from producing better beef at less cost to experiments which show that sheep and cat tle can graze together succes sfully. Rueben Albaugh will tell local cattlemen about their competition from Australia. Oregon Will Host Northwest Meeting Improvement in beef cattle will be the subject for talks ami demonstrations by nationally prominent figures" In the beef cattle industry at the first Northwest Hereford Congress, which will be held In the Pen dleton Hcrmiston area May 19 and 20. The Northwest Hereford Con gress is an expansion of the annual Oregon Hereford Con gress. It now Includes cattle men from . Idaho, Washington and Montana as well as Ore gon, according to Dean Krlsch knecht. Oregon State University extension livestock specialist and moderator for the event. Heading the list of speakers will be Dr. Val H. Brungardt, meat and animal scientist, Uni versity of Wisconsin; Dr. Allen Ralston. OSU animal scientist ; and Henry Matthtessen of Hume, Va., president of the American Hereford Association. Other association off 1c ia 1 s scheduled to attend are Don Bradshaw, Central Point, pres dent of the Oregon Hereford As sociation; Wayne Naugh of Nampa, Idaho, director of the American Hereford Association; and Dr. Jack Miller, head of the OSU Department of Animal Sciences. A graduate of OSU, Albaugh is extension animal husband man at the University of Cali fornia. Davis. He recently re turned from a year-long study of the cattle industry "down under." Banquet speaker May 5 will be Walter Leth, now Oregon state director of agriculture, and a former state senator, county extension agent, agribusiness man, and successful farmer. He will talk about freight rates and their relationship to the well being of the cattle industry in Oregon. The May 6 Sheep Day pro gram will feature a United States Department of Agricul ture scientist who is known throughout the world for his re search activities in the field of sheep production. C. E. Ter rill, chief of the sheep and fur animal research branch of the USDA Agricultural Research Service at Beltsville, Md., will be joined on the sheep day pro gram by OSU specialists and re search staff members. Both programs will be held in Withycombe Auditorium on the OSU campus. Anyone inter ested in the. livestock industry of Oregon is invited to attend. Beef Day will start at 9 a.m. May 5; Sheep Day, 9:30 a.m., May 6 Registration will begin Fri day, Mav 19, at 9 a.m., at Brent Horn's Huttorcreek Ranch, one mile south of the lleppner HermlsUm Interstate 80N Inter change. Brungardt, a technical consul tant to the American Hereford Association, will demonstrate the selection of steers for sire evaluation and review the AHA's carcass and fredlot data on 2.000 Hereford cattle. Performance testing In per spective will be Matthlessen's topic and Ralston will discuss the practical feeding of. three classes of Oregon feeder cattle. Livestock specialists Joe John son, Washington State Universi ty, and Morris llerstrom. Uni versity of Idaho, will bring the group up to date with practi cal calf grading demonstrations for calf performance registry. Members of the congress will tour the facilities of the Top Cut Feed Lots, Inc., Hermlston, and Hill Meat Co.. Pendleton, where herd sire evaluation da ta for the past four years will be explained. Paul Swaffer, AHA secretary, will summarize the two-day congress Saturday noon. Headquarters for the event, which will shift from Hermls ton to Pendleton the second dav. will be the Temple Hotel In Pendleton. Riverside, Sherman FFA Chapters Win The Riverside and Sherman County FFA chapters shared honors Saturday in a shop skills and crop judging contest held at Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton. Riverside chapter took first place in the shop skills compe tition and Sherman County was top team in crop Judging. Sixty members representing eight Future Farmers of Amer ica chapters In Northeastern Oregon participated. Skill con tests held Included acetylene welding, brazing, arc welding, tool fitting, woodworking, farm level use, engine timing, tcxl identification, and farm electric ity. McEwen chapter took sec ond place In the skills compe tition, with McLaughlin third. McLaughlin won second In the crop Judging contest and Pen dleton third. Other chapters participating included Heppner, Hermlston, and Wy East. This was the sec ond year the college hosted a soil judging contest. It is ex pected to become an annual event. 125 8th Graders Meet in Portland To Plan for Tour One hundred nml twenty five eighth grade hoy and girls from 20 of Portland's public el ementary schools have been sel ected for the 1!H!7 Columbia Bas in tour on April 2S, 2; and 30. These voting people together with their parents, teacher chapcronis. ami representatives of the four host count Im became acquainted at an orientation meeting Monday. April 17, In Holiday School auditorium. Schools sending children this year Include: Abernethy, Alns worth, Alameda, Beau m o n t, Urtdlemlle, Buckman, Chapman. Couch, itlencoo, tlroilt, tieorge, Highland. Hosford, Irvlngtmi, J.'inii-s Jnhn Kellv. l.ce. Lent. Llewellyn, and Vernon. Schools ere selected In rotation. A boy and girl In each eighth trade section are selected on the basis of citizenship, schol arshlp, and ability to report ex nerlences to classmates Some times essays on "Why I Want to Visit a Farm" are used In the selection process. There Is no disclmlnatlon on race or creed. Chancrones four men and four women are eighth grade teacher volunteers. Their exiien- ses are paid In full as are tiiose of the delegates by the sponsor Ing organizations: Oregon State University Extension Service, county 4-H leaders associations, Soil Conservation service dls trlcts. county granges, farm bureaus, and county wheat growers and livestock assotia Hons. The boys and girls will leave bv bus for their resiMMiive coun ties at 7 a.m. Friday from Couch School and will return there Sunday by ti p.m. Busses are provided bv the host counties. Among the things to be ob served on - the eastern Oregon farms are: branding calves, horse shoeing, aerial spraying, erosion control, grain elevators, fire fighting, Irrigation, wheat and barley fields, beef cuttle ! and sheep. I The orientation meeting Ap ril 17 featured colored movies I taken on a previous trip and a chance for children, parents, j and chaperones to ask question"! i of their hosts. j ll.tndlir.g arrangements for i the tour In Portland Is Gary Thompson, supervisor for I II Club work In Portland schools. FHA Announces Loans Available The Farmer Home Adminis tration announces that It Is again accepting application for insured noosing iroin rurni lain Ille of above moderate Incomes who cannot obtain financing from private credit sources Action on new application from persons In the above -mod. rrate Income group had been at a virtual standstill since last IVtohcr, The Farmer Home Adminis tration, a part of th Depart ment of Agriculture, I the U.S. Government Agency for litsur- Ing home ow nership loans for both farm and non farm famil ies In rural areas, Including towns of not more than 5.5i) population. Further Information may be obtained from the county of fice located In Pendleton In tin Federal Building, Room XC. ftctutlv ncttona! tf -tribute for FOUR MUTUAL FUNDS ONI FACE-AMOUNT CERTIFICATE COMPANY 1 Mr. and Mr. Arnold Raymond and family went to Kuhland, Wash, on Sunday, April lti. 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