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1 1 ORARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE 97403 86th Year Price 10 Cents WEATHER Br DON GILLIAM Official weather report for the wwk of October 22-28 Is as fol lows: CROP-WEATHER SUMMARY Fall ding nearly complet ed. Most calves told and deliver ed. Fall pastures greening up. Hot supplies adequate. THE itfSy r MEPFBIEIi GAZETTE-TME Hi Low Prec. 71 46 59 42 .OS 56 38 .04 55 29 50 30 53 40 .08 51 41 .25 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Heppner, Oregon 97836, Thursday, October 30, 1969 Number 36 Kinzua Announces Plans To Erect Veneer Plant A new green veneer plywood plant will soon be added to pres ent facilities of the Heppner mill or Kinzua corporation, it was announced by Allen Nistad, general manager, at the Ilepp ner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce meeting Monday noon. Land clearing and construe tlon of the large building will commence as soon as the nec essary soil tests have been com pleted, Nistad stated. Over one-half million dollars in plywood machinery are now on order for the plant, to make it one of the most automated and up-to-date plants in Ore gon. The new building, expected to be 190,000 square feet, will be erected at the vacant clearing along the highway north of town at the present mill site, complete with its own rail and loading facilities. It will also ac commodate a good amount of lumber storage, it is planned. The total number of employ ees has not been determined, but Nistad expects it to exceed 30 people at the beginning, with provisions included for a larger operation. Local residents will be given first consideration for employment, Nistad promised. Officials estimate that the plant will be in operation by summer of 1970, although no definite start-up time has been scheduled. Purpose for the added facility is to better utilize the second growth timber that occurs on the company's own 230,000 acre tree farm. "We are entering a new ex citing era in Eastern Oregon re- ? f i" is,' , " ' sf V--- 7: ) BOB JEPSEN National Chairman Jepsen Directs 'Day of Bread' Over the Nation The International "Day of Bread" was marked for a first time in the United States, Tues day, October 28, during Harvest Festival Week, by Presidential proclamation. The American ob servance follows a European tradition which has spread to South America and Asia, pay ing tribute to Man's dependence upon agriculture and tne Doun ty of nature. Bob Jepsen, lone wheat ranch er and former Oregon Wheat Growers League president, has been the National Chairman for this event for the National As sociation of Wheat Growers. He presented loaves of bread to Governor McCall preceding his proclamation which was made in Salem. Originating in West Germany in 1953, the Harvest Festival and "Day of Bread" have spread throughout the Continent. The "Day of Bread" formalizes the ritual of harvest celebrations in many countries. The wheat crop is the world's largest. Forty-three countries with 35.6 per cent of the pop uiauon almost a billion peo ple use wheat as a staple iooa. Bread is even more im portant economically, cultur ally and as nourishment for millions when one considers those loaves made with proDor tKins of cereals other than wheat "Bread gains greater meaning every aay as governments con cern themselves with the in creasing problems of feeding tne hungry and malnourished, both domestically and abroad." Promoting the "Day of Bread" are all segments of the indus try including producers, millers, bakers. State Dept. of Agricul ture, retailers, Oregon Wheat Growers League and Oregon Wheat Commission. forestatlon," the manager in formed his listeners, "and we want to put into practice many of the new methods of spacing and reseeding." For the present time, work of the regular plant will not be affected by construction or use of the new facility. The pres ent mill has returned to full time production and the lumber market is moving again. . Nistad expressed appreciation lor the interest and cooperation or Heppner people in the ex pansion, especially the local planning commission and per sonnel of Columbia Basin Elec trie Cooperative for providing neeaea services. "We couldn't find a finer place in Eastern Oregon to set up shop," he concluded. Accompanying him to the meeting were three emrjlovees oi Kinzua corporation, Mike Oreskovic, Clarence Greenup ana luck uranam. Representing the "witch not" club, Mayor Bill Collins pre sented a special award to Dr. Wallace Wolff for his success in "witching" his own well at their home. His own "scientific device" proved successful in producing a 6500 gallon a min ute flow. Concluding the program was some home movies of 20 years ago, made by Bill Collins, of the big grain elevator fire here, and of antiquated logging op erations about 33 years ago in the Saginaw timber near Cot tage Grove. Iiiirloy Ruggi Named tm1y Livestock Grower i J t:-..::-yftf-v.;.J-:.'-':;--; L V, i 4- I t : I l.--.' ' l , fa 'tti'ii f'f Mi DEVOTED TO HER PROFESSION of raising sheep, cattle and Horses is Mrs. Shirley Rugg, this years Morrow County Live stock Grower of the Year. Best known for her large sheep op- ! 'i -if' ' if, i n-.'-'.ii fi , i Hi . ,v -T; r " -" ..II' 'i i : 7:" rxM v;V'c eration, her lamb and wool production have become recognized as one of the largest in the state. Faithful companions are her Australian Dingo ranch dogs. Babo or BelL (McCarty photo). Speech Contest Won By lone Senior Girl Joy Beggs, lone high school senior, was first place winner of me I9b bpeech Contest, sponsor ed by the Heppner Soil and Water Conservation District. Stu dents competed at Heppner High scnooi last Wednesday aiternoon, In close competition. Karla Weatherford, Heppner High jun ior, was second; Sandi Carlson, lone High senior, third, and Jeannie Daly, Heppner High sophomore, fourth. Trophies were presented to the first three olace winners, provided by Morrow County Grain Growers. A large number of students made up the audience, including those in speech classes from lone and Heppner. Judges were Mrs. Verner Troedson, Rev. Mike Luedde, both of lone, and Larry Mills, Heppner. Kenneth Turner served as master of ceremonies, and Albert Wright was contest chairman. Ine girls spoke on the toDie. 'Range and Pasture Manage ment in an Oregon Conservation District." Miss Beggs will present her first-place speech on the Dropram of the Morrow Countv Grain Grower's annual meeting Mon day night at the fair pavilion, and will enter the area contest in Hermiston. Land Bank Men Called to Attend Spokane Meeting Elmer Pahl, Pendleton: Mil ton Morgan, lone; James Beam er, Weston; Verne Dale, Helix; Raymond Rugg, Pilot Rock; Har old G. Campbell, Echo, and Richard Wilkinson, Heppner, who are directors or the Fen dleton Federal Land Bank Asso ciation, will attend a two-day Federal Land Bank Representa tive Conference in Spokane on November 6 and 7. Theme of the conference will be "Seeking, Serving, Growing" and the topics covered during the two days will include a var iety of financial problems as they affect farmers and ranch ers in the northwest states. Forty-eight Federal Land Bank As sociations of Washington, Ore gon, Idaho and Montana will be represented at the confer ence. A special panel of four district Federal Land Bank presidents from Berkeley, Calif., Wichita. Kan., St. Paul, Minn., and Omaha. Neb. will discuss future long term credit needs of agri culture and related subject. One of the main features of the con ference will be a tour of the new Farm Credit Banks build ing of Spokane. This $1.8 mil lion structure will house the three Farm Credit Banks includ ing The Federal Land Bank, The Federal Intermediate Cred it Bank and the Spokane Bank for Cooperatives. Elk Season Opens; Area Restrictions Set It's the big one coming up for Oregon hunters. November 1 marks the opening of the Rocky Mountain elk season in eastern Oregon which is scheduled to extend " M h o u nirWqvtmbet 19. West side hunters will have a later season for Roosevelt elk, Students to Canvass For Childrens' Fund Don't lock your doors to night (Thursday): Trick or Treaters for UNICEF will be at your house, asking for do nations. Heppner High school stu dents will be the masked bandits after your contribu tions for the United Nations Children Fund. Students will start ringing door bells around 8:00 p.m. tonight. Teacher-Parent Conference Scheduled There will be no school held for grades 1 through 4 at Heppner Elementary school on Thursday, November 4. Alan Martin, principal an nounces. Teacher-parent con ference will be held at this time. Grades 5 through 8 will continue to meet on this day, 1969 Heppner High Homecoming Court L-.-.- 1. -- - .W. i i nuiiiM' - Vnr r ill HOMECOMING COURT for this year's celebration at Heppner High school was selected by the lettennen's H-Club. One will be honored as qieen at intermission oi tne Homecoming game Friday night. At top are two Juniors, Julie Ay.es and Susie French; below them are Mollf Becket. Debbie Warren and Jody Bugg, all seniors. Thursday activities Include a float parade after school and bonfire at 7:00 pan. All alumni and visiting Madras students are invited to the Homecoming dance Friday at the school a. 10:30, with music by the Cobwebs and Strange, a Pilot Rock combo. (Jim Schaffitz photo). with this season scheduled from November 15 through 23. The Game Commission re minded hunters that they are restricted to huntlna in one ar ea or the other and must have the proper elk tag for that area. In other words, hunters after Rocky Mountain elk in eastern Oregon and the Mount Hood area must have the Rocky Mountain elk tag; those after Roosevelt elk in the Cascades and Coast ranges must have the Roosevelt elk tag. Bag limit is one bull elk with antlers longer than the ears. Exception to this rule is in the Southeastern Elk Units where hunters may take either sex an imals from November 1 through 14 and bull elk only for the remainder of the eastern Ore gon season. Regulations provide that hunt ers killing an animal must re tain in their possession the ant lers with scalp and eyes at tached while the carcass is in the field or forests or in tran sit. Firearms regulations for elk hunting restrict the hunter to rifles of at least .25 inch cal iber and developing 1220 foot pounds of energy at 100 yards. Rifles which do not meet both of these requirements are not legal for elk hunting. hi -A L Mustangs Meet Buffaloes Here For Homecoming Western Division Standings , Greater Oregon League GRAIN GROWER PRESIDENT Barton Clark will preside over the important annual meeting of MCGG at the Fair Pavil ion Monday evening. Grain Growers' Annual Meeting Slated Monday Won 4' o 2 0 0 Loss 0 1 1 3 3 Sherman County Heppner Madras Wahtonka Pilot Rock (Sub-district champion) Finale to the 1969 HHS grid season will be the Homecom ing game, a conference clash, here between the Heppner Mus tangs and the Madras High White Buffaloes. The game will be Friday, October 31, at 8 p.m. The teams are now tied for sec ond, so the game determines the runner-up in tne western div ision of the league. Head Coach Ed Hiemstra says, Madras gets tougher every game. The uunaioes are aoing well with their new offense." Sherman will play Grant Un ion Friday night at John Day for the division title. Scheduled for a non-league clash at that time, the two would have play ed again November 7 for the championship, so it was decid ed to make Friday's game the counter. Despite the 24-20 loss last week to the Sherman Huskies, the Mustangs are ready for the Madras Buffaloes and the 1969 Homecoming. For nine of the boys, the game will close out high school football play. Seniors on the squad are David Wright, John McCabe, Bill Greenup. Rick Mar auardt, Lee Huson, Matt Mur ray, Mike Hedman. Hal Bergs- trom and Rob Abrams. There is a full program plan ned for the annual meeting of the Morrow County Grain Grow ers. Inc.. on Monday, November 3, at the Heppner Fair pavilion, and all members of the organ ization are urged to attend. The dinner will be served promptly at 6:30 p.m. by mem bers of the Willows Grange. As usual, champion 4-H beef will be featured as the main course of the menu. A number of door prizes will be drawn through out the course of the evening, consisting mostly of champion beef. Karl Bauer of Portland will be guest speaker. His talk is expected to present potentials and discuss some of the prob lems expected in developing a new irrigation area, such as is now being experienced in North Morrow county. His wide background has in cluded 15 years in experiment al work while on the staff of Washington State University He is currently an agronomic consultant for Pacific Supply Company, and director of re search development, and has done an extensive amount of experimental research work in fertilizer and irrigation agricul ture. Joy Beggs of lone will de liver her conservation speech, judged first place winner in the annual speech contest sponsor ed last week by the Heppner Soil and Water Conservation District. Business session of the meet ing will be conducted by Pres ident Barton Clark and Larry Mills, manager. In addition to the election of four new directors and five as sociate directors, the reports from the officers, members will be asked to consider the adop tion of Restated Articles of In corporation and Amended By laws for the organization. Advance letters have been mailed to all members giving information on the changes, and pointing out the need to con form with current codes. Stockmen Break Tradition; Name Voman for Honors "She can hardly be called Cattleman of the Year", so this years honors will go to one who we will call 'Livestock Grower of the year'." This was the introduction given to the cattlemen's choice for 1969 Mrs. Shirley Rugg. Yes, Morrow county women should be especially proud of this year's selection, proving that, after all. women are not, necessarily, the weaker sex. And the honored one- is not primar ily known for her cattle but for an over-all interest in livestock. Mrs. Rugg. has become one of the state's most widely known sheep producers and op erators. She was presented an a- ward for this accomplishment Wednesday evening at the an nual Farm-City banouet. spon sored jointly by the Morrow County Livestock Growers asso ciation, the . Heppner-Morrow county Chamber of Commerce and the Heppner Soil and Wa ter Conservation district, in the multipurpose room of Heppner High school. As a descendant of the Frank Wilkinson family, she is proud of her heritage and the oppor tunity to carry on in family tra dition. Family honors in livestock and agriculture date back to 1957. In June of that year her lather, Frank Wilkinson, was selected Morrow County Grass man of the Year, but his death came prior to the presentation ot this plaque . at the Farm City banquet that year in No vember. Her mother, Wave! Wilkinson, has been a main stay in much of the operations since that time. Also, in family tradition, her brother, Dick Wilkinson, con tinued and developed improved cattle operations. In 1965 he was recognized as that year's Cat tleman of the Year, and shar ed by his wife, Virginia. Very much involved and inter ested in the sheep, livestock and Appatoosa norses on tne large Rugg ranch are Mrs. Rugg's teenage daughters, Jody, a sen ior at Heppner High school, and Jill, an active sophomore. Most of their spare time, away from a busv school schedule, is spent on horseback, or with their live stock prolects, on sheep and cattle drives, or with the lamb ing duties. . A television documentary of the sheep operation was filmed by Oregon State University, cov ering a full year's cycle. It was shown for the first time in May, 1968, and repeated in May of this year in this area. It was a feature of the series "Ore gon At Work," and is expected to be released by the college for educational showing throughout the state. Operations are Extensive Livestock on the Rugg oper ations Include some 5,400 ewes, 300 cows, and 12 mares raising Appaloosa colts. Eight Basque men from Spain handle the sheep and one full time man and two part-time-men handle the rest of the jobs. The Basque herders are employ ed under a three-year contract through the Western Range As sociation. In 1962, the ranch started fencing all the sheen range with a 48-inch woven wire fence and went to a semiherdless sys tem. This means that the ewes are herded while nursing lamb?, and the first 21 days of the breeding season. The remainder of the time, they are turned loose in fenced pastures. To date, the Rugg operation has constructed some 150 miles of fence and developed over stock water ponds, mostly in cooperation with the U. S. For est Service. A Year's Sheep Cycle To follow a full year wiih the sheep, one might start with the breeding season. The ewes ' are gathered from summer rang es in September and are f"J cubes the first 21 days of ths breeding season. This helps to increase the number of twins born, giving the ranch the'r 140 lambing average. Breeding dates are staggered with new bucks being added every 10 days so that the lamb ing facilities will not be over crowded. After the 21-day breed ing period, the sheep are turn ed loose again until the end of November when they are gathered and moved to the foot hills around Rhea Creek. They are gathered again about Christmas and trailed to the do .- (Continued on page 8)