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Heppner-Gazette-Times IIEI'I'NKK (OKK. (iAZKTTK-TIMKS. Thursday, t)eremhi-r7, 1972 Fr. Moynihan At All Saints ' TV I I I 1? SSI New A G Finance Bill May Bring Cattle Feeding Boom Present Wheat Law to Stay on hooks A bill generating long-term agricultural development fi nancing ia being written (or the 1973 legiHlature. Irvln Mann, Jr.. Oregon direc tor of agriculture, said thin week a bonding bill that will spur development in rural areai is being drawn up by nil department and will be pre sented to the Senate Tank Force lor Rural Development for sponsorship, or Hep. Stafford HanHell, H-Hermiston. Mr. Mann, an a Stanfield legislator, sponsored in the 1971 session a water bank bill which had the state guaranteeing irrigation project. The Oregon voters in the May primary turned the measure down. Mr. Mann said the new proposal would merely require a legislative vote. "We haven't gotten that far on the amount that would be availuble," he said. While the water bank pro posal was restricted to irriga tion projects, the new bill would include agricultural-industrial development such as slaughter houses, feed mills and food processing plants. "It will depend on the areas and the needs of the people," Mann said. The Senate Task Force will get first crack at sponsorship, he said. The task force this summer visited low population areas of oregon seeking ideas on getting industry to locate away from thp Willamette Vallev. One of the problems rural areas have in attractive In dustry la the availability of longterm, low-interest, financ ing, local leaders in llcrmiston told the senators. "Tins is a new concept In the western United States." Mann said. This has len generally used in places like Illinois and New York." Mann's department foresees a boom in rattle feeding if financing and food resources can be economically feasible. "We have a feed pattern thai has an inherent shortage," he said. "The state produces enough wheat and barley, but no sorghum which is raised through irrigation.' The Oregon Department of Agriculture has been surveying the future of increased fecdlot operations. Half of Oregon's weaner calves at 350 to 400 pounds are sold to out-of-state feeders where they are fattened to 1,000 pounds, butchered and sold in Oregon meat markets. There were 157.0IKI animals on feed in 1971 in Oregon, the department reported. The bonds being proposed under the new legislation would be "moral obligation" instead of general obligation or reve nue, Mann said. The bonds would be tied to the revenue producing power of the state which would eliminate the argument against the water bill which critics said placed the state's credit rating on a par with farming projects. "The governor, i Deneve, would anixiint a committee to administer the financing pro gram." Mr. Mann said. "They would probably include the Slate Engineer, Department of Veteran's Affairs as well as others versed in development projects and financing." Uans, up to 20 years, would he on "solid qualification," Mr. Mann said. Sheepmen Open Meet Today The Oregon Sheep growers Association will stage its 1972 convention Thursday through Saturday at the Imperial Hotel. Thursday's agenda is devoted primarily to registration and committee meetings with a general business session at 4 p.m. The Friday program includes a talk on "Agriculture on the Move," by Charles W. Marike, livestock and traffic agent for Union Paciffic Rail road; a discussion of Oregon State University programs by Dr. James Oldfield, chairman of the OSU Animal Science Department, and Dr. EE. Wedman, chairman of the OSU Veterinary Department, and an address by Phil Farrell, presi dent of the Oregon Sheep Advisory Council. When the directions say it's so simple that a child can do it, be smart and let a child do it. Th Droifnn tt'hpat Orowers league was told Monday that federal farm legislation to be enacted in 1973 will probably be very similar to that now prevailing. Laurel Meade, general sales manager in the Export market ing Service of the U.S.Dcpart ment of Agriculture, speaking at the opening session of the wheat growers convention at the Sheraton Motor Inn, said all signs point to a recommenda tion by the administration for a program following the basic principles of the existing pro gram. Bel the farmers will have to rally round because it gets more and more difficult to get agricultural legislation through an urban Congress," he warned. President Richard Nixon is firmly committed to a ceiling of $250 billion on federal spending, he pointed out. and the result could be a real crunch on farm programs. "It means we must find markets for farm produce," he stated. "It means we will have to get income from the markets rather than from the U.S.Treasury. THIS FIRM CEILING, he said, is a factor in the administration's commitment to expansion of agricultural exports and there is little danger that exports next year will slip back far from this year's volume. Meade had nothing but praise for the recent sales ot U.S. wheat to Russia. He Fr. Clifford Moynihan will conduct services at All Saints Episcopal Church next Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Fr. Moynihan is a retired priest of the Oregon Diocese. Prior to taking Holy Orders he practiced law in Oregon. He is Mrs. Ned Clark's grandfather and he and his wife will be staying with the Clarks while in Heppner. Learn by experience - other people's, if yoi 're smart. TICKLE BOX by Ted Trogdon 1 g& z More Thanksgiving Happenings -? Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nash 5 )W had visitors from Vancouver, CoCJt) Wash, over the Thanksgiving f holiday weekend. Mr, and Mrs. (tCTj Perry McGinnis and sons, f?Cr 5rfj' r Christopher and Brian, are fK, . iSrl? friends of the Nashes from their I hometown in S. Dakota whom - ' ' ' they had not seen for three or Motor four years, t was a truly commercial enjoyable visit for all. Farm and Home . Pendleton 276-7761 r-T WANT ADS PAY I. T. V. SERVICE By Qualified W it TRAINED llVn TECHNICIANS AT VIDEO-TECH, INC. 461 A E. Main St..' Hermlston 567-3883 Transoarant Plastic Storm Kits For WINDOWS And DOORS STORM WINDOW Only 39' Complete Kit in box 36" x 72" toufh plas tic sheet, 18 ft. fibre moulding and nails. STORM DOOR KIT Only 49' Complete Kit in a box 36 x 84" toulh plas tic sheet. 21 ft. fibre mouding and nails. lay off the organic foods lor a while. Warp Bros. Chicago 60651 Pioneers In Plastics Since 1924 AT YOUR HARDWARE, LUMBER & BUILDING SUPPLY STORE Morrow USTOC County Inrite You to Their Alii (HA0 Friday, December 8 HEPPNER ELKS TEMPLE STARTING AT 1 :00 P.M. Mm PRIZES TO BE GIVEN PROGRAM Livestock Growers Assn. Report - Merlin Hughes Calf to Carcass Program - Norton Taylor Livestock Theft - Sheriff Mollahan BREAK - Courtesy Bank of Eastern Oregon Wintering & Straw Nutrition - Dr. Mike Mehren, Nutritional Services (Hermiston) & Don Stangel, Morrow County Agent SOCIAL HOUR -- Courtesy Pendleton PCA & Federal Land Bank & N.W.Livestock PCA FARM CITY BANQUET $100 DIAMOND TO BE GIVEN AWAY! Heppner High School Cafetorium, 7:00 p.m. Presentation of: Livestock Grower of the Year Conservation Man of the Year Chamber of Commerce Awards Soroptimist Club Award Co-Sponsored by: -Morrow County Livestock Growers Association -Soil Conservation District -Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Commerce ADMISSION: $2.75 Person. Tickets to be on Sale At: FIRST NATIONAL BANK PETERSON'S JEWELERS BANK OF EASTERN OREGON EXTENSION OFFICE TURNER VAN MARTER & BRYANT GARDNER'S MEN'S WEAK declared that "There is not one iota of evidence supporting the reports of scandals and shady transactions that appear in the newspapers and on radio and television. About 99.9 percent of the publicity on the sales told a story different from the actual situation. "I take real pride in what I consider a job well done. Nothing the department has done in recent years has done more for the farmer, the taxpayer and international relationships." Delbert McLachlan Home Delbert McLachlan was home for Thanksgiving from the Job Corps. He is at Yachats receiving training in checking out tools in a warehouse similar to a Forest Service Warehouse. The Corps is building a Forest Service Bldg. He rode to Heppner with his cousins. Mr. and Mrs. John Hall of Corvallis. After spending the holidays here with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Darrel McLach lan, he returned by bus last Sunday. He expects to be home for three days at Christmas time. He will graduate in March and anticipates working for the Forest Service in Salem. m 1 I Congratulations To Peterson s Jewelry And Elma's Apparel and Flower Shop and for their beautifully remodeled stores We are proud to have had a part in them. PETTYJOHN'S FARM AND BUILDERS SUPPLY Howard & Jo Pettyjohn 1 i 1 Heppner 8th Grade Studies Solar System Last Thursday the eighth graders at Heppner climaxed their recent astronomy studies by making a scale model of the solar system. The purpose of the model was to show size and distance relationships. The students worked out the entire model with an inch being equal to 25,000 miles. This gave our earth a diameter of less then one third inch and sun's diameter 34.6 inches. Each of the classes made its own model. The models started at the goal posts of the football field and the planets were placed according to scale from the sun. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun and ended up 2.1 miles from the sun and was placed up Hinton Creek across from the Dallas Craber home. The other class went west from their sun and ended up with their Pluto 2.1 miles away which placed their planet in a rock jack back of the High School. The tiny speck which repre sented our moon was only a little more then 9 inches away from our earth. Mrs. Dick Meador, their Science teacher said, "Our field trip was a short one, but it was determined that had we placed our next nearest star other than the sun, we could have had an extended field trip because we would have had to travel over 21,000 miles." "Yes I'm surprised. I was expecting a car!" LEASE A HEW GUANElt (Level Land) comimi For 5 Years Jost $2,622.00 A Year Mountain Machinery Co Airport Road Pendleton
