IIFPPNFH IORE.I GAZETTE-TIMES. Thurkdav. February 1. I9T3
Ueppner-Gazette-Times
Ore. Field Crop Production
( 1972 Annual Summan )
Oregon farmers produced field crops totaling 5.1 million Ions in
1972, according to the Oregon Crop and Livestock Reporting
Service. This essentially the same amount as was grown in 1971.
The 1972 production of various field crops compared with 1971
production is as follows:
Winter wheat up 10 percent
Spring Wheat - down 33 percent
Barley - down 34 percent
Oats down 23 percent
Com for gram - up 5 percent
Rye - down 4 percent
Hay - down 1 percent
Sugar Beets - up 18 percent
Hops - down 12 percent
Potatoes - up 5 percent
Drv Edible Peas - down 31 percent
Peppermint - down 7 percent
OREGON W HE AT PRODUCTION t P
The 1972 wheat crop in Oregon is estimated at 36.848.000 bushels,
up 7 percent from the 34. 500.0ct) bushels produced in 1971 and 38
percent above the 1970 production of 26.717.000 bushels. Winter
Wheat production is placed at 35.190.000 bushels as compared with
32.016.000 bushels in 1971. Wheat acreage was up this year and more
than offset the lower yield of 42.5 bushels per acre. The 1971 yield
was a record 46 bushels. Spring wheat production at 1.658.000
bushels is down a third from 1971. This decrease was accounted for
by both lower acreage and yield (32.5 bu.-ac).
PACIFIC NORTHWEST WHEAT CROP I P
.All wheat produced in Oregon. Washington and Idaho is placed at
203.157.000 bushels for 1972. up 3 percent from last year s 197.616.000
bushels, and 26 percent above the 161.099,000 bushels produced in
1970. Yields in ail three States were down from 1971 levels.
OREGON FEED GRAIN TONNAGE DECREASES
Oregon's aggregate tonnage of barley, oats and corn produced in
1972 totaled 391.988 tons, down sharply from the 561.400 tons raised
in 1971. Barley production at 12.000.000 was down 34 percent from
last year's 18.105.000 bushels. Both acreage and yield were down.
Oat production at 4.940.000 bushels was down 23 percent from the
1971 production of 6.380.000 bushels. Lower acreage and yield
accounted for this drop. Corn raised for grain was up 5 percent to
891.000 bushels produced in 1972.
HAY AND OTHER FIELD CROPS
Oregon's 1972 hay crop is estimated at 2.279.000 tons, down
slightly from the 2.294.000 tons produced in 1971. Dry edible pea
production was down 31 percent because of fewer harvested acres.
Hop production at 7,644.000 pounds was down 12 percent from 1971.
Yields were down from last year. Peppermint production is
estimated at 1.967.000 pounds, down 7 percent from 1971 due to
lower vields.
OREGON POTATO PRODUCTION I P
Fall potato production field run basis in Oregon is estimated at
14.436.000 cwt.. up 5 percent from last year. Increased production in
Umatilla and Morrow Counties more than offset decreases in other
areas of the State.
COW POKES
By Act Held
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Meetings
Scheduled
Three leader meetings are
scheduled for earlv Febru
ary to discuss item concern
ing fair premium book and
other matters concerning 4-H
project area.v
All meetines will be at the
First National Bank Confer
ence Room In Heppner start
ing at 1:30 p.m. each day.
Livestock leaders Feb. 6.
Horse club lenders - Feb. 7.
Home Ec leaders . Feb. 8.
All leaders are encouraged
to attend the meetings.
Homer Hushes
is Winner
Homer Hughes of Lexington
was the proud and happy
winner of the portable television
set that was given away by the
Heppner High sophomore class
at Saturday's game.
Tickets for the set had been on
sale for several weeks. Mr.
Hughes was present to receive
the television, although accord
ing to the rules, the winner did
not have to be at the game.
The television is black and white
RCA portable. The sophomore
class would like to thank all
those who supported them in
this money-raising project. Ap
proximately $70 00 was profited.
Dane I I Wilson Calls for
Kinzua Mountaineers
By Sharon Bell
The Kinzua Mountaineers
bora club had two work days
this last week, fixing up the
January 27 at Camp Five. .
Darrell" Wilson of lone' Grand ? "n" "
Stage in Jeff more Hall is also
being cleaned and fixed un
'I'll shore be glad to take all them over-drafts and
cover them with pst one, if it'll help you anyl"
Ore. '72 Crop Value Up
The value of 1972 Oregon Crop production was 380 million dollars,
a 15 percent increase over 1971. according to the Oregon Crop and
Livestock Reporting Service. However, the aggregate production
of 6.2 million tons was 1 percent lower than in 1971. as vegetable
crops, taken as a group, increased by 9 percent, grain and forage
crops just held their own and the other groups - field seeds, tree
fruits and nuts, and berries, all declined in aggregate production.
Prices were enough improved over 1971 to result in greater values
for all major groups except the tree crops, but even here value was
off only 11 percent in spite of production decline of 39 percent.
Grain, forage, and miscellaneous field crops represented 81
percent of total production, and 62 percent of total value, followed
by vegetable crops with 12 percent of production and 14 percent of
value. Seed crops made up 2 percent of total tonnage and 9 percent
of value; tree fruits and nuts, 3 percent of tonnage and 9 percent of
value: and berry crops, 1 percent of tonnage and 6 percent of value.
Wheat moved up to number 1 ranking as the Oregon crop having
the highest 1972 value of production. Hay ranked second, dropping
from first position in 1971, and potatoes continued to be the third
ranking crop in total value. Ryegrass seed ranked number four,
followed by barley, onions, snap beans, pears, peppermint oil, and
strawberries, in that order.
Prospective Plantings
for 1973
Spring planting intentions of Oregon farmers as of Jan.
1 were as lollows, according to special survey data sum
marized by the Oregon Crop and Livestock Reporting Service:
Spring wheat acreage up 36 percent from last year.
Barley, fall and spring sown acreage - up 4 percent. Oats,
fall and spring sown acreage - up 6 percent. Field corn
acreage - the same as last year.
If the planting intentions of Oregon farmers are carried
out. the combined winter and spring wheat acreage planted
will total 1.065.C00 acres, up 16 percent from last year.
Pacific Northwest Wheat Acreage Up Slightly
The combined acreage of winter and spring wheat sown
for the 1973 crop in the Pacific Northwest is expected to total
5.130.000 acres, ub 9 percent from a year ago.
U. S. Prospective Plantings lor 1973 - 35 States
Wheat: Seedings of spring wheat other than durum are
expected to total 11.736.090 acres in the States surveyed, up
17 percent from 1972 but down 8 percent from 1971. The sur
vey included 9 of 12 spring wheat States which accounted
fur over !i pcicvnt of the U'"2 seoua acreape. Larger acre
ages than a year ago are intended in all States. North Da
kota, with over half the 9 State total, is up 17 percent. Minn
esota and South Dakota are up 25 percent and 22 percent,
respectively, while Montana is up 3 percent the smallest
gain expected in the states surveyed.
Barley: Acreage of fall seeded barley plus intended
plantings this spring in the States surveyed total 10.1 mill
ion acres. 1 percent less than last year. The States accounted
for 96 percent of the nation's barley acreage in 1972. The
three leading barley producing States North Dakota.
Montana and Calitun.ia indicate no change in plantings
from the previous ynr. These three slates account for about
half of the nation's total The south central region indicates
a sharp decline in plantings while most other regions show
small reductions. Onlv the western region indicated a slight
increase from last year.
Oats: Acreage of fall seeded cats plus intended spring
plantings in tn SMtes surveyed is expected lo total 20.3
million acres. This is 1 percent more than the 20.1 million
acres seeded in 1972 but 7 percent less than the 21.7 million
acres seeded for harvest in 1971. The ttes surveyed ac
counted for 9S.8 percent of the nation's oat acreage planted
for harvest in 1972.
Corn: Growers in 35 states intend to plant 70.5 million
acres of corn for 'ill purposes in 1973. 7 percent more than
last year. These states accounted fnr over 3 percent of the
nation's torn acreage planted in 1972.
January 1973 Prospective Plantings Report
This special survey was made to obtain earlv information
on farmers' plans to plant certain crops for harvest in 1973.
These data, published well in advance of actual spring seed
ings, will aid producers in deciding whether or not to make
changes in their plans for 1973. Intentions reported this early
may te subject to greater departures from actual plantings
than the regular Intentions Report issued by the Crop Re
porting Board in mid-March. This is particularly true for
this survey because the elimination of the mandatory set
aside requirement under the 1973 wheat program was an
nounced after the survey period. Any change in farmers'
intentions resulting from this program change is not reflect
ed here.
Farmers Take First Aid Course .
First
Fed. Land Bank
to Meet
The annual Stockholders
Meeting of the Federal Land
Bank Association of Pendleton
will be held at the Tapadera
Restaurant on February 28, at
2:00 p.m., announced by Robin
A. Fletcher. Manager.
George W. Lacey, Director,
Farm Credit Board of the 12th
Farm Credit District will speak
on the subject of "1972. The
most eventful year in Bank
history".
The Federal "Land Bank
Association of Pendleton, a
local member owned associa
tion which extends long term
real estate mortgage credit to
farmers and ranchers in the
counties of Morrow and
Umatilla, has approximately
350 stockholders. The associa
tion has local individuals as
directors and uses the Farm
Credit System to obtain lending
capital for its borrowers.
Serving on the Board of
Directors for the past year were
Elmer Pahl of Pendleton.
President, and Milton Morgan,
of lone, Vice-President.
Don Peterson
Elected Oregon
NFO Secretary
lone Power
Line Improved
Columbia Basin has recently
made several service improve
ments in lone.
Twenty new service wire runs
were made in most instances, to
replace smaller wire and to
replace a lot of old bare wire
service wires into residences in
the southeast end of town.
By utilizing triplex service
(three wires twisted together)
drons and secondary runs, the
appearance of the R.E.C. facil
ities has been improved in the
areas of the work. Some
transformers were replaced
along with the service work.
Line Superintendent, Bill
Gentry, advised that work
sheets are prepared for some
additional service improve
ments in lone soon.
Square Square Dane Club was
the guest caller. Those attend
ing were Mr. and Mn. Darrell
Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
McNary. Mrs. and Mrs. Dale
Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Patton
of lone Grande Square. Mr. and
Mrs. Gary Thomas, Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Garcia and Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Bell of Fossil. Mr.
and Mrs. Glen Perkins, Mr. and
Mrs. Vic Wallis, Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Hicks of Kinzua and Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Morris and Mr.
and Mrs. Herschel Murdock of
Camp Five. A pot luck dinner
was enjoyed afterwards by the
group. Darrell Wilson will be
calling for The Kinzua Mountai
neers on the 4th Saturday of
each month at Camp Five.
Kinzua VS Spray
..The Kinzua Town Team
Traveled to spray to play the
Spray Town Team at the Spray
High School Gym on January
25. Spray won 83 to 68. Those
playing from Kinzua were John
Jackson, Allen Heim, Danny
Bell, Vic Wallis, Rickbenson,
Otis Cody, Don Nickelsen, and
Mike.
COLE ELECTRIC
Motor Rewinding
Industrial Commercial
Farm and Hone
Pendleton 276-7761
4 H Leaders
Conference
Joining leaders from all over
Oregon in Salem for the annual
4-H Leaders Conference was
Mrs. Del (Linda) La Rue, lone,
horse and outdoor cookery
leader. The conference was held
this year at the State Fair
grounds, Salem.
A highlight was a banquet for
leaders. 4-H Know Your State
Government delegates, and
Oregon legislators on Monday
evening. Representative and
MERRY MAKERS CARD
CLUB was held Wednesday
evening at the home of Sharon
Bell. High was won by Barbara
Heim, Second by Pat McMinn,
and (Pinochles) were won by
Lorri Hire and Barbara Heim.
Others playing for the evening
were Sue Mattison, Irene
Samples, Deena Reid and
Melba Mitchell.
KINZUA GOOD NEIGH-
A-C
Rent, Lease, Buy
Allis Chalmers
HESTOJf, FREEMAN
(Roy Equlpuaat)
HEW & USED
MOUNTAIN
MACHINERY
COMPANY
Airport Road
PENDLETON
Open Mon. thro PTi.
and until Noon Sat.
j 276-6222
Mrs. Jack Sumner attended as
Don Peterson of lone was guests 0f Morrow County lead
elected secretary of the Oregon ers
National Farmers Organization rjjck Schlichting, Heppner,
at the annual meeting in The too the two Morrow County
Dalles recently. On February 8 Kn0W your State Government
representatives will be in Salem delegates, David Richards and
to present a 17-point program as peggy Schlichting to Salem and
planned to attend some events
R.B. Cogburn, Morrow Coun
ty American Red Cross First
Aid chairman and Chuck Rouse
have recently completed teach
ing a mulit-media First Aid
course to a group of farmers.
The multi-media First Aid
course is concentrated into two
evening sessions. People are
finding this much easier to take
than the 5 or 6 sessions formerly
required for a standard
Aid course.
Passing the course were Gary
Grieb, Tad Miller, Allen
Hughes. Carl Rhea, Tommy
Martin, Merlin Hughes, William
Rill, Loyd Humphreys.
Barton Clark, Ned Clark, Art
Cheadle, Robert Kroll, Danny
Cox. Scott McDaniel, David
Matheny, Ken Jones. Ronald
Haguewood and Lawrence
Lindsay.
4-H Favorite Foods
at Hermiston
li
4, NSSyS' rjj
F.F.S.!! What's that? It
stands for Favorite Foods Show
and it's open to all 4-H foods and
outdoor cookery club members.
It is to be held at 9:30 a.m. - 12
noon Saturday, February 10, in
Hermiston at the 4-H Exhibit
Building on the Umatilla County
Fairgrounds, says Debbie
Barker, Extension Home Econ
omist, 4-H and Youth Develop
ment. Members will select a favor
ite food that they like to
prepare, plan a well-balanced
menu around this food, and then
plan an attractive table setting
for one person to suit that menu.
At the Favorite Foods Show,
members will prepare their
favorite food and place it on
their table setting, explains
Miss Barker.
Each participant's recipe will
be printed in a recipe book. The
4-H'ers will vote on "top five
favorite foods of the day" and
will have the pleasure of
sampling a portion of all the
favorite foods.
4-H'ers planning on partici
pating are reminded to com
plete their enrollment and
recipe forms by Friday, Feb. 2.
was discussed at tne annual
meeting. The program includes
requests concerning the State
Accident Insurance Fund and
the Occupational Safety and
Hazard Act.
The program was developed
by the cooperative efforts of the
Agri-Business Council, the
Oregon Grange, Farmers Union
and the NFO.
county meets tonite
The Morrow County NFO will
start its monthly meeting to
night at 7 p.m. with a crab feed.
Don says, "Anyone interested in
coming to the meeting will be
cordially welcomed".
.MERRY MIXERS
The Merry Mixers 4-H Cook
ing Club met at the home of
their leader, Pat Pettyjohn for
an all day yeast bread cooking
session January 27.
Potato rolls were made by
Laurie Childers, Natalie Tews
and Jan Peterson. Cracked
Wheat Bread was made by
Kathleen and Joan McElligott.
Assisting with the yeast breads
were Carol and Michelle
McElligott.
All the members took sam
ples of each members bread
home to be eaten with their
evening meal.
Jan Peterson, Reporter
lone, Oregon
of the leaders conference also.
TRI-COUNTT HEREFORD
RANGE BULL SALE
00 Hereford Bulls 60
Horned & Polled - Clear Pedigreed
Range Bulls Being Offered Are The Tops
From the Hereford Herds of Oregon
CLEAR PEDIGREES GUARANTEE BY CONSIGNORS
There will be no sale in the Northwest where there will
be the selection offered such as this.
Sale 1 :00 p.m. Wednesday, FEB. 7
. FAIR GROUNDS
LA GRANDE OREGON
Show At 9:30 a.m.
Free delivery to central point on highway up to 150
miles at buver rik.
-HOME OF REPUTATION CATTLE"
Auctioneer: Ken Trout
For further information write or call Ralph D. Hart
O. Box 760. La Grande. Oregon 97850 Ph. 963-2127
MCGG Team 2nd in League
Tharis when lower Long Distance
rates begin on weekdays.
The best time to share the good times in the
northwest is after 5 PM on weekdays. That' s when
lower Long Distance rates begin. And that's when
vou're likely to find friends and family at home.
So go ahead and spread the good word.
Long Distance calls get people together.
The Morrow County Grain
Growers basketball team is in
second place in the league with
a 9-1 record. Eastons is in first
place and Hansell Hogs 3rd
place. The MCGG team is
looking forward to their next
encounter with Eastons because
since playing them the first
time they have added some
more players ?nd this time they
think they'll win.
MCGG vs Boardnian
Jan. 17 MCGG played
Boardman and won 71 to 30.
High scorers for MCGG were
Frank Halvorsen 25, Del La Rue
19. Mac Hoskins is said to have
played a good defensive game
against Gail Enright 6"7
center.
MCGG vs Marlette
The Jan. 23 game MCGG vs
Marlette w as played at Hermis
ton and MCGG won 73 to 47.
High scorers for MCGG in this
game were Lee Padberg 16, Del
LaRue 17 and Frank Halvorsen
23.
MCGG vs Morrow County
Jaycees
MCGG played a non-league
game at lone on Jan. 23 with the
Morrow County Jaycees. The
finaf score was 103 for MCGG
and 56 for the Jaycees.
Scorers for MCGG were
Marvin Padberg 8, John Mc
Cabe and Gordon Meyers both
12, Del LaRue 27 and Frank
Halvorsen 28.
Scoring by the Jaycees was
led by Harley Sager, John
Messick and Jim Slusher with
10 each, Jerry Anderson 4,
Sonny Biddle 5, Tony Doherty 2,
Dennis Doherty 4, Tom Flan
agan 9, Jerry Doherty 2. Also
playing for the Jaycees were
Eddie Yoeman. Steve Baker
and Dexter Miles.
MCGG vt Office Tavern
MCGG and the Office Tavern
played a league game at lone on
Jan. 28. The final score of 146 to
80 doesn't indicate the closeness
of the game. The Office had a 10
point lead before the Grain
Growers made its first basket.
Scoring for MCGG were Mac
Hoskins 7, Marvin Padberg 8,
Gordon Meyers 12, Lee Padberg
23, Del LaRue 28, John McCabe
28 and Frank Halvorsen 38.
Scoring for The Office were
Jay Ball 4, Ronnie Palmateer 4,
Mike Rowell 4. Montie Crum 5,
Virgil Morgan 6. Ron Brisbois 8,
Joe Halvoqsen 9, Tom Pointer 19
and Scott Wilson 21.
Coming up
MCGG will play Hansell Hogs
on Jan. 31 and on Feb S Umatilla
Electric. Both games will be at
Hermiston.
Pacific Nortrmest Befl
, or ,vi piCK? w opeyor 04V
ri wwr cor, nmm
first victory
The lone C team traveled to
Condon to play the Condon
Frosh on Jan. 5. The lone team
beat the Frosh 43-37 for the first
win of the vear. High scorer for
lone was LeRoy Rea with 13
points. The Cardinals pushed
out the game to finally capture
the game with a lead of six
points.
Other scorers were West 9,
Krebs 6, Rietmann 5, Akers 4,
JCinzer 2, Gutierrez 2 and Gates
2
PUBLIC NOTICE
Pranl property taxpayer arc required te file an invoice as of January
1, 1973, with the Attestor for en ataettment bate. Attettment mutt be
filed en er before March 3, 1973. A penalty it provided for lete filing.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
TO BE REPORTED
A. INVENTORIES A SUPPLIES
1. Commercial merchandise inventories.
2. Manufacturing inventoriei & Supplies.
3. Livestock.
4. Food processing inventories Seed, Feed, Fertilizer, Inventories
held for sale.
5. Inventories of Consigned Merchandise.
6. Log Inventories: Cold decks and ponds, also felled and bucked
logs in the woods.
7. Automotive and Trailer House Inventories.
FURNITURE A FIXTURES IN COMMERCIAL USE
MOVABLE MACHINERY
Farm Machinery.
Construction Machinery.
Logging Machinery.
Unlicensed Vehicles.
NOTICE - NOTICE
'Itemt held in stock for tale er te be included in a tale are eligible for
Inventory Tax Relief whereat maintenance auppliet are not eligible. Thete
MUST be separated en the return.
The law does net frmit the Attest t allow the reduction, in inventory
value for tax-relief under certain circumstencea when the personal property
report it not accurately prepared er it filed after March 3.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
PENALTY PROVISIONS The Penalty for fete filin, (After
March 3) of Personal Property Returns shall be $1 for each
SIOO (er Fraction) of True Cash Value but not lest than
$10 er more than $250.
Any person who hat not had en opportunity te report by Mail er
personal contact may obtain the forma at the office of the Assessor.
M it necessary that these forme be timed and filled out in detail
in order to reetlve eqwHeble attessment. The Atseeaer'a office will be
wilting te help with the proper filing of the forma.
ORS 308.105 makes H the responsibility of the taxpayer to file those re
perfi er incur the penalty previdtd by lew.
Joyce Dergstrom
MORROW COUNTY ASSESSOR