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CATTLE TOO HIGH?
Would You Dclleve Too Cheap?
If the price of steers had gone up at fait since 1950 ai the price of
a first class postage stamp, steers would be bringing $77 per
hundred.
If beef prices had Increased as much as medical care, steers
would be selling at 172.34 cwt.
If the rise had been as fast as hourly pay, the figure would be
$80.69.
Compared to the cost of having a baby, steers would be bringing
$119.13 cwt.
Compared to the daily cost of hospital service, the steers would
bring $179.69 cwt.
And if that is not enough to curl your lasso, the live cattle price in
Europe at the beginning of 1973 averaged $56 per hundred. Cull
dairy cows and old beef cows ranged from $46.50 in Holland to $62 in
Italy-all before the last devaluation of our dollar.
-adapted from the News-Leader of Springfield,
Missouri.
Contributed by Pat Cutsforth
BEEF INDUSTRY WILL MEET CONSUMER DEMAND
Baker, Oregon, February 22 - "We have just received a recent
cattle inventory figures released by the U.S.Department of
Agriculture which revealed some facts which the cattle industry
had known for a long time, and one fact is the cattlemen's
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M1ILK1ITINGS TO EUGENE
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Schlichting
picked up their daughter, Jan In
Salem last Tuesday and went to
Eugene. Jan tes maid of honor
at the wedding of her long time
friend, Nancy Adams of Pleas
ant Hill to Rodney Lalich of
Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Schlicht
Wickiup Timber Sale
(At Dennis Martin's presen
tation at the Heppner Morrow
County Chamber of Commerce,
he stressed the schedule of
timber sales. From time to time
as space permits, the Gazette
Times will reprint the Envi-
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Something new has been added at the Heppner Laundry Mat. Bill
Weatherford gets ready to demonstrate his new auto vacuum. He
says "Put in your coin and clean your car while you wait for your
clothes to wash."
HOOF AND HORN
Mark Sargent called the
meeting to order March 14. We
had roll call and the treasurer's
report.
The new members stood up
and said their names and
projects.
We decided to have a Com
munity Pride project to help
clean up Heppner Hill. Rhonda
Sargent is our community
chairman.
We elected Larry Palmer as
Sargeant at Arms. There will be
a meat and carcas grading at
the Lexington school. Then we
had a demonstration from
Barbara Devine and Joe Molla
han. Reporter,
Joe Mollahan
EIGHT POTHOLDERS cook
ing club had another meeting on
Saturday. At the meeting the
first year members made
Submarine sandwiches, while
the second year members made
sticky buns, and fruit salad.
Our next meeting will be held
on March 19, the first day of
Spring Vacation.
ing enjoyed visiting friends as 'ronmental Analysis Report on
thev formerly lived in Eugene, the proposed Wickiup Timber
They returned to fcaiem in
time for the Friday legislative
sessions at which Jan is a page.
Here they visited the Jack
Sumners and other friends
before returning home Satur
day. LIMITED TIME ONLY Home
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Pine City Community Club's
PINE CITY COMMUNITY
CLUB'S MEETING
The meeting was called to
order by Mary Healy, vice
president, at 1:30, March 22, at
Currin's House. Eleven mem
bers and two visitors were
present. The visitors were Mrs.
Wattenburger and Miss Sherrie
Carter. We elected officers:
President, Pam Haugen; vice
president, Janice Healy; secretary-treasurer
and news re
porter, Maureen Healy;
Sergeant-at-arms, Ronny Cur
rin; Song leader, Tim Daly.
We had a demonstration on
how to set up and face the judge
when showing sheep by Sherrie
Carty. We picked up some books
and Daiiers on animals and
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dedication to a continued expansion of beef production", said
Donald Ostensoe, Executive Vice-President, Oregon Cattlemen's
Association, addressing the Baker Lions Gub Luncheon
(Thursday, February 22).
"The basic domestic cattle herd now stands at 122 million head,
an increase of 4 percent over last year at this time. Important too,
is the fact that there was even greater growth in the cow-heifer
categories which comprise our basic beef factory or beef
production. Regardless of what you might hear from consumer
groups and perhaps even foreign nations, which would like to get a
better piece of our domestic market, the American Consumer need
not worry about any beef shortages in the future. As of February
1, 1973, the seven major cattle feeding states, a major indicator in
our industry, had 8 percent more cattle on feed than they did at the
same time one year ago. It is also encouraging to note that US
cattlemen sent 9 percent more cattle to slaughter in January, 1973
than they did one year ago January 1972. May I add that 1972 was
a record beef production year for US cattlemen. Yet, you
constantly hear from dissident consumer groups; beef boycotters
and others who wish to put the cattle industry in an unfavorable
light that our industry cannot keep up with consumer demand and
that their unprecendented appetite for our beef products.
Sometimes we might fall a little behind in demand due to unforseen
circumstances, such as weather and government regulations, but
never let it be said that if given the challenge and the opportunity
that the beef industry cannot 'meet the increasing consumer
demand for our product. The major issue for future beef production
is in the economic incentive of profitable prices to producers and
feeders. And this is the way it should be.
"I recently attended a meeting in the Willamette Valley area
where a group of well-meaning individuals got together to discuss a
two week boycott on beef. We were given the opportunity to explain
the facts and figures and the economic sources involved in
agriculture with particular emphasis on the beef business. One
individual made the statement, 'I have never seen a poor cattle
rancher'. Well, I am sure we could have arranged a tour for this
individual to visit with some ranchers in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho that haven't had it so good for the past several years ; even to
day. However, what alarmed me by the statement was the fact,
why should there be a poor cattle rancher or feeder or anybody
else connected with agriculture. Well maybe too, they might not
have much money in the bank, if any, and some are just working
for wages, but somehow those people involved in agriculture and
ranching, whether they are owners or employees, made money or
lost money, they are never really poor. They seem, to profit and to
enjoy life in the rural area which seems to be just a little bit better
than any place else in the world. And somehow their faces show it.
So I'm sure my Willamette Valley neighbor who made this remark
would never really know a poor rancher if they saw one or not."
MOVING??
Locol or
Long Distance
Free Estimates
Call Gene Orwick
989-8586
or Condon 384-2292
Agents for
United Van Line.
Interesting Facts:
1951, one hour's labor would buy 1.7 pounds of beef. In 1972 one
hour's brought 3.3 pounds of beef.
When a shopper spends $1.00 on ground beef, she spends 47 cents
on labor to get the meat from the farm to the supermarket. At
least 30 people are involved in meat's trip to the table and each
person rightly expects compensation in return for his
contribution to the finished product. Wages paid a head meat
cutter have increased 175 percent since 1951 and those of a
check-out clerk 211 percent.
The average return on investment for the cattleman is IVi
percent.
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When a wife asks her husband
to do the gardening, the first
thing he usually digs up is a
good excuse.
COW POKES
Thatfe 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 thaf s when
you're likely to find friends and family at home.
So go ahead and spread the good word.
Long Distance calls get people together.
(S) Pacific Northwest Bell
"Wut Mr. Peorman, U wYt coin' to subdivide
this W we'd better movt vr o coupfe of
counties - that's whtm this W WowinT"
A LL YOU CAN EXPECT
The U.S. meat industry has proven that even in an inflationary
era a free market can function in a way that assures both
abundance and an equitable price level. During the past 20 years
while the farmer has seen his production costs rise an average of 50
percent, farm prices have risen only 6 percent. Farmers have been
able to survive, thanks largely to massive increases in
productivity. The beef industry provides one of the best measures
of that increased productivity in the manner in which consumers
have benefited.
According to The Farm Quarterly, per capita beef consumption
in the United States amounted to 82 pounds in 1960. Within 12 years,
it has grown by 34 pounds per person. Furthermore, The Quarterly
continues: "Experts predict that per capita beef consumption will
rise another 22 to 27 poundjs between 1971 and 1980, reaching 135 to
140 pounds. This amounts'to an annual rate of increase of about 3
percent. Some 8.5 million additional cattle will have to be fed in 1980
to match this increase in demand." What these figures all boil down
to is that Americans like meat. And they are able to buy it at free
market prices, which in turn have given the incentives to the beef
industry to step up productive efficiency and strive aggresively to
provide the quality and quantity of meat demanded by the
consumer.
Right now, according to a pamphlet published by the National
Livestock and Meat Board, the industry is endeavoring, with
greater energy than at anytime in the past, to present the facts
about the meat industry and meat prices. In the words of the
pamphlet, it is working " full time to tell editors, columnists,
news writers and housewives the beef price story. ...that beef is still
a terrific buy. ...That American cattlemen are produc.'ig to the
hilt.. ..that in our society of free competitive livestock marketing,
the price of beef is still set by supply and consumer demand." In
short, the industry is striving to show how the free market
guarantees abundance at a fair price. No one can reasonably
expect more.
Pulmonary Emphysema
Pulmonary emphysema, a constant threat to the heavy smoker,
has other victims - livestock.
Acute bovine pulmonary emphysema (ABPE) is a serious cattle
problem in eastern Oregon and many other areas of the United
States. The disease attacks the lungs, causing them to become
inflamed, enlarged and inelastic. Also known as bovine asthma or
fog fever, it is particulary prevalent in cattle moved into lush
meadow pastures after being on dry summer range.
Oregon State University graduate student Wayne van Zwoll,
under the direction of Dillard Gates, OSU director of rangeland
resources, has launched a study working with six eastern Oregon
ranches in an attempt to determine the cause of the problem. He
susDects it is caused by something the animals eat. He is
investigating the possibility of linking a plant or stage
development in a plant to the problem.
Symptoms of ABPE usually appear between two and ten days
after cattle are moved from dry range to the meadow pastures.
Observed morbidity from ABPE averages approximately five per
cent in affected herds where precautionary measures are not
taken. By feeding hay to the animals before they are turned into the
meadow pasture and removing them from the pasture daily for
further hay supplementation, ABPE can be prevented, but his
procedure is often impractical, said van Zwoll.
First field signs of ABPE include lack of mobility, audible grunts
when the animal exhales, rapid breathing, and standing with head
extended and mouth open. Death can occur in about eight days
following movement onto new pasture. Notable symptoms
sometimes do not appear until the later stages of the disease.
Animals under stress, such as lactating cows, are most
susceptible to emphysema. Susceptibility also appears to differ
among breeds, with Herefords more likely than Angus to contact
ABPE, said van Zwoll.
JOBS
r.. A ma nM The Cooperative Rural Man-
' i power Project, with the help of
secretaries in the extension
offices in Morrow, Gilliam,
Sherman, and Wheeler count
ies, has the following job
openings:
MORROW COUNTY: Motel
Maid, farm work; GILLIAM
COUNTY: Plowing job, farm
jobs; SHERMAN COUNTY:
Four plowing jobs, house-
keeper; WHEELER COUNTY:
Plowing job, saw filer, heavy
duty truck mechanic, Mill
Wright.
People with the following
experience are looking for
work: Heppner Area: Car
penter, Housekeeper, baby
sitter, office workers, sales
clerks, mill workers; Fossil
Area: Housekeeper, bartender,
office clerk, cook; More Area:
year around farm worker,
secretary.
For further information, con
tact your local Extension office:
Heppner- 676-9642; Condoo-384-2271:
Fossil-763-4115; Moro-565-3230.
News Reporter, Teena Lindstrom judging. Then we had refresh
ments.
News Reporter,
Maureen Healy
Sale. This will give our readers
some idea of the amount of work
that precedes a timber sale.
Editor): Summary Environ
mental Analysis Report by
Dennis Martin.
The proposed Wickiup Tim
ber Sale, an administrative
action, is planned for sale in
May, 1974, and is a portion of
Heppner District's regular
planned sale program deemed
necessary to provide a sus
tained yield of forest products to
local industry and assist in
maintaining a healthy economic
condition within this portion of
Eastern Oregon. The "sale area
is located approximately 32
miles southeast of Heppner,
Oregon in Morrow County.
The recreation, wildlife,
range and watershed and soil
resources may be impacted to
some extent. However, if the
practices and constraints out
lined in this report are followed,
the impact will be minimal and
kept to an acceptable level.
Adverse environmental effects
that are considered unavoidable
include an increase in hunter
pressure and possible adverse
impact on the big game
population ; the aesthetic effect
of regeneration seed cutting;
and the soil disturbance that
must accompany any logging or
road construction activity.
Alternatives were considered
both internally and through
contacts with other agencies
and Forest Service specialists.
As a result of these contacts, It
was felt that increase in hunter
pressure was not significant
Impact on the deer and elk
population. The harvesting
techniques could be modified to
lessen the impact of regenera
tion seed cutting and the
rotation length increased. How
ever, since current recreation
use is relatively low and no
tie-through roads are planned,
normal techniques are con
sidered appropriate. The only
alternative to soil disturbance
would be to use some type of
helicopter logging system
which would result in fewer
roads and less skidding dam
age. Since soils are not critical
in this area and it is unlikely
that the timber has enough
value to warrant this type of
system, normal practices will
be followed.
In soliciting comments and
opinions, the sale was discussed
with fish and game biologists
from the Oregon State Game
Commission, the Supervisor of
the Umatilla National Forest
and his principal staff, and
Hugh Black, Jim Martin, and
Jim Simonson, Forest Wildlife
Biologist, Recreation Specialist
and silviculturist respectively.
In conclusion, it is felt by the
District Ranger and his assist
ants, that this action will not
cause any significant environ
mental impact.
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