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Uoppxr-GaiettQ-Ttoss zznn if Farter with her folks, Mr. and Mn. Ed Gonty. The Blevina have moved to (heir new house a farm out or UKian. on Wheat Growers to Hold 74 - Crop Wheat tTlcrltotinc carpenters, and summer baby sitting employment. GILLIAM SdociqI uootlnn Ouotn & Allotment Proclaimed . a. wri ubor jb...nd On April 13 - A 1974 national referendum for the 1971 crop of The Morrow County Wheat Growers will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, May 2 at the Dormitory Building at the fairgrounds in Heppner. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the proposed forma tion of a Feed Grain Commis sion in Oregon and to get Morrow County growers feel ings on the subject. President Dick McElligott has attended one hearing on the subject and a second hearing has been set for May 4 in Salem. He requests a good turn out of growers so that he can report on how Morrow County grain growers feel about a Feed Grain Commission. WOOL PRODUCTION AND VALUE IS72 OREGON'S 1(72 WOOL PRODUCTION INCREASES Wool produced In Oregon during 1972 totaled 4,823,000 pounds, grease basis, according to the Oregon Crop and livestock Reporting Service. This was 11 percent more than the 4,360,000 pounds produced in 1971 and 7 percent more than produced in 1970. The average weight of fleece shorn in 1972 was 7.8 pounds, up from 7.3 pounds in 1971 but the same as 1970. The number of sheep shorn in Oregon during 1972 also increased to 621,000 from 595,000 head in 1971. Price of wool sold in Oregon averaged 40 cents per pound in 1972, up 48 percent from an abnormally low 1971 price. The 1971 price of 27 cents was the lowest average price since 1939. Prior to 1972, wool production in Oregon had declined steadily since 1960 except for 1968. Oregon ranks twelfth nationally in wool production but produced only 3.1 percent of the national total. Last year Oregon produced 2.7 percent of the national total. U.S. WOOL PRODUCTION CONTINUES DECLINE wheat allotment of 58.0 million acres and a national wheat marketing quota of 1,692 million bushels were proclaimed in Washington, D. C, by the Secretary of Agriculture, Earl L. Butt. The proclamation for the 1974 wheat crop year is required to be made prior to April IS in order to conform with perm anent legislation (the Agricult ural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended ) w hich becomes effective at the time the Agricultural Act of 1970 expires, according to David McLeod, Pi rector of local ASCS office. Marketing quotas, to be put in effect, must be approved by producer referendum, which cannot be conducted later than August l, 1973. Such quotas, if approved, would limit wheat acreage which a producer could plant for market without a" penalty. The Secretary is required to determine a national marketing quota for wheat for any marketing year will, in the absence of a marketing quota program, likely be excessive. Without marketing quotas, the estimated carryover is likely to be higher than desirable at the end of the 1974-75 marketing year. The Agricultural Act of 1970 extended its wheat program through the 1973-crop year and Production of shorn and pulled wool in the United States during 1972 totaled 168 million pounds, grease basis, down 3 percent from 1971. Shorn wool production of 158 million pounds declined 1 percent from a year earlier, and is equivalent to 75 million pounds clean basis, using a conversion factor of 47.7 percent. Pulled wool , production totaled 9.7 million pounds, down 19 percent from 1971 and is equivalent to 7.1 million pounds, clean basis, using a conversion factor of 72.9 percent. The number of sheep and lambs shorn in 1972 totaled 18.8 million specifically suspended market head, a 1 percent decrease from 1971. Fleece weight of shorn wool ing quotas for wheat producers averaged 8.41 pounds per fleece, unchanged from a year earlier, for the duration of the Act. The average weight per skin of pulled wool was 3.40 pounds in 1972 No announcement is being compared with 3.46 pounds in 1971. made at this time on the loan Ranchers and farmers in the United States received an average level, state and county allot- priceof 35.0 cents per pound for shorn wool during 1972, 15.6 cents ments. domestic allocations more than in 1971. Native States (which account for most of the percentage or diversion per- "fleece" wool production) received an average of 30.9 cents per pound in 1972 compared with 22.6 cents in 1971. The 11 western States, Texas and South Dakota (which produce most of the "territory" wool) received an average price of 36.2 cents per pound, compared with 18.6 cents in 1971. Total value of shorn wool produced in 1972 was $55.3 million, compared with $31.4 million in 1971 centage. Should no new legisla tion be enacted, these provi sions will be announced prior to the referendum. In 1970, a similar situation arose. 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Beef Progeny Test Field Day Apr. 27 Friday is the Beef Progeny Field Testing Day at Hermiston at the Umatilla Experiment Station. Dean Frischknecht will preside in the morning session and Jim Oldfield in the after noon. The morning features a tour of pens, a Herd Bull display, Oregon's Progeny Testing pro gram by T. P. Davidson. There is a steak barbecue at noon by the BMCC ag club at the Umatilla County Forigrounds. Afternoon program starts at 1:15 with "Calving Problems" (what to do) by J. N. Wiltbank, professor of Beef Breeding & Reproduction, Colorado State University. Ty Hansel will tell about beef production under circle irriga tion. Fred Hagelstein will tell of future developments of this area. Forrest Bassford, publisher of Western Livestock Journal will tell of testing programs. Al Ralston, Professor of animal nutrition of OSU will tell of effects of hormones on Physiological Age of beef carcasses. The morning session starts at 10 a.m., right after coffee and doughnuts. one construction lob. SHER- MAN COUNTY! Warehouse man, general maintenance & fertilizing (also includes book keeping and filing), 1 year around farm Job, (grain & cattle), 1, year-around farm Job with experience in welding and mechanics. People with the following experience are looking for work: Heppner Area: A person experienced in yard work would like all summer employment doing several yards, truck driver, office work, salesper son. Condon Area: Office worker. Moro Area: House keeper. Fossil Area: Clerk, general office, maintenance man. For further information, con tact your local Extension Ser vice: Heppner 676-9642; Con don 384-2271; Fossil - 763-4115; . Moro 565-3230. This is a mutual effort of the Extension Service, Employ ment Service, and the people of this area HEPPNER (ORE.) GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. AprU M, 1I7J and supplies are concerned. On the other hand, if producers can look forward to the expectation of reasonable profits - which hasn't been the case for most of the last 20 years - they'll fill the supply lines and retail prices will level off." The Meat Board official, however, cautioned consumers that "A higher level of meat prices than we have been accustomed to paying over the past 20 years is the nation's best assurance of adequate supplies of meat." MRS. DARI.ENE SNYDER and Vickie of Weavervillt, North Carolina arrived a week ago Sunday to be with Mrs. Snyder's mother, Mrs. Herman BUM tell. Mrs. Blettell came home last Tuesday from St. Anthony's Hospital where she recently had surgery. COLE Motor Industrial Farm Pendleton ELCCTftiO Rewinding . Commercial and Home 276-7761, Doard of Equalization MAY 14 Joyce Bergstrom, Morrow County Assessor, has annouced that the Board of Equalization will meet on Monday, May 14 at 9:30 a.m. at the Courthouse in Heppner. At that time there will be a public examination of assessment rolls for 1973 and correction of all errors in valuation, descriptions, or qualities of land, lots or other property assessed by the as sessor. Any interested persons should plan to attend the meeting. Petitions for adjustment of assessments must be filed with the Board of Equalization not later than Monday of the week following the first week that the Board is in session. 1 t . a I Kancn Aero I Airplane Spraying Co. i owned & operated by Paul 11 Hansen Spraying - Fertilizer - - Sooding year Round Service i t t Controls, Boycotts Awa ,or Easter Willi WI9f WPWjwwt, MRS. pEARL WRIGHT was Could Reduce Supplies Sheep, Wool Day Set Sheep specialists in breedingr lutrition and production from )regon State University. Min lesota and Wyoming will lec ure Saturday (May 12) at the 15th annual Sheep and Wool Day at OSU's Withycombe Hall. Dr. Hudson Glimp. general manager of the Y O Ranches, Wheatland, Wyo., will open the program at 9:30a.m. with a talk on breed and breed cross evaluation for reproduc'ien, growth and carcass perform ance. He is former research leader of the Nutrition and Management Research Unit of (he U. S. Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Neb. Dr. Murray Dawson, OSU professor of soil science, will discuss soil-plant grazing animal relationships on Oregon pasture lands. Dr. Willian Hohenboken, OSU assistant professor of animal science, will lecture on breeding and management interactions in sheep production. ' Millard Shelton, head OSU shepherd since 1960 who retires June 30, will be honored during the afternoon session. Dr. Dwight Holaway, coord inator of the lamb and wool production program of the Pipestone Area Vocational Technical Institute, will discuss the Minnesota Institute's pro gram and its relevance to Oregon conditions. Dr. Stanley Snyder, OSU assistant profes sor of veterinary medicine, will report on footrot research at OSU. Contest Winner At Luncheon All speakers will join a question-answer panel to end the session. Jody Gerard, Bay City High School Senior, will model her prize-winning costume (which won honors in the 1972 "Make It Yourself With Wool" Oregon contest ) during the luncheon which will be served by the OSU Withycombe Club. The all-day program will be sponsored by the Department of Animal Science, Cooperative Extension Service and the Oregon Sheep Advisory Council. Chairmen will be Jim Cretcher, president of the Oregon Pure bred Sheep Breeders Associa tion, Independence, and Dr. Tom Zurcher. Clackmas County 4 H Extension Agent. Jobs Open The Cooperative Rural Man power Project, with the help of the secretaries in the Extension offices in Morrow, Gilliam, Sherman and Wheeler Counties, has the following job openings: MORROW COUNTY: Farm work, secretary-bookkeeper, housekeeper, cement work, CHICAGO, - A livestock and meat industry spokesman has expressed concern that the ceilings on meat prices an nounced by President Nixon on March 29 could create economic disruptions in the marketing system and discourage in creased meat supplies "which represent the ultimate solution to consumer concerns about meat prices." David H. Stroud, Chicago, President of the National Live stock and Meat Board, said "Mr. Nixon's attempt to mollify consumer frustration came at a time when it appeared that supplies were starting to catch up with demand. Virtually all of the livestock organizations and : leadership for years have been seeking a more stable supply in line with demand. And indica ' tions have been that we were reaching a point where the voluntary actions and optimis tic outlook of livestock farmers ' would start leveling off the spasmodic price peaks of meat ' which upset consumers and the ' extended low valleys of live stock prices which put produc ers in debt and-or out of business." Mr. Stroud said that under price ceilings, increases in costs of producing, marketing, trans porting, packaging and distrib uting meat could result in tremendous economic losses for retailers and packers which would also affect the producer by driving down the prices he receives for his livestock. "We can only hope that such cost increases do not occur," he said, "because the addition of that kind of problem to the psychological impact of boy cotts - and talk of boycotts would drastically affect the outlook for increased supplies and meat prices." The Meat Board official said homemaker irritation at the meat counter is understandable because price increases there are more immediately visible than the "larger price increases for other goods and services that have occurred on a more gradual basis over a period of years - and which generally involve charge account and installment purchases rather than cash outlay at time of purchase." Stroud said also that meat boycotts on a massive scale would ultimately raise prices to an even higher level. He stated that a boycott is "an economic signal to the nation's livestock producers that consumer de mand is diminishing. This would put a negative cloud over the individual decisions of hundreds of thousands of grow ers and feeders regarding the production of more meat animals." The Meat Board President explained that the nation's farmers and ranchers have been building their breeding herds in order to increase supplies. "And while the increased number of animals now being readied for market will improve the supply situation later this year, boycotts as well as controls would discourage pro ducers from continuing to increase the beef, pork and lamb output of their herds," he said. "Thus, in 1974 and 1975 homemakers would find them selves worse off than they are today insofar as meat prices Heppner G7G-9925 in saiem tor taster to visu ner E itittititiiiiiiiiMitfl nnws A tnttrrliA lif an A ItATre " Women to Homemakers ! 1' ' J I ) ! t 1 ' ! ! 1' ! Jim Kiser and the great grand children, Ramona and Mark. She also went on to Waldport to visit Kay Bisbee. Conference TIIL'RS NIGHT LEAGUE Win Lost Kinzua Corp. 37 19 Murrays Rexall 32 24 Ruggles Ins. 32 24 Toyota 29 27 El ma's Flowers 29 27 Columbia Basin 9 47 High Team Series, Murrays Rexall - 2737; High Team Game, Murrays Rexall - 991; High Ind. Series, Helen Young -511; High Ind. Game, Judy Rickert - 201. SUCCESS STORY , "I wasn't only surprised to sell my rollaway bed so fast but I was delighted!" was the way Martha Van Schoiack felt about her one-time ad in the Gazette Times last week. ROCK CLUB MEETS SATURDAY The Rock Club will meet April 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the conference room of the First National Bank. Slides will be shown. Refreshments will be served. All people interested in gems and minerals are welcome. "Today is a New Day" is the 'ieme of the Oregon Home makers Conference which is expected to draw some 700 women throughout the state to the Oregon State University campus May 1-4. Umatilla and Morrow County's Extension study groups will be represented at this year's annual conference with seven ladies attending from Morrow County. They are Mrs. John Graves, Dist VII (7) director OEHC, Heppner, Mrs. Norman Nelson Lexington, who will serve as song leader at the conference, Mrs. Art Allen, Mrs. Donald Baker, Mrs. Carlyle Harrison, Boardman, Mrs. Adrian Bech dolt, Heppner and Birdine Tullis, Morrow County Exten sion Aide, Heppner. . The program of workshops, formal sessions and section meetings will be devoted to facets' of family living of current and vital interest to Speaking on "Being a Woman Today" will be Helen G. Wilson, Director of Public Relations and professor of English and Non-Western Studies at North west Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho. Miss Wilson, named "Outstanding Idaho Woman" by the Idaho Secre taries' Association in 1969, has spoken before many groups throughout the Northwest. Meeting needs of the home bound and news in the fields of food marketing, home furnish ings, health, safety, and family life will be subjects of section meetings, and Extension study group members will report their accomplishments in these and other educational areas. OEHC's interest in families of other cultures will focus on the Basque people at the traditional international dinner Wednesday evening. Father Ramon Echevarria of Mt. Angel will be guest speaker. The May conference is spon sored by the Oregon Extension CAROLYN DAVIS ' ; AT LONE ROCK Carolyn Davis spent Easter weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Davis at Lone Rock. A former roomate from Walla Walla College came over for the weekend. On Sunday Carolyn took her back to College Place. She also visited with an acquaintance in the Walla Walla Penitentiary. homemakers. Homemakers Council, oreaniz Among highlights will be a'e(j in 1933 to formulate and workshop devoted to consumer carry out programs of state and problems, with three state national significance. The officials participating; Wanda OEHC represents 16,500 women Merrill, Consumer Services in organized Extension study Division, Oregon Department of groups in 34 Oregon counties. Commerce; Jane Wyatt, Con- president of the statewide sumer Officer, Oregon De- organization is Mrs. S. H. partment of Agriculture; and Griffin of Vale. W. Michael Gillette, chief : counsel, Consumer Protection ICinZUd Division, Oregon Department of Mrs Mlen Nista(fand Mrs. justice. MR. AND MRS. TERRY BLEVINS, Pat and Pam of Ukiah were over to spend Mrs. Homer Rice of Mil waukie, member of the North Clackamas school board and the consumer homemaking ad visory committee of the State Department of Education, will speak on "Women as munity Citizens" at the Tues day evening banquet. Milt Boring of Fossil went to The Dalles Monday on business. Pastor Bill Mai traveled to Portland Friday to meet Mrs. Mai at Portland International Airnort Mrs. Mai had been in 5;om" Levittown, Pa. visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Benesole. 1973 Edition PE MILT0H-FREEV7ATER Spring Feotasy" A FEST1AL HAY 61:30 p.p. Queen Cornation At Mac Hi HAY 8-Pca Festival Opens Week f.lAY 116 erm. DeMolay Pancake Breakfast 11 a.m. Kiddies Parade Youth Dance Armory MAY 12 DeMolay Pancake Breakfast 10:30 a.m. Grand Parade 1 p.m. Broilerque 2 p.m. Showmanship Gr Awards 3 pm. Dog Show 6:30 p.m. 4-H - FFA Fat Stock Sale 9 p.m. Adult Dance
