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Farter with her folks, Mr. and
Mn. Ed Gonty. The Blevina
have moved to (heir new house
a farm out or UKian.
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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. A marketing quota
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1970. Congressional resolutions
stayed the holding of a refer
endum, and on Novemeber 30,
1970. the Agricultural Act of
1970 was enacted.
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.
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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.
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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
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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