IIKIM'NKK (ORE.) GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday May 10. U73
it
Board 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
It's fine lo huve the gift of
gab. provided you know when to
wrap it up.
Our friend said his teenagers
gave him a nice surprise for his
birthday. They let him drive the
car for the whole weekend.
Hepptier-Gazette-Times
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ORFC.ON tiLAlCIITKIl REPORT
MARCH I9M
Red meat commercially slaughtered in Oregon during Mann
1973 totaled 16,113.000 pounds, according lo the Oregon Crop and
Livestock Reporting Service. This was a decrease of about U
percent from the 18.tLM.u0u pounds produced during March 19.2
Beef production during March was II percent below the amount
produced during March 1972. Pork production was off 32 percent
from a year ago. Also fewer sheep and lambs were sheltered
than a year earlier.
Oregon Price Report
(As of April IS. Ii
INDEX OK PRICKS RECEIVE! DECEIVES
The April 15 Index or Prices Received by Oregon farmers was
357. according to the Oregon Crop and Livestock Reporting Service.
The Index was 8 points lower than on March 15. but 102 points, or 40
percent above a year ago.
The All Crops Index, at 305. was 2 percent above March 15 and 52
percent more than April 15, 1972. The Livestock and Livestock
Products Index at 445 decreased t percent from a month earlier,
but was 29 percent higher than a year earlier. Sub-indexes for all
commodity groups except dairy products were substantially higher
than a year ago - dairy' products were up just 5 percent.
Starting Monday,
DAY 7
Ve Will Accept
Applications
for
Employment
For This Summer
Box 107
Boardman, Or.
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llURAKCE... Mat... WHY?..! AlNT NEVEfc
pS Morrow County njn
Js. Grain Growers, km.
LEXINGTON
MARKETS PEAK IN JANt'AKY
Pacific Northwest wheat markets peaked during the third
quarter of the 1972 1973 crop season. Competition was very ,,,,. .,...., ..c ... ,,
Ruth pxrairters and mills ll.KMMiM'.MU.r.MU li
vigorously pursued supplies to maintain full pipelines. Selling was had a par y for Ai. Corliss
amid from the countrvside with wide premiums paid for deferred Boner, our leader At this par y
shipment to keep wheat in constant flow to the export terminals, she was presented with a Rift.
Flow of wheat was governed by logistics rather than selling. We Rave this surprise party
Competition for transportation equipment was so keen that in some because she is moving and we
areas coal cars were used. Price levels began to lower toward the thought it would be nice way of
middle of the quarter as export contracts gradually were being thanking her for being such a
completed. However, toward the end of March and into the fourth good leader.
quarter, wide advances in the market occurred. Export contracts
vet to le filled, rumors of additional need in world markets. Reporter,
logistics, exhaustion of CCC stocks and weather influenced Cathy I aimer
" The average prices of white wheat to arrive at Portland during HOOK ft HORN finished our
January was $2 W per bushel. This compared with $1.57 per bushel Community IY.de project start-
for the corresponding month a year ago. February averages fell 24 ed on April 1st of picking up
cents per bushel under January but 99 cents per bushel over a year litter between Heppner and
ago. The downward trend reversed in March and climbed back to Ruggs. It took us 3 hours to
1 61 per bushel for the April preliminary average. cover 44 miles.
Hard Winter wheat market highs and lows compared with white Those helping clean up were:
wheat markets. January average figured $2.79 per bushel, dropped Barbara Dov.ne. Par icia pe-
to $2 57 in February and advanced during March and April, vine. Doug Oarre t. Mark Sar-
Ordinary protein through 12 percent protein carried no price gent. Paula I aimer. Larry
difference. Premiums on 13 percent protein held steady at 4 cents Palmer. Karl Palmer. Cathy
per bushel over the lower protein during the quarter. Palmer. Mr. and Mrs. Roger
; i. ih. nni u,hon that started the Quarter Palmer and leaders, Mr. and
w ith a heavy backup of stocks, sold under 13 percent protein winter
as most sales to the USSR required hard winter wheat classes.
However, premiums were being paid starting the fourth quarter on
strong indications that arrangements have been made with Russia
to applv some spring wheat against portions of her contracts. Highs
of $2.79 per bushel for 14 percent protein wan premiums oi i ceiua
per
AllgUftl Sli IiuIImtr
The American playwright,
Eugene O'Neill, has written this
about Mr. Ktrindherg. "Strlnd
hcrg hi ill remains among the
most modern of the moderns,
the greatest interpreter in the
theater of the characteristic
spiritual conflicts which consti
tute the drama - the blood - of
our lives today. He carried
Naturalism to a logical attain
ment of such poignant intensity
that, if the work of any other
playwright is to be called
naturalism", we must classify a
play like 'The Dance of Death'
as 'suH'r naturalism', and place
it in a class by itself, exclusively
Strindberg's since no one before
or after him has had the genius
lo qualify."
The "world is moving so fast
these days that the man who
says it can't be done Is
generally Interrupted by some
, one doing it.
COLE EU.CTHIC
Motor Rewinding -
Industrial Commercial
farm and Home
Pendleton 276-7761J
Mrs. Dick Sargent.
Reporte.
Cathy Palmer
Annroximatelv 53 girls took
. m iwr iiiimii'i 1 -i lir-i i r 1 1 1 uiuilmi "mh j . - - -
"bushel paid for each protein level above 14 percent ruled part in the 4-H Judging Contest
r r tw.lrl Hint) C nl Iho llonnnAr
through the quarter.
Wranglers
Play Day
MAY
from
Plav
(i
the
day-
May 6
are as
Results
Wrangler
follows:
li .Hid I'mler
Barrels: Steve Currin 1st,
2nd Steve .Miller, 3rd , Trisha
Mahoney.
Poles: Steve Miller 1st,
Trisha Mahoney 2nd and Steve
Currin .ird.
Balloon Race: Steve Miller
1st. Steve Currin 2nd and Trisha
Mahoney 3rd.
7-s-!l Years Old
Barrels: Anne Murray 1st,
Anne Van Schoiack 2nd. Mike
Currin 3rd and Anita Palmer
4th.
Poles: Anne Murray 1st. Anne
Van Schoiack 2nd. Anita Pal
mer 3rd and Mike Currin 4th.
Balloon Race: Anita Palmer
1st. Anne Van Schoiack 2nd,
Mike Currin 3rd and Tara
Mahoney 4th.
10-11-12 Year Olds
Barrels: Jana Steagall 1st,
Cindy Dougherty 2nd. Krynn
Robinson 3rd and Kathleen Van
Schoiack 4th.
Poles: Maureen Healy 1st,
Krynn Robinson 2nd, Nancy
Miller 3rd and Cindy Dougherty
4th.
King Race: Cindy Dougherty
1st. Marie Yocom 2nd, Maureen
Healy 3rd and Tony Currin 4th.
13 - 17 Year Olds
Barrels: Janice Healy 1st,
Patty Daly 2nd. Judy Healy 3rd
and John Healy 4th;
Poles: Patty Daly 1st, Donna
Palmer 2nd, Mary Healy 3rd
and David Steagall 4th.
Ring Race: Sherry Kemp 1st,
Jack Yocom 2nd, Patty Hughes
3rd and Janice Healy 4th.
is and Over
Barrels: Bev Steagall 1st,
Kite Healy 2nd, Pat Dougherty
3rd and Judy Currin 4th.
Poles: Bev Steagall 1st,
Merlyn Robinson 2nd, Kite
Healy 3rd and Lee Palmer 4th.
Ring Race: Judy Currin 1st,
Merlyn Robinson 2nd, Joe
Yocom 3rd and Pat Dougherty
4th.
Fast Times:
Barrels: Jana Steagall 19.2,
Poles: Maureen Healy 23.6,
Rings: Sherry Kemp 12.1.
There was no team roping.
The Wranglers had their 4th
and last Play Day of the 1973
summer series last Sunday.
June 5 is the date of the next
meeting at the dorm at 7:30
p.m.
laker jobs in the Fossil Area.
People with the following
experience are looking for
work: Heppner Area: Office
workers, salespersons, farm
workers, truck drivers, me
chanic, high school students
seeking summer employment.
Fossil Area: Office worker,
(onrion Area: Clerk, farm
worker. receptionist. dish
washer. In the Fossil Area, high
school students are seeking
summer employment.
For further information, con
tact your local Extension Ser
vice: Heppner. ;7i-9H2; Con
don. 3K4-2271; Fossil. 703-4115;
Mom. 51LV323U.
held Mav 5 at the Heppner
Grade School. The girls judged
in their own 4-H field (cooking,
knitting, etc.) and were judged
on their judging ability.
Later in the day they were
given written problems to solve
including every day situations.
TWO TRACKERS 4-H Horse
club held their monthly meeting
on May 1 at the dorm building
with 9 members present. We
decided to have an overnight
ride in the mountains on June 2
and 3. It was reported that we
had made $27.85 on our travel
ing food sale. Most of the
members had brought their
horses so we did some practic
ing. Reporter,
Nancy Miller
tops ci.ims
PLAN STATE DAY
The first State Recognition
Day of the TOPS Clubs of
Oregon to be held in Eastern
Oregon is scheduled for Pendle
ton May 17 and 18. The Three
Morrow County Clubs - Hepp
ner, lone and Lexington will be
represented. The Lexington
Club has been asked to help with
registration on Thursday morn
ing and to present a skit later
that day. They will repeat the
skit, 'The Imp Committee
Reports" which was so success
ful at the District Recognition
Day here last fall. Mrs. Bill
Weatherford is chairman for
the skit and is holding rehears
als by the participants this week
and next week on Monday
afternoons at the Lexington
Municipal Building.
YOU CAN
SAVE
ON
Most of man's conversation is
devoted to two subjects he
knows little about - politics and
women.
ItOOKCl.l BS JOIN
AT ST. PATRICK'S
The Heppner Bookworms
were hostesses to the Topic Club
of lone on April 10 in the
FireDlace Room of St. Patrick's
Church.
The evening's review was
presented by Mrs. Charles
St arks. She explained that the
book she had chosen was
Volume I of A HORSEMAN
RIDING BY. a three volume
saga of English Country Life by
R. F. Delderfield. This volume
is LONG SUMMER DAY, the
next volume is POST OF
HONOR, and the third volume
is THE GREEN GAUNTLET.
LONG SUMMER DAY takes
place between 1902 and 1911; the
second volume continues from
1911 to 1940, and the final book
takes it readers from 1941 to
1907. They are all built around
the same British families.
A LONG SUMMER DAY
We might be more eager to
accept good advice if it didn't
continually interfere with our
plans.
Planning: the art of putting
off until tomorrow what you
have no intention of doing
today.
cbp hm
& Ml
Additional Rate Reductions
This Year
You Can Save Up To
50
On Fire Insurance when written
in conjunction with
hail coverage.
This will also include farm
storage coverage until Oct. 15
at no additional cost.
Turner, Van Marter
and Drycnt
TsL m ttis
Jobs Open
The Cooperative Rural Man
power Project with the help of
Ihe secretaries in the Extension
offices in Morrow, Gilliam,
Sherman. and Wheeler
Counties, has the following job
openings:
MORROW COUNTY: Weed
ing, farm work, including
working with cattle, irrigation,
two County jobs (Mainstream),
eic. summer babysitting,
(.illiam countv: Two full-time
farm jobs. SHF.RMAN
(oi'TY: Warehouseman,
general maintenance & fertiliz
ing job (includes bookkeeping
and tiling responsiblilies), one
vear-around farm job.
WIIKKIIi: COCNTV: Care
OSU BEEF CATTLE DAY
SCHEDULED MAY 18-19
AT LAORANDE. UNION
The 15th annual Beef Cattle
Day of Oregon University May
18 and 19 in LaGrande and at the
Eastern Oregon Experiment
Station in Union will include
sessions on disease control and
beef management.
The OSU Department of
Animal Science and Eastern
Oregon Experiment Station at
Union will present the annual
program. The banquet will be
nhl (!U-; lit) at (hp
Tropidara Restaurant in La covers the warm, quiet period
Grande, concluding an all-day before World War I. Queen
meeting of the Oregon Cattle- Victoria's death ended her long
men's Association at the VIP's and successful reign and her
Restaurant in La Grande, son Edward VII was on the
William Barratt, president of lchronvT,he nve' .,s ,s,f.
the Federal Intermediate Sorrel Valley which is still in a
Credit Bank, Spokane, will be feudal state with 5 tenant farms
banquet speaker surrounding the great manor
Dr J. E. Oldfield, head of the house, known collectively as
OSU Department of Animal The Shallowford Estate. The
Science, will be chairman of the families involved and their ups
Saturday morning session and downs are not intended to
which will begin at the Tropi- represent specific living per
dara at 8:30. Bert Hawkins, sons but are characters who
Brogan, will be moderator of a represent their race of people in
panel discussion on beef cattle a corner of England as old as
diseases. Panelists will be Dr.. lime- ,,,,
Jack Schmitz and Dr. Guy Mrs. Starks is a skillful
Reynolds, OSU veterinarians, reviewer and qwekened her
and Dr. Dillard Dates, OSU listeners' interest in reading
director of range resources. Author Delder .eld s works The
At 9-30 am Dr. Bart C. author suggests in his preface,
Cardon will talk about modern "If any reader is looking for
trends in the beef industry, identification let him seek it m
President of Arizona Feeds, the national spirit that, even in
Tucson he has a doctor's this day and age, still quickens
degree' in enzyme chemistry the people of provincial Eng
and microbiology and taught at land."
the University of Arizona and Those who enjoy things
University of California. He was British will gain much pleasure
research director and nutrition- from this trio of books.
ist for an Arizona milling
company until 1962 when he STRINDBEKG
became president of Arizona
Feeds. PLAY SET
At 10:30 a.m., Ben Robinson, FOK TONIGHT AT 7:30
Imbler, will be moderator of a Tne Shakespeare Study group
panel discussion on beef cattle sp0nsored by the A.A.U.W. is
management. Panelists will be meeting tonight at the Bill
Dr. James McArthur, superin- Weatherford home, 280 S. Court
tendent of the Eastern Oregon St This open meeting will
Experiment Station; Dr. Robert consificr TlE DANCE OF
Raleigh, superintendent of the DEATH which was written in
Squaw Butte Experiment Sta-190, by tne great Swedish
tion: Justin Synder. Enterprise dramatist August Strindberg. It
rancher, and Reed Johnson, js one 0f ne plays being offered
Wallowa rancher. nv ihe Oregon Shakespearean
Theater
at Ashland this
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