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HEPPNER (ORE.) GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday, November II, IT1 .Fera-CRy Banquofl Ho ho jgIcJ May Morrow County's 1974 Live stock Producer and Conner vation Man will be presented al the 24th annual Farm-City Banquet, Friday, Nov. 30. 7 p.m., at the Heppner High School Cafeturium. Die Heppner-Morrow Chamber of Commerce will also give an award to a businessman who hai con tributed to the community Rood. Last year'i winner was Kinua Corporation. Rim Daniels, superintend ent. Morrow County School District, will be master of ceremonies for the dinner. Executive secretary of the Oregon Cattlemen's Associa tion. Don Ostensoe, will be the guest speaker. Each year the Morrow County Livestock Growers Association. Heppner-Morrow Chamber of Commerce and the Soil Conservation District sponsor the dinner. The banquet is held in i, These six Heppner High School juniors recently returned from a week's stay at Salem and Monmouth as guests of the American Legion, The students attended Roys and Girls Suite, where they had a chance to participate in government activities. The students are. from thr left. Gary Hunt. Barry Jtltnikers. Ton! Toll, Michele Evans. Karl Harrison and Dyrk Dunlup. Ecology practices hit by cattlemen l More than 500 cattlemen, including Morrow County Livestock Growers, attended the Both annual convention of the Oregon Cattlemen's As sociation last week in Port land. Members heard keynote speakers talk on a variety of subjects concerning the cattle industry. Speakers included: John Pitts, president of the Wheatheart Inc. (one of the world's largest cattle feeding operations); General Harold pppenheimer. chairman. Op penheimer Industries; Dr. George Crenshwa, DVM; Walt Roadman, beef promotion specialist: Dave Stroud, presi dent, the National Livestock and Meat Board; and John Trot man. president, Ameri can National Cattlemen's As sociation. The Oregon cattlemen made several resolutions and rec ommendations during their annual meeting. ' The OCA recommended to the United States Forest Service a plan where all resource users be informed and involved before any changes in Forest Service policy are initiated or altered. The cattlemen further rec ommended that the L'SFS give more consideration to the Forest Grazing Advisory Board and that plans for -resource improvement be considered The members r Selling at the ranch Hereford 2-year-old bulls performance and carcass information available Frank Anderson LOCATION: 13 MILES SOI THW EST OF HEPPNER ON CONDON HWY. Frank Anderson. (ITli-Vni or Bob Berstrom, 076-9251 conjunction with the annual meeting of the livestock grow ers. The meeting will begin at 10 a m. Friday at the Heppner' Elks Lodge. President of the Morrow County Livestock Growers, Merlin Hughes, will open the day long meeting. At 10 45 am. Ron Baker of C k B livestock Company will speak on "Should Beef Grades be Lowered?" Representative Jack Sum ner will give a legislature report at the no-host luncheon at the Elks Lodge beginning at 1 1 : 30 a m. The Morrow County CowBelles will Join livestock growers at the luncheon meeting. At 1 p.m. Jerry Wasserbur ger will speak on "Investment Opportunities with Tax Incen tive." Wasserburger is an account executive of DuPont Walston. The CowBelles will hold their business meeting also at WW urged all government agen cies, state and federal, invol ved in forest management begin immediately taking steps to spray the infected tussock moth timber areas. In a strongly worded reso lution, the OCA took a hard stand against those environ mental forces trying to re strict grazing of domestic livestock on federal land, stating such restrictions would lead to a waste of public resources and possible world wide food sh rot ages. They urged that the I'SDA and Department of Interior give serious consideration to the important role of livestock in multiple use management of the eco system. The members elected Ernie Davis of Haines as the new president of the association. The Oregon CowBelles held their annual meeting jointly with the cattlemen. The e lected Mrs. Bill Wolff, Wal lowa, as their new president. Morrow County Livestock Growers who attended the three-day convention included Charlie Daly. Raymond French. Melvin Ashbeck. Ed die Brosnan, Tom Currin and Merlin Hughes, president of the MCLG. Lorraine Brosnan. Claudia Hughes. Virginia Grieb and Norma French were members of the Morrow County Cow Belles who attended the OCA and CowBelle convention. I p m Guest speaker will be Oregon CowBelles' president. Election of 1974 officers will follow. Dr. Dave Church, animal nutritionist at Oregon State University, will present a program on "Low Quality Roughages" at 2 p m, The Bank of Eastern Oregon will host a "break" following Church's talk. At 3 p m the state brand inspector. Gene Kunkle, will soeak on the "Change of Ownership and the law." Elections of new officers for the livestock growers will be held at 3:30 p m. Don Osten soe, executive secretary of the Oregon Cattlemen's Associa tion, will give the OCA report. A social hour sponsored by the Pendleton PCA. Federal Land Bank and Northwest Livestock PCA will follow the final meeting of the day. The social hour will begin at 5:30 p m. hi (aJ Staters delighted with their trips Six Heppner High School juniors appeared before the American Legion Monday night and thanked the organiz ation for sending them to State." The girls, Toni Toll and Michele Evans, spent a week at Girls' State.Salem. Ore., and the boys, Dyrk Dunlap, Barry Munkers. Larry Hunt and Karl Harrison, spent a week at Monmouth, Ore., at Boys' State. All reported they had a "fun time" at their respective cities, and learned a great deal about the workings of government on all levels. All were nominated for a mock city or county official position; however, only two were elected. Toni Toll was Let's 702 SW Dorion PENDLETON Ms loopofloooeooooooooooooooooooopo Old-Fashioned DANCE 1.25 per head HARDMAN OPRY HOUSE SATURDAY, NOV. 24 Cdcngcs in proving wheat production The Agricultural and Con sumer Protection Act of 1973 requires certain changes in proving production for pre liminary wheat yields, ac cording to Dave McLeod of the Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation Service. The base period has been changed from three years to five years. 1968 1973 for the 1974 crop, and a provision was made for not using one of these years of abnormally low because of natural disaster. AH years of based period must be provided. Another change is that productions records for 1972 and later years must show disposition of the wheat. Producers who prove their production for the 1975 pro gram year but not for 1974 and who do not furnish their 1973 production evidence in 1973 will have to furnish the evidence for' 1973 and for 1974 in 1974. This means that 1974 production and all future years production must be SNAPPY SNIPPERS WORK WITH WOOL Mrs. Rea demonstrated dif ferent ways to work with wool at the Snappy Snippers 4-H Club meeting in October at the home of Mrs. Paul Tews. Elected officers are Carol McElligott. president; Mic chellc McElligott, vice-president; Jan Peterson, secre tary; Natalie Tews, sergeant-at-arms; and Kristie Edmund son, reporter. Presents for patients in Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home were discussed. Mrs. Herbert Peterson provided re freshments. At the Nov . 1 3 meet ing at the home of Mrs. Tews, 4-H posters were discussed. The club made gifts for the nursing home. Carol McElli gott provided the refresh ments. elected county clerk and Dyrk Dunlap. county coroner. The girls attended meetings of the legislative bodies in Salem and were able to sit in on sessions in the Senate and House. They also visited the State Supreme Court. Both were chosen to attend Girls' Nation, but they declined because of previous commit ments. The boys at Monmouth were divided into two groups, Federalists and Nationalists. They had to set up their own city ordinances, as well as county and state regulations. They drafted a bill for the proposed Heppner Dam. The bill was defeated after fellow students asked, "Where is Heppner?" 1 Agricultural Loans for your production needs crop, dairy, livestock. talk! 276-5352 9:30 to proven in the year it It produced. Farms with all in. all out rotations must have three years of production in the five year base period. Producers having an inter est In more than one farm in the county or any adjoining county must provide produc tion data for all his farms, if he proves his production on any farm. A producer may choose not to accept a proven yield for a program year even though he has furnished production evi dence for all five base years. For more specific details concerning individual farms, producers should contact their local Agricultural Stabiliza tion & Conservation Service office, Heppner. Jerry Huff is the new general loan officer for the First National Bank of Ore gon, Heppner Branch. Morrow County 24vti Annual Heeling -- tape? Friday, Nov. 30 10:30 a.m.-Greetings, Merlin Hughes, President, MCLGA. 10:45 a.m.-"Should Beef Grades be Lower ed? "-Ron Baker, C & B Live stock Co. 11:45 a.m.-No-host Lunch-CowBelles and Cowboys, Elks Lodge. 1 :00 p.m.--" Investment Opportunities With .Tax Incentive"-! erry Wasserbur ger, account executive, duPont Walston. 1:00 p.m.-CowBelles' annual meeting. Farm-City Guest Speaker - Don Ostensoe, executive secretary, Oregon Cattlemen's Association. : ) Presentation Of Morrow County Livestock Grower of the Year. Morrow County Conservation Man of the Year. Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Com merce Award. Sponsored $100 Diamond to VETERINARY SCIENCE 4 II CLl'B ORGANIZES The first meeting of the new Veterinary Science 4-H Club was held Oct. 23. Leaders are John Maata and Greg Canaday. Maata handed out veteri nary science guides and explained the purpose of the club. Elected officers are Randy Devine, president; Lee De vine, vice-president; Mark Sargent, secretary-treasurer and reporter. Members are Lee and Randy Devine, Skye Krebs, Glen Griffith. Clay West and Mark Sargent. "Good afternoon. I'm working my son's way through college!" est elk rower invite you to their Meeting: Heppner Elks Lodge Registration 10 a.m. Program Nov. 30, 7 p.m., Heppner High School Cafetorium by Morrow County Livestock Growers Assn. Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of Com- merce. Soil Conservation District be given away i "I - ' v -UK ' ! ' : ! . i rff;'" " ' v.'-c 1 i 'i ; !,' .-'v f I Roger Carlson, district manager of Pontlac Motor Division, presents Jim Farlev with a silver serving dish com menora ting Farley's 25 years as a Pontiac dealer in Morrow Countv. 2:00 p.m.-"Using Low Quality Rough-age"-Dr, Church, Oregon State Animal Nutritionist. 2:45 p.m.-Break. Courtesy, Bank of East ern Oregon. 3:00 p.m.-"Change of Ownership and the Law"-Gene T x inspector. 3:30 p.m.-Meeting of MCLGA, Don Ostensoe, OCA. 5:30 p.m.-Social Hour, courtesy of Pendle ton PCA, Federal Land Bank and Northwest PCA. Bangyi Admission $2.50 per person mm -j .vvi - "A Kunkle, State Brand 1 1 jQOOOOOOOOOOQOQQOOQQOOQOOgQOeQC ax
