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Heppner, Ore., Gazette-Tlmet, Thur$., Dec. S, 197J
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Horse sense
MNKKTV. JOINER
Deliver me from reformer. They are, rule,
unreasonable and intolerant people. There eem to be no
way of reasoning with three classes of them-reformed
whores, reformed drunks and reformed smokers. The first
wants sex abolished, the second campaigns for return of the
Volstead Act. and the third insists that everybody stop
smoking I recently read a letter to the editor of the Redmond
Spokesman wherein the non-smoker complained, "I feel
people who choose to smoke should have the courtesy to ask
those around whether they mind." Fine. But have you ever
heard of a non-smoker asking a stranger, "Do you mind if J
dont smoke?" Or a teetotaler who inquired at a party. "Do
you mind if I don't drink?" Or the reformer floozie who asks
her escort. "Do you mind if I just stand"" Courtesy is a
two-av street, methinks, and the smoker let al should not
be called upon to exhibit any greater degree of courtesy and
consideration than his hidebound counterpart. It all makes
me wonder if. when next I order breakfast at the Wagon
Wheel. I should turn to my neighbor at the next table and
inquire. "1 see you're having pancakes; do you mind if I have
ham and eggs?"
In the absence of any effective way to curb
chicken-killing dogs, one rancher has taken direct action. So
if anv of you have dogs who went out for chicken dinner last
night and haven t returned, they may be found in a trap at the
Lennon Ranch, subject to immediate extermination.
H looks as if I left Sebastopol. Ca., just in time. The
Environmental Protection Agency has just informed that
town of 4.000 residents that beginning July 1, 1976. EPA will
levy surcharges against the town proportional to the number
of parking spaces it provides. The idea is to cut down the use
of auiomobiles The charges to be levied, according to the
mayor of the town, will amount to $72,700 a year. "It will
bankrupt the town," the mayor said. In addition, it would
force the city to close its 77 rental parking spaces and
invalidate a city ordinance requiring downtown employers to
provide private parking space for employees. The idea. EPA
says, it to encourage the use of mass transit. There is no
mass transit in Sebastopol. and cannot be because it is an
agricultural area with a population density of less than 90
persons per square mile. This is another example of EPA
assininity that must rank along with its conclusion that
belching cows is the No. 1 pollution problem in the country!
If the EPA moves against one rural community to all but
eliminate the use of the automobile, it could do so in Heppner.
If the Citv of Heppner gets equal treatment, this town may be
required'to pay to EPA about $450 per year per parking space
provided on citv streets. Heppner has 122 metered parking
spaces, at $45o'each per year, the EPA would bill the city
$54.9(30 per year. We have no transit system either. That
means the "city might have to abolish parking in the
downtown area! or bankrupt itself through payments to the
EPA.
The City of Sebastopol has filed suit to block EPA
enforcement of its regulation. It may be well for Heppner to
understand what EPA is up to in other areas, and to be
prepared for similar treatment at some time in the future.
The girls come up with some interesting names for their
4-H Clubs. There's the Needle Threaders and the Cooking
Cuties. to name a couple. I see there is some interest in
organizing a knitting club. I suppest that the name most
likely not to be chosen for the new club is The Happy
Hookers!
The Sheriff of Morrow County and the Chief of Police
have informed the Gazette-Times that they will maintain
blotters, (logbooks of persons arrested) so that the press and
public will know what 's going on in their departments. This is
a public service, and both officers are to be commended for
their interest in the matter. There is wide public interest in
police news, persons arrested, the charges against them, and
disposition of the cases.
, In 1961 President Kennedy found there were 50.000 people
going hungry in the United States. He decided to do
something about it. and the food stamp program was the
result. Funded with $860,000 on an experimental basis, he
thought he could wipe out hunger in the U.S. Today, 12 years
later, the food stamp business is a $2.5 billion dollar project
with stamps being issued to more than 12 million Americans.
If 50.000 were hungry in 1961 and there are 12 million hungry'
in 1973 the program seems to be encouraging and promoting
hunger rather than its cure. If the past 12 years' experience is
projected, and at the same percentage of growth in numbers
of hungrv people, there will be 288 million hungry people
getting food stamps in the U.S. at the end of the next 12 years.
Which is evervbodv. In fact, we'll have to import a few
million to keep the food stamp program in business! If Mr.
Parkinson ever comes up with a new law, it should be, 'The
needs of the needy increase as their needs are met."
I have just discovered what it means to lead a dog's life.
Once upon a time the family dog could bring hojne a bone and
bury it. Now when he brings home a bone ana buries it, his
master digs it up and makes soup out of it.
The Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce recently made a
study of what happens when a new company moves into
town. It found that a population increase of only 100 new
empiovees means 2 more people. 51 more school children.
$590,000 more personal income per year. $270,000 more bank
deposits. $360,000 more retail sales annually and 174 more
communitv workers employed. The people of Heppner ought
to be thankful thev've got Kinzua Corporation here, and
stand the chance of getting other industry, that will turn loose
production wealth to make a better, richer life for everybody.
Don't let all this doomsday talk get you down! After all.
the water improvement bonds have passed! It's a better
world todav than it was yesterday in spite of rising costs, fuel
allocations, more taxes. Watergates and Arab oils. Go home,
lake two aspirin, drink plenty of Jack Daniels, hone your
sense of humor, and take this advice offered by the Wall
Street Journal several years ago:
I oon't suppose the world would care
If I got up today or not
I've had my share of sky and air.
and I prefer this downy spot.
I know the headlines all by heart,
wliere every captain, cop and clerk is:
I know whai sun and rain look like.
And what is more. I know what work is.
Good morning to you. one and all.
And so good night: I'm here to stay:
Let prices rise, let kingdoms fall
The world is on its own todav!
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"Now roll overt"
The ma7 pouch
EDITOR:
As of last weekend you no longer hold the title of No. 1
singer of "You Are My Sunshine" at the Hardman Opry
House. Your No. 1 status has gone to Mrs. E.H.
If vou wish to contest this decision you will have to appear
at the next social meeting. Dec. 15, and take your chances on
an "applause basis."
Good luck, but you'll have to be in your best voice. When
Mr. E.H. loses his favorite red necktie, it puts Mrs. E.H. in
fine voice.
PERRY ADAMS,
Hardman.
iED. NOTE: Your Mrs. E.H. will be back calling hawgs
after your jury of muleskinners hear my bourbon -burned
baritone.)
EDITOR :
Enclosed is a check for $T for a year's subscription which
we wish to have sent as a gift for our married daughter and
her husband who live and work for Northwest Orient Airlines
in Alaska. Mr. and Mrs Larry D Wilson. 909 Chugach Way.
Anchorage. Alaska 9950.1
He is a former resident of Irrigon and is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Wilson. Both young people graduated from
Riverside High, he in the class of "68 and she as Judy Hinton
in the class of '70.
MRS CLEVE HINTON,
Boardman.
(ED. NOTE: Thank you' We will send these former
residents a gift certificate along with the subscription, and
hope they enjoy reading about their friends and relatives in
Morrow County.)
"J don't tee anv rV "
Livestock growers ...
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Guinnes at the State Depart
ment in Salem, 378-3787, if
they are in a emergency
situation, he advised.
Agriculture, along with
other industries, need electri
cal power to survive.
In 1972, agriculture in the
Northwest used 2'2 billion
KWH for farm pumping pro
jects. "Expansion of irrigation in
Oregon is essential to main
tain and expand food produc
tion. A reliable and adequate
supply of electrical energy is
needed by all agricultural
enterprises for normal oper
ating practices. Equally im
portant are the energy re
quirements for numerous ag
ricultural related enterprises
that furnish supplies and
services to production agri
culture," continued Ostensoe.
He also cited the environ
mentalists' effect on the beef
industry, "The group has
contributed to an $800 million
loss to the beef industry in the
United States, $170 million of
which was in Oregon."
This year the industry took a
decline of beef per capita, the
executive said. Last year's
beef consumption per person
in the U.S. was 116 pounds.
COW POKES
and this year it is 114 pounds.
Ostensoe ended his speech
with a plea to all farmers and
businessmen to fight the
environmentalist.
"One of the best ways to
fight these people, is be
making changes in the state
legislature and in Congress,"
concluded Ostensoe.
Master of Ceremonies Ron
Daniels announced the presen
tation of the winners of the
1973 outstanding conservation,
livestock, and community
man of the year.
Merlin Hughes presented Al
Bunch a livestock trophy as
the outstanding livestock pro
ducer in Morrow County.
"A man who has done more
for Heppner and Morrow
County than anyone" was
awarded the 1973 community
Man of the Year certificate.
Orville Cutsforth received the
award from Dick Sargent,
representing the Heppner
Morrow Chamber of Com
merce. Roger Palmer was named
the Outstanding Conserva
tionist of Morrow County by
Kenny Turner.
The $100 diamond ring given
by Peterson's Jewelers was
won by Mrs. Betty Marquardf .
By Acc Reid
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"Boy oh boy, $450.00 a pair fer them cow and
calve, why I can hardly remember when
we wuz pore!"
1918
An enthusiasm for
shared hardships
Today the cost of living is increasing rapidly, there is talk
of shortages and rationing.
Some of you may recall another period in your lives when
these same problems plagued our society.
In 1918 the United States was at war with Germany. The
previous year had seen a 23 per cent increase in the cost of
living. Wheat seemed to be the most important commodity
needed "over there.' Patrons of the Gazette-Times were
encouraged to send for a government pamphlet which
discussed conserving food, planting home gardens, saving
fuel, thrift, war savings stamps, helping The Red Cross and
the meaning of democracy.
In May of that year Morrow County held one of its many
fund drives for The Red Cross and raised $12,000 in that
drive. If the written word had anything to do with the
apparent enthusiasm of the time, Editor Art Crawford and
his advertisers plaved a big role in rallying citizens.
Week atter week the Gazette-Times was filled with such
slogans as "Food Will Win the War," "Rifle and Hoe Will Win
the War," "Observe Meatless and Wheatless Days," and
"There is a Manpower Shortage, Use Machinery."
One ad of Sept. 26 came right to the point, "If you hear a
man utter a single word against Our Flag or The American
Red Cross or anv man or woman connected with the grand
organization KNOCK HELL OUT OF HIM and draw on the
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co., Lexington, for your fine."
Phill Cohn was local War Fund cashier and notified
subscribers "Uncle Sams needs the money, so come
through."
Iron and steel were needed, too. Gilliam & Bisbee
advertised the Great Majestic wood range thus, "You can
help W making your old range 'do' a little longer. Have it
repaired, if necessary. If it is past repairing, and you must
buy a new range, gei a Majestic." The Majestic claimed it
could save fuel and food.
Henry Schwarz's People's Cash Market advertised
"Meatless Days, Observe them by eating FISH" and The
Sam Hughes Co. advertised "Save Wheat -- We Have the
Substitutes." One of the substitutes was corn meal. The
Domestic Science Department of Heppner High School sent
in recipes for the use of corn meal and other substitutes.
There was a recipe for Wheatless. Eggless, Butterless,
Bilkless, Suarless Cake which used corn syrup, raisins,
cornmeal. rye or whole wheat flour and two cups of water
instead. I'm betting dieting was easier then.
Herbert Hoover slated in May that 75 million bushels of
wheat were needed "over there." so all were encouraged to
"Hooverize." Thirty million more pounds of potatoes had
been produced in the U.S. than the previous year. Readers
were told they could "Spud the Kaiser" by eating potatoes
three times a day. A Mrs. Burdette of the U.S. Food
Administration was quoted as saying "We seem to need
something in our hands at table or we feel the meal
incomplete and that something usually is bread. Forget this
habit and save wheat. If you must continue the hand-eating
habit, hold a hot potato."
Lena Snell Shurte. county school . superintendent,
encouraged boys and girls to plant gardens. She had seeds
available from the government and quoted from an educator
to inspire the youth. "Every man. woman and child should be
able to say. 'Say, Woodrow . dear, did you hear the noise tha's
gone round? We came along one hundred strong and plowed
up all the ground. We dropped in both the spuds and beans
and planted wheat for all. We mobilized the turnips, too, and
answered your call.'"
W.W. Smead. Heppner mayor, and county fair secretary,
announced the county fair for that year a "war fair" with
food conservation and increased production featured
The Armistice was signed by Germany on Nov. 7. Now the
world would be at peace Thoughts could turn to the purchase
of a Chalmers roadster from Vaughn L Sons, perhaps The
Palmer Garment for women at Tomson Bros or The New
Edison. "The Phonograph with a Soul." from Oscar R Otto.
Or maybe just a chaw on a plug of heal Gravely Tobacco was
what one needed. "10 cents a pouch, and worth it."
Mayor of Hardman
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
The feller still had Thanksgiving on their minds Saturday
night at the country itore. and they wa carrying the result
of that church upper on their middle. Bug llookum Mid the
community git -together at Zeke Grubb' church wm I big
ucces. and it looked like It would be a Instant tradition.
Ed Doollltle wid he had on thankful left over from the
service that fullered (he upper. and that I that folk out our
way ain't already starting on their Christmas celebrating.
Ed said he had saw where Santa is starting their rounds In
the city shopping center, and he figger the younguns.
already is running their mama ragged to buy Ihem ever toy
they ee on television.
By Ihe time the real Christina gits here, we II all be to
wore out to notice, was Ed words.
Bug aid he fergot to mention at the supper how thankful he
is that his name ami Hubert or Elmer or any of the names
that would of give him a handicap thru life. He had saw this
piece that said folk are likely to succeed or fail depending on
their name. A Oswald it usual a loser. Bug said, cause when
he' little the other kids tease him about hi name. But a
David or a Mark will git ahead in the world.
Bug aid he personal never give name that much power,
and he said he don't care what he' called as long as It's three
times a day.
Practical speaking, allowed Clem Webster, it seem folk
find a heap more to worry about than we use to, and we got
enuff real problems without dreaming up some. If we can't
put our finger on where it hurts, we call it "nerve," and that
takes in everthing from the drugstore to the sychiatrist's
couch, Clem said. If we can't find anything else to do we sit
around trying to figger if we ought to get our mind off our
trouble or our troubles off our mind.
Bug was disagreed with Clem. He said we shore got over
worrying about gitting cancer from smoking. Bug had saw
where cigaret sales still is climbing in spite of all the
warnings. Since that "dangerous to yore health" on the packs
ain't discouraging anybody, the federal Guvernment now is
thinking of trying to stop sales. That will be somepun to
worry about, went on Bug, when Uncle Sam is paying tobacco
price supports out of oneoffice and outlawing tobacco sales
in another.
And if we didn't have enuff worries. Mister Editor, I see by
the papers where this nutrition scientist in England says all
of America's troubles can be traced to breakfast. He said we
git up in the morning, eat "dry cereal and muck" and go out
to face the world. No wonder, he said, that we have our
Watergates and assorted scandals.
Didn't somebody else say you are what you eat? What is
muck?
Yours truly,
MAYOR ROY.
' Maude' -
Methodist
plot?
BY
LESTER KIXSOLVINC
MAUDE
When CBS decided last summer to rebroadcast two
segments of the nationally televised "Maude" show, botb,of
which dealt favorably with abortion and vasectomy? the
national headquarters of the Catholic Church swung into
action.
The result, as reported proudly by top public relations men
Robert Beusse and Russell Shaw of the United States
Catholic Conference, was that: "U
"38 CBS stations around the country declined to carry the
two programs, five more moved them out of early evening
viewing hours, one provided prime time for presentation of
an opposing viewpoint - and all but one of the scheduled
national advertisers withdrew from participation in the
programs."
No such protest was organized, however, when CBS
produced an anti-abortion program entitled "A Brand New
Life," or, when Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC) took a similar
anti-abortion stance.
Apparently flushed with a sense of victory in their
successful censorship and economic boycotting of any
televised view on abortion other than the one held by their
own denomination, Beusse and Shaw have now "exposed"
the Maude program as something of a Methodist plot.
According to them the Maude programs "may in large part
have owed their origin to the efforts of a hard-driving
pressure group called the Population Institute." Inciden
tally, Beusse and Shaw are the top PR men for what
columnist Jack Anderson has described as "Far and away
the most powerful religious lobby on Capitol Hill. Clergy
(from the Catholic Conference) have called on Supreme
Court Justice William Brennan to tell him how he should cast
his vote."
The Population Institute, note Beusse and Shaw, is located
"in the Methodist Building, only a stone's throw from the
Capitol and the Supreme Court," and is headed by a
Methodist minister.
How did the Population Institute exert the "hard driving
pressure" which resulted in Maude? Why, reported Beusse
and Shaw, the Institute actually went so far as to invite TV
writers and producers to luncheons, and to offer them
awards for excellence in script writing.
When asked about this invitation to the miniscule
Methodist-Catholic holy war, the Population Institute's
President, the Rev. Rodney Shaw, replied:
"To label the tactic of economic boycott and the tactic of
dialogue and discourse with the same word 'pressure' is, I
believe, to do violence to the facts and to the English
language."
The Rev. Mr. Shaw also produced an interesting exhibit
arranged by Dr. Roberts Rugh, a radiologist from Rockville,
Md. The exhibit consisted of photographs of five different
embryos in a collage, with the question, "Which is human?"
When shown this exhibit and asked this question, Shaw
congenially, but firmly, refused even to guess. Beusse, with a
crafty glint in his eye replied, "They're all human!" And so
did Bishop John May of the Diocese of Mobile.
Monsignor James McHugh, also of national Catholic
headquarters, selected photograph number 4 which
happened to be of a four-day-old chicken.
The five photographs did contain one human embryo, more
than one month old, which none of the four was able to
distinguish from the embryos of a mouse, a turtle, a chicken
and a pig 'an interesting result, considering what the
Catholic-edited Commonweal magazine lamented as "full
page dead fetus pictures in the diocesan press "J.
But writer William ("Wild Bill") Marshner of Minnesota's
ultra conservative weekly. The Wanderer, who also declined
to guess which of the five embryos was human, retorted, "It
doesn't make any difference which ones are human."
Then, after a split second, he reconsidered, adding hastily:
"Uh I mean you can't see the difference."