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SIX The Gaette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 18, 197
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Extension
Events... with
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Sue Kangaroo Went to School
Six Times on One Day Last
Week!
So who is Sue Kangaroo?
That's the name of a puppet
show developed to help youn
ger people understand the four
food groups; the importance
of balanced diets and good
nutrition.
The Happy Cookers 4-H Club
of Irrigon presented the pro
gram to 11 classes at A C.
Houghton School last week.
Their "stage" for the produc
tion was a train, made of
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Tuesday, May 23
11:30 to 1:30
lone Legion Hall
Spaghetti Dinner
with homemade pie and cake
Adults $2.50
Grades 1-6 $1.25
Pre-School Free
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cardboard, which they painted
and decorated. Puppets made
by the group represented
various animals and charac
ters, with the following 4-H
members playing a part : Sue
Kangaroo Veronica Mc
Donough and Ann Marie
Evans; Cow Amanda Under
wood; Mr. Choo Kami Wael
ty; Owl Michelle Heisch;
Gorilla Vonnie Stacy; Lion
Joyce Elsasser, and Narrator
Monica McDonough.
Doesn't that sound like a fun
way to learn nutrition. ..for
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Cooperative, inc.
i Serving the rural area
for nearly 30 years
both the stars of the show, and
their audience'.'
(irange Sewing Contest
Peeking over the shoulder of
Pomona Grange Women's
Sewing Contest Chairman,
Mildred Wright, Heppner, I
see that some of our county
women and girls have been
involved in sewing lovely
garments this year. The
contests are annual events
with the Granges, and open to
all wishing to enter. Each
Grange has a local contest,
with the winner then judged on
a county or Pomona Grange
level. Pomona winners this
year, with garments going on
to a state contest are Franeine
Evans, adult garment sewed
by adult; Helen Daltoso,
garment made by contestant
10-17 years of age; Virginia
Peck, child's garment made
by adult.
You might want to think
ahead of other such contests,
and visit with a member of
your local Grange about
entering.
! 4-H Leader Salute...
Bev Doherty
Our leader this week came to Morrow County as an
Extension agent. ..and remained to be a permanent part of
our county, living on a farm outside lone, where she is a
fulltime homemaker and mother. Bev Doherty, lone, was our
agent as Bev Gradshaw for a number of years, prior to
becoming Mrs. Charles Doherty. After her family grew to
4-H age, she became a clothing leader, and has continued
faithful service in that capacity for ten years.
It is great to have experienced and devoted leaders
there, doing and helping not only the youth in their clubs, but
others at such times as county fair and other times of need.
Bev joined the women of Morrow County at the recent
Homemaker's Day to share her memories of her days as
agent with one vivid memory of being very confused by roads
in our county. She knows them all now, for she has traveled
them many times for many years as part of our 4-H program
and community.
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Graduate
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PACKAGES
..our specialty!
Sheets & Pillow Cases
Towels &
Washclothes
Blankets
New Arrivals This Week
And More
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Morrow County 4-H mem
bers attended an orientation
meeting and made their
selections for classes at Ore
gon Slate University dining
Summer Week in June. Our
delegates will attend the
special event on scholarships
provided by the following
businesses: Farm Bureau.
Paul Pettyjohn Shell, Rhea
Creek Grange, Heppner Elks,
Central Market, Bank of
Eastern Oregon, Turner, Van
Marter & Bryant Insurance,
Attorney Bob Abrams, Sorop
timist Club and Columbia
Basin Electric.
We want to say "Thank
you" to each sponsor for
offering the support that
makes Summer Week a possi
bility for kids in our county.
Those attending will be Paula
Palmer, Anita Palmer, Lottie
Laughlin, Patti Devine, Di
anne Samples, Heather Win
ter, Sonja Biddle, Michelle
LaRue, and Deann Connor.
They will travel by bus to
Corvallis with members from
Gilliam, Wheeler and Sher
man counties.
A reminder to all older 4-H
members who have applied to
serve as counselors at 4-H
Summer Camp that a training-planning
session is plan
ned for Sunday, May 21, 2 to 8
p.m. at the Fairgrounds,
Condon. Meet at the Extension
Office, Heppner, at 1 p.m. for
transportation to the event.
Especially for North Morrow
Residents...
If you have questions for the
County Agent or wish some
one from the Morrow County
Extension Office to contact
you, please leave your mes
sage at the County Office,
Irrigon, phone 922-4082. Some
one from this office is in the
North End of the county each
Thursday, (and often other
days). The secretary is happy
to take messages for us!
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Tuesday meeting to air
new water quality laws
affecting farmers
Morrow County farmcis
interested in how new federal
water quality laws will affect
area agriculture are urged to
attend a meeting set for 7:30
p.m. next Tuesday, May 23, in
the Columbia Basin Electrical
Co-op conference room in
Heppner.
The meeting was organized
to review a draft report on
how the five Oregon grain-belt
counties of Morrow, Wasco,
Umatilla, Sherman and Gil
liam proposed to deal with the
water quality laws, particu
larly as they apply to agricul
ture. Prepared under the direc
tion of a water quality
committee for the area, the
draft report represents a
portion of the efforts the
committee has made towards
developing a plan for comply
ing with the federal laws. The
five county group, which
includes area wheat growers,
cattlemen, and conservation
group representatives, is one
of the only active organiza
tions of its kind in the state.
Ken Turner, a Sandhollow
area rancher, is chairman of
the Morrow County Water
Quality Committee. The Mor
row County group plans to
develop a water quality plan
to be implemented into a
statewide plan. Federal law
requires each state to develop
a water quality plan by
November of this year.
According to the Morrow
County group's working re
port, stream siltation caused
by runoff from storms ac
counts for the area's major
water quality concern. Dry
land cropland, which totals
370,000 acres in the county,
accounts for the bulk of
stream sedimentation. Since
sprinkler, rather than gravity
flow irrigation is used for the
majority of irrigated land in
the county, few erosion prob
lems exist that would contri
bute to excess sedimentation.
Runoff from dirt roads and
timber landings in the for
ested areas of the county
account for a smaller portion
of stream siltation, and some
water quality problems have
arisen from livestock winter
ing areas near streams, ac
cording to the report. Pollu
tion from septic tank systems
in the lone, Irrigon, Lexington
and Boardman areas were
also posing some problems,
according to the report.
Management practices be
ing recommended in the
report to abate water erosion
include constructing terraces
and diversions, implementing
contour strip cropping, using
stubble mulch, and minimiz
ing tillage in summer fallow
cropland, or even eliminating
the practice through use of
chemicals.
At some time in the future,
such management practices
may have to be regulated and
enforced by government agen
cies. The Morrow County water
quality group hopes that
implementing the manage
ment practices would be a
voluntary matter between
landowners and the Soil and
Water Conservation District,
which would be charged with
dealing with county agricul
tural water quality problems.
According to the prelimi
nary Morrow County plan, the
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Soil and Water District would
lead in developing a natural
resources conservation plan
for agricultural areas that
would be a part of the county's
long-range comprehensive
plan.
Complaints over water qua
lity would be filed with the
County Court, under the
working plan. The Soil and
Water Conservation District
would examine the complaints
for validity, and make recom
mendations to the parties
involved for correcting water
quality problems.
Should regulations become
necessary to enforce compli
ance with management prac
tices, they should be handled
through the ordinance-making
authority of the County Court,
with the advice of the Soil and
Water Conservation District.
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Appeal rights would be avail
able through Morrow County
Circuit Court.
The Morrow County Water
Quality Committee is holding
the May 23 meeting to hear
Seedlings green
burned forest area
Umatilla National forest
may appear a litle greener in
years to come, following this
year's annual reforestation
program, which saw the
planting of about 42,000 seed
lings. Nearly all the new trees
were planted in the Yellow
Jacket area, where fire de
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comments on its working
plan. Since the plan may well
play a significant role in
Morrow County's agricultural
development, farmers and
citizens are urged to attend.
stroyed a large stand of
Ponderosa Pine two years
ago. Ponderosa seedlings
were planted there to replace
the burned timber.
The other major planting
area this year took place in the
Bull Prairie timber sale area,
where Douglas Fir seedlings
found a new home.
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