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Wheat President denounces efforts to ban herbicides
Phenoxy herbicides are no
more dangerous than any
other chemical on the market
today when used correctly,
according to Louis Carlson,
second vice president of the
Oregon Wheat League.
Carlson spoke at a recent
Heppner-Morrow County
Chamber of Commerce lunch
eon. "There is nothing worse
than eating an apple with a
worm in it unless it's eating an
apple with half a worm in it,"
Carlson said.
And that could be more
common than it is today if
environmentalists are suc
cessful in banning the use of
herbicides used by farmers of
wheat and other products like
cherries, apples and pears.
The Environmental Protec
tion Agency (EPA) has put a
temporary ban on the use of
the herbicide 2-4-5.T because
of complaints about miscar
riages in Lincoln County.
"It is a very emotional issue
and it must be taken serious
ly," Carlson said.
He added that the ban on the
chemical spray may become
permanent depending on a
decision that will soon be
made in Washington. D C.
An OWL study of the
chemical 2-4, D showed no
adverse side effects.
"We would like to know if
there are any adverse side
effects." Carlson said. "It has
not been harmful to my family
and it won't be as long as you
follow the directions on the
labels for use it- won't cause
any damage."
Phenoxy herbicides are
weed killers farmers use in
their wheat fields in the
spring.
There was a concentrated
effort last year in Lane County
for a referendum to ban
phenoxy herbicides. It took
only six days to get the
required number of signatures
to place a referendum on the
ballot but 600 of the names
were ruled invalid otherwise
herbicides probably would
have been banned there,
Carlson said.
Last year, the sprays killed
another type of "weed" in
Lincoln County and in
northern California. The
largest cash crop in that area,
Carlson said, is marijuana
and herbicides used by the
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Future Farmers of America saluted this week
Future Farmers of America
are receiving a salute around
the nation this week it is
National FFA Week.
The vocational agricultural
program in America's school
system that provides leader
ship training for its partici
pants was established in 1928.
The first FFA chapter in
Morrow County was organized
at Heppner High School 43
years ago and for the past 14
years the work has been
directed here by Hal Whi
taker, vocational agricultural
instructor who came to Ore
gon from Texas.
"I've seen the program
grow and expand." he said.
"It offers students an oppor
tunity they don't have in other
areas to develop an occupa
tion and livelihood in agricul
ture. They get leadership
training by participation in
meetings, meeting kids from
other schools, and competing
in contests."
FFA chapters always func
tion in conjunction with a
school's vocational agricul
tural instruction, Whitaker
said.
Besides the chapter in
Heppner, with about 40 stu
dents, there is an FFA chapter
at Riverside High School in
Boardman with about 50
members. Ron Black is the
teacher there.
Teachers are specially
trained and accredited in the
field of vocational agriculture.
Whitaker said.
They meet with their stu
dents on a daily basis provid
ing in-depth instruction in
livestock projects, crop plant
ing and agricultural engineer
ing. Our motto is: "Learning by
doing, doing to learn, earning
Local residents should receive P1NB
telephone books soon
Heppner, lone and Lexing
ton Pacific Northwest Bell
customers should have a copy
of the new 1980 telephone
directory this week, according
to PNB Manager Linda Buck
ner. Inside the new book, tele
phone users will find a new toll
free telephone number for
reaching the Oregon State
Police offive in Pendleto.
Customers outside Pendleton
should now dial 1-800-452-8150.
PNB has added two new
numbers for telephone cus
tomers for telephone repair
service. One number 1-276-
5080, is for residence tele
phone repair service. The
second number, 1-276-4612,
puts you in touch with a new
business repair service esta
blished by PNB to provide
special service for business
telephone systems.
Postal ZIP Codes have been
moved to the phone book's
Center Color Section. The
section, located between the
white and yellow pages, also
includes athltetic schedules
and community information.
Another new twist this year
is the addition of official name
abbreviations for the 50 states
and 10 Canadian provinces in
the "Area Code" section of the
phone book.
Heppner, lone and Lexing
ton telephone users will dis
cover that their new books are
24 pages fatter and include 797
more alphabetical listings
than the 1979 edition.
About 2,350 books will be
delivered in the Heppner area,
Buckner says.
Lois Allen of Lexington will
be delivering the phone books
in the area and she said it will
take about one week and some
may have to be mailed.
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to live, living to serve,"
Whitaker said.
He said his students have
"learned by doing" in such
shop projects as constructing
an eight-station welding cen
ter, building metal work
benches and making storage
cabinets.
Students from the two
Morrow County FFA chapters
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month.
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announce
scholarship
To encourage students in
vocational or technical train
ing, the Heppner Lions club
has announced an annual $500
scholarship to be awarded to
Heppner High School gradu
ates. Cliff Green, scholarship
chairman for the Lions, said
the program is designed to
encourage young people to
acquire a marketable skill. So
the one-year scholarship
award could be used toward,
but would be restricted to,
community college vocational
programs, Oregon Institute of
Technology study courses,
barber or hairdressing school,
farriers' school, welding pro
grams, business schools, com
puter technology training,
auto or diesel mechanics
courses, or design school.
In general, Green said,
four-year college degree pro
grams would not qualify for
the Lions scholarship.
Students may inquire from
the school counselor and
submit applications by March
31.
Wheat growers meet in Heppner
The Morrow County Wheat
Growers will hold their annual
spring meeting, Monday,
March 3 starting at 7:30 p.m.,
at St. Patrick's Parish Hall,
Heppner, Brok Tucker, county
president, has announced.
An interesting and informa
tive program is planned. The
topic will be the use of
pesticides in agriculture and
particularly the use of phe
noxy pesticides such as 2.4-D.
Two speakers will share the
program. The first is Georgia
Hoglund from Clarkston,
Wash., chairperson of Citizens
Against Herbicides, 1 whose
talk is titled "Risks, Benefits
and Alternatives." Dr. Jim
Witt, Extension Service spe
cialist in chemistry of environ
mental toxology, from Oregon
State University, will speak on
"2,4-D, a Health Evaluation."
All wheat growers and their
wives are invited and en
couraged to attend the spring
meeting, Tucker said.
Janet Tucker, County
Wheathearts chairperson, has
announced an informational
meeting for Wheathearts on
the use of agricultural chemi
cals will be Monday, Feb. 25.
Tom Zinn, Wasco County
Extension agent, will be the
speaker. More information
will be announced later.
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forestry department are sus-.
pected to have killed pounds of
marijuana in the area.
The results of a study done
by Oregon State University
that were announced recently
state that the EPA used faulty
information in its ban on
2-4-5.T.
The OSU study found a 6.3
percent miscarriage rate for
women in an area where
2-4-5, T was sprayed and a rate
of 6.0 percent in other areas in
Oregon.
Carlson also talked about
attending the National Asso
ciation of Wheat Growers
League in Phoenix recently.
He said Frank Church of
Idaho and Barry Goldwater of
Arizona were at the conven
tion but it was a speech by
Howard York on the Russian
Embargo that was the "red
hot issue" and all who
attended were interested in it.
Carlson said wheat is a tool
of the embargo and it focused
national ' attention on the
national convention. He said
York told the wheat growers
that they should support the
president in this emergency
but the wheat growers feel the
burden should be on all
industries and not just wheat.
The wheat growers feel the
USDA should buy all contracts
of wheat that were to go to
Russia and create an emer
gency wheat reserve to keep
the wheat off the market.
Carlson said the soft white
wheat market is at $4.30 a
bushel and that the maximum
price will be $4.50 a bushel
unless China, Egypt, Iran and
Pakistan start buying from
the U.S. again then $5 a bushel
will be a low price but "That is
a big if," he said.
The grain trade has a large
carry over of old crop of 50 to
60 million bushels just in the
Northwest while last year the
carry over was 25 to 40 million
bushels, according to French.
"Five million bushels in the
Northwest have been bought
up by someone and it is not
going anywhere." he said. "It
was bought up hoping that the
Iran situation would be
straightened out."
Carlson said California is
coming into the wheat market
with no storage facilities and
it has 20 percent more wheat
his year than last year.
California has 75 million
bushels of wheat this year
while Oregon has 50 million
and. the situation will be
"detrimental on the West
Coast" to the wheat market,
he said.
Brok Tucker, state chair
man of the Wheat Use and
Research Committee, talked
briefly to the chamber at the
same meeting about the use of
gasahol as fuel.
He said the conversion of
alcohol to gasahol creates "all
kinds of problems" but more
research is being done to see if
it can realistically be substi
tuted for gasoline.
Tucker said gasohol can be
made by converting 100 per
cent alcohol and water. A
seminar in Pendleton Feb. 23
will show how farmers can
convert their engines to take
gasahol. he said.
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