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SIX-The Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday. USW to emark on noodle research U.S. Wheat Associates (USW), the American wheat producers' organization res ponsible for securing and expanding foreign demand for U.S. wheat classes, has em barked on a multi-phased Chinese noodle research study in South Asia. According to Bill Hulse, vice chairman for USW, Dufur, Oregon, noodle consumption in South East Asia dominates the per capita usage of wheat flour. Current estimates indi cate that noodle flour sales by the local flour mills amount to forty percent of their total volume. Hulse stated that the re search study was initiated due to the demand for technical information by the noodle industry. "In the past, most noodle production was being Umatilla Ready -Mix is Still in Business in Heppner Cement deliveries scheduled twice weekly to South Morrow County. Regulsrly on Wednesdays end Fridays I HEARD THE JKHrSH: ttJiSS: us insulate SHORTAGES PREDICTED OUR HOMES?! WH IHfc IKJS- THAT TRUE? - If 62T T8C5TKZR AO TALK AEQOT IT- We're holding public meetings throughout the region to help explain the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning & Conservation Act. In this Act, Congress has given our region a new set of tools with which to tackle our growing power supply problems. But making those tools work Is up to us-oJI of us in the Northwest. We promise not to do all the talking. Well outline the region's power problems as we see them and the new Acfs tools for dealing with them We'll tell you what we think all of us wW need to do-BPA. the utilities, the states, local governments and even private citizens. And we'll ted you how we plan to ask for your Ideas about our part of the Job. Then we'll open the meeting for questions and general discussion. Remember, the new Act greatly expands your opportunities to participate in regional power planning. We hope you'll begin by attending one of 25 meetings being held handled by hundreds of small back-alley 'mom and. pop' operations. Each shop only used fifty to two hundred pounds of flour per week," HuLe said. "Now, however, a shift is being made where currently fifty percent of the noodle production is being handled by large mechanized factories." "We consider this first phase of the noodle research study highly successful," stated Hulse, 'and we are currently drafting the next phase which will study how flour derived from various U.S. wheat classes can best meet the needs of the indus try." Hulse reported that to date, noodle flours used in South East Asia have reflected almost entirely Australian soft white wheat varieties. for dispatch call collect 567-6173 pC?vrn J? BluYwili BPA UFIP IS 31 January K, I9K! This may I rf-V - I ., (Editor's note: The photograph of Mrs. Amanda Duvall's nativity scene "was inadvertantly reversed in last week's issue of the Gazette Times. Following is another photo of the creche. ) This may be the last Christmas season that area residents will be able to see this large illuminated wood Nativity that has become a tradition at the home of Mrs. Amanda Duvall. Knowing poison number good idea by Birdine Tullis, Morrow Extension Service We like to remind you once-in-awhile of the import ance of having the phone number of the Oregon Poison Control and Drug Information Center near or on your phone. This service, which is open 24 hours a day. 7 days a week, and is staffed by physicians, pharmacists and nurses is W DONT HAVE A I I -rue SEE AN EFFECT Wpr rut mc'LL ON OUR ELECTR1C6IV& YOU ALL TUF gjjg? XANSTO Ir THEPt WONT & A REGIONAL PLAN FOR 2 OP 3 YEARS, WHAT PIAM i WILL bPA FOLLOW, UNTIL THEN? throughout the Pacific Northwest. See below for a meeting in your area. For Information on other locations and dates, call toll-free V8CO-452-8429. Pleas join us. nfsticttezi Meeting time is 7:30 p.m., registration 7:00 p.m. Knnwlck, Monday, January 12 Benton PUD Auditorium 524 S. Auburn be last for ri o quickly available to anyone by a toll free number.. .1-800-452-7165 for all of us outside the metropolitan area. This number is especially valuable to those who have small and adventurous young sters in their homes. Many substances often found around the home can be very toxic if swallowed. Keep this number handy just in case you need it. A kCMCOC WE HAV'E.y Heppner tradition Mrs. Duvall has put the hand citing difficulty in arranging to up. OSU to dedicate vet. medicine facility Boon Oregon State University will dedicate its new $8.5 million veterinary medicine facility in January with two open houses planned for the public and with scientific conference's scheduled to serve practicing veterinarians of the North west and the nation. The dedication progran is planned Jan. 2( at 1 :30 p.m. in the Memorial Union Ballroom on campus. Educational, gov ernmental, animal industry and veterinary dignitaries will participate. Open house at the veteri nary will follow the dedica tion. A community type open house has been planned also for Jan. 17, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., to allow OSU students, staff members and Corvallis area residents to tour the building that was constructed with a $3.2 million stiite appropriation and a $r.3 million grant from the u.s. Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare. Tied to the dedication of the facility will be Jan. 25 27 meetings of the Oregon Veteri nary Medical Association and a Jan. 27 national symposium on "Newer Knowledge about Dogs." The symposium is sponsored each year by the Gaines Dog research Center of New York. Scientific present ations will focus on canine parvovirus, dog eye diseases, drug interaction problems in dogs, and the development and operation of nn intensive care unit to tree, seriously ill or injured animals. The OSU building has been named Magruder Hall to honor the late Oregon State Legislator Dick Magruder of Clatskanie, who was instru mental in the establishment of the school of veterinary medi cine in 1975 and funding for the veterinary medicine building. The OSU school, headed by Dean E. E. Wedman. is one of 2fi in the nation and part of a cooperative Northwest veteri YEAR Clothing LEVIS I BEND OVER REG. 2400 Sale Price $19 JACKETS & DRESSES 20 i AAANY OTHER ITEMS : AAARKED DOWN!! : Lebush Shoppe Heppner 676-5561 : jj painted display up fur sale, have the life-si.e figures set nary program with Washing ton State University and the University of Idaho that is the only one of its kind in (ho country. The regional program is designed to provide n reason able opportunity for Oregon residents to obtain a veterin ary education and to nssure mi adequate supply of veterinar ians to serve the multi million-' dollar animal and poultry industries of the region. Dean Wedman emphasized Thirty six students now enter the OSU veterinary medicine program each fall 2B of them from 'W'if'in, it wan noted The students tVnnsf er to Washington State University for their second year and part of their third year of study, i Then they come back to OSU to take their fourth and final year of instruction ' 1 '' Students may also elect to receive instruction during their fourth year at the University of Idaho's Food Animal Heferra) Clinic at Caldwell, Idaho In addition to the teaching program for students, fhe school offers continuing educ ation programs for practicing veterinarians of the region, who have a professional requirement to take additional training annually The OSU School of Veteri nary Medicine also conducts a broad program of research on health problems of Oregon's $:!.ri million livestock inds tnes Kesearch into the complex and costly diseases which affect Oregon's domestic an imals and wildlife are carried out at the Veterinary Medical Animal Isolation Laboratory. The school also maintains a Veterinary Medical Diagnos tic Laboratory to aid veteri narians and animal owners in the identification of animal diseases, some of which could pose a health threat to humans as well END Sale!! JEANS rceg. io Sale Price Reg. 1800 Sale Price $10 $12 PI general manager resigns Clark , E. . Schenketiberger has tendered his resignation as general manager of the Pacific International Live stock EVcpouition. according to Earl Smith. President of the organization. Schonkenberger served as ( manager of the PI for the past 2 years. Prior to coming to the OSU to experiment with bobcats, coyotes in beaver control Bobcats and coyotes could boost Oregon's tree crop by preying on tree-damaging posts. That's the focus of a new research project at Ore gon State University, accord ing to David S. deCalesta, OSU Extension wildlife specialist and associate professor of fisheries and wildlife. The project will explore the effect of not trapping the predators, allowing their numlx'rs to increase, and seeing if they eat more of the tree -eaters. The Oregon Department of Forestry has provided $27, (MM) through' OSU's F'orest Ke search Lab to fund the two-year study, deCalesta said. "The number-one problem facing newly planted Douglas-fir is animal damage," he said, '"and most of that damage is done by the mountain beaver." That small rodent, more like a rat than a real beaver, thrives in the coast range and just loves to eat the tops off of young, just -planted tree seedlings. They damage alniut UMI.wmi acres annually, he said. "We're talking alxuit millions of dollars of damage." Stale foresters develoiwd tJ t - the idea for the research on Elliot State Forest, near Coos Bay. The area, even with trapping, is capable of sup (Mirting a large number of the bolx-ats and coyotes that may help control the mountain beaver numbers. Traditional methods of con trolling mountain Ix-aver damage include such things as flexible nylon mesh tubes placed on the seedlings when they are planted. "But that's $25(1 to $:1IM( per acre," deCalesta said "There is new, less expensive type under study, hut they sometimes make the trees grow crooked Market Veimu Seat, food marketing specialist. OSU Extension service Although many uncertain ties exist in food price estimates made this far in advance, retail food prices are exjweted to ris io 1K The rise will be grea'ler than the 9 percent estimated for this last year-most likely falling be tween 10 and 15 percent, Much of the 1MU food price increases will ! attributed to red meats and poultry, as the total supply of these commod ities will be less than in WHO. Decreased pork production will be only partly offset by slight increases in beef and poultry. Thus, with total meat supplies reduced, and with some strengthening of the economy, retail meat prices are expected to rise through out the year. The greatest increase will probably be in the cost of pork. Sugar prices are expected to keep on climbing. After two years of poor crops, world wide sugar supplies are low. SHOP LaVerne Webb is vacation ready to vehicles. PI, Schenkenberger function ed as' executive editor and general manager of the West ern Livestock Reporter publi cation of Billings, Montana. The Pacific Livestock Inter national Exposition is one of the major livestock shows in the country, presently In its 7(th year of continuous operation. "Trapping the mountain heaver Is also a common control, and only costs alniut $(K)por acre." But it's a nasty job. he said, and it's hard to find people willing to do it. Also, trapping could again be challenged by a ballot meas ure like the one that failed in November's election. "Biological control of postB is common with insects," deCalesta said, "and works well; because after the pred ators eat the problem species, they just die off " But you can't raise vast numbers of hotH-ats and coyotes and turn them loose, he said, "What will they eat when the mountain beaver are all gone?" Pesticides are also com monly used in M-st control, but deCalesta said combining methods of control leads to a more effective, less excnsivo program "Besides, we al ready use a lot of poisons." be said So Elliot Stale Forest is now closed to all trapping of predators. Bob Hahcrman. an OSU graduate student in wildlife biology, will sMnd the next two years monitoring the changes, if any. in the animals' byes.; "He'll le trapping, mark ing, counting and releasing the animals," deCalesta said, "first to estimate the density of the (Herniations of Uibcats. coyotes and mountain bea vers Then he'll study the food tcit.itu tif (ll. f iritrlsi i tutu' many mountain beavers they each eat tcr dav." When all the numbers are tallied, they'll be able to figure out whether the cxcrimenl has affected the mountain beaver IMipuliition, he said "Even if we save only $20 per acre on other pest control methods, it will be worth it," said deCalesta. Basket Not only will this affect the price of sugar but will increase the retail prices of many other items such as soft drinks, cereals, bakery pro ducts and canned fruit. Price increases for fresh fruit in the first half of WHI will likely be moderate as there are record crops of apples, oranges, and winter pears. Because fewer acres were planted this year, prices for potatoes and tomatoes will probably remain above those of last year. The cost of fish and import ed foods is expected to rise 1(1 12 percent in WHI. Depending upon the rate of inflation, food marketing costs will probably rise at about the same rate as they did last year. Labor costs are expect ed to go up slightly more this year partly because of the January Social Security tax increase. This information is also sent out weekly by Associated Press. back from service your Ron Mcdonald Chevrolet
