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Spruce budworm threatens
timber in
Scientists at Oregon State
University say ants may hold
some long-range hope for
controlling the spruce bud
worm, a pest apparently
threatening more than 250,000
acres of Douglas-fir and true
fir stands in northeastern
Oregon's Blue Mountains.
Two types of ants - carpen
ter and thatching ants - are
major predators of the bud
, worms, which periodically
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Lexington Grange met on
Monday evening for their
regular meeting with the
Master, Delpha Jones presid
ing. The evening started with a
potluck supper, followed by
the business of the evening.
Club minutes were read and
accepted. These included card
parties for the fall and winter
months. Plans were also
discussed for Paomona
Grange which will meet at the
hall on Saturday, October 24.
The meeting will feature the
election of officers, so all
granges are urged to have
representatives present.
These officers will serve two
year periods.
The group discussed having
the Blue Mountain Fiddlers as
a program for the winter and
it has been learned that they
will be present the latter part
of November. There will be a
supper and entertainment at
this time, open to the public.
The meeting adjourned at 9:30
p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Padberg
spent the weekend in Portland
visiting relatives and friends
and in Battle Ground, Wash
ington. Roberta Jones is leaving
this week to join her husband
in Olympia, Wash, where he is
now employed. Mr. and Mrs.
Durfee have purchased the
Jones house in Main St. in
Lexington.
Mrs. Charles Buchanan
spent several days this week
in Portland and Hillsboro
visiting and attended the
funeral services of a cousin in
Tacoma. Mrs. Buchanan's
mother accompanied her to
the services.
Holly Rebekah Lodge met
on Thursday evening for their
regular meeting with the NG
Joyce Buchanan in the chair.
The group was pleased to see
that the painting job on the
inside of the lower hall had
been completed. Virginia
Peck thanked all those who
worked on and attended her
reception.
A card party scheduled for
Saturday evening. October 10,
was announced. These parties
will be held the first Saturday
night of each month but will
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Blue Mountains
cause problems in Eastern
Oregon, according to Bob
Campbell. U.S. Forest Service
entomolgist stationed at OSU.
Campbell. Forest Service
entomologist Torolf Torgersen
and Lorna Youngs, a doctoral
student in OSU's entomolgy
department, are studying the
ants to learn more about their
life cycles and to see if forests
could be manged to increase
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not be conducted as a series.
The parties begin at 8 p.m.
and admission will be $1.50
Prizes and refreshments will
be provided. Nomination of
officers was held, and refresh
ments were served.
Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Jones,
and Earl Miller were among
those visiting at the Wayne
Miller home in Hermiston last
week to visit with the Miller
men's mother and father and
Mr. Jones' sister and husband.
Mr. and Mrs. W.I. Miller from
Seaview, Wash., and Dorothy
Smith from Portland. They all
visited John Spence and
Florence McMillan at the
nursing home there.
Plans are underway for the
annual meeting of the Morrow
County Historical Society at
the Lexington Grange Hall on
Sunday of this week. A potluck
dinner is planned and the
program will include a talk
and slides on the history of
Malheur County.
There will also be door
prizes, other entertainment
and an election of members to
the board of directors. All are
most cordially invited to come
and share the day with the
society.
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Palmer
were Pendleton callers one
day last week where he
consulted a physician.
Mr. and Mrs. George Kreug
er and Lee Wagonblast were
Bend and Camp Sherman
visitors last week.
Lee Wagonblast was a
visitor in Odessa, Wash., at
the home of her son and
family, Mr. and Mrs. John
Wagonblast. They helped their
grandson. Seth, celebrate his
fifth birthday.
Ruby Colley returned home
on Monday from Colfax,
Wash, with her son who has
been recuperating from a
stroke. She reports that he is
improving.
The Lexington Chevron sta
tion is now under the manage
ment of Darryl Bigelow, of
Heppner. He has leased the
station and will be open from
6 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday
through Saturday. Mr. and
Mrs. Morris will be leaving
soon to take care of business
elsewhere and later a trip to
Alaska.
their numbers and help con
trol budworms.
"One thing we might offer in
theshort run," said Campbell,
"is advice that could help
foresters tailor pesticide
spraying to avoid killing
predator ants."
Campbell, who is supervis
ing Youngs' field work in the
Blue Mountains, where a
recent aerial survey showed
heavy budworm infestation,
said birds are another major
predator to spruce budworms.
He and Torgersen also are
studying the population dyna
mics of spruce budworms in
Oregon, Washington and
Idaho.
In a related project at OSU,
entomoloby doctoral student
Tom Egan and U.S. Forest
Service entomologist Roy
Beckwith are studying life
cycles of spruce budworms to
learn more about when they
die and what kills them.
"Some eventual applica
tions migh be predicting what
budworm population will be
from year to year and possibly
identifying factors that can be
used to manipulate the popula
tions to reduce forest dam
age," Egan said.
The studies are focused on
national forest land in north
central Washington near
Okanogan.
Egan said the spruce bud
worm moth lays eggs on
foilage of fir trees in July that
hatch into caterpillars about
two weeks later. The caterpil
lars spend the winter in
cocoonlike shelters, then come
out in the spring to feed on new
foilage. In early summer, the
caterpillars go through a
pupal stage and become
moths.
The caterpillars can grow to
one-half to three-fourths of an
inch and adult moths can grow
an inch long.
Besides the Blue Mountains,
the Oregon Department of
Forestry has reported small
areas near John Day and
Prairie City are infested with
spruce budworms.
The agency said evaluations
will be conducted this fall and
next spring to determine
budworm population, timber
losses and environmental im
pact and a course of action
will be determined next
spring.
Several chemicals can be
applied aerially to control the
insect. A control program, if
needed, could cost about $10 to
$15 an acre. State Forester
Mike Miller said.
Spruce budworm outbreaks
have been reported in several
western states, including 1.2
million acres hit in Colorado.
Miller said foresters don't
know the cause of the out
break in Oregon.
The last major outbreak in
teh state was in 1949-53 when
4.4 million acres were treated.
About 35.000 acres on the
Warm Springs Indian Reser
vation in northcentral Oregon
were treated for spruce bud
worms in 1979.
PUBLIC
MEETINGS
The Morrow County Histori
cal Society will meet Sunday,
Oct. 11, at the Lexington
Grange Hall at 1 p.m. for a
potluck dinner. A program on
Harney County will begin at 2
p.m.
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Oregon ports observe national port week
In the midst of statewide
economic difficulties. Oregon
public ports are developing
new jobs and creating new
business in communities along
the Oregon coast and up the
Columbia River system, said
a spokesperson from the
Oregon Public Ports Associa
tion. Oct. 4 -11 Oregon's 23 ports
are observing National Port
Week, pausing to tally
achievements in economic
development during the past
year. From aggressive pur
suit of new coal port facilities,
through plans for expanded
recreation and tourism at
tractions, to development of
port industrial property as the
home of new business in
Oregon, the state's ports can
point to solid achievement in
Sifting Through the Times
By JUSTINE
WEATHF.RFORD
FIFTY YEARS AGO
. . . .
Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall,
president of the University of
Oregon, will address a group
of Oregon dads, mothers and
alumni next Monday evening
at the Episcopal parish house.
He will be accompanied by
Burt Brown Barker, vice-president
and by Mrs. F.W. Bond
of Pendleton, president of the
Oregon Mothers Association.
While there has never been
offered a satisfactory substi
tute for the American system
of "private property" there
are evils in the system that
should be eradicated, Fred
erick Steiwer, junior United
States Senator from Oregon,
told the Pomona Grange
assemblage in the American
Legion Hall at lone.
The executive committee of
Associated Charities announ
ces that it has made arrange
ments with B.R. Patterson,
manager of Patterson & Son
drug store, to store food and
clothing to be used this winter.
A special request is made for
children's under-clothing and
canned fruit, and anyonej
having donations to make may ;
leave them at that store.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Congressman Sam Coon has
recommended that a site near
Boardman in Morrow County
be chosen for a proposed
Naval Ordinance Depot.
The city council Monday
night accepted the bid of John
Lay son, Jr., Seattle, and
Harley Young, Heppner, for
the installation of rsmcte
control equipment which will
allow the operating controls
for the upper city wells on
Willow Creek to be placed at
the lower well near town. The
bid was $2,836.25.
A total of 486 acres of strip
cropping was laid out on the
Burton Peck and Walter
Ruggles ranches, Lexington,
in September according to the
monthly progress report sub
mitted at a meeting of the
Heppner Soil Conservation
District.
Dr. A.D. McMurdo, Dr.
Wallace Wolff and Dr. Clifford
Wagner attended the first
medical meeting of the season
in Pendleton last week.
FIVE YEARS AGO
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The Port of Morrow, Cas
cade IiOcks and Coos Bay have
completed plans for new
industrial parks in their dis
tricts. Some 300 acres of raw
land would be brought into
industrial use.
In Oregon, ports operate
both as a public agency and as
a business. As local govern
ments, port districts may levy
taxes, borrow money, issue
bonds and charge for services.
Acting as a private business, a
port may negotiate economic
development projects, and
lease land, buildings or equip
ment. Using their authority,
ports have assisted with pro
viding nearly $82 million In
financial assistance to busi
nesses for modernization, ex
The City of Heppner and the
County of Morrow are be
tween a rock and a hard place.
It is obvious that a two-man
sheriff's department can't
adequately cover all of the
county Acting Sheriff Larry
Fetsch works days and Kip
Morris, the lone deputy,
works nights in North Mor
row. "If both men work 60 hours
a week, it's falling short of
full-time police coverage"
Dennis Doherty, Morrow
County district attorney said.
Linda Johnson, Anne Doher
ty and Monica Swanson ap
peared Monday night before
the Heppner City Council
seeking some financial relief
for a perplexed child care
budget. Tear-filled eyes lit up
a bit when officials of the
Heppner Child Development
Center learned that Kinzua
Corp. would put up $600 and
Murray's Drug $200 to help the
center find $1,200 by Oct. 29 to
keep its doors open.
While most Heppner water
users have been slapped with
another rate increase, the
second since July, some
consolation may come in
knowing that the city's fire
insurance ratings have been
bettered.
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Ports assist economic devel
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ways. Oregon ports develop
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sold, provide ancillary ser
vices such as utilities, sewers
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