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Tuesday, June 3, 1930 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Page Nine LITTLE CHANGE IN PRICE TREND Federal Bureau Issues Re port on Farm Situa- tion for May. . POUTI,AND, Ore., (AP) Al though the- trend of farm nnd com modity prices n well na general liusineKH comlitionR wu dawnwurd or unchanged between April 15 and- Muy lfi, there Is muse for cheerfulness if a normal reaction follows nn ease in the New York money mart, the bureau of agri cultural economics. United States department of" agriculture, report ed in an analysis of the national price situation for .May. Cheaper money in the New York market, the -bureau said, is influ encing other sections of the conn try nnd this usually leads to n cheapening of commercial credit nnd facilities nn improvement In business. There is little prospect to Indi cate that the buying power of con sumers during the next month or two will -ho materially different from that nt present, the analysis showed. Improvement, however, will take place as business grad ually reacts to low interest rates nnd to other factors that help Btltntllato business generally. Tho bureau's report on the form nnd commodity price situation for May was as follows: Kiu-m Price The general level of farm prices advanced slightly between March 15 and April 15 as a result of higher prices for most items- except wool and livestock. Sinco then both crop and livestock prices have again declined, except cotton, nnd tho general average of farm prices during the first half of Hay was lower than on April 1 5. The present low level of farm prices may be compared with the low levels reached In the preceding j declines, namely In June, 1921, May, 1924 and April, 1927. flenernl Commodity Price Level Tho trend in commodity prices in genernl was downward during; April nnd the first half of liny. Prices on liny C were. at the lowest j level since 19111. Six of tho eight groups of commodity prices cov ered by the report averaged lower in the first week of Hay than dur ing March and April, the excep tions being building materials prices which have remained unchanged for several weeks. AVI MOAT The foreign demand for wheat continues poor but some improvement is probable ' in . the next few months. Crop conditions to date do not Indicate any material reductions In production as occur red in Canada last year. The car ryover In the United States will be largo but stocks on hand July 1 in foreign countries aid likely to be smaller, . especially t in ...ArserUlna. With- small stocks In Argentina, conditions will probably result' In exportntlons of United Ktntcs wheat early in the season being larger thnn last year. May con ditions indicated that tho hard winter wheat crop may be about five nnd one half per cent less than a year ago, and stock of old wheat remaining In the southwest are only moderate. The average price during the first week of May was 99 cents. Potatoes The average farm price of potatoes for the country as a whole nt 14(1.1 cents per bushel was 9 cents higher on April 15 than nn March 15 and 91 cents higher than In April last year. The ndvance Was general but was great in tho North Atlantic and the east north centrnl states than In the western mnrkets. Hoks Hc-K prices in April fluc ti, filed over a narrow range and wero considerably, below tho levels of April. 1929. ' notwithstanding that slaughter supplies were nuoui 7.5 per cent' smaller. The lower level of prices this spring Is a re flection of the weaker demand for meats and lard that nas nevempeu 1n domestic nnd foreign mnrkets in tho past two months. Ijtrger supplies are in prospect during the next few weeks. The monthly av erage price nt Chicago for April was or 17 cents per 100 pounds lower than that of April last yenr. The weekly average for tho first full week of May was $10.03. CATTIjK Prices of nil kinds nnd grades of cattle declined during prll. -Decreasing consumer u nnnd rnther than increasing sup- tlles was responsible for tne weaK icss In the cnttle market.' Both re elnts at seven leading markets mil inspected slaughter of cattle n April were four per cent smaller ban in April, 199, and slaughter !ias ten per cent below the 5 year April average. nuTTKB -May cn-Hiueij ..i...... roduetlon will probably be below hat of a. year ago. Trade output Anrll appears to have been dightly larger than a year ago hut at prices averaging about 12 per cent lower nnd there is no Indica tion of nn immediate increase In demand. Recently the foreign sit uation has weakened so much that Imports would follow any material advance in the domestic market. Moreover the seasonal increase in domestic production is Just begin ning to exceed current consumption requirement. The price of 92 score butter nt New York was higher in April than in March, averaging 38-5 cents. This was 1.2 cents above the March average price and 6. cents below the average price ot April, 1929. The price of May 12 was -ir. cents. Creamery butter produc tion during March was estimated at about three, per cent helour .Marcn, 1929, and trade reports indicate that it hs continued at a lower rate during April and May. The weak ness of foreign markets is much more serious than at any time since 1 yti. There is no immediate proa pect for the strengthening of the foreien markets. KCJfiS Kgg prices usually ad--ance in May and June hut the ad vance this year may not be very material. Receipts will probably continue ns heavy as last year: stor age mocks are high; the season de mand for hntehlns and breaking i near nn end; nnd apparently con- i sumption which increased during ' the first three weeks of April, has ' dropped off since Easter, h'resh ! extras averaged 27.S cents com- pared to 30 cents a year before. I following n decline of one cent at the end of April the price has been close to 26 cents during the fjrst ten days of May. Ijtst year the av erage for this grade was 32.8 cents In May and June. POULTRY The farm price of chickens is maklnpr its seasonal ad-A-nnco which usually continues un til it reaches n seasonal peak dur ing May or June, .hut It (s on a low er level than last year. Storage stocks of frozen poultry are lnrire: hatchery reports Indicate plentiful j -.t.i.i..-i, who nummvi unu prices o - i'-"-1-0 tin-ma i-viiwuue iuw ana ,,tuj "ctinrii me ufnmiiu igr poul try. The farm price for chickens on April 15 was Sl.l cents, an ad vance of .5 cents of the month be fore. The April price was 2.7 cents below that of April 1929. - AVOOIj Domestic wool prices held steady ' for the first three weeks of April then declined again but trade at ltoston improved con siderably In the second week of May and prices for that week held firm. Prices of foreign wools in bond nt Roston . have, held un changed however, except .for de clines on some medium grndes.-of Australian and .Argentine wools. The London wool sales opened May 13 with sales verybrisk and prices unchanged to ten per Cent .higher than at the close of previous-series. Stocks of w-ooi'ln foreign prirnury markets in April were larger than n year ago and .there is'a.desire to dispose of them before the coming of the new. clip. ' THEPLOWSHARE TAKES FORM AT LAST KAMELA PERSONALS I I 1 T i T H IT IW rw I r I II I I ilia I I i i V. CZ VJV flirV m. a X 1 l ' i . Ainu - rrVt MJmt V. J ! French Channel Ports Protest Tunnel Scheme h rid Re over the clinnnel, A third wax tlip laying or n -steel nnd ce ment tuWt on the channel bed. The lii4dK nnd dikes were dis carded het'tiutie a in out; other rea Kontf. they would block channel Hlllj.pllltf. Approximately; 1,174, 9S3 pounds of turkey .wero oateii'.ln .Cullfor- , nlu last. yenr. according to the Htate Turkoy Growers' asocIa- thin. It lis was an itvernga of 2.3 puuniln for every num. woman and child In the ntAto. Mrs. O. Ij. Hudson spent Tlmrn- tlny in l.a Grande. Mr. und Mrs. M. Broms and on, Nnrton. drove to l'endleton on Sunday. ! Mr. and Mrs. G. Tameris have gone to Klein to spend the sum mer. Mrs. Tameris will return to; j tiit jTIt tj S ,pMrshprt,rana .dugw. Jungle to Yield Lost Maya Rites-- Helen Mae. of I.O. Orande, Jlave j , . . . . ,. now moved to Kamela u spend the ft HI I llnPSt. I fllf'510'O hflir iVKnlnlt summer with Mr. Lane, who had been working here for some time. I .pwa 'wvnn H. Hood, engine foreman here, Is ' ,r",,? iJ ,.,,..?"," tem ple will rise on on Island of Lake Michigan on Chicago's waterfront wick at present. -.. ..i ii-- XT llnndtmnn nntl -til. unu "in- - . 193 son, .Tnck. spent Saturday evening . in La Grande. I 'in . , A 1 , Mr. and Mrs. T. Burton nnd son, nounced by the nnthropoloKy sec Karlee. accompanied by Mrs. H. of the N'atUma Research Horstman. drove to Walla. Walla, Council, as part of tho coming Wash, on Sunday to visit Mr. Bur- ; W Worlds i-Vir. ton's brother. 1 The M.nyanK are a vanished peo- Miss Alta Smith, who has been pie. who built in Yucatan, Mexico, convalcsiug in La Gnuulo after & a clvilizntlon of fairly high order, serious operation, spent a shore the beginnings of which are esu- time on Wednesday in Kumeta. matea by some tcienusiH n ionB 1-Vorn here she went to tho home ns 7,000 years ago. It was over tho of her parents in 1'ilot Rock. AN Jungles now obliterating tM civ ter a few weeks rest there she lUzation that Lindbergh demon hopes to return to her duties in the trtd use of the airplane for Kamela grocery store, ller many archaeolpgy. rlemls .hore are glad to know she t Dr. FranK Blom of Tulane mil ls making a good recovery und verslty is in 1 ucntan collecting will be glad to see her at work jiKln. 3C rierson, of Perry, was a Ka mehi visitor on Wednesday at the home of his sister, Mrs. H. Iforsl man. Mr. Ptirson is now working in Halfway with Mr. Kelley. It. L. Casteel of Wasco, Ore.,who has been spending a few days In Kamela with his brother, Herbert and his sister, Miss Nancy f'as teol. left Kriday morning for Walla WaJla Wash. J, K. Charlton, of La Grande, who ban been working in Kamela (or some time went to I -a Grande on Thursday. New residents in Kamela are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kills, They huvn rented the He Kalb house here. Mr. Kills is. employed by tho high way. Mrs. A. Konnlson and daughter, lotm Maud HrooTts, of Meacham, returned on Saturday from CaHile Rock, Wash., whero they spent a week visiting relatives. Mrs. Ken- nison's son, Krnest Brooks, nnd her mother, Mrs. I. Cook, accom panied them home. Mrs. Cook win remain for a short time visiting In Mencham. Galo ITanlen attended the Meacham dance, on Saturday, and had the misfortune 10 have Jifs overcoat stolen from his car while there. A. Kennison drove to Telocnset on business on Thdrsday. Wralter Hoeft, of Pilot Rock, was a Kamela visitor on Thursday. Gale llanlen spent Thursday, with his parents In La Grande. Mrs. C. Thornhurg and son, Ian. returned on Wednesday from i Itrownlee, Ore,, where they spent several lays visiting at the home of Mrs. Thornhurg's father, KinJay Gordon. Both rei-imed blistred by the sun and were surprised to find It had been so cold in Ka mela in their absence. Mr. Gordon had his first crop of alfalfa liay cut, us had other farmers n. that vicinity. Snake River peaches do not seem to be so plentiful this year. Several . peach trees died on account of the dry season last year. Mr. Gordon, who had several fine, peach trees, lost them all. Mr. and Mrs. K. I. Itrooks and grandson, rtanris, ' drove to La Grande on Thursday to decorate the grave of their on, CharU-s, who died two years ago. Orval Casteel, of Waaco. Ore., and Illaine Casteel. of Pilot Rock, cousins and nephews of Herbert and Miss Nancy Casteel ,of Ka mela, are spending a few days vis iting here. Mr. and Mrs. If. florstnian drove to La Grande on Tn4ay evening. Mrs. Klixubeth Chelf returned to Kamela several days ago aftr a short visit with friends n-mr Pilot Hock. In spite of the heavy rain which fell on Thursday night and most of Kriday the highway is not very slick or muddy. Grading is now practically finished as fur up as Bodie, where the rock crusher Is situated. The steam shovel is now being used near there. The high way Is very wide now and s-vral of the new fills, where curves have been eliminated, are being used. data for erection of the relics which are planned as the oldCFt'of nil the Americana at the fair.. It 'is 'pro posud to reconstruct the four fa mous buildings known as the Mon jas of ITxmal, untd to be the great est achievement of tho American Indian. Actors will impersonate the Ma yans, nnd their dress and ceremo ninl dnnnes will be renvoduced faithfully from carvings now found in the Vuentun wilderness. Wor ship of the feathered tmuke, Kul kulcan, will be included. . The artificial island, of 20 to 25 acres, will contuin altto faithful re productions of native habitats f.i Mound Builders, Kskim hunters, j 1 . 1 ...... 1. .. A 1.. l ' 11 in l mr witter kiiuiwi inn ivi In dian tril)es. l.AI'MRX-MCX ;i MF.IZV fALKM, Ore., June- S (AP) Oregon- Inundrymen will, meet here for their annual convention Kriday of this week. Several speakers will, be .present from outside the state. A bauiUet Sat urday night wilt end the convention. By John Kvnns ! C Associated . Press Staff Writer) I CALAIS (AP) Calais and oth ; er northern Wench ports are fighting plans to build a tunnel 1 under tho Kngllsh channel lie- J I'ausii they feel - certain subma- rlne train travel would kill their I Water traffic. j CalniK, ltoulogne, Havre, OI- oppe, Dunkirk, Cherbotirg nnd j Saint Malo nil are interewied In i iMith passinger und freight traffic with Kngland. J If the proposed $150,000,000 I tunnel is built from near Calais ' to Dover, opponents of the Idea j assert, the channel shipping busl- j ness will all but cense and much of the trans-Atlantic truffle will be diverted. Jt is contended that ma ny A mericatm wou Id go first to Ktigland nnd cross to France on last tunnel trains that would run on a schedule, of less than , three hours from London to Pur- I Although the French end of the channel subway would bo near t here it is not expected many ieo- plo would Interrupt their trip to Paris or to London simply to see the town. ' The. freight loss would :bu inore .: serious because trains would mil ritfht through the out skirts of Calais on their way to and from iWis.. - Tills opposition ivcalls tho dif ficulties, tho it bin has encountered since MVMuthieu proposed U In 1 KO0. Napoleon III first got bo bind the plan in a nerious man ner, n 1807. A score of times the plan has been before- the. British jtarlla meut. Thousands of Bombings have been taken in tho- cSn Icel and tho ntost eminent engineers of Krace and Kngland have de claivd tho timet feasible. Mili tary rentioim often affected tlio idea but leis ' Is heard of that : aspect year by year. In nn elaborate report made by a British official commission last year there were mentioned 'sever al other plans, all rejected. One was for two parallel dikes across the channel, tralif- running on the dikes while the water between would be a canal hooked up with the - waterways of northern Km roje. Another " lden. wns nn- 11 relied 3 m of a kind BLUE MT. MILK BLUE MT. CREAM BLUE MT. BUTTER Used At Cookin School by MRS. MCLEAN Products of 1 ( I -1 ; " . v 1',.- 1 1 4 Newcomers totlicWeist' especially should, visit the Cooking ScKool If you are a recent arrival in the West, you have a special reason to visit the Cooking School sessions ... for the West has some great conrenience foods not known "tack East." See them dem onstrated ... for example, Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate, which combines cocoa's convenience with chocolate's full flavor. 22 3S 4m 52i Place Won Richfield gym The 8th Annual RICHFIELD triumph at - -Indianapolilhe World's Qreatest Racing Classic ; y. 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