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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1945)
THE tA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON Monday, October 1, 1945 Mills Here Prime Factor for Wheat Growers Page Six Section A Pioneer One Industries in At no time in recorded history and probably not for many centuries before that has there ever been anything approach- Inj; civilization or semi-civilization which didn't depend upon cereal grains for a great deal of its sustenance. Not only the man who produced the wheat but the man who processed it and his business were an integral part of the community, whether the community was large or small. The coming of swift means ot transportation Unln t change thu basic idea the man who provided the flour to make the bread was important although his activities were ex tented to the world instead of confined to a smull area. Just as the miller has one ol the oldest trades known, so is tlx? Pioneer Flouring mill one o the oldest established indus tries in the Lu Grande and Un inn rountv community. Established in 1896 by the Kid dle interests, it has since that time" been an important factor in the wheat industry in the Grande Ronde valley. It has been under management of the same family ever since. Elevators The Pioneer has elevators at Elgin, Imbler and Alicel. It has mills, elevators in La Grande, Island Ity and Union. Union and Island City mills are now oper ating and the mill here will aguln be opened when trained millers are again available. During the war, the mill has operand 24 hours daily and Sun days to keep up with the Intense demand. In the last year, the Pioneer compuny has processed 75(),UO0 bushels of wheat and 250,00(1 bushels of barky, oats and rye. Of this 45O.OU0 bushels of wheat is manufactured intu flour for local consumption. The rest is shipped to "outside" markets. Outside Market Chief of the outside trade is supplying cake, pie and cookie manufacturers with flour pro duced from the soft wheat which makes especially good flour for finer baking. Principal markets for the flour are the Atlantic coast, the middle west, Boston, New York, Phila delphia, Richmond, Va., Milwau kee, Chicago, St. Louis and Kan sas City. Durini! the harvest season, when the grain is being brought into the elevators and when the ci op is up to the usual amount In the valley, the Pioneer com pany employes as many as Ii0 men. 1944-45 PniiorniMS& Oct. 12 Lt. N. W. Kn es, jr., was awarded the distinguished Hying cross for outstanding aerial accomplishments . . . lie hail been flying in the Munda and Italian! campaign with the navy . . . The junior chamber of com merce planned to open its drive for scrap paper with a matinee for children at which bundles ol sctap would pay admission . . College classes elected officers. Oct. 13 Railway traffic was delayed 14 hours by a derailment near Cayuse . . . Jack Wilson of North Powder exhibited a pure bred Hereford steer which was adjudged grand champion at the Intel national livestock show. The steer was sold for $1,410 . . . Col lege enrollment was 228, nearly double the previous year . . . North Powder had subscribed Its war chest quota of $370. Oct. 14 La Grande high school Tigers trounced the Pen dleton Buckaroos, 37 to 7. Oct. 10 Children of the area gathered 10 tons of scrap paper in the first week of the campaign . . . Homer Sprague. 15, was in jured when a shotgun blast tore off the second toe of his right foot. The gun was discharged ac cidentally . . . Oct. 17 Twenty-four U. S. cadet nurses were capM'd in pub lic ceremony at the college audi torium . . . Suniincrvillc and Is land City reached their war fund quotas . . . Oct. 18 Lyle B. Kiddle died flftcr a brief illness . . . Capl. Robert 1. Proebstel and I.t. Roy J. Baxter were wounded in the European area. Oct. 1!) Teachers of seven counties assembled for the East ern Oregon conference. Oct. 20 Nina Wells of I'uyal lup, Wash., was appointed presi dent of the college Christian council . . . The Tigers defeated Mac-Hi 2(1-0. Oct. 25 Search for outstand ing musical and other talent for a talent review was .started by the Lions club , . . Oct. 30 Both the city and county went over the top in the war cheat fund campaign. Col lections of $10,900 had been made up to that dale. (Continued in Section U) NEED LOTS OF WATER Date palms, natives of dry, hot deserts, requirp enormous quanti ties of water. Unless irrigated ar tificially, they will flouiish only near oases. of Oldest of Grande Ronde Many Changes In Business Here During Last Year (Continued from Page 2) May Preliminary survey of Oregon's over all needs in aviation expan sion was completed . . . W. M. Peare, member of the state board from La Grande said the survey indicated the demand was for the small landing fields of non-paved type close to populated areas . . . A shorter work day, as one of the measures necessary to prevent widespread employment was ad vocated by Rev. Clarence Kopp in an address to the Union county veterans' employment committee. June Prospecting for oil and drilling of a test well in the Grande Ronde valley was started east of Hot lake. Spokesman for the group was M. R. Wallace of Union. The well was on the prop erty of Charles E. Davis, jr., and Richard B. Davis. About 7.000 acres was under lease . . . Lower city tax rate was indicated as the budget of the city was put at $170,857 . . . The city commission ers had received petitions urging the improvement of X avenue in the 1300 and 1400 blocks . . . Census revealed increase in the farm acreage of the county . . . with the average size of the farms larger than 10 years ago . . . He port of the Grande Ronde irriga tion project investigation was ex pected to be filed later in the summer. July Inaugural flight of the Eastern Oregon Airways to establish daily round trip service to Portland from La Grande was made by Merlin Johnson, Harry McCarthy Raymond Gray and Frank Sihiro . . . Petitions seeking adoption of a soil conservation plan here were circulated by fanners of the Hot lake, Ladd canyon and Union dis tricts . . . Forty more houses to supplement the 40 already being built for temporary housing were requested by t h e chamber of coininerce. August Noi'lhwcst Airlines: scheduled stops in La Grande eventually, according to word received by chamber of commerce committee members fiom A. F. Floan, north west secretary ... It is proposed to make La Grande a principal stop between Portland and Butte . . . Outlook for the valley with the end of (he w a r appeared good, according to surveys made by various organizations , . . Abo lition of labor controls by t h n gveininent started some busi nesses to seek much needed help . . . Gasoline sales business boom ed, with end of rationing . . . The Ol'A was reorganized to lay more emphasis on price control , . . Work was halted on the housirg project, leaving the housing sit uation worse than before . . . Tax sales in the county were smaller in 1(145, with milv 31 sold for de linquency. io Women Holding Linesmen s Jobs Although most industries in the Grande Ronde valley as else where found in a n y jobs for women which were not consider ed women's jobs in prewar days, the Grande Ronde division of the Kastcrn Oregon Light and Power company did not have many more women than before. Manx- power companies found it ntu-ssaiy to hue women meter leaders and women for other lighter jobs. (So far no women have been reported in this area holding down linesmen's jobs) However to save manpower, the company did introduce a new method of meter reading. The company read rural meters every three months; in the interim, each farmer read his own meter end repoited on a card furnished by the company. OLD LEAKERS World War 1 bioke out at a time when virtually all the great leaders were past their mime Wilson was the youngest of all with his 58 years. Clemeiu-eau was Hindctiburg (i(i, Kitchener ti4, Koch ti3, Moltke US, SuUloin,. linoff 62, and Asquith 62. PAUL BUNYAN TRAILER COMPANY HOME at 1602 Cove avenue, which hat been enlarged mid modernized. The offices and parte department, formerly houied in the main builcing, have been moved into the new eait wing. AAA AAA AAA Paul Bunyan Plant Completes Modernization of Building Improvement during the Trailer compuny, 1602 Cove modernizing of the east wine offices and parts department, plant, were moved. Installation of a modern steam- heating plant has been complet ed. The plant will contribute o the comfort of the employes during the winter, thereby In creasing the efficiency, G. L, Larison, senior purtner of the OREGON past year of the Paul Btinyan avenue, include completion and of the building, into which the formerly housed in the main company, stated. Area of the main service plant hus been increased 50 percent during the last year, Larison 'an nounced, and nine overhead bridge cranes have been install ed to enable the company to (Shown is on aerial ? ; LUMBER WILL CREATE New Construction . . New Products . . More Employment Opportunity . . More Payroll! We must jump without pause into full effort for a peacetime economy. Ix't there he no slack period hotween the cud of the war and the pro duction for peace. Throug-hout our area and the entire country, thousands of new homes must be built, new fac tories constructed, others rebuilt or converted. Attacking the job now will result in continued and increased employment, maintenance and ex- handle heavier materials more economically. Lockers for shop employes ond modern toilet facilities for both shop and office personnel are now being installed. More Machines To the rear of the plant, a con crete slab 80x100 feet on which to. store heavy steel pipe and trailer chassis and bodies has been completed, and u 300-ton v--.:,' jp few ! view of the city of Union with the TRAIL LUMBER Union Synthetic Rubber Industry to Continue Large for Some Years; To Make Many Jobs in Connection What was thought a year ago to be doubtful that the synthet ic rubber industry would contin ue at a high rate is still a moot powerbreak and press has been installed With this, the com pany can form its own frame channels,' used to lengthen or ex tend truck frames. The company, in the near fu ture, also will add a light sheet metal working department, es soon as proper machines can be purchased. Four doors have been opened up on Cove avenue. 1G Men Soon When the employment situa tion has been eased, Larison said, the company will again have a full crew of 16 men instead of the 12 it now employes. The company is an; integral part of the lumbering industry, selling equipment to the logging companies, when priorities are given. It supplies, among other things, logging trailers equipped with the Paul Bunyan hoist, which was developed by that company, and maintains a mach ine shop to repair equipment and machinery which must necessar ily be used much , longer than ever before. - gimwm - r r- Oregon Trail Lumber company in pansion of payroll. Attacking the job now will launch us into the postwar prosperity we have been thinking- of and planning for. Lumber is the fundamental building material. The Oregon Trail Lumber Co. expects to plav its iwrt in providing lumber for construction here and elsewhere and in maintaining Union Countv payrolls. Oregon With Natural Import question, according to some au thorities on the subject. However, because it is not known how soon the rubber plan tations of the far east can be brought back into production after they had been overrun and possibly ruined during the Jap anese occupation, t h e synthetic rubber industry is certain to con tinue for some time yet in this contry. Perhaps, according to some sur veys, it will be years before syn thetic rubber can be made as cheaply as natural rubber con be produced. Still others think syn thetic rubber will make great gains in the near future. Nevertheless, heavy duty tires are still made of the blended pro ducts and for use where consid erable heat has to be endured, the natural product is still by far the more satisfactory. As a result of the demand for raw rubber, which is certain to increase as soon as the auto in dustry begins to get into full scale postwar production, there will be a multiplication of jobs in bringing it to this country to be processed, 6nce the situation has settled down to the point the full production of natural rubber can be resumed. mn ,;.-- si. aw. 3 the left background) City Lots Valued Higher This Year Value of city lots In Union county was set by county tax as sessor's figures this year at $(,. 484,740, according to recently re leased compilations. Lust year, city lots in the county were vu. ued at $1,460,145, showing a slight increase for 1845-46 tax purposes. Improvements on the city lota in the county this year were as sessed at $2,436,500 and lust year they were assessed at $2,463,405. Timber Acreage Of County on Tax Rolls Less Summary of Union county's as sessment rolls this year shows, according to figures compiled by Lee Reynolds, county tax asses sor, that there were 18,082 acres of timber lands in the county this year. The value of these was set for taxation purposes at $107,310. Last year in the county the as sessor's figures showed 22,019 acres of timber lands which were then valued at $116,560. Forest patrol tax this year was $10,874.97, which was arrived at- by taxing 309,941.96 acres at 3.5 cents an acre. Last year the for est patrol tax was $9,876.08, rais ed by taxing 322,535.95 acres are three cents an acre. CO,
