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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1936)
The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Mornins, August 13, 1SSJ PAcn t:: Turkey Raisers Picnic Favorable Outlook on This Year's Market Reported at Hazel Green Meet Insead of the "Turkey Tour" In which in past year turkey ranchers of the central Willam ette valley were visited , toy all those Interested In turkey raising, a well-attended all-day meeting ind picnic dinner was held by the turkey growers of this district at Hazel Green park Wednesday. The forenoon was taken up with a baseball game between rival tur key 'raising groups in which the umpire had his fun with the players. The score was 13 to 10. While ihls ball game was in progress others in the crowd en Joyed swimming and other sports and all were successful in working up a great appetite for the big picnic dinner at noon. There were , turkey sandwiches, salads, cakes, f pies and ice cream to spare, the i spread being placed on one long . table near the center of the cool, shady park. . County Agnt Preside About 1:30 p. m.. the meeting was called to order by County Agent H. L. Riches, who served as chairman and Introduced the speakers. The first address was that of J. C. Leedy of Portland, who is interested in a mrkey ranch, near Brooks, and is also manager of the Oregon branch vt the North western Cooperation Turkey Mar keting association. Mr. Leedy'a subject was "The Turkey Market- Outlook," and he laid that the early prediction of an immense increase of turkey production this season had not materialized owing to the late rains and the drought in the mid west states. Surplus Unlikely "If we have a 20 or 25. per cent increase production this year we will only be back to the total production of three or four years ago," he stated. "If the sales deal is handled in an orderly manner this winter, the turkey growers should receive a very good price for their bird3." : He said, however, that feeds are going to cost more this fall than last year. G. E. Auppe'rly discussed dis couraging turkey stealing by tat tooing the fowls, which he declar ed was a simple, Inexpensive and Enjoyed has been effected to fight turkey stealing and a booklet will be is sued containing the names and addresses of its members and their registered tattoo brands. These booklets are supplied to all. state law enforcement officers and turkey buyers of this district for reference. John Throne, representing a Sa lem livestock . loan organization, explained "to the turkey raisers J their plan of financing the in dustry .through this production Credit association on a 5 per cent Interest basis. He said they had loans on 60,000 turkeys last year Kuu IDll meir luaus wvuiu vui" over 100,000 in the valley this fall. To qualify for a loan of this kind K turkey raiser must have reputation for conservative busi ness management, H. B. Griffin, who succeeds the late Judge E. C. Branch as 'Judge of the Oakland turkey show, gave the turkey growers some sound advice on turkey .breeding, feed ing and marketing through the imnnrtant CooDsratlve Turkey AiarKeung issdcwuuus, xic extended an invitation to the tur key growers to bring . some of their best birds in December and attend the show at Oakland. Prf w re. Cosby, head of the poultry, department at. the state college,' was given ' the, subject, "Production Problems," and for tol4 hmir Iia fiaA ihc nndlvfded attention of every turkey breeder present. He saia, "You turaey - rrnvn have nlentv to be proud of, but there are many opportun ities for improvements, especially in breeding metnoas." He saia tnrkev fcreedinr would receive a full share of experimental and. re search work from now on in me poultry department at the college, - ami til--Ad all tha turkev growers to attend the first annual turkey convention at the state college Tuesday, August 25. The conven- ion will be held in tfce JMemoriai Union building at tne college. Will Wed Rait . Virginia Pine, Chicago heiress and movie actress, is shown as she ar rived in New York from London with her dog. She announced that after a year she will marry George Raft, screen actor. Tch, Tch, Is This Really Art? : , '. '' " . .. :-: - .-:!, . .v. ; : : '. , ' ' . . - - - . ' ! ; V 1 i t ' ! t ' :-v- -X!i ) i i ' - y - i ' v - , - . J I I v ' , - , 'I - - - v I ? v . !. ' j $ I J : v; ;w , i 1 . l. t v . n t . - i st v ' . i Ifter twenty years of agitation Portchester, K. is to have a Spanisb imeriean War memorial but whether the accepted design will follow the nodel (above) by sculptor Karl Pavany-Illava is a big question for thai city's fathers. One faction says the figure is "vicious" but the proponents , i of the statue say, "It's art." Range Conditions Qose to Normal PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 12.-OP) The U. S. department of agricul ture listed the condition of Ore gon ranges today at 88 per cent normal,' compared with 82 per cent a year ago and a 10-year Aug. 1 average of 85.1 per cent. The figure for this month showed a slight drop from July's 94 per cent listing, however Conditions in Oregon were de scribed as better than in any oth er western state with the excep tion of Idaho. : , Cattle were rated at 90 per cent, ranking next to Idaho and 2 per cent better than a year ago. Ten-year average was 90.4 -per cent. Sheep ranked at 89 per cent, compared with 88 per cent a year ago and 10-year average of 90.9 per cent. ; . The report said warm, dry wea ther had affected pasture condi tions in the Willamette valley, and resulted in a slight drop in condition of cattle and sheep, but that livestock still was in good shape. ' - : Orchards Visited By, Nut Producers - NEWBERG,- Ore., Aug. 12.-JP) Nearly 50 automobile loads of western Oregon nut growers vis ited six orchards today on their annual tour designed to facilitate study of growing methods and the combatting of threats to good yields. , Five; other orchards will be viewed tomorrow. Experts accom panying : the growers - included C. E. Shuster and ; P. W. Miller, tooth from the U. S. department of agriculture, and W. S. Brown and O. T. McWhorter, both of Oregon State college.' A luncheon for the touring group will be hell here tomorrow High-Scoring Butter Is Plentiful in State Note JCORVALLIS, Ore., Aug. 12r- (yfV-The seventh annual report on butter scoring,-'issued by" Oregon State college, showed today that more Oregon butter scoring 92 or better is now being made than ever .before. The percentage seven years ago was 7.8 -compared with 49.5 the past "year. Only 3.6 per cent' of butter examined re cently scored less than 90, com pared with 205 per cent in 1929 Canada Wheat Carryover Lightest in Seven Years OTTAWA. Aug. 12.-(P)-T h e dominion bureau of statistics to day issued complete figures for the nation's wheat carryover at the end of the crop year, July 31, placing it at 108.747.059 bushels, a decline of 94,525,967 since the end of the 1934-35 crop year and the lightest figure in seven years, j Hop j Picking Starts Tuesday at Hubbard m HUBBARD, Aug. 12. The first hop picking in the -Hubbard vic inity started Tuesday on the Ben Epper hop yard w e s t of town. Work is underway on early tog gles, which are reported to be light. A few other hop yards will start the last of this week. 100 New Books In Oar Circulating Library! Come In . . . See Them! J Ccotio'c SSZZ Forhierly Patton's Book Store 340 SUte St. Phone 4404 Burgess Willett Dies in Olympia OLYMPIA, Aug. 12.-0P)-Bur- gess 8. wuiett, 69, died tnis morning at a local hospital. The family came to this state in 1903 and settled at Pe. Ell, moving here 18 years ago. ;;i survivors include a daughter. Mrs. Jack Zenke, Mason City, Wash.; three sisters, Mrs. Paul Mullen, Willamina, Ore., Mrs. Da vid Botker, Seattle, and Mrs. Paul Wallace, Salem, Oregon. Funeral services await arrange ments, i T - i r. : 4 Tax Will Finance Disposal Program PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 12.-OP) -The Portland city council voted against proceeding with the sale of $6,000,000 in bonds for a sew age disposal plant today and went on record favoring a new measure for the November ballot. The council, adopting' a major ity report of the committee of 15 selected to study river pollution, directed Commissioner Bean to prepare plans and ' specifications for a "pay-as-you-go" disposal plant, which would be paid for by a levy equal to 33 1-3 per cent of water bills and be collected by the water bureau. Voters previously ; authorized the issuance of bonds when plans were afoot to make tne plant a PWA project. . -; City Attorney Grant was order ed to prepare a charter amend' ment for the November elecUon. . , , : j Parole Board to , Eye Sixty j Gases ' ' Sixty penitentiary cases will be considered b y the state, parole board when it meets today, W. L. Gosslin, private secretary to Gov ernor Martin announced. ' Thirty per cent of the cases in volve prisoners whose applications for parole previously were reject ed. Other cases involve those on the regular monthly docket. Last Large Block Sold Of Rogue Valley Peart MEDFORD, Ore.. Aug. 12.-V A representative of the' Star Fruit and Products company, Portland, said today, his firm had purchased 550 tons of Bartlett cannery pears the last large block remaining in the Rogue River valley. Price was not announced. Shippers es timated 7,500 tons have been sold to canneries from this district in 1936. Mt. Hood Climb Made in - Record Time by Leach GOVERNMENT CAMP, Mt Hood. Ore.. Aug. 12.-(ifp-Garry Leach. Government Camp. who set the round-trip record . to the top of Mt. Hood at three hours and 52 minutes in 1935, broke his own mark this week by ascending in two hours and 39 minutes and sliding down in 49 minutes, for a total of three hours and 28 minutes. - L Mortgage Loans on Modern Homes ! - Lowest Rates . Hawkins & Roberts Inc. ' Business Failures Fewest Since '20 Only 639 in July For (J. S. : Total in Comparison to 2596 in '32 . NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-(;p)f-A decline in commercial failures to the lowest figures since the post war boom days of 1&20 was re-. orded today as an index of im proving business health. Figures compiled by Dun & Bradstreet for July made the low est monthly total since Septem ber, 1920, and showed a continua tion of the rate of decline in the first week or August. On the basis of an index kept by the agency since the end of 1932, July Insolvencies at the an nual' rate of 38.2 for each 10,000 firms in business. It compared with 44. in June and 52.8 in July, 19 3 S. In Janu ary, 1933, as business was head ing for the banking holiday,- it was above 170 and a former in dex, computed somewhat differ ently soared above 200 at the peak of the "depression epidemic of failures. - Only 639 in Month July failures numbered9 C39, a figure exceeded on the downside only twice for the month since 1894 despite the growth of popu lation and business in the mean while. It compared with 902 in the same month last year - and 259 6 in July. 1932, around the peak of the depression liquidation movement. " j Liabilities involved were less than 310.000,000 in contrast with 116,523,000 in the 1935. month and 387,190,000 in the 1932 pe riod. ' , For the year to August 6 fail- ares totaled 6157 against 7355 in the corresponding 1935 months, a drop of 16.3 Per cent. Aside from general business im provement, shrinkage in the cas ualty list was attributed to dras tic purging of the corporate field since 1929, relative scarcity of new business promotion, the rise in prices and real estate values. Legionnaires Pour In For Convention ROSEBURO, Ore.. Aug. 12.-GP1 -More than 300 Legionnaires from Portland, Astoria, Hood Riv er. The Dalles. Pendleton. La Grande and way points arrived here aboard a special train to night to add to the rapidly-growing registration for the annual American Legion convention starting tomorrow. Outstanding drum corps of the state also were on the train and Legionnaires from Salem, Oregon City, Albany, Corvallis and Eu gene joined the party during brief stops in those cities. Ray Murphy, Ida Grove, Iowa, national commander, and George Koehn, Portland, state command er, were on hand to welcome the new arrivals. Murphy Is to speak tomorrow afternoon. The first game between El Rey of Portland and Gibson's of Seat tle for the junior baseball cham pionship of. the northwest will be played tomorrow. Recovers From Stroke DAYTON, Aug. 12 Mrs. Charles E. Smith who recently suffered a stroke of paralysis is rapidly recovering. M0 cj rtt! Tirettotte AUT0 mrlT 4 ' SEIYICI STOtES Center and Liberty. - Ph. 0144 cams" ; i i 1 fi Gives you PROOF of Alt i ? nVB STANDARDS FOR. ? - REFRIGERATOR BUYING - - ! Lown oraurma COST . j ; .SArnrooDnoTccTioN Evi ' iot uAnjTY Pmencnon) ) S " 5. nVtVEA PattTCCTION t 1 ' -"; ' . Ny rum - i nrwrsictsx ' ! AS WW AS flth r - RO MONEY Arf " A Exclusive' Frigidaire Dealer Union Station to Be Banquet Hall 5 Oi Power WASHINGTON. Aug. 12.-tiP- Thls American capital has no pal ace "with a banquet hall, so offi cials . arranging the third world power Conference decided today to use the Union railway station. On September 10 the long rows of benches will give way to tables for 3,000 banqueters from 50 na tions, i ' The - noise of "all aboard for Pittsburgh " and the- like will be shut off to some extent by tem porary walling. Train passengers will be shunted around the wait ing room. 5200 Work on Roads PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 12.-W) The federal bureau of public roads said employment in Oregon J or o.zuu men aunng juiy com prised an all-time high mark on highway projects financed in whole or in part with federal funds. Another 1,600 were em ployed in maintenance work on state, forest and park highways, with 700 more in engineering or ganizations. "What a Money-Saver Dodge Is!" r r MRS. MARY RANSOM ' SMITH, falhamt, Nm York. - I'm ' delighted with our. new Dodge! In the first place it's such a gorgeous-looking car. I doubt whether we could find greater riding comfort in any other car... ...It handles like a dream.. .so easy to steer and shift gears and the brakes are marvelous ...and what a money-saver it is... We haveat had to add any oil between regular changes... What's more, our Dodge is giving us at least 7 more miles to the gallon of gas than our old car. No wonder they call it the Money Saving Dodge! NEW LOW FIRST COST now (n C B?BSSjsJTy ONLY Urn Easy tlaAyarraac si to fflfearfceesatat cream -DODGE- iytrimet ofChrytmr Corpormtiom HERR ALL-OWENS CO. "DEPENDABILITY" . 235 8. Commercial Phone 8169 j j.JT - - 'y-y . y ' -. I ...I.IIM l'l Ii III HI- i , I . SI II Folks f Summer's half gone. As usual, we do not liave mnch seasonable merchandise to clean out, but what we do have has been re-priced to go fast. Here they are Come a!nd get them One Group Women's Silk Dresses One Group Women's Silk Dresses . . . . . One Group Knitted and String Dresses . One Group Knitted and String Dresses . . i Women's Siimme One Group Women's Blouses , One Group Men's Sport Suits, One Group Mpij's Sport Suits: Ladies' Hop Picking Gloves . Men's Work Slirts . . . . . Men's Union Spits 1 . . . . Men's Dress Socks . . . . . . . J s' Polo Shirts Men's Polo Shirts - - Bo) Men's Sport Belts . . . . Men's White Summer Belts Men's White Handkerchiefs Men's Swimming Boys9 Svimming Men's Sleeveless Boys' Sleeveless Boys' White Sbcks Men's Work Socks t . Children's Play Suits . . Men's Khald Work Shirts Deauville Sandals i . Women's and Children's White Beach Children's Rayon Women's Chemise i Rayon Tafetta Slips . . . . . . Pure Silk Full Women's Rayori Lace Collars Men's Semi Dress settes f. Marques 50-in. Rayon Drapery Damask . , . .' Mia. White Rjimpna . v r y 16icu Part Dneri Tbweli . SoUd Color Was 72x78 Printed Patchwork Ouilts 66x76 Sheet Blankets . . . . i Ruffled Curtains : ' ... f I 3-pound Cotton 18x36 Solid Color Terry Towels . 36-in House liming ! . . . V . . 39-in. Belle Isle Printed Lawns, Leather Gladstone Cases Hats . . . e - Trunks . Trunks . Sveaters Sweaters . . Chemise Fashioned Hose . lingerie Pants Batts . . . . Unbleached Muslin Voiles, Flaxon . . -" 5G e e ono.oo 0H7.CO 2GC SCO t. 3 for ECO . 021CO 0Co . . HOG . 2 for3G . . . 0H.4Q Sandals SCO 493 . . . . . . . 2 forQCo . EGG IT 5; yards 3G . . OS AQ . QG E3G CV2C3 yard yard yard yard
