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THE PRESS, ATHENA; OREGON, JULY 3, 1931
Lack of Finances Presents
a Most Distressing
Situation.
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Eugene. Lack of financial
visions for Oregon Methodist preach
ers presents the most distressing situ,
ation in the experience of Bishop
Edgar Blake of Indianapolis, he told
the Oregon annual conference.
The situation confronting the
Methodist church is applicable to
other church denominations through
out the country, the small town
church being especially in sore finan
cial straits.
After commenting on his world
wide experience as a bishop, includ
ing those in poorer sections of the
South, the bishop ' said, "I do not
think I have presided at a conference
where we have a more distressing
situation than we have here.
"When you appoint a man in the
effective relation to a charge paying
$250 a year, I revolt against it. Some
of the pastoral appointments about
to be made ought not to be made."
The remarks followed passage of a
resolution calling upon the bishop's
cabinet to name a commission to
bring in a plan for a minimum sal
ary within the conference. The bishop
commended the action.
Dr. W. W. Youngson, superintend
ent of Portland district, declared the
problem was intensified by laymen in
sisting on a morning hour service,
contending many problems could be
solved if some of the smaller churches
were put on circuits with one having
an evening service.
Bishop Blake did not concur in this
view. ' ' :
"I do not think any group of lay
men ought to ask a man to consider
a salary below a living wage," he
said, "and furthermore, I think most
of our laymen will be willing to co
operate with us in this situation when
the facts are laid before them prop
erly." The report of the Rev. Earl B. Cot
ton, statistician, showed an average
of 9 per cent reduction within the
conference of pastors' salaries, with
the heaviest reduction on salaries be
low $1000 per year, where the cut
was 18 per cent. Above $1800 the cut,
averaged 1 2-3 per cent.
The year was a hard year generally
for the church, the only outstanding
increase being in Epworth League
work, according to the statistician.
The report showed a decrease of 1141
in church membership, decrease in
baptisms, number of new converts
and in missionary gifts. Receipts for
the retired preachers were off so
heavily that the annuity rate was re
duced $1 to $14 per service year.
One encouraging note in the report
was an increase in per capita giving
between 1912 and this year from
$12.83 to $25.44. The churches raised
a total of $151,967 for benevolences
and $205,850 for ministerial support.
Bishop Blake was moved plainly by
the decrease in membership and the
placement of 5367 names on the non
resident or inactive roll. He ad
monfshed the preachers that too often
they consider their task completed
when the name of a person has been
added to the church roll. He declared
that joining a church had become an
easier task than joining a lodge or
service club, and that the pastors are
not shepherding their flocks properly.
The bishop expressed his willing
ness to eliminate the evangelistic em-
J. T. Jardine Quits Ore
gon State Colleze to
Accept a Federal Pos
Oregon State CoIWp.Th moo
Jardine, director of the agricultural
experiment station has resigned to ac
cept an appointment as chief of the
omce oi experiment stations in the
unnea btates department of agricul
ture at Washington, D. C. it was an.
nounced Sunday. The resignation will
wKe enect August 15.
Although reluctant tn Ion rw
Director Jardine, who came from the
iorest service 11 years ago; said that
his new position is directly in his
chosen field and offers so much more
opportunity for broader work in re
search that he could not . afford to
turn it down. The office is generally
recogmzea as the highest possible in
co-operative agricultural research in
the United States.
feople of Oregon have alwavs
maintained an organization for airri.
cultural research capable of perform.
mg service comparable to the best in
the country," Jardine said in speak
ing oi tne future of experimental
station work in the state. "As the
need lor such assistance is increasing
in the face of competitive conditions
rather than decreasing, Oregon will
meet the need as in the past in a
manner equal to the best general
practice elsewhere."
Coming to Oregon' State collece in
1920, Director Jardine left 13 years
of noteworthy service behind him as
head of the range investigation for
the United States forestry service.
Sacramento Cobra Scare
Recurring and uneasy rumors from
towns in the Sacramento vallev about
the propagation of hooded cobras in
the rice fields will shortly receive the
omcial attention of the federal gov
ernment and the state of California,
it was indicated. From time to time
during the last year rice growers and
farmers near Willows, Chico and
Maxwell, in the Northern California
valley, have reported escapes from
encounters with great hooded snakes,
new to the area and believed by some
to be Indian cobras.
FREE HI
i SOUGHT
FOR WHEAT SALES
Farm Board Head in Favor
of Elastic Policy, Grange
Asks Pledge. .
Unveiled Tablet
Where the county court house now
stands, in 1870 the first school house
in Pendleton, stood. Friday the Pen
dleton Daughters of the American
Revolution unveiled a bronze tablet
commemorating the site of the first
school building.
Youths Face Larceny Charge
James Perkins and William Yeager,
College Place youths, are in the Wal
la Walla city jail charged with petty
larceny. Officers say the boys have
admitted, shoplifting activities in other
stores the last few days. About $80
worth of riding pants, billfolds,
watches, boots and gloves has been
recovered.
Freewater Walkathon
The Red Apple Walkathon is now
walking in the apple1 show pavilion at
Freewater. A number of couples are
polishing off the maple with shoe
leather and entertainment is offered
by the management to interest the
crowds.
Mrs. Esther Rugg
Mrs. Esther Rugg, age 93, the old
est woman residing in Pendleton,
died Sunday at the home of her
daughter near that city. With her
husband she came to Umatilla coun
ty in 1885, settling in the Pilot Rock
region. She is survived by two
daughters and three sons, 19 grand
children and 28 great grand children.
phasis from, the program of the
church for 10 years "if we could have
10 years of shepherding and spiritual
leadership of our people."
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An Associated Press news disiiatch
from Washington says that Chairman
Stone of the farm board nrefers an
elastic policy on the disnositinn nf
stablization of wheat to meet the de
mands of an everchaneine market.
lie indicated this while the board, in
response to requests from President
Hoover, members of congress and
numerous private citizens, was con
sidering a change in policy. Many
gram men have urged that the board
pledge itself not to sell for a fixed and
announced period, any part of the
200,000,000 bushels of wheat held by
the national grain stabilization corporation.
Stone said that under its nresent
policy of selling wheat when market
conditions are favorable, the board
had not engaged in "dumping" ac
tivities and that none was contem
plated. A more rigid policy, he added.
might prove ruinous.
President Hoover's "susreestion"
that policy be reconsidered was made
Saturday.
Vice-President Curtis at Topeka.
Kan., asked the board to hold the
wheat until the price had reached 85
cents or $1.
Stone said millers would need wheat
until the new spring crop reaches the
market, about the middle of August.
They are now buying from the grain
stabilization corporation.
George S. Milnor, president and
manager of the grain stabilization
corporation of Chicago went into a
long conference with Stone and other
board members.
Stone revealed that many millers
and growers had dispatched telegrams
in support of the board's present pol
icy. Fred Brenckman, Washington rep
resentative of the National grange,
said the grange favored a pledge of
non-sale for a year and that its drive
for adoption of the export debenture
farm relief plan would be renewed in
the next congress.
The announcement of a new policy,
Stone said, probably would reduce
United States exports this year, if it
had the effect of raising domestic
prices above world levels. Under such
conditions, he added, a further sur
plus might be piled up in this country.
He predicted an agreement to hold
wheat would have the effect of ex
tending the influence of stabilization
operations for the benefit of winter
wheat growers at the expense of
spring wheat farmers in the north
west.
Baker Rancher Killed
In a Mystery Accident
Homer Bidwell, prominent Eastern
Oregon rancher, well-known as a
breeder of United States cavalry
horses, met death in an undertermin-
ed manner near his home at North
Powder last Saturday afternoon.
Bidwell, about 60 years of age, had
been ploughing in a field on his ranch
on Bidwell hill. About 6 p. m., his
team of horses, drawing the cart in
which he had been riding, appeared-at
his home. Mrs. Bidwell, on her way
to the field, found her husband at the
side of the road near the highway
crossing, not far away. He was rush
ed to the hospital at Hot Lake, where
physicians said he had probably been
killed instantly.
Except for an injury to the head,
the body was unmarked. It was be
lieved at first that his team had run
away, but further investigation de
veloped that the cart had probably
been struck by an automobile at the
crossing. The investigation was con
tinued Sunday.
. Has Oldest Watch
Ben F. Caldwell of Medford has a
watch made in England prior to 1770
to dispute the claim of D. P. Grim, of
Fairbury, Neb., for possession of the
oldest watch privately owned in the
United States. One of Caldwells' an
cestors purchased the watch in Lon
don in 1770 and it was subsequently
brought to this country by one of the
family. '
Body Found in Car
The body of a man, thought to have
been a resident of Medford or vicinity,
found dead in an unsealed car on a
siding at Antelope, near Sacramento,
Cal., Friday has not been identified.
The car was sealed up in Medford,
June 20 and routed south June 21.
The man killed himself with a rifle
found at his Bide.
Bingham Springs Notes
Members of the Kauffman orches
tra which will furnish music for a
series of dances at Bingham Springs,
beginning on July 4, have been decor
ating the dance halL
Thirty-four guests from Pendleton
and twelve from Walla Walla were
at the Springs Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Ross Payne with two classes
from the Baptist Sunday school hiked
over to Bingham Springs Friday from
Cold Springs.
R. L. Wilson and family of Athe
na spent Sunday at Bingham.
Governor Meier Calls
For State-wide Meeting
To Consider a Tax Cut
Salem. Seventy representative citi
zens of Oregon, including at least one
from each county in the state, have
been invited by Governor Meier to at
tend a conference in the canitol here
on Wednesday, July 8, to consider
possible reductions in local tax levies.
In his call for the conference the
governor points out that the function
of the state-wide committee which he
has named will be two-fold:
First: To make a study of local tax
levies and to co-operate with local tax
levying bodies in eliminating waste
and unnecessary expenditures:
second: To make a study of legis
lation enacted by other states for the
control of local budgets and tax
levies and to formulate similar legis
lation for the state of Oregon.
Including state, county, municipal
school district, road district and port
taxes, our annual tax levy approxv
mates ?ou,uuu,uuu," the governor
points out in his invitation to the 70
men to join him in the solution of
the state s tax problem.
"Of this sum less than $7,000,000 is
expended for strictly state purposes,
the balance of more than $43,000,000
representing local expenditures.
It is apparent at a glance that if
any appreciable reduction in tax lev
ies is to be made in Oregon a rigid
retrenchment program must be inaug
urated in each and every one of our
local tax levying subdivisions.
"It is for the purpose of devising
ways and means to launch a program
which will accomplish this end, and
for the formation of legislation that
will, in the future, control local ex
penditures in the state of Oregon,
that a meeting of the committee to
which you have been appointed, is
called."
Members of the statewide commit
tee from this county are E. B. Aid-
rich and James S. Johns, of Pendleton.
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Umatilla Again Scene
of Sternwheel Shipping
Pendleton. A scene that recalled
the days when the town of Umatilla
was a busy mart for river boat ship
ping trade was re-enacted there Fri
day night when the sternwheeler
Umatilla blew its whistle and docked
with a load of wheat sacks for Inland
Empire farmers.
A few of the crowd that attended
the landing could remember when
river -boat whistles were common at
Umatilla, then a stopping place for
steamers loaded with cargoes for
various points of the Columbia basin.
Not a man, woman or child stayed
at home during the excitement over
the Umatilla's arrival, and many per
sons made the 40-mile journey from
Pendleton to witness the event Henry
W. Collins and other officials of the
Farmers' National Grain corporation,
which will distribute the sacks, were
among the Pendleton people present.
The last boat which docked at Uma
tilla was the Umatilla some 14 years
ago. Captain Dave Smith, pioneer
Columbia river boatman, was in com
mand then as he was at the last ar
rival Friday.
The wheat sacks were brought from
California by ocean steamer and
transferred to the Umatilla at Port
land. Totaling 2,500,000, the sacks
are expected to save farmers consid
erable cost in harvesting their crops
this year, due to their cheap transpor
tation and original cost.
A Big Spud Field
Weston Leader: W. L. Rayborn &
Sons, leading growers of certified seed
potatoes in the Weston uplands, had
finished only about half of their plant
ing when the rams came, and expect
to start in again next week. They will
have in all about 45 acres of spuds,
all entered for certification, and
about equally divided between Irish
cobblers and netted gems.
When You Want Parts to repair your Ma
chines, you Want them
Right Away
Attacked by Angry Bull
The Milton Eagle reports that Louis
Jaussaud, a dairyman of the state
line district, received minor injuries
Friday when gored by a bull on his
ranch. He was leading the animal
when it became unruly, throwing him
to the ground and badly bruising his
side and arm. Mr. Jaussaud held onto
the chain, however, and soon had the
animal under control.
Lodge Gets Picnic Grounds
Ralph Folsom, Pendleton undertak
er and a member of the Knights of
Pythias lodge, has given the lodge a
tract of land near Meacham for a
picnic ground. The tract was turned
over to the lodge last week and a
picnic was held Sunday.
First 1931 Wheat
The first new crop wheat of the
season was loaded at Lexington Fri
day for Portland delivery, being con
tracted by the Farmers' National cor
poration. It was Western white, and
the first harvested in the wheat sec
ton this year.
Holds Round-Up Post
Wilson McNary will again be in
charge of the accommodations for the
Pendleton Round-Up in August. This
is his third year at the head of the
department, which provides visitors
with rooms and other accommodations.
Earwigs at Pendleton
Earwigs wfere reported at Pendleton
for the first time when a resi
dent found his place had been invaded
by the pests. City officials are tak
ing steps to control the situation.
don't you? Sure you do. Well we want you to know that we can furnish
repairs for any standard make machine you may have and take care of
your needs as we have in past seasons.
Binding
Twine?
Sure we have it. Lots of it-Superior
nila Binder Twine.
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ROGERS GOODMAN
(A Mercantile Trust)
Unusual Production Rec-
' ord Made by Klamath Cow
Producing 2452 pounds of milk, con
taining 134.9 pounds of butterfat last
month, Friday, a Holstein cow own
ed by C. W. Lewis of Klamath coun
ty, has chalked up a butterfat pro
duction record never before equalled
in Oregon, as far as herd improve
ment association records show, ac
cording to the monthly summary re
port just issued by Roger Morse,
dairy extension specialist at Oregon
State college.
The next highest single month's pro
duction on record was made by a cow
owned by Tippm & Sons of the Til
lamook association for the month of
May, 1924, when she produced 2083
pounds of milk and 131.23 pounds of
butterfat.
Oregon now has 18 active dairy herd
improvement associations, maintain
ed for the improvement of commercial
herds, as compared to 15 last year.
Two of the latest additions are the
Malheur and Douglas county associa
tions.
Fourth Plans Announced
Details for the fourth annual
Fourth of July program under the
auspices of Walter C. Lee post,
American Legion at Walla Walla
were announced Sunday by Joseph
Chamberlain, general chairman. Dis
play of flags and special decorations
have been urged by Mayor Dorsey M.
Hill. The afternoon program will fea
ture races for boys and girls on both
land and water at the city park. In
the evening a fireworks display will
take place at the fairgrounds.
Woman Bitten by Rattler
Mrs. Clarence Haney of Klamath
Falls, was bitten by a small rattle
snake at her home Friday to register
the first accident of this kind for sev
eral years. At one time Klamath
Falls was noted for the great num
ber of rattlesnakes on her hills, bolt
of recent years the poisonous reptiles
have about disappeared. Mrs. Haney
suffered little from the fangs of the
rattler, which was half grown.
Dedicated Airport
Five thousand spectators from Ba
ker and nearby cities was the arrival
of the 40 airplanes with the Pacific
Northwest States Air Tour and the
four-hour program of stunts which
followed at the dedication of Baker's
municipal airport, four miles north of
the city.
Ninety-Ninth Birthday
Mrs. Mattie Hoon, known to every
one in the Walla Walla valley as
Grandma Hoon, celebrated her 99th
birthday anniversary at her home at
State Line, Tuesday of lat week.
About 40 of the venerable lady's
friends called during the day to offer
their congratulations. .
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AIDVERTDSDNG?
"Advertising is the education of the public
as to what you are, where you are, and what
you have to offer in the way of skill, talent or
commodity. The only man who should not
advertise is the man who has nothing to offer
the world in the way of commodity or servicer-Elbert
Hubbard.
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