THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, JULY 24, 1931
ROUND-UP
PLANS
STARTING WELL
Pendleton Interest Centers
in Big Annual Frontier
Event.
Pendleton. With the " Round-Up
more than a month away, Pendleton
is already taking time from its wheat
harvesting and othqr private business
to think, talk and plan for the city's
biggest event. The 22d annual Round
Up, with its pioneer night pageant,
Happy Canyon, will be staged August
27, 28 and 29.
Though contestants do not register
until the week before the show, word
has come that the southwest will
probably be represented by the larg
est number of top hands it has ever
sent. This word was brought, as is
usual, by an occasional letter or by
riders, ropers and bulldoggers passing
through here.
At least two famous strings of re
lay and flat race horses will compete.
McCarty & Elliott will bring their
horses from Chugwater, Wyo., and
George Drumheller's will come from
Walla Walla, Wash. Fierce-bucking
Brahma steers will also be brought
by the former outfit.
Riders in the world's bucking con
test will face at least one horse that
has never yet been ridden. That is
Midnight, a big black animal. The
riders refused to accept him in the
bucking contest last year, but this
year, the management declares, Mid
night will be in the finals whether
they like it or not. He is an even
more vicious bucker than Long Tom,
of unpleasant memory to many top
riders.
Mabel Strickland, now of Burbank,
Cal., one of the Round-Up's most bril
liant stars of years past, will be back
to ride Drumheller's relay string,, to
top buckers and to rope. Sheis rec
ognized as the best woman steer-roper
in Round-Up records. Another en
trant in women's relay events will be
Vera McGinnis, who has been jockey
ing at Tia Juana and Agua Caliente.
Bob Crosby, Monument, N. M., who
won permanent possession of the
Roosevelt trophy in 1928, is under
stood to be returning to offer stiff
competition to Jake McClure, Loving-,
ton, N. M., who got a leg up on the
Sam Jackson trophy last year.
Other top hands reputed to be look
ing toward the Round-Up are Dick
Shelton, Fort Worth, Tex., bulldog
ging champion in 1928 and 1929; Carl
Arnold, Phoenix, Ariz., star roper;
Big Terminal Elevator
Goes Into Possession of
National Corporation
Chicago.-Negotiations for the pur
chase of the Soo Line terminal eleva
tor at Minneapolis have been practic
ally completed, it is announced by the
Farmers National Grain Corporation.
The house has a capacity of 2,300,
000 bushels, is of modern concrete
construction and electrically equipped
for fast operations. Sufficient ground
for additional storaere BDace shnnlH it
be found desirable later, is included in
the purchase. ;
The eTain COrnoratinn also nnnnimr.
ed the leasing of 23 warehouses and
elevators in the intermountain states
of Idaho and Utah. Several other
elevators have been Durchased or lo
cated in the Colorado territory, insur
ing stockholders of the grain corpora
tion in the three states efficient ser
vice in the handling of the new crop.
"Acquisition of elevator and ware
house properties in the intermountain
territory, following the launching of
a $1,000,000 facilities program in the
Pacific northwest, puts the national
grain cooperative in a strong position
for the handling of the grain business
of these two territories," said C. E.
Huff, president of Farmers National
Grain corporation. "Facilities built
and to be built or acquired in the Pa
cific Northwest include not only ware
houses, but considerable storage space
both at the important terminals and
inland,"
BULK METHOD BEST
FOR GRAIN GROWERS
Study of Northwest Farms
Reveals Savings Except
on Steep Land.
Harvest of Peas Begins
Harvesting Australian peas for seed
has begun in the Dayton vicinity and
mowing with a side delivery attach
ment in o nine-acre upland field in the
E. M. Alderman farm in the Union
vale neighborhood. The threshing will
be done with a combine. .....
r Wheat Sacks Take Fire
A smut explosion in a stack of sack
ed wheat was believed to be responsi
ble for a fire at Vanderahe brothers
ranches near Milton. Between 800 and
1000 sacks of grain were destroyed.
Dick Ti'uitt, Okmulgee, Okla., steer
roping champion in 1929; Pete Knight
Calgary, bucking champion at Pendle
ton, Cheyenne and Calgary last year;
Turk Greenough, Jackson Hole, Wyo.,
roper and E. Pardee, La Junta, Colo.,
another roping specialist. ,
Ed Wright and his educated mule
will be. among the clown riders
Wright is an all-around hand cap
able of entering any of the contests.
Principal events prior to the Round
Up will be the arrival of the Texas
longhorns about August 5 and the
dress-up parade the night of August
15. Dan Clark general livestock agent
for the Union Pacific, is now pur
chasing the cattle in the southwest.
Oregon State ColWe Rnvin era nf
from 3 to 4 cents per bushel in
production costs will be made thin
year by farmers equipped to handle
their grain in bulk instead of-, in
sacks, judging from findings set forth
in a preliminary renort on a thorough
study of this question just released by
the Oregdn State college experiment
station. U. W. Kuhlman of the farm
management department of the ex
periment station cooperated with the
lederal department of agriculture and
men from the Idaho and Washington
experiment stations in making an
actual field survey of 316 typical
grain farms during the harvest sea
son. ,
Two important factors were found
to delay the more general use of bulk
handling. These are the rough topo
graphy of many fields which are not
Suitable for combine harvesting in
bulk handling facilities at local ship
ping points.
"Bulking machinery for use on level
land has long since passed the experi
mental stage," says the report.
"Where grain is bulked directly from
combine to shipping point, little out
lay is necessary in converting sack
equipment for bulking. With the
present meagre facilities at most
country shipping ppints, however,
few growers may enjoy this change
without overtaxing these facilities, i
"Farm storage, on the other hand,
was found to be more expensive for
the average farmers than commercial
storage at regular rates. The inabil
ity to obtain loans on farm-stored
grain and the lack of an entirely
adequate system of improved roads to
permit delivery at any season, are
factors further discouraging farm
storage."
The preliminary report concludes
that while an ultimate shift to bulk
handling is desirable over much of
the northwest, the change would best
be made cautiously to make sure of
shipping facilities. In many instances
such facilities may have to wait until
growers are able to erect them by co
operative effort.
George Winship who now makes
his headquarters in Pendleton was a
business visitor here last Friday.
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PARAFFIN IASI g 'j' M
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Germ Processed Motor Oil; so rapidly has its use
increased, that we are pleased to announce a
reduction in price from 35 to 30 per quart.
effective immediately.
To this substantial method of showing our appre
ciation we add our sincere thanks to the thou
sands of motorists who have come to depend on
Conoco Germ Processed Motor Oil as the only
motor oil that gives penetrative lubricity.
CO N T I N E N TA L 01 L C O M P A N Y
.. CONOCO PRODUCTS SOLD BY .gg;
ATHENA SERVICE STATION
' Bryce Baker, Proprietor ,; ,
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Farm Debt Moratorium
Gains Favor in Kansas
and Southwest Section
A Kansas City dispatch of Saturday
says a movement for an informal
moratorium on farm debts, unparal
leled in the history of the Southwest,
gained strength throughout the Kan
sas wheat belt.
Farmers, business men and bankers
alike showed increasing determina
tion to take whatever steps were nec
essary to save at least a little cash
from the greatest wheat crop the ter
ritory has ever known. .
The continued drop in receipts of
grain at terminals offered positive
evidence that growers, aided by their
creditors, were determined to hold as
much of their huge stocks of grain
as possible for an expected rising
price.
Only 1036 cars of wheat rolled into
Kansas City, as compared with al
most 1500 cars a week ago, and the
market held welL There was strong
demand, and closing prices were un
changed to cent off, while cash
prices showed an even slighter sag.
The move to aid the farmer through
allowing him a little extra time in
which to meet his debts was assum
ing increasing scope with every pass
ing hour. Bankers and merchants met
with their farmer-debtors, and be
tween them worked out plans for their
own informal moratoriums.
Storekeepers who could find a place
to store grain accepted wheat in pay
ment of bills at prices 15 to 25 cents
above the market. Bankers and im
plement men were giving postpone
ments of weeks or months for farm
ers to settle with them.
In several known cases, farmers
who accepted the offered price were
permitted to keep their elevator
checks to get a new start for the next
year.
Efforts for an organized morato
rium on debts continued. Congress
man Edgar C. Howard of Nebraska
was en. route to Washington to pre
sent to President Hoover his plea for
a five-year postponement of farm
mortgages.
Pressure still was being brought on
the federal farm board for a definite
statement it will hold its 200,000,000
bushel old crop surplus until the new
crop has moved.
The Daily Drovers Telegram of
Kansas City, Kan., saw hope, for a
rising price in the fact that prices
sagged only 1 cent in the 10 days
from July 6 to 16, in which record re
ceipts of wheat reached Kansas City.
The strong demand indicates, the pa
per said, that prices will rise as re
ceipts fall.
Certainly that is the view of the
farmer. A few days ago he chucked
his crop overboard at market prices.
Monday, in fighting spirit, he sought
any way that might enable him to
hold it
Walla Walla Wheat
Samples Look Better
Last week reports received from
Portland on grading Walla Walla
new crop wheat were very discourag
ing to valley growers. Now the Wal
la Walla Union reports:
After noting that the first certi
fied wheat samples received from
Portland were light and smutty, grain
dealers of the district have expressed
themselves as agreeably surprised
with the latest samples, many of
which tested . highly. Hard winter
wheat from Stone and Pleasant View
stations showed over 60 pounds to the
bushel with no smut while western
red at Packard station also graded
No. 1.
Hard winter samples from Clyde
showed 60 pounds to the bushel with
no smut while eastern red from the
same district was 58 pounds with one
half per cent of smut. One Walla
Walla station sample was very light,
a western white with No. 4 grade and
two per cent smut.
These samples were taken as re
presentative by most of the dealers as
the farmers are now well out in their
fields.
More Pigs This Fall
Figures gathered by Oregon State
College indicate that about eight per
cent more pigs " may be raised this
year, the largest increase in prospsct
being in fall pigs although there was
an increase in spring pigs. The west
ern states,, especially the coast states
show the greatest prospective in
crease in percentage, but in actual
numbers the corn states are expected
to increase the most.
McNaught Family Leave -The
C. S. McNaueht family have
sold their holdings at Hermiston and
departed for Portland, where they
will reside. They were one of the hrst
familip tn nettle on the Umatilla pro
ject, and Mr. McNaught was promin
ent in civic art airs oi ms community.
He will open an office at Portland
where he will handle sales of alfalfa
hay.
.FARM MOTiWY
Wheiv You Want Paris to repair your Ma
chines, you Want them 7
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. s V
Binding
Twine?
7ri
- Sure we have it. Lots of it-Superior
I nila Binder Twine.
Ma-
ROGERS M GOODMAN
. (A Mercantile Trust)
Hoss Still Favors a
Cut in Auto License
Salem. The proposal of the Ore
gon Tax Conservation league to re
duce the cost of motor vehicle license
fees from 25 to 33 1-3 per cent, has
received the approval of Hal E. Hoss,
secretary of state. Hoss has jurisdic
tion of the state .motor vehicle depart
ment. Hoss declared in a statement that
he would go a step farther, than the
conservation league and reduce the
motor vehicle license fees 50 per cent.
He also went on record in favor of a
5-cent gasoline tax, which would be
distributed so as to give the counties
an opportunity to recoup the losses in
revenue they would receive when the
license fees were reduced.
Huseby-McEwen
A wedding of much interest to the
friends of the contracting parties,
was the marriage Friday at Milton of
Miss Mary Eleanor McEwen and Paul
Gilmore Huseby. The officiating
clergyman was Rev. T. S. Wheeler,
who performed the ceremony at the
home of the bride's parents. A wed
ding breakfast was served immediate
ly after for about 49 guests and the
young people left for a honeymoon on
the coast. In about ten days they
will be at home to their friends at
Matheson, California, where Mr.
Huseby is a mining engineer.
Milton Wheat Harvest
The harvest in the Milton district
was at its peak this week, with many
machines completing the season s
run. The yield can be said to be
much better than was anticipated at
the beginning of harvest, but the
quality is not up to the usual 'stan
dard, due to a period of hot weather
pinching the grain.
Trapped Cat Bites Girl
Miss Annie McDevitt was badly bit
ten in both hands Friday by a cat
which was caught in a coyote trap on
the McDevitt ranch near Heppner. On
finding the cat she tried to release it,
but the animal, crazed- with pain,
fastened its teeth in one hand. She
attempted to pry its jaws open and
in so doing was bitten on the other
hand. She was taken to Heppener to
a physician, who dressed the wounds
and gave tetanus antitoxin.
A National Figure
J. C. Penney, organizer of the J
C. Penney system of stores and a na
tional figure in the financial and mer
cantile world, will speak at the mem
bership dinner of the Pendleton cham
ber of commerce, July 28. While in
Pendleton Mr, Penney will be the
guest of J. E. Akey of the Penney
store in that city.
Fire in Weston Hotel
Fire Friday morning broke out in
the upstairs rooms of the brick Wes
ton hotel building. After an hour's
work on the part of volunteer firemen
the flames were brought under con
trol The loss ii estimated at 25W.
New Lookout Tower
The forest service is building a
lookout tower about 70 feet high at
the Bone Springs ranger station 40
miles northeast of Tollgate, near the
Skyline road reports the Leader. The
superstructure is of huge logs bolted
together, and these will be surmount
ed by a convenient log cabin from
which the forest fire lookout may
make his observations. '
New Project Settlsrs
A number of new settlers have re
cently .come to the Westland irriga
tion district, on the west side of the
Umatilla river in the Hermiston dis
trict and took advantage of cheap
land there to make homes. Water has
been plentiful this season and newly
seeded alfalfa fields have been turn
ing out well. The second cutting of
hay there promises to be a bumper
crop.
Fractured a Vertebra
Earl Diviney, an employe of tho
city of Milton, who fell from a tree
last week fracturing a vertebra, is
improving at the St. Mary's hospital
at Walla Walla. It is said that he
will be in the hospital about eight or
ten weeks to allow the injury to heal
properly.
Recovering From Injuries
Elvin Mays, the young man who
was injured at the Corwin ranch near
Pilot Rock last week, , when a der
rick fork fell on him, is reported to
be recovering at St. Anthony's hos
pital. He suffered a fractured skull
and a broken leg.
JJL
Take the
. Seed Experimentation
Weston Leader: The Weston Moun
tain Seed Potato Improvement asso
ciation, whose membership comprises
ten leading growers, is experimenting
this year with certified netted gems
from Montana with a view to improv
ing its own product. Each of the as
sociation a ten members has planted
several sacks of the Montana seed in
"tuber unit."
Improving Airport
Airway engineers from Salt Luke
City and Washington, D. C, are mak
ing improvements at the Meacham
emergency airport for convenience of
the Varney airmail line. So far sites
have been laid out for radio and tele
type buildings. The runways are also
to be reconstructed.
IB C-
Old Home Burned Down
While Mr. and Mrs. Phil Worth
stood helpless, flamcg destroyed their
home in Walla Walla which had been
theirs 38 years. The building was a
total loss and was uninsured. Firemen
were summoned, but were unable to
check the blaze.
IMPORTANT
SCHEDULE CHANGES
Effective Saturday, July 25th
TO PENDLETON
7:50. A. M., 12:35 I. M 3:55 P, M., 9:20 P. M.
TO MILTON AND WALLA WALLA
8:55 A. M 11:10 A. M 3:10 P. M, 5:50 P. M,
TO PORTLAND
7:30 A. M., 12:35 1. M., !h20 1. M.
TO 11AKEU, DOISE AND EAST
3:55 P. M., 9.20 P. M.
For further information refer to
GORDON M. W ATKINS