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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1930)
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUG. 7, 1930. PAGE THREE SITTING Mr. Charles M. Sheldon, wrote "In His Steps," the book that sold a hundred million copies. I asked him once to tell me about the greatest sermon he ever heard. "I don't know that I can name the greatest sermon," he answered, "but I can tell you about one of the most interesting. "It was in London. The preacher had won a great following by the unusual character of his mind and the directness of his Bpeech. "On this particular morning he startled the congregation with a text which most of them did not know Is in the Bible. "'In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting up on a throne high and lifted up, and his, train filled the temple.' "I wondered what in, the world anybody could find in that text to hang a sermon on. I did not have long to wait "The preacher proceeded in vig orous tones: 'I direct your particular attention to the one word sitting. The great king, Uzziah, had Just passed away. You would expect that there would be excitement and con fusion, in heaven. Angels would be rushing around asking, "What Is go ing to happen?" and "What shall we do?" "'Was that the case? Not at all. Behold the utterly unflustered Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up. ... I want to preach to you about the eternal patience and tranquility of God.' " That story has always stuck in my mind.' I like to think of the picture the little kingdoms of the earth in turmoil, while the Lord sits quietly upon the throne, knowing that time will quiet the turmoil, and that the crisis will pass. If you ever have occasion to write down the attributes that make men successful, do not fail to include staying power. I know a man who has grown rich beyond any of his associates, though he is In many respects the least brilliant of the lot But he had great patience and stickto-it-Iveness. When the others became excited and pessimistic, and sold their stock, he just sat tight. And time and the growth of the country have carried him high. I read about all the men who thought they were smarter than Lincoln Seward and Stanton and Chase and maybe some of them were. But Lincoln had a great phil osophy. When things were at their worst he would say, "This too will pass." Every tough thing passes. Almost every problem becomes less hard under the softening influence of time. And when the turmoil is thickest the wise man climbs up on his great high throne and calmly and quietly sits. INSTITUTE SPEAKER E i-IKir HEM ( FRANK PARKER 1 PORTUGAL Travellers returning from the little-known country of Portugal re port that it is the most honest coun try in the world. In the hotels the key to your room is hung on a hook outside of your door and nobody ever steals anything. You can leave your suitcase, your camera or your overcoat on a railroad train or a station platform or in a parked car on the street, and nobody bothers them. The people are polite and hospitable as well as honest If a sudden shower comes up, house doors open and the occupants ask passersby to stepin for shelter until the rain stops. That sounds like an earthly para dise. It would be perhaps, If Por tugal had a stable government In the last twenty-six years there have been twenty-six revolutions. Under the present President,, General Car mona, the little nation is getting along nicely. POPULATION Early reports from the Census of fice Indicate that the decline in the birthrate in the past ten years is greater than ever. It begins to look as If, In another ten years we will have come to an annual Increase of only 500,000 or less than one half of one percent, in population. And that will have tremendous economic significance. Cities will not grow so fast. Fewer new schools will be needed. Real estate values will not increase so rapidly. Fewer homes will be built The proportion of elderly people to young will be larger, and old age pensions and retirement funds will become matters of prime Importance. Those are not considerations for the distant future. They are based upon facts which are here, now, and may affect economic conditions very soon. SKYSCRAPERS New York's newest skyscraper, to nfimv nn entire cltv block on the East River waterfront at the foot of Wall Street, will be 105 stories high. There Is no economic limit to haicrht vp!nt th congestion of traf fic which comes from crowding so mnnv nunnln Into a small area. 1 Cincinnati has a new solution for the skyscraper problem. A new building going up there will be 46 .)nriAa VitrrVi nnrl will be a combin ation of office buildings, hotel and parking garage, with two large de partment stores and numerous spe cialty shops on the lower noors. in thn nlH dftvs business men and their employees used to live "over the shop." We may be coming back to that in the big cities, with apart- mn( VinimBa In the UDDCr flOOTS tO house the people who work in the Btores and offices below. INSECTS Thn nhr rinv nt mv farm home we started to replace a worn door sill. When we took the old board iv , fmmri that hlack ants had Anton nwnv the heavy timber which forms the sill of the house Itself, for jiiiotiKa nf several feet We took out more than two quarts of ants and about a pint or ant eggs, aim then had the expensive jod oi nt untr a now timhpr In nlace. The war between man and Insects is relentless and unceasing. Along the country roads near my home I frnniiontlv moot this summer the U. S. Department of Agriculture "bug men" who are spraying trees In the offnrt in apt rid of the Japanese kootlo nnr newest insect nest. I found a great colony of tent mothB in an oldpasture beyond my wood lot. A new pest is beginning to eat up our way; another si destroy ing the willows along the brook and river. Most of these pests, like the gypsy moth which is killing the New Eng land elms, and the chestnut blight, which has destroyed every chestnut tree In the East, are Imported. The Government maintains a plant quar antine, but every now and then some new pest slips across the bor der. PRESSURE Ice cream will not melt at a tem perature of 180 degrees is the latest scientific curiosity. It has been pro duced by Professor P. W. Bridgman of Harvard University. All that is necessary to keep ice from melting under a flame is to subject it to a pressure of 290,000 pounds to the square inch. Professor Bridgman's experi ments with high pressure have giv en many surprising results. Many familiar substances change their characters under pressure, much as human beings do. Thirty-nine dif ferent metals become better conduc- H. T. Vance Retail advertising, salesmanship and window trimming are topics covered by Mr. Vance during the two-day business institute held here yesterday and today. tor thm 1 1 1(0)11 I a cup of sugar and two egg whites, t eaten stiff. Cut up a quart of pea . ches in a glass dish and pour the cream mixture over them. The pea ches and the cream should both be chilled through before mixing. Serve them as soon as they are mixed. bu Yaict hart tors of electricity. Some of the changes persist after the pressure is removed. What is the good of such experi ments? Science doesn't know nor care. Science is content to discover new facts, leaving it to inventors to apply them to human uses. Hyslop Returns After Year at Washington D.C. G. R. Hyslop, head of the farm crops department at O. S. C. and one of the most widely known spe cialists among the farmers of Ore gon, has returned to the college af ter a full year spent in Washington D. C. heading a committee appoint ed to investigate grain grades and standards throughout the United States and the administration of the grain division of the bureau of ag ricultural economics. Professor Hyslop first went easi on what was to have been a three months mission for the department of agriculture, but it was later de cided that the committee should study the entire subject more thor oughly and assemble enough data to make specific rather than general recommendations for all grain grades throughout the country. As federal officials asked for re peated extensions of Hyslop's leave rumors spread through Oregon that he was going into the federal ser vice permanently Like the man who came back after being listed as dead, Hyslop says the reports were grossly exaggerated and that he has come back to Oregon with a great deal of information that may be of real value to the North west grain producers. PEACHES Peaches are, and for the next few weeks will be, at their best and cheapest. So have them every day and more than once a day, if your family likes them. And if you use a little imagina tion In serving them there are few families that will tire of them be fore the end of the season. Here are some way3 of using them to suggest new ideas to the cook: Peach Foam Press three or four ripe peaches through a colander making one cup pulp and juice together. Stir one envelope gelatine with one-half cup of sugar and dissolve in one cup of boiling water. Add peach pulp and juice flavored with one tablespoon lemon juice or almond extract and pinch of salt. Set in cool place and when beginning to jell add the well-beaten whites of two eggs, and beat all together until very thick so it will not separate. Pour into molds and set in, cool place until firm Serve with custard sauce. Baked Peaches Plunge the ripe peaches into boil ing water for a moment, then the skins will rub off as easily as the skin of a scalded tomato. Arrange in a rather deep baking dish, sprin kle with sugar, and cinnamon and dot the tops of the peaches with bits of butter. Add a cup of boil ing water to the baking pan and bake in a steady, moderate oven. Serve hot or cold. Peach Fritters Peel and split ripe peaches, sprin kle with powdered sugar and let stand for an hour. Drain, dip in fritter batter, fry brown in deep fat, drain, sprinkle with powdered su gar, and serve. Peach Delight Peel and split ripe peaches and fill a baking dish, sprinkling each layer of fruit with sugar. Dot the top with butter, add a cup of water and sprinkle with flour. Make a crust of one and one-half cups of flour sifted with a little salt and a teaspoon of baking powder, rubbing into the flour and then half a cup of lard and adding ice water to mix. Cover the peaches with a thin sheet of the dough, slit the crust and serve hot with fresh cream. Peach Snow For peach snow, beat a cup of cream until it is stiff and add half AROUND THE STATE WITH FARMERS IRRIGON Mrs. Stegmiller of Walla Walla ir spending a few days in the home of her brother,. Roscoe Williams. Wilbur Stevers, who suffered quite serious injuries in an automo bile accident last Monday evening on the road between Boardman and Irrigon, was able to be removed from the hospital to his home here. An x-ray picture revealed a slight fracture of the skull and a broken nose. He was also cut severely about the face and head. Chase McCoy returned to his home in Portland Sunday after several weeks visit with his uncle, Emmett McCoy. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Jones were Hermiston visitors Friday. Mrs. Roscoe Williams was taken to The Dalles Tuesday and was op erated on Wednesday morning. Lat est reports were that she was get ting along as well as could be ex pected. Nellie Leicht and Billy Markham spent several days last week in Prescott, visiting friends. Bert Dexter left for Wallowa Wednesday where he expects to work in the harvest field. The H. E. club met at the Charles Beneflel home Thursday. A pleas ant social time was spent, the guest of honor being Mrs. Carl Haddox. The members present expressed re gards In the form of many lovely presents. A delicious lunch was served by Mrs. Edith Puckett, sister of Mrs. Haddox. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brace and family, Mr. and Mrs. O. Coryell, Earl Isom and Miss Leach, Will Grabeil and Ruth Bonell and sev eral other young folks motored to Hermiston Sunday evening to see the Vitaphone picture, "The Gold Diggers," and expressed themselves as being well pleased. Oregon City Cooperative experi ments with fertilizers on grain and legumes carried on by County Agent J. Inskeep and several farmers of Clackamas county have shown that combinations of nitrogen and super phosphate are more effective on the grain yield, and that the higher the application of ground limestone the more vigorous the legumes. Farm ers cooperating in the tests are Alfred Anderson of Col ton; J. A. Shibley and Sons of Springwater, and Louis Hoffmeister of Boring. Klamath Falls About half an acre of Minnesota No. 13 corn is be ing grown by Oscar Hommer of Tule Lake in cooperation with County Agent C. A. Henderson to determine its adaptability for this district in regard to frost resistance, maturity and yield. The Dalles A weed spray mach- "What is the name of your car?" "I call her 'Shasta'." "Because she's a 'daisy'?" "No; because she has to have gas, she has to have oil, she has to have air, she has to have something all the time. Ino rioalcnert under the UDervision of W. J. Gilmore. professor of agri cultural engineering at u. a. ino County Agent W. Wray Lawrence, has been Durchased bv Wasco coun ty and will be used for ridding the farms and roadsides or wea pests. The machine will also be made available to farmers at cost Eagle Point This district Is now growing about 2000 acres of Ladino and Alsike clover pasture, which la more than the cattle and sheep can use, reports R. G. Fowler, county agent The seed is sown largely on stony, unplowed ground and with the abundance of water available makes remarkable growth. The new hardware clerk prided himself on always having a snappy comeback. "Do you keep refrigerators?" the timid-looking woman inquired qui etly. "No," he snapped, "we sell them." "Anyway," she said, as she stroll ed toward the door, "youll keep the one you were going to sell me. Good morning." LOW FARES EAST EFFECTIVE MAT 2 TO SEPT. RETURN LIMIT OCT. 31, X93 Reduced fares all part of east; liberal itop overt. Fine train; modern equipment; splendid service; scenic route. Short side trips enable you to viiit ZION NATIONAL PARK GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK ROCKY MOUNTAIN NAT'L PARK Information and Booklet on request y M 1 0 M BOUND TRIP TO DENVER B7.20 OMAHA 7S.0 KANSAS CITY.... 7S.SO ST. LOUIS 8S.60 CHICAGO 00.10 DETROIT 109.92 CINCINNATI 110.40 NEW ORLEANS.. 112.3$ CLEVELAND 112.86 TORONTO 116.90 ATLANTA 121.6S PITTSBURGH 121.06 WASHINGTON....! 15.86 PHILADELPHIA 149.22 NEW YORK 151.70 BOSTON 157.76 Cheater Sarfeee, Affeat, Heppner, Oregon CHEVROLET ANNOUNCES UDE LUXE WIDBJE WMIEIEIL at no extra cost Chevrolet again adds extra value to the Chevrolet Six! Those who prefer may now have any passen ger model equipped with beautiful de luxe wire wheels at no addi tional cost! Designed especially for Chevrolet, these wheels Incor porate many Important features that have won favor on cars much higher in price. And they give an added touch of individuality to a car already famous for its beauty. The Sport Roadster $555 The Coach $565 The Coupe $565 The Sport Coupe $655 A variety oi attractive new colors In addition to this de luxe wire wheel equipment, Chevrolet now makes available a wide choice of rich and distinctive new color combinations on all models. You are invited to come in NOW and attend the first showing of six cylinder Chevrolet models with these new extra-value features. ROADSTER or PHAETON 495 The dub Sedan $665 The Sedan $675 The Special Sedan $725 (6 wire wheels standard on Special Sedan) AUpricttf. o. b. FHnl, Michigan FERGUSON CHEVROLET CO. Heppner, Oregon SIX-CYLINDER SMOOTHNESS AT LOW COST Customers To New A 1( If To Present -Customers : y y Customers.' This community has been good to us so we are going to be good to It! Consequently we have set aside this week as CUSTOMERS' WEEK and have made careful preparations to give you of our best in merchandise, low prices and quick courteous service. Just put us to the test this week let us show you how much we truly appreciate your business. Friday, Saturday, Monday Specials Coffee MacMarr Quality High Grade Blend lbs. $1.05 MALT Puritan Brand A very fine quality. 2 Large Tins 98c COCOA Hershey's, the standard for years. Per Lb. 25c Coffee Our Economy Blend Special lbs. 90c SUGAR Pure Cane and the Price is Right 100 lbs. $5.54 Eggs We pay the same In trade as we sell Per Doz. them for. 20c SOAP P. & G. Quality laundry Soap. 10 Bars 38c SOAP Creme Oil Toilet Soap at a real saving to you. Bars 25c WHEATIES Most Popular Cooked Breakfast Cereal Today. Pkgs. . 25c PI Al ID MAC MARR BLEND, the Favor- 491b. Sack $1.49 rlAJlim ite in the Wegt Per Bb. m u $5.89 Salmon Happy Vule Pink, a fine quality salmon. 2 Large Tins .... 39c Crackers Tru Blu Best Quality Salted or Plain. 3-Lb. Box 49c 6-Ib. Caddy .... 95c FRUIT Pears, Apples, Apricots, Blackberries. S-.1: 59c OATS Sperry' Creme Oots of Fine Quality 9-Lb. Bag 49c LEMONS Large Size Best Quality PER DOZ 45c Pickles Pints of Relish, Mus tard or Plain Sweet. 2 Pint Jars .. 49c Peas, String Beans, Corn, Hominy PER DA OA CASE OA.Ot? Open Evenings Till 9:00 o'Clock for Your Convenience Phone 1082 STONE'S DIVISION Hotel Heppner Bldg.