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Volume 48, Number 6.
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, Apr. 23, 1931.
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OBSERVE
CHILD HEALTH DAY
Parade, Track and Field
Meet to Feature Pro
gram at Heppner.
MANY TO TAKE PART
Morning Set for Examination Rural
Children by Doctors, Dentists;
Nurse Makes Statement N
Saturday, May 2, will be observed
as Child Health day in Heppner
when several hundred school chil
dren from all over the county will
participate in events arranged for
the day's observance. Nine schools
have already signified their inten
tion of entering the health parade,
scheduled for 1 o'clock in the after
noon, announces Edith M. Stallard,
county nurse. At 1:30 will start the
grade school boys' track and field
meet at Rodeo field, with all grade
school boys of the county eligible,
and in which Heppner alone will
have 97 entrants.
The morning has been especially
reserved for examination of rural
school children by Heppner doctors
and dentists. Free examination of
all rural children applying at their
offices will be made.
Maypole Dance to be Given.
The entry of Heppner school in
the health parade will be a Maypole
dance, being coached by Miss Juan
ita Leathers. Girls included are
Ethel Hughes, Lydia Ulrich, Edith
Barlow, Ella Ohleschlager; Olivia
Baldwin, Helen Cunningham, Mar
garet Farley, Roseanna Farley, Na
omi Furlong, Jesse French, Pauline
Piercey, Francis Rugg, Katherine
Healey, Ilene Kilkenny, and Mary
Adklns. Different kinds of health
work will be depicted by other
schools, among whom are Golden
West, Davis, Cecil, lone, Lexington,
Eight Mile, Pleasant Point, Irrigon
and Strawberry. It is expected that
some schools not entering will place
health displays In local store win
dows. Neil Shulrman, athletic director
of the Heppner schools, is director
of the track and field meet which
will be conducted on a point system
with a loving cup award going to
the school obtaining the most points
in all events, pennants for winners
in the weight events, and ribbons
for winners in the track events. '
Earl Thomson will be head an
nouncer, and officials named are D.
T. Goodman, head clerk; W. R.
Poulson, dashes; Paul Menegat,
shot put; Hardid Buhman, high
jump; G. E. Tucker, baseball throw;
E. W. Ingalls, running broad Jump;
Harry Tamblyn, standing broad
jump. The small admission charge
of 10 cents will be made to pay ex
pense of awards.
The health day Is being sponsored
by the schools, the Morrow County
Public Health association and Miss
Stallard. The latter issued yester
day the following statement con
cerning the day and health work
generally; ;
Many Children Defective.
"The White House conference on
Child Welfare discovered there are
in Oregon approximately 250,000
children reasonably normal; 46,000
Improperly nourished; 7,600 having
defective speech; 7,800 having weak
and damaged hearts; 5,000 present
ing behaviour problems; 3,000 men
tally retarded; 2,000 tubercular; 2,
000 having impaired hearing; 125
totally deaf; 300 partially blind; 100
wholly blind; 1500 delinquent, and
3000 dependent. The question to In
terest us Is what part of these de
fectives are Morrow county's. The
county nurse Is cooperating with
the doctors and dentists of this
county in endeavoring to have ev
ery child attending school and those
to start to school next fall have a
physical and dental examination by
the first of May. This Is National
Child Health day. On May second
the doctors and dentists will exam
Ing all rural children applying at
their offices for such examinations.
"The Morrow County Public
Health association held a meeting
the night of April 13. Sadie Orr
Dunbar and Mrs. Stuart of Pendle
ton were the speakers of the eve
ning. There were representatives
from Hardman, Lexington, Heppner
and lone. Rev. W. W. Head of lone
was elected to fill Mr. George Mc
Duffee's unexpired term as presi
dent. Also Mrs. Edwin Ingalls ac
cepted the chairmanship.
Furpose of Work Cited.
"It was voted at the meeting to
set the requirement for membership
to be an Interest in promoting a
public health program and dues of
25 cents per member. Anyone wish
ing to join may Inform Mrs. Edwin
Ingalls of Lexington. The mem
bership will be appreciated.
"This organization is created only
to further a working Interest In our
county In bringing about the full
realization of President Hoover's
statement to the White House con
ference; 'The passion of the Amerl
can fathers and mothers Is to lift
children to higher opportunities
than they themselves enjoyed. It
burns like a name in us as a people.
Indeed, human progress marches
only when children excell their par
ents"
Edna Ferber's CIMARRON, Star
Theater, Sunduy and Monday.
Gooseberry Spring Named
Before Mr. Esteb Came
Mel Humphreys, who was in the
city for a short time on Monday
while looking after business Inter
ests, is quite sure that the naming
of the Gooseberry spring on what
is now known as the Jake Young
place, occurred many years prior to
the coming of I. R. Esteb to Mor
row county, though it may be true
as Mr. Notson stated in last issue
of the Gazette Times, that Mr. Es
teb was responsible for the name
being applied to the postofflce at
the time it was established, and
when he was commissioned its first
postmaster.
Mr. Humphreys came to this
county in the early part of 1872, and
has been a resident here since. He
drove cattle here and a camp was
made at this spring, known then
as "Gooseberry," and it has always
borne that name, derived, Mr. Hum
phreys says, from a thriving goose
berry bush growing just above the
spring. This bush was there when
he made his first camp and so re
mained for a great many years
thereafter. This spring undoubted
ly gave the name to the community,
according to his way of reasoning.
Mr. Humphreys also states that
he helped with the building of the
store of Spencer brothers at the
mouth of McKinney creek, assisted
them in opening up the first ship
ment of goods and was a clerk in
the store for some six months. At
this time there were very few set
tlers on Rhea creek and no fences
in the country; bunchgrass was lux
uriant and livestock thrived tre
mendously. Mr. Humphreys later
located on the place where he lives
and engaged in stockraising and
farming. The store of Spencer bro
thers afterwards was moved to
Heppner and stood on the corner
where the First National bank is
now located, for a great many
years.
Maybe someone else can throw
light on this question, which bids
fair to become relatively important
with the famous Blue Bucket mine,
concerning which much has been
written, but the location of which
still remains a mystery.
Heppner Party Braves
Central Oregon Gale
Dust, so thick at intervals it
turned day into night, carried by a
hard eastern wind, gave a party of
Heppner people an unusual exper
ience while returning from Bend
yesterday. Included in the party
who had been to Bend to attend a
convocation of Episcopal churches
on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
were Rev. and Mrs. B. Stanley
Moore, Mr. Moore's mother, W. O.
Dlx, Mrs. Olive Frye and Mrs. Gay
M. Anderson.
The sand storm, reported by trav
eling men to have been one of the
worst in years, was so bad that it
obscured the road from view en
tirely at times, Mr. Moore said this
morning, and it made progress ex
tremely difficult. Two motorists
who became stalled were assisted
by the Moore car, one being towed
for a couple of miles and the other
for seven miles. At Shaniko where
the home folks were greeted by
Earl Hallock, formerly of Heppner,
the wind had lifted part of the roof
from the warehouse. At Culver it
was reported that half of a store
building had been blown away in a
nearby town and one terson in
jured. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Phelps,
Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Phelps, and
the O. M. Whittingtons, former
Heppner folk, were visited at Bend,
and they saw Ray Rogers, native
Heppner boy, at Redmond.
Wienie Roast and Dance
Scheduled for May 2nd
As a park and playground benefit
a big wienie roast and dance will be
sponsored by Heppner Post No. 87,
American Legion, at the Fair pa
vilion on Saturday, May 2nd. The
wienie roast will be held outside the
pavilion, commencing probably at
6:30, and all of the materials neces
sary to make a good wienie feed will
be given out for the price of 25
cents, each person being expected
to roast his own wienies over the
fires which will be provided. Fol
lowing the "catments the dance
will commence in the pavilion, and
for this part of the evening's en
tertainment many special features
are being prepared. The charge for
the dance will be 60 cents per cou
ple and 10c for extra ladies and
spectators.
Preliminary plans for the devel
opment of the park and playground
were discussed at Monday evening's
meeting of the post, and It Is ex
pected that trees will soon be set
out and the work started.
NEW BARBER SHOP OPENS.
Ambrose Chapln, recently of Co.
qullle, Oregon, is opening up a bar
ber shop in the Arthur Smith build
ing on Main street, and expects to
be ready for business the first of
the coming week. He will have as
sociated with him Marie Williams
of Portland, licensed beauty expert,
and all work coming under this
head will be handled In the shop
Mr. Chapln was for a time employ
ed In the shop of E. E. Clark In this
city, having been a resident here
some two years ago. Mr. Chapln
and family will reside near the
school house.
STAR TO INITIATE.
Ruth Chapter O. E. S., will put on
degree work at Its regular meeting
tomorrow evening. There will be a
social hour, and Vivian Ball, secre
tary, urges a large attendance of
members.
PILOT ROCK WINS
ON LOCAL LINKS
Heppner Loses First Tournament
Medal Play, 1182-1266, In 15
Man Combat; Stanton Low.
Members of the Heppner Golf
club took part in their first tourna
ment Sunday, when 15 of them en
gaged 15 golfers from the Pilot
Rock club on the local links. In
eighteen holes of medal play the
vistors downed the local boys 84
strokes, with Tom Stanton, who
plays Sunday at Pendleton for the
Umatilla county cup, hanging up
the low tournament score of 77.
The tournament drew more than
usual attention of the town to the
course, and numerous spectators
formed galleries about the greens
to watch the heat of battle. Total
score for Pilot Rock was 1182; for
Heppner, 1266.
Stanton made the initial round of
the nine holes ni 42 strokes, and
apparently having solved its pecu
liarities came back in the second
round to set a new course record of
35. While par for the course, figured
according to distance of holes, is 31
the rough terrain of the fairways
and uncertain texture of the sand
greens makes par shooting extreme
ly difficult.
Gay M. Anderson led the scoring
for the locals with 84, with Roy
Ohleschlager, club president, trail
ing second wtih 89. Anderson and
Ohleschlager, who played in the
same foursome, were the only team
to outpoint their opponents. Other
local men participating were D. A.
Wilson, C. L. Sweek, Earl Gilliam,
Leonard Gilliam, W. G. McCarty,
Ed Piercey, Mark Merrill, L. Van
Marter, Ed Bennett, Frances Doher-
ty, C. G. Norris, W. R. Poulson and
Alva Jones.
The visitors were entertained at
luncheon by the local club follow
ing the tournament, and highly
complimented the treatment re
ceived. It is expected a return match will
be arranged to be played on the
Pilot Rock course in the near fu
ture. President Ohleschlager has
also started negotiations with the
Arlington club for a tournament
Professional, Business
Women Form New Club
A new women's organization, hav
ing for its purpose the promotion
of civic projects and especial wel
fare of the business and profession
al women, is the Heppner Business
and Professional Woman's club, or
ganized last Sunday afternoon at
American Legion hall. The new
club is a branch of a national or
ganization, widely recognized. To
assist in the organization, Miss
Gish, state president of Portland,
and 12 members of the Pendleton
club and 3 from The Dalles were
present.
Officers elected were Mrs. W. R.
Poulson, president; Mrs. Earl W.
Gordon, vice president; Ruth Fur
long, recording secretary; Helen
Curran, corresponding secretary;
Lillie Alllnger, treasurer; Beth
Bleakman, publicity; Mrs. Lucy E.
Rodgers, chairman of the educa
tional committee; Edith J. Stallard,
membership and emblem; Juanita
Leathers, program.
U. P. to Pay $45,828.55,
Half Tax; on May 5th
Promptly on May 5 Morrow coun
ty will receive a $45,828.55 tax pay
ment from the Union Pacific sys
tem, which represents the first half
of the Union Pacific's 1930 tax, pay
ments of which will be due on that
date. "Payment of the last half will
fall due on November 5.
According to L. W. Hobbs, tax
agent of the railroad, the Union
Pacific's total tax in Oregon for
1930 amounts to $1,295,868.22 which
places the road among the heaviest
taxpayers in the state. The sum of
almost one and one-third million
dollars is allocated as follows: ed
ucation, 51.04 pet.; roads 20.896 pet.;
cities, 12.15 pet.; county general,
10.409 pet.; state general, 2.649 pet;
World War veterans, 1.469 pet.-;
ports, 1.069 pet; water districts,
133 pet; soldiers relief .099 pet; na
tional guard, .073 pet.
Earl Thomson Speaks
In Portland Tomorrow
Delivering his original oration on
the constitution of the United
States, Earl Thomson, Heppner
high school student, will be one of
eight contestants appearing In the
state oratorical contest at Portland
tomorrow. Thomson won the right
to represent his district, comprising
territory from The Dalles to La
Grande, when he placed first In the
contest at Pendleton two weeks ago.
The contest Is sponsored jointly by
the University of Oregon, Oregon
State Bar association and the Port
land Oregonian.
Should Thomson win at Portland
he would be entitled to represent
the state In the Pacific coast divis
ion of the national oratorical con
test, to be held at Los Angeles.
ATTEND DECLAMATORY MEET
A number from Hcpnper attend
ed the declamation finals at Arling
ton on Saturday evening, among
them being Lucy E. Rodgers, coun
ty school superintendent, Edith J.
Stallard, county nurse, W, R. Poul
son, superintendent Heppner school
and Mrs. Poulson, Mrs. E. E. Rugg
of Rhea creek, Mrs. Earl Gordon
and Harold W. Buhman, grade prin
cipal of Heppner school.
BALL SEASON OPENS
WITH HOT BATTLE
Locals Defeated 13-14 by
lone After Leading 8-2
At Mid-Game.
GOOD PLAYING SEEN
Nice Stops, Catches, Throws and
Many Hits Thrill Fans; Wilcox
Works Good on Mound.
Where Teams Flay Next I
Heppner at Rufus; Arlington at Con
don; Fossil at lone.
lone won the opening game of the
Wheatland league series here Sun
day afternoon 14-13, but not until
after local fans had experienced all
the thrills of victory. Heppner ap
parently had the game sewed up S-2
when the fateful sixth inning rolled
around. Then it was that the pitch
ing arm of Ralph Wilcox, who had
been having little trouble with the
visiting batsmen, gave out a crack
on the elbow by a pitched ball while
at bat was largely responsible and
the lone rally started. Hank Rob
ertson, out of condition because of
insufficient work-out, succeeded and
was replaced by Lowell Turner in
the seventh with the score 9-8 for
lone. Turner was unable to stop
the onslaught and was relieved by
Roy Gentry in the eighth, after
lone had run the score up to 14.
Gentry proved the proper medicine,
holding the opponents scoreless.
The locals, who scored in every
inning but one, continued to land
on Larry Ritchie's deliveries and
with the score at the final figure in
the ninth, there still remained hope
of victory with men on first and
third, but Ritchie proved master of
the situation when he whiffed the
batsman for the third out.
Gentry Goes at Short.
There was some loose playing in
spots as indicated by the seven er
rors for lone and five for Heppner,
but at no time was there a general
blow-up on either side, ana the
edge was taken off the raggedness
by much nice fielding and hitting
on both sides.
Harold Gentry, local shortstop,
gave fans their mons worth by
beautiful fielding of his position and
some spectacular "pegs" along with
clouting three clean hits. The work
of Bob Correll behind the bat
showed that Heppner need have no
worries about this position. Bus
Gentry, playing without previous
work-out, looked like a veteran on
first base and made a couple of
smoky ground balls look like cream
puffs. Neil Shulrman had some
hard luck at the keystone sack, but
played some real baseball. Carl Ca
son was up to his old tricks at rac
ing up against the grandstand to
snag fly balls off third base. Low
ell Turner in midfield made the
fielding record of the day, with six
pretty catches. Jap Crawford and
Doc Shearer in left and right pas
tures each got a chance on which
they produced. There were 17 home
boys out in uniform all told, all of
whom couldn't get a chance Sun
day, and some of the fellows who
didn't get in give promise of mak
ing good.
Lundell Hits Triple,
Akers, lone catcher, led in hitting
for his team with three safe blows,
while Frank Lundell got the longest
clout of the day, a three-bagger.
Next Sunday the Heppner aggre
gation goes to Rufus to play the
Rufus-Blalock team. Morrow coun
ty fans may see lone and Fossil In
action at lone.
Friday evening a benefit dance for
the Heppner team is being staged
at the fair pavilion.
Box score and summary:
lone, 14 Ali R H PO A E
N. Swanson, 1 4 1 2 0 0 0
Turker, m 6 2 1 3 0 0
R. Lundell, s 6 1 2 2 3 4
Rietman. 3 6 12 14 1
Ritchie, p 6 110 11
O. SwanHon. 1 5 2 1 9 0 1
Akers. c 4 3 2 11 1 0
F. Lundell, r 5 2 2 0 0 0
Mason, 2 4 1112 0
45 14 14 27 11 7
Heppner, 13
H. Gentry, 9 6 1 3 S 2 0
Canon, 3 6 0 0 1 0 0
Correll, c 4 2 15 11
Turner, m 5 1 8 6 0 0
B. Gentry, 1 5 0 0 5 0 1
Robertson, r 4 1 1 1 0 0
Shulrman, 2 5 2 1 3 2 2
Wilcox, p 12 1110
Crawford, 1 4 2 110 0
Shearer, r 11110 0
R. Gentry, p 0 1 0 0 2 1
Hayes, 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
42 13 11 27 8 5
Struck out by Ritchie 9. by Wilcox 1,
by Robertson 2. hv Gentr y 2.
First base on balls off Ritchie 1. off
Wilcox 2, off Turner 2; Hit by pitcher.
Ritchie 2. Robertson 3. 3-base hit, F.
Lundell.
HUNTERS ATTENTION.
All who wish to participate In the
Lions club Crow-Magpie contest are
requested to sign up immediately
at Patterson & Son drug store. The
contest is not limited to members
of the Lions club. Those signing up
will be divided equally into two
teams, and the losing side (the side
bringing In the fewer birds' heads
and eggs) will entertain the win
ning side at a banquet at the close
of the contest. Costs nothing to en
ter, and there's lots of fun for ev
eryone, says B. R. Patterson, drive
manager.
Clnudo White and his mother,
Mrs. Sara White of Lexington, were
visitors here for a short time Monday.
COUNTY STUDENTS
WIN AT ARLINGTON
Heppner, Alpine and lone Pupils
Take Places In Inter-County
Declamatory Contest
Three first places and two second
places were won by Morrow county
representatives in the inter-county
declamatory contest held at Arling
ton Saturday evening. Of the coun
ty schools represented Alpine re
ceived the most recognition with
Peggy Kilkenny and AJex Lindsay
winning firsts, and Margaret How
ard a second. Francis Rugg of
Heppner placed first In her division,
and Donald Heliker of lone made a
second place.
Marian Johnson of Pendleton,
who won first place in the high
school dramatic division, will repre
sent the district at the state orator
ical contest this week end at Ore
gon State college.
The results follow:
Lower Division, Non-humorous
Eldon DeSpain, Pendleton, first;
Anna Mary Burns, Condon, second.
Lower Division, Humorous Jan
ice Matott, Hermiston, first; Cora
Ellen Fletcher, Arlington, second.
Upper Division, Non-humorous
Peggy Kilkenny, Alpine, first;
Gladys Dilley, Pendleton, second.
Upper Division, H u m o r o u s
Francis Rugg, Heppner, first;
Wayne Leybecker, Pendleton, sec
ond. High School: Oratorical Herman
Hall, Pendleton, first; Donald Heli
ker, lone, second.
High School: Dramatic Marian
Johnson, Pendelton, first; Margaret
Howard, Alpine, second.
High School: Humorous Alex
Lindsay, Alpine, first; Roy May
berry, Pendleton second.
LOCAL NEWS
Mrs. E. Shiffner of Walla Walla
has been a visitor in this city for
several days, a guest at the home
of Mrs. Minnie Gaunt Mrs. Shiff
ner was formerly Mrs. Frederick of
Heppner and still has property In
terests here.
An action for divorce was filed
this week in the Circuit court of
Morrow county wherein Jessie M.
Cox is plaintiff vs. Percy O. Cox.
Plaintiff asks for the custody of
three minor children and $35 per
month for their support
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Lleuallen were
visitors here Friday night from
their home at Pendleton, coming
over for the old time dance put on
by Hynd brothers and Miss Annie
Hynd at Elks etmple. Mr. Lieuallen
was In town again the first of the
week to get his sister, Miss Vivian,
who has gone to Walla Walla where
she has secured work.
Mr. and Mrs. George Krebs were
Cecil people in the city on Satur
day, remaining for a fpw hours
while shopping and looking after
business matters.
W. F. Barnett and daughter, Miss
Dona Barnett, are visitors in this
city today from their home in Lex
ington.
The high winds of Tuesday and
Wednesday must have been the
cause of moving a lot of real estate
in this county, Judging from the pall
of dust that hung over this city.
The storm was a bad one and re
sulted in some interruption of elec
tric light and telephone service.
Clarence McKitrick, who works
for Herbert Hynd at Cecil, was
brought to town the first of the
week to consult a physician, having
received a badly wrenched wrist
when cranking up a Ford on Sun
day. An x-ray examination reveal
ed no bones broken.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Darland and
young son, Jack, arrived from Cup
rum, Idaho, Saturday for a visit
with relatives here. Mr. Darland
returned home Wednesday, but Mrs.
Darland and son will remain for
some time, guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Jones.
Mrs. J. D. Cash has as her guest
this week her sister, Mrs. Geo. H.
Bailey of Junction City, Oregon.
Mrs. Henry Vance of Portland
was a visitor here over Sunday,
coming up to attend the funeral of
the late Charles Curtis.
John Cason reports that his bro
ther, Chas. Cason of Lone Rock,
has been critically ill in the hospital
at The Dalles. He will be returned
to his home by relatives. Mr. Cason
hus numerous friends In this com
munity who will be sorry to hear
of his alllictlon.
Roy Glasscock, son of Mrs. W.
W. Smead, came over from his
home at Mt Vernon Saturday, to
be here for the funeral of his brother-in-law,
the late Chas. H. Cur
tis. He returned home Tuesday.
1931 -Wheatland
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conbon Results APrU 19 Mas M Msy 31 My 3 Jnn u
FOSSIL June 14 Each Jun 7 MW 10 M7 84 APrU M
ARLINGTON April 28 May 31 Week in ,un U Jan 14 M' 10
RUFUS
BLALOCK Ma17 May 3 April 19 Heppner Juns May M
HEPPNEB May 10 Jnna 11 May 17 AprU 98 GaZCttC May 31 .
IONE Jan 7 May 17 May 3 Juna 14 April 19 TiftlCS
McKelvie Tells
Wheat Outlook
We deem the following letter, ad
dressed to the editor of the East
Oregonian at Pendleton, written by
Sam R. McKelvie, member of the
Federal Farm board, of consider
able interest to this section of the
wheat-growing country, and are pre
senting it for the information of our
readers:
Within the last thirty days you
published an editorial entitled "Give
Us Fair Play" in which you dis
cussed at length the plight of wheat
growers in your region and meth
ods of relief. I had intended writ
ing you at that time since personal
reference was made to former
Chairman Legge and myself, but in
the pressure of work I did not find
time to do so. I am quite sure that
it is your intention to be fair and
helpful in discussing this highly Im
portant subject and I, therefore,
feel privileged to give you some in
formation that I am quite sure you
did not have when you wrote the
editorial in question.
In the past twenty years our
wheat . production has increased
fully in proportion to our popula
tion, but since our per capita con
sumption for food has declined, our
domestic requirements have not
kept pace with production, and our
per capita surplus for export has
increased.
A comparison of the increase of
our population between 1910 and
1930, a twenty-year interval, with
the increase in wheat production
between 1909-18 and 1919-28, a ten
year interval, is unfair. Taking
three year averages of wheat pro
duction available for consumption
in the three years In which the
census dates approximately center,
we have 660 million bushels in 1908
10 as compared -with 858 million
bushels in 1928-30, or an increase
of about 30 per cent. Moreover, our
per capital consumption of wheat
for food declined by about .8 of a
bushel during this twenty year in
terval. Except when, as this year,
feed use of wheat is enormously
large, our total domestic require
ments of wheat are lower per capi
ta than they were twenty years ago.
Our annual surplus ordinarily
available for export is larger than
before the war, even on a per cap
ita basis. During the last few years
however, our production has shown
no material upward trend, and pop
ulation is gaining on production.
If we are simply to "grow up" to
a domestic basis on wheat without
curtailing or expanding our produc
tion, It will probably take at least
twenty-five years, and probably
thirty years.
With an annual crop averaging
some 850-860 million bushels, our
present average export surplus is
over 200 million bushels. If our
per capita consumption for food
should remain around 4.2 bushels,
where It has been fairly constant in
the last few years, and if we as
sume that feed and waste will aver
age around .6 of a bushel per cap
ita, as it probably has in the past
ten years including 1923-24 and
1930-31 (years of heavy feed use)
our present export surplus would
provide for more than 40 million
people in addition to our present
population. Our rate of population
increase is declining, and it may
be expected that it will take more
than two decades to increase our
present population by 40 million.
It might seem that if the popula
tion of the Pacific Coast should con
tinue to expand much more rapidly
than the country's population as a
whole, the Pacific Northwest might
not have to wait so long before get
ting on a domestic basis. On the
other hand, the export surplus In
that territory is much farther above
domestic requirements In that ter
ritory than is true of the rest of the
country.
It is true that a rapid reduction
of wheat production by as much as
25 percent is a large order, and that
there Is danger that diversion to
other crops of large areas now In
wheat would tend to result in bur
densome production of other crops.
Some diversion to other crops, and
some abandonment of less produc
tive wheat land, will presumably be
forced by low prices of wheat if the
adjustment is not made in advance
of economic compulsion.
The Pacific Northwest territory
Is placed in a specially difficult po
sition by low world wheat prices.
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TO THE Fl'BLIC.
Due to high winds at this time
of year, wires of the power system
may be blown down and it is Im
perative when this happens that the
wires be not handled by anyone not
In the employ of the company. We
request that in the event anyone
finds a wire down that they notify
the Company office at once.
PACIFIC POWER & LIGHT CO.
Baseball League
P
Proposition to Go 50-50
With Legion Made; To
Act Next Week.
MOCK TRIAL AMUSES
Club Thanked for Part Taken In
Behalf Wallula Cut-Off; Press
Field Manager Visits.
The part Lions may have In the
development of the city park and
playground, land for which was re
cently purchased by Heppner post,
Amercian Legion, was presented to
the club Monday by Earl W. Godon,
who, in company with J. J. Nys,
presented the special program for
the day. A special entertainment
feature was presented In the form
of a mock trial.
Mr. Gordon presented for the in
spection of Lions, a plat of the pro
ject depicting the placement of
trees, wading pool, benches, arch
bridge, playground and other fea
tures, any one of which he said
might be undertaken as the project
of any organization wishing to sup
port the park plan. The proposi
tion was left open to the Lions to
join equally with the American Le
gion in fathering the project or In
aiding the development by provid
ing one or more of the features
planned. It is expected the Lions
will decide at their next meeting
the part the club may take in the
park development
Lionlsm Violated.
J. O. Peterson, charged with vio
lating Lionlsm by defrauding a wo
man when he allegedly replaced a
diamond ring setting with glass, ap
peared as defendant in the mock
trial, presided over by Judge Nys.
Earl Gordon read the lengthy com
plaint setting out the offense. Paul
Marble appeared as counsel for the
defense and Russell Pratt as prose
cutor. Witnesses called included
Dr. J. H. McCrady, D. A. Wilson, W.
R. Poulson and Chas.. Smith. The
defense entered a plea of insanity,
and the prosecution demanded
hanging. After deciding that the
counsel for the defense and not the
defendant was the one to whom the
plea applied, the judge found the
defendant guilty, assessed a 50-cent
fine, which was suspended on the
promise of defense counsel to ap
pear in court at 10 o'clock the next
morning. The defense counsel re
ceived the worst of the battle on
being twice fined 10 cents for con
tempt of court
Chas: W. Smith, presiding vice
president, read a communication
from the Umatilla-Wallula Cut-off
association thanking the club for
the active part it took In helping
put across the Wallula cut-off. The
communication, signed by Berl Gur
dane, secretary, said that comple
tion of the cut-off had been assured
much sooner than had been hoped
for, and the Lions club was given
part credit for bringing this about
Golf Meet Reported.
Gay M. Anderson reported the re
sults of the first tournament en
gaged in by the Heppner Golf club,
staged Sunday with Pilot Rock on
the local links. The tournament
was considered a success though
the locals were outpointed 83 points
in the medal play. Fifteen men
from each place participated.
Arne G. Rae, field manager of the
Oregon State Editorial association,
and Mrs. Rae, were guests at the
luncheon and Mr. Rae made a short
talk in which he complimented the
Heppner Gazette Times for having
been adjudged the best all-round
weekly newspaper In Oregon In a
recent contest, and told something
of the judging, declaring the honor
one to be highly prized.
J. H. McCrady, co-manager of the
baseball club, urged support for the
home boys who are working hard to
make a team. J. M. Stewart, local
Standard Oil mnaager. was Intro
duced as a new member of the club.
Plans for the crow-magpie benefit
dance will be discussed at length at
the next meeting, Chairman Smith
announced.
Jl'DGE PARKER TO BE HERE.
Because of a number of matters
coming up before the circuit court
in which Judge Sweek was Interest-'
ed aa an attorney, Judge Parker
of Condon will occupy the bench
here on Monday next, April 27. Sev
eral cases on the docket are expect
ed to be disposed of at this time.
Schedule-1931