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PAGE SIX HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1931, O.S.C. ANNOUNCES SIXTY-SECOND COMMENCEMENT IfpSf f I" Prominent figures in annual graduation eiercises it Oregon State college Monday, June 1. From left, President W. J. Kerr who will see his twenty-third O. S. C. graduating class depart; Dr. W. O. Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State university, commencement speaker; Mrs. Mary Whitby, '71, and Dr. J. K. Weatherford. '72. two oldest living graduates who will attend this commencement OREGON STATE COLLEGE, Corvallis. With a class of 542 candidates for graduation, this institu tion will grant degrees to the largest group this year in the history of its 62 commencements. Of the number completing courses this year 36 are to receive degrees of masters of science, 496 bachelors of science and 12 pharmaceutical chemist There are two duplications, making 544 degrees in all The class this year will make a total of 7032 degrees conferred here by President W J Kerr in the 23 commencements at Oregon State college over which he has presided In the 38 years of the college's histor orior to his coming only 647 degrees were granted Dr Kerr has never missed a single commencement in all his years of service here. The rommencement week-end program will begin Saturday, Mav 30. with alumni reunions. Sunday thi Baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Dr. Herbert S Johnson of Boston. Farm News & Trends From State Market Agent. State Department of Agriculture. Plans for the organization of the State Department of Agriculture are being worked out by Director Gehlar. The location practically decided upon is in the State build ing, Twelfth street The law cre ating the department provides that it shall be at the capital and that the consolidation of the various boards and commissions shall be in effect July 1. While the state fair will be a function of the new department, the present board will retain charge until after the annual exhibit, it was decided at a conference be tween Governor Meier and the board. Cooperative Council Meets. At its meeting in Portland last week the Oregon Cooperative Coun cil representing 34 of the leading farmers' marketing organizations of the state, pledged assistance to the new state department of agri culture. Mr. Gehlar outlined in a general way his policies and invited cooperation, suggestions and criti cism. He was received into member ship as a public representative. Study Consumer Demands. Changes in consumers' buying habits are rapid and should be stud ied by the producers in the light of the demand for their products. They are important These changes in consumer de mands have been brought about, market experts state, by several factors well known to the careful observer and including: (1) A new philosophy of food as a result of the discovery of vitamins and the cam paign of education based upon It for a more balanced diet, (2) De cline in the amount of hard physic al labor owing to the increased use of machinery, (3) Reduction In the number of working hours, (4) Im provement in home and commer cial heating resulting in the need for less calories of body heat sup plied by certain foods, (5) Smaller living quarters encouraging the use of small package foods, (6) Higher recent standards of living, (7) Shift of farm residents to cities and city folks to farms, both classes of con sumers undergoing some changes in their accustomed dietary. Grade Turkeys. The Oregon Turkey Growers Co operative finds that federal inspec tion and grading of turkeys is prof itable. Over $200,000 worth of Ore gon dressed birds graded and pack ed according to weight were mar keted by this organization last year. Egg Grading Profitable. H. E. Botsford, market specialist at Cornell university, as a result of a recent survey on the effect of the New York egg grading law, states that a probable increase in egg con sumption can be accomplished by selling eggs on a definite grade ba- The egg grading law of Oregon guarantee also of quality to sis. is less cash sent out of the country for gasoline and tractor accessories. Better prices for meat should pre vail because the horse that will re place the cattle and sheep on the farms will not be used for meat food. Bees. The commercial apiaries of Ore gon are comparatively few in num ber but contain the bulk of the bees. The average is said to be about 200 colonies for the commer cial apiarists. The markets are sup plied in large part by those produc ers although many having but two or three colonies furnish honey to neighbors and other sources for home consumption. Hog Cholera. Hog cholera which means tre mendous loss wherever allowed to run, will never again be a problem in Oregon if growers and feeders use proper precautions. No pur chases should be made from dis eased herds and no uncooked pork product should be fed. Most out breaks in this state ara started from these sources or from water forne infection. Vaccination is now practically 100 percent perfect and can always be used if there is dan ger from nearby infection, states Dr. W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian. Crop Failures Reported. Reports of a severe condition of drouth in central Oregon in the lo cality between the Cascades and Blue mountains indicate near crop failure. The greatest drouth se verity is along the small streams In the irrigated sections. Wheat The Farmers National Grain as sociation during the latter part of last week sold 16,000 tons of wheat, and 14,000 tons the week before, to the Orient which has developed into a good market for American sur plus wheat. Indications for the fu ture from this source are now fair. Prices of Pacific coast wheat are 3 to 4 cents high for sales to the United Kingdom. Australia's acre age is 30 percent less this year than last, and Russia's seeding is behind according to crop reports. New Packaging Methods. Many of the states through their agricultural agencies are urging growers to grafle and pack farm produce in small, attractive contain ers properly labeled. By this means sales and increased consumption are stimulated. New methods of packaging are being tried out in Florida, under direction of the Bureau of Agricul tural Economics. For example, one large grower packs high quality, graded potatoes In 5-pound paper boxes and 12 of these a total of one bushel are packed in a larger ventillated pasteboard box ready for local sale or shipment One lot of 500 bushels was recently con signed to a New York firm and re tailed at around 5 cents a pound or $3.00 per bushel Where more attention is paid to packaging potatoes In Oregon, less competition from transient growers is felt. Farm Costs and Prices, Reports indicate that farmers are putting forth Increased efforts to reduce costs of operation. They are employing less labor, buying less fertilizer and equipment. Build ing operations have been reduced to the minimum. Commodities purchased for use on the farms now average about 134 percent of the prewar average compared with 153 a year ago. The cost of producing farm products, taking Into account higher taxes and Interest, is about the same as It was a year ago. The quality of butter made in Or egon has Improved very materially during tne past nve years. Foodstuff Demands Vary. Growers should keep themselveg Informed on the demands for the various market products. The ten- ually change and market variations follow. During the past few years the use of cereals has decreased substantially; per capita consump tion of meat has changed while more milk, eggs, vegetables and canned foods are demanded, states O. S. C. circular on agricultural and economics .published this month. Farm Prices Compared. The following comparison of farm prices on April 15, with the average covering the 5-year period 1926-1930 discloses some of the real grief for the Oregon growers eggs 67 per cent; chickens 80; butterfat 54; milk cows 78; hogs 71; sheep 54; lambs 55; wool 52; beef cattle 75; veal calves 68; horses 76; wheat 44; rye 61; corn 72; oats 57; barley 58; hay 63; potatoes 42; apples 71. Market Preferences. New York prefers Plymouth Rock broilers and white-shell eggs. And yet brown eggs do not produce Plymouth Rock broilers. One of the outstanding notes of progress in agriculture is the rapid growth of cooperatives. Markets Wheat and Hay. Wheat The world wheat confer ence held in London last week ad journed with no definite plan for caring for the world surplus which promises to be larger this year than before. America endorsed the acreage restriction plan. Russia op posed this and insisted upon the quota plan based upon the smaller prewar period of production. Am erica objected, with Canada and Australia, to the quota as unsound in marketing principle while the So viets declared acreage reduction impractical. Wheat 69-66c. Oats No. 2 white $22, gray $23. Barley No. 2, 45 lb $21.50 Corn No. 2 Eastern $26.00. Hay Markets over country quiet. New first crop alfalfa practically harvested and movement quite free in California and the northwest. Alfalfa $14-$15, Timothy $15-$17, Clover $11.00. Egg production is showing a de crease throughout the nation. In the northwest the decline is slight but more pronounced than last year. Present storage is less than a year ago, the shortage being es timated at 750,000 cases. LEXINGTON NEWS By RUTH DINGES. J. E. Gentry, Mr. Sarah White, Keith Gentry, Mae Gentry and Peg gy Warner returned. Monday eve ning from Ritter where they had been on a camping trip. On Sun day they visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Neal White at Uklah. Mrs. H. E. Warner, Mrs. John McMillan, Mrs. George Broadley, Vernon Warner and Peggy Warner left Tuesday morning for Elk River, Idaho, where they will visit rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. George McMillan have been visiting relatives in Lex ington the past few days. They brought with them to Lexington C. R. McAllister, who has been attend ing I. O. O. F. grand lodge in Cor vallis. They returned to their home in Cherryville on Wednesday, tak ing with them Naomi McMillan who will visit with them for a time. Harry Duvall, Earl Warner, Earl Eskelson and Ray McAllister left Wednesday morning on a business trip to the Rattlesnake gas fields near Mabton, Wash. Mr. and Mrs., Elmer Hunt and daughter Louise, accompanied by Esther Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Ruhl, left on a trip Tuesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Ruhl will remain in Portland, while Mr. and Mrs. Hunt will take Miss Thomp son to her home in McCleary, Wn. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Warner and Mr. and Mrs. Walace E. Jones of Hermiston attended the funeral of Karl L. Beach Sunday afternoon. Jeff Evans, Mrs. Minnie Evans and her son John Evans and Elbert Stanton, all of Walla Walla, attend ed Mr. Beach's funeral Sunday. Mrs. Caroline Kuns has been vis iting relatives in Athena. Mrs. Florence McMillan and daughter Delpha have returned from Arlington -where Mrs. McMil lan has been visiting and Delpha has been attending school. Mrs. Charles Wilcox is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Fred Painter of Hermsiton, while Mr. Wilcox is attending the forestry training school at Ellis ranger station. George Graves of Boardman is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Graves. Miss Alice Palmer was a visitor in Morgan on Wednesday. LOCAL NEWS J. G. Crawford arrived here early Saturday morning from his home in Fort Worth, Texas, where he has lived during the greater part of the last 24 years. His last visit to Hepp ner was nine years ago, and he is having a good time meeting up with former friends and associates, many of whom he still finds hereabout. Mr. Crwaford was met at Pendleton when No. 17 arrived there Saturday morning by Mr. and Mrs. Vawter Crawford, and he will visit for a few weeks with his relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Crawford and three sons, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ferguson, son and daugh ter, departed early this morning on the beginning of their summer va cation. Their destination is Oak land, Cal where they expect to visit for a time with the families of Hugh Gfthens, Arthur and Bill Crawford. They went prepared to enjoy their outing to the full. N. A. Leach, vice president of Kerr Gifford & Co. of Portland, was in the city a short time this morning, accompanying his uncle, W. F. Barnett of Lexington. Mr. Leach was for many years a prom inent resident of Lexington, which place he left to become an officer with the big Portland wheat buying and flour manufacturing concern iiiiiininmniiiiiimiiiiiiHHHiniiiiiiii At Heppner CHURCHES consumer, more careful methods of handling and fairer prices for the standardized product. Dobbin's Return Announced. There Is a pronounced shift back to horses this year. The horse pop ulation of the country shows an average of fourteen years while it should be but seven years. Apparently horses will replace some of the sheep and cattle on many of the pastures of the middle west because cheap farm products will not support tractor farming. This will mean, too, that the con sumption of feeds raised on the farm will be Increased by the larger use of horses In motor power and dencles in food consumption contln- FAKOUS CONCERTINA ARTIST TICKLES PA TRONS MUSICAL SENSE M '' Vi'iX it11', H '! I mm mMm Music lovers have a wonderfu treat In store for them during the Chautauqua at the concert of Do Wlllo Semerau and tils assistants Thay appear on the last day of the Chautauqua and are a fltt.inis rinlsh to a wonrtertul program Mr. DeW'lIlo Is known from coast to coast and In every state for his unus'ial concerts on the Concertina Grande, which Is the only Instru merit of Its kind In the wtrlil. He Is a popular type of enter talne', specializing In thing which the great majority of people lov to hear. Re;ent hits, old-time fa T-iriles and clannlral ni.mhers all appear Ir. his program, which is tin. roted to thoroughly onjoyable mu ileal ambition. A 14. SAINTS EPISCOPAL. Rev. Stanley Moore, missionary-in-charge. Church school at 9:45. The celebration of the Lord's Sup per and sermon at 11. Young People's Fellowship at 6. "Be strong in the grace that is in Jesus Christ." II Tim. 2.1. METHODIST CHURCH. 9:45 a. m., Sunday school. 11 a. m., morning worship hour; message, "What and Where is Hell?" 7 p. m., Epworth League. Mr. S. E. Notson will speak. 8 p. m., program by the Vacation Bible school. This will be a demon stration of the work done during the two week Bible school. It will be a program of interest to the par ents and friends of the boys and girls. They extend an invitation to the people of Heppner to be pre sent at this service. The program will include sdx songs which have been memorized, and a number of choice memory selections, including Is. 55, entire chapter, and Psalm 103 complete, and other interesting features. CHURCH OF CHRIST. JOEL R. BENTON. Minister. Bible School, 9:45 A. M. Morning Worship, 11 o'clock. Christian Endeavor, 7 o'clock. Evening Worship, 8 o'clock. Church Night, begins at 6:30 each Thursday evening. Man is made for religion. The constantly seeking soul of him is not satisfied with all the "things of this present world" If he does not find among those things that which fills and meets his greatest need his Soul Need! The the religion which fully sat isfies and completely meets man's Soul Need is the Christian Religion. There are a multiplicity of religions so-called, but only one Christian Religion, the Religion of Jesus Christ! The Christian religion is free from the evils of all the other man-devised systems of religion, while at the same time holding all and more than any good they may have in them. Men the world over are still try ing to find Soul Rest and surcease from woe and sorrow In every way under the sun except the right and only way the way of the Christian Relgiion! The Christian Religion is fully effective for all our Soul Needs because It is: A Transforming Religion not a reforming religion! A Non-Oompromisnig Religion! No compromise with sin! A Religion of Service and Sac rifice! A Religion of Love Divine and Love Compelling! A Religion of Christian Ethics! A Religion of Universal Moral Efficiency! If you are without a Church home you are very earnestly and cor dially invited to come and worship with us. For the coming Lord's Day the sermon topics are: For the morn ing service, "Is One Church as Good as Another?," and for the evening service, "The Case of Apollos," Come, you are Invited! "O mag nify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together." Psalm 34-3. 4-H PICNIC TODAY. Foui'-H clubbers, parents and leaders of south Morrow county are enjoying a picnic at the artesian well at the forks of Willow creek to day. Demonstrations, stunts, gam es and "eats" are on the program being handled under the direction of C. W. Smith, county agent, Miss Edith M. Stallard, county nurse and Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers, county school superintendent. NOTICE TO WATER USERS. Beginning June 1 water will be charged by meter readings. Rates will be made soon after June 1 and published in this paper. Heppner Water Department, By W. E. Pruyn. For Sale Clark Seedling Straw berries, $2.10 per crate. Postpaid. No C.OD.'s. R. S. Ludlow, Esba cada, Ore. 11-12. See "The Cohens und Kellcys in Afrea" at the Star theater next Sun day or Monday. For Sale Reed baby buggy, ex cellent condition; baby cart; baby bed. Phone 1382. For Sale or Kt-nt Residence on Main street See Harry Johnson. 1928 Model W Case Hillside Com bine, all reconditioned and ready to take the field. 1927 Model W Case Hillside Com bine, thoroughly overhauled and ready to take the field. Run 3 sea sons. Terms. PEOPLES HARDWARE CO., 6tf. Heppner, Ore, X A Truly 41 Realistic s Wave Price $10.00 Loom or medium u you desire no more Hty, split or damaged ends learef the hair oft, a 1 os-ir and easy to manage. MaJkt your pbotntmtnt' TODAY. J MONTGOMERY'S Beauty Shop 10614 W. Center St. THIS AD IS WORTH $2.50 ON A PERMANENT. DON'T FORGET i We can give you a real grease job or fix that blowout in a hurry. Have You Tried the New Standard Gas? GEMMELL'S Service Station P, M. G EMM ELL, Prop. "Our Service Will Please You; Your Patronage Will Please Us" Complete Funeral Services In our New Home $50 and Upward A respectable burial without charge to those who cannot pay, from Cases' Chapel WE WANT YOUR PRODUCE Market prices paid for livestock, eggs, poultry, cream. Phone for Prices lone Cash Market Dealers in Fresh and Cured Meats Phone 32 IONE, OREGON Give the wife a rest occasionally and EAT amid cool and pleas ant surroundings at the ELKHORN You'll find the season's choicest offerings In vegetables, poultry and fruits. BREAD, PIES, PASTRIES Made In our own elec tric oven. Visit Our Fountain for cool drinks and de licious ice cream dishes ELKHORN RESTAURANT ED CHINN, Prop. GARDEN TIME COME TO GILLIAM & BISBEE for your Garden and Flower Seeds, either in packets or bulk grown here in the North west. If you have our catalogue we will supply anything shown in it. Come in or or der by mail. What we are out of we will get for you. Alfalfa, Blue Grass, White Clover or any other grass seed you want. Onion Sets and Fertilizer. If you need a disc harrow, we have it at a very low price. GILLIAM & BISBEE We Have It, Will Get It, or It Is Not Made HUSTON'S IIIIMIIIIIIIHIIIIIMIMIIIllltllllllllllHIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIMIIIMMItMIIIIIMIIimillMI GROCERY IIIIIIIMIMIIIIIIIIIIIMHIIIIItllltlllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIItllllllltlltllllllllllllll E. R. HUSTON, PROPRIETOR ItllltllHMIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIItlllllllMllllilNIHIIHIIIIMIIIIIIIMMIIIMIIIIMIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIMIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIMII Choice Foods Always to be found here . featured by Monarch Quality for 77 years, 1853-1930 STAR THEATER SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MAY 29-30: REX BEACH'S "SILVER HORDE" With Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolhclm, Jean Arthur and Raymond Hatton. Immortal story of the great Alaskan salmon run, from genius inspired pen of America's mightiest creator of blazing romance. Also "DISCONTENTED COWBOYS," 2 reel comedy, and 9th Chapter of "Spell of the Circus." Evenings 20c and 40c. Matinee Saturday 2:00 p. m., 10c and 25c. SUNDAY-MONDAY, MAY 31-JUNE 1: THE COHENS AND KELLYS IN AFRICA With George Sidney, Charlie Murray, Vera Gordon and Kate Price. You'v elaughed at the Cohens and Kellys before, but wait until you see them among Sheiks, Zulu Belles, man-eating tigers, monks, harems, cannibals and witch doctors. Also Oswald In CHINA and novelty color reel, STRANGE AS IT SEEMS. Matinee Sunday at 2:00 P. M., one showing only, ISc and 80c. Evenings, 25c and 50c. TUES.-WEDS.-TIIURS., JUNE 2-3-4: "COMMON CLAY" With CONSTANCE BENNETT, LEW AYERS, TULLY MARSHALL and BURYL MERCER. A story that will find an echo In the heart of every woman. ' COMING NEXT WEEK: nine 5-6 "UP THE RIVER," with Wm. Collier Jr., Spencer Tracy, Clnlr Luce and Joan Lawes. Juno 7-8 Will Rogers In MGHTNIN'. June 0-10-11 THE AIR POLICE with Kenneth Harlan, Josephine Dunn and ;(?. ltnluney.