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PAGE TWO HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMESHEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 6, 1932. ALPINE By GERTRUDE TICHENOR Lawrence Doherty and Alex Lind say accompanied Vm. Doherty to the mountains Sunday. Lawrence will help hia brother Bernard Do hex to bring his sheep down from the hills for the winter. Messrs. Lindsay and Wm. Doherty returned the same day. Mrs. Sara Bowman and daugh ters Nadine and Wilma, all of Pen dleton, are visiting this week at the home of Mrs. Bowman's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lindsay. Camilla Kilkenny who Is a stu dent at the St Joseph's academy in Pendleton came home Saturday eve ning to attend the Farm Bureau meeting held at the Alpine school house, and also remained as a week end guest at the home of her parents. Mrs. Bert Bowker made a busi ness trip to Heppner Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lindsay and daughter Annie Ree were business visitors In Pendleton Wednesday. Visitors at the grade school de partment of the Alpine school Fri day afternoon were the little Misses Annie Ree Lindsay of this vicinity and her cousin Nadine Bowman of Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. E. Ebsen and fam ily accompanied by Miss Blanche Needles were recent Sunday visitors with friends in Hermiston. Charles Melville and Wilford Gie ger made a business trip to Echo Saturday. Harold Gieger, who for the past five weeks has been employed by Wm. Doherty, left Wednesday for his home in Eugene. Mr. Gieger expects to enter Springfield high school for a postgraduate course in commercial work. This he hopes to be able to follow up with a course in business college. Lloyd Fuller of Hermiston and Alex Lindsay of this community are now employed on the Doherty ranch. Reitha Howard was a Tuesday evening guest of Miss Gertrude Tichenor. Mrs. Ollie Neill has as her house guest her niece, Miss Green of Port land. Mrs. John Kilkenny and children. Dene, Colleen and Bobby of Hepp ner, accompanied by Ann Sheridan of Walla Walla (formerly of this vicinity) attended the Farm Bureau meeting at Alpine Saturday eve ning. They were guests at the dance which followed the meeting. Floyd Conrad was a visitor in Heppner Tuesday afternoon. His mission was for an optical examin. ation which was given him by Dr. Gray. Floyd is one of our high school students working under serious handicap, but the people in the community notice a decided im provement and are wishing him well in the future. He does remark able work. A number of friends and neigh bors in this vicinity gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rauch Saturday evening, Sept. 24, and sur prised the family, who are planning to leave this community in the near future. Dancing was the feature of the evening and was followed by bountiful refreshments. An enjoy able time was had by all who at tended and they departed wishing the family much happiness in their new home. Mrs. Marie Clary attended the meeting of the county school prin cipals which was held Tuesday in the office of our county superinten dent, Mrs. Lucy Rodgers. On a recent Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bowker drove to Yakima where they visited with Mrs. Bow- kef's son and daughter-in-law. Since the opening of the school season the Rauch children have been attending school at Lexington going in by bus. On Wednesday of last week Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rauch moved their household ef fects to Lexington where Mrs. Rauch will stay and care for her children, while Mr. Rauch returned to the ranch and will remain for a few weeks longer to look after some of the fall work. Rudolph Gieger who has been as sisting with the fall work on the C. Melville ranch, left Thursday for Eugene where he expects to have some dental work done. While there he expected to attend the state fair which was held in Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Morehead on the creek have as their guests the latter's mother and sister and bro ther-in-law, Mrs. C. D. Morey and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Campbell, also their son, Billie Jr. The guests are from Lowden, Wn., and surprised Mrs. Morehead. They planned to visit in this community for about a week, as Mrs. Morey has another daughter, Mrs. Dan Lindsay, whom she expects to visit Willard Hawley and Wilford Gie ger were business visitors in Pen dleton Saturday. Mrs. Margaret Peddicord who for the past two years has made her home here with her son, Willard Hawley, left a short time ago to make her home in Portland. She was accompanied to Portland by her grandchildren, Gene, Bruce, Rhuey Ann and Vevel Senter who for the past year have been making their home with her on the ranch. Mr, and Mrs. Walter Wlgglesworth and son Eugene were Echo visitors Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. Melville had as their guests last Sunday Mrs. Anna Schmidt and son Alfred. The day was spent in family chatter and en joying a number of interesting ra dio programs. On Tuesday evening Miss Ger trude Tichenor, accompanied by her uncle, Charles Melville, Rudolph Gieger and son Wilford Gieger, mo tored to Pendleton. They were early evening guests at the Tom Boylen home, and later attended the community chest show at the Riivoli. Messrs. Bert Mitchel and Olncy Baling went to the mountains Sun day on a deer hunt Following the Fann Bureau meet ing held at Alpine Saturday eve ning, Mr. and Mrs. E. Ebsen enter tained their friends and neighbors at a dance. Music was furnished by Grover Sibley of Pendleton and Bert Mitchel of this vicinity. A very enjoyable time was had by all who attended. The Alpine Farm Bureau held its first meeting Saturday evening. These meetings are held the first Saturday night in each month dur ing the school year, and everybody is invited to attend. The purpose of these meetings is to get acquainted with your neigh bors, help one another in any way possible, look after buying and sell ing interests for everyone; help rid the community of pests such as mice, squirrels, rabbits, etc., and a number of serviceable purposes. At the meeting there are general business discussions in which all are allowed to participate. These discussions are generally followed by mighty interesting programs which are such that they can be, and generally are, thoroughly en joyed by young and old. The programs are given by the school children of both the Alpine and Pine City schools, also by the young people in both communities. And we have been favored in the past with programs put on by the Heppner young people; also with interesting lectures by County Ag ent C. W. Smith of Heppner which are beneficial to the farmers here. At the first meeting held Satur day night a large crowd from all the neighboring villages was pres ent The program was short but very interesting. One of its main fea tures was a talk given by Miss Rose Liebrand, principal of the Pine City high school. Miss Liebrand spoke of her three-year stay In China. One year she was a teach er in Shanghai and two years she spent doing newspaper work. Among some of her experiences which she related, the most out standing was her being captured and held for a $50,000 ransom. An American gunboat came to their rescue before they were carried off into the interior. Miss Liebrand brought with her on her return to America some beautiful keepsakes from China, These she brought to Alpine with her and had on display. After her talk she invited the people to ex amine them and she explained the making and purposes of many of the articles when used in China. Here is a copy of the program: Piano solo by Iris Omohundro; a group of selections by Pine City band; vocal solo by Dan Lindsay 'The Shoemaker's Drill," Alpine grade school; talk, "Up-Side-Down China" Miss Rose Liebrand; instru mental selections by Gorger Bros. Thf rtrcisrram was followed bv tasty refreshments. The next meet ing will be held November otn Come, bring your friends and enjoy yourselves. HARDMAN MRS. ELLA FARRENS. The upperclassmen of the high school entertained the freshmen at party Friday evening. About 36 young people were present who re port a most enjoyable evening. Freshmen this year are Joe Stev ens and'Elmer Steers. The dance given by Roy Aah- baugh at the I. O. O. F. hall was well attended and a general good time is reported. The Western Coast Players, trav eling vaudeville actors, presented a comic entertainment here last Thursday evening which was very much enjoyed by all who attended. Mrs. L. J. Burnside, Mrs. Ted Burnside were attending to matters of business here Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Stevens were up from their McKinney creek ranch the first of the week, attend ing to matters of business a short while. The Believe It or Not Dramatic club held its first meeting this sea son at the high school auditorium. The body decided to present a three act farce comedy the first week in November. Mrs. Murl Bennett was elected to succeed Mildred Farrens, resigned. Arleta Ashbaugh was elected social chairman, whose duty it will be to supervise entertain ments for the benefit of those who do not take part in the plays. Mrs. George Moore and sister who is visiting here from Wyoming, were guests of Mrs. Moore's daugh ter, Mrs. Neil Knighten, a few days last week. Loes Stevens spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. Elmer Mus grave, at their mountain ranch. Mrs. Frank Elder accompanied Miss Catherine Peterson out from Heppner Friday and spent a short while visiting Mrs. Bert Bleakman. Gladys Lovgren spent Saturday and Sunday at the J. B. Adams home, coming up from Eight Mile to attend the dance Saturday night. Episcopal church services were held here Sunday evening, Rev. M, G. Tennyson officiating. Mrs. Ten nyson and Miss Peterson accom panied him. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Swift were Sunday guests of Mrs. Walter Far rens and family, coming up from their Heppner flat ranch to attend the dance at the I. O. O. F. hall Saturday night Kenneth Burnside was a visitor here a few days last week. Mrs. Frank McDaniel, Mrs. Carl Leathers and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith were busisess visitors in Heppner one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Smith having spent sev eral days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Carl Leathers last week. A wedding of interest to Hard- man people was that of Miss Golda Johnson to Wayne Beard of Hepp ner Sunday afternoon. Both of the young people are natives of Hard man. They have the best wishes of the community for a happy life. Mr. and Mrs. Beard moved to Heppner Monday where they will make their home. Wm. Greener was attending to matters of business here Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Leathers and Archie and Grace Leathers were visiting at the home of their broth er, Carl Leathers, the last of the week, coming over from Kimberley to enjoy the dance Saturday night. Many Beef Cattle Saved; Hog Numbers on Increase With the number of cows near the largest total ever reached In this country, the cattle industry is in position to expand beef produc tion rapidly, says an outlook report released by the college extension service. Cattlemen have been mar keting steers liberally and keeping tne cows in tne herds. The report points out that there have been three cycles in cattle pro duction since 1880, with the peaks in numbers about 16 years apart. The low point of the present cycle was in 1928. "It is characteristic for slaughter to reach a peak a year or two after the peak in cattle numbers, and for prices to reach a low point after the decline in cattle numbers has been in progress for some time," says the outlook. "While the trend of demand and prices for the prospective increase in beef will depend largely upon the extent to which consumer in comes and purchasing power in crease, the supply outlook suggests the need for conservatism in fur ther efforts to expand beef produc tion," the report concludes. The outlook for hogs during the 1933-34 marketing seasn is not very encouraging, although only about an average supply of pork is ex pected to reach the markets during the intervening months, according to a report by the Oregon agricul tural extension service. Not much improvement from the present low level in exports of hog products is expected, but the inten tions report indicates that more sows will farrow this fall than a year ago when the fall pig crop was the largest in seven years. With a record corn crop in the corn belt where 90 per cent of the market supply of hogs originates, farmers will be Inclined to breed more sows for farrowing next spring, the report says. Thus far the decline in prices for hogs has not been due to increased market supplies but to the big de crease in exports and weak pur chasing power of consumers in this country. If demand Improves, it will offset somewhat the effect of the prospective increase in production. Tomatoes Healthful Aid To Family Winter Diet "Tomatoes served in some form two to four times a week is good health insurance," points out Lucy A. Case, extension specialist in nu trition. "Cooked, canned, dryed or raw tomatoes are rich in vitamin C. They furnish protection to adults and children from scurvy and lat ent scurvy, which are not uncom mon human ailments and may be indicated by lack of energy, poor growth of children, lowered resist ance to infections, disease of the teeth, gums and bones, hemor rhages, and general ill health. To mato juice serves as an inexpen sive substitute in the diet for or ange or lemon juice and is given to infants as early as one month of age, even younger." Now while tomatoes are plentiful and cheap is the time to make sure the family has an abundant supply of them for winter and spring months, according to food special ists who recommend that each fam ily can from 90 to 180 containers f tomatoes, the word "container" meaning that size which serves the family for one meal. One common cause of spoilage in canned tomatoes is failure to keep the water boiling continuously for 30 minutes when the product is canned in the hot water bath. An other spoilage cause is failure to remove all of the sections of white core when preparing the tomatoes for canning. This white core re quires longer cooking for steriliza tion than the rest of the tomato, and if left in may not be cooked thoroughly, resulting in a spoiled product. Tomato juice may be made in tne winter time from canned tomatoes or may be made now and canned. To can tomato juice, wash the to matoes well, cut them In sections, add a small quantity of water. Boll them until soft, being careful not to allow them to burn. Put thru a sieve or colander to remove seeds and skins, then add one teaspoon of salt to each quart Bring to boil, pour into containers and pro cess in hot water bath for 20 minutes. Directions for canning all fruits and vegetables grown in Oregon are given in Extension bulletin 450, Home Food Preservation, which may be obtained free of charge by writing any county extension office, or sending a request to the home economics extension service, Cor- vallis. Dairy Products Keep On Increasing, Says Report An increase in the supply of dairy products during the coming year, unless unfavorable conditions should develop, is forseen In the regular mid-summer outlook report just issued by the economics depart ment of the Oregon State college extension service. The number of cows to freshen this fall is expected to be materially larger and there will be the largest aggregate supply of grain and by product feeds since 1920, with the hay crop 10 per cent above last year though 8 per cent below the 10-year average. A hay shortage exists in the 14 northern states east of the Mississippi where nearly half the dairy cows are found. The number of milk cows has been increasing rapidly for three years, the outlook report points out. The increase for the years 1929-1931 was 2 Ms, 3, and ZM per cent respectively. The rate of in crease so far this year is even larg er owing to an increase in the num ber of heifers raised recently and a decrease in the number of old cows slaughtered. Within the next five years farm ers will probably begin culling their herds more closely, the report adds, and selecting heifer calves more carefully so as to reduce the num ber of cows and Increase average production. The demand for dairy products may be expected to Increase as bus iness conditions Improve and indus trial payrolls expand, the report concludes. When, for how long, and to what extent general price levels will rise and payrolls increase are Important questions for the dairy industry because of the close relationship of these factors to dairy prices. Governor Meier Backs Fire Prevention Week "For the past three years Oregon's average annual contribution to the Fire Demon has been more than 30 human lives, injury to over 150 per sons and the destruction of prop erty to the value of eight million dollars," epitomizes Governor Meier in proclaiming the week of October 9 to 15 as Fire Prevention week In Oregon. "Nearly 25 million dollars of our staple economic resources was sac rificed upon the altar of careless ness in the past three years. Fully one-half of these values is repre sented by industrial and commer cial resources less than 60 per cent of which is ever replaced. . 'This careless waste of our fun damental resources is prodigal and is gradually sapping the economic vitals of our great commonwealth. "That these resources may in fu ture be conserved to the benfit and prosperity of the Oregon public and, In keeping with the proclamation of the President of the United States in the interest of fire prevention and control, "Now, therefore, I, Julius L. Meier, governor of the state of Ore gon, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me, do hereby proclaim October 9 to 15, 1932, as Fire Prevention week and earnestly urge the people, the press, and all civic, patriotic, fraternal, and In dustrial organizations of the com monwealth to put forth their united efforts toward the elimination of the loss and suffering which follow In the wake of preventable fires." NOW! Only Two Weeks Left of Our Special Offer On YdUG3 Offer restricted to one year's subscription New subscribers may have Morrow County's Newspaper one whole year for $I.OO; present subscribers may extend their subscriptions one whole year for $I.OO. Offer Ends Oct. 22nd This is the most sensation al bargain offer ever given by Morrow County's Newspaper. At any price you cannot afford to be without the HOME PA PER. Nowhere else may you find legal notices and court records and mer chandisnig news of Mor row county or a newspa per that is working for Morrow county's interests first, last and all the time. Nowhere can you find a bigger dollar value. H p p GD F Morrow County's Newspaper Adjudged Oregon's Best All-Round Weekly Newspaper, Sigma Delta Chi Contest, 1931