50N HISTORICAL SOCIETY BLIC AUDITORIUM V 0 R T L A 'i D , ORE. Volume 50, Number 22. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, Aug. 10, 1933 Subscription $2.00 a Year 1 DISTRICTS SET UP UNDER WHEAT PLAN Blanks Received for Mak ing Application for Allotment Contracts. COMMITTEES NAMED Will Hold Educational Meetings in Each District; Four-Year Base To be Used in This County. Districting of Morrow county un der the domestic allotment plan was effected by the temporary or ganization committee of the county wheat production control associa tion at lone Tuesday evening. Sev en districts were mapped and an educational campaign committee appointed for each. To speed the progress of organ ization work application blanks for wheat allotment contracts were re ceived by C. W. Smith, county ag ent, Tuesday morning. These blanks will be distributed among the district educational committees who will In turn give farmers of their districts opportunity to sign. It is the plan to proceed ' with community educational meetings as fast as harvest is over in the vari ous districts, with the first to be held in the Morgan district about August 16. The districts mapped are named Morgan, Alpine, lone, Lexington, Eight Mile, North Heppner, and South Heppner-Hardman. In fix ing the boundaries it was attempt ed to make each district include about the same bushelage produc tion of wheat The districts are particularly described as follows: Morgan All townships north of Base Line in Ranges 23 and 24 East. Alpine All townships north of Base Line in Ranges 25, 26, 27 and 28 East, lone Townships 1 and 2 South, Range 23 East; West half of Town ships 1 and 2, Range 24 East Lexington East half of Town ships 1 and 2 South, Range 24 E.; all of Townships 1 and 2 South, Range 25 East. Eight Mile Townships 3 South in Ranges 23, 24 and 25 East; Township 4 South in Range 24 East. North Heppner All of Town ships 1 and 2 in Ranges 26, 27, 28 and 29 East South Heppner-Hardman Town ships 3 South in Rangs 26, 27, 28 and 29; Townships 4, 5 and 6 in Runges 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29. All temporary committeemen were present at the lone meeting with the exception of E. L. Carlson. Present were C. W. Smith, county agent; J. O. Turner, R. B. Rice, Harvey Miller, Henry Smouse and Bert' Johnson. Named on the district campaign committees were: lone Ernest Heliker, chairman; Peter Timm, Carl Feldman, Adraln Engelman. Eight Mile Emil Carlson, chair man; Frank Frates, Guy Huston, Harlan McCurdy. Morgan H. V. Smouse, chair man; Bert Johnson, Werner Rlet mann. Alpine R. B. Rice, chairman; A. H. Nelson, Joe Devine, Frank Ba ling. S. Heppner-Hardman F. E. Par ker, chairman; Glen Jones, Cleve Van Schoiack. Lexington O. W. Cutsforth, chairman; George Peck, R. L. Benge. North Heppner E. H. Miller, chairman; J. O. Turner, O. W. Scott, C. B. Cox. In referring to the applications for contracts, Mr. Smith said these applications will not be binding up on the signer if when his allot ment contract comes it is not satis factory. However, only those sign ing applications will be eligible to vote for the representative from his district on the county board of the Morrow County Wheat Produc tion Control association. Each grower who has signed a contract will vote according to the acreage seeded for his 1933 crop at the dis trict meeting at which the repre sentative will be elected. Mr. Smith further said that it is well agreed among growers that the four-year base for computing al lotments will be used in this coun ty, and farmers are urged to get their acreage and production fig ures for the period, covering the years 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932. It was expected that the first money to cover benefit payments under the plan would be available about September 15. Should Mor row county farmers sign up 100 per cent, $294,000 would come Into the county this fall and next spring from this source. LIKED BALL GAME. To the Editor: The baseball game between Camp Bull Prairie and Heppner was In deed a game worth commendable mention. It was snappy and class leal and retained its thrill through out. The remarkable feature was the rapidity of plays, exchanging of field, and at no time was a de clslon disputed. For all around sportsmanship my hat is off to Heppner and its ball team, and con gratulations to Bull Prairie on their win. They beat a real ball team. A. V. ZACCOR. For Sale 85 tons of hay and some pasture. Ralph Reads, Kim bet ley, Ore. 22-24p BULL PRAIRIE WINS OVER HEPPNER, 3-2 Camp Boys Tie Score in Sixth; Robertson and Turner Wage Pitching Battle. (By Bull Prairie Correspondent) Before the largest crowd ever to visit Bull Prairie, the C. C. C. boys managed to earn a hard-fought vic tory over the strong Heppner team last Sunday afternoon. The game proved to be a thriller from start to finish. For six innings both Tur ner and Robertson, pitchers for the opposing teams, managed to hold the batters in check. In the last half of the sixth inn ing, with the Heppner team lead ing by one run, Bull Prairie team staged a rally and succeeded in ty ing the score. Davidson, who play ed a bang-up game as catcher, started the Inning by smashing out his second hit. Robertson placed a neat bunt down the third base line, sending Davidson to second. Dunne, substitute first baseman, cracked a ball to the shortstop, who succeed ed in getting it over to first to re tire the batter. Davidson started off with the hit like a flash, and with a sensational burst of speed, beat the first baseman's throw to the catcher. Robertson retired the first three batters to face him in the first half of the seventh inning. In their half of the same inning, Bull Prai rie scored a brace of runs. Mike Devito, who had doubled in the third inning, once more led off with a clean bingle. Turner tightened up and struck out the next batter. Barracato, the next batter, then laced a double down the left-field line, scoring Devito. With two out, Paul Pattl, who handled ten chances and made only one misplay during the game, faced the pitcher. Up to that time he had failed to touch any of Turner's tricky de liveries. With "Barry" on second, Patti hit sharply down the third base line and sent Barry to third. Then Bull Prairie showed a bit of clever base ball. Pattl became trapped be tween first and second, and while he kept the Heppner team occupied (Continued on Page Four) Seed Loan Payment Plan Announced by P a u 1 s o n Borrowers from the Government Seed Loan office, who are without funds or other moans of credit, may use the proceeds of a portion of their 1933 crop to defray actual harvest and threshing expenses providing an equal amount is ap plied on the government loan, ac cording to a statement Issued this week b y L. J. Paulson, regional manager of the Crop Production Loan office at Minneapolis, Minn. Without requiring the filing of liens the government has author ized buyers to permit harvesting and threshing allowances in amounts not to exceed a total of $2 per acre upon presentation of re ceipted statements for such expen ditures, providing remittances are made on a parity. When other lien holders are involved, their rights must be given the consideration their secured position requires. The plan will work as follows: Where a farmer is otherwise un able to pay harvesting expenses of, for example, $50.00, he must mar ket $100.00 worth of grain. In this case the buyer would be authorized to allow necessary expenses up to $50.00 and to remit the other $50.00 to the Government Seed Loan of fice toward the payment of the government loan. It is anticipated by Mr. Paulson that all grain buyers will follow the procedure adopted by the buy ers last year in making a check for the harvesting and threshing ex penses directly to those who fur nished the harvesting and thresh ing equipment, supplies, or labor, thus insuring payment of the bill for the protection of the buyer. The crop buyer will hold the re ceipts or statements of harvesting and threshing expense for verifica tion by government field inspectors, and must show that a remittance to the seed loan office was made in an amount equal to that allowed for expense. Tri - State Development League Makes Headway S. E. Notson, who attended the meeting of the Tri-State Develop ment league at Walla Walla Tues day evening, was named on the ex ecutive committee of the organiza tion which will push its campaign for development of the. Umatilla Rapids project and other projects on the upper Columbia and Snako rivers to make them navigable from Plymouth, Idaho, to the Ce lllo canal. E. P. Dodd of Hermis ton, named executive secretary, will open offices immediately in Walla Walla to head the work of making application to Secretary of Interior Ickes, Regional Director of Public Works Marshall N. Dana and the state public works board, as well as carry on an intensive membership campaign. Lee Manz of Walla Walla was made president of the organization, and other executive committee members are Roy W, Rltner and George Hartman, Pendleton; Fred Kemp, Prosscr; Troy Llndley, Day ton; R. S. Erb and W. A. Mitchell Lewlston, and Burton L, Finch Moscow. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Wnvlesa ro turned Tuesday from a vacation outing spent at JBlue Mountain springs. RODEO QuEEli RACE EXCITING Rhea Creek Gives Their Mae Doherty Lead, as Alpine Climbs. PLANS DEVELOPING Business Men Give Financial Sup port; Arena Evente, Carnival and Mu8ic Promising. As Lexington turned out In sup port of its entrant at the first Ro deo queen contest dance two weeks ago to give Miss Ruth Dinges a head-start In the race, so did Rhea Creek rally around the banner of Miss Mae Doherty, their represen tative, at the dance there Saturday night to put her out in front until the next ballot is cast a lone on Augus 19. Featuring Saturday's voting was the sensational climb of Miss Dorothy Doherty of Alpine, who came from behind to take sec ond place. Totals for the contest ants are: Miss Mae Doherty, Rhea Creek, 12,200 votes. Miss Dorothy Doherty, Alpine, 10,400 votes. Miss Ruth Dinges, Lexington, 8, 300 votes. Miss Edna Lindstrom, lone, 5,000 votes. Miss Margaret Brosnan, Lena, 4, 300 votes. Results of the voting announced at midnight at Saturday's dance did give Miss Dorothy Doherty the lead, but ballots cast after the count was made changed the standings. The vote given at midnight was Doro thy Doherty 9700, Mae Doherty 9200, Ruth Dinges 8100, Edna Line strom 4100, Margaret Brosnan 3700. Three more dances of the contest will be staged before the final out come is decided. The next dance will be at lone, August 19, the fol lowing dance will be at Juniper, August 26, and the final dance at Heppner, September 2. The contest dances are sponsored jointly by the Heppner Rodeo as sociation and the granges and oth er community organizations of the respective communities. All pro ceeds above expenses from dances held outside of Heppner go to the community organization sponsoring the dance, while the prceeds from the Heppner dance above expenses go entirely to the Rodeo associa tion, a community non-profit or ganization. ' The girl receiving the highest number of votes will be the queen and the other contestants will be her attendants at the annual Ro deo to be staged in Heppner Sep tember 8-9, and whoever the choice may be Rodeodom is assured a comely and talented ruler. Henry Aiken and D. A. Wilson, Rodeo vice-presidents who are managing the queen dances, an nounce preparations running smoothly for one of the best shows in Rodeo history. Herb French, another vice-president, is doing the work of arena manager and has his Job well in hand. Many inquiries for lists of events, which include all the outstanding features of past years with several added attractions, are being re ceived by Lenn L. Gilliam, secre tary, indicating prospective partici pants from distant points. Contracts have been signed to bring three rides for the kiddies, besides a number of carnival con cessions, the latter to be operated entirely by home folks. Sheriff C. J, D. Bauman has been working hard for several weeks perfecting plans for his athletic show to be run in connection with the carnival, in which he will show the best box ing and wrestling talent of Camp Bull Prairie. A snake show and a minstrel show will also add to the carnival attractions. Business men of Heppner this week showed that their heart and spirit were behind the show when they contributed liberally of their funds to provide the cash necessary to pay preliminary expenses. Harold Buhman and his Heppner school band have been practicing assiduously all summer In spite of the hot weather to make a banner appearance at the show. Besides there will be an outstanding dance band, arrangements for which are now being made, to play for dances on the nights of the 7th, 8th and 9th. Charles W. Smith and his parade committee have also been working hard to prepare for what is expect ed to be the best Rodeo parade ever, to be staged Saturday morn Ing, the 9th. Those who saw the purades of the last two years will be delighted to know that the par ade feature is to be maintained and enlarged. All told this year's Rodeo prom ises to be bigger, better, and an en joyable get-together occasion for all the folks of Morrow county, and their friends from near and far. Mrs. S, E. Notson. Mrs. Alice Ad kins and Miss Opal Briggs will be hostesses for the August meeting of the Women's Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church. The meeting will be held on next Tuesday, Aug. 15, at 2:30 at the Notson home on Gale street. W. Y. Ball Is taking time off from the Clark store to visit his father in Portland who is reported to be falling. Harry Duncan is do ing relief duty at the store. 'JIIIIIMIIIMIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllttumillllMMHIIIIIIMMItHMIHM: GRIST i From Happenings Here and Yon I Concerning 3 I Lightning Heat and Nudism I and other things of more or lew moment as seen by I The Q. T. REPORTER The summer season rolls along apace. Hot davs have hpon ,. der, with occasional thunderstorms mis week shaking loose the heav ens; the lightnng tingling spines wi me umuruus. And timorous are many folks, especially those who hav rv, in. to close proximity with lightning Qwunca. nils witnout warning a streak of burning blue-white fire an implement of GoH nr th n over which man has slight control. Grim, scar-marked rocky pinions on high mountainsides are nature's lightning rods, detracting many a heavenly bolt from striking timber, field or animal-klnr! o,i , uianuiK doubtful the belief that lightning never strikes in the same place twice. But summer wanes. And even now the earlier dusk has led to the remark that it is only 126 days till Christmas. Little warmer are Old Sol's beams than the passions of man mnn re cently evidenced in the outbreak of war in Havana. Some historian has that there has been hardly a day since the United States became a nation that its soldiers or sailm-a were not engaged on some battle field. Preparations are now being made to take a hand in Cuba's re bellion. Not satisfied with his already good record of war nri Notson this morning was consider ing wiring his offer of aid to the r-resment. L,iice the President's cousin who once , made a similar proffer, he thought he would prob ably be denied. When heat. Canyon Oity recently, Blue Moun tain jagie-s- eawr Haight laid off on his "Cockeyed World," advised residents to join the nudists Tnnvp- ment to get relief. Nudism trows in nnnnbrihr evidence stories and daily press recently of babes in Portland and at the beach. Like Editor Haie-ht flriat h.. lieves the weather too warm for much exertion: besides needed for things more Important Wheat Adjustment Plan To be Told Business Men A mass meetine of Hennner hnal- ness men has been called at Hotel Heppner dining room at 7:30 o' clock this evening to hear a discus sion of the wheat nroduction ad justment plan by C. W. Smith, county agent. Because of the in- leraependency of the industrial and agricultural recovery acts in sta bilizine the economic the country, it is believed business men should have a thorough under standing of the wheat plan being put Into effect locally, and Mr. Smith has kindly consented to give me exposition in response to nu merous inquiries from business men. Watermaster Requests No Irrigation Saturday People of the city are asked to refrain from Irrigation Sunday eve ning that water may be diverted to fill the swimming tank, according to announcement handed this paper this morning by W. E. Pruyn, wa termaster. The council authorized this pro cedure recently in an attempt to keep the swimming tank open. CUT-OFF CELEBRATION SET. Celebration of completion of the Wallula cut-off, recently postponed because of the prevalence of rat tlesnakes, has again been set to be held at the state line on the road beginning at 2 o'clock, Monday, Sept. 4, Labor day. Marshall N. Dana, regional public works di rector, will be the principal speak er. An invitation is extended Mor row county people to participate. WHEAT CONTRACTS HERE. Wheat allotment contracts to be used in putting the domestic allot ment plan Into effect were received by Chas. W. Smith, county agent, this morning. These will be signed by farmers who wish to participate In the benefit payments, as soon bs the application for contract blanks have been signed. I. O. O. F. PICNIC SLATED. The D. O. Justus farm home on Hinton creek will be the scene of a joint Odd Fellow and Rebekah, with their families, picnic next Sunday. A basket lunch will be spread on the lawn at noon, with a program preceding. Mr. and Mis. Henry Taylor, Miss Iretta Taylor, Lester Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Becket and baby departed Sunday evening for the coast on a week's vacation. mm OF Three States Represented at Walla Walla Meet ing, Lions Told. FARM RELIEF SEEN Water Transportation Facilities to Lower Freight Rates, Stimulate . Industries, Believed. That the Columbia river should be developed first for the purpose of transportation to relieve farmers of the Inland Empire from the bur den of heavy freight rates was the sense of a meeting of representa tives from 16 counties bordering the upper Columbia at Walla Walla on Friday evening, according to the report given the Heppner Lions club Monday by S. E. Notson, a vice president of the Umatilla Rap ids association which helped spon sor the meeting. It was the attempt of the Walla Walla meeting to unite the 16 coun ties vitally affected in a fight for development of the upper river, Evolved from the meeting was a tentative organization to be known as the Tri-State Development lea gue, through which will be coordin ated the efforts of numerus local development associations including the Umatilla Rapids association. To frame constitution and by laws, two men from each of the three states were named, with Lee Manz of Walla Walla . to act as chairman. Named were Mr. Manz and D. M. Hurley for Washington, R. S. Erb and W. A. Mitchell of Lewiston for Idaho, and Frank Sloan, Stanfleld, and Roy Ritner, Pendleton, for Oregon. E. P. Dodd of Hermiston was named executive secretary. This committee was slated to meet at Walla Walla again Monday to proceed with its work. Finances will be raised through popular membership subscriptions at $1 each, it being hoped to secure 2000 memberships from the terri tory affected to obtain money for carrying on the campaign. Speakers at the meeting includ ed Mr. Ritner who told of the ef fect of river development on rail road freight rates, declaring among other things that building of the Cascade locks and Celilo canal had more than paid for themselves by the reduction received in freight rates at the time of their comple tion though they have actually been little used. Captain R. A. Ward of Lewiston, president of the Inland Waterways association, explained the plan of development of the Snake river for navigation which includes trfc building of six dams at a cost of $14,000,000, and stressed mainly the effect such development would have in stimulating the lumbering in dustry of the Inland Empire. G. A. Hartman, president of the Umatilla Rapids association, told of the fight that had been made by his association to date to gain rec ognition for the upper river. Mr. Hurley and Mr. O'Brien of Pasco did not wish development of the Five Mile rapids to be lost sight of, while Mr. Hurley in particular believed that pushing of individual pet projects should be left In the background with stress placed on making the river navigable, leav ing the detail work to the engin eers. To give the Lions an insight into what the new agricultural adjust ment act hopes to accomplish lo cally, Chas. W. Smith, county ag ent, gave a short resume of steps taken to date to set up the machin ery for acreage adjustment and fixing of allotments, which if back ed 100 per cent by the farmers of the county will bring nearly $300, 000 of income into the county this fall and next spring. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Hanson Hughes departed the end of the week to be present in Salem on Monday as Morrow county dele gate to the state convention to rat ify repeal of the 18th amendment. The repeal amendment was passed 110 to 5, with Mr. Hughes' vote re ocrded in Its favor. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cox and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Booher motored to Portland yesterday, returning last night Cool, foggy weather in the metropolis was quite a contrast to the warm weather of eastern Oregon. Harvest is progressing well In the Eight Mile section, with yields generally light reported Charles Becket, in town Tuesday. Marvin Wightman went to Van couver, Wash., this week to take an examination for entry Into Un cle Sam's flying service. Clyde Wright of Hardman re turned the first of the week from a trip to Browning, Mont, where he looked after his sheep on summer range. D. C. Eccles, manager of Heppner Pine Mills, returned to Heppner on Tuesday evening after spending the week end at his home in Hood River. Baird Patterson is recovering well from a sinus operation which he underwent this week. Mrs. Charles Jones underwent an examination at Emanuel hospital in Portland Tuesday, and reports In dicate that she is doing nicely. No Indication of cancer was found, though it was expected anoperatlon would be necessary. H. S. TUITION FEE TO BE $135 PUPIL Non-High School Board Makes Transportation and Entrance Rgulutions at Lexington. A tuition fee of $135 per capita for each student from a non-high school district attending a stand' ard high school in Morrow county was set by the county non-high school board at a meeting in Lex lngton Saturday evening. All mem bers of the board were present with Mrs. Elmer Griffith of Morgan chairman, presiding. Chairmen and clerks of the Lex ington and lone high schools at tended the meeting and signed con' tracts for admission of non-high school district pupils to their schools under the regulations adopted. The tuition fee will be paid on the basis of actual days attendance, and in addition one cent a mile will be allowed for transportation of non-high school distric tpupils to a standard high school. Transporta tion contracts will be three-way contracts, between the non-high school board, the board of the stan dard high school admitting the pu pils, and the board of the non-high school district from which the pu pils come. All students from a non-high school district attending a standard high school are required to present a certificate of residence in order to be admitted to a standard high school. These should be obtained from the county school superinten ent on or before September 1. High school principals are in structed not to enrol any pupil rrom a non-high school district who does not present a certificate of res idence. High school boards are instruct ed that they must prepare and pre sent to the county school superin tendent a mileage chart showing the name and number of miles traveled by each tuition high school student attending their school. This shall be filed with the county super intendent Immediately after school opens. Bull Prairie Boys Here In Smoker Saturday Five boxing matches and two wrestling bouts will make up the card at the vacant lot just south of Hotel Heppner Saturday at 8 p. in. All the contestants are mem bers of Camp Bull Prairie. . These bouts will be in the nature of elim inations, as the fighters and wrest lers chosen will reappear on the Rodeo program. Paul Gemmell, matchmaker, has gathered an all star contest and all the matches promise to be humdingers. Tuesday night several of the box ers scheduled to appear, boxed be fore Matchmaker Gemmell, Sheriff Bauman and two other Heppner men. Each bout started off fast and furious and each proved more thrilling than the one preceding. Numerous knockdowns occurred as the boys slugged for all they were worth. The first three rounder Saturday will bring together two very fast and willing boys, Sam Rafsky and William Perillo. They will be fol lowed by a wrestling bout In which Jim Langdon will oppose Ralph Palmero. George Bielman and Ed Korn will follow the Novack-Cica-telli bout. The feature wrestling contest. bringing together Tony "Ironsides" Pitelle and Ialo "Cyclone" Civil, will take place before the semi-final boxing bout Although scheduled to last for eight minutes, it doesn t appear likely to reach a decision. Kay Mansoor, 118 pounds, pride of Atlantic avenue, will face Paul Patti, 118, in the semi-finals. All the boxing bouts are three rounders with the exception of the main event. This will be a four rounder bringing together Mike DeVito and Frank Migliaccio. The announcer will be none other than Al "Sandino" Oreflce. And the card is under the supervision of Earl Eskelson, Elbert Cox and Dr. . D. MoMurdo, boxing commis sioners. "Dream" Entertainment Presented by Auxiliary An entertainment of unusual charm was the "Dream," present ed at the school gym-auditorium last Friday evening under the spon sorship of the American Legion Auxiliary and directed by Mrs. Roikjer of Seattle. All home tal ent was used in the presentation of dancing, musical and pantomime numbers participated in by 50 peo ple. Included on the program were Spanish dance by Adele Nickerson, aesthetic dance by Doris Bailey and tap dance by Anabel Turner; mu sical reading by Jeanette Turner, accompanied by Missildlne trio; vocal quartet, Anabel and Jeanette Turner, Virginia Dix and Frances Rugg; vocal and ukele duet by Mary and Patricia Monahan; par asol chorus with song by Linda Becket; violin solos by Billy Wells of Pendleton, accompanied by Mar jorie Parker; musical reading by Lorraine Pope; garden pantomime by small girls with song by Mrs. Walter Moore; piano solo, Jeanette Turner; songs by Sid Blender of Camp Bull Pralre; "Dream" pan tomime with solos by Laurel Beach of Lexington, Lorraine Pope as bride, Frankle Gentry, ring bearer and Phyllis Cash and Mary Lou Ferguson, nowergirls. The Missil dine trio, Virginia Dlx, Mrs. Walter Moore, Marjorie Parker and Jean Cochran were accompanists. WILSON ANSWERS L QUEST Administrator Clears Up Problems of Heppner and lone Meetings. LIKES DISCUSSION Believes Wheat for Hay on Farm May be Grown on Land Takn Out L'nder Contract. In answer to a number of ques tions arising out of the lone and Heppner mass meetings recently at which Paul V. Maris and G. R. Hyslop of the state college ex plained the new wheat production control plan, M. L. Wilson, wheat administrator, wrote Mr. Hyslop, who submitted the questions, as follows: I was much interested in your report of the meetings that you and the rest of the Oregon people have been having and in the re sults obtained. The amount of dis cussion that the allotment plan is raising is well worth the whole ef forts. I shall answer your ques tions in the order in which you ask ed them. The first question: Can a man who rents from different landlords make a contract to cover one of the farms and not another? Yes. He must, however, agree that he will not increase his wheat acreage on one farm to offset the reduction on another. This applies also to the owner of two farms. Second question: The answer to the first covers the second question. Question number three: In the case of a farm sold on crop pay ment in which the seller receives a share of the crop each year to ap ply on the purchase price, how should the contract be made? You should follow the rule, that where ever there is a division of owner ship in the crop, all parties should sign the contract Payments In this case would go to the parties in the same proportion in which they take a portion of the crop. The payment made to the seller, however, must be applied on the purchase price, it cannot be regard ed as a personal bonus. Question number four: Is the mortgagee a party to the contract? No. Question number five relates to the feeding of wheat for hay. This is a question which arises in a num ber of localities this fall, where be cause of the crop failure it will be necessary for fanners to seed some crop to produce hay for the coming winter, ir not hay, then for pasture. I think we can arrange to permit the planting of wheat for hay or pasture with the proviso that def inite reports must be made on the wheat so seeded, reports and in spection of the utilization of these tracts, so that they need not be considered as seeded wheat. If this matter can be worked out so as not to leave a loophole for violation of the purpose of the Act we certain ly wish to do so. Number six: Can a man who buys a piece of land without an allotment after having made con tract on the land he already had, secure an allotment on the addi tional land? Probably not since it is likely that there will be a closing date for making contracts. How ever, he can maintain the previous production on the land he buvs without losing the right to payment on the land he owned in the begin ning. Number seven: Should wheat harvested for hay and fed to horses be counted in as grain produced and an allotment given and pay ment made on it? This question runs counter to your number five. You are asking for the right to piani wneac lor hay or pasture without violating the agreement to reduce, it would hardly be possi ble to count hay harvested from the wheat seeded as grain in the one case and then permit the seed ing or wheat for hay or pasture and exempt it from acreage reduction. iNumoer eight is your bie Ques tion. Will a man keep on receiving payment after partly is reached? The 1933 payments will be made In any case, however. If parity is reacnea no processing tax can be levied consequently no payment can be made. The only obligation upon the contract maker will then be that he will not increase his wheat acreage over his acreage for the base period and that in case of an, international agreement for the re duction of acreage the minimum reduction that he shall make will be me reduction specified In the in ternational agreement The Ques tion is, of course, an Interesting one, but you and I knbw that we neeu not seriously concern our. selves with the eventuality. If price reaches parity you and I know mat me production will increase to a point where we will again build up a surplus and the price will go down to the old world level. nour suggestion reeardlna- In dian lands is very well worth while and I shall take the matter up with them as soon as the Dresstirn of work in the office here Is over. l notice that In your letter of July 17 you have raised several addi tional questions. The first is the suggestion that thte County Allotment Committee may approve the diversion of land that la not average provided a uf flclent diversion Is made to effec- IS (Contlnued on Pt four)