HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV. 8, 1934.
PAGE FIVE
LEXINGTON
By BEULAH NICHOLS
Much interest is being shown in
the adult night school. The sub
ject studied Monday night was
"Elections and Oregon law gov
erning them." Mrs. Lorena Miller
is conducting the classes which are
held each Monday and Thursday
evening from 7:30 to 9:30.
A P. T. A. study class has been
organized and at present a course
in leadership ia being studied. Mrs.
Charles Marquardt has registered
for the course but several others
are taking it up also. The class
meets each Tuesday afternoon at
3:45.
Lexington grange wil meet Sat
urday night, Nov. 4, for the pur
pose of electing officers for next
year.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gillis en
tertained the members of the fifth
and sixth grades with a Hallowe'en
party at their home Thursday nite.
Lawrence Beach returned Thurs
day evening from Chicago where
he went some three weeks ago. On
his return he drove home a new
Studebaker coupe for his brother
Laurel.
Mrs. Frank Munkers returned
home from the Heppner hospital
the last of the week.
B. S. Clark of Gresham was look
ing after business interests in this
community last week.
Ben Boone of Walla Walla was
calling on Lexington friends last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. George Peck and
sons and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schri
ever and family were dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. John Miller Sun
day. The Lexington depot has closed
for the winter months and Mrs.
Marie Morris, station agent, depart
ed for Rufus the latter part of the
week.
. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hunt are
spending the week in Portland and
Oregon City.
Miss Edith Tucker of La Grande
spent the week end with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Tucker.
Truman White returned from
Drain last week.
Mrs. Mitchell and son of Tacoma
were guests at the W. F. Barnett
home last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Miller are
spending the week with Mrs. Mill
er's sister, Mrs. Harry Howard, at
Kent, Wash.
Arnold Piper of Blackhorse was
a business visitor in Pendleton
Saturday.
Mrs. E. Albee and Mrs. Charles
Ritchie of Heppner were Lexington
visitors Monday.
Ruth Cowins of Heppner spent
the week end in Lexington at the
home of her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Allyn.
Lexington Ki'lmol NotH
Reporters: Edith Edwards, Dclpha
Merritt, Edward Hunt.
The boys and girls played their
annual volley ball game last Fri
day with the boys winning two
games out of three. The girls play
ed a good game but the boys out
played them. The girls now have
to give the boys a party.
Lyle Allyn, Alfred Van Winkle
and Vivian White are absent from
school this week.
Miss Smith spent the week end in
Hillsboro.
Rose Thornburg is coming to
school on crutches as the result of
a broken toe which she received
last week end.
Have you ever seen Lester Cox
and Bill Van Winkle looking out
the window?
Basketball is now underway. The
first practice game was held Mon
day afternoon. Twenty boys have
turned out for the team.
A general assembly was held last
Wednesday, October 31. Mr. Camp
bell gave a very enjoyable talk on
Hallowe'en and its meaning.
Mr. Campbell spent the week end
in Beaverton where he visited his
wife and young daughter. He re
ports that they are doing very
nicely.
Grain Varieties Famous
In 1906 Now Forgotten
Union The average increase in
yield of grain and the complete
change in varieties used in Oregon
during the past 30 years is strik
ingly shown in a comparison of ex
perimental records at the branch
experiment station located here.
While the records compiled ap
ply only to this station, a similar
condition could be shown in other
sections of the state, the O. S. C.
officials declare.
In 1906, the first year that experi
mental work was conducted here, 57
varieties of winter wheat were tried
out on the station. The average
yield that year on the station farm,
which has at least average of good
soil types for this region, was 29.2
bushels per acre. The highest yield
ing variety was Dawson's Golden
Chaff, which yielded 45.4 bushels
per acre.
In 1934 only 16 varieties were
grown, but these averaged 41.9 bu
shels to the acre, with a new hybrid
of Fortyfold crossed with Hybrid
128 heading the list with a 60.3 bu
shel yield.
Changes in spring wheat varieties
and yields are even more striking.
Only three kinds were planted in
1906, and the best of the lot, called
Seven Headed, yielded only 27.9 bu
shels to the acre. This year 10 va
rieties were grown, the average
yield being 44.8 bushels to the acre,
with Jenkin heading the list on yield
with 54.7 bushels. Jenkin is about
three weeks later than Federation,
however, while another new wheat,
named Union, is only about 10 davs
America Suffers Eighty Times Each Year
From Major Disasters, Red Cross Reports
r
RECORDS which date back a
quarter ot a century listing the
disaster relief operations of the
American Red Cross show that an
average of eighty major catastro
phes, menacing life and property, oc
cur each year in the United States.
The type of disaster hazard of
greatest frequency is the tornado.
Red Cross records show that these
iangerous windstorms, originating
largely in the hills and mountains
Df the Middle West, occur most often
In the spring months, but also may
wreak havoc in southern states in
winter months.
During the past year 25 such
storms occurred. For the first time In
decades the frequency of the tornado
was equalled by another type of
catastrophe forest fires. Due to the
drought stricken condition of the
west, 25 grave forest fires occurred
ind but for the vigilance of various
agencies, including the forest rang
ers, the Red Cross and the work
of the Civilian Conservation Corps,
vast acreage of forests would have
been denuded by the flames.
Red Cross records show, however,
that the two most devastating disas
ters of the year resulted from a hur
ricane and tidal wave which struck
the Gulf Coast of Texas, taking 36
lives and a freak flood which washed
down from the mountains in Los
Angeles County sweeping 44 persons
to death. r
The tornado Is
the most fre
quent catastro
phe causing
loss of life and
property. These
remarkable
photographs
how th ree
stages of one of
these storms
which struck In
Oklahoma.
,'
inti
A new record for frequency ot hup
rlcanes was established during the
year when the Weather Bureau re
corded 21 of these tropical cyclones.
Five reached the United States
mainland, striking between August
4 and September 16, 1933. For the
first time in many years one of these
tropical disturbances caused devas
tation as far up the Atlantic Coast
as Maryland. In the latter storm the
Red Cross aided 1,564 families, of
whom 1,069 were in the Chesapeake
Bay region.
In all, 32 states suffered some type
of disaster during the year. The Red
Cross aided 119,000 persons in these
states and expended $1,567,048 in re
lief to them. Of this sum $647,300
was appropriated from the treasury
of the national organization.
Serious floods l'i Idaho, Washing
ton and in Iowa; a malarial epidemic
in Louisiana; typhoid in Vermont; a
school bus crash in Florida, which
killed eleven children; and two ex
plosions one of oil tanks in Rhode
Island and another of a sawmill
boiler in Missouri all required their
measures of Red Cross assistance.
An important task undertaken by
the Disaster Relief Service of the
Red Cross during the year was de
velopment of broader preventive
measures against catastrophes,
through holding 28 training schools
in which were assembled more than
two thousand persons. They dis
cussed particular hazards of the
areas represented, and plans for
meeting calls should disaster strike.
All of the Red Cross disaster work
is supported through the annual roll
call, held from Armistice Day to
Thanksgiving. By joining the Red
Cross as a member every adult citi
zen participates in this vital humani
tarian work of relief.
gon and in other parts of the coun
try, will be described by Wayne L.
Morse, dean of the school of law
at University of Oregon, in a radio
address over station KOAC Thurs
day, November 1, from 815 to 8:30.
Height, Weight Charts
Said to be Misleading
The use of height and age tables
for computing correct weight of
children often makes some parents
unduly concerned and others un
duly complacent, because these ta
bles are no longer considered to in
dicate accurately the nutritional
condition of a child, says Miss Lucy
a Case, extension specialist in nu
trition at Oregon State college.
Miss Case has returned to her
work at the college after a sum
mer's study at the Iowa Child Wel
fare station at the University of
Iowa, where she took work with
Dr. Amy L. Daniels, professor of
nutrition; Dr. Charles H. McCloy,
professor of physical education, and
other well-known authoritites.
Dr. McCloy will soon publish a
new set of weight tables based upon
the framework of the body, in
which the diameter of the hips, di
ameter of the knee, the chest cir
cumference, and other measure
ments as well as height are consid
ered in determining proper weight,
Miss Case says.
Dr. Daniels believes that 90 per
cent of fhe children in lh I'mS-.l
States are suffering from soim- form
of imperfect teeth, a coivlilini
largely due to mistakes in prefcni
food habits, according to Miss (':.',
Our grandmothers had less nei d t.i
study nutrition. Dr. Daniels point
ed out, because food habits wi re
different They used real whole
grain products, no butter substi
tutes, three or four eggs in a serv
ing, and children ate what th-y
were told to eat.
Oregon Graduate Wins
Share of Nobel Prize
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Oct. 28. One of three American
physicians to be awarded the famed
JS'obel prize in medicine for 1934 is
Dr. William P. Murphey, a gradu
ate of the University of Oregon
who received much of his medical
training at the university medical
school in Portland. He will divide
the prize with Dr. George Minot of
Harvard and Dr. George H. Whip
ple of the University of Rochester.
The victory of the trio over the
dread disease, pernicious anemia,
was the basis for the award. The
prize totals approximately $41,000.
James Hams and wife of Hard
man were doing business in the city
Saturday. They reported grain and
grass growing fine in their vicinity.
later than Federation and has yield
ed 19 per cent more in eight years
of comparative trials. It is now
being highly recommended for this
region.
Among spring barley varieties, a
now forgotten sort named High
land Chief was the best of 10 grown
in 1906, making a yield of 46.9 bu
shels. The average of 10 varieties
grown this year was 55.1, while
Trebi, the variety introduced by
the station and now standard in
this region, produced 72.6 bushels
to the acre.
Spring oats were represented by
18 varietieo in 1906, the leader be
ing New Market White, now long
since forgotten. The 11 varieties
grown this year averaged 18 bu
shels an acre above those grown at
that time, the highest yielder being
American Banner, with 88 bushels
to the acre. Victory oats, however,
is now the one most widely recom
mended for soils with a good mois
ture supply, it having a 10 year av
erage of 72.5 bushels on the station.
Criminal Law Radio Topic
Of University Law Dean
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Oct. 28. Proposed criminal law re
forms, a subject that is attracting
a great deal of attention in Ore-
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