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Volume 52, Number 45.
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, Jan. 16, 1936.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
COUNTY WHEAT IN
ASK CONGRESS ACT
More Than 200 Endorse
Resolutions at Lex
ington Meeting.
SMOUSE IS DELEGATE
Regional Meeting Slated at Ar
lington Today; Approval Given
Senator McNary's Bill.
More than two hundred wheat
growers went on record as favoring
a production control program to re
place the recently abollBhed AAA
program at a mass meeting of
wheat farmers held in Lexington
Tuesday. This Morrow county
meeting was similar to those spon
sored in each county by the East
ern Oregon Wheat league. E. H.
Miller, president of the league, was
chairman of the meeting.
Various plans already suggested
as substitute legislation were brief
ly discussed and senate bill 3596,
sponsored by Senator McNary, pro
viding for the completion of pay
ments under existing contracts and
honoring the applications for a
new contract made prior to January
6 and for which compliance has al
ready started, was discussed and
approved.
The group unanimously passed
the two following resolutions:
1. Whereas, we feel that control
of production is an absolute neces
sity for long-time farm price sta
bilization, and
Whereas, we feel that such price
stabilization is necessary for the
general welfare of the people of
the United States;
Now, therefore, be It resolved,
that the Morrow county unit of the
Eastern Oregon Wheat league do
hereby recommend and urge that
a substitute plan for the AAA be
passed by the congress which will
have as its primary purpose the
control of agricultural production
to conform to domestic consumption
of such products.
2. Whereas, we have complied
with all provisions of AAA con
tracts signed to date, and
Whereas, we have already signed
applications for a new contract
(472 applications representing 96.6
per cent of the wheat produced in
Morrow county) which may be ter
minated by the Secretary of Agri
culture after one year, and have al
ready adjusted our wheat acreage
to comply with the provisions of
this contract;
Now, therefore, be it resolved,
that the Morrow county unit of the
Eastern Oregon Wheat league go on
record as solidly in favor of senate
bill 3596.
Eastern Oregon Wheat league is
sponsoring a meeting at Arlington
ton today at which representatives
from all the wheat growing coun
ties in the Columbia basin will be
present. H. V. Smouse was elect
ed official delegate from Morrow
county to this meeting. Arrange
ments have been made in Arling
ton to accommodate a large group
of growers, and undoubtedly Mr.
Smouse will be accompanied by a
large delegation from Morrow
county.
LIBRARY OFFICERS ELECTED.
Mrs. Harriet Gemmell was elect
ed president of Heppner Public Li
brary association at Its annual
meeting at the library room Sat
urday afternoon. She succeeds
Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers, whose faith
ful work for the last several years
has been accompanied by much
growth and progress. The pressure
of other work caused Mrs. Rodgers
to decline further duty as library
head. Other officers elected were
J. Alan Bean, vice-president; Lou
ise Becket, secretary-treasurer, and
J. O. Turner, trustee for the next
three years.
Frances Case, librarian, reported
157 books were purchased or do
nated last year, increasing the stock
on the shelves to 2,100 volumes.
During the last year 7,611 books
were circulated from the library
"and approximately 99 new borrow
ers were registered. The treasurer
reported receipts for the year to be
$246.14 and disbursments for the
year, $219.68, leaving a balance of
$26.46, which added to the balance
January, 1935, gives a total of $132,
86 now on hand.
CATTLE SALE, MARCH 26-27.
Spokane. March 26 and 27 are
the dates set for the annual spring
breeding cattle sale in Spokane,
according to John Napier of Odes
sa, manager of the Inland Empire
combination cattle sale and show.
Mr. Napier said that about 120
head of registered shorthorn, An
gus and Hereford cattle will be of
fered, STORE RENOVATED.
The Curran Ready-to-Wear shop,
damaged by Are recently, is under
going reflnlahlng touches this week.
Ed Bucknum, recently returned
from John Day, is doing the plas
tering. LOCAL OCC'S WIN.
Both the first and second basket
ball teams of the local CCC camp
were victorious in a double-header
game played here Saturday with
teams from the Higard camp.
LEXINGTON
By BEULAH NICHOLS
At the meeting of Lexington
grange Saturday evening E. Har
vey Miller, president of the Eastern
Oregon Wheat league, discussed the
decision of the Supreme Court on
the unconstitutionality of the AAA
and read an interesting editorial on
this subject
The measures to be voted on at
the special election on January 31
were discussed with good argu
menta presented for each side of
some of the questions. The speak'
ers on these measures were Harvey
Miller, Orville Cutsforth, H. V.
Smouse and Mr. and Mrs. S. J. De
vine. The Oregon State grange op
poses the bill changing primary
elections to September, the sales
tax bill and the bill authorizing stu
dent activity fees in state higher
educational institutons, and favors
the compensation of the legislature
constitutional amendment.
The question, "Why should we
have an Eastern Oregon Wheat
league?" was asked by S. P. Devine
and some interesting discussions
were given by Harvey Miller, Or
ville Cutsforth, H. V. Smouse and
A. H. Nelson.
Orville Cutsforth, master of this
grange, appointed the following
committees to serve the grange
during 1936: agricultural commit
tee, Oral Scott, Ralph Scott, Charles
Marquardt and Fred Mankin; leg
islative, Bert Johnson, Norman
Nelson, H. V. Smouse and Louis
Marquardt; cooperative, A. H. Nel
son, Harvey Miller and Oral Scott;
relief, Norma Marquardt; finance,
Harvey Miller, Clarence Bauman
and Fred Mankin; publicity, Beulah
Nichols and Edith Miller; Boy
Scouts, Harry Dinges and George
Peck; tableaux, Hortense Martin,
Laura Rice and Bertha Nelson;
home economics, Anne Miller, Beu
lah Nichols, Pearl Devine, Bertha
Nelson and Pearl Marquardt; hall
committee, Lawrence Slocum, Paul
Smouse and Sam McMillan; musi
cian. Echo Palmateer.
The dance committee reported
ninty-four dollars in the treasury
to be transferred to the sinking
fund for paying the Indebtedness
on the hall.
Three proposals for membership
in the grange were received, five
people were elected and Charles
Christenson was given the obliga
tions making him a member of the
grange.
The grange has announced a pie
social and free old-time dance to
be given at the hall Saturday night,
January 25. Each lady attending
is asked to bring a pie and these
will be sold at auction to the men.
This is to be strictly an old-time
dance with no modern music. Ev
eryone is invited to come and have
a good time.
The Boardman high school bas
ketball team defeated the Lexing
ton quintet 38-24 at Boardman Fri
day night Playing for Lexington
were Keith Gentry and LaVerne
Wright, forwards; Kenneth Pal
mer center; Asa Shaw and Lyle
Allyn, guards; subs, Woodrow Tuck
er, Robert Campbell and Lester Mc
Millan. Preceding this game the
second teams of the two schools
played, Lexington winning with a
score of 16-11. Playing for Lexing
ton in this game were Elwynne
Peck and Lee Shaw, forwards; Les
ter McMillan, center; Kenneth
Peck andfi Clayton Davis, guards;
subs, Stanley Way and Robert
Campbell.
The Lexington Home Economics
club met Thursday at the grange
hall for an all day meeting. Some
of the grange men came also and
worked on the improvements which
are being made in the dining room
of the hall. A delicious chicken
dinner was served at noon by the
hostesses, Mrs. Myles Martin and
Mrs. Charles Marquardt. A busi
ness meeting was held in the after
noon. Mrs. S. J. Devine was elected
treasurer to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Mrs. Harry
Schriever. Those present were
Laura Rice, Anne Miller, Trina
Parker, Pearl Devine, Martha
Wright Emma White, Bertha Din
ges, Nellie Palmer, Freda Slocum,
Josephine Peck, Bernlce Bauman,
Alta Cutsforth, Anna Smouse, Ber
tha Nelson, Hortense Martin, Nor
ma Marquardt Lorena Miller, Ma
bel Cool, Myrtle' Schriever and
Beulah Nichols. The next meet
ing will be on Thursday afternoon,
February 13 at the home of Bertha
Dinges. Mrs. Trina Parker will be
assistant hostess.
Believing that a program of agri
cultural production control i3 nec
essary to prevent the exploitation
of American farmers by small but
powerful groups, the wheat growers
of this county met in Lexington
Tuesday afternoon and elected H.
V. Smouse as a delegate to the re
gional meeting of the Eastern Ore
gon Wheat league to be held in Ar
lington Thursday. A resolution
was adopted asking congress to
appropriate necessary funds to
complete payments on all existing
contracts.
Orville Cutsforth, master of the
Lexington grange, has announced
that there will be no speaker at the
grange hall preceding the dance
Saturday night as was previously
announced. The dance will be held
as scheduled with music by Bran
stetter's. Mr. and Mrs. George Peck spent
the week end in Portland where
Mr. Peck attended the annual con
vention of county commissioners.
Earl Warner and Sam McMillan
drove to Portland Sunday to take
Vernon and Kenneth Warner who
went on to San Diego to join the
navy.
A large delegation of farmers
from this community went to Pen
dleton Saturday to attend the Jack
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Alonzo Markham Passes
At Home in Freewater
Alonzo Markham, former Mor
row county resident, died at his
home in Freewater last Thursday
and funeral services were held from
the First Baptist church of Milton
Sunday afternoon, with Elder
Hughett of Yakima officiating. In
terment was in I. O. O. F. cemetery
at Milton with the Masonic order
of Freewater having charge at the
grave.
Alonzo Martin Markham was
born at Albany, Ore., June 6, 1859,
being aged 76 years, 7 months and
3 days. He came to Morrow coun
ty in 1884 and was engaged in farm
ing and stockraising near Heppner
until he moved with his family
near Whitman Station, Wash., in
1905, where they lived for nine
years before going to Freewater.
He married Miss Octavia Baker of
lone, March 6, 1887, and to this
union nine children were bom, six
of whom with the widow survive.
They are Elmer of Lowden, Wash.,
Newton of Toppenish, Wash., Fred
and Walter of Portland, Floyd who
is a student at Oregon State college,
and Mrs. Pearl Devine of Lowden,
Wash. Surviving also are nine
grandchildren and one great grand
child. He was a member of A. F. &
A. M. lodge for 47 years and, having
his membership at one time in
Hepnper lodge No. 69, and was
known as one of the few native
Oregonians over 75 years of age.
Mrs. V. C. Belknap Dies;
Was Native This County
Funeral services are being held
at Nampa, Idaho, today for Mrs. V.
C. Belknap, formerly Mrs. Anna
Spencer of this city, who died Tues
day from an attack of blood pois
oning, according to word received
Tuesday evening by relatives and
friends here. She was the wife of
Dr. V. C. Belknap of that city.
Mrs. Belknap, nee Anna F. Ayers,
was a native Morrow county girl,
the daughter of William and Ma
tilda (Boord) Ayers. She was mar
ried to S. W. Spencer of this city
May 9, 1893, and the family home
was made here until Mr. Spencer's
death June 23, 1923. She later mar
ried Dr. Belknap and had resided
at Nampa since. Besides the hus
band, she is survived by a brother,
A. L. Ayers of Portland, and a sis
ter, Mrs. R. Y. Currin of Idaho.
She was a member of Ruth chapter,
Eastern Star, of this city for many
years, and leaves a wide circle of
friends here.
Hardman Student Makes
High Record in Studies
Believed to be the outstanding
grade record for any student in the
county is that of Roland Farrens,
junior in Hardman high school,
who completed the semester just
ended with I grade, in geometry,
English in, American history,
world history, and typing. Roland
is 15 years of age and has 12
high school credits.
Mrs. Irl Clary is his teacher.
NEIGHBORS INSTALL.
Neighbors of Woodcraft held pub
lic installation of officers at I. O.
O. F. hall Monday evening. Pot
luck supper was enjoyed at 6:30,
followed by installation and initia
tion for three candidates, with a
large attendance. Rose Howell,
past guardian neighbor, installed
the following officers: Thomas
Wells, past guardian neighbor; Guy
Shaw, guardian neighbor; Ray Co
blantz, adviser; Rose Howell, clerk;
Clara Sprinkel, banker; Nettie
Flower, magician; Roy Quacken
bush, attendant; Doris Hiatt Gaily,
captain of the guard; Mabel French,
flag bearer; Ronald Coblantz, inner
sentinel; J. C. Owen, outer sentinel;
Ada Coblantz, musician; Elma
Hiatt, correspondent; A. J. Westoff,
Jack Coblantz, Pearl Shaw, man
agers; Ada Coblantz, senior guar
dian. WATER PROSPECT IMPROVES.
Orve Rasmus, watermaster, is a
little worried just at present for
fear the new ditch from Ditch
creek to Willow creek will not be
large enough to carry the spring
run-off of water. More than a
week ago some 39 inches of snow
on the north slopes was reported,
and there has been snow since. He
thinks prospects of the city water
supply holding up through the com
ing summer are very favorable.
ACQUITTED OF CHARGE.
V. F. Larse, with the local soil
conservation service, was acquitted
in justice court of J. Fred Lucas,
Saturday, on charge of hunting with
illegal license. He was represented
by J. O. Turner, attorney. On the
jury were Olive Fry, Harriet Gem
mell, May Gilliam, James Archer
and Eph Eskelson.
MORE BOYS COMING.
Captain W. R.- Reynolds, com
mandant of the local CCC camp,
has received word that 18 more
Massachusetts boys will arrive here
cither today or tomorrow to swell
the camp personnel. They will
bring the total enrollment to 215.
VALENTINE DANCE SET.
Business and Professional Wom
en's club have announced their an
nual St. Valentine's dance for Feb
ruary 15, with music by The Dalles
Rhythm Kings.
COUNCIL MEETS FEB. 2.
Morrow County Grange council
will meet the first Sunday in Feb
ruary, Feb. 2, at Rhea Creek, at
which time the council will elect
its officers for 1936.
RHEA CREEK ROAD
NEARS COMPLETION
North-End Route to Tim
ber to be Near Speed
way; WPA Helps.
COW TRAIL PASSING
Improved Alignment Eliminates
Curves; Social Ridge Rhea
Creek Road Under Way.
Another month should see com
pletion of hard-surfacing of the
Rhea Creek market road, work on
which is now being pushed by the
county with assistance of WPA
funds, believes Harry Tamblyn,
county engineer. Half of the sur
facing has been laid on the six mile
stretch included in the project, the
alignment and right-of-way are se
cured and grading is almost com
pleted. When the road Is finished it will
provide almost a speedway to the
mountains for north-end residents.
The road joins the Oregon-Washington
highway at Jordan Siding,
and the' Heppner-Spray, or Hepp-ner-Condon,
road at Rhea Creek
store.
New alignment of the road be
tween the Rugg place and the end
of the former macadamized stretch
has eliminated many bad curves
and mudholes. , Where the road
was little more than a cow trail be
fore, it has been widened through
out to 16 feet and many cuts and
fills have been made to keep the
alignment straight.
The recently acquired portable
rock crusher has been placed on
the job, grinding out macadam at
the rate of 120 yards a day. WPA
workers are assisting with ditch
ing, bank sloping, removing bould
ers from grade and such other la
bor as can be profitably done by
hand. In addition one caterpillar
tractor-drawn grader, and one
horse-drawn rock spreader are in
use.
Also underway la grading of 9
miles of the market road between
Social ridge and Rhea creek, to be
followed by two rales of surfacing
to complete the hard surface be
tween the Clarks canyon market
road and the Rhea creek road at
the R. A. Thompson farm. Rock
for this surfacing has already been
crushed. The new grade has im
proved the alignment, and will
make a serviceable road for an out
let for wheat in the Social ridge
section.
WPA is assisting also with the
latter road, as well as four miles
of grade on Willow creek between
Heppner and the Frank Wilkinson
farm. . Outside of the WPA assist
ance cost of the work is being
stood by Morrow county alone.
Mr. Tamblyn says the county still
has 75 miles of market road for
construction and maintenance on
which it receives no state help. At
the convention of county courts in
Portland last week end, discussion
of this matter led to adoption of
a resolution asking the state to
return a portion of the heavy truck
tax to the counties. It was the
opinion of the courts that much
damage is done to market roads by
this type of traffic, and that the
counties are entitled to some of
the revenue.
The engineer estimates that WPA
assistance is lessening the cost to
the county of present construction
by 30 percent
County sponsored projects at
Boardman and Irrigon include
clearing rights-of-way of weeds
and brush, ditching for drainage
and Improving grade on project
roads.
One WPA project, recently com
pleted, eliminated a bad curve on
the Boardman end of the Ione
Boardman road. This was done at
small cost to the county, and a bad
hazard to traffic was eliminated.
TOWNSEND CLUB MEETS.
The local Townsend club met
Tuesday evening In the Methodist
church basement with a large at
tendance. Marie Barlow gave an
interesting reading on "Youth
Movement in Townsend Plan." The
club plans to have a speaker from
the outside once each month with
some form of entertainment and
light refreshments. Joseph Whit
man, local CCC, was authorized to
proceed with his proposed poll of
the camp to ascertain how the boys
and officers stand on the Townsend
plan. Mrs. Chris Brown, local
leader, reports an increasing num
ber of young people becoming inter
ested in the plan.
HOLD QUILTING MEET.
Ladles of the Christian church
held an all-day quilting meeting
Tuesday at the church. Pot-luck
dinner was enjoyed. Present were
Mrs. Lou Miller, Mrs. Jeff French,
Mrs. J. H. Gemmell, Mrs. Chas.
Huston, Mrs. S. P. Devln, Mrs. Al
vln Klelnfeldt, Mrs. W. G. McCar
ty, Mrs. Eph Eskelson, Mrs. Etta
Parker, Mrs. A. J. Chaffee, Mrs.
Lester Doollttle, Mrs. E. R. Hus
ton, Mrs. W. L. McCaleb, Mrs. R.
W. Turner. Mrs. F. E. Parker. Mrs
Jeff Jones, Mrs. Cora Crawford,
Mrs. F. S. Parker, Mrs. Robert
Leap, Mrs. Luella Osteen, Mrs.
Sarah Parker, Mrs. Jas, Furlong,
Miss Leta Humphreys.
Lions Move to Clear
Spray Road of Snow
A move to clear the Heppner
Spray road of snow was made by
the Lions club Monday when its
road committee was instructed to
contact the highway commission
on the matter. G. A. Bleakman,
Hardman stage operator and father
of the Spray road, presented the
matter to the club, saying that the
road is now blockaded by snow
which could be removed at small
expense to the stata Acting on the
club's instructions, H. O. Tenney,
road committee chairman, prepared
a resolution immediately and for
warded it to E. B. Aldrich, eastern
Oregon member of the commission.
Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers, newly
elected vice-president of Oregon
State Teachers association, and
Garnet Barratt, reelected president
of Oregon Wool Growers 'at Baker
last week end, were club guests and
each spoke regarding the programs
being carried on by their associa
tions. Ray P. Kinne, club vice-
president, presided.
President's Birthday
To be Observed Here
The third annual birthday ball
in honor of President Roosevelt's
birthday will be held at the Elks
hall in Heppner, January 31, coin
cident with similar affairs over the
entire nation .proceeds of which
will aid sufferers from infantile
paralysis.
Dr. A. D. McMurdo is serving as
chairman of the local affair for the
third year and has announced the
general committee in charge as fol
lows: E. L. Morton, R B. Fergu
son, Chas. B. Cox, Bert Mason, Law
rence Beach.
This year 70 percent of the pro
ceeds from the local ball stays at
home to go into a fund to aid in
fantile paralysis sufferers in this
vicinity, with 30 percent going to
the Warm Springs endowment
fund. Warm Springs is the na
tional infantile paralysis sanitar
ium at Warm Springs, Ga.
Adult Education Classes
Start; Enrollment Open
Regularly scheduled classes of
the adult school were set at a meet
ing in the high school Friday eve
ning and started Monday evening
with Gordon Bucknum as instruct
or. Classes are held from 7 to 9
o'clock each evening in room 3 of
the high school.
English and public speaking
class meets Mondays and Thurs
days, gymnasium on Tuesdays, and
psychology on Wednesdays and
Fridays. Eighteen are enrolled in
English and public speaking, 13 in
gym, and 13 in psychology. Since
classes are started, Mr. Bucknum
expects an increased interest, and
opportunity is extended others to
enroll. No textbooks need be pur
chased, but all should have ma
terials for note-taking.
RECALLS WINTER OF ARRIVAL
Bruce B. Kelley recalls the win
ter his family came to the county
58 years ago as being similar to the
present one, with little cold weather
after the first of January. The fam
ily landed in Portland from Ver
mont, Mr. Kelley's birth state. His
father suffered from asthma and
had intended locating at Roseburg,
where he had been advised the cli
mate would be beneficial. A doctor
n Portland" advised eastern Oregon
instead; so his mind was changed.
No railroad had then been built in
to The Dalles, which point was
reached by boat. There they met
Lou Trainer and he was persuaded
to bring them up to Heppner In
his hack. Through Mr. Trainer,
Mr. Kelley secured employment the
first year with French and Howard,
stock operators on Willow creek.
The next year, Mr. Kelley purchased
the place further up the creek
where the family home was made
and where Bruce still resides.
IMPROVEMENTS MADE.
The farm on Rhea creek operat
ed by A. K. McMurdo and family
presents a becoming appearance
through improvements to the house
and addition of a new windmill.
The house was recently renovated
and repainted, reflecting a pro
gessive spirit on the part of the
owners. The new windmill is in
stalled over a recently drilled well.
TOWN PROPERTIES SOLD.
Two houses belonging to the John
E. Johnson estate were sold Tues
day through Frank W. Turner, lo
cal realtor. One in north Heppner
was purchased by Homer Tucker,
and the other in south Heppner was
purchased by Kenneth Akers.
COLD EPIDEMIC STRIKES.
A number of children suffering
from colds, were dismissed from
school Monday as general aftiicition
had reached almost epidemic pro
portions. Several cases of influenza
were reported among the victims.
PAPERS WANTED.
This office is In need of several
copies of the Gazette Times of De
cember 26, 1935. It would be appre
ciated If subscribers having their
copies of that date would bring
them in.
Pie Sale By Aid Society of the
Methodist church in Dick's display
room, formerly occupied by county
agent, Saturday, Jan. 18, beginning
at 10 a. m.
Fresh Farm Eggs Direct from
farm to you. Be sure of fresh eggs
and give the producer the middle
man's profit Mrs. Chris Brown.
45-47
I0NE
By MARGARET BLAKE
The January meeting of the lone
union Missionary society was held
in the parlor of the Congregational
church last Thursday afternoon.
Following the general program of
mission study for all churches,
Miss Emmer Maynard gave an in
teresting introduction to the study
of mission work in South America.
Mrs. Harvey Ring gave the current
missionary news. Hostesses for
the afternoon were Mrs. Emil Swan-
son and Mrs. Minnie Forbes. The
following are the officers for the
new year: Mrs. Edward Keller,
president; Mrs. Minnie Forbes, vice
president; Mrs. Wallace Mathews,
secretary; Mrs. J. E. Swanson,
treasurer; Miss Emmer Maynard,
devotional leader; Mrs. Jennie Mc
Murray and Mrs. Harvey Ring,
current missionary news reporters.
H. D. McCurdy went to Baker
last Thursday to attend a meeting
of the Oregon Woolgrowers asso
ciation. He returned home Sun
day. The silver tea given by the Wo
men's Topic club at the library last
Saturday afternoon was well at
tended and a nice sum received
which will be used for expenses
entailed by the library. Quite a
number of used books were brought
by those who attended and they
will be used as a nucleus for a per
manent library after the travelling
library has been returned. Much
interest has been shown in the li
brary and the club appreciates and
thanks the public for its interest
and help.
Mr. and Mrs. French Burroughs
departed Thursday for Kirksville,
Mo., where they will visit with their
son Glenn and his family for sev
eral weeks. They went by car from
here to Pendleton where thev
boarded a train. Mr. and Mrs. Cole
Smith are taking care of things at
their ranch while they are away.
The old-time dance at Cecil last
Saturday night was very well at
tended and everyone reports a
good time. The dance was given by
Willows grange and that organiza
tion is planning a leap year dance
to which everyone is welcome and
which will be given on the evening
of their social meeting, Feb. 15.
The Home Economics club of
Willows grange will meet at the
home of Mrs. James Lindsay Fri
day afternoon, Jan. 17. New offi
cers who took their places January
first are chairman, Bertha Cool;
vice-chairman, Mary Lindsay; sec
retary, Etta Bristow, and treasurer,
Stella O'Meara.
Miss Lucy Spittle of Astoria and
Mr. Ture Peterson of this city were
married January 8 at the parson
age of the Lutheran church in Pen
dleton. The bride taught in the
local school the past two years. The
young couple returned on Thurs
day and will make their home here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Howk and
family of Condon came over on
Saturday night and spent Sunday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. J.
Linn.
Garland Swanson spent Sunday
at Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Moore have
returned from Portland where they
spent the holidays with their
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Wrex Hickok.
E. J. Blake and Keithley Blake
were here from Kinzua Sunday.
Miss Joanne Blake returned with
them from spending a week with
her grandmother, Mrs. J. H. B'.ake.
Mrs. Mary Weddle who has been
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Walter Eubanks, covalescing from
an operation for goitre, became
seriously 111 with heart trouble on
Friday and was taken to the hos
pital at The Dalles where she is re
ported to show little improvement.
Mrs. Eubanks and Louis Halvor
sen went with her and her son and
daughter, Henry Halvorsen and
Mrs. Letha Buschke of Pendleton
have gone to be with her, also.
Align Ely, the small son of Elvin
Ely, fell from a chair last Monday
morning at their home and cut his
head so severely that it was neces
sary to take him to Heppner to
have the wound closed by a physi
cian. Mrs. Elmer Baldwin of Salem
who taught here for several years
past and was forced to resign fol
lowing an accident last summer
when she was struck by an auto
mobile, was a visitor at the home of
Mrs. Harriet Brown Saturday. She
was on her way home to Salem
from Walla Walla where she had
gone for medical treatment for her
injury from which she has not en
tirely recovered.
Miss Mildred Smith who is em
ployed by the port commission of
The Dalles was chosen to break a
bottle of wine on the first piling
driven on the terminal project at
The Dalles. A ceremony for that
purpose was held there last Wed
nesday. Miss Smith is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Cole E. Smith of
this city.
Mrs. Wallace Mathews gave a
birthday dinner for her father, H.
O. Ely, last Friday evening. Guests
were Franklin and Elvin Ely with
their families, George Ely, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Ely, Mr. and Mrs. H. O.
Ely and Margaret
Mrs. R W. Brown of Portland
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Roy
Lieuallen.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Lundell re
turned Monday from Milton-Free-
water where they were called by
the death of A. M. Markham, an
uncle of Mrs. Lundell. Mr. Mark
ham was an early settler in Mor
row county, settling on a farm near
Clarks canyon. He still held this
farm at the time of his death but
had made his home near Freewa
ter since 1904.
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30-Cent Offers on Wool
Received, Pres. Bar
ratt Tells Growers.
BAKER MEET LIVELY
Local Man Retained as President;
Authorities Speak; Resolutions
Touch Variety of Subjects.
Improved prospects for the wool
industry this year were pictured be
fore Oregon Wool Growers' conven
tion at Baker Friday by J. G. Bar
ratt of this city, president for last
year and reelected to the post The
highly successful two-day conven
tion closed Saturday evening. Hepp
ner people who attended gave com
mendation of the fine hospitality of
the host city.
Growers have already received
offers as high as 30 cents a pound
for the 1936 wool clip, Mr. Barratt
said. More than 700,000,000 pounds
was consumed last year, including
most all of the 225,000,000-pound
carryover from the year before.
The consumption was almost dou
ble that of 1934. While government
purchase of woolen materials was
a factor in the increased consump
tion, President Barratt attributed
most of the increase to replenish
ing the family wardrobes.
Growers may expect 30 cents a
pound or better for their wool and
at least 8 cents for lambs, he pre
dicted. Benefits of the Taylor Grazing
act and production credit associa
tions were cited, though effective
ness of the latter has been ham
pered by rules of the Intermediate
Credt bank including the require
ment from some growers that they
release grazing allotments as addi
tional security on loans. He be
lieved local managers of branch
banks should be given more auth
ority in making loans.
Approval was given of the Can
adian reciprocal trade agreement
though he expressed alarm that
such agreements might be extend
ed too far. Representation of grow
ers on the state game commission
was sanctioned to protect lights in
rorests. He objected to the stand
of the state grange legislative com
mittee as not representing the best
interests of eastern Oregon agri
culture. Compromise with union
shearers with announced intention
of obtaining ends through boycott,
was advised, though he left shear
ing prices as a matter to be deter
mined by individual growers.
Resolutions of the convention
closely followed President Barratt's
recommendations, though he was
forced to take the floor personally
in effecting endorsement of the
pending sales tax measure rather
than stand for an increase in prop
erty taxes for old age assistance.
All 1935 officers of the association
were reelected.
Up-to-the-minute discussion of
problems vital to the industry were
led by authorities in various fields.
Warren Drew of the Associated
Wood Industries, New York, ex
plained the work of that organiza
tion which is supported by wool
manufacturers, dealers and grow
ere, and which has been remark
ably successful in increasing use of
woolen products. The program in
cludes publicity, fashion promotion
and improved merchandising of
woolen products. Newspapers
played an important part by pub
lishing millions of copies of fash
ions featuring wool in the last year.
Increasing the wool dress buying
season from four to six months.
and influencing men to purchase
one additional suit every five years
would greatly affect wool consump
tion, the speaker pointed out
F. K. Marshal, Salt Lake, nation
al association secretary, told of the
national program, and E. M. Ehr-
hardt, president Federal Land bank
of Spokane, outlined the govern
ment agency finanoing set-up whose
policy is to keep the industry on a
long-time substantial footing.
u. Kicnards, Union experiment
station superintendent, stressed al
falfa as being the best lamb feed
in discussing latest developments
in his field. Clayton Fox, Imbler,
state champion in 4-H club work,
made a favorabe impression with
an enlightening address in which
he gave valuable pointers to old
sters.
Harry Lindgren, O. S. C, gave re
sults obtained in feeding sheep on
cut-over land of western Oregon.
E. N. Kavanaugh of the district
forest office, Portland, gave enlight
ening weather records showing that
the present period of decreasing
moisture, starting in 1917, ia not
unusual and that return of wetter
years may be expected. He also
told of range and timber condi
tions in the national forests.
Dr. P. N. Shaw, O. S. C, told of
experiments In lamb scours. Suc
cess of a specially prepared sour
milk remedy, which may be ob
tained from the college, was told.
Mrs. Herman Oliver, auxiliary
president, told of that organization's
work in assisting promotion of lamb
and wool consumption, reporting in
crease from 73 to 223 paid up mem
bers In the last two years.
K,.w A i c . -.
mis. uiea eager, u. a. (j., gave
four requisites for increasing use
of wool as an adequate product in
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