HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 1936.
PAGE TEN
OREGON'S FUTURE
IN THE BALANCE
(Editor's Note: This is the first
of a series of articles released by
the State Planning Board from its
recommendations to Governor
Charles H. Martin on "Recom
mended Policies for Sale of Bon
neville Power." Others in the
series will follow each week un
til completed.) . '
.
Progressive citizens who are con
cerned with the future of the state
of Oregon should realize that two
divergent paths confront the people
of Oregon. One is the continuation
of past trends, exploiting the state's
resources of raw materials, with its
economic life dependent principally
on agriculture and lumbering. The
other path, which would insure a
more stable base and greater oppor
tunities, is toward the development
of diversified manufacturing to bal
ance Oregon's present lop-sided ec
onomic structure.
From 1 the beginning, Oregon's
lands and waters have been used for
extractive purposes. Farming, lum
bering, fishing and shipping and
some mineral production have been
the chief occupation of the people.
Manufacturing is below the nation
al average.
The exchange value of Oregon's
products is reduced through a dou
ble burden of transportation costs
The state's raw materials are sold on
the outside at world market prices,
out of which the producer must ab
sorb transportation costs from Ore
gon to consuming centers. But when
Oregon buys manufactured commod
ities produced outside the state, they
must be bought at the market price,
plus transportation charges to Ore
gon from the point of production. A
million bushels of Oregon wheat will
buy fewer automobiles for Oregon
farmers than the ' same quantity
grown in other areas situated nearer
large centers of production and con
sumption.
A study recently made by the re
search staff of the Oregon State
Planning Board shows that raw ma
terials are sold under a yielding
price structure determined by world
economic conditions. Conversely,
manufactured articles are sold un
der more rigid price structures main
tained by each separate industry.
Oregon is thus at an economic dis
advantage compared with those areas
having a better balance between the
production of raw materials and
manufactured commodities.
The nearer to their source that
natural resources are processed,
manufactured and consumed, the
greater is the net economy to the
nation. Moreover, the manufacture
into finished goods of Oregon's raw
agricultural and lumber products
would provide other work to coun-
terbalance the present fluctuating
seasonal employment in agriculture
and the forest industries.
More than anything else, this re
gion needs increased population to
consume the products of its re
sources and to provide markets for
locally manufactured commodities.
Already many immigrants from the
drought and dust stricken regions
are coming to the Pacific Northwest.
These are Americans who should be
given opportunities for making a
living. Good agricultural land is
limited, and comprehensive programs
for irrigation, drainage and flood
control improvements must be com
pleted before any considerable areas
of new rich land will be available.
Oregon is handicapped by absence
of known commercial deposits of
coal, petroleum and natural gas. I
This deficiency of available basic
fuels has retarded Oregon's indus
trial development, so that the state
lags behind the national average.
It has also been a contributing
cause of Oregon's economic unbal
ance. '.
However, Oregon has an inexhaus
tible source of energy in its falling
waters. Development of hydroelec
tric power from its abundant streams
will conserve unreplenishable fuel
supplies, and enable the state to
compensate for its deficiencies in
other sources of energy. The com
bination of electric power at low
cost on a ' tidewater, ship channel at
Bonneville, where raw materials may
be brought from and manufactured
products delivered to the markets
of the world wtihout transshipment,
is unparalleled, except possibly on
the St. Lawrence waterway.
At the coming session of congress
the policy and the rates for distri
bution of Bonneville power will un
doubtedly be determined. People of
the state of Oregon must do every
thing in their power to see that rates
for electric energy at Bonneville are
made as attractive to industries as
possible.
Progress on Program
In Oregon Reported
Further progress is reported on
the 1936 agricultural conservation
program in Oregon, although plans
for 1937 have not yet been an
nounced, according to N. C. Donald
son, executive secretary. The state
committee has completed its work
in setting the total county soil -depleting
bases and forwarding its rec
ommendations to Washington for the
approval of the Agricultural Ad
justment administration.
As soon as approval has been ob
tained, the state committee will cer
tify to each county committee the
total county soil-depleting base for
the county. It will then be the duty
of the county committee to adjust
the individual farm soil-depleting
bases to whatever extent may be
necessary to make them balance
with the total county soil-depleting
base. When this has been done and
the work checked by the state com
mittee, the individual applications
for grants can be made out.
Plans for the 1937 agricultural con
servation program involve a num
ber "of problems. One of the prob
lems, according to AAA administra
tor H. R. Tolley, is to get a plan
which will fit in with the situation
in the drouth states. Other prob
lems have been presented in the
suggestions made in community
meetings held all over the country.
These suggestions and problems are
being threshed out in a conference
with representatives from the states
Some consideration is also being
given to the 1938 program which
should perhaps be referred to as the
1938 state programs. As the federal
law now stands, each individual state
will have to ' work out a plan for
carrying on the soil conservation
work after January 1, 1938, in a way
which will meet with the approval
of the secretary of agriculture.
O.S.C. Crops Specialist
Appeals to Farmers
The help of farmers all over Ore
gon is being asked in the prepara
tion of a new bulletin on weed con
trol to be published soon at Oregon
State college. '
"Every year we get hundreds of
letters asking us how to control
weeds," says E. R. Jackman, exten
sion specialist in farm crops at O. S.
C. "Now we would like to reverse
the procedure momentarily and ap
peal to Oregon farmers to send in
their experiences with all kinds of
methods of getting rid of morning
glories, Canadian thistle, evergreen
blackberries, white top, quack grass,
and other perennial weeds.
"A new bulletin on weeds is being
prepared at the college, and we want
to include in it actual experiences
of farmers all over the state. Re
port of success or failure will be
welcomed. Each letter that comes
in may be of tremendous help to
some other Oregon farmer perhaps
in the writer's own county, perhaps
400 miles away."
Mr. Jackman wants letters telling
of experiences with such methods
as cultivation, smother crops, pas
turing, chemicals everything that
experimental minded Oregon farm
ers have ever tried.
"A man's experience may seem
commonplace and of little interest
to him," Jackman points out, "but
it may be of vital interest to some
one else who has the same problem."
HOLIDAY MAIL ADVICE.
Business mail users are advised
by Postmaster C.B.Cox that it would
be helpful to the postal department
in giving expeditious handling of
such mail if long envelopes were
used , for business correspondence
during the period from December
15 to 25 inclusive.
Better Use of Land
1937 AAA Program
The 1937 agricultural adjustment
program will place added emphasis
on permanent rather than temporary
soil conserving uses of the land and
will pay at higher rates for such
types of soil uses as establishment
of perennial grasses and legumes.
This much advance information
on the nature of the new program
was given by Dr. E. J. Bell, assist
ant to the director of the western
region of the AAA, in an address at
the Eastern Oregon Wheat league
annual convention here last week.
Dr. Bell came to the meeting direct
ly from Washington where confer
ences on details of the new program
have been in progress for several
weeks.
"The program under the Soil Con
servation and Domestic Allotment
act has as. its objectives more than
merely control of soil, washing and
soil blowing," said Dr. Bell. "The
program embodies the economic use
of the land, sound farming practice,
and restoration of the income of
farmers." .
, Dr. Bell added that estimates in
dicate that about 30 million more
acres than desirable are being de
voted to soil depleting and export
crops. It is the purpose of the pro
gram to help the market situation
and the future welfare of the coun
try from a land resources , stand
point by encouraging the increasing
use of soil conserving crops to this
extent.
"In accordance with these ob
jectives the 1937 program is being
designed to make a permanent rath
er than a temporary adjustment in
the use of the land. . . . The general
principles of longtime adjustment
from soil depleting crops to perma
nent conserving uses of the land has
been adopted as a national policy.
"The rate of payment for estab
lishing permanent stands of peren
nials this year, will be somewhat
higher than it was a year ago, and
considerably higher than ; the pay
ment for such practices as trashy
fallow, plowing under green manure
or other short-time uses of the land."
Oregon Boy New U. S.
4-H Club Champion
An Oregon 4-H club boy was
again declared , the best in the Uni
ted States this week for the fourth
time in the past 10 years when H.
Clayton Fox of Imbler in Union
county was named as the outstand
ing club boy in the nation and the
winner of the famous Moses leader
ship trophy, according to word re
ceived by the state club leader at
Oregon State college.
The National Committee on Boys'
and Girls' Club Work meeting in
Chicago, informed the club office at
0. S. C. just in time for young Fox,
a 1935 graduate . of Imbler high
school, to catch a . train for Chicago
where all of his expenses to the fif
teenth annual National 4- club con
gress will be paid as an additional
reward. '
Fox joins two other Oregon boys
and one girl as national 4-H club
champions. ' Alex Cruickshank of
McMiflnville first won the Moses
trophy in 1927 and Edgar Grimes of
Harrisburg repeated in 1928. Lois
Bailey of Eugene was the first Ore
gon girl to win the coveted prize in
1929.
Fox, who has made a remarkable
record in his eight years of club
work, was selected by a state com
mittee as the Oregon representative
in the" national contest after his rec
ord as a county winner had been
carefully studied along with those
of other county candidates in the
state.
As the winner of second place in
the national Thomas E. Wilson meat
animal project contest last year, Fox
won a $200 scholarship and added
another $100 toward his college ed
ucation on the $100 Union Pacific
scholarship awarded by President
Gray. He expects to enroll at Ore
gon State college in January and
pay for his entire college work from
his premium winnings, his scholar
ships and his earnings from his
present livestock ownings which in
cludes 150 sheep, 61 hogs, five dairy,
animals and one beef steer. These
have been conservatively estimated
in value at $3000 by, County Agent
H. G. Aver of Union county, who
has worked with Fox in all of his
projects. ,
During his eight years in club
work, the new national champion
has made a total of 332 entries at 32
fairs and received $1100.07 in pre
miums. His leadership has been out
standing. He has been a president
five years, vice president four years
and secretary three years in the va
rious sheep, pig, beef, dairy, poultry
and farm accounting clubs of which
he has been a member.
TOY CIRCULAR READY. ,
Simple toys that can easily be
made at home often prove the most
intriguing ' to small children, who
spend countless happy hours play
ing with such things as a can of
painted spools, spool dolls, decorated
clothespins, and similar things, says
Mrs. Maude M. Morse, extension
specialist in child development and
parent education at Oregon ' State
college.
Items such as these often make
inexpensive but very acceptable
Christmas presents for small rela
tives and friends. , Directions for
making those mentioned and many
more are found in a circular just
prepared by Mrs. " Morse, entitled
"Directions for Making Homemade
Toys." The number is HE 925, and
it is available free from home dem
onstration agents or from the col
lege at Corvallis.
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