HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 1937.
PAGE THREE
"Hood River" Bills
Would End Tie-Ups
From Strikes
Grange and Farm
Leaders Diyided
In Support.
With' the coast maritiirie strike
fast becoming history, , attention
turned to steps to prevent a recur
rence of the disastrous tieup now
being taken by measures introduced
at Salem and frantic efforts of labor
leaders to halt this trend.
Bills now before the legislature
would require unions to have the
same legal status as the concerns
with which they make wage agree
ments. It is being contended that
under the present setup unions have
no legal standing, are not responsi
ble for their actions in courts of law
and keep no records by which even
their own members can tell whether
they hire paid sluggers and killers.
The laws being introduced at the in
stance of the Hood River apple grow
ers with wide support throughout
the state are fashioned after the Brit
ish regulations many of which have
been in effect since 1871.
Bills now before the legislature in
elude the following union regufo
tions:
Require unions to be corporate
entities with legal responsibility
" Requires 60 days to elapse after
. ' employes make a formal demand
for wage increases before a strike
." can be called.
, Require compulsory arbitration
by both employers and employes,
Outlaw sympathetic strikes.
Do away with the legal proviS'
ions under which the supreme
court recently held it illegal to is
sue an injunction against picket
ing establishments where no strike
was in progress.
Ray Gill, master of the state grange
! and veteran champion of the grange-
labor alliance, has taken a firm stand
against all the proposed labor bills
and with Morton Tompkins is lead
ing a strong fight against the pro
gram despite determined support for
the measures from granges in all
. parts of the state.
The fight for the labor regulation
program is being led by Hood River
crowers who have traveled to all
parts of the state boosting the pro
gram.
Joining in the fight are farmers
and grangers from all sections. Woo
growers of the eastern Oregon sector
, have a special lobby at Salem back
ing the bill. " Wheat growers of the
same district are represented. Med
ford pear growers who suffered in
the recent strike also are on the job.
Turkey growers of both western and
eastern Oregon who lost heavily as
the result of the ship tieup are join
ing in the fight and cherry and berry
growers whose processed fruit has
yet to move to market and who stand
not only to wait many months for
their pay but to take sizeable losses
are also up in arms.
Washington lawmakers at Olym-
pia have a very similar situation with
the Yakima growers duplicating the
fight leadership of the Hood River
contingent in Oregon.
As the time nears when it will be
possible to ship wheat, more bitter
ness has developed over the fact that
it is now snowbound in eastern Ore
gon and Washington and may be
held there for some weeks yet. Thus
the weather aids the strike in delay
ing the time when the growers will
actually know what they got for
their grain.
LEXINGTON
By EDITH EDWARDS
Alex Hunt has been ill the past
week with an attack of influenza.
Beulah Nichols left Friday eve
ning for Portland where she will
undergo a major operation.
' Duane Johnson and Lyle Allyn
were among those confined to their
homes with bad colds last week.
Lawrence Beach spent the week
end at home.
The item in last week's paper con
' cerning a basketball game between
lone and Lexington was a mistake.
This game was to have been played
last Tuesday evening but was post
poned. 1
Lexington suffered another cold
spell last week when the mercury
dropped to several degrees below
zero on Friday night and to 27 below
Saturday night.
A tractor school was held at the
Jackson Implement company last
Saturday, beginning at 10:00 a. m.
Lunch was served at noon. The
program consisted of lectures and
motion pictures. A good crowd attended.
The Lexington school has had
quite poor attendance for the past
week due to the cold weather, drift
ed snow, and colds and influenza.
Mildred Hunt entered the Hepp-
ner hospital Friday, suffering with
complications following an appendi
citis operation.
A no-hostess meeting of the Lex
ington Home Economics club will be
held at the grange hall Thursday,
February 11, if the weather permits.
Those attending are asked to bring
either cookies or sandwiches.
Mrs. Lee Sprinkel of Heppner vis
ited her daughter, Mrs. Vernon
Scott, last Thursday.
There will be a dance at Lexing
ton grange hall on Saturday, Feb
ruary 20.
The grange meeting is scheduled
for Saturday, February 13.
Mrs. Orville Cutsforth left last
Friday evening for Springfield, Mo.,
to visit her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Pettyjohn.
W. B. Tucker has gone to Port
land to be with his daughter, Beu
lah Nichols.
Robert Cutler and Mrs. Roy Camp
bell are quite ill at their homes with
bad colds.
Anyone wishing to contribute to
the Red Cross flood relief may leave
their donations with Miss Dona Bar-
nett or Mrs. Elsie Beach at their re
spective business houses.
The honor roll for the high school
is as toiiows: irara. six weeits:
Wilma Tucker, Zelma Way, Dan
Dinges, Ellwynne Peck and Kenneth
Peck. First semester: Wilma Tuck
er, Zelma Way, and Dan Dinges.
Mrs. , Trina Parker of Lexington
who is spending the winter at San
Diego, having gone down with Mr.
and Mrs. N. A. Leach and daughter
of Portland, reports the weather un
usually cold there. Much damage
has been' done, to citrus crops and
beautiful flowers and shrubs. Mrs.
Parker left Lexington December 26,
and with the Leachs started south
on the 28th, going down the coast
highway and making it to San Diego
on the 31st. In February they expect
to go into Arizona and Imperial val
ley, returning to San Diego where
they will remain until March, when
they will . return by way of San
Francisco to visit Dr. and Mrs. R. E.
White and Miss Opal Leach who is
spending the winter in San Leandro,
CAMP HEPPNER NEWS.
The Soil Conservation service has
purchased a Caterpillar diesel ID-7
bulldozer which was shipped here
from the factory at Peoria, 111. The
tractor will be used by the local
CCC camp to make channel improve
ments in this county.
Harold Tonole, formerly SCS clerk
of the local CCC camp, has left for
his home town, Cottage Grove. Mr,
Tonole is planning entering Univer
sity of Oregon at Eugene where he
will take up clinical laboratory work,
The local SCS is utilizing one of
its bulldozers this week to clear the
Rhea creek road from snow so that
the farmers in that vicinity can get
to Heppner for supplies.
4-H CALF CLUB REPORT.
Mrs. Adolph Majeske was hostess
to the Lexington Calf club during
its first meeting of the new year
held January 1. Due to cold weather
the crowd was slow to gather and a
short meeting was held after which
Mrs. Majeske served . a delicious
lunch of chicken and ham sand
wiches, cake and coffee for the old
er folks, cocoa for the young folks.
During the meeting each member
recited the club pledge. The secre
tary read the minutes and the leader
a letter from Dr. Allen, assistant
state club leader.
The February meeting of the club
will be postponed until the weather
breaks. Joyce Biddle, Reporter.
Excluding the lumber " industry,
the Pacific Northwest produces only
about one percent of the nation's
manufactured goods.
RANDOM SHOTS
(Oregon News Bureau)
Joseph K. Carson, formerly of
Hood River and now mayor of Port
land, is champion for free bridges
across the 1 Columbia river at the
Bridge of the Gods and at Hood
River. Mayor Carson has asked that
the tolls on these bridges be can
celled in the interests of trade and
commerce.
Mount Angel college is planning a
golden jubilee for early in April this
year. Mount Angel college was
opened in 1887 by the Reverend
Adelhelm Odermatt, O. S. B. In
1892 and again in. 1926, the institu
tion was destroyed by fire and re
built. Valuable eld books, dating
back to 1540, and collected by the
Catholic clergy, are now housed in
the museum.
The tusk of a mastodon, believed
to have weighed at least '20 tons,
was recently unearthed by highway
crew workers near Holdman, in Um
atilla county.
Almagated Sugar company of Og
den, Utah, has purchased the 185
acre Greig ranch, near Nyssa, for a
sum reported to be $15,000 cash. Im
mediate construction of a warehouse
is planned. Five thousand acres of
beets have been signed for 1937, it
is reported.
Gold mining by dredge, which has
been active in the John Day and
Baker districts, will shortly be start
ed in the Oscar creek section of the
Jacksonville country, according to
reports from that part of the state.
Bishop and Sturdevant, owners of
the dredge, state they will begin op
erations immediately. They have
recently spent $25,000 on equipment,
Out of bread, out of meat, and out
of pretty nearly everything else in
the way of food and supplies, three
hundred residents of Cove, Oregon,
made contact last Friday with the
rest of the world after being shut in
by snow for two weeks. Snowplows
failed to break through the huge
drifts and for seven days Cove was
completely isolated from even its
nearest neighbor, Union, only nine
miles away. '
A 3-year refunding plan for de
funct Astoria city bonds has been
agreed Upon by the bondholders'
protecting committee according to
announcement from the downriver
city Saturday. .
BOARDMAN
By LA VER.N BAKER
Mrs. Helen Doney's six-months
old daughter passed away Monday
morning of bronchial pneumonia,
Funeral services were held in the
community church Feb. 2. Inter
ment was in the Boardman cemetery,
Boardman basketball boys won
the Irrigon game last Wednesday
evening. The game was played on
the Boardman floor.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barlow have a
new baby girl named Carma Dar-
lene. She was born January 30th.
The town team boys tried a new
thing last Saturday evening. They
played both the Stanfield town team
and the CCC team in one evening,
winning both games by a large
score.
Silver Tea was held at the home
of Mrs. Theron Anderson Wednes
day. It was well attended.
Mr. Walker and daughter Mabel
returned home Sunday after spend
ing some time vacationing. They
went to Chicago where Mr. Walker
purchased a new Lafayette car and
then motored to Louisiana and back
home by the southern route. They
stopped in Los Angeles and visited
Mr. Walker's son.
Church and Christian Endeavor
were postponed Sunday evening due
to the cold weather.
Tom McEntire visited on the pro
ject Sunday. He attended the land
meeting at Heppner Saturday. Mr.
Kristenson, Mr. Smith, Mr. Healy,
Mr. Skoubo and Mr. Slavin also
attended the meeting.
Bob Harwood has been sick this
week and could not attend to his
work Monday.
. James Farley was on the project
Sunday buying hay. - He bought
from Mr. Flickinger.
A very interesting game was
played on the Boardman floor be
tween Arlington high and Boardman
high Monday evening. It was a hard
fought game with Arlington winning
with a score of 31-18. The second
teams played also with Arlington
winning. , ,
BUYS ABSTRACT OFFICE.
George Fell has purchased
Grant county abstract office in Can
yon City from Neil Niven and took
possession this week, states Canyon
City Blue Mountain Eagle. For the
past 25 years Mr. and Mrs. Niven
have conducted this business and
they will retire from the active and
exacting work it requires. George
Fell is the son of Dr. J. H. Fell and
last fall sold his sheep business at
Courtrock and with Mrs. Fell will
take up the business where Mr. and
Mrs. Niven left off.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Poultry prices have tumbled as
the result of heavy shipments to the
Portland market. Turkeys contin
ue in fair demand because of the low
prices. Dressed meats continue fair
ly steady with demand good.
Higher wheat prices are expected
to follow the ending of the maritime
strike. However, most of the heavy
holdings are snowbound and little
early action is anticipated.
Egg prices continue firm with
storage holdings light.
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Effective Feb. 7th eastbound Pa
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Daisy Bevans, Clackamas county
representative, is the sponsor of a
bill that would forbid the use of
pretty girl pictures in cigarette advertising.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to express our deep ap
preciation and thanks to our many
friends, who were so kind and help
ful to us the night of Norton's acci
dent, and during his long conval
escence; for the many beautiful
flowers and cards with words of
cheer and well wishes sent him; to
the doctors and nurses of Heppner
hospital who were so faithful in
their care; and our many friends
in Heppner who offered us the hos
pitality of their homes, will never
be forgotten by us.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Lundell.
AUXILIARY TO MEET.
The American Legion auxiliary
will meet Monday evening, Febra
ary 8, at 8 o'clock at the home of
Mrs. Alva Jones. All members are
urged to attend as business of im
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