HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1937.
PAGE SEVEN
Henry Peterson and Henry Baker,
neighbors of the Gooseberry section,
were transacting business in the city
Tuesday. Mr. Peterson had just re
turned from the veterans' hospital
at Walla Walla where he underwent
observation for several days and re
ported his condition improved. Har
vesting in their section would not
start for another week, they said.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brosnan were
visiting in Heppner this week, drop
ping in on their wedding trip which
started from Portland last week.
Mrs. Brosnan was formerly Miss
Theresa Quigley, who taught in the
county schools for several years, and
the two were kept busy receiving
felicitations of their many friends.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Turner came
over from Pendleton Saturday and
remained over Sunday to visit with
relatives and friends. They have es
tablished residence at 205 Wilson
street. Mr. Turner announced that
he was becoming well oriented in his
new location as agent of the Pen
dleton Union Oil company office.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wright passed
through Heppner yesterday evening
on their way to Medford, where Mr.
Wright has been transferred as rep
resentative of Blake, Moffitt &
Towne. He has been making this
territory for the last three and a
half years with headquarters at Pen
dleton and La Grande.
Ralph and Velma Hoskins, chil
dren of Charles Hoskins of Pendle
ton, are visiting for a week at the
farm home of their uncle, Fred Hos
Tcins, on Rhea creek. They accom
panied Mr. Hoskins home the first
of the week on his return from a
visit to his sheep on summer range
near La Grande.
Wilford Stone, who sustained a
"broken leg recently when thrown
from a horse against a treek was
placed in a cast covering most of one
side of his body, in which he will
need to remain for seven or eight
weeks. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alva Stone were in town this morn
ing to see him.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hillis and
daughter of Helena, Mont., are guests
at the home of Mrs. Hillis' sister, Mrs.
Ed Dick. Last week end the two
families enjoyed a trip to the coast,
calling on Mrs. Jack Grimes, former
Morrow county resident, at Yachats.
They returned home Monday.
Algott Lundell was transacting
business in the city Wednesday from
the Gooseberry farm. He said it
would be a week before he started
harvest. Prospects were good, though
there had been some signs of the
wheat hurting the last few days.
Dr. J. H. McCrady was sufficient
ly recovered from injuries received
in a recent automobile accident to
return home Sunday from the hos
pital in Pendleton. He is now con
valescing at Heppner hospital.
Mrs. J. H. Cochran of Yakima was
in the city Tuesday, visiting at the
home of her niece, Mrs. John F.
Vaughn. The Cochrans were long
time residents of lone and have many
friends in this county.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. James Otis
Allstott at the home of Mrs. Corda
Saling in this city at 8 o'clock this
morning, an 8-pound son. Mrs.
Allstott was formerly Miss Jane Si
mas of Monument.
Helen Phelan departed the first
of the week for San Francisco, re
turning to her secretarial position
there after a week's visit at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. P.
Phelan.
t Ann Mclntire left the hospital this
morning for her home near Hard
man, well recovered from an appen
dicitis operation which she under
went two weeks ago.
Muriel Aiken arrived the end of
the week from Oakland, Cal., for a
visit with her mother, Mrs. Ada Ca
son, and other relatives and friends.
Mrs. Lottie Kilkenny was a busi
ness visitor in the city this morning
from the Hinton creek farm.
Kay Ferguson returned home
Sunday from Prineville where he
spent two weeks visiting at the home
of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Schwarz. He accompanied
John Merritt and Mrs. Henry
Schwarz who were returnnig from a
visit at the home of their mother
and sister, respectively, Mrs. E. R.
Merritt, near Los Angeles.. John
went on to his home at Wapato.
Ask Ed Dick why 100 people in
county use Flamo.
Mrs. Truman Babb returned home
Sunday from Portland where she
assisted at the home of her brother,
Rhea Luper, during Mrs. Luper's
confinement at a hospital to under
go a major operation. She reported
that Mrs. Luper was making satis
factory progress when she left the
city and would be able to return to
her home in a few days.
Dr. J. P. Stewart, Eye-Sight Spec
ialist of Pendleton, will be at the
HEPPNER HOTEL on WEDNES
DAY, JULY 28th.
Fifteen oil heaters at a discount.
Ed Dick.
TO OPEN SURFACING BIDS
Continued from First Page
O.-W. highway at junction by school
house, S. Main full width to rear of
Gilliam & Bisbee store and narrow
er to foot of Heppner hill, Cannon
from Chase to Green and from
Court to Gilmore, Green from Can
non to Center (south end of town),
Center (south end of town) to Court,
Court from May to Hill St., Gilmore
from Cannon to Center (south end
of town).
Amendment to the charter by the
voters last week authorized the
council to issue $7000 additional
bonds to provide funds for complet
ing the project in one contract. Is
suance of the bonds is being de
ferred, however, until after bids
have been opened.
Fixing up the old reservoir would
increase present water storage fa
cilities by a third and help meet fire
or water shortage contingencies, the
council believes. This step was fa
vored provided a satisfactory bid was
received.
The parking lot matter was
brought to the attention of the coun
cil by Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman, rep
resenting the Lions club. He called
attention to congested parking con
ditions whenever anything special
is going on in town, which con
dition is worse with loss of former
usable parking space along the curb
where the new Ford garage and ser
vice station is being constructed. He
said the owners of the vacant lot
between Thomson Bros, store and
the Masonic building offered no ob
jection to its being used tor car
parking. The street and public prop
erty committee was given charge
of the matter.
Wheat Plan Same;
AAA to Back Exports
The position of wheat in the 1938
agricultural conservation program
will be essentially the same as it is
this year as a result of a conference
of representatives from 31 wheat
states recently held in Washington,
D. C. N. E. Dodd, Baker, chairman
of the state AAA committee, and F.
L. Ballard, vice-director of extension
at Oregon State college, were Ore
gon's representatives at the confer
ence. At the conclusion of the session
the AAA officials announced that
the plan will be to continue wheat in
the general soil depleting base in
1938. Various proposals were made at
the conference looking to the pos
sible setting up of special restrict
ions on wheat acreage similar to
those now used in corn under the
program. After the representatives
of wheat states had considered vari
ous possible alternative methods, it
was decided, however that the gen
eral soil depleting base provisions of
the 1937 program seemed preferable.
The possibility that wheat seed
ings for 1938 will equal if not exceed
those of the present year caused con
siderable concern at the conference.
It was agreed that normal yields on
such a large acreage would probably
result in excessive supplies. Some
of the delegates felt that the provis
ions of the soil conservation and
domestic allotment act would not
suffice as an effective means of hold
ing wheat acreage to normal levels.
On the other hand, a number ex
pressed the fear that any inadequate
proposal would only result in keep
ing many farmers from participating
in the soil conservation program,
and that under such circumstances
the soil conservation gain would be
less than under the present program.
Announcement has also been made
that the indemnity plan by which
exporters were compensated for
losses incurred in exporting flour
to the Philippines will be continued
through the fiscal year ending July,
1938. This same plan was followed
for the fiscal year just ended, during
which total sales of indemnity flour
exceeded 426,000 barrels, which is the
equivalent of nearly two million
bushels of wheat. Without indemnity
payments it is said that American
flour exports to the Philippines
would have been extremely small.
The purpose of this program is to
reduce a regional surplus of wheat
in the Pacific northwest and to re
gain a normal United States flour
market.
Now is the time to figure
your
heating problems for winter.
Suggest Wage Scale
For Harvest Work
A minimum wage scale to assist
farm operators in hiring help for
the 1937 harvest season was sug
gested at a meeting of the directors
of the Morrow County Farm Bureau
held at the county agent's office last
Thursday night. As is always the
case, there will be considerable var
iation in rates of pay on different
farms in the same locality. Exper
ienced men in harvest, as in all other
lines of business, will command
higher than the minimum wage.
Some variation from farm to farm
will also be caused by difference in
crop yields. For example, a sack
sewer on 10-bushel land certainly
does not earn the same wage as a
sack sewer on an outfit handling
25-bushel wheat. A truck driver
handling bulk grain does not have
the work that falls to the lot of a
truck driver helping to load sacked
wheat for a short haul to the ware
house. Following is the minimum wage
scale suggested: Truck drviers $3 to
$4; sack sewers $3.50 to $5; jigging
$3; sacking and jigging $3.50 to $5;
cat skinner $3 to $4; separator tend
er $6; header tender $2.50; picking
straw $2 to $2.50.
In regard to haying crews, the
following was recommended: hay
hands $2 to $2.50, stackers $3.
All of the above rates include
board.
Alex Manning of the Federal Re
employment agency at Pendleton
expects to be able to satisfactorily
supply the demand for experienced
farm labor on twenty-four hours'
notice. In order to bring men and
jobs together, it was suggested at
the meeting that all farm operators
needing help contact Mr. Manning
direct or communicate their labor
needs to the county agent's office.
In rush cases, the county agent will
phone Mr. Manning at the operator's
expense so that men may be avail
able the following day.
Willows Grange Plans
Rodeo Parade Float
The Willows grange home econ
imics club met at the home of Marie
Ledbetter on Friday, July 16, with
twelve members and several visit
ors present. The club voted to enter
a float in the Rodeo parade and Vi-
da Heliker, Mary Lindsay and Anna
Ball were appointed as a committee
to plan for it. A pot-luck dinner was
enjoyed at the noon hour and the
ladies spent the day quilting. In the
afternoon refreshments of cake and
punch were served by the hostess.
The August meeting day will be used
to work on the parade float, and the
September meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Roxy Krebs.
Willows grange will hold the reg
ular business meeting in the morn
ing and pot-luck dinner at noon.
Several candidates will be initiated.
Lighten the wife's harvest opera
tions with Electrolux. Ed Dick.
Arthur Gay Passes;
Rites Held Today
Funeral services for Arthur Gay,
59, are being held from Case Mor
tuary chapel at 2 o'clock this after
noon, Rev. R. C. Young officiating.
He died early yesterday morning at
the home of his mother, Mrs. H. C.
Gay, of a malignant ailment from
which he had suffered for several
months.
Arthur Mace Gay was born at
Sacramento, Cal., August 9, 1877,
being aged 59 years, 11 months and
14 days at death. He came to Mor
row county with his parents when
one year old. He attended the
Heppner schools as a boy, and fol
lowed farming in this county for
several years before going to sou
thern Oregon 20 years ago. He
raised turkeys at Jefferson for two
years. He was brought to Heppner
last December for care when the
ravages of his illness kept him bed
fast. Among surviving relatives are
the mother, brother Walter, and
sister, Mrs. William French, of this
city.
Teachers Tell Aim
For Better Schools
Unversity of Oregon, Eugene,
July 20. Education in the United
States should be improved constant
ly, not only because of demands
made upon it by society, but through
the initiative of those in the pro
fession. This conclusion was reached by
several hundred teachers of Oregon,
who gathered recently at Eugene,
Portland and Corvallis to attend the
Educational Policies Commission
conferences, held under the spon
sorship of the Oregon State System
of Higher Education.
This same conclusion, it was em
phasized by Dr. A. J. Stoddard,
Denver, chairman of the organiza
tion, has been reached by members
of the commission, and the purpose
of the sessions was to gather sug
gestions on how a national program
for progress in education may be
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The commission aims to help
teachers to know what needs to be
done in the field of education, to
undertake to do a portion of it, and
to prepare to do the balance, it was
pointed out by Dr. Frederick M.
Hunter, chancellor of higher educa
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formulated.
Other educators who took part in
the discussions included John F.
Cramer, superintendent of schools,
The Dalles; Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers,
president of the Oregon State Teach
ers association; Dr. Walter Redford,
president and Arthur S. Taylor,
Southern Oregon Normal school;
Henry H. Hartley, superintendent
of schools, Bandon; John W. Leon
hardt, principal, La Grande Junior
high school; and Herman J. Kramer,
principal, Silverton high school.
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