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Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE,
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
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Official Paper for Morrow County
The New Farm Act
CONTROLLED production of farm
products is admitted by congress
to be a continuing need as it passed
the new farm bill, Monday, in readi
ness for the president's signature.
Much pressure forced the bill
through final passage in the senate
that alleged emergencies might be
met.
Little auarrel will be found with
the avowed purpose of the act to
obtain parity prices for agricultural
products. Much quarrel is had with
the means the act provides for at
taining its end, and with the in
eaualities of those means.
Senator McNary waged a losing
fieht for the dairy and livestock in
terests when he attempted to write
in a provision that acreage taken
from agricultural production might
not be turned to increasing livestocK
or dairy production. If the act is ad
ministered as passed nothing will
prevent farmers pasturing livestock
on ground taken from production of
soil depleting crops and sown to soil
building crops, while in order to
qualify for benefit payments live
stock men will be compelled to re
duce flocks and herds to the actual
number that.their range rotation and
other practices will handle. The ap
parent result will be that while dirt
farmers are benefitting from in
creased prices through reduced sup
plies, livestock men will have to face
equal if not greater supplies of their
products.
Another feature of the bill, which
according to Senator McNary gives
legislative powers to the secretary
of agriculture, is still unacceptable
to national grange leaders and other
farm representatives as well as to
liberty loving Americans generally.
"Regimentation" is the word used
by grange leaders who fear that free
action of American farmers is
doomed under the act. Senator Mc
Nary says farmers will be "vassals
rf th spcretarv of agriculture."
Large industrial centers wbich
have felt most heavily the etlects
nf tlio rpcpnt recession fear the ef
fects of controlled agricultural pro
duction no less than ever. This large
nortion of America's pop
ulation can forsee only higher cost
of living as a result, and unless pla
cation is given in the form of higher
wages they will become less tract
able than ever.
Morrow county, whose income
from livestock about equals that
from agriculture ,has felt the "bless
ing" of government checks for re
ducing production, but it is not ten
able that one class of our producers
has any desire to prey upon the
other.
If administration of the act jus
tifies the fears of its critics, the act
must undergo alteration before it is
generally acceptable, and the rush
of congress at this time in effecting
its passage will have gained little.
The demand of present emergencies
may prove slight in comparison with
the larger eventualities which the
act may invoke. Much will depend
upon the wisdom of the secretary
of agriculture.
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Two Senators
OREGON will elect two United
States senators next Novem
ber 8 as the result of a ruling of
Attnrnev General Van Winkle. Van
Winkle's ruling was that Evan
RAnmes. aoDointed to succeed Sen
ator Steiwer, could serve only until
the. pnsuinff general election.
That ruling will make a more fer
tile field for senatorial aspirants,
Heppner
GLUTTON FALLS NAMED FOR ANIMAL;
DISTRICT RICH IN HISTORIC LORE
By F. F. WEHMEYER
We hear a great deal about the
beautiful waterfalls along the Co
lumbia river gorge. They are truly
wonderful, but we have falls of
nearly equal beauty in our own lo
cality. There are Buck falls with
about seventy-foot drop and Glut
ton falls which are close to a hun
dred. Glutton falls was not named for
one who overindulges in the good
things of the table, but after an ani
mal the wolverine, known as a
carcajou by our Canadian cousins
and as a skunk bear or glutton by
American trappers. This fellow looks
as though there might have been a
scandal among his ancestors. He has
the appearance of being part bear,
wolf and skunk, and is as large as a
small bear. In reality he is a gigantic
weasel. He is probably the most hat
ed and despised of all animals in the
north lands for he is an inveterate
thief, following trap lines to destroy
and rob the bait. No cache is ever
safe from this miscreant. When they
rob a cache they are very clever
in dividing up the loot and rehiding
it. To insure its not being taken by
some other animal they deposit a
fetid body secretion that is indes
cribably revolting, so sickening in
fact that it nauseates the hardy
stomachs of confirmed carrion eaters.
Though slow, they have the tenacity
of a fisher, and it is almost certain
death for the other animal if the
wolverine takes his trail for they are
large and strong and attack with a
demon-like fury. They have been
known to drive wolves away from
their own kill. The fur is used ex
tensively for the lining of parka
hoods in the northlands, as ice or
frost will not form on wolverine.
At one time there must have been
many of whom have already been
courting favor of the public eye, and
it should give eastern Oregon more
chance for favorable consideration
of a capable son.
It was somewhat unfortunate for
this section that Senator Steiwer
saw fit to resign his high post just
as he was fast coming into promin
ence as a possible leader of his par
ty's ranks. As keynote speaker at
the last republican convention Stei
wer made a good impression, and the
soundness of his stand officially in
onnosition to manv New Deal poll-
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cies gained him much respect and
admiration in the heavily populated
east.
It may be that Steiwer will be
heard of more about 1940. But east
ern Oregon should produce another
man of high caliber to fill his boots
in the senate.
KEN BINNS ONE AND SAME
That Ken Binns, writer of current
syndicated articles on skiing, is the
one and same Ken Binns who got
his start in Heppner as surmised in
a recent article in these columns is
assured by none other than Ken's
mother, Mrs. A. E. Binns. From her
home at 21 S. E. 24th Ave., Portland,
Mrs. Binns wrote this week: "I read
with interest your comments on Ken
Binns and skiing in the issue ot Jan
uary 27, and I assure you that per
son is the same Ken Binns who as
sisted you with the "post mortems'
in thp bioloev class at old Heppner
high. I remember, too, that the same
Ken Binns accompanied you one at
nrdav on an exploring expedition
to the vicinity of Sand Hollow, where
you claimed you discovered a lake
not marked on the geographies ot
Mnrrnw eountv. As evidence you
brought home a dilapidated oar for
a boat which you believed had been
used bv the aborigines the Ameri
can Indians. Kenneth preserved the
oar for a long tune.
FIND NOT TRUE BILL
The federal grand jury in Portland
last week end returned a "not true"
bill in the case of Kenneth Oviatt
for shortage in funds at the local
oostoffice iust before the first of the
year. Oviatt, then clerk, alleged a
fake hold-up which brought the
matter to attention of authorities,
later admitting that he was respon
sible for the shortage and making
it up. News of the grand jury action
came almost coincident with the ar
rival of a new daughter as a Valen
tine to the Oviatt home.
Gazette Times, Heppner,
wolverine in this country but he has
followed the big horn sheep, Rocky
mountain goat and the antelope, into
the land of never return.
When the Creator laid out the
world, he undoubtedly started at
Heppner and placed the pole and the
equator at equal distances from that
point. That was before the days of
"trig" and other mathematical re
finements so it is surprising how
closely both the pole and equator
were located. We are just 24 miles
north of the half-way mark. That
old shaft on Whiskey Keg may be
where a peg was driven on some of
the preliminary survey work, as it
is within a half mile of the 45th
parallel.
In addition to waterfalls there is
much of interest in Hardman and
vicinity. The country is rich in early
Oregon history. Back in the good
old days it was a town of several
hundred population. In pioneer days,
I understand, it was called Yellow
Dog and everything was run wide
open. They just casually shot a few
men to start the cemetery and give
the town a feeling of permanency.
Like Heppner it was on the old
freight route between the Columbia
river and the John Day country.
Top, the old Lovelett ranch, Mor
phine, Parkers Mill were all stage
stations. Freight, passengers and mail
all moved on wagons behind horse,
mule or oxen. This generation, sail
ing over smooth highways on rubber-covered
wheels can little realize
what the early settlers had to over
come in the way of transportation.
Roads were sidling trails built with
the idea of least resistance, straight
up or straight down and axle deep
in either dust or mud.
Biggest Home Interest
Conference Held, OSC
Attendance at the eighth annual
Home Interests conference at Ore
gon State college reached a new high
mark of 721 registered delegates.
These were from 23 Oregon counties,
with 16 persons attending from oth
er states. More than 1500 persons
attended the hobby show, which was
one of the evening features of the
conference.
The annual scholarship award of
$25 made to a deserving OSC upper-
classman who plans to enter exten
sion work in home economics, was
given by the Home Economics Ex
tension council to Miss Julia Ben
nett of Portland. Miss Bennett grad
uated from normal school and taught
three years before entering Oregon
State to take up work in home ec
onomics. Miss Bennett was reared
on a farm and plans to enter rural
extension service work.
Adults often forget that milk is
just as much a food for them as for
their growing children, Dr. Jesse
Laird Brodie, women's physician at
Reed college, told delegate to the
Home Interests conference at OSC.
She pointed out that some 80 percent
of the women between the ages of
25 and 40 are anemic, due mostly to
a lack of iron in their diet. Reduc
ing diets should be carefully bal
anced, with special emphasis on the
protective foods, the vitamins, min
erals and proteins, she said.
Character is caught by children
rather than being taught to them,
said Dr. Bruce Baxter, president of
Willamette university, in discussing
"Religion in the Home" before the
recent Home Interests conference at
Oregon State college. Character
comes far more definitely from con
tact with parents than from contact
with teachers, he said. He urged that
parents teach, by everyday example,
honesty, respect for law, and re
spect for personality.
RENNE JULIAN HOWARD
Renne Julian Howard was born at
Placerville, Cal., May 1, 1859, and
passed away at Heppner, Oregon,
Feb. 6, 1938. He was the youngest
son born to Renne Julian Howard
and Ruth (Young) Howard who
crossed the plains in the early days
and settled in the Sacramento val
ley. They later moved to Junction
City, Oregon, and there he grew to
manhood. When he was a young man
he came to Heppner where he since
resided. One of the first men he
worked for was William Morrow,
Oregon
serving as deputy county clerk. He
married Emma French in October,
1892, and to this union were born ten
children, four of whom are living.
They are Mrs. Byron Summers of
Wapato, Wash.; Mrs. Francis Grif
fin, The Dalles, Ore.; Marion How
ard and Jack Howard, both of Port
land, the latter being seriously ill.
Mr. Howard was a member of
Heppner Lodge 69, A. F. & A. M.
for a good many years. He was of a
kind and loving disposition. Con
tributed. Oregon Known Haven
For Lowly Puff Balls
Oregon State College The lowly
puff ball, which when seen is fre
quently the object of a swift kick
by some youngster, may add its bit
to the fame of Oregon. '
Hundreds of varieties of puff balls
exist, many of them being under
ground forms seldom seen by the
ordinary observer. Oregon, Wash
ington and California, it appears, are
the favorite haunts of these puff
balls, known technically as gastero
mycetes. Dr. S. M. Zeller, plant pathologist
at Oregon State college, has been
commissioned by the New York bot
anical gardens to classify this group
for inclusion in a forthcoming series
of technical volumes on the flora of
North America. Dr. Helen Gilkey,
another member of the staff, is do
ing similar work with the group of
underground tuberales in which the
edible truffles are found.
A. H. Nelson was a business visitor
yesterday from the farm north of
Lexington.
David Hynd was in town Monday
from Rose Lawn ranch, Sand Hollow.
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Milk Coolers i r r ..
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Ice Cream Freezers Service on all makes of Refrigerator
Hardeners and Dis- Systems
Pensers Motor Repairs Oil Burner Service
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Chiropractic Clinic
j At DR. A. E. MARBLE'S Office
in Hermiston, Ore.
TIME: ONE WEEK
Beginning Feb. 21st, 1938
HOURS: 9 to 12 A. M. and 1 to 5 P. M.
DR. GEORGE SIMONS
of Eugene, Ore.
i A specialist in the treatment of rectal
disorders will be at your service
at this time.
Dr. Simons studied in America and in Europe at Berlin and
Vienna. He successfully treats rectal diseases such as piles,
fissurefistula, etc., without hospitalization or loss of time; re
sults are immediate nad no pain.
Examination and consultation will be given withqut obliga
tion. If treatment is desired, charges will be very reasonable In
proportion to the service rendered.
Appointments must be made either In person or by mail
Usually persons in a district like ours would have to travel
a long way to a large city to get this service.
I have known Dr. Simons for about 8 years and can vouch
for his honesty and integrity.
DR. A. E. MARBLE
Chiropractor
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Thursday, February 17, 1938
Self Support is Rule
Among OSC Students
Oregon State College Eighty-six
per cent of the 2794 men students
and 45 per cent of the 1233 women
students at Oregon State college are
earning at least part of their own
way, a recent report by the registrar
shows.
Of the men, 978, or 35 per cent, and
150 of the women, or 12 per cent, are
entirely self-supporting, either thru
winter or summer work or both.
Only 375 men and 673 women, con
stituting 26 per cent of the student
body, received all of their college
support from parents or other out
side sources.
Among the schools, the forestry
students show the greatest financial
independence, earning 66.5 per cent
of their total expenses. Students in
agriculture are next, earning 61.8 per
cent. Next in order are students in
the schools of engineering, science
and education, all earning more than
half of their expenses. Even in the
school of home economics, composed
entirely of women, students earn
22.1 per cent of their own expenses.
DOING THINGS AT PACIFIC U.
Two Morrow county students, Miss
Irene Beamer and Elwayne Lieual
len are reported on the honor roll at
Pacific university, Forest Grove, for
the winter term. Both are sopho
mores. Lieuallen was also elected
president of his fraternity, Alpha
Zeta. Another Heppner boy making
good in athletics at Pacific is Len
Gilman, guard on the freshman bas
ketball squad.
Victor Rietmann was a business
visitor here yesterday from the farm
north of lone.
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