Thursday, March 3, 1938
Heppner Gazette Times. Henrmpr flrpmn ts -
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B. C. Pinckney, manager local
branch First National Bank of Port
land, went to Portland the end of
the week and returned with Mrs.
Pinckney and son Bobby after ar
ranging for shipment of household
goods. "Hiey are domiciled in the
rasidence occupied by the family of
Mr. Pinckney's late pedecessor, E.
L. Morton.
Algott Lundell was a business vis
itor in the city Friday from the
Gooseberry section where prospects
for the new crop are bright.
Dr. J. P. Stewart, Eye-Sight Spec
ialist of Pendleton, will be at the
HEPPNER HOTEL on WEDNES
DAY, MARCH 9th.
D. A. Wilson is much improved
in the illness which has kept him at
Jiome for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Morton and
son Jack left Saturday for their new
location at Newberg.
John Bellenbrock was moved to
Morrow General hospital this week
in his illness.
Mrs. G. A. Farrens was a visitor
in the city today from Hardman.
Capt. and Mrs. G. R. Kent motor
ed to Pendleton today. '
BOARDMAN NEWS
Umatilla Takes
District Play-Off
By LA VERN BAKER
An exciting game was played on
the Hermiston basketball floor Sat
urday evening between the Umatilla
Vikings and Boardmon Yellowjack
ets. It was the play-off for the league
championship. It was anybody's
game until the final whistle blew
with the Umatilla Vikings winning
by a score of 24-22.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Gorham mo
tored to Bingen, Wn., Friday and
returned home Saturday evening.
Miss Cecelia Partlow of Portland
spent the week end visiting her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Partlow.
Eldon Shannon spent the latter
part of the week visiting in Palouse,
Wash. While returning from there
his car wrecked. However, he was
not hurt seriously.
Virginia Compton spent the week
end visiting her father, L. Compton,
in Hilgard. ,
Misses Lillian and May Hango and
Harold Hatch of Portland spent the
week end visiting at the Chas. Han
go home.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hendricks spent
Thursday in Heppner on business.
Paul Smith, W. A. Bake andr Mrs.
Victor Myers motored to Heppner
Thursday where they attended the
rural electrification meeting.
Mrs. Edith Hendricks spent Satur
day in Pendleton on business.
The Home Economics club met at
the home of Mrs. Harry Ford Wed
nesday afternoon. The Ladies Aid
and Home Ec club have combined
on a Polly Anna club. There were
about twenty-four women present.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Wilson of La
Grande spent the week end visiting
friends and relatives here.
Mr. Hankin of Portland was a bus
iness visitor on the project Satur
day. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Gorham spent
Tuesday in Pendleton where they
had their car worked on.
Mrs. Maude Kobow, Jeanne Bauer
and Lois Messenger were shoppers
in Pendleton Saturday. Jeanne re
mained in Echo on the way back.
Teachers' institute was held in
Heppner Friday. School was out for
the day and all the teachers motored
to Heppner.
Mrs. Elmer Sullivan and children
left Sunday for Medford where she
will visit her parents.
' Mrs. Coats of Hardman is visiting
her son, Claude Coats, here.
Miss Esther Jones of La Grande
spent the week end visiting her
mother and family, Mrs. Blanche
Jones.
Mike Healy, while returning from
Heppner Thursday, tipped his car
over. It didn't hurt the car or Mr.
Healy seriously.
Vernon Partlow of Goldendale,
Wash., spent the week end visiting
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Part
low. Mrs. Blanche Jones and family
spent Sunday visiting at the Phil
Jones home in Hermiston.
Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Mackan of
Hereford are visiting at the Frank
Jones home. Mrs. Jones and Mrs.
Mackan are sisters.
Mardell Gorham, Geraldine Healy
and Basil Cramer epent the week end
visiting at the W. A. Strobel home
in Athena.
Jack Johnson returned to his home
in Dufur Saturday after spending the
past week visiting on the project.
Mrs. Ded Jackson who lived here
this summer stopped Saturday on
her way to Portland.
Supply and Demand
Changes Hit Prices
Official government estimates of
Oregon farm production in 1937 show
a substantial increase over 1936, but
the nationwide high level of farm
production last year, added to reces
sion in business, is now being re
flected in sharp declines in the Ore
gon farm price index, according to
the current agricultural situation re
port just issued by the state college
extension service.
Government figures for 1937 are
$124,825,000 in farm cash income for
crop and animal products, with the
Oregon farm price index for the year
averaging 85 per cent of the 1926
1930 level. In 1936, when the index
averaged eight points lower at 77,
total income was estimated at $106,
550,000. Neither figure includes sev
eral million dollars income from
specialty crops or benefit payments,
or the added values from manufac
ture of farm produce.
Oregon's general farm price index,
like that of the country as a whole,
has declined sharply during the last
few months, the report shows. The
Oregon index at 70 per cent of the
1926-1930 average is down 17 points
below January 1937 and 23 points
lower than at the peak last April.
It is 5 points under the prewar av
erage of 75. Particularly sharp de
clines in grains, potatoes and hops
have occurred, with considerable re
cession in prices for meat animals
and wool.
In general, the cost of farming has
held up near last year's costs. Con
sequently, the purchasing power of
farm products has fallen off mater
ially, being given at 87 per cent of
the 1926-1930 level, against 109 in
January 1937. Compared with the
1910-1914 average, farm products
have an exchange value of only 81
per cent.
In explanation of the situation, the
report shows that both supply and
demand have been factors of weak
ness. Farm production in 1937 was
108 per cent of the 1924-1929 average
with business and industry activity
at one-fifth below a year ago. Farm
production at 108 in 1937 was the
greatest on record, against only 95
in 1936, and 92 in 1935. As price de
clines have been greater in respect
to crop products than animal pro
ducts, the index figure for these sep
arate classifications are of interest.
Volume of crop production alone
in 1937 was 113 per cent of the base
period average, compared with only
80 in 1936, while the index of all ani
mal production alone in 1937 was 104
compared with 108 in 1936. The live
stock inventory of the country shows
only nominal changes compared with
a year ago. The numbers of cattle,
horses and mules on hand are slight
ly smaller, with hog numbers some
what larger. Sheep numbers show a
slight increase owing to larger num
bers of lambs on feed.
Better Balance Plan
Under New Farm Act
The ever normal granary program
contained in the new AAA farm act
is expected to have some effect on
discouraging excessive livestock
feeding in years following big feed
grain crops, according to national
AAA officials who have studied pro
visions of the act.
Commodity loans and marketing
quotas, when the latter are approved
by two-thirds vote of farmers con
cerned, are expected to stabilize
market supplies of corn and wheat
by making it possible to hold excess
supplies in storage for use in years
when they will be more needed by
consumers.
In the past, the national leaders
point out, fluctuations in supplies of
meat animals usually followed close
after similar fluctuations in grain
crops. By storing grain supplies pro
duced in excess of requirements it
is hoped that livestock production
in turn will be evened out, result
ing in more uniform meat supplies
and more stable prices.
Payments under the act will de
pend on future action by congress,
as the law permits parity payments
on cotton, corn, tobacco, wheat and
rice, but no funds for such payments
are available at present. These pay
ments, however, are in addition to
the regular payments already" pro
vided under the previously an
nounced agricultural conservation
program.
The new act provides for contin
uing the agricultural conservation
program with additional features.
Farmers who take part this year will
qualify for payments by staying
within their soil depleting crop acre
age allotments, and by measuring up
to their soil building goals.
Any minor adjustments that may
have to be made in the previously
announced 1938 program will be ex
plained to Oregon officials at a re
gional meeting called at Salt Lake
March 4 and 5. Attending this meet
ing from Oregon will be N. E. Dodd
and N. C. Donaldson, chairman and
secretary of the state AAA commit
tee, and F. L. Ballard, vice-director
of the state college extension service.
Rod Thomson Back
As Union Oil Manager
A triple shift in local managers
of Union Oil company in this dis
trict this week resulted in bringing
THE
STAR Reporter
FRIDAY-SATURDAY:
Hopalong Rides Again
Plus
INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT
with the grand sisters of "Lancer
Spy" George Sanders and Dolores
del Rio as well as June Lang, Dick
Baldwin, Keye Luke, John Caradine,
Ruth Terry.
SUNDAY-MONDAY:
One of the screen's notable contri
butions to Americana and one of the
most dramatic stories of mother love
ever written, comes to the screen in
OF HUMAN HEARTS
screen adaptation of Honore Mor
row's classic story, "Benefits For
got," in which Walter Huston, James
Stewart and Beulah Bondi head a
cast of capable character players.
13-year-old Leatrice Joy Gilbert
(daughter of Leatrice Joy and John
Gilbert) makes her screen debut in
the role of Annie Hawks as a child.
The late beloved character actor
Robert McWade is seen in his last
portrayal, that of Dr. Lupus Crumm.
Also Disney's "Donald Ostrich"
TUESDAY:
Marlene Deitrich, Melvyn Douglas
Herbert Marshall, Edward Everett
Horton in
ANGEL
WED.-THUR., Mar. 9-10:
An achievement in beautiful tech
nicolor photography
EBBTIDE
has an outstanding cast including
Oscar Homolka, Frances Farmer,
Ray Milland, Lloyd Nolan, Barry
Fitzgerald
Also: Queen of Harmony News of
the Day.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Adams, Betty
and Clarabelle, are invited to pre
sent this coupon for complimentary
admissions. Please use before March
11.
StarTheater
HEPPZTEB, OBE.
Rod Thomson, local boy, back to
Heppner from Baker to take charge
of the local office. Thomson started
with the company here several years
ago and his being raised to the man
agerial position is evidence of his
progress.
The shift took Dallas Jacobson
from here to Pendleton, where he
succeeds John Turner, former local
manager and native Heppnerite, who
in turn was transferred to the Baker
office. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson and
baby daughter moved to Pendleton
Sunday, while Thomson has assumed
his duties here.
Survey on, Rider
Polices Grazing Dist.
A survey crew has started work
in the north end of the county sur
veying and staking lines between
allotments in the grazing district.
M. R. Saling of Heppner has been
engaged by the division of grazing
as range rider for Oregon Grazing
District No. 7 for the spring grazing
season, the opening date of which
has been set as March 15.
This year, while it will be imprac
tical to count sheep, in every in
stance, as they are turned on, num
bers of sheep run by each licensee
will be checked, acording to Marvin
Klemme, regional grazier for the
division of grazing.
Unemployed Veterans
Advised to Register
Employment for veterans is the
theme song for all veterans' organi
zations during the six-week period,
Feb. 15 to March 31, announces Clar
ence Hesseltine, commander of
Heppner post, American Legion.
Through assistance of the United
States and state unemployment ser
vices it is expected to get every un
employed ex-service man registered.
Local registration will be effected
through the state unemployment of
fice at Pendleton, and Hesseltine
urges all unemployed veterans
to register immediately. Application
for registration should be accom
panied by discharge to show proof
of service. Full information as to
disabilities should be given, Hessel
tine says, as such information will
assist rather than prevent the vet
eran from obtaining just compensation.
Want work in town or out, house
keeping or cooking for lambing crew.
Mrs. Lulu B. Jones, city. ltp.
Oysters
and
Shell
Fish
NOW IN
SEASON
Marine delicacies
lend zest to our
menus.
Try our
Fountain Service
o
A Good Meal
Anytime
at the
Elkhorn
Restaurant
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BROUGHT TO HEPPNER
Because of small pox at Fossil
First Game
2:30 Tomorrow
7 GAMES IN ALL
Championship 9 p. m. Saturday
ADMISSION PRICES:
SEASON TICKETS . Students 75c, Adults $1.25
Friday Afternoon Students 20c, Adults 40c
Friday Evening Students 25c, Adults 50c
Saturday Afternoon . Students 25c, Adults 50c
Saturday Evening Students 35c, Adults 60c