Heppner Gazette Times. Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, June 2, 1938
Page Four
Heppner
Gazette Times
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A Parity Price
NORTHWEST wheatgrowers rec
ognize that a commodity loan
of 60 cents a bushel on their prod
uct will not be the means of obtain
ing a parity price. A loan of 60 cents
.establishes at least that much value
which must be obtained from some
source if the loan is to be repaid.
It costs at least 12 cents more to get
the wheat to terminal which also
must be realized from the wheat's
sale. With market quotations at Port
land below the 72-cent total, how,
they ask and correctly is the
wheat to move to clear the way for
future deliveries?
These wheat men know that it
costs an average of 66 cents a bushel
to produce wheat in the Columbia
basin counties in Oregon. (This fig
ure was determined by a competent
survey made by U. S. D. A. exten
sion service last year.) And they are
told that a bushel of wheat must
bring $1.15 to buy as much of other
commodities as the income from a
bushel of wheat purchasel in the
1909-1914 period the relative posi
tion expressed by the word "parity"
which the agricultural adjustment
act aims to attain for wheat.
What Northwest wheatgrowers are
now asking of the crop adjustment
control administrators is that the
loan value on their wheat be re
duced to 48 cents, and a compensat
ing direct payment of 12 cents be
made to cooperating producers un
der the adjustment program. The
12-cent payment would help guar
antee them somewhere near a parity
price while the reduced loan value
would make it possible to place the
grain on the market at a figure
where it would move on through the
channels of trade.
Cooperators under the control pro
gram so far are slated to receive 12
cents a bushel for 88 percent of their
normal yield to compensate them
for diverting 16 percent of their
fallow or 12 percent of their planted
wheatland from soil depleting to soil
conserving crops (taking out of
wheat and putting into crested wheat
grass or other permanent forage
crops). The additional 12-cent pay
ment would also be on the 88 per
cent of normal production basis,
making a total of 24 cents times 88
percent of. normal production co
operators would receive in addition
to the market return on the whole
crop.
Recent market tendencies and the
prospect for an extra large wheat
surplus this year indicate that the
market return will not be large in
any event. If the 48-cent figure is
established as the loan value in the
.Northwest, it is believed the total
return to the grower will be approx
imately this amount per bushel on
his 1938 crop plus the 24 cents a
bushel on 88 percent of his normal
production, or a guaranteed return
of 72 cents a bushel should his crop
be just 88 percent of normal, a fig
ure aimed at in the acreage diver
sion plan.
With 66 cents of this taken up in
cost of production and 12 cents re
quired to get the grain to market,
the market price must still bring
more than the 48-cent loan value if
the producer is to realize a profit.
These are something of the math
ematics the producer is facing un
der existing conditions. If he is to
get the added 12-cent payment, it
must come from congressional ap
propriation. And so long as Uncle
Sam is attempting to. regulate pro
duction and is, actually, pegging the
price, the contention of the North
west growers is just and fair. The
habitual outlet for wheat of this
section is through export channels.
It must still so move, and Uncle Sam
must see that it does, while making
it possible for the producer of this
section to retain the comparative
status with the producer of other
sections of the country that he held
before Uncle Sam started to change
the established order.
Qualified informants say that the
crop adjustment control program has
no connection with party politics,
that it was conceived by farm lead
ers and is basically by and for ag
riculture, and as such should have
the support of everyone who de
pends upon agricuture for a live
lihood. Certain it is, the wheat production
of the country was too greatly en
larged at the time of high World
war prices. The present program's
effect will be truly beneficial if it
results in bringing the production
again to the more nearly normal
basis that existed before the war
without working undue hardship
upon anyone.
The immediate concern of the
Northwest must be, however, the
marketing of its 1938 wheat crop at
a profit if at all possible, and the
growers' present plan should be
given wholehearted support by all
Northwest people.
Snell Thanks Friends
For Primary Support
Secretary of State Earl Snell has
issued a word of thanks and appre
ciation to his friends throughout the
state, who brought about his nomin
ation in the recent primary.
In addition to building a fine rec
ord for efficient and courteous ad
ministration of a big job, Snell's first
term in office has been marked by
the inauguration of a most success
ful and extensive traffic safety cam
paign. His work along this line has
resulted in marked decreases in ac
cidents, a steady reduction in fatal
ities for month to month, and placed
Oregon in the first rank of the states
of the union in point of accomplish
ment in this work.
In the recent primary, Snell polled
the largest vote of any candidate
running for a party nomination, his
total being exceeded only by two
justices of the supreme court, who
ran on a non-partisan ballot and re
ceived votes from both parties.
LOCAL. NEWS
Mrs. J. V. Crawford left this
morning for Corvallis, driving down
for her brother, Norton King, who
is finishing his first year at Oregon
State college. They expected to re
turn Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller of Ore
gon City visited for several days this
week at the home of their son, Dr.
Dwight Miller.
Willie Hynd of Hynd Brothers
company was transacting business in
the city Saturday from the Sand
Hollow farm.
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week's outing at Hidaway Springs.
Bad roads delayed their return.
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Wid Palmateer was in the ctiy
Saturday from the Morgan district,
reporting crop prospects there quite
favorable.
Mr. and Mrs. Pruitt Cox of Oregon
City were Memorial Day visitors at
the home of Mr. Cox's sister, Mrs. W.
Y. Ball.
Tom Wells and Reese Burkenbine
enjoyed a fishing jaunt to East lake
over the holiday and report a fair
catch.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Palmer
were visitors in the city Saturday
from their Lexington home.
Mrs. H. A. Cohn, Philip and Sally
are visiting in Portland, having
gone to the city Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Anderson of
Gooseberry were Memorial Day vis
itors in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Rhea Luper and son
Freddie were Memorial Day visitors
from Portland.
J. E. Craber was transacting bus
iness in town Tuesday from the farm
near Hardman.
Mr. and Mrs. C E. Carlson were
among Gooseberry residents in the
city Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Denny of Lex
ington were Heppner visitors Me
morial Day.
Jim Hams was in the city yester
day from the farm near Hardman.
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