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. Volume 54, Number 15
More Stable Market,
Credit Benefit, Seen
In Crop Insurance
State Administrator
Reveals Base Pre
mium Rate, 1.3 Bu.
A tendency toward market sta
bilization was believed by Clyde
Kiddle, crop insurance administra
tor for Oregon, to be one of the
biggest factors in favor of wide
spread insurance of wheat under the
new agricultural adjustment bill,
just now being set up in Morrow
county. Kiddle and his assistant,
Willis Boegli, brought the message
of crop insurance to the noon lunch
eon of the Lions club and to a gen
eral farm meeting at Lexington that
afternoon.
The only consideration of this
federally administered insurance
plan is to insure a farmer's yield.
Premiums and losses are paid in
bushels of wheat and every trans
action is made in quantities of
wheat, the only monetary consider
ation at any time being the relative
value of quality of wheat with which
premiums are paid, to No. 1 soft
white, on the day a transaction is
made, as No. 1 soft white is the qual
ity applying in all transactions.
So far wheat is the only crop be
ing brought under the crop insur
ance clause of the new farm act
Kiddle said, and taking out the in
surance is left entirely to the indi
vidual producer. He may either take
it or not as he likes.
The base average premium rate in
Morrow county was given as 1.3
bushels per acre to insure for three -fourths
normal production.
Purchasers of insurance, however,
are given a second option of insur
ing for half normal yield at a con
siderably reduced premium rate.
The premium rate will vary in
each individual case, as the "loss
cost" factor applied in determining
the rate is figured from each indi
vidual farm's actual production ex
perience over a base period, the base
period for this year being the same
as that used in figuring compliance
in the soil conservation program.
The setup for this year permits in
suring for one year only, and the in
surance is available to all farmers,
though it was expected that later
only farmers who comply with the
soil conservation feature of the act
will be eligible for insurance.
The new insurance should make
for a more stable market, as large
quantities of wheat will be held back
in years of high yield and fed onto
the market in years of low yield,
Kiddle said. It should also strength
en the individual farmer's credit,
because, with an insurance policy
he will be enabled to guarantee his
creditors that he will have at least
as much wheat to market at harvest
time as the insurance policy calls
for.
The farm act provides that every
kernel of wheat turned in for pre
miums must be retailed by the gov
ernment and used only in payment
of losses. Premiums may be paid in
cash, but in such case the insurance
department must purchase wheat
to the amount and put it in storage,
To avoid transportation complica
tions, the department may sell wheat
one place and buy it another in or
der to complete a transaction, but
the buying and selling must both be
done on the same day's market
In effect the insurance is simply
this: A farmer applies for a policy
through the local agricultural com
pliance committee, turning over a
warehouse receipt or its cash equi
valent for the amount of the pre
mium. A policy is then issued to him
for the half or two-thirds normal
yield for which the premium pays.
(The insurance application cannot
be made after the insured crop is
. seeded.) Say the face of the farm
er's policy is 2000 bushels, if his yield
at harvest time falls below that
Heppner,
Rhododendrons Not
Common, But Mrs.
Duvalf Has Blooms
The blossoming rhododendron
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Green in Heppner has caused con
siderable interest, but report in
these columns last week that it
was probably the only such blos
soming plant in Morrow county
has proved to be in error.
Mrs. Harry Duvall has a plant
at the farm home in Blackhorse
that put forth beautiful large red
blossoms this spring. The blooms
are now gone, having come forth
about the middle of May, but they
attracted much interest.
Common report has it that rho
dodendrons do not do well in east
ern Oregon. They are more- pro
lific on the coast side of the Cas
cades. Both the Greens and Du
valls have transplanted them suc
cessfully, however. The Duvall
plant blossomed this spring de
spite having been moved from one
part of the yard to the other.
RODEO DANCES
TO START JULY 16
Directors and Granges Meet to
Arrange Schedule; Confab with
Court on Pavilion Tomorrow
The kick-off dance for naming
queen and attendants for the com
ing Rodeo will be held in Heppner
July 16. That was definitely decided
when grange representatives met
with Rodeo directors last Friday
evening and drew dates for a series
of dances one each of which will be
held in the various grange commu
nities. Indecision of Rhea Creek grange
sponsoring a queen candidate this
year caused postponement of an
nouncing the dates for the grange
dances. The wind-up" "dance with
naming of the queen will be held in
Heppner the Saturday preceding
Rodeo, August 20.
Tomorrow Rodeo officials and
grange representatives expect to
confer with the county court in
straightening out arrangements for
use of the county dance pavilion for
queen and Rodeo dances. The court
has the Rodeo association charged
up with a considerable amount for
use of the hall in past years and has
taken the position that this must be
paid before any more dances can
be held at the pavilion.
Plans for staging the show itself
have been progressing apace, an
nounces Henry Aiken, president. A
contract has been signed for the
Kenneth Depew bucking string and
the Browning Amusement company
has again been retained Cow riding
has been added to the list of events.
It is probable that Brahma steers
will be on hand.
The dates this year, Aug. 26-27
28, call for staging the show Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, instead of
Thursday, Friday and Saturday as in
previous years. Dancing will take
place Friday and Saturday nights
only. By winding up the show on
Sunday, the directors believe every
one will be afforded a better oppor
tunity to attend.
STATE POLICEMAN RESIGNS
Resignation of Herbert Sauter,
local game patrolman, from the state
police service was announced this
week. Mr. Sauter said his resignation
was made to accept a position with
the division of grazing and that ha
and Mrs. Sauter would leave for
Burns where they will be located,
July 1.
amount the government gives him
enough wheat to make his total
equal the face of the policy. The
wheat received from the govern'
ment then belongs to the farmer
and he may handle it in any way he
chooses. But if the farmer's yield
at harvest time exceeds the face of
his policy, he then collects nothing.
The insurance protects against
damage of any kind to the growing
crop, but the contract requires the
farmer to apply usual good prac
tices in producing the crop.
Oregon, Thursday, June
Manager Hoskins
Helps lone Mates
Stem Indian Raid
But Only After Too
Many Scalps Taken;
League Ends Sunday
Next Sunday will see the last reg
ularly scheduled games of the Blue
Mountain league, as Heppner plays
Echo at Echo, and Pendleton meets
the Indians at Mission.
Echo, Pendleton and the Indians
went into a three-way tie for the
league lead as the result of last Sun
day's games. Echo beat Pendleton
and the Indians trounced lone, the
latter score being 20-8, but report
has it that Pendleton has contested
the Echo game. Heppner, who was
quiet Sunday, goes into the last tilt
only a game behind the three lead
ers, while lone holds cellar position.
Fans who saw the game at lone
got the worth of admission price in
the eighth inning. Then it was, with
his team trailing badly, that Man
ager Fred Hoskns went in as pinch
hitter, took a firm toe hold and hit
the first pitched ball for a long drive
into right field. Fred isn't as fast as
he once was or the hit might have
been good for a homer. As it was,
he reached second, scored a runner
and started a rally that saw six lone
runners cross the plate. Fred's feat
was only half of the scintillating
pinch hitting, however. Walker, who
Fred put into the batting order next
after himself, also grabbed hold of
the first pitched ball for a long two
base hit. Contributing to the rally
was a three-bagger by Joe Engel
man and two-baggtr by Ransier.
Al Massey, who did the catching
for lone, contributed the first tally
by way of a three-bagger and hit
safely a second time. On the Indian
side it seemed but a matter of
whether lone had enough baseballs
to withstand the heavy Indian war
clubs. They, along with some loose
playing by his teammates, made life
miserable for Dorr Mason until that
young lone man gave up the chuck
ing job in the fifth. The Indians were
then in the middle of a well beaten
war path and Walker, who attempt
ed to relieve Mason, didn't even
phase their advance. Len Gilman
was then dug out of the crowd in his
"civies" and before he could get
warmed up the slaughter had been
terrific. Len settled down and
blanked the Indians the last three
innings, however.
Out of State Men
See Range Work Here
Morrow county was visited last
Friday by representatives of state
AAA committees from northwestern
states who were on a progress in
spection tour of eastern Oregon
ranges. The work here and that at
Squaw Butte near Burns received
first attention of the visitors. The
trip was being made in advance of
a conference of state representatives
being held today in Salt Lake City
to consider possible changes in the
range improvement program for
1939.
The party of seven members was
conducted over local projects by Joe
Belanger, county agent. N. E. Dodd,
state chairman, represented Oregon
on the tour and at the Salt Lake
meeting. With the committeemen
was DeWitt C. Wing, noted agri
cultural feature writer, who gath
ered material on the Oregon range
improvement program for future
publications. State committeemen
from North Dakota, Wyoming and
Idaho were included in the party.
BEAUTY SHOP TO OPEN
Gordon Akers and Helen Van
Schoiack are planning to open a
beauty shop shortly in the Gilman
building on Willow street at the lo
cation formerly occupied by the den
tal office of Dr. J. H. McCrady. Ren
ovation of the quarters has been
under way this week.
23, 1938
Thomsons Circle
Country Without
Seeing an Accident
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Thomson,
Jr., arrived home Monday night
from a six weeks' trip which took
them 10,000 miles and circum
scribed the United States. Going
first by train to Lansing, Mich.,
they purchased a new car there
and while in the state enjoyed a
visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Neil Shuirman and baby. Driving
the new car the rest of the way,
they went to New York where they
were shown over the city by Ellis
Thomson, and then took in Tor
onto, Canada, the old home of Mr.
Thomson's father. Down the At
lantic seaboard they encountered
heavy rainstorms in the Caro
linas. After visiting Miami and
circling the Gulf of Mexico in
Florida they headed westward
across the southland.
At Dallas, Texas, they exper
ienced a big electrical storm and
got across the state just ahead of
a tornado that did much damage.
On through Phoenix, Ariz., and
across to Los Angeles and a visit
with Mrs. Thomson's parents at
Hawthorne they went before turn
ing north up the coast highway,
leaving Los Angeles Wednesday of
last week. No trouble of any kind
was encountered the entire dis
tance, and not once on the jour
ney did they see an automobile ac
cident or any sign of one.
DALE BLEAKMAN
DIES SUDDENLY
Young Highway Engineer Strick
en in Washington; Cause Not
Known; Body Arrives Tomorrow
The sudden passing of Dale Bleak
man, son 'of Mr. , and Mrs. George
Bleakman, came as a shock to the
Hardman and Heppner communi
ties where he was reared. He died
suddenly Tuesday at Morton, Wash.,
where he was stationed with a high
way engineering crew. Cause of
death had not been determined
The family and body of the de
ceased were expected to arrive to
morrow. The young man's mother
went to Morton immediately on re
ceiving word of his serious illness,
but he died before she reached there.
Rho Bleakman and family arrived
at the parental home yesterday from
their farm on the John Day.
Phelps Funeral Home is in charge
of funeral arrangements, not yet an
nounced. Besides the parents and brother
here, Mr. Bleakman is survived by
the wife and young daughter, and a
sister, Mrs. Herbert Hynd of Cecil.
The premature passing of Mr.
Bleakman ended a career of much
promise. Just starting into his thir
ties, he had made fine progress in
his chosen profession of civil en
gineer, having held responsible po
sitions with the Oregon and Wash
ington highway departments for sev
eral years.
Graduating from the Hardman
schools, Mr. Bleakman studied at
Oregon State college where his
scholastic record was excellent.
Making his own way, his college at
tendance was broken into by periods
of employment, but he kept his goal
ever in mind and by keeping up his
studies when not in school prepared
himself for the state engineering ex
amination which he passed with high
grades.
It was the privilege of Mr. Bleak
man in his early highway work to
help make original survey for the
south end of the Heppner-Spray
road, following the course that his
father and the then state highway
engineer first viewed when they
walked through the unbroken tim
ber. The sympathy of the entire com
munity is extended the stricken
family in this hour of sorrow.
LICENSE ISSUED
A license to wed was issued at the
clerk's office this week to 'Iris Mor
ton of Multnomah county and Mar
vin Brannon of Hardman.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
School Budget Ok'd,
Includes Item for
Smith-Hughes Shop
Barlow, Crawford
Named Directors;
Mrs. Vaughn Clerk
The proposed budget for School
District No. 1 was approved 50 to
8 at the annual school meeting Mon
day afternoon. Spencer Crawford
was reelected director to serve for
the three-year term, Charles Bar
low was elected to fill the one-year
unexpired term of John J. Wight
man, resigned, and Mrs. Muriel
Vaughn was reelected clerk. C. N.
Jones is the hold-over director.
The vote for three-year director
was Crawford 82 as the only regu
larly nominated candidate, while onei
write-in ballot was cast each for M.
L. Case and Henry Aiken. Three
nominees were voted upon for the
one-year term and the result was
Barlow 44, Beryl Coxen 37 and E. O.
Ferguson 13. Mrs. Vaughn, unop
posed, received 68 votes.
The budget item arousing the
most interest was that for financing
the new Smith-Hughes building in
the amount of $1,150, with opposi
tion being expressed to this expen
diture. However, the chairman ex
plained that the agreement for car
rying on Smith-Hughes work in the
school calls for the building's con
struction, and that in addition the
district receives a return of $1100
a year from the federal government
to apply on the instructors' salaries
to pay for the time devoted to this
part of their teaching duties.
It was brought out, too, that in
spite of the new item of expendi
ture the new budget calls for a
smaller amount to be raised by tax
ation than that set out in last year's
budget. The total to be raised by
taxation last year was $21,230.17
while that in the new budget is
$20,919.
Contract for the new Smith -Hughes
building was let before the
annual meeting to take advantage
of an unexpended balance of $900
from last year's budget. Total cost
of the building will be $2150, ex
clusive of interior finishing which
will not be done this year. T. Babb
has the contract and ground has
already been prepared for pouring
the foundation. The building will be
wood and stucco with concrete foun
dation, single story, 32 x 64 feet
Pilot Rock Flooded
in Streaky Storms
A cloudburst filled East Birch
creek to overflowing and inundated
houses and stores at Pilot Rock to
a depth of four feeet yesterday af
ternon, doing $100,000 property dam
age but taking no human life. Dam
age was confined to the immediate
vicinity of Pilot . Rock.
At the same time Heppner was
basking in sultry heat after having
been visited by a dribble of rain in
the morning. Streaky storms were
evidenced by report of a heavy fall
of rain in Eight Mile yesterday af
ternoon. It was not of cloudburst
proportions but water ran some and
is thought to have damaged some
grain.
Sultry heat and thunder caps to
the south are the order at noon to
day. Up to yesterday morning, 1.17 inch
of rain so far in June .had been
recorded here by Len L. Gilliam,
government observer. Only a trace
has fallen since the report. Up to
Tuesday morning, 1.07 inch was re
ported by Leonard Carlson at Goose
berry. Ed Rugg reported 1.34 at
Rhea creek when in town yesterday.
The rain has caught a large am
ount of hay down. Mr. Rugg re
ported having 75 tons on the ground.
Most everyone believes that damage
to hay will be largely offset by the
benefit to the spring wheat.