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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, Sept 8, 1938
IONKNEWS
41 in High School,
81 in Grades, lone
By MARGARET BLAKE
School opened for registration on
Monday. Forty-one pupils enrolled
in the high school and 81 in the
grades. A few more are expected to
register later. Erret Hummel is su
perintendent again and Mrs. Amy
Sperry and Miss Frances Stewart
have the same positions in high
school as last year. Homer Williams
takes the place left vacant by the
resignation of Mr. McDonald last
year. Mrs. Harriet crown has the
seventh and eighth grade room once
more. New teachers have charge of
the other lower grade rooms as fol
lows: Richard Gromquist, fifth and
sixth; Gladys Breshears, third and
fourth, and Catherine Sharp, first
and second.'
Mrs. Elmo McMillan and daughter
Beverly returned to Salem Sunday
after spending several weeks at the
home of Mn and Mrs. J. E. Swan
son. Mrs. Charles McEUigott and chil
dren have returned to their home
in Portland for the school year.
Mrs. Ada Cannon of Hardman has
returned to lone to put her chil
dren in school. They are living in
the house formerly occupied by the
Oscar Cochran family.
Mrs. Delia McMillan of Corvallis
spent a few flours here Sunday call
ing on old friends.
Rev; James Pointer will preach
next Sunday evening in the Chris
tian church.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Blake and Mr,
and Mrs. Ted Blake spent Sunday in
Kinzua visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Baker and
children went to Dayton and Pull'
man, Wash., last week to visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred, Zielke and son
Frederick motored to Enterprise on
Saturday, returning home Sunday,
On the return trip they were ac
companied by Mrs. Zielke's sister,
Mrs. Rita Wagner, who will spend
her vacation here.
Eugene Newlin of Seattle arrived
Saturday at the home of his mother,
Mrs. A. Newlin.
Mr. and Mrs. Laxton McMurray
and Mrs. I. R. Robison returned
Saturday from Mullen, Idaho, where
they spent a day after attending
funeral services for Clarence Mo
Murray in Spokane last Wednesday.
Earl Padberg of Portland spent
the week erfd with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. L. J. Padberg.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kruse and
daughter Karen of Oswego arrived
Saturday for a short visit with Mrs.
Lana Padberg, Mrs. Kruse's mother.
When they returned home Monday
they were accompanied by Miss Em
erald Padberg who will visit in the
valley for a while.
Miss Grace Cunningham spent Fri
day at the home of her aunt, Mrs.
Elmer Griffith, enroute from Eu
gene to her home at Post Falls, Ida.
Among members of the lone post
of the American Legion and its aux
iliary who attended the state con
vention in Pendleton the past week
end were Mr; and Mrs. O. G. Hague
wood, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Riet
mann, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mankin,
Jack Ferris, Earline Ferris and Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Beckner.
The Women's Missionary society
of lone held its September meet
ing in the parlors of the Congrega
tional church last Thursday after
noon. The society had given half of
the money to send a delegate from
the Sunday school to the young peo
ple's summer conference at Molalla
during July and a report of the camp
with special reference to the mis
'sionaries who were there was given
by Mary Kay Blake who attended
the conference. Refreshments were
served at the close of the meeting.
Women's Topic club met at the
home of Mrs. D. M. Ward in Hepp
ner last Saturday afternoon. Twelve
members were present. The life of
Marie Curie as given in the book
written by her daughter was re
viewed by Mrs. Lucy Peterson, Mrs.
Ed Dick and Mrs. D. M. Ward, and
Mrs. Elmer Griffith gave a short
biography of the author. These la
dies were hostesses for the meeting.
Delicious refreshments were served.
Jerry Phillips of Portland returned
to his home at the end of the week
after a two weeks' visit with his
aunt, Mrs. Dixon Smith..
Allotments for
Wheat Acreage
Being Sent Out
With individual wheat acreage al
lotments now being issued through
the county committees, growers are
ready for the first step under the
nationwide effort to cut seeded
wheat acreage from an excessive 81
million acres down to 55 million
acres in 1939. With average yields
coupled with prospective carry-over,
this acreage will produce adequate
domestic requirements plus ample
wheat for normal exports, past ex
perience has shown.
Every effort has been made to
have the individual allotments in
the hands of growers in advance of
fall seeding, as it is important this
year that those planning to cooper
ate under the AAA program seed
within their allotments. Last year
seeding had already taken place be
fore the 1938 farm act was passed,
hence no attempt was made to
change acreages after the crop was
growing.
Each allotment for 1939 is designed
to give a grower his fair share of the
total national acreage. AAA offi
cials believe that if national acre'
age is cut to the reasonable figure
now aimed at, growers will be far
better off with the yield from a
smaller acreage plus benefit pay
ments and other advantages under
the plan, than with yields from iuv
limited acreage with continued stag'
nated market conditions caused by
burdensome surpluses. There is
nothing to compel any grower to co
operate, but organized wheat grow
ers in Oregon have repeatedly said
it is to their best interests to join
in such a national effort.
Meanwhile announcement has
been received by N. C. Donaldson,
state AAA executive officer in Ore'
gon, that wheat growers who are
slightly out of compliance under the
1938 program and hence ineligible
for wheat loans, may qualify by
agreeing to seed enough summer
fallow to perennial grasses to reduce
soil depleting acreage down to the
required maximum 105 per cent of
the soil depleting base. Signing such
an agreement will open the way im
mediately for obtaining a wheat loan.
Edward L. Ludwick, state super
visor of wheat loans, reports ample
storage facilities now approved un
der the loan program in most if not
all wheat growing counties in Ore
gon. Wheat loans, the basis of an
ever-normal granary, constitute one
major factor in the national drive
to give America an abundant supply
of wheat without the producers suf
fering from periodic excessive sur
pluses. Grant County Fair
Oldest in the State
On Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, September 23, 24, 25, 1938, the
Grant County Fair will put on its
29th consecutive show at John Day.
This is the oldest continuous fair
in Oregon. Born in the heart of the
stock country in the horse and bug
gy days when the family loaded a
week's camp outfit on the wagon
and spent a long day on the road
coming and another one returning,
it has lived through without a break
to the present when the same fam
ily can leave the same ranch after
breakfast in the family car, take in
the fair each day, drive back to milk
the cows, and back to town in the
evening to enjoy the dance. Times
have changed, modes of travel have
changed, styles of entertainment
have changed, managements have
changed; one thing, however, thru-
out the years has remained pretty
much the same. The policy of the
Grant County Fair has always been
and still is, to show the people a
good time and send them back home
glad that they came. No attempt is
made to have cash left after the fair
except for necessary maintenance
and upkeep; everything else goes
into premiums and prize money for
the entertainment and satisfaction
of the guests who have come to en
joy the fair.
This year prospects are bright for
the best show of the 29 years. The
race track is the best it has ever
been and many good race horses are
in prospect. The rodeo show will get
many good ropers and riders from
the Pendleton Round-UD as the
Grant County Fair takes place the'
following week, and there will be
plenty of tough grain-fed horses
for them to ride. There will be a
boxing match or other entertain
ment each evening after the day
show closes and before the big Le
gion dance which starts off about
9 p. m. A large attendance is antici
pated for this year's fair.
Students Rank High
In Naval Engineers
Oregon State College Two Ore
gon State college engineering grad
uates out of seven commissioned in
the civil engineering corps of the U.
S. Navy the seven selected from
754 from 132 different colleges is a
record that is giving the civil en
gineering staff here a touch of par
donable pride. C. J. Espy, Jr., for
merly of Portland, has just been
commissioned lieutenant and sta
tioned at Bremerton.
When the navy decided' to seek a
few civil engineers in 1936 not
trained in the naval academy, 754
men applied for examination. Of
these 236 were accepted for examin
ation, which was completed by 80.
Only five were commissioned at that
time, No. 1 man being Adolph Ben
scheidt of Tillamook 1933 grad. Now
Espy is one of only two more com
missioned. No other institution has
such a record in this examination.
G. T. Want Ads bring results
Ready for Opening;
Summer Session Ends
Oregon State College End of the
five-weeks post session here Sept. 2
brought to a close the busiest sum
mer season this campus has ever ex
perienced and cleared the way for
the opening of the regular fall term
which starts with freshman week
Sept. 19.
Post session enrollment reached
115, which with the regular summer
session students brought total regis
tration for the summer to 852, an in
crease of more than 14 per cent com
pared with last year. In addition the
campus was host to 1681 boys and
girls, 4-H club members, and 150 of
their volunteer leaders.
SPECIAL CREW RUSHED TO JOIN CLEAN-UP
FORCES AFTER PILOT ROCK FLOOD!
Electric service quickly restored. Appliances
inspected and repaired by skilled P.P.&L men
9 Still fresh in the minds of people all
over the nation is the cloudburst which
flooded Pilot Rock on June 22, leaving
the town covered with mud. Coming to
the aid of Pilot Rock were Pendleton
and other cities of Umatilla County, the Red
Cross, the Forest Service, the W.P.A. and var
ious businesses and organizations. Pacific Power
& Light Company was o the scene early replac
ing transformers struck by lightning and restor
ing service. Then a special crew examined and
repaired all electrical equipment damaged by
In the Pilot Rock flood, advance
warning of the impending disaster en
abled the citizens to flee to the hills so
that not a life was lost. But their
homes and Pacific Power & Light
Company's distribution system had
to remain in the path of the flood and
survive as best they could.
Because storms, wind and rain may
strike anywhere, Pacific Power & Light
Company is prepared for any emer
gency. Its crews of skilled men and its
material resources are organized so
that they may be quickly mobilized at
any point in the company's 12 districts
in Oregon and Washington. Respon
sible for the planning, the co-ordination
of crews and materials and the
work necessary to maintain constant
electric service are the 761 men and
the flood. Motors were taken apart and cleaned.
Wiring and connections were checked for
"shorts". Naturally this P.P.& L. repair service
was a neighborly activity done without charge.
women who comprise this company's
organization. Some of these people are
your friends and neighbors.
These 761 men and women are also
responsible for making this a commun
ity where electricity is cheap. Pacific
Power & Light Company's rates have
been steadily reduced until they are
among the lowest in the United States.
Are you taking full advantage of this
low-cost electricity to save time, work
and money? Are you using it for
Better-Sight lighting, cooking, water
heating, refrigeration and other house
hold purposes? You should ... for even
if you do all your housework the mod
ern electric way, the cost is just a few
cents a day! So modernize electrify
your home now.
Pacific Power & Light Company
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