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Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE.
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES.
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15. 1912
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The Growers' Move
I TNCLE SAM is digging into his
pocket to subsidize movement of
a large volume of domestic surplus
wheat into foreign markets. The
subsidy is announced this week in
the form of a two- to five-cent pre
mium over loan-value on white
wheats now held under government
loan.
Morrow county farmers voted fa
vorably on the- plan at a meeting at
Lexington yesterday, as Will Steen,
state chairman of the Oregon agri
ultural committee, explained the
plan. Still some farmers seem re
luctant to let go, apparently believ
ing that they will be able to sell for
a higher price.
It is not the intention of this news
paper to try to tell the farmer how
or when he should sell. But it does
look like cooperation with the gov
ernment plan is called for if a severe
congestion in domestic wheat ter
minals is to be avoided when the
new crop comes on, and if a more
severe drop in price is to be avoided.
Under the loan contract signed by
farmers who took the loan, farmers
may turn their wheat over to the
government in settlement of the loan
at the end of seven months if they
do not wish to sell in that time. So
far since the loans went into effect
there has been little improvement in
the market so that, so far, as good a
sale has not been possible as that
now offered by the government, and
it is highly problematical if a better
market will be found before time of
expiration of contracts. Of course,
the farmer is assured receiving the
amount already taken on the loan,
and if he holds he is only gambling
on the loss of the two to five cents
now being offered as a premium.
From the individual viewpoint, it
possibly appears to be a good gam
ble. On the other hand there is the re
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cent history of the surplus commor
ity credit corporation which ended
disastrously with Uncle Sam hold
ing large stocks of wheat. If the good
uncle is forced again to be the hold
er of such large stocks there is lit
tle to indicate an improvement in
the market situation.
As announced to be the inten
tion of the export subsidy at this
time, clearing of warehouses to
make way for the 1939 crop seems
to be a wise move for the welfare
of the wheat industry. A point to
be considered also is that the open
market at this time does not justify
the premium price. The premium is
being paid out of Uncle Sam's jeans
to clear the way for better times.
Happy Living to
Be Theme of Big
Home Conference
"Happier Family Living" is the
theme around which the program of
the ninth annual Oregon Conference
for the Study of Home Interests is
being built, according to Mrs. Azalea
Sager, state leader of home econom
ics extension, who has announecd
the dates as February 7 to 11, in
clusive. The program, as tentatively out
lined, again offers a wide variety of
topics dealing with the various
phases of family life. Many outstand
ing speakers, recognized as author
ities in their fields, are scheduled.
In addition to the general assemblies,
numerous group meetings are plan
ned, to allow those attending to
choose the subjects in which they
are most interested. Each group will
have a member of the college staff
or a visiting speaker as discussion
leader.
Registration will begin at 9 o'clock
Tuesday morning, February 7. The
program proper will begin with the
noon luncheon in the Memorial Un
ion building, when President G. W.
Peavy will welcome the delegates
and Wm. A. Schoenfeld, dean of ag
riculture, and Mrs. Jessamine Wil
liams, acting dean of home econ
omics, will extend greetings.
The conference will, as usual, be
preceded on Monday, February 6, by
the annual meeting of the Oregon
Home Economics Extension council,
many of the delegates to which re
main for the week.
The time which motorists require
to react to emergencies was meas
ured at the Medford auto show De
cember 9-10, with the reactometer
from the office of Secretary of State
Earl Snell making the tests. Past
tests have shown that most persons
have a reaction time of three-fourths
to seven-eighths of a second.
One of Oregon's newest commu
nity traffic safety councils is now
operating in Tillamook, where I. E,
Keldson is chairman. The council has
decided to hold monthly meetings
and to call upon committee heads
to submit written reports to the gen
eral chairman before each meeting,
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LOS ANGELES COLUMNIST
TELLS OF COPENHAVER FAME
Lonnie Copenhaver's rise to fame
by being retained as trainer of the
Louis B. Mayer racing stables at
Hollywood was cited in these col
umns last week through an excerpt
from the Grants Pass Courier. Lon
nie, former Morrow county boy, had
early racing experience at the
Heppner Rodeo, later ran a stable
of his own near Grants Pass, and
since has trekked to race tracks far
and wide.
This week another clipping anent
Lonnie's fame came to the editor's
desk. It was taken from a recent is
sue of Gene Coughlin's "On the
Level," sports column in the Los
Angeles Examiner.
Coughlin calls Copenhaver "one
of the most romantic figures in mod
ern horse racing" in telling of exper
iences leading up to his berth with
Mayer. Copenhaver, says Coughlin,
first got folks taking notice with a
nag known as Malicious. Only under
the newly-acclaimed wizard's train
ing did Malicious seem able to win.
In Coughlin's words, Copenhaver
explained it:
"Shucks, I never did anything to
him. I just knew the old rascal and
I found out the way he liked to
train; that was to trot around in
circles at the end of a rope.
"And I found out he liked to run
every quarter of every race at the
same speed. He never sprinted in
the stretch. He just kept running his
usual gait and the other horses came
back to him. That old rascal knew
and still knows more about run
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ning a two-mile race than any
trainer on the tracks."
In addition to Malicious, says
Coughlin, Copenhaver will have
with him at Santa Anita this win
ter some $250,000 worth of horse
flesh owned by Mayer. Coughlin
relates:
"This is a strange and wonderful
thine that has happened to Lonnie
Copenhaver, who decided, all at once,
to give up his career as a black
smith and shoved off for Tijuana
with a motor truck and a trailer.
And in the trailer was a piece of
horseflesh named Handsome C, by
Beauty Boy, so help me."
"Handsome C couldn't even walk
fast," is the way Coughlin put it.
But from one horse to another, and
one flock of bangtails to another,
Copenhaver withstood the jests of
track followers, Coughlin relates,
to make total earnings in 1936 to
the neat sum of $30,000. In 1937, he
"saddled 70 winners and collected
$37,150 to place him seventh on the
list of American trainers. And this
with a bunch of cheap platers."
Last year, Coughlin said, Copen
haver topped all trainers in the
Chicago district. "That settled it for
Mr. Louis B. Mayer. He had to have
Lonnie Copenhaver to train his
quarter of a million dollars' worth
of prize beauties."
Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman arrived
home from Portland Tuesday morn
ing driving a new car, purchased
through a local agency.
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vs. STANLEY PARTLOW
160 Lbs., Boardman
75c
Thursday, Jan. 19, 1939
Employment Figures
Show Improvement
Salem, Jan. 17 Oregon enjoyed an
employment complexion improved
5 per cent over November, figures
covering the December experience of
the Oregon state employment service
released by the over-all state agency
here today disclosed. Placements
totaled 2715 and 49 per cent were in
private jobs.
Pendleton, covering Morrow and
Umatilla counties, accounted for 65,
or 2.4 per cent, of the state total.
Twenty-five per cent of the total
were handled through the Portland
office. Klamath Falls was next with
11 per cent. Marshfield had 8.2 per
cent and Albany and Eugene, 6 per
cent each.
Industrially, public construction
absorbed the greatest share of the
unemployment load, 46 per cent.
Personal service groups accounted
for 12 per cent; lumber manufactur
ing, 11 per cent; agriculture, 6 per
cent; and private construction, 4
per cent.
Women got 15 per cent of the jobs
and veterans accounted for 13 per
cent of all male placements.
From the Klamath Falls Herald
comes the suggestion, through its
column on safe driving, that motor
ists remember to slow down to city
speeds when entering a town' after
a long highway trip. The writer
comments that after travelling long
distances at 50 miles per hour or
more, one is prone to underestimate
the speed of his car as he comes into
a city.
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