Page Four
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, March 2, 1939
Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE,
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912
Published every Thursday morning by
CBAWFOBD PUBLISHING COMPANY
and entered at the Post Office at Hepp
ner, Oregon, as second-class matter.
JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor
SPENCER CRAWFORD, Manager
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year : $2.00
Three Years .."... 5.00
Six Months 1.00
Three Months 75
Single Copies 05
Official Paper for Morrow County
Community Stability
CMPHASIS is being placed by the
United States Forest service upon
the terms "social welfare" and "com
munity stability" in connection with
its policy of administering forest
lands. Especially are these terms
being brought to the attention of
Morrow county people just now, with
the coming of a new industry which
contemplates cutting more of the
timber in the adjacent hinterland.
The terms are largely self-explanatory.
They mean that the forest
administration contemplates getting
the most value from the timbered
areas over the longest possible time.
They indicate that wholesale de
struction of resources bodes ill for
the future. As applied to timber
cutting, they mean that only so much
timber should be taken each year
as will be replaced in an ordinary
year's growth.
It is heartening that the Kraft
cheese subsidiary which has an
nounced intentions of starting the
box factory here have signified their
intention of operating under this
policy of administration. They are
coming to Heppner with the idea of
building, not of destroying. In the
cutting end of their operations, as in
the operations throughout, they are
advocates of stability as evidenced
by past performance.
From expressions the officials have
made on their several visits here,
they have signified intention of op
erating on a basis wholly compatible
with the policies of the forest ser
vice, as well as for the best inter
ests of the entire community.
The company throughout its large
operations encourages steady em
ployment and discourages the op
portunist .worker. It has been the
policy, as practiced elsewhere, of
absorbing the slack in the local la
bor market so far as possible, giving
preference to regular residents of
the community if satisfactory help
can thus be found. Through a com
pulsory insurance system, employ
ees are forced to save five per cent
of wages for the time employed. But,
as compensation for such thrift the
company gives each employee
bonus of fifty per cent of such sav
ings at the time he leaves the com
patty's service.
Such policies, certainly, are in the
interest of social welfare and com
munity stability. When such a com
pany, with the reputation behind it
of never having had any labor trou
ble and the further reputation of
meeting every obligation promptly,
signifies .intention of operating in
any community, that community, as
suredly, can compliment itself upon
the prospect of future stability in
sofar as the operations of that com
pany may affect the community.
Heppner people are signifying
their confidence in the new com
pany and expressing the hope of fu
ture community stability by readily
contributing to the site fund. The
resrjonse has been generally 100
per cent as anticipated by the com
mittee, and every indication is that
Heppner will keep up its end in
hastening the coming of the new
industry.
But, again, whatever anticipation
of new riches may be had by Mor
row county people, the forest service
words of wisdom should be heeded,
The county's greatest resource is its
timbered area. That the county is
about to realize more income from
the valuable merchantable timber in
the area should not cause its people
siffht of the fact that the
forest's greatest value is in the wa
tershed it provides. The conserva
tion of moisture in this area and re
sultant precipitation over the lower,
unwooded lands, is what makes
these lower lands habitable and fer
tile. Thus the forest is primarily im
portant to the large wheat and stock
raising industries that will ever be
the backbone of the .county's econ
omic structure.
In its several other phases, how
ever, such as lumbering, scenic value
and wildlife, Morrow county's tim
bered area stands much as a limit
less bank account against which lit
tle has been drawn. There can be
summer range for the sheep, game
for the hunters, scenic attractions
for the tourists, lumber for a sta
ble new industry, and moisture for
the lower country, all, if the proper
policy of administration is heeded.
Especially is this true if the arch
destroyer, fire, is prevented from
making trouble.
The dividends to be had will come
in higher property values, more
people and more income to help pay
the now depressing tax burden and
other necessary expenses of organ
ized society.
a
SAFETY RECORD SET
A real safety record was set last
New Year's week end, one which
may be tied in the future but never
beaten.
For three days, in spite of holiday
traffic and bad weather, Oregon was
free from traffic deaths. This was
the only holiday period for three
years during which no fatality oc
curred.
But the New Year's week-end was
only the beginning of a five-month
period during which the death toll
at no time exceeded the monthly
average of 30 fatalities. In February
the total sank to nine fatalities for
the state, the lowest monthly figure
in years.
(Jhauneur service; your car or
mine, anywhere, anytime, no time
limit. Write or phone Gazette Times.
LOCAL FOREST CAMP TO BE ATTRACTIVE;
IMPORTANCE OF WORK EMPHASIZED
The first load of trees for Hepp-
nere's forest camp arrived Monday
evening and landscaping will pro
ceed immediately under direction of
Dick Bowes, landscape engineer with
the U. S. Forest service. Plans call
for extensive beautification that
should make the camp an attractive
addition to the city, says F. F. Weh-
meyer, local ranger.
Three camp buildings are now
completed including a combination
warehouse, a truck and machine
shed, and gas house. Denver Edsen,
construction foreman in charge since
the beginning, now has a crew of
14 CCC boys leveling grounds and
laying forms for concrete walls and
a parabolic service court that lies
between the buildings. Two more
boys are expected to assist with the
tree planting.
Construction of a three- or four
room office building facing May
street beside Gilliam & Bisbee's
store is expected to start soon after
June 1. The office will be set back
from the street to face upon a lawn
court. An equipment storage build
ing and a small residence are in
cluded in ultimate plans for the
camp.
Along the Main street side of the
camp, landscaping plans call for
a row of maple trees. Lombardy
populars will be placed between the
office building and the Gilliam &
FILMS developed 25c
S glossy neverfade "Paratone Prints
and two 5x7 doubltweighl professional
enlargements 23c coin"
, Reprints 2c Each Fast Service
PARAMOUNT STUDIOS
BOX 1016 - SAN FRANCISCO; CALIE.
1 LOCKER BOXES
3 Sizes to Suit Everybody
LOCALLY BUTCHERED
MEATS
FRESH AND CURED
Central Market
Ture Peterson, Mgr.
RADIO REPAIR
Philco and Zenith RADIOS
LOW PRICED
TUBES
Guaranteed for 6 Months
Examples:
Was Now
No. 80 $ .80 $ .40
No. 27 80 .40
No. 30 1.00 .55
No. 32 1.75 1.10
No. 33 1.75 , .90
All others priced accordingly
BRUCE GIBB
Phone 1382
CAGE HATS
REDUCED 25
FREE TRAVEL CASE
WITH EVERY CAGE HAT
$3.98
3 up
For limited
time only!
ELSIE'S
OREO. GAGE AGENCY
Bisbee building, black locusts will
be used to border the property along
the east- side, while walnut trees
will help break up the space within
the camp. Shrubs to be placed where
needed will include Oregon grape,
sumac, mock orange and snowberry.
All buildings will be surrounded
by concrete walks, and the center
of the service court will be gravel
surfaced.
The buildings are wood construc
tion upon concrete base and covered
with fire-proof, composition shin
gles. With wood stained brown, top
ped by slate-grey roof and a few
small wood -carved trees painted
green, the simplicity of architectural
design, uniform throughout, blends
attractively into the completed unit.
This camp will be headquarters
for administration of the Heppner
forest district, just now taking on
added significance through greater
timber-cutting activity. Under this
administrative set-up comes two
billion feet of merchantable pine, and
400 million feet of other species of
timber. Of the pine timber includ
ed, 788,328,000 lies within the na
tional forest itself and l,212r409,000
feet is in private ownership, but in
which the nation forest administra
tion is no less concerned. It is the
purpose of the forest service to pro
tect all timber in the area to the end
of fostering community stability and
social welfare, protecting so far as
possible the greatest value of the
forest, that of watershed, to con
serve moisture for the lower agri
cultural country.
Alreadv housed in the local build
ings are a large fire truck, the local
ranger's field car and a large amount
of fire-fighting equipment that pro
vides the nucleus for combatting the
forest's greatest enemy fire.
Also under the wing of the local
administrative office is the problem
of range protection over the entire
countv inside and outside the for
est boundary. A recently completed
map is on file in the local rangers
office which shows in detail all the
range area in the county and set
ting out the types and carrying ca
pacities of various range lands. This
is the only map of its kind in the
county, and it signifies the further
importance of administrative work
of the local camp.
(5) C2e
A Good
WHO
WORKS
CHEAP
IIEWfPAPER jj
aWERTISiilOr
Youthful large hcnd-Blce headqnarten
4th Floor Alderway Bulldlnr
113 8. W. ALDEK ST., PORTLAND, OR.
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
OFFERS GREAT MONEY SAVING BARGAINS
ON THIS NEWSPAPER AND AMERICA'S FINEST MAGAZINES
Htr' tho thrifty, economical way to wh$cribo for thh nowtpapor and your favorito
magaziim at prices that art roally nonsathnal Th$ off on or good okhor for now
or nnowal ordoru H will pay you to look thorn ovor and $ond ut tho coupon today
FAMILY OFFER
THIS NEWSPAPER-1 YEAR
2 MAGAZINES FROM GROUP A ALL FIVE
2 MAGAZINES FROM GROUP B f)AA
Check 4 magazine t dt sired p IX UU
(X). Clip list and return with
coupon below.
GROUP A SELECT 2 MAGAZINES
American Boy 8 Mos.
American Girl 8 Mos.
McCall's Magazine 1 Yr.
Christian Herald :....6 Mos.
Parents' Magazine ........6 Mos.
Pathfinder (Weekly) 1 Yr.
Pictorial Review 1 Yr.
Romantic Story 1 Yr.
Screen Book 1 Yr.
True Confessions .1 Yr.
Open Road (Boys) . 1 Yr.
Woman's World 2 Yrs.
Better Homes & Gardens. ......... 1 Yr.
Home Arts-Needlecraft 2 Yrs:
Motion Picture Magazine 1 Yr.
GROUP B-SELECT 2 MAGAZINES
American Fruit Grower 1 Yr.
American Poultry Journal . Yr.
Breeder's Gazette 1 Yr.
Cloverleaf American Review 1 Yr.
Country Home 1 Yr.
Farm Journal t Yr.
Home Arts Needlecraft 1 Yr.
Home Friend , 1 Yr.
Leghorn World , 1 Yr.
Mother's Home Life 1 Yr.
Pathfinder (Weekly) 26 Issues
Plymouth Rock Monthly 1 Yr.
Successful Farming 1 Yr.
Poultry Tribune 1 Yr.
Woman's World ,.1 Yr.
National Live Stock Producer 1 Yr.
TRUE VALUE OFFER
THIS NEWSPAPER-1 YEAR
AND 3 BIG MAGAZINES ALL FOUR
Check thi i magazines you A C
want thus (X) and enclose
with coupon below. m
American Fruit Grower 1 Yr.
American Poultry Journal..... ,...1 Yr.
Breeder's Gazette 2 Yrs.
Cloverleaf American Review. ...... 1 Yr.
Country Home , .....2 Yrs.
Farm Journal 2 Yrs.
Good Stories ....1 Yr.
Home Circle I Yr.
Capper's Farmer , 1 Yr. r
Home Friend 1 Yr.
Home Arts Needlecraft 1 Yr.
Leghorn World 1 Yr. '
Mother's Home Life .....1 Yr.
Pathfinder (Weekly) 26 Issues
Rhode Island Red Journal 1 Yr.
Successful Farming 1 Yr.
Woman's World 1 Yr.
National Live Stock Producer 1 Yr.
Household Magazine 1 Yr.
FAVORITE OFFER
THIS NEWSPAPER-1 AlL F,VE
YEAR AND 4 BIG $075
MAGAZINES ....
True Story Yr.
Good Stories .1 Yr.
Household 1 Yr.
Farm Journal 1 Yr.
r Q American Boy, 1 Yr. ; American Girl, 1
I lYr.; Mechanix llluitrated, 1 Yr.; CIThe I
I Judge, 1 Yr;, may be selected instead clTrue I
L Story. Check magazine desired chui (X). J
ALL OFFERS
POSITIVELY
GUARANTEED
Please allow four to tlx
weeks for first copiet of mag'
aibtes to arrive.
FILL OUT AND MAIL COUPON NOW
Clip list of magazines after checking ones desired
and return witb tbts coupon.
Gentlemen: I enclose $ I am checking below the
offer desired with a year's subscription to your paper.
True Value Offer
Favorite Offer
Family Offen
Post Office
R.F.D.
State
N...