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Volume 56, Number 4
Parity Payments
For 1939 Wheat
Not Endangered
E. 0. League Finds
942 Counties in 35
States Grow Wheat
Failure of the House of Repre
sentatives at Washington to pass all
of the proposed appropriations for
farm parity payments will have no
effect on wheat parity payments for
1939, N. E. Dodd, director of the
western division of the AAA, has
assured state officials at Corvallis.
The appropriation passed by the
House the last week in March pro
vides $500,000,000 ' for conservation
payments in 1939, as authorized in
the act. The additional $212,000,000
to be used in making parity pay
ments on wheat and similar surplus
crops in 1939 was definitely appro
priated last year, hence, the recent
action has no effect on the current
program, Dodd explains.
Dodd, formerly chairman of the
Oregon State AAA committee, and
since January 1, assistant director
of the western division, has recently
been appointed director, replacing
the late C. C. Conser, who died sud
denly of a heart attack.
The extent of commercial wheat
growing in the United States is in
dicated by the fact that 942 counties
in 35 states have 1939 wheat acreage
allotments of ten thousand acres or
more. This information was obtained
by the Eastern Oregon Wheat league
in connection with its recent an
nouncement of a nation-wide con
test to encourage compliance with
the 1939 wheat acreage allotments.
Contrary to much popular belief
as to the location of principal wheat
growing areas,' the greatest number
of counties with ten thousand acres
or more are located in the North
Central region, consisting of the
states Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michi
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Ne
braska, and South Dakota. These
states together have 439 counties on
the list.
Texas and Oklahoma, in the south
ern region, have 93 counties that
classify as commercial wheat pro
ducers, while the western region,
consisting of 12 states, has 318 coun
ties.
Kansas, with 104, has more coun
ties with large wheat acreage allot
ments than any other state. Oregon
and Washington each have 17 coun
ties on the list, Idaho 24, and Califor
nia 22.
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Resurrection Story
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To be Given Sunday
"The Resurrection Story" by Car
rie B. Adams is the cantata to be
presented Easter Sunday evening
at the Methodist church, beginning
at 7:30 o'clock, by combined church
choirs under direction of Russell
McNeill.
Kathryn Parker, Lucille Barlow
and Mrs. McNeill will take solo parts
with incidental solos by Mrs. Neva
Cochell, Mrs. F. W. Turner, Marie
Barlow, Chas. Barlow, Lewerence
Lehman and J. O. Turner. Mrs. R.
B. Ferguson, Virginia Dix and
Frank Alfred will sing in trio. Num
bers will include double quartet,
women's chorus, men's chorus and
mixed chorus. Singing besides those
named will be Rachel Forsythe,
Margaret Browning, Mrs. John Hiatt,
Mrs. E. R. Huston, Frank Turner and
Glen Tonnesson.
The cantata is a beautiul compo
sition of Easter theme, and the pub
lic is warmly invited to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Warren and
children were visiting in the city
yesterday from the farm in Dry
Fork. They reported the gram get
ting a good start, but that moisture
would be welcome any time,
Heppner,
John W. Kelly
To Write for
Gazette Times
John W. Kelly
John W. Kelly, whose column from
Washington, D. C, is known to every
reader in the northwest, will be a
contributor to the Heppner Gazette
Times commencing May 4.
Informative, educational and re
liable, the column of John W. Kelly
was for years the most popular read
er-interest feature in the Oregonian.
A native of the northwest, he un
derstands its people, problems and
aspirations from intimate association.
His news interpretations and com
ments at the national capital are
from the viewpoint of- a far west
erner.
In Washington, D. C, Kelly knows
the statesmen and the stuffed shirts
and his sources of information en
able him to foretell events weeks
before they are carried in the news
columns. ........ - .'.
From the White House to the halls
of congress; from the cloakroom
gossip to the cosmopolitan society,
Kelly paints the picture of the
Washington scene as it is accu
rately, objectively, impartially as an
ace reporter.
There is an intimate touch in Kel
ly's writings which distinguish his
column from all other columns or
iginating in the federal city. He sees
through the eyes of a west coast
observer and is alert to legislation
or administration policies affecting
this region.
To learn "what's going on" at the
seat of government, read John W.
Kelly's column in the Gazette Times.
WPA Discontinued;
Reaction Immediate
Four applications for work were
presented to the county court yes
terday from the WPA enrollees
whose jobs with the federal agency
ended with cessation of WPA in the
county Monday night. Fifteen men
were on the rolls whose chances for
immediate employment appeared
slight as seasonal work on farms is
slackening.
Judge Bert Johnson received a
reply to his protest from E. J. Grif
fith, state administrator, this week,
in which Griffith emphasized the
desire that those taken off WPA
work would use their best efforts
to find employment for themselves.
Griffith said that reduced appro
priation made it necessary to take
1420 persons from WPA rolls in the
state in April, and that discontinu
ance was being put into effect in
counties with light enrollment be
cause an average reduction over the
entire state would make adminis
trative costs excessive in light-enrollment
counties.
Griffith advised keeping his office
informed of the situation existing
after the shut-down, and Judge
Johnson said this would be done.
The county court is not lying down
on the job, he said.
Harold Cohn departed the end of
the week for San Francisco on a
business trip and expected to take
in the world's fair while there.
Oregon, Thursday, April
State Game Head
Brings Story of
Commission's Work
Appearances Made
at Lions and Hunt
ers - Anglers Meet
In two public appearances here
Monday, Frank Wire, chairman Or
egon state game commission, told
in words and moving pictures of
what is being done to accomplish
his objective as chairman, "to leave
the wild life, of Oregon is an good
state of preservation for posterity
as it was when he arrived upon the
scene."
Speaking before the Lions lunch
eon Monday noon, Mr. Wire stressed
particularly the work of fish prop
agation. While scientists have found
that only one or two per cent of
fertilized eggs of rainbow trout ma
terialize into full grown fish, he
said that the commission has ob
tained almost a 50 per cent survival
in the state-owned hatcheries. There
is a large mortality rate after the
fish are planted, however, which
largely explains a common criti
cism of the commission that it plants
only a fraction of the number of
fish which it claims to plant.
Large fish are all cannibalistic,
giving the greatest loss of small fish.
Other under water enemies, such as
snakes, crayfish, etc., take another
toll, while the enemies from the air
are also destructive. The blue heron,
standing soulfully in the water and
occasionally dipping its head, gets
many fish as shown by examination
of the contents of one such fellow
taken, on the coast. Inside the stom
ach were 240 identifiable small fish,
while a partly digested mass was
estimated to contain the bodies of
some fifty more.
Fingerling trout such as have been
planted in the past have less op
portunity to survive against natural
enemies in the smaller streams, and
it is for this reason that the com
mission is working on the policy of
stocking streams such as those in
Morrow county with larger fish,
said Mr. Wire.
He said that while the game birds
had gone down hill for a few years,
they are now on the increase again
and there is promise of better hunt
ing in seasons to come. As for deer
and elk, the problem is not so much
one of propagation as it is of dis
tribution. Pennsylvania, Vermont
and Maine all have more deer than
Oregon through artificial measures
of stimulating reproduction, he said.
More than two hundred people
attended the meeting at the Elks
hall in the evening when movies,
many of which were taken by Mr.
Wire, himself, augmented the word
picture of the game situation in the
state. The meeting was sponsored by
Morrow County Hunters and Ang'
lers club which reported addition of
fifty members at the meeting's
close.
In addition to Mr. Wire's address
at the luncheon meeting, Gene Nor
moyle of lone sang two songs, ac
companied by Virginia Dix.
Firemen's Smoker
To Benefit Band
Heppner firemen will stage their
next smoker April 22, and will give
half the net proceeds to the school
band. This decision was made at
their meeting last night.
Though no announcement was
made of the matches to be present
ed, it was said a number of new
prospects are being interviewed who
who know what ring generalship is
all about.
Women's Foreign Missionary so
ciety of the Methodist church will
meet Tuesday, April 11, at 2:30 in
the afternoon in the basement of
the church.
6, 1939
Mayor Bleakman
Proclaims Week
For City Clean-Up
As it comes within the province
of your city government to protect
the peace, health and safety of the
people, and as cleanliness of sur
roundings is one of the biggest fac
tors in promoting these interests, it
has become an annual custom for
the city mayor to proclaim a time
each spring when special effort is
made to dispose of garbage, rubbish
and accumulations of trash gener
ally. Therefore, in accordance with cus
tom, and in the interests of a clean
er, safer and better city, I hereby
proclaim the week of April 17 to
24, Clean-Up Week in Heppner, and
urge the earnest cooperation of ev
eryone in making the week success
ful in its purpose.
During this week the city govern
ment will cause to be removed, with
out charge, all trash, rubbish, gar
bage or other refuse, which is placed
at the street curb in proper con
tainers. Containers should be such
as can be readily handled.
By order of the Common Council
of the City of Heppner.
G. A. BLEAKMAN, Mayor.
Home Owners May
Get Lower Water Rate
Heppner home owners will be in
duced to use more water in raising
lawns and gardens this summer if
a proposed ordinance to be present
ed at the next council meeting meets
favorable consideration. At last
night's meeting, postponed from
Monday, it was proposed to give
37,000 gallons of water free to each
user taking a minimum of 13,000
gallons, the cost of which is $4. In
other words each user would be en
titled to up to 50,000 gallons on
payment of $4. For each thousand
gallons over 50,000, 10 cents a thous
and would be charged.
The ordinance will be presented
at the next council meeting, April
17, taking two meetings for passage.
The rates if adopted will be effect
ive from May 1 to October 1.
Council's proposal for this lower
rate bracket was based largely upon
anticipation of more water with in
stallation of the new pump which
arrived on the grounds Monday. The
watermaster has been busy this
week building the concrete foun
dation. "CHILD" EVANGELISTS
Because of their extreme youth,
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Brown, who
open evangelistic services at Pen
tecostal mission next Tuesday, are
known as "child" evangelists. They
are said to be experienced for their
age, and come to Heppner highly
recommended from fields in eastern
Oregon, Idaho and route south where
they have recently been working.
Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Wehmeyer
left for Wenatchee, Wash., Monday
in answer to word of the critical
illness of Mrs. Wehmeyer's moth
er, Mrs. Lena Boesel.
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Subscription $2.00 a Year
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Make Appearance
Next Saturday
Band to Appear
Afternoon, Evening
to Aid Benefit
When the curtain goes up at the
gym-auditorium at 8 o'clock next
Saturday night, a capacity house
will greet the opening of "Purple
Towers," Elks-sponsored musical
comedy benefittine the school band's
trip to the state contest. That fact is
practically assured by the call for
reserved seat tickets which went on
sale at Gordon's drug store last week
end.
Another fact, now well assured.
is that those attending will get their
moneys worth of entertainment.
The operetta has rounded into fine
fettle in rehearsals the last week.
say reports from the rehearsal hall.
Lead characters have their parts
well in hand and the melodious
tunes are said to have the chorus
singing with real enthusiasm.
The band will take part in Satur
day's activities with an appearance
on the streets at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon. That night they will play
their contest numbers at the dance
at the Elks hall following the op
eretta, at intermission, about 11:30
o'clock. Proceeds of the dance will
be added to those from the operetta
to help finance the contest trip.
Numbers to be played are "The Field
Artillery March," "Lutespiel" and
"Overture Militaire." This will be
the band's last public appearance be
fore it goes to La Grande, the fol
lowing week end. They are sched
uled to appear in the district con
test at 7:30 in the evening, April 14.
Winners of this contest will go to
Portland, May 12-13, to compete in
a regional contest including Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana.
"Purple Towers" will be present
ed in two acts, preceded by the op
ening overture. Time of playing will
be about two hours. Cast in char
acter roles are Hank Huckleberry,
Frank Alfred; Mike Murphy, Clar
ence Bauman; Earl Parker, Hubert
Gaily; Red Nichols, Dr. R. C. Law
rence; Tillie, Mary White; Urseba
Applegate, Virginia Dix; Helen
Trumbull, Betty Lawencfc; Mary
Marble, Rachel Forsythe; Phil Brad
ley, Gene Normoyle; Snowball, Bob
Runnion.
The chorus includes Jeanette
Blakely, Carolyn Vaughn, Shirley
Wilson, Dorothy Howell, Norma
Prock, Harry O'Donnell, Norval Os
borne, Donald Bennett, Buddy
Blakely, Jack Merrill, F. W. Turner,
J. O. Turner, Mrs. R. B. Ferguson,
Mrs. Alden Blankenship, Mrs. Philip
Mahoney and Mrs. Clarence Car
michael. Musical direction has been in
charge of Miss Forsythe and Norbert
Peavy. Mrs. H. A. Cohn has coached
dances, and Miss Marjorie Parker is
piano accompanist. A soft shoe tap
dancing number will be presented
by Yvonne Bleakman and Teddy
Ferguson between acts.
ELKS INSTALL TONIGHT
Installation of officers for the new
year will be held by Heppner lodge
358, B. P. O. Elks, at the regular
meeting tonight. E. Harvey Miller
will succeed P. W. Mahoney as ex
alted ruler, and other officers to be
installed are Hubert Gaily, esteemed
leading knight; Kenneth Akers, es
teemed loyal knight; V. R. Runnion,
esteemed lecturing knight; Loyal R.
Parker, secretary; J. O. Turner,
treasurer; Chas. B. Cox, trustee;
Thomas J. Wells, tyler; D. A. Wil
son, alternate delegate to grand
lodge.
Dance at Lexington grange hall,
Saturday, April 15. Merrill's or
chestra. 75c the couple. Supper will
be served.