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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, June 1, 1939
Wallace Tells New
Set-Up for Federal
Credit Agencies
Department of Ag
riculture Takes Over
Supervisory Work
With the concurrence of the presi
dent, Secretary Wallace this week
issued the following statement re
garding the "general responsibility
he will have for the work of the
Farm Credit administration on and
after the effective date of Reorgani
zation Plan No. 1:
The Farm Credit administration,
including the Federal Farm Mort
gage corporation, will not become
an integral part of the department
of agriculture. Responsibility for
carrying out the many federal stat
utes which form the basis for sev
eral types of farm credit, for forma
tion and execution of operating
policies, for control of fiscal, person
nel, legal, informational and related
affairs will remain with the govern
nor of the Farm Credit adminis
tration. It is through such controls
and procedures that the head of an
agency discharges his public re
sponsibility. Therefore, to this ex
tent the Farm Credit administration
will be an autonomous federal agen
cy as heretofore.
However, one clear purpose of
the president's reorganization plan
is to reduce the number of offi
cials reporting directly to the presi
dent. Hence, the governor of the
Farm Credit administration will re
port to the secretary of agriculture
rather than to the president. The
secretary's responsibility will there
fore be that heretofore exercised
directly by the president.
An appropriate order to this ef
fect will be issued.
The Commodity Credit corpora
tion, also transferred , by Reorgani
zation Plan No. 1, and the Rural
Electrification administration, trans
ferred by Reorganization Plan No
2, will become operating parts of
the department of agriculture
Their work will be integrated with
that of the other department agen
cies supervised by the secretary of
agriculture.
These differences in responsibility
of the secretary and the status of
the agencies concerned are dictated
by several considerations. While
the supervision of credit facilities
in the farm field is closely related
to the other agricultural land-use
activities of the federal government,
it also has an equally important re
lation to the work of the treasury
department and of the federal loan
agency. Furthermore, not all "of the
functions of the institutions and
corporations under the supervision
of the Farm Credit administration
are exclusively governmental in
character. The Farm Credit admin
istration exercises a type of federal
supervision where the organizations
and controls are wholly govern
mental. Supervising as it does many
different types of organizations
involving among other things more
than 8,000 corporations the Farm
Credit administration does not
seem to be adapted to complete
identification with the department.
The relationships involved can be
handled best by a continuation of
its present method of operation, with
the secretary of agriculture exercis
ing a coordinating supervision in
only the broadest and most general
way.
The activities and structure of
the Rural Electrification adminis
tration and of the Commodity Cre
dit corporation, on the other hand,
are typically governmental and
their coordination with other agri
cultural activities is logical and
feasible.
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Crawford,
John, Hugh and Calvin, left Thurs
day afternoon for the San Francisco
bay region expecting to take in the
Golden Gate International exposi-
tion while visiting relatives and
friends for three weeks. They arriv
ed at Berkeley Friday afternoon, ac-
cording to word received after their
arrival.
82 Eighth Graders
Graduate in County
Thirteen school districts of the
county graduated eighty-two pupils
from the eighth grade. Heppner, dis
trict No. 1, had 26 graduates as fol
lows: Wilma Mae Beymer, Neta Rae
Bleakman, Marjorlee Doris Cant
well, Kingsley Yvonne Chapin,
Claudine Mae Drake, Shirley Ham
rick, Ola Louise Hiatt, Colleen Kil
kenny, Helen Josephine Knowles,
Patricia O'Hara, Eunice Marie Os
min, Dorotha Wilson, James Barratt,
Wade Bothwell, Charles William
Bucknum, Alton Christenson, Philip
William Cohn, Lyle Cox, Claude
Wallace Drake, Dick Edmondson,
Glen Fell, Robert William Grockett,
James Patrick McClintock, Albert
Schunk, Billy Snow.
Morgan Dist. 5J graduated two:
Doris Palmateer and George Grif
fith. .
. Irrigon, Dist. No. 10, graduated
nine: Agnes La Marr Caldwell, Jo
seph C. Wilson, John Ralph Fred-
erickson, Curtiss W. Stephens, Paula
Elma Haberlein, Charlie Wells
Acock, Helma Juanita Voile, La
Velle Arlene Markham, Robert
Franklin Waters.
Lexington, Dist. No. 12, graduated
seven: Edwina M. Breshears, Albert
Riley Edwards, Billy B. Marquardt,
Carl Miller Marquardt, Leonard Lee
Munkers, William Lee Nichols, Jo
seph Daniel Way.
Willow, Dist. No. 24, graduated
two: Josephine A. L. Smart and
Hugh McLaughlin.
. Boardman, Dist. No. 25, graduated
eleven:: Vernon Russell, Ethel Yon
ger, Daphne Simila, Erna Skoubo,
Elizabeth Kristensen, Phyllis Wil
son, Bob Smith, Bob Bleakney, Elaine
Fisher, Geraldine Funkhauser, Don
aid Gordon Ford.
Pine City, Dist, No. 26J, graduated
seven: Ray Ayers, Wallace Emil Eb
sen, Betty Jane Finch, Rosetta Joan
Healy, Harriet Anne Helms, Pat
O'Brien, Elsie Adleen Rauch.
Rocky Bluff, Dist. No. 29, gradu
ated one: Marjorie C. Peterson.
lone, Dist. No. 35, graduated ten:
Freda June Ball, Robert M. Hos-
kins, Barbara Catherine Ledbetter,
Ernest Clyde McCabe, Donald Ed
ward Peterson, Eulenna Ellen See
hafer, Margaret Seehafer, Glen
Warfield, Lucile Renoe.
Hardman, Dist. No. 40, graduated
three: Arleta Naomi Inskeep, Jean
Elizabeth Leathers, Vera Jill Mc
Daniel. Balm Fork, Dist. No. 42, graduated
two: Donna Lee Orwick, Lois Jean
Blackburn.
Hail Ridge, Dist. No. 49J, gradu
ated one: Marshall Lovgren.
Matteson, Dist. No. 59, graduated
one: Mary Ann Maxine Pettyjohn.
There is still one school district to
report. This is the Burton Valley
school, Dist. No. 51. There is but
one pupil attending this school, Rita
R. Mclntyre, who will finish her
eighth grade work late in the sum
mer. The school in this district be
gins ,jn the spring and continues
throughout the summer months.
All of these eighth grade grad
uates expect to attend high school.
Most of them will attend one of the
high schools in this county.
Scholarship Winners
Mourn Passing of Gray
Oregon State College Scores of
4-H members who had won college
scholarships from the Union Pacific
railroad mourned the recent passing
of Carl Gray, former president of
that railroad, who had founded the
scholarship plan with his own mon
ey in 1922.
Records in the state club office
here show that 209 $100 scholarships
have been awarded to 4-H members
in Oregon since Gray conceived his
idea, of which number 97 have en
tered Oregon State college to date.
Of these 39 are still in college.
THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Revival meetings continue each
evening with increasing interest.
Sunday evening may possibly be the
closing night of these series, so if
you haven't come, hurry, for you
will be the loser if you miss hear
ing Evangelist Foos preach the
wholesome word of God. Regular
Sunday services with special sub
jects. The pastor will minister the
Word in the morning service. Bring
your Bibles.
Alumni to Hold
Annual Reunions
Oregon State College Alumni ac
tivities featuring reunions of -14
classes will serve as usual as the
opening feature for the seventieth
annual Oregon State college Com
mencement weekend here Friday,
May 26, to Monday, May 29. Chief
reunion will be that of the class of
1914 which will hold its silver ju
bilee. A few members of the class
of 1889 are also expected back for a
golden jubilee celebration.
Other classes preparing definite
but less pretentious reunions than
that of the silver jubilee class are
those in the three groups 1909 to
1912 inclusive, 1928 to 1930, and 1890
to 1893. The annual alumni business
meeting will be held Saturday after-
noon preceding the final baseball
game of the season between Oregon
State and the University of Oregon.
Ihe President's reception, banquet
and ball are evening events.
Miss Anabel Turner and a group
of girl friends, all students at Bel
lingham (Wash.) Normal school,
vidted over the week' end at the
home of Miss Turner's parents, Mr.
ond Ms. W Turner.
1939 Motor Cruise: To Fort Rock
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Two of the motorloggers examine rubble in the Indian cave
This newspaper Is co-operating
with the Oregon State Motor asso
ciation, and The Oregonian in pre
senting a series of motorlogs de
signed to stimulate travel in the
Pacific northwest and enjoyment
of Oregon's recreational areas.
The following ,article is condensed
from a full-page article appear
ing in The Oregonian May 28.
A half-day cruise by automobile
from Bend and return took an
Oregonian-Oregon Motor association
motorlog party to the interesting
Fort Rock country, 70 miles south
of Bend, over good highways and
far-from-bad country roads.
Highlights of the trip were Fort
Rock, which stands alone and fort
like on the flat valley floor, once
the bed of a huge lake, and an an
cient Indian cave in another cinder
cone a short distance from Fort
Rock. Charred sandals, made from
shredded sagebrush bark, found in
the cave last year indicate that In
dians lived there from 1000 to 3000
years before hot pumice was de
posited over the area by volcanic
action.
Finds in this cave and two others
in southeastern Oregon have given
scientists important evidence in
their attempts to fix the date when
man first appeared on the Ameri
can continent.
The party, escorted by Phil F.
Brogan, Bend newspaperman and
amateur geologist, also visited Lava
butte, a few miles south of Bend,
and Hole-in-the-Ground, a huge
depression near Fort Rock which
may have been made by a meteor
I striking the earth or by volcanic
action.
Human interest was added to the
motorlog by Miss Beatrice Menken
maier, 20, who runs an 1800-acre
: ranch all alone at Fort Rock. Her
parents are both dead and Miss
Menkenmaier keeps the ranch go
ing and at the same time takes
care of a 12-year-old brother. She
favors shorts, rather than chaps, as
apparel for the modern, rancherette,
and she was wearing them when
the motorlog party arrived at her
home.
From Portland the drive to Fort
Rock is about 270 miles. The mo
torlog group made the trip to Bend
from Portland, 200 miles, by moon
light the night before the Bend
Fort Rock cruise. Many snow
capped peaks were .visible in the
moonlight 4
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A view taken from inside the Indian cave, looking out