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OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLIC AUDITORIUM PORTLAND. OR?-. Volume 56, Number 22 AAA Farm, Range Programs Remain Same Next Year Low Wheat Price Averted Says Steen; Farmers Satisfied No major changes are contem plated for 1940 in either the AAA farm or range programs, according to Oregon delegates who have re turned from national AAA planning conferences. Farmers of the nation are "well satisfied with the farm program just as it is, and don't want any major chages next year," said Will Steen of Milton, who recently returned from Washington, D. C. "It looks as though the program for 1940 will be very little different from the one in operation right now." Robert Weir of Lakeview, state committee member who recently at tended a national range conference at Hot Springs, South Dakota, an nounced that ranch operators gen erally desire no major change in their 1940 program. Weir said that increased emphasis will be laid next year on deferred grazing as a recommended range practice, and replacing of natural sagebrush with good range grass also will be stressed. Steen said that one of the changes recommended in the farm program for 1940 is designed to aid the small farmer by providing for a minimum allowance of $20 which he can earn by performing soil conserving and soil building practices. The committe chairman said that one of the outstanding benefits to Oregon from the farm program has been its aid in keeping wheat prices up. Without the farm program, he said, wheat in eastern Oregon on July 29, for example, would have been but 18 cents a bushel. "The wheat price in Oregon nor mally is based on the world mar ket," he said. "The price in Liver pool, England, on July 29, was 49 cents a bushel, lowest in many years. Latest figures show that it costs about 31 cents a bushel to ship wheat from eastern Oregon to Liv erpool. Deduct 31 Vz cents from 49 Vfe cents and you have 18 cents. That's what we'd be getting today if it weren't for the government program. Instead, however, our price is based on the general loan value of 60 cents, and in addition we get benefit pay ments totaling 28 cents a bushel." Steen pointed out that benefits to farmers through increased wheat prices have not been at the expense of consumers, since there has been no rise in the price of bread. Friendly Animals Meet Varied Fates In Forest Visits Dumb denizens of Morrow coun ty forests like human compan ionship. Two of the critters walked into abodes of man this week. A cute little black bear dropped in on Homer Tucker's wood camp to provide some juicy steaks and a cozy rug. Homer shot it. A meek doe met kindlier fate. She walked into Lois Turner's mountain cabin, got a red sign on her side saying "Tame." Mrs. Tur ner recognized her as one of Clarence Bauman's two pet deer that had just been returned to native habitat. IS NEW SECRETARY Harry Robertson of La Grande started duties the first of the month as secretary in the office of Vawter Parker, local manager for federal farm loan agencies. He succeeds Miss Rose Myers of Condon who held the position for several months. Miss Phyllis Jane Pollock is vis iting in The Dalles for a few days. Heppner, LIST OF BACKERS FOR RODEO GIVEN Financial Stability ofOrganiza tion Obtained in Work of Committee; Directors Head List Financial stability of the 1939 Ro deo was assured this week with re lease of the list of underwriters by the committee headed by Frank Al fred. Each of the underwriters has pledged himself to indemnify the show against loss up to $25 each under an indemnification agreement aproved by the Rodeo directors. In releasing the signatures, the committee announces that it was impossible to contact everyone who might wish to back the show, and that anyone not contacted may have his name added by seeing Mr.' Al fred, George Peck, D. M. Ward or George Howard, the members. To show their interest in the show the names of the directors appear at the head of the list. The list in full follows: Henry C. Aiken, Lee Beckner, L. E. Bisbee, E. R. Schaffer, H. D. Mc- Curdy, L. L. Gilliam, Richard C. Lawrence, all directors; Frank C. Alfred, D. M. Ward, G. A. Howard, George N. Peck, Charles B. Cox, Thomas J. Wells, W. Vawter Par ker, Mark Merrill, Dr. L. D. Tibbies, P. W. Mahoney, C. J. D. Bauman, Bert Johnson, Earle Bryant, B. C. Pinckney, F. W. Turner, Earl W. Gordon, F. B. Nickerson, Archie D, McMurdo, W. E. Francis, H. Tam- blyn, L. L. Matlock, O. W. Cuts forth, R. A. Thompson, Walter W. Luckman, Central Market, Wight man Bros., Edward Chinn, A. E, Burkenbine, J. A. Sharp, Heppner Gazette Times, Star Theater, D. A. Wilson, E. G. Noble, M. D. Clark, Ferguson Motor Co., J. J. Nys, Thomas C. Hagerman, E. E. Gonty, Comett Green, C. A. Kane, H. T. O'Donnell, Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co., Rosewall-Gentry Motor Co., Hugh B. Smith. MENDIOLA-BROWN GO SLATED HERE The fastest fight card ever to ap pear in Morrow county is promised by Vic Eads, matchmaker, and Geo. Combs, promoter, who will present Joe Mendiola of Manila, P. I., and "Buzz" Brown of Salem, leading featherweight championship con tenders, in the main event at the Rodeo grounds Saturday evening, the 19th. Powder Proctor, Portland colored boy, and Jack Curley of Salem will be seen in the 8-round semi-final, while Stanley Partlow of Boardman, several times main eventer here last winter, will fight Danny O'Brien of Klamath Falls in a 6-round special event. Two 4-round preliminaries will complete the card that will make a big evening in conjunction with the queen's dance and dress-up day ushering in the Rodeo season. The fame of Mendiola is known to local fight fans who saw the young Philippino outclass Pendleton's Jap anese, Hoshino, in the Round-Up city last Friday, said Eads. Both he and Brown have proved their right to contend for the coast feather weight title and their appearance in Heppner will cause this city to be the focal spot of attention for fight fans from Nome to the Panama canal. Proctor and Curley are fast young boys who have many times appeared on cards at Salem. Fighting at 147 pounds, they will give a middle weight show of top notch caliber. "There are no punch drunk stiffs on this card," averred Eads. "Every fighter on the card is a young fel low with a good reputation. It will be a whale of a show." With the big Rodeo grandstand providing 1500 seats, any one as good as ringside, besides 300 ringsides, all comers will be cared for. Ringside tickets are going on sale at local pastimes this week, Eads said. Oregon, Thursday, August -Acre Fire on Five Mile Calls Local Assistance Forest Truck Burns at Battle Waged in Timber Onslaught of the dread plague, forest fire, arrived in the local dis trict with a number of starts from last Thursday's electrical storm in the timbered region. Largest con flagration, between 800 and 900 acres, burned at the head of Five Mile in the vicinity of Battle Mountain park. It was put under control finally on Sunday after all assistance was call ed from Heppner. Starting in slashings of area cut over by Harris Box company log gers, the Five Mile fire soon be came a raging inferno to consume much valuable timber before being put under submission. Driven by a high wind it headed toward Ukiah near where timber was felled along the highway to hold it. Members of the local forest office and all avail able CCC's Were sent from here to assist in the battle. Though outside the boundaries of the district administered from Hepp ner, part of the Heppner district was jeopardized as a reversal in the direction of the wind might easily have driven the blaze this way. The new forest fire truck brought to this district last fall fell victim to the conflagration, and its driver, Charles Wilcox, and a CCC boy had a scramble for their lives when the truck got pinned in at the dead end of a logging road. Wilcox and his assitant took the. road, not knowing it was a dead-end road, and had started unloading supplies when the fire was noted to be rapidly ap proaching. They were forced to de sert it and scramble up a 12-foot embankment to save their lives. A tractor in the path of the flames was also damaged. Another bad start on Ellis creek was put under control by Charlie Osmin and crew from here after it had covered six acres. A number of other, small starts resulted in less damage. FARM HOUSE BURNS Word was received in Heppner just before noon that the Henry Gorger farm house was on fire. As sistance was requested from here. Loan Money Assured; Mott Explains Vote Some flurry of ' selling hit the local wheat market last week end as uncertainty of fate of the com modity credit loan appropriation in congress prevailed. With word Sat urday that the $119,000,000 had been reinstated and passed, smoothness prevailed in the process of making the federal loans on new crop wheat that have been in large demand. . George Peck, president Morrow County Grain Growers, received as surance from Representative Mott that he would support reinstatement, in answer to telegraphic communi cation. Mott said he voted to re move the appropriation originally because he understood that com modity credit had an unexpended and uncommitted sum of $148,000,000 which was sufficient, in the opinion of witnesses, to take care of loans this year. Later showing of the corporation, however, proved this was not the case. 15 CARS LAMBS LEAVE Bleat of new crop lambs became fainter last night as 15 carloads left the local yards for market. Produc ers making deliveries included John Maidment, Lee Holboke, Wright Bros., Ray Wright, Walter Wright Glenn Farrens, Ralph Thompson H. A. Cohn and C. W. McNamer were shippers. 10, 1939 NEW ALLOTMENT SET-UP READY Farmers Being Notified of Acre age for '40 Crop; 15 Days Given In Which to Make Appeals Wheat growers of Morrow county this week are receiving notices of individual wheat acreage allotments under the 1940 AAA program, ac cording to E. H. Miller, chairman of the Morrow County Agricultural Conservation committee. Announcement of the allotments, mailed directly from the county of fice at Heppner, marks the "official opening" of the 1940 conservation program in this county, he said. Mr. Miller pointed out that farm ers who received notification of wheat allotments now have a 15 day period in which to make written appeals to the county committee, asking adjustment, if they are dis satisfied. The appeals must state reasons for wishing the adjustment. Dates for the appeal in Morrow county are from August 10 to Aug ust 25th, 1939, inclusive. During this same 15-day period, farmers who grew no wheat for harvest during 1937, 1938, or 1939, but intend to grow some for the harvest in 1940, may make written application for wheat allotments. A limited reserve from the country's total wheat allotment has been set aside for establishing allotments on ' new" wheat farms. Guessers Must Guess Again on Ruler of Rodeo The annual, ever-interesting dis cussion of "Who will be queen" remains as great a mystery as ever although rumors are circulating that several people accidentally learned the name of the selected queen but for reasons of fairness to the Rodeo association would not reveal the queen's identity. Scheduled date for announce ment of the Rodeo queen is Aug ust 19. However, Rodeo officials are of the opinion that arrange ments necessary in preparing the unrevealed queen for her reign will arouse suspicion and that someone will guess the queen's pame before August 19. Eligible candidates for queen are Cecelia Healy, Evelyn Kirk, Joyce Carlson, Florence Beckett, Peggy Kilkenny, Betty Doherty, Marjorie Parker, Bernice Martin and Aileen Farley. Curiosity reached a higher pitch in the last week than ever before when every candidate, except two, even those who have been going to school or have been working outside of Heppner, were seen in town. Each of the girls is a po tential candidate and the appear ance of all candidates in town within a week threw the queen situation into a cloud of even greater mystery. The fact that some of the pos sible Rodeo rulers are working and would be unable to serve as queen, even though they were se lected, holds no truth as each of the nine girls willingly submitted her name as a candidate for queen on the condition she would accept if appointed by the Rodeo asso ciation. Miss Maxine McCurdy In Round-Up Court Miss Maxine McCurdy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harlan McCurdy of this city, has been named an at tendant to the queen for the coming Pendleton Round-Up. Miss McCurdy was queen of last year's Rodeo. She is a student at Pacific university, and an accom plished rider. She accompanied the Round-Up queen and party of officials to the Seattle Potlatch last week to assist in advertising the show. Her picture was featured on the front page of yesterday's East Oregonian. Subscription $2.00 a Year Rodeo Parade Prizes Total Horses Arrive Brahma Steers to Feature "Sleepy; Dress-Up Day 19th By PAUL McCARTY The total, prize list for the Hepp ner Rodeo parade on Saturday, Aug- use 26, will reach about $500, the largest in history, Logie Richardson, parade chairman, said yesterday af ter a report from prize money col lectors Charlie Cox, Les Matlock and Bob Thompson.. Neighboring granges and local and outside organizations, public and pri vate, are entering floats. Other fea tures include an ample supply of Indians, plus some burros. August Rahner, Sanford canyon fowl rais er who grows roses as a sideline, will be in the parade as usual but this year will startle parade spec tators with a beautiful lady com panion. Rahner insisted that the Ro deo association withhold the name of his partner. "The response given by local bus inessmen towards the parade prize fund was one of the best I have seen or heard of. The cooperative spirit was unusually encouraging. In fact I've never seen anything like it," said Charlie Cox, when questioned regarding collections. August 19 is the date set for the annual Dress-Up day on which all local people don their rodeo garb of brightly colored shirts and ties, cow boy boots and hats and overalls. An enforcement stunt has been devised by Spud Furlong, Howard Bryant, Scott McMurdo and Curt Thomson, dress-up day committeemen, that promises to top all other stunts of past years. Committeemen hinted that perhaps the penalty for failure to wear the specified garb would result in a fine or short term in jail. The Kenneth Depew - Clarence Warren herd of Brahma steers scheduled to arrive around August 19 in preparation for one of the 1939 Heppner Rodeo head-liners, are the first Brahmas ever programmed in the Rodeo's history. These Brahma steers are said to be the meanest that cover the North west round-up circuit and are topped only by "Sleepy," the un ridden Brahma bull which will alsc show at Heppner, August 24, 25 and 26. Any cowboy who can ride Sleepy for 10 seconds will receive $100. The Depew-Warren bucking string which will be featured in the Rodeo has already arrived and included Continued on Page Eight Street Surfacing Planned by City Dads Surfacing of the new work on the Willow creek road outlet in the south end of town, and of the streets adjoining the swimming pool was discussed at Monday evening's coun cil meeting. It is expected to have this work done by the contractors who will surface the Heppner hill road for the state, some time before the end of September. Lengthening the west end of Bal timore street, and assisting with a bridge across Willow creek on Birch street were left in the hands of committee for investigation on pre sentation of the matters by Mrs. A. Q. Thomson and Russell Wright, re spectively. 1200 PHEASANTS RELEASED Mistake in number of pheasants released two weeks ago was given in last week's Gazette Times. It was reported that 250 pheasants were planted here. The number should have been 1200. Six hundred were put on Willow creek and 600 on Rhea creek, reports Logie Richard son, president Morrow County Hunt ers and Anglers club. 500