Thursday, October 5, 1939
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Three
LEXINGTON NEWS
Lexington Woman
Painfully Injured
By MARGARET SCOTT
Mrs. Sarah Thornburg was pain
fully injured when she fell and
struck her forehead against a nail
at the corner of the Cox home. She
was taken to Heppner to a physician
and six stitches were required to
close the wound.
Mrs. Maude Pointer has returned
home after a visit in Corvallis and
vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Fetsch. Vester
Thornburg and Erma Scott spent
Sunday hunting in the mountains.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burnside
and family and Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Padberg and family spent Sunday
visiting relatives in Hermiston.
The Sunday school rally day pro
gram was presented Sunday morn
ing at the Christian church and con
sisted of the following numbers:
Song. "The Chickadees," by begin
ners' department; Bible verses and
song, Jesus Wants Me for a Sun
beam," by primary department; rec
itations by Dorothy Peck and Car
olvn Bauman; songs and reports by
second juniors; song, "Ivory Pal
aces." bv intermediates: and Bible
reading by Mrs. Charles Marquardt.
The following promotions were
made: Primary, John Edwards, Ralph
Andrews and Claire Hunt; first ju
niors. Dorothv Cutsforth, Lavonne
McMillan and Betty Smethurst; sec
ond juniors, Archie Padberg, Wesley
Fleenor and Billy Scott: interme
diate. Clvde Edwards, Jack Miller
Rodger Campbell, Earla Underwood,
Colleen McMillan. Aileen Scott,
Malba Burnside, Majo Marquardt
and Louise Hunt. A new class has
been formed for the younger mar
ried people.
Word has been received of the
death of E. A. Miller of Salem, fath
er of E. H., John and Merle of this
county. Definite funeral arrange
ments had not been learned at this
writing.
Mr. and - Mrs." George York and
children have moved to the Kistner
ranch below town for the winter.
Howard Eubanks was a lucky deer
hunter this week and
Tucker got his limit of birds the
first day.
Mrs. Lon McCabe of lone was a
Sunday guest at the Howard Eu
banks home.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Cardwell are
moving to Heppner from the Ray
McAlister house. Mr. Cardwell has
been transferred to Heppner in con
nection with his road work.
James Johnson of Portland was
visiting at the- Vester Lane home
one day last week while on his way
to the mountains.
Mrs. Sarah White has returned
home from a visit to Hidaway
springs.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Moore ond
family are moving to Spokane to
make their home.
Mrs. Fred Wehmeyer and daugh
ter Edith of Heppner and San Fran
cisco, respectively, were guests at
the Vernon Scott home Monday af
ternoon.
The H. E. club will have an all
day meeting at the home of Anne
Miller in Heppner, Oct. 12, with a
not luck dinner at noon
Vester Thornburg has purchased
car formerly owned by Jack
Van Winkle.
Harriet Pointer is employed as
deputy county, clerk to take the
place of Kathenne Parker who is
attending normal school this year.
Harriet is the daughter of Mrs.
Maude Pointer of this locality.
A newly-formed sewing club met
Thursday at the home of Laverne
Henderson. Guests present were
Delpha Jones, Mrs. Cardwell, Faye
Ruhl. Vera Whillock, Helen Bresh
ears and Edna Fetsch. Delicious re
freshments of ice cream, cookies
and punch were served. It is planned
to meet each Thursday at the homes
of the various members and the
wvt mopincr will be held at the
home of Helen Breshears.
Edith Edwards and Delpha Jones
were hostesses for a shower honor
ing Mrs. Al Fetsch. They were as
sisted by Mary Edwards, Laverne
Henderson.-Florence McMillan and
Bernice Bauman. Many lovely gifts
were received and refreshments
were served to fifty-three guests.
Mr Mnnkprs celebrated her
Woodrowl birthday last Sunday with a large
family gathering at the home of her
son and daughter-in-law. Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Munkers. A pot luck
dinner was enjoyed at noon.
Pete Pankratz and T. W. Ruggs
were in town the first part of the
week repairing the refrigeration
plant at the Lane meat market.
Traffic Death Rate
Drops for August
Oregon's traffic death rate for the
month of August, 1939, was 8.71
deaths per 100,000,000 miles, com
pared to a rate of 15.69 for the same
month in 1938, it was announced to
day by Earl Snell, secretary of state.
Oregon had 24 traffic fatalities
during the month of August and
during that month, travel on streets
and highways of the state, as figured
from the cas consumption reported
to the secretary of state's office, to
talled 287,716,130 miles. For the same
month last year, with 42 persons
killed, travel totalled 274,827,215
miles.
Gasoline consumption for the first
eieht months of this year amounted
to 159,219,430.65 gallons, an increase
of 8.710.209.98 gallons over the con
sumption for the same period in 1938,
Snell's reDort showed. Taxes col
lected this year totalled $7,960,971.63
nnmnarn to $7 .525.416.09 for 1938
an increase of $435,510.54.
Approximately 12 per cent of the
tax collected goes back to citizens
of Oregon in the form of refunds for
gasoline not used in vehicles utiliz
ing the highways of the state.
U.S. WHEAT ACREAGE
. ACRES
(MILLIONS)
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60 I ANY YEAR DURING WORLD WAR Lff!'!
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Seed, Phosphate
Distribution by
AAA Speeding Up
Distribution to Oregon farmers
of large quantities of superphos
phate, hairy vetch seed, and Aus
trian winter pea seed under pre
viously announced "grants of aid"
programs has now begun, according
to the state office of the agricultural
conservation program in Corvallis.
Distribution of the pea and vetch
seed, if it reaches the volume hoped
for, will result in increasing the Or
egon acreage of these seed crops
more than 100 per cent for 1940, and
in establishing Oregon even more
firmly as the nation's major source
of winter legume cover crop seed.
To date, the government has con
tracted for 1,910,000 pounds of pea
seed and 300,000 pounds of vetch
seed for use in Oregon. The seed is
now stored in local warehouses
Tests of quality are being made by
Oregon State college, and as lots of
seed are approved, they are released
for distribution to farmers.
No actual cash is involved in the
distribution, said N. C. Donaldson,
state AAA administrator. Farmers
eligible for the seed or fertilizer al
low the cost to be deducted from
future conservation checks which
they expect to receive from the fed
eral government.
The AAA is encouraging increased
plantings of pea and vetch in Ore
gon in 1940 to assure a plentiful sup
ply for use in Southern states where
greater use of cover crops is neces
sary to protect the soil from erosion.
Oregon seed growers will be sure of
a fair minimum price at least next
year since a government loan pro
gram will peg the price at 3 cents a
pound for peas and 7 cents for
vetch.
Donaldson said that orders have
been taken in 14 counties for 1261.6
tons of superphosphate. Distribution
of first carloads to arrive is now
under way. County conservation as
sociations have placed orders for
phosphate as follows:
Benton 51,000 pounds; Clackamas
356,700, Clatsop 40,000, Columbia
38,000. Coos 280,000, Hood River 290,-
000, Lane 155,600, Lincoln 77,900, Linn
151,800, Marion 321,400, Polk 228,700,
Washington 271,400, and Yamhill
200,000.
ANOTHER GOOD AMAZON
Added to the imposing list of
lucky lady hunters who have bagged
their buck in Morrow county in
season to date is Mrs. Owen Leath
ers who hunted with her husband
in the Matteson butte district last
week end. Both Mr. and Mrs. Leath
ers landed a nice buck. In town
Monday with Mrs. Charlie McDan
iel and Mrs. Carl Leathers, the la
dies also brought report of Mr. Mc-
Daniel's successful hunt in the open
doe country of Grant county. Mr.
McDaniel got both a buck and a doe.
A. T. King drove up from Port
land Saturday night and visited over
Sunday at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. J. V. Crawford.
1 A 0ENERAL mo'tors VALU" -
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WORLD WAR YEARS
Oregon farmers, faced with the problem of whether to increase
wheat acreage because of possible higher prices due to war conditions,
are considering the fact that world wheat supplies are the largest in
history. As shown by the figures above, in 1914, at the outbreak of the
World war, the world wheat supply was 3.5 billion bushels. Now it is
5.3 bililon bushels.
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WORLD WHEAT SUPPLY LARGEST
IN HISTORY
1914
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3.5 billion bu.
5.3 billion bu.
1939
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EACH SYMBOL REPRESENTS 1,000,000,000 BUSHELS
et '
al i.linat nrrpafp allotment
for 1940 of 62,000,000 acres is larger than the acreage harvested m the
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United tSates any year trom jaw io aio. s" i"
7 . r.-i ! i:Mr nun nknat nlnntinirc Tjpnartment of Ag-
acring inis laii in jjinmims - i-- - ,
. i i a 4Uat umr rnnriitmns nrp tint exncCtCQ tO bring
ncuiture icauers utumc u -
a demand for wheat larger than farmers already are prepared to supply