Thursday, October 12, 1939
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
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people are for repeal of the man
datory embargo on weapons of war,
but the ratio of letters received by
Oregon and Washington members
of congress rims 80 to 90 per cent
against repeal. Even dismissing the
engineered propaganda, such as
printed Dostal cards, the letters run
65 or more per cent to retain the
embargo. There is difficulty in re
conciling the wide discrepancy.
Polls can be and are juggled; let
ters speak for themselves.
is made supervisor of a district his
chief assistant will be a woman;
where a woman is supervisor her
assistant will be a man. This infor
mation comes from census bureau
officials after a state director had
announced no women would be em
ployed in other than enumerator
capacity in his jurisdiction. From a
democratic party viewpoint, it is
said the best fund raisers in the
northwest were women, and they
will be recognized.
Washington, D. C, Oct. 12 Abso
lute control of wheat production,
with a grower being licensed to cul
tivate a certain acreage, is one' of
the far-reaching legislative proposals 1
farmers will discover sometime af
ter January, 1940. Under the plan
a farmer would no longer be per
mitted to seed as many acres as he
desires; he would be told how many
acres he could devote to wheat by
officials in the Department of Ag
riculture in Washington. The pro
gram would prohibit a farmer from
being master of his own holdings.
This idea has reached the point
where the house committee on ag
riculture, at an executive meeting,
has agreed to start hearings on the
nronosal when the regular congress
ional session opens after the first of
the year. A rough outline of the
plan has been drafted, with the co
operation of the agricultural de
partment. Behind the thought to regiment
the wheat growers of Oregon and
Washington, as well as all other
wheat sections, is a desire to prevent
a repetition of the World war ex
perience, when fanners cultivated
every acre available, a practice
which subsequently resulted in the
dust bowls, ruined farms and farm
ers and caused terrific depression
for wheatmen.
Concretely, the theory is to place
a limitation, rigidly, on-the number
of acres devoted to wheat. This is
expected to prevent too great sur
plus with consequent low prices. To
grow wheat the department would
issue a permit, or license, stating
how many acres each farmer could
use for that crop. The plan is ma
terially different from the present
voluntary agreement. There would
be an indirect processing tax, which
would go back to the producers, and
this tax might be a fraction of a
cent, plainly printed on each wrap
ped loaf of bread.
In Pacific Northwest states, par
ticularly, there ha been a demand
in recent years to save the trees
along the highways of federal aid
system, as these trees are being
logged off. Under the federal road
act, funds can be used to acquire a
strin of forest on these highways if
the state highway commission will
match the money. However, highway
officials prefer building more roads
rather than divert any funds for
beautification.
James W. Mott, of Oregon, out
lined n nronosal to meet this situa
tion at the 25th annual meeting of
h American Association of High-
Officials this week. When the
regular session of congress meets
Representative Mott will oner an
amendment to the road' act specify
ing that two per cent of the federal
aid funds allocated to a state shall
be used to acquire timber. The two
nor rpnt would not require match
ing. Ranking member of the house
committee on roads, Mott would be
come chairman hi the event of a re
publican administration.
Here is something that doesn't
make sense: According to newspa
pers, polls taken in the Pacific north
west show that 75 per cent of the
A eovenment owned and operat
ed plant to manufacture chemicals
to destroy noxious weeds in grain
fields of the Inland Empire is the
purpose of a bill now in congress.
It provides for a plant somewhere
along the Columbia river, using
power from Bonneville, the the en
terprise placed under the direction
of Secretary Wallace of the depart
ment of agriculture. Hearings will
be held in a few months. Author of
the bill, Walter M. Pierce, is un
aware that the measure has the un
relenting opposition of Secretary
Ickes of interior department. Bon
neville power is under control of
Ickes. who is jealous of his author
ity, and whenever the name of Wal
lace is mentioned Ickes blows up.
Women will not be ignored in the
census organization. Where a man
While national guard quotas un
der President Roosevelt's executive
order were quickly filled in Oregon
and Washington, to arouse 552 young
men in Washington, D. C, to enlist,
the guard is staging a series of mock
aerial and bombing attacks on the
national capital. Bit of war hysteria.
The White House is now so care
fully guarded that the baker who
has been bringing buns for hot dogs
for years is stopped at the iron gate
and investigated.
KEEP CAR VENTILATED
American citizens are not carry
ing gas masks yet, but with the ap
proach of cold weather, many face
the danger of death by gas, warns
Earl Snell. secretary of state, in urg
ing Oregon motorists to guard
aeainst carbon monoxide this winter,
In cold weather, when cars are
kept closed so the occupants may
keep warm, there is always the pos
sibility of carbon monoxide leaking
into the poorly ventilated car and
overcoming the drivers or passen
gers. Last winter, an Oregon man
was driving along a highway, his two
younger children in the rear seat and
an elder son in front. It was cold and
the windows of the car were closed
The man noticed the children in the
rear had gone to sleep, but thought
nothing of it When he arrived at his
destination, he found one child dead,
overcome by carbon monoxide gas
and the other unconscious.
"Carbon monoxide gas is gener
ated by the incomplete burning of
carbon compounds and is present in
the exhaust gas discharged by ev
erv automobile," Snell declared.
"Two-tenths per cent concentration
in the air vou breathe is dangerous
four-tenths per cent is fatal. The
average concentration in the exhaust
gas from an automobile is 15 per
cent."
Persons who find themselves be
coming drowsy or getting a head
ache after riding for some time in
a closed car are advised to open the
windows and get plenty of fresh air
because those are the first symptoms
of poison by carbon monoxide gas,
Snell said.
River Development
Program on Slate
A full day's program has been re
leased for the sixth annual meeting
of Inland Empire Waterways asso
ciation at Walla Walla, next Wed
nesday, by Herbert G. West, execu
tive secretary.
The meeting will convene at the
chamber of commerce ooms at 10
o'clock, with introductory remarks
by President Charles Baker, and
welcome by Mayor Val Jensen. Re
ports of president and secretary and
appointment of committees will
complete the morning session. CoL
John C. H. Lee, division army
corps engineer, will address the
noon luncheon speaking on, "What
of the Future" Reconvening at 1:45,
remarks will be heard by Capt.
Robert H. Elliott, newly appointed
Bonneville engineer colored movies
will be shown depicting latest de
velopments of the river, river bank,
and of the . C. C. decision relating
to the petroleum rate case. Elec
tion of officers and 7 o'clock ban
quet at Grand hotel, with Judge
Johnston B. Campbell, ormer I. C.
C. chairman speaking on "Trans
portation Trends" will complete the
program.
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Over forty million dollars of our deposits are at work in Oregon-an
all-time record for any Oregon institution. But tlere should be more
dollars at work building individual and business progress. We want
to make more loans to individuals, trade and industry in this state.
DOLLARS AT WORK MEAN MEN AT WORK
Condensed Statement of Head Office and 42 Branches
October 2, 1939
RESOURCES :
Cash' on Hand and Due from Banks $39,500,879.22
United States Bonds (Ail at Par or Less) 30,118,517.47 $69,619,'396.69.
Municipal Bonds and Warrants 2,088,842.14
Other Bonds 2,976,091.57,
Loans and Discounts - Money at Work in Oregon . . 43,176,657.28
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank ..m., 180,000.00
Bank Premises, Furniture and Fixtures 2,613,498.75
Other Real Estate " l-00
Real Estate Sold Under Contract 1.00
Customers' Liability on Acceptances . . . .: i 33,955.93
Interest Earned 371,478.16
Other Resources 61,295.53
Total Resources. . . . . .j.; $121,121,218.05
LIABILITIES
Capital ...:ot.:. $ 3,000,000.00
Surplus 3,000,000.00
Undivided Profits : 1,652,707.39
Reserves for Unforeseen Contingencies . . . ...::... 1,332,773.41
Reserves Allocated for Taxes, Interest, etc. . .:.:.. 381,942.16
Acceptances ..:.i.i.;.:.:oio:.t 35,039.68
Interest Collected in Advance. . . . :.:.ij.t.:.:oi 369,013.37
Other Liabilities .......... .. ... orcc..1 39,240.21
Deposits ., . . . . . . . .,'.,:.:.:.:.:.3 111,310,501.83
Total Liabilities . . $121,121,218.05
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