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Thursday, Jan. 25, 1940 LEXINGTON N1WS Work Progressing on Water System By MARGARET SCOTT The Federal Works Agency signs have been erected by Jacobson and Jensen, contractors. This is another step in the program to complete the new Lexington water system and as soon as the weather permits the work will be completed. Announcement has been made of the marriage of Lorraine Kraemer of Ritvzille and Ralph Phillips of Lexington. They were married Thursday, January 18, at Lewiston, Idaho. Mrs. Art Hunt and daughter Shir ley have been confined to their home by flu. The Ladies Aid society held their regular meeting last Wednesday in the Congregational church. An el ection of officers was held with the following persons elected: Frances McMillan, president; Maude Poin ter, vice president; Mary Edwards, secretary-treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rice re turned home Sunday evening from an extended trip which took them into 23 states. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Moore are guests at the Ralph Scott home. Mrs. Harvey Bauman and Mrs. Grace Turner are spending a few days in Portland. Word has been received tha)t James Pointer of Yamhill is in a Portland hospital suffering from a spider bite. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Parker and Mrs. Julia Cypert spent Friday at the home of Tom Barnett. Cliff Daugherty received word this week that his parents' home and furnishings at Deer Park, Wash., were completely demolished by fire. His brother Claire and family, who have spent the past five weeks there, returned to their home here over the week end, but will return to Deer Park in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. Callie Duncan re turned home Monday from Wamic where they were called by the ser ious illness of Mr. Duncan's father. The Merry Thimblers held their Thursday meeting at the home of Laverne Henderson. Refreshments were served. The next meeting will be at the home of Helen Breshears with Doris Klinger as hostess. The Girls League and the Odd Fellows are planning a benefit dance for Erma Scott at the Lexington grange hall, February 3. Everyone is welcome. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Warner and Lou Broadley returned home Tues day from Portland accompanied by Kenneth Warner who has served out his time in the U. S. navy. Their other son, Vernon, remained in Carl ton to work with Wayne McMillan. S. G. McMillan, who accompanied Warners to the valley, plans to re main for awhile. Washington, D. C, Jan. 24. They are attempting to keep it a secret, but inside fact is that so many in dustries are nibbling for Bonneville twwer that Dr. Paul J. Raver, ad ministrator for the project, is afraid the inustrial development of the Pacific northwest will be obstructed unless Congress votes money for more generators at the plant and sufficient funds to expedite Grand Coulee to the point of power pro duction. Negotiations in every instance are being conducted in secret. East ern firms have suddenly become aware of cheap power in the Col umbia basin and they are anxious to "beat the other fellows" (their competitors) to it. Only point that is causing delay in signing tenta Heppner tive contracts is the local markets. The eastern concerns are in the heart of the heavily populated area of America, which means large and immediate markets. No less than seven different fac tories, all in the same line, are dis playing keen interest in the possi bilities of the far west, and at least one of these will sign for power. Important mid-west newspapers are denouncing Bonneville, accusing it of taking industries, such as Alum inum Company of America, when the concerns "might have" located in the Chicago area (where there is no such cheap power, by the way). Because of the disagreement be tween Washington senators, Bone and SchWellenbadh. chairman of the senate committee on appropria tions has requested Oregon's Mc Nary to appeal before the commit tee and make whatever argument is necessary for an appropriation for Grand Coulee for the fiscal year 1941. The senior senator for Wash ington, Homer T. Bone, has been unable to return to congress since the session opened and the junior senator, Lewis B. Schwellenbach, on the verge of being named to the federal bench, doesn't expect to be in the national capital when the Grand Coulee item is reached by the committee. Senator McNary will ask that funds be made available to install three generators at Grand Coulee (105,000 k.w. each) as the plan has been to advance Coulee that far by 1942, thus furnishing power to pump water on the first section to be ir rigated. Even though Secretary Hull may persist in his refusal to open nego tiations for renewal of the trade agreement denounced by him, it is not believe commerce between the two countries will be halted on Jan uary 26. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, with presidential ap proval, can withhold the imposing of penalties pending a rearrange ment of relations between the two nations. This would not disturb ex isting tariff schedules but would nermit continuance of normal trade free from the higher duties, such as are now levied on German goods Japan is and for some time has been America's third best customer and in 1938 brought $2 here for every American dollar spent m Japan. The raw silk which is imported from Japan to the value of $80,000, 000 to $100,000,000 annually is pro eessed here into a value of more than $500,000,000 retail. It furnishes direct and indirect employment to at least 400,000 people and utilizes some $200,000,000 of machinery. Jap an consumes yearly 40 percent more cotton than is produced in the state of Oklahoma, giving work to several additional hundred thousand. With the unemployment rolls still high with shipping adversely affcted by the neutrality law the administra tion can hardly afford to toss away this trade. New York interests are consider inff the purchase of mineral prop erties in Oregon and Washington; ffvnsum in the former and tungsten in the latter. A representative of the owners has been in the national capital consulting war department officials, as gypsum and tungsten are classified as strategic minerals by the war resources board. Statisticians state that govern ment payments to farmers for par- itv and adjusted payments on ac count of soil conservation average $21 to every person living on a farm or $97 per farm in 1939. The gov ernment contributed 8.9 percent in addition to the cash income of tar mers. Figures are for the national average; some northwest farmers received more, others less. m Only California will receive more forest highway funds than Oregon, The allocation to Oregon is $1,171, 758, in addition to which will be $455,336 for truck trails in the for est. Washington's share is $599,310 for the forest highways and $312, 678 for truck trails. For trails alone Idaho will receive $514,961 and $893,720 for forest highways. These funds will not have to be matched by the states. Memorizing safety rules is not enough you have to practice them. Gazette Times, Heppner, Bank Ends Year in Strong Position The Federal Land Bank of Spo kane ended 1939 in the strongest position in its 23-year history, Pres ident E. M. Ehrhardt told W. Vaw ter Parker of Heppner, in a letter received by Parker this week. Par ker is secretary-treasurer or six National Farm Loan associations which are stockholders in the land bank, and which make and service land bank loans in Grant, Harney and Morrow counties. These asso ciations have 365 members. In ad dition, Parker's office services 208 land bank commissioner loans made through the land bank. Highlights of the land bank's ac complishments reported by Presi dent Ehrhardt were the addition of $1,220,839 to the bank's legal reserves during the year; the return of $1, 000,000 to the United States govern ment by retirement of government owned stock, and the sale of $3,081, 257 worth of real estate. Borrowers from the bank reduced their indebtedness $2,481,629 during the year. "Debt reduction is whole some and desirable," President Ehr hardt said, "inasmuch as the main objective of the Farm Credit Ad ministration is to help farmers help themselves get out of debt." The land sales figure covers the return of 1,156 farm and 186 parts of farms to private ownership, with approximately one-third of the sales being made to tenants. Sales were $2,186,645 greater than the val ue of property acquired by the bank during the year. I While there was some increase m overdue payments from farmers during 1939, mainly due to unsatis factory prices, changes in the bank's collection procedure, President Ehr hardt said, "will eventually have the effect of reducing delinquency, as Tremendous public accept ance of the 1940 Chevrolet has brought in the finest stock of used cars in all history. BlBf? eft k 0Lr-r7 ton Kr" ' FIVE REASONS WHY YOU should fejfSMl WCSsMit "SC. " BUY YOUR USED CAR FROM YOUR mam m r -7oo WT'&Sk VMSSiMiv. --"" ..Vi 1 I I 1 Yoar Chevrolet dealer offers Your CHEVROLET DEALER IS NOW FEATURING THE GREATEST USED CAR AND TRUCK VALUES OF THE YEAR! Heppner Oregon well as rendering better service to worthy borrowers and reducing ul timate losses. It is our hope that with better prices for farm products substantial improvement will be re corded during the ensuing year. As of December 31, the land bank had outstanding loans totaling $101,- 278,987 in the twelfth Farm Credit district Montana, Idaho, Washing ton and Oregon. During 1939 i re tired all of its short-term notes am ounting to $2,000,000, and in addi tion, retired $824,300 of its outstand ing bonds. The land bank, President Ehrhardt pointed out, does not loan govern ment money, but funds obtained by selling bonds to investors. These bonds are not guaranteed by the government either as to principal or interest. IRRIGON NEWS Well Being Drilled on Grider Place By MRS. W. C. ISOM Mr. Beebe of Stanfield is drilling a well for Walter Grider. Mrs. Jack Browning was called to Centralia, Wash., last Friday by the serious illness of her father. Her son Bobbie Waters accompan ied her on the trip. Earl Leach is employed at Wal lula, Wash. His wife and son are staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smith arrived home from California last Friday. Mrs. Batie Rand and two sons, Herbert and David, have been ill the past week with the flu. Mrs. Don Kenny entertained the members of the Pep club at her home last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Allen from Umatilla visited the Hugh Grimm family Sunday. ft 1 1 V FERGUSON MOTOR COMPANY Page Three Attendance Rise Noted at E. 0. C. E. A total of 314 students are en rolled for the winter term at the Eastern Oregon College of Educa tion in La Grande, which is an in crease of 19.8 percent over the G2 enrolled in the winter term a year ago. There are 137 students enrolled in the regular lower division univer sity or junior college course and 177 in the elementary' school teacher training course. Eleven are transfer students from other colleges who have elected to attend E. O. C. E. For the first time in the history of the college, the number of men and women students are equal, with exactly 157 men and 157 women. Of the total registration 173 are first year students, 121 second year students, 18 third year students, and two who are college graduates tak ing the teacher training course. OSC Pharmacy School Gets High Rating Oregon State Colege. The school of pharmacy here has just been an nounced as one of 54 institutions in the United States accredited by the American Council on Pharmaceuti cal Education. This newly formed accrediting agency is sponsored by three national pharmacy organiza tions, some of which formerly con ducted individual accrediting. Of 70 colleges of pharmacy in the United States, 62 applied for in spection, but only 54 met the rigid requirements, Dr. Adolph Ziefle, dean of the school here, was in formed. The O. S. C. school of pharmacy has maintained Class A rating since its establishment in 1898. 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