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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. Since that time, 750 students
have been graduated.
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