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Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE,
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912
Published every Thursday morning by
CRAWFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
and entered at the Post Office at Hepp
ner, Oregon, as second-class matter.
JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor
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Official Paper for Morrow Connty
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, May 2, 1940
Washington, D. C, May 1. It has
not been announced yet, but the
department of agricultue plans in
creasing the acreage of hairy vetch
and Austrian winter peas in Oregon
and Washington for the crop year
1941 to bring an additional million
dollars revenue. Under the soil con
servation program the department
looks to the two states for its prin
cipal supply of vetch and pea seed
to be used in building up the de
pleted soil of the southern states.
In Oregon, alone, 45,000 acres are
in hairy vetch this year, with an es
timated yield of 11,025,000 pounds,
or 245 to the acre on a four-year
average. Austrian winter peas con
sist of 60,000 acres, with estimated
yield of 41,700,000 pounds. These
crops brought $1,447,443 in 1939,
will bring $2,455,662 this year. The
department wants to see another
million dollars added next year.
Official guarantee is 3 cents
pound for Austrian winter pas and
7.25 cents a pound for hairy vetch
There are possibly 250,000 acres in
Hungarian vetch in Oregon and
Washington and while there is no
guaranteed price for this type, the
department states it will probably
bring 5 cents or better a pound.
Some time in June inland produ
cers will feel the effect of the
shortage of vessels needed to carry
shipments between the Pacific nor
thwest and the Atlantic coast, the
maritime commission has been in
formed by citizezns of that region.
These westerners asserted that far
mers growing peas for canning, the
flour mills of the interior the pulp
mills and wool growers and produ
cers of other commodities which
must move by water will find the
shortage of cargo space a serious
obstacle. Many shippers are al
ready at their wit's end.
In a session of many bitter fights
one of the most intense is raging
this week over a proposed amend
ment to the wage-hour act which,
if adopted, will afefct the income
of probably 60,000 or more men and
women in the two northwestern
states. Specifically, the Barden am
endments would apply to every em
ployee in a cannery or packing
plant; pickers in hopyards; labor in
the orchards; those handling grease
wool and mohair; labor in the poul
try yards and in handling eggs, and
all lumber operations or sawmills
where less than 15 men are employ
ed. President Roosevelt has expressed
his disapproval of exempting these
classes, explaining that they are the
lowest paid and are more in need
of the protection afforded by min
imum wages and maximum hours.
Contention of those advocating the
amendments is that most of the
groups are in highly seasonal occu
pations, dealing with perishable
commodities when hours must be
disregarded if the fruit and veget
ables are to be saved.
Dream of grain growers of the n-
land Empire for cheap water trans
portation may be indefinitely de-
layed if congress enacts the bill
placing control of water transport
ation (which means rates) in the
interstate commerce commission,
which now regulates railroad rates.
All boats which are common car
riers come under the act and must,
like motor trucks apply for a cer
tificate of convenience and necessity.
The ICC is not likely to permit
freight rates on the Columbia river
to be appreciably lower than rail
rates. That has been the history of
motor transportation since it was
turned over to ICC.
Tentative plans for President
Roosevelt's swing to the Pacific
coast in June include a stop at
the great hasta dam south of the
Oregon line which is a conservation
project for flood control, irrigation
and power. There is to, be a brief
visit at Bonneville then to Olympic
national park. sThe president will
dedicate the park. He recently, by
executive order, increased the area
of the park and there is consider
able protest against this action as
it reduces the available supply of
timber for lumbering oerations and
will force a number of settlers to
move. Complaint is not against the
president, however, but against Sec
retary Ickes who arranged this nib
ble from the national forest. Wea
ther and time permitting, the pres
ident will sail to Alaska and on his
return east will pause at Grand
Coulee, then to Fort Peck. Speeches
during the journey are to deal with
conservation.
Senators who voted against au
thorizing the Umatilla dam (lost by
two votes) later came to Senator
McNary and offered to change their
votes. These offers were declined
as the Oregon senator was inform
ed the house definitely would not
accept it. Mid-west senators and
eastern papers called Umatilla dam
"pork barrel" and indefensible. . . .
With money congress is voting the
navy department will spread a steel
net in Puget sound to protect the
navy yard from submarine or tor
pedo attack. The program does not
include a net for the mouth of the
Columbia or for Coos bay.
P. H. Mollahan has been enjoy
ing a few days of vacation in town
from his work at the J. G. Barratt
ranch. While in town today he
dropped into the Gazette Times of
fice and ordered the paper sent to
a sister, B. Hulligan, residing in
Brooklyn, New York.
EXAMINER COMING
A traveling examiner of operators
and chauffeurs is scheduled to ar
rive in Heppner Thursday, May 7,
and will be on duty at the city hall
between the hours of 11 a. m and
5 p. m., according to announcement
from the secretary of state's office.
All those wishing permits or licenses
to drive cars are asked to get in
toch with the examiner during these
hours.
Heppner Represented
at Fraternity Banquet
The fourth annual banquet and
song contest sponsored by Portland
alumni of Beta Theta Pi and Beta
Rho and Gamma Nu chapters, held
in the Neighbors of Woodcraft build
ing in Portland last Friday evening,
found Heppner well represented.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Turner were
guests as parents of a fraternity
memer, their son Don being a mem
ber of Beta Rho chapter at Univer
sity of Oregon. Robert V. Turner
of Portland, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank W. Turner, is treasurer of
the Portland alumni association and
spoke on "The How and Why of
This Meeting."
La Verne Van Marter, with the
assistance of some of his fraternity
brothers, was able to attend the
banquet. He was conveyed to the
hall by ambulance and took in the
proceedings from a reclining wheel
chair. His personal attendant was
Miss Anabel Turner.
Chancellor Frederick A. Hunter
and Mrs. Hunter and Secretary of
State Earl Snell and Mrs. Snell were
among the notable guests.
A group of 16 singers from each
of the schools represented partici
pated in the song contest which was
won by Whitman college. Oregon,
Oregon State, Washington State
Whitman college, University of Brit
ish Columbia and University of Ida
ho were the schools represented. Don
Turner sang tenor with the Oregon
group.
The British Columbia group was
handicapped through loss of older
members, most of whom have gone
into military service, and had to de
pend upon the younger boys to make
up the chorus.
There were 418 college boys pre
sent and an estimated 500 parents,
alumni and invited guests.
Fete for Mothers
Planned at U. of 0.
University of Oregon, Eugene,
May 1. That old expression, "Moth
er just loves a waltz,", will hold
true many times at the University
of Oregon on May 10-12, when stu
dents will hold the annual Junior
Week-end celebration and entertain
their mothers to the romantic theme
of "Springtime in Vienna" in the
days of Johann Strauss. A record
number of mothers is expected for
the three days of entertainment.
Opening with registration in John
son hall on Friday of the week-end,
the celebration will open officially
with a luncheon on the lawn be
tween Fenton and Friendly halls.
This will be followed by coronation
of Betty Buchanan of Salem, queen
of Junior Week-end, on a platform
being constructed beneath the pines
near the Old Pioneer monument.
During the luncheon and follow
ing ceremonies, in observance of an
old tradition, men who wear ties
or are caught talking to the girls
will be doused in the waters of the
FOR MOTHER
on MOTHER'S DAY
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and perhaps, needs the most
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Mothers neglect their own needs and comfort
for us. Now let's show her how much we love
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campus fauntain near the faculty
tennis courts. On Friday night, mo
thers will chaperon their sons and
daughters at the Junior Prom in
spacious McArthur courts which will
be decorated in the white theme by
Chairman Wally Rossman, Portland,
and a host of assistants.
Saturday morning will see bus
iness meetings of the mothers, and
the annual tug-o'-war between the
men of the freshman and sophomore
classes across .the mill race. After
luncheons in living organizations,
the mothers will be feted at a num
ber of afternoon tours and programs,
among them a "Sunlight Serenade"
to be held in the Sunken Garden
near the scholo of music. John H.
Stend of the Oregon band will play
a special popular program.
Serving as co-ed hostesses at these
events will be women students
dressed in pinafores made especial
ly to fit in with the Vienese settings.
On Saturday night on the mill race,
mothers will be treated to the canoe
fete, in which each two campus liv
ing organizations will enter a float
based on the theme of a Strauss
waltz. The 70-piece university or
chestra will play the musical
companiment.
ac-
Hitler App'cuded
for Exile of Artists
University of Oregon, May 1. Hit
ler may be harshly condemned for
his treatment of small European
countries, but he should be given
a "Bravo!" or two for causing thou
sands of great artists to take the
United States as their new home
land. That is the opinion of Madame
Gertrud Bender-Rosenstock. Vien
nese opera star who has been in
this country since her self -exile from
Germany and who has been visiting
friends on the University of Oregon
campus at Eugene.
Deeply anti-nazi, Mme. Bender
frowns and flashes her green eyes
angrily as she recalls the morning's
headlines telling of Hitler's latest
exploits in Scandinavia, but she is
broad-minded enough to see that
the worst kind of war has blown
"somebody good." She believes that
Vienna, more than any one spot in
Army Air Corps Takes
53 U-0 Flying Cadets
University of Oregon,' May 1. Rat
ing the University of Oregon as the
"highest rate of acceptance of any
school we have encountered on our
trip," Major Thomas W. Blackburn
and his U. S. army air corps exam
ining board left the campus after a
week of interviews and examination
during which 53 men were given ap
pointments to receive training as fly
ing cadets in government air schools.
'Almost 75 percent of all the stu
dents examined have been accepted,"
Major Blackburn reported, "which
places the University of Oregon
ahead of all the other schools in the
Ninth Corps area." The new cadets
will enter six months of study at the
field nearest their homes, and spend
an additional six months of training
at the "West Point of the Air" at
Randolph and Kelly fields, Texas.
After a period of advanced work,
cadets will be commissioned as sec
ond lieutenants in the air corps reserve.
the world, has sent great musicians
to the United States.
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