Thursday, May 9, 1940
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Three
LEXINGTON NEWS
Workshops Enlarged
by Lexington Men
By MARGARET SCOTT
Ralph Jackson and Lonnie Hen
derson are having improvements
made on their workshops. When
completed the buildings will be larg
er than they are at present
Percy Pierre of Toppenish is a
guest at the William Padberg home.
Mrs. Vernon Scott was hostess at
a party honoring her son Jack, who
celebrated his first birthday Thurs
day. Guests were Mrs. Laura Scott,
Mrs. Melissa Stonebraker, Mrs.
Clara Sprinkel and Jerry Scott. Re
freshments of ice cream and cake
were served.
Miss Katherine Thompson of
Heppner was a week end guest of
Marcella Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Burchell
and sons have moved into the large
house owned by Mrs. Tempa John
son.
Gene Gray has moved his family
into their town house. Mr. Gray
and daughter Florence are spend-
for a few days in Hermiston where
Mr. Gray will irrigate his farm he
recently purchased there
A large crowd assembled at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Pointer
Thursday evening for a charivari,
May Rauch visited Erma Scott in
The Dalles last Sunday.
Mrs. Etta Hunt of Portland is vis
iting relatives here.
Louis Allyn left Tuesday to work
with A. M. Edwards in Idaho. .
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dinges and
Ruthann Lasich spent the week end
in Portland.
The carnival and dance given by
the local high school in the gym
nasium Saturday night was well
attended.
The ladies of the Lexington and
lone Ladies Aid societies held a
joint surprise party Wednesday in
honor of Mrs. George Allyn who
has been active in aid work for
fifteen years. Mrs. Allyn received
a wrex baking dish, a dish holder,
an embroidered scarf, and a dish
towel. Refreshments were served to
forty-five guests.
Gerald White of Hermiston was
a guest at his parents' home Fri
day.
Roy Johnson spent the week end
with his family from his work at
Burns.
Joseph Nys of Heppner was a
visitor here Saturday.
Ruth Lasich has resigned her po
sition as school clerk and a special
meeting will be held to elect her
successor. Mrs. Lasich also resigned
the position of recorder and her of
fice has been filled by Margaret
Leach.
Out of town guests this week
were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Johnson
and his mother, Mrs. Mary Belle
Johnson of Gresham. Mrs. Johnson
and her son were residents here
about twenty years ago when Mr.
Johnson, now deceased, was mana
ger at the warehouse.
Edith Edwards entertained at a
surprise birthday party Sunday eve
nine for Albert Edwards, Billie Ni-
rfinls and Lela Marshall. A feature
of the evening was a scavenger hunt
which was conducted indoors, fre
sent besides the hostess and honor
euests were Jerrine Edwards, Aileen
and Billy Scott, Alice and Eugene
Marshall, Louise Hunt, Colleen and
Tjivonne McMillan, Jack Miller, Ar
chie Nichols, Rae Cowins, Jim Dav
, is, Joe and Claude Way. Refresh
ments were served.
Wheatland Club News
Jack Edmondson, Reporter
The Wheatland 4-H sheep club
met at C. D. Conrad's office at 7:30
p. m., April 27. Alec Thompson re
signed his position as secretary and
Dick Edmondson was elected to fill
his place.
Dick Edmondson gave a report on
going through the Swift & Co. plant
in Portland. The club discussed get
ting a carload'of lambs and fatten
ing them out this fall. They also
discussed about demonstrations to
take to the livestock show and to
the Morrow county fair.
All the livestock clubs plan to
get together Saturday, May 11, to
go on a judging tour.
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Washington, D. C, May 8. With
congress drawing to a close, the
Pacific northwest states shared well
in the appropriation bills although
not everyone wanted was obtained.
At the last minute the $900,000 was
appropriated to enable the reclama
tion service to make studies of water
resources of importance to a dozen
counties in Oregon and Washington
and funds were provided for small
reservoirs. Army engineers have
been authorized to provide a turn
ing basin in Columbia river for
Washougal and Camas and in the
Umpqua river at Gardiner. The en
gineers are authorized to improve
the channel at Baker's bay and at
Arlington and initiate work for new
locks at Oregon City.
Grand Coulee was given more
funds to carry on construction and
Bonneville funds for installing ad
ditional generators and six million
dollars for transmission lines to
be built in eastern Washington,
eastern Oregon and down the Col
umbia toward Astoria. Money was
made available for perpetuation of
the fish runs, which are vital to ev
ery community from the mouth of
the Columbia to the Snake river.
Additional funds for Deschutes
project were refused as the appro
priation committee considered the
project has enough money to carry
on and is also benefiting from the
services of three CCC camps. The
supplemental funds requested were
turned down because the committee
became economy minded. This is
also the reason the item for authori
zing a dam at Umatilla was tossed
out. It was this spirit of economy
that rejected a request for sufficient
funds to administer the C. & C
grant lands and the Coos bay wagon
road lands.
Defeated was an amendment to
the wage-hour law which would af
feet all small sawmills and canner
ies of the northwest and exempt the
thousands of seasonal workers in
such establishments from the pro
visions of the law. Farmers wanted
this amendment; unions opposed it,
and were successful.
Legislation is proposed to have a
government agency give mortgage
insurance, applicable to farms. The
suggestion is that private funds
would be available to finance farm
ownership and the mortgage would
be insured (guaranteed) by the
government. The plan also includes
refinancing the indebtedness of pre.
sent owners, especially where there
are excessive farm mortgage debts
which threaten present owners with
foreclosure. A bill carrying these
provisions has already passed the
senate and has been reported, with
amendments, by the house commit
tee on agriculture.
Under this proposition many mi
gratory farm families which have
come to the Pacific northwest might
be eligible and they could start
farm ownership without waiting for
the Bankhead-Jones farm tenant
act, and what is also important,
without a drain on the treasury.
No money has been voted yet,
but the army high command has in
mind the establishment of an air
base between the Cascades and the
Rocky mountains. Petitions of am
bitious communities desiring the
proposed base have no influence,
The officials will make the location
where they conclude it will best
serve their purpose and it will not
be a "political" selection. Informal
ly, certain officers are inclined to
ward eastern Washington, in the
Spokane section.
Survey is being made by Surplus
Commodity corporation of the car
ry-over stock of turkeys in Oregon
and Washington. Object of the sur
vey is to see if the turkeys cannot
be disposed of to needy families thru
the blue food-stamp program. Most
ly the stamps are for pork, when
meat is on the list, and it is con
tended that turkeys would be a
genuine treat. This would be a prac
tical method of disposing of the
large stock of birds in cold storage.
Salmon runs in the Columbia riv
er this. year will be taken care of
at the new Leavenworth hatchery,
a $52,000 contract having just been
awarded for a cold storage and
heating system for the hatchery.
Chinook, steelhead and blueback will
be transplanted from the main
stream to tributaries below Grand
Coulee dam. The work has been
rushed since last June to handle
the 1940 fish run. Sandy river, long
neglected, is to receive attention
$30,000 worth. .
The next congress will be asked
for an appropriation of some $400,000
for "pilot plants" to determine com
mercial processes for treating the
strategic minerals of the northwest.
A branch of the forest products lab
oratory at Madison, Wis., will also
be requested. . . . The navy has pur
chased 44,000 pounds of flax twine
grown and processed in the Willam
ette valley.
Miss Hager Pledged
to Honor Society
Oregon State College, Corvallis,
May 8 Harriet Hager of Heppner,
sophomore in secretarial science,
was one of 16 women pledged to
Phi Chi Theta, national secretarial
science honor society, last week.
The organization recognizes in its
pledges scholastic achievement, po
tential leadership and proficiency
in commercial courses.
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