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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, July 25, 1940
Heppner
Gazette Times
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Official Paper for Morrow County
An Astounding Loss
CjINCE 1933 fires have destroyed
more than 14 billion feet of tim
ber in Oregon, The logging and
manufacture into lumber of this
timber could have provided 20,000,
000 man days of work enough work
to keep 150,000 men on payrolls for
a full year and furnish support for
600,000 Oregonians. The Tillamook
fire alone consumed enough timber
to build 1,000,000 small homes.
This is an astounding loss. The
figures are taken from a letter re
ceived from N. S. Rodgers, state
forester, who is making an appeal
to all Oregonians and all others us
ing the forests of the state to exer
cise the greatest care in preventing
fire.
June was the driest month of
record in Oregon history, Rogers
points out. The drought continues
and intensifies the worst fire men
ace the state has faced in many
years. On top of that, forest work
ers have been considerably disturb
ed by increasing evidence that some
of our recent costly fires were start
ed by criminal incendiarists.
For years, officials, the press and
other agencies have sought to edu
cate the public in the proper use
of the forests. This has been effec
tive in reaching thoughtful people
but there remains a great deal to
be done to reach those who for one
reason or another remain indifferent.
Despite warnings of posters, news
paper articles, moving pictures, lec
tures over the radio, there are those
who are too apathetic to see, read,
or listen, and consequently do not
heed.
It must be remembered that the
loss in timber alone, while appalling,
is not the only cost. It requires the
services of a considerable army of
men each season to fight these fires
which, in a large part are the re
sult of human carelessness. Added
to that is the loss of wild life and
the injury to watersheds, to say
nothing of the menace to human
life.
The worst fire season is yet to
come, unless a change in the weath
er should bring sufficient moisture
to abate the menace. This is hardly
likely and it is up to every person
'entering the timbered areas to use
all possible precaution to prevent
the starting of fire. Those in charge
of the forests have their hands full
checking blazezs resulting from nat
ural causes and their responsibility
is increased many times by human
carelessness. Let us all join in the
"total war" against this enemy which
yearly makes such devastating in
roads on our greatest natural resources.
Freight on Wool
Uppcd by Decision
A decision of the maritime com
mission made on July 12 sustains a
raise of 25 cents per hundred pounds
for the transportation by common
water carrier of wool and mohair,
in grease and scoured, in bags and
bales, from Pacific to Atlantic coast
ports. .This information is contain
ed in a report of the commission's
findings forwarded to County Judge
Bert Johnson last week.
Schedules filed by the steamship
companies were to become effective
March 16, 1940, but upon filing of
protests by the public utilities com
mission of the state of Idaho, the
secretary of agriculture, Arizona
Corporation commission, public ut
ilities commissioner of Oregon,
board of railroad commissioners of
Montana, National Woolgrowers as
sociation and numerous state and
county wool growers and market
ing associations, farm organizations,
and individual wool growers and
dealers, the operation of the sched
ules was suspended until July 16,
1940. Judge Johnson, on the trans
portation committee of the Eastern
Oregon Wheat league a few years
ago, where he acquired a consider
able talent for filing protests on
frieght rates, was prevailed upon
to intervene in behalf of the wool
men and he forwarded a letter to
the commission setting forth what
he viewed as an injustice to the
industry.
The maritime commission heard
the case at its office in Washington,
D. C. on July 12 and ordered that
the suspension be vacated and set
aside and that the proceedings be
discontinued.
Conservation to be
Re-emphasized
In AAA Program
Next year's AAA farm program
will continue to emphasize soil con
servation and soil improvement, will
stengthen the "ever-normal gran
ary" plan of balanced production,
and will give Oregon farmers in
creased opportunity to fit the pro
gram in with their individual farm
requirements.
This summary of 1941 AAA plans
was brought back to Oregon by Wil
liam Steen of Milton chairman of
the state agricultural conservation
committee, following his attendance
recently at the national AAA con
ference in Washington, D .C. Plans
for the following year must always
be made in advance of fall seeding
time.
N. C. Donaldson, in charge of the
state AAA office in Corvallis, ac
companied Steen to Washington.
While at the conference, they offer
ed a group of suggested changes in
the 1941 program, as made previous
ly by the 36 county AAA commit
tees throughout the state. Some of
these were accepted and will be in
corporated into the official farm
program for next year, Steen said.
The state chairman declared that
the AAA program, as set up for 1941,
will continue to be a vital factor in
"agricultural preparedness" as an
aid to national defense.
An important recommendation
concerns expansion of the grant of
aid plan under which farmers re
ceive advances of lime, superphos
phate and similar conservation ma
terials, with costs deducted from
payments which they have earned.
Another recommendation is that far
mers be permitted to earn portions
of their payments only by carrying
out specified soil-building practices
most needed in their communities.
In general, next year's farm pro
gram will follow very closely that
now in effect, Steen said, and point
ed out that there have been few
major changes in the agricultural
adjustment act since 1938.
Cooperative Wool
Auctions Slated
The Portland warehouse of the
Pacific Wool Growers will be the
scene of the first competitive bidding
wool auctions on the Australia-New
Zealand plan ever held on the Pacific
coast, when the first auction series
sponsored by the wool cooperative
will get under way August 5th and
6th. The association's second auc
tion will be at their Stockton, Cal.,
warehouse August 8th and 9th.
Although new to the Pacific coast,
wool auctions have for many years
been the method used in Australia,
New Zealand, Great Britain and
South Africa, in marketing the bulk
of the world's wool clip.
Between three and four million
pounds of wool will be offered at the
first series of the Pacific's auctions
at Portland and Stockton. The Paci
fic's sales will be held in sequence
with auctions scheduled for late
July in Denver, Ogden and Billings,
so that eastern mill buyers can con
veniently make the circuit of the
five sales on one trip west
The new auction program, an
nounced this spring after two years
of study and consideration by the
Mrs. Fred Stark
Reported Mending
Mrs. Fred Stark (Velton Owens),
who miraculously escaped death in
an automobile accident near Colfax,
Wash., recently, is reported on the
mend. This information was con
tained on a card received by her
father, Creed Owens, yesterday,
which stated that she had suffi
ciently improved to permit removal
of two nurses.
One lung, collapsed by the acci
dent, is building back fast. There
was a 10-inch gash in her back thru
which the doctors could see her
heart beating. It was necessary to
give her blood transfusions for eight
days and she was kept in an oxygen
tank for eight days and nights. Her
escape from death was considered a
miracle by attending physicians.
How Mrs. Stark's 8-year-old
daughter, Oween, played a part in
saving the mother's life is told by
Mr. Owens. Leaving her mother
directors of the wool cooperative,
has met with a very favorable re
sponse from range growers in the
northwest states and in California
and Nevada, where the association
also operates, says R. A. Ward, gen
eral manager, and some of the larg
est clips raised in these sections will
be included in the auctions.
Original bag and graded lines of
wool from Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, including Valley Oregons, and
an accumulation of Oregon mohair
will make up the Portland offerings.
At Stockton, California and Nevada
wools, including a line of California
lambs wool, will be put up for sale.
The Pacific Wool Growers is one
of the oldest cooperative in the
Northwest and has pioneered the
cooperative wool marketing move
ment in these states, marketing mil
lions of pounds of wool and mohair
for its grower members during the
past twenty years.
unconscious and digging at the
wound after the car turned over,
Oween climbed the bank to the
highway and stopped the first car
coming along. She told the man to
stay with her mamma and then
walked more than half a mile to a
farm house to call a doctor while
the man prevented Mrs. Stark from
further molesting the wound. Ask
ed later how she happened to do
that, Oween said, "Mamma always
told me in case of a car accident
that the first thing to do was to go
for a doctor."
Bessie Harrinffton. Vancouver,
Wash., and Retha Adkins from
Newport, sisters, have returned
home after being with Mrs. Stark
for five or six days.
Mrs. F. W. Turner returned home
Tuesday from Valdez, Alaska, where
she visited at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Raymond Huddles
ton. Mr. Turner drove to Yakima
to meet her.
CRESTED WHEAT GRASS
CLEANING
Cleaning rate c per pound, including
hammering out and cleaning the dou
bles, purity and germination tests by
the Federal Laboratory at Corvallis. This
does not include special seed sacks. We
will put the seed back in the original
sacks unless instructed to do otherwise.
We also clean other grasses besides
Creted Wheat. . . Most modern grass
cleaner in the Columbia Basin, removes
all tarweed seed by using a Carter disc
separator.
Agents for Blue Mountain Seed
Growers' Assn. of La Grande
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