Thursday, September 5, 1940
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Three
HARDMAN NEWS
Hardman Clubbers
Attend State Fair
By HARDMAN HIGH SCHOOL
The two who were recently ad
judged the county's healthiest girl
and boy, Mildred Clary and Junior
Leathers, left Heppner very early
on Sunday for Salem and the state
fair. Later in the week Irl Clary
went down, and he and Mildred put
on the 4-H club demonstration which
had been selected for competition.
Mildred will also participate in the
style revue which is held near the
close of the fair.
On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Lovgren and children of Eight Mile
visited in town. Mrs. Owen Leathers
returned home with them, and on
Monday they all attended the fair
at Lonerock. Mrs. Leathers came
home on Tuesday.
Miss Ruth Eversole, who is the
new high school principal, arrived
a number of days early, and is
staying at the Carl Leathers home.
She comes from Shedd, and her fa
ther brought her up. Miss Lois Hew
ett of Milton-Freewater arrived on
Sunday and will board with Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin Brannon. Miss Lur
line Sparks, who taught here last
year, will again have the upper
grades, and Miss Bell is the other
high school teacher. John McDon
ald's bid for janitor at the high
school was accepted by the board on
Saturday night.
Mrs. Lewis Knighten, who has
been ill, was worse last week and the
doctor from Prairie City was called
Hettet Sight
(complete with ioo-watt bulb)
in. Mr. and Mrs. Neal Knighten took
her back to Prairie City. Mrs. Golda
Leathers, who had returned to Port
land, came back and joined them
there. Reports, received recently are
that Mrs. Knighten now feels better
and will go to Portland soon as the
doctor has ordered a lower altitude.
J. E. Craber has leased the Fred
Kreuger place for six years and very
soon will move there. The Kreugers
are leaving at the end of the week
for the valley, where they have re
cently purchased his father's farm.
On last Thursday evening interest
ed persons met at the high school
to hear plans for bringing in a power
line. A number signed for electricity.
On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Owen
Leathers and Junior visited Owen's
brother Mit, who is in the Heppner
hosptal. He is much better but will
be there for a while yet His wife,
who stayed for some time, has re
turned to their home at Antone.
Those from Hardman who have
registered for high school work in
Heppner are: Betty Adams, Isabel
McFerrin. Rita Robinson, Rita Mc-
Intyre, and Mildred and Irl Clary.
Charlotte and Pete Cannon will go
to lone.
Miss Flo Merrill, who had been
attending the Eugene summer school,
returned home on Sunday accom
nanied, bv her sister. Mrs. Percy
Bleakman and children. After school
was out. Miss Merrill had an em
bedded wisdom tooth removed. Com
plications set in and she was in the
hospital for a number of days, bhe
will again teach English m the Mol-
AAA to Purchase
Lower Test Seed;
Sept. 15 Deadline
Arrangements to purchase addi
tional field pea and vetch seed of
lower grade than was previously
accepted have been completed by
the state AAA office at Corvallis,
which has also just announced the
final closing date for all seed pur
chases this year.
September 15 is the closing date for
purchases by the Commodity Credit
corporation which is handling the
big deal for the AAA. Where grow
ers are unable to get final test re
ports on their seed by that date they
may sign an offer to sell, stating the
exact amount and kind of seed avail
able, says N. C. Donaldson, executive
officer.
Establishment of a deadline is
necessary to insure getting the seed
moved to the southern states in
time for fall planting, Donaldson ex
plained. Farmers there who use the
seed for cover crops must get it into
the ground by a certain time in the
various states to get successful
growth;
A change in the minimum purity
and germination specificatons was
arranged when it was found that a
considerable tonnage of seed, un
able to meet the high standards
but suitable for use, was available.
Mixed peas and vetch with germi
nation 86 to 90 per cent, and with 73
alia high school, which opens on
September 18.
per cent or more peas and io per
cent or less vetch will now be pur
chased at 2V2 cents per pound.
Hairy vetch with germination of
86 to 90 per cent will also be pur
chased at 7 cents per pound, while
seed with lower germination down
to 80 per cent will be taken at re
ductions of 10 cents per hundred for
each point reduction in germination.
The federal -state seed laboratory
at Oregon State college has been
working an expanded crew all sum
mer handling the increased business
more promptly than ever before,
reports G. R. Hyslop, head of plant
industries. Samples representing as
much as a million pounds a day have
been handled, with purity reports
dispatched from 6 to 24 hours after
samples were received.
Pedestrians Lead in
Fatal Accident Toll
The typical traffic accident victim
in Oregon during the first six
months of 1940 was a male pedes
trian over 55 years of age, who was
committing some unsafe action at
the time he was struck, according to
a study of the statistics on accident
reports of that period, recently com
pleted by Earl Snell, secretary of
state. At the time of the accident,
the pavement was dry, the weather
was clear and the time was between
6 and 10 p. m. on a week end.
Figures on the fatal accidents re
ported to the secretary of state's
office during the first six months in
dicated that 42 percent of the per
sons killed in traffic crashes were
pedestrians and that 60 percent of
the pedestrian fatalities were over
55 years of age while 56 percent
were engaged in some obviously un
safe action at the time they were
struck. Jaywalking and walking
with traffic instead of facing it on
highways were the two chief errors
chalked up against pedestrians.
Excessive speed failing to yield
right-of-way and driving off the
roadway, in most cases probably due
to speed too great for conditions,
were the chief actions of drivers
contributing to traffic accidents, the
study disclosed. Of the 95 fatal ac
cident drivers who had some driving
fault checked against them, 86 per
cent fell in the three classifications
listed above.
There was a total of 17,388 traffic
accidents in Oregon during the first
half of the year, with 161 persons
killed and 3,160 injured. Sixty per
cent of the fatal accidents occurred
in rural areas and of the fatal acci
dents reported from cities, only 29
percent occurred in business dis
tricts. Train - automobile crashes
claimed four lives, bicycle-auto
crashes took five lives all being per
sons under 24 years of age.
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