Thursday, December 19, 1940 Heppner Gazette" Times. Heppner.
AAA Endorsed in Principle by Eastern County Casaba Team
uregon Wheat League Conference
Oregon
(This is the report in full of the
committe on Federal Agricultural
and Conseration Programs adopted
at the recent conference of Eastern
Oregon Wheat League, meeting in
Pendleton.)
In conducting discussion on this
subject your committee gave con
sideration to all of the reports pre
sented by the various county com
mittees and discussed many more
phases of the AAA program than
mentioned in the following recom
mendations. We endorse as funda
mentally sound the Agricultural Ad
justment Act of 1938. It is our belief
based upon three years of nation
wide operation of that act that it
embodies practical - and workable
legislation designed, more largely to
stabilize agriculture and to improve
the economic position materially. It
is our belief that the Agricultural
Conservation Act of 1938 has one
imperfection that seriously jeopard
izes the future of the program.
Namely the requirement that funds
needed to finance the program now
depends upon annual congressional
appropriations.
Therefore, we recommend that the
Eastern Oregon Wheat League sup
port a certificate plan that would
give full parity price on the amount
of wheat raised on the wheat acre
age allotment, retaining the loan
program as it is. Further, provided
that in case it proves impossible to
effect such a program that the ex
ecutive committee of the Eastern
Oregon Wheat League be author
ized support any other plan that
would give full parity on the wheat
produced on the wheat acreage al
lotments. It is further recommended that
the Eastern Oregon Wheat League
go on record as being opposed to
any changes in the crop insurance
program which would require any
one to take crop insurance in order
to comply with the rest of the pro
gram Your committee feels that the costs
of loans should be set in each county
by the county and community com
mitteemen in session for the indiv
idual budgets for administering the
loan program based on estimated
costs of the loan program in the in
dividual counties plus charges levied
by the Comomdity Credit Corpora-'
tion.
We recommend that the $10,000
limitation on agricultural conserva
tion payments not be reduced.
This committee favors a payment
for the maintenance of permanent
grass and legume plantings.
In view of the fact that it is be
coming difficult to obtain chemical
supplies for weed control and due
to the increased demand for chem
icals for national defense and be
cause it is felt that such chemicals
could be produced more cheaply
than at present, this committee goes
on record as favoring the enactment
of the Pierce bill for the establish
ment of a government chemical plant
on the Columbia river and advo
cates immediate action in this re
spect. It is recommended that the appli
cation of twenty pounds of sodium
chlorate be permitted to earn $1.50
providing that the rate of applica
tion of sodium chlorate shall be at
least as large as that considered by
the county committee to be a prop
er practice. It is further recommen
ded that additional payments be
allowed for the tillage method of
noxious weed eradication to more
nearly compensate for the cost of
such method.
The subcommittee appointed to
study the proposed 90 percent par
ity loan plan feels that at present
we have insufficient information
available regarding it to justify us
in taking a definite stand for or
against the proposal. However, after
studying the plan carefully the sub
committee feels that in case, at a
later date"it proves to be the best,
the following proposals should be
incorporated:
1. A loan value of 90 percent of
parity is recommended on bushels
of wheat allowed by the allotment
quota, it being understood that the
difference between the loan value
and parity is to be made up by the
conservation payment.
2. The committee recommends in
connection with the 90 percent par-
Ij. 1
uy loan program accompanying
penalties great enough to make it
highly desirable for uniform com
pliance. 3. Monies derived under Section
32 of the Internal Revenue Act shall
be allocated to basic farm crops and
that portion belonging to wheat shall
be set aside to subsidize the export
of surplus wheat.
4. .The proposal is approved that
quotas be established for each farm
including basic crops as now defined
in the Agricultural Adjustment Act
and outlined in the parity , loan pro
gram. These quotas should extend
for a three-year period and should
be voted by a two-thirds majority
of the growers producing more than
two hundred bushels of wheat.
5. That production . control by
means of wheat acreage allotments
should be conducted as at present.
6. Creation of an advisory com
mittee consisting of the master of
the National Grange, the President
of the National Farmers Union, the
President of the American Farm
Bureau Federation and a reresenta
tive of the National Federation of
Grain Cooperatives to advise with
the Secretary of Agriculture in ad
ministering the proposed act.
7. In the handling of export wheat
cooperative marketing organizations
be made the agents of the govern
ment in assembling such grain.
8. An import, quota should be es
tablished to. protect our markets
from excessive supplies of foreign
wheat.
9. That the foregoing be made in
the form of amendments to the pre
sent AAA act.
Experimental Fur
Farm Moved
The fur farm of Oregon experi
ment station, one of the first such
research establishments in the en
tire United States, has just been
moved to permanent quarters on
what is known as south farm at Cor
vallis. The fur farm, established in
1938, has been operated since that
time on some waste land southwest
of the campus which is subject to
overflow and not suitable as a per
manent location.
New fox and mink pens were
constructed as a WPA project, most
of them being of the elevated type,
the animals having runways of wire
netting to aid in disease control.
Work is being carried on in fur ani
mal nutrition, disease control, and
breeding methods, in cooperation
with other departments in the ex
periment station. Use of glandular
injections as a means of preventing
foxes from Idling their young is also
being tried.
An, estimated total of 600 fur
farms are operated in Oregon, which
have a combined gross income of
about $750,000 annually.
Percy Hughes entered Heppner
hospital Tuesday, suffering from
a sudden stroke of illness which
overcame him as he and his son,
Edwin, were on their way home to
Lena. He is reported to be making
some progress toward recovery.
Nothing like a letter from home
as a Christmas present. Why not
give the Gazette Times for a year?
Turkeys, live or dressed, phone
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In the role of leading basketball
promoter for Morrow county, Fred
Hoskins is presenting his all-county
casaba tossers in a headline attrac
tion at the Lexington gym tomor
row evening, with the First National
Bank of Pendleton, showing a bunch
of college stars, as the opposition.
Fred, himself, has no mean array
of talent to pit against the Uma
tilla county visitors. He has Jim
Webb, 3-year Whitman player; Lee
Pettyjohn, who played with Oregon
normal; Fred Hoskins, ex-E. O. C.
E. player; Robert Campbell, also
experienced at E. O. C.' E., and
Danny Dinges, whose 225 pounds is
holding his end down. '
There will also be a second team
preliminary ' with ' Heppner CCC's,
against whom Fred will show the
Pettyjohn' twins, Clyde and Claude,
and their brother Earl, Pinky Allyn
and Kenneth Palmef. All who at
tend will' get plenty of basketball
for the admission price of 25 cents
for adults and 15 cents for kids,
Fred promises.
Fred has also scheduled an ap
pearance of the E. O. C. E. fresh'
man team in Heppner, with date to
be announced later. His outfit play
ed this squad in La Grande Decem
ber 5 and was defeated, 51-25. Fred
expects this score to be different
when the freshmen come to Hepp
ner. He said that Roben J. Maaske,
former Morrow county teacher now
E. O. C. E. president and all the
college folk showed his boys a
wonderful time at La Grande.
Page Five
E. Harvey Miller to
Head Work in County
The appointment of E. Harvey
Miller of Heppner as honorary
board member representing the
Boys' and Girls' Aid society of Ore
gon in Morrow county was announ
ced today by William Whitfield of
Portland, president of the society.
Endeavoring to knit the whole of
Oregon into a solid unit to care for
the destitute children of the state,
the society has chosen well known
citizens in every county who- will
promote good will and help to es
tablish a more intimate contact be
tween the residents of Oregon and
the society itself.
The Boys' and Girls' Aid society,
with administrative office at 1504
S. W. 11th Avenue in Portland, was
established 55 years ago, and at pre
sent is responsible for 355 unfortun
ate children throughout the state.
Mrs. Myrtle C. Dalziel is state director.
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Arthur P. Parker returned Sun
day to Gold Hill after visiting with
relatives and friends here for sev
eral days. He took in the Elks cel
ebration on Saturday, xmg a mem
ber for many years of the local
lodge. -
Janet Evelyn was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin R. Wightman at
Heppner hospital Saturday. Both
mother and babe are reported to be
doing nicely. Mr. Wightman was
present for the event from the fam
ily home at Pendleton.
Chance . Wilson, Monument, and
O. A. Philbrick, Fossil, were among
out-of-county members of Heppner
lodge attending the Elks celebra
tion here Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Woods of Port
land were visitors in the city Sat
urday, calling on Mrs. Woods' mo
ther, Mrs. Albert Rea, who has been
ill for some time. ,
Lee and Harold Scritsmeier were
visitors in the city yesterday and
today, on business in connection with
their sawmill operations on upper
Rhea creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Woelfer and
children motored . to Portland last
week end, where Mrs. Woelfer en
joyed a reunion with her brothers
Richard Smith of Winfield, Kansas,
and J. Raymond Smith of Portland,
and her sister, Mrs. C. H. Deffen
baugh, Portland. It was the first
time in 14 years that all the children
had been together.
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