Thursday, March 13, 1941
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Three
PINE CITY NEWS
By EERNICE WATTENBURGER
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Smethurst and !
daughter of Lexington spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Moore.
Mr. R. E. McGreer spent the week
end with his family. He returned
to Redmond Tuesday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery Cox and
family and Miss Genevieve Young
of Hermiston were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wat
tenburger. Mrs. Reid Buseick and son John
ny of Long Creek are spending a
week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. E. Wattenburger. Mrs. Watten
burger had all her teeth extracted
Monday. She is making fine pro
gress at this writing.
A number from Pine City attend
ed the grange dance at Lena Satur
day night.
A crowd of about 300 attended the
auction sale at the old Lewis place
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Moore spent
Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Smith of Irrigon.
Miss Marie Klages, Mrs. Helen
Ringo and Mrs. Stuher were Pen
dleton visitors Saturday.
Field, Truck Crop
Outlook Variable
As Prices Change
Variable market prospects are in
dicated for Oregon field crops and
vegetables, according to the annual
review of the outlook for these com
modities just released by the agri
cultural extension service at O. S. C.
The wheat supply situation is par'
ticularlv out of balance with pros
pective domestic and foreign re
quirements, but strong consumer
purchasing power owing to heavy
war and defense spending has ma
terially strengthened the market for
truck crops.
In regard to forage crop and cov
er crop seeds, the report indicates
a rather abundant supply except in
rpsiwt to a few of the smaller items.
This is despite reduced imports and
increased domestic use of such seeds
for soil iimrovement and other pur
nnsM. The mice outlook for hairy
vetch and Austrian winter field pea
seed is associated directly with the
government grant of aid program to
assist southern farmers to increase
4h use of winter cover crops.
Although the prospective demand
for such items as canned beans, peas,
and tomatoes- is highly favorable,
rowers were cautioned in the re
port against planting beyond an as
sured marketable quantity. The cost
of producing such products will like
ly be higher than last year owing
to higher wage rates and some other
items. More care than usual as to
seed quality is in order, owing to
interference with normal seed im
portations from Europe.
Data contained in the outlook re
port show an increase in farm wage
rates of 4 per cent compared with
a year ago, and a moderate trend
toward an advance in other farm
costs during the past few months.
Thus far the advance in the general
level of prices received by farmers
has been greater than the increase
in costs, but a heavy ratio of dis
parity still exists and probably will
continue. Purchasing power for
farm products is now approximate
ly four-fifths that of the 1910-1914
period.
Compared with a year ago, the
general level of farm prices in Ore
gon is approximately 7 per cent
higher, which is close to the general
average for the United States. In
the country as a whole the index
of farm prices for grains at 84 was
down 6 noints at mid-January com
pared with a year previous, while
the meat animal index at 128 had
advanced 25 points, dairy products
at 121 was up 2 points, chickens and
eggs at 100 up 9 points, and fruit
crops at 78 up 12 points. The truck
crop index stood at 117, down 4
points. '
STATEHOUSE, Salem, March 13.
The gavel is ready to drop which
will adjourn sine die the 41st leg
islative assembly.. Seven highly con
troversial bills still remain in the
house or senate, where they are get
ting "the works," so to speak. Am
ong them are congressional reappor
tionment, unemployment insurance,
school tax equalization, old-age pen
sions, wine regulation, cities gas tax
diversion, and firemen's pensions. A
whole flock of other bills, including
some to raise funds for old-age pen
sions, will die a natural death in
committee. Legislators are still talk
ing pensions, but so far they have
consistently voted down every mea
sure brought to the floor which
would provide the necessary funds.
Last Saturday afternoon Repre
sentative Lonergan's sales tax bill
went down to defeat by the narrow
margin of three votes Now in the
last hours of the session an attempt
is being made to revive the measure,
which is about the last chance for
increased pensions this session.
sional reapportionment bill. Benton
county is the one big bone of con
tention. Shall it be in or out of the
new congressional district, is the
question. The firemen's state-wide
pension bill which passed the house
is getting very rough treatment in
the senate, where in all probability
it will be killed. The unemploy
ment insurance bill is likewise go
ing through the wringer in the sen
ate, which may send the measure
back to the house with amendments.
Both senate and house are working
nights in order to wind up the ses
sion this week.
In this column next week we will
give you a recapitulation of the bills
introduced and passed in the senate
and house this session the total
number of bills, those passed, died
in committee, vetoed, and measures
that passed one house and were kill
ed in the other.
About six weeks ago we stated in
this column our guess on the total
number of bills that would be in
troduced and the length of the ses
sion. We guessed a total of 975 bills
and the session to last 59 days. Next
week we will tell you how good we
are at guessing
a satisfactory grain for feeding dai
ry cows.
The new bulletin is by D. H. Sher
wood and H. K. Dean, who conduct
ed the experiments reported on at
the branch experiment station at
Hermiston. For three years they fed
one group of grade cows alfalfa
alone, while giving another group
alfalfa plus grain. Although the cows
receiving the grain averaged con
sistently higher production thon
those fed hay alone, the cost was
justified only under certain rela
tionships of butterfat prices, hay
costs, and grain costs.
A table showiug these relation
ships at a glance is included in the
new bulletin. It shows, for exam
ple, that if hay is worth only $7
a ton and the concentrate costs $30
a ton, the butterfat must sell for at
least 31.5 cents a. pound before the
extra feed is justified. On the other
hand, with the concentrate costing
only $20 a ton, or the same price at
which wheat was figured for the
wheat - feeding experiments, the
feeding of concentrates with $7 hay
is profitable any time butterfat is
worth more than 19 cents a pound.
The wheat feeding experiments
conducted at Corvallis showed that
wheat can be used for up to 75 per
cent of a standard concentrate mix
ture, with no adverse effect other
than possible slight loss of palata
bility. TO HOLD ADAH NIGHT
Ruth Chapter 32, O. E. S., is hav
ing Adah night on Friday the 14th
at 8 p. m. All past Adahs will be
honored at this event.
G-T want ads get results.
TRAVEL BY BUS
Daily Except Sunday
Leave Heppner 10 a. m., making
direct connection each way to
Spokane, Pendleton, Walla Walla,
Salt, Lake, Portland, Bend and
southern points. Reduced one
way fare. HEPPNER-PENDLE-TON
STAGES. Hotel Heppner.
41-4 mo. p.
The Democrats in the house spon
sored and made more attempts to
nass a pension bill than their Re
nublican colleagues Neuberger (D)
of Multnomah introduced three bills
mi the subject which met defeat on
t ' r njrlx 1.
roll call. n.rwm iuj or jyiuiuioiiiau
introduced bills many weeks ago
which are still slumbering in com
mittee. levying a tax on liquor and
cigarettes Perry (D) of Columbia
and Wilson (D) of Clatsop each has
a bill on pensions which have been
perched in the ways and means
committee for over a month. Last
Saturday the house voted to take
the two measures from ways and
means and bring them to the floor
for a vote, but they went down to
defeat on roll call. This legislature
has had many ideas on pensions, but
that's all just ideas, and nothing
more. This proven by their do
nothing" record.
A score of lawmakers are bom
barding the governor with applica
tions for the job of liquor adminis
trator. As we told you in this col
umn two weeks ago, Joseph Hague
had tendered his resignation, on ac
count of illness, which was to take
effect March 31, after the legisla
ture had adjourned. However, the
untimely passing of Mr. Hague last
week caused the matter to be
brought to a head with the legisla
ture still in session. There is no
end to the number of applicants for
this lucrative job, which pays $7,900
a year. Many senators and repre
sentatives are moving heaven and
eart to land this soft berth for them
selves And what a headache it is
to the governor.
Senate bill 53 was the hottest bill
before the house last week. Every
parliamentary trick in the book was
resorted to in order to kill the mea
sure. The commercial fishermen,
whom the bill hit and how moved
a sizeable lobby in on the lawmak
ers, but without avail. Seven or
eight legislators attempted to amend
the bill on the floor, but this move
was defeated. Then several moves
were made to send it back to com
mittee for further study, which like
wise failed. So the boys had to re
sort to oratory. Speeches galore
were made against the bill by nu
merous of the lawmakers from the
coast and river counties, who plead
ed that the measure would ruin com
mercial fishing, but their colleagues
stood tough. Came the roll call and
the bill passed by a whooping ma
jority. .
Ratio of Grain Price to
Butter Fat Favors Feed
Current trices of feed grains com
pared with the present price of but
terfat make It highly profitable to
feed concentrates with alfalfa hay
instead of feeding the hay alone to
dairy cattle, according to a new bul
letin iust issued by the agricultural
experiment station at O. S. C, en
titled "Feeding Alfalfa Hay Alone
and With Concentrates to Dairy
Cows."
This bulletin. No. 380, is consid
ered particularly significant in con
nection with one recently puonsnea
on surplus wheat feeding experi
ments in Oregon. The bulletin just
issued shows in detail when it is
profitable to feed concentrates of
various prices with hay, while tne
bulletin on feeding .shows that
wheat, which has been priced at a
feed grain level for some years, is
Dr. Stram
Formerly 16 years with Colum
bian Optical Co., Portland, Ore.
BETTER
VISION
Means
BETTER HEALTH
and of course Always Rea
sonable Prices combined with
comfort and painstaking ex
amination. STRAM
OPTICAL
CO.
Pendleton, Ore.
If it's sun or dust goggles-we have them.
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A few weeds
grow in every garden
Tuesday of this week heard the
house again arguing the congres-
Among the thousands of decent law
abiding beer retail establishments in
America there may be a few disrepu
table "joints."
While it is the brewers' responsi
bility to brew good beer and the re
tailers' responsibility to sell beer under
wholesome conditions,nevertheless the
brewing industry is concerned about
these undesirable places and wants
them cleaned up.
We want them cleaned up because
they endanger your right to enjoy good
beer . . . and our right to make it
We want them cleaned up because
they endanger the 13,238 jobs and
$11,541,550 payroll created by beer in
Oregon since re-legalization. Beer
contributed $617,020.86 las? year in
taxes in this state.
These benefits are worth preserving.
You can help us, if you will, by (l) pat
ronizing only the reputable, legal places
that sell beer and by (2) reporting any
law violations to the duly constituted
law enforcement authorities.
BEER. ..a beverage of moderation