Thursday, October 9, 1941
Page Four
Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE.
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES.
Established November 18. 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15. 1912
Published every Thursday morning by
CKAWFOBD PUBLISHING COMPANY
and entered at the Post Office at Hepp
ner, Oregon, as second-class matter.
JASPER V. CRAWFORD. Editor
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Six Months 100
Three Months .75
Single Copies 05
Official Papr for Morrow County
Erosion Problem
On Wheatlands is
trred Serious
Repoi
(Editor's Note: This is the seventh
of a series of articles prepared by
the extension service at Oregon State
college on the report and recom
mendations of the Oregon land use
planning committee on how Oregon's
agricultural program may best be
adjusted to meet the impacts of war
and national defense.)
The most serious soil erosion in
eastern Oregon is occurring on the
Columbia basin wheat lands, where
heavy soil losses have occurred
from both wind and water erosion,
according to the report and recom
mendations of the Oregon land use
planning committee. Acting upon
the recommendations of this com
mittee, plans are under way to or
ganize definite programs to combat
this erosion in the five principal
counties affected.
Cting studies made by the Soil
Conservation service on representa
tive farms in the Columbia basin,
te planning committee reports that
on 42.5 percent of the crop land
up to 25 per cent of the surface soil : rurming up the cost of postal ser-
have a ceiling the prices will soar.
Instead of a ceiling on wages, how
ever, government officers suggest
that wages can be maintained at a
level by voluntary agreement with
unions.
Farmers will be hurt. That is ex
pected. In the first two years of the
first world war farm products went
up 12.6 percent, according to the
office of emergency management,
and already they have gone up 43.1
percent. These are wholesale prices,
not what the farmer receives nor
what, yet, the consumer will pay.
The full force of the increase will
strike the consumer within a few
months. The retailer has had to
pay the increase and he can not sell
at the old price without going broke.
Early next year prices will be sky
high unless the price control legis
lation is passed.
DEPARTMENT of justice, propa
ganda department, is making a great
fuss over the speeches which ap
peared in Congressional Record by
isolationists and which were in en
velopes bearing their free postage
frank. Among others were the
franked envelopes of Rep. John Cof
fee of Washington, Rep. Hamilton
Fish of New York, Senator Gerald
Nye of North Dakota. There is an
intimation that postal inspectors will
investigate this use of the franking
privilege.
To tell the truth, what Coffee,
Fish, Nye and others are doing is
the same thing that Senator Norris,
Senator Bone, Representative Lea
vy, Representative Rankin, Repre
sentative Pierce have done in Wash
ington and Oregon when their ar
ticles and franked envelopes were
used in fights against Washington
Water Power Q. of Spokane, the
proposed PUD in Portland, Baker,
Eugene all to bring about govern
ment ownership of power. Adminis
tration was silent on these canned
speeches and free mailing privileges,
and it now is regarding various ag
encies possessing a postal frank. As
sertion is made that isolationists are
County Warrants
Drawn for September
WARRAANTS DRAWN ON
GENERAL FUND
Harriet Pointer, Dep. Sal $ 90.00
Neva S. Wells, Deputy Sal 134.69
Earle Bryant, Deputy Sal 114.69
Gertrude Applegate, Dep. Sal. 92.00
J. O. Archer, Janitor Salary .... 75.00
Henrv E. Neer. Ct. Reporter..:. 25.00
Dr. A. D. McMurdo, Phys! Sal. 25.00
George N. Peck, Co. Court 31.50
L. D. Neill, County Court 44.70
Doris Jenison, Tax Collections 92.00
Earle Bryant, Sheriff Mileage 14.50
C. J. D. Bauman, Sheriff Mile. 64.75
Shorb's Stationers, Sheriff 5.82
Kilham Stationery & Print.
Co. Sheriff $15.06, Circuit
Court $4.10 19.16
Bushong & Co., Sheriff $0.80,
Clerk $24.25 25.05
Huston's Grocery, Jail Exp. 12.55
Heppner Market, Jail Expense 5.70
Laura Warfield, Tax Exten 30.00
E. M. Kenny, Deputy Stlary 6.66
N. D. Bailey, Assessor $20.30,
per mills in the northwest are re
ported to be working on a 24-hour
basis, so great is the demand for
their material.
has been removed. On 51.7 percent
of the crop land, between 25 and
75 percent of the surface soil has
washed or blown away, or been re
located. On another 5.5 percent of
these wheat lands more than 75 per
cent of the surface soil is already
gone.
The summer fallow type of wheat
farming universally practiced in the
Columbia basin is conducive to the
development of erosion, the com
mittee points out. While this type
of farming is necessary as far as
present knowledge is concerned, im
mediate steps will be reqired if bet
ter than half of the crop land is to
be prevented from becoming mar
ginal or sub-marginal for wheat
production.
Much progress has been made in
the past few years in lessening loss
es from erosion by the adoption of
practices such as trashy summer
vice. And while this is going on the
grazing service of the department of
the interior (now transferred to
Salt Lake City) is franking out of
Washington, D. C, press releases to
the papers of the northwest contain
ing five copies of a single article
which will cost a taxpayer six cents
to send through the mails, and nei
ther Secretary Ickes nor the postal
department utters a peep about stuf
fing the mails with this dope.
A BLOWUP can be expected over
the contract signed by Jess H. Jones,
RFC administrator, with the Alumi
num Company of America, which
has been declared "outrageous." The
contract provides that the plants can
be taken over by Alcoa after the
war, although they are being built
with government money. The orig
inal intention was to pay Alcoa a
managerial fee. The Alcoa contract
fallow, cross seeding of slopes, and i and the actions of the company in
a certain amount of strip cropping
using crested wheat grass. The plan
aof the coming campaign will be to
make more general use of such prac
tices already found effective.
The planning committee also call
ed attention to the danger of erosion
developing on the U. S. army bomb
ing range and ordinance depot ar
gas unless preventive measures are
taken.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation to our many friends for
their kindly expressions of sympathy
and beautiful floral tribute at the
time of our bereavement. We are es
pecially grateful to our neighbors
who so kindly helped us during the
illness and death of our beloved
husband and brother.
Mrs. Harry Archer, Mr. Jim
Archer.
$6.04,
1.00 Lexington Oil Cooperative ?1.5U,
IMunnell & Shernll $13b.4t, lom
36.40 J Caldwell $4.29, Edith K. Hendrick
5.00 $3.67, Oregon Motor Service $5.52,
j Heppner Garage $3.90, E. W. Peck
9.38 $6.38, Heppner Lumber & Box Co.
! $65.88, Standard Oil Co. $492.04, H.
W. Tucker $80.01, H. Tamblyn $116.
64, Gilliam & Bisbee $43.03, Fer
guson Motor Co. $30.19, Frank Nix
on $29.85, Union Oil Co. $521.73,
Feenaughty Machinery Co. $85.29,
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. $17.23,
Pacific Power & Light Co. $2.10,
Rosewall Motor Co. $495.00, H. S.
Taylor $107.76, H. Schwarz $84.24,
Albert Connor $4.49, Chas. Williams
$40.75, Jack Stotts $74.75, Walter Gil
man $74.75, Ray Massey $75.03, Har
old Sherer $112.25, Clair Ashbaugh
$112.25, L. N. Morgan $116.74, W.
Cunningham $77.74, E. A. Kelly
$114.49, A. J. Chaffee $42.65, Dale
$35.90,
e Kod-
inson $2.24, Bill Robinson $2,24, Lew
is Bush, Jr. $3.62, Russell Miller $2.
99, Lewis Bush, Sr. $1.12, Jim Sim
mons $2.24, Smith Machine Shop
$5.50, Kane's Garage $18.10, Gambl
Store Dealer $14.53, State Ind. Acc.
Comm. $32.50, Green's Hardware
$3.30, Walter Gilman $50.00, Mont
gomery Ward & Co. $24.78, Harry
Tamblyn $25.00.' ',
Court House $2.50 22.80 Co.
Tum-A-Lum Lbr. Co., Cthse.
Pacific Power & Lt. Co., Ct.
House
Bureau of Labor, Courthouse
J. N. Allen Supply Co., Court
House
Thomas J. Wells, Assessor
$2.50 Field Work $57.35 59.85
J. O. Turner, Circuit Court.... 15.00
P. W. Mahoney, Circuit Court
$6.50, Dist. Attorney $10.00 16.50
C. J. D. Bauman, Sheriff 15.13
Oregon State Library, Li
brary Appropriation 190.96
Pac. Tel. & Tel. Co., Current
. Expense 59.61
State Dept. of Agriculture,
District Sealer 6.15
Lucy E. Rodgers, Supt 24.92
Gwen Glasgow, Supt. Asst. 26.50
Heppner Gazette Times, Sher.(
$24.00, Assess. $44.70, Offic.
Ti i Apt rvr t a i l
iD. county ooun Ray $2g R(bt g mlsQn
r,81:00,;-::;::-.: 6 Chauncy Grimm $1.12, Clyd
Control 3.09
Earl McCabe, Weed Control 130.11
Bushong & Co., Justice Court 3.53
State Ind. Acc. Com., Weed
Control $2.17, Sheriff Sal.
$.31, Sheriff Dep. $.62 6.93
Green's Hardware Co., Court
house 1.50
Judge Bert Johnson, General
Assistance 191.20
Bert Johnson, County Court 6.85
Bert Johnson, Judge, Old Age
Assistance 349.80
Bert Johnson, Judge, Aid to
Dependent Children 49.60
Bert Johnson, Judge, Blind
Assistance 6.00
Norton Lundell, Courthouse
WARRANTS DRAWN ON
GENERAL ROAD FUND
Citizens Branch U. S. Natl. Bank
WARRANTS DRAWN ON
MARKET ROAD FUND
H. Tamblyn $142.58, Frank W.
Gentry $143.50, Allen Johnston $65.
78, A. J. Chaffee $67.35, Dale Ray
$43.35, State Industrial Accident
Comm. $8.51.
1 20 , WARRANTS DRAWN ON
MISCELLALNEOUS FUND
Frank S. Parker, Dog Fund....$ 17.25
selecting sites is declared' responsi
ble for the delay in building alum
inum plants in Oregon and Wash
ington. It is now four months since
the government-owned plants were
recommended by OPM and nothing
has been done in the way of con
struction. There are congressmen
who are becoming curious.
a
ESTIMATED number of employes
in August in non-agricultural es
tablishments in Oregon and Wash
ington amounted to 783,000. Of this
number 499,000 were employed in
Washington and 284,000 in Oregon.
From July to August y.uuo new
workers were on the job in Wash
ington and 8,000 were added to Ore
gon payrolls. Compared with Aug
ust, 1941, the number employed in
Washington increased 65,000 and in
Oregon 34,000. As the defense pro
gram speeds up these states will
have an all-time high of employ
ment in 1942. The figures give an
idea of the number of workers to
come under the social security pay
roll taxes.
Washington, D. C, Oct. 9. When1 RUMORS have been circulating
congress debates the price control I for months that the federal govern
legislation the bill proposing a ceil- ment is contemplating the establish
ing on many commodities and ex-; ing of a pulp mill somewhere in
cepting farm prices and labor will ' Oregon or Washington to manufac
undoubtedly be enacted, but with ture an ingredient in smokeless
modifications. Instead of one man, ' powder, and probably placing it in
Leon Henderson, being in control, the "fog belt." This report has
there may be a board. It is recog- reached the territory affected, but
nized that wages are an important no amount of inquiry in the na
item in costs of any article, from tional capital has been able to un
potatoes to automobiles, and the con-1 cover any supporting evidence. All
tention is made that unless wages the present two score pulp and pa-
THIRD YEAR OF AIR TRAINING Citizens Branch U. S. Natl. Bank j Mrs. Leola Tannehill, Fair
Oregon State College The third $181.26, Columbia Equipment Co. Fund 500.00
year of civilian pilot training work $154.27, Howard Cooper Corp. $294.- Fred J. Nichoson, Taylor
here has started with provision for i 59, H. & L. Company $49.30, Eastern I Grazing Act 59.23
30 in the primary course and 20 in I Oregon Motor Co. $2.26, Bit Service ! Wayland Ritchie, Taylor Gra-
the secondary or advanced course. ' $10.96, Braden-Bell Tract. & Equip- zing Act 31.50
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