2 Heppner Gazette Times, February 12, 1942
IONE NEWS
lone Rebekahs Install
Officers for New Year
. By MRS. ELMER GRIFFITH
Installation of officers was held at
Rebekah lodge Thursday ' evening.
They are, N. G., Eva Swanson; V. G.,
Nola Bristow; secretary, Lena Lun
dell; treasurer, Mary Swanson; P.
N. G., Marjorie Gordon; R. S. N. G.,
Etta Bristow; L. S. N. G., Mildred
Morgan; warden, Elaine Rietmann;
Conductor, Ruth MeCabe; R. S. V.
G., Lucile Rietmann; L. S. V. G.,
Una Crowell; I. G., Margaret Mor
gan; O. G., Ida Fletcher; chaplain,
Vida Heliker. John Clark was reel
ected trustee to serve for three
years.
Mrs. R. L. Ekleberry returned
home Friday from Stanfield where
she had been visiting her sons, J. D.
and Rood Ekleberry, and their fam
ilies. Mesdames Garland Swanson, Ray
mond Lundell, Clel Rae, and Miss
Eva Swanson were hostesses for a
miscellaneous bridal shower for
Mrs. Charles Carlson, and a sur
prise birthday handkerchief shower
for Mrs. Lloyd Morgan at the Gar
land Swanson home Saturday after
noon. Other guests present were
Mesdames Cleo Drake, Erret Hum
mel, Milton Morgan, Jr., Clarence
Harris, Ted Blake, Marion Palmer,
and Delbert Emert.
The Lundell family held a birth
day party Saturday at the Cleo
Drake home honoring E. R, Lundell
and daughter, Mildred Morgan,
whose birthdays occurred on Febru
ary 7, A. W. Lundell, Feb. 8, and
Billie Lundell, Feb. 9. Others pre
sent were Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Drake
and Patricia, Bob, and Delores, Mrs.
A. W. Lundell, Norma Lundell, Mr.
and Mrs. Norton- Lundell of Hepp
ner, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pettyjohn
and baby of Hermiston, and Miss
Jane Fitzpatrick.
The H. E. C. of Willows grange will
hold an all-day meeting on Friday,
Feb. 20, at the home of Mrs. Ed
Buschke at Morgan.
"Food for Defense" will be discuss
ed by a speaker from the extension
department of the state college at
the Congregational church at 2 p. m.,
on February 19. Everyone is invited
to attend.
Lois Ring, young daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Harvey Ring, is a patient
in the Doernbecker hospital in
Portland where she is receiving
treatment for an ailment from which
she has been ill for the last seven
months. Her parents took her to the
city Wednesday.
George Ganger of Pendleton vis
ited his daughter, Mrs. Henry Clark
the latter part of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Howk of Con
don visited Sunday at lone and
Morgan.
Mrs. Tessie Hubbard of Pasco vis
ited from Thursday to Monday with
her sister, Mrs. James Warfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Burgess of Redmond
returned Sunday to their home, af
ter a visit here with their daughter,
Mrs. Wm. H. Burk.
Folks who set their clocks ahead
Sunday evening wondered where
this daylight was which they were
trying to save, when they arose in
the dark and the rain Monday morn
ing. Laxton McMurray is making ex
tensive improvements on the Franks
house, which he recently purchased,
and is having a new roof put on the
house occupied by the E. G. Sperry
family.
The Women's Topic club will meet
Friday of this week at the home of
Mrs. Ted Blake.
Mrs. Leslie Roundy and baby have
gone to Portland to join Mr. Roundy,
who has employment there.
Mrs. Frank Lundell and little son
Merle returned Monday from Port
land where they visited Mr. Lun
dell. Mrs. Dorr Mason returned Monday
from Portland where she visited Mr.
Mason. She reported that Harold
Kincaid, who is still in the hospital
there, was able to sit up.
Mrs. Erling Thompson entertain
ed the girls of her Sunday school
class with a tea at her home Satur
day afternoon. Those present were
Eulenna and Gladys Seehafer, Max
ine Allyn, Alice Nichoson, Eunice
Peterson, Marjory Peterson, Char
lotte Sperry, Barbara Ledbetter and
Shirley Smouse. They discussed
forming a vested choir, to meet once
a week. The first project will be
an Easter cantata. They also talked
of having church women who were
FOB
WAR NEEDS MONEY t
It will cost money to defeat our enemy aggressors.
Your government calls on you to help now.
Buy Defense Bonds or Stamps today. Make every
pay day Bond Day by participating in the Pay-roll Sav
ings Plan.
Bonds cost $18.75 and up. Stamps are 10i, 25 and up.
The help of every individual is needed.
Do your part by buying your share every pay day.
LEXINGTON NEWS
By MARGARET SCOTT
Mr. and Mrs. Laurel Ruhl and
sons have moved into the Leach
house.
Hunter Hamilton of Ellensburg,
Wash., was a caller at the Charles
Buchanan home Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. McMillan are
spending a month in Portland and
vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton and sons,
Louise Hunt and Helen Nieger spent
the week end in Portland and Salem.
Claire Hunt was confined to his
home by illness this week.
Archie Padberg, Sr., has returned
home from Portland where he had
been receiving medical care.
Mrs. Charles Buchanan entertain
ed with a shower in the Aid room
Thursday for her daughter, Mrs.
Delbert Vinson. Many lovely gifts
were received and refreshments of
coffee and cookoies were served.
C. C. Carmichael spent a few days
in Portland this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Padberg and
family visited relatives in Her
miston over he week end.
Guests at the Charles Breshears
home Sunday evening were Mir. and
Mrs. Everett Crump and Douglas
Gibson.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Scott spent
Sunday at the Lee Sprinkel home
in Heppner.
Charlie Padberg is able to return
to school following his sleighing ac-
"mystery mothers" to the girls, their
identity not to be revealed until
Mother's day.
The church board met and organ
ized last Sunday. E. M. Baker was
elected chairman, Mrs. J. E. Swan
son, secretary, Erling Thompson, fi
nancial secretary, and Mrs. Dale Ray,
treasurer. The board will meet ev
ery second Sunday after church.
Six inches of snow fell in Goose
berry Monday morning, and quickly
melted.
Wm. Hayes returned to lone Fri
day from Texas, where he has been
visiting his mother for some time.
Before returning home he visited
Eugene Normoyle at Shepard Field,
Wichita Falls, and found him im
proving from his recent illness.
W. G. Palmateer of Morgan has
gone modern, and purchased him
self a trailer house, so he can be at
home wherever he goes.
VICTORY
BUY
UNITED
STATES
DEFENSE
BONDS
STAMPS
Potato Quality
Drops in Stores
Wholesale buyers have excellent
protection from the federal-state
shipping point inspection of potatoes
carried on in Oregon, but the con
suming public does not enjoy the
same protection due to the fact that
retail grocers are not especially qual
ified to judge quality of potatoes or
to protect quality of potatoes in
their possession.
These deductions are contained in
the consumer phase of a study on
the marketing of central Oregon and
Klamath basin late potatoes made
jointly by the experiment station at
Oregon State college and the Oregon
department of agriculture through its
plant division.
The study was carried on in the
retail, markets of San Francisco,
Portland, Salem and Eugene. The
survey showed a high percent of
potatoes offered for sale to con
sumers to be off grade that is, be
low the quality claimed. This con
dition develops between the period
of inspection at the shipping point
and sale to the public through the
retail store. In the San Francisco
bay markets, 65.1 percent of the sam
ples taken were found to be off
grade in Portland, Eugene and Sa
lem the off grade percentages were
47.6, 22.2 and 36.8, respectively.
Types of defects most general in
retail stores were light greening,
soft rot, dry rot and broken and
shattered potatoes. These were due
largely to rough handling, exposure
to light in displays, high storage
temperature and improper ventila
tion. Careless handling of potatoes
upon being unloaded at stores and
careless handling by the store clerks
contributed to the deterioration in
quality.
Light greening, found in from 14.6
cident of a few weeks ago.
Mrs. Effie Parkins is a guest at
the Bob Cutler home.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Manning of
Pendleton visited Mrs. Manning's
mother, Melissa Stonebreaker Friday
and Saturday.
Dean Sprinkel of Seattle and Mrs.
Lee Sprinkel of Heppner were guests
at the Vernon Scott home Saturday
afternoon.
Sunday evening Gene Bissinger
wag a dinner guest at the Merritt
Gray home.
War Traffic School
At Pendleton, 16-21
J. D. Swenson, special agent in
charge of the Portland office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, an
nounced today that the FBI will in
augurate a series of war traffic
schools for police in 120 cities thru
out the United States on February
9. Mr. Swenson stated that schools
will be held in Portland and Pen
dleton, in Oregon, the Pendleton
school to be held February 16-21,
inclusive.
The official approval of the Office
of Civilian Defense has been given
this program by Mayor Fiorello H.
LaGuardia, United States Director
of Civilian Defense. The schools
will be of six days' duration and
instruction will be presented by ex
perts of the FBI aided by traffic spe
cialists whose services have been
obtained by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation for this purpose. The
traffic specialists will receive infor
mation in Washington, D. C, prior
to February 9, regarding national
policies affecting traffic control, in
cluding recommendations of the
War Department which will aid in
ths project.
Mr. Swenson further -stated that
the schools are being initiated to
provide uniform instruction on prob
lems arising out of the war emer
gency and confronting, or threaten
ing to confront, local, county and
state enforcement agencies. The
school will furnish to police person
nel uniform and specific information
on various traffic problems includ
ing the following: bomb damage to
streets during air raids, bomb dam
age to buildings creating traffic
hazards during air raids, operation
of vehicles without full traffic light
control during blackouts, damage to
electrical systems of traffic control
during air raids, accidents occurring
during blackouts, accumulation and
handling of crowds at points of dam
age following air raids, pedestrian
traffic control during air raids, plan
ning and maintenance of traffic con
trol maps, planning and marking of
traffic routes, provision of military
convoy routes, expediting movement
of military units and recruiting of
civilian vehicle traffic, provision of
routes for the safe transportation of
explosives, preparation of plans for
bomb removal routes following air
raids, blacking out of police vehicles,
blacking out of police buildings,
planning of action for the provision
of priorities for the movement of
military, police, fire, and civilian
defense vehicles during air raids
planning for the obtaining of equip
ment to be used in handling traffic
during blackouts, handling of heavy
daylight traffic loads caused by the
cars of civilians returning to their
home before blackouts, and traffic
problems which might arise during
chemical warfare.
.There will be no cost in connec
tion with attending the schools and
Mr. Swenson pointed out that those
eligible to attend will be the heads
of law enforcement organizations,
heads of traffic departments of law
enforcement organizations, traffic
officers, officers who may assist or
be in charge of convoy work, in
structors of local police training
schools, police traffic accident in
vestigators, and auxiliary police who
have already entered on duty. This
training program is in addition to the
FBI's civilian defense courses for
police presently being conducted
throughout the nation and consti
tues part of the FBI law enforce
ment officers mobilization plan for
national defense which was started
in the fall of 1939 under the direc
tion of J. Edgar Hoover, director of
the FBI.
It is in keeping with the FBI's
policy of acting as a national clear
ing house for the dissemination of
identification matters, scientific ex
amination of evidence matters, uni
form crime statistics matters, and
police training matters.
The schools have the approval of
outstanding traffic authorities and
organizations throughout the United
States.
to 27.2 percent of the samples of No.
1 and No. 2 grade potatoes in all
four centers, was prevalent in 40
and 28.6 percent of the potatoes that
were marketed in cotton sacks in
Oregon and California, respectively.
Greening was present in only 9.1 and
11.8 per cent of the burlap sacks in
the two states and in none of the
paper sacks; however dry rot and
soft rot were more noticable in po
tatoes packed in paper bags.
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JAYWALKING
l A SHORT CUT
TO THE CORONER
HAHONAl UHTY COUNCIL
Cattle Diseases
' By Claude Drake
(Editor's Note: This is one of a
series of timely defense articles on
agricultural subjects contributed by
members of the local FFA chapter.)
The average rancher probably
does not take the proper care of his
cattle. With prices as they are,
death, or loss of weight from the
animal is a loss to the rancher.
There are many things that happen
to cattle that cannot be avoided, but
many diseases and pests can usually
be prevented. There are many dif
ferent diseases but I am going to
tell you causes and prevention of
blackleg, lice and cattle grubs.
Blackleg is a rapidly fatal disease
which is confined to certain areas
where the soil is infected with the
blackleg organism. Suckling calves
imder 18 months and cattle past two
years old are rarely attacked. Cattle
of improved breeding are more sus
ceptible than common stocks.
The disease is characterized by
high fever. Swelling occurs espe
cially on the hind quarters or shoul
der and usually causes lameness. If
lanced, a frothy, dark red fluid is
discharged. Other symptoms are
rapid breathing and great depres
sion. It is usually fatal in from 12
to 36 hours.
Since the blackleg germ drops
seeds on the ground an animal gets
the disease through punctures in
the hide. Cattle can be protected by
injection with blatkleg vaccine,
several forms of which are on the
market. Carcasses of animals dead
from blackleg should be burned or
buried.
Cattle lice are injurious to all
classes of cattle, but the greatest
loss is in young stock and poorly
nourished old animals. Losses are
caused by irritation, digestive dis
turbances, arrested growth, low vi
tality, and increased death rate.
Methods of treatment include hand
applications, spraying, and dipping.
The first two methods are suitable
only for small herds. Arsenical dips,
coal-tar, creosote dips, and nicotine
solutions may be used for dipping
cattle to destroy lice. Two or more
treatments should be given 15 to 16
days apart.
Cattle grubs, ox warbles, heel fly
grubs, call them what you want, but
cattle owners pay thousands of dol
lars each year for them. The heel
fly emerges each April and terror
izes animals by darting at their
heels, sometimes causing a stam
pede. The value of the animal by
gruba 4s reduced all down the line
to stockmen, dairymen, feeders, but
chers, packers, hide dealers, tan
ners, manufacturers of leather goods,
and the final consumer.
After entering the flesh, after the
eggs hatch, the grub moves entirely
through the body and emerges un
derneath the skin in December.
Control: after they make a little
hole in the skin, stop them from
getting air. Rotenone mixed with a
gallon of water and a little soap
Should be sprinkled and scrubbed
into the back of the animal.
Good management to eliminate
grubs from your herd and encour
age other cattlemen to do the same
will save you many dollars.
I have told you only a few of the
many diseases and pests that lose
money for the cattleman. It is very
important to save your herd because
of money involved and the present
situation.
We should be all out for the
"Food for Defense" program.