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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1943)
"Spree'' on Wheat Planting Not in Best War Interest Oregon farmers are cautioned against any "plow, up the fence rows wheat-planting spree" by R. B- Taylor, chairman of the Oregon USDA War board, following the request of the War Food adminis tration for increased wheat acreage in 1944. Meeting the state's 1944 goal of 950,000 acres of wheat, an increase of more than 100,000 acres over this year's harvest, is not to be done by reducing acreage of high prior ity warcrors. or by plowing up poor-yielding sub-marginal land that is especially subject to erosion the war board chairman declares- "While the state formerly grew more than a million acres of wheat annually, returning all of this land to wheat will neither result in the contribution to the war program or be in the best interests of farmers themselves," says Taylor. Crop which have been given pri ority over wheat dry peas, dry beans, potatoes and canning crops are being grown on some of. the land which formerly produced wheat. There will be need for con tinued high production of these crops in 1944, and farmers who have been growing them are not asked to reduce plantings to in crease wheat. "Put every acre to its most pro ductive use" is the formula Taylor asks farmers to follow for 1944. To assist in the careful planning this will require on the part of every farm family, county goals for both wheat and the "priority" crops will be announced soon, the chairman said AAA records show that last year 182,000 acres of wheat land had been seeded t crested wheat grass for pasture. Some of this land is being plowed up and returned to wheat But much of the crested wheat grass acreage is on steep, eroded hillsidss and poor producing land, Taylo reminds, and ifs l bushels of wheat that the nation needs not just acres planted. Former Resident to tension specialist in iome manage ment at Oregon State college. The extensive shortages of these Be B Uried TodaV itAm3 fYiiTlirl until ihr faf tha-fr small quantities of iron and steel, not suitable for military production can be used has led to relaxation of the restrictions, she says. Heppner Gazette Tims, August 26, 1943 5 VISIT PENDLETON First National bank of Portland. Misses Frances Wilkinson and Heppner branch, were Pendleton Barbara Ledbetter, employes of the visitors Saturday afternoon. OIL STOPS WEEDS FORM SEEDING Use of crank case oil on nox ious weed patches to prevent seed formation has been found effective in tests conducted by J- B. Holla day, assistant county agent of Mal neur county. One application stops seed formation and marks the boun daries of the patch for later atten tion with chemicals. HAVE BABY GIRL Julia Lee is the name of tha eight and one-half pound girl born Sun day, Aug. 22 at Mrs. " Mollahan's nursing home to Pvt and Mrs Keith Marshall. The father is in training at Cburtland, Ala. and the mother is the former Ellen Hughes, daughter of Mr -and Mrs. Joe Hughes. LOSES TONSILS Louise Shunk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shunk, underwent a tonsillectomy Tuesday. BUSINESS VISITORS In town on business Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Griffith of Sray. HERE FROM ASTORIA Mrs. Frances Healy of Astoria is a visitor at the home of Mr. Healy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Healy. Funeral services for Mrs. W F Walbridge will be held at 2 o'clock p. m. today from the Meth odist church, Rev. Bennie Howe of ficiating. Mrs. Walbridge passed away at her home in Portland Tues day evening. Counted among the early pioneers of Heppner, Mrs. Walbridge made her home here many years. Follow ing the death of her husband she moved to Pendleton to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Hen ry Ashbaugh, later going to Port land Eliza Smith was born in 1861 at Roseburg, She came with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Smith, to Heppner in 1871. (The mother later became the wife of T. W. Ayrs, a pioneer resident and for mer county judge.) Miss Smith was married to William E. Walbridge in 1878 and to this union six chil dren were born, two of whom sur vive, Gertrude E- Nash and Her bert , Walbridge of Portland. Other survivors are four grandchildren, Major Frank E. Nash, Edith Nich olson and Mrs. Clinton Deyo of Portland and Henrietta Ashbaugh of Oakland, Calif., and three great great grandchildren. Mrs Walbridge united with the Methodist church in Heppner in 1891 and had been a faithful mem ber throughout life. FATHER WILLIAM OU ARE 0L0, SAID 18 VoiM, ONE WOULD hardlv Suppose UhAT yoUR fVE WAS AS ' STEADy AS EVPR J YiX ybu) BALANCE AM EEL OH THE END OF YOUU NOSE, 'What makes tu so awfu.lv clever ?' Carrcff. , JOHN TKMrtieu r A FINE GIFT FOR r1) nYx?? SOME i - va f POT SCOURERS INCLUDED IN HOUSEWARES COMING Metal pot scourers, flour sieves, carpet sweepers and some similar household itims that have almost disappeared from the stores will be available again as the result of re cent action ty the War Production board in allowing additional man ufacturing of 10 of the most needed articles, says Miss Lois A. Lutz, ex- .'. A SUBSCRIPTION To THIS NEWSPAPER Any Excuse Ycu Can Find For Not Ufpin Yclt Bend Buying Will . Please Hitler WINTERIZE Your Home Today A Get ALL the heat from your winter's fuel. Uncle Sam needs every dollar you can get along with out ..... Stretch your fuel dollars by putting in INSULATION STORM DOORS STORM WINDOWS and do it NOW then Buy Bonds! Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co. Heppner, Oregon 4 7 1 ENVE LOP are hard to get and growing scarcer every day . Envelope factories are suffering material and manpower shortage the same, as other industries. It is growing more difficult day by day for them to make delivery, try as they may. If Interested in Envelopes or any other printing supplies drop in and talk it over with the azeite Times Prinfcery