"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.
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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
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A FINE GIFT FOR
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nYx?? SOME
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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-
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