EOARDMAN NEWS
By MABGABET THOBFE
B. Boyles returned Wednesday
from the Ordnance hospital where
lie spent several weeks with an in
jured back,
H. E. C. met Thursday at the
home of Margaret Thorpe. An ice
cream social has been planned for
the near future. Next meeting will
be the Pollyanna party.
A bridal shower was held at the
home of Mrs. Leo Root for Mrs.
Roy Partlow. Many lovely gifts
were received by the guest of
honor.
Mrs. Erie Hamilton of Los An
geles arrived Saturday for an in
definite stay with her son Cecil
Hamilton and family.
Grange met Saturday night at
the grange hall with a fair crowd
in attendance. Two new members
were added, Mrs. Eran Hugg, and
Mrs. Edel Roach,
Ed Burroughs (if Clackamas
spent the week-end with his sister,
Mrs. George Daniel.
Pfc Lawrence Smith spent the
week-end at Pendleton and Bing
ham springs.
Melvin Daniel arrived Sunday to
spend a week with his father
George Daniel and family.
Mis. Arthur Allen stopped for
the week-end enroute to Los An
geles where she will visit her mo
ther. Clayton who came with her
will find work in the harvest fields.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Cruzan of
Walla Walla visited at the George
Daniel home Sunday afternoon.
Bill Harter is visiting friends on
the project for a few days.
Russell Miller will start harvest
ing potatoes this week.
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and Utah have notifieid officials of
the Oregon Wool Growers associa
tion that they will consign rams to
the 18th annual Oregon ram sale, to
be held in Fendletton August 18.
Breeds represented by these con
signors are Hampshire, Suffolk,
Rambouillet, Lincoln, Cotswold and
Suffolk crossbreds. Walter Holt,
secretary to the association and
Umatilla county agent, says that
the number of rams in the north
west has been substantially reduc
ed, making such auction sales as
this one at Pendleton unusually im
portant, this year as a source of
breeding stock.
Art Thompson, widely known as
one of the outstanding livestock
auctioneers in America, is coming
to Pendleton from Lincoln, ,Neb.,
to handle the sale again. The rams
will be offered singly and in pens.
DETAILS ON HIGHER WHEAT
LOAN RATES SENT OFFICES
Increase in wheat loan rates for
the 1944 crop announced by the
Commodity Credit Corporation
makes the basic price at Portland
$1.46 for No. 1 grade. The state
AAA office has distributed to all
county offices a comlete schedule
of rates for shipping points through
out the state.
The rates range from $1.18.9 at
Burns to $1.38.1 at Hillsboro, vary
ing according to shipping and hand
ling costs in relation to Portland. A
few southern Oregon points are
based on San Francisco, which af
fords a higher rate than the Port
land base at their distances.
The increase in the wheat rates
amounts to 7 cents per bushel and
places the loan level at 90 per cent
parity instead of the previous 85
percent.
FARM LUMBER ALLOCATED
Allocation of lumber to Oregon
counties (for farm use has been
made by the state AAA office,
which has been informed by na
tional officials that the situation is
"tighter" than ever before. The
amounts allocated will be distri
buted by the county committees to
applicants purely on the basis of
need, as in the past, according to
R. B. Taylor, state AAA chairman.
Contrary to some reports, there is
no requirement whatever that a
farmer be a cooperator in AAA
programs to obtain needed lumber,
Taylor says.
Rams Consigned
To Pendleton Sale
Twenty-two breeders of pure
bred sheep in Oregon, Washington
DAIRY MEETINGS SET FOR
CORVALLIS AND PORTLAND
Dates of the two dairy meetings
in Oregon for Dr. W. E. Peterson,
Minnesota specialist, have been
changed from those previously an
nounced and are now July 24 at
Corvallis and July 25 in Portland,
according to Roger Morse, exten
tion dairyman at O. S4 C. in charge
of arrangements.
The Corvallis meeting will be in
the Memorial Union building and
the Portland meeting at the Oregon
State Grange headquarters. Both
start at 1:30 o'clock.
Morse says Dr. Peterson is the
outstanding national authority on
milking methods developed through
research on the dairy cow's udder.
He will describe the development
of a new fast milking method which
is said to increase production.
Both meetings are open to the
general public, says Morse.
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France Beautiful Land
Says Lexington Youth
June 30, 1944
The Heppner Gazette Times
Dear Sirs:
Hello everybody! Seems strange
writing from France, but I want to
thank the Gazette Times for the
"morale lifter" they are sending.
Some are a few weeks old, but I
am not complaining, for news is
news, especially from home. I hope
that the rest of the fellows enjoy
it as much as I do.
I can't divulge our part in the
Campaign but I can say that we
have been complimented very high
ly for the first 15 days of our ex
termination of the Nazis from a
pretty country. The only difficulty
we have is trying to understand the
French language. That soon was
overcome by learning a bunch of
hand signals. Sometimes you make
out okay and sometimes not so
good. The country itself is pretty
badly battle scarred (that that I've
seen) so a fellow can't pass a very
good verdict on the type of place
it really is.
Well, as you've probably heard,
the battle front is about the hard
est place to locate any news except
for a few shells dropping hither
and yon and a plane coming around
to strafe once in awhile, life gets
dull along with the excitement.
This being all I am able to scrape
together to write, I wiil close,
thanking you again.
Sincerely yours,
TSgt. STANLEY A. WAY.
Irrigon News Notes
By MBS. J. A. SHOUS
Carrie and Alice Riley left for
Olympia Wednesday. Miss Carrie
teaches there and her sister lives
with her. They have been visiting
their sister Mrs. K. Fraser and Mrs.
James Henderson and family while
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Potts have
been visiting here and they and
Jerry White moved to Astoria
Thursday where they have employ
ment. Nuree Glasgow visited Betty
Acock and Lois Markham at La
Grande Saturday.
Floyd Miller of Umatilla was an
Irrigon visitor Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sinice Moore are
moving to their new home in The
Dalles. Sinice took a load of goods
down Monday. Mrs. Moore and the
four children are going in a few
days.
Iva Joan Rucker went to Kellogg
Ida. Monday with her sister Mrs.
Amos while her mother is in the
Pendleton hospital.
Violet Amos and children left for
Kellogg Ida. after spending a
month in Irrigon with her parents,
the Elmer Ruckers.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy VanCleve and
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ramsey of Boze
man, Mont, and Vernon Bailey vis
ited the Milton Baileys. Vernon
remained for a longer visit.
Mrs. Effie McFall went to Spo
kane Sunday to see a new grand
son a few days old. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack McFall. Jack
is in England with the air corps.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Caldwell, Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon Caldwell and Mr.
and Mrs. Clair Caldwell arrived in
Irrigon Wednesday to visit their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cald
well. Wayne is in the army and
has been in Oklahoma for some
time.
Miss Echo Aldrich is spending a
few days with her parentts the C.
E. Aldrichs. She has employment
in Portland.
Bill Ham of Hermiston was an
Irrigon visitor Sunday. He is home
on furlough.
Sam Umiker was a Umatilla vis
itor Monday,
Word has been received here of
the marriage of Ensign Donald
Houghton, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
C. Houghton, to Miss Shirley
Thompson of Denver Colo. Tha
wedding took place in Providence,
R. I. July 1. Donald was formerly
employed at Ordnance with the
corps of engineers. He is now a
Seabee abroad.
Mrs. Nona O'Brien and Mrs. May
Mers were Pendleton visitors Tues
day. Mrs. Hazel Steagall has sold her
home to W. G. Taylor and is mov
to the Wm. Gollyhorn home.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gollyhorn
are moving to their new home
which is almost completed.
The E. R. Schneiders were Wal
la Walla visitors Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Adams went
to The Dalles Sunday to see Mrs.
Adams' sister, Mrs. Eva Reynolds
who was accidently scalded on the
arm. She is a nurse.
Sgt Doug Whipple is in a re
placement camp in Australia. He
hopes to get to come home as he
has been down there 28 months.
Otto and Melvin Benefiel spent
from Friday to Monday with the
Carl Haddox family. They are bro
thers of Mrs. Haddox.
Pfc Leslie Rucker has his second
15-day leave on account of his mo
ther's illness.
LIKES PEOPLE IN MODERATION
A letter to the Gazette Times
from Mrs. Lera Crawford reported
on her recent trip to New York and
Boston to visit her sons, Ensigns
John and Hugh Crawford. The trip
was made primarily to attend
Hugh's graduation from Midship
men's school at Columbia univer
sity. To quote a paragraph: "I liked
Cambridge quite well, it is a quaint
litttle city of colonial architecture
and red brick walls and pavements.
But Boston and New York City did
not appeal to me at all. I like
people but in moderation. The
rushing crowds in the subways, at
Times Square and in Grand Central
Station were just too much for
me."
VISITING PARENTS
Donald Peterson of the United
States navy is spending a leave vis
iting his parents Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Peterson of lone.
COL. SCHROEDER AWARDED
BRONZE STAR MEDAL
Air Transport Command Base,
India Col. Edmund O. Schroeder.
Heipner, has been awarded the
Bronze Star medal for meritorious
achievement, it has been announced
here by Brig. Gen. Thomas O. Har
din, commanding the India-China
Wing, Air Transport Command,
USAAF.
The India-China Wing is the Air
Transport Command unit which
maintains the famed aerial supply
route from Inda to China across the
"hump" of the Himalaya mountains
of northern Burma,
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