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6-Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, Sept. 25, 1947
Higher Marketing Costs
Help Up State Food Prices
Food marketing costs in June
thl year were the highest of
record to that date, according to
an analysis ol ollu'ial data by
L. R. Breithaupt. rxtensino econ
omist at Oregon State college.
Increased hourly earnings in food
marketing enterprises are a dom
inant factor In the current rise
in food marketing costs, exceed
ing somewhat the overall in
crease in marketing charges to
June which was 52 percent above
the 1935-39 average.
The United States composite
Index of hourly earnings for food
marketing includes earnings of
workers in steam railways, food
processing, wholesaling and re
tailing. This index stood at 1S3
percent of 1935-1939 in May of
this year. The rate of increase
was about 1 percent per month
since May 1946.
The data analyzed show that
at June prices the retail cost of
the family "market basket" of
food would be $636 a year $1
higher than the previous record
last November, and $21 above
the World War I period peak in
June 19?0.
Out of the $636 that would be
paid by the consumer this year
at June prices, farm receipts
would be $327 or 52 percent. The
balance, $30S or 48 percent,
would go to pay marketing
charges $65 higher.
Compared with March 1947,
however, farmers would receive
$24 less per year at June prices
and marketing agencies $28
more. Thus, the farmer's receipts
dropped from 56 percent in
March to 52 percent in June
while marketing costs rose from
44 percent to 48.
The so-called "Farmer's share"
of the consumer's dollar spent
for food is not net farm income,
Breithaupt explains. Instead, it
represents the farmer's gross re
ceipts from the sale of farm food
products. Out of that the farm
er must pay his costs. As a gen
eral average over a period of
years, 20 to 25 percent of the
money spent by consumers for
food may be regarded as net in
come to farmers.
The farmer's net share of the
consumer's dollar is now unus
ually high, although farm costs
are now at the highest level ev
er recorded. As of mid-August,
farm cost prices in Oregon were
131 percent higher than the 1935
1939 average and 192 percent
above 1910-1914.
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WILD LIFE PARASITES LISTED
The first comprehensive list of
parasites of Oregon wild life has
been compiled by Dr. J. N. Shaw,
head of the veterinary science
department at Oregon State col
lege, and has been published as
an illustrated bulletin by the ag
ricultural experiment station as
technical bulletin No. 2. All of
the parasites listed have been
identified in Washington, D. C,
though the species have not been
determined in all instances, as
some are undoubtedly new, says
Dr. Shaw. The list is intended to
be of service to sportsmen, biol
ogists and other students of wild
life.
Remember October 25 Condon.
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Exciting variety of crisp
new styles! All in gay
Autumn prints,' checks,
stripes, polka dots!
Brightly trimmed with
jumbo rickrack, bias
braid .and fresh eyelet
ruffles! All in sizes 12 to
20, 38 to 44, 46 to 52!
HURRY to Penney' TO
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70" x 80" Double
SHEET BLANKETS
$2 98
Plaid Patterns
DOUBLE
BED
SIZE
46" Wide
OILCLOTH . . 49c yd.
Fancy Patterns Gr Plain Colors
Cannon
TERRY TOWELS
25c & 43c
Fancy and Plain Colors
Guest and Hand Towel Size
WASHCLOTHS . . . 10c
CHURCHES
METHODIST CHURCH !
J. Palmer Sorlein, Pastor
Moraine worshin with a so
cial number by the choir at 11
.m.
Sunday school with adult Bi
ble class and classes for all ages.
Mrs. Lucy Rodgers, superinten
dent, and Mrs. J. Palmer Sorlein,
superintendent of the junior de
partment
Thursday choir practice at 7
p.m.
First Wednesday of each
month is the meeting of the Wo-
mens Society of Christian Ser
vice.
October 2, at 6:30 p.m. will be
the first visit of our district su
perintendent, Dr. Joseph M. Ad
ams, at a dinner in the church
basement.
November 4 a series of special
services will begin and will last
for two weeks.
...
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Bible school, 9:45; C. W. Bar
low, supt.; Beverly Yocom, jun
ior supt.; Mrs. Jewett, primary
supt
Sunday will be Appreciation
Sunday in our Bible school. Ev
ery teacher and officer will be
given some token of apprecia
tion for the work done voluntar
ily through the years.
Morning worship, 11. Commun
ion and preaching. Consecration
service for our Bible school tea
chers and officers. Sermon by
Evangelist C. Alton Brostrom of
Portland. Sermon topic is "Some
to be Teachers."
Evening evangelistic service,
8. Speaker arid message will be
announced at the morning ser
vice. Next Sunday, Oct. 5, will be
Rally Day at the Church of
Christ Bible school. Our attend
ance goal is 140. There will be
a potluck dinner at noon with
a program around the tables.
You are invited and welcome
to attend these services.
Eastern Oregon "99" Men
will meet at Milton Monday
evening, Sept. 29, for a Rally
and business meeting.
The men of the church board
of the Church of Christ will
meet Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 8 o'
clock in the minister's study.
The monthly business meeting
of the church will be Thursday
evening, Oct. 2, at 8 o'clock.
ALL SAINTS CHURCH
Holy communion, 8 a.m.
Church school, 9:45 a.m.
Morning prayer, 11 a.m.
Monday, St. Michael and All
Angels holy communion, 10 a.m.
...
ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH
Schedule of services:
Heppner: Mass on 1st and 3rd
Sundays at 8 a.m., on 2nd and
4th at 9:30.
lone: Mass on 1st and 3rd
Sundays at 9:30, on 2nd and 4th
at 8 a.m.
On 5th Sunday one mass In
Heppner at 9:00.
Holy days of obligation: Mass
in Heppner at 7:30; lone at 8:30.
Mass on first Friday of month
in Heppner at 7:30 a.m.
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PREVENT RANGE FIRES
Transferring &
Heavy Hauling
Padded Moving
Vans
Storage
Warehouse
U. P. and N. P.
Penland Bros.
Transfer Co.
39 SW Dorion Avenue
Phone 338
Pendleton, Ore.
Dropped Hemlines
Pose Problems For
0 S C Homemakers
Fourteen inch hemlines and a
rounded shoulder effect gave
home demonstration and 4-H
club agents a battle of wits at
O. S. C. when they applied new
style trends to outmoded dress
patterns during a two-week
training school on this and other
projects.
Twenty-two counties will car
ry clothing workshops this year
and home demonstration agents
are anxious to show the prac
tical homemaker how to cope
with the latest developments in
pattern alteration and dress
construction. The agents and
specialists have created a new
cup-like shoulder pad, cut from
a six to eight inch square of
material, rounded on three cor
ners and darted before padding
is added to give a molded
smoothness over the, shoulder.
They discovered that old style
patterns required added length
in the skirt and a change in the
pattern design to correspond to
the rounded shoulder pad.
Zipper placements, bound but
tonholes and seam finishes were
among the illustrative materials
prepared for demonstration kits
at school by home demonstration
agents. These kits vvil be used
in county-wide three-day work
shops for community project
leaders. The leaders in turn will
go out into their own commun
ities to direct unit workshops.
Agents from 27 counties parti
cipated in the annual 11-day
training conference ending here
Tuesday. The first week was de
voted to subjects requested by
Oregon homemakers such as the
pressure saucepan, the sewing
machine and its parts, current
textiles, housing and landscap
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RURAL ROADS, HIGHWAYS
HEAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Rural roads and highways are
leading city streets more than
three to one in automobile-inflicted
deaths, Secretary of State
Robert S. Farrell Jr. has disclos
ed. A summary of Oregon acci
dents for thef irst six months of
the year shows the chances of
being killed in a car triple out
side the city limits signs. Fifty
persons have died in city acci
dents to 157 in rural areas.
Speed is blamed for the top
heavy rural fatality list
VET ADMINISTRATION
OFFICE HERE CLOSED
The Veterans Administration
will close its part-time office at
Heppner, Hermiston and Milton
by September 30, the result of
nationwide economy measures, it
was anounced today by Charles
M. Cox, in charge of the Pendle
ton VA office.
Kenneth B. Black, who has tak
en onee-a-wek service to the
three communities from Pendle
ton for the past 11 months, will
.be transferred to the Portland
veterans hospital for contact duty
there, Cox said.
The Pendleton office in the U.
S. National Bank building will
continue on a full-time basis to
assist veterans of Umatilla and
Morrow counties with federal
benefits and rights, Cox gave as
surance. Discontinuance of itinerant
service, he explained, is the re
sult of substantial reductions in
VA personnel, amounting to 160
employes in the Oregon region
al facilities during the past two
months. Two field offices, at La
Gra"Vide and Grants Pass, and
most part-time service are being
dropped in the state.
Decision to close VA units
came only after a state-wide sur
vey of work loads, community
demands for service and near
ness of other VA offices, Cox ex
plained. In this area, full-time
offices are continuing at Pendle
ton, Baker, and Ontario, plus the
VA s guidance center on the Eas
tern Oregon college campus at
La Grande.
Besides these stations, local
veterans' organizations have
voiced assurance they will con
tinue to assist ex-servicemen and
women with problems involving
benefits accorded them by the
government, Cox said.
NEWSPAPER
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TO AMERICAN PERSONNEL
It is understood that the Can
adian government has approved
a bonus for American personnel
who served with the Royal Can
adian Air Force during Worjd
War II and who later transfer
red to the United States armed
forces.
It is requested that all person
nel residing in Washington, Ore
gon and the 18 northern coun
ties of Idaho who fall in the
above category contact the Air
Reserve Training Detachment,
McChord Field, Washington, at
tention: Records Section.
The information necessary to
apply for the above bonus is:
full name, grade held during
service with the Canadian Air
Force, Canadian serial number,
RCAF unit assigned to, and in
clusive date's of service with the
RCAF.
The driver nho killed himtelf and alto the driver of another ear
In this ihamblet had ttubbornly peritilcd in driving tvhen he Hat
fatigued after too many hnmrt oh the road. At hit car came over the
bridge, hit ueary brain blanked out for a iplit second, hit handt
relaxed on the nherl. Hit ear grated the bridge abutment, tkidding
acrott the road, and crathed into an approaching automobile. Motor)
ittt for their own tnfety, and for the take of othert on the road, have
no right to drive tchen overtired. National Conterration Buteau tafety
tpecialittt adritet don't mait until you are tired; pull off the rood at
intervals; drink a cup of coffee, lake a few momentt' rett.
STAR OS REPORTER
Sunday Showi Continuous from 1 p. m.
Evening shows, except Saturday, start at
7:30. Saturday show starts at 7:00. Boxof
flee open evenings until 9 o'clock.
Admission Prices both Matinee and Evening:
Adults 50c, Grade and High School Students
12 and over 40c, Children 20c, all taxes in
cluded. Every child occupying a seat must
have a ticket.
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 26-27
Another Outstanding Double Bill!
Buck Private Come Home
Abbott and Cottallo, Tom Brown, Joan Fulton,
BTrl Binunona, Sat Pendleton.
Some of the g&gn are old, some are new, and all
are funny. AAC have lent none of their ability
to make audiences reward their clowning with
ererything from chuckles to Kuffaw.
PLUS
Stagecoach to Denver
Bed Byder and Little Beaver In a thrill-packed
adventure.
Also another "Juvenile Jury" with selects
youngsters giving their answers to problems.
Sunday-Monday, Sept 28-29
THE YEARLING
Qretsorj Ptok, lan Wfmu, with CUads J&r
xua Jr. h "loir," alM ChlU Willi. Olam
Bmu, Karffarat Wyoharlr, Hanry Travara.
Baaed on the Pulltzor Prize Novel by Marjorle
T1"-" BawUnfa. Photographed In Technicolor.
It throbs with love and faith. It'a packed with
flUApenae, Hobs and lauKhter. It la clean and
wholeMome and we think every man, woman and
child will enjoy "The Yearling."
Sunday Show Continuous Starting 1 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 30
SWELL GUY
Bonny Tnfti, Ann Blyth, Bath Warlck, Will am
Oargan, John LiteL
Thin drama Is the characterization of a thor
oughgoing heftl who disrupts the lives of every
one he encounters.
Wednesday-Thursday, Oct. 1-2
IMPERFECT LADY
Bay Ml Hand, Teresa Wright, Sir Oedrlo Bard,
wlcke, Virginia Pleld, Anthony Qulnn, Beg.
Inald Owen
Pfrnuiifllvfl pfrformancen and nenditive direction
fltid pro'Jurlion booMt thin story of a Indy's dif
ficult decision into the worthwhile category. ,
PLUS
Passport to Nowhere
A forceful film dealing with the problem of the
dlHplitce'l pcrrtons of the world,
Your health demands it . . . your life depends upon its
accuracy and precision. Your druggist is a skilled medic
al man, trained to follow the directions of your doctor in
the careful compounding of prescriptions.
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Our store has earned an enviable reputation for
quality of our drugs-for dependability in filling
prescriptions, for promptness and full attention
to your needs.
. FRESH, POTENT STOCK
Trust our knowledge . . . depend upon our judgment.
Bring your prescriptions to us.
Saagers Pharmacy
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Autumn activities require power - packed nutrition . . . which
makes for an increased incentive to quality and quantity food
planning on your part. We have plenty of food favorites at
an unusual value!
This Weecs Specials
(See our price sheet for complete list)
Van Camp's
PORK & BEANS No. 2's 19c
Pennant
MINCEMEAT, 30-ox. 45c
Pismo 2 tins
MINCED CLAMS for 49c
Campbell's
VEGETABLE SOUP 2 for 23c
Buy quality vegetables for economy ... for best results.
You can always get good "buys" in good meats at our market.
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Court Street Mairket
The Holiday Season
Is Just Around the Corner
It is time now to make your selection for
that gift box of
Personalized
Stationery
the kind you get at the
Gazette Times
. Printery
Make your selection early and assure
delivery for timely holiday mailing.