iHeppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, Dec. 9, 1948
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Wheat League Coming To Town
Condon, during the last three dsys of the past
work, played host in a royal manner to the East
ern Oregon Wheat League. It was an eventful
meeting, the wheat growers learning many things
they needed to know, the organization was ex
panded to include all wheat growing districts of
the state, and last, but not least, the wheat men
accepted Heppner' invitation to hold the 1949
convention in this city.
It will have been eight years since the growers
last met in Heppner, eight years in which many
pages of history have been written. From the
grower's standpoint they have been bountiful
years an era in which both production and price
have been favorable, combining to put most of
the farmers in the black column instead of the
red column where so many of them operated for a
long lime.
There are signs that the supply is catching up
with the demand and the prices in the months to
come will be dependent on government support
more than has been the case in recent years. As
a matter of fact the supply is ahead of the market
at present and the growers have been advised to
build more storage for next year's crop. In the
meantime, the growers here and elsewhere thru
out the wheatraising sections of the country are
casting about for new uses for this vital crop in
an effort to forestall the recurrence of great sur
pluses that have plagued the industry in times
past, and it is organizations like the Eastern Ore
gon Wheat League now the Oregon Wheat League,
which lead the way in formulating plans and
policies for mutual benefit to all growers.
There is good reason to believe that a meeting
of great importance will be held in Heppner in
1949 and it will be an obligation of our citizens
to see that the Wheat League has the best of
accommodations for carrying on its . important
work.
For An Emergency Ambulance
Proposal of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that
the community be provided with an emergency
ambulance is something that is meeting with
public favor as much of the public as has been
contacted in the short time the project has been
under consideration. That funds for purchasing
the car will be provided can not be said to be a
foregone conclusion but influential sources con
tacted have expressed a willingness to make
substantial contributions.
The car would be made available at places
where injuries are apt to occur such as football
games, rodeos and other contests of skill. It would
be at the call of those in need of ambulance ser
vice, whether it be to rush a sick person to a local
physician or to a hospital which at present
means to a neighboring town; or to rush to the
scene of a highway accident, or to a farm or home
anywhere hereabouts where sickness or injury
calls for that type of service.
It is a good proposal and something which
should be brought to realization. Such an ambu
lance, equipped for emergency service, will be
a valuable asset to the hospital when once that
long delayed project becomes a reality.
Two Opposed Ideas
For the benefit of those who may have a leaning
towards government control of this, that, and the
other thing, have a look at the enormity of the
retail sales in this country and then consider
the advantages we would sacrifice if the present
tendency towards centralized government leads
to eventual dictatorship.
For most of us, our contacts with retailing are
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NATIONAL CDITOWAL-
5SOCIATION
limited to a relatively small number of stores
which we personally patronize. So we may lose
sight of the fact that retailing is one of the
mightiest economic forces in the country.
The statistics are extremely impressive. Retail
trade provides employment for more than 8,000,
000 people. Something like 70 percent of the dis
posable income of America's consumers crosses
its counters. This year the volume of business
done will reach the astronomical figure of $130,
000,000. But size alone doesn't tell the story. The fact
that retailing is one of the most aggressively
competitive of enterprises has been responsible
for giving us more and better goods at lower
prices, than any other people enjoy. In countries
where retailing is owned and controlled by the
state, an opposite condition exists. For instance,
the Soviet authorities recently approved the open
ing of some "free trade" stores in Russian-occupied
Germany, where goods may be bought without
ration coupons. Shoes sell for $54 to $72, stockings
for $7 to $12, and so on down the line. The whole
idea behind these stores is to get the last possible
penny out of those who can afford to patronize
them, in order to drain off excessive buying power.
The idea behind American retailing is to give
the most for the least money.
Retailing is the artery through which the pro
ducts of farm and factory flow. It has made mass
production workable, by providing an efficient
mass distribution machine within easy reach of
every family in the country. It is a mainstay of
our whole complex economy.
"And They Were All Wrong"
YOUNG REPUBLICANS
EXHALE
Four Days Remain
For Contributions
To CROP Program
Although the election is more than a month in
the past editors are still speculating on how ft
came to turn out the way it did and on what the
results may be as the new administration swings
into action.
Quite a number of allied trade publications
reach this editorial desk and among the lot re
ceived this week was a little house organ "Memo"
put out by The Steward Co., Los Angeles. While
it rehashes some of the ideas carried out in this
column since the election, it is interesting to
note what someone interested in selling printing
equipment has to say.
'The election is over and after the results were
tabulated there were plenty of red faces. Wether
the choice of the people is right or wrong for the
country will be shown by the events taking place
during the next four years.
"One thing stands out in bold relief when look
ing at the pre-election selections made after a
poll-taking field day: lots of people can be wrong.
'Thousands put their faith in the opinions and
results published by the various polling organ
izatons. Money was invested or put into produc
tion because of those opinions. Most newspapers,
commentators and political observers went out on
a limb to predict a sweeping Republican victory.
"And they were all wrong!
"What can this mean to a business man in
the West? Just this make your own decisions
and get your own opinions on matters concerning
your investments. If you are using the results of
business surveys which are available, be sure to
interpret the figures into terms connected with
your business. If the trend is down according to
the figures and you are enjoying good business,
don't feel that you have to look on the dismal side.
After all, business conditions should only interest
you when they affect your particular business.
"It may be wise during the next months to re
member an old adage 'Figures never lie but
liars sometimes figure'." '
We want to go back to the
party of Abraham Lincoln and
clean out such people as Taft,
Joe Martin, Jr., Carroll Reese and
Harrison Spangler." This was the
freely-expressed opinion of lead
ing delegates to the loung Re
publicans' state convention which
concluded a three-day session
Sunday in Salem.
The surge of the convention
was middle-or-tne roaa nrerai.
Old guard conservative planks
were kicked around with youth
ful vigor. And not even one small
voice was raised in protest.
They wanted to be known as
new republicans as well as young
republicans.
A lot of balloons were put up
in the form of resolutions, includ
ing a plea for a lieutenant gov
ernor, for a law designed to check
"single shot" vo'ing by electing
legislators to represent designat
ed sections of a county instead of
the county at large, for the eligi
bility of in-state veterans to par
ticipate in veterans' loans after
two years rseidence in the state,
and a study of Oregon's inade
quate pollution laws.
United States Senator Wayne
Morse, principal speaker at the
Saturday dinner, wowed his aud
ience repeatedly.
"I am convinced . . . that re
publican victory on November 2,
1948, was needed to protect con
stitutional government in Amer
ica and bring to our national ad
ministration the effective far
sighted statesmanship which I
think it so sorely needs," the sen
ator emphasized. "It was at Yalta
that Korea was sacrificed on the
altar of Russian communism . . .
It was at Yalta that concessions
were made to Russia in Asia . . .
It was at Potsdam that the Berlin
crisis was born . . . the senate of
the U. S. would at least have ask
ed for a corridor into Berlin . . .
and insisted upon clarification of
our rights, prerogatives, and jur
isdictions in Berlin," Senator
Morse said.
Oregon farmers are responding
to the appeal of CROP, Christian
Rural Overseas program, with a
tremendous burst of giving as the
drive enters its final week, re
ports state director Miles G.
Blickenstaff. Collection of food
stuffs ended December 6, and
gifts of cash should be in by
December 13 to purchase foods
suitable for shipment on the Ore
gon CROP train, now scheduled
to join 22 others in a gigantic
national caravan moving to ships
by Christmas day.
Volunteer field workers in 16
counties with regular county
CROP committees and those who
have assumed responsibility for
CROP collections in other coun
ties, are overwhelmed with re
cent donations, Blickenstaff says.
He therefore urges all Oregon
people interested in giving thru
CROP to unfortunates of other
lands to mail checks or cash only
to their county treasurers or di
rect to the state CROP office, 415
Times Bldg., Portland 5.
We can buy foodstuffs which
will ship well at central depots
with cash gifts, and can in this
way handle late contributions
without adding to the difficulties
of assembling foodstuffs in all
parts of the state," Blickenstaff
declares. Gifts of food will al
ways be helpful to those abroad,
of course, but could not be used
on the present Oregon train."
Portland has been selected as
one of the nine ports in this coun
try at which food from American
farms will be loaded on ships
destined for needy hungry and
suffering folk abroad. Loading
will take place on Christmas Day,
and in Portland will consist of
crous, in spite of handicaps, chief
ly lack of time, which have har
assed county committees," Blick
enstaff declares.
"Farmers recognize this as
their own European relief pro
gram, and it is of a nature they
readily understand. In principle
it Is the kind of sharing with
neighbors in trouble which was
typical of pioneer life, and is still
common with our rural people."
Agricultural and church lead
ers all over the state have joined
in carrying on the work. Overseas
distribution is in church hands,
conducted at minimum cost, and
operating strictly from the stand
point of most urgent need, with
out regard to race, creed or color.
Farm Fertilizer
From Low Grade
Ores Sanctioned
The production of farm fertil
izer from low grade phosphate
ores from the public lands in the
west is contemplated for the first
time in southern Idaho under a
Department of the Interior lease
arrangement with the J. R. Sim
plot company of Pocatello, Secre
tary of the Interior J. A. Krug
reported early this week. The
lease, which gives to the Simplot
company the right to develop the
phosphate deposits on 1124 acres
of public land in Caribou county,
Idaho, provides for the payment
to the development of land ren
tals and royalties from the pro
duction of phosphates in the area
The company has notified the
department that it plans to use
the electric furnace process in a
new plant at Pocatello to extract
the phosphate from the low grade
ores obtained under the lease
The high grade ores will be used
to supply the Simplot company's
Salt Lake City plant.
Secretary Krug. in announcing
CROP trains from Oregon and his approval of the lease, said
Wyoming, plus other contribu-that the agreement with the
Hons which may be collected in Simplot company was an exam
southern Idaho and Utah. These pie of the type of cooperation be
two states have no regular CROP tween private Industry and the
organizations.
Those who have given unspar
ingly of their time and effort to
fill the trains will be on hand to j the nation's natural resources,
join in a nationally celebrated
dedication program at shipside.
Oregon's response to the CROP the west has been an example of
appeal has been extremely gen-1 that work a special western phos
30 YEARS AG
Heppner Gazette Times,
December 12, 1918
Miss Ollie Clark, who has been
spending the past year with her
brother, N. A. Clark and family
in this city, departed yesterday
for her home at Newton, 111.
Laxton McMurray, alfalfa far
mer of Jordan Siding, was doing
business in Heppner on Saturday.
Dr. McMurdo reports the birth
of a son at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. George Cason in this city
on Monday last.
Benefit dance for the purpose of
assisting in getting a piano for
lodge room, lone, Dec. 21st By
the Masons and Eastern Star.
open to the public Monday, De-
pies one of the best locations in
the city. (This is the present Bra
den building.)
Mr. and Mrs. Clive Huston of
Eight Mile were pleasant callers
at this office Monday. Clive says
he has his wheat all sown, all of
the 1918 crop in the warehouse
and has settled down for the win
ter to take care of the ranch alone
as Mrs. Huston will live in town.
High school note: The influen
za, which appears to be slightly
on the increase, is making a no
ticeable decrease in attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Justus are
in receipt of a letter under date "ioT,"
John Padberg made a shipment
of two cars of sheep to Portland
from the local yards on Monday. I
A car of cattle was taken out the
same day for Bob Thompson.
t
Fred Tash and Charles Thom
son left Monday morning for
Portland where they will attend
the meeting of the K. of P. grand
lodge in session in that city this
week. They go as delegates from
Doric Lodge No. 20 of this city.
Mrs. J. O. Hager gave an elab
orate five-course dinner to a
number of friends at the Hager
home In East Heppner on Tues
day evening.
Work on the McRoberU Auto
Company garage is now about
completed and Mr. McRoberl
of November 8th, written by their
son Ralph who is now "Some
where in France."
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Barlow and
daughter, Mrs. Lee Howell of
Fairview, were visitors in Hepp
ner on Saturday.
RETURNS FROM EUROPE
Eldon Tucker arrived home
Wednesday morning to again
take up his residence here. He
has been discharged from the
army after 26 months in overseas
service, most of it spent in Ger
many. Eldon rated as corporal
during his hitch in the army, He
is the son of Mrs. Mildred Tucker.
Merle Becket is confined to
his home with a case of chicken-
pox. According to reports ne is
tales that the garage will be well broken out
October Mileage
Drops Perceptibly
Under September
Marking a sudden end to tour
ist and vacation travel, automo
bile mileage on Oregon streets
and highways in Octboer fell
nearly 20 percent below Septem
ber, Secretary of State Earl T.
Newbry has reported.
The statement is based on gas
oline sales figures compiled by
the secretary's office which show
October sales of 38,941,505 gal
lons, more than nine million gal
lons and 100 million miles un
der the September total.
The sharp drop in amount of
driving wsa accompanied by an
even greater proportionate de
crease in traffic fatalities, New
bry said.. He said 32 persons were
th
while September exacted 52 lives
for the highest toll of the year.
Despite the decrease from the
previous month, October sales
were still nearly five percent
greater than last October, New
bry pointed out. Total gasoline
gallonage for the first ten months
is now approximately ten percent
higher than the same period last
year, he said.
Gross gas taxes collected dur
ing the month were $947,075.25 of
which approximately 13 percent
will be refunded to non-highway
users.
o
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Daggett left
Monday for their home at Thun
der Hawk, S. D., after visiting
here and other points In Oregon
for several weeks. While here
they were guests of Mrs. Dag
gett's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat
Healy.
OREGON FIRST AGAIN
The faces of Oregon's highway
snowplow drivers were red las:
Friday when a radiant-heated
strip of highway north of Klam
ath Falls proved successful. Hea
vy snow in 14 -degree tempera
ture melted and left the surface
of the strip dry and warm with
a temperature of 62 degrees that
kept the snow melting as fast
as it fell.
Pipes were installed in the
pavement carrying anti -freeze so
lution that is heated by hot wa
ter from a natural hot well. It
leaves the well at 136 degrees and
returns at 84. The heated stretch
is on highway 97 but is not yet
open to the public. It is believed
this is the first road so heated.
600000 CHRISTMAS TREES
The Christmas tree harvest is
on in Oregon with shipments to
points as far east as Chicago and
as far west as Hawaii where they
are sent in refrigeration compart'
ments of westbound ships. An es
timated 600,000 young fir trees
will be cut in Oregon this year,
according to State Forester Nels
Rogers. Los Angeles is the prin
cipal market, with San Francisco
and Kansas City (where one or
der called for 10,000 trees) in sec
ond and third place.
During the first 7 days of thfl
cutting season, 70 permits were
issued to tree merchants. These
permits cover operations varying
from 500 to 5,000 trees each.
The forestry department haj
been stressing an educational
program that will aid people in
eliminating wasteful and harm
ful Christmas tree cutting prac
tices. They advise that trees be
selected from thick groves. Trees
should not be topped to use the
crown portion. Leave the lower
branches on the stump, and do
not take trees from roadside ar
eas. Not only does this spoil the
beauty of the Oregon highways,
but the practice is illegal, unless
permission is secured from the
landowner.
NOT FOR IDENTITY
' Social security cards are being
used frequently as a means of
identification and merchants are
warned by the social security de
partment that the cards do not
assure it is in the proper owner i
possession. A number of bad
checks have been cashed recent
ly where a social security card
has been used as a means of
identification. The department
cards for check cashing purposes,
cards fo rcheck cashing purposes.
NEWBRY LED CANDIDATES
Secretary of State Earl T. New
bry was the biggest vote getter
in the November election accord
ing to the official canvass releas
ed Friday by David O'Hara, of the
state election department. The
vote of 533,829 was the biggest
In history of Oregon elections
CARD OF THANKS
We take this means of thank
Ing neighbors and friends for
their many kindnesses and ex
presslong of sympathy during our
bereavement and to express our
pppreciatlon for the beautiful
floral tributes to the memory of
our beloved mother.
The children of Mrs. Nellie
McFerrln.
government contemplated by the
department's conservation policy
for maximum beneficial use of
Development of the phosphate
deposits in the public lands of
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' What a grand, memorable Christmas youll
give her with your gut ot international
Sterling! See it . . . choose the pattern
shell love . . . today!
Wheat League
Meets at Condon
Continued from First Pas
foremost concern to the wheat
commission in its continuous
search to secure for Oregon grow
ers the best possible returns on
their wheat.
Commission members and Bell
have also assisted Idaho and
Washington in developing plans
for wheat commissions of their
own since Oregon wheat prob
lems are largely regional In
scope.
Leo E. Horigan. Prosser, Wash.,
vice-president, Washington and
Idaho Wheat league, appeared on
the meeting program to report
progress In state of Washington
plans for a wneat commission
patterned after that of Oregon.
He expressed the view the bill
sponsoring such a commission
would be introduced into the next
session of the Washington legis
lature. Similar legislation will be
sponsored in Idaho.
Horrigan predicted a stiff fight
for passage of the measure.
New Directors Named
A new board of directors for the
wheat growers league was also
announced during the final ses
sion. County representatives for
next year are: Jefferson. Henrv
Thornton, Ash wood; Gilliam,
Jack Smith, Mayville; Morrow,
L. L. Howton, Heppner; Baker, C.
D. Conrad, Baker; Wasco, Eldon
Emerson, The Dalles; Umatilla,
phate program being set up In
the department in 1947 by the
secretary to deal with this poten
tial additional source of farm
fertilizer.
Meantime, other interior de
partment officials today also laid
stress on the possibilities for ad
ditional revenue to the govern
ment and increased fertilizer
stocks through utilization of the
low grade ores on the public
lands. Heretofore, they explained
only ores having a phosphate
content of 30 percent of P205 or
higher have been utilized under
Federal lease; yet the supply of
rock containing less than 25 per
cent in some areas, and partlcu
larly In the western phosphate
area, is several times as great as
of the higher grades.
Significantly the Simplot com
pany lease is the first ever issued
by the government in which the
development of the lower grade
ores is contemplated through
stipulations for payment of roy
alties not only upon production
from 30 percent ores but also "on
any phosphate rock of lower
grade which may be utllizea.
Under the lease, this royalty
shall be paid at the rate of 5 per
cent of the gross value of the
leased deposits recovered and
sold or otherwise disposed of, and
shall not be less than 25 cents
a ton. The company also will pay
royalty of 10 cents a ton for
so much of any deposit of silica,
limestone or other rock situated
on the leased land as may be
utilized in the processing or re
fining of the leased deposits or Ronald Rew, Pendleton; Sherman,
of deposits from other lands.
The company will be required,
under the terms of the lease, to
invest $50 per acre, or a total of
$56,000 in actual mining opera
tions, developments or improve
ments, of which $18,000 shall De
expended the first year.
Issuance of the government
lease resulted from earlier pro
Floyd Root, Wasco, and Wallowa,
Robert Hammond, Enterprise.
No member of the board of
directors was announced from
Union county.
Alvln W. Olson, Great Falls,
Mont., spoke on practical conser
vation farming on his 9.000 acre
ranch In Montana, He mentioned
that the wheat lands are strip
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ceedlngs taken by the bureau of cropped in 10 rod width to prevent
land management for develop-1 blowing. He said it costs about zi
ment of the phosphate resources 1 percent more to farm because of
on the public lands, Director Mar
ion Clawson explained today. On
July 21, sealed bids for the priv
ilege of leasing the tracts of pub
lic land In Caribou county, were
opened in Washington. The J. R.
Simplot company was the suc
cessful bidder, offering $10.26 per
acre for the first three units into
which the area had been divldeu,
and $2.06 per acre for each of the
other two.
Department records show that,
subsequent to the bid opening,
officials of the Simplot company
stated that it planned to careful
ly preserve and pay royalties on
all low grade ores for use in el
ectric furnaces now under con
struction in Pocatello.
the inconvenience caused by the
strips but he felt that it paid off
in reduced blowing and conserv
ed moisture. The strips are also
advantageous from the stand
point of a fire safeguard.
The wheat disposal and mar
keting committee commended the
work done by the Oregon Wheat
commission In recognizing the
immediate need for new indus
trial uses for wheat. A resolution
was passed expressing a need for
analyzing wheat market possibil
ities In the Orient
The twenty-first meeting of the
wheat league was concluded with
the annual banquet. Guest speak
er was President A. L. Strand,
Oregon State college.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
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JOS. J. NYS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
Heppner, Oregon
P. W. MAHONEY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
General Insurance
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow Street Entrance
Jack A. Woodhall
Doctor of Dental Medicine
Office First Floor Bank Bldg.
Phone 2342 Heppner
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician & Surgeon
J. O. PETERSON
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Heppner, Oregon
Veterans of Foreign
Wars
Meetings 2nd and 4th Mondays at
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Licensed Funeral Directors
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Heppner, Oregon
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Meets First Monday Each Month
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the Council
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