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Holiday Visiting
Features Boardman
Life Past Week
By MRS. FLOSSIE COATS
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Mallery
and sons Gerry and Jimmie re
turned to their home in Seattle
after spending Christmas with
Mrs. Mallery's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Claud Coats. Mrs. Coats re
turned home with them and stay,
ed until Sunday.
New Year week end guests at
the R. A. Fortner home were their
son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Lindsay and family of
Kinzua.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell DeMauro
and daughter Anna Marie were
guests of Mrs. DeMauro's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. I. Skoubo.
Claud Carnegie of Portland was
a guest the past week at the
home of his brother-tn-law and
sister, Mr .and Mrs. Earl Briggs.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Campbell and
family of Pullman, Wash, were
Sunday dinner guests also at the
Briggs home. Mrs. Campbell is
Mrs. Briggs' daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Anderegg
entertained at dinner Sunday.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Wyss, Chas. Anderegg Sr. and
Ralph Wasmer. Guests later in
the evening were Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Mulligan, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Zivney and family.
Sunday dinner guests at the
Leo Root home were Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Macomber and fam
ily, Arlington, Mr. and Mrs. Ver
non Root an dsons, Athena. The:
Roots remained until Monday I
evening. j
Gene Allen who has spent thei
past 10 days visiting with his pa.
rents. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Allen,
returned to the navy base at San
Diego, Calif., Sunday, his mother
going as far as Los Angeles where
she will visit her stepfather and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rordell.
Mrs. John Partlow is quite ill
and was taken to the Mid-Colum-bia
hospital at The Dalles.
Boardman Garden club met at
the home of Mrs. Henry Zivney
Monday afternoon. Assisting Mrs.
Zivney was Mrs. Robert Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ball (Chloe
Barlow), who spent the holidays
at the home of Ball's parents, Mr,
and Mrs. Roy Ball, also other rel
atives and friends, returned to
their home at DeLake, Sunday.
RESIDENCE CHANCES
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guests of Mrs. Lena White. Their
daughter, Virginia and grand
daughter JoJean, came down
from Seattle to spend Christmas
with them.
A daughter, Kathy Rae, was
born Staurday,- December 31 to
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Moyer at the
Corda Saling home in Heppner.
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Kil
kenny of Pendleton were in Hep
pner to attend the New Year's
eve dance at the Elks.
The Past Matrons club enter
tained with a potluck dinner
Wednesday evening at the Ma
sonic hall honoring Mrs. Harley
Anderson, incoming worthy ma
tron of Ruth chapter No. 32. O. E.
S. Mrs. W. O Dix was incharge of
arrangements
Charles Flint departed Monday
for Ames, Iowa where he will i
continue his sruriipe fr Hint
expects to finish school the end
of March.
Archie Padberg. Jackson Holt
and Wade Bothwell left Monday
tor Monmouth where they will
re-enter the normal school. They
were accompanied by Tom Hugh,
es who is attending Linfield and
Joe French wh goes to the univer
sity of Oregon.
Miss Leila McLachlan left
Monday for Spokane where she
will attend business college. She
has been employed for the past
year and a half in the tax de
partment at the court house.
The Junior Endeavor of the
Church of Christ enjoyed a sleigh
ride and chili party Wednesday
evening after school.
Mr. and Mi's. N. N. MeClarren
and son Gregory of Hermiston
were business visitors in Heppner
Wednesday. Mr. MeClarren rep
resents a plumbing, heating and
mill supplies company of Port
land in this district.
Rev. Martin B. Clark of Ceres,
Calif., former pastor of the Church
of Christ, will be in Heppner on
Sunday, January 8 and will con
duct the morning and evening
services. Rev. Clark is preparing
to leave early in the spring for
missionary work in Japan. The
local church is contributing one
third of his support during his
sthy in Japan and an effort to
raise the necessary funds will be
made Sunday. Following the
morning service a basket lunch
will be served In the church
parlors.
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CARD OF THANKS
May we take this method of
thanking our neighbors and
friends for their kind expressions
of sympathy in our recent be
reavement; for the many floral
offerings, and the assistance of
the beautiful Elks service and
other kindnesses given in his
Start The New Year Right
With an Equitable Life Saving
Plan
C. A. Ruggles, Agent
Phone 732
Heppner
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economists planned them.
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fro gib doors, ragged and rigid. New icyi
ing reduces loot pcc required.
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tiona Humter IUrigron tun ptt
mioent, buiji-in bottle opener.
"Tlihf-W.i" R.frlg.rallng Unit
Quiet, exooooiial, aerer needs oiling
aumiunirer'i S-jeu mtnatj riveted to
btck of cabinet.
C.av.al.nt Ih.U Arrang.rn.nl
Bulk food lik. watermelon irf earjr to
tort, earr to get at-in all modeli.
Pardala Inamal Inlarlori-Acid re
aiitant bonome. Sounded cornerl mak.
detning earr. Nothing to catch dirt.
Far
mers
Inqulra about our special
blanket liability pelicy.
Complete liability and
medical coverage on all
operations vehicles,
equipment and livestock
Included.
Turner,
Van Marrer
and
Company
Phone 152
Heppner
Oregon
memory. We are deeply grateful.
Mrs. Ruth Swick
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Swick and family
Mrs. Anna Bayless
NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY. GIVEN
that the undersigned, as Admin
istrator of the estate of ALBERT
J. WESTHOFF, deceased, has fil
ed its Final Account and report
in the said estate with the Clerk
of this Court, and that the Judge
thereof has fixed Monday, the
6th day of February, 1950, at the
hour of 10:00 o'clock a. m as the
time, in the County Courtroom in
the Courthouse in Heppner, Mor
row County, Oregon, as the time
and place for hearing objections
to the said Final Account and the
settlement thereof.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
PORTLAND, Administrator of
the Estate of Albert J. West
hoff, deceased.
P. W. Mahoney,
Attorney for the Administrator.
Heppner, Oregon. 42-46
NOTICE FOR BIDS ON GASO
LINE AND DIESEL OIL
Notice is hereby given that
sealed bids will be received by
I Morrow County at the County
Clerk's office in Heppner, Oregon
for approximately 40,000 gallons,
more or less, of first structure
gasoline and 20,000 gallons of
diesel motor oil, more or less, de
livered In the county tanks at
Flatt's Transfer
and Storage
Heppner Ph. 112
The Dalles Phone 363S
114 E. 2nd St
Insured Carrier
OREGON WASHINGTON
FURNITURE MOVING
"We Go Anywhere.Anytime"
either Heppner, lone or Lexing
ton, at a maximum price per gal
lon for the period January 1, llJ50,
to December 31, 1950. Bids will be
opened January 20, 1950. Morrow
County Court reserves the right
to reject any or all bids or to ac
cept bids most favorable to the
County.
Morrow County Court.
January 4, 1950. 42-43
HEPPNER
GAZETTE TIMES
The Heppner Gazette, established
March 30, 1883. The Heppner
Times, established November
18, 1897. Consolidated Feb. 15,
1912.
Published every Thursday and
entered at the Post Office at
Heppner, Oregon, as second
class matter.
Subscription price, $3.00 a year;
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O. G. CRAWFORD
Publisher and Editor
I STAR go REPORTER
Don't Thow It Away !
If you want it to work bring it in to your
MARSHALL WELLS STORE. We serv
ice all makes of Ranges, Oil Burners, Wash
ing Machines, Home Electrical Appliances
and Bicycles.
WE REPAIR ANYTHING
24-hour service on Oil Burners.
After 6 p. m. phone 2724.
Marshall-Wells Store
Adrntsalon pricoa afternoon and avanlna;, unlaas apa
dfloaUy adrarUaed to ba otharwlael Children I Bat.
Price .17, Fed. Tax .03, Total too: Orada and Hick
School Mndanta 11 year, and owl Eit Prtee 40
Fed, Tan .10, Total 60e i Adultai Eat. Price .SOo, Fed.
Tax .10, Total too. Keary oluld ooonpyinf a aeat
mail ban a tlaket.
Sunday ahowa contlunoni from 1 p. m. All evening ahowa start at Ti30 p. m., anleaa otherwise
advartlaed
Thursday-Friday-Saturday. Jan. 5-6-7
MASSACRE RIVER
Guy Madison. Rory Calhoun, Cathy Downs,
Caiole Mathews, Johnny Sands. Steve
Brodie, Iron Eyes Cody
A bang-up western with rugged scenic
backgrounds filmed in sepiatone in the
wastelands of northern Arizona, plus a
youthful, enthusiastic cast.
Second Feature
MAKE MINE LAUGHS
Ray Bolger, Anne Shirley, Dennis Day,
Joan Davis. Jack Haley. Leon ErroL
Frances Langford. Cil Lamb
A dazzling array of stars doing their most
famous comedy, music, dancing and song
specialties.
Sunday-Monday, Jan. 8-9
PRINCE OF FOXES
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hen.
drix. Marina BertL Everett Sioane, Katl
na Paxinou
The screen version of Samuel Shellabar
ger's best-seller is notable for its magni
ficent production it's an intriguing,
swashbuckling saga of Italy during the
heyday of Cesar'e Borgia with most
scenes shot in their actual locales.
Tuesday-Wednesday. Jan. 10-11
MANHANDLED
Dorothy Lamcur, Sterling Hoyden, Dan
Duryea, Irene Henrey, Philip Reed, Art
Smith
Slick and tricky melodrama . . . well-plotted
story with a surprise ending.
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WHY TINKER
WITH FARM PROGRAM
It is reported in the press and elsewhere that the Wheat League of
Oregon, undertaking to speak for the wheat growers, contemplates
urging the abandonment of its support of the present farm program
and to support a new proposed measure which has to do with a two.
price system and provision for the issuance of certificates from millers,
dealers, etc.
The writer has not seen this proposed measure; his only informa
tion is from sketches which have appeared here and there. Before
the wheat growers accept this new measure and permit the Wheat
League to advocate it in behalf of the wheat growers, it would be
well for each wheat grower to consider this new measure.
It has some of the features of the McNary-Haugen bill which
passed Congress twice and was vetoed by two presidents upon the
ground that it was unconstitutional It has some features of the
Grange Debenture measure which was never passed by Congress. It
is thus apparent at the outset that the proposed bill is probably vul
nerable because the courts would declare it unconstitutional.
But why should wheat growers be tinkering with the present
measure and particularly, why should the wheat growers of Oregon
be finding fault with it? A brief review of the efforts to secure a
farm bill might be profitable. In 1923, a meeting of the wheat grow
ers of Eastern Oregon was held at Arlington. All counties from Uma
tilla to Wasco, inclusive, were well represented. The writer had the
honor 61 being chairman of that meeting. Some two-hundred wheat
growers were in attendance. This was probably the first meeting In
the United States of independent farmers seeking to have established
a farm program that would put agriculture on a parity with industry
-and labor. Out of that meeting grew the foundation work for the
McNary-Haugen bill. The result of the work of the committee ap
pointed was submitted to Governor Walter M. Pierce, after his elec
tion, who in conjunction with President W. J. Kerr of Oregon State
College, formulated the program as requested by the farmers and sent
the same to Senator Charles McNary who later was the author of the
McNary-Haugen bill which twice passed Congress and was twice
vetoed because of its unconstitutionality. This bill provided for a
domestic price fixed by law and an export price fixed by general
market conditions and had other provisions.
The so-called farm board had theretofore been created by the
national Congress with funds to stabilize the market. This had
proved unsatisfactory and was abandoned. The Grange Debenture
bill was urged In some parts of the United States.
The result of the failure of all these early programs was a bank
rupt agriculture through the 1920's; the destruction of the buying
power of agriculture which resulted in the collapse of the banks and
industry all over tho United States which led to the depression of the
1930-s.
In 1933 the AAA farm bill was passed by Congress and seemed a
start in stabilizing agriculture when a year or two later it was, by a
divided opinion, declared unconstitutional by the Ignited States
Supreme Court.
Then was enacted substantially the program which is now in force.
Its constitutionality has been accepted, the basic act has been re
enacted and amended from time to time, but the program has stood
for some fifteen years as the farm policy of the United States. Walter
M. Pierce, congressman from Oregon and then a member of the Agri
culture Committee of the House of Representatives, informed me that
this measure passed that committee by only one vote. Hence, it was
difficult at that time to secure the passage of the present farm bill.
Since then it has been sustained by Congress by close majorities in
many instances.
The present bill has become a part of the national economy. It
not only has maintained a reasonable and parity price for wheat but
it has done the same, among other things, for corn and cotton. After
World War I, there was a depression which lasted, so far as the wheat
grower was concerned, from 1920 to 1940. This resulted in the loss of
farms, delinquent taxes, and bankruptcy everywhere. After World
War II, the prices of all farm commodities have been maintained. It
would be a bold and reckless person who would say that these prices
have not been sustained by the present farm program. Agriculture is
the most prosperous it has been in the memory of living persons. Why
tinker with a program that has maintained the nation and brought
prosperity to all during the readjusting period after World War II?
Is it wise for the wheat growers of Eastern Oregon to now condemn
this program and seek an untried probably unconstitutional program
which will be turning back the clock to the year 1924? Why abandon
all the good that has been achieved and start again experimenting
with an untried measure which in all probability it passed would be
declared unconstitutional and leave the country without any farm
program? This would be the first step towards another era of bank
ruptcy for wheat farmers. Why should the wheat growers of Eastern
Oregon, who took the lead and pioneered for a farm program in 1923
be the first to upset the applecart and bring about bankruptcy and
ruin upon themselves and upon the nation? Do the individual wheat
growers of Eastern Oregon desire the Wheat League of Oregon to say
that they are empowered to represent them in taking this new course?
We must not forget that the present program covers cotton in the
South. Some may ask, why does that concern the farmers of Oregon?
Prosperous cotton growers of the South mean a market for the seed
crops of the Willamette Valley and some sections of Eastern Oregon.
The present farm program has brought prosperity to all the farmers
of Oregon and the farmers of the entire nation. Why tinker with a
program well established and satisfactory to all concerned?
It is necessary to sustain the present price of wheat The cost of
farm equipment, including tractors, drills, plows, combines, and what
not is known to every farmer. This high cost of equipment is brought
about by the high cost of steel and high wages. The present wheat
price is now on a parity with these high prices. The national econ
omy is geared and functioning well to this high standard of living
for all. Why should the wheat growers of Eastern Oregon tinker
with a situation which is so satisfactory to them?
An injury to the farm program would of necessity destroy the
farmers' buying power and cause the entire economic system to col
lapse. Why should the Wheat League of Oregon undertake to say
that the individual wheat growers are in favor of a proposed new
and untried program that could bring disaster not only to the farm
ers but to the whole country? Why tinker?
It is suggested that those in favor of maintaining the present pro
gram sign the attached request and send it to the President ef the
Wheat League, lone, Oregon. This article may not reach everyone
and opportunity is made on the request for more than one to sign by
writing his name. Those farmers who favor the program here sug
gested could get their neighbors to sign the same and send to the
president of the Wheat League. The proposed move could be a most
dangerous move for the farm program. Opponents of the farm meas
ures In Congress could get much comfort from the fact that the wheat
growers themselves had condemned the program that brought them
prosperity. It is not safe for a single wheat grower to let the Wheat
League undertake to state that the farmers are not satisfied with
the present program and desire the proposed experimental change.
Sign and get others to sign the following request and send it to the
President of the Wheat League at lone, Oregon.
MARK V. WEATHEHFORD,
Wheat Grower of Arlington, Oregon.
REQUEST
I oppose the proposed certificate wheat program and favor the
present farm program.
Lexington Implement Co.
Lexington, Oregon
Heppner, Ore.