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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1952)
Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 14, 1952 Page 3 Form Bureau Takes Stand on Controversial Store Measures SALEM The board of direc tors of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation wound up their quar terly board meeting held at Bend last week with definite committ ments on several measures that will appear on the Oregon ballot at the November election. Action was not taken on G of the measures the cigarette tax, race belling, buying less than bottle, appointive state superin tendent of public instruction, vet erans loans, state home for the aged and Korean war veterans loan as they were not covered by previous resolutions adopted by Lexington News (Continued from Page 2) Mrs. Kenneth Klinger. Cecil Irven Botts is enjoying a furlough with friends and family, from his camp at San Diego. Mrs. Dean Hunt and Mrs. John Ledbctter and Shirley Hunt were visitors in Walla Walla on Tues day. Mrs. Delvert Vinson and Mrs. D. V .Jones and Mrs. Charlie Bu chanan were Hermiston visitors on Tuesday. - o Farm Bureau delegates. j The did, however, go on record i as standing "firmly behind the! principles of the Oregon Milk! Marketing act". After reviewing! the positions of the county Farm! Bureaus on this controversial .sub-1 ject, the hoard instructed officers to follow the resolution adopted! at last years convention and re affirmed at a special dairy meet ing held at Salem in February to support the present act. In reference to the Truck Tax issue, which the board supported, Marshall Swearingen, state presi dent, commented, "As a farm or ganization we have a duty to pro tect our many Farm Bureau mem bers from the inequities of this measure. This proposition was passed by the State Legislature and referred to the people by a very small segment of our econ omy the long-haul truckers. Failure to support this act will result in substantial reduction of total fees now being collected from trucks and buses". Concerning the school bill, the board went on record in opposi tion to this measure. "Sufficient resolutions have been received from county Farm Bureaus to enable Hie board of directors to take action," Swear ingen explained. Other measures considered were the daylight saving issue, re ap portionment, the new tax base, budgets, legislative terms, titles Furniture Fashions TPS i5 . i. ' . ','v ' -, f.v - v. . - v. ; N t t?x - r - ir- i 1 rr - . 1 " 5 It? v SEE Service Settles Electric FOR HOME OR RANCH WIRING OH LIGHTING NEEDS BEST STOCK OF LIGHT FIXTURES IN EAST CENTRAL OREGON Midway Down Main St. in Heppner No item of furniture delights the younff loy quite as much as the bunk bed. It is rugged and masculine in design and lcnd3 itself admir ably to a he-man decor. Mother likes it, too, for its space-saving advantages. It provides an appropriate background for baspball mitts, footballs, tennis rackets, fishing gear and all sports paraphernalia; for cowboy prints and scenes of great adventure. If there are two boys in the family or an occasional overnight guest it is indeed the answer to a Mother's prayer. Summer cottagers, especially, find it of great convenience. There are a variety of models on the market in maple, oak and pine. The boy's room shown above is a complete pine group, consisting of the bunk bed with ladder, a five-drawer chest, a student s desk, a captain's chair and a desk lamp. Furniture manufacturers today are catering to the men of the family as well as to the ladies of the household and make it possible for a guy to establish his own private sanctum, strictly male style. Among those from Keppner in Hermiston " Wednesday evening were Mr. and Mrs. Carol Freeman and daughter and Mrs. Freeman's mother, Mrs. Blanche Gearheart; Mrs. Richard Calvin, Mrs. Magda lene Tobey, Mrs. Frank Ayers and Mrs J. C. Payne. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wright and daughters, Joanne and Judy, have returned home from a weeks vacation at the Oregon coast. IN THE TRADE AREA of IDAHO, OREGON, UTAH, NEVADA The Pioneer Service Company that represents the largest organization of business and professional men in the Northwest is calling your attention to a condition that is quite ser ious for the local merchants, doctors, hospitals, and druggists. That is: paying your bills once every six months or once a year. to acts and state tax levy limit. Of the 7, support was extended by the board to all but the reap portionment measure and the new tax base. Explaining the bureau's stand against reapportionment, Swear ingen said, "We've been in this battle for a long time and we're not going to get out now. The Farm Bureau initiated the origi nal "balanced plan" for reap portionment calling for area as well as population to be repre sented, and the federation will oppose vigorously 334-335, which was instigated largely by ur ban groups and calls for reappor- Ijtionment by population only. Of . ' all the issues on the ballot, this is " "11 I lit-i M''V j It pnct mnrh more J430 fl ' W f - S 3 S the most important to rural Ore gon." 'The board ended its two day meeting by reaffirming its de cision to intervene, at the request of the Deschutes, Crook and Jef ferson county Farm Bureaus, re questing that the state hydro electric commission hold hearings on the Pelton Dam issue. o Fair-Min ded A. Do you realize that your grocer pays for his groceries once a week, or twice a month? B. Do you realize that virtually all the merchants have to pay their bills every 33 days? C. Do you realize that the gas and ser vice stations (or a lot of them) pay every time that gas is dumped? D. Do you realize that your doctor, your hospital, and your druggist, have to pay not only their wholesale bills but also their ow npersonal bills every 30 days, and that when any of these merchants carries a cus tomer over 30 days on his books his profit is gone, and he is losing money on his Investment? E. Do you realize what it costs to send statements? After the second state, mont is mailed out it costs from 35c to 40c a statement It is Is the hand ling charge on the money that really counts, not the paper, the stamp, and the time it takes to send it out. (Each week the Gazette Times will run a suggestion by the Morrow county Fair Board on possible exhibits for this fall's fair. It's just a reminder of ways you can help make a bigger and better fair). Showmanship? An at-home feeling when showing an animal; or displaying a product may be! acquired by practice and does add a lot to any show. Don't you think? We include neatness of exhibitor as well as his display in true showmanship. So, why not quit taking advantage of your merchants and professional men, and cooper. , ate with them by paying your bills sooner; ani thus help the financial rating of your trade' crea as well? PIONEER SERVICE Co., Inc. No Box 47 1 , Eugene, Oregon Commissions Charged On Collections All money is paid directly to the creditors. Accounts remain In the merchant's hands at all times. No contracts to sign and regret. Watch for the green and black handbills with ac counts for sale. investment for each new telephone added in 6 year postwar period $ I in investment for each new telephone i u added in 6 year prewar period Inflation has more than doubled the cost of building the facilities needed to put a new telephone to work. What inflation's done to your telephone Our dollars buy lessand less of the things we need to bring you good service 1. One of the brightest spots in your budget today is the telephone ... for the prices we charge have gone up much less than those of most other things you buy. In fact, taking 1940 as the starting point, Pacific Telephone prices are 61 per cent behind the average price increases of other things. On the other hand, we're up against a serious problem in furnishing good telephone service to you. For our dollars buy less equip ment and supplies, fewer employee work- r ing hours smaller amounts of all the things we need to build and operate a tele phone system-than at any time since the first telephone was installed in the West 75 years ago. In 1940. thu wli Ihi r operating expenses $96 I and taxes havB I h f t . telephone ;j "'"P 11,1951 ' tO '53 per telephone in 1940 w , 7 1 'I v rA I : jV I A W M Our profit has dropped sharply on telephones added 5.3 postwar orofiton Mch dollar liwtsted in trt Must teleohofw (Jded ift 6 yif pfftwir 2.3r This wit th I9M profit on each dollar invested id tht average leiepnont iddid in 0 par postwar period 2. For easy figuring, we've worked out our ex penses on the basis of one telephone. And, as you can see, running our system costs much more today than it used to. The two big reasons are inflation and higher taxes. Consider their effect: On the average, wage rates of telephone people today are more than double what they were in 1940; while operating taxes on the average tele- phone have soared more than 100 since 1940. 3. Adding a new telephone since the war costs about twice as much as before the war. Yet the profit per telephone in 1951 was up only slightly over 1940 about a dollar a year. As a result, the profit on our investment in facilities for each new telephone has been more than cut in half. It's dropped from 5.3 cents on the dollar in 1940 to 2.3 cents in 1951. Surely, providing good tele phone service under such conditions is a job full of challenge. And it's one we're determined to meet ... for perhaps never before has good and growing service been so vital to the nation. Pacific Telephone This could happen to your favorite picnic spot. Each year forest fires turn thousands of cool green recreational areas into blackened ruins. Most of these forest fires are man caused and preventable. That's why it's every American's duty to be careful with fire in the woods. tej Hepp ner Lum ber Co.
