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
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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. -
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Our profit has dropped sharply
on telephones added
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dollar liwtsted in
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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.