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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, November 24, 1955 Page 3 Lexington News By Delpha Jones (Too Late for Last Week) Mr. and Mrs. Don Campbell and daughter visited over the Armistice holidays with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Campbell at Hermiston and a brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Campbell of Lexington and a host of friends. Mr. Campbell is a student at Northwest Christian College. Mrs. Vera Whillock from Brook ing, Ore., visited her mother, Mrs. Emma Breashears over the week end. The Three Links club met at the home of Mrs. W. E. McMillan on Thursday afternono. The meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. Gene Majes ke. In the order of business a card party for Dec. 2 was an nounced, and a food sale for this coming Saturday morning at the Lexington post office and at this time there will be aprons and some fancy work sold. The money to be used on the I. 0. 0. F. floor. Refreshments were .served to the following Mrs. Alex Hunt, Mrs. A. F. Majecke. Mrs. Gene Majeske, Mrs. Cecil Jones and the hostsss Mrs. McMillan. Mrs. Eldon Padberg, Mrs. Cecil Jones, and Mis. Bill Nichols were hostesses to a party honoring Miss Jewell Boone on her birth day. This was held in the lunch room at the school house. Re freshments of ice cream, angel food cake was served, with the cakes being made and decorated by Mrs. Padberg. Miss Boone received a box of candy from her students. At this time Mrs. Gene Majeske provided an additional treat to the youngsters honoring her son Donald's birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Warner were Walla Walla visitors last Thurs day. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith and infant daughter have moved their household effects to Lex ington and will live in the ap artment at the 0. G. Breeding home. Mr.and Mrs. Gerorge Irvin were Hood River visitors Sunday at the Bert Darnielle home. Mrs. McMil lan kept the three youngsters of the Irvins. The Lexington Christian church and Sunday school business meet ing was held on Thursday night at the church. The Sunday school w n Tf. .fc I V .Man J? the westher outside! ... MEANS MORE Comfort IN YOUR HOME Maybe insulating your home doesn't sound much like a Christmas Idea but it really is, for not only will you be giving your family a whole lot more comfort, but you'll be giving yourself a Christmas present in the savings you'll get in your heating bill. Stop in now and let us show you what insulation can mean in comfort. We'll bglad too, to estimate your Job. WE CARRY ARMSTRONG FIBER-GLASS Full 4 inches thick ZONOLITE Pours like water. USG FIBER-GLASS Two thicknesses. INSULATE NOW A Xmas Gift The Whole Family Will Enjoy FINANCING? WE'LL HELP YOU! If you need easy financing for your insulation Job. we can supply that too. Just ask us about our easy-pay plan. I -- UMBER C on S"j ' ! - ii I'r'i ' "'l ". land to grass and financing live stock buildings and equipment. Wheat farmers with establish ed livestock facilities would also profit most by putting the divert ed acres to barlev instead of grass at present prices of barley and feeder cattle. The economists estimate that barley could drop to 55 cents a bushel before these farmers could use diverted acres to profitable enlarge cattle oper ations. Put another way, leecier cattle would have to bring $2-2 a hundredweight before forage could profitably replace 92-cent barley on diverted acres. The college is now studjing economic possibilities of holding feeder cattle and finishing them with feed grown on the diverted acres. Copies of the publication, "Us ing A Half Million Diverted Acres," are available from county extension agents or the ObL bul letin clerk. TO SELL 'EM, TELL 'EM- With An Ad WESTERN AUTO'S display cf wonderful dolls was too much for Glenda Kay Van Winkle of Lexington ... she just had to pick up one of them to see if they were "Real Santa Claus Stuff," and they were I Beautiful dolls ore Just one of the many gift items! that Western has ready for early-bird Christmas shoppers. There are gift items for Mom, Dad and Brother too, including furniture, and Mr. and Mrs. John Pfeiffer, owners. Invite early shopping for the best gifts. 1 -A I .fm.l-ll.ll.ii.iWi''W PHIL'S PHARMACY has a wonderful selection oi Christmas gifts especially for the "HER" on your list Here Pioneer Memorial hospital manager Jack Angel is examining a reasonably priced Jewel case that Mrs. Angel may find under her Christmas tree on December 25 (Don't anybody tell her) Phil Blakney Is showing his 1955 Christmas line of fine merchandise. meeting was presided over by the chairman, Mrs. Ken Peck. It was announced there would be a short program at the Sunday school hour honoring Thanksgiv ing, and as Sunday was the end of the contest between the whites and blues there would be a pot luck dinner at 5:30 to which all the families are invited to come and fellowship with the Sunday school. Christmas program was announced and work will start on it as soon as Thanksgiving is through. Next in order was the church business meeting which was called to order by the chair man, Karl Miller. The new busi ness of the meeting was the sewer system at the parsonage and a committee was appointed to take care of this. Later the meeting was adjourned. Those attending the meeting were Miss Dona Barnett, Mrs. Inna FarKer, Mr. and Mrs. KdVl Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Munkers, Rev. and Mrs. Norman Northrup and June Cooper and Mrs. Geo. Allyn. Mrs. Bernard Doherty was hos tess assisted by Mrs. Robert Mat hews to a house warming shower honoring Miss Flud, the 2nd and 3rd grade teacher. Miss Flud re ceived manv fine and useful gifts. Refreshments were served bv thp hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Miller and baby daughter of Hermiston visited Saturday at tne cecu Jones home. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Griffen are at home after several weeks in Washington. published by the OSC experiment station. Wheat farmers with no live stock facilities, say the econo mists, have little to choose from when they divert the required 35 percent of wheat lands. Barley, first choice, will bring an esti mated 20 percent drop in income as compared to a 50 percent de cline if acres are left idle. But even idle acres should bring higher income than seeding the PHONE 1-9212 HEPPNEB Barley Remains Best Bet For Diverted Acres what to do with the half-mil lion acres diverted from wheat nroduction in Oregon's Columbia Basin counties? Barley remains the best bet, dollar-wise, accord ing to Oregon State college agri cultural economists. For twn vears running, the na tion's wheat growers have voted in wheat acreage allotments un der the government's belt-tight ening program to reduce surlpus ps. The acreage cutback in Ore eon DromDted an OSC survey of some 125 basin growers engaged In either all-out wheat operations or a combination wheat and cow calf livestock Droeram to learn how they could best handle the pxtra arres. Estimated incomes from differ ent uses of diverted land have been outlined in a leaflet just Long Distance Natlon-Wid Moving Service Mayflower Agents Padded Vans Penland Bros. TRANSFER CO. 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In principle, present ICC regu lations governing the various transportation systems are perti nent, constructive, and modern in concept. Under these principles, we have developed the greatest competitive transportation system in the worldl ammimn touscxbhg inDUsrav AMERICAN TdUCKINO ASSOCIATIONS, INC., WASHINGTON '6, 0.- C What has bten good lot iht (ountry should bt good enough for tht railroadii WE USE TO HELP FOLKS BUILD