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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1969)
Crebs While HEPPNER CAZETTE-TIMES, Thuwdor. Julf 31. 969 1 kf --J NUIHUUU lltJIIIi Place Blame on Suffers Injury en Array Leave IONE John Krebs, son of celved word on Friday that their Mr. and Mm. Dick Krebs of Cecil, had a near tragic accident lust Tuesday at the Krebs ranch home. Krebs has been spending his leave from the Army at hU nome ana helping with the nay lng. His father had made the wheel on the tractor turn short and in cutting a corner young KreDs caught ms loot in chain, the tractor going out of control and turned over pinning John under it lie managed to get free and walked to the house. Later he was taken to the doctor for a checkup, suffering from extensive bruises on the legs and arms, requiring a few days rest before he left on Sun day to report back to Fort Sill, Okla., lor 8 months of school lng and duty. Corporal Krebs will go to school for a few weeks and then will be an in structor. Young Frankle Engleman was rusfiert to the Hermlston hospital last Wednesday night when he developed a nigh temperature. His doctor diagnosed his condit ion an virus flu which caused a high blood count and tempera ture. He is at home now and much improved. Joe Engleman took ill sud denly Friday afternoon while at work and was taken to Pio neer Memorial hospital in Hepp-ii- ...it, ... . m-i. jit? win fM:iiii u ii'w uuya there for observation. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Akers of Portland visited with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Berl Akers, over the weekend. They were on ineir way to Hartlord, Conn., where Bill will undergo training with the Travelers Insurance Co. for a perod of ten months. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Childers of Mabtin, Wash., visited over the weekend with their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Child ers. Young Roger Childers was a patient at Umatilla hospital for two days last week, where he underwent a tonsillectomy. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Crabtree re- Smokey Says: NOT BURNING! ty? 1 ' vilify Trees provide lumber for your borne don't burn them up! son, Ron, who was at nome re covering from a recent car wreck had been taken back to the Ta coma hospital. Crabtree develop ed a cold and it progressively got worse, turning into pneu monia in his lung that was in jured at the time of his car accident. Houseguests at the home Mrs. Victor Rletmann over the weekend were Mr. and Mrs. Jalmer Koski of Vashon, Wash Mrs. Ted Hall of South Bend Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. George Newton of Vancouver, Wash The euests are cousins of Mrs Rletmann. On Sunday, Mrs. Rletmann had a family dlnnc in their honor. Other guests In eluded Mrs. Fred Nlckerson, Mr. and Mrs. Walt Roberts, and Cot Swanson Shirley McGreer was honored guest at a coiiee party on Fri day at the home of Mrs. Victor Rletmann. Miss Meoreer will be returning in the near future to London, England, alter an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Verner Troedson. Beeeher Emert of Seymour, Tenn., returned home via plane on Tuesday alter visiting witn his mother, Mary Emert, who is patient in Pioneer Memorl hospital and other area relatives nd friends. Linda Pettyjohn and Marsha Ball accompanied Jerl Krebs on vacation which took them by car to points in Washington and Idaho before they Journeyed on to East Glacier, Mont., to the Krebs' ranch for a few days visit. Richard Rea and daughters, Darcy and Donna, returned to lone after vacationing at Prine ville. After a short visit, Mr. Roa returned to his home in Port land; but the girls remained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Halvorsen for a longer visit. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Halvorsen of La Grande visited over the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Halvorsen. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight E. Haugen and family of Lake Os wego visited overnight with her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Roy W. Lindstrom. The Haugen family were on their way to Yellowstone Park for vacation. Susan Lindstrom and friend, Carla Eliason, of Hermlston at tended the Chief Joseph Days celebration at Joseph, this past weekend. Price Increase No man will ever convince a woman that food is a Dargain, It mav or may not be a bar gain, but women intuitively feel that food prices are too nign at any given time or place. The current lament over the price of beef Is a case in point. The Oregon Beef Council admits that the price of hamburger has gone up 15 per cent during the past 18 years. But it also points out that during this same per L.'lod wages have Increased 94 per cent, transportation costs have risen 48 per cent, and medical care has sky-rocketed its per cent For those who remember when a loaf of bread cost a nickel, Veteran Loans Hit Record Year Merchant Meeting Set for Friday Regular monthly meeting of the Heppner Merchants Commit tee will be this Friday at noon, according to chairman Jerry Adamson. Items to be discussed include the recent Sidewalk Bazaar and the Moonlight sale to be held in October. The meeting is at noon in the Wagon Wheel restaurant, Adam- son said. THIt SPACE CONTHIIUTCD IT THE PUBLIIHU PUILlA tVii ijOtfKvfiiPittiHlk mv t 1; W v 1 1 1 1 . - ,tnn-HJ.Y.fJt V t "''f a quart of milk 10 cents, and sir loin steak was 59c a pound, it may seem strange to call to day's food one of our best val ues. But, adds the Agri-Business Council, our wage increases have far surpassed the increases in food casts. Today, we spend only about 17 per cent of the family budget for food. This percentage has dropped nearly 10 per cent in the past twenty years. An hours wage for a factory worker today will buy far more steak, bread, orange Juice, and what have-you than it did in the "good old days." That hour of work would bring home less than a pound of bacon in 1914. pounds in 1939, and more than 4 pounds today. The Agri-Business Council al so notes that one-fifth of most people's grocery bill isn't gro ceries at all. It's something to A-ear, read, listen or clean with. For every 80 cents worth of gro ceries we load Into the shopping cart, we add 20 cents for laun dry soap; potted plants, socks, records, even encyclopedias. About half our hairsprav. as pirin and toothpaste is rung up on a supermarket register. And we spend more for beer, cigar ettes and pet food than we do for fresh beef. Housewives are keenly alert to changes in food prices, because' those prices are variable and food is bought frequently. Yet, food expenditures are not al ways built rigidly into the fam ily budget. Many other commit ments are housing, cars, furni ture, appliances, etc. These out lays are budgeted and often paid by check. If we replace them, it is difficult to compare the new price against the old. Food is generally paid for with cash, perhaps often what is left over after other expen ditures. If the cash left over is short, a tendency is to blame it on higher food prices. When a specific commodity, such as beef, increases in price at the supermarket, there is al so the tendency to point the fin ger at the farmer, saying, "Wow, this guy is getting rich at our expense." Yet, facts do not bear this out. For example, the laborer who unloads a carload of pears gets more money for unloading them than the farmer gets for grow ing the pears. The cellophane wrapper on a bunch of carrots costs more than the farmer gets for growing the carrots. The laundry charges more for wash ing a shirt than the farmer gets for growing the cotton that it's made of. The farmer gets 2Va cents for the wheat in a 35 cent loaf of bread. And the beef producer Is get ting the same price today that he received 18 years ago. Now, who else would try to live on 1951 prices? To make things tougher on the beef producer, he has been trying to squeak out a living for the past 15 years on depressed prices. And despite the fact that his price has final ly reached the level of 1951, the cost of operating his cattle ranch has increased 110 per cent during this 18 year span of time. Housewives have developed a concept which suggests that they have an inherent right to buy food at better-than-bargain prices so that the money saved on food can be spent for cosmet ics, liquor, frills on cars, and a wide assortment of other items which are more profitable to pro duce and sell. Certainly food is important to all American families, and food prices are a subject of daily con cern to most people. But this does not mean that the basic objective of the food industry has to be to try to keep profits so low that everyone in the in dustry suffers. This notion, although it has prevailed for many years, is sheer folly. A new record for numbers and dollar volume of Oregon veter ans' farm and home loans was set In fiscal 1908 -69 when 5.980 loans were granted in the amount of S8fi.617.100. the De partment of Veterans' Affairs reported today. II. C. Saalfeld. director, said loans were 30 over the pre- Vtous high of 4,622 in 1961-62 and dollar volume was 42 above the previous record of $00,794,600 in 1967-68. In Morrow county last vear. loans were sranted to eight vet erans In the amount of $108,450. compared with four loans In 1967-68 for $58,200. since the loan program start ed in 1945, loans have gone to 117 veterans In this county In the amount of $962,950. State wide, 68,679 loans have been granted for $078,156,224. Borrowers have repaid $348.7 million in principal and $120.8 million In Interest, with month ly repayments currently averag ing over $4.7 million. Of the 68,679 loans, 38,853 were out standing June 30 in the amount of $419,598,849. Saalfeld said the loan pro gram continues to earn a net revenue after paying all expens-1 es of the loan program and the service and coordination divis ion, and the state's share of costs for maintaining the reha billtatlon programs of veterans' organizations and county service on ice rs. This net revenue last year was 5z,w:oo,670, down 17 percent from iut)7-bS due to hieher bond costs. It brings the total earnings since 1S43 to $26,657,023. Out of last year's earnings, $410,872 will go to the State's General Fund as a result of an act by the special session of the 1967 legislature, making a total of $14,028,446 of loan earn ings reverting to the state in the last two years. This leaves the veterans' department $12, 628,577 of earnings representing 3 percent of loans and contracts outstanding. Pair Attend School Ray Ayers and Matt Hughes attended a school in carpet lay ing at the Kronin Co. in Port land July 22 as a part of tak ing on a new carpet line here. They will now handle Viking Carpet, and were instructed in its laying by Leo Eaches of the company at the school. (V clL COlieCT FOR INFORMATION. ' Headquarters For Complete Overhauling of Irrigation Pumps and Motors. REWINDING - REPAIRS COLE ELECTRIC Tutuilla Rd. 276-7761, Pendleton . We're Ready to Serve You . . For Seed Cleaning and Treating At our planr-25c bu., 50c sack, any amount. At your ronch-with portable treater 30c bu., 60c sack, minimum of 250 to 300 bu. Harold Ervvin or Heppner. Ore. Ph. 676-5806, Mornings Evenings for Appointment free Demonstration Of The VIKING KITCHEN CARPET See the Amazing CLEANABILITY and EASE of Installation of This Carpet SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 10 A.M. Free Coffee and Donuts MSR Company 278 N. Main Heppner IP 5. V ARLIE GREENE'S COME HOME Help yourself with a checkup. And others with a check. American Cancer Society 1 Mr. and Mrs. Oris Crisp ore being visited by two nieces, Bar bara and Carol Crisp of San Francisco. Daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Wovt Crisp, they attended high school here in 19G5-66. While here they are also visit ing former classmates and spent some time in Seneca, where their grandmother, Mrs. Walter Trafton, lives. They will visit cousins in Portland before leav ing for home the week-end of August 2-3. Arlie Greene left North Carolina's Blue Ria'ge mountains a few years ago because he couldn't find work. Now he's back . . . working in one of the new industries that Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation helped bring into the area. Now there are jobs, new homes, businesses and opportunity in this part of Appalachia, because the people of Blue Ridge EMC, working with other community leaders, helped spark a broad economic development drive. The inspiring Appalachia story is being echoed all over the country by consumer-owned rural electric systems. And the people of your local rural electric system, like the people of Blue Ridge, are working to help open new doors to opportunity to bring our Arlie Greenes home. Coll 384-2292. Condon, Collect for Flott's Truck Service SERVING HEPPNER WITH FAST AND DEPENDABLE FREIGHT TRUCK SERVICE Daily Overnight Senic From Portland Including Saturdays MOVING? CALL US 'Serving Morrow, Wheeler and Gilliam Counties' Telephone 676-9146