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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-
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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-
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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.
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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.
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ARLIE GREENE'S
COME HOME
Help yourself with a checkup.
And others with a check.
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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.
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