EIGHT The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 3, 1978
Caribbean 9 Belgian exchange youths bring
international flavor to Chamber meeting
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Youth bulletins to aid kids
in Bible study
Beginning in August, chil
dren's bulletins will be avail
able every Sunday at Hope
Lutheran, Heppner and Valby
Lutheran, lone. The bulletins
are designed mainly for school
age youngsters, but are also
attractive to preschoolers.
The bulletins offer puzzles,
games and coloring that help
children enjoy and understand
the Bible readings for that
Sundav.
Methodists draft farm
policy at national
convention in Kansas
A list of recommendations
to get more forcefully before
the general public nine major
concerns of farmers was
drawn up in Wichita, Kans.
here July 17-18 by some 90
United Methodists from
across the United States.
Half the group was com
posed of farmers active in the
church and the other half were
pastors and denominational
leaders not engaged in farm
ing. Included among the
participants were Doug and
Carley Drake of Heppner.
The sessions were spon
sored by the United Methodist
Board of Global Ministries'
National Division to help
farmers know the church is
concerned about the critical
issues in the agricultural
community, help church lead
ers become better acquainted
with these issues, and provide
information for local churches
to use in a study of what has
been termed a "farm crisis."
It is believed to be the first
consultation of its kind called
by a major U.S. religious
body.
After a dozen hours of
intensive discussion in small
groups, the 90 persons here
identified as the major issues
demanding attention:
adequage income for far
mers in relation to their
capital investment, labor and
management skills.
government policies and
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Elks Calendar
Thursday, August 3
Happy Hour 5-6
Hot Hors d'ouvres 6-7
No Lodge
Friday, August 4
Happy Hour 5-6
Hot Hors d'ouvres 6-7
Dinner 6:30-8:30
Live music
Saturday. August 5
Dinner 6:30-8:30
Live Music
Members and
out - of
It is important for children
to know they're part of the
Church that worship ser
vices and sermons are not just
for grown-ups. These chil
dren's bulletins help com
municate this and more.
Parents can talk to their
children about what was in the
children's bulletin and hear
the same themes that were in
the sermon.
regulatory agencies relating
to such arenas as imports and
exports, farm programs, pric
ing, labor supply and taxes.
values inherent in farm
life.
-Communications efforts
designed to correct what the
group here felt is an incorrect
stereotype of farm life and
misinformation about the
farm situation.
a creating of solidarity
among farm groups and
others who are sympathetic.
world food policies in such
arenas as imports and ex
ports, expanded markets, and
distribution.
preservation of farm land
for farm purposes within good
stewardship of the soil.
a need for further discus
sion and information on the
issue of grain reserves or
surpluses.
Much of the interpretation
of the concerns is to be carried
out on local and regional
levels. Other recommenda
tions will be considered by the
denomination's national staff,
and some are expected to
come before another major
consultation to be held in
relation to world hunger to be
held later this year. Still
other of the recommendations
may provide the basis for
legislative proposals to the
1980 United Methodist General
Conference, the denomina
tion's top law-making body.
Tuesday, August 8
Senior Citizens 4:30
Happy Hour 5-7
Wednesday, August 9
Senior Citizens 4:30
Happy Hour 5-7
Thursday, August 10
Regular Lodge 8:00 p.m.
Happy Hour 5-6
Hot Hors d'ouvres 6-7
$100 Kitty
Dinner Drawing
- town guests only.'
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Jenny Irby
Hermiston
Heppner-Morrow County
Chamber of Commerce mem
bers were treated to a view of
lifestyles in the Caribbean and
Belgium at their noon meeting
recently, and while some
might have yearned for the
climate or agricultural pro
duction, other aspects of life
there point out what is taken
for granted in the wide-open
spaces of the west.
Maurice (Free) Garner, a
Professional Rural Youth Ex
change Leader from Barba
dos, a small country in the
West Indies; and Eric De
Maurice (Pree) Garner, left, and Eric De Wulf took a
look at "10-gallon styles" at Gardner's Men's Wear Monday
after speaking to the Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of
Commerce. Garner is a professional Rural Youth Leader
Exchange participant here from Barbados, a small country
in the West Indies. De Wulf is here with the International
Foreign Youth Exchange from Belgium, where he farms
with his father.
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We are pleased with the acceptance we have
received by area residents in our all
new Hermiston store.
Here are the winners of our
Grand Opening Prizes:
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Wulf. an International For
eign Youth Exchange student
from Belgium, were guests of
the Chamber Monday.
At a time of tax revolt in the
United States, De Wulf told of
a typical farm family in Bel
gium that makes a pre-tax
profit of $35,000 off 300 acres of
ground.
"But we have tax," con
tinued De Wulf in broken
English, "60 per cent $21,000
tax on that income."
In addition, farmers pay
agricultural workers about
$4.40 per hour and another $3
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per hour goes for the "fringe"
benefits and taxes. Land for
agriculture costs about $4,000
per acre.
"We do very intensive
farming," said De Wulf,
noting that on 300 acres his
family grows wheat, barley,
sugar beets and a few head of
cattle. The wheat yields 80
bushels to the acre average
98-100 bushels to the acre in a
good year. Potatoes yield
about 22-tons to the acre.
The country with 9.5 mil
lion people spread over an
area the size of Maryland
has about 50 per cent unem
ployment. More crowded with people is
Barbados, a country about
twice the size of the Boardman
Bombing Range, located in
the West Indies. A population
of 1 j-million people live on the
island that enjoys tropical
temperatures that hover be
tween 65-85 degrees year
around.
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The country's residents
grow as much of their own
produce and vegetables as
possible, using space that
would ordinarily be a parking
strip or front lawn, according
to Pree Garner.
Sugar Cane is the main
economic crop and the coun
try has processing facilities
for the raw product in addition
to exporting. A boon to
agriculture is the fact that
recropping continues year
around, one vegetable crop
followed by another.
Transportation ranges from
donkey carts to limousine and
a cross-country trip by bus
runs about 35-cents.
Barbados also has a na
tional stadium, where the
national game of croquet is '
played, as well as soccer,
basketball and cycle racing.
What held the foreign visi
tors in awe about the country
here? The wide open spaces
and abundant forest lands.
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Hermiston
That's something to think
about when you come from a
country with 1,500 people
living on each square mile.
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