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By any measurement we use. the
United States is a country blessed
We feed more people than any other
country in the world With a percen
tage of population in agriculture far
less than any other country, we pro
duce far more in agricultural goods
Productivity per man hour in
agriculture has been increasing about
twice as fast as the rate of produc
tivity per man hour in manufactur
ing The greater the farm pmductivi-
ty. the more people a single farm
worker can feed Currently he is
feeding about eighty people
The United States employ s about
2% of its population in agriculture
Compare that with Russia (32%).
France (14%), or India (68%)
Compare the United State's percen
tage of income spent on food (11%)
with Ru*sia(35%), France(26%)or
India (64%)
The United States is an excellent
example of the direct relationship
between agricultural productivity
and affluence We arc a wealthy na
tion because we arc so agricultural
ly productive With 98% tfour peo
pie employed in producing
something besides food, and with
89% of our income free to spend on
other things, we arc affluent, indeed
We have more telephones per per
von. more cars per person, more col
or television sets per person, and
more of our young people finish high
school and go on to college than any
other country in the world We arc
a good example of the basic princi
ple that the more productive a na
lion's agriculture, the more affluent
its people
The United States has accomplish
ed this feat by having a strong incen
tive to be productive, by the creation
of the laind Grunt Colleges, and the
research and development, the
education, and the extension work
done by them, and by the creation
of improved technology and
management tools.
If we produced today 's food supp
ly with the efficiency and techniques
available at the time of World War
I. we would need seven times the
farm workers we have today We
would need twenty times the horses
and mules (and 180 million acres
more just to feed them.)
Trying to produce today's food
needs with World War I technology
would be a catastrophe we lack the
manpower and the land This tells us
something In 50 or 60 years, if we
don't make even more remarkable
agricultural progress, the people of
that time will be mighty hungry
While it is difficult to imagine
what the needs of the world will be
in another 50 years, we have to do
just that in order to imagine what
changes need to take place in
agriculture in order to meet those
needs Biotechnology is the hope of
the future, promising such things as
genetically enhanced productivity,
pest resistant plants, crops able to
thrive in areas now too dry or ¿aline
for production
The place of the luind Grant Col
lege in the future agricultural scene
is secure, therefore It is through the
research and development and the
extension of that information to the
industry that future advances in pro
ductivity will occur.
And it is through future advances
in prodi'vtivity that the wealth and
prosperity of this nation will be
assured. Affluence is and will con
tinue to be a function of agricultural
pnxfuctivitv
W.C. Little League
Schedule
W eek of June 14- 21
Majors Wednesday. June 14 In
dians v Angels at lone. (M)-
Heppncr 3 v Hcppner 2. dam. (T)-
Condon I v Hcppner I at Condon
Thursday. June 15 Braves v
Giants. Hcppner, (M) lone v Con
don at lone
Friday. June 16 Angels v Cubs.
Condon; (M) Hcppner 2 v Hcppner
I. dam
Saturday. June 17: (T) lone v
Arlington at lone 10 a m.; (Tl-
Hcppner 2 v Condon I at Hcppner
dam 10 a m.; (Tl-Heppner I v Con
don I. at Hcppner dam 12 noon
Monday. June 19 Giants v
Angels. Hcppner. Indians v Cubs,
lone. (M) Hcppner 2 v lone at
Hcppner fairgrounds
Tuesday. June 20 (Ml Hcppner 3
v Hcppner I at dam. (TV lone v c on
don 2 at lone
All ganxs begin at 6 p m unless
otherwise specified Teams are as
follows: Indians-lone; Braves
Giants Hcppner. Angels Condon.
Cubs Arlington (M> Minors
(T)-T bell
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Lexington By News
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Delpha Jones
Holly Rchckah Lodge met on
Thursday for the regular meeting
with the NG Gen Martin presiding
Plans were discussed concerning the
President's visit the 29th of June
The U N Pilgrimage send off din
ner was held at the Pendleton Odd
fellow Hall on Thursday honoring
the two boys going from the
Umatilla-Morrow district The
lodges giving on the project were
honored as well as the individuals
giving on this wonhwhilc project
The boys will join others going by
bus from Portland to New York, and
a siaht sec inn trip across the United
States and Canada to the U N The
trip is sponsored each year by the
Oddfellow and Rchckah Lodges of
the United States, and is given to the
student writing and delivering the
essay Following the meeting
refreshments were served The next
meeting will he held on Thursday
June 15 w ith a pot luck dinner at 6 :30
p m shared with the (Xidfcllowx
-:-Josic and Glover Peck have had
as their guests Dorothy and Ed
Tucker, a daughter of the Pecks,
from their home in Salem All cn
joyed a trip with their motor homes,
and some sightseeing and fishing
- -Creth and Darrel Harris and
Cecil Jones motored to Monument
on Sunday where they met the Har
rix's son John who with several
friends, floated down the John Day
River on rafts, spending the weekend
camping out on the banks of the
river.
-:-Past Noble Grand Club met at
Paul's Cafe in Irngon on Wednes
day where they enjoyed a lovely lun
cheon hosted by Jo Irvin of Irngon
and Hilda Yocum A clever game
was at each place as a gift, and
following the luncheon a short
business meeting was held The table
centerpiece was an arrangement of
flowers and pink candles The
visitors spent some time visiting
Those present were, Dorothy Bur
cham, Joyce Burchain. Leila
Palmer. Delpha Jones and the hosts
The door prize was won by IX’lpha
Jones.
-:-Fay Ruhl accompanied Lori
Ross and son Josh to Portland last
week where they attended the
graduation of Tracey Ruhl at Mt
Hood Community College as a den
tal graduate Others motoring down
were her parents and Skip and Jean
Ruhl from Hcrmiston
Kristin Nelson and John
Grakam from Salem were recent
callers at the home of her mother
Jean Nelson and attended the church
auction in lone
Kenny Lyn Smouse anil sister
Chcrylyn were Portland callers this
past week where she went to consult
a physician tor her broken leg She
has been recuperating at the home of
her parents Kenneth and Frances
Smouse
Local students receive degrees
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•:-Jean Nelson attended the Nicl-
TraskChn strain reunion at Monu
ment Sunday. This was the 57th reu
nion and was held at the William
Ntel Homestead There were about
70 people present There were many
guests from the Willamette Valley
area, and Washington, several com
ing by motorhome and campers A
bountiful potluck dinner was en
joyed Others going from this area
were Kenneth and Julie Nelson and
girls, Fred and Helen Nelson from
Pendleton and sisters and husbands
of Fred Nelson. Clara and Floward
Slonemaker and Bert and Ellen
Mason of Qakgrovc
- -Cecil and Delpha Jones attend
ed Edward and Clco Hudson's 50th
wedding anniversary in LaGrande at
their home on Sunday.
- Recent visitors at the John
Mollahan home were his daughter
and husband Captain and Mrs Joe
Borman of Fort Lewis. Washington,
and a son and wife Joe and Tami
Mollahan and daughter from
McMinnville
- -A visitor at the home of Frances
and Edgar Murtry was a friend Viola
Weiss from Newport. Washington
- -Vacation Bible Scfu*>l is being
held at the Lexington Baptist
Church
• Betty Marquardt took her
parents Truman and Leila
Messenger to Portland over the
weekend where they attended (lie
high school graduation of their
granddaughter Joni Messenger Joni
is the daughter of Carrol and Vivian
Messenger of Tigard
Tourism meeting
held in Heppner
A Tourism committee meeting
was held May 30 at the Extension
conference room in Heppner
It was reported that the Port of
Morrow is working with the Board
man Park District to install a
sailboard park It was noted that a
parking area and sandy beach were
needed
The NCOTC committee toured
the Heppner Museum, courthouse
and bed and breakfast The next
meeting will be in Irrigon June 20
at 4 p m at the fish hatchery
The signage subcommittee has
contacted (he Irrigon and Boardman
chambers requesting their signage
requests
Bette Matthews is working on the
information guide to Morrow Coun
ty. It will be reviewed at the next
meeting
Fred Lundin demonstrated the
static display.
The Tourism brochures arc about
gone Tourism committee will assist
chamber with cost of reprinting
by Marie St rut hers
"
It is rewarding to read a hook that
is wntten about women and from a
woman's point of v tew We seem to
be gening more of these hooks in re
cent years and they are very
welcome Sheri S Tepper s new
novel. “ The Gale To Women's
Country” , definitely is such a hook
It is the quintessential post nuclear
holocaust tale, set far in the future
Strikingly remcniscent of
"Wintermind” (Marvin Kaye and
Parke Goodwin. 1982». the hook is
nontheless well written and Tepper
doles out the underlying mystery
with dexterity
Set hundreds of years after the
“ convulsion” , the novel presents a
country surrounded by nuclear waste
• the habitable land slowly extending
itself In this place, women, their
children, and a few men servents
live in walled cities Outside are the
garrisons to which the remainder of
the men in this rather unusual society
.ire relegated from the age of 5
years
Central to the story is Margot,
counctlwoman of Martha’s Town,
physician, mother and actress in the
traditional Greek play "Iphcgcnia at
llliam The rchcrsals for this play,
which is performed each summer by
order of the council, parallels the
story and reinforces the motivation
It is a clever device which Tepper
uses skillfully
Margot's world of walled cities
and Roman styled garrisons is a b a
zar world of candles and hydro elec
tric power, herbal medicine and hor
mone implants, a world where all
battles are fought hand to hand and
there arc no battlefield hospitals It
is also a world where every woman's
son leaves for the garrison outside
the gates to ’women's country' at the
age of five, a bitter custom with
whx h Margot has come to terms and
which her daughters Stavia and
Myra handle in two very different
ways
Despite the tact that Tepper has
drawn heavily on "Wintermind" tor
many of the incidents contained
here, the hook still demonstrates
enough originality to earn redemp
tion for these thefts "The Gate to
Women's Country” will be best
understood and appreciated by
women readers land men who aren't
afraid to eat quiche in public» Tcp
per shows no sympathy for
'machismo' in these pages and. in
tact, presents an effective appology
for equal rights It's all dressed in
very entertaining garb, however, ami
well worth reading
Other books by Sheri Tepper are
"The Awakcncrs" arxl "Alter Long
Silence” 1 haven't read cither of
these but after reading "The Gale to
Women's Country" it sounds like a
good idea See you at the library
Following it a list of area arts. Dana Kay Reid, certificate in
graduates that have received degrees general business stenography, cer
from the following colleges
tificate in general business-
Blue Mountain Community information processing. Bern Jenvn
Tanner, adult high school diploma.
College
Boardman: Suzanne Akers, Sheila Ann Coe. asvxiate of science
asvxiate of am degree in liberal degree in nursing
Lexington Travis Lee Harrivm.
am, Lisa Lee Cejka. associate of
am degree in liberal arts. Jackson associate degree in general studies
LeRoy Shcadcl. associate of science
Irrigon Trina Lyn Hellbcrg,
degree in civil engineering asvxiate of arts degree in liberal
arts
technology
Faistrrn Oregon Slate College
Heppner Tonya Rene Bowers,
Heppner Nancy Ixe Miller, BS
associate of science degree in
marketing and management. Marvin education
James Brannon, associate of science
Irrigon Leslie C'rcav>n Huffaker.
degree in civil engineering BS education
technology. Gregory Dean Connor, Mt. Hood Community College
Hcppner Andrea Leigh Ball,
asvxiate of science degree in civil
engineering technology; David asvxiate deitree in general studies
Wayne Green, asvxiate of science
Willamette University
degree in marketing and manage
W illanxtte University announces
ment; Kirsten Mane Green, cer
that
Stephanie Sue Payne, Hcppner.
tificalc in txxikkeeping. Bridge« II-
ene Greenup, asvxiate of science graduated from the school on May
degree in nursing. l.ana Renca Orr. 14. 1989 She received a BS and ma
jorrd in Biology Stephan« is a 1985
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