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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934 HIGH SCHOOL AG. STUDENTS SET CONVENTION APRIL 26-28. t PINE CITY NEWS t By Oleta Neill Delegates from nearly every high school in Oregon where agriculture is taught will be guests of the school f . griculture at Oregon State col lege for the sixth annual Future Farmers of America convention at Corvallis April 26-28. Plans are be- ing made to entertain from 250 to 300 of these Smith-Hughes students and their instructors. The program for the three days will consist as usual of educational lectures, judging contests, demon strations, business meetings and ome athletic and other entertain ment events. A special feature this year will be the visit of the national . P. A. president, Bobby Jones of Radnor. Ohio. He will stop at the 7 egon convention enroute back rom a trip to the Hawaiian islands where he has visited the F.F.A. chapters. O.S.C. Foresters in Demand. A strong demand for forestry graduates has been experienced at Oregon State college in recent months, reports T. J. Starker, pro fessor of forestry there. Men from the college have recently taken po sitions in many states other than Oregon. The Great Lakes states took six, Illinois two, Arkansas three, Arizona four, California six, Nevada, North Dakota, Washington and Oklahoma one each. Out of 40 O.S.C. men who took the latest civil service examination for Junior for- ester all but two were successful. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Myers were visitors In Pendleton Sunday. Mrs. Burvil Corbin of Heppner, moved into the house on the upper part of the Tom O'Brien place Sun day. Mr. Corbin has been working for Mr. O’Brien for some time. Mrs. Knighten and Mrs. Neil Knighten and son visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neill Sat- urday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Helms and daughter Henrietta were business visitors in Pendleton Tuesday. Lloyd Baldridge spent Sunday night at the Roy Neill home. Earle Wattenburger, Oscar Mc Carty, and Frank and Dick Carlson went fishing In the upper part of Big Butter Creek Sunday. They re- port fairly good luck. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Young and children called at the home of Mrs. Ollie Neill Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Neill and Marion Robertson were in Hermis ton and Echo on business Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Cox and children of Heppner were visitors on Butter Creek Tuesday and Wed nesday. Mrs. Roy Omohundro and daugh ter Iris and son Raymond were in Heppner on business Friday. Mrs. Bert Bowker of Alpine called at the Roy Neill home Friday. E. B. Wattenburger made a busi ness trip to Hermiston Monday af ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Ayers and children visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Finch Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Helms were in Hermiston and Echo Wednesday. The Pearson shearing crew that has been shearing at the Tom Boy len ranch left Sunday for the "White House” near Echo where they will shear. Mrs. Ollie Neill and daughters Oleta and Lennä were business visi tors in Hermiston Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Milton L. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. E. B." Wattenburger and children visited at the A. E. Wattenburger home Sunday after noon. Mrs. Trueman Sethers and daugh ter Phoebe of Eugene, are visiting for a while with Mrs. Sether's par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bartholo- mew. Phoebe has enrolled In the first grade in the Pine City school and intends to finish the term here. Visitors at the Dee Neill home Sunday were Mrs. Ollie Neill and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cor- rigai, and Mr. and Mrs. Burvil Cor bin. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Moore and daughters Audrey and Naomi visited at the Roy Neill home Thursday af ternoon. Mrs. E. B. Wattenburger called on Mrs. Peter Carlson Monday af ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Myers were at the W. D. Neill home Thursday morning. Dale Bundy of Heppner visited at the C. H. Ayers home Sunday. A. E. Wattenburger was a busi ness visitor in Hermiston Saturday. Senator LaFollette now has bill in U.S. Senate asking for 310,000,000,000 more for public works. LET’S DEMAND OUR SHARE. E. P. DODD For Governor Dams all along the Columbia, Willamette, and Snake, ports, roads to rivers, transmission lines, and impetus to farming and other enterprises will give employment to thousands of men and women. We need 350,000,000 more than now allotted and this will give employment to 50,000 directly on the works and 100,000 more behind the firing lines, to provide the multitude of things needed. 1 Uncle Sam gave land grants of millions of acres to railways. Has that investment ever been ques- tioned as to development of western wealth? J. J. Hill built roads first and business grew. Did he fail In vision? Oregon grew since Champoeg with plow in grass and axe at the tree to a great pros perity. Why not go on with the Job and harness the rivers and provide labor, and growth, and con tentment again by use of our own natural resour ces. One great American statesman said, “I fear that it our public resources fall into private hands it will some day enslave the American people.” The public should build these works and the pub- 11c should control their operations. We need cheaper electricity, more widely and more cheaply Installed, for light, heat, power, pumping and plumbing on farms, all of which are more than 50 per cent too costly now. We need cheaper freight rates. We pay 25 mills per ton mile in the northwest, while national average is but 10 mills per ton mile and 6.4 mills per ton mile by rail along the Mississippi and 4 mills per ton mile by barge on mid-west rivers. It costs as much to ship a bushel of wheat from Arlington, Oregon, to shipside at Vancouver as from Minne apolis to New Orleans. One Is 140 miles and the latter 1800 miles. Eastern Oregon’s Republican Candidate Seven Candidates in and at Portland. ONLY DEFINITE PROGRAM FOR OREGON PROSPERITY OFFERED. Development of Columbia and its tributaries. Tongue Point Naval Base—Bonneville with ship locks, and wide-spread transmission lines—Navi- gation Dam at Umatilla Rapids, to drown out six rapids to mouth of Snake—Navigation dams and pools in Snake to Ontario. Lower freight rates through navigation. Cheaper electric light and power to towns and country. Employment of thousands on permanent works. Enlarged markets and better prices for 50,000 small farms. Better primary roads to outlying areas and up state towns. Better treatment of small truck owners. | Give fanner, laborer, and soldier a hand. 1 Eliminate graft and high salaries from tax bur dens. Handle all state matters with common sense and human interest. Oppose concentration of political and industrial power of state. ... ARGUMENT. Dams must be built with Federal money. To get Federal appropriations east of the Cascades, and south of the Clakamas, requires more upstate po litical power. To develop the Columbia watershed we must change the political setup. Two senators, one of three congressmen, governor, and seven more who want to be. state organizations that control politics, are all In one mass of population and enmassed wealth. • • • We must teach Portland that her greatest re source is her great hinterland. The down hill haul from 270.000 square miles of watershed (Seattle has but 40.000) on water rate basis will give Ore gon ports 40.000.000 annual tons of freight that are now going elsewhere or lying dormant, because of high coets of moving to market. New York was made by the Erle Canal, and New York state has spent 8500.000,000 on waterways since. Glascow, Scotland, became the shipbuilding center of the world when the little Clyde was made navigable. All great cities were made by rivers. Portland can command Pacific commerce and rise from provin cialism to metropolitanism by becoming INLAND MARATIME MINDED. ♦ ♦ ♦ California has been allotted 8 3 00.000,00 0 for 1934 for public works (statement by president Banks of America) and Oregon not $20,000,000 allotted. WHY? California, by same authority. Is rising in prosperity through employment, mar ket for farm products and increased purchasing power for all goods. Washington was allotted nearly 8100.000,000. WHY? Because of broad state policies.‘ Why is 85 per cent of our wealth in hands of 5 per cent of our people? Because of the blanket mortgage of high freight rates, high power rates, high utility rates, and high corporate demands. We must squeeze out the water, and destroy pyra- midding of stock companies and control stock manipulations, and force rate making to an hon est basis. PAGE THREE A New York investigator found that in eight years an acre of alfal WARNS AGAINST FRAUD CO.'S. INCLUDED IN DAIRY PLAN. fa gathered 2000 pounds of nitrogen Salem. Ore., April 6 (Special) — from the air and changed It Into a That consumers of milk in Oregon form that crops could use. To get cities or elsewhere need have no While the office of Insurance Com an equal amount from commercial fear that the proposed dairy adjust missioner A. H. Averill has Issued fertilizers would require adding ment program will cause anything several warnings to Oregon citizens 1600 pounds of nitrate of soda or concerning the Inadvisability of pa approaching a milk "famine” or 1200 pounds of sulfate of ammonia even any shortage was emphasized tronizing unauthorized companies annually. which are attempting to do business at the regional conference for the Alfalfa growing is one of the tew Pacific northwest held in Portland. in this state, numerous requests for ways of increasing the effective soil assistance in the case of disputed, — -- — -------------- —----------------- April 9 and 10, according to repre and the de- depth, which is limited by the depth sentatives of Oregon State college claims are still received. partment is forced to inform the ! in which humus is deposited by de- who attended the meeting. complainant that It has no jurisdic-caying roots. Stable manure can be In the first place the plan is tion and can be of no assistance. mixed with the soil only to the made so flexible that any prospec A number of these unauthorized j depth of cultivation. Plowed alfal- tive shortage brought on bÿ the ex companies which are active in an fa sod makes an ideal seed bed for pected increase in consumer demand attempt to procure mail order bust- corn, potatoes or any crop which can be met by releasing more pro ness claim in their advertisements can use an abundance of fertility, duction among contract signers. that no commission is paid agents points out Dr. Stephenson. It has More important, it was brought out. and that because of this fact the in- also become the favorite cover crop is the fact that none of the planned surance can be written at a lower for orchards In irrigated districts, reduction is to be in the present premium. Upon checking the finan- TYI market milk supply but rather in cial statement of one company, it is LAMBS CONTRACT PARALYSIS the surplus that averages from 10 found that, while no commissions FROM DOCKING INFECTIONS. to 40 per cent in every major milk- were paid Oregon agents, of the to shed. tal cash income of approximately An Increase In paralysis among As a matter of fact, AAA officials 3370,000 only 378,000 was paid to young lambs can frequently be say the consumption of fluid milk members, but the expenses amount traced to the practice of not tho- in cities is expected to be actually to 3237.000 over and above pay roughly disinfecting the wound left increased somewhat by the working ments to members, from which it in docking, according to investiga out of the plan, as five million dol will be seen that of the total sum tions made by Dr. J. N. Shaw, as lars will be expended outright to collected only a very small propor sistant veterinarian at Oregon State tion is paid out in claims. college. provide milk for underfed children. Organisms frequently enter the The department can only warn The proposed reduction from the 1932-33 sales quotas would come the public that dealing with com- spinal tract from this wound and primarily out of the surplus milk panies which do not or cannot, due cause abscesses which In turn bring supplies and would not exhaust that to their poor financial condition, on paralysis. Several recent post surplus, the specialists stated. Sta comply with the Oregon laws and mortems performed on lambs re- tistics compiled by the AAA show procure a license to transact busi- vealed these abscesses at various that farmers producing milk for ness may lead to disappointment I points along the back almost to the nearly all the larger cities are now when a legitimate claim is present- neck. Growers who follow the old prac forced to market from 10 to 40 per tice of using turpentine on the cent of their output as surplus for manufacture into butter, cheese, ALFALFA IS NITROGEN AND wound in docking do not get effec tive disinfection, says Dr. Shaw. evaporated milk and other products. ROOT “FACTORY” FOR SOIL. Sheep dip or any other standard This brings them much lower prices than they get for first class market Steady growth of alfalfa acreage disinfectant will serve, while tur milk. in Oregon is convincing proof of the pentine does nothing more than high esteem in which the crop is possibly relieve the soreness. The plan proposed would aim at holding gross sales of dairy products held by farmers of this state. Now at about where they have been in Dr. R. E. Stephenson, associate soil the late winter and early spring of scientist, has compiled some inter this year, which is materially below esting figures from various experi the high average of 1932-33 even ment station studies showing some though the total cow population is of the reasons why alfalfa is so beneficial to the soil aside from its much greater. It Is the threat of crop yielding ability. the great possible increase that is When an old alfalfa field la sought to be avoided by the control plowed under there are left in the plan. The flood of milk now possi soil three tons of roots, dry weight, ble from the cows on farms would per acre above plow depth. Below undermine dairy prices, drive herd that there are 51 tons more left to lecay. Thirty tons of stable manure owners out of business and leave would be required to add an equiva consumers facing a real worry as to lent amount of nitrogen or organic milk supplies and prices, the na- matter. This study was made in Colorado. tional leaders believe. PROTECTION FOR CONSUMER INSURANCE COMMISSIONER LOW RAILWAY FARES EXTENDED THROUGH SEPT. Chicago, April 6—According to Mr. H. G. Taylor, chairman. Wes tern Association of Railway Execu tives, the presidents of western rail roads in session today at the Union League club decided to continue for another four months period, termi- rating September 30th of this year, the reduced passenger fares inaugu rated last December. Statistics pre sented indicated the reduced fares have met with favorable response from the public and, while the rev- enue returns have possibly not been as great as hoped for, it was the view that an extension of the ex- périment is warranted. The general basis of fares Is 2 cents per mile one way in coaches. 1.8 cents per mile each way for round trip in coaches, 3 cents per mile one way in sleeping cars, 2 cents per mile each way for round trip in sleepers, with ten day limit, and 2 * cents per mile each way for round trip in sleepers with longer limit. The Western lines are watching the situation closely and have ap pointed a committee of presidents to confer with similar committees from the East and South looking toward adoption of a uniform basis appli cable throughout the country. Seed Flax Tried in Gilliam. CONDON—Seed flax, never before given a thorough trial on any of the high altitude land in Gilliam coun- ty, is being tried out this year by Edward Walbaum of the Igo district and a farmer near Mayville. Each of these men obtained a half-bushel of seed through the county agent's office. "Fairness To AU Alike” Oldest Methodist Church To Be. Jubilee Attraction M « ss O S. t s. -. ge gotte. 94 Par “"Ihn - * Sis. elle . — • • • 3 • J I . We need work. To develop these natural re sources for our common good will require much work. It will take work to replace the things we have worn out. We want and are entitled to have new and modern conveniences. To supply them will provide work. The only actual surplus in the country now is labor. There need be none, nor will be any, if we proceed along lines of experience and with courage and confidence. Science, and invention, and genius of civilization have created new needs and wants. They are ours except for our failures in strategy of distribution, and in control of corporate greed. Public development of these natural resources and public control of their uses will restore economic order and the comforts of living. • • • I am not against the railways. Increased traf fic will aid them. I am not against power com panies, but against methods. Cheaper generation of electricity will aid them, but the price must be controlled to consumer. I am not against Port land, but against the lack of vision and breadth of some of her dominating forces. • • • I was born on the Snake and have lived my days along the Snake and Columbia. I know the riv ers, the supply of power, the freight tonnage, and rates. I know every damsite and the cost of con struction of every navigation dam, and with pow er bases. I know that this great program means the saving of more than 310,000,000 annually In freight charges and great sums in electric costs to the Inland people. It means much in growth of commerce at Oregon ports, grówth of all Oregon ports, and the prosperity of our state. ♦ ♦ ♦ I am a farmer. I have owned orchards, alfalfa lands, wheat land, ranges and livestock. I know all about mortgages, interest, taxes, falling prices, lost values, and depleted estates. I have been pres ident of a businessmen's club ten years, and know their troubles. I live in a co-operative town and know the successes of that movement. I believe that I have had more deep experiences common to 80 per cent of the voters the last several years than, any other candidate. I have served two terms In the Oregon legislature, know the ways at Washington, am now an executive officer in two river development associations, am a University graduate and served ten years at an editorial desk. I am not a politician, nor ambitious politically, but I know that the voters of the state should support my program, and to do so must vote for me for governor of Oregon on May 18th. Please mail this to a friend, or write us names and addresses and we will mail literature. DODD FOR GOVERNOR CLUB, Hermiston, Ore. t Advertisement d Nelson H. Jones . . “) . . ’s ---u -dir, € 1 ,7 • -h ? % • s : — 1 + MEDFORD, Ore.—(Special.)—Con structed when gold fever was at ita height in southern Oregon, the old est Methodist church building west of the Rocky mountains and one of the oldest Protestant church build ings In the state will be one of the historical attractions of Oregon's Dia mond Jubilee celebration in Medford and Jacksonville June 3 to 9. Gold dust from Jacksonville gam bling tables brought the structure into existence in IMS to bring the gospel to a new country, populated with hardy pioneers and red-shirted miners The years have been many since its aging walls resounded to singing voices and the sapient words of circuit ridera and early parsons who followed tn their wake Death- leas memories of early days mm’n th building a direct link with th p -. near era of Oregon so e‘n--i r- ■ — to the establishment of tr to ood : , 1859 James Cluggage, the first man to discover gold in Jacksonville, donat ed three lota for the structure and timbers were hauled from the moun tains by ox teams. Candles and flickering lanterns, donated by the congregation, provided Illumination when evening sermons were preached by Rev. Joseph L Smith, the first minister, while a melodeon, brought by steamer to Crescent City and the first to arrive In this section, lended accompaniment to hymns, in strange contrast to echoing war whoops of warring Indians resenting the in- vasion of white men The march cf Time has brought progr -s but the old church has re- -T-ed unchanged, challenging the -- ca-2 of tha years which have -tiled Indian war whcops and which ve I 1 a veil r< yesterdays over • again revived min _ jilee col-bration asik Candidate for County Commissione: of Umatilla county as a nominee on the Republican ticket at the primary election to be held May 18th, was born at Navarre. Ohio, fifty-seven years ago. When a small boy he moved with his parents to Chicago, where he received his education. He entered business life as a very young man and has successfully directed his own enterprises since that time. He came west with his father in 1900, going first to Alaska and lo cating at Dawson City, where he and his father engaged in the mining machinery business, then returning to Seattle, where he incorporated the Pacific Coast Machinery Company. Later, in 1909, he built a six-story concrete hotel building on Second a venue, known as the Hotel Nelson, which be furnished elaborately and operated during the Alaska-Yukon Exposition and for several years thereafter. During his years in Seattle he was prominently identified with the civic progress of the growing metropolis and was active in the launching of many community institutions whic h function at the present time. Dur ing the World War, he acquired a lare ranch of over three thousand acres In Lincoln county. Washington, whl h had his personal supervision. In 1919 he moved with his wife and two children to Eastern Oregon, wishing to engage in business In an area where his children, a boy and a girl, would have the advantages of a more stalwart and less crowded life than is pos sible in the larger cities of the coast. Both these children were educated and graduated from the High School at Weston. Until this year Mr. Jones owned and operated the Jones Store at Weston, It being one of the finest and most successful mercantile enterprises in Umatilla county. . During the fifteen years In Weston, Mr. Jones served as mayor of the city for seven years, as councilman for two years, chairman of the Union High School board for four years, two years as a director on the Grade School board, and several years as president of the Commercial Club. He also served with the County Court on the Budget committee. Weston citi zens can and will unanimously vouch tor his high character and his enter prise in general. He enjoys an enviable reputation for honesty and in tegrity. He Is a member of the Masonic order and of the Odd Fellows, and Is active and well and favorably known In both these fraternal organizations. Ills religious training has been liberal Protestant. In over thirty years of active and varied business undertakings, he has never met with a single failure, and with his wide experience, and his Implicit faith In the future of Umatilla county, and of the place of Its citi zens In the new economic picture, he feels that he Is competent and quali fied to serve In a manner that would be commendable to both himself and the county. At all times, he assures the county as a whole a fair and equitable deal, In so far as he Is personally concerned; and his campaign slogan. "FAIRNESS TO ALL ALIKE.” means just THAT, and If he Is elected will be conscientiously adhered to. (Paid advertisement)
