Image provided by: Hermiston Public Library; Hermiston, OR
About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1935)
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1935. FARM CO OPERATIVE DIVISION A MESSAGE TO EVERY MEMBER. A NEW DAY FOR FARM FAMILIES LADIES AUXILIARY OUTLINES (From The Eggsaminer) The program to carry electricity into rural areas now without elec trie service is a venture in creating hotter living conditions for the far mer, his wife and his children that is being eagerly watched by the mil lions of Americans directly interes ted in agriculture. The Federal Government, through the Rural Electrification Adminis tration, is initiating a program con sidered of urgent national neceessi- ty. When It is realized that about 86 per cent of the farm homes of the country lack electric service of any kind the problems of the program ean be measured by the vastnees of the field. For the farmer wanting to share in the benefits of rural electrifica tion the R. E. A. program means co operative effort with neighboring farmers so that projects of sufficient size can be presented for considera tion. The Government’s aim is that the cost of line building and wiring, the rates for service, and the cost of sanitary equipment and electrical appliances shall be brought within the means of the greatest possible number of farmers. R.E.A. will make loans for pro jects to all groups, public or private, which submit sound projects and demonstrate their ability to operate them. Loans normally will be for twenty years at three per eent in terest. The loans will be secured by the general credit of the borrow er, or In certain instances by the line itself. No farmer will be required to mortgage his home. Following the policies outlined In the Federal Water Power Act, the bill creating the Tennessee Valley Authority and elsewhere, a prefer ence will be given to application from municipalities and other agen cies of the State, and to non-profit associations such as co-operatives. Irrespective of the amount of loans made to private companies, adequate funds will be kept in reserve to meet any demands from public sources. Nearly every State is represented in the applications already on file with R. E. A. Authorization of loans for the first of the projects, meeting required tests, will be made sdon. No like opportunity for extending power and light lines into the rural districts has ever been presented. The rural electrification program will employ mass construction, dur able and efficient, and very much more economical than was to be had heretofore. Money for the projects can be obtained at low cost. This with the additional loans that can be arranged for installing plumbing and sanitary fixtures and the purchase of moderately priced electrical ap pliances on easy terms gives many farm families a chance for improved living conditions rarely to be acqui red through independent effort. With electricity comes running water in the house and barnyard and adequate lighting for all house and farm purposes. It is a short step to a modern bathroom and a modern kitchen sink. And the pos sibilities for electric refrigeration, washing, ironing, cooking and sew ing by electricity will appeal to ev ery farm wife. Add the uses to which the farmer can put electricity in easing his toil, increasing crop production, and reducing the cost of farm operation and some of the more Important benefits of farm electri fication become apparent How inadequately the Nation’s rural districts are at present electri fied is exemplified in the report of a survey of a county in Illinois, made by a county agent. In this county, where 2,196 farm families reside. 1.800 of them have no bath tubs. 1.743 still use oil lamps. 800 farm houses have no kitchen sinks. 750 still carry water to and from the kitchen, and 700 farm women have no washing machine of any kind. In the Maryville (Ohio) Electri fication Experiment Station it was found that 13 families used 125,000 gallons of water a year. To pump that water took 206 kilowatt hours of electricity. At 5 cents a kilowatt hour the cost was $10.30. If a per son could pump 300 gallons of wa ter an hour, a rate possible only for a short time by a strong man. it would require 416 hours to pump the same quantity. Man power at 25 cents an hour would have cost 1104.00. If human workers had been paid only the 510.30 cost of six MONTHS PROGRAM The Ladies Auxiliary to the Farm Bureau outlined a program of meet ings for the next six months at its regular meeting held Friday, No vember 1, at the Hermiston Union church at which they entertained the ladies from the Stanfield and Westland Granges. Acting as host esses were Mrs. Wm. Barber, Mrs. Alfred Cable and Mrs. Wm. Tucker. Mrs. Harold Buell conducted an in teresting session of games, and the large number in attendance enjoyed a reading given by Jo Ellen Mopps and a solo by Mrs. Thos. Wilson. Mrs. Henry Hooker entertained by telling fortunes. The next Auxiliary meeting will be November 15, at the club house in Columbia park with Mrs. Wells, Sr., Mrs. Joe Udey and Mrs. Lester Hammer acting as hostesses. The executive committee met re cently at the home of Mrs. Henry Sommerer and outlined the following program for the next six months: November—Hermiston: Mesdames Barber, Tucker and Cable. November 15—Club house: Mes dames Wells, Udey and Hammer. December 6—Club house; Mes dames Reid, Christley and Hughes. December 20—Hermiston: Mes dames Dyer, Rainwater, Lage and Dawson. January 3—Club house:Mesdames Clark, Harr and Morris. January 11—Club house: Mes dames Ryland, Corman and Lindner. February 7—Hermiston: Mes dames Lynch, Prindle, White and Bloom. February 21—All day at club house:Mesdames Jendrzejewski, Ad- dleman and Mikesell. March 6—Club house: Mesdames Hutchison, Upham and Sommerer. March 20—Hermiston: Mesdames Connor, Dunning and Guiwlts. April 3—Club house: Mesdames Ott, Hooker and Lathrope. April 17—Club house: Mesdames Wilson, Barham and Buell. May 1 — Hermiston : Mesdames Harding, Bensel, Hammon and Turn- blad. FARM PRICE INDICATIONS BRIGHT; BUSINESS BETTER. former can do almost anything. Congressman Walter M. Pierce will be guest speaker at a Umatilla Project Farm Bureau meeting sche duled for Thursday, November 14, at the Union church at 8:00 p. m. All members and friends are cordially invited to be present. Musical and entertainment numbers will also add to the program. LOST — WRIST WATCH; NEAR Grange or Farm Bureau. Initial* N. M. W., gold link chain. Finder please leave at Herald office. 11-ltc 60 USED STEEL TRAPS. HEATING stoves. Hermiston New & Second Hand Store. 11-ltfc FOR SALE—SMALL COOK STOVE. 55.50; heater for $3.00. Mrs. R.E. Osborn, Osborn Apartment*. 11-ltc Farming and running farm homes entail real work, but where the far mer follows new methods and adopts new devices the advantages of farm life may be realized to the full. term*. While crop conditions in the | 12th FCA district were spotty this year, higher prices tor most commo dities, especially live stock, have giv en farmers a more hopeful outlook all around.” Mr. Adams pointed out that land bank borrowers are cleaning up their installments and getting their loans in good current condition; members of local cooperative production cre dit associations are paying off their crop and livestock loans; interme diate credit bank discounts have been heavily liquidated and loans which the emergency regional agri cultural credit corporations made during the emergency period are more than two-thirds cleared off. "Such a repayment record, of course, is what the Farm Credit ad ministration has good reason to ex pect,” Mr. Adams explained, "for while many loans have been made to refinance farmers who were on the brink of foreclosure, the Farm Cre dit administration is not a relief agency. It represents a permanent farmers' cooperative credit system extending credit in a sound, busi ness-like way, out of fund* obtained principally from the investing pub lic through the sale of securities, and with each Ioan written on a collec tible basis.” I SOW FOR SALE—DUE TO FAR- row the first part of December. Weight about 250 or 300 lbs. W. H. we = Cook, on Eugene Ranch, Route 1. Cooperative* Will Close. Also one fine Ramboillet buck— 10-ltc The Farm Bureau Co-operative sheep at the above address. and the Co-operative Service Station FOR SALE OR TRADE—2 H. P. will be closed over Armistice day, single phase General Electric mo which comes on Monday. All patrons tor. Will trade for 1 H. P. motor. of these concerns are reminded that Inquire at Herald Office. 7-tfp an extra supply will be needed to PIANO FOR SALE—REPOSSESSED. carry them over the holiday. Balance 597. You take over con tract on this fine, high grade piano, Credit Union Service. balance, 597.00, and pay 55 a month. The Hermiston Oregon Credit Address Mr. Smith, Adjuster, Cline Union office will be open every Fri Piano Company, 1011 S. W. Wash 5-3tc day between 2:00 and 4:00 o’clock ington St., Portland, Ore. P. M. The office will be found in the Grange Co-operative building. The official Oregon vote Is an nounced as 2464 yes to 420 no. There were nearly half again as Winter Closing Hours. many votes cast in Oregon this year Beginning November 4th, the as a year ago, though there were on Farm Bureau Co-operative of Her ly two-thirds as many contracts. The miston and the Co-operative Service vote in Umatilla county shows 87 favorable votes by contract signers Station will close at 5.00 P. M. to 6 against. Non-signers voted 143 GOOD MALES BRING yes to 29 no. Grange Dance. HIGH-LAYING HENS Stanfield Grange will sponsor a COMPLIMENTS FARMERS FOR dance Saturday, November 9. Mu Use Progeny Testing Plan to sic will be furnished by Mel’s Mer- PAYING OFF DEBTS. rymakers. Pick Best Sires. Complimenting northwest farmers e » .... on the wisdom they are showing in Prepared by the United States Department REORGANIZATION OF BLUE of Agriculture.— WNU Service. liquidating their debts out of im A good male 1* ten times a* impor RIBBON CALF CLUB. proved farm earnings, A. C. Adams, general agent of the Farm Credit ad tant as a good hen in building up a flock of poultry. For this reason pro The reorganization of the Blue ministration of Spokane, reported geny testing, a method which enable* Ribbon Calf club was held Novem- today that the large volume of loan a poultry breeder to Identify the supe berl, at the home of Arwllda Foster. payments being received by FCA rior male* in his flock, is a necessity Marlon Ott, Marijane Hammer, Vera agencies “substantiates our faith in to progress In poultry breeding, says Sisson, Mary Wilson, Leonard Mopps, the debt-paying morale of our bor Dr. M. A. Juli, In charge of poultry Floyd Wilson and Lois Hutchison. investigations for the United State* De rowers.’’ The officers elected for the year are “This encouraging progress to partment of Agriculture. Too much significance ha* been at Arwllda Foster, president, Marijane ward debt retirement is particular tached to phenomenal record* in egg- Hammer, vice president, Mary Wil ly gratifying,” he declared, "because laying contest*, according to Doctor son, secretary, with Lois Hutchison it is the purpose of the Farm Credit Juli, who bases his statement on the as leader. administration to help farmers work results of a recent experiment with A committee was appointed to their way out of debt, by assisting White Leghorns and Rhode Island make out the program for the year’s them to get their obligations adjus Reds at the Beltsville research center work. This committee is comprised ted on a more reasonable repayment of the department, at Beltsville, Md. High-production records In the mnces- of Marion Ott, Marijane Hammer, and Arwilda Foster, assisted by W. A. Sawyer, assistant county agent, and Lois Hutchison, club leader. B uying P ower of WHEAT POULTRY • FACTS • —» « i Business conditions appear to be POTATO SURPLUS PLAN UP; favorable for maintaining at least the present level of demand for farm products through the next few months, according to the current summary of the agricultural situa tion and outlook report just issued by the extension economist at Ore gon State college. Prices paid by farmers for com modities bought, including interest and taxes paid, have not changed much recently. The composite in dex was last estimated at 128 per cent of the 1910-1914 level. This Is one point lower than a month pre vious and a point below a year ago. While these prices paid have tended to remain about the same or go a little lower, the prices received by farmers have risen In recent months, the report shows. As a consequence the relation of prices received to prices paid is now the highest in more than five years. The general level of farm prices, both in the country as a whole and in Oregon appears to be higher than at mid-September when it was 107 per cent of the pre-war average. This was up one point over the mouth previous and four points higher than in September, 1934. Highest among the individual commodities on the index were meat animals at 131, chickens and eggs at 126. dairy products at 102 and truck crops at 101. Grains stood at 97 and fruits at 82, both lower than a year ago. The index of Oregon farm prices, which is based on the 1926-1930 average instead of the pre-war per- iod; shows a three point gain from 64 to 67 since September. 1934. A parity level, to use the familiar AAA term, would be an index of 96 per cent. Highest in the list of Oregon commodities, as compared with the 1926-1930 prices, are horses, hogs and- eggs, while lowest are sheep, potatoes, hops, barley, oats and ap- pie. The general level of farm wage rates has shown the usual seasonal advance and Is now nine points above a year ago and the highest in four years. Some decline in the supply of available farm labor ap electricity they would have averaged pears to refleet the recent pick-up less than 21 cents an hour tn wag- in industrial employment • es. In addition, band labor would have been required to carry the fresh water into the house and the waste water out. With water and electricity the Walter Pierce Will Speak. WANT ADS PAGE FIVE The most significant thing about | the recent corn-hog referendum In | the eyes of most observers was the greatly Increased favorable vote this time as compared with a year ago. Both in Oregon and in the country as a whole, the favorable majority jumped from considerably less than 2 to I to from 5 ta ? to 1. Italy Believed Home of Original Leghorn Fowls The history of poultry reveals that “Italy was, undoubtedly, the home of the original Leghorn fowls,” says the Montreal Herald. Early literature shows that poultry of several kinds was bred at least 8,000 year* ago, and | fowls were need In Rome for food 2,000 yean ago. Indications resulting from careful and widespread Investigations, are that “The Leghorn fowls a* they ex isted In Italy prior to 1815 were a mongrel lot,” descended from promis cuous matings, without any attention being paid to color, body formation or productivity. The greatest develop ment in the breed has taken place in England, the United States and Can ada and it la significant that the high state of development attained In these countries has led breeders in the native home of the Leghorn to import specimens for the sole purpose of im proving else, stamina, conformation and productivity—not to say profit. A. W. CHRISTOPHERSON Physician and Surgeon. — Bank Building Office Hours — — 9-12 and 2-5 W. J. WARNER Attorn ey-at-La w Hermiston - Oregon DR. A. E. MARBLE CHIROPRACTOR Office: Two door* weet post office Office Hours: 8 to 12 - 1:30 to 5 Phone 481--------- Hermiston, Ore. (Nor Including Benefit Payments) ARTICLES FARMERS BUY Hermiston Post No. 37 CORN-HOG VOTE INCREASES. Recent events point to adoption of the federal diversion plan for part of this year’s potato crop as a means of removing the burdensome surplus which is greatly depressing prices, says E. R. Jackman, extension agro nomist at O.S.C., who attended a conference of potato growers and dealers in Idaho. The same events point to consi derable opposition to a marketing agreement for potatoes along the lines recently proposed and indicate that the Warren potato law will not be enforced unless Congress appro priates funds for its administration. In order to put into effect the diversion plan for No. 2 potatoes, the potato section of the AAA has applied for several million dollars of the custom receipts fund made avail able for removing surpluses or pro moting exports of agricultural pro ducts. The plan proposed calls for payment to growers of 25 cents per hundred pounds for any potatoes ex cept culls which growers divert to other than normal sales channels, up to 10 per cent of any grower’s crop. For example, if a grower has pro duced 1000 sacks of potatoes, he could, if he desired, accept 325 for diverting 100 sacks to other than commercial channels. These must | be No. 2 quality or better and he must agree not to allow cull grades | to enter commercial channels. If he can sell the 10 per cent to stockmen for feed he is entitled to the 10 or 15 cents a hundred he would get that way in addition to the first 25 cent payment. Those who favor this plan believe it would be self-regulating in that I the growers would sell under it only when prices were extremely low. as at present. At the time the meeting was held in Idaho, growers there were being paid 40 cents a hundred bulk for No. 1 Idaho Russets. A parity price for western potato grower* Is considered to be about $1 a hundred. try oT hens used In a breeding flock are. of course, desirable but the ex periment shows that such record* on only one side of the ancestry are not sufficient assurance of high-producing pullets. On the other hand, three gen eration* of good egg production record* do give some assurance of good record* of the pullets. A ben that produce* good laying pul lets by one sire may produce pullet* with much lower averages when mated to another sire the next year. This In dicate« that a hen’* value as a breeder is not always shown by the average egg production of her daughter* but de pend* also on the mating involved. The ability to select superior breeding males is of great importance because a sire's influence on a flock I* at least ten times as great as that of a hen. as one sire 1* usually mated to ten or more ben*. The Index of greatest val ue in determining a sire’s breeding worth was found to be the average egg production of all of his daughter*. Meets first and third Thursday. Legion Auxil iary meets second and fourth Thursday. Legion Hall. COST IN TERMS OF WHEAT • ■ I7 bu. 1910 TO 1914 20bu 1932 W. L. Morgan, D. M. D. General Dentistry X-Ray and Diagnosis Bank Bldg. Pheno t-J Residence Phono 25-J Sunday and Evenings by Appointment icilricie HE sacks of wheat show how higher wheat prices are giving farmers purchasing power, even without counting the adjustment pay- T more ments. They show that when wheat was at a fair exchange value before the war, 15 bushels would buy a plow. In the depth of the depression in 1932 it took 55 bushels to buy the same plow, but in 1935 a farmer could buy the same plow with the money from 27 bushel* of wheat The sacks of wheat in the other squares show the purchasing power of wheat in terms of a suit of clothes, paint, and barbed wire. "Smiling Associated Service” East Court & Mill Phons 197J PENNEY'S 1 C PINNEY COMPANY, incorporated Pendleton, Oregon. SHOP & SAVE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN A SURGEON OSBORN fessional People This News paper Recommends to You— LOCALLY OWNED NATIONALLY KNOWN "Shoes for the Entire Family” Buster Brown Shoe Store 725 Main Street APARTMENTS A Classified Directory of Reliable Business and Pro WHO is WHO in PENDLETON JAMES R. FERGUSON Dr. A. C. Willcutt Pendleton OREGON CAFE MEALS AT ALL HOURS Steaks - Chop Suey - Noodles Bring your friends here and show them whst you consider the best cafe in the city. Phone 605 632 Main Street BEST SERVICE AND BODY DEPT. IN EASTERN OREGON A Good Place to Buy Used Cars and Trucks. SERVICE SALES DENNIS MOTOR CO. PHONE 526 PENDLETON Can ■ BANISH PILES FOREVER THE H & H SHOP Pendleton Iron Works Guaranteed or Your Money Back Latest Scientific Proven Method MINNIE M. HENDERSON, Prop. Dr. R. B. Brundage Hemstitching - Baby Articles Children’s Wearing Apparel 740 Main 8t. - - Pbone 601 General Repair A Foundry Work Electric and Acetylene Welding Hydrogen Irrigation Pumps East Alta Street Bond Bldg.-Room 14 Phone 148 Hawkinson Tread Service 505 East Court St Phone 170 Cyril J. Kruger, Manager NEW MILES FOR OLD! Why retire your tires while they are still young? BONDED - - INSURED Portland - Pendleton Phone 869 2
