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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1936 SEED FLAX FAVORED UNDER NEW FARM ACT IN OREGON. Service All Cars-- SPECIAL Have your car laboratory tested on our new testing machine. A complete electrical and fuel check-up on your C‘ 1 (() car for only. .. PV THIS INCLUDES TESTS ON— • COIL • • • • • • • • • CONDENSER FUEL PUMP for pressure and vacuum BATTERY STARTER GENERATOR STARTER SWITCH BATTERY CABLES and ground connections COMPRESSION in each cylinder SPARK PLUGS removed, cleaned and tested. We repair any make or model. Our maintenance service will save you money. Let us help you keep your car well. — A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE — Rohrman Motor Co. * * * ** * * * * * * * t — gives you •IOO a month for life The Golden Years Plan guarantees that when you reach age 55, 60 or 65 you will receive a check every month for the rest of your life. Just name the income you’ll want—any amount from $30 to $500 a month! Also includes life insurance pro tection, disability income and growing cash reserves. Ask the local Oregon Mutual Life man for free booklet and facts; no obligation. ZONA HENSEL RODGERS Local Agent, or LEILA N. RICE DISTRICT MANAGER Box 825 Pendleton, Ore. Representing OREGON MUTUALIFE Qßict; Portland, Oregon Organized under the laws of Oregon COMING AGAIN Dr. Curry, the old Reliable Optometrist of Seattle who has made professional visits to Hermiston for 25 vears. will again be at the Hotel Hermiston Tues., April 14 for one day Eyes Examined— —Glasses Ground and Fitted. RELIEVE EYE STRAIN AND HEADACHE. CHARGES REASONABLE PINE CITY NEWS By Lennä Neill t Mrs. C. Broderson of Seattle is vi siting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Moore. Mrs. Lucy E. Rogers and Mrs. Bloom of Heppner visited the Pine City school last Tuesday. J. T. Ayers of Echo visited at the C. H. Ayers home Thursday. A. Estle and John Harrison were business visitors in Pendleton Fri day. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wattenburger were dinner guests at the Mrs. Ollie Neill home Sunday. Mrs. W. D. Neill is quite ill at her home. Mr. and Mrs. A. Estle of Hermis ton and Jack Estle spent Sunday visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Estle. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Cox and family were Sunday dinner guests at the E. B. Wattenburger home. Mrs. C. Broderson was honored by a shower at the Frank Saling home Thursday. Several of the ladies from Pine City attended. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Ayers and family were transacting business in Hermiston Monday. Earl Wattenburger was a busi ness visitor in Pendleton Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Estle and the Misses Cecelia Brennan and Norma Gibbons attended a teachers’ meet ing in La Grande Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Saling visited at the J. S. Moore home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Cox and family were business visitors in Hermiston Saturday. Mrs. Roy Omohundro and daugh ter Iris visited at the C. H. Bartho- lomew and J. S. Moore homes Satur day. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch and family visited at the John Healy home Sunday afternoon. Solidity is more desirable in a let tuce head than large size, and a well balanced complete fertilizer tends to reduce excessive foliage and to in duce greater solidity. Lettuce grown on too highly fertilized soil is more subject to tip burn and slime than plants which have made moderate leaf growth. Kitchen AH that is modern in the house is personified in the 1936 Frigid- aire which recently went on display here. With the revolutionary “meter-miser,” a mechanical unit that cuts operating cost to the bone, the new F rigidaire offers hitherto unheard of economy, style, capacity and freezing ability. Lilyan Grifft, left, demonstrates it for Jerry Mitchell, a visitor, to Frigidaire's, famous experimental kitchen- . The new federal farm act pro vides encouragement for the produc tion of seed flax which makes the growing of this crop in parts of western and northwestern Oregon more advantageous than ever before, believes G. R. Hyslop, head of the division of plant industries at Ore gon State college. Although seed flax is classed as a soil depleting crop, an increase in its acreage is being encouraged be cause it is on an import basis. A direct allowance of 20 cents per bushel is made for flax seed pro duced. provided other soil conserva tion conditions are met. Early planting of seed flax is es sential to success, says Hyslop. In western Oregon, April 15 is normal ly considered the latest safe plant ing time, while in the Blue Moun tain region it is sown successfully up to May 1. Two linseed oil com panies in Portland ordinarily sup ply the seed for Oregon growers and furnish a market for the product. These are the Archer Daniels Mid land company and the Empire Oil and Food Products company. In order to qualify for the flax allowance, a grower must divert 20 per cent of the amount of land he puts into flax into crops that are not soil depleting, in addition to 15 per cent of his remaining soil de pleting base. Among soil building crops which can still be planted safely in Oregon are red or crimson clover and alfalfa. An example will indicate how the flax plan works out. Suppose a far mer had 100 acres in soil depleting crops last year, such as small grains, corn, potatoes or other cultivated crops. He may decide to put 20 acres into seed flax for 1936. In order to qualify for assistance under the act, he will have to put four ¡acres into soil conserving or soil building crops, as well as 15 per cent of the remaining 80 acres of his soil depleting base. In other words, he will need to divert a total of 16 acres to grasses, legumes or other soil conserving or soil building crops. In so doing, he will qualify not only for the 20 cents a bushel payments on his pro duction of flax, but Tor diversion payments on 12 acres, and soil building payments on whatever amount is put into soil building crops. It is not unlikely that farm ers in many sections of Oregon could qualify for benefits of close to 3150 or more where 20 acres are put into seed flax under the plan outlined. t * * * * * * * * * UMATILLA NEWS + By ERMA BYRNES. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rodenbough and children Doris and Keith spent Saturday in Pendleton. Elmore McKenzie, who has been working in Portland, is visiting his family. The Misses Rosa Ricco and Sara Rix and Mrs. Neva Pilon were din ner guests at the Jewett home Sun day. Earl Brownell and son Iverson and J. Womack and son Jimmy of Pasco stopped at the Ervin Chap man home Sunday while on a fish ing trip. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Markham of Irrigon were visitors in Umatilla Sunday. Miss Yvonne Bousquet spent the week end in Portland. She returned home Sunday accompanied by Paul Donavon who is attending college in California, and will spend the spring vacation here. Elbert Hutchison of Hermiston was in Umatilla Wednesday. Miss Mary Alstott of Butter Creek was in Umatilla Wednesday. Mrs. Irvin Chapman entertained a group of young people at a birth day party honoring her daughter, Francis, on her tenth birthday. Those present were Joan Byrnes. Fern Bray, Agnes Kennedy. Marga ret Kennedy, May Corwall, Emma and Patty Juday. Louise Dexter, Keith Rodenbough. Herbert McNabb, Dorothy Hiatt, Ann Mary Sherlock. Mary Kendler. Ralph Healy, Alva Stephens and Sara Wurster. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Walsh re turned to their home in The Dalles Tuesday after spending Sunday and Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walsh. Catherine Geurin, nine year old daughter of Clarence Geurin, who has been quite ill, is reported slight- 1y improved. Catherine recently un derwent an operation for an abscess on the brain in the St. Anthony’s hospital in Pendleton. Devee Brown, student at the Port land Bible Institute, Is home for a week's visit with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Brown. The Umatilla church received word of the privilege of sending one of Its three elders to the general as sembly at New York during the month of May. Mrs. Del Jackson is planning on going. F O. Harryman, who has working in Pine City for the past six months, is visiting his sons Don ald and Lloyd for the next month before going to Haines to work. Rev. and Mrs. Herb Thomas of Boardman were Umatilla visitors Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Means and daughter of Portland are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Duff Knight. John Bensel is home from Albany college to spend the spring vacation. Mrs. Lew Brownell and son Rob ert motored to Pendleton Saturday. Mrs. Ernest Peck and son Dickie and Mrs. Peck’s father, Roy Lash, all of Maryhill were spending the week end with friends in Umatilla. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Springer and grandchildren Maryin Joe and Patsy Ann Mahoney, left Saturday for Se attle where they will visit Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Mahoney for a week. The grandchildren will stay there with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hull motored to The Dalles last Wednesday. They were accompanied by Mrs. George McIntosh, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Hull, for two weeks and returned to her home in Portland from The Dalles. Mrs. E. McKenzie and daughter Jean accompanied Miss Marguerita Cox to Walla Walla Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Van Scholack and children Delbert and Delores were in Pendleton Saturday after- noon. . Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Kimberllng accompanied by Mrs. Milo McFar land spent Saturday in Walla Walla. Art Peterson of Willow Creek was visiting his sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Van Scholack Satur day. Walt Caldwell of The Dalles was here Thursday. The weekly meeting of the Bridge Club was held at the Fred Knudson home Friday. Those present were: Mesdames Wm. Logan, Wm. Gordon, Elmore McKenzie, Joe Springer, Jack Cherry. Wm. Conlon, Jane Brownell and the hostess. Word has been received of the birtht of a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Dave Lane of Spokane. Mrs. Lane will be remembered here as Gladys Fromdahl. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hoyt and Lloyd Har ryman spent Thursday in Pendleton. Bud Hiatt of Condon spent the week end at the home of his broth er, Ursel Hiatt. Miss Josephine Connell, who is going to a beauty school in Portland spent Sunday at the home of her parents. Mrs. John Wurster and daughters May, Annie and Sara spent Wednes day in Walla Walla. Mrs. E. A. McMillian and daugh ters Janet and Gloria of Portland, are visiting Mr. McMillian this week. ------ - FEDERAL SOIL ACT NOW READY FOR OREGON FARMERS. Oregon farmers will have an op portunity early in April to learn just what detailed steps are possible on their farms to cooperate in the new federal soil conservation and domes tic allotment act. At the western regional meeting at Salt Lake city last week, and the state meeting at Corvallis March 30 and 31, details of the program were outlined and administrative plans decided upon so that county educational meetings may proceed at once. Utmost speed is being sought because of the necessity to have farmers understand the proce dure before the spring planting sea son is over. “This is not a gift program.” em phasized George E. Farrell, newly appointed director of the far wes tern region. "No one is going to be paid for merely operating his farm.” Oregon State college leader* who attended the Salt Lake meeting and later conducted the state meeting at Corvallis say the new act is positive in nature and will tend in action to lend governmental encouragement to sound soil conservation and crop practices such as have been worked out by agricultural research and ad vocated through the extension ser vice. Oregon State college men believe the program will bring about more rapid addition to the alfalfa and clo ver acreage in western Oregon and a transfer of considerable eastern Oregon land to dry-land grasses such as crested wheat grass. In addition a range soil improvement program for the west Is being evolved which It Is hoped will meet the approval of the federal government. In some respects the new program will be more simple than the old. In that there will be only one state committee and one committee In each county, rather than having fre quently overlapping commodity com mittees as under the crop control programs. In other ways It Is not simple, for, as Director Farrell ex plained. widespread results through- out the entire country cannot be ob tained by an extremely simple pro been gram. PAGE THREH Farmers desiring to cooperate in the program will submit informa tion concerning their farming opera tions on a work sheet to be supplied. After they have made the improve ments in soil conservation decided upon, they will apply for the grant payable for such performance. At no time will there be a con tract and at no time is any farmer to be under obligations to do any thing. Instead, if he complies with the soil conservation rules laid down in advance, he will be eligible for a grant representing the value to the nation of such practice. If he does not comply there will be no grant. Amounts of grants will vary great ly, depending on the extent and na ture of betterments in soil practice. The "starting point” in determina tion will be the farmer’s "base acre age,” which now means the acreage in soil depleting crops in 1935, with certain exceptions. Largest amounts per acre will be granted for shifting acres from soil depleting crops such as small grains, corn, potatoes, cotton, and the like, to other crops. Each farmer can shift as much as he likes, but can only claim a grant for shitting 15 per cent of his base. This 15 per cent may be shifted either to what are known as soil conserving or soil building crops. As the names imply, the soil con serving crops are those which just about allow the soil to hold its own, while the soil building crops actual ly improve it. The amount of the grant to en courage such shifting will vary from place to place, depending on pro ductivity of the land involved, but will average around 910 or a bit be low, for the, country as a whole. On individual farms the amount may vary as much as from 33 to 316 or more. If the shift is to soil building crops a farmer may qualify for an additional grant not to exceed 31 an acre for all the soil building crops, new or old, he has on the place. This payment is made on the basis of the new seedings, however, hence may not always reach the maximum. While these are the uniform ba sic provisions, many regional and other variations are being included in an attempt to make the program just to all, including the farmer who has long practiced good soil conservation methods. though the “sinner who repenteth” will get the largest immediate grant. Clam chowder, succotash, clam cakes and corn meal pudding are among the recipe* that early colon ists borrowed from the Indians. 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