Thursday, June jq
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
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NEWS NOTES OF
THE NORTHWEST
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National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
N a tio n a l Pres« B u ild in g
W ash in gton,
D. C.
19J
British Plane Blazes Trail for Overseas I j ne
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Brief Summary of Events
of S p e c ia l In te r e s t to
O regon, Washington and
Idaho Communities.
UNITY, Ore.— The first water from
Washington.—F arm leaders have servation law, as occurred under
gone before congress again to press the AAA, results in millions of dol Burnt river has run through the tun
r,
a new agricultural lars being paid to individuals and nel at the Unity dam. The tunnel
U rg e N e w
program . L i k e corporations who are in no way par will take the flow through the fall
F a rm P ro g ra m several that have ticipating in conservation activities, j while the dam is being constructed.
come through in
while Mr. O’Neal thinks that i CHILOQUIN, Ore.— The city of
the last half-dozen years, the new the Now,
proposed law can be operated ,
proposition is based on a subsidy. without expense to the federal treas-i Chiloquin has transferred to the
The current program, like the old ury, there is yet the conviction in Klamath county school district an
entire city block, which will be de
AAA, is predicated on agreem ents some
quarters that it probably will veloped Into an athletic field for
by which farm ers will not do some cost about
million dol Chiloquin schools.
thing and be paid for not doing it. lars a year six to hundred
pay the subsidies
To obtain the subsidies from the and pay for administration
LA GRANDE, Ore.—Union county
of the
“ ^aess:»:.
federal treasury contemplated in law. Six hundred million dollars
will
send the largest delegation of
the new farm legislation, farm ers year is a large sum at any time a 4-H boys and girls to the annual
Pictured at the airways base at Port Washington, L. I., is the British 15-passenger flying boat “Cavalier
will have to sign contracts agreeing and it bulks much larger at a time summer school at Oregon State col after completing the first east-west survey flight from Bermuda. These survey flights are in preparation fa
to curtail their acreages up to twen
there is a nation-wide cry for lege In its history. Forty-one will the eventual trans-Atlantic passenger service which will be jointly operated by the Im perial Airways and Pan
ty per cent of their average cultiva when
American Airways. Simultaneously with the Cavalier s flight, a Pan-Am erican Sikorsky clipper made thi
a
balanced
for the federal attend the courses.
tion for the last several years. If government. budget
west-east
flight to Bermuda.
It
is
a
sum
that,
if
the
MEDFORD, Ore.—Medford’s water
they fail or refuse to sign these budget of the federal government
commissioners have warned that un
contracts, the legislation describes otherwise
were balanced, would be less the usual waste of water Is
them as not co-operating and, there sufficient to
BR EA K S NARCOTIC RING
frighten thousands of avoided this summer, service by
fore, they would be denied the right holders of United
States
bonds.
to obtain loans from the federal gov
meter Impends. City homes are now
It would seem then that the farm charged a flat rate.
— w
ernm ent and they would not have a
guarantee of “parity prices,” as a leaders ought to take into consid
PASCO, Wash.— A program to ex
penalty. Moreover, those farm ers eration the status of the federal
who failed or refused to co-operate government’s financial affairs if tend over a period ef years the Im
in this m anner would be subjected they want to develop a program provement of the Columbia river
to prohibitive taxes on the sale of that will live. I have heard from beach at Pasco is planned by the
products grown in excess of limits many students of agricultural prob Klwanis club. The club’s recent car
on totals to be prescribed by Secre lems that the remedy for farm con nival brought $620, which will form
tary Wallace of the Department of ditions is not an expensive new sys the nucleus of a fund for the im
tem of farm subsidies. They assert provement program.
Agriculture.
that it will be impossible for Uncle
The announced basis of this new Sam to continue annual payments
GRANDVIEW, Wash.— The cherry
program is for “ conservation of the to some three million or more farm growers of the Grandview district
soil.” F urther, its sponsors contend
predict a fair crop, probably larger
that it will mean a gradual upbuild ers and they are convinced, further, than last year’s, providing the fruit
that
most
farm
ers
themselves
ob
ing of the fertility of the soil so that,
is not damaged by rain. The crop Is
in the end, fewer acres will have to jected to being placed in the cate reported spotted, some having good
be cultivated to produce the same gory of relief clients. An argument crops, others virtually none, due to
volume of corn or cotton or wheat is also advanced that more and
more farm ers believe federal poli poor pollination weather.
or whatever other crop is grown.
cies that cause money to be handed
TWIN FALLS, Ida.— Efforts are
But I think there are few individ out free to farm ers will, in the end,
uals who will say that the above destroy the independence of agri under way to have the toll charges
reasons honestly constitute the basis culture. However that may be and eliminated from the Twin Falls-
for this new farm legislation. I however the majority of the farm Jerome Intercounty bridge, or to
Miss Joyce McAllister, twent
think it m ust be admitted that the ers feel about receiving money gra have the state purchase the bridge
seven-year-old former Santa Ba
plan is only a subterfuge; that, tis from the government at Wash to permit Improvement and recon
bara, Calif., college student, who!
while it m ay help some farm ers by ington, it cannot be said that agri struction of United State highway
under-cover detective work is era
giving them cash, it is pure politics culture is being placed on a sound 93, which crosses on the span.
ited with leading to the arrest i
with cash as a sop.
seven Chinese and a veteran feden
footing by politicians and political
BANDON, Ore. — Cheered by of
agent in raids on night clubs in th
I am not one equipped to say that farm leaders whose sole objective ficial report that Bandon’s munici
A new “little Ruhr” is rising seven miles up the Cuyahoga river Chinese quarter of Reno, Nev. Th
agriculture does not need a subsidy is to loot the treasury. Farm ers pal debt was reduced $211,800 be
even though prices of farm products would not permit it to happen to tween September 30, 1932, and from Cleveland, Ohio, which will mark it as America’s meeting grounds sheriff’s office and the federal nai
for iron ore and coal. The development is part of the Republic Steel cotics bureau provided her wit
are now almost double what they the governments of their states or
were in 1933. It is entirely possible their counties but a considerable May 15, 1937, Bandon’s city council corporation’s program of expansion. A $15,000,000 plant, shown above, is $1,000 with which she bought nai
that farm ers throughout the nation number of them apparently have and rebuilding commission have under construction, which, when completed, will be the world’s most cotics, thus obtaining informatio
still need help in the form of cash. been persuaded that the govern- raised their federal RFC loan appli continuous strip mill.
leading to the arrests.
It m ay be the better part of wisdom m et at Washington is something cation for rebuilding to $407,500.
to vote such payments as are con else.
MARYSVILLE, Wash— Six years
BLIND LECTURER
• • •
tem plated in this new legislation. On
ago, civic leaders of Marysville, or
the other hand, however, if there
ganized
their
first
strawberry
festi
The Department of Commerce
is that need then let us be honest which has supervision of airplane val. This year they are expecting a
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about it.
crowd of more than 4000 townspeople
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traffic
has
an-
President Roosevelt lately has
A ir P ilo t»
nounced that it and visitors to join In the celebra
signed a new law which provides O u t o f Race» will not permit tion set for June 17. The full day
subsidies to shipping companies in
pilots to will be devoted to a parade, sports of
order that America m ay have its participate in an American
air race that was all kinds, a baseball game and a
own m erchant m arine, but those proposed for this summer. The race dance at night.
paym ents are to be called subsidies. was to have taken place from New
MILTON, Ore.— P. J. Bark & Sons
They are not disguised nor con York to Paris, but the Department
cealed. It seems ridiculous, there of Commerce has vetoed the plan have established a new cannery here
fore, that the farm leaders should unequivocally because it considers by leasing the cannery section of the
not be frank with the members of the race as nothing more than a Western Cider Vinegar works. Work
their organizations. If they feel that stunt.
has already started with canning of
a subsidy is needed, why not put
It may occur to some that such a asparagus. Burk was operator of
it up to congress that way so that ruling by the Department of Com a cannery last year for the Burk
those farm ers who believe in sub
constitutes an interference Canning company, Milton, sold re
sidies as well as those who want merce
with private business beyond rea cently to large growers near Athena
to see agriculture left alone for son. I cannot share that view. The and Pendleton.
awhile can understand what is go experts have been unable to find in
PRINEVILLE, Ore.— About 30 per
ing on.
this proposed race any possibility cent of the total area of Crook coun
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of benefit for aviation nor any ex
I imagine that the farm leaders perimentation that would lead to ty Is forest land which supports a
who are sponsoring the new legisla- more scientific flying. It has taken total of 5,315,990 board feet, log
scale, of saw timber, according to an
x,,
tion could scarce-
Cnose
¡y have chosen a the position that there is too great Inventory of forest resources of the
a danger involved for those pilots
B a d T im e
who are foolhardy enough to under county made as part of a national
presentation
of take the three thousand two hun survey, Thornton T. Munger, director
their program . I m ean that, in dred mile flight actoss the ocean. of the Pacific northwest forest ex
Ernest Biegajski of Buffalo, N. Y., evidently believes in safety fir
presenting this type of legislation Its position is further fortified with periment station has announced. The
Miss Hazel Hurst, blind lecturer,
when congress is undergoing a wave the argument that if any of the Inventory was written by Harry M. shown being led up the gangplank °F t G i
on a
Preserver before hoisting sail and moving <
of economy, the program is likely pilots should lose their lives in that Wolfe and presents the extent, loca of an Atlantic liner by her “seeing into Lake Erie in his remodeled pickle b arrel schooner in which he pla
to receive scant consideration. It type of aviation, it will cause many tion and ownership of the forest eye” companion, “ Babe.” Miss
8°. to Europe this summer if present experim ents prove success!
always has been the case that legis thousands of persons to lose faith in lands; the volume, character and Hurst, with the aid of “Babe,” was t s « 100« ® s! c?"d such boat he has built with his soldier’s bonus mom
lation goes through several stages the airplane as a means of trans ownership of the standing timber, en route to France.
o model leaked so badly that only the tim ely arrival of the co<
of hauling and Alling in congress portation. In short, the departm ent and the nature of the vegetative
guard prevented its maiden voyage from turning into a tragedy.
with the result that after much de thinks that there are only disad cover found in the county.
bate a bill satisfactory to the m a vantages and no advantages in the
jority emerges. In presenting their prospect.
WANT SEALS SLAIN
program at this time, therefore, the
TILLAMOOK, Ore. At a meeting
While
many
persons
may
disagree
farm leaders are not doing a very with the position the departm ent has of a committee of fishermen with the
good job of leading. There will be
it is heartening to those of Tillamook Chamber of Commerce
much agitation on the part of the taken,
us
who
like to see private business last week, the chamber was asked to
farm leaders that will get just no encouraged,
to know that a respon lend support to some plan for ex
where at all because of conditions sible federal agency charged with termination of seals In Tillamook
in congress.
supervision of a private industry is bay. It Is claimed that about 1000
Edward A. O’Neal, president of again functioning as it was intended seals are exterminating fish faster
the American F arm Bureau Feder to do. For several years, the De than fishermen can catch the fish.
ation, recently was quoted as saying partm ent of Commerce, with par
A plan suggested was bombing the
that the new plan would not require ticular respect to its aviation di ■eals, which lie on the spit, from an
any paym ents direct from the treas vision, has been in a state of tur aeroplane.
ury; that is, it would pay its own moil. There were wide differences
way through the medium of taxes if of opinion and in consequence little
LIKES TAXI TRAVEL
it “ works perfectly.” That is the in the way of permanent develop
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Another
rub. I find doubt in nearly all quar ment was sponsored from Washing trip across the continent in a taxi
ters that the plan can “ work per ton for the aviation industry.
cab was under way last week by
fectly.” It is so complex and re
In criticizing the government's in Katherine Bruen, who came here last
quires such a bureaucracy for ad activity, no observer would be fair week to get her brother, James. She
m inistration of it that to expect it unless he also called attention to the found him ill In the county hospital,
to “ work perfectly,” is virtually to frailties and the failures of the in but he was able to start the return
expect that legislation will control dustry itself. It is true that some trip with her to Brewster, N. Y.
the weather. I think everyone will of the larger lines lately have made
John Frisco of Brewster Is driving
agree that congress and the admin sensational improvements in the the taxi by the way of Lincoln high
istration has not yet been able to equipment they pse in the air and
find the formula for controlling the in the operations part of flying. way. Miss Bruen said she chose a
cab because she likes to travel In one.
weather.
It is true that larger and better
I believe it can be said fairly that planes
have been built and are
FI 1.1.MAN, \\ash. —— Remoulding
many farm ers are dissatisfied with building. But it is likewise true
the soil conservation program that a number of airlines have of the ground floor of Stevens hall,
adopted as a substitute for the AAA adopted penurious, penny pinching women’s dormitory at Washington
which the much criticized Supreme policies and have refused to re State college will be done this sum
court held unconstitutional by a place worn out and obsolete planes mer. The kitchen and dining room
unanimous vote. Even those offi because they did not want to invest will be converted Into living rooma
cials of the Department of Agricul additional money. Until the air in to provide additional housing space.
ture who are frank will admit that dustry awakens to the necessity for
GOODING, Ida.— A pageant, cover
the soil conservation is not an effec spending money and until the De
These four stalwarts of the U
' ■
tive m eans for controlling produc partm ent of Commerce becomes a ing the history of the town from
1907 down to 1937, was the princi pastim e—if there is anything in t h e ' S v n / uF ’° ^ a baseba11 team ought to be pretty good at the ns*
tion. It does have m erit as far as smooth
functioning
supervisory pal feature of the commencement
it goes in conserving the soil. But
nam es were household words a few year,
A11 are sons of famous m ajor league fathers, *
the air travel of this country program of Gooding high school. No former
pitcher for the St. Louis B r o X
to right are Ed M^nnffig tw e n ty son of Hd Mann
there is another phase: It has been agent,
will
not
even
approach
the
limit
o* outside speaker was present and the ™ t \ mn° £ t aCe: u'mmy Shotton. ' s e v e n t e e n nineteen’ *>n of Lee Meadows, old P itts ta ^
pointed out too often almost to need its capacity.
whole class took part in the pageant White, nineteen, whose father once p la J S ’thfaS 2 ^ ^ otton’ » form" St. Louis O rd in al, and «
repetition here that the soil con-
• W ts te ra S l v i M M r U nion.
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Mariner Plans Sea Cruise in Tub
Sons of Diamond Daddies Good at Baseball
inird for the Chicago White Sox.