THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1940
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WITH >OOR
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AS LITTLE AS
a month.
Carl Hammer is driving a new car.
Mrs. H. G. McCulley was called to
Pocatello last Friday because of the
illness of her mother.
Mrs. Ed Bensel and her sister Mrs.
Cassidy and their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Davis of Palouse were visiting
at the H. M. Sommerer home Monday
afternoon.
Carl Hammer is employed in Wal
la Walla at the tin can factory. He
does not work on Saturday and
spends ihs week ends here with his
family.
Elmer Blahm is doing the chores
at the Blinston home while Arthur
Blinston is employed in Walla Walla.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Reid left Sun
day for Longview, Wn They returned
home Tuesday.
Mrs. T. M. Ellis and Miss Mary
Ellis are at home again after a few
weeks stay in Hermiston.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Rainwater
were visitors at the Forrest Moore
home Saturday from Tollgate.
Mrs. H. G. McCulley’s brother, Mr.
uHghes, was here last week from Po
catello.
B. E. Getchell arrived home from
Denver Monday. While in Colorado
he visited with Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Shaw, former residents of this dis
trict. He states they aj-e fine and
happy.
Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols were
visitors at the Eugene Dunham home
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Charley Myers and her
daughter Mrs. Mae Bower were Sat
urday visitors at the Forrest Moore
home.
W. H. Nebergall is ill at his home.
W. A. Mikesell took. him to Pendle
ton last week to consult a physician.
Mrs. Verne Dunham returned from
St. Anthony’s hospital Tuesday af
ternoon with her little son James
Richard.
Mrs. Roy Rogers and daughter
Mrs. Howard Dirks and children and
Emsley visited Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Upham Tuesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Douglas spent
Sunday at Pilot Rock with Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Hutchison and family.
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Recent visitors at the George
Strohm home were Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Strohm of Pendleton.
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Maxine Blinston will leave Sunday
Letta Mitchell of Dayton Wn., vis for Portland to re-enter the Pacific
ited last week at the Lester Hammer Beauty school. She will finish her
home. She is a sister of Mr. Ham course and take the state examina
mer.
tion in October. She plans to be gone
C O L U M B IA NEWS
PAGH T ï ï l H
THE H E R M IS TO N HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON.
Although Oregon is below the
average in percentage of tenants in
comparison to farm ownership, ap
proximately 28 per cent of all the
farm families in the state rent the
land they work, and more than a
third of these move each year. Thia
and much more information on the
subject of farm tenure improvement
is contained in a report issued by the
United States department of agricul
ture and submitted to each state ex
tension service and other agency
concerned with this problem.
The Oregon State college extension
service is cooperating in the improve
ment of farm tenure. J. R. Beck, ru
ral service specialist, has recently
distributed copies of improved lease
forms to all county agents’ offices,
where they may be obtained for use
in connection with the usual fall mov
ing period.
In the United States as a whole
4 2 per cent of all farmers are ten
ants or share croppers, and nearly
half of the total farm land in this
country is operated under lease. In
Oregon approximately 14,700 farm
families are renters, and an average
of 36 per cent of these, or 5300,
moved in one year. Thus, at the time
the study was made, close to 10 per
cent of the farm families in the state
moved to a new place.
This rapid change in tenants is
highly expensive, both to the renters
and the landlords, according to this
study by the USDA. The average
cost to tenants is estimated at around
$75 per move, with the cost to the
landlords being about the same. The
leasing arrangements which prevail
throughout much of the country are
not conducive to effective conserva
tion and do not encourage tenants to
make improvements or to develop the
most profitable types of farming for
themselves and for the land owners.
The improved lease forms distribu
ted to county agents here in Oregon
are not considered a solution to the
tenant problem but do offer some bet
terments, according to Beck. They
are simple in form and are designed
to encourage leasing for more than
one year, or one-year leasing with
automatic renewal. Other features
encourage improvements, fair rates
of rent, and development of better
types of farming.
RUPTURE
Shield-Expert H. L. HOFFMAN,
Minneapolis, Minn., will demonstrate
without charge his “RUPTURE
SHIELDS” in—
PENDLETON, OREGON
at Hotel Dorion
TUESDAY, SEPT. 17
From 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. Please
come early. Evenings by appointment.
My “Shields” will not only hold
your rupture under any condition of
work but by so doing help nature to
contract the opening.
CAUTION-,
If neglected, rupture may cause
weakness, backache, nervousness,
stomach and gas pains. People hav
ing large ruptures which have re
turned after surgical operations or
injection treatments are especially
invited.
“If you want it done right, don’t
experiment. See Hoffmann.” No
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Address: 1478 Northwestern Bank
Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn.
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OREGON FARMERS
URGED T O G RO W
M A N Y W A R CROPS
Irrigation will help many Oregon
farmers to “cash in” on market op
portunities afforded by European
war conditions, according to a sum
mary of future market prospects giv
en by William A. Schoenfeld, dean
and director of agriculture at Oregon
State college, during the eleventh an
nual western Oregon irrigation tour
held on the experiment station farms.
In some parts of the state and for
some products increased acreages of
certain crops will be possible, al
though in others higher production
will depend upon increasing the
yields of present acreages either by
additional moisture or other means,
he said..
War conditions have reduced or
entirely eliminated the importation of
many of the seeds and other special
ty crops for which Oregon is ideally
adapted, Dean Schoenfeld pointed
out. He mentioned specifically the
various grass and clover seeds, field
pea and vetch seed, both fiber flax
and seed flax, sugar beet seed, flower
bulbs, hops, filberts, and even less
common products such as poppy and
mustard seed, pyrethrum, peppermint
oil and certain foreign types of
cheese.
By stressing the production of
these crops in the immediate future,
Dean Schoenfeld said, it will be pos
sible for Oregon farmers to compen
sate somewhat for the lost markets
for staple crops caused by this same
war. At the same time Oregon farm
ers will thus be able to supply other
farmers in the United States with
essential seed no longer obtainable in
usual quantities abroad.
“Preparedness involves much more
than merely military defenses,” he
added, “and this is an important step
in providing America with essential
agricultural products.”
Adaptation of crop systems to
make full use of irrigation was ex
plained by a number of specialists in
the course of the tour.
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The long sought improvement of
KOAC, the state-owned radio station
at Corvallis, has been brought a long
step nearer realization through the
granting by the federal communca-
tions commission of the petition to
increase the KOAC power from 1000
watts to 5000 watts daytime service,
according to officials of Oregon State
college licensee of the station.
Approval of the power boost opens
the way for the state board of high
er education to make use of the ap
propriation made by the 1939 legis
lature for the construction of a new
and modern transmitter on college
property several miles north of Cor
vallis. The appropriation has been
unused pending action by the com
mission on the long fought effort of
the state station to protect its wave
length and modernize its facilities.
Regarding the wave length, the
commission had previously ruled that
an Arizona station, KOY, would be
permitted to use the 550-Kilocycle
band, but limited that station to 1000
watts and promised that “if object
ionable interference should develop
........... the commistflon will enter an
order requiring appropriate proOMt*
ion.”
KOAC engineers submitted four
complete engineering plans before all
objections of the navy department
and others to the proposed expansion
were removed. The plan accepted
calls for a directional antenna to pro
tect the Tongue Point naval base.
This design will be a real benefit to
most KOAC listeners, however, as the
daytime signals to the north, east,
and south, where most of the popula
tion is, will be increased about five
times, while the modern equipment
and increase power will also give
those to the west better service than
they now receive, according to the
engineers.
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