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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1942)
THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1948. | They sure put one in shape, he says. left behind by the retreating force. Mrs. Elsie May Gregor, local teach- The local service station ran out Those Huns were surely leaving in a er, went to Walla Walla Wednesday of gasoline Monday afternoon, but hurry. Everything is all right with evening to spend Thanksgiving with Dy Mrs. w. H. Crary reports that practically every passen | me and all the boys are in good spir her husband, who is in the aviation ger car in the district enters the ra its.” I camp there. Echo Ladies Aid Society will stage tioning period with a full tank. I A steady rain Thanksgiving day Two bands of sheep belonging to a bazaar and food sale at the Metho followed by snow that night gave this Postmaster Stephen Spike reports Frank Correa and sons were brought dist church basement Saturday, Dec sales of $3,243.75 in war bonds dur | to Echo from summer range on the neighborhood .SO of an inch of preci- ember 5. Lunch will be served at ing the month of November. i reservation near Cabbage Hill Mon- 1 pitation. About an inch of snow re noon, and there will be a good supply day. This is believed to be about the mained on the ground Friday morn Twelve Echo high school seniors, of bazaar items suitable for holiday a t of the flocks to be trailed in from ing. accompanied by Supt. M. E. Larive, gifts. Wet weather interferred with pro the traditional date of ; the mountains this fall. The Cunha There were only three clear days changed day” and made a trip to Wal | sheep are all here on winter range per oiling of the new cutoff highway recorded at the local weather bureau “ la sneak Saturday to have the event and the only band in the mountains from Butter Creek to Echo junction station in Novmber and 15 days with off Walla before gas rationing went when Correas left was that of Dave | and the road is still closed. It is ex some precipitation. Total moisture into hand pected to be’opened for travel again effeet. They visited the state Johnson. was 2.35 inches, including about 2 12 penitentiary, the Whitman memorial Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Larive and in a few days. inches o fsnow which fell the night of and the airport listened to a two children spent the Thanksgiving William Able and William Greene, the 26th and the 27th. A chinook broadcast at radio and station KUJ at the holiday at the home of M. E. Larive, ' Echo high school students, have start wind melted all the snow however by studio. They returned home Monday. superintendent of Echo schools. Mr. ed a four months course in the N.Y.A. the 29th. Maximum temperature for Mrs. Wm. Helmicj was called to Larive is head of the Wallowa school. school at Pendleton. Greene, presi November was 61 on the first of the Spokane Sunday by the serious ill Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wilson of dent of the senior class, has been suc month, minimum 21 on the 20th. ness of a sister who resides there. Forest Grove left for their home Fri ceeded in that office by Elise Rauch. Jack L. Teel, former Echo school Pete Mitchell, former Echo school- day after spending Thanksgiving A student body play, "Hobgoblin bus driver, is now a private in a I boy, is. taking part in the allied pur- here with Mr. and Mrs. D. C. John House,” is booked for showing Fri camouflage battalion training at | suit of Rommell across Libya, ac- son. day evening, December 11. Members Only 181 car owners registered here the cast are Jerry Crow. Wilma | Hammer Field, Fresno, Cal. He | cording to a recent letter to his par- write that they are working on cam- ents, Mr. and Mrs. George J. Mitchell for A mileage ration books. Nearly 1 of Brown, Marlis Walker, Dolly Correa. ouflaging airfields at present. He of Nyssa. Peter, a lieutenant in the a fourth of that number were unable | Kenny Coppinger. Louis Penney, finds it hard to get used to seeing airforce, says, "We have driven Rom to secure A books because of lack of Dorothy Madison, Mary Jane Laurie, farmers haying late in October, as mell almost to Tobruk. We are right registration slips or defects in title. 1 Mildred Penney. Keith Middleton, they did there. They have a habit of behind him and hope to catch up with They will have to go before the ra I George Luciani and Bill Correa. marching a fellow on a small hike of the remnants of his army. Is in in tioning board which meets December | The lineup of Echo high school bas- lo or 20 miles ju.-t to limber him up. teresting to see the varied articles 2 at Hermiston. i ketball A squad inculdes four sen- iors, two juniors and three sopho- mores: Bill Correa, Walt Brommeli, Louis Penney. Leon Reese, Dean Rob- ertson, Bill Esselstyn, Joe Correa and Milton Dallman. So far only prac tice games have been scheduled. page four ECHO NEWS ITEMS Sick Soils Have Effect on Animals Earth Should Be ‘Factories,* Not Mines By DR. WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT (Department of Soils, College of Agi ¡culture. University of Missouri.) That sick soils will not build healthy animals any more than they will produce sturdy field crops is significant in view of our national tendency to combat soil erosion by allowing much of the fertility-de pleted soil to go back to grass. In place of giving attention to soil fertility measures that feed growing plants, we have too often adopted the practice of “crop hunting" in the mistaken belief that when one crop starves another can be found that will thrive on the same depleted land. But we can’t breed crops against starvation any more than a sterile parent can transmit the char acter of sterility. Evidences of declining soil fertili ty are seen in the greater number deficiency diseases among our farm animals. Veterinarians are constantly faced with increasing cases of strange animal ailments for which no specific body weakness or visible physiological cause can be found. Eye ailments, a tendency to blindness, bad gaits, rounded back lines, inferior condition, poor feeding progress, and even debility and death can be traced to deficien cies in animals’ nutrition. If newer legumes or non-legumes grow more successfully on less fer tile land, then such crops must be taking less nutrient from the soil. Thus these crops can offer the ani mals that feed on them less of pro tein and of ash which, for animals the same as for plants, are the items drawn from the soil. Animals Limited in Feeding. Confined as they are, animals are 1 limited in their feeding by the soil fertility of the farm. Supplements such as proteins contain too little of the minerals needed. And when ani mals protest by rooting up the very earth or climbing the fence in search of better forage, such actions are met by rings in the nose or cumber some yokes about the neck. Human serfs have been prohibited in this | country for about 75 years, but ani mal slaves can be seen on any trip through the country. Too often they are almost in a state of starvation because their master, the farm own er, neglects his soil fertility. Our soils must become factories instead of continuing as mines from which the fertility is unendingly drawn. Raw materials such as lime stone, phosphorus, potash, and other fertilizing elements, organic matter and other plant nutrients must go back into the soil. In our “soil factories” we must produce more usable nutrients for plant service. Such nutrients must not bo hauled off unless equal amounts are re stored. Consumption of Fats, Oils I! cently the United States used ap- proximately 612 billion pound of fats and nils in edible products; two bil lion in soaps, one billion in pa nts, varnishes, printing inks and lino- bum products, and 0.5 billion was used for a variety of industrial pur- poses. Cutting Costs The department of agriculture is strongly urging partnership in use and purchase of equ pment. Two Floyd county. Texas, farm ers have been showing their neighbors the value of this ♦ kind of joint y . action. These i Farm Securi- pldigs, ty administra- • "a tion borrowers * , first bought a tractor outfit together in 1940. Sharing the $1,030 outlay and the operating expenses proved to the m the ad vantages of partnership. Their second enterprise was buying a pure-bred Jersey bull, which cost $150. Then they bought a seven-foot power-take-off mow er. a feed mill mounted for trans port. and a ground-driven row binder. The two farmers say that the machinery they joined in buying saved their crops last fall. They figure that what they did as a common sense plan will have to be done by others from sheer necessity. Urea for Growing Lambs Farmers were told of tests in the laboratories of a university's divi- | •ion of animal nutrition in which | the performance of growing lambs | fed urea was compared with that of lambs fed diets containing such protein sources as soybean oil meal, casein, skim milk and corn gluten feed. With rations of a 12 per cent protein level, 50 per cent of the nitrogen as urea is as satisfactory a source of nitrogen as commonly used protein concentrates. I! IF YOUR EYES TROUBLE YOU- Come here and get the benefits of our more than 25 years successful optical experience. Reasonable prices for glasses when needed. We examine your eyes by modem methods and grind glasses to fit in all the latest styles. DR. DALE ROTHWELL OPTOMETRIST 418 Main Street PENDLETON. OREGON 1 airy Industry Faces Wartime Crisis Here’s what you can do to help! The Farmer FACES A DIFFICULT PRODUCTION PROBLEM WHICH THREATENS OUR VITAL MILK SUPPLY If any group of workers in America deserve an “E” flag for their effi ciency in production it is the dairy- men who produce our milk and cream. You dairymen realize more than any one else the importance of keeping up our supply of dairy products. You have displayed your loyalty by mak ing every effort to increase the sup ply as requested by our government. But as the men from the farms have gone into the armed forces or into de fense plants this has become more and more difficult. Production costs have risen yet the return for milk and cream is deter mined by a fixed ceiling. Despite their reluctance to do so many farm ers have been forced to disperse their herds and turn to crops which require less labor. Yet in spite of these handicaps Amer ica’s vital milk supply must be main tained in order to meet our growing wartime demands. Your own boys from the farms who are in the armed forces, our allies, our defense work ers, and our civilian population all need this vital wartime food. What You Can Do About It ! Though the dairyman has a difficult situation to face there are a number of things which can be done to relieve the seriousness of present conditions: 1. DON’T LET A MILK COW GO TO THE BUTCHER Already an alarming number of fine dairy cows throughout the country have been killed. Today our war planners are at work devising means by which farmers will be enabled to keep their herds together. If you keep up the fight it is reasonable to expect some kind of government aid in the near future. ' QU ALIFY FOR "FARM DEFER MENT.” Our government. alarmed at the decline in our milk supply, has decided that milkers of 12 or more cows are essential and shall be per manently deferred if other suitable help cannot be found. Such a stand stabilizes your labor problem. If you are now milking on ly six cows, build up your herd to 12 or more—build your production plant to its full capacity. Good dairy cows can easily be picked up at local sales. Farmers who are forced to sell would far rather turn them over to another dairyman than to sell them to be slaughtered. Build up your herds now in order to be prepared for an ever-increasing demand. 3. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY near your farm. There are many advan tages in joining forces with other dairymen of your community. The Challenge Creameries is composed of 16 strategically located co-operative creameries scattered throughout the Columbia Empire. One of these creameries is in your community . —located to serve you. These farmer-owned creameries faci- Iitate handling. Each one is within an hour’s driving distance from farm ers who own it. Such proximity is an important fac tor in meeting tire and gas rationing, as well as insuring the superior qual ities which is the basis of the better returns these co-operative creameries yield. One of the important features of Challenge Creameries is the fact that all profits are returned to the farmer patrons. This in effect insures the dairyman not only the market price for his milk and cream, but the addi tional savings made by the creamer ies' operations. This year’s annual pool saving of the Challenge Creameries exceeded $54,- 900.00. This sum is to be distributed among the various farmer-owned C reameries. This additional income has enabled many dairymen to continue operation when they would otherwise have had to sell their herds. Consider member ship in one of these co-operative farmer-owned creameries. Growing demands plus a declining production of milk has result ed in a serious wartime crisis in the dairy industry. The govern ment is demanding more and more butter, milk powder and cheese for our armed forces and our allies. Increased buying power of the pub ic and shortages of other foods has boosted our normal consumption at home. Yet with all of these added de mands—we are faced with a declining supply. The farmer is to day handicapped with a labor problem which is causing an alarm ing decrease in supply. Our government asks greater co-operation by every dairy farmer and every consumer. Here is what you can do to help relieve this serious situation. The Consumer- SHARES IN THE PROBLEMS OF THE CRISIS FACING OUR DAIRY INDUSTRY Today we are faced with a shortage of milk supply and an ever increasing demand for dairy products—a prob lem which is IMPORTANT to every citizen of America. Briefly the problem is this: 1. Our armed forces must have the best that we can provide them. They need more butter, milk and cheese. Recently the War Production Board has frozen a large part of our nation al butter supply and is demanding more of our cheese and 90 per cent of our spray process dried milk. 2. We have steadily increasing de mands from our allies. England is desperately calling for more dried milk and cheese. Russia is pleading for butter. Lend-Lease demands are growing and must be filled if we are to keep faith with our allies who are taking the brunt of the war. 3. Defense workers who are so essen tial to our war needs must be kept working at highest pitch. Their de mands for dairy products are grow ing. 4. Civilian consumption of dairy pro ducts has grown tremendously. In- c rea sed buying power and the short age of many other types of food such as meat, sugar, coffee and canned goods has caused tremendous sales in creases in butter, milk and cheese. Production is Declining A Unit of One of These Co-operative Creameries is Located in Your Community Central Oregon Co-operative Creamery Dairy Co-operative Association Redmond. Portland, Vancouver, Wash-, Salem, Eugene Farmers Creamery Eugene and Triangle Lake. Farmer Co-operative Creamery McMinnville, Lower Columbia Co-operative Dairy Association Astoria. Greys River, Wash., Clatskanie, Pine Eagle Dairymen’s Co-op. Assn. Halfway, Ore., Ore.. Richland. Umatilla Co-operative Creamery Hermiston, Union County Co-operative Creamery Union, Wallowa County Creamery Association Wallowa, Farmers Co-operative Creamery Baker, Umatilla Co-operative CREAMERY Hermiston, Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Despite this growing demand for dai ry supplies our dairymen are faced with a serious obstacle—a severe la bor shortage which has forced many farmers to sell their dairy herds. En listment of men on the farms, labor gravitating to the city defense plants, and increased production costs coup led with fixed price ceilings have caused this decrease in supply. The current rate of creamery butter pro duction in the western United States is 10 per cent less than a year ago— such a condition indicates the need for a new emphasis on production and for more manpower on our farms if we are to keep up with our rapidly growing demand. Rationing is Here ! We are fortunate that we live in a dairy country. We normally produce far more dairy products that we con sume. The Columbia Empire annual ly exports butter and cheese in large quaintities to other states and to for eign markets. Our co-operative dai ry organizations have helped to devel op the industry and improve the dai rymen’s conditions. Despite these advantages we are now .—today- faced with the fact that we are for the first time since World' War I PRODUCING LESS THAN WE ARE USING. Whether we realize it or not RA TIONING IS HERE' Dairy author ities have recommended that the lim it for butter be placed at 16 pounds per capita per year. While this amount is well over the average con sumption for people in southern states—it is considerably less than the average consumption in the north- west. This means we will have less butter per family during coming months. • What You Can Do To Help 1. RATIONING DEMANDS YOUR CO-OPERATION. Every loyal citi zen will agree that we must share our supply of dairy products with our armed forces and with our allies. In order to do this you must economize on the use of butter, milk and cheese. Price increases may come. In case they do they will be justified. Ra- tioning may become more severe—but if so, you may be sure that it will be justified. 2. DON’T IMPOSE ON YOUR GRO CER. Don’t expect him to do the im possible. Don’t ask him for more than your share. Be fair in your purchases of butter, milk and cheese —it may prevent more serious ration ing and increased shortages for the future. 3. SELECT YOUR DAIRY PRO DUCTS CAREFULLY for their food value. If your purchases of butter and cheese are limited select them for their quality and food value. Remem ber not all butter, cottage cheese and American cheese are the same in food value. CHALLENGE CREAMERIES will maintain the integrity of its brands. Challenge has always stood for the highest qual ity. and the highest food values of any dairy products in the local market. This quality and food value will be maintained. This is our pledge- -our part in co-operating to help the consumer during this wartime crisis. Of the 7.708.768 pounds of butter marketed by Challenge Creameries during the fiscal year ending September 30. 1942, 40.64 per cent was U. S. 93 score—the highest com mercial grade. 34.37 per cent was U. S. 92 score, and only 25 per cent was graded be low the highest grades recognized by Oregon’s Consumer Labeling Law. Practically all of the 2,538.816 pounds of natural cheese marketed last year was of the highest commercial grade. Challenge butter, natural cheese and cottage cheese have won a majority of the first prizes awarded in quality competition during the last three years.
