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!
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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.