THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 21,1940
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Co-operative Marketing Association
for Malheur Farmers
A Properly Equipped Trailer Camp
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A FUTURE FARMER WONDERS
following excerpts are from a talk de
T HE livered
to the Nyssa Lions club by Frank
Johnson, president of the Nyssa Chapter of the
Future Farmers of America.
The young farmer, we believe, brings out
some points that not only the future farmers of
this country are now thinking about, but the old
er ones as well. All boiled down to one sentence,
it amounts to this: “ American Markets for
American Farmers” . Read this, whether you be
lieve in trade agreements or not— it will give you
something to think of.
We quote from Frank Johnson’s speech:
“ Briefly stated, the secretary believes that the
people of the United States will be prosperous
only if we are able to sell a larger quantity of
goods broad than we are now selling. Foreign
trade, Secretary Hull says, will make us pros
perous. * * * His argument is that if we make
these trade agreements with many nations, we
shall be doing our part to break down the bar
riers and pave the way to peace.
“ Opponents of Secretary Hull’s policy admit
that his intentions are good, but they say that in
his eagerness to restore foreign trade, he has
gone too far in reducing the import taxes on
goods coming into the United States, and, in
many cases, foreign products have been ship
ped into this country and have competed seri
ously with American goods.
“ Although many pages of facts are submitted
by each side in this controversy, it is hard for
the impartial observer to decide exactly what the
facts prove. For example, the friends of the
Hull trade agreements are able to show that
Americans are selling far more to foreigners
than they sold before the trade pacts went into
effect. But how much o f this increase of foreign
sales was due to the trade pacts. That we do not
know; in part, the increase was due to the fact
that there was rapid business recovery in most
parts of the world after 1933.
“ They say it is true that the Hull agreements
have secured favors from foreign countries so
as to allow American manufacturers to sell some
o f their products abroad more easily. THEY
CONTEND, HOWEVER. THAT THE HULL
PACTS HAVE NOT OPENED UP NEW MAR
KETS FOR AMERICAN FARMERS. They
point to the fact that, while the total sales of
American goods to foreigners increased greatly
from 1934 to 1938, the sale of farm products to
foreigners has shown no' appreciable increase.
“ But, say the friends of the Hull trade pacts,
the situation would have been still worse if it
had not been for the trade agreements. * * *
“ Not only have the agreements failed to open
new markets for the farmers, opponents say, but
they have broken down our tariff walls so that
foreigners sell an increased quantity of farm
products in this country in competition with
American farmers. Foreign sales o f farm prod
ucts in this country increased roughly from one
billion dollars in 1934 to one and a half bil
lion dollars in 1937.. * * * In consideration of
these factors, I believe that the reciprocal trade
agreements have been injurious to the American
farmer by (1) lowering his standard of living,
(2) lowering farm prices, (3) and the loss of the
domestic market. * * *
“ Have we not the right as voung farmers to
ask the following questions? Whose market is
this? Who has first claim to the purchasing
power o f America? Who is it that must pay the
taxes? Upon whose back rests the payrolls and
the relief rolls of the Republic? W no it is that
must defend the flag? It is the people of the
United States. I^et us be just to them before we
seek to be generous to the rest o f the world.”
A n O ld T i m e r
"When the Owyhee ditch was
put through the work was done with
teams and scrapers. Our teams were
hall-starved, and we hardly had
enough to eat for ourselves. We had
to haul our hay irom Malheur and
pay $10 and $12 a ton for it, and a
good portion of the hay was fed up
on the 3-day trip on the road. We
had to go all the way to Boise val
ley for our oats, and haul our vege
tables from the China gardens at
Boise City. I tell you, we had plenty
of tough times. John E. Johnson was
our engineer and Hub Ward was our
ditch boss for years and years. We
worked at it about ten years. The
dam made the worst trouble. The
river would wash out around it and
leave the settlers dry for that sea
son. We got as far as the hog back,
now Oregon Trail, where we struck
a big gravel bar. We couldn’t get
through it in years, so we borrowed
$60,000 from Fred Kiesel of Ogden.
We are still paying interest on a
part of that debt.
“Kiesel started the old O..F. store
(Oregon Forwarding) at Ontario,
the firm of Kiesel, Schilling and
Danielson. Before the railroads to
the interior were built out of On
tario, the O. F. store used to send
out $1000 worth of merchandise a
day, on the average.
“Our house was sort of an oasis
in the early days on the river, when
houses were scattered and few. We
kept all the travelers that came our
way—riders on horseback, travelers
in covered wagons, even Indians,
and we never charged anyone. Trav
elers would come and rest a day or
so, and I would say, ‘Boy, go dig
yourself a sack of potatoes out of
the garden, or pick apples off the
ground—don’t knock them off the
trees—and take them with you.’ And
my wife would come with a pan of
eggs or a bucket of milk for them.
My Big-hearted wife always gave
freely to those in need.
“When we came to the Owyhee
river, among our neighbors I recall
Charles O. Wilson, Dr. Rigsby, Alex
Mathison, Bud Dryden, Bill Smith,
Charley Patton and Tim Collins.
My brother Gus had come in 1882.
Fairman Bradley and family came
a little later, also Tom Fletcher’s
and Joe Robertson’s. Arthur Morey
later bought the Patton place, and
Jim Pinkston bought part of the
Mathison place. John Bigelow was
an early settler, and so was Mr.
Meeker. He died at Fletcher’s. The
Tremblay family later had a store
and the Owyhee post office at the
Stone House. Among our early
teachers were Miss Wessela, W. J.
Patterson and Charley Lemon.”
(To be continued)
Co-op Livestock
Marketing
Reviewed
By the “ Happy Farmer”
The Co-Operative Livestock Mar
keting Association of Parma, Idaho,
shipped 6559 head or 1,339,275
pounds of hogs to market In 1939.
They brought a total of $275,700.28.
They shipped 3,133 head or 260,885
pounds of sheep, which brought
$35,679.26. And cattle to the value of
$7,295.73. We haven’t the number
and weight on the cattle.
These facts and figures are com
piled from a letter from Mr. C. J.
Kniefel secretary of the Co-opera
tive Livestock Marketing associa
tion and also secretary of the Co-op
wool pool of Parma, Idaho.
The Co-operative Livestock Mar
keting association was organized in
1931 by a group of farmers who
wished to get a market price for
their stock without paying a high
selling commission.
Mr. Ben Weber is in charge of the
hog and cattle shipping. They ship
hogs every Friday and cattle when
there is enough to make a carload.
Their largest shipment of hogs for
1939 was October 10th. They shipped
286 head on that day.
To quote from Mr. Kniefel: “Mr.
C. G. Allen is our sheep shipper. He
makes several sheep shipments dur
ing the late spring and summer. He
goes to the farmer's place and
grades the lambs (telling you when
they are ready to ship). Anyone in
terested in shipping lambs may do
so by letting us know. Anyone may
ship through this association, how
ever, we prefer to have them join
as a member. A ten-year member
ship is two dollars.”
There is of course a small handl
ing charge on this stock. We over
looked
getting that from Mr.
Kniefel.
Gooding county, Idaho, organized
a hog pool about the same time this
was organized. Twin Falls county
farmers just across the Snake river
always received a half cent more
per pound for their hogs than the
farmers in Gooding county. The
Gooding county buyers said the dif
ference was in the freight rates.
After the pool was organled the
Gooding county formers always re
ceived a half cent per pound more
after handling charges were taken
out than the Twin Falls county
farmers. The handling charges there
were a half cent per pound.
Mr. Kniefel when asked about the
Taylor Graing Act, says: “I do not
believe the Taylor Grazing Act ef
fects the small farmer sheep (or
stock) man except that the act is
forcing the large stockman to de
crease his number of stock (on the
range), thus making a surplus of
feed which the farmer must con
sume on his own farm by owning
and feeding more livestock.” And
adds: “We will have to continue to
j increase the number of livestock on
I our farms if we are to prosper.”
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“ T h ere*» a y a r d n e a r y o u ”
Dwight Smith, Mgr.
C. M. Tensen took out his lead
ewes Friday and plans to take the
rest up Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Groot were
Sunday afternoon visitors at the
Jake Groot home in Arcadia.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Campbell and
family of Oregon Trail were Sun
day afternoon visitors at the W. H
Fox home.
Lila Fife has been on the sick list
but is well again.
Mr. and Mrs. Rock Shelton were
business vistors in Ontario Satur
day.
Mrs. Oles Bingham of Nyssa vis
ited Mrs. Leo Fife Saturday.
Messrs, and Mesdames Luther
Fife. Dean Fife. Floyd Thompson,
Elmer Taylor, L. T. Chambers, Geo.
Jensen, and Francis Gardner at
tended the anniversary banquet of
the Relief society at the L. D. S.
church Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Weeks of Nyssa
spent Saturday evening at the Hen
ry Gannon home.
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Pete Tensen and Celrit Groot at- whgat
tended the sale at the Cornell farm
claude Day purchased four milk
Legal Advertising
in Nyssa Heights Friday.
cows and a team of work horses
Mrs. Gerrit Stam visited Mrs. C.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
W. Barrett in Arcadia Sunday aft
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE
ernoon.
STATE OF OREGON FOR THE
COUNTY OF MALHEUR
Mrs. Joe Stam of Oregon Trail
NEWELL HEIGHTS
Notice is hereby given that the
spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs.
undersigned has been appointed ad
An old landmark on Newell ministrator of the estate of T. E.
Gerrit Groot.
Mrs. Henry Gannon and Mrs. Heights is being torn down. It is Rust, deceased, by the County Court
Jack Gannon were in Ontario Sun the house on the homestead of the of the State of Oregon for Malheur
and has qualified. All per
Hub Walters place and was built County,
day evening.
sons having claims ccniasl said
Mrs. Annie Egan of Logan, Utah, about 40 years ago. Tommy Russell estate are hereby notified to present
is spending a couple of weeks at the now owns the farm and is building the same, duly verified as by law
required, to the undersigned at 14
L. T. Chambers home.
a house for his renters.
Guss Building, Ontario, Oregon,
Joyce Chambers, Afton and Grace
Mr. Staples of Ontario has pur within six months from the date
Draper
and Ivan and Melvin chased the Broulett farm in Newell hereof.
Thompson attended a bee hive on Heights and Lester Goulet is farm
Dated and first published March
Thursday evening at the L. D. S. ing it this year.
7, 1940.
Last publication April 4. 1940.
church.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Rogers were
HERMAN E. RUST,
C. M. Tensen was a business vis
Administrator
Sunday dinner guests at the Ross
itor in Ontario Monday.
Martin P. Gallagher, Attorney.
Mrs. Gerrit Groot visited Grand Healey home.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parker and
ma Stam in Oregon Trail Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cooper and family had dinner with their
family were Sunday dinner guests daughter and family. Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Wood Sunday.
at the Elmer Taylor home.
Bill Kurtz was home from La
Mrs. Floyd Thompson and Mrs.
L. T. Chambers entertained the Grande to spend the week-end with
primary officers at the Thompson his parents.
home Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.
Miss Idamay Prouty spent the
Selma Paulsen, Mrs. Mary Jensen, week-end with her parents in La I
Mrs. Bescsie Ellibee, Mrs. Oles Bing Grande.
ham, Mrs. Violet Riggs, Mrs. Bar
Patricia Smith is confined to her
bara Zimmerman, Mrs. Emma Hen bed threatened with pneumonia, j
dricks, Mrs. Stella Frost, Mrs.
She is under the care of Dr. Mauld-
Audrey Reece. Mary Gardner, El
lng.
len Browers, EuVada Carver attend
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parker enter
ed. Refreshments were served at
to think about Insurance
tained at a birthday party for their
the close.
son
Leroy
Friday
evening.
After
Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Groot. Mr.
when your house is on
and Mrs. Gerrit. Stam, Mr. and playing games refreshments were
Mrs Dick Groot, Kees Blocker and served to 22 friends besides the fam
Rickus Van Twisk of Valley View ily.
Miss Betty Nelson who was the
spent Tuesday evening at the Jake
Van Twisk home in honor of Rickus first and second grade teacher for
Insure N O W ! See
several years, is visiting in this vi
Van Twisk’s birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Fife and cinity the last few days.
Mrs. O. J. Ramsey and children
Mrs. Ethel Lankford were business
FRANK T. MORGAN
of Virda. Nevada, spent Sunday and
visitors In Emmett Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Alfred of Monday at the Alvin McGinnis
Phone 97
Nyssa spent Sunday at the John home. While here she visited at the
R. R. Overstreet and Cecil Smith
Lackey home.
Nyssa, Oregon
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stam of Ore homes. Before her marriage Mrs.
gon Trail were Thursday visitors at Ramsey was Miss Agnes Johnson
and taught the primary grades here
the Bill Findling home.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Jensen and seven and eight years ago.
family were in Emmett on business
Sunday.
PROGRESSIVE SEWING CLUB
Mrs. Luther Fife and Lila were
By Virginia Orr
business visitors in Ontario Mon
A meeting of the “Progressive
day.
Sewing Club” was held Saturday,
Mr. and Mrs. LaVere Fife called
March 16, 1940.
at the T. T. Elliott home in King-
The meeting began at 1 o’clock
man Kolony Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Groot spent p. m. A report was given by Virginia
Sunday evening at the Pete Ten- Orr, entitled “ Dress for a School
Girl."
sen home.
After the meeting had been ad
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Higgins of
Nyssa moved into their new home journed, Mrs. Dimmick helped the
girls with their work.
in this district Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Brown of
Burns spent Thursday evening with
S O L ID C O M F O R T .
Mr and Mrs. John Lackey.
SOUND ECONOM Y
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Jensen and
family were in Ontario Sunday aft
ernoon.
WHENY0U
Vivian Fife entertained ten of
Due to the tremendous strain
her friends on her 12th birthday
caused by sudden bereavement,
Saturday
afternoon.
Cutie and
careful thinking is hindered by
games were played. High prize was
increased responsibilities.
Be
won by Wanda Howell and low by
cause decisions must be made
Pauline Hendricks. Grace Draper
quickly, it is imperative that you
and Marie Seburn of this commun
have the valuable assistance of a
ity attended. Refreshments were
reliable funeral director. We have
served at the close.
served this community faithfully
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Groot were
for years.
business visitors in Ontario Mon
day morning.
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Mr. and Mrs Parley Merrill of
HOLE
Weston, Idaho, were oernight guests
at the Luther Fife home Monday.
Ambulance Service
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Mr. and Mrs. Don Lankford of
Phone 47
Nyssa. Oregon
Phone 73W
Nyssa
Ontario visited Mrs. Ethel Lank
ford Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gannon
spent Sunday afternoon at the Earl
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Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Whalen and
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Mr. and Mrs. Osa Storts of Payette
visited at the John Lackey home
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Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Relk and
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family of Oregon Trail spent Sun
day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Findling.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Crane and I
Marjorie and Edna Hallock were j
Thursday evening dinner guests at j
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the George Webster home in Nyssa |
Heights.
Esther Sweaney of Richland, June
Webster of Nyssa Heights and Edna
Hallock spent Sunday at the Higby
home in Apple Valley.
Henry Beryl from Montana is
visiting at the Grant Hallock home.
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Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Florea and
family. Mr. and Mrs. Olen Thomp
son, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sorensen,
and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Robbins
were Sunday dinner guests at the
H L. Day home.
Mrs. Ella Louise Highland of
Boise visited her son David at the
S. B. Hoffman home last week.
Galen Evans of Kansas and Jean
Buffington and Milton Townsend of
Iowa spent a few days at the Leslie
Topliff and Alva Goodell homes.
Mr. Evans is a cousin of Mrs. Top
liff and Mr. Goodell.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Day and
Ronnie and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Hoffman were Sunday visitors at
the S. B. Hoffman home.
Mrs. E. L. Jamison was an On
tario visitor Thursday.
Mrs. C. C. Wyckoff. Mrs. E. L.
Jamison. Mrs. Leslie Topliff and
Mrs. Alva Goodell attended Chatter
box club at the C. H. Bennett home
in Richland district.
Betty Osterkamp of Apple Valley
was an overnight guest at the E. L.
Jamison home Tuesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs Leslie Topliff and
Mr and Mrs Alva Ooodell attend
ed a pinochle party at the Ed Ntel-
son home In Newell Heights Satur
day evening.
Everyone In this district is very j
busy in the field. Henry Day and I
Leslie Topliff have finished drilling |
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