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THE N YSSA G ATE C IT Y J O U R N A L PAGE 4 thing more from the federal treas ury; Prance is on the list to receive supplies for the rehabilita tion of that war-torn country, and chare are numerous other aplicants waiting to file their requests The rational debt is now In excess of $160,000,000,000 and may yet exceed the $300,000 000,000 mark. Not only has this stupendous sum been dis tributed In cash but there has been a nearly equal contribution [ from the American people in the I way o f food and supplies to dis- i tressed people suffering from the ' ravages of war. Congress is in the mood to call a halt. Recently announced plans for ex W ASH ING TO N. D. C., Aug. 18— tension of rural electrification will W ith federal tax collections for not lack for available cash since the year ending June 30 last tot $300,000,000 has been allotted for aling in excess of $45,000,000,00 this purpose; but their realization there was still a deficit of $50,000,000- may be delayed for lack of poles. 000 and It Is not anticipated that this In various sections of the cuntry excess o f expenditures over Income expedients have been resorted to will be materially reduced in the in an effort to overcome this handi- coming 12 months, according to icap and a considerable amount of statements made on the floor of construction is underway. In bot(i the senate, even with an ending Oregon and Washington reports o f the war against Japan. In addi indicate revival of Interest In the tion to the war costs so may com building of new lines and this is mitments have been made, so much understood to have received en has been pledged toward world couragement from the Bonneville relief and rehabilitation that the administration which Is trying to lopping o ff of a few billions by build up a backlog o f power de cancellation o f war contracts wi mand against the time when war have little effect on the over-all industries in the Pacific northwest financial condition of the United cease to be customers. The pole States. It Is because of this situa problem does not seem to be so tion that there Is In congress a acute in that region. glowing sentiment for the curtail Not until the 1945 corn crop ment of certain expenditures over has been harvested will it be which congress still has the ultimate , kn, | n whether the allocation of control. wheat may be necessary. I f corn One of the matters which will production should fall much below be gone Into at some length when the session is resumed next month present estimates by the depart ement of agriculture it will be nec- Is the apparent continued prod igality in tihe expenditures for 1 essary to conserve this year’s wheat lend-lease, for which already more for stock feed. Early guesses by than $65,000,000 000 has been app corn experts place the probable ropriated. Not all o f this money yield at more than three billion has been spent and there is a bushels, but unfavorable weather possibility that certain of the a ll has been reported from several corn ocations may be rescinded. I t is re states and while a huge crop is called that when lend-lease was reasonably certain it is equally first proposed in 1941 It was es certain that tihe total will be timated that the total required something less than present esti would not exceed $7,000,000 000 but mates. It Is not yet possible to this proved to be no more than a say Just 'how much wheat will be starting point. So far the British required for relief in liberated empire has received more than countries but it Is expected to be $30,000,000 000 In lend-lease and | in excess of 200 000,000 bushels. the end is not yet in sight. Russia Under normal conditions this is has received between 12 and 15 I less than the annual surplus, but billion, China has been helped and I if considerable quantities are to the aid has been extended to all be fed to livestock and used in the Fouth American countries except production of industrial alcohol, Argentina and to more distant government control over wheat distribution may become necessary. parts of the globe. Since the war in Europe ended \ Action has been taken by the Russia has receivedanother $1,000- surplus property board which may 000,000 and is asking for several be of advantage to Henry Kaiser ‘ lmes this amount in long-term In his desire to purchase a govern redits. England, also. Wants some- ment owned steel plant in Utah. The board has Instructed RFC to give local purchasers preference In the sale of war plants even if It Don M. Graham means acceptance of a bid requir ing extension of long term credit as against a cash offer, with RFC insurance Agency arrylng the loan. ,nd Automobile B ILL LAN E Insurance Rentals Auctioneer Bonds Phone 116J Nyssa Beet Loader Order your BEET LO AD E R now -H ave it when you need it—Keep down expense—Order the beet loader that really does the job. B E T T E R -F A S T E R -E A S IE R -C L E A N E R The loader that picks up all the beets but leaves the dirt in the field. See or Phone Kropp & Sons Ontario, Oregon Phone 85 Farmers Supply & Repair 510 No. Oregon St. Highway 30 North Phone 556J Ontario, Oregon F A B R IC A T IO N W ELD ING R EPAIR COMPLETE A U T O M O T IV E SERVICE TH U RSD AY, AUG. 16, 1945 Y -* i I f you cannot buy what you need, we can build it for you. See U$ For Light and Heavy Work Ask for Charlie Croghan or Bob Pierce < to ce much better. Mrs. Mat tha Klingback and son, Fred, and Mrs. Jess Gregg and Becky Lou were business visitors in Ontario Wednesday. Mrs. George Gregg returned *■( ! Caldwell Monday to resume her work after a month’s vacation. Examiner Coining— A traveling examiner of operat ors and chauffeurs is scheduled to arrive in Nyssa Wednesday. . hi ./ Weiser rodeo royalty, Princess Hazel Woodland. Queen Claudia Kcithley and Princess Christy Ann Sargent, who will reign over the three night rodeos starting in Weiser tonight. LOOKING AHEAD Tn GEORGE S. BENSON P r r n J ra !--H a rJ m g C u tltfl Sture), ¿ ria m a i National Income Lincoln Heights a fte r - a week's visit with Donna ! Winslow and other friends. The young people of this community enjoyed a swimming party at W ei ser while the Anderson girls were here.. The Sunday school picnic held on the T . C. Nielson lawn last Sunday was attended by 71 persons. Rev. R. L. Kriner delivered a message WEISER ÜÜÇ»T wmm I Here From Ogden— | Mrs. Bert Rundqulst o f Ogden j is here visiting at the home of Mrs. Dave Mitchell. Also here from l Ogden are Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Scott, who are guests of Mr and I Mrs. Gordon Ray O W YH E E Mr. and Mrs. Ray Franklin. Mr. Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Kriner and family have gone to the mountains and Mrs. Gerald Slippy and son, | Vernon, RDM, third class, and Mrs. I ! on a 12-day camping trip. 1 Alda and Audra Anderson have Byrd Walters were dinner guests returned to their home in Spokane of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Walters Sun- j How well a man lives is a matter that depends largely upon his in- ( come and how he divides it. If he : earns $40 a week ($2.000 a year) and spends every bit of it on himself, he can live about as well as anybody until some unforeseen calamity hits him. If he has a wife and child and an aged parent to support, each individual must subsist on about $10 a week. following classes. A dinner was How well the people of any nation served picnic style. Later the group live is a similar matter. It depends upon the national income and how enjoyed a half hour of congrega It is divided. Just like family in tional singing. Miss Margaret Nelson left for come, national income changes from year to year and it is not a:w.iys her home at Newcastle, Nebraska divided the same way. National in- after spending the past two months | come is the grand total of what ev- I at the home of her sister, Mrs. 1 erybody in the nation earns. It in- Vern Smith and family. En route i eludes all wages, salaries, farm to Newcastle she will spend a few yields, interest, rents, profits and days with another s.ster at Omaha Mrs. Ben McCall submitted to a dividends. i major operation in a Boise hos How About Now? The United States Department of pital Wednesday. Commerce keeps track of our na Her daughter, Mrs. Irvin Miller tional Income figures pretty well, went to Boise to be with her durint. year by year. Already we know that the operation. the income of all Americans totaled A school board meeting was helci 160 8 billion dollars in 1944 and that at the schoolhouse Monday evening. workers got 72% of it, or 110 billion Donna Houston stayed with her dollars. By ’’workers," I mean peo cousin Dorothy Houston, in Ontario ple who draw wages and small Monday night. clerical salaries. Corporation prof j Mr. and Mrs. Emil Frank and its that year ran just under ten bil Mr. and Mrs. Levi Johnson spent lion dollars or 6%. i last Sunday at Indian valley. There is a popular notion that peo Sgt. and Mrs. Verdo Harris and ple who work don’t get very much of Carolyn spent a few days last the fruits of their toil. Not long ago week at Payette lakes. somebody repeated a 40-year-old , Mrs. Nellie Hickman, who has piece of political propaganda to me, 1 been visiting her daughter, Mrs. believing it every word. He said, "H ere in America 2% of the people Levi Johnson, lias gone to Seattle, have 90% of the wealth." There is \ where she will visit another dau not much to say about this state ghter Miss Dorothy Hickman. Joyce and Shirley Dale spent ment; It is not true. It has never the past week at the Jack Pettet been nearly trfie home. Official Figures Geraldine Pettet spent last week Last year the national-income dol lar went like this: 72c to American end with her friend, Wilma Bullard workers, 6c to corporations, 8c to in the Otis Bullard home in the small businesses in the form of prof Arcadia district. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pettet and it, 7c to farmers as return on what they produced, and another 7c to son, S2/c Carl Pettet attended a landowners and stockholders in the family picnic at the Lester M it form of rents and dividends, and chell home Sunday. to money lenders in the form of Althea Hawkins and Shirley Nof- interest. Of course all years aren't ziger left Monday morning with a alike but they vary less than you group of 4-H boys and girls from might think. various parts of the county to National income bobs up and attend a 4-H camp at Payette down but people who work always lakes for a week. get most of it. Back in 1939, which The Patch and Chat club will was a typical pre-war year, our na meet at the home o f Florence tional income was not half as high Pettet Thursday. Co-hostesses will as last year's; 70.8 billion dollars to be Lela Sayers, Clarice Ross and be exact. Then, workers got 68% Mary Elghme. of it, and 6% was corporation profit; County Health Nurse Edna Farr not much change in how the income is of Vale and Dr. L. A. Maulding was divided, but less than half as of Nyssa gave pre-school children much actual money for everybody. o f Lincoln their second diphtheria Ancient History Back In 1929, the year Hoover suc toxoid Tuesday. Mrs. Farris also for the ceeded Coolidge as President, na encouraged registration tional income was 83.3 billion dol chest X-ray survey that will be lars; bigger then, than in 1939. Cor ¡held this month. Mr. and Mrs. Vern L. Smith and poration profits were higher—9% as against 6% in recent years. But Harry were Sunday dinner guests wage earners and offlep help were of Ida Nelson at th e,R . L. Kriner getting 64% of national income, even home. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Barnes and then. In 1932 (the depression) when corporations generally earned 9% sons were Sunday dinner guests at less than nothing, wages climbed to the Lee Smith home. 97% and still some working people w - — _______ — ■■■■ went hungry. Any fair analysis of national in L E T ’S G O .. come figures over a period of years leads to this observation: workers, laborers and clerical people, get more money with the slightly small er percentage of a big national in come than with the bigger per centage of a small national income. 4-H FAIR AND HORSE RACING The moral is perfectly clear. We mu Vkf ISFR IDAHO will all fare better working together for a big national income than by -p i k $4.000.00 wrangling about who gets most of IN PRIZES It, and then having a small one. 4ttrnd Birthday Dinner— I Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Eastman 1 and son. Michael, attended a birth day dinner in honor of Bernard I Eastman. Sr., at the Taylor home In Ontario Tuesday. Electric W elding Lathe Work Parts At E. W. Pruyn Nyssa, Oregon ;day. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Larson of Caldwell were guests Sunday of Mrs. Anna Larson. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Eason, Mr. and Mrs. Werner Peutz and Miss Esther Nein attended the rodeo at Caldwell Wednesday evening. Mrs. Betty White of Denver is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Skinner. Mrs. Mildred Phillips of Salem is visiting her mother, Mrs. Anna Lar son. Mr. and Mrs. William Gregg and Mr. and Mrs. Jess Gregg and Becky Lou were dinner guests of Mrs. Martha Klingback Sunday. William Peutz returned Friday from a vacation of several weeks That County Warrants Not Presented W ill Be Cancelled. Notice is hereby given that the following warrants will be cancelled and the payments thereof will be refused unless said warrants are presented to the county treasurer for pay ment on or before September 1, 1945. GENERAL FUND W A R R A N T S Claimant Louis Wells Assistant Duty, Bob Smith H. H. Davis Dean Goodman John A. Nelson i Amount $5.20 .75 It 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.20 No. 4031 4251 4523 4532 4535 4956 Date Issued July 10, 1937 Sept. 10, 1937 Nov. 10, 1937 Nov. 10, 1937 Nov. 10, 1937 Mar. 11, 1938 i M F J i '/ -■ 15 longhorn Sleets 13 Brjlmu Bulls And Many O il* Attractions 2.25 2134 LIVESTOCK EXHIBITS RODEO DANCE » County Clerk. 6705 STOCKHOLDERS Since 1943 the Idaho Power Company has been owned wholly by Individual stockholders and by investments of college and university endowments, estates and trust funds. Altogether there are 6.705 stockholders. Most of them ate peo ple of modest means, who have invested their savings in small amounts of the company's stock. More of them live in Idaho than in any other state— but they also are scattered over 47 states and several foreign countries. Every officer and director of the company lives in the territory served. Many of them have devoted a lifetime to the job of pro viding you with good electric service at low rates. FRIDAY SATURDAY 4 H FAIR V H. S. S A C K E TT • A M E R IC A N U N ITED SH O W S • AU&I6-I7-I8 a Aug. 6, 1937 P A R A D r RODEO O U F T N « C O U R T THURSDAY * i L RO AD W A R R A N T S Manuel Todhunter 10 Bare Back Hwsrs 75 Bucking Horses y J** Auto Repairing NOTICE * _ FAHM SUPPLIES spent at Warm lake. Mrs. Peuta. August 29 and will be on duty in the city hall from 9 a. m. to who Is recuperating from an ill 12, noon. ness remained at the lake for a ■longer visit. Her health Is reported REIGN A T RODEO I D A H O W POWER A C I TI Z EN WH ER EV ER IT SERVES « ,