The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-11-22

Aroused over the proposed Increase
In telephone rates. mass meeting Of
business men was held at Albany and
a committee was appointed to investi.
gate the possibility of consolidating
the two systems.
The annual meeting of the presi.
dents and faculties of the Independent
colleges of Oregon will be held at New
berg November 1890. Faculty mem
bers from eight institutions of the
state will be present
The Rogue River Valley Canal COM
pany, of Medford, recently enlarged its
main canals and laterals in order to
cover 1000 acres more farm land for
next years crops. The Medford irri-
CATION district board, which recently
voted $1,500,00O for the installation of
an irrigation system to cover 10000
acres adjoining Medford, is prosecut.
ing the work of preliminary surveys
!. for Its main canal from Butte creek.
Plans have been made to obtain 300
goats to be used in connection with
the new milk goat project which is
being added to the boys and girls
club work department Of the Oregon
Agricultural college extension service.
Mr.. Seymour has made arrangements
with the Portland clearing house to
loan to every boy and girl IN the state
wishing to be member of the goat
club, money with which to purchase
an animal.
Pressure from two sides is being
vigorously brought to bear to prevent
the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company from increasing telephone
rates. Through the public service
commission, which threatens criminal
prosecution, steps are to be taken to
declare an increased tariff invalid.
The Portland city council is taking
drastic action which may result in the
revocation of the company operating
license in Portland.
In line with the general letting up
of restrictions following cessation of
hostilities, the capital issues commit
tee has given its sanction to the sale
of $590,000 worth of state highway
bonds. Already $2,1SO,0Oo worth of
bonds out of the $6,0O00OO issue has
been sold. The state highway COM
mission will take under consideration
the question of whether or not the
bonds will be sold at a meeting to be
held in Portland Friday, November 22.
The work which the state highway
commission plans to complete with
the proceeds of the issue Of bonds, the
sale Of which has now been approved
by the capital issues committee, is
chiefly the Pacific highway in the
counties of Douglas, Josephine and
Jackson, and the Columbia River
highway in Hood River and Wasco
counties. With the exception Of the
section of the Columbia River high
way between Hood River and MoEier
most of the work will not be under
taken until next spring.
A mixture of barley and cottonseed
meal 'is an excellent substitute for
bran and shorts-mill run-so extern
sively used as stock feed and now diff
ficult to obtain, points out e. B. Fits,
extension specialist in dairying at the
Oregon Agricultural college. "This
mixture costs more than the wheat
feeds but its feeding value, pound for
pound, is 1871 per cent greater" says
Professor Fits. ut also provides
greater certainty of securing uniform
value than the mixtures Of bran and
shorts sold by the FIGURING mills as
mill run"
Finis was written to the part that
spruce and fir forests of the Pacific
northwest have played in the war,
when orders were issued by the spruce
production division to cease at once
practically all activities in aircraft
work among the camps and mills. All
shipments of spruce and fir cants to
the huge cut-up plant at Vancouver,
WASH, were halted by the order, while
no more airplane material shipments
are to be made. Similar orders stop
ped nearly all logging operations, and
instructed that falling of airplane
timber was to cease at once.
Housewives and all consumers OF
flour and sugar are elated at the issu-
ance of orders from the food admins
tration, which lift the edicts against
these commodities and restore them
practically to a pre.war basis. The
flour order becomes effective immedi-
ately, while the new sugar regulations
will be In force December 1. Under
the flour order, the four pounds tc
Dne rule, of white flour and substi-
tutes, is cancelled, and consumers are
now permitted to make their purchases
without the handicap Of substitutes
Fhe sugar order provides for an addi-
tlonal pound in the per capita allot-
ment, or four pounds per person each