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Volume 7.
Heppner, Oregon, Tuesday, October 26, 1920.
Number'2('
Highway Situation Is In
Scoring First Run in World Series
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MONEY
A Mi SPKXT, KOAD INCOMPLETED
Eight-Foot Macadam Instead of 10
Foot .Width .May .lie '
Solution
The bed of the ordinary eastern
Oregon judge may be made of fra
grant roses, if considered from the
angle of a munificent salary of $900
per year, but when viewed from, the
standpoint of trying to get a given
number of miles cf state highway
grade built for a given number of
dollars, as per engineers' estimates
nd road builders' contracts, it may
ipear in the more or less troubled
reams of the unfortunate incumbent
that an occasional unpruned. thorn
may have been left among the bloom
to pepetate the sheets and covers of
his otherwise blissful bed.
For instance:'
Some time ago Morrow county vot
ers, by an overwhelming majority,
voted to bond the county in the sum
of $290,000 for the purpose of co
operating with the state and national
governments in the business of build
ing a system of good roads in the
county.
Prior to the bond election a meet
ing of representative citizens from
all parts of the county was held when
an apportionment of the proposed
bond money was made, an agreed
amount being specified for use on dif
ferent main and feeder highways. In
this apportionment the sum of $146,
500 was set aside for building the
grade on he Oregon - Washington
highway, from the Gilliam county
line up Willow creek to Heppner.
After considerable negotiation it
was agreed upon between the Morrow
county court and the State Highway
Commission that this amount of mon
ey should be turned over to the-81 ate
cofnmiBsion and that they would let
a contract and have the work com
pleted. State highway engineers, af
ter surveying the route, reported that
the work could be completed for the
amount apportioned. The state high
way commission then proceeded to
let the contract for the amount of the
apportionment, but on the basis of a
specified price per yard for different
grades of work designated as earth.
Intermediate and rock. Under the
terms of the undertaking the con
tractor waB not required to build a
certain number of miles of road for
a certain number of dollars, but he
was required to handle earth, Inter
mediate and rock material at bo
much per cubic yard, and to move as
many yards of such material as the
lufi.FIOO would nay for moving. Of
At the conference, so the Herald is
informed, Mr. Vinton advised Judge
Campbell that $18,000 will complete
the grade from Morgan to the Bey
mer ranch, but he also mentioned in
cidentally that so far no provision
.had been made for any bridges,, in
the engineers' estimates of construc
tion costs,, and that the $22,000 yel
on hand will be required to construct
necessary bridges on the highway.
This bit of information was about
as welcome to the judge as a black
haw thorn with the business end up
wouuld be in a bed of roses, and it
did not seem to add much to his peaer
of mind to learn, or figure out for
himself in some way, that the little
matter of cost of bridges had been
simply overlooked by the civil, high
way and bridge engineers who fur
r.ished the estimates and- who, ac
cording to reports, located and relo
cated the highway, set and re-set the
grade stakes, and,, in a general and
strictly professional way, carried on
the business of road making as a
highly developed science, without re
gard to current cost or ultimate use
fulness so long as everything was
carried out according to the rules
laid down in the books. The need
for or cost of a few bridges on a state
highway is a mere bagatelle anyway,
as Is also the little matter of spend
ing $146,500 of county money to
build 2 5 miles of road when the high
way engineers had estimated and re
estimated, and corrected their figures
which were the basis of their assur
ance to the county court and the state
highway commission that 3 5 miles
could be graded for that amount.
Some improvement 'may be noted,
however, by a comparison of engi
neers' estimates and actual construc
tion costs on the Jones hill work of
two years rgo, v-hen. the estimate was
somewhere around $12,000 and the
actual coBt of construction a'ounl
$26,000 while in the more recent case
the difference'between estimates and
costs Is the difference between the
35 miles the engineers said could be
built for $146,500 and the 25 miles
that has not yet been built but which
they now confidently asser: .CAN be
completed 'or the amount, with the
exception of bridges, which are sup
posed to cost some $22,000 more.
After picking a quantity of these
little thorns and slivers from his ju
dicial anatomy and exhibiting them
to the reporter, Judge Campbell ad
mitted that when the conference had
reached the point indicated' by the
foregoing, things looked pretty black
to him. It was then that Mr. Kiddle
came to the rescue. Kiddle, It ap
pears, besides being a state highway
commissioner. Is also ' a somewhat
MORROW WINS FIRST
AND SECOND IE
(iooi) s!iovi; iiAUK at giu:s-
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(jeorge I '.urns, Clevoliiiul lirst tinseman, scoring me urst run or the tirst game of the world series ut 1'iDliots neiu,
Brooklyn. Cleveland won 3 to 1. .
During the bond campaign it was
generally given out and credited that
on all post roads for every dollar the
county would put up the state wculc!
put up a dollar and the federal gov
ernment two dollars. The Hardman
road was therefore designated as a
post road, and during the blizzard
last winter a state highway engineer
made the survey at a cost to the coun
ty of some $7,000 from Heppner to
the Grant county line.
A new grade up Heppner hill, built
by the county two or three years ago
at a cost of several thousand dollars,
was thrown into the junk heap by the
state engineer because the state high
way commission and the engineering
department had arbitrarily fixed a
rule that no grade on any state aided
road should exceed 5 per cent. Now
Mr. Kiddle tells us that the federal
government has also arbitrarily fixed
a rule that they will absolutely refuse
to cooperate on any post road except
that the same shall be finished with
a hard surface pavement,' so, of
course,' that kills all hopes of the
Heppner - Hardman - Monument road
being built in the immediate future.
It Is said that one member of the
engineering corps, while discussing
the Willow creek highway problem,
suggested to Judge Campbell that a
good way out would be to vote an
other bond issue, and the judge had
hardly got his breath again when in
terviewed. "Wouldn't I like to see
'the color .of the fellow's hair who
could put over another road bond is
sue in this county after what we
have been getting?" quoth the judge.
FARMERS ELEVATOR GO.
SELLS 10 TRl-STATE
Karnn'i's Co-Operative Concern lo
cates Here
Initiative measure number 310 on
the ballot to be voted in November
will give tii Oregon a port equal to
any poi'f on the f'aciflc Coust. You
are vitally Interested In the passage
After negotiations covering several
months a deal was- closed last week
whereby the Trl-State Terminal Co.,
a big Seattle corporation organized
along the lines of a farmers co-op
erative concern, has taken over all of
the real etstate, flouring mills, ware
houses, elevators, and other prope 'ty
of the Heppner Farmers Elwoior
Co., and will operate the entire busi
ness in the future.
The principal business of the Tri
Statoe .Co. has to do with the buying
W. W. Smead Again Scoops Ti izes air.
l.aud I'liidncts Show and
Stale 1'air
You'll have to hand it to Wallaco
Smead, bo, when it comes to keeping
the Morrow County Home Klrea
Burning at the State Fair and Land
Products Show and thereby gaining
for his county a considerable bunch
of much needed publicity. Most peo
ple seem to think that because tho
Morrow County Fair was in a trance
this year that there would be nothing
to exhibit nt the big outside shows,
but Smead didn't play the game that
way. He just went out and gathered
an exhibit of grains and grasse,
fruits and vegetables, and wove them
Into a display that got him first mon
ey at tho Land Products Show at:
Gresham and second money at the
Slate Fair at Salem. Besides getting
the money Mr. Smead also received a.
lot of compliments on the excellence
of his exhibit, and the Herald has it
from other sources that several ex-
pertfalr exhibit men at the Gresham.
show pronounced the Morrow county
cereal exhibit the finest thing of tho
kind they had ever seen.
Not only in grains and grasses dUr
the county shine, however, for, ac
cording to Mr. Smead, he had a real
ly wonderful exhibit of vegetables,
and a very fair display of fruits,
these two features coming almost ex
clusively from the Irrigon and Board
nuin districts
At Salem Mr. Smead also took first
money on a sample of Bluestem
wheat from the Chris Brown ranch,
and he Boys he would have taken a
lot ot special prizes at Gresham had
of this bill. It will not Increase your
taxes. The cost Is borne by the Portland selling of wheat and tho manu
of Portland, but all Ore-on must vote! fure of flour, although they also
on the measure. Voto 310 YES on
the ballot November 2nd. Paid ad.
Lyceum Entertainment Course
Dramatic Element Predominates in
Delightful Program of McAlister Trio
Kathleen and DeP.o McAliitrr, With Min Jordan Aitiitlng, to Be
Heard Here in High-Ctat Entertainment.
way commission and the Morrow j d-headed business man who Is not
county court officials had the assur-
nnce of the State Highway engineers,
ked by blue prints, profiles, and
tf columns or ngures, mm
ount of money apportioned to this
work would complete the gnide from
the Gilliam county line to Hcnpner,
or, to be more exact, to the end of the
nnc
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much given to spending money for
the fun of It. He has been In eastern
Oregon ever since Borne time subne
quent to the date when the Grand
Honde valley was a mountain peak,
and he knows something about the
need of good roads In this part of the
state as well as of the difficulties
present macadam road some three fitted with getting hold of money
i iiulm iiiciu. hp is ntartl-
mllrt north of this town
It now develop that all but about
$22,000 of this $146,500, which the
highway engineers assured the county
court and the highway commission
would complete the (trade, has been
expended, and the new grade has
been completed nd is now ready for
the macadam surface only as far
cul and la an exponent of tho doctrine
of the next best thing. If you have
n't got money enough to rock a 16
foot road, make It eight feet; if yu
f"n'' K' t up a hill on five per cent
for the money you have make It a bit
over five Is his belief.
So, when thing looked darkest to
.ihi mtnli e this aide of the I ,he Jud. Mr. Kiddle came forward
i .i ih. r.illlm county w,,n th Proposal that be would un.
iaiiii.it - J-...I.- . .. "
..e m muuee me other commu
ntra
o
line.
True, much other work has been
done at different points between Mor-
and the Bymr ranch, some
-t miles north of Lexington, which
uow teems to be th head of naviga
tion on the nw hlxhway, but the
work hs not bn connected up and
mad continuous either for such ue
an the public might be able to make
of It without the rock surface, or id
the ay of being r-ady for that sur
face which the P's' Highway com-
miton agreed to lay at state expons
aa soon a Ihe grade was completed
at county espen.
The above (( were rliwl dar
ing n interview wUh Judt Camp-
ft. U, f..!f,wng a conference b tw n
ii . i ..tti. Vi Vinton. rnginT In
tl.atk-e of f.,giwiy Ki.tli. and H!at
ll kSy "t tiiiM'.nn" Kl, r. Kid-
!,!. dur.r thai m r.tn.n'
tiail to it ri.e.r.f) and Itiaprcinn f
h,elir r'ln'llt'nn" a lh" r
" '" " enougn money to
complete lU grids to the u..yi,,e
Pisie If the county would agree to
crept an 1-foot mecadam surface In
stead of sixteen feet for Ihe present.
Judge Csmpbell accepted the propo
sition, and If Mr. Kiddle Is succewful
In getting the other commluinners to
the matter from hi standpoint
the road will probably be completed
for that distance.
What will be done with Ihe q-mlle
gap from the !lmer ptare lo Hipp,
ner retiialnn to be -n. Certain It i
that It will not be graded lind J.aid
fur fiul of the 1 1 Is. f,n hlrh the en
gineers told u nii!d build 3S tilln
but hi h l.ns oii!y. or rattier, I tint
- )-t - Iitl.lt 25 tlillea
Mr Kl'Mie 1ki nt river tie
II-tt'fier'llanlii.an ,..at rit'l iih
Jmik-e Cariij.tirll (, l.eie, and tie
iri?'u.ijii n t r e' e tf-.e JmI?" i.
JJ"! n I'. at prnj.rt n .i ral!.T
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combine with that the handling of
staple commodities in a wholesalo
way to their stockkholders and customers.
Guy H. Johnson, who for some
time has- had charge of the Trl State
branch at Pendleton, will now act as
. j general manager of both the Hepp
ner and Pendleton plants. W. V.
'Hayden will be the resident sales
i j manager at Heppner; II. O. Slashce,
I 'who has been with the Tanners Kit
, I valor Co. as head book-keeper for the
past two years will continue with the
new roitipnny In the same rapacity,
and Charles Kwlndlg, who ban ul
been with the old company for sever
al years has been Installed its le-ad
warehouseman and placed In churgfl
of the warehouses and grain eli iitor.
To a Ileiald reporter .Saturday
morning Mr. Johnson .it.i el thai one
of the company's exptl millwrights
will be here In a few days o overlie ul
the mill and' put It In flrm-daks
condition for the product inn of Hand
h rl patent flour. It being the Inten
tion of the company lo li.iiiiutiifUiie
'sufficient flour and mill feed hete
to supply the local demand.
The company Is riplthlued at
otiu.iMHj end operates tirttnrli 'ilitnts,
'such as Ihe one Juki jr.juired In
Heppner, at many points In Oregon,
j VYaxhlngton snd Idaho.
bo ari'vod there a day sooner. As
It was to did not leach Gresham Ul
tima to get bis display arranged in
lime to: enter his special features.
Mr. Smead says both shows wero
better than ever before, both in at
tendance and exhibits.
This Is the eighth season Mr.
Smeiid has reptestnted Morrow coun
ty at thti Stale Pair, and In thut Hjnn
has taken first money threo times.
he
second four times and third once.
AMI'.KICAN
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Kl('('i:SH
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I'luMUt WOM.t I'AshI H
Mrs. Alice Omen, wife of Cliss. On-
The smoker and get-together meet
ing given by the ex-service boys last
Friday evening at Odd Fellows hall
was a derided success.
There was plenty of smoke anil
plenty to eat, and for those athletic
ally Inclined there was a feast of
muscle 11 ml a flow of brawn that fill
ed till reiiulrcmeniH.
Among the chief attractions on tho
mat and In the 24 -fool ring wero
the I hi u 11 111 n llros., of Lexington, .who
put on a wrcHtllng bout that didn't
show ninny signs of blood relation
ship; Peterson and Chldsey, two clev
er lulls of Heppner High, who uIho
went to the mat with curb other In a
rather engaging set to; Aiwtin and
Mlkeht ll, punt lind present understud
ies of that famous financial knockout
artlnt, John I)., who put on what ('re
go say wus the lilt nf the season;
Peterson snd Hamilton, who boxed il
hot number; Wright lind Iteasnner,
who are fust ruining Into the I oral
II light as mat arllsis with a future,
and who each claim lo have either
rlijht or reason on bis particular side:
and I.letiallen nnd Thomas, who put
on a boxing number that waMit par-
Kfitlil.-cn M!lter nnd Ie Moss McAlister, taslsteij ,y Mls Inns J"Hnn
rellt and rCiHiipstiM, ITeaetit one of Ihe Inns! Hipulur Slid artlatle irf.tTaini
In lyeetiin. Il Is prngrntn In b;eh the dramatic element predeminiitea. lip
erntlr urine In Coetwne ure nltlnilty .re nli.(. Voesil, p bum Kiel ieii 1,11111
.er lojeiher with lilsti i bias ttrn me Mr rending lo are fiatiird In II. ; nte
uiil riitertnlntnei.l. Mr. mid Mrs. Mr Allmi-r are well known ri.. t.fa i,f l'.i.
tufi. They hnvn beau' if ill ! ahd lmw spli telld Inui.iul fieititiitlen.
Star Theatre, Friday, Oct. 29
Given under the auspices of the Heppner Patron
Teacher Association.
Season Tickets-5 Numbers-2.50; Single Tickets
I .75c.
; ten of upper Ithea cre. k. passed away llrtilarly slow.
at her home last Wednesday morning There was a rood crowd present
at the M" of 65 year. j snd everybody had hi u skuoktim
j Mr. Osten had been In poor health lime, but at (hat. II Is said, not even
'for some time, being a sufferer from jail of the pr lit ni. tnlieis of the l-
! asthma, but tier death came unt xp- t leal post were present,
edly and without warning. I l' Crru, who hi. s,.i.iel,iiw
j She Win a native of .riiirki.iiis Co. I come t'l be rerognle. as the biggest
. fiii'gon, having be n born l.esr Ote
iron ( I'y In 1 j5.
With her husband she rsme to Hiaa
fouriiy ut.iiitt 40 years to, snd tb'y
,uti. sihre been repertd resell lt
l..,.ea !. r b'l'lian.l slie Is sur
mill ,y ihe following fl.ildien:
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then- palts, rit.te. jnelly ,sn fur
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the sl.imirii; lb tn.s iiia.le. "It hn't
what an offe-r lo. s or does not
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