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About Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1922)
IF YOU WANT THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS, READ THE HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST. "'or,- VOLUME IX HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1922 NUMBER 10 BOB SPERRY KILLED EN GAR I "WAVXE SPERRY IS ALSO SEKI OUSLY HlllX 'Skeet" llergstroni, Driving at High Speed. Loses Control. Driver Slightly Hurt Reckless driving on a state high way took toll 01 anouier me last Saturday evening when Robert Sper ry, o lone, was instantly crushed to death on the highway three miles be low lone when Oscar "Skeet" Berg strom's car, being driven at a racing speed, got beyond control and turn ed over. The car which was a Dodge roadster, is s'aid to have rolled over and over lor a distance of almost 150 feet before coming to a stop. Wayne Sperry, who was also in the car was dangerously hurt, receiving a com pound fracture of an arm and terrible cuts about tne head and face. He was taken to a Portland hospital .Monday where it is believed he will recover, barring complications. Berg- strom himself was not seriously in jured. The young men were on then to Arlington when the accident hap pened, Robert Sperry being on his way to Portland to spend the Fourth while Bergstrom and Wayne Sperry were going to Arlington to meet friends coming from Portland. The accident happened directly in front of Ellis Minor's home auu . Minor was the lirst to reach the wreck. Robert Sperry was dead when found, his head being crushed and his body terribly mangled. Death must have been instantaneous. The other men are unconcious. Robert Sperry was one of the most popular young men in this part of tiie country. He was' prom inem in athle tic circles and was considered one of the best ball players in eastern Ore gon. He had been manager of tile lone team for several years and the organization was perhaps the leading small town team in the state. He was a member of Heppner lodge of Elks. BELIEVES ORDERLY MARKETING ; WILL STOP (iKAl'T C. E. Carlson, well known and ex tensive wheat grower of the Goose- I berry country, was a Hoppner visitor , Saturday. He says' the crops are fine in his neighborhood and if prices re-; main normal the farmers will soon get in fair shape again. Mr. Carlson is a strong supporter of the Coopera tive Wheat Growers association and , thinks it will prove the salvation of ', the industry. Without some stabil izing influence to more nearly equal- j ize the prices of wheat and bread, the farmers of this country might as well I quit, he said. The price charged the consumer for bread last year should 1 have brought the farmer $3.00 a bu- i shel for his wheat whereas most of it i was sold for less than a dollar. Or-! derly marketing will stop that sort of I robbery; Mr. Carlson believes. CONNECTING LINK SHOVED RE KXOWX AS PEXDLE-TOX-lRINEYILLE CET OFF Proposed Road to Spray Would Vp Every I'nit of Oregon Highway System Tie If the development of the entire state of Oregon is oLe of the princi pal objects of the Oregon State High way system, it is essential that the different units of the system shall be connected by direct routes leading into all sections of the state that will be open to travel throughout the year. If a traveler starting from any point in northeastern Oregon wishes to reach the central, southern or southwestern portion of the state he should not be obliged to travel miles' out of his way to reach his destination when the building of only 2 5 miles of highway through the lowest pass between the Columbia river and the John Day val ley he could follow a practically di rect line to the couth which he can do when the proposed road between His funeral will be held at 11 :00 j Heppner and Spray becomes a reality. A. M. today (Tuesday) at lone, the services being conducted by the Elks lodge. CHAUTAUQUA CLOSES; BIG SUCCESS KLIJSON-WHITE PROGRAM GIVES GENERAL SATISFACTION Conduct Signed For .Next Year One Half Ticket Already Sold That the recent Chautauqua s-easor. gave general satisfaction to the Hepp ner public was shown last Thursday fvening when, following the closing program, announcement was that a contract for next year had been signed up and one-half the necessary season tickets to insure the guaran tors against loss had . been pledged. Fifty citizens- signed the contract. Judging from expressions heard on every hand during and following the recent course, the Ellison-White people gave Heppner the best course To get the true force of the above assertion let any one inteersted lay a ruler on the sate highway ir.ap and draw a pencil mark from Pendleon to Prineville and it will be seen that with only the slight deviations which the topography of the country requi res, the present state highways if con nected by the Heppner-Spray link, would give a practically direct route between the two points and would also tie together by a direct route running through the undeveloped districts, rich in nat ural resources,, every primary high way unit. Starting at Pendleton, we have the Columbia River highway, the old Oregon Trail, the Oregon Washington, The John Day, The Dalles-California, the Ochoco, the Pacific and the Roosevelt highways all tied together by the addition of made i tnis "ule 2 5-mile link. The Herald has had considerable to say by way of urging the building of this link in the past and this paper now suggests that the road be re christened and in the future be known as the Pendleton-Prineville cutoff. I By this route the vast domain of j Klamath, Lake and Harney counties of entertainments ever enjoyed here j would be in mole di,ect C01"- iiiuiui;auuii wiin i no norm easterly and the guarantors came out practi cally even with the financil end of the course. The different numbers were all high-class and while no doubt every number did not appeal equally to each Individual in the audiences, there was sufficient variety to give everybody something they could ap- preciate. counties than, by any other route and different communities in the entire region east of the Cascades would bo brought closer together to their mu tual advantage. NOTICE OF REMOVAL SPEAKS AT EUGENE We have removed our offices from the Masonic Building to the rear of the First National Bank Building and will hereaf ter be found in the latter loca tion. WOODSON and SWEEK Fu ll. ' ,ST A red and blue check ! inacklnaw was left r.t roadside near Joe Rector place at Stengle canyon, j It was not there when the owner re-! turned. Finder please leave at Her-' aid office. It UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Gene, June 28.. (Special) E Hediick, superintendent of schools at Heppner, led the discussion follow ing aii address by C. A. Howard on "Teachers' Meetings as a Means of Improvement in Service," Saturday afternoon, June 2 4, at the anneal conference of Superintendents and Principals, held hern June 23 and 21. Mr. M' drk'k gave five rules in r. -card to calling teachers' meeting--: 1. Thy phould be compost' I of people who have something in com mon. 2. They should be called for a definite purpose. A Campaign For Newspapers -'V Now that the Chautauqua season is past, the circus has come and gone, the Oregon Co operative Grain Growers has weathered its first year and seems to be pretty well established, the Red Cross and all the war-time "drives" have been put over, the baseball season is woivjtd up, the John Day project is enjoying a summer af ternoon slumber, the Oregon-Washington high way is ncaring completion, the new hotel and the Hlks building have arrived and, generally speak ing, most all of the manifold matters which the live country newspaper is supposed to "boost" for , in season and out of season, have been taken care of, the Herald has been somewhat concerned about what next to do for the benefit of Heppner and Morrow county. 1 For almost five and one-half years the Iler-i aid, under its present management, has consis-i tently "went to bat" for every one of the enter prises mentioned above as well as for many others-, and for all these past activities it has neither complaint to file nor apology to make. While thinking over some of these things the other night when it was too hot to sleep, how ever, the thought suddenly struck the Herald man that during all these years while he has been working overtime supporting these different pub lic enterprises and backing up the men and women who are behind them he has never yet put on a campaign for the country newspaper as a collective institution in this country or for the Herald itself as an individual business enterprise. Right then it begin to dawn on the writer . that he has been overlooking something all these years which is of as much real importance to the everyday well being of this community as were or are any of the projects for which he has given unstintedly of his time and work and thought and space, which are; his stock in trade just as the merchant's goods and the niechanic's skill are theirs, and he then and there determined that he can do nothing better for his community, which includes himself and his own business, than by writing a series of articles on the country news paper and its relations to the community in which it is published what the newspaper owes the community and what the community owes the newspaper. These articles will be written with out feeling or rancor. Personalities will be avoided so far as the use of names of individuals, is concerned but actual conditions as they appear to the writer to exist in Heppner, will be dealt with dispassionately and if, in the course o events, the deductions may point to any individ ual or institution the fault will not lie with th: writer but with the individuals or institutions, who permit or encourage such conditions, and in order that abstractions may be avoided the articles will deal with the Herald as a representa tive of the country newspaper as a class. Among other questions to be discussed in these articles will be: Why the Herald is here.. Why the present publisher is here. What the. Herald lias done and has not done for the com munity. What the community has done and has not done for the Herald. 'Does. Heppner need more than one newspaper? Is the country newspaper, as a class, entitled to the respect and. good will of the community as much as are other business institutions? Who supports the Her ald in Heppner and why do they support it Who refuse to help support it and why ? Is it a. good business policy for a town to discriminate against any reputable business concern because it is not as long established as others? Why do live business men seeking a new location in some country town practically always choose a town where there are one or more newspapers? If newspapers are really good things to have in a country town, if they help make it a better town, are the business men who refuse to help support it first-class citins and good sports? A fair, candid, dispassionate discussion of these questions during the next few weeks should make rather interesting hot weather reading and the Herald will endeavor to place the articles in the hands of every business man whether he is a subscriber or not. j 3. The members should he ar,)uain jteil with the problem before the Meet ing. 4. The program t-hould be i:i the hands of a competent person. 5. They should be adjourned when the business is finished. "The in stitute should be the connecting link Tl'RKKY RED Ol AI.1TY IMPROV ED BY WARM WEATHER Mr. and Mrs. Joe devine, or near Lexington, were in town Saturday mingling with the circus crowds and visiting with friends. Mr. Devine is a large wheat grower of the Lex ington district and he reports thai lik; crop is in line condition and almost ready to harvest. The warm weather may have pinched his wheat a little, Mr, Devine Bays, but not enough to reduce the grade from No. 1. Rather he thinks it has benefitted the grade by heightening the color which is needed in that variety to put it in the top class. Mr. Devine received his June check from the wheat pool re cently and says his last years crop will net him about $1.03. SPRAY ROAD IS VITAL ONLY CHANCE LEFT FOR HOl.l 1N; TRADE OF INTERIOR Former Railroad Agent Here S:j- Hi'piiior Must Hustle Or Lose Former Position BARRATT ROASTS POLK TEX COVNT1KS HAMPERED RY JlIMiE KELLY'S DECISION Commission Will Seek Decision l'roni Supreme CV'irt nt Earliest Possible. Moment: (Oregonlan) Road work in about ten counties between the promulgator of nr-A ideas and the rest of the teachi r.'," .-aid Mr. Hedriek. Superintendent Slanbrouth, of Newberg, who followed Mr. Hedtlck in the discussion emphaslzel the necessity of keeping In touch with new ideas. is being held up and countios incon venienced because of Tolk county, or rather because of a small group of obstructionists in the town of Inde pendence. This statement was made direct to the Polk county court yes terday, by members of the state high Way commission. The road obstructionists in Polk county, not content with blocking completion of the west side highway through the courts, have "gummed up the road game" in many other counties through attacking the agrec ! ment of the Tolk county court to contribute market road funds on the I tin finished state highway in that, j county. Market road money was : about all the court had and th(ob- structiouixts went to court and a i decision was obtained from Circuit Judge Kelly to the elfect that mar ket road funds cannot be placed on state highway!!. Nearly a .dozen counties have been, so placing market road funds and. In view of Judge Kelly's decision, this road wor'lt must stop. As soon as -possible, the commis sion will t-y to get a decision from fife supreme -court.. The dovelop nvent harf brought down a shower of criticism against folk county as a "ho)e, although members nt the -county court, with Home heat, denied yesterday lliat, they were responsible and declared the whole affair was the work of a lew individuals. "Morrow county," exclaimed W. I!, llarratt, member of the highway com mission, '-'has spent more mor.ey on 35 miles of macadam road (iinn you people want to iny for a (list class highway clear through your Polk county. Morrow linn spent $2i;.r,0HO on these :jn ,ji,.s .,.. Tuesday it took in- two bourn to drive over it. : We want an out ha to 'he Columbia river highway, but you peopl,. of Polk ar- "holding us tip," "It isn't us," Interrupted Judge Robertson, of Polk 'county. "No, n is n rew individuals In our county," added a Polk county com-mlssiontn-. "And now," continued Commis sioner Ti-airatt, "you want the slate ; to pave jour road Tor you - you want other counties to b, deprived of aid and much needed roads In order that 'jou may liave hard surfaced pave ment for nothing. It would be rob bing co-inlies in eastern Oregon and western Oregon. I, f()r one won't stand for it. You're not. fair and ywur not akin;f for anything fair. Ytju votwl bonds nml nevr sold a dollars worth. You voted your bunds for market roads and not fi,r the highway. If the stale paved your hlg'hway and you haveVt sold your ' bimfts, what would prevent you from caiiiK-lling your bond i:;si c and get ting a roi'd system for not'iing?" At thi former meeting f the com rolxKhm with the Polk n.urty curt the rotfirnishlon trie,) to have $2. ',000 tinned over toward fon-;lnjcllng bridges on the hlghw.-y and $lu,noi( In bonds, the coinmis.'iion nivini thai it would UHf. the bond money on some section In the county, pos ihly mar the Jlenton county ljn,.. Some how the delegation, misundei stood the commission and had an Idea that Jim Ruddiest on, former O. W. K. & N. agent here and a man thorough ly conversant with Heppner's trade and transportation problems was in town last Saturday visiting old friends while watching the circus parade. Mr. Huddleston, who is now engaged in the sheep business over in Gilliam county near Lone Hock, art i 1 1 has a warm spot in his heart for Heppner and he is not pleased with the Idea of all the interior trade that, formerly came to Heppner now fol lowing the John Day highway to Condon. It is only what is to be expected. though," Mr. Huddleston said Satur day to a Herald reporter. "Trade at always follows the line of least re sistance and the John Day highway has changed the course of interior trade from Heppner to Condon simply because the highway Is a modern road being built according to modern Ideas on a live per cent grade and with a crushed rock surface while the road from Heppner leading into the the John Day country is in about the same condition it was 20 or 30 years ago Heavy, horse-killing grades, of ten filled with loose rock from driv ing stock over them, mud, snow, chuck holes, almost every condition calculated to make the teamster swear and the truck driver go into a state of chronic despondency. "To be right frank with you," con tinued Air. Huddleston, "Heppner people have been amazingly slow about Improving the roads into the Monument and Spray sections. Ever since I first came to Heppner there has been spasmodic talk about im proving the Monument road, but. so far as I know that, Ik as far as tin matter ever got. Nobody ever 'had the, time or took the time to get in the lead and put the tiling over. As near ns I can learn," continued Mr Huddleston, "Condon Used to be In about the name boat but a Pew years ago they got out of the rut and went ' afer a good road Inlo Hits interior, j and they got that before they triedV to build a road out to the Columbia river paralleling he rullroad, and now ) they are beginning to get thut section Improved also." And then, alter rending this little lecture to the people of Heppner, Mr. Huddleston showed that his lieurt is still with us by jMiinting out tbe rem edy. t "There is only one thing that will f?ave to Heppner that Interior trade aim recover Home of th around Spray, lost several lie continued, '.! people, t,0 proposed business years ago," Is by vim ' "n, gelling behind tlio Ileppner-Kpray road, it- will mean dollars In ,.v,.n. 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