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VOLUME IX
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY n, 1922
NUMBER ir
CLARIS MOKItOW CO. SHOll.D
HAVE TWO DUlEt'TOItS
Spirit
of Ctiatract uiul By-Laws
Violated is Claim ot
Correspondent
LEXINGTON, Or., July 7. (Editor
Herald) Having been requested by
you to furnish for publication a re
port of the recent annual election of
directors for the Oregon Wheat
Growers association which was held
at Portland and to which I was sent
as one of the delegates to represent
the association from this county, and
believing that such a report
may be of considerable interest to the
wheat growers of Morrow county both
within and without the association, I
hereby submit the following with
the hope that nothing contained here
in will be construed as personally re
flecting on any member of the board
of directors, or anybody else, but
sim;ply as a plain statement of the
situation as I see it and with only
the best interests of the association
and is individual members as my ob
ject: At this meeting the following di
rectors were elected:
District 1, H. B. Davidhizar, Mal
heur, Baker, Wallowa and Union.
District 2, A. R. Shumway, Umatil
la county.
District 3, Howard Anderson. Mor
row county.
District 4, W. J. Edwards, Gilliam.
District 5, V. H. Smith, Sherman.
District 6, C. A. Harth, Wasco, De- !
schutes, Jefferson and Crook.
District 8, Claud Buchanan, Yam
hill, Polk and Benton.
District 9, W. N. Downing, Marion,
Linn, Lane and Douglas.
J. E. Reynolds, president of board
of delegates.
Salaries paid officers qf associa
tion: A. H. Lea, state manager,
$6,000 per year, carries $10,000
bond, E. L. Ludwick, assistant sec
retary treasurer, $3600 per year, and.
carries $10,000 bond. Board of di
rectors, each $5.00 per .day and ex
penses. With tne bursting of the Condon
elevator the Oregon association suf
fered a $7,000 loss.
Mr. Nelson, discharged' Northwes
tern sales manager, has brought suit
against the association for the bal
ance of salary, $7,000, of which Ore
gon will have to pay her share.
There is no need to mention wheat
prices. Each member knows what he
is receiving per bushel and whether
or not he is satisfied. As for myself
I feel as though we have done well
for the first year.
I am not able to give you many in
side facts of the business of the as
sociation as I had only the remainder
' of the day of the election to gather
information. As you probably know
we were refused our second director
and Morrow county has signed up
one fifth of the entire bushelage in
the state. District No. 8 was allowed
one director, Mr. Buchanan, who per-
sonally pooled 476 bushels and rep-
resents 164,000 bushels or 3 Der cent
of the bushelage in the state. ReD-
resentation is getting away from pro- ! returned Friday evening fro ma tour
duction and I consider this the very ! of inspection over the proposed Pen
weakest point in the organization. dleton-Princvillo cut-off beiwecn
Morrow county's director, Mr. i Heppner and Spray.
Anderson, personally pooling 7,624 j The gentlemen spuit Mirce full
bushels, represents 1,00,000 bushels days going over the rout - both ws
signed up wheat or 20 per cent of the ! and brought back a very favorable
entire bushelage signed up in the j report o:i the project,
state, which clearly shows we need To a Herald r"potrer Mr. Bleak
our second director as our contract 1 main stated that the grade frrm
on page 4, paragraph 8, also-ln our j where the proposed road lot-.ves the
. by-laws, page 6, section 1, states in , Hardm.-.n road at Cliapin creel:, Is
part that the association "Maintain I only 2 per cent, then for a tonslder
at all times, a fair and equitable re- ! able distance on top it is pracUcaily
presentation of grain producing dist
ricts according to bushelage signed
up." It appears in the face of the
bushelage signed up in Morrow
county and the representation we
have, we are weakening the whole
Oregon contract.
I tried to explain all this at the
last annual election but the delega
tion did not seem to consider this a
sufficient reason for us to have two
directors. They seemed Inclined to
take the representation from the lar
gest signed up districts and it to
the smaller districts as a bait to ob
tain contracts from them.
Another weak point I wish to men
tion is the fact that the directors are
all practically small producers. The
largest producer pooling only 8,626
(Contiued on Page 2)
XO COl'XT YFAIU TO UK HfcLO
THIS YEAH
At the last meeting of the eount
court it was definitely decided that
no couny fair will be held t Hepp- j
ner this fall. The decision was reach- j
ed partly because of the late spring '
and dry summer making it difficult !
to se?ure a creditable exhibit of :
fruits, vegetables etc., and partly be- ,
cause of tlr. present unsatisfactory
financial conditions all over the '
country.
Another factor entering into the
matter is that W. W. Smead, who !
has acted as secretary-manager of
all past fairs except one will not be
l able to devote any timo to the fair
this fall because of his recent appoint
ment as postmaster and the difficulty
of finding another manager with the
necessa'.'y experience.
There has been some talk of stag-
! ing a Round-Up sometime in Septem
ber but that depends on whether some
I other persons than Mr. Smead comes
; forward to undertake the managj
: ment.
I The Round-Up last year in connec
i tion wijh the fair was a financial
success and according to a statement
made to the Herald recently by Mr.
Smead, would have left a balance of
several hundred dollars in the
I treasury had it not been for the
I heavy expense of the f;.ir exhibit
i features. As it was1, the combined fair
I and Round-Up ended with a deficit
of about $100.00.
This sounds as if a round-up this
fall would be a safe proposition.
The people of the county should
have some sort of a play time after
harvest and a well conducted round
up would fill the bill.
Who is ready to come forward and
assume the management
It is understood that Boardnian and
Irrigo"n will put on the North Morrow
County Fair s1 usual and will have
the benefit of the county and state
aid.
C. A. Barnes, one of the field men
for the Oregon Grain Growers asso
ciation, was here several days last
week otn business connected with the
affairs of the association.
M. Fitzmaurice, of Condon, apprai
ser for the Federal Land Bank, at
Spokane, is here for a few days an
business. He has 19 appraisements
to make in the county, the loans ap
plied for av.-.raglng about $7,000, or
a total of $133,000 which will be
distributed in the county within the
next few weelts.
Judge W. P. Dutt"n, former pro
minent resident of Heppner, now re
siding at Portland, came in Friday
evening on one of his regular visits
to his old stamping ground. Jude
Dutton stil lretain3 considerable pro
perty interests here and is known
around the Imperial Hotel lobby as
the premier Morrow county booster.
FEDERAL 10 COUNTY
IN INSPECT ROUTE
I County Commissioner Gcrge
I Bleakman accompanied ly B. F. Bccz-
lev of 'he forest road service, of t'.ie
i U. S. Forestry Bureau a'. Portland
level and 011 the descent on the other
side to the Junction of the J"hn Day
highway, the grade Is only 5 per cent
at the most. Constitution will also
be very light, Mr. Bl.'P.kni-':i says, in
many plrces clearing right-of-way be
ing the heaviest job.
Tho proposed link whii wi'.l tie
together the primary :;t It of the st: te
highway fystem ,i o- ly 26 miles
long. Twelve miles Is in the fo.rt
reserve and of the :-em;.ining 14 miles
9 n, ih s is in Morrow county and 5
miles in Wheeler rorr.ty.
Mr. P.ef-zl.-y, v.lio h- s b'v-n 'n lr.:
work for a ninib'r of years rays ho
has never encountered r. mountain
road crowing a summit wit;i as lu'ht
graderi r.nd easy ronrtt uctlon and it
la rxnertrd that his ret f rt to the
lforeft officials will be favorallo to
opening tha route.
The Newspaper and the Community
The local newspaper owes to the community in which
it is published the very best service of which its publisher is
capable. This means not only the gathering and printing,
of the news promptly and readably but also the promotion
of every project or proposition which promises the material, 1
social or ethical advancement ot the community. I he :
columns of every local newspaper should always he open to !
the public for an expression of their ideas on all nuiestions 1
, , . , ,
or matters of general interest
lions are proper matter for publication. In- short, the local
newspaper should be, as nearly as possible, a reflection of
the communal thought, desires and aspirations of the people
who read and support it. 1 1 should represent 110 click, party I
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sect nor iacuon 10 tne exclusion ot others and it should be i
:air in its treatment of all matters of public concern. Such
has been and will continue to be the policy of the Herald un
der its present management.
There is no more reason for the local newspaper to
poise as a strictly reformatory agent in its community than
there is for the merchant, the blacksmith, the lawyer or
the barber to poise as a strictly reformatory agent. True
the newspaperman, in common with all other good citizens,
no matter what their occupation or belief, should stand for
what is right as against what is wrong as he sees it, but he
should not be expected to assume a greater burden along
that line than his neighbors do.
Not many weeks pass but somebody says to the Herald
"Why don't you print such and such about so and so?"
"Why don't you give this fellow the dickens or that fellow
the devil?" But when space is offered and the suggestion
made to the person wanting this or that thing printed, to
write a letter to the Herald over hisown signature, the
matter ends.
Some tact and considerable time, and work are re
quired in gathering and writing the news, for almost con
tinually things come up in the small town, the publication
of which would only wound or grieve somebody, or make
trouble between friends and neighbors which would be
I played up to the limit by metropolitan newspapers. In
! such cases the Herald tries to adhere to the rule that it is
i,4.4. t 1 a l .
Jjettci to be short on news
um is dim uuuuic-uiccuiug studies. V e Olien WOlKier Wliv
some people seem so utterly
icy of the Herald.
But what about the debt the community owes to its
newspaper? Is the obligation all on one side?
There are a lot of people who seem to think that the
editor is a mind-reader; that if they have a guest, or a
party, or go on a journey, or get sick, or get well, or have
a hnhv nr hnv 3 now r;.r thcr tho rlit- JmnU L-r -.11
j m. u "Vlt V H. y 11114.1. IUV .UI IU1 iTHWIUU VV CI 1 1
about it and write a nice, complimentary story without
them even taking the trouble to tell him. There Is
another class who seem to resent being questioned about
little matters of legitimate news even when the editor get
an inkling of some event and goes to them for facts. On
one occasion in Heppner there was a fire and the Herald
news gatherer was not able to find the lady who owned
the property. Meeting her son he asked: "What does
your. mother estimate her loss to be?"
"I don't know," replied the man, none too pleasantly.
"Did she have insurance?" "Again, 'I don't know,"
was the answer and the interview ended. Perhaps the
man didn't know, perhaps he thought it was none of the
reporter's business, perhaps
little courtesy and helpfulness
man would not cost him a
munity.
j In all modern communities in America the local news
paper has grown to be considered a public necessity and
i t he man who would advocate the abolishment of news-
I papers in hlS tOWrt WOUld be
a kickback from the stone
that in many towns, including Heppner, there are a turn -
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siderable number of business men and citizens who are
perfectly willing to allow somebody else than themselves
to support the newspaper. Perhaps they think it is a
L0()d thilio- SO thfv IB it
; enterprising neighbors to pay for.
: Right here it should be said that while the local news
paper is generally recognized as a legitimate business in
' stitution which serves a necessary and useful purpose in
every community, its stock in trade advertising space i 7 . r : 77-
and subscriptions arc not handed over the counter in ai''iny ""provement in local conditions which the newspaper
I paper sack iike bread, bacon or beans, neither is the news- n,ay liavc m;,I,(-! ( '""iriK about, but he eagerly grasp, at
j paper necessary for the maintenance of physical life asiany excuse for side-stepping his share ol the ex pens,-. As
jure the commodities above mentioned. Hordes ot natives ' a" illustration " H"8 type of citizen here is a case m point ;
r,t Acrlt AfrJm h,v, l,Y,.,1 ir. o ri.. ,.M i,i,f A Heppner business man permitted Ins .miI,m ript ion lo
1
I '.eeing a newspaper but who
VUl IV.11U'II 111 JI1V, JUl Lllv-lli
It mav, therefore, be fairly armied that the business!
man who absolutely refuses
that works unceasingly for
munity in which that man makes his living and accumulates
his fortune, is not living up to his best opportunities as a
citizen of the town. He is not averse to profiting from
, .
so long as such communica
-I ,.i t ,
than long on poisoned
to fail to appreciate that pol
he just didn't realize that
shown even to a newspaper
cent and might help the com
Open tO t ie SUSPIClon of beintrlf"'' groceries etc. and when ti.o
hut it i rl,.,h,r;.lle f,,..t
nlonrr fr otrw. ,.( ll-w-i'.- ,r,r
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of us would care lo exchange
to support his local newspaper,
the general welfare of the com
KXIMXTS TO DEVELOP I01EU
l'AKM HOME
During a trip throrgh the Rhea
creek neighborhood 'Svnday the Her
aVl man enjoyed the hospitality of
Mr .and Mrs. R. E. Alstott sr. at their
pleasant home at what was formerly
the Henry Gay farm. Mr. Alstr.tt
purchased the farm only a few
months ago and moved from his
T'wrlW,,,!!.. .......1, t.Irtl. 1,..,.
since been operated by h-s son, n. E.
jr. and daughter, Doily, who are just
as ,fl'u,':t as their parents wiu-n it
jj'h " i v 1H .11, I il.XV. 11 W111U lUl.'l
comes to running a wneat. rancn.
The Eightmile ranch is carrying a
wheat crop that loomd like 30 bu
shels per acre beforo tho hot wave
struck. That cut down the yield
somewhat but it is still a mighty good j
prnn
Purchase of the Gay place gives the
Als-tott family holdings of even lilOO
acres, more than half of which is
good wheat land besides sonv 80
acres of extra fine creek bottom
alfalfa land. This makes what Mr.
Alstott considers an ideal wheat and
stock plant and while he didn't say
so in that ninny words, the plans he
has made for improv 'incuts on the I
creek ranch indicates that ho has in I
mind making a mode! ranch home. '
As a starter in, the way of modern
improvements Mr .Alstott has instal
led an eleeric lighting riant in his
home and he is also planning a gra- i
nome and ne is also panning a gra-
vity water system for tho house and
barns to supplant the two wells which
have answered as a water supply for
more than 40 years.
"There is a lot of work to do," he
said while showing tho visitor over
the place, 4 but) as soon as I can get a
lot of (his waste land under tl-e dit
ches plowed up and in crop. It. will
furnish means for leveling land that
needs it, repairing fences and build
ings and improving the Irrig'il ion
dams and ditches. Unproductive
land will pay neither taxes, Interest
nor profit and I simply can't afford
to have any such on the place."
-ion-acre wueai ucm will lie
fenced tor a noK piWture wnere tho
TtlKj will do thir own harvesting each.
year and the creek channel will be
fenced away from the AlfnITa land
for sheep pasture. This, with tho
pasture land on both places, the
stubble fields and straw stacks will
support a lot of slock the year
around and will turn the present un
profitable nooks and corners into pro-
jflt yiMcrB- Several hundred tour,
or alfalfa !lay ea,;h V"'"' wil1 also
come in handy for feeding purposes
or for sale.
The Alstott home is the acme of
hospitality and the visitor '. given a
hearty welcome by every member
down to Dor,,- youngest, or tho 11
children who is some boy himself.
ASSAULT AND BATTERY
CASE EROI CASTLE ROCK
Warrnnis were iriiued Monday
morning for the arrest of Ed Young,
1 secuon loreman at. casne icock, misi
U Sims and Mrs. Alta Klllia i, of CaMle
! u'"'k 0,1 t'lar jes of assault and b.-t-
tery preferred by Mrs. Annie
Mar-
shall of the same ( lace.
According to the complaint the
plaintiff, who wiih he h:sband con
ducts a store at Castle Rock, gave
the defendants, who have been work
ing for the railroid company, credit
bill
n ot
was presented the defendant,,
C'n ''' ! T bUt "rs-
.Marshall who shows several al ra-
! sions about tho face and limbs which
! she says were susuiKed as a n-.v. it, of
! ,h"lr akH upon . D-puty simt-
. ,rf Chil""r w,nt "v"r y'Tday
to
serve the warrants. The Cjs, went
i to trial today In JiikIIco Coi iiet'.'s
i court before a Jury.
I Mrs. Marshall tectllled that the
three defendants were drunk and
, that they assaulted her. Tho tlir
Ik-comic three -u-ars in arrears ignoring mailed Maletiient-.
Finally when the account was presented personally k;
laid it but when asked to pay a year in advance, said: "No,
guess you need 1 1 t send it
, it every week and I can just
In the vegetable kingdom there is a certain species of
plant which, instead of drawing its .sustenance from tho
earth, fastens itself on some other plant and gains its liv
ing in that way. These plants arc called parasites. j
III I
liliLL
DREW LARGE CROWDS
MI VDKEDS VISITED KI'SoUT .
Klq 1 Olli 1UY. CKLKIiltATUr.V
Picnic Parties, Athletic. Events' And
Dancing' Eiirnished Crowds
Continuous Miitcitaiiimcnt i
Parkers Mill, situated as it is at an
altitude which defies- the muggy July
heat which almost prostrated the re4
of the country early last week, was
an ideal spot for celebrating th
ourth this year. The celebration
commenced Sunday, July 2nd and
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conunueu until me late evening of
Wednesday July 5th and those who
were there all the time say there was
something doing almost continuously.
Hundreds of picknickers from the
surrounding country -spent a few days
there enjoying tho cool water an t
grateful shade and those in charge of
the affair furnished plenty of en,
tertainment.
A good program of athletic events
was put on every day under tin;
management of Victor Eads and Ivan
Leathers and th0 mat fans generally
agree the promoters furnished a
good card.
July 2nd the boxing nroernm vn
0I)ene;1 wlth livllv ,.,,,,,. .,
tween Furl Merritt, of Heppner and
D.ile B.eakman, of llardamn, whicl
resulted in a draw. The main event
that day was a lively tilt between
Clarence Bauman, of Lexington, and
Jack Mulcare, Condon, Bauman get
ting the declMon in the 0th round.
On Monday, Harold Hall, of lone,
and Leslie Van Bibbeii, of Monument,
went to a warm three-round draw,
the main event that -day being a box
ing match between Dick Robinette, of
Lexington, and Mickey Ktillson, of
Condon. Ilohlnetto proved to bo in
poor physical condition having Just
recovered from an attack of Illness.
He-went down and out in the llist
, round.
On . July 4Ui" w resiling " prelimin
aries opened the program when Guy
Hall and Kussoll VVrinht. both oC
Heppner went to a. .draw as did It. D.
Alstott, of Elghtmilo -and Jolmuy
Brown, of Heppner. Tins main
event on the 4 th was ai wrestling
mutch between Jack Keiuicvdy, of
Condon, and Walter Arnott, '.'f Port
land. Kennedy undertaking to put
Aino't to the mat two timea within
one hour. Kennedy was able to re
gister but one fall within the pre
ncribcd time and thus lost the match.
On tho 5th Kennedy undertook to
throw Arnott within 30 minutes but
, again failed. Following this matcli
Arnott Issued a challenge
to
u
Gleu ti
finish
I nauiey, ol Hardman for
matcli.
I The big event, of the entire meet
ing, a boxing match between Jako
L'exler ,ot Heppner, and Charley
( Fitzmaurice, of Condon, closed liio
program Wednesday and drew a bii;
crowd of boxing fans. Both of thesu
men. have enviable local repiitr'.l ions
and both am known i.s real tighter.,-.
The men went ut it hammer and,
tongs from the start, Kilzmauric.j
being the aggressor. Charlie perhapri
had the notion of rushing hirt oppon
ent and putting him out In tho flr.-t;
round. He failed n that, the round
ending in a draw, however, but suc
ceeded In winding himself so budly
that In u,o second, Dexter had con i
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deii-mlanls swore that Mis. Mai-nlnH
UKsaiilt-.d Mrs. Killlnu in th store,
punched her in the ;.. and knocked
her down and that. Mr. Vo..ii and
Mish Sims mixed hi the trouble o.ily
to the extent of set,; Mating them.
They aliio swoie positively that they
had not been dn',il;ing. Tho jiry
after a fi-wr inlrvl's d';l ib -r; tlou
bioie;!it in a vi idu l. of aaijltt-al.
any longer. .My partner gels
as well read
us copy.'