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About Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1922)
IF YOU WANT THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS, READ THE HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST. v-.,. VOLUME IX HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1922 NUMBER 13 HEPPNER HOST 10 GOV- El MRS. JULIA M'CUDDEN BUIIXIAXT PARTY GIVEN IX HOXOIl OF VISITING OFFICIALS 1 I Banquet' and Dunce Kuils 18-Day In- . spection Trip Over State Highway System j Heppner was honored last Satur- j day evening in having as her guests a party of Oregon's most aistinguisn e4 citizens in the persons of Gover nor Ben W. Olcott, Senator R. A. Booth, chairman of the "State high way commission, Hon. John B. Yeon and Hon. W. B. Barratt, members ot that body and Mr. R. A. Kline, sec retary to the commission. John W. Kelly, R. C. Johnson and Harry C. Frye, Portland newspaper writers representing the Oregonian, Journal and Telegram respectively, were also members of the party. Saturday evening was the time and Heppner was the place which marked the end of a trip of more than 2600 miles made by the highway commis sioners with the governor as their guest over the state highway system, the trip lasting 18 days, making an average log of around 150 miles a day. The party started from Portland going via. Astoria, Tillamook and on down the coast as nearly as possible to Crescent City, California where a joint good roads meeting was held with citizens and officials of that state. The party then crossed the Cas cades into eastern Oregon, visiting practically every county except Har ney, going via. Bend, Mitchell, Day- vine to Ontario, thence to Baker i and LaGrande and on to the Wallowa j country. Turning back, the .party j visited LaGrande and Pendleton from ! there going south over the Ukiah j Ritter-John Day road, then down the John Day highway to Spray and ovei the proposed Pendleton-Prineville cutoff to Heppner. The party reached Heppner late Saturday evening where a substantial dinner had been arranged at the hotel and was enjoyed by the visitors and about 7 5 prominent citizens of the town and county. Hon. C. E. Woodson presided at the .dinner and after large quantities of spring chicken and other sub stantial and dainty viands had been disposed of, interesting tal'ks on road matters were discussed by Messrs Booth, Barratt and Yeon, each of whom showed a wonderful grasp of the tremendous, problems they have been grappling with an4 working out during the past years. Governor Olcott was then intro duced and the spontaneous and hear ty welcome he received showed that he has a host of warm admirers in this section. Governor Olcott confined his re marks largely to a description of the trip that was just ending saying that he had thought befor estarting out that he knew Oregon pretty well but he amazing resources of material wealth and scenic marvels the trip had revealed to him, proved that he, in common with the ordinary citizen', in reality knows but little of the won ders of Oregon. The governor made no reference to politics while in Heppner, having maintained the position during the entire trip that his mission was not a political one but a trip taken to acquaint himself with the highway system and its relation to the present and future development of the state. "If every citizen of the state could Ake the same trip I have Just taken," he said, "we would see a wonderful difference in the develop ment of Oregon immediately." Following the governor's address, Tiaiting newspaper men spoke briefly oa their impressions of the trip, all initing in the opinion that Picture Gorge on the John Day river, is a scenic marvel unsurpassed by any natural scenery In America. Following the dinner the enest. were taken to the Elks club where a dance had been arranged in honor of the visitors and in which the gover nor and other members of the party joined most delightedly. Governor Olcott is fond of dancing and his democratic manner and idoa3 made him a most charming guest to enter tain. Commissioners Yeon and Bar ratt and Secretary Kline also throw official responsibilities and thoughts of age in the discard and joined with the governor In making the evening -A . SI a- Mrs. Julia McCudden of London, who j came to the United States to repre- ! sent the British War Mothers at the burial of the unknown American sol dier in Arlington National cemetery. E . S. F WASHINGTON, July 22 Ameri can wheati growers hold a strong posi tion this year. American wheat is needed in larger quantities to feed the world. Europe's suprly of the bread stnple is low. The world's stock of wheat is below average. The world's consumptive capacity for wheat tends toward the pre-war av erage, while crops of all wheat na tions, except the United Slates, show reduced output. Surveys of crop output mad-3 by experts of the commerce department show that wheat stocks are the low est in several years. Argentina and Australia have much less wheat than last year. The carryover crop of the United States is comparatively light because of th eheavier demands from abroad. Canada is reported to have largo stocks on hand. To meet international wheat de mands the United States and Canada wil share in orders, the United States keeping in the lead as a wheat ex porter. Experts And that wheat is pasing through somewhat the same stages of readjustment as wool, cot ton and other staple products. In pre-war times Europe was relied up on to absorb the American surplus as wheat producing countries. The world would have faced serious wheat shortage during the post two years if surplus wheat stocks had not been accumulated as a result of heavy production during the war years, acordincg to the expert opin ion of the government. Successive large crops during the war years helped to carry the world over the lean producing years that followed the war. The records show, how ever, that both production and con sumption of wheat have been below average for five years. Wheat consumption of Central and western Europe fell from 2,000,000, 000 bushels In 1913 to 1,200,000,000 bushels in 1917. Since 1917 there has been a steady recovery In produc tion and imports by Europe. In 1921 consumption reached about 1,850, 000,000 busels. This year Europe's consumption will go back close to pre-war levels. Does Heppner Need Two Newspapers? . eg Once in a while the writer has heard the com plaint advanced that one newspaper is enough for a town the size of Heppner; that two news papers entail an additional and unnecessary expense on the community. Let's look into this thing for a moment. There was a time when Heppner had hut one newspaper. That was years before the present publisher of the Herald ever saw the town. Evidently a demand arose for the second publicity organ for another was started and or dinarily such enterprises are not established unless there is a demand, promised patronage and fair prospects of making good. The two pa pers were published for several years when they were purchased by one man and consolidated. Then for several years the town again had but one paper. Again, there was evidently demand for the second paper and, again, a new man came in and started the present Heppner Herald, a little more than eight years ago. Since that time the town has had two papers and while neither of them have grown rich both have made a living, supported families and did what they could to make Heppner a better town. There was also a time, no doubt, when Hep pner bad but one store,, one blacksmith shop, one barber shop, one milliner store, one garage, one drug store, one bank, one only , of each line of business now represented in the town. Following out the same line of reasoning would Heppner be a better town than it is today if every business man in town but one represent ing each different line of business would pack up his goods, lock his doors and move out thus giv ing the man remaining in business in his par ticular line a monopoly in that line? What a fine plan that would he for building up a town. For making a pretty good town a still better town to ' live in and to support schools and churches and Chautuaquas and all the other activities that go to make a live, progressive modern town. And what supermen those who remained representing the various lines would need to be from the stand point of ethics and strict integrity if they could all refrain from adopting as their business slogan : "All the Traffic Will Bear." But, to go a bit further: why not, for the righteous cause of making Heppner a better town to live in, have all these individual mono polists, in turn pack their goods, lock their doors, and move out after inducing Rears and Sawbuck, or some other gigantic merchandising monopoly to open a branch in Heppner and handle every thing from needles to threshing machines and from khak? pants to pink pills. The .way to build up a town is to encourage new people to come into it, build their homes, go into business, patronize other business. houses al ready established, help support the schools, churches, Chautauquas, social dances, ball games fairs, round-ups, and speak it gently until after they get settled help pay the taxes that all these things cost us. Kvery citifeen, if he is fairly de cent, partly honest and inclined to be law-abiding at tinles, is an asset to his towns if he patronizes its different business institutions and pays his bills and any other policy that has a tendency to cut down the number of going businesses can only hurt the town. True any of us might, from a selfish stand point like to have a monopoly in our own part icular little' line but would any of us be willing to see that sort of thing become general? Does Heppner need more than one newspap er. Does the town need more than one of any thing else? COP WITH MANY DEGREES . x r ' X Ax , - -1 C-vi I I v-f yli E RECEPTION COIfflEf i:i'i.(TKi) (Jir.srs i:v.ik t;i;i:i'.Ti:ns. iu;. r km to tow.v I William I. Uiiislip, a policeman In ! the Ninth precinct of the Washington force, has been nwurdiM degrees of bachelor of laws, master of laws and muster of patent laws by the Nu j tlonal university, and degrees from ! Virginia Polytechnic institute anil Georgetown Law school. Haisllp was an otllcer in the nnvy during the wur FORES! SERVICE AND El The best news of tlio season for the, people of this county Is that a con tract has been let for grading and macadam on tho lower end of the Oregon-Washington highway through the corner of Gilliam county and that Sheerln & McCall, yho nub-contracted tho work from the Warren Con struction company, are assembling their plant and getting ready for ac tive construction. Tho rock crusher Is being set up and as soon as a short S?m?MerJdSr'ltVKeSdScaiLb(!5eid section of the work Is graded the Under a recent r'.ling :n the fores try bureau the forestry service may mow cooperate with the counties of any state in which there are forest ve- Borves in tho building of forest roads through or adjacent to the national forests according to recent advices from Washington D. C. Under past arrangements all fed eral forest funds for road-building in the several states were turned over to the slate highway commissions for expenditure but under the preseint plan tho forest peoplo may co-operate with one or moro counties indepen dent of the state. The ruling may prove valuable in the case of the Pendletom-Prineville cut-off in case the highway commis sioners should fail to see their way clear to put that very important sec tion of the highway on the state niap. The commissioners looked the route over last Saturday but gave no intimation while in Heppner Just what their decision on the matter will be. Heppner people did not expect a decision from the commissioners at this time but feel assured that the commission will give the matter lull and Impartial consideration at the proper time . KOIt SAI.K OK TKAHE 1-ton Ford truck in good condition. Write R. B. Wilcox, Lexington, Oregon, or call at ranch 4 1-2 miles below Lex injtoa. 13-15 pd. the perfect ending ot some 18 more or less perfect days. Tho newsppper i boys also, in spite of the evidence of ' advanced age indicated by their un- thatched domes, allowed the hiyh of ; ficials to pet nothing on them when it come to choosing winsome partners. ', They also agreed th.it Judge lJutton made no mistake when lie recently declared In the Imperial lobby that Morrow county has It I'll over tii movie studios In the matter of really pretty girls and beautiful women. I The party left at 5:00 A. M. Sun 'day morning for Portland. Hills That Never Failed the Buffalo for Ages Gray With Exhaustion By J. R. HOWAKD, American Farm Bureau Federation. Hen; and there a liilltop eighty ha worn out and lies benealli Vr. sun, indifferent to the feeds in its keeping, to the hungry who tramp over it. Hills that never failed the tm!T;ilo for nobody knows how many tho'j-r-Ptid years are (,'ray with the exhaustion of extensive production. Fortunately farmers arc awakening to the fact that 'oil must he revitalized. Public opinion forbid.", the burning of straw. I.e;nirneu ,ave Ix-en put t' making hay am nitr'-gen. Fertilizer companies are doing business. Phosphate and Imic-'njic deposits-are being di-t ributed. The hilltop eighties are being rejuvenated. Just as the bind has been devita1 ize.l, hi.rc and tbep; a farm community has worn out. No nation has ever iicn above the level of its itgneultiirv, and the dead eoiiiinunit ies scattered tiirourb the United Stat s are comparable U the white alkali patches on the hilltop eighty. And if allowed b spread will ruin our country just as sure as blight will wipe out an apple orchard. macadam crew will follow up with tho crushed rock. II Is expected the work will be completed by the first of tho year. This link, when completed, will give Heppner a continuous macadam and hard surfacM roud to Portland, Pendleton and ail connecting points. Tlio state highway cotnmlHMon, re recognizing l he value of completing inns y-iiiiio jink, were ready to let a ' contract some time ago under an ar rangement with Olllii iii county thai the market road fund of that county ; would be applied on tho county's i-harc of the work when an adverse decii-ioti by a Judge In Pol!: county re garding the use of mt.rkel to, oaio-ii nie iiiancf. uiner i.rrangc monu wore mado by Iho coiiiiuiHHlon and William county officials with the result that thu work Is to bo completed. Chicken Dinner, JkUm-iiig' Party, Pretty (iirls, All Attraction .Needed When Judge Campbell was advised that the members of th0 state lii;:h way commission iiccomptvr.ied by Gov ernor Olcott, and a lew other celeb rities meaning three Portlnd news paper writers-were expected to drive from Dayvillo to Heppner last Saturday on the last leg of their highway inspection ti in, he :rga:iized a reception coinniltl.ee to go forth like knights of old, meet the distnig- uisluvl visitors and escort thetu to town with nil due pomp and cere mony. Had some things t'.ia. tho judge, who piloted tho party, planned oi lmp'.'.eneil, aind other things that ho didn't plan on, not have happened, this story could have been, told in few lines. "But," as Frr.nlc Cilllam might say, "thin life is jus I. ouo da-mod thin 3 after acother anyway," and that proved true Saturday. If the governor had not gona around by Condon, if the commission ers had not been delayed at Spray, it a tree had mot fallen across tho road, if Sam Kotson bad not told tho story or tre. hard lot of the man who went to live at Spray, if Crawford and Clark had not eaten so many snails and sausages, if the h. in. had not fallen down in his deductions regarding auto tracks in the dust mid the workings of the highway com missioner mind, and 11 Jiarrau luul not, lor some unknown reason, eva ded the llardnuin police l'orco by avoiding Main street and . slipping; his party through a back alley In passing by that, town, all might have been well auillhe procession might have rolled into Heppnorj us per orig inal plans with flags waving, drums heating etc., etc anildbt the plaudita of Hie populace. According to Mr. I!ai rat.t the trip) was unnecessary so far as tho visi tors neediing a guide was concerned for that gentleman says that when ut Dayville, Governor Olcott learned there was to bo it dance, Mr. Iiooth, who Is a deacon In the Methodist church, learned there was to bo a chicken dinner, and Johnny Kelly, Harry Krye and It. C. Johnson, learn ed that Heppner waB where Judrfa Dutton came from and all the pretty girls ho nasi told them about stayed at; neither flood, fire, blowouts nor any other physical obstacles would have hhidered their coming and each man would have plowed along tho trail with a definite purpose In view. Hut the trip was worth whilo at that. To several members ot thu parly actual road conditions between Heppner ami Spray hid been a closed book. We had hear abort It but it reunited actual experience to under stand, j Going up "Dead Man's bill," be yond Rock Creek was uji epoch ill some of our young lives and coinlni; down was at least, two opt ,... we reached Hock creek again and got our breath back tho voto was 10U per cent pure that that particular road needs flxin'. As everything turned eut the re ception committee lost onu perfectly good governor and threo excellent road commissioners aurlni; thu day but as things ultinuitely turned 011C the lost officials found themselves and beat the committee to low::, tl in proving the potency (,l' tho niline passion, strong in the mind of man- -chicken dinner, dancing party, pietty Jlrls. liven Hob Carnner toil tit exceed tlio speed limit with sucli attraction ahead. I OltKST It.Wt.l CS K i; WAK. A warning of Impo -'arici to al' ;cr ::ons c e. t nig to i.;n li to I h" ai io.i I foieM. tf camp, 1H being (ie it (,ut , I l.e fori : t I angci.s In I he 1 , ;e,-t t; i every ( ,1 mpo, wit Ilia . he f .;.!( i; 1 o . em. r .ev:-ve niu:,t have a p.niit t lonhl c: 111 1 lires. This y, a 11 imtn 1 - 1 funds!.itio nilo of the foio.t . t i , -. , ami is Iciti-; ri I ,!: ,1 in 01 her : die 1 i of tho country and total ituigets sa that from now on the rule iim.,:. i observe! he-re. Penults may bo, le cured from any forest ranger, ,