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IF YOU WANT ALL THE NEWS OF MORROW COUNTY WHILE IT IS NEWS, READ THE HEPPNER HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST Av VOLUME IX HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1923 NUMBER 42 S HIjiH SCHOOL STUDENT BODY ELECTS OFFICERS Boys Lead In History; Girls Fijrst In Lntiu It. Intelligence Tests (By High School Reporter) la a double header basket ball game played here last Friday night, both the boys' and girls' teams were able to put over wins from lone high school. Thke local boys won by a score of 25-10, while the girls won 20-7. The local girls put up the best girls' game seen this year, and showed teamwork and a good eye for shooting baskets. Capt. Marguerite Hisler was high point with 13, and Fay Ritchie made 7 pointB. The guarding of the Heppner girls waf excellent, and with two guards like Nellie Flynn and Elaine Sigsbee it will be hard for any outside team tc put over a win on our girls. The following is the line-up of the girls' ;t earns: Hisler f Balsiger .Ritchie f Fletcher French c Farren Gcshens s c Devins Flynn g Clark Sigsbee g Musgrove A. McDaid s Swanson JR. McDaid s Lundell The first quarter of the boys' game was close, ending with a score 1-1, with neither team seeming able to connect with the basket and the local boys showing up very poor on pass ing. But in the second Quarter the Heppner boys started off with a rush and two pretty field goals by Doherty and Aiken put them in the lead, and from that time were never headed. The score at the end of the first hal was 15-5 in Heppner's favor. At the beginning of the second half, the local boys again rushed the lone boys off their feet and a clean shot by McDuffee and a couple by Doherty helped boost the score. . In the last quarter, with the score 23-5, the -second team was sent in to get a lit tle experience, and worked well. The line-up was as follows: Doherty f Linn Aiken f... Fletcher Boyd c Ray McDuffee g Barnett Buseick g Howard Cason p Bristow Hall s Bucknum .; s Neel s There will be a double header with Lexington on the Heppner floor Feb. 23. Lexington won both games on their cracker-box floor in January, but can they do it again up here? We don't think so. The results of the student body election last Wednesday were favora ble to all students; Ray McDuffee be ing elected president; Mary Craw ford, secretary; Retha Owen and Guy Hall, yell leaders, and Leonard .Swartz, sergeant at arms. Violet Hynd and Frances Doherty tied for vice-president, but luck favored Violet and she won the office by lot. The new officers were installed on Thursday afternoon. Following the Ione-Heppner game last Friday evening, lone was invited to a reception at the school house. The room was tastefully decorated in red and white, Ione's colors. A cafeteria luncheon was served, after which games were played. Mr. Mather and Stanley Peterson favored the guests with several musical se lections. We don't know whether it was "eats" or the new yell leaders that brought forth such a "peppy" bunch of Heppner students at the game Fri day night, but we do know they wert there in large numbers to back u the local teams. Many new and original ideas are being worked out in the "Hehisch" this year. Be ready to sign up fo' one or more when the students cal on you. During the past two weeks various intelligence tests have been given i the grades and in the high Bchool. Of the one given in American histor Philip Mahoney ranked first, an . Keith Logan and Ray McDuffee sec ond. Dorothy Pattison, Blanche Groshens and France Parker ranked highest in the second year Latin class. The report of Thelma Miller and Reliance Moore, delegate from H. H. HEPrXEK BOY HEADS DEBATING TEAM Bob Notson, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Notson of this city, who is a student at Willamette University at Salem, has won a place for himself as leader of the university debating team and with his fellows will leave early next month on a tour of the middle west and southwest to fulfill a schedule of eight debating contests with that number of universities and colleges. The schedule includes the University of North Dakota at Fargo; University of Wisconsin at Madison; Gustavus Adolphus College at St. Peter, Minn.; LawTence College at Appleton, Wisconsin; Wheaton Col lege at Wheaton, Illinois; University of Arizona at Tuscon; University of Redlands at Rcdlands, California, and the College of the Pacific at San Jose. County Clerk Waters returned from Portland Sunday where he spent a week oil business and visiting with his family who are spending the win ter there. AGAIN ON THE JOB The Herald is able to announce that our weather department, long sadly neglected, has been reorganiz ed and Mr. Sam E. Notson has been placed in powe rwith full power to act in any emergency. Lum Gordon, Willis Stewart and Max Smith and his Indian chief hav ing all fluked on the job, we were forced to appeal to Mr. Notson to give the public the benefit of his judg ment and experience. From now on everybody may expect some kind of weather every week. Mr. Notson Is a firm believer in Mr. Groundhog as a reliable weather prognosticator, and keeps in close touch with that remarkable animal who is now taking his six-week beauty sleep before again coming forth to inhale the blossom-scented air of a belated spring. Whether Messrs. Notson and Groundhog han dle their weather correspondence by radio or mental telepathy we neither know nor care so long as they de liver plenty of the sort of weather our readers want every week, and Sam draws his salary every Saturday evening before 5:00 o'clock. Following is the forecast for the present weelc furnished us Monday noon by Mr. Notson. It snowed about one foot Sunday and Monday morning. It may snow more during the week. It may not snow any more this year; you never can tell about these things. Look out for slightly colder weather between 6:00 p. m. and 6:00 a. m. than between 6:00 a. m. and 6:00 p. m. unless, as frequently hap pens, we get a night Chinook. There is always an element of doubt about the famous Heppner Chinook. Every day in every way expect thf days to grow longer and longer unti' about the 20th of June, when they may start getting shorter and shorter. This forecast is based on nnt taken by Dr. Cook while he was at the North Pole and id reliable. The present snow may be expert to remain on the ground 13 days ur less we should have sufficient Chinook winds and warm rains to take it off sooner, or unless it should turn colder and remain that way for 14 days or longer. This forecast conies' directly from Mr. Groundhog, who is known to be fully as reliable as Dr. Cook. Better weather may be expected after Thursday, when the pay of Oregon legislators stops. Le.ss coun- ! terfeit money should also be in cir culation after that date for soon after their pay stops the boys will quit ' "shoving the queer," 1. e. passing bad bills and go home. S. to the StaU H. S. Press associa tion conference, were givea last Mon day afternoon. This is the first year Heppner Hi has sent delegates, but we are all hoping it will not be the last. The seniors' class pins have arrived and now they parade ga.ly around as sembly wearing decorations of all sorts. Work on "All-ofa-Sudden Pegy" has been progressing rapidly. The very promising cast and the coaching of Mrs. Hopper will make it an event you won't want to miss. STANDING BEHIND THE FARMER The letter printed today in another column of this paper from a farmer's wife is worthy of the careful reading and consideration of every mer chant, banker, doctor, lawyer and county and city official in Morrow county. It is, indeed, deplorable, as the writer suggests, that at this meeting of farmers and their wives, gathered from every section of the county at no small cost to them in time, trouble and discom fort, that not a single representative from the ranks of business, the professions or officialdom was present to so much as say "how do you do," to extend a welcome or bid them God speed in their efforts to help themselves to a better finan cial footing in order that they may, some time, be able to meet their obligations now outstand ing and to secure prices for their products that will in the future enable them to restore a meas ure of prosperity in' this county where we all complain, and with good reason, that trade in every line languishes and the hammer of the sheriff is uncomfortably close to many doors. Every man of us knows full well that upon the prosperity of the farmer and stockman depends absolutely the individual and communal pros perity of the county, and yet when they hold a meeting to consider ways and means for better ing the general conditions here, we people in the towns hold aloof with no word of welcome, of counsel or good will. It is something worth thinking about, study ing over, acting upon, and "A Farmer's Wife" is to be commended for so forcibly, yet kindly and considerately, pointing out our fault. Some one has said that a fault uncovered is two-thirds destroyed. If that is true, we busi ness men and bankers and doctors and lawyers should be able to do together one-half of what one woman has done alone. We must learn to stand behind the farmer and back him up in his work of trying to better his own :and our condition! We must stand behind him, but not too far back to be of some service. ELKS FEED OX TIE The Elks enjoyed a sort of pie so cial in their club rooms following the lodge session last Thursday night. At least there were more pies than you could count, and they were of the P-double-unkin, P-double-I, P-double unkin Punkin Pie variety. An old fashioned pie eating contest was a feature in which three boys, recruit ed for the occasion because of their appetites for pie, contested for the prize and BrlCk Hall won with his hands behind his back. Exalted Ruler Dean Goodman failed to get a prize, not that he ate less pies than the others, but because he failed to ob serve the rules of the game using both hands as well as his mouth. There were also some good boxing bouts. For the Lenten Season We will make a specialty of Fish and .Shell Fish during the Lenten season. Fresh shipments will arrive ! every Monday and Thursday eve- ! ing. Remember the days. We Are Here to Serve i All Kinds Fresh and Smoked Meats Central Market G. B. SWAGGART ; , r? , -J GOODIXG MEASURE TO STABILIZE- WHEAT IS FAVORABLY REPORTED Washington, Feb. 10. The Good ing bill appropriating $300,000,000 for creation of a wheat stabilization board which would be empowered to stabilize wheat prices throughout the country, late today was ordered IV orably reported to the senate by the agricultural committee. The wheat board, under the bill, would be ordered to guarantee i price of $1.75 a bushel for No. 1 Northern spring wheat. Dave McAtee has returned from Portland where he spent several weeks visiting his daughter and tak ing in the sights of the big town. COVXTY BOOKS FOUND IX EXCELLENT SHAPI Max Crandall, expert accountant, who has been here for several week! making the annual audit of the coun ty books, has completed his work, fil ed his report and returned to Port land. Mr. Crandall says he found tin county books in excellent condition only a few minor clerical errors ap pearing. In speaking to the Herald of his work here, Mr. Crandall complimented the officials of Morrow county as efficient and painstaking public servants. Miss Vivian Yocum ,who has been employed in the Sheriff's office for a couple of years, resigned that posi tion some time ago and has taken a position with Mr. Crandall, who speaks highly of her ability iu that line of work. Mr. Crandall has been retained by the county court for the present year. Bert Mason, lone "merchant and re cently appointed mayor of that city, was here during the week interview ing the county! court about the lone Gooseberry road. A number of other interested citizens accompanied him. BETTER HER SUPPLY I Lyle Blayden made a trip to The Dalles Saturday, returning with a state truck which he will drive on highway work through eastern Ore gon. Mr. and MrB. A. T. Herllm are re joicing over the birth of a boy, born Wednesday, February 7. J. F. Gorham and Ralph Davis drove to Umatilla Thursday on busi ness. Harry Murchie was a Hermlston visitor Friday. Dwight Misner of Iono was a busi ness visitor in town Saturday. Mrs. Z. Logan returned Saturday from a viHit with relatives In Morn, Oregon. E. P. Dodd of Hermlston was in town on business Saturday. Faul Demaro is transacting busi ness In Portland this week. While there Mr. Demaro will make applica tion for naturalization papers. J. C. llarpke of Portland was transacting business in town on Fri day. Max Deweese is busy leveling and otherwise Improving his lots. C. G. Blayden and O. II. Warner made a business trip to Hermlslon Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McDanlels left the first of the week for Hepp ner and Hardman where they will visit relatives. Nate Macotnber and family moved Wednesday into tho cottage formerly occupied by the M. L .Morgan family. Don't forget the movie show next Friday night, February 16, In the school auditorium. There will be two features: Blanche. Sweet in "Her Unwilling Husband," and Harold Lloyd In a roaring comedy. These be ing first class reels an admission of only 15 cents and 30 cents will be charged to cover expenses. The W. W. A., who are responsible for this evening of pleasure, promise us a treat every two weeks. Everyone come and help the good work along. The U. S. Reclamation service ha:. been allowed $750,000 to purchas right of way and commence construc tion of the McCoy reservoir. It is expected that the right of way will be purchased at once and the funds pro vidwl in 1 1 1 i h estimate will be used ti, purchase equipment and begin con struction. This will in ;i n a big thing to this project, as it. will supply suf ficient water at all times during the irrigation season and many hundreds of acres more of the land can opened for settlement. We hope to see the land between Messncr and lioaidinan opened soon. $15,000 have also been provided in this esti mate for pipe lines and concreting laterals to Improve and extend the water service. Ralph Davis, Clay Warren and Jack Gorham witnessed tho wrestling bout between Rutler and Kennedy In Arlington Saturday evening. They report a good conlt, the men being well matched In strength and speed. The match went to a draw, each ob taining one fall, although the referee's decision gave the bout to Rutler. S. H. Boardman returned Sunday from a business trip to Portland. JONES HILL JOB GOES TO SPOKANE SUCCESSFUL BID $0,000 UNDER THAT OF COUNTY Thirteen BVIriers Submit. Figures Work to Be Completed By Nov. SO, 1923 Among a number of contracts for highway construction awarded bv the state highway commission last Tues day was one for surfacing the Heppner-Jones hill section of tho Orecon- Washington highway east of this city.. Thirteen contracting firms submit ted bids on the work, tho successful competitor being the General Con tracting Co., of Spokane, at tho Drice- of $51,592.00. Under the terms of tho contract the work is to bo com pleted by November 30, 1923. Morrow county highway depart ment was one of the unsuccesf.ful bidders on tho job at a prico of $C7,- 522.50, or $5,930.50 above the suc cessful bidder. Other bids ranged higher and lower than tho county figures. Judge Campbell and other countv officials are coufident that the high way commission secured a very ad vantageous price on this piece of work, that opinion being borne out by the number of bidders competing. It is understood that the county figures permitted a profit of around $8,000.00 on the job barring acci dents or unlocked for contln;encles. and tho fact that the Spokane con cern will be at the expense of ship ping their plant and outfit in and out again leads to the belief that their profit on the work will not be an exorbitant one. INDIFFERENCE OF BUSINESS MEN IS DEPLORABLE Editor Heppner Herald: In your paper of February 6th, I nolice your masterly handling of the Farm Bureau meeting in Heppner, February 3rd. You cited the most excellent points of this meeting but ono Important. fact you failed to grasp, and that was tho conspicuous absence of tho busi ness men of Heppner and other Mor row county towns. It is deplorable how these men will ignore tho importance of theso meet IngH ignore tho fight the farmers are making to keep on their feet at this trying time, not even encourag ing them by their presence; ignoring the success or failure of these hard working men and women. It is hard to understand tho sclrish noss of this In the face of tho stem fight these men must know Is ahead of us. It is even harder to understand that they do not seem to realize that their own rise or fall depends on us. Human nature often falls in sympa thy, but seldom in Belf-lnterest. Where these men have failed In sym pathy for us they should mako up In seirjntereHt sufficient to back us bv their presence, Influence, and possi ble business-like advice in our nmb leins which so vitally concern thorn as well as ourselves. I wish you could bring this to their notice in such a way that they wir stand shoulder to shoulder willi us in this fight, which is I heir fight as well as our own, for when we fail they fail with us. A FARMER'S WIFE. OllEST NEW S I ROM (.URBAN E DISTRICT (liy S. I!. Woods) Know at Hiiowstakn No. 4 4 e:i Hid bi-ad of llli; Bullcr creek measu -ed 1 7 inches in dcpih, and at stul: No. 31 on the head of ditch cret!., it measured 37 inches on tho lai.t day of Januaiy, according to Rang, r Woods, who has Just completed the readings. This Is about i,n avcrai e for this time of year. Tho ranger reports seeing lots of coyoto sign, especially on Little But ter creek. There was very littlo den- sign. It appears that practically all of the deer drifted nouthward to the breaks of the John Day river for the winter and only a very few to th north slope of the mountains. The Gurdano Milling company lias an excellent logging snow and are busily logging. They have about 200,000 feet of logs and hope to dou ble that amount. The Willow Creek saw mill Lai not been logging on account of a ean'y nnow In thir Reality.