County
IF YOU WANT ALL THE NEWS OF MORROW COUNTY WHILE IT IS MEWS, READ THE HEPPNER HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST
VOLUME X
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1924.
NUMBER 43
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ENJOYABLE EVENING
BETHEL CHAPEI
CONFERENCE ENDORSES
HEPPNER
HERALD
PLAN MEETING FRIDAY
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN AT
FRIDAY'S GATHERING
Assistant Superintendent Smith anil
Mrs. Shurte Explain Pro
posed Measure
A representative gathering of
plain Morrow county folks comfort
ably filled the circuit court room
last Friday afternoon to hear dis
cussion of the proposed county unit
system for the management of all
elementary schools in the county.
Mrs. Lena Snell Shurte, county
-school superintendent, presided at
the meeting and after a few introduc
tory words introduced W. M. Smith,
assistant superintendent of public
instruction, who was here from Sa
lem to address the meeting.
Mr. Smith said he was not here
to try to "put anything over" on the
people of Morrow county but to dis
cuss the proposed measure fairly,
pointing out what he believed to be
Its advantages and disadvantages.
The measure is not perfect, he de
clared, but it is a step in advance
over the present system. He asked
his hearers to investigate the matter,
present system is not the best that
cision and vote accordingly. If the
present system it not the best that
can be conceived you should improve
it, the speaker continued.
Under the proposed plan, as out
lined by Mr. Smith, the elementary
or grade schools will all be thrown
into one district and will be under
the management ot five directors,
wiio will be elected by the people of
the county. The county will be di
vided into five zones, one director
being chosen from each zone. A ten
tative chart prepared by County Su
perintendent Shurte showed the
plan of creating these zones to be
such as would give, as nearly as pos
sible, a balance of power between the
larger town.'? of th,e county and the
country districts of the same zone,
the present school districts will re
main as they are at present in prac
tically all case3.
Under the new system school tax
es in the different districts will be
equalized, the districts now benefit
ted by railroad mileage, timber hold
ings or other corporate property be
ing placed on the same footing as
the weak districts now enjoying no
such advantages. It was pointed out
that some districts now manage on a
school levy of 7-10 of a mill, while
others Tiave to tax themselves as
much as 21 mills in order to main
tain their school.
Another advantage claimed for the
new system is that all school sup
plies will be purchased in quantity
and at a wholesale rale, thereby
making a great saving to the tax
payers. The shool buildings and
grounds would be maintained and
kept in proper repair by the county
board and each school in the county
would be kept in as good condition
as any other. The claim was also
made that more efficient teachers
may be secured and kept than under
the present system. A schedule of
wages would be established with a
graduated increase each year until
the maximum is reached and the
teacher's tenure in office would con
tinue as long as she showed efficient
and satisfactory work.
Teachers would all be employed
by the county board but each district
would be represented by a local
beard as at present and should the
teacher selected be not satisfactory
to the local board they could demand
another teacher.
Another advantage pointed out by
the speakers was that at present
there is $1,000,000 worth of taxa
ble property in the county not now
included in any school district. Such
property would all be included in the
county unit district and would be
taxed for school purposes. ,
Outstanding indebtedness would
be assumed by the county unit and
a sinking fund provided to pay It off
within a. few years. It was also
claimed that future bond issues (
would not be necessary for the rea
son that whenever a new school
house was needed in any district a
very small levy on all property In the
county would provide the money
needed and as soon as the old indebt
edness Is cleaned up the schools
would be on a permanent cash basis
thereby saving the excessive interest
At Bethel Chapel Tast Thursdaj
the intermediate girls and boys ol
the Sunday school enjoyed a six
o'clock chicken dinner, with Mrs.
Wright and Mrs. Edward Clark ai
hostesses. Dainty valentine favors,
made by Mrs. Clark In a splendid
manner, decorated the long table
and many snappy games added t
thje enjoyment of the evening. Later,
the Bible Study class gathered and
partook of delicious refreshments.
In connection with their study of the
Exodus, ttley enjoyed an interesting
account of the screen version ol
"The Ten Commandments," given
by Mrs. John Patterson, which sht
saw in Hollywood last month.
Oil Mail In Town Saturday
Philip D. Northcraft, employed by
the Acme Extension Co., who Is
spending the winter in the lone ter
ritory in the interest of that com
pany, was in town Saturday for a
short time. Mr. Northcraft is en
deavoring to secure some more leas
es for his company to complete the
blocks they want before commencing
any development work. He has no
information from his principals as to
when operations will start here other
than that it may be during the com
ing Spring or summer. Just what
effect the oil scandals now "being
aired at Washington will have on
his company's- operations, he does not
know.
PATRON-TEACHER MEET
HELD FRIDAY EVENING
The regular meeting of the patron
teacher association which had been
postponed from . Tuesday afternoon
was held Friday evening in the high
school auditorium with a large num
ber of patrons present.
Mrs. S. A. Pattison, vice-president
of the association, called the meet
ing to order and announced that
Mrs. Woodson, the president, has
tendered her resignation because of
ill health and that the executive
committee had appointed Mis. Clara
Boyer to fill the vacancy. Regret
at the resignation of the old presi
dent and satisfaction in the choice
of the committee in selecting her
successor was expressed in intro
ducing the new executive, who then
assumed the chair.
An entertaining program was ren
dered consisting of the following se
lections: Music by the school or
chestra; violin solo by Miss Steele,
harmonia solo by Pauline Ulrich,
piano solo by Miss Cary Clark, read
ing by Miss Luola Benge and an
unique number by ten seventh grade
girls called the Ox dance.
Following the program W. M.
Smith, assistant superintendent of
public instruction, addressed the
meeting first giving the association
members a few words of inspiration
and cheer on their work and then
taking up the county unit system of
elementary school management
which it is expected will be placed
on the ballot in this county at the
coming primary election in May. Mr.
Smith discussed the same subject at
an afternoon meeting at the court
house a report of which will be
found in another column.
charges many districts have been
and are still paying on refunded
bonds.
Following talks by Mr. Smith and
Mrs. Shurte, R. B. Wilcox, who is fa
miliar with the system which has
been in effect in Klamath and Crook
counties for several years, was called
to the floor and spoke strongly in
favor of the change and when he fin
ished questions were asked Mr.
Smith by many of the audience and a
general discussion followed.
The meeting was an interesting
one and while no action was taken
either in endorsement or condemna
tion of the plan the general impres
sion on those present seemed to be
rather favorable.
High schools in the county will be
In no way affected By the adoption
of the county unit plan, each dis
trict wishing to maintain a high
school being required to levy a spe-
' tax within its own limits for
such purpose.
"Hi
'.MM
JilS government, the off
spring of our oum
uninfluenced and unawecL
adopted upon full investigation
and mature deliberation, com
pletely free in its principles'-has
a just claim to confidence and
your support Respect for its
authority, compliance with its
lau?s. acquiescence in its meas
ures, are duties enjoined by the
fundamental maxims of
true liberty,
Qeorge VJashinqlc
County Court Proceedings
for Regular February Term
Court met In regular session on
Wednesday,, the 6th day of Febru
ary, 1924, with all officers present;;
when were had the following pro
ceedings: Court made an order authorizing
the use for 1924 work of all the un
expended balance that was appro
priated for 1923 of the Predatory
Animal appropriation in connection
with the State Livestock Sanitary
board.
Court approved, rejected or con
tinued the various bills presented
against Morrow County as per nota
tions on the face of each claim.
The folloiwng bills were paid:
Dave Van, Dist. 14 $ 2.99
Karl Beach, HHB 170.79
State Acci. Com., Roads 118.91
Sherman Shaw, HHB 3.59
C. E. Miller, HHB 51.88
Arlington Bank, Spl. 1 52.84
S. Shaw, HHB 3.40
R. L. Benge, Gen. Rd. 25.00
W. B. Howard, Spl. 1 60.75
M. F. Wadsworth, Spl. 1 3.72
Turn A L-um Co., Spl. 1 40.40
J. W. Kirschner, Roads 95.00
L. B. Pyle, HHB 72.50
Ralph Moore, HHB 7.00
W. O. Bayless, HHB 11.45
T. J. Humphreys, Gen. Rd. 11.45
Bushong & Co., Gen. Rd. 6.56
L. W. Briggs, Gen. Rd. 7.50
W. L. McCaleb, Gen. Rd. 9.65
C. V. Hopper, Gen. Rd., 31.50
Watt Powder Co., HHB 355.85
Ed Clarke, HHB 3.60
Ed Breslin, HHB 5.00
E. R. Lundell, HHB 3.00
Standard Oil Co., HHB 403.36
Howard Cooper Co., HHB 607. J76
W. H. Padberg, No. 15 26.50
G. Finkbeiner, No. 12 14.91
Gilliam & Bisbee, HHB 32.85
Turn A Lum Co., No. 12 25.80
Bank of lone, Roads , 238.82
Farmers Bank, Roads 1,235.18
First Nat. Bank, Roads 6,368.65
L. B. Pyle, Market Rd'. 40.00
W. R. Irwin wrUes the Herald
from Rockaway that the weather Is
fine on that favored spot of sea
coast.
NOTICE
Foot Specialist
OB. B. A.
Surgeon Chiropodist
ARCH EXPERT
SVill be h,ere for a Bhort time
rrhs fitted
Kor Jlat Feet Hotel Heppner
choice.
ion
B. P. Stone, Dog
State of Oregon, Rodent
W. H. Cleveland, D03
25.25
750.00
200.00
Geo. McDuffee, Prohl
20.85
Gazette Times, Dog
R. W. Morse, Rodent
J. F. Furlong, Ct. Hse.
C. B. Oral, Sealer
Sadie Morey, Wid. Pen.
Amy McFerrin, Wid. Pen.
Lydia Ritchie, Wid. Pen.
Rebecca Knight, Wid. Pen.
May Robinett, Wid. Pen.
Hazel Logan, Wid. Pen.
F. J. Gordon, Poor
Ida Fletcher, Poor
Jess Kirk, Poor
Andy Cook, Poor
Co. Agent, Co. Agt.
L. P. Davidson, Co. Ct.
W. T. Campbell, Co. Ct.
R. L. Benge, Co. Ct.
Pac. Tel. Co., Cur. Ex.
lone Independent, Cur. Ex.
Irwin Hodson, Sheriff
J. F. Gorham, Sheriff
Geo. McDuffee, Sheriff
Heppner Herald, Office
Gazette Time3, Office
Glass & Prudhomme, Office
Dalton Adding Mach., Treas
Swender Bluep't Co., Cur. Ex.
Kilhan Sty. Co., Clerk
L. S. Shurte, Supt.
Mae McPherrin, Assess.
Sam Hughes Co., Ct. Hse.
29.50
184.50
7.60
8.77
17.50
17.50
17.50
32.50
10.00
10.00
25.00
15.00
30.00
30.00
175.00
132.65
35.00
81.62
31.58
11.6
1.55
15.00
32.84
11.70
339.25
63.98
1.25
15.00
9.91
71.80
62.50
7.05
Heppner L. & W. Co., Ct. Hse. 53.40
T. J. Humphreys, Ct. Hse. 6.14
Gilliam & Bisbee, Ct. Hse. 3.70
West Disinfecting Co., Ct. Use. 5.11
W. P. Prophet, Ct. Hse. 2.50
Meier & Frank, Ct. Hse. 233.85
A. L. Cornett, Jus. Ct. 9.00
S. E. Notson, Dist. Atty. 27.56
O. P. Hoff, Fire Patrol 45.13
L. Van Marter, Tax Comm. 126.00
C. C. Chick, Health 6.00
C. R. Walker, Health 1.00
M. L. Case, Coroner 5.00
A. D. McMurdo, Coroner 6.00
W. W. Smead, Assess. 10.99
Turn A Lum Co., Poor 15.50
Boardma, Population Grows
That Boardman Is on the way to
becoming the county center of popu
lation and going' strong Is Indicat
ed by the announceixxint of the birth
of girl triplets to Mr. and Mrs.
Adolph Skoubo of that lively com
munity. The advent was at Wilcox
Memorial hospital, Portland, on Feb
ruary 13. The three little ladles got
their pictures In the Portland papers.
They are named Elonora, born at
1:15 a. m., weight 5 pounds 1 ounce;
Asta, born at 4:10 a. m., weight 3
pounds 6 ounces, and Inger, born at
4:20 a. m., weight 2 pounds and 7
ounces.
EXPORT COMMISSION BILL
Support for the McNary-Haugen
Export Corporation bill received an
unanticipated but powerful stimulus
in Washington this week as a result
of the Northwestern financial con
ference, called by President Cool
idge. The conference, after consid
ering methods for relieving the bank
ing situation in Northwestern states,
the result of low prices for farm pro
ducts, turned over to the agricultur
al delegafes who had been' called by
the president, the task of selecting
the proposed legislation now before
congress which should be endorsed.
These agricultural representatives,
numbering in all about thirty men
of northwest farm sections, unani
mously urged upon congress the en
actment of the McNary-Haugen Ex
port Corporation bill,, with resolu
tions including the following:
"The agricultural delegates here
assembled take this occasion to urge
upon the Sixty-Eighth Congress that
they enact into law, for the relief of
agriculture, the substance and basic
principles of the McNary-Haugen
measure to restore farm purchasing
power, and the Norbeck-Burtness
measure for government credits to
promote diversification of produc
tion in wheat areas, both of which
measures are now before congress."
Favorable Action on McNarj'-Ilaiigen
Wheat Bill Expected
Recent reports from Washington,
D. C, are to the effect that the hear
ings on the McNary-Haugen wheat
subsidy bill now befcre congress will
close during the present week with
prospects that favorable action by
congress will follow. Such wa3 the
information received last Saturday
by W. L. Thompson, of Portland,
and reported in the Telegram.
, James D. Kyle, of Stanfield, who
has been in Washington for a cou
ple of months on irrigation matters
and who watched the sentiment on
the wheat subsidy bill closely while
at the capitol, also gives it as his
opinion that the bill will pass.
BAKERS Ai MILLERS
ARE HELD PROFITEERS
PAY $1,000,00(1 A DAY
TOO MUCH FOR BREAD
Basil Mauley, of Ieple's Legislative
Service Asks Senate Inquiry
Into Charges
Washington, D. C Feb. 14.
Recommendation that the senate
adopt a resolution directing the sec
retary of the treasury to report the
profits of all baking and milling
companies aB disclosed by their tax
returns from 1918 to the present
time is made in a report submitted
today by Basil M. Manly, director of
People's Legislative service, to Sen
ator La Follette, Wisconsin, chair
man of the organization.
The report, said to have been sub
mitted also to "other progressive
senators and representatives," as
outlined in a letter from Mr. Manly
to Senator La Follette charged that
"as a result of outrageous profiteer
ing the American people are now
paying more than $1,000,000 a day
too much for their bread."
The report also recommends a
"thorough and searching investiga
tion by the appropriate senate com
mittee of the tribute levied by
wheat speculators, grain elevators,
railroads, millers, jobbers, baiters
and retailers from the time the
wheat leaves the farm until it reach
es the dinner table in the form of
bread."
The price of wheat on the farm,
the report said, had declined to 93
cents a bushel last September or 55
per cent slneje 1917, but the average
retail price of bread of 8.7 cents a
pound represented a decline of only
5.4 per cent, the "deflation of wheat
being ten times as great as the de
flation of bread." Labor cost fig
ures were cited to show that high
wages were not responsible for the
present icvel of bread prices.
The financial reports of baking
corporations disclose "unconscion
able profits," the report said, while
retailors also were declared to be
exactlne margins from two to four
I times as grca.t as before the war.
ENGINEERS LOOK CONDITIONS
OVER; ASK FOR CONFERENCE
Sheep l'elt Paving Appeals to Mr.
Klein, Who Believes This
Itoad Is Badly Needed
Prosp(ects for the early comple
tion of the Oregon-Washington high
way from Jones hill to Lena, which
were under a cloud lately, have Im
proved within the past week follow
ing a visit here last Friday morning
of Stae Highway Engineer Klein
and District Engineer R. A. Baldock
and there seems to be fair prospects
that the work will go forward next
summer. ,
In company with the county court
the highway officials drove out to
Lena Friday morning and tli,e con
ditions on the unimproved 3-nilIe
gap were such that Mr. Klein de
clared the project one of great mer
it and showed a favorably disposi
tion towards having the gap closed.
While the road was in better con
dition Friday than it had been a
week earlier, evidences there were
in plenty to show what the people
of that section are up against in
their efforts to get to the present
Improved road coming to Heppner
to attend to their county and per
sonal business.
As an example of what the road
has been: Not long ago a pelt mer
chant on his way to Heppner with
a truck load of sheep peltB, mired
down in the road and was compelled
to lay a paving of pelts under his
Wheels and on to solid ground in or
der to save his outfit from an lgno- (
nilnlous grave. The pelt paving was
still in evidence when the highway
engineers Inspected the spot and the
reaction was 1 favorable to early Im
provement of the 3-mile gap.
Mr. Klein asked the county court
to meet with the state highway com
mission at the March meeting when
It Is believed a satisfactory arrange
ment can be worked out by which
the improvement will bo made.
Shortage of funds In both state
and county coffers has been the
greatest hindrance to having the
work done and at the last meeting
of th(e commission a proposition was
made to the county that the state
would grade the road this year if
the county would pledge itself to put
on the macadam In 1925.
This the county felt unable to do
under present financial conditions,
but it is now believed that arrange
ments can bo made regarding pay
ments due the state from the county
which will enable the county to en
ter into the agreement proposed by
the state.
It has. bo,en a knotty problem te
work out but the prospects are now
better than at any time according to
the belief of Judge Campbell. It Is
believed tlie people of the Lena sec
tion will be willing to co-operate,
perhaps to the extent of securing
right-of-way for the new road,
which will be a big help in putting
th,e project over.
CHANGE OF VENUE GRANTED
IN CONDON KIDNAPPING CASK
At Condon last Thursday Judge
Parker granted a change of venue to
Fossil of the case against Rev. G. A.
Chaney, R. W. Sinclair and Howard
Styles, charged with kidnapping
Frank Smith last summer, beating
him on the head and forcibly taking
him from the county without a
hearing and landing him In jail at
Pendleton.
The court house at Condon was
filled with klansmen and antl-klans-men
when the case came up but
Judge Parker explained that the
etvldence had been submitted In af
fidavits and there would be no pub
lic hearing.
The case will come up at the regu
lar May term of circuit court.
About 60 ladles and gentlomen
were present at the Elk's social last
Wednesday evening when cards and
dancing provided good entertain
ment. Quadrille dancing was re
vived much to the mystllflcatlon ot
many of the more youthful partici
pants. '