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Volume 43, Number 14. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, July 1, 1926. Subscription $2.00 a Year ATHLETIC CARNIVAL BUT ONE DAY AWAY Weather Prospects Bright As Time Draws Near; Crowds Coming. LINE-UP IS .COMPLETE Baseball Games, Championship Wrest ling, Boxing, Water Carnival, Pa triotic Service Are Included. Cooler weather this week favors the American Legion Athletic Carni val next Saturday, Sunday and Mon day at Heppner. Local arrangements have been completed, and with many outside people planning on celebrating here, the three-day clebration should prove successful. All events for the three days will come off as scheduled, according to the latest word. The Legion coffers were swelled to the amount of $150 in concession money this week, showing there will be concessionaires on hand to help take care of idle moments. Heppner business houses will be closed on the 3rd from 1 to 6, and on the fifth from 10 to 6, go there will be ample oppor tunity to do necessary shopping dur ing lulls in the celebration. Main attractions on the third will be a baseball game between the Pen dleton "Buckaroos" and the Heppner club in the afternoon, and a cham pionship wrestling match in the eve ning between George Barnes, Wash ington champion from Longview, and Frank Pilling of Pendleton. Both of these events will take place in front of the new 1500-capacity grandstand at Rodeo field. Stakes for the wrest ling match, besides a (400 purse, will be Barnes' $100 championship belt and a belt belonging to Filling. In the evening there will also be a big dance at Heppner's open air pavilion, with snappy music. A union patriotic service is being arranged by local churches for the morning of the Fourth. In the af ternoon the Heppner ball team will play the Hcrmiston team, winners of the Tri-County league flag, following which will take place the water car nival at the Legion natatorium. In cluded in the nat events are racing, diving, for both men and women, and a beauty parade. Prizes are offered for all events. Included in the athletic events for the morning of the fifth, to take place on Main street, are the following: potato race, 15 years or under, prizes (2.50, $1.50; 50 yard dash, under 12, $7.60, $1.60; 100 yard dash, under 18, $3.00, $2.00; 100 yard dash, free for all, $10.00; 3-legged race, $3.00, $2.00; 60 yard dash, girls under 14, $2.00, $1.00; barrel race, under 15, $2.00. $1.00. In the afternoon Heppner will again play Hermiston at Rodeo field, and in the evening a big smoker event will be staged. Rocco Stramaglia and Otto Robinson, two top-notch heavy weight battlers head the card for this event. A good bunch of preliminar ies are also lined up. Dancing is scheduled at the open air pavilion again on the. fifth. Those who wish to bring their own lunches will be properly cared for In the shade at the court house grove and at the fair grounds. Plenty of I'ood water may be had at both these places. Rest rooms will also be pro vided by business houses. The Legion boys have arranged a formidable lineup of entertainment for the three-day celebration, and Heppner business men have joined them in extending hearty hospitality to all Morrow county. You'll enjoy every minute of it, they say. STRONG-JARMON. A beautiful wedding was solemnized nt the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Jar- mon on Butter creek Sunday, June 20, when their daughter, Anna Beryl, bo. came the bride of Horace Thomas Strong of Snn Jacinto, California Both the bride and groom were grad untes of Oregon Agricultural college with the class of 1923. Mr. Strong is a farmer. During tho past two years his bride was a teacher in the schools at Oakland, California. Mias Jarmon was benutiful in dress of white georgette. Her veil was of white tulle, caught with orange blossoms, and she carried a boquet of roses and sweet peas.- She was given away by her father. Miss Ruth Wil son of Boring, Oregon, was brides maid, and Roy Jarmon, brother of the bride, was best man. Preceding the ceremony, Miss C. Thompson of Sa lem sang "At Dawning." Rev, Henry Young of Hcrmiston was the officiating minister. Hermiston Herald. HIP IS DISLOCATED. Mention was made in last issue of the accident to Link Yocum at the George White place.- Yocum was hurt by being run over by a bar weeder, and it was thought at the time that he had received a dislocated hip. This proved to be the caseand ho was operated on at the Morrow General hospital. The dislocation was reduced by Dr. Johnston under a gen eral anesthetic. Yocum will have to wear a heavy sand bag tied to his leg for about three weeks or more, and probably will be laid up for six v.eeks. TO INSTITUTE NEW CIRCLE. Sonre twenty-five members of Ma pie Circle, Neighbors of Woodcraft of Heppner, will go to Arlington this evening to assist In Instituting a new circle at that place. Maple Circle will have charge of the ceremonies and it is expected that there will be quite a number of members from both Condon -and The Dalles attending. ANNUAL SCHOOL ELECTION. The announcement of the results of the annual school meeting held in Heppner on Monday afternoon, June 21st, was entirely overlooked by this paper last issue. This no doubt was due to the fact that the meeting was such a "hot" one, there being just five voters of the district present to at tend to the business of electing s di rector and clerk, the editor was per haps not sufficiently' impressed with the importance of the occasion to make a note of what had transpired, and hence the oversight. As there has appeared some little interest in the meeting since, however, we will use space enough to say that S, E. Notson, retiring director, was reelect ed to serve for a period of three years, and Vawter Crawford was cho sen clerk. The report of the clerk revealed the fact that the district's financial affairs are in good shape, but the weather being so hot, no time was taken up In the discussion of mat ters that might be for the betterment of building, grounds and equipment of the school plant. Teachers For Coming School Year Hired With the exception of the .primary teacher, the corps of instructors for the Heppner schools for the coming year has been completed. The im portonce of the primary position has caused the board to proceed slowly, and their selection will not be an nounced till later, when Superinten dent Burgess has made his recom mendation. There will be a number of new teachers in the school next year as many of those who have held places here during the past year and more have sought new fields. Supt. Jas. M. Burgess was reelected early in the season, and he will have ss his assistants in carrying on the work in the high school. James R. Johnson of Battle Creek, Iowa, who will be high school princiDal: Miss Esther Fishel of Eugene, Miss Esta it. Miller of The Dalles, Esther Mar garet Wright of Portland, Anne Mur ray of Roy. Washington, and DeLoris A. Pearson of LaGrande. Miss Wright win have charge of the music in both high school and grades. (jeraid Smith of Medical Lake, Washington, will be principal of the eighth grade and the other grade teachers so far employed are Noreen B. Nelson, Helen V. Fredreckson. Elizabeth Dix, Harriet Case, all teach ers in the school last year; Lucy E. Kodgers of Monroe, Wash.. Hester B. Thorpe of Gresham, Ore. home needed improvements in the school building will be made this slimmer, new hardwood floors being put down in the hallways on both the lower and upper floors, and the black boards will all be reslated. Aside from this, there are no other im provements contemplated in either building or grounds. Respected Pioneer of Hardman Dies Suddenly Mrs.. Lena Cramer Hadley, beloved wife of John P. Hadley, who died suddenly at her home in Hardman at a little past noon last Friday, was a highly respected citizen of the south end of the county, where she had re sided for many long years. While Mrs. Hadley had not been in the best of health, her sudden demise was un expected, as she had been going about her duties in the usual manner and making everyone happy about her. Being suddenly seized after the noon meal, she passed before help could be summoned. Mrs. Hadley was born in Henry county, Illinois, in 1852, and was mar ried to John P. Hadley in Kansas in 1870, by whom she is survived. To this union were born six children; one, Nettie, died in infancy; Bertha, Huston, Guy Hadley, Zoe Hadley, now dicaesed, and Glen R. Hadley of Boardman. Besides these, she is sur vived Dy lour grandchildren, one great grandchild, and two brothers, Frank and Henry Cramer of Board- man, nad a sister, Mrs. Nettie Glass fcrd. Funeral services were held at the Odd Fellows hall at Hardman on Sat urday afternoon, and were largely at tended by friends and neighbors of the Hardman community. Milton W. Bower of Heppner conducted the ser vices and burial was in the I. O. O. F. ctmetery near Hardman, where other members of the family sleep. Mrs. Hadley was well known over the county. She had been a promin ent citizen of the Hardman section for long years, and by both old and young of that community wa greatly beloved because of her kindly dispo sition and her many excellent qual ities of character. None in the com munity were ever neglected by Mother Hadley when It was possible for her to go and offer her tender ministries. She lived a useful, Christian, life and has gone to a well earned reward. RECEIVES BARBED WIRE CUT. While attending to the watering of stock at his plnce on Rhea creek Mon day evening, Jason Biddle was the vic tim of an accident that threatened to be very serious. The horses, togeth er with Mr. Biddle, became entangled ifl a barbed wire fence. The wire caught him on the back of the neck and he was severely cut. Dr. Mc Murdo was immediately summoned from Heppner, and he found.it neces sary to take ten stitches to close up the wound. He left Mr. Biddle rest ing easy and anticipates no serious re sults from the effects of the wire cut, which might have been much worse than it turned out to be. RHEA CREEK GRANGE. The regular meetings of the Rhea Creek Grange will be on the first Sun day and third Saturday of each month during the summer. The Friday meet ings as held 'heretofore are now changed to Saturday. STATE BANK. ECHO OF Lone Man Makes Hold-Up at Noon ; Captured La ter at Cold Springs. MONEY RECOVERED Some Excitement Caused at Heppner When Report Comes That the Robber Headed This Way. Some little excitement was created at Heppner shortly after the noon hour Wednesday, when report came here that the State Bank of Echo had been held up by a lone robber and a considerable sum in currency taken. The report further stated that tne lobber was headed this way, making his getaway in a Star car. Officers here were on the look out for the party, but he did not come this way. A full description of the holdup was published in yesterday's East Ore gonian, and we take their account of the affair as being according to the earlier reports sent out. At this time it was not known just what sum the robber got away with, but later, when he was captured near Cold Springs, the sum of $1500 in currency was taken from the car. The E. O. report follows: A lone robber walked into the bank at Echo, 26 miles west of here, this noon at 12:15 o'clock, held up Mrs. N. H. McFaul, assistant cashier at the point of a gun, and after getting be tween $1300 and $1500 in bills from the cash drawer wired her hands bj hind her back and then wired her to the vault door and escaped. Mrs. McFaul, who at one time was deputy sheriff in charge of the office at the court house, was alone in the bank at the time of the robbery. A tall, dark man walked up to the win dow she said and asked for change for a $10 bill. When she handed it to him she looked up into the muzzle of a revolver. The robber commanded her to throw up her hands she said and then told heT to give him all the currency she had. Failing to comply at once with the request he walked around to the door of the enclosed cage still keep ing her covered with his gun and took betwene $1300 and $1600 from the cash drawer himself. He then forced her into the vault where he attempted to lock the door but being unable to do so obtained a piece of wire, wired her hands be hind her back at the same time warn ing her that an outcry would bring his companions from in front of the bank to help him, and after wiring her hands tied her with the wire to the vault door from where she sum monedVhelp after the robber had es caped. The sheriff's office here was notified at once by the cashier, G. J. Mitviliell, and all of the deputy sheriffs rushed in cars to the seen eof the bank rob bery at once.- Several posses imme diately strated out on a search for the man and towns in each direction on the highway were notified to keep a watchout for the man whose descrip tion was given by Mrs. McFaul. The robber passed up more than $100 in silver on the counter of the bank in front of him to get at the currency. He escaped, htniks Mrs. McFaul, in a car. No companions were seen by the assistant cashier (Continued on Page Six) THE NATION'S SHRINE M BUS Wpiijp ilik. jaws. - mm0s9 Boardman Wins Game Sunday on Forfeit Sunday's ball game at Rodeo field was called off on account of rain not aqua pura rain, but heated con tentions about an umpire's decision. It happened in the fifth inning. Con sequently the team representing Boardman was given the game on for feit, 9-0. It was a good game while it lasted with the exception of a few blows and allegedly bum decisions, and Heppner was leading at the time the calamity happened. She had five runs to her opponents three when the 5th rolled 'round. Then it happened. Boardman succeeded in loading the bases without making any outs. Then one man crossed home plate on an in field grounder. Score 6-4. Heppner landed two outs. Still three men on bases. Battej up 3 balls, two strikes. Dutch Rietmann started a squeeze play from third as the 'deciding ball left the pitcher's hand. Catcher Finch caught ball and clearly tagged Rietmann out. Umpire Johnson called him safe, contending Finch interfered with the batter. Heppner contends that Johnson first called Rietman safe on a balk by pitcher, and then changed his decis ion to "interference with batter." Manager Barr didn't like it and pulled his team. Considerable diversity of opinion existed among the fans as to the jus tice of Heppner's action, but It Beems a majority would have liked to have seen the finish. Boardman's team v,as augmented by four lone players and it appears lone was the main sponsor of the team. ANNA LOUISA LUNDELL. Anna Louisa Lundell was born in Sweden June 11, 1S42. She was mar ried to Frank A. Lundell November 9, 1870 and came to California in 1882. The family removed to Goose berry in, 1887. She there united with Hie Swedish Lutheran church in which she became an ardent and faithful worker both in church and Sunday school. Since 1018 she has lived in lone, where .she passed away June 22, 1926, at the age of 84 years and 11 days. .. She was the mother of ten children, of whom six survive: August W,, Ernest R., Mrs. Anna Lindstrom, Mrs. Mary Swanson, Oscar L. and Algott W. Funeral services- were held hy Rev. C. G. Bloomquist of Portland at the Congregational church in lone, and also at the Swedish Lutheran church at Gooseberry, where she was laid to rest. lone Independent. HAVE FAMILY REUNION. A reunion of the Copenhaver fam ily was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Copenhaver in Sand Hol low on Sunday, June 27th. This is the first time in three years that the family have all been together. The reunion was in honor of T. M. Scott, father of Mrs. W. L .Copenhaver, who is visiting his relatives here from Sa lem. Those present, including friends and relatives, were T. M. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Copenhaver, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Copenhaver, Mr. and Mrs. H, S. Swift, Edgar, Boyd and Law rence Copenhaver, Mr. and Mrs. Claud White and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. All phin, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McDaniel, Mr. Donze, Mr. Collins, Miss Ruth Moore, Misses Elsie and Edith Tuck er,. Clinton Harper and Truman White. CHURCH OF CHRIST. Bible school at the usual time and place, following which we will join in the union services at the fair grounds. Evening service will be as usual and the subject of the evening sermon will be "He Restoreth My Soul." . MILTON W. BOWER, Minister.- 1776 1926 LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Rev. and Mrs. Zurbuher, returned missionaries from Honolulu, had the prominent place in the services at the Methodist Community church on Sunday evening, and the audience was delighted with their story of the ex periences that they had during the years they were in the Sandwich Is lands. Mr. and Mrs. Zurbuher are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I uuis Balsiger at lone, Mrs. Balsiger and Mrs. Zurbuher being cousins. Mrs. Zuburcher was formerly Miss Scoffield and many years ago was a teacher in the Heppner schools, be ing remembered by some of her for mer pupils who met her Sunday night. Mr. Zurbuher is pastor of the Ger man Methodist church at Los Angeles. S. E. Notson, district attorney, re turned Saturday morning from Spo kane where he attended the conven tion of northwest sheriffs, police and law enforcement officers. Mr. Notson reports a splendid meeting and enjoy ed his visit in the Washington city. He was again chosen as vice-president of the association for Oregon. Mrs. Dessa Copenhaver has arriv ed here to take up her duties as as sistant librarian at the Umatilla county library. Mrs. Copenhaver. nhose home is in Heppner, comes here from the Monmouth Normal school library and will be in charge Mrs. A. M. Phelps departed Satur day night for Marion, Iowa, in re sponse to word that her sister, Miss Lizzie Marshall, was critically ill. Miss Marshall will be remembered by a number of friends in Heppner where she visited with Mr. and Mrs. Phelps on different occasions. She has been a teacher in the schools of Marion for a period of 44 years, being allowed two years out of this time for a trip around the world. Harvest is now in full swing in the north end of Morrow county, accord ing to J. W. Beymer, who, with his wife, is stopping at the Imperial ho tel. Some of the grain was burnt early in the season by hot winds, but the yield over the county will be good, he said. Mr. Beymer is pres ident of the Farmers and Stockgrow ers National bank at Heppner. Ore gonian. Friends at Heppner received an nouncement the past week of the mar riage at Winston Salem, N. C, of Rufus Kyle Cox to Miss Lillie May Crotts on June 19, 1926. After July 1st, Mr. and Mrs. Cox will be at home at Galax, Va. Mr. Cox was formerly a resident of Heppner and attended our high school. He is a brother of W. Claud and Elbert Cox of this city. Wheat is coming in at the rate of about 2000 sacks per day at Lexing ton warehouses now, according to re port given this paper on Tuesday by Howard Lane. A number of the wheat growers north of Lexington have their machines at work and harvesting will be general throughout that part of the county right after the 4th of July. Grain harvest will begin on the Bob Allstott ranch, Eight Mile, about the 30th of July, which is much earlier than usual for that part of the coun ty. Mr. Allstott reports that he will havo a good yield, the grain filling well during the cool weather preva lent in May and the early part of June. E. V. Fletcher and wife of River side, California, arrived here by car on Monday to spend a few days vis iting with his brother, A. B. Fletcher, at the Wm. Hendrix farm on Rhea creek. He was accompanied by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Fletcher of Eugene, who joined hn on the trip to Eastern Oregon. Eimer. Peterson, who completed a four-year course at the University of Oregon this spring, has departed for By A. B. CHAPIN Hartford, Conn., where he expects to take a course in insurnace with the Aetna company. Elmer made a short visit to Morrow county relativea and friends last week. P. M. Gemmell and wife returned home on Friday evening last from Fortland. Mrs. Gemmell was a dele gate to the Eastern Star grand lodge and was joined by Mr. Gemmell for a few days visit in tho city, taking a run down to the seashore for a day. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Wells drove over from Pendleton yesterday for a short visit here. Their son, Wood row, has been spending several weeks with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wells, and the parents got anxious to see him. Miss Rosetta Fletcher of lone was operated on at the Morrow General hospital in this city Saturday, for abscessed appendix. The operation was done under general anesthesia. Dr. Johnston reports her condition good. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Latourell "re turned the first of the week from a visit of a few days with his parents who are living for the summer on the old homestead near Gresham, Oregon. Mrs. Sam Warfield underwent an operation on Monday afternoon at the Morrow General hospital at the hands of Dr. Johnston. Mrs. Warfield is a daughter of Mrs. Cochran at lone. Claud Huston of Eight Mile got some foreign substance in one of his eyes and had to come into town Mon day night to have the trouble remov ed at the hands of Dr. McMurdo. Elbert Cox of this city was operat ed on yesterday at the Morrow Gen eral hospital for hernia. The opera tion was performed by Dr. Johnston under local anesthesia. Dr. Fred E. Farrior, wife and son, returned Sunday from Portland. Dr. Farrior spent the past week in the city attending the convention of Pa cific coast dentists. T. J. Humphreys, druggist, depart ed this morning on a short vacation trip, expecting to spend some ten days visiting Willamette valley and Washington cities. Miss Margaret Barratt of Portland is a guest this week at the home of her friend, Miss Kathleen Monahan, at the Monahan home near this city. Wanted Threshing to do. I have machine and can take on some out side work. Phone 5F21, Heppner, or write D. W. Pearson, Echo, Ore. Born, June 30, 1926, at Heppner Surgical hospital, to Mr. and Mm. John F. McMillan of Lexington, an 8-lb. daughter. John Clouston, former forest ranger located at Heppner and now of Pcm eroy, WasH., made a hurried visit here last week. , - - Geo. H. Hayden was down from his home in the Hardman country on Tuesday, attending to matters of bus iness. of the library work for the schools. She succeeds Mrs. Hudson, who re signed. Monday's Easst Oregonian. Mr. and Mrs. Lotus Robison were visitors in the city on Tuesdoy from their home south of Hardman. James Higgins of Lena, was a vis itor in Heppner over the week-end. Ferguson Chevrolet Co. Moves to New Garage The Ferguson Chevrolet company announce that they will be, located in their new garage building on the cor ner of May and Main streets after Friday, July 2. Friday evening they will stage a big free dance, open to the public, on the garage floor. The floor is smooth surfaced and with the addition of wax1 will be in excellent shape for dancing, they say. The new glrage has been pushed rap idly to completion by the contractors, Harry Johnson, Ed Bucknum and Hen ry Crump, and only part of the finish ing work remains to be done. The structure is of reinforced concrete, one story high, and modern in evfry respect. O. T. and Gene Ferguson, proprietors, expect to carry on a gen eral garage business in the new quor tcrs in connection with their Chevro let agency. They handle U. S. and C. T. C. tires. Ed Kelley will con tinue in charge of the machine shop. UNION PATRIOTIC SERVICE. The churches of Heppner will join forces to put on a patriotic service Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. It will be an open air meeting and the shade trees below the old fair pavil ion will serve as a roof. Singing of patriotic songs will form a happy part of the program, and to this end all singers are urged to be present and join in swelling the cho rus. Seating accomodations will be provided that all may be comfortably situated and enjoy a pleasant time to gether in morning worship. If we have a great nation we should join in singing and speaking praise to the Father of all who has given it to us. Bathing Beauty Coritest-ENTRY COUPON MR. B. R. FINCH, Heppner, Ore. Please list as an entrant in the BATHING BEAUTY CONTEST to be -held on the afternoon of July 4th. Signed FILL OUT AND MAIL TO B. Drislfcek By Arthur Brisbane See the King Penguins. Clergymen's Opinions. Your Rich Uncle. Teach the Mothers. A dozen king penguins may be seen standing up straight in New York's Zoological Garden. First to come here alive from their cold home in the Ant arctic, it is doubtful that they will survive the hot summer. Pay them a visit if you can. They stand three feet high, looking like soldiers or clergymen, very sol emn. And their breeding habits make . you thoughtful. The hen penguin lays only one white egg. If she laid it on the ground in her home climate it would freeze in half a minute. She puts her feet together, the egg on top of her feet, lets down over it a roll of feather covered fat from her stom ach, and the heat from the fat keepa the egg and her feet warm. When she can't stand it any longer, the father penguin sidles up and the erg is Bwiftly switched to his feet and he lowers a roll of fat. The Reverend Dr. Slaten expects the human race to change greatly in sixty years. "Our grandchildren will make nature their teacher, rather than theology or philosophy." He also says our grandchildren will believe in internationalism, which will replace the patriotism of today. Things don't happen so rapidly. Pa triotism, which means holding togeth ei and keeping what your ancestors have accomplished, will be necessary for many generations. As for making nature your teacher, without the help of theology or philosophy, nature can leach little unless the light of phil osophy he ;s you to understand and the light" of inspiration makes it worth whi e. Primitive men had na 'ure for use her, and she only taught them to murder each other, and invent urc.titioni to justify it. Uncle Sam is certainly a rich old gentleman. His receipts yesterday amounted to more than five hundred million dollars, just a small part of his income. In Tom Reed's day, peo ple called it dreadful for one Congress to spend a billion. Half of a Congress could spend that now in half "a year, and ask for more. No wonder Wall Street and the big men are happy. The real money and real values are here. Senator Reed of Missouri, earnest' and energetic, attacks the bill to ex tend Federal maternity aid to the States for another year. Mr. Reed objects to what he calls "a bunch of unmarried women going about the country trying to tell REAL mothers how to raise their babies." The good Senator calls it "interfer erce with American motherhood." If Senator Reed went to a well man aged lying-in- hospital he would find many unmarried .women as trained nurses, helping mothers to have their babies. And he wouldn't find the mothers dying like flies, as they do throughout the country, tens of thous ands of mothers dying in childbirth every year, because they lack know ledge and intelligent care. Merely HAVING a baby doesn't make a moth er know how to take care of a baby. This Government spends millions teaching farmers to take care of new born pigs, calves and other animals. It ought to spend a little money also to help human mothers with their children. And when Senator Reed thinks it over he will agree with that. Financial newspapers worry about any effort to help the farmers, fear ing it may be a "tax on food." That is convincing, when your sym pathies happen to be on that side. What about heavy duties, taxes that one hundred and fifteen millions of people pay, to protect a few dozen or hundred of manufacturers? Is it all right to protect the "right sort of people," but all wrong to tax anybody to protect thirty-five million people working on the farms? No! Roy Ohlegslager, engine watchman at the Heppner round house, was quite badly scalded about the chest and on the left arm while washing the engine yesterday. His injuries were quite painful and will lay him off the job for some days. He was attended by Dr. McMurdo. R. FINCH, HEPPNER, ORE.