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PAGE TWO HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1927. THE HEPPNERIAN Published Weekly by the Students of Heppner High School Editor-in-Chief Joy Erwin Assistant Editor Mae Doherty Business Manager Kenneth Oviatt Ueporters: Girls' Sports Mae Groshens Boys' Sports Gene Doherty Social Louise Thomson Activities John Conder Personals Reta Crawford Grades Letha Hiatt Jokes Ellis Thomson State Superintendent to Speak. Superintendent Burgess has been able to secure State Superintendent a, Schools, Charles Howard of Salem, to deliver the address at the eom rrtpcement exercises, May 20th. We are quite fortunate indeed to be hb!e to have such a noted person to com pliment the seniors on their achieve ment and to send them on to higher and greater aspirations. Mr. Howard is a forceful speaker, and has pro duced much of worth for the cause of education in Oregon. He was former ly Fuperinteniient of schools at Marsh field, Oregon. Mr. Burgess is personally acquaint ed with Mr. Howard, both men attend ing Stanford University at the same time. Since that time, they have been associated in various enterprises of the state. Coinciding with the commencement address here, Ur. Ilwaid will deliver or.e at Fossil. He will also inspect the schools of the county, as much as opportunity affords. o Seniors Have Dress-up Day. What caused all that noise emitted from the school house Tuesday? Well, it was nothing but the frolicking se niors. It seems they're always doing something to get a kick out of life. They took us back to the famous old days of '49, back to their childhood days. They even had a coon, a real one, too, and cowboys and cowgirls, not to mention Charley Chaplin. It is a tradition of the senior class of Heppner high to have one day of the year set aside for dress-up day, and this was it. Seventh Grade News. Bernice Stoneman, Irene Hiatt and Lola Hiatt are absent from school because of scarlet fever. The seventh grade pupils are pre paring for the declamatory contest, to be held this spring. Everyone in the class is entering the preliminar ies. The seventh B finished their weath er charts Monday. They have" been keeping these charts lor a month. Physical training starts again this week. Many are anxious to begin. Baseball Bug Bites Many. Spring is here to stay if the weath er man pays any attention to the baseball fans. The boys have started tossing the old apple around the va cant lots and side streets. Although Heppner didn t do much in basketball she is going in strong for baseball, as there are quite a few of last year's lettermen back this year. Heppner is depending on Howard Evans to hold down the position behind the bat, but the other end of the battery is, up in the air although there are two or three men trying for the po sition. The rest of the field will have veteran material: Paul Hisler, Har old Erwin, Gene Doherty, Gerald Slo cum. Bob Turner, and by all appear ances there will be a larger turnout of new men than there has been for some time. Owing to the short high school baseball season there will only be four games played by Heppner. The first game will be played at Lexing ton April 8, the next at lone April IB; the Teturn game with lone will be played at Heppner April 22, and with Lexington at Heppner April 28. The grade school boys are also get ting up a team and if they go at base ball like they did at football and basketball they will give a good ac count of themselves. CROAKS. Miss Miller: "What are the dif ferent ages of history?" Joe Swindig: "The stone age, the bronze age, and the iron age." "What age are we living in now?" "The hard-boiled age." Due to obvious reasons names in the following have been omitted. Teacher: "Can you tell me how matches are made?" Pupil: "No, ma'am. But I don't blame you for wanting to know." "Why?" "W hy, Mother says you've been try ing to make one ever since you came." At last perpetual motion has been found. Harold Erwin says: "Doors are made out of trees, trees grow out of doors." o Several volumes have been added to our library, of which probably the most valuable are Earnest Thompson Seton's "Library of Pioneering and Woodcraft," of which there are six volumes. These books are the finest in print for Boy Scouts and such things. There are also some volumes on Mythology. The general science class has just finished term papers on different scientific subjects. Grade Honor Roll. The Honor Roll for the six weeks ending February 25th: Eighth grade, Richard Walker, Mary Thomson, Don na BrOR-n, Evelyn Schulz, Katherinc Farnsworth, Frances White, Thelma Cowdrey, Marjorie Happold, Florence French and Gay Anderson. Seventh grade: Faye Prock. Sixth grade: Tommy Hottman, Marvin Morgan, Curtis Thomson, James Farley, Doris Cox, Mary Dris coll, Alfred Ayers, Veryl Brown, Earl Hottman, Lewis Sperry, Marie Scriv ner. ';'hird grade: Vioia Kirk, Helen Farnsworth, William McCaleb, Olivia Baldwin, Edith Marie Barlow, James Farley, Lamowne Cox and Elizabeth Vance. Second grade: Elsie Crimp, Zelma Carner, Norma McFerrin, Such Green, Katiiryn Parker, June Kirk. Nina Cox, Edward Buhn, Billy Clark, Raymond He.nrich, Vernon Knowles, Levi West-fall. First grade: Daniel Chinn, Robert Clark, Peter Farley, Irena McFerrin, Norma Scrivner. Grammar School Baseball Started. The grade school boys met Monday evening to discuss baseball prospects and elected Alex Ulrich captain. Reg ular practice started Wednesday. Mr. Smith is well pleased with the turn out and says that there will be a first and second and possibly a third team. Two who have shown promise as pit cher are Roy Gentry and Alex Ulrich. Elmer Hake, Orrin Furlong, James Farley and Bruce Gibb are candidates for catcher. First baseman will be James McNamee. Other infielders are Clarence Erwin, John McNamee, Faye Prock, Oral Wright and Gay Anderson. Outfielders are Albert Lawson, Lyle Cowdrey, James Fur long, Billie Cox and Earl Thomson. The schedule has not been made out yet but the team expects to play lone, Lexington and Condon. o The civics class has just finished a paper on the History of the American Government and has started another paper on "The Advisability of Having Six on the Jury Instead of Twelve." o Last Tuesday the Biology class was shown slides of glaciers, earthquakes, storms, mountains, rivers and oil fields. This is supplementary to their study. The American History class will soon have slides also. o In shorthand the pupils have been divided into groups representing em ployer and employe taking and giving dictation. safe disposal of such waste as might endai.ger the public health. The in stitutiou of such measures as will pre vent the occurrence or spread of com municable diseases, including quaran tine, isolation and immunization, also fall, naturally within the duties of the health department. In the face of an epidemic even compulsory immun ization is justified. These are all things over which the individual has little or no control except immuniza tion. Does a citizen's responsibility cease with the things over which he as an individual, has no control? The en forcement of quarantine and similar sanitary measures will tend to main tain public health at its present level and will prevent further deteriora tion; but it will not, to any appre ciable extent, improve its present status. Public health endeavors to day include not only the prevention of disease but also the building up of robust health. To bring about any progressive and permanent improve ment in public health there must be a cours for school children in the fundamental prniciples, of good health. There must also be a greater acceptance and practice of prenatal care, and regular expert attention for well babies. Regular dental care, a well balanced diet, exercise in di rect sunlight, periodic physical ex amination for young and old, and the principles of personal hygiene includ ing regular hours for sleeping and eating will bring about a permanent improvement in public health. With the exception of the course in health for school children, which ob viously must be supplied by the com munity, these health factors are con trolled by the individual. The diffi culty has been and is that the people as a whole are not sufficiently well acquainted with the real benefits to Predatory Animals. (Extension Service News) During the years 1925 and 1926 County and Federal predatory animal hunters have worked a total of 1845tt days in Morrow County. During that time they had turned in the skins or scalps of 966 coyotes, 17 bobcats, and 4 badgers. A total of approximately 17,000 poison baits were placed at the stations for the purpose of killing coyotes. A large number of coyotes which were killed are never found. The following paragraph from a let ter from Stanley G. Jewett, of the Biological Survey, shows that under the hunter system approximately one fourth as much money is being spent in the State of Oregon as was spent under the bounty system previously. "The question is continually aris ing as to the advantages or disadvan tages of the salaried-hunter system over the old bounty system. This miich can be said: During the past two years, approximately $77,000.00 has been expended in the State of Oregon for predatory animal control under the hunter system. During the last biennium in which bounty was in vogue, the taxpayers of the State of Oregon paid out $285,000.00 in bounties. These figures are on file in the Secretary of State's office at Sa lem. Cost per animal does not enter into the argument. Under the bounty system, skins were trafficked in from not only the states bordering Oregon but as far away as Nebraska and on c other hand the salaried hunter is kept under supervision and each and every coyote caught can be definitely located. Hunters are placed where they can be of the most benefit to the livestock, poultry and game interests. Where animals are abundant, hunters have been maintained in the field who took skins which after being sold brought in funds in considerable ex cess of the hunters' salaries. In other words, work has been maintained at a profit in furs, while on the other hand where animals are usually scarce or an individual coyote has attained habits of great destructive ness to flocks, the cost of catching this animal has been considerable." Federation Wheats. The County Agent still runs onto occasional misunderstandings of the two Federation wheats. Federation, commonly called soft Federation and Hard Federation, are both spring wheats. Hard Federation is very ten der and will stand very little cold weather, but about as winter hardy as Baart. Federation ig about as winter hardy as Bluestem. The yields of these two varieties of spring planted wheat have been the source of much argument among wheat farmers. It is much easier to get a good stand of Federation than Hard Federation. Consequently, the spring seeding of Hard Federation should be heavier than of Federation. Eight years' results, from 1918 ta 1925 inclusive, at the Moro Experi ment Station, give an average yield of 27 bushels per acre from Federa tion and 26.4 bushels from Hard Fed eration. In recent years out of the eight. Hard Federation slightly out yielded Federation. In the other five years Federation was the heavier yielder, the greatest difference being in 1923 when Federation out-yielded Hard Federation by four and a half bushels per acre. Squirrel Poison. Squirrel poison has been mixed and is being distributed by the County Agent to the following stores in the county. The poison is being put up in 30-cent and 60-cent sized bags. Poison in this material is furnished from the County Rodent Fund and the only charge that is made is for the oats and bags. Under standard prices, if put out on a cost basis, the same sized sacks would cost $1,20 and $2.50. It can be obtained from the following places: Morgan Store, Morgan. Bert Mason, lone. Karl Beach, Lexington. Eight Mile Store, Eight Mile. Hardman Cash Store, Hardman. County Agent's Office, Heppner. SEED POTATOES. Following the same system that has been used for several years, the Coun ty Agent, in cooperation with the County Court, is bringing in a small lot of certified seed potatoes. Those ordered at the present time are all Irish Cobblers, which are considered the best early potatoes that we can grow in Morrow County. It is certi fied seed from Minnesota and will be in shortly after the first of March. Farmers wishing some of these pota toes should get their order in at once as the supply is rather limited. Trees Available to Oregon Farmers. Under authority of Section four of the Clarke-McNary law, forest tree stock is being produced at the Oregon Forest Nursery at the College, for distribution among the ranchers of the State. This planting stock may be used for woodlot, shelter belt, and roadside planting. It cannot be used for ornamental purposes. The following stock is now avail able for distribution: Green Ash, Box Elder, Russian Olive, Russian Mulberry, Black Walnut, Honey Lo cust, Black Locust. With the exception of the Black Locust, the stock is two-year old stuff, averaging three feet in height. The Black Locust is one-year old stock about eighteen inches high. Except the Black Walnut, this material is especially suited to planting in East- ern Oregon. All species will do well in Western Oregon. This planting stock may be had at the cost of transportation from Cor vallis. Since the material is limited in amount, individual applications should not exceed 1,500 trees. The stock should be planted as soon as the ground can be worked. The trees should be spaced about five feet apart and thinned when they begin to crowd each other. Applications for stock should be directed to the county agent or to George W. Peavey, School of Forest ry, Corvallis, Oregon. Planting di rections will be sent to each applicant. Public Responsibility In Conserving Health From State Board of Health. Health departments must be re sponsible for the safety and purity of water and food supplies and the AUCTIONEER E. J. KELLER The man who made the reasonable price. LEXINTON, OREGON HAVE NO FEAR of, having your teeth extracted. Take GAS Inexpensive. No Shock No Pain From five to ten minutes com pletes operation. DR. R. B. ROBBINS Pendleton, Ore. INVITATION DANCE RHEA CREEK GRANGE HALL Saturday - March 12 For all Grangers and their friends having invitations. Non-Grangers without cards not admitted. They're on Their Way- WHAT thrill and uncer tainty face the newly weds as they start this lap of life's way together. An aura of charm hovers over the selection of a home, and dreams and hopes are burld ed high all of which may come down on the happy couple's heads with one fell crash if wify's first meal doesn't please hubby. But Mrs. Newlywed isn't worried for she has already made arrangements for the eats at Hiatt & Dix Just phone MAIN 1072 We Delivre. GILLIAM & BISBEE Our inventory shows an over stock of Sperry's Mill Run Linseed Oil Meal Alfalfa Meal which will be sold at re duced prices. Machinery and repairs for all kinds of farm work. We Have It, Will Get It, or It is Not Made. GILLIAM & BISBEE HEPPNER, ORE. be derived from scientific advice on these subjects. The State Board of Health is attempting to create a a greater demand for scientific ad vice on how to keep well and healthy. Eventually it is hoped that citizens will assist the health department not only in preventing disease but in building up robust health through scientific advice on proper habits of living. WANTED To buy 2 gentle, large, young cows. Shorthorns preferred. No Jerseys. If you write me, give price and place. J, A. Douglas, Hepp ner, Oregon. BO. A HOUSE Cannot be a HOME- But it is a big factor in making one. CALL and see our house illustrations the kind that make real homes. Il lustrations of barns, machin ery sheds, etc. Full specifi cations of all illustrated buildings available. THIS SERVICCE FREE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. Heppner, Lexington, ' lone PRINCESS Flour Always the same satisfactory flour that makes and keeps friends. Ask for PRINCESS Flour Certified Spring Rye Poultry Feed Rolled Barley Brown Warehouse Co. Phones: Warehouse 643, Residence 644 BOY'S SHIRTS for Work Dress and Play These shirts are of the finest and long-wearing materials full-fashioned to prevent ripping extra sewed to stand the strain and the wear and tear of work and play. The yen be had in plain colors or mixed. Every shirt guaranteed color fast in sun or tub. Mothers will be wise to buy a number of these fine shirts be cause of quality and price. Also Boys' Corduroy Trousers. Malcolm D. Clark .Willi, TAYLOR MADE Custom Clothes We have chosen this make of custom tailored clothes for our customers because in our opin ion there is nothing finer made. AT ALL PRICES $24.00, $30.00, $35.00, $45.00, $50.00 Come in and leave your measure for a suit. THOMSON BROTHERS m
