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ical Society, emptier Volume 44, Number 17. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, July 21, 1927 Subscription $2.00 a Year WASCO WHEAT Ti "W 1" SUFFERS LOSS llUS WC(glV SEED WHEAT CAN BE SUPPLIED BY LOCAL GROWERS You Just Know fe's Glad FROM WINDS JOHN HUES IN UN RIVER I!s By Albert T. Rcid Doctor i n Government Service is Son of Local Residents. Heartbreaking news was received in a telegram from Fortuna Lodge, Alaska on Tuesday morning by E. K. Huston, announcing the accidental c'eatli, by drowning, of hia son, Pr. John Huston. The telegram was short, and no particulars surrounding the accident were given, other than to state that Dr. Huston fell overboard from a medical ship while on the way down the Yukon river. The accident occurred -on Suturday the 16th and the telegram, sent out on Monday, contained the information that con tiiued sinich was being made for the body. ?h word came from Mr.i. Hus tcn, who vi.s on the boat with" her hu.itand. Dr. Huston and wife were both in the government service in Alaska, be ing with the United States Depart ment of interior. Bureau uf Educa tion, Alaska Native School, Medical and Reindeer service. They left Seat tle last August and for a tima were located with the government hospital at Juneau, the headquaitcis of the liepaumi nt, and worked out from thore. They but recently mado an extensive tup by boat, following ire coast l.nc as far as Unaiask.x and bacit to Juneau, and then ware placed on the work along the Yukon livir, b'.'iiig stationed at Marshall, a point no. far inland from the mouth of the Yukon. It is evident that when the acci dent occurred the medical boat was on a journey to one of the native missions down the river, as Dr. Hus ton was called to many points i nd long distances to minister to the medical needs of the natives, and had recently been on the go almost n'ght and day. Further word concerning the accident, ond whether the body has been recovered, is momentarily expected by the relatives here. The distance iB so far, and it is so un certain as to just where Mis. Huston might be, that it makes it impossible to get any word to her from this end. Announcement of the sudden pass ing of Dr. Huston comes as a stun ning blow to his parents and rela tives here, and they have the tin cere sympathy of the entire commun ity in this affliction. Dr. Huston was 32 years, 6 months and IB days of age. Ho was a native of Albany, at which place he receiv ed his high school education end fitted himself for the completion of a higher education course, graduating from the University of Oregon with the class of 1917. Deciding to study medicine he attended the U. of 0. medical school and received his de gree in 1U22. Following this he apmt one year as an intern in Multnomah hospital at Portland and then one year as assistant in the medical de partment of the University at Eu gene. After spending some time in private practice in Portland, he en tered the government service in the Marine hospital at Tort Townsend, Wash., being transferred from there to the same service in Seuttle, and then on August 7, 1926, he sailed for Juneau, Alaska, to enter the hospital service of the government there. He was married to Elizabeth Beat rice McParland, of Rushville, Nebras ka, July 20, 1922.. Mrs. Huston was a graduate nurse from Good Samaritan hospital in Portland, and it was here that the doctor and his future wife became acquainted. Mrs. Huston was eneuged as a graduate nurse in the government service along with her husband. While Dr. Huston was a young man in the profession, he was making good and had a bright future before him, and his untimely death cuts short a career that gave every prom ise of being brilliant. Reports Mountain Range Finest For Many Years Jcrm O'Connor returned from the high mountains in the vicinity of Desolation lake the first of the week, where he will summer a part of his sheep. Ho states that the range con ditions in the mountains are the best he has noted in many years. The feed is abundant and luxurious and the flocks should come home in the fall in excellent condition. Speaking of the little difficulty he had with the Ukiah road supervisor mention of which we made in these columns last issue, Jerm thinks he picture was considerably overdrawn and it was made to appear that he was the chief culprit in rolling a lot of rock on the road, that was alleged to obstruct the highway. As a matter of fact, his sheep were the last of some five bands that had been driven nlone thiR piece of road, and Jcrm did not like to be held responsible for nil the rock (and there were no boul ders as the E. 0. article stated) that had been forced from the hillside into the road. However, as ho was the only one held up on the charge, he tried to make bood by taking a man and spending parts of two days clearing the rock off. At no time wus the road obstructed, but the offi cial was not satisfied and took Mr. O'Connor to Pendleton for a hearing in the justice court. The trial was postponed to a Inter date, and Jerm feels thnt he will prove hiB innocence r. 11 right. Ho was informed thnt it Is the practice to drive bands of cat tle over this particular piece of coun ty road almost continuously and he only went this way because it short ened the distance quite materially and he could not get by otherwise without trespassing on private property. Morrow County Has Plenty of Pure Seed; Many Fields Certified. G. R. Hyslop of the Oregon Agricul tural college spent several days in Morrow county recently, and in com pany with County Agent Smith com pleted the 'work of certifying grain. Due to the fact that most of the grain to be harvested this year is growing on the ground that was re-seeded to most any wheat farmers could get two years ago, following the freeze out, a special effort has been made to locate enough pure Beed to supply the local demand for fall planting. County Agent Smith mailed circu lar letters to all farmers growing wheat, asking them to notify him if their fields were comparatively free from mixtures. A number of farmers answered the inquiry and their fields were inspected. Wheat that may be certified must not contain more than one-half of one per cent foreign wheat, must have only a limited amount of other grains and no nox ious weeds that cannot be separated by the ordinary cleaning processes. The following is a list of farmers whose fields passed the field inspec tion, and the varieties they are grow ing: John Troedson, lone, 4 acres Regal, 160 acres Turkey. B. H. Peck, Heppner 2 3-4 acres Re gal. C. B. Cox, Heppner, 2 1-2 acres Re gal. Dwight Misner, lone, 80 acres Tur key, 150 acres Hurd Federation. Harry Schriever, Lexington, 185 acres Turkey, 2 1-2 acres Regal. Homer Green, Eight Mile, 30 acres Regal. Roy Campbell, Lexington, 3 acres Regal. Lawrence Redding, Eight Mile, 46 acres Hybrid 128, 40 acres Federation. Carl E. Bergstrom, lone, 60 acres Federation. C. F. Hemrich, Heppner, 375 acres Hybrid 128, 10 acres Federation. R. A. Thompson, Heppner, 20 acres Fortyfold. Ralph Benge, Heppner, 200 acres Fortyfold. Jeff Jones, Heppner, 38 acres Forty fold. After these fields have been thresh ed another check will be made on the threshed grain. Several inquiries have come from out of the county for cer tified seed, so those who wish certi fied seed should get in touch with the farmers who have it, in order that the local demand may be filled first. Thej-e will be sufficient certified seed for this local demand. NEW HIGHWAY COMMISSION. (Oregon Voter) Resignation of William Dubv from the highway commission, means that Governor Patterson, in appointing his successor, will now control that im portant state board, the most import ant single board from a development standpoint that the governor is per mitted to appoint, having already ap pointed Commissioner Gates. Robert M. Sawyer, Bend editor, is appointed to succeed Duby. The peo ple's' investment in roads will have another faithful trustee. Governor Pierce made some excell ent appointments during his term of office. The choice of William Duby, formerly county judge, Baker county, was one of them. Judge Duby so thoroughly enjoyed the highway com mission work, that he gave a vast amount of time and effort to its prose cution. Knowing that his own mod esty would deprecate his achievement, we rely upon the statement of his friends that since his appointment in April, 1923, he gave the state two thirds of his time without compensa tion other than the honor which ac crues to any citizen for the conscien tious performance of a public trust. While his experience prior to appoint ment had been confined to county road work, he was immedintley elect ed chairman of the commission, and served continuously in that capacity. His viewpoint was not constricted by local boundaries, but matched in breadth and vision thnt of his asso ciates. The commission under Judge Duby was unusually harmonious. Opinions of course differed nt times, but it was conspicuously noticeable that b willingness to determine the commission's "best judgment" ani mated Judge Ddby and Commissioners M alone and Van Duzer. Robert W. Sawyer, besides editing me uena liuiletin, has served Des chutes county ns county judge. He was re-elected Inst November by a comfortable majority over his oppon ent at the conclusion of a campaign that was designed to shake the com munity's confidence in Sawyer. That it utterly failed to do so, is indicative of his integrity, courage and sound judgment and in direction of public work in his community. His editorial defense of the state's highway nro. gram and system of revenue raising tnrougn license tees and gasoline tax has been most vigorous. The state need have no fear lest Judge Sawyer will be the man to foist any fads or toibles upon the publics nntiencp He is n graduate of Harvard Univer sity, which in Itself leads one to ex pect conservative tendencies, nn ex pectation which in this instance finds as a corollary his analytic justifica tion of the dual system of state and local road improvement in Oregon. FOUND 5 gallon can of machine oil. Owner can get same at this office. WANTED Housekeeper for family of four children. Inquire this office. William M.Ayers Dies Following Short Illness The death of William M. Ayers oc curred at his home in this city early Friday morning, July 15th, and fol lowing his return, the day before, from Hot Lake where he had gone for treatment. The announcement of his death came as a surprise to friends and neighbors who had not realized that he was in so critical a condition, though they had known that he was suffering from some ser ious ailment. Mr. Ayers had accom panied Sheriff McDuffee home from Hot Lake on Thursday, and when he arrived here it was noted that he was greatly fatigued by the journey. He was taken quite ill during the night, and at 1:30 death came. Funeral services were held at the family residenc eat 10:00 a. m. Sun day, Elder George F, Watson, minis ter of the Adventist church of Her miston, officiating, and burial was in Heppner cemetery beside other mem bers of the family who had passed on before. Mr. Ayers had been a resident of Heppner for many years. He has held the position as janitor at the court house ever since the new building was completed, and in this service was always faithful and efficient. At the last general election he was chosen as Justice of the Peace for the sixth district of Morrow county, and in this position he was found to be trust worthy, also. He had been a familiar figure at the court house and about town, possessed a large number of friends and is a man that will be missed from the community. He is survived by his wife, Lulu Ayers, and two sons, Charles O. Ayers and Tim Ayers, and by one brother, James Ayers of Pine City. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their assistance and sympathy, and for the many beau tiful flowers; especially do we thank Gay M. Anderson for his help in this time of atttiction. LULU AYERS. CHARLES O. AYERS, TIM AYERS. Young Man Seriously Injured at Road Camp Leland Adams, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Denipsey, was very serious. ly injured near the Clarks canyon road camp south of Lexington Mon day, when he attempted to board a moving truck and missed his hold. He fell in such a manner that he was struck by the hind wheel of the heavy vehicle and suffered injuries to his shoulder and received several broken ribs on the left side. He was rushed to Heppner and is now being cared for nt the Heppner Surgical hospital. While he appears to be getting along all right, Dr. McMurdo has not been able to fully determine the extent of his injuries, owing to the swelling in his side and shoulder. It is thought that the shoulder was not crushed, though this anneared to be the case at first, but the collar bone was broken. The young man was fortunate in falling on a pile of loose crushed rock which formed a cushion and broke the force of tho impact with the wheel, which struck him in a sliding motion as it passed. The truck was loaded with four yards of crushed rock and had the wheel passed over the body the result could not have been otherwise than fatal. Percy Garrigues was in the city trom his homo at Portland Wcdncs day, looking after his business In torests here. He returned home today. L Supt. J. M. Burgess of the Heppner schools was in the city over Wednes day, departing today for his summer camp at Elk lake, west of Bend. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess and Rev. and Mrs. M. T. Wite of Pendleton are spend ing the summer vacation in camp at Elk lake and enjoying the outing to the limit. Plenty of good fishing in the vicinity keeps the. men folks out of mischief. Billy Burchell, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Burchell of Lexington was brought to Heppner Sunday fore noon to have Dr. Johnston treat a badly injured foot. The injury hap pened to Billy when he was catching up his saddle pony and the animal stepped on the boy's foot, cutting and bruising it and taking off one toe nail entirely. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Helms, Lexington residents, were visitors at Heppner for a short time yesterday. Threshing began on their place Monday and Mr. Helms reports that the yield is quite satisfactory though there ore some light spots to take down the general average. Harvest is pretty generally on throughout the Lexington country now. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Curran left Tuesday on an auto trip for their va cation. They expected to go as far north as Vancouver, B. C, visiting at various points along the way. Mrs. Jared Aiken, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curran, is in charge of the Curran Hat shop during Mrs. Curran's ab sence. Ed Clark, local Maytag agent, de parted for Pendleton on Monday and went on from there Tuesday to New ton, Iowa, where he will visit the big factory of the Maytag washing ma chine, having been one to go from this territory because of the record made in salesmanship. Mrs. J. P. Scghei's and children, Joe, Jr., and Buryl are up from Port land to spend the summer with Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Johnston. It is hoped the change of climate will benefit Junior's health as he has been ill the last two months, suffering an acute rheumatic attack. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Adams and Mrs. Henry Dempsey of Fulls City, Oregon, arrived at Heppner on Tuesday eve ning. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are the parents of Leland Adams, the young man hurt at the Clarks canyon rood camp on Monday. E. Nordyke was in the city from Lexington yesterday. He is er.joying general good health but still suffers some from the gasoline burns receiv ed early last winter, in which one of his legs was badly injured. Mrs. Idn Dutton, who spent a few days nt Heppner. returned to her Portland home Wednesday, accom panying Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ayers and Mrs. George Fell. Dr. A. H. Johnston returned on Tu esday from a trip to Portland, where ho spent a couple of days, He brought with him a new Hudson sedan. Miss Stella Boring of Arlington is at Morrow General hospital in this city where she is being trented for an infection in her left hnnd. Levi and Patricia Wcstfall are home after spending a month in Ath ena with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. T. Smith. Mrs. Stella Watkins of Yakima is at Heppner visiting her father, Dick Ogee, who is a patient at Morrow General hospital. Jos. Eskelson came up from his Sa lem home on Tuesday and was a vis itor in Heppner on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Don Wilkes of Athena spent Sunday in this city as guests of Mrs. Zona Wcstfall. Market Road Grade. Ready for Surfacing The gap in the Lexington-Jarmon market road has been graded to con nect with the market road leading out from Echo, and the surfacing will be put on later, following rains that will settle the road bed. This road will complete another section of the market road system of Morrow county, work on which was begun and completed out from Lex ington several years ago to a point about nine miles north of Lexington, and while it did not go far enough to be of great benefit to the north Sand Hollow section, it has proved a big help to the farming community ad jacent on either side for many miles and made it much easier for the do livery of crops to market. The com pletion of this road should bring more trade into Lexington, and we hope this may prove the case. RAISING BABY IS FULL TIME JOB From State Board of Health. Some English novelists have recent ly been carrying on quite a warm discussion as to whether or not rais ing a baby requires full-time atten tion. This discussion has been car ried on in the English newspapers, magazines, and over the radio. Quite a few of its echoes have reached this side of the water already. Although the discussion has been carried on in the stolid manner characteristic of Englishmen, quite a bit of it has been very pointed. One woman novel ist, very much on the affirmative side of the question, writes that she once ran a baby herself. She waxes very eloquent on the necessity for enter taining the baby and to keep the baby from getting bored, all of which any mother or any nurse would appre ciate. Resigning all levity, however, the raising of a baby is certainly a full time job, if it is carried on in a prop er and successful manner, and in a manner agreeable to the best inter est of the baby and the parents. A baby demands constant attention twenty-four hours out of the day. Some ear must be listening to its slightest cry, be it midnight or morn ing, and if the cry is not heeded, dis aster may result. One woman, writ ing, recalled a statement that she heard her father make when she was a child, that it was quite a common thing for him to get up in the night and hand out at least twenty "dinks" of water. The parent must be alert at every sound and call. A sudden change of weather may demand more cover; a matter of thirty minutes or more might prove disastrous to the baby if delayed that long; and a thousand and one things demand at tention day and night. The baby's food must be just right, and it must be given at the exact minute sched uled for the baby's best interest; the clothing must be constantly adjusted; it must be constantly watched for -mptoms of illness, and immediate action taken when such occurs. In fact, if there is any job in tho whole world requiring all the time of at least one individual, it is the job of properly looking after n baby. For the good of the world and of the race very near a hundred per cent of mothers find this job attractive and appealing, and find it a joy and pleas ure instead of drudgery. It is well that such is tho case, but it is none the less hard on the mother. Yes, Indeed, raising a baby, as the English novelist puts it, is a full time job. Report on Conditions by County Agent Shows Shattering to be as High as Twenty Percent. That the farmers quite generally over a portion of Wasco county's best wheat section suffered a heavy per cent of loss during the past week, when high winds caused the grain to shatter, is the report received Mon day by County gent Smith of this county from the agent of Wasco county. While the wind was pretty strong over Morrow county during the week, Agent Smith states that he has no reports from any quarter that there was any loss here on this ac count, and the grain seems to have shattered no worse than in other sea sons, and where this has happened at all it has been in the fields of Forty fold, which variety is expected to suf fer a certain per cent of wastage on thiB account. The Wasco county agent states, under date of Saturday: "Fifteen to twenty percent of the grain has shattered out on the ground on ranches where some of the heav iest yields in the county were in pros pect a week ago. Most of the shat tering naturally takes place in the ripest grain but the discouraging fea ture is that considerable grain is on the ground in fields which will not be ready to harvest for at least another week. "This discovery was made yester day by the county agent in company with E. H. Matheny, Frank Emerson and George Obarr when an inspection was made of a small field of Regal, the first smut proof variety grown in the county, and which was planted on the Obarr ranch last fall. This field is not ripe enough to thresh but at least 15 or 20 per cent of it is on the ground. Thsi variety was immediately condemned as not being desirable for this reason. However, adjacent fields of Turkey on the same ranch and on the W. C. Kortge ranch showed an un usual amount of shattering, probably 10 to 15 per cent at this time. "This same condition was also found on the Emerson and Petroff ranches where grain was shownig signs of maturity. Some grain is lost each year on the south and west slopes but this year an unprecedented pmount had been lost wherever the wind hits it. "The Hybrid field on the Emerson ranch which has been showing up so well this Bpring will not be ready to harvest for another week but there is enough grain on the ground now to seed a new crop. An inspection was made of the Hybrid field on the C. L. Look ranch across the road which is one of the best fields in the county and it is estimated that at least 10 per cent of this grain is shattered. "Davis brothers on Eight Mile re port an unusual loss from shattering in their fall sown Federation. There was considerable shattering on the same ground two years ago but con siderably more this year. I. F. Hill also reports considerable grain on the ground on his Eight Mile ranch. "This is a condition which is not altogether unexpected. The wheat kernels are unusually plump and this has loosened up the chaff. The heavy winds of the last week were largely responsible for the rather discourag ing outlook at the present time. This grain on the ground is a total loss. None of the varieties mentioned are as bad to shatter as other varieties which are sometimes produced, "Frank Emerson estimates that if wind and weather conditions do not become more favorable there will be a 50 per cent loss in some fields be fore they can be harvested. "This information is not being re leased simply to offset the unusual publicity of bumper crops in the Northwest which have reduced the price of Northwest export wheat 7c below the Middle Western domestic price and caused the Chicago market to drop lc yesterday and increased the price of wheat sacks 2c, but is simply statement of facts which have not been exaggerated and which any one can verify. It simply bears out the old adage that the proper time to anticipate the amount or number of wheat and eggs is when they are in the grain bin or basket." Morrow County Potatoes Now Under Quarantine By order of the State Board of Horticulture, the potato crop of Mor row county has been placed under quarantine because of the prevnlerce here of the Colorado potato beetle. This order was effective July first and it is now unlawful to ship any potatoes from here to California, cr to any other county in the state, ex ctpt such as are now under like re strictions. Tnese counties are Grant, Lmat.ila, Union, Bnker a.il Malhsui. Wc are informed by County Agent Smith the potatoes may be shinped to California, and to other counties C ''.is state if they have been prop erly inspected and a cert'.lieate issued to this effect. They are passed ever a cCieen at shipping point and 'his C"ri.ficate must accompany the ih:p ment. C. H. Dillabnugh will be potato inspector at Bottrdmnn, und some one will be named a' Irrigon by the Coun ty Agent for that point. County Ag ent Smith will act in this capacity for Heppner, Idle and Lexington. Grandma McMurray of lone is a patient at Morrow General hospital where she is recovering from an in fection in her right hand. Her physi cian states that it will be only a short time until she will again be up and about. By Arthur, Brisbane William Howard Taft. Father Plays Bear. Reason to be Thankful. If I Had Some Mush. Justice Taft says he likes the law better than the White Huose and, nearing his seventieth year, an nounces he will not retire. He cer tainly should not retire, for he owes to the public many future years oi good effort. His mind and bis smile are as young as ever, and every well informed man in the United States, big or little, would gladly submit any isuse to the judgment of Chief Justice Taft. In six hours New York's National Guard laid out an airplane base, ready for use, with radio, telephone and all other requirements. A fine achieve ment. The United States Government should take as much time as neces 3a ry to provide an airplane base for every great city. Governors Island in New York Har bor should be given up entirely to flying, with a big dock for subma rines. The richest city. New York, con taining the United States Sub-Treasury and all its gold, is unprotected from the air. There ought to be an air field thera hom which swift United States pur suit planes would rise like mosquitoes from a stagnant pond, to meet any invader. Human beings are like children. A father plays "bear" with his little child, and the child is relieved when the bear stands up and becomes, once more, "father." In England the eclipse put out the sun, changing day to night, and ev erybody knew that it was only make believe night. Nobody feared that "the devil was eating the sun." Nev ertheless, when the eclipse passed and the sun came shining out once more, the crowds cheered. They were glad to have mother nature stop playing bear. When Uncle Sam's fiscal year end ed last week, he found a surplus of 635,000,000. Secretary Mellon had guessed" $625,000,000, a good proph ecy. Uncle Sam really is a rich person and can afford anything he needs. He ought to dig canals, harness water power, build the greatest air and sub marine fleets in the world. He should stop trying to persuade Europe to do what it doesn't want to do, attend to his own business and be in a position to make other nations mind theirs. Until this nation is prepared to de fend itself against any ten other na tions the Government will not have done its duty. "Well done, but what did you do the next day?" Fokker, airplane builder, would have an answer ready for Napoleon's favorite question. On Wednesday a Fokker plane flew to Honolulu. Next day a Fokker plane reached France. Now Fokker announces a plane to fly, non-stop, for seventy-two hours, and go from Scattle to Tokio, 6,000 miles. This Government should contract with Fokker to keep him here for life building airplanes. Ancient Monarchs and Popes offered any inducement that would bring great artists to their courts. The great artist of today is the airplane artist. On the Hudson, not tenyards from shore, off Sing Sing Prison, three boys were struggling. Prison guards could not leave their duty to save them. Convicts begged permission to save the boys, but the guards, rifles leveled, forbade them to follow their impulse, jump into the river and pull the drowning boys ashore. The three boys drowned while guards and convicts looked on, some of the latter weeping. Once more those convicts feel that they never had a chance, not even a chance to help others, at risk to them selves. They had a bad start in life, most of them, and things have gone wrong with them ever since. When they missed the opportunity to save life they again felt cheated. If the prisoners had no chance in the beginning, is not the fault of so ciety, whose fault is it? ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Rev. Stanley Moore, missionary in charge. Sunday school at 9:45 o'clock. Morning prayer and sermon at 11 o'clock. "O God, Thou art my God; earnest ly wlil I seek Thee Because Thy loving kindness is bet ter than life, My lips shall praise Thee." All Girl Reserves who are going camping meet at the parish house at 7:15 tonight (Thursday). This Is very important, as final arrangements will be made for camp. All Boy Scouts who are going to the Scout camp this year meot at the Episcopal parish house at 7:15 Tues day evening. We want to talk over plans and make arrangements for camp.