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PAGE SIX HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1928. The Fumble Family Hot stuff! By Dunkie op I I Wing T0 13059 ME r.. ' i ,X AgOUKIP,EU?! I'M y gbk t i, fLL nffe Or e Aancv hart mm To ring the doorbell, to open the door, to enter the house Isn't this always an adventure, when you call at another's home? The personality of the house Is first felt in the hall, which should extend a cheery welcome to the family returning from the outside, and offer to strangers as a cordial hospitality. This may be expressed by an ar rangement of bright pictures, hung at either side of a central mirror or by a larger picture, witR a mir ror on the opposite wall. Another plan is to hang the mirror between two lamp brackets over the hall table, with a group of color prints on another wall. Or a colorful wall hanging may be used above the table to provide a background for candle sticks and a pottery bowl vase. So much depends on first impres sionsand in the hall good ones can be achieved so easily. A Nutritious Dish Simmer together 1 cup of boiled rice, 1 cup of tomatoes. While cook ing, mix together 1 pound of chop ped round steak and 2 or 3 onions. Add 1 tablespoon chili powder and heat thoroughly in a skillet con taining a large lump of butter or margarine. Add to the rice and to matoes and cook for 10 or 15 min utes, stirring constantly. Did You Know That a survey of public schools proved the physical development and grades of children who used stimulating drinks at mealtime were far below those of children' who did not? We should remember that weak cocoa, a cereal beverage or a fruit drink takes but an instant to pre pare. Each is safe and wholesome for little folks, and, in justice to them, should take the place of other beverages that retard mental activ ity and growth. Packing Picnic Salad Next time you plana long drive, with a picnic basket tucked away in the car remember that salad can be kept fresh and cool if you put in an enameled ware bucket with a small bottle filled with cracked ice set in the center. Fry Cakes the Smokeless Way Make a little salt bag and rub the gridiron with it instead of grease; then cakes won't stick and there will be no smoke odor. Removes Paint Spots No matter how hard paint spat terings have dried on windows, they can be removed by rubbing the glass with boiled vinegar. Keeping Butter Without Ice Butter may be kept hard without ice by setting the dish in which it is contained in cold salt water. Do not allow the water to come over the top of the dish. To Prevent Curdling Vinegar often curdles when mix ed with salad dressing. A generaus pinch of salt added to the dressing will smooth It out at once. Makes Brighter Lights Lamp wicks soaked in vinegar and thoroughly dried will give much better light and eliminate smoke. ' Saving Steps If a holder Is fastened to a tape pinned to your apron you will al ways have a hot dish holder handy when cooking. PUBLIC OPINION (Continued from Page Four.) not feel it is justice to be asked that question. As stated above, the county court does the buying. In defense of the court I will say, however, that if they have given Howard Cooper Co. a preference, there are many good reasons for it. In the beginning of the road program, we had dealings with var ious companies, and were always having trouble in getting our re pairs when needed, or in getting adjustments when machinery prov ed unsatisfactory. Since we have been doing the business with How ard Cooper people, we have been given the very best of service and our work has not been held up un necessarily and made to cost the county many extra dollars. If an emergency order is given them, or any other order for that matter, It is not pigeonholed to let us wait until they get back from some fish ing trip. I do not believe that How ard Cooper Co. has been paid more for supplies or machinery than such supplies or machinery could have been purchased for from other con cerns, and I do know of hundreds of dollars being saved the county. To vour last question I must plead "guilty as charged." I wish to add, as a matter of ex planation, that while I have signed these orders for various items, it has always been done either by the request and instructions of the judge, the judge and one commis sioner, or the entire court. I know of only a few instances where the entire court did not authorize the purchase. purchased by the county court. Regarding question No. 3: I do It has been the least of my de sires to come out in the press, but since I have, please allow me in my crude way to state a few additional facts. The point of paramount is sue and importance is not covered in the questjons asked, neither was it embodied in the matters present ed at the last meeting of the county court, wherein I was accused of taking my family to the huckle berry patch in the county car. It is my opinion that the main thing of importance to the taxpayer at this particular time was far from being shown to the public. In fact, it appears to me that the present stir was purposely timed to act as a smoke screen to hide the import ant facts, and to influence the vot ers in the election on the 18th day of this month. After hearing what is being talk ed around one must conclude there is a reason, and from the way I see it, there is one, and it has not come to the surface. In our present road condition our bond money has been placed in the market road system, and our pre sent market road law, after taking into consideration the technical phrases and polished language, ap pears to mean that all work, mater ial, market road money, bond mon ey, district money, or any or all money spent on the market road system is absolutely controlled by the State Engineering body. This body seems or appears to be the powerful engineering association. which in turn appears to be very closely allied with (if not an off spring of) the extremely powerful f United Contractors association, who's open slogan is Vput the Gov ernment out of business." It is evitKhit to me that the pre sent stir is not brought out in good faith. The matter of the number of stringers used in a certain bridge, in my opinion, was not the real reason for all the trouble brought up last December. The fact that I held on this 24-foot span there should be 13 stringers 4x16x24 and was overruled by a state en gineer stating that a class A bridge of that size required only 9 string ers, and later by another engineer stating and demanding that 17 stringers of the above named dim ensions be used, was not the real cause of the market road engineer holding up the pay of the, work men, stores and lumbermen. To proceed and describe the lit tleness in which this bridge string er situation was handled, would be a disgrace to a paper of your stand ing and the public In general. Also to go ahead and describe what took place with the other bridges and stock passes on the Lexlngton-Jar-moit road would be unprofessional to say the least. It Is my opinion that the arrangement of the X on your ballot on May 18th will have a lot to do with deciding tne ques tion as to open contract work or home labor as we are doing it now. To those of you who are inter ested I will say that it may be well for you decide if you desire to have your bond money spent on contract work. After examining contract built roads, considering the quality of work, the way roaas stana up, the maintenance required, the num ber of times they have to be torn up and resurfaced, the amount of money that is taken out of the county, and all the other things that go with it, do you wish your roads to be let by contract or do you want the work to continue as it has beeh done and Is being done now by your own home workmen, keeping the money at home for the betterment of tur people. Personally I believe that so far we have done best by building our own roads. All the money has re mained in the county aside from what was necessary in the purchase of machinery and supplies. We have been very careful in the building of our roads and I believe we have as good macadam roads as found any where. I believe we have built our roads better and cheaper than the average contracted roads, and if any of the road money has gotten away that did not go into actual construction, I believe that the re sults will show that no more has gone that way than would have if the work had been performed un der contract I believe we have a number of very efficient men doing the actual road work. ' We do not appreciate them because they are going ahead with their work as they should and not running around tooting a little horn. I find visitors appreciate our work and we often see favorable comment through the press of other counties . Very respectfully, WM. U McUALEB. MB. MOORE SAYS: Heppner, Oregon, May 8, 1928. To the Taxpayers: It appears that our surveyor and engineer is trying to stir up trouble regarding mistakes made In the building of bridges and roads. For the benefit of the taxpayers who are really Interested I wvuld sug gest that they come out and go over the work and see for themselves just what kind of an engineer you have, and just what the county has to contend with In the building of roads. You will not need to be an engineer to tell whether you have a competent man making Die plans and specifications which we are ex pected to follow. GEORGE MOORE. BRIDGES DISCUSSED. Heppner, Oregon, May 8, 1928. To the Taxpayers: There has been a good deal of criticism and talk regarding the i eat mistake made by the county n the building or the Doherty bridge. ' In the buildnig of Clarks canyon bridge I did same under the super vision of Mr. Clark, the state en- gineer. This bridge is between Campbells and Eskelsqns. Mr. Clark passed on the bridge and pronounced it class A. In the building of the Doherty bridge I used the smae number of stringers. Mr. Harris, your county engineer was there and knew just how many stringers was being used, but never once raised an objection. One of the stringers he condemn ed, but said it could be used on the outside, and I called his attention to the mate to it and told him I had intended using both as outside stringers, which was satisfactory with him. After the stringers were all in, he then raised the objection, with the results you most likely know. I went personally over the work with Mr. Harris, and suggest ed that the bridges and stock pass es be raised. We had to raise all of them from one to three feet and some are still too low. ' J. P. LOUY. him by the county was intimated at the last meeting pf the county court. I wish the public to know that as auditor of the county rec ords that some time ago I went out personally and made a survey of the way the records were handled by the foremen on the construction and considered the method satis factory. Yesterday' I also went and looked into the records as kept by Mr. Taylor. Mr. Dempsey Is charg ed up with the oils and gas that he receives and same is deducted from the credits of his hauling. The only way that Mr. Dempsey could graft on the county would be through the dishonesty of your foreman in charge, and the records will not even show where that could be in timated, besides I believe you peo ple all know Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Taylor well enough to know they would not stoop to a little petty i.n ixraft The mere fact that all of this record does not happen to be right here In the court nouse wn nn excuse whatever for your county engineer to state that no record was kept, ana as mat wey be produced. He well knows that tunra ia rfnrH nf the number of days that he files on his time sheet here in the court nouse, ana MR. DEMPSEY AND GASOLINE EXPENSE. Heppner, Oregon, May 9, 1928. To the Taxpayers of Morrow Coun ty: The matter of Mr. Dempsey hav ing his gasoline and oils furnished PHONE or leave orders at Phelps Grocery Co. Home Phone 1102 HEPPNER TRANS FER COMPANY "A Basines Man for a Bastneaa QHice" V) A a HAL UOSS of OfiXGON CITY, CLACKAMAS COCNTT Republican, fof SECRETARY of STATE i , Experienced mnA aclm i ni ctration . IBCCtM fa 1 til . . Former private ecretry to Governor Patten on ana member of tke ttate Parole ooaroL . Familiar iritL work of secretary of ftste, and iptereited in development of Oregon resource. . . Endorsed editorially for tku nomination oy 14 daily and 107 -weekly newipaper editor, wno recommend ULal Mom for efficiency, cot- t y and altlity. "Hon m a real fellow. II kaa JLwJ alef jtanding of man mad affair, Laotn kow to keep Km own counsel, know now to carry rpoojiLility, ami acu firmly in matter witkin hm Minority.. . . . Oregom Vottr HAY KM TTKMMMIT Hal Ho for Secretary CluK, Alenc Phillip, Scj.t Oregon Ciry "HELLO We're muvmy mto a NEW Jiome at our present ad dress! ' Not really a new one. . Jack and 1 are modernizing tTte old home. I've always wanted a cow, KITCHEN CTJPBOARP and BREAKFAST NOOK and now 1 have ,one, so tome over and have break fast with us, and see my new ARCH and FIREPLACE SET we built in the living room. Jack is building a lathee fence in the bark yard and also a big tree seat for hot summer days and ill Our new 40 year CEDAR SMNGLE roof laid right over the old shingles makes the home more com- forta h' ilher. n..d till me what you think of our new entrance. The Architects of the TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. helped us plan it atl! "Tney like 'o Wn folks build" - the county pays without question ing. One must depend upon his honesty alone, while with the men who are working on the construc tion are watched and checked for all time by your foreman. The county court can not stay on the work to watch everything that is at issue, and have placed men In charge of this work that they be lieve are capable and honest. FLOYD A. ROWELL. F. W. Turner & Co. LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKERS ALFALFA AND GRAIN FARMS Good Listings in Both Morrow and , Grant Counties. CITY PROPERTY for RENT or SALE Purchase Success Today FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY jfT Would you purchase success today? You can and M I for immediate delivery. Pay for It on an easy pay-J-ment plan which fits your own "pocket book. Here Is a new and helpful way to look at the money problem. Money and freedom from mental anxiety form the basis of success. You can have both by opening a savings account in this bank and depositing a definite part of your Income each week. It's an easy way to save. You'll be surprised to see how rapidly the money accumulates. You'll really be buying success on the installment plan. And with money in the bank, you are free from worry about finances. 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