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0F.F.10': HISTORICAL SOCIETY r v p. l i c a i t o r i 'J fcette Volume 49, Number 32. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, Oct. 20, 1932. Subscription $2.00 a Year STUNT NITE ALL SET WEDNESDAY Organizations Ready to Strut Stuff for Bene fit of Library. 100 WILL TAKE PART Imposing Array of Musical, Com edy, Athtletic and Antithetic Skits Lined Up; Popular Prices. One hundred Heppner people rep resenting various organizations of i the city will take the stage at the Bchool gym -auditorium next Wed nesday evening at 8 o'clock, pre senting "Stunt Nlte" for the benefit of the Heppner Public . library. Tickets will be on sale beginning Saturday, all general admission with no reserved seats, at the pop ular prices of 15 cents for children and 30 cents for adults. Reports have been given the gen eral committee by the majority of organizations intending to partici pate, but the committee believes there are some who have prepared a stunt from whom they have not heard. They desire that these make their plans known immediately so that all details may be arranged. The committee announces that the auditorium will be open Mon day evening to any who desire to use it for practice. Dress rehearsal is slated for Tuesday evening when all organizations are expected to have their stunts ready with prop erties as they will be given Wed nesday, so that the program may be arranged to run off smoothly. Full cooperation from everyone will assure a better entertainment, they say. A football to the kiddy selling the most tickets is offered by Gordon's. Those wishing to compete should call there Saturday morning. Organizations with stunts as re ported so far are: Heppner school band ; Lions, "Death Defying Apache Dance" ; Bookworms, "While You Wait"; Eastern Star, musical; Womens Study club, "The Kitchen Symphony"; Legion, acro batics; Degree of Honor, "Cinder ella Up to Date"; Christian church, Mlsslldine trio; high school faculty, "Did He Die?"; Boy Scouts, "The Fatal Quest"; Legion auxiliary, trio; Business and Professional Women; Degre of Honor, Juveniles, "The Discontented Ghost"; high school, musical; Elks, "Casey at the Bat"; Neighbors of Woodcraft; Rebekahs, readers and tap dancers; Episcopal auxiliary, "Big Business." Ladies to appear include Mes dames W. O. Dix, E. F. Bloom, C. W. McNamer,, E. R. Huston, Chas. Cox, J. O. Turner, Geo. Mabee, Wal ter Moore, Jeff Beymer, W. P. Ma honey, Glen Jones, Harold Case, J. D. Cash, Harold Lumley, Arthur McAtee, Frank Turner, Ozoa Vance, Paul Aiken, C. R. Ripley, Andrew Baldwin, Roy Missildine, P. W. Ma honey, Spencer Crawford, Raymond Ferguson, Chas. Smith and Lucy Rodgers. Misses include Leta Humphreys, Audrey Beymer, Ruth Furlong, Gwendolyn Evans, Betsy Asher, Ruth Missildine, Margaret Missil dine, Margaret Sherer, Berdine Vance, Mary Driscoll, Laura Gil man, Kathryn Thompson, Adele Nickerscn, Virginia Dix, Marie Scrivner, Nancy Cox, Leah Mahrt, Virginia Swindig, Harriet Hager, Irene Beymer, Edna Crump, Jenny Swindig, Juanita Morgan. Men and boys Include Harold Buhman, Geo. Mabee, Raymond Ferguson, Jasper Crawford, Harold Ayers, Dean Goodman Jr., Clarence Bauman, Francis Nickerson, Mar vin Morgan, Claire Phelan, Billy Schwarz, Wrex Langdon, Mat Ken ny, Ralph Forbes, Billy Cochell, Ernest Clark, Howard Morglan, Floyd Jones, Lowell Winters, Mar lon Oviatt, Joe Green, Larry Moore, Donald Jones, James Driscoll, Rich ard Hayes, Bernard McMurdo, Wil liam McCaleb, Ronald Coblantz, Charles Cox, Omer McCaleb. TO PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Smith de parted for Portland Sunday to be In attendance at Paclllc Interna tional Livestock exposition this week. Mr. Smith, Morrow county agricultural agent, clerked the milk ing shorthorn classes Monday, and the Aberdeen Angus show on Wed nesday. They wore accompanied by the Morrow county stock Judg ing team, George Wicklander, Max Ine and Edgar Mahan of Board man. This team won the right to represent the county by placing nrst at the recent Hermlston fair and also by their work in a Judg lng contest held at Pendleton just before the eastern Oregon ram sale of Oregon Woolgrowcrs association. CHESTED WHEAT GRASS HERE The pooled shipment of crested wheat grass, ordered recently thru the olllce of C. W. Smith, county agent, has arrived and is ready for distribution, announces Mr. Smith An extra amount of the seed aside from the pooled orders is available to those desiring it. Now is the time to plant the seed, Mr. Smith says, adding that this grass has proved far superior as dry land pasture to all other grasses in field and nursory trials in Morrow and other counties. . Rough pine lumber for sale, In. quire Albert Adklns, city. 30tf. BUCKS TOP LOCALS 12-0 IN HARD FRAY Game at Pendleton Featured by Close Fighting With Excep tion of Touchdown Plays. Heppner high school's football team took a 12-0 trouncing from the heavier and more numerous Pendleton high aggregation on Round-Up field in Pendleton Satur day afternoon, but not until they had given the "Bucks" good cause to be glad it was all over. It Is doubtful if Coach Mabee will be able to have all the boys in top form for the game with Hermiston tomorrow, another contest that will call for the best the locals have to offer, if reports from the sand coun try to the north are correct. The greater strength of the Pen dleton boys was not to be denied. And in the second quarter a stal wart back named Graybeal receiv ed Gentry's punt on his own 30-yard marker and behind perfectly form ed interference ran past the entire Heppner team to a touchdown. Again in the third quarter, Gil christ, another husky Pendleton back, tore off two successive gains of 40 and 20 yards through the Heppner line for a touchdown. Both attempts at conversion .via the place-kick route failed. The final whistle blew just after Curtis Thomson on a spinner re verse had carried the ball 25 yards to the Pendleton 40, after getting past all but two Pendleton tacklers and bringing the stands to their feet. With the exception of the scor ing plays, Pendleton showed no ad vantage. In fact, the Heppner boys gained more consistent yard age from scrimmage and completed more passes than their opponents. And time after time the light Hepp ner line yielded not an inch or broke through the opposing line to down the ball-carrier for a loss of yardage. Coach Tucker of lone was on hand to scout the game in order to prepare for some of Heppner's tricks when his boys play here in two weeks, ' The line-up: Heppner Pendleton Langdon Ie Lassen Ayers It Gemmell McMurdo lg Coffman L, Cowdry c . Bond Burkenbine rg Minick D. Cowdry rt Mays Phelan re Nash Schwarz q Tuter Gentry lh Graybeal Gilliam rh McClure Furlong f Eason Substitutes: Pendleton Perard, Gilchrist, Cresswel, Lassen, Lybeck er, Bender, Stevens, Eason. Hepp ner Green, Hanna, Reid, Thomp son, Morgan. Former Heppner Man Sails for the Orient Robert V. Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Turner of Heppner, took passage for Japan and other orien tal points on the steamer Maune wili of the Japanese line, leaving Portland Thursday last Turner goes as a representative of the Sun freze Ice Cream company of Port land and to push the sale of Ore gon's fresh milk products. The steamer will touch at Yokohama, Hongkong, Shanghi, Manila, and the return will be to San Francis co by December 7. Mr. Turner, who graduated from University of Oregon last spring, and later took up his residence in Portland, became imbued with the idea of impressing the people of the Far East with the fresh milk prod ucts of Oregon through attending the series of lectures delivered in Portland the past summer on In ternational Relations, and after Interviews with the steamship com pany, chamber of commerce and Japanese consul was encouraged to put his ideas into practical use. He was employed by S. Frye Co. to make this trip and secure orders for the fresh milk products. Peo ple of this community will certainly be glad to learn of the ultimate success of this venture, and to know that Robert has made good in open ing up a market for Oregon dairy products. He was not accompan ied by Mrs. Turner, who remained with her family in Portland. ATTEND FUNERAL RITES, Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ann O'Rourke, sister of Frank Monahan of this city, held In Con don at 10 o'clock Monday morning, were largely attended by friends and relatives from Heppner. Among those attending from here were Rev. Father Stack, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Monahan and family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hisler, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Breslln, Mrs. James Farley, Mrs. Pat Healy, Mrs. W. P. Mahoney, Mr. and Mrs. John Kilkenny, Mr and Mrs. John Kenny, Mr. and Mrs, Mike Kenny, Mrs. Margaret Far ley and family, Peter Farley, John Healy, Joe Kenny, John Kelly. Bill Kilkenny, Barney Devlin, Barney Ward, Jim O'Connor, Jerome O' Connor, Frank Nixon. DEER SEASON CLOSES 25TH. Next Tuesday is the last day of the open season on deer, which offi cially closes at sxinsct that day. Many Heppner nlmrods who have been unsuccessful in quests so far expect to make a final effort this week end. At present bird shooting is popular with many outside sports men joining local nlmrods in giving the "Chinks" and "Huns" a merry chase in Morrow county. JURY SYSTEM EYED IN LIONS MEETING Lawyers Believe Proposed Measure In Criminal Cases Good. RELIEF DRIVE CITED More Food, Less Money and Cloth ing Obtained Than Last Year; Need Not so Great, Expected. The legal fraternity of Heppner as represented in the Lions club Monday unanimously endorsed the proposed constitutional amendment "Authorizing Criminal Trials With out Juries by Consent of the Ac cused" up for decision of the elec torate November 8, another of the 13 proposed measures to have the club's attention in its Beries of dis cussions. M. L. Case, chairman of the cen tral relief committee for Heppner, reported good results from the drive held last Friday. While not as much money and clothing were contributed as last year, there were more foodstuffs. Others who par ticipated in the drive commented that in some quarters it was be lieved that the demand for relief would not be as great this winter as it was last, and cases were found where people were willing to give what they could to help but pre ferred to wait until there was more evidence of need. Mrs. Edward F. Bloom pleased the club members at the noon luncheon with two vocal solos, ac companied at the piano by Mrs. C. R. Ripley. Would Cut Cost. Jos. J. Nys opened the discussion of the political measure, the ballot title of which is: "Amendment Au thorizing Criminal Trials Without Juries by Consent of Accused Pur pose: To provide that any accused person in other than capital cases, and with the consent of the trial judge, may choose to relinquish his right of trial by jury and consent to be tried by the judge of the court alone, such election to be in writ ing." Mr. Nys considered the measure to be forward looking because in the majority of cases the judge is more competent to weigh the evi dence than is the jury; and because in cases where the accused so elect ed to be tried by the judge, it would not be necessary to wait until the regular jury term of court to dis pose of the cases thus speeding the wheels of justice and relieving the counties of much expense. Hard to Get Jurors. P. W. Mahoney said that Ameri ca and Britain honored the time worn right of trial by jury as an in herent right from the days of the over-lord. Times have changed greatly since the days of King John and the application of the law today is reeogn'.zad as falling short in the administration of justice, he said. Today jurors must be found who presumably have formed no opin ion in the case to be tried. With modern communication facilities, few competent persons are unin formed about most everything that is going on, making the task of se curing competent jurors extremely difficult. Both he and S. E. Notson, Lions program chairman, called attention to the fact that several other states had similar laws in effect which work well. Mr. Notson cited that the option given in the proposed amendment did not apply in the case of a capital offense, where jury trial is required even if the accused enter a plea of guilty, to decide whether life imprisonment or the life penalty shall be applied. Business and Professional Womens Club Initiates 13 The Business and Professional Womens club of Heppner had its regular meeting Monday night at the Parish house, at which time there were initiatory ceremonies adding thirteen new members to the organization. There was a suit able program and all the newly in itiated were Introduced by various stunts, adding to the interest and entertainment. Those becoming members of the club were Mesdames Edward F. Bloom, C. R. Ripley, Edwin T. In gles, J. O. Turner, Frank Turner, Lester White, and the Misses Jes- sie Palmiter, Eula McMillan, Betsy Asher, Dorothy Straughn, Gwen Ev ans and Leta Humphreys, and Mrs. Helen McClasky. PIONEERS MEET AT LEX. The annual reunion of Morrow county pioneers will occur at Lex ington on Saturday, and it is anti cipated that the little city will en tertain the usual large gathering. The association has prepared suit able entertainment for the day, which begins with the big dinner in the dining room at Leach Memorial hall at noon. The program will fol low in the hall at 2:00, then a good social and get-together time, with supper in the evening. From eight to nine will be the old-time dance especially prepared for the elderly people. The invitation is general to all the pioneers of Morrow coun ty, whether now residing within the boundaries of the county or not. Elk Mistaken for Deer Thrills Viewers and Gives Cheer to Needy N. D. Bailey thought he had kill ed the prize buck as he yelled at his hunting companions Sunday eve ning in the vicinity of Tupper ranger station. But when they ar rived on the scene to tell him It wasn't a deer but an elk he had killed, his joy was dissipated. For an elk is illegal meat. Heppner folk thronged into a lo cal market Monday to Inspect the animal after it had been brought in by Sheriff Bauman, whom Mr. Bailey hod notified. It was a beautiful animal, though peculiar. Peculiar in that is had two long spike horns not forked, though it weighed 350 pounds, a very large yearling. Some who pro fessed to know declared the teeth showed it to be a yearling, while others were just as sure it was a two-year-old, going on three. Red der than a deer in color, its abdo men was a lighter tan similar to the color sometimes taken by a deer, and if seen on the run at a distance, as Mr. Bailey is reported to have said it was when he shot it, it might have been mistaken for a deer, some believed. , There are some who will not feel so bad about the slaying, as the meat has been contributed to relief work, and those who sometimes are considered unfortunate this time will be numbered among the for tunate. Elk steaks might have sold at a fancy price if the remarks of many who viewed the animal could be believed. LEXINGTON By BEULAH B. NICHOLS. In the Church of Christ Sunday morning Mr. Sias' pulpit topic will be "The Christian Race." Attend ance in the Bible School last Sun day was fifty-one. The Interna tional lesson theme next Sunday will be "Problems of the Modern Home." Mrs. Gentry, assistant teacher, will conduct the lesson in the adult class. Guests this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jackson are Mr. and Mrs. William Smith and family of St Paul, Ore. Mr. Smith is a cousin of Mr. Jackson. The two men were doing some hunting in the mountains Monday and Tuesday. Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Rice were Mr. and Mrs. Galey Johnson, Mr. and "Mrs, Geo. Peck and sons and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Saling. The Boy Scouts have been busy filling in an old well near their cabin. The Lexington H. E. club was entertained at the country home of Mrs. Alta Cutsforth on Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Cutsforth and Beulah Nichols as hostesses. Four teen members and five visitors were present. The financial report was heard and the club voted to turn over twenty dollars of the H. E. C. funds to the Grange for use in de fraying Grange expenses. At the close of a pleasant afternoon spent in sewing the hostesses served re freshments to the following guests: Cora Allyn, Pearl Devlne, Bernice Bauman, Bertha Dinges, Lena Kel ly, Anna Miller, Emma White, Hor- tense Martin, Lorena Miller, Vashti Saling, Bertha Nelson, Anne Smouse, Clara Nelson, Margaret Miller, Emma Peck, Laura Lee Rice and Ethel Wilcox. Guests last week at the R. B. Wil cox home were George and Robert Wilcox of Oakland, Ore. The boys are nephews of Mr. Wilcox. Last Friday evening the Boy Scouts and their scout master, Geo. Gillis, took their camping equip ment and hiked up Willow creek to their cabin where they spent the night The boys cooked and ate their breakfast at the camp before returning home Saturday morning. Saturday, October 22, is the date of the Pioneers' Reunion, an annual event in Lexington. A basket din ner will be the chief attraction at the noon hour and for the after noon's entertainment the reunion association has prepared an excell ent program. After the evening meal there will be an hour of old time dancing; from eight until nine o'clock music will be furnished and the dance will be free for old and young alike. Everyone is invited. Alonzo Henderson returned from Portland Wednesday evening. The Sunshine club met Thursday afternoon with Miss Naomi McMil lan as hostess. The afternoon was spent in sewing and the hostess served refreshments of fruit salad and cake. Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Graves and family visited relatives in Board man recently. Myles Martin has returned from Moro where he spent last week with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. George McMillan who have been visiting relatives here for a few days left Wednesday for their home at Cherryvllle, They were accompanied by Mrs. Earl Warner and her daughter Peggy who will spend a few days with rel atives and friends In Cherryvllle and other Willamette valley points. Mrs, Sarah White and her daugh ter, La Verne, have returned from Portland. Mrs. Harry Schrlever, who has been quite ill, Is able to be about again. Mrs. George Allyn is assist ing Mrs. Schrlever with her work. Mrs. Effle Parkins of PaJouse, Wn., and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Par vln of A'bion, Wn., departed Wed nesday morning for their homes. They have been the guests of Mrs. Sarah Booher during the past week. (Continued on Page Two) 'SAFETY FIRST' TO BE .4-5 Hilarious 3-Act Comedy is Sponsored by Lions for Community Work. HOME TALENT USED School Band and Between-the-Acts Stunts Featured by Country Store Giving Merchandise. "Safety First" will be the second leading entertainment event of the fall season on November 4 and 5. Presentation of this popular, hilar ious three-act comedy is sponsored by the Heppner Lions club with prominent people of the community cast in the various roles. In addition to the play, each eve ning will be presented a musical prologue by the school band and between-the-aot features, among which a popular attraction is ex pected to be a country store dis pensing a liberal amount of worth while merchandise among those who attend. Proceeds from the play above ex penses will go entirely toward com munity betterment work of the city's service club. "Safety First" was selected by the play committee after careful investigation as one of the out standnig comedy hits of the day suitable for amateur production. It contains hilarious comedy from start to finish, and It is promised the two hours of entertainment will pass almost as quickly as so many minutes, so engrossed will its rapid-fire action keep the audience. The play has been under prepar ation for the last three weeks un der the direction of Mrs. Paul M. Gemmell. Jim Thomson Jr. will be seen as a young husband in the role of Jack Montgomery. As Jerry Arnold, Crocket Sprouls is an unsuccessful fixer. Earl W. Gordon defectively detects most everything in the part of Mr. McNutt while Hubert Gauey is awfully shrinking as Elmer Flan nel. C. J. D. Bauman winds up the male end of the cast as a terrible Turk in the person of Abou Ben Mocha. Mrs. Gerald Slocum is Mabel Montgomery, Jack's wife; pity her. Virginia Bridger, her young sister is portrayed by Miss Madge Cop pock. Miss Juanita Leathers is Mrs. Barrington-Bridger, their ma ma. Zuleika, a tender Turkish maiden, is taken by Josephine Ma honey. And climaxing the feminine roles is Mrs. Walter Moore in the part of Mary Ann O'Finnerty, an Irish cook lady. The entertainment will be given at the school gym-auditorium on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 4 and 5. Pendleton Chapter O.E.S. Entertained Here Friday Ruth Chapter No. 32, O. E. S. was host to Bushee chapter of Pen dleton Friday evening, the occasion of the regular meeting of Ruth chapter. There was degree work put on by the local lodge, and fol lowing the close of the business session, luncheon was served in the dining hall. Registered visitors from Pendle ton were Katherine M. Folsom, worthy matron of Bushee chapter, R. C. Cowperthwaite, O. C. Finkle, Harry Grant, W. Percy Folsom, Le ona Koeppen, Faye C. LaDow, Ha zel D. Grant, Ada Cowperthwaite, Ida Peters, Veelie Gill, August Koeppen, Maude Ingram, Clemen tine Ingram, Pauline Kay, Roger Kay. Others coming from Pendle ton were Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Wells and Judge and Mrs. C. L. Sweek. REMEMBER 70TII BIRTHDAY. Miss Opal Briggs and her sister, Mrs Ray Taylor, were hostesses on Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Briggs, to the missionary society of the Methodist church. Following an unusually in teresting program and the regular business session of the society, the guests present turned the occasion into a birthday party for Mrs. Briggs and the passing of her 70th milestone was fittingly celebrated. Mrs. Taylor made and presented the birthday cake with its 70 can dles, and the guests remembered Mrs. Briggs in the gift of a beauti ful vase and bouquet of lavendar dahltahs. Some thirty members of the so ciety and guests were present to extend felicitations to Mrs. Briggs who announced at the time that this was the first celebration of her birthday she had ever enjoyed by a party. Mrs. Briggs is a pioneer resident of Morrow county and Heppner, coming to this country in 1880, and making her home here continuously since that time, the greater part of her residence hav ing been spent in this city. REGISTER FOR EMPLOYMENT. With registration books open lit tle more than a week. County Judge Campbell reported 99 registrations for emergency employment In Mor row county on Tuesday. Figures for the various towns showed Hepp ner 79, lone 7, Boardman 3 and Hardman 10. No report had been received from Lexington and Irrl-gon. STEPS BEING TAKEN TO OPEN ELEVATOR Directors Ask Privilege of Naming Two Trustees; Jeff Jones and S. 3. Devine Chosen. A progressive step in straighten ing out the affairs of the Heppner Farmers Elevator company is gen erally believed to have been taken by the stockholders of the company at a meeting in the Elks hall last Saturday afternoon. The ware house and elevator of the company have been closed for the last month and an audit has been in progress under a trusteeship. Stockholders of the company Sat urday sanctioned the trusteeship with the condition that they be per mitted to name two more trustees. They named Jeff Jones and S. J. Devine to represent them on the board of trustees, who if the action is ratified by the creditors, will act with W. A. Kearns, J. J. Chisholm and R. A. Thompson, present trus tees representing the creditors. Under the plan of procedure con templated at the directors' meeting, it is expected to reopen the ware house and elevator for business within two or three weeks. R. I. Thompson, vice president of the company, was chairman of the meeting, attended by a major ity of the directors. I0NE JENNIE E. MCMURRAT. Jack Milliorn, 34, who was killed in an accident at Suttle lake Tues day, October 11, was well known here where he worked during the construction of the Farmers' eleva tor. Funeral services were held in Pendleton last Friday afternoon. Mr. Milliorn is survived by his wid ow (Beatrice E. Long) and by an 11-year-old daughter, Betty, who makes her home with her mother, Mrs. U. S. Burt of Corvallis. Considerable improvement i3 go ing on in our town. The Fred Nich- oson house has been re-shingled and otherwise improved; W. E. Ahalt is building a commodious wood house and tool shed to replace the one de stroyed some time ago by fire, and the kalsomining, painting and var nishing continues at Masonic hall. J. E. Swanson is having a new con crete sidewalk and a new fence in front of his residence and the house on Second street owned by the late Mrs. Barbara Ritchie is being torn down by Fred Ritchie and his son, Arthur. The lumber will be used by Ritchie to build an addition on his home in upper lone. The house which is being razed is an old land mark. It was a rebuilt house and was placed on Mrs. Ritchie's lot thirty-one years ago, Sam Ritchie and Bert Wood doing the carpenter work. Light showers visited this section on Wednesday of last week and en Thursday night we received a good rain. Elmer Griffith, cooperative observer of Morgan, reports the pre cipitation amounting to fifty-six one hundredths of an inch. We have had no rain since June. Almost all of the fall seeding had been in the dust. The rain of last week will bring up the wheat In the football game here Friday between Arlington and lone the fin al score was 19-0 in favor of the home team. This was the third game of the season and in each game lone has kept their opponents from making a score. Next Friday our boys journey to Pilot Rock for a game. The Girls' League of the high school are serving a banquet at 6:30 Saturday evening in the Con gregational church dining room complimenting Coach Tucker, his football boys and a few other guests. A special election of District No. 35 will be held in the school house Saturday, October 22, at 1:30 in the afternoon for the purpose of sub mitting to the legal voters of said district the question of Increasing the tax levy for the year 1932-33. The reasons for Increasing such levy are the paying off of warrant indebtedness. The amount of spec ial tax proposed to be levied for said year is $19,311.23. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eubanks were transacting business in Pen dleton Tuesday. Mrs. I. R. Roblson and Bruce Gibb motored to Maryhill, Wash ington, Sunday. They spent the night there with relatives of Mrs. Roblson's and on Monday went on to Portland. The young people's society has been reorganized with Mrs. Frank Engelman as advisor and Miss Mar garet Ely as president. They hold their meetings each Sunday evening in the Christian church. All young people are invited to attend. Mrs. John Osteen left Monday for her home at Cherryvllle, Ore. Dur ing Mrs. Delia Corson's sojourn in Chicago, Mrs. Osteen had been chief operator at the telephone otilce, and between working hours had been visiting with her mother, Mrs. Min nie Forbes. The members of the Women's Topic club are to serve luncheon at the home of Mrs. Sam Hatch next Saturday, honoring Mrs. Walter Pierce who will speak in Masonic hall during the afternoon. The af ternoon meeting is open to the pub lic. Both Ex-Governor Walter Pierce and Mrs. Pierce are sched uled to speak at Legion hall In the evening. Mrs, Bert Mason, Mrs. Sam Hatch, Mrs. Roy Lleuallen and Mrs. (Contlnued on Page Five) E. 0. WHEAT LEAGUE TOMEETATCONDON Executive and Taxation Committees Hold All Day Meeting. TAXES UPPERMOST December 2-3 Date of Annual Con vention; Speakers, Committees Named; Reports Made. A consideration of taxation prob lems was uppermost at an all-day meeting of the executive committee of the Eastern Oregon Wheat league in Pendleton Friday, at which Condon was chosen as the place of holding the league's annual convention next December 2-3. Meeting with the executive com mittee were the special tax commit tee and the legislation-taxation com mittee of the league. C. W. Smith, county agent, J. O. Turner and George Peck were present from Morrow county. Plans for the Condon meeting were set, including announcement of committees and naming of speak ers to be invited. It was decided that at least one-half day would be given over to discussion of taxation matters. Several recommendations on tax ation problems were made by the executive committee after reports heard at the meeting. Some mat ters were referred back to commit tees for further Investigation and a fuller report to be made at the Condon convention. Should Cut Costs. W. H. Dreesen, professor of ec onomies at Oregon State college and a member of the special tax committee, talked on "Ways of Re ducing Property Taxes." He rec ommended that taxing bodies give more study to ways of lessening expenditures and less time to the study of new ways of raising rev enues. There should especially be more study of the costs of running local schools, he said. Those present endorsed the "Six Percent Limitation" amendment, the , "Property Qualifications for Voters" amendment, "Income Tax" amendment and the "Tax Conser vation" measure which will appear on the ballot in November. E. B. Aldrich, eastern Oregon member of the state highway com mission, speaking unofficially, said there Is much talk of reducing li cense fees, and that if this is done some means should be worked out whereby the counties would get the same amount from this source as they do at present, and that possi bly the reduced income to the state highway commission caused there by could be replaced by an added tax on gasoline. H. R. Richards of The Dalles made a strong plea for defeating the "Truck and Bus" bill. Unit System Cited. Mac Hoke, chairman of the tax ation and legislation committee, talked on county school unit sys tems, following which it was rec ommended that the committee con tinue its study and report at the annual meeting. C. W. Smith and J. O. Turner made a joint report on ways of in creasing revenue through Indirect methods of taxation, so as to re lieve the property tax. Those pres ent endorsed a 5-cents-a-gallon tax on all motor oils used in automo biles on highways, with refund pro visions for farmers on oil used in tractors or engines on farms, such as is now allowed in the case of the gasoline tax. It was recom mended that the committee, con sisting of E. W. Snell, J. O. Turner, C. W. Smith and W. H. Dreesen, make a further study of special sales taxes and the oil tax; figure out some way whereby a large amount of all Indirect taxes col lected by the state could be pro rated back to the counties In order to relieve the tax burden on real property, and report further at the annual meeting. Manager Plan Studied. E. R. Jackman reported on the county manager plan as it is now carried out In some states. He will make further Investigations and re port at the annual meeting, George Peck talked on the present tax sit uation in several counties of east ern Oregon. It was recommended that more study be given to the plan of turn ing all roads over to the state for construction and maintenance. Speakers who will be invited to address the Condon meeting in De cember are A. R. Shumway, presi dent North Pacific Grain Growers; a representative of the Union Oil Co. cooperative of Kansas City; Prof. J. D. Black, chief economist Federal Farm Board; A. B. Robert son, In charge of crop production loans for Oregon, Reconstruction Finance corporation; C. A. Howard, state superintendent of schools; Leslie M. Scott, chairman state highway commission, and Chas. Gal loway, state tax commission. A list of committees as handed this paper by C. W. Smith, league secretary, with instructions that lo cal members take notloo of their committee and communicate with their chairmen, follows: Taxation and Legislation: Chalr- (Continued on Page Six)