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OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLIC A'JOITOR PORTLAND. OKt. Volume 50, Number 20. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, July 27, 1933 Subscription $2.00 a Year STATE AND COUNTY VOTE FOB REPEAL Sales Tax Loses Heavily; Hanson Hughes Elected Convention Delegate. INTEREST IS LIGHT County Favors While State Op poses Oleo Bill; People Gen erally Negative Minded. Morrow county contributed tow ard putting the state in the wet col umn' at Friday's special election, with a majority for repeal of the 18th amendment of 44 votes, and a majority in favor of repeal of the state constitution prohibition amendment of 139. Repeal of the 18th amendment carried in the state by 62,000 votes, while state repeal carried by 67,000. Hanson Hughes with 465 votes was elected delegate to the state constitutional convention over Joel R. Benton with 355 votes. This county also helped to snow under the proposed sales tax, wdiich lost in the state by upwards of 116,' 000 votes. The vote here was 309 for to 672 against, or slightly more than 2 to 1 against. The Morrow county vote was in accord with the state outcome in every instance with the single ex ception of the oleomargarine bill, which carried here 538 to 419, while losing in the state by a large ma jority. More people voted for the sales tax here than for any other meas ure on the ballot. The 981 who voted on this measure represent 47.6 percent of the total number of voters registered, numbering 2100. Of the remaining measures the only one to carry was the soldiers and sailors bonus amendment which would stop the payment of bonuses after June 30, 1938. Carry ing in the state by a comfortable majority, this measure carried in the county 476 to 383. Next to the sales tax the county manager form of government re ceived the heaviest negative vote in the county, 266 to 615, and likewise lost heavily in the state at large. Oregon was not in favor of modi fication of the present system of grand jury procedure, and the county sustained the opinion, 297 to 518. Objection to having the legisla ture set a limit on municipal cor poration indebtedness, and to the requiring of a two-thirds majority vote to pass bond issues, was also sustained in both state and county. The vote here was 341 to 438. Neither were the people ready to obligate themselves for more than a $1,000,000 of state power fund bonds. The vote here, 329 to 477. Election day in the county was generally orderly and quiet It was a warm summer day, with weather favorable for journeying to the polls. Farmers of the county were generally busy at harvest or pre paring for harvest, and the voU would indicate that many did not care to take time from their work to visit the polls. A complete tabulation of the county vote by precincts will be found in another column. Says Prospects Good For Community Camp C. G. Norris, bureau of public roads engineer In charge of con struction on the Heppner-Spray road, when in town Tuesday an nounced that forest ofllclals had just visited the Carl Nyberg camp and had expressed themselves fa vorable to letting the city use an acre of ground there as a commu nity recreation camp. Mr. Norris and Mr. Nyberg had already agreed with the Heppner American Legion post to turn over the buildings on the gtound. Mr. Norris said there are nine buildings all told, including a large mess hall and a number of good cabins. Work on the road has made good progress and Mr. Norris be lieves the contract will be complet ed on schedule about the middle of August. ' PLANER TO START FIRST. D. C. Eccles, in charge of the Heppnor Pine mills, says that work of installing the planer near the stock yards In north Heppner Is progressing apace, and barring un forseen diliiculties should be ready for operation by the first of the month. A large quantity of lumber is now on the grounds with more arriving. A large boiler to be in stalled at the mountain mill of the company at the Hamilton ranch passed through town Sunday, CLERKS MAY GET BOOKS. The auditor has finished with the school district books and clerks may get them as soon as they have filed their bond with the county school superintendent, states Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers. W. T. Campbell, county Judge; I S. E. Notson, district attorney, and I.. W. Briggs, county treasurer, mo tored to Portland yesterday on county business looking to release of county funds tied up in local banks, and making arrangements for disposition of county warrants. GRANDMA REANEY PIONEER MOTHER Rites at Lexington Largely Attend ed; Native of Missouri Came to County In 1882. By BEULAH B. NICHOLS. Funeral services were held Tues day afternoon at two o'clock for Mrs. Margaret Reaney, whose death occurred at her home here at 7:20 o'clock Sunday evening. The immediate cause of death was con gestion of the lungs and was the culmination of several paralytic strokes which, she had suffered re cently. The funeral services were held at the family home on Willow cteek one mile below Lexington, Burial was In the Lexington ceme tery with Rev. C. A. Sias, pastor of the Church of Christ, officiating, Arrangements were in charge of Phelps Funeral Home at Heppner. The targe attendance of friends of the farryly and the many beau tiful floral gifts were tributes of the city where Mrs. Reaney had spent more than fifty years of her life and where her kindly disposi tion had won for her a place of high esteem in the hearts of all who knew her. Six of her grandsons, Andrew and Elmer Baldwin; Maurice and Alva, sons of Lawrence Reaney, and Cedrio and Avril, sons of Lee Reaney, were the pail bearers. Margaret Huldah Stamper was born in Cairo county, Missouri on November 4, 1847, and passed to her reward at Lexington on July 23, 1933, at the age of 75 years, 8 months and 19 days. She spent her youth in Missouri and on July 11, 1876, she was married to Andrew Reaney. They came to Oregon in the spring of 1882 and settled near Lexington where she has since re sided. Surviving Mrs. Reaney are eight children, all of whom were present at the funeral. They are Mrs. Ha zel Budden of Boise, Idaho; Mrs. Mary Luntsford and Mrs. Delia Phelps of Kelso, Wash.; Mrs. Hat tie Lee of San Bernardino, Calif.; Mrs. Pearl Parker of Heppner, Mrs. Edith Miller of Lexington, Lee Reaney of Salem and Lawrence Reaney of Vancouver, Wash.; also nineteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Mr. Reaney passed away several years ago. She was a member of the Chris tian church. Committee Announces Rodeo Parade Prizes C. W. Smith and his committee in charge of the parade for the Heppner Rodeo, September 8-9, has announced the prize list for the various entries. The list still re mains open, however, for business houses to give additional prizes for any of the entries listed, for which additional merchandise prizes are not already given, or for the spon soring of additional features. The list follows: Organization floats, first $25 cash, second $15 cash, third $10 cash; best decorated automobile, first $10 cash, second, $5 merchandise Mac Marrs; third a year's subscription to Heppner Gazette Times; oldest man in parade (must be over 0 years), $3 cash; oldest woman in parade (must be over 50), $3 cash; best comedy with three or more people riding in parade, first $5 mdse., second $2.50 mdse.; best costumed cowboy, $5 mdse. Wil son's; best costumed cowgirl, $5 mdse. J. C. Penney Co. PORT ISSUE LOSES. Irrigon and Alpine precincts, vot ing on the matter of establishing a port to include those precincts, de feated the measure heavily at the special election Friday, 14 votes be ing recorded for, and 56 against es tablishment of the district. LAWN SOCIAL SLATED. A lawn social sponsored by the Christian, church will be held at the Frank W. Turner home begin ning at 5:30 p. m., Saturday. Ad mission charge 15 cents Refresh cents of sandwiches, ice cream, cookies and coffee. Which MISS DOROTHY DOHERTY Alpine 5 Large Assembly Offers Final Tribute to Pio neer at Spray. WAS ROAD ADVOCATE First to Conceiv6 Heppner-Spray Route; Elected Four Times to Legislature; Was Receiver. More than 400 friends and ac quaintances attended funeral rites held for Robert J. Carsner, pioneer resident of eastern Oregon, at Spray Sunday afternoon. Mr. Car sner died at a hospital in The Dalles last Friday following an op eration for appendicitis the day previous. Apparently In good health when he passed through Heppner last Wednesday on his way to The Dalles, his death came as a shock to Heppner friends, many of whom attended the fu neral services. Funeral rites were held by Hepp ner lodge 358, B. P. O. Elks, of which Mr. Carsner had long been a member, and a fitting tribute to the long life of usefulness and) constructive endeavor of the de ceased was paid by Earl W. Snell of Arlington, speaker of the house of representatives and former leg islative associate of Mr. Carsner. Services were held in the yard at the residence of Sammy Johnson to provide room for the large as semblage, made up of friends and neighbors of the family along the John Day river and from The Dalles, Arlington, Fossil, Condon, Keppner, and other points near and far. J. O. Turner, exalted ruler of Heppner lodge, led the services, as sisted by the following officers: J. G. Thomson, Jr., esteemed leading knight; Paul M. Gemmell, esteem ed loyal knight; Jasper Crawford, esteemed lecturing knight; Dean T. Goodman, secretary: J. G. Bar ratt, esquire; Earl W. Gordon, pre late. A minister from Fossil im plored the blessing, a local quartet sang two appropriate songs, and Mrs. J. O. Turner gave a piano of fertory. Pall bearers, members of Heppner lodge, were L. E. Bisbee, Ed Bucknum, Al Rankin, George Bleakman, J. G. Thomson, R. A. Thompson and Orve Rasmus. In terment, with commitment services by the lodge, was made in the fam ily plot in the Haystack cemetery, ten miles from Spray. Floral of ferings were many and beautiful. Born at Canyon City, Grant coun ty, October 31, 1876, to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Carsner. Robert J. Carsner spent his entire life in Grant and Wheeler counties with the exception of the time taken off to represent his district in the leg islative halls of the state, and for the last two years to serve as re ceiver of the U. S. land office at The Dalles. His election twice to the house of representatives and twice to the state senate is evi dence of his qualities of leadership, and the high esteem in which he was held by the people of his dis trict. He was elected last as state senator in 1928, and resigned with his term half completed to accept tne iand omce receivership. Mr. Carsner was ruled by a rugg ed nature, bred by a life in the rugged out of doors among the sheep and cattle in the rim-rocked mountains of the John Day coun try, spending most of his days as a stockman and ranch operator with large holdings in the vicinity cf Spray. Though rugged, his na ture was broad as the great out doors in which it was moulded, and his gentleness, love of home and friends, with a word as good as his bond, were attributes which gained for him a wide respect and which carried him to leadership among his people. It was "Bob" Carsner who first conceived the present Heppner- (Continued on Page Six) ROBERT J RITES HELD of These Will Be Queen of 1933 - - ' . U . - . - .t. hMMHriKdiHah ,-t Mill 1 I III I MISS EDNA LINDSTROM lone UIIIIIMIIMMIIHllllimiimillullimilltllllUIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIg IGRISTI : From Happenings Here and Yon ; Concerning The President Speaks j Destiny Cooperation and other things of more or less j ! moment as seen by f The G. T. REPORTER s President Roosevelt was heard in another of his administration broadcasts Monday evening. He gave a clear, concise statement of the New Deal in its various phases, how it had progressed to date, and what it hoped yet to accomplish. mm It sounded common sensical and workable, depending of course on the cooperation received. Cooperation. That was the key note. "Whats the use," he said, "or looking to individual effort to pull us out of the bog, when it had so dismally failed to do so in the last four years?" He was heart ened at the ready response shown so far to cooperate. Certainly he is not mistaken in appealing to the patriotic sense of the American people in meeting a peace-time emergency, as other ad ministrations have done in time of war. The President has shown him self to be broadminded. When Tammany felt sorely treated by the New Deal, he said in effect: "I ad mit we are making a big experi ment. However, if the experiment fails your support will do us no good; and if it succeeds, we don't need it" (Continued on Page Six) LEXINGTON GIRL LEADS QUEEN RACE Home Town Gives Ruth Din ires Boost at First Dance; Vote Next at Rhea Creek. Miss Ruth Dings with 6200 votes took off with a 'good lead in the contest for queen of the Heppner Rodeo, September 8-9, at the first contest dance held at Lexington Saturday night. Miss Mae Doher ty, Rhea Creek, was second with 3700; Miss Margaret Brosnan, Le na, was next with 2800; Miss Edna Lindstrom, lone, was fourth with 2400, and Miss Dorothy Doherty. Apline, was fifth with 2100. Lively interest was shown at the Lexington dance, with the home town giving Miss Dinges a eood head start. The contest is being en tered into in a spirit of friendly rivalry, to choose one of the con testants as queen of the Rodeo. with the other four to act as her attendants. The next contest dance will be held at Rhea creek, August 2, with two more following at two weeks intervals, the third to be at lone August 19, and the last at Heppner, eepiemDer &. Henry Aiken, Rodeo association vice-president, introduced the con testants present at the Lexington dance, all of whom were there with the exception of Miss Margaret Brosnan, who is spending some time in Walla Walla. He also ex plained how the contest is being conducted, with 100 votes going with each dance ticket purchased at any of the queen aances. Bud s Jazz band, which played at Lexington, has been retained for each of the other contest dances. The contest management has re tained T. T. Quinn, assistant re ceiver of the Heppner banks, to supervise opening of the ballot boxes and check the count, as a disinterested party, -and the votes are being kept intact in the First National bank vault in case a re check is desired at any time. MISS MARGARET BROSNAN Lena UMATILLA PROJECT NOW IN LIMELIGHT Site of River Development i Not Yet Settled; Lions Told of Progress. CITY CAMP LIKELY Legion Actiou Backed to Take Over Nyberg Road Camp for City As Recreation Grounds. Considerable agitation locally over newspaper reports that war department engineers had chosen Bonneville as the proposed site for a dam on the Columbia river, was later in the week dispelled by a statement from the department at Washington indicating that this site had only been chosen as the mo3t feasible of the proposed lower river sites, and that it did not take into consideration the picture of the river as a whole. The later announcement, includ ing instructions as to how Infor- fation should 'be presented before the army board of engineers within the next four weeks, would indi cate that the Umatilla Rapids pro ject would yet be considered on its merits in comparison with lower river projects, before the first to be constructed is decided upon. The matter of river development took on a new angle before the Lions club meeting Monday, when S. E. Notson, a vice president of the Umatilla Rapids association, told of plans of Umatilla, Echo and Stanneld to form a new associa tion, supposedly for advancement of the rapids project, at a meeting at Stanneld last evening. Mr. Notson said he had not been thoroughly informed of the pur pose of the new organizatin, but he did not believe it wise to divide eflorts in working for the project in the light of accomplishments al ready attained by the present as sociation. Mr. Notson was informed by E. P. Dodd of Hermiston, another vice president of the association, in a telephone conversation Monday morning, that the delegation at tending the Grand Coulee celebra tion had contacted Representatives Sam Hill and Newt Hill, and Sen ator Dill of Washington, and had received good response from them. While Senator Dill is not free to go to Washington, it was said he would gladly do what he could to arrange an audience with the pres ident for a representative of the association. The Umatilla Rapids association has been instrumental in obtaining practically all the development work thai has been done on the rapids project to date, Mr. Notson said. He declared that sufficient preliminary work has already been done on the project that actual construction could oe started on three weeks notice. He explained how the association is now attempting to unite eastern Oregon, Washington and Idaho in behalf of the project, and believes much headway is being made. Peo ple of this district were asked to stand ready to contribute money, if necessary, to get thi case of the Umatilla project before the presi dent. The Lions adopted a resolution favoring the action of the Ameri can Legion post of Heppner recent ly when the latter organization made arrangements to accept the Carl Nyberg road camp on the Heppner-Spray road as a gift from Mr. Nyberg to be turned into a community camp for Heppner. Sev eral good buildings, a good water supply, in a beautiful mountain spot, are included, which the Le gion and Lions believe would be a big asset to the city for the use of Boy Scouts, and as a community picnic ground. Spencer Crawford who presented me matter said mat application ror that would make the site very at lease of the site from the govern-1 tractive. MISS RUTH DINGES Lexington GRANGE HONORS 52nd ANNIVERSARY Willows Organization Cites Long Married Life of Mr. and Mrs. French Burroughs at Cecil. (Contributed) The fifty-second wedding anni versary of Mr. and Mrs. French Burroughs, members of Willows grange, was celebrated at the grange hall at Cecil last Saturday evening. A large crowd of mem bers and friends attended the lec turer's hour which was held before the business meeting was called Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs were con ducted to seats by the master's sta tion after which the following pro gram was given: Song, "Let Me Call Tou Sweet heart," entire grange; solo, "Be cause," Mrs. John Krebs; Lohen grin wedding march played by Harold Fmuell; mock wedding cer emony given by a number of small grange children; two songs, "When It's Harvest Time, My Sweet Caro line" and "Memories," Donald and Harriet Heliker; reading, "Grand pa's Specks," Gloria Stender; state grange report by Vida Heliker, del egate to state grange; solo, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie," O. B. Spaulding; reading. Dimple Crab tree; presentation of wedding cane Dy Mr. Spaulding. The children's wedding ceremony (Continued on Page Six) William Homer Maris Funeral Rites Held The victim of a hit-run driver, William Homer Maris, 43, promin ent northwest educator who spent part of his boyhood days in Hepp ner, was laid to rest at Portland yesterday following services at the Holman & Lutz chapel. Services were held Tuesday at Tacoma where Mr. Maris had been instruc tor for three years In the College of Puget Sound. It was near Ta coma that Mr. Maris met his death by being struck by an automobile while riding on his bicycle last Sunday. Tuesday's Oregonian carried the following obituary: Mr Maris formerly lived in Portland with his parents, Mr; and Mrs. Newton C. Maris, who still re side here. He was graduated from Washington high school and later taught at Lincoln high school. At tlie time of is death he had been an Instructor at the Colleire of Puget Sound, Tacoma, for ap proximately tnree years. Born in Newberg, Or., he successively made his home there, in Heppner and in Portland with is parents. It was with 'Newt' Maris and his familv that young Herbert Hoover lived for a part of the time that he spent in Newberg. . Mr. Maris attended both Oregon State college and the University of Oregon, graduating from the latter school. It was he who composed the song 'Carry Me Back to O. A. C,' while attending the state col lege. He taught for a time at La Grande, Or., and following the war was with the Veterans' bureau in Washington, D. C. Besides his parents, the widow. Buena, and a daughter, Marjorie, he is survived by three brothers, Owen R. Maris, Portland, assistant cashier of the First National bank; Paul V. Maris, director of federal co-operative extension at Oregon State college, and Dr. Ralph W. Maris, Portland, prominent den tist" Many of the boyhood friends of Mr. and Mrs. Maris at Heppner still reside here and unite in extending their heartfelt sympathy to the be reft family. Mr. Maris was a close friend and associate of Arthur R. Crawford, eldest son of the editor, wnen the two were roommates at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity on the University of Oregon campus in 1912. ment had been made, and that if granted, the charge would probably be nominal. There is a possibility of making a good swimming pool, and additional other improvements Rodeo? MISS MAE DOHERTY Rhea Creek ft Vv ...- . v. E T T Council Asks Irrigation Ban Sunday Noon to Monday Night. TO TRY EXPERIMENT Plunge Will be Kept Open If Enough Water Results; Good of Everyone Considered. When the water runs short, peo ple want to go swimming. That's the anomaly which confronted the city council at a special session Monday evening, and which proved a knotty problem without a clear means of solution. What the council decided to do was to request people not to use water for irrigation between Sun day and Monday noons, so that water might be diverted to fill the swimmng tank. This action was taken as an ex perimental measure to see If enough water could be provided to fill the swimming tank, at the re quest of the American Legion. If successful, the plan may be fol lowed for a time until a change In the weather lessens the demand on the supply, or helps increase the supply so that there may be enough water to go around. In explaining the water situation. W. E. Pruyn, superintendent said that at present barely enough wa ter was coming from the city wells to keep the city supplied and the reservoirs filed. He feared that giving enough water for the swim ming tank would decrease the re serve supply to an extent where it would be purely experimental and Any attempt to further increase the flow from the wells, he believed, woudl be purely experimental and might result disastrously. ine other recourse of Increasing the supply considered by the coun cil, was to turn in water from the creek at the old intake above the forks of Willow creek. Councilmen. mayor and legionnaires present all discouraged this idea except as a last resort. I The arrangement on the swim- ming pool, under the management of Harold Buhman, was explained by Elbert Cox and Walter Moore. For the last three weeks, the tank has been kept running with water pumped from the creek beside the tank. The supply at this point has given out, and the only way to keep the tank open that they could see was to call on the city. Mr. Buhman is operating the tank without pay, except what he can make over cost of operation. It was said that the tank had never returned any money to the legion, but that $2400 of legion money had been put Into it purely as a com munity enterprise. They believed that keeping the tank open offered the onyl recreation facilities spon sored by the city, for its people during the summer season. Be sides keeping the tank open and giving swimming Instructions, Mr. Buhman has also been coaching the school band for its appearance at the Rodeo, and if the tank were closed it would force him to leave. Mayor Anderson and Councilmen Cox, McMurdo, Goodman and Shively, who were present, as well as Mr. Pruyn, all expressed their desire to see the tank kept open If consistent with the best interests of the city generally. To Eliminate Curve on Road Near Hardman Preliminary work looking to the elimination of the sharp curve on Hardman hill on the Hennner- Spray road is being carried on by the county and state engineers, and as soon as the project is approved and funds made available it is ex pected the work will be proceeded with. A considerable fill will be necessary to straighten the road at this point, but the engineers be lieve it should be done. A crew with considerable machin ery is now at work along the hill widening the road. GRASS FIRES MENACE. To meet the grass fire menace at the present season, Mark Merrill, fire chief, announces that people who desire to clean up the grass about their premises should notify him and the protection of the fire truck will be given between the hours of 3 o'clock and 8 o'clock eveninps. ' An Alarm wn tia,t I in this morning for a crass Are at the residence of Father P. J. Stack, but the assistance of the truck was not required in con trolling it. EDWARD MELTON. Funeral services were held at Morgan at 1:30 o'colck yesterday afternoon for Edward Melton, 68, who died Monday at Pilot Rock, with Phelps Funeral home of this city in charge. Joel R. Benton, minister of the Church of Christ, officiated. Interment was In the family plot in the Morgan ceme tery. Mr. Melton was formerly a reslent of the Morgan community. He is survive by two nieces and a nephew. Henry Aiken and family are spending a week's outing at Blue Mountain springs. 1