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
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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-
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Cooperation
and other things of more or less j
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The G. T. REPORTER
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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.
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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"
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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