TOCAI. SOCIETY ORE PQP. TLA' Volume 50, Number 21. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUG. 3, 1933 Subscription $2.00 a Year em T Membership Placards Ap pear; Mass Meeting Discusses Plan. OPENING HOURS SET Betail Stores, Barber Shops Adopt 8 to 6 o'clock as Business Day; Higher Prices Scheduled. Business houses of Heppner are 100 percent in their support of the president In his National Recovery Act. This developed at a public mass meeting of business men held at Hotel Heppner last Friday eve ning, and in interviews with indiv idual firms this week, many of whom are already displaying the membership placards. While all businesses of the city were not certain as to just how they might be affected by the act, they were unanimous in their dec laration that they were willing to do whatever they could to speed recovery. The mass meeting Friday eve ning developed following receipt that morning of the temporary agreement ronns, in which the bus iness men were asked to comply with the general blanket code which stipulates a 40-hour week for employees and a minimum wage stale for various classes of labor. The code went into effect Tuesday. A discussion of the provisions of the agreement revealed that very little of the code affects towns un der 2500 population, but those Arms affected locally arranged to comply with its provisions. Among other provisions of the agreement is a section providing that those sign ing agreements will give preference in making purchases to firms dis playing the blue eagle. . It was also said that buttons are available at the postofflce to be distributed among the general buy ing public to distinguish the wear er as one who patronizes retail firms displaying the NRA sign. Developing out of the Friday meeting was another mass meeting of retail business1 houses Monday evening called for the purpose of agreeing locally on opening and closing hours for these businesses. This action was taken aside from the NRA agreement, and It was made plain that there was no di rect connection between the two actions. The shorter hours agreed upon were made, it was said, be cause of the general tendency for shorter business hours over the country. Under the agreement evolved at this meeting, beginning August 1 all retail business houses were to start the business day at 8 o'clock in the morning and close at 6 o' clock in the evening on week days, and to open at 8 o'clock in the morning and to close at 9 o'clock in the evening on Saturdays, and to remain closed on Sundays. Drug stores, garages and service stations, pastimes, and barber shops were not affected by this agreement. The two barber shops of the city, however, under a separate pact, have agreed to shorten their busi ness day by closing an hour earlier in the evening, giving them exactly the same hours as the retail busi ness houses, 8 to 6 o'clock on week days, and 8 to 9 o'clock on Satur days. Effects of the recovery act as applied to Industry are already be ginning to be felt In local stores with receipt of schedules showing advancing prices. Increased prices for raw materials as well as higher wages are reflected In the sched ules, Indicating a rise In retail prices generally. Compensatory rise in. the purchasing power of farmers is hoped for through the operation of the companion Agri cultural Adjustment Act, of which the domestic allotment plan for wheat Is a part.. RALPH CHARNLEY. Ralph Charnley, husband of Mrs. Dldama Day Charnley of 6929 N. Alta Ave., Portland, passed away at the Vancouver General hospital, Vancouver, B. C, July 26. Mr. Charnley was a resident of Barnston Island for 30 years; was 73 years of age, and was born in England. He is survived by his widow, three sons and three daugh ters, all of whom were with him during his Illness and at the time of his death. He was a man of many worldly experiences, having spent two years in the heart of Alaska with a group of friends and had kept In close contact with his native land by making several return visits to England. The funeral was held on Friday from the Maple Ridge Angelican church to the Maple Ridge ceme tery, conducted by the Rev. Cyril .Venebles. The Columbia Funeral service had charge of the arrange ments. Mr. Charnley had been a resident of Portland since 1929, and was highly regarded by his circle of friends In that city. Mrs. Melissa Marlatt and Mrs. George Schwartz, sisters of Mrs Charnley, reside at Heppner. Funeral Rites Held for Mrs. Walter Evans Funeral services were held from the family home on Willow creek, six miles north of Heppner, be ginning at 2 o'clock Monday after noon for Mrs. Walter Evans, who died at 2:30 o'clock Thursday after noon following an attack of influ enza. Services were in charge of Phelps Funeral home with Joel R. Benton, Christian minister, officiat ing. Interment was in Masonic cemetery. A large concourse of friends and neighbors attended the services and a profusion of beautiful floral offer ings was their tribute of sympathy and esteem. Mrs. Evans had been ill with in fluenza for some time. She had ap parently recuperated quite well, when on Thursday she arose from her bed, and ate a hearty noon meal. She sustained a heart at tack and passed away at 2:30 o 'clock. Estella Herren was born in Mis souri, April 2, 1890, and died at Heppner, Oregon, July 27, 1933, aged 43 years, 3 months and 25 days. She moved with her family to Idaho when 6 years of age, where she lived until about 18 years ago when she came to Morrow county. She was married to Walter Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Evans of this city, January 6, 1925, and the family home was made on Wil low creek till the time of her death. Besides her widower, Mrs. Evans is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Herren of Sturgis S. Dak., a sister, Mrs. Bessie Hub- bell, and a brother, Ernest Herren, both of Rapid City, S. Dak. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Herren and family were present for the funer al services. Also attending from out of town were Jeff and Minnie Evans of Walla Walla, Wash., and Fred Evans and family of Freewa- ter. I0NE By MARGARET BLAKE Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Harris were business visitors at Pendleton on Tuesday. George E. Tucker, superintendent of the lone school, passed through town last Saturday. He has com pleted six weeks of summer school at. the University of Oregon, and was on his way to Lander, Wyom ing, where Mrs. Tucker has been spending the past two months at the home of her parents. Stanley Seeley made a trip to Portland last week. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allstott, Jr., have moved into the house by the creek owned by Ralph Harris. Mr. Allstott is employed in harvest near lone. Mrs. Victor Peterson and son of Heppner spent several days visiting friends and relatives in lone the past week. W. F. Honey of Gresham is in lone for a stay of a week or so while looking after his business In terests. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pomerantz are visitors at the home of Mrs. Pom erantz's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hen ry Clark. The Past Noble Grand club of Bunch grass Rebekah lodge held their July meeting at the home if Mrs. J. E. Swanson last Friday af ternoon. The regular business was attended to, then as there was no club work on hand the ladies spent the remainder of the afternoon quilting on a quilt their hostess had In frames. Delicious refreshments were served. The following ladies were present: Mrs E. J. Bristow, Mrs. C. W. Swanson, Miss Norma Swanson, Mrs. Cleo Drake, Mrs. Ernest Heliker, Mrs. Frank Lun- dell, Mrs. Lena Lundell, Mrs. Ella Davidson, Mrs. J, W Howk, Mrs. Garland Swanson, and Mrs. Elmo McMillan. The August meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. E. J. Bristow. Mr. and Mrs. James Lindsay mo tored to Portland Saturday evening to bring home tbeir daughters, Hel en and Betty Lou who have spent the past two months with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Akers. Miss Joan Birks of Portland who has been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Roberts re turned to her home Wednesday. Mrs. Mary E. Ball suffered a par alytic stroke at her ranch home last Monday and was taken to the hospital at Heppner for care. Mrs. Ross Perry who has been seriously ill at the Heppner hospi tal has been returned to her home and is reported to be improving slowly. Mrs. Garland Swanson went to Salem Sunday for a short visit. She went as far as Portland with Johnny Eubanks who went down to get a load of sacks for the ele vator company. Mrs. Tom Davidson spent several days of last week visiting at Hepp ner with Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Turner. Mrs. Edna Jewell of Pasco, Wn, came to lone last week to get her children, Billy and Lois, who have been visiting with their grand mother, Mrs. Alice McNabb. Mrs. MJcNabb returned with them ten Pasco for a visit Also going with the party was Mrs. Ellen Relth, mother of Mrs, J. P. O'Meara, who will visit a son at Sprague, Wn., for some time. Word was received Monday of the death on that day of Mrs. Walt Puyear at Lewiston, Idaho. Mrs. Puyear had suffored for some time with kidney trouble, and a letter from her daughter, June, last week (Continued on Pace Four) Ntw PLAN PROPOSED Low Dams at Bonneville and at Rapids Backed for Navigation. TO MEET TOMORROW Dill Goes to Washington to Help Present Picture; Walla Walla Meeting Site, Lions Told. Further progress of the campaign of the Umatilla Rapids association in its fight to gain presidential rec ognition of its project for expendi ture of funds for the development of the Columbia river was report ed at the Lions club meeting Mon day by S. E. Notson, local vice president of the association. Since last week's report in which Mr. Notson said that the coopera tion of Senator Dill and Congress men Sam Hill and Newt Hill of Washington had been assured, but that Senator Dill was not In a po sition to go to Washington, Mr. Notson reported this week that the senator had gone to Washington and in company with Senator Mo Nary was attempting to put the complete picture of development of the river before the president. The tentative program which the association is now pushing contenv plates the building of a low dam at Bonneville that would obviate the necessity of expending some $3,- 000,000 indemnity to railroads and highways which would be called for under the proposed plan of the en gineers, and in addition another low dam at Umatilla Rapids. The Bonneville dam would include the erection of a power plant, but no power plant would be hullt at Uma tilla Rapids, the dam at this point being solely to aid navigation. The construction of two such dams, the association believes, would give the greatest aid to transportation as well as serve the immediate power needs in the light of authorization of the Grand Coulee dam, which will be built entirely as a power project. - The dam at Umatilla Rapids now proposed would cost $11,000,000, ac cording to the estimate given. To round out its campaign and to present a united front of the 16 counties in Oregon, Washington and Idaho vitally interested in the Umatilla Rapids development, a meeting of representatives cover ing all the territory has been call ed at Walla Walla tomorrow eve ning. A number of Lions expressed their intention of attending. Mr. Notson also reported that organi zation of the joint association rep resenting Echa, Umatilla and Stan field had been perfected, and this body had expressed its intention of coordinating its efforts with those of the rapids association, expecting to nave representation at the Wal la Walla meeting. It was expected the president would give his final say on the Co lumbia development soon after his return from his latest vacation jaunt, and the association recog nizes me necessity of pushing an aggressive campaign as rapidly as possible. Spencer Crawford reported fur ther on the community mountain camp project, the present Nyberg roaa camp, tnat an engineer had surveyed the site this week and tne forest service okeh seemed probable in the near future. A guest of the Lions was Pf William F. Boyer, superintendent of music for the Portland public aenuuis, wno led tne grouD sine-Ins and obliged with an entertaining vocal and piano solo. Professor Boyer was a house guest of Mr. and irs. j. u uault while In the city. Other guests included A. H. Swit- zer of Arlington, Wm. Francis and . A. McMahon, state police, and W. L. McGhee, manager Interior Warehouse company. FIND RUBBER BOAS, A grouD Of Hnnnnor TZntr e..j. ! I J WLVULS who spent Friday afternoon to Sun- uay morning at camp at the saw dust pile in the monntalna innnn other things picked up two rubber ona snaKes, described by a natural ist in the Oregonian recently as the smallest of the South American boa constrictors. Scott McMurdo and John Crawford were the proud possessors of the reptiles which Were displayed on their arrival in town. Young Mc Murdo, a little dubious about pick ing up one of the snakes with his fingers, went to the creek and plck- eu up a crawaaa, using its pincers to pick up the snake. Eight to ten Inches in length, amber colored with light yellow bellies, blunt tail ed, and true constrictors, the snakes answered In every particu lar the naturalist's description In the Oregonian. GETS ORDER FOR BONDS. When In Portland last week, S. E. Notson, district attorney, receiv ed an order from federal court asking that J. G. Gault, receiver, turn over to Morrow county bonds held to secure deposit In First Na tional bank. A showing to the comptroller will be made why such action should be taken, and Mr. Notson anticipates no difficulty. yillllltllllllMIIIIIIIIIIMIIMIIMIIIimittllimilMIIIMIIIIHIIII; IGRIST I From Happenings Here and Yon I Concerning s What It Means j Business Hours 1 f Racketeering Doomed j and other things of more or less i moment as seen by , .The G. T. REPORTER f m Conjecture was rife on Main street this week as to the mean ing of the NRA displayed on plac ards in store windows. Jim Cox said it means, "No Running Around." Storekeepers dispalying the sign should stay on the job, he believes. I However that may be, business men are for it; see the elimina tion of unfair trade practices thru adoption of the uniform codes in various lines of industry. Action of some places was being delayed awaiting adoption of code for their special line of business. But only words of commenda- tion and support of the recovery program were heard. All Hepp ner business is ready to give the "New Deal" a chance to work. Tuesday morning storekeepers' of Heppner started to work an hour later than usual under a new business-day pact. The longer hours of the past were not neces sary to transact the ordinary busi ness of the city, they believed. Time was when Heppner stores stayed open every day of the week from 6 or 7 o'colck in the morning till 9 or 10 o'clock at night, Sun days included. Business hours have been shortened at ' intervals since, as it was learned that the public will trade during business hours whatever they may be, except in emergency cases. Farmers, too, seem favorably im pressed with the domestic allot ment wheat plan, which will go hand in hand with the industrial recovery act locally to balance the economic ledger. A heavy sign-up of acreage reduction agreements is anticipated. .. - Nearly $300,000 will be their com pensation this year, if all partici pate, according to word from Sec retary Wallace. Now the president is preparing to wage war on racketeering, al ready struck a staggering blow by provisions of the recovery act Es pecially slated for effacement Is the kidnapping racket. That's good news. Maybe it will not be long before our people can again sing, "the land of the free and the home of the brave," and mean It If so, the New Deal will be the best hand the country was ever dealt Mrs. Ed Piercy, son Kenneth and daughters Pauline and Virginia are visiting at the E. E. Gilliam home from .their home at The Dalles Kenneth graduated from The Dal les high school last year. They ex pected to go on to Portland shortly for an inspection of Old Ironsides. FRIENDSHIP, WAR, DIABETES INSPIRE LETTER FROM FORMER 'GAZET' EDITOR (Editor's Note: The following com munication from Col. J. W. Redlngton, pioneer editor of the Heppner Gazette, la offered with pleasure to Gazette Times readers. It's (tush and spirit are indicative of Col. Redington's former pungent journalistic style, and it's op timism reveals a philosophic nature rarely found in human kind. The lock of hair referred to in his letter (mucli resembling hemn) was enclosed: also copies of affidavits showing the colonel's service connections, ana a record of his military service which is printed at the end of his letter. Also enclosed was a "war map" of the colonel in his young er days a picture showing him on horseback.) Main Hospital, National Military Home, Calif., Somewhere in July, '33. Editor Gazet: Thi3 is one of the best hospitals on earth, with all modern appli ances, and its cheerfulness was added to yesterday by a visit from Garfield Crawford, Heppner Black man and James Hart, who found myself and Milton Morgan In the same ward, and we had an inter esting powwow about pioneer days in Eastern Oregon, and discussed who was dead, who was not dead, and who ought to be dead. It was a great pleasure to again meet those old Heppner boys, and very kind of them not to forget us Boy Scout shut-ins, but it was a sur prise to see how they had gained weight, Heppner Blackman having run up to 180, and Garfield to 160. Where "Hopp" gets his weight from is a great mystery. His father and mother and Uncle Henry were all medium. But this weight business Is a queer proposition, While I have d'opped down to 112, one of my little girls In Seattle writes that she now weighs 181, which shows that we are keeping a general average In the family. Seven months ago the doctor here who specializes on diabetes said ALLOTMENT IjajttBDSHELS Minimum of 28 Cents to Be Paid as Benefit Under Agreement. BONUS PLAN CITED Would Stimulate Export of North west Wheat; Nearly $300,000 in Sight for County Growers. Morrow county's wheat allotment under the agricultural adjustment act is 1,050,065 bushels, according to announcement this week. In making the announcement, Secre tary Wallace said that the mint mum allowance per bushel on each farmer's allotment, to compensate him for reducing acreage the re quired amount not to exceed 20 per cent of the average acreage planted for the last three years, would be 28 cents a bushel. Farmers who agree to reduce acreage will be paid 20 cents a bushel on their allotments this fall, and a minimum of 8 cents a bushel in the spring after it is shown they have lived up to their agreements. On the basis of the announced al lotment and compensation figures, should there be a 100 percent sign up in Morrow county, farmers of the county would receive $210,013 this fall and 84,005.20 next spring, or a total of $294,018.20. Production allotments all told were announced for 42 states and 2233 counties, totaling 456,198,588 bushels, the basis on which benefit payments will be made to farmers under the voluntary domestic allot ment plan. Because of the congestion of wheat in Pacific Northwest termin als, which shippers say must go either for export or through the Panama canal to eastern U. S. ports, the farm administrators are considering the payment of a boun ty to stimulate its going for export and to prevent it dragging down the eastern market. Under -the plan 2 cents of each 30-cent-per- bushel processing . tax would- be used, aggregating some $20,000,000. Authority under the agricultural adjustment act is given to use a portion of the processing tax to "expand markets and remove sur plus agricultural products." The reconstruction finance cor poration recently completed a $50, 000,000 loan to China to be used for the purchase of cotton and wheat, $10,000,000 of the amount to go for wheat purchases. Grain men have welcomed the bonus proposal, saying that exports have been practically at a stand still. They believe that opening up torelgn markets in this way will help safeguard the domestic price, which will in turn react to the ben efit of the producer. Contracts under the allotment plan are expected to be received lo cally late in August, and in the meantime the local committee of growers with the assistance of the county agent are busy gathering data necessary to fix allotments when contracts have been signed, and to proceed with the organiza tion of the Morrow County Wheat Production Control association. that the test showed sugar In my blood, and when I asked what of it, and mightn't it be just as well to have it there as In the sugar bowl, he said no, that it was a sure sign of diabetes, which might cause coma. I argued that I had no dia betes or anything else, and any way, that coma was an easy way to kick off you went to sleep and never woke up. However, I was ordered to take two shots of In sulin every day, but after awhile that was reduced to one shot, so that then I was only half-shot. Pretty soon the medicine man proved to be right, as a diabetes sore came on my foot, swelling up to imitate a baloon tire, giving me acres of agony, especially at night, when it had the jumping-toothache, defying millions of medicines and the most skillful surgery. I wore out the worst of It by be ing nailed down to a wheel-chair for six months, so that now the sore spot has reduced to about the size of one of those life-saver loz enges with a donut hole In It, and I am again allowed to scout around outdoors, when wearing a cane. But the sore still stings. Mr. Morgan has a swollen knee, which refused to reduce, and is pretty painful, and would prevent his keeping time with the rest of the congregation if he attended services in an Episcopal or any church where they did so much kneeling down. He and I served in the Nez Perce Indian war in 1877, and we get thrills in recalling incidents of that campaign, but I have to sandpaper up his memory In regard to the fine feather beds the soldiers slept on while zigzag ging over the Lo Lo Trail, when the Quartermaster's Corps rode out In advance, right on the heels (Continued on Pas Four) Queen Dance Saturday; Juniper Hop Scheduled Second voting for queen of the 1933 Heppner Rodeo will take place at the dance at Rhea Creek hall next Saturday night In the Initial round of the contest at Lexington, Miss Ruth Dinges, the Lexington representative, took off In the lead with 6200 votes, with the other can didates in order, Miss Mae Doherty 3700, Miss Margaret Bros nan 2800, Miss Edna Lindstrom 2400, Miss Dorothy Doherty 2100. Rhea Creek is sponsoring the candidacy of Miss Mae Doherty. Arrangements are being mada for adding one more dance to the schedule of queen contest dances, to be held at Juniper hall, August 26. This will be a free dance, though ballots will be sold to de fray expense. The remaining dances will be held at lone, August 19, and at Heppner, September 2. IN AUTO ACCIDENT. Mrs. J. L. Gault and Prof. Wil liam F. Boyer, superintendent of music In the Portland public schools, who left Heppner Tuesday enroute for Jefferson and Corval lis Mrs Gault to attend the dedi cation of the state bridge at Jef ferson named in honor of her grandfather met with an accident when their car overturned on the Heppner-Spray road at the head of Haystack canyon. Faulty brakes were believed to have been respon sible. They were assisted in right ing the car by a forest truck, and continued on their journey, stop ping off at Prineville for medical attention to their injuries. Bruises and slight lacerations were sus tained by the occupants while the car was only slightly damaged. Mr. Gault and Fred Lucas went out to the scene of the accident immedi ately on receipt of word. LEXINGTON By BEULAH B. NICHOLS. The Lexington school will open Monday, September 11, with the following corps of teachers In charge: Principal of the high school and grades will be James H. Wil liams who has been In the schools at Lostlne for the past three years and he comes to Lexington highly recommended. Miss Freda Ham- mel of Monmouth and Laurel Beach of Lexington will fill the other high school positions. Teach ers in the grades are: first and sec ond, Mrs. La Vlle White; third and fourth, Miss Eula McMillan; fifth and sixth, George Gillis; sev enth and eighth, Mrs. Frank Tur ner. This will be Mrs. Turner's tenth year as seventh and eighth grade teacher in this school. Mr. Gillis has taught here the past two years and both Mrs. White and Miss McMillan taught here last year. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Barnett en tertained the following guests at dinner Sunday: Mrs. Minnie Leach, Mr. and Mrs. James Leach and the Misses Opal and Wilma Leach. The chief social event of Interest during the week was the miscellan eous shower on Thursday after noon, honoring Mrs. Lonnie Hen derson, nee LaVerne White, who was recently married. Mrs, Hen derson received many lovely and useful gifts. One feature of the afternoon's entertainment was "The Wedding of the Flowers" which was enjoyed by all. At the close of a very pleasant afternoon refresh ments of cake and punch were served by the Misses Glea Sias, Faye Luttrell, Grace Burchell, Rose Thornburg, Jessie McCabe, Fern Luttrell and Tillie Nelson. Others present besides those already men tioned were Mesdames Pearl Shaw, Lorena Miller, Helen Nichols, Mar garet Swift, Lulu Wright, Pearl Gentry, Emma White, Ruth Mc Millan, Kathryn Slocum, Frances McMillan, Margaret Leach, La Velle White, Beulah Nichols, Lor raine Beach, Emma Peck, Bertha Dinges, Sarah White, Nellie Pal mer, Casha Shaw, Freda Slocum, Edna Hunt, Laura Scott, Carolyn Kuns, Chas. Sia3, J. M. White, Em ma Breashers, Cleo Van Winkle, Doris Graves, Ethel Wilcox, and the Misses Wilma Leach, Mae Cal loway, Alma Van Winkle, Clara Nelson, Opal Leach, Alice Palmer and Muriel Patterson. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Omar Luttrell last week were their daughters, Mrs. Lois Snively of Ce- lilo and Mrs. Dona Hill of Rufus. Miss Mae Calloway of Corvallis is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Peck. Miss Calloway Is a niece of Mr. Peck. Chris Moehnke passed away last Thursday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Julian Rauch. Merle Carmlchael and Esther Schlerman motored to Stanfield on Sunday. Mrs. Roy Campbell who has been quite 111 was taken to the Heppner hospital Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schriever had as their guests last week Miss Gertrude Schwarz, Gordon McNiel and Mrs. Walter Stutte and two children, Phyllis and Robert, of Portland and Mr. and Mrs. Nick Faler of Boarman. Miss Edna Luttrell has gone to Celllo to visit with her sister, Mrs. Lois Snively. Miss Tillie Nelson is staying with Mrs. J. F. McMillan. Mrs. Glenn Gale and young son who have been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Sylvannus Wright have returned to their home at Portland. Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. T. M. Scott at (Continued on Fag Four) COUNTY SCHOOL D LL Auditor Advises Consoli dation, Enlarging Ser vice of Treasurer. DEBT TOTAL LARGE $333,743.35 Owed by All Schools; Comparison of High School Op erating Costs Given. In the face of an increased In debtedness last year of $27,441.24 in the total school indebtedness of the county, as shown by his report completed last Friday, C. R. Harn, auditor, recommended still further economy in the coming year's school operations in order to better this condition. The present total school indebtedness of the county as of June 19, 1933, was given at $333,743.35. An excess of expenditures over receipts plus cash balances at the beginning of the year was shown to be $39,000, represented by a like amount In unpaid warrants. Of the total expenditures $12,000 went for retirement of bonded indebtedness. so that actually the indebtedness was increased by $27,441.24. The total expenditures of $198,- 356.99 for the year, as shown by the consolidated report, was divid ed as follows: $62,041.06 went to re tire old bonds, notes and warrants outstanding; $17,214.07 was paid for interest, and $136,315.93 was paid for current operating expenses. Some Salaries Large. "I am of the opinion that some of the schools are paying (last year) some teachers' salaries that are higher than necessary to ob tain good teachers," Ham's report says. "I am of the opinion also that & saving can be effected, and probably education improved, by closing the high school deparment of two or three schools that operat ed last year and transporting their few pupils to larger high schools or else boarding these pupils in towns of the latter." Leading to the conclusion that the county treasurer's office should be extended to offer banking facil ities to all districts of the county. Harn further reported: The lack of banking facilities locally since last October, 1932, has been the cause of a great amount of delay in the cashing of warrants and inconveniences to the clerks in keeping their records. A vary few districts keep bank accounts in Portland and Henniston, but the great majority have no bank ac count, except their deposit accounts at the local banks both of which have been closed for nine months. The county treasurer, Mr. Leon W. Briggs, has been performing a fine service for many of these districts by taking their money and cash ing their warrants as the holders present them. Treasurer Plan Told. "This condition leads me to rec ommend that the duties of the staff of the county treasurer's office be enlarged to enable that office to perform the banking function for all Morrow county districts choos ing to take advantage of this ser vice. If such an extended plan is adopted, a competent person should be engaged as a deputy to the treasurer, and bonded, and given charge of this branch of the treas urer s service, on such ararngement as to time as may be required. Such a plan would operate about as fol lows: "A new ledger would be started with a deposit account for each district; money would be received on deposit from the clerks and credited to the districts' respect ive accounts. Warrants presented at the treasurer's office would be cashed and charged to the districts issuing them; warrants to be paid that are not presented to the treas urer's window, could be paid by the treasurer's check, and charged to the districts; the clerks would issue warrants to the treasurer for the total interest he had paid on the warrants. Taxes and monies from school funds would be trans ferred to the districts' deposit ac counts, with the traasurer's usual entries for the payment of these funds, and credits as described above for the deposit of these re ceipts in the new districts' ac counts." Harn's consolidated report, in cluding all of the school year 1932- lvii ending June 19, 1933, shows to tal cash receipts of $248,932.25, and a cash balance after expenditures of $50,575.26. The outstanding in debtedness of $333,743.35 Included $197,100.00 bonded indebtedness and $136,643.35 warrant Indebtedness. His schedule of delinquent taxes. including all of 1932 and half of (Continued on Fas Four) ENTERTAINMENT SLATED. "A Pipe Dream," sponsored by Heppner unit, American Legion Auxiliary, will be presented at the school gym-audltorlum tomorrow evening under the direction of Mrs. Roikjer of Seattle. Including 10 choruses, all catchy, cleverly and beautifully staged, specialty num bers, the entertainment, all home talent, will be presented In three parts: "Vacation Days," musical numbers and pantomime.