HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1936.
PAGE THREE
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bechdolt of
Boardman are claimants to an en
viable county record, that of hav
ing been subscribers to the Hepp
ner Gazette-Times continuously for
more than 26 years with their sub
scription never having been delin
quent for so much as a day. Mrs.
Bechdolt, who has been spending
the week In Heppner, came in the
office this week to renew next year's
subscription before It is due and
point pridefully to their excellent
record In this respect. The G. T.
unofficially grants Mrs. Bechdolt
right to this claim, fervently wish
ing there were more applicants for
the honor.
Mrs. Clara Beamer, executive
secretary of the Morrow County
Relief association. County Commis
sioners George Peck and Frank S.
Parker, Mrs. Frank Rumble and
Mrs. James Gentry motored to Pen
dleton Tuesday. The county offi
cials attended the conference on
the new state social security and
old age pensions plans which was
conducted in Pendleton that day by
staff members from the state office.
Mrs. Gentry visited her husband,
who has been a patient at St. An
thony's hospital for several weeks.
His condition seems to be showing
Improvement
Members of the Bookworms club
made up a line party in attendance
at "Midsummer Night's Dream"
Tuesday night. Later the group
met at the McAtee home for a dis
cussion of the play. They enjoyed
a reading of an original version of
a sketch including "Midsummer
Night's Dream" characters which
Mrs. McAtee wrote while a Shake
spearian student at the University
of Michigan.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Notson are in
receipt of word from their son, Lee,
who resides in Logan, Iowa, that
he has been laid up several weeks
with a badly injured knee. The in
jury, sustained in a fall, was so
serious that physicians predict it
will be several months before Lee
is able to get around again, except
by the aid of crutches.
Cars driven by Faye Prock and
Wayne Swaggart were Involved in
a minor accident at Main and Cen
ter street intersection in Heppner
Sunday. Prock's truck, making a
left turn, collided with the Swag
gart car. Since neither was travel
ing at a very high speed damages
were slight, with no one injured.
Frank Turner, local horse fan
cier, is busy grooming his thorough
bred, "Little Gypsy," for the spring
races at Hermiston and La Grande.
The new track recently completed
at Hermiston Is rated the best in
the state, according to Mr. Turner,
with a half-mile track laid on ideal
running surface.
Mention by the Portland Oregon
Ian Sunday as an Oregon poet out
standing enough to have had her
work published in national maga
zines was Irma Grace Blackburn
of Heppner. Mrs. Blackburn is the
wife of Walter Blackburn, local
garage man.
Anabel Turner has returned from
Oregon State college and will re
main at home for the duration of
the spring term. She is assisting
her father, Frank W. Turner, in
his real estate and Insurance of
fice. Mrs. Victor Peterson and small
sons of Heppner have been visit
ing relatives and friends at lone for
the past week while Mr. Peterson
Is covering his territory in me in
terests of the Federal Land bank.
Lotus Robison of the Rhea creek
farming community was In Mon
day. The big blow of last week
was pretty general out his way, al
though not nearly so disastrous as
in other parts of the county.
Mrs. Neal Knighten of Hardman
was greeting friends in Heppner
the first of the week, having recent
ly returned to this part of the
country following residence in Port
land for several months.
Joseph Belanger, Morrow county
agent, Is In Corvallis this week at
tending conferences of county ag
ents and agricultural experts rel
ative to the new federal crop ar
rangements. Mrs. R. B. Rice of the Artesian
well district out from Lexington
managed to dig out of the dust in
her part of the country and come
In to Heppner to shop Tuesday.
Mrs. Glenn Jones and son, Billy,
returned Sunday for a week's visit
In Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Currin were
over from their Pilot Rock home
Tu esd ay.
"The Exile," a story of the life of
Pearl Buck's mother, written by
Pearl Buck, has been purchased by
the Heppner Public library and
placed upon its rental shelf.
Wayne Stevens, special investi
gator for the state liqijor commis
sion, has been in this district this
week working with law enforce
ment officials.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray P. Kinne and
son Dicky returned Saturday night
from Portland. They made the
trip home in a new car purchased
in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Shaw of the
Lexington section spent part of
Monday in Heppner shopping and
attending to business matters.
Mrs. Ben Crisman is in a ser
ious condition at the Heppner hos
pital, following a second major op
eration performed Saturday.
Vere Hale of Lena and Mrs. Tom
O'Brien and son Gordon of Butter
creek represented that part of the
county in town Monday.
Lola Keithley was able to leave
the Heppner hospital Tuesday and
return to her lone home following
a major operation.
D. P. Phelan is able to be about
town again after undergoing a long
period of hospitalization in Port
land. Dr. J. P. Stewart, Eye-Sight spec
ialist of Pendleton, will be at the
Heppner Hotel on Wednesday, Ap
ril 8.
Oregon 4-H Clubs Again
Set New Records in 1935
Four-H club boys and girls of
Oregon rolled up a new record in
number of projects carried during
the past year, with a total of 22,313
members enrolled in 2303 standard
clubs, according to the annual re
port recently filed by State Club
Leader H. C. Seymour. This was
an increase of 1676 members and
216 clubs over the previous year.
Club work was conducted in every
county in the state.
The value of club work in dol
lars and cents was also consider
ably increased, Mr. Seymour's fig
ures show. Completed projects for
1935 had a gross value of $228,221.
43, a cost of $143,661.47 and a net
profit of $84,559.96, as compared to
a gross value of $193,997.29, a cost
of 119,912.63 and a net profit of
$74,084.66 in 1934.
Thirty-seven different kinds of
projects were carried by Oregon
clubbers last year, although not all
of these are recommended as stand
ard or state-wide projects. The
clothing project proved the most
popular, with 5,226 members en
rolled in 629 clubs. Cookery wan
next with 4,909 members, 540 clubs,
followed by health and growth with
3,551 members in 249 clubs; dairy
calf with 1,101 members in 136
clubs; gardening with 872 members
in 96 clubs; marketing with 859
members in 63 clubs; handicraft
with 788 members in 90 clubs, and
forestry with 755 members in 81
clubs.
Other projects in which Oregon
4-H club members were engaged
last year were swine, sheep, beef
calf, dairy record keeping, goat,
poultry, corn, potatoes, wheat, can
ning, homemaking, room improve
ment, home beautification, rabbit,
bee, farm accounting, forage, rose
and flower, pigeon, colt, art, house
hold engineering, building, rodent
control, agricultural engineering,
seed production, gas engine, range
management, and quilting.
Lane county had the highest club
enrollment, with 3,556 boys and girls
enrolled in 262 clubs. The City of
Portland was next with 2,131 mem
bers and 256 clubs, followed by
Douglas with 1,762 members and
142 clubs; Clackamas with 1,709
members and 157 clubs, Linn with
1,202 members and 138 clubs, and
Marion with 1,108 members and 124
clubs.
Douglas county had the highest
percentage of members complet
ing their projects, and Clackamas
olubbers showed the greatest mon
etary value for their work. Mr.
Seymour pointed out that "local
leaders form the real backbone of
club work throughout the state
and deserve a great deal of credit
for their unselfish service to the
boys and girls of Oregon.
crops with their large combines.
"Because ruts and gullies result
in the concentration of run-off, the
damage from erosion increases rap
idly. The best topsoil that is work
ed into these ruts and gullies by
plowing and cultivation is carried
away by the next heavy rain. It i
obvious that unless drastic meas
ures are taken to curb this gullying
and loss of fertile topsoil, thousands
of acres of the best wheat land and
pea land in the northwest will be
ruined within the next few years.
"Damage from erosion is not con
fined to farm land alone," Hill stat
ed. "The rapid run-off is increas
ing the damage from floods, and the
soil it carries causes further dam
age by silting-in dams ttvst are con
structed for flood control, power,
irrigation, and navigation.
"In fact, soil erosion Is a prob
lem which concerns everyone. A
productive soil is the nation's great
est asset and Is the chief collateral
behind most of our loans. The prep
ent rapid depletion of the soil by
erosion is creating problems pro
foundly affecting the general wel
fare and prosperity of the entire
nation. i
"Contrary to the general belief,
there is not too much, good land
under cultivation at the present
time. Productive land is needed to
replace the big areas damaged and
worn out by erosion. Worn land
should be permanently retired from
cultivation and seeded to grass r
grass-legume mixtures. This treat
ment will rebuild soil structure, re
store fertility, and provide a pro
tective cover which will effectively
control erosion.
"Erosive land which la still po
tentially valuable for crops should
be subjected to erosion-controlling
tillage practices, the conservation
of crop residues, and further soil
conservation measures which will
preserve fertility and conserve
moisture."
APPRECIATION.
We, the members of the Wool
growers' auxiliary, wish to express
our appreciation for the wonderful
cooperation we received in putting
on our first style show. We wish
especially to thank the J. C. Penney
Co., Curran's Ready-to-Wear, Fran
ces Shop and David Wilson for their
part in furnishing costumes and
models; Lucille's Beauty shop and
Chapin's Beauty shop for their fin
ger waves; the models, particularly
the school children, for the way
they displayed the costumes, and
all those who helped with the pro
gram. We feel the style show was very
successful, not only In bringing be
fore the public the usefulness of
wool in clothing, but as a financial
venture as well. In spite of the
stormy weather, the show was ex
ceptionally well attended.
Mo" owCounty Woolgrowers'
Auxiliary.
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THE
Hehisch
ing reports on social and govern
mental topics.
The Home Economics students
have begun the study of foods.
The American history class has
been studying the elections of the
presidents of the United States.
They are at present stpdying the
elections of the early 1900"s. As
most of us know, this was during
the time that Teddy Roosevelt was
the leading national figure. He was
elected as vice-president in 1900,
and following the assassination of
President McKinley, he becamj
president. He was elected for a
second term in the elections of 1904.
After serving his second term, he
announced that he would not run
again; he recommended Taft as the
next candidate. Taft was elected.
During most of Taft's administra
tion, Roosevelt was abroad hunt
ing big game in Africa and visiting
important political centers of the
world. Upon his return he again
became a figure of national inter
est After bis return a very sorrow
ful thing happened: Roosevelt and
Taft, who had been close friends,
became very bitter enemies. This
was caused partly by Roosevelt'
belief that Taft had not carried out
his promises. In 1912 Roosevelt
announced that he would run again
on the Republican ticket; greatly
to Roosevelt's bitter disappoint
ment, Taft was again nominated.
Roosevelt and his followers ther.
formed a party of their own. Be
cause of this split in the Republi
can party, the Democrats' candi
date, Wilson, was elected.
H.RS.-
Boys' Sports
The Heppner high school baseball
players are getting to shape for
their first game of the season. If
not hindered by adverse weathei
the team will meet Lexington high
school April 7 on the latter's dia
mond. There will be several regu
lars of last year's team in the start
ing line-up. It is predicted that tilt
Heppner stalwarts will return home
with the laurels of victory.
H.H.S.,
Personals Norton King has been confined
to his home with the measles.
Norma Becket has returned to
school after an absence of several
days.
Dick Wilkinson was absent from
school the latter part of the week
suffering from a sore throat.
Harriet Hager is confined to her
home with the flu.
Marjorie Parker was absent from
school the first of the week.
H.H.8.
HUMOR
Paul McC.: I'm going to marry a
pretty girl and a good cook.
Flo. B.: You can't do that that'3
bigamy.
Richard H.: I think you're
"it."
Marjorie P.: I know, I was just
tagged by your brother.
Nonie: Let's put something else
in besides jokes.
Louise: Yeah, somepin' funny.
Joe A.: There's no justice in this
school; I never get what I deserve.
Ellis W.: Boy, you're lucky!
Judge: The evidence shows, Wil
liam McRoberts, that you threw a
stone at the officer.
Willie: It shows more than that;
it shows I hit him! !
Mr. Blomo: I forgot my um
brella. Mrs. Bloom: When did you miss
it?
Mr. Bloom: When I raised my
hand to close it after "the rain
stopped.
We heard
Margaret B. sorta likes Everett C.
Riley had to shoot a squirrel in
self-defense the other day.
Molly Mclntyre had never attend
ed a fish ball.
Emery Coxen snging "Waitin' at
the Gate for Katie" We didn't
know Kay had a gate.
Don Jones' theme song was
"Truckin'."
Pinky singing "I Wished I Was
Single Again."
Mr. Evans say, "various and sun
dry other things."
Bill Browning sing, "I Got a Feel
in' You're Foolin" to Hannah M.
That Ruth Green thought the
guards on the lights over at the gym
were waste-paper baskets.
Spud Furlong got to school on
time the other morning.
Marjorie Parker singing "Dust
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Erosion Control Must
Be Had to Save Fields
Athena, March 3. Eighteen years
ago soil erosion wasn't an import
ant enough topic in eastern Oregon
to be discussed on a county agent
tour, C. E. Hill, district manager
for the Soil Conservation service
activities In north central Oregon,
recalls. Hill refers to a trip which
the county agents made years ago
when he was associated with Su
perintendent D. E. Stephens at tlu
Sherman County Experiment sta
tlon.
"Today erosion and increased
run-off, along with the spread of
wild morning giory, are considered
major agricultural problems," Hiil
asserted. "Fields are showing se
vere washing, gullying and blow
ing. Yields are being reduced, and
tillage and harvest costs have
greatly increased.
"By 1933 the menace of erosion
to Oregon agriculture was easily
visible. One farmer, that year, re
ported that it took two men with a
walking plow 22 days to plow In
gullies and ruts which occurred in
a 500-acre field of winter wheat In
order that the crop could be har
vested iwlth a combine.
"In the same year, a blacksmith
reported that he welded 42 spokes
on one combined harvester in 10
dnys as the result of breakage in
crossing ruts and gullies In the field
Farmers are now realizing that un
less erosion Is controlled it will soon
be Impossible for them to harvest
STAFF
Editor Lois Ashbaugh
Assistant Editor Ellis Williams
Humor Editors, Louise Anderson
and Nonie McLaughlin.
Class News .. Helen Van Schoiack
Grade News Louise McFerrln
Boys' Sports Charles Cox
Band William Mcuaiet
Club News Kathryn Parker
H.H.S.
Heppner Band Prepares for Contest
On April 10 the Oregon School
Band contest will be held. Class D
bands are allowed to present 25
student musicians. At this con
test, Heppner will be represented
by the twenty-five students who
have worked the hardest and made
the most advancement In the band
during the past year. The trip to
the contest is enjoyable, and the
contest itself is highly educational.
All of the students who have at
tended former contests are enthus
iastic over a chance to go again.
Everyone should be proud of a
community and a school that can
send such a representation three
hundred miles. That is splendid
advertising for any enterprisse, and
it also develops the culture of the
young people in the community.
The band contest offers a great op
portunity and there Is every reason
to believe that Heppner will make
a good showing.
H.H.S.
Club News
The Girls' League held a cookie
sale last Thursday In the Home Ec
onomics room.
The Benzine Ring did not hold
a meeting last week because of op
eretta practice.
The Glee clubs have started work
on th Spring Festival numbers.
-H.H.S.
Grade News
The first grade Is making a study
of the different kinds of dogs.
Eldon Tucker, who Is In the sec
ond grade, built a very attractive
bird house which he brought to
school.
Juno Hughes, who Is In the sec
ond grade, has moved to the coun
try where she will finish the term,
The fourth grade is making na
ture study charts. They are divld
Ing the animals Into their different
classes, and are bringing pictures
of each class.
-H.H.S.
Class News
Tuesday the biology class conv
pleted the study of physiology. They
are now studying botany.
All students wishing to see "A
Midsummer Night's Dream" were
excused from school Tuesday af
ternoon. This show will be dis
cussed In the English classes.
The Sociology class has been giv-
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