OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PUBLIC A-JDITOHI'JM
PORTLAND. ORE.
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Volume 52, Number 40.
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1936.
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Two Large Trees
Provided for
Yuletide Cheer
Dads Give Fire Boys
$25 for Job; Im
provement Talked.
Two large Christmas trees, at
tractively lighted, will adorn Hepp-
ner's Main street as the result of
official action of the city council
Monday evening. For their provis
ion the council voted $25 to be used
by the volunteer fire boys in obtain
ing and placing the trees. One will
probably be set at the intersection
of May and Main and the other at
the intersection of Willow and Main.
Lighting will be provided by Pacific
Power & Light company.
. The city dads thus showed their
interest in helping to spread Christ
mas cheer.
Further consideration of the ap
pearance of the main thoroughfare
was given when plans were talked
for removing the large wooden barn
at the south end of the street. An
offer for the building was before
them, and another offer for the lot.
The building had already been con
demned.
In the plan discussed a three-cor
nered trade is involved. One party
would acquire and tear down the
building. Another party would ac
quire the lot, and in return the city
would be granted right-of-way thru
the second party's property in south
Heppner for changing the thorough
fare leading out to the Willow creek
road. .
The latter project is one which
the council and county court have
had in mind for some time. The
survey for the change has already
been made. It contemplates chang
ing the route so that traffic would
move straight out Court street.
across Willow creek and there turn
directly up the creek on the right
hand side. Eliminated would be the
necessity of negotiating the devious
and narrow course now required to
be traveled in getting onto the upper
Willow creek road, and the bad
traffic hazard caused thereby.
Christmas Talked by
Church Council
TVip newlv formed Council of
Churches met at the Methodist par.
sonage Tuesday night to make plans
for cooperative action during the
Christmas season. Several projects
were decided upon which have as
their goal the emphasis of the true
spirit of Christ and the gospel of
good will.
The young people's organizations
of the several churches will combine
in singing carols during Christmas
week at the homes of shut-ins.
Christmas baskets of good cheer will
be distributed by the church groups
to some who otherwise might not be
remembered with a personal touch
of friendship. A great union meet
ing on the Sunday before Christmas
will feature Christmas music fur
nished by the choirs and singers of
the community. This service will be
held in the Christian church on
Dec. 20 at 7:30 p. m.
It is probable that such union
meetings will become a monthly af
fair, and a meeting for the week
preceding Easter is already being
talked.
Appointed representatives present
were Mrs. Olive Frye, Mrs. Neva
Cochell, Ruth Green, W. O. Dix, M.
L. Case, C. W. Barlow, William Mc-
Caleb, Jackson Gilliam, R. C. Young
and A. L. Kleinfeldt.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Booher, for
mer residents, were visiting rela
tives and friends here Saturday.
They now reside at Twin Falls,
Idaho, where Mr. Booher holds a
position with Standard Stations, Inc.
District's Solons
Show Interest in
Agriculture Needs
Most of eastern Oregon's con
tingent of state legislators were in
attendance at the wheat league
conference here last week end.
Included were Senator Clyde Kid
dle of La Grande, Senator Rex
Ellis of Pendleton, and Represen
tatives Carl Engdahl of Pendle
ton, Ernest R. Fatland of Condon
and Giles L. French of Moro.
These gentlemen learned first
hand the wants of the wheatgrow-
ers for legislation, and at least
three of them had definite plans
for bills to accomplish the grow
ers' desires.
While in the county Mr. Fatland
went over some of the worst blow
area, and when he left he had in
his pocket the draft for a bill to
permit establishment of blow con
trol districts.
Mr. Ellis definitely asserted that
he would do all in his power to
amend truck and bus legislation
to give more consideration to the
grower.
Mr. Kiddle expressed sympathy
for the need of weed control dis
tricts and appeared as the likely
sponsor of legislation looking to
this end.
All the solons expressed keen
sympathetic interest in the needs
of agriculture. Mr. Engdahl is
himself a wheatgrower. Mr. Kid
dle follows dairying. Mr. French
wheat-farmed for eight years, and
he like Mr. Fatland and Mr. Ellis,
is now in business which depends
largely upon the well being of ag
riculture for its success. These
men may be expected to do their
best for eastern Oregon's basic
industries at the coming legisla
tive session.
$9 -AC RE BASE SET
FOR 1937 PAYMENTS
New AAA Program Benefits
Dependent on Congress;
Grower Responsibility Larger.
First definite information on the
1937 federal farm program, released
from Washington yesterday, indi
cates that the base payment will be
reduced to $9 an acre next year
from the $10 this year, with $3 an
acre deducted where practices are
not strictly soil-conserving in na
ture. The release also stated that more
responsibility for conducting the
program will be placed on shoul
ders of growers.
A total of $500,000,000 is permitted
to be paid in 1937 for soil conser
vation purposes under the control-
ing act, but Secretary Wallace said
benefit payments will depend upon
the action of congress which so far
has not appropriated the money.
ENJOY FAMILY REUNION.
The home of Mrs. Kathryn Slo
cum was the scene of a happy fam
ily reunion at Thanksgiving time,
when all of her children but one,
Mary, were present. Those here for
the occasion were Mrs. A. B. New
man and son from Sacramento, Cal.,
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Kem of Medford;
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Slocum of The
Dalles; Mrs. E. M. Van Schoiack,
Miss Beth Van Schoiack, Mrs. Dick
Williamson and son of Arlington;
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Beardsley, Miss
Charlotte Beardsley, Paul and Rich
ard Beardsley, Condon; Mr. and Mrs.
E. L. Slocum and daughter Barbara
of Lexington. The last of the visit
ors departed this week.
TURKEY SHOOT SET.
Heppner Rod and Gun club is
sponsoring a turkey shoot at its
grounds next Sunday beginning at
9:30 in the morning. The grounds
are located six miles below Hepp
ner on the highway.
Mrs. Homer Hayes and baby were
taken to Pendleton yesterday to re
ceive medical attention. She has
been quite ill the last week.
Taxpayers' Burden
Lightened by State
and County, 1937
John Day Levy Is
Sticker; 16th Dead
line Payment Date.
Announced reduction in the
amount to be taken from property
for the support of state government
will save Morrow county taxpayers
$23,169.10, according to figures just
released from the office of Earl W.
Snell, secretary of state. This in
cludes lowering the amount for
state purposes by $8,487.77, and the
amount for elementary schools by
$14,681.33 in this county.
In addition the amount to be tak-
en lor county purposes nas Deen
lowered by $13,310, making a total
saving in the amount for state and
county purposes of $36,479.10.
Taxpayers whose hearts are light
ened at this news will need to look
further before figuring their indi
vidual saving, however. Along with
the news of the reduction in total
amount to be raised is the further
news that the county's assessed val
uation has been leveled off an even
25 percent from $11,173,196.21 last
year to $8,745,394.51, which means
that the millage rate will be some
what higher than last year.
The court was met with one stick
er in making its levy this year when
it faced the necessity of raising
$2300 from property within the John
Day Irrigation district, most of which
lies within Morrow county, to meet
claims of holders of district war
rants. Had it not been for the neces
sity of making this levy, the total
amount to be raised by taxation on
real and personal property within
the county would have been largely
decreased. As it is, the reduction
amounts to 15 percent for county
purposes, and decrease for state and
elementary school purposes of 50
percent.
And while on the subject of tax
ation, the sheriffs office has an
nounced that December 15 will be
the last day on which payment may
be made of 1936 taxes in order to
escape interest on unpaid taxes for
1933-34 and prior years.
Olive Maude Sparks
Rites Set- at lone
Funeral services for Mrs. Lee
Sparks of lone, who died at The
Dalles hospital yesterday, will be
held from the lone Christian church
at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Alvin Kleinfeldt, Christian minister
of Heppner, officiating. Interment
will follow in Masonic cemetery in
this city. Mrs. Sparks succumbed
to an illness for which she was tak
en to the hospital on Tuesday last
week.
Olive Maude Anderson was born
in Gooseberry this county, January
10, 1899, to Charles and Nellie (Ak
ers) Anderson, pioneer residents of
that section. She attended the lone
and Gooseberry schools, and on Oc
tober 6, 1930, was married to Lee
Sparks at Heppner. The family
home has been on the farm near
lone since. Surviving besides the
husband is a daughter, Carolyn Nell
aged 5, and two brothers, Harold
and Erwin Anderson, both of lone.
besdies many other relatives and a
host of friends.
DON BOYER MARRIES.
Donald E. Boyer, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Boyer of Mt. Vernon, for
mer Heppner residents, and Miss
Estella Carter, Grant county schoo
superintendent, were married at
Canyon City, November 25. They
arrived home this week following a
wedding journey which included
visits to San Francisco and Reno
Mr. Boyer is employed with the
Knox store at John Day.
Once in a Lifetime
Maybe, But Dry
Fall Didn't Hurt
Charlie McEUigott, in from the
farm in the lone section Sunday,
told a story of an incident in his
farming experience, such, he said,
as happens about once in a life
time. It may have been in the spring
of 1916. He went out to look at
his fall-sown grain. Not a spear
was throughthe ground, and to all
intents and purposes the field
looked just like an ordinary field
of summerfallow. He told his
men they would let it go and disc
in a crop the coming fall. Thus
dismissing it from his mind with
the thought that the seed had
been lost, you may imagine his
surprise when, on having occasion
to visit the field shortly after the
Fourth of July, he found the grain
waist high.
"We started harvesting about
the middle of August, and the
grain was still green in the draws.
It was one of the best crops in my
experience," he said.
It was all told to show what
may happen after a dry fall and
winter. A steady dowpnour for
two weeks the fore part of June
was responsible for making the
crop that year.
'BE PREPARED' IS
MEMORIAL THEME
Father O'Reilly Cites Life as
Transitory; Departed Brothers
Honored at Elks' Service.
That life on this earth is but tran
sitory, and that everyone should be
prepared for the life everlasting, was
the keynote of Father P. J. O'Reilly's
oration at the annual lodge of sor
row of Heppner lodge 358, B. P. O,
Elks, Sunday afternoon. Honored
departed brothers of the past year
were D. G. Florence and Ralph M.
Corrigall.
Alvin Kleinfeldt, Christian min
ister, delivered the invocation and
benediction. Two solos, "One Sweet
ly Solemn Thought" and "Abide
With Me," were sung beautifully by
Mrs. E. L. Morton, with Mrs. J. O
Turner, accompanist, and "Tenting
Tonight" was impressively sung by
the school boys' octette, accompanied
by their director, Miss Juanita
Leathers. Composing the octette
were Donald Bennett, Warren Blake
ly, Jack O'Hara, Douglas Drake,
Richard Hayes, Alan Gibb, Harry
O'Donnell, Joe Farley.
Merle Beckett, Hubert Gaily and
Harold Buhman composed the me
morial committee, and officers in
charge of the lodge ceremonies were
Jasper V. Crawford, exalted ruler
Bert Mason, esteemed leading
knight; Merle Becket, esteemed loy
al knight; Hubert Gaily, acting es
teemed lecturing knight; Loyal R
Parker, secretary, and Kenneth Ov
iatt, esquire.
A goodly attendance of lodge
members and friends participated in
the services, all singing "Auld Lang
Syne" at the close.
IS PENDLETON MAYOR-ELECT.
Cecil L. "Buck" Lieuallen, mayor
elect of Pendleton who will take of
fice the first of the year, was a vis
itor in the city Sunday. The for
mer Heppner boy who joined Uncle
Sam's navy at the time of the world
war as a student of H. H. S., and
who later gained national fame when
as a member of the state police he
assisted in the capture of Hickman,
child kidnap-murderer, now runs an
auto park at Pendleton besides pro
moting American Legion fight and
wrestling cards there. He enjoyed
greeting old-time friends while here
MARRIED AT PENDLETON.
Erb Kirk of this city and Mrs
Frances Chase were married in Pen
dleton, November 29. On their re
turn home to the Jones ranch on
Rhea creek last week end they were
given a charivari Saturday night
E. 0. Wheat League
Has Successful ;
Two-Day Meet
Nish Named Head;
LaGrande Next; Full
Program Enjoyed.
Closing its successful two-day
conference here Saturday evening
Eastern Oregon Wheat league elect
ed Charles Nish of Mikkalo presi
dent, James Woodell of La Grande,
vice president, and Charles W.
Smith, Corvallis, secretary-treasurer.
La Grande was chosen as host
city for next year's conference.
Committees named for the vari
ous counties included A. H. Nelson, 1
Lexington, Morrow county; Emil
Shanno, The Dalles, Wasco; A. E.
Anderson, Madras, Jefferson; Lloyd
Smith Condon, Gilliam; Gilbert
Courtright, La Grande, Union; James
Hill, Pendleton, Umatilla; Hugh
Wilson, Joseph, Wallowa; Fred Ep-
inger, Baker, Baker A. E. Rolfe,
Grass Valley, Sherman.
A program replete with education
and entertainment preceded the
grist of recommendations and reso
lutions adopted from the committee
reports in the closing hours. The
215 registered attendants came from
all wheat raising counties of the
district as well as points afar, rep
resenting all phases of the industry.
Disappointment and sympathetic
interest marked the response of Fri
day evening's banquet crowd of 400
when they were informed that Gov
ernor Martin was prevented from.
attending as guest speaker by an
attack of septic sore throat. The
banquet moved smoothly under the
direction of J. G. Barratt, president
Oregon Woolgrowers association, as
toastmaster. Dean Wm. A. Schoen-
feld, O. S. C, capably represented
the governor. Response to toasts
were clearly heard by use of Stand
ard Oil courtesy amplifier which
carried all words distinctly to every
corner of the large Elks hall. Cre
ating most amusement was an
averred tap dance by a large gen
tleman visitor with little Mary Lou
Ferguson behind scenes providing
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Growers Give Wants;
Full Report Coming
Arbitration of labor disputes to
the end that costly strikes such as
the one now existing in the Pacific
coast maritime industry may be
averted; emphtaic endorsement of
the AAA soil conservation program;
encouragement of every means of
commercial transportation on the
Columbia river without control of
Interstate Commerce commission or
any other federal agency these are
some of the highlights of the de
sires of Eastern Oregon Wheat lea
guers who held their ninth annual
session here last week end.
Voluminous reports touching all
phases of the wheat industry were
returned by the five major commit
tees. These were received by the
Gazette Times this morning, and the
complete draft of each will be pub
lished one each week for the ,next
five weeks.
GOES TO CALIFORNIA.
Friends in Heppner have received
word from E. E. Clark at 120 38th
Place, Manhattan Beach, Cal., where
he went recently and will spend
some time in the course of conva
lescence from his recent severe ill
ness. His progress is reported fa
vorable. TOWNSEND MEETING SET.
Attention of all Townsend club
members is called by Mrs. Alta
Brown to a meeting scheduled at the
Methodist church at 7:30 p. m., Tues
day evening, Dec. 11. All members
and friends are urged to be present.