HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1937
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Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE,
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912
Published every Thursday morning by
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and entered at the Post Office at Hepp
ner, Oregon, as second-class matter.
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SPENCER CRAWFORD, Manager
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Official Paper for Morrow County
1937
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Persistent Prods.
A CERTAIN young chap in Hepp
ner high school who shows
promise at "colyumating" is making
himself obnoxiius to anyone unsympathetic-with
the notion of Heppner
having a swimming pool. He per
sistently prods. And his prods will
produce results.
A great amount of mass inertia
must be overcome to push objectives
toward the goal of progress. It isn't
that the general public is necessarily
uninterested, but habit is an omin
ous obstacle. 'The young folks, with
habit not so strongly entrenched and,
too, not encumbered so heavily with
responsibility, are more aggressive.
It takes young blood to keep older
blood flowing. If the youth of Hepp
ner unite in their determination to
get a swimming pool, the older folk
will be encouraged by the stimula
tion and find a way. The young col
umnist cannot turn the trick by
himself, but his persistence, if it
pervades a wide enough circle, will
accomplish the desired end.
Spring Zephyrs.
IN THE spring a young man's fan
cy lightly turns to thoughts of
a swim next summer. And so does
the young lady's.' . . In the spring,
also, a deep sigh of relief is breathed
by the housewife at the prospect of
less dust. Meaning, of course, that
she is hoping for surfaced streets
before summertime. . . Several other
persons, maybe not so young in age,
but very much so in perspective, are
seriously eyeing a prospective pea
industry. Judge Campbell says a
number of test plots are in prospect
this spring. , . A spring jackrabbit
hopped up from Boardman and stole
the basketball tournament show. His
name is Ted Wilson, and he's head
ed places. . . Spring zephyrs loosen
the bonds of poetic fever. We have
an offering next week from the "old
timer," C. A. Minor. Watch for it. . .
Rumor has it that Fred Hoskins is
ducking fast to dodge the proboscis
of the baseball bug. Others are be
ing bitten. Another sign of spring.
Then there's Bill Bayless digging in
the yard; an unusually heavy crop
of angle worms; the good wife's
suggestions of painting and fixing
around the house; and Willow creek
running muddy. To old timers the
latter was once an undeniable sign,
it being said that a certain historic
gentleman who lived on the upper
reaches of the creek was taking his
spring bath. . . Anyway, we say,
rushing for the kerchief, "Sprig has
cub."
Lion or Lamb?
DID March come in like a lion or
like a lamb? That's a question
you may answer. Quincy Scott,
Oregonian cartoonist, showed March
as a lamb with raincoat and um
brella. Probably that depiction
would hold just as true for Morrow
as Multnomah, as a heavy rain
ushered in the new month Sunday
night and Monday morning. If we
are to take such an entrance as a
happy medium of two extremes,
maybe we can look forward to a
similar exit. That would be wel
come- In any event, the weather
has been lamblike since the rain, a
happy fact, indeed, for the many
new woolies now arriving in the
county.
Gets Beaver Tryout.
IT MAY or may not be that the
name of Larry Ritchie, erstwhile
soupbone artist of lone who hung up
an enviable reputation in the Wheat
land baseball league, will appear in
the Portland Beaver lineup. Ritchie
has gone to Los Angeles with the
expectation of getting himself looked
over by the Beaver bosses. Larry's
friends have their fingers crossed.
The neighboring town already has
one of its former prides performing
in the big leagues. He is none other
that Curt Davis who pitched for the
lone club two successive seasons at
the beginning of a scintillating ca
reer, including a fine record with
the San Francsico Seals in the coast
league and fine performances with
several maior league clubs, most
recently with the Chicago Cubs,
National league pennant contenders
last season.
Legislature End
Continued from First Page
year, with a drop in the age qualifi
cation to 65 yaers on January 1
1938. This program, it is figured
will cost both the state and the
counties approximately $680,000 more
during the biennium than Governor
Martin had included in his budget
for old age pensions. Predictions
are that the senate committee's pro
posals . will meet with general ap
proval and will be adopted by both
the House and Senate as a most sat
isfactoryf compromise of a perplex
ing problem.
Labor bills, loaded with dynamite
continue to repose in committees
and will probably remain there when
the session ends. Even those who
favored the measures seem to regard
this as the best solution of another
dreaded chore.
This week the state building pro
gram was dropped into the hopper.
This program includes provision for
the purchase of additional land in
Salem, adjoining the captol site, and
the construction of one and possibly
two, new buildings, one of these to
house the state library. The pro
gram, if approved, will be financed
through a loan of $850,000 from funds
of 'the industrial accident commis
sion and such federal grants as may
be available through the Public
Works administration. Authority is
also to be vested in the board of
control to purchase an office build
ing in Portland for state purposes.
Such a building would be financed
without cost to the taxpayer, the
cost to be met through rentals to be
paid by departments occupying the
building. . Several Portland build
ings are being offered the state, in
cluding the Oregon building, now
partly occupied by state depart
ments, and the Elks Temple.
The hangman's noose which served
Oregon for, lo these many years in
carrying out the death penalty, is
now to be retired in favor of lethal
gas. The legislature has authorized
the change. Cost of the gas cham
ber and necessary equipment is es
timated at $300.
The criminal syndicalism law
which has been on the Oregon stat
ute books ever since the days of the
World War, has been repealed at
last. In its place the legislators
have written a new statute defining
the crime of conspiracy which makes
it a crime for two or more persons'
to conspire together to commit a
felony.
It now looks as though the people
of Oregon were to have another
chance to vote on an increase in the
pay of the legislators. A resolution
which has the backing of the State
Grange, Federation of Labor and
American Legion has been intro
duced. It bears the names of 12
senators and 32 representatives
which practically insures its pass
age without much difficulty.
Frustrated in their attempt to se
cure favorable action at the hands
of the legislature on their "Sunday
closing" bill the Independent Retail
Grocers are turning to the people
through the initiative.
HORSE ERA IN CITY PASSES
WITH RAZING OF OLD STABLE
By the end of the week Hepp-
ner's transition from a frontier town
will be almost complete.
No doubt a flood of memories will
surge through many minds as the
change is completed as the last
vestige of a glorified age is removed
from the city's main thoroughfare.
Newt and Gene Jones, Joe White,
and others of those fearless bronc
busters will ride again in the old
barn lot. Billy Gordon will be hitch-
inf up his best team of bays to the
rubber tired buggy for the gay city
blades to take bustled and plum
aged lassies for a Sunday afternoon
drive. Willis Stewart will come
forth in high-heeled boots, flapping
sombrero and flowing mustache to
greet drivers of the six-, eight-, or
mayhap 12 -horse freighting wagins
Sam Meadows will be trotting out
his pinto ponies, then the Matlock
and Swaggart horses, all prize horse
flesh of an eralier day, will pass
again in review.
The cowboys will ride into town
again on Saturday nights, racing
their horses out at a late hour to the
booming of sixshooters-
The crowd will be out again to
greet the Canyon City stage coach
and to hear the news of a new gold
strike. But the flood of memories
will not stop.
Incident recalls incident as asso
ciations of the old livery stable pass
in review. It Is the livery stable
that is now passing from the picture
The old blacksmith shop is no
more. Tommy Brennan was the last
smithy to get his livelihood from
shoeing. Pap Simons, Scrivner, Ash
baugh, Klein and others there were
whose business was revolutionized
by the farther and farther encroach
ment of gas, steam and electric
power machinery into the horsepow
er field:-...
No longer may one see the highly
liveried Percherons proudly pulling
the Palace hotel bus to and from the
depot. Frye's stocky Belgians no
more may be seen drawing the old
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At Heppner
CHURCHES
METHODIST CHURCH
REV. R. C. YOUNG, Pastor
Bible School 9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a. m.
Epworth League 6:30 p. m.
Evening Service 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday, Boy's Club 7:30 p. m.
Thursday, Fellowship Meeting, 7:30 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST.
ALVIN KLEINFELDT, Pastor
Bible School 9:45 a. m.
Morning Services 11 :00 a. m.
C. E. Society 6:30 p. m.
Evening Services 7:30 p. m.
Choir Practice, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
Midweek Service, Thursday. 7:30 p. m.
The following quotation from
Lewis E. Lawes, prison warden, Sing
Sing, gives his attitude toward the
Sunday School:
"Today, more than ever before, the
work of the Sunday-school is of vi
tal importance. It develops the spir
itual and moral character of our
youth which is of outstanding im
portance at the present time. Re
ligious education is just as neces
sary as the training provided by our
public schools, and the value of the
Sunday-school in the proper guid
ance of our future citizens cannot be
emphasized too strongly."
There will be no evening service
at the Christian church this Sunday.
We are dismissing to cooperate in
the union meeting at the Methodist
church where a missionary from Af
rica will speak.
ALL SAINTS' CHURCH.
(Episcopal)
10 a. m., Church school.
11 a. m., Holy Communion and
sermon by Archdeacon Hinkle.
6:30 p. m., Young Peoples Fellow
ship. All are welcome.
THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD.
E. D. Greeley, Pastor.
Sunday services:
Bible School 10:00 A. M.
Devotional, 11:00 A. M.
Evangelistic Service, 7:30 P. M.
Weekday services:
Cottage Prayer Meeting, Tuesday,
7:30 P. M.
Evangelistic Service, Friday, 7:30.
dray laden with beer keys. Parcell's
light delivery team of grays has long
since given way to the gas propelled
rigs. Ed Breslin alone maintains a
team in his fuel service, the only
remainder of those former days- . . .
And so the day of the horse in
Heppner is almost past. The last
vestige of the colorful era is disap
pearing with razing of the old livery
stable on south Main.
Moved from the site of the present
Ford garage following the fire of
July 4, 1918, the stable has fallen into
disuse the last few years except for
Rodeo time. Billy Gordon was its
host for many years at the old site,
followed by Billy McRoberts. Then
Willis Stewart, who before ran the
old Red Front Livery stable, took the
helm. From him it passed again to
Billy McRoberts, and then to Henry
Robertson, the last of the stable
operators.
The old Meadows stable, later run
by Mike Healy, long since was con
verted into a lumber shed and houses
the Tum-A-Lum office. A bit iron
ical, perhaps from the horseman's
point of view a garage filled the
site left by the Gordon barns. Now
a garage is to be built on the old
Palace hotel corner. In the transi
tion, a garage and service station
stand where once stood the old Nat
ter Brewery and the Star hotel. Gil
liam & Bisbee's modern two-story
building covers ground where once
stood the Vic Groshen saloon and
other small businesses. The old
Times and later Gazette Times office
once stood on the site now being
vacated by the livery stable.
The fire of July 4, 1918, removed
the old structures, and hastened the
transition.
Art Parker has the job of remov
ing the last monument to the passing
horse era. Wightman brothers have
purchased the old stable and will
use the salvaged lumber.
The old livery stable had to go.
Abandoned for use, it became a fire
menace, increasing insurance rates.
The city dads condemned it some
time ago. The land, which has re
verted to the county for taxes, may
soon again be in demand.
WE PAY SPOT
CREAM
MORROW
TELEPHONE AHEAD
vibther you are traveling those
miles to see a customer (who may be
out of town) or a friend (who just left
yesterday for the country) or just to
enjoy the scenery (which other people
are also out to enjoy), it pays to tele
phone that you are coming. It pays to
be expected, whether by customer or
friend or hotel keeper. It saves miles,
time, disappointments. There's a tele
phone just about everywhere, and the
cost is low. .
THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Miss Harriet Heliker is spending
the week visiting at home near lone,
but will return to her studies at
Northwestern School of Commerce
at the end of the week.
The GOLDEN YEARS PLAN.
James J. Hill said: "If you -want to
know whether you are destined to be
a success or a failure in life, you can
easily find out. The test is simple
and it is infallible. Are you able to
save money?" If interested in Gold
en Year Plan see ALTA S. BROWN
Agent
Oregon Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Heppner, Oregon
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Check up on your family's
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Pursang every day before or
after meals.
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