HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUG. 12, 1937
PAGE TWO
IONE NEWS
Fire at Howk House
Quickly Subdued
By MARGARET BLAKE
Mrs. Jennie McMurray and her
nephew, David Howe, departed on
Monday night for Caldwell, Idaho,
where they will visit with David's
sister, Mrs. Vera Pugsley. From
there David will continue on to his
home in Iowa.
W. F. Honey and grandson, Mark
Nickerson, of Gresham arrived on
Friday and are registered at the
Park hotel.
Mrs. Delia Mobley is quite ill at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bry
son. A doctor was called from Hepp
ner to attend her.
Ed Engelmann of Fossil was over
Friday, returning to his home Sat
urday. George Tucker, superintendent of
the school here last year, was in
town Sunday enroute to Lander,
Wyoming, where he will join his
family. Mr. Tucker has accepted a
position as superintendent at Odes
sa, Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Blake are
among those who are enjoying a
huckleberry hunt in the mountains.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Balsiger en
joyed a week-end visit with Mr.
Balsiger's brothers at Hood 'River
and White Salmon.
Mrs. Gene Glock and two chil
dren of Vancouver, Wash., arrived
Sunday for a visit with the Riet
mann families.
Maude Pointer was a business vis
itor here from Lexington Monday.
Fire of undetermined origin was
discovered in the upper story of the
house belonging to Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Howk last Friday evening. While
the damage from fire was not great
owing to the quick action of the
volunteer fire department kept it
confined to the upper story, water
poured into the lower rooms caus
ing considerable damage. The loss
was covered by insurance and im
mediate adjustment made by the
company who carried it. Mr. and
Mrs. Howk who live in Condon were
over Sunday and plan to have the
damage repaired as soon as possible.
Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Kincaid of
Crowell, Texas, have been visiting
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
Kincaid. The men are cousins. Dr.
and Mrs. Kincaid departed Monday.
Mrs. J. E. Crabtree of Salem is as
sisting at the home of W. A. Emert
during the remainder of harvest.
Mrs. Emert is confined to her bed
with a trouble caused from an in
jury to her leg in an automobile ac
cident some years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Emert and Mrs.
Blanche Willis and daughter of Port
land and Clarence Emert of Califor
nia have been visitors at the W. A.
Emert home during the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Odom and
Mrs. Paul O'Meara spent a short
time in Spokane last week.
Miss Lola Cannon was a visitor
here from Hardman the first of the
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bergevin have
had as their guests recently Mrs. E.
A. Johnson and daughter Shirley of
Seattle, Mrs. Mike Estes of Pendle
ton and Mrs. Lester LaFortune and
daughter Jean of Hollywood.
678 Lightning Fires
Record for Forest
Lightning bombardment of what
is believed unprecedented intensity
in the history of the national for
ests of Oregon and Washington
characterized the last ten days of
July and ushered in the most crit
ical period of the forest fire season
to date, according to reports just
received by the U. S. Forest service.
Of a total of 698 fires reported for
the 10-day period, the amazing num
ber of 678 were caused by lightning.
For the corresponding period in
1936 only 121 lightning fires oc
curred. Total lightning fires for the
present fire season are now 836 as
compared with 263 for the season a
year ago. Only two of the twenty
forests in the region escaped un
scathed from the lightning attack,
these being the Olympic forest in
Washington and the Siuslaw forest
in Oregon. Heaviest sufferers in the
two states were the Whitman na
tional forest (headquarters Baker,
Oregon) with 77 lightning fires in
the 10 days, and the Fremont (head
quarters Lakeview, Oregon) where
74 lightning fires occurred. Other
heavy lightning sufferers were the
Umpqua national forest (Oregon)
with 70 fires, the Malheur national
forest (Oregon) with 61 fires, the
Umatilla forest of Oregon and Wash
ington (headquarters Pendleton)
with 57 lightning fires, and the Co
lumbia national forest (headquarters
Vancouver, Washington) with 55
lightning fires.
Effects of these lightning "hits"
have in some instances been difficult
to locate and the results, slow smol
dering undiscovered "sleeper fires,"
have placed many of the forests in
precarious condition.
Other fire causes listed on the ten
day report were careless smokers,
campers, lumbering operations, rail
roads, and brush burners in the or
der named. Total area burned to
August 1, including land inside na
tional forest boundaries and out
side land protected by the forest
service was 3,016 acres as compared
with 1,210 acres for the correspond
ing period in 1936.
The forest service now is fighting
a stubborn blaze resulting from
lightning in the hard bitten 1902
Cispus burn area near Randle, Wn.,
between Mt. Adams and Mt. Rainier,
The fire which had covered some
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The extent to which the so-called
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Oregon Traffic
Deaths
A series of weekly articles on
the problem of Highway Safety
by Earl Snell, Secretary of State.
Speed and especially uncontrolled
speed is responsible for a consid
erable percentage of the accidents
on our streets and highways. Just
how deadly this speed becomes when
an accident occurs is shown by some
recent figures from the National
Safety council.
At twenty miles or less per hour,
only one accident in 61 is fatal; at
20 to 21 miles per hour, one out of
every 42; from 30 to 39 miles per
hour, one out of 35, 40 to 49, one out
of 25; and at speeds of 50 mlies or
more per hour, one accident in 11
results in death. High speed and the
grim reaper keep constant company.
Every motorist must to some ex
tent settle for himself the question
of how fast is too fast. Many factors
combine to make the answer vary
with varying conditions. Many cars
are operated today at a speed that
is dangerous and reckless under
even the most favorable conditions.
The type of road, visibility, weather,
condition of the car, ability of the
operator, all enter this picture.
But the fact that such a great per
centage of the fatal accidents occur
on straight, dry roads, constitutes
indisputable proof that , reckless
speed is contributing an excessive
total to the state's fatality list. Keep
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eliminate Oregon's traffic deaths.
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of keeping at full speed until they
are well into the turn and then put
ting on the brakes, apply their
brakes when approaching the turn,
enter it at reduced speed and then
accelerate as they come out again
on the straightaway, notes the Ore
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