HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 28, 1937
PAGE THREE
LEXINGTON NEWS
Former Residents
At Pioneers Meet
By Bertha Hunt
Among those who attended the re
union from out of town who had
formerly lived at Lexington' were
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Reaney, Gladys
Reaney, Mrs. Karl Miller and Mr.
and Mrs. E. R. Fredrickson and son
George of Salem; Mr. arid Mrs. Guy
Shaw and sons, Mrs. R. B. Wilcox,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Allstott, Mr. and
Mrs. Gerald White, Mr. and Mrs. R.
H. Stockard and Victor Stockard and
two children of Hermiston; Mr. and
Mrs. George McMillan of Portland;
Miss Laura Eskelson of Cascade
Locks, Mr. and Mrs. Neal White and
son of Ukiah, Mike Rowell of Hood
River, Monte Bundy of Clatskanie,
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Beymer and two
daughters, Mrs. Claude Hill (nee
Naomi McMillan) and daughter of
Redmond; Mrs. Paul Nichols and
Grace Burchell of Corvallis, Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Pomeroy and two daugh
ters of Ostrander, Wash.
All Lexington grange members
and their friends are invited to a
Hallowe'en party at the grange hall
Saturday, Oct. 30 at 8 o'clock. Con
test games and 500 will be played
during the evening. Pot-luck lunch.
Mrs. Bertha McKinney, who has
been visiting at the Eslie Walker
home for some time left for Seattle
last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Breshears and
two daughters motored to Pendleton
one day this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Smethurst and
daughter Betty motored to Astoria
last week. They were accompanied
by Mr. Smethurst's parents who
have been visiting here for some
time.
Mrs. Ernest Gerard underwent a
major operation in Portland Satur
day morning.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McMillan were
Pendleton visitors Monday.
LaVelle White and Mary Alice
Reed, teachers in the Lexington
school, spent the week end at Wal
lowa lake.
. Mr: and Mrs. Harvey Miller mo
tored to Eugene Wednesday to take
in the Oregon-Oregon State foot
ball game Saturday.
.John Lasich and James Leach
made a business trip to Pendleton
Tuesday.
The pupils of the Lexington school
enjoyed a three-day vacation last
week when the teachers attended in
stitute at La Grande.
LaVern Henderson was the win
ner of the cedar chest given away
by the Three Links club at the Pion
eers reunion.
The postoffice, barber shop and
Barnett's store have all been painted
recently.
Mrs. Ida Burchell, Mrs. Paul Nich
ols and Grace Burchell and Mr. and
Mrs. Wigglesworth of Corvallis were
guests at the J. G. Johnson home
over the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Breeding and
daughter are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Wilbur Steagall.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hunt and
Clair, acompanied by Glenn Thomp
son and Ray Phillips, made a trip
to The Dalles Tuesday.
Lawrence Beach spent the week
end with his family here.
Rev. Cecil Warner of Hermiston
conducted services at the Christian
church last Sunday afternoon. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Warner
and their two children and Dan
Lindsay.
George Smith and Dan O'Neill of
Blalock were in Lexington Tuesday.
Mr. Payne of Athena visited here
Saturday with his daughter, Mrs.
Bob Cutler.
Mr. and Mrs. James Parkins and
daughter Arleta spent the week end
at the Thornburg home.
O.S.C. Homecoming
Set for Nov. 19-20
The Washington State college
Oregon State college football game
will provide the gridiron menu for
Oregon State's annual homecoming
celebration Nevember 19 and 20
when hundreds of old grads are ex
pected to return to the campus. The
Cougar contest will be the last on
the Beaver's regular 1937 schedule.
Ray Siegenthaler of Portland, last
year's Pacific coast champion col
legiate orator, has been named gen
eral homecoming chairman and
Marie Clarke of Freewater assistant
chairman.
Committees are already at work
arranging for several new enter
tainment features this year and. for
the events that have come to be tra
ditional for these yearly fall gala
days." Among these are the interfra
ternity sing, house sign contest, the
noise parade, the alumni roundup,
midnight matinees and the rook
bonfire.
Students are conducting a contest
to select a snappy slogan for the
celebration. Alumni activities, in
cluding the class of 1907 football ju
bilee, are being handled by George
Scott, alumni secretary, and Eunice
Courtright, records clerk.
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Snell Intentions
o Special Session
o "Good Timers"
By A. L. LINDBECK
SALEM Wih three courses open
to him in the forthcoming primaries
Secretary of State Snell has all of
the political prognosticators guess
ing as to which one he will choose
to take that leading to the United
States Senate, the one leading to the
governorship, or the one leading to
a second term in the office he now
holds.
Interest in Snell's political ambi
tiins has been brought to the fore
front this week by his speech before
the Oregon Republican club at a
luncheon in Portland. His declaration
that Governor Martin's decision to
seek a second term would have no
bearing one way or another on his
own plans has been interpreted by
many as indicative of his intention
to seek the republican nomination
for governor. On the other hand it
is known that many of Snell's very
close political friends have advised
in favor of a second term in the state
department before trying for the
higher honor in the executive de
partment.
Decision of Frederick Steiwer not
to seek a return to the U. S. senate
is believed by many to have provid
ed Snell with a golden opportunity
to cash in on his popularity and
state-wide acquaintance. Known to
be of progressive political tendencies
Snell is regarded by many as the one
Republican with a chance to stop
Willis Mahoney of Klamath Falls
who is generally conceded to have
an edge over any opponent who
might oppose him in the Democratic
primaries.
Snell himself is content to let the
politicians continue their guessing.
If he has made up his mind as to
just what he wants to do politically
after his present term as secretary
of state is over he has never given
any indication of his intentions. Ap
parently he is getting just as much
enjoyment out of the speculations
as to his intentions as the prognos-
Uicators are in making them.
There appears to be a wide diver
gence of opinion regarding parole
problems even among Governor
Martin's advisors. At the last legis
lative session W. L. Gosslin, the
governor's secretary, sponsored a
measure which would have endowed
the parole board with vastly enlarged
powers. The measure was defeated
in the senate but only over the
strenuous efforts of Gosslin and Dr.
Floyd L. Uttere, both members of
the parole board, to shove it down
the throats of the senators. This
week Ralph Moody, assistant attor
ney general and legal adviser to the
governor, in an address before the
Salem chamber of commerce, at
tacked the measure as "an insult to
the law-abiding and to the intelli
gence of all right-thinking people
and inimical to the welj being of the
state." Gosslin has requested an op
portunity to reply to Moody and de
fend his parole bill.
Fire losses on timber lands under
state supervision were the lowest
this year in the history of the state,
according to J. W. Ferguson, state
forester.
LeRoy McCarthy, under sentence
of death for the slaying of a Port
land service station attendant, now
occupies a cell in the state prison.
While McCarthy has said that he
does not propose to appeal his case
to the supreme court Warden Lewis
will wait until after time for the
appeal has lapsed before beginning
construction of the lethal gas cham
ber which is to supplant the gallows
as the method of inflicting the death
penalty in this state. McCarthy is
sentenced to die on January 7.
School boards exercise full au
thority over school buildings - and
have the right to refuse the use of
the buildings to any organization,
Attorney General Van Winkle has
advised Rex Putnam, state superin
tendent of public instruction.
'
Governor Martin's refusal to call
a special session of the legislature to
consider old age pensions was as ex
pected. The "program" presented by
the Townsend delegation provided
for more adequate assistance for the
needy aged financed through a
transaction tax, contained nothing
that had not already been presented
in the previous interview between
the delegation and the governor.
The menace of a referendum
hanging over any revenue measure
that might be enacted by a special
session was emphasized during the
week by the stand taken by labor
leaders against such a tax as a sales
tax in disguise. Further supporting
the governor's position was a letter
from the "General Welfare Federa
tion of Oregon," purporting to be a
Townsend organization, in opposition
to a special session at this time.
Governor Martin has repeatedly
declared that he would never spon
sor another sales tax measure in
view of the three defeats adminis
tered to this form of taxation by the
voters of Oregon but consented to
delay his answer to the demand for
a special session in the hope that the
Townsend leaders might work out a
practical program that could be ex
pected to meet with the support of
the legislators.
. Twenty-three buildings and build
ing sites offered to the state for a
Portland office have been examined
to date by the Board of Control.
Several other properties are still to
be inspected before the Board be
gins the task of sifting the offerings.
Strong pressure is being brought to
bear by civic organizations on both
sides of the river to "sell" the board
on their particular section of the
city. The problem is further compli
cated by the fact that the east-siders
and the west-siders are again divid
ed into smaller groups supporting
some particular building or location.
The right of a truck company op
erating as a common carrier to re
fuse to pass through a picket line to
deliver goods to a consignee is in
volved in a complaint filed with the
public utilities commission this week
by a Salem restaurant the Quelle.
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF PORTLAND
Illlll MOIIAl
Utilities Commissioner Wallace will
hear arguments in the case next
week.
Approximately ten percent of the
prisoners released from the state pen
itentiary under the "good time" law
passed by the last legislature are in
jail or prison again, according to
Ralph Moody, assistant attorney
general. One of the "good time"
prisoners has since his release been
convicted of first degree murder,
while another is known to have par
ticipated in a bank robbery.
Assessed valuations fli most Ore
gon counties will show material in
creases over 1936 figures according
to reports now being compiled by
the state tax commission. Increase
in the price of property and activity
in the building line accounts for
for most of the increases in valua
tion. Speaking of carrying coals to New
castle, Oregon bought a lot of grass
hoppers this week from New York.
The purchase, made through the
state purchasing agent included 50
females of the species and a like
number of males for use by the zo
ology department of the University
of Oregon. The price paid was $3.00
for the 100. Only a few days before
the state had ordered 50 frogs from
a Portland firm for use in experi
mental work at the state college.
Meetings Planned for
Livestock Producers
Farmers in the principal livestock
producing areas of eastern Oregon
will have an opportunity during the
coming month to meet and discuss
the many problems having to do
with range management, wintering,
feeding, hay production and other
phases of cattle raising.
A series of meetings to include 10
counties has been scheduled by the
Oregon State college extension ser
vice, at which livestock men will be
given the results of latest studies in
this field. Among those appearing
on the program at each meeting will
be E. R. Jackman, extension agron
omist, O. S. C; R. G. Johnson, acting
superintendent of the new Squaw
Butte range experiment station; H.
A. Lindgren, extension animal hus
bandman, and D. E. Richards, super
intendent of the eastern Oregon
branch experiment station.
The schedule of meetings follows.
All will be held in county seats ex
cept as indicated: Nov. 1-2, Harney;
3-4, Malheur; 5-6, Baker; 9-10, Un
ion; 12-13, Wallowa; 15-16, Crook
and Deschutes, in either Powell
Butte or Prineville; 17-18, Lake, one
day at Paisley and one at Lakeview;
19-20, Klamath; 2.., Jefferson.
Read G. T. Want Ads. You way
find a bargain in something needed.
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DIPOtIT INIUtANCI C08PO RATION
Oregon Turkey Crop
Smaller This Year
Oregon turkey growers expect to
market some 700,000 birds this year,
as compared with 800,000 in 1936,
preliminary estimates prepared by
extension specialists at O. S. C. show.
Seventy per cent of these are ex
pected to go to out-of-state markets.
It generally pays to market only
top-grade birds, growers have found,
even though it requires several kill
ing periods. It is well to withhold
all feed for 24 hours before killing,
and to cool carcasses to 40 degrees
as quickly as possible.
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