OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PUBLIC AUDITORIUM
PORTLAND. ORE.
Volume 53, Number 38
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1937
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Helping Others
Pointed as Way to
True Thanksgiving
Rev. Hinkle Relates
Anecdotes in Mes
sage to Lions Club
Everyone can find something for
which to be thankful. That is the
Thanksgiving message of Rev. Ralph
V. Hinkle, Episcopal archdeason,
brought to the Lions at the Monday
noon luncheon at Elkhorn restau
rant. Mr. Hinkle illustrated his short
talk with anecdotes from life. He
told of one occasion which revealed
a particularly unappreciative indi
vidual. It was at a church Thanks
giving service, and each person
present was asked to relate that for
which he had to be thankful. There
was happy response until this cer
tain individual was reached. He re
sponded in a negative manner. Asked
as to his health, his clothing and
necessary provender of life, he re
vealed that there was nothing lack
ing in these respects. Still he could
n't see that he should be thankful,
because his business had been very
bad in the past year.
Such an individual takes for
granted those bounties for which the
Pilgrim fathers sacrificed so much
to obtain, and in the attainment of
which they found cause for real re
joicing, said the speaker.
He cited the incident of another
man of his acquaintance. This man
had money to loan and spent much
of his time fretting and worrying
over collections. He was extremely
unhappy most of the time and was
not a pleasant person to be around.
In a conversation one day the man
complained that collections were
particularly bad. There was one loan
in particular that he believed would
be a total loss. But as he told of it
his face lightened. "You know," he
said, "although I can illy afford to
lose the money I loaned those peo
ple, I really don't care if I lose it.
They are good people and have tried
hard. They are honest and will pay if
they can. They were right up against
it when I made them the loan, and
I at least have the satisfaction of
knowing that I did help them."
"This man, like your service club,
in giving unselfish service earned
the greatest reward and the largest
cause for Thanksgiving," said the
speaker. "Most people become too
wrapped up in their own little ex
istence to taste the fruits of the
bounteous life, that of helping oth
ers. This is the way that leads to
true thanksgiving."
Lee Howell, manager of Tum-A-Lum
Lumber company's local office,
was introduced as a new member.
County Levy Deferred
for John Day Decision
The county levying board which
met at the courthouse last Friday
adjourned the meeting until a fu
ture date awaiting decision on the
mandamus proceedings instituted by
Sandy Investment company to com
pel the county to levy for its pro
portion of the 10-cent an acre as
sessment made last year on lands
within the John Day Irrigation dis
trict. No objections were made to
the budget as advertised.
Though Judge Wilson overruled
the demurrer entered to the coun
tv's answer in a hearing last week,
the case itself is yet to be decided
and should the investment company
be upheld it will be necessary to in
clude the levy in this year's budget,
Judge Bert Johnson announces. He
believed final trial of the case would
Vw set in the hear future.
The county's proportion of the
John Day assessment would be $4,
000, calling for about a half mill levy.
Phil Griffin underwent an opera
tion for appendicitis at Heppner
hospital Tuesday.
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Thanksgiving Day
Proclaimed by President
...... L Franklin D.-Roosevelt, President of the United States of America,-
hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of November, 1937, as a
day of national thanksgiving.
The custom of observing a day of public thanksgiving began in col
onial times and has been given the sanction of national observance
through many years. It is in keeping with all of our tradtitions that we,
even as our fathers in olden days, give humble and hearty thanks for the
bounty and the goodness of divine Providence.
The harvests of our fields have been abundant and many men and
women have been given the blessing of stable employment.
A period unhappily marked in many parts of the world by strife and
threats of war finds our people enjoying the blessing of peace. We have
no selfish designs against other nations.
We have been fortunate in devoting our energies and our resources
to constructive purposes and useful works. We have sought to fulfill our
oblibation to use our national heritage by common effort for the com
mon good.
Let us, therefore, on the day appointed forego our usual occupations
and, in our accustomed places of worship, each in his own way, humbly1
acknowledge the mercy of God from whom comes every good and per
fect gift.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States of America to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this ninth day of November, in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven and of the independ
ence of the United States of America the on hundred and sixty-second.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
By The President:
SUMNER WELLES,
Acting Secretary of State
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Two True Bills
Found by Grand Jury
Two true bills were reported by
the grand jury for the December
term of circuit court which made its
report yesterday morning to Judge
C. L. Sweek. Both were secret in
dictments. One not true bill was
returned.
Sitting on the jury, which receiv
ed their dismissal following their
report, were J. I. Hanna, foreman,
Hanson Hughes, Russell D. Moore,
H. E, Clark, Geo. N..Ely, Robert
Smith and W. O. Bayless.
Also recommended in their report
was lighting the interior of the jail
by repainting or kalsomining with
light finish, and the construction of
another jail entrance. The latter
was recommended for attention of
the next budget committee.
While here Judge Sweek heard
the plea of guilty of Jack McQuirk
who waived grand jury investiga
tion and was sentenced to 60 days
in the county jail on charge of mak
ing bank cheok with intent to de
fraud. He was paroled to the sher
iff, having already been in jail two
months.
NOTICE ' ... '
To whom it way concern: I will
not be responsible for bills contract
ed by anyone but myself. E. L.
Ayers, Heppner, Ore. ltp
State Group OSTA
Meets Here Saturday
The finance committee of the Ore
gon State Teachers association will
meet in Heppner Saturday with Mrs.
Lucy E. Rodgers, association presi
dent. This committee has been act
ive in research work for some time
and is expected to have some im
portant findings to report later, said
Mrs. Rodgers.
Making up the committee are Jas.
M. Burgess of Milton-Freewater,
chairman; Austin Landreth, Pendle
ton; Henry Tetz, Adams; May belle
Romig, Baker, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Dix of this city.
Plans Arrive for
New Forest Camp;
Officials Visit
Work to Start as
Soon as Title Clear
ed; CCC's in Charge
Immediate construction work on
the local camp for the Umatilla Na
tional forest is expected as soon as
final details of clearing up the title
are out of the way. This word was
brought to Heppner yesterday by
Carl Ewing, new supervisor of the
Umatilla National forest, and party
who brought plans of the new pro
ject. Plans call for construction of an
office next to Gilliam & Bisbee's
store on May street, with other
buildnigs situated on the ground to
the south of the hardware store on
South Main street. The office will be
set back from the street with lawn
and other landscaping about it. The
entire site will be bordered with
trees, and a court about which the
warehouse, service station and other
buildings will be situated will be
gravelled.
The warehouse and office will be
constructed this winter if plans ma
terialize, a CCC camp to be estab
lished to do the work. Peter Bruce,
project superintendent of the Squaw
Creek CCC camp, with the party
yesterday, will be in charge.
The forest officials were contact
ing the city government yesterday
for approval of the building plans.
Also with the party here yesterday
were Ralph W. Crawford, retiring
supervisor of the local forest, who
has taken a similar position with
the Snoqualmie National forest in
Washington beginning the first of
next month, and A. R. Hall, new ad
ministrative superintendent in the
Pendleton office, recently trans
ferred from the Siuslaw National
forest at Eugene.
JACK GORHAM
HURT IN ACCIDENT
Board man Merchant's Car Goes
into Ditch Near lone; In
juries Treated Here
Jack Gorham, Boardman merch
ant, was painfully injured when his
automobile went over the bank
about a mile below lone Tuesday
evening. Apparently he was knock
ed unconscious as he did not re
member how the accident happened.
He left Heppner shortly after 4 o'
clock and it was between 6:30 and 7
that Algott Lundell and son dis
covered him, seeing the car lights
shining into the air from the ditch
below, and going to investigate.
They had difficulty getting him
from the car, from which he could
not extricate himself, before rushing
him to Heppner hospital for treat
ment. The car had apparently turn
ed over several times.
Mr. Gorham was resting quite
easy this morning, though a lump
on the spine between the shoulder
blades was giving some pain. The
doctor expected to take an x-ray
picture yesterday to determine the
exact nature of the injury. Mr.
Gorham was alone, having spent
several hours here on business be
fore leaving for home.
Heppner Gives $101
in Red Cross Drive
Incomplete returns from Heppner
showed $101 in Red Cross member
ships for the annual roll call ending
today.
No out-of-town returns were in
yesterday, though good response is
expected as indicated by early re
ports, said Russell McNeill, county
chapter chairman. The county's
quota is $300.
Mr. and Mrs .Oscar Lundell of
Willows were visitors here Tuesday.