HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1937 PAGE TWO IONE NEWS Girls' Play Day at lone Entertains Visitors By MARGARET BLAKE Many of the girls of the Heppner and Lexington high schools enjoyed a "play day" here last Thursday as guests of the local high school girls. Games and sports were enjoyed as well as a program of skits, tap danc ing, musical numbers, etc., present ed by the girls if the various schools. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Long were Port land visitors last week. Alexander McDonald, teacher in the high school, was called to Banks on Monday by the death of a rela tive. Ralph Harris has been up from The Dalles for a few days to com plete arrangements with Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hinkley of Dixie, Wash., to take charge of the Park hotel for the winter months. Mrs. Harris continues to improve slowly in a hospital at The Dalles. Mr. Harris returned there on the train Monday night. The Women's Topic club party for November was given in the Masonic hall last Friday night with Mrs. E. R. Lundell, Mrs. D. M. Ward, Mrs. M. E. Cotter and Mrs. Clyde Denny - as hostesses Seven tables of bridge were in play. Prizes went to Mrs, H. D. McCurdy, Mrs. Clel Rea, Mrs, Cleo Drake, Frank Lundell, Bert Mason and Louis Bergevin. Deli cious refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart of Silverton were up from their home over the week end to visit their daughter, Frances, who is recovering from an appendectomy in the Heppner hos pitai. Dorothy Farrens won a prize of $1 given by the Union Sunday School last Sunday to the boy or girl writ ing the best essay on "What I Am Thankful For." Mrs. Garland Swanson and Mrs. J. E. Swanson were hostesses for a bridge luncheon at the home of the latter last Wednesday. Prizes were won by Mrs. Bert Mason and Mrs. Werner Rietmann. The dance, carnival and bazaar given by the Home Ec club of Wil lows grange in the Legion hall last Saturday night was well attended. The American Legion and auxil iary will hold a joint meeting at the Legion hall on Friday night. There will be a social hour following the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Blake of Con don are guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Blake. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Mathews came up from Roseburg on Sunday. They are at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Ely. Elmer Griffith returned on Friday from the Veterans hospital at Walla Walla where he has been receiving medical attention. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Balsiger were up from White Salmon last Friday and Saturday. They report that they are comfortably settled in their new home. The Womens Missionary society of the Gooseberry Lutheran church held its annual birthday social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Carlson last Sunday afternoon. A large crowd was present and a very pleasant time was had. Laxton McMurray is driving a new automobile. FINE CITY NEWS Community Play Feature at Pine City By BBRNICE WATTENBURGER The leading character in the high school play, Bruce Lindsay, is suf fering from an injured knee and foot. Since "the show must go on," Bruce will walk with the aid of a cane. Mr. and Mrs. Bob McGreer, Mr. and Mrs. Lon Wattenburger and Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wattenburger motored to Pendleton -on business Saturday. At the card party held Friday evennig at the Clayton Ayers' home, Mrs. Marion Finch and Russeil Moore received high scores and Bob McGreer and Miss Dora Moore received low scores. Mrs. Ray J. Pinson spent the week end in Pendleton. Miss Dora E. Moore spent the week end with Mrs. Joyce Smith in Irrigon. 10 and see the Negroes perform. Bring your basket for the basket social to be held afterwards. Mrs. Ollie Neill and daughter Ne va were over night guests Saturday at the Lon Wattneburger home. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch at tended the dance at the Lena grange hall Saturday night and the grange at Lexington Sunday. Mrs. Fred Rauch motored to Pen- dleon on business Monday. Study Program Given to Grangers Granges in Morrow county and in every part of the state will devote a large part of their lecture time to a study of Oregon's natural resources and the problems of use and conser vation of them, according to word re ceived here. C. W. Reynolds, execu tive assistant of the state planning board, has cooperated with grange officials and worked out a study program for this year. An outline of the study plan was recently presented to the Morrow county grange conference by Mrs. G. W. Thiessen, Milwaukie, state lecturer. On her trips the lecturer was accompanied by other grange officers, including Ray W. Gill, state master; Morton Tompkins, overseer; Mrs. Bertha Beck, secretary; Mrs. Mary Lundell, chairman, and Mrs. Fannie McCall, state matron. A special bulletin prepared by the planning board lists eight sug gested topics, all carefully outlined for discussion. Topics are "Farming and Forests," "Weeds," "The Farmer Buys and Sells," "Fish, Feathers and Furs," "What is Happening to Ore gon's Youth Resaurces?", "We Can Prevent Crime," "Too Much Land or Not Enough!", "Electric Power for Oregon." First of the topics has been worked out in detail for presentation at grange, meetings and others will be completed in the near future, it is announced. Material is taken from planning board reports and from other sources. The lecture series provided by the planning board not only will serve to further conservation and other programs held to be of great value to the state, but it provides a valu able addition to the grange meetings, it is pointed out by Mrs. Thiessen. "If you picture the little granges, many of them miles away from any source of information, you will see how valuable, this information is for them," .Mrs. Thiessen states. "The planning board is carrying on an adult education project to a class of people who could not otherwise ob tain it." Mrs. Thiessen has already placed the program before the granges of Klamath, Lake, Harney, Grant, Mal heur, Baker, Union, Wallowa, Des chutes, Jefferson, Crook, Sherman Gilliam, Wheeler, Morrow, Wasco, Columbia, Clatsop, Tillamook, Lin coin, and Curry. Other counties will be visited in the near future. Convention System Okehed by Guest Corvallis Conventions and con- ferences, highly developed American institutions that have been frequent ly decried, have been strongly en dorsed by one prominent English visitor as a valuable aid to democrat ic education. Miss Winifred Harley, who has crossed the Atlantic 20 times in carrying on work in both her native England and America, lists the convention system along with numerous other items that she particularly likes about American life. Miss Harley, who is spending a year as visiting professor and direct or of nursery schools at Oregon State college, also listed, in a recent ad dress to the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi, the many ways in which Englishmen and Americans differ in their outlook and opinions. Many of these differences are based on misconceptions, she said, in urging a frank facing of such potential friC' tion points as a step toward better international cooperation. "PORKIES" ONLY TROPHY Two big fat porcupines are all they had to show for their elk hunt is the report of one member of a party of four who was in Heppner Saturday. The party was composed of Shorty Fellers, Arley Padberg, Oregon Traffic Deaths A series of weekly articles on the problem of Highway Safety by Earl Snell, Secretary of State. Education, enforcement and en gineering are the three vital factors that will solve the traffic accident problem and reduce the number of lives so needlessly sacrificed on our streets and highways. There is a wide divergence of opinion as to which of these three is the most im portant and the comment of E. Ray mond Cato, chief of the California Highway patrol, is interesting in this connection. Chief Cato calls attention to the fact that in one month recently in California there were 31 less traffic fatalities than in the corresponding month last year; also that during the same month period this year there were 5,244 arrests as compared with 3,127 in the same month in 1936. He attributes this improved record in a great measure to the additional po lice activities. He says: "We are satisfied that control of excessive speed alone spared these 31 human lives on our highways and aer determined to keep up our ef forts in an attempt to show greater improvement each month. This is the firs time in nearly three years that we have shown a reduction and I am satisfied that enforcement alone is our immediate answer to the prob lem insofar as we understand it to day." While I do not believe that en forcement alone is the answer to the problem, Chief Cato's experience in meeting a deplorable situation must carry great weight. Every enforce ment agency in Oregon has a respon sibility to meet if results are to be accomplished. Excessive speed con tinues to be a contributing factor in many fatal accidents. Consider these things, keep your car under control at all times, and help eliminate Oregon's traffic deaths. Turkey Facts Given In New Leaflet Sixty-five percent of the Oregon turkey crop is sold through inde pendent dealers and 35 percent thru the four district cooperative asso ciations. Seventy percent of Oregon grown turkeys are shipped to out-of-state markets. This is part of a large fund of in formation pertaining to Oregon's 2 to three million dollar turkey indus dustry found in a leaflet entitled, "Let's Talk Turkey," prepared by J. R. Beck, extension specialist in ru ral service, using data supplied by Noel Bennion, extension poultryman. It is the lastest of a series of leaflets on different phases of Oregon's ag riculture which Mr. Beck has pre pared as program material for use of all rural organizations and other in terested groups. As to the turkey situation this year, the leaflet shows that 7,189,000 pounds of turkeys were in cold stor age in the United States on Septem ber 1 last year, while on the same date this year the pounds of turkeys in storage was 12,314,000. It is esti mated that Oregon will market 700, 000 turkeys this year, as compared with 800,000 last year. The pamphlet also shows that it takes an average of 75 pounds of feed to produce a turkey ready for market at 26 weeks of age, and that it requires from four to five pounds of feed to produce a pound of grain, from hatching to maturity. Early gains are the cheapest, it is pointed out. Other feeding pointers indicate that feed costs can be reduced 10 to 20 per cent by using alfalfa, sun flowers, corn fields, etc, as pasture; that each bird needs six inches of hopper space, and that it is best not to give strong feeds, such as low grade fish meal or inferior vitamin D fish-bearing oils, within the 'last six weeks before killing. That breeding hens confined re quire eight feet of floor space, and that one torn is required for each 12 to 14 hens, are other facts brought out in the leaflet. 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