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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 9, 1937 PAGE SEVEN Work Allotted to Local Forest Camp; CCC's Are Coming District Improve ments Planned; May Shift Area Possible changes and future plans of the local district of the Umatilla National forest are cited by F. F. Wehmeyer, ranger in charge. First is the Heppner site, donated by city and county, calling for sev eral large buildings facing an as phalted court. On May street there will be an office building surround ed by lawn. The entire area will be fenced and planted to trees and shrubbery around the outside. The dwellings will be built at a later date as residences for the ranger and assistant ranger. Lest folks feel too envious, it might be stated that the government rents such buildings at a rate that insures complete re imbursement in a comparatively short period of years. We were allotted 22 man months under ERA for the month of Decem ber for levelling the grounds. This was done to give more local men an -opportunity to earn a little money, the work being done by hand labor rather than by machinery. It is ex pected to move a side camp of CCC enrollees down sometime this month. Through cooperation of the SCS they will be housed at the SCS camp near the Rodeo field. A house, barn and small fire truck garage and warehouse are contem plated for Tupper; lookout cabin, garage for Rancheria, and a road to the top of the peak; cabin for Snow board for the fireman-lookout. At least three more emergency lookout stations at strategic points are also anticipated. Roads over Madison and Texas buttes, the Indian creek road and a road through Camas prairie to connect up Lonerock, and gradually gravelling all the worst stretches on the main roads within the district are expected. A recreational community center somewhere on Ditch creek is con sidered. Although these and hundreds more minor and major improvements are simply plans at this time, dependent upon future appropriations, we feel confident that in the main they will THE; be fulfilled. Development has pro gressed steadily the last eight years and undoubtedly will continue in accordonce with importance of re sources of the area. There is a strong possibility that the part of the district east of Pot amus creek and the Arbuckle drive way will be transferred ti the Ukiah district for administration. This would equalize the areas for pro tection, giving each district six hun dred to six hundred and fifty thou sand acres. Victor Johnson Takes Stage Line Transfer of the Heppner-Pendle-ton-Arlington auto stage run was made this week from Marion Oviatt to Vctor Johnson. Johnson made his first run last Friday, and Oviatt left the first of the week to assist in driving on the John Day highway run. Local stage terminal will continue at Hotel Heppner, and schedule of the runs remains the same, to Pen dleton and return on Tuesdays' Thursdays and Saturday, and to Ar lington and return on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Gus Wiliamson -was in from the R. A. Thompson rnach the first of the week. In his chosen work as sheep tender, Gus finds opportunity to do much reading, a hobby of which he is particularly fond, and he was as ever interested in discuss ing books and authors with friends in town. GEORGE PECK HEADS Continued from First Page a particular commodity favored such action. The designation of the Paci fic northwest states as a white wheat area was approved by the Federal Programs committee as a mechan ism by which it might be possible to relieve surpluses in this section at times when the country as a whole could not be considered as suffering from over-production. The Legislative committee, with George Peck, Lexington, chairman, devoted the major part of its time to the consideration of the need for labor legislation designed to correct the present intolerable situation. At the 1936 meeting of the league, legis lation designed to correct conditions such as those at present causing such unrest on the Pacific north west coast were endorsed by the league as their own honest convic tions. Perhaps the blame is our own that others of our legislators lacked the intestinal fortitude or mental equipment to do other than they did. It will be the responsibility of each one of us to correct such mal-ad-justments in our legislative person nel. Feeling that in past deliberations the wheat league had not consider ed sufficiently all sides of the labor question, the legislative committee this year invited Ben Osborne, Ore gon secretary of the American Fed eration of Labor, to attend the meet ing and discuss the aims of labor before the committee. The sum and substance of Mr. Osborne's remarks were to the effect that legislation S3 m m Tfie Christmas Beautiful We like to think of Christmas as the most beautiful time of the year. With this thought we have assembled the most attractive merchandise avail able in a large field. Believing you will enjoy seeing it aS'We have arranging it for you, we invite you to come in and "browse around7 TOILET GIFT SETS Coty's and Eve ning in Paris of fer a superb va riety of Perfumes distinctively packaged HI 3m 8 Stationery 'm HI Chic, modern de ll signs in papetries II with monograms H in gold. GAMES, TOYS I DOLLS H LAMPS, BOOK ENDS, S GIFTS OF CHROMIUM, H COPPER, BRASS and If LEATHER You must see to realize the beauty of the gift goods at ISS STAR Reporter FRIDAY-SATURDAY I KING SOLOMON'S MINES I : adapted from the famous novel H z by Sir Rired Haggard, the great- i : est adventure story ever written, : i Plus i I WINGS OVER HONOLULU f i with : Say Mill and, Wendy Barrie, : 1 Kent Taylor, William Gargan, : : roily Bowles : .1 SUNDAY-MONDAY I - EDDIE CANTOR In ! ALI BABA ! GOES TO TOWN j s wtih : 1 Tony Martin, Roland Yonng, June Lang', Louise Hovlok, : John Carradine : TUESDAY ! West of Shanghai' j I with ; I BORIS KARLOFP s Ricardo Cortes, Donald Wood, : Beverly Robert! I Also: Final episode of "Jungle s Menace" and Vitaphone Novelty j I WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY : DEC. 15-16 I GLADYS GEORGE In - MADAME X I with j I John Beal, Warren, William Reginald Owen, William Henry 5 The unforgettable drama of a ; I mother who did not know her j Bon. j I Mr. and Mrs. John Bryion, lone, s are Invited to present this cou- : pon at the boxofflce for compll- j s mentary admissions. Please use : before December 16th. j Star Theater ! HUMPHREYS DRUG CO. must necessarily be ineffective in solving our present difficulties. It was impossible, Mr. Osborne indi cated, to bring harmony out of the present chaos through operation of law. After listening to Mr. Osborne and to Representative Bull of Union county, who actively opposed labor legislatoin sponsored by the league at the last legislative session, the committee was unable to agree with labor leaders that the efectiveness of government had become rduced to such a point that legal procedure must be considered too ineffective to be considered in auietine the m-e- sent troubled condition. To quote again from the legislative commit tee's final report: "In any form of democratic government it should be possible to achieve internal peace through legal means. We do not dare admit that we cannot govern ourselves. To say that the interest of labor or of any other group can not be protected by law is to say that our whole scheme of government is wrong. The Eastern Oregon Wheat league, therefore, goes on record as favoring the speedy passage of such legislation as will require labor or ganizations to assume equal respon sibility with other groups in our so ciety." Jack Allen Comes as Grand Lodge Official Jack Allen of Pendleton, former state senator from this district and one-time administrator of Oregon Liquor Control commission, will ap pear before Heppner lodge 358, B. P. O. Elks, this evening as district dep uty grand exalted ruler. Special program features, includ ing initiation and "eats," are an nounced by Bert Mason, exalted ruler, in honor of the district depu ty's visit. Country Store , Good Established Business Gas Pump :: Post Office :: Dance Hall Modern living quarters, with running water and private electric light system. A BARGAIN FOR CASH F. W. TURNER & CO. Our Appreciation is extended to everyone who helped make our implement show last Fri day so successful. 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