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
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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
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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
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O. Elks, this evening as district dep
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Special program features, includ
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