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Volume 53, Number 45
First National Bank
Pays 16 Percent
Fourth Dividend
Two Banks Release
$50,000; F.N.B. Now
75 Pet. Liquidated
J. L. Gault, receiver, announces a
fourth dividend of 16 percent will
be paid the depositors of the First
National Bank of Heppner as soon
as checks can be prepared, forward
ed to Washington for the signature
of the comptroller of the currency
and returned to his office, which
should be around February first.
This will increase the dividend
returns of this bank to 75 percent,
three payments aggregating 59 per
cent having been distributed here
tofore. Mr. Gault states that his last
loan made from the Reconstruction
Finance corporation through the
comptroller in December, 1935, which
provided largely for the third divi
dend of 25 percent, was fully settled
last September and that the 16 per
cent dividend results entirely from
collections made by him since that
time.
While Mr. Gault would make no
commitment at to the amount the
bank will ultimately pay the credit
ors, he expressed confidence that a
further dividend would be had. It
is known that Mr. Gault is working
to dispose of the bank's "Coal lands"
at the headwaters of Willow creek
and that he believes he will be able
to make a definite announcement of
their sale in the near future.
This dividend and the returns to
stockholders of Farmers and Stock
growers National bank in payments
soon to be made, will release more
than $50,000.
H. L. Duvall Bids
High on Bank Assets
Opening of bids Monday for sale
of remaining assets of Farmers and
Stockgrowers National bank of
Heppner revealed the bid of H. L.
Duvall as high. Duvall's bid of $750
was for all the remaining assets and
was higher than individual bids on
partial assets combined.
J. L. Gault, receiver, transmitted
Duvall's bid to the comptroller of
currency for approval with recom
mendation of its acceptance. The sale
is expected to complete Mr. Gault's
trust with this bank, though a dis
tribution of remaining funds may
not be made until the matter of
making income tax returns is cleared
up. The liquidation has made the
exceptional record of repaying de
positors in full with interest for the
time their money was tied up, and in
addition, of repaying stockholders'
assessments in full with interest.
JOINT MEETING SLATED
A joint pot-luck dinner of Hepp
ner post 87, American Legion, and
Heppner unit of the auxiliary has
been set for next Monday evening at
7:00 o'clock at the hime of Mr. and
Mrs. Spencer Crawford. All ex-service
men and wives and all auxiliary
members and husbands are expected
to attend. Present from outside will
be Robert Burlingame of Milton,
commander of the 6th district of the
Legion, Hugh Bowman of Pendle
ton, state chairman of Sons of the
Legion, Mrs. Marie Todd of Her-
miston, president of the 6th district
of the auxiliary, as well as others
who may accompany them. Follow
ing the dinner the auxiliary will
hold its meeting at the home of Mrs.
Floyd Adams, local unit president.
YEAR'S FIRST MOISTURE
Rain, snow, wind and sunshine all
combined yesterday to give Morrow
county a variety of weather and the
first precipitation of moisture for the
new year. The snow covered the
ground for only a short time. Over
cast skies and moderate tempera
tures is the order for today.
Heppner,
LOCAL WOMEN GET
RECOGNITION
Woolgrowers and Auxiliary '
End Meetings at Prineville;
Labor, Grazing Get Action
The election of Mrs. Ralph I.
Thompson as president of Oregon
Wool Growers auxiliary, and Mrs.
Estes L. Morton as secretary of that
organization, again brought Hepp
ner into the limelight as the Oregon
Wool Growers association and its
auxiliary brought their annual con
ventions to a close at Prineville
Tuesday. The officers were elected
for two years.
J. G. Barratt of this city who has
completed two terms as president of
the wool growers, was succeeded in
office by Leo Hahn of Crook county.
R. L. Weir of Lakeview was named
vice president, and Walter Holt of
Pendleton, veteran in the office, was
reelected to the post of secretary.
The Morrow county delegation re
turned home yesterday.
Among resolutions of wool grow
ers was commendation for Governor
Martin in his stand on the labor sit
uation, recommendation that th)e
wool industry keep "open shop" in
regard to shearers' unions, opposi
tion to the 70-car train and Pettin
gill bills, and opposition to the sug
gested plan of diverting forest con
trol from the department of agricul
ture. Opposition was expressed to any
new permits or licenses being issued
by the grazing division until range
survey and carrying capacity stud
ies are completed. The policy of is
suing ten-year permits formerly fol
lowed by the forest service was en
dorsed and asked to be extended to
grazing lands falling under the Tay
lor grazing act. Purchase of county
and federally-owned lands within
grazing districts of eastern Oregon
was recommended.
An tone Vey, Sr.
Pioneer Resident !
Antone Vey, Sr., native of Portu
gal, early Morrow and Umatilla
county pioneer, father of Antone
Vey, Jr., the Heppner Rodeo direct
or and noted round-up performer,
died at Pendleton Sunday. Funeral
services were held there Tuesday,
attended by many friends from both
counties.
Born Feb. 22, 1847, Mr. Vey came
to Umatilla county at 18 years of
age, residing continuously on the
ranch in the Echo section until re
tirement in 1918 when he moved
to Pendleton. Besides the son men
tioned he is survived by his widow,
daughters Mamie and Anna Vey of
Pendleton, ' and half brother, Joe
Ramos of Echo.
Three More Sessions
Adult Education
With three more regularly slated
sessions of the adult education class
es which have been conducted for
some time, Mrs. Daphna Sumner, in
charge, announces that desires ' of
Heppner people must be made
known in this time if the work is to
be continued. The classes, one on
sewing problems of the homemaker,
in the afternoon, and the other on
art, in the evening, meet at 2:30 and
7 o'clock each Wednesday.
Ladies with any sewing problems
who have not yet attended the af
ternoon class may receive help at the
three remaining sessions. A number
of men interested in art have at
tended the evening class and any
others so interested are welcome.
RESIDENCE SOLD
Mr. and Mrs. Truman Babb this
week sold their recently completed
residence on North Ccfurt street to
Millard D. Rodman. They are com
pleting finishing work before turn
ing over the property.
ANNUAL MEETING CALLED
The annual meeting of the Hepp
ner Public Library association will
be held Saturday, January 15th, at
the library room at 4:30 p. m. Every
one interested in the library is asked
to attend.
Oregon, Thusday, January
Postoffice to Get
2nd Class Rating;
1937 Business Up
Year's Total of
$9562 is 8.7 Percent
Increase Over 1936
Heppner's postoffice became en
titled to second class rating the first
of the year with an 8.7 percent in
crease in business in 1937 oer 1936,
announces Chas. B. Cox, postmaster.
Total business for 1937 was $9,562.43
against $8,779.07 for 1936. The new
rating will take effect July first.
The second class rating automatic
ally raises the salaries of the post
master and clerks, and is the basis
for obtaining various improvmeents
in service. This is tre first year since
1929 that the office has been so rated.
Comparison of business by quar
ters for 1936 and 1937 is given by
Mr. Cox as follows:
1936 1937
1st Quarter $2163.13 $2265.59
2nd Quarter .... 1975.21 2166.15
3rd Quarter .... 2054.99 2167.11
4th Quarter 2585.74 2963.78
Totals $8779.07 $9562.63
Heppner to Play
Fossil and Irrigon
Two games in two nights on the
home flpor is the schedule this week
end for Heppner when it takes on
the Fossil quintet Friday and Irri
gon Saturday.
Fossil and Irrigon each have a
victory over the locals in early sea
son games played on ( their own
courts. A surprisingly strong team,
Fo'ssil has a squad that played to
gether last year, and although hard
ly more than a set-up, they showed
promise as a future team. This sea
son, these players have formed a
most formidable cage outfit, one that
is making it tough for its opponents.
In such players as jBird, Wham,
Prindley, Viegas and Sean, they have
a group of progressive hoopsters
out to gain their first conference win.
Saturday's game with Irrigon, the
team that has won ten straight
games, brings to Heppner a basket
ball five that is a member of the
eastern division of the Upper Co
lumbia Athletic league, the same
conference of which the Mustangs
are a western division school. This
game does not count in the league
standings, but it will give a general
idea as to the competition offered
by the smaller schools of which the
eastern division is composed. Lyle
Eddy, coach of the river town's bas
ketball representatives, has a team
that comes to . the mentor of the
smaller enrollment schools but few
times during a coach's career. This
year Irrigon has one. of the stand
out teams of the river section, as evi
denced by its mounting string of vic
tories. Their first game in three weeks,
Heppner, although losing to Arling
ton last Saturday, did so by a much
smaller score than was generally
predicted. Heay practice sessions are
on tap for the Mustangs the early
part of this week, according to Coach
Knox, who hopes to get the boys
back in the stride they displayed for
the Grant Union game. This week
end's games are the first two of five
games that will be played on the lo
cal floor within the next three weeks.
Both games are scheduled for 8.00
p. m., Friday and Saturday in the
Heppner gymna'sium.
GRANGE PROGRAM SET
Mrs. Alta Brown, lecturer, has ar
ranged a program for the regular
meeting of Lexington grage begin
ning at 8 o'clock Saturday evening.
Report of Marvin Casebeer of na
tional FFA convention at Kansas
City, piano solos by Caroline Bauman
and Maxine Devine will precede an
address by Morton Tompkins, state
grage overseer, on rural electrifica
tion. The public is nivited.
13, 1938
ELECTRIFICATION
POMONA TALKS
Outside Speakers Lead Discus
sions at Cecil Meeting; Joint
Installation Held With Local
All subordinate granges of the
county were well represented at Po
mona grange meeting at Cecil Sat
urday afternoon and evening, with
between 85 and 100 persons present
in the afternoon. Discussions on the
rural electrfiication outlook took
prominent place in the day's activ
ities. Outside speakers included Ralph
Perry, master of Pine Grove grange
in Hood River county; Mat Glover,
former state grange overseer; Mr.
Thiessen, master Clackamas county
Pomona; Walter Wilcox, manager of
Oregon grange wholesale coopera
tives, who gave the principal address
of the afternoon and told of con
nections recently made with Massey
Harris Machinery Co., and of organi
zation of districts for the distribu
tion of tires, electrical appliances
and various other articles; Mrs. Wil
cox, member of state grange home
economics committee, and Joe Bel
anger, county agent, who discussed
general agricultural topics of local
interest. Pomona and Boardman
grange choruses sang Scotch songs
in commemoration of the birthday of
Robert Burns this month, the Krebs
boys gave instrumental musical
numbers, vocal numbers were sung
by Donald Heliker with guitar ac
companiment, and recitation was
given by Donald Ball. Minr.ie Mc
Farland discussed progress of co
operative medicine and hospitaliza
tion, and Mrs. Alta Brown told of
"Our Goal for 1938."
Chas. Wicklander, state grange
deputy, was present and in the early
afternoon presided as installing offi
cer for installation of new Pomona
and Willows grange officers. Mrs.
Wilcox was installing marshal with
two lady assistants. Ladies of the
grange served lunch at noon and
in the evening.
Tompkins to Speak
On Electrification
Morton Tompkins, state grange
overseer, will speak on "Rural Elec
trification" at Lexington grange hall
at 8 o'clock Saturday evening, and
it is expected he will also be avail
able for a talk in the afternoon," an
nounces Mrs. Ernest Heliker, Wil
lows grange worker. The public is
invited to hear him.
Tompkins responded to a request
for an informed speaker on this sub
ject sent to the state grange, answer
ing a desire of local grange workers
that complete information be ob
tained on the possibility of benefits
from the Bonneville development.
MISSION SOCIETY MEETS
The Womens Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist church met
at the church Tuesday afternoon
with Mrs. Jennie McCarter, presi
dent, presiding. Mrs. Mary Bailey
led devotions followed by prayer by
Mrs. L. W. Br.iggs. Mrs. Lulu Mc
Carty read a chapter from the study
book, and Mrs. R. C. Young read a
paper on the women's foreign mis
sion organization. Refreshments were
served by the hostesses, Mrs. Alta
Brown and Mrs. Briggs. Others at
tending included Mrs. Newt O'Hara,
Mrs. Henry Taylor, Mrs. Sam
Hughes, Mrs. Sarah Parker, Mrs.
Ruth Stevens, Mrs. Alex Green and
Miss Ona Gilliam.
WATER CONDITION GOOD
Heppner's water is in "A" condi
tion, safe for drinking purposes, says
the latest report from Oregon State
Board of Health, whose analysis was
made on the 7th from two samples
taken on the 6th, one at the reser
voir and one at "city tap, drug store."
Reports on both samples were "A,"
though the sample taken at the res
ervoir showed more than 10 percent
gas in 10 cubic centimeters, indicat
ing "B. Colon" to be present. The
other sample showed complete ab
sence of any bacterial count. The
reports were received by' J. O. Ras
mus, watermaster, Tuesday morning.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Opposed as
Not Conforming to
Forest Policy.
Wehmeyer Tells
Lions that Backing
Is Given Kinzua
Antagonism to the proposed mill
operation at Heppner was expressed
by F. F. Wehmeyer, local forest
ranger, before the Monday Lions
luncheon on the grounds that the
operation does not conform to iivS
policy of administration of the local
forest district.
Forest officials have lended their
support to a policy of placing tim
ber cutting in the district on a sus
tained yield basis, and have been
cooperating with the Kinzua Pine
mills as the logical operators for ef
fecting such a policy, Wehmsyer
said. The Kinzua people have recent
ly made large purchases of private
timber in the district to the end of
establishing a 60-year-cyele perpet
ual operation. If cutting is thrown
wide open, the western yellow pine
of this region will disappear in 15
years' time, he declared.
Wehmeyer predicted that several
large milling towns would become
ghost towns within the next 15 years.
The timber available to mills at Bend,
Klamath Falls and Redmond, he
said, would be practically depleted
in that time, thus removing the main
source of the economic life of those
communities.
He cited the timber in the Hepp
ner district as the last body of west
ern yellow pine large enough to sup
port a sustained yield operation, and
predicted that in the ultimate Hepp
ner would be repaid better by sup
porting, the sustained yield policy
than it would by encouraging whole
sale cutting.
Of course the forest service has no
control over private lands, he said,
though its influence is being used
to throw control so far as possible
under the sustained yield plan.
Members of the Lions club who
had encouraged the establishment
of the mill here said they had not
been aware of the forest policy. One
member most active in aiding the
establishment of the local operation,
reported that plans were being made
to set up for a 120,000-foot per day
cut. It was the general impression
of club members that the local tim
ber was ripe and ready for cutting
and that much of its value would be
lost, through inroads by beetles and
otherwise, unless it were cut in the
next few years. Wehmeyer estimated
that the total beetle damage to date
had amounted to about 10 percent.
Mr. Wehmeyer and his assistant,
Harold C. Chriswell, reported at
tendance at recent meetings at Pen
dleton at which discussions took
place as a basis for plannnig opera
tions of the district next year. All
district operations are planned a full
year ahead, and the various activities
correlated to the end of adminis
tering it in the public interest to the
largest possible degree, they said.
D. M. Ward and Dr. A. D. Mc-
Murdo brought reports from the
Jackson Day dinner attended in
Portland Saturday night, stressing
th address of Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Johnson as Jhe high
light of the meeting.
Local Rebekahs
Fete County Lodges
Heppner Rebekah lodge was host
last evening to other Rebekah lodges
of the county at a turkey dinner and
joint installation of officers at the
I. O. O. F. hall.
Joining in the affair were Hard-
man, Lexington, lone and Morgan
lodges.
FACES STATUTORY CHARGE
Dick Howard, long-time Heppner
resident, was taken into custody of
officers this week on a statutory
charge.