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Thursday, January 27,
LEXINGTON NEWS
Lex Three Links Club
Elects New Officers
By Bertha Hunt
The Three Links club met at the
home of Ola Ward Monday evening.
Plans were made for the year and
the following officers were elected:
Anna Keene, president; Emma Peck,
vice-president; Cora Warner, secre
tary, and Margaret Leach, treasurer.
Refreshments were served.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Whillock and
daughter Carla Lee motored to Pen
dleton Monday.
The Home Economics club held a
committee meeting ab the home of
Mrs. Alta Cutsforth Saturday. Those
present were Bernice Bauman, Em
ma Peck, Maude Pointer, Margaret
Miller, Myra Peck and Alta Cuts
forth. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Breshears and
daughters, Helen and Edwina Bre
shears, Mrs. Carl Whillock and Mrs.
Wilbur Steagall, attended the adult
study club at St. Patrick's rectory
in Heppner Sunday evening.
Harry Dinges was a business vis
itor in lone Monday.
Mrs. Laurel Ruhl and baby son,
Otto Eugene, returned home from
Heppner Wednesday.
Ralph Jackson went to Pendleton
on business last Wednesday.
Lon Edwards and his daughter
Edith spent several days in Spokane
this week.
Olin Ritchie of Hermiston was in
Lexington one day this week.
Casha Shaw of Heppner spent
several days in Lexington this week.
Word has been received here of
the birth of a daughter, Elsie Joan,
to Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Graves of
Kennewick, Wash. Mrs. Graves was
formerly Alberta Fulgham of this
city.
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Dougherty and
son Gary have returned home from
Spokane, where they have been vis
iting for some time.
Ralph Jackson and son Kenneth
went to Portland Friday and re
turned home Sunday with a new
car.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Barnett, Miss
Dona Barnett and Mrs. Trina Par
ker attended church in lone Sun
day night.
Mayor T. L. Barnett has been ill
at his home for the past week.
Shirlee Smith, teacher in the
Heppner high school, was visiting at
the Wm. D. Campbell home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Leach were
dinner guests Sunday at the home of
Mrs. Leach's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mack Smith, in Heppner.
Mr. O'Hara of Heppner was in
Lexington Monday.
Yvonne, the small daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. E. C. Dougherty, who has
been ill in the hospital at The Dalles
with inflammatory rheumatism, re
turned to her home Monday. She is
reported to be improving slowly.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Duvall, Mrs
Laura Scott and Louise Hunt were
guests at a turkey dinner at the
Ralph Jackson home Sunday.
Morton Tompkins, field examiner
under J. D. Ross, administrator of
the Bonneville project, gave a talk
at Lexington grange hall Saturday
night, Jan. 15, on matters pertinent
to rural electrification. He explained
that Bonneville power will be dis
tributed through public or private
agencies, whichever the people wish,
That while they would offer every
assistance at their commanl, the re
quest for power and methods of set
up, whether power district, cooper
ative or municipally-owned distnb
uting systems, must originate with
the people themselves.
Visitors present at grange were
Mr. Tompkins, state grange over
seer, Oscar Lundell, state grange
steward; Mrs. 0. L. Lundell, chair
man of state grange H. E. C, and
Wm. Huck, Pomona master of Sher
man county.
People attending the rural elec
trification meeting at Arlington on
Tuesday included Orrin Wright, Ed
Rugg, Judge Bert Johnson, Jack
Farris. Bert Mason, A. F. Majeske,
R. B. Rice, Oral Scott, Burt Peck
and Minnie McFarland.
School News
The honor roll for the first semes
ter is as follows: Zelma Way, 1.50:
Wilma Tucker, 1.50; Kenneth Jack'
son, 1.75; Jerrine Edwards, 1.75; Dan
Dinges. 2.00.
The Lexington basketball team
met the Echo team on the home floor
1938
Heppner
and the result was an exciting game
with a final score of 32-20 in favor
of Echo. For the first half, the score
ran neck-and-neck, and both teams
fought hard to win.
Semester tests were given January
13 and 14; these days seemed more
like a vacation than a drudgery to
most of the students.
A ticket sale is being conducted
by the high school student body,
which is divided into two teams. The
team selling the most tickets will be
entertanied by the losers.
The girls' gym class has begun
playing off tournament ladders in
two of their new sports darts and
rope quoits.
The basketball team was defeated
by Umatilla on the opponent's floor
with a score of 24-18. The game was
reported to have been very exciting.
Don't forget, folks, "Tiptoe Inn,"
a rolicking comedy, will be present
ed by the Lexington student body
in the auditorium at 8:00 o clock p.
m., January 28. The play along with
the numbers before and between acts
will afford a full evening's enter
tainment. Don't fail to come! Ad
mission is only 35c, 25c, and 15c.
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Political Bugs Buzz
o State May Build
o 25 on State Payroll
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem. Announcement by Fred
erick Steiwer, Oregon's junior sen
ator, that he would not seek re-election
has set a number of political
"bugs" buzzing around this particu
lar political light, most of whom, by
the very nature of things, are fore
doomed to pay for their curiosity
with a pair of scorched wings.
In the Democratic camp three men
are already avowed candidates for
Mr. Steiwer's seat. Carl Donough,
federal district attorney, and Circuit
Judge Edward B. Ashhurst of Klam
ath Falls have publicly declared
their intentions of seeking the nonv
ination in the May primaries and
petitions are in circulation to place
the name of Elton Watkins, Portland
attorney, in the running. Willis Ma
honey of Klamath Falls who so far
has failed to commit himself as to
which political plum he will choose
to pluck is expected to enter the race
for the senatorship with a public
declaration shortly.
So far no Republican has come
forth with a defniite announcement
but there appears to be an abund
ance of suitable material and willing
patriots if one is to judge by the
ever-increasing list of those who are
being "prominently mentioned" for
this post. Only within the past week
two more names have been added to
this list which bids fair to develop
into a roster of the G. O. P. faithful.
These were J. E. Bennett, stormy
petrel of the Portland city commis
sion and former member of the state
senate, and Walter Tooze, Jr., Port'
land attorney. Secretary of State
Snell and State Treasurer Holman,
both of whom have been mentioned
as possible gubernatorial candidates,
are just as frequently mentioned in
connection with the senatorship. J.
M. Devers, attorney for the state
highway commission, is definitely in
a receptive mood, awaiting only the
proper encouragement before mak
ing any announcement. Other re
publican party leaders who are re
garded as possibilities for this post
include Willard Marks of Albany,
president of the State Board .of
Higher Education; State Senator
Homer D. Angell of Portland; George
Nener of Portland, former United
States district attorney; State Sen
ator Dean Walker of Polk county,
and Lowell C. Paget, former state
president of the Oregon Republican
club.
The State Board of Control may
decide to erect a new building in
Portland for use of state departments
located in that city instead of buying
an old building and remodeling it to
meet state needs if it follows the
advice of its advisory committee,
This committee, after an investiga
tion of the many buildings being of
fered the state, reported that it would
be better to construct a new build
ing if this could be done for the cost
of an old building and estimated the
cost of a building large enough to
Gazette Times, Heppner,
meet the state's needs in Portland
at $550,000. This amount is $140,000
below the price placed on the re
modeled Elks Temple but $15,000 in
excess of the price asked for the
Board of Trade building remodeled
to meet the state's needs. The $550,
000 estimated cost of a new building,
however, does not include a site,
cost of which will have to be added
if the state decides to build.
The state highway department
will place a marker on the Central
Oregon highway, 14 miles east of
Burns, to designate the site of old
Fort Harney, established in 1867
and abandoned in 1889. The fort was
named in honor of General William
D. Harney who was appointed com
mander of the Oregon military de
partment in 1858.
Arrests by state police for traffic
law violations during December to
talled 533 while warning slips were
issued to 6376 other motorists during
the month, according to the report
of Chas. P. Pray, superintendent of
police.
Of the 9825 employees on the state
payroll as of last September, 25 are
located in Morrow county according
to a survey just completed by Wal
lace S. Wharton, state budget direct-
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or. These Morrow county employees
of the state who drew salaries for
the month aggregating $2489.79 are
distributed as follows:
Heppner, 13; Lena, 1; Lexington,
4; Boardman, 7.
An analysis of the state payroll
for September reveals the fact that
6188 persons had steady jobs with
the state while another 3627 were
listed as part time employees. Of the
full time employees 4185 or 68 per
cent are male and 2003, or 32 per
cent, are females. The total state
payroll for the month was $983,851.15.
Average monthly salary for full time
male employees of the state is $145.18
while female employees receive an
average of $97.20 a month.
Although Salem is the capital city
and the center of state government
only 23 percent of the full time em
ployees are located here. These 2240
persons drew a total of $255,614.97
in salaries for September. Corvallis
with 1549 state employees, or 16
percent of the total, ranks second
with a September payroll of $138,
226.77. Portland ranks third with
1253 full time state employees, 13
percent of the total, and a monthly
payroll of $153,255.46. Eugene, the
seat of the state university, had 856
persons on the state payroll for an
aggregate of $80,233.86.
The other 3927 employees of the
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state with payroll checks aggregat
ing $358,500 for the month, are scat
tered about in the various counties,
with every county represented.
Crook county had the smallest num
ber 21 on the state payroll al
though their monthly pay checks to
talled slightly higher than did those
of the 22 in Jefferson, 23 in Sher
man or 25 in Morrow county.
A 200-acre tract of land in the
Turtle Cove section of the fossil
beds near the John Day highway in
Grant county will be set aside as a
state recreation area if the federal
department of the interior accepts
the state highway commission's of
fer of 50 cents an acre for the land.
Governor Martin, Secretary of
State Snell and Dan Fry, state pur
chasing agent, helped The Dalles
folks celebrate the restoration of
navigation to the upper Columbia
river last week. Snell and Fry went
on to Pendleton to inspect the newly
completed nurses' home at the East
ern Oregon state hospital.
Floods and slides during late De
cember resulted in $80,000 damage
to Oregon highways, according to R.
H. Baldock, state highway engineer.
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