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Volume 54, Number 5
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 14, 1938
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Heppner, lone
Take Berths in
Blue Mt. League
Locals Face 'Pendle
ton Sunday; Arling
ton Coming to lone
Heppner's lot upon the diamond
has been cast this year in the Blue
Mountain league, and the opening
battle has been slated for next Sun
day against the Pendleton Bucka
roos in the latter's own bailiwick.
That's the report brought by Fred
Hoskins, last year's manager of the
locals 'who attended the league's
recent organization meeting. This
year Fred will manage lone, relin
quishing the local job to Alva Stone
who managed Wasco in that city's
baseball heyday, and lone, too, will
contest in the Blue Mountain base
ball set-up. They will open at home
next Sunday against Arlington.
Six teams in all will compose the
league membership: Pendleton, Echo,
Umatilla Indians, Heppner, lone and
Arlington. The third game of the
opener will be played at Echo with
Umatilla Indians as opponents.
The tentative schedule calls for
two games between each two teams,
making a ten-game schedule for
each team. It is intended that the
nlavine season shall end by the
Fourth of July, after which time it
is hoped to take the best players in
Morrow county and issue a team to
meet all comers.
Heppner and lone crossed bats in
a warm-up game on the local field
Sunday, and from appearances it
looks like Ray Massey pitching for
Heppner and Larry Ritchie pitch
ing for lone in the openers next
Sunday. Cool weather has prevented
either of the Morrow county outfits
from getting into top form, but
prospects are that both will offer
plenty of competition before the
season ends.
Manager Stone knows his base
ball, the boys believe. He had the
Wasco Wheatland league outfit
when Sky Soden was a name to fill
hearts of Wasco's opponents with
fear., And, by the way, Soden isn't
entirely out of the eastern Oregon
baseball picture. He's now at Kin
zua, and should games be arranged
with that mill town outfit sometime
before the year ends, it is entirely
possible that he may again be seen
in action on the local diamond. A
Kinzua booster says Soden is still
tops in the "bushes."
W. R. Irwin Passes;
Was Early Resident
W. R. Irwin, for many years con
nected with the old Minor & Co.
store here, died in Portland Monday
after undergoing a major operation
"several days before. Funeral ser
vices were held from Finley chapel
in that city Tuesday evening, with
interment following in the Tillamook
cemetery. Mr. Irwin was a member
of Heppner lodge 69, A. F. & A. M.
Mr. Irwin was a partner with M.
D. Clark of this city in the Minor
& Co. store for many years, tie
married Miss Ada Minor, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Minor, pio
neers, here. The family home was
removed to Rockaway about 1920
where Mr. Irwin had since conduct
ed a grocery business. Surviving
are the widow, sons Stephen of Uk
iah and Ellis of Rockaway, and
daughter, Miss Betty Irwin of Rock
away. '
MORE OR LESS COYOTES?
Adam Knoblock, veteran trapper,
may be right about the scarcity of
coyotes as cited in these columns re
cently, but Foster Collins, Camas
prairie resident, says he doubts it.
In town last Thursday, Mr. Collins
asserted the coyotes are running in
bunches out his way and that at the
present rate of increase, it will soon
be necessary to retain trappers to
accompany sheep instead of herders.
MUSIC FESTIVAL
SLATED APRIL 29
Annual Event Culminates Mu
sical Activity of School Year;
All County Pupils Participating
On Friday, April 29, the elemen
tary and high school children of
Morrow county will gather in Hepp
ner for the fifth annual music fes
tival. The festival is held to promote
interest in music, not for competi
tive purposes. '
This event, which is the point
toward which music education in the
schools is directed during a large
share of the last semester, is held
each year at about the same time
National Music week is celebrated
throughout the United States.
The music festival has been found
to be of great valife to both stu
dents and teachers, atudents become
acquainted with other children
throughout the county and also be
come accustomed to singing with
larger groups of persons than is
possible in their own school situa
tion. Teachers gain a new perspect
ive on methods used by others and
so have a point upon which to eval
uate themselves and their students.
The culminating point of the fes
tival day is the program on Friday
evening in the gym-auditonum
where, for the people of the county,
all the children present a complete
program of songs learned.
Juanita Leathers Carmichael is
chairman of the music festival com
mittee and also wrote the arrange'
ments for some of the songs to be
sung. Helen Ralph of lone will be
director this year, and Mary Alice
Reed of Lexington is to be accom
panist.
25 CCC'S ARRIVE
A contingent of 25 CCC enrollees
arrived at the local camp yesterday
from Baker. These enrollees were
recruited from 1 the Baker- district,
it is understood, and will provide
the nucleus for a new company
which will soon man the camp.
HEALTH NURSE COMING
Mrs. Althea Stoneman, special
county health nuse, is expected to
arrive tomorrow to start six weeks
service.
For carpenter or cabinet work,
in or out of town, call Glenn Hayes
at 572. Reasonable charge. 7-8p
Lexington Votes
$7000 Bonds for
Water System
Citizens Approve
Issue 54-4; Improve
ments Planned
Citizens of Lexington decided 54-4
to take a fling at municipal owner
ship of the town's water system,
when they passed a proposed $7000
bond isse for the purpose by that
majority at a special election Tues
day. '
Money raised by the bond issue
will be used to purchase the system,
now operated under private owner
ship. The system is owned by Mrs.
Elsie M. Beach and Mrs. Laura Scott.
It was originally installed by the
late W. G. Scott. A well, pump and
reservoir have been used to supply
many homes and businesses of the
town.
Mavor Tom Barnett has been ac
tive in working for the municipal
system, and with fellow councilmen
has planned improvements which
will be made with assistance of a
PWA grant okehed some time ago.
Cantata to Feature
Easter Services
Climaxing Easter services at-local
chuches next Sunday will be the
singing of the cantata, "Bright Eas
ter Morn, by combined choirs ot
the Episcopal, Methodist and Chris
tian churches at the latter church
beginning at 7:30 o'clock Sunday
evening. Russell F. McNeill is director.
The cantata, ha? been in course of
preparation for six weeks, and is ex
pected to be one of the outstanding
musical offerings of the year.
Handling solo parts will be Mr.
McNeill, Lucy Spittle Peterson,
Coramae Ferguson, Kathryn Parker
and Richard M. Tullar. Duets will
be sung bv Neva Cochell and Mar
garet McNeill, Mrs. Ferguson and
Mrs. Peterson. Other special parts
will be sung in quartet and double
quartet arrangements. Miss vir
ginia Dix is accompanist.
NO SHEARING
STRIKE EXPECTED
Growers and Shearers Appear
In Agreement; Two Crews
Preparing to Start
No heed will be taken locally of
the sheep-shearers walk-out re
cently declared for California. Ore
gon, Idaho and Washington by the
CIO union leader, agree both shear
ers and growers. Though shearing
has not yet started here, the Henry
Happold crew departed for the Yak
ima valley region the first of the
week where an agreement has been
reached between shearers and grow
ers at 12 cents a head. The E. E.
Clark crew was also preparing to
start the first of the week.
One leading grower here said that
several operators would start shear
ing operations just as soon as the
weather appeared dependable.
Local shearers see no reason for
demanding that the CIO label be
sewed on sacks containing wool of
local growers. There is no contro
versy over price or any other differ
ences existing which should call for
any threat of national boycott of
wool or lamb because of non-appearance
of the union label as the
CIO leader asks, these shearers be
lieve. Some of the shearers are quot
ed as saying that all they can see in
the threat is an attempt to make all
shearers pay tribute to a union from
which they have asked nothing.
Elks Oxygen Tank
Saves Baby's Life
Almost as if divinely guided,
equipment for administering oxygen
recently ordered by Heppner lodge
358, B. P. O. Elks, arrived just in
time to save a life. It no sooner ar
rived than it was placed in use to
treat the baby of Mr. and Mrs. Law-'
rence Slocum of Lexington, for
whom hope of surviving the rigors
of pneumonia had been lost. Then
the equipment came and the baby's
life was saved.
The equipment was ordered by the
lodge recently with belief that hav
ing such equipment available locally
would be helpful. It his been placed
at public disposal for use where
needed, and should no further need
ever arise, members of the lodge
feel that it has already justified its
cost.
Seattle Trip Eyed
As Bandsters Win
At State Contest
,"C" Division Topped
in Field of 14;
Mothers Plan Dinner
Shall the Heppner school, band go
to Seattle May 14 to compete in the
regional division of the national
high school -band contest? That is
the question confronting our citizens
since the band's return from the
state contest at Eugene last week
end with top honors in the class C
division neatly tucked away, the
third consecutive year of winning
its division since first entering the
state contest four years ago.
Rated aline as "superior" in its
division, the local band attained the
right to play in the regional com
petition at Seattle, along with La
Grande and Eugene who were rated
superior in the class A division.
Heppner was thirteenth to play
of the 14 class C bands at Eugene.
Of the competitors, Woodrow Wil
son junior high and University high
of Eugene, Sandy and Santa .Clara
were rated "excellent." Roosevelt
junior high of Eugene, Burns, Cres
well and Powers were rated "good,"
while Arlington, Estacada, Moro and
Sherwood were ranked "fair."
Albany, Corvallis and Salem, oth
er entries in the class A competition
were all rated excellent.
Hugh Crawford, only local soloist
entered, was rated "excellent" in the
junior baritone horns. He was ac
companied by Harriet Haget.
Harold Buhman, director, and his
49 local bandsters were accompanied
to. Eugene, by a large number . of
parents, who, with a number of
former residents helped swell the
locals' rooting section. Among the .
latter were Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Adkins and family and Mrs. Alice
Adkins from Cottage Grove, and
Mrs. Tom Johnson of Eugene. Am
ong those from here accompanying
the band were Mr. and Mrs. D. A.
Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Craw
ford, Mrs. Henry Aiken, Mrs. Lucile
McAtee, Mrs. J. G. Barratt, Mr. and
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