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Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE,
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
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Fire vs. Fire
A T THE 75th congress just ad
Adjourned were drawn many of the
lines of battle for the fall congress
ional elections and for the 1940 pres
idential campaign. These battle lines
will be evidenced in ensuing months
by the propaganda machines of the
competing parties. At this stage it
looks like a three-way battle be
tween New Deal, anti-New Deal and
the New Progressives.
Through one of the most effective
propaganda machines in the mem
ory of man Charlie Michelson et al
have kept the public informed to the
point of bursting on what the new
deal is and its hopes of accomplish
ment. But as one new deal act after
another has bombshelled the Ameri
can conception of constitutional gov
ernment, eyes and ears of an anxious
public will be tuned to such hopes
as may be offered through the com
peting parties.
Those who believe in government
swinging back to the right, away
from the leftist radicalism tendencies
of the new deal, want to know what
the new republican organization has
to offer. Franklyn Waltman has been
chosen to head the publicity bureau
of the republican national commit
tee. The Heppner Gazette Times is
publishing a series of articles writ
ten by Waltman, beginning this
week, believing that its readers will
appreciate having the aims and pur
poses of the republican campaign
depicted by the man at the head,
thus learning first hand the program
of the major political party to which
it is looked for salvation of constitu
tional government.
Waltman tells in the article this
week the course he expects the re
publican publicity to take. He gives
a high conception of the office he is
to fill. He expects to steer clear of
mud slinging and "character assassin
ation, to criticize only constructively.
That should be the course of major
political campaigns. Such campaigns
are intended for education of the
electorate. Newspaper readers and
radio listeners should attempt to
control emotions and be alert to sift
the grain from the chaff, and be es
pecially prone to discredit person
ality slurs that only confuse and, in
truth, are injected to divert atten
tion from the main issues.
A Day in June
WHAT is so rare as a day in
June especially a June day
bringing the gentle thirst assuaging
rains which have marked the past
-week in Morrow county and, in fact,
all eastern Oregon. Coming at a time
when wheat crops in this area are
either "made" or "unmade" the re-
freshing rains of the past few days
again emphasize how much of our
economic prosperity, or the lack of
it, is dependent upon the whims of
Nature.
Morrow county, though a promin
ent member of the wheat growing
fraternity, fortunately has great di
versification, and it is in her varied
productive virtues that comes the
sustained income which has given
this section a reputation for an en
during soundness which eventually
rises above the level of economic ills
far more rapidly than is the case in
less favored sections.
So when copious rains come at
crucial moments to supplement the
Heppner
efforts made through hard toil and
smart farminff Dractice. thereby add
ing surplus bushels to what other
wise may have been average or under-average
production, we are giv
en another practical and withal,
profitable demonstration of how na
ture not only holds the whip hand
in production, but provides the key
to our very existence. But of all her
caprices, Mother Nature reaches her
climax in June, insofar as eastern
Oregon wheat growing is concerned.
This year her performance to date
has been exceptionally gracious and
we are sure her beneficiaries are
truly grateful.
We're Not Asking
MORROW county will probably
not stand in the way of Pen
dleton's being selected as the site
for a four million dollar agricultural
experiment station. It will probably
accede to the desires of the editor
of Pendleton East Oregonian, who
says that Representative Pierce fa
vors Pendleton as the proper loca
tion and that anybody else speaking
up may hurt Pendleton's chances.
This four million dollar project was
authorized by congress recently and
there was no specification that Ore
gon was to have it. So the inference
undoubtedly meant by the E. O. ed
itor is that a squabble among Ore
gon sections might cause this state
to lose consideration.
However, it is not plain just why
this county should sit dumbly by
and see Pendleton grab off another
fat plum. Morrow county has put in
its oar for little in the past, and has
many times smiled pleasantly to see
the larger neighbor to the east get
one big slice after another of gov
ernmental pork.
We realize that putting in a bid for
location of the four million dollar
project would probably be useless,
but may we hear from Mr. Pierce,
the E. O. editor, et al. of the super
lative virtues for locating this pro
ject at Pendleton. Did Mr. Pierce
give Morrow county any considera
tion, whatever? Or is the present
plan of locating the project at Pen
dleton not a way of forestalling what
antagonism there may exist in Uma
tilla county against a politician who
resides in Union county?
We are not asking for location of
the four million dollars in Morrow
county, but we would like to know
the true basis of award, and the full
justification for establishment of the
project, anyway.
Boy Shows Grit
When Arm Is Broken
In Fall From Tree
Little Billy French thought his
arm was useless after he had bro
ken it in a fall from a 'tree at home
Tuesday. Without consulting his
mother or thinking of the hospital
next door, he immediately went
alone to the office of Dr. McMurdo.
Asked why he hadn't told his
mother, Billy said:
"I, just went to the doctor so he
could cut it off."
Billy is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
William French. The doctor re
duced the fracture, located just
above the wrist, and Billy isn't in
any danger of losing his arm.
REPUBLICANS ORGANIZE
Organization of the republican
central committee was effected at a
meeting at the Lucas Place Monday
evening. C. J. D. Bauman was elect
ed county chairman and state com
mitteeman; Charlotte M. Gordon,
vice-chairman; Spencer Crawford,
secretary, and George N. Ely, con
gressional committeeman. Precinct
committeemen and committeewonien
were appointed as follows: Alpine,
Mrs. Frank Saling; Cecil, Jack Hynd
and Beth Hynd; Eight Mile, Mrs.
Carrie Becket; Hardman, Mrs. Ethel
Knighten; Gooseberry, Esther Berg
strom; lone, Orral M. Feldman; Ir
rigon, Allie Coryell; Lena, Leona In-
stone; Pine City, Faye Finch. These
appointments supplement those
elected at the May primaries to com
plete the roster of precinct commit
tee men and women.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
I hereby announce myself as an
independent candidate for the office
of county assessor at the General
Election to be held Noember 8, 1938.
(Paid adv.) A. J. CHAFFEE.
Gazette .Times, Heppner,
LOOKING
o FORWARD
By FRANKLYN WALTMAN,
Publicity Director, Republican
National Committee
The title to this column is no ac
cident. It was deliberately chosen as
indicative of the best Republican
thought Republicans today distinct
ly are "looking forward," not in the
narrow sense to the day now not
far distant when their party will be
restored to office nationally, but in
the larger sense of looking forward
to that day when the achievements
which are the natural, logical fruits
of the American system can be real
ized. Those fruits are an increased
standard of living for all of us under
ordered liberty.
This column will be conducted in
the spirit of that title and that
thought. It will undertake an ob
jective analysis of what has hap
pened in Washington during the last
five years, hewing always to the
facts. Its viewpoint will rest on( a
deep-seated belief in the practicality
and workability of the American
system of free enterprise and private
initiative, held in bounds by neces
sary and reasonable regulation.
Its measuring stick will be not
the opportunism of a football game
but the measure in , which the
Roosevelt Administration has im
proved the future security as well
as the present condition of the Amer
ican people as a whole. It shall be
more concerned about. Mr. Roose'
velt's failures than his faults.
It will not quarrel with all of the
New Deal but will diligently seek
to expose those parts which either
seek to pervert the traditional Amer
ican system or have had the effect of
destroying opportunities for greater
employment of labor and a better
standard of living. It will recognize
that President Roosevelt frequently
has aked the right question but in
many cases has given the wrong
answer.
It will undertake to demonstrate
that the standard of living in this
Nation cannot be raised by working
less, producing less and expanding
the government payroll. In that di
rection lies only decreased national
wealth, increased prices, higher
taxes and fewer of the good and es
sential things of life.
. It will seek to show that the un
der-privileged will not be helped
merely by pulling down those higher
up the ladder. It will be much too
American to tolerate the fomenting
of a futile class struggles because
hate feeds on hate and leads only to
destruction for all.
It will regard with a hostile eye
exploitation by the powerful but
no less than it will oppose pillage
by the mob. It will be ever mindful
of Justice Brandeis' words that "we
gain nothing by exchanging the tyr
anny of capital for the tyranny of
labor."
Its concern will be primarily for
the average man, the really forgot
ten man of our country, who toils in
field, factory and store, who con
sumes what he anr his fellows pro
duce, who pays the taxes, who fights
our wars, who raises our children
and who is the real backbone of this
nation.
It will adhere religiously to the
belief that "public office is a pub
lic trust" It will undertake to dem
onstrate that in the wake of recent
revelations evidencing callousness to
political jobbery, party spoils and
panhandling with relief funds there
is a need in this land for a revival
of a vigorous public morality.
It will be oblivious to such labels
as "right," "left," "liberal," 'Tory,"
"progressive" or "reactionary"
mere words used by demagogues to
mislead people. What men do, rather
than what they call themselves, will
excite our interest.
Its tone will be critical but not
destructive. When a building falls
down the first task is to clear away
the debris before new construction
may begin. There will be no effort
to "smear" anyone. Nor will its au
thor be a common scold.
Above all, this column will shun
opinions and abstract philosophical
discussions in the belief they may
better be1 left to the academic minds
of the cloistered universities. A phil
sophy is set forth in this first col
umn only to indicate what thoughts
motivate the man who writes it
Arguments will be left to those on
the rostrum and the ether waves in
Oregon
the belief that it is only necessary
to give the people light in the form
of undisputed facts and they will
find their way. Facts, and more facts,
intelligently marshalled, will be the
keynote and objective of this column.
Heppner Pioneer
Returns for Visit
W. L. Mallory, one of Morrow
county's early pioneers and former
Heppner resident, is here this week
on a visit to relatives. Arriving Wed
nesday evening. Mr. Mallory, who
now makes his home at San Ansel
mo, Calif., is visiting at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Will Ball. For many
years in the early days of Morrow
county, Mr. Mallory had a sawmill
in the vicinity of Hardman. Later
he retired from the lumber business
and moved to Heppner, where his
children attended school, several of
the older ones graduating from the
local high school.
The Mallory residence on Chase
street was washed away in the flood
of 1903 and about that time the Mal
lory's moved to lone where Mr.
Mallory engaged in farming for a
few years before retiring at which
time he and Mrs. Mallory moved to
Portland to live. Later they moved
to California where they established
their home at San Anselmo, Marin
county, near San Francisco. Mrs.
Mallory passed away only a few
months ago.
TO HARVEST SOON
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gorger, who
were in town yesterday from the
north Lexington farm, reported that
harvest would probably start at their
place Monday or Tuesday next week.
Mr. Gorger said the early sown fall
wheat was too far along to be bene
fitted by recent showers, but that
the spring wheat which constitutes
about half his crop, had been helped
a lot.
BIDS WANTED
School District No. 9, Morrow
County, Oregon, will receive sealed
bids for school bus driver, driver to
furnish own bus and meet state re
quirements, three-year contract, to
transport pupils to lone. Bids to be
received up to July 4, 1938. Board
reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
RUTH GORGER, Clerk, ,
15-16 Lexington, Oregon.
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
The twenty-fifth wedding anni
versary of Mr. and Mrs. John Kenny
was occasion for a pleasant celebra
tion Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. William Bucknum, brother-in-
law and sister of Mr. Kenny. Others
present included Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Kenny, Mr. and Mrs. John
Healy and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
Farley and family.
JUST ONE SIGN
"Has your wife starled her spring
cleaning?"
"I guess so. The hired girl quit
yesterday."
SOME SAVING
Potato Gee, it's a good thing I
don't need glasses.
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Daily Service Between
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and Way Points
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"PREVENT FOREST FIRES IT PAYS"
Thursday, June 23, 1938
Hunters-Anglers Club
Meets Next Tuesday
Quiet since their spring organi
zation meeting, Morrow County
Hunters and Anglers club will once
more get into stride next Tuesday
evening when a meeting has been
called at the Elks club for the elec
tion of a president. Thos. J. Wells,
vice-president, has called the meet
ing to name a successor to Jack Par
sons, originally elected president.
whose transfer from here left the
organization without a head and a
number of planned activities up in
the air.
After the first meeting an inves
tigation was made of the fish lad
der and irrigation ditch screen sit
uation on lower Willow creek but
the lateness of the season precluded
action being taken this year. The
crow-magpie contest was left up in
the air with Mr. Parsons' leaving,
and there remains the establishment
of a brooding stream on the ' left
fork of Willow creek, a project spon
sored by the club, to carry out to
fruition. Wells asks a large turnout
of the membership to help get
things under way again.
Cheap Vetch Seed Best
Used for Cover Crops
Oregon-grown vetch and pea seed
which becomes mixed either as to
varieties or otherwise could profit
ably be used within the state for soil
improving purposes, rather than
placed on the out-of-state seed mar
kets, says E. R. Jackman, extension
agronomist at Oregon State college.
Such seed, which has to be sold at
a lower price, often demoralizes the
general market, while if it were used
within the state, it would not have
this effect. The mixed seed is just
as good as pure seed for use by Ore
gon orchard men in planting fall
cover crops. A dollar and a half
spent for this cheap cover crop seed
will bring better returns than $10
spent for commercial fertilizer, says
Jackman.
VISITING MARKSMAN WRITES
Claude Parmalee, whose shooting
exhibition and showing of wild life
pictures here last week attracted
large attention, is the author of an
article in the current issue of Out
door Life, sportsmen's publication.
More than two hundred Morrow
county people saw Parmalee shoot
at the Heppner Rod and Gun club
and exhibit his rifles and pictures
at the Elks hall. The pictures showed
wild life in the Canadian Rockies.
Len L. Gilliam, of Gilliam & Bisbee,
local sponsors of Parmalee's appear
ance, said the visiting big game
hunter and representative of Win
chester Arms company handled a
rifle the most expertly of any man
he had ever seen.
IONE AND LEXINGTON
UNION CHURCH SERVICES
James Pointer, minister.
Sunday, June 26: 11 a, m., lone
Christian church; 8 p. m., Lexington
Christian church.
Sunday, July 3: 11 a. m., Lexing
ton Congregational church; 8 p. m.,
lone Congregational church.
CELEBRATION SET
Kennewick, Wash., has extended
an invitation to Morrow county peo
ple to join in celebrating the Fourth
of July there. The big celebration
feature will be the annual Kenne
wick Rodeo. Henry Aiken, local Ro
deo president, has announced his in
tention of attending the Kennewick
show.
PICNIC POSTPONED
Wool growers auxiliary announces
indefinite postponement of the pic
nic originally slated for last Sunday
at Ditch creek which was not staged
because of the rain.