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Page Four Heppner Gazette Times THE HEPPNER GAZETTE, Established March 30, 1883; THE HEPPNER TIMES, Established November 18, 1897; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15. 1912 Published every Thursday morning by CRAWFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon, as second-class matter. JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor SPENCER CRAWFORD, Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year Three Years $2.00 5.UU Six Months ..... . 1.00 Three Months - -75 Single Copies 05 Official Taper for Morrow Connty . . Member v OregpfTNewspaper PublisKrs TV 5 1 Association Howard Hughes IN ABOUT the time it takes a fast automobile driver to drive from Heppner to Reno, some 900 miles by the most direct route, Howard Hughes hopped this week from New York to Paris, some 3000 miles. The time was 16 hours. By the time we read of his Paris landing in the Port land morning papers, a radio flash told of his having left Moscow head ed northward, and quite probably by the time this is read he will be back home in Los Angeles with a new record time for circumnavigating the globe. We of America are justly proud of Hughes' accomplishment He just about halved the time of Lindbergh's memorable flight, another example of American leadership, and further evidenced his capability of turning a gold spoon into a useful instrument for the advancement of civilization. Hughes is said to have inherited a fortune of some three million dol lars, and from examples set by other scions of wealthy families, it might well have proved a millstone. But Hughes was ambitious. He flouted mature advice against the wisdom of going into moving picture pro duction and made good. He accepted the challenge of the heavens as a field for advancing the speed of transportation and set a world's rec ord for airplanes, only recently sur passed. Of course the names of Lindbergh and Hughes are simply two of legion that have been graven in the record of historic annals. But they further prove supremacy of the American system in advancing the interests of mankind. In this day of leftest movements. one may well stop and consider what might be accomplished if the mass of mental energy used up in worry ing over what the government is go ing to do next were unshackled through elimination of government run-everything and allowed to exert itself in channels of individual thought and effort. After all, na tional prosperity is the sum total of individual accomplishment and America still has the inventive ge nius and executive ability to put it into practice, opening up many new fields to absorb idle labor, when fear of what is going to happen next to deprive the individual of his liberty is removed. Super Salesmanship TVROTH has been foaming from the I " mouths of some of the adminis tration's head men over a doughty reporter s lucid exposition ot their ':salf"?mnnshir abilities in the fields of liquor and insurance. It may be that Joseph P. Kennedy, whom the rprvirtpr termed Uncle Sam's ambas sador to the court of Haig & Haig, nnd President Roosevelt's son James whose insurance super salesmanship was said to have made the young man ouite a fortune are justifiably sore, though the reporter . avers he only "scratched the surface" on son Jim. Anyway, there have been many aiAAe-ncpa of this administration's high powered salesmanship, and one that just about "takes the cake" was seen right here at home. Mr. H. W. Polina is as fine a gen tleman as we ever met and no doubt well qualified for his position: to Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon i i "explain" the new PWA set-up. All of which seems perfectly logical and reasonable IF Mr. Poling were sent for. But Mr. Poling was not sent for. He was sent. By whom? The admin istration. An administration that has decided the people shall draw upon their combined credit for a billion or two dollars, obligate themselves for a larger amount individually, and spend their way to prosperity. Then, after deciding that the people shall do this, pay more of the people's money to send a man around to ex plain to them just how they may get this and that by borrowing from themselves sums that they may pay back to themselves after they have created a bunch of prosperity for themselves. We do not wish to misrepresent. Mr. Poling did not attempt to "sell" exactly this idea. He merely pre sented the goods the administration has to offer, "take it or leave it." He was, however, to all intents and pur poses, another of those super sales men, and the story in a nutshell is that he is hired by the people to show them the advantage of borrow ing from themselves and spending. But here's the nigger in the wood pile. The spending actually is to maintain the army of administration salesmen, such as Mr. Poling, whose mission actually is to sell the people upon what a generous thing the ad ministration is doing for them. The way the idea works in prac tice, actually, is that the govern mental subdivision accepting ad ministration benevolence can build about 45 percent cheaper without PWA assistance, and thus is not ob ligating itself to pay itself back the amount which it costs to keep the super salesmen on the payroll. This paper extends sympathy to Stewart A. Hardie, editor of the Condon Globe-Times, whose mother, Mrs. Jane A. Hardie, 50-year Gilliam county resident, died at Condon Monday. Mrs. Hardie was a native of Perthshire, Scotland, born Sep tember 7, 1866, and came to Condon when 21 years of age. A highly re spected citizen, Mrs. Hardie was the mother of ten surviving children. The unexpected death Tuesday of Elbert B. Casteel, Umatilla county clerk, removed from active service a man of vision and industry who had played a prominent role in the development of his section as a po litical and civic leader. One of his last civic activities was holding the position of president of the Blue Mountain baseball league. As a mer chant for many years at Pilot Rock, he gained respect and confidence of his community and reflected those Heppner capabilities which caused the county to raise him to the position of clerk in which he had served half of his second term. Removed from active service at 50 years of age, Mr. Cas teel leaves a vacancy not easy to fill. U. 0. Students Win Large Sum in Prizes University of Oregon, Eugene, July 13 Students of the University of Oregon won more than $8,000 in cash as well as considerable other ma terial, as prizes and scholarships during the year just passed, it was announced by Dr. Donald M. Erb, university president. More than 120 students were recipients of awards, and a number of living organizations also received trophies. Funds derived from the competi tive scholarships and prize contests actually enabled many of the stu dents to complete the year, it was pointed out. All of the prizes and scholarships, except those awarded by the state system of higher educa tion, came from funds donated by in dividuals interested in student wel fare. MRS. SCOTT BROWN ILL Scott Brown of Condon was in the city Tuesday making delivery of lambs which he sold to C. W. Mc Namer. Lambed in March the lambs weighed 84 pounds. The first of his lambs were sold before at three months of age, the tops weighing 78 pounds and bringing 7 cents, the highest market hit this year. Mr. Brown took some yearling cattle to Portland the end of the week and found a good market. While there he visited Mrs. Brown at Emanuel hospital. She went to Portland shortly before the Fourth to spend two months of rest and observation by a physician for an illness which she has suffered for some time. While at the hospital Mrs. Brown will keep informed of her many Morrow county friends through the Gazette Times. Mr. Brown expressed appreciation of both Mrs. Brown and himself for the considerateness of friends in this county. NEW WHEAT AT MORGAN Morgan should receive about 100, 4 000 bushels of new crop wheat this season is the estimate of Elmer Griffith, warehouse manager there, who was in the city Tuesday, ac companied by his son. The Morgan section is now in full harvesting swing and the wheat is rolling in at a lively rate. Of the wheat so far delivered the red wheat is better quality than the white wheat, Mr. Griffith said. The white volunteer is quite light in weight and smutty. FERGUSON MOTOR COMPANY LAWN PARTY ENJOYED Ellen Nelson and Harriet Pointer entertained a group of their friends at a lawn party at the Nelson coun try home Saturday night. The fea ture of the evening was a treasure hunt which climaxed the various other games and stunts. Refresh ments were served at the close of the evening. The guests included Scott McMur do, Paul Brown, Irene Beamer, Kathryn Parker, Louis and Jackson Gilliam, George Caskey, Kenneth and Ellwynne Peck, Nonie and Jim mie McLaughlin, Paul Edwards, Ted Thomson, Margaret Farley, Stuart Rankin, Kenneth and Paul Smouse, Bert Mason, Jr., Margaret and Mil ton Morgan, Harriet and Donald Heliker, Juanita Odom, Jimmie Healy, Earl Pettyjohn, Willard and Bernice Martin, Beulah Nichols, Norman and Alfred Nelson, Jr., Dimple and Archie Munkers. ENJOYS MOTOR TRIP J. L. Yeager returned the middlts of last week from an enjoyable motor trip. Accompanying his son Ora of Yakima he went to Medford for a visit at the home of another son, James W., who was found located for the summer at Fish lake, some 85 miles from Medford where he was renting boats to fishing parties. The return trip was made by way of Cra ter lake where snow banks six to 'IN OLD CHICAGO The Great American Motion Picture STAR THEATER Sunday-Monday, July 17-18 Sunday Matinees: 1 p. m. - 3:15 p. m. Thursday, July 14, 1938 eight feet high still remained along the roadside. The trip each way was made in a day's time and Mr. Yeager marveled at the ease with which the 1 late model automobiles cover so great a distance so easily. Not once did his son change gears on the road, he said. Dr. J. P. Stewart, Eye-Sight Spec ialist of Pendleton, will be at the HEPPNER HOTEL on WEDNES DAY, JULY 20th. 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