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Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE,
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15. 1912
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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
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"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
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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
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