Thursday, Sept. 22, 1938
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Three
LEXINGTON NEWS
Lexington Ladies'
Birthdays Feted
By MARGARET SCOTT
Lorena Miller and Maude Pointer
were hostesses for a birthday party
at the Pointer home in honor of
Emma Peck, Mrs. Millett and Trina
Parker. Games were played and
birthday cakes were served. Those
present besides the hostesses and
honorees were Harriet Pointer, Lucy
Pointer, Nettie Davis, Laura Scott,
Thelma Smethurst, Cecile Jackson,
Edna Turner, Dona Barnett, Mary
Hunt, Helen Ryan, Mrs. Frank Sa
ling, Mrs. R. B. Rice, Pearl Mar
quardt, Norma Marquardt, Cleo Van
Winkle, Getta Cox, Nellie Palmer,
Edna Munkers, Anna Keene, Cora
Allyn, Margaret and Opal Leach and
Carna Campbell.
Mrs. O. J. Cox has returned from
Lakeview where she has been vis
iting her children.
Ellen Nelson and Paul Smouse
departed Sunday for Eugene where
they will enter college.
Willows grange will meet with
Lexington grange Saturday evening,
Sept. 24, at 8 p. m. Initiation in the
third and fourth degrees will be
conferred on all candidates in wait
ing by the Willows degree team.
District grange conference will be
held for Umatilla and Morrow coun
ties at Cold Springs grange, Oct. 10.
The fifth and sixth degrees will be
conferred by state officials at this
meeting. Tickets for these degrees
may be obtained from subordinate
grange secretaries. B. H. Peck.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Wamer of San
Francisco were guests of Mrs. Laura
Scott Monday while visiting friends
and relatives here.
Cliff Fridley of Wasco is visiting
at the Orris Padberg home while
overseeing the job of remodeling
the Laurel Ruhl home.
Howard Lane and Golda Leath
ers were business visitors in Port
land this week.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gillis and
children, Vincent and Tuilla, were
dinner guests at the John McMillan
home Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Pointer were
visitors in Portland this week.
Word has been received of the
birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs.
James Johnston of Portland. Mrs.
Johnston was formerely Erma Lane
of this city.
Among those leaving for hunting
trips were John Lasich, Earl Warner,
Orris Padberg, Judge Carmichael
and Ralph Jackson.
Woodrow Tucker, Mrs. Bill Tuck
er, Beulah Smouse, Tempa John
son and Grace Burchell motored to
Portland this week.
Ralph Scott and family have
moved into Delia Duran s house and
Mrs. Duran has moved to Heppner.
The Scott house is to be occupied
by he Eber Hanks family.
Among local people attending the
Round-Up in Pendleton were Ira
Lewis, G. J. Ryan and family, Don
Pointer, Edward Rice, Ray Phillips,
Mr. nad Mrs. John Lasich, Mr. and
Mrs. Laurel Ruhl, Merritt and Flor
ence Gray, Grace Turner and fam
ily, Jess Dobyns, Ralph Jackson and
family, Dan Dinges, James, Opal and
Margaret Leach, Dona Barnett, Trina
Parker, Harry Duvall and family
and Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Dougherty,
A. M. Edwards made a business
trip to Almira, Wash., Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones of Salem were
visitors here last week at the home
of Mrs. Jones' brother, John Miller,
R. H. Boyer and Warren McElroy
of Clarkston, Wash., and O. E.
Haigh of Almira, Wash., were vis
itors at the A. M. Edwards home
last week. Mr. Boyer and Mr. Mc
Elroy have leased Mr. Edwards' well
drill to use at Dixie, Wash.
A. M. Edwards and 0. E. Haigh
were Portland visitors Monday.
Merle Cummings is employed by
the county agent's office in Heppner.
School News '
Bv Jerrine Edwards
Election of student body officers
was held last week. Those elected
were: President, Robert Campbell;
vice-president, Kenneth Jackson;
secretary. Dons Scott: treasurer, El
don Padberg; yell leader, Wilma
Tucker.
Schick tests for diphtheria will be
given at the school on Friday morn
ing at 11 o'clock. The charge is five
cents ner child.
Lexington was defeated by Pilot
Rock at the football game held on
the local field last Thursday.
Supt.-Wm. D. Campbell has com
pleted his wosk for his M. A. degree
and is now a full fledged M. A. grad
uate. Lexington school has received
word from Mr. Carlton, secretary of
the Oregon State Teachers associa
tion, that it is the first school in
Oregon to be 100 percent paid up in
membership for '38-39.
At the North Morrow County fair
Jean Rauch, Marcella Jackson and
Louise Hunt received first, second
and third places in sewing.
Tad Miller, Ellwynne Peck and
Donald Peck received commendable
prizes at Salem with stock.
Things are running smoothly with
Mr. Campbell at head; Ladd Sher
man, coach, English and science;
Miss Jewel, girls' athletics, history
and commercial work; Edna Turner,
grades 1 and 2; Juanita Carmichael,
3 and 4; Ira Dueltgen, 5 and 6, and
Lilian C. Turner, 1 and 8, the lat
ter Mrs. Turner beginning her
eleventh year in her position.
F.F.A. MEETS
Friday, the 16th, was marked by
the first official meeting of the local
chapter of the Future Farmers of
America. The primary purpose of
the meeting was for the election of
a treasurer and a reporter, the offices
of which were left vacant by the
resignation of one member and the
failure of another to enroll in this
year's course. Those elected to these
offices were Leland . Edmondson,
treasurer, and Bill Barratt, reporter.
Other officers for the coming year
include Omer McCaleb, president;
Howard Patton, vice-president; Dick
Wilkinson, secretary; Dean Gilman,
bulldog.
The following committees were
appointed: Athletic commissioner,
Floyd Williams; program committee,
Bob Scrivner and Homer Hughes.
A chapter tax of fifty cents a year
was levied and passed upon By the
members.
NAMED EDUCATIONAL ADVISER
George Gillis, former teacher at
Lexington and lookout at Tamarack
for the last two fire seasons, re
ceived notification this week of ac
ceptance of his application as edu
cation adviser in government work,
though definite assignment was not
made. Mr. Gillis received his A. B
degree in education this summer,
Stockmen Favor
Improvement of
Oregon Ranges
(Editor's Note: DeWitt C. Wing,
formerly an agricultural magazine
editor and writer, now with the AAA
office in Washington, D. C, recently
visited Oregon to look over the range
improvement operations by Oregon
stockmen. This is the first of sev
eral brief articles by Mr, Wing re
porting his observations.)
By DeWitt C. Wing
Last year Oregon operators of
about 4,800,000 acres of range land
took part in the range improvement
program of the AAA, I learned on
my visit through Oregon range
counties this summer. Interviews
with both cooperators and non-coop-
erators in the program indicated that
they are informed about range prob
lems, having had their training in
the school of experience.
All know that "the range prob
lem" exists on every stock ranch,
and they are deeply interested in a
sound approach to its solution. They
know that the job is theirs to do to
gether, and they welcome all the help
they can get.
"We want to build up and take
care of our range land," said an Ore
gon stockman to me. "We know how
to do it, but not many of us have
been in a position to meet the finan
cial expense until the AAA range
program came along in 1936."
Oregon ranch operators in general
agree that the range is a national
resource which should be conserved
and improved while it is being used.
As with other phases of the agricul-
turarconservation program, they be
lieve it is no more than right that the
American people in general should
share the financial responsibility of
maintaining this resource, and in
some instances restoring it after it
had been seriously depleted through
no fault of the present owners.
Established facts with which stock
men in general are familiar form
the foundation of the range program.
They consider it a good program as
it is, although they believe it could
still be improved. Inasmuch as prac
tical stockmen have to a consider
able extent guided the building of
the program since its inception in
1936, it is considered practical in op
eration, proving helpful to cooper
ators and sound irom a future re
gional welfare standpoint.
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