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..Tumuei o neppner, Uregon, Thursday, March 30, 1939 Subscription $2.00 a Year
Home Produced
Music; Comedy
Set to Aid Band
"Purple Towers"
Coming April 8; Re
served Seats on Sale
"Come away to Purple Towers"
forget the cares of the wbrkaday
world, enjoy the hilarious comedy
and catchy tunes of the Elks-sponsored
musical comedy presentation
that will raise funds to help send
Heppner's twice-champion school
band to the state contest. This is the
word emanating from managerial
headquarters in announcing "Pur
ple Towers" for presentation at the
school gym-auditorium, Saturday,
April 8, with curtain at 8.
An all - home - talent production
with many of the county's leading
musicians and entertainers in play
roles, "Purple Towers" will afford
an exceptional entertainment treat
, as well as provide the medium for
fund-raising for the band's trip to
La Grande the following week end.
After the show, dancing at the Eiks
hall will add to the general good
time and further augment the trip
funds.
Reserved seat tickets will go on
sale at Gordon's this week end to
assure opportunity for those to have
seats who may not be able to get to
the play early. Any one of the 600
auditorium seats commands good
view of the stage, but aside from
the reserved seats it will be "first
come first served."
Theme of "Purple Towers" will be
carried out in song and dialogue,
with lead characters supported by a
large chorus who enter into the spirit
of the fast-moving comedy vehicle
with humorous songs and gay danc
ing. A production that has proved
its popularity, "Purple Towers"
comes to Heppner with tunes that
will linger in the memory for days
to come,
As Mr. and Mrs. Russell McNeill
resigned two of the lead roles last
week, they were suceeded by Gene
Normoyle and Miss Rachel Forsythe,
musical director. Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Neill resigned because of press of
work with the Easter cantata to be
presented the following day.
With Miss Forsythe as musical
director, Mrs. H. A. Cohn as dancing
director, and Miss Marjorie Parker
as piano accompanist, the various
roles will be taken as follows: Hank
Huckleberry, Frank Alfred; Mike
Murphy, Clarence Bauman; Red
Nichols, Dr. R. C. Lawrence; Earl
Parker, Hubert Gaily; Tillie, Jose
phine Mahoney; Urseba Applegate,
Virginia Dix; Helen Trumbull, Bet
ty Lawrence; Mary Marble, Miss
Forsythe; Phil Bradley, Gene Nor
moyle; Snowball, Bob Runnion.
Wild Life Pictures
Coming Next Monday
Frank Wire, chairman of Oregon
State Game commission, will be at
the Elks hall next Monday evening
and will show moving pictures of
wild life in Oregon. Public invita
tion is extended and there will be
no admission charge.
Morrow County Hunters and An
glers club are sponsoring Mr. Wire's
appearance, and J. Logie Richard
son, president, announces that the
pictures to be shown are some of
the best the commission has ever
presented. No lover of nature and
the great out-of-doors can afford
to miss it. In addition to the movies,
Mr. Wire will tell of the work of the
commission and is expected to bring
first-hand information on commis
sion policy affecting local problems.
The Oregon state grange will hold
its annual meeting this year on the
Oregon State college campus the
week of June 12 to 16. Local com
mittees are already at work prepar
ing for the big event.
Kraft Box: Officials
Coming First of Week
A change in plans took H. E.
Leash, in charge of construction for
Kraft cheese box factory, to San
Francisco and Chicago last week
and prevented the expected visit
here last week end, said J. Logie
Richardson, local agent He was told
by telephone conversation this
morning with Leonard Kraft, in
charge of the Bridal Veil plant, that
Mr. Leash would be back from Chi
cago Saturday and that they would
be in Heppner the first of next
week.
Assurance was given by Kraft that
no hitch had developed in their
plans to establish the factory here,
and Richardson quoted him as giv
ing definite assurance that they are
coming.
"You can assure your people that
we are coming with the factory,, al
right," Richardson quoted Kraft as
saying.
Groth KO's Partlow
At Firemen's Smoker
A hundred seats added at the city
garage ring last week failed to ac
commodate the heavy flow of box
office customers who poured in to
see the firemen's smoker, and who
witnessed the first defeat of Stanley
Partlow, favorite Boardman youth,
in his several recent appearances
here. Dean Groth, ten pounds heav
ier and backed by plenty of ring
experience, came from Pendleton
and proved too tough a match for
the north end lad. Partlow took lots
of punishment in the first three
rounds before succumbing to the ten
count in the fourth.
In the preliminaries, CCC's Darby
knocked out Burnside in the sec
ond round; Hermiston's McCracken
decisoned Devine; Arnold of Pen
dleton decisioned McDonald of
Boardman, and Neill of Hermiston
decisioned Rose, CCC. . Dr. L. D.
Tibbies was referee.
Eleven Shooters
At Tourney Event
Eleven shooters participated in the
second round of the Oregonian tel
egraphic tournament at the' local
traps, Sunday. The team score of
73 was registered by C. C. Car
michael 25, A. D. McMurdo 25 and
Vivian Kane 23. Shooters with birds
broken from number of targets shot
at, were:
P. W. Mahoney 96-100, C. C. Car
michael 72-75, Emery Moore 53-75,
A. D. McMurdo 48-50, Vivian Kane
45-50, Luke Bibby 45-50, Sam Tur
ner 41-50, H. C. Happold 21-25, C. A.
Kane 17-25, Tom Hottman 18-25, H.
E. Warner 23-25.
FATHER PASSES
A. E. Burkenbine, proprietor of
Heppner market, left Tuesday night
for Centralia, Wash., immediately
upon receipt of word of the death of
his father, Joseph N. Burkenbine,
who had just passed away at that
place. Funeral services were expect
ed to be held at Centralia today with
interment following at Olympia,
Wash. Native of Iowa, Mr. Burken
bine was 70 years old on March 4.
His wife passed away about ten
years ago. Besides the son here, he
is survived by three sons and 12
grandchildren. The deceased had
visited at the son's home here at
various times and had made many
friends among local people.
ELKS TO INSTALL
Heppner lodge 358, B. P. O. Elks,
will install new officers next Thurs
day evening, April 6, announces
Loyal R. Parker, secretary. Officers
to be installed include E. Harvey
Miller, exalted ruler; Hubert Gaily,
esteemed leading , knight; Kenneth
Akers, esteemed loyal knight; V. R.
Runnion, esteemed lecturing knight;
Loyal R. Parker, secretary; J. O.
Turner, treasurer; Thomas J. Wells,
tyler; Chas. B. Cox, trustee; D. A.
Wilson, alternate delegate to grand
lodge. j
Year's Tax Roll
53,7 Pet. Collected
As Quarter Ends
$151,000 on Current
Roll, $25,000 of De
linquencies Paid
Collection of taxes in Morrow
county at the close of the first quar
ter amounted to 53.7 per cent of the
total roll for the year, announces
the sheriffs office. The total col
lected, excluding rebates for pay
ment of year's tax in full, was
$151,341.35. Rebates allowed totalled
$4,421.51. Total roll for the year is
$281,489.
While the total monies collected
in the first taxpaying period are
more than the amount collected in
the first quarter last year, the per
centage of payment is almost exact
ly the same as a year ago because of
the increase in total amount to be
collected. The amount allowed as re
bate for prepayment of full year's
tax is also slightly larger than a
year ago, signifying about the same
proportion of prepayment of full
year's tax.
Payment on delinquent taxes for
the first period was estimated at
$25,000.
Those who failed to pay the first
quarter tax before the deadline date
will be subject to interest payment
on that portion of their tax. Interest
on second quarter tax may be avoid
ed by paying the first and second
quarter taxes before June 15, dead
line date for second quarter pay
ment''). No further opportunity is had
for obtaining rebate, however, as
rebate is allowed only by paying
full year's tax before the first quar
ter crealine.
Monument Placed
To Mark Entrance
To Forest Camp
A concrete monument, three
feet square and eight feet high,
sloped to a point at the top, made
its appearance at the Chase street
entrance to the local forest camp
this week. When completed it will
bear the U. S. Forest service shield
on three sides, exemplifying Un
cle Sam's pride in the use to which
the local property was put as well
as symbolizing the camp's expect
ed permanency.
Mystery at first surrounded the
marker. As the three boarded-in
places in the cement first appeared
after the forms were removed, one
wag alluding to the proposed re
organization of- the national ad
ministrative arm said the frames
were to contain pictures respect
ively of Harold Ickes, President
Roosevelt and James Farley. Ickes,
it was alluded, may be the forest
service's new chief if, and when,
it is taken from department of ag
riculture and placed under de
partment of interior.
Two Feet Snowfall
Reported at French's
W. H. French reported when in
town Saturday that 24 inches of snow
fell at his Blue mountain farm south
of Hardman between March 1 and
15. The fall contained ZV2 inches of
moisture, he said.
Combined with the old snow a
depth of 31 inches had been recorded
for the season. Warm weather was
causing the snow to leave rapidly.
LEG BADLY INJURED
Shellar Prock sustained a badly
injured leg Monday when a 600
pound piece of iron fell against his
leg at the Blackburn mill on Rhea
creek. He was helping unload a
heavy boiler from a truck when the
accident happened. Treatment was
received shortly afterward at a lo
cal physician's office.
Fingerprints Said
Positive Identification
Something like 40 billion finger
prints would have to be taken before
two exactly alike would be likely
to occur, C. J. D. Bauman, sheriff,
told the Monday Lions luncheon
group. With such remote possibility
of duplication, fingerprinting has
been accepted by law enforcement
agencies everywhere as a positive
means of identification. But while
7,000,000 prints are on file With
the department of justice in Wash
ington as a means of identifying
criminals, he cited that more and
more demand is beng made for this
system of identification as a means
of protecting citizens in other ways.
He demonstrated "dusting" a print
and printing fingerprints. Above all
he admonished the world never to
disturb anything at the scene of a
crime until experts had been given
opportunity to search for prints.
Several instances were told of
how the national fingerprint file
had been used to assist the local
sheriffs office, and he related how
fingerprints had served to identify
where the Bertillon and other sys
tems had failed. By means of black
board and chalk drawings he gave
the Lions a practical lesson in the
system of classifying fingerprints.
Reporting on the proposed Kraft
cheese box factory, J. Logie Rich
ardson said that H. E. Leash, in
charge of factory construction, had
left for San Francisco and Chicago
on Wednesday of last week to pur
chase machinery for the plant here,
and that present plans called for
more extensive construction than
those first announced. .
High school girls quartet, Carolyn
Vaughn, Helen Lundell, Jeanette
Blakely and Dorothy Howell, sang.
Mrs. Sarah Parker
Passes 95-Year Mark
Mrs. Sarah Parker passed her 95th
birthday at the home of her son, F.
S. Parkere, in this city Monday.
Among the oldest residents in the
county, Mrs. Parker was able to be
about on her birthday though she
had been bedfast for a considerable
part of the winter, and received her
Sunday school class of the Meth
odist church which called Sunday
afternoon
Native of Maryland, Mrs. Parker
moved to Missouri when the son
here was a small boy. She resided in
Missouri up to the time of coming
to the home of her son here, 13
years ago.
Camp Heppner Sets
Open House, Apr. 16
Invitation to the public is extend
ed by Camp Heppner, CCC. to at
tend its open house Saturday eve
ning, April 16. Opportunity will be
given during the day to all who
desire to visit the work projats
that the camp has completed and to
inspect the buildings and equip
ment, announces Lt. Marius P. Han
ord, camp commander.
In the evening the public is in
vited to join in dancing and a gen
eral get-together party.
GOOSEBERRY MOISTURE SHORT
Moisture precipitation in the
Gooseberry section has so far been
short for the season though the new
wheat crop has been coming along
fast, reported Leonard Carlson, co
operative government weather ob
server, when in the city Saturdav.
Up to that day March precipitation
of 1.15 inch was exactly equal to
that registered for February. Mr.
Carlson said his earlier sown erain
was making the best showing to date.
He hoped for showers throueh Amil
and May to bring it along, however.
HUGHES INFANT PASSES
Patsy Ann, week-old infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Hughes, died Tuesday morning at
Heppner hospital from cerebral
hemorrhage. Commitment services
were held at the graveside in Hepp
ner cemetery yesterday.
Rhea Creek Oiling
Contract to be Let
Next Thursday
Heavy Construction
Contemplated; But
ter Creek Job On
Bids for 5.8 miles of grading and
surfacing on the Heppner end of the
Heppner-Rhea creek sector of the
Heppner-Wasco highway will be
opened at the meeting of the state
highway commission next Thursday,
April 6, according to definite word
received this week by Judge Bert
Johnson. All of the $65,000 origin
ally allotted for this sector will be
expended , on the 5.8 miles, making
the new constructon come up to
Bureau of Public Roads standard.
Deeper foundation and more solid
construction is contemplated than
exists in any road in the county,
Judge Johnson said. Construction
is of the same type as is being used
on the heavier traffic roads in other
parts of the state, he quoted State
Engineer Baldock as saying.
The new construction will reach
to the bridge just beyond the house
on the , F. E. Parker farm. New
alignment will eliminate some of
the bad curves now existing. It is
expected work will start within a
short time after the bid is let.
Work has already started on an
other stretch of surfacing on the
road between Pine City and Jar
mons on Butter creek with Umatilla
and Morrow counties cooperating,
said Judge Johnson. Agreement was
reached last week betwfeen the
courts of the two counties whereby
Morrow county will do the work and
Umatilla county will furnish mater
ials. The distance to be covered is
three miles. As part of the work,
the "Y" where the Lexington-Jar-mon
road connects with the Butter
creek highway will be widened and
the narrow curve just west of the
junction will be eliminated.
Judge Protests WPA
Shutdown in County
Upon receiving notification .Tues
day from Mr. Landfare, WPA rep
resentative, that WPA would cease
operations in Morrow county about
April 6, Judge Bert Johnson imme
diately wrote a letter of protest to
Ivan E. Oakes, state director. While
this county has not made heavy de
mands upon WPA, withdrawing of
assistance at this time would throw
an extra burden upon local relief
funds, the judge said. He pointed out
that employment opportuntites at
this season were inadequate to ab
sorb those who would be thrown
off the WPA list.
Reason for the shutdown was said
to be the restricted budget with
which congress forced WPA to op
erate for the year.
BROTHER DIES IN PORTLAND
David Smith, 43, brother of Hugh
Smith of this city, passed away at
Portland last Friday and funeral
services were held there on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith attended from
here. The deceased was a native of
Fossil from where he was called
into the country's service at the time
of the World war and saw action in
the front line trenches in France.
He attained the rank of lieutenant
while in the service. For the last 15
years he was an automobile sales
man at Salem and Portland. Death
came as he was about to undergo
an operation at the veterans' hos
pital in Portland.
PURCHASE RESIDENCE
Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Alfred this
week purchased the house on K
street recently constructed by Car
penter Roundy, and will move their
residence Saturday from the apart
ment in the Jones apartments where
Mr. Alfred has resided for some
time.