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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, May 4, 1939
IONE NEWS
J. H. Blake Rites
Conducted at one
By KATHERINE GRIFFITH
Funeral services for John Harvey
Blake were held in lone Sunday af
ternoon at the Christian church. Rev.
C. F. Trimble conducted the ser
vices. Mrs. Ture Peterson and Mrs.
Walter Roberts sang, accompanied
by Miss Diane Trimble. Interment
was in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at
lone. Pallbearers were John Bry
son, Paul O'Meara, Bert Mason, J,
O. Kincaid, John Hughes and Frank
Lindsay.
John Harvey Blake was born near
Albany in 1875 and came to Mor
row county while still a boy, and
lived most of his life here. He was
married to Mary Miller at Staley,
Wash., in 1897. To this union three
sons were born, all of whom survive
Mr. Blake died at Kinzua on Thurs
day following an illness of a few
days. He had resided in this vicin
ity for about fifty years, being en-
gaged in agriculture. He managed
the L. P. Davidson ranch for many
years and later engaged in wheat
farming on his own account. In the
past few years he was engaged in
contracting and building in Kinzua
Surviving are his widow and three
sons, Earl J. of Heppner, and Roy
and Keithley of Kinzua, and eight
grandchildren; also one brother,
Willard J. of lone, and three sisters,
Mrs. Mary Padberg of Lexington,
and Mrs. Ella Wills and Mrs. Ida
Moore of Portland. Besides these.
other relatives attending the funer
al services here were Mr. and Mrs,
Wrex Hickok and Mearle Blake of
Portland and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Blake and family of Heppner and a
large party of friends from Kinzua.
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The Topic club of lone will meet
at the home of Mrs. Victor Riet
mann on Friday, May 12.
Miss Diane Trimble 6f Multnomah
left Monday after a visit of a week
with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. C.
F. Trimble.
Baccalaureate services will be held
in lone at the Christian church on
Sunday, May 14. Rev. W. W. Head
of Cathlamet, Wash., will preach
the sermon for the graduating class.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Thompson and
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Van Orsdall of
Pendleton were guests Sunday at the
E. C. Heliker home.
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Lindstrom de
parted Friday for Portland and
Brightwood where they will visit
their two daughters and families.
The freshmen and sophomores
were hosts to the annual high school
weiner roast Tuesday evening at
the Marion Palmer ranch below
town. All those attending spent an
enjoyable evening.
On Thursday, May 11, the high
school will sponsor the last enter
tainment of the year, Bob Wood, a
cartoonist and entertainer.
Mrs. Milton Morgan, Jr., under
went an appendectomy on Saturday
in a hospital in Heppner. She is
reported to be making satisfactory
improvement.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Renoe re
turned Monday evening from a visit
in Mosier.
Mrs. Ada Cannon, who recently
underwent a major operation in
The Dalles, was brought to lone
Saturday by her son Bud to con
valsce. Mr. and Mrs. Garland Swanson
and Mr. and Mrs. John Eubanks
spent Monday in Cheney, Wash., on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Beckner and
Charles McElligott are at Soap Lake
for the benefit of their health.
Mrs. Luvisa Louy returned from
the Gentry nursing home in Hepp
ner Friday and is at the home of
her son, E. G. Sperry.
On Friday afternoon the grade
and high schools of lone went to
Heppner to participate in the an
nual track meet and music festival.
Sunday morning the members of
the A. F. & A. M. attended church
in a body in observance of the one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the inauguration of George Wash
ington as first president of the Uni
ted States. Rev. C. F. Trimble
preached and Miss Katherine Scharf
sang a special number, accompan
ied by Miss Diane Trimble at the
piano.
Evangelist and Mrs. Burt F. Foos
are conducting a series of evangel- j
istic meetings in lone at the Full
Gospel mission, and extend to every
one a hearty welcome and invita
tion to attend these meetings and
hear the old time Gospel. There will
be a children's church at 1:30 p. m.
Saturday, also just after the Sunday
school Sunday morning. Sister Foos
will have charge of the children's
church, something entirely new.
Come and see for yourselves. May
every father and mother cooperate
with us in getting the Gospel to the
children. Evangelistic meetings ev
ery night, and a special prayer hour
from 6 a. m. to 7 a. m. and from 2 p,
m. to 3 p. m. Come and pray with
us. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Our
Subject for Sunday night, "The
Hand Writing on the Wall, or Is
God's Judgment Falling on This
Country?" S. E. Graves Pasor.
State Champions
Picked by FFA
at OSC Conclave
With 521 delegates from 50 Ore
gon chapters attending, the eleventh
annual state convention of the Fu
ture Farmers of America devoted
a busy three days to honoring high
achievement, selecting winners of
coveted awards, and conducting
state business affairs.
Most sought after awards this
year were the championships in
poultry judging and poultry demon
strations as the best team in both
classifications gets a trip to the
world poultry congress in Cleveland
next July.
The Amity team, composed of Al
bert Deraeve and Frances Stupfel
with James B. Thomas, instructor,
won the right to make the trip as
Oregon's poultry judges while the
Canby team composed of James
Bainey and John Steward, with
George Pope as instructor, will
make the trip as poultry demon
strators. Other finalists in poultry judging
were Silverton and Imbler tying
for second and third; Newberg,
fourth; Eugene, fifth; and Corvallis,
sixth. Twenty-six teams competed.
Runners up to Canby out of 17
teams were Molalla, Amity, and Eu
gene. Amity also topped the field in the
state parliamentary contest, follow
ed by Woodbum, Malin, Redmond,
Gresham and Wallowa. In the pub
lic speaking contest James Math
ews of Grants Pass was first, speak
ing on "Consumer Cooperation for
Farmers." Henry Butter, Salem,
was second and Sanford Herr, For
est Grove, third.
Edgar Spikerman of The Dalles,
retiring state president, and Robert
Lundy, Myrtle Point, will be Ore
gon's candidates for the American
Farmer degree.
Officers for the coming year are
David Bain, Union, president; Jam
es Thompson, Salem, vice-president;
Manning Becker, Gresham, secre
tary; Fred Haukins, Ontario, treas
urer; and Nick Taranoff, Rainier,
reporter. Instructors on the execu
tive committee will be Edward Ax
tell, Union; Edward Blinkhorn,
Forest Grove; and Harold Schaad,
Pendleton.
Honorary members named this
year were Ralph Morgan, assistant
supervisor of agricultural educa
tion; H. H. Gibson, professor of ag
ricultural education, OSC; Hans C.
Pfun, secretary Oregon Bankers as
sociation; Joe Jarvis, agricultural
agent of the Union Pacific railroad;
and J. A. Ormandy, general passen
ger agent, Southern Pacific railroad.
The designation "Keystone chap
ter" was given to 23 of the 50 as
follows:
Arlington, Canby, Nestucca, Cor
vallis, Dayton, Enterprise, Eugene,
Forest Grove, McMinnville, Gresh
am, Myrtle Point, Newberg, Oregon
City, Pendleton, Salem, Silverton,
Union, Wallowa, Woodburn, Board
man, Cottage Grove, Junction City,
and Scappoose.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cox returned
home Monday from Portland where
Mr. Cox had undergone specialized
treatment for more than a week for
infection of a finger resulting from
accidentally getting the digit caught
in the fan belt of his car recently.
The infection was reported to be
clearing up nicely.
TED McMURDO TELLS OF VISIT
TO NATION'S SENATE IN LETTER
Charles "Ted" McMurdo believes
Washington, D. C, to be the most
interesting place he has ever been.
He told as much in a letter to broth
er Scott, in which he reported in de
tail a recent visit there from his
studies at University of Virginia.
Looking in on congress, he says:
"About 11:30 I went into the sen
ate gallery to be sure of getting a
seat and was even then a little late
for getting a good one. All the while
we waited the senate page boys were
running in and out on various er
rands, and some distributed papers
which carried a full account of the
previous day's
senator's desk.
own desk which is distinguished by
a small bronze strip upon which his
name is engraved. The page boys
looked to be between the ages of 12
and 16, and the guide told us they
went to school there in the capital.
At 11:45 only a very few of the sen
ators had yet taken their seats. By
11:55, though, they began coming
in more rapidly and when 12 came
and Vice President Garner called
the meeting to order with a rap of
his gavel a little more than a third
of the 96 seats were filled. Senator
McNary was at his desk all the time
I was there, but Senator Holman
was at his for only a couple of min
utes at the opening and never re
turned during the, hour I watched.
One lady senator spent the first
hour reading the morning's paper all
the while other senators made
speeches. Senator Vandenberg was
at his desk for a while, slouched
comfortably in his chair. After lis
tening to the speeches, etc., for
about half an hour in this position, I
decided he must be asleep, but just
then he got up and walked out. A
senator from Arizona got the floor
business, to each I and made a speech about some
A senator has his trouble the Indians were having in
i
his state, then called for a page boy
who took his proposal to the official
reader who read it aloud. My seat
was in a poor position to hear well
everything that was being said,
which coupled with my unfamiliarity
with senate procedure made it dif
ficult, if not impossible, to under
stand just what was going on all the
time. Once I started to take a few
notes but was cautioned that note-
taking was forbidden."
Ted also visited the house of rep
resentatives and the U. S. govern
ment printing office. The printing
office he picked as one of the first
three most interesting things he had
seen in the capital, after seeing many
things and finding everything in
teresting. He looked forward to an
early return for more sightseeing.
HE-MEN RECALLED
Portland, April 28 The boys of
Heppner were real "he-men" in the
early '90s, according to a story in
the Heppner Gazette reported the
Federal Writers' project of the WPA.
Declaring "A moral wave has struck
Heppner," the Gazette of January
22, 1894, relates that "hereafter boys
will not be allowed to smoke cigar
ettes and chew tobacco and spit on
the floor in the churches here."
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