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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1939)
- , ' . i r ' r? --t p J r -r v V D I 7 0 F I 'J O T If Volume 50, Number 13 Rodeo Asks Fifty Persons to Back Up Obligations Benefits of Com munity Enterprise Said Compensatory That Morrow county people so thorouhly realize the benefits of the annual Rodeo, slated this year for August 24-5-6, that they will underwrite the show's financial ob ligations was believed by directors who met at the Lucas Place Friday evening and adopted the underwrit ing plan as proposed by Frank Al fred, chairman of the finance com mittee. The plan calls for 50 signers, each of whom must be accepted by the directors, who will agree to pay not to exceed $25 each toward any def icit the show might incur, provided that the total legitimate expense of the show shall not exceed $4500. It was brought out that last year's show almost broke even and would have been a little to the good ex cept for the construction of the bandstand, payment for which was made from the proceeds and which investment win be good or many years. In years past proceeds from the Rodeo have built the grandstand and made almost all improvements on the city's principal recreation field, improvements that have been enjoyed by school and the commun ity generally as well as the Rodeo These benefits call for a sound plan of operation, and less odium for the officers and directors believe. The Rodeo is operated on a non profit basis, and any profits that accrue are turned over to the Hepp ner Improvement association to be expended for general community benefit. At Friday evening's meet ing, Alfred was named chairman of this association, J. V. Crawford was named secretary, and L. E, Bisbee, H. D. McCurdy and Dick Lawrence, directors. The finance committee, headed by Alfred, and including D. M. Ward, George Howard and George Peck are starting immediately to obtain the 50 underwriters. The agreement, in full reads: "We, the undersigned residents of Morrow county, Oregon, hereinaf ter called the underwriters, believ ing that the annual performance of the Heppner Rodeo is valuable to us individually and to our commun ity, in that it stimulates business and promotes community spirit, in consideration of the valuable bene fits to be derived by us from the Heppner Kodeo during the year 1939, which we hereby acknowledge, and of our mutual promises, do each for himself agree to and with each other and with the Heppner Rodeo Association, hereinafter call ed the Association, that we will in demnity the Association rrom any and all losses that may be sustained as a result of the 1939 performance of the Heppner Rodeo, provided as follows: "1. That the individual obligation of any underwriter shall not ex ceed the sum of Twenty-five Dol lars. "2. That in the event the expens es of the Rodeo shall exceed the in come from all sources, including the Queen dances, Rodeo dances, con cessions, gate receipts and all other sources customarily used to defray the expenses of the Rodeo, then the amount of the deficit shall be di vide dequally . among the under writers and be paid over to the Association upon demand, and if not so paid, the Association shall take such action as shall be neces sary to enforce payment. "3. That the liability hereunder shall extend only to necessary Ro deo expenses, and such reasonable repair of grounds and buildings Continued on Page Eight Heppner, Council Awards Building Permits Permits for construction were granted C. J. D. Bauman for a new residence, and Harold Becket for a new shop building, at Monday eve ning's council meeting. The Bau man house has already been started upper South Court street, and Becket has started work on his building on Chase street between Center and Willow, where he will move his welding business now conducted in the McMurdo building on May street. Allowing bills for emergency work on the swimming pool, the council ordered that no further work be undertaken until results of the bond election are learned. Dis bursements on the tank had already used up the budget allowance for the year, it was said. The matters of placing a fire hy drant at the Rodeo grounds, and acquiring a car trailer to haul hose in place of the old hose carts were presented by Ralph Beamer on be half of the firemen and were left in the hands of the fire and water committee with instructions to in stall the hydrant. Permit was grant ed John Hiatt to build a garage on city property at the dead end of Water street. City properties com mittee was handed the application of Heppner Garden club for permis sion to beautify the city lot at the corner of Main and Center streets with instructions that work might be done subject to use of the lot by the Rodeo for carnival purposes. Local Men Visit Baker Mining Project A party of local men interested in Morris Mines, Inc., with diggings in the Greenhorn mountains, visited the company's property last week end to find the snow so deep that they had to stop cars half a mile short of destination and walk in, Jess Dobyns, company representa tive, reports that operations will start in the near future. Included in the visiting party last week end were H. L. Duvall, Walter Eubanks, Mr. Dobyns, Arley Padberg, Art Parker, of this county, Mr. Kelly and John Heckman of Stanfield, and Neil Stephens of Granite. Twelve miles south and .west of the old mining town of Granite, the diggings was first started many years ago by Mr. Morris, from whom the property derives its name. Ore was taken to San Francisco for smelting in the early days. Sample assays going as high as $70 have en couraged their venture, say the local men. Included in the holdings are ten claims of 20 acres each. The company has already built consid erable road and has a tractor, bull dozer, two trucks, diesel air equip ment as well as other miscellaneous equipment. Little development work has so far been dona, it is said. START FUEL COMPANY neppner J!uei company is a new business appearing on the local hor izon this week, organized to handle slab wood from Heppner Lumber company. Loyal R. Parker and F, W. Turner are managers of the new business. SERVICES AT LIBERTY Rev. R. C. Young will conduct services at the Liberty school house next Sunday. Schedule of services calls for Sunday school at 11 o'clock basket dinner at l o clock, and preaching service at 2:30. Miss Marian Kane of Portland is a house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Graham, coming up from the city Monday evening with Mr. Graham on his return from a business trip. H. M. Hansen of Long Creek was a business visitor in the city yester day. He reported shearing opera tions under way at his place. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Dix expect to leave Sunday on a motor trip on which they will visit the world fai." at San Francisco. Oregon, Thursday, June B. F. DeVore, 93 County's Last GAR Veteran, Dies Rites at Hardman For Man Who Serv ed With Sherman Death of Benjamin F. DeVore, 93, at The Dalles last Friday marked the passing of Morrow county's last member of the Grand Army of the Republic. A pioneer of the Hard man section, Mr. DeVore saw serv ice under Sherman in the Civil War as a member of Company D, Sixth Iowa Infantry, and as related in his own life story published in this paper in 1935, his only regret was that he didn't go with Sherman on his long march to the sea. Mr. DeVore passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. Z. Barnard, in The Dalles. Funeral rites were held at the Hardman cemetery Monday afternoon with Heppner post, American Legion, of ficiating and C. J. D. Bauman, post past commander, in charge. A large concourse of relatives and friends paid tribute, not only to the mem ory of this esteemed last member of a great army but to the army that preserved the union. Benjamin F. DeVore was born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, January 3, 1847, the son of Eliza J. and Martha DeVore. There were three sisters and eight ' brothers. When eight years old he went with the family to a farm in Iowa where he grew to manhood. He' was among the first volunteers to answer Lin-1 coin's call in 1861 and saw active fighting at Dallas, Georgia,, Kene saw mountain, and near Atlanta City where his war service ended with a bullet in the left leg. It was in the same battle that General Mc- Pherson was killed. He received his discharge at Davenport, Iowa. In his story, Mr. DeVore was a pro fessed admirer of Lincoln and Sherman. Four years after his discharge, Mr. DeVore married Miss Martha Stephens, April 11, 1865. In 1883 they came west and took up a homestead in Gooseberry. Before proving up on the homestead, they moved to the mountains south of Hardman where Mr. DeVore made wood and posts. After two years here, they moved to Rock creek to put the children in school. Living on Rock creek for 16 years, they moved to Hardman to run the hotel. Mrs. DeVore died there in 1913. Mr. DeVore made a hobby of gar dening and was especially fond of flowers. Five children were born to the union, one son, Morris, passing in 1930. Surviving are one son, A. G. DeVore of Hardman, and two daugh ters, Mrs. A. Z. Barnard and Mrs. Ada Osborn, both of The Dalles. MISSION SOCIETY MEETS Womens Christian Missionary so ciety of the Church of Christ enter tained visitors and friends at the church parlors yesterday. Pot-luck luncheon was enjoyed at noon with a short program by the girls' Trian gle club under leadership of Miss Leta Humphreys, followed by a short talk by Mrs. K. C. Hendricks of Milton, president of womens work for Churches of Christ of Oregon. The regular meeting followed at 2:30 with Mrs. A. J. Chaffee, president, presiding; Mrs. Milton Clark in charge of devotionals, and Mrs. E. R. Huston, program leader. At the close of an interesting program Mrs. Hendricks installed officers for the new year, Mrs. Cora Crawford, president; Mrs. Bertha Johnson, vice president; Mrs. Spencer Crawford, secretary, and Mrs. C. W. Barlow, treasurer. - Visitors were present from Milton, Pendleton, Ashland and Spokane, Wash., besides a num ber of local ladies. 8, 1939 Veteran Dead B. F. DeVORE Last Morrow G. A. R. man taken Courtesy The Oregonian. Braille Service is Offered by Lions Club Anyone interested in learning the braille system of reading for the blind may have a course of instruc tion free of charge through applying to the Lions club, it was announced at Monday's luncheon by Thomas J Wells, vice president, who presided in the absence of F. W. Turner, pres ident, who left that day for a visit to the world fair at San Francisco The service has been made available by Orlando (Cal.) Lions whose school has assisted many persons all over the United States. L. D. Tibbies announced that the city swimming tank would be filled tomorrow so that all desiring might view it before the bond election Sat urday. A three-piece jazz band, Miss . Marjorie Parker, Maurice Johnson and Alfred Huit, entertain ed. Named on nominating commit tee for new officers to report next Monday were L. D. Tibbies, C. J. D. Bauman and Frank Alfred. Emery Gentry of Weston was a guest. Condon Rodeo is Week End Event Condon's third annual spring ro deo will be held there Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11, according to word received from the wheat city town. Bronc riding, brahma steer riding, calf roping and numerous other wild west events are sched uled for the two-day performance. Clarence Warren will have charge of the show. Dances will be held Friday and Saturday nights and at the Friday dance the rodeo queen will be elec ted and announced. The Browning Amusement company has the car nival on the grounds. VIEWS TIMBER WORK Leonard Kraft, manager Bridal Veil Lumber and Box company, was in the city the first of the week and spent all day Tuesday in the woods with Logie Richardson, local agent, viewing road building and other op erations that are under way prepar atory to logging the company's tim ber on Johnson creek. .12 INCH RAIN MONDAY A light shower lasting about five hpurs Monday morning brought .12 inch moisture at Heppner, reports Len L. Gilliam, weather observer. Overcast skies and gentle rain for a while this morning gave promise of further precipitation. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ridings ar rived Tuesday from New York and are visiting at the home of Mrs. Ridings' parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Clark. Mr. Ridings will leave to morrow for Eugene to visit at his parental home. The last school year both Mr. and Mrs. Ridings taught in the metropolis, Mr. Ridings being an assistant coach at Columbia uni versity, and Mrs. Ridings teaching kindergarten at Riverside Memorial church. I ,, ,,. l.l.,.,..i II Subscription $2.00 a Year To Swim or Not to Swim, Issue of Saturday's Vote Youths Eye Bond Election; Tank Full Tomorrow Will Heppner swim this year? That, say youths of the community as represented in a statement by Scott McMurdo in another column, is the main issue to be ' decided when voters go to the polls Satur day to ballot on issuance of $3,000 general obligation bonds for com pleting the swimming tank. In a ruling this week, J. J. Nys, city attorney, says all citizens 21 years of age who have been resi dents of he state for six months and residents of the city for 30 days and are duly registered voters, are eligible to decide the question that lies so heavily upon the minds of the city's youths. It is not neces sary to be registered 30 days before the election, and anyone wishing to participate in the election may reg ister at the clerk's office up to the time of election. Polls will be open from 8 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock in the evening at the council cham bers. Voters will place a cross (x) between the words "Yes . . .1 vote for the proposed bonds" or "No ... I vote against the proposed bonds. L. D. Tibbies, chairman of the tank committee, reported at Mon day evening's council meeting that last of the work authorized to date, that of placing a fence around the tank for safety's sake, was . being wound up, and the council ordered that no further work should be done until after the bond election. If the bonds are voted, it was ex pected other necessary work, that of installing dressing rooms, show ers and toilets, could be completed in time for many good swims before hot weather ends. If the bonds are not voted, there appeared no possi bility of opening the tank this year. As further salesmanshop, Chair man Tibbies said the tank would be filled with water tomorrow, so ev eryone liking a dip may look in and view it longingly. Cost of construction overran orig inal estimates when much donation labor, promised when estimates were made, failed to materialize. WINS FAIR TRIP By ranking high in Portland Ore gonian's subscription contest in his district, Scott McMurdo has won a trip to the San Francisco world fair with all expenses paid. Scott sold 36 subscriptions to rank second high in eastern Oregon. A special train will carry the winners to the fair, leaving Portland on the 20th. SUSTAINS ACCIDENT Howard Patton, son of Mrs. Ben Cox and prominent high school ath lete, was treated at Heppner hos pital Tuesday for a cut on one foot that nearly severed the toes, receiv ed accidentally while chopping wood in the mountains. BOYS GO TO FAIR Three Morrow county boys join ed the state FFA party making a trip to the world fair at San Fran cisco by special train that left Port land Tuesday. They were Donald Wehmeyer, Jack McLaughlin and Robert Warfield. POLICE VISIT Capt. Vayne Gurdane of Portland, Capt. Warren W. Yancey of Baker pnd Sgt. Frank N. Grim of The Dalles were state policemen in the city Tuesday on official business. Mrs. Fred Wehmeyer and Mrs. H. O. Bauman motored to Washington the first of the week for a week's visit with relatives at Winthrop r.nd Carlton.