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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.