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Volume 50, Number 14
Swim Bonds Win as
Youths Make Plea,
Take Illegal Dip
Voters Favor Issue
126-78; Opening
Expected in Month
Determination of Heppner youth
to swim was evidenced in a bicycle
banner-carrying parade while poll
ing was in progress at Saturday's'
special bond election, and in raid
ing the tank itself which had been
filled with water Friday.
How much the cries of "We want
a swimming pool," and banners
asking, "Vote for swimming tank
bonds," had to do with the favor
able vote of 126-78 is problematic
al. The youthful pleas combined
with Old Sol's melting rays while
voting was taking place may have
softened some hearts which had
been steeled to keep down the
city's debt load.
Hardly had the election results
been announced when a raid was
made on the pool itself with a
christening that had no legal con
sent, but which gave solace to a
number of youthful souls that had
been disturbed for fear the pool
would not be opened this year.
Again Sunday, by means of planks
run up to the top of fences, a group
of boys let their ardor get the best
of official judgment and made their
way into the cooling waters.
Chairman L. D. Tibbies of the
pool committee had to put a stop
to the free swims because sanction
of state board of health for using
the pool may not be had until
dressing rooms, toilets and showers
are provided. This work is being
started immediately and barring
eventualities the pool will be of
ficially opened by the end of the
month, Tibbies said.
Three thousand dollars in gen
eral obligation bonds were voted
at the Saturday election, sale of
which must be made before funds
for completing the work are avail
able.
Thompson Attends
District FCA Meet
Officers and directors of five pro
duction credit associations from Or
egon, Washington and Idaho met at
Wallowa lake Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday this week for an annual
conference and training course, W,
E. Moore, secretary-treasurer of the
Pendleton association, reported this
week.
Associations represented were
Pendleton, Baker, Walla Walla, Lewis-Clark
of Lewinston and Inter
state of Spokane.
Directors of the Pendleton asso
ciation who attended were James
Hill, Pendleton; R. A. Thompson,
Heppner; E. T. Jaco, Enterprise; A.
R. Coppock, Adams, and H. H. Wea
therspoon, Elgin.
Participating in the conference
were officers of the Production
Credit Corporation of Spokane, a
unit of the Farm Credit administra
tion. Directors studied credits and
collections, operation and manage
ment of their associations.
A. B. Robertson, vice-president
of the corporation, and Otto F. All-
gaier, treasurer, led the principal
discussions. Ernest E. Henry, pres
ident, was also a speaker.
UMATILLA COURT VISITS
Judge Carl Chambers and Com
missioners Bill Switzler and Will
Meiners of the Umatilla county
court were official visitors in the
city last Friday, meeting with the
Morrow county court in the inter
ests of joint road construction being
undertaken by the two courts.
Paul McCarty is back at his old
stand as clerk at Hotel Heppner dur
ing summer vacation from studies
at University of Oregon.
Heppner,
Turners, Hugheses
Enjoy Trip To Fair
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hughes and
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Turner returned
home Tuesday night from a 10-day
trip on which they visited the
Golden Gate International exposition
at San Francisco.
Going they took the Redwood
highway, and they returned by way
of the Sacramento valley, At Salem
they were shown through the beau
tiful new capitol building by Dean
Goodman. Murals alone are valued
at $80,000 and the main building has
marble interior. The Coos bay bridge
was found to be the finest on our
coast, but the two big San Fran
cisco bridges are unequaled any
where.
A sight-seeing tour of the city
took them through Chinatown, the
Presidio, Golden Gate park and the
Cliff House as well as many other
places of interest. At the exposi
tion they were favorably impressed
with the beautiful lighting, enorm
ous buildings, flower gardens and
many exhibits, especially electrical
and mineral ones. The famous Gold
man band is playing every day until
July 2.
A good view of Alcatraz, famous
federal prison island, is had from
either boat or bridge crossings
Weather in San Francisco was chilly,
but did not interfere.
At Palo Alto they visited Mrs
Nellie Anderson and daughter, Mrs,
Willis Roller, and were shown
through Stanford university cam
pus, Herbert Hoover's home and
famous home of Kathleen Norris.
Oregon's university campus was be
lieved more beautiful because of
its having more verdure.
Last lap of return journey was
made through southern Oregon and
across McKenzie pass, which they
believed to rank second only to
Redwood route.
Postmaster Cox Will
Attend State Meeting
Postmaster Chas. B. Cox plans to
attend the state convention of Uncle
Sam's mail dispensers at Ashland
this week end.
He will be accompanied by L. E,
Bisbee, old-time friend and sport
ing companion, and together they
will drop in on Diamond lake on the
return home to entice some of the
beautiful finnies on to their hooks,
if possible.
JAMES ALFRED MORRIS
Funeral services were held Tues
day morning from Pentecostal mis
sion, Case Funeral home in charge
for James Alfred Morris, 70, who
died at the home in this city Sat
urday night. Rev. E. D. Greeley
officiated and interment was in Ma
sonic cemetery. Born January 16
1869, at Brigham City, Utah. Mr,
Morris married Annie M. Richardson
at Ogden, that state, in 1895. Seven
children were born to this union, the
wife and two sons and two daughters
having preceded him in death. Mr,
Morris first came to Heppner 23
years ago and had reside here in
termittently since. Surviving are
two daughters, Phoba Louisa Jones
of Heppner, and Florence Gertrude
Ferry of Bellingham, Wash., and
one son, Edgar James Morris of
Heppner.
Old-Time Wascoite Recalls Losing
to Heppner at Football in 1899
When Sherman Frank was a lank
young man about town in The Dal
les in 1899, he was a member of the
football team representing that city.
As such he came to Heppner with
the team which took a drubbing at
the hands of local stalwarts, includ
ing Bill Ball, Orve Rasmus and Lou
Bisbee, to the tune of 5-0.
Now hardly to be considered lank,
Frank recalled that visit to the city
when in town this week from his
present home at Hood River, rep
resenting a leading powder com
pany. Frank was an early -day harness
Oregon, Thursday, June
Guy Moore Heads
4-H BoysatCorvallis
Summer Schoo
County Contingent
to Return 16th;
Thanks Extended
Guy Moore, 4-H sheep club mem
ber at Pine City, is president of the
entire group of 800 4-H club boys
now in attendance at the two weeks
summer school being held on the
Oregon State college campus, ac
cording to a report received from
C. D. Conrad, county agent, who is
attending the last week of the
school.
Conrad states that this is the most
coveted honor obtainable by a boy
at summer school, as the boys in
each of the twelve houses and halls
elect a president of their group who
serves on an executive council of
which Guy was elected chairman.
A democratic form of government
had been in effect at 4-H summer
school for several years and the
boys and girls handle their problems
through their own executive coun
cil. Matters of conduct, attendance
at classes and assemblies, and ush
ering at meetings are among the
things handled by the boys council
and the girls council.
More than 2000 boys and girls
from Oregon are in attendance this
year which makes the largest gath
ering of this kind ever held west of
the Mississippi river.
The Morrow county delegation
includes ten girls and eight boys
from all parts of the county. Conrad
reports that the county can well be
proud of their boys and girls now in
attendance. They are all enthusi
astic over their class work, assembly
programs and recreational activities,
and will return to the county June
16 on the special summer school
train bringing back to the other
members of their 24 local 4-H clubs
much of the knowledge and enthu
siasm . gained while at summer
school.
All of the members have shown
their appreciation and wish to thank
the following firms for making it
possible for them to attend: Hepp
ner branch of the First National
Bank of Portland; auxiliary of the
Morrow County Wool Growers;
Heppner Elks lodge; Braden and
Bell Implement Co.; Jackson Im
plement Co.; Heppner Safeway
Store; Rhea Creek, Lexington and
Greenfield Granges; Boardman P.
T. A.; Morrow County, and the Ore
gon State Fair board.
IONE ELEVATOR ELECTS
Leonard Carlson was elected
president and Oscar Peterson, sea
retary, of lone elevator company at
the annual election of officers held
Saturday. E. R. Lundell and Johan
Troedson were named directors,
Mr. Carlson and H. V. Smouse are
hold-over directors.
CO-OP GETS FEED STOCK
Lexington Oil Co-op has recently
a stock of feeds, voted recently by
directors for handling, announced
Mrs. Grace M. Turner on a business
visit here yesterday.
maker in The Dalles and in line with
his trade worked with Heppner's
two veterans, E. G. Noble and Joe
Snyder. Other old-time acquaint
ances and former residents of The
Dalles who he enjoyed greeting
were Fred Lucas and Joe Batty.
Fotball in the early days was plen
ty tough as Frank remembered it.
and those early day teams were not
above importing "ringers." Heppner
had three or four outstanding col
lege players imported for that mem
orable game, as Frank recalled, one
of whom was Art Clark, now a Port
land optometrist.
15, 1939.
FFA Calves Bring
Good Price on Block
Central market is featuring some
choice cuts of veal taken from two
calves raised by James Moyer and
John Lane, Jr., in their FFA work.
C. W. McNamer bid in the calves
at $67 and $80 at the recent com
munity auction, the calves dressing
out 460 and 410 pounds at 16 months
of age.
Other FFA boys made good sale
of calves at recent sales, also, re
ports W. S.' Bennett, adviser. Irvin
Rauch sold a 745 pounder for $66.07;
Dick Wilkinson sold three weighing
1187, 935 and 945 for total of $260.
94; Douglas Drake sold two weigh
ing 951 and 962 for $182.17, and Jun
ior Greeley sold one weighing 988
pounds for $103.59. As an example
of gain, Bennett said Greeley fed
his calf for 220 days with an average
increase of 2.1 pounds per day. This
gain was typical of . the larger
calves, with the smaller calves not
doing so well. The boys are taught
to feed to get the most weight at
the least feed cost and thus to
realize a profit from their venture.
Heppner Seventh In
Tourney Shoot-Off
With a team score of 464, Hepp
ner Rod and Gun club placed sev
enth in the shoot-off match of the
Oregonian telegraphic trapshoot
tourney, held in Portland last week
end. C. C. Carmichael with 95 held
high gun for the team, with L. C.
Matthews, Pilot Rock and John
Lane, next with 94 each. Dr. A. D,
McMurdo, 90, and- P, W. Mahoney,
91, completed the team. Individual
scores are targets broken out of a
possible 100.
Among those taking in the shoot
besides the team members were
Mrs. Mahoney, Mrs. (2armichael,
Mr. and Mrs. Luke Bibby and Mr,
and Mrs. Bert Kane. F .M. Troeh
of Portland, veteran crack-shot,
topped all shooters in state shoot,
held at the same time.
June Court Short;
Grand Jury Meets
Judge C. L. Sweek completed a
short docket for the June term of
circuit court Monday as all trial
matters had been settled before
court convened. While here he call
ed the grand jury into session
Which was still grinding this morn
ing. Henry Neer, court reporter, ac
companied Judge Sweek.
Serving on the grand jury are
Henry Peterson, foreman; Frank H.
Lindsay, Harry Archer, Charles
Vaughn, M. L. Case, Garland L.
Swanson and Noel K. Dobyns.
MAJOR BECKET VISITS
Morrow county's claimant to a
position on the all-time, all-eleven
football team at University of Ore
gon is Johnny Becket. Now Major
John Becket, he was visiting homes
of brothers Walter and Charles in
Eight Mile this week, being accom
panied by Mrs. Becket and two chil
dren. Major Becket and family were
recently transferred to San Diego,
Cal., and took advantage of a fur
lough for a visit here. Johnny Beck
et was star tackle on University of
Oregon's great 1916 football team,
and later coached Mare Island mar
ines at war time, and assisted
coach at West Point.
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NAMED FOR POSITION
Miss Nancy Cox, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Cox and recent
graduate from Oregon State col
lege, left Sunday for Portland where
she had accepted a position as home
demonstration agent for Northwest
ern Electric company.
HAVE ALL-DAY MEET
Willing Workers of the Church of
Christ had an al-day quilting meet
ing with pot-luck lnncheon at the
church parlors Tuesday, honoring
the birthdays of two members, Mrs.
Carrie Vaughn and Mrs. Rosa Es-kelson.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Crop Insurance
Adjustments
Start in County
Failure on Dry Fork
Farm to Draw 5185
Bushels in Payment
Crop insurance is proving its
worth to several Morrow county .
farmers this year, reports the local
AAA office. Loss adjustment work
got under way this week when Earl
Thompson of Umatilla county who
is assistant to Clyde L. Kiddle, state
crop insurance supervisor, and M.
E. Cummings, Morrow county su
pervisor, visited the E. W. Chris-
topherson farm in Dry Fork.
Mr. Christopherson is a firm be
liever in crop insurance and last fall
insured four farms with a total ac
reage seeded of 870 acres, and with
a total insured production of 8683
bushels. Due to a prolonged drouth
he will have a total loss on two
farms for which he is now in a po
sition to receive an indemnity of
5183 bushels of wheat or its cash
equivalent. Had it not been for his
federal crop insurance policies on
these two farms, all the work and
expense of preparing the seed bed,
seeding and reseeding would have
been wasted.
Other farmers who have crop in
surance are requested to be sure to
notify the county office prior to
harvest if it is at all probable that
they will have a loss.
School Budget,
Officers To Be Voted
Election of a director for three
year term, clerk for one year, dis
cussion of the budget and voting
for or against the proposed special
district tax is slated for the annual
meeting of school district No. 1,
beginning at 2 o'clock at the coun
cil chambers next Monday after
noon. Terms of Chas. N. Jones, director,
elected to fill the unexpired term of
J. J. Wightman, and Mrs. Muriel
Vaughn, clerk, expire with the an
nual meeting. This year's budget
calls for a total of $21,968.50 to be
raised by special tax as compared
with $21,230.17, the amount levied
last year.
1000 Acres Range
Burn In Sand Hollow
A 1000-acre grass fire on Hynd
Brothers ranch in Sand Hollow last
week end was caused by a herder
knocking hot ashes from his pipe
out on the heel of his shoe.
Preparations already under way
for moving the sheep to mountain,
summer range were hastened by
the fire.
LEAVE FOR SCHOOL
Heppner's contingent of young
people attending Episcopal Ascen
sion summer school at Cove, de
parted this week. Jackson Gilliam,
Kemp Dick and Buddy Blakely left
last Thursday to help prepare the
grounds, and on Sunday Mr. and
Mrs. L. E. Dick and Mrs. E. E. Gil
liam accompanied other members
of the party, including Bill Blake,
Wilbur Worden, Scott McMurdo,
Carolyn Vaughn, Shirley Wilson,
Jeanette Blakely, Constance Instone
and Betty Jean Mankin. Mrs. Osmin
is cooking for the group. Mr. and
Mrs. Dick and Mrs. Gilliam return
ed home Sunday evening.
Mrs. Ralph Jones was a business
visitor in the city today from the
Butter creek farm. She said Mr.
Jones has been busy in the moun
tains for some time constructing a
sheep-tight fence around the moun
tain range.
For dressed fryers phone Mrs. H.
O. Bauman.