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Volume 56, Number 17
Tax Collections
Slow Up Second
Period, Total60 Pet.
$169,130 in on Cur
rent Roll, $30,614
on Delinquent Roll
Following a brisk first quarter in
which 53.7 per cent of the current
tax roll had been collected at the
sheriffs office, payments hit a snail's
pace in the second quarter as col
lection had risen to but 60 per cent
of the total.
Collections as of July 1 turned
over to the clerk totalled $169,130.27
on the current roll of $281,489.99,
leaving an uncollected balance of
$112,359.72. ,
At the end of the second quarter,
unpaid delinquent taxes of $300,849.-
41 had dropped but $30,614.13, the
amount collected, leaving an uncol
lected balance in this account of
$270,235.28.
Interest collected on delinquent
taxes totalled $2,126.76 while inter
est collected on current tax amount
ed to $39.81. Discount, allowed only
for payment of year's tax in full in
first quarter, amounted to $4,421.51.
Total receipts, both current and
delinquent, for year to date, allo
cated to state, county and general
school are $41,757; general roads,
$27,029; market roads, $6,283; city of
Hepner, $6,461; city of lone, $1,435;
city of Lexington, $945; School Dis
trict No. 1, $13,148. Other tax levy.
ing sub-divisions are carried on the
full report, each with total levies,
amounts collected and amounts out
standing as carried in the report
just issued by the clerk's office.
Scott McMurdo Puts
Heppner on Fair Map
Scott McMurdo put Heppner on
the map twice while attending the
.world fair at San Francisco from
where he returned last Friday. The
map was in the Bell Telephone com.
pany exhibit, and on it were dis
played names of the towns which
visitors were permitted to call free,
Scott, who had six days at the fair
as a guest of Portland Oregonian as
a winner in its subscription contest,
got in two free calls to Heppner,
having the home town indicated
twice.
With room and meal expenses fur
nished, besides transportation and
tickets to the fair, Scott was enabled
to take in the fair quite thoroughly
in the time allotted. He says he had
a great trip.
Rodeo Underwriting
Making Progress
More than half of the 50 signa
tures asked for underwriting the
coming Rodeo, August 24-25-26, were
in hand yesterday, reported Frank
Alfred, chairman of the committee.
Each signer pledges to obligate him
self not to exceed $25 for any deficit
the show might incur for ordinary
necessary running expenses.
Ready response has been found
among people so far contacted, Al
fred said, and he anticipated no dif
ficulty in obtaining well over the
fiftv guarantors asked by the di
rectors. Those who have not been
contacted may expect a call soon,
he said.
JOHN VAUGHNS MOVE
The John Vaughn family spent the
Fourth of July moving the family
home from here to Bend where Mr.
Vaughn is located as salesman for a
Bend automobile firm. Since leav
ing here some time ago Mr. Vaughn
first decided to locate at Bend, then
changed his mind to accept another
position at The Dalles; but after re
consideration accepted the Bend po
sition. He came from the central
Oregon city to assist with moving
the househald goods.
Heppner,
Newsy News Views
paul Mccarty
A recent incident, local in setting
but possibly world-wide in scope,
indicated that perhaps the govern
ment was expecting something to
bust wide open in the current in
ternational crisis. . . . Monday night
the local telegraph operator phoned
a telegram to the John Kenny's that
was to be delivered to son Matt Ken-
ly . . . completely ignorant of news
that Matt was coming home, the
Kenny's on Tuesday morning sur
prisingly welcomed home Matt, who
was on two-weeks' furlough from
the United States navy . . . then
Matt's folks told him of the tele
gram that arrived in Heppner sev
eral hours ahead of him . . . Matt left
Tuesday night, the same day on
which he arrived, as the telegram
instructed him to report to his head
quarters in San Diego within 48
hours.
Last week's Gazette carried the
news that Alden H. Blankenship, su
perintendent of local schools, was on
his way east to take advanced study
at Columbia university . . . Mr.
Blankenship was awarded his mas
ter's degree last summer at the Uni
versity of Washington. . . . Norbert
Peavy, English instructor who earn
ed his master's degree at Oregon
State college the year after grad
uation, is studying at Stanford. . . .
Robert Knox, coach, already has his
master's degree and has studied at
Oregon, Stanford, and Columbia
this all sums up that the members
of Heppner's teaching staff, advanc
ing in their field, are raising the
status of this school in educational
ranks.
The bank nearly went broke Mon
day morning but no one was wor
ried enough to rush to the tellers'
windows and withdraw funds .
employers paying off employees,
holders of checks cashing them, and
failure of money ordered from the
head bank in Portland to arrive put
the local branch on the spot.
A well-dressed, cigar-smoking
gentleman appeared in town last
Thursday, registered at Hotel Hepp
ner, finished all matters of business
Friday forenoon and left town short
ly thereafter ... he was a member
of the famous William J. Burns in
ternational detective agency.
Local fight fans can plan on re
serving the evening of July 15 for a
smoker, if Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman
can line up the second half of a box
ing card . . . Bauman has "feelers"
at Squaw Creek CCC camp and Wal
la Walla in an effort to find oppon
ents for Kid Torpedo, semi-finalist
at the Echo July 4th celebration,
Stanley Partlow, Boardman, and
Sammy McCracken, Pendleton .
this smoker would be held the eve
ning of the queen dance scheduled
for the 15th.
The soon-to-be home of Mr. and
Mrs. Norton Lundell, nee Harriet
Heliker, on Chase street south of the
Lundell service station is now on its
way to completion . . . the Mrs. ob
tained modern ideas for the family's
new home at the Northwest home
show in Portland.
Plans are now in the making for
a reunion of the eighth grade class
of 1902. Joe Kenny's latest car is a
Buick, around 192S vintage. The
large plate glass window broken
Saturday night at Harry O'Donnell's
pastime cost someone, other than
O'Donnell, $65. In the opinion of
Danny Dinges, Lexington '39, and
now employed at the Heppner bank
"The Fourth is alright but I wish
they'd do away with the fifth."
OREGONIAN PUBLISHER VISITS
Edwin P. Hoyt, publisher of the
Portland Oregonian, with Mrs. Hoyt
visited over Sunday at the J. G,
Barratt farm home. They came from
the state editorial association con
vention at Timberline Lodge to pick
up their son, Dick, who had visited
for several weeks at the Barratt
home. Mrs. Hoyt was formerly Miss
Cecile DeVore who resided in Hepp.
ner as a girl and was graduated from
Heppner high school.
Oregon, Thursday, July
Morrow County
97 Pet. Signed Up
For AAA Compliance
293,720 Acres and
704 Farms Included
87 Pet. in State
Approximately 97 per cent of Mor
row county's crop land is included
under this year's AAA farm pro
gram, according to a summary com
piled at the county agricultural con
servation office in Heppner.
This represents 293,720 acres of
and on 704 farms, said E. H. Miller,
chairman of the county agricultural
conservation committee.
Mr. Miller pointed out that farm
ers receive benefit payments only
by carrying out conservation prac
tices on these lands, preventing soil
losses and building values for the
future.
"The government payments are
not all profit for cooperating farm
ers," he declared. "Usually the cost
of carrying on the conservation
practices is greater than the pay.
ment received."
Operators of eighty-seven per cent
of all Oregon crop land have indi
cated their intention to participate
in the 1939 farm program, according
to word from the state AAA office
at Corvallis. This represents nearly
42,000 farmers who operate 3,800,000
acres of crop land.
The information was compiled on
the basis of "farm plan and estimate
sheets" which all farmers were re
quired to sign if they wished to take
part in this year's program.
Plunge at Tank
Slapstick as Dive
Made Into Paint
"Pewee" Evans had not been
advised that the new city swim
ming tank was not yet ready for
opening. Nor was he forewarned
that the scaffolding on which he
was working painting the tank
walls was going to give way.
The scaffolding broke shortly
after noon yesterday and Evans
dove headfirst into the paint buck
et. The result was more ludicrous
for onlookers than it was detri
mental to the victim who spouted
paint as he emerged but sustained
no great injury.
Wm. Bucknum Buys
Pastime Interest
Sale of the interest of Mrs. Lucille
McAtee in McAtee & Co. pastime
to Wm. Bucknum was reported this
week, and filing of assumed name
of McAtee and Bucknum was filed
at the clerk's office. Mr. Bucknum
has been assisting in the pastime
for several years, and now assumes
a partnership interest with Dave
McAtee, veteran firm member.
Mrs. McAtee and sons, Arthur and
Austin, expect to move to Michigan
to reside when business interests
here are settled.
CLUB ENJOYS DINNER
A Chemistry club dinner was held
at Hotel Heppner Thursday evening
last week with Omer McCaleb mas
ter of ceremonies. The dinner was
a farewell party for Arthur and
Austin McAtee who expect to leave
soon for Michigan to make their
home. Others in attendance includ
el Clifford Fay, Dan Chinn, Billy
McCaleb, Sanley Minor, Howard
Patton and Don Frederickson.
STOCK DOING WELL
In spite of dryness in the early
growing season, livestock generally
in the local forest area are doing
well, reports F. F. Wehmeyer, local
ranger. R. A. Thompson reported
that he would turn off some of the
best lambs in years, shipment of
which would start about the 15th.
6, 1939
St. Paul Hails Rodeo
Court; Kick-Off 15th
Rodeo's queen court including
Constance Instone, named this week
as representative of Lena grange
was given an ovation at the St
Paul Rodeo over the Fourth, an-
nounqes President Henry Aiker
who with Mrs. Aiken and Mrs. Wm.
Instone, accompanied the young la
dies.
Other members of the court mak
ing the trip were Dorothy Howell,
Dorothy Brady and Katherine
Thompson.
Finances for the trip were raised
at a dance sponsored by the parti
cipating granges at the county pav
ilion last Saturday night when a
large crowd danced to tunes of Jack
Merrill's orchestra.
Official opening of the Rodeo sea
son here will take place on Satur
day the 15th with the kick-off of
the queen's dances. These dances
will occur each Saturday night until
Rodeo time, August 24-25-26, with
complete schedule as follows: Hepp
ner, July 15; Lexington, July 22;
Rhea Creek, July 29; Lena, Aug. 5;
Willows, Aug. 12; Heppner, Aug. 13.
Local Exalted Ruler
In State Lodge Chair
Recognition was given Heppner
lodge 358, B. P. O. Elks, at the state
lodge meeting in Klamath Falls last
week when E. Harvey Miller, local
exalted ruler, was raised to the of
fice of third vice-president in the
Oregon Elks association. Mr. Miller
and Loyal R. Parker, secretary, rep
resented the local lodge, being ac
companied by their wives. Just at
the close of the lodge sessions, Mr,
and Mrs. Parker were called to Gold
Hill to attend funeral services for
Mr. Parker's mother, the late Mrs,
Matilda Elmira Parker of that place.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker and Mr. and
Mrs. Miller returned home together.
Stopping in Salem over the Fourth,
Mr. and Mrs. Miller attended a fam
ily reunion at the Miller parental
home where all children were pres
ent except John and Merle and a
sister in California, and Mr. and Mrs
Parker had dinner with the Paul
Gemmell family and attended the
nation's birthday program and mo
torcycle races at the state fair
grounds.
Kinzua Pine Mills
Building Logging Road
Kinzua Pine Mills is making the
dirt fly on a logging road that will
connect up the end of their railroad
with the Heppner-Spray road at
Courter prairie at the W. H. French
ranch, reported F. F. Wehmeyer,
local forest ranger.
Plans are to complete clearing of
right-of-way and building grade
this year, and to gravel the road
next year, said Wehmeyer. When
the road is completed it was ex
pected main logging headquarters
of the company will be established
at Courter prairie where two or
three hundred men will be located,
MALLORYS VISIT
. Visitors here the first of the week
were Mr. and Mrs. Gus Mallory and
two sons. They were visiting rela
tives in Portland and other western
Oregon points and took time to drive
up to the old home town. Mr. Mai
lory's brother, Lester, is located at
Junction City, where he operates a
tourist camp and is also employed
with the Oregon Electric company,
This was the MalloryV first visit to
Heppner in 22 years and while they
found many changes they also found
many of their old friends. They now
reside at San Anselmo, Calif., to
which place they returned Tuesday
afternoon.
TO HONOR "NEW PREACHER"
A reception for the "new preach
er" and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. R. C
Young, will be held on the parsonage
lawn Friday evening, July 7th at 7:30,
All members and friends of the
church are invited. All are welcome
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Tank Opening May
Come 15th; Work
Being Pushed
Willow Road Outlet
Change Ready to
Get Under Way
Possibility that Heppner's new
swimming tank will be ready for
opening on the 15th was announced
yesterday by Dr. L. D. Tibbies,
chairman of the council committee.
This is only a possibility, how
ever, and should not be too strongly
relied upon as it is impossible to tell
just how much time will be required
for the finishing touches. Painting of
the tank walls was under way the
first of the week, and the dressing
room building was ready for fin
ishing yesterday. Laying of floor
and installation of toilets and dress
ing rooms yet remained.
Definite operating schedule had
not been decided, though Tibbies be
lieved family rates on swims by the
season would be obtainable. Single
swims where swimmers have own
suits would probably be 15 cents for
children and 25 cents for adults, he
thought, though final approval must
be given by the council.
Harold Buhman will be tank man
ager and swimming instructor, and
regular classes will be organized for
beginners.
Plans are being laid for appro
priate program at time of the tank's
opening.
Paying of tank construction bills
and authorizing sale of the $3000
bonds recently voted by the citizens
constituted a large part of the bus
iness at Monday evening's council
meeting. Opening of bids on bonds
is called for 7:30 p. m., Saturday,
July 22.
The street committee reported
that the matter of clearing title to
right-of-way for change in the up
per Willow creek road outlet had
been completed and that construc
tion work would start within a few
days. New construction will cover
a distance of 2180 feet to eliminate
curves on the present outlet
Racetrack street.
on
Mrs. Matilda Parker
Passes at Gold Hill
Funeral services were held at Gold
Hill on Monday for Mrs. Matilda
Parker, 85, mother of Frank E. and
Loyal Parker of this city, who died
at that place Saturday. Mr. and Mrs.
Loyal Parker, who were in Klamath
Falls when word was received, at
tended the services. Interment was
in Rock Point cemetery near Gold
Hill.
Matilda Elmira Carey was born
on the Calapooia river near Browns
ville, this state, October 21, 1854. She
moved to southern Oregon with her
parents when 16 years of age. There
she married Curtis Parker and re
sided until 1900 when the family
came to Morow county and located
on a farm near Lexington. The fol
lowing year Mr. Parker was accident
ally killed, and several years later
she married his brother, F. M. Par
ker. With him she returned to Gold
Hill about 1920 where he died in
1928, and where she had since re
sided. Mrs. Parker was among the
first white children born in Oregon.
Surviving are eight children, Mrs.
Ada L. Bundy, Granite City, DI.;
Mrs. Imogene Wells, Pendleton; Mrs.
Katherine Kellogg, Medford; Frank
E. and Loyal Parker, Heppner; Ar
thur and Curtis Parker, Gold Hill;
Lester Parker, Hayward, Cal., a
brother, Charles E. Carey, Gold Hill;
two half-sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Mee,
Eugene, and Mrs. William Jordan,
Gold Hill; a half-brother, R. Thomp
son, Applegate.
Anyone wanting a good sack sew
er for combine, call Lotus Robison,
Heppner. 17-18