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Volume 56, Number 20
Hearty Recepiion
Given Pool; Swim
Campaign Started
300 Take Dip Sat
urday; Red Cross
Lessons to Start
Coming coincidentally with the
heat wave, opening of Heppner's
new municipal swimming tank was
greeted with popular reception last
week end. Persons numbering 250
took advantage of the free swims on
opening day, Friday, and free swim
ming was enjoyed by more than 300
Saturday. With Sunday the first pay
day, 240 swims were recorded. The
hottest day yesterday resulted in 288.
Total receipts had reached $270
up to last night, reported Harold
Buhman, pool manager.
Starting next week, the pool is
featuring the American Red Cross
swimming campaign, with invitation
extended to everyone to take ad
vantage of the free lessons to be
given by Mr. Buhman. The object
of the campaign is to teach those
who can't swim, how to swim, and
those who do swim, to swim better.
Certificates of advancement will be
given at the close of the instruction
course.
Schedule of instruction calls for
beginners classes on Mondays, Wed
nesdays and Fridays, and swimmers'
lessons on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. All those intending to
take advantage are requested to fill
out application blanks either at the
pool or with Russell McNeill at the
local bank. These blanks are desired
to be filled out by Monday, if possi
ble. Beginners groups will be taken
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days, as follows: Ages 5 to 12, 9:30;
adults, 10:15; intermediates, aged
12 to 18, 11:15.
Swimmers' groups will be taken
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days with those of like ages given
the same hours as the beginners,
ages 5 to 12, 9:30; adults, 10:15; in
termediate, 11:15.
Mr. Buhman emphasizes that the
Red Cross is offering a valuable ser
vice in the swimming campaign, and
it lies with the people to take ad
vantage of it. There is no reason
why any normal person cannot swim
if he tries.
Crop Insurance
Value Told Lions
How one man in the area recently
struck by cyclone was benefitted
and how others might have been
benefitted if they, too, had carried
federal crop insurance was told be
fore the Monday Lions luncheon by
Clifford Conrad, county agent.'
Conrad cited several typical cases,
without using names, telling what
the insurance would have cost and
the amounts that could have been
collected. In the single case cited
where the insurance was carried
the operator will receive some 8000
bushels of grain from ground that
otherwise would have yielded noth
ing, he said. He announced that ap
plications under the 1940 set-up
would probably be received within
the next two or three weeks.
BANK EMPLOYEES PICNIC
The local force of First National
Bank of Portland joined other em
ployees of the district in a picnic at
Wallowa lake last Sunday. The trip
going and returning was made the
same day. Going from here were
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Pinckney and
Bob, Mr. and Mrs. Russell McNeill,
Miss Marjorie Parker, Howard
Bryant, Boyd Redding, Danny Din
ges, and guests, Miss Beth Vance
and Miss Lois Ashbaugh.
HIATT-JOHNSON
. License to wed was issued at the
clerk's office July 20, to Miss Ola
Hiatt and Charles Johnson.
OREGON HISTORICAL
PUBLIC AUDITORIUM
P 0 R T L A N D . ORE.
Heppner,
Lex Man Gives '
Ace Trapshooter
Race at Salem
One of Morrow county's tra
shooting proteges gave FranK
Troeh, Pacific coast ace, cause for
concern at the Pacific International
Trapshooting association shoot in
Salem last week end.
The protege, Ralph Jackson ofi
Lexington, tied Troeh in the 100
bird 16-yard event Sunday morn
ing when he cracked every bird
in the string. Troeh scratched out
by a one-bird margin in the 25
bird shootoff, as Jackson dropped
one bird and Troeh went straight.
Dr. A. D. McMurdo, local trap
enthusiast, was in the galleries
rooting for Jackson who really
shot traps in earnest for the first
time this season and who made
his debut at a PITA match last
week end. Jackson scored an 88
in the world's event on which his
future PITA handicap rating will
be based. Troeh, of course, emerged
high gun.
Assessor, Deputy
Sheriff Married
Bonds of matrimony were united
at one minute after midnight, Sat
urday morning, between Thomas J.
Wells, county assessor, and Mrs.
Neva Cochell, deputy sheriff, with
Rev. R. C. Young officiating at the
Methodist church parsonage.
The bride wore deep blue travel
ing suit and corsage of pink rosebuds.
Immediately after the ceremony
they left by auto for Portland on a
short wedding trip, expecting to visit
Mrs. Cochell's son, Billy, who was
visiting in the city with the fleet.
Billy is a member of the orchestra
on the SS Philadelphia.
On their return Mr. and Mrs. Wells
are taking up their residence on
Baltimore street in the house recent
ly purchased from Mr. and Mrs.
Chet Brown.
Siren Blasts Twice;
Fire Starts Subdued
Shortly before 8 o'clock Tuesday
evening the fire siren aroused the
city and people poured forth to find
a charred and smoldering overstuffed
chair in front of the second hand
store on Chase street with the fire
department well in command of the
situation. The chair caught fire from
unknown cause, was carried into
the street before the wooden frame
building caught, and only slight wa
ter and smoke damage resulted.
Again this morning, just after 10
o'clock, an alarm was sounded and
quickly answered by the fire truck.
Old oil had caught against the rear
of the concrete Braden-Bell build
ing and set an old tractor cab ablaze.
The cab was dragged away from the
building and the blaze subdued. Bob
Grabill, manager of the implement
firm, reported damage negligible.
City Swim Bonds
To Draw 2Vi Percent
Heppner's $3000 issue of bonds to
complete the swimming tank were
sold to First National Bank of Port
land at $100.17 to draw 2 per
cent interest when bids were opened
at the council chambers Saturday
evening.
This was the best bid among the
several attracted and is considered
by city dads to be a mighty fine sale.
NEW GRAZING WORKER
Don Peters has arrived in the lo
cal forest district to assist in admin
istering grazing operations. He is a
graduate in range management from
the University of Washington. The
family will be moved into Ellis
station the first of the month.
WRIGHT TRUCK UPSETS
The logging truck of Russell
Wright turned over on the Jones
hill grade day before yesterday,
dumping the load and damaging the
truck considerably. Wright escaped
injury.
SOC I ETY
Oregno, Thursday, July
New Board Acts
In Redisricting
County Schools
1939 Law Followed;
Public Hearings
Start in September
Reorganization of school districts,
with probable consolidation of pres
ent districts and inclusion of un
organized territory into four or five
districts, is the ultimate goal of the
county reorganization board that
met for the second time at the office
of the county school superintendont
last Firday.
A law porviding for the new pro
cedure was passed by the last leg
islature, naming as members of the
reorganization board the county
school superintendent, county assess
or, county judge, chairman of the
non-high school district board, and
three others chosen from district
boards.
The personnel, set up at the first
meeting, includes Mrs. Lucy E. Rod
gers, Thos. J. Wells, Bert Johnson,
R. B. Rice, the first four named of
ficers, and Herbert Hynd, Cecil;
Leonard . Carlson, Gooseberry, and
Alex Lindsay, Alpine.
Under the law it is the duty of
the board to redistrict the entire
county into larger school districts
disregarding all present boundaries.
The law was explained to the com
mittee at Friday's meeting by Frank
C. Alfred, district attorney.
Next meeting of the board has
been called for September 9, follow
ing which a series of community
meetings will be held at principal
points for discussion with the peo
pie. '
To assist people in familiarizing
themselves with the new law it is
being reprinted in these columns,
half this week and half next week,
Mind the Heat?
You Might Visit
Mr. Edmonds' Home
A windy well is a phenomenon
at the farm home of F. H. Edmonds
near Umatilla. Since the well, some
56 feet deep, was dug last Feb
ruary, it has sent out a breeze
constantly measuring 20 miles an
hour. Constant also has been the
temperature, 58 degrees.
Mr. Edmonds has turned the
breeze into an air conditioner for
his home. Piped into the house, it
maintains the liveable tempera
ture of 70 degrees in the hottest
weather, acts as a check valve on
the fuel pile in winter.
Just what causes the wind, Mr.
Edmonds is at a loss to know. He
does know he is mighty thankful
for it, as vouchsafed when vis
iting in town Monday.
ONE FIRE REPORTED
One small fire was the sum total
of starts in the Heppner forest dis
trict for the week, reports F. F.
Wehmeyer, local ranger. An espec
ially hazardous fire condition exists
in the forest at the present time, and
all visitors are cautioned to use ex
treme care. All cars entering the
forest skould be equipped with the
regulation axe, shovel and water
bucket
REED MILL SHIPPING
The Reed Lumber company mill
on Rock creek has been making reg
ular shipments of lumber from the
local railroad yards at the rate of
four cars a week, and it is expected
the rate will hold up until late in
the fall. The lumber is consigned to
Spokane.
IS MILL REPRESENTATIVE
C. H. Frazier, representing the
Bridal Veil Lumber & Box company,
has established residence here with
Mrs. Frazier, to look after local in
terests of the company.
27, 1939
Heppner Forty
Years Ago Was
Hotter Than Today
No government record of the
weather was taken in Heppner 40
years ago, the year he arrived in
the city, says T. J. Humphreys,
pioneer druggist, but the best ther
mometers one day that summer
registered 114 in the shade. At
that time dust was wagon-hub
deep on Main street and the creek
was absolutely dry. There were
no electric refrigerators and ice
.was at a premium.
The next winter, Mr. Humph
reys recalls, the mercury dropped
to 18 degrees below zero, for the
widest extremes of any year he
had ever experienced. It might be
that the present heat wave is the
forerunner of another hard win
ter; . he didn't know. But if the
other extreme is to be as severe, he
would just as soon part of the cold
blast would come now.
Ladies Home From
7000-Mile Trip
Misses Leta Humphreys and Rose
Liebbrand arrived home Tuesday
evening from a motor trip covering
7000 miles in the last month. The last
day a 745-mile drive was made on
the last lap from Yellowstone Na
tional park.
The trip took them to the east
coast where Miss Humphreys ar
rived in time to attend the wedding
of her brother, Roland, superinten
dent of the Rehoboth, Del., high
school. Present also for the event
was her sister, Miss Evelyn Humph
reys of San Francisco, whose shorter
vacation precluded her traveling
with the ladies from here. Maine and
New Brunswick were points of in
terest visited, as well as the big
world's fair in New Yjikr'
Miss Humphreys found her bro
ther nicely situated at the Delaware
resort city, a favorite summer re
sort on the coast. He was tipping
the scales at 200 pounds in spite of
work with handball and other re
ducing exercises.
Three Receive Crop
Loss Adjustments
Notice of settlement for crop
losses was received the last week
from the Federal Crop Insurance
corporation for three Morrow county
farmers. Two farmers have received
their indemnity in cash and one pro
ducer, a wheat receipt.
The farmers are very much pleased
with the prompt adjustments. Sev
eral more losses have been approved
by the county office, according to
E. H. Miller, chairman of the Mor
row County gricultural Conserva
tion association, and producers
should receive their indemnities
within 30 days.
Ship First Lumber
From Heppner Mill
The first carload of lumber to be
shipped from Heppner Lumber com
pany's mill was loaded at the local
yards last Thursday.
Cut from local Ponderosa pine to
specifications of the buyers, it was
consigned to Nicolai Sash & Door
company at Portland. The mill is
now busy cutting for Bridal Veil
Box & Lumber company and drying
piles are rapidly usurping vacant
space over the large grounds adjoin
ing the milL
CHANGING DRIVEWAYS
Work of changing seven miles of
the Arbuckle sheep driveway has
been completed, and work is start
ing on the Groshen Cabin drive
way. The forest service is attempt
ing to remove all livestock drive
ways from roads, reports F. F. Weh
meyer, local ranger.
Estrayed Roan cow, 3 yrs. old,
cropped ears; left my place about
July 1. Call 17F3, Heppner. F. S,
Parker.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Mercury at 103
Second Hottest
Day Since 1928
No Relief Seen
Today; 87 Mark
Hit at 8 o'Clock
Heppner sweltered at 103 in the
shade yesterday for the first time
since July 15, 1935, the last date Len
L. Gilliam's government thermome
ter climbed to that point, he report
ed this morning.
No relief from the week's heat
wave was in sight this moming as
Gilliam's thermometer showed 87 at
8 o'clock, exactly the same as the
reading at that time yesterday
morning. Clear skies and a very
slight breeze this morning are sim
ilar to conditions yesterday.
Yesterday's temperature was the
second hottest in 11 years, as the
1935 record exceeded all others ex
cept that of July 25, 1928, the hot
test day of local record, when 108
was reached.
Local people were heard to com
plain of the heat Sunday when the
official record was 95. The mercury
reached that point again Tuesday,
after the day had started at 80, the
8 o'clock reading.
One hotter day than these oc
curred just after the storm two
weeks ago when 102 was recorded
in the morning. The heat of that day
did not become unbearable, how
ever, as a heavy wind came up in
the morning and cooled down the
mercury.
Though the hot weather has brot
hazardous fire conditions in the
wheat country and forest, no large
fires were reported this'wet'k. On$
small fire in the timber was quickly
subdued.
Local people who cared to take
advantage of the opportunity' were
enabled to cool off in the refreshing
waters of Heppner's big new swim
ming pool that opened Friday. It has
proved to be a popular place.
LeMoyne Cox Likes
Life With Marines
Having recently had the distinc
tion of being one of few Marines to
pass the entrance examinations into
the service air school, Corporal Le
Moyne Cox, son of Elbert Cox of
this city, is looking forward to a
bright air career. He arrived home
Friday evening on a 25-day fur
lough, leaving his ship, USS Color
ado, at Everett, Wash. The furlough
was granted subject to immediate
call, and he didn't know how long
the 25-day leave would last.
LeMoyne was with the fleet on
the east coast when orders were re
ceived to return to the Pacific. The
Colorado is now undergoing complete
overhaul. He had already been to the
San Francisco fair, and enjoyed a
leave in the city. Few men become
corporals as young as himself, and
he was hoping soon to have the third
stripe added to the corporal's insig
nia of two, marking rise in rank to
a sergeancy.
STOCK MOVING
The local railroad yards have been
the scene of much activity in live
stock movements this week. John
Carter of Long Creek shipped 150
head of cattle Saturday night,
brought t6 the city by Chance Wil
son, Jack Couture and Lester Mc
Kinney. Cattle were also shipped by
Rose Francis, and Harold Cohn
shipped 2 carloads of sheep. Cohn
shipped 7 loads of feeder lambs
Monday evening destined for Illin
ois, 2 loads of fat lambs Tuesday eve
ning for Waterloo, 111., and 3 loads
Wednesday evening, also for the
east. C. W. McNamer shipped one
carload 'of fat lambs to . Chicago
Tuesday evening. Heavy movement
of the lamb crop was just getting
under way.