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Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE,
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
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Official Paper for Morrow County
Bicycle Riders
Given Warning
Two boys were riding their bi
cycles home from a meeting one
night, one of them riding close to
the center line of the street. His bi
cycle had no lights and as he start
ed to turn the corner at an inter
section, he crashed head-on with an
automobile also making the turn,
The cyclist was killed instantly.
This accident, said Earl Snell, sec
retary of state, was just one of the
seVen bicycle-automobile fatalities
during the first six months of 1939
that illustrate the importance of
proper equipment and safe practices
in riding bicycles.
"It is becoming somewhat trite to
emphasize the neessity for proper
lights on bicycles and to urge bi
cyclists to keep well to the right
side of the street, but such accidents
as this one prove that we must con
tinue to stress these warnings in
our campaign for traffic safety," Mr.
Snell said.
Nearly 90 per cent of the automobile-bicycle
fatalities during the six
month period were persons between
the ages of 5 and 24 years, but one
elderly cyclist was killed when he
was struck while trying to cross a
street.
"A second's indecision on the part
of the bicycle rider or the driver
can cause a fatal accident when the
two meet at an intersection or when
a bicycle rider attempts to cross a
busy street or highway," Snell said.
"For that reason, very young chil
dren and elderly persons are ad
vised to dismount and walk while
crossing heavily traveled thorough
fares. But even while pushing a
wheel, caution must be observed.
One youth was killed recently when
he was pushing his bicycle up a hill.
He was walking on the right side of
the road, going with traffic, and was
struck from behind by a car whose
driver was blinded by the glaring
headlights of a car coming from the
opposite direction."
Most youngsters enjoy coasting
down hills but one girl met tragedy
in this practice this year. Coasting
down a steep hill, the road being
covered with loose gravel, she crash
ed into the side of a car that was
'Crossing the street at the bottom of
the hill. Bicycles, just as in the case
of automobiles, must always be kept
under complete control so that they
can be stopped in time to avoid
accidents, Snell emphasized.
A frequent cause of automobile
bicycle crashes is the act of cutting
across the path of traffic without
first making sure the way is clear,
accident statistics compiled by the
secretary of state reveal. One boy
met death this year when, after fol
lowing behind a school bus till he
came opposite the driveway to his
house, he cut across the street and
rode directly into the path of an
oncoming car. He was struck down
before the driver realized there was
a bicycle on the road.
"When bicycles first became pop
ular, they were considered some
thing of a menace, frightening horses
and endangering pedestrians because
of their 'speed'," Snell said. "In
those days regulations were designed
to protect others from the bicycles.
With the coming of automobiles the
situation changed and it is now nec
essary to have regulations which
protect the bicyclist from others. In
some places certain traffic lanes are
designated for bicycles only, one
city in France going so far as to
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mark off a section of the street for
the use of cyclists.
"The rapid increase in the num
ber of bicycles now in use has
brought the problem to the atten
tion of society more vividly than
ever before and it is quite possible
that future engineering may consider
the safety of the bicycle rider. How
ever, at the present, we must con
centrate on educating those who ride
bicycles to observe safe practices
which will keep them out of acci
dents. "Observing traffic rules as they
apply to automobiles, riding in sin
gle file instead of two or more
abreast, giving pedestrians the right-of-way
at cross-walks, equipping
the wheel with proper front and rear
lights and using caution and com
monsense at all times will cut down
the death toll from automobile-bi
cycle accidents."
"Where to Live"
Vital Question
For College Men
By DR. U. G. DUBACH,
Dean of Men, O. S. C.
One of the livest issues among
parents as their boys prepare to en
ter college, is the question "Where
shall my boy live?" Over and over
again, I have been asked that ques
tion with the implication that there
are right and wrong places. That is
hardly correct.
College boys are successful in an
outstanding way who live in fra
ternities, dormitories or boarding
houses, or who batch in private
homes. Naturally there are factors
in all of these places which help,
and there can be factors which hin
der. Whether an entering freshman
will do better in or out of a frater
nity depends a good deal on the in
dividual nature. I have known many
boys who have an individualistic
bent, who chafe under the group
regulations in an ordinary frater
nity. Such boys will be happier and
probably do better work in so-called
independent groups.
On the other hand, some boys who
have not had the advantage of liv
ing with others gain some of their
most valuable college training by
learning to give and take under the
fraternity system, where they leam
to cooperate in organized groups and
share in the government of the group.
Each year the college housing com
mittee inspects boarding houses, at
tempting to secure for the boys the
best possible accommodations for
the price involved and also to give
the householders the cooperation of
the college in maintaining those fa
cilities found suitable.
Fraternities at Oregon State are
able to care for approximately 400
students during Freshman week,
out of which an average of about
300 usually pledge. A large propor
tion of the fraternity members in
this state earn part or all of their
way in college, just as do those out
side.
A dormitory gives some of the
advantages of good fraternities, such
as living in an organized group, but
without the close restrictions. Mem
bership in a dormitory group does
not prohibit later joining a frater
nity. Anyone may live in a dormitory
if he presents his application in time
with a small deposit.
A fourth living group is import
ant in Oregon colleges, and at Ore
gon State is made up of about 300
who batch. Most of these boys live
in pairs, though some live in groups
of three to five. Many bring a part
of their supplies from home. Under
this plan boys are able to live for
about half of what it costs others,
and they live quite well if they are
at all adept at caring for their own
needs.
The matter of selecting a place to
live at college is somewhat like se
lecting a suit of clothes. Take the
kind that fits you and is best suit
ed to your own temperament and
individual needs. Incidentally, don't
let anyone high-pressure you into
making a decision before you are
ready. '
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PHILIPPINO BOMBER COMING
Joe Mendiola, Philippino flash featherweight, is the gentleman above
as he will be seen in action in Heppner on the 19th when he meets Buzz
Brown of Salem in the main event of the fastest fight card ever slated here.
PRIZE LIST FOR 1939 RODEO PARADE
1. Grand Sweepstakes, $45.
2. Floats (organizations): 1st, $25;
2nd, $15; third, $10.
3. Floats (business): 1st, $25; 2nd,
$15; 3rd, $10.
4. Best costumed lady riding side
saddle: 1st, $5; 2nd, $2.50.
5. Best four-horse team: $10.
6. Best costumed cowgirl: $5.
7. Best costumed cowboy $5.
8. Best buggies pulled by stock:
$2.50 for each entry.
9. Best costumed juvenile cowgirl
(under 12 years): 1st, $5; 2nd, $2,50.
10. Best costumed juvenile cowboy
(under 12 years): 1st, $5; 2nd, $2.50.
11. Best clown with animal and
equipment: $5.
12. Oldest pioneer man, Morrow
county, $5.
13. Oldest pioneer woman, Mor
row county: $5.
14. Best representation of histori
cal . character, juvenile under 15
years: 1st, $2; 2nd, $1.
15. Ugliest pet, juvenile under 12
years: 1st, $2; 2nd, $1.
Specialty Crops
Yield 20 Million
That specialty crop and animal
products have become the highly
diversified source of nearly twenty
million dollars of cash farm income
in Oregon is evident from data for
the year 1938 just published by the
Oregon agricultural extension ser
vice. The report includes state and
county estimates of acreage, pro
duction, price and income from nu
merous kinds and varieties of for
age crops, vegetable seeds, flower
seeds, small fruits, nuts, greenhouse
and nursery products, and from
hops, flax, peppermint, sugar beets,
turkeys, farm raised fur and game,
Oregon
16. Pets, most original: 1st, $5;
2nd, $2.50.
17. Best covered wagon drawn by
calves: $15.
18. Best covered wagon drawn by
goats: $10.
19. Best horse pack string: $10.
20. Best paraded saddle horse: $5.
21. Best paraded calf: $2.50.
22. Best paraded sire and herd
(any breed): $15.
23. Best float entered in parade by
juvenile (15 years or under): 1st,
$10; 2nd, $5.
24. Largest immediate family of
Morrow county in parade: 1st, $10;
2nd, $5; 3rd, $2.50.
25. Best comic float: 1st, $12.50;
2nd, $5.
26. Best individual float: $2.50.
27. Best Grant County float: $10.
28. Best Gilliam County float: $10.
29. Best Umatilla County float:
$10.
30. Best Wheeler County float:
$10.
apiary products and other specialty
farm products.
It is apparent from the data that
in general the production of spec
ialty farm products has increased
more rapidly in the nine Willamette
valley counties than in other sec
tions of the state. Certain products,
however, have forged ahead else
where, like sugar beets in Malheur
county, Ladak alfalfa seed in Union
and Baker, ladino clover seed in Jo
sephine, alsike clover seed in Des
chutes and Klamath, peppermint in
Columbia, cranberries in Coos and
Clatsop, and fur farming along the
coast.
Of $18,844,000 cash farm income
accounted for by the survey, not
including several items for which
Thursday, August 10, 1939
data were too incomplete, $13,239,
525, or 70 per cent, was earned by
farmers in the Willamette valley
counties. This income is in addition
to that obtained from the "princi
pal" farm products such as grain,
hay, truck crops and potatoes, tree
fruits, dairy and poultry products,
cattle and calves, hogs, sheep, goats,
horses and mules.
The report, prepared by M. D.
Thomas, L. R. Breithaupt and N. I.
Nielson, shows turkeys leading the
specialty products list with $4,325,000
of cash farm income in Oregon in
1938. Forage crop seeds at $3,494,-.
400 ranked second. Greenhouse, nur
sery and flower crops brought $2,
742,000, small fruits $2,659,000, hops
$2,553,000, and nuts $1,568,000.
The 26-page statistical bulletin is
available to citizens and officials of
Oregon. It may be obtained free from
county agricultural agents or direct
from the college by requesting Ore
gon Extension Circular No. 334,
"Production and Income Statistics
for Specialty Farm Products, Ore
gon, 1938."
STORM HURTS YIELD
Walter Dobyns, in the city Sat
urday from the Eight Mile farm, re
ported that his harvest just finished
revealed a loss of three or four
bushels to the acre as a result of the
cyclonic storm that struck the sec
tion just before harvest. Dobyns
farm wasn't directly in the path of
the heaviest part of the storm, hence
did not suffer as much damage as
neighbors whose fields were a total
loss.
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