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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, August 17, 1939
HA RDM AN NEWS
John Adams Very
III at Portland
By HARDMAN HIGH SCHOOL
Word was receved here last
week that John Adams had a seri
ous heart attack. On Friday morn
ing Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Adams and
daughters left here, driving to Port
land. They wrote back that Mr.
Adams' condition was serious and
that he was in the hospital. Other
members of the family had been
sent for.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Johnson and
daughters came out Sunday and
with the Carey Hastings family went
to Tamarack where they spent the
day with the Max Buschke's. Mr,
and Mrs. Claud Buschke from the
mill were also there.
The amount of water in the wells
of this vicinity is considerably less
than it has been for some time
Some wells are dry which have not
been so for years. Rain is needed
badly. The temperature has moder
ated and for the most part is very
comfortable now.
G. I. Clary stayed- at the Floyd
Adams ranch during their absence
in Portland.
Miss Pat Bleakman and Mrs. Ray
mond Reid, who have been huckle
berrying on Mt. Adams, returned
Thursday, having had little success
as the berries are not plentiful. Miss
Betty Gainther of Hood River re
turned with them.
Miss Alene Inskeep was a guest at
the Clark Stephens home from
Thursday to Sunday. On Friday she
went to Heppner to see the doctor
about an infected finger.
On Friday Mrs. Ethel McDanie
and Vera and Cecil were dinner
guests at the John Stevens home,
Mrs. Blaine Chapel was hostess
at a very lovely birthday party at
their ranch home Thursday.
Little Miss Yvonne Hastings spent
Friday with the small daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Johnson in
Heppner. All three children stayed
Saturday night at the home of Mrs,
Corda Saling while Mr. and Mrs,
Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Carey
Hastings went to the dance at lone,
Others from here who attended were
Misses Frances Inskeep, Vern Mc
Daniel, Pat Bleakman, Betty Gain
ther, Henry and Tommy Graham,
Delvin and Dallas McDaniel and
Buck Fairchild.
There have been a number of cat
tle buyers at the Roy Robinson
ranch during the past week, some
coming from Mitchell and some from
Idaho.
The men who have been taking
out logs for the mill were laid off
Monday evening, with the mill ex
pecting to run two days longer.
In the early part of last week a
number of Hardman people were in
town shopping and otherwise at
tending to business. Among them
were Mr. and Mrs. Duff McKitrick
and Roger, Mr. and Mrs. Harlan
Adams, Mrs. A. D. Inskeep and
daughter Nona. While there Mrs.
Inskeep consulted a doctor.
On Wednesday afternoon of last
week Miss Frances Inskeep and
Oscel Inskeep who had been work
ing at the J. O. Kincaid ranch near
lone, were home for a visit with
their aunt, Mrs. Orlando Jones who
with her husband is here from Ok
lahoma. On Friday Mr. and Mrs.
Jones left for Portland where they
will remain about a week before
continuing their trip.
Darrell Harris left Thursday for
the mountains where he is making
posts with Duff McKitrick. When
he came in for the week end Mrs.
Harris returned with him. Mrs. Mc
Kitrick and son Roger are also
there.
Irl Clary, Jr., spent several days
last week with Lewis McDonald out
in the mountains where Lewis and
his father, John McDonald, are
cutting wood.
On Tuesday of this week Mr. and
Mrs. Carey Hastings and daughters
drove to Yakima where Carey at
tended to business.
Last Friday Roland Farrens went
out to the Roy Robinson ranch
where he visited and helped with the
hay until Sunday when he returned
to Heppner.
culture, 90 percent of cattle im
ports from Mexico during June were
feeder cattle. There was an aver
age of 45,000 head monthly for the
first six months of this year. For
the first half year cattle imports
from Canada and Mexico were 486,
497 head.
BUTTER CREEK FIRE COVERS 1 100 ACRES;
WILCOX'S EFFORT TO SAVE TRUCK TOLD
IRRIGON NEWS
Irrigon Homes
Entertain Guests
By MRS. W. C. ISOM
Mrs. G. L. Byerly and three chil
dren from Albany visited her sister,
Mrs. Stevens, and family last week,
Mrs. Dave Musgrave and Mrs,
Roy Cork of Kimberley were din
ner guests of Mrs. Musgrave's sister,
Mrs. W. C. Isom, and family, Thurs
day. Mrs. Musgrave purchased a
refrigerator of L. E. Moore at Her-
mistin while here.
Mrs. Sam Umiker and little daugh
ter Kathryn are visiting Mrs. Umi-
ker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Leicht.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert West and
daughter from Greybull, Wyo., are
visiting Mrs. West's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Frederickson.
Rev. Walpole of Stanford, Mont,
preached at the Presbyterian church
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Jack Browning and family
were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs,
H. C. Warner Sunday.
Ben McCoy and wife of Imbler
visited relatives here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery Bediwell who
have been staying with their son
since they sold their place in town
moved to Boardman the last of the
week.
Mr. Dent of Boardman was
week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Steward.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Dexter spent
Sunday in Irrigon.
Mrs. Nettie Flower of Heppner is
visiting her cousin, W. C. Isom, and
family and the John Voile family this
week.
PINE CITY NEWS
Comings, Goings in
Week at Pine City
By BERNICE WATTENBURGER
Mrs. John Healy, Mrs. Cecelia
Bucknum, Mrs. Farley and Mrs.
Mike Kenny were Pendleton callers
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison spent
Sunday evening at Irrigon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wattenburger
spent Monday morning at the Julian
Rauch home.
Mrs. Ollie Neill of Heppner spent
Saturday at the A. E. Watetnburger
home. In the afternoon she took the
stage for La Grande to meet her
daughter, Mrs. Lenna Herman, and
motored on to Boise, Idaho, for a
visit of two weeks.
Johnny Harrison left Saturday
with Tommy Kay Boylen for a two
weeks' visit at the Boylen home at
Wallowa lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch and
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Ayers at
tended the grange meeting at Lena
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Smith and
daughters of Hermiston visited Fri
day at the E. B. Wattenburger home.
CATTLE IMPORTS SHOWN
Washington D. C, Aug. 16 Ac
cording to the department of agri-
Electric Jargon Made
Plain for Ordinary Use
Volts, amperes, watts, kilowatt
hours, and similar words which are
in the habit of having mixed mean-
ngs for most people not versed in
electrical terms, are explained in
everyday language in a new exten
sion circular, No. 330, issued at Ore
gon State college.
This circular is designed for use
by 4-H club members enrolled in
rural electrification projects, but so
much material of general use is con
tained in the circular that it will be
supplied free to Oregon citizens in
terested, says Everett H. Davis, ex
tension specialist in agricultural en
gineering, who is the author.
In addition to explaining electrical
terms, the circular explains simple
wiring layouts around a farmstead,
describes the best kind of materials
to use; and discusses adequate light
ing for various parts of the residence
and other farm buildings. A list of
lighting outlets, switches and con
venience plugs recommended for
various buildings on the farm is also
included.
Final "mopping up" of the big
forest fire on Butter creek this week
revealed a total burned-over area
of 1100 acres. It was reported last
week that between 800 and 900 acres
were burned. Of the total area only
some 20 acres was in the forest re
serve, the remainder being private
land that had mostly been cut over.
Little damage was reported to mer
chantable timber. F. F. Wehmeyer,
local ranger, who spent a continu
ous 60 hours on the fire line, re
turned home last week end, while
Ed Parker, assistant, who remained
for the mopping up, returned Mon,
day.
Detailed report of the burning of
the forest service fire truck was
made this week in a memorandum
to the regional forester taken from
testimony of Charles Wilcox, in
charge, by Carl Ewing, district su
pervisor. The report includes pho
tographs of the burned truck, the
road and surrounding terrain, to
give convincing proof of impossi
bility of getting the truck out of the
fire's path. The report showed that
Wilcox did everything humanly pos
sible to save the equipment, even
to risking his own life. He was not
driving the truck at the time, as re
ported last week, having let Emmett
Doherty, minor son of one of the
landowners, take the truck ahead
while he drove the tractor.
"When the driver of the truck ar
rived at the end of the road and saw
the helplessness of the situation,"
the report states, "he, the trapper,
and the other local people aban
doned Mr. Wilcox and his equipment
and sought safety." (It had already
been established that none of these
was aware that a dead end road was
being taken.) "Mr. Wilcox first at
tempted to negotiate the skid road
to the left of the road with his trac
tor but found the soil too loose and
the grades too steep. He then tried
two other skid roads to the right
but these were even steeper than
the first. He then returned his trac
tor to a point near the truck where
it was found after the fire had
passed over. Believing that his truck,
where it had been abandoned by
Mr. Doherty, was too close to some
accumulated logging debris for any
possibility of survival, he drove it
off the road to the right where it
would be farther from the debris.
He then took a shovel from his truck
and as long a he could stand the
heat shoveled soil on the top of his
load. His purpose, he says, was to
protect it from sparks which would
be blowing overhead and might oth
erwise set it afire. The truck was
then on bare soil in a setting of
green trees, and he hoped it might
survive a flashy crown fire. At the
time he abandoned the outfit the
fire was overhead in these trees and
was burning on the ground to the
north, east and south. Two spot fires
were burning west of the truck.
"Mr. Wilcox escaped to the west,
and after the heat of the fire had
passed returned to the meadow from
which place, and at about 6:40 p. m.,
he heard the gasoline tanks blow
up. Shortly thereafter he met Mr,
L. B. Pagter of your staff and ac
companied him to the fire camp
lower down on Butter creek.
"Prior to securing this story from
Mr. Wilcox I had thoroughly in
vestigated the situation at the scene
of the loss and I am convinced that
Mr. Wilcox did everything possible
to protect the interests of the For
est Service during this entire episode."
SCS Establishes Office
Klamath Falls Area
Southwestern Oregon farmers will
have opportunity to obtain addi
tional technical assistance in erosion
control and improved land use with
establishment soon of a Soil Conser
vation service area office at Klam
ath Falls, it is announced by Solon
T. White, Oregon state coordinator
for the service. ,
The Klamath Falls office will serve
as headquarters for the direction of
farm conservation activities soon to
be carried out on an expanded basis
in the southwestern part of the state,
he explained, assuring more effect
ive and economical cooperation with
landowners desiring assistance in
adopting better land use practices.
Through recent addition of water
facilities development, farm forest
ry, flood control, and submarginal
land purchase' facilities, the Soil
Conservation service is equipped to
extend a wide range of assistance
toward the goal of wise land use, it
was pointed out.
Soil and water conservation dem
onstrations have been conducted on
many thousands of acres of Oregon
land during the past four years, in
cooperation with land owners and
the O. S. C. extension service, with
technical assistance supplied by SCS
men and labor furnished by CCC
enrollees. As a result of the demon
strations on individual farms, land
owners in neighboring territory have
voluntarity adopted practices of
proved value in controlling erosion.
Burned Lands
Seeded to Grass
A total of 11,300 acres of burned-
over lands were seeded to grass
during 1938, partly through efforts
of the O. S. C. farm crops depart
ment. Bracken fern, alder and fire
weed normally volunteer after the
timber has been logged off in west
ern Oregon and this growth is value-
ess for grazing.
This undergrowth is an extreme
fire hazard during the warm months
and when burned destroys both graz
ing values and the reforestation
growth. Reseeding to be most prac
tical is done after the logging op
erations cease. Grass prevents ero
sion on the logged -off slopes, and
provides up to $2 per acre income
from grazing.
Check to be Made
On Grazing Poachers
Washington, D. C, Aug. 16 Un
authorized grazing eiperations are to
be checked by the newly organized
branch of land planning, use and
protection of the general landoffice,
It is estimated that fifty million acres
of public domain outside of the
federal grazing districts are being
used. Stockmen who are using the
lands without authority are expect
ed to apply to the general landoffice
for leases in order to comply with
the requirements of the Taylor graz
ing act. About six million acres of
public land outside the federal graz
ing districts are under lease at pres
ent. The unauthorized grazing oper
ations are regarded as unfair com
petition in the livestock industry.
She was christened "Mary Ana
stasia O'Connor" so the lass must be
true blue. Star Theater, Tuesday.
Professional
Directory
Heppner Blacksmith
& Machine Shop
Expert Welding and Repairing
L. H. HARLOW, Mgr.
GLENN Y. WELLS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ATwater 4884
535 MEAD BUILDING
5th at Washington
PORTLAND. OREGON
A. D. McMurdo, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Trained Nora Assistant
Office In Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Morrow County
Abstract & Title Co.
INC.
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE
TITLE INSURANCE
Office In New Peters Building
J. O. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
HEPPNER, ORE.
Dr. Raymond Rice
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office
First National Bank Building
Office Phone 523 House Phone 838
Heppner
Abstract Co.
J. LOGIE RICHARDSON, Mgr.
BATES SEASONABLE
Roberts Building Heppner, Ore.
P. W. Mahoney
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GENERAL INSURANCE
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow St. Entrance
J. O. Peterson
Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods
Watches - Clocks . Diamonds
Expert Watch and Jewelry
Repairing
Heppner, Oregon
Vawter Parker
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
First National Bank Building
Dr. Richard C. Lawrence
DBjrnsT
Modern equipment Including X-ray
for dental diagnosis
Extraction by gas anesthetic
First national Bank Building
Phone 562 Heppner, Ore.
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physioian & Surgeon
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDQ.
Rec. Phone 1162 Office Phone 492
HEPPNER, OREGON
Jos. J. Nys
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
V. R. Runnion
AUCTIONEER
Farm Sales and Livestock a Specialty
405 Jones Street, Heppner, Ore.
Phone 452
MAKE DATES AT MT EXPENSE
Frank C. Alfred
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Telephone 442
Rooms 8-4
First National Bank Building
HEPPNER. OREGON
Peterson & Peterson
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
U. S. National Bank Building
PENDLETON. OREGON
Fractioe in State and Federal Conrts
Real Estate
General Line of Insurance and
Bonds
W. M. EUBANKS
Notary Publlo
Phone 62 lone, Ore.
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Mortuary
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