SOCIETY
Volume 56; Number 24
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 24, 1939
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Greatest Parade
Of Old West is
Saturday's Promise
t 25 Floats, Visiting
Delegations to Add
Much Color to Line
Twenty to 25 floats, a long caval
cade of horses, cowgirls, cowboys
Rodeo stock, performers and equip
ment 4-H club stock, pets, loads of
logs, everything from the sublime
to the ridiculous, will go to make
the greatest Parade of the Old West,
at 10 o' clock Saturday morning,
ever presented at Rodeo.
Representing the beginnings of
the Old West and all periods of
transition to the modern west of
today, the colorful galaxy of entries
will provide the greatest of thrills for
all who witness it, avows J. Logie
Richardson, parade chairman.
In the role of parade director,
Harlan McCurdy will put the entries
in place. Nine o'clock is set as the
deadline for all to report on Church,
Baltimore and Water streets, west
of Gale, and the big show will wend
its way up Main street beginning
promptly at 10 o'clock.
Reflection of the neighborliness
for which the Old West was noted
will be given, in parade entries from
Arlington, Echo, Pendleton, Con
don, Long Creek and John Day.
Heppner's state championship band
will hold prominent place, along with
Pendleton's fine Sons of the Legion
drum and bugle corps, of which
Larry Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter E. Moore, former residents,
is drum major. The world-famous
Vivian Lewis' all-girls' dance band,
recently returned from a long en
gagement in the Hawaiian islands,
will also provide enticing tunes.
Queen Cecelia and royal court of
Rodeo will be seen on some of the
county's prize horseflesh, and Queen
Barbara Fitzpatrick of Pendleton's
famous show will head the visiting
Pendletonians.
Surprise entries there will be a
plenty, promises Richardson, and
just a tip on one is the appearance
of two world champion child calf
throwers who will give exhibitions
along the line of march.
A total of $500 in cash prizes will
be awarded in the various classes of
entries. One entry inadvertently
omitted from the prize list before
issued is a $10 prize for the best
church float.
Mrs. Ada M. Ayers
Was County Pioneer
Funeral services were held from
Holman and Lutz chapel in Port
land Monday for Mrs. Ada M. Ayers,
who died at her home in the city
Saturday.
Mrs. Ayers was a pioneer in Mor
row county. She owned and oper
ated the Parkers Mill hotel in the
days when stage coaches stopped
there on their run from Heppner to
Canyon City and ' other interior
points. With her husband, Alfred
Ayers, she resided in Heppner for
many years before retiring to the
home in Portland. Mr. Ayers sur
vives. MILL TO START
Heppner Lumber mill expects to
resume operations this week end af
ter a three-week shut-down due to
a boiler breakdown. Repairs arrived
from the east the first of the week.
A spur railroad track for loading is
being rushed into place at the mill
which is cutting Bridal Veil Lum
ber and Box company logs.
RODEO FLASHES!
Headquarters at Willow and
Min street corner, Heppner hotel
building.
Registration books close at 10
o'clock each evening for next day's
show.
Tickets available at headquar
ters each morning, $1 each day
for adults, 50 cents for children,
Friday and Saturday. All school
children free today. Seats reserved
for Saturday only at $1.25.
Stores closed during show each
day. Deliveries for three days ai
9 a. m. and 12 noon.
Housing headquarters at Hotel
Heppner desk. Town convassed
yesterday for all available rooms
and listed at housing headquarters.
Dollar dance tonight at pavilion,
jitney dances tomorrow and Sat
urday, with Vivian Lewis' all-girls'
dance band officiating. Full pro
gram of special numbers each evening.
Interesting 4-H Work
Displayed at Fair
Arrangements for the annual Mor
row county fair are almost com
plete as this paper goes to press to
day (Wednesday), with room pro
vided for more than two hundred
head of livestock.
4-H club members from all sec
tions of the county will have their
livestock in the barns and stalls by
midnight tonight and ready to start
the fair by 9 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. Arrangements are being made
this year for seats and shade at the
judging arena and shavings have al
ready been scattered to keep down
the dust. Friday will, no doubt, be
of most interest to the greatest num
ber, according to C. D. Conrad, coun
ty agent, as that is the day when all
of the livestock classes will be
judged.
Arrangements have been made
with Roy Robinson to exhibit his
purebred Herefords again this year
and the Irrigon 4-H Dairy club is
bringing 15 head of dairy cattle for
the first time this year.
The 4-H home economic girls work
will be exhibited in the kitchen in
the dance pavilion and Mrs. Lucy E.
Rodgers, county school superinten
dent, promises some exhibits of real
interest in that phase of the work.
Pageant to Open
Corral Show
White man's first arrival in Mor
row county's bunchgrass clad hills
will be reenacted as the opening
feature each day of Rodeo. Martin
B. Clark, Christian minister, is in
charge of the feature.
Over the north hill horizon in
wonderful view of grandstand spec
tators will come the cavalcade of
ox-drawn covered wagons, Indians,
scouts, and ladies in attire of the
period with musical effects supplied
by Heppner's state championship
school band.
Attendants at Rodeo last year re
member the beautiful effect of the
buglers and Indians in the same
setting. This year's pageant will be
more elaborate and will impress
more than ever the winning of the
west, and the frontier days from
which the spirit of Rodeo is gained.
FILLS PULPIT
Jackson Gilliam, Whitman student
who expects to enter the ministry,
substituted for Rev. R. C. Young in
the Methodist church pulpit Sun
day morning.
About one-fourth of more than
85 million bushels of wheat put
under government loan by 77,000
farmers during the first year of the
wheat loan program was stored suc
cessfully on the farm. Oregon farm
storage is on the increase.
ALL HAIL! QUEEN CECILIA
Mystery Queen of 1939 Rodeo is
Miss Cecelia Healy of Pine City
whose identity was made known
last Saturday evening at the large
ball in her honor. She was named
from a group of former queens' at
tendants, members of pioneer fam
ilies, who were previously announced
as eligible for the highest honor
Rodeo can confer upon any lass. In
terest reached a white heat at Sat
urday's ball when the midnight hour
arrived and she was crowned with
the queenly sombrero by Henry
Aiken, Rodeo president, and hand
ed a gorgeous bouquet of pink glad
iolas. Another in the list of comely Irish
colleens who have ruled o'er Rodeo,
Queen Cecelia, 17, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Healy. Reared
to young womanhood on the ranch
Queen Marjorie,
First Rodeo Ruler,
Was Also Youngest
When Heppner's Rodeo was pre
sented for the first time 18 years
ago, the directors, including Pres
ident C. W. McNamer and Vice
President L. V. Gentry, picked
petite Miss Marjorie Clark to rule
as queen, the youngest ruler of
all time. Not yet in her teens,
little Miss Clark wore long brown
curls and was a charming ruler.
In the years that have elapsed
Miss Clark was graduated from
Heppner high school and Univer
sity of Oregon, was joined in wed
lock, and now through the fall,
winter and spring school months
teaches kindergarten in famous
Riverview Memorial church, New
York, while her husband, Gordon
Ridings, noted former University
of Oregon athlete, is assistant coach
at Columbia university.
Mr. and Mrs. Ridings are spend
ing their summer vacation on the
west coast, and as is their usual
custom, will be in the stands,
among the most ardent Rodeo fans
to be found anywhere.
GIVEN SHOWER
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Wells,
newlyweds, were honored with a
shower at Neighbors of Woodcraft
meeting Monday evening.
of her parents she is accustomed to
ways of the range and the useful life
of a girl on the farm. An expert
rider, she is equally adept at the
culinary art as evidenced by her
presiding over the cookstove thru
the six weeks' harvest season re
cently completed on the farm.
Last year it was Princess Cecelia
at the court of Queen Maxine Mc
Curdy, and the charming Irish lass
then little dreamed that she would
be the next to rule.
In her home community Queen
Cecelia's winsome smile and bright
blue eyes encourage interest in 4-H
club work, in which she is a leader.
But in the three days of Rodeo this
week end they will emanate from
the black-trimmed, white costume
of Rodeo's ruler, as all celebrants
join in obeisance. "All hail to Queen
Cecelia, ruler of Rodeodom."
Woolen Exhibit
Is Rodeo Feature
Rodeo visitors should not miss the
woolen goods exhibit at the lobby
of Heppner branch, First National
Bank of Portland, sponsored by
Morrow County Wool Growers aux
iliary. Much effort has been expended
in assembling one of the finest ex
hibits of its kind ever presented lo
cally. Cash prizes are being awarded
for winning entries in the various
classes.
SCHOOL OPENS 5TH
School in Heppner as well as over
the county generally will open Sep
tember 5. Preparations for the open
ing locally are well under way with
recent completion of floor sanding
to enhance the general plant con
dition. Supt. A. H. Blankenship,
who has been taking special work
during the summer at Columbia
university, New York, is expected
to arrive momentarily.
TO BE RODEO GUESTS
H. E. Leash and son Kenneth and
Leonard Kraft were expected to ar
rive yesterday evening and to be
Rodeo guests of Logie Richardson.
The visitors are officials of Bridal
Veil Lumber and Box company that
contemplates establishment of a re
manufacturing plant here.
Smoky Rangeland
To Awaken With
Show's Opening
Buckers, Bangtails,
Brahmas, Tophands
All Tense to Go
Presaging early arrival of Indian
summer, smoke clouds hover o'er
the rangeland as all hands trek tow
ard Heppner's big corral for open
ing of the 18th Rodeo this after
noon. Daily performances today, to
morrow and Saturday will start at
1:30.
What is believed to be the world's
largest corral was recently made
possible through assistance of CCC
boys directed by Jim Kistner. Set in
the natural amphitheater amid
Heppner's browning hills, it was
surrounded yesterday by wild mus
tangs, hot blooded bangtails, long
horns, calves and Brahmas, besides
as promising a gang of tophands
and jockeys as ever put foot into a
corral, all tense for the opening gun.
Wild Dillinger, Brown Bomber
and Sir Echo were there, outlaw
mustangs topping the Warren-De-pew
bucking string. Return this year
will be made to snubbing and sad
dling in the arena a thrilling part
of the bucking show. Bucking this
year, too, will be a daily event for
$25, $15 and $10 money. There will
be no three-day semi-finals and fi
nals as in years past, so the last
day's show will have the same snap
and ginger as the preceding days.
"Snap and ginger will be the key
note throughout of this year's show,"
promises Harlan MoCurdy, arena
director.
With carnival tunes already em
anating from the Browning Amuse
ment company mid-way where merry-go-round
and ferris wheel center
attraction for the kiddies, and city
and citizenry in gala togs for the
holidays, Heppner is set to awaken
just as Sleepy, the big Brahma bull,
will awaken when the first cowpoke
attempts to ride him.
Sleepy was so named because when
at rest he appears to take no interest
in life whatever. But as soon as a
rider goes up he awakens into a
raging, snorting volcano that so far
has erupted defeat for every would
be conquerer. He features the Brah
ma steer riding exhibitions coming
this year as a new event. Teacher
ous in the extreme, the Brahmas
are most respected of show animals
by riders who, as soon as they hit
the ground remain perfectly still
lest their erstwhile mounts attack
them.
As the starter's gun sends the
ponies' tails straight out into the
breeze, red hot heats are in order.
Four strings of horses, all with re
lay and pony express mounts, were
ready yesterday to assure this. Some
fast new ponies are brought by Jack
Deming of Nebraska, while the R. L.
Baze, Swaggart, and Joel Byrnes
strings assure plenty of competition.
Rumors of independent horses, too,
are heard with threat that Frank
Turner's hot-blooded mare will
make all the others look to their
laurels.
Among the jockeys are exper
ienced riders, Jack Deming on his
own horses, Cliff Weaver on the
Byrnes string, Wayne Baze riding
for his dad and Gerald Swaggart for
the Swaggart stables. Among flat
riders who will make the others get
in and dig are Harry Burstretti and
Ernie Harman, riding here for the
first time.
Number one entry in the lists is
Tony Vey, former Rodeo arena di--
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