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1 Page Four Heppner Gazette Times THE HEPPNER GAZETTE. Established March 30. 1883; THE HEPPNER TIMES. Established November 18, 1897; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912 Published every Thursday morning by CSAWTOBD PUBLISHING COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ber, Oregon, as second-class matter. ' JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor SPENCER CRAWFORD, Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Tear $2.00 Three Years 6.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months .75 Single Copies .05 Official Paper for Morrow County Brown Retains Title, Proctor Sensation At Firemen's Card ; "Referee Joe Marcus of Portland gave "Buzz" Brown the decision for retention of his northwest light weight championship after ten rounds of hard battle with dimin utive Joe Mendiola of Manila, P. I., in the main event of a sensational fight card here Saturday evening. The open air ring at the Rodeo grounds was surrounded by 500 cash customers. All the cash customers didn't agree with Mr. Marcus' decision, as the little brown bomber was plainly in the best condition when the fight ended. Brown carried the fight to his opponent most of the way, and a disputed low blow in the eighth round which called for referee's time-out, gave Brown that round. The blow doubled Brown up and took the buzz before shown out of him. '. It wasn't this clash, but Powder Proctor, 17-year-old Portland col ored boy, that really made the card a sensation. Proctor put away two opponents, Jack Curley of Salem and Danny O'Brien of Klamath Falls, in rapid order, as an extra-card event. Curley was his regularly slated opponent, but when Board man's Stan Partlow failed to show for his match with O'Brien, the col ored boy offered to take him on im mediately after the go with Curley. Both opponents bit the dust in the third round after Proctor's gruelling left hooks had mowed them down. Proctor was hailed as the class of any fighters seen here in many a long day. , Harry Douthit, CCC, scored a KO over Richard Hayes in the third round of the heavyweight curtain raiser, and Sammy McCracken, fa vored Hermiston son, laid Alvin Pettyjohn low in the third round of the second match of the evening. Mayor Bleakman appointed a new boxing commission in time to ar range for the card, with C. J. D. Bauman, Dr. L. D. Tibbies and Vawter Parker officiating. Plans are being laid by the firemen for a series 'of smokers this fall and winter to be -held in the swimming tank ad ministration building where more commodious quarters will be had -than those in the city hall garage used last winter. RODEO CREW ON JOB Eddie Chinn's Rodeo crew at the Elkhorn restaurant arrived by car Monday evening. Peter Lang, for mer Elkhorn employee, brought with him his recent bride, nee Marie Tom, whom he married in Portland on the 9th. They make their home in Portland. Mrs. Sherrill of Clack amas is back as cashier, and from Portland come Soon Lee, Way Lee, Jack Lee (chef), Walter Lee and Frank Lee. Lewis J Giles, who has been at Bing Crosby's race track at Delmar, in California and who has served as racing secretary at Puyallup, will be judge and racing secretary for the 'Oregon state fair racing meet in Sa lem, opening Labor day. The fair will run a full week, the racing meet Tut the first six days. Traffic fatalities during the sec ond quarter of 1939 showed a drop of 25 per cent from the total for the corresponding period in 1938, Earl Snell, secretary of state, revealed today. Heppner SMOKY RANGELAND Continued from First Page rector, world-famous roper, Morrow county rancher, president of North west Cowboys association, and as all 'round range hand and show per former as any country ever boasted. Bob Ingram is No. 2 and Bill Mc Farland No. 3. These boys are dog gers and ropers of top class. It wasn't possible to corral all the many cowpokes that have wandered in. But Pat Fisk, former Rodeo champ, is on deck, as is Kenny De pew who will enter the lists as well as direct the bucking horses. Johnny Tubbs, Jim Irving and Ray Bart ram are three other names that ap pear as headliners at the larger shows, while Ray Southard came all the way from Casa Grande, Ariz., with a 15-second roping reputation, and Ervan Carlson from Salmon, Idaho, with plenty of buckaroo back ground. Rodeo is an open show for all comers, asserts Henry Aiken, presi dent, and all boys entering the lists may be assured a square deal. Finis Kirkpatrick, father of Round-Up's Queen Barbara; Clay Porter, Long Creek, and Eb Hughes of Lena will be the judges to assure this. Forest Fire Burns In Kinzua Timber A large timber fire near Winlock in an area logged over by Kinzua Pine Mills broke loose Sunday after apparently having been put under control Saturday, and members of the local CCC camp were called out to help fight it. A. T. King, here Sunday from Kinzua, said all available hands from the mill town had been called out Saturday. The exact area covered had not been determined. The dis trict is under supervision of the local forest office, and F. F. Weh meyer, ranger, went immediately to the scene of the fire. Red and White Men At Conference Here A district conference of Red and White grocerymen met around the dinner table at Hotel Heppner Mon day evening. Logan Finnerty, gen eral manager of the co-operative buying group, from Portland, head ed the discussion group, assisted by Mr. Barnes, representative of Wad hams & Kerr, wholesalers. The com pany's ten-point credit policy was the main subject for discussion. In attendance were M. D. Clark, W. O. Dix and W. Y. Ball, local Red and White dealers; Joe Norton of Mt. Vernon, Dempsey Boyer of Monument, Mr. and Mrs. Potter of Condon, and Bert Mason of lone. WILLETTA PLEISS NELSON Funeral services were, held from Case mortuary chapel in this city Tuesday for Willetta Pleiss Nelson, 20, daughter of Mrs. Robert Owens, who died Saturday at The Dalles. Her father was Henry Pleiss who died here a number of years ago. Martin B. Clark officiated at the funeral rites and interment was in Masonic cemetery. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to the kind neighbors and friends who assisted us at the time our house burned. Especially do we wish to thank Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Lindstrom and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Rietmann for their special help. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gorger. CORRECTION This paper erred last week in re porting the Griffin-Wray car acci dent. According to Mr. Griffin, he was driving on to the highway and Mr. Wray was driving along the highway at the time of collision. The report last week gave a reversed position of the cars. Racing fans who patronize the pari-mutuels at the Oregon state fair racing meet, which opens Labor day, will be afforded the last word in absolutely fair races for the see-ing-eye or photo flash finish will be employed on the race track this year for the first time. The meet at the fair tracks in Salem will last six days, none being held the clos ing Sunday of the state fair. Gazette Times, Heppner, iiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiniiMMiiiiiiiiMiii At Heppner CHURCHES CHURCH OF CHRIST Martin B. Clark, Pastor 9::45 Bible School 11:00 Communion and Preaching 7:00 Christian Endeavor 8:00 Evening Church Service 7:30 P. M. Wednesday Choir Practice 7:3:0 P. M. Thursday .. . Prayer Meeting METHODIST CHURCH REV. R. C. YOUNG. Pastor Sunday: Bible School 9:45 A. M. Worship Service 11:00 A. M. Epworth League 7 :00 P. M. Evening Worship 8:00 P. M Tuesday: Boys' Club 7:00 P. M. 2nd Tuesday, Missionary Meet ing 2:80 P. M. Wednesday: Choir Practice 7:30 P. M. 1st Wednesday, Ladies Aid Business and Social Meeting 2 :30 P. M. All other Wednesdays: Sewing Group meets. Thursday: Prayer Meeting 7:30 P. M. Sweet Clover Gaining Popularity as Pasture Sweet clover is a comparatively new pasture crop in Oregon which has taken rapid strides since 1926, when there were only 583 acres in the state. Last year, 1938, the acre age exceeded 10,000 acres. This pas ture crop. The acreage is increasing ance to alkaline lands and has proved successful in Baker and Klamath county alkali districts. The O. S. C. experiment station has produced. a strain of sweet clo ver which is stem rot resistant and can be profitably grown in western Oregon as a soil building and pas ture crop The acreage is increasing slowly in the Willamette valley as farmers become aware of the fact that it is a profitable crop for such purposes as dry land pasture. STATE CAPITAL NEWS o Veterans Employed Every male employee of the World War Veterans State Aid commission and the Vocational Education de partment is a world war veteran, according to a survey made by Gov ernor Sprague. The adjutant gen eral's department reported that 90 per cent of its employees were vet erans while three other departments the state engineer, banking de partment and pilot commission re ported that war veterans constituted more than 50 per cent of their em ployed personnel. The survey was made at the request of J. Richard Smurthwaite, veteran placement of ficer with the federal employment service. President Roosevelt may visit Ore gon's new capitol when he comes to the Pacific coast in October, accord ing to Frederick A. Delano of Wash ington, D. C, uncle of the president, who called on Governor Sprague this week. Delano was in Oregon as chairman of the national resources committee planning board. Petitions signed by 5800 persons requesting the organization of a Peoples Utility District in Miultno mah county were filed with the Oregon Hydroelectric commission Saturday by Harry M. Kenin. Should the district be formed it is pro posed to acquire the properties of both the Portland General Electric company and the Northwestern Elec tric company, Kenin said. California, which has abandoned its border stations for the registra tion of automobiles has written Sec retary of State Snell suggesting that Oregon take similar action. Snell, who calls attention to the fact that this is a matter requiring legislative action, points out that he called the situation to the attention of the last legislature but nothing was done about it. Snell questions the value of automobile registrations which now cost this state approximately $10,000 a year. When it was first suggested dur ing the recent legislative session that the House and Senate chambers of the new capitol be placed at the disposal of the American Legion for their convention sessions, the pro Oregon posal met with much opposition. It was feared the war veterans might wreck the building. Now, however, that the Legion convention has come and gone it can be said that these fears were groundless. The capitol does not appear to be any the worse for its three days entertainment of the Legionnaires and their ladies. In fact, observers are inclined to agree that the war veterans were more considerate of its marble halls, oak furniture and fine carpets than are the legislators. Calling attention to the fact that of the 3218 grade crossings in Ore gon only 221 are equipped with au tomatic protection, Public Utilities Commissioner O. R. Bean is asking the cooperation of the motoring pub lic in reducing crossing accidents. Last year there were 152 grade crossing accidents in Oregon, 46 of these at crossing with automotic sig nals, Bean points out. In the past three years, or since federal funds became available for this purpose, 40 grade crossings have been eliminated in Oregon at a cost of approximately $4,000,000. With 96 persons enrolled the open ing night, the traffic safety driving school sponsored in Salem by Earl Snell, secretary of state, was the largest single driving school in the history of the movement in Ore gon, it was announced today. Safe driving is emphasized throughout the work in the schools. DOMINO BRED HEREFORD CATTLE We have both the Polled RICHLY BRED DOMINO CATTLE. WE NOW HAVE FOR SALE A FEW YEARLING BULLS AND A FEW JANUARY BULL CALVES; ABOUT 15 BRED TWO-YEAR-OLD HEIFERS, AND 15 YEARLING HEIFERS. When in need of good heavy range bulls or foundation female stock, look us up. ROY ROBINSON, Hardman, Ore. Tttt AND YOU OPEN CREDIT for PERSONAL and FHA HOME LOANS ANY BRANCH first mmmh mil of PORTinno THI LEADER IN OREGON IN FINANCING THE CREDIT REQUIREMENTS OF TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Thursday, August 24, 1939 As a special tribute to the Oregon poultry industry and to the honors it brought to the state at the re cent world's poultry congress in Ohio, the Oregon state fair officials have designated Friday of the fair as Oregon Poultry day as well as farm organizations day. The fair will be held at Salem September 4-10. The Oregon exhibit at the Ohio con gress will be on display, as will Ore gon turkeys and poultry which won national acclaim for this state. Of approximately 112,500,000 bush els of United States wheat and flour exported between July 1, 1938, and May 31, 1939, there were 88,000,000 bushels sold under the federal ex port program. Natural and artificial reseeding of range land was carried out on 15, 000,000 acres by western fanners who participated in the 1937 range program. Drivers in the 25-39 age group were more often involved in traffic accidents than any other age group, Earl Snell, secretary of state, said today. There were 10,123 accident drivers in this age group during the first six months of 1939. This was 32 percent of all the drivers reporting accidents in Oregon during that per iod. Lost Axe, saw and shovel be tween Heppner and Arbuckle. Find er return to N. D. Bailey. Our cattle are the large type of Herefords. They have heavy bone, straight legs, good heads and a coat of dark red curly hair. I believe we have the largest type of Hereford cattle in the state. They are smooth, very easy keepers and will get fat at any age on any good range. Some of our cows will weigh 1600 lbs. and many of them 1400 and 1500 lbs. Our herd bulls weigh over a ton at four years old. and horned types. Both kinds are