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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, August 31, 1939
WAMIC FARMER GETS FIRST 1939 OREGON WHEAT LOAN
Bob Fletcher, veteran leader of
the famous Round-Up mounted band,
was among those present at Rodeo
Saturday from Pendleton.
Grand Parade
Charming Feature
Of 18th Rodeo
Willows Grange
Takes Sweepstakes;
Many Participate
It was a grand parade, folks!
And this is not simply the editor's
opinion. Portlanders who witnessed
it avowed thrill as great as received
by Rose Festival or Round-Up pa
rades. Not in the same class, to be
sure. But a grand showing consid
ering population differences.
Rodeo's Saturday morning feature
was more than an all-Morrow coun
ty event. That was guessed when
Chance Wilson rode into view at the
head of the line, bearing Old Glory,
Hi? place was earned through many
years of judging at Rodeo, and by
bringing each year to the local yards
from Grant county more cattle than
any rangehand in the district.
By the time the thousand people
participating with the many varied
entries had passed in review, the
stands had seen the queens of Ro
deo, Round-Up and Grant County's
fair, high officials of each show, the
snappy 28-pieoe Pendleton Sons of
i the American Legion drum and bu
gle corps, Heppners championship
school band, as beautiful an array
. of floats as ever appeared in Hepp
ner, more beautiful horses than most
people believed still existed, pride of
the district's 4-H club livestock, pets
and comedy entries that lent inter
est and variety for a new high in
. annals of Rodeo parades.
Heppner's youthful bandsters,
fifty in number, led by William Mc
Caleb as drum major, with charm
ing, white-satin-clad majorettes
Jeanette Blakely, Jean Hayes and
Norma Prock snappily wielding ba
tons in his wake, came second in
line.
Queen Cecelia, arm (injured on
eve of Rodeo) in sling, rode regally,
little daunted by the fracture, with
comely Princesses Kathryn Thomp
son, Dorothy Brady, Constane In
stone and Dorothy Howell riding
in square formation behind.
Then came Rodeo's president,
Henry Aiken, with Director Lee
Beckner by his side, and Rodeo
judges, Clay Porter, Finis Kirkpat
rick and Edwin Hughes as escort.
Winter sports on Mt. Hood, the
old mountain standing forth in
gleaming white wool, led the next
group of float entries. "Wool for
Warmth" was the slogan inscribed
in this charming entry of Morrow
County Wool Growers auxiliary,
winner of second place among or
ganization floats. A double bicycle
with boy and girl riders, canopied
with red and white streamers, was
presented by Degree of Honor. In
contrast, came the "Kidney Smash
er," an antiquated jalopy covered
Tvith exhuberant youths just an ex
pression of unrepressed emotions.
Lexington Oil Co-op presented its
big oil truck with a merry-go-round
pony mounted high above the cab
and ridden by a small lad in cow
boy attire, and Wattenburger Apia
ries made flowerful display of their
honey industry at Pine City.
With Larry Moore, former Hepp
ner boy, as drum major, and four
high-stepping majorettes, the Pen
dleton drum corps led the Round
Up contingent, all dressed in snappy
red and white outfits. Next rode
Lawrence Lieuallen as Round-Up
flag bearer and in his wake came
Queen Barbara Kirkpatrick and six
princesses, including Miss Maxine
McCurdy of this city and Miss Jane
Boyer of John Day. In the group o.
Round-Up notables that followed
were President Bill Switzler, Herb
Thompson, veteran livestock di
rector; Roy Ritner, publicity direct
or and secretary, and Pendleton's
Mayor Buck Lieuallen, another for
mer Heppneritte. Thirty Round-Up
banner carriers, all mounted, includ
ing Emery Gentry of Weston, an
other old Heppner boy, wound up
this contingent.
Bridal Veil Lumber and Box com
pany came next with two large log
ging trucks loaded with fine logs.
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Oregon wheat farmers, many of them unwilling to sell their new crop at present market levels, con
tinue to take advantage of the federal loan program. The above picture, taken at The Dalles, records the
first crop loan to be completed in Oregon this year. Left to right are: Frank E. Whitcomb, manager of the
Port of The Dalles; Grover L. Webb, Wamic farmer who received the first loan; and Raymond N. Kortge,
member of the Wasco county AAA committee. Last year, wheat farmers of nine principal wheat growing
counties of eastern Oregon took out loans totalling $3,800,000 on 7,334,000 bushels of grain. New loans are
now a month ahead of last year's schedule.
tiful gladiolas in baskets served as
a setting for the colorfully clad las
sies on the Rhea Creek grange float,
followed by Eugene Empey's coV'
ered wagon drawn by four white
cow team, and another pack mule
string entry.
Riding one o the famous Swaggart
Creamolines side-saddle came Mrs.
B. F. Swaggart, awarded recogni
tion as the oldest Morrow county
woman, accompanied by four other
members of the family, also on
creamolines.
Lions depicted the recently com
pleted city swimming pool with their
white float carrying a bevy of
bathing beauties. And Dee Cox, old
est Morow county man in parade,
rode beside a grandchild mounted
on a Shetland pony.
Greatest thrill for spectators was
provided by two purebred yearling
Hereford bulls from the famed Roy
Robinson herd as they almost left
their handlers in rearing up the
street. So intent were spectators up
on this spectacle that much of the
other fine 4-H stoc pkaraded failed
to get its share of notice.
Behind the 4-H club stock came
Vivian Lewis and her dance band
dispensing soothing Hawaiian tunes
from aboard truck, then Queen Bet
sy Newcomb Page of the Grant
County .fair, and John Day rought
riding contingent including W. S.
Richards, president, and Guy Boyer
and son Don, former Heppnerites.
FFA's third-place winning float,
an evergreen mountain topped by
stuffed eagle, and carrying boys with
livestock in the rear, was followed
by Heppner Chemistry club's offer
ing on which Stanley Minor filled
the role of chemist, using hammer
on anvil to split an atom, in a sur
rounding of designs of laboratory
equipment.
CCC and SCS presented their camp
orchestra on a neatly designed float,
and then the sweepstakes winner,
float of Willows grange, depicting
horn of plenty in a surrounding of
multicolored flowers with panto
mime of various grange characters,
inscribed, "Peace and Plenty."
Hunters and Anglers centered at
traction on a stuffed deer with an
attractive display. Case Furniture
Co. advertised a fine spring mattress,
with flowers emphasizing the ap
propriate season, to take first among
business floats. Ferguson Motor Co.,
second prize taker in this division,
presented their wrecking car towing
a badly mutilated but well placarded
example of what unsafe driving will
do.
Right out of the gay '30's rode Mrs.
Harlan McCurdy as the lady and
Mrs. Bert Kane as the man to draw
a big hand. Lena grange featured
its "Home on the Range" orchestra
in setting of sagebrush, with a mem
ber o1 the orchestra playing a bass
violin made by himself.
Clayton Ayers' covered wagon
goat team was followed closely by
Shetland cart. One lad on high stilts
strode beside another verv small
lad afoot; Leonard Kummerland de
picted the black devil, in tow of a
horseback rider; a dog cart, and
kiddies with their pets, brought up
the rear, then the Heppner firemen
screeched up the street with truck
to start nerves ajumping all along
the packed street.
ADA M. AYERS
Mrs. Alfred L. Ayers, whose pass
ing at f ortiana was reported m
these columns last week, was widely
known and respected in Morrow
county. Born Ada M. Jones in Bel
mont county, Ohio, February 4, 1859,
she came to this county as a young
woman and was among the first
teachers in rleppners then new
schoolhouse, in 1898, having taught
many of the older generation now
residing in this city. She later taught
school at Hardman and it was there
that she met and was married to
Ben Parker, pioneer lumber mill
operator from whom Parkers Mill
took its name. Residing for a num
ber of years at Parkers mill, Mrs.
Parker manager the Parkers Mill
hotel, a favorite stopping place for
freighters and bus drivers passing
on their way to and from the in
terior. Following Mr. Parker's death,
Mrs. Parker married Alfred L. Ayers
The Season's
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FRUITS
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Our Menus
New Fountain
Larger Lunch
Counter
New Booths
Contributions taken for
CHINESE RELIEF SOCIETY
and official receipt given
Elkhorn
Restaurant
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in 1905. They came to Heppner to
make their home in 1914 and resid
ed here until 1927 when they moved
to Portland. Mrs. Ayers died in
Portland on Friday, August 18, and
burial was made there on the 21st.
Besides her husband she is survived
by three sisters, Mrs. Flora Hoch
swinger, Mrs. Elizabeth Conway and
Mrs. Clara Watkins, all of Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Johnston of
Estacada arrived Sunday for a visit
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Lucas. Mr. Johnston, former school
principal at Lexington, is with the
Estacada schools again this year.
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