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Volume 56, Number 29
Many Deer Taken;
Sportsmen Eye
Coming Bird Season
Elk Opening Set for
Oct. 29 Many La
dies Bring Bucks
With a large portion of Morrow
county homes already supplied with
venison, hunting has been upper
most in the minds of many residents.
Many have deferred their deer hunt
until later in the season, and be
fore October 25, the closing date,
many more hunters will have
brought in trophies.
Next big event on the sportsman's
calendar is the opening of the sea
son on Chinese pheasants, Hungar
ian partridges and Bobwhite quail,
Sunday. This season will extend to
include October 15. Bag limit in
cludes not to exceed 4 male pheas
ants in any one day, or not more
than 8 in any seven consecutive
days. Six partridge may be taken in
any one day and not more than 12
in any 7 consecutive days. Ten quail
may be taken in any one day or
not more than 20 in any seven con
secutive days.
Elk season will officially open
October 29 and will continue to and
including November 12. Checking
into open territory will not be per
mitted before noon, October 27, and
everyone going into open territory
must check in at an official check
ing station. One such station will
be located in Heppner. To make a
kill legal, each elk hunter must have
a checking-out tag in his possession
as well as regular hunting license
and special elk tag. Except for 500
special permits that have been is
sued to take an adult cow elk, the
only animals to be taken will be one
bull elk with horns.
Among deer hunters so far re
porting in Heppner, Sloan Thomp
son of Echo has been in possession
of the largest muletail deer. He came
through yesterday with a 233
pounder. Jim Furlong, also bring
ing his buck to town yesterday, had
one weighing 218 pounds for the
second largest.
The ladies have been numerous
among deer slayers and counted
among the fortunate are Mrs. Mark
Merrill, Miss Rose Leibbrand, Mrs.
Clarence Warren, Mrs. Hattie Bleak
man, Mrs. Reese Burkenbine, Gladys
Leek, Mrs. O. W. Osborn, Katherine
Bleakman, Louise Canoy, Albany;
Miss Evelyn Kirk, The Dalles;
Blanche C. Rand, Hood River; Miss
Viletta Stout, Portland, sister of
Mrs. G. A. Howard, city.
Other deer reported locally to date
include, kills of Frank Alfred, C. A.
Warren, Ray Massey, Woodrow
Tucker, Dick Wilkinson, L. H. Rill,
Myron Huston, W. M. Collins and
H. E. Collins, Portland, L. W. Gil
man, A. R. Marsh, Medford, Dallas
Craber, Dan McDermid, Wasco, Dar
rel Farrens, G. A. Farrens, Walter
Becket, Jack Van Winkle, Dee Cox,
Jr., S. T. Robison, Ben Cox, Jack
Canoy, Albany, Marvin Casebeer,
Marion Hayden, Gerald Cason, C.
D. Conrad, Curtis F. Deetz, Gene
Ferguson, Dave Wilson, Ed Bennett,
Luke Bibby, Chas. B. Cox, L. E. Bis
bee, Charles Cox, O. O. Osborn, R.
D. Knox, A. H. Blankenship, Owen
Bleakman, Walter Depuy, Cecil
Jones, Dallas McDaniel, E. R. Schaf
fer, R. K. Drake, Louis Gilliam, J.
I. Hanna, Marshall Beamer, Jim
Furlong, Howard Furlong, Ray Bos
worth, Harley Matteson, Donald
Robinson, Vernon Prock, Jim Mc
Carthy, Frank Gentry, Barton Clark,
Floyd Jones, Homer Tucker's party
with several, Walter Blackburn, H.
R. Peck, John L. Buckholz, Bonne
ville, James Canoy, Albany, Andy
Cameron, Tillamook, Ray. L. Hamm,
Multnomah, Mrs. Ben Cox, C. A.
Bethke, Portland, Joe Holboke, John
Holton, Ralph Bragg.
The second illegal deer brought to
Heppner,
Seattle Salesman
Wrecks Near Lex
An automobile accident in which
L. A. Poole, Seattle, narrowly es
caped serious injury happened on
the switchback curve just east of
Lexington about 12:30 Tuesday af'
ternoon. Poole, alone in his coupe,
hit a newly patched place in the
highway which caused the car to
skid and when he pulled it around
it somersaulted, then turned over
sidewise.
The car was badly wrecked, but
Poole escaped with minor injuries.
A slight concussion ws feared, and
one ear was lacerated. First aid
treatment only was necessary. Poole
had been in Heppner on business
with the city in connection with his
position as representative ' of Peer
less Pump company which recently
sold the city a new pump, and was
on his way to Boise, Idaho, when
the accident happened. He was
brought back to Heppner for treat
ment and departed yesterday eve
ning. Elks Start Season
With Visit Tonight
Heralded as the opening of the
busy season for Heppner lodge 358
B. P. O. Elks, is the regular meeting
at the hall tonight, as beginning
next month and on through the
winter and. spring the lodge will
meet each of the first four ThurS'
days each month.
A visit from James E. Merritt, ex
alted ruler of The Dalles lodge, is
tonight's headline attraction. It is a
good will visit, says E. H. Miller,
local exalted ruler, and significant
because Heppner lodge was origin
ally sponsored by The Dalles lodge
Ladies' night is the slated attrac
tion for October 5, and on Thursday,
the 12th, Frank Lonergan, district
deputy grand exalted ruler for Ore
gon, North, will make his official
visit. A special class will be initiat
ed that evening in the district dep
ty's honor. The time of this visit
was changed from Friday, Oct. 13,
as announced in the lodge bulletin.
LaVerne Van Marter
To Portland Hospital
LaVerne Van Marter, who was
confined at Heppner hospital for
several weeks in his fight against
infantile paralysis, was removed
Sunday to Emanuel hospital in Port
land for specialized treatment. His
mother, Mrs. Muriel Van Marter,
accompanied him in the Phelps am
bulance. Former prominent high school
athlete here, and also prominent in
freshman athletics at the University
of Oregon last year besides showing
great scholastic promise, young Van
Marter was unfortunately stricken
by the dread malady immediately
following a university pep rally he
attended at Pendleton a month ago.
He has made a brave and success
ful battle toward fighting off first
ravages of the disease, and his many
friends here extend heartfelt solici
tude for his continued improvement.
QUEEN RIDES AGAIN
Queen Cecelia, who ruled, , o'er
Heppner's recent Rodeo, was a guest
of honor at the Grant County fair in
John Day last wek end and was ac
corded a place of honor in Sunday's
parade. Helping to carry Rodeo's
felicitations to the neighbor show
were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Aiken,
Mr. Aiken as president of the local
show; Mr. and Mrs. William Buck
num, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Beckner of
lone, Mr. and Mrs. Clive Huston,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Becket, Eddie
Kenny, and Mr. and Mrs. Dillard
French. Repeating his performance
at the recent Rodeo, Cody Dodson
is reported to have ridden at the
head of the bronc busters. Kenny
Depew, local showman, placed third,
riding Dillinger of local fame.
town by the state was checked in at
a local market this morning. It was
a doe, mistakenly shot by some
hunter. Details were not reported.
Oregon, Thursday, Sept.
Pomona Opens New
Season With Meet
At Lexington, 7th
Sheriff to Discuss
Taxes; Contest of
Granges to Start
Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman will dis
cuss "Taxes" as one of the headline
numbers on the Pomona grange pro
gram slated to be held at Lexing
ton grange hall Saturday, October 7,
the first Pomona meeting of the fall
season. The meeting marks begin
ning of a contest by subordinate
grange divisions' and a big kick-off
is expected.
Lecturer's program on which
Sheriff Bauman, Lexington master,
will appear is slated to start at 1:30
in the afternoon. Business program
is set for the forenoon, and dinner
at noon.
Group singing of "God Bless
America" will open the lecturer's
program, and other numbers include
a reading by Estelle Ledbetter, Wil
lows grange; monologue by Betty
Lu Lindsay, Willows; talk on 4-H
club work by Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers.
Other subordinate' grange numbers
and outside speakers will augment
the program.
Business will be resumed after the
the program and degree work con
ferred later in the evening. Details
of contest points are given in an
other column.
Buck Hunting Has
Its Vagaries, or
Maybe Its Just Luck
How many buck hunters would
like to be in Marshall Beamer's
shoes?
He was riding out to a mountain
sheep camp the other day. Had his
rifle along just in case. On Dead
Man's hill a buck ran across the
road ahead of him. He took after
it, shot it, and in ten minutes'
time had it loaded on the pick-up.
Fifteen minutes later at camp it
was all dressed out.
But there are others. Bill Smeth
urst came home the other day
from a several-days' unsuccess
ful hunt to relieve the man he had
hired to do the chores. This man
was on his way out for a hunt,
just by Happy Home camp, when
a party of hunters drove a buck
in front of him. Like Beamer, he
soon had it, was back in Lexing
ton with it the same morning.
YPF Regional Meet
Here at Week's End
Young Peoples Fellowship of east
ern Oregon will convene at the Epis
copal church here tomorrow for a
meeting that will continue through
Sunday. Among cities to be repre
sented besides Heppner are Pen
dleton, The Dalles, Hood River and
Bend.
Bishop W. P. Remington and
Archdeacon Eric Robethan from
Pendleton will assist in leading dis
cussions. LEAVES HOSPITAL
Word has been received by rela
tives and friends that Mrs. Albert
Rea was able to leave Emanuel hos
pital in Portland, Sunday, and go
to the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.
C. Wood, in the city following a re
cent major operation.
ATTENDS FORD MEET
W. C. Rosewall is in Seattle this
week attending a factory demon
stration meeting for the new 1940
Ford automobiles. He was accom
panied by Emery Gentry, member of
the Rosewall-Gentry firm.
Each night a special at Reed's
Roller Rinks, lone, this week end.
28, 1939
30 Model T's Listed
for Races Here, 8th
Thirty Model T Fords are in the
lists for the big Model T derby to
be staged at Rodeo field, Heppner,
Sunday, October 8, under sponsor
ship of Heppner post, American
Legion. Driving No. 7 will be Jim
Shoun, Heppner boy, winner three
times of second place in previous
derbies, who says it must be first
in his old home town.
Every precaution for safety must
be used on the local track, says the
track manager, as it is shorter than
the boys have been running on.
Drivers so far listed include Bill
Thomas, with Teague Motor Co.,
Walla Walla, who will drive for
Rosewall-Gentry. Motor Co. of this
city; Sheldon Bowers, Moscow, Ida.,
driving for Bowers Wrecking Co.;
Kenneth Fulmer, driving for Ford
Motor Co., Lewiston, Idaho; Jim
Lyons, driving for Ford Motor Co.,
John Day; Frank Pearson, Hermis-
ton and Gus Locati, Walla Walla,
driving for themselves; Allen Gei
ger, Walla Walla, driving for Pur
itan Creamery; Fred Hobbs, Lewis
ton, driving for Bennett's Service
Station.
Qualifying heats start at 1 o'clock,
and local spectators are assured four
hours of exciting racing.
For further information on derby,
inquire Gazette Times office.
Road, Street Work
Through for Present
Construction operations on the
Heppner hill state secondary high
way and on Heppner streets was
completed this wek for the season,
with both crews of Saxton, Looney
and Risley, and Babler Bros, con
struction companies pulling out.
Final surfacing was completed on
only a part of the hill road, what
is .known as a dust coat only being
applied t6 the remainder. Surfacing
will be completed in the spring, it
was said.
Shortage of funds to meet the es
timated cost of oiling caused the city
to stop work on the streets at the
swimming tank and on the new
grade of the upper Willow creek
road outlet after macadamizing only
was done. City dads announce the
hope of putting on the oil surfacing
next year.
IIONEYMOONERS VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Cox, recent
newlyweds, called here over the
week end at the home of Mr. Cox's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cox, on
their way home to Portland in the
course of a wedding trip on which
they had visited as far north as Vic
toria, B. C. The marriage of Mr. Cox
to Miss Helen Upshaw was an event
of Sunday, the 17th, at the home of
Miss Upshaw's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter E. Upshaw, at Tigard. Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Cox and son Charles
attended from here and Miss Nancy
Cox, sister of the bridegroom, was
present from Portland. Miss Cox also
visited at the parental home last
week end, leaving her work as home
demonstration agent with General
Electric company. Clair has a posi
tion in the city where the newlvweds
are now at home.
GIVEN YEAR IN PEN
On waiver of grand jury hearing,
Julius Vrana, charged with larcenv.
was sentenced to one year in the
state penitentiary by Judge C. L.
Sweek yesterday morning. The
charge arose from Vrana's alleged
selling of melons for Boardman
growers and keeping the money.
STUDENTS EXAMINED
The students of Heppner high
school and grade school had their
annual health examination Septem
ber 20 and 21. The students were
examined for heart, ear, throat and
feet defects by Doctors Rice, Tib
bies and McMurdo.
WOOL BRINGS 29'2 CENTS
Sale of Wright Bros, wool to Jack
Stanfield at 29 y2 cents was reported
this week.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Local Meetings Set
For AAA Sign-Up;
Deadline Oct. 31
High FCI Officials
Visit; Loan, Insur
ance Work Lively
With October 31 as the deadline
for signing agreements under the
1940 AAA farm program, the series
of community meetings on Saturday
next week will claim attention of
county wheat farmers. Compliance
agreements must be signed by Oc
tober 31 if 1940 parity payments are
to be received, announces N. C. Don
aldson, state executive assistant.
Opportunities to sign agreements
will be given at the community
meetings slated to be held for the
various districts at Alpine, lone,
Lexington, Heppner and Goose
berry school.
The AAA wheat loan program has
been outstanding this fall. Loans as
of September 20' report date totaled
162, amounting to $208,005.08. Pledg
ed are 289,595 bushels in warehouses
and 57,624 bushels in farm storage.
Triple A crop insurance was
brought especially into the lime
light here with the visit last week
end of LeRoy K. Smith, national
administrator, and J. H. Fraser,
Minneapolis branch manager of
Federal Crop Insurance corporation.
These head men were on tour of the
country to ascertain firsthand the
present working and future needs
of the program.
Already this year's insurance cov
erage which may be increased be
fore the October 30 deadline, assures
that Morrow county farmers will
have 273,071 bushels to sell next fall.
Farmers numbering 111 have paid
premiums in wheat totalling 27,702
bushels, or equivalent in cash of
$17,608.24, to insure that much re
turn for farming efforts. Insured
acres to date total 29,560.8.
Farmers are not being given as
much leeway in insuring crops this
year as they were last, and the pro
gram was started earlier. Last year
at this time no insurance policies
had been issued. Forty-four policies
in all were issued to cover the 1939
crop year, covering 12,000 acres. Un
der these policies a total of 29,000
bushels were collected as indemnity
to cover losses, reports the local of
fice. Legion, Auxiliary
To Install Monday
American Legion auxiliary laid
plans for joint installation of of
ficers with legionnaires at its meet
ing Tuesday evening at the home
of Mrs. Lena Cox. lone post and
unit have been invited to join Hepp
ner for the ceremonies to be held
at I. O. O. F. hall beginning at 6:30
o'clock, next Monday evening, with
dinner.
Buckburger will be supplied and
served by the legion, the auxiliary to
furnish the fixings. Hugh Bowman
of Pendleton, district commander,
and Mrs. Lemons of Pendleton, dis
trict president, will install legion and
auxiliary officers, respectively, fol
lowing dinner. An invitation is ex
tended to all ex-service men and
ladies, and auxiliary members and
escorts, to attend.
McNAMERS HAVE REUNION
A family reunion was enjoyed
Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. W. McNamer with a big dinner
at noon. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Namer those in attendance includ
ed Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Rodgers of
Walla Walla, Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Rodgers of Salem, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Rodgers of Witchita, Kans.,
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Sherrod of
Prescott, Wash., Mrs. Lucv E. Rod
gers, Mrs. Blanche McNamer Moore,
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Ward and Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Denny.