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OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLIC AUDITOR! " PORTLAND, 0 ' r . Volume 56, Number 35 Heppner Lumber Mill Burns, Halting Payroll Industry Fire Origin Undeter mined; Loss $15,000 -Plan to Rebuild Estimated $15,000 loss was sustain ed by Heppner Lumber company when fire razed the mill a mile be low town shortly after 2 o'clock last Friday morning. Origin of the fire was undetermined. Adjustment of insurance is being made, and the owners, H. O. Wray and Orville Smith, plan to rebuild. The mill night watchman is re ported to have been granted leave that night to meet folks at Pendle ton, and first to see the flames was Mrs. Claude Graham from her home at the farm just below the mill. She roused men on the farm who turn ed in the alarm and awakened Mr. Wray who was sleeping in his cabin close by, unaware of the flames. By the time fire fighters arrived on the scene the mill was a mass of fire and efforts were concentrated on saving the two million feet of lumber piled near by, and houses and sheds. A hundred thousand feet of logs in the pond did not burn, and the large boiler costing several thousand dollars was little damaged. Mr. Wray had worked until 11 o'clock the night before sharpening saws in the shop, and upon retiring had seen no evidence of anything being wrong. It was the usual cus tom of the mill to douse fire in the boilers at the end of each day's op erations, and the mill had been "dead" of fire for several hours. The mill was doing contract cut ting for Bridal Veil Lumber and Box company. Having got a late season start, it had missed two weeks of best cutting weather when the boiler broke down and parts for re pair had to be brought from the east. Capacity operation had been attained several weeks ago, and av erage output of 50,000 feet a day had been maintained since. The operation was pronounced running smoothly when the fire occurred and plans were laid to continue cut ting until the first of the year, wea ther permitting. Besides the 100,000 feet of logs already delivered at the mill an other 400,000 feet had been felled in the timber, ready for delivery. and ten trucks were rushing these to the mill. The fire not only caus ed the mill crew of 25 men to be laid off, but also slowed down log ging and hauling, causing Heppner to feel the loss of what had proved to be a lucrative payroll industry. Current Tax 71 Pet. Collected to Date Report just released, by Clerk C W. Barlow shows the current year's tax 71.34 percent collected with com pletion of third-quarter turn-overs by the sheriff's office. To date of re port collections on the current roll totaled $200,815.77. Interest collected was $361.30, and discount for pre payment allowed of $4,421.51. Balance uncollected on total roll of $281,489.99 was $80,674.22. The clerk's report shows amount of col lections credited to each tax sub division account. MILL MEN VISIT Leonard Kraft and Kenneth Leash, officials of Bridal Veil Lum ber and Box company, were in the city yesterday accompanied by W. B. Crow, lumber mill man of The Dalles. . The Bridal Veil officials were called on business arising from the Heppner Lumber company fire which upset cutting operations on lumber for their company. Cows for sale, Guernsey, fresh lately. Lee C. Sparks, lone. 35-37p Heppner, HARD GRID GAME SLATED SATURDAY Line-Ups Set for Traditional Hermiston-Heppner Battle; Dope Gives Mustangs Edge Nearly every football team has at least one traditional game on Its schedule, a game which means more and which is harder fought than any others. The Heppner Mustangs are no exception to this rule and Saturday afternoon on Rodeo field they play the traditional Armistice day game with Hermiston. Heppner has the better season record of the two, having lost but one game while winning five, but Hermiston has played in much fast er company. Both teams have play ed Condon and, won by much the same score. Last Friday Heppner beat Condon 18-0 while Hermiston won from the same team 19-7 the week before. However, previous records mean nothing in this game and upsets have always been the rule rather than the exception. The game will be the final appear ance on the home field of the fol lowing seniors: Richard Hayes, Jack Merrill, Guy Moore, Bob Swick, Art Vance, Cliff Faye, Kemp Dick, Bruce Lindsey and Gordon O'Brien. Heppner"s starting line-up: Drake LE, Dick LT, O'Brien LG, Kenny RG, Osborne C, Faye RT, Vance RE, Gilman LH, Merrill RH, Hayes FB, Snow Q. Mustangs Defeat Condon, 18-0 In a slam-bang, knock-down-and-drag-out grid battle the Heppner Mustangs beat Condon to the tune of 18-0 on the Condon field last Friday afternoon. The Heppner team found what Mustang teams have found in fh; past. That is, a Condon team is much stronger on its own field than on the Heppner field. This was evi denced by the fact that Heppner had the ball in Condon territory through all the first half but was unable to score against the Blue Devils' fight ing defense. Heppner's first score came early in the third quarter under slightly freak circumstances. On a Condon line play from the five -yard line, the ball carrier fumbled the ball into the hands of Richard Hayes. Then to score it was merely a sim ple matter for Hayes to trot across the goal line. The conversion was missed. For the second score, Gil man threw a pass to Drake who lat eraled from the 5-yard line to Mer rill who took the ball across. The conversion was again missed. The last score came late in the game when Merrill cut back through the left side of the line and raced twenty yards for the score. On a fake place ment, Gilman attempted a pass to Drake for the conversion, but it was incomplete. Some exceptional pass defensive work was turned in by Kenny and Osborn, who both intercepted aerials. LEN GILMAN INJURED Mr. and Mrs. Rod Thomson were among local people journeying to Forest Grove last week end for the homecoming football game between Pacific university and College of Idaho. Len Gilman, brother of Mrs. Thomson and star Pacific halfback, was instrumental in Pacific's hold ing the strong Idaho team to a 13-131 tie, but was also the victim of a concerted Idaho attack that resulted in his receiving a slight concussion of the brain for which he was hos pitalized until yesterday. The injury was expected to keep him out of the game this week end. t RUMMAGE SALE PLANNED Heppner Garden club discssed plans for holding a rummage sale in the near future at its meeting at the home of Mrs. Ed Dick Monday eve ning. Main discussion was on con trol of local insects using informa tion brought to the club at the pre vious meeting by Clifford Conrad, county agent. Oregon, Thursday, November 9, 1939 Redisricting Plan Heard at Lex; Pine City Next Equalized Millage for Special School Tax Anticipated Second in the series of public in formation meetings being held by the county school district reorgani zation committee was held Saturday afternoon in the Lexington school auditorium with fair attendance. Dan Lindsay was chairman of the meeting, Ladd Sherman explained the law under which the board is proceeding, and Mrs. Lucy E. Rod gers, county school superintendent, presented maps showing the ten tative redistricting plans, and bud get of estimated cost of operating the new district for the Lexington section, with valuation, and millage required. The Lexington program will be repeated at the next meeting, set for Pine City, November 26. Two points that seem not to have been definitely established in the minds of the people in the first meeting at lone and that at Lexing ton are that the county commitee has no say where schools shall be set up or discontinued, and that the new districts will not assume out standing indebtedness of old dis tricts which they may incorporate, said Mrs. Rodgers. The redistricting proposed follows closely present trends in transport ing pupils to the various schools, with the committe working so far as possible to. keep the special tax. mill- age to be levied in each district as near the same in all districts as pos sible. Estimates worked out for the lone and Lexington sections indicate that approximately 6.5 mills special tax levy would be required in each of these districts. Consolidation in the lone section would include districts 35, lone; 5, Morgan; 8, Cecil; 9, Lone Tree; 14, Pleasant Vale; 16, Ella; 21, Dry Fork; 29, Rocky Bluff; 11, Liberty; 32, Rhea Creek, arid 36, Gooseberry. Total valuation of the new district would be $2,153,702. School census population would, be 230, raising it to a second class district. In the Lexington section it is pro posed to consolidate districts 12, Lexington; 18, Strawberry; 23, De vine; 50, Hodsdon; 53, Social Ridge; 17, Blackhorse; 38, Valentine; 15, Clarks Canyon; 26, Pine City, and 27, Alpine. The total valuation would be $1,640,690, and the school census population, 180. Estimates have not yet been com pleted for other proposed districts, and those made so far are based on assessed valuations as of last year, making them subject to slight al teration under the reassessment to appear on this year's tax rolls. When the redistricting plan is completed it will be sent to the of fice of the state superintendent of public instruction who may order it invoked after hearing any argu ments that may be presented, or who may reject it. If the plan is invoked, local districts must vote against be ing a part of the new district if they are to remain out. " The information meetings are ex pected to be held for all sections of the county before final transmittal of the plan to Salem is made. O. E. S. TO MEET Regular meeting of Ruth chapter 32, Order of Eastern Star, at Mason ic hall tomorrow evening will fea ture movies of the San Franciscb world fair to be shown by Donald Jones and James Leach, announces Mrs. Faye Ferguson, worthy ma tron. American Legion auxiliary will meet next Monday evening at the home of Ethel Adams. MILLER AGAIN AAA HEAD IN COUNTY Conservation Association Names Henry Baker, R. B. Rice as Members of Committee E. H. Miller of Heppner will again head activities of the Morrow Coun ty Agricultural Conservation asso ciation during 1940, having been re elected chairman of the organization at the annual county convention held November 8 in Heppner. The other two newly -elected members are Henry Baker of Eight mile, vice-chairman, and R. B. Rice of Alpine. Alternates are Oscar Peterson of lone and Paul Smith of Boardman. The newly elected committee re appointed C. D. Conrad as secretary and Florence Bergstrom as treas urer. Each of the 747 farmers of Mor row county who are cooperating with the AAA program is a member of the conservation association. This year, the association has been in charge of distributing approximate ly $375,000 in federal conservation payments to farmers of this county, to aid them in carrying on conserva tion work. Additional Workers Named for Red Cross Added com munity workers for the Red Cross roll call, starting Saturday, were named this week Neill, county chapter chairman. Those named are Mrs. Pauline Hughes, Lena; Mrs. Walter Becket, Mrs. Ben Anderson, Eightmile and , Gooseberry; Mrs. Frank Wilkinson, Willow creek; Mrs. Carl Deitlaf, Balm Fork; Mrs. Mar ion Finch, Pine City; Mrs. A. El. Rugg, Ruggs community; Mrs. Mar vin Brannon, Hardman. Special attention is called to the radio program when the three big networks will donate an hour be tween 7:30 and 8:30 Saturday eve ning for Red Cross benefit. Lead ing air talent will make this hour especially attractive, announces Mr. McNeill. Delinquent Taxes In County Decrease Delinquent taxes for 1938 and prior years in Morrow county have drop ped $54,605.50 from the amount shown at the beginning of the cur rent year, according to a compila tion just released by C. W. Barlow, county clerk. This amount represents payment on delinquent taxes. Collection of an additional $6,053.30 in interest makes a total of $60,658.80 coming into county coffers since January first from delinquent tax collections. The clerk's compilation reveals bal ances in each tax-subdivision ac count for a grand total of $300,849.41 delinquent a't the beginning of the year. Balance due from delinquent taxes is shown by the current state ment to be $246,243.91. Balances in several funds are shown, as follows: State, county and general school, $68,066.43; general roads, $21,371.33; City of Heppner, $7,566.78; City of lone, $3,351.97; City of Lexington, $3,773.02; City of Boardman, $2,294.11; School Dis trict No. 1, $18,416.52. Election Set to Fill School Clerk Vacancy Due to resignation of Mrs. Eva Baldwin as clerk of School District No. 1, a special election has been called to name a successor on Tues day, November 27. Notice of the election appears in another column. Mrs. Baldwin, who was elected in June, tendered her resignation with announcement that the family expects to leave Heppner to reside in Salem. It was expected they would leave the first of next week. Subscription $2.00 a Year Heppner Business Life to Pause for Armistice Day Morning Program, Grid Clash and Dance Scheduled Observance ot fhe 21st anniver sary of Armistice day will bring bus iness life in Heppner to a pause Sat urday as Heppner post, American Legion, and ladies of the auxiliary take .the lead in staging a day full of activity. Business houses will not open during the day and the public is urged to make pruchases for the week end tomorrow (Friday). The Star theater will be the scene of a short but appropriate memorial program, starting at 10:30 o'clock in the morning. lone and Hermiston posts and units, American Legion and auxiliary, are joining in this and other events of the day, and the public is invited to participate In making it a real tribute to men and women who sacrificed their lives in the great World war. Judge Bert Johnson will bring the highlight message at the memorial- service. Invocation by Rev. R. C. Young, two numbers by the school band and a minute of silence will complete the program. Beginning at 2:30 in the afternoon, Hermiston high school will invade Rodeo field to clash with Heppner's Mustangs in the long civil war that has alternated between the two cit ies for many years. The Mustangs will go on the field as leaders of their B division in the Upper Col umbia Athletic league, while Her miston with not so good a record but having played in hotter A school competition, is rated on even foot ing. Always one of the most hotly contested games of the season, this year's battle will be no exception, say dopesters. Climaxing the day will be the big ball at the Elks hall, where Mer rill's orchestra will dispense tunes for enjoyment of all who care to at tend. Noted Leather Man To Go to Montana Joseph B. Snyder, veteran leather worker who for several years has been assisting at the Noble saddlery, announces intention to leave on the 18th for Miles City, Mont., where he goes to accept a position with the Miles City Saddlery company. Mrs. Snyder will remain here until spring. Mr. Snyder is a member of the old school of leather craftsmen, and his work has gained recognition over a wide area. He became connected the making of Noble saddles and harness in the early days of this pioneer Heppner concern, and fol lowed the trade in many western cities before returning to his old bailiwick. He considers the Miles City offer especially attractive and while expressing regret at leav ing his home and many old-time friends here he considers the position too attractive to refuse. A hobby of Mr. Snyder's for many years has been the making of hand somely hand - stamped travelling cases that have proved very popular. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder here express regret at their leaving, but wish them success and happiness in their new field. SCOUT NIGHT SET Reporting large interest in Boy Scouts as the active fall season is being launched, with 28 boys signed to date, Martin Clark, scoutmaster, has set the regular meeting time for each Monday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock at the Christian church. All boys who have signed and others interested are urged to attend. Clarence Hesseltine was called to Spokane Tuesday by the serious ill ness of his mother.