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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.