Thursday, Nov. 23, 1939
Measles More Serious
Than Often Realized
State Board of Health
Unthinking parents often say of
their children, "Let them have
measles and get it over with." Unfor
tunately, "getting it over with" is
not so simple, for many are perma
nently injured by this disease, and
some die.
Year after year measles kills sev
eral thousand children under 5 who
die from this cause. The younger the
Jiild, the more likely is the infec
tion to be fatal. If all children un
der 5 could be protected from meas
les, deaths from this widespread dis
ease would almost cease.
There is no method of securing
permanent protection from measles
by vaccination; yet young babies
can be shielded from exposure, and
they can be temporarily protected
with immune serum should exposure
occur. The keynote in the success
ful control of measles mortality is
to delay the time of infection until
after 5 years of age.
During the critical years from
birth to the age of 5, measles ranks
with whooping cough, diphtheria,
and scarlet fever as one of the dan
gerous infectious diseases.
Measles is "catching," and is more
easily contracted than most other
diseases. The virus spreads rapidly
in' epidemics every second or third
year. Almost all the children who
succumb to the disease die of com
plicating broncho -pneumonia. Ac
cording to Rosenau, "Measles, per
haps more than any other disease,
lowers resistance to other infections,
It lowers resistance to diphtheria,
pneumonia, streptoccic infection, tu
berculosis, and gangrene of the face,
It is common history for tubercu
losis to light up after an attack of
measles."
Measles belongs to that group of
childhood diseases which might be
called "the uncommon colds," un
common because they begin like
common colds but end as measles.
whooping cough, scarlet fever, or
diphtheria. Measles is "catching''
from the very beginning; it is catch
ing before the rash appears, when
it seems to be "just a cold, and con
tinues to be catching until after the
fever subsides.
The first sign of measles is a wa
tery discharge from the child's red.
swollen eyes and nose. The child
sneezes and coughs as rf the air pas
sages were irritated. If we inquire
carefully regarding his whereabouts
during the preceding 9 to 14 days
we are likely to discover that some
time during the early part of that
period he was exposed to an active
case of measles. The coughing,
sneezing, and lachrimation become
worse, and soon the child has a fe
ver. These 'symptoms usually in
crease until about the third day,
when the child rather suddenly
breaks out with a typical blotchy
rash that begins, as a rule, at the
hairline on the forehead and spreads
rapidly over the body. As the rash
comes to full development, the fe
ver also reaches its height; but, un
less complications set in it rapidly
declines to normal in a day or two,
The doctor can find out whether a
person has measles, even before
there is a rash.
Prevention of measles mortality in
the United States is largely a respon
sibility of parents and teachers. They
are the first line of defense in pre'
venting the spread of measles from
the school child, where the mortality
is low, to the preschool child where
about two-thirds of the deaths oc
cur. To accomplish this, parents and
teachers must know how to recog
nize the important early symptoms
of the disease and then be constant
ly on the alert to detect these symp
toms.
Upon teachers especially does this
responsibility devolve. The teacher
who conscieniously performs a daily
health examination can readily dis
cover these early signs and send the
pupil home before others are miect
ed. With proper training, teachers
are competent to discover patent
signs and symptoms of common dis
eases. During Boston's first year of
daily health inspections, the teach
ers' suspicions of disease were con
finned in over two-thirds of some
9,000 pupils referred by teachers to
school physicians. A word of caution
is important in this connection. A
Heppner
pupil who has brothers and sisters
preschool age should not be sent
home until the teacher has com
municated her suspicions of disease
the parents. To do so would defeat
the most important aspect of measles
mortality control, the protection of
children against infection durine the
first five years of life.
Measles is spread mostlv bv oer-
sonal contact and dronlet infection.
When a child couehs. sneezes, or
talks he spreads about him a fine
spray of tiny droplets which, though
invisible to the eye, can be demon
strated easily with appropriate de
vices, lhe infected child who does
not cover his mouth dufinff cough
ing and sneezing endangers all who
come within the limits of this in
visible cloud. Children should be
taught to cover their mouths and
when suffering from measles should
be given disposable tissue handker
chiefs. The dantrerous habit of
'swapping" mouthed or otherwise
soiled articles should be strictly pro
hibited.
HA RDM AN NEWS
Blaine Chapel's
Mother Passes
By HARDMAN HIGH SCHOOL
On Thursday morning Mr. and
Mrs. Blaine Chapel left for Port
land to attend the funeral of Mr.
Chapel's mother, Mrs. Frank Du
val. Mrs. Duval's brothers, Hugh
and Dick Johnson of Monument,
came over and went down with the
Chapels. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Ayers
stayed at the Chapel ranch during
their absence.
Misses Lurline Sparks and Oleta
Raimey will return to their homes
at Pendleton and Condon over the
week end.
Marvin Saddler and Kenneth Bat
ty returned home from Portland
where Mr. Batty had been trans
acting business during the past week,
Gay Harshman visited last week
at the home of Mrs. Ethel McDan-
iel.
Neal Knighten was a business vis
itor in Hermiston Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Knighten and
children went to Portland Wednes
day afternoon on business. They
were accompanied as far as Hood
River by Miss Pat Bleakman and to
Portland by Mrs. Marvin Brannon,
From Portland Mr. and Mrs. Knight'
en intend to go on to Woodland, Wn,
where they will spend Thanksgiving
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Moon. They will return home Sun
day night.
Jim Stevens and Buddy Batty re
turned Saturday from Klamath Falls
where they have been working for
the past several weeks. Mr. Stevens
plans to return in about a month,
Everyone enjoyed the plays Sat
urday night. They were a big suc
cess, with a large crowd.
A choir was organized last week
to sing at Sunday school and church,
Mrs. Marvin Brannon is the pianist:
Vera McDaniel, president; Jeanne
Leathers, vice-president; Mrs. Neal
Knighten, secretary; other members
are Vera McDaniel, Mildred Clary,
Frances Inskeep, Alene Inskeep,
Maxine McDaniel, Juanita Byer, 01-
lie Hastings, Alberta McFerrin and
Pat Bleakman. The choir will meet
every Friday afternoon at 3:30 for
practice. On the 4th Saturday of
each month a party will be given
for the choir members.
Nona and Oscel Inskeep were vis
itors in Heppner Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Buschke and
children were visitors in Arlington
Sunday.
Mrs. Sylvia Page and Miss Murie!
Page of Vale were visiting their
uncle, Fan Miller, Friday. They re
turned home Sunday.
Miss Pat Bleakman, who has not
been well for some time, was ill
over the week end.
Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers and Miss
Lois Schnider visited school Tues
day of last week and presented the
4-H club work done by other stu
dents. They spoke at the high school
at which time all grade school pu
pils who were interested were pres
ent.
Jim Inskeep is home from the
mountains where he has been with
Herbert Brown's sheep all summer,
Church services were held on
Sunday by Rev. Everett Ely. A largi
crowd was present.
There will be a bridal shower for
Gazette Times, Heppner,
Mrs. Marvin Hughes (Lola Can
non) at the high school Friday, Dec.
, at 2:30, and any and all friends of
Mr. and Mrs. Hughes are invited.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Johnson and
children were visiting friends here
Tuesday of last week.
A large crowd attended the dance
at the I. O. O. F. hall last Saturday
night. There will be another dance
on December 2, music by Ivan Leath
ers' orchestra.
Carl Leathers and Earl Redding
returned home Thursday from Bates
where they have been working.
They went back Sunday.
Friends of Misses Ann and Rita
Mclntyre are glad to know of their
excellent work at St. Joseph's ac
ademy in Pendleton. Ann is editor
of the paper and also a member of
the girls' glee club and the orchestra.
Some time ago she went to Spokane
with the glee club, where they sang;
and just recently the orchestra
played at the Vert Memorial. Rita
also is doing outstanding work and
all their friends here are proud of
their progress.
Four 4-H clubs for the coming
year were planned Monday after
noon when the committee met,
Misses Vern and Vera McDaniel,
Lurline Sparks, and Clinton Batty
and Mrs. G. I. Clary, chairman, con
stitute the committee, which was
appointed by Mrs. Rodgers.
The weather has been rather chilly
and windy. It is still cold enough to
freeze ice during the night.
4-H Anniversary
To be Observed
The 25th anniversary of the start
of 4-H club work in Oregon under
federal and state cooperative aus
pices will be the central theme of
this year's annual agricultural and
home economics workers' confer
ence to be held at Oregon State col
lege December 13 to 16.
At this conference all the field
workers of the extension service and
experiment station come to Corvallis
for a conference with central staff
research, teaching and extension
personnel and there review the ac
tivities of the year and plan the
program for the following year.
Greater coordination of effort with
resulting benefit to the state has re
sulted from these conferences.
Double Thanks Day
Not the First
November's last Thursday has not
always been the established Thanks
giving day in Oregon, according to
research of the Oregon Writers'
Project of the W. P. A. The day was
Want Ads
6 head of gentle work horses, 3
mares; 44 acres of irrigated land,
some been in corn and watermelons.
Will sell for $500.00 or $200.00 down,
terms on balance, or will trade
horses and land for cows or calves.
See H. G. Moore, Hermiston. 37-40.
WPA toilet for sale, before Dec. 1.
See Katie Miner! ltp
Small sized modern piano will
sacrifice, terms. J. W. Gregg, 818
East 89th, Seattle. 36-41
Lost or strayed, 30 ewes branded
MD in black ink on left side, from
our place near Hardman. Reward for
information. Notify Ted of Jim
Burnside. 36-37p
For sale, coal circulating heater in
good shape, $20. N. D. Bailey, city,
35tf
Come up and look around. I have
a little bit of everything. Just name
it. Wood sawing anywhere. Max
Schulz, Heppner. 32tf
Six-room house and bath, full
plumbing, good location," $1500. See
Clara Beamer. 24th
1938 International pick-up, low
mileage, exceptional bargain. Mor
row County Grain Growers, Lexing
ton. 22tf
1931 Chev. coupe, good tires and
runs good. $125.00, terms. Ralph
Jackson, Lexington. 15tf
4 used new style McCormick
Deering Rod Weeders with trans'
ports, 33 off; good as new. Jack'
son Implement Co., Lexington. 15 tf
Oregon
officially proclaimed for the first
time in Oregon when John P. Gaines,
territorial governor, set aside De
cember 9, 1852, as a day for public
Thanksgiving. Seven years later,
when Oregon had attained state
hood, Governor John Whiteaker
designated December 29 as the day
for- Oregonians to observe Thanks
giving.
However, Thanksgiving day on the
last Thursday in November was
more or less an established date in
Oregon when in 1893 Governor Syl
vester Pennoyer set the observance
a week ahead of the time announced
by President Grover Cleveland.
There are Oregonians who remember
observing the day twice that year,
To Pennoyer also goes the honor of
issuing the shortest Thanksgiving
proclamation thus far recorded. No
vember 1, 1894, he announced: "I
hereby appoint the last Thursday of
this month a Thanksgiving holiday
In the day of prosperity be joyful,
but in the day of adversity consider.'
Eccl. VII, 14."
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned was duly appointed by
the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County, execu
trix of the last Will and Testament
of Anna Natter, deceased, and all
persons having claims against the
estate of said deceased are hereby
required to present the same duly
verified as required by law to the
undersigned at the law office of Jos,
J. Nys, at Heppner, Oregon, within
six months from the date hereof.
Dated and first published this 23rd
day of November, 1939.
KATIE MINERT, Executrix,
NOTICE OF SHERIFFS SALE OF
REAL PROPERTY ON EXECUTION
Notiae is hereby given that under
and by virtue of an execution in
foreclosure duly issued out of the
Circuit Court of the State of Ore
gon for Morrow County, on the 14th
day of November, 1939, pursuant to
a judgment and decree rendered in
said court on the 13th day of No
vember, 1939, wherein Johan Troed
son, plaintiff,, recovered judgment
against George Cochran, defendant,
for the sum of $325.00, with interest
from the 8th day of June, 1938, at
the rate of eight per cent per an
num, and further sum of $10.00 and
$50.00 attorneys fees and costs in the
sum of $15.20, and directing me to
sell the following described real
property, to-wit :
Lots nmbered 7 and 8 in Block
numbered 3 in the town of lone,
Morrow County, Oregon.
NOW, in obedience to said execu
tion, I will on Saturday, the 16th
day of December, 1939, at the hour
of 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon of
said day at the front door of the
Court House at Heppner, Oregon,
sell the above described real prop'
erty at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash and apply the pro
ceeds on said judgment and accru
ing costs of sale.
Dated and first published this
16th day of November, 1939.
C. J. D. BAUMAN, Sheriff.
SPECIAL SCHOOL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
the legal voters of School District
No. One, of Morrow County, State
of Oregon, that a SPECIAL SCHOOL
MEETING of said District will be
held at the City Council Chambers,
on the 27th day of November, 1939,
at two o'clock in the afternoon, for
the following objects: To elect
school district clerk to complete the
un-expired term of Mrs. Eva Bald
win, resigned.
Dated this 7th day of November,
1939.
C. N. JONES,
Chairman Board of Directors
Attest: EVA BALDWIN,
District Clerk.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR MOR
ROW COUNTY.
O. W. Cutsforth and James L,
Leach, Plaintiffs,
vs.
Childe & Browne Company, a cor
poration; Also all other persons
or parties unknown claiming any
right, title, estate, lien or in
terest in the real estate described
in the complaint herein,
Defendants.
TO: Child & Browne Company, a
Page Seven
corporation; Also all other per
sons or parties unknown claim
any right, title, estate, lien or
interest in the real estate des
cribed in the complaint herein,
DEFENDANTS.
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF OREON: You are hereby re
quired to appear and answer the
complaint filed against you in the
above entitled Court and Cause
within four weeks from the date of
the first publication of this sum
mons and if you fail to appear and
answer, for want thereof, the plain
tiffs will apply to the said Court for
relief as prayed for in the said com
plaint, to-wit: for a decree that the
plaintiff is the owner in fee simple
of the following described real
property;
The Southwest quarter (SWy4)
of Section numbered Twelve
(12) and the Northwest quarter
(NWy4) of Section numbered
Thirteen (13) all in Township
One (1) South, Range Twenty
five (25) East of the Willamette
Meridian in the County of Mor
row, and State of Oregon.
And that the plaintiff is the owner '
in fee simple of the said land free of
any right, title, estate, lien or in
terest of you and each of you and
that you or any one of you have no
right, title, estate, lien or interest in
the said land or any part thereof and
perpetually restrain and enjoin you
and each of you, your heirs and as
signs, from asserting or claiming any
right, title, estate, lien or Interest
in the said land or any part thereof
adverse to plaintiffs.
This summons is served upon you
by publication thereof for four con
secutive weeks in the Heppner Ga
zette Times, by order of Honorable
Bert Johnson, Judge of the County
Court of Morrow County, State of
Oregon, and which said order was
made and entered on the 23rd day
of October, 1939, and the first date
of this publication is the 26th day
of October, 1939.
P. W. MAHONEY,
Attorney for Plaintiffs.
Postoffice Address: Heppner, Oregon
NOTICE OF SALE OF
COUNTY PROPERTY
By virtue of an ORDER OF THE
COUNTY COURT, dated November
1, 1939, 1 am authorized and directed
to advertise and sell at public auc
tion, at not less than the minimum
price herein set forth after each
parcel:
Lots 2, 3, 4, and 5, in Block 12
of the Original Town of Lexing
ton. Minimum price $150.00,
cash or contract.
Southwest Quarter (SWy4) Sec
tion 30, Northwest Quarter
(NWy4), West one-half of the
Northeast Quarter (WNEy4),
Southeast Quarter (SEy4), East
one-half of the Southwest Quar
ter (Ey2SWy4) Section 31, all
situated in Township 2 South,
Range 23 East of Willamette
Meridian. Minimum price $1.00
per acre, cash or contract
THEREFORE, I will on the 25th
day of November, 1939, at the hour
of 2:00 p. m., at the front door of the
Court House in Heppner, Oregon,
sell said property to the highest bid
der, for cash.
C. J. D. BAUMAN,
Sheriff, Morrow County, Oregon.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, Administrator with the
Will Annexed of the Estate of Eliza
beth Wente Bates, deceased, has
filed with the County Court of the
State of Oregon for Morrow County,
his Final Account of his adminis
tration of said estate, and that said
court has set Monday, the 27th day
of November, 1939, at the hour 'of
11 o'clock in the forenoon of said
day at the County Court room at
the Court House at Heppner, Ore
gon, as the time and place for hear
ing objections to said Final Account
and the settlement of said estate,
and all persons having objections to
said Final Account or the settle
ment of said estate are hereby re
quired to file the same with said
Court on or before the time set for
said hearing.
Dated and first published this 26th
day of October, 1939.
P. W. MAHONEY,
Administrator with the Will
Annexed.