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Volume 56, Number 38
4-H Achievements
For Year Feted at
Lexington Banquet
Leaders, Sponsors
Tell of Work and
Present Awards
Scholarships, trophies, and achieve
ment awards were presented to 4-H
club members at the annual achieve
ment banquet held in the Lexington
grange hall Saturday evening as a
climax to their successful 1939 year's
work.
More than 125 club. members and
parents assembled at the banquet
table set with food furnished entirely
by the club members and prepared
by their mothers. An opportunity to
recognize the accomplishments and
achievements of this year's work
and to encourage even more and
better work next year was given by
C. D. Conrad, county agent, as the
real reason for the program.
Mrs. Lucy Rodgers, county school
superintendent, in charge of girls'
work in the county, emphasized the
importance of completing club pro
jects and called attention to the
special demonstrations for girls at
the-county fair.
Miss Helen Cowgill, state 4-H club
leader for girls, was speaker of the
evening and told of the develop
ments in club work since its be
ginning in Oregon 25 years ago.
Representing the granges in their
loyal support of 4-H club work,
Clarence Bauman, master of the
Lexington grange, furnished a fittirg
story to emphasize the need of more
4-H training for some younger peo
ple. B. C. Pinckney, manager of the
Heppner Branch of the First Na
tional Bank of Portland, stated that
at no time has 4-H club training
been of more importance or needed
worse than at the present time. Be
fore introducing the two Morrow
county delegates who were guests
of the bank at the Pacific Interna
tional Livestock exposition with 72
other Oregon club boys and girls,
Pinckney expressed the pleasure the
bank enjoys in doing what they can
to encourage the 4-H program by
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John Kilkenny Was
Long Prominent
Death came to John Kilkenny, 69,
long - prominent Morrow county
sheepman, at St. Anthony's hospital
in Pendleton yesterday morning fol
lowing a lingering illness. Funeral
rites have been announced for St.
Patrick's Catholic church in this
city at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing with Father Richard J. Healy
officiating, and interment in Hepp
ner cemetery.
John Sheridan Kilkenny was born
in County Leitrim, Ireland, May 18,
1870, and came to Morrow county
in 1890. From a small beginning he
became one the the county's larger
sheep operators, and in his many
years of business here was respon
sible for bringing many other peo
ple here from his native land. His
reputation for honesty and business
acumen caused him to be twice
named to the office of county com
missioner and he served for 15 years
as a director of First National Bank
of Heppner.
He was a member of the Catholic
church and B. P. 0. Elks of this
city.
Mr. Kilkenny's first wife, Rose,
died February 18, 1915. By this mar
riage, he is survived by the children,
Mrs. Rose Chadbourne of Seattle,
John F. Kilkenny of Pendleton, Mrs.
Zara Cohn of Heppner, W. P. Kil
kenny of Echo and Mrs. Mary Ann
Lillivand of Los Angeles. He is also
survived by the widow, Lottie Kil
kenny, and children by this mar
riage, Hene, Colleen and Robert, all
of Heppner. Also surviving are six
grandchildren.
Heppner,
CHRISTMAS SEAL
SALE KICK-OFF SET
Public Health Work Benefits
to County Told; Workers Named
for Various Communities
The annual Christmas seal sale
for Morrow county begins tomorrow,
Friday, with the goal of raising $250
to satisfy the Morrow County Pub
lic Health association's pledge to
provide that amount toward a six
months' school nursing service. The
work of the nursing service is varied
and thorough, 488 persons being
tested for tuberculosis last year as
one phase of the work.
Other services included four baby
clinics, '84 flouroscope tests, one
child placed in the Children's Farm
home at Corvallis, vocational reha
bilitation education for two handi
capped children, 190 toxoids given
for diphtheria and 390 vaccinations
given as smallpox preventative.
The county health nurse when in
Morrow county made over 700 visits
and traveled 3681 miles. Meetings,
institutes, public health meetings
and clinics were held throughout the
county. Five lectures on public
health were given to junior high
school students upon request.
This is the work which is financed
in part by the sale of Christmas seals
in Morrow county. This year the
county budget allows $500 for a
school nursing service, with the pub
lic health association pledged to give
an additional $250 to secure a com
petent, eggicient and up-to-date
public health service.
"When you receive your allotment
of stamps from your district chair
man, please respond to the best of
your ability and thus assure Mor
row county and its pre-school, stu
dent and adult residents proper and
modem health supervision," says
Miss Rose Leibbrand, county chair
man. District - chairmen for Morrow
county are: Rose Leibbrand, Hepp
ner; Mrs. Fay Finch, Lena; Mrs.
James Leach, Lexington; Mrs. Omar
Rietmann, lone; Mrs. Ralph Jones,
Irrigon; George Corwin, Boardman;
Leonard Carlson, Eightmile and Miss
Pat Bleakman, Hardman. Buy
Christmas seals and pave the way
for healthy Christmas seasons.
Charles Ritchie
Rites Set at lone
Funeral rites will be held from
the Christian church at lone at 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon for
Charles Ritchie, 57, who died at his
home in this city yesterday. Rev.
Clifford W. Noble, Pentecostal min
ister, will officiate, and interment
will be made in lone I. O. O. F. cem
etery. Charles Marion Ritchie was born
June 7, 1882, at Columbus, Cherokee
county, Kansas, the son of Alex
ander and Barbara (Haburn) Rit
chie, natives of Kentucky and Vir
ginia respectively. He was nine
months old when the family came
to this county and had been a con
tinuous resident since, growing to
manhood in the lone community. He
married Louise Gardner at Heppner
August 30, 1905, and surviving this
union are the widow and two chil
dren, Mrs. Faye Bucknum and Mrs.
Mary Ross, all of this city; also a
brother, George Ritchie, and two
sisters, Mrs. Ida Rolfson and Mrs.
Rose Miller, all of Portland. Anoth
er sister, Mrs. Alice Cochran, pre
ceded him in death a week before.
Mr. Ritchie followed farming and
warehousing thru most of his bus
iness career and was highly respect
ed by all who knew him.
DAISY SHIVELY NEW CLERK
Daisy Shively was elected clerk of
School District No. 1 to succeed Mrs.
Eva Baldwin, resigned, at the spec
ial school election held at the coun
cil chambers Monday afternoon. Of
the 64 votes cast, Mrs. Shively re
ceived 41 to 23 for the other nom
inee, Mrs. Sadie Parrish.
Episcopal auxiliary bazaar, Sat
urday, Dec. 2, Parish house. Cooked
food, tea, fancy work, aprons.
Oregon, Thursday, Nov.
Second in Series of
Food Demonstration
Meetings Coming
Miss Lucy Case, OSC
Specialist, to Make
Four Appearances
Homemakers of Morrow county
are invited to attend the second
meeting in a series of food and nu
trition demonstrations given by O.
S. C. Home Economics Extension
service.
Menu planning and table service
were demonstrated at the first meet
ing in this series and this same work
will be continued with a demonstra
tion of suggestions on entertaining
by Miss Lucy Case, extension spec
ialist in nutrition. Miss Case will
demonstrate a dozen or more dishes
for economical home products which
are useful for both the family and
for guests. Suggestions will also be
given on table customs, etiquette and
table service.
Four meetings will be held in the
county this time, the same as last,
with the meetings scheduled as fol
lows: Irrigon, December 5, at the
home of Mrs. Frank Frederickson,
with Mrs. A. C. Houghton as chair
man; December 6 at the Rhea Creek
grange hall with Mrs. Carrie Becket
as chairman; December 7 at the Con
gregational church in lone with Mrs.
Vida Heliker as chairman, and at
Boardman December 8 at the Green
field grange hall with Mrs. Neal
Bleakney as chairman. Each of these
metings will begin at 10:00 in the
meetings and continue until 3:30 in
the afternoon.
Those who missed the first meet
ing need not stay away from the sec
ond and third meetings. All they
need to do is bring a salad or a hot
dish and enjoy the meeting with the
rest.
'Red' Van Marter
Honored by U.-O.
Beta Brothers
La Verne Van Marter, affection
ately known by college mates as
"Red," looks forth upon a brighter
world from his bedfastness at
Emanuel hospital in Portland, due
to thoughtfulness of members of
the University of Oregon Beta
Theta Pi fraternity.
Infantile paralysis entered La
Verne's life early last fall to halt
what promised to be one of the
most brilliant athletic careers ever
recorded at the university. As a
freshman last year, when he pled
ged Beta, La Verne made four let
ters in as many sports; was looked
to as a coming sparkplug for var
sity teams. At the same time he
maintained high scholastic ach
ievement. His fraternity brothers didn't
forget Red. Last Saturday, twenty
Betas initiated him into the frat
ernity at the hospital bedside,
themselves contributing the pin
and initiation fee. His relatives
and friends in Heppner join in
appreciation of this fine fraternal
deed.
COUNTY BUDGET PASSED
Proposed budget of receipts and
expenditures for Morrow county
was passed after hearing by the
levying board at the court house
yesterday with a few minor changes.
It was found necessary to add $2,-
461.14 for state tax. Elementary
school fund was lowered from $15,-
000 to $14,692.15 due to exact figures
being received from the state office,
and $60 was added to the amount
allotted to official publications,
raising this item to $660.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Doherty re
turned home Sunday from a wed
ding trip that took them to Portland
and Seattle. They are at home at the
Doherty Blackhorse farm.
30, 1939
WHEAT YOGI
What does the future hold for wheat?
Charles W. Smith, secretary of the East
ern Oregon Wheat League, tries to read
the answer in this crystal bowl filled
with wheat, to be given by the league as
a trophy to the county in the United
States showing best compliance with the
federal wheat adjustment program. A
representative of the county will be
given a free trip to the wheat league's
12th annual convention, to be held at
Condon, Ore., on December 8 and 9.
HUNTERS-ANGLERS
EAT ELK SUNDAY
Richardson Provides Monarch
of Mountains for Barbecue;
State Supervisor to Attend
Sportsmen say that an elk whis
tles. But Logie Richardson, presi
dent Morrow County Hunters and
Anglers club, definitely asserts that
he knows one elk that will never
whistle again, unless it be from
steam bubbles as it is barbecued at
the CCC camp in readiness for the
big dinner.
The big dinner, being prepared by
CCC personnel, will be served to all
hunters and anglers club members
and families in the big mess hall at
Camp Heppner at 5 o'clock Sunday
evening. Richardson's monarch of
the Blue mountains, slain in the
recent open season, will provide
piece de resistance, with the camp
throwing in all the trimmings.
No charge is being made for the
event. All that is needed to enjoy
the occasion is a good appetite,
Richardson says.
A special musical program and
message from Frank Wire, state
game supervisor, will be highlights
of the evening. It was expected other
game commission members would
accompany Mr. Wire.
County Casaba
League to Open
Clashing all-stars of Lexington
and lone communities will open
what is expected to be a county bas
ketball league championship con
test on the lone floor next Wednes
day evening, announces Fred Hos
kins, lone manager and promoter.
Hoskins extends an invitation to
the city of Heppner and the CCC
camp each to sponsor a team to com
pete against lone and Lexington, to
make a four-team league. Such a
league, he believes, will produce
some hot games to give county ca
saba lovers plenty of thrills through
the winter season.
PAINFULLY INJURED
An accidental axe slash that cut
deep into his left wrist brought J.
A. Troedson to town yesterday
morning from the farm in the Mor
gan district to receive surgical
treatment. After first aid was given
at a doctor's office, Mr. Troedson
entered Heppner hospital.. It was
feared some ligaments had been sev
ered. Albert Lindstrom, neighbor,
responded within five minutes of
the phone call notifying him of the
accident and brought Mr. Troedson
to town. Mr. Troedson was cutting
wood when the accident happened.
LICENSE ISSUED
License to wed was issued at the
clerk's office this week to Miss Em
erald Padberg and Leslie Roundy,
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both of this county.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Santa Coming Dec.
9th to Launch Yule
Season in Hepnper
Businesses Slate
Showing of New Gifts
With Treasure Hunt
S-s-s-h-h! Be good, kiddies. San
ta Claus is coming to Heppner right
soon, and you may bring him your
letters in person. If you're real good,
he may see that you get many of
the things you want. He's going to
bring each of you a remembrance
on this first visit; so you don't want
to miss seeing him.
Santa's visit is slated from 7:15
until 9 o'clock the evening of Sat
urday, December 9.
That's the time Heppner mer
chants have set for emphasizing the
display of new Christmas merchan
dise. And to add zest to the occasion
for elders as well as youngsters,
they're going to give presents to a
lot of people in a big treasure hunt.
Store windows will be blacked
out as if for an air raid when the
hour of 7:15 arrives. Then the fire
siren will shriek. It will not an
nounce arrival of enemy bombing
planes o'erhead, but instead it will
herald the coming of the greatest
promoter of peace on earth Santa
Claus whose beaming countenance
reflects all the good will spirit of
Christmastide.
As the last siren's echo wanes in
the distance," veils will drop from
store windows; Heppner"s spotlight
ed school band will play at the big
community Christmas tree which
firemen will have in place; Christ
mas lights will start flickering
along Main street's gay way of ever
greens, and at 7:30 all who have as
sembled to launch the Yuletide will
make a pilgrimage through the
gaily stocked marts in search of
gifts of the "Wise Men."
Starting next Saturday . cooperat
ing businesses whose names appear
in this paper will distribute hun
dreds of tickets to the Treasure Hunt.
It is the desire that every person in
Heppner's trading radius have one.
Each person will bring his ticket to
the big opening, and as he goes
through the business houses he may
claim as his own any article bearing
the number of his ticket.
School children will be handed
tickets as they leave the school and
are requested not to ask for them at
the business houses, the committee
in charge of this feature announces.
Elders, however, are urged to ask
for a ticket from any of the busi
nesses cooperating. Numbers to be
placed on awards will not be dis
tributed to cooperators until a few
minutes before the hunt starts, so
that no one will know what the
lucky numbers are until time to
start the hunt.
At the close of the hunt those who
wish may attend the dance at the
Elks hall which will be open to the
public.
College Students
Home for Holidays
Homecoming of college students
was a highlight event of the Thanks
giving holiday in Heppner. Among
those noted were:
From Oregon State college: Misses
Frances McCarty, Harriet Hager,
Betty Happold,' and Dick Wilkinson,
Billy Barratt and Scott McMurdo;
from University of Oregon, John
Crawford, Clifford Carlson and Paul
McCarty; from Pacific university,
Miss Maxine McCurdy and Leonard
Gilman; from Eastern Oregon Col
lege of Education, Miss Kathryn
Parker, Bob Scrivner and Vernon
Knowles.
MRS. BRIGGS DECLINES
Mrs. L. W. Briggs was reported
this morning as suffering a relapse
in the illness that has kept her con
fined at home for several months.