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OP " . "! "J ' ! i " i I " f t r p O - ... . ttttttB Volume 56, Number 40 Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, Dec. 7, 1939 Subscription $2.00 a Year Hunters, Anglers Hear State Head At Elk Dinner Frank Wire Tells of Game Work, Shows Wild Life Pictures A highly appreciated menu of both food and speech was featured by elk when more than one hundred and fifty Morrow County Hunters and Anglers club members and families participated in the big dinner set at Camp Heppner, CCC, Sunday eve ning. Elk for eating was contributed by Logie Richardson, club president; Len Gilliam, Bert and Kenneth Bleakman. It was prepared by camp boys under direction of Lt. Marius P. Hanford, commandant, along with other items of the generous bill of fare which was contributed by the camp. On the speaking menu, Frank Wire, state game supervisor, who was accompanied by Mrs. Wire, con tributed a salubrious dish of elk in formation; touched on deer and fish management, and climaxed the eve ning by showing reels of colored wild life movies taken by himelf . Mr. Richardson, a toastmaster of the evening, presented various mem bers of the attending group, includ ing Jack Merrills orchestra who fur ther enlivened the occasion with popular tunes. Game management, rather than merely conservation, is the big prob lem confronting the state game com mission, Mr. Wire cited in asserting that the elk population in eastern Oregon is increasing out of propor tion to the number taken by hunters each year. This was recognized when the commission opened the season on cow elk this fall, he said, and in an swering criticism of the manner in which cow elk tags were distributed he averred that a legislative act and not commission ruling controlled the manner of distribution. Just to show that Portland sportsmen didn't get all the tags, he quoted figures which showed sportsmen of eastern Oregon to have received more than 300 of the total of 500 issued. From the 500 tags issued, final check re vealed that only 379 cows had been taken by hunters. What is true of elk is also largely true of deer, Mr. Wire said. Last year a count in the Murderers creek Continued on Page Eight W. K. Corson Rites Being Held Today Funeral rites are being held from the Elks hall this afternoon for W K. Corson, 75, 40-year resident of the county, who died at the E. L. Bucknum home Tuesday morning, Heppner lodge 350, B. P. O. Elks, of which the deceased had long been a member, is officiating, assisted by Rev. R. C. Young, with Phelps Fu neral home in charge. Interment is being made in Masonic cemetery. Born at Springfield, HI., Oct. 13, 1864, to Horatio and Emma (Kirk- patrick) Corson, William Kirkpat- rick Corson came to Morrow county as a young man and college tradu ate to serve as bookkeeper for stores in lone, and later was connected with the old Burgoyne store at Lexing ton. He married Miss Delia Reed at Lone Rock, April 25, 1900. The wid ow, who resides at lone, and one son, Eldred William Corson of Chi cago, survive, besides a sister, Mrs, Hattie Chrissman, and a brother, Charles Corson, both of The Dalles For the last several years, Mr, Corson had worked with sheep on various ranches in the county and had the reputation of being a reli able and efficient worker. He was always thoughtful of his friends, Suffering blindness for many months he was caused by this affliction to retire more than a year ago. Scout Honor Court To Draw Executive Robert H. Hayes, Boy Scout ex ecutive representing Blue Mountain council, will assist at a court of hon or slated for Heppner and Lexing ton troops at the local Church of Chist the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 13, beginning at 7:30. Troop organization for the year is about completed, announces Martin B. Clark, local scoutmaster, with 18 boys already registered and six to ten more expected by next meeting. Installing of new members and ad vancement of older members will feature the honor court. Mr. Hayes will install new scouts and bring an inspiring message on scouting. Par ents and citizens of Heppner are ex pected to attend and lend encour agement to the investiture service. Come and show vour interest in training these boys to be good Amer ican citizens, urges Mr. Clark. STAR TO ELECT Election of officers and refresh' ments served by brothers are on the slate for the regular meeting of Ruth chapter 32, Order of Eastern Star, tomorrow (Friday) evening, announces Mrs. Faye Ferguson, worthy matron, who tells members not to forget the penny drill. BUYS RESIDENCE Deed was recorded this week for the sale of the small residence of Mrs. Daisy Shively on Center street, next to Case building, to Mrs. Josie Jones. Fairyland for Santa's Here on Saturday Departed Brothers Honored by Elks Departed brothers of the last year tit i 1 TT were memorialized y neppner Lodge 358, B. P. O. Elks, with sor row lodge services at the hall Sun day afternoon? J. O. Turner brought an inspiring message to the large number of lodge members and friends who assembled, and special vocal music was sung by Mr. and Mrs. Russell McNeill, Mrs. Raymond Ferguson and Martin B. Clark, with Mrs. J. O. Turner at the piano. Absent brothers failing to respond to roll call were R. H. Lane, Royal C. Phelps, Ernest E. Clark and John Sheridan Kilkenny. E. Harvey Mil ler presided as exalted ruler, and Mr. Calrk pronounced invocation and benediction. Father Injured As Stork Arrives Tuesday a baby daughter, 8 pounds, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Brosnan of Lena at the home of Mrs. Lillie Aiken. That evening Mr. Brosnan rushed into the barn lot to come to town, and unaware of the animal's pres ence was met squarely on the fore head by a horse's flying hoofs. He was brought to Heppner hospital for treatment where lacerations of the scalp and skin over the cheek bone below one eye were revealed. He was not knocked unconscious and barring complications should make good progress, his physician report ed. The mother and baby are report ed to be doing nicely. SCHOOL MEETING SET The county school district reor ganization committee announces the fourth in its series of educational meetings over the county to be held at the Eight Mile schoolhouse at 2:30 p. m., Friday, Dec. 15. Leonard Carl son will be chairman of the meeting and as at former meetings explana tion will be made of the new school district reorganization law under which the committee is proceeding. Traffic Lanes For Pedestrians Ordered by Council Revision of Laws Slated for Inclusion In New Code Book Three pedestrian safety lanes will shortly make their appearance in Heppner. Foremost considered by the city council at Monday evening's meeting is one across Main street at Baltimore to add to safety of school children.' The other two lanes in Heppner's traffic innovation, to test their feasibility, are one between the Heppner Hotel and Masonic building on Main street, and across Gale street at Baltimore. City dads arrived at this decision in discussing the new traffic ordin ance, recommended by League of Oregon Cities as corresponding with state law and which is being largely adopted as standard throughout the state, which is being placed in the new, codified ordinance book now being prepared by the league for the city. It is expected this ordin ance, one affecting licensing of for hire carriers within the city, and several amendments to existing or Continued on Page Eight Stage Set Coming Santa's arrival Saturday eve ning for the big Christmas open ing at Heppner stores was presag ed this week by placement of the large community Christmas tree by the fire boys, rows of ever greens in curbs on either side of Main street, decoration of stores and distribution of treasure hunt tickets. When the siren sounds at 7:15 Saturday evening to signal the time for window unveiling, and Hepp ner's school band strikes up Christ mas music at the tree, Santa will find Heppner's main thoroughfare and shops a fairyland replete with charm and cheer, and all who come to greet him should have hearts warmed. No Scrooges will be left in Heppner after Saturday, the com mittee avers. It is the desire of the steering committee that everyone within Heppner's trading radius should have a ticket to the treasure hunt. to start promptly at 7:30. Anyone who has not obtained a ticket so far is asked to call for it at any of the businesses whose names appear in the ad announcing the event in this issue. Apples Go Crazy, Appear Twice in Year, As Weather Balmy An apple tree on the L. D. Neill Butter creek farm has gone as balmy as the weather, reports this county commissioner. When Mr. Neill came to town yesterday to attend the regular court meeting, he brought a sack of evidence. Displayed were a bunch of scrawny apples, not very luscious in appearance, but fully formed just the same, put forth by an early sweet apple tree, its sec ond crop of the year. CHRISTMAS TREES We will have Christmas trees for sale again this year. Come and pick for yourself. We deliver. Green', Feed Store. CHRISTMAS SEALS GET GOOD DEMAND Sale Up With Year Ago, But Additional Impetus Needed for Extra Nurse Service The annual Christmas seal sale is progressing very satisfactorily, with the purchase of seals through the Morrow County Public Health as sociation aggregating the same amount as last year for the first week of the drive, reports Miss Rose Leibbrand, county chairman. It will be necessary to register an even greater sales result this year due to the county budget allowing funds for a six months' nursing service and the' association's pledge to provide $250 as their contribution to this service. The Christmas seal sale funds are awarded to the individual counties on a per capita basis. Last year, as Morrow county sold more than six seals per person the public health association kept in the local treas urv 65 per cent of all funds collect ed. This year our goal is to sell a minimum of 7 seals per person m Morrow county, thus assuring our local fund 70 per cent of all money collected. Expenses of administering the as sociation's Christmas seal sale are those of supplies only, no one of the county committee or the local chair men being paid for their time and work. Last year, as it was impossible for committee members of the asso ciation to attend the state convention of the public health service in Sa lem, traveling expenses were saved. All monies collected in Morrow county which are kept in the local fund are expended for supplies, baby clinics, tuberculin tests, flouroscope tests, diphtheria mnoculations, smallpox vaccinations, and a regular pledge to pay about one-third of the county nurses salary. When you buy Christmas - seals for your letters and cards you are purchasing protection against dis ease, preventing epidemics and making your county a safe place in which to live. Lions' Objectives Told at Luncheon Citing from its ten years of con tinuous service to Heppner, Spen cer Crawford related before the Monday Lions luncheon how the club had largely attained the ob jectives as set out in the constitu tion of the international organization. In one instance, "bringing together a group of men representative of the business interests of the community," he believed it had fallen short, but from standpoints of furthering a bet ter understanding among its mem bers, of fostering a spirit of health ful competition, of cooperating with other groups in attaining community improvements, and of assisting un fortunate children to better sight, he believed the club record would show other objectives to have been attained. Eddie Kenny, Morrow county's silver voiced Irish tenor deputy as sessor, added enjoyment to the oc casion by singing two popular balads of Old Erin. He was accompanied by Miss Marjorie Parker. Firemen Slate Treat For Kiddies on 16th A second appearance of Santa Claus at Heppner's big Christmas tree will be sponsored by Heppner firemen at 7:30 Saturday evening, the 16th, as a prelude to their annual ball to be held at the Elks hall. Santa will have a treat for all the kiddies, promises Ralph Beamer, fire chief, who extends invitation for all to greet the jolly old fellow on this second appearance as well as the first time he calls next Saturday eve ning in connection with Christmas opening at the stores. Poinsettias for Christmas. Bril liant, long-lasting. Phone 1332, city, 39-40 The Dalles Man Urges Cooperation In Empire Building Impetus Given Commercial Club Move at Meeting Painting a graphic word picture of the "Parade of Progress" in de velopment of the vast empire be tween the Rockies and Cascades, W. S. Nelson, for 16 years secretary of The Dalles chamber of commerce, brought to Heppner a stirring ap peal for community cooperation throughout the region to bring about the larger industrial development bound to result from recent "ener gizing." He spoke before a repre sentative group of Heppner business men at a dinner meeting at Hotel Heppner Tuesday evening. The meeting was called in course of a movement launched recently to re establish a commercial club here. The energizing to which the speak er referred was completion and near-completion of Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams with their pow er plants. P. W. Mahoney was chairman of the meeting an dintroduced, along with Mr. Nelson, two other active members at The Dalles, Ward R. Weber, past president, and J. R. Farrington, district manager Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. Mrs. O. G. Crawford sang two solos with Mrs. J. O. Turner at the piano. D. M. Ward told of the objective of the local move to obtain thirty sponsors who would agree to con tribute $2.50 a month toward sup port of the club, which he believed would assure successful operation Continued on Page Eight Mrs. L. W. Briggs Rites Set for Tomorrow One of the last members of a pio neer family, Mrs. L. W. Briggs, 77, will be honored at funeral rites at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the Methodist church, Rev. R. C. Young officiating. Interment will be in Masonic cemetery, and Case mortu ary is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. L. W. Briggs passed away at the family home on Center street yesterday evening following a ling ering illness that had kept her bed fast .for several weeks. Surviving are the husband, L. W. Briggs, coun ty treasurer; daughters, Miss Opal Briggs and Mrs. Ray Taylor; one brother, Millard P. French, all of this city, besides five grandsons, sev eral nieces and nephews, including Berl Gurdane of Umatilla, also a host of friends from a lifetime of Christian living. Hannah French was born October 18, 1862, near Brookston, Indiana, the daughter of Asa D. and Ruth E. French. The family came to Oregon in the fall of 1880, landing by boat at Umatilla landing the day Presi dent Garfield was elected. Locating first on Willow creek above Hepp ner, they later moved to Hinton creek where Miss French's home was made until her marriage, Feb. 10, 1886, to Leon W. Briggs, with whom she lived until her death, December 6, 1939. In early girlhood she united with the Baptist church, later, with her husband, uniting with the Method ist church of Heppner, of which she was a faithful and devoted member until the time of her death, and was treasurer of the Womans Foreign Missionary society from its organi zation until she passed away, and she was active in other activities of the church. To her and her husband were born four children, Eunice Ruth, who passed away in the Heppner flood of 1903, and Opal D. and Loa E. (Taylor), who are yet living and reside in Heppner, and Julius French Briggs who died in 1922.