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Volume 56, Number 46
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, Jan. 18, 1940
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Mustangs Lead
'A' Division in
Wheat League
Irrigon Noses Out
Boardman in Class
'B' Competition
Heppner high school's Mustangs
are leading the "A" division of the
Wheat Basketball league with a
perfect score of 1000 per cent up to
date. The local basketball squad
has met two opponents and van
quished both. Condon, defeated
by Heppner in the first game, has
won two and lost one, attaining a
rating of .666. Arlington rates .500
and Fossil so far has played and lost
three games.
In the hardest fought game this
year Heppner lost their game to the
. Pendleton B team by a score of
35-32, Tuesday evening on the home
floor.
Pendleton held the lead during
the first half but Heppner was ahead
at the end of the third quarter.
The Mustangs held this lead until
the last few minutes of the fourth
quarter, when Pendleton again took
the lead and held it.
Howard Wray was high point man
with 11 points, while Doug Drake
held second with 8 points.
For Pendleton Carriott and Leaf
each scored 9 points.
The B team for Heppner succeed
ed in defeating the sophomore team
from Pendleton by a score of 30-20.
. In the "B" league, Irrigon slipped
into undisputed first place by de
feating Boardman, 18-11, making the
standing so far five wins and one
loss or .833. Boardman follows
closely with four victories and one
loss; Umatilla even, three and three;
Lexington, two and three; lone and
Echo, one and four each.
Games this week end will see
competition between Heppner and
Arlington at Arlington and Condon
at Fossil. While the Mustangs have
been clicking in good fashion, Vince
Barrett's hopefuls at Arlington have
not fared so well. Losses to Baker
and Condon on succeeding nights
and a third loss to John Day later
in the week have not left the Ar
lington boys in a good humor and
it is likely they will extend them
selves to stage a comeback at Hepp
ner's expense. For that reason an
effort is being made to take a size
able delegation of Mustang support
ers to the river city tomorrow eve
ning. Long Expected Fire
Almost Happened
An event long expected almost
happened Wednesday morning when
the fire department was called out
to quench a fire in the old planing
mill building on Gale street. The
fire siren called the fire laddies out
about 5:30 a. m. when it was dis
covered that a small fire was burn
ing in the front of the building.
The near conflagration started in
a room occupied by W. P. Prophet.
When first discovered it was burn
ing on the floor at the rear of a
stove and by the time the depart
ment reached the scene it had reach
thp wall. The blaze was checked
shortly and the damage was very
slight.
Mrs. Lucy Rodgers returned to
hpr office In the courthouse Tues
day after an absence of several
weeks. She returned from the
meeting of Oregon State Teachers
association in Portland with a bad
cold and was hospitalized for nearly
two weeks. She was able to leave
the hospital Monday.
A seven and one -half pound baby
eirl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lon
ny McCabe at the Heppner hospital
Tuesday morning, Jan. 16. The
mother, who was Ruth Keene, is a
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam T. Campbell of Heppner.
Soil Conservation
Service Lions Topic
Projects easily accessible to the
main camp must be provided if the
soil conservation service work of the
Civilian Conservation corps is1 to
be maintained in this area. So stat
ed" Lt.'ivfar ius V. ' Hahford, camp
commander, to Heppner Lions club
at the Monday luncheon.
The subject was presented by
President M. L. Case and Lt. Han
ford explained the situation con
fronting the local camp in answer
to questions submitted by the var
ious members.
It was explained by Lt. Hanford
that although there is work enough
to require the services of a camp
for an indefinite period, that which
may be reached by no more than
one half hour's ride from the central
camp has for the most part been
completed. There are now enough
projects on the schedule of the camp
to keep it going throughout this
i vear. the tentative date for remov
ing the olcal unit having been set
as March 1, 1941. There is no assur
ance, however, that the camp will
remain here that long, or that it
may remain much longer. If the
need of the camp and the practica
bility of projects can be shown the
right authorities it. will doubtless re
main here, it was stated.
A boys' trio from Heppner high
school, accompanied by Dorothy
Huit, appeared on the program,
singing "Isle of Capri" as originally
written and then giving their own
version. The Lions club quartet also
sang two numbers.
Business Women
Plan Year's Work
Civic improvement was the lead
ins tonic before the Business and
Professional - Womens club at its
meeting Tuesday evening. The group
met first for dinner at Hotel Hepp
ner and adjourned to the home of
Mrs. Floyd Jones for the program
and business meeting.
The club members would seek to
improve the appearance of the town
and for that purpose appointed Lo-
rena Jones, Harriett Pointer and
Clara Beamer as a committee to
make a survey of old, unsightly
buildings that are fire hazards. Sug
gestions were made anent the paint
ing of homes, planting shrubs,
planting and trimming trees, in
eluding a lane of trees leading up
to the schoolhouse as a measure
for beautifying the town. The club
decided to continue sponsoring the
milk fund for indigent ' first and
second grade school children until
Februarv first, and to hold the Mo
thers' and Daughters' banquet in
the soring.
The uroeram was in charge of
Martha Blair and was built on the
tonic. "What is a Democracy?" The
president, Rose Leibbrand, presided.
SCHOOL MASTERS MEET
Thf Morrow County School Mas
ters club met in Heppner Monday
evening with an attendance of 19.
The meeting was held at Hotel
Heppner where dinner was served at
6:30 o'clock. The club membership
is comprised of the men faculty
members of the several schools of
the county and the meetings rotate
between Heppner, Lexington, lone,
Boardman and Irrigon. Entertain
ment was provided by the ladies'
quartet of the Heppner school, the
Misses White, Forsythe, Mcllhenny
and Blair, who sang several num
bers, and dancing by Mrs. Robert
Knox, with Mrs. Alden Blankenship
as accompanist.
ATTEND PORTLAND MEETING
A group of Heppner men drove
to Portland Tuesday afternoon to be
on hand at the annual meeting of
the Northwest Livestock Production
Credit association. The meeting was
held in the Imperial hotel starting
at 10 o'clock a. m., Wednesday, with
the annual dinner served at noon.
Those going from here were David
Hynd, Frank Wilkinson, D. A. Wil
son, also Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Barratt.
City of lone Joins
Ranks of Towns
Having No Bonds
Water Department
Slate Cleared as
Final Payment Made
Citizens of lone are rejoicing. The
reason: Tuesday, the city council
paid off the last bond that had been
issued against the city water de
partment, thus retiring the last ves
tige of bonded indebtedness against
the city.
When the original system was
put in, wooden mains were used.
These had to be replaced about 15
years ago and to cover the expense
a bond issue was floated. Recon
struction was made with iron pipe
and now with the bonds paid off
the mains are still in good condition
with nothing more than ordinary
replacements to take care ot.
A notable fact about the lone
water system is that during the
worst. years of the depression the
city was able to take up the bonds
before they became due.
City officials charged with the
operation of the water system and
who celebrated the payment of the
final bond include Bert Mason, ma
yor; Mrs. P. J. Linn, treasurer, and
councilmen E. R. Lundell, P. J. Linn,
J. H. Bryson, Garland Swanson and
George N. Ely. P. J. Linn is water
superintendent.
1940 AAA Program
To be Discussed
"Our Work for 1940" is the discus
sion subiect of farm program lead
ers of Oregon counties at a series of
seven district conferences being
held at Redmond, Arlington, Grants
Pass, Gresham, La Grande, Corvallis
and Burns.
County committeemen, secretar
ies and assistant secretaries from
each county office are attending, to
meet with state AAA committee
men, AAA fieldmen, commodity
specialists and extension service re
presentatives. Following the district conferences,
each county will hold a meeting,
with commodity AAA committee
men and farm supervisors attend
ing. That there are few changes in the
1940 farm program has been pointed
out by the state office at Corvallis.
Following is the schedule of meet
ings: January 17, Redmond, Crook, De
schutes, Klamath counties; January
22. Ai'intrton. Wheeler, Wasco, Sher
man, Gilliam, Morrow, Umatilla
counties; January 23, Grants Pass,
Jackson, Josephine, Douglas coun
ties; January 24, Gresham, Marion,
Washineton. Columbia, Multnomah,
Hood River, Clackamas counties;
January 24, La Grande, Union, Wal
lowa, Baker counties; January 26,
Corvallis, Lane, Linn, Yamhill, Polk,
Benton counties; February 7, Burns,
Harney, Grant, Lake counties.
ATTEND SALEM MEETING
A group of young people from
the Heppner Methodist church at
tended a youth conference in Salem
the past week end. Delegations from
over the state were in attendance
and the local group reports the best
meting of the kind ever held at
Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wells
and Frank W. Turner provided
transportation for the young people,
who were Lynn Holman, Johnny
Fuiten, Ben Shingle, Ruth Green,
Jack O'Hara, Wilma Hudson and
Laura Warfield. Rev. R. J. Young
accompanied the young people as
counsellor.
Charles Klinger was in Heppner
Monday from his ranch north of
Lexington. He reports good winter
weather in his section and states
that more moisture will be acceptable.
C. of C. Formally
Launched Friday
Organization plans of the newly
formed Heppner chamber of com
merce were completed last Friday
when a representative group of bus
iness men met at a luncheon at IIo-
The by-laws recommended by the
board of directors were read to the
group and after explanation of a few
points were adopted. Projects ac
cepted by the directors were also
explained to the membership and
after discussion were given approv
al. The president made committee
appointments on two matters, a free
matinee at the local theater and the
retention of the CCC unit at Hepp
ner. Other committee appointments
will be made as projects are pre
sented. Retention of the CCC camp here
received attention not only from
regular members but from invited
guests as well. J. J. Wightman and
Frank Wilkinson spoke in favor of
the chamber of commerce and all
other groups getting to work on this
important matter if the camp is to
be kept here. All of those speaking
about the camp expressed the feel
ing that the work is only nicely be
gun here and in order to carry on
work that should be done the camp
should remain here many years.
A monthly meeting of the new
organization will be held and the
first Wednesday in each month was
the date chosen. This will be a din
ner meeting to which the entire
membership is invited and the hour
is 6:30 o'clock.
Lexington Youth
Gains Recognition
Oregon high school football play
ers loomed in Stephen Epler's All
American six-man football team as
printed in the February issue of the
American Boy. Of five men men
tioned from Oregon, three were
from Umatilla county schools, one
from Morrow county and one from
Jackson county.
Of greatest interest to Morrow
county people is the mention of
Donald Campbell of Lexington.
Donald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Campbell, played end on the Lex
ington six-man team the past season.
Donald Smith, end, Pilot Rock; Car
roll Clement, quarterback, Gold Hill
and Maurice Johns, fullback, Ath
ena, were the other Oregon boys
receiving honorable mention. Don
MdEwen, 18-year-old student of
Griswold union high school, Helix,
was named on the All-American
six-man squad as fullback. He is
the first Oregon boy to be selected
on the American Boy All-American
six-man football team.
Lexington has been playing six
man football for three years and
already three former team members
have been given positions on foot
ball squads of state universities, ac
cording to Principal Sherman.
School officials, students, family and
friends are naturally elated over
the recognition given young Camp
bell.
MOVES TO PENDLETON
Hubert Gaily, for nearly eight
years a clerk in the Heppner office
of the Pacific Power & Light com
pany, left yesterday for Pendleton
to assume a similar position with the
company. His family will remain in
Heppner temporarily. Cliff Janison
has come from the Pendleton office
to take the position left by Gaily,
He will move his family here as soon
as living quarters are obtained.
NEW RECRUITS ARRIVE
A contingent of 42 new recruits
arrived from Vancouver this morn
ing assigned to Camp Heppner CCC
A special car attached to the local
train brought the boys to their new
location. These recruits are re
placement for "tree troopers" whose
time had expired and for those
who have taken transfers to other
branches of government service.
Henry Smouse and son Kenneth
were business visitors in Heppner
Tuesday.
County Health
Program Swings
Into Full Motion
Committee Reports
on Activities and Re
sults of Seal Sales
With Miss Lucile Vale in charge
of baby conferences, pre-school
children conferences, school sur
veys and tuberculosis testing sched
ules, the Morrow county public
health program is underway. Miss
Vale has been getting acquainted
and learning the highways and by
ways while organizing the county
into health units.
A local representative will be ' in.
charge of arrangements in each dis
trict under the supervision of Miss
Vale. The county has been divided
into districts centering around
Heppner, Lexington, lone, Pine City,
Alpine, Boardman, Irrigon and
Eight Mile.
The first public health conferences
will be held this week starting at
Lexington today, with one at lone
tomorrow. Dr. Davis of the state
public health association is in charge
of vaccinations for smallpox and
immunizations for diphtheria in
these two schools. A small charge
of 15 cents per child will be neces
sary to defray the cost of serums
and vaccines used.
Sale of Christmas seals netted the
Morrow County Public Health as
sociation $351.76, or approximately
$100 more than last year. The asso
ciation pledged $250 towards the sal
ary of the county health nurse and
that sum is now assured. Due to
the sale equalling seven seals per
capita the local association will be
able to retain 70 per cent of all
money collected, thus increasing lo
cal funds by five per cent, as last
year only 65 per cent was available
to this community.
The seal sale by districts in the
county was as follows: Heppner
$181.18, lone $38.95, Lexington $28.54,
Boardman $45.10, Irrigon $6.77, Lena
(Pine City) $16.50, Eight Mile $23.50,
and Hardman $11.22.
Appreciation for good services
rendered and for increasing the sales
in their districts has been expressed
by the health association to the
chairmen of the several districts in
cluding Mrs. James Leach, Lexing
ton; Mrs. Omar Rietmann, lone;
Mrs. Faye Finch, Lena; Mrs. Ralph
Jones, Irrigon; George Corwin,
Boardman; Miss Pat Bleakman,
Hardman, and Leonard Carlson,
Eight Mile.
Ranch Hand Held
On Larceny Count
Arrested in Pendleton Saturday
evening on information sent out by
Sherif C. J. D. Bauman, Oscar Jones
was brought back to Heppner to
face a charge of larceny and is be
ing held in the Morrow county jail
in lieu of $500 bonds. Jones is
charged with larceny of wool tags
from the ranch of Frank Wilkinson.
Two other young men, whose
names were withheld by the author
ities, were alleged to have been in
volved with Jones. One of these
was taken up by the sheriff and
confessed his part in the transac
tion and involved Jones as the chief
offender. Jones was employed at
the Wilkinson place for two years
or more. He was laid off at holiday
time and came to town to stay. The
count against him is for theft of
property in excess of $35 valuation.
He is being held for trial in the
circuit court.
GRAND JURY REPORT DUE
The grand jury was in session
Friday and Saturday of last week,
considering several cases. A report
on the findings is expected when
Cii cuit Judge Calvin L. Sweek visits
the courthouse this week end.