Thursday, Jan. 18, 1940
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Three
USXINGTON NEWS
Grange Presents
Attendance Gifts
By MARGARET SCOTT
Mr. and Mrs. Oral Scott are
spending a few days in Portland
where Mrs. Scott is receiving med
ical treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Cutsforth
were visitors in Portland and Hub
bard last week.
A. M. Edwards and daughter Edith
SpeH't-tKeirst jf tug "Week 'l&ft,rt
land and Bay Center, Wash.
Zelma Way, Lavelle Pieper, An
netta Calvin, Suzanne Buchanan and
Neal Knighten spent Tuesday in
The Dalles.
The Study club will meet next
Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the school
house. The Merry Thimblers club was
entertained last Thursday at the
Ann Johnston home with Bernice
Healy as hostess. Mrs. Randall Mar
tin was a guest. Delicious refresh
ments of plum pudding and coffee
were served. The next meeting will
be at the home of LaVerne Hender
son. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Van Winkle
had as their guests Saturday eve
ning, Mr. and Mrs. Laurel Ruhl and
son and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Gray
and family. The evening was spent
in playing games after which re
freshments of sandwiches, cake,
and coffee were served.
Mr. and Mrs. John Padberg are
living in the Ray McAlister house.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Warner and
Lou Broadley are visiting relatives
in the valley.
A no-hostess "50" party was held
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James
Leach Saturday evening. Those
present were Mr. and Mrs. Callie
Ihincan, Mr. and Mrs. Ladd Sher
man, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Warner, Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Hunt, Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Jackson, Mr. and Mrs.
John Miller, Lou Broadley, Ann
Johnson, Mrs. Hershal Talbot and
Mr. and Mrs. James Leach. Refresh
ments were served.
The monthly grange meeting was
held Saturday evening with a large
crowd present. A very interesting
program was presented by Grace M.
Turner, lecturer, which consisted
of the following numbers: Commun
ity singing, vocal solos by Mr. Mof
fatt Dennis; presentation of Scout
cup to Carl Marquardt; skit by
Thelma Smethurst and Mrs. Burton
Peck; accordian solo by Elmer
Pieper; radio skit, "Battle of the
Sexes," conducted by Master C. J.
D. Bauman and Lecturer Grace
Turner, and community singing,
"God Bless America." Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Saling and Edith Edwards
were presented with gifts of appre
ciation due to the fact that they
had not missed a grange meeting
during 1939.
Newsmen of State
To Meet Jan. 25
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Jan. 17. (Special) Newpapermen
of Oregon will hear about propa
ganda, the Oriental situation, coast
labor problems, newspaper features
and various phases of advertising
when they meet on the University
of Oregon campus Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, January 25, 26 and
27, it was announced here today by
George Turnbull, professor of jour
nalism and secretary of the confer
ence. Headline speakers will include
Donald J. Sterling, managing editor
of the Oregon Journal, who will
speak on features; Wayne L. Mor
ris, dean of the university law school
and coast arbitrator for maritime
labor controversies; Philip L. Par
ish, chief editorial writer for The
Oregonian, whose subject will be
propaganda; Harold J. JNoble, pro
fessor of history at the university,
who has just returned from Japan,
and Robert G. Smith, advertsing
director of Lipman, Wolfe and com
pany, Portland.
The latest "dope" on the Oregon
championship team will be given by
Howard Hobson, who will be speak
er at the Friday luncheon. State
agricultural advertising laws will
be explained by Merle W. Manly,
vice-president of Botsford-Constan-tine
and Gardner, Portland. "The
Newspaper Looks at the Motion
Picture" is the topic selected by
Laurence E. Spraker, of the Stayton
Mail.
The handling of labor news will
be explained by Dick Fagan, writer
for the Oregon Journal, while the
lucrative sidelines open to the week
ly papers will be told by Joe E.
Brown, publisher of the Redmond
Spokesman. "The Legislature and
the Newspaper" will be the subject
of Giles L. French, publisher of the
Moro Journal and member of the
house of representatives.
y P. Railroad Boosts
Paralysis Fund
In a letter to officials, general ag
ents, agents and station masters
throughout the 11 states in which
the railroad operates, W. M. Jeffers,
president of the Union Pacific sys
tem, has requested that local chair
men of the President's Birthday ball
be advised of the railroad's plans to
cooperate in the campaign against
infantile paralysis.
President Jeffers said that not
only would envelopes, addresed to
the President, Washington, D. C,
and so constructed as to permit the
insertion of coins and bills, be dis
tributed on all Union Pacific trains,
but that local committees will be
permitted to place in all Union Pa
cific stations coin containers in
which the public may deposit contributions.
Woman with boy desires day work
in town. Would take steady job in
country. Inquire at Wilson's cabins.
Willows Grange
Has Busy Season
Willows grange entertained with
dancing last Saturday evening. Ev
eryone expressed an enjoyable eve
ning. The hall is well equipped for en
tertaining large as well as small
crowds, there being ample floor
space for dancing, exceptionally
good lighting system, a modern
stage and in the basement are
dressing and rest rooms, and a large
dining room. Dancing will be en
joyed on the second Saturday eve
ning of each month.
On Saturday evening, Jan. 27, the
regular meeting of Willows grange
will be held. The lecturer has pre
pared the following program.
Song, "The Grange is Marching
On"; talk, excerpts from the na
tional master's address, Marjorie
Baker; round, Know, Know, Know
Your Grange; quiz, true and false;
talk, County Agent Clifford Conrad;
game, How I Can Improve My
Grange; song, "Blest Be the Tie."
A list of members attending each
meeting will be kept by the lecturer
to be reported quarterly to the state
lecturer. A gold 4th degree pin will
be given each month during 1940.
To get the pin the person whose
name is drawn must be present to
receive it, or the pin will go to an
other drawee.
The Home Economics club will en
tertain the membership in an all
day meeting and pot luck dinner on
Friday, Jan. 19. Place, the hall.
Men are requested to bring their
hammers and saws as the entire day
will be spent in building partitions
in the basement and other necessary
work. Come early and stay late.
SUMMER SESSION DATES SET
Oregon State College Prelimin
ary announcements by the Oregon
state system of higher education
summer sessions show the dates
here for the coming summer to be
June 24 to August 2 for the major
session, and August 5 to September
6 for the second session. Nine term
hours 'oi" credit "may' Wearned in
either session. The summer session
of the Institute of Marine Biology
at Coos Head will be held June 17
to July 26. This session, combining
the features of a beach vacation
with scientific study, has been of
particular interest to teachers of
biology and others interested in the
marine life of the Oregon coast.
BOARDMAN DANCE SATURDAY
J. F. Gorham, committeeman for
Boardman, has informed Dr. A. D.
McMurdo, county chairman, that
plans have been completed for hold
ing the President's Birthday ball
in his community Saturday evening,
Jan. 20. An invitation has been ex
tended the people of the county to
attend this event.
Jeanne Huston Gaines, formerly of
Lucille's Beaty shoppe, wishes to
welcome her friends to the Marcia
Beauty Shop where she is now em
ployed. 513 Raleigh Bldg., Portland,
between Sixth and Broadway on
Washington. Tel. At. 5733. 45-47p.
Youth Administration
Helps Many at U.-O.
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Jan. 17. (Special) National Youth
Administration funds amounting to
$13,524 helped 400 ambitious Uni
versity of Oregon students work their
way through school during the fall
term jst completed, Karl W. On
thank, dean of personnel and cam
pus NYA director, announced today.
Grading d a r e r s. stenographic
f ' -
I work,' raking leaves, and other tasks'
are done by students who earn from
$10 to $20 a month. The average al
lotment is $11.50 a month. Above
average classroom work is required
of the NYA students. Last spring
term, 3 students of the 11 on the
honor roll were NYA employees.
Of the NYA students, 11.8 per cent
made the honor roll, while only 3.7
per cent of the entire student body
gained this distinction.
Hcrmiston Lands for Sale Fifty
acres alfalfa and irrigated pasture;
also similar 20, 10 and 3 acres. All
places have buildings, electric lights,
near town, gravel roads, daily mail
and milk routes. Also 200 acres ir
rigated farm and pasture land to
trade range stock ranch, and some
unimproved irrigated land. Write E.
P. Dodd, Hermiston, Ore. 45p.
Chopped and baled hay for sale.
Lotus Robison, Rhea creek. 44-45p.
Let G. T. Want Ads help you dis
pose of surplus stocky
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-Morrow County Joins
the Campaign Against
D INFANTS IE PARAIY
LET US MAINTAIN our reputation for supporting this war on a disease that annu
ally leaves thousands of sufferers in its wake many of them hopelessly crippled
and who without the funds so generously subscribed throughout the land would
be denied the benefits of proper treatment. . .See your local committee about meth
ods of assistance.
Attend the
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resident's Birthday
SATURDAY; JAN. 27
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