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IQNE NEWS
Mcllting Snow Bad
on Country Roads
By MRS. ELMER GRIFFITH
John W. Schleevoight died at his
home near Morgan Tuesday morn
ing after an extended illness. Fun
eral services will be held here Fri
day.
According to the weather observer
at Morgan there were 2.52 inches
of moisture in January. This makes
a total of 4.83 inches since Septem
ber first, most of which fell in the
last two months. Rain Monday
night and wind on Tuesday melted
the remaining snow and consider
able water was running down the
canyons. Country roads are in bad
condition, being muddy and badly
washed by water from the melting
snow.
Dan O'Hara drove over from Kin
zua Sunday and took his wife home.
She had been here caring for her
sister, Bonnie Smith, who has been
ill for the last two weeks, but is
now improved. Miss Bonnie and
her father, Robert Smith, accom
panied the O'Haras home.
Guests of Mrs. Ada Cannon the
latter part of the week were her
son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Truman Cannon (Maxine Carl
man) who were married recently
in Portland. On Wednesday evening
friends gathered to give them an
old fashioned charivari.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Linn and
Clarence Linn arrived Monday for
a visit with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. P. J. Linn. The men are em
ployed in the lumber mill at Ver
nonia, and are enjoying a week's
vacation while repairs are being
made.
Wm. Hayes returned to lone Fri
day after spending some time in
Texas, where he visited his mother
and other relatives.
Mrs. Jack Farris spent the week
end in Portland, where she visited
her daughter, Mrs. Elwynne Peck,
and had dental work done.
Bert Mason, chairman of the drive
to aid infantile paralysis sufferers,
reports that proceeds from the par
ty Saturday evening were forty
dollars. There will be a little more.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Lundell and
son Wallace were painfully injured
Saturday night when- their car
struck an icy place on the road
while they were going home, and
overturned. Mr. Lundell sustained
a broken collar bone and all were
painfully bruised. Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Zinter, who were just be
hind the Lundell car, took them
home, and their son Raymond took
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them to Heppner to a physician. The
car was badly damaged.
Fans who attended the basketball
game Saturday evening between the
town teams of lone and Condon
report a fast, close game. lone was
victor by a score of 52-24.
Elmer Griffith spent a few days
the first of the week in Portland
and other Valley points, attending
to business matters. .
Mrs. John Turner of Baker spent
the week end here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Engelman. Mr.
Turner and his sister, Mrs. LaDusire
of La Grande, accompanied her and
visited in Heppner.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Beckner spent
last Wednesday and Thursday at
Athena. Mrs. Fred Mankin accom
panied them and went to Walla Wal
la to see her daughter, Betty Jean,
a student at St. Paul's.
Henry Smouse was a Pendleton
visitor Monday.
The Topic club study meeting will
be held at the home of Mrs. M. E.
Cotter Friday, Feb. 9. The social
meeting will be at the same place
on Saturday evening, Feb. 17.
Margaret Anne, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George G. Krebs of Cecil,
was brought home from The Dalles
Sunday. She has been a patient
there, suffering from the combined
effects of influenza and measles, but
is now improving.
Northwest Problems
Told in U-0 Review
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Febry. 7. (Special) Featuring a
number of articles dealing with so
cial, school and civic troblems of
the Pacific Northwest, the January
issue of the Commonwealth Review,
University of Oregon publication,
appeared this week.
Need for a definite program to
care for the increasing influx of peo
ple into this region is pointed out
in an article by Dr. Philip A. Par
sons, head of the university depart
ment of sociology and former mem
ber of the Oregon State Planning
board. More attention to the devel
opment of democratic attitudes and
habits in boys and girls is urged as
a part of the curriculum revision
program for schools by Hugh B.
Wood, professor of education.
Other articles described civil ser
vice and state bank supervision, the
veterans' preference and the merit
system in Oregon, future reclama
tion, and planning conference for
Oregon cities.
Arlene Noble is back to school
being absent three weeks because
of a bad case of the flu.
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner,
BOARDMAN NEWS
Boardman NearsTie
With Irrigon
Ey MRS. CLAUD COATS
Mrs. I. L. Stout returned home
Monday from Boise, Idaho, where
she has been visiting her brother.
A surprise birthday card party
was held for Effie Bullock at Mc
Farland's on Tuesday, Jan. 30. Those
present were Mr. and Mrs. O. O.
Merritt, Carl Doering, Mr. and Mrs.
I. Skoubo, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kunze,
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Faler, Mr, and
Mrs. Chas. Anderegg, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Brown, the honoree, Miss Effie
Bullock, and the host and hostess,
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. McFarland.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stever and
Ray moved to Meacham Sunday,
where Mr. Stever bid in on the
raidroad.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Massey were
in Portland on business last week.
Ralph Harwood, W. A. Baker and
Paul Smith attended the county
committee meeting of the Soil Con
servation project in Heppner Thurs
day. Mr. and Mrs. I. Skoubo, Mrs. Ed
Kunze and Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Mc
Farland attended the Umatilla coun
ty Pomona grange meeting in Cold
Springs on Thursday.
Dinner guests of Mrs. Olive Atte
bury and Mrs. Eva Warner on
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Leo V.
Root, Mrs. M. Klitz and Miss Esther
Jones.
F. L. Brown, formerly of Board
man, is very ill at his home in Nys-
sa. Mrs. Howard Packard, nee Es
ther Brown, of Hermiston was call
ed to his bedside.
A local soil conservation meeting
was held at the school house on
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Tannehill and
Keith, who have been in California
with his parents who are ill, return
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Mrs. Charles Anderegg is in Port
land visiting friends.
The community church is being
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Leslie Pepper from Portland has
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