Page Two 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 mum, mop, pbotktwti Errands done . . . dates made . . . convenience in a thousand directions when you have a telephone ! Our pledge to you is this : Friendly service, as de- pendable, accurate and speedy as we can make i it. Constantly improved by research and inven- ! tion. A value to you that far outweighs its price. i flTHB PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY BUSINESS OFFICE, 4 WEST WILLOW STREET, HEPPNER, OREGON 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 $ STAR FOR STYLING If' " Feast your eyes Cf on the smooth-flowing lines and contours of this best-selling Chevrolet for '40, with New "Royal Clipper" Styling. . . . Note that it's the longest of all lowest-priced cars, measuring 181 inches from front of grille to rear of body. . . . 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