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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE,
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES.
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912
Published every Thursday morning by
CBAWFOBD PUBLISHING COMPANY
and entered at the Post Office at HeDD
ner, Oregon, as second-class matter,
JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor
SPENCER CRAWFORD, Manager
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Official Paper for Morrow County
Machinery Not
Proper Alibi
LlOW often have we heard attempts
to explain away the unemploy
ment situation by placing the blame
on the machine age." This alibi
has been offered all the way from
the highest administration circles
down to the unfortunate fellow on
relief and still there is nothing con
vincing about it. The most com
vincing proof lies on the side of
labor saving machinery, as figures
of the last 20 years will illustrate
Two-thirds of our new invention
produce new articles and new jobs,
During the 1920 s there was a de
cline of about 800,000 jobs due to
new methods. But there was an
increase of 2,300,000 jobs due to new
articles and cheaper production
from new inventions.
Going back farther and taking
the printing industry as an example,
we have further convincing proof
that the machine age is responsi
ble for a heavy increase in employ
ment. When the linotype was in
vented in 1885, to set as much type
as ten men could set by hand, jour
neymen printers thought they were
ruined. But this and other develop
ments in the printing craft so vast
ly increased the use of printing that
the industry today gives employ
ment to seven times as many men
as were employed in 1885. Carrying
the argument further, it is pointed
out that 11 times as many men work
in the automoible industry as ever
did in the horse and buggy indus
try. Evidently solution of the unem
ployment problem lies not in shack
ling free enterprise, but in encour
aging invention and investment, to
make new jobs.
Band Captivates
Heppner Audience
An audience comfortably filling
the high school gym-auditorium
Monday evening heard the finest
band concert ever presented here
by Captain Harry L. Beard and one
of his Oregon State College band.
It may be truthfully said that it
was the finest band concert ever
presented here, since the college
band is one of few such organiza
tions of rote that ever played here.
While each number was received
with enthusiasm, the real warm-up
came when Capt. Beard's own num
ber, "Ain't Goin' to Rain No More,"
fairly raised the listeners out of
their seats. From that time on the
demand grew stronger for encores.
This was accomplished at the end
of the regular program. The band
master and his group of 43 musi
cians couldn't say good-night until
five additional numbers had been
played.
The band staged a parade on Main
street at 4 p. m. which was wit
nessed by several hundred people.
Captain Beard had invited four ma
jorettes from the Heppner school
band to lead the college boys. Those
participating were Dorothy Huit,
Norma Prock, Constance Instone,
and Jean Hays. Unused to the snap
py 30-inch stride of the collegians,
the girls at first found it difficult
to keep their positions but after
a number or two they swung into
stride and formed a distinctive part
of the parade.
The band arrived from Prineville
Sunday evening and left at 8 o'
clock Tuesday morning for Milton -Freewater.
Monroe Turner is reported ser
iously ill at his home in Heppner.
Smallpox Danger
Always Present
When a disease becomes some
what rare many people grow care
less about it and develop a false
sense of security, says Lucille H.
Vale, Morrow county health nurse.
Precautions against smallpox and
other contagious diseases should
never be relaxed, she says, for the
disease germs smoulder hue and
there awaiting favorable conditions
to break out. The epidemic may
appear in mild form but is just as
likely to be severe.
Smallpox is one contagious dis
ease which may be readily prevent
ed by use of vaccine. Until 1796,
When Edward Jenner discovered the
process of vaccination, smallpox ep
idemics claimed thousands of lives
throughout the world. Since the
use of vaccine has become general
the disease, while not being com
pletely stamped out, has been kept
under control and loss of life from
that source has become negligent.
Miss Vale offers the following
rules regarding vaccination: The
first vaccination should be perform
ed at six months of age. The sec
ond when the children enter school
for the first time. Everyone known
to have eben exposed to a case of
smallpox should be vaccinated or
re-vaccinated.
Future Farmers to
Vie at Arlington
Future Farmers of America will
meet at Arlington Friday, March 22,
in a sectional contest for the Col
umbia basin. Morrow county units
will be represented in the various
contests, including poultry judging,
rafter cutting, forging, soldering,
milk testing, rope work, making el
ectrical appliances, grain judging,
and potato judging. There will also
be hog calling and harmonica con
tests. This part of the program will
be carried out in the morning.
In the afternoon there will be a
parliamentary procedure contest.
A public speaking contest, which
will climax the days program, will
be held in the evening. Heppner
has a candidate for sectional honors
in Lura Stephens, who will deliver
his speech on "Feeding Grain to
Livestock."
The local chapter is entering a
full. team under the leadership of
W. S. Bennett, Smith-Hughes in
structor at Heppner high school.
Sheep Industry to be
Bazaar Feature
Oregon lamb and wool will be
the main theme at the food sale and
bazaar to be held Saturday morning
at the Pacific Power & Light com
pany office by the Morrow County
unit of the Oregon Wool Growers
auxiliary. Aside from the food pro
ducts to be offered, the ladies will
have on display various manufac
tured articles made from Oregon
grown wool.
A whole quilt top may be bougnt
for a surprisingly small amount,
according to Mrs. Ralph I. Thomp
son, president of the state auxiliary.
This sale and bazaar is part 01
the program of the auxiliary to ac
quaint the people of Oregon with
one of the important industries of
the state while raising money for
ocal projects.
Junior Play Averred
Riotous Performance
In "Soup to Nuts," hilarious comedy-drama
to be presented the eve
ing of Friday, March 29, by H. H.
S. juniors, the author has taken a
wealth of temperamental proclivit
ies from the natives of California
and transplanted them into one of
the most popular plays of the sea
son. California is not only a land of
mocking birds bait there are a
number of cuckoos with original
ideas and thoughts, as the play will
reveal. The play is as mad and
interesting as the country that in
spired it, say the promoters, who
urge everyone to keep March 29
clear for an evening of real fun.
Strayed From my ranch north
of lone, 1 Guernsey heifer calf 4
months old, one Hereford heifer
calf 2 months old. Phone or write
Carl Troedson, lone, Ore. Tel. 34F23.
Annual Meeting of
Loan Group Fixed
Officers and directors of Hard
man National Farm Loan associa
tion .have selected March 29 as the
date for the annual meeting of the
group. The session will open with
a free lunch to be served at the
Oddfellows hall in Heppner at noon.
W. H. Ragsdale of The Dalles, di
rector of the Federal Land Bank of
Spokane, and O. G. Swenson of
Spokane will speak on the present
situation with reference to the bank
and outline its policies.
Election of v two directors will
come under the order of business.
The terms of Frank Wilkinson and
Ralph Benge expire at this time.
Other members of the . board are
J. J. Wightman, Chas. B. Cox and
Henry Baker.
Hardman National Farm Loan as
sociation now has 120 members in
Morrow, Grant and Wheeler coun
ties. Loans outstanding amount to
$745,000 besides an additional $450,
000 in service loans handled by the.
concern for Morrow county people.
Forest Camp Site
Work Contemplated
Spring weather has revived the
interest of the forest service in
Heppner in the planned improve
ments to the local camp site. These
plans have been under contempla
tion for some time, awaiting suitable
weather and the time when WPA
help is available. The WPA help
alone is now the deciding factor,
Thursday, Mar. 21, 1940
says F. F. Wehmeyer, local ranger.
Work contemplated involves gra
veiling the court and fixing up the
grounds in general. It is expected
that a force of ten men will be used
and when the job is completed the
Heppner camp will be one of the
most attractive in the district.
HELEN BUCKNUM DAVIS
Funeral services for Helen Buck
num Davis whose' death occurred
March 1, were held from the draw
ing room chapel of Holman & Lutz
in Portland Monday, March 18,
Rev. Oswald Taylor officiating.
Mrs. Davis was a native of Hepp
ner and was the daughter of Mrs.
Belle (Elder) Bucknum. The fam
ily moved from Heppner to Baker
many years ago and later took up
residence in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Wilson drove
to Portland to attend the final
rites for Mrs. Davis.
ANCIENT TREE FELLED
A huge box elder shade tree in the
D. A. McAtee yard on Chase street
Will Mallory. The tree was set out
"bit the dust" Monday when work
men sawed it down. It is thought
the tree was the first one set out
in Heppner, although there is no
authentic record of its planting. The
lot on which it stood was the prop
erty of August Mallory, early pio
neer, and later the home of his son,
in the early '70's, in the opinion of
L. W. Briggs, who remembers the
elder Mallory and who also is some
what familiar with the history of
the old box elder. McAtee disliked
removing the landmark, but it had
grown so large that lawn and other
vegetation around it could not survive.
SPECIAL CHURCH SERVICES
A three hours service conducted
by Archdeacon Eric C. Robathan
will be held at All Saints church on
Good Friday, commencing at 12
noon. The subject will be "Foot
steps Towards Calvary." The spe
cial offertory at this service is de
voted to the work of the church in
the Holy Land. On Easter day there
will be celebrations of the Holy
Communion at 8 a. m. and 11 a, m.
The members of the Young Peoples
Fellowship will attend corporate
communion at 8 a. m., followed by
breakfast at the parish house.
SHE USED THE CLASSIFIEDS
A woman came into the Gaz
ette Times office one day last week
and said she had a washing ma-
chine for sale. A friend had told
her that a small ad in the paper
might find her a buyer. She plac
ed the ad with the paper and
Friday morning, as soon as the
paper got into circulation, she
had a trade on. And was she
pleased!
Perhaps you, dear reader, have
something for sale or trade. If
you have, you will find the few
cents it costs to advertise in the
classfied section of the - Gazette
Times the best investment you
can make.
Spencer Corsetierre in Heppner
Thursday and Friday, Mar. 21-22.
Call Mrs. Lucas. Mrs. H. R. Miller.
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