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Volume 57, Number 6
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 11, 1940
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Campaign Warms
Up As Filing For
Offices Closes
Contests Loom for
Several Positions
in County Primary
With filing time closed, the pri
mary campaign has taken more def
inite form in the last few days and
candidates are beginning to feel out
the voters in search of support at
the polls on May. 17. Contests for
several county offices give promise
of waxing a bit warm during
the next few weeks and Mr. and
Mrs. John Voter are going to be
popular folks.
Five county offices are up for el
ection this year and of these three
have two contestants each. C. J. D.
Bauman, incumbent, is opposed by
Elbert Cox, his former deputy. For
the office of superintendent of
schools, Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers, in
cumbent, is opposed by Marie Clary,
Hardman teacher, and G. A. Bleak
man of Heppner is out to capture
the post of county commissioner
from L. D. Neill, incumbent. The'
offices of county clerk and coroner,
held by C. W. Barlow and Dr. A. D.
McMurdo, respectively, are not
contested, as is the case of county
attorney, held by Frank C. Alfred.
In the district race, Charles Mc
Elligott of lone erased the possiility
of a no-contest election by filing
for the office of representative in
the 22nd district on the democratic
ticket. With two positions to be
filled, Giles French of Sherman
county and E. Harvey Miller of
. Morrow county, are unopposed for
the republican nomination.
Pendleton has a monopoly on con
gressional candidates as far as the
republican party is concerned. Sen
ator Rex Ellis is seeking the nom
ination as is Roy Ritner. Ellis is
holding onto the state senatorship
just in case his neighbor should nose
him out in the primary. Ritner
seeks to defeat the veteran Con
gressman Fierce, whom he ran
against four years ago and came
out rather a poor second. Things
have changed somewhat recently
and the Pendleton man thinks his
chances are brighter this time.
Filings for precinct committeemen
and committeewomen gained mo
mentum as the zero hour drew
close with the result that both par
ties have fairly well filled slates
for these pivotal points. Those seek,
ing the precinct positions on the re
publican ticket include the follow
ing: Boardman, Crystal Barlow; Ir-
rigon, A. C. Houghton; Morgan,
Fred J. Ely; Eight Mile, Henry E.
Peterson; lone, George N. Ely, Anne
C. Smouse; Lexington, Ralph Jack
son, Elsie M. Beach; Heppner, Wal
ter Luckman, P. W. Mahoney, Char
lotte Gordon, Clothild L. Lucas.
Democrat filings are: Alpine, R.
B. Rice, Pearl R. Lindsay; Board-
man, John F. Gorham; Cecil, Lor
raine Ekleberry; Morgan, Elmer
Griffith; Eight Mile, Clive Huston,
Eugenia B. Huston; lone, Charles
McElligott, P. J. Linn, Mrs. Ida M.
Zinter; Hardman, Lewis C. Batty,
Iris Brannon; Irrigon, Roy H. Min
nick; Lena, Frank Swaggart, Hazel
Swaggart; Lexington, H. L. Duvall,
Maude H. Pointer, and Heppner, Ed
ward Breslin, D. M. Ward, Myrtle
Aiken, Florence Hughes.
April 16 is the last day for regis
tration, according to C. W. Barlow,
county clerk, who states that the
clerk's office will be open contin
uously from 8 o'clock a. m., until
8 o'clock, p. m., on that day to ac
commodate all voters who have not
previously attended to their regis
tration. William Kummerland, pioneer
rancher of Clarks canyon, was
transacting business in Heppner
Monday. He reports plenty of mois
ture out his way.
PIONEER OF 1885
TAKEN BY DEATH
Charles Anderson Lived 55
Years on Homestead in
Lower Eight Mile Section
Funeral services for Charles Ju
lius Anderson, 73, were held from
the Methodist church at 2 o'clock,
p. m., Saturday, April 6, Rev. R.
C. Young officiating. Interment was
in the Heppner Masonic cemetery.
Mr. Anderson passed away at the
family home in lower Eight Mile
Thursday April 4.
Mr. Anderson was born in Swe
den, Dec. 25, 1866, and was at the
time of death aged 73 years, three
months and nine days.
He came to America as a small
boy and first lived in Kansas. In
1885, at the age of 19, he came to
Morrow county where he home
steaded southwest of lone and this
had been his residence continuous
ly since. On March 17, 1898, he
married Nellie Akers and to this
union were born three three child
ren, two sons and a daughter. The
daughter passed away three years
ago. The two sons, Harold of Eight
Mile and Irvin of lone, with the
mother, survive. Three brothers
Ben of Eight Mile and Howard and
Alfred of The Dalles and one sister,
Mrs. Martin Johnson of Missouri,
and three grandchildren also sur
vive. Mr. Anderson was confirmed
in the Lutheran church when a
young man and was always faithful
in his belief.
Thrifty and industrious, Mr. An
derson accumulated some of the
best farm land in lower Eight Mile
and built a comfortable home for
his family. He was highly respected
by all who knew him.
Band Benefit is
Financial Success
Resplendent in uniforms of purple
and gol over white, the Heppner
school band paraded Main street
and played to the enjoyment of
several hundred people Saturday
afternoon. The street show was for
the purpose of advertising the an
nual band dance and the young
people didn't overlook an opportun.
ity to advance their cause.
Three majorettes, Constance In
stone, Norma Prock and Jean Hay
es, and Joe Farley, drum major, led
the band in its march up and down
the street while other majorettes
and students worked through the
crowd selling dance tickets. The re
sult of the campaign netted the
band $90 for the trip to La Grande
this week end to participate in the
district contests.
At the dance Saturday night, mu
sic for which was provided by Jack
Merrill's orchestra, the band play
ed numbers on the contest program.
including the required "Traveler
Overture." The brief program was
opened with Sousa's "Semper Fi
delis" march, followed by the re
quired number, and "Hero" over
ture and closed with Irving Berlin's
"God Bless America." The latter
will be used as the mass-band num
ber at La Grande.
The band's slogan is "On to Spo
kane, (if we win at La Grande)!"
Harold Buhman will take his young
musicians to the Union county city
early tomorrow to enter the con
tests. Finals will be played off late
in the day.
ATTEND ANDERSON FUNERAL
Here for the funeral of Charles
J. Anderson Saturday were Howard
Anderson, Alfred Anderson and
daughter Ona from The Dalles; Mrs.
Kate Parman and Carolyn Sparks of
Freewater; Mrs. J. E. Frazier, Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Frazier, Mr. and
Mrs. Walt Harrison, Mrs. Orville
Musgrave and Mrs. Myrtle King of
Walla Walla.
Reduced Freight
Rate on Branch
Wheat Sustained
ICC Advises State
Commissioner to
Accept Schedule
Freight rates on grain shipped
from Oregon points over the Union
Pacific system will have been re
duced as the result of a decision
reached by O. R. Bean, public util
ity commissioner of Oregon. The
railroad company had applied for
a new schedule affecting main line
and branch points and decision by
the commissioner was withheld
pending consideration of protests
by several forwarding and trucking
concerns.
Representative groups ot grain
growers from Morrow, Gilliam and
Sherman counties appeared before
the commissioner at the protest
hearing in Portland last week and
after presenting their side of the
case, went on to Salem to call on
Governor Charles L. Sprague.. The
governor lent a sympathetic ear
and said he would write the Inter
state Commerce commission and on
second thought wired his request to
the federal body to intercede in be
half of the grain growers. In the
meantime the farm group wired
the state's representatives at Wash
ington and Tuesday morning George
N. Peck received the following en
lightening message from Senator
Rufus C. Holman: "ICC advised re
duction freight rates on grain from
main line and branch line points in
Oregon on Union Pacific railroad
effective this date as scheduled." ,
The new rate amounts to a reduc.
tion of two cents per 100 pounds on
the Heppner and Condan branches.
or 1.2 cents per bushel, and 1.8 cents
a bushel on the Shaniko branch. In
other words, the rate is 14 cents a
hundred pounds instead of 16 cents
from Heppner and Condon branch
points to Portland.
State officials consulted on the
new rate schedule could not see
where the protesting agencies were
warranted in their contention that
it would mean ruin to them or that
it is unfair competition, taking the
viewpoint that the grain growers
were the ones receiving the most
benefit.
SPRING FESTIVAL
PLANS IN MAKING
Schools of County to Assemble
in Heppner for Annual Music,
Track Meets Early in May
Plans for the annual spring festi
val sponsored by the schools of the
county are in making, according to
Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers, county su
perintendent. Date has been set for
May 3 and the high school gym
auditorium and rodeo park at Hepp.
ner whll be used for the music and
track events,
Decision to use the high school
building was reached after consider
ation of the weather which has dis
rupted festivals in past years. The
County's Share of
PA Program May
Exceed $125,000
Field Work Shows
Morrow up Front in
Compliance Steps
Morrow county's share in the 1940
AAA price adjustment program may
exceed $125,000, according to Henry
Baker, chairman of the county com- '
pliance committee. All field work
has been completed and applications
committee, in planning to use the for payment are now being prepar
rodeo grounds for the track events ed at tj,e office of the Morrow
in the morning, is doing so with the County Agricultural Conservation
hope that the events may be run association. Baker said it would
off under clear skies. Last year's probably take from six weeks to
festival was chilled by a heavy tw0 months to complete the pay
wind and while the school people ment in the county. All eligible
would like to stage the entire pro- producers are being notified as soon
gram outdoors it seems the wiser as their applications have been pre
policy to provide housing for it. pared.
Final plans for the festival will Baker gtated that liquid
be formulated and adopted at a ation program for wheat under ioan
dinner meeting to be held at Irri- .g progressing niceiy and that it is
gon rriaay evemng, ""likely that all loans will be taken
ner will be served at 6:30 and all
up prior to maturity.
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county committees win report ax Figures submitted by the state
that time. In addition to the festiv- a a A rffi inHirate that. Morrow
al arrangements there will be some rmks as Qne of top counties of
discussion of plans for next year's th? state in compiiance steps. This
county educational program. countv is credited with the largest
Mrs. Juanita Carmichael of Lex- percentage 0f seeded acreage, both
ington is chairman ot the music . comDiiance and out; has the
committee for the festival and Lyle largest percentage of crop insur
Eddy, upper grade teacher at Irri- ance( with a total of 68 98G acreS)
gon, heads the track committee. and a total insurel production of
Of the 9G3 enrolled pupils in the 610686 bushels. Acreage and pro
county last year, Mrs. Rodgers es- duction figures were cut some due
timates that ou attended me ies- t farmers insuring 50 per
cent of their crops.
Approximately 95 per cent of the
producers of the county will share
in the price adjustment payments.
Henry Baker was elevated to the
chairmanship of the Morrow county
tival in 1939. There are 1158 chil
dren on the school census.
Pre-School Clinics
at Irrigon Tuesday
Child health conferences for in
fants -and pre-school children will
be held at Irrigon Tuesday morn
ing, April 16, followed by confer
ences at Boardman in the afternoon,
announces Miss Lucille Vale, coun
ty health nurse. Appointrnents for
the Irrigon conference should be
made with Mrs. Houghton and at
Boardman with Mrs. Sullivan.
Miss Vale's schedule calls for
physical examination of the stu
dents at Irrigon Monday, April 15,
at the school. Hardman school
children will be given physical ex
aminations Wednesday morning,
April 17, with the infant and pre
school examinations in the after'
noon.
Vaccinations for- smallpox, diph
theria toxoid and Schick tests may
be obtained for the school children
and the pre-school children at these
conferences.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Githens, who
spent the past week in Heppner at
the home of their daughter, Mrs.
Spencer Crawford, left Sunday for
their home in Berkeley, Calif.
SMOKER DATE SCHEDULED
Date of the next smoker to be
staged by the Heppner Volunteer
Fire department has been set for
Saturday evening, April 27. Parti
cipants on the card are being signed
and prospects are bright for
snappy card. All concerned ' are
hoping for warmer weather than
prevailed at the time of the previous
card.
Sunshine Enjoyed
for Brief Period
rri .; .,,-.,4 In-ir-J- a-w- - I
day of sunshine when the skies committee when E. Harvey Miller
cleared and Old Sol beamed upon resigned to run for state representa
. , j i j cu w tive. Oscar Peterson was elected to
a raUl-5UHK.t;U UHU, Uliuncu nave , -
u .i. 0u,mAant Sn. the board to fill the vacancy left
April 1, as witness the rain gauge by Bakers appointment.
reacting oi x.it mtuca amv-c uh y r I ,
date. The first week was decidedly Health, LdUCQTIOn
wet with readings showing the fol- . . . . . .
lowing figures: April 1, .42; 2, .09; LlOnS V-IUD I OpiCS
3, .11; 4, .38; 6, .02; 7, .24, and 8, .48.
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ed in the wake of a brief electrical P1 , ,.; Z
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mr ""I ... r: : : brand spoke in behalf of the county
rain came u was. uui, a , 1 (1;: K.lfKr
u ii ,DC the work accomplished last year
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storm struck with considerable lorce , '
in the Blackhorse region, the runoff uclue v"e- ,
jimfnrf TJ A. H. Blankenship made a brief
ington residents near the ordinarily report on the Inland Empire Teach-
dry creek channel. Monday, exper- a , TT ,
w, cWr0 ir, Spokane last week. It was the pnv-
the daytime and the other about 11 Uege of the teachers to hear such
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A emn on W llrtw frwV at- "OIBU UdUUluu viiiuio
p. m.
tested to the volume of the down
pour.
Rain Cuts Crowd
at Three-C Party
Regardless of heavy showers of
rain which fell intermittently Sun
day afternoon, some 200 people of
town and surrounding country at
tended the open house at Camp
Heppner CCC. Plans for visiting
and inspecting some of the soil
conservation projects had to be ab
andoned due to the weather and
uncertainty of road conditions. The
program at the camp was carried
out about as planned.
Another party at the camp is
planned for the near future, accord
ing to Lieut. Marius P. Hanford,
commander, who states the affair
will be in the nature of a lawn party.
FALLOW LOANS AVAILABLE
Summerfallow loans are now av
ailable at his office, reports County
Agent C. D. Conrad, who says that
money is available through FCA.
Mortgages are given on crops grown
on the summer fallow land and are
payable in August, 1941.
ning Pollock and Ruth Bryan Ow
en, who, while champions of educa
tion take a decidedly different
viewpoint on many subjects and
both are thoroughly capable of giv
ing full expression to their thoughts.
Dr. L. D. Tibbies reported pro
gress in construction of a wading
pool for the kiddies at the munici
pal swimming tank.
Orville Cutsforth and Henry Bak
er were guests of the club.
Lexington Grange
to Hear Tax Talks
Tom Wells, county assessor, will
speak before the Lexington grange
at the regular meeting Saturday
evening, April 13, on the subject of
"The Business of Tax Assessing."
Not to be outdcone by her husband,
Mrs. Wells also will be on the pro
gram to give the people an idea of
just how the tax business is hand
led through the tax office.
Instrumental and vocal selections
will augment the lecturer's program
to be presented prior to the regular
business session. Refreshments will
be served lat"!" in tho evenir.