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Volume 57, Number 8
Rev. R. C. Young
Succumbs to
Heart Attack
Methodist Minister
Found Dead at Home
Here Last Night
Rev. R. C. Young, pastor of the
Heppner Methodist church for the
last four years, was found dead in
his home last night, the victim of
a heart attack. When discovered,
the body was in an upright position
with the head tilted forward as if
taking a nap. Death apparently
had overtaken him as he sat resting
following the noon meal, the approx
imate hour being 1 o'clock.
Discovery of the body was made
by Wilms Hudson, member of the
church choir, who entered the house
shortly after 7 o'clock p. m. It was
choir rehearsal night and the prac
ticing has been taking place at the
parsonage. The lights were not on
and Miss Hudson turned them on.
Shortly after she arrived, Mrs. Wm.
French came in and spoke to Mr.
Young. Receiving no response she
went over and took hold of his
shoulder and it was then the truth
was discovered. A physician was
called and after a brief examination
it was found that death had come
several hours previously.
Mr. Young had been alone several
weeks while Mrs. Young was in
Portland with' a son who has been
ill. She had expected to return
home this week.
It was learned that Mr. Young
had recently undergone a thorough
physical examination in a Portland
clinic and that he was advised of
his condition. He was taking treat
ments with a local physician, who
said that the minister appeared
deeply worried about his" condition.
A memorial service will be held
at the Methodist church Friday
morning, April 26, at 10 o'clock,
Rev. W. H. Byars of Arlington, a
friend and associate of many years,
in charge, assisted by Rev. Martin
Clark and Rev. Clifford Noble. Final
services will be held at the Sunny
side Methodist church in Portland
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock,
conducted by Dr. Milton A. Marcy,
pastor, and Dr. E. A. Wolfe, super
intendent of the Portland district
Farmers Urged to
Sign Applications
Morrow county farmers and range
operators who are complying with
the 1940 agricultural and range con
servation programs should be sure
they have signed their requests for
participation, or their farm plan and
estimate sheets before May 1, ac
cording to Henry Baker, chairman
of the Morrow County Agricultural
Conservation association.
A majority of those who are com
plying have already signed these
forms, Baker stated, and added that
there are always a few who over
look this important matter and con
sea uentlv do not receive benefits.
It is to these people that he wishes
to emphasize the fact that May
1 will be the closing date for sign
ing up for the 1940 program.
MEETING POSTPONED
The meeting of Morrow County
Republican club scheduled for
Wednesday, May 1, has been post
poned to Monday, May 6, due to
conflicting attractions on the origin
al date. An invitation to local and
district candidates to appear and
speak before the club has been ex
tended by Frank C. Alfred, presi
dent. For Sale Washing machine driv
en radio battery charger. George
Medlock, Rhea creek.
Heppner,
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR SCHOOL MEET
Citizens of Town Urged to
Cooperate in Making Annual
Festival a Success
Plans for the annual spring music
festival sponsored by the schools
of the county and to be held in
Heppner on May 3 have been com
pleted, says Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers,
county, school superintendent.
The program as outlined by Mrs.
Rodgers calls for the track meet to
start at the Rodeo grounds at 9:30
a. m. This is participated in by
boys and girls of the elementary
grades and there will be a small
admission charge.
At 1:30 there will be a Maypole
dance on the lawn in front of the
school building. The Heppner school
band will furnish music for the
dance. The music festival, in which
all schools of the county take part,
will start at 2:15 p. m. in the gym
auditorium. All grades from the
primary to the high school seniors,
as well as the band will be repre
sented. Committees from the several civic
groups of the town are formulating
plans for a community potludk
dinner at the county fair pavilion
at noon. Everyody, town and coun
try people alike, will bring basket
lunches and there will be coffee
and other beverages provided. In
addition, the Business and Profes
sional Women's club has promised
to have several big pots of hot
beans on the menu. Tables will be
set up in the pavilion for the con
venience of diners. The school peo
ple and civic groups urge the town
people to bear this date in mind and
prepare to eat at the pavilion.
Section Visited by
Heavy Downpour
Morrow county and possibly a
large part of eastern Oregon was
visited by a heavy downpour of
rain Monday night with the result
that Tuesday morning's reading of
the gauge revealed a fall of .57 of
an inch. Many points in the county
reported a simlar fall and visitors
to Umatilla county state that the
rainfall in the Pilot Rock region
was even heavier.
Precipitation for the month up
to Wednesday evening amounter to
2.31 inches. With a previous read
ing of more than six inches for the
first three months of the year, the
April rainfall places the total at
more than eight inches, of greater
than the total rainfall in 1939.
Farmers report little washing of
fields due to the heavy rain and say
that the shower will be beneficial
to growing crops. The abundant
moisture has pomoted weed growth
as well as grain and several grain
growers have put weeders to work
tearing up the fall sown crops and
are re see ding.
Lexington Grartge
to Feed C. of C.
Arrangements have been com
pleted for the Heppner chamber of
commerce to hold its membership
meeting at the Lexington grange
hall next Wednesday evening, May
1. The Home Economics club of
the grange will serve dinner to
chamber of commerce members and
their ladies and to grange members.
While this is the regular meeting
night for the chamber of commerce
it is not the grange's meeting night
and a special invitation has, been
issued to grangers to attend.
The chamber of commerce will
pay the usual charge for plates serv
ed to members and guests and will
provide the program. Dinner will
be served at 6:15 p. m. to permit
some of those appearing on the
program to meet other engagements.
Increased membership in the club
is expected to be reflected in a
larger attendance at this dinner than
at the first grange dinner served at
Lena one month ago.
Oregon, Thursday, April
'Short Change'
Artist Lands in
County Bastile
Emmett Bafford of
Portland Awaiting
Help from Friends
Emmett Bafford of Portland is a
guest of the county on a charge of
conspiracy to defraud following al
leged attempts to procure funds
through the age-old trick of "short
changing." He was arrested in Hepp
ner Thursday evening upon com
plaint of Jack Ferris of lone, who
claimed he was "gypped" out of five
dollars through the cunning of Bef-
ford and associates.
Arraigned before Justice of the
Peace J. O. Hager Friday morning,
Bafford pled guilty and was assess
ed a fine of $50 and is to repay Fer
ris the illgotten gains.
Befford was one of a party of five
people claiming they are from Port
land. The other members of the
group were Wanda Adams, Clifford
Adams, John Neal Carroll and Doris
Bafford.
It is stated that the trick was tried
on business houses in Lexington
and Heppner before Ferris' com
plaint got into the hands of the of
ficials. At least two attempts were
made in Heppner but in both in
stances the proprietors got wise to
the deal and refused to hand out
the change. It is likely the "artists"
would have made the rounds of the
town had not Deputy Sheriff Earle
Bryant and Officer Albert Schunk
armed with a warrant for their ar
rest, got hot on the trail and soon
picked them up.
Following the hearing and Baf
ford's decision to "take the rap,"
the others left for Pendleton in
search of the $50 fine money. Ac
cording to reports emanating from
Pendleton they were picked up on a
drunk and disorderly charge and
given a sentence of 20 days in the
city jail. In the meantime, Bafford
is cooling his heels in the county
jail, where he will have almost serv
ed out his fine ere his pals can
come to his assistance.
New Contingent of
Enrollees Arrives
New CCC enrollees arrived in
Heppner Sunday morning to bring
up to company strength the camps
at Heppner and Monument. These
new recruits are from Portland and
vicinity and have come to replace
the boys who recently completed
their service period and were mus
tered out.
Of the 120 enrollees arriving here,
46 were for Camp Heppner and 74
were taken on to Monument. The
local camp's total enrollment is now
174 men, according to Liet. Marius
P. Hanford, commander. Special
coaches were attached to the local
train to bring the contingent to
Heppner.
Heppner School to
Hold Open House
Plans have been completed for an
open house at the Heppner school
Friday evening, April 26, announces
Alden Blankenship, superintendent.
Work of the several grades will
be on display and instructors will
be present to explain methods and
answer questions. The reception op
ens at 7:15 o'clock and lasts one
hour.
Beginning at 8:20 p. m. there will
be a program in the gymnasium.
This, too, is scheduled to run for
an hour.
School patrons and all friends of
education have been extended an
invitation to attend the open house
and program.
25, 1940
SMOKER PROMISES
PLENTY OF ACTION
Firemen Slate One of Best
Boxing Cards in Years
For Saturday Night Show
Followers of the manly art of self
defense are promised action aplenty
when the whistle blows for the ope
ning round of the Firemen's smoker
at the county fair pavilion Saturday
evening, for one of the best cards
rounded up by the smoke chasers
in several years is scheduled to put
on a show designed to give the
cash customers their money's worth.
The curtain raiser will open the
hostilities promptly at 9 p. m.
For some time it has been noticed
that Louis Doney expects to show
the Heppner fans what a sheep-
herder can do when he actually gets
in a fighting mood. It is hinted that
he has just been playing with op
ponents up-to-date and that he in
tends to unreel some action that will
make a Blue mountain bobcat look
like a parlor tabbie. Doney has
been building up his muscles chas
ing jackrabbits and coyotes to get
himself in the mood to give Charles
Aldrich, the pride of Butter creek,
a real shellacking. Aldrich will pro
bably have something to say about
the melee as he is undergoing plenty
of outdoor training and his backers
say the fight will be a pushover. To
say the least, the scrap gives promise
of some of the most determined ef
fort at anihilation witnessed in these
parts in many a moon.
Much interest is centering on the
semi-final scrap between Sammy
McCracken, 135 pounds, Hermiston,
and Billie Stevenson, 140 pounds.
New York City. The fans like Sam
my and hope he isn't biting off too
big a mouthful in meeting the New
York boy. " Stevenson is rated a
tough boy in CCC circles. Doney
and Aldrich will have to mind their
knitting if the semi-final isn't to
steal the show.
Four preliminaries round out the
30-round show with Bill Hardie of
Condon and Rennie Crawford, Mon
ument, doing the honors in the light
heavyweight class. They tip the
scales at 170 pounds each. Ellis
Granger and Gordon Heffel in the
115 pond class, Donald Swanson and
Ralph Tully, tipping the beam at
155 each, and Garvaille, 145 vs.
Brown's. Special from Monument,
complete the card.
REFACING BUILDING
Work of refacing the Peters build
ing was started Tuesday morning
by Ed Bucknum and assistants. The
original cement surfacing was crum
bling in spots and this has all been
removed preparatory to putting on
new surfacing. The building was
erected in 1936.
Catholic Rectory
Scene of Wedding
The Catholic rectory was the
scene of an early morning wedding
when Father McCormick performed
the rites uniting Mr. Donald Poin
ter and Miss Nonie McLaughlin in
marriage. The ceremony was per
formed at 7 o'clock a. m., yesterday,
followed by a wedding breakfast
at the home of Miss Betty Doherty,
aunt, of the bride, at which imme
diate members of the families were
present. Miss Betty Doherty was
bridesmaid and Ivan Applegate act
ed as best man.
The bride was charming in a blue
silk jacket dress. She carried a
corsage of forget-me-nots and nar
cissus. Mr. Pointer is a graduate of Sa
lem high school and his bride was
graduated from Lexington high
school.
Following a short wedding trip,
Mr. and Mrs. Pointer will be at
home to their many friends at the
Pointer farm near Lexington.
Only the immediate families of
the young couple were present for
the wedding ceremony and breakfast.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
City Contracts
For Extension of
Street Paving
Nearly 2 Miles of
Blacktop to be Laid
Starting Monday
Heppner's street paving will be
extended approximately two miles
following .decision of the street
committee of the city council to
complete as far as practicable the
prorgam started three years ago
when some three and a half miles
of blacktop was laid. The present
program calls for extending paving
to the limits of the town at three
points and completion of streets not
finished in the original construction.
Contract for the paving has been
awarded to Russell Olson of Seattle.
Olson has highway work in this sec-.
tion of Oregon which can not be
started at present and for that rea
son was willing to come to Heppner
and do the street work at a nom
inal cost.
Work outlined under the program
includes paving of the Willow creek
highway entrance from South Court
street to the city limits; August
street between Court and Gilmore;
Gilmore street between Cannon and
East Willow; Elder street in front
of the school house; Elder from K
to L; Riverside from Gale to inter
section of County road at the Frank
S. Parker place; Morgan street;
south Main from swimming tank to
Orve Brown place; Cannon street
from South Main to Chase; Green
street from Center to Hill; Hill from
Green to Court and the Balm Fork
road from the Cowins place to Court
street.
Only those streets enumerated
will be paved at this time, according
to the street committee. These are
the only streets with rock base suit
able for paving, it is stated, and
funds are not available for exten
sions. The work as outlined will cost
the city $2350 and the county will
bear part of the expense or the ex
tension on Riverside street. A fig
ure of Wk cents a yard was sub
mitted by Olson. This is for laying
the surfacing. The city furnishes
the crushed rock, a quantity of
which was purchased in 1939 from
the firm holding the contract on
the Heppner-Heppner flat paving
job.
The new units will be a little
narrower than most of the original
paving in the city. The first units
ran from 20 feet in the residential
sections to as much as 40 feet in the
business district. The present speci
fications run from 16 feet to 20
feet. By narrowing the width a
little it was found possible to ex
tend the program farther.
The street committee has under
consideration the improvement of
some of the streets already paved.
This is in reference to repairs to
gutters. The general condition of
the paving throughout the town is
good and repairs have been moder
ate. Discomfort from dust has been
greatly lessened and the projected
paving is expected to allay much of
the dust trouble coming from the
entrances from the southeast and
the northwest.
SELL BEAUTY SHOP
Helen Van Schoiack and Gordon
Akers, operators of the Gordelen
Beauty shop, announce the sale of
the equipment of Hazel Ralston of
The Dalles. Miss Ralston will move
the equipment to The Dalles. Miss
Van Schoiack has no definite plans
and expects to remain here. Mr.
Akers announces he will go to the
Willamette valley in search of a
new location.