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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, June. 13, 1940
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
CRAWFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
and entered at the Post Office at Hepp
ner, Oregon, as second-class matter.
JASPER V. CRAWFORD. Editor
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Official Paper for Morrow Connty
Hitchhiker Becomes
Relief Problem ,
A UTOMOBILE drivers should think
twice before stopping to pick up
transient wayfarers along the high
ways. There is an element of dang
er that should be taken into consid
eration and besides there is a law
against such practice. The danger
is present inasmuch as the driver
rarely, if ever, knows the person to
whom he tenders a ride and there is
no protection against loss or damage
accruing through a "good Samar
itart" act. These are commonly known
facts, or should be known by all
persons operating motor vehicles.
Another factor which seldom en-
ters the mind of the car driver is
that picking up a transient along the
main highway and depositing him
at your front gate or elsewhere in
the county is apt to add to the relief
problem of your county. As an ex
ample, if you were returning to
Morrow county from Pendleton and
picked up a hitchhiker at Echo who
merely wanted to get away from
there and used Hie much abused
tale of seeking work as an induce
ment to getting a ride and you
bring him to Heppner, you are mere
ly throwing one more person on re
lief here, either at the relief office
or by his own efforts at begging.
The latter condition is not the con
cern of the relief authorities, but
the feeding of outsiders is a problem
with which the relief office is not
prepared to cope.
The county court is battling
against a constantly growing relief
list. The aged and infirm, widow
and orphans, blind assistance and
many other items of relief constitute
the one real headache for the court.
For that reason, not as a personal
matter in any sense, the court has
developed a natural antipathy to
transients and would urge less sym
pathy on the part of car drivers re
siding in the county if the wayfarer
is in Umatilla or some other county
he is just as well off there as any
place. His only objective is to get
away f rom the place he is in to land
at some other point. But if you
think you must take the risk of in
viting a stranger to ride with you
and by that act throw an unneces
sary burden on the county, don't
blame the county court if it is found
necessary to add two or three mills
to your assessment.
John Crawford returned to Hepp
ner Friday evening following the
close of school at the University of
Oregon. He went to work in the
First National bank Saturday morn
ing. Miss Harriet Hager, student at
Oregon State college, returned home
Saturday to spend the summer va
cation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. O. Hager. Mrs. Hager met Harriet
at Arlington.
V. R. Runnion has been issued a
real estate license and is taking list
ings of farm, residence and business
properties for sale or exchange.
Phone 452.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl McKinney left
Thursday night for Detroit, Mich.,
to purchase two trucks which they
will bring back to Heppner.
Joe Snyder was reported improv
ing the first of the week and he was
expected to be out of bed Wednesday.
Leonard Rill and family of Eight
Heppner Anglers
Fish Diamond Lake
Leonard and Earl Gilliam drove
to Diamond lake the last of the
week for a bit of high Cascade fish
ing. Enroute, they were joined at
Redmond by Leonard's son, Louis,
who accompanied them. Louis had
just finished his year's work at
Oregon State college.
Fishing was good, the Gilliams
say, and they returned with a nice
string, the average being about 18
inches. They did not attempt to
catch .the limit, which could have
been done with ease, but quit when
they felt they had enough for a good
feast.
A side trip was made to Crater
lake to give Earl his first sight of
Oregon's number one natural won
der. Evidence of wild game in the
park was plentiful, with a large
brown bear and her cub, and a wolf
as part of the exhibit. Deer tracks
were to be seen everywhere. Snow
is still plentiful in the upper raches
of the park, particularly around the
rim of the lake. The east entrance
was opened the day the Heppner
men visited the lake and travel will
not become general until the other
entrances are available.
Lions to Meet at
Camp Next Monday
Heppner Lions club will meet at
Camp Heppner next Monday instead
of at Hotel Heppner. This conclu
sion was reached at a meeting held
at the Elkhorn restaurant last Mon
day when a group of ten mem
bers assembled at the hotel to find
that that was the "off" day and
repaired to the restaurant for a
called meeting. It was also decided
to meet every Monday to avoid con
fusion arising out of the policy in
vogue the past few months of sus
pending one meeting a month.
The Lions club is sponsoring one
membership at the Beaver Boy State
camp and will send Dean Gilman
to the 1940 session. The Elks and
American Legion have made their
selections also, the former sending
Kenneth Jackson of Lexington- and
the latter Albert Schunk, Jr., of
Heppner.
Election of officers will be held at
the meeting at Camp Heppner next
Monday.
Merrill's Cafe is
Looted for Cash
Merrill's cafe was broken into
early Tuesday morning and the cash
register and a punchboard cash box
yielded upwards of $50 to the thief.
Entrance was gained through a ven
tilator shaft at the rear of the din
ing room and after the money was
taken the culprit left the building
through the rear door.
Discovery of the robbery was made
by Mark Merrill, proprietor, when
he opened for business Tuesday
morning, a few hours after the theft
was committed. A hasty search of
the building brought the discovery
that the ventilator shaft was the
avenue of entrance, for there were
telltale smudges around the casing
of the shaft.
Merrill had a suspect in mind
when reporting the robbery to the
sheriff and police and by 9:30 Tues
day morning, Harold Cox was taken
into custody at his quarters in the
rear of the old planing mill. After
a few hours detention Cox told the
officers where the money was hid
den. A part of it, about $32, was
recovered from a pile of chips at
the rear of the planing mill. Later,
City Officer Albert Schunk recov
ered clothes that Cox wore on his
venture and a $10 bill was found in
the coverall pocket. Whether the
balance of the loot was spent or is
hidden in some other spot the offi
cers have not decided.
Arraignment before Justice J. O.
Hager at 9:30 a. m., Wednesday,
selted in Cox waiving indictment
by grand jury and asked for a hear
ing before Judge Calvin L Sweek.
The judge was expected to hold
court here today or Friday.
Mrs. W. O. Dix was a Rose Festival
visitor in Portland last week re
maining for a visit of several days
in the city. .
Let G. T. Want Ads help you dis
pose of surplus stock.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Borg of Port
land were week end guests at the
home of Mrs. Borg's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. G. McCarty.
FOR THESE HOT DAYS
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same as ' city lockers, up to 55
pounds.
Used Electrolux, Kero., 5-ft.
1939, $150
Used Chosley Shelvador, Kero.,
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Used 8-ft. Electrolux, 1937 &
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1I-MI LUMBER 111
Citizenship Day
Named by Governor
Jne 14, Flag Day, has also been se
lected as Citizenship Recognition
Day, when youths who have become
twenty-one during the year pre
vious are honored. I, therefore call
to public attention the dual patriot
ic significance of June 14th
As Flag Day, when the national
emblem should be appopriately dis
played at schools, public buildings,
commercial establishments and pri
vate homes;
As Citizenship Recognition Day,
when by suitable public ceremony
in the several communities, youth
just passed twenty-one may be truly
initiated into the rights and respon-
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ATTEND HIGHWAY MEETING
Several Heppner ctizens and mem
bers of the Morrow county court are
in Portland today attending a meet
ing of the Oregon state highway
commission. The delegation is in
terested in the surfacing of approx
imately four miles of the Heppner
Spray highway from the end of the
present paving at the Frank E. Par
ker farm to Ruggs'. County Judge
Bert Johnson and George N. Peck,
commissioner, are representing the
county and the delegation repre
senting the chamber of commerce
included Chas. B. Cox, E. 0. Fergu
son, E. Harvey Miller and J. G. Bar-ratt
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