Thursday, July 18, 1940
Page Four
Heppner
Gazette Times
RODEO PRINCESS RODEO PRINCESS
smoke while the steady drone of
ceived diphtheria immunization.
"cats" or tractors as they are more
familiarly called, made known that
the battle continued, night and day.
Yes, the boys will have many mem
ories to take back to distant states.
Fourteen children were examined at
Boardman, nine at Hardman and 19
at Heppner. This concludes the sum
mer schedule of conferences. The
work will be resumed in October,
dates for which will be announced
later.
A son, weight 9 pounds, was born
to Mr. and Mrs. James Monahan at
the Aiken maternity home Satur
day, July 13.
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE.
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Established November 18, 1897;
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CHILDREN EXAMINED
Child health conferences held at
Boardman, Hardman and Heppner
this week resulted in 42 children of
infant and pre-school age receiving
examinations. Of this number, four
were given vaccinations and five re-
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Official Paper for Morrow County
James P. Rhea Was
Pioneer of County
James P. Rhea, 86, whose death
occurred at Hillsboro Friday, July
12, was a Morrow county pioneer,
coming here when both he and the
country were young. With his bro
thers, Thomas and C. A. Rhea, he
settled on Rhea creek west of Hepp
ner where he engaged in the stock
business and general farming. He
was also interested in the First Na
tional bank. After disposing of his
interests in Morrow county, Mr.
Rhea moved to Washington county,
which was his home at the time of
passing.
Surviving are three sons, Earl of
Portland, Conser of Freewater and
Clarond of Cummings, Cal. There
are also eight grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Mon
day at the chapel of Miller & Tracy
in Portland. Interment followed in
Riverview cemetery.
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Mongolians Freed
on Creek Ranches
. Two truckloads of Mongolian
pheasants were unloaded in the
county this week, the first consign
ment of G67 birds being delivered
here Tuesday, morning. The birds
came from the state game farm at
Pendleton.
Assisted by J. Logie Richardson,
president Morrow County Hunters
and Anglers club, the farm repre
sentative took the first load to the
Kirk place on upper Rhea creek and
the distribution was carried out to
the confluence of Rhea and Willow
creeks at Jordan siding. The birds
are eight weeks old and just begin
ning to show their coloring.
Wednesday a second load of the
birds was taken to the Glavey ranch
on upper Rhea creek and scattered
from there to the mouth of Willow
creek. Today another load of the
birds will be released on Butter
creek.
Spectators Hinder
Work of Firemen
Fire fiehters were called to the J
I. Hanna ranch Sunday afternoon
to help nut down a grass fire. An
alarm was sounded in town and the
fire truck started out before it was
learned the fire was several miles
from town. A pickup with a cargo
of sacks was sent out to assist the
Camp Heppner brigade.
It is reported that the road lead
ing to the scene of the fire was
blocked with automobiles loaded
with curious sightseers and that it
was with some difficulty that the
fighters trained access to the field.
The firemen are wondering just
why people are anxious to see a fire
but have no intention of helping to
put it down'. They would like to see
some regulation requiring the cur
ious to either stay home or be forced
to get out and help fight the field
fires.
CALL FOR WARRANTS
Outstanding warrants of Schoo
District No. 1, Morrow County, Ore
gon, up to and including Warrant
No. 6127, will be paid upon present
ation to the district clerk. Interest
on said warrants not already called
ceases July 19, 1940.
ROBERT A. JONES, Clerk,
School District No. 1,
Morrow County, Oregon.
BETTY LOU LINDSAY
Willows Grange
PATRICIA DALY
Lena Grange
Firefighters Have Their Jokes Despite
Strain of Long Hours on Firing Line
(Contributed)
Manv tall tales of fires and fire
fighting were circulated at Juniper
camp during the lull of between
shifts" when men were too tired to
relax and fall asleep. In spite of the
terrific strain of long hours on the
line expending every ounce of en
ergy contained in each individual
body to fight a common enemy,
there were times in the lineup for
meals and at morning roll call, which
incidentally was for 3 a. m., for
some horse play, jokes and laughs.
The men driving the heavy equip
ment unit and the forest road bull
dozer soon came to be known as
the Gold Dust Twins and daily look
ed the part.
Another laugh was raised over
the fact that there were upwards of
300 "Whispering Smiths' in camp.
Only our "Smiths" were white on
both ends, where perspiring feet
and perhaps a splash of cold water
to the face had removed some of
the soot of charred logs and the
grime-of honest toil. The Whisper
ing Smith story came through an
episode of the last war, when some
soap box orator was preaching the
downfall of the United States. A
by-stander who was Smith, said, "I
am half white and half black but I
will be d if I stand by and hear
some so-and-so talk that way about
my country." Whereupon the mulat
to whipped out a razor that looked
like a folding cleaver and made
for the aeitator who also made for
the edce of town with Smith just
one slash too far back to reach the
rear of his trouser seat.
Some incidents had a touch of
pathos as the little fawn who tried
to make friends with men too busy
to trive it the attention it plead for.
Daily its plaintive cries for a mother
who had disappeared into the raging
fire brought lumps to throats already
parched, with heat and dust.
The bob cat which came out to
the line with hot, burning dogs or
feet., and who vented his wretched
ness by scaring the patrolman off
his beat on the fire line, brought a
kindred feeling of sympathy as most
everyone in camp had hot, burning
feet.
Then there was the tired, weary
crew of boys who had made it near
ly to the top of the fireline, lifting
with an effort each foot m turn, as
they had spent many weary hours
swinging "pulaski tools ' m the lace
of the fire. They had lifted tired
bodies up the almost perpendicular
wall many hundreds of feet when
thev met a bear going down. Any
how the boys said they stopped run
ning where they crossed Potamus
creek.
A staunch hearted youngster from
an eastern state, probably from the
"Sidewalks of New York," had quite
an experience. He had been taught
to face the fire without dread but
when an irate pheasant hen at
tacked him he turned tail and sped
to the protection of his foreman,
yelling for aid at the end of each
and every jump while the hen fluf
fed up to a ball of fury, tried to flog
his flying heels. When he could get
his breath, he said, "Good God, what
was that?"
Many deer and elk fleeing from
certain death would come out of the
raging furnace, ninning as fast as
fleet feet would carry them. The
shrill chattering of squirrels who
cursed from the fancied security of
tall trees and who refused to leave
their hard earned caches of cones
laid by for the winter Few of them
will need the cones now.
The broken cadence of "hoedogs"
as thev due deep into the roots to
try to form a trench from which to
backfire. The sharp staccato of axes
biting deep into the living tissue of
trees, sacrificed in an endeavor to
protect others of their kindred. Ach-
ine backs, burning eyes, lungs con
gested JbyOieheayypallofgaseous
CRESTED WHEAT GRASS
CLEANING
Cleaning rate c per pound, including
hammering out and cleaning the dou
bles, purity and germination tests by
the Federal Laboratory at Corval I is. This
does not include special seed sacks. We
will put the seed back in the original
sacks unless instructed to do otherwise.
We also clean other grasses besides
Creted Wheat. . . Most modern grass
cleaner in the Columbia Basin, removes
all tarweed seed by using a Carter disc
separator.
Agents for Blue Mountain Seed
Growers' Assn. of La Grande
CONDON GRAIN GROWERS
Co-operative
Condon Oregon
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