OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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Volume 57, Number 24
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 15, 1940
Subscription $2.00 a Year
RANGELAND - AWAITS- GUN
Fine Exhibits, Full
Calendar Heralded
For Annual Fair
Judging Events to
Draw Lively Inter
est, Many Awards
The 1940 Mororw County fair in
cluding more than 100 head of 4-H
club livestock and also wool and
grain exhibits will get under way
Friday morning at 9 o'clock when
livestock classes and home econom
ics exhibits will be judged.
Because of the need for additional
space all home economics exhibits
will be on display at the Braden and
Bell Tractor Co. store. The county
fair will house the usual exhibits of
dairy, beef, sheep and swine.
Judging will continue all day Fri
day with home economics and health
demonstrations at 11 a. m. and live
stock showmanship contests at 3:30
p. m.
Manv of the mothers and home-
makers will be interested in the
judging of the style review at the
Odd Fellows hall at 2:30. This judg
ing is preliminary to the final style
review which will be staged on Main
street Saturday evening at 8 o'clock,
followed by a review of health club
contestants and the presentation of
all special awards.
Wheat and grain entries show evi
dence of added interest in this part
of the show even with the higher
percentage of shriveled wheat in the
county this year. Silver trophy cups
are being awarded this year to the
winner in the grain show as well as
the wool show. These trophies,
along with other awards for the 4-H
club department, are now on display
in Humphreys Drug store window.
A complete list of all fair activities
follows:
8:00 a. m. Entry of livestock exhibits
with clerk at exhibit office.
All health club contestants report
to Dr. McMurdo's office for ex
amination. 9:00 a. m. Home economics and live
stock judging contests.
10:00 a. m. Judging of home econ
omics and livestock entries.
11:00 a. m. Home .economics and
health demonstrations at Braden
Bell Tractor Co,
1:00 p. m. Camp cookery demonstra
tion on vacant lot between J. C.
Penney Co. and Wilson's.
2:30 p. m. Judging of style review
I. O. O. F. hall (open to women
only).
3:30 p. m. Livestock showmanship
contests.
5:00 p. m. Judging of wool exhibits.
Saturday, August 17
8:00 a. m. Livestock demonstrations.
9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Dollar dinner con
test. 10 a. m. 4-H club float and livestock.
8:00 t. m. Stvle review, health con
test and presentation of special
awards Main street.
MILL GOING SMOOTHLY
Steady operation of the Heppner
Lumber company mill, two miles be
low town, is reported by Orville
Smith, manager. Cut of a large bank
of logs that were cut last year is
completed and the J. W. Zorne's log
ging operations are going full tilt
in the Johnson creek district, with
truckers now rushing in the newly
cut logs.
For the benefit of those expecting
to enter the parade, Director Logie
Richardson asks that they report
readv for appearance at the corner
of Gale and Church streets at 9
o'clock for placement.
Blair Normoyle
Comes to Rodeo
As Sound Recorder
Morrow county friends knew her
as Miss Minne Normoyle of lone.
Now she is Blair Normoyle, drama
coach, of Vallejo, Cal.
Miss Normoyle is in Heppner
for Rodeo, bringing sound record
ing apparatus which she will make
available to Morrow county peo
ple for several weeks.
Leaving the teaching profession
a few years back, Miss Normoyle
took up dramatics, following the
profession successfully in New
York City, Seattle and San Fran
cisco. "She is a graduate of the in
ternationally famous Feagan school
of Damatic Art, Rockefeller Center,
New York' City, and has studied
with Sophie Rosenstein and Wil
bur Sparrow of El Capitan thea
ter in Hollywood. In her regular
location she now teaches classes
in dramatics and radio technique
at Vallejo, which city she says is
booming from increased activity
at Mare Island naval yards, which
it serves.
Miss Normoyle is the daughter
of Mrs. Lee Beckner.
Browning Bros. Bring
Enlarged Carnival
Browning Bros. Amusement Co
onened for business at the gaily
lighted midway on Main street last
nieht. coming to Heppner for their
fourth year with a bigger and better
carnival to provide extra entertain
ment for Rodeo visiors. Besides the
ferris wheel, merry-go-rouhd and
tilt-a-whirl of former years, they
are featuring a new roll-a-plane ride
and live Shetland ponies this year
The big thrill event brought by
the carnival is Speed Matthews and
his twice-daily aerial act to be pre
sented on the corner lot across
Main street from the midway. Per
forming 115 feet in the air with
trapeze and hand-stand acts, Mat
thews works without a net, providing
one of the most daring teats oi
gymnastics ever presented in Hepp
ner. He will perform at 11 a. m. and
7 p. m. each day of Rodeo.
Shirley and Deloris, the midget
twins, feature the shows in a new
Browning presentation this year. A
large chimpanzee is also presented,
besides the ever popular athletic
show.
Queen, Princesses
Greeted at Pendleton
Oueen Marjorie and her princesses
were officially welcomed in Pendle
ton Tuesday by Mayor "Buck" Lieu-
allen and high officials of Round
Up. Mayor Lieuallen personally con
ducted the queen and court on
horseback for Main street review.
Accompanying the group of royal
ty were Logie Richardson, Gene
Ferguson, Bob Runnion, Bob Gra-
bill and George Howard.
AIR CLUB MEETS TOMTE
More than forty Heppner people
have signified interest in organizing
an air club, inital meeting for which
is set at the council chambers at 8
o'clock this evening, announces Lt
Marius P. Hanford. Roy White, rep
resenting Commercial Aircraft Co.
of Portland, will be on hand to
assist with organization, Hanford
said. Anyone interested is invited
to attend.
LIONS RECEIVE QUEEN
Heppner Lions club extended a
roval welcome to Queen Marjorie
and court and Rodeo's president,
Henry Aiken, at its Monday noon
luncheon. President Aiken extended
appreciation for help Lions and
others have given in preparing for
this years show.
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Princess Doris Scott Princess Phyllis Pollock
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Princess Patricia Daly
Princess Betty Lou Lindsey
Gala City, Throng
Expectant For
Rodeo Opening
Morning Breakast
Tomorrow Starts
3-Day Festivities
"... From the mountains
to the prairies, to the oceans -white
with foam ..."
It's God Bless America through
out the land, but for the next three
days in Heppner, it's all hail the .
rangeland which will have its inning
at the 19th annual Heppner Rodeo.
A city bedecked with flags and
banners, a citizenry garbed colorful
ly in raiment reflective of the Old
West are welcoming the already
ever-increasing number ofl cow
pokes, animals and visitors who will
join in the joymaking. Queen Mar
jorie and Princesses Doris, Phyllis,
Betty Lou and Patricia, whose of
ficial reign began with inaugural at
Saturday's queen's ball, form a
comely royalty to whom all will
bow in ready fealty.
Range hands from far and near will
start their work of joymaking on
full stomachs. Lee Beckner and Jim
Kistner have seen to that. From 6
to 9 in the morning their chow crew
will flip flapjacks in the frying pans
over camp fires in the Willow creek
grove just one mile above town.
Luscious steaks, all at the price of
50 cents, will be added, and the
guarantee of old western hospitality
is that no appetite shall go unsated.
But even before breakfast, a real
Rodeo appetite pervaded with ro
manticism is the opportunity af
forded in dancing to the enchanting
tunes of Vivien Lewis' all-girl dance
band at the pavilion this evening.
Townspeople and early Rodeo ar
rivals will be welcomed to a general
admission fandango tonight starting
at 9:30. Tomorrow and Saturday at
the same time tunes will be dis
pensed at the jitney rate.
Official Rodeo headquarters is in
the corner of the Heppner Hotel
building, where entries for events
will be signed, reserved tickets for
Saturday and Sunday sold, and in
formation on housing or other ques
tions will be given visitors.
The show of bucking horses and
Brahma steers, calf roping, races (of
which Sunday's Morrow County
derby will again be the climaxing
event) will start at 1:0 each alter-
noon. Reserve tickets for Saturday
and Sunday are $1.25; general ad
mission each day for adults $1.00, for
children, free tomorrow, 50 cents
Saturday and Sunday.
With track and arena in best shape
ever, the Warren-Depew bucking
horses rearin' to go, Baze, Swaggart,
Hughes, Belton, Byrnes and Turner
racing horses in fine fetter, and Pat
Fisk and Cody Dodson, former
champs, heading the cowboy brigade,
everything is set for a full program
of entertainment each afternoon.
Parade of the Old West beginning
at 10:30 Saturday morning will again
be one of the headline attractions,
where young and old will unite in a
colorful cavalcade to compete for
cash prizes, list of which is given in
another column. Mounted cowboy
delegations from John Day, Pendle
ton, The Dalles and Mollala are
among rangehands from afar who
are slated to appear in the event.
Heppner's champion school band
will take prominent part here as
well as playing at the grounds. Many
floats, pets, 4-H club animals, comic
depictions aE will join to make
up the thrilling serpentine of sound
and color to wend its way into and
I out of Main street