Thursday, August 22, 1940
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Three
LEXINGTON NEWS
Lundell-Marquardt
Cars in Collision
By MARGARET SCOTT
The Louis Marquardt and Richard
Lundell cars collided at the inter
section by' Hunt's store Saturday
evening between 8 and 8:30 o'clock.
Both cars were badly damaged but
were covered by insurance, M. Mar
quardt was accompanied by Lorena
Isom and Gwen Walker. All persons
escaped without serious injury.
Mrs. Clarence Hayes and daugh
ter Janice of Corvallis spent last
week at the Earl Warner home.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Surgt and
son Kenneth of Kellogg were guests
of Sarah Thornburg last week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Moffatt Dennis have
returned home after a vacation
spent in Portland. Their son Phillip
remained in the city to visit at the
home of his grandmother for a
short time.
The local postoffice displayed the
American flag Monday in observance
of National Aviation Day.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McMillan and
family departed Wednesday for a
visit in Portland.
Miss Florence Grey is staying at
the home of her sister Mrs. Laurel
Ruhl this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Bissinger
of Pendleton were guests at the C.
C. Carmicheal home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Callie Duncan re
turned home last week from a two
week's vacation. Mr. Ritchie of lone
who managed the local shop during
Duncan's absence worked in the
Key barber shop in Heppner during
rodeo.
Mrs. Eula Barnhouse, Mrs. Maude
Pointer, and Mrs. Edna Turner have
returned home from Berkley, Cal.
Mr. and Mrs. John Padberg and
Mr. and Mrs. Aris Padberg and
family attended a family reunion
at Battle Mountain Park Sunday.
Mr. Fred Painter of Pendleton
called at the homes of her sisters
Mrs. Robert Burnside and Mrs. Ar
chie Padberg Sunday. She was ac
companied home by her daughter
Aloha who spent the summer here.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hunt and
children and Eileen Scott left Mon
day for a ten day vacation in the
valley. They were accompanied to
The Dalles by Mrs. Ralph Scott and
to Hood River by Helen Duvall.
Mrs. Moffatt Dennis is in charge of
the store and Eldon Padberg has
charge of the service station while
the Hunts are away.
The town was deserted over the
week end with everyone attending
the Rodeo in Heppner.
Estelle Ledbetter was assisting
Miss Fitznatrick in her 4-H club
magazine canvassing duties here Tu
esday. Lola and Juanita Padberg return
ed home Friday from a visit at the
Oleta Wardwell home.
Vernon Warner is home from the
James Valentine ranch where he
worked during harvest.
HARDMAN NEWS
Clubbers Make
Good Showing at Fair
By HARDMAN HIGH SCHOOL
The Hardman 4-H clubs made a
good showing at the county fair.
Last year they did well in the
amount of prizes, trips, and honors
won, but this year they did decidedly
better. And there was better than
100 percent increase in the number
who completed their work and show
ed at the fair.
Junior Leathers and Mildred Clary
were selected as the healthiest boy
and irl in the county and will
compete at the State Fair at Salem
in September. Mildred and Irl Cla
ry's demonstration on posture was
chosen as the one to be given in
Salem, and each won a half schol
arship to the summer school in June.
Norvin Adams and Irl Clary also
each won a half scholarship by their
demonstration in camp cookery. Ce
cil McDaniel won first in biscuit'
making; Norvin Adams, second; Irl
Clary, third; Alene Insleep, fourth;
and Delmer Buschke, fifth. Carol
Buschke won first in beginners'
sewing; Doris Robinson, third; and
Yvonne Hastings, sixth. Mildred
Clary won first in third year cloth
Vern McDaniel won second in fourth
year sewing. Mildred Clary won
first in her division for style revue,
and also was given the pinking
shears as the outstanding girl in all
clothing clubs.
The Hardman 4-H organization al
ready has $24 in the scholarship
fund for next June, and next year's
work should surpass this.
Mrs. Lewis Knighten, who' has
been under a doctor's care, is much
better, and returned to her new
home on Friday.
Mrs. Owen Leathers and Junior
came in from the mountains on
Friday evening and spent Saturday
at the Rodeo. They are now at
Tupper.
Nelson Knighten has the contract
orf painting the grads school floors,
and otherwise getting the building
in readiness for school. Marvin
Brannon's bid for similar work at
the high school was accepted.
Satisfaction Breakfast Cereal, the
Cereal That Satisfies. Three grinds
fine, medium and coarse. On sale
at your local grocer's. Other pro
ducts will be featured later. Made
by Neal F. Knighten.
Elda 0. Zink Rites
Held at Lexington
A short graveside service was held
for Elda O. Zink, youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Zink, at the
cemetery at Lexington, Thursday,
August 15. Funeral services had pre
viously been held at the Preston
chapel at Antioch, Calif., on Tues
day afternoon, August 13 at 2 p. m.
Mr. Zink was born in Lexington,
March 26, 1907, and passed away in
the U. C. hospital, San Francisco,
Calif., Sunday, August 11, 1940, after
an illness of several weeks duration.
He received his early school train
ing in the Lexington school and
later attended the lone school. In
September, 1923, Mr. Zink was uni
ted in marriage tol Miss Viola An
derson of Portland, and they had
since made their home. at Antioch.
Mr. Zink was employed in the Col
umbia Steel mills at Pittsburg, Cal.,
for the last ten years.
Left to mourn the loss of a kind
and loving husband and father are
the wife, Viola, and little daughter,
Virginia Mae. He is also survived
by two sisters, Mrs. W. E. Tompkins
of King Hill, Idaho and Mrs. E. C.
Heliker of lone, and two brothers,
George Zink of Sheridan, and Ev
erett Zink of The Dalles. The mo
ther and father preceded him in
death some years ago.
Rev. Kenneth Adams of the Me
thodist church of Antioch, Calif., of
ficiated both at the funeral service
at Antioch and the burial service
at the Lexington cemetery. Phelps
Funeral home of Heppner was in
charge here after the body was
shipped from California by train.
Out of town relatives and friends
attending the burial service for Mr.
Zink were George Zink of Sheri
dan, Mr. and Ms. Everett Zink and
daughter Grace of The Dalles, Mrs.
Donald Shaefer of Portland, Rev.
and Mrs. Kenneth Adams of Anti
och, Cal.
Mrs. Ollie Neill and Neva have
returned for the school year after
spending the summer at Greeley,
Colorado, where Miss Neill, first
grade teacher, did summer school
work.
August clearance on all summer
hats, coats, suits and dresses. Cur
ran's Ready-to-Wear. 23-26
Canada Adopts Wheat
Processing Tax, Loans
The Canadian government has just
adopted a processing tax on wheat
similar to that formerly used in this
country, and has also adopted a
wheat loan program somewhat com
parable to the one in force here. A
processing tax of 15 cents a bushel
will be collected on all wheat used
for flour or other products for hu
man consumption, but will not ap
ply to wheat or wheat products sold
for export, according to word re
ceived by the O. S. C. extension
service.
The amount collected will be used
by the Canadian wheat board to
supplement its funds available for
the wheat program. The wheat loan
plan will be used to encourage the
holding of wheat on farms, as Can
ada is faced with insufficient eleva
tor storage to handle this year's
crop. The 1940 crop is estimated at
between 350 and 400 million bushels,
while elevator storage is available
for only about 160 million bushels
in view of the heavy hold-over from
last year.
YAGE OF THE 29U126 UP THE R0GU
fhe following article, pre
sented in co-operation with
the Oregon State Motor asso
ciation, is one of a series de
signed to promote travel in
the Pacific northwest. Today's
article has been condensed
from a motorlog appearing
in The Sunday Oregonian
July 28.
BY RICHARD L. NEUBERGER
THE 29U126 is neither as for
midable as a dreadnought nor
as pretentious as an ocean liner.
But it can take you on a spec
tacular trip no Warspite or
Mauretania will ever made. The
29U126 is one of the 32-foot,
V-8 propelled boats which each
morning navigate the 32 miles
.of Roque river, scenery between
I Gold Beach, on the Oregon sea
! coast, and Agness, locked in the
I heart of the Siskiyou national
' forest.
This journey was undertaken
as part of the motorlog to the
proposed seashore national park
in Curry county. The . Coast
highway threads across the
Rogue on a graceful aqueduct,
so it was not out of our way
for us to accept Roy Carter's
invitation to go up the Rogue.
We left The Oregonian-Oregon
State Motor association car at
Gold Beach and acocmpanied
Roy on the cruise.
Our motoxlog party or per
haps it should be boating con
sisted of the same individuadls
who struggled so heroically
with the headlands of the park
area: Wallace Sprague of the
Oregon Statesman; Ralph Gif
ford, officially state highway
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Cameraman Ralph Gifford vaulted onto a riverside ledge to get this photograph of the motcr.
log party cruising up a quiet stretch of the Rogue.
department photographer; Glen
O. Stevenson of the state depart
ment of parks, and your cor
respondent. In addition, there
were passengers who that morn
ing happened to be traveling
between Gold Beach and Agness.
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Tom Fry and his boss, Roy Carter, watch the flowing Rogue
ahead as the 29U126 approaches a stretch of white water.
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As we started upstream, with
the Pacific a white-flecked sheet
of blue in the distance, Roy
Carter introduced us to Tom
Fry, a half-breed Rogue River
Indian who has been navigat
ing to 29U126 for eight years.
So far as we are concerned, we
now are ready to go with Tom
Fry on a log raft through the
Dardanelles or over Victoria
falls in a steam dredge. We are
sure he is a better navigator
than Drake and as good a river
runner as Lewis and Clark.
This has been a dry, arid sum
mer. The woods are ready to
crackle. Streams and creeks
have waned into thin trickles
and the Rogue is near low ebb.
Its rocky bottom is within a few
feet of the surface. Reefs and
bars ordinarily buried beneath
layers of water are now near
enough to touch. Wary the boat
man who covers this tortuous
course. Tom Fry did it.
At last, after about 2 hours
and 45 minutes on the river,
we reached the settlement of
Agness. Most people who visit
Agness do so by boat, reports
Lawrence D. Lucas, who runs
the farmhouse at Agness which
serves as inn, nestaurant and
hotel. He has lived at Agness all
his life, except for service in
the world war and a few years
at Oregon State college, but he
still believes the boat trip is a
heart-warming experience.
We ate lunch at Mr. Lucas'
farmhouse, which he terms the
Agness hotel, and, there being
no rival to the claim, the name
stands. Then we set out for the
postoffice. There we met Mr.
and Mrs. George Washington
Rilea, who keep the general
store at Agness. For many years
Mr. Rilea was postmaster in the
fourth-class postoffice in the
store. But Mr. Rilea is a repub
lican, and when his term ex
pired recently he had to submit
to the fortunes of politics, and
Frank L. Vernon, who belongs
to the same party as the Honor
able James A. Farley, took over
the job.
However, both Mr. an,-. Mrs.
Rilea told us with considerable
sitisfaction that Mr. Vernon
was leaving the postoffice in
the store, so they would con
tinue to get the benefit of the
mail trade. It seems that the
schism between democrats and
republicans in Agness is not un
bridgeable. Downstream we sped at
about 30 miles an hour. It took
only half as long as going up.
Tom Fry navigated the boat
with his customary dexterity
and we completed the journey
without mishap.
Roy Carter's boats ave
hauled more than a million
pounds of freight and several
thousand people into the Ore
gon coastal hills without an
accident. The trip has numerous
thrills, but it is not dangerous;
neither is it rocky enough to
distress any but the queasiest
digestive apparatus. It can be
made both ways, to Agness and
back, between 9 ii. the morning
and 3:45 in the afternoon. Any
one who crosses the Rogue
river on the Oregon Coast high
way and fails to take this jour
ney is his own worst enemy.
ing, and Vera McDaniel, second