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Volume 57, Number 26
Schools Open
Tuesday; Local
Preparations Made
Blankenship Sets
Office Hours; Fac
ulty All Named
Opening of schools generally over
the -county will occur next Tuesday.
Supt. Alden Blankenship returned
Tuesday night from Everett, Wash.,
bringing his family, and has been
busy getting opening details in hand
for Heppner. He anounces that his
office will be open from 10 o'clock
in the morning til 3 in the after
noon tomorrow to receive high
school juniors and seniors who wish
to get books and make arrange-
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hours will apply for freshmen and
Sophomores, Saturday.
School will officially open here at
10 minutes to 9, Tuesday.
' Recent election of Lera Crawford
to a position in the grades completes
the corps of teachers to be on hand
at the opening. Present assignment
gives grade teachers home rooms as
follows: Neva Neill 1st, Elizabeth Dix
2nd, Mary White 3rd, Martha Blair
4th, Lera Crawford 5th, Rachel For
sythe 6th, Kenneth McKenzie 7th,
Harold Buhman 8th. The grades are
departmentalized from the fifth thru
the eighth, with various teachers
giving specialized work for all grades
in this section.
High school faculty returns from
last year, en toto, including Mr.
Blankenship, Miss Margaret Dough
ty, commercial and girls physical
education; Mrs. Ethel Clark, part-
time history, algebra and English
Miss Jean McELhinny, home econ
omics and music; Norbert Peavy,
English and dramatics; Robert Knox,
science, mathematics and boys phys
ical education; William S. Bennett,
Smith-Hughes agriculture.
Improvements in the school plant
this summer include renovation of
girls' rest room, kalsomining audi
torium in gym, wiring of ag shop
and steam heating of class room in
cluded in shop building this year,
new oak floor in music room, addi
tion to combination office and li
brary, improvement in girls' dress
ing room in gym, addition of new
fireproof storage room for equip
ment in the gym.
Curriculum changes this year in
. elude a new science course in the
four upper grades, replacing nature
study, addition of shop for eighth
grade boys and home economics for
eighth grade girls, and an office
practice course in place of second
year typing, giving a combination
of typing and shorthand.
OSC Extension
Members Elected
Oregon State College. Two mem
bers of the O.S.C. extension staff
have recently been elected to nation
al committees with associations in
their respective fields.
U. S. Burt, extension specialist in
visual instruction, has just been
elected one of the six members of
the executive committee of the vis
ual instruction department of the
National Education association. Burt
previously headed its constitution
revision committee. He will be the
only member west of the Mississippi
river. -
John C. Burtner, extension editor,
was elected a member of the exec
utive committee of the American
Association of Agricultural College
Editors at the recent national con
vention in Colorado, where Oregon
exhibits of bulletins, news and ra
dio service ranked high in annual
competition.
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Jenison left
yesterday evening for Spokane on
their way to Montana, vacation bent.
Heppner,
LIONS PROMOTE
AIR-MINDEDNESS
Moral Support for New Air
Club, Landing Field, Given
in Motions by Service Group
That it's time for Morrow county
people to get air-minded is the be
lief of Heppner Lions as expressed
in motions passed by the service
club at Monday's meeting at Camp
Heppner, CCC. The club endorsed
the move under way to establish an
air club to teach laymen how to fly,
and voted to name a committee to
contact local governmental bodies on
the matter of establishing an airport
President Marius Hanford declar
ed that development of flying since
the time of Wright brothers has been
comparable to development of the
automobile from the Model T to the
V-8, and that it won't be many years
until the person who doesn't know
how to fly will be as antiquated as
grandpappy who scoffed at the smel
ly gas buggies. Hanford, who is also
president of the temporary flying or-
gamation, said the air club was not
asking financial assistance from any
other than members, but believed it
should have the good will support
of the community.
Kay Ferguson, who the Lions sent
to the recent Beaver Boy State in
Portland, made an interesting re
port of the encampment.
Babler Bros. Awarded
Condon Road Contract
Contract totalling $43,089 for addi
tional construction work on the
Heppner-Condon road between the
F. E. Parker ranch and Eight Mile
was awarded last Thursday by the
state highway commission to Babler
Bros, of Portland. It was expected
that grading work would start im
mediately, but that oiling would be
deferred until next summer,
The contract included grading and
surfacing 4.92 miles and oiling 11.82
miles of road which will complete
the oiled surfacing from Heppner to
the end of the present macadam be
yond the Eight Mile postoffice.
An additional piece of work is
under way between Lonerock junc
tion and Rock creek, and projected
for next year is grading and surfac
ing on the Heppner end to fill in
the gap between Rock creek and the
portion of the road now being im
proved. Eight Bombers Fly
Low Over Heppner
Whether it was in answer to re
cent invitation of Heppner chamber
of commerce has not been ascertain
ed, but eight of Uncle Sam's big
bombing planes flew low over Hepp
ner about 10 o'clock yesterday fore
noon, giving residents who saw them
considerable of a thrill.
The chamber of commerce recent
ly extended an invitation to Major
J. C. Gates, one of a committee of
army men seeking to locate a bomb
ing practice field in the north end
of Morrow county, to send some of
the bombers over Heppner. No re
cent word has been received about
developments in locating the bomb
ing field in this county.
Highway Commission
Postpones Visit
The state highway commission has
postponed til October its con tern
plated visit here next Monday, ac
cording to word received yesterday
morning by P. W. Mahoney, secre'
tary of the chamber of commerce.
A letter conveying the informa
tion stated that Heppner would be
included in the later itinerary, but
that definite date of the visit could
not then be given. A public recep
tion is expected to be given under
auspices of the chamber and Lions
club when the visit is made.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Turner
tored to Monument Saturday to visit
at the home of Mrs. Maude Morris,
returning home Monday evening.
Oregon, Thursday, August
Food Stamps to
Come to Morrow
Within Two Months
USDA Extends Plan
to 13 Counties for
Surplus Removal
Morrow is one of 13 eastern Ore
gon counties selected by United
States department of agriculture in
which to invoke its food stamp plan,
according to recent announcement
by Robert J. Graves, assistant reg
ional director. Other counties in
cluded are Crook, Deschutes, Gil
liam, Grant, Harney, Hood River,
Jefferson, Lake, Malheur, Sherman,
Wasco and Wheeler. The plan is ex
pected to begin operation here early
in October.
Based on the administration's ex
perience in other areas it is estim
ated that the food stamp plan will
provide an approximate additional
$150,000 of important surplus foods
annually for the 6,000 persons now
receiving some form of public as
sistance in the thirteen eastern Ore
gon counties. As the plan provides
distribution of surplus commodities
through regular channels of trade,
the estimated $150,000 will mean an
annual increase of this amount in
the annual business of food retailers
in these counties.
Grant Tolley, field representative,
was in the city the end of the week
to acquaint local retailers with the
plan, and a food industries commit
tee has been formed in the 13 coun
ties to further disseminate informa
tion. With primary purpose of assisting
farmers in disposing of 'surplus crops
the food stamp plan extends to pub
lic assistance families opportunity to
increase food budgets. As regular
channels of retail trade are used in
distributing foods to be claimed by
the stamps, general business of the
community is benefitted.
With arrival of the stamps, the
regular program of the Surplus
Marketing administration, under
which the federal government buys
surplus foods direct from the farmer
and donates them to the state and
county agencies for distribution to
eligible families, will be discontinu
ed in the 13 eastern Oregon counties.
Families receiving assistance, as
well as retail food merchants, will be
completely informed as to the de
tails of the food stamp plan well in
advance of its actual operation early
in October.
Skeletons Lead
to Conjecture
of Identities
What may have been the re
mains of a man, woman and child
probably Indian were uncov
ered a few days ago by Albert
Connor, operating a grader on the
county road about six miles above
the Antone Vey farm home on
Butter creek. Size of the three
unearthed skeletons, and the ap
parent long interment period, led
Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman and Cor
oner A. D. McMurdo to this con
clusion. Sheriff Bauman brought
the skeletons to town Saturday.
No evidence of clothing or other
artifacts could be found, though
not far away were uncovered
some Indian rocks. The skeletons;
had been deposited in a sandy for
mation. Mrs. L. G. Rumble has received
word from her daughter, Mrs. Ed
mond Schroeder of Berkeley, Cal.,
that Mr. Schroeder has been ap
pointed chief flight engineer for the
training of new flight sngineers un
der the national defense act with
headquarters at Chicago. The Schro-
des were preparing to move their
home to the Windy city.
29, 1940
ELEVEN CLUBBERS
TO ATTEND FAIR
4-H Workers Go to Salem
to Exhibit and Demonstrate
Result Proceeds from Stand
Eleven Morrow county 4-H club
members will attend the Oregon
state fair next week to exhibit and
compete in various contests.
Buddy Peck, Bernard Doherty and
Jack Edrhondson were the high scor
ing livestock judging team at the
Morrow county fair and will enter
the state contest Monday. The three
boys are also exhibiting livestock.
Buddy and Jack are exhibiting
sheep and Bernard will show two
Guernsey heifers.
Don and Leland Edmondson both
exhibitors of sheep will compete in
the state livestock demonstration
contest. Their demonstration con
sists of the blocking and fitting of
a sheep for the show ring.
Freddy Rugg will exhibit his pure
bred Chester White gilt which won
him championship honors at the lo
cal fair.
Mildred and Irl Clary of Hardman
will compete in the state health
demonstration contest with the dem
onstration which was awarded first
place and received much favorable
comment at the Morrow County fair.
Mildred will enter the contest for
the healthiest girl and Owen Lea
thers also of Hardman will compete
for the healthiest boy honors.
Mildred and Peggy Tamblyn,
I county style revue winners, will
compete in the state style revue
contest with their cotton school
dress and wool best dress respec
tively. Clayton Wright, both a club mem
ber and club leader at Rhea creek,
will truck the livestock to the 'fair
and assist with the exhibits during
the week.
The oportunity for these boys and
girls to exhibit at the state fair as
well as at the Pacific International
Livestock exposition in, October is
made possible by the proceeds de
rived from the lunch stand and
conducted at the Rodeo dances, and
C. D. Conrad, county agent, and
Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers, county school
superintendent, wish to thank each
and every person who- helped make
the stand a success this year.
Three Counties Have
Grouse Open Season
Grouse hunters will have their
innings when the season for Sooty
or Blue grouse opens in three east
ern Oregon counties Wallowa, Ba
ker and Union next week.
The season opens Sunday, August
25, and closes on August 31. The
bag limit is four birds in any one
day but not more than eight in any
seven consecutive days.
There are many sportsmen from
all parts of the state who enjoy
grouse shooting and it is expected
that the brief season will attract
many hunters.
Postoffice Ready
to Register Aliens
Anyone in Morrow county not a
citizen of the United States is re
quired to register with Uncle Sam
under a recent act of congress.
Chas. B. Cox postmaster, is now
prepared to do the registering and
asks that alien residents call imme
diately for sample registration cards.
These cards may be studied and fill
ed out before the official registration
is taken.
WATER CARNIVAL OFF
No water carnival will be held at
the municipal swimming pool Sun
day due to lack of attendance at
previous carnivals, announces Har
old Buhman, supervisor. The pool
will close for the season Monday.
No public award of life-saving and
swimming certificates will be made
as formerly planned, but these will
be given out individually and an
nouncement made of names of those
receiving them.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
North Morrow to
Show Products
Next Two Days
Irrigon Centers
Interest in Annual
Project Fair
North Moitow county's fair will
be underway tomorrow and Satur
day at Irrigon.
Annually presenting a full array
of versatile products of the irrigated
lands around Boardman and Irrigon, ,
the fair commands large interest
from other parts of the county as
well as the neighboring Umatillans.
General exhibits covering all classes
usually to be found at a fair are
promised to be more attractive than
ever this year. Special emphasis is
being placed upon the 4-H division.
Premium lists have been distribu
ted by the secretary-treasurer, H.
C. Warner. Robert Smith of Irrigon.
is president, and directors are Mrs.
A. C. Houghton, Forrest Hunting
and Elmer Sullivan,.
Events include the 4-H demonstra
tions at 2 o'clock tomorrow, sports
program at 2 o'clock Saturday and
the dance Saturday night.
Superintendents of the various
divisions are: Vegetables, Frank
Brace; fruits and melons, F. C. Fred
erickson; farm crops, R. V. Jones;
bees and honey, B. P. Rand; poul
try, Carl Knighten; livestock, H. D.
Rutledge; domestic arts, Mrs. Ida
Brace; art, Mrs. Maud Swearingen;
flowers and plants, Mrs. Ada Hunt
ing; canned fruits, vegetables and
meats, Mrs. Joyce Smith cooked
foods, Mrs. B. P. Rand. ,
The fair alternates its showing
each year between Boardman and
Irrigon, drawing a fine array of ex
hibits of which the large melons
are always a feature. To close each
year's fair the championsliip water
melon is cut for enjoyment of the
public, and the melon is usually
large enough to give many people
a fair slice.
Interest in the fair has been talk
ed up in Heppner the last few days,
bringing promise that a number of
people will attend from here.
Luttrell Home on
John Day Burns
While Omer Luttrell was in Lex
ington Monday to attend funeral
services for his daughter, Dona
Kittson, the home on the John Day
ranch near Kimberley was razed by
fire. Report of the fire was brought
to Heppner by Mrs. Alice Rasmus,
helper at the ranch, who also at
tended the funeral services. She
said no reason for the fire's start
could be determined.
The house and personal belongings
of Mr. Luttrell and Mrs. Rasmud
burned in the night Sunday, the
ruins being discovered by Joe Si
mas, who lives across the river,
about 5 o'clock Monday morning.
He had passed the Luttrell home
about 11 o'clock the night before
on the way home and noticed noth
ing wrong. Mrs. Rasmus returned
with Mr. Luttrell and housekeeping
is being done in a cook house on the
place.
DONA LUTTRELL KITTSON
Dona Luttrell Kittson, for whom
funeral services were held at Lex
ington Monday afternoon, was born
to Omer and Annie Elizabeth Lut
trell at Lexington, August 2, 1911.
She died at Tacoma, Wash., August
23, 1940, aged 29 years and 21 days.
She was graduated from Rufus high
school and was married to John
Kittson in 1937. Surviving are the
husband, father who resides near
Kimberley, sisters Edna Luttrell of
Portland, Ruth Vanderwood of
Montana, Fern Duran of Heppner,
Faye Munkers of Lexington and Lois
Snively.