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Volume 57, Number 31
Chamber Party Sees
County Timber
Manufactured
Kinzua Mill Beehive
of Industry; Many
Logs' Being Decked
How the forested area of Morrow
county is helping supply lumber
and a thousand and one manufac
tured wood products to the country's
markets was seen "by a Heppner
chamber of commerce party that
visited Kinzua Tuesday. A tour of
the mill and factory under personal
direction of Joe Coleman, general
manager, was a revelation of indus
trial synchronization keyed to mass
production of high quality products
that are not only adding much to
the pleasure and convenience of a
large consuming public but at the
same time are contributing much
toward development of the area.
Kinzua Pine Mills have purchas
ed many thousand acres of Morrow
county timber in addition to hold
ings in Gilliam and Wheeler coun
ties that daily are pouring a steady
stream of ponderosa pine loge into
the 250,000-foot capacity, electrically-operated
mill. Preparations for
a steady winter's run were seen in
the two million feet of logs already
decked beside the mill. At present
the company's large diesel-power-ed
trucks are being assisted by all
available "gyppo" trucks in rushing
logs into the mill from all directions,
constantly increasing the deck that
will be sawed this winter.
With more than 500 people em
ployed in the various phases of the
operation, the mill itself is being op
erated one shift daily at present,
while the factory does double shift
duty. A constant stream of lumber
from the mill flows into the 7 million-foot
capacity dry kiln where
"curing" to the desired exact degree
of moisture content is done before
the lumber is sent through the fac
, tory.
The factory is so designed that
every inch of lumber is utilized in
producing a wide variety of items
from toy stock to moulding. Cars
were in process of loading and huge
piles of many stock items were on
the floor, all of which had been pro
duced "on order." Many specialty
machines were humming, operators
and sorters busily engaged in swell
ing the constantly increasing stock
piles.
Included in the chamber of com
merce party were P. W. Mahoney,
J. J. Wightman, Earl W. Gordon, C.
J. D. Bauman, Dr. A. D. McMurdo,
Jap Crawford, W. C. Rosewall, L. L.
Gilliam, Burl Coxen, V. R. Runnion,
Bob Grabil, W. C. Cox, J. O. Hager,
E. O. Ferguson, Ray Kinne, George
Peck and Logie Richardson.
Highway Commission
Told Court's Desires'
i Emphasis on improving the Ore
' gon-Washington highway from Lena
to Heppner was placed by members
of the county court when they in
terviewed the state highway com
mission last Monday. Judge Bert
Johnson, Commissioners L. D. Neill
and George Peck and Engineer Har
ry Tamblyn met the commission at
Condon Monday noon and accom
panied them back as far as Hepp
ner as the commission went on thru
for a luncheon meeting at Pendle
ton. The Lena road project was given
as the most needful at this time,
with completion of the Condon road
gap and improement of Hardman
hill as the next projects inorder of
importance, said Judge Johnson.
Harry B. Pinniger, field secretary
of Oregon Republican club, was a
visitor in the city this morning. His
home is at Klamath Falls.
Heppner,
AAA PROGRAM
SHOWS PROGRESS
Loans Total of 267 Largest
Since Feature Adopted; 97
Percent Sign-up Shown for 1940
The wheat loan program continues
to be one of the most popular fea
tures of the AAA farm rogram, ac
cording to word received from the
local office. It was stated that at
the close of business, Sept. 30, a to
tal of 267 loans had been completed
covering 641,317 bushels. Two hun
dred forty-one of these loans are on
516,957 bushels in commercial stor
age and 26 loans are on 124,360 bu
shels in farm storage.
In 1939 there was a total of 216
loans covering 469,473 bushels of
which 202 were ,on 403,748 bushels
in commercial storage and 14 were
on 65,725 bushels in farm storage.
In 1938, the first year of the loan
program and on one of the' largest
crops over produced in Morrow
county, there was a total of 278
loans covering 854,433 bushels of
which 269 loans covering 803,677
bushels were in commercial storage
and nine loans covering 50,756 bush
els was in farm storage.
Also, reporting on other features
of the program, it was stated that
for 1940, 97 percent of the total
cropland in the county was signed
up to participate in the general pro
gram, and that work in connection
with payments due participating far
mers was being pushed and it was
expected that payments would be
coming in within the next few days,
and that by the first of December
most farmers will have received
their payments.
Opportunity will be afforded local
people to hear R. M. Evans, national
AAA administrator, who will be in
Walla Walla next Saturday, Oct. 5.
He will meet with county and local
committeemen at 10 o'clock in the
morning, and will address a public
meeting at the Grand hotel at "2 in
the afternoon.
Clubbers Going to
P-l With Exhibits
Morrow county's contingent of 4-H
club workers and exhibits going to
Pacific International Livestock ex
position will leave for Portland to
morrow morning in charge of C. D.
Conrad, county agent.
Four baby beeves will be taken,
two by Gene Cutsforth and one each
by Gene Majeske and Don Camp
bell. A judging team composed of
Irvin Rauch, Gene Majeske and Don
Campbell will represent the county.
Rauch, now at O. S. C, will join
the others in the city. The steers
will be sold at auction following
the showing.
Eleven fleeces will also be enter
ed in the 4-H wool show with Tod
and Marian Miller, Don and Buddy
Peck, Jack, Leland and Dick Ed
tnondson as exhibitors. Robert Hos
kins will enter one fleece in the
open class, that won sweepstakes at
the Morrow Wool show.
Conscription Detaifs
Not Yet Complete
While definite word has been giv
en that registration of all male cit
izens between the ages of 21 and 35
under the recently adopted conscrip
tion program will be completed on
October 16, final arrangements for
the work locally have not been com
pleted, announces C. W. Barlow,
county clerk.
The preliminary instructions con
template use of the regular election
facilities, permitting each registrant
to sign up in his own voting pre
cinct. It is expected regularly ap
pointed election boards will be asked
to serve without pay.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Smith and
Mrs. Jack Pfeiffer of Seattle, mother
of Mrs. Smith who . is visiting here,
motored to Portland over the week
end.
Oregon, Thursday, October 3. 1940
Electric Co-op Names
Permanent Directors
Columbia Basin Electric Co-op
which anticipates servicing some
400 miles of distributing lines to
bring Bonneville power to Morrow
and Gilliam counties perfected per
manent organization at the court
house here last Friday evening. By
laws and articles of incorporation
were approved and the permanent
board of directors named.
Serving as officers are Henry Ba
ker, president; John Krebs, vice
president; Glenn Richards, secret
tary; Ed Rugg, treasurer; O. L. Lun
dell, Victor Rietmanri, Orrin Wright,
Lawrence Taylor, Floyd Adams, di
rectors. Glenn H. Bell, Bonneville field
man, visited the local project for a
few hours Tuesday and found it
making favorable progress. L. R.
Rambo, project manager, reported
the sign-up reaching the two hun
dred mark. Finding some impres
sion prevalent here that Pacific
Power & Light company had re
cently purchased the REA project
at Hermiston, Mr. Bell reported
back that the sale at Hermiston con
sisted of the old -Hermiston Power
and Light company properties and
had nothing to do with the REA op
eration. On Wednesday, Oct. 2, the map lo
cation of all feasible farms in Gil
liam county was completed at Con
don with the result of a potential
membership of 190, a goodly )art of
which is already signed up. Requests
for extensions into Wheeler and
Sherman counties have come to the
project office, and will be given im
mediate attention.
Registration Period
Ends Next Saturday
Next Saturday is the last day on
which unregistered voters will have
opportunity to get their registration
in shape for the November 5th gen
eral election, when the clerk's office
will be open continuously from 8
o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock
in the evening to serve the public
convenience, announces C. W. Bar
low county clerk.
Through error in looking at the
calendar last week, this newspaper
inadvertently gave last Saturday as
the registration closing date. It is to
be hoped that the mistaken report
served to make voters a little more
aware of the matter of seeing that
their registration is in proper order.
DOCTOR LEAVES TODAY
Dr. R. M. Rice who recently dis
posed of his practice here, left today.
He expected to rest for some time
before locating later in California.
His office in the First National bank
building has been taken by Dr. L. D.
Tibbies.
GRID KICK-OFF
HERE TOMORROW
Condon Blue Devils Will Meet
Mustangs on Even Terms;
Grade Teams to Play Game
Wheat League Standings
Won Lost
Condon w. 1 0
Arlington 1 0
Heppner : 1 1
Fossil I.;... 0 2
The Heppner Mustangs open the
home season tomorrow (Friday) af
ternoon at 2:45 against the Condon
Blue Devils.
The teams will enter the game
evenly matched, both having won
from Fossil by the identical score of
6-0. The Heppner squad will be
fighting to win in order to stay in
the upper bracket of the league,
while Condon is just as anxious to
keep the league lead. All signs point
to a fast, exciting game.
The sixth and seventh grade boys
are going to stage a football game
with the eighth grade between hal
ves of the high school contest. Coach
McKenzie would make no forecast
of the outcome when interviewed
at a late hour last night.
A prominent Heppner citizen has
donated a gate prize to be given
at an intermission period.
Athletic Secretary
Addresses Lions
Aims of the Oregon High School
Athletic association do not contem
plate merely the making of athletic
teams on which the upper 12 per
cent of the students participate, but
rather to build a well rounded
physical education program for de
velopment of all students on a moral
and spiritual as well as physical
basis. This was the statement of
Troy Walker, secretary of the as
sociation in an address before the
Monday Lions luncheon.
The club went on record to back
an athletic club in the city which
contemplates use of the building at
the city swimming tank, and Pres
ident Conrad named C. J. D. Bau
man and Jap Crawford to serve
with committeemen named by other
organizations in effecting the club
organization.
Edgar B. Grimes, commandant tt
Camp Heppner succeeding Lt. Mar
ius P. Hanford, was introduced. Lt.
Grimes is a brother of Randall
Grimes, formerly in charge of Smith -Hughes
work in the local schools
MRS. YARNELL BAGS BUCK
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Yarnell of
lone returned Friday from a hunt
in the Moon Meadows district over
in Grant county. Mrs. Yarnell shot
a nice 200-pound buck, while Mr.
Yarnell killed a big dog coyote.
I
2.21 Inches Rain
In September Aids
Ranges, Crops
Hardman Section
Gets Cloudburst as
Lightning Flashes
September showers totalling 2.21
inches at Heppner were the liveliest
seen by Morrow county in a good
many years, and led many to aver,
"It seems like old times."
Generally the showers were ac
companied by smiles, for rtockmen
were glad to see fall ranges putting
in the best appearance in a long
time (some say the best they ever
did see them), and wheatmen were
happy for the opportunity to knock
out weeds and get about planting
the new wheat crop.
Climaxing rains of the month was
last Thursday evening's storm that
gave the entire county one of its
prettiest displays of electrical fire
works and a rain of cloudburst pro
portions in the Hardman section.
Canyons ran deep with water for a
time, and some roads in the vicinity
were blocked for a day by debris
and the heavy resultant mud.
W. H. French reported that xk in
ches of rain fell at his Blue Moun
tain farm in this storm, and the
electrical display was exceptionally
heavy.
Heppner residents were treated to
the fireworks but the rain here
amounted to only .26 inch, according
to report of Len L. Gilliam, official
observer.
A good shower yesterday morn
ing gave October a , good start and
overcast skies today promise more
precipitation for what may be the
wettest fall Morrow county has seen
for many a year.
Pomona Meeting Set
at Lena Saturday
Morrow County Pomona grange
meets at Lena on Saturday, Oct 5.
Members of the subordinate granges
are urged to register before 11 a. m.
Speaker for the afternoon pro
gram is Dr. Thompson of Bonne
ville power administration. Those
who have heard Dr. Thompson re
mark that he is an able speaker well
equipped to handle his subject.
Also Walter Pierce, representative
in congress, has expressed that he
may attend the Pomona meet. Mr.
Rambo also plans to attend, and is
included as a speaker.
With these two able speakers and
numbers from subordinates the af
ternoon should prove very interest
ing and instructive.
The program, to which the public
is cordially invited, begins at 1:30.
The usual dinners at noon and in
the evening will be served to the at
tending members and speaker guests.
Grange ladies of Morrow county
who have prepared fruits, preserves
and jells for the state grange can
ning contest are asked to bring or
send them with the sales slips or
small sugar sack to the Lena grange
hall on Saturday, Oct. 5, where
judging or plans for judging will
be made.
Pomona degree will be conferred
on candidates in the evening by
Rhea Creek grange.
LT. HANFORD LEAVES
Lt. Marius P. Hanford departed
today for McChord Field, Wash., to
report for duty in the non-combat-tant
air service, in answer to recent
call. Mrs. Hanford and the children
are remaining in Heppner until liv
ing accommodations have been es
tablished at the field.
Rhea Luper stopped overnight here
Monday on his way home to Port
land from Baker where he had
spent a week as consulting engineer
in a court case affecting water
rights.