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Volume 57, Number 35
Vice President of
Kraft Cheese Co.
Makes Visit Here
Inspects Lumber
Mill, in Which Inter
ested;Talks Hunting
That Heppner truly is linked up
with a concern having national ram-
ifications was brought home this j
week by the visit of C. H. Kraft of
Chicago, vice president of both the
Kraft Cheese company and o Na
tional Dairy Products, whose op
erations cover not only the entire
United States but several foreign
countries.
Mr. Kraft arrived in the city Tu
esday evening with his son Leonard
Kraft of Bridal Veil, both of whom
are substantial stockholders in the
Heppner Lumber company, much
of whose product is going into the
making of Kraft cheese boxes after
being remanufactured at Bridal Veil
Box and Lumber Co. plant, another
concern in which the Krafts have
a large interest.
Mr. Kraft the elder called at
Heppner in the course of a field tour
of his companies' operations on the
west coast. It was his first visit here,
but after meeting a representative
group of business men at luncheon
at the Lucas Place yesterday, he
said that he hoped to be back again
to learn more of the hunting and
fishing opportunities afforded here,
one of the main subjects of conver
sation at the luncheon. The busi
ness group extended Mr. Kraft their
good will and appreciation of the
substantial payroll industry that the
mill has brought to Heppner. ,
Mr. Kraft was noncommittal about
plans being considered for the local
plant, but building now going for
ward on the grounds, intended to
house a planing mill, is evidence of
contemplated expansion, which Or
ville L. Smith, manager, says will
probably make a year 'round opera
ation and substantially increase the
payroll now coming from the saw
mill operation alone.
The Chicago cheese manufacturer,
who with his brother, J. L. Kraft,
president, is a leading figure jn
Kraft Cheese, evidenced an interest
in the outdoor sports of Wisconsin,
and he asked if people in. Morrow
county really appreciated the won
derful oportunity for hunting that
lies right in their back yard.
Mr. Kraft left at 2 o'clock yester
day afternoon for Pendleton to catch
a plane for San Francisco.
Local Forest Fire
Told in Broadcast '
Some of the events of the Potamus
fire on the Heppner district of the
Umatilla national forest were told
on the program, "Foresters in Ac
tion," presented by the Press Radio
Guild, publicity organization of the
school of forestry, over station KOAC
last Thursday evening. The script
for the broadcast was written by
Bert Mason, Jr., of lone, junior in
forestry at O. S. C, who was on
Wheeler Point lookout during the
summer.
Forestry news, tall stories, and en
tertainment will be broadcast from
KOAC each Thursday evening at
8:45. The program is given by Ore
gon foresters for forestry every
where.
MILL STOPS SAWING
Fred Reed, manager of the Reed
sawmill south of Hardman, said Tu
esday while in the city that the
mill had closed down for the season
and logs now coming to the mill are
being decked for cutting next spring.
He said he had plenty of work to
keep him on the job until sawing
operations can again be started.
Heppner,
Final Grid Clash
Slated Tomorrow
Heppner's Mustangs broke into
the win column again, last Friday
when they defeated Condon there
12-0, and tomorrow afternoon will
face the crucial test when Arling
ton comes here for the last home
game of the season. The annual
Armistice Day clash at Hermiston
will wind up the season.
Tomorrow's game will decide the
championship of the Wheat league.
At present Arlington leads with four
wins andjio defeats while Heppner
is in second place with three wins
and 0ne defeat. A Heppner victory
tomorrow would throw Heppner and
Arlington into a first place tie.
Arlington won a game from Hepp
ner earlier in the season 27-6. They
have a line that averages 170 pounds
per man and a backfield that av
erages 152 pounds. The Heppner
line is outweighed around 20 pounds
per man while the backfield aver
ages the same.
These statistics point to an over
powering advantage for the Hon
kers. However, the Mustangs have
improved a great deal since the last
Arlington game and will gave the
Honkers a tough afternoon in the
home corral. -
Game starts at 2:45.
The starting lineups with indiv
idual weights: ,
Arlington: Valade 165, le, Linnell
170, It, Perry 186, lg, Scoggins 146, c,
Land 139, rg, Childs 175, rt, Strahm
199, re, Norris 145, q, McClaskey
159, lh, Wetherell 150, rh, Colosso
153, f.
Heppner: Blake 143, le, Hoselton
180, It, Lane 150, lg, Evans 154, c,
Ferguson 145, rg, Cohn, 160, rt, Swick
147, re, Snow 160, q, Crawford 142,
lh, Barratt 151, rh, Pettyjohn 162, f.
Christmas Seal Sale
Launched at Dinner '
Morrow County Public Health as
sociation fired the opening gun' in
the Christmas seal sale campaign
Friday, Oct. 18, at the Lucas Place
at 6:30 p. m. J. O. Turner, president
presided over the business meeting
and introduced Miss Elsie Witchen,
state supervisor of seal sales.
Miss Witchen stated that Morrow
county retained 70 per cent of the
monies received in 1939 from the
sale of Christmas seals for the spon
soring of the county nursing ser
vice in part, tuberculosis work and
allied projects. Of all the monies
collected in Oregon only 5 per cent
left the state for national adver
tising and administration costs.
This year the Christmas seal sale
on the same basis of 7.7 seals per
capita in Morrow county, under the
new census count, will enable the
local association to retain 80 per
cent of all monies for county pro
jects. Those present at the dinner were,
J. O. Turner, Elsie Witchen, Lucy
E. Rodgers, treasurer; Clara Bea
mer Gertson, secretary; Rose Lieb
brand, county seal sale chairman;
Lucile Vale, county health nurse;
Mrs. Omar Rietmann, lone chair
man; Mrs. Neal Knighten, Hardman
chairman; Alonzo Henderson, Lex
ington chairman. Other chairmen
for out-lying districts are Mrs. Eb
Hughes, Lena; Mrs. Marion Finch,
Pine City; Ladd Sherman, Irrigon,
George Corwin, Boardman.
CORRECTION
In the lead story in the Gazette
Times last week announcing an ad
ditional 1-cent reduction in the rail
freight rate on wheat, it was stated
that approximately 1,000,000 bushles
of new crop wheat had been ship
ped this season and that 250,000
bushels remained in storage in coun
ty warehouses. These figures should
be reversed. There has been appro x
about 1,000,000 bushels remain in
about 1,000,000 bushes! remain in
storage, according to final check
of the local AAA office.
Good Guernsey bull for sale. Ar
nold Pieper, Lexington.
Oregon, Thursday, October
First Two Numbers
From Draft Pot
Hit Morrow Boys
Dallas Craber of
Hardman Holds 158,
Starting Numeral
Order numbers indicating se
quence in which Uncle Sam's new
conscription army will be summon
ed to report were drawn from the
gold fish bowl at the national cap
ital Tuesday, starting at 9 a. m. It
took twenty hours to draw the 9000
numbers, giving the men between
21 and 36 years of age their "lot"
for summons in the order that the
serial numbers awarded by local se
lective service boards were drawn.
Number 158, the first number tak
en from the bowl and reported to
the nation by President Roosevelt
was held in Morrow county by Dal
las Craber, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Craber of Hardman. This num
ber, and each succeeding number
drawn from the bowl, meant that
holders of the drawn numbers in
each selective service district in the
United States would be subject to
call in the order drawn.
Number 192 was the second num
ber drawn, and in Morrow county
it was held by Edwin Arthur Berg
strom, a resident of the Lexington
section.
That either of the Morrow coun
ty boys holding the first two num
bers taken from the pot will be re
quired to enter the service, or hold
ers of other numbers later drawn,
will ever be soldiers, is not neces
sarily the case. Those whose num
bers are drawn first will be the first
to receive questionnaires to "deter
mine eligibilithy for servce, "'and
should they be determined not eli
gible, they will be excused. -
Likelihood of Morrow county hav
ing to contribute many of her young
men immediately is obviated by the
fact that credit is given for enlist
ments, leaving only 225 men to be
taken from the state of Oregon in
the first call, according to unofficial
estimate reported in the daily press.
Order numbers for serial numbers
held by Morrow county registrants,
indicating the position in which they
may expect call, will be given in
these columns next week.
NAMES ADDED TO DRAFT LIST
Following is a list of corrections
and additions to the list of draft reg
istrants in Morrow county as given
in these columns last week:
20 Martin Bailey Clark, Heppner
21 Lincoln Clyde Rich, Heppner
66 Eldon Lewis Allen, Irrigon
67 Eslie Marvin Walker, Lexington
80 Lawrence Oden Tyler, Boardman
81 Wilbur Ralph Akers, lone
102 Burvil Joseph Corbin, Heppner
181 Henry Riley Stotts, Heppner
338 Harlan Nelson Adams, Hardman
579 Bert Mason, Jr., lone
580 Lawrence Philip Doherty, Lexing
ton 681 Louis Leonard Gilliam, Heppner
582 Harold Elbert Armstrong, Heppner
583 William Lee McCaleb, Heppner
584 Robert Harold Davidson, Heppner
585 Steve William Holtkamp, Jr., Hepp
ner 586 Robert Lowe, Cecil
587 Edward Leroy Hunt, Lexington
588 Frank Anderson, Heppner
589 Harold Luvern Townsend, Cecil
590 Dorr Godfrey Mason, lone
591 Everett B. Shaner, Heppner
592 James Patrick McNamee, Heppner
593 Charles Montague Smith, Boardman
594 Marshall Howard Fell, Heppner
595 Harry Albin Lindbo, Heppner
596 Neil Patrick Doherty, Jr., lone
597 Edward Anthony Sosnowskl, Hepp
ner
598 Neil William Mullin, Heppner
599 Charles Cecil Jones, Lexington
600 Criss Wilson Aiken, Heppner
601 James Lincoln Tabbutt, Heppner
602 Paul Webb, Jr., Heppner
603 Norman Beryl Griffin, Heppner
604 James Melvin Leach, Heppner
605 William Frederick Botts, lone
WIRE BACK FOR ELK
Frank Wire, state game supervis
or who enjoyed pheasant hunting
here recently, is back in Heppner
again today, leaving with Logie
Richardson this afternoon for Tup
per ranger station where headquar
ters will be made for an elk hunt,
Mr. Wire got his elk in this section
last year.
31, 1940
County Mobilizes in j
Labor Defense Cause
Committees representing industry,
labor, veterans and the public, are
being organized all over Oregon this
week to push the campaign to reg
ister skilled workers for the national
defense program. Names of more
than 300 community leaders from
nearly every county have been re
ported to the Board for the Mobil
ization of Labor, under vhose di
rection the inventory is being taken.
In the Morrow county district the
following have been named to the
committee:
E. H. Miller, chairman; H. A.
Cohn, Orville Smith, L. II. Freder
ickson, J. V. Crawford, C. J. D. Bau
man, B. C. Pinckney; Clifford Con
rad, P. W. Mahoney, secretary.
More than 350,000 workers em
ployed by 15,000 concerns are ex
pected to report their experience in
370 defense occupations. These
worksheets will be returned to em
ployers, who are expected to report
to the board's Salem offices, the
number of skilled men available for
defense industries in case of emer
gency. No worker will be called
without his consent, nor will any
industry be disruped by taking its
key men, promises William Bowes,
Portland city commissioner and
chairman of the board.
In direct charge of the census is
Leon S. Davis of Hillsboro, who
was named by Governor Sprague
to work under Director L. C. Stoll
of the State Employment Service
in handling details of the inventory.
Every effort is being made in each
community to reach not only skill
ed men employed in public and pri
vate firms, but also many now on
farms or in small concerns of their
own.
Mrs. R. W. Turner
Was Beloved Pioneer
Funeral services are being held at
2 o'clock this afternoon for Mrs. R.
W. Turner, 76, pioneer settler of
Morrow county who passed away at
the family home in this city at 11
o'clock Monday morning. Mrs. Tur
ner had combatted a lingering ill
ness for the last several years.
Martin B. Clark, pastor, is the
officiating minister at rites being
conducted from the Church of Christ
with interment followng in Masonic
cemetery.
Mary May Shepherd was born at
Springfield, Illinois, April 7, 1864,
the second daughter of William and
Ruth Shepherd. She was united in
marriage to Robert Willis Turner,
August 23, 1884, in Elmira, Califor
nia, and came to Oregon the same
year, as a truly early Morrow coun
ty pioneer woman, where she has
resided continuously for the past 56
years.
She passed to her reward on the
28th day of October, 1940, at her
home in Heppner. ,
She leaves to mourn her loss, her
husband, Robert Willis Turner, five
sons, Frank, Samuel and Jesse of
Heppner, Loy M. of Long Beach,
Cal., John W. of Baker, and one
daughter, Anita May LaDusire of
LaGrande; seven grandchildren and
four great grandchildren; four sis
ters and four brothers.
With Mr. Turner, Mrs. Turner
moved to Heppner in 1902 from the
family farm in Sand Hollow, and
their home had since been made in
town.
She was known by many and loved
by all who knew her. Her heart
never failed anyone until it failed
her.
UNDERGOES OPERATION
E. C. Heliker, recently injured
when he fell from the roof of the
Willows grange hall at lone while
painting, underwent an operation
at Emanuel hospital in Portland Tu
esday, according to word received
just before press time. Several bro
ken bones and severe dislocations
were found. His leg is in a plaster
cast up to the knee.
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Airways Hot For
Tuesday's Election;
Large Vote Forecast
GOP, Demos Stage
Hot Fight; Pierce,
Cake Appear Here
Verbal blitzkreigs that constant
ly fill the air will have the effect
in Morrow county of drawing a rec
ord vote to the polls next Tuesday
when people of the nation again trek
to the polls to name their president
for the coming three years.
In Morrow county voters of the
various precincts will go to their us
ual voting places with exception of
North Heppner where ballots will
be cast in the Roberts building on
Willow street, according to an
nouncement of Sheriff C. J. D. Bau
man this morning. '
Republicans will gather in a final
campaign rally in honor of Charles
L. McNary, Oregon's offering to the
GOP ticket, at lone next Saturday
evening at 8 o'clock. Roy Kilpatrick,
talented young attorney from Can
yon City will deliver the address
of the evening.
Walter M. Pierce, democratic
nominee for congress to succeed
himself, gave the parting shot local
ly for himself and Mr. Roosevelt,
for the democratic side, at the Elks
hall last night.
Reublicans rallied at Heppner last
Friday evening when Ralph Cake,
national committeeman for Oregon
spoke at the Elks club. He was ac
companied by Lowell Stockman of
Pendleton.
The campaign comes to a close
here with a large percentage of the
voters giving little indication of how
they may cast ballots. In interviews
with those willing to talk, this
newspaper has found a good many
people who twice voted for Roose
velt asserting themselves as not in
favor of a third term. This does not
include old-time democrats, who ap
pear largely to be still Roosevelt
sympathizers, though not so emphat
ically as formerly. Appearances are
that Morrow county will give neith
er presidential candidate a prepon
derant majority, with the direction
of the silent vote placing the county
in one or the other candidate's col
umn. Voters have had little to say about
how they may vote on lesser offices
or the ten measures to appear on the
local ballot. Some activity has been
shown in the twenty-second district
state reresentative race, with Giles
L. French, republican nominee, vis
iting the county last week end. And
Bruce Spalding's visit here last
week drew some notice to his con
test for the office of attorney gen
eral. No contests appear for county or
local offices to cause a stir.
New Wheat Rate
Effective December 1
The one-cent per hundred pounds
reduction in the freight rate on
wheat shipped via Union Pacific on
the Heppner and Condon branches
will go into effect December first,
according to telephonic word from
T. W. Swobe, district freight and
passenger agent, this morning.
The reduction is expected to af
fect shipment of 1,000,000 bushels of
wheat now in storage in the county.
SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS
Marvin Brown of California, in
dicted in grand jury here two years
ago for larceny and but recently ar
rested in his home state, entered
plea of guilty in circuit court here
yesterday and was sentenced to two
years in the state penitentiary by
Judge C. L. Sweek. Brown was con
victed on a charge of selling a
truckload of cattle belonging to J.
G. Barratt and misappropriating the
money.