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Volume 57, Number 36
'Bubbling Over'
Benefit Plays to
Large Audiences
Legion Presents
Snappy Comedy for
Building Fund
"Bubbling Over," as presented by
a cast of local talent last Friday and
Saturday evenings, was good enter
tainment. Not only was the play it
self witty and fast-moving, full of
surprises for the audience, but the
characters were well cast and better
than average amateur actors. Spe
cial mention must be given Francis
Nickerson, who in playing the part
of a young college student, was com
pletely natural and amusing. His
later impersonation of a lady "brot
down the house," and his waltz se
quence had a professional touch.
While the whole cast did a splen
did job, Fay Knox, in her role as
a light-headed co-ed, and Mrs. Gigi
Clary, as the motherly housekeeper
to whom all troubles were confided,
won the whole-hearted approval of
the audience. Ed Kenny, in the lead
ing role, was pleasing. Mrs. Maurice
Shepard, Mrs. Harriet Lundell, Mrs.
Evelyn Isom, Omar McCaleb, Miss
Martha Blair and Fred Kerstendiek,
all played their parts with under
standing. The several choruses and dances
by the high school girls added a
pleasant note of variety while the
specialty numbers by Marlene Du
Bois, Jeanette Bleakman, Wanda
Howell and Walter Skuzeski were
heartily applauded. .The "Geogra
phy" song by the grade school cho
rus evoked much laughter. Miss
Marjorie Parker was an able ac
companist. Credit must be given Miss Ginger
Mattingly, who directed the show,
and the American Legion which
sponsored it. Financially, the affair
was considered a success also, and
the funds will go toward a com
munity building.
Whooping Cough
Aid Given by Nurse
To assist mothers in combatting
whooping cough Miss Lucille Vale,
county nurse has issued the follow
ing instructions:
Whooping cough is a highly con
tagious disease and is especially
dangerous for babes and for young
children from 1 to 5 years of age.
The age period in which it causes
most deaths is from birth to 1 year.
Out of every five deaths from
whooping cough, three are of infants
under 1 year of age. One attack
of the disease, whether mild or se
vere, is followed by an acquired
Immunity which ordinarily lasts for
life.
Whooping cough is spread by the
discharges from the throat and nose
of a person who has it. It is catch
ing from its earliest stage, and is
most contagious before the charac
teristic whoop begins.
If a child who has not had the dis
ease has a persistent cough which
grows steadily worse, particularly
at night, whooping cough should be
suspected. Call your doctor at once.
If the child has whooping cough the
doctor can do much to relieve his
distress and to guard against serious
complications and bad after effects.
BILLY COCHELL HOME
Billy Cochell, son of Mrs. Neva
Wells, arrived home for the first
time in two years Wednesday eve
ning last week on a three months'
furlough from Uncle Sam's navy.
He had just returned from the man
euvers at the Hawaiian islands, hav
ing been around the world quite a
bit since his last visit home.
Harvey Miller left for Portland
this morning on a business trip.
Heppner,
MUSTANGS LOSE
FINAL HOME GAME
Heavier Arlington Team Smashes
Out 20-7 Victory; Last Game at
Hermiston Next Monday
Heppner high's Mustangs, playing
their last before a home crowd this
season, lost a hard-fought battle to
the Arlington Honkers by a score of
20-7 last Friday afternoon.
The one and only Heppner score
came in the last of the second quar
ter, when Hugh Crawford crossed
the Honker goal line after a deter
mined drive from- the Mustang's
20 yard line. Snow kicked the con
version. It was in this quarter that
Jimmy Barratt, Heppner ybackfield
man, left the game to remain out
for the rest of the season due to an
arm injury.
The small and inexperienced
Heppner line was no match for the
heavy, rugged Honker line, although
it kept its usual fighting spirit thru
out the game.
Arlington scored in the first, third
and final periods.
The traditional Armistice day
game with Hermiston, to be played
there next Monday, will be the final
game of the season for the Mustangs.
By virtue of their win over Hepp
ner Arlington takes undisputed
claim to championship of the Wheat
league.
Statistics on Friday's game show:
First downs, H 11, A 11; total yard
age H 109, A 141; passes tried H 5,
A 13; passes completed, H I, A 7;
passes intercepted H 3, A 0; penal
ties H 5, A 35; punt average, H 42,
A 30.
County Gets First
Business of Its Kind
A completely equipped shop to
service all types of tractors, com
bines and combine motors, to be
opened soon by J. L. McCarthy and
Gene Normoyle at Lexington is
contended by the owners to be the
first business of its kind in the Uni
ted States.
Tractor Service company, the new
business, is located in the Morrow
Oil Co-op building at Lexington. Mr.
McCarthy was formerly with Bra-den-Bell
for 22 years at Pendleton
and Heppner, most of which time
he was employed in the Hepp
ner store. The company will offer
complete repair service for all types
of tractors and equipment. It has
expended $2000 in equipment, in
cluding a 40-ton hydraulic press,
best in heavy duty valve equipment,
U. S. army heavy duty flexable over
head crane, grinders and drills, and
all special tools required for com
plete service to caterpillars. The
completely new business is an ex
pression of confidence in the futre
of Morrow county.
J. O. Turner, Mayor,
Heads City Officers
Little excitement was shown in
the naming of city officers at Tu
esday's election, as J. O. Turner for
mayor and other officers whose
names appeared unopposed on the
ballot were strongly endorsed.
Other officers, all incumbent, to
assume office the first of the year
are L. E. Bisbee, D. A. Wilson and
L. D. Tibbies, councilmen; E. R.
Huston, recorder, and W. O. Dix,
treasurer.
SMOKER, DANCE POSTPONED
The smoker to be presented by
Heppner Athletic club, and dance
by American Legion, originally set
for Saturday night, have been post
poned, according to announcement
by C. J. D. Bauman, representing
both the athletic club and the legion.
It was not possible to get arrange
ments completed in time to proper
ly advertise the events, but Bauman
said they could be expected within
a short time.
Purebred Guernsey bull for sale.
Arnold Pieper, Lexington.
Oregon, Thursday, November 7, 1940
How Morrow
(Total registered 2356; total bal
lots cast 1790.)
For President
Franklin D. Roosevelt 979
Wendell L. Willkie 758
Others 12
For Congress
Walter M. Pierce .......1001
Rex Ellis 682
For Treasurer
Leslie M. Scott 899
A. L. Brown 629
For Attorney General
Bruce Spaulding
I. H. Van Winkle
806
773
Draft Order Numbers
Prepared by Board
The local draft board yesterday
completed the task of assigning or
der numbers to men registered in
Morrow county. From the master
list drawn in the national capital
the week before, local serial num
bers were located and assigned or
der numbers in the order in which
they appeared. These numbers will
be given in next week's Gazette
Times.
' Judge Bert Johnson chairman of
the local board, cites from the selec
tive service regulations that receipt
of questionnaire by a registrant is
notice that the process of "classifi
cation and selection" with regard to
that registrant has begun. Each day
the local board will post at its office
a notice of the order numbers of
the registrants to whom question
naires have been mailed that day.
The office of the local board is
in room 3, upstairs in First Natonal
bank building.
The regulation continues: "This
Local Board keeps in its office a
Classification Record (Form 100).
On this Classification Record will
be entered the date each action is
taken by this Board or the Board
of Appeal concerning each regis
trant. The entry of this date in the
Classification Record is notice of the
action taken. Other notice will be
mailed to each registrant at his ad
dress last known by the Local Board,
and to any other person who files
a claim for him.
"Either the mailing of a notice or
the entry in the Classification Rec
ord of the date the notice was mail
ed shall constitute notice to the reg
istrant and all concerned. This is
true whether or not the mailed no
tice is actually received by the per
son to whom it is addressed.
"Any person required by law to
register, or any registrant, who fails
to perform a duty required by the
Selective Service and Training Act
of 1940, within the time provided by
the law (generally 5 days), has vio
lated the law. A person violating the
law is subject to trial in the United
States District Court, which may
impose a fine or imprisonment, or
both.
"The date when action was taken
by the Local Board will be written
in the Classification Record in each
of the folowing instances:
"When a duty is to be performed
by a registrant.
"Whenever a period of time be
gins to run within which a reg
istrant is to perform a duty.
"Whenever a period of time be
gins to run within which a reg
istrant may claim a privilege.
"All registrants and other persons
concerned should examine from time
to time the notices posted by the
Local Board and the Classification
Record.
"The Classification Record is open
to inspection by the public during
the Board's business hours." ,
MAKE RIFLE TEAM
Leland Edmondson and Harold
Armstrong are two Morrow county
boys making good in marksmanship
at Oregon State college. They both
made the rookie ROTC rifle team to
represent the college in national
competition as the result of recent
tryouts.
County Voted
For State Representative
Giles JL. French 404
E. Harvey Miller 1121
Chas. T. McEliigott 805
'Elected on total outside returns.
MEASURES
Yes No
Office Limitation 597 732
Tax Base 430 608
Bank Liability Removal .... 576 619
Legislators' Pay 564 717
Primary Date Change 475 801
Night Club License 443 912
Knox Law Repeal 254 1086
Legalized Gambling 484 945
Milk Law Repeal : 429 924
Rodent Control Tax 756 523
Claude Drake Off
for National FFA Meet
Claude Drake, who recently won
a place on the Oregon FFA livestock
judging team at the Pacific Interna
tional Livestock exposition in Port
land, will leave Pendleton with oth
er Oregon representatives at 3:10 to
morrow morning, bound for Kansas
City where the team will compete
in the national FFA meet held in
connection with the American Royal
Livestock show. Dates of the show
are Nov. 9-16.
Included in the party joined by
Drake are a poultry judging team
of three boys, dairy judging team of
three and five state officers besides
the other two members of his live
stock judging team. They will arrive
in Denver Saturday and spend the
day there, going to Kansas City Sun
day and arriving at 7:15 a. m. They
will be in Kansas City from Sunday
through Friday, Nov. 15, returning
to Omaha that day. They will be
back to Salt Lake City on the 17th
where they will spend half a day,
returning to Pendleton on the 18th
Part of the expense money for
Drake's trip was contributed by lo
cal organizations.
New Postoffice taking
on Finishing Touches
Last finishing touches are being
given the new building on Main
street constructed by T. Babb, con
tractor, to house the postoffice, and
a representative of the postal ser
vice has been busy for the last two
days installing the equipment which
will be new throughout.
Single story of tile and stucco con
struction, the building is modernist-
ically designed to meet the specific
needs of the local postoffice. Fin
ished in plaster, plasterboard ceiling
and wood flooring, with exception
of the lobby where tile will be laid,
it is an attractive addition to the
business district. Though it will be
ready for occupancy wthin the next
few days, announcement of the em
act time for moving awaits return
of Postmaster C. B. Cox who is now
on an elk hunting expedition,
BAG TWO ELK
A party which opened the elk
season in the Tupper district, in
cluding Logie Richardson, Bill Gree
ner, two Matteson boys and others,
bagged two bull elk with which they
returned the first of the week. A
number of outside cars have passed
through bearing trophies of the
hunt, but hunting has not been
easy to date. Snow was falling in
the Tupper district when the local
men pulled out, and they are anti
cipating a further hunt this week
end with the expectation that the
snow will facilitate bagging the
game.
NIGHT CLASSES SLATED
W. S. Bennett, Smith-Hughes in
structor, announces that a night
school and shop for the public will
be started next Wednesday evening
at 8 o'clock at the local high school
shop. Work in forging welding, sol
dering and the care of tools includ
ing grinding, and sharpening of
saws, will be offered. Those attend
ing may bring own articles for re
pairing or construction. The classes
are open to everyone at no charge.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
County, Like
State and Nation,
Prefers Roosevelt
' 73 Pet. Vote Here
Joins in Knocking
Out All Measures
Morrow county joined the state
and nation in upholding the hand
of Franklin D. Roosevelt for a precedent-making
third term by a 221
vote lead over Wendell L. Willkie
in Tuesday's general election. The
vote, Roosevelt 979, Willkie 758.
National returns show that Will
Ids has polled the largest popular
vote of any defeated candidate for
the presidency, upwards of 21 mil
lion, while Mr. Roosevelt leads by
more than 7 million.
Walter M. Pierce outran the head
of his ticket in this county as he
was also assured of reelection to
congress. He polled 1001 votes here
to 692 for Rex Ellis, the republican
opponent. No change in the state's
congressional representation will be
made, as Mott and Angell were re
turned by votes in their districts.
As this county voted against all
measures on the ballot with excep
tion of the small tax levy for rodent
control, a local bill, it followed ex
actly the state results, with the
single exception of the office of at
torney general. Bruce Spaulding,
who once lived in Hepner, was
given 806 votes here to 773 for the
incumebnt, I. H. Van Winkle, who
was retained.
A 73 percent vote was brought to
the polls in Morrow county by the
hotly contested presidential race,
in spite of intermittent rains in the
morning. The 1737 votes cast for
the presidency beat the 1936 total
of 1699 when Roosevelt carried the
county 1181 to 518 for Landon.
Roosevelt carried every precinct
except Lena, where the vote stood
22-17 in Willkie's favor, and Pine
City where each candidate polled 8
votes. North Heppner, the largest
precinct, gave Roosevelt just 14
more votes than Willkie, while the
two Heppner precincts gave the
president a lead of exactly 37 votes.
Outside returns show the election
of E. Harvey Miller and Giles L.
French to the two representative
posts from the 22nd district, though
Chas. T. McEliigott received a strong
endorsement over French from his
Morrow county neighbors.
Leslie M. Scott was elected trea
surer over his democratic opponent,
A. L. Brown, in both county and
state voting in the only other con
test on the local ballot.
No contests appeared for local
offices and incumbents running for
reelection were all returned: C. J,
D. Bauman, sheriff; Chas. W. Bar
low, clerk; Roy Neill, commissioner;
A. D. McMurdo, coroner, and Mrs.
Lucy E. Rodgers, county school su
perintendent. ARMISTICE
(From Hehisch)
November 11, 1918, Armistice was
declared, ending four years of the
first World war. The deaths, disease,
poverty and squalor resulting from
this devastating war have cast their
grim shadow over the ensuing years.
The memory of this great catastro
phe is still fast in the memory of the
World war veterans. In the mem
ory of the younger generations the
World war and its results are plac
ing them beside the other great wars
of history as merely historical data.
With the present day war crises,
the full meaning of Armistice has
been lost to our generation. If and
when another Armistice may be de
clared, let us hope that it will stand
as a memoriam of everlasting peace
that may be celebrated throughout
all further generations as the dav
beginning a new era of peace, free
dom, and democracy for the entire
world.