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Volume 57, Number 31
Heppner Elks to
Burn Mortgage at
Celebration Dec. 14
Elk Feed, Speaking,
Pershing Class for
Initiation Slated
On December 14 Heppner lodge
358, B. P. O. Elks will burn the
mortgage, recent payment of which
wiped out the last vestige of in
debtedness against their lodge home
built in 1919. It will be an epochal
day in the annals of the local lodge
and to properly commemorate the
occasion invitation has been extend
ed to neighboring lodges to parti
cipate. Honored guests of the day will be
members of The Dalles lodge which
instituted the local lodge and old
time members including L. L. Mat
lock and Frank Roberts, the two
remaining charter members resid
ing in Heppner, says Kenneth Ak
ers, exalted ruler.
Logie Richardson, a member of
the special committee arranging de
tails, himself bagged a big bull elk
that will be cooked to provide piece
d' resistance for those attending. An
outside speaker of state reputation,
not yet named, will be called upon
to deliver the headline address, and
at the afternoon lodge meeting a
class of initiates will be taaken into
the order in honor of General John
J. Pershing by desire of the grand
exalted ruler.
The good record of Heppner lodge
recently brought it recognition in
appointment of Harold Cohn as dis
trict deputy grand exalted ruler and
of E. Harvey Miller as second vice
president of the state association.
These men are assisting in the cel
ebration details, along with the lodge
officers and Garnet Barratt and E.
O. Ferguson, other members of the
celebration committee.
Special entertainment for the lad
ies will be provided during the af
ternoon lodge session, and a grand
ball in the evening for all Elks and
ladies will conclude the day's pro
gram. Further details will be re
leased by the committee as they
materialize.
County OSTA Has
Meeting in Heppner
Teachers from all over Morrow
county were present in Heppner last
evening for a meeting of the county
unit, Oregon State Teachers asso
ciation. Starting with dinner at the
M. E. church events included a bus
iness meeting and speaking pro
gram at the school followed by a
dance.
Outside speakers included Lester
Wilcox, from the state department
of education; Joe Longfellow, sup
erintendent of Oregon City schools,
chairman of the state legislative
committee of O. S. T. A. Principal
topic was the legislative program
to be presented before the coming
session of the legislature.
DISTRICT RACE REPORTED
Final returns in the 22nd district
representative race, with two to be
elected showed E. H. Miller polling
a total of 2863 votes, Giles L. French
2709, and Chas. T. McElligott 1920.
By counties the vote stood:
French Miller McElligott
Wheeler 758 550 304
Sherman 835 541 346
Gilliam 835 651 465
Morrow 404 1121 805
Totals 2709 2863 1920
REBEKAHS TO INITIATE
Heppner Rebekahs will meet at
I. O. O. F. hall tomorrow evening
with members of Hardman, lone and
Lexington lodges as specially invited
guests, announces Mrs. Neva Wells,
noble grand. Intiation will be a fea
ture of the evening.
Heppner,
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Red Cross Drive Gets
Under Way in County
, Morrow county's annual Red
Cross roll call swung into action
Tuesday, as the nation again heeded
the cry of distressed humanity for
which funds are annually raised be
tween Armistice day and Thanks
giving. Mrs. B. C. Pinckney is chairman
for Heppner, and James Driscoll
head of roll call for the county at
large. Assisting Mrs. Pinckney here
are Mrs. David Wilson, Mrs. W. C.
McCarty, Mrs. George Howard, Mrs.
Floyd Jones, Mrs. Orville Smith,
Mrs. C. R. Jenison, Mrs. George
Burroughs, Mrs. Gullings, Mrs. E.
B. Grimes, Mrs. Maurice Shepard,
Mrs. Dwight Miller and Mrs. Har
old Buhman.
Mr. and Mrs. Griffith
Wedded 50 Years
Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Griffith passed
their golden wedding anniversary
here Tuesday in the same house in
which they were married fifty years
before. They have postponed cele
brating the event until the 26th of
the month when their son and wife,
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Griffith of Eu
gene can be present. Their daugh
ter and two children, the only grand
children arrived the first of the
week from their home at Eugene
and will remain until after the cel
ebration. They are Mrs. L. L. Mc
Mahon and sons Buddy and James.
Mrs. Griffith was formerly Miss
Lura Willingham, a pioneer of Mor
row county. She and Mr. Griffith
were married November 12, 1890, in
the old Willingham home and re
sided there for three years after
their marriage. They moved to Wei
ser, Idaho at that time where they
lived until 1912, moving then to
Baker for a year and then return
ing to Heppner where they have
since resided and made their home
in the house where their vows were
first exchanged. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Griffith are enjoying good health
and are looking forward to many
more happy years together.
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED
Fifty relatives gathered at the
home of Mrs. Ollie Neill Sunday in
honor of her 61st birthday. Those
present besides the honoree were
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wattenburger,
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neill, and Mr.
and Mrs. Burl Wattenburger and
family of Butter creek; Mr. and
Mrs. Reid Buseick and family of
Long Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bull
and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Lau
rence Herrmann of La Grande; Mrs,
J. J. Chisholm and daughter and
Mrs. Roy Conser of Walla Walla;
Mrs. Roy Coxen and son, Mr. and
Mrs. Emory Cox and family, and
Miss Geneva Young of Hermiston;
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Andrews and
daughters of Echo; Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Ely of Portland; Mr. and Mrs.
Dale Akers and children of Eight
mile; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Coxen and
daughter of Toppenish; Mr. and Mrs.
Burl Coxen and family and Miss
Neva Neill of Heppner. A pot-luck
dinner was served at noon. Mrs.
Neill received many lovely birthday
presents.
Oregon, Thursday, November 14, 1940
Mustangs Lose
Annual Armistice
Tilt to Hermiston
Heppner Legion and
Ladies Guests at
Special Dinner
Heppner passed a quiet Armistice
day Monday. Business houses were
closed and a number of people took
advantage of the opportunity to go
to Hermiston where the annual cel
ebration jointly sponsored by Hepp
ner and Hermiston posts American
Legion presented the classic Hepp-ner-Hermiston
high school football
game as the highlight event of the
day.
Heppner legionnaires and auxil
iary members who attended were
guests of the Hermiston post and
unit at a dinner in the evening.
The Hermiston school band and
legionnaires in service uniforms par
aded downtown before the game.
It was Hermiston's big day as
their team swept to a 26-12 victory
over the scrappy, lighter Heppner
team.
Heppner's Mustangs had trouble
all day solving the mystifying re
verse plays of the Hermiston Bull
dogs that had resulted in a 20 point
Hermiston lead before Heppner
came through with its first score in
the third quarter. It was then that
Hugh, Crawford was shaken loose
into t a broken field for a 70-yard
run to reach pay dirt. A few plays
later Hermiston fumbled on their
own ten yard line and Heppner re
covered to send Donny Bennett
around end for the next and final
counter. Both Heppner attempts at
conversion failed. Hermiston was
not to be denied and scored again
before the game ended.
It was a cleanly fought game
throughout as evidenced by the lack
of penalties.
High School Casaba
League Play Slated
Oragnization of leagues for high
school basketball play was decided
at a meeting in Heppner on Wed
nesday last week. Eliminating sub
district tournaments previously held
it was decided to hold the district
tournament at Arlington on Feb
ruary 20, 21 and 22, 1941.
Competing in Heppner's tourna
ment division will be Boardman,
lone, Irrigon, Lexington, Echo, Uma
tilla, Fossil, Arlington and Condon.
There are eight "B" districts in
the state, winners of each of which
will participate in the state tourna
ment to be held at the close of the
season. Eight teams will be selected
from the different league divisions
in this section to play in the district
tournament at Arlington.
The two divisions, outside of that
which includes Heppner are, first,
East Umatilla: Umapine, Adams,
Athena, Helix, Weston, Pilot Rock,
Stanfield and Ukiah; secondly Sher
man, Wasco and Hood River: Grass
Valley, Kent, Moro, Rufus, Wasco,
Dufur, Maupin, Mosier, St. Mary's,
Cascade Locks, Odell and Parkdale.
SCHOOLMASTERS MEET HERE
North Central Oregon Schoolmas
ters club met in Heppner Monday
night for their regular meeting, held
at Lucas Place. Schoolmasters from
Morrow county and northern Uma
tilla county were present.
SHEEP COME FROM MONTANA
J. G. Barratt received all sheep
that had been on range in Montana
at the local yards, Tuesday. Henry
Krebs also returned part of the
Krebs brothers sheep from there in
the same shipment.
Holiday special on all week days
except Saturday for girls under 14
years, $2.50. Myrtle's Beauty Salon.
j Art Minor, Veteran
Woodsman, Spends
Night Out Alone
Though infirmities of health in
later years make the going tough
er for him, Art Minor, pioneer of
Morrow county now residing at
Mt. Vernon, has lost none of his
zest for the Blue mountain coun
try which he probably has cover
ed as widely as any man alive.
Art was out in the Cable creek
section, in the vicinity of Hida
way springs, hunting elk, last week
end. Pulling into the camp of
Tim Rippee, Frank Stanley, Lar
rence Matteson and Glen Hayes,
local men, and Mr. Forbes of
Boardman, he described one
morning the direction of his hunt
which was to bring him back to
camp that evening. Night came,
and Art did not show up. The
local men organized a search, and
next morning found where Art
had spent the night alone, having
dug into the needles next to a fir
in heavy undergrowth. He had
no fire. The men picked up his
tracks and found Art at noon as he
made camp just ahead. He had
given out on the tramp, had suf
fered some from exposure, but
in spite of the rain and snow of
the night, he pulled through safe.
The local men bagged four bull,
and two cow elk.
Commodity Wheat
Loans Total High
Commodity loans in Morrow coun
ty now cover 680,138 bushels of
wheat and 7609 bushels of barley,
according to Henry Baker, chairman
of the county committee. He also
stated that some loans have been
liquidated, a total of 13,823 bushels
being released from loan in Octo
ber. In reporting on other" phases of
the AAA program it was stated that
final figures for the state of Oregon
on crop insurance shows Morrow
county in second place in the num
ber of acres insured for 1941 with
52,101 acres. In 1940 66,986 acres
were insured and 51 losses were re
ported on which 26,395 bushels of
indemnity was paid.
Mr. Baker also stated that farmers
and range operators complying with
the 1941 program should bear in
mind that November 30 is the clos
ing date for carrying out soil build
ing, or range building practices. He
added that work in connection with
payments was progressing rapidly
and that approximately 20 percent
of the payments have now been
made, and that this work should be
completed by January 1.
Flying Opportunity
Offered to Youths
Any young man who feels the
urge to learn how to fly "the army
way," and who can qualify as a fly
ing cadet in the Army Air corps,
will find a hearty welcome in Port
land from November 15 to 18 when
the Traveling Flying Cadet Exam
ining board will meet in Portland,
according to Lt.-Col. B. H. Hensley,
district recruiting officer. During
its stay in Portland the board will
interview those applying for ap
pointment and will give necessary
examinations to those tentatively ac
cepted. Requirements for appointment are
that a young man be unmarried; in
excellent health; at least 20 years
old, but not past 26; and he must
have satisfactorily completed two
years of college.
During the nearly 30-week train
ing course, the flying cadet receives
a salary of $75 a month in addition
to his quarters, clothing, medical
care and a ration allowance of $1
per day. At the completion of the
course, the flying cadet is commis
sioned as a second lieutenant in the
air corps reserve and is placed on
active duty for a period of one year
or more wtih a tactical unit of the
Army Air corps.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Boreas Treats
County to Early
Touch of Winter
14 Above Mark Fol
lows Arrival of Snow;
Aids Elk Hunters
Heppner and all Morrow county
joined in shivering to the first blast
of winter this week.
Snow that started falling here
last Saturday night and covered the
ground to an inch in depth Sunday
morning, had reachad a depth of a
foot in the mountains and covered
the lower country with a light
blanket.
Coldest temperature for the ex
ceedingly early blast was reached
here Tuesday night when the mer
cury touched 14 above in the official
government thermometer. Maximum
temperature yesterday was 31 above
and last night's low reading was 16
above.
Snow plows were immediately
put into action on the main high
ways which were kept clear at all
times, and the wintry blast did not
inconvenience visitations over the
Armistice holiday. While some feed
ing of livestock was necessitated,
the added drain upon the feed sup
ply is not feared unless a prolonged
spell should ensue. Wheat crops are
generally in good condition to stand
the onslaught, it is reported.
The snow comes on top of a fav
orably wet fall that yielded 1.5 inch
of precipitation at Heppner in Oc
tober, bringing the year's total as
of November 1 to 13.8 inches, a high
point for recent years.
Elk hunters were favored by the
new snowfall, as-art--increasingly
large kill is reported this week,
though the winter weather was no
child's play, according to reports of
those returning.
Gilbert Oren Mays
Rites Scheduled
Funeral services are announced
for 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at
Phelps Funeral Home chapel for
Gilbert Oren Mays, 53, who died at
the farm home of his father-in-law,
D. Cox, on Hinton creek, last Tu
esday. Rev. Martin B. Clark will
officiate, and interment will be in
Masonic cemetery.
Mr. Mays was a vetrean of the
World war, and Heppner post, Am
erican Legion is joining in giving
him a military burial.
MINNESOTA MAN PASSES
Eugene N. Enhelder, ex-employee
of Heppner Lumber company, died
at Heppner hospital yesterday af
ternoon from bronchial pneumonia.
He had been ill for several days.
Mrs. Enhelder and daughter and
son, aged 14 and 9 years, have re
sided here with the husband and
father for several months. Arrange
ments are being made to ship the
body to the former home in Minne
sota for burial. Phelps Funeral
home is in charge.
REFEREES' EXAM SLATED
Official examination for those
wishing to qualify as referees for
high school basketball games will
be held at the schoolhouse in Hepp
ner next Saturday at 10 a. m., an
nounces Alden Blankenship, super
intendent. No one may qualify as
referee without passing this exam
ination, Mr. Blankenship said.
SERVICES AT HARDMAN
Hardman community church will
have regular services at 3 p. m.,
Sunday, Martin B. Clark, being the
pastor.
Word comes from Len and Earl
Gilliam that they have had a suc
cessful elk hunt and will return
home the first of next week.