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OREGON HISTORICAL S 0 v. I - . PUBLIC A'JOi' PORTIA ipjr $ Vnlnmo F7 Wnmkv A(K XJ -- mi j t i r r i . v xicppiiei, wigun, inursuay, January id, 1341 Subscription $2.00 a Year Chamber Retains Pinckney as Head; Activities Related Harry Anderson Says County Livestock Should be Fed Here Heppner chamber of commerce got off to a flying start for the new year at the annual meeting at Lucas Place Tuesday evening when the extra large attendance of members, abetted by a group of young pros pective members, listened to good reports of the past year's activities and named leaders for the ensuing year. Named first by members were five directors, three of whom were re tained in service and two who are new. Reelected were C. B. Cox, L. E. Bisbee and P. W. Mahoney, with H. D. McCurdy and -George How ard brought newly to the group. These with the holdover directors, Hanson Hughes, D. A. Wilson, B. C, Pinckney, F. W. Turner and W. C. Rosewall, renamed the officers of last year, B. C. Pinckney, president; W. C. Rosewall, first vice president; F. W. Turner, second vice-president and P. W. Mahoney, secretary-treasurer. In a special talk Harry Anderson, livestock inspector " for First Na tional Bank of Portland showed the economic importance of the livestock industry to the world, the country as a whole and to Morrow county in particular. Citing from a special survey made by himself that the de crease in sheep population east of the Cascades in the last ten years had been almost exactly offset by the increase in cattle, measured by range carrying capacity one steer being about equal to four sheep Anderson 'declared that eastern Or egon had been altogether too back ward in feeding its own livestock. He gave it as his personal recom mendation that grain farms of the district could benefit themselves by feeding more of the livestock raised here, instead of shipping so much of the feeder stuff east, a consider able proportion of which comes back in the processed form. A specially invited group of young men were tendered the opportunity to join the chamber at a reduced membership fee. The fee for men under 30 years was set at a dollar a month as compared to $1.50 paid by other members. President Pinckney read a detail ed report of chamer activities for the last year in which he cited steps of organization that culminated in se lection of board of directors and approval of by-laws on January 17 last year. Activities on which good progress was made were cited as the merch ants free matinee, expected to be continued with the coming of better weather; work in behalf of retaining the CCC camp; move to increase patroange of local bakery; work in behalf of the Heppner-Spray road and the Heppner-Condon highway from the Frank E. Parker ranch to Rugg; work for a new mail route from Lena; serving coffee and soft drinks to children and grown-ups at school festival; increase in mem bership to sixty members; support of county court on its position in regard to establishing a bombing field in the north end of the county; assistance with Heppner Rodeo; aid in increasing attendance at school affairs; work toward obtaining a mu nicipal airport; assistance with stag ing Christmas program; raising of $3,000 for purchase of preferred stock in Heppner Lumber company. BUYS PLANING MILL PROPERTY Leonard Schwarz was high bidder for the former Reid mill planing mill property on Gale street, at a tax sale Saturday. The property sold for $425. They Were Left High, But Not Too Dry-By J okester Mark Merrill and Earl Gilliam had occasion Monday morning to go atop the roof of the Rosewall Gentry garage building, also hous ing Mr. Merrill's cafe. To accom plish their purpose they put up a high ladder and ascended. Short ly a wag removed the ladder, and it was no where to be found. Spying Albert Schunk, police chief, coming along the street, Mr. I Merrill pursuaded mm to get tne city tire truck, with its ladders, to help them down. When the chief arrived with the truck, the mar ooned men were at the opposite end of the building, out of his sight, and a by-stander waved him on, leading him to believe that the men already had been rescued. It was some time later that Har old Becket came to the front with a ladder, by which the men de scended, but so far the culprit who removed the first ladder has re mained in hiding. Special Writer to Cover Legislature By special arrangement, a weekly column entitled, "With the Law makers in Salem," by Vernon Wil liams, will be a feature of the Hepp ner Gazette Times during the legis lative session. Each week, a sum mary of matters considered and work done by the Oregon legisla ture now in session at Salem will be reported with particular refer ence to the progress and standing of bills of major importance. This report will be factual and in no sense partisan. It will, in the main, give details on matters of in terest not covered by the regular press organizations and inside pic tures of what is actually being done information obtainable only by in telligent observation on the scene and personal contact with individ ual members. While some of these details may seem of minor importance, they not infrequently express the motives and attitudes of legislators and thus add to a better public understanding of the accomplished result. .These re ports will be written by Mr. Wil liams who has had long experience in newspaper work and a state -wide acquaintance with the. men and wo men who constitute the personnel of the 1941 legislatie body. Eery reader of the Gazette Times will be interested in what is trans piring at the state capital during this, the most important session of the legislature in many years and will find in these weekly columns information which may be obtained from no other source. Condon and lone Defeated by Mustangs Last Friday night the Mustangs traveled to Condon to win the first league game of the season, 22-21. Billy Scrivner dropped in a foul shot in the closing minute of the game to provide the narrow margin. The Mustangs spotted the Condon boys a 9-5 lead in the first quar ter and then proceeded to close the gap and edge out a win. Bums of Condon was high scorer with 9 points. Tuesday night the boys stretched their winning streak to 7 games at the expense of lone. The Cardinals made a good fight of it the first half but could not stand the pace and fell behind. The final score was 33 17 with Jimmy Barratt tossing 13 points to lead the Heppner scorers. The Heppner "Colts" showed dhe way for the first team in both of these contests by also winning their games. LOGGING STOPPED Severe winter weather caused the Zornes logging camp to close down for several days this week. The camp is supplying logs to Heppner Lumber company." 1 . County School Reorganization Plan Approved Eleven Districts Replace the Forty one Before Existing On January 8, 1941, the state board for school district reorganization ac cepted and adopted the plan for the reorganization of the school districts of Morrow county as drawn up and submitted by the committee for this county, announces Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers, county school superinten dent. Roughly, the plan submitted by the Morrow county committee, which would result in eleven dis tricts instead of the 41 now existing, follows: 1. Districts No. 4, 5, 9, 14, 16, 21J, 29, 36 become a part of the lone school district, No. 35. 2. Districts No. 18, 23, 50, 53, part of 15, part of 38 become a part of Lexington school district, No. 12. 3. Districts No. 19, 40, 51 become one district at Hardman. 4. District No. 8 becomes a part of District No. 39. 5. Districts No. 2, 3, 6, 17, 31, 34, 41, 42, 48, 49, 59, part of 15, part of 38 become part of the Heppner school district, No, 1. 6. Districts No. 10, 11, 24, 25, 26; 27, remain approximately as they were. The school district reorganization was made in accordance with Sec tion 35-5501 to and including Sec tion 35-3319, Oregon School Laws, 1939 supplement to the 1937 laws. The committee for Morrow coun ty included Judge. Bert Johnson, As sessor Tom Wells, Leonard Carlson, R. B. Rice, Dan Lindsay, Herbert Hynd and County Superintendent of Schools Lucy E. Rodgers. Mrs. Morgan Ward, 83 Succumbs to Burns Mrs. Morgan Ward, 83, mother of D. M. Ward, and Mrs. Flora Nys of this city, died at the home of her son Tuesday evening as the result of severe burns sustained the day before at her home at Lone Rock. Mrs. Ward was alone at the time of the accident and details of the accident were not learned, though it is believed she was probably burn ed from kerosene used to build a fire. She was rushed to Heppner for treatment, but her age and the severe nature of the burns made it evident that her chances for re covery were slight. Her son, D. M. Ward, was in Portland at the time of the accident, and drove home immediately upon being notified, arriving here about 3 o'clock Tuesday morning. Bad con dition of the road made driving pre carious. Funeral services will be held at Lone Rock tomorrow afternoon. Arlington Clash Expected Thriller The Arlington Honkers and the Heppner Mustangs clash in what should be the best gSme of the sea son here Friday night. The Honk ers have" won nine games without a loss while the Mustangs have pil ed up seven straight victories. Both are tied in the Wheat league with a single win each. Add to this the keen rivalry between the schools and you have the makings of a real basket ball game. The Honkers have a fine defensive man in Stram and two high scorers, Norris and Wad dell. The Mustangs have a team without outstanding scorers but ev enly balanced without weakness. The preliminary game will start at 7:15 at the high school gymna- sium. A free shampoo with every wave. Myrtle's Beauty Salon. 1940 WETTEST YEAR SINCE '33; 15.62 IN. Only Four Wetter Years Since 1910; June Shortage Hurts; Gooseberry Reports 16.55 Inches The year just closed was the wet test since 1933 and the fifth wettest since 1910, when the first records were kept, according to figures for Heppner released by Len L Gilliam, government weather observer. To tal for the year was 15.62 inches! here. Gooseberry was still wetter than Heppner, according to Leonard Carl son, official observer at that place. : Mr. Carlson recorded 16.55 inches. The years 1912, with 18.64 inches; 1916, 17.40; 1920, 16.62, and 1933, 15.86 are the only wetter years shown by the local records since 1910. While ordinarily the wet years have been the best crop years in the county, such was not the case in 1940. The key month of June was down in 1940, showing only ,0G inch at Heppner and "not a drop" according to the Gooseberry report. April was the wettest month, with 2.61. inches shown here and 2.77 at Gooseerry. The "ten-year average at Heppner at the close of 1940 was at the high est point since 1932, at 11.30 inches. Recordings by months at Heppner were Jan. 1.89, Feb. 2.17, March 1.57, April 2.61, May .35, June .06, July 1.17, August none, Sept. 2.21, Oct. 1.05, Nov. 1.84, Dec. .70. For Goose berry: Jan. 2.04, Feb. 2.49, March 1.60, April 2.77, May .13, June "not a drop," July .99 Aug. none, Sept. 2.33, Oct. 1.69, Nov. 1.90, Dec. .61 Seal Sale Shows Slightlv Less Than '39 The Christmas seal, sale for Mor row county has not quite equalled that of last yar, though all returns are not reported in full, says Miss Rose Liebbrand, chairman. At the present time the averags of seal sales per capita is 7.9 and to retain 80 per cent of the monies collected in the county it will be necessary to average 8.0 sales per individual. The plan of conducting the salf! via local chairmen has proven very satisfactory, several communities in creasing their purchases. Following is a comparison of the seal sale for J939 and the year just past, 1940: 1939 y 1940 Heppner $182.23 $138.34 Eightmile 23.50 30.50 Lexington 30.15 40.25 lone 46.45 52.85 Boardman 45.10 16.00 Pine City 18.00 14.85 Irrigon 6.77 12.41 Hardman 11.22 26.54 Total $363.52 Expenses 11.76 Total $351.76 $331.74 The Morrow County Public Health association needs $15.00 more to bring the quota up to the 8 seals per capita needed to retain 80 per cent of the Christmas seal sale mon ey in our community. This money helps to pay for the county nursing service, $200 annually, and to pur chase supplies for the pre-school, baby and children's clinics and con ferences held in every locality in Morrow county. Scouts Will Collect Christmas Trees It has been noticed that a great many Christmas trees are still lying around. Last year the Boy Scouts of Heppner received very good coop eration from the townspeople in cleaning these up and burning them. If you who have trees lying around your yard wish to have them taken away, please have them accessible Saturday morning and the Scouts will pick them up. The boys of the troop wish to take this opportunity to thank J. O. Pet erson for the very appropriate and useful calendars and the beautiful lamp given by him to the troop this year. Pendleton Man Brings Message to Special Lions Meet Trip Slated to Ath ena 28th to Seek Traveling Trophy That personal gain may be an in direct result of a Lions membership, is true, but it is not the primary intention. This in substance was the point of the address of Billy Rhodes, secretary of the Pendleton Lions club before a special mesting of the local group at Lucas Place Monday evening. A group of young men of the community wore specially in vited to lcpvn something about the objects ol a Lions club as a result of an address by Francis Nickerson before the club a week previous. Rhodes was accompanied by John Etciner and R-" Mitchell, other Pendleton Lion:.. Eddie Kenny sang two songs acccmanicd at the piano by Miss Marjorie Parker, as a spe cial feature. Rhodes told how the Lions club had served Pendleton young men, mostly junior members of business concerns, to find their place in com munity activity, and related various projects that had been carried to successful conclusion to justify the club's existence. A major project at present is assisting with feeding underprivileged children in schools of the city. The things that warm the human breast the most are the things a per son does to help someone else with out anyone on the outside knowing :.bout it, said Ray Mitchell in tell ing why he liked the Lions organi zation. General betterment of the community through unselfish ser vice was cited as the purpose of a Lions club, as well as other service clubs, with strictly commercial pro jects not intended to be a primary consideration. Plans were laid for a junket to Athena on January 2H, when the entire membership is expected to journey to the Umatilla city in an attempt to bring to Heppner a trav eling trophy started two years ago by the Pendleton club. C. J. D. Bau man and Lee Howell were named on the committee to arrange transportation. Hottentots Given Hard Battle at lone With Haller and Webb leading the scoring for Fred Hoskins' Morrow County All-Stars, the Chicago Hot tentots, colored team, was given a hot 31-29 battle on the lone floor last night. Though the county boys came out on the short end of the score they made the colored team really exert itself and the large crowd was given a real exhibition of fine basket tossing. The 'tots liv ed up to their reputation as fancy ball handlers, and their appearance in Zulu garb added much to the entertainment. All the county boys, including Hoskins, Jr., Dinges, Campbell and Pettyjohn, gave good account of themselves. The next extra basketball attrac tion on Manager Fred's schedule will be the clash of his all-stars with the Chicago colored girls' team in Heppner, February 8. All who saw the colored boys at lone last night will surely want to be on hand when the girls play, said Fred. The team's proportion of the gate will be given to a worthy community enterprise. AAA MEN TO CORVALLIS Members of the county AAA com mittee, Henry Baker, chairman, R. B. Rice and Oscar E. Peterson, ac companied by Clifford Conrad, sec retary, and Merle Cummings, as sistant secretary, left Tuesday mor ning for Corvallis to attend a state AAA conference.