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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."
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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.