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Volume 57, Number 47
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 23, 1941
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Annual Birthday
Party for President
Here February 1st
Infantile Paralysis
, Fight Again to be
Aided by Fund Drive
Annual celebration of President
Roosevelt's birthday for the purpose
of raising funds with which to com
bat infantile paralysis will again be
made in Morrow county, with nam
ing of workers now complete, says
Dr A. D. McMurdo, county chair
man. In Heppner a meeting of the board
of directors is called for 7 o'clock
this evening at Hotel Heppner. Nam
ed on the local board are D. A. Wil
son, W. C. Rosewall, D. M. Ward,
J. V. Crawford, C. B. Cox, Ray
Ferguson, Earle Bryant, J. G. Thom
son. Jr.. Blaine E. Isom, F. W. Turn
er. Mrs. D. M. Ward is chairman
of women's activities in connection
with the fund raising.
February 1, a Saturday evening,
has been set for the annual ball in
Heppner, to be held at the Elks
hall with The Men About Town sup
plying the music. This event is al
ways a headline attraction of the
celebration.'
Other communities are setting
local parties on various dates, to
enable as many as wish to attend at
more than one place should they so
desire.
Heading activities in other com
munities, are Bert Mason, lone;
Harry Duvall and Emma Breshears,
Lexington; Elmer Griffith, Morgan;
Mrs. Owen Leathers, Hardman;
Walter Luckman, Lena; Jack Gor
ham, Boardman, and Mrs. Clive
Huston. Eieht Mile.
Again this year additional funds
will be raised through the "March
of Dimes," envelopes for which are
being mailed to names listed in tel
ephone directories. Receptacles for
dimes will also be placed at van
tage points in the various towns.
A new feature of the "March of
Dimes" in Heppner will be the sale
by Boy Scouts next Saturday of
buttons signifying the purchaser's
interest in the campaign against in
fantile paralysis.
'Again this year seventy percent
of monies raised from local parties
will remain within the county to
be expended under direction of the
local committee to assist with such
cases as may need help within the
county.
Telephone Office
Has New Manager
Miss Effie Andrews, recently pf
Wasco, took over management of
the local Pacific Telephone & Tel
egraph company office this week,
succeeding Miss Opal Bfiggs, re
.. tired. Miss Briggs has been in ill
health for some time, and Mrs.
Glenn Hayes was in temporary
charge of the office during her ab
sence. Miss Andrews has had 12 years
experience with the company, work
ing at Athena and Bend before go
ing to Wasco. J. H. Farrington, the
company's district manager from
The Dalles, was in the city the first
of the week assisting with the
transfer.
MISSION SOCIETY ELECTS
Officers and committees of the
Union Missionary society met at the
home of Mrs. Emaline Bisbee Mon
day, Jan. 20 and elected the fol
lowing officers for the coming year:
President, Mrs. D. W. Glasgow;
vice president, Mrs. Bob Thompson;
secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Anna Bay
less; hostess committee, Ona Gil
liam, Mrs. Chas. Jones, Mrs. Earl
Gilliam; program committee, Mrs.
Oma Cox, Mrs. Barbara Jones, Mrs.
Claude Graham.
Farm Loan Workers
Advise at Pendleton
The officers of the Hardman Na
tional Farm Loan association were
in Pendleton Saturday to discuss
with Federal Land bank officials
proposals that would assure farmers
continued low interest rates of Vh
percent on their mortgages with the
bank, and that would help the land
bank system to cut operating costs.
John J. Wightman, president; Ralph
Benge and Frank Wilkinson, direc
tors, and W. Vawter Parker, secretary-treasurer,
were present.
Among subiects discussed was the
possibility of a government guaran
tee on land bank bond's so as to se
cure the advantage of the present
low interest rate on government se
curities. and remove the necessity
of an annual subsidy from the fed
eral government, and change in the
structure of the National Farm Loan
associations from the stock cooper
atives to membership cooperatives:
and a safe and workable mechcanism
for the adjustment of the excessive
mortgage indebtedness. Mr. Wight
man said that this change in the
structure of the association would
remove the present requirement of
stock and place the requirement up
on a membership fee or member
ship certificate basis, as is now used
by many of the cooperatives, par
ticularly such as the Rural Elec
trification associations.
Mr. Wightman stated that the as
sociation is endeavoring to secure
additional information on these mat
ters to be presented to the stock
holders at their annual meeting in
March.
Soil Conservation
District Plan Starts
At Farmers' Meet
Petitions to Organ
ize Drawn; Camp
Retention Affected
County Represented
First Time on Board
. Through the Boys' end Girls' Aid
Societv of Oregon Morrow county
is being represented for the first
time in the Child Welfare League
of America, it was announced this
week by Mrs. Myrtle C. Dalziel of
Portland, state director of the so
ciety. ,
The B. . A. society, which is rep
resented in this county by E. Harvey
Miller of Heppner, is the only agency
in Oregon and one of a comparative
lv small number in the northwest
qualifying for full membership in
the league, which is an alliance of
organizations caring for children in
the U. S. and Canada. The society
is noted for its medical program,
efficient staff, and its discrimination
in finding homes suited to the par
ticular needs of the child.
Working with the cooperation of
the state public welfare commission
and the assistance of the Portland
community chest, the society has a
board of trustees and women s aux
iliary with an honorary board mem
ber in every county; a state direc
tor, a case work supervisor, and a
professional case work staff.
MOTHER PASSES AT FOSSIL
Funeral rites were held at Fossil,
Friday, January 10, for Mrs. R. Van
Horn, pioneer of the Fossil section
and mother of Mrs. Charles Becket
of Eight Mile, who died at her home
in that place January 8. Mrs. Van
Horn was a life-long member of the
Baptist church. She is survived by
her husband, three daughters, Mrs.
Rama Sullivan, Mrs. Lela Misener
and Mrs. Gladys Becket, five grand
children and two great grandchil
dren. Nancv and Judith Lee, chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. John Hanna,
Jr., of this county. Attending ser
vices from here were Mr. and Mrs
Becket, Mr. and Mrs. Ben 0. An
derson, Mr. and Mrs. Clive Huston
and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Red
ding.
FIRST LAMBS ARRIVING
Beating the gun for lambing in
the Heppner district are flocks at
the John I. Hanna ranch where the
young woolies are now arriving. A
few weeks will find many woolmen
engaged in this all-important opera
tion.
Definite steps have been taken the
past week tor organizing a sou con
servation district in Morrow county,
including roughly that part of the
county lying south of Lexington
and north of the national forest.
A group of 12 local farmers met
January 11 and drew up a petition
for circulation asking the state boil
Conservation committee to consider
the organizing of a district in this
area and if after finding that the
organization of a district feasible
that it be submitted to the people
of the area for a vote, announces
C. D. Conrad, county agent.
Twenty-five signatures on the pe
tition are necessary before it will
be submitted to the state commit
tee and 111 signatures were ob
tained on the petition before it was
sent to the committee.
Under the state conservation law,
50 percent of the landowners in the
area, owning at least 70 percent of
the land, must vote in favor ot the
district before it is established.
Recent information from Wash
ington, D. C, is to the effect that
a district will have to be organized
if the present CCC camp is to be
retained in Heppner. The organ
ization of a district, however, is no
guarantee that the camp will be
retained but will help very mater
ially as the future services of the
Soil Conservation service have been
promised to established soil conser
vation districts.
The group of farmers which met
to draw up the petition highly ap
preciate the work that has been
done by the Soil Conservation ser
vice in the Heppner area in the past
six years but also appreciate the
fact that there is an unlimited am
ount of work still to be done in the
Defense School Set
To Begin Monday
A special school will start Monday
evening at the high school agricul
tural shop for men between the
ages of 17 and 25 for instruction in
courses valuable in national de
fense work, announces Alden Blan
kenship, superintendent.
The school will run for 12 weeks
with classes running from Monday
through Friday evening each week,
from 7 to 10 p. m.
Eauipment and supplies other than
those needed for permanent re-,
pairs to articles belonging to the in- j
dividual will be furnished and no
charge for instruction will be made.
Supplies needed for permanent re
pairs will be paid for by the indiv
idual. Material to be covered in the
course will include operation, care
and repair of tractors, trucks and
automobiles. Two instructors, W. G.
McMurtry and Robert Grabil, both
local practical mechanics will be in
charge of instruction under super
vision of the state department of
vocational education and the local
school administration. All expenses
are paid by the .national defense
training funds.
All young men 17 to 25 years of
age who are not enrolled in high
school are eligible to enroll and full
particulars may be had by calling
at the superintendent's office.
area.
Scholarships Aid
Increased for Oregon
Twenty-five Oregon, boys who
were given $100 freshman scholar
shis at Oregon State college by Sears
Roebuck and company, were given
an . additional incentive for contin
ued high quality work at a banquet
given by the company at which they
were guests. C. A. Vandeneynde,
manager of the company s balem
store, announced that the member
of the group who makes the best re
cord this year will receive an ad
ditional $200 scholarship to apply
during the sophomore year.
At the end of that year the whole
group will again be judged with
the most outstanding boy being pick
ed to compete with similar winners
from other colleges in a national
contest for three scholarships of $500,
$300 and $200. It was announced
that the company is now financing
freshman scholarships of $100 per
man in 38 states, and that 2500 rur
al bovs needing financial assistance
to go to college have been aided
since 1936.
Clair F. Young
Passes CPA Rating
Clair F. Young, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Young of lone, recently
received notice from the state board
of accountancy that he was success
ful in passing the CPA examination
given in Portland in November last.
This qualifies Mr. Young to prac
tice as a certified public accountant
in the state of Oregon. At present
he is employed as accountant by
the Western Oregon Packing cor
poration at Corvallis.
Mustangs Get Wish
In Hermiston Defeat
Heppner's Mustangs completed
their job of taking revenge on the
Hermiston Bulldogs by winning the
second basketball game 28-27 in the
Hermiston court Tuesday evening.
When the Mustangs lost two foot
ball games to the Bulldogs last fall
(first defeat in football for six years)
they resolved to win both basketball
games. Tuesday night's game saw
them make the resolution good. The
game was close throughout. Her
miston held the upper hand at half
time with the score 17-12. The score
was still in their favor, 20-18, at the
beginning of the last quarter. In the
fourth quarter Heppner outscored
their opponents, 10-7, to squeeze
out the win.
The game was victory number 7
for the Mustangs. They have lost
but one game this season. The
second team played good ball to
win 13-7 from Hermiston's B squad,
Heppner 28 Hermiston 27
Blakely 0 rf Holloman 16
Skuzeski 6 If...... Smith 4
Snow 2 c Ha mm 2
Crawford 4 rg Wilcox 4
Pinckney 9 If Feller 1
Barratt 3 s Miller 0
Evans 3 s
Scrivner 1 s
LEAVES FOR SERVICE
Gene Dohertv ,son of Mrs. Cath
erine Doherty of this city, left Mon
day evening for Portland to report
for duty as a voluntary enrollee in
the armv to fill one of the two draft
call places for Morrow county in
January. Under provisions of the
conscription act he is called up for
one year of training. Harley Wright,
another enlistee who was to have
reported with Doherty to complete
the county's quota for the month,
was prevented from doing so by
an appendicitis attack for which he
was taken to Pendleton this week for
treatment.
Francis Healy, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Pat Healy, was selected to take
the place of Wright and went with
Doherty on the train Monday eve-
ning.
JOINS ARMY SERVICE
Lt. Maurice Shepard, second in
command at Camp Heppner, left this
week for Camp Knox, Ga., in re
sponse to call to regular army ser
vice, Mrs. Shepard is at Salem act
ing as secretary to Rep. E. Harvey
Miller. The Shepards made many
friends in their short stay in Hepp
ner whose best wishes go with them
to their new fields.
City Investigating
PUD Possibilities
For Juice Supply
Encroachment on .
Present Facilities
Said Cause to Act
Heppner's city dads are making a
study of the public utilties district
program to be in a position to act,
should present encroachment of
public power districts into the do
main of private distribution reach a
point where the city's welfare would
be jeopardized. This was the state
ment of Mayor J. O. Turner before
the Monday's Lions luncheon, sup
ported by Councilman L. D. Tibbies.
Both speakers said their eyes were
opened recently when they attended
a meeting of city officers of the dis
trict called at Arlington for the pur
pose of explaining the "PUD' program.
It was revealed at this meeting
that much territory now served by
the company serving Heppner is be
ing organized into public utility dis
tricts, and that enlargement of this
program to a very great degree
would so curtail the scope of this
company's operation that it might
be hard for it to compete with the
rate schedules of adjoining territory,
thus leaving Heppner in a very un
favorable situation, said Turner. He
said that the private company is cog
nizant of the situation and that it
might not even wish to attempt to
carry on such a curtailed operation.
Turner cited from a recent ad
dress of Paul V. Raver, Bonneville
administrator, delivered before the
Eastern Oregon Wheat league meet
ing at Pendleton, that six of the ten
projected power units at Bonneville
have already been equipped for ser
vice and the other four are likely
to soon be equipped under recom
mendations now before congress.
The output of electricity from Bon
neville has been allotted fifty-fifty
to private consumers and public
utility districts, and Turner quoted
Raver as saying that the portion al
lotted to private concerns has al
ready been subscribed while the
public districts are lagging. If this
situation exists at the end of 1942,
the unsubscribed pubile district por
tion will be sold to the private con
cerns. This, Turner believed, might
make it difficult for Heppner to get
Bonneville power, should it delay
too long.' He said the Bonneville ad
ministrator reported that Bonneville
had contracted to furnish one alu
minum concern at Vancouver, Wn.,
a total of $3,000,000 worth of elec
trical energy a year.
In face of the story told by the
public district advocates, the city
dads are determined to learn all pos
sible so that the city's interests may
be protected, Turner emphasized.
He gave it as the purpose of the
Arlington meeting to establish a
commission from the city officers,
which commission would later cir
culate a petition to obtain signatures
of five percent of the voters, requir
ed to call an election to vote upon
the proposition of establishing a
district. After, and if, the district
were voted another election would
be held to vote the necessary bonds
to supply the capital for acquiring
the distribution system, which bonds
would be in the nature of revenue
certificates to be paid from earnings
of the district.
The proposed commission was not
formed at the recent Arlington
meeting, but another meeting was
expeted to be called shortly to go
into the matter further, Turner said.
Lowell Ashbaugh received two
cracked ribs when the Dean Gil
man car in which he was returning
from the Hermiston basketball game
turned turtle on a curve leaving the
city. Other occupants of the car
were uninjured.