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Volume 58, Number 1
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March 6, 1941
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Earl Snell to Deliver1)
batety Plaque to
City Wednesday
School Gym Chosen
for Morning Event;
New Building Slated
Hemmer will be rewarded for its
good safety record in 1940 making
the greatest improvement in its traf
fic record for 1940 next Wednesday
when Earl Snell, secretary of state,
will visit the city and present in
person a plaque offered as prize tor
such record.
Plans arranged at Monday eve
ning's council meeting, call for a
special meeting at the school gym
auditorium next Wednesday morn
ing at 11:15 o'clock, the hour being
chosen to suit Mr. Snell's schedule,
as he plans to be in Bend the eve
ing of the same day to make a sim
ilar presentation.
The award of the plaque, and also
a certificate to be hung in the coun
cil chamber, comes to Heppner in
recognition of its having made the
greatest improvement in its traffic
fatality record in 1940 of any city
in the state with population between
1000 and 2000.
Pupils of the school will be dis
missed from regular class work for
the special meeting with Mr. Snell,
and people of the community gen
erally are invited and urged by May
or J. O. Turner to attend.
Four building permits were issued
at Monday's- council meeting. Three
of the permits started a new build
ing rroiect on Main street for which
ground was broken the first of the
week. Issued to F. W. Turner, Burl
Coxen and J. O. Peterson, they will
uermit erection of a one-story build
int! to occudv the entire space be
tween the Masonic building and the
postoffice, ground for which was
broken this week. The fourth per
mit went to Roy Thomas for con
struction of a duplex house on his
Drooertv at the south end of Chase
street, similar to the building now
in place on Mr. Thomas property.
The council unanimously agreed
that the committee on streets and
public property sould proceed to re-
finish the council chambers and
water office, work on which is ex
pec ted to be started in the near fu
ture.
Two nermits for keeping livestock
within the city limits were disal
lowed, as the council deemed issu
ance against the best interests of the
public.
Discussion of the state law m ak
in t 25 miles an hour the maximum
within limits of incorporated cities
was discussed, and it was the con
census of opinion of the mayor and
council that this limit shall be strict
ly enforced in Heppner.
Order of the council went forth to
the enforcement officers to crack
down on speeders, and new; signs
at the limits of the city were auth
orized with the wording, "Remem
ber 25 Miles."
District FFA Meet
Coming Here Mar. 28
HWiner chanter FFA will be host
on March 28 to the central Oregon
convention of chapters, includkig
representatives from each chapter
in the district, announces William
S. Bennett, local Smith-Hughes in
structor. The meeting will be fea
tured by contest in shop work, pub
lic speaking and parliamentary pro
cedure as an elimination event for
state-wide contests to be held later.
The local chapter took in $48.50
from its carnival last Friday night,
and Mr. Bennett extends his sin
cere appreciation to merchants who
gave merchandise for the event. The
annual FFA fathers-sons banquet is
scheduled for next Thursday, eve
ning. Rooms with or without board,' 510
N. Main St. Phone 2F3.
Infantile Paralysis
Drive Take $460
The recent infantile paralysis
drive in Morrow county brought in
a total of $460.78, reports Dr. A. D.
McMurdo, county chairman. Ex
penses totaled $64.42. Fifty percent
of the net proceeds remain in the
county to carry on the work of bat
tling inroads of the disease.
Breaing down the proceeds, Dr.
McMurdo reported sources as fol
lows: Elks lodge, $25 cash and use
of hall for president's birthday ball;
Bert Mason, lone dance, $50; Elmer
Griffith, Morgan dance, $33; Harry
Duvall, ticket sale at Lexington, $25;
Leonard Carlson, Gooseberry, $9 in
srvlrl: Walter Luckman, Lena,
$3.82; lone Union Sunday school,
$3.50; Mrs. Owen Leathers, Hardman
dance, $10.50; Liberty school by Ken
neth Green, 5th grade, $1.00; Past
Matrons club, $1; Methodist Mis
sionary, $1; Episcopal auxiliary, $1;
rvfiWrs club of Eastern btar, $1;
the Boy Scouts did wonderful work
in selling the little badges under the
direction of Martin B. Clark, scout
master, bringing in $30.45; the cake
sale by Bob Runnion, auctioneed,
during the dance brought $34.50
$10 was the highest priced cake and
$1.50 was the lowest bid, with Harold
Cohn the highest bidder, capturing
ia rake made bv Mrs. Cohn.
Dr. McMurdo wishes to thank all
th ladies and the men who so will
ingly helped in every way they could
in make the drive such a success
Mrs. Del Ward was chairman of the
women's activities and did her work
faithfully.
Expenses included orchestra
express, stamps, stationery ana
badges $25.42; printing, $4, for a to
tal of $64.42.
annluded also in receipts was
$15.55 from Mrs. Clive Huston, who
handled the ticket sale in Eightmile.)
Wool and Lambs
Move at Highest
Prices in Years
Top of 35c Paid for
Clip; New Crop Pays
SVi o9Vi Cents
Improvement of the wool and
Americanism Theme
Elks' Essay Contest
Exalted Ruler Kenneth M. Akers
of Heppner 358 lodge of Elks an
nounced today that the local De
fense committee consisting of C. J.
D. Bauman, chairman; Gene Fergu
son, Ralph Beamer and Loyal Par
ker, in cooperation with local school
authorities, is distributing the pos
ter cards and rules governing the
patriotic essay contest of the order,
in which Heppner lodge is partici
pating. This patriotic essay contest
is uniaue in that it calls for an anal-
lamb market to the highest point ', ysis of the painting of Uncle Sam
in several years was noted in Mor
row county this week as nearly 75
percent of the new lamb crop went
into hands of buyers, largely for fall
deliverv. and a considerable quan
tity of the still unshorn wool was
taken on contract.
Report of sale this week of the
Cleve Van Schoiack yearling wool
at 35 cents a pound, and ewe wool
in addition to writing a 300 to 500
word essay on "What Uncle Sam
Means to Me."
The painting is a composite pic
ture of Uncle Sam by the well
known artist C. C. Beall. It was re
cently presented to President Roose
velt by members of the commission
and will be used by the war depart
ment as a national defense poster.
At a distance of ten feet, it is a
at 33 cents brought the record high remarkable portrait of Uncle Sam;
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Heppner Lumber Co.
Buys Reith Plant
Purchase of the sawmill at Reith,
formerly known as the N. E. Wray
mill, has been announced by the
owners of .HeDDner Lumber com
pany. .The new company will be
known as the Reith Lumber com
pany, and Orville Smith, Heppner,
and Leonard Kraft, Bridal Veil, who
are active in the management of
the Heppner company, will manage
the Reith operation.
Repairing and remodeling of the
new mill will be started immediately
and it is expected that it will be
ready for operation by April 1. The
mill capacity is 35,000 feet per shift.
W. W. Saultz, formerly of v the Pan
Handle Lumber company of lone,
Wash., will be the logging superin
tendent. EXAMINER HERE 13TH
An examiner of . operators and
chauffeurs from the office of Earl
Snell, secretary of state, will be in
Heppner, Thursday, March 13, be
tween the hours of 11 a. m. and 4
p. m. at the city hall. All those
wishing permits or licenses to drive
cars are asked to get in touch with
the examiner at that time.
sale of recent weeks. A number of
sales have been made around 30
cents.
About 75 per cent of the county's
white faced lambs have been con
tracted for fall delivery at prices
ranging from 8 to 9 for mixed
offerings, it is reported on good au
thority, with 9 cents being the
high price so far received here.
Loan Association
To Meet Here 14th
The Hardman National Farm Loan
association will hold its annual
meeting of stockholders in the Odd
fellows hall in Heppner on Friday,
March 14, 1941, commencing at iu
a. m.
All Federal Land bank borrowers
are invited to attend and hear a
discussion of the proposed legisla
tion now before congress for mak
ing permanent the present low in
terest rates and to remove the pre
sent stock requirement from the
loans
Notices of the meeting, have been
sent to the 133 association members
located in Morrow county, who will
elect two directors and hear reports
of the past year's business. Directors
whose terms expire are John Wight
man and Chas. B. Cox. The other
directors of the association are
Ralph Benge, Frank Wilkinson and
Henrv Baker.
A free dinner will be served at
the hall at noon to all attending.
h1d ur close it becomes a group of
individual people and things which
go to make up the important ele
ments in our national defense.
The committee has chosen a jury
of three, consisting of Mrs. Lucy
Rodgers, Mr. Ned Gleason and Mr.
Erret Hummel who will select the
three best essays at the end of the
contest which closes on March 31.
Students can obtain the rules of
the contest from their school prin-
niTvnls and from members of the
Elks National Defense committee
or from Secretary Loyal Parker at
the Elks home in Heppner. Local
ca rlismlflvinf? til
i Uncle Sam ooster in their windows.
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The rules of the contest are printed
on the back of these poster cards.
National awards of $1000, $500 and
$250 are being made to winners in
the contest.
Women Bowlers Win
From Walla Walla
The pick of Heppner"s women
bowlers took two matches from two
teams of Walla Walla women bowl
ers on the local alleys last Sunday
afternoon. Excitement reigned in
the third round when Heppner pull
ed out from behind a 139 point lead.
A return match will be played at
Walla Walla next Sunday, with two
women's teams going to the Wash
ington city from here.
ELKS DISPLAY CONTEST POSTER
2 Photo by llarrli tc Kvf Inf. Jjj
A composite picture of Uncle Sam being presented to President
Roosevelt by Elk officials. Standing (1. to r.) are Judge James T.
H! IT V TT O C 13 Wammaw XT V fl-tA
nauuian oi n. i4 u. o. onuivr iwucit . "5uu, ii. uiauu
Exalted Ruler Joseph G. Buch of N. J, James R. Nicholson, Chairman
Elks National Defense Commission and Maj. Charles S. Hart of N. Y.
SOCIETY CHIT-CHAT
By JUNE SMITH
Of interest to many bridge players
in Heppner is the announcement that
the Morrow County Woolgrowers
auxiliary will sponsor a lecture ser
ies here by Sam Gordon, the Kib
itzer" of the Oregonian. He is
scheduled to present his three les
son series of lectures at the Lucas
Place the 20th, 21st and 22nd of this
month.
The Morrow County Woolgrowers
auxiliary will hold its regular meet
ing at the Lucas Place Friday, be
ginning with a luncheon at 1:15 p.
m. Mrs. B. C. Pinckney, president,
promises an interesting meeting and
program,
Members of the Morrow County
chapter of the Woolgrowers auxil
iary have been invited to a no-host
luncheon Saturday at 12:30 at the
Pendleton hotel in Pendleton, spon
sored by the Umatilla County chap
ter. Mrs. A. S. Boyd, Oregon State
president, of Baker, will be the
honor guest.
The Eastern Star Social club met
Saturday afternoon at the Masonic
hall. Mrs. A. D. McMurdo and Mrs.
W. H. Cleveland were hostesses for
the affair, which was a dessert
bridge. Mrs. Garnet Barratt won
high score for the afternoon's play,
with Mrs. George Evans receiving
consolation. Mrs. C. W. McNamer
received the door prize.
Mrs. Gene Ferguson will entertain
the "What's Trumps" club at her
home this evening.
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Mrs. Glen Jones is hostess to the
T & C club at her home at a des
sert bridge this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rosewall
left Tuesday evening for Portland,
returning Wednesday.
Kemp Dick, Thomas Gonty and
Howard Wray left Monday for Cal
ifornia. They expect to be gone for
several weeks.
Additional 'Chit-Chaf on Page 8
Chamber Pushes 1
Move for Munitions
Plant in County
Impetus Given to
Work Toward Keep
ing Timber Benefits
Continued work toward obtaining
establishment of one of the new
government ordnance plants in the
north end of Morrow county was
determined at the reguar meeting
of the chamber of commerce Tues
day evening, and a renewed effort
toward keeping the benefits of Mor
row county timber within the coun
ty was also made.
Though correspondence from Rep.
Walter M. Pierce to Hanson Hughes,
committee member, disclosed that a
site in this county would not meet
all requirements for any one of three
proposed ordnance plants, it was
onnsidered that a site in the north
end of Morrow county would come
as close to meeting the require
ments as any site that might be
found, and the committee was in
structed to proceed with preparation
of a brief setting forth the qualifi
cations of the local site.
Selection of a site in this county, t
probably in the vicinity of Board-
man, would compensate tne county . ,
in part for the loss of taxable proi
erty which will be lost in establish,- ,
ment of the bombing field, a desir- ..
ed aim according to recommenda
tions of the county land use com- ,
mittee's report at the recent farm
economic conference, said C D. Con
rad, county agent.
It was pointed out in discussing
the site for an ordance plant, that
a site near Boardman would pro
vide plenty of level land at a reas
onable price, plenty of water the
whole Columbia river an abund
ance of electrical energy with com
pletion of the high power line that
will carry both Bonneville and
Grand Coulee juice, and unexcelled
transportation facilities, with a ma
jor highway and two railroads tap
ping the district, besides the avail
ability of barge transportation on
the river.
Chamber members also renewed
determination to bring every force
to bear upon officals in the national
capital to have timber within the
forest reserve area, which is ripe
and ready for cutting, sawed by
mills established within the county.
Such action would give the mill
now located at Heppner, as well as
those located in the timbered area,
an opportunity to plan operation
over a considerable period of years
whereas dependence upon privately
owned timber which has already
gone largely into the hands of mill
men, would mean a very curtailed
operation Orville Smith, manager
of Heppner Lumber company, told
the chamber group that his company
had already purchased another mill
outside the county largely as a safe
ty valve to protect the company s
interests when their timber in the
Heppner watershed runs out. The
availability to local mills of the mil
lions of feet' of federally controlled
timber in the Hetroner watershed,
much of which is ripe and ready for
cutting, would mean a perpetual
sawmill payroll within the county,
it was believed.
Tentative plans were announced
for a joint meeting of the chamber
and Morrow County Woolgrowers
auxiliary on Tuesday, March 18, de
pending upon availability of Mac
Hoke of Pendleton, president of Or
egon Woolgrowers association, who
has been invited to address the
meeting. Full announcement of the
event is expected to be ready by
next week.
President B. C. Pinkney named
chairmen of some committees Tu
esday evening, as follows: Airport,
Orville Smith; road and highways,
P. W. Mahoney; agriculture, Cha.
B. Cox; public relations, L. E. Bis
bee, and publicity, J. V. Crawford.