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Volume 58, Number 16
Game Seasons, Bag
Limits Released -By
Commission
Deer Shooting Set
Sept. 20-Oct. 25; Elk
Hunting Nov. 1-15
Oregon's 1941 deer season will be
at the same time this year as last, j
September 20 to October 25. The,
bag limit will be one mule deer r
one blacktail deer, having not less
than forked horns. This was de
cided by the Oregon State Game
commission at its June meeting.
A limited doe season was decided
upon in two sections in order to cut
down the overconcentration of deer.
A total of 3,000 tags will be sold at
$2.00 each for does in all of Grant
county and a small portion of Whee
ler and part of Crook counties.
In the Fremont area located in
Klamath and Lake counties 800 doe
deer tags will be sold.
Three thousand tags will be sold
for antelope shooting from Sep
tember 28 to October 5, both dates
inclusive. Antelope territory is in
cluded in Lake, Malheur and Har
ney counties. In southern Malheur
county the antelope season has been
set from September 22 through Oc
tober 5 in order to conform with the
Idaho season in this district, where
a heavy concentration of antelope
exists.
Applications for the special doe
deer and antelope tags will be filled
in the order received beginning on
August 1. Any applications sent in
prior to that time will be held and
considered with those received on
August 1.
In northeastern Oregon the elk
season will be from November 1 to
November 15.. In this area each
hunter will be entitled to one elk
of either sex, and the $5.00 tag pro
vided under legislative enactment
will be good for either a bull or
cow elk.
In western Oregon bull elk may
be taken in Coos and Douglas coun
ties from noon on August 31 to
September 7.
All China pheasant seasons will
open this year on October 22. A
three-day season has been provided
in Willamette valley counties, fol
lowing a two-year closure.
The valley quail season will be
from October 22 and through No
vember 4, with a bag limit of ten
birds in any seven days. Open
.counties include Grant, Jefferson,
Harney, Wheeler, Klamath, Lake,
Umatilla, Gilliam. Wasco, Crook,
Sherman, Morrow, Deschutes, Coos,
Jackson, Josephine and Douglas.
The season for Hungarian part
ridges will be the same as pheasant
season in all eastern Oregon coun
ties, with a bag limit of six birds
a day.
Blue grouse may be shot only in
Clatsop and Columbia counties with
the season from October 22 to Oc
tober 28 and a bag limit of two
birds a day or six in the season.
IWA Has New Head;
Meet Mill Officers
Raleigh Woodfin, employee of
Heppner Lumber company assum
ed presidency of the local chapter,
International Woodworkers associa
tion, CIO affiliate, on resignation
of Emory Moore last week end, and
negotiations were started with offi
cers of the mill at meetings Saturday
and Sunday. ,
In the contract presented to the
local mill, no wage increase was
stipulated, but working conditions
generally were considered. Ben
Garske, IWA organizer from Bend,
was present at the latest organiza
tion meeting.
Woodfin announced that immedi
ate steps are being taken to organ
ize other mills in the county.
Heppner,
Boys in Defense
Service Makes Home
Work for Dad
There's not going to be much
truth in the old saying, "every
body works but dad," around the
Ray Drake farm for long.
Son Raymond, a crack mechanic
and welder who used to keep up
all the machinery recently enlist
ed in a defense industry job at
Burbank, CaL Son Donald has
had a lieutenant's commission in
the army for two years and is now
in active service at Camp Clatsop
address Trullinger Apts., 44
W. Bond St.. Astoria. Now the
third son, Douglas, is just out of
high school and is helping run
another harvest outfit The fourth
and last son is still at home, but
Daddy Ray says it looks like he's
going to have to go to work soon.
USO Fund Campaign
Meets Good Response
Favorable progress toward raising
ing Morrow county's $200 quota for
United Service Organizations was
reported this morning by J. O. Tur
ner general -chairman, who expected
the county would be over the top
this week end with continued fav
orable response so far made by those
contacted. '
"Establishment and maintenance
of U, S. O. is a part of the national
defense program and it should be
considered a privilege on the part
of every citizen(to make a small do
nation to this cause," Turner said,1
continuing:
"It was decided at a public meet
ing that Morrow county should raise
its quota of $200 by solicitation and
a committee was appointed for that
purpose. The solicitor is unpaid and
doesn't enjoy the job of asking oth
ers for money either, so don't turn
them down when they call upon
youi.
"It will be almost impossible for
the solicitors to call upon everyone
and anyone wishing to contribute,
who has not been contacted, may
leave his contribution at the bank."
Orville Smith Home
Novel Construction
A new type of home construction
is being introduced in Heppner in
the Orville Smith residence on
North Court street which has reach
ed the finishing stage.
It is singly constructed with walls
of two-inch knotty pine, tongue
grooved for close fitting, eliminat
ing door and window frames. With
full basement and modernly design
ed it will use the native knotty pine
beauty in the finishing process to
make one of the most attractive
homes in the city.
Cedar shingles are being used on
the roof, and the outside will be
painted. Some rooms inside will be
plaster finished, while others will
be left in the native knotty pine
covered with clear varnish only.
A modern air circulating fireplace
is being installed in the large living
room that will be an attractive fea
ture when the house is completed.
BUYS OLD HOME PLACE
Ed LeTrace while here on a visit
this week from his present home at
Missoula. Mont., accompanied by his
family, purchased the old home
place of his father, the late Wm.
LeTrace, and expects to remove his
home from Missoula within a few
months.
MOTHER PASSES IN SOUTH
Harry O'Donnell and family left
for Oakland, CaL, Tuesday morning
in response to word received the
night before of the death of Mr. 0'
Donnell's mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Oviatt
were visitors in the city last week
end from Pendleton. Mr. Oviatt re
cently returned from the Panama
canal zone whre he was engaged for
several months in federal road
work.
Oregon, Thursday, June
Forest Range Good;
Crickets Poisoned
In Opal District
Mountains Beauti
ful as Protective
Activity Organized
As half the sheep crossing drive
ways in the Heppner forest area on
their way to' the high mountains had
passed this week, and the remainder
to cross shortly, F. F. Wehmeyer,
local ranger in charge, reported the
range conditions as fine. Forage
prospects are the best in several,
years, Wehmeyer said.
Sheep, exclusive of lambs, cross
ing the local forest driveways num
ber approximately 125,000.
Work of organizing the protective
force for the season was reported as
well in hand, featured by a poison
ing campaign against Coolie crickets
in the Opal butte district. About
two tons of poison had been put out,
the ranger said, with infestation cov
ering an area of between 300 and
400 acres.
The annual fire school has been
announced for Frog Heaven from
June 21 to 27.
The mountains were never more
beautiful, said Mr. Wehmeyer, with
roads being cleared of logs and de
bris, and by the end of the week
everything west of Tupper is ex
pected to be cleared up.
Merle Crawford of the state for
est office is rapidly getting his for
est crew organized with headquar
ters at Kinzua. There will be 12
men including Mr. Crawford.
Merle Winn has been transferred
from the Ukiah district as protecti 'e
assistant to replace Ellis Carlson
who has been transferred to timber
sales.
Louis Gilliam and Bert Mason, Jr.,
are at present posting forest boun
dary and later will be at Madison
butte and Arbuckle.
Norbert Peavy has accepted a po
sition as guard at Wheeler Point
and at present is counting sheep at
Arbuckle corral. Lyle Eddy of Ir
rigon has accepted a position as
lookout on Tamarack.
Cut over land in the local district
was being inspected this week by
Fred Brundage, assistant regular
forester; O. F. Erickson, regional
lumberman; Albert Janeke entom
ologist; Charles Overby, assistant
supervisor, and Carl Ewing, super
visor of Umatilla National forest
More Questionnaires
Go Forth in Week
Morrow county local board today
mailed questionnaires to the reg
istrants whose names, addresses and
order numbers are shown below.
367 Laurel Elmer Ruhl, Lexing
ton; 368 Ted Leonard Burnsid;,
Hardman; 3G9 Nelson Wesley Bai
ley, 13062 Main St., Oregon City,
Oregon; 370 Paul Franklin Lind
strom, lone; 372 Eugene Darrel
Mikesell. Heppner; 373 Arthur Ed
win Dalzell, lone; 374 Henry Glover
Peck, Lexington; 375 Marvin Hugh
es, Hardman; 376 Frankl.n Max
Botts, lone; 377 Clarence G. Mur
phy, 10320 S.E. Powell Blvd., Port
land, Oregon; 378 Loyd Emery
Harshman, Heppner; 379 David El
mer Walters, R. 13, B. 177, Portland,
Oregon; 380 Robert Chandler Smith.
Irrigon; 381 William Lee Cox, Hepp
ner; j 382 Julius Vrana, Boardman; 383
William Lilly, Boardman; 384 James
Harvey Brannon, Heppner; 385 Murl
Elmer Cummings, Heppner; 386
Robert Allen Berger, Boardman; 387
George Alfred Corwin, Boardman;
388 Ivan Donivan, c-o Mrs. R. A.
Thompson, Heppner; 389 William
Joseph Van Winkle, Lexington; 390
Wilson Dale Akers, Hamilton; 391
Clarence Vernon Wise, c-o Alaska
Road Commission, Valdez, Alasks;
392 George Herbert Pointer, Lexington.
19, 1941
Aviatrix, Safe in Air,
Crashes in Pick-up
At Air Training End
Only a week before she started
to Portland in a pick-up with her
mother Monday morning, Miss
Maxine McCurdy completed her
student pilot training at Pacific
university, certificate for which
."she received in yesterday morn-
big's mail, having gone through
the flying course without mishap.
Faulty steering gear on tho land
vehicle, however, cracked up the
pick-up before Heppner junction
her mother narrowly escaped ser- I
ious injury. They were bfought
back to Heppner somewhat bruis
ed and shaken up.
Now Miss McCurdy is convinced
that flying is the safest way to
travel, after all.
School Budget Passed;
Officers Re-named
One hundred and twenty-nine
votes were cast at the election of
School district No. 1 Monday after
noon, when Miss Leta Humphreys
was re-elected director and Mrs.
Evelyn Isom was retained as clerk.
The budget proposed for next year
was adopted by a vote of 56 to 10.
Miss Humphreys will serve for a
term of three years as director and
Mrs. Isom for one, year as clerk. .
Miss Humphreys was the only
regular nominee for her position
and received a total of 71 votes.
Write-in votes were cast as follows:
Henry Aiken 1, Harold Cohn 6, Orve
Rasmus 1, David Wilson 2, Pat Mol
lahan 2. Mrs. Marie Clary was nom
inated for clerk in addition to Mrs.
Isom and the vote was, Isom 74.
Clary 53.
This paper erred in reporting last
week that C. W. Barlow was the re
tiring director. It was inadvertent-'
ly assumed from his being chair
man last year, that he was serving
his last year. Miss Humphreys,
however, had been elected to fill an
unexpired term that ended before
Mr. Barlow's, and still being oldest
in service of any board member, Mr.
! Barlow acted as chairman and will
hold the position again this year.
4-H Club Members
Arrive Tomorrow
Morrow county's contingent of
4-H club representatives a, sum
mer school which closed yesterday
are expected to arrive home about
noon tomorrow. Twenty-three from
this county were among the more
than two thousand attendants who
participated in what Oregon State
college reports was the largest 4-H
summer school ever held in the
United States.
Mrs. Harry Tamblyn chaperoned
the county delegation, and Mr. and
Mrs. C. D. Conrad and Mrs. Lucy E
Rodgers were present for part of the
session. Members attending includ
ed Peggy Tamblyn, Buddy Peck,
Dick Edmondson, Junior Wright,
Estelle Ledbetter, Carolyn Berg
strom, Erma June Deulan, Audrey
Wilson, Mabel Walker, Ella Edge.
Roberta Miller, Audrey Majeske,
Jack Edmondson, Dagmar Skoubo,
Norvin Adams, Ma jo Marquardt, E1
den Lilly, Betty Acock, Lavelle
Markham. Cecil McDaniel, Ollie
Hastings.
HOLD STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
The Lutheran Missionary society
of Gooseberry held a strawberry
festival at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Peterson on Sunday, June 8.
About 75 people attended and a pro
gram was held. Everyone reported
an enjoyable evening. Mrs. Claude
Huston is president of this society.
HAPPY HOMEMAKERS MEET
The "Happy Homemakers" 4-H
club met at the home of O. Peterson,
Thursday, June 12. Dorothy Berg
strom presided, with Marjory Pet
erson, secretary. Two of the mem
bers were at summer school. The
net meeting will be at the home of
C. F. Bergstrom in about two weeks.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
2.51 Inches Rainfall
Makes Unusally
Wet Season Here
Haying, Logging
Work Hindered;
Harvesting Delayed
Southern California's favorite
weather expression, "unusual," may
be truly applied to one of the wettest
season's this section has experienced
in the memory of old-time residents,
which has stalled haying and log
ging operations, delayed wheat har
vest and brought worried expres
sions as hardly a day passes without
dark clouds apearing in the heavens
to give a repeat performance of wa
ter dropping.
, Last night's latest shower added
.15 inch on Len Gilliam's rain gauge
for a total of 2.51 inches so far in
June at Heppner. For the month
to date at Gooseberry Leonard Carl
son, officail observer, reports 1.30
inch. He said the wheat in that sec
tion is still filling and doing fine.
While grain in the upper country
is still benefitting from the showers,
riper gram m the lower country is
not liking it so well and harvest of
riper grain is being delayed. No con
siderable damage is reported, though
some reports of fallen grain have
been received.
Heppner Lumber company, which
went through the winter months
without shutdown, had its worst
month of operation in May, due to
excessively wet candition of the tim
ber delaying logging, and the situa
tion has not been improved by the
continued showers in June. High
water caused shutdown of the Black
burn mill on upper Rrea creek the
first of the week, while the Scrits
meier mill was down for want of
logs.
Stockmen, hit by uncut hay being
laid on the ground or being caught
with shocks not yet picked up, are
smiling some over the greatly im
proved summer range conditions. All
creeks are running more than aver
age flows for the season and forage
in the timber appears the best in
years.
Marketing Card for
Wheat Men Required
Under provisions of the Market
ing Quota act now in effect on
wheat, it will be necessary for all
wheat producers to obtain a mar
keting card before disposing of their
1941 wheat, according to Henry Ba
ker, chairman of the local A. C. A.
committee.
He said that before a marketing
card could be issued it was neces
sary that the acreage seeded to
wheat be measured. He went on to
say that producers who were com
plying with the 1941 farm program
already have their wheat acreage
measured, but it would be neces
sary for those persons who have not
been complying to notify the county
office, and request that their wheat
be measured in order that they may
receive a marketing card without
delay.
Breakdown at Well
Makes Emergency
The city water supply faced a
three-day emergency this morning
when the engine operating the well
pump threw a connecting rod thru
the side of the block, said J. O. Ras
mus, watermaster, who issued offi
cial notice that all users are to be as
sparing with water as possible, with
absolutely no irrigating until next
Monday.
Three days will be required to
make necessary repairs and get the
plant into operation, Rasmus 'said.
Wholehearted cooperation by every
one will assist in averting a water
shortage that might jeopardize' pro
perty in case of fire, he asserted.