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New Elevators To
Aid In Handling
2 Million Bu. Crop
Lexington, Morgan
Structures, Farm
Facilities Added
Completion of a new 62,000 bushel
capacity grain elevator at Morgai.,
and near completion of another
42,000 bushel elevator at Lexington,
besides considerable increase in
farm storage facilities for bulk
wheat will practically insure ade
quate handling facilities for the
more than 2,000,000 bushel wheat
crop expected in the county this
year, says the local ACA office after
checking the new and old facilities.
Another 55,000 bushel capacity el
evator at Cutsforth corners was re
cently constructed jointly by Orville
Cutsforth, Albert Nelson and Louis
Marquardt, and in addition Cuts
forth is building a granary that will
hold 15,000 bushels. Charles McEl
ligott is presently constructing a
30,000 storage and handling elevator
at his place, while Frank Anderson
is installing additional storage facil
ities at his place.
Other farm storage facilities listed
in the ACA office, which have been
accredited for farm storage include:
Fred Mankin, 24,000 bushels; Delbert
Anderson, 10,000 bushels; Delbert
Emert, 35,000 bushels; Art Stefani,
11,000 bushels; EMarkham Baker,
11,000 bushels; Elsie Beach, 12,000
bushels; Louis Marquardt, 12,000
bushels; Leo Gorger, 11,000 bushels
(he is also adding more iron storage
tanks this season) ; S. J. Devine 6,
000 bushels.
J. E. Swanson and Sen are adding
a new sack storage warehouse at
lone that will care for 55,000 bushels.
Total bulk storage capacity for
this year's crop will total 700.000
bushels, with 1,000,000 bushel stor
age available for sack wheat at com
mercial houses. There was approv
ed farm storage for sacked grain last
year of 134,000 bushels, and how
much more might be available is
impossible to determine. In addi
tion terminal storage has already
been arranged for 200,000 bushels.
Morrow County Grain Grower
at Lexington, in addition to building
the new 42,000 bushel capacity el evator,
have placed cribbing for four
large storage bins in the end of the
old sack warehouse next to the ele
vator, which can be filled and emp
tied by means of the basic operating
unit of the elevator. Plans for this
addition were so drawn by Mid
State Construction company of The
Dalles, contractors, that additional
bins could be added at any time and
serviced by the central power plant.
The bins now contracted in the
warehouse will store 45,000 bushels
of bulk grain.
The central operating plant at the
Lexington elevator has a capacity of
2200 bushels an hour. It is all elec
trically driven.
Automatic weighing-in and weighing-out
scales are now ready to be
put in place, and in addition to
unloading facilities for grain deliv
ered in bulk, construction of anothei
bin adjacent to unloading platform
is under way to service trucks de
livering grain in bags for dumping
The facilities for taking both bulk
and sacked grain from trucks it is.
believed will speed operation of
trucks materially.
The Lexington elevator, like the
other new elevators going up this
year, are wood cribbed walls. A
height of 105 feet to roof of the pent
house at Lexington was attained in
order to serve additional storge ca
pacity that might later be built at
a considerable distance, all from
the central elevating plant. A fea
ture of the work at Lexington is
the making of a heavy fill to make
an approach to the unloading plat
form where before there was a deep
ditch. E. E. Van Nuys of The Dalles
Heppner,
County Views Aid
National Publicity
For Crop Insurance
Morrow county friends who re
ceive a certain piece of literature
from the national AAA crop in
surance office will immediately
recognize a very good picture of
Frank Young who farms in the
lone section. Another picture in
the same folder shows a field on
the Ernest Christopherson farm.
The pictures are not so labeled,
they are but illustrations for a
general story; but they were im
mediately recognized by Merle
Cumminigs, local ACA secretary
who accompanied Ken Olson, then
state director of ACA publicity,
whose present position with the
publicity department in the na-
tional office, undoubtedly accounts
for their wider circulation.
County "Represented
Beaver Boy State
Four Morrow county boys are, at
Corvallis this week attending Beav
er Boy State, summer school in cit
izenship sponsored by the state Am
erican Legion. They are Tommy
Starkey and Jackson Oantwell of
Heppner, Joe Way of Lexington and
Ernest Christopherson, Jr., of lone.
Local sponsors of the boys are the
American Legion, Elks and Lions of
Heppner and American Legion of
lone. Loyal Parker took Starkey,
Cantwell and Way to Corvallis last
Sunday, while Christopherson was
taken below by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Christopherson. Elmer
Hunt of Lexington will drive to Cor
vallis next Sunday to bring the boys
home.
Liability for Buying
'Hot Wheat' Cited
Any person buying wheat regard
less of what the wheat is to be used
for is liable to the marketing pen
alty of 49 cents per bushel if hs
buys wheat that is not covered by
a marketing card, according to word
received from Henry Baker, chair
man of the local AAA committee.
The chairman added that all per
sons who are cooperating in the
farm program would receive mar
keting cards at once, and that all
other wheat producers could get
their cards by calling at the county
office. He pointed out that no wheat
producer would be barred from re
ceiving a marketing card regardless
of whether they have ever been in
the program or not.
Pomona Grange Meets
at Boardman Saturday
Morrow County Pomona grange
will meet next Saturday, the 28th,
with Greenfield grange of Board-
man as hosts. It will be an all-day i
meeting with program open to the
public at 1 p. m.
Ben Gerking, manager of the
Hermiston Co-operative association,
will be the principal speaker, and
numbers will be presented by the
various subordinate granges. The
fifth degree will be exemplified by
Irrigon grange in the evening.
is in charge of the Lexington work
for the construction company.
The same company, with W. L.
Van Horn in charge, is building ti e
Charles McElligott storage facilities.
McElligott is installing seven bins
for a total capacity of 30,000 bushels,
including small bins for handling
of seed wheat for treating, and fa
cilities for loading transport trucks.
The Elmer Griffith elevator at I
Morgan is a different type of con
struction from the Lexington struc
ture, being lower and broader. It
is 30 feet to top of cribbing and 1
feet to top of penthouse. Gas op
erated at present it was constructed
for placement of electric equipment
when electric power becomes avail
able. It has a 62,000 bushel capacity.
The Cutsforth-Marquardt-Nelson
elevator is 42 ft. by 42 ft. square,
and 60 feet in height. The roof was
put in place this week.
Oregon, Thursday, June
Morrow Clubbers
Receive Awards
At Summer School
Local Boys and Girls
in Band and Radio
Radio Performances
Morrow county boys and girls
were among the contest winners an
nounced at the general assembly of
2100 Oregon 4-H club members the
closing day of their annual 4-H
summer school at Oregon State col
lege last Thursday.
Peggy Tamblyn of Heppner won
second in the (Nothing judging con
test and Estelle Ledlbetter and Au
drey Maieske of Lexington won
fourth in the cookery judging con
test. Junior Wright of the Rhea Creek
pig club had one of the high scores
in the rifle marksmanship contest
which was conducted along with a
class in care and safety in handling
a rifle throughout the two weeks
period.
This was a new class for both boys
and girls held for the first time at
summer school this year and more
than 1100 boys and girls received
their instructions in handling a rifle
and participated in the marksman
ship contest. The class was super
vsed by Lt E. F. Sloan from Wash
ington, D. C, an officer of the Na
tional Rifle association.
Dick and Jack Edmondson, both
members of the Heppner school
band, participated in the musical
try-outs the first week at summer
school and were selected as mem
bers of the 75-piece summer school
band which played at assemblies and
over radio station KOAC through
out the session.
All delegates from Morrow coun
ty participated in the Morrow coun
ty radio broadcast last Thursday
over station KOAC in group sing-!
ing. Mrs. Harry Tamblyn, a local
leader from Heppner who chaper
oned the group, Buddy Peck, Dick!
and Jack Edmondson, Audrey Ma
jeske, Betty Acock and Peggy Tam
blyn conversed with C. D. Conrad,
county agent, on 4-H club activities
in the broadcast.
Lavelle Markham of Irrigon fur
nished a piano solo, "The Nighten
gales Trill," for the broadcast and
Frances Skoubo of Boardman sang
a vocal solo, "Beautiful Dreamer."
New Trapper Comes
To Heppner District
James Chetwood was recently as
signed to the Heppner district as
trapper for the U. S. Biological de-
Partment, succeeding Alva Stone
announced Harold Dobyns of Pen
dleton, district supervisor, when in
the city the first of the week. Chet
wood has arrived here with his fam
ily while Stone and family have
moved to a farm in the Willamette
valley. Joe Bathenas and Oscar Mo
Carty are other trappers recently
assigned to Morrow county, Dobyns
said.
Dobyns advised that anyone hav
ing trouble with depredations by
coyotes should report to the county
agent's office who will make nec
essary arrangements with the trap
pers.
NEW MANAGER ARRIVES
Mel Serle, recently with Safeway
Stores at Camas, Wash., arrived th.s
week to take the position of man
ager of the local store, succeeding
J. A. Anglin who will leave shortly
to join his family at Yakima. Mr.
and Mrs. Serle and 16-year-old
daughter have taken up residence in
the Josie Jones house. Mr. Serle's
home town was Walla Walla.
EXCESS WHEAT PENALIZED
Excess wheat held by growers
under government loan will be sub
ject to penalty under the marketing
quota act, announces the local ACA
office.
26, 1941
'Keep Oregon Green'
Drive Starts Here
Joining in observance of "Keeping j
Oregon Green" week, June 30-July I
R i. :j 1 rr t i
u, uyyvi imuiy win oe aiioraea peo
ple of Heppner and Morrow county
to join the association which Gover
nor Spragu has declared is vital to
the national defense program. The
objective is prevention of forest fires
within the state, and every cent of
association dues goes to publicity
work for informing the public of the
vital part Oregon's forests play in
the state and national economy.
Reese Burkenbine, at the J. C.
Penney store, has taken the chair
manship for the local membership
drive, and is making available to
local people ten auto licenses at 50
cents with which go a senior mem
berships in the "Keep Oregon
Green" association; also 50 senior
memberships at 25 cents, and 25
junior memberships at 25 cents with
each of which goes a membership
card and celluloid button designat
ing the purchasers as enrollees in
an active campaign to protect the
forests.
Wilkins Leaving
Local Pastorate
Protestant churches of Heppner
are tendering to Rev. J. L. Wilkins
and family a farewell party this
evening. Rev. Mr. Wilkins has re
ceived notice of assignment to the
pastorate of the Methodist church at
Myrtle Creek after filling the par
torate of the local church for the
last year. The Wilkins family will
leave for their new home next Tu
esday, and Rev. Mr. Wilkins will
give his farewell message to the
local congregation next Sunday.
Succeeding Rev. Mr. Wilkins here
will be Rev. Stearns Cushing, Jr.,
who is being transferred from Her
miston, in the assignments made at
the state conference at Eugene last
week end. It was also announced
that Rev. Silas E. Fan-ham, pastor
at Gresham had been raised to the
position of district superintendent of
the Cascade district, succeeding Dr.
Sydney W. Hall.
Safe Driving Material
Available to Granges
The traffic safety division of the
state department will furnish edu
cational material for Oregon gran
ges participating in the Nation
Grange Traffic Safety program th '
year ,it was announced today.
Oregon granges plan to enter their
safety contest and in addition they
will sponsor safety essay contests
for school children in the state.
Winners in the grange contest re
ceive cash prizes and winners in the
essay contest receive cash prizes and
trips.
In 1939, the Hermiston grange won
an award of $100 for the best sairty
program in the nation. In 1940, row-
ever, no prizes were won by Ore
gon granges.
The traffic safety division is pre
paring a list of suggested activities
for Oregon safety programs and this
list, as well as other educational
material will be available to
Oregon granges.
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EXAMINER HERE JULY 3
A traveling examiner of operators
and chauffeurs from the office of
Earl Snell, secretary of state, is
scheduled to arrive in Heppner next
Thursday, July 3, and will be on
duty at the city hall between the
hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. All
those wishing licenses or permits j
to drive cars are asked to get in
touch with the examiner during
these hours.
MARTHA NIGHT SLATED
Ruth chapter 32, O. E. S., will
honor past Marthas on Friday eve
ning, June 27. Grand chapter re
ports will be given, also memorial
services. Refreshments will be serv
ed.
Cecli Wise is visiting his family
here this week, coming up from
Klamath Falls where he has been
working for some time as baker in
a logging camp.
Louis Marquardt
Killed Instantly
In Fall From Elevator
Morning Accident
Calls Coroner and
Officers to Scene
Louis Marquardt was killed in
stantly in a fall at the grain elevator
at his farm this morning, according
to a telephone message received by
the Gazette Times at 1 o'clock,
A woman called Dr. A. D. Mc
Murdo's office at 11:05 this morning
asking that the doctor come to the
Marquardt ranch immediately. Miss
Lulu Hager, who answered the
phone, said the woman asked for
the doctor, saying "I am alone and
can't get him out He is bleeding to
death,"
Dr. McMurdo was not immediate
ly available, and Dr. L. D. Tibbies
responded to the call. He called
Dr. McMurdo later, and the latter,
who is coroner, left post haste. Also
Deputy Sheriff Earle Bryant and
Justice J. 0. Hager rushed from the
courthouse shortly before noon
without leaving word of their des
tination. They presumably respond
ed to word of the accident.
The call from Lexington said th.it
a coroner's inquest was under way,
A phone message put through to the
Marquardt ranch just at press time
was answered by a woman who said
Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman was just
leaving with the body and that he
would have to be contacted for par
ticulars. Word from Deputy Bryant, who
just returned: from the scene states
that Marquardtfs fall happened at
10:45 this morning. He was on a lad
der leaning against the scaffolding
used in putting the elevating mach
inery in place in a new elevator he1
was building. A nephew, Balsiger,
had just handed him a cleat and
hammer, and apparently as he re
ceived them he was not aware that
he was off balance. He fell twenty
feet on to an upright 2x4 which
pierced his heart and lungs, result
ing in iniitant death.
Bryant and Justice Hager, who
acted for the coroner, who was not
available when the call first came,
found no grounds for a coroner's
jury. They passed the coroner, Dr.
McMurdo on the way out as they
were coming in, and Dr. McMurdo
went on to make an investigation
for himself.
Bryant said Mrs. Marquardt and
the nephew were the only other
persons on the ranch when the ac
cident happened.
Mr. Marquardt was an extensive
wheat operator of the north Lex-
ington section He is survived by
the widow, Lorena Marquardt,
whom he married about a year ago.
A brother, Charles Marquardt, op
erates a large acreage in the same
vicinity.
I. W. A. TO ELECT
Election of regular officers for
International Woodworkers associa
tion in Heppner is announced for
Saturday, June 28, at 7 p. m., by
Raleigh Woodfin, acting president.
A regular meeting was held last
Saturday. Woodfin requests that all
members be present at the meeting
next Saturday. All meetings from
now on will be held at 7 p. m. in
stead ol 4 p. m. as formerly, Woodfin
said.
OFFICIALS OFF HALF DAY
Offices at the courthouse are now
closed on Saturday afternoons, the
new order going into effect June 14
when a recent act by the legislature
affecting the office hours went into
effect.
SCORES GOOD AT SHOOT
Dr. A. D. McMurdo attended the
state trapshoot at Gearhart last
week end and turned in the good
score of 189 out of a possible 200
in one 16-yard event.