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Volume 58, Number 22
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 31, 1941
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Soil Conservation
District Referendum
Slated August 30
State Committee
Gives Date for New
Ballot on Project
A new vote on organization of
the Heppner Soil Conservation dis
trict, recently announced by the state
soil conservation committee, has
been set for August 30, reports C.
D. Conrad, county agent, who has
completed listing of eligible voters
and forwarded the list to the state j
office yesterday. I
The new vote was made necessary
by irregularities in procedure at the j
previous referendum last spring!
which caused the committee to can
cel its outcome.
Proposed under a state statute
for the purpose of instituting uni
form practices in control of soil
erosion, the new district would in
clude more than 600,000 acres in
Morrow and Umatilla counties, pe
titions from the landholders having
been filed with the state committee.
Failure to vote at the referendum
will count the same as a negative
Daughter of Pioneer
Editor Finds Many
Changes in City
Miss Bernice Redington was a
small girl when she lived in Hepp
ner for a year at the time her
father, Col. J. W. Redington, not
ed early-day fire-eating editor, ran
the Heppner Gazette. It was be
fore the Heppner flood of 1903.
Returning to the city for the
first time this morning for her
scheduled canning demonstration
at the Methodist church, Miss
Redington, wht has made a niche
in the journalism world for her
self, found few landmarks of the
old days.
$5000 Remodeling
Starts at Elks Hall
Remodeling of the Elks club
rooms, made necessary by the re
cent fire, was started this week
with Contractor McCormack and
crew from Pendleton doing the
work.
The lodge is expending $5000 for
the remodeling.
vote, making it necessary that all
those interested in the district's for
mation visit the polls August 30.
Full details of the election pro
cedure are expected in the official
notice to be released next week.
Concerted Drive
To Oust Earwigs
From City Planned
Poison, Parasites
Being Investigated;
Clean-Up Proposed
United effort to rid Heppner of
earwigs is being sought in a move
instituted at Monday's Lions lunch- j
eon when C. D. Conrad and Jap;
Crawford were named as a com-j
mittee to formulate plans and lay
them before the city council with
the aim of obtaining governmental
assistance with the drive.
A campaign similar to that car-
ried out effectively in other places
was thought to be leasaoie, pro
viding the proper organization could
be effected.
Inroads of the loathsome insects
have become more pronounced) in
the last few years despite wide use
of Doison. trans and bantams on the
part of many individuals, and it
was believed that concerted action
alone could relieve the city of the
pests.
Mr. Conrad expressed his opinion
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Charles Notsons Given
Hearty Greeting
j Charles Notson, son of the late
i S. E. Notson and Mrs. Mary Notson
now of Porltand, left Heppner some
' ten years ago to attend a Methodist
college in Kentucky. There he qual
lified for the ministry, acquired a
'wife, and together the Notsons en
tered the mission field to be assign
ed to the Chinese field near the ii
betan border, where they have spent
five years carrying the word of
Christianity. They also, an this in
terim, acquired two fine children
son Charles and daughter Ruth.
Now on leave in the United States,
it being the children's first visit to
America, the Notson family visited
Hetner last week end for the first
time since their departure for China,
and in interesting messages at the
Methodist and Christian churches
last Sunday told the host of friends
who greeted them of their work, il
lustrating their evening message at
the Methodist church with pictures
of the people and country with
whom and in which they have been '
working.
The visit was all too short for old
friends of the Notson family, and
the messages were especially inter
esting to the local union missionary
society which has kept close touch
with the Notson s work abroad.
While hardships and dangers have
attended them ever in their work,
the Notsons evidenced a strong
faith in the cause for which they
have fought, and expect to return
to the Orient to carry on.
County Receives
2500 Mongolian Birds
Delivery of 2500 Mongolian phea
sant to Morrow county by the state
game commission was made this
morning, with J. Logie Richardson,
president of Morrow County Hunt
ers and Anglers club receiving them
and assisting with their distribution.
The additional birds, combined
with heavy cover this season make
bird hunting prospects bright for
the fall open season.
HAS HIGH GRADE AVERAGE
Bernard McMurdo, son of Dr. and
Mrs. A. D. McMurdo was one of
several students to receive the high
grade average of 90, highest grade
awarded any student, at the recent
close of term at North Pacific Col
lege of Oregon, school of dentistry.
Those receiving the high grade were
named coaches for study groups to
improve the ability of the class to
master test set-ups. Included on
Bernard's score card were perfect
100 scores in anatomy and ceramics.
Bernard has already done filling
and extracting work and recently!
made his first dental plate.
Wheat Quotas In
1942 Asked; Vote
Coming In March
New Loans Start;
1942 Insurance Pro
gram Introduced
Expected over-supply of wheat in
the United States next year will call
for enforcement of the marketing
quota provision of the AAA act
again in 1942, according to an
nouncement received from Secre
tary of Agriculture Wickard this
week by the local ACA. The ref
erendum is expected to be called
sometime in March, and the early
announcement was made to assist
winter wheat planters in adjusting
their operations.
Applications are now being re
ceived for 1941 wheat loans, accord
ing to word from the local ACA
office. Twelve loans have been
completed to date and it is expected
that a very high percentage ot the
1941 crop will go under the loan.
It was also announced that ap
plications for 1942 crop insurance
are now being taken. Yesterday
at a meeting of community commit
teemen, Clyde L. Kiddle, state crop
insurance assistant, and Mr. Ru
dolph, who is with the Federal Crop
Insurance office at Spokane, were
present to explain the changes in
the 1942 program and to receive
recommendations for improvements.
Henry Baker, chairman of the
county committee, was the first man
in the county to sign: his 1942 crop
insurance application but was fol
lowed closely by Louis Bergevin,
Clyde Denney, Fred Mankin, Terrel
Benge, F. E. Parker and Chas. Tul
lis, Jr. ,
BEAMER-ANHORN
Miss Irene Beamer, daughter of
Mrs. George Gertson of this city,
became the bride of Mr. William An-
horn, son of John Anhorn of Her
rick, S. Dak., at rites read by Mar
tin Clark at the Church of Christ
at 8:45 o'clock Sunday morning.
Mrs. Anhorn, graduate of Heppner
high school, Pacific university and
Oregon State college, taught home
economics last year in Central Point
high school. The young couple will
make their home at Central Point.
Morrow county farmers having
excess wheat are showing a splen
did spirit of cooperation, according
to Henry Baker, chairman of the
local committee. Because of this
cooperative attitude most of the
wheat in excess of marketing quotas
in this county will be stored and
held off the market. He estimated
that the amount of excess wheat in
the county would total about 50,000
bushels.
The chairman emphasized that
there was no wish by anyone con
nected with the program to collect
penalties on marketing quota excess
wheat and stated that all farmers
having excess wheat are advised to
use the storage privilege to avoid
payment of the 49 cents a bushel,
penalty.
He pointed out that by storing the
excess wheat the farmer could hold
it off the market until he could ab
sorb it by adjusting his next year's
seeding under his acreage allotment
and added that to prevent the hold
ing of wheat from being too much
of a financial hardship on the far
mer, he could obtain a loan at 60
percent of the full loan rate on the
excess bushels. These loans run for
two years and the average loan rate
in the county would be about 56
cents a bushel.
CCC DOCTOR LEAVES
Dr. O. Sanderson, medical officer
at Camp Heppner, CCC, for some
time was preparing yesterday to
leave for Portland. Dr. A. D. Mc
Murdo has been awarded a part
time contract for medical supervi
sion of the camp. (
Joe Aiken Flies Solo
At Washington School
Joe Aiken recently made his first
solo flight in the course of aviation
training he is taking this summer
at Ellensburg normnl school, ac
cording to word received by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Aiken.
In addition to his flying work Joe
lis social commissioner for the sru-
of j dent body summer quarter, and in
Engraving courtesy Pendleton East Oregonian.
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Queen Maxine ot Rodeo in 1939, now it's Ijuccn Maxine oi renaieions isn jvouna-up, scpi. iv-u-i-id,
FRACTURES LEG
Mrs. Catherine Bergstrom
Eight Mile entered Heppner hospital , this capacity headed the receiving
Monday for reduction of a fracture I hne at the recent summer lormal
of the right femur, received when
she fell while picking rocks out of
her garden on the farm.
according to announcement this week. Word came upon Miss McCurdy's attendance at Oregon Trail Pioneer
Davs at Eufrene last week end, while the popular youn? Heppner lady, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Mc-
NAVY ENLISTERS VISIT
H. L. Larson and M. C. Courbat
from the Navy recruiting station at
Walla Walla were at the local post-
BAND PRACTICE CALLED
Practice for Heppner school band office Monday and interviewed sev
members has been called for Mon- eral prospects for enlistment. The
raaror! tn tho snHrllp day evening at 6 o'clock at the I recruiters are in Pendleton each
Curdy was there representing the Round-Up. Pacific university student, Round-Up's charming queen is avia
n Minptripnne. havinsr received her pilot's license this spring following completion of a private
in the wide open spaces of the rolling Dry Fork hills, where her father has large livestock and wheat growing ( schoolhouse, announces Lowell Ash-1 Thursday, and expect to make mon-
operations. Pictured with Queen Maxine is one of her favorite horses.
! baugh, president of the group.
, thly calls in Heppner.