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Thursday, August 28, 1941 Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon Page Five Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bigelow and Mrs. H. S. Taylor motored to Port land Sunday, returning the same day to bring Linda Taylor home. Linda is reported as recovering from injuries sustained in a recent automobile accident and is learning to walk again with the aid of crut ches. Mrs. Herbert Wright of The Dalles arrived yesterday to spend the week end here. A joint celebration of the birthdays of Mrs. Wright and her son, Herb, will be held. Mrs. Wright plans to leave Labor day to visit relatives at Kinzua and Fossil. She is an 1881 pioneer of the Fossil sec tion. Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Wightman at tended the wedding of her niece, Miss Cavell Abbott, to Eugene Frey of Cincinnati, Ohio, in Portland Monday evening. Margaret Wight- man was a flower girl and Mr. Wightman was an usher. The ser vice was held in St. Michael's Epis copal church. Gerald Haddox was in Heppner this week to meet his wife, the for mer Neva Bleakman, who remained here while he was in the army. M. and Mrs. Haddox will live in Forest Grove where he is manager of the Safeway store. Mr. and Mrs. Powell of Brush Prairie, Wash., were in Heppner Tu esday attending to property inter ests in the Hardman area. Mrs. Powell is the former Mabel Cum- mings. Mrs. Charles E. Long of Portland arrived Monday evening to visit her mother, Mrs. Olaf Bergstrom who has been confined for some time from a broken hip. Miss Edith Wehmeyer of San Francisco and Don Wehmeyer vis ited their sister, Mrs. Bill Becket and family, in Waitsburg over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Conrad drove to Imbler Saturday evening with his sister, Jean Anne Conrad, who vis ited them during Rodeo. . Mrs. M. S. Corrigall, pioneer of the Butter creek section, is under going treatment at Heppner hospit al, being quite ill. Mr. and Mrs. Chet Brown of Mor ument have returned to Heppner and are living in the Clarence Bau man house. Dr. J. P. Stewart, Eye-Sight Spe cialist of Pendleton, will be at the HEPPNER HOTEL on WEDNES DAY, Sept. 3rd. Don Case, in the city Monday from Hermiston, reported addition of a second taxi in his taxi business there. Miss Dorothy Davolt, high school home economics teacher, moved in to the Halton cabins this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Smith of lone are spending their vacation on tho coast. The Frank Tousley family has rented the house of Mrs. Alta Cuts forth on South Gilmore street. Reclamation Group Meets September 25 The 1941 meeting of the Oregon Reclamation congress will be held in Ontario Monday and Tuesday, September 29 and 30, according to the official call for this thirty-first annual session just issued by Dr. W T, Powers of O. S. C, secretary, on authorization of President Frank Morgan of Nyssa. The Oregon session will be two weeks in advance of the national reclamation meeting at Phoenix, 4 1 Ariz., and one week, oeiore xne equalization hearings of the district board and and fall session of the circuit courts. Dr. Powers points out. . Plans are for one session to be devoted to operation and mainten ance problems, one to water re quirements of irrigated crops, and one to drainage and alkali problems. Spwral out-of-state speakers of na tional reputation have been invited Heppner people in the Round-Up dress parade in Pendleton Saturday night were Queen Kathryn Thomp son and her princesses Frances Wil kinson, Colleen Kilkenny, Patty Em ert, and Rita Robinson, Harlan Mc- Curdy, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kistner and Mr. and Mrs. Lee' Beckner. Mrs. Rena (Meadows) Boyd drove to Heppner last Saturday from her home at Portland and spent a day visiting old-time friends. She was accompanied from the city by Mrs. Earl W. Gordon who had been there for a few days on business. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Hale, former lone residents, were callers in the city today while visiting in the conn-1 ty from their home at Tangent. They wanted to see how a bumper wheat crop looked. Mr. and Mrs. Hale moved from lone in 1936. Miss Kathryn Parker has returned from spending the summer at Ash land normal school. Father Peter, Duigan of Ontario is visiting this week with his cou sin, Father Francis McCormick. F. E. Parker was taken to Port land last week for specialized med ical attention in an illness. Former Resident Here Passes At Albany Mrs. Esther Bray, 57, wife of Claude C. Bray, a resident of Al bany for the last 33 years and of the state 40, years, died at the lamily home, 430 West Third street, Thurs day, Aug. 14 following a prolonged illness. She was bom Aug. 31, 1884 at Beardstown, HI., and from Illinois came to Oregon, locating at Hepp ner, from where she came to Albany. She was married at Heppner Aug. 11, 1908 to C. C. Bray, who survives her. She is also survived by two children, Frances and Richard Bray, both of Albany; her mother-in-law, Mrs. Emma Bray, and two grand children. Mrs. Bray was a member of the Methodist church and a past noble grand of the Rebekah lodge. Funeral services were held from th Fortmiller funeral home at 10:30 a. m. Saturday, Aug. 16, with Di. Thomas D. Yarnes officiating. Inter ment was in the Riverside cemetery with the Rebekah lodge in charge. Albany Herald. Mrs. Bray was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Leezer former residents of Heppner. LEXINGTON NEWS Lightning Strikes Twice Near Lexington By MARGARET SCOTT Lightning stuck near the Myles Martin ranch early this week and later in the week hit near Cutsforth Corners where it cut out the supply of electricity until service men re paired the damage. The Frank Mun- kers home was also out of lights that evening until repairs were made. A new automatic washer has been installed at the Elmer Hunt home. Eileen Scott spent the week in The Dalles and the week end in Port land with her sister Doris. C. C. Carmichael and Edward Rice are spending a few days in Portland. Faye Ruhl and sons motored to Stanfield Sunday taking Bobby Gray to his home. Skippy Ruhl re mained with him to visit a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Wlibur Steagall and family motored to Spray Sunday to visit relatives. Charles Payne of Hermiston spent the week end at the Robert Cutler home. The Ralph Jackson family is va- cationing at Yellowstone park until school starts. Eldee Vinson and Wencell Dou brava went to John Day Monday. Homer Hensley left Monday for his home in Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. S. G. McMillan have returned home from a vacation in Portland and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wickersham and children of Portland spent the week end at the Harry Duvall farm Mrs. Tempa Johnson is now mak ing her home at the Laura Scott home and renting her small house to Mr", and Mrs. McDonald who are teachers in the local school this year and her house on the hill is New Car Sales Up 12,210 Units in Year New car sales in Oregon during the first seven months of 1941 ex ceeded sales of the same period last year by 12,210 units, or 47 percent, it was announced today at the of fice of the secretary of state. Sales totaled 37,919 units during rented to Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Burton and family. Mr. Burton is super intendent of the school. The Carl Whillock family and the Vernon Scott family spent Sunday in Hermiston and vicinity. George Tucker and Louis Semin were in Hermiston Sunday. Jerrine Edwards is assisting her sister Edith in the Morrow County Grain Growers office. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Whillock spent Tuesday at Walla Walla. Miss Sylvia Severence has been accepted to teach the fifth and sixth grades in the local school this year. that period, compared to sales of 25,709 units for the same period in 1940. Motor vehicle registration in the state for the same period total-.d 414,876 vehicles, the highest in ti-e history of the state. Last year, reg istration at the end of July totaled 379,774 vehicles, the increase this year being nearly ten percent Commercial vehicles showed the highest percentage of gain in regis tration during the first seven montlis of this year. Registration of light delivery trucks showed an increase of 10.23 percent while registration of heavier trucks showed an in crease of 11.5 percent. Private pas senger cars increased 8.9 percent. Fees for motor vehicle transactions during the period totaled $3,355,600. The reason there seems to be w few good people in the world is be cause the newspapers have so little to say about them, while the awful bad folks are so darn well advertised. 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"FUNZAPOPPIN" 75 Famous Performers including 18 Glamorous Girls in Hour-and-a-Half Night Show at Raw Track Grandstand I Nite Horse Show Plenty of Horse-action PLUS Unusual Special Acts ! Midway Thrills Plus Many FREE Acts! FAIRGROUNDS SUNDAY-MONDAY I WANTED WINGS Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore,- Veronica Lake The thrilling saga of America's fly ing youth the grandest aviation picture ever to thrill the heart of America. TUESDAY Bargain Night Adults 20c; 2 Children 10c FOR BEAUTY'S SAKE Joan Davis, Ned Sparks, Marjorie Weaver, Ted North Fun in a. beauty shop. plus "CRIME DOES NOT PAY" and a colored travelogue of Europe as it was and as it will never be again, WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY REACHING FOR THE SUN Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Eddie Bracken, Albert Dekker, Billy Gilbert Rollicking romance, roaring laugh ter, thrilling adventure, bhe was anybody's gal for a dime a dance until a two-fisted guy from the northwoods changed everybody's mind. F7S 1 lfk I A N N I especially 1 IS HERE II ' aotw j SUPER CREAMED ICE CREAM Heppner's New Refreshment Center OUNCES suited to school children SANDWICHES 0 FROSTED MALTS MILK SHAKES Healthful, Nourishing Foods "O BOY" FOR SCHOOL OPENING JUMBO CONE 5c to the session.