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Volume 58, Number 38
All Steps Approved
For REA District;
Funds Expected
Construction Awaits
Granting Priorities
For Materials
The directors of Mid-Columbia
Electric Co-op have done everything
possible to date to bring about con
struction of the district, and all steps
have now been approved in Wash
ington, D. C, announced Henry
Baker, president, following a direc
tors meeting here Tuesday after
noon attended by J. C. Bradley from
the national office, and F. O. Bill
ings of Spokane, field manager.
Bradley told directors that an ap
propriation for the district might be
expected any time now, but that ac
tual construcion must await grant
ing of priorities by OPM for the
needed materials. Priorities cover
ing the full quota of materials will
have to be in hand before construc
tion starts, Bradley said.
Maps for the entire district are
at the local office, Baker said, and
it may be possible for those farms
which were deleted from the first
projected district to obtain service
if their operators will call at the
office and make known their de
sires, as well as indicate on the map
whether they are near enough to
the new district to make service
feasible.
Baker said word has also been
received from Bonneville that juice
can very probably be supplied from
this source as soon as the project
is ready for it.
Defense Education
Theme of BPW Meet
Furthering of our own education
in relation to the national defense
program was the subject under dis
cussion at the meeting of the Hepp
ner Business and Professional Wo
mens club which met at the Clara
Gertson home Monday evening.
The topic was introduced by Lucy
E. Rodgers. Evelyn Isom spoke on
"The State is the Campus." Fur
thering our cultural background was
discussed by Rose Hoosier and
Frances Weaver who respectively
spoke on music and art. Improving
our physical well being was the
theme of Margaret Wright. Gwen
Glasgow played "Moonlight Sonata"
and the story of this was told by
Lela Peterson. Refreshments were
served.
NEW CHURCH DEDICATION THURSDAY
Heppner's new Catholic church is
ready for dedication ceremonies set
next Thursday morning, beginning
at 10 o'clock, when Most Rev. Bishop
Joseph F. McGrath of the eastern
Oregon diocese, will give his bless
ing upon the church and upon the
corner stone. Thirty priests of the
diocese are also expected.
The new church is the result of
many years' work and planning on
Casaba Jamboree to
Usher League Season
Morrow county will be treated to
an innovation in the sports world
the evening of Tuesday, November
25, at the lone school gym when a I
basketball jamboree will be staged
among all competing teams of the!
Wheat league. Included will be'
high school teams from Heppner,
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icne, jjexmgum, coaruman, Arngon,
Stanfield, Umatilla and Echo, an
nounces Erret Hummel, lone super
intendent and sponsor of the show.
The curtain will rise at 7:30, with
introduction of all teams. Next will
be a foul throwing contest, with
each contestant allowed seven shots,
and m case of ties, each contestant
will be permitted five additional
shots. Team captains will then be
called to the floor and will draw for
numbers, and teams will immediate
ly play a bracket of 8-rninute games
for a suitable trophy.
The bracket calls for winners of
games one and two to play winners
of games three and four for the
trophy award.
A feature of the evening will be
an exhibition game between the
Eastern Oregon College of Educa
tion and Domestic Laundry of Pen
dleton teams. Three Morrow county
boys, Jones of Irrigon, Wilson of
Boaixlman and1 Hoskins of lone will
be seen in action with the college
team.
Hummel promises a large eve
ning of basketball for all who at
tend. Heppner Station
Checks in 46 Elk
The Heppner elk checking station
in charge of Norton Lundell com
pleted its work at 9 o'clock Tuesday
evening, the deadline for hunters to
check in their kill, having checked
in 46 animals in all. In the season
259 hunters checked into the woods
through ' the Heppner, Ukiah and
North Powder stations, and 264
checked out with a total kill of 88
elk.
Ukiah checked out 35 elk and
North Powder, 7. The animals
checked here included 16 big bulls,
3 medium bulls, 5 spikes, 13 cows
and 9 calves. Ukiah checked 3 big
bulls, 3 medium bulls, 3 spikes, 18
cows and 8 calves, and North Pow
der checked 1 big bull, 4 cows and
2 calves.
Mrs, E. G. Noble is reported to
have suffered a stroke recently at
Vancouver, Wash., where she went
with Mr. Noble two weeks ago for
a visit No late report has been re
ceived as to her condition.
The Ladies Altar society of the
Catholic church will give a dance
at lone grange hall Thanksgiving
evening, November 20.
the part of congregation, and was
attained only after Rev. Francis Mc
Cormick, local minister, labored tire
lessly in its behalf. i
Exterior in red brick veneer, the
church is beautifully appointed in
side. A feature is the delicately ,
stained glass windows which com-1
plete the artistic appointment. I
Foley and McCormack of Pendle-!
ton were the contractors, and L. L. 1
Dugan of Portland was architect
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November
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Legion Conference
Set Here Postponed
The District 6 American Legion
and ru.':iliaiy conference to have
been lie Id he ro Monday was indef
initely postponed the first of the
week on receipt of word from Carl
Moser. state department adjutant,
that Joseph K. Carson, the depart
ment commander, had been called to
Washington, D. C, in connection
with his position as regional head
of civilan defense.
The local post installed officers
at a meeting last Monday.
The Rebekahs will elect officers
and have a social evening at their
regular meeting tomorrow (Friday)
evening.
20, 1941
Mustangs Prepare for
Tough Hoop Season
A large delegation of basketball
aspirants was greeted by Coach Lyle
Swenson Monday evening to begin
the 1941-42 season. Swenson was
encouraged by the fact that five
members of last year's team were
among those present. The Mustangs
have a much tougher schedule than
ever before, having approximately
twenty games already slated, not
counting the tournament held at the
season's end.
This year's team will be built
around five returning lettermen
who made up last year's team. Mem
b?rs returning are Bill Scrivner,
I Bob Pinckney, Claud Snow, John
Skuzeski and Jim Barratt. Other
j members with whom Swenson will
I complete the traveling squad are
Claud Drake, Bill Padberg, Kay
Ferguson and several others who
are fighting for a berth.
The continuity system was used
Monday evening. Whether this style
will be continued remains to be
seen. The first trial for the Heppner
team will be at lone November 25
when they attend the lone jam
boree. The first home game of the
season will be against Echo Decem
ber 10th.
Two Deaths Claim
Coroner's Attention
The coroner's office was twice
called into action this week. Mon
day morning, Edgar R. Osborn, 47,
herder for Frank Wilkinson, was
found dead in his bed at the camp
in Spring Hollow from a .22 gunshot
wound in the head. While suicide
was suspected, a laboratory investi
gation of the case is being conducted
at the crime laboratory in Portland,
and the coroner's verdict is awaiting
the report.
Osborn's daughter at Greenfield,
W. Va., his former home, was noti
fied. Yesterday morning, Edgar Dyk
Etra, 50, of Condon was found dead
in his car about a mile below Lex
ington. The coroner's investigation
revealed death as accidental from
asphyxiation by carbon monoxide.
His .wife and daughter were called
from Condon. Dykstra was travel
ing alone, and the car was sidewise
to the road, blocking about half the
highway. He was a Watkins product
salesman.
FOSSIL DEFEATED, 13-0
Sparked by outstanding playing
of Billy Padberg and Billy Scrivner,
backs, Heppner high's Mustangs
tromped on a smaller Fossil squad
13-0 here last Friday afternoon to
wind up the grid season. Padberg
made both touchdowns, one a on
a 60 yard run around end, and the
other by a short dash after catching
a long pass. Jimmy Barratt, star
back, was out of the game. For the
visitors, Doug Provo who played with
Heppner earlier in the season, did
some beautiful work in spite of an
injured foot
CUNNINGIIAM-MOYER
The marriage of Miss Helen Cun
ningham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Cunningham, to Melvin
Moyer of Lexington is reported to
have been an event of November 12
at Pasco, Wash. The newlyweds will
make their home on the farm op
erated by Mr. Moyer. Mrs. Moyer
I has been a waitress at the Elkhorn
j restaurant for some time.
SHEEP COME FROM MONTANA
J. G. Barratt arrived home the
first of the week from the summer
range in Montana near Browning,
bringing his sheep for winter feed
ing here. Barney Devlin, herder,
also acocmpanied the shipment.
Wanted Chess or checker players.
It is believed that the checker play
ers have all lost their wit and are
gathering cobwebs or have throwed
away their checker board. See Stan
Icy Minor.
Announcement has been made
here of the recent birth of a son to
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Green of Pendle
ton. The new arrival is a grandson
of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Green.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
National Figures
Coming West For
E. 0. Wheat League
Dodd and Evans to
Bring Messages of
Top Importance
The annual meeting of the East
ern Oregon Wheat league December
4 to 6 has attained regional prom
inence with the assurance recently
received that three top men of the
U. S. department of agriculture, and
possibly four, will attend the ses
sion, coming direct to Heppner from
Washington, D. C.
The three men certain to attend
are R. A. "Spike" Evans, national
administrator of the AAA; N. E.
Dodd, director of the western divi
sion of the AAA, and formerly chair
man of the Oregon committee, and
Lcroy Smith, president of the Fed
eral Crop Insurance corporation.
Long considered one of the most
important meetings of wheat grow
ers in the United States, the EOWL
session has in recent years been
made the occasion a number of
times for important announcements
of national farm policy related to
this industry. Such is expected to
be the case this time, as both Dodd
and Evans are scheduled to deliver
major addresses.
Dodd will speak on the world
wheat situation including a special
report on the international wheat
conference to be held in Regina,
Canada, just prior to the wheat lea
gue meeting. Evans, who has re
cently returned from England, where
he studied the food needs of the
country, will speak Saturday r,o,-n-ing,
stressing the food-for-deferi'3
program. Smith is not now sched
uled to appear on the general pro
gram but will take part in commit
tee sessions to be held ail day
Thursday prior to the opening of
the regular program meetings.
The annual banquet on Friday
night will have as principal speaker
Toerh K. Carson, civilian defense
coordinator for the Pacific coast, and
department commander of the Am
erican Legion.
With prosp-'Cts of a considerable
number of wheat growers attending
from neighboring states as well as
fiom Oregon, the local entertain
ment committee is preparing ade
quate housing, and meal service for
all, according to reports obtained by
S. J. Culley, Weston, president of
the league.
lions Distribute ;
Safety Book Covers
Arrangements to distribute book
covers carrying a mesrag- on traf
fic safety to all school children i.i.
the county were made at Monday's:
Lions luncheon. One cover will be
placed on a book in the hands of
each school pupil in the county. Al
den Blankenship distributed a por
tion to schoolmasters attending the1
district schoolmasters' meeting at.
lone Monday evening.
That Heppner will need to p-o-vide
every spare sleeping accom
modation in order to house the
Eastern Oregon Wheat league con
vention attendants, December 4-5-6,
was asserted by J. O. Turner and
C. D. Conrad of the local commit
tee on arrangements. Attendance of
national figures from Washington
means that probably a thousand
outside people will be in attendance,
Conrad said.
Rev. Benny Howe, Methodist min
ister, was a guest.
Lee Howell gave an i.-iteresting
and detailed report of hi.-? visit to
the munitions depot near Hermiston
which he made with Amcicnn Le
gion members or Armistice day.
Others who vl:tU.d tha depat last
Sunday repo: f,?d that about CO) cars,
were included in the visiting party
Mrs. P. W. Mahoney and baby son,.
Robert Philip, are expected home
this week end from the hospital at
Pendleton.