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Volume 58, Number 40
City All Ready To
Entertain Largest
Influx In History
Extra Housing, Eat
ing Facilities Listed;
Big Banquet Planned
Expectations were being fulfilled
this morning as a fast filling Main
street presaged one of the largest
crowds in history for an Eastern
Oregon Wheat league meeting, or
any event ever staged here.
More than a hundred visitors ar
rived at 6:30 this morning in the
special seven-Pullman train, cars of
which will augment local sleeping
facilities. Auto loads of visitors con
tinued to arrive all morning.
Local committees had all arrange
ments well in hand this morning,
with courtesy cars meeting the train
passengers and escorting them to
various eating places. Courtesy cars
will continue to be available at the
headquarters in Hotel Heppner, next
to lobby entrance, where guides will
also be found to take visitors to
rooms in homes, more than a hun
dred of which have been registered.
Registration for the convention
sessions may be done here or at the
school gym-auditorium , where all
meetings are being held. In addi
tion to league memberships, visitors'
badges, programs and banquet tick
ets are available at these places, the
league membership for a dollar, and
banquet tickets a dollar. There is
no registration fee.
Banquet tickets are being reserved
for visitors first. They will only be
made available to townspeople if any
of the 600 tickets are left tomorrow
afternoon.
The banquet will be staged at 6
o'clock tomorrow evening at the
county pavilion on north Main
street. "Dusty" Rhodes of Pendleton
will prepare the food and it will be
served by high school girls. Judge C
L. Sweek of Pendleton, veteran E. O.
W. L. banquet toastmaster, will fill
this role again, and the principal
speaker of the evening will be Dr
U. G. Dubach, dean of men at Ore
gon State college. Favors have been
contributed by Portland firms. H
A. Cohn is banquet chairman, with
J. G. Barratt as head of the enter
tainment.
E. Harvey Miller is head of the
local convention committee, with
other sub-committee chairmen as
follows: J. O. Turner, housing; B. C
Pinckney, meeting place; Kenneth
Blake, courtesy cars; L. E. Bergevin,
registration; Vawter Parker, window
decorations.
Store windows are showing at
tractive displays in a contest for $10
and $5 prizes offered by the cham
ber of commerce.
AIKEN IN AIR CORPS
Joe E. Aiken, former Central
Washington college athlete, is now
a member of the first class of cadets
in the new Air Corps Replacement
center (Aircrew) at Kelly Field,
Texas, says a recent Ellensburg, Wn.,
press clipping. He was m school
here from 1939 to 1941. He played
football, basketball and baseball and
was a boxer. He is from Heppner.
Aiken entered the school November
12. He will go through five weeks
of treliminarv training before being
sent to a primary flying school
where he will start flight training.
Flight training will take another five
weeks. Then he will go to an advan
ced school from where Aiken will be
graduated 30 weeks later as an of
ficer in the army.
MAKES FIRST TEAM
Dubby Aiken, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Aiken of this city, is num
bered among those present on the
first basketball team at Central
Washington College of Education at
Ellensbura. Wash. The team is
coached by Leo Nicholson, former
Heppner high school athlete and four
year basketball letterman at Uni
versity of Washington.
BANK HEAD SLATED
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R. E. Brown, general agent of
the Farm Credit administration of
Spokane, and president of the
Federal Land bank of Spokane,
who will speak at the Eastern
Oregon Wheat league meeting here
tomorrow. His topic will be,
"Farm Financing, Present and Fu
ture." Growers Endorse
Triple A Program
More than 300 wheat growers from
the three Pacific northwest states,
plus a group of department of ag
riculture officials from Washington,
D. C, assembled in Heppner this
morning for the opening sessions of
the fourteenth annual meeting of
the Eastern Oregon Wheat league.
With Governor Charles A. Spra
gue and N. E. Dodd, of Baker, direc
tor of AAA's western division and
other officials of AA and the Fed
eral Crop Insurance corporation in
attendance, the morning session was
devoted to a meeting of the com
mittee on federal agricultural and
conservation programs. Will Steen
of Milton presided as chairman.
Unanimous endorsement of federal
AAA and crop insurance programs,
with minor changes, was embodied
in resolutions urging their continu
ance. The group recommended three
year marketing quotas with no
change in present penalty regula
tions and 85 percent commodity loans
and expressed belief that the wheat
surplus problem could best be solv
ed through strict enforcement of
marketing quotas without reducing
the national wheat allotment below
the present 55 million acre mini
mum. Bauman Named Head
Of State Sheriffs
Another laurel came to Morrow
county last week end when the an
nual convention of state sheriffs el
ected C. J. D. Bauman, local sheriff,
as president of the organization for
the coming year. Bauman served as
vice-president last year. A former
Heppner boy, Bruce Spaulding of
Dallas, was elected head of the state
association of district attorneys at
the same time.
Bauman reports the sessions last
week among the livest he has had
the privilege to attend.
STANLEY MINOR INJURED ,
Stanley Minor suffered lacerations
and bruises which required first aid
when he was struck by a motorcy
cle Saturday evening on Main street.
Stanley was just passing by as
Spencer Fox of Stanfield stopped
the gas cycle at the curb and dis
mounted, and the cycle continued
on to the sidewalk, striking Minor.
Fox rushed the injured man to a
doctor immediately where his in
juries were attended to, and, for
tunately, none proved serious.
Apartment, oil heat, automatic hot
water. A. Q. Thomson. ltp.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, December
AAA Community
Elections In Week
Start New Year
'Food for Defense' to
Play Important Part
In New Program
Approximately 500 farmers, mem
bers of the Morrow County Agri
cultural conservation association, are
eligible to vote next week at the
annual AAA community elections,
Kenry Baker, county AAA chair
man, announced yesterday.
Community committees and dele
gates to the county conventions will
be chosen at the community elec
tion meetings, which have been
scheduled as follows:
Alpine, Eightmile, Lexington, Mor
gan, lone, North Heppner, South
Heppner-Hardman 1:30 p. m., Tu
esday, December 9, at the I. O. O. F,
hall, Heppner.
Irrigon 9:30 a. m., Wednesday,
December 10 at the Water Office.
Boardman 1:30 p. m., Wednesday,
December 10, at the FFA Room in
the Boardman High school.
Following the community elec
tions, delegates to the county con
vention will meet to review the bus
iness of the association during the
past program year, and to elect
county committeemen for 1942.
"Triple A's role in the all-import
ant food for defense program will
place added responsibilities on all
AAA committeemen during the
coming year," Mr. Baker said. "I
believe that this is all the more rea
son why everyone who has a vote
hould attend his community meeting
and help name the men who will
handle this increased responsibility,"
the chairman added.
Fox Hunting, New
Sport, in Which Horse
Proves Superior
(Contributed)
Last week one of Sheriff Bau
man's silver foxes escaped from its
pen and led a free life for a few
hours.
Deputy Earle Bryant was noti
fied and he quickly organized a
posse of a score or more and gave
chase. The fox retired to the side
of the hill east of town and pro
ceded to lead the posse on until
he finally gave them the slip.
Frank Tousley, the horse trainer
at the Rodeo grounds, seeing the
chase, decided the proper method
to catch the fox was to rope it
from horseback.
Members of the posse told him
where the fox had last been seen
and he soon found him and gave
chase. The horse, a palomino stal
lion named Sundancer and owned
by Chuck Oswald of dude ranch
fame, fell into the spirit of the
game and quickly put Mr. Tousley
within roping distance at a down
hill run, and Tousley made his
catch on the first loop.
The then defeated fox was wrap
ped in a blanket and taken back
to his pen much the wiser about
cow horses and ropes.
Mr. Tousley said all credit was
due the horse, and Sundancer, who
is also trained to do tricks, bowed
and nodded his head.
TRAFFIC LANES PAINTED
As Heppner's main thoroughfare
and other parts of the Oregon Wash
ington highway in town were treat
ed to renovation of the center yellow
line this week, city officials cooper
ated to mark off pedestrian lanes at
intersections, augmenting traffic reg
ulation as the big Eastern Oregon
Wheat league meeting approached.
PARTY GIVEN
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Patterson were
hosts Monday evening at a party
given in honor of Peggy Aiken who
is leaving shortly for Vancouver,
Wash. A number of lady friends
were invited guests, and Mrs. Aiken
was presented with two traveling
cases.
4, 1941
HIS MESSAGE HOT
People cf Ikppmr and Morrow
county have an exceptional op
portunity to hear a first hand
message from Europe, and one that
will make national news, when R.
M. Evans, chief of AAA nationally
speaks before the Eastern Oregon
Wheat league meeting Saturday
morning. Mr. Evans has just re
turned from England where he
learned first-hand the food n?cds
of that country. He will tell what
he learned there and what Am
erica nfarniers can do to help.
School children especially will
find his address the source of up-to-the-minute
information, as well
as to sec a man who has a major
part in controlling the agricultural
destinies of the country and of the
world.
Governor Lauds
Defense Efforts
The patriotism of the people of
Oregon cannot be beat, Governor
Charles A. Sprague told a group of
county defense councilmen, county
and city officials who met at the
courthouse following noon luncheon
at the Lucas Place today,
Oregon has led the nation in fill
ing its quota for the enlarged militia
(and here he paid tribute to the
late George A. White, commander
of the 41st division), it has been
first in buying defense bonds, it led
in an inventory of workers to pre
vent disruption of labor in industrial
centers, its agriculture is cooperat
ing in the food for defense program,
and now an inventory of industrial
plants in the state is being taken that
Oregon can the most effectively
prosecute her part in the defense
efforts.
While Governor Sprague admitted
to different party affiliation, he em
phasized that the people of America
must present a united front behind
the national aministration's policies,
especially those related to foreign
relations.
The governor commended Ore
gon's labor leaders for this state's
good record of strikes and lock-outs
in defnese industries. There have
been no major strikes in Oregon in
the last two years, he averred.
While declaring his candidacy to
succeed to the state's highest office
at the next general election, the
governor said "I am not now on a
political mission. I came only to
attend the wheat league." He said
it is too early to do any campaigning.
Declaring the state's budget now
balanced with money in the treas
ury, due largely to receipts from
income tax, he announced himself
in favor of "little change" in the
present income tax laws. Especial
ly did he protest expending income
tax money in ways other than now
provided. He hoped that excess in
come tax funds would always be
used to relieve the property lax, as
it did this year by paying the ele
mentary school tax which counties
were not required to levy.
The governor said he expected to
go further into the tax situation in
his address before the wheat league
this afternoon.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
Governor Sprague
Among Visitors At
Meeting Today
National Triple A
Chief, Regional Di
rector Also Noted
Governor Charles A. Sprague, for
whom a special luncheon is being
given at Lucas Place this noon, is
among distinguished visitors who
arrived this morning to greet the
Eastern Oregon Wheat league. He
expected to go on to Pendleton this
afternoon. The governor is a wheat
grower himself, owning a farm in
eastern Washington.
Bringing national as well as state
attention to the sessions today, to
morrow and Saturday will be R. M.
Evans, chief of AAA from Washing
ton, D. C, and N. E. Dodd, director
of the western region, AAA. R. E.
Brown, chief of the Farm Credit
administration of Spokane, is anoth
er high official who will appear on
the speaking program.
A meeting of the Federal Agricul
tural and Conservation Programs
committee this morning started the
convention grind.
The first general session was set
for 3:30 this afternoon with the ad
dress of welcome by Mayor J. O.
Turner, response by J. L. Stagg; ad
dress of the president, S. J. Culley,
and annual report of the secretary,
C. W. Smith. Committee meetings
iwere to follow at 4:30 and 7:30.
A second general session will start
tomorrow's program at 9:30 a. m.
Musical selection will be followed
by the feature address of N. E. Dodd
on "Report on International Wheat
Conference and World Wheat Sup
plies." L. E. Harris, associate pro
fessor of farm crops, O. S. C, will
speak on "Experimental Results in
Weed Control" with Walter Holt,
Umatilla county agent leading the
discussion on this subject.
At 1:30 tomorrow afternoon the
session will open with a musical se
lection, followed by report of Land
Use, Weed Control, Production,
Handling, and Marketing Commit
tee; address by Mr. Brown of FCA,
Spokane, "Farm Financing, Present
and Future"; address by E. B. Mc
Naughton, president First National
Bank of Portland, "After Defense,
What?"
Saturday at 9 a. m. will come the
report of the auditing committee,
report of nominating and place of
meeting committee, election of offi
cers, and the address of Mr. Evans
on "Food Needed by Great Britain
and What American Farmers Can.
Do to Help." The address will be
followed by report of Taxation, Leg
islation, and Transportation commit
tee. At 1:30 Saturday afternoon, sum
marization of the 4-H club wheat
lamb feeding contest will be given
by H. A. Lindgren, extension animal
husbandman, O. S. C; D. E. Rich
ards will tell of "Fattening Livestock
on Oregon Grown Feeds" and re
ports of the Federal Agricultural and
Conservation Programs committee,
and general resolutions committee
will be given. A meeting of the
league executive committee is called
for 3:30 Saturday afternoon as the
program finale.
INJURED BY HORSE
Miss Colleen Kilkenny, attendant
to the queen at Heppner's last Ro
deo and Heppner high school stu
dent, received painful injuries Sat
urday when a horse she was riding
fell upon her. She had just reached
the surfaced highway at the end of
the lane leading from the farm house
on Hinton creek, in chase of horses,
when her horse slipped an fell on top
of her". Her brother Bobby saw the
accident from the house and rushed
to her. Mrs. Kilkenny took her to
Pendleton immediately for first aid
and returned there with her Sun
day for further treatment. Miss Kil
kenny has since been confined at
home, but no complications such as
were feared have developed.